skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Ambulance shows, guy says "No!" and so everyone says "Oh, this person is doing just fine, leave them alone."

No, no one says 'this person is doing fine'. It's 'we're medical staff and we can't arrest people - they are clearly withholding consent, we can't do anything else'.

I've stayed with distressed homeless people trying to hurt themselves while social worker teams, cops and medical staff came to the scene; if the homeless individual doesn't want help and is not an active danger to others there's very very little that can be done to forcibly detain them.

> If the people advocating for the homeless and mentally ill have a better solution than leaving them on the streets to rot, then I would like ot hear it.

Fund shelters and support groups well enough that trying to get off the streets and get help doesn't require that you bunk next to someone who has a shiv and is experiencing a massive heroin withdrawl event while you try to sleep. There's a reason homeless people dodge a lot of so called 'help'. It's because the help is often worse than the alternative.
Cold War Kid here. I grew up in a neighborhood where a significant faction of the fathers were engineers working for a major defense contractor. The Tomahawk Cruise Missile, the Aegis Anti-Missile System, the Abrams Night Vision system - those are just a few of the projects our dads were working on.

Everyone in the community, us kids included, considered this to be serious and vital work for defending the US from the USSR, an adversary who's brutality has been revealed for the umpteenth time in the Ukraine attack. I, for one, would like to see the US strive to actually live up to our stated ideals. Unfortunately, Reagan showed the neocons all you have to do is act like you care about your ideals.

WRT your link - that video was obtained via a FOIA request. Do you think Putin would allow such a video to be released? Yeah, we're not perfect but at least we're still allowed to talk about the bad things we do, openly gripe about our government, and demand more accountability. THAT is something for which US citizens can still be envied.
[Supabase engineer & author of the blog post here.]

Thanks! Good Questions

1. We haven't enabled BroadcastChannel in the Edge Runtime. Mainly because we haven't found good use cases for it within Edge Functions (it does make sense as a way to subscribe within a browser client, but not sure how it fits with async/short-lived nature of Edge Functions). Curious about how you plan to use BroadcastChannel in Edge Functions?

2. As I've mentioned in the blog post Edge Runtime allows you to tweak the duration and memory available for an Edge Function (check the examples/main/index.ts in the repo too). Personally, I use this option to debug timeouts and memory issues on Edge Functions. We also plan to introduce better ways to profile your Edge Functions in the future.
And my reply would be that's because you likely don't know much about plumbing.
One person rehabbing doesn't invalidate the mountains of evidence the other way.
It's a bad first example admittedly because it seems very aesthetic, frankly, the borders may theoretically make good UI.

Most workers today don't remember the old Windows forms: they were good UI. Just ugly.

In fact, those 'Windows Forms' were also fast - it was back in the days when almost everything was fast.
I remember both MySpace and Facebook status updates actually being a copy of Twitter style updates. I don't think Facebook even had status updates as we know it today when Twitter released.
Yes, I’ve seen people at work calling it directly to generate code to talk to APIs with the temp set to zero. They still frequently receive different or broken code.
Not quite. In many of the regions cited it would not be safe to enter and provide the training, let alone the infrastructure for the clinics.

Even if staff receive training, they may not stay on the job long or may not receive refresher training.

Visit rural Africa and you will understand.
Montreal has like 30 or 40 years of rent control.
The downside is landlords don't invest in renovations.

It does make montreal the most affordable large city of NA.

So in theory I'm sure you are right, in practice it's not what is observed.
Looking forward to checking this out.
That it actually taught us more about other things?

That we often learn the wrong lessons?
The A.I. Dilemma – March 9, 2023
June to Sept is the typhoon season so conflict is unlikely then.

+ https://www.travelchinaguide.com/climate/taipei.htm
I'm not saying all rich people are idiots, just the ones that invested in Theranos.
Wait, what? This made no sense.
wish they could have an API soon so you could create new notes / posts and get a list of them
I can't take it anymore
We had Lego long before that.
There is a very clear benchmark here though. Can you use GPT4 translations "as is" for your product[1]? I've used GPT a fair bit for English<->Spanish (both directions) for my product, and I often have to fix the odd word here and there (but it saves a lot of time as a starting point). And my English is far from perfect, but fortunately GPT's mistakes are orthogonal to mine.

When you don't need to pay a translator, then it's at human/superhuman level.

[1] Assuming you want good translations, of course. There have always been those amusingly bad Google Translate translations of owners that simply did not care.
We are yet to complete our Kong replacement. Once we do that, we'll probably publish another blog post with performance benchmarks.
Thanks for the link to screenshots! This is what I wanted from the readme instead of the blocks of text. I don't actually need this I was just trying to give it a quick glance to see what the heck it was and what made it different. I just didn't have the time to keep digging.
What's the job market like? You mean fewer jobs?

Where would you go next?
> It's an attempt to test that you have consumed and understood large amounts of information and can apply it to novel (ish) situations,

So.. that's basically all we need. So what's left? It can't drink a beer?

Economically useful intelligence is not much more than storing and retrieving large amount of contextually relevant information. Sure, humans can do more, like interpretive dancing for example. But that's not really what we are looking for in a desk job.

If we all earned our money by driving time-trials on race tracks I'd be worried yes.
Ask HN: Why do you use Heroku Connect?
I’ve seen articles like the one below on 2-way syncs between Salesforce & Postgres. As someone in the data engineering space, what is the use case / business reason for companies doing this?

https://gorenje.medium.com/the-case-for-bi-directional-salesforce-postgres-synchronization-ff0090ef6531
You can take a human that can’t feel the body (i.e. under unaesthetic). That human can still be conscious.
What would “immediately” signify the ability to be clicked?

And to whom would this sign have such a meaning?
Right?! lol I know people pointed out it's a special front end but still like looking through the list of dependencies it's like "Isn't this just a page of text? Can't the console basically already do that?" haha
>most capable companies in the world

Ever wondered why you say that about a company which is living off the network effect (ie monopoly) and fails at pretty much everything they try except for two products they did two decades ago?
Well, I'll go a step further and say that 3.6mm/yr is not evidence of a crisis.
I've had good experiences on more focused subreddits (trades, specific hobbies, etc). Basically anything that's not general or not likely to overlap with overt politics, the quality of discussion/information there is still decent.
> there's a huge amount of work in hospitality, construction, skilled trades, healthcare, and every other field you can imagine.

These are mostly bottom-of-the-barrel jobs that can't find and hold on to good people. I worked in hotels back in high school and I wouldn't wish that experience on my worst enemy. Broadly speaking, these industries are hiring a ton right now because they've historically underpaid employees and struggle to find people who are willing to work for poor wages and toxic cultures.
Rapid alternating polarity new life to 189-year-old electrochemical reaction
That's definitely a struggle I've had with GPT overall haha "Please just stop I don't need 4 paragraphs on that I wanted a sentence"
I find it interesting that the EU does not define "free and open-source software" in either of the proposals. I think they need to define the terms as used. There isn't complete agreement in the software world as what that applies to. For example MongoDB and the SSPL license.
>> If you change your perspective on language to mean any arbitrary capture of useful information (such that it can be used in the future), then you can see that the boundary between words and the world is not the heart of the issue.

I don't think that it is. What I think is that language encodes meaning, that can be decoded only by an entity that knows how to decode meaning from language; which is a bit of a tautology, but that's the point, you can't expect an entity without the ability to decode meaning from language to understand what language means. Or at least I don't expect that.

Here's an analogy, and I shouldn't be making it because it's about cryptography and I'm not an expert there. Suppose I sent you an encrypted message and you knew how to decrypt it- I encoded it with your public key and you decrypted it with your private key, or whatever. If you could do that, then you could read my message and know what it says.

If you couldn't decrypt my message, then you could stare at it for as long as you liked, you could make copies of it, you could make variations of it, you could even learn a model of the structure of encrypted messages like mine, and be able to produce many more of those messages, but you would still not know what those encrypted messages say. Because they're encrypted and you can't read them, you can only read their encoding.

That's what I'm driving at. I think that's how language works, in practice. Not that it's some form of encryption, but that it only makes sense to humans, so only humans can decode meaning from language. With language modelling, we're reproducing the encoded message, but we haven't yet found out how to equip the machines modelling language with the ability to decode meaning from it, so for all intents and purposes it might just as well be encrypted.

I'm not arguing for embodiment, either. I'm perfectly fine with the idea of a "brain in a jar". But I agree that if we want our AI's to behave like humans, they will have to have some experience in the world.
Even with LoRA the economics are not in your favor to buy a 4090 instead of cloud training.
I've been beta testing the app and my favorite use for it so far is using it to capture my thoughts about the day when driving in to work. I really appreciate having "better than OS quality" transcription. (Disclaimer: I invested in the company.)

I wish I could record longer than 10min or if there were at least a chime to indicate the recording is ending / has ended. I also hope to get more of a TODO list I could then further organize. But what's there is pretty neat and already useful to me.
assuming the second is GPT. Here is GPT-4's translation when i say, "add a literary flair" to the translation task.

The beginning of all that I am about to recount was an unknown script upon an envelope. Within these strokes of ink that traced my name and the address of the Fossil Review, to which I contributed and from where the letter had been forwarded to me, there swirled a blend of ferocity and gentleness. Behind the questions I posed to myself about the sender and the possible contents of the message, a vague but potent premonition conjured the image of a "cobblestone thrown into a frog pond." And from the depths, the confession rose like a bubble that my life had become rather stagnant of late. Thus, when I opened the letter, I could not discern whether it felt like a revitalizing breath of fresh air or an unwelcome draft.

The same swift and well-connected writing conveyed the message in one fell swoop:

Sir, I have read your article on Mount Analogue. Until now, I believed myself to be the only one convinced of its existence. Today, we are two, tomorrow we shall be ten, perhaps more, and then we can attempt the expedition. We must make contact as soon as possible. Call me at one of the numbers below as soon as you can. I await you.

Either way, the default response is not even close to what you can fully extract out of it, if you simply ask.
Can you really divorce design from appearance? My first clue of how to use something is how it looks.
Thanks for posting the steps to turn off the Google Sign-in popup. It's annoying that it's buried through.
> But you should care more about the quality of the signals you are monitoring than about the sensitivity of your thresholds.

This is so true. Case in point: Growatt inverters have - like every other inverter - a maximum voltage on the grid connection at which they will shut down. They're pretty trigger happy about this and fail to take into account the resistance of the feed wire of the inverter to the (much lower impedance) grid hookup. As a result even on cabling sized properly for the interconnect they tend to falsely trigger well before the point where they should. The only way to avoid this problem is to either hack into the inverter somehow (which I've so far failed to do) or to use oversized cables (which isn't always an option).

The sensitivity is fantastic, the quality of the signal is hopeless. Obviously they err on the side of caution but the margin is so ridiculously large that you end up losing a lot of usable power for no reason at all. At least it should allow for either a resistance for the interconnect to be specified so that it can take into account the voltage drop across that wire, which at 10A is appreciable for even short runs of fairly beefy cable.
> Design is how it works, not how it looks.

I think it's both. Interior designers are primarily interested in aesthetics. Same for the majority of famous fashion designers, who are usually not focused on making utilitarian clothes. It seems like most peoples' definition of design would include the work in those fields. UX is a better description of the aspect of design that cares about functionality and not aesthetics.
I haven't tried to do that with it yet but I love the idea! I'm going to have to give it a shot! Thanks!
99.99 percent of the time they don't know what you've done.
>would you rely on the ambulance driver's judgement to decide if you need the $10k ride to hospital?

$10k for an ambulance ride? Is there any documentation for that claim, or is it just hyperbole?

According to the San Francisco Fire Department[0], an ambulance ride is ~$2400 (which includes lifesaving services), plus $46/mile[1.61km].

By my calculation, an ambulance would need to transport a patient ~165 miles (266km) to make an ambulance ride cost $10k.

For some perspective, It's ~160 miles from San Francisco to Fresno[1].

I'd expect that San Francisco EMTs don't deliver patients to Fresno, or even outside the San Francisco city limits[2]. Since San Francisco is 46.9 sq miles (121 sq km) in area, a $10k ambulance ride is incredibly unlikely at best.

N.B: I do not live in the Bay Area. It took less than 30 seconds to confirm the costs above via DDG. Not sure how GP (and others) came up with a number 400% higher.

[0] https://sf-fire.org/services/ambulance-billing

[1] https://www.distancecalculator.net/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene

Edit: Added Nota Bene[2].
> catch the tumor in 99.9999% of cases, better than any human doctor

I don't think results are anywhere close to that in the field. If hospitals could do without radiologists, they would do so immediately. Currently, we are seeing very little technical progress due to applied statistics in the field, and the real cause of that is that tech people don't understand what we do and why we're still very much needed. The problem lies more in information retrieval capabilities than acting on the data itself.
Ask HN: Will Virtual Reality Ever Make a Comeback?
I have always been fascinated by VR. I even did an internship at a VR tech-startup in Los Angeles when I was a freshman in college (2019). Now, I am 6 months from graduating from a Master's in neuroscience and cognition in the Netherlands, and for my thesis, I am working on VR for neurorehabilitation (like motor skill training for stroke patients within an immersive virtual environment). It is my goal to work for a company that builds VR tech for clinical use cases, and ideally, I would continue on with something resembling my thesis.

However, the peak hype for virtual reality was in 2016. Ever since reports that Meta has lost billions investing in the metaverse and on other VR technologies, it seems like there is a "VR winter". Even Apple's new XR device is reported in the media as aimless and expensive.

My question is: is the VR market dead? Was it pointless to invest so much of my Master's program into an overhyped technology? I am hesitant to even reach out to the Neurorehab VR companies I have found since I don't even know if anyone is still hiring given the market trends.

TLDR: I am fascinated by XR technology, but given the current market, I am left wondering if there is any productive way to make a career out of being a XR developer for clinical use cases.
Algotrading with Machine Learning: Walkforward Analysis
Which was probably generally not an addictive obsession.
This is the kind of thing that has Google terrified, and rightly so.

Nobody needs a chatbot to pass exams. But what percentage of your Google searches are to answer some obscure question? This thing can answer most basic questions about quantum computing and 10,000 other topics.

In the last 24 hours, I've had ChatGPT solve 3 weird questions about querying PrestoDB, help me get my Bluetooth headphones to work (I needed to press down and hold the power button!) and it gave me some brainstorming ideas around what to do for mother's day (it's coming up soon non-British people).

Before I'd have Googled those things and spent five times longer to solve them- seeing ads on each search I made.
But should fit easily on a Apple MBP or Studio with 96GB or 128GB of unified memory.
I've used GPT-4 for translation numerous times and it worked astonishingly well, better then Google Translate most of the time. Especially when translating idioms and slang. It's also much better than GPT-3 at poetry - I really suggest you try it before just remaining skeptical about the technology.
Wow!

I have almost 30 years in tech and thankfully have never run across that. But I can see how that could be a thing for other companies/industries.

Every place I have worked I have given 3 week notice, and every potential employer has been ok with me starting in 3 weeks (except one).

The one exception was a company that balked at my request to start in 3 weeks in order to give my current employer time. They countered with "Well, take it now and start immediately, or leave it. You must not be serious about working here." I countered with "You are probably looking to hire people with no sense of responsibility to their current employer". Bullet dodged.

I have quit before I have started. I accepted an offer from a company (after being jobless) but my interaction with their HR the day before I was to start was so rude and combative that after I left, called my future boss there (who I really liked) and told him I was rescinding my acceptance.
I then grovelled back to another job whose offer I had turned down (and they re-made the offer). It all worked out.
https://ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ntia_rfc_o...
I'm loving Mastodon myself (@pxtl@mastodon.social) but I worry that the UI stumbling blocks caused by the multi-server system and the far-poorer discoverability than what we're used to from Twitter will keep it from growing well -- twitter's algorithmic feed and relevant-to-the-user trending topics and features like that help make twitter feel lively even for a new user even with just a handful of follows. I don't know that Twitter would be as successful today as it is now without those features.
They've just gone with a different approach for fast attention. [0] Not sure it was due to any particular merits/lack of the nystroformer.

[0]: https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1609867110695735296
The issue is in commercial lending
I'm not sure I'd agree. A lot of the use-cases are for niches or systems programming. I don't see it for business CRUD that often unless either the framework forces it on one, or they are using LINQ, which as I pointed out, can be tricky to debug if long. SQL is largely functional, but it's also hard to debug. The addition of the WITH clause to SQL greatly helped, as one can paste sections to test. Still, not as x-ray-able as imperative. Imperative still wins most x-ray contests. Maybe fast code readers don't need debugging as often? Could be, but I'm average at it.
Given what has been open sourced so far, it makes sense that content that is likely to be controversial, or content that generates neutral to negative engagement would have a smaller probability of being displayed.

I suspected this and told my far-right/left wing acquaintances, that no, Twitter (and Facebook too) isn't suppressing you, your content is just a net-negative from the platform's perspective. The platform is in the business of keeping the bulk of its users and advertisers happy.
Thanks for the detailed response, that helps give some context.
Same could be said when iPhone came out. Now look where Android is. The fact that something happened to others means nothing. Could go either way.

edit: typo
Agreed. Where I work we hire people from Lockheed all the time. Meta? We wouldn't touch them. Move fast and break things isn't the mentality we're looking for when working with what the Department of Homeland Security has classified as National Critical Infrastructure.

If our service goes down, civilization goes down. We can't afford to hire people who've spent a career playing games.
As someone who loves the writing feel of fountain pens I have to say the a pilot G2 is not an unfancy pen. The writing feel and ink quality is superb.

Yes the G2 is cheap, but evaluated along metrics of writing feel and ink quality the G2 is a fancy pen in my opinion. Everytime I pick up a G2 I enjoy the experience immensely.

I mean, I love my fountain pens more but the G2 deserves respect as a premium writing tool you can buy in grocery store.
I use ddg everyday and I hate it. I resort to Google shortly after. Not personalised so I guess I am missing out on decent returns.
At a guess the bit 'let's learn about the base rate fallacy'.
It might be more interesting to think about this with respect to programming languages, which are much more structured than human languages. Even within these, there is variation that we can explore, like comparing Go (with fewer keywords and building blocks) and JS|PY (where there are many more ways to do the same thing).

Another interesting thought related to this is that programming languages often have a spec or grammar made available. Can we help the LLMs learn faster or better by supplying these? How can it draw out the common patterns across languages while being effective with any language on a specific problem? Can they few-shot learn a library in the ecosystem and map that onto the problem / solution? JSON vs JSON5 is an interesting example. I was trying to get ChatGPT to work with CUE, but it kept wanting to produce JSON or Yaml instead.
> you need a healthy job market so that people can afford these.

So much this. I was reading recently about how remote white collar work has strongly stimulated trades workers like electricians and plumbers. Once all of the high-paying remote work is gone, who is going to be able to pay for that sort of work outside of doctors?