skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stem cell transplantation is probably not the most effective way to end HIV due to its severe risks and cost: it's much more likely preventative measures like PrEP/PEP and treatments like HAART are much more viable long-term solutions.
For me it's either walks in nature or in the loo.
// not to mention it’s ableist.

A lot of work happens in teams. A lot of team work requires frequent communication/ synchronization.

Is saying "for jobs that require communication, you and your team will succeed more if you communicate well" abelist?
I am very interested in what you have built. I've recently stepped down as a director of engineering at a fintech startup where I was building self-organizing teams based off the models I found in the book Reinventing Organizations. I have been considering starting a coop much like Quorum1, but I haven't been sure where to start. I'd love to chat sometime about Quorum1 and perhaps get the chance to work together in the future. My email is email at steve shogren dotcom if you are interested. Thanks!
Google Duplex was shut down
This is great. I really like this way of presenting the idea.

It’s happening more or less organically, what you’ve described. Users are spending more time in Messenger as opposed to the news feed.

Messenger groups are very hard to reach using ads.
For those who don't know, it was so advanced and helpful several years ago ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5VN56jQMWM
Untreated HIV (usually) takes years to cause AIDS, and then takes months to years for you to die from it. Before you have AIDS, you can still start treatment, and can still enjoy a long life afterwards. That being said though, the earlier you start treatment, the better.

So yes, there are still strong incentives to get tested, but people still don't get tested when having HIV is criminalized.
Not sure I fully follow the critique (if it is one?). Productivity increases can yield GDP growth without additional resource consumption.
Revealed: Leaked document shows how Russia plans to take over Belarus
> Despite my knowledge and interest in these areas, I still struggle with simple programming tasks, such as writing a function to determine whether sequence A is a sub-sequence of sequence B, or calculating the magnitude of complexity for a given function. My confidence has been eroded by my mistakes, blunders, and rejections.

Sounds like this fellow is a fine software developer but he hasn't taken the time to learn how to play the game. It's clear that part of that game is spending a few hours a day on leetcode in order to prep for interviews, especially if you struggle as outlined.

I'm not saying it's right.
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That's not true at all. Almost all cattle are raised on pasture for the first (roughly) half of their life. Then some are raised the rest of the way on pasture (grass-finished) and substantially more are moved to a feedlot, a large outdoor pen where they're fed on a mix of grains, soy, and whatever feedstock is nutritionally sufficient and available cheaply.

If you're not seeing them it's because you're not going where they are. Land in places like the bay area is WAY too expensive to use for grazing. C'mon over to Pennsylvania, I can show you thousands of cows within an hour or two of Pittsburgh.

(I run an agtech startup that specializes in helping cattle ranchers optimize their grazing operations to reduce the need for buying supplementaln grain and sequester more carbon via improved pasture management.)

Overgrazing can absolutely be a problem, as can run-off from feedlots. It's really important to hit the right stocking rate (the number of head of animals per acre) in order to operate regeneratively instead of destructively. (Disclaimer: that's part of what we help ranchers do, so I'm a little biased here! :)
Regulation is not anti capitalist, it is a necessity for the existence of a market. Zero regulation is not capitalist, it is anarchy.

Which of those modern civilizations do you believe are not capitalist? Are you counting trafficked slave labor today as an example?
You have everything you need except a business plan and willing participants.
It is a paradigm shift and whoever happens to be on the good side of this may survive just a bit longer before they too become redundant.
I investigated divorce months before marrying and we made sure that if it had to happen, like to 55% of mariages around us, we d make it as painless as possible rather than total chaotic surprise. I suppose there must be a corporate equivalent ?
With a real queue, dropping one message on the underlying transport will either be detected quickly and obviously on both ends, or will be recovered automatically, or both.

The implementation could be as simple as a queue id and sequence number in the POST along with a way to request replay (via GET to Stripe) of old messages indexed by the same id and sequence number and a way to periodically ask for the latest sequence number.
I share the current disdain for "agile" workflows. In particular, I have grown very weary of every example of failure getting met with "they did agile wrong." After enough encounters with it being done in a way that does not bode well, I am forced to start questioning the general ideas.

However, I do find the excessive snark against wanting to empower the developers kind of off putting. In particular, zero charity in reading is given to looking at how it was taken up. And there is practically no way that is accurate, either.

My personal view is that treating the entire "software" industry as a homogeneous one is the mistake here. From type of product being delivered to capabilities of team doing the delivery, there is a lot of variance out there in what one would expect to work. Worse, thinking that any given other field has "figured it out" is doing a major disservice to the hard work that goes into every field.
This comment glows so hard I had to find my sunglasses.
I don’t really see the distinction between “having to disclose HIV status” and “living with a scarlet letter”.
If it existed, he would have known that owning gold bullion of any kind by civillians is illegal. Perhaps the FBI had good cause to seize it and thay's why he didn't advertise it?
>Still, don’t pipe scripts to shells

Why not? Without looking, I assume that the script is downloading a binary and running it. What could it be doing that is more dangerous than that?
Except, AFAICT, it wasn't the husbandry of the cows that caused the destruction. The cows were left to roam free and their population exploded and damaged the ecosystem in unexpected ways like has happened with many other invasive species.

> more specific way (like Animal husbandry practices destroyed

This is less specific. It doesn't clarify which species shouldn't have been introduced or should have been managed better.
The parent poster says going off hiv medication doesn’t really happen outside of external circumstances and even when it does it takes weeks to cause a problem. This isn’t the same for birth control.
The same is true for plagiarism. What you do in that case is quote and cite the source.
I just realized that Patrick McKenzie is the author of some of my favorite blog posts[1][2]. After his departure from Stripe, I hope he gets back to writing more frequently.

[1] - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-busi...
[2] - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
I'm not saying they could transmit though sex, I'm saying they could be caused to transmit through what is essentially viral cloning, by taking either a cell (or probably many cells, because the recipient has an immune system) containing proviral DNA (i.e. the DNA created by HIV's reverse transcription mechanism), and putting it into the recipient, or by taking the HIV proviral DNA from that cell and transfecting cells of the recipient with it, similar to how you can clone a polio virus by transfecting a cell with the DNA of polio, even though polio is an RNA virus. This has been done by Vincent Racaniello using early DNA sequencing techniques, and could be tested in an animal because of the Gain of Function'd mouse model he made. I can't remember anyone being able to create an animal model for HIV though...
Computer Science and Philosophy
link to the Pakistani bloke?
I assume that most people on the internet don't read. Maybe the title, first paragraph, skim the rest, look into the discussion, move on.

Are you sure that 100% o people who seen this title will know that the article is talking in fact about humans, about our preferences eating cows and dairy, about our mega farms conveniently hidden of our sight, and not some wild creatures bringing havoc to the coastal areas?

I'm not so sure.
I could say the same things about some of my coworkers...
But why would you use ULA addresses for anything other than internal networking? What benefits does it provide exactly?

And even for internal networking, why not just use properly addressable IPv6 addresses?

Because you're gonna need a firewall either way.

I have a couple of /40s to my name. My internal network has an assignment of /48. It's not announced (and is also firewalled off, not that it matters, since there's no routing table entry for it). The chance of collision is nil, because nobody should ever be using addresses within my IP space.

Endpoints that require external connectivity simply have 2 addresses on it. One that's routable, and one that isn't.
They’re saying that people that were allowed into their programs/universities because of quotas and not merit struggle to prove competency through assessment.
Amen to that --- and those who do will quickly lament the state of the "Modern Web"; fuckings to CloudFlare and the like for gatekeeping and calling everyone who doesn't use even slightly non-mainstream browsers or configurations (no JS? Filtering proxy?) a bot. A disappointingly large percentage of sites are behind such walls, and another large number of them are otherwise static content that requires JS to display.

But not giving up is the first step to success. I probably wouldn't use a browser in Go either, but as someone who has also been working on one of my own intermittently and knows how much opposition there is, I certainly encourage any attempts at increasing actual browser diversity.
You're not wrong, but to make an analogy, someone who was hired to be a great runner can't really be blamed when they're forced to swim and they're not very good at it. You lose the race either way though of course.
I think the author meant to say "useless"
It's interesting to watch a new religion spinning up in real time. People know how it works, but somehow also ignore that and go crazy believing it must be conscious or intelligent or whatever they want to ascribe. We collectively made fun of that guy at google, i thought, but now somehow the collective has moved on to believing that matrix multiplication is sentient
I feel like there are two parallel discourses going on here, and it's crazy.

On the one hand, we have LLM, and people arguing that they are simply memorizing the internet and what you're getting is a predictive regurgitation from what actual people have said.

On the other hand, you have AI Art, and people arguing that it's not just copy-pasting the images it's recognized, and it's actually generating novel outputs by learning 'how to draw'.

Do you see a commonality?

It's that people are arguing whatever happens to be convenient for them.

If a model can generate human-like responses, and it has a large input token size that effectively allows it to maintain a 'memory' by sticking the history in as the input rather than being a one-shot text generator...

Really.

What is the difference between that and AGI?

Does your AGI definition mean you have to have demonstrated understanding of the underlying representations that are put in as text?

Does it have to be error free?

What fundamental aspect of probabilistic text generation means that it can't be AGI?

...because, it seems to me that it's incredibly convenient to define AGI as something that can't be represented by a LLM, when all you have really is a probabilistic output generator, and a model that currently doesn't do anything interesting.

...and it doesn't. It's not AGI. Right now; but your comment suggests that because of the technical process that the output is generated by that LLMs are fundamentally unable to produce AGI; and I think that's not correct.

The technical process is not relevant; it's simply that these models are not sophisticated enough to really be considered AGI.

...but a 5000 billion param model with a billion character token size? I dunno. I think it might start looking pretty hard to argue about.
The Inflation Reduction Act appropriated $15M for the IRS to assemble a task force to explore the feasibility of the IRS building a free file system that would replace what TurboTax provides. It’s mentioned near the end of the post.

Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34764952
It can't be what you say because there is no variance between posts.
Wait, what?

No, regulations do not incentivise bad security practices at all. In fact, they are one of the only tools to enforce good security practices.
Podman has a Docker-compatible service API, so you can use it via docker-compose.
2010s. I believe it was on Cermak several blocks west of the L. IDK if still there or not.
Roger C. Schank, Theorist of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 76
To play nuclear shill's advocate, there might be a space where the crewing issues aren't a deal breaker.

If your fuel is comparatively cheap, there's no reason to slow steam anymore, and hull speed for a 400m long vessel is quite high. If your crew costs 20x as much but you're moving 5x as fast with half the fuel costs, it may pencil out.
The fields of human-computer interaction, and UI/UX design have experiments.

Testing various compiler optimizations for practicality, etc. are also commonly done.
I do agree. But being able to combine old ideas in new ways is also intelligence. LLMs have memorized a ton of information, and learned “information combinators” to compose them. All that’s missing is a clean way for LLMs to engage in the scientific method.
If you don't care about JS and just want a good hypertext document viewer with decent HTML and CSS support, I think it shouldn't be too hard to beat mainstream browsers on performance.
An IDE using 2 GB of RAM? 2010 called, they want their IDE back.

In all seriousness I love me some JetBrains's, but boy do they eat RAM like there's no tomorrow.

Still a paying and satisfied customer.
How do we encourage other repos like Ubuntu to update to this version? I'd love to have some Ubuntu like distro that has faster / rolling updates for WSL and some VMs. Even the next version of Ubuntu is still stuck on version 3.4...
The first thing that came to mind is possible encrypted C2 channel using random blogs? Others have more interesting theories but this is what C2 over twitter or something would look like and If I had to guess the posts are base64 containing encrypted data.

I am fairly confident this isn't related to looking for vulns.
How do you move on to other layers of complexity if you don’t know anything. History books have trivially had answers to questions about history for centuries, does that mean we should take it for “granted” and no one needs yo actually know anything about history?

Where does this idea come from that you can be a Terence Tap of mathematics without even knowing basic algebra?
ChatGPT's attempt: https://gist.github.com/iameli/d9a5b715ec9baa5b11063888e054d...

Are those two responses enough to say it's invented a language? Probably not. But it's already farther along than I would have gotten if you asked me to do such a thing.

If I kept prompting it for hours, I bet it would start to contradict itself and lose track of the rules it had already established, but so would I. If I were actually inventing a language, I'd take months and keep extensive cross-referenced documentation on grammar and syntax and vocabulary. We don't _let_ ChatGPT do that, it has no mechanism for persisting its ideas like that. But like... neither would I if you took away my notebook and the parts of my brain that persist long-term memory.

I guess my interpretation here - I see differences in _capabilities_, but not differences in actual _intelligence_.
On rare occasion I’ve encountered companies (let’s say foo.com) that prohibit the string “foo.com” from being in the email address I sign up with — some slightly broken defense against preclaim or impersonation attacks I guess?
>I think it's still helpful to remember that even when a company does lay-offs and while thousands of people are losing their jobs, the vast majority are not. News articles don't state "100K engineers at company XYZ not effected by lay-offs".

You are absolutely right. I think it's just a bit of a personal reckoning that I'm coming to terms with lately, given the prospect of losing my job.

I've spent the last decade committing my entire life to software. I eat, think, sleep, and breathe software. It's the sole source of my sense of self worth. But I don't have a college degree, and it feels like things have changed dramatically over that decade. The market is flush with CS grads with 5+ years of experience now, and I know that I don't stand a chance against them in landing a job. I think the vast majority of my anxiety now is that I will never get another job again after being laid off. I have no other skills or education, so it's either six figures making software, or flipping burgers for me.
This take is widely prevalent in every single ChatGPT discussion.

I'll quote myself for discussion for a previous article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34746348

> I've find two groups of people on this subject, first one has taken a graduate level stat course and/or ML course, and may have work experience in machine learning/data science. The latter camp is more numerous and did not do those things.

> The latter group are far more hyped about ChatGPT et al, despite explanation by the first group.

> Don't get me wrong, ChatGPT is very exciting, just not in the way it is frequently portrait to be, in particular, development on this model will not lead to General Intelligence, which is not a data training/stat problem altogether. With how the ML field is shaping up to be today, it doesn't even look to be a Machine Learning problem.

And let me just add a ridiculous comparison, since you are assuming that it is a path towards AGI:

> iPhone 4 isn't fusion energy. It's incredibly useful and a tectonic shift in the cellphone industry, but it's not producing energy. The analogy might sound completely insane, but that's how different machine learning of today and general intelligence is.

While AI of today feels like a blackbox, at every stage of its training we know to a degree what it is doing, and once trained, it is as deterministic as a few billion interconnected if else connected to a random seed generator. It could do a lot of things, acquiring a mind of its own isn't one of it.

I wouldn't be worried just yet, because AGI is something that research have barely had an idea on how it's going to look outside of our brain, or even inside. I'm not saying that it will never come, just that I highly doubt it will be invented in my lifetime. In the meanwhile, I have something that all of bots today won't have, initiative.
> Ease of development. Ease of maintenance. Seperation of concerns.

I'm not convinced. Managing processes is much more complex than managing threads, particularly if the code should be cross-platform. You need a very good library to hide away all the nasty OS specific details. Same goes for pipes or sockets. Then there is the whole issue of message (de)serialization. I don't see how this can possibly be easier than starting a thread and communicating with concurrent queue.

I mean, subprocesses certainly have their use cases, but I would never see them as a drop-in replacement for threads.

> you can simplify by letting the OS handle some of that.

Processes and threads are both OS resources. For the OS scheduler they are practically equivalent.
I have been starting to use Proton, no real complaints about it so far but have yet to leave gmail. Fairly sick of various aspects of gmail/google and am ready to move on.
https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/i-taught-chatgpt-to-inv...

My bet would be that in ten years GPT would get pretty good at it, but eh, I dunno.
hn hasnt really been like hackaday for a long time.
Conway's Law comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
having to disclose HIV status to sex partners
Entire engineering / infrastructure team quit. I hired in just after last one gave notice. System was in complete collapse. Nothing was documented. I had to reboot servers at random to even find out what might get system going again.

Couple weeks in CEO asked when new feature would be ready.

It took that level of complete absurdity for me to finally say no.
I eventually rebuilt the entire infrastructure, scaled traffic 3x, hired and trained new team.
It was about a year before I would even listen to a request for a new feature. Took me a long time to recover from that job.
It looks like a gimmick for mountain bike configurations that have huge cassettes in the back, requiring the derailleur to have a long cage to pick up slack.

I don't understand why you wouldn't just get off the bike and walk instead of shifting to some 42T+ cog. It would be less embarrassing.
What about EAD card holders?
You could say the same about a photography class, that all you're teaching your students to do is push buttons rather than paint a scene.
Is there a reason you can't load it up as a pdf with pdf.js?
Personal contact. A genuine smile from a human being. A moment of genuine human contact, when you and another person touch each other's lives. The more AI takes over (if it does), the more those things will be precious.
> Plus it's a language that breaks backwards compatibility way too often

I havent ever had any PHP code I wrote get broken by a PHP update in over 20 years.

PHP is still the simplest way to get any API going.
I have one of these, but, with the 10G network option and never saw this issue.

Have to say I'm loving that little Mac mini. It was relatively cheap, it's absurdly fast, it's completely silent, it sits mounted to my wall behind my monitors.
I hate this framing so much. "Ah you wish to quantify things you observe to establish relationships, how very envious-of-physics you must be".

If one wants to say that a given model is bad for the data, fair cop, but just say that. Ffs.
The phrase is extremely cringe. I've read polls where actual latin/hispanic persons stated they hated the term.

The phrase 'latin' is already "ungendered".

Also in Spanish most words are gendered, I believe "cat" is "gato" or "gata". Should that be "gatx" too?
You missed that the establishment does this "on purpose" because it helps them keep their position, not because they care about about equality, because as you say it achieves the opposite. It's the nature of any kind of "diversity" or "equity" initiative. Nobody actually disadvantaged asked for this
There's an M1 Mac Mini. What's this about a touchpad?
Where did you learn to compose your thoughts and write them long form? If you were an autodidact then do you think that is a representative example?
In silence? You haven’t gone back to the office yet have you? Creation happens in a bunch of noise and distractions.
My intuition is basically its like networking. Using broadcast on a shared medium works fine for small groups, but in big groups it overwhelms. Similarly, in small groups flat structure is fine, but eventually in large groups you have to spend 110% of your time managing relationships and stakeholders, which simply isn't practical.

And that is true even if the group is the best people possible. The only way would be to have no disagreement, but then you would probably be creatively dead.

To put another way, i suspect communication scales quasi linearly with managers, but at least quadratically without.