skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do we understand the mechanisms of this "genetic memory" (my words, no idea if its accurate or if there is a better word for it)?

It’s not actually a memory that gets encoded in genes.

It’s a tendency to behave in certain ways as influenced by combinations of genes

Ancestors who had the same tendencies, drives, and preferences would have some similar behaviors, resulting in some of them going toward the same places.

So not an actual memory that gets inherited, more like personality traits (but in a more general sense) that lead to similar outcomes.

There is a field of epigenetics which studies heritable changes in cells that occur without DNA alteration, but these signals are much simpler than memories and not a mechanism for carrying memories across generations. A lot of pseudoscience has been written around epigenetics right now so you have to be careful about where you source info on this.
Access to legacy Megascans has been reactivated
In an email sent by the Quixel team, it reads:

"Hi,

Many of our community members were justifiably frustrated that Bridge was replaced by an alternative that did not meet their needs. We heard your feedback and decided to bring back the option to get Megascans content via Bridge and Quixel.com. This should allow you to build up your own library of Megascans in Bridge and on Quixel.com, so you can later on enjoy it via the Bridge workflows you know and love.

Starting today, legacy Megascans library acquisitions are again available through Bridge and Quixel.com until December 31, 2024. Anything that you claim until the end of the year you can use immediately and continue to use after January 1, 2025. You can now claim the legacy Megascans library for free under the Epic Content License and we will offer a one-click solution to claim all the assets at once next week."
I hit the same thing. It killed me while I was dropping into the hole, then respawned me into the block, ending my game.
Salmon were not still breeding there, this is the first return in over 100 years.

October of this year:

> a fall-run Chinook salmon was identified by ODFW’s fish biologists in a tributary to the Klamath River above the former J.C. Boyle Dam, becoming the first anadromous fish to return to the Klamath Basin in Oregon since 1912 when the first of four hydroelectric dams was constructed, blocking migration.

https://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2024/10_Oct/101724.asp
Helpful, thank you for sharing.
Does the medicine expire quickly? Or does the cost of storing it/administer it differ from other medicine?

Hospital profit margins don’t seem particularly high (~10%).

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/HCA/hca-healthcare...

The other publicly listed company I could find is Tenet, which doesn’t do so well:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/THC/tenet-healthca...

> Why the high price? One explanation is that hospitals can — and do — mark up products to balance overhead costs and generate revenue.

This is something all businesses do. Some products/services are sold at higher margin than other products/services, for a variety of reasons.

Edit: CHS is the other large publicly listed hospital company, also has very low profit margins.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CHSCP/chs-inc/prof...
Sure, security expectations for a demo are ~0, but “everyone can see everyone else’s inputs” is surprising even by demo standards
Advancing urban tree monitoring with AI-powered digital twins
Molly White: Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending [video]
Sophisticated would be fileless with persistence through flashing of some firmware code, but those aren't gonna be uploaded randomly on virustotal lmao
Interactive post on OKLCH color space
James Webb Space Telescope spots first 'Einstein Zig-zag'
I would just say to implement it as an optional field or make "I don't know" the first in the list
Traditional barns are damn dangerous. My family's old (1 1/2-ish centuries ago) wisdom about community barn-raisings is that you'll average one worker killed or permanently disabled per barn that is raised.
Thank you for your criticism and correction. I feel ashamed for rushing the website online and making obvious mistakes.

I am beginning to address these issues.
Your summary is fine. That's different from what the OP of this thread posted.
Thank you! It was a lot of work but I think it makes a difference.
That will be 5 $ more per butterstick, for the logistics of reusable porcelain butter packages.. which have to be collected, washed and shipped. Which makes it a rich people feel good status-symbol luxury, sadly.
It is possible to create realistic images and videos with AI, making anyone do anything. Whether a photo or video is real or not will soon be impossible to distinguish, and it won't matter to those who want to cause harm
Nice! Love the pics. A bit of a giggle but, yes.. a week of Odin and pretty happy.

Maybe I no longer have a soul?
Building personal assistant could be beneficial to Mozilla based on how much we do online. I would like to track changes to my beliefs based on how I came across new information. In future, the AI could automatically shorten paragraphs in essays about topics or terms I am already aware of while keeping new concepts introduced in it full expanded so that I grok them better.
The author either didn't read the hacker news comments last time, or he missed the top theory that said they probably used chess as a benchmark when they developed the model that is good at chess for whatever business reasons they had at the time.
Also there are spots from which you can fall that lock you in a revival loop.

https://imgur.com/a/L5PV0HX

I am very sure scrolling is related to popups when you roll over popup points.
What drove that choice over Unreal?
I'm not surprised, and frankly this has been happening in the US for years. Every time some guy goes apeshit with an AR-15, we chalk it up to "mental illness", but it looks more like "revenge on society" to me.

Likewise election results that incumbent parties didn't see coming, but might have if their reason was not clouded by complacency and groupthink.
Why does an LLM have to be better than you to be useful to you?

Personally, I use them for the things they can do, and for the things they can't, I just don't, exactly as I would for any other tool.

People assuming they can do more than they are actually capable of is a problem (compounded by our tendency to attribute intelligence to entities with eloquent language, which might be more of a surface level thing than we used to believe), but that's literally been one for as long as we had proverbial hammers and nails.
Ah, thanks. I'll have to try it out. Gentoo lets me just drop patches into /etc/portage/dev-lisp/sbcl/ and run emerge on it again. And I'll probably run the test suites on these packages to be sure they're actually working rather than just built.
brouter web with hiking profile.

https://brouter.de/essbee/

Select it in in upper left menu - then fine tune the script on the right.
How did you assemble Rapier colliders from GLTFs?
A lot of the dam removal pressure is activist not scientific - people who have come to believe dams are evil because they aren’t natural. Some of it is cultural - with upstream tribal lands where people cannot practice traditional life or activities like fishing without returning fish each season. Some of it is practical - we don’t do a good job maintaining old dams and new replacement projects are expensive. But I do worry that the new dam removal movement is sacrificing renewable energy and flood control and navigable rivers for little gain, when they could find solutions that keep the dams and help upstream environments.

Well designed ladders work efficiently. Fish don’t have to over exert themselves, make jumps (actual leaps to the next step) no bigger than they would naturally (with no dam), and have lots of resting spaces across the ladder where they can regain energy in gentle waters before continuing swimming and jumping upstream. They slowly gain elevation moving across spacious concrete tiers until they reach either a natural release point upstream enough that the strong flow into the dam doesn’t take them, or they end up in a hatchery.

I feel like hatcheries are underrated. Sure the upstream habitats are not the same without the fish and associated ecosystem. But if you have the right equipment, staffing, funding, and all that (basically a good government) the hatcheries could be made to churn out more fish than would be naturally possible. That’s because the trip upstream naturally is hard and many fish won’t make it anyways.
L-systems were proposed for music even earlier. Here's a link to an article from 1986: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/score-generatio...

It definitely is not a glorified PRNG. The idea is that you can create patterns that have both variety and repetition with them. I don't like the results, generally, but they are not random.
For those who want to cause harm (discredit), they don't need a real photo; AI is enough
Crime and Punishment, obviously.

But he was a russian empire/orthodoxy apologist through and through, except for a brief period early on (which earned him the gulag).
I don't think Israel is innocent by any means, their hands are dirty here obviously.

I'm just trying to think out loud about a different way forward, and I tried to highlight my bias.

I haven't seen a serious plan put forward for peace, and maybe the problem is not solvable.
Optimization: not everyone has a super fast computer and a super fast internet connection. Too much is wasted there.
I used to occasionally babysit a couple of kids when I was a teenager. Babysitting wasn't really anything I had much interest in, but I would do it for this family. I couldn't wait to get the kids to bed, so that I could fire up Sundog on the family's Atari ST.
In the event that happens, and I'd not be surprised, I'd still expect him to remain just as popular with readers.
I think the "at times" refers to periods of times, have multiple lovers at end of the 1800s and find yourself described as absolutely irredeemable.
It’s like the doctor saying, “you have cancer? Oh you don’t? Just kidding. Parkinson’s. Oh it’s not that either? How about common cold?”
Oh, great. Van Eck phreaking is back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
I've been using it for a long time now and the honeymoon period hasn't ended. I do understand what you're saying, but luckily I keep it pretty simple with a standalone tw executable and no node.js or complicated frameworks, so I have been able to avoid these pitfalls.

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/standalone-cli
Tiny Glade? https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/Tiny_Glade/
I've been enjoying the quality and aesthetics of your studio's work. I would love for you to build a complete game or a longer experience, rather than only for marketing. I love where art and programming intersect. I would love to be able to create experiences like this myself one day.
I’m with you on this. Found some tasty water? Swim towards it. It gets tastier the further we go? Keep going.
GA4 is like a free trial offering to upscale to Looker and google cloud products(paid)
Show HN: AI Makes Calls for You–Appointments, Reservations, Customer Service
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For all that the author doesn’t like exotic crypto, this seems like the sort of problem that the sort of fancy cryptography that the Ethereum folks love would actually be appropriate for. The goals are, approximately:

1. There exists a log, and the log follows certain rules, and everyone agrees on a summary of the log from which log entries can be validated and from which the fact that the log follows the rules can be validated.

2. One can validate a record without retrieving the whole log.

3. Appends can be done, and new summaries generated, without access to some of the entries.

Cryptocurrency, as far as I know, does not care about #3, whereas this project does. But maybe similar sorts of exotic crypto could generate a stronger form of shredding: a scheme where deleted PII only persists in the form of a constant or logarithmic size ever changing summary. It’s a bit hard to argue that, say, 10kb of data contains PII from a million users.
Seems like the ball is 0.5m in diameter, if you treat single wireframe texture tile as 1m. Gravity seems to be correct for the ball of this size (although linear dampening aka air resistance is quite high).

I think this is intentional, since higher gravity/smaller ball would significantly raise difficulty.
This is a bunch of pseudoscience that isn't proven by anything at all and isn't peer reviewed either
Yes – into the sandbox of this particular site (and limited to non-HTTPS-mandatory browser APIs at that).

If that's a big threat vector, I feel like the much bigger risk would be visiting malicious sites, not a local or ISP located attacker injecting stuff into benevolent-but-HTTP-only ones.
The second variant (test -v) for me doesn't error out, but also doesn't write the /tmp/pwnd file, which tells me there is no subscript eval there.
Bullets don't have the outward appearance of flight. They follow the motion of projectiles and look it. Finding the distinction is trivial.

The look up table is the same. It will fall apart with numbers above 100. That's the distinction.

People need to start bringing up the supposed distinction that exists with LLMs instead of nonsense examples that don't even pass the test outlined.
GA4 is a lot more powerful than Plausible, plus we charge per site and not page views. If you want to self host than yes you can choose whatever OS tool you want.
By the same reasoning if you train a neural net to output next action from the output of the autoencoder then the whole system also has a "world model", but if you accept that definition of "world model" then it is extremely weak and not the intelligence-like capability that is being implied.

And as I said in my original comment they are probably not even able to extract the board state very well, otherwise they would depict some kind of direct representation of the state, not all of the other figures of board move causality etc.

Note also that the board state is not directly encoded in the neural network: they train another neural network to find weights to approximate the board state if given the internal weights of the Othello network. It's a bit of fishing for the answer you want.
"Everyone doesn't have to know everything" is a great sentiment.

I often think about https://xkcd.com/1053/ and how it's broadly misinterpreted: the point isn't that we should accelerate the education of everyone (at least on things of non-vital import), the point is that it's mutually fun to actually have the experience of sharing with a single person or a small community. And of course, as the XKCD says, it's important to do this freely and without judging the learner... but that freedom to share often exists precisely because the knowledge remains obscure.

If we don't like the commodification of the "inside joke" into a mere vehicle for advertising, as so much of culture in the age of algorithmic video feeds is becoming... then we need to let spaces and knowledge be obscure sometimes!
The visual of Radix LSD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures#Least_sign... ) was quite interesting!
What do you do with the data you collect, and why should anybody let you do so?

How does anybody know you won't sell this information or "share" it with "partners"?

Will you say "Judicial warrant or GTFO" if Uncle Sam shows up with a subpoena or a national security letter and demands records?

If my wife and I were in our twenties or thirties, we wouldn't want to use something like this to make appointments with her OB/GYN lest the information be used to police her over healthcare in which neither the state or God Himself has any legitimate interest.

I know that sounds paranoid. I'd agree if the US wasn't looking at another Trump administration and at least two years of Republican control of Congress.

This app is inherently untrustworthy given the political climate.
I think it's a chemical structure reacting to an energetic stimulus.
Or you know, supermarkets would purchase 50kg blocks of butter and fraction it, clients would then be responsible for bringing their own reusable containers.
Nice. I too wish I had infinite money to throw at otherwise creaky solutions for texlive installations. ;) I found out that one of gentoo's docbook packages in base (stage3) currently contains a high-rated CVE from an old bundled .jar file. It's not the end of the world™ because it's not a RCE, but it's kind of bad™ having old, vulnerable stuff included.
We have also posted 2 weeks ago that we have Web version available:
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Sneaky paywall hidden below the fold.
Thanks and sorry you got stuck, we made our best effort to prevent these situations from happening but apparently they still do.
> Rupert Sheldrake speaks of this when he says that the genetic code's protein construction genes do not and can not account for the resulting organism's shape.

> That interrelationship is similar to the "memory" that creatures such as salmon have, which is intrinsic to their entire being, not just their physical body, which is only half of our being's totality.

This is all pseudoscience and borderline religious thinking. Rupert Sheldrake and others pushing this line of thinking are not grounded in reality or science.

I’m surprised this is the most upvoted sub comment at the time I’m responding. Is pseudoscience like this really becoming so pervasive that comments like this pass as good information?
If you can't find a use for the best LLMs it is 100% a skill issue. IF the only way you can think to use them is re-factoring complex java codebases you're ngmi.
Beautiful work, well done.
It also made me remember a game I played a long time ago called Ballance[1]. Weird how memory works like that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballance_(video_game)
Animal behavior usually has a weird combination of inborn instinct and learned behavior.

The one I've read about that stuck with me was dam building by beavers. Some part of the behavior is driven by a dislike of the sound of running water. Someone did an experiment with speakers playing the sound of running water and the beavers near the speakers would attempt to cover them with sticks and mud.

In my head I'm imaging that sound is like nails on a chalkboard to beaver.
But radix sort is its own beast (a variant of counting sort).

It requires O(N) memory, but since it is not a comparison sort, it also sorts in O(N). But it can only sort integers. So not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.
That and cultural specificities make furry costumes an intelligencia budget item
I don't believe international law effectively solves the problems it is intended to solve, but if we are discussing whether a country was acting the right or wrong way how do you suggest we judge that?

Right of the strongest? Follow the opinion of the warlord of the day? Follow our gut? Be so kind and bless us with your maxime that should guide the day in your opinion.

Sure many people are blindingly naive about the geopolitical realities involved, but that does mean only thinking about what is is sufficent. If we want to improve things there needs to be some ruler to measure the conduct of nations.
> them losing and that result being recognized implies that warmongering is acceptable

You do realise that the US has more or less constently been at war for the past fifty years. "The west" - whatever that means - can't take a stand against warmongering when they are themselves warmongering all the time. War and the threat of force is part of diplomacy like it or not.

Support to Ukraine is a part of global geo-strategical calculus of which taking a stand against tyranny and defending the sanctity of borders is but a minor part of.
I... don't understand. I thought the whole reason for using [[ and breaking posix compatibility was to prevent just this kind of vulnerability. Why would bash do this.
My favorite course I took in college was a Russian Literature elective my first semester. I fell in love with Dostoevsky when we read Crime and Punishment and I ended up writing my 25 page term paper on him and his role in the proto-existentialist vs nihilism movement in Russia in the 1860s. There will always be a part of me that wishes I had taken my career in that direction instead of computers :)
how many bytes were saved as spaces in the entire world code base?
> He's most famous book is basically "don't read western philosophy cause you'll start murdering people

huh? Isn't anticolonialism usually not a big fan of western philosophy? I mean it seems to me quite a reasonable conclusion of some anticolonialist theories that Western Philosophy supports murder if not actually forcing it.
Sometimes young Moose from the north run past the mating grounds through excitement. They end up in my neighborhood for the season and then run back north.
> You can buy SBCs that run FORTH natively

Even very cheap and readily available microcontrollers like the STM8 can be used in this way [0] [1]

I’ve found the microcontroller for less than 20 cents on Ali express, easy to solder. Add a capacitor and a TSSOP-to-DIP adapter board and you have a breakout board for less than 50 cents that can run Forth.

[0] https://github.com/TG9541/stm8ef

[1] https://hackaday.io/project/16097-eforth-for-cheap-stm8s-gad...
Had not heard of this. Got it set up relatively smoothly. Great stuff, thanks!
This kind of mental model (some variation of it of course), despite being trashed by the majority, is now becoming the zeitgeist in tech circles. I could have written a very similar blog post (modulo worse writing and more being made fun of), and so could many engineers working on AI. The meta implications of this on the larger society could be interesting.
Not everyone evaluates books from the point of view of politics. Kim was a great novel that basically earned Kipling the Nobel prize at a crazy young age, and it reads like a love letter to India (until the end, when it becomes a dumb spy novel). Was Kipling jingoistic? Sometimes extremely so. That doesn't mean he didn't write anything worth reading.

Life is complicated.
The Intercept's case against Microsoft has just been dismissed with prejudice
Big the difference is that valid bad moves (equivalents of "cancer") were included in the analysis, it's only invalid ones (like "your body is kinda outgrowing itself") that were excluded from the analysis
> For all that the author doesn’t like exotic crypto

Hah, I think that's a little imprecise.

I actually love exotic crypto; it makes my life interesting, after all. But I will not rush to deploy it into production, and I'm not going to incorporate it into a project designed with such a humble purpose like making DMs encrypted on the Fediverse. The rules I laid out in this post were with that context in mind.
Car makers are the classic example. Why ship all that loan business to a bank, when they could be the bank.

IDK who gets paid when from TM, but if they start offering people the ability to buy tickets on TM credit - yeah, bank.
Did you run it in bash, or in sh? It won't work in a strictly POSIX sh (in that context, I assume `type` will attempt to query each argument as if it were a PATH candidate, and then return nothing).

For reference, this works for me in Bash 5.2:

test -v 'x[$(cat /etc/passwd)]'
What did you use to produce the article? I really really like the formatting.
At least we're warned and so can make sure to avoid anything using this stuff.
The Problem of Naming Things
Except I'm not making that portrayal.
What shell and what `test` are you using?
That is what concepts fix. It lets you enforce at build time that `t` does have member `.bar()`.