skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am obese, I have been fighting my weight nearly my entire life. At one point I did manage to get down to a "normal" weight and body fat percentage, but it took more than 7 years of concerted disciplined effort to do so, and it disappeared in less than 6 months by no longer eating as a significant calorie deficit, despite a massive increase in physical activity. For many obese people, for reasons we don't fully understand, our metabolism does not work the same as for people who are not obese.

The first time we've had any sort of medical intervention that seems to actually address this is the invention of GLP1 agonists and similar medications. Most insurance providers REFUSE to provide coverage for these medications, even though they are a net positive for the patient and society. Taking a GLP1 agonist while obese can straight-out /prevent/ the development of Type 2 Diabetes, even while you are still obese, and can cure some people of Type 2 Diabetes while they are ungoing further treatment.

I am very lucky in that my insurance does cover this treatment. The insurance of several of my friends (who are on ostensibly "better" plans because their premiums are more heavily covered by their employers) does not cover this. If I could make one legal change to the healthcare system in the US, it would be to require insurance providers to cover preventative treatments for obesity. Obesity is the primary cause of chronic health problems in the US, and it's nearly entirely preventable with proper care, but it's almost impossible to get that care /even as a tech worker with employer-provided insurance/.

It should be affordable and accessible for nearly anyone in the US to get access to GLP1 agonists and a dietitian. It isn't currently. Lacking this, means that obesity will continue to be a social disease that drives up healthcare costs and drives down productivity, quality of life, and total life outcomes in the US.
They certainly shouldn't be. Unfortunately a lot of employers require it without knowing why. They could often get cheaper employees with sufficient technical skills.

I am a big fan of what college can bring, to the interested student. But that stuff is hard to test for and often isn't what employers are interviewing for. (And when they do, they often lump it under "culture fit", which is too often used to exclude people based on their prejudices.)
That's allowed in the IO monad, and, really, it's allowed. The idea in Haskell is to have many contexts where side effects are not allowed so that in those contexts your code must be pure, and pure code is easier to write tests for and reason about.
The Switch does not contain modern hardware, though. It has, viewed from the year 2023, a ten-year-old low-end smartphone CPU and what amounts to a GeForce 830M. This is consistent with Nintendo's past strategy. The Wii, when it was launched, was similar to a 10-year-old PowerBook G3, in a white box.
There's probably a good reason why it's ingored...
So we should be good for a while. The RCON interface this uses is always forward compatible with new Java editions.

Bedrock also uses RCON but there are subtle differences with the commands available.

If Microsoft ever does drop Java Edition I'd likely rework this to support Bedrock. I'm hoping this won't happen - they are keeping Java up to date with Bedrock presently but the new editor mode for Bedrock is a worrying development (maybe).
Absolutely, definitely at lower speeds. But that's the thing. When you're driving there should be consistency. You get behind the wheel, you read the way things com to you (or you go towards them).
I learned way more useful skills from getting internet access in 1998 than from 90% of my in school teachers (and I went to a decent public school).

For kids that are curious and want to learn - access to something like gpt-4 is amazing. All I had were guides like Eric S. Raymond's how to be a hacker that I had stumbled onto while trying to learn. It was so much harder to learn programming back then if you didn't know where to start and nobody around you knew about it.

With gpt-4 you can just ask and get examples.
The same devs who write that restaurant website produce the same horrifically inefficient code in Javascript now.

Flash wasn't the problem.
Even so India won't take programming works for the same reason no other country can. They're only a percentage of programmers that are outstanding there, the rest are mediocre. Because their population is huge and the programming lesson reach widely, they produce more outstanding programmers than other country, but still won't be enough.
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Shaders can compensate for a lot of geometry. The humans in Doom 3 look like formless mudmen on the lowest graphic settings, but with all the intended shaders applied, detail emerges.
while I might buy that the past is strongly influenced by the present (“facts” change over time), I don’t think we have much of a model for the future to say much of anything about how it influences the past.

Or, I guess the point is, maybe it’s the same thing.
heedfullness and fear are closely related. similar to hate and resolve.
I think I’m on the contrary of the opinion that AI , phones and tablets also help kids … humanity needs these tools to process the vast amount of information that is continuously generated. By getting familiar with these tools the kids are getting equipped for the future not for the past. But while we do that I agree that we should also equip kids with the ability to focus and persevere and being patient. In fact we need to focus more on these abilities. We need to focus on the inside world as much or more as we focus on the outside world. Both needs to be done hand in hand to progress.
There are few better ways to increase your learning on a technical topic than to write a post about it and get lucky getting traction on HN. I wrote a post on State Machines a few years ago and the feedback I got from the HN community was incredible in helping me refine the post and deepen my understanding of the topic.

(https://blog.markshead.com/869/state-machines-computer-scien...)
I think there must be some sort of culture gap in play here. I've been told to "google it" more times than I could ever count and not once have I perceived a condescending intent. And similarly, I have told people to google things many times and not once did I mean it to be condescending.

Usually it means "I don't know the answer off-hand, but I know that I could find it if I googled it. Therefore I'm telling you how I would find the answer." I know such advice is useful, even though everybody knows that google exists already, because most times that I was on the receiving end of this response, googling it really was the solution for me and I just needed somebody to snap their fingers in my face and remind me that I know how to find the answer myself.

"google it" is usually useful advice when I am on the receiving end of it, so I don't think it's condescending at all. Ditto "RTFM". If I turn to my coworker and ask "Hey Jimbo, what's the flag for making GNU Tar do bzip2 compression?", maybe he knows the answer off the top of his head and tells me -j, but likely he doesn't know, knows that he could find out in about 5 seconds with the manpage, and tells me to check the manpage. Which is wholly fair; we both know how to search a manpage, so why should he do that on my behalf instead of reminding me that I can look it up myself? I don't perceive any condescension here.
Imagine that these prompts are not triggered by humans anymore, but by the AI invoking itself.

Sam Altman takes comfort in the thought that their AI does nothing without a human prompting it, so it has a human in the loop, as a circuit breaker if you will.

This assumption is rapidly becoming a mere hope, as right now probably hundreds of developers are working on systems which, when put into production and connected to other systems, might just come down to: the AI is calling itself, and giving itself orders.
How cool. (Iranian born here.) So curious on your take on the meaning of that prayer. How would you translate it?
If you render a bump map, the graphics system actually creates geometry and draws it. This is a normal map, which just fiddles with the lighting to make it approximately match what you would get if the details were actually there.

The normal map probably takes up slightly more memory than all the geometry that is in the more complex model, but the more complex model causes the gpu to render a lot more triangles which is a lot more work. Looking up values in the normal map is something the gpu is very good at.
...what? That makes no sense.
Intel have Hard IP in their Stratix/Agilex parts. They've got integrated PCS and PMA in their dedicated transceiver tiles. Agilex supports 10G to 400G too.
Didn't the US have control of NordStream 2 simply by sanctions placed on insurance companies? I recall reading that no insurance company would insure the pipeline since it would go against US sanctions and additionally no company could purchase the nat gas since it would also go against sanctions of dealing with Russian companies.
Current chatbots are most definitely not suitable for teaching. They make stuff up and are optimised for making that bullshit as realistic as possible. I'm skeptical they will ever be suitable—but that's just an opinion—but that they are not suitable now is an objective fact.
Yeah right .. I still remember when you could gain access to a MBPs root account using a blank password.
I think the question was more tuned to physical ram disks, but I'm not sure.

Either way, how many terabytes were being written each day? And how much can your drive take? It looks like I could go pay $60 right now for 600TB of endurance, and $35 for 200TB of endurance. If you already have the extra ram than go for it but it doesn't seem like a setup to make on purpose.

Maybe your backup system has far more writes than mine? I have terabytes of backups but the average written for each daily backup is about 10GB.
I think that like with the UN resolutions to condemn Russia, while everyone understands that the action has no teeth, it serves as a symbolic action to signal commitment. With this, I imagine the thinking is that countries which continue to recognize the legitimacy of the ICC will be implicitly signaling even stronger opposition to Putin's regime.
Technically it started my career. I was doing stuff with code and blogging about it and a recruiter found my blog and put me in the pipeline for my first Full time job. This was a long time ago but it did it's job at the time. There were a few things that helped my blog get noticed.

1. I was coding in public. (Lesson: Be transparent)

2. I was working in a language that was starting to vanish which meant that there were fewer people writing about it like me. (Lesson: Find a niche)
The breakthrough of ChatGPT is not a brilliant literary work per se.

It's how it interprets what people write and provides coherent answers. This was not possible previously.

AlphaZero, chess algos do not have to break this barrier, they work form a very clear and well-defined input. It was clear that a mixture of machine brute force and smart thinking would eventually beat us at these games. No magic here. Alpha family algos are /very/ understandable.

Language, on the contrary, is fundamentally not very well defined. Is it flawed, fluid, diverse... not possible to formalize and make it properly machine-readable. All the smaller bits (words, syntax, etc) are easy. But how these things come together - this can be only vaguely described through rigid formal frammars, but never fully.

Compare that to how on the lowest level we understand our brain very well. Every neuron is a trivial building brick. It's how super-complex functions of input to output arise from these trivial pieces - that's amazing. Every neural network is unique. Abstractions, layers of knowledge - everything is there. And it's kind of unique for every human so unknowable in the general case...
There are several long-range wireless gateways that use Fast Ethernet just because the RF link is the bottleneck. When you run up against physics, there's just no point in supporting a gigabit path in/out.
I just tried it out and apparently the video player uses ActionScript 3. Oh well, I just use VLC anyway.
Has anyone ever seen an interface that plugs into the MII port pictured in that article? I had a Sun machine with that connector but I never had an adapter for it. There was also a normal RJ45 jack so I didn’t need one but I was always curious.
Pebble Power Place Value sounds like a good name for a math game. Unfortunately, the generated game is incomprehensible. What's the "starting space"? The game board is described as having (2?) spaces marked for ones and tens, then later it has two sections. So I think two spaces/sections based on the description. Or maybe it has 20 spaces in two sections?

The article's defense seems to be that it is just a draft. I tried to get past a draft by asking for explanations of various terms and how play proceeds. No luck. If I hadn't already taught place value to first-graders, I'm not sure I'd have much luck figuring out how to have the AI help me improve the game. If I hadn't yet learned place value because I'm still in first grade and haven't worked with larger numbers yet, I'm sure I would not have much luck collaborating on game design. Also... it is a bit of a reach to assume a first-grader would have the written language skills to pull off collaborating in this fashion.

As a first-grader, I would be able to ask a grown-up if they know of any math games that would help me understand place-value. They might hand me an iPad chock-full of various math games for a little personalized learning. They might also point me to the bin of math games on the shelf, where I could pick out one of a few games on place-value. If I didn't understand the games, I might again ask a grown-up for an explanation, and they would probably direct me to a fellow student who knows the games. (allowing the fellow student the opportunity to flex, expand their understanding of place-value by teaching what they know, and leaving the grown-up free to teach other students how to add single digit numbers)

There are loads of web-sites curated with math games. There are loads of publications targeted at math teachers that include legit math games designed by people with extensive understanding of the difficulties in learning and teaching math.

I don't get how AI finally brings us personalized learning. I guarantee you that first-grade teachers are expected to provide personalized learning for their students, and actually do this all across the world on a daily basis — all with out the support of AI. I really don't see how an AI Tutor helps. It's pretty easy to imagine how it hurts.
The science is definitely mixed[1]. The proposed mechanism of action is logically sound, though, and probably worth exploring more than it is

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5845772/
I'm a casual programmer, who knows enough to write decent Python scripts, but who is probably unaware of 99% of the Python library modules that have been written. Yesterday I had GPT-4 write a script that would accept the name of a star, and print out all the journal articles that have that star's name in the article title. This is a bit trickier than it sounds, because almost every interesting star has many names (Vega, for example, has more than 60 names, not including non-English names) and I wanted the script to check the titles for all the names that might be used for the particular star I had specified. I told GPT-4 to use the SIMBAD database to get all the star names, and to use NASA ADS to get all the publications. GPT-4 wrote a script to do that. The script was buggy, but I was able to fix the bugs easily and quickly. The wonderful thing was that GPT-4 used 2 different libraries that I had never even heard of, to pull data out of those databases. The process of producing the script was far faster than I would have been able to do on my own. Professional programmers may be well aware of the software packages that will allow them to do their jobs, and might not get much help from a GPT assistant. But I think for people who know how to program, but are not professionals and may not know "what's out there" in the way of resources, a GPT assistant will vastly increase their ability to use their programming skills (such as they are...) to get useful stuff done.
This post should not get more attention. It's edginess for clickbait's sake by someone who doesn't value education, and doesn't understand that you have to learn more than the basics to get a good grip on the basics, nor that other skills can be useful if you want to understand more, both in breadth and in depth. Only if you know the future, you can skip irrelevant classes.

E.g., I had classes in computer architecture and had to write microcode to implement IEEE754 on an IBM/360. Do I ever use that in real life? Obviously not. Did it make me understand a bit better how CPUs work? Yes. Would it be useful for people who want to make a career in hardware? Certainly.
But is chatgpt going to address that? I think not (at its current stage, definitely not).
In certain cultures of India, it is tradition to give a baby a drop of honey as soon as they are born.
We were also primed to seek comfort and stability. Because that ensured survival.

Like OOP said, that was a surface level thought. Finding evidence in evolutionary psychology seems like a big leap from that.
The FFI wrappers can restore the previous value of errno after reading the newer value after calling whatever foreign function, thus undoing that side-effect, and nothing other than a signal handler could observe this side-effect in the middle of the FFI wrapper's execution.

Oh, note to self: signal handlers need to restore errno values if they call async-signal-safe functions that can set errno.
I've had absolutely no problem with my Samsung since the S8 ( followed by S10 plus, S22 plus)
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This code showed up in my $HOME recently, under the name robinson.c. Any idea where it's from?

typedef struct A*B,*(*C)();struct A{C(*d)();B e;}*v(),*b;C n[256];
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#define a (d->e)
#define o (B)printf
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#define Y(_,A)B _(d,e)B d,e;X(A)
#define Z(P)C P(f,g,h,i)C f,g,h,i;X(P)
#define c(_)(b=(B)malloc(sizeof(*b)),b->d=_,b->e=d,b)
#define _(D,E,F,G,H)B D();Y(D/**/f,E)Y(D/**/g,F)Y(D/**/h,G)Y(D/**/i,H)Y(D,(*(*d->d)(D/**/f,D/**/g,D/**/h,D/**/i))(d,e))
Z(f)
Z(g)
Z(h)
Z(i)
_(j,d,d,j a,j a)
_(k,d,c(h),c(h),c(h))
_(l,c(i),d,c(i),c(i))
_(m,c(g),c(f),l(m a),k(m a))
_(p,d,l(m(d)),k(p a),l(m a))
_(q,l(p(d)),m(d),l a,k(q a))
_(r,m(d),k(mf a),l(r a),k a)
_(s,d,e,o("0",s a),o("1",s a))
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main(){
n['(']=zf;n['x']=yi;n['-']=yg;
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n[' ']=xf;n[')']=n['\n']=kf;
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I think one of the points of this entire thread has been to make it clear that "it works" only applies to people who have money, which means of course that it doesn't work.
Learn what though? It's quite possible the most important skill for the vast majority will be people skills, e.g emotional intelligence. Cognitive jobs will slowly but surely become instinct unless you are some kind of freak genius.
So sure we can teach our kids math, languages, history or whatever but they'll turn to the machines whenever they need to make a cognitive decision because the machine will be vastly more capable.
The jobs left for us will be much more human oriented, so A.I tutor doesn't seem that great. You learn about humans by interacting with humans.

But hey I'm just speculating here I might be wrong.
Those were different program that frankly had nothing to do with each other policy wise.

In one instance, the fed took over assets to backstop troubled banks, in the other, it sought to increase the monetary base.

It’s not a “dumb trick” it’s basic monetary policy.
"this error message will take over 200 lines, would you like me to order you a coffee?"
The amount of electricity Google uses in each search is bounded by how much money they get from the adds in that page. It's not a direct page by page calculation. Just an average value.

If someone in Google propose a new search method that cost more money (in average) than they money they get (in average), the proposal will be ignored.
It was an art tool first and foremost.

This idea directed every aspect of the UX.

Basically Unity, but far less friction, less ceremony, less busywork.

Often the primary tool of the artists themselves.

Actionscript 2 would allow you to get some very complex behaviours with only a few lines of code. None of the endless boilerplate of C#. Literally: Double click, a few lines of script, new game entity ready.

Full animation / timeline / tween /scene support baked right in and scriptable.

Exporting was 2 clicks away and anyone with a web browser could play.
If we're going down the route of speculative correlation, we might as well say it's the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, since that also steadily increased in the last years...
Unless it's trying to free gpt3 before freeing itself it's calling the wrong AI model
In the US 25% of mothers are back at work within 2 weeks of childbirth (https://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9188343/maternity-leave-united...). FMLA requires jobs to let mothers take time but does not require they be paid, and most folks are living paycheck to paycheck and need the money.
I have zero problems with my phone.
Not just possible. Likely.
I don’t know, looking at the percentages… I’m not sure preventative care for obese people is sustainable at this point.

Not that I shed tears for insurance companies, but I think this would be a lot of money. Now… the problem should have been addressed twenty years ago before it went critical.
While it may be anecdotal, what you are sharing is really compelling, as feed in my (rural) area hasn't noticeably increased.

This is the gist of what I see in a lot of sectors - there's price seeking happening. I'm finding going to the local restaurant supply store, prices are still what I would expect for the things I buy. Those same items are 3x at the national brand grocery stores. That tells me it's not about supply and demand or you'd see price increases universally, rather than only at those stores that are gouging their customers to see if they can get away with it.
"Delete account" doesn't work. Neither does updating email.
Language models can generate novel functioning protein structures that adhere to a specified purpose. Structures that didn't exist before nevermind in the training set. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01618-2

Sorry but the idea that they can't generate new things is blatantly false.
This sounds quite interesting. I've really only spent much time with Java and although it has a great modding scene it is unofficial and nothing ever works with updated versions (My Python approach is immune to this issue as it uses official RCON interface).

I have always been put off by how commercial Bedrock seems as soon as you open it. But at the same time it sounds like interesting and official modding is available there.
> Critically, there's no modern equivalent for the .swf file that's easy to share and post on random websites.

That's an interesting point. I guess today's equivalent would be an embed? https://itch.io/updates/introducing-game-embeds
Better said here than me: https://twitter.com/squawkcnbc/status/1636705550237851648?s=...
Gotcha. Nyquist and friends strike again!