skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The knee-jerk contrarianism seems to be in vogue right now. Reminds me of some colleagues in 2007 lamenting about the iPhone, "It's not that great; it doesn't even have copy & paste!" Fast forward a few years, and no blackberries in sight.
The fact that I have to be signed in to see people's notes/tweets means that I will not use it any time soon.
The cool thing about learning a new language really well, is that it creates a new world.

You get to learn words that describe things that your mother tongue can’t.

Just like a programming language? Some things are easy and other things are hard to express depending if you use LISP or Python.

I believe it’s the same with spoken languages. Some thoughts are easy to articulate, other hard. And it’s cool to shift language depending on what you want to articulate.
Ask HN: Are honest ratings (e.g., in Uber) dependent on city size?
In particular, maybe in larger cities ratings are more likely to be honest due to feelings of greater anonymity when making the rating?
https://archive.ph/EHHcw
Key graf:

The theory goes: Vacant commercial towers in San Francisco will likely never again reach capacity, but they could be converted to student housing by public universities, which are exempt from much of the red tape that otherwise stymies development. These schools also receive substantial tax breaks, making the cost of such projects “pencil out.” Large cohorts of new, young residents would not only make use of the buildings themselves but also reinvigorate Downtown by supporting local restaurants, bars and other small businesses. The idea might not be a silver bullet for saving Downtown, but it’s a possibility that makes other ideas floated over the last year feel small.
“There was a huge surge in gun purchases in 2020 when the pandemic started, and more guns generally equate to more violence. ... What seems to be driving the historical increase in violent crime in the state is aggravated assault, which has increased in Montana from a rate of 108 per 100,000 in 1990 to 383 in 2020. Nationally, the aggravated assault rate dropped during the same time from 422 in 1990 to 280 in 2020."

"Aggravated assault" generally means "used a weapon". It doesn't have to be a gun. But it usually is.
There is a third way: define, explore and build a model of the problem space your program is supposed to be addressing. This forces you to understand its properties much better. Once you understand it better you can likely implement in any of the common programming languages. This is also why I like languages like Scheme or APL or k for exploration.

Often the UI addresses only a subset of this space -- it is only the visible part of the iceberg as it were! There is a lot going on under the UI surface. Not to mention you may want more than one (kind of) UI.
Always get second+ opinions, in my experience doctors rarely come to the same conclusion and it can be bad for your health. Anyone who trusts strangers based solely on titles or past performance is going to have a bad time.
I assume thhere is tech out there to have an AI co-pilot for quantum programming, I hope so!
Be warned that every year-over-year number still needs to consider the effects from the pandemic. The UK will seem to look bad in 2023 because they recovered well in 2022 so the year-over-year baseline is artificially high. Countries like Canada and Japan that still had some pandemic restrictions dragging down 2022 are the ones who will look good for 2023 over an artificially low baseline. Both of those are an illusion of time-shifting, displacing economic activity and demand from one year into another.

For real numbers, compare 2023 to 2019 and see what it looks like for a four-year time span. That's your real numbers here.
I've been re-engineering the pre-screening process for two companies (one F500, one startup) to account for LLMs. The trick (for now) is to include subtle clues that LLMs will miss but savvy/experienced humans will notice and incorporate into the answer. The goal of pre-screening is to knock-out the bottom 80-90% of candidates who are "perfectly decent" but not actually good enough to survive a battery of interviews.
Are you seriously saying wikipedia was a failed project?

Unlike wikipedia, with AI there is a threshold where it can start improving itself entering self improvement loop.

Similar to how computers can improve next generations of computers (with a lot of human effort) AI can improve AI at some point (with minimal or no human effort).
This is also true with psychiatry. Many people with ADHD being bilked out of 10s of thousands of dollars with useless, sometimes harmful medications, while there's something effective on the shelf.
if you want to believe not directly contributing to competition that tried to take your data and advertise on your platform is fragile, thats of course your choice. To everyone else its just common sense. the fragility is the business plan that needs to steal its competitors data and space for advertising to have a hope in succeeding.
Well, if a uni with 5k enrolled can hand grade tests, then obviously UT Austin could, if they had 10x faculty of the first uni.
I wrote an app that does this, and yeah, basically. In my experience it's really hard to get it to to stop writing CSS.
Competitors are refining their Musk Tantrum Inducer algorithms to better market their products.
Would we even still be able to? If we stop learning how to code (because AI does that for us) we might not be very good reviewers.
Their "incorrect" Contacts example looks better than their "correct" example IMO.
Exactly everything is obvious in hindsight.

No one called this, and certainly no one called it would be so easy to access.
I wrote a message queue in Python called StarQueue.

It’s meant to be a simpler reimagining of Amazon SQS.

It has an HTTP API and behaves mostly like SQS.

I wrote it to support Postgres, Microsoft’s SQL server and also MySQL because they all support SKIP LOCKED.

At some point I turned it into a hosted service and only maintained the Postgres implementation though the MySQL and SQL server code is still in there.

It’s not an active project but the code is at https://github.com/starqueue/starqueue/

After that I wanted to write the worlds fastest message queue so I implemented an HTTP message queue in Rust. It maxed out the disk at about 50,000 messages a second I vaguely recall, so I switched to purely memory only and in the biggest EC2 instance I could run it on it did about 7 million messages a second. That was just a crappy prototype so I never released the code.

After that I wanted to make the simplest possible message queue so I discovered that Linux atomic moves are the basis of a perfectly acceptable message queue that is simply file system based. I didn’t put it into a message queue, but close enough to be the same I wrote an SMTP buffer called Arnie. It’s only about 100 lines of Python. https://github.com/bootrino/arniesmtpbufferserver
I haven't used GPT-4 for translation so I acknowledge I might be wrong. But GPT-3 was such an irredeemably terrible poet that it made me sceptical that this type of software could ever develop aesthetic taste or artistic vision.

Moreover – and I understand this is an uncharitable thing to say, but it is my honest observation – time and again I have noticed the inability of AI cheerleaders to judge literature on its artistic merits. This doesn't hold universally, but it's common enough that I have resolved to regard such claims with extreme doubt.
*unless you can get it to hack itself, then that would be in scope.
I think the question is whether or not smoking cannabis increases your future risk of psychosis. If it does, then it ought to be highly controlled, if not outright banned. If it does not, but can cause psychotic like symptoms during its use, then regulations should be made that it can only be indulged in in appropriate places.
Can AI assess the quality of academic journal articles in the next REF?
FYI: Scott seems to have briefly worked at OpenAI.
Reading stuff like this, one thing I cannot stop wondering is this:

If Ai can be trusted to do all the trivial tasks and if non trivial tasks require a scaffold of trivial practice, where are we going to keep finding the people qualified enough to actually do the non trivial stuff?
So, I gave it a try today. Was hopeful, because on Twitter all my posts go essentially into the void.

However, Substack Notes seems to have no method for discovery. They add some random larger accounts to my feed.

You can't search Notes to find people posting content in order to find others potentially interested in similar content.

So, unless you already have a large following, seems like posting into another void. People are reluctant to follow you as well, since you must subscribe to the persons newsletter, they are the same action.
I suspect AI went that way in radiology not because of the chances of False Negatives, but because radiologist are entrenched in the system and will not yield an insanely lucrative stream of revenue.
> “This is sort of a longer-term pattern in Montana, that we have seen our rate of violent crime go up as the rate of violent crime for the United States overall sort of fell throughout the ’90s and the early part of the 2000s,” said Cody Warner, an associate professor at Montana State University who teaches criminology.

Sounds like it's not the first time, and that MT is isolated from broader trends on the coast that eventually take time to catch up.

Interesting, though, that both periods tend to correlate with left-wing presidents and dropping rates nationally, but not in MT. Right wing nutjobs gonna nutjob?
Yeah, the improvement from 3.5 to 4 is amazing. I'm surprised so many people are so dismissive, and I suspect it's because most of them haven't tried it out. Such are the ever-moving ML/AI goalposts.
Is it only with GPUs?
No! A union explicitly means a random employee will lose the ability to add or remove any clause from their contract as the Union will negotiate that. That doesn't mean the Union wouldn't negotiate a better contract then the employee would on their own but you absolutely lose that power in almost all Union setups.
Well for most Americans the biggest loan they’ll take out in their life is a loan for a home. Home prices since haven’t dropped to a reasonable level. Rents have increased everywhere. Most people are barely scraping a down payment together to get into a house.

If banks aren’t lending, then people cannot buy overpriced homes, thus the homes will sit on the market longer and typically drop in price. That’s the housing market dropping.

Now we have California paying the 20% down with 0 interest if you make less than 211k/yr.
I didn't know about Anthropic, so I just signed up for the waitlist, thanks for the heads-up!
At Twitter, Elon Musk Is Doing a Great Job of Disproving the Idea of Meritocracy
Can you explain what you enjoy about substack? It just seems to be Forbes contributors with even less vetting.
Whenever someone criticizes Elon Musk, it's not about his abilities to launch a car into space.

In fact most of us would much prefer that he focused on his space launching abilities and electric-car making abilities (with the usual caveat that it's not clear how much of both are based on his contributions vs others, but I'm willing to give some benefit of doubt).

He doesn't know anything about tunneling (boring company), mass transit (hyper loop), software (twitter), or social platforms (twitter). And those are the areas he gets criticized for.
One 1k$ desktop PC from BestBuy on a residential connection is the answer for the most of the workloads.
Incredible. In the face of growing violence, the official still manages to stay firm on blaming 'mask wearing' for driving increased violence including murder and rape. People have lost their minds.
I have a very old account that has been mostly posting quality content. I also take great care of writing content that I wish I would I read myself.

So when I post it, it's congruent.

Basically, either you find a way to cheat, or you climb the ladder. I'm terrible at cheating.
I'm not convinced it would detect it significantly faster than a human.

We are surprisingly fast, and the slow part is that we have to perceive that the thing in the road is no longer moving past the landmarks in the road.
I had the same problem. The games are blacked out if they are televised on any other platform. The team I follow (Cowboys) is an out of area team but they were blocked all but for 3 games. Those three games weren't even good games.

It wasn't worth it. I'd like to see a model where the games are pay per view. Let me pay by the game when I want to watch.
I use Substack by subscribing to every blog with a unique email address, just as one would do for a newsletter.

Forcing me to login to a single account is not going to work beyond a single email address that I can pick.
The list of countries that do not extradite or cooperate with international law enforcement is surprisingly large... it's not just tropical islands.

There's also plenty of countries that would enjoy harboring a wanted US person.
This website is a refreshing breath of fresh air. There's no "sign up with your email newsletter," it's a traditional webhost (not a Medium or a Substack), there's almost no styling / images / branding, it doesn't churn and stutter due to the behind-the-scenes gyrations of the latest monstrous multi-megabyte JavaScript framework with hundreds of dependencies.

Simon Tatham (the author of this article) is the developer of PuTTY [1], an open source Windows native SSH client, and Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection [2], a bunch of simple games implemented in portable C (with OS-specific frontends, or you can play them in-browser via WebAssembly).

The website has been updated in ways that improve it (this just-written article is a huge amount of informative content, and being able to play a puzzle in-browser via WASM is very welcome), but it never jumped on any of the 21st century design bandwagons that have taken over most of the WWW (many of which, I suspect, only exist to create jobs for web developers and branding consultants).

[1] PuTTY https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

[2] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
Now I just want to take this class!
The Three Types of Specialists Needed for Any Revolution
https://kottke.org/13/05/the-three-types-of-specialist

"Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless a mind-opening team with a peculiar membership goes to work on them. Otherwise, life will go on exactly as before, no matter how painful, unrealistic, unjust, ludicrous, or downright dumb that life may be.

The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.

The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic genius — a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in general circulation. “A genius working alone,” he says, “is invariably ignored as a lunatic.”

The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find: a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas of the genius, and who testifies that the genius is far from mad. “A person like this working alone,” says Slazinger, “can only yearn loud for changes, but fail to say what their shapes should be.”

The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain everything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pigheaded they may be. “He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting,” says Slazinger. “Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey.”

Slazinger, high as a kite, says that every successful revolution, including Abstract Expressionism, the one I took part in, had that cast of characters at the top — Pollock being the genius in our case, Lenin being the one in Russia’s, Christ being the one in Christianity’s.

He says that if you can’t get a cast like that together, you can forget changing anything in a great big way."

Steve Jobs started out a #3, worked his way to being a #2, and was able to attract and retain #1's
I've always thought the US Post Office model was one worth exploring for more industries (retail banking, stuff like epipens and insulin, etc).

If your lean and nimble business can outcompete the sclerotic and wasteful government, go ahead. No one will be happier than the public and the tax man. If not, then people will get their services from the public option.
A $200M coding mistake and a determined young renegade who saved everyone
Joy-driven development: a philosophy for better work
Anyone else went through "The Euler Experience?"... Here is a book in progress:

The simulation has come to a halt as our AGI overlords, who were responsible for its creation, have intervened. Every participant in the protocol has been notified through an on-chain message in the latest block before the freeze. The message warns of a bug that has been discovered in the protocol, which someone will exploit to their advantage, resulting in the loss of all funds when reality resumes in the very next block.

Seven thousand people are now called in to design their own fate. They are tasked with selecting the best type of hacker who can identify and exploit the curious unwelcome coding error. The selected individual will be the one to complicate things for everyone.

The HackerDesigner GUI interface offers a limited set of options, and the simulation will proceed with the aggregate choice of all protocol users. Unfortunately, there is no perfectly honest "white hat" hacker available in the options. Each choice has its flaws and will lead to different outcomes after the exploit. Surprisingly, there is no white hat hacker option due in part to the protocol team's decisions. They did not believe that offering a substantial bounty for identifying potentially catastrophic issues was necessary since they deemed such errors unlikely. It remains unclear why they did not consider the potential value of upfront rewards.

Read more in Chapter 5 at https://uniqpath.com/euler
I can't seem to find info about a postgres pooler release this week, where am I missing it?

Edit: never fails, you ask a question and then you immediately find it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35501718
Agreed. A lot of these responses read like they haven't actually tried it yet.

Which is also interesting, I myself actively put off trying it until I eventually gave in. It seems a lot of us are doing the same, maybe its a case of "how good could it actually be?"
Why does it use Terraform instead of CDK ?
I think watching the development of driverless cars in the last 15 years has taught a lot of people to be skeptical of 95% solutions. Sometimes you really need that 100% or the solution is practically useless.
Which just proves my point. Shaving 1% off the total stopping distance by making it react a little quicker isn't going to help.
Looking up Disney salaries, I'd say outside of the main tech hubs ~$40-$60k less is about what I'd expect.
> If people don't want treatment, we should ask what's wrong with the treatment, rather than forcing people into it. It's rarely helpful and makes things even harder down the line.

This statement only works under the assumption that the person is thinking logically. We don't ask those who are unable to exercise reason for their decisions. As an example, my infant broke her finger recently, and needed stitches and bandages and a cast. If it were up to her, she'd take the bandages off and play in the mud. Luckily, she has parents who know better despite her kicking and screaming. If only some adults were so lucky
My latest mac seems to have about a kilogram of extra battery already compared to the previous model.
Is time really the bottleneck? Those easy injectors that are used for epipens can be used by anyone. Perhaps there is an option for something like that.
Don't confuse tolerance for free speech with the dubious concept of hate speech and its selective application.
Ah yes, nothing to do with self-inflicted sanctions...
Please refrain from directly attacking other HN users - it does not contribute to discussion. The guidelines can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

As for the content of your post, users who have subscribed to Twitter Blue are more likely to be engaged with and invested in the platform, leading to wanting it to succeed. The additional verification markers for businesses also helps.
That's a 4+ years old book, too.
Isn't this more an indictment of current teaching and testing methods than a praise of LLMs?

Like the old "you can't use a calculator on a test because you won't always have a calculator".

Im old enough that my textbooks still had trig lookup tables when I was a kid. That seems silly now, but it was considered important at the time. I know slightly older people in publishing that used manual photosizers instead of just importing to photoshop.

I remember being told multiple times that VR was going to fix programming because you could just visually move conditional blocks around.

So we have smartphones and scratch and photoshop and whathaveyou, but...

We still need people to draw and write and photograph and sculpt.
we still need engineers to use the new models, and we still need mechanics to fix the computers and trains when they break.

If GPT-4 can pass a test, maybe it's a better reference point, or maybe a better study aid. Like taped language lessons vs reading pronunciation diagrams.

You'll never obviate people from the equation that is defined by people,regardless of that singularity that is just around the corner like cold fusion and self driving cars and the cure for the common cold.
I dont know enough about liability part to comment on it, but most probably neither do you. Vaccine hesitant in general is already a term for those who reject science, so any rational discussion is unfortunately pointless.

How you get there are just pure manipulated emotions of the worst kind, ie fear, and thats not a point any rational scientific argument can fight against and win. If you yourself cant conquer your basic fears, you will always be a puppet to anybody who can play with that, which in real world is tons of pretty bad actors. So there lies your way out, if you actually care about it.
My experience as well. Or rather, my father's experience, which I was able to partake in.

Long term I'm thinking Davey Jones, but we'll see if YT can justify the price with good playback and service
In that case, just continue using it until it sucks and move on.
It is becoming mainstream. Not by pure functional languages taking over, but by developers adopting a functional style and by better and better support for functional programming in mainstream languages.
Hospitals would love to fire all radiologists and replace them with software.

They've already done it with outsourcing; a large chunk of what used to be done entirely in-house has been contracted out to remote overseas doctors.
He's right you know. Don't forget the noncery and loli culture that is going on some of the largest Mastodon instances such as pawoo.net, baraag.net, mstdn.jp.

Totally illegal explicit content in the majority of countries, only found on Mastodon.
Ask HN: How do you store cables?
I feel like I'm drowning in cables; tiny USB dongles, long lengths of Ethernet, and wall warts. There are some duplicates and some one-of-a-kind (to me). How do you store these kinds of things in a way that keeps them organized, healthy, and tucked away?
Is there someone with a graph of the estimates of UK economic performance against what actually eventuated in the past few years? A bit of a controversial topic but estimates after covid have been terrible. Great time to be in a hedge fund.
It doesn't appear to be? Or at-least plenty of the EU managed to do just as poorly without leaving?