skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But you reduce variance.

Yes, and turns out that having more consistent results is what keeps the economy going.

Also, the only reason gambling exist is because you are guaranteed to lose. The house always wins, statistically.
It's not bad. It works really well. There's always room for improvement. That's technology for you. Python probably does attract more than it's fair share of bad engineers, though.
> It was developed by Majeed as a web app that uses GPT3.5 to power an assortment of AI features

Really need GPT-4 for technical explanations, but it's also much more expensive.

Every once in a while, ChatGPT logs me out and switches to GPT-3, and I immediately notice just due to the quality of the answer.
Kiss crypto and AI goodbye.
What I need is a way to reboot into a ramdisk version of my OS. This would allow me to do things like repartition the disk on which my root folder is stored (among other things).
"Risking it all" was not referring to being a gambling addict. It simply meant that if you put 10k on black and the ball goes on red, you lose all of the 10k
Oh that’s fair, in my last comment I said “invade” which was careless word choice. What GP said and what I was reacting to was “conquer”, as in invade and then continue to occupy after the war concludes.

The France and Britain invasions were pretty straightforwardly defensive actions by Germany. They both allied with Poland and when Poland was invaded (an aggressive act by Germany) they declared war on Germany. What evidence is there to suggest that Germany would still have invaded France if France and Britain had simply abandoned Poland? Note that I’m not asserting that they “should have” abandoned Poland, just that the “we’ve got to stop them before they conquer the whole world” is almost always a bogeyman.
Because in the UD there is no public trashcan
> this reduces the elected MEP’s role to basically gatekeeping, allowing or denying legislative proposals formulated by th Commission,

MEPs are pretty much just like MPs in the British parliament. They are not just rubber-stamp voters of policies from the Commission.

They can propose amendments.

(Misrepresentation of this fact is a lot of why Brexit happened, if you ask me.)

The challenge is that the EU Council (essentially usually acting as an intermediate drafting body between the Commission and the Parliament, I think?) has to agree those changes too. AFAIK just as the Parliament has to agree amendments made by the Council.

If they don't agree, the law doesn't go forward, as far as I understand it.

ETA: this is pretty useful:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/infographic/legislative-proce...

I'm not sure it captures the path much legislation seems to me to take in practice (where a lot of the drafting energy is actually spent in the Council), but you can see parallels to the UK and US processes throughout it.
I have been doing this kind of stuff both in ad tech and trust & safety industry, mainly to handle scalability. Something that looks like "Event-carried state transfer" here https://martinfowler.com/articles/201701-event-driven.html

These system are working fine, but maybe a common ground :
* very few services
* the main throughput is "fact" events (so something that did happen)
* what you get as "Event carried state transfer" is basically the configuration. One service own it, with a classical DB and a UI, but then expose configuration to all the system with this kind of event (and all the consumers consume these read only)
* usually you have to deal with eventual consistency a lot in this kind of setup (so it scales well, but there is a tradeoff)
I did this with GME shares in the original run. The profits helped me finish grad school. The money I bet wasn’t enough to cause serious issues on loss but the payoff was enormous.

This is related to utility I suppose.

Could we say that the “expected” utility of certain gambles is high enough to make them have higher utility than not betting?
PostgreSQL.

The WAL is an event log, and when you squint at its internal architecture, you’ll see plenty of overlap with distributed event sourcing.
I have seen Kafka pulled out by its hairs and replaced with request based architecture.

Event driven architecture, to me is itself an antipattern.

It seems like a replacement for batch processing. Replayable messages are AWESOME. Until you encounter the complexity for a system to actually replay them consistently.

As far as the authors video, while there was some truth in there, it was a little thin, compared to the complexity of these architectures. I believe that even though Kafka acts the part of "dumb pipe", it doesnt stay dumb for long, and the n distributions of Kafka logs in your organization could be 1000x more expensive than a monolithic DB and a monolithic API to maintain.

Yes it appears auditable but is it? The big argument for replayability is that unlike an API that falls over theres no data loss. If you work with Kafka long enough you’ll realize that data loss will become a problem you didnt think you had. You’ll have to hire people to “look into” data loss problems constantly with Kafka. Its just too much infrastructure to even care about.

Theres also, something ergonomically wrong with event drive architecture. People dont like it. And it also turns people into robots who are “not responsible” for their product. Theres so much infrastructure to maintain that people just punt everything back to the “enterprise kafka team”.

The whole point of microservices was to enable flexibility, smart services and dumb pipes, and effective CI/CD and devops.

We are nearing the end of microservices adoption whether it be event or request driven. In mature organizations it seems to me that request driven is winning by a large margin over event driven.

It may be counterintuitive, but the time to market of request driven architecture and cost to maintain is way way lower.
Often the games I’m excited to play run like shit and have timing issues that are difficult to measure but feel wrong and diminish the nostalgia.

Free time is scarce, so I’ll gladly pay a couple hundred to not have to spend time fiddling with settings only to ultimately capitulate.
I couldn’t even be bothered to read past when he started yapping about the bartender giving him more drinks. I’d rather read the coherent version after the hangover is gone.
In-the-Wild Jailbreak Prompts on LLMs
Some discussion from December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38672112
50 Shades of Grey is smut with a stamp of approval of a large publisher. They allow it once in a while as a way to monetise human sexuality otherwise repressed and controlled by various powers.
I personally use soulseek and I share everything I download and rip myself
You were complaining about platforms and influencer's gatekeeping their audiences and creating some sort of "all-or-nothing effect", whatever that means. Someone else pointed out that ads exist, and you got snippy and decided to attack the OP for "never bootstrapped a business, self-published a book, or similar".

I pointed out that you don't get an audience for free, and that seems to have further upset you.

Doesn't look like the issue is on my end. You could have used the opportunity to correct my understanding, instead you decided to be rude.
I would be happy to kiss crypto goodbye and though AI might be stifled it would still be developed further just with a mind to efficiency. This is because it has actual real world uses unlike crypto.
Cara was created before Vercel rolled out spend management. Spent management is also opt-in so it can be easy to miss.
As far as we know, all complex organisms have an accompanying microbiome of commensurate species, even the most basic ones like marine sponges [1]. Plants nurture these symbionts in their roots while animals do it in their digestive tracts (mostly, both have surface microbes too that do various things too).

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-020-0591-9
A) They haven't been taught that it's anti-social to do so.

B) The local infrastructure is such that there is no frequent servicing of a conveniently-placed trash receptacle.

This morning while walking my dog, I saw a wide-spread large amount of trash surrounding our local bus-stop. That location would be the perfect place for a trash bin of some kind. But no, no bin. That means nowhere to put that trash (McDonalds*, as it turned out). So on the ground it was scattered.

* Maybe McDonalds could sponsor a trash bin for us.
The CPU yes but you want to emulate every piece of hardware in the console. The audio chips, the GPU, they way video memory works and so on.
Just a note, iPad version is surprisingly good. However it too is prone to breakage.

You can even run modes on the iPad version like better trade screen etc, policy card yields, etc. Wish the map pins one worked too. It’s the one I miss the most Z
Or simply building fire insurance, so you’re not massively in the hole with no collateral if your house burns down. Which is why lenders require a house to at least be fire insured in my market, as a condition of the mortgage.
Is there a specific piece of scientific evidence that you believe strongly excludes unnatural origin for SARS-CoV-2 (to the point e.g. that those social media bans were justified), and that you would be willing to discuss? For example:

1. The "Proximal origins" publication that you referenced argues that SARS-CoV-2 is surely natural, because it wasn't a chimera of any two known natural viruses.

2. But I don't think that's a meaningful argument, because (as Relman said) it could be a chimera of two newly-discovered viruses. The WIV had the biggest program anywhere in the world to sample new sarbecoviruses from nature.

It's obviously normal for people to change their views after obtaining new evidence; but I don't see where that evidence is. So I don't see a good reason for Andersen to change his views, but I do see a bad reason in that initially-undisclosed conflict of interest. I also see a deliberate attempt to evade FOIA obligations, which makes me suspect there might be more bad stuff that I'm unaware of. That's what I think is objectionable.

A majority of Americans now believe that SARS-CoV-2 definitely or probably arose from a research accident, including a majority of Democrats:

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/45389-americans-b...

Countless highly-credentialed scientists have made the arguments, including professors at top universities and Nobel prize winners. Baric still thinks natural is more likely, but even he acknowledges the uncertainty and has criticized the WIV's safety standards. So if all this genuinely seems incomprehensible to you, then you're in a very unusual place.
Alarm fatigue is very real. And the lack of sleep is very real.

Where you go off the rails is with saying "don't care enough". This is a market problem, not a problem with individuals. "We don't overwork our people" isn't a selling point with insurance. The budget is pretty much fixed, a company that doesn't overwork their people ends up in the red.
Insurance is just a form of investment. It seems to me that the primary difference between gambling and investment is that the utility of gambling (the expected return over time) is negative, and the utility of investment is positive. And that's it.

In a casino, the gambler is gambling, while the casino is investing.
Probably not what you’re thinking of, but Bazel? https://bazel.build
Better be careful though, sounds like lots of help like that counts as 'income' so will screw with your ssi check too.
A friend working up North said they collected the meteorites after melting the snow they used for water.

I wonder if there is a little pile of meteorite dust at the bottom of the rodwells.
> Is someone more likely to drop litter if there’s already lots or less litter already around, I wonder?

That's definitely a big factor, there's a whole theory on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

It seems like people are less likely to litter in clean places
Teaching the concept of convolution and correlation using Fourier transform
You can choose to live your life without insurance, in which case you have to bear all the damage from bad events but you also benefit fully from good events, or you can live your life with insurance, taking less losses from bad events and getting less from good events.

As said, it simply reduces variance in your life/business. You have to choose if that's how you want to live your life.
Meanwhile almost every TA I had at uni didn't really want to be there. They were there for their PhD, not as a professor in training which would have made your position more understandable. And to boot they rarely spoke English very well. I had a few TAs that I understood so poorly that I stopped attending their labs.

The TA system feels like a hack where university gets to get free labor out of PhD students, but the undergrads suffer for it. I don't think there's much to glamorize. Nor do I think there's much to salvage from the days where you needed to attend office hours to get help. You see it as this critical human experience in uni but I don't.

That said, half my professors at uni also prob didn't want to teach. They were there for research.
OpenAI's Plainclothes Undercovers
What Is a Sinkhole?
> would increase poverty and infant mortality but it could control so many diseases of affluence like obesity and it would reduce economic inequality.

Poverty and infant mortality seem worse to me than inequality.
Collect, expose, do it in a convenient format so law enforcement doesn't have to do any work, do 99 percent of the technical standards work to determine what that format is, make sure that it works for any every kind of system or service (including ones not yet invented)... and somehow magically put in all these back doors without reducing security.
This is an interesting study. A similar permutation approach appears already in the Taylorformer paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.19141v1). The authors use a Transformer decoder for continuous processes, like time series. During training, each sequence is shuffled randomly. Each sequence element has a positional encoding. Then, they use log-likelihood on the shuffled sequence.
There, the permutation helps with predictions for interpolation, extrapolation and irregularly sampled data. Also, they show it helps with 'consistency', i.e., roughly the MSE is the same regardless of the generated order.

What might this paper add to our understanding or application of these ideas?

The idea of permuting the sequence order also appears in the Transformer Nerural Process paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.04179.
> I think they are on different sides of 50% probability. Insurance helps mitigate a low-probability risk. Gambling provides a low-probability chance of a big reward.

Trivially not true- I can wager on a heavy favorite to win at very low payouts
I am a puts debuggerer (2016)
Wouldn’t nuclear war leave a distinctive layer in the geological record?
> Would be neat to see what interop with something like IREE looks like

https://github.com/nod-ai/iree-amd-aie
Wait until you find out what PSI means
This is super interesting! Can you share more info/resources?
Looks like peeps who contributed to covid.js and calculated R-variable now switched to new projects.
distcc is probably the one game companies are biased towards.
Crypto, oh dear. AI just needs to factor in the externalities.

I’d rather not kiss the global ecosystem goodbye
https://archive.ph/rjpob
This isn't even remotely accurate to Christian belief in either the Catholic or Orthodox churches. There isn't a single church father who believed women didn't have souls, that's facially ludicrous if you know anything about church teaching which means the person writing this did not.

Here's a simple example out of many I could draw on: if women didn't have souls they wouldn't be able to receive the sacraments. That means no baptism, no chrismation, no Eucharist, no marriage, no reconciliation, and no extreme unction. It would be metaphysically impossible to be sacramentally married to a woman. C'mon. There would be no need to distinguish between sacramental and natural marriages if women were soulless because they'd be unable to confect the sacrament with their espoused.

The misreading of St. Augustine here has to do with a distinction he was making regarding Imago Dei. He pretty clearly believes women and men are spiritually/metaphysically equal, including as it relates to their spiritual dignity deriving from being made in the image and likeness of God. The passage that gets misread has to do with physical nature and its derivation from Imago Dei. I don't think it was a particularly important point and it's not something I've seen repeated elsewhere.

This is a notorious enough myth about Christian belief that First Things has a multiple articles addressing it: https://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/04/the-myth-of-soul...
Show HN: I built an AI tool that transforms any recipe into an awesome UX
If you're anything like me and have a bunch of go-to recipes dotted around the internet, it can not only be frustrating to find them again but more often than not they're awkward to follow. I wanted to fix this by using AI to format any recipe into a slick user experience where you can have all your favourite recipes in one place, but more importantly during cooking the recipes are presented in such a way that it's super easy to follow along without looking back
Evaluation of Machine Learning Primitives on a Digital Signal Processor
Excellent, now show me a single one working in production with various docs.

I’ve talked through this problem with dozens of startups working on RAG, and everyone has the same problem.

LLMs are arguably not reinventing embeddings if you’re using them to infer the structure of a broad document. Understanding the “external structure” of the document, the internal structure of each segment, and the semantic structure of each chunk is important.
That's not how I'd express it either. Insurance is a positive EV bet on a log-utility basis
It seems a lot focused around cars which matches my experience as well. A few toughts on things that could help:

- Cars need a small place for trash. Gum wrappers, receipts, things of that size. I would love to see this be a first class citizen in a car's interior similar to its cup holders.

- I'd be interested to see if a drive-through public trash can would be effective is reducing the litter from cars described in the article. If people didn't have to get out of their cars similar to US mail drop boxes it could be enough to keep people from leaving their fast food trash on the street.

- In Japan it is culturally unusually for you to eat while walking. Street food is expected to be eaten at the stall it is purchased at. Trash is then collected on the spot and as a result Japan has very few public trash cans, but virtually no litter with merchants responsible for the trash they create. Making food chains responsible for the refuse they create may help see change as well.
Perhaps someone can invent a proof-of-carbonscrub coin.
You can do this without rebooting. Just copy the filesystem into ram and switch_root.
Why not use langchain-rust and make your own client? If you don't know about langchain, i think you are missing out. I took a look at other langchain implementions in js and python, in each one people have done some serious work. Langchain-rust also uses tree-sitter to chunk code, it works very well in some quick tests i tried.

>The problem with most chunking schemes I’ve seen is they’re naive. They don’t care about content; only token count.

I think controlling different inputs depending on context is used in agents. For the moment i haven't seen anything really impressive coming out of agents. Maybe Perplexity style web search, but nothing more.
You could build a blog with Vite and @mdx-js/react, but that honestly might be overkill. Astro is definitely tailored towards the blog use case. Gatsby is another older framework that's oriented more towards building a blog, but I'm not a huge fan of how it insists on making you use GraphQL. Eleventy is another popular choice for JS powered static sites if you're not set on using React.
> Most people will have been raised to understand littering is morally wrong

I disagree with this. If you were raised to understand that littering was morally wrong, you are likely surrounded by folks that also understand that. On the converse, I never even _thought_ about littering growing up. Just tossing something was a thing I did. There wasn't a follow up thought at all. Not good, not bad, not "oh well someone will take care of it", literally no thought. It wasn't until I got a high school job that required picking up a lot of litter did it dawn on me that if you tossed something it still existed. At that point I stopped.

But, even after that I would flick cigarette butts for nearly a decade. It randomly dawned on me one day, "oh, this is littering".

There are vast swathes of the population that weren't raised being aware of littering. Depending on the area you grew up in you can probably still recall unsanctioned dumps on random properties in ditches and creek beds being normal. I can and I'm not even middle aged.

With that in mind, at least in the US we have actually come a long way. Nowhere near solved yet, but _way_ different than how I grew up. It's 100% an education problem, much like smoking. Yeah, some people will still do it, but the numbers will continue to drop over time.
The day I encountered it I have no idea of what sensitivity controls might have existed but the problem was unquestionably the system failing to recognize that what had just transpired was a beat. The trace on the screen looked like a beat to me, but not always to it.

I will not say it was a management failure because I don't know if management could have done anything about it. Given the total indifference of the nurses I strongly suspect they couldn't do anything.
They have an index of all images. Maybe someone picked a random image (I don't see a Random button, but one could exist?) or happened to look at this index the day it was added, or just clicked through to 2002 looking for something nostalgic https://archive.org/details/image
Moral of the story, if you notice you have to deal with a multitude of states, get out of that swamp first, get some foundations right and then iterate. Applies to both biology and coding.
Real macros (lisp-style not C-style) are more like template metaprogramming, too. It's not clear which source language GP comment is referring to.
Don’t let the author visit Cambodia or Nepal, they’ll get a heart attack.

When I was a kid I honestly didn’t care about dropping an empty bag of crisps on the street, or an empty can.

I think a lot of people have experienced that. Then I grew up and developed a natural disgust for doing so. Some of it also thanks to my parents pointing out it’s a bad thing to do.

Sounds like a good effort though. And people seeing you doing it will also affect them, even if they don’t say it outright. There are lots of such communities around the world. Great way to meet new people also.
I remember an article (long since lost) where a student in a class on generative art chose to try recreate Mondrians, and what he and the teacher discovered was just how painterly the originals were, and it was very difficult to generate something that actually looked like a Mondrian.

I really ought to find that article again.
NO but a virus made for a linux box that was programed in a c64 could work.
Humans have been living in cities for thousands of years yet we've only very recently began treating our waste. Humans outside of cities have been using septic systems for centuries.

"Tens of millions of gallons" of human waste sounds significant, but, it likely isn't. I also feel that equating the unavoidable byproduct of human scientific research in remote locations with road side burger wrappers is bordering on luddite hyperbole.