skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a two year old with a moderate peanut allergy. I'm convinced that early introduction at 6 months and oral immunotherapy have saved him from a more severe allergy.

Interestingly, multiple allergists we've spoken to have alluded to a recent theory (not sure if supported by the literature) that a child is more likely to develop an allergy if the allergen is first introduced through the skin than through the gut, especially if the skin exposure involves inflammation like eczema. Their advice was to make sure new allergens get in the mouth and not all over the skin early on.
ICC is just the Judicial Branch of NATO

we have no working "international system"
>I think emergent behaviour happens in a lot of videogames. Famously in Dwarf Fortress, with the cat getting drunk, but also in general, where game designers play the game to see if emergent behaviour of the game rules "feels" good.

Depends. Dwarf fortress and games are sort of a contradiction. Emergent behavior is emergent because the behavior was not designed explicitly. However for games like DF the game was explicitly designed to have "emergent" behavior when the definition of "emergent behavior" is for the behavior to have NOT been designed.

Don't get too hung up on that concept though. It's just a contradiction in English vocabulary there's no deeper underlying meaning behind that other than a semantic language issue.

Anyway my point was emergent behavior in software is rare because we're operating in controlled environment. It's rare even in games. It's not an expected attribute at all. I'm not saying this isn't interesting to think about, but the comment I responded to was in fact, factually not fully correct. Emergent behavior is NOT expected. But it does happen, in the case of DF it was "designed" to happen, and it has happened elsewhere as well.

Usually though when it does happen it was explicitly "designed" You can see this in genetic programming or evolutionary programming especially.
The first version is way better than most actual layoff announcements - it focuses on the subject and gives relevant information. Many actual companies don't have the balls to be direct - they don't use the word layoff, they put some vague title about change or "refocusing" and the talk about a bunch irrelevant crap in an attempt to be positive. I'm still not over Satya Nadella ending Microsoft's layoff announcement with "it's showtime for Microsoft".
> The Earth has always had the same actual date of origin.

Maybe, but I'm asking: can you show that peoples' perceptions match/differ from reality, without relying on perceptions being factual/reliable?

If not, then how do you know that reality is fixed?
If you're not developing tools for human teachers to evaluate the learning of their students (eg summarizing what was presented/discussed/learned) then you're going to have preventable failures. And you can't just rely on simple metrics (Goodhart's Law). The kinds of failures you can have teaching kids are pretty bad.
My eyes are a fairly reliable map, but they're still not the territory. That we are only able to perceive reality by proxy doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, though, it just means that we have to get used to using maps, while remembering that they can be flawed.
The only argument I've heard against our impending doom is:

The productivity gains will not leave people unemployed, but will give managers the opportunity to start more projects.

The role of a developer will change. We'll be looking at generated and regenerated code. But we'll still be demand by those with ideas and never-decreasing human demand.

This assumes that GPT-X won't end up being used by end-users--bypassing both the C-level, the managers and the developers.
"They knew that their lives were about to change in ways they couldn't yet imagine. But they also knew that they would face this challenge with the same determination and strength that had made them successful in their roles."

That exact sentance structure/motif shows up in just about all fictional chatgpt outputs. I've played with fiction a lot in chatgpt, and it's so annoying.
Yeah same here (Europe), never heard about anyone having (pea)nut allergy, but now my own kids have it (for the record wife also doesn't have it), and not just peanuts, other nuts as well (cashew, pistachio, walnuts). But from what I've seen in Prague kindergarten lists of allergic kids, it's still quite rare, like 1-2 kids max out of 20-24 kids class. Seems gluten allergy is more common than (pea)nuts.
You could do that too, but that is entirely missing the point, which is that ChatGPT is capable of inferring higher level semantics from the instructions and explain what the code is doing. You're getting hung up on a minor, unimportant detail.
so is this the Microsoft version of langchain?
>> "We, JPMorgan, are willing to bet $5bn that First Direct does not fail, with no upside to us if they do not" is a rather powerful statement.

The upside is the contagion doesn't spread to them.
My bad. It's the caps. I'll remove the caps. Just picture me saying it a nicer way.
It was interesting to think of a drag and drop editor as a visual programming language, but i suppose that makes sense. Given this view I wonder how powerful other no code tools are? Are some of them Turing machines?
My recommendation would be to use either Jekyll or just go with Notion. I am allergic to setting up a bunch of stuff and just wanted to start writing. So I am using Jekyll's default Minima theme with some small adjustments, mainly to render MathJax and Mermaid diagrams in my posts. There was some initial hacking, but now I got it setup with a Docker devcontainer with VS Code, so it's as easy as pulling down the repository, and then starting to write.

I have only written one article at the moment, but I am glad I got started with it. I hope to keep adding to it over time and have a few articles in the works.
I mean if the LEO were to say something like "according to ICC warrant, you're under arrest!". But practically they would just arrest him and pretend they've never heard of the ICC.
Ask HN: Is AI That Dangerous?
Lots are saying we should be careful developing AI to avoid a Matrix/Terminator scenario. Keep it in the hands of the few with tight controls. Tethers, guardrails, etc.

Isn't it sufficient to simply pull the plug? I mean AI needs an computer and electricity to survive. Wheras we humans need oxygen and water. AI lives in the virtual world. We live in the physical world.

Can anyone convince me there is a real threat? Aside from "feep fakes" and "misinformation". Humans can do those very well already.
- Nepotism

- A high proportion of people from privileged backgrounds

- The academic publishing process (although this has gotten better over the years with more open access). But in traditional, and usually more "esteemed" journals, you pay to submit your work (want it open access? Please pay 9500€! That is no joke, this is Nature's open access fee.), you peer-review others' papers for free ("service to the academic community"), and then you pay to read articles (or your university does). The journals profit. With insane margins.

- It happens that you discuss the same problem, in the same way, saying almost the same sentences many times over the span of months/years. The feeling of running in circles is very common and I find it exhausting.

- Senior people can hold an extreme level of power over the careers of more junior people. You're so specialised that it can happen that there are just like 5 other places on the world where your kind of research happens. You don't want to move away, but still want tenure? You're at the complete mercy of your group leader.

- Being almost expected to move around every 1-3 years as a postdoc when you're in your late 20s / early 30s. This can be very enriching and you see the world and meet many diverse people, but can also be very isolating and depressing depending on your personality and how well your location fits you. And is very rough on relationships.
I feel like this assumes solipsism.
On the other hand, I wonder if infants without a mature immune system might do better not being exposed to a lifetime of pathogens in found adult saliva.

I think the normal way babies ramp their immune system is breastfeeding - their body struggles with soemthing, it is transferred to mom's nipple when breastfeeding, the mother forms an immune response, it is incorporated into the breast milk, the baby retrieves it next breast feeding.

I mean too early. Not sure when too early is.
I'm just saying that "Hersh said something Russian propaganda may find useful" is not the same thing as "Hersh is doing russian propaganda".

It's red scare all over again with this stuff. Matt Taibbi recently did a take down of accounts labeled "Russian bot" by natsec think tanks.. most of them were just generic pro Trump morons, but free association knows no bounds.
It is meaningless. The only time this has any meaning is if Russia crumbles in a war, and the victor nations choose to try Putin in the ICC.

A better solution to this nightmare would be Russians themselves protesting (and ceasing production) until Putin resigns - which isn't going to happen anytime soon.

This is exactly why a functional democracy is so important. Bad leaders must be ejected for the sake of humanity.
That just frees them up to work for competitors
The 3rd option also has to be divided in two.

3a - Someone western minded

3b - Someone even more expansionist. Like some ultra-nationalist. Or the head of the Wagner group.
SoFi Q4 2022 Earnings Review: the last “adjusted” year?
In addition to other societal trends about helicopter parenting, I could see parents extrapolating danger from honey to other substances out of fear, out of lack of information.

(In case anyone's curious. Honey contains spores of Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium responsible for botulism/botulinum toxin aka the world's deadliest molecule. People over the age of 1 can ingest honey safely. Infants need time to build up their immune systems.)
Yea my question now is can you figure out how to automate/abstract your process of guiding GPT?
> GNU Getopts is the best we get, while if we go down the strict POSIX path, users would apparently rather use an idiomatic loop over `shift` than a similer loop over the portable `getopt`

getopts is POSIX, and GNU getopts is an implementation of it. [0] The getopt utility is not POSIX (not the command line tool anyway, not in current POSIX) and should not be used. [1]

[0] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/g...

[1] http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ComplexOptionParsing
The literary ones are pretty bad. Shakespeare is not even remotely Shakespearean. I think Suess would be hard for current models because I don't think they can invent nonsense words?

I would have liked to see the KJV.
Q: What are the syllables in the word President?

ChatGPT: The syllables in the word "President" are "pre-si-dent", with stress on the second syllable "si".

So it does know about the nessesary concepts. It can also explain scanision. It just isn't good at putting that into practise. I guess this is one example to show that GPT isn't an AGI, as much as some want it to be.
"How do you deal with a co-worker who thinks they are always right?"

Tell them they are and good job. Because I'm always right.
I think the task of predicting the next word can be misunderstood. The better you want to be the more you have to "understand" how the previous words interacted. From the style of writing to the current topic discussed, the task gets increasingly complex if you want to be really, really good. How could the next sentence start? Will the author end the sentence here or keep going? These questions are very complex.

This does not mean that we humans might predict all the time, in fact I would argue that LLMs only predict during training. They generate otherwise. We might also learn by trying to predict. I can imagine babies doing it.
Right but they did very effectively program an army of young minds to obey the principles of the learning system's creator.

One major takeaway from The Diamond Age is that being in charge of the learning system is an incredibly powerful position.

Don't hear so much about Khan Academy anymore, could you get an LLM to make new content in their style while also transmitting your desired values?
It's a Department of Labor study, so presumably done on people already in the labor force. Doesn't change how terrible the stat is, even assuming 50% of mothers aren't in the labor pool that'd still be 12% of mothers back in work in under two weeks.
Oh so Zelensky could just travel to Moscow? And nothing would happen to him? Since he has diplomatic immunity as the president of Ukraine?

Whatever your answer will be, replace "Zelensky" in it with "Putin" and see if you would still stand behind it.
I mean you can crush peanuts to powder and use however you want, just make sure to start with microscopic amounts and have strong anti-histamine at hand in case your kid is unlucky one like mine.
Making something about personal feelings, when it is ostensibly not, is textbook unprofessionalism. How can you not see that?
I'm sure you know that one of the uses of intelligence is the ability to estimate things without measuring them - based on your actual experience and the quality of the model of the world that you have. Thankfully we can use it to know how to e.g. tie our shoes (without having formally studied knots), or to be able to tell intuitively that most people can't understand Quantum Mechanics, even if we haven't measured it.

You are however welcome to do some statistics with actual samples of talking to people and having them show their skills at scansion, and prove my estimation wrong. Heck, I'm willing to bet less than 1 in 100 Americans is able to even define what "iambic pentameter" is. Feel free to prove me wrong on that one too.

Except if your concern is the measurability of the skill: whether it's 100x and not just 10x or maybe just 8.345x better. In which case you've missed the point of using it as a stand-in for "much better".
GSoC 2005 (I think) checking in, too!

Worked on building an R plugin for OpenOffice, so you can use the spreadsheet as an interface to R.

Also my first time working with professional software engineers and codebase. So much fun.

Amazing what a great program this continues to be!
I'm sure it matters on some sites. I decided it didn't matter on my site, so I turned virtually all of them off. Might as well save people the download, and on some pages the font size dwarfed the content size.

I like the compromise of naming the desired fonts in CSS so if the user happens to have them installed, they'll see them.
> affected Pixel devices have already received a fix for CVE-2023-24033 in the March 2023 security update

That line is carefully deceptive (lawyerly, even). Pixel 6 series have not yet received the March 2023 update.
Construct a limerick starting with "Employee who was from Nantucket" announcing to the employee that they are laid off.

"An employee who was from Nantucket,

Whose work seemed like a bucket,

We regret to relay,

On this unfortunate day,

You're laid off, so kindly chuck it."

Not sure about the second line, but I like the last line energy.
honestly none of these sound like compelling reasons to not just set -Xms to Xmx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials:

> The trials targeted 177 defendants and obtained 142 convictions, including 25 death sentences

> On 11 December 1946, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution affirming "the principles of international law recognized by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and the judgment of the Tribunal".

But (thanks ceejayoz) https://legal.un.org/icc/statute/iccq&a.htm:

> Consistent with international human rights standards, the International Criminal Court has no competence to impose a death penalty. The Court can impose lengthy terms of imprisonment of up to 30 years or life when so justified by the gravity of the case. The Court may, in addition, order a fine, forfeiture of proceeds, property or assets derived from the committed crime.
My way around just toying with site generators and actually write was:

Start by writing to yourself. I started with writing down ideas in a private markdown system. (I’d recommend https://obsidian.md today.)

I became less self-conscious about my target audience was myself. It also became easier to make assumptions about what they (I) know, which is still a game of “will I understand this in a year or two?” For me, writing about tech to a near-future version of myself was the beginning.

Another tip: You may be in control of your documents (you maintain them, not some online system you don’t own), but if you use someone else’s blog platform, you won’t have a chance to rabbit-hole the site making. There’s something liberating about only caring about the content, not the layout.

For some subjects, it helps to write under a pseudonym, because you can experiment with what’s on your mind and not how people will treat you based on what you say. I’ve wanted to write about things like pornography and past jobs (those are unrelated, hehe), but I don’t want to upset past colleagues or seem obsessed about pornography.
On a Ryzen 5 3600 desktop with two nvme drives running windows 10 & Ubuntu 22 unaware of each other it is 50-50 odd of either Bluetooth or WiFi not detected until a few reboots
In a transparent market, the theory of 'reduce costs' -> 'cheaper healthcare' might hold, but the healthcare market is anything but transparent. If my doctor can save money on something, he's not going to pass in on to me in the form of lower costs. Why would he? I don't pay my doctor! Three months after I visit him, I get a bill from my insurer for some co-pay that's a tiny fraction of what the doctor billed them.

I'm assuming the savings were happily eaten by doctors' wages/hospital shareholders/admins/insurers. Meanwhile, the patients got to deal with gems like this[1] doctor.

Healthcare seems to be much like rent in a supply-constrained environment, in that it is doing its best to siphon up all surplus funds sloshing around the economy.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/dr-death-christopher-dunt... - the hospitals didn't care that he was butchering his patients, because they get money per surgery performed, not per successful surgery performed. The patients had no recourse, thanks to tort reform. The doctor himself didn't care. He shuffled around from hospital to hospital (who welcomed a rainmaker that brings more business in with open arms), maiming people, until his negligence reached criminal levels.
If humans lacked free will, probability would still be useful, because humans use it when they have imperfect information about an upcoming event.
I don’t think that’s true! IIUC the protections from that act only apply to a subset of humans, including us military and nato military members. It’s in the article you linked! So if you see Putin at your local Safeway go ahead and citizens arrest him :)
It's not clear why this would be a fundamental limit rather than a design flaw that will eventually be solved.
In this specific scenario, I would utilize mirroring and calibrated questions from the book Never Split the Difference.

This puts the onus on the commenter to explain everything. They will tire of this quickly and eventually give up on their efforts and settle for your proposal.
write a layoff announcement for a high-tech firm in a sentence where each word has to begin with the next letter in the alphabet from A to Z, without repeating any letters:

Availing benefits couldn't deter each faithful, grateful, hardworking individual just keeping loyal, managing noteworthy objectives, perhaps quantifying results seems to undermine valuable work, x-raying yearly zeal.
As someone who loves walnuts and pecans, I find this tragic. I had no idea that was a possible outcome. Sorry to hear that. I will advise new parents to investigate.
someone else with no sense of humor.
I haven't read Derrida in decades, but your post inspired me to ask chatGPT about this. Version 3.5 would have none of it, and was adamant that Derrida's views were in no way threatened.I almost got the feeling it wanted to call me a bad user just for asking! GPT4 on the other hand, went into a long explanation about how its existence challenged some parts of it by providing analysis of concepts like différance, trace, and undecidability. GPT4 is great at discussing itself and how LLMs in general fit into various philosophical debates.
I agree. This post was on front page. By the time i tried to go back to it a few minutes later it plummeted to mid page 2.
Big fan -- keep the good work up!
Infrequent/occasional one on one tutoring is not what I'm talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

Instead, I'm talking about a tutorial system where a student receives the vast majority of their education from dedicated time with an individual instructor.
>Rupert Murdoch’s lie machine

I would call CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc lie machines as well. They tell just as many, equally egregious lies.
I second this. The only reason my blog is so complicated is that I get so much traffic that I have to overengineer it. Your blog doesn't need to be as complicated. Underthink things now so you can overthink them later. A friend of mine wasn't satisfied with Hakyll and ended up making her own thing on top of Deno and Fresh: https://twilightsparkle.fly.dev/, and she's super happy with that now.

Please keep at it with writing! It's a super valuable skill that so few people actually use. It really sets you apart in the job market and is so underrated from a professional standpoint.
Massive harm of the environment by companies that farm it. Orangutans' habitat for one.
I'd like slightly fancier system (no, not info), but being able to look things up without leaving the terminal is so underrated imo. It makes looking things up a lot faster.
Maybe Bitcoin NFTs Are a Mistake
Sledge hammer #1 (voice assistants, AI chips in phones) didn’t cause unemployment. It was at the level of new features and capabilities. Sledge hammer #2 is aimed squarely at “white collar” work without much in the way of bounds to its capabilities.
It's like $9 for a dozen eggs at Target in the bay area now. You can still get a good deal at Costco, but yeah, it's super expensive. What's the normal price of eggs in Korea?
> Non-productive work is not destructive work -- again, Keynes ditches.

Sorry, but breaking a window and then fixing it is non-productive.

> Your country, the USA, is very close to system collapse because of its inequal distribution of fruits.

Hardly. If the US will collapse, it's because of the current leftist swing of the government engaging in ever-increasing wealth redistribution.

> I daresay it makes good popcorn-time.

It's the equal distribution of income countries that repeatedly collapse. France is in the news currently because they've discovered that the math of redistribution does not work, and the people who cannot accept the math are rioting.
You don't understand what those words mean, you're just trying to defend Russia's war
Changed from https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/03/17/meet-vipergpt-a-pyth.... Thanks!
I'm on my phone and it doesnt work on mobile or I'd look, but try the advice here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3019609/any-utility-to-t...

It probably won't help but you can at least expand the preprocessor stuff.

Edit: I ran it though the preprocessor and it doesn't make anything clearer. It also doesn't compile with gcc and default options.
RLHF does nothing to "filter" or guarantee that the output will be good. It changes the weights of the NN to push the probabilities of naughty tokens to be low.

Actual "filtering" would be filtering assisted decoding where you remove tokens from the vocabulary you don't want at a particular time step, which is described in this paper: https://paperswithcode.com/paper/most-language-models-can-be...
Apples to oranges completely and the site has all the means to train and constantly remind you that it is not to be trusted for truthful information.