skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been blogging for more than a decade on my own site (https://den.dev).

1. Got my break in the tech industry thanks to a blog post on some reverse engineering tinkering I've been doing.

2. On multiple occasions, I ended up searching online for a problem only to land on a blog post I wrote years ago, so I use it as my own reference every once in a while.

3. Connected to a network of folks in the companies I've worked at (and continue to work in) thanks to blog posts where I tinker with APIs and all sorts of random stuff ("Oh yeah - I've seen that blog post before.") that I wouldn't run into otherwise.

4. Got way better at writing and expressing my thoughts clearly, especially when it comes to more technical topics, thanks to having a public forcing function.
I leave wavemon running in a terminal just for sport these days to see what my ax200 and ax210 are doing. It is always a mysterious surprise to see what rx and tx values might be seen at any given time.
My father died from metastasized prostate cancer. If/when I get it I won’t do “watchful waiting”. I’m going to get the most aggressive treatment possible.
I see you've played knifey spoony before
I mean this is impossible to measure right? You'd have to compare all possible outputs of GPT3 with all possible outputs of GPT4.

You can get away with a random sample. But there's a lot of bias in that sample and it's hard to control it. Out of the infinite possibilities there definitely exists sets of inputs and outputs where both GPT3 and GPT4 are always wrong.

On the other side of the coin there are also sets where GPT4 is always right and GPT3 is always wrong and vice versa.

Given that there's no methodology to control what is "random" in these sets it's hard to come up with a good metric.

So the 0.5 thing is a bit of anecdotal number from the gut.
Not sure if an AI tutor is a “poorer” substitute for ALL human teachers given there are many teachers who aren’t be try qualified teaching
The ICC doesn't (can't) impose the death penalty.
Rust Result type mimic in TypeScript
Use Rust Result types in TypeScript to handle errors easier in both sync/async functions.
"The people that disagree with me are stupid and easily manipulated, not smart like me."

And any situation where people disagree with me is due to dark and malevolent forces.
> AI can't know anything (right now).

Only for very specific (and IMO useless) definitions of the word "know". Does it matter if the thing a submarine does is called "swimming" or not?

In any practical sense, even obsolete ancestors of this model definitely "know" more French than I learned in 5 years of mandatory school lessons.

That said, regardless of the definition of the word "know"…

> The youth who are critical of capitalism certainly have turned a wary eye on the school system -- after all primary education has been designed to create money makers for corporations.

I don't know what you're talking about here.

The soviet bloc countries were very proud of their schooling system, rightly or wrongly; and conversely corporations don't really get much out of primary education, which is often described as being essentially no better than daycare for slightly older kids.
That’s wonderful! I have a similar background and am also surprised at how I learnt and still remember it even though it is quite distant from modern Persian
That does not make me feel any safer. The problem is that ChatGPT et.al. can include that part of the creation process in their token space.

So it's perfectly possible to have it eventually iterate back and forth with the client and not only output the code but also the conversation with the client leading up to it
I read somewhere that it's a huge money loser for Amazon. Alexa being such a big part of Amazon's identity, could they shut it down without losing face though?
I guess one way you could do that is create more stop sequences like "for Example:" and then split off mini language models and to generate each segment. Although I'm not sure how you would not get duplicates.
Imagine an LLM was trained on the internet before LLMs were invented. It knows everything in the world. Every programming concept, every philosophical and logical concept. It is an "expert" on the then-current state of the art in machine learning.

Would it be able to invent itself?

I'm not moving the goalposts here. Language models are extremely impressive. I think they will change the world. I fear they will displace many jobs.

Maybe some day they will be able to invent themselves. Maybe that will come sooner than we think. As it stands, they couldn't. This is the distinction that you say doesn't exist.
imo Paul Dawkins' series of books are very well written, helpful and free:

https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
In this meeting with Putin, Maria Lvova-Belova personally thanks him for adopting a child from Mariupol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhjcwbLAr0I

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/02/16/putins-childrens-e...
Ask HN: Why is my Karma not rising with my upvotes?
My Karma was 914 before I posted two articles this morning and they received a total of 137 upvotes, but as of right now my Karma is only 953.

Just trying to understand, thanks!
For a split second, I thought you used "cyclepaths" as a slur for people riding bicycles.
I think we've tried the "we could make education better by spending more on it" method. Based on the current state of public education, I don't know that this approach has been proven correct.
When I was a kid in the late 90's making a personal website was my motivation to learn programming. In my 20's it was my blog while I traveled around the world, which I used as a way to communicate with my family and friends. Now in my 30's it's helped me excel my career in web/software development as I have turned it into a side project to build a desktop environment in the browser.

Feel free to check it out: https://dustinbrett.com/
It just fakes it with AI :D
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking
Welp, I officially have AI fatigue. I think I need to take a break from it, which I guess means HN. See you all later this year, if everything still exists by then!
I agree that this is old as the hills. I was reading a text recently that cited medical claims of electricity curing cancers in the 1870s.

I'd assume there's more nuance this time around. At least I'd hope so.

The article points to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreversible_electroporation

You can do quite a bit with electrical signals, perhaps there's some novel instruments and feedback loops being used
I have a kid in high school and gave them keys to my Midjourney account while it was still in beta, and to ChatGPT when I got in.

It's been an incredible aid that she now turns to first with questions about e.g how to approach specific problems in Newtonian physics, etc. She uses Midjourney to source artwork which she can then overpaint and collage in covers and illustration (not to do art projects for her). She's used Kagi summarizer to accelerate research.

We have discussed in depth the idea that at this moment her awareness and access to such tools represents an "unevenly distributed" future and is leverage and advantage. She's hence advocating these tools to peers.

The Young Lady's Primer is not that distant.
Politeia in the Polis
Epistemologically speaking, I think we can roughly break down the potential nature of consciousness into three categories:

- as a function of an independent human soul

- as the fundamental substrate on which the rest of the universe is built

- as a byproduct/secondary phenomenon of physical processes

In the latter two cases I believe that the question of whether GPT is conscious is immaterial. In either case it is functioning in the same medium we all are when we talk, think, write. In the first case it is not, and the question is thornier.
The argument goes like this: lies by Fox are worse than lies perpetuated by cnn, msnbc, abc, etc. Of course, that argument suits one political party and the class that tries to shape the public.
Looks incredible! Is this something people will be able to run at home, using an OpenAI key?
I don't need a leopard to tear out my jugular to think it's real. I'd settle for just spotting one.
I've used chatgpt and while it's mediocre, even bad at writing code, it's very good at reading code and explaining it in a way that's easier to understand. It's also good at giving hints and starting point for when you don't quite familiar with the language feature / library.

From writing code, they're good at bootstrapping unit tests and skeleton code, also useful at transpiling dto / entities between languages.

Overall if you're willing to learn and not just treat a gpt as code monkey, they're very useful.
What in your opinion could adequately make the case?
The less you know about something, the more impactful are the next few things you learn.

But you still need to learn a lot about some subject if you want to use it professionally.
"Goofy problems [...] abound for a _long time_ with seemingly no solution" is the norm in desktop Linux.
Ask HN: Online Writers Under 30?
At first I was going to ask for “bloggers” under 30, because I’m really interested in seeing if there are any young people who have garnered a following through their own personal websites, but I suspect that to be kind of a rarity. I’ll settle also for anyone under 30 with a relatively popular Substack, or account on the Fediverse, or stuff like that.

Just please, no Twitter-ers.

But if you know anyone who satisfies my initial interest and doesn’t compose text content on Twitter, or is not a Vlogger, please share.

Popularity is not a necessity. I suspect that a lot of these writers may operate within certain niches. Niche followings are the among the best though. TIA.
my original question was what realm of solutions are they advocating

I don't take lightly to suggestions that we enact police states, highly authoritarian government controls, and other state or capital extremes that I've seen that community / the alignment folks advocate for as you can find when you look past their concern and fears
I had a bunch of allergy blood tests after having an allergic reaction to kiwi fruit. My results came back "severely allergic" to almond and sesame, both of which I have eaten all my life with zero issues. No antibodies to any of the pollen I am actually allergic to or to kiwi. I didn't show any allergies to anything when they gave me a skin prick test either, despite having had hay fever my entire life, which was ultimately the cause of the kiwi allergy via oral allergy syndrome. The doctor basically shrugged and told me "allergy testing is more of an art than a science."
Ya. It's just in some situations, an error triggers a series of other errors. For example, in an exception handler, there could be a follow-up error.

So often, the first line of error is where I need to look. But for a long log, locating it is not that easy.
Every once in a while on HN, somebody posts about having taken a very large e-ink display and hooking it to an arduino to, daily, just post the front page of a newspaper. The thing is then just hung on a wall.

I'd love to have that, but those displays are $5000 or so.

If a business has a waiting room, it would be a fine thing to hang on the wall there.
Ironically, I run a machine with a Realtek Wifi 6 chip and it works great on Linux, despite everything I read online was that Realtek is to be avoided on Linux and Intel should be the go-to.

In a similar fashion, I was also luckier with Nvidia proprietary drivers on Linux than with AMD open source drivers.

Seems like HW on Linux really is a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
My two cents is that the parts of the job that are more like product management will become more dominant but still not exclusive, and the parts that were more like coding will become less dominant but still not vanish. Many of us, as you describe, already do jobs that look a lot like this. But for me, it's not consistently that way; there are periods where I'm almost entirely coding, and periods where I'm almost entirely doing communication. I do expect a shift in this balance over time.

The other thing that I spend a huge amount of my time doing - consistently more than writing code - is debugging. Maybe these models really will get to the point where I can train one on our entire system (in a way that doesn't hand over all our proprietary code to another company...), describe a bug we're seeing, and have it find the culprit with very high precision, but this seems very far from where the current models are. Every time I try to get them to help me debug, it ends in frustration. They can find and fix the kinds of bugs that I don't need help debugging, but not the ones that are hard.
Hi HN,

I made https://glicol.org and I found recently music live coding in terminal very interesting for the freedom to choose any familiar text editor. I am not sure how long I can work on this in the future so I can only do as much as I can in the coming few days.

It would be great if Windows/Linux users can also test the sound and give me some feedback! Cheers!
Depends on the field kinda. For a really extreme case, something like big dense linear algebra is going to just use BLAS calls anyway. For big enough matrices, all of the flops are coming from the library, the cost of calling from Python vs the cost of calling from C or Fortran is amortized anyway, and probably most people won’t beat a tuned BLAS however much developer time they throw at it.

It makes more sense to tune libraries excessively, we could say it is less of a trade off, more of an allocation of the finite low-level tuning developer resources to high-impact libraries.

Anyway it turns out that the only way to get most people to link to a good BLAS is to use Numpy and distribute it through some giant Anaconda Rube Goldberg machine, so, I dunno, people are weird.
I was surprised by that one. I’ve tried to get it to do that but there was a safeguard in place at the time where it refused to imitate his style.
Just as we can tie our shoes without studying knots, many people can feel iambic pentameter without having any idea what the term means. Many can't, too, or can but only vaguely. Still, those people are still on par with chatgpt when it comes to scansion. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody with a worse sense of meter, let alone 100x worse (again, without knowing any of the terminology etc.)
I haven't proactively blogged in over 10 years, but when I did (mostly in the 2000-2009 range), almost everything ended up coming from it. I had a publishing company reach out to me to write a book about what I was blogging about (Ruby at the time), launched a professional blog off the back of it, had folks reach out for me to speak and/or chair their events, etc. I can connect a lot of dots back to blogging. I really should take it up again.
We have words for this already: technocracy, authoritarianism, etc.

the liberals among them or capitalist libertarians don't round out the spectrum of political views when it comes to ideas that community popularly advocates.

advocates for strong gatekeeping and violence against any public subversion of it, within a centralized power whether capital or state, is getting at different flavors of the same kind of tyranny that you'll end up with whether liberal, conservative, capitalist libertarian.
Now we will also have AI flaws.

"Sorry boss, it's not my fault, it's my AI that made a mistake."
Nope, not necessarily. And not necessarily someone who thinks it is stupid.

I'll take a dice roll at a new devil. We know the current one is pretty bad and isn't likely to improve on his own.
So playing devils advocate, isn't it supposed to prevent crawlers (etc) from reading (ie accessing) those web pages?
Default gc depends on how many cpus and ram vm has. With 1 core it is always serialgc, for example. 2 cores and less than 4 gb - concurrent mark and sweep IIRC. G1GC starts a bit later.
> C++

Do you literally mean 1) C++, 2) just a lower level language with control over those or 3) reading the relevant libraries or system code implementing IPC etc. (isn't it in C not C++?)?
Meta’s Paid Verification Program for Instagram Is Rolling Out Today
San Francisco’s Bay Bridge Goes Dark, Needs Millions to Turn the Lights Back On
So I wonder if Putitn attends the G20, which he has done in the past, can he be arrested there ?
Archive [1]

How do we test this in humans? Supplement D-serine [2] and have a control group?

[1] - https://archive.ph/GZjKL

[2] - https://examine.com/supplements/d-serine/
Shareholders sue Google, claim it hid anticompetitive ad practices
Well...

Microsoft ditched its QA unit a while ago.

My employer posts multiple (10+) marketing and sales job openings currently on Linkedin but there is no money for an additional "QA resource".

The list goes on, and this is one of the effects.
I think there was a comment on this site yesterday where someone was talking about how we shouldn’t let people who don’t know how these “ai” tools work deploy said tools to evaluate mortgage applicants or manage defense systems, and that the technically minded should act as a buffer for those who rtfm. And here we are.

Are there any real gains in giving kids ipads in classrooms? Did anyone have an actual plan in how such a tool could help kids or is it just “tech good?”
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Oh, hey, a nice steaming cup of tea!

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>> For a human, that is all that's needed to recognise a hand, i.e.

Blast it! Cover blown.

:poof:
We once hired some folks from Nantucket,

Who, confronted with work, would just duck it.

We regret to relay,

On this unfortunate day,

They all have been told now, "Hey, suck it!"
This kind of offhand dismissal sometimes makes sense, but sometimes there are actually dark and malevolent forces at work. Which is true this time?
You might find my comment elsewhere in the thread of interest,

my high school age kid is able to leverage AI in a way that is augmenting rather than replacing her native intelligence, and accelerating her own learning and integration.

I find these tools are not unlike "smart drugs"—a necessary aid to some, a destructive crutch for others, and performance enhancement for a subset of the already competitive seeking advantage.

Gattaca approaches from an unexpected direction...

(I have joked that encouraging use of AI but forbidding social media, feels not unlike championing psychedelics while decrying stimulants and opioids.)
Spycraft: The Great Game, Part 2
TFA discusses how randomized controlled trials were used to obtain their conclusions which do actually discuss causation. You're free to disagree with the study but you are incorrect in calling the article out as having a causation fallacy.
victorribeiro.com - people usually compliment me on it. My coworkers liked it a lot, but I can't remember if my current boss took it in consideration when I was applying for the job. I made it just for fun though, no intent to get anything out of it.
So we just have to figure out if developer-hours or customer-hours are the tighter bottleneck.
Can someone break this down? Since this seems to be inferencing without having the entire model loaded into memory, is it possible this could be a way to relax memory requirements of the 65b model?
Massive amounts of inflammatory PUFAs.

No, palm oil is terrible and everywhere in ultra processed food because it's extremely cheap.

There are few healthy vegetable oils and they tend to be very expensive: olive, macadamia, coconut, etc.

EDIT: I stand corrected, it has moderate amounts of PUFA, but terrible Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio (45/1), which is thought to have metabolic consequences.
There are some cool ideas in here. I've long been curious why people don't use mmap to re-use all those wonderful pages that got loaded (without reparsing the disk data).
It is pretty possible digitally, at least I haven't had much problems doing it with PDFs on good fast reader.

Just not in the web way where going further almost always incurs some load time so it is impossible to skim, and it always wants to shove ad in-between
What's with people going with such odd distros? I mean Raspbian is alright, but why would you use it outside of the Raspberry Pi? I'm sure Ken Thompson knows what he's doing, but I see this sort of mistake all the time with Linux newcomers. They pick some random obscure distro and then wonder why "Linux sucks".
It got me laid.

In 1996 I was a teenager and my dad taught me html and ftp. I wrote a website with some cheesy poems and drawings, and uploaded it to geocities/athens/acropolis. Also, I put links to my page on several web directories. A girl from another city read that website and sent an email to me. It would be untoward to tell the rest of the story.
Ha! Only thing missing from this is: “Bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed.”
Could you please give the dmesg and/or other relevant id for your Realtek device? I'm getting tired of these Intel ax2?0 issues. I'm not much of a Bluetooth user but does it also work well?
GitHub Copilot!
I guess the wording threw me of. For me, the „model“ references just the geometry. Which is what the post states is smaller (=less triangles). But if you include all the assets for the coin in that, yes it’s not simpler/smaller.
or you have the main model just generate a list of bullet points and/or other lists points. then it create one word for each of the list items then generate the rest of the sentence.
Not news, but yes, early introduction of allergens is best to reduce/mitigate allergies.

The only approved treatment of peanut allergy is basically nothing else than slightly roasted peanut protein packed up in appropriate sized packages that increase the dose slowly.

Given the prevalence of peanut allergy and other allergies in the US vs. RoW I found it interesting that a product like SpoonfulONE recently announced they would stop sales in the US due to low interest and focus on RoW.
After confirming we had no history of nut allergies in either family, our pediatrician gave us a free sample of a peanut butter/apple sauce baby food when my daughter was ~3 or 4 months old. I must have spent hundreds of dollars on the stuff over time because it was her favorite. Unfortunately the brand seems to no longer exist. https://my-peanut.com

My wife now makes the baby food from scratch since with triplets it would become quite expensive quite quickly to buy premade. Those My Peanut pouches were awfully convenient though.

When did the apparent uptick in peanut allergies begin? There was no one in my entire school (~1,000 students) with a severe peanut allergy but now peanuts are banned entirely from campus. Did peanuts change or did children change>
POSIX ls's manpage has examples. Well, one example, of `-laRF`.

But also I can't imagine what good more examples will do anyway. `-lahR` cover the vast majority of common uses.
For certain use-cases, this approach is actually _more_ convenient, i.e. supporting old platforms. If I'm trying to build a modern piece of software on Tiger, but it turns out I need to first back-port cctools from Leopard, they've made that task extremely convenient for me.
C++ makes C bigger, returning the same value.
The link seems to be experiencing a mysterious outage, reporting "404" when I visit the page. Other bugs seem to be fine. Not sure what's going on.

Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20230317164517/https://bugzilla....
This is literally an article with proof that the previous guidance we was wrong and actively harmful to the children that were subjected to it.
Not just communicate well yourself, but also to understand what someone else is communicating poorly.
shhhhh don't tell them or it may get vanished
If I were still at bigcorp, I’d love a browser extension that does this automatically to all comms from HR, VPs and execs. It’s actually one of the better use cases for GPT so far. I missed Mickey Mouse though.
Laying you off both literally (the communique) and metaphorically (by doing your job at 60% quality for 1% of the cost).