skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am imagining an astronaut digging with a shovel and 2.5 inches below the surface are just dinosaur skeletons and stuff. Or something even more fantastical.
I tried "are you sure", which often triggers some reasoning, and it was pretty confident. I'm trying not to give it the answer, but run it as if I didn't have any special knowledge. GPT + human > GPT. I mean, we're treating these things like another kind of intelligence, not a hammer.

GPT4:
https://chat.openai.com/share/1beb5391-d321-4515-945e-38233f...
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> You can make a search for all users, which will tell you there are 97,616,627 users at the time of this writing, but you can only fetch at most 1000 results from a search, and they don’t come in any clear order, so you can’t just make the next search start where the previous one left off (or I didn’t figure out how).

> What you can do though is request accounts created in a certain time range. If you get the time range right, so that it has less than 1000 entries, you can paginate through it, and then request the next time range.

This reminds me of when I tried to add a google drive storage backend to camlistore/perkeep (because I had nearly-unlimited free quota at the time). One of the things a perkeep blobserver needs to be able to do enumerate all the blobs it has, in order. You can send millions of blobs to google drive without issue, but you can't directly paginate a search for them in sorted order.

You could just issue a search for all blobs under your perkeep drive folder, keep paginating the result until you run out of pages, and then sort in memory, but there's really no way of knowing how many blobs you're going to end up with and you might blow out your blobserver's memory.

Perkeep blobs are identified by blobrefs, SHA sums of the contents of the blob, so they look like sha-[0-9a-f]{64}. Google drive lets you search for files with a name prefix, so you can search for like /perkeep/sha-* and see if the result has a pagination token (indicating that there are more than 1000 results), and if so then you search for each of /perkeep/sha-0*, /perkeep/sha-1*, ... , /perkeep/sha-f*, each time checking to see whether there are too many matches. When there's not too many matches, you've found the prefix length that will let you fetch a bounded number of blobrefs, emit them to the perkeep client, and then release the memory before fetching more.

/pk/sha-\* 1000+ results (non-empty pagination token)
/pk/sha-0\* 1000+ results (non-empty pagination token)
/pk/sha-00\* 1000+ results (non-empty pagination token)
/pk/sha-000\* 193 results,
sort these in memory and emit to client
/pk/sha-001\* 179 results,
sort these in memory and emit to client
...
/pk/sha-fff\* 223 results,
sort these in memory and emit to client

I didn't end up landing the patch before I lost interest, partly because it was pretty much the first golang I had tried writing. It was fun working out the above details, though.
> It could also represent the ownership of a house.

Yes, in theory they could. I was talking about real world NFTs we have so far encountered.
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I don't know if I really agree with this.

Humans absolutely did hunt large animals for meat.

If you read the famous book 'Born to Run' which funnily enough this article has citations to, it describes that tribes still exist today that are incredible endurance runners and are that way because of running concepts they use that are not taught outside of those tribes. One of the main benefits of humans compared to animals is that we can breathe independently of our stride, whereas many animals rely on their stride for breathing.

The sample from high school is not a very good explanation as to whether we're meant to be good at endurance running at all. It's like saying students that didn't show critical thinking at tasks in high school demonstrate that humans aren't good at critical thinking. Or if only the top ~10% of students achieve all A grades, does that mean that humans aren't good at linguistics and numeracy? I don't think so.

Our early humans were running at very young ages and not running for the sake of running but because it's just what you did.

There are plenty of people I knew in high school that didn't run and weren't considered good runners that are now running quite fast through half/full marathons. Furthermore, our advantage as humans as described isn't necessarily speed, but our ability to run for a long time.

We don't live the lives of our ancient counterparts and therefore it is difficult to make connections on human endurance performance based on the performances of people today.
"The trouble with Roblox, the video game empire built on child labour"

Good grief, the article profiles 3 young developers who had to deal with serious problems but still falls short of "built on child labo(u)r".

Just more clickbait garbage.
That is a better metric. So, what do your calculations show for 2023?
Yes. Well, at least future price movements are hard to predict, because all the easy predictors are already priced in today.
To be clear, this is 8’ in addition to the normal public sidewalk/right-of-way. Looking at the photo, the building in question has a wider sidewalk than the buildings on either side.

In this photo, it’s the space to the right of the person in the brown jacket…
https://archive.is/uNYgK/bc5622d4591c17c2ac4c1f0ff826d2331ab...
That's because it's an illustration of a different altar, #12. The picture is of Altar #13. Both depict the same ruler, which is why they're in the same figure.
I think __you__ are misunderstanding the experiment and what it is testing. Yours (with context) would be a different experiment and it would be interesting. But that lets the LLM count and I'm willing to bet if it does get it correct that there are unlikely to be long sequences of the same number like you'd see in a real 1k coin flip.

The author is testing for bias. This is no different to the test of "pick a number" and finding the bias of "42".

It is also testing for reasoning and logic. This is a blind consensus building exercise. Surprisingly humans do decently well on this. But it does require reasoning and collaborative forecasting. No matter the strategy the person picks, there is more going on at play than just a random selection, even if they think it is. And looking at the results, it does not seem like asking different LLMs to perform this would get the right result, as they are all biased in the same way.
I remember reading during hurricane Katrina (2005) the only local radio station was run by a near poverty level ham radio boffin who had his own equipment to broadcast messages. All the professional stations were remote with no employees.

Brice Phillips' low power FM radio station, WQRZ LP, was one of only 4 stations in the region that remained on the air after Hurricane Katrina devastated Hancock county, Mississippi. He and a small group of volunteers remained on air 24 hours a day, broadcasting alerts and pointing survivors in the direction of vital aid.

"He's probably saved as many people after the storm than he did before the storm because of being able to tell them where to go get food, water, and ice," explains Brian "Hooty" Adams, director of Hancock County's emergency operations center.
>And there are good, as well as nefarious, reasons to value its anonymising quality: women whose abortion rights have been restricted might find it life-saving.

That's an argument FOR electronic money. A government that put a law in place sure does not want to facilitate people getting around that law.
Not the same, but I wanted to say that when I was upgrading apps from .NET Framework to Core and above, I was surprised how many Framework packages not only had upgrades, but were deprecated entirely and replaced by a new package. We had a difficult time migrating. (This was at MSFT btw)
Land of the free lol.

In Europe universities have always been hotbeds for protest and debate. It's why they exist. They have a role beyond being a fucking diploma mill.

Although if I had to get myself into 100k student debt I might think differently...
They also don’t care about any other issues presented by vets. There’s always money for another multimillion dollar demo day or training exercise but not enough for medical care.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/99345-i-am-somehow-less-int...

> “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” ― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
> Would be a fun mechanical Turk experiment to run.

Sounds like it would be a good way to determine likelihood of MTurk users being LLMs.
The end result seems to have been the intentional desecration of the corpses of a previous ruling dynasty in a massive, public bonfire, and the (probably intentional) use of the undifferentiated remains — jewellery, precious beads and more — as construction material.
I was repeatedly amazed at how smart my toddler was. You just feel the general intelligence.

She's a bit older now (5) but e.g. a few days ago I was talking about cleaning the whole house. She said "you didn't clean the WHOLE house, look there's something you didn't clean".
HN discussion [0](72 points, 1 day ago, 41 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40215071
Very unfriendly.

The symbolic library (type of activations) requires a branching at the very core of the kernel. GPU will need to serialized on these operations warp-wise.

To optimize, you might want to do a scan operation beforehand and dispatch to activation funcs in a warp specialized way, this, however, makes the global memory read/write non-coalesced.

You then may sort the input based on type of activations and store it in that order, this makes the gmem IO coalesced but requires gather and scatter as pre and post processing.
link 1 shows Alice compresses down to less than 100 GB/sec, and uncompressed at 3.5TB/sec.

The article has a sub-headline:

> A petabyte per second

The math doesn't work out for me, unless there at 30 ALICE equivalents at CERN. I think there are about 3.
Oh, is that a hidden feature of the flux capacitor?
We knew about universal function approximators like. Polynomials and trig functions since the 1700s. Turing and godel were around 1910 and 1920. The cybernetics movement is big in the 30s and 40s. Perceptrons 50s and 60s
Technically a tree doesn’t need to be directed.

A tree is (also) any loop-free graph.
I would definitely trust my lawyer with my bitcoin seed.

But the whole thing depends on how much you own in bitcoin.

If it's a whole lot, check how other people in more traditional domains are dealing with their lawyers or notaries handling these sums. (For one, it's a bit easier with bitcoin, because you don't need to tell your lawyer or notary what you are giving them. And you can encrypt the private key data with something derived from an easy to remember password. It doesn't need to be 100% cryptograhpically secure, it just needs to lower the temptation for your lawyer.)

Btw, I think the bigger problem in practice wouldn't be your lawyer stealing from you, but your lawyer somehow losing your data.
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What I hate is that there's no often no discussion about your solution. I want to go "here, this is my solution", and then have a discussion with the people hiring where they might ask stuff like "you chose to do X this way, what was your reasoning?"

Also, enough with the fucking Roman numerals, Jesus Christ.
Can you substantiate the claim that scifi is the biggest contributor to people thinking mars might have had life? Seems like a bold claim.

Mars is the 2nd most habitable planet in the solar system and people have wondered if there was life out there for a lot longer than scifi has existed.

This article has plenty of such examples. First one I see it Democritus around 400 bc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life
What if being productive to society is actually harmful?
Well, obviously the customer only gets the convenience they are willing to pay for. Competition should help keep those costs down.
I understand your sentiment. The debate of error codes vs exceptions will be debated until the year 3000, and further. One point to consider with exceptions: It is "impossible" to ignore an exception. The function implementation is telling (nay: dictating[!] to) the caller: You cannot ignore this error code. At the very least, you must catch, then discard. Another point this is overlooked in these discussions: Exceptions and error codes can, and do, peacefully co-exist. Look at Python, C#, and Java. In the standard library for all three, there are cases where error codes are used and cases where exceptions are thrown. Another thing about exceptions, especially in enterprise programming, you can add a human readable error message. That is not possible when only returning error codes.

EDIT

Inspired by this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40220147

I forgot about exception stack traces, including "chained" exceptions. These are incredibly powerful when writing enterprise software that commonly has a stack 50+ levels deep.
There has never been 32 bit support, and the 64bit support is not actually gone.

RISC-V support advances, this was a sensationalist story based on an irrelevant technicality.

Refer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206729
The client posting should propagate the hash.

But that still wont get you the independent ping, so then the clients immediate server should confirm.

As long as client and server confirm, that should be enough.

Perhaps throw in one more confirmation gateway and, thats gotta be enough trust before you just paranoid
That it's economical at market rates is kind of the point, though, right? Without the disadvantageous tax treatment of cleared land, you'd see demand increase, which means either price increases or labor being pulled from other areas.
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yeah and you missed the irony mocking that very comment
> Rabbit is a regression to ordering things with a phone, except instead of talking to a person, you're talking to a robot.

> I just, I cannot fathom who wants this.

If that doesn't make a difference to you, you're not the target market. It truely doesn't for some, but for others, it does!
I'm using this post to air some grievances I have with GNOME.

I've been using it for a daily driver for the past few months and it's come a really long way the past 15 or so years, but they don't seem to have a cohesive vision as to what they're trying to do.

What's with the topbar? Why have the window title button in it at all? It's not like there's a menu to select different windows, and when you click on the window's button, it shows items that are better done somewhere else. It's like some useless appendage. I already know which window has focus, it's the one on top of all the other windows...

Why hide the window's menubar behind a button that doesn't even have a consistent location, like users expect from the "close window" button? Looking at you Nautil- sorry, "Files".

Their CSD titlebars don't work well with Firefox or Chromium, the main piece of software most users are likely to use. Everybody knows that its stupid, but nobody wants to be the one to change they do things, so users are left with tiny chiclets of grabable area in the upper corners of the windows. Completely idiotic.

Why can't I change the time/date format to something sensible in the topbar? Why can't I just move (or remove) the damn thing anyway?

Why all the emphasis on touch in the UI design, but I still can't select text without a mouse? Touch screen laptops have been around for a while now.

It does a good job of exposing functionality, but it feels very confused, overall. And I'm a little upset that the first taste of Linux most people will get is going to be with GNOME. It's had tons of work put into it but it still feels half baked, not for lack of trying, but just a poorly thought out recipe, if you will.
Interesting, that sounds like a way out of a bad staffing and leadership trap rather than any big productivity gains. But it is something I guess.
This is what aider does, using tree sitter to extract the AST from each source file. It uses the ASTs to build a call graph. And then does a graph optimization to identify the most relevant parts of the code base, given the current state of the LLM chat.

There’s more details in this article:

https://aider.chat/2023/10/22/repomap.html
The Fermi paradox calculations consider that life started on an earth like planet. But have we confirmed that life can appear on an earth like planet?
What are the advantages of Egyptian hieroglyphs?
Take out this

Instructions:
1. Do not include any assumptions that I have not mentioned here.
2. Before solving the problem, state the goal of the problem.
3. After each step of your reasoning, state where the man and the goat are now standing, and state if the goal has been achieved or not, if the goal has been achieved then stop. If the goal has not been achieved then explain why not.

Then tell me what happens

Spoilage is incredibly easy to do. It is about information leakage and you have to think very carefully about how information can leak through in subtle ways. Specifically #1 and #2 are strong hints that there is a trick to the problem (i.e. is this something you would use in a generic prompt?). #3 is a reiteration of the problem, that gives extra weight. You can decrease the weight by restating as "state where the man and any animals are located" (notice there's lower information gain here). " if the goal has been achieved then stop." is a big hint. To reason, it should know when to stop.

I posted some recent river crossing tweets in this comment that may be of interest to you https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40231409
not have a screen.

Sometimes the thing that defines something is not what it has, but what it lacks.
The crazy thing to me is that they given the videos they originally showed (100% Sora?) they didn't need to falsely advertise. What it can do is incredibly impressive without dressing it up.
> B is creditworthy. That’s why I leant it to him. If I have an issue with liquidity I go to the discount window of my central bank and they will lend me the money.

Yes. But that means you got newly created base money from the central bank. Which sort of goes against the original claim.
So many fortunate series of events that lead to the opportunity for life. Some survivorship bias I guess.
Large discussion [0] (105 points, 12 hours ago, 129 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222273
> I've saved a Welling paper from rejection from two reviewers who admitted to not knowing PDEs

Thank you for fighting the good fight.

This is why I love OpenReview, I can spot and ignore nonsensical reviewer criticisms and ratings and look for the insightful comments and rebuttals. Many reviewers do put in a lot of very valuable work reading and critiquing most of which would go to waste if not made public.
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> There is no way to ensure user privacy that doesn't also give bad actors the same privacy

I disagree. There are upcoming technologies that have the potential of making this a reality. Like Private Access Tokens (https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-private-access-tokens-...) and its successor protocols, the Privacy Pass suite of protocols (split over many documents https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-privacypass-archi... https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-privacypass-auth-... https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-privacypass-proto... https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-privacypass-rate-...) and so on. These efforts are spearheaded by Apple, Google, Cloudflare and Fastly. Of course Apple has iCloud private relay so they have incentives to make such things work well with iCloud private relay. Google has Google One VPN too. It also has reCAPTCHA that's widely used to block abuse traffic. Cloudflare and Fastly of course are big CDNs. Imagine a world where visiting a website over a VPN, and these tokens clearly distinguish you from abuse traffic while preserving your privacy, so that Cloudflare has no reason to present you with a CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA gives you that tick without forcing you to pick pictures of motorcycles.

Watch this space. Very interesting developments here.
https://archive.ph/tnqzf
I think it’s hard to claim that things were sustainable and headed in a good direction before 1992, cotton farming notwithstanding.
Are you sure? Maybe this isn't a good test but it seems pretty evenly distributed to me:

https://go.dev/play/p/IeJQEAclBCU

Edit: maybe this shows the bias better: https://go.dev/play/p/3eKJibIlF1a