skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ive learned programming by writing botting scripts for Tibia - either custom langs or lua

After all those years Im really amazed how skilled developers who created those advanced cheats needed to be

They needed good reverse engineering skills and basic compiler dev. skills on top of good programming skills
I also found the original quote, which isn't in the article on antisemitism.
https://books.google.com/books?id=NHDHBNoqFwIC&newbks=0&prin...
We already do that, Atlas network is really powerful in Europe and probably the most mainstream lobby.
> What kind of time frame is "any time soon"

I'm guessing that solving run-time learning may well require a different approach, and it's not clear that reasoning (in general form - ability to dynamically synthesize a problem-specific solution) can be just added to LLMs either (e.g. by adding tree search). There are also other missing components such as working memory that seem simpler to solve.

Coming up with brand new architectures and learning approaches is likely to take time. There have been attempts to find alternatives to gradient descent, but none very successful despite a lot of effort.

Perhaps it's just a reflection of people chasing the low hanging fruit (and as Chollet says, LLMs "sucking all the oxygen out of the room"), but architectural advance post-LLM has been minimal. In 7 years we've basically just gone from transformer paper to big pre-trained transformers.

Even when workable architectural approaches to run-time learning and reasoning have been developed, they will also need to be scaled up (another 7 years?), and will also be competing with LLMs for mindshare and dev. resources as long as scaling LLMs continues to be seen as profitable.

The timescale for coming up with new architectures and approaches is hard to predict. AGI prediction timeframes have always been wrong, and the transformer was really one of history's accidental discoveries. Who'd have guessed that a better seq-to-seq model would create such capabilities!

If I had to guess, I'd say human-level AGI (human-level in terms of both capability and generality) is still 15-20 years away at least. 7 years to go from small transformers to big transformers doesn't make me optimistic that architectural innovation is going to happen very quickly, and anyways this is an unpredictable research problem, not an engineering one.
This.

It's also useful when one of your cells goes and queries a slow API for a bunch of data — I do this all the time with Datadog.
Add in an incline bench and you can do almost everything you need to hit all the muscle groups.
GP here: oops, I have a couple CPUs for them and I forgot that wasn’t the newer one

https://i.imgur.com/eluaofD.jpeg

this one, is K10 B3 stepping
Generally “Grey Goo” science fiction ignores the lack of metals in the environment thus preventing the grey in Grey Goo as well as energy constraints etc.

However, simply outcompeting organic life using the same atomic building blocks would be a real problem for existing life forms like humans.
I've seen a bunch of these from men but I've never seen such a diagram from a woman's perspective. Would be so interesting to see how different it is for them.
It isn't a problem if the EU continues to levy fines on the innovators. It is a symbiotic relationship
> if it's possible to create a real-life simulation video game where you can study the economic effects of policies

i think every engineer wishes they could distill the human condition into a series of lines of code

as a human, i should hope it can't
I guess the line between "business" and "technical" reasons here is a little blurry. Keeping SimCity or any other widely used program working through "hacks" doesn't seem nearly as bonkers in the days before widespread high-speed Internet access. Even if Maxis did patch their game, most people would have no way to update their copy.
What do you mean "overvalued"? This isn't measuring the value of stock, it's measuring GDP - the value of what is produced.
But in a lot of other places, they're far cheaper than the supermarkets. It works the other way sometimes, and I think we need to examine why. My best off-the-cuff theory to it would be some sort of perverse government incentive.

The same government that makes incentives that added all that extra driving, transportation, storage, packaging, etc to the "natural food" because they think farming and storing livestock within X-feet of a people-zoned area is dangerous and shouldn't be allowed. Next they complain "oh lets fix these food islands that we created in the first place" or "oh please let us regulate these evil companies that use so much bad plastic packaging because we told them not to sell food that "might" be off after expiry so they have to use plastic and other such devices to sell you absolutely pristine and non-contaminated food".

The point in my rambling is that it's such a complicated problem, but the government sits at the heart of it. Both as a cause and a potential solution, unfortunately.
If we eliminated all other methods of taxation, what do you think would happen to rents? Would they increase, decrease, or stay the same? How do you think this affects the amount collected through a Land Value Tax?
Also c17 -G to create shared objects, SIGWINCH and tcgetwinsize() to query the size of a terminal window, lots of new shell features, make is now somewhat useful, gettext() and associated commands are in, asprintf(), C17 support, strlcpy, strlcat, and many more all new and exciting features.
What are the most common principles you use?
Here's some responses to Mr McGill's remarks, which I think are interesting.

Drs. Baraki and Feigenbaum's (from Barbell Medicine) response:
https://player.fm/series/barbell-medicine-podcast/episode-29...

Jonathon Sullivan's response (author of The Barbell Prescription):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O491cW89Ky8
Part of the Grey Goo memeset is that the goo is an unstoppable apex predator that doesn't just tweak the ecological balance a bit in a conventional ecological relationship, but permanently establishes an ecological balance of 100% Grey Goo.

This has not happened, not even "humans".
>Those guys lift weights constantly

I know for a fact this isn't true. I know high-level amateur fighters (ie aspiring pros) who don't lift any weights.
Ukraine busts SIM farms targeting soldiers with spyware
Seems bad... Though I don't think I'm informed enough to know exactly why. The NSA is just coded in my brain as Generally Not Trustworthy. The addition of Larry Summers has me feeling a similar way. My general feeling is that these are not people who particularly care about humanity writ large.
Youtube has been a problem and we have had many discussions about what's worth her time and what definitely isn't. We limit the app specifically to 1 hr. per day, and just kinda keep tabs on what she's watching and talk to her about it.

Putting faith in any app to curate or restrict content in Youtube and the like; for this one I think doing the human thing of talking to her regularly and even making it clear that we will be checking out what she's doing is preferable.
You say that the government should never be able to take away land from us that we own. But what if they take away the services that guarantee other people don't take away that land from us?

In that way, they're not taking the land, they're just ceasing to provide police officers, judges, courts, etc., to ensure no one else takes the land.

I think I agree with you in theory, that if we own it, we own it, and yet I think "owning" something is a social construct protected by institutions doing services.

It almost seems like the debate in software where companies have often shifted to subscription SaaS models and customers want to be able to own the software outright. And customers say they don't want updates, but often they still want security updates and for as long as the product exists, which is an ongoing service software companies provide, not so dissimilar to services governments might provide to protect land.

In other words, if I buy a plot of land, does that entitle me to 10 years of someone defending my land borders? 100? 1,000? And if not and i have to defend those borders myself, do we really have government property rights or lots of individuals with guns saying who owns which property?

I dont think it HAS to be paid with property taxes, but i also dont think the concept of infinite ownership makes sense either.
I kind of have to agree but their software products are huge, it's difficult to say if they are particularly bad. Don't expose their products on the open web is good advice but it applies to many products not just theirs (like gitlab/gitea).

https://stack.watch/product/jetbrains/
Except there's no duplicate content - the site redirects
> Is there astroturfing here or is AI the current hammer that everyone defaults to?

What is discussed in the article is AI. If you want to contrast it with the modern neural network / machine learning paradigms this flavour is often labeled GOFAI (good old fashioned artificial intelligence). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOFAI
Writing a book that touches on this. Why do we play games like this? What compels us? And what is the relationship between this world and that?
IMHO the benefits are closely related to very fact that it's a hard thing to do. It's hard to go against your will to eat, relax and get entertained all the time. To be able to go against laziness and short term gratification is a power. It naturally reflects on the whole self.
The measure is a poor construct. How much of GDP is Visa and Mastercard skimming 3% off the economy? Intuit charging for TurboTax. Healthcare. Collusion of institutional landlord rents using Yieldstar. Verisign. “Economic termites” as Matt Stoller coined.

US GDP, broadly speaking, is the broken window theory. Europe delivers better quality of life, cheaper, based on the objective metrics.

“Price is what you pay, value is what you get.”
I disagree here: Setting up a large-scale pretraining run is super complex if you have to manage your distributed computing platform, but looking at how the training data looks like and is fed into an LLM is not that complex. If you are developing a product based on or with LLMs, it's worth spending a few hours to understand it on the big-picture level. I mean, look at how many people are confused why LLMs a) hallucinate facts, b) sometimes copy text passages verbatim, c) why they probably shouldn't be used as scientific calculators etc. All that could be much more clear if you know how they are trained.
Value can be overvalued. Value is what humans invent for themselves (but mostly others).

GDP is precisely one such imagined quantities that could easily be 10x more or less depending on who's doing the valueing.
Who would have thought? The US pumps up its economy with the IRA and other debt based spending, China pumps up its economy with its ridiculous reserves of US dollars... and Europe's nominal head has no real power (vdL), and the countries are headed by an airhead who can talk but not act (France), buffoons (UK), incompetents wanking off on austerity (Germany) and far-right populists with a country whose economy is in shambles (Italy).

No wonder we're falling behind, progress requires investment. And our rich elites are too stingy to actually invest into progress, they more like to invest into lobbying in order to keep the status quo.
I used to due weightless squats and for some reason I'd say they don't trigger the same feeling. Maybe it's the added weight, maybe it's the arm involvement and posture.
Seems more like everyone's looking for a payday.
Yes. Entertainment is obviously a time sink and idleness and boredom often spur creativity, which doesn’t happen if you’re being entertained. What entertains is subjective to an individual, and while some might be satisfied with binge-watching a show, others require something else to stay engaged. The games you mentioned target that specific strata. But the end goal is to entertain, thus provide a captivating time sink that drains away the time and mental energy that would otherwise possibly flow into more productive pursuits.
New concrete can turn homes into giant batteries
Seems to me that Airtable is pretty much what you’re talking about, and is spectacularly useful.
>99% of the people will never own a house [in the US]

is just nuts
I have access to an encyclopedia. I remember there being like two small paragraphs per entry.
Ha yes but in context here the elderly are generally less worried about that :)

But for "the rest of us" yes...maybe the closest thing to a consensus out there is if you're sensitive to DHT and have experienced hair loss (common male pattern baldness) creatine could possibly impact you. The effect isn't even universally acknowledged to exist so it seems safe to assume it's minor enough that if you're treating DHT hair loss (finasteride) already it wouldn't impact you.
Yes. We should absolutely censor thoughts, and certain conversations. Free speech be damned - some thoughts are just so abhorrent we just shouldn't allow people to have them.
I understand your perspective, but it's important to address some misconceptions.

Firstly, the notion that the nuclear industry is predominantly government-owned and directed is somewhat outdated. While it's true that historically, many countries relied on state-run entities for nuclear power, the landscape is changing. Countries like the United States have a mix of private and public involvement in their nuclear sectors, with significant contributions from private companies.

Secondly, the argument that renewable energy operates within a "free market" is misleading. Renewable energy industries, especially solar and wind, receive substantial government subsidies globally. In 2021 alone, global renewable energy subsidies exceeded $120 billion, highlighting that renewables are not thriving purely on market dynamics. Moreover, the renewable sector is heavily influenced by government policies, incentives, and international competition, particularly from countries like China, which dominates the solar panel market through state-supported enterprises.

The claim that renewables foster "local ownership" and "distributed industry" oversimplifies the reality. While small-scale renewable projects do exist, the production of critical components, such as solar panels and wind turbines, is concentrated in the hands of a few major players, often backed by significant government support. This centralization can lead to market distortions and dependencies, similar to those seen in the nuclear sector.

Lastly, suggesting that support for nuclear power equates to endorsing "big government" overlooks the complexity of energy policy. Effective energy infrastructure, whether nuclear or renewable, requires substantial investment and regulation to ensure safety, reliability, and sustainability. Both sectors depend on a combination of public and private investment and face significant challenges that require coordinated efforts beyond simplistic free-market solutions.

In summary, both nuclear and renewable energy sectors involve significant government intervention and investment. The debate should focus on how best to balance these investments to achieve a sustainable and reliable energy future, rather than framing it as a binary choice between free markets and government control.

https://www.statista.com/chart/24687/solar-panel-global-mark...

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2023/08/china-leads-race-bot...
I’ve often had this question about GDP. Does the overpriced US healthcare system contribute to it? Not throwing shade, just genuinely curious about GDP’s value as a measure.
Apple will reportedly pay OpenAI with 'exposure'
> And this is not just traditional industries, even 1 in 10 startups risk bankruptcy. [1]

That seems incredibly low though, even 10 years ago (and not specific to Germany) only 1 in 10 startups succeeded. [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilpatel/2015/01/16/90-of-star...
Now imagine how far behind Europe would be without getting money by fining foreign companies lol
Serious people weren't ever going to use these tools to create images, so why try to cater to them? This is for spur-of-the-moment images to be quickly created and just about as quickly forgotten.
It's very true. When watching programming talks on YouTube, I often hover the mouse over the time bar to find the first preview which looks like the slide has syntax highlighted code on it. I'm here for the cool coding stuff, not the preamble!
> Is there any additional processing overhead to doing that?

TOtally depends on the requirements and hardware.

> CD tracks, or subsets of tracks basically for free

Yes, if you don't need to access the CD in this time[0,1]

Overall:

- having a compression would limit the number of reads (~half for ADPCM for example), for the expense of the quality and the need of the bigger buffers and some of CPU power. PS1 had only 2MB of the main RAM and a CPU with a whopping 33MHz; though it's SPU had the support for ADPCM and had additional 512KB of memory, I doubt there was a way to load a part of a file from a CD-ROM to the SPU without traveling through the CPU first, so it's not very feasible on PS1 but became totally fine on PCs of the era ie any 486 with 50+MHz, or even less if you are okay with a lower quality[2].

- using mod/xm requires just a little bit of pre-reading, but requires both the memory and CPU to produce the sound; you can use the hardware to perform the re/sampling to lower the demand on the CPU, but despite what GUS fanboys said, it's... not that much, at least for the PCs when GUS became a feasible card. But if you are extremely limited on the CPU and you do have a hardware sampler then this is the way.

- until 2000[3] the Red Book was the only way to consistently provide a, well, CD quality soundtrack (musictrack?) on the plethora of users PC configurations.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40653912

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699834

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLHjzZl2QQk

Quite amusingly, DOS version is downsampled because a common PC didn't have any graphic (or in this case video) accelerators, so it needed to process both the sound and video on the CPU; while CD-i version is running on an anemic 15.5MHz it had the proper, ahem, GPU so it could have a much better sound quality, you can compare them:

Thaa's Secret

https://youtu.be/RLHjzZl2QQk?t=367

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLjKjNp5N_Q&t=246s

[3] originally I wrote 1997, because Quake II, and Half-Life came out in '98 (well, technically), but looks like even in 2000 there were some titles which still preferred it this way.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_use_Red...

EDIT:

> or subsets of tracks basically for free

Not that free. Positioning the head takes time (and we are talking 1x/2x drives - up to a second or two!) and if you don't want to abruptly stop the playback and then suddenly start blasting from the mid... well you don't have any controls over that. You can only prepare for that while mastering the soundtrack and inserting the pauses (with fade-out/fade-ins!) where applicable.
>How is it possible that on Germany related news we talk about US again?

1. Where did I mention the US?

2. You don't get to tell other people what they can talk about on these forums.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/07/healthcare-spending-will-b...

https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo...
I have no idea what he is talking about. I use notebooks because I want to have an interactive and visual way to explore data/algorithms/phenomena. How/Why would you use a notebook "in production"? Why would you care about performance?

The article really makes me think either I or the author have a terrible misunderstanding about what notebooks are or how to use them.
Probably copy/paste errors (in editorial) mixed with deadlines mixed with no QA.
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The dynamic programming approach to solving tic-tac-toe is an implementation of reinforcement learning, is it not? I was surprised to see your post not mention reinforcement learning anywhere, despite that this solution appears in textbooks on reinforcement learning that use dynamic programming to solve tic-tac-toe.
Great work! Thank you!
I don't understand why you think this is a bad idea - 301 redirects exist for a reason. Redirecting to what the user probably wants is better than a 404 page.

That said, typically most people are going to find a site via search or clicking a link, which is why I think basically no one bothers doing this.
If that's the case the winning move is get the bytes, and convert them to UTF8 or just process it as bytes. &str is a wrapper around &[u8] with strict UTF8 guarantees.

Modern systems should be able to convert various encodings at GiB/s into UTF8.
The value of the dollar I guess. Compared to the rest of the world the US has insanely large salaries, but also seems to have insanely high costs of living. Comparatively for us Europeans the US is pretty outside of the price range since covid. The value of the dollar is higher than it was compared to the euro, but the exchange rate difference does not seem to be so large as to explain the difference in purchasing power.
I can kind of see that argument but it reminds me of when a new programming language comes out and there's no IDE support for it.

That definitely stops some developers from considering it, others are happy to use just a standard editor without intellisense, etc.
yeah there's an utility aspect, and everyday you benefit from having strong legs and core stability.

i'm trying to expand to new exercises that train this aspect, any kind of weight manipulation (similar to grocery bags or moving furniture up and down)
Why do you think it's no longer possible? What does the size of the government have to do with tax rates of land?
Your code got munged, use backslash to escape * (otherwise it starts a span of italicised text), or use four leading blanks for code blocks (in which escaping is usually not needed):

M*G/Z*K

I think you meant, the above and

M*G/(Z*K)

respectively.