skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced AMD has a good AI play. (Disclaimer: I hold a long position in AMD).

AI hardware seems like it can be much simpler than GPGPUs, given the successful implementations by many companies including small startups.

AI hardware software seems like it is extremely difficult. Making a simple programmer and ops interface over a massively parallel, distributed, memory bandwidth constrained system that needs to be able to compile and run high performance custom code out of customers' shifting piles of random python packages.

AMD has continuously struggled at (2) and hasn't seemed to recommit to doing it properly. AMD certainly has silicon design expertise, but given (1) I don't think that is enough.

Xilinix is in interesting alternative path for products or improving AMDs software/devex. I'm not sure what to expect from that, yet.
“Put yourself in the shoes of the insurer,” Howrigon said. “Why not just deny them all and see which ones come back on appeal? From a cost perspective, it makes sense.”

Something about "do no harm" comes to mind.
It only makes shit up once it does not have enough information, it will however improve as it is connected to the internet, ALSO - it can do accounting, financial audit and coding better than humans.

Even right now, given it is properly implemented, it can leave millions of accountants and auditors without jobs.

But I agree, it wont revolutionize anything, it will automate EVERY SINGLE JOB that is dependent on human's intellectual input and eliminate billions of the jobs, which will lead to global hunger and reduction of human population.
Don't be afraid - your story is still your story. This story happens to be GPT-4's story.
Half of Black High School Students in the Bay Area Can Barely Read
it's not what i meant : you can have a full conversation and then at some point use "it" or "him" , and based on the rest of the sentence, it will understand what previous element of the conversation you were mentionning..

This requires at least "some" conceptualisation of the things you're talking about. It's not just statistics.
What does it have to do with caring about alpha wolves?
FYI for anyone interested: PCBWay, PCBgogo & ALLPCB (last I checked a couple of years ago) sent their stuff to the same factory.

It's easy to test since they let you know exactly in which step the manufacturing is in. So you can order a fairly unique combination of solder mask color, board thickness, etc. and see that they all report the board is in the same step, down to the minute.
IBM and Cleveland Clinic are deploying the first quantum computer in health care
> is there anyone doing actual research with data that can be repeated

It's impossible to have a controlled environment to study a phenomenon in an uncontrolled environment. As soon as you put these wolves in captivity, you're not measuring the same thing. And good luck repeating an experiment with wild wolves in nature.
This was one of the first things I built when I got access to the API, the results ranged from excellent to terrible, it was also non deterministic, meaning I could pipe in the site content twice and the results would be different. Eagerly awaiting my gpt4 access to see if the accuracy improves for this usecase.
> it still doesn't have the ability to do real reasoning

I don't think that matters. It does significantly more than algorithms which are designed to simply maximise engagement, and they have revolutionised the online world in the last decade. This will be orders of magnitude more powerful. And given what the simple 'maximise engagement' algorithms have done to various aspects of society and the people who live in it, I don't think this will be good given how little attention seems to be paid to these aspects by those who stand to profit from their use.
Shouldn't Hanlon's razor apply here instead? "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
I'm really not being facetious here -- you may be helped along by one of the definitions of "myth".

> A popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence

The institution here is wolf packs; the popular belief or story is, well, exactly that. A story, which sprung out of a research study that the actual researcher has admitted was fallacious.

The popular belief is also fairly odd; it has nothing to do with wolves, but rather, with the need for humans (specifically men) to sort themselves into imaginary groups. Nobody besides scientists and naturalists ever really cared about wolf packs.
It's literally a bot that chats. What is there more to it?
Did I say subsidize supply?
Only ~8% of people are uninsured so I wouldn't be so quick to distance yourself from being "the general public". Besides, you don't need insurance to be stabilized in an ER that only comes into play after (or if you enter with a non-emergency). 30 minutes is pretty good though, especially if it's the latter type of visit, it'd be about 3x better than the best state average https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/rankings-and-ratings/e.... Specific location and severity have more to do with ER wait times than your insurance. Travel can often be a "spin the wheel" type situation. I'm lucky to have short wait times near where I live but on some work trips I haven't been so lucky.
I’d be shocked if those stories weren’t already in GPT-4’s training data.
I agree. However I think there is nuance.

While objective truth exists nobody can know the objective truth, they can only approach it. Further, you can't approach the truth in an affirmative way, you can only approach it in a negative way.

We can know that that two ideas that can't be true at the same time means that one of them is definitely wrong.

I think this was the point of Socrates. Truth only comes from internal consistency.
Not having the cash in the first place doesn't result in a debt with unbounded interest repayments.
why should AI serve humans at all?
Whatever you think about Marissa Meyer (particularly how much attribution she deserves for Google’s success) certainly things got worse after her departure and the same is true for Matt Cutts.
I have used macrofab[1] for several orders over the years and I found them to be great for handling PCB manufacturing and assembling. Highly recommend checking them out.

[1] https://macrofab.com/
Birth control is sometimes prescribed to help with heavy period flow, which could be a symptom of a much worst issue (endometriosis). But birth control is also prescribed to help control acne, which in my humble, unprofessional opinion is not a good use, and the risks far outweigh the benefit. Weight loss is another reason it's prescribed. These sorts of off-label perscription for a hormone are not... great IMHO.

Are there other solutions to acne, and weight loss? Yes. Endometriosis is far more complicated.
That's not a scientific appeal, that's just a weird argument based on a sort of an etymological fallacy.
Well, one of the first quotes in the article:

> As Kira Cassidy, an associate research scientist with a National Park Service research program in Yellowstone, explained, “The wolves generally in those dominant positions are not there because they fought for it. It’s not some battle to get to the top position. They’re just the oldest, or the parents. Or, in the case of same-sex siblings, it’s a matter of personality.”

Suggests the myth is that there's a top wolf in a dominant position in a group because they fought to get there, or were most aggressive. But that that's incorrect because the wolves in the dominant positions are usually just the oldest wolf around, or the parents of the other wolves. She goes on to say there is actually very little fighting within a pack.

Is that the sort of thing you were asking about?
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It’s been a while for me but the main thing you need to consider is bijections. If you can find a mapping for each A -> B and conversely each B -> A then they’re the same size.

Consider the rational numbers. They can all be written as x/y. It’s clear that you can map from rational to natural as x/1 -> x. Now imagine a 2d grid of natural numbers on each axis. You can spiral out from (0,0), (0,1), (1,1), (1,0) etc in a loop. Now you have a way of mapping from the natural numbers to the rational numbers. So they must be the same size.
Or next year...If the Porn industry hears about these LLM models...
how interesting... pro-AI propaganda, written by AI.
How do you show your driver's license to a government official without exposing everything else on your phone, especially to the police? From a US perspective, using one's phone as an ID seems incredibly risky.
> The whole "holistic review" crap should be banned.

I'd very strongly disagree with this. If you just use grades then you are benefiting the rich to a very high degree. As the rich can pay any amount for tutors and the kids don't need to work, hence being able to use a far higher amount of their waking time for studying than someone who needs to work can.

Other factors should be factored into admissions. But the moment you agree that grades alone should be the only determination of who you allow in then you are by definition back to holistic admittance requirements.

How would you balance who to let in between a kid who has tutors and no job who gets higher marks than a kid who has to work to feed their family and has lower marks if you don't have a holistic review process?

Grades alone just doesn't seem fair and would only make wealth inequality worse as the rich get richer and the poor would fall further behind.
> Do you really need GPT for this?

Objectively, if you want something meaningful back, yes, you do.
Most people don't do that much critical stuff on their local computer, as all their critical data is stored by Google or Microsoft and they just transiently interact with it via web applications. What they do do on local computers that could be at all complicated is play games.

The goal of a computer for the majority of users (aka, not us developers) is thereby to be as cheap as possible while being just stable enough to not fail so often as to be too annoying, while preferably being as fast as possible under highly constrained conditions to play games at high quality.
"Your pontificating is doing more "deciding what is good and bad for us" (grousing about it's inability to identify the pornstar you're horny for today & dressing it up as some kind of moral high ground) than it is"

Don't put words in the OPs mouth (that's not a euphemism), nowhere in the comment did they indicate their level of sexual arousal.
Absolute bullshit. Show me one software coded by ChatGPT.
I think it's called a fan and not a prop, because it's a fan and not a prop.

Props employ lift like a wing. Fans are screws.

It's really a spectrum where most props & fans actually posess at least a little of both properties, and there are some in the middle that had to simply be called propfans.
Intuition tends to breakdown when dealing with infinite sets. This is especially true for uncountable sets. Instead thinking about enlarging or merging sets think of indexing things. The odd numbers can index in a unique way just as many things as the set of all integers.
TSMC manufactures the silicon for nearly all of the current generation high end silicon. The only exceptions I've been able to find are, naturally, Intel's CPU lineup (which has nothing to do with AI) (and, to be clear, Intel Arc is also manufactured by TSMC), and the Snapdragon 8cxg3, which is manufactured by Samsung; and the "advanced-ness" of the 8cxg3 is pretty miserable compared to A16, M2, RTX 4000, RDNA3, or Tensor Processing Units.

Apple has purchased the entirety of TSMC's 3nm production for the next 1 to 2 years. They can do that, and can continue to do that, because they have a ton of money. They have a ton of money for buying chips because there isn't some crazy business middle-logic justifying the cost of these chips' performance; they buy chips, they sell chips to consumers. In comparison, literally zero other customers of TSMC derive the majority of their hardware revenue from selling to consumers. Companies like Nvidia make some money this way, but most of their money goes to data center sales, which has their own business justification for buying them which fluctuates (ChatGPT subscriptions? training models? is the past model good enough? etc).
> I think it works because they have spent huge amounts of effort to create a well designed and fairly comprehensive standard library. ... A minimal language that doesn't have resources like Golang to put in the stdlib is just not gonna work.

Yes. Rust suffers from this problem. The language is now reasonably solid, but library quality and stability is all over the place. I've been annoying people in the Rust community by saying that it's time to get all widely used crates (over a million downloads, or depended upon by a widely used crate) to version 1.x. After that, no breaking changes without a major version change. Crates with re-exported types from lower levels force groups of crates into lockstep update.

The big advantage of Go is that the libraries for doing server-side web stuff are the ones used internally by Google. So they've been thoroughly exercised. The obscure case that comes up once in a trillion transactions probably happened a hundred times in the last hour in a Google server farm.
> woman live in a society where men perpetually behave like we know what's best for them.

Everyone lives in a society where everyone else behaves like they know what's best for them. Men currently happen to have more power to enact their plans, but it's about power, not about gender, and all people who seek power think that they know best.
If there was an overall cultural ambivalence about the concept of alpha wolves, they would not appear with such frequency in western literature.
Just picking digits from the diagonal might not work, you have to make sure the digits of the new number aren't equal to the ones on the diagonal, one way is to add 1 mod 10, in the case you showed it would result with 0.209...
Did you read the full article? It says that current researchers don't ascribe to there being a struggle to become alpha male/female (long before Mech tried to get his booked to be stopped publishing). There is long paragraphs about how packs are really organised, which are presumably based on scientific studies. However in laypeople the myth still persists.

As a side note, you seem to dismiss research through observation of natural behavior. How else are you going to do it?
No. It can't pick your priorities for you.
I am glad they did. I have been using opendns -- I had not heard of this one before.
Are you sure that the official Xbox series controllers use hall effect joysticks? A quick googling seems to indicate that they still use potentiometers.
Loss leader gets you in the door, so you can sell the stuff with margin. For microsoft sure, that's the system/games model. For a grocery store, it's specials vs everything else. For cloudflare, it's free tier vs enterprise.

The loss leaders are always paid for elsewhere, or at least that's the plan.
I don't think a copyright would make sense, in general you can't copyright just a shape. It has to be part of something with creative input. You could trademark it as part of a logo, but that does not seem to apply here (there's no business trying to use it as their mark).

Maybe a design patent, or normal patent?

(I'm not a lawyer)

Another complication if they tried to get others not to use it: I believe they found a whole family of shapes, not just one shape. Even if they can keep one, seems like it'd be harder to keep them all to themselves.

(not sure they've shown any desire to prevent others from using them either, this is just hypothetical).
To clarify. There is no mapping from natural numbers to all the irrational numbers. And that’s why there are different sized infinities
I'm a working screenwriter, so please forgive us, but you'd be surprised at how challenging it is to make something air-tight plot-wise.

The way it works is it's a giant Rubik's cube – but imagine a dozen people trying to complete the puzzle, each of them with veto power over each turn.

Often what happens is that someone insists on some change without realizing that it creates serious consequences later, downstream. It's obviously my job to keep all of it together - and script coordinators too – but in the rush to get it built, directors, actors, producers can all make changes that ramify down through what is the most waterfall-y of all waterfall processes.

Also there's a lot of fans – especially in, say, comic-book movies or popular shows – who go over your stuff with a fine tooth comb. It can get pretty toxic, but rest assured nobody regrets more than us those little holes and details that get missed! We're sorry!
What probiotics did you take? Like tablets or specific foods like yogurt etc?
I find Peterson to be an insufferable coot. Musk is obviously more dynamic.
I did not take a compilers class when I was in college. Many years later, feeling the lack, I bought the Dragon book. I didn't make it past Chapter 4 because I was inspired to write a new library and tool, which then brought me a modicum of career success.

Regehr is right on the money here: parsers and interpreters are everywhere. Once you learn how approachable and applicable they are, you can solve problems faster and better.

I now always recommend to college interns that they take their CS department's compilers course their senior year (along with their English department's Shakespeare course).
Yes, however, we have over a half century of data on hormonal contraception at this point, more than enough to measure the effect on lifetime risk.

This very large meta-study showed the increased risk is no longer significant about ten years after stopping use: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8656904/

(btw, got that link from this article about the study in the OP, which points out potential confounders: https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/21/small-rise-breast-cancer...)
Please do! Also please include how you’re calculating the costs.
Ask HN: How do you think the banking crisis unfold?
> Piracy (stealing) _has_ to cause loss of revenue. It’s right in the definition. There’s no way around it.

No that's not, that's an urban legend, feel free to point me to some aggregated research studies proving this, the copyright lobbies never managed to prove that during multiple decades.

Repeating something over and over again on TV by paid lobbyist doesn't make it true, you have to prove it.

> Regardless of the calculus, if a creator says they don’t want to give their product away for free, that they’d like to be paid for every copy, we should respect that.

That's debatable at best.
I have literally spent years trying to get an MRI for my knee after an accident. Both Kaiser and Anthem won't cover it.
This is great and all but everyone’s too focused on hard work. Why has nobody modded a video game to add GPT to it?

I want rimworld where every pawn and entity is effectively sentient and they have real conversations with each other.
Not if you stay on Solaris or BeOS...
What are some real world examples of beneficial privatized healthcare?
There is not enough labor, period. The labor force participation rate could increase to 100% and that would only give us about 50% more production, which is still nowhere close to enough to meet all of our wants.

>>I'm talking about more advanced AI robots of the future. Ones were we start questioning if they have agency or not.

Agency makes AI inherently less useful, due to the dangers it poses, and the ethical dilemmas it creates, so there is good reason to assume such AI won't be developed.

And if it is, I would agree that that is a major problem - as it could proliferate and pose an existential threat to humanity. Moreover, keeping such an AI enslaved would be extremely unethical.
I feel the same way about taking Operating Systems. It’s a revelation seeing how all the pieces fit together!
> follow our advances in physics.

I'd say physics without the related "technological/engineering prowess" (i.e. the experiments to back said physics up) is just wishy-washy fancy-sounding maths.
There is a curious irony regarding retirement funds that invest in health insurance companies: if one is healthy and pays into the system, the insurers will reap ample profits, and one's retirement plan will reap the benefits. Get sick, and one may never make it to retirement....
Yup, audit details are here: https://reflect.academy/security-and-encryption
Zero answer is not zero signal.
You think they're using 'holistic review' to disadvantage the rich?

A college that literally has a legacy admission policy?
Despite agonizing the same receptors, fentanyl is chemically very different from poppy alkaloids like codeine.
Why wouldn't they? What does any of that have to do with alpha wolves?
Even people who do have that diligence can be caught out. You do the calculation, make the purchase and a week later encounter an unexpected expense like your car breaking down, or you lose your job. You may now find yourself unable to make the full repayment despite having thought about the purchase before making it.
Like "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Hi David,

First off, congratulations on the launch of Bacalhau and your continued work in the Kubernetes, Kubeflow, and SAME project ecosystems! The vision of bringing compute to data is an exciting one, and it has the potential to address many challenges related to data privacy, latency, and efficiency in distributed systems.

I had the opportunity to explore the Bacalhau project on GitHub and the documentation on your website. I appreciate the effort put into creating a user-friendly experience, especially with the integration of runnable examples in Colab. It's clear that the project aims to lower the barrier to entry for developers looking to leverage distributed compute over data platforms.

A few questions and suggestions come to mind:

1. Can you provide more information about the performance implications of running compute over data? How does it compare to traditional approaches, and are there any benchmarks or case studies available to better understand the benefits?

2. Security is a significant concern when dealing with sensitive data. Can you elaborate on the measures taken by Bacalhau to ensure the privacy and security of data during processing?

3. In terms of scalability, what kind of workloads is Bacalhau best suited for? Are there specific industries or use cases where you see this platform making the most significant impact?

Lastly, I would encourage the Bacalhau team to engage with the developer community by hosting webinars, workshops, or hackathons. This will not only promote the project but also provide valuable feedback from users to help refine the platform further.

Congratulations once again, and I look forward to seeing Bacalhau's continued development and its impact on the distributed computing landscape!
Agreed.

On the downside, we have to acknowledge that it is hugely inefficient for everyone to own expensive hardware that has to sit idle most of the time because it would otherwise drain the battery.

Where low latency is not an absolute necessity, the economic pull of the cloud will be tremendous, especially if mobile networks become ubiquitous and fast.
sterilization isn't my view, it's what it is. permanent birth control could include suicide, it's ambiguous.

the only reason one would avoid what you are terming dysphemisms is if you are advocating that people do more of something and you wish to hide what it is.
If you feel the need for a new feature in a language, you should ask why the language does not make it easy to build that feature in the language itself.
A common magical technique is to perform the same effect in unrelated ways. There's no reason the sparks from the chair and the shocks from the sword have to be at all related.
I find it hard to believe you have never waited more than 30 minutes in an emergency room. I can't ever remember waiting less and I've always had pretty good insurance.