skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you need intelligent things to act exactly like a human being I think you're going to look bad in the future where we have aliens or uplifted ravens and this looks racist/speciesist.

Being trapped in a computer with no environmental interaction is obviously a big difference though.

> but maybe the people with decades of research in linguistics and neuroscience are right to be skeptical.

Like other kinds of academics, many of those people are cranks so they're not necessarily right. For instance, some of them are Chomsky.

(But it's their job to be wrong most of the time so of course this is expected.)
I worked for a company that had a GPLed product and provided services around it. Then they got scared that a big company might steal the product and SAAS it. Then they changed to AGPL. Then they figured selling add ons and hosting could be good business. By necessity our plugins were AGPL. Our customers could have put our plugins on GitHub but no one ever did (and there were hundreds!!!)
How are these policies enforced? Can you look them up somewhere? Are they handed out to journalists once they start working at a newspaper? Who creates the policy? Are the the same in all western countries? How is that supposed to work?
To be more precise: Each token would represent a patent license, every license holder would be encouraged to use the technology for profit, license fees would be payed directly to the smart contract which distributes the royalties to all token holders. It should be as simple as possible imo.
> 1 gram at 0.2c has 1030MWh of energy. So at 1Mw of received power it would take 1030 hours or about 60 days to accelerate 2g to 0.2c.

If only we could perfectly convert laser light into kinetic energy, this kind of thing would be much easier.

Light has momentum: 1 GW/c is ~3.336 N, but that's when absorbed, by reflecting it (and because of conservation of momentum) you can double that.

6.672 N / 2 grams = 3336 m/s^2 => 5 hours

1 MW/c makes that 60 weeks:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=0.2c+%2F+%28%281+MW%2Fc...

(I assume the researchers have done all the relevant details or it wouldn't have gotten this far).
oh no, now every believer will start seeing god's plan everywhere...
I prefer "the shitmus test" - it's been my yardstick for evaluating (some) startups over the last ~decade: if people will open your app while they're poopin', then you pass the litmus/shitmus test :)
A day in the life (-71°C, -95,8°F) [video]
Go's History in Code (2020)
Exactly, I’ve done similar maths on my disks, and realised that it would be 20 years before they approach their end of life.

By which point, they will be replaced for some new tech that will be cheaper, faster and more reliable and power efficient.
because most people will refuse to address the lifestyle issue, not because they aren’t made extremely aware of it!
I mean, the artists you see on Twitter or other platforms usually have a dominant art style, their own, but even without changing the art style, you can still be really creative with the composition, actions, and so on.
Completely ridiculous, I don't even know why you would make the comparison at all.

The languages are completely different, have different goals, have different design philosophies and exist in distinct eco systems.

All "similarities" are just rust borrowing a few concepts from functional programming languages and has an integrated tool chain like dotnet has. That is literally it.

Rust is a systems level programming language which aims to provide strong compile time guarantees about memory safety, F# is a functional programming language, which aims to bring that style of programming to .NET. These are totally different categories and claiming that F# does what rust does in the .NET ecosystem is plainly false.
Since then, I’ve serendipitously encountered a handful of similar meditations on the value of walking

My wife wrote one: "The dangers of walking include falling in love" https://bessstillman.substack.com/p/the-dangers-of-walking-i...
Life isn't the only interesting thing
Devon: An open-source pair programmer
> The toilet theory is mostly a reminder to myself that the internet is a huge place that is visited countless times each day by billions of people in between and during all the mundane things they have to do.

And billions of times by people who literally make it their lives through leisure or business.

> but also that my imagined audience of undistracted, fully engaged readers is an idealized one.

I can understand this perspective from any artist but it sounds exceptionally hollow to me when delivered from inside the belly of a large commercial multimedia publisher like The Atlantic.

> and then, in some cases, gaming them in order to try to rank higher in Google’s results.

Indeed.
Your assumption here is that the number of homes is fixed and that there are otherwise enough for everybody.

Only ~5% of homes are second homes, not 33% as in your example.

Now suppose there are 25 homes and 30 families, better reflecting current reality. If you can't make more you're screwed. But you can create new housing. Zoning makes this expensive, because zoning requires it to be done in an expensive way. You have to destroy a large building to build an even larger one because multi-unit buildings aren't allowed where there are currently single-family homes. But you can do it. It just costs $600,000/unit as a result.

Since there are more families than existing homes, everybody bids up the price of housing units because they don't want to be homeless. When the prices hit $600,000/unit, construction companies build more units because now it's finally profitable. Then all the units stay that expensive because there are only just enough -- or not enough, but the remaining people don't have $600,000. But they don't go higher than that because that's the price at which more can be created under existing zoning rules.

If Richie Rich comes along and buys two second homes, that doesn't raise the long-term price, because the price is right at the threshold of profitability for new construction. So two new units get built at that price and the market price stays where it is -- at the cost of creating more units. If you want units to cost less, that cost has to go down, because units can't be added for less than that and eliminating 100% of second homes is not enough of a reduction in demand to shift from that being the price-setting factor.

Whereas if you could build new units for $200,000 then Richie Rich could buy a hundred of them and they'd still cost $200,000 because construction companies would just build a hundred more.
You've got a long time—Will you please kindly take personal responsibility to ensure we see images of seasonal foliage changes in vast forests on superearths hundreds of light years away using billions of solar gravity lensing observatories built and launched by self-replicating processes? Also don't be a slacker and get first lens light by 2050?
Its like those well known China grey filtered pictures western media likes to use xD.
https://archive.md/6GyYi
The treatment of the English language on TikTok is giving the late Yahoo Answers a run for its money.
Is there any way that I can pay YouTube so that the videos I post do not have ads when people view them for free? I think there is a clear answer to this question for video, and it’s ~$60/month.
Thanks for pointing out there are more than 3 photos. When I saw the group of links after the 3rd photo, my eyes thought it was a chumbox so I closed the page. I'm glad I noticed this comment.
I have the same thought but I also wonder if it’s a western propaganda phenomenon though.
Agreed it's not possible from the footage to draw any definite conclusions - the whole exchange and portrayal is deeply flawed. I wonder if anyone has seen some scientific papers with a reproducible methodology that look into the deep differences in cultural framing along those lines?
15kWh on an induction stove will bring to boil about 100L of water[1]. If you are just boiling one 2L kettle of water for tea every day, you are out of 60L. Boiling potatoes, making stock, soups etc. is actually much more energy as you are not only bringing water to boil but keep it boiling, while it actively loses energy by making steam. You are probably not cooking much if at all.

1. https://blog.viktomas.com/graph/boiling-litre-of-water/
If you like this, it's also worth looking at llama2.c[1], an implementation of the Llama 2 architecture in about 1000 lines of plain, dependency-free C, tokenizer and all. THe fact that this 960-line file and a somewhat modern C compiler is all you really need to run a state-of-the-art language model is really surprising to many.

Of course, this is not all there is to a modern LLM, it would probably take another thousand lines or two to implement training, and many more than that to make it fast on all the major CPU and GPU architectures. If you want a flexible framework that lets a developer define any model you want and still goes as fast as it can, the complexity spirals.

Most programmers have an intuition that duplicating a large software project from scratch, like Linux or Chromium for example, would require incredible amounts of expertise, manpower and time. It's not something that a small team can achieve in a few months. You're limited by talent, not hardware.

LLMs are very different. THe code isn't that complicated, you could probably implement training and inference for a single model architecture, from scratch, on a single kind of GPU, with reasonable performance, as an individual with a background in programming and who still remembers their calculus and linear algebra, with a year or so of self study. What makes LLMs difficult is getting access to all the hardware to train them, getting the data, and being able to preprocess that data.
> Even then, Turbo Pascal 3 felt like a toy.

In the late 80s Turbo Pascal was already at version 5 or 6.
(2020)[0][1]

[0]: https://github.com/henesy/blog/commits/master/
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=seh.dev
I may be pandering to a stereotype here, but I wouldn't put it past the regime there to order everyone out of half a city while some photos are taken…
I thought the answer would have been Oberon:

https://projectoberon.net/
If it’s like fission, then there are multiple different types. Some can make the boomy stuff. Others can’t.

This is largely just fear mongering.
They scare the government into regulating the field into oblivion.
The model was good, it’s just that the illustrations needed to convey specific concepts and were created for particular purposes, something gen AI is not good at without significant guidance.

Superficial style is easy to replicate, the underlying meaning and thought process is not.
Can you share any sources supporting your claims?

For start, propaganda here is done not with "have strict policies on what is "fit to print"" but in other ways.

Also, few things apply so generally across all western apparatuses of any kind anyway.

Also, for North Korea just accurate info is enough so no cherry-picked narrative is even needed anyway.
It's weird to see singly linked lists, adjustable arrays, and hash tables implemented in Common Lisp in such a post. All three of these data structures are always already implemented in Lisp, as mandated by the standard.
> It's also interesting that sleeping or fainting pauses the consciousness, and later still ends up in the same body

I always found it even more interesting how your body can switch off the consciousness if it gets in the way. Try holding your breath for example—do it too long, and your body will kill the faulty process and restore the system to a working state before attempting a new deployment.
Over half the pictures are from KCNA (North Korean state media).
As a child I used to romp through poison ivy and poison oak. It has never bothered me.
Yeah the first-person subjectivity has to arise before second and third persons can arise. But with some further investigation, one can find that the things they take to be their subject are in fact object to them, too.
Thanks for flagging! Actively debugging, looks like one of my DB vendors is having some uptime issues. If you retry a couple times you should (eventually) get lucky.
Gemini 1.5 Pro is available right now: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-15-pro-now-avail...
huh, every time I eat a kiwi my lips get itchy. I just googled and it doesn’t look like it contains urushiol, but it does contain an allergen called “actinidin”.

This thread made me realize I’m allergic to kiwi’s…
Show HN: CLI Generate SQL Dummy Data with GPT-4
Editing tables for the development environment and preparing dummy data every time was a hassle. I often set up one column too few and had to edit them again. It was such a hassle that I decided to create this tool.
Please explain what you mean when you say the 0.01% are emasculating AI
I don't know what you mean by amazing for language. Almost everything is built on transformers nowadays. Image segmentation uses transformers. Text to speech uses transformers. Voice recognition uses transformers. There are robotics transformers that take image inputs and output motion sequences. Transformers are inherently multi-modal. They handle whatever you throw at them, it's just that language tends to be a very common input or output.
Like that meteor in Portugal last night? If one of these probes, albeit very small in mass, but travelling very fast, what is the energy released on impact?
Influencers Are Saying Sunscreen Causes Cancer. They Are Wrong.
There is - USOCKET:SOCKET-CONNECT.

If we end up in petty and unproductive nitpicking like that, then there's no standard way to open a TCP socket in Clojure either. Mostly because Clojure, unlike Common Lisp, does not have a standard to talk of.
The most radical book I’ve read is the Bible. But dramatically different…Discover of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane perhaps. I don’t agree with everything she wrote but she had some interesting ideas.
https://archive.ph/CKsgo
The very idea that one can commit "crimes" against science by discussing ideas (however false) is shameful. As you said, it's no different than religious accusations of heresy. It's truly disheartening to see a backwards and illiberal idea like that being promoted here.
d u xpct hbrw spkr twrt nnglsh lk ths?
Also scale on the supply side. It took time to get to a place where obviously the video should be on Youtube, and that's hard to replicate.

This applies to the content which would exist anyway, and then doubly to content created for Youtube. Grand Pooh Bear would be on Twitch anyway, but it doesn't really make sense for a Tom Scott, let alone "Corrections" which is a Youtube-only addition to Seth Myers "Late Night" show.

Likewise until it gets fairly "big" it doesn't make sense to officially put your music videos on Youtube. Today that's basically the main way they're getting seen.
Not even AWS. Any CDN. It won’t be AWS-bad (way, way, way under) but it ain’t good.
There's a long tradition of random art and if you like that, there's dril GPT and Magic card GPT that produced lots of good absurdity. Of course, there's a human curation pass after it to let it be called art.

https://x.com/drilbot_aww/status/1792077476338057292
It was quite sensational:

It was cloudy over me, so no bolide - I only saw slowly rising to 100% saturation brightness outside, during pitch-black night.
(sonic boom a couple of minutes later).

I gave it a 20% chance it was a nuke from Putin :D
When I was much younger and times were quite difficult for me, I just about lived on dandelion salad for the better part of a year (and only escaped getting poisoned by an herbicide because I had a habit of blanching the plants I was planning on eating by putting a rock on top of them the day before).
In many ways 'consciousness' is a human projection onto machines. The whole debate might be, in some sense, irrelevant. Here's 2 scenarios:

- Your robot companion gets so good at mimicking a human, knows all your preferences and is able to have natural conversations, that over time you forget you are interacting with a robot and start to develop feelings for them.

- A robot swarm interacts with the environment to further its goals and continues to grow long after humans have disappeared from the scene.

In both cases is there consciousness? Does it matter?
then flag it.
No 365?
Price business pipes where they won’t cut you off for saturating that 24/7.

[edit] and that have good deliverability worldwide, no weird paths to other consumer IPs that intermittently fail to route or inexplicably have dial-up transfer speeds. And have anything like a real SLA.
i understand and agree that this should at the very least have an opt-in dialog box.

that said, apple did add the option for end-to-end encrypted “advanced data protection” for the majority of icloud data a year or so ago.

perhaps they also enabled it by default in sonoma?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756
I’ve often wondered when the DRAM-backed storage revolution was going arrive.

Not long ago, 64GB SSDs were the bare minimum you could get away with, and only the most expensive setups had 64GB RAM. Now we’re seeing 64GB modules for consumer laptops priced reason cheap.

I wonder: if RAM prices head towards $0.05/GB (around $50 for the cheapest 1TB) that we’re currently seeing for SSDs, would that allow the dream of a legitimately useful RAM disk to become a reality?
Five things I've learned about aphantasia as a therapist
> Sensitivity does not downregulate. Increased exposure enhances detection and response. Recognition proliferates. Once you're allergic to something, it'll only worsen.

I don't think that's correct. If it were, then allergy immunotherapy wouldn't work. Which... it does. Not perfectly, and not for everyone, but it does for many.
The more repeated exposures you get, your body cannot fight it off anymore. Then you suddenly "become allergic" to poison ivy.

There are two types of people; those that are allergic to poison ivy, and those that will become allergic eventually.
They have released Pixel 8a and you can remove AI from Google Search by clicking the Web filter.
Love this game! Anybody know of / have experience with any expansions?
I am so confused here. Either I’ve been doing high-bandwidth bit slinging extremely wrong for quite a while or a lot of HN has never done it at all and is opining on it anyway. It’s real money, IME.
How Jim Simons Revolutionised Investing
Sydney City Council, a large council, uses electric blowers. They have a small backpack so the blowers are kept light even though they have a much larger battery for much longer operation. They look quite good to use. Certainly better than my heavy dual battery one.

It is a solved problem.
What's wrong with dandelions? I like them and so do the pollinators.
FM synthesis on consumer MIDI sound cards only sounded dull because it had fewer operators than a professional synthesizer.
You guess it from two projects? There are several world breaking infrastructure projects in Europe. Where are you from?
They already have backpack ones for long use. It is already solved here in Australia.
You don’t have to clear everyone out to take a few pictures. You just use a few images stacked and photoshop.
Blender has a very well done video editor, it's probably my favorite foss video editor so far. It also uses ffmpeg under the hood

Worth a try!
Closer to mid-80s then. I started using Modula-2 in earnest around 1986 give or take a year.
I don't think that's necessary. I've been doing allergy immunotherapy for the past few years, and it's all subcutaneous. Definitely not into the bloodstream.
Following the Lacquer God
I was responding directly to your comment:

> Text continuation poses "the greatest of dangers"?

The task of text continuation is no guarantee of safety. A language model trained on pure military information, communication and actions could be quite dangerous if given an ability to direct, or contribute, to actual action.

Not arguing anything about regulation.
https://archive.is/GyMOY
> Source: Worked at one of the largest bandwidth consumers in the world.

Mindgeek? :-)
Solipsism is skepticism of the existence of anything outside the self. I've seen Hoffman address accusations of solipsism a few times and I have to admit that it's always been unclear to me which part of his theory people tend to perceive as such. Perhaps I've just consumed enough of it to zoom past this perception.

I'll try to keep things short, as this can get pretty long winded fast.

From what I understand of his proposition, it's a take on idealism that is very close to eastern thought as inspired by nondual traditions like Advaita and Buddhism, but with a heavier emphasis on science. Everything in reality is a projection in consciousness of consciousness. It's made up of interacting conscious agents (you, me, a rock, an atom, a particle, etc) which are themselves "projections" ultimately stemming from a fundamental, unknowable, infinitely distant and unattainable root conscious agent. The implication is that space-time, our perceived reality, is not fundamental. Hoffman thinks that we might possibly have access to at least one, higher, more general dimension of reality of which ours is a specialized version (as hint of this, he speaks of current work in physics where structures outside space-time are being discovered, like the amplituhedron).

Space and time not being fundamental creates problems with some materialist assumptions in evolutionary biology, where consciousness is seen as part of an evolutionary process. Hoffman suggests to rethink evolution from scratch instead. He uses evolutionary game theory to demonstrate that we can have consciousness as fundamental, keep some of the core evolution principles and still end up with consistent conclusions.

I'll stop here, as I've said, it can get deep rather fast.
If you like physics and you haven't watched Sabine, you're missing out. She discusses recently published research in an entertaining and accessible manner while also doing a good job of touching on more advanced aspects pertinent to the topic at hand. She's great at covering the skeptic's perspective (she usually takes that perspective herself) and playing Devil's advocate, especially when it comes to anything adjacent to her life's work in particle physics.
My family likes to pick a big bowl full of yellow dandelions and then make a dandelion-rhubarb pie. We make it a point to do it at least once a year as a kind of seasonal tradition.
While this is valid, how often does this actually happen?

It doesn’t seem like it’s frequently enough to worry. If this is a concern, there are several ways to cook that can be stored in an emergency kit.
Those photos are quite supportive of OP. There's much more realistic diversity in the units: presence of light, color of light, objects blocking the light.

The uniformity in the NK photo is bizarre.
so more people comment on the hn post and it will rank higher in the algo

such as your comment and my comment!
> You're going to have to give me examples of what other beliefs we hold that occupy that space.

Yeah, there's not a lot down there, mostly your assumptions about your sense inputs corresponding to some kind of causally consistent external reality. It's the same region as the lead up to what you seem to take as an axiom, "Justified belief about reality has to be based on measurement".
There is an annoying guy on our team (Apple fanboy), he insists on using Jpeg XL even though I have begged him to use png or av1 or literally anything that is reliably supported across all modern browsers. I ended up using https://github.com/zamfofex/jxl-crx
Circa 1990 we seriously considered doing Newton OS in Modula-3 [0], which had all the things…modules, generics, exceptions, GC, etc. But we ended up taking a chance on C++ (in the form of CFront). Modula-3 was very cool, though.

[0] https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/m3/reference/intro.h...