skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who is suggesting US welfare has to support 7 billion people?

That's the result from advocating free movement or no borders considering stats such as 52% of Africa's youth wanting to relocate to Europe or US. Unless you dismantle the welfare state. But it's possible that I misunderstood what the person meant with the 20th century comment.
I'm not sure, the reason you could prove for Othello that the 'world model' exists is that the state is so simple there is really only one reasonable way to represent it with a vector (one component for each square). Even for something like chess there is a huge amount of choice for how to represent the board, yet alone trying represent the state of the actual world.
In a similar vein, I've been using ExpanDrive [0] for a while. Though admittedly it's only suitable for infrequent access / long term storage type use.

[0] https://www.expandrive.com/desktop/
My very first job out of school included running sendmail.org. Rule number one was "make sure we can handle all of Slashdot's traffic".
Show HN: A daily word puzzle against my dad
It's not even that extreme. Long term steroid use destroys your health. Liability can be insured; it's a simple financial calculation. If (profit - cost of insurance) > liability it will be done.
But individual teachers don't scale to planet-size. Or at least they didn't used to.
the lights are flashing from their screens and the bunnies is still furiously tapping their paddles in their cages meanwhile the treats stoppeth for no matter how many times paw goes to button there are not more treats to be had.

the experiment is over.
From my end, European sites load quickly.
"Realistically, interest is slowly declining."

OK, I have to take your word for that (I'm in Australia and haven't been to the UK for a few years).

But it's certainly not the impression I get over here with the plethora of UK TV programs on steam, for instance: LNER 4472, Nigel Gresley, 4468/Mallard, vintage and current railways/trips and many, many others.

It's almost impossible to go for a few days without seeing Michael Portillo on the box standing on a station platform, in a train carriage or pretentiously shovelling coal into some antique engine. When he's not on Rob Bell is waxing lyrically about the beauty of everything from 4472 to 60163 Tornado, to lighthouses, to railway viaducts; and in beween him and Portillo there's Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railways, Tim Dunn's The Architecture the Railways Built, not to mention Bill Nighy's The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys and any number of others. It's never-ending.

So what on earth is going on in the UK if interest in engines/railways is waning?

Mind you, I don't mind these programs at all but there are so many of them that they drive some people I know to whinge 'oh hell, not another *** train program!'
Humans fail because they cant review the entirety of test prep, can’t remember very much, and have a much smaller amount of “parameters” to store info in.

I would say LLMs store parameters that are quite superficial and don’t really get at the underlying concepts but given enough of those parameters, you can kind of cargo-cult your to an approximation of understanding.

It is like reconstructing the Mandelbrot set at every zoom level from deep learning. Try it!
any recs?
My daughter does children's martial arts. Often in the dojo there's an atmosphere where the yellow belts are helping the white belts, the red belts are periodically chiming in, and the black belt adult instructor is free to float around the room supervising everything, giving individual attention where it's most effective, but leaving the lower ranks to take care of the lessons they're capable of giving.

In the same way, AI will be able to make an expert human tutor 100x more effective by escalating the tricky cases but learning how to handle the ones that come up over and over.
SVB on its own? Not much. But SVB coupled with the layoffs is making me feel very uneasy about the tech sector.

I know tech's seen bad days before (e.g. the dotcom bubble), but that was before I got into the industry. All these bad headlines are definitely making me worry about my own prospects for sure.
Github has been slow for me for weeks
𝓢𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓲𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰
It'll keep until tomorrow.
Also generates more ad impressions as you scroll and see these ads.
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Could you add links to this part?

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Ukraine was a friendly nation to Russia since 1991 (not to mention centuries of coexistence as part of the same country). It became hostile twice: first after 'color revolution' in 2004, when USA put their first puppet on Ukrainian throne, and the second one in 2014, when Nuland and K baked a bloody coup there to bring Ukraine into NATO. Crimea annexation was a response to it (new puppet government declared that Russia will be kicked out of Sevastopol base), Donbass war started in 2014 and reignited in 2022 when USA and other NATO countries started to pump more weaponry to the country, constructing naval base and refusing to sign a deal with Putin that Ukraine won't join NATO.
People on both Reddit and HN are updating their bots to GPT-4 and testing the upgrade, so yeah, there is a lot of extra posts on these sites causing load.
Computers are math machines. Everything has a procedure, an answer, a quantity, a yes or no. When people are determined to put computers and AI in everything, everything will naturally reach a computer-like end state; the world becomes a set of algorithms: no deviation, spontaneity, choice. How is that "wild"?
Yes it is. The government is just trying to get the data to stay within the US. TikTok only needs facilities here (and maybe some sort of air gap) to comply.
At least according to the article:

>Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner.

That could be argued to be more intentional than just faffing about.
Because you don't have to allocate any fixed amount up front, and it's pay as you go. At the time when the best storage options you could get were fixed-size hard drives from VPS providers, this was a big change, especially on both the "very small" and "very large" ends of the spectrum. It has always spoken HTTP with a relatively straightforward request-signing scheme for security, so integration at the basic levels is very easy -- you can have signed GET requests, written by hand, working in 20 minutes. The parallel throughput (on AWS, at least) is more than good enough for the vast, vast majority of apps assuming they actually design with it in mind a little. Latency could improve (especially externally) but realistically you can just put an HTTP caching layer of some sort in front to mitigate that and that's exactly what everybody does.

Ceph was also released many years after S3 was released. And I've never seen a highly performant 9P implementation come anywhere close to even third party S3 implementations. There was nothing for Amazon to copy. That's why everyone else copied Amazon, instead.

It's not the most insanely hyper-optimized thing from the user POV (HTTP, etc) and in the past some semantics were pretty underspecified e.g. before full consistency guarantees several years ago, you only got "read your writes" and that's it. But it's not that hard to see why it's popular, IMO, given the historical context and use cases. It's hard to beat in the average case for both ease of use and commitment.
Materialistic Android App. Unfortunately it is not anymore in the Google Play Store. It's the best hackernews android app in my opinion. What android app do you use?
This looks great! I would like to know how much this costs though.
> we expect war crimes not to occur

I think that’s a bad assumption.
> I am not allowed to leave the cabbage and lion alone together, and I am not allowed to leave the lion and goat alone together. How can I safely get all three across?

What if you phrase it as a cabbage, vegan lion and a meat eating goat...
I blame OpenAI and GPT-4's release for bringing down HN and Reddit.
> Even after I pointed this mistake out, it repeated exactly the same proposed plan.

The vast majority of people might make the mistake once, yes, but would be able to reason better once they had the trick pointed out them. Imo it is an interesting anecdote that GPT-4 can't adjust its reasoning around this fairly simple trick.
Yup, but am also wondering for its issues with my browser - kagi as it’s locking up frequently too!!
And yet the programmers on HN will be yelling they don't need unions as the security guards are dragging them away from their desks at Google, because you know, we'll always need good programmers.
All: our poor server is smoking today* so I've had to reduce the page size of comments. There are 1500+ comments in this thread but if you want to read more than a few dozen you'll need to page through them by clicking the More link at the bottom. I apologize!

Also, if you're cool with read-only access, just log out (edit: or use an incognito tab) and all will be fast again.

* yes, HN still runs on one core, at least the part that serves logged-in requests, and yes this will all get better someday...it kills me that this isn't done yet but one day you will all see
If you don't need to comment, go incognito so you can get cached versions of HN pages. Much, much faster.
As far as I understand Phero needs a build-step, where as tRPC does not

This means you won't be getting the same real-time experience/feedback you get with tRPC, because you will still be waiting for Phero's compiler to complete the build

I was expecting something like that to emerge and initially wanted to go into that direction with Garph (see my comment below) but we ultimately decided that a code-gen does not give you the same amazing feeling so we ended building a pure TypeScript library

Good luck with Phero in any case!
AWS seems to be having problems. Again.

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

There goes the argument that AWS is a solution to those wanting many 9s of availability.
Or anyone outside the US :(
I think a lot of companies did (Roku for example did).

But when basically the entire sector you focus on decides to run, you’re in deep trouble.

They just weren’t diversified enough.
I love the Reform (typing on one now). Over the last couple years it has been remarkably dependable, and I've been able to make a few mods to it- such as changing out the keyboard PCB/switches to choc white.

I really appreciate that the new SOM for the Pocket will be compatible with the Reform. I can't afford a Pocket, but I will be upgrading my Reform.
That original video, however, was extremely one-sided and was by and large shared around by people who believed there was absolutely no reason to use a VPN. In the second video, he of course has to address this, and just backhandedly blames a segment of his viewers for this; but, of course, he had never bothered to provide any clarification or correction in the years since he had posted the prior video, instead deciding to enjoy the benefits of his video becoming a tool to back up misinformation right up until he had an actual incentive to move to the other side. This is the hallmark of a dishonest individual who cares much more about their bottom line than the content they post.
I can't link to it right now since the link is on reddit, but it's kinda funny timing with the rant one of their recruiters did on LinkedIn over the weekend
Wonder if some of their critical infra got hit by a power outage?[0]

Really a power outage shouldn't cause this as backups and generators...but maybe something was overlooked?

Guess we will just have to wait and see what the postmortem says.

[0]: Context: https://poweroutage.us/

EDIT: Seems like a no based on the latest update.

> Identified - We've identified an internal systems issue and are working to determine a fix.
It has been slow on and off for me for a couple days, I assumed it was just Century Link.
GPT 4 does not know that when you are on a boat it means the items on the land side are together.

I remember this question as a 7 year old and when the question was told to me, the same information was omitted.

Edit: just realized you flipped the scenario. Yes it seems like a case of pattern matching to a known problem. I think if you changed the variables to A, B, and C and gave a much longer description and more accurate conditions, it would have a different response.
I really hope we get 15 years of iPhone-like progress! Everything just seems like it's moving so fast right now...
Reddit is down at least once a week, but this is certainly a different error message than normal: "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers". Normally it's just something vague like "Oops, something went wrong".

I'm also amused at the possible explanation that they might have simply improved their error messages, causing us to assume this is a different sort of outage than usual.
I don't think tests will work at all like that much longer; they'll be more like oral exams, where you have a back-and-forth conversation with an AI that probes the breadth and depth of your knowledge with sufficient variability as to detect overfitting (i.e., memorizing the answers to a few previous exams).
It's a good chance to ponder how or where I will waste time once Reddit is ruined somehow.
There are ones that aren't?
Why should we trust you?
Apple expands hiring freeze, delays bonuses for some employees
After a few months of Duolingo you should move onto comprehensible input for learning. Your Duolingo subscription is holding you back
It's not the tutoring alone. It's also the social effect. A machine simply does not exert that kind of influence, nor do online courses require the same amount of dedication and ambition. Compare MOOCs: they have incredibly high drop-out rates.
> in fact one of the best ways to find if you're dreaming or not is to try and count your fingers

Or looking twice in a clock and seeing if the mind is making up the position of the clock hands on the spot.

Or looking text in a book and seeing if it's gibberish
I don’t ever want to be asked to do a system design interview for a YC startup when HN is crushed this much by just few high traffic posts.
It has been raining all day where I am(California), and it kind of felt natural that everything should be a bit slower...
Wow, it really becomes snappy again after logging out. Unfortunate side effect: I had to log back in to upvote you and leave this comment.
Negative reactions are quicker to arise and quicker to write out, which is a double whammy that causes them to appear more quickly and dominate the thread early. Slower, positive reactions eventually show up (usually!) and in the meantime we get the odd "contrarian dynamic" phenom where "I can't believe how negative these comments are!" objections start popping up and get upvoted to the top. Internet is weird.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Here's a trick question I posed to ChatGPT and Bing (so presumably, revealing an improvement in GPT-4):

What's heavier, a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers?

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ChatGPT: They both weigh the same, which is one pound.

This is because a pound is a unit of measurement for weight and it is a constant value. So whether you have a pound of bricks or two pounds of feathers, they both still weigh one pound in total.

However, the feathers would occupy a larger volume than the bricks because they are less dense. This is why it may seem like the feathers would weigh more, but in reality, they weigh the same as the bricks.

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Bing: This is a common riddle that tries to trick you into thinking that different materials have different weights. However, the answer is simple: two pounds of feathers are heavier than one pound of bricks. This is because weight is a measure of how much force gravity exerts on an object, and it does not depend on what the object is made of. A pound is a unit of weight, and it is equal to 16 ounces or 453.6 grams. Therefore, two pounds of anything will always be heavier than one pound of anything else.

However, if you were to compare the same volume or amount of feathers and bricks, then bricks would be much heavier than feathers. This is because bricks have a higher density than feathers, which means they have more mass per unit volume. Density is a measure of how tightly packed the particles in a material are. A brick has a density of about 2 grams per cubic centimeter, while a feather has a density of about 0.0025 grams per cubic centimeter. Therefore, a brick takes up much less space than a feather for the same mass.

I hope this helps you understand the difference between weight and density.
I unsarcastically look forward to a worse version that respects user privacy.
Hah! I’m sitting here waiting for eye surgery and figured it was slow hospital wifi. You’re right, though. Other sites are quick!

If someone screws up and kills me, HN will be the last thing I remember. ;-)
You shouldn't, but as mentioned - there are numerous ways to verify it
Show HN: Gowebrtc
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My main focus is on enabling one-to-many broadcasts, as well as allowing for quick switching of streams using unique publisher IDs. This makes it easy for viewers to navigate between different streams and find the content they're interested in.

I'm eager to hear your thoughts on the project and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thanks for checking it out!
Given ChatGPT’s ideological bias, is it wise to promote it to children?
This looks really interesting. If nothing else, it lumps a lot of cool tools together so that I can research them! Also makes me think of building a proxmox datacenter at home just to play around.

or trueNAS Scale... any experience with that for hyperconverged labs?
Twitter runs their own datacenters, so they should be isolated from what looks like an issue with a cloud provider.

Likely AWS, given Reddit, EA, Expedia, Hyatt, Patreon, and especially Chime and Amazon itself are all reported to be having issues and they're all well known AWS customers.
An important question not mentioned in this article - and may not have been known by the author - is how much (Dev)Ops burden do each of these add?

In the places I've worked that use Kafka, it's 100% always a source of issues and operational headaches.

That's in fairly high throughput environments though, no idea if it "just works" flawlessly in easy going ones.
> teach how to behave, how to ask for help, how to interact with others, etc. I often feel like teachers of young children teach them how to be "human".

Isn't that the job description of parents and/or day care?
Ask HN: What will be future software job market be like in 10 years cuz of AI?
I am a undergrad and although I try to convince myself that the dystopian AI future isnt a reality and AI is just a tool, I also feel like will I get to use this tool? or will I be jobless and someone else will be using AI to replace 1000 people at once.

Today after seeing GPT 4 results in common exams/tests my worry doubled, as these AI capabilities will keep increasing and although I am not talking about an all knowing AI overlord level dystopia, will I be replaced along with 1000 other because someone is using AI?
Hypothesis no 1: Nation state level cyberattack

Hypothesis no 2: Some undersea cables got cut (nation state or other)

Hypothesis no 3: Buried fiber optic cables got cut (nation state or other; I recall reading about Russian spies mapping optic cable networks on US soil)
I believe they showed that in GPT4 reversed the trend on the hindsight neglect problem. Search for "hindsight neglect" in the website and you can see that it's accuracy on the problem shot up to 100%.
The thing is... I have a GPD Win Max 2. It's not very repairable. The company is questionable. If it breaks, I might be in trouble.

But I run Arch Linux on it, play AAA games using Steam, Proton and gamescope, and the screen is practically bezel-free. The keyboard is quite decent for the size, and the price is in the range of the Pocket Reform, so it would be hard for me to ever justify a low performance ARM device with an 7" screen that is around the same size and weight. I guess I'm definitely not in the intended audience here.

MNT Pocket Reform:
Screen: 7"
Size: 20 × 12.6 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 1100 g

GPD Win Max 2:
Screen: 10.1"
Size: 22.7 × 16.0 × 2.3 cm
Weight: 1005 g

Now, if they came out with an actual palmtop around the size of the old HP 200LX I would buy it regardless of the specs if it ran Linux and had a good keyboard.
Are AGI and Capitalism Compatible?
I'm not saying it's here yet.

What happens to workers when human labor is too expensive for every task.

Basic Income seems like AI keeping pets and I'm become a borg with Neuralink seems like a great idea.
SMIC makes 7nm chips, which is considered high-end. It's not the highest of the high end, but it's not far from that, and it's definitely considered high-end.
AWS is experiencing problems (2014-03-14)
It seems AWS is not having a good day

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

Reddit is down, and even HN seems to be experiencing some issues.
Talk about Climate Change: How is the A.I. Winter working out for y'all ?
stop spamming already
True, but teachers don't (yet) have an API. What's interesting here (to me at least) is the potential to enforce values at scale.
To use "the good Bing", you only need to change the user agent of your favorite browser to Edge.
Existing, popular submission with the same title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157078
That is because each post is a file on disk?
You want recs for bad ones?
FWIW the usual outcome of messing up eye surgery is blindness, not death. Good luck! :)
Genuinely surprised by the positive reaction about how exciting this all is.

You ever had to phone a large business to try and sort something out, like maybe a banking error, and been stuck going through some nonsense voice recognition menu tree that doesn't work? Well imagine chat GPT with a real time voice and maybe a fake, photorealistic 3D avatar and having to speak to that anytime you want to speak to a doctor, sort out tax issues, apply for a mortgage, apply for a job, etc. Imagine Reddit and hacker news just filled with endless comments from AIs to suit someone's agenda. Imagine never reading another news article written by a real person. Imagine facts becoming uncheckable since sources can no longer be verified. Wikipedia just becomes a mass of rewrites of AI over AI. Imagine when Zoom lets you send an AI persona to fill in for you at a meeting.

I think this is all very, very bad. I'm not saying it should be stopped, I mean it can't, but I feel a real dread thinking of where this is going. Hope I am wrong.
Those are calibration curves for confidence.
Also what happens when you have a bunch of bored people running around kind of like during the pandemic?
I'd love to hear an answer to this question from someone in the industry. Could it somehow be added to the Open Banking standards that are becoming widely adopted, or might it be introduced in a similar manner?
According to the article:

>Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner.

That seems more intentional than a simple fly-by anyway.