skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if you were a typical highly engaged TikTok or YouTube user, you are probably 13-18 years old. The kind of cheating in school that ChatGPT enabled is revolutionary. That is going to go viral. It's not a marketing push. After years of essentially learning nothing during COVID lockdowns, can you understand how transformative that is? It's like 1,000x more exciting than pirating textbooks, stealing Mazdas, or whatever culturally self-destructive life hacks were being peddled by freakshow brocolliheads and Kim Kardashian-alikes on the platform.

It's ironic because the OpenAI creators really loved school and excelled academically. Nobody cares that ChatGPT destroyed advertising copywriting. But whatever little hope remained for the average high schooler post-lockdowns, it was destroyed by instant homework cheating via ChatGPT. So much for safety.
Wow, about time. Preserving source formatting was the most moronic, idiotic default option I have ever seen
Nuclear is almost as non-dispatchable? As soon as you've ramped up a nuclear reactor to full power, the weather has changed. Thus they essentially occupy almost the same niche.

Those who plan to use both nuclear and wind/solar don't do it for the dispatchability.
Yeah. As if the entire history of computing wasn't one of constant and dramatic price drops.
At the risk of sounding like a cryptobro, could we have something like a proof of work or a web of trust for posts?

So you could vote on if you think something was authored by a human? At least the cost for a spam post would not be virtually zero like now.

I'm sure people have thought about this, are there any viable solutions?
Following the URL in your bio loads a gambling page.

Is your email still valid as listed?
And your frame must be much stiffer, as now your tool is being used to apply force vs just lay down plastic.
Yeah, Dijkstra is more for graph search where maybe you have weights but not actual vectors. But this does give a nice visualisation of how far you can get from a single point in a given time.
But do you know what's even better for Apple's bottom line?

Users buying an 1TB iPad Pro with keyboard, AND, a MacBook Pro to do the things the iPad can't do even though it has the same CPU.

Cha-ching!
The cropped or re-focused image isn't the same as the original, at best a derivative.

And yes, in general a photo of a larger gathering is fine, singling out any person is not. So the original would be fine, the derivative not.
I think you might be falling for selection bias. I guess you are surrounding yourself with a lot of smart people. "tinker around and figure things out" is definitely something certain humans (bad at reasoning) can't do. I already prefer the vision model when it comes to asking for a picture description (blind user) over many humans I personally know. The machine is usually more detailed, and takes the time to read the text, instead of trying to shortcut and decide for me whats important. Besides, people from the english speaking countries do not have to deal with foreign languages. Everyone else has to. "Aber das ist ja in englisch" is a common blocker for consuming information around here. I tell you, if we dont manage to ramp up education a few notches, we'll end up with even higher stddev when it comes to practical intelligence. We already have perfectly normal seeming humans absolutely unable to participate on the internet.
The 8Nm/kg is impressive for the direct driver servo. It's still however a long way off from the 43.3Nm/kg gained by adding a gear box. Direct drive motors have other advantages such as better torque control and no backlash but out side of very novel motor design or making motor diameters impactical it's hard to beat the torque density of a gearbox. Maybe one day.
Completely unironically this, if it actually has long-term memory.
> utterly indistinguishable to me

Utterly?

While somewhat harder, it looks like one is a protest and one is a photo of people dancing at an music event. Please don't take photos of people just enjoying themself (in Germany). Most people change their behavior when a camera is pointed at them.

Lukely some clubs have strict "no photo" rules and put little stickers on your phone camera. Can't do that in a street festival though.
Sorry, bad attempt at humor. I knew what you meant, I was just poking fun at forM_ for being bizarre and unergonomic
Yeah, even though I routinely use a mix of CLI and REPL environments, I also don't get the fetish to use computers as I was doing back in 1990 in MS-DOS and Xenix.

One of the appeals of Amiga was to only dive into the Amiga DOS shell if I really needed to.
So if people are sticking these on valuable items, is the use case now for thieves to break into a house, wander around and be alerted when said valuable items (which are hidden or otherwise not obviously evident) are close by?
Plan 9's successor, is Inferno, which folks keep forgeting about.
If you think those stories charaterize USSR production/planning system, they do not. Specially the historical period when Yeltsin took power, at that time, they already had market like elements of production. If interested, there is a few books on planning, f.e. Cockshott. I think it is important since we as humans capable of conscious transformation of production relations. In some parts of production may be it is ok if it is done by independent agents, in some parts it could be better if agents could communicate not just by market, but directly, as with free softwere/GPL where you can directly work on it, not though market.
What is good about USSR, is that you could likely get any schematic of any device. I do not like proprietay things so this huge market of phones and etc, is not really for me. Some ICs used do not have datasheets. The many supermarkets, it is 10 or so in radius of 1-2 km here. I'm ok if it is 7 and one lab equiped with electronics, etc equipment. There is a clear by now bound of what individual agents communicating only over market, can do.
Interesting.. believe it or not, I don't pay much attention to politics as I often feel like they miss the forest for the trees and exchange integrity for votes.

But at a glance- it seems like I am in fact proposing something like his Decisive Plan.

I suppose the main difference is I am dreaming that it comes about through peace and with world support- especially Arab support.

I don't want it to be forced through violence. Unfortunately, it may be inevitable... I can't even get people on hacker news to retract their erroneous accusations of genocide. What hope is there for a peaceful "180 degree" turn?

I keep wanting to believe the world is not full of anti-semites, it's just an issue of misunderstanding, and I keep finding I am wrong... in that context, something like the decisive plan may need to be forced through war eventually. God I hope it doesn't come to that.

Re: stats, I don't have that info.. if I had to guess, I would say that a plan like this is hugely unpopular in Israel- but I would also guess that it's like that because it implies a lot of suffering in today's climate, and it would be much more accepted if the Palestinians wanted it too.
If you make something work which previously threw an error, it affects programs in which that error happens but is handled (whether by fluke or design).

One obvious example is a regression test case which confirms that the error is generated; that test now fails and must be removed.

It could sneak into an application.

They are just willing to crack those eggs to make their omelette.
What an asinine comment, I can only presume was written on a Palmyra stone tablet
> it also made me wonder if you couldn’t just use these lectures everywhere English speaking

Having educators is essential for the health of any society. Educators who constantly revise the material, learn it themselves, and teach it to others. Who themselves become informal or formal teachers. This is one of the ways societies deal with change. The educational requirements change with time and place. The teachers themselves are learning all the time. Some are temporarily bad. Some are permanently bad because of bad job incentives or bad evaluation systems.

Replace all this with centrally produced lectures and your society will seriously deteriorate because of the gaps between what needs to be taught at different places and times and what is taught at those places and times will widen considerably.

Please understand that societies are intricate trees and vines, not machines.
The Seagull, maybe not. But BYD already own the EV market in other countries with strict safety restrictions such as Australia, selling their pricier models. Price wise these are still comparable only with other Chinese manufactured cars such as Ora and MG. It will be the same in the US, without trade restrictions getting in the way.
What benefits does it have over existing algorithms such as ESRGAN, CCSR, DAT, SPAN, SUPIR?
Personally, I find it hard to believe a PhD would have trouble conjugating “drink”. :P
Hopefully, we will soon enter the stage where nobody believes anything they see anymore. Then, you no longer have to be afraid of being misinterpreted, because nobody is listening anymore anyway. Great time to be alive!
This was posted to the wrong comment, apologies.
> I got a clear description of each and every piece of clothing, including print, colours and brand. I am blind BTW.

That is a really great application of this tech. And definitely qualifies as real-world impact. Thanks for sharing that!
There needs to be a law that says any user needs to set any limit on any service or subscription, and then the costs can not surpass this until the budget is upped by the user. At the same time, there should be real-time cost analysis, breakdown per service and predicted costs per day.
This is if they made chat bots on the east coast instead
From Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' memo (1953)[1]:

"An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics:

1. It is simple.
2. It is small.
3. It is cheap.
4. It is light.
5. It can be built very quickly.
6. It is very flexible in purpose (“omnibus reactor”)
7. Very little development is required. It will use mostly “off-the-shelf” components.
8. The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now."

The whole paper is well worth reading, IMHO:

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html
You have it completely inverted. I am talking about the indigenous people returning to their land. I am talking about the original (and much more prolific) religious claims to land being restored over subsequent weak-claimed usurpers.

That's literally the opposite of colonialism.

(by "weak" I just mean the opposite of prolific.. not sure what the right word would be there, i.e. Judaism has super strong ties to Israel- agricultural laws of orlah and shemittah, recorded purchase and significance of Hebron, daily prayer for over 2000 years to rebuild Jerusalem. No other religion has anywhere near this strong of a connection to the land).
You might benefit from this video [1] on the "Functional Core, Imperative Shell" pattern in Ruby (a very object-oriented language), which sounds like one of the things you are having trouble with.

The talk is about segmenting IO and mutation from the rest of your program. The core of your program should be just pure functions and the IO part of your program should be "at the edge".

For example, consider a game loop. Game loops tend to have a while loop like this:

function loop() {
while (should_not_close_window) {
update(); // Run update function which updates mutable state
draw(); // Draw from the mutable state
}
}

If we wanted to segment IO, we would return an immutable type/value from the update function instead like:

function loop(old_state) {
const new_state = update(old_state); // Call a function which returns a new state given an old_state.
draw(new_state); // Draw function still uses IO because drawing is inherently imperative

if (new_state.should_not_close_window) {
loop(new_state); // Call the loop function with the new state; this tail recursion replaces the previous while-loop). The program automatically exits the loop if new_state.should_not_close_window is false.
}

}

The key thing is to turn as much of your program into a function that takes a value and returns a new value as possible, and let the IO code be only there for operations which cannot be done without IO (like drawing).

There are some cases where you might find yourself wanting to perform IO inside the update call but that can be handled by setting some state (inside your root state object) which the boundary of your program interprets as "do IO at the boundary".

For example, let's add an async handler to the loop (async often being IO like disk writes).

// Function to handle async messages
function handleAsync(old_state) {
for (const msg of old_state.msgs) {
execMsg(msg); // Call function to pattern match and execute this specific message
}
const new_state = remove_msgs(old_state); // Call function that returns same state, except msgs is now the empty list (because the msgs have been handled)
return new_state
}

Where type msgs could be a list of types like | WriteFile of string | MaximiseScreen

The main loop will be modified by putting a call to this handleAsync function after update, like this:

function loop(old_state) {
const mid_state = update(old_state);
const new_state = handle_async(mid_state);
draw(new_state);

if (new_state.should_not_close_window) {
loop(new_state);
}

}

The majority of your code should be in the pure update() function which returns a new value (this example doesn't explain anything about pure functions at all) and IO should be minimised.

Generally, don't do IO (except at the boundary/root of your application). When you want to do IO, add some kind of message/datatype value to your state object and do the IO when your state object bubbles up, rreturning to the root of your application.

The talk likely explains this better but I hope my attempt at giving an explanation was helpful.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
I dabble with Gopher for two reasons.

First, it's a simple protocol. Learning about the basics of networking, building your own Gopher client, Gopher offers a great opportunity to tip your toe into the pond.

Second, I have the DiggieDog browser installed on my phone. During my commute, I pass through stretches with limited connectivity. Reading some of the phlogs I follow is a great pass time.

I don't think Gopher needs to be the "next big thing". It has been that a while ago. The limitations are why it got superseded by protocols that cater to the needs of the many. That said, it still has its place on the Internet as a retreat for a community that values Gophers original simplicity. And I think that's absolutely valid.
Which doesn't have macros nor hash table according to http://www.islisp.org/whatisISLisp.html

Good joke.
ASI presumably. (S for super)
haha cheers
>Presumably a building serves purposes other than being seen. Though these were posed by an architect, "residents", "occupants", "users" etc are never mentioned -- only "spectators".

This is just an artifact of compressing 1500+ pages (iirc) into the length a blog post. Alexander was (RIP) one of the most fanatically human-focused designers of his field. His visual description of strong centers and spectators was usually hyper-literal; users look at the building while they use it, so its look should facilitate its use. In the large this means the form of the building should help direct the user's attention towards what they're using it for, meaning anything from shaping a courtyard to keep occupants flowing smoothly and prevent disorientation to positioning furniture and light sources and windows to keep the user unimpeded, mentally centered, and comfortable (He even leaned in to an early version of iterative design, encouraging constructing models, and then doing the real construction in phases with the architect on-site, to reassess and dial in things like room size and window positioning)[0]. In the small it means designing features and ornamentation of the construction to avoid either the extremes of cold flatness or excess-born noise, meaning elements should be on the one hand artistic and interesting to look at, but at the same time subtle and undemanding while they're in the periphery of whatever you're actually doing in the building.

Alexander seems to have started his work on A Pattern Language, whose subtitle is "Towns, Buildings, Construction", out of exasperation with what he saw as a fashion of buildings designed to look good in the magazine perspective drawing instead of feeling good to the user , and city plans designed to geometrically impress from the scale of the district blueprint instead of the person on the street. Language of "the spectator" is in reference to his attempt to shift this perspective back to where it belonged.

[0]I believe this was during TNoO, but even in A Pattern Language and its companions The Oregon Experiment and The Timeless Way of Building he encouraged using techniques and materials that would enable a great deal of post-construction rennovation, and for organizations to devote as much money to enhancing old projects as to building new ones.
A lot of these techniques are fragile, and complicate lots of other things.

It is very useful if the same code compiles to the same binary if no changes occurred.

But having the date and time or a version control comment change a binary may lead to unnecessary churn with dependencies, packages, and integrity checks.
An unfathomably huge problem facing California that is under-discussed is the second order effects of the legalization of cannabis. Used to be you could get $4,000/lb per lb, but now theyr're going for $500. Generations of families and industry and workers happened at $4k which provided underground jobs that now don't exist. These are people that have never had W2 income and thus are not counted in any official stats due to the nature of growing illegal pot. These are swaths of people that previously funded their lives through illicit pot deals that no longer exist. The arts in California? Funded by untracable weed cash. That's gone.

There are very few jobs for a convicted felon with a mental illness, and trimming weed was the one way to pay the bills. That's now dried up. On an individual level, just don't be a convicted felon and don't catch a mental illness. Easy, right? Society includes all of us and they need jobs to be paid so they can buy food.

I don't know if UBI is the answer, but California's underground economy has this massive hole in it due to legalization that's gone unnoticed and we're in line for a big cultural shift because of that.
Well... seriously, no industrialised nation plans any significant amount of nuclear nor sees it as a necessary or even a valuable addition to their electricity mix. Not even China - they are building a bunch of reactors but the amount is negligible compared to the amount solar they are building.

And, nuclear is not dispatchable either, because it can't be regulated, it's either "on" or "off" (and going from "off" to "on" takes several days due to xenon poisoning).
> Most students are not motivated to learn the subject material.

Many students are demoralized by school because schooling doesn't bother telling kids why they are learning something.

In elementary school, when the teacher stepped into the hallway, a common complaint to hear was "what's the point of this?"

By middle and high school, the question became a mindset - "this is pointless."
At their core, I still think of these things as search engines, albeit super advanced ones. But the emotion the agent conveys with it's speech synth is completely new...
Quanta is by the Simons Foundation, whereas the Numberphile YouTube channel is simply sponsored by them.
Your argument does not hold at all. In fact I'd go so far as to say it is total nonsense.

If I were to ask you to act a certain way and you do, this would neither prove nor disprove free will, because it tells me nothing about whether causality required you to act that way or differently and whether or not you deviated from causality, and so your analogy is meaningless. It is not what we'd ask you to do in order to prove free will.

You're using an assumption about an invalid argument as an argument in favour of free will, and that's no more valid than the original invalid argument.

To prove free will you need to prove that there are decisions in the brain that does not follow a) strict causality, b) randomness, c) any combination of the two. As you've pointed out, experiments where you ask a subject to act in specific ways do not produce evidence for it, as they can just as well just be causality in action. That the strawman hypothesis you presented is not valid does not prove the inverse, nor does it release any obligation of proponents of the idea of free will from providing evidence, or even just a definition to support their idea.

Free will is an absolutely extraordinary claim in that respect, because it implies a third category of events that is not a mix of strict cause-effect chains and random events, but introduces a "will-effect" chain that has no direct causal link but at the same time is not random.

As it stands, without a definition, the notion of free will is not even a fanciful hypothesis - to suggest it is a hypothesis would imply a fully formed idea. But the concept is so woolly and meaningless it tells us nothing.

It's at most a fervent wish or hope of not being an automaton. But a wish is not evidence, nor an argument, or even a hypothesis.

If you want to produce a valid argument for free will, you need to be able to either proffer a hypothesis for how such a "will-effect" chain can exist, or demonstrate physical transitions in a mind that are demonstrably not cause-effect or random byproducts of ordinary physics.

Even just come up with a coherent definition and you will be world famous, as you'd have introduced a new area of logic. If you can prove a physical mechanism for it, you'll have Nobel Prize in physics in the bag.
North Korea is best Korea!
That's not the right analogy. The "tok" in "Tiktoken" comes from "token", not "TikTok".
Disagree.

As the video said "many homes are old and immobile", so pricing "out" is misleading.

Second, when you have a local monopoly like this, there is rarely any risk, which might be the main reason why the new invester bought the place.

Third, those who build homes for rent are the ones who profit from high rents. Thats why you have large investors buying up property and increasing the rent everywhere (maybe even to pay the loan for that purchase) because its easier to build.

You can see this all over large cities in the west. Saying that the price went up because of short supply is like saying martin skrelli absurdly increased insulin prices because people need it so badly.
I truly don't see why you're being downvoted. Much of this is often true and some of it is sometimes true, but none of it is absolutely unbelievable. Speaking specifically of the Canadian border police, from personal experience with being "taken aside", I can vouch for an absolutely arrogant, condescending, shitty attitude of treating you as if you were a suspicious piece of scum for no good reason or justification outside the random bullshit they make up in the spur of the moment when they can find nothing concrete.
Just because they tried something one time and it failed, does that mean there's no room to try to do better?
He could try Spice86 it's seems to be good to decompile old DOS games.
We moved from nowhere Montana to North Carolina and when our teenage kids stepped into Wegmans, you would have thought they had never seen a grocery store. The vegetables section alone had their eyes bulging. One kid actually teared up. Best produce we had had in years. A couple years onward and the novelty is absolutely gone and the oldest thinks wegmans is too expensive with too little variety
It’s trivial to parse it either way without mental gymnastics.
AR with ordinary looking glasses potential?