skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have relatively bad GERD and I've also noticed it getting better when I have flu or some other minor illness. I think this is just because I eat less and move less. Moving less helps because sometimes random movements in a wrong way can trigger the reflux.

GERD is also one of those ailments that seems to be sometimes cured by weird random lifestyle changes. Low/no carbohydrate diet is something some people swear by. I also know someone whose GERD was completely cured after an antibiotics treatment to an unrelated disease.

For GERD there seems to be one clear structural factor that has something to do with its development: hiatal hernia. However, the link is not perfect so it's possible other factors (such as some microbial imbalance) affect it too.
First working wooden transistor marks a step toward biodegradable tech
That risk exists for any home purchase in a small town/area with one major employer, not just homes the company helped build. If you work for the company and live in the town, you take on that risk, regardless of whether the company helped build the house.
So far actual humans have no problem copy pasting AI crap. Verification that they are in fact real humans is not going to fix that.
It's also worth noting that the author says that even with these 'deficiencies', OCaml is still far above everything else :-)
Coinbase Insiders Sued for Dumping Stock, Saving $1B
AMD's Zen 4 Phoenix Pictured: FP7 and FP8 CPUs Exposed
My country also has a first past the post system. We still had several parties. In fact till about 15 years ago all states had their major parties which had significant presence in the federal parliament too. I don't think this is a valid explanation
So 80,000 deaths are irrelevant? When a safe and effective vaccine exists?
> For the longest time I used to think that the two party system is like a law in America or something.

Not a law of the state, but a law nonetheless: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
You mention communication protocols. There was a recent article here about a tool bridging an ipv6 only Linux box to the ipv4 world using LD_PRELOAD. A kernel module could trap the calls in a more clean way. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773554
> Current state-of-the-art LLMs do not separate trusted from untrusted input, but there's no fundamental reason it has to be that way.

No it's pretty fundamental, or at least solving it is really hard. In particular solving "prompt injection" is exactly equivalent to solving the problem of AI alignment. If you could solve prompt injection, you've also exactly solved the problem of making sure the AI only does what you (the designer) want, since prompt injection is fundamentally about the outside world (not necessarily just a malicious attacker) making the AI do something you didn't want it to do.

Your suggestion to use RLHF is effectively what OpenAI already does with its "system prompt" and "user prompt," but RLHF is a crude cudgel which we've already seen users get around in all sorts of ways.
For what it's worth, he also uses 'whom' at the start of a sentence, correctly according to formal grammar but where most English speakers would intuitively use 'who'. That level of fussing over nominative/accusative can be the give-away sign of a classical grammar stickler, though equally it can just indicate a native speaker of a cased language such as German.
How is that relevant in any way?
It was a common practice in the XIX and XX century, because there were not good living areas near factories. Some big conglomerates build houses for their workers, and they assign them to employees based on category, family size or marital status. Example Berlin [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemensstadt
Why is it unrealistic?

Is it reasonable to expect every important problem or social responsibility to be easy or unobtrusive?

Sometimes you may both need to do something and it's inconvenient...
Not sure the specific MySQL thinking, but FKs in a large data model help new people understand or confirm relationships, and also make importing your data model into an ERD tool for documenting to others much easier. FKs which enforce relational integrity are always useful against bugs. Some query planners (e.g Redshift) even use FK relationships to optimize query plans even when there aren’t indexes nor constraints provided by FKs.
> “Chatbots are the future…”

I’m distressed by the growing use of chatbots in online payments. You do know the ontology—get balance information, make a payment, customer service.

I much prefer to not speak aloud to a robot on the phone, especially in the office, when there should only be three options.

Conversations with a robot speaking in a mixed tone of obsequiousness and superciliousness make me bananas.
Intel to rebrand client chips once Meteor Lake splashes down
its a straight up clone, nothing new.

the tech people might or might not move due to Jack, but the remaining 99% dont care until someone creates something truly new and better. we saw a hint of it with clubhouse and bereal.

the two that seem to think outside the box abit but yet not hit the spot is substack notes, or hey.com world.
How is this an argument, though? This is true of every small town that has one major company in it. The huge majority of people in town work for the company, and people don't really otherwise have much incentive to live there.
I've been on adalimumab since I was 19, I'm 34 now. Treatment for Crohn's disease. I've had the talk with my doctors multiple times about what we do if the treatment stops working, and they
always reassure me that there's multiple other options these days.
It used to be common knowledge that a great™ ruler is the one who conquers new lands and kills his enemies, and it used to be common practice to kill or enslave most civilians upon occupying a settlement. These things have changed, wouldn't you say?
Good article. Not sure why the box cast would fix the "paddle goes through the box" thing though, unless they are doing the box cast at the rendering Hz and the physics Hz is significantly slower - which makes sense.

I made physics buttons in Unity and they worked well. Key is the colliders on the hands need some special sauce to make them be real proper physics objects that don't collide into things. The SteamVR demo for unity is a great starting point for this.
I worked as a relay operator that summer -- AT&T had a TTY terminal and a billing terminal and me in between; I'd get phone calls from someone with a TTY/TDD (typically a person "hard of hearing") and a person without the TTY/TDD device (such as a school chum or a pizza place or relative). It was my job to relay what I heard or read to the other party. I then would have to enter the session into the AT&T billing system. Oh, and obviously I had a phone setup as well; interestingly there was no automated dialing system I had to just read the number from one interface and dial into another. I think to this day I can touch type a phone number pad with only my right and and a "regular" number pad only with my left.

These two devices had different home key setups (one with nubs, one with deep indentations) -- they had different number pad setups (one was "normal 10key" the other was setup like a telephone number pad) , and obviously my job was to be a super fast but accurate typist.

So when I got to school and was confronted by yet another cursed keyboard I snapped and "fixed" them. I would like to think everyone in the lab except the rich kid with a IIci in his dorm who was just using the laser printer to print his fanfics appreciated it.

Your logic is sound; I'm not going to disagree on principals but my fingers would get really agitated when trying to use those things.
That's funny because I feel the opposite. An interface file saves me from having to wade through the implementation details and lets me focus on the exact parts that are relevant to me as a reader of the code. And yes odoc is nice too but the source of its usefulness usually comes from the fact that it's generated from a carefully curated interface file.
Scientists who broke away from OpenAI say they’re creating a safer version of ChatGPT

You've really got to laugh at someone who looks at the utterly milquetoast responses given by ChatGPT and says "this is far too edgy for me".
It has been given more credit than it deserves.

I understand it to be some thing that understands communication and can answer questions based on the communication it has.

There are some questionable capabilities like an appearance of logic. But I am going to uphold a belief that it is borrowing some standard information that it already has and manipulating it to fit the question.

There are areas that are logically assessable, but I do not think an LLM alone can do that. The next frontier of AI will be trying to prioritize which piece of logic is more applicable, assuming all pieces of logic are already invented.
Or measures to hid these things have gotten better?
Every Breath You Take by The Police is another great example.

Song's about a stalker; gets played as a romantic wedding song :-)
The problem are the vowels. Germanic languages are notorious for having a large number of vowels that may not even be consistent across dialects. Add the funky English spelling, and it is no wonder that English speakers will mangle Japanese names beyond recognition.

But yes, Japanese has pretty simple sounds and prosody and it is easy to pick up. I studied French for 5 years, and I could never get the pronunciation right. I know how words should sound, but my mouth just refuses to do it. I also studied one year of Chinese, and while I enjoyed it a lot, good god is the phonology difficult with all the weird consonant and the tones.
> I find .mli files to be in all ways inferior to the "inline" approach Rust (amongst others) take

Agreed. The same criticism can be levelled at C and C++ with header and implementation files.
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Writing a sentence is simple, yet there are many skills to learn to do it well.
Hollywood writers strike partially due to AI
It's not like people are addicted because they think it's harmless. And people routinely do things that are many times more harmful than smoking your first cigarette ever. Telling addicts they are harming their health is a terrible tactic to curb the problem.

It's taken me 12 years to successfully quit smoking, and I knew about the lung cancer, the cardiovascular issues and the radioactive tobacco trivia all along.
Real question is why I'm still using Windows ;)

I just looked it up, there's a thing called Task View (Win+Tab) which is this big scrolling view of open window thumbnails.

Curiously, Alt+Tab itself is very slow (half a second of lag?) but if I kill explorer.exe I get a different Alt+Tab screen which is extremely responsive.

(And Win+Tab is, of course, much slower than even the slow Alt+Tab...)

I wish I could just leave explore.exe killed, but it makes it a bit harder to do things. Maybe I should do that, to force me to program my own alternatives in Python. (They'd still be faster than what Microsoft made...)
Previous poster obviously meant "overcrowding is the fastest / most efficient way to get more capacity", that was implicit yet obvious to me.

You may agree or not with this point but answering beside the point is not helpful.
> Nevertheless, the OP is a classic guide and worth a read.

For anyone curious why a book published in 2023 is being called a "classic", it appears to be a republication (possible update) of https://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/lkmpg.pdf from 2001

There are 2 new authors listed so I'm assuming the content has been refreshed
> using OCaml on Windows is so painful as to be effectively not possible

Have you considered F# instead? Native support in the dotnet CLI, VS Code, Visual Studio, and Rider. Not to mention the huge .NET standard library...
Correct. But it didn't disaproove the original statement.
Whilst I can only speak anecdata, in my experience majority of people who "know" the song definitely only know the chorus, and have no idea about the song's history or lyrics. They'll sing along (loudly, I might add) during the chorus, but go hush during the verses.

This [1] is Bruce Springsteen performing the song very differently to how you might normally hear it. For me, this particular style seems to "fit" better with the subject matter.

[1] https://youtu.be/xBuZGiisGvs
Easy to keep banks out of crises during good times.
Right, so we are describing the same thing here. Transactions in the lightning network happen off chain and don't provoke any of the benefits of bitcoin's public ledger.

It's impressive that you could say I was completely wrong then proceed to describe the same system in slightly different wording.
See, this is not about medical establishment doing something, this is about government doing something with cooperation of some medical professionals in an era of low regulations.

Governments can run pretty evil programs, you can tell by all the equipment specialised for killing people they purchase.
Did we have some ethics discussion when the lightbulb was invented? Or when the car was invented?

No, and if we did, we couldn't have foreshadowed all the positive and negative impacts.

My grandfather always told me that back in the days, "smart" people said that no train should be allowed to go faster than 50km/h because the heart would explode.

Nobody here can say that he wasn't impressed by ChatGPT.

How could we express anything but fear about something that impress us?
Sorry, seen this only now.
Yep, I do consider these states, and yes, I am aware that trying to scale up to a "simple" rule engine is a huge effort.

Personally I always worked with relatively simple state machines and always wrote actual code to handle new cases or edge conditions that were not in the original design.

As a tool (and at the tactical level), these work fine.
Making these an overarching paradigm for your whole system, and especially adding a rule engine is something I never did and I would be wary to try, personally.
> In a gravitational system you have to make heavy things explode with grand force. Otherwise you just end up with a big lump of matter floating in oblivion.

Don't know where I read this but it changed my view of economics and capitalism.
Are mental health apps better or worse at privacy in 2023?
This is really helpful. Beyond that its open LaTeX format can be used for documentation, which I will do for my own work.
So why/how does covid affect smell? Could it be that pollution was the problem all along?
My guess is that it will take a lot more than that, the USA needs to have a political system less reliant on boatloads of cash. Campaigns are spectacles, not political debate, spectacles are great entertainment but are very poor to foster any discussion around hard topics and solutions.

America's love of a good show made even politics like a big sport, team red and team blue against each other, fighting tooth and nail for turf (aka districts, electoral votes by States, etc.) and the team that is better funded usually will have a leg up. Just like sports.

The cultural change required to move politics away from this culture of spectacle and entertainment is way harder than what can be achieved in two generations.
The linked comment is a reiteration of the same thought in more words, it still makes the odd assertion against "random chance", you didn't even really give a reason except "it must be so"
I’ve only worked in a few large companies where nobody even cared about code quality unless you brought down a production system with a bad change or something.

You’re seriously saying you’ve had 21 years of constantly being second guessed? What kinds of places are you working at?
The consequences of a human being social engineered would be far less than a LLM (supposedly AGI in many peoples eyes) which has access to or control of critical systems.

The argument of “but humans are susceptible to X as well” doesn’t really hold when there are layers of checks and balances in anything remotely critical.
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>I'd much rather send feedback to the managers. They control the entire experience.

It's a very naive view not only of restaurant operations, but of the human world as whole.

>Are there any restaurants that pay management $2/hr and let the customers tip them up to living wage levels?

This is an interesting question which has no relation to tipping. It seems that in the US tips make most of what server earns - it's not the rule everywhere. However, I'm not in position to judge which way is better (e.g. where a good server really earns more).

Nevertheless, money paid to servers come from customers, and you have to pay more if you want to make servers earn more. It can be called "tips", and be a choice in a range, or it can be hardcoded into prices (with some administrative overhead, of course). I'm not a fan of administrative overheads, but YMMV.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) lets you build and run Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) with different parts. VPCs are virtual networks that are separate from each other in the AWS cloud. They let you start resources like EC2 servers, RDS databases, and more.

In this lab session, we are gonna take a look on setting up following using Terraform -

1. How to setup VPC?
2. How to setup Subnet?
3. How to setup Internet Gateway?
4. How to setup NAT gateway?
5. How to setup Route Table
6. How to setup Elastic IP?
Simpler project: get the lens from a dvd/cd drive and use duct tape to fix it to your cellphone camera. Instant microscope.
Engineers also fall victim to hype from time to time, because engineers are human.

It's part of an engineering mindset to trust proven technology, but it's also part of an engineering mindset to make sure you're staying up-to-date with critical changes in your field. Ignoring either for long enough will make you a worse engineer.
There will be a need for chemical fuels to burn to tide over dark/calm periods from renewables. So why does plastic, or waste paper for that matter, need to be recycled? Just treat it as fuel that temporarily served some other function.

What would be needed here are regulations to keep the waste plastic from containing stuff that screws up its use as fuel.
I think the people complaining in this thread would complain about anything.

When government won't allow construction of "workforce housing," complain, because nobody's big enough to try to push back and get concessions to make it possible.

But then when a company, which is big enough, especially relative to its small town, does do the hard work of negotiating construction contracts and helping people find financing so they can sell homes at cost by removing inefficiencies from housing production, complain about that too?

Some important points from the article:

1. The houses are being sold, not rented.
2. They're being sold at cost.
3. Anyone who buys one can sell it later to someone outside the company. The only restrictions are that if they sell within 3 years of buying, the company has the option to buy the house back at the previous sale cost, and for four years after that, the company has ROFR at market price.

Is it a perfect solution? Of course not. These are humans. Humans don't come up with perfect solutions.

But if you're going to complain, what would fix it for you? And is that just a matter of personal preference? 'Cause it's not like most of you are willing to live in a Midwestern small town with one major employer in the first place, but clearly these people are.
> But if you are having a headache/fever, or a regular dermatitis, you'd be fine with minimal training.

I think you are confusing nurses with doctors. Sure, administering painkillers for a headache doesn't require much training. The training part is about being able to tell what's the reason of the medical issue, plan the treatment and take responsibility of for it.

I see this kind of reasoning in engineering too. There are many people claiming that technicians can do everything that an engineer can do and what they fail to understand is what's an engineer.

Sure, utilising engineers for jobs that should be done by technicians also help with the confusion.
They were. The Mayans were perhaps the most consistent and precise, of all people doing astronomy, at least before telescopes.

Unlike with almost all other ancient calendars, the alignment of the Mayan calendar to our own is known quite exactly. Scholars have compiled lists with all the eclipses, astronomical records, etc. known from the Mesoamerican writings. There's only one correlation that makes sense, and it aligns with basically everything. Lunar phase, planetary locations, recent eclipses, even the records carved in wood which can be radiocarbon dated (carved on wood that died within the years expected for what's written on it).

We can, of course, never really be certain, but it's likely correct that Pakal the Great died on 9.12.11.5.18 -- in August 683, probably on the 29th.

With Ancient Egypt, the window of uncertainty with dates in the Middle Kingdom, is about 20 years, and closer to 100 with the Old Kingdom. Nor do we know precisely when Nineveh fell, and that event is recorded in the records of multiple cultures.
And the parent comment is talking about the current state of the establishment. One which saw its own horrors and took the reins and reformed itself to avoid the possibility of the government pressuring a physician or researcher into performing an experiment like this.

It's why drug research and development is slow, and why doctors are hard to access (because why not also limit supply to boost your bottom line while you're at it?) but it also protects society from abuse.
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> RISC-V is inevitable.

While it does seem pretty likely, "inevitable" is perhaps overstating things.

If RISC-V does make solid inroads into servers and supercomputers, then (perhaps ironically?) the US gov may start doing funky things to suppress it. They don't want China successfully countering the recent chip-making suppression efforts, which RISC-V could enable.

Probably not something we'll see in 2023 though, so that's totally wild guessing. ;)
The end started about 100 years ago. Some companies held out for many years longer. 40 years ago there was already a lot of plastic, though I'll admit to not having a better timeline
If you have any interest, HardMAC 802.15.4 driver support in the kernel is poor. I’m learning this the hard way, right now.
Except ChatGPT often gives better more accurate answers than Google without the bias of a single web page.
Yeah, it seems that driving this fact home may in fact be beneficial. Right now a lot of people still assume that everyone on the internet is truthful with good intentions. Making it very clear that this isn't true may be helpful to reset this frame of mind.
Actually this is the aspect I love about GPT. The less I have to spend dealing with idiosyncrasies of arbitrary API boiler plate and can get down to the business of leveraging said things together or designing aspects of said things to achieve a new goal, the better.

As someone who is far from an expert in DevOps, this has saved me a lot of time recently, and it worked fairly well to get past duct taping infrastructure together to then leverage.
We do have type interface files for almost every .ml file