skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there's a blast from the past. Many years ago I worked with the startup company that eventually evolved into Outcome Health. Back then many doctors' offices still lacked broadband Internet access, especially in rural areas. The business model was to provide free satellite Internet service to doctors by installing a rooftop dish antenna connected to a kiosk in the waiting room. Revenue came from selling video ads displayed on the kiosk screen (mostly prescription drugs) along with looped healthcare videos from CNN.

That aspect of the business eventually failed. Some doctors really liked it (the CNN educational content was legitimately pretty good and kept waiting patients from getting bored), but overall it was too expensive to deploy the hardware and geosynchronous satellite Internet service is always slow. As availability of other forms of broadband Internet access improved the satellite service opportunity evaporated. Back at that time I wasn't aware of any fraud, just a failed business model.
Only because they haven't understood the situation.
Negative social interactions can be pretty damaging to people.

While I cannot relate to the idea of choosing to have a relationship with a robot, I can see why a lot of people would choose to opt out of the social sphere. All the abuse it hurls at them, why bother?

It's not going to seem strange to them at all.
Mostly I just want to make the argument below to see how/if you'll respond. In general, I just don't think you're arguing in good faith. The reason IQ isn't studied isn't because it's "not useful." It's because people who study it are systematically shunned by academia.

But here's the main point I want to make:

I find it sort of amazing that folks will twist themselves into pretzels to argue that IQ's genetic basis shouldn't be the prior. The majority of smart people I've talked to in life had a similar experience to me growing up. Namely, they remember very well just being "better" at school than other kids, even though their environments were similar and they didn't honestly try that hard. I specifically remember teachers lauding me in 2nd grade for how hard I worked, when honestly I was and am pretty lazy. I remember very well sitting in class in 7th grade, watching the same presentations by the teacher that all the other kids watched and then with zero studying getting 100% correct on the test while many of them struggled. And I remember going to many of their houses and seeing that their home environments were either equivalent or superior to mine.

Athletic kids have a very similar experience, by the way, when it comes down to running or jumping or other sports. They're just "better".

At base, the environmental argument boils down to something like this: "Anyone in the world could have beaten Magnus Carlsen to become world chess champion if they'd just had the proper environment." Such an argument is so obviously preposterous that the prior should absolutely be that it's false.

Another point: We already know IQ is genetic. Witness that the housecat and humans have vastly different IQs, and no cat will ever perform better on an IQ test than the median human. Again, the prior obviously should be that IQ is genetic.

And again, note that I'm simply pointing out what the PRIOR should be. Thus, it should be on YOU to provide evidence that the prior is wrong. It is insufficient to simply argue that not enough evidence exists to prove IQ is genetic, because that is the prior. The burden of proof is on YOU.

Your arguments boil down to simply gaslighting smart people that their life experience is somehow completely inaccurate, unrepresentative, or misinterpreted. If you really are making it in good faith, it leaves me wondering what in your life experience leads you to believe the genetic explanation should not be the prior. Did you do poorly in school? Did you grow up in such a privileged environment that you can't believe that people like me exist?
Yeah, it's not like their CEO came directly from the relevant government bureau, right?

I'm not a fan of Elon (or most companies, for that matter), but this was the right thing to do. Previously the "government-sponsored" badge was nothing more than US propaganda.
To reinforce this point, we have known for a very long time that better UX and data quality has innumerable benefits. Remember back when everybody was excited about web 2.0 and all the amazing mashups which would soon become possible?

If you are producing data then exposing it in a nice programmable format is an extra cost and generally provides you no benefit. It usually hurts you, if people stop visiting your site and see fewer of your ads!

This is "really" a problem of incentives. It is usually not possible to capture any of the positive externalities of exposing your data. So maybe we could convince everybody in the world to switch to using different browsers with a native micropayment system; that might incentivize everybody to release all data as clean machine-readable tuples.

What I'm saying is, the phrase "Better UX and data quality" ignores just how hard that solution really is. It turns out training an LLM over most of the internet is _easier_ than global coordination.
> main computer interface display device would move from being a monitor (and also perhaps the smartphone display) to being VR

Strapping a screen to your face is not ergonomic. It isn't practical.
> Because real life is messy.

This doesn't make sense - the data inherently is centralized. Tao implied as much.
My understanding is that hasn't been the case for a long time now. Wikipedia is saying the last node actually measured by transistor length was from 1994.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_device_fabrica...
We also used to have 4 cores in 2009 but that was very unstable.

This is nonsense

Than Amdahl's law neglects the difference.

Then you don't understand "Amdahl's law". It is very basic and only about parts of software that aren't multithreaded becoming a bottleneck. This sounds like desperate pessimism.

Single-core performance is totally the same,

This is not true either and you could look at benchmarks to see it.

the number of cores does not change anything visible

Disable hyperthreading and all your cores in the bios, then run multithreaded software and say the same thing.
Im a principal at AWS. Ive worked across similar org sizes in the past. If we were having coffee Id ask who you report to, as org charts matter to perception. Why your input isnt (apparently) valued for business & technical strategy. Who youre trying to influence, and how. And who told you that you shouldnt be informing those decisions.
In Miami, a modern clash over a 2000-year-old archaeological site
To elaborate on this, if I swear on my mother's grave, I'm pinning my respect for the oath to my respect for my dead mother. If I violate the oath, I'm also violating something I consider sacred. My mother never has to find out for me to feel the consequences.

Probably this doesn't work on everybody. Even if it only works on 5%, it's essentially free so why not?
Another similar person Meigo Märk: https://www.travelandleisureasia.com/in/news/interview-with-...
It's entirely possible to be performing at that level but still not know what the actual (as in written) job requirements are until after you're formally promoted into it. Actually, I'd say it's quite frequent.
> Most Christian theology holds that God is the present age is not going smite people for breaking such oaths.

Or to put it another way. Since it is very obvious that people routinely break oaths, Modern Christians have come up with the rationalization that God chooses not to smite them, rather than accept the more likely explanation that God can't smite them for the same reason Superman couldn't prevent the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack.
Someone better tell Public Storage about this!
LLM for everyone - it is awesome to see how easy it is to train your own LLM without much effort! And open source
> That's not title case - you don't capitalize words such as a, the, of, etc. unless they are at the beginning of the title.

Exactly. Capitalizing every letter is the lazy, half-ass pseudo title case that I always have to correct. Unfortunately its becoming normalized because many major companies that should know better don't even bother to do it right.
It recommended pretty unhelpful recommendations.

Searched for
1.The flute and flute-playing : in acoustical, technical, and artistic aspects,
2. An essay on the construction of flutes, giving a history and description of the most recent improvements, with an explanation of the principles of acoustics applicable to the manufacture of wind instruments
3. A treatise on the flute

It suggests
Beauty and the Beast and Other Fairy Tales
The Flower of Paradise
Songs for Bass in a Comfortable Range
Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
and The Flute Book (this is the only relevant result).
Show HN: TypeScript Security Scanner
Hi HN,

I’m Guillaume, the cofounder of Bearer, an Open Source SAST solution.

After launching a few weeks ago here on Hacker News with support for Ruby and JavaScript stacks, I’m happy to report we’ve just released a new version (v1.2) with TypeScript support!

In terms of code coverage, we use the same rules already implemented for vanilla JavaScript, but as usual, you can build your own.

The rules list is here: https://docs.bearer.com/reference/rules/

It’s a first version for TS, but we believe that thanks to the pre-existing JavaScript support it should already provide good insights.

If you have some TypeScript code, we would love for you to try it out and let us know in the comment below or on our Discord your experience and how we can improve the findings.

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I used GPT-4 to write a simple chat website so I can talk to it without having to do manual API calls. It created a working version on the first try and me telling it about a few errors. In an hour I had improved it to a really polished look.

I recently used GPT-4 for matplotlib. I wrote a imple PDE solver and wanted it to create a function that saves a simple 3d array as an animatied 2d plot. It did it right away. I could ask it for improvements and it did it too.

Both of these tasks are easy, and if you are working every day in web development or with matplotlib I am sure you can do them in 5 minutes. But in my case, each of them might have taken half a day. And even if I could do it in 1 hour, that would be 1 hour of furrowed-brows staring at stackoverflow. Using GPT-4 is just extremely easy.

From my experience I claim that GPT-4 can also solve more complex problems. I think if I iteratively ask for features on top of what it has given me, I can get up to 3-4 times the amount of features before the whole code becomes too complex to handle. This is just a guess.
And Solana has already proven to handle up to at least 8,453 TPS[1]. There might be others that can get higher, not sure.

[1]: https://crypto.news/solana-transactions-per-second-hit-an-al...
Show HN: Timely – Day Planner (iOS App)
About the app -
Timely is a day planner app on which you can manage your daily schedule. You can create tasks and assign a tag to each task. For example, "Study Physics" can have a tag assigned as "University". Inbox is a place to add your unscheduled tasks. Get notifications sent for your tasks to get reminded about them.

About the beta -
Looking for iOS users to test and provide feedback.

About the project -
I started this project as a personal need. I tried and used dozens of day planner apps available on the App Store to manage my days but none of them suited my needs. Whereas on the Android platform there were many personal scheduling apps which I liked. Those apps tend to have a specific format. So I decided to create one for the Apple platform as I have an iPhone as my primary phone. And this is how my app was born. Also, I wanted to learn iOS development so the opportunity couldn't have been any more perfect.
Tbf, DARPA researches all kinds of approaches that never turn operational.
That’s a brilliant passage but I can help thinking that he is essentially describing a religious experience.

The transition from awe at the scale of the universe, to the futility of human selfishness, to the need to treat people kindly, may seem obvious to us but is actually a culturally-dependent response.

This is not a criticism, just an acknowledgment that Sagan belonged to a particular culture and this influenced him far more that he himself would probably have admitted.

Cultures are funny like that: give it a couple millennia and a theological point could eventually become just plain old common sense.
Do we have any quantitative way of benchmarking the quality of these models at all? Like, I don’t care if a model takes one minute per token on my laptop as long as it’s “GPT-4 quality”, and I don’t care if it does 100 tokens per second if it’s straight crap. But every comparison I see people make regarding quality seems to come from “I asked it a couple of my favorite questions and it did… uh, only a little worse than GPT imo”
Why do you think you need to be a sociopath to do that?
Indeed, I'm not sure how to summon @dang but the number of databricks shill comments in this thread is absurd.
I have a question: what should I read for an introduction to the implementation/internals/design of hash functions?

I would like to to beyond my current understanding, which is basically “they’re effectively one-way functions”, and be able to participate in discussions of articles such as this one.
NP is the class of problems for which it's hard to find the answer but easy to verify. The fact such a class even exists should hint to you that finding the answer and checking correctness can be two different things.
I'm Danish and I may have a different take on this than many Americans, but I'm frankly a little appalled that our democratic institutions are still renting their digital homes on the turf of tech giants. The EU set a good example when Elon musk bought Twitter and the EU created their first Mastodon servers, both for it's organizations and it's elected officials, and everyone should frankly follow suit. We shouldn't accept that a billionaire gets to dictate the online content of our democratic institutions, and, especially not when there are easily available alternatives where you can take back the governance. At least that is my opinion on the matter and I hope Elon manages to make this happen by getting people to quit Twitter.

I'm not sure how it is around the world, because I mostly follow our local news on these topics, but it's been sort of silly to watch the Danish debate about TikTok. We've banned public officials from having it on their phones, but we've not banned Twitter, Facebook or any of the other Social Medias that do the exact same things TikTok does. Yes, we're allied with the US, but it's still sort of silly isn't it?. If the NPR is a state affiliated media because it gets public funding, then our primary media institution Danmarks Radio should frankly get the same label since it gets all of it's funding from the public. But why on earth wouldn't our primary media institution not run their own Mastodon server, so they can govern and moderate their own public image instead of being on Twitter? Sure they might lose followers, but we don't pay them public money to be popular on an American Social Media, do we?

Heh. I personally think that what I've said here applies to everyone, every institution and organisation but I can see why it's different for American organisations to be on an American Social Network, but really, isn't it time we took ownership of our online lives back?
Mods help! This thread is getting positive bot spammed. All these accounts were created within the last half hour
If the expectations for seniors in her company are to close tickets without hand-holding, I wonder what the expectations are for juniors? To occasionally drool onto the semicolon key? It’s odd to see the ‘principal engineer’ in the article talking about soft skills/responsibilities that would have been considered ordinary for a mid-level dev 5-10 years ago.
It wasn't a mistake, it was intentional. Musk verified this, and even if we disregard his ramblings, they intentionally removed NPR as an example of who wouldn't be marked as state-affiliated from their description of how the label is applied, which gives the game away.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https:/help.twitt...
Not sure what you mean here. The formal role of RMS in FSF today is not that of a leader (nor president, nor treasury.)
Doing markup for a mind map makes AI unnecessary; you can just run it through Graphviz/PlantUML/Vega/Mermaid at that point. To really flex, GraphGPT creates graphs from natural language.

OpenAI only for now, I'm afraid.

github project page:: https://github.com/varunshenoy/GraphGPT

Cloud instance:: https://graphgpt.vercel.app/
If NPR doesn’t wish to accept the label it should refuse government funding.
> I don’t understand your position

My position is that in the US at least we're an at-will employment country. Companies very rarely give notice of termination, it's usually on the spot. While yes if you want to give notice, go right ahead, but lets stop shaming people for treating companies the same way they treat us.
Ugh, please don’t make it worse and escalate to “lie”. You’re blaming the wrong source, and have it backwards IMO. The previous owners weren’t lying, the new owners are the ones to blame for breaking a pre-existing contract with the company. Breaking this contract might not be legal, and in that sense they may be only the ones lying.
This would totally work on me. My wife is always buying USB cables from amazon, IDK what we do with them all.
The recommendations have a heavy bias towards high-popularity books. That's... not extremely helpful.

I kind of expected that on my first sample set (Ishmael/Accelerando/A Gentleman in Moscow), but even the second one (Priory of the Orange Tree/Traci Lords:Beyond it all/Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins) is severely tilted to "everybody is reading it!"

A last try with a decided "60's Scifi" slant - Small, still voice of trumpets/The Tomorrow People/Deathworld. And I get Hitchhiker's Guide, War of the World's, Rainbows End.

I don't look for book recommendations to learn what everybody is reading, those books are inescapable anyways. I'm looking for thematically relevant, but might surprise and delight me.

Doing this well is hard even with curated lists and experts, but it's definitely possible to do better by just weighing popularity less heavily.
Ok, I added them.

I love audio books. I wish there was a store that sells them for download without DRM. Just like as if you bought the CD, but without the CD.
> But what I don't see is people willing to do the same with Apple who has also invested billions in the space and will be showcasing their Reality platform in the next couple of months at WWDC.

Nobody is criticizing because... there's nothing to base those criticisms on - there's no product (yet) and WWDC is rumor. Once (if) it launches, the praises and critiques will follow.
I believe religious people are delusional. But from that one cannot conclude that their oauths means nothing, quite the contrary.
Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
This is an amazing resource - thank you for sharing. I did some undergrad research before landing my current position and really need to get back to exploring things outside of what I'm currently working with.

If anyone has any other papers to recommend for a junior engineer, please don't hesitate to share!
Please, in Soviet Russia interns tell you what to do. (I'm sorry, that was a terrible Yakov Smirnoff reference, I apologize to him and to anyone reading this.)

Anyway, in the USA military interns at NPR are learning how to run a radio station or whatever. I mean, if the military tried to tell NPR what to say there would be howls from coast to coast.

- - - -

And now I have read the article you linked to, and it does sound like there may have been some influence from OPD to NPR. As I would expect, when this came to light, there was howling from coast to coast, and it got shut down right quick. In fact, the article says the whole OPD was shut down. Good. (WTF people?)
Corporation for Public Broadcasting is entirely government funded, and it funds NPR.
I just carry a portable battery when travelling. Seems like way less work with the added convenience of being able to charge on the move.
> The numbers I am last aware of, while ten years old now, were that Federal funding was roughly 10% of their operating budget, with 90% coming from other sources.

If that's accurate, then I'd love for NPR to explain the order of magnitude gap between their claim of 1% and that 10% figure. That's a huge difference.

to upon_drumhead: Federal funding laundered through sub-orgs that share the same "NPR" branding is still federal funding.
Astroturfing. Likely databricks told their employees to create HN accounts and comment on this thread to get traction (or just had one PR person make a bunch.)

@dang, any chance we can just ban all these accounts? Seems to be pretty cut and dry here.
That pumping might have been seen as a warning that the company either does not intend to support the product much longer, or has doubts that it will be able to do so. And while I agree with your final sentence, unless Visicom was careless, the actual license agreement, which supersedes the promotional claim, will have permitted what happened and so essentially revoked the offer. Caveat emptor!
This was true in the early 1990's but I rarely hear a car alarm these days.

There was one particularly annoying car alarm that was popular in the 1990's that had a sequence of "police/ambulance siren" sounds.

Bieww Bieww Bieww Bieww, oooo eeee oooo eeee, rrr rrr rrr rrr, ee oo ee oo, booooooooup booooooooup booooooooup booooooooup, oooooooo eeeeeeee oooooooo eeeeeeee <repeat>

Or something like that.
Non-touchscreen smartphone boom been going for years prior.

The problem was that embedded OS-es like Symbian, A200, PalmOS were running circles around Windows Mobile. Most of them used Samsung SoCs which were few times slower than StrongARM.

StrongARM was seen exclusively in the context of it being used to "lift" extremely bloated WinMo smartphones, and was otherwise thought as an overkill for other uses.
One Nit: I'd say that it's not just friends that will generate 'real' content, it's 'trusted' people. Some of that will be AIs and more of it will be strangers that you know produce 'good' content, but most will be friends, as you say.

So, the combination between the social graph and the content graph, with a dash of AI, will be the outcome I see coming.
If your power bank is qi (MagSafe) to your phone, it will probably be fine given the lack of a wired connection.
1. Yes

2. Sometimes the run button of the IDE, sometimes the command line

3. Database connection parameters, API keys and such go in a .dotfile; parameters that might change from run to run usually go in command line argument; special flags for debugging go in environment variables

4. Usually I've got a database (pgsql, arangodb) running as a "service" in the operating system on the local machine. In one case I start up an antivirus server that one application needs.
Yes, this is a cool enough achievement on its own. HN is not the best place for these "testimonials". Unless this is some sort of demo of the LLM itself /s
I listen to NPR station in the car. Anecdotally, very little of the content is true journalism; much of it is effectively op-ed. That's not necessarily a bad thing, provived you understand what you're consuming.

The state-funded tag is a bit much. But to claim NPR is a pure journalism play isn't accurate either.