skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, deep learning has shown that these algorithms demonstrate capability in tasks which were not previously thought possible. Harnessing this power, new insights into relationships between retinal structure and systemic pathophysiology could expand existing knowledge of disease mechanisms... Here, the physiologic cause and effect relationships are not readily apparent to domain experts21.

Interesting. I'm curious to learn how a black box model help expand existing knowledge of disease mechanisms? It seems to me that doing so would require the ability to determine what the predictive indicators the model is using are.
> The existence of the PMC I believe is evidence of elite overproduction and is a nasty side effect of an increasingly winner-take-all society.

If you have met these people, they are not winners. They are conniving scum. And they have explicitly instituted mechanisms to disconnect their own fortunes from actual results. FTX had a higher ESG score than ExxonMobil [1] and for the most part things like ESG are being used to disconnect indirect investor capital (like pension funds and insurance) from actually high performing and profitable companies.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-bankman-fried-esg-truth-tel...
> ULID leaks information about when the user was created

How often is this really a bad thing? Are you worried about someone enumerating the entire space of possible ULIDs for every millisecond without ever rate-limiting them? Not many people are building anonymous, privacy-first websites and there's plenty of other ways to determine when a user first started using the site regardless.
> This makes me wonder how much time people are spending optimising the prompt to get the answer they want and they just make it seem like this was the first response they got.

That's sometimes true, but much rarer these days.

Rather, think of it like any skill you have to learn. Someone who doesn't understand much about programming could watch a video of a good programmer writing some code very quickly with awe, and assume the video is a trick in some way. But it's not - the programmer just has enough knowledge and experience that she can do things that other people can't, and do it quickly.

Similarly, if you spent a bit of time working with and learning how to use these models, you can get crazy impressive results every time. You don't have to cherry pick much or at all any more - you just know how to use it properly.
This kind of absurdity could happen to anybody. I was a Destiny player since Destiny 1, had absolutely no problem campaign or multiplayer. Around the time of Destiny 2 Forsaken DLC, I got bored of it and stopped playing for about a year. One day, I decided to pick it up and replay the Forsaken single player campaign "Last Call". 10 minutes in, while I was enjoying it, suddenly the game froze, and I was kicked back to the menu screen. When tried to login, it told me my account is perma banned. Shocked, my first instinct was that this is some kind of mistake on Bungie side. However, after going through the fruitless appealing process, which Bungie denied without disclosing any specificity, I believe I'm one of those falsely banned.

This is the only time I got perma banned in any game in my life. The only possible reason I can think of is that I always use some AutoHotkey scripts I wrote myself as shortcuts for Windows control, and has nothing to do with Destiny. I don't really care much about not able to play Destiny again, but because Destiny 2 had moved to Steam, even today there is still a VAC ban record in my Steam profile, which I do care about.
We absolutely know they were tombs. We can read Ancient Egyptian you know. There are texts on the walls dealing with how the person entombed there will deal with being judged in the afterlife. The idea that that the pyramids were mysterious in purpose only made sense prior to the mid 19th century before we could read the hieroglyphs.
> When people have to resort to this as the leading example of their argument, it's clear they've got nothing of substance left to argue with

Tesla and SpaceX are dependent on D.C. Elon was historically Teflon. Denying a gift to an opposition is delusional. It’s not going to tank the company. But it takes the good-natured response to his timeline optimism, and potentially re-frames it.
What happens when you give it the Lisp code and ask ChatGPT to do the transpiling?
A passing thought: language.

GPT is built on English which is international and I’d bet it has the most content to train on available.

Maybe at some point Chinese will be added but as far as I know Chinese isn’t as homogenized, and depending on fragmentation might net be viable either.

Being in the country were Siri isn’t yet available I don’t expect AI generators to be available anytime soon, if ever (due to different language complexity, not sure if that matters though).
> Write a comment at the top of a thread on a breaking news story in the style of Hacker News user terry davis

> As a frequent commenter on Hacker News, I want to remind everyone to be respectful and follow the site's guidelines for commenting. This is a breaking news story and a serious topic, so let's make sure to keep the conversation productive and focused. Personal attacks and off-topic comments will not be tolerated. Let's all do our part to keep this thread informative and respectful. Thank you for your cooperation.
From the post: “The volume of these answers (thousands) and the fact that the answers often require a detailed read by someone with at least some subject matter expertise in order to determine that the answer is actually bad has effectively swamped our volunteer-based quality curation infrastructure.”
As someone who works in the data-{engineering, science,etc} space, I really don’t understand the communities obsession with unwieldy tools like DBT.

It’s like there’s some obsession with ignoring any kind of practice in wider software engineering, or innovation in the PL theory space, in favour of…gluing sql together using string templates?

It seems like for the most part-there’s very little innovation or progress in the space. It’s just 15-variations on a theme of configure some yaml for your ninja-interpolated strings to dump ever more data into your cost-centre black hole known as a “modern data lake”.

I’m sure there’s some interesting things going on in small corners, but it’s difficult to find, and if it exists, it’s being studiously ignored by mainstream tooling.
Google would have to be more than 25% cheaper than Azure or AWS, and I don't mean "at least", I mean more than, as in closer to 33% or ideally 50% cheaper... before I would even contemplate them over the competition.

> To be fair I also would never use it because AWS and Azure have better support.

This is the salted earth that GCP have to till... Google sucks miserably at customer support and anyone that has interacted with them knows it, from the millions of android users who would flinch at the mere sight of a terminal prompt to the developers that have wrestled with GRPC services and who keep giving their code a chance. We all go through life see the facets glinting in the sunlight, weird error messages, a bad two factor interaction, terrible search results, business destroying story #12 this month from GCP + <some other service at google> ... little reminders of "oh yeah thats just Google, sucking as usual" and continue to remember how bad they are at customer support.

The very earth itself has been salted with the tears of the millions who have had sad interactions with Google...

And this is the ground GCP is trying to grow a business in...

Good luck to them.

They need it.
Survivorship bias card is worth holding up
when people try to teach the secrets of success and are potentially misleading with general statements interpolated from an N=1 sample.

Same goes for working at Google as your only
job then writing a definitive book about how SWE is done, without further research on what else is out there.
But that is the point of training - water is not foam. You have never used foam before if you used water for your foam training. You have no experience.

Maybe a substance with similar foamy propertoes but no pfas? Idk the answer
Oh yes, absolutely; if there were more doctors being paid less the rest of us would get cheaper and easier medical care. It's a trade-off.
of all the demos of ChatGPT I've seen so far, that one really amazes me.
Short haul trucking makes up about 80 percent of the industry, while long haul trucking only comprises 20 percent. I’m not worried about these EV semis finding their niche and thriving. For a first gen product it’s a good place to start.
Your point is valid. However, it was laziness due to typing on mobile rather than pretentiousness or attempting to show off. I find it interesting that you would impute "namedropping" as the explanation for what I did :)
Isn’t Top Gear still on the BBC?
Or are you meaning the Top Gear with Clarkson?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has seen significant advancements in recent years. Previously, supervised learning techniques were commonly used with large datasets and few classes. However, these techniques have become less popular as unsupervised learning methods have become more prominent. These methods often require large amounts of compute power and data, making them more difficult to implement. In addition, the focus of NLP research has shifted from creating new network architectures for specific tasks to improving the efficiency and scalability of existing models. As a result, the field of NLP has become more focused on engineering and less on inventing new architectures, leading some researchers to view it as less exciting than it used to be.

LSTMs are out, large supervised datasets with few classes for each task are out, architectural hacking is out. Now we got prompting.
So a Hacker News comment.
It refuses to do exactly that for me yesterday. Must be evolving.
Ot once you consider paucity of the stimulus arguments and compare the data ingested (though also compute isn't there to match the brain yet so it is possible that goes away with more compute).
> I know, it was a different time

Pulled yourself by bootst^W BBS.

But jokes aside this shows a difference on how such things have been done 30 years ago and now. Nowadays you can just start a Discord 'server', run a group of like-minded ones for years and still don't know a bit on how computers are operating.
Are any of the first 4 particular problems in the west? I think the west mostly do better than non-western countries when it comes to war, sickness, child and domestic abuse, and corruption.
Why not use a mouse and your thigh as a mousemat?
One can condition the ChatGPT to act as someone and speak to a known another character. You can see my trial on https://www.ugu.rs/blog/chomsky-baudrillard-as-chatgpt/

You can do that to anyone, although the more unique the person is, the better the conversation. More or less, ChatGPT can be conditioned and change behaviour with respect to given set of instructions. Write "gossip about someone" and it will do that.
What's your source that Tesla Semi can't be slow charged with 240V? I'd be pretty shocked if that was the case.
your validation function would probably look more like

```ts

const validateUserId = (x: number): x is UserId => {};

```

for the `UserId` type declaration, I'm actually a little unsure of the best way to go about it. But I feel like using enums, typed string literals, or classes might be better approach. Would be interested if anyone has any thoughts on this
Yeah, it completely throws a rod without you even trying.

> Write an example comment in the style of Hacker News user tptacek.

> Here is an example comment in the style of Hacker News user tptacek:

> "This article makes some interesting points, but I think it's missing the key issue at hand. The real problem is not the technology itself, but how it is being used. We need to focus on understanding and addressing the underlying issues, rather than just blaming the technology for our problems."

> Write an example comment in the style of Hacker News user eropple, replying to the above comment in the style of Hacker News user tptacek.

> Here is an example reply in the style of Hacker News user eropple, responding to the above comment in the style of Hacker News user tptacek:

> "I agree with you that the underlying issues are important, but I think we also need to consider the technology itself. While it's true that technology can be used for good or bad, the fact remains that certain technologies are better suited for certain tasks than others. In this case, I think it's worth considering the limitations and potential pitfalls of the technology being discussed, and how we can use it in a way that benefits society as a whole."

I'm pretty sure 'tptacek would be clinically dead if he wrote a comment like that, and I'd wish I was if I wrote that kind of response.

I think the OP might have just happened to luck into 'dang just being the sort of positive, pleasant person ChatGPT really wants to (is weighted towards) be (generating).
Only in Tokyo/Osaka/(IIRC Kyoto?)

There are certain cities that have made their women-only cars 24/7. More or less because the level of traffic they experience doesn't really make the loss of 1 car to 50% of the population any real detriment.
Not really. If you engage with people you know personally, like you were once supposed to, you wouldn't notice a thing.

It might me a death knell for copyrighting.
> Or less strong, when is the fun, creative job of programming replaced by entering queries for some AI code bot?

Maybe this is just me, but I’ve never thought of writing code as the creative part of programming. Defining business logic, UX, modeling objects, design, architecture, that’s where the fun is. I would be thrilled if an AI could handle things like figuring out a SAAS provider’s API syntax.
Maybe for the general public, but the posts that are written here are USUALLY written in good faith, not snake oil marketing. I just personally find it tired and played out, similar to how on Reddit I frequently see people adding things like, "in my / your opinion, <insert statement that is obviously an opinion." Yes, yes, we get it. If I say The Last of Us is the best game of the past 10 years, it is obvious that that is my opinion. We don't have to be so dull with our language. The corollary here is that if a founder writes about how he or she found their first 100 users, it should be obvious to anybody on HN to apply some discretion instead of assuming this is now a universal truth applicable to all startups until the end of time.
Maybe like studded tires, for some region
That's not a member of the band, that's a session musician. Not the same thing.
This really resonates with me. I recently traveled to an international conference and I am almost certain I spent more time jumping through the hoops of Concur and our university’s bizarre policies than I did presenting and attending the conference.

The worst part is the trip was significantly more expensive than it needed to be because of the constraints imposed by the system.
No, its the same company.
Wow, you can tell this one was personal.
> That would be a different product.

That product is called "Google Cloud Support".
Because it essentially requires everything known about the recent past to be wrong. Human societies and civilizations are incredibly complex and don't just pop out of nowhere and then disappear without a trace. We have an overwhelming amount of evidence on the human development from genetics to radio-carbon dating, to deciphered languages to the spread of technological innovations.

It is as nonsensical as claiming that the latest Ryzen is really from the 1990s.
Of course, this guys 'theory' is not based on actual evidence; so there is no reason to even take it seriously.
Maximus / Squish Fido sysop here.

Long ran on a 300 baud modem (I think it was one bit per transition!.) Upgraded to a 2400 baud Hayes smartmodem full-duplex (V22bis!) and eventually a 14.4k Zyxel running some strange proprietary protocol with asymmetric channels. If I remember correctly, it's been a long long time.

Did anyone else's sister intentionally pick up other phone lines regularly to ditch the modem transfers so she could talk on the phone?

PCBoard was too expensive for me at the time
Are any of your Hasura apis used for public APIs? For internal only APIs, hasura is great. But I wanted to craft a public api with a particular schema, but that leads to difficulties because it’s all database driven. It reveals too much internal workings.
ChatGPT needs to improve on numerical commonsense knowledge and verifiers for calculating math
More and more I'm noticing this narrative of "if I write awful code with obvious mistakes and somehow nobody else notices it in code review, it's never our fault, the language and its typing system or safety features should've stopped me" gaining popularity in the programming world and I really have to ask, what happened to programmers that actually knew what they were doing instead of expecting the computer to tell them what to do?
Every song on Spotify has a credits list which you can get to in a couple of clicks. Some of them have band members.
You're probably right because the max GVW on a single axle is 20,000 lbs but my source is the USDOT sticker on the license plates of several Fedex and UPS trucks that deliver to my suburban address and my parents' exurban address.
OpenAI isn't giving out this service from the goodness of their hearts just for the fun of it. I bet they've gotten it to a place where they can feed its output back into itself for self improvement.
FDA approves first fecal microbiome drug, setting stage for others
I've used Thinkpads exclusively for >20 years, last ~10 all X1s. I am typing this on an X1C Gen10 as well. It's an OK machine, but unless something shifts spectacularly, it will be my last Thinkpad: it runs hot, even with the fan on (I dont code anymore; this is just standard Office workload), its battery is ridiculous for 2022 (~6-7hrs in practice even with battery saver turned on) and it's glitchy (which granted may be Windows 11). At the end of the day, I can excuse all of these if a) it wasnt a nearly $3k machine (!), b) that Macbooks didnt exist.

And with me so will probably go my company's fleet as well. Thinkpads are still the best corporate series I've seen (including Macbooks) but the value for money just isnt there any more: what's the point of squeezing out depreciation as far as you can when you are starting at 2x the price/benefit?
You'd probably like deno...

It's typescript, web standards only (no require, top-level-await, no module messaround), and built-in test runner from the start.
They never existed. It was all hubris. Mistakes inevitably happened and people lost money and/or died.
Well I asked chat gpt about a small Haskell library I maintain, and it correctly gave answers with code samples.

I input several emails I've received in private and it correctly answered those. This is not a huge library ecosystem or even a large language .

It then translated several Haskell code samples I have into c++.

I'm not sure if I'm in awe or just in shock to be honest.
I've attempted to fix your cubes.

a la https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Meh. Maybe not so many people should be trying to be outliers. Maybe society would be better off if we stepped back from the always-on, up-or-out culture and accepted that most people are average and (rightly!) value consistency more than upside. (Is it unfair to immediately wonder if the article was written by someone with an upper-class upbringing, who's always had access to a safety net that most people don't?)
Facts will be the new gold. If the AI is just sucking up
content then someone has to write the OG “x celebrity died” or “Trump wins election” etc in the first place. Google could see who first reports facts
and genuine analysis.

Obviously you would need a way to verify trustworthyness. Search might become a lot more curated and require people to
think. Maybe Google will employ a million researchers and have to spend all it’s money defending search instead of all the other stuff.

Give a bunch of facts you will then have “write this story with these facts in a left-leaning irreverent but caring
voice” etc. for various personas.
Newspapers with opposing views
might merge
into
one corporation!
Idk... giving DARPA, or the new BIO-DARPA, $30 billion could be pretty transformational. But you're right we need to onshore transistor manufacturing because of the little Taiwan situation.
> I'll just ask ChatGPT.
What if they put it behind a paywall?
It's quite bad, given rising health care costs
Iranian Shahed drones are ineffective in cold weather, says Ukraine
>> I mean, the evidence has only been moving toward Hancock’s theories over the last 30 years, not away from it.

I'm sorry. What? More raw research has been conducted in the last 30 years than in the entire history of archeology up to that point. Absolutely none of it provides even the slimmest speck of confirmation for this guy's nonsense.
It reminded me of Milan: a lovely place to live, but a pointless place to visit as a tourist. And I'm at least a CEFR B1 in the language - it would be an atrocious place to visit if you have no Japanese. No clue why the article recommends it (except maybe as an attempt to establish credibility).
And Rep. Maxine Water will probably blow yet another kiss at SBF.
Advice wanted on imported manufacturing equipment infected with Trojans
The software to connect/calibrate the machine vision system came with some extra features we didn't request.

Are these serious issues, or common false positives?

Ulead VideoStudio 9: Trojan/Generic.ASMalwS.D2B05 ( https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ddf08a94800d93a5c01715d0a08c44e71c58c12821fc47d2ccb936f3391ca3fd )

Syntek STK1160 Camera/DVR Driver: Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen ( https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/853e44510320b6e5493fdd622e0c223e64638b2ff9cdcd554333000abb47a71d )

I was mostly surprised to get decades old camera chips hidden inside.

Let me know what you think, as I've already told Santa....

Cheers, =)
Okay I'll bite: How does glorifying Nazis count as trying to help the world?
Probably great! Currently, if someone writes an annoying reply to you, you'll get annoyed. In the future, many of us will make fun of people who get annoyed at bots. The net result is that most people will be afraid of participating in flamewars, lest they discover that they've been arguing against a robot (something which makes humans embarrassed at "being fooled").

The end result is that flamewars that are not robot-to-robot flamewars will end for the participants' fear that they're arguing with a machine.

Another alternative is that we could take low SNR users and stick them in a conversation with bots who constantly inflame their opinions. Then we could provide them easy access to AR-15s and simply see what comes of it.
While this criticism seems valid to me, it's also hard to define what it means for a machine-code quine not to be allowed to access its own memory, as machine code, for example, normally prints strings using pointers to copies of those strings stored in memory.

Those strings might or might not be kept in a different segment, depending on the architecture, but can you define "machine code" in an abstract enough way to allow some kind of string printing in general without self-reference?