skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All those GPS art pieces reminded me of Nazca lines in Peru, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_lines. Are the GPS art pieces a modern version of Nazca lines?
But isn't the underlying hypothesis that any data with sufficient underlying pattern is ultimately useful if you throw enough compute at it?
His own argument is that even from the nonsense of the internet LLMs could extract general models of the world...
So outlaw Betty Boop and Jessica Rabbit? Will dating before 21 without a religious chaperone be OK?
Actually I already did, a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13030568
this is a good thing I can talk to my kid about… there’s this Earth and on this Earth there is this Country where based on number of people that live there vast majority will not experience being gunned down in what should be 2nd safest place you can be. no other country on Earth has these issues, even ones that are 5x+ size of this one. But you know, statistically speaking you should technically be OK…
The study I linked covered 12000 kids across demographics. You can dig through studies all you want there is scant evidence to implicate screen time for anything. And yet parents are so utterly convinced.

We are ignoring the obvious which is that children's anxiety and depression is caused by the same things as adults.
Specifically regarding the activity of the past month, assuming for a second that the early reports of what's been flying over New Jersey are credible – acknowledging that as this becomes a bigger and bigger story the number of misattributions will certainly grow – then at best this feels like a real failure of public communications.

I'm reading Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot right now, and it's fascinating to be reminded of how the Apollo mission – which we all tend to celebrate as this scientific success – was really about the nuclear arms race. More to the point, it was about demonstrating technological superiority with rockets.

Now, this whole situation has gotten conflated with what we can just call 'orbs' or the ongoing UAP fascination – of which there have been congressional inquiries, lots of news stories, speculation, some fairly credible military pilots coming forward, etc. But what appears to be happening over new jersey – again, from second-hand reporting – sounds more like the types of man-made drones you would expect to see in a war zone (or even agricultural setting) rather than over suburbs.

There would be some obvious explanations: Military testing out their gear, geological mapping, etc.

If these reports are accurate, and there are SUV-sized, fixed-wing drones above NJ, and they're the military's – you'd expect some benign explanation: "we're doing a geological survey and there's absolutely nothing to be concerned about."

We have no evidence they're denying anything. They could just be struggling to articulate "we're aware of the reports, but haven't seen any reliable evidence to back up what people are reporting."

But that's not what they've said. They've simply said there's no evidence this represents a threat.

Well, I'm sorry but that's horrible public messaging. If there are SUV-sized drones in busy population centers that haven't been attributed to a particular group, they are implicitly a threat. [And is such a stark contrast with our stance during the Apollo era of not signaling weakness – sorry to be US-centric here, but that's where I am.]

As a Carl Sagan fan, I grew up as a skeptic. But you don't have to think these specific things are alien to think that it's problematic that they seem to be free to do whatever they want with no consequence, and continue to apparently persist despite tons of media scrutiny.

Which leads ultimately to, can someone who has experience shooting bird photos please spend a week in New Jersey with a fast telephoto lens? Unless we get some evidence one way or another, this seems like it will just continue to spin and ultimately make people panic. We're already seeing that happen.

Public messaging is an art, and right now it's being handled terribly.
Good for you, but you are implicitly engaging in the naturalist fallacy. Phones are objects. Social media and gambling-like games that exploit the limbic system. If you want to regulate those that would be a good start.
By the fact that the geometric proof in the link wants to proof the formula, but only does so for a small subset of all a,b for which the formula is correct. This makes it a partial proof, at best.
nvim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins

- `blink.lua` (auto complete drop-down)
- `dap.lua` (debugger)
- `lsp.lua` (language server ruff and pyright setup)
I've been using vscode in java because of the cumbersome file navigation in bash. Is there easy full tree navigation in vim?

It may also be because the terminal view is much smaller than vscode's smaller navigation font so I can see much less of the file tree in a terminal program such as ranger.

I also never really mastered windows although I did master vim buffers.

I do use tmux.
He also said "What we learn from History is that no one learns from History."

He was the Prussian friggin' Yogi Berra.
Incremental search in vim is great, you can also cycle through results with CTRL-G/T while typing.

This even works as a motion (e.g. d / foo, then ctrl G until you hit the right foo, then enter to delete until there).
What looks like “self awareness” is baked in during instruction tuning:

Basically turning any input into a document completion task, giving lots of examples where the completion contains phases like “I am an AI assistant”. This way, if GPT-3 would have completed your question with more questions that are similar, “assistants” will complete it with an answer, and one that sounds like it was spoken by someone who claims to be an AI assistant.
I don't know if that's the reason but I couldn't agree more. The more people are in a group the more boring it tends to become for me too.

Maybe it's because it's more difficult to find shared topics of conversation. Or maybe people tend to avoid deeper topics because intimacy is lost. Or maybe there's some other group dynamic at play (family stuff etc).
And these are one of the more reliable sensors. Be aware of other sensors that print out a TVOC or even HCHO (formaldehyde) value but really only measure CO2.
Their point is how much media hysteria hypes things up, and people from other countries accepting that distorted view of the country as normal here.
3^2-2^2 =!= 2^2-3^2.

(You can exchange a and b in, say a^2+b^2, because 2^2+3^2=3^2+2^2)
Is it either or?
Obviously there is a need for more efficiency. But clearly data in any webcam stream has meaningful non-random information about the world. And so the central dogma of deep learning then should mean that if we throw enough compute - the underlying useful information / pattern however miniscule will be found and compressed.

What am I missing?
The idea that parent control is censorship is very funny. Kid’s brains shouldn’t be exposed to addictive and exploitative content.
Are you being serious? Vim offers so much more advanced features. But if you don't have a use for those advanced features of Vim Nano is probably more than enough for your use case. I just find Vim more enjoyable to use even for simple tasks since the commands are already in my brain and I really prefer the modality.
Primarily, companies developing for embedded systems or other resource constrained devices.
It’s just not NY state agency. Almost every state IT agency has been compromised this way either by Indian origin staffing agencies bribing the Indian hiring managers working at these agencies or Indian outsourcing companies with American presence bribing the mid to senior level management at state agencies. Read all the corruption at Washington DC OCTO.
Well, I take this: https://x.com/GrantSlatton/status/1600388425651453953

as evidence that GPT-4 can understand Python, based on assumptions:

1. You cannot execute non-trivial programs without understanding computation/programming language
2. It's extremely unlikely that these kind of programs or outputs are available anywhere on the internet - so at very least GPT-4 was able to adapt extremely complex patterns in a way which nobody can comprehend
3. Nobody explicitly coded this, this capability have arisen from SGD-based training process
you own the copyright!
It therefore makes sense to me (and represents actual usage of those terms) to say that some informal proof is formally wrong, meaning that translating its reasoning into a formal representation will reveal its incorrectness.
> there is no longer any culture of letting kids go out and socialise.

Could this have died due to tech?
We can recruit them to fight in a war, but it might be disturbing to show them what they signed up for.
This ignores negative externalities
I’m a forever urban cyclist and agree 100%. Bike lanes doesn’t make commutes easier: they often add complexity to the floor signages, and doesn’t provide me any extra security. Many car driver doesn’t respect them because there’s usually not much cyclist so you have to drive securely like if they weren’t there anyway.

Bike path does have a positive impact when they are well designed but more expensive than a painted line and doesn’t create more km to brag for politicians. Their asphalt quality is very often way inferior than the lane sharing the car road, making them bumpy, sloppy and/or deteriorate fast.

My recommandation for safety is to play with visibility : wear bright and flashy colors and drive in the middle of the road, especially before turns, crossing or narrow places. I’m not an asshole though and let cars overpass when it’s secure, but wouldn’t trust others for my security.
For a subset of the population who are manually adept. Excluding modalities from school isn't productive.
that is actually not the focus. phones in it of themselves are not actually a problem, what we do with them is. you get phone companies to provide under-16 phones which have ability to call, text, use Map and limited browser capacity and not a single soul would complain about kids having phones on them. not a single soul might be a stretch as of course there’ll always be someone but you get my point…
Both. It's tailored for addiction in a portable device that's never turned off.
It sounds like the regression comes from recent hardware change (which wasn't present when the original code was written), and not from inherently buggy code
I don't really think server-side rendering is an important reason why most people don't use web components. Most web applications that use components of any sort are largely SPAs of some variety and don't care one bit about server-side rendering. In my opinion, the main reason web components aren't widely used is that the alternatives are just better. I'm yet to see a strong case being made where web components are favorable for a reason other than purism.
I'm unconvinced that, as you say, reacting to specific short-term events is especially interesting. There may be specific cases where OMG, the stock market is going to fall, is fairly predictable. But the more interesting trends are decade-long+.
Thank you. We always hear from the geek who only learned to program solely due to unfiltered internet access growing up. But not folks like you.

I personally learned to program before widespread internet access, so know it’s not at all a requirement.
And you shall know the secret too
Cell-free synthesis is the next step. Theres slow progress, but very interesting operational models if it works.
Hmm... But you don't have to rely on experiments, no? Ilya's original argument was that language is a representation of reality and so even in the noisy data from the internet with zero feedback loops and experiments - sufficient amount of compute could allow LLMs to get the underlying world model to some degree. Wouldn't the same hold true with cameras and robot interactions? Just predict the next frame of reality in the same way you predict the next token of language...

(Actions leading to reactions may or may not be part of the vector we are learning. I mean they should be, but not strictly necessary)

No? What am I missing?
Just astronomical compute required? Or something more fundamental?
Fret not, I fully acknowledge how downloads are mostly a meaningless metric in my reports :)
"In a study published in the journal Nature Aging in August, a team of Stanford scientists described “waves” of aging, where major biomolecular shifts happen in the body around ages 44 and 60."

Source: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/feeling-suddenly-older-s...
Mirror: https://archive.ph/7C1Wl#selection-2469.0-2473.75
They may or may not be. Most traffic light mounted cameras video presence detectors
Is this just content and concept graciously lifted from r/keming?
No, this is not correct. WLOG means: I assume one of the possible cases, but the proof works the same way for other cases. But that's not true here. The proof, as shown, only works for a>b>0, it does not work (without extra work or explanation) for a<b. The proof for a<b is similar, but not the same.
[And it certainly does not show it for a,b element of C]
Not in any schools I attended or have had children in. You got gym maybe 1 to 2 times a week. In elementary school you were expected to run around during recess. In middle school and high school we had a proper gym class 3 days a week.
Very odd that the judge didn’t write his or her reasoning in his ruling..
Yep, there are a number of different 12gb Nvidia cards; 3060ti and 2060 also had 12gb options.

But I think those are gap filler cards, at least in Nvidia's lineup. They're intended to fill the "budget 4k" market that needs enough memory to run high-res displays (or LLMs/crypto miners) but not the compute to fully saturate it. A sort of consolation prize for people that can't afford the 2080-tier cards but want a similarly large memory pool.

A lot of outlets see those cards and end up dunking on the XX70 models just because "memory lower" and I think they miss the point. There are a lot of users, particularly 1080p and 1440p users, that do want less memory that can run faster. As time goes on, I expect Nvidia to phase out 4gb cards for an 8gb minimum, with 16gb midrange (XX60ti, XX70) cards and probably 32gb flagship (XX80/XX90/Titan RTX) styled cards. Again though, it's anyone's guess.
Nano has all those advantages too of being small and running on terminals.

It's not as widely preinstalled, and has a poor editing language. If you can breathe with your mouth closed, you want something else.
I am not much of a video guy. Any kind of tl;dr?
Discussions

(57 points, 2 days ago, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403886

(62 points, 2 days ago, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408361
On Dialogue by David Bohm (1990) [pdf]
I believe you can use `nvim --clean` to ignore your config files.
When trying to enter the SPTX address dictated over the phone, I'm only able to get a few digits at a time, but returning to the phone app to press 2 to repeat the address clears all progress in the other app where I'm trying to enter it.

I battled through it and even double checked the address but it still failed.

If that's part of the game, then fair enough, but I'm not doing that again so that's the end of the line for me.
What was his solution?
> This is a semantic punt.

I'm not even sure what a semantic punt is, but having "intrinsic aesthetic properties and the kind of contemplative experience it elicits" (my quote from earlier in the thread) is clearly less subjective than just "art" which has no inherent meaning.

To be clear, my definition is a set of observable properties about some object. You can debate who should to the observing (I argue "no specific person but the collective"), but it's still observable. "Art", on the other hand, has no inherent meaning. It's an assigned value.

> If there are grounds to debate whether something is art, it's almost always art.

I'm not convinced and I honestly don't see how that holds logically. I appreciate the fact that people are taught as much these days. Doesn't make it more truthful, though, just more collectively agreed upon.

> Functionally, I think arguing about what is and isn’t art broadly diminishes support for the things you probably consider “real” art. It makes it unnecessarily pretentious and gate kept.

I think not arguing about what is and isn't art makes it so "anything is art" for which a corollary is "nothing is specifically art" and therefore art has diminished value. There's no gatekeeping, just a desire to value and treasure artistic beauty.
Uh no it's the opposite. Measuring TVOC is really cheap, a couple bucks for a sensor. Measuring CO2 directly is really expensive (about 50 bucks) using either lasers (still the most accurate method) or a complex ultrasound method that Sensirion pioneered.

What is happening is that some CO2 sensors are actually "eCO2" (estimated CO2) and estimate the value based on the TVOC. Which is really just a guesstimate because the two have no direct relation. It's just a presumption that low TVOC means that fresh air has recently entered.

And formaldehyde is a subset of TVOC. It makes sense to measure it separately because it is emitted a lot by cheap furniture and fabrics and is one of the more dangerous compounds. TVOC sensors also react super heavily to alcohol so just spraying a bit of perfume causes it to jump skyhigh for hours.
Queens look different. But your point is well taken. I guess I should stick to ants and termites as examples.
You can do both! :D

Some art maybe only be 90% aesthetics and others could be only %50 or %10. How much non-aesthetics is acceptable to you?

Where do you draw the line? Why does it matter? Why did you choose that number?
Sci-Fi Inspired Antenna Adjusts to Signal Needs
Nvidia 4090s are nerfed to half speed
Cool! He re-invented couchsurfing (yes, it is a social network besides the couch, people just hangout in the towns they travel to)
I have not.

Thank you.
I think one issue is this highlights is how despicable all these individuals are.

The way I read this: Elon Musk wanted OpenAI to commit fraud. They refused. He went away. They decided to commit the same fraud. He sued.

They're a strong case in both directions. There's a legal principle that you can't take opposing views on the same legal issue.
pretty new to the large scale data processing space so not sure if this is a known question but isn't the purpose of spark that it can be distributed across many workers and parallelized?

I guess the scale of data here ~100GB is manageable with something like DuckDB but once data gets past a certain scale, wouldn't single machine performance have no way of matching a distributed spark cluster?
I’ve been reflecting a lot on life lately and it’s occurred to me from time to time, especially looking at some of my career work, that I’ve been spending a lot of time on bullshit. Like gosh, I feel like they’ve been talking about the right way to hydrate these components forever and it still feels like such an unnatural solution.

I’ll leave it at that.
Those undefined opcodes are more for testing your fault handler or for forcing a trap in an “unreachable” part of your code, not to implement custom instructions.
As much fun as it can be to poke friendly fun at the frontend folks, their problem domain surface area is actually large enough to demand lots of terminology.
> My name is Miles, I’m a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. While a Spark specialist by role

JFYI. I think the article itself is pretty unbiased but I feel like its worth putting this disclaimer for the author.
My guess they had "Elaborate some subtle details of the photo" or "What conclusions can you draw from the situation?" or something as some instruction in the prompt, because it seems to try this with any photo, regardless if there are any noteworthy details or implications in it or not.

I get the idea - demonstrating some "Sherlock Holmes style" inference of hidden facts from the photo - but it gets ridiculous if there is nothing for the model to find.
It seems to me the issue is phone apps that are designed to exploit the limbic system. This is why you don't have slot machines in most localities. The phone itself is just a computer. Using the phone to write, help with homework, or communicate doesn't seem to be the problem. It's the addictive gambling-like apps (TikTok, Instagram, ...) that what generate compulsive and disruptive behavior.
You can't claim that global warming is making diseases more severe without hard evidence. That's not how logic and reasoning work.
And I am not aware of any heavy production use of Falcon with Rails. But in any case it already proves the async potential.
Sure, this is what I was alluding to with choosing "the family of solutions". This choice of basis is a major problem for the MWI, in fact, in that without a preferred basis there is no way for classical reality to emerge, with its fixed measurables.

But even if you are just measuring position, the fact remains that the electron's wavefunction can have the same value at multiple positions, yet if you install detectors at all of those positions, only one will fire, and that it is impossible to predict which one with probability 1, no matter how much information you are given about the system.
Thank you. A few thoughts.

1. Legal clearly hasn't stopped anyone so far. And probably won't in the future if there is economic value. So I suggest we take this outside the equation for now. Obviously it will be a thing to take care of, but I'm asking theoretical questions.

2. Effort vs. reward. Is it just about this? Or is there something more? I.e. is there a clear plateau or is it just diminishing returns (in which case sufficiently low cost of energy solves it)

3.Robots: yes on a mechanical level. But robots don't need to be mechanically elegant and Uber precise in order to be useful.
it just listed the ways you can handle concurrency and parallelism in ruby 3 and what they each do.

Aka Threads which are backed by OS threads but are limited by the GIL when it comes to parallelism.
Fibers which are green threads aka windows 3 style concurrency.
Forking Processes.
and Ractor which is backed by a thread pool and offers real parallelism.
I don’t get it. This wraps three PWM-controllable things in a struct, forcing a specific ownership model. On top of this, it seems to implement a single function to set an 8-bit sRGB color (maybe? the origin of the table is not documented at all!), and that function produces an outrageously quantized 16-bit duty cycle, with the maximum arbitrarily set to 255^2 (why?!?), and sets this value as a raw duty cycle to the underlying output. And ignores errors. Never mind that SetDutyCycle is actually supposed to be scaled to max_duty_cycle().

I would sort of understand a helper to set a color component, through a gamma curve, into a SetDutyCycle implementation, but even that seems a bit weird — sRGB is usually used for images, and you’d probably want some dithering. But even if the goal is just to use an online color picker to pick and LED color, you’d probably want to convert to a linear scale at compile time and you would absolutely want to use all available precision, which would involve doing actual math instead of using a table.
Interesting observation. I’ve mostly seen opinions that is has moved to moderately conservative since Murdoch acquired it. E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/business/media/14carr.htm...
Overlooking Roland Ratzenberger's death in '94, the same weekend as Senna's, is a curious omission given the context.
Infectious diseases in Victorian novels highlight public health fragility now
> This is not binning, it's segmentation. Wish there was competition.

How do you know? Unless you can confirm that both dies are equally functional I think that's a silly assertion on the level of "Nintendo Switches are nerfed to half speed" because half the Tegra cores are disabled.
PFOF does not frontrun — it wouldn't even make sense to frontrun. Retail orders tend to be bad; it makes no sense to frontrun a bad order, especially if you're the market maker who's fulfilling it too.