skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you need to know the densities, but the models outputted the correct densities even as part of the wrong answer.

Not sure what you mean by volumes "not adding". One way to calculate it is like:

density_alcohol = 0.789g/ml
density_water = 1g/ml
weight_total = 16g
(density = weight / volume)

volume_alcohol = 0.4 * volume_total
volume_water = 0.6 * volume_total

weight_total = weight_alcohol + weight_water

weight_alcohol =
density_alcohol * volume_alcohol =
0.789 * volume_alcohol =
0.789 * (0.4 * volume_total) =
0.3156 * volume_total

weight_water =
density_water * volume_water =
volume_water =
0.6 * volume_total

weight_total =
0.3156 * volume_total + 0.6 * volume_total =
0.9156 * volume_total

volume_total =
weight_total / 0.9156 =
16 / 0.9156 =
17.4749 (rounded)

volume_alcohol =
0.4 * volume_total =
6.99 ml (rounded)

Not sure which school grade problems like this are taught in, but I remember similar ones from waaay back. This particular one is a real world problem caused by having a kitchen scale but not a measuring cup, and me wrongly assuming that just asking ChatGPT would help. (ChatGPT 4 from about 2 months ago)
I've never done it, but I believe the answer is "yes". I believe you can go to the physical library of congress and view their archived media. I don't believe you can check it out or distribute it without the copyright holders permission, but I think you can view it while you're there.

Again, never done it, only seen stuff in YouTube videos, and not even recently.
Sounds great until the entertainment industry collapses because the inconvenience barrier which kept piracy at reasonable levels vanishes, with every theatre, TV channel and streaming service suddenly no longer paying for anything they show. I think you know that's not going to work.
The first book was not great. I particularly hated that stupid monofilament thing --- it's physically impossible for what should be obvious reasons.

The second book is much better, though, and the third is better still. If you've managed to work your way through the first, it's probably worth checking out the others.

They're nothing mind-blowing. But they're very competently written (unlike the first book, which was loaded with errors,) their scale is reminiscent of Stephen Baxter's grander works, and the trilogy is rather more accessible than a lot of Baxter's stuff.
Then do both!

I had a friend who was an engineer for a few years, decided to do something different, and now she's a physician.
It's clear that the word references the straightforward non plus meaning "no more". You've come to a dead end; you don't know what to think or do.

It might actually be from non plus ultra: nothing more beyond.

When you've reached the non plus ultra point in your journey, your ass has been nonplussed.
Another reason why you should make your site mobile responsive
> nearly all student loans (over 90%) are issued by the federal government

Not claiming you are wrong, because I genuinely don’t know, but how does it gel with the fact that the federal student loans for undergrads cap out at the max of around $9.5-12k for independent students and $5.5-7.5k for dependent students per year[0]?

Given all the outrage I see online, where people claim paying upwards of $20-40k/yr for attendance, wouldn’t they need to supplement it with private loans?

I dont doubt that there are more federal loans out there than private ones (because it always makes sense to get the federal ones first, and only go for private ones later if needed, so pretty much everyone who has private loans also has federal ones). But what about in terms of the actual loan dollar amount?

0. https://financialaid.umbc.edu/types-of-aid/federal-loans/dir... (this is an UMBC page, but it breaks down the federal student aid limits that apply everywhere)
Yeah, and if the developer of Minix knew his software would be used to develop American surveillance systems, he'd cry tears of blood and beg for forgiveness... not.

For one, you're not complaining about actual calls for genocide; you're childishly conflating a solidarity statement with something unrelated. You will be rightfully ignored every single place you go, with that attitude. May as well start opening issues on Microsoft's software, asking them to stop using Open Source software as the backbone for modern American weapon exports; you will be ignored, because much like the Open Source community you detest, Microsoft is staffed by professionals that cannot be bothered to care about your hurt feelings even when they're on salary.

For two, all free software is liable to be used for genocide or discrimination by nature of it being free. People know this, and contribute in spite of that. The reason is that proprietary software is also used for genocide and discrimination, while free software enables a populist approach to consuming and developing software. If your complaint was anything other than a whining distraction, you'd fork the repo and make a statement about it; but you can't. Your only intention was to disrupt constructive development, a fork headed-up by you is only liable to be more political in nature.

So grow up. Stop whining because somebody supports something you don't, it's the sort of childish behavior that degrades your professional reputation in the long-run. There is absolutely nothing genocidal about expressing support for the hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians that are currently starving due to disproportionate response from a nearby satellite state. Patch up your hurt feelings and find some better use of your time.
I like the little happy sunrise galaxy looking thing that’s at the top right corner of the bottom left square of the if you cut it into a 3x3 grid.
I did have one but turning it off didn't change the behavior. It's not that the globe doesn't load it's that it starts loading for a split second (can actually see the globe), kinda fails, reloads, repeats the behavior, then loads the browser error page. I'm not sure if it's actually something you're doing wrong as much as maybe it tries to load too many resources and fails (iOS, and iOS Safari in particular, are sticklers about memory usage).
> The density in the observed universe is used to extrapolate the number of galaxies in the non-observed universe.

The unobserved universe is likely to be many orders of magnitude larger than the observed universe. It is possible that it is unimaginably larger.

Technically, it is possible that the unobserved universe is infinite, however whether that is a credible option depends on individual scientists informed intuitions. We simply have no experimental or theoretical evidence either way at this point.

So there is no estimate of how many galaxies there are in the universe in toto.
> These tools will absolutely be replacing workers of many types

Yeah I agree with that, that's why I specified knowledge workers. I don't think it's bad if cashiers get replaced by self-checkout or if receptionists get replaced by automated agents on either end.

Emergency/police dispatchers - obviously increased sensitivity that makes it a special case, but I still think AI can eventually do the job better than a human.

Driving cars - not yet, at least not outside specific places, but probably eventually, and definitely for known routes.

Teaching yoga - maybe never, as easy as it would be to do, some people might always want an in-person experience with a human teacher and class.

But importantly - most knowledge workers can't be displaced by AI when the work entails solving problems with undocumented solutions that the AI could not have trained on yet, or any work that involves judgment and subjectivity, or that requires a credential (doctor to write the prescription, engineer to sign off on the drawing) or security clearance, authorizations, etc. There's a lot of knowledge work it can't touch.
Originally yes, nowadays probably not as much.
To be somewhat diplomatic, how much good does your data hoarding actually benefit anyone but you and maybe some friends? Maybe it will help some leak into the world but the contents of your hard drive are pretty ephemeral.
I’m glad to see this near the top of this post. The reality of what’s been happening to libraries in the shift to the digital age keeps getting ignored by everyone. For those of us who grew up only being able to afford reading books by borrowing from libraries, I’ve been dismayed to see so little discussion around this. Like other commenters have said, libraries wouldn’t exist if they were to be proposed today and I think that points to a fundamental problem with legislation.
I have a Charybdis https://bastardkb.com/charybdis/

Highly recommend. I daily drive vim and still scroll around in there with the trackball haha.

My trackball's also on the right, and also use mouse buttons on the left, but of course everything's customizable.
I don't disagree with your sentiment, even though I am also not a person who looks back fondly on my childhood.

The fact that the tweet specifically calls out schools "teaching vocational skills so young" makes me interpret the tweet as a generic luddite response - as if Montessori schools don't make working with hand tools an explicit part of their early childhood curriculum! This does seem like she is opposed to her kid learning and not an anti-Tiger Mom take.
I liked the books overall but I didn't really care for a lot of Death's End. Hard to get into why without spoilers, of course. But personally I felt that the quality of each book in the series was worse than the one before. That said, the first book was incredibly good so even if they get worse as they go the series is quite good overall.
Are you sure you aren't confusing The Bureau with something else?
StarCoder2-Instruct
why don't they fine them for delivering spam? like $1 per instance or something motivating?
Seeing an issue, working to resolve it, then making the environment better for others takes resilience. Stoicism and resilience does not mean rolling over and accepting bad things because problems in your life are not solvable.
Do you work for free? If so - if you are a volunteer and do not take state aid or use funds from your inheritance - then your position is defensible.

If not, then I invite you to look at the huge attrition of journalism jobs in the UK and the USA. Local newsrooms have been destroyed by the web and national newsrooms have been gutted.

Folks that create content should be allowed to monetize content - in exactly the same way that I am allowed to monetize the work I do.
> When one has the means and opportunity, unjust laws should be challenged.

Sure, but do they? They're a nonprofit, and as such depend on donations. Their donors might or might not be aligned on these two relatively orthogonal issues.

I'm even sympathetic of their desire to challenge the quite absurd status quo of controlled digital lending, with bizarre skeuomorphisms such as simulating "books wearing out" after a couple of lending cycles, while at the same time being more restricted than physical books (even though I don't necessarily agree with their means of challenging it).

But even for me, I think the risk is too big, and I'd feel much more comfortable with a different (maybe related/affiliated, but ultimately separated as legal entities) non-profit organization for each concern.
That's, uh, sort of my point here :)
So the irony of these large cosmic structures is that if you were within them or in there proximity you wouldn't know. I mean you could see if you were in a nebula by the dust and gas you could detect in most or all directions. But you probably couldn't tell how that would look from 10,000 light years away.

But there's a distance where such structures would probably fill the night sky because you were close but not too close. Some of these structures aren't necessarily visible to the naked eye, even if close, but some are. I wonder what that would do if you were on a planet where the horsehead nebula (or something similar) filled the sky and its brightness rivalled the Moon.
You are missing the point entirely. Only in America is "exercise" something you must go out of your way to do. Walking (miles) is exercise. Playing is exercise. Our kids do neither of these things independently of household income because we've built our cities to make walking impossible and dangerous, and because we've now normalized locking our kids away indoors and shoving an iPad in their face because we convinced ourselves that they will get kidnapped or run over by a car if they are ever outside and unsupervised.
And I'm sure all those parents bitching about video games and dungeons and dragons were patting themselves on the back over how they weren't as ridiculous as their parents thinking that the problem with the youth was rock and roll music and dancing which includes moving your hips. They finally had it figured out for real this time. Not like the hundreds of generations before panicking over basically nothing.
No, they came for sentence-final prepositions, up for which nobody was left to stand.
I don't know. I can invalidate the Nix community is 100% white by knowing 1 or more community members that aren't white and/or male... which I do.
Hey thats fine if you have that opinion.

I just hope you are consistent in that you oppose the existing ubiquitous copyright violations done by the entire art industry, in the form of commercial "fan art", or similar.

A whole lot of content is built off of other people's works, and much of it is not done "in fair use", but of course, then the shoe is on the other foot, those same creators complain.
Cheaper than US, they already have a site there, and less cultural issues as going to Asia, for the typical offshoring headaches.
Uber’s Scaled Solutions
I don’t see how it is more likely given that the US has spent several trillion dollars on wars against countries which posed no threat to it, the consent for which was entirely manufactured by mass media. I think it’s more likely that this is a psyop.
> Don't give a digital device to a small child, period.

I like how we've accepted that a device that can be used to call for help, and is the greatest innovation of the last 20 years, is toxic and dangerous and exploits you. Even if you are a child. And we just accept that.
> What is the alternative path that is as lucrative as taking that big 4$$ check from OpenAI/Microsoft?

I can imagine LLMs tipping the balance back in favor of something like traditional media. In short: people go nuts with them, and flood the open web with garbage (which may have the added benefit of degrading LLMs). That could, compared to the last 20 years, make curation and verified provenance far more important for people who value having the chance to know real things, which would drive customers back to pay-walled media organizations and publishers.

That may not happen, or may not happen on a time-frame compatible with most current media organizations. It would certainly take some time for everyday users to develop the necessary fatigue with LLMs and their output to motivate action.

I think it'd also depend on the LLM companies losing in court on copyright grounds. If the LLM companies win, I think we'll still get the crapflood, but the islands of sanity resisting the tide will be smaller or nonexistent. If LLMs put the final nail in the coffin of the media orgs, Wikipedia will die soon after (it's got separate culture problems that may do it in, but it is also totally dependent on the editorial decisions of traditional media and publishing).
I read the books and enjoyed them but there's a few dead-ends and the plot is a bit meandering.

I thought the TV series was great.
I'm gonna need a bigger NAS...
> These are good books with some flaws. You should read them.

Counter view-point: These are bad books with a few thought provoking ideas that are never explored, left behind to explore a ridiculous plot full of nonsensical actions taken by paper cutout characters chasing a political goals that also make no sense.

Granted I didn't read the third book, but that's because I gave up not halfway through book 2. When I got to the end of book 1, I had no emotional attachment to any of the characters due to the poor writing, but some of the ideas were interesting, so I opened book 2. As it went on it became harder and harder to tolerate the incomprehensible motivations, stilted dialog, and the scope creep of the story, so I read the Wikipedia summary, and promptly realized I was right to stop reading the books.

Yes, the end makes you feel tiny, so tiny that it's impossible to connect the start of the books with the ending, plus the way it ends makes you feel like there was no point to anything to start with. In my opinion the only way it could have been worse was if it was all just a dream/snowglobe all along.

Nothing is ever resolved, just a few neat ideas sprinkled out with outrageous nonsense, and the stakes keep getting higher and higher until the universe itself is no longer big enough for the ending. I truly think they're bad books, I haven't read anything this bad since Atlas Shrugged.

That said, I'm glad that other people enjoy them, and I'm not trying to say people who enjoy them are wrong only that like all art, beauty is in the eye of the reader.
Bookmarked this post when I saw it here a while ago, seems the optimal amount of anything “bad” is non-zero

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
PDF: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-402213A1.pdf
margins of error. learn about it. these numbers are almost certainly the sample estimate.
I haven't seen any evidence that these systems are capable of structuring and executing large-scale changes in entire repositories; but given you're still a student, your definition of large might be different.

The middle of an S-curve looks like an asymptote, which is where we're at right now. There's no guarantee that we'll see the same kind of exponential growth we saw over the past three years again. In fact, there's a ton of reason to believe that we won't: models are becoming exponentially more expensive to train; the internet has been functionally depleted of virgin training tokens; and chinks in the armor of AI's capabilities are starting to dampen desire for investment in the space.

Everyone says "this is the worst they'll be"; stated as a fact. Imagine its 2011 and you're running Windows 7. You state: "This is the worst Windows will ever be". Software is pretty unpredictable. It does not only get better. In fact, software (which absolutely includes AI models) has this really strange behavior of fighting for its life to get worse and worse unless an extreme amount of craft, effort, and money is put into grabbing the reins and pulling it from the brink, day in, day out. Most companies barely manage to keep the quality at a constant level, let alone increase it.

And that's traditional software. We don't have any capability to truly judge the quality of AI models. We basically just give each new one the SAT and see the score go up. We can't say for certain that they're actually getting better at the full scope of everything people use them for; a feat we can barely accomplish for any traditionally observable software system. One thing we can observe about AI systems very consistently, however, is their cost: And you can bet that decision makers at Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta, whoever, obsess about that just as much if not more than capability.
Agreed. As someone who's read and watched a lot of Soviet-era spy fiction, along with lots of actual history, I found it pretty underwhelming. I forced myself through 3 seasons and gave up.
They're only licensing what they have to under threat of lawsuit. Little people's data will still be taken without refund.
> It's as if people think the brain isn't even an organ in the body and that it's completely disconnected from the rest of the body.

This happens a lot in a different context when people talk about AI and try to reduce human intelligence and creativity to just brain function.
Back End API for Uniswap
The difference is that mega-corps are ripping off content and reselling it. I hope that the FT can sustain itself for a long time using the money from this deal.
Ridiculous. Swap out scrolling for beer or staying up past 10 and see how silly this sounds.
The funny part is: regardless of which side one is on, imagination is necessary, and typically: unavoidable and undetectable.
The thing that everyone seems to be glossing over, is the internet archive is in fact a none profit. This gives them a very different angel in their appeal.
You're absolutely right; updated!
But if we don't have completely unfounded attempts at saying "my side good, other side bad!", what political discourse would remain?
> Ask, what if instead of doing [X], [certain characters] put those resources instead into [something else]

In most of these cases the outcome is "it makes a less entertaining story". The Anthropic Principle of Literature, if you will.
> Most of this abuse of personal data would go away if people knew it was going on.

GDPR proves this wrong. Most people click OK/accept even in front of relatively clear information (to be fair sometimes the options are "accept for you to be tracked and shared with 'our partners' or pay a subscription/fee", which is an easy choice for many.
I watched the entire series, The Americans. It's thrilling and well-crafted television, but totally bogus as a representation of how illegals worked in the USA.

Illegals were/are special assets that would never be concurrently running so many different operations and engaging in risky wet (i.e. assassination) operations right and left. More likely they would spend many boring years cultivating their positions in society and a select few important contacts. That doesn't make for good television.
GitHubNext Dev here: We have a terminal feature that allows you to connect to sandbox in the cloud for you to validate these changes before pushing them out to your repo
> You don't consider it to be a right to revolt against tyranny?

Do you think not being able to download all the free stuff you want is tyranny?

"Tyranny" is defined as a "cruel and oppressive government or rule."

How are you being oppressed and/or treated cruelly?

You can think copyright terms are too long without the hyperbole.
> it's sort of shocking how little we know

To my feeble mind, it's shocking how much we know.
I don't think they're a dead end, they're just a very small piece of a much bigger puzzle. LLMs are to AI what word2vec was to machine learning - it's the key to encoding language in a way that algorithms can operate on but they need to be connected to a bunch of other systems to really be useful.

I think it'll be a while before we perfect memory, neuroplasticity, the physical experimentation feedback loop, etc. but LLMs at least give us a way to represent and manipulate human language.
perhaps. but guess who gets to pay that fine? it sure will not be phone companies. it will be in your next bill.
AND if people had viable alternatives. (Sorry, I see now that you mentioned blocking, which would also work.)
I am plussed that this author spent so many words "debunking" the notion of prefix in the English variants, when his etymology revealed that said prefix did exist and was significant.
I definitely feel like the series gets worse as it goes on. The first book is incredible though, so it's hard to really go up from there. IMO the first book in that series deserves every bit of accolade it gets and then some.
To say nothing of the fully legal digital services (and physical checkouts with inter-library loans) that many public libraries in the US and I assume elsewhere offer.
It’s certainly not a new phenomenon - except maybe it’s at scale now. The early internet was very extreme. Things like goatse were the main memes and everyone at my school knew rotten.com, etc.
Not to even mention the file sharing sites and apps where you never really knew what you were getting until you play it
i've quoted that language here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199825