skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And maybe not, science hasn't gotten there yet. Science is way better than woo at achieving understanding of the universe and its behavior at all scales.

> For example, suppose we discover scientifically that a certain form of brain activity is correlated with the conscious experience of an organism. The physicalist will interpret this as the form of organisation which turns non-conscious physical processes – such as electrical signals between brain cells – into conscious experience, whereas the panpsychist will interpret it as the form of organisation which unifies individual conscious particles into one larger conscious system. Thus we find two very different philosophical interpretations of the same scientific data.
If we can’t work out which view is right with an experiment, how can we choose between them?

Someone with more depth will explain to me why these views can't both be valid at the same time.
Does lab-grown meat really accelerate economic growth?

If they got the cost below meat it would be significant, even if the cost was a little higher people might appreciate environmental and/or health benefits.

Now the cost is orders of magnitude higher. Maybe if we expanded the economy 100x we could afford to eat lab grown meat but not the other way around.

I believe they can get the price down, maybe even by a lot, but even if they do how big of a change is it really?

I was a vegan from 1994-2002 or so but animal husbandry became the family business and now I eat whatever both meat but also protein source I learned from veganism and bodybuilding which include: ideas from Diet for a small planet on home food science and protein combining, Tofu, Tempeh, Seitan, Quorn, Boca Burgers, dry milk powder, whey protein powder (gold standard for athletes but dairy farmers struggle to get rid of the stuff), eggs (a miracle even at pandemic prices), not to mention legumes, pulses, and all sort of lesser known cereals and pseudocereals, etc. Not to mention all sorts of advances in animal husbandry, an omic understanding enough to perfect tissue culture will probably be a boon to conventional meat production.

Produced by the largest, most globalized and competitive (bangladesh vs louisiana for rice!) market in the world.

Assuming somebody makes it work they will have patents that will keep lab grown meat from being as competitive as its competitors for another 15 years. Ho Hum. I don't see why people think Impossible Burgers are so great, I like Boca Burgers just fine.

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These folks have to work harder to make a list of transformative technologies. I'll add one:

Advanced Manufacturing

it is motivated by problems of deglobalization: what if a country like Venezuela could produce everything it needs in its borders at low cost? It is motivated by globalization too because we all need to compete. It is motivated by the CO2 problem, waste problems, pollution problems, lowering costs, improving quality, etc. It is motivated by the need of extended space travel such as Mars colonization, asteroid resources, etc.

Drexler's ideas are an inspiration although his "atom at a time" strategy doesn't seem to work. There are other routes that can be combined such as 3-d printing, synthetic biology, microfluidic chemistry, etc. One goal would be to make a Mars colony self supporting with a minimal population but us flatlanders have the same problem. I mean, a doctor on Mars really wants a drug synthesizer (maybe leaning towards biological and mRNA drugs) but a doctor in Rwanada wants it just as much.

It's great because you don't have to solve the whole problem to be commercially successful, if you can figure out a way to make some family of products better and cheaper than before that turns into $ directly.
Do you know that it’s waxed paper, and not plasticized paper? Genuine question, since I imagine “wax” paper is either plasticized or using petroleum-based waxes.
Some of these investments sound big in absolute terms..
However not that big considering the scale of the investor AND that many of these investors are also vendors.

MSFT/AMZN/NVDA investing in AI firms that then use their clouds/chips/whatever is an interesting circular investment.
Why would you ask that? MIC = Military Industrial Complex. The complex is made of both the industry and the military.
its insane that it predates the emergence of human thinking
"Other videos show the protesters chanting "Long live the Intifada“"

"A masked pro-Palestinian protester was filmed shouting “The final solution is coming your way, the final solution. You know what the final solution is?” at a dozen pro-Israel protesters."
Nice work! In level 5 there are three bounce green boxes and if you fall on one, it bounces you to second, which bounces to third and you "fall into the void" like noclip through the platform and you respawn under it and instantly die forever. Buggy and not going to start from beginning. Open source it!
It's the other way around - you might want a general-purpose model to learn to play chess because e.g. it improves its ability to reason logically in other cases (which has been claimed for humans pretty much ever since chess was invented).

Considering that training models on code seems to improve their abilities on non-coding tasks in actual testing, this isn't even all that far-fetched. Perhaps that is why GPT-3.5 was specifically trained on chess in the first place.
Functional programming

Math

Systems thinking

Machining

Oil-painting
Is this bad or good?
Model-Based Transfer Learning for Contextual Reinforcement Learning
I’ve had the same steel water bottle for over 10 years. Just because you don’t reuse things well doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
Four thousand million dollars. That’s a lot of money.
> Whether a photo or video is real or not will soon be impossible to distinguish,

You're forgetting something. Chain of custody, trust and reputation. The source of an image or video matters as to whether it is considered a reliable representation of reality or not.

We will develop better methods of verifying sources as well, possibly using cryptography and new social networks where members authenticate each other in-person and trust is built up.
Senators Call for Crackdown on VeriSign Monopoly and Predatory Pricing of .com
Same case for startups where Europeans often times move to USA because of more simple regulations/bureaucracy and easier access to capital. But if they can't immigrate to USA then they will be stuck in EU.
> authoritarian parenting style

Because they are on their devices all the time too…
"All diodes are light-emitting at least once"
I haven't heard of this paper, very interesting read! Thank you for bringing it up here. Resonates very well with the (little) experience I have from playing around with CNN-based surrogate models years ago.
ECC is not easy to explain, and sounds like a tautology rather than an explanation "error correction is done with error correction"- unless you give a full technical explanation of exactly what ECC is doing.
To do it prematurely is the biggest sin, to give no thought is the second, and to not be able to do profile code is fatal.
The End of Privacy in Public
If you mean that just like the experiencer in the cave, seeing shadows instead of things (really, things instead of Ideas), the machine sees words instead of things, that would be in a way very right.

But we could argue it could not be impossible to create an ontology (a very descriptive ontology - "this is said to be that, and that, and that...") from language alone. Hence the question whether the ontology is there. (Actually, the question at this stage remains: "How do they work - in sufficient detail? Why the appearance of some understanding?")
Any examples of these one shot generated projects? Github repo?
Unfortunately mineral oil is derived from petroleum. I don’t care if someone says it’s food grade, I wouldn’t want to eat it.
> In so glad your point was that it’s not a scam

Except it sort of is. It needs AI to be hyped and propped up, so that all those silly companies spending in GCP can continue to do so for a wee bit longer.
'Tech stacks' are out, and 'tech sandwiches' are in
That doesn't negate the fact that one (or both) side can use bad or motivated science to justify their positions in a way that is falsifiable.

Questions of if (and how far) the salmon will go up the Klamath or if (and how many) homes will flood are example of this. Where opinions of fact differ, time will demonstrate one side to be right or wrong.

This highlights an inherent asymmetry of these situations. If the people who lose their livelihood are eventually proven right, that will be of little consolation.
If the conservationist are proven proven wrong, it will be of little consequence.

A covid analogy would be non-parents using bad science to support school closure. If they are right, they lower their risk. If they are wrong, it isnt their kids that suffer.
I suggest that our universal resistence to such ideas is the result of a concerted effort upon our minds and hearts to convince us to embrace selfishly ignorant foolishness rather than selflessly wise service.

There is talk here on HN about mathematical reasoning but no one talks about how our systems would affect the Earth differently if we used compassion as our modus operandi instead of for-profit plundering of the Earth for selfish profit. That is because selfishness is our default state -- an animalistic state -- and we must choose to transcend it by self-evolving ourselves beyond our selfishness, and into humanitarian systems that cooperate instead of compete.

If you wish to find out how to know the truth in your own subjectively objective reality, browse my other comments. You have your own internal connection that allows the unlocking of your full human potential. Becoming consumed with compassion is a necessary part of that transformation, but we are each free to choose selfishness, and, indeed, most have and are choosing the selfish path. That selfishness is behind every single atrocity ever perpetrated, as well as the spoiling of the Earth for our future generations. For people that choose to become better, the changes come slowly and with drawbacks, but with all art, perseverance and steady effort to improve is the key to success.

We each have the power to rise above that animal selfishness and instead choose to design societies of compassionate service to one and all. That path of love is our only hopeful path forward.
So uh, don't try to make the jump from the pink elevator to the solitary pink cube on the last level. If you make it, you're stuck there forever! (I thought it would be a skill jump to an easter egg)
This guy is either a time management wizard, or he knows how to delegate very well.
I doubt any of the toddlers purchased a gun.
> We also don't know if there are any hidden warrants for other Israelis

Honest question, are "hidden" warrants a thing at the ICC? Seems like it would be difficult, as the ICC doesn't have an enforcement arm of its own, so I would think warrant information would need to be circulated to all the treaty signers, at which case it would be pretty impossible to keep hidden. I tried searching but couldn't find anything - all the results were just about this Netanyahu situation.
"let this sink in."
I think the article briefly touch on that topic at some point:

> For one, gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct rarely suggests illegal moves, even in the late game. This requires “understanding” chess. If this doesn’t convince you, I encourage you to write a program that can take strings like 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 and then say if the last move was legal.

However, I can't say if LLMs fall in the "statistical AI" category.
> "how to change my vote"

I found this difficult to believe, but it does show up in Google Trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2024-11-05%202...
Yeah. Was not really a world changer as it was claimed to be during hype cycle.

Billion dollar valuation for a conpany in a given space is not as impressive as you think it is. Do I need to mention some high profile companies with stellar valuations that are sort of a joke now? We can work together on this ;)
NaCl predates GCM by some 15 months. But that's an old concern, both are pretty old by now.

NaCl tends to be faster on hardware without AES acceleration.

Go's AES/GCM implementation is not constant time unless the hardware has AES acceleration.
> Therefore, he added, their elevated accident rates likely “reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions.”

In other words, this Tesla person is confirming the no-brainer that the behavior of buying a Muskmobile is not statistically independent of the behavior of being a dickhead on the road.

"Our cars are incredibly safe. It's just that some of the idiots who comprise our customer base are more dangerous."

I don't buy the part about driving conditions, because when you're looking at national level statistics from everywhere, everyone drives the same damn conditions. Conditions can only explain one particular accident. Or a string of accidents at a particular intersection.
I'd say come back here in 3 months.
You just made up a definition of "understand". According to that definition, you are of course right. I just don't think it's a reasonable definition. It's also contradicted by the person I was replying to in the sibling comment, where they argue that Stockfish doesn't understand chess, despite Stockfish of course having the "axioms" modeled and applied correctly 100% of the time.

Here are things people say:

Magnus Carlsen has a better understanding of chess than I do. (Yet we both know the precise rules of the game.)

Grandmasters have a very deep understanding of Chess, despite occasionally making illegal moves that are not according to the rules (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WVJu154F0).

"If AlphaZero were a conventional engine its developers would be looking at the openings which it lost to Stockfish, because those indicate that there's something Stockfish understands better than AlphaZero." (https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/23206/the-games-al...)

> Undergraduate CS homework for playing any game with any technique would probably have the stipulation that any illegal move disqualifies the submission completely. Whining that it works most of the time would just earn extra pity/contempt as well as an F on the project.

How exactly is this relevant to the question whether LLMs can be said to have some understanding of chess? Can they consistently apply the rules when game states are given in pgn? No. _Very_ few humans without specialized training could either (without using a board as a tool to keep track of the implicit state). They certainly "know" the rules (even if they can't apply them) in the sense that they will state them correctly if you ask them to.

I am not particularly interested in "the industry". It's obvious that if you want a system to play chess, you use a chess engine, not an LLM. But I am interested in what their chess abilities teaches us about how LLMs build world models. E.g.:

https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-srw.48/
This should be looked into IMO. The Model S (and X, I think) were celebrated as getting the highest safety marks by a big margin. Either the safety ratings are garbage, Tesla’s manufacturing is substandard, or something else fishy is going on.
do you have a technical writeup somewhere with tips and tricks like these?
I saw a meme before the election that said something to the effect that an election is public transportation, not a marriage proposal. You're not trying to find "the one" with whom you intend to spend the rest of your life. You're just trying to find the bus that goes closest to where you want to go. You don't not take the journey because the bus may make you walk a couple of blocks to get where you're going at the end.
Found this https://fltk.gitlab.io/fltk/basics.html , looks like a good place to start.
I feel the need to reject your point about “obsessing about genitalia” that’s a really fucked up thing to say. Fuck off.
Empirical Bayes is exactly what I was getting at. It's a pragmatic modelling choice, but it loses the theoretical guarantees about uncertainty quantification that pure Bayesianism gives us.

(Though if you have a reference for why empirical Bayes does give theoretical guarantees, I'll be happy to change my mind!)
It preserves HN and LWN as useful forums for purely technical discussions with high signal/noise, basically. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
Butter is, perhaps, a bit sticky for that, but my local co-op has various bulk grains and flour and beans and such that customers can bring their own containers for.
Two gangs: the cribs and the Luvs.
They certainly need the money, not sure how many users will pay for monthly subscription.
Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine portends new era of warfare
You might have some luck with a spectrum analyzer app[1]. A fixed-pitch whine should show up as a line on the waterfall graph. If you move the phone around to differently locations, you might see the line getting stronger or weaker. You can also try rotating the phone to different orientations to see if it is coming from a particular direction.

I used this to locate an annoying squeal coming from some equipment at work once. And to confirm that it wasn't imaginary.

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[1] On Android, I like these two:

Spectroid (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.intoorbit....). If you use this, consider turning on the waterfall display in the settings.

Spectral Audio Analyzer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=radonsoft.net....). This has more color options for the waterfall display.
> it's absurd to think Egypt didn't have control over their own border

Why do you hold this opinion? Israel literally controls the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, and has bombed it several times. If Egypt and Gaza agreed to let anything pass, there's a good chance Israel would bomb it again.

Also, "[nationality/ethnic group of people] have a history of terrorism" is racist.
I wonder why TCC was chosen? As far as I am aware, the code it produces contains hardly any optimisations. It's not like simple, optimizing C compilers don't exist
Why does the title here have a question mark?
Which makes it even more impressive: he sold more based off of popularity in one continent, versus a band that was presumably popular worldwide.
I am also exceptional in many ways, (some of them negative), and some of this is clearly inherited and likely genetic. I share too many innate strengths with my father and, to a lesser extent, my siblings to disagree with this. But I just don't know how you could preclude developmental factors like "when you started reading as a child", "what sort of puzzles and games you played as a child", "lack of trauma as a child", etc.
It depends on the intent.

If I want to learn about a culture and language, an objective translation is what I want. E.g. I want to learn the idioms of the time and place, not have them changed by the whim of the translator to something similar but perhaps changing the intent

If I want to persuade or illuminate the topic, then by all means a more approachable translation with modern idiom is more useful.

An example I know of is, an early Dolby cassette recording from a Japanese source had the marketing copy "Smells of the lamp of high technology!" Which is meaningless, even humorous to a Westerner. Not good marketing copy.

But I enjoyed learning something of Japanese culture. That things could 'smell of' something as a way of imagining them.
Ask HN: How do you manage ideas, tasks, notes and other stuff?
Here's link to a previus thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282569 I encountered.

But in the last 10 years a lot has changed, new apps, new tools, new research and new ideologies have surfaced. I'd like to know how you actually manage alot of things.

Personally being a 20 year founder I find this very hard and miss a lot of things because of unorganized management.
What? Obviously it doesn't.
typing, she got very frustrated with the voice
Very nice intro and product ? Did you use your own product to launch your own product:) ?
I'm worried that I might run out of upvotes to give you ever since that "can't we all just get along" comment :-)
We did this and our girls enjoyed them, but I found it doesn't really teach much. It's mostly a "can you follow simple instructions" task.

I feel like having them complete simple breadboarding / soldering projects where they are actually seeing how things work at a pretty low level and developing a physical skill was more valuable - or get them going on simple Rasp Pi projects if they have an interest in programming.
I think where you might lose some of the uninitiated in this post is in introducing the term "operator" without definition or illustration
Enslaved on OnlyFans: Women describe lives of isolation and torture
... it's five times older than thought
/me raises hand as someone seriously considering it.
And unless I'm mistaken C++ 26 gets std::optional<T&> with the preferred representation (ie it's the same size as T& like with Rust's Option<&T> and &T pairing) and the ergonomics are no worse than you'd expect for C++
Many high-level politicians and businessmen are surprisingly able to attain top levels at sport and other competitions, perhaps due to the same overwhelming virtue that vaults them to the top of society in the first place.

Chairman Mao famously swam the Yangtse river in a record-breaking time outpacing top-level athletes, when he was in his seventies. Donald Trump is another incredible senior athlete, recently winning a championship against a much younger field in a tournament at his Palm Beach golf course. Kim Jong Il, the former North Korean leader, is perhaps the most impressive of all - he is said to have made 5 holes-in-one during his very first attempt at golf.
What are you concerned about? Kent's continuous, repeated assholery got flagged up to the CoC committee, who took appropriate action.

This is why we have CoCs. This is why we need CoCs.
3 minutes 25 seconds here
Thanks for the explanation, I wish all good!
Promoting to anything other than a queen is rare, and I expect the next most common is to a knight. Promoting to a bishop, while possible, is going to be extremely rare.
UT System makes undergraduate tuition free for families with less than $100K AGI
You can add the Scottish example to the other list of years I'd already given, there was no sense of the US genuinely "leading" on that when I'd already said 1772 and 1799 — the point was simply that the 1807 act was also not much of a sign of genuine leadership.

The UK government was basically forced to do what it did thanks to campaigns against slavery, not because the politicians themselves were fully on board with it; and even more recently, despite how "we ended slavery"
has become as much part of the national identity as "The" Magna Carta, the conversation about the Edward Colston statue in Bristol wasn't as one-sided as the conversation about the Jimmy Saville statue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Edward_Colston
This works brilliantly, right up to the point where your A side fails, and every single server suddenly doubles their demand on B.

Better have good capacity management so you don't go over 100% on B when that happens! (I've seen it happen and take a DC out).