skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soooo many of our devs are going to take advantage of this: https://www.chatgpthackers.dev

Looking forward to it!
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Not trying it yet is fine. Making declarative statements on a product you haven't even used is just absurd.

Dude clearly hasn't used GPT for translation before and his next reply is telling me the ways GPT should fail based on his pre-conceived notions of its abilities. Except i have actually extensively tested(publicly too) LLMs for translation (even before GPT-4) and basically everything he says is just plain wrong.

I'll never understand why people behave like this.
I do like how the author presents the case for how damaging false-positives can be in SRE monitoring. But, FYI, it can get worse if these monitors are hooked to self-actuating feedback loops! I recently wrote about a production incident on the Heii On-Call blog, in the context of witnessing how Kubernetes liveness probes and CPU limits worked together to create a self-reinforcing CrashLoopBackOff. [1] Partially because the liveness probe thresholds (timeoutSeconds and failureThreshold fields) were too aggressive.

We have a similar message about setting monitoring thresholds in our documentation [2] because users have to explicitly specify a downtime timeout before they’re alerted about their website / API endpoint / cron job being down. The timeout / "grace period" is necessary because in many cases a failure is some transient network glitch which will fix itself before a human is alerted.

If you make the timeout too short, you’ll get lots of false positive alerts, and as the article says, your on-call engineers will be overwhelmed or just start ignoring the alerts.

If you make the timeout too long, it just takes that many minutes of downtime longer before you find out about it.

It may sound counterintuitive, but the latter is usually preferable. :)

[1] https://heiioncall.com/blog/kubernetes-liveness-probes-and-c...

[2] https://heiioncall.com/docs
Guessing the manager didn’t want someone in that timezone but had to extend an offer due to some pressure from above / internal policy so he baited gp to tell on himself in that last session and then used that as grounds to back out
Quite correct. Made an error. Carryover from a prior job where we mucked with weather data... I was thinking more along the lines of raster geo datasets like sat images, etc. Each pixel represents one geo location, with a carrying load of metadata, then a timeseries of that snapshot & md, so timeseries-raster-geomapped data basically.

I don't remember anymore what that general kind of datatype is called, sadly.
The title could be adequately rephrased: Intellectual Property Has Been Preventing the Future of Nuclear Physics
To twist rhe knife, tell them you'll publish the relevant parts as open source as well.
George was brilliant but was treated like he wasn't. John and Paul treated each other with respect, but George as lesser. Your argument amounts to he should have shut up and dealt with it. Someone not putting up with poor treatment doesn't make them the problem.
This is the sense that I meant it in, obviously they are peculiarities in the 18th century institution of the postal service that may or may not be worth copying over.
So, excepting for their strict doctor standards they are otherwise quite backwards thinking (according to you)? So I again can't quite tell what the Amish have to do with this and whether they should generally be trusted. Sure on the doctor metric they excel, but is there any other standard by which you would characterize a peoples standards of opinion?
random question for you: i have a sony oled display that auto-dims on low color change activity (this is impossible to disable - believe me, i've tried, even in the diagnostics menu). do you have any idea how this could possibly be circumvented?

Thanks!
You missed the "(if you want the OpenGL frontend)" part. It’s like using gvim instead of vim.
That's the first I heard about this, but I don't really follow the space (neither Mastodon nor CSAM). Is "SecJuice" a reputable source / how legit is the report?

The one instance I have any prior awareness of, the mastodon creator saying search is not desired due to negative social dynamics, everywhere else it was presented as a privacy and anonymity behaviour - crucially, both from those who agreed and disagreed (which makes intuitive sense; on one hand I dislike e.g. Facebook not being publicly searchable some of the time, at the same time I don't want my content crawled by randos all the time either). This is the first place I've seen that frames it as explicitly CSAM related.
I understand the code now, I just didn't know how to write a browser plugin and having GPT4 walk me through it was 10x faster than reading a tutorial.
Also when they have two many jobs for their one table - partition the table by customer, when that's still somehow too big - shard the table across a couple DB instances. Toss in some beefy machines that can keep the tables in memory and I suspect you'd have a LOOOONG way to go before you ever really needed to get off of postgres.

In my experience, the benefits of a SQL table for a problem like this are real big - easier to see what's in the queue, manipulate the queue, resolve head-of-queue blocking problems, etc.
I thoroughly disagree, and think its perfectly acceptable for international press to refer to decisions made by government agencies as just the country itself. Not every government has a 1:1 comparison with the US FTC, and just because it's named similarly doesn't mean the Korean FTC operates with the same set of rules or remit.

As a foreigner, you should understand implicitly that governments aren't monolithic entities, but also don't usually need the details on which branch of a foreign government handles what.
> understandable software error that any professional software engineer could have made

Not really, no. I never heard, seen or experienced such an issue in any work environment. I did see it happen among wordpress level websites tho.
> Here, capitalizing on a new copper-containing, conductively tuned 3D carbon nanotube composite, an implantable blood-glucose-powered metabolic fuel cell is designed that continuously monitors blood-glucose levels, converts excess glucose into electrical power during hyperglycemia, and produces sufficient energy (0.7 mW cm−2, 0.9 V, 50 mm glucose) to drive opto- and electro-genetic regulation of vesicular insulin release from engineered beta cells.
I'm not sure the initial comment lends itself to that reading, but it isn't clear it lends itself to my initial response either, so I'll switch over to your more charitable reading. Thanks!
she, as most sociopaths, was overly ambitious, that got her into trouble after all.

probably has the same mindset now regarding "having kids" or "family"
> Mental illness is not a monolith and it does not present the same way for different people.

I agree. Of course it isn’t. However, saying that people affected by severe mental illness are able to think clearly and rationally is almost definitionally false.

If their ability to think clearly and rationally were not afflicted, they wouldn’t be experiencing a mental disorder.

Further, just saying that I have misunderstandings, am spreading FUD, and should stop commenting without yourself providing cogent reasons why I am mistaken helps nobody.
Tesla shipped 161,630 first quarter 2K3 so is the capacity there but not the sales?
> Are IQ tests ever useful for determining something in the real world, something that impacts us?

It's a test of creative problem solving.

Anybody who aces one would certainly be a good candidate for a follow-up interview, but the test alone isn't everything. It's possible to be really inventive but underqualified in some other way.

I could see this being of particular interest for a financial services firm, where "creative accounting" is the name of the game.

> Why not just send people the take home assignment directly?

People cheat. The IQ test made the employer feel like they at least know something objective about you enough to merit continuing with your interview.
When the oncall gets paged, an SLO should be in jeopardy in a way that requires immediate measures to be taken by a well-trained human as described in actionable terms in a linked playbook.

No SLO in jeopardy, or no immediate measure that needs to be taken? Don't page the oncall; send a low-priority ticket for the service owner to investigate the next business day.

Steps need to be taken, but they're mechanical in nature or otherwise don't give the SRE an opportunity to exercise their brain in an interesting fashion? Replace the alert with an automated handler that only pages the oncall if it encounters an exception.

No playbook, or the playbook consists of useless non-actionable items like, "This alert means the service is running out of frobs"? Write a playbook that explains what the oncall is expected to do when the service needs frobs.

Edit: A dead reply asks if I've ever experienced a novel incident. Of course. Say, for instance, a "This should never happen" error-level log is suddenly happening like crazy, for the first time ever. In that case, you page the oncall, they do their best to debug it, see if they can reach the SWE service owners, read through the code to see if it could be an indicator that SLOs are being violated (e.g., user data corruption) or might be violated soon, and then write a stub playbook to be fleshed out the next business day, probably alongside a code change to handle this situation without spamming the logs so much.
3) don't reply to threads obviously created with the intention of promoting some costly product, promising to surpass specialized knowledge, just by spending a few bucks.
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> Shouldn't there be a computer saying no to the scheduling or at least some rail safety system?

It's called Positive Train Control (PTC).

https://railroads.dot.gov/research-development/program-areas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_train_control#Deploym...

The wiki includes a lot of good details about the challenges, for example no unified implementation and many "optional" (but basic) features that don't have to be used (but should; i.e. real time tracking of cars and locomotives in an identical fashion). By itself it won't stop collisions -- but it's the tech that, if used correctly, should.

Rolling it out is also non-trivial, and making PTC 2.0 happen in the future has a lot of challenges. In many ways it's easier to automate aircraft than it is railroads: you have the entire sky, lots of room to move, great visibility once above a certain altitude, and different altitudes for stacking traffic (e.g. one plant at 10000 ft, another at 17000 ft, another at 20000 ft). The challenge is mostly emergencies, and how to land/take off. Trains, meanwhile, have to share space with a lot of things that planes never do, such as avalanches, broken down cars, and routes that run though residential areas.

Plus railroads have plenty of money and are publicly traded -- they lobby as good as anyone. Many of the recent issues aren't due to any fancy control systems (or lack thereof), but the Trump administration allowing hazardous materials to be re-labelled as non-hazardous, and thus allowing them to travel at higher speeds.
From an information theoretic perspective (which is the perspective Nyquist was originally coming from, though it didn't yet have that name), you don't need to mix the signal down. Assuming it is truly band-limited, you can sample the signal directly at RF, and reproduce it from those samples. Additionally, you will need to modulate the reproduced signal into the original band, which means you need to know where that band is - perhaps this is the detail you're pointing out?

Another way of looking at it is that sampling inherently does the mixing down to baseband. Although it may not be exactly the baseband you want if the spectrum isn't cleanly symmetric about a multiple of the sample frequency.
I don't disagree or agree with the piece, but for those unfamiliar with the publication, the Jacobin is profoundly socialist. So, the question posed is not really necessarily inquisitive in nature, or at least, the author had a strong opinion before sitting down to write this piece.
SO BAD. It is NOT aware of G and M codes on a per machine basis and will create amazing crashes will full conviction that it will work.

Edit to add: E.g. it fully recommended that I use a G38 instead of g31 in a macro, which would on my machine would probably destroy my probe.
Thats a great suggestion. We are changing the speech-to-text model we use later this week, so it should produce much better results for you.
We will also be adding a feature where you can edit the transcript before submitting. Would that be helpful?
> usually at a rate that's much cheaper than on-demand pricing

This is an area that is legitimate swindling/inflation by hosted app providers (e.g. DO Apps, Heroku, Render, Fly, etc). Oftentimes the per-vCPU/memory price is inflated over the underlying cost, even relative to a rather expensive underlying provider like AWS; which they'll reasonably justify by saying that this is the value-add, yeah you pay more but its more managed. But: when you have underlying access to the VPS, you can host more than one process! Which, of course, they're oftentimes doing on their end to cut costs.

Serverless functions can legitimately fall into the "always cheaper" category. If you've got twenty apps that each get request volume in the range of dozens-to-thousands per month; you could host that on a $5/mo VPS, or you could pay a few cents for a FaaS (Lambda, GCP, Cloudflare Workers, etc, all priced in the same magnitude). But the price-to-scale chart of serverless functions is really weird; they do hit a point where they're more expensive than just, you know, running a web server on a VPS. That point isn't at a super low volume, but its not far off from where its something to think about for a typical software organization. If I had a personal project that hit that point, I'd classify it as a good problem to have.

I also feel endless frustration in how there legit isn't a single cloud provider out there that (1) offers a serverless functions runtime, and (2) gives you the ability to set a non-zero budget which turns off the world when you go over budget. Many offer free tiers with no credit card, and some are even generous (Vercel and Firebase are two good examples), but I won't build on a free tier. I want to pay you. So, you upgrade and give a credit card, and now you're liable for one fuck-up bankrupting you, or throwing you on your knees at the mercy of their customer support. The severity of this fuck-up ranges from "my GCP account does just use a VPS, but egress is unlimited, so the bill was a bit high this month" to "the new dev changed a lambda function to call another which called the first one, and our bill is now the GDP of a developing nation-state".

The vast majority of the managed infrastructure world is, unfortunately, B2B swindlers just trying to out-swindle each other, only possible because they're all buying from each other, constantly raising prices, finding new ways to bill their customers, and losing any grip on the true (extremely low) reality of their costs. Supabase is better than most. I really do appreciate releases like this one. I'd also add Cloudflare to my list of "good ones"; they've taken a hard stance against charging for bandwidth, and I think that single decision had controlled a ton of the incremental costs we see from their newer higher-level product offerings like Workers.
I don’t know whether it’s true but I’d bet money that parents net worth, avg income, or zip code are even better predictor of those outcomes.
You mean 1 second which at 60mph is 88 feet. Tesla stopping distance at 60mph is 150 ft for comparison.
I pay for it and do not have access to the GPT4 API
Scientists do not have a theoretical misunderstanding of viruses. But the general public often does.

If you gave everyone IPV, anyone who is not immunocompromised will be protected from severe cases of polio. Yay! But polio can still circulate and be looking for new victims. It is hard to tell how big a problem this is until you stop vaccinating.

When people get OPV, it stops them from being part of polio circulation, but can also START polio circulating. Therefore it is needed to stop transmission, but you don't want it if there is no transmission in the community.

We already eradicated 2 forms of polio. But the question is whether we can realistically eliminate the last.
I respect your (hypothetical) altruism.

This isn't tragedy of the commons, because the whole of humanity does not end up worse with these actions. I'm not convinced that clearing an encampment makes the average wellbeing across humanity go down. These arguments turn a blind eye to the harms to surrounding people and the homeless involved.
> Ok so you haven't used it then.

Not only have I used it, I have made several accurate advance predictions about its behaviour and capabilities – some before GPT-4 was even published. I can model these models well enough to fool GPT output detectors into thinking that I am a GPT model. (Give me a writing task that GPT-4 can't be prompted to perform, and I can prove that last fact to you.)

My theories aren't whack. Perhaps I'm not communicating my understanding very well? I'm not saying GPT-4 can't do anything I haven't listed, but that its ability is bounded by what's demonstrated in its corpus (2): the skill is not legitimately due to the model, and you should not expect a GPT-5 to be any better at the tasks. (In fact, it might well be worse: GPT-4 is worse than GPT-3 at some of these things.)
I used bing chat (supposedly using gpt4) and it was far more annoying than openai free chatgpt (supposedly using gpt3.5)

Somehow Microsoft found a way to make it worse?
This is a good occasion to point to the excellent novel The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi. I think I first heard of it here on HN, and it was described as a "Sci-Fi" novel--sadly, we're approaching the point where we'll have to relabel it as a neo-noir dramatization of current events.

The novel name checks the nonfiction book The Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner which is also excellent background.
Is there any way to access Substack Notes without an account?
Not to be coy, but it only is if it is. For this application I'd agree, but there are plenty of apps that want queues for in-memory use, and if the thing that holds the memory for the queue dies, chances are the whole ecosystem has.

Sometimes this is fine.
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Can you convince me that's not equivalent to what LLMs do with their training sets? My understanding is that's a useful analogy?
Compare to Edison, who was both an inventor and a successful businessman. His products are in use and delivering benefits to almost everyone in the world today.

All the laud for Jobs ignores that there is a sizable portion of people who don't use Apple products and do just fine. I've been using computers since the time when the only Apple Corp. was the Beatles' record label, and with one minor exception[0] have never felt the need to purchase any Apple computer product or software or MP3. I have eight computers, one MP3 player, and one smartphone at this time and they are all Linux or Windows or Android machines.

[0]One time many years ago I need software to play a video on short notice and paid for a license for Quicktime.
this will probably get nuked since it's just a point release (no hard feelings dang), but there is an interesting new feature: it now has View Transitions support, an experimental browser feature available in Chrome 111+ that makes visual transitions between DOM states much easier to animate.

I discuss it in an essay here:

https://htmx.org/essays/view-transitions/

Chrome's docs on the feature are here:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transiti...

MDN:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...

will be exciting to see this feature rolled out across the major browsers, as it will make vanilla HTML a lot smoother.
I think you misunderstood. I'm not making any claim there. I'm just defining what Turing-complete means for those who don't already know.
As everyone is chiming in on, fantastic work by you and your team.
It's a quantum computing exam, the trick is you have to be able to answer both true and false at once.
Clearly it doesn't need to have seen the exact input before because you can ask GPT-4 to add together two 6 digit numbers and it will get it right.

More impressively, if you generate a random small neural network and then put some samples in the prompt it can do a surprisingly good job of predicting the result of putting other inputs into the network. Presumably doing something that looks a bit like gradient decent, see https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.07677.pdf

Solely in order to predict the next token, LLMs are learning an incredibly sophisticed model of both computation and the outside world.
> Im not American, so might be missing some context, but what is the monopoly?

There’s a monopoly on residential letters, and a monopoly on mailbox access:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service#U...

> You can use Fedex, UPS etc to ship anything from anywhere to anywhere.

You actually can’t, there are very specific rules for what you can use a non-postal carrier to send to which addresses and at which prices. Which is why you don’t see general, non-express, or cheap letter delivery from third-party services.
> I'm not sure what we are debating here

The original point was that becoming a plumber is a good way to ensure you won’t be made redundant by the march of technology. My belief is that “the trades are a pretty secure job” is true today in the same way that “being an $80/hr writer is a pretty secure job" was true yesterday.

There are differences between those situations (eg the trades being physical, hammer and nail, custom jobs), but those don't seem like particularly impassable obstacles to me, given that technology has already made redundant whole categories of physical, hammer and nail, custom jobs.
in Hungary recently a famous musician got caught stealing electricity (for his apartments that were rented by others), got sentenced, but managed to postpone going to jail because he got sick.
>Just that the person has the right to choose no medical treatment. You also have that right. If a doctor says you will certainly die without treatment, you can say no. The doctor doesn't write in the note that you are fine, just that they offered and you did not want it. It's not a "game", it is the ethical and legal requirements of the role.

The issue is that the people we're talking about don't have the mental faculties to make these decisions. Do you think someone in the state they're in, barely even aware of where they are, unable to even speak or stand up straight, would be allowed to sign a legally binding contract? Of course not, any court would throw out any contract they signed because they're obviously not mentally able to make decisions like that. Same goes for decisions about their health.
evokes memories of "expertSexChange.com -- err, I mean, ExpertsExchange.com" back in the day.
Your colleague would be wrong. I've passed multiple exams this way (they allowed Internet access because the prof thought the same way).

You can very likely answer around 1/4th of the questions immediately with less than passive participation in the course, so for the remaining 60 questions you'll get two minutes per question, which is completely manageable if you type and read fast enough.

Multiple choice questions are universally terrible and lazy, and should not be more than a small part of the exam mostly meant to provide easy points.