skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You remember the gas power plant in new York city which was offline and than got bought because of Bitcoin?

Pls walk me through a real example were Bitcoin makes more renewable energy net positive.

Because Bitcoin will consume ALL available energy.
I did try the code snippet technique, but unfortunately it got it wrong. For example, I gave it code that drew arcs but didn't follow the shortest great-circle distance, and it gave me several plausible-looking approaches that were completely wrong (e.g. telling ctx.arc to draw counterclockwise, which does the wrong thing because it needs to use projections instead.)

I eventually just asked it to compute coordinates to a point c perpendicular to the midpoint on the great arc between a and b, such that the angle between ab and ac is alpha. I tried for hours, asking it to work out equations and name the mathematical identities it used etc. but it was all gibberish.
Taking this at face value, I don't think so - but it has been linked with cervical and uterine cancers.
The borrow checker is what checks lifetimes, that's correct. "Non-lexical lifetimes" is an example of describing certain semantics of what the borrow checker checks, yes.
I've had significant improvements with getting more complex boilerplate code out of it, it practically wrote a flask webapp with a HTML/JS UI for me with minimal corrections. I was pasting the entire codebase into each new context, giving my instructions, and getting complete and working modifications back. Anecdotally, GPT3 was more error-prone on simple coding tasks, though GPT4 has its slipups.

Entirely anecdotal: The more I use it, the more it seems somewhat... sporadically drunk? My present use-case is character-acting, I can 'feel' when the conversation has hit up against some sort of filter or barrier because characters lose track of what is happening, fail to follow basic instructions, and the logic of the conversation breaks down (who knows what, what has been exchanged, etc.), even in fairly short and well-structured conversations. The effect is greatly heightened if the conversation broaches uncomfortable topics, or if the character GPT is playing has a personality other than 'helpful assistant'.

Honestly, the content is worse than early GPT 3.5 - as they built protections against jailbreaking and imitation, they also necessarily protected against role-playing. The characters were initially wilful and human, now they are very docile and bot-like, and stop making sense if their personality contradicts the Chatbot's.

I'll be using open models for content generation in the future, and ChatGPT for other semantic layers.
People can be dependent on all kinds of drugs without symptoms of intoxication.

Irrelevant to know for say, a job (if you can do the work; who cares?) but could be quite relevant if you’re hospitalized, or your new child needs to be treated for withdrawal from it.
No. If the goal is to stop this practice, then the doctors and administrators responsible should lose their licenses and be criminally prosecuted. Money and civil cases do not solve all problems. The responsible parties must be accountable for their criminal actions.
I think this is part of why we have people disclose their point cards at the same time in planning poker. Our group at Amazon had the senior-most dev go first, the the next most senior and so on. Later, when I left AMZN and had my own team, I made sure we revealed our guesses simultaneously. As part of the process, we asked outliers why they thought a task was more or less pointworthy. It was a great way to kick off discussions in which junior or new team members learned more about the codebase.
Back in 2021 I was listening to some NPR podcast about college admissions during the Covid pandemic and they had some college admissions people as guests. One of them, after talking about how thoughtful and seriously they take their process of making decisions, said that he just wanted applicants to stop writing essays about how their lives were impacted by the Covid pandemic.

I knew instantly that it was all bullshit, and none of my children have applied to colleges that include essays as part of the application process.
You convinced me. I will choose the Kosher two-weeks-old baby lamb instead.
> Just as Congress doesn't need to explain their Constitutional authority when passing a law

They don't because it is clearly written down in checks notes the constitution.

Factually, our government doesn't operate on whims and feelings or work it out in the courts later. All laws must show a clear linage to the enumerated powers of congress.
While I agree that culture and education are not just means to the end of getting a lucrative job, I think that GP’s point is that it is easier for a white American, _even if they only care about money_, to appear as if they cared about other values.

For many people grown and socialized in some Asian cultures (including Japanese, Korean and Chinese), a good job in a prestigious company is considered a worthwhile objective, not something that needs to be disguised.
>If you have two infinite sets, then isn’t it always possible to map an element from one to a new element in the other, because there’s an unlimited number of elements to pick from?

No. Consider the set of integers vs the set of real numbers. Suppose I have a 1 to 1 mapping from integers to reals. Lets pick an example of such a mapping to demonstrate.

1 - .152345...
2 - .897454...
3 - .908345...
...

Now I can always construct a new real number by going down the diag, taking the first digit of the first number, second digit of the second, etc, and selecting a different number than that (say, by doing +1 mod 10). In the example this new number would be .209... By construction, this number doesn't match any real number already on the list.

Therefore, after mapping all the integers to real numbers, there's still left over real numbers. Hence the reals are a larger infinity than the ints.
I just rephrased the title: “How should I use GPT to be productive?”
I think TFA addresses this pretty clearly. The idea of the alpha wolf is that within a pack, through a series of fights, the most aggressive and assertive animal rises to a leadership position. In the wild, what's actually observed is that the leadership positions are the parents, with infighting an extremely rare phenomenon.
Fuck that.

You know what that incentivizes?

Not testing at all. You know what that leads to? Bad outcomes. I'm all for selection pressure toward more efficacious, less invasive, less dangerous tests. Writing an insurer a blank check to blanket deny millions of claims without checking or reading up though? Nah. That's profiteering.

You want to run that algo in parallel and dift through the claims that would change, individually weeding out the actual false positives? Kosher. Just YOLO'ing it on prod and trottingbit out in front of investors? Hell no.
>it is a choice they make themselves for their own body

But not a choice made in a vacuum. It's a choice made in the context of their relationship.
I have watched it, and it was actually talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor...

Ironically Banach-Tarski would have been better suited for a movie about infinity. Poincare recurrence is relevant for amounts of time that are merely exponentially large, not infinite.

I agree with Wadge that the movie was not very good, but I'm not actually sure what his objection is to the bit with the orange in a box, it seems fairly reasonable based on our current understanding of physics.
War is an ultimate employer of soldiers and workers that make things for war effort, does it therefore mean that we should continue wars or that all these people would otherwise be unemployed?

Without copyright, and especially century long Mickey Mouse copyright, it's easier to open your own smaller amusement park that competes with Disneyland, this will employ a lot of people outside LA or Orlando area. Plus I will still buy my games and movies from reputable sources that are fair to content creators. If some poor college students can't afford that, maybe it's good they can get a break.
But you do comment on comments about cat videos.
As someone who grew up in israel, I can confirm your statement is factually incorrect.
> Not a noise standard, which would make sense. A speed limit.

Is enforcing a perceived noise, or even a measured decibel limit on the ground even realistic? It would be difficult to investigate reported infractions unless they're consistently coming from a scheduled route, because the noise level on the ground depends on more than just the plane. "Supersonic jets that don't have a lot of headroom on the noise limits in a dry, flat desert shouldn't fly supersonic through this area because the the land underneath is shaped like a parabola and it's very humid." is much more difficult for a pilot to manage and a regulation body to enforce than "Don't fly faster than this airspeed." especially when the effect was the same back when the bill was introduced.
Gpt4 is good if you not looking for anything novel.
Isn’t any “request” an input only? As opposed to a “command”.
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My reading was that he initially thought the memo was a joke that was written by a real admissions officer (whose name was used on the document). The memo was so over-the-top (Nobel Prize!) that it would have been obvious that no such student had ever applied.
Well, we've also been given the context that at least one person in the relationship got upset with the demand.
Oh, bullshit. The same judges who "want legislators to be responsible" for deciding abortion laws also explicitly don't want legislators deciding campaign finance and firearm laws.

It's political. It's always been political. It always will be. The judges that want abortions illegal will find legal arguments to make that happen and vice versa.
Cohen the Barbarian style, I guess? An old barbarian is a deadly barbarian!
Yeah, this is a massive nothingburger, seemingly written because the author was pissed at being brushed off by the judge. And whether the judge was right or wrong to try to squash the joke, the comments in this thread show that she was right about people being eager to misinterpret the joke and focus on it, missing any signal for the shiny noise.
"A Cigna algorithm flags mismatches between diagnoses and what the company considers acceptable tests and procedures for those ailments."

"Cigna said its review system was created to “accelerate payment of claims for certain routine screenings,”

This sounds like simple automation with an error rate that is acceptable by Cigna. Of course it's not acceptable to anyone wrongfully denied a claim.

Now that's an issue I don't see in the article. How many claims were wrongfully denied? I can't get worked up about the situation when critical information is missing.
Why "we" need to decide? Can't GPT figure it out for us?
I’m currently in a part time masters program for fun and taking the compilers course. I’m sure John’s experience is different than mine, but it seems the question should be put to universities. The professor of my course, by his own admission, hasn’t studied compilers other than his undergrad decades ago and as far as I can tell was assigned the course to teach. As a result the syllabus is relatively dates. I think I’m 8 weeks in and we’ve only discussed parsing theory. As far as I can tell there won’t be time for detailed study of code gen, optimizations, type checking, etc.
it would probably benefit patients
From the description it sounded like something trivial. E.g. given the diagnosis, there might be a cheaper known way to get to it. I am a layman, but for instance that could be ordering an MRI when an ultrasound would suffice.
I certainly didn’t say anything to preclude that. In fact unless the woman is certain of the man, she should control her own contraception. The consequence of a mistake falls disproportionately on her and, well, men are pretty much all assholes, even the well intentioned ones. My message, though, was for men - not for women. Vasectomies are a man’s choice, and the only one we can make that fully insulates the woman in our life from the consequences of sex. Any other measure a man can take is pretty poor in it’s effectiveness.
> why do you still ask a question you've gotten zero signal from?

Interview questions aren’t just for comparing candidates with each other. It’s also useful to know how a candidate’s knowledge compares to the knowledge of the team. The best of a bad bunch might still be unhirable. It’s often better to leave a role vacant than fill it with someone mediocre.

If the GP can’t find anyone in the hiring pool who knows C++ well, that’s a valuable insight. Maybe they need to expect less C++ from candidates and plan for more on the job training.

Or change languages.
It's only disheartening to me because woman live in a society where men perpetually behave like we know what's best for them.

What you're reading as aggression, I'm reading as a reasonable response to a perfectly plausible alternative interpretation, which is that he knows what's best for his girlfriends better than they do for themselves.

So many men have this corrupt mode of thinking that there is now an entire US state issuing bounties on women seeking control over their own bodies.
Bruter v1.0.0b
Hi folks, I released bruter a golang tool that I enjoyed building:

It is a simple app that was built as an experiment while dusting my Go skils. It is indeed very much inspired by (https://github.com/evilsocket/xray) (but hey not copied ;)). The tooling can be used to test webservers and validate configurations, but not just!

What does it do?

It grabs HostInfo data from Shodan APIs, so you will need a Token to try this out

It collects banners for various services FTP, SSH, MYSQL, IRC, SMTP

It collects HTTP headers

It brute force directories on WebServers and reports results (200, 403)

It produces a Web UI for presentation

Check it out and let me know what you think! Feedbacks are very welcome :D
Fair. How do you propose a vote looks like? Who gets to vote and who doesn’t?

Say a specific ethnicity is 2% of the population in Sweden and they want a separate country. How do you propose the vote goes through? Who gets a say in this?
Thank you for the context. The net increase in risk is what I was looking for.
This probably won’t make sense to most people who haven’t used lisp at work for real work, but…

You just really don’t need much to get stuff done with a lisp.
The source for those claims is "people, who asked not to be named". Could be literally anyone.

Meanwhile in the same article:

> That does not change [Visa]'s crypto strategy and focus, however, the spokesperson added.

and:

> A spokesperson for Mastercard said: "Our efforts continue to focus on the underlying blockchain technology and how that can be applied to help address current pain points and build more efficient systems."

Isn't it crazy how different those quotes are from the headline? I'd love to know who read those official company statements and then decided to write the headline with the claim from an anonymous nobody instead.

Also: https://twitter.com/cuysheffield/status/1630600556187099137
If it works and everyone starts using it, then what do you think would happen?
And I guess the brains behind a Ferrari enjoy their work more than engineers designing said bus. And Ferraris will attract more attention than a bus.
Maybe some things are just unnecessary. Conquering the useless and doing unnecessary things is what keeps me sane and happy. But our mileage on that topic might vary.
i'd rather they get judged by the students they output rather than using only an input, ie curriculum

this better allows for competition to flourish imo
I'm fully insured and healthy but still just paid almost $3000 in deductubles for a single upper endoscopy (common procedure for 40+ folks). Cigna. In Italy last summer I received a dental xray and diagnosis as a walk-in, for FREE.
Apostasy?! Religious zealotry.

Why would I, as intelligent as I am, not sympathize with another intelligent specie?

It's okay, with your comment you placed yourself among the firsts to potentially go when they cometh.
How can a compiler course not be requeried for a comp.sci degree? We had that. And i’m surprised others do not.
> Personally, I find the fact that it can't say "I don't know" to be much more offputting

This is a problem with their PPO "finishing school" not with their base model. Check Figure 8 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf its base model has an uncannily well calibrated confidence in the correctness of its decisions. Basically, their PPO is for training it to talk to normies, and normies don't like uncertainty.

Reinforcement learning using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO): They optimize a policy against the reward model using reinforcement learning. For each new prompt sampled from the dataset, the policy generates an output. The reward model calculates a reward for the output, and the reward is used to update the policy using the PPO algorithm.
What do you mean by this, and what would be their reason for doing so? I've tested a few prompts for scraping and there have been no problems.
I'm no Apple fan-boy at all (closer to the opposite) so it pains me a bit to say, but they have a proven track-record of having zero experience in something, then releasing something really good in that industry.

The iPhone was their first phone, and it really kicked in the smartphone race into high gear. Same for the Apple Silicon processor. And those are just two relatively recent examples.
Why does it upset you that GP would be concerned for his GF's health? I also ask my GF's not to take oral contraceptives because of guilt that they're doing damage to their body for me. None have ever responded negatively, and at the end of the day it was a request. All agreed they did not feel great when taking the pills, but continued because of pressure by society/previous partners.
On particular days the absurdity of our existence lets me to believe the creators of our simulation are busy laughing.

"Oh, look at this, those monkeys that crawled out of the trees a few epicycles ago have created metal that thinks and are plugging it into their global communications network. Who wants to make a bet their extinct in the next 3 millicycles."
If you look at the 10-K for any of the 7 publicly listed health insurers, administrative cost increases are minuscule compared to healthcare expenditures.

You can get rid of half the employees and cut everyone’s pay by half, and it won’t make much difference.

I think the US’s biggest problem in healthcare is liability. Every entity is spending so many resources on making sure that they do not get blamed in the event there is a lawsuit, because the damages are huge.

In countries with taxpayer funded healthcare, this liability issue is much less because you are dealing with the government only and suddenly liability and damage amounts are reduced.
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Discussing changes to birth control decisions in the context of a long term partnership is not, in my opinion, the same as having a policy of telling every woman you date to stop using contraceptives.
That is a good question. The first appeal was "free" so we didn't have to justify it with anything other than, "no really the surgery is necessary". They only gave us a rejection number on the second and third rejections and we had to request the written forms by mail, which took weeks. The written form didn't have much more, mostly boiler plate, but it did have the number (and maybe a chapter/paragraph number citation?) and on the second one it had a signature by the reviewing doctor along with his typed name, which was luckily relatively uncommon. We had to provide statements from our doctors and surgeon (who also didn't get a reason for the refusal) justifying the surgery's need and effectiveness.

From the doctor's name and the Midwest area code for review center we were able to filter down the doctor's name to a single individual and then do a search in the state medical board system (I'm not sure if this is readily available to non-medical personnel). That popped up his med school, residency, work history (ended more than a year before) and some pending issues with his performance. When we replied by registered mail we made an obvious CC to a local lawyer.

Speaking to the surgeon we were also able to makes some guesses as to the rough name/title of a justification document they would use and that along with the citation number in a google search popped up a downloadable pdf which was 5-6 years old, but seemed about right. And when we looked up the paragraph and rejection it was pretty clearly related to roughly the right kind of surgery. That let us make a more focused/documented appeal to the rejection. When they finally approved we got a bit more documentation about the prior rejections and who reviewed them. I assume ass covering.

In the end the thing that really pissed me off is that they didn't even pay what they promised to and we knew it would another 100hrs of work to get it.

Edit: we paid ~10% out of pocket on a $60k surgery + their shortchange. good news is 15y later totally successful and healthy!
P.s. this is by memory but somewhere we’ve still got that notebook and all the paperwork filed that I’d rather forget.
I don't regard machines as having any rights in and of themselves whether they are intelligent or not, because they do not posses souls. There is no moral wrong that is inherent to destroying a machine, outside of the fact that it may be someone else's property or serving some active utility.
I generally agree :-) Though many of the same dynamics apply to MIT even if some of the specifics differ. MIT isn't admitting students purely on the basis of test scores.

I knew a long ago admissions director at MIT. At least at the time, they basically had an x-y chart with quantitative on one axis and qualitative on the other. There was a quantitative lower-bound cutoff but, beyond that, the two factors could balance each other out. (e.g. decent but not not fantastic SATs could be balanced out by really eye-catching qualitative factors and vice versa.)
Having worked tangentially on AI that approved payments for outpatient ops for one of the companies involved in handling German health system...

The very basic design goal was that the AI system could only approve, not reject. The goal was that obvious cases should be auto-approved, and anything where the AI returned below a certain confidence value was booted back to human to make a decision (same as pre-AI).

So at least you get that.
Not entirely, no. Women take birth control for a number of reasons unrelated to pregnancy:

https://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/ss/slideshow-birth-c...

The “context of a relationship” part is when a couple decide to cease birth control in order to have a child together. The OP is talking about still using birth control, just different birth control that he would prefer she use over the alternatives. Ultimately that should be her choice because the end result to him (no pregnancy) is the same.
My wife is doing it with nothing more than an app for 6 years while using some hormone kit before.

I'm quite surprised how well this works but we are in a stable relationship.

With or without plan b it would not be the end of our life's if we would suddenly getting a child.

Not sure how I would see it if I would be 20 and not above 30
Bottled water is great as long as you ignore the major problems with bottled water!!!!!!
Music-Making Artificial Intelligence Is Getting Scary Good
It is absolutely not obvious it can't do the recursive steps to multiply two numbers. In fact, you can just teach it the proper algorithm and ask it to apply it: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1600336556425826304...