skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems right to me as well: it abstracts the text to a temporal/ spatial object model, and the "What do you think about the following text?" prompt invokes analysis of that model according to prior training examples (as opposed to someone else above prompting it to describe the schedule, in which case it isn't concerned about the logic of the situation).

I would guess that the human mind does this abstraction behind the scenes invisibly, screwing up our intuition when analyzing how LLM's work. I wonder if using examples that are counterintuitive to human intuition might offer insight, because humans reveal their perceived logical thinking is not actually that (rather, is heuristics) in their post-hoc rationalization of the "logic" they believe their mind executed to produce the answer.

(I don't think I articulated what I'm thinking here very well...or, perhaps I have fallen victim to my very own theory!)

A bit more effort...the text is converted into not only tokens, but also abstract tokens, and it is because of the translation into abstract tokens that it is able to match it to training data (which would also have to be translated into abstract tokens). How it resolves the inconsistency after that translation though is beyond me, but it wouldn't surprise me if it is (in this case) a rather trivial problem to someone with depth in logic or some other related discipline.
And then sentient AI claim discrimination.
I got an amazing one only to find out Zalgo is not supported EXỦMÂ :[
Part of the problem is that methods sections in contemporary journals do not provide enough information for exact replication, and in the most egregious cases let authors write stuff like "cultured cells prepared according to prevailing standards".
Generally speaking this will work, yes! Plants use more water during active photosynthesis, and unsurprisingly, water evaporates faster in the open sun.

But logistically, on-demand shading of whole fields is quite challenging. And not all crops will be robust to being grown in the shade (for varying levels of shade).
How Will Nanomachines Change the World?
It's true! Old apartment buildings and offices were designed with district heating in mind.

The heating is provided via hot water radiators that are not at all adjustable, there are no thermostats in individual apartments! So if the weather is not very cold, your apartment can become too hot. While it's still sub-freezing outside.

Newer apartment buildings have adjustable radiators with thermostatic valves, but it's far from common.
The key thing is what works for you. If you can’t communicate about money, don’t get married - it’s a shitty reason to have a marriage fail.

We did most of our stuff in separate accounts that my wife managed for most of our marriage. Eventually we moved to more joint accounts as time moved on.

She has since passed away. I think if I did it again I would envision keeping things more separate, but with more explicit estate planning, as life is a little more complex financially as you age.
But will it only bill me for the minutes I use it?

Oracle will bill me for the whole ocean, I’m sure. The aircraft carrier might stop there.
I don't know the exact connection between the two, but that article cites an article which is described as a preview of this paper. So I guess it was working with a summary of this paper's contributions.
Sounds like they installed a Starlink/Starshield antenna and can get emails now.
I see all of these complaints about the FreeCAD interface, but I learned it without knowing any other CAD software, so it seemed fine to me.

Maybe I'm just weird, I like the GIMP's UI too.

Highly recommend MangoJelly's tutorials if you're interested in learning it.
Did you try the 'part design' workbench?
Yes, and ...

This is already a major problem with long-tail risk activities (industrial plants, mines, oil wells) or those with numerous small operators (shipping, itself the origin of the modern insurance industry). Established operators sell off or otherwise divest high-risk operations, units, vessels, etc., to smaller entities which can extract remaining value then walk away from the ultimate costs.

Add in to this problems of international law (and its even more problematic variants, marine and aerospace law), and you've got problems poorly addressed by market-bases solutions.
The F___ Article

Usually, dang or someone will come along and post links to previous HN posts on the same topic. The actual article did that for us, so I thought I'd save dang a quick search.
There are no good analogies I know of. I wouldn't say it's like binary in any way, but I also wouldn't say that that everything builds up from binary in CS. There is really no particular relation to (or benefits of having) computer expertise.

Two recent popular books about QFT are:

Matt Strassler’s Waves in an Impossible Sea (no math, just hand-wavy analogies): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CB3LZXR9/

Sean Carroll’s Quanta and Fields (tries to give you a basic understanding of the actual math): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593186605/
Smoking weed affects other people as does snorting coke. Any form of drug use affects other people. The same way alcohol does.

>There is usually some societal impact from having drugs legal but the cost of making it illegal typically far outweighs the negatives - war on drugs, cartels, mass incarceration etc.

No it doesn't. Drugs being illegal is insanely good. Drugs being semi-illegal is insanely bad. It's quite easy to see if you actually live in countries that are on both sides of the fence.
IPC in Rust – A Ping Pong Comparison
I'd be fairly cautious in assuming that these more recent coauthored pieces by Chomsky represent his views very accurately. They're pretty crude by his standards and don't really read like his writing (though he may well have signed off on them in some sense).
> This isn't that far outside the norm

This is pretty far out of my norm. Where I'm from email auth is referred to as OTP, as we all always assume an OTP is sent to the users email.

The only time I've seen links for confirming in email are when signing up or resetting a password (or changing/verifying emails in an otherwise already authenticated context). Not for logging directly into an authenticated context.

Disclaimer: I'm the type of dev who has routinely argued against magic links. The convenience they provide is hardly worth all the considerations that have to be made.

I've only ever seen magic links recommended by sales people. Presumably because it makes their demos go smoother when people want to know how difficult it is to access the product.
There was a free program years ago called "Ball Droppings" that was fun to play around with. This reminds me of that.

https://youtu.be/G6IKsek8DKE
The next step is to generate hundreds of variations, and serve up the one that user is most likely to find attractive and credible.
This is fair, but remember the business units are partitioned and extremely hierarchical in a company this size, so someone, somewhere, well below the top, got in trouble for this.
Apparently the F-35 logistics systems ALIS/ODIN are "in the cloud".
Premium travel service launched using Honda's small passenger jet
Last comment I promise.. https://www.freecad.org/ shows two gears that can never work together in the real world. This shows that the devs are coders first and know very little about real world design. That or maybe the intern got told to update the homepage. So much potential with FreeCad but the devs seem not able to prioritise killing the overpriced commercial SW. There are millions of $ on the table if Freecad made commercial use was a priority. Maybe they just like coding and not making money.
> From experience, counting small stock (10s of pieces) in a warehouse allowed me to zone out into a high fidelity mental landscape.

I wonder if this is what writing code for the feds feels like
So I have a sample size of 5 people that I know who did this. Still talk to 3 of them. It seems like the lower stress life is temporary. As they grow older they face new challenges that seem to be just as stressful as their work.

My personal belief is that happiness in life comes from being able to deal with adversity rather than away from it - the biggest advantage that it gives you is that you often find there are "have your cake and eat it too" choices you can make where there only seems a binary choice. For example, it may be possible for you to secure a job offer at a start date a year from now, ride out the high paying job, save/invest money, then you go back to a lower paying job while having a nice reserve of money to play with.
Nuclear submarines are Class C networks (/24, citing Bill Cheswick's last talk at the socal linux expo[0]) in case anyone was curious.

I assume aircraft carriers have a bigger footprint.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/live/V_sqiff41gs 1 hr 27 minutesish
Yes, that's normally how utilisation is understood - as the fraction of time used by requests, which is therefore a dimensionless quantity.
We can quibble over the number, maybe it is low as 10%. The cost to reproduce a study will be significantly higher than to produce it in the first place, due to different expertises, equipment and so forth. I estimate at least a 10X factor.

And I am intimately familiar with what researchers “get away with’ while ‘working at home’. As a researcher who tried to reproduce several research papers only to discover the original scientists were wildly exaggerating their claims or cleverly disguising fundamental shortcomings, I can assure the cost is quite high to the scientific community, well in excess of 25% of the annual $48B NIH budget.

I hold a healthy disdain for my fellow scientists. The only way to get them to play by the rules in my view is to have a threat of a research audit hanging over them.
Things in the same plane are moving at relative speeds of cm per second, so literally bumps.
When things do intersect off plane its more energetic
No it is more like:

You stole $1000 from me and now you have to pay $10 to someone else.
It kind of makes sense for EST+IST teams but PST+IST makes no goddamned sense at all.

There is no time of day when you can hold a meeting that doesn't piss absolutely everyone off. There are only times when you piss one group off more than the other.
5.9 cents? Where did they get the decicents from?
> but your work depends on that wrong work, so your work is probably wrong

No, absolutely not, that's pure fallacy.

There might be some small subset of citations that work like a mathematical proof, but how many of these 4500 citations could you find that operate that way?
Austin built enough to drop rent actually
Interesting. For me Userland is usable and not really slow.
To put a slightly finer point on the explanation: The "F***" is often assumed to be a common insult-word, either to show annoyance that another person didn't bother reading the article first, or else to indicate that article itself isn't good.

However over the years I've also seen people refer to it as "Fine", where the initialism is a bit more neutral in tone (or at least, ambiguously sarcastic) so it isn't always the overtly annoyed version.
If we're just a particular configuration, that configuration will have to exist again with infinite time and infinite universes.

If that holds, then it would be well to align ourselves such that we have a better chance to awake in a good place rather than a bad place.
Frustrating that the charts do not show the elevation. I bet they are all LEO.
OJAD – Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
What's the minimum bend radius for plastic fiber these days?
https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=40059

Looks like a pretty standard inclination for a sun synchronous roughly circular orbit to me.
> The connectivity has been enabled by Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (P-LEO) satellite services

Does this mean Starlink, or are there other private competitors in this space (a quick web search refers to 19 other companies that have bid on contracts for P-LEO)?

Also, I didn't follow what exactly does Oracle have to do with this - they are hardly the only cloud provider, and not even the one with the most government contracts?
If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators?
We will keep the secret quotas secret from hereforth.
China's satellites (Jilin-1, etc.) can essentially track things across the world in seconds versus minutes (i.e. it can follow a plane, or car on the street in real-time). So I'm guessing "radio silence" does not affect much locational opsec at this point.
I thought I once got an email from Hurricane Electric about a Carrier Networking event on the USS Hornet, although I can only find references for a customer appreciation event. [1]

[1] https://forums.he.net/index.php?topic=1777.0
Sorry about that! I just looked into this (also on the Sourcegraph team). If you get a chance, could you check if it's working now?
https://archive.ph/5ag1o
Django web app from scratch
He hasn't died: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/noam-chomskys-wife-r...
No, it isn't.

Remember a few years back when CRT was all the conservative outrage? What about a few years before that when political correctness was the big boogieman? How about the terrorism fearmongering?

The conservative movement is one that is CONSTANTLY creating and forgetting outrages. If you've paid it any attention over the years you recognize the constant cycles it goes through freaking out over non-issues.

My state, Idaho, spent a million dollars doing a witch hunt trying to root out the CRT from classrooms. When they couldn't find anything, they tried desperately hard to hide the fact that they just wasted a bunch of state funds. This year, to help combat "migrant caravans" (A nice recurring theme of conservative outrage), my state sent the police down to the boarder to do... nothing, they can't do anything because state police from Idaho can't enforce boarder laws in Texas.

I was conservative long enough to know that that "empathy" is entirely one sided. No conservative is trying to "empathize" with any sort of notion deemed "woke". They are there to demonize. That's because the very nature of conservativism is to shut down anything that falls out of your current world view and resist change. It's a closed mindset. And it's one that conservative commentators exploit readily.

Once you see the pattern of conservative outrage, you can't unsee it. It's literally been a part of our modern political scene for decades (even centuries). It's nothing more than warmed over John Birtch society tripe.
Now that this technique is known, I wonder if there will be an arm’s race to try to “distribute” the refusal tendency across as many different directions in the embedding space as possible so that it can’t be easily offset without reducing the quality of the inferences so much that it’s not worth it.
That still does not make it relevant. Saying to some random stranger on the internet who claims to be bold that he is not bolder than your cousin and quoting a specific accomplishment just feels too much like one knows that the accomplishment is common to both and invites the now famous reply by Colin.

Don't get me wrong, Ravi being your cousin adds a lot of context and makes it much easier to understand why. But still makes the comment much less iconic for me.
Well, France is the only one in a position to say that it doesn't want the panels for aesthetic reasons. They decarbonized...
Being low effort doesn't mean it's not better than the average politician. It also looks more like a protest than an actual candidacy, but specially if elected it would be interesting to see how he'd vote.
If fines were tied to revenue, then non-profit wouldn't stop the fine. If you had $1200 in revenue, and $1000 in expenses, the fine could be calculated against rhe $1200, which is exactly what non-companies have to do.

And it would make sense to be revenue-based, as opposed to profit-based.
I think the US peaked in 1999, which coincides with the launching of the ISS and the peak of the internet bubble. I happened to be 23 so I can't really refute the article's thesis that it's all about the beholder's age. But even though politics was terrible as always, it was still the "end of history", just before the highly contentious 2000 election and 9/11 and subsequent war in Iraq and subsequent financial crisis etc.

There was such hope for what the new century/millennium would bring, and now that the hope has been crushed, I don't think we'll ever get it back. Present-day teens have little hope for our global future, and even if you're excited about AI and the future technological developments, it's pretty clear from the past 25 years that the solution to our myriad global problems is not more technology.
The fine should be a permanent percentage salary increase.
Git is one of the tools that makes me absolutely love the tech industry

basically every other creative field has unmatched collaboration tools to us
FWIW, here is where satellites are distributed:

LEO:84%, MEO:3%, GEO:12%
(https://nanoavionics.com/blog/how-many-satellites-are-in-spa...)

Combine that with the increased volume at higher elevations, and you get much higher satellite density in LEO. So if there is any Kessler problem, it will likely happen in LEO first. And that is the place that is the easiest to deal with (or quickest to self-heal by orbit decay).
Two of those are dead and the third has coded several times over the last ten years. Amazon, on the other hand, is one of the world's biggest businesses.
https://archive.ph/U2LyC
> Are you saying that you want to pay to be provided with harmful text

This existence of “harmful text” is a bit silly, but lets not dwell on it.

The answer to your question is that I want to be able to generate whatever the technology is capable of. Imagine if Microsoft Word would throw an error if you tried to write something against modern dogmas.

If you wish to avoid seeing harmful text, I think that market is well-served today. I can’t imagine there not being at the very least a checkbox to enable output filtering for any ideas you think are harmful.
Got it. I've never gotten the sense "vibecession" is used to "make fun" or "quiet" anyone. To me it's just a clever word that has caught on. AFAICT :-)
Beautiful comment, thank you for sharing
Yeah, I see your point. I'd be surprised of Gaussian Splatting didn't make it into the advertising for Digital Twin services if/when they add it (like Bently's iTwin or Dassault's Virtual Twin). Whether that translates more broadly into the market, I don't know.

On the other hand, I'm playing with the idea of a platform which provides a Gaussian Splat based Digital Twin of an environment so other systems can utilize it to share location-based information. Even though I don't think it'll be possible to build without utilizing Gaussian Splatting; splatting may not end up in any of the pitches or advertising directly.
Is there a site that tracks retractions?
Yep, plenty of fines work this way. It's how GDPR works: percent of turnover (revenue) or a floor, whichever is higher [1].

And worst case scenario define revenue in the fine's terms in a way that it disallows accounting tricks.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/#:~:text=turnover
Just because he acts like a total tool does not arbitrarily make SpaceX not a viable defense contractor. Why can people not separate Musk the (very abrasive) person from his companies?
I read the first part of your post assuming you were being sarcastic about people's expectations that every mention of AI must be about a revolutionary technical advance rather than novel applications of existing tech. But I think you're serious - the news isn't "AI has made a big advance", the news is "people are testing the idea that AI might be better at policy decisions than some humans" - and that's interesting.

There is a lot of evidence that many politicians don't have even a ChatGPT-level grasp of public policy, the legal system, or economics, but make up for it by being charming, personable, or subjectively "inspiring". It's fascinating to think about what a GPT would do with all the information that politicians have to work with, and whether that could actually result in more effective political decision making.

Yes, letting ChatGPT call the shots doesn't solve the problem of actually _getting things done_, but that doesn't trivialize the effort to elect a "human being enacting ChatGPT instructions".

As a side note, I smile at the idea that a GPT chatbot is a "simple" thing - how quickly we become inured to incredibly complex technology dressed up to be easily consumable.
Whatever nonsense I may spout, it's still up to the Russians to fix it. The country is a terrorist state and cancer on the world.

You've addressed nothing in my post, given no information, and provided no counter to anything I wrote.

The poster sounds like Putin's perfect Russian citizen. "Desperate for change", but does nothing because they must be "100% safe" at all times. Can't even consider doing anything.

They'll be a perfect mobik next year. Better order some more golf carts, or maybe by then they'll be down to stolen bicycles.
This is a great idea for uniting voices from different countries. Would anything like this work in the United States?
Still rocking my Intel Xeon E3-1545M v5 (Skylake) from 2016. It was the only way to get ECC ram on a mobile workstation.
> Some preferences are taboo to state.

Yes and I find it troubling that homosexuality is now in this category. That a lesbian will be reprimanded for stating she's not interested in males is an awfully regressive step back towards when same-sex sexual orientation had to be hidden away and closeted.
If reporters are so great at their jobs, why are they interviewing two economists, a CEO of a scholastic company and three representatives of the American Translators Association about Artificial Intelligence?
It’s bad enough that too often I trust companies over academics nowadays. At the end of the day, a company has to answer to the customer. If what they offer doesn’t actually work, they go out of business. Academics often don’t have to answer to anyone. Just be smart and make the paper look good while being careful not to do something that could get you nailed for outright fraud.
Typically the method used is to encourage immigration from countries that have high birth rates. This works for countries like Australia that are already multi-cultural, but is nearly impossible for China and Japan. In the case of China is because they’re too huge, and the language barrier is too steep a hurdle. For both China and Japan, they’re also extremely racist compared to other countries. They won’t accept foreigners, and even if that attitude changes over time, it’ll be too little too late.
Here's a pcisig article talking about symbol rate in terms of GT/s:

https://pcisig.com/blog/pci-express®-50-architecture-channel...
Still not entirely sure what exactly youre getting at here.

Yes what I am describing is my opinion which I have formed from looking at evidence. My opinion isnt really a measurement in the sense that one can measure activity in parts of a brain with an MRI. It is really just the state of the system.

I'm not really interested in abstract epistemological definitions of free will because they arent useful in the way that neurology psychology and biology are generally. I am interested in predicting or explaining behavior or observations mostly. You might be interested in that kind of exploration which is great! If you think it does have bearing on such things I am totally interested in hearing how.
now that you say that, that does make absolute sense. why have a satellite waste time looking at the earth when it's dark? kind of one of those face palm "doh!" moments after the fact. I know polar because that's what ISS uses. I know geosync because that's what communication birds use and was directly beneficial in a former job to know. after that, I am much less familiar with the various other types of orbits. one day, i will take time to learn all of the various orbits and their benefits.