skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it being commonly discussed doesn't mean easily accessible. Personally ads and bad UI are main factors of my increased usage of gpt-4.
An object has nothing to do whether it is allocated on the stack or the heap. C++ has had stack-allocated objects for decades.

Also, favoring composition over inheritance has been a major mantra of Java since forever.
That does not surprise me at all.
For depression there is the chronic inflammation hypothesis which states that depression is caused by subacute inflammation in the brain. Some antibiotics work as antiinflammatory agents. Although a recent study did not show significant evidence for the treatment of chronic depression with antibiotics.
Then there is something along the lines of underexpressed BDNF genes which get more expressed by butyrate which in turn is produced by gut bacteria.
And there have been some case studies for treatment resistant depression where they did a stool transplant which improved the symptoms considerably.
Since most early Java adopters were Smalltalk shops, I fail to see the difference.

I used Smalltalk/V before Java came to be, by the way.
I think the entire concept of "non-techies" is condescending to the people you're referring to. Computers exist, the cat is out of the bag -- computer literacy is now simply a facet of literacy in general.

I would much prefer a world where we empower people to actually learn about the tools they use, rather than one in which we jump through hoops in order to try and design around predictions about what we think "they" want when, in reality, it's like trying to hit a billion different targets with a single dart.

We should be reaching for designs that give tools to and enable people to achieve that which they can think up with their own free will and imagination, not predictive trash that more often than not simply results in annoying the user with something that is, at best, close but not close enough to what they want to actually be useful, leaving them with the frustration of not being able to do anything about it.
This isn't looking ahead. All those words are "behind", since they are part of the prompt. No hidden state is required for this to work.
We must urgently stop this Twitter thing, which is infinitely more damaging than keyboards.
“For a noninvasive method, this is a real leap forward compared to what’s been done before, which is typically single words or short sentences,” Huth said. “We’re getting the model to decode continuous language for extended periods of time with complicated ideas.”

Thats pretty scary. Who would work on this?

Refine this and in 10 years put it into wifi base stations that scan everything and you can read the thoughts of anyone in a room. Auto scan for "dangerous" keywords and voila: automated police state!
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And Alan Kay (first user of the term "object oriented programming") said:

"OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them."
Long term demand for chips will result in more fabs and make things slightly cheaper for everyone.

Bitcoin demand is a bit erratic so maybe it's more negative than positive, but it's definitely not all bad.
>The cost of land and labor is higher, sure, but even the stations that are owned rather than rented don't seem to be much cheaper.

They need the higher prices to recoup the higher costs of land: mortgage cost, property tax cost, opportunity cost of the land.
In the case of Chrons and Ulcerous colitis diet changes have big impact. There have been studies that show that high consumtion of processed food increase the likely hood of getting sick.
> there is (was?) a huge lag between adding value and posting the value depending on how you added value.

There is months worth of "pending" passes on my clipper card and neither some Clipper support number I called nor the poor guy in the booth at the local BART station could tell me how to activate them (and also not some people on Reddit and my public transit using friends, of course). It's obviously not done by using either BART or buses or SF Muni, or tagging the card against the insert-coin machines at the station, because, you know, I've done all of that a bunch of times since this started being an issue. Most of the pending passes expired by now. I'd be more upset about this if I had paid for them with actual money and not some employer based commute benefit since I haven't exactly commuted regularly since the pandemic started.
> Unfortunately as you mention it's not open source anymore ...

> too many people recompiling it and selling it as their own.

What is wrong with that? So long as the license allows it and those selling it respect copyright?
Ask HN: Project ideas for a Linux kernel module
Hey HN,
I'm currently a senior CS student (graduating in fall), I wanted to align my career with low level/embedded systems and I wanted to focus more on the kernel/firmware side of things.

so to that end, What would be a good idea for a linux kernel module I can work on, something that may get me to interact with any topics involving communication standards/protocols ( i2c, SPI, or JTAG, wireless, BLE).

thank you.
Who says you're not just using it wrong?

I think it's a false assumption that because YOU can't use it for productivity-efforts, no one can.
Yes, good point. I worked in a lot in PHP though and interesting that a lot of the changes it has went through the last 15 years seem to have been "inspired" by Java. A lot of frameworks (Laravel, Symfony, Zend) seem to lean heavily on OOP style, and it's easy (or it was for me anyway) to fall in to the trap of everything must be a class and if not you are doing it wrong, even if the language does not require OOP. Design Patterns, Refactoring, Clean Code, it feels like a lot of my "industry journey" if you like was built on an assumption that everything started with OOP. Go, for me, was the first language I've used in a while that truly detached itself from all that dogma, not just in it's features but it's overall principles and ethos.
Similarly, cities decline after loss of opportunities and opportunities decline after cities make losses.
If you're not DevOps, why bother learning whatever framework is used today, but which will be replaced by something else next year? I just want to get my stuff deployed and that's it.
If Max Mustermann is emotionally attached to a computer, right now that's a problem for everyone who is emotionally attached to Max Mustermann, potentially including the relatively mild attachment of coworkers.

If Max Mustermann's attachment can be exploited for money, it's also a problem for whoever is economically intertwined with Max Mustermann even if they don't talk or even meet directly (the factory worker in the coffee cup production line supplying the coffee shop he would otherwise have picked something up from while on a date).

This is also why we have restrictions on drugs and gambling.

Question is, what fraction of the population is this Max Mustermann? (Not just today, but as a potential).
> Also, many tests require a centrifuge, so that's something else you have to account for if your goal is to perform the same tests with only one drop of blood. Unless your plan is to pull some Star Trek-level technology out of your hat.

That was basically the plan. Or failing that, to convince people that such technology existed or was close to existing. It's not too implausible that the centrifuge could be replaced with diffraction analysis or something since the goal is to test for the same things, not necessarily to "do the same tests." But that doesn't help if you're looking for something present in one in a million blood cells and only have a quarter-million cells to look at.
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I wrote my comment to put your original comment [1] in proportion.

You appear to have since edited your original comment to replace "Carbon-14" with a broader non specific "radioactive waste".

> the "compared to cosmic rays" reminds me of the fuel industry claiming that atmospheric lead is natural

It might remind you of that but I assure the intent was to legitimately compare the actual amount of Carbon-14 in the atmosphere (which originates from cosmic ray collisions) against the additional amount added by PWR + BWR reactors.

Reactors add very little by magnitude to an amount that is already very small and in toto the effect on humans is a very small part of the "normal" human exposure to environmental radiation that has persisted for our time on this planet.

> there is natural radon-222 as well, does that mean the radon exhaust of coal power plants can be ignored ..

Absolutely not, but for a meaningful understanding it should be compared to the already occurring creation of radon from 'natural' uranium decaying within granites and expressing to the surface.

I'd suggest paying attention to ground topography also - radon pools in valleys until stiff breezes clear them of those pools - hence the recommendations for venting in basements in granite rich areas.

> This hides a lot of details, ... will not do justice to details and quality of the source.

If it's hiding details you can find better sources that drill deeper in the individual components.

Eg: Australian AGSO and National Pollution Inventory reports on Olympic Dam [2] and other "uranium mills".

Water usage might be an issue of greater significance there (at Olympic Dam).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35783728

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Dam_mine
I agree with some of your conclusions, but the premise holds. There are lots of reasons for low fertility, and income/cost of living isn't actually a major factor.
I’m not an AI expert but as I see it:

1. LLMs are already doing much more complex and useful things than most people thought possible even in the foreseeable future.

2. They are also showing emergent behaviors that their own creators can’t explain nor really control.

3. People and corporations and governments everywhere are trying whatever they can think of to accelerate this.

4. Therefore it makes sense to worry about newly powerful systems with scary emergent behaviors precisely because we do not know the mechanism.

Maybe it’s all an overreaction and ChatGPT 5 will be the end of the line, but I doubt it. There’s just too much disruption, profit, and havoc possible, humans will find a way to make it better/worse.
Its usually called 'formula' or 'equation' - B side of 'windowlicker'. There's a video at the link below

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/kvjil...
I don't think you can call a language object-oriented if it doesn't support some form of inheritance and dynamic dispatch. And for Golang that's simply not the case. You can embed data structures into other structures but the main difference to e.g. C++ is that you don't have proper RTTI (run-time type information) that would do a dynamic dispatch of struct methods, so you can't do anything interesting (i.e. you can embed an "Animal" struct in a "Dog" struct but if you define the ".MakeNoise()" method on the Animal struct and have that call a ".myNoise()" method on the struct to e.g. produce "Woof" or "Meow" then even if you override ".myNoise()" in the "Dog" struct the "Animal" struct will still call its own ".myNoise()" method, as there's no dynamic call table like in C++). People will probably say that's by design but I'd then argue again that's not object-orientation as you can do these things with C structs as well and no one would call C an object-oriented language.
I would not call the GDS design "brutalist". As the linked article says, brutalism is about "raw [content/architecture], true to its construction". In other words, it's an aesthetic movement that pretends it's not about aesthetics.

The GDS design guides are not rooted in aesthetics, they're truly rooted in practicality. Their goal is for the site to be navigable and understandable by as close to 100% of the UK population as they can get. That has to include people with old or unusual devices, people with disabilities, people on slow connections, and so on. It's all about the user.

Actually-existing brutalist buildings are not like this. The architects put aesthetic sensibilities first, usability second, while fraudulently claiming they were doing the opposite[1]. When people complained about how unpleasant it was to live in them, they did the "you're holding it wrong" dodge, and said the users (i.e. inhabitants) were to blame.

[1] For example, they would put in industrial-looking concrete greebles on the sides of buildings, making them look like they served a structural purpose, but actually they didn't. It was purely decorative, but ugly decoration that only appealed to other brutalist architects, meant to trick people into thinking it was some "raw" construction element sticking out.

EDIT lol the stained concrete appreciation society have arrived; but no amount of downvotes will make anyone want to live in coventry
> Excuse me while I cry an alligator tear for them

I don't think grocery stores are very sad about it either: they probably ran some cost-benefit analysis and decided that the friction from increased shoplifting cost X, the salary savings are Y and Y > X.
I’m glad you said that because I thought I knew that ‘mêle-toi de tes oignons’ meant ´mind your own business!’ and I was doubting myself after reading that.
Do you deploy just the JS to a CDN or a whole website? I wanted to do something similar, throw a static website on a CDN and use a Go API as its backend. But unsure how to get around CORS in a reliable way.
> Many “unicorn” tech startups began with a few engineers and a product they wanted to sell, but over the past decade-plus, they have accrued a bloated bureaucracy of “equity”-minded h.r. activists, ESG-savvy consultants, affinity-group mavens, climate-change specialists, and many other email-caste hangers-on. Now that times are turning bad, tech companies can no longer afford to sustain a massive “court” of professional-class nobility, paying sinecures to sons and daughters of the good and the great who don’t know how to code or crunch numbers, but know how to write emails, hold useless meetings, and talk about diversity and inclusion.

I'm not trying to self-aggrandize here, but I'm bad at emails and good at code. I'm sure you can find a portion of HN users that fit the description but I don't think "people like us - the E-Mail caste" is the way to say it.
Discovered under the giant heads of Easter Island https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i29/Rapamycins-Secrets-Unear...
> There are lots of planned cities that are natural experiments in this... They ... produced mixed results at best, eg Brasilia's original strictly separated zoning has been widely panned as a disaster.

I'm not sure if there's been some slight shift of topic here. By "planned", I think we originally meant "deliberately built in relatively undeveloped land". But then you mention as an example of a failure of deliberately building a city in relatively undeveloped land, an example of a failure of micromanagement (also a kind of planning, but one that is completely orthogonal to the circumstances of the city's founding).

So does Brasilia's original strictly separated zoning show the problems of strictly separated zoning, or does it show the problems of deliberately building a city where none was before? It's possible we just had the wrong idea of what you need to have a great city during the 20th century isn't it? Washington DC, for instance, is an artificial city with top-down planning, but it was built at a time when people had different ideas about what made a great city, and it doesn't really seem to be a failure. It doesn't even appear on your list, despite being the case that served as a template for your other examples.

(I don't know. I don't know anything about Brasilia other than that it is the capital of Brazil.)
I find it is about the right cost (location depending)

I've been seeing a specialist for six years under this system, and he has had to close his books for the past two years

There are genuine shortages for a lot of specialists - they personally seem very over worked to me (well paid though)

If a disease is as extreme as the OP though I'm sure the ~$400 max isn't a life altering barrier to entry to a second opinion though
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Apparently it's called threshold in english[0], which is interesting to me, since it is called the same in Slovak ("prah"). I thought prah is a homonym, since I don't see the connection to the mathematic threshold.

Anyway, many south-east Asia temples have the same rule - don't step on the door threshold.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(architecture)
I was on a mailing list with someone who went to see "kremvax". According to the story, the poor secretaries at the CWI were attempting to explain that they were a research institution, not a tourist destination, when to their great surprise a passing grad student, overhearing the conversation, said, "oh, yeah, kremvax ... follow me!" and took the 'tourist' into the machine room without further ado.
It isn't but it's cheaper. People may not care very much about the 2% interest rates they get on their savings account, but I think they do care about having access to cheap credit.
Could not agree more. I'm re-reading Dune and in this age of emerging AI its focus on developing human potential in light of increased technological capability is striking me as ridiculously prescient. Offloading some parts of the human process to a computer is simply efficient and an apt use of the tool, but eventually the equation flips to where it's doing more harm than good.

A computer really is best when it's a "bicycle for the mind," and it turns out that that's quite a tricky balance to achieve. It should augment us, yes, but we should always be the ones in control, both de facto and de jure.
Or leave the country, because they're treated badly despite their higher contributions.
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So you need a "compatible smartphone" to travel?

That's messed up.
> If you want a package scoped standalone function, you don't need to invent some made up "class" to attach it to.

It's a matter of language construct organization. There are bare behaviors - functions, there is bare state - PODs, and then there are collections of state and behavior - classes. You can have these three distinct constructs, or you can have all them be subcases of class (or some other mix).

It's just that we are used to having distinct primitive and collection data types, but nothing (sans terseness) stops language from having all data be some form of collection, even if it is a single-member collection.
C# is a clearly object oriented language, and you can decide what is on the stack and on the heap.

And while inheritance is a very prominent feature of object oriented languages, it is not the only option there. I think the way those languages are taught over-emphasizes inheritance, but there are plenty of arguments today around preferring composition. So I don't think this is an inherent property of the languages, they allow you to use inheritance but you're not forced to used it everywhere.
Similar to how some movies and TV shows can activate Alexa. I believe at this point writers are doing it on purpose.
GPT4 shows itself quite capable at generating code and making complex refactorings in the face of changing requirements.

When you stray from areas of code, it shows serious weaknesses.

Within still the same domain, if you discuss algorithms, it's a little bit out to sea without a rudder. If you say subtly wrong things in your questions, it picks up on those things and pretends it researched them.

Earlier today, it spewed that the Lomuto partitioning scheme used in some quicksort implementations requires one bit of external storage per array element. This is completely false, and comes from a remark I made in an earlier question in the same chat about some possible idea requiring one bit of storage.

Like a parrot, it just took my idea, stripped it of context, and planted it into statements about something else.

Speaking of which, I've noticed a pattern in its behavior of using my ideas and hints, and pretending that it came up with them itself. If confronted about that, it will admit, that yes, sorry it did get that answer from your hint and not from its knowledge and analysis as its answer glibly implies.

GPT4 is intensively being trained on coding in order to impress programmers, who will then evangelize it to non-programmers. (The things it does with code really are impressive.)
See also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64703976

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You honestly suggesting the inventors of the TPU bailed because they couldn't foot the compute bill?
The article covers all the shortcomings in the final section.
I am not convinced that an AI has to be smarter than humans for us to lose control of it. I would argue that it simply needs to be capable of meaningful actions without human input and it needs to be opaque, as in it operates as a black box.

Both of those characteristics apply to some degree to Auto-GPT, even though it does try to explain what it is doing. Surely ChaosGPT would omit the truth or lie about its actions. How do we know it didn’t mine some Bitcoin and self-replicate to the cloud already, unbeknownst to its own creator? That is well within its capabilities and it doesn’t need to be superhuman intelligent or self-aware to do so.
Very similar for me. Mid 30s, chronic arthritis in multiple joints. Lots of other issues as well. I had previously derided those on gluten free diets, but in desperation, I tried it. After two weeks my symptoms abated significantly. A year on and I feel like a million dollars. I have no idea if I had some kind of intolerance to gluten, or if some bacteria really liked that gluten, but it worked.
Thanks! Appreciate the product link here. I'm a big fan of these as well, just not the form-factor
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Can you give example of the prompt to make it to this?
I got loopholed :(