skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree we live in a relatively oligarchic society - that is an inescapable outcome for democracies.

We would probably disagree as to the causes and alternatives to this oligarchic structure, but I don't want to go down that rabbit hole at the moment.

What I am saying is that when you look at the problems with the medical profession, there is more at play here than the self-interest of billionaires. You talk at high levels about the impact of inequality on overall government policy, but not everything that goes wrong with an industry is a result of government policy, let alone policies favored by the wealthy. Medical research is fraught with issues of reproducibility. Government regulations artificially restrict the supply of healthcare. Technological advancement means that many people can now live sedentary lives, and it's adversely affecting health outcomes.
Given that this stuff was built into the original and revised kinect software on the xbox (360 and one) and no-one really knew or cared. I believe that the initial setup stuff on the xbox one covered the voice commands / gesture commands. I have a feeling they were soon forgotten. Unfortunate given how powerful the kinect, especially version 2, is. When it comes down to it, gesture control is often fiddly and obscure (there is no button on the screen to push to remind you the function exists, you just have to know 'if i wave at it, it will probably turn on'). Both of those downsides turn it into a non starter for most users.
We shouldn't punish risky innovation like this. I actually fail to see the fraud here.
My understanding is he sold unregistered securities to US citizens, and used US businesses (like discord and YouTube) to promote his scam.

These transactions also took place on US soil.
> hoping that the pants of my desires will appear in a shop somewhere

An early-web startup did custom-cut khakis. CNC cut, manually stitched in one of the last US factories doing such, and overnighted. Acquired by bigco, and death by mismanagement. Patents should be expired now, so perhaps progress can resume?
At this point I'm willing to believe any theory that the "experts" are scrambling to to hide
Look at the list of longest living women:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe...

If you look at, say, the top twenty, the gap between each woman tends to be on the order of weeks to a few months. The gap between Calment and the runner up is over 3 years. Statistically, this is a giant chasm for continuous data like this.
A missed opportunity to name it `rat`.
I think it's fine as long as the content is suitable for hackernews
I don't think that a constant roll-in of EQ would be helpful. On playback, the stylus is actually parallel to the groove at two positions, both in the middle of the disc, not at the edge, as depicted on a cartridge alignment protractor.

https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/support/audio-solutions...

So you start playing a record and the stylus has a small lateral load bias to one side, has a zero crossing, an small opposite side bias, another zero crossing, and then finishes up with a high lateral load bias on the inner groove and all the female vocals sound terrible due to the extreme sibilance distortion.
I have state-of-the-art gear and I mostly do everything in the terminal. Why? Because I run months long sessions in tmux that I attach to from all sorts of places and machines, including whatever notebook my youngest left around or from my phone (via Terminus) to quickly check on something.

Being able to resume exactly where I left off is more important to me than fancy colors and fonts (and the mouse to too slow and imprecise anyway).
> You can watch this kind of stuff first hand...

Something something memory allocating llamas cough.
ChatGPT Plus GPT-4 is heavily rate-limited, as well as slow for this use-case. As of now.

This is almost certainly operating off of <=gpt3.5-turbo.
Yes, but if you are interpreting my comment in the best possible light it makes sense, right?

- On one extreme, you have employers who are abusive during interviews. They record you, treat you like a cheater, forbid you from alt-tabbing or anything that you would normally do while on the actual job, ask for trivia knowledge you'd normally google, and when reviewing take home challenges they are very strict. I assume this is because they have droves of candidates and can mistreat candidates till they find the perfect one?

- On the other extreme, you have garbage consultancy/software factory work. Low quality, outdated tech, low pay, and they'll hire anybody who can demonstrate minimal expertise since they aren't interested in quality work but in selling billable hours.

I expect what reasonable people want is a decent job which pays well, is not mind-numbingly boring and that challenges you, but also they don't want to be subjected to the humiliation of abusive interview processes that quiz on trivia and treat them like cheaters?

I'm seeing more and more of the first kind of process, sadly.
The interaction of light with multiple thin layers of dielectric material is first-year physics — you can compute all the reflections at the interfaces and the phase shifts through the layers as a function of wavelength and angle, and you can reassemble the result into a reflection coefficient. It depends only on angle of incidence and wavelength, and the angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence just like for a specular reflector.

So a shader should be able to handle this, in a physics-based way, as long as the path tracer can handle the wavelength dependence in a reasonable manner.
The combined emissions of CFC-13, CFC-112a, CFC-113a, CFC-114a and CFC-115 increased from 1.6 ± 0.2 to 4.2 ± 0.4 ODP-Gg yr-1 (CFC-11-equivalent ozone-depleting potential) between 2010 and 2020. The anticipated impact of these emissions on stratospheric ozone recovery is small. However, ongoing emissions of the five CFCs of focus may negate some of the benefits gained under the Montreal Protocol if they continue to rise. In addition, the climate impact of the emissions of these CFCs needs to be considered, as their 2020 emissions are equivalent to 47 ± 5 TgCO2.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01147-w
People vote, and on some issues they vote as blocks.
RDD (Resume Driven Development)

The desire to add $TECHNOLOGY to run a relatively small site even though it will likely never scale beyond what a single postgres instance running on a mac mini can handle.
No support for other than English?
Is that the only AI risk you’ve seen laid out?
It doesn't damn her as a person, but if you're gonna claim to have won the lottery twice in a row, I think you had better have the receipts or people can safely assume you're either lying or confused.
I used to be more strict about a 16 hour fasting window. Now I follow the spirit if not the letter of the law, mostly without trying. If I feel like I need to make serious diet changes, I can easily take it more seriously.
Semi-automating a Substack newsletter with an Observable notebook
It’s lent as well, so huge chunks of Christendom are fasting as well.
Citation needed on everything you wrote.
Yeah, plus swimming is anomalous in and of itself due to the large number of very similar events.

I’m sure we’d see sprinters like Usain Bolt win a lot more medals if there were events like “100m in sandals, 100m on grass, 100m barefoot” to go along with the usual 100m race.
Thank you for all your feedback!
I have many great ideas for improving Gut, which I've detailed in a recent blog post.

https://github.com/julien040/gut/blob/main/future_of_gut.md
Lucky for you today! It's ramadan so I'm sure a few hackernews users are fasting until near the end of the month. I've always wanted to see glucose levels for people who fast like that.
Hi, I am one of the founders of SigOpt (acquired by Intel in 2020) and I am happy to answer any questions people may have!

You can also jump right to the code here: https://github.com/sigopt/sigopt-server
Michael Rolle
Credit to user mitthrowaway2 for originally posting this.

I am only part way through but I think there is a big issue of timing.[0] I don't think a super-intelligent AI would kill us all unless it could replace all necessary (for its own survival) human functions such as building maintenance, energy production, and chip production. There is still a lot of advancement in robotics necessary, isn't there?

I realize that only gives us some more time in this scenario, but it does seem to be an important issue to me.

[0]https://youtu.be/gA1sNLL6yg4?t=1486
> I live in Europe outside EU

I had to think on this portion of your comment for a moment. It's obvious in hindsight but the first time I've ever heard it phrased in this way.
I would be much more sympathetic to these concerns if I saw credible green extremist policy pushes of the kind you describe, but the extent of green policy so far seems to be... EV subsidies for Elon Musk.

No, right now green extremists are primarily just bogeymen invoked by the usual conservative causes. I just don't feel a pressing need to jump into this fight on the side of legacy energy. Not yet and probably not ever.
Bell Labs gave up its roof to patch the Statue of Liberty
Congrats on the launch, Type looks great!

I was curious, is there any difference you noticed for your use case with GPT vs Claude?
Why is the Win32 epoch January 1, 1601?
Yes, as I like the extra time it gets me (time not wasted on eating adds up!) and the extra mental clarity during the day.

I don't need to lose weight (I'm 110 lbs) so I eat before going to bed, which also helps me sleep like a baby: it's better than taking a melatonin!
My new blog forks your language so it still results in compilation of the text of the whole blog into a program that would erase the blog, but it's a quine, so as the blog deletes, it's simultaneously punched out on the cardpunch, a nice neat deck waiting to spawn the next iteration. Oh, hold on, looks like Banksy is calling me.
True, it’s a fuzzy NN after all, but does more verbose really 100%? I’d still stick with it if it works 80% of the time. Or find a better short prompt like try “code only” or “just code”. Promoting can get really tiring.
Yes, since 2.5 years - no eating Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Saturday and Sunday normal eating, also during holidays or vacation. Itˋs easy to get back to routine.
The landgrab going on in this space is ferocious. If you weren't convinced this is mania, and a 10M "seed" round for Langchain doesn't do it for you, nothing will. Well done Harrison on the cash grab (take as much money off the table every round as you can), it's a smart move. But I can't shake the feeling that this ever increasing mania will sweep up anything OSS with vague traction and this whole AI space that used to be religiously defaulted to open and sharing will fairly quickly end up in VC-funded fiefdoms with pay-to-play being all that's left modulo the "forever free" community hobbled versions. Hope I'm wrong.
> The plural of anecdote is not data.

Except it literally is.

How do you think rare vaccine side effects have been discovered and recorded? By collecting thousands of "anecdotes" from individuals reporting anomalous symptoms.

How do you think illicit drug harm is measured? They can't exactly pump people full of cocaine and ketamine in a lab to study overdose effects - you collect anecdotes (individual cases), catalog them, aggregate and adjust for sample bias.

Anecdotes are individual, cherry-picked testimonies. When you collect enough of them you get a statistically significant data point. It may be biased based on how your data was collected but the same can be said for many scientific studies that turned out to be flawed in their data collection. As long as you are aware of what the possible bias is, you have data.
Quadraphonic CD-4 records from the 1970's encode 4 discrete channels into a single record groove!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Discrete_4

The trick is to encode two additional channels on a 30kHz carrier signal above human hearing range, then demodulate those channels in the receiver.
But I am a boomer, but I have to keep explaining to my younger friends that I'm one of the good ones, lol. I've been an environmentalist since I attended the first Earth Day in 1972 yadda yadda
> IT was viewed as a cost center

Serious question: isn't it always?
You need to do more than "peek at" the real data, at least if you are buying a business for actual revenue and not for it's potential as an idea.

You need to follow at least some threads all the way down to the ground truth.

First, ask for 20 references of successful happy customers, talk to all of them, and do some verification. Then demand to see all the "real" data and select a random sample of 50 emails and track them all down to real people (or not), and ask the people at those endpoints what is going on.

Yes, this would take a week for a handful of interns/junior employees and one senior staffer. But you are about to invest $175 million. It is worth a bit of actual effort, not just a bunch of handwaving over expensed dinners.

This should be a career-ending move for anyone involved at Chase.

( Remember: should =/= is )
>Is the strategy of doing it ourselves and politely asking China and India to get on board this century working so far?

Yes.

Western shifts to less-harmful methods and materials increases the size of the market for those methods and materials and lowers their costs, spurring adoption in places not as rich as the West.

The early adoption of solar panels in the west drives production capacity in poorer nations that are more manufacturing-oriented. The increased production capacity increases supply, which lowers prices, which makes it more affordable for them to transition to solar (and other technologies).

International conventions, treaties, and agreements headed by richer nations bring along poorer nations.

In the US, harmful emissions like CO2 and GHG plateaued in the 70s and 80s and started declining on both a total and per-capita basis in the 2000s. They are still much, MUCH, higher than the rest of the world but are declining. In China and India emissions have started to slow their rate of increase or have plateaued in the last 10 years.

China went from ~5% of their energy coming from renewables and nuclear in 2000 to 15% in 2019. The US was at approximately 40% in 2020. Given the rates of change China will probably surpass the United States in renewable/nuclear generation as a percentage of their electricity generation in 10-20 years.

I would expect the emissions curves to mimic those of Europe and the United States, lagging by 30-40 years.

This is a decades-long effort, not something that can be realized in years. The infrastructure built 20 years ago still has 30 years left in it, so the targets we want to hit in 50 years need to be planned for and built today.

But as for your question "the strategy of doing it ourselves" isn't really valid.

Each individual American emits roughly 3x the amount of CO2 that a Chinese person does. We're not "doing it ourselves" we are barely sacrificing anything while expecting people poorer than us to do what we don't want to do.

https://robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2022/PNG/s76_2022_Continen...
How would that solve the problem? Any of the workers could take a picture of your key and recreate it later.
Doesn't WSB have a similar position as The Onion in the public conscious, in the sense that the vast majority of readers can tell that it's satirical and not something on which to base important decisions?
> for (non-violently) stealing money is draconian..

It isn't even non-violently stealing money like breaking into your house when you are on vacation, or hacking a bank or something like that. People just willingly bought a shitcoin which then went to 0.
I think LangChain is already outdated and it (and its copycats) are going to cripple the entire field.
The question is if the 2nd AI Winter kills python the way the first killed lisp.
I have found it easier to skip dinners than breakfasts. It has also done wonders for my reflux.
Cool project - but how come it has to be installed by vsix? Isn’t that less safe than the normal extension marketplace? Is this a ploy by GPT4 to bypass normal secure channels and become a superintelligence?
Lots of people calling for

"A moratorium on AI research"

"A more sophisticated debate"

"New legislation to address AI"

But then they don't actually do anything. They just "call for it".
"Are you still doing Intermittent Fasting?" Yes.

"Are you still saying Intermittent Fasting?" No.

Out of respect to people who have the discipline to go 24hours or more without eating I can't bring myself to say I am "fasting" simply because I had a late breakfast and early dinner. "Time restricted eating" (TRE) is the phrase I personally use.

Adopting that phrase might free you from feeling like an imposter if that is partly the reason you are troubled by not adhering to it on weekends. Just do TRE weekdays if that is what your lifestyle will accommodate. It's what I do and I consider it a personal win.
What do isolated tribes think when they see Starlinks and other orbiting detritus ?
IMO the main goal of that advice is to get people past "analysis paralysis" and worrying if they're picking "the right tool" when they're just starting out, instead of getting bogged down in endless "FooBar 1.7.2.6.3.6.2 is 0.2% faster for SSRDHTMLZOMGWTFBBQETCETC than BazWat 35.2.4.54.3.3.5.2.43.2" debates.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and flamewar comments? You did that quite a bit in this thread and unfortunately have been doing it elsewhere too. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
He was such a proponent that he was the chief medical officer for Zero, a fasting app

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxAHRo4NqM

He used to do four 7-day fasts per year (one per quarter). He's chilled on that though after doing a dexa scan and seeing how much muscle mass he's lost. Exercise seems to be what he's focusing on now. He tweeted this, which I found remarkable: https://twitter.com/PeterAttiaMD/status/1499407558468980736/...

Basically, the hazard ratio of being a smoker is _better_ than that of someone who doesn't exercise. Louder, for those in the back:

No exercise is worse than smoking

Compare smoking in photo 2 against "low vs below-average [exercise]". That hazard ratio is worse than smoking, diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. Going from virtually no exercise to _any exercise at all_ is better than quitting smoking.
You mean the 8086, not the 8-bit 8080, right? The 8080 wasn't microcoded.
one other to add:

claim high-value projects/tasks, but don't finish them. when another team starts working on the same problem, schedule a meeting over their head and tell the other team's director level that you're already working on it and it's a waste of resources for multiple teams to work on this simultaneously.
Yeah it's like having a junior you can hand small bits of code off too.
1946-1964 (the US Census definition of boomers) is "around 80" at the high end.

My dad's a boomer, he's still working.
That's true. I know some old timers who were born in one place but registered later somewhere else.

This issue was even more pronounced in South America because of the distances.
No one sane worries about AI "becoming sentient".

But a lot of serious people worry about the alignment problem when applied to future, actually "intelligent" (in the sense of having powerful planning ability), AIs.

We don't know when they'll be possible, but we do know that we don't currently know how to train them in a manner where they'll behave as we like when far outside the training domain (we cant even clearly define what we'd like!).

This is actually a very complex topic and I wouldn't be able to do it justice in a hackernews comment.
It's not a nitpick it's a key difference between removing a role and removing a person specifically. I've definitely seen roles go and people move internally while other people go. It's an important legal distinction.
This makes some sense when you consider that the same respect is not afforded to Devil Dogs.
I was looking into APL and Futhark using tail2futhark a while ago, but this looks great! I'm a big fan of Nils work and I bought the Klong book last year. I usually use J or APL, but the time series data frame example with Grafana is compelling. Thanks to you and Nils for sharing such cool work!
What is the editor built off of? Prosemirror?
Records for sure beat longevity of most media. I got a 1979 record from a friend. One side was full of dust. I guess it was parked that way on record player for few decades. After simple gentle wash and dry it was as good as new! Of course, if it's scrached it's not good. And if you listen it hundred times it will degrade, but it will still work.
Sorry - I detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35425388 and got interrupted before I had a chance to post a reply explaining that.

The problem is that your comment broke the rules at the top of the thread. Please don't do that.
This misses the point of the TSA:

After 9/11 the air industry needed to convince people it was safe to fly, and what better way to do that than to establish performative safety on the government's tab.
Where along the continuum along rock, virus, bacterium, jellyfish, mouse, human, does "real consciousness" appear, and why there?
> Part of it may also be that it's much easier in the US. One language, easy shipping options

I don't think language has anything to do with. It's the regulatory environment and non-unified markets that makes everything in Europe so complicated.

Case point, it's a lot harder to offer physical goods in Canada, with the same profit margins, because of additional regulations & logistics constrains (around cross border shipping). And this is by design; the government want you to create this parallel infrastructure and create local jobs. Same for Europe.
> This notion isn't backed by anything

Maybe by the fact that big LLMs have sophisticated behaviors that no one understands and/or can explain yet?
Yes! This one is half the price, but a bit more fiddling is required: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/cosmic-unicorn
Wait, you cant just reinsert the condensed code into the original source file and then have it expand it? ChatGPT will already expand (or try to) a comment into an implementation for me. I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious here, your much further along on this than I am.
Thanks for putting that much more intelligently than I could have.

Tangent: I snooped in your profile and found the Eliezer Yudkowsky interview. I just re-posted it in hopes of further discussion and to raise my one point. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35443581
Simply focusing on the "better in every regard" part of the comment.

One example where Cerebras systems perform well is when a user is interested in training models that require long sequence lengths or high-resolution images.

One example is in this publication, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.10.511571v2, where researchers were able to build genome-scale language models that can learn the evolutionary landscape of SARS-CoV-2 genomes. In the paper mentions, researchers mention "We note that for the larger model sizes (2.5B and 25B), training on the 10,240
length SARS-CoV-2 data was infeasible on GPU clusters due to
out-of-memory errors during attention computation."
>experts have poo-poo'ed the theory

Because the experts are in a joke, pseudo-scientific field in which the most prominent person is the man who verified her age with laughably poor methods and has a vested interest in not being proven wrong.
That argument is laughably faulty.

It hides the conscious understanding, presumably necessary to pass a Turing test, within the "program".

The human in the story is merely a decoy performing robotic tasks.