skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The layoffs will continue until the people raising interest rates are voted out.
And the trick to eating less is to reduce appetite, and the trick to reducing appetite is to chew and swallow plenty of resistant starch (which you can’t eat but which your one-hundred-trillion-cell gut bacteria eat with bliss) so that your gut bacteria stop demanding “feed us” through your vagus nerve.
Who is getting obese eating rice?
Its not 'thanking', its positive signal that GPT's previous outputs were correct, so it should continue doing whatever it was doing.
If you say no/bad etc, then GPT will try other approaches.
Im not sure that inventing ways to make rice less nutritious, in order to allow us to safely eat more, is going to help the various co2/water/food insecurity battles we now face. We need ways to feed more people with less food/energy, not new ways to shovel more food into fewer people.
Yeah I read about something similar years ago. I now eat leftover rice regularly, but can’t say for sure if it’s made a difference.
One of me is quite enough.
>No, in an evolving situation you don't lie, you say "we don't know", or "we are hoping this will help".

No, in an evolving situation you explain the facts as you currently know them. Why else would they have walked it back days later if it was a lie? You don't make any sense.

>It was never true and they knew it wasn't true.

Ah, I see you're quite happy to make stuff up in the absense of actual facts. You have nothing to demonstrate it as a lie, you easily make that leap because it suits your narrative. So again, you don't understand what a lie is.
So they didn't know that it caused myocarditis or not - but they deemed it safe for rollout. Shouldn't this have been caught beforehand? How is it ethical to mandate a product whose risks are not even fully known yet?

The big issue during the pandemic is that "no evidence that" was treated as "does not exist", especially by social media moderators. So I do agree with your point that the CDC did not explicitly state that such a link does not exist (thank you for pointing that out to me). However, there are times that the CDC was flat out wrong, such as when Walensky initially said that vaccinated individuals cannot spread COVID to others.

One day they say the science is settled. The next day they say that science changes according to new data. If that's the case, then I would rather sit back and wait until the science gets settled.

I will do my best and follow all recommended guidelines to keep others and myself healthy. However, I will not undergo an irreversible treatment without understanding the risks and accepting them by my free will (not coercion).
I try to reason about this a lot, and the trouble is everything I aspire to do happens across decades. Nothing that can be accomplished in a day or a week seems satisfying.
You offer good addiction programs, and stop punishing people with jail for them.
I had no idea about Starting Strength being famous for that. I did notice that Rippetoe is very nonchalant about obesity lol, like it doesn't matter as long as you can lift stuff.

Thanks!
In other news, eating half the amount of rice results in half the amount of calories absorbed.
This isn't how it will play out though. At first chess AIs got enough to beat unskilled players. They they were good enough to beat intermediate players. Then they challenged the grandmasters. Today no human, no matter how long they practise or how hard they train will ever get close to beating an AI at chess.

Your assumption that this raises the bar for human 3D artists is correct today, but it won't be long before human 3D artists are seen as much slower and less competent than AI artists, and there will be no going back.
>Ted Turner, Jeff Bezos

Clearly they missed the memo

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awashingtonpost.com+wa...

https://money.cnn.com/2017/12/18/news/economy/wage-theft-wor...
Algebra-driven design (book):

https://algebradriven.design/

Category theory for programmers (free book):

https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf
It honestly seems sort of like a straight path toward an LLM that can hold a whole codebase in context and can produce new functionality on command. Fundamentally, software is just taking inputs and producing outputs; we will almost certainly be able to define those and let the LLM do everything in between within a year or two.
Stress is an issue that I don’t think gets enough credit.

Obesity, PFAS, all the other current top candidates are absolutely a part, but I think the stress of living under our economic/political system is causing a lot of this.

Stress causes inflammation, inflammation causes all kinds of issues. You can think of stress as an inverted proxy for wealth on a population level as well.
I certainly wouldn’t join a union (and a “guild” would not be legally distinguishable from one).

I don’t want a levelling effect in our industry. I don’t want gatekeeping either. We aren’t interchangeable cogs, and people who do better than average should not be held down. Promising people with nontraditional backgrounds should not be prevented from entering the field. Despite what people claim, unions would definitely hold people down and lock out new people.

Things are going really well for us actually, compared to people in other professions. That’s partly the case because our industry has been able to remain dynamic and innovative. Much of the success we’ve seen was built by people with nontraditional professional backgrounds and would not have happened if we got bogged down by gatekeeping and credentialism.

When the pie stops growing and we need to fight management over how to divide it, maybe a union will be attractive. But right now the pie is growing rapidly and workers are getting a huge amount of it in the form of both cash and stock. I’m all for continuing with this free, dynamic, and incredibly successful model.

By the way, unions don’t make layoffs a thing of the past. Look at what happens in the auto industry. The beat thing we can do for laid-off tech workers is ensure that we keep our industry dynamic, so there will continue to be new employers to work for.
> The whole point of io_uring is to drastically decrease the number of sys calls, creating channels where more requests can be filed with lower than traditional cost of a readFile syscall for example, and where completion can also be lower overhead delivery of events.

In theory. I did some work on high performance filesystem I/O on Linux about a year ago, doing intensive random-access to fast SSDs, and found io_uring to be slightly slower than a well-tuned thread pool with an appropriate queue depth.

That was a little surprising as the thread pool has to do system calls for each I/O operation and io_uring does not. Perhaps it is faster with newer kernels or other access patterns.

io_uring is better able to adapt autonatically to different numbers of cores, device queue depth and amount of filesystem data cache residency. That comes from it having access to kernel state which is not made available to userspace on Linux, to guide thread offloading decisions, rather than from the ringbuffer communication.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26693746/

"In conclusion, cooling of cooked white rice increased resistant starch content. Cooked white rice cooled for 24 hours at 4°C then reheated lowered glycemic response compared with freshly cooked white rice."

it's the cooling, I don't understand why this isn't explained.
but it's true that many banks are closing branches in less visited areas, and justifying it (to their local community) with an ATM.
"Blacklisting" apps was essentially what antivirus was all about in those days.
The original author answered, but I don’t think that answer is appropriate.

I initially read it as a comment on how most large studies are based on national health care data in socialist countries (Scandinavia mostly, occasionally the UK’s NHS) because they are clean, consistent, and population-wide without imbalanced social class sampling. They also cover decades, making all sorts of key studies possible.

Those are countries (the UK is the notable exception) where privacy is key and embedded in how those databases are structured and handled. In practice, those studies are possible because the health services only give information anonymized and relevant given an expressly spelled out research plan from a recognized team. That allows research without the semi-permanent health data leaks that health insurance companies have grown accustomed to.

This is not a counter-balance for a free service: people in countries with national healthcare consider that they pay for top-of-the-line care through taxes. Just like people who pay for it indirectly through private insurance, they don’t believe that they deserve any less privacy for being prudent. The reason the data is shared is because this is seen as a valuable opportunity to support research. Any privacy breach would be far less acceptable, as such abuses don’t really happen in other aspects of their lives.
Please just try. It's horrible at mathematical reasoning. Use just words to avoid problems with tokenization. Alternatively just read through the link you provided. It has many examples of failures of GPT and gabage it produces when talked to about math.
Apple could have done any number of things to do that. You're thinking about this from the limited perspective of how Apple could have done it that RA couldn't have worked around (code signing) but that isn't remotely required.

All Apple needed to do was to push an update which breaks the software.

if (process == "AudioHijack") { dont_stream_audio();}

AudioHijack would find some way to work around that, as I'm sure they can, the RA team is wicked smart but their software would be broken for a day/week/month until they did and then Apple would analyze their workaround (using their exponentially greater manpower and better understanding of the system and find a way to break it again.

Cue cat and mouse game. The thing is in that scenario, Apple loses nothing when RA fixes their software (they can just tell the RIAA they're trying -- and they are!) but every time Apple breaks Audio Hijack they would be eating away at the userbase and inserting doubt into potential purchasers. Am I going to spend $65 on something which my OS manufacturer clearly doesn't want me using and is probably going to break in a month or three for an indeterminate amount of time.

You're seeing this as "can apple unequivocally disable this software" but that is the wrong question, even today it's not true (I can disable gatekeeper/SIP/etc if I'm determined enough and if I want i'll just run Ashai) but the real game here is Apple making it more difficult to use it and the REAL game would have been Apple instilling doubt in existing customers and potential purchasers.

Anyway I'm glad Apple didn't do that, RA produces some great software.
Absolutely great! It makes https://antiwar.com work better than the actual website.
Right, and Apple also could have introduced Gatekeeper and co six years earlier than they ultimately did, just for their friends at the RIAA! But it all seems pretty far-fetched. I don't think I believe the alternate scenario would have ever happened.
> The person I was responding to was suggesting it was a connection to public programs that made private health programs so stingy in denying claims

I suggested no such thing. Please don't ascribe your own ridiculous ideas to other people.
"Either you already know the correct answer, making this useless, or you are not competent to utilize its answers because you can’t tell whether it’s about to kill someone with plausible nonsense"

Evaluating if an answer is correct or not is easier than coming up with a correct answer from scratch.

NP != P.

if you don't understand this basic fact, then you are not competent enough to comment on AI.
At the time those algorithms where developed even computers / networks in the West were painfully slow, compression always had its use.

zstd is developed at Facebook, not known for a lack of computing resources.
(Roughly) Amara's Law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
Nursing homes abuse nurses, nursing assistants by hiring less number of people, also pay 50% of what hospitals pay. Just beware.
> once you accept that our conscious experiences just emerge from information processing in the brain

"Believe" or "have faith" would be more accurate than "accept" here.

There's absolutely no clear evidence of the claim you're making, and plenty of other possibilities.

It's also an incredibly hand-wavy claim. Its information content is close to zero.
No, only for deduplication, which is optional and doesn't make sense for most workloads. And usage depends on record (like block) size and other factors. Usually 1GB per TB of deduplicated storage is the max. ZFS works on datasets for configs like this, so you can dedup a small "filesystem" of data but not all 40TB on a pool.

It will use lots of RAM for ARC (adaptive read cache) but that can be limited.

ZFS RAM usage is greatly overblown in my opinion and experience.
When I was in public school (1960s-1970s) we were required to wrap our textbooks, since they were reused for years. I got really good at making wrappers from butcher paper or used shopping bags. In college it was normal to purchase cheap decorated covers, but only for hardback textbooks; if your paperback Norton Anthology of English Literature survived the semester, good luck to whoever bought it next.
I use blender a lot. I know what the api can do. I'm not terrified. Getting anything significant done will still take real work/knowledge because the number of potential 'parameters' of what you can do/make requires that you have the language to describe what you want. Having the posession of that language and knowing how to use blender is a very positive correlation.
> But I am yet to see evidence that any bank could have withstood a run of that magnitude.

I think you're right that no bank can withstand a run of that magnitude, and it has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread that entities that can do so aren't really a bank anymore. However, the bank run only occurred because it was public knowledge that SVB had terrible duration risk, so it's somewhat of a chicken-or-egg problem.

All the findings that came out since then points to minimal duration hedging on SVB's part, so all in all it sounds like a bank that was poorly managed, perhaps adapted too well to a ZIRP world, and was ripe for a run to happen.
There is one on r/chess: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/122wakh/fide_womens_...
Making specific monocrops with petroleum-based fertilizers is easy, but monocrops with petroleum-based fertilizers is not a sustainable practice if we would like to continue to live on Earth.
I think what your parent comment means is summarized by something said by, i think Colin Angle (iRobot CEO), about iRobot: "to become successful, we had to become a vacuum cleaning company, instead of a robotics company".

Nobody cares about what's inside the black box you are selling, as long as it solves your problem. Doesn't matter if that is vacuum cleaning with either a robot or a human, getting stuff from a to b with either a compliant arm with fancy computer vision or a human or custom, inflexible automation.

I'm currently in a robotics company, we make various mobile manipulators with some internal storage. Got acquired by, of course, a logistics company a couple years ago to be part of their overall solutions.
> for small edits sed it's better, and awk for some tabular based files by using xml2tsv or lots of TSV related tools.

That, and shell, sed and awk are standard tools which are easy to learn, every unix user should learn basics of (even a java developer), and this won't change anytime soon.

However, this can't be said of Perl - it is a powerful tool, but it became culturally obsolete and deprecated, and most unix users in the present and the future won't be bothered to learn it, when learning more modern languages like Python is a better investment.
I want a leveling effect, but I don't live on a US coast...
Yes, but I think this workflow is dependent on an assumption that there’s no cost overhead for random accesses, which only became true in the current console generation, with mandatory fast SSDs.

As long as you were potentially seeking around a spinning platter, you needed to have way more control over data locality than was possible with something like SQLite.
> The reasons we have acetaminophen with all its risks is because there is nothing better.

There is, but we care more about stopping people getting high than we care about stopping people from being in pain.

My wife had an outpatient surgery, and had muscle spasms from incisions. She was SCREAMING in pain. She was brought in by ambulance (who did not give her anything - sort of understandable because sometimes you need to have the patient identify the pain).

Despite continuing to SCREAM in pain, the nurse refused to do anything or contact the doctor, because she was sure she was a druggy just faking it. It took all my energy not to start throwing punches. (A doctor finally got her pain meds.)

Our society is unjust.
You can do exactly the same to an ESP32 / 8266.
Most Americans have never heard of Reading, PA.
and eventually it would just be "business owner"+ai. The way i see it is that a small business owner would use the AI by directly talking to it, via natural language, and continuously iterate on the output.

The feedback loop would be fast, because the AI is almost instantly able to produce an observable outcome/product, even if it's wrong. Then the owner tests it out, or ask the AI to test it etc, and whenever the owner finds any deficiency, they can easily ask for a change.
> who checks this output

Code is reviewed by one more person anyways right now in most continues. So it continues same way.

> who troubleshoot when prod is down

A human engineer for now. The amount of time when prod is down should be low enough for this to not be a huge factor.

> what about regulations

the AI will do a better job of memorizing and understanding those

> which legislator bans use of AI unless there are human engineers?

what does this even mean. Is it ok to have one AI and 5 engineers where previously 50 were needed? Since nobody is going to have a company with 0 human engineers and only AI.

> I am worried about AI but I doubt this will be happen as you’re saying it.

I also doubt it happens exactly as I am saying it, but I think the possibilities are non zero.
Huh, ran into same issue on a rails project; queries kicked off in inside serializes were a weed. We toyed with throwing errors if a query was made during serialization.

On top of that, everything about serialization is terribly slow in Rails :|
> Your kids medical file contains that information and the emergency doctor is not going to call you for allergies information.

Kid's medical file is on a computer in the pediatrician's office. Kid gets taken to an ER at a hospital with which the pediatrician is not in any way affiliated. How does the emergency doctor quickly get the kid's records? Can the emergency doctor even find out what pediatrician the kid goes to unless a parent tells them?
There's a zulu timestamp in the markup that is being formatted client side into the TZ being presented to your browser, which happens to be at least a few hours behind UTC, setting the post back a day.
A good hobby is one that follows the arc commonly seen in movies. Crushing defeat, hopelessness, despondency, perseverance, great triumph. I don’t think I’ve stuck with any hobby that you just do aimlessly.
This is actually a fantastic question. My guess is that hardly anyone is.
Concierge doctors.

To be clear, we are talking about benefit to the patient; there's lots of reasons concierge doctors may not be the best benefit for society at large. But that's immaterial because this is just one example; if we hadn't gone for the worst possible way to scale private medicine, then there could be better examples.

But the point is that you can't seriously look at concierge doctors and say that public healthcare would be better for those patients! And therefore this refutes any claim that public healthcare is the best system overall.
We don't exactly know the nature of 'The Great Filter'.

But maybe we'll find out.
Yes. You should be hesitating because of climate change. AI is a great reason to have kids. They might get to explore other planets/dimensions or fight a final battle with malicious robots in Gundam suits welded out of old F-35 parts. Environmental degradation, by contrast, just sucks.
Sure it is! But Pinyin is more or less what you need to spell out, and there you can see that Chinese is actually not a very "compact" language. But it makes no big difference at all, imho. Human languages seem to have a more or less common "information density".

My point is: I would really like to learn the language. But the writing system is just off-putting.

This is imho an unnecessary high barrier to entry. OTOH I can understand why it isn't an issue for China. They don't "need" any foreigners. They have enough people.
> We still have to rely on this ancient 150+ year old dangerous drug that's barely effective because of a major failing of medical science/pharmaceutical research.

No it's because we care more about stopping people from getting high than stopping them from being in pain. You said it yourself:

> the big guns—the opiates—are totally inappropriate painkillers in all but the most severe pain because of potential for addiction

Who cares??? It's better to be addicted than suffer. And I have lots of doubts about their addiction potential, because of all the people who have a backwards sense of medicine.
I don't quite understand why it is apparently so hard to make a decent photo of the sun. Obviously you would need quite a strong filter to get it dark enough (otherwise the photo will be overexposed), and you need to zoom in since the sun appears not very large from Earth. But other than that?
Isn’t this precisely the purpose of OpenCL, OpenACC, etc?
I expect that a lot of details are in doctor’s notes but not properly encoded, and most recent efforts have been through analysis of structured (categorical even) data. Having a natural-language tool parse could help notice more patterns.

There have been many discoveries done by companies that started using NLP in the last 10 years. However, all the anecdotes that I‘ve heard about were not published but instead used by insurers to adjust their premiums.
fantastic list! although obviously no such plan can really cover the whole space, i cant help but want to suggest adding some languages representation to the list; a simple interpreter or compiler project, or alternatively some symbolic computation eg algebra or differential calculus. being exposed to this stuff via Racket was hugely transformative for me (e.g. https://beautifulracket.com/stacker/why-make-languages.html), but if lisps arent your thing theres plenty of great projects in e.g. java as well: https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
Where can i find Peristat data for the US?
It's not you that I'm particularly worried about. It's Bill Gates VII and Elon Musk XIV that I'm worried about.
NixOS and GuixSD are distros built entirely around Nix and Guix, respectively.
LLMs like GPT4 operate on tokens, not characters, so they're operating with a severe handicap when playing those sorts of games -- they see a word like "robot" as a single token, not as a collection of letters, so they don't know that it starts with the letter R unless that fact appeared in its training material.

Interestingly, they do better at rhyming games, because those are based on associations between tokens which are easier to infer from usage in poetry, or by reading rhyming dictionaries.
The Impact of OpenAI’s GPT-4 on the Future of Software Engineering
> Am I going to spend $65 on something which my OS manufacturer clearly doesn't want me using

It was actually much cheaper back in the day, not that it matters much to the argument.