skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think with sufficiently good technology the human brain, too, could be modeled with just math. So far, it seems like basically everything in the universe can be described as just math!

ChatGPT is a neural network, a design inspired (loosely) by the human brain. How exactly it works is still not known. Like of course the raw details of how the computations work is known, but why the particular trained weights are what they are, and how the thinking actually happens is not known (so far as I know).

But I think it must be more than just something like looking up a conditional probability table -- calculate out the size of a conditional probabiltty of 8000 tokens or whatever and it'll be way way way more than the number of parameters of the model.

And no doubt as it stands ChatGPT is still far inferior to human intellect.

But I would note that making mistakes doesn't mean something like thinking isn't happening -- humans make mistakes all the time, often very dumb ones!
>A handful of Adderalls is more fun than a bag of cocaine

Yeah, this is fear mongering; and I doubt any abuse you are seeing is actually happening on any sort of scale. To imply adderall is more fun than Cocaine/Cocaethylene is a completely strange assertion given cocaine's continued and greater penetration despite the fact it's a highly controlled schedule 2 drug. If you could have more fun with adderall, why would you spend more money on cocaine?
It might have been common in companies with low margins and not much room to overspend. In a hyper competitive low margin commodity industry, the push to keep costs low ultimately decices a company survive or not. But that is not the case here. The amount saved for a year might not even equal 1 day's ad budget.
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> I want to blur out the advertisements [..] me.

Quite the opposite will happen - ads in your wife's coffee cups, ads in your IKEA 3d instructinos, virtual ads towed behind airplanes when you look up, etc... :(

> I want to blur out [..] idiots around me.

Reminds me of some Black Mirror episodes!
Yes, very happy with my Thelio desktop (AMD Ryzen). Quiet, fast, just works.
> We're constantly collecting inventory data from every retailer we work with.

The age-old problem, and this one similarly only shows things from stores that already have online inventory
This was the #1 lesson I learned from 2000 and the first dotcom bust.
Yes I believe the exchanges lie, if you think they don’t you obviously don’t follow the news.
It's a great point. Even in my spot in northern California this winter, it's been so cloudy this year, I can't imaging an all solar+storage grid would have worked out well this year. In this case having electricity that costs 45% more when it's cloudy is a lot better than none at all. Actually this gave me an idea, it would be really neat to have an comprehensive simulator of power grids that incorporated weather, demand spikes etc. to play around with different energy source mix to get an idea of what actually works and when it fails as well as total cost, environmental impact etc.
It's bad. I have a ASUS MB16AHP (claiming a brightness of 220cd/㎡, contrast ratio 700:1) and yeah, in a brightly lit room viewing can be difficult. It's ok under normal office lighting but you'll be out of luck if you have sunlight flooding in. I've been searching for a brighter option but most (all?) the current offerings seem to be based on the same or similar internals.

Still, it's a useful device while traveling – nice to be able to plop a decent multi-monitor setup out of a backpack. My model also has a micro HDMI port (and an internal battery) which can be handy if you need a temporary screen for a Raspberry Pi or a machine that usually runs headless.
Can you please provide a cite? I tend to think this coercion probably is happening.

Agency rule making should be public and published in federal register. I don't know what the effective recourse would be. The easy track is to go to Mexico and load up on what your Dr. prescribed.
> a massive search operation, akin to finding the right temperature to bake a cake from all possible floats

...for each of 13 billion (for a model with that many parameters) different cakes, except that they aren’t like cakes because the “best" temperature for each depends on the actual temperatures chosen for the others.
Articles like this and reading about the FDA forcing drug manufacturers to replace pseudoephedrine (effective cold medicine) with phenylephrine (basically a placebo) really make me wonder about the intelligence level of the federal agencies.

https://pharmacy.ufl.edu/2015/10/14/uf-researchers-ask-fda-t...
If a LLM somehow had access to insider data, and decided to trade on it, how would this be policed?
An unpopular opinion I know, but NASA and the US is so broke that "NASA's Next Moon Mission" will never happen. Still, it's pleasant to dream.
This type of marketing has existed for a long time. The classic example being “learn to get rich by buying my $20 book” which is just a list of random advice.
It’s potentially life threatening. Similar to alcohol withdrawal. So similar, as I understand it, that benzos are sometimes used in hospitals as a substitute for alcohol weening in severe withdrawal cases.
Most of the core ideas came from a paper called React, they all kind of riff on the idea of self-inspection / introspection to augment the context or plan action
You seem to assume that one can do better than random in that field... That's already debatable (or maybe not: wasn't it proven that hedge funds don't do better than rolling dice?)
Jim Cramer? Is that you?
They haven't taken outside investments for many years because of capacity constraints with their strategy. It goes beyond that actually: they force people to take dividends of their profits, because the strategy can only handle so much capital before marginal returns plunge-- otherwise they would quickly have too much capital if they kept reinvesting their cumulative profits.
Ask HN: Personal Journaling with Text Files: Self-Host Git or Use GitHub?
I keep a journal with Obsidian.md, it's a folder of [[linked]] markdown files.

I'm considering self-hosting a git server such as such as github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve for it, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea.

I'm wondering what the security risks are of self-hosting a Git server for this, and if it's more risky to use something like a private GitHub repo instead.

If I do decide to self-host, I'm planning to use an old laptop and only whitelist my IP addresses.

Thanks in advance for any insights!

Update: main goals are syncing the journal between devices, and privacy. Unsure on trusting github for privacy.
How can I have faith in this youtube video? Is it not corrupt, to? How can I trust the guy in the video?
Same here. My wife was on a citizens' traffic commission that approved some roundabouts there a while back, and I was hoping I could show her some interesting stuff.
Indeed they ignore time; to build a nuclear power plant today means committing to a power generation price for 30 years or not making back your investment. You can see why no one is making that bet against solar + storage.
This article is really aimed at the more dubious tests (e.g. cholesterol) than doing yearly checkups per se.

I'd agree with the idea that some tests aren't as good as others, and we lump critical checkups (let's say cardiography) with more shakier ones, like waist circumference or cholesterol. Finding issue with the later falls a lot more into pop science than actual hard evidence based physical intervention.

Removing the pop science from the periodical checkups would definitely be a good idea, stopping yearly checkups altogether is throwing the baby with the bath water.
Nassim Taleb is merciless towards this kind of people in all of his books.
I still don't see the argument for how Reddit, even its old UI, is better than someone curating the only content that you care about in one place.
I put it on gumroad and sell it as a digital download. 100% DYI. The sales come mostly from my social media audience.
how far in the past ago, during nascent video streaming pre-VPN days? with live tv as well as VOD? if there is a relatively cheap, concrete solution I did not uncover which has been stable for over a year I would buy that wizard a thimbleful of scumble
Meaningful back/forward buttons, for one!

(I know this is not HTML per se, but it's by far my biggest pet peeve with SPA since forever, so I had to mention it.)
You can, and arguably Apes do. I do not reject the possibility the range of grunts encode information beyond "stop behaving like the 9 month old ape you are before I rage quit and beat my chest"
In a story about Japan and energy it's reasonable to post a brief summary of where Japan gets a large chunk of energy from and recent energy news.

I'm Australian so I chose snippets relevant to Australia.

Professionally we trawled, linked, and posted everything in minerals (or energy) relavant to exploration and development and put that up for subscribers to helicopter over and dig into as they saw fit.

Unfortuneatly this HN comment is too short to post the entire history of Japans energy imports|exports, companies, boards, shares, etc.
> Those are old links, and state of the art is that solar panels and wind turbines can be almost fully recyclable.

I had not heard that yet; was still under the impression that the blades and foundation (for wind turbines) and basically the entire solar panel are waste products. I'd be very happy to learn otherwise. Do you have a link, or can you quantify what 'almost fully' means, like it makes me think of >=90%, is that the case for both, including any required elements that we don't have in abundance on earth (ignoring the necessary batteries whose tech seems to be in flux anyway)?
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LLMs can’t own property or trade it, the person using the LLM would be responsible, and the tool irrelevant.
They can and should—that’s their area of expertise. I’ve had pharmacists catch dangerous but obscure drug interactions that my doctors failed to catch, typically because the two interacting medications were prescribed by two different types of doctors. Even though both would’ve had access to the same medical records and my full medication list, and even though that data was being checked by a computer, mistakes happen and databases are sometimes incomplete.
You’re correct that the influencers aren’t average, but how would you expect someone to have a top 1% outcome without some input variable being top 1%?

To retire early you have to either:

- Start with more than average (inheritance, scholarships)

- Earn more than average (tech/finance/legal/medical career, dual income)

- Save more than average (live well below your means for decades)

- Return more than average (luck, skill, or risk)

There’s plenty of get-rich-quick gurus with crazy schemes, but in the financial independence space specifically most content I’ve seen is realistic that you’ll have to drastically outperform in one area (an 8 figure exit is hard to mess up) or do two or three consistently well for 10-20 years (develop a high income skill and avoid lifestyle inflation).
"That nobody is talking about... that nobody has heard of before"

How'd they talk about it if they haven't heard about it?
More Howard Hughes than Jobs or Gates?
Ask HN: Alternative GitHub UI?
Does anyone use an alternative GitHub UI? I was thinking of making my own with nothing much more than plaintext and links. My main problem with the default UI is it has too much friction for something I use so often, and the page that loads when I type github.com (the dashboard) is an unnecessary distraction.
Cool idea.

> time $* && fin || die

I don't know zsh, but this doesn't look escaped properly to me? Bash has so many footguns.

What does the bloom filter do? Is it sort of like a hash to try to make each process show up on a different LED on the display?
There's something about watching other primates interact with screens that just feels so uncanny. It's an almost humbling experience, seeing how much they look like us tapping and scrolling. The only difference seems to be that we think we understand more of what we're looking at on the screen... but do we really?
As I’ve already pointed out all the countries that joined NATO did so with overwhelming popular support. The vote in the Ukrainian parliament was entirely free. Bear in mind until then Yanukovych was party to the negotiations with the EU. His decision to refuse to ratify it came as a total shock, hence the protests in support of the parliament.

The idea the parliament voted for the EU accord at gun point is absurd to the point of fantastical. Whose guns? The president was in charge of the army and police and he was pro Moscow. If there were any guns pointed, and there were, it was to try to prevent the pro western tide.
I'm wondering, as I read this over and over again about random picks performing as well or even better than professionals in the field, how come we never see rigorous scientifc studies about this for various timescales?

If we could really attribute this task to randomness wouldn't this save a lof of money to financial institutions considering how much the same people earn for these tasks?
I'm talking about medium density urban housing, preferably on mass transit lines and in walkable neighborhoods.

My car gets under 100 miles of use a week. Excluding commuting to work, during the summer months I literally do not have to drive if I don't want to. Within walking distance of me there is a public library, 2 bakeries, 3 grocery stores, a public pool, a wading pools, 2 very large parks, 1 of which has equipped with grills, and 1 smaller neighborhood park. If I want to ride a bike, and extend my range out to all of 3 miles, then that list gets absurdly long.

I don't even live in a dense part of Seattle, I just happen to live in the city proper.
Proton’s mass radius is apparently shorter than its charge radius
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Exploiting people that want easy answers and the illusion of everything being in their control has always been easy money for those willing to do the exploiting. Social media has made it easier than ever by providing ample reach and viral messaging.
Usually, you don't know if something is "definitely" anything in the legal world unless it's been tested in court. You have any case you want to reference here? Or what makes you so certain?
> you're very unlikely to hit only ones where not most/all of the land already is already allocated to some purpose

Thats is the wrong problem - numerous farmers in Britain want wind turbines, they want extra source of income and they are willing to put in their own money. They know the turbines dont take any land away from farming - only fraction of a percent.

They are not allowed to install wind turbines on their own land from their own money, because the british government has banned turbines over a certain, non-viable height, on land.

Even when you want a small turbines installed, it takes 4 years of planning permissions and legal battles.

If we allowed every farmer to install windfarm of their land without interference, we'd solve half the problem.

We are dooming ourselved to disaster out of purely aesthetic concerns.
It can be rough out in the unmedicated jungle. The peer pressure is fairly intense these days. I am in a similar boat - Complete abstinence of these kinds of things is the only option for me.
> (ask my cat

Ok. Hi cat. Do you need language to communicate? Plz respond.
I've been listening to peter attia's new audiobook too. solid stuff.

But where exactly do i find these 'medicine 3.0' doctors. My pcp still uses 'misguided' tests like LDL for cholesterol, serum creatine for renal function ect. Doesn't do host of other tests that he recommends doing by saying insurance won't cover it.

I don't even know where to get my vo2 max tested. I have apple watch which gives me wildly different number than my garmin ( 32 vs 49). I am pretty sure both those numbers are wrong. I am not paying $300 to get my vo2 max tested privately.
I have high hopes for this.

Postman somehow managed to make a slow, bloated, piece-of-crap api-tester that's somehow wildly popular. Extrapolating from that, I expect this to be incredibly successful regardless of how good it is.
Why is it wrong to recommend a video?
As usual, the medical industrial complex (which includes insurance companies) is asleep at the wheel of innovation, and blaming patients for their inadequacies in disease detection.
New US Vit D research [video][18 mins]
I have been doing that for years as a nomad of sorts, but it kills your back. I recently bought a small keyboard so I can get a better posture and I recommend you so the same.
Or use the CPU and be limited by RAM instead of VRAM. Luckily, even with less than 32GB RAM, you can always add a swapfile to use your disk as RAM :)
That's an interesting point. I think my view on this is that I think we've been pretty lucky with nuclear accidents thus far, and that we don't have nearly enough to data to conclude that we will continue to operate them as safely as we have thus far. A single bad nuclear accident affecting a major city would turn that statistic entirely on it's head for centuries worth of solar panel installation.
See also <https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/largehadron...> (2011)

Preprint of Nature paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05212

HTML5 version: https://ar5iv.org/abs/2207.05212 ("x"->"5" opens up ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org).
> Property is extremely expensive in the area, so I'm forced to live with my family despite making more money than all of them combined.

It's weird how surreal this is but we kinda we just accept it as "the way it is". I guess there's not really any alternative in existence at this point, and if tabled legislation is passed it may become legally (and maybe even physically) impossible to bring something into existence.

What a tangled web we've woven for ourselves to live in, but I guess that was the will of the people so there you go, we got what we asked for.
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Matches my experience as well. If I forget to take it one of my first clues is when I feel like eating a second breakfast or lunch.
Yes, but in that case .com, .net, and .name would all still be censorable.
Create a swapfile then, all you need is 60GB free disk space.
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How do I know the following comments and concerns are NOT generated by an AI model?
If the premise of what he says is true, then the main thing which was exposed by layoffs was the incompetence of the executives at big tech. Like if you know that company can operate with fewer employees, what on earth are you hiring like mad for. Companies even hired too many recruiters. Like even recruiters were in extreme demand.

> "There's nothing for these people to do — they're really — it's all fake work,"

As a senior executive if you didn't know it before and made no efforts to know or fix, then what are you competent about at all.
If we're still talking about ADHD medications then... I have no idea where you're coming from. ADHD medications are very tightly controlled - if you accidentally double dose a few times and need an early fill you're going to get grilled (or even denied) by the pharmacist. There is a small margin for error but for the most part people using ADHD medications get precisely what they need to get to the next drug refill and not a pill more.
Well now I gotta know
My kids and I play a game - we look at YT videos and talk about how this person really makes money. It's fun "defense against dark arts" by critically examining any proposal they see.
If you don't have enough RAM, adding swap can be a "quick" (slower, but works) workaround.