skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's the mythology that develops around the travels of an apostle Thomas much later on.

I'm pretty sure that there was no 'Thomas.' My guess is that the philosophy of being in a twin universe and a twin of an original humanity ends up anthropomorphized by or before "doubting Thomas" in John and ends up credited with the tradition making those philosophical claims which was also denying the physical resurrection.

In the Gospel of Thomas itself, there's only two mentions of a 'Thomas,' both likely later additions. Moreso the work features him having female disciples and discussions directly with them, and the only later tradition following it claimed a female teacher named Mary as the starting point of their sect.

The Gospel of Thomas is a collection of sayings, and that core may have gone by different names before the 2nd century when it's rolled up in a more secretive context as attributed to 'Thomas' (despite the core itself seemingly being more anti-secretive than any other texts in the early Christian tradition).
I was meaning to follow this up. They were recently talking about this on the arraycast and it feels like a fun intersection of interests. Also glad to see this hit hn otherwise it would have been pushed of my proverbial stack
How to Summarize Large Documents with LangChain and OpenAI
Isn't it statistically likely that the average black applicant's grant application was actually just worse?

We know blind tryouts for orchestras result in fewer black and disadvantaged students getting accepted for a similar reason. They have, on average fewer resources and less support. So they simply, on average, perform worse than their white and affluent counterparts.

The reviewers needn't be racist to see these results.
Amazing demo! This reminded me of the spaceship my friend and I made in the level editor of Duke Nukem 3D. Unfortunately, my legendary map got lost along with my old disk.
Maybe accelerationists want people glued even more to their devices.
> Screen sharing doesn't work, at all

This is definitely not true. The Meta Quest app can connect to a headset and show what the player is seeing, both video and audio. Been watching my kid play various games for years.

Also not sure what state reset you're talking about. I've definitely grabbed the headset from another person and continued with the game.
Does it support ISO timestamps?
Top academic conferences [1] will have plenty of high level discussions. Top minds in the field and people developing next gen tech will be there. Other conferences will have a higher ratio of BS artists and people pitching their AI startups.

Nvidia GTC and OpenAI DevDay are also good.

[1] NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI.
In this specific case, though, there is no authority to Clauser wrt anything climate related.

Eg: Let us, you and I, go line by line through every rebuttal paper submitted by Clauser related to climate:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22c...

Ok, now that's out of the way that leaves his only real public "critiques", such as they are, his interview with the Epoch Times, and his podcast with sacked SkyNews Australia journalist Chris Smith.

These are dealt with elsewhere at length and frankly riddled with demonstrably false claims by Clauser; he asserts that recent IPCC reports don't deal with clouds when they have chapters on them, he asserts models don't allow for cloud reflectivity when they in fact do, etc.

These are, embarrassingly, just long rambling examples of once distinguished old man yelling at clouds (literally) and proving only that has not read (or perhaps read and forgotten) the very source material he claims to debunk.

I believe (and by all means offer your thoughts) that the most generous interpretation here is that Clauser was riffing off of Richard Lindzen's 20+ year old thoroughly debunked Iris hypothesis that he (Clauser) hadn't really bothered to follow up on given it was all outside his ken.

I'm sure you're familiar with people that just mouth off objections to climate related science that they've half heard about but have never really looked at in detail . . .

We've all heard them .. some just have Nobel prizes for unrelated work.
You don't even need to fly by Saturn - New Horizons only used a Jupiter gravity assist, and those are available about once a year.
Nobody here wants to hear that their new billion dollar toys are unethical unfortunately.
This lecture is a decent criticism of "clean code" and other non-expert advice.

https://youtu.be/7YpFGkG-u1w
The hyperbole isn’t helping your argument here. Weev spent time brute-forcing collection of personal information which they discussed using for phishing, manipulating AT&T’s stock price, and potentially shorting the stock:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/01/goatse-security-trol...

They were too bumbling to actually do anything that serious but being too broke to run a stock scam isn’t exactly a great character testimonial, and all of that is well outside of professional ethical boundaries in the infosec community.
Surely "final" is a conceptual thing... in other words, you don't want anyone else to derive from the class for good reasons. It's for conceptual understanding, surely?
Weird, twice now it has locked up Firefox when I try to open it.

Maybe it's somehow trying to access my clipboard, and that's triggering a separate problem I've been having when RDP'ing to a certain Linux machine in another window...
What if you add -fwhole-program-vtables on clang?
There is such a thing as "too late".

For example, consider Brexit from the perspective or a remainer. It's quite reasonable to believe that the leave referendum would have failed if it wasn't done at a time when (sometimes a bit vague) frustration at the EU has escalated to the point that it had. It's not always "better late than never".

For a less political example, health interventions can be too late and not better late than never. Some cancer care that is long overdue is better to forego. The patient would suffer less and overall have a better quality of their remaining life with palliative care.

Business also follows this rule sometimes. If the right decision isn't made in time, it can later become throwing good money after bad and it's better to weather the consequences of the decision that wasn't made in time.

This is also explored in broken power laws. What is a good idea up to a certain point can turn into a bad idea very suddenly afterwards.
It's a wonder TikTok is still a thing in the US.

Something must be really really wrong.
This post has some overlap with work I did a while back on a "coupon code" system that is optimised for users taking a code printed on paper and entering it into a web form. A number of measures were employed to avoid/correct transcription errors.

Example, docs and links here: https://www.mclean.net.nz/cpan/couponcode/
there's nothing new under the sun
Most of the arguments I've seen around this bullshit is that the AI is just like a human so it should be able to train on anything it can see. I don't think many understand what you've touched on here, which is that all the content piracy for explicitly commercial purposes is the actual problem here, not the training of AI.
>Even with the identities concealed, the reviewers were able to figure out who was black and discriminate against them in favor of white applicants.

That's one possible explanation; another is that the black applicants were just not as good, on average.

The explanation for that, in turn, could be that systemic racism in education in the past has left black applicants less well prepared than other applicants. It doesn't have to be innate group-level differences in intelligence, which is politically unsayable but nevertheless also a possible explanation for the difference.
The cost breakdown is in TFA (including 5 and 10 year costs)

#10 is Honda but the cost is $5835 (#11 is Kia at the pasta $5850).

#-1 is Land Rover at $19250
Very cool! I hope you expand on this, maybe by introducing some sort of alient threat that is aboard the ship? Great demo, I enjoyed it!
.NET 4.6 to .NET 8 is a 10x "average" performance improvement. I find this hard to believe. In what scenarios? I tried to Google for it and found very little hard evidence.
The best survey data I've found for this information is linked here [1]. It breaks data down by age range for those who read at least one book in the prior year. It defines avid readers as having read 50 books/year but doesn't do an age breakdown for this subset.

1 - National Endowment for the Arts - "U.S. Patterns of Arts Participation: A Full Report from the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts" - <https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/US_Patterns_of_Arts...>, page 44
Take a look at Turing words in his formulation of the Turing machine and I think it becomes quite clearly the man spent time thinking about what he is doing when he is doing computations.

The tape is a piece of paper, the head is the human, who is capable of reading data from the tape and writing to it. The symbols are discernible things on the paper, like numbers. The movement of the tape ("scanning") is the eyes going back and forth. At each symbol, the machine decides which rule to apply.

Its an inescapable fact that we are trying to get computers to 1. operate as close to how we think (as we are the ones who operate it) and 2. to produce results which resemble how we think.

Abstractions, inheritence, objects, etc are no doubt all heavily influenced by thinking about how we think. If we still programmed using 1s and 0s, we wouldnt be where we are.

It seems incredibly short sighted to me to believe that because a few decades of research hasnt panned out, that we should all together forget about it.
This aligns with what you said:

https://devboard.gitsense.com/langgenius?id=4d1dec9067&r=lan...

I created insights for the last 4 weeks and number of new contributors and stars peaked last week. This project has all the signs of a successfully organically grown project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(mathematical_constant)#In_c...
In my essay “Writing books isn’t a good idea” I wrote that, in 2020, only 268 titles sold more than 100,000 copies, and 96 percent of books sold less than 1,000 copies. That’s still the vibe.

yaawn..this useless stat again? The author erroneously mixes fiction with non-fiction. Of course, non-fiction from a boutique or niche publishing house will have smaller sales and thus depress the average. This includes such books as "trail guides in California" and so on, or science books. These non-fiction books are never expected to sell many copies and are marketed for a small or specific audience in mind, and there is minimal or no marketing push. So if you include these non-fiction books by tiny publishing houses, of course, most books sell few copies.

Fiction books by major publishing houses marketed to a general audience and with a significant marketing push are expected to sell a lot of copies, and do. Hence the large advances commonly seen for authors who write these type of books.
More magical thinking! Yes, companies just randomly decided they could increase profit margins in 2021, and it’s totally not caused by the trillions of dollars of money we just printed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

You’re literally doing the same thing as climate change denying conservatives. It’s inconvenient for their political ideology so they won’t believe the data that’s right in front of their face.

You’re doing the same thing. The data says that regular voters won’t spend even $10 per month to mitigate climate change, but you want to blame “corporations and billionaires.” Inflation just happened to occur right after we printed $6 trillion in response to COVID, but that must have been billionaires and corporations too!
> The pedantry, the braggadocio, and most of all the absurdity and the alienation one feels working on this stuff.

Also at FAANG and FAANG wannabes. The absurd obsession over BS and pedantic conflicts is just yucky.
I think we are coming to realize that we are quantitatively different rather than qualitatively different. Animals can count (but not very high). They can use tools (but not very advanced ones). They can communicate (but not very well). They can create a culture of learned behaviors (but not a very rich one).

Another thing that's quite interesting is how big the difference can be between a smart and stupid animal of the same species. To me that kinda hints at the possibility of breeding animals for intelligence.
Well, I can't make it sound differently for you.

But do you have any counter-arguments? Like any claim that ByteDance isn't receiving existentially important benefits by being in CCP's good graces? Or does it just sound a certain way without much grounding in facts?
I do remember this quote, but it's a little odd because Unix and the web have a very similar structure. HTTP has more metadata like Content-Type, but it's still fundamentally uniform bytes/text.

This is a feature not a bug! And it's INTENTIONAL for both Unix and HTTP.

The Uniform Interface Constraint, the Perlis-Thompson Principle, and LAYERING structure on top of "flat / featureless" mechanisms.

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It's also the reason for their success!

I'll refer to my recent comment on this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39925798

> So the reason that shell/Unix and HTTP are so common is a MATHEMATICAL property of software growth.

> How do you make a Zig program talk to a Mojo program? Probably with a byte stream.

> What about a Clojure program and a Common Lisp program? Probably a byte stream. (Ironically, S-expressions have no commonly used "exterior" interchange format)

and the follow-up with EDN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39931919

Do Common Lisp users have EDN libraries? Do Clojure users parse Common Lisp s-expressions?

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Also, Oils adds parsers to Unix shell like JSON, so you don't have to write your own!

Shell was not a powerful enough language to be a real shell :) To interoperate between heterogeneous and diverse runtimes, to glue things together when their creators wanted monoliths (e.g. like Go and the JVM have problems interoperating with C)

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I'm a big fan of Hickey, and have watched almost all his talks. I often refer to his explanations of programming with maps, which explains why protobufs work - https://lobste.rs/s/zdvg9y/maybe_not_rich_hickey

(something many protobuf users apparently don't understand)

I do recall this comment, but I don't recall him saying much else about Unix.

I think if you can live within the JVM, OK you can do everything in Clojure and avoid parsing. And even Datomic takes it to the next level -- he really walked the walk.

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But I'd claim you can't build Google or LLMs on Clojure and Datomic. The bigger the software system, the more heterogeneous it is.

Bigger codebases are written in more languages. And they have more formats on the wire.

I even see startups of like 10 people using Rust AND Go now (and JavaScript), which is a little odd to me. I'm all about language diversity, but even I see the value of using ONE language for smaller or more homogeneous problems.

But even tiny software projects now use many different languages.
So, part of her role was, officially, to report copyright issues to the legal team, and she's claiming she was fired because she did that? She went to a lawyer to voice her concerns and the lawyer told here that there was no issue. And these claims are a side part of a suit where she's claiming she was fired because she had a kid? All of the claims are just so all over the place. What's the bit about Germany and some quip about nationality and not having feelings? This article reads like a complete fever dream.
Cotton swabs can easily and safely be used to remove wax from the outer ear. You just shouldn’t jam them into your ear canal.
“truth has no need for heroes”

Thats what the Kolmogorov option is according to Scott Aaronson ——-the originator of the term?

>Hilbert said that science, unlike religion, has no need for martyrs, because it’s based on facts that can’t be denied indefinitely. Given that, Hilbert considered Galileo’s response to be precisely correct: in effect Galileo told the Inquisitors, hey, you’re the ones with the torture rack. Just tell me which way you want it. I can have the earth orbiting Mars and Venus in figure-eights by tomorrow if you decree it so.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=3376
I don't use Discord anymore but the phone number thing seems new, in the past I was able to visit as a guest and be able to read messages but not chat. Then again Twitter and Reddit are doing the same thing now and forcing people to log in, so I'm not surprised.

Considering how many community groups and open source projects now use a Discord in place of a public forum this looks like a disaster going forwards since all the information in there will become locked up. And of course the chats and internal discussion threads aren't indexed by search engines.
> At one point many years ago, I wanted to check out this new Python thing. It was so easy, I've been hooked ever since.

IDLE is a underrated feature of Python. The default install includes a barebones IDE together with the REPL, making setup for beginners nearly zero effort. On the other hand, in lisp land, step 0 to learn most lisps is to learn emacs beforehand.
I tested Llama-3-70b-8192 on Groq against ChatGPT 4, and while Groq ran it super fast, it hallucinated one answer, and didn’t get the logic correct on another question.

So, ChatGPT 4 is still more reliable for my use case. But if I were to want an LLM to process data, summarize, and so forth, Llama-3 on Groq is very fast.

Questions:

Do you know anything about Intel Hala Point?

Groq: bullshit, but admitted it when I called it out.
ChatGPT: did a Bing search (it knew what it didn’t know).

Question 2a (separate chat):
If you’re in Canada, what’s the best way to use a TFSA?

2b: Okay, if your portfolio has some tech stocks, some cash cows, and some government bonds, which should be allocated to the TFSA?

The reason I chose Question 2 is that most banks are happy to recommend bad products if it benefits them. Llama-3’s answer reflects the bank bullshit. ChatGPT 4 gives the advice your trustworthy and financially savvy friend would give you.

Follow-on questions for Llama-3:

2c: You have it backwards.

2d: Why did you get it backwards? Were you influenced by the glut of “advice” proffered by banks?
What's the paper title? "goto considered harmful considered harmful" I think?

Even in modern C programming goto is still pulling its weight for handling unrolling and cleanups.
Hackers Broke into Change Healthcare's Systems 9 Days Before Cyberattack
It's a protection racket.

Here's how it works: The big companies that pay for AMS get listed ahead of companies that don't in the search results. Since they all pay, it means that the top results are basically ranked the same as if none of them paid. But if you don't pay, your books will appear in the "organic" results - after all the marketed ones - essentially destroying any chance of being seen.

This way Amazon can claim that their search results are fair and algorithmic, protecting them from accusations of monopolistic practices. AMS is a simple paid marketing service, not at all like a tax or protection money, right?

But what's really happening is companies are paying just to make sure they're included somewhere in the top results rather than the organic ones, which no one bothers to look at.

They do the same for their App Store search on Fire TVs. No rev share? Good luck finding that app - even if you search for it by name.

So "hopefully better" is all the publishers are paying for.
Article title: How to Summarize Large Documents with LangChain and OpenAI ("How to" may have been dropped by submission scrubber?)
So many great rabbit holes in this list. There are several that have blown years of my spare time.

My one, at the moment is precision time keeping. Time nuts. I have a pile of oven controlled crystal oscillators, GPSs (even the full Ublox time specific LEA M8).

I got a BG7TBL counter and multiple cheap GPSDOs to test my own.

I have a DAC1220 20 bit DAC on an ESP32 disciplining a TCXO from an old phone base station by counting the 10Mhz using the PCNT and gated off the GPS 1PPS.

Meantime, I learnt the esp-idf so I could have more control over things. Everything done with the esp-idf is way way more stable than using the Arduino wrapper, no idea why, maybe later versions?

The disciplining/tracking parameters are exposed by http and mqtt and put into influx.

I have a 5.5 digit multiple meter (I repaired the classic HP 3478A). Maybe I need another digit, there goes another rabbit hole. Voltnuts.
I saw a similar design theme on Dan Brown's personal site recently and was wondering if it was one of those trends to feed off nostalgia or just a coincidence
https://danb.me/
This seems off topic.
This seems slightly flawed in that it completely removes all members of a similar set rather than normalizing to a single element per similar set.

Thus after normalization, '1lI' would become '111'. This allows you to add seven characters back to the author's code generation alphabet without re-introducing any ambiguity.
Heh. I was building/programming/racing FPV drones in 2013/14, back before teenaged reflexes and rich dads paying thousands for top line gear became a thing - and easily started beating 50 year old eyesight and reflexes with self imposed budgets of only a few hundred bucks...
Simulating a 100 neuron nematode is still an unsolved problem.
I think you misread or misinterpreted what I wrote. They don't have any specific attraction to committing crimes, but rather an aversion to spending time and effort to do things legally. Getting licensed and insured is expensive. It's much easier if you can ride without those things.

E-bikes were already in very wide use well into the food delivery app era. The explosion of mopeds in NYC was in the past 2 years.

I believe the reasons were three fold: they are more capable than e-bikes in range and speed, the bargain basement Chinese models are almost as cheap as e-bikes, and the police were not sufficiently enforcing any laws regarding them.
Man can we just kill these industries?

Copyright law is so annoying and its supposed to promote quality...which we get none of. Free youtube tutorials are the best learning resource these days.

The GDP hit would be insignificant too, like <.1%.
If they knew that blacks have less resources and are therefore on average worse applicants as a result, then they knew that a bad application statistically meant a black applicant. So by not picking the worse application, they were in effect being statistically racist.
"No one buys ________", except for those who do, which is still a lot of people. So tired of these overgeneralizations.
That's not very convincing against Nvidia. Since they single handedly created the modern AI market through CUDA.
Krazam does tech humor better than I've ever seen it. Absolutely dunks on silicon valley & big bang theory.
Weight and distance numbers are from Wikipedia, potential energy formula is from school.

You are welcome to recalculate :)
RPi "poetry camera" prints AI-generated poem of what it sees, on receipt paper
The dial-up modem sound was gold.
Going out further than Voyager might be interesting just for studying the conditions outside the inner solar system. Though I'm not sure how much there is to observe unless you go an order of magnitude faster than Voyager to try to reach the oort cloud
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40097818 138 points 2 days ago
The majority of age 35 and under sports watching people I know now place bets on the game. I know two younger people who dug themselves into deep financial holes.

I agree with SCOTUS decision but we need to take a look at restricting ads and consider adding warnings such as "You'll probably end up a loser." with some stats. And not just for sports gambling but all online gambling.