skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPT3:

For many, having a personal website or blog can serve as a platform to share their thoughts, ideas or expertise on a particular topic, and this can lead to increased exposure and visibility in their field. This, in turn, can help open up new job opportunities or collaborations.

Additionally, creating content for a personal website or blog can also foster a commitment to learning and self-improvement, as it encourages individuals to stay informed about their areas of interest and to continually develop their skills in these areas.

GPT4:

1. Exposure and Visibility: Having a personal website/blog can increase your online presence, making you more visible to potential employers, clients, and networking opportunities. Your website can act as an online resume, showcasing your skills, experience, and projects.

2. Job Opportunities: A well-maintained blog can attract job offers, especially if the content you post is relevant to your industry and demonstrates your expertise. Employers may notice your work and reach out to you regarding potential job opportunities.

3. Networking: A personal website can help you connect with like-minded professionals in your field. By creating content relevant to your niche, you can attract an audience interested in the same topics and build connections with them.

4. Personal Branding: A website/blog helps you establish your personal brand, which can make you distinguishable in the job market. Your online presence can become synonymous with your area of expertise, making you a go-to option in your field.

5. Increased Learning: Writing blog posts can help you learn and solidify your understanding of various topics within your field. Researching and composing articles about your industry can increase your knowledge and make you more well-informed overall.

6. Monetization: You can use your blog to generate additional income through advertising, sponsored content, or affiliate marketing. Some people can even turn their blogs into full-time businesses.
It seems unlikely. Most of them were either lost on US soil or lost along with military personnel who died.

But the more convincing logic is: why would the US want to do that? The fewer other nations have nuclear weapons, the more power the US has over them, either because it can threaten to attack them or because it can provide nuclear weapons as a deterrent. Stationing US weapons in a foreign country and getting to set up a forward base? Heck yeah. Giving up control of those weapons and maybe having them turned against you decades down the line? Not a chance.
I proposed it similarly in an earlier HN discussion and my understanding from that discussion is that it's typically not any better than having a monolothic model.

I'm not entirely convinced as I think it would also be easier to finetune or re-train smaller model modules instead of needing to train the entire model again.
> dismissing the credibility of a publication that has a track record of misleading pop science sensationalism

Attacking the publication's track record, rather than the article's content, is clearly covered by PP's cited definition:

"a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself"
I think you might be overthinking it? I didn't read your whole rant that you linked, but calories in = calories out (CICO) is simply a tool to teach people that losing weight is not about following complicated fad diets trying to sell you something, it's about not overeating—that's it. Permanent weight loss is primarily a mental issue, and a lot of people have perceptions about "healthy" and "unhealthy" food, that while important for general health, don't really help anyone lose weight.

CICO is about teaching people how to eat when hungry (actually hungry, not just craving a pizza), but no more than is necessary. It boils it down to the essentials, and I would argue that it's not tautological, it's axiomatic.
One thing a lot of companies are moving to is asynchronous service - where you do an online/text chat, but sometimes that’s just as aggravating.

However some companies do it well - recently had to do a warranty exchange with Apple - after I couldn’t find anything useful in their warranty webpage, I hit their Support app with the question (which essentially initiates a chat via Messages)

Within minutes I had a response, where a voice callback was scheduled (within about 10 mins since I was available), then onto an immediate escalation (by them, not me) to further verify/qualify the defect, to eventual resolution, all within 30 mins (which included me fumbling a bit to get pictures while the agent waited).

Overall I was very satisfied with the overall process, as I didn’t have to sit and wait on hold at all to start addressing my issue.
My non expert understanding is that it allows the bank equity to be haircut assuming there is enough equity to cover the losses. If there isn’t enough equity, then the merger wouldn’t go through.
I feel most won’t risk it. It’s less embarrassing to say you don’t know than to be wrong.
Need snippets
Yeah, Looks like the store has been fixed.
Yep, a few years ago we were doing stuff that would hammer ten or twenty GB of design files for some hours. Tried moving it over to RAM-disk - from the server's 128 GB RAM - and it ran a few times faster.

But in general it was not worth the setup hassle and the possible RAM-starving of other server jobs, stuff was generally not urgent.
You're Christine? I'm sure nobody would have turned your down for a technical screen!
Everything is possible. But please, don't abuse the word "hypothesis". This is reserved for things that are not proven yet but there are some strongly supporting facts and there exists, at least hypothetically, a way to test it.
Unlikely. Phone support was one of those things that was driving people insane before. Remember jokes about hold music, foreign accents and phone menus?

I personally can't stand phone support. It always takes way longer than it needs to, and I can't do anything else during it. Just firing off an email is far more efficient. Easier to do after office hours too.
It's important to remember who is represented in the US political system. It is a federation of states, whose legislative districts have been heavily gerrymandered.
...If only someone would provide a full access link to the paper (Sigh & hint-hint). Then perhaps We (the HN Community) could have an adult conversation beyond what the Click-Baity submission title portrays.
> Try playing Elden Ring sometime.

It's not that hard after you spend at least 20 hours figuring out how to play it.

/s
I can see this being great as an ephemeral OS disk. I would selectively sync the changes I want to keep, either to a local SSD, or even over a 10Gbps network, which would update the static image used for booting. It's kind of great knowing that a reboot would give you a fresh system, and at these speeds the system would _fly_.
why would the US want to do that?

"The US" wouldn't. People in the US with great political power would.
In 2013 I was working for a mobile game company that dropped a metric shitload of cash in Big Blue's lap for an enormous "RAM SAN".

IIRC it was a 1 or 2U unit with a few small lithium ion batteries inside. Phenomenal unit. It could have been configured as a block device but we used it for hot data in an auto-tiering setup with SSDs and rust in the other tiers.

Loved it to bits. No matter what we threw at it, the network was always our bottleneck.
The brilliant take will come from a lab that rips the model open, pokes the weights and figures out what is actually going on.
> it prevents Type 2 Diabetes

Ah I understand now what you meant. I remember looking into while ago( i have like half my extended family on these drugs now lol) but couldn't really find evidence to support this claim.

"There is only limited-quality evidence that at-risk patients taking GLP-1 receptor agonists are less likely to progress to diabetes (number needed to treat [NNT] = 23). Serious adverse events were more likely in patients taking GLP-1 receptor agonists than in patients taking placebo (number needed to harm [NNH] = 42). There is insufficient evidence to evaluate the effect of DPP-4 inhibitors on at-risk patients. There is no evidence that either medication class affects the development of diabetes-associated complications.1"

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2018/0401/p437.html
The medications that change who we are (2020)
"They're an Icelandic heavy metal brass band specializing in traditional polkas. You've probably never heard of them."
So projects which are actually not secret. DARPA and the like maintain lists of such projects on their websites[0] and probably also have lists of past projects somewhere. Only one currently active and disclosed AI project but I am sure they have had many others. And the various private think tank/pure research organization websites would be good to dig through, the bulk of this stuff might as well be secret consider how little anyone outside of the respective fields pay attention to it, looks like The Max Planck Institute has a department for intelligent systems [1].

0: https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/what-is-our-current-inves...

1: https://is.mpg.de/
Earlier today I was messing with the GPT-4 API -- I passed it a list of ingredients and asked it to return a JSON string of non-vegetarian ingredients, separating name and amount...And it did it just fine. This was an "awakening" moment for me as I realized just how _many_ things I can use this technology for with far less effort than I would have before.
Please show me the counter in std::unique_ptr :-)
With ChatGPT you now can.
Not if everything is a monopoly.
Not as much in my opinion. True, there are spikes of negative and cynical HN threads, but it's not nearly as consistently sustained as general news media.
Well, I have some confidence in the problem - people do forget things, pretty much everyone does...

Compared to Notion where you need to organize your stuff (if you're using it for private notes) - Remindful takes this extra work away.

You just store anything and then ask to recall it back.

This is based on the assumption that many people are not great at organizing their data.

Does this make sense to you?
How Lexus Fixed Tesla's Bad Idea: Steer-by-Wire Yoke [video]
It's the same in the US. All hospitals have an obligation to provide care.

Source: my wife is a nurse and it happens all the time.
Does PostgreSQL replication made easy still mean paying for a 3rd party solution?
Academic Pressure Cannot Explain the Mental Illness Epidemic
I don't know about the serialization issue but I don't doubt you had it.

> def ++[B >: A, That](that: GenTraversableOnce[B])(implicit bf: CanBuildFrom[IndexedSeq[A], B, That]): That

I should point out that this is the Scala 2.12 and and earlier signature. `CanBuildFrom` is gone from the Scala collections since Scala 2.13. In fact, the collections were redesigned for Scala 2.13 primarily to simplify method signatures, following community feedback.
The Switch is only Nintendo's second console with programmable shaders, so…
Wow, this is sad. I remember when this project was released in 1999 - we installed it on all the workstations in our office in an effort to be the first to find ET. Loved bragging about the cool graph, saying it could be an alien signal. Sad to see the project come to an end, even if it was the distant precursor to things like BitTorrent and Bitcoin
There was that time that 200 pounds of highly enriched uranium went "missing".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apollo_Affair
...which means that a Tralfamadorian would see an average human as a 6*10^17 meters long snake.
>Who's gaslighting

You are.

You are continuing to imply that "Western" and "Ukrainian" are the same to Putin. While in your links, which I read, right near the top, there is a statement about "the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from year to year. I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border." Maybe read the whole thing again.

And please stop your gaslighting already.
sometimes I feel like I've already asked for too much from the future
I, for one, would be more interested in a take on the opposite end of the problem: what does it all mean for our understanding of what thinking/talking/being human is? Because what kind of baffles me with LLMs is how much they can do, from how little they are made of, compared to our (or at least my) general expectations for AGI.

As in, are we overestimating what we are?
Show HN: Linux GPT-CLI, write “show my graphic card” instead “lspci – grep VGA”
There are thousands of linux commands and to simplify finding them you can use gpt3 directly in terminal.

You will write:

p play test.mp3 from console on fedora

you will get:

mpg123 test.mp3

For:

p display invoice.pdf in fedora

evince invoice.pdf

For:

p convert en.mp4 to en.mp3

ffmpeg -i en.mp4 en.mp3

For:

p count all files in all first level directories here and list name of directories and amount of files inside

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec sh -c 'echo -n "{}: "; find "{}" -type f | wc -l' \;

For:

p length in seconds of ar.mp3

ffprobe -i ar.mp3 -show_entries format=duration -v quiet -of csv="p=0"
the problem with menu based systems is that they often don't have a leaf for problems that they don't what to know about. I immediately try to find any way to escape a phone tree for all but the simplest things, and even then...
> Somewhere near Goldsboro, North Carolina, a uranium core is likely buried in a field.
> The United States Army Corps of Engineers purchased a 400-foot circular easement over the buried components to restrict digging.

Is an easement sufficient protection? If there isn't someone around to prevent anyone from digging, then we're just relying on evildoers being afraid of violating property laws?
I wonder how long it will last, especially considering that Google has killed its algorithm puzzle contests and replaced them with AI contests.

I imagine Google, like many tech companies, still depends on many Open Source projects and appreciates cheap labor, so it may be worth it to keep GSoC running for a while.
Well I got clickbaited.
This is the most interesting observation here
It doesn't matter what specifically he is towing, he stated he needed the higher towing capacity.

You made the argument that you believed people should rent a truck or use a smaller SUV to tow most loads. And only get a truck if they needed higher towing capacity.

Your point appears to be "I agree with his vehicle choice".
I spent several hours over several days getting it to generate hate speech, illegal content and semi-incoherent strings of ethnic slurs.

It gave the warnings, but nothing really happened.

I suspect that OpenAI actually wants kids to play with the tech in this way, as it creates a whole lot of rich data that can be used to fortify the system against actual bad actors.
IN SPAAAAAYCE
> The initial explosion catapulted the 740-ton silo door away from the silo.

> The W53 thermonuclear warhead landed about 100 feet (30 m) from the launch complex's entry gate.

Crazy to move that much weight and Lucky to have the warhead intact.
Red Alert 2 > Red Alert 3
Easements are aimed less at would-be terrorists than unlucky construction crews.
Actually I am wondering it the number of missing nukes is even higher...
Oh yeah, as a homebrewer, I can attest to the fact that the IPAs I brew are because I want to be trendy and cool and hip and not because I like them. Of course not. It's much more important for me to have put all that time and investment into equipment to brew something that's trendy than something I actually like drinking.

Did it ever occur to you and those who think like you that people drink IPAs (and double, Imperial, triple, etc...) because they like them? Not because of lack of experience (I'm old, I've been into beer from all over the world of all types in my travels) but simple preference?
That still doesn’t work. A reliably wrong predictor is still valuable (just negate the output).

I‘m arguing public sentiment will be right 50% of the time (in difficult binary predictions), not 0%.
Moody's Downgrades First Republic Bank from Baa1 to B2
"I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it."
Not a full take, but I have some relevant experience that’s formulating into an idea.

1) Running an agency, it was quick and easy to share ideas and give direction and have that executed to a fairly accurate degree over a decent period of time.

2) Working with GPT-3 & GPT-4, it’s also quick and easy to share ideas, but I’m becoming more aware of how surface level my communication is. When I get back great results, it’s typically because I’m requesting busy work. When I’m requesting something novel, it quickly becomes clear what I forgot to define.

So, the idea that’s formulating around LLMs is that the process of transforming an idea into instructions will become much more desirable. And that we’re moving from selecting for people who know how to do the work, to selecting for people who know how to request the work. And that those are two very different skill sets.
https://cncnet.org/red-alert

You'll love the fact that you can still play Red Alert online for free!
Correct is very different from helpful

Just as munged does not mean increased. It can contextualize understanding, even if incomplete
> …a government news service's commitment to the principles I listed could be defined by enforceable laws.

The problem is whoever controls the government and controls the news is also the one enforcing the laws.

You want to see suppression of “fake news”, aka anything that makes the ruling party look bad, then look no further than government run media services.

I think they thought long and hard before they add freedom of the press to the bill of rights.

NPR does a half-assed good job of providing unbiased news (they unironically claim that title) as long as it isn’t some hot button issue like Roe v Wade. In those cases they go into full on partisan politics propaganda machine mode. My absolute favorite, as I enjoy the absurd, was trotting out some kids who grew up in foster care with the implication that they would have been better off if their mother had had an abortion. Just an example, not a statement of purpose.
Schema does not change automatically. We generally add new columns to the subscriber before adding them to the publisher if we want zero impact. But if we don't, there's no data loss we just end up with replication held up until the column is added.

Stored procedures, triggers, etc. don't exist on the subscriber. They just get any mutations on any tables they are subscribed to.
It is built off BSD, that's where said *nix background comes from. Where it falls short is Apple won't ship anything GPLv3 licensed so you get a lot of either ancient or non-standard programs you're back to having to fix up via 3rd party sources (e.g. homebrew, and be careful with what you put as default in the path). There's also no 1st CLI package manager and the Store is primarily about GUI apps since it's a consumer OS at the end of the day. Even when you do patch in modern coreutils, bash, editors, and such you find it's still not quite the environment tools expect i.e. Linux so things like Docker just spin up a Linux VM anyways.

As far as the original "real terminal" it used to be the the macOS Terminal app was miles ahead of Windows but now that's not even that different with both system's "Terminal" apps having tabs, panes, 24 bit color, decent ANSI VT sequences support, transparency, ligatures, customizable shortcuts, and so on. Windows will actually ships OpenSSH and a newer version of Python but macOS ships a lot more of the standard tools like screen, awk, and nano but as mentioned they can be woefully out of date anyways so it's not a huge upsell and you'll still be adding a 3rd party package manager like homebrew.

On the bright side homebrew is much easier to work with than e.g. cygwin IMO. That said WSL2 is much easier to work with than any of the "Linux VM on macOS" systems so it's a bit of a give and take there. Asahi (native Linux on Apple Silicon laptops) is fantastic but unless you're a diehard Linux user that's fine with working around fairly core features being unsupported it's not quite there yet so Linux dual booting is a bit of a loss right now too.
If you can tell it things in a way that it successfully acts on that information, then that seems like effective communication.

When I use GitHub Copilot, I'll often write a comment describing some code I want it to implement and then it spits out a suggestion. Occasionally it fails badly at this and I realize I worded my comment badly. When I reword the comment better and then find that Copilot's next suggestion nails it what I wanted, is that not the result of me effectively communicating with it through the comment? (If I did that with a human coworker instead, is that communication?)
I find that using phone support and being genuinely nice to the other person on the line is a nice way to sometimes get benefits you don't expect, like airplane upgrades...

I purchased a used ipad and the only way to get the thing turned on was to talk to a customer support agent, who had to basically manually flip a database column for me.

Besides these days you can either set a callback, or, just plain do work while you're on hold.
Yeah, but its a good move to create good relation with the Godot community.
I hope this moves us closer to a highly compatible memory-safe and freely available Flash implementation. It seems that so much creative output was lost in the Flash apocalypse.

Flash/.swf (like HyperCard and some other cool-but-dead tech) seemed to hit a sweet spot that enabled many people to do cool things and share them, and I don't think anything (such as Roblox, Godot, etc. mentioned below) has adequately replaced it.
Ask HN: How Bad Is the Current Market? Pt3
I'm an eng with three years of backend experience (1yr faang, 2.5yrs growth stage startup) and one year being a technical product manager / product eng. Startup I was working for laid off 75% of the eng team and half the product team (including me, since I had the least exp and was the most recent addition).

Been about six weeks, around 40 applications that only converted to three interviews. Fortunately I have savings, but insurance is expensive and the outlook doesn't seem good. Anyone else struggling without a solid "senior" track record / solid resume?

Consulting for a friend's startup to keep the lights on, but future seems pretty bleak especially with GPT4.
Animals aren't negative.
I’ve found that one needs to decide if they are going to get involved, or if there is a line that can be crossed that they are willing to get involved.

If not, ignore all news. If the line is crossed or going to be crossed soon. Then get involved.
Online support is terrible and not being able to talk to someone who can quickly solve a problem for me is worse.
I guess I'm lumping a lot of JDK20 stuff in there as well since most folks will hold off migrating until LTS releases arrive with features. But the combination of things like Record Patterns, Virtual Threads, Foreign Function and Memory API and the Vector API will add up to a very powerful set of features for building data focused applications.
He doesn't need it.

As POTUS he can choose to not suspend the ability of rail workers to strike and let the workers and rail companies sort it out. That whole capitalism thing?

Instead he has used his powers to prevent a rail strike since it would increase the cost of groceries and lead to (short term) grocery shortages.
> Just firing off an email is far more efficient. Easier to do after office hours too.

A lot of companies basically deny you service unless you call.