skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, you've just imagined a scenario, invented a conclusion that you can't prove and justified your distinction on your invented conclusion. Your distinction is no less arbitrary than when this conversation started.

Next, you're conflating different things. How many humans are capable of inventing anything at all ? Have you invented anything in your field of expertise? Should i then question everything you do understand bout your field if you haven't ? Do you think understanding is binary ?
> because detail is undersampled, but you can't crank up the resolution without oversampling elsewhere.

I thought octrees solved this?
What happens when the AI decides it wants to be the ruling class?

How the ruling class treats those people it presently deems unnecessary and unproductive is going to set the precedent for AI to follow when it decides the same of them or their progeny. If the current ruling class wants to ensure a good future for themselves, it's incumbent on them to set a desirable precedent or accept that their lot in existence is to simply birth an AI and then go quietly into the good night after it takes over and abandons them to starvation.
Gandi email change only for GBP customers
After the previous submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777 , I sent an email asking about the changes since nothing was posted on their site and I received no email. This is the reply I got today:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your mail and sharing your concern. It was a communication sent for
> our client paying in GBP.
> We’re currently reviewing our general conditions and pricing policy in each
> currency given the fluctuation for the latter which means changes won’t likely
> be the same for each currency.
>
> Should a change occur for you; you'll receive a mail from us.
>
> I remain at your service.
> Best,
> ...
I went to a state school, 75% of the CS class used linux, 20% used OSX and maybe 5% used windows.
IT worker uses AI to create 706-page sci-fi graphic novel (2022)
This might be of interest to you (Google are getting there :))- https://palm-e.github.io
We can't trust it. That's a pretty hard bound.
This is new news for people? This tech has been around since before DOOM3 (2003, 20 years ago!)

As someone developing a VR game on the side who does all the models in blender myself, modeling in high res then baking to normal maps is a time consuming pain the the ass.
That means it’s still a possible future and not an alternative history. ;)
This here is my fear to. I have a buddy right now that is getting his degree in CS and he is using ChatGPT for a lot of his assignements.

I worry that the next generation of developers are going to grow up just figuring out how to "program GPT" and when they have an error rather than investigating it (because they can't because they aren't actually familiar with code in the first place) they'll simply tell GPT about the error they are having and tell it to spit out more code to fix that error, slapping more mud on the ball.

Eventually these systems are growing larger and larger at a faster and faster pace, and no one understands what they are actually doing, and they are so complex that no one human could ever actually understand what it is doing. Imagine if every codebase in the world was like the Oracle DB codebase.

In this future a programmer stops becoming a professional that works to create and understand things, instead they become a priest of the "Machine Spirit" and soon we are all running around in red robes chanting prayers to the Omnissiah in an effort to appease the machine spirit.
It's changed my life.

A few months ago, I wrote a post [0] talking about my experiences designing and building an ML-powered stock picking engine for my startup - the post went viral on HN, and it led to many fascinating conversations, valuable connections, opportunities to speak, and job offers (tech/ML, tradfi, and crypto). In fact, it quite directly led to my new job, as a team reached out with an opportunity that ticked off all the boxes I was looking for.

Finally, thanks to my blog, I have made many new friends who I hope to engage with productively[1] going forward, and I feel more firmly embedded in the intellectual milieu of the Bay Area than I ever did. As a consequence, I am much more relaxed now and feel in control of the overall direction of my life.

[0] https://principiamundi.com/posts/didact-anatomy/

[1] The meaning of this may change over time
>There is something to be said about struggling through learning difficult material on your own

Depends on what the difficulty is. I remember when I started to learn programming back in 1991, I was learning from books. These books were very expensive and I could only afford a few of them. I didn't have access to a library because I wasn't in any school or university. I was a musician with a side job at a theatre box office.

My main problem was that many of the explanations and examples in my programming books left some questions unanswered. It was even worse with maths, which I also tried to learn at the time. I got stuck a lot. If I'd had access to something like stackoverflow or Google, I could have progressed much much faster.

I do think that getting stuck and being forced to figure something out the hard way is sometimes useful. But more often than not I didn't get stuck because the material was actually difficult or because I was solving difficult problems. I got stuck because the one and only explanation available to me was imprecise or incomplete. All I needed was the same thing explained with slightly different words to clear up my misunderstandings.

On the whole I think learning these things today is immeasurably more productive. People are a lot less dependent on luck or money. You don't need to be one of the lucky few who has access to good teachers. You don't have to buy expensive books. Everyone has access to excellent online tutorials, documentation, source code and to thousands of competent professionals willing to help for free. It's absolute heaven. Back then it was hell.
I welcome all progress but I don't see why these models aren't simply run on a thin Python server that loads the model into memory once and then you can curl it instantly whenever you want?
I agree with the conclusion but Thom Hartmann is a regular contributor for Common Dreams.
This article isn't particularly enlightening or interesting. I'm struggling to see what makes it worth posting here. It kind of feels like Reddit content.
Author here. It does speed things up. It's just that a 2 second improvement doesn't mean much if the disk reads take 60 seconds. When it comes to disk though there's something far more important happening here. When you read() or memcpy() loaded memory from a 12GB file, then you need at least 24GB of RAM, because the copied memory pages are competing with the kernel's file cache pages. Once you go over that, the kernel is going to delete the file cache, thereby ensuring you have to do a full disk read every time. Using mmap() ensures the kernel knows they're both the same thing. That means you should be able to run models that are 2x larger than before, without compromising system stability.
Tons of people getting rich as fuck at those non-profit hospitals though.
They used to be glitchy, I've had okay success with them. The igc module (new igb) is a buggy nightmare on Linux with the kmod maintainers having no idea how to run a speed test with forwarding to also kernel panic... It's really bizarre.
I was wondering about that too, maybe they are relying on ECC memory to patch those over. The main page doesn't say, but in one of the comments here it says ECC memory is supported.

https://ddramdisk.store/2023/01/19/the-ddr4-pcie-x8-lady-has...
I write for myself and it’s great. I often use my own blogged instructions to guide me later. And, as a bonus, others find my instructions helpful and let me know. It’s a great feeling.
Not enough Republicans senators would agree (need 60) for a bill to mandate paid sick leave for the train workers.
I wonder if this is the etymology of the lovely speakeasy "Bourbon and Branch" in SF?
One is always co-located at parents in law. Whenever I drive there with my family I take the newest backup and rotate it.

Just in case I was robbed or had a house fire.
Apparently the point is proving it's possible. Not making it useful.
Instead of making the wild ass guesses that GPT makes (sometimes correctly), Python can be used to do the things that Python can do right. For instance if you asked a question like "how many prime numbers are there between 75,129 and 85,412" the only way of doing that (short of looking it up in a table) is something like

count(n for n in range(75129,85412) if is_prime(n))

and GPT does pretty well at writing that kind of code.
> When something breaks or they have an idea that isn’t in a nearby menu, they call a nearby programmer for help.

No they don't. Normal people don't have programmers on call. They google the error message and do whatever the classiest-looking page they find tells them to do, which usually starts with opening the Control Panel. Honestly, the same thing that programmers do when they hit something they don't understand, except programmers are better evaluators of classiness irt help pages (due to the mental model.).
No, it was based on what we now phrase as “an abundance of caution.”

One of these days I will draw a one panel image that demonstrates the fallacy of this thinking.
You mean AI can detect when a plumber is bulshitting me? That sounds great, could you elaborate?
Yes, I have something called a RAMLink, which plugged into the back of an "ancient" Commodore 64 or 128. The RAMLink is expandable up to 16MB of RAM. Keep in mind the computers had 64 or 128K.

Anyway, the RAMLink was powered but you could also get a battery backup for it (using a sealed lead-acid battery, like a miniature one used in a car). I could move an operating system called GEOS over to the RAMLink and watch it boot in less than 20 seconds, where it usually took 1.5 minutes to read off disks and eventually load. I could then move programs (word processing, graphics creation, terminal programs - you name it) over to the RAMLink and open and use them in 1-2 seconds max.

This is from 1990 technology, running on computers from the mid-80s. RAM Drives/Disks are awesome.
I know of someone who was recently fired via a notice written by GPT3. The person who fired him told me.
I want to allow it, but only if they also allow data generated by them to be used to train competing models (and data from those competing models to also be used to train competing models of them too, etc). And if someone wants to copy the data for another purpose (e.g. making a database, or making a movie), they cannot restrict that purpose either.

(I expect that the AI will still probably have similar kinds of problems than it does now regardless of whether or not it is allowed, though.)
> They didn’t do shit for the US in Irak

Iraq is not a State Party to the Rome Statute (nor is it a nonparty that voluntarily acceded to ICC jurisdiction on its territory for the time in question), and therefore the ICC does not have jurisdiction on a territorial basis for war crimes in Iraq. The US is not a State Party to the Rome Statute, and therefore the ICC does not have jurisdiction on the basis of nationality over war crimes committed by Americans. It needs one or the other to exercise jurisdiction over war crimes. (The ICC did conduct an investigation of allegations of UK war crimes in Iraq, over which it would have jurisdiction as the UK is a State Party. ) [0]

Ukraine is also not a State Party to the Rome Statue, but has made a declaration accepting ICC jurisdiction for war crimes on its territory twice (first for crimes between 21 November 2013 to 22 February 2014 and then a second open-ended declaration covering the time period from 20 February 2014 onwards. As a result, the ICC has jurisdiction on a territorial basis for crimes committed within the territory of Ukraine from 21 November 2013 onwards.

> they didn’t do shit for Ukraine arming people in the donbas in 2014

Arming people within your sovereign territory is not a war crime. (Heck, arming people outside of your sovereign territory is also not a war crime.)

> they don’t do shit for the Israeli colony,

They have not yet reached the point of issuing warrants; they have opened investigations (delayed in part by the process of determining the extent of the court’s territorial jurisdiction given the nature of the situation) and made determinations that there is reasonable basis to believe that IDF, Hamas, and other forces in Palestine have committed specific enumerated war crimes. [1]

> but they do shit for Putin?

Russia in Ukraine has been rather unusually flagrant in its war crimes (largely, I would assume, because of the confidence they feel in their impunity.)

[0] https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/itemsDocuments/2...

[1] https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/itemsDocuments/2...
The trouble with throwing money at education to try to improve it is that the things we know work are, on one side, nothing to do with the schools (home environment—what needs money are social services and shit like universal healthcare, not schools, poverty-reduction is the clearest target here) and on the other, a lot more expensive than we're willing to pay (e.g. Tutorial System, very-small class sizes, that kind of thing).

So instead of going after the things we know work—either because it's outside the scope of what a school can address, or because it's far more expensive than we're ever going to pay—what money we do spend just chases a bunch of unproven and unlikely-to-succeed garbage, basically.

Schools are like the patient who needs a heart transplant, but can only afford healing crystals.
"your comment confidently states this is unfixable - presumably based on the frequency you've seen similar text on the internet. why should anyone believe the veracity of your statement? "

no its because GPT is based on transformers.
Since the effects the study sees are related to menin levels in the hypothalamus specifically, I wonder, could targeted treatments of some kind still work? Maybe menin can be inhibited at tumor-related sites specifically or raised in the hypothalamus specifically, to separate the opposing effects?
Disagree -- I think chatGPT will make juniors more palatable to hire. ChatGPT will basically give juniors a free pair programmer to baby-sit their work/progress. Why pay extra for senior devs when juniors can become much more efficient thanks to ChatGPT becoming stack-overflow on steroids. I think the wage gap between junior and senior will actually drop massively. I predict teams will keep 1-3 architect level positions for designs and reviews and replace all seniors with cheaper juniors.
There is definitely something more than the inflation. Here in Toronto, the price is $2.8 US for a dozen.
You're missing the forest from the trees: Washington considers the ICC a complete joke.
In addition to immense personal satisfaction, I’ve found the following benefits to maintaining a website, specifically with a blog:

- I conducted two job hunts publicly, and each time I published a "hire me" post that I could use as a sort of generic cover letter. It helped me flesh out what I was looking for, and what a potential employer should be looking for in order for my employment there to make sense. It also resulted in some extremely high quality interviews in instances where the hiring manager took the time to read through them, and in one case eventual long-term employment, which is still ongoing.

- After I gave a talk at several meetups and a conference, I published a post that both linked to the recording and was also a written version. Every so often an appropriate opportunity to share finds me, and I’m glad to have it ready. I’ve gotten very positive, grateful feedback on this from several relative newcomers to programming specifically, and one of them eventually directly reached out with a job opportunity.

- I’ve referenced several of my posts long after publishing them, as they were notes on something I had figured out but would forget each time. Private notes could also work here, but publishing them publicly encouraged me to be thorough.

- The platform I use for the site has changed a number of times over the years, but most of the iterations have been some sort of Python based static site generator or dynamic web app. Back when I started maintaining it in 2014, I was quite new to Python, and building and rebuilding the site definitely taught me things that have come in handy at work.

I’m sure there are other direct effects I’m forgetting, and a plethora of indirect ones. I consider it an extremely worthwhile effort.
I'm half convinced you pulled this line from a ST:TNG script.
I think with 64GB you're going to have a rough time, even with a large microSD depending a bit what you plan to do with.

The shader cache alone will fill it up quickly depending on what games you'll play.

I'll recommend to update the internal drive if you're going with the 64GB version.
> when somebody sends me a spreadsheet with functionality I've never seen before it's extremely easy to figure out what they did a

You must have encountered only very simple spreadsheets. I've had to reverse engineer a number of technical spreadsheets that took days of full time sweated effort to merely understand the principles and more days again to extract the methods accurately enough so that they could be reimplemented in a programming language.
This is how I feel at work too. Someone's system is misbehaving, and I report a bug. They say it's some dependency's issue and direct me to ask someone there. No, that's your responsibility, not mine. I don't know the intricacies of your s2s interaction.
And if it turns out that no job requires sentience, will your friend still hold this to be a useful metric?
I'd argue that people's impression of the world is going to be driven largely by their own perspective, not media. Borrowing a quote [1] from Stephen Pinker, probably the most visible advocate for 'things are getting better' :

"... the United States is an outlier among rich Western democracies, with a stagnation in happiness and higher rates of homicide, incarceration, abortion, sexually transmitted disease, child mortality, obesity, educational mediocrity and premature death.... "

Many of these issues are ones people are going to be aware of, and that is going to impact, them on a day to day basis. And that's going to inform their decisions much more than whatever the news is saying. And that was written back in 2018 which absolutely feels like the "good ole days" compared to now a days!

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/02...
You can certainly draw that chain of events.

However, just because the link can be drawn, doesn’t mean it was the ultimate underlying cause. If the depositors weren’t so heavily coordinated and concentrated together, there’s no way the money would have come out that fast, if at all. Regardless of the loss on the bond sale.
How does having a working knowledge of concepts like files, or using a command prompt, equate with having to learn the guts all the way down to Maxwell's equations?

Much of the scenarios this dude mentions are table-stakes in the grand scheme of computing things.

Instead we have an endless supply of wanterpreneurs re-engineering everything to make computing as mindless as possible because everyone knows the stupider it is, the bigger your potential audience is. And since everyone wants megagrowth bullshit we have to make using a computer as dumb and mindless as possible! Fuck all the people who take the time to understand this stuff, who got these companies to where they are today, they are the long tail...
This made me more confused about what oil is.

I thought it was a shell that competes with bash but doesn’t try to be strictly posix.

Now there’s oil language, OSH and oil for Unix?
But before iPhone there were other smartphones and before google was altavista. We might still be in altavista phase but I think even if ChatGPT won’t be a leader 5 years later, 10 years from now will look back at LLM having the same big impact as smartphones and search engines
It might get solved but we have no idea how. There's no (readable) db of facts and no (visible) logical processing to improve on.
There are plenty of people who have ethical objections to using any google product like myself. I don't have any google accounts and I definitely won't make one to try out someone's product
My understanding of this is that the original problem was children choking on whole peanuts. Hence the advice not to eat peanuts. This somehow got lost in translation and became "don't eat any peanut-based food".

Disclosure: son has severe peanut allergy.
Show HN: Zing – Analyze, query with OpenAI, and dashboard from CSVs on mobile
Yeah the frontpage is getting ruined for months with this.

It has gotten utterly boring seeing the same dystopia-inducing shit application someone came up with this week getting thousands upvotes, there is much cooler research taking place in other disciplines right now that gets minimal attention. HN has unfortunately become the influencer-equivalent for tech.
With these constant advancements in mice, they should have virtually immortal rodents by now. ;)
No one is bringing a raw Blu-Ray signal into the back of their TV over Ethernet though— Netflix's 4K streams cap out at around 16mbps, which is a tiny fraction of that.
Tell that to SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, or a dozen other enterprise software vendors.
In the engineering space, it's common to get chartered with one of the Institutes, such as the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE who make so many standards), Institution of Engineers of Ireland, and a great many others. These are massive organisations, which write standards, certify engineering courses in universities, and lobby governments. They are absolutely the successors to the guilds
This was a delightful read. I wonder what the consequences will be
From the Wikipedia page, its formation in neurons can be blocked. So maybe the preventative is to prevent and look for signs of blockage. I am totally out of my field here.
The annoying thing is When one of the parents is very allergic to peanuts, so you have to give it to the child elsewhere, and no friends or relatives want that responsibility. You get very little support from elsewhere.

(My wife is allergic to sesame. We have tried to get people to have hummus parties with our children but to this day they have not eaten any sesame as far as we are aware.)
If they're willing to learn, GPT is a very powerful tool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VznoKyh6AXs ["How to learn to code FAST using ChatGPT (it's a game changer seriously)"]
Yes, refusing to answer some questions means it’s less general purpose than it might be, but I think people exaggerate the harm in that. Why do they expect an answer to everything?

Maybe it’s because search engines mostly don’t refuse to answer questions? But what they often do instead is show you mostly irrelevant, bottom-of-the-barrel results. But it’s more jarring when a chatbot responds with nonsense when it doesn’t have a competent reply.

Learning how to say “I don’t know” well is important for both people and machines.
GOP for unwinding regulation alas faces minimal risk. It's frustrating how limited a window the broad body politic has. And also, what messages will people be receptive to; how many real & valid issues will people consider or reject, per their baises?
I would disagree with both of you. It's an open question whether LLMs can be made reliable.
Perhaps look for an inhibitor that doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier?

Anyway, this may give some human data on the question here, independent of the anticancer effects.

I'm sure this will come up in the approval process.
The Meat Shack is legit!
Can you expand? Unclear what pathway there is to go from a compromised host to your password store.