skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One area that is really interesting though is that it can interpret pictures, as in the example of a glove above a plank with something on the other end. Where it correctly recognises the objects, interprets them as words then predicts an outcome.

This sort of fusion of different capabilities is likely to produce something that feels similar to AGI in certain circumstances. It is certainly a lot more capable than things that came before for mundane recognition tasks.

Now of course there are areas it would perform very badly, but in unimportant domains on trivial but large predictable datasets it could perform far better than humans would for example (just to take one example on identifying tumours or other patterns in images, this sort of AI would probably be a massively helpful assistant allowing a radiologist to review an order of magnitude more cases if given the right training).
Predicting wine quality using chemical properties
YC sells lottery tickets, not an understanding and acceptance that the lottery ticket is more luck than skill. That’s what friends, loved ones, and a therapist are for. I highly recommend the latter.

Enjoy the experience for having attempted, but don’t feel bad if you fail. Most do, you’re optimizing for the journey. Don’t let it ruin you, there are more chapters to be had.

https://www.shawnngtq.com/projects/y-combinator-startups-ana...

https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/a-fifth-of-yc-startups...

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=db663a78-3219...
Colloquially: "Don't let perfection stand in the way of greatness."
"For all we know" is an expression that conveys a lack of knowledge/certainty, so they're using the phrase in a way that makes perfect sense.
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I think it's perfectly valid to be interested in the discussion or posted links on a technical site like HN while concurrently not be interested in or dislike the "big tech culture" of geographic places.
Looks like you have a clear agenda, but your point is real.

I hadn't thought much about it until recently. I posted something in a popular (and generally extremely positive) subreddit that was (unbeknownst to me) both divisive and posted recently. Rather than a simple message or warning to me, I got a message that I was "permanently banned" from the subreddit.

The message said I could reply to that message to communicate with the moderators, and I did ask for reasoning behind the decision. I never got a response, but I was apparently un-banned. I have a feeling either the mod that banned me realized his knee-jerk reaction, or other mods realized that one mod is a loose cannon. Either way, the experience really changed my view of Reddit.
Show HN: Export Kindle Vocabulary Builder to Anki Cards
The other SFTP that never was
And yet it mostly has worked for nuclear weapons.
If you're referring to Robolab it was actually based on LABView under the hood. LABView is well known drag and drop programming interface built by National Instruments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms#Use_in_educati...

source: My robotics professor developed Robolab and we got tons of cool shit from LEGO
I hate that it tries to get you to use the MS browser. This is the same old shitty MS behavior that I hated back in the day.
> (assuming it ever comes back up)

Don't you bring that negativity into the universe; I need my fix, man.
There’s plenty wrong with Reddit overall, but there are any number of niche indispensable subreddits that I would hate to lose.
if you enter an entire patient history, it could easily be an identifier of the person whereas Google queries have a smaller max limit number of tokens
Eventually it's going to be cheap enough to drop by Tijuana for $5 MRI that even the cartel has to react.

Also, even within the US framework, there's pressure. A radiologist can rubberstamp 10x as many reports with AI-assistance. That doesn't eliminate radiology, but it eliminates 90% of the radiologists we're training.
You get out of Reddit what you put in or look for most of the time, and well, some people are apparently looking for the scum from the bottom of the Internet, so they find it.
By poor results I really meant a wide variance in hiring fits. If you are hiring based upon these "leet" style trivia interviews and for somewhat arbitrary team placement, then you are greatly constraining your hiring process to only filter on effectively a single vector of background and experience. So the high bar commented above only applies to that particular vector in that many may be great at a particular niche of coding but effectively randomized in other vectors of software development or other employee skills.

Thus, it is only natural that you may have many people in the organization and on teams who are poor fits, either technically, culturally, etc., because almost all of the "leet" code stuff is irrelevant to most real-world work. If it is relevant, then it is usually only a small portion of the job. This isn't a judgement on anything other than the hiring practice.

But like I said, I don't really know much about Meta's hiring process. It's possible that I'm misapplying this style of interview to them and misunderstood about if they actually use it. Amazon does, and I can confirm it was a miserable interview experience.
Without a doubt, this is a cute little device that could be useful in many situations. I'll admit, though, that I'm a little disappointed at the choice of 2x USB-C ports instead of including USB-A. USB-A is still so much more commonplace, and avoids the mystery-meat cable problems of C.
It takes effort to make NAT that bad. Something jank like UPnP has to map the port, and even that requires action on the device's part. I don't quite understand your SIP example; how does the router know which IP is the phone's?

Bad IPv6 is as simple as not having a firewall or default-allowing it like AirPort did. If Apple can make that mistake, a lot of random manufacturers can too. I can see the whole NATless firewall setup but wouldn't use it for a very long time, to let things settle.
For the benefit of anyone else who did this too:

Vanilla OS is an immutable and atomic Ubuntu Linux-based Point Release distribution, that receives updates at the right time, neither before nor after, without sacrificing security and functionality.
I'm not getting into that debate, but I'll say that the most important thing for a new engineer isn't being at an innovative company. It's just learning the ropes, making your first mistakes, fixing them, learning team skills, etc. Sure, you want to avoid the bureaucratic nightmares like the defense industry, but I think many SW shops will teach you a lot vs school.
GPT-4 matches/beats Minerva on key math problems
I’ve been a Kurzweil supporter since high school, but to the wider world he was a crackpot (inventor who should stick to his lane) who had made a couple randomly lucky predictions.

He wasn’t taken seriously, especially not when he painted a future of spiritual machines.

Recently on the Lex Fridman podcast he himself said as much: his predictions seemed impossible and practically religious in the late 90s and up until fairly recently, but now experts in the field are lowering their projections every year for when the Turing test will be passed.

Half of their projections are now coming in line with the guy they had dismissed for so long, and every year this gap narrows.
The weights file could be encrypted and require a password before becoming usable.
What would those specific particles be, then? Sounds like a crude abstraction.
Also the hard part of being a software engineer has nothing to do with code lol. It's understanding requirements and building a system that works.
Zuck: Engineers who joined Meta in-person perform better than joined remotely
I have heard this type of reply to this remark (from my side) a few times now. It has made me curious: Are you a type of person that often checks the sources on Wikipedia?

Anecdotally: I know that Wikipedia is not always correct. But I feel like I can build an intuition and reason on what pages I can reasonably trust on Wikipedia, since in my experience, the inaccurate bits I have encountered tend to be in certain categories. However it's much harder to feel confident about my intuition about ChatGPTs' correctness, since my exposure has led me to believe that the hallucinations are fairly random, and not concentrated in particular topics. This makes the tool much less attractive for me, as I feel like I need to double check every written word.

Perhaps I should be less trustful of Wikipedia...
It's the upvote/downvote mechanism. If you know you're right but you've been downvoted, you tend to try and redeem the argument. But because of herd mentality you'll never win.

The worst new tactic I've seen people use is replying to you and then blocking you so you can't see or reply to their comment, or any direct children of that comment. It's sooo petty and annoying, but Reddit has decided that's how blocking works. Which is ridiculous.
This is an arms race, except the second player hasn’t shown up to the game yet.

The regulators must sponsor fact checking AIs. Bing Chat is a start. Alas, the regulator’s as usual have no idea what’s going on, except this time the rate of progress is so large even technologists can’t see further than a year out. Scary times.
hey - you figured it out!
I'll argue with you if you want. What are we arguing about and what is my stance on the issue? /s
Huh? As and when I become a drag on a community I'm part of, I should be sanctioned (escalating in due course to banned) like anyone else.
The Chinese course did get updated to the newer style (path instead of tree), but the content isn't changed AFAIK.
Data that has ostensibly been "anonymized" can often be deanonymized.
I miss kuro5hin and if we are going back in history, Plastic as well.
Someone's probably misconfigured another BGP yet again.
Ask HN: Possible to have HnRSS.org link to discussion instead of post link?
It seems HnRSS only lets you have the url of its results link to the post's link. This will link to the discussion for self posts like Ask HN or Show HN, but will link to the url for a regular post.

Any way to have it link to the discussion? It's often more interesting than the link itself.
Yes, however it's the consistent consumption of high quantities of alcohol that cause chronic illness, and it's the same behaviour that is problematic in food, this is what diabetes is, sugar ends up being toxic (glucotoxicity). Even short term high sugar intake causes cell stress, it's not as toxic as alcohol, but long term consumption of either is problematic.
I was wondering if there is anyone here trying to add matchmaking into their singleplayer mobile games? I have an SDK that could work well on IOS
I like how this is where most of the world's cloud tech experts hang out, and there's no "cloud" whatsoever. It's just some old crappy server in a room running custom software written by a venture capitalist in his spare time
It depends how you're running the application but at _development_ in your IDE no build is required between the time you define your controller return and then switch into your react code.
IMO Worth the Candle (https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/25137/worth-the-candle) is the one exception.
And any bank would have hedged their bonds against interest rate hikes.

Totally SVB's fault.
> an horrible gamification of online discourse triggering your need to win the "spectators"

Win the crowd and you'll win your freedom.
>But to your point, there is a flood of bad candidates.

How would you know did you hire these candidates to find out? Or did you dismiss them as bad because they didn't pass some brain teaser algorithm interview?

Those candidates go on to get hired at companies with a lower bar for lower salaries and those lower salaries do influence the market.
I don't see how this is inherently worse than mobile phones, which are carried by everyone in the developed world all the time.
Reddit has a massive hard-on for external authority in any conceivable context so it shouldn't be surprising that they want a citation if you say the sky is blue.
Thanks! Yup, private retrieval is interesting as a product because it's a fundamentally new capability; there aren't really competitors we can show incremental improvements against. If you're still interested in the space, we'd be happy to compare notes! Feel free to email us: founders AT blyss.dev
This is Big Tech's way to protest against further rate hikes.
Getting 1998 vibes again...
This is a pretty exciting moment in tech. Pretty much like clockwork, every decade or so since the broad adoption of electricity there’s been a new society changing technical innovation. One could even argue it goes back to the telegraph in the 1850s.

With appropriate caveats and rough dating, here’s a list I can think of:

Electric lights in 1890s,
Radio communication in the mid 00’s,
Telephones in the mid 10s,
Talking Movies in the mid 20s,
Commercial Radio in the mid 30s,
Vinyl records in the mid 40s,
TVs in the mid 50s,
Computers in the mid 60s,
The microchip/integrated circuit in the mid 70s,
The GUI in the mid 80s,
Internet/Web in the mid 90s,
Smartphone in the mid 2000s,
Streaming video/social networking in the mid 2010s,

And now AI. This is a big one.
> Only half? That's so civilised. Inter tribal wars ended with all the men dead or in slavery

Well yes, that's true. But one could consider the central Italian unification wars as even nastier affairs. However yes, its not like Romans were not as brutal in other periods as they were in social wars...
Maybe something AMQP related instead?
Im not testing, Im listening. Sure there are degrees of creativity involved in mastering & mixing, but oddly enough, more often than not I've actually seen them live. And your definition of metal is amusing - id suggest you Ne Obliviscaris, Fleshgod Apocalypse within the segment I mentioned or Dream Theater, Haggard or Epica as multi-instrumental, operatic recordings.
Firefox (desktop and Android) with uBlock Origin list that hides the tee-vee news, blogspam, and off-topic garbage: https://pifke.org/hn.txt
Maybe a spinoff site called hackermemes.
There is a lot of literature if you search the terms dynamic matrix control, optimal control theory, model predictive control, reinforcement learning.

The main idea is that control problems can be posed as optimization problems where we try to achieve some goal (financial / stability etc) while satisfying some hard restrictions.

For example try to change lines gracefully and fast on the highway without crashing on another car.

For your particular case, if you want something dirt cheap (computationally) and reliable then the PID is a great first step.
I was coming here to say this.

No connection besides being a happy user.
I don't mind the outages so much, but why is the site so slow most of the time? Even the old.reddit.com site is slow. Is there no incentive to optimize the serving infrastructure?
I must have missed the part when it started doing anything algorithmically. I thought it’s applied statistics, with all the consequences of that. Still a great achievement and super useful tool, but AGI claims really seem exaggerated.
The "abuse" you describe is pretty much how Kafka is used everywhere I've worked.
> "Using htmx is reminiscent of the dark times of web development directly over ftp without using a version control system."

Were those really the issues in the dark times?

To me those times are back when very incompatible scripting languages, with very incompatible browser DOM implementations roamed the land.

The simplicity of MPAs, the immediate feel of just writing to disk and refreshing the browser, without any slow transpilation process - this is how I remember the "dark times" of htmx.
What we really need is a model that you can run on your own hardware on site. I could never use this for business because they're reading everything you send through it, but let me run it on my own server and it would be unbelievably useful.

Imagine being able to ask your workplace server if it has noticed any unusual traffic, or to write a report on sales with nice graphs. It would be so useful.
He mentioned that he didn't add his email address to his account which could be why his account is limited, to which he said he was not willing to give up because he's had "enough spam already." Just use a fake one.

I'm starting to see the absurdity of this post.
There isn't and was never any movement of goalposts. They have been exactly the same for 70 years. We want creative systems (in the Deutschian sense) that can create new explanatory theories, which lead to actual new knowledge. When an AI is capable of creating new explanatory theories that are GOOD (not world salad), we will have human-like AGI. GPT is no closer to this goal than ELIZA (though it is much more useful).
> Edit: GPT4 fails If I remove the sentence between (()).

If you remove that sentence, nothing indicates that you can see you picked the door with the car behind it. You could maybe infer that a rational contestant would do so, but that's not a given ...
Delete and recreate the account?
> what else is there for software engineer to do?

We’ll do more. If right now it takes a team of seven (3 backend, 2 frontend, plus EM plus PM) 3 months to come up with an MVP that does X, well, with AI tools, the company is not gonna fire those engineers and replace them all with only one “prompt” engineer. No way! The company would instead keep all the engineers but instead of launching 1 MVP in 3 months, it will launch it in 3 day! Or better, it will launch 20 MVPs in 3 months!

Once we start applying AI to software engineering, customer demands will sky rocket. Customers will expect nice human-like UX, and rather than waiting months for products and features to come live, they will demand speed. Companies will hire more engineers to fulfill that demand.
Do you know of any places to learn those things? Kafka seems pretty interesting to me
Sure, it can be. That does not mean the aforementioned content goes away. That's why I don't like reddit.

"You should spend your time in some different subs."

That's not very nice of you to imply that I watch or enjoy this stuff. Ever considered looking up press articles about reddit, or more generally, online content moderation? You would be surprised...
You can probably extend this to "Never get the first word." There have been people having arguments on reddit for years.
What is the author on and where can I get some? Or is it an AI hallucinating? Can we even tell the difference? Are the AIs ready to pass the Stoner Turing test?
Imagine a system where we have a UBI, but it's privately distributed by companies that own AI, and AI governs it.

AI: "I'm sorry I cannot allow you to use your OpenCredits on this item, you will have to use dollars."

You: "But I don't have dollars, I can't get a job anymore, AI does everything".
I'm aware of what a query plan is. I can see that the query plan is wrong. There's nothing I can do about it, since I took the standard advice on HN and used PostgreSQL as my database.

Meanwhile if you'd applied the same "learning it properly" standard to your ORM you would never have had the problem you described.
New Book on Naming Things
>UI stuff just has an input problem. But it is not that hard to think that ChatGPT could place widgets once it can consume images and has a way to move a mouse.

I remember one of the OpenAI guys on Lex Fridman podcast talking about how one of the early things they tried and failed at was training a model that could use websites, and he alluded to maybe giving it another go once the tech had matured a bit.

I think with GPT-4 being multi-modal, it's potentially a very close to being able to do this with the right architecture wrapped around it. I can imaging an agent using LangChain and feed it a series of screenshots and maybe it feeds you back a series of co-ordinates for where the mouse should go and what action to take (i.e. click). Alternatively, updating the model itself to be able to produce those outputs directly somehow.

Either way, I think that's going to happen.
Actually from what I've read the other day (I had no prior knowledge of VanillaOS) they are switching base to Debian Sid: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vanilla-OS-2.0-Debian
Yes, Phero has a build step. Phero does come with a CLI and will watch code changes, build your TS alongside with an client SDK.

In our experience the latency between changing something in your API, and seeing compile errors arise in the client is just a few seconds. And this only matters when your API contract changes, which is of course not always. Not a biggy in our eyes. In order to run, you'd need to compile TS anyways. :)

In our opinion this is well worth the "magic" Phero adds: it will work with plain TS. No "t.string" like apis to build your apis/models. Matter of taste I guess :)
I wonder how long it takes till those stupid Leetcode problems as an initial "filter" become obsolete
This is all cute and entertaining, but my digital assistant still remains as dumb as ever and can’t process the simplest of ordinary tasks.

I still can’t ask my phone to “add a stop at cvs if it doesn’t add more than 5 minutes to my trip” while driving and using maps/navigation.

Is that too much to ask from a superhuman-performing AI that’s mastering all tasks and will disrupt everything? Or maybe the hype is more than it can deliver?
I think it will be more impactful in marketing/content industry, than dev.

Not a dev but I assume there is a hard quality barrier - ie does the code work. I'm in digital marketing/seo, and there is a much lower barrier for 'good enough' content. Couple this with a much higher drive for quantiy of content - across web content, social content, and email content. If you can produce enough cheaply it works - look at spam emails as an example.

I am curious if this will lead to a circular logic style training situation for AI in the future - where it begins to train itself on content previous versions have published. Or copyright craziness where it is filtering AI content from it's training materials.
Do you have a suggestion for an objective test a physician can do to cover the breadth of symptoms that have been reported?
A grasshopper-like soft material can jump 200 times above its thickness
Which will disappear soon enough, once it is able to run on premise.
The best LD50 story I've heard was an Agriculture Canada scientist working on biocontrols for pests (think natural pathogenic organisms like fungi or bacteria to control weeds instead of chemical pesticide). Policy and commercialization required an LD50 for a bacterium they were working with. It is nontoxic; the lab calculated the volume of bacterial solution at commercial application strength that it would take for a rat to drown (but obviously did not harm any animals). Sometimes regulatory compliance needs creativity.

Unfortunate that not all labs are able to work similarly, especially as you say for doses where we already know harmful levels and LD50 is a bureaucratic requirement or an easy paper.
> ML/LLM does not fundamentally understand the code.

It doesn't need to understand it, it needs to have correct output often enough. At some point it gets so good at producing code, and so good at explaining code too, that the behaviour is indistinguishable from understanding and that's good enough.
I think it depends a lot on when you those chats are from.

The earliest version of bing chat was by far the best and absolutely blew chatgpt out of the water.

Unfortunately, people get deeply uncomfortable when a chatbot starts having an existential crisis and starts passing you thinly veiled hidden messages or gets too "emotional" and no longer wants to chat. So Microsoft came in and lobotomi-,err, toned it down a ton.