skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That statement in no way implies she is particularly bothered by it and I'm sure if it is an issue for her she will ask Playboy to fix the problem for her.

That image is over 50 years old and is her immortality.

You guys need to find another outlet for your communist ideology of seeking some real or imagined social flaws as a means of venting your shrewish tendencies.
The history of global cuisines is a testament to the dynamic nature of food culture
I think it’s missing the European Union/CoE in “Other” - probably the African Union too, in terms of institutional recognition.
"Zoom!"
"Enhance!"
[and now] "Generate!"

"There! I told you those were missiles! Bombing at 11!" :)
It also decreases bandwidth and processing server-side, when a user
leaves before finishing the video.
Regarding their ethical concerns or lack thereof, OpenAI Whisper will often hallucinate transcriptions such as "Subtitles by <random nickname>" which strongly indicates that it's trained on ripped movies and crowdsourced subtitles found online.
I only have access to the abstract, so maybe the full paper addresses this. What does it mean by problems before 2021? Does it mean date related questions? Problems relating to frameworks newer than 2021? Or are they classifying the technical problems themselves as somehow post 2021?
I am having trouble understanding the details here.

How expensive is this process?

Is it feasible to scale this?

Are other catalysts better than this one at producing methane from CO2?
Yep! Fermented foods have been a cornerstone of traditional diets in many cultures (Kimchi)
> loads of kids

I'm not saying you're wrong, but...

This narrative is very heavily purported by right-wing propaganda outlets. I wonder what you mean by "things... as a luxury." Do you mean MBAs, or history majors? And, what do you mean by "loads?" Do you have any data to back this up?
What the hell are you talking about? I am dirt poor and have barely heard of either
Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types
Ok, ignoring the many “why?” questions I have as an Old One with zero interest in TikTok and even less in artificial likes, there are lots of code smells here.

First off, installing dependencies as a default side effect of just running the file. This could cause all sorts of problems for a user, especially given you’re doing it in a naked except clause, which means your script could kick off pip installs under all sorts of circumstances that have nothing to do with missing dependencies.

Second off, sourcing [a hopefully not malicious] Tesseract .zip (or anything) from a random Google Drive link, again as a side effect of merely running the script. Especially problematic in this case as the script assumes you’re running this on Windows, but the side effects will happen before the script fails anyway on other OSs.

Third, not sure why you’re using a path inside the repo to hold the (ephemeral) captcha PNG… tempfile might be of help here.

Fourth, all those fixed length sleeps seem like a good way to teach a server-side tool that your likes aren’t organic.

Lastly, consider running black and pylint on your Python code. Formatting everything to be more readable helps, as does fixing all the complaints you’ll get about naming.
Ive been struggling to find good meetups in the san diego los angeles area. meetup.com seems pretty dead.. any suggestions?
Systems have been cleaved in two for who knows what purposes. Systems have always deserved a proper segregation from product, that's been lost in this new paradigm.
> If Iraq happened again today we’d struggle to get a word of dissent past the online message boards.

Sobering thought. Well brought up ...
Yes, the version that the vast majority of people are using since it is free when you go to chatgpt.com
Craft Quick Start Guides That Developers Will Love (2023)
Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
I love Jupyter – it's how I learned to code back when I was working as a scientist. But I was always frustrated that there wasn't a simple and elegant app that I could use with my Mac. I made do by wrapping JupyterLab in a chrome app, and then more recently switching to VS Code to make use of Copilot. I've always craved a more focused and lighter-weight experience when working in a notebook. That's why I created Satyrn.

It starts up really fast (faster time-to-execution than VS Code or JupyterLab), you can launch notebooks right from the Finder, and the design is super minimalist. It's got an OpenAI integration (use your own API key) for multi-cell generation with your notebook as context (I'll add other LLMs soon). And many more useful features like a virtual environment management UI, Black code formatting, and easy image/table copy buttons.

Full disclosure: it's built with Electron. I originally wrote it in Swift but couldn't get the editor experience to where I wanted it. Now it supports autocomplete, multi-cursor editing, and moving the cursor between cells just like you'd expect from JupyterLab or VS Code.

Satyrn sits on top of the jupyter-server, so it works with all your existing python kernels, Jupyter configuration, and ipynb files. It only works with local files at the moment, but I'm planning to extend it to support remote servers as well.

I'm an indie developer, and I will try to monetize at some point, but it's free while in alpha. If you're interested, please try it out!

I'd love your feedback in the comments, or you can contact me at jack-at-satyrn-dot-app.
That's fair enough, I probably should have contrasted 'love' vs. 'hate'. The difference in magnitude wasn't intentional.

I meant to point out that the negative is more often treated as "wrong" or something to fix while the positive is more often simply accepted. I think this is true in general, at least in western/english conversation. But the coriander conversation is notable because apathy or plain dislike for the flavour can be "backed up" with the definitely true genetic explanation. Although in that sense, you actually "can't not like coriander".
Just the other day, I was checking to see if there were any active ones in the Boston area. I'd definitely be up for one, and I'd be more than happy to do a talk and/or help organize.
4 months is plenty of time to rerun experiments using GPT4.
Note that Sabine Hossenfelder is a rather unreliable source for anything outside her field of expertise.
Fascinating deep-dive into a computer I knew nothing about.
Early version of hot dog was invented in germany
Hamburger might also been created in germany

Cornbread: Native Americans

I give you breakfast cereals, toaster pastries, hot pockets, grits, pumpkin pie, milkshake.

Coca-cola? do we now start to listen all types of drink recipetes?

So pure cultural, usa invented easy foods. This has very little to do with cultural foods like cheese, or the million types of sausages and breads and etc.

It does not amount to a considerable contribution to the culinary arts
GPT-3.5 is the default version when you land on chatgpt.com so I don't see why it is surprising. Blame OpenAI for calling the SOTA "ChatGPT+"
Perhaps there will be a day where human beings are paid specifically to train these models rather than by scraping existing corpuses. It would be pretty interesting if many of the same individuals put out of work by LLMs end up being employed to train those same models.
That is still the default, non-paid version of ChatGPT today, no?
An intel chip from 2011: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/52210/i...

Equivalent chip today: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/236784/...

4 cores/4 threads up to 14 cores/20 threads. Max memory supported 32GB up to 192GB. 3.7Ghz turbo up to 5Ghz. 6MB cache up to 24MB+11.5MB L2. Memory bandwidth 21GB/sec up to 76GB/sec. AVX2. Faster GPU.

It’s not so dramatic but it’s not nothing; 5x the threads, nearly 4x memory bandwidth, 1/3rd higher clock speed, 4x the cache, much higher bus bandwidth I think ~5x?
It would certainly be difficult, but if we do manage to create viable permanent settlements on Mars that would massively expand the space where humans can live, since it would require significant upgrades in a whole suite of technologies necessary for human colonization of extraterrestrial environmens.

Even a technology as seemingly unrelated to Mars settlement as autonomous robots I believe would see significant advances as part of any effort to create a permanent human presence on Mars.
Who else still listens to the StarCraft music OST? I listen to it a few times a year and get in the zone.
At Opsec HQ:

Lieutenant: Captain! Captain! You've got to see this!

Captain: What is it?

Lieutenant: We just uncovered an entirely new ICBM design being deployed right now by the Kremlin!

Captain: Really, that's incredible!

Lieutenant: Well, not quite. The fins are attached horizontally, the warhead is placed inside the booster, and the fuselage is an asian woman's face.
Summarizing: LLMs are autocomplete, not thinking machines.
Last meetup I saw it was an OCaml meetup.
> any move to attract talent is seen as net-negative, unfair and detrimental to the culture and livability

The biggest barrier to attract talent in the EU is language. It's not culture, it's not incentives, it's not tax breaks... it's language. The US only needs to learn a single language, english. For Europe you would need at least 3 languages to be marketable since EU citizens are learning multiple languages since born in most cases.
> Not everything, only morphogenesis, which is currently unexplained either way.

That's not true. We know a lot of molecular-level details about morphogenesis. The classic Sonic Hedgehog signalling is a good example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog_protein

Is it possible that electric potentials might play some role in some organisms? Certainly. However, we know for sure that they don't act alone. Chemical signalling definitely happens.

> And it does make sense for cancer to be a morphogenesis defect

It doesn't, really. Even assuming Levin's models are correct, most cancers have nothing to do with morphogenesis. Cancers are caused by internal genetic cell malfunctions, that stop them from reacting to external signals properly. It doesn't really matter if signals are electric or molecular ones.

The default state for normal human cells is "dead". If you take a random cell and put it in a Petri dish, it'll likely die. Most cells need to receive constant molecular signals from nearby cells to _not_ die. Once this mechanism is broken, you get cancer.
Unfortunately it is somewhat asymmetric in that it is better at attacking.

GenAI is much better at flooding social media with misinformation than it is at:

> search and discovery assistance, writing assistance, ideation, brainstorming

It's the same asymmetry we see with tools to detect AI writing - they're just not very good, while bulk generation of it is.

Wild times ahead.
The gpt4 model was able to draw a unicorn and given a program that drew a unicorn, modify it so the unicorn was rotated 90 degrees.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
They used GPT 3.5 so these findings are irrelevant.
I think it's becoming widely accepted that the current benchmarks aren't especially useful metrics for intelligence - rather, they're useful metrics for measuring how well a system can answer the benchmark questions.
More people live in America, India and China than all of Africa, Latin America and Europe combined.

> The hubris of thinking you're representative of the world.

Indeed.
Thanks for the responses.

We disagree on a number of things. AI generated content is not "craft" IMO at all, almost the definition of mass produced. EG: AI artwork, can get a lot of it, but if you want a Mona Lisa - you're going to need a human.

With regards to common trope - you seem to imply that shrinkflation is not a thing? There is a reasonable argument that most of the inflation of the last couple years is simply price gauging, record profits. The common trope that I'm getting at is that unregulated capitalism falls apart because winners emerge. To some extent, this has happened. EG: facebook buying up instagram, conglomerations, actual price cartels (eg: airlines). Many examples. We are in an era of a great squeeze for profits (not just generic economic growth, but instead a phase of growth achieved through squeezing)

> And in the US, this was mostly not the case either:

I am speaking from a US based perspective. I don't think I agree that the data you pointed to shows the same thing. While wage growth can still occur, the acceleration of wage growth has changed and is becoming more stratified. The source I linked to earlier showed that.

> In the US, the biggest problem is housing: cities have put in place barriers to building houses, and that has increased the financial burden of rent

I agree regarding the problem. Though, I would state more specifically the issue is the price of housing relative to wages. That speaks to the trend of people moving away from cities due to pricing, gentrification.;

Though, let's not also forget the median family income is still below $50k, and child poverty in the US effects an astonishing 11 out of 74 million children in the US [1]. Which is to say, I think we often bias from an urban perspective. There is a WHOLE lot of poor people in America. Even in places with affordable housing, people are still not getting by. The significance that 1 in 7 children are living in poverty in the US is hard to overstate.

> As for computer-based automation, I personally see it as a huge benefit in my life. I even like Google's new AI generated responses.

Sure. Though, per the other resources I linked, the trend in the last 30 years is to squeeze out middle jobs. I want to emphasize it is uncharted territory, there is no full historical analog to it. We have yet to see how it plays out.

[1] https://www.childrensdefense.org/tools-and-resources/the-sta...
I linked to the preprint here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899054
I was surprised, coming back to newsletters, how many newsletter platforms don't support RSS-to-newsletter. I've hacked a work-around that I'm not happy with, but I look forward to digging into this.
It's not, the default one is GPT-4o.
No: "as at a counter service place where you pay as you get the food. They would be in their rights to refuse to hand over the food and ask you to leave."

This is exactly the same situation as at Target: you bring a bunch of goods to the cash register. You offer a check. The cashier is going to say "sorry we don't take checks anymore: do you have another way to pay [a Target card, a debit card, a credit card, cash...]. Either you present the alternative method of payment or leave without the goods.
Isn't gpt-4o already the default for non-plus accounts?
This is amazing. I can immediately see it being used by StableDiffusion and other generative image communities. It gives life to those lifeless faces and it doesn't look outstandingly odd. Not to my eyes at least.

Edit: it's definitely being used already https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1dvepjx/li...
I built an a-life system with basic creatures with senses, motion, consumption of food, and a neural net brain.

Brains started random, each generation had a fixed life span, then next generation was created from previous with varying levels of evolution (top 10% best creatures left un-changed, next 10% tweaked a little, next 10% tweaked more...last 20% completely re-created randomly).

I wanted to see some level of advanced control evolve, like a creature hiding behind an object waiting for it's prey (other creature). I didn't see anything remotely close to something like that, but I did see was some level of success evolve. Meaning some creatures had brains that allowed them to optimize finding food and avoiding getting eaten by other creatures, even if they were clearly using just simple strategies that ended up being effective, like frequently moving in a large circular motion to find food.

This is the question the whole thing left me with:

What is required to push this evolution to create the types of advanced control (intelligence?) that I was hoping for?

Is there a level of complexity in the environment that is a base requirement? Meaning if the environment is too simple, then there is no opportunity to evolve the various building blocks that would all come together to produce advanced control because simpler strategies would always outperform in the short term?

What were the conditions in our environment that pushed or allowed crows to become smart?

Maybe, if the environment has enough complexity, then you can have many more species occupying their own little niche, which increases the odds of acquiring some mental attribute.

Or maybe there is some very specific set of conditions within a species niche that opens the door for these advanced mental attributes to be valuable.
GPT-4o is the free version you will mostly use on chatgpt.com
Has everyone suddenly forgotten the ability of VC to make money just . . evaporate? The list is long and the dollar number is heartbreaking.

Well, if they have, I suppose they'll be reminded forcefully by today's substantially different rate environment.

I'm not saying "AI" isn't a big deal. It is. It's got all sorts of uses. Is the state of play worth dumping this quantity of brains and dollars? Jury's out on that. But saying it's worth lots of money because people are throwing lots of money is not a winning argument.
Gotta preserve those previous bodily fluids
Www.skool.com
just posting this to check if anybody has tried this out and has any feedback.
Yeah, this is probably already widely in use by various intelligence agencies around the world.
Managing Oneself (2005)
I agree with you, but then I think about it and.. that's what humans do. Humans are gonna grow based on regurgitated internet stuffs. Maybe forever? With or without AI.

We never used to have such an elaborate or accessible thing before. Kids and senior citizens likely engage constantly without even realizing it - and adopt one another's, idk the words, but I'm going for something akin to dialects/accents/language/opinions/etc

We're all a bunch of parrots
Stop calling him a thinker.

He is no more “thinker” than hitler.

Do you learn a lot from hitler?
Don't editorialize the title, follow the guidelines.
> Long, action-packed, slightly confused, and very stylish; a good watch.

You just described every French film featuring Vincent Cassel. ;P
Who cares what is default? If you want to make claims about LLMs you use the best model.
Very interesting. After reading this, I looked up the Wikipedia page for Creo [1], but could not find anything about this unique type of management.

Would you mind adding something there for posteriority?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creo_(company)
There are regular C++ meetups, which I expect would cover systems programming.

It seems however cloud/web people have a different idea of what systems programming is.
[dupe]

More discussion on blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40897958
The solution is to preauthorize cards before seating and finalize them after. It cuts down on dine and dash also.

I think that's more or less how Alamo Drafthouse does it: they run your card when you place your initial order, and bring out the final bill at the end to write in a tip. At least, I don't think I've ever noticed someone try to use cash there.
> The result shows that the LLM has a hard time generalizing to new (basic!) problems that were not in its training set; this suggests it is memorizing solutions rather than understanding the mechanisms [...]

I am once again reminded of Searle's "Chinese room" thought experiment [0] in which it is argued that computers cannot understand Chinese, merely memorize and regurgitate a canned set of responses to given prompts, and execute procedures by rote; that their computations cannot be "about" a subject matter (such as Chinese, or programming) the same way the operation and contents of our minds are "about" something.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
Because Go is ill-suited for projects like these :)

Just like synchronization, Go scales poorly with project complexity and aspirations. It is unable to efficiently take advantage of beefy many-core nodes, its GC is bad at achieving high throughput and the language itself is incapable of providing zero-cost abstractions and non-zero cost abstractions end up being more expensive than in other compiled languages.

Should have picked .NET for scalability and low-level tuning. Or Rust if higher engineering cost is acceptable.
The "prolonged" when used to describe ECMO means days or weeks. Economics are not the problem here, it is currently technologically impossible to provide ECLS for an indefinite period of time without escalating risks of complications, including immediate failure as well as issues that result in death post-decannulation. There have been individual cases where patients were put on such treatments for months and have survived, but it is in fact medically extremely risky and should not be done unless there was absolutely no other choice. "Immortality" through such a means is almost certainly going to kill you within years.

Quality of life while undergoing treatment is also entirely non-existent, trust me, you to not want to be "immortal" if it required indefinite ECMO. Unless you enjoy living in hospitals I guess.
This guy deserves to be outed for being so sketchy just for the money. Horrible
> Most of the world has millennia of history.

And I also feel that it's myopic to think that a historical event is less significant because it happened longer ago and its effects are more diluted. But there are plenty of turning points in history that explain why today's world looks the way it does, the American (or French) revolutions are but some of them.
Turbopuffer: Fast Search on Object Storage
> In the end we are now in a stable location in the local library, but only because we had someone on the inside. Previously when we approached the library we were stone walled without someone to grease the wheels.

I ran into this sort of problem when trying to put together an explicitly non-profit tech meetup (talk about your projects, nothing commercial allowed, no cost to attend) at my local library; because I wasn't a "community group" but rather just somebody trying to assemble a loose group of individuals from around the Bay, they wouldn't let me do it.
Despite being online, Zuckerberg has not heard of Taylor Swift. Wild.
The lithium batteries are not more flammable than other batteries because of the lithium, but because most of them use organic electrolytes instead of water-based electrolytes.

A discharged sodium or lithium battery does not have metallic sodium or lithium.

Fully charged sodium or lithium batteries contain the sodium or lithium as metals, which would react in a similar way with air or water, if the battery would be cut to expose them to the environment.
Parallax Nick is a thoroughly researched channel on these topics.

https://youtube.com/@parallaxnick637
Niger not Nigeria
They killed custom maps by killing the search mechanism. Not sure if they fixed it now, but on release it custom games were ranked by popularity… which just creates a feedback cycle where only already-popular games would show up anywhere on the top and get sufficient players to run. With no discovery, you ended up with the first acceptable maps, usually remakes of sc/wc3 maps, dominating the list and no way for new maps to compete.

The particularly stupid thing is the map editor for SC2 is ridiculously powerful, but afaik nothing interesting came out of SC2 custom map scene.