skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's about 150T, so not beyond the capability of the companies we're talking about. The bigger question is how much real information is encoded in there and how many of the 'leaf' papers (the ones that build on other work but that so far are without further confirmation) are wrong. ChatGPT might give you good answers 9 out of 10 times and kill you on the 10th.
Just checked Wikipedia as well, and it sounds like Chess mostly isn't separate by gender so I stand corrected:

The majority of chess tournaments are open to all participants regardless of gender. Very few, if any, international tournaments are restricted to men, but a few are restricted to women, most prominently the Women's World Chess Championship and the Women's Chess Olympiad.
Because they complained that it’s unfair when both gender compete.

And we do absolutely have special prizes by gender for other intellectual professions like actors, female leaders/entrepreneurs, female writers, female alpinist (“first female to climb X or Y”). As if it’s something unreachable.
Yeah I figured someone would call that out :)

My memory is not good enough anymore to remember how much it was and the button for the wayback machine is too far away to use that.
What's wrong with it as long as it comes from a https URL with low potential for typo squatting (a short .sh domain would be even more natural but maybe controversial and a bit expensive for just this)? You don't have to pipe it into sh, you can also redirect it ie "> install.sh" then examine it before running. What's the alternative? A dozen incompatible centralized lang-specific or distro-specific package managers? Might work for devs but not end users, might not work with all licenses, is extra work for distros + Mac OS so chances are the O/S you're using or would otherwise be using isn't covered, ...
Shockingly, it's drug overdoses.

Apparently copious unfulfilling underpaid labor may lead to escapism. Simultaneously we're exporting inflation to our southern neighbors who have a robust, lucrative industry which may lead to conditions favoring that fate.
Docker is at 130 Million in annual revenue now!

At current average SaaS revenue multiples (6.7), Docker is on the cusp of Unicorn status.

It's weird to read comments about "poor, sad, dying Docker" given how ridiculously successful Docker's Desktop licensing scheme is.

https://devclass.com/2023/03/24/docker-subscription-revenue-...
only if there's not enough buyers for the debt you want to sell. For the US gov't, it doesnt seem like it.
The idea that it needs so is looking more and more questionable. Don't get me wrong, i'd love to see some multimodal LLMs. In fact, i think research should move in that direction...However "needing" is a strong word. The text only GPT-4 has a solid understanding of space. Very, very impressive. It was only trained on text. The vast improvement on arithmetic is also very impressive.

(People learn language and concepts through sentences, and in most cases semantic understanding can be built up just fine this way. It doesn't work quite the same way for math. When you look at some numbers and are asked even basic arithmetic , 467383 + 374748. Or say are these numbers primes or factors?. With a glance, you have no idea what the sum of those numbers would be or if the numbers are primes or factors because the numbers themselves don't have much semantic content.
In order to understand whether they are those things or not actually requires to stop and perform some specific analysis on them learned through internalizing sets of rules that were acquired through a specialized learning process.)

all of this is to say that arithmetic, math is not highly encoded in language at all.

and still the vast improvement. It's starting to seem like multimodality will get things going faster rather than any real specific necessity.

also, i think that if we want say vision/image modality to have positive transfer with NLP then we need to move past the image to text objective task. It's not good enough.
The task itself is too lossy and the datasets are garbage. That's why practically every Visual Language model flunks stuff like graphs, receipts, UIs etc. Nobody is describing those things t the level necessary

what i can see from gpt-4 vision is pretty crazy though. if it's implicit multimodality and not something like say MM-React, then we need to figure out what they did. By far the most robust display of computer vision i've seen.

I think what kosmos is doing (sequence to sequence for Language and images ) has potential.
So there's this thing called "hunger"
> Cost of products made solely by machines will approach zero.
This is going to end capitalism.
So is there any source of news you do trust?
Ha, the one college textbook I still own is a hardcover Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama. I couldn't bring myself to sell it back.
> a "safe" estimate will actually make the project take longer

That’s probably the most important thing I’ve taken away from software project management techniques - everything they do is hurting them, not me. If somebody insists on shooting themselves in the foot, and they’ll shoot you if you try to stop them, you just sit back and let them shoot themselves in the foot and shrug your shoulders when it happens.
Same with therapy. This is likely a game changer for people experiencing poverty, who cannot afford healthcare, or cannot wait months to talk to a doctor because of being on a cheap plan.
The Iranian drones are definitely not camera toys.
The whole article is worth a read, but the throughline is that there is no coherent public health policy in the US. Most other countries with a similar level of development invest more in public health and have more equitable access to screening, vaccinations, etc. By the time people get hospitalized, most of the damage is already done.
We need a DSL that converts/compiles into natural language for the AI.
Henry George AI plz help
This is a message a lot of people would benefit from hearing. I think it’s oversimplified as a binary, but many people should move in that direction.

There is power in treating things as consumable. It’s easy to only think of the cost, but this is very limiting.

I am extremely gentle by nature. In high school, a teacher didn’t believe I’d read a book because it looked so new. The binding was still tight.

This gentleness is not always warranted. What breaks me out of it is thinking in terms of trades. Trading textbooks for an education is a great trade. If it will help you to rip out the pages and put them on your wall, go for it.
Algebra: Boolean and general. Everything else is domain specific.
Chess is fundamentally a different kind of problem. You can prove things about chess in the general case, but it's mathematically impossible to prove things about computer programs in the general case.
Sure, but what about it?

As the member of a species being extinct, I wouldn't like it and just "roll with it". Same way a race being told that they're there to serve, and if needed, be extinct to bring forward some other entity wouldn't.

Until we reach that "natural end" we shouldn't go "gently into that good night".
cacheops can do the same, but it never came to my mind to actually go this way. I would rather write some special code to fetch with `id__in=[...]` and then cache individually.
A quick search of leading causes of deaths for children under 5 is firearms and second motor vehicle accidents. I do wonder what would cause other wise healthy adults to have higher disease rates than other countries.
Ok, given your university background in CS, it sounds like you have a good base of understanding. I think there are many narrow verticals, but I think you're through the base of understanding. I think people can answer specific questions, but not more general ones.

Traditionally, try response would be: have you taken databases, compilers, operating systems, or more extensive computational complexity theory. Honestly, the complexity theory enables napkin math for quick mental, or mid-discussion, feasibility arguments.

I would recommend AI and ML familiarity, including transformers, which I view at first glance as an interesting amalgamation of applied statistics and computational complexity. Numerical stability was (and is) a hard problem about practices needed to get consistent and useful results from numerical algorithms.

I think your bases are covered. It sounds like you know what you don't know. I might recommend collecting interesting problems, and learning how knowledge from each of those fields contributes to solving a class of problems, quickly, easily, simply, or efficiently.

What do you hope to do, to direct your mental energies toward?
I've been following chess tournaments for around two years now. Usually, they aren't this dramatic. In fact, more often than not, you have no clue what tournament is coming up next as there's little to no promotion happening for these events.

For instance, the FIDE World Chess Championship between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren is starting in about two weeks, and there's hardly any hype related to it. However, once the tournament starts and there are some interesting results, hype gradually builds up. Like when Carlsen lost two back-to-back games against Giri and Abdusattorov, there was quite a bit of interest in the tournament. Or the famous Carlsen vs. Niemann controversy.
You're effectively saying "obese people, why don't you just eat less". This kind of "binary" thinking is actively harmful and toxic, and only demonstrates a complete lack of sympathy and understanding for people suffering from obesity. Obesity is extremely costly, and causes a lot of human suffering. Finding a way to reduce that suffering is unequivocally a good thing. Not that I expect this will be any kind of a panacea (it won't, as obesity is a complex behavioral phenomena).

On a purely utilitarian perspective, you're grossly underestimating how much broad impact obesity is having:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3047996/

Just look at the fuel cost and the environmental cost and explain to me how helping reducing obesity is not a good thing for the environment.
men and women are not equal
I've noticed that when it refuses to answer it's good to "get it talking" about related subject matter, and then try to create a smooth transition toward whatever you wanted it to say/do.
The second, longer snippet from the OP article seems to do basically this. To modify it to be exactly like what bullet describes (warning you when in debug or test mode, instead of raising an exception, and have no effect in prod) you can replace line 31 with the logger.error() from line 33, and delete the else-case (lines 32 & 33)
The problem is the loss of privacy for all users. They will be forced to verify the identity of every user to do business in Utah, so you can either expect third parties like Stripe (with their Identity product) to get richer or an increase in leaks and hacks containing tons of driver's licenses.
> Simply put there is no right or wrong way to write English

Yes, but this is true of literally every language. English is not special. This is Linguistics 101 stuff.

Friends don't let friends be prescriptivists.
Thanks for the somber take.
I stand corrected (thank you, btw) as to the continued reduction - but a 1.2 percent annual rate does sound a bit on the slow side.
I spent a few weeks at an MGH affiliate hospital that had since my last stay began using Epic and from what I could tell all it did was muddy things up. The staff all seemed to fumble through use of the interface, even those who had spent years with it. From the nurses to the medical director of this particular program, everyone was always complaining about using the software

As a patient I never really set eyes on the interface but there seems to be a UX nightmare afoot. Once I was unintentionally dispensed 3x the intended dose of a stimulant medication due to a “default dose” feature in the interface that my physician admitted to accidentally submitting based on
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Only when it comes to some biological factors. Most of what we believe separates men from women is learned behavior.
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>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.

Except if you're working class, then all bets are off. People can laugh at you, dismiss you as white trash, kill your livelihood and tell you to "learn to code" when businesses still getting huge tax cuts "outsource", and your local jobs die, and so on.
Show HN: Open-source tool to Chat with your documents anywhere
Hi, this is still and early project but now with uploads, good UI and some extensions.
Using stable diffusion suddenly makes Picard telling the computer his tea has to be hot every time seem reasonable.
Israeli business leaders reportedly agree to engage in general strike
Yeah I'm used to in-house, no material contract experience.

> the dysfunction is everyone else's fault, not our own

I specifically said the relationship. It takes two parties for effective communication to occur. An engineer who have given up trying because they assume experienced management will not listen, is just as bad as a manager that steamrolls their experienced engineers.
Science fiction and science reality in computing (EWD952) [pdf]
This sounds close or identical to the idea of an embodied agent. Maybe we get cute & upgrade it to an embodied oracle?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_agent
Uninstallation issues.

I'd rather have package that tracks what files it installs and removes cleanly.
They will be reviewing the unit test written by TestGPT for the code written by CodeGPT.
AI destroying the middle class will always be a political choice (i.e. the powerful have chosen some sort of hyper-extractive techno-feudalism). You could always tax the AI and redistribute the money back to the people affected.

What does have to be changed with the rise of AI is the tax laws. We basically should treat it the same as if an adversary was dumping product under cost (i.e. tax AI "work") and subsidize human workers; basically run a version of protectionism against AI - if we want human work in this post-AGI world to be viable.
> The purpose of this page is to describe those rules -- to explain the system behind English spelling, the rules that tell you how to pronounce a written word correctly over 85% of the time.

The way that's written gives the impression that the author thinks "over 85% of the time" is something to be particularly proud of - but I'm not so convinced it is. There's still an error rate in there of more than 1 in 7 words, and even this short paragraph I've written has 64 words. Following the rules should still result in 9 pronunciation mistakes, which seems like a lot.
Show HN: REminiscence is a rewrite of the game Flashback ported for the web
LCDs don't have variable resolution
Whereas Thermians know your both wrong: they're historical documents.
From the NYT article about this:

> an email to Twitter’s communications department was returned with a poop emoji

LOL
You are making my point stronger rather than weaker: Aircraft have only become more efficient in the last 50 years or so and that's precisely the equivalent of better compilers and compression.

And the diminishing returns for computing are for the most part driven by the lack of investment in new ways of computing because we got so much for free. But once the free ride is over you can expect the research into efficiency to be picked up again because that will be the only field where real progress can be made. There have been a few half-assed (apologies to those involved, it was no doubt a ton of work) attempts at making computing fabrics and clockless machinery. And that's because by the time you have something working the scaling advantages have already overtaken your work and absolutely nobody is going to give up a working architecture for something unproven if it doesn't given an immediate return. Some pretty good ideas died like that.

But I suspect their day will come.
FWIW, GPT-4 can take images as input.
Direct link: https://reminiscence-cd.netlify.app/

Data is Public Domain Mark 1.0 via https://archive.org/details/flashback-collection
I was following along and thinking "wtf no", and then I realized..
I know. I never owned a C64 (I was a Z80 guy :) but I was tempted to buy a 400 just to have one!
It's interesting, because I considered doing this to make it "fair". But after some reflection I noticed that I almost never type complete sentences into google. Google has kind of trained us to use it a certain way, which can be beneficial (less typing, sometimes more generic/better results), but clearly here, it causes a problem because you don't give it enough context behind why you're asking.
> We aren’t interchangeable cogs

Turns out we largely are, just like in most other industries. Probably like to think we’re irreplaceable snowflakes. But we’re not.

> people who do better than average should not be held down

Ah yes that old chestnut, that unions mandate No Employee May Achieve Above Average
> we shouldn't go "gently into that good night

concur. the challenge in front of us (and always has been) to surf the waves we can find in this universe
Stop listening to propertarians and implement computer assisted socialism, nobody has to work more than 25 hours/week if they don't want to.
Surely they understand there's no point in trying to keep it closed-source considering they're, well, China.
Should be easy enough to implement. You only need a context manager that adds 1 to some threadlocal flag on enter and subrracts on exit then check this flag in the monkey patch. Not sure how costly that will be though.
What I did with rpms definitely felt criminal.
I wonder how many people who think they have no reasoning abilities have actually seen GPT-4. There's clearly some form of reasoning with GPT-4.

There are situations where a human can reason better. But these are usually identified as bugs and will probably just be fixed later.

Yes, they're basically autocomplete machines but a human is a bundle of neurons optimized for survival anyway. But humans can become irrational to things that threaten survival. Classic medical example is the drama that emerged when one doctor suggested that washing hands would reduce mortality rates.

Humans and LLM-based AI evolve rationality based around different factors and form different "bugs" and I love that they're capable of fact checking each other now.
> Aren't tight capitol controls seen as a good thing? Surprised to see that as a con.

it depends on which side you are.

I myself prefer that the state cannot easily regulate and control capital, but not impossible for them to in dire cases.

E.g., they can control capital flow of criminals, but would need proof or courts involved. They cannot defacto control capital at will for an ordinary citizen.
False!

https://www.aquarium.co.za/news/do-fish-make-sounds-yes-list...
In the context of a discussion about chess, they are.
context https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/
I really wish dang was better about moderation. I've received open transphobia like the kind you see from Twitter TERFs and the HN comments don't even get flagged. Reddit is getting a little better at it but still not great.
I'd just like to be able to use chatGPT to abstract and summarize the relevant portions of the faxed (yes, faxed, of poor image quality, non-OCR-able) medical records and lab results (which I have to look up in a different system to which I don't have API access and type in manually also to a system to which I don't have API access) just to get ready for a patient visit

It's got potential, but someone's gonna have to pony up a lot of money to make it a reality. Probably end up being private equity, and we all know how that ends up
> Is it broken?

Exactly: the the answer is an emphatic "No."

There is nothing to be fixed; to imagine that there is some sort of Platonic Ideal English is absurd on its face - and in even asking the question of quote-unquote fixing it, you can really see the HN-stereotype penchant for a clear set of rules showing through. Linguistics moved past this a hundred damned years ago.

Natural languages are not programming languages. There is no such thing as "correct"; as with any language, there is only such thing as the many-varied ways in which native speakers speak.
Every time Sam asked Lex a question I was excited for some discussion and then disappointed when Lex started talking. He either goes off on random tangent or doesn't get to the heart of the question / debate. Just very shallow and vapid, which is disappointing given the guests and Lex supposedly being of a technical background. I'd rather Joe Rogan interview Lex's guest and that says a lot.

Example:
https://youtu.be/L_Guz73e6fw?t=3800

He does have interesting guests though that I don't see on other podcasts so maybe he's seen as safe / controllable and is PR approved.
As I previously made it clear, I want to eat rice because I like it (I don't want to reduce the activity I like) That's not causing food shortage.

Food problems (famine etc) in the modern world is not because of lack of food. It's because of human errors (policies, logistics)
How do you make that work? Practically.
How is Niemann's lawsuit coming along?
Here is an example of such thing https://github.com/Suor/django-cacheops/blob/8b3a79de29b2545...
Awesome, thanks for the great analogy and explanation! What you are proposing is the compartmentalization approach, like sealing off areas of a ship or cordoning off a fire using walls (or fire trails in a forest). I am definitely a proponent of capability based security for tighter control over permissions and limiting the damage when things go wrong. The only problem with that is that some programs by definition MUST have access to user data and therefore by definition WOULD cause harm. So, for example, an email client needs network access and to upload attachments from the filesystem, in order to perform its function. Then, those same said permissions can be subverted. Tricky...
I don't think you understand the concept of a schedule.
> Has anyone ever burned that much money that fast before without producing something physical?

Its not actual money but estimated value, but, Elon Musk’s record for losing money isn’t just Twitter (although the Twitter acquisition contributed to the rest of it.)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-net-worth-worst-loss-...
The fair thing to say is that there's something like 80-90% chance that this will take X time, 99% chance that it will take less than Y time.

This would allow for planning, prioritising and is the most accurate communication we can achieve.
It is not separated by gender. Anyone can compete in the main tournaments. There is then a separate one for women.
I think the difference is that we’re doing the invading in those instances. This is the opposite, where our literal backyard is being invaded.

They’d have to be stomped on for no other reason than to prevent them doing it again.

I’m also of the opinion that the US and allies probably had more valid reasons to invade any of the countries they did in the past 25 years than Russia had to invade Ukraine.

I feel like the intentions are generally in the right place (e.g. stems from public pressure to do something to help those poor people), and people that are ‘liberated’ are generally happier and healthier afterwards (if they don’t die first). Look at what’s happening now that the Taliban take over again. 20 years of emancipation destroyed in an instant.

That’s the largest crime in my opinion. The west starts a lot of wars, but isn’t willing to see them through to the end. They just fuck up the current stable power structure (regardless of how messed up it is) and then leave.