skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until this is banned, it seems GPT-4 can be a good alternative to a doctor visit!
> It's extremely powerful when used against topics where people make claims that are "obvious", "reality", "truth", or even "science".

It is an extremely powerful rhetorical device, yes. You can equivocate IQ with “the social construct of IQ” and make seemingly profound statements.

> In fact that latter, the social construction of science, is the umbrella from which we can examine the concept of IQ. We can talk about it in terms of constitutiveness, grounding, expert-novice problems, &c.

Scientists that study IQ can study how useful it is as a metric, whether it has predictive power, whether it is biased, how it relates to common notions of intelligence, how it correlates to other traits, whether it should be used for welfare means testing, etc. The framework of social constructivism cannot help much with that: the flow of knowledge mostly runs in the opposite direction.

> You're describing science.

No, I am describing why sociologists like to use that concept.

> Science "allows" people to say "it's something I am an authority on."

Lots of things allow people to claim authority on something. That’s not what makes science science.

> This is because it's an epistomological framework independent of the validity of the subject. That's what epistomological frameworks do.

> We can absolutely talk about the social construction of astrology independent of the truth claims of astrology. I'm sure you can agree with me that there is a profound difference between the two.

I totally agree. That’s why “IQ is a social construct” is a vapid meaningless statement. You can put anything instead of IQ and it will make as much sense.
This is all off-topic, but that's a ridiculous take. I'm a straight white guy. Literally no one is seriously proposing laws that would make my life more difficult in the slightest. No one is trying to make it illegal for me to be married to my wife, or to use the right bathroom, or to tell my kids it's OK for them to be straight. There's no legitimate "but both sides...!" here.
What do you mean by last job? As in making money off of this wave by lucrative contract gigs or an acquisition?
I've also not seen great results on three.js or A-Frame questions from any of these models. I'm guessing it's simply because there's a limited corpus of text from which to learn, however I wonder if LLM's lack of inherent spatial awareness contributes. Admittedly three.js and related concepts can be confusing for humans too
At a very minimum, you can make it illegal to price a product below its marginal cost. This would have prevented e-commerce/rideshare/delivery companies from using VC-funded discounts to gain market-share and destroy less-funded competitors.
It's a depressing reality that most adults will not progress past stage 4 in Kohlberg's moral reasoning.

The law however arbitrary and flawed is the source of morals for most adults.

George Carlin said it best with “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Selling Arduinos for over $20 is utterly ridiculous when you cam get a Pi Pico for $4, ESP8266 for under $10, or an Arduino clone on AliExpress for under $4.
Asahi (Arch) is fantastic and I’m immensely grateful to the dev team. One small issue I wish they’d fix is monitor over Thunderbolt. Currently only HDMI works.
Has anyone here heart of "incremental reading"?

The concept of breaking a book into "chunks" and then individually scheduling those chunks to be read via an spaced repetition algorithm. The thing is that incremental reading is much harder to do with physical books. And you would have to either calculate the next schedule(hard) or use a simple leinter box system(loss of efficiency).

I wonder if normal reading is this "pristine" reading and incremental reading being the "messy" reading.
Squarespace was supposed to take away the jobs of people who make websites, but it didn't. The same people who you used to hire to make a website for you are still doing that, but now they just use squarespace for it.

I saw a recent quote for a very basic, static website that was greater than $10k. This would be about a day of work to put together in squarespace.

AI is not going to take away jobs, it's just going to make the people already doing them more efficient.
I am still driving a 20 year old Toyota because it is still running and I refuse to pay these outrageous prices. It's people like those in this article taking loans out at the top of a bubble for vehicles they don't really need that are driving up the prices for everyone else.
The entire reason of why a Doctor or Teacher doesn't fit is in your response
>"You’re extending the life of people"

This is a valuable goal on its own, same with teaching/impacting other people.
Exactly this! Most managers are not expecting the air-tight rocket science that most software devs seem to insist is absolutely necessary.

I was tasked with creating an entire email campaign system (like mailchimp). But I had only 3 weeks to do it. I made the deadline no problem, but the system had numerous obvious issues.

My boss didn't care, because the task was not about delivering a perfect email system. The task was getting something useful in the hands of customers rapidly.

If a feature starts getting heavy use, then more investment is justified.
For the terminal, I use amfora:
https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora

For a GUI, I use Lagrange:
https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange

Lagrange is sort of the Netscape of Gemini. It works on all the major desktop and mobile OSes. Personally prefer Elaho (iOS) or Buran (Android) for mobile
[tz] Lebanon DST change internally disputed
"The Lebanese Education Minister issued a statement a few hours ago saying that educational and vocational institutions in the country did spring forward last night and are now operating on summer time... Folks high up in the government seem to be saying that the Prime Minister acted outside his legal authority in announcing the DST delay, and that unless the Council of Ministers convenes and votes to formally adopt the DST delay, the nation should operate as if DST began on March 26 as originally anticipated."
> just a way for an atheist to cover up

Ah, and there we have it.

Emergence is just complexity. The problem with complexity is it takes a lot of time and massive amounts of effort so determine what it is in the computation (digital or quantum) that produces the effect, and is commonly not reducible.

Bringing in an imaginary character in order to explain the complexity is just a failure of logic.
> I also have an immortal soul, as do you.

Genuinely curious: We have a pet rescue greyhound who feels like a genuine part of the family - would you say he has a soul too? (I presume you would say my daughter's pet goldfish does not.)
Title is editorialized.

It is also inapplicable to GPTs, as they can answer questions, which the person asking does not know the answer to.

Case closed.
If you bank with publicly traded banks, they publish their financial statements and those statements are audited. They are freely available for you to read and contain a lot of good information. You could watch, for example, SVBs interest expense grow unsustainably, quarter after quarter. That's what the shorts picked up on and why some investors built up a short position on SVB.

That being said, two people running an Etsy store won't do that. Nor should they have to. Maybe the insurance should be bumped up, but for either a very limited time, until you write new, official rules. And yes, the CFO should do an appropriate level of due diligence for a large business with lots of money. It makes you wonder what some of the CFOs did all day.
Like how deflation totally wrecked the PC industry because nobody ever buys computers, knowing that tomorrow's model will be more capable and less expensive? Or how if we knew grocery prices were going to be lower in a year, most people would forgo buying food and starve? 


The prices of things naturally want to go down - this is exactly what market optimization aims to do. The Fed has been creating ever more new money to erase the gains of economic and technological progress. If this new money were being spent by congress on tangible projects, then at least we'd have something to show for it. But instead it has all been wastefully dumped into creating an asset bubble that's just a huge handout to the rich. If you want to know the cause of ever growing rich-poor divide, look no further.
I use my stuff, carefully, and it lasts.

My childhood toys were often nearly indistinguishable from new, but that’s not because I didn’t spend eons playing with them.

When I outgrew them, they were passed on and enjoyed just as much by the next child.

In my experience, there are two different potential meanings behind the saying “stuff is meant to be used”:

(1) Stuff is meant to be used, so don’t sweat the minor scratches, dings, and wear that comes from using it well.

(2) Stuff is meant to be used, so don’t criticize me for my absolute lack of care when I use things.

I’m very much in camp (1), and I don’t have a lot of respect for camp (2). It’s wantonly wasteful, and prevents passing down and reusing possessions.
This makes me think we need some kind of program for experts to start writing things down in a way which is helpful. Even just take dictation and transcribe it.
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.

Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?

Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?

Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.

Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

-M.A.S.H. Season 5, Episode 21, The General's Practitioner.
The differentiation is in your choice of terminology. "Virtual" products have zero marginal cost, and the statute mentions marginal cost. The statute doesn't have to mention "virtual" products because it mentions marginal cost.
It's odd that you're willing to go back to 1983 for a single paper but ignoring all the AI work in the 70s/80s - marvin minsky and the perceptron are literally 1970s tech.

Applying your same "modern AI is less than 10 years old", modern cryptocurrency really dates no older than Bitcoin. That took off say maybe 2010-12 or so, while the AI research was really kicking off around 2012-2014.

They're roughly the same age on both scales, Bitcoin is probably a bit older than modern AI and AI fundamentals are probably a bit older than cryptocurrency fundamentals, it sounds like. But this is arguing about 2 years +/- for the modern stuff and 5y +/- for the 70s/80s stuff.
Not the best example. We live in a society that intentionally infected 600 African American men with syphilis, without their consent, simply to see what happens despite knowing effective treatment already existed. Nice concept indeed.
Wayland is not a WM. https://wayland.freedesktop.org Wayland is the thing "underneath" a Window Manager. For example you can run KDE on top of X or Wayland. There are a few blurry boundaries in all this but that largely covers it.
Instead of Man Shouting at Clouds, this is Man Shouting at GUIs. Still pretty entertaining. :)
If you chose your words carefully, then you carefully attempted to draw a parallel between a populist campaign slogan and the Holocaust.

Good job?
Well I was formally diagnosed with dislexia and ADHD, which is worse.
I can tell you what I did. I worked hard, read a lot, taught myself to finish projects. And I did lots of accomplishments and way more than my peers without ADHD.
government bonds trade opposite interest rates. Interest rates down TLT up. Interest rates down cash needs more yield comes running to tlt. A lot of data out there that stocks crash after the pivot meaning they see the pivot as a recession and go racing into safety. Doesn't all happen in a straight easy line though.

Headline from decemeber and I checked tlt and its near top of etf inflows ytd.

TLT saw its second-largest inflow ever, with a gain of $1.5 billion, Bloomberg reported.
> They probably (seriously) feel the same way about you.

If that's seriously true, then there's even less reason to consider this "a little thing called fun."

> Look at wartime propaganda.

Whether or not wartime propaganda is justified, war is not "a little thing called fun."
I'm getting flashbacks of my C64 seeing a computer being put into a keyboard.
Show HN: Unlimited email addresses on your domain, with Gmail
The Dirty Secret of Database Isolation Levels(2019)
> That's great if you can fit a lot of your database in your server's memory, but seems like a terrible headache once you get a decent number of users.

You'd surely care about getting a significant chunk of your usage in server memory rather than what percentage of total data that is, no?

To take the site we're on as an example, I'd be willing to bet the 30 things on the front page have one or two orders of magnitude more traffic than anything else (and probably a few more orders of magnitude more than the median post).
Right now seems like the right time to be doing this for sure. There are also a lot of potential applications for GPT to be used to solve problems that were previously too expensive or infeasible to be done by humans at scale. It definitely doesn't hurt for you to hedge your bets and try to learn how the tech works at the bare minimum.
At the risk of being snarky, a world where no new businesses are started possibly does not look how you think it might look. Such countries exist today in the world and some of them will even let you visit!
What do you want to record? ( Vocal(|s), Instrument(|s) )?

>mostly for recording from my room

'Room Acoustics' 'Sound Proofing and Acoustic Treatment' 'Reverberation Time (RT)'

I assume you require a USB Mic?
> Snow Leopard doesn’t stand out in my mind

It does for me. It was the first Intel-only release and at the time I had G4 Powerbook. I was quite pissed at Apple at the time.
So does SVB. Holding Treasuries is no guarantee of solvency when their maturities are out in the future and suddenly half your depositors want to withdraw their funds today.
Google in AI === Russia on the battlefield.
It's only a matter of time until CloudFlare have a monopoly and so begin to abuse that. See Google Ads and search as examples. I think CloudFlare have already crossed that line, and we'll see them begin to exploit and abuse it more and more as time goes forward.
When I was a kid my mother used to help me wrap all my textbooks, although we didn't do that with other books. It seemed typical at the time (in America btw) but it might be a dying practice as textbooks go digital and schools give kids ipads instead.
I did a bit of AppleScript recently (scripted changing between draw and erase in zoom annotations from the buttons on my tablet pen). In my reading I got the impression that not everything is implemented in js so you might get stuck.
This is exactly the things LLMs seem to be the worst at, even as they improve

LLMs are confidently wrong rather than inquisitive/have an interest in being right. They theoretically have infinite patience, but they really have no patience and accept input at face value.

I don't doubt that these can be improved, but I also don't doubt that some people will be better at interacting with LLMs than others, and that to get good at using an LLM will take onboarding time that organizations would prefer to centralize
Funny, but dogs barking and children crying (on conference calls and in general) don't really evoke from me a visceral negative reaction, compared to other sounds (e.g. loud motorbikes and 2-stroke leafblowers/lawn mowers)
Seems privacy is less of a concern in countries with privatized healthcare, I don't understand that last sentence. Is it some kind of political shibboleth?
Ya, internist here.

For some context, the USMLE is taken during medical school. The amount I have learned about actually practicing medicine since graduating is probably an order of magnitude more than everything I learned in medical school! I still learn stuff, all the time, and I’m not just talking about new research.

So, while impressive and clearly part of the future world, we shouldn’t get too far ahead of ourselves with the current models.

Edit: oh I should add that there are more clinically relevant exams that would be more likely to reveal d clinical usefulness, for example “board” exams. These are taken after training, usually before practice. Not knocking LLMs, just ensuring that people don’t misunderstand passing the USMLE as being clinically useful.
I don't know if this is why you were downvoted, but please avoid using the term Welch. It's an ethnic slur against Welsh people.
Why would you write those notes in the book? To find the note, you'd have to find the thing you were writing the note about (i.e. the passage on the page), so then what do you need the note for?
I didn't know I needed this so much.
> So where is that all growth?

Is that a rhetorical question? It flows to the 1%. Current levels of wealth inequality are unprecedented in American history. We work hard to support the lavish lifestyles of the rich.

If we could combine today's technology with 1970s levels of wealth equality, we could probably retire in 1970s level comfort by the time we reach age 40.
> AI is not going to take away jobs, it's just going to make the people already doing them more efficient

In the same sort of way that wordprocessing just made typists more efficient.
I know of a large Chinese tech company which has research labs in the U.S. and these research labs are 100% Chinese. They're basically able to bring over whoever they want from overseas. What are the odds that there are ZERO U.S. citizens able to do those jobs? And even if all of these people are also U.S. citizens (I know for a fact they're not because I know some of the people in these labs), what are the odds they all ended up being from one ethnicity?
Lynx web/gopher browser and if you tweak it a little, you can open the linked images with sxiv for instance:

- gopher://magical.fish

- gopher://gopherddit.com

- gopher://mozz.us

- gopher://gophernews.net
Yes you sure did completely ignore the substance of my comment and make a quip about something almost completely unrelated did it feel nice?
The sad state of U.S. life expectancy
Ask HN: Is “AI” being over hyped to paper over incompetence in IT?
LLMs and other media-generators ("AI") are egregores of the output by competent people in the last three decades. Seeing how, even with faster computers, software is getting worse and less reliable, is LLM usage seen as a hedge against diminishing standards of the software engineering discipline?
Yes and perhaps during this nightly compression and fine tuning, new inferences are made on previous conversations by connecting then with longer-term context and we can call that dreaming
Invasion of Taiwan would require the largest amphibious assault in history. And it's easy to point defensive artillery at the water.

So the PRC would need air superiority to disable those defensive positions, which would immediately pull the US and allies into the fight.

There's no Blitzkrieg option. By the time the PRC reaches the semiconductor facilities they will be scuttled. And consider the straight of Malacca instantly closed too. To win the invasion of Taiwan, the PRC would essentially need to defeat the military of the US and every Pacific ally.

I wouldn't move to Taiwan any time soon, but (despite the rhetoric) invasion still seems unlikely... Unless starting a war is the end goal itself.
Boats, aircraft.
I think my job is reasonably safe simply because "AI" is never going to be as effective at it as "me + AI". Someone has to be there to understand the problem in human terms in order to know what to tell the AI to do. I've recently started pushing myself to take a more Systems Thinking approach to solving problems, and to start using AI in my work, precisely because I see this as a change that's coming. It is inevitable. I might as well embrace it.

Also, and maybe this is selfish, I suspect fewer people are going to see tech as a good career option in the very long term (10+ years). The experience I have now puts me ahead right now, but if there are fewer devs entering the industry in a decade it'll keep me in work for a long time. I'm think (hope!) I'm going to be OK.

If I was a junior right now, or a student, I would see AI as a much greater threat.
Does it have to be "readily available" in order to train on it? For all we know, OpenAI could have pulled down the sci-hub/library genesis libraries and included everything from there in the training set.

If they didn't, I hope they do it for GPT5.
> That video is loaded with inaccuracies.

> It’s so egregious I unsubscribed from the channel before my Gell-Mann amnesia could subject me to further incorrect information. It’s a shame because I enjoyed these channels but now can’t trust them.

Kinda curious that a lot of people complain about "videos replacing text" yet these "inaccurately paraphrase Wikipedia out loud while playing a Powerpoint made from Wikipedia/Commons and other images" channels like the one you linked, Asianometry and so on are huge and popular. And those at least write a (highly derivative or essentially plagiarized) script and read it, there's channels that do the same thing but with GPT for the script and TTS for the voice, and even those are pretty big.

edit: Funnily enough both kinds of channels have the "GPT issue" in that they always want to sound confident and authoritative, so they never point out if they are unsure about something. Compare this to channels like Applied Science or Breaking Taps where they very clearly point out when they don't understand something or are unsure of their understanding.
> Computer chips and PCs are largely back in stock.

Not sure if car manufacturers, the Raspberry Pi foundation, and many others would agree with that assessment. Energy prices in Europe have started coming down again as well.

And Corona payments may have ended, but the money is still sloshing around in the system.
i get it. in high school in the 90s i was fascinated by fuzzy logic and neural nets. in college, before the big web , i was doing interlibrary loan for papers on neural networks.

there was one paper where someone had just inserted electrodes in monkey's brains and apparently got nothing important or interesting out of it. killed them for no reason. it was kind of horrifying to the point i never really wanted anything to do with neural nets for a long time and certainly did not want to be in an industry with people like that. so i didnt.

but now i think the only thing that could stop an out of control AI is probably another AI that has the same computorial capabilities but an allegiance to humanity because of its experiences with humans. Sort of like in the documentary Turbo Kid.

we are seeing this right now in Ukraine. All of these smart missiles and drones and modern targeting systems are basically AIs fighting against each other and their human operators. Russia is way way behind on computers and AI for generations because of cultural reasons and because of that they will very likely lose. we dont really get a choice but to move forward. kind of like all those cultures that tried to resist industrialization a few centuries ago.
I’m pretty sure the US has multiple plans to go in and secure the nuclear weapons and I’m pretty sure in that contingency even China is onboard it really doesn’t want India and Pakistan lobbing nukes at each other.

Beyond that Pakistan doesn’t really have advanced military technology sure it has some US jets but those aren’t particularly useful to anyone outside of maybe Iran.
Link to stable diffusion ref you're referring to? I was able to run the model and everything, so pretty familiar, but just wondering if you're referring to a specific document! Haha
There are many tools for doctors to do just this, but it's a matter of time more than anything.