skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is ignoring the fact that babies are not just learning labels, they're learning the whole of language, motion planning, sensory processing, etc.

Yes. All that learning is feeding off one another. They're learning how reality works. Every bit of new information informs everything else. It's something that LLMs demonstrate too, so it shouldn't be a surprising observation.

> Once they have the basics down concept acquisition time shrinks rapidly

Sort of, kind of.

> and kids can easily learn their new favorite animal in as little as a single example.

Under 5 they don't. Can't speak what happens later, as my oldest kid just had their 5th birthday. But below 5, all I've seen is kids being quick to remember a name, but taking quite a bit longer to actually distinguish between a new animal and similarly looking ones they already know. It takes a while to update the classifier :).

(And no, they aren't going to one-shot recognize an animal in a zoo that they saw first time on a picture hours earlier; it's a case I've seen brought up, and I maintain that even most adults will fail spectacularly at this test.)

> Compare this to LLMs which can one-shot certain tasks, but only if they have essentially already memorized enough information to know about that task. It gives the illusion that these models are learning like children do, when in reality they are not even entirely capable of learning novel concepts.

Correct, in the sense that the models don't update their weights while you use them. But that just means you have to compare them with ability of humans to one-shot tasks on the spot, "thinking on their feet", which for most tasks makes even adults look bad compared to GPT-4.

> How many homework questions did your entire calc 1 class have? I'm guessing less than 100 and (hopefully) you successfully learned differential calculus.

I don't believe someone could learn calc in 100 exercises or less. Per concept like "addition of small numbers", or "long division", or "basic derivatives", or "trivial integrals", yes. Note that in-class exercises count too; learning doesn't happen primarily by homework (mostly because few have enough time in a day to do it).
Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable
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Elephants Have Names for Each Other, Study Finds
> I've never seen SQLite used in a setup which multiple machines connect to the same database over a network.

If you actually mean "database server", i.e., SQL is going over the wire, I don't see why you'd ever structure things that way. You lose both SQLite's advantages (same address space, no network round-trip, no need to manage a "database server") and also lose traditional RDBMS advantages (decades of experience doing multiple users, authentication, efficient wire transfer, stored procedures, efficient multiple-writer transactions, etc).

Assuming that it's the worker / job server which is primarily issuing SQL queries, what you'd do is move the data to the appropriate server and integrate SQLite into those processes. (ETA: Or to think about it differently, you'd move anything that needs to issue SQL queries onto the "database server" and have them access the data directly.) You'd lose efficient multiple-writer transactions, but potentially get much lower latency and much simpler deployment and testing.
Nobody mentioned this but software patents are/were a pretty good reason to avoid looking at other people's algorithms.
sorry, the issue is fixed now
Just what we need. Another excuse for chopping them down.-
I used SQLite as the file format for a game system, and it was probably one of the most successful technical decisions I've made in 40 years. The fact that the artists and developers and even managers could use standard database tools to lay out changes to the game levels, characters and even physics behaviours, meant I didn't have to write a ton of tooling to allow them access to all of those things - they just opened up their favourite database GUI, added the data to the sqlite database, and shared the single file around.

Nowadays I just can't see any other way to do this, other than by maintaining a well-ordered .zip file or filesystem structure, with strict validation being something that has to be programmed. I'd just prefer to sqlite all the things.
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> Webcam and Microphone protection

Is there a way to achieve the same thing on Linux? Or at least for the microphone; for the webcam there are very low-tech solutions available :)
This. My 2.5 y.o. still argues with me that a small dog she just saw in the park is a "cat". That's in contrast to her older sister, who at 5 is... begrudgingly accepting that I might be right about it after the third time I correct her.
The Myth of Gentle Parenting
Aussie here. I cannot recommend this show highly enough. It's absolutely brilliant.
A taxonomy of tech debt (2018)
A simple fast food meal in Norway costs $14.
More expensive there..
Alright. So just jumping back to "why is there an active land war in Eastern Europe?"; is it fair to characterise your position with these 3 points?

1) Russia was worried about EU expansion into Ukraine [0].

2) They've invaded Ukraine and are encountering heavy resistance from the EU.

3) The US is barely involved in either of the other 2 points.

Because it doesn't look like an EU war effort to me. It looks like a NATO effort. Russia seem to be talking about the NATO-ish aspects of the struggle when they try to justify themselves and the bulk of the materiel seems to be being directed by the US if the stats are to be believed. The US aren't bit players in this one [1].

I'm not seeing a strong counter to my basic understanding of the situation (which is pretty close to what Chomsky seems to have come to). It looks like a "Russia were worried about NATO expansion in Ukraine and discovered their worst fears being realised when they tried to resist said expansion militarily" situation. I'm not seeing a strong argument here for why Chomsky should have come to a different opinion, it seems to rely on the EU having an independent military presence that they just don't have.

> NATO isn’t the only supplier to Ukraine, and NATO has no command authority over Ukraine and its forces. The idea that this is a ‘NATO’ proxy war is ridiculous and denies the agency of a democratic nation.

Why would Ukraine's form of government have anything to do whether this is a proxy war? They are democratic, they have agency, and this is still a NATO proxy war. If NATO wasn't involved Ukraine would have folded in the first month and the conflict would have ceased years ago.

[0] Although I am still a bit confused about why this is supposed to be a misread by Chomsky or myself; the only major difference I see between the EU and NATO is whether the US is involved. And I obviously think the US is involved.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62002218 - BBC thinks the US supplied 5x the amount of stuff as the next biggest supporter of Ukraine, for example.
Coppola also said tha he did not want to direct the second movie of the saga, so he asked three conditions: to have no interference, a lot of money and to name the the movie the Godfather part 2. Strangely the third condition was the one which was most difficult to satisfy.
The US did not force Russia to attack Ukraine. Attempting to blame the US for Putin's actions is an impressively wild take.

Russia has alternated between being an unreliable partner and an explicit enemy of Europe depending on the whims of whichever dictator currently runs it for a long time.

Germany lost out on the Nord Streams because they were stupid enough to base their energy policy on a country run by a bunch of thugs and criminals.
Its like people always go after Nazi and right wingers about the same kind of stuff. Like let it go people.
Text of the tweet:

We want to clarify some inadvertent confusion.

Our strategic cloud relationship with Microsoft is unchanged.

The partnership with OCI enables OpenAI to use the Azure AI platform on OCI infrastructure for inference and other needs.

All pre-training of our frontier models continues to happen on supercomputers built in partnership with Microsoft.
Does Revideo equivalent with Pymovie or it has some advantages?
At a sufficient magnitude, a meteor might well liquefy the Earth's crust, or cause seismic shocks sufficient to damage even the deepest bunkers.

That said, such an event might well cause problems on a (far more generally vulnerable) Mars colony as well (e.g., ejecta subsequently impacting Mars).

And the odds of such an event are quite low. Most killer asteroids would disrupt the biosphere, and quite considerably, but not significantly rearrange the Earth's structure itself. The one time that's happened which we are reasonably confident of is the hypothesized Theia impactor, roughly the size of, erm, Mars, which is thought to have impacted the proto-Earth as the latter was forming 4.53 billion years ago, and forming the Moon as a consequence.

Other cosmic events such as a gamma ray burst or rogue star disrupting solar system orbits would have impacts affecting Mars as well, and even a well-established self-sufficient Mars colony would not be a sufficient mitigation.

(I'm generally not in the "Mars as a lifeboat from Earth" camp.)
Angela Merkel is more pragmatic than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_of_economics
What are the odds?

What are the odds of a successful Mars mitigation?
EU Commission: EV value chains in China benefit from unfair subsidies
There are absolutely production web apps running sqlite as the datastore.

The "one writer at a time and the rest queue" caveat is fine for most web applications when writes happen in single digit / low 10s of ms
> And therefore being transgender is the intersection of both "having a strong internal feeling about gender" and "the feelings you have about gender not matching what society categorizes your body as"

I am another cis man who suspects I would have been just as comfortable had I been born a cis woman, and I have independently come to a similar conclusion. I feel no need to emphasise my social or physical "masculinity", but neither do I make any effort towards being non-gender-conforming — I am perfectly happy having a beard, being hairy and wearing "men's" clothes. Conversely, if I had been born a woman with my same congenital personality, I think I wouldn't have made a particular effort to present my "femininity", but I would have been perfectly comfortable being less hairy, having boobs, and dressing and behaving as do some of my female friends (who are cis and hetero, homo, and bisexual) who, without being GNC, are not necessarily super-feminine.

What I would really like to know is whether I'm right in my intuition that certain cis-male and cis-female individuals feel the opposite. I imagine that cis men who enjoy "feeling like a man" or showing manliness (within the non-toxic and healthy range) are pretty sure they would have hated being born a woman. The same goes for cis women who love displaying their femininity; they probably feel they would hate having been born a man if they were to be asked.
Finland's Posiva long-term disposal plant are still doing trial runs after 40 years of work:

https://www.posiva.fi/en/index/news/pressreleasesstockexchan...
Blaming "bots" omits part of the discussion. There's a danger of us
looking for some other, a scapegoat "system" or "inevitable process"
to throw blame on to.

As well as out of control positive feedback amplifying the fake
(expedient, efficient, profitable) there's negative feedback
suppressing the authentic (complex, messy, emotional, unique).

We are doing this to ourselves. People make and program bots, and so
it's people that want to kill the Internet, but also what it
represented about human connectivity.

There are plenty of humans actively attacking what is human. I've
heard them called misanthropists, nihilists, cosmists,
trans-humanists, tech fanbois, singularity wingnuts, species
traitors... all kinds of names and explanations for the same
phenomenon - a masochistic, self-loathing or disgust for humanity
presented as a "love" of technology.

Maybe it's climate change, overpopulation, first-world guilt, who
knows? Perhaps the idea of AI genesis linked to human sacrifice gives
some a sense of fascistic "new broom" purpose?

Whatever the explanation, we built the internet, and we (humans) are
actively destroying it.
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The self-hosted app Actual Budget [1] sort of takes the second approach, where each client maintains their own SQLite database in local storage. However, instead of just hosting a single file database, the server maintains a list of migrations and is able to resolve conflicts between multiple clients. Clients push/pull the migrations when syncing to keep their database up-to-date. E2EE is also supported. The original creator, James Long, has done talks about the architecture if you want to learn more [2, 3].

[1] https://actualbudget.org/

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

[3] https://www.localfirst.fm/7
It's great to hear that you're getting positive feedback on your Reddit posts! While using LLMs can be a valuable tool for generating content, it's important to remember to always add your own personal touch and insights. This not only ensures authenticity but also helps you grow as a writer and thinker. Keep up the good work and continue to engage meaningfully with the community!

... I'm sorry, but I had to.
It's scary, especially considering how many people cope with loneliness. Do you imagine that someone falls in love with AI or keeps thinking it's their friend while unaware it's just an AI run account? I do and it's depressing to think about.
Tariff summary:

* BYD: 17,4%

* Geely: 20%

* SAIC: 38,1%

"Other BEV producers in China, which cooperated in the investigation but have not been sampled, would be subject to the following weighted average duty: 21%.

All other BEV producers in China which did not cooperate in the investigation would be subject to the following residual duty: 38,1%."
She failed to come up with a workable energy policy and made Germany dependent on the thugs in Moscow as a result.
Common Ethanol Fuel Mixtures
"they're even better for your health than an e-bike!" - debatable. Ppl with ebikes tend to have more exercise since they don't get tired that quickly, unless you are talking about electric scooters or hyper ebikes where you don't need to pedal bc of powerful motor
Ask HN: How do you manage subscriptions do usage based billing?
Hello HN Community. Till now I was using Stripe for Pinggy.io . But Stripe does not allow me to track usage ( such as how much GB of data is used ) per subscription.

This is important becasuse with each subscription seat I want to provide X GB of free data transfer. Then charge something for the rest. But stripe does not allow me to track the usage on a per subscription granularity.

I could not find any decent open source alternative. Currently I am exploring KillBill, but seems like I have to reqrite the Stripe plugin for that.

How do you manage your subscriptions and usage based billing? I know that for AI startups, this is a must.
It’s not unusual but is never performant. Adding an api layer and network hops on what should be a database shard or view is why enterprise software sucks so much ass.

Why does the api take 3s to respond? Well it needs to call 6 other apis all of which manager their own data. The problem compounds over time. APIs are not the way to solve cross organization data concerns.
> People think that knowledge lies in the texts themselves; it does not, it lies in what these texts relate to and the processes that they are part of, a lot of which are out in the real world and in our interactions

And almost all of it is just more text, or described in more text.

You're very much right about this. And that's exactly why LLMs work as well as they do - they're trained on enough text of all kinds and topics, that they get to pick up on all kinds of patterns and relationships, big and small. The meaning of any word isn't embedded in the letters that make it, but in what other words and experiences are associated with it - and it so happens that it's exactly what language models are mapping.
I don't think we disagree. There are definitely deep tech businesses that are very hard to pull off.

My point is - asking "how did they do it without a CTO" is weird, they are hiring a CTO to do it, and they're bringing their business experience and funding - valuable stuff that a tech guy probably finds annoying. The number one suggestion on this forum is to sell before building and when somebody does it, users get wide eyes?
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I recently created a new account on Facebook with the single goal of seeing what was going on in my local community.

Firstly their search /discover was pretty terrible. I am sure that local groups exist, but searching for keywords mostly turned up communities with commercial angles.

Secondly even tho I only joined groups related to a very specific European location, every 3rd post in my feed is now bizzarely a scantily clad teen from Africa. I can dismiss these posts individually, but there is no way to tell Facebook's algorithim that it placed me in the wrong bucket, they provide no way to opt out.

If they really must insert random algorithmic content, Facebook already has all the clues they need to make it relevant, based on my searches and groups that I have joined. Instead their AI tried to play 4D chess with my preferences and outsmarted itself, serving me a horrendous swamp of teenbait slop.

Facebook is dead.
I was talking about making a battery, if you want a full solar installation then you also need an inverter, charger, MPPT.
Great idea.

When text-to-code capabilities of LLMs become more mature, libraries like these are going to create a lot of novel uses cases and opportunities.
Will we continue scientific research? Alexander Grothendieck (1972)
I don't think this is the case. Isn't it that "guy" is essentially gender neutral in this context? In the same way you can reasonably say "hi guys" to greet people of any gender.

"Silicon person", "silicon gal" etc would be weirder phrasing. "Silicon specialist" maybe but I don't personally think any of this merits discussion.
I think people are probably just reflexively downvoting you based on the first sentence of the post, because breathless speculation about stochastic parrot LLMs magically birthing AGI any minute now was 60% of the posts here for a year straight
You can buy 15kWh of battery storage for <2000 Euros if you are willing to assemble the battery yourself. This is roughly the capacity of a single rack-mount battery.

Just the cells are <1400 Euros, this is crazy. Because the battery is now far from the most expensive item for a solar-battery setup.

The battery revolution cannot be overstated, especially now with Sodium batteries entering the market, which don't use lithium.
Agree, logs are generated at an astounding rate usually. Using LLM to analyze those is implausible.
I think they're saying that it's silly to claim humans learn with less data than LLMs, when humans are ingesting a continuous video, audio, olfactory and tactile data stream for 16+ hours a day, every day. It takes at least 4 years for a human children to be in any way comparable in performance to GPT-4 on any task both of them could be tested on; do people really believe GPT-4 was trained with more data than a 4 year old?
unless the state will make a law so that you'll pay tax for energy you produce(and i mean produce, not export). This stuff (almost) passed in Romania
My nephew is into this. The great thing about the bicarb style ones is that he can actually play with the ingredients. And this is what "experimenting" should be. Trying things out and seeing what happens. The fun is finding out what happens when you use the kit in an unexpected way and make a mess on the ceiling.

The problem with the more exciting/interesting experiments is that play has a larger potential blast radius. And understandably adults impose more limits which then leads to less actual experimenting. And that actually makes it less fun.

Because the best experiment is to start with random chemicals and seeing what happens. Not a carefully curated set with predictable results. The boring failure and the unexpected result are all part of the fun.
Lie about your age and fabricate new skills on your resume/CV. Put “I code in C/Java/Go/Python/Javascript/whateverYouNeed”.

Also you’re in the EU so could feasibly move to where needs your exact skill set. But web/frontend/backend is needed everywhere so it’s likely worth adding that to your C skills.
There is visidata. It's a TUI and still has rough edges, but it could develop into what you're envisioning.
I think it depends on what the co-founder is bringing to the table. If it is investment, or sales experience, or marketing, then it has its own value.
You may dislike Elon, but it's pretty absurd to say that what he did is trivial.
SQLite has been the "get X thing done, quickly and effectively" for a very long while now, while far too many would keep chasing the shiny new fads with not as much solid footing and not as boring. There's still that lingering webscale effect on its reputation unfortunately. Not to say it's appropriate in every case, and many of its functions are incredibly unwieldy as opposed to postgres' to mention one, but that's something you can live with if it any of its great upsides apply to you. What seems to be taking over now are services that bolt stuff on top of it, some of which end up being valuable FOSS additions, others may as well just be proprietary hosted instances.
Did you read my comment? Or the article you linked? I'm genuinely asking because I literally stated the opposite of presentism:

> I think the problem is actually greater than you say: even the concept of "foreigners" vs "citizens" doesn't translate well as Rome distinguished between foreigners, residents and citizens differently than we do today and "race" didn't exist as a meaningful distinction in the same way. Even the nuances of the differences between different foreign "nations" worked differently so the concept of refugees doesn't really translate all that well to begin with.

Where you seem to disagree is that history is inherently political, which isn't "a fallacy and called presentism" but is literally calling attention to presentism. Presentism has been widespread in historical analysis throughout much of history. This is obvious in hindsight. What is less obvious is that we still engage in it today even when we think we don't.

The mere notion that presentism is even a thing is a relatively recent development (relative to the field of history as a whole) and that it should be avoided is in itself a political decision (i.e. the decision to try to avoid political bias is in itself informed by politics).
Economics of scale and an absurd amount of investments I guess? There seems to be many synergies around using energy storage in batteries for transportation.
It is as likely to happen as the Year of Linux Desktop, on laptops bought by normies at the local shopping mall.
Depends on the chips, I've been hearing from people that NVidia ones (due to various changes in design which preference low-precision over high precision) are becoming more and more useless for traditional HPC, and so there's a move on to switch to AMD (noting that the software side of AMD is still not good). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40655965 suggests Apple's hardware would have similar issues.
As mentioned in the article the site maliciously complied by (barely) changing the behaviour, which meant that the complaint has been renewed:

> Felix Mikolasch, Data Protection Lawyer at noyb: “It seems that the LfD's decision has already been overtaken by the latest version of the "Pay or Okay" banner. We will of course go back to the LfD and continue to fight this practice.”
Is there documentation on how to configure SQLite in the manner you’re describing?