skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of gyms has skyrocketed in the past few decades, though. Back when the obesity epidemic really took off ca. 1980, "the gym" was a place inhabited primarily by bodybuilders and professional athletes. Regular folks were mostly doing calisthenics/aerobics, often at home following along with Jack LaLanne or Jane Fonda. Today, Planet Fitness is a ~5.5-billion-dollar company.
> Great incentive alignment for both parties.

In many industries, the customer will feel punished for using the product - the opposite of what I'd want, as someone proud of the value their product provides.

Therefore disagree, depending on the existing mentality in the niche.
UBI has already worked. We hunt and forage food and water, but air and gravity are supplied for free, the latter being inescapably mandatory (good luck ending it, rulers). They're not nothing, not "but that's different", there's wattage in all.

We talk about tax and money like they're natural theories, when we could easily pursue compatible, interoperable regimes that meet the UBI design brief. If price is value then change in price is a proxy for externalities, so tax transactions based on change in instantaneous price. The power to do so is in divide and conquer, between rentiers who value stability and those who cultivate volatility. The Not-In-My-Back-Office corporate leadership creates gigahertz iPads but never seems to buy their way out of overnight transaction clearing and filing labyrinthine returns for some reason.

I hate being livestock in the "incentive" farm. We almost all do. And while I appreciate insights about the Roman Empire as much as any white male...it's less the done thing these days. :)
Somewhat related discussion:

"International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400438

36 points | 53 comments
> 0 based indexing

I mean, zero based indexing isn't exclusive to computing. Plenty of times in physics or math we do x_0 for the start of a sequence vs x_1.

Although, fair, our textbook had the definition of a sequence being a mapping of elements to z+, which is zero exclusive
Hack Pack
> run your game logic at a constant update rate and render an interpolated state between the current and previous game logic frame

But if graphics frame rate is higher you won’t be able to interpolate until the next logic frame is ready, - wouldn’t that increase latency?
I live in a town of less than 3000 people and regularly see/hear the local county shariff's military grade helicopter loitering around for no good reason.
Yeah, this has been going on for years. The typical pattern is for an attacker to gain access to an established YouTube channel, change its profile name and image to SpaceX, delete all previously uploaded videos, and start broadcasting a scam stream until it gets taken down.
I’m not adding conditions, you’re ignoring context and application of the law. Don’t take my word for it, contact a lawyer. Besides the law you’re ignoring or unaware of philosophical and scientific definitions. Also the huge ethical problem with letting a machine fence art for you, it’s a factory for social pollution.
I feel like we'll know right away though. We can then act right away.

I'm not sure what you would do now that is different because you are anticipating such a thing.
A better idea is just to more efficiently redistribute economic efficiency gains brought by new technology by a broader part of Society.
Ancient Egypt was notoriously wood-poor. Stonemasonry was developed to a high art there (in both senses of the word) out of necessity.

Many Egyptian watercraft were made not of wood but of papyrus. Where wood was utilised, it was imported from elsewhere (Lebanon, famous for its cedars, and acacia, possibly domestic in origin).

Amongst Egyptian relics, wood stands out as a high-value material reflecting its scarcity and imported status.

Other possible shipbuilding materials, not likely to have been available or widely used, would include animal skins (as with Inuit kyaks), water-proofed cloth (unlikely, though cotton was abundant), metals (unlikely), and concrete (again, highly unlikely).

Papyrus has even poorer survival characteristics as a shipbuilding material than wood, though some relics are extant.
Yes - the peanut oil freezes at 37F which keeps it from separating. (Some brands have additives such as palm oil which provide the same benefit at room temperature, but I usually don't purchase these.)

Normally I wouldn't mind separation but peanut butter is kind of a pain to stir thoroughly.
What is the recommended way to deploy it without Heroku?
[Dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40402734
> catastrophically high and unsustainable energy cost that means they will never be profitable.

Reality differs from this opinion
For context, the point of the Superalignment team was to work on a problem known as scalable oversight: the problem of aligning models in a way that holds up as models become more capable [1]. The reason behind this is that current alignment techniques (like RLHF), have limitations which are expected to worsen as models are scaled up [2].

This is to say, the objective of the Superalignment team was precisely to work on techniques that would work for models which don't yet exist. They are of course aware that they don't yet have superintelligence.

[1]: This paper by Anthropic is a good introduction to the problem; https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03540

[2]: See, for example, Jan Leike's talk on this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtnvfVc8z8o
I did not know that python fact. Thanks for sharing!
Wood, in an environment in which trees were exceptionally scarce and high-value assets.
[Dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40402738
> I actually think StackExchange is quite well designed to optimize for good questions and answers.

There's questions and answers on SE? I thought it was just pop-ups and sidebars?

(I'm being mildly sarcastic, but I think this screenshot speaks for itself on the state of SE: https://i.imgur.com/S8slGeT.png)
As a corollary, one-time fees work well for utilities that accomplish a goal where there is unlikely to be an on-going customer relationship.

Also, depending on the product or service, having a separate subscription or pay scale for individuals and businesses helps prevent sticker-shock for individuals and dismissal by corporations put-off by prices when they are too low.
> the Python ecosystem is often far superior to both

What would you say does the Python ecosystem have that the others are missing? The obvious thing is pytorch/tensorflow/.... I can't think of much else though.
Can you also email me at mc12stoud at gmail? I'm happy to help.
'Fancy autocomplete' is a thought-terminating cliche.

You can stump a person with a riddle or a logic puzzle or an optical illusion.
I feel like it is the duty of every intelligent species in the universe to create such monuments. Because we all have the same question. Are we alone?
It’s interesting to see how optimistic and forward thinking architecture for education could be during this time period.

It seems by the 1990s, many attributes that were seen as desirable (open air, windows, single level) were at some point abandoned in general, leading to windowless boxes and long wheelchair ramps between classrooms (at least this was my experience in Los Angeles).
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393873
This looks pretty useful, kudos.

If I had any nit to make, it's about browser.NewBrowser. It stutters, and even with just New(), at first I thought it was making a client. Not sure what I'd go with, maybe Parse like net/url?

Again, just a minor nit, not trying to take away what you've done here at all.
Are you using Assistants API v2 with streaming?
Tautological!
Like I said, I would absolutely love to shadow you while you search, because what you're describing just isn't happening to me.
Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector
Taiwan's steely leader rewrote the book on how to deal with China
Inevitable? Sure assuming we don't extinct first. In the near future? No.

This is just another in a long line of technology panics. Unfortunately, there always seems to be some "concerned" experts that are both overly optimistic about the speed of technological progress and overly pessimistic about where that progress will lead adding fuel to the fire.

Eventually some other new technology will incite a new panic and this one will become another footnote in history like the fears over grey goo or genetically engineered superhumans.
Standing up can work but the stakes are different in war vs fighting back on a school bus.

Human loss is an absolute tragedy. Often [always?] times those who command the war have the least to lose. They protect their children but the white/black/brown “trash” kids they are quick to deploy. This fact is shown multiple times in every conflict in living memory.

Just search “Russian drone soldier” on Twitter. This is tragedy. Imagine if it was you or your dad or your brother or your son. Then all the fricking Israeli and Palestinian kids. Horror.

I’m not a peacenik, there are reasons for war. They should not be taken lightly. It’s like chemotherapy, use it if you have to but if you have ANY other option, consider that.
If you like this, and want to try individual "capture the flag", get into orienteering. Capture the flag on potentially hundreds of acres. (I believe there is a team version too, but I never done that.)

And, if you want to up a notch, try radio orienteering aka fox oring aka transmitter hunting.

Imagine a national park. Now drop (usually) five radio transmitters (no bigger than a briefcase) where each send out a unique morse code.

You build a radio receiver that is light but sturdy that can pick up the signal if you point it at the radio, but the reception gets weaker as you turn it away.

Run! Through the woods, swamps, creeks, crevices. You have to find all transmitter, get a stamp and finish before the others.

Good luck!
I started reading this expecting as usual for it to be located in some far flung location like Germany or Denver.

Imagine my surprise when he happened to be in Austin where I live and using the same park I take my kids every weekend.

Definitely a great space for CTF.
https://nitter.poast.org/gdb/status/1791869138132218351
I had enough around the house to give some away and still made it several months. If you're at the store and your brand is on sale, and you can't remember if you have plenty, buy some more. No big deal, it stores easily. At some point you're like, wait I have a lot, and then you don't buy anymore until you run out in one bathroom and realize you're getting low.
Hate to be that person but climate change is more of a threat than AI. Where is the team to reduce its impact? That should be the actual news.

OpenAI realised that it is not getting closer to AGI anytime in the near future and it has more significant worries closer to the present. Including existential threats. Anyone worries about dangers to humanity should focus on climate change and jump off the sci fi hype train.
I'm honestly amazed that people seriously compare an 8bit machine with no network to a smartphone with Internet and social media.

The Internet, amazing as it is, it's also the home to the worst possible content imaginable and believe it, kids always find a way to neutralize parental controls and the like.

Also, I don't understand this notion that "tech" (in the most vague definition possible) actually brings any future advantage.

It's like teaching kids Excel or Python and hope they will win a Fields medal.
If parents teach them critical thinking, reading books and love math and logic, they'll pick up any problem, language or "tech" easily when they're older and run circles around other kids that "know programming".
Is your hypothesis that what, Jan Leike resigned as part of an elaborate conspiracy to boost OpenAI's prospect by... criticizing it?

I find these theories to be extremely convoluted and implausible, and they often lack awareness of the history behind companies like OAI, Anthropic or GDM
Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression? (2008)
Don’t helicopters cost insane hourly amounts to operate?
This is my only claim to fame, the pilot is my mom’s cousin. Super nice guy.

Hearing him tell the story first hand was pretty incredible. He saw sky, so knew he had a hole… but had no idea it was so extensive until they landed and he walked back there.

Can you imagine the phone footage we would have had from that it if it happened today?!
So a pretty good seeker
Our upcoming JuliaCon 2024 has a significant number of industrial talks and a minisymposium. ASML uses Julia quite widely in a definitively industrial context.

https://juliacon.org/2024/
Discussion on the original article [0] (61 points, 3 months ago, 39 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363479
I work for top tier cyber security outfit we had a sizable amount of resources allocated to helping mitigate cyber threats to Ukraine. My understanding is this is not isolated as most top tier or even smaller vendors and service providers took an active role in helping Ukraine defend against ruissian cyber attacks.
From the Jan leike tweet:

> OpenAI is shouldering an enormous responsibility on behalf of all of humanity.

To me this sounds delusional. It assumes all kinds of things, but primarily that openai will be the leader in this space up to and beyond smarter than human agi. This self important bs is also why I wouldn't trust open ai with this responsibility
Except for that all the good answers are showing their age and there's no realistic mechanism for them to be replaced with newer answers.
Nice, thanks for sharing. Also, I highly suggest checking out therapy. BetterHelp is what helped me bite the bullet, since they locate your therapist for you and you can switch anytime you want.
Hard Drive: The Onion for Tech/Gaming
array |> mean |> round(; digits=2) should also work and is a bit more concise.
One time in about 8th grade we had a cap gun fight around a school around dusk. It didn’t end well when a person driving by saw flashes, heard bangs and kids yelling at each other. The local police showed up, sirens blazing and couldn’t figure out what was what, we ended up talking to them and things got sorted. We got a firm warning about how that could have ended poorly and to pick other activities to entertain ourselves.
So much talent and devotion, I'm deeply baffled by this project. Does anyone knows the real name of the artist ?
Chatrooms are freezed, not deleted, if there's enough content. The only reason why they are deleted is when there are less than 10 messages or 3 participants (don't quote me on that).

Actual rules:

> Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users.
> But they are more cumbersome to take and to read

I'm genuinely curious about what you find cumbersome.

Granted I've never been furiously writing dozens of pages of notes to begin with (to me the most important thing you do is listen to the meeting/lecture/event, notes are bookmarks and comments). I've used an iPad Pro and then the Surface Pro for meeting notes for about 5 years now, and it's just an infinitely paging/scrolling canvas, nothing more nothing less.
Also, even if this oft-repeated trump card is true, why are you so sure this is different from how our own brains functionally work?
> Aim JWST at that thing.

Yes please! It's less than 300M light-years away! It's crazy that we haven't done this from the ground recently. One of the issues is that it's in the Southern sky.

According to Prof. David Kipping, ~"The guys who are into these weird things have somehow never heard about this star, it just got lost in the shuffle."

Also, Kipping mentioned that some of the research was Czech-based, and not in English, which may have also been a factor.

My very uneducated guess was that two planet-like objects smashed, and there is some cloud around the star which gave those weird spectrographs?

However, this makes my dumb theory sound unlikely: https://youtu.be/maMDGZOD3mI?t=435

TL:DW; Shortlived elements like Einsteinium should not be there. We really need to take a closer look.
How do you get energy from there? How do you deal with waste heat of satellite which is being heated up by sun from one side and heated up by your mode of energy transfer from the other side?

Unless we have some magical solution which can convert waste heat into electricity and thus making such satellite working with 100% effectivity, then such satellite needs to transmit energy with very limited power otherwise it will fry itself up.
The room still exists and has all the messages https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/64083/discussion-on-ans...
As an individual, there's not much one can do to spur collective action on climate change. Taking action to mitigate the personal impact is reasonable though; things like picking housing that's unlikely to flood during extreme weather.
I know someone who fancies himself an expert, and indeed, by comparison to the average tech worker, he is an expert in LLMs and AI. He vehemently believes AGI is coming this year. At least, that's what he said last year. I suppose he will probably feel sheepish if I bring it up now that we're at month 6.

My point is that the only thing that seems to convince the pro-AGI crowd is having them make specific predictions, waiting until the deadline, then asking them why they didn't happen yet.
If you get this often, I've noticed it's tied to sleeping position. I'm often at an angle where I'm getting poor oxygenation, sorta like sleep apnea.

For me this is on my back with no pillow (angle of neck/throat) but I'm fine on my side or stomach.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240516231919if_/https://www.ny...

New Yorker story:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240518150700if_/https://www.ne...
Tumblr does have a self-reporting NSFW feature now, IIRC.
It’s no more thought-terminating than “intelligence,” which is extremely loaded and causes people to make assumptions about these models that work backwards from the “intelligent” label rather than forwards from the tech itself
I guess using some local definition of "huge".
I'm also a huge fan of the blog posts that suggest throwing away fundamental technologies and replacing them with half-bakery without understanding the problem domain or the problems that have been encountered and solved before.
I like how you put this, things go slow before they go very fast.

Also, competition search engine style.. this feels is getting ahead and staying ahead.
"How do you know we're not just next token predictors" is the thought terminating cliche . We know that's what LLMs are. It was certainly eye opening to see how far that gets you. But any deeper claims about intelligence or reasoning need real evidence or at least a proposed line of reasoning. "We don't know how intelligence works so it might be that" doesn't count.
it's very hard to argue anything is "better" than Wolfram/Mathematica when it comes to symbolic stuff, after all, most theoretical physicists use Mathematica for their professional work.

But for (entry-level) learning and possibly pivoting to application, Julia is delightful to use and can transit into some symbolics and numerical. Besides, it's free and open source.
So did this room get lost in a middleground where there were too many messages for a comment section but too few to retain the chatroom?

That's obviously not a good outcome. Either the threshold for moving comments to chat needs to be moved up, or the threshold for deleting a chatroom needs to be moved down.

Edit: Wait, none of this makes sense! We can tell from the Internet Archive that there were at least 15 comments. So where is the room?
Ah, the wonderful lack of thought and skepticism we’ve come to expect from TC
PageReader? HtmlReader?
Same vibes as a the complaints box, emptying into the trash can.
It's a bit more than fancy autocomplete.

It's very much feels to be gearing towards figuring out the gist of a search engine you may be trying to complete and put together by reading a few links.
This submission was posted first. You can tell by the id.
Your link brings me to a "page not found".

Is it gated by reputation? If so, could you please post the full comments somewhere?
Practical Llama 3 inference implemented in a single Java file
I think this is somewhat incorrect. 'Senescence' is a particular state in cells, where they stopped cell division due to dysfunction, but are not broken enough to induce apoptosis - programmed cell death. Accumulating senescent cells in turn is associated with age related disease.
Many recipes for Vitamix peanut butter also mention mixing in some ice cream or something similar once you’ve scraped out as much peanut butter as you can. Then you get a little peanut butter smoothie as a treat at the end and help get out some of the extra peanut butter.
"anyone not in the above list would quickly fold"

So... intentional and deliberate centralization of email? No, thank you. We already have plenty of proof that corporations cannot and will not do what's best for humankind, and would prefer to do specifically what's not best in order to leverage pain and strife to bolster themselves and/or to punish competitors.

Interesting how later this is mentioned:

"running your own self-hosted email stack would become much easier"

So... the list is supposed to be of people and organizations that don't adopt MX2, and not a list of organizations that aren't "Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Zoho, GoDaddy, Gandhi, Wix, Squarespace, MailChimp, SparkPost, and SendGrid"? Specificity and clarity are good things.

BTW - self-hosting email is not "insanely difficult". It's just difficult to get outgoing IPs that have a decent reputation. But it really doesn't even matter - anyone can self-host easily, and simply smarthost through a reputable provider. This makes self-hosting really not that hard at all.
There is a continuum of cheating, spot responses as a quizzed student is sent an SMS answer and tries to see it without being spotted. At the other extreme is the formalised exam/test where a similar set of opposed data/cheats are at play. In many end cases are the open book exams where the student takes whatever he wishes to riffle through to create his best response to get the highest marks.
The crux is:- assessing how well a student has mastered a topic becomes increasingly difficult as the final years and tiers of graduate school are encountered. Often the student is smarter in intellect than the examiner, but has a lower level of achievement - at that time.
Often lower grades can be assessed a lot faster via multiple choice questions that can be marked with an aperture card very quickly
I think this is the opposite of correct. The most impact we can have is by improving transportation patterns, which come from improving local land use, which in the US are controlled by city council meetings that only retired busybodies show up to. So show up to them and join a YIMBY chapter, or become a traffic engineer or something.

On the other hand, you have no actual personal impact on it unless you own a private plane, so there is nothing to mitigate. Recycling isn't going to help.

Or you could try emitting silicon dioxide into the atmosphere and hope nobody stops you. We're probably just going to solve it that way anyway.
I believe that they actually remove the peanut oil as it can fetch more money sold as cooking oil. They substitute an inexpensive oil that they also hydrogenate. The hydrogenation is what keeps the oil from separating.