skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which, while true, is a really shitty system, as evidenced by the headline.
Those are very unusual, atypical hallucinations and Schizoaffective disorder and Bipolar Disorder are two separate but similar disorders.
CEO fucked up, get rid of him/her. Why'd you hire so many people if you don't need it? Sounds like C-suite made the wrong call, in that case.
Interesting way to frame it. It would seem the position only attracts "hangmen"? I suppose that is (one of the many reasons) why I am not currently sailing in my yacht across the Pacific.
Yeah that stood out to me too. Can he really not imagine how AI could take over the human race? There are plenty of films to give ideas.

I've noticed a lot of people dismissing concerned people think that those people expect GPT-4 to take all our jobs and destroy humanity.

But nobody thinks that. The reason people are concerned is not because GPT-4 has human level intelligence; it's because it has shown that human level intelligence might actually be possible in the not too distant future.

In other words, GPT-4 is never going to take over the world, but what about GPT-40?
Cool! :)

Btw, there's a busted link in the "What is Lost at SQL?" section, where it says "A SQL learning game by Robin Lord". The link on "Robin Lord" seems to be missing "https://" at the start, so it's getting wrongly turned into:

https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/www.therobinlord.com
All nature is in constant flux including human nature. I wouldn’t say “we all know”.
It changes deployment because you need to flush the opcache after deploying new code, for example; you need to install composer packages, restart the app server (if you use one), etc. I mean obviously you still upload files, but there are more steps involved in a proper deployment.

Once you start getting into zero-downtime deployments, you'll quickly see the need for both application servers like Swoole or RoadRunner, as well as strategies that don't leave requests in the air with half the code from the old version and the other half with the new one.

Let HackerNews hobby programmers snark all they want, those are very real problems with very real solutions.
Scientists may have discovered how to slow down aging in humans
How can you judge the relative distance from a fiction?

Who defines what is “unbiased”? What are their biases?

You cannot measure something that exists in a fiction that resides independently in each person’s mind.

Objective reality exists, but objective observers do not.
HN Are any forms of tinnitus treatable?

I have pretty bad tinnitus, a very high pitched ringing seemingly coming from one ear. It seems to have gradually gotten worse and worse over the past few years.

It's kind of driving me crazy. I am normally the kind of person who likes to sit quietly thinking and listening to the wind.

I've been really busy with work, but one thing that's been keeping me going is a plan to go see some specialists about this when I have time.
If there is a way to cure it I would give up everything I own, all my money to do so. Even if I had to go deaf in one ear or something.
F to C -> subtract 32 and divide by 1.8

C to F -> multiply by 1.8 and add 32

This sounds messy but works out well for a lot of temperatures we are used to, for example... 0C is 32F ... 100C is 212F ... 20C is 68F ... 30C is 86F ... etc.
Was already there with "lab grown protein" instead of vegan meat, meat substitute etc.
Remember where they came from: Dinosaurs.

In fact, I have been told that calling birds "dinosaurs," is actually accurate. The lineage is pretty much a straight line.

It also makes me wonder what it must have been like, back then. A lot of speculation is that dinosaurs (especially theropods) were extremely smart.
When you step back and look objectively and in an unbiased manner, you see that we (humans) are a species of dominance rather than collaborative partnership. It is a world where individuals must earn the privilege of survival, and by earn I don't mean only in a monetary sense but also a gatekeeper sense. Life is not of precious value; power and control are. This, and the commodification of labour, land, and money are bringing about the disintegration of capitalism with nothing on the horizon to replace it other than anarchy. Welcome to the interregnum.
> Find all of the phone numbers of form 0001234567 in a document and convert them to (000) 123-4567

> Reorder a photo directory from year/event/photo to event/year/photo

> Check daily on a few airbnbs to see if any lowered their prices

> Sending a PDF on your computer to your kindle via Amazon’s “email the file” thingy

> Check if there’s a Cubs game today to avoid the trains

> Take some structured data and put it into a template

I believe that all these kind of tasks will be fully doable through ChatGPT(-like) assistant.
Yes exactly. All of the dismissive ‘it’s just a fancy next word predictor’ articles can’t see the woods for the trees. Just because the function of the model is to predict the next word tells us almost nothing about what internal representation of the world it has built in order to generalise. I don’t for a second think it’s currently of comparable complexity to the world model we all have in our brains, but I also don’t think there’s any clearly defined theoretical limit on what could be learned, beyond the need for the internal model to make better predictions and the optimiser to find this more optimal set of weights (which might be a limit in practice as of now).
Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their new update
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As I can't read the article, I searched around a bit and read [1] on frobes.

> Pichai's compensation included stock awards of about $218 million and a basic salary of $2 million, the filing showed. Pichai's stock award is paid every three years.

(The additional 6million were security spent by the company.)

His compensation next year will be much lower, the same as the last two years:

> The 2022 pay is compared to $6.3 million in 2021 when he didn’t receive the grant.

So he effectively got 73million per year in stocks. Or around ($73mil/$106stockprice=) 690k stock / year.

[1] https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/innovation/technology/googl...
MySQL doesn't have materialized views, but it has better replication (at least using Aurora in AWS) than the big boys databases.

Adding more replicas and changing the instance size scales much better than fine-tuning the big complexity of Oracle and its materialized views.

So, maybe it is not the tool, but how to use it what matters. And fuck Oracle if by big boys databases you mean Oracle.
https://archive.is/0PpsC
Is there a chance these sociopaths will run out of obedient desperate employees? At some point they will employ exclusively timid dependables, run by rigid ruthless procedures and the whole thing will be like a fortress with all gates unlocked.
Go and Google "artificial birds" and report back.

Look up the definition of "artificial" while you're at it.
This title implies that Pichai is greedy and disenfranchising the employees. This is true, but at the same time:

I would be extremely grateful to have worked at Google and be laid off. That's almost a non-problem.
> thieves need to steal more phones to make up the lost profits.

Unless these thieves were rolling in money previously, I would imagine they maximize theft as much as they possibly can — why would they leave money on the table? I don’t think they’re stealing to meet some monthly quota like hired hands on a farm; they should just be acting on a risk/reward function.

And as such, I think the more likely scenario as phones decrease in value per theft, other objects are made relatively more valuable (per risk/reward), and theft would transition elsewhere.
I assume they are confusing CEOs with entrepreneurs and investors.
Because it’s Turing-complete, unlike Python?
Don't want to blame too much, but it seems like your internet got stuck in the past. I have 10gbits. I used to have 1gbits for a long time before. 100mbits is not that much these days. Switzerland is talking about a government mandated minimum speed of 80mbits in 2024. That's a 7 hour download on minimum speed for an unusually large game. Switzerland is not alone in this regard. That could be a view of privilege, but average internet speeds are still progressing forward fast.
Imagine swimming with a long pole attached to the front of you. Even if it would be thin, it would still disturb you very much. Also the disturbances in the water created by the pole would make noise, that can be detected.

Submarines are optimised in everything for absolute stealth, up to the point that the crew may not make any noise, like dropping a wrench.
He also took millions why firing thousands of people.
“No Bees, No Food.” How Insects Help Farmers with Their Harvest
Caroline O'Donoghue has written about exactly this phenomenom. As a creative writer, you only ever see your "competition's" top work. All the crap that you are forced to do to pay the bills never gets any attention.

Her blog is here: https://sentimentalgarbage.substack.com/p/the-pied-piper-is-...
> Remind me again how big-co CEOs assume "all the risk"?

Who specifically said they assume "all the risk" that we are refuting here?
Surely the magma, once cooled, would take less physical space than when hot?
The System Architecture of Stack Overflow in 2016
Nothing IMO! Languages are pretty good at generating words that are useful and pruning ones that are not, so this will either survive or not survive regardless of the meta-commentary.
Norway's gas exports saved the EU from kneeling to Russia during 2021 and 2022. Our exports prevented Russia's invasion of Ukraine from becoming an unmitigated disaster to European autonomy. Now sitting at approximately 30% of total EU natural gas consumption.

Criticizing us for climate profiteering, or even war profiteering, as some European voices have done, is extremely intellectually dishonest coming from Sweden, which followed suit to Germany and shut down more than 1 GWh of nuclear energy generation capacity during an ongoing climate gas emission crisis.
None of which started during his reign, am i wrong?
Entrepreneurial reward for managerial risk.
Amazing how much emotion a physical retrocomputing experience to our youthful days can be. Emulators are neat but they don’t trigger the physical sensation of the keyboard, the sounds, hell the smells. Like nibbling a madeleine for some of us….
Microdosing hemlock the next big thing?

I thought the benefits of red wine came from stuff like the tannin and could be gotten otherwise from non poisonous sources.
They should. Not out of charity, but out of labor protection.
You take on a worker, you take on a responsibility.
I am from Denmark where we have strong unions protecting our working class and lower middle class. That is a good thing.

However what is the benefit of ultra high income FAANG employees unionizing?
It doesn't need a defense. It has been recognized since the beginning of computing as playing an important role. University in late 90s early 2000s called it rapid application development. RAD tools have come a long way since then. ChatGPT is being used as a RAD tool with mixed success. I'm optimistic about where it will be in 5 years. Great potential.
"If you exit vim, it will restart."

This is like exception handling code with the comment:

// this will never happen
Talk is cheap. "Taking full responsibility" is also cheap, that's why CEOs often do it and fire 5-20% of their staff without blinking an eye.
If you could remove meat from the supply chain and be the main supplier for the alternative, why wouldn’t you choose to profit from that?

The upside for the politicians and suppliers seems too astronomical not to be at least thinking about it.
Yeah I'm quite optimistic but I think it's going to be a situation where we need good guys with AI to counter bad guys with AI.
There are projects between hobby users and Facebook, believe it or not :-)

I actually like using a reliable package manager, a wide ecosystem of good packages, and modern language features. There is nothing "heavy" about modern PHP, unless you want it to.
A can of beer is 12oz or 16oz.
This is why I prefer to read openly bias sources.

If you read sources bias in both directions, you at least know the truth is probably somewhere within that range.

Granted that range can be quite large at times.
226M / 50k ~ 4000 events a year. Poor fellow couldn’t pull that off.
Technically speaking, if every day you take an uniformly random selection of news articles, on average what you read will not be biased. Or, to be precise, it will follow the same biases as the population of news articles you sample from.
Why why still query and ask any questions to the ad machine?
Looks cool, the CSS is a bit janky with multiple scrollbars at least on Firefox.
I have tested them on novel Winograd schemas, they didn't pass; that's why I said what I said. Your second schema was incorrectly constructed, in both the first and second sentence the pluralisation of the pronoun in question gives away the answer. "It" won't apply to "flowers" because they're plural, and "they were" won't apply to "the greenhouse" because it's singular. As a result, those sentences aren't Winograd schemas because they're not testing common sense pronoun attribution specifically, they're testing the ability to maintain plural status consistency, which is doable by much less intelligent systems. It's also standard to ask "What does the pronoun '[pronoun]' refer to in that sentence?" rather than "What was too small?" or similar, as using descriptive words is also giving away information that you're meant to be testing the model on. But plenty of people make that mistake, so it's not that important.

Summing up, out of your four (not an acceptable sample size to form evidence) attempts to subject a SOTA LLM to Winograd schemas, two of them were actually Winograd schemas and only one of those got answered correctly. That isn't evidence that LLMs can pass novel Winograd schemas. If you actually come across such evidence, you should post it publicly on at least a blog page if you can't access the infrastructure to publish the results in a paper, even though the finding would certainly be novel enough to deserve a paper. As I said: there is no evidence that LLMs can pass novel Winograd schemas as of yet. We could get said evidence tomorrow, but it doesn't exist right now.

I would put a condescending moral of the story here, but I don't feel any particular need to belittle you, and instead hope you just learn from the information as presented.
Can you define "several years"? Google's revenues are at all-time highs, and still growing (albeit slowly). Seems pretty far from anything drying up...
I don't think you get it.

In traditional stock markets you must do:

Retail -> Broker -> Exchange

Coinbase allows:

Retail -> Coinbase Exchange

Retail -> CB Broker -> CB Exchange

Retail -> Broker -> CB Exchange

How is this not better for retail than traditional finance? How can I get DMA at the NASDAQ as an individual?
Hmm, are you open to other reports of weirdness? I'm noticing typos and similar in tutorial instructions.
The Business of Death
I think this kind of argument is making a similar mistake. In the same way that there's nothing fundamentally special about the computation human brains do, there's nothing fundamentally special about our "fitness function" (to reproduce).

It's just hard coded, whereas GPT's is dictated. More or less anyway.

Also our "fitness function" or motivations & goals aren't even that hard coded. You can easily modify them through drugs.
This human copywriter pun is extremely bad. I don't think any respectable agency would run with it, simply because it has highly inappropriate sexual connotation that could potentially be offensive to many customers.

Ad like this could easily get someone in trouble when used in wrong context (neurodivergent people especially have a problem with this).

See also:

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/boss-suspended-after-...
Reading this was like reading my biography with the exception of covid nose. I on the other hand gained better sense of smell after a routine gallbladder removal surgery. I smell some fragrances for hours or days after the person has left after just a brief interaction. I am smelling things I never smelled before.
Well he hasn’t ruined them.

That’s the standard we’re talking here.
I'm surprised that Bloomberg is getting less and less pro-business and more mainstream.
Their compensation doesn’t come from assuming more risk.

They are essentially celebrities with a personal brand that corporations will hire to have the celebrity’s name as head the org.

A good celebrity can bring fresh energy and new atmosphere to an organisation.

It’s unclear whether the average CEO is worth their compensation, but what is clear is that bad leadership can tank an organisation to zero.
Because while that's the status quo, it shouldn't be.

Labor is entitled to all it creates.
B12 is often added to the like of oat milk directly.
The news sources that I trust the least are the news sources that claim to be “unbiased”.

I tend to read a variety of news sources that claim to be biased and then mentally account for that bias.

Also, your site is down…
https://archive.is/5EQSa
You don't get it. Having more brands is a way to increase sales.
"Those are very unusual, atypical hallucinations"

They have been telling me that all my life. What is your point?

"Schizoaffective disorder and Bipolar Disorder are two separate but similar disorders"

Yes, and Schizoaffective Disorder Bipolar Type is it's own thing.

A Misdiagnosed Case of Schizoaffective Disorder With Bipolar Manifestations
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8394638/

What's your point?

There is a relation to them all, some of us do not fit into neat little diagnostic packages. Actually, most of us do.

https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/40/3/...
Tell that to the thousands of googlers who are struggling on the job market right now.
Smart gun operating on facial recognition goes on sale in US
I beleive it is your internet is a bit in a future. Good for you, but not a reason to blame others. See https://www.fastmetrics.com/internet-connection-speed-map-us... , for example. 30-50 Mbps was median in 2020, even with COVID-induced improvements I doubt things became significantly better today.
One benefit is stronger labor protection from layoffs like these.

Having labor be more powerful can also help when execs push for morally questionable projects.

Lastly, FAANG employees are working class.
Telescopius
I think it's because Flash means more than one thing to people. As a plugin, it was horrible for multiple reasons: insecure, undiscoverable, pain to view at different resolutions, etc. As a creative outlet, it was awesome, it enabled a lot of people to express themselves, and others to take part in a culture.
Hi HN,

A few months ago I made this website called Treblekey.

Since I began learning how to play guitar and piano about 2-3 years ago, I've been looking for a tool to help me:

- learn how to navigate the guitar fretboard

- practice hearing and identifying musical intervals (ear training)

- other things I might come up with in the future

And I thought: "it would be pretty nice if there was an app with useful musical exercises for beginners", which is how I got the idea for Treblekey.

Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think :)

Thanks!
Everything I’ve said is 100% factually correct. The bulk of his pay comes from performance incentives (defined by internal, non-share-price-related performance metrics). In the past he’s had a seperate incentive package based on how google stock did benchmarked against the S&P100 index. I don’t know if he still has that, but he’d still be performing well against that metric if he did. Google stock is up about 100% from early 2020. Hope this helps you understand how these incentive packages work a bit better.
Nutrition isn’t in its infancy. The real issue is people assume small changes in diet are more important than they are.

Fiber for example is useful for mechanical reasons in your digestive system, but you don’t actually digest it. It’s possible to be completely healthy and eat essentially zero fiber. Similarly eating massive quantities of fiber isn’t particularly beneficial.

There’s this misconception that there’s some single ideal diet and anything else is unhealthy. But we turn a high percentage of our food into energy and excrete stuff we don’t need. That provides extreme flexibility assuming you’re eating a wide range of plants and animals it’s probably fine. Eat a more limited diet and you have to be more careful, but not excessively so.

Of course when you take an even closer look things do get more complex, but for most people it’s not particularly relevant. The biggest issue is simply number of calories.
Leonardo da Vinci Was Jewish
I think one questions that people here might be having is how is the water of correct temperature is actually prepared. Do people just know how to heat water to 60C? That sounds unlikely, doesn't it?

In traditional tea ceremony, known amount of tap water is added to boiling water. Comes out okay if protocol is punctually followed.

In more casual situations, there are buttons and lamps on electric kettles to cycle through common temperatures. That works if you are going to serve dozen guests at once.
We have several birds, they mostly like the company of other some other birds. But they really like people too. Even the ones always raised around birds grow attached to their people.

It's much more complex than "leave animals to the wild". One of our birds is a rescue and had found himself a new family when he had gotten loose. He clearly prefers people over birds, every time. Even with a wide selection.

Clearly if you are not home most of the time - don't get birds. But if you are, they are quite good companions if you are also up for their care. And don't mind losing the occasional keyboard to fun time...

They tend to be quite happy when they have some even small space to fly and extensive contact with both their people and others birds. I'll often have two on me while coding, by their choice. The others have other preferences for time use.

When they get out, and it's happened a few times. They very much prefer to be back in their home with their clearly loved social circle.

Flying is nice, it's fun and good exercise, but it's also a means to an end. Being with those they love, finding food, toys, and nesting sites.
It is an extremely privileged view. In my home country of Egypt, a population of 100 million lives on an average home internet speed of 30mbps with about 300gb monthly data cap, in 2023. I'm sure most of the world is similar.
This feeling is often dismissed as illusion but I dare say that it is a reality.
I've been here 10+ years, first as a lurker. It is devolving. Some threads are still brilliant but the amount of low-effort replies has been steadily growing.

I didn't use to abandon thread so much. Now I'm tired of skipping greyed-out blocks.
Actually pretty interesting. I got some good results with it for Midjourney. Huh. I'll use my free credits and evaluate afterwards.
Ask HN: Why isn't BTRFS the default FS in home-oriented Linux distributions?
I have been looking how BTRFS has been progressing. It supports CoW, snapshots, data deduplication, compression, data integrity, (...), a list of features that are unavailable in EXT4 (the current default FS in most home-oriented Linux distributions).

For granted, EXT4 keeps being faster than BTRFS in most synthetic benchmarks, which makes it a better choice for servers, but this difference in speed isn't noticeable in domestic workloads; domestic users would greatly benefit from the features offered by BTRFS. For example, Linux Mint has Timeshift, a backup solution that uses BTRFS volumes to make system snapshots.

This leads me to my question: Why haven't we switched to BTRFS as the default FS for home-oriented distributions? What features / reasons are holding us to keep using EXT4 as the default FS?