skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strange history of the body mass index [video]
They did?! I thought they just had to learn and adapt doing something else eventually during a transition which was not very fast while also enjoying the new, better and cheaper products available to all.

Any source for those starvation deaths? I would like to learn more about what prevented them from simply doing what the survivors did.
No, the SV model would be to treat you for free until you have some chronic condition that locks you in, at which point, they pull the "free" rug, and take you for every spare penny (and sometimes more).
This is strong evidence that I am not the user & the pricing may indeed stack up.

A good response for sure.
> "My cap is 15 patients in one day," Nuila says. "That's compared to some of my colleagues in the private world, who I've heard admit up to 24 patients in one night, or don't carry a cap."

Learning from my spouse who is a current medical resident -- some attendings admit and discharge more patients than the capacity because their bonuses are tied to that. That is a twisted incentive and it is in conflict with ACGME's guidelines of not letting residents handle more than 10 patients at a time. The attending/hospitalist at my wife's hospital makes $420K/year + bonus (it's near Miami, FL). They work 8-hours shift for 7 days and then rest 7 days. If one chooses to, s/he can moonlight at another place (a senior friend of my wife works for a hospital in Palmdale, CA and another one nearby for 7 days each; she easily bags $600K/year; she is raking in money when she can work this much while buying houses, and she plans to work half as much in a few years).

I also wonder if hospitals like "The People's Hospital" make patients sign waiver to not sue them. At my wife's hospital, some of the patients (and/or their families) are obviously angling for lawsuit and are always looking for excuses to do that. That legal/liability burden (among may other things like doctor's salaries; bloated administration; etc.) is part of the reasons why hospital bills are exorbitant.
You have a point but that would mean Russia cares about contractual ramifications - not sure about that !

On the other hand blowing up the pipe means giving up on :

1. blackmailing the europeans if they don't comply to some demands.
2. A huge revenue - because BTW there's no way it can be repaired.

So I don't think contractual ramifications weighs much in that context
Apparently that clock stopped for a few years.
I work with 3 programmers who have worked together for 30+ years (probably a bit rare in any profession, especially tech), and if you talk to any 2 of them separately, they'll talk shit about the 3rd's code. I doubt they'd be surprised if I told them that.
Agreed about background music, but I definitely spend time listening to music and doing nothing else, and the medium feels active to me in a way that television doesn't.

On the other hand, I've been a musician since I was three, so perhaps the way I'm processing music is different from normal. One facet might be that I usually don't find myself focusing much on lyrics (if any), which means it ends up as a semi-meditative activity in a way that TV can't.
So it sounds like AI researchers should focus on replacing both sides - sounds like it would be much more efficient. (tic)
All the new responses looked good to me. What do mean they're worse?
AI Art: MoMAs Glorified Lava Lamp
I'm not entirely convinced by the arguments in the video, but I don't think those other pipelines are a strong counterargument either, perhaps the opposite. Let me explain.

Let's say you believe (a) that Germany desperately has to buy gas from Russia in order to survive the winter (not an entirely unreasonable believe back then), and (b) that it's possible for Germany to use its influence to pressure Ukraine into some kind of Russia-friendly peace deal (as has in fact happened after Russia conquered the Krim in 2014). Then forcing Germany to have that gas delivered through the active warzone in Ukraine sounds like a good bet to make (b) happen very quickly.

It didn't work out that way, but there would be an internal logic to this.
It seems to have modules for both.
You mean it's a great way to stop corporations abusing your work to make a proprietary SaaS?
The fact that we’re even having this conversation should concern you. Move the goalposts if you want, but the rate of progress should concern you.
I suspect the post you’re replying to disagrees with the 1% figure.
This document doesn't contain the architecture and training details of GPT-4. As an engineer, these details would be the most interesting part of it!

Driven by interest in GPT-4 and cutting edge LLMs I studied the research literature and compiled a small list of architectural and training details which very likely underpin GPT-4 in this blogpost: https://kir-gadjello.github.io/posts/gpt4-some-technical-hyp...

While this is a work in progress, the most important part is already in place and thus I decided to publish it in its current draft state.

Have fun following the TLDR and Arxiv links, fellow HNers!
Hmm. WiFi calling is not a big deal. VoLTE however is. Some networks don't even support 2/3G anymore so VoLTE is the only way to make calls there.

I always thought it was ridiculous that LTE didn't come with a built-in voice mode that was just universally supported. VoLTE is more of an add on app on top of of data and a big cause of compatibility problems. It wasn't even finished when the rest of the LTE standard came out so many early phones came without support. And many still have to fall back to 3G during calls due to incompatibilities or networks blocking them due to "not invented here".

It's a mess compared to 2G/3G where you can just stick a sim card into any phone and know it will work just fine.

In a far future a data only network makes sense but we're not there yet and we definitely weren't when LTE was specced. Voice should have been an integral part of the standard.
Who? On the radio?
Pair Programming with GPT-4: CrosswordGPT
You mean to say he's a con artist?
I've written a blog on/off over 10 years. It hasn't paid off in any form to my awareness. I rarely put ideas past draft anymore, but sometimes you have things worth saying even when you don't know anybody who cares to hear.
Internet Computers: The Third Browser War
> From an engineer's point of view, working for 6 years at some organization with no significant professional growth sounds dystopian.

To be fair, they do give you a masters degree after 2 years and a doctorate after 6, and expect you to spend loads of your time developing your knowledge.

That's some of the most measurable and transferable professional development out there. The problem is you get paid a pittance.
>Basically, 99% of the effort is NOT WRITING CODE. It's all about communication with people, and problem solving. If we use GPT-X in our company, it will help us with 1% of our workload

First, if you did have GPT-X (say GPT-10) in your company, there wouldn't be much back-and-forth communication either. Those parts would still be handled with GPT-X talking to another GPT-X in the other company. Even the requirements might be given by a GPT-X.

Second, even if that's not the case, the part of doing the communication can be handled by non-programmers. Then they can feed the result of the communication to GPT-X and had it churn out some program. Perhaps would keep a couple of developers to verify the programs (sort of like GPT-X operators and QA testers) and get rid of the rest.

As for the rest of the current team of developers? GPT-X and the people running the company could not care less about them!
I dunno, it sounds to me a little bit like the concept of "opportunity costs"?
—- 36 eggs still 6,400won! —-
I think you're right.

And there were things in this general direction... Smalltalk and Logo spring to mind.

But there is a lot of culture in computing, and a big problem that isn't recognised let along acknowledged is that today, there are basically only 2 surviving branches on one tree, when 30-40 years ago there was a whole forest.

The branches are Windows (which now means NT) and Unix (which now means Linux and macOS). They both grow out of the same stump: DEC's minicomputers, specifically DEC's 16-bit line.

DEC also had 12-bit, 18-bit, 20-bit, 24-bit and 36-bit lines, all profoundly deeply unlike anything that ever ran C.

And of course there were lots of other minicomputer and mainframe brands that were far far more different than that: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation (CDC), RCA, General Electric, and Honeywell. Once known as "IBM and the seven dwarves".

All we have left descends from one branch: DEC 16-bit machines.

The rest is mostly gone. Some are still around, emulated and in maintenance mode, because they run the world's banking systems and air-traffic control and things. Kinda important.

There are whole families of languages and OSes that never used a single line of C or involved any Unix code at all at any point. Whole types of OS and GUI and editor and filesystem and so on more different from Unix than Unix is different from Windows NT.

Whereas today, the traditional Mac is totally gone, replaced by Unix. And Windows is getting more Unix-like all the time and now includes a choice of Unix and two different Linux runtimes.

Suggest that, hey, let's run Smalltalk on the bare metal and teach kids on that, so that they don't even have to ever know what "a file" is or means, and people will say "that's crazy talk!"

Remember the Blues Brothers? "We got both kinds of music! Country AND Western!"

Well, we got both kinds of software today! Unix AND Windows!

They are the same damned thing, and gods help you if you are some heretic that says hey, you know, there are other things out there...
While local NVMe SSD raids can max out a PCIe 16x slot with given large enough blocks and enough queue depth they still can't keep up with small to medium sync writes writes unless you can keep a deep queue filled. Lots of transaction processing workloads require low latency commits which is where flash-backed DRAM can shine. DRAM doesn't requires neither wear leveling nor UNMAP/TRIM. If the power fails you use stored energy to dump the DRAM to flash. On startup you wait for the stored energy level to come to safe operating level while restoring the content from flash, once enough energy is stored you erase enough NAND flash to quickly write a full dump. At this point the device is ready for use. If you overprovision the flash by at least a factor of two you can hide the erase latency and keep the previous snapshot. Additional optimisations e.g. using chunked or indexable compression can reduce the wear on the NAND flash effectively using the flash like a simplified flat compressed log structured file system. I would like such two such cards each of my servers as ZFS intent log please. If their price and capacity are reasonable enough I would like to use them either as L2ARC or for a special allocation class VDEV reserved for metadata and maybe even small block storage for PostgreSQL databases.
Clearly, having a single life desire and nothing else is in-human, I completely agree!

The full quote was > but you could make a case (and it will be made in courts in the next few years, I don't doubt) that these agents do have desires analogous to our own

Analogous doesn't mean "the same" it means "somehow similar."

However I would challenge you to consider more specifically why this type of desire is different from our own desires. Besides the biological machinery, what makes this type of desire different from ours?
Nothing about Hersh's story makes any sense at all. Unfortunately, while Hersh developed a strong reputation decades ago, that story reads like Russian propaganda. Embarrassingly so[0].

Not saying the US didn't do it, but that theory makes less sense than any of a few other actors.

0. https://newpol.org/the-nord-stream-pipeline-explosions-chall...
They took a Corona break
"less easily" matters a lot. That's the difference between one person finding the info and a thousand.
Just as a counter point, I've started a small blog, posting infrequently about all sorts of things, technical and not. This has not had any affect on my life whatsoever, it's been a fun timesink but I've not seen any returns.
From my own sampling of going through about 10 times I used GPT for real world Typescript code, some used in production, I can confirm that GPT-4 does a noticeably better job and produces code I actually want to use way more often.

GPT-3.5 always produced very verbose types and over engineered code. The GPT-4 outputs were consistently shorter and more focused. Kind of like how a junior dev has to think through all the smaller steps and makes functions for each, as he incrementally solves the problem slower and less intuitively, almost over explaining the basics, while a senior dev merges the simpler stuff into small concise functions. You can see it with the var names and type choices GPT-4 focused much more on what the code is trying to accomplish rather than what the code itself is doing. And these are all with the same prompts.

There’s still things like unused vars being included occasionally and some annoying syntax choices, if I could append prettier/eslint rules automatically to GPT output it’d be gold (I haven’t tried to do this myself).

But still very encouraging.
It's really about a misunderstanding on the value-stream mapping from concept to production. The claims that GPT-X will write code and thus cover the whole value-stream is conflating the very last steps with the whole process.
You would be wrong. This is the social media channel of a VC, specifically one that was impacted and lobbied for depositor safety on this very topic.
I don't personally, because battery backed SRAM is a poor man's eeprom.
A deep insight. Thanks.
Is JD Cloud the New “National Champion”?
Yes, that‘s my point: Even in case of an unprecedented interest rate hike and 10-year treasuries, the haircut due to depreciating asset values would not be 100% but much less.
It has been a place where I can document my thoughts and feelings over time. It is where I share what I learn.

And I'm over 40 years old and never once been to an interview. I attribute at least some of it to having a website and a blog.
Chaos Malware – Evolving Persistence and Evasion Techniques
Venture investors, U.S. lawmakers join forces to fight TikTok
I started all this because I like Slashdot and wanted to do a site just like that for librarians. Worked out pretty well for me. Thanks again* CmdrTaco!

My website has given me my entire career. I started a blog in 1999, not knowing a damn thing about servers or programming. Running a blog, or any website, was a challenge back in the 90s. I kept at it, learned how to program, got a job as a programmer during the first dot com boom. Kept at it and learned how to do sysadmin stuff. Started my own little web hosting company. Along the way had several decent professional jobs and always kept the blog and hosting going. I'm now a sysadmin at a small non profit. I shut down my own hosting thing in 2020. The site has become a bit quiet, but I still keep it running, it's just a part of my life I guess.

* I got to thank Rob here on HN one time a while back which was pretty cool.
So much focus on “safety” these days. It’s a wonder we are allowed to own knives.
You use standard DOM operations to update state, like innerText and classList.add, defined inside the JS class that orchestrates the component.

Nesting works using the same concept. A parent template either picks one of its child nodes using this.fragment.querySelector or using document.createElement to mount a child template to. You then use this.addChild to opt into garbage collection.
Seeing this, I had a sudden feeling that the issues which AI brings up are extreme, and then I wondered if anti-AI terrorism will become some sort of ideology or danger in the future, and if companies working on these groundbreaking, disruptive, truly awesome tech are considering increasing their security as a result of this? It just seems highly plausible that some unstable people could be really "set off" by AI and its consequences and possibilities (or how they mis-/interpret them) which may cause them to go on a crazed rampage against who they perceive to be responsible for this. As these labs are mostly for now in the US, which also has guns abundantly available, it's the sort of risk that would concern me if I were responsible for that. Does anyone else think this is likely or a valid concern? Or mostly it's unlikely for what reason?
It's interesting how the voice they train it into reads as absolutely untrustworthy to me - superficially nice and benevolent, really deceitful and manipulative
This! Where I grew up, very rural area, people used to have a lot of horses, mules and donkeys for hard menial work. Horses are very finicky and "aristocratic" beasts and very temperamental sometimes. Mules and donkeys tho, they were always so docile and easy to work. So easy that my grandpa would let me (a 8 year old or so?) guide the donkey (a specific breed from here, Miranda Donkey [0]) around the village carrying whatever was needed, mostly sacks of potatoes. He'd load the donkey in the farm and I'd just gently tug the leash and off we went all the way home, never once had an issue while I had a serious one with his mule (a huge, stubborn girl called Blondie) but probably my fault not hers.
Only thing donkeys don't like, IME, is walking backwards. :D

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burro_de_Miranda
> Yes, you can enact a policy in your corporation that no one is allowed to use AI tools like Copilot to write code, but how do you monitor this? How do you know if some developer did use Copilot?

That’s easy: corporate firewalls that block all traffic to openai.com, its subdomains and the IP ranges used by GitHub Copilot.

Enterprises that care about exfiltration of code from their internal networks (e.g. banks and other heavily regulated entities) typically hand out computers that are locked down to their employees, including developers. So any engineer that wants to install the GitHub Copilot extension or indeed any non-approved third party extension from the VSCode Marketplace will first have a word with the folks in IT.
Because the comment isn’t in line with HN rules.
>being locked out of Copilot2 could be a lot more frustrating (and career impactful in a few years).

They really are the new Google
Both points are fair, not sure how Putin is thinking.

But from historical perspective, the one thing that outlives wars, is Debt and Contracts. Specially if they are owned by the winner.
i got that, but how does this relate to a bald eagle?
Because publications like the NYT depend on access for their "journalism" [0]. Independent/investigative journalism requires an adversarial relationship to power, and looks more like [1]. In past decades, the establishment was occasionally forced to grapple with this [2] [3] but at this point the public discussion is so captured, it's no longer necessary.

Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent lays it out in depth.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/corres...
[1] https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/releases/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/27/archives/cia-established-...
How come work “autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine” cannot be copyrighted <<it was made “without any creative contribution from a human actor”>> but machine code as generated by a compiler can?
Some 4k blu-rays will peak at greater than 100Mbps, so if you want to stream those without recompressing, you may need a big buffer or gigE.
one of the more recent changes is that the program is more flexible. it's no longer only 3 months full-time, but there is also the option to work on projects that are only half-size, and i believe they can be done in the same full time frame. look at the gsoc site for the specific rules and look for projects that might fit. talk to mentors and see how you can fit your time for a project like that.
YouTube Restores Trump's Channel
What do image tokens look like? Groups of pixels?
And that's ok. I do not see what tangible effect this really has on anyone. They decided to use a negative term "bro", so what? Is it that bad? Is someone really taking a hit and feeling bad (besides for the sake of feeling bad under this "rigtheous" weather). I feel like there's more people being negatively affected by this word policing than really using such a word. I would be ok either way, tech bros, pub maids - I don't really look so much into words that it would really affect my thought - but that it wouldn't be accepted is not really indication of much. There are always loud voices that will feel upset by everything.
Disney+ Users Digested the Streaming Service’s Recent Price Jump
And then everyone here would attack Google for covering up their own vulnerabilities.

This is a sign of integrity.
- I enjoy tinkering with static site generators and no-JS web design.

- Paired with an RSS reader, it's a nice way to DIY a retro kind of social media, without scummy dark patterns and ad-laden middlemen.

- It's a nice way to hone my writing skills.

- It's a nice way to record my adventures outside of the tech space.

I've only been writing for a couple of years, but I've already had some really enjoyable email exchanges with strangers who also write blogs (that I subscribe to via RSS). Especially since I left NYC, deleted Facebook and Instagram, and started to deeply invest in hobbies, this replacement for social media has been invaluable. It really gives me a sense of online community that American cities sadly lack.
Organisation of photos and thoughts in one place which isn't controlled by a corporation or algorithm.
I compiled this data from sources like:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045618/spam-calls-per-m... (you'll only be able to view this page once or twice before Statista demands a subscription).

https://www.truecaller.com/blog/insights/top-20-countries-af...

https://blog.hiya.com/what-country-gets-the-most-phone-spam and their report

https://www.hiya.com/state-of-the-call

I also asked GPT to quote some research for me that I fact-checked, and I looked up some news articles about spam calls in different regions. As I said, my estimates are unreliable.

It matched my personal experience which is that of someone who has lived in these smaller EU countries and also in English-speaking regions.
Maybe trim chat history to most important content?
Your brain is analog. Trying to emulate this with a digital computer is bound to come with some computational cost.
Which would be ironic as the pandemic WFH years saw a huge spike in cybercrime and security related incidents on all fronts.
Most things, but mostly by omission. For some examples: https://newpol.org/the-nord-stream-pipeline-explosions-chall...
This is already AGI, it's just not as general as a human. Lizards are also less general, but they still have GI.
Sorry, I misinterpreted your first post but thank you for clarifying.
I think the "hard to tell a compelling story in 6 episodes" thing just depends on the type of story. Previous replies mention several excellent shorter-run series.

Often, if I find out a show is a miniseries (or I guess they call them "limited series" nowadays) I am much more likely to watch it. Too many shows go the route of "how many seasons can we get this to run" instead of "how long will it take to tell this story with good pacing to conclusion?"

I get tired of watching shows that seem designed to run indefinitely. They all have the same sort of pacing that stretches things out unnecessarily just to pad seasons. Shows like that feel like basic cable to me when I watch them. I'll take a good 6 or 8 episode arc over indefinite seasons any day.