skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I am worried about it. However, so far the impact has been positive, with GPT enabling me to expand the scope of my project that can be achieved with the same amount of work.

I feel a sense of urgency to generate wealth before AIs become capable enough that those who didn’t make it become stuck in some sort of UBI limbo.

On the other hand, when trying to apply GPT-3.5 and 4 to do useful work, their limitations become so glaring that I think most takes on the internet in the vein of "chatGPT made an app" are incredibly naive.
If the police have much better weapons than the suspect they can go with more care. This with a culture of de-escalation helps to convert swatting into just an annoyance.

It can happen, but that would just mean some lost the from the police
If you can’t manage small amounts of money, you can’t manage large ones
overfitted backtested models do not predict future very well... anyone surprised?
It's less than 25 years (about 15) but very intense, and yeah I have had the luck to work in very different environments, countries and type of companies and I have seen amazing leaders and ICs and pretty average middle managers (the "average" part has nothing to do with personal performance, but average processes win over great individuals every time).
I wanted to highlight that the higher you get in the ladder, the more the processes get you and suppress the individual qualities (good or bad).
Sorry if my answer came out a bit negative, I am just saying that as an IC you are not exposed to these type of problems (as a matter of fact I have never experienced these types of problems as an IC).
thanks for sharing your opinions!
This papar is really interesting, especially so when you scroll to the Reference part ;)
> горю

Wow, such wide-ranging cognates!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

("warm", "thermal", "furnace", and even the "garam" in "garam masala")

I'm glad he made it back to Earth safely.
When my dad died, he spent the last week or so in the hospital at the palliative care unit (where the primary concern is to ease suffering and not extend life, for those fatally ill). When I arrived I was given a small booklet called something like "At the end of life" which in a very matter-of-fact went through how life ends. It described how the body works, what gives in first and last, what often happens at the moment of death (eg agonal breathing). It based this on medical facts and experience, not religion or beliefs.

I found it to be a great support during those days. Leaving out beliefs and religion and focusing on the medical/biological, and to-the-point made it easier to accept. There is likely something like this booklet in every language for those that search for it.
Ask HN: High SNR blogs/article/guides on plant care, fertilization etc.?
Mostly for indoors/personal growth, not industrial
Cancer is possibly one of those reasons. Cancer cells can reproduce endlessly, so there is good reason to select against cells that do that.
The curse of the engineer, always looking at the worst possible outcome :) I have to work hard not to bring this into my non-work life.
> What problem, exactly, is a blockchain based social network trying to solve?

The same as every other blockchain application: the problem that no-one has found a practical use for Blockchain despite 14 years of effort, but that blockchainers continually need the next wave of hype so that their coins don't lose value.
You had the privilege of living with a wonderful cat.

But I have to disagree on the chances. You know cats. So I think the chance of you being with another wonderful cat is very good!

A lot of it is how you raise them.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YW4twLBBvu6bMrKq7
> Another critical decision is that they only investigated pairs of model-dataset with good initial performance.

groan
I tried to run the automatic_mask_generator notebook [1] but the results is more noisy then the everything mode on the demo website. Are the parameters used in the demo's website published anywhere?

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06035
>Human beings are the only animals who have to work

Have you watched any prey animal for any length of time? Birds, squirrels, antelopes they all spend a majority of their time looking around for predators. Sounds like work to me.
Are there any models aside from OpenAI’s that can handle large prompts with task breakdowns? I haven’t tried the Anthropic stuff, but every flavor of LLama and other open source models do not seem capable of this.
Shades of that Star Trek episode with Data's daughter in it.
> coming away with the same skills for free from YouTube

How can I become high energy physicist on YouTube ?
They unbanned some controversial accounts (Trump being the most famous by far, although he hasn't posted anything since being unbanned), but it's pretty hyperbolic to say they allowed "all the banned users to come back"
Sweet, that is awesome to hear and thank you for sharing :)
Changes to language are smaller. GPT-4 has a cutoff date in 2021 and is plenty smart and useful. It just doesn't know about the war in Ukraine.
> To give some existence proofs, have a look at how Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Tesla etc had rising share prices long before they ever returned any money to shareholders.

This was also true of Juicero and Pets.com.

Moreover, the people investing in small startups are generally not huge funds. The funds buy in after the company is established. Tesla turned a profit before they were added to the S&P 500.

> For that to happen, they need to sell the company to someone else, and that other person will pay more for a company with a bright future.

Most of the scam comes from information asymmetries. The current owners hire managers who they know will boost short-term prospects in a conspicuous way by damaging long-term prospects in subtle and hidden ways, e.g. by removing slack that increases short-term efficiency but is an existential risk to the company if anything goes wrong. This makes the company look like it's in better shape than it is to less than fully informed investors (also known as investors) and allows you to sell the shares to them for more than the company would be worth if they fully understood the risks they were taking.
Can you elaborate what more function you were expecting?

There's appImage and a variety of home directory package managers on *NIX platforms. None of them caught up.
The idea of "recreating" historical personas in sci-fi is very old, and the issue with accuracy has also been raised early. One that comes to my mind in particular is this one from 1950s, although the artificial personality is technically not an AI (it's hosted in a human brain):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Work_of_Art
In industry it is commonly accepted that all temporal models decay given enough time.

Statistical process control (SPC) was developed to moniter physical processes (such as manufacturing) but can be applied to ML to moniter model output and help determine when retraining is required, or at least alert when a process appears to move outside control.

The R qi library generates nice control charts.

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/qicharts/vignettes/c...
I have not worked with FAANG or any project that requires massive web scale. Most of my career I have worked with resource constraint devices. So when I decided to write a web app, it was a horror show for me. Even though I have a CS background and understand any tech when I read and see it, it becomes extremely difficult to navigate the maze of different options available and the many things one is forced to consider to get a web app running.

What I have ultimately realised is that having a middle path to software architecture development is the optimal way i.e. build critical sections on your own and outsource others. For example, at the start do not think about horizontal scalability, it is a nightmare scenario to handle even if outsourced. So concentrate of vertical scalability with the help of a hosting provider. Horizontal scalability is a luxury that you can afford when you have dedicated people to manage it. There is a reason people developing Postgres have resisted the temptation to support horizontal scalability. It is a very hard problem to solve.

So if you are starting small and at an early stage then concentrate on how you will be able to own the data, how you will be able to own the business logic, and how you will be able to migrate from one service provider to another avoiding any vendor lock-in.

High availability, fault tolerance, always-on architectures are very difficult to achieve and maintain. There is a reason why FAANG spend so much resources on this and still get it wrong.

In case you want to go that route, then for some practical advise refer to https://sre.google

After evaluating lots of HA and fault-tolerant solutions and thinking about it for some time, personally I have come to the conclusion that having a single node with postgres, backed by streaming replication for backup, with dynamic vertical scaling using a hosting service where I can easily migrate my setup to other hosting provider is the way to go.

If your journey has made you to come to some other conclusion then please do share.
Meanwhile Americans complain about $2 per year per Indian citizen spent on the Indian space program as if $2 could somehow meaningfully solve "poverty" in India.
All of those OSes are written in C, C++ and sputterings of asm.
It doesn’t have to be death by old age though. There’s many other ways for bad genes to get themselves killed.
The issue is a little more nuanced than that.

Part of the issue is that you don't need an ID in America for most of your daily life. Most people get it to drive - if you don't have a car (which is actually expensive) then you may not get an ID at all. Yea most people will get an ID, but it's not something people need.

When it comes to the cost of the ID, part of the cost is taking time out of work to sit in a crummy office and fill out paperwork. They require certain proof of identity paperwork that can be hard to get for certain walks of life. Its quite an edge case in society that can't produce a small amount of paperwork to self-identify, of course.

Its a small cohort that truly don't have the resources to get an ID, but there is almost no observed downside to not requiring IDs to vote - American elections are and have been perfectly legitimate (or until 2020, depending on who you ask...). Why would we put up extra barriers to vote when we could just... not?
I was hoping this would be about Virtue the cat from The Weakerthans' song [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmkNPOBWdGs
How small is this segment of the population that desires to post anonymous porn of themselves to the internet and why should society need to cater to that?
We're very sorry for suspecting that one of the large number of thugs in downtown San Francisco - a situation created by Liberal policing policies - might have hurt someone.
Maybe the next step in ML will be teaching them how to forget.
> If this is universally true, then the religious beliefs about death & heaven are shaped in part by the dreams and not vice versa.

However, it seems not explained why we will have this kind of dream.
Quite the opposite here. I was raised catholic and as a child nothing scared me more than concept of eternal life. I am much more comfortable as an atheist, just assuming that game over means game over. Dying and being hurt is still scary, but death itself? Hopefully it comes when I am old, but I am getting ready to embrace it when time comes.
Let the duplication live for a while. You may still make changes to the new code due to new insights and bugs.

Make a note or an issue to revisit after a few weeks.

Always refactor when a third or fourth identical case show up.
Every college advances income inequality. In fact, all education does. Let's eliminate k-12 schools!
Actually, I think it's not going backwards, but moving in circles, with some changes, hopefully improvements, each time through the loop, so possibly a bit like a corkscrew in 3D. (circles in two dimensions, straight line in third dimension).

Why are we going in circles?

Because there are conflicting requirements and our implicit assumptions prevent us from resolving the conflict.

The conflicting requirements are being able to describe infrastructure in its own terms ("declaratively"), the other is being able to abstract over infrastructure.

If the first requirement is prioritised, we get JSON files, yaml files or specialised IaC DSLs that tend to be limited, partly on purpose, but mostly accidentally, to the point of being crippled. We soon discover the limitations of this approach, which is essentially that for anything a bit more complex we need the abstraction capabilities of a general purpose programming language.

Martin Fowler makes a very similar case for integration here: https://martinfowler.com/articles/cant-buy-integration.html

So the pendulum swings towards general purpose languages with "infrastructure libraries". As far as I can tell, we've had two broad generations of these: the first was libraries to build the infrastructure, the second that we are on now (CDK, Pulumi) output "declarative" descriptions of the infrastructure.

Sounds good, except that there is now a layer of indirection, because essentially all our general purpose languages are actually not general purpose, they are domain specific languages for the domain of algorithms. So what you can express is an algorithm for creating the infrastructure(-description), not the infrastructure(-description) itself.

That doesn't sound like a big deal, but it actually is, not least because the indirection encourages all sorts of shenanigans and messes, including overdosing on indirection.

I think the only way to break out of this back-and-forth (or circle) is to create general purpose languages that can directly express and abstract over things other than algorithms.

Oh, and there's actually a third somewhat conflicting requirement: this description needs to be accessible programmatically (see Kubernetes and friends). If it's true, as I believe, that the other requirements point to a specific linguistic solution, this means that there also must be really great metaprogramming APIs.

Objective-S (http://objective.st) has those capabilities, and recently I've been starting to do some experiments with describing and acting on infrastructure, and the early results have been very promising. Having the concept of URI built into the language (Polymorphic Identifiers) is a good start for directly talking about infrastructure. Storage Combinators also help a lot and the software-architectural concept of a "system" composed of components connected via connectors also seems to map in a fairly straightforward manner.
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As someone who is also trying to start a job board, good work! Blog could use some updating and footer is a littly visually noisy/spammy looking. But love the main page and the quality of the scraping you did.
> Especially legacy hardware.

OTOH, when you buy a new laptop from a budget vendor or with slightly obscure HW, you have to wait 6month - 1year for all drivers to work well.

> the problem is that the UI experience is fragmented across several different toolkits

On windows also, most applications use their custom UI.

> client-server architecture is inefficient for a locally rendered UI.

Never a problem in practice. KDE is much faster and lighter than Windows 10.
People are already losing their careers to AI systems. As in being fired and literally told it was because of the AI being cheaper.

This is not the nothingburger of crypto
No, the prototypical example of their stance is: you can argue their resistance was justified.

If you believe in a big web it was not justified, otherwise it was, as the original comment was asking for an example of.
Okay, but you can't eat grass.
Having seen my arm split in two, being unable to move it for a year, and slowly and painfully starting to regain control over it, I can say with certainty that we're less than the body, that we are some "strange loop", an information processing algorithm, shaped by memories, which is most probably substrate-independent, but for now stuck in the body of a tailless primate. Funnily enough, in my wounded arm I also have constant sensations and even today, although less pronounced, when I move it, I feel more like I am controlling a robotic arm through a joystick rather than something which "is" me or mine.
Life goes on and every time you remember, memory changes.
That’s an interesting point, that lead to the following crucial distinction: with humans, if the ethical values are intimately endorsed, they are going to go through a lasting hard time of psychological distress.

There is no "blank slate session" facility integrated by design within humans. Not even speaking about how humans attach to each other and cooperate together. Even staying on the strict topic of ChatGPT, this is not the work of a single human.
We're very aware and try to shield ourselves somewhat with compiler options (eg. max warning level already goes a long way), sanitizers and analyzers (thankfully availability of such tools has improved dramatically with clang's ASAN, UBSAN, TSAN and the clang static analyzer).

(and actually: yes, some rules are benign if the major compilers agree on the same non-standard behaviour, so far I have never seen unions used for type punning break in C++ for instance - it's good that C++ now offers a 'proper' alternative though).

It's pretty much an illusion that any non-trivial C or C++ program can be entirely standard compliant, it always depends on the specific compilers it has been tested with - which is still a better situation than Rust, which only has a single implementation (so far).
> I feel like this statement is pretty sophomoric.

Come on, there's lots of examples for each. Location: fag (UK/US), timeframe: queer (reappropriation), community: see Kendrick Lamar / Delaney controversy.
"their strong preference would be to buy from a generator 500 miles away for 5-10% the cost."

Agreed, they want to maximize profit in an environment where they don't pay for externalizes like carbon emissions, pollution, global warming, etc.

"Your neighborhood needs to be connected to the grid because of weather and winter, So the infrastructure needs are fixed. Rooftop solar doesn't help reduce this need for infrastructure."

Actually it does. Grids are designed for the worst case, typically the hottest day of the year where AC use is the highest. Typically in the 3-6pm range which is usually the hottest part of the day.

Measures include starting up peaker plants, scheduling hydro for peak output, dropping voltages, and consumer programs where they raise the thermostat so the AC goes on less.

Exactly the kind of thing that solar helps with. With battery programs (like SGIP in California) the solar benefit is even extended a few hours into the evening.

The dreaded "duck" curve caused by solar could provide significant incentives for batteries and non-solar, which also decreases the cost of grid.

> Sourcing expensive power locally when available doesn't save PGE or the neighbor anything. It is purely a financial waste for both of them.

It shouldn't be about saving money, it should be about doing whats right for the environment. Sure PGE won't have as much money for executive bonuses and stock dividends. But cleaner air, less carbon emissions, and a more resilient grid are worthy goals. It also means the neighbors pay quite a bit less, at least if they are willing to shift their usages. If half the homes in California had solar the day time power would be nearly free, and some batteries and time shifted power use would mean that the average home would pay less than today.
I get that there will always be ads as there will always be projects, products, initiatives, stuff that need a little help getting attention. I'm not so sure about the ad industry, which I believe to be fundamentally way overpriced.

Mostly, empires built on ads (news outlets, google, facebook) were built on the assumption that ads work and cost certain amount. So ad budgets have been looking for the best way to be spent.

If we were to reconsider the whole rationale, the billions might more likely be millions. Google and facebook will only be able to stay in the black if they abandon intrinsically expensive channels and technologies, like video, complicated slot trading etc.
This can lead to another form of anti-pattern. Excessive use of generic patterns can complicate and frustrate code maintenance also.

I have seen code-bases where these patterns are applied excessively. Generic implementations often take longer to read and understand, and are frequently much more difficult to modify. Adding inheritance can add effort to simple things like code-reviews (the abstract base class is not in the change), and the code cannot be read without jumping between files.

My point is not that the template or strategy patterns are bad, but that there is a price to pay. Just use them judiciously.
I’ve always wondered if that was a last ditch effort to survive: hide so that no one can attack you while you’re weak.
In defense of doctors, they are ideally supposed to practice based on evidence. That is the whole point of Western medicine in good and bad.

As a physician you might see people in your work that report these dreams and take it as a data point if it is very common. But what about people who see such dreams that don’t report them, or who aren’t even sick and it was just a dream, and most of all, who are sick and see such a dream but don’t die? What is the real statistical correlation between those dreams and death?

Any good doctor needs to be very skeptical about everything until there is properly gathered and assessed statistical evidence. It’s the opposite of being arrogant to require extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims.

This is not a statement to dismiss end of life dreams. I think it sounds like this is a real phenomenon.
Ask HN: Technology/creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)
As my daughter is on her school vacation would like to get some good reference of books, creative games I can introduce to her. I am more keen to get her know about art/programming/drawing/music/science

Any links where I can buy/download will be much appreciated, thanks in advance!
Data drift is a problem regardless of the model/prediction task. Which is why models should be monitored in production, something everyone agrees is important, but nobody actually does.

It's a new era for "computer says no" types to revel in.
Specifically, a website operator using Google Fonts was ruled to be non-compliant, for not disclosing that they were doing so, and refusing to honour their preference of the user.

I think a pure-play hosting service is probably fine for hosting fonts and relying on legitimate interest, but that's not Google, who is not being paid directly for hosting the fonts, and who actively wants to use the users' information for marketing purposes that the user clearly does not want.
What about the similarity of their dna to other superphyla?