skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It almost seems like extortion

The instincts you have about privacy today are inappropriate for back then. It's hard to get to your mind around the difference sending an email, or making a phone call, or sending an SMS to anyone in the world being nearly free makes.

Back then in most countries even a local phone call cost a couple of dollars in today's money. Interstate and international phone calls had background 30 second beeps to remind you dollars were being poured down the phone line.

The effect of spam is obvious - there wasn't any. But you probably aren't thinking about the other end of the scale - what was an upcoming phone call worth to you? The answer to that is almost unimaginable in today's world - receiving a random international phone call is almost certainly worth the interruption many times over. That meant having your name, address and phone number published in a directory was definitely worth it. It was worth it to the phone company too, of course, because it increased the usage their network. So they provided the listing for free. It was a win, win for everyone.

To get a feel for how much it's changed consider the yellow pages. Businesses paid huge sums to the phone companies to get their phone numbers listed in other places in addition to the free one. The value of every phone call they got made it worth the money. Now I struggle to get to find the the phone numbers of many companies. It seems they go out of their way to hide it. That's the difference the price of a phone call feeling to zero makes.
> but what laptop did you have before that would overheat that much during normal usage?

That's pretty much all Intel laptops I've owned since 2007.
There's plenty of sources out there for definitions. Most of them say 65 and almost all of the rest say 60.

You go directly from middle aged to elderly, there isn't a step in between. Being elderly can cover a very wide range of years.
Here's one I like that shows all the branches sorted by date, most recent commit hash, branch name, time ago, and user who committed, in color.

alias git.branches="git for-each-ref --color=always --sort=-committerdate refs/heads refs/remotes --format='%(authordate:short) %(color:red)%(objectname:short) %(color:yellow)%(refname:short)%(color:reset) (%(color:green)%(committerdate:relative)%(color:reset)) %(authorname)'"

Bonus one for contributing to open source projects outside of work hours:

alias git-future-commit='git commit --date "$(date -v +7H)"'\n
Russia sells oil to india, buys rice. Russia sends rice to korea, buys people and ammunition. How is India not funding russian war efforts?
Perhaps I've made a big assumption / oversimplification about how this works. But..

> LLMs are stateless and they do not remember the past (as in they don't have a database), making the training data a non-issue here

Yes. I never said they were stateful? The context given is the state. And training data is hugely important. Once upon a time there was a guy that claimed ChatGPT could simulate a command line shell. "Simulate" ended up being the wrong word. "Largely hallucinate" was a more accurate description. Shell commands and sessions were for sure part of the training data for ChatGPT, and that's how it could be prompted into largely hallucinating one. Same deal here with "election activities" I think.

> Therefore, the claims made here in this paper are not possible because the simulation would require each agent to have a memory context larger than any available LLM's context window. The claims made here by the original poster are patently false.

Well no, they can always trim the data put into the context. And then the agents would start "forgetting" things and the "election activities" would be pretty badly "simulated".

Honestly, I think you're right that the paper is misleading people into thinking the system is doing way more than it actually is. But you make it sound like the whole thing is made up and impossible. The reality is somewhere in the middle. Yes they set up hundreds of agents, they give the agents data about the world, some memory of their interactions, and some system prompt to say what actions they can perform. This led to some interesting and surprising behaviours. No, this isn't intelligence, and isn't much more than a fancy representation of what is in the model weights.
So that's why we need to describe the problem as dealing with poverty instead of income inequality. You solve income inequality by dragging the top down. You fix poverty by bringing the bottom up
Points for originality, but it does seem a little complicated. I did something like this about six months ago, but in HTML, CSS, and zsh. As a next step, try testing your output with a free ATS parser.
Well at least the good news is that we aren't doing anything mad like hinging large sectors of the economy to the commercial viability of the technology, and it isn't too energy intens...ive...

Oh.
What about government services that only take cash ?

Private transactions of a non-criminal nature ?

Legal wagers made in casinos ?

Your imagination is lacking my friend.
People had a "little black book" with phone numbers of romantic interests. club and bar bathrooms had phone numbers etched into the stalls. Songs about fake phone numbers ruled the day like 867-5309/Jenny
>You can decide that that's the ending you'd like to have.

Ah yes, yet another person who prattles "Anything other than `100% Russia gives up everything and Putin shoots himself in shame` = `RUZZIA AND PUTLER WIN!!!1!!!!!` Anyone saying anything else = Vatnik!!1!1!!". Straw man, indeed.

>But I don't see a point in pretending that it would be "best for Ukraine", or rule of law in the international sphere generally.

Let me repeat: It is not up to Ukraine to decide! It is up to Russia on one side of a negotiating table, and Ukraine and its sponsors on the other.

Let us not pretend that for you "best for Ukraine" is, and only is, something not too far from what you claim are my "straw man" of your goals. Or that of the hordes of Redditards who still haven't noticed that after 2.5 years of incessant posts on /r/worldnews and a dozen other subreddits on how Ukraine is beating back vatniks every single day, Russians are somehow still fighting on what is legally Ukrainian territory. (The same goes for Russian propaganda that has claimed for its domestic audience for the past 2.5 years that its anti-fascist forces are daily crushing Ukrainian Nazis left, right, and center.)
You can get exactly that experience with the current hardware. Just set the screen resolution to a 16:10 one.
Why is Mustard Oil Banned in US and Europe? [video]
I think the web chat history is separate from API use, so you can't combine them. OpenAI claims not to retain a history of your API queries and responses.

For organizing LLM chat logs in Emacs, there are many solutions. Here are a few:

As a basic solution, chats are just text buffers/files, so you can simply store your conversations in files in a single directory. You can then see them in dired etc -- and they are ripgrep-able, can be integrated into Org-roam or your choice of knowledge management system.

If you use Org mode, you can have branching conversations in gptel where each path through the document's outline tree is a separate conversation branch. This way you can explore tangential topics while retaining the lineage of the conversation that led to them, while excluding the other branches. This keeps the context window from blowing up and your API inference costs (if any) down.

If you use Org mode, you can limit the scope of the conversation to the current heading by assigning a topic (gptel-set-topic). This way you can have multiple independent conversations in one file/buffer instead of one per buffer. (This works in tandem with the previous solution.)

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Tools tend to compose very well in Emacs. So there are probably many other solutions folks have come up with to organize their LLM chat history. For instance, any feature to handle collections of files or give you an outline/ToC view of your Markdown/Org documents should work well with the above -- and there are dozens of extensions like these.
It's also the address Companies House gives for him when he was a Director of his business:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

("doxxing" directors, particularly in the UK, is pretty straight forward.)
As the old Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" concluded: "It's a business plan! A business plan!..."
And systemd replace all POSIX init system because they were all bad or systemd do the same thing better or faster, your point is a good argument against following POSIX religiously
You can imagine a conversation with an LLM getting to that territory pretty quickly if you pretend to be an unfair tax collector. It sounds impressive on the surface, but in the end it's all LLMs talking to each other, and they'll enit whatever completions are likely given the context.
Putin says he consulted with Tsar Nicholas II and Catherine the Great.
In Putin's view, Russia should re-establish the old Russian empire of the 19th century.
Author here—Two reasons, mainly. HTML+CSS is a great layout engine, and Eleventy is a good tool for making development more pleasant. While I have a lot of experience using other tools, e.g., LaTeX, I think they're not as well suited to laying out simple documents.
If the change is small enough, it wouldn't contain any original literary expression, as required to be copyrightable, and would be automatically in the public domain. Especially if there's only one way to make the change, you can't rewrite it some other way while preserving the intent.
Okay, I'll bite.

What kind of problems do you have with the part of systemd that replicates sysvinit /every other day/?
As someone who has a very high end car (ie 2.3 seconds 0 to 60 and that's with what others claim is, um, 'acceleration lag' and a standing stop (ie not the way Tesla apparently does it) in almost all driving you don't go around trying to zip from a complete start. In fact it's actually dangerous to do so (on a consistent basis). (My other car has a respectable 0 to 60 of about 4.3 and I don't do anything like that either). When I drive my wife's car (0 to 60 8 seconds) it fees fine simply because there is no reason to rip from a stop light except in edge cases.

That said the fabulous acceleration is either for special occasions (when other cars are not around and you want a buzz) or in some emergency situation where you need the extra power.
Considering how Bitcoin's price has been manipulated in the past and how concentrated it is in the hands of a small cabal of whales and miners, this is total bullshit.
> In what sense does OpenBSD have most of the base OS sandboxed?

They're talking about pledge. https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2
It creates a massive conflict of interest for the company executives and favors short-term profits vs long-term sustainability of the company.
Author here—This is fair criticism, but _for me_, the overhead of a simple static site generator is worth all the benefits I get from being able to e.g., separate my data from my styles and so on.
Some decent commentary here: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1giwi4s/why_chi...

We had a few days ago an article on a similar subject, but just the rise of China in terms of over all tech. Someone made a comment about how Zuckerberg must have taken notice that the field of AI is being pushed forward by both teams of developers and research publications being composed of entirely Sino-ethnic people. At the very least, the teams at Meta. I don’t have a dog in that race so to me it’s just a curiosity.
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I'm Australian, that screenshot is from the State election in South Australia, it is an example of how the Upper House ballot paper looks, it is similar in my state New South Wales.

The vertical columns (labelled as Group A to E in screenshot) divide up the political parties. The Greens will be one column, Labor Party another, Liberal Party another column and so on.

There are two horizontal rows separated by a thick line.

You can choose to either vote "above the line" or "below the line" but not both methods.

Above the line is used if you would like to vote based upon the wishes of a political party and below the line is used for "finer grained" voting for individual persons.

For example the Labor party might have 3 Candidates "Fred", "Mary" and "Bob" if I vote above the line I can put a 1 next to the Labor party and then the Labor party's wishes will determine how my vote is distributed.

Or if I Vote below the line I must number 12 different people in the order I want them to be chosen. So I could number Bob from Labor first, Peggy from the Greens second, then Fred from Labor third and so on and I exert exact control over how I want my preferences to be distributed.

edit:
Our elections are staggered, The State parliament is elected on different day to the Federal Parliament, which is different to Local City Council elections.
Adding IPv6 to My Home Network (2024-11-03)
This is level 1 thinking. Go a bit deeper buddy, you can do it!
It’s effectively impossible to assign a button to every thing.

My 95B.2 Macan: "Hold my bier and watch this..."

(Naturally, many of the 90+ buttons were gone with the next facelift, which is why the old one is still in my garage.)
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rejecting capitalism doesn't equal embracing communism -- esp not communism as implemented in Russia and China

the main reason why the US became the uncontested power of the 20th century was WW1 and WW2

the socialist policies implemented by FDR saved the capitalism by making it less capitalist
Russia is similarly worried about the expansive flatland past the Dnipro river.

Except it's not - its current regime just pretends to be, for internal and external propaganda purposes. Ditto for NATO encroachment. It's just a bogeyman, nothing more.

The sibling comment encapsulates the regime's true motives quite succinctly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42037594
Or set them out to lose some moisture for a few hours prior to roasting. Otherwise they are prone to steaming
Ham radio enthusiasts who help keep the NYC Marathon running smoothly
Can it effectively be used as a TTS model?
I've been doing this for a while and find that the OCR performance is fantastic.
Nope. It does work. Most of the time if the developers are qualified they are able to give decent estimate for how long assuming the task is clear enough.
I can't say I know the difference, but I imagine the Japanese and Korean rices aren't like the 'boil in a bag' stuff Americans eat at home that I'm comparing it too.
Thats a weird question, every embedded system that is a consumer product will end up with limited RAM simply because less RAM is a $1 saved on the BOM. For most systems, RAM is a choice, and for many of them someone will ask at the end "how much can we get away with".

(Your WiFi router probably has 256 or 512 MB of RAM)
Ah yes, yet another person who says ...

Absolutely no one here is saying that.
I think the misunderstanding is a bit of missing context from the original comment. I read it as “one of my favorite trigraphs [that I have seen]”. Their comment didn’t make a claim to using said trigraph, just that they had seen it somewhere and thought it was interesting.

Your comments seem to suggest your reading was “one of my favorite trigraphs [to use is]”, which is understandable as a valid interpretation.

The whole of this chain of comments is a misunderstanding on the original comment’s ambiguity.
You sir, are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Mathematica. Usefully homoiconic with an underlying compute model of "get AST, pattern-match-and-replace within in, repeat until fixed point".
The moment I realized this was now a table-stakes feature for a GUI OS, for me, was when I’d been reading and copy-pasting from an image for a couple minutes before realizing it wasn’t a PDF.
Is this the reasoning that is borne out the best interests for USA (and the world) or just an emotional backlash to "stick it to the man"?

We're not living in a playground with rounded corners, sometimes there are bad choices and there are even worse choices. You might feel moral indignation at the bankers who "got away" with the GFC, but is the feeling of moral satisfaction worth realizing a second Great Depression and potentially WW3 to come out of it?

The GFC happened due to the improper conduct by ratings agencies that gave subprime loans much higher credit status than should have gotten, overloading banks with toxic CDO assets that lead to a major systemic risk once the housing bubble popped. 10 years later, perhaps the executives got away with "golden parachutes", but we're not dealing with exotic derivatives much anymore, the biggest bubbles are just in pure hype stocks or index funds, whose risks are very much anticipated and do not pose a unknown systemic risk poised for incorrection. So I would argue that lessons were learnt.
Evil but might actually work ... I am now worried about you ...
> none of them actually fit what OP asked for

I highly doubt that. It's just they are the type of apps no one knows about because a developer will throw a TODO app together over a weekend then not support, market it, or abandon the server after a couple years. As I personally experienced at least twice over the years.

If you ask GPT they recommend these that fit the criteria (among quite a few others):

https://2doli.st/ <- this was on HN a year ago with the same headline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38091771

https://moartodo.com/

https://flask.io/
You mean like <style stc="./CV.css">?

I mean I personally would use a static site generator too, but objectively speaking: for a single page (no navigation, not printed page)... It really is overkill
Check out the Thermonator robot on this site:

https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/
Exactly, I don't really see the point of migrating off Heroku unless you have scaled beyond it (in which case you are successful anyway) or are simply chasing distractions.

For us, Heroku allows us to focus on the product and simply ship features which brings revenue and keeps everyone happy; it may not be sexy right now but it sure as heck is mature and stable with lots of integrations.

Salesforce might eventually end up completely dismantling it but I'm hoping by that time other players can catch up.
Here is our version we did about a year ago: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10910
my mind was blown by how many times he said mind blown.

also, what happened to opalang that he mentioned? iirc i read about it back in the day.
Reminds me of some rental cars I had over the years (Buck being my favorite). I couldn't imagine anybody actually trying to drive the car before releasing. They were so bad.
> Communism is so terrible as a system of government that the U.S. has seen fit to forcefully intervene every time it’s been attempted.

not exactly

the US and communist Russia were allies in WW2; the US did intervene in Korea and Vietnam but that was about maintaining a global edge over Russia -- Americans didn't give a fuck about whether it was good or bad for the people of Vietnam

Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan were communist.

Chile and Nicaragua are examples of when the US intervened to overthrough a democratically elected communist government.
It is not like crime depends on cash. Panama papers, tax paradises etc.

Cash enables some illegal activity, but at least for me the benefits FAR outweight the obvious consequences
This is a VERY clear sign your days there are numbered. Remember you will often loss 15 to 30 percent if you let them fire you verses finding a new job.

The groups merging is like a corporate merge, or buy out. The people bought out are at risk. I have so many stories but not the time.
There is no shortage of long talks that lack nuance. Just say that no, you can't effectively summarize this video, instead of doing whatever it is that you are doing here.
Bitcoin is a bad store of value because there is no value.

If you look at Bitcoin as in game tokens, but one where tokens are given away to people who prove they have burned cash, you see it is a negative sum system.

Even Gold as store of value is questionable. It is a commodity. But we are entering naked empiror territory and I will avoid that hill.

Back to Bitcoin: it is basically a bet on mass adoption. If that mass adoption doesn't happen it is a ponzi. If it does the price should stabilize, even then not sure if it is a store of value.

Disclaimer. I actually own some.
It's definitely overkill! Fun, though :)
Yes. Throw it the hell out.
> LLMs are stateless and they do not remember the past (as in they don't have a database), making the training data a non-issue here.

That's not what they said. They said that a LLM knows what elections are, which suggests they could have the requisite knowledge to act one out.

> Therefore, the claims made here in this paper are not possible because the simulation would require each agent to have a memory context larger than any available LLM's context window. The claims made here by the original poster are patently false.

No, it doesn't. They aren't passing in all prior context at once: they are providing relevant subsets of memory as context. This is a common technique for language agents.

> Agentic systems are not well-suited to achieve any of the things that are proposed in the paper, and Generative AI does not enable these kinds of advancements.

This is not new ground. Much of the base social behaviour here comes from Generative Agents [0], which they cite. Much of the Minecraft related behaviour is inspired by Voyager [1], which they also cite.

There isn't a fundamental breakthrough or innovation here that was patently impossible before, or that they are lying about: this combines prior work, iterates upon it, and scales it up.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442

[1]: https://voyager.minedojo.org/
You can disable your Internet connection after the game has loaded.
Operating a heavy, dangerous piece of machinery in the field without learning how to operate it first is most certainly the operator’s fault.

BS. The only reason this example is dangerous is because the manufacturer changed things for no reason -- things that were working just fine.

See also the death of Anton Yelchin, which occurred because some "UX designer" was bored with the way gearshifts had worked since his or her grandmother learned to drive: https://www.cochranfirm.com/washington-dc/star-trek-actor-ki...