skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was teaching university I made it a point to put all class materials on two-hour reserve at the library, and promised my classes that if those were oversubscribed that I would deposit more copies. (I also made oblique references to alternate methods of acquisition: "ask your nerdiest friend what that means".) That may have contravened the college's contract with Barnes and Noble (I mean, the parenthetical bit definitely did), but fuck them. I served my students' best interests, never anyone else's.
I don’t think any BSD uses Mach, or Quartz, or Cocoa.
> Germanic languages only mark tense on verbs, English verbs (like Spanish verbs) are marked with aspect in addition to tense:

What exactly do you mean by "aspect"?

> there is a distinction between "I played tennis"/"I have played tennis"/"I was playing tennis".

Sure:

-- (I) played (Tennis) ~~ jugué

-- (When I) played (Tennis) ~~ jugaba

-- (When I've) played (Tennis) ~~ jugado

English (like German) might say they need auxiliary words to explain what's going on, and Spanish people might say they're just conjugating the verb differently, but I think this is just because things are written down;

Because, if I say any of these sentences in Spanish or English rapidly enough, someone who does not know the language will not know where each word begins and ends, and it may just sound like English "conjugates" at the beginning of words and Spanish "conjugates" at the end. What's the real difference here?

> But it's a much more interesting problem to figure out why [English is] not considered a Romance language than you imply.

I think most of the time people talk about the "rules" of a language, we're not really talking about something that will help acquire the language (or be better understood): we're really just yapping about geography and time.

So what do you think would be different if English was more widely considered a Romance language?
I like reading the comments on monad descriptions looking for all the ones that declare the wrongness with this one but either offer no further clarification, or offer a similarly useless and confusing description...then I look for the comments under those.

They become like beautiful fractal trees with branches upon branches of people giving alternate examples and then comments refuting those.

I'm pretty sure at this point this sort of meta-in-joke art form is what a monad is.

It's almost as good as the old "time to crate" way of measuring first person shooters.
In understand that, but if people license their work under an MIT license then there is nothing impeding whoever manages the repository to slap a new license on the code even if people already contributed to it.

> To avoid problems, some diligent organisations require contributors to sign or confirm something to make it clearer, before they accept contributions to be merged.

That's a very generous way of saying they're having people sign away their rights under a copy-left license.
A product development and problem-solving workshop [1] for middle school kids. It involves storytelling and hands-on exercises around ideation and solution development, culminating in creating prototypes. I developed it to teach my children and their friends how to think about problems and create solutions. Am continuing it refine it, including offering it to different age groups.

[1] https://idea-launch-lab.github.io/
I'm not sure Darwin has had much impact outside of Apple, Apple also tends to keep versions of it to themselves.

That said, the other contributions like WebKit and LLVM have had a wide and positive impact.
I was so hyped getting my hands on my 4070 to encode some Blu-ray. And I was massively disappointed how bad the quality of Nvenc is. I still think it's great for some use-cases like live streaming. But for encoding film - no!
> on its publication in 1997, predicted a future workforce of globe-trotting travellers logging in from abroad

I have occasionally quipped that "I was a digital nomad before the term existed", but it is funny to learn that was both quantifiable and literally true - I hit the road with a laptop and a CompuServe account back in spring of 1996!
Sure it does. Ask any common mortal about AI and they'll mention ChatGPT - not Claude, Gemini or whatever else. They might not even know OpenAI. But they do know ChatGPT.

Has it become a verb yet? Waiting to peole to replace "I googled how to..." with "I chatgpted how to...".
Improperly supervised psychiatric patients are a nightmare, if for no other reason than they often don’t take the drugs that make them not a nightmare.

That means stand-alone housing just won’t work properly.
Managed to send a first message claiming a urgent security update must be delivered to the ring(TM) before any use, but never got any answer from the owner. Reminds me of real life
When I was a kid my boychoir hosted a choir from Estonia (this was before the fall of the Iron Curtain, so this was a big deal), and I remember when I was trying to help out back-stage at their concert and one of the Estonian boys needed help, but the only thing he could say was "I don't speak English", in a perfect midwestern accent (the Estonian choir director had drilled his entire choir on that one phrase). The cognitive dissonance was hard to deal with.
That's so true. The OS ships with certain things preinstalled, but you can install other or newer versions of them.

And if I found myself in a shop where I needed to use standard command line tools to do my job but wasn't allowed to install or update them, I'd be looking elsewhere because life's too short for that bureaucratic overreach.

I hear horror stories like bosses not allowing their employees to choose their own tooling. Pretty much any office like that which doesn't have armed soldiers guarding the building deserves ridicule.
Let's break it down step by step:

The word is "strawberry".
The first "r" is in the second position of the word.
The second "r" is in the fourth position of the word.
So, there are two "r's" in "strawberry".
> You see, in addition to space burritos (if you've heard the rumors), monads are like onions. Allow me to demonstrate with a common situation.

Another mention of monads and burritos.

[0]: https://mostly-adequate.gitbook.io/mostly-adequate-guide/ch0...
Relevant post / discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29984016
Far as I can tell, the Single Unix Specification (SUS) is POSIX plus one extra standardized api, namely curses.
Certified UNIX. Everything we associate with UNIX is not certified, including the BSD base that macOS obtained its UNIX behavior from.
Couldn’t we destroy the magnetosphere and vent the atmosphere with less energy than it would take to get all that carbon out? Or, hell, deorbit the moon one more time?

I think that both of these require far more energy than keeping carbon locked out of terrestrial circulation (and hence out of living things). Don't you have to destroy the Earth's iron core to destroy the magnetosphere? You barely have to scratch the Earth's crust in my scheme. Of course my scheme requires much more time to work, so it's not very flashy.

This idea came to me while considering that most science fictional planet-sterilizing weapons use imaginary physics (The Three Body Problem, Revelation Space, the Xeelee Sequence, The Forge of God...) or, at the very least, a stellar-scale expenditure of energy (The Killing Star). What's the most energy-efficient approach that is compatible with known physics?

Total carbon sequestration doesn't work against a prepared adversary with near-peer technology, but it works great as an alien device for quietly exterminating life from selected planets. The thing is like an invasive species made of silicon that no carbon-based life can compete or coexist with.
Not saying it is or isn't overpriced, but 20k/year is actually a good price for something that can avoid homelessness. Just the cost of extra medical care and/or jail, let alone social services and lost productivity, is worth it.
The thing that has stuck with me about monads is that operations which you can chain like

// Python

new_foo = foo.bar().baz()

Work as / can be defined as monads, if you get a Foo out of each of them. This at least gives me something practical to hang the concept on.
Can someone explain what the deal was with selling slaves to Ireland? It makes it seem like Ireland was some wealthy nation buying slaves.
Thanks! Here's the source:

(color r2 (vec3
(fbm 8 :f (fn [q] (rotate (q * 2) (pi * sin (t / 100)) + [t 0]))
(fn [q] (cos q.x + sin q.y /)) q (osc t 30 30 10) | remap+)))

Basically taking the function (1 / (cos(x) + sin(y))) and adding it to itself 8 times, each time scaling and rotating the input a little more (:f).

I'm curious if it looks the same on all GPUs because it kinda relies on floating point precision errors to give it that film-grainy textured effect. And it definitely divides by zero sometimes.
Epic's 81-Year-Old Billionaire to Keep Her Health Data Empire Private Forever
> For example, if you love football, and you're good enough at it, you can get paid a lot to play it.

good enough doesn't get you paid enough to cover your injuries.
The microtubule "quantum consciousness" hooey has been around since the 90's. It was paid lip service in my biochemistry and molecular biology classes almost as a joke when covering dynamic instability and transport.

While it wouldn't be strictly impossible to test, it's very much cut in the same cloth as string theory.
How do they know where I currently reside?
https://archive.is/CTWR3
With most 2fa systems going through people's cell phones, this is scary.
I've open-sourced a tool to chat with your databases
OK, that makes sense in the context of "another round of shots".

But in my experience, party intensity and music volume are generally correlated, so you would probably turn down the former by turning down the latter.
Yeah, I suck at this game too. What score is even that?
I know nothing of encryption- is there significance to each party starting their string with an identical prefix?
> Communication is not quite "free", but it is effectively unmetered.

Yet we're in a conversation about data centers, and our concept of "unmetered communication" only refers to one end of the line.

What does it cost companies and orgs to communicate with us? What does it cost them to keep a server operational, functional and sending data to us? It's "free and unmetered" for you to watch YouTube, run yt-dlp, put up your ad blockers and PiHoles, but what cost for everyone but you?

I would also consider time/effort costs in communicating. Compare having a rotary-dial phone, the ultimate "thin client", with a general-purpose computer or smartphone. How much time and effort do we put into fiddling with them, upgrading them, fixing settings, troubleshooting whatever communication software is on top of them?

Newspapers cost us $0.25-$1.50, but that's a highly subsidized cost like riding public transit.
It seems that the site is broken, I got a 500 error.
Because grokking monads at some deep philosophical level is like "compiling the kernel" or "editing XF86Config": some mythically arcane thing you have to do that "only PhDs can understand" and hence is a good enough reason to avoid the thing it's a part of.

Monads are a design pattern, albeit not one in the Gang of Four tradition, and it's concrete enough to be expressible in Haskell's type system. Learn the operations and laws, study some code involving List or IO to see how it's used, and get to work. No big deal.
That is the objects that are big enough for us to track somewhat reliably (10cm+). Based on models produced by ESA's space debris office, it is estimated that there are 1 million objects between 1-10cm and an 130 million objects between 1mm to 1cm.
Looking at neurons doesn’t explain the plane of consciousness.
20 years ago people asked that exact question. E-Commerce emerged. People knew the physical process of buying things would move online. Took some time. Sure, more things emerged but monetizing the Internet still remains about selling you something.

What similar parallel can we think of for AI?
To be fair, all of those started as FOSS outside of Apple. LLVM came from academics at UofI, CUPS has been around since forever and they just bought it and started paying the main dev, Darwin came from pillaging NeXT, and Webkit famously was based on KHTML from KDE.
> a 150-string monster guitar

almost all pianos have more strings than that; the bottom octave or so have two strings each and the rest of the keys have three strings each, for a total of somewhere around 250 strings. pipe organs are routinely significantly more complex than that. but a lot of the elaboration in musical instruments doesn't take the form of increasing the number of parts; instead we have things like special varnishes, holes cut in particular shapes, special alloys for strings, tweaked electronic circuit designs, tweaked magnetic pickup designs, etc. i'm not sure it would be easier for a random person to learn how to make a stratocaster-competitive electric guitar than it would be for them to learn how to write an emacs-competitive ide

as for lazy dogs, i think it's common for both programmers and musicians to practice etudes, not just for instrument mastery (which is only a small part of the problem both in programming and in music). a typing class in eighth grade was enormously helpful to me in programming even though, as everyone knows, typing is only rarely the bottleneck in programming. and i think it's pretty common for programmers to spend time on practicing the effective use of one ide feature or another, watch screencasts of other programmers using them, buy books about particular ides, etc. check out https://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/9v0062d0773d000000000225 http://vimcasts.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDIQ17T3sRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGrBHohIgQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p09i_hoFdd0 etc.
Let me start counting how many minutes it would take for someone to post a comment blasting this model for reasoning capabilities. For me LLM, is as useful as it is a word calculator, borrowing from Simon Wilson, a frequent poster here and author of the LLM python package I use.

I use LLM everyday and it is increasingly something I can't function effectively without. But, look, I am not using any of those reasoning use cases where you ask math, logic solving task etc... Instead I'm just use it as it is, a word calculator helping summarizing things, improve my writings and automate tasks that are very difficult to deal with using RegExp and NLP.

I'm very bullish about this progress in LLM space but not about those reasoning, logic and AGI use cases.
To say Dikembe was an awesome guy is an understatement. It was pretty common to see him around town either at the store or in line at the bank and if you talked to him he was always happy to engage.
Entry price of $150/month just to try it - regardless of volume.

Pretty sure most people will go to whoever has a free tier, and even that space will be competitive.
> Commercial creative workers are vulnerable because there's a billions-of-dollars industry effort to copy their professional output and compete with them selling cheap knock-offs.

I agree there will be winners and losers of some proportion here. But I also think the people that want to pay for art will continue to pay as their motives and values are different. There's plenty of cheap knock-off art, but people still pay premiums for art to support the artist and their work.

As someone else replied to you, it's similar to piracy. The people that pirate were never going to pay in the first place. To tie it back here, the people listening to AI generated <whatever> were never going to pay in the first place - which is why so many podcasts get their money from ads.
You use ******* as a password? That’s all on a single line of the keyboard.
Drugs become generic eventually and costs come down.

Zyprexa, which was mentioned in the article, is almost always prescribed as generic Olanzapine. Cost as of 2024 for generic - 9 USD, brand name 476 USD.
This is one of the least interesting questions to ask LLMs. I wish it wasn't so popular.
>Press F to doubt.

I just tried their best model, Liquid-40B, and it gives some good responses on some questions, but also terrible ones more often than you'd wish (GPT-2 level, try it and you'll see).

It's also quite easy to make it become stuck on a loop.

No idea how they scored so high in those benchmarks. Maybe they overfitted on MMLUPro? Lol.

Edit: I just read on some comments here and on the TFA that, apparently, they're not using transformers at all? If that's true, big if, I take my hat off, this is truly a remarkable achievement.
Maybe. Retargeting is unlikely to create novelty.
> Labor by itself produces no value. Roll a rock up and down a hill and no value is created.

The statement isn't that all labour produces value but that labour is the source of all value. Without labour there's absolutely no way to provide value.

I'd like to know an example of something that produces value without labour, I really cannot come up with one.
actually there is a correlation between height and cancer
Yeah I'm sure handshake politics goes a long way in these neighborhoods often to the detriment of the unsuspecting, unconnected and un-special-interest-group attached renters and owners.

[1]

Protesters Gather at Google Lawyer’s Apartments

https://missionlocal.org/2014/04/protesters-gather-at-google...
sorry, if you can't sell your game without stealing it back 10 years later then you shouldn't be selling it in the first place
What I am seeing is that among Harvard/Stanford grads, being the CEO of a venture backed startup is the highest status. Some of them hate technology and view programming as "low class". But they still go into it, so when they see their peers its something to brag about. They may even stretch the runway as far as possible to maintain the status.

YC is just another brand they can add. It was so odd for me when I first realized this is how it works. And the investors are often just investing based on where they went to school. Real metrics dont come into play until later, during which they have the capital to hire people that actually know what theyre doing.
Hurricane Helene barreled through a crucial chip mining area in North Carolina
Is it possible to get around the authorization requirement if you don't get your app notarized? Obviously that makes it harder to distribute it and to convince people to install it.
You and GP are so cool and enlightened. Please teach me your ways o wise ones.
And yet ... all they have to do is answer it properly.
Funny example. There are languages where sky is kinda green.

Vietnamese: The word "xanh" can refer to both blue and green.

Japanese: Historically, "ao" (青) could refer to both blue and green.

Welsh: "Glas" can mean blue, green, or gray
How do you as a user validate the security of tools like this? I am avoiding many potentially useful tools (e.g. Some Obsidian or Chrome plugins) out of paranoia.

Is there a better way than going through the code or running Wireshark myself? Even these are not bulletproof…

For now, I am resorting to building the simple things for my use myself. The benefit is that its often quite fun.
Have you ever been to a burrito stand? Maybe a Chipotle restaurant? Literally the person assembling a burrito starts with tortilla and they add your meat and ingredients to it. The ingredients come from an array of pans at the counter (aka an enum of choices), and you (the consumer of said burrito) tell the maker what you want a series of "add this" type statements.

I get that cooking is necessary to prepare the ingredients, but once the ingredients are all individually prepared, the cooking is irrelevant to making them into burritos.
"When the compassionate revolution came, he wrote, it would 'mark the termination of the past 50,000-year epic of evolution.'"

This is one of the scariest sentences I think I've read in recent memory. We are living it today.

The problematic sentence is here: "I propose to make an ape out of a rat,"

What intellectuals (in my experience, almost all intellectuals) fail to realize is that they are a tiny sliver of the human population. And they are relatively insular. And they deign to design social frameworks that service only their small, insular sliver of humanity.

Most people have more in common with the ape and the rat than the intellectual. Even the intellectual, though he doesn't know it, is mostly driven by the same motivations as the ape and the rat.

Design a framework that works for single moms, burn out high school football players still reliving the glory days, and people working dead-end jobs squirreling away for their short, dismal retirements.

Every time you try and treat the whole of society like intellectuals, you will create a system the falls short.
I have no idea what this response is supposed to mean. Are you accusing me of being a commie because I am calling out a big startup incubator for being non-compliant, or are you complimenting me for pushing the compliance needle forward by calling this out?

Regardless, the ChatGPT hallucination you posted in complete nonsense, and maybe you should try relying on actual sources rather than asking weird questions of an LLM and acting like they mean anything. Googling the phrase "People like you made the Soviet Union go round" produces zero results, so you are likely the first person ever to use this phrase, which only leads me to believe that you're trying to insult me by calling me a commie.

To that, I strongly recommend calming down and finding a less stupid cudgel to beat things with.
In this case I suspect the stupidity lies with the shipbuilding company. Possibly with the individual welders, but more broadly with management, in the Boeing sense.
Always nice to see updates on marginalia.
I am a photographer with decades of experience, the vast majority of which is studio works.

My wishlist is the exact opposite of your's. I don't need multitouch, couldn't care less for anything wireless, much less automatic uploads and on-device editing. I need physical buttons for everything. The more the better. And I need a manual AF/MF switch badly.
I wasn't really advocating anything, just pointing out that the math works.

Who might pay the $20k of course varies a lot, depending on the health care system.

One thing I've learned over the years is to not try "reading between the lines" to suss out what people are "really saying". It's just too error prone, and you rarely end up communicating.
As someone who had a friend who always had 5-6 nonfunctional mismatched panel type cars spread across their driveway and the frontage of their cul-de-sac I get where people are coming from with this while also hating further encroachment on property rights.
Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
This is an open-source AGPL project: https://github.com/thkruz/keeptrack.space
It is using your GPU. The performance is the combination of web workers, separating the position buffers from the rest of the satellite data, and not using any frameworks. That last one makes it run really smooth, but means I am constantly trying to solve problems that are already solved on threejs - camera controls for example.
Oh, you think THIS is too far?
Conflating Overture Places Using DuckDB, Ollama, Embeddings, and More
API only model, yet trying to compete with only open models in their benchmark image.

Of course it'd be a complete embarrassment to see how hard it gets trounced by GPT4o and Claude 3.5, but that's par for the course if you don't want to release model weights, at least in my opinion.
> longer lasting injectable is often recommended over daily oral meds

Both are recommended. Why? Daily meds are not only effective, but remind the patient that they have an illness that needs daily maintenance, it makes them involved in the treatment. Long acting injectables are added monthly to prevent backslides in case the patient forgets or does not want to take their medicine.
So could one say incels are a result of overpopulation?
People use these models for different reasons.