skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember what "works" means in this case. Chemotherapy, or for other cancers, radiation, surgery that removes large, healthy parts of organs that might have a tumor. Chemotherapy has hosts of side effects, of course (hair loss, nausea, ruined immunity, CIPN, etc) some permanent for some people. It "works" when you look at what KPIs oncologists like, very reductionist things like "5-year overall survival" whilst you ignore things like quality of life both in the short term and long term.

We should be moving away from chemotherapy. It really is poison (cytotoxin) that has "treatment" of cancer as a side effect, just because it will readily kill cancer cells more than healthy cells whilst also taking a lot of the healthy cells with it. But, it's the "established" standard of care, which many doctors built their careers on, so I suppose it won't go away soon.
The single need to go fast (wtf?) Is not as important than the safety for everyone using a street.

For emergencies there are proper laws.

And no your taco bell getting cold is not a good reason
Twitter set up account blocking and shadow banning tools and justified it with the excuse of fighting child abuse.

Now child abuse flourished until very very recently, indeed none of above tools had been used to really fight it.

Instead these tools where used to been politically unwanted people.

Who smells the same with this EU cash limit fighting “terrorism” (as per the article)? Who sees the parallels?
> (and is confident that your /etc/passwd shell entry will never be more than 14 characters long)

In my opinion, these arbitrary character limits are a big wart of the Unix/C culture.
On the other hand, airplanes do fly. But I guess that just reinforces the point that language is a map, not the territory, and natural language in particular is full of inconsistencies and fuzzy boundaries between poorly defined categories. English happened to evolve so that it ended up using the same word for the thing both winged creatures and airplanes do, but only living creatures swim, boats and ships and submarines do not. In other languages, submarines do swim.
I certainly agree that there's a lot of low-quality debate around this and similarly open-ended questions. I think your objection can be made even within the philosophy of the mind (though you may not agree with me!) This is a significant branch of philosophy, and within it, hundreds if not thousands of papers have been written in attempting to prove that nothing operating by the laws of physics as we know them today, nor any future extension of them, could have a mind - yet those who have been trying to do this are no better off than anyone else in knowing what a mind is.

Coming back to Dijkstra's aphorism, you will notice that I was objecting to interpreting it as ruling out, a priori, the question of whether machines could ever think. From your latest post, however, you seem to be saying it would be a reasonable question once we are equipped with an established and agreed-upon definition of thinking.
How are you making money with it?
You're not keeping it per se. Merely waiting for them to send the box to return it as it's not your property.
> The blood is on Apple's hands here.

Come on. This is bullshit, and you know it. The only reason industry at large is even supporting Google's codecs is because Google literally threatens hardware manufacturers to support their codecs in hardware, or else: https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/av1-android-14-requiremen... and https://www.protocol.com/youtube-tv-roku-issues

Google can't really strongarm Apple into supporting anything. And Apple either sets the trends or follows the industry. Stop pretending Apple has anything to do with JPEG XL's imagined or real failures.

In this particular case blood is squarely on Google's hands. And it's all for the same reasons that you accuse Apple of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33937745
I think your first two points are in contradiction.

The last two points, I agree with.
> copyright works for whole thing

No, this is wrong. Here's a counterexample [0].

[0] Structure, sequence and organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure,_sequence_and_organi...
Paywalled behind registration

read here

https://archive.ph/faJP3
Now lets compare it to Qt and QML? They seem to be pretty stable GUI libs
> How else are you going to buy it from another private person safely?

SEPA transfers take 30 seconds to clear.

> You give somebody money and get a car

or you give them the money and get back nothing, because "what money are you talking about?"

> thats the safest transaction for both sides

that's literally the less safe!

> Are you going to wire somebody 10k+ for a car you can't have instantly?

If you are buying something worth more than 10k and you need it now, something's obviously not right.

Keep in mind that to actually have more than 10k cash immediately available it means you only deal with cash and keep them somewhere they are less safe than a bank or cost you a lot more than a bank.

Which, again, is already very suspicious.

And no, it's not about regular people, median account balance in Germany is less than 5.000 euros but suddenly there's a need to pay 10k in cash to buy cars that you need right now and you casually had the money in your pocket, because it's a common thing to do.

I call it BS!
I would return the laptop only. Chargers are usually reusable and always inevitably needed in my experience.
Blocking via EMEI should be routine as soon as reported stolen to police and network.

In fact, I think this is why organised operations quickly ship stolen phones abroad: the EMEI may be blocked and tracked in UK/EU but it won't be in China...
As a controls engineer building factory automation, it's about letting humans do human things and robots do robotic things.

You don't want to have a human sticking their fingers in a grinder, or handling red-hot castings, or trying to install a washer on a dial table every 2.5 seconds for 8 hours straight, or attending the movement of a sewing machine within 1/8" for literal miles of seams sewn each day... those are all mind-numbing or dangerous things I've automated. But the machines can't efficiently understand when they're wearing out, they fault in a myriad of ways and need troubleshooting, they need someone to monitor the quality of incoming and outgoing product, keep them fed with parts, and to do other common-sense human tasks.

There are certainly things that people have tried to automate that didn't make sense. But there are a lot of things that haven't yet been automated which should be.
Second system syndrome can happen with both systems sold commercially, and software systems used internally. I've seen both. Success is gauged in different ways for internal systems, supposed improved processes, efficiencies etc. There's no "market".

Transparent distributed systems are the biggest thing now in software development, both private and public "cloud" are moving towards orchestration tools like Kubernetes, abstracting away the underlying CPU/memory/network hardware.

People don't log in to systems to "administer" them anymore. Containers are cattle and thrown away when they break.

This is much more prevalent than just "applications that can do clustering and distributed systems in the cases where it's necessary or helpful."

People are finding that it's "necessary and helpful" for most software that is used commercially or personally.
Losing a smartphone today can have a profound impact on people’s lives. You lose your ability to pay for things (unless you have physical cards with you); you lose access to your email/bank/github/etc. accounts protected by 2FA so you may not be able to work; you may lose your airline/train tickets (unless you have a physical copy with you) so you may not be able to travel.

Maybe it’s time for more severe punishments for phone theft? The slap on the wrist thieves get today doesn’t seem like much of a deterrent, especially compared to the outsized harm this kind of crime causes to the victim as we rely more and more on smartphones for authentication.
If an airline offered 2 pilots when every other airline only had 1. Then I would fly them every time.

I know the chance of them having a heart attack or stroke, suicide is statistically unlikely. But putting your life in the hands of a single person you’ve never met vs two is a no brainer to me.
By picking both possible answers you are always partially correct!

I have noticed this too. I guess it is an artifact of just being probable text output.
I swear they must be running some cult machinery inside MBA schools. Practically every MBA I’ve met parrots the same language and has the same beliefs and approaches.
My father asked me to create Windows apps for the hospital department where he worked as a doctor (calculating drug dosages and the nutritional needs of preterm infants). I figured that there might be others with a similar need and eventually created a SaaS app builder that is currently my full-time job. It's been almost 20 years since that original request. https://www.calcapp.net/blog/2018/04/09/launching-after-15-y...
Not at all a critic of your idea/tool, but I am surprised (this probably shows how old I am getting) that there can be (many) people willing to spend 10 $/month for a weekly report of twitter bookmarks.

Maybe people working in the media or that however somehow monetize their twitter use?
A direct request is just a specific sort of a sequence to complete. There are extra training steps involved in ChatGPT that are designed to make it particularly good at predicting sequences that look like semantically valid, coherent dialogue, but fundamentally there's nothing special about dialogue. It's just tokens after tokens. For example, even a fairly simple model trained on only play and movie scripts would be naturally good at completing pieces of dialogue because that would be all that it knows!
Thanks for the comment. Wanted to add that, for me personally, effort _has_ to follow fun, and only then it's efficient, and, most importantly, sustainable. This post was partially inspired by an awesome book called Company of One by Paul Jarvis, btw.
The problem I have with laser printers is they draw a lot more power than an inkjet. I can run an inkjet printer off my pedal-powered generator. I can't do that with a laser printer.
That’s a great point I hadn’t thought of
nice rethink of non-determinism for confluence, excellent (as could be predicted from the author list?) use of literature from the prior century, and ... the cherry on top: includes discussions of attempts that didn't work, and alternatives they believe probably would also work.
German rejection of nuclear might go down as one of the most self destructive non war related choice by any government.

Even if you are gone say not to build anything new, just maintaining what they had would have resulted in significantly more energy then all energy they are getting from LNG now.
Years and years of discussions about Go's poor and verbose error handling, with multiple sensible proposals being rejected, and this is the improvement that finally makes it into a release?

What Go demonstrates above all else is how successful a poorly designed language can be if it has a great compiler, an amazing standard library, and high-quality official tooling. Many "features" of Go are borderline insane (date formatting, lack of enums, implicit interfaces, ...) and Go repeats design mistakes that were recognized as mistakes decades ago (nil pointers), but all of that is happily overlooked in practice because huge codebases compile in three seconds, you don't have to argue about which formatter configuration to use, and everything from TLS to CSV is rolled into std without ever having to import a third-party repository.
There should be more severe consequences for unlocking stolen devices, it’s crime on the same level as SIM swapping by phone store employees.
The stock price demands human sacrifice!
> Sold a used car just last year, got 2700€ in cash for it.

where did the buyer kept the money?

> which takes 1 day to arrive

you're saying it like it really makes a difference or like cash is safer and easier to handle.

How much time does it take to deposit the money to your bank account?

Is your time free?

Do you like to lose money and time so that other people can use cash coming from who knows where?

> but for individuals transacting with one another, it still seems the easiest option.

back to question #1 again: what kind of people keep thousands of euros at home?

I know no one who does it.
Yeah, those are valuable opportunities. You have to take risks to learn, but human life is to valuable to risk.

I remember looking into the state of the art around in utero and neonatal health when we got pregnant. I was astonished at how limited the knowledge is. I quickly realized the big gaps are just because it’s too risky to study. You can’t morally experiment on pregnant people and infants.
Err, don't the more current facts dismiss your post as well towards what you were commenting for? Coal is going up. Gas is going up. Both not renewable.
Anyone found a architecture diagram that includes the ML Ops parts? - I'm very interested in this at a system level for how the train / retrain loops work but haven't found much info on that.
Essentially any movie adaptation of a book can't be copyright infringement based on this being the bar; even cases that keep many lines of dialog verbatim end up just being detail similar to keeping the exact same folds of fabric at the bottom.
In this scenario the user is not accepting the EULA.
Yeah buddy!

Look up fine tuning GPT-J in 8 bit mode.

People have made domain-specific models that perform well (IIRC, better than GPT-3 in their domain).

The team behind Stable Diffusion is also working on one that's supposed to be pretty good.
I've seen the snatch phone from hand thing happen in London - happens insanely fast.

Covid and the rise of ebikes have helped the crooks. Face coverings are more acceptable and silent ebikes can creep up on someone on a sidewalk and provide a sudden burst of acceleration to get away.
It’s especially painful after using Penn Station on a daily basis (which I did a few years ago). It’s a horrid mess. To think it was once nearly as beautiful as GCT is infuriating.
I've read about native English speakers who take classes to cleanse their colloquialisms from their speech. It's for conducting business with people who speak English but not natively. OP in a way is trying to do the opposite.
> The mainstream web is like a giant, tacky Walmart, with everyone hooked on dopamine hits.

I would read your sci-fi if you wrote some (and advertised it on your user profile)!
Ordering a pizza can be done with static pages and some forms.

You want to make photoshop or a CAD program? That is an app. You want to order a pizza? Just use html and forms, maybe javascript to reload the progress page once per minute. (You don't need websockets or SSE or anything to check pizza progress)
Did you also see the load model Gaudí used? It's a wire model of the church, upside down (e.g. https://images.oobject.com/thumbdir/thumbnails/3/21/321da867...)
Shouldn't you be able to walk into a phone store, get a new one and automatically sync all your files, passwords, etc., then pay for the phone using that data?
What if the modern levels of rigor in certain subfields are based on a wrong structural and methodological approach that we haven’t yet discovered is wrong?

I’m not sure what racism has to do with this, but let’s see where it goes. With scientists not that many years ago, the “modern levels of rigor” similarly went off the rails in evolutionary theory and our present understanding does not match theirs at all. It was twisted at the time by some fundamental misunderstandings, which appeared to support racism.

There is truth in indigenous science that modern science has not caught up to, yet.
wow it goes from ok to completely nuts within one sentence. Activated introns hahaha
I understand what you are saying and I felt the same way. I think as a tech person you always undervalue your products as you see it as “something I could build in a weekend”, which is very different to how other people see it. There’s many Twitter tools in the same price range and the feedback from people I got is that they are happy to pay that.
> Rights are not a for-profit balance sheet,

the right to use large amounts of cash is a fictional right.
I've been discovering this for the first time over the last 24 hours and, much like many others, it really has blown my mind. My various thoughts have been:

- This does feel like a new way of accessing information. Could Google pivot to this? Maybe, but turning ships that large really isn't quick or easy. And this technology is so obviously useful that I'm not sure they'll be given much time.

- Is this what we can expect from the new Apple search engine? Is this going to be another iphone-unveiling moment? Maybe, but they haven't been amazing at delivering cloud services.

- How is this going manifest in my professional life. Does InteliJ/VSCode have a built-in agent that I can ask to draft code for me? Do they own that, or does my IDE just hook into GPT BigCo's service that we all have a subscription for?

- How could this be used to generate advertising revenue? (because I'm sure Google is asking itself that question). Is that possible, or will a different revenue stream be required?

- Are there any major limits on how much this technology can improve? Sure it seems to work great with images, prose, and code. But in the future could it design me a house? Plan a wedding? Manage my builders for me? Be a friend? Or do those involve solving other additional really hard problems, and code/images/prose are just the low hanging fruit?

- Will API design not matter? Will APIs become more important, or irrelevant? Will this technology just be able to use whatever interface you want to present to the world, be it an old XML SOAP API, a reactive web frontend, or running shell commands?

- How much training data is required for this technology to be able to use our services? Do only huge services have enough training data out there? Can this technology ever learn to use my little new REST API that I've just published docs for? Will my little service be forever ignored if it cannot?

Answers welcome

EDIT: Minor proofing changes
I was thinking of a truck wheel patch, but I'd like to be sure there won't be any stains, and that the glue won't react with the detergent, for example. I don't know if it's possible.
There is no exact definition of what "AI" is. But there have been millions and millions of software systems in the world that could classified as "AI" since the 60s, and approximately none of them have had any means of altering their code on the fly, so no.
7x NVIDIA RTX A6000's so ~$32,550
Find go-to activities that aren't scrolling or watching
Nuclear is commonly not considered a renewable, and the nuclear capacity was already EOL but for some power plants they went over the original closing date so was prologued, not closed.

Coal is on the rise. Gas is on the rise.
> I'm not familiar with Belgian copyright law

As I understand it, this is a case in the country of Luxembourg, not the Belgian province of the same name.
Well there is a connection. Often I read news articles about science where I think "Wait, that doesn’t make sense." or "Hey, this assumption is not explained at all!" and without the original paper to read (or the knowledge to understand it) the only place to take this confusion is the comments section, with the hope that someone might explain it.
Last time I was shown the door without even the chance to remove personal files or unlink self-paid software licenses
>Actually that dude was from Austria.

This is not the first time some Austrian dude causes trouble in Germany :)
Other websites like Github decided to comply in a way that does not require cookie banners. I think that the users appreciate it.
I’m glad it’s not just me who is perplexed at some of the decisions made with golang.

This was a golden opportunity to implement some typical form of exception handling. Instead you have to bundle your errors together and then unwrap them (often using multiple methods to handle the cases of both a single error and a bundle of errors) and then still implement even more logic to walk the tree you made?
Or can anyone sue anyone for anything and will this suit end up in at most a settlement that is just a fraction of the claim?
A currency exchange recently got a substantial fine for allowing users to circumvent sanctions.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/crypto-exchange-bit...
Ok, regardless, it is not really new. ML researchers are doing these kinds of things all the time.

By the way, according to some people, GANs are also a kind of unsupervised learning:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44445778/are-gans-unsupe...
That's signaling, like wearing expensive clothes. Countersignaling means dressing like a bum in high-class circles and getting accepted anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-big-nepa-roundup
> This approach of treating everyone like criminals is pervasive in current times

if you usually keep 10k of cash in your pocket, you're probably someone who's not scared by criminals.

And I only know two types of people with those characteristics: corrupted cops and other criminals.

EDIT: it is actually 3 kinds, the third one being taxi drivers, which in my country are mostly low-level criminals.
How many of those are money making?

I can probably come up with 700 ideas in a day, but that's not what OP is asking.
I'm a Cogent customer and we wouldn't be where we are without them, but, they give me the most headaches out of any provider I have to deal with.

I tried raising a complaint as their SLA states about packet deliverability/guarantees - and I said "well, you have 100% packet loss to HE"... I didn't get very far and they basically just blamed it on HE - but, I wonder if someone had more time, if they could make a complaint down this avenue?!
> I mean, the LHC is certainly a significant achievement, but compared to the detection of gravitational waves or even just exoplanets it doesn't seem to deliver as much bang for the buck.

Well, first, LHC was "unlucky": they could have observed a lot of new particles if they would have been there. It feels unfair to say "this experiment that looked at X and had 50% chance of seeing something was a waste of money because they haven't found anything, this experiment that looked at Y and had 50% chance of seeing something was not because they saw something": both experiments are as worth a try. LHC still have observed the Higgs boson, which is still quite a big thing. LHC has also constrained a lot of theories (seeing that a particle predicted by a given theory is not there is very useful scientifically).

But more importantly, I have the feeling that the notion of "bang for the buck" is pretty different from a scientific point of view and a layman point of view.

For example, you mention exoplanets. Scientifically, those are really not a big deal. We already know that planets can exist, there are 8 around the Sun, so finding others around other stars is really not a big deal: everybody was expecting them to exist and knew the only reason they were not seen yet was the limits of the technology. One could even argue that using money to detect things that are pretty trivial is in fact the worst delivery of bang for the buck. Don't get me wrong, this is still nice to see them, but it's the same level as pentaquark (discovered at LHC).

It is sometimes surprising to see the public/media reactions to discoveries. I'm still not sure why layman people were so excited about gravitational waves but not much about the tau neutrino.