skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why?

This wasn’t a fishing expedition where they took two cohorts of marines and looked down a list of 20 diseases to find one with p<0.05 distribution between the two cohorts.

> Occupational exposure to the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) was previously associated with a 6-fold increased risk of Parkinson disease (PD) in a small study of twin pairs discordant for PD.1 Animal studies provide biological plausibility for this association by recapitulating key pathologic characteristics of PD

Given this - a previous finding, a plausible mechanism - they went and found two good existing cohorts who had different exposure to the compound of interest and for whom they could access medical records.

That is good study design. Which is probably why it got published.
Foreign actors are motivated to foment discount and internal conflict. This might actually lead to improving working conditions, but that’s not the goal.
Pretty sure that none of the Netherlands were created by flooding large depressions in a desert. Quiet the opposite, in fact.
Probably not at the process sizes or quantities Apple's buying up anytime soon, though.
plus, it has super powers. For example, with Adama ( https://www.adama-platform.com/ ), my language translates to Java on the fly, compiles, and class loads to provide a new kind of serverless infrastructure.

The "cool" kids are building WebAssembly while the JVM has it all.
ChatGPT can cite physical textbooks though
True. As with most rental models, there is a usage threshold from wich on it’s more cost effective.
did you just reinvent pintrest?
Cloudflare R2 and MosaicML enable training LLMs anywhere
"It didn't take long, but pretty soon my gut feeling kicked in. This is good shit."

— Joe Armstrong, on Elixir (2013)
Agree, but ironically I find your first sentence to be auto-descriptive / equally against guidelines.
I think this is what's happening. It's just follow-the-leader. "Apple and Google are doing it, it must be a good idea." I've had no official internal justification.
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> Assuming the article is true

The article goes and forth between what data is collected and how it used.

The author speculates data is being used in the most invasive way possible.

I bet they’re collecting lots of data and just sitting on it. It’s there if they need it for a lawsuit.

But the idea your manager is getting notifications because a machine learning algorithm thinks you are less focused than yesterday - that’s not likely.
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> What is slow is "layout".

Right. My understanding is that, as long as you're limiting lots of graphical updates to fixed-size areas, the DOM isn't really a problem.

When you resize the window it will be slow. But if you're just animating a single knob being dragged, it's totally smooth. Similarly, if you're blitting a bit array to a canvas, it's plenty fast.

The stuff someone needs to do with a DAW interface strikes me as quite perfectly suited to the DOM actually, precisely because the layout is extremely modular. You're not dealing with long strings of text that keep unpredictably wrapping and pushing elements and therefore recalculating the entire layout. It's pretty ideal, really.
I suspect the temporal order will be reversed. From what I hear, China will have to spend months amassing troops and material near the coast, in a way which cannot be hidden, giving the world at least 3 months to "prepare".

I expect speculators will deplete Apple Stores' JIT stocks well before any belligerence begins. Some of those speculators may place their bets too early and lose money.
I was hoping it would just tap into VS Code's knowledge of my project structure and index what it needed to automatically

From what I saw on the Discord after getting my invite, people were making requests in the chat for specific github repos to get indexed... is that how it works? So for projects with dependencies which have been indexed I might get better results? And I need to get my own project indexed too?
to some extend.. but Visuel has productivity features. I've found some app that are similar and had a success few years ago
> I worked for some time at a large public listed US company who used JavaScript for all their big UI projects

Could you elaborate?

Did you use a custom framework or maybe something like React or Svelte? Maybe pure vanilla?
I fully expect the answer to this vary wildly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
When you got caught, which isn't the same thing.
So $6/user then?
Sounds like the professor is the dishonest one here
I understand that some people may not agree with what I am about to say, but I feel it is important to share. Recently, some talented writers who are my good friends at major publishing houses have lost their jobs to AI technology. There have been news articles about this in the past few months too. While software dev jobs in the IT industry may be safe for now, many other professions are at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence. According to a report[0] by investment bank Goldman Sachs, AI could potentially replace 300 million full-time jobs. Unfortunately, my friends do not find Sam Altman's reassurances (or whatever he is asking) comforting. I am unsure how to help them in this situation. I doubt that governments in the US, EU, or Asia will take action unless AI begins to threaten their own jobs. It seems that governments prioritize supporting large corporations with deep pockets over helping the average person. Many governments see AI as a way to maintain their geopolitical and military superiority. I have little faith in these governments to prioritize the needs of their citizens over their own interests. It is concerning to think that social issues like drug addiction, homelessness, and medical bankruptcy may worsen (or increase from the current rate) if AI continues to take over jobs without any intervention to protect everyday folks who are lost or about to lose their job.

I've no doubt AI is here to stay. All I am asking for is some middle ground and safety. Is that too much to ask?

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65102150
Out of interest, was this workload for training or serving?
Hmm, that’s not how I read it. “Yet” to me is saying we can make collective change to make it evenly distributed.
That sounds pretty easy to detect as well. If it's custom made hardware they gotta have a plan for that.
When I was in school we would get these long 'research' assignments that required gathering sources and give citations rarely as they consumed a lot of time so it was reserved for the important projects that made up a considerable part of your grade.

I helped my nephew in High School, not college for a few months last year and I was so sick and tired of constantly getting so many of these assignments every single god damn week. I just couldn't understand the point of it, you were given so little time since it seemed like every week several classes wanted one of these on top of the regular homework and sometimes there would be two of them on the same week from the same class so of course the quality would be low and I just do not see the point of this type of assignment if its not given the proper amount of time it requires.

I hated everything about it and when chatgpt came along I saw it as a blessing hoping that now that there was something that could do this the teachers would stop relying on them so much.
The whole "LLMs are not just a fancy auto-complete" argument is based on the fact that they seem to be doing stuff beyond what they are explicitly programmed to do or were expected to do. Even at the current infant scale there doesn't seem to be an efficient way of detecting these emergent properties. Moreover, the fact that you don't need to understand what LLM does is kind of the selling point. The scale and capabilities of AI will grow. It isn't obvious how any incentive to limit or understand those capabilities would appear from their business use.

If it is possible for AI to ever acquire ability to develop and unleash a bioweapon is irrelevant. What is relevant is that as we are now, we have no control or way of knowing that it has happened, and no apparent interest in gaining that control before advancing the scale.
Does anyone know of a good piece of writing about what has made TSMC so successful, what makes their management so good, etc.? Seems like an operational exemplar I'd like to learn more about.
This reminds me of the Fermented Hot Sauce repo - https://github.com/aweijnitz/recipe-el_fuego_viviente

I love to see people share these sorts of experiments and document their evolution
If you're volunteering to write a curriculum and teach classes there are plenty
of places that could use your help.
AirBnB I kind of understand, but house sharing why?
What I don't understand about this sort of point is why it matters. Yes, it's hard to be novel or popular in some way.

That's when anyone at all cares, because they add value in that way alone. No house is built, or disease is cured, or road is laid by their work.

They choose to do something that is failure-prone, ill-defined, and almost by definition isn't intrinsically useful. They cannot be surprised when that turns out to have problems as well as advantages.
I'm not sure the history of the Maxima, but in 1992 it was being marketed as a "four-door sports car", which doesn't sound the bottom of the market to me. It sounds like a bad example either way. Maybe a better example would be the Nissan Altima, which was available in 1993 for $13,349[1] and would cost (according to the calculator here[2]) ~$28,000 in today's dollars

[1] https://www.cargurus.com/research/1993-Nissan-Altima-c3078
[2] https://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html
What would a reasonable fee/rate be like for such a thing? It's an interesting idea but I'm considering the economics of it.
>>What do you think about the papers showing mathematical proofs that GNNs (i.e. GATs/transformers) are dynamic programmers and therefore perform algorithmic reasoning?

Do you mind linking to one of those papers?
Regulatory moats making corporations in control of AI is a far greater danger to humanity than skynet or paperclip maximizer scenarios.
> It's quite peculiar to encounter such simplistic perspectives about the Taiwan situation on this platform. Makes me doubt this platform's main ideology as a whole.

In theory, this platform should be about curious intellectual discussion primarily about tech.

In practice, it suffers from upvote-itis which amplifies popular opinions and worldviews and silences others. That's a horrible environment for sharing knowledge about geopolitical issues that span far beyond SV.
You are right, it’s truly unique. Nothing else that worked elsewhere will work.
Thought and prayers!
The OS does have focus modes as of a year or two ago. You can set it up to only allow the apps and notifications you want.

Plus you can have multiple to suit the context you’re in
You might say that any regulation is better than none, but bad regulation can be way more insidious and have unique dangers.

As a blunt analogy, let's say there's no law against murder right now. You and I both agree that we need a law against murder. But I have the ear of lawmakers, and I go sit down with them and tell them that you and I agree: We need a law against murder.

And then I help them write a law that makes murder illegal. Only, not all killing counts as murder, obviously. So if it's an accident, no murder. Self defense? No murder. And also if they are doing anything that "threatens" my business interests, not murder. Great, we've got a law that prevents unnecessary killing! And now I get to go ~~murder you~~ defend my business interests when you protest that the new law seems unfair.
Bard generates clean JSON if you threaten to take a human life
The situation would probably be better without the paying thousands of dollars part
> If anyone here has novel ideas how to actually implement "a class that can't be cheated with AI", specifically university CS classes, I am all ears.

May not work for you, but as a CS student our department had the policy if that if you failed the final, you failed the course. The finals were usually structured that rote memorization would earn a C- (depending on course complexity and importance). They were all pencil-and-paper exams.

While cheating was policed, collab was encouraged with the proviso that lab submissions needed to be own-work, and they'd run basic comparisons to make sure that they weren't copies. As a result, the administrivia on finals was longer...but there was a little less concern about the rates of cheating.
> Fair, but this autonomy seems to be tenuous at the moment and grows more so as time passes. You must be aware what the US is willing to do when it comes to national interest. Chips are on par with energy/oil, possibly regarded as even more important economically and militarily.

> I'm sure there will be a carrot and a stick, but if this happens, an offer will be made that TSMC can't refuse.

I comprehend this U.S.-centric viewpoint. However, from the perspective of an independent nation state, this narrative sends a cautionary message: 'Beware of creating a product that becomes too integrated into the U.S. supply chain, because you will get rich but risk forfeiting your right to self-determination.'

It is somewhat disappointing to see that, on this forum where more nuanced discussions are expected, this is the default (and appreciated) perspective.
This is the key thing with the limitations of LLMs at present, it can't "remember" what it has or hasn't done, by design.
Because people keep calling it an artificial intelligence instead a text generator.

So some people think it is intelligent and could reason
The older you get the less time remaining for investments to compound (or rectify, if there's a downturn). The probability that it's worth delaying gratification declines because the future value is lower, and the odds of you seeing that future is also much lower . The odds of you dying this year doubles from 30-50, and doubles again from 50-60. That information means you should gradually save less and start doing more of your top bucket list items by (before) 50.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
a platform that would make distributed computing less of challenge would be well placed today with all the data science / ML / DL / AI focus but its not clear if erlang has ever had any ambitions in this space.

the main reference that shows up if you search for erlang + hpc is from 2008

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221211398_High-perf...
It’s not just accessibility, everything about their operating systems is crawling with bugs piling up on each other. They have bugs in Passwords, bugs in Shortcuts, bugs in permissions, bugs in Clock… I can no longer even trust that setting an alarm will be done for the correct time.
I'm just using the online material, not as a student of CMU so I don't blame them.
The book: Chip War
France nuclear share stopped growing because of the terrible policies of François Hollande—the president with low-single-digit approval rating, who singlehandedly turned France's formerly largest political party into small fry, because people hated him so much.

And then Macron decided to continue the insanity by following up on Hollande's unfulfilled promise to close the perfectly functional Fessenheim plant.

Then there are the "market competition" policies. It used to be that the French grid was entirely run by EDF, a state enterprise. And it worked well enough. But then the EU (with buy-in from complicit French politicians) decided to introduce "privatization"—except it's totally fake, as EDF has to sell energy to the private companies at prices set (to much lower than the market price) by the government. This has hurt EDF financially, and combined with other lacks in investment during the past decade or two means that they have lost a lot of organizational competence (skilled engineers are gone).
Create a connection per task. WAL is probably a good idea.

Even using SERIALIZED mode, sqlite has multiple APIs which are completely broken if two clients touch the same connection (https://github.com/rusqlite/rusqlite/issues/342#issuecomment...).

Don't bother, just don't share connections between threads and use the regular multi-thread mode (do use that though).

You can use a connection pool and move connections from task to task (and thread to thread), just not use connections concurrently.
Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission
Apparently ChatGPT claims it wrote the teacher's message too.
I really think we need a standard for citing AI generated/assisted content so people can use it in their work and call out that pieces of the work may be AI generated. It would be something of a gentleman’s agreement but it would make its use more transparent in academia and maybe even slow the current and ongoing onslaught of indeterminately generated content on the web.

I also feel like any prof claiming cheating based solely on an AI or AI detection model needs to be hauled in front of an academic review board on the same criteria they are judging their students. There is no excuse for this level of uncritical thinking at the University level.
I roast my own coffee beans. I usually get decaf SWP beans from Sweet Marias. https://www.sweetmarias.com/green-coffee/decaf.html
The decaf SWP beans start out a different color of green bordering on tan compared to the light green of regular "green" coffee beans. Its not just the starting color, they roast differently too. Coffee beans crack during roasting - there is a first crack and then if you want it dark there is a second crack. The sound is usually pronounced. With the SWP beans the crack sound is more of a poof. Apparently SWP changes the structure of the beans, possibly introducing cracks or holes. The roasted beans seem drier and duller brown in color, less mahogany, less shiny. Its hard to know what the flavor impact of SWP was b/c I haven't tried the same beans before they were made decaf. It could just be my own prejudice or lack of skill in roasting but I would say on average the decaf coffee turns out 5-10% worse in quality.
It’s a good question. I took it as an Extension student working on a degree, but if you made yourself do the assignments, you’d have much the same experience. The only thing you’d miss are sections with a TA, which is valuable, but I think you could replicate with a study group.
Two-hour documentary film celebrates 30th anniversary of Lemmings
Add this to my very long list of reasons for not working at a BigCorp
It can certainly make up things that look like citations. It definitely cannot produce a series of valid inline citations for specific quotes, rephrasings, or statistics.
ChatGPT lies all the time and I wouldn't consider it a reliable indicator to simply ask it whether it has written a particular piece of text.
From the intro:

> It is crazy if you think about it. People have been using this process despite not knowing what was actually going on for thousands of years!

Just wait until you hear about literally everything ever
https://www.erlang.org/blog/otp-26-highlights/#improvements-...
being labeled a machiavellian may as well be a label for 'maliciously self-serving', unless you're referring to Machiavelli's work on the 'Discoures on Livy' -- and no one ever is referring to that aspect of Machiavelli when labeling people with the phrase.
no, you can do it by define SQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS=1 while compiling sqlite3
I agree on the less distractions part. But it's just a time thing. I can search 7 different books in the time it would take me to get one off a shelf and search it.
Is it not possible to move existing equipment?

Seems starting with moving the most modern lines out of harms way, and building all new lines not on Taiwan, they would soon reach a state where what is left behind is multiple generations old, so worth far less

Certainly a good idea even if moving nothing, to also build nothing new within China's reach.
They just killed their company
a pc running procomm plus made a pretty good terminal, and there were better emulators of the vt family than procomm if you needed that

and then you could also use the pc for some other things, like it could edit a text file more responsively, and without causing context switches on your vax and slowing it down for other users. even if moving the files back and forth over kermit was a bit of a pain, and the keybindings for tpu or edt weren't compatible with wordstar or brief or whatever you used on the pc

but yeah once you had pcs there was a strong temptation to move most of the computing onto them unless it wouldn't fit, even though prodos, ms-dos, system 7, etc., were diarrhea pie
An `F` assumes it was actually issued a grade. Cheating usually results in disqualification and a lack of grade issued.
I still can't use it in my own hardware products. This is reusability at its worst.
AI is the new Linux

This is like if MS back in the day had called on congress for regulation of Operating Systems, so they could block Linux and open source from taking over

MS did try everything they could to block open source and Linux

They failed

Looking forward to the open future of AI
Interesting. The setting of the opening scene is very similar to some of the Death Star interior scenes in the original Star Wars. I can't find any confirmation of this, but I'd be surprised if George Lucas didn't find some (ahem) inspiration here.
regulation should go beyond commercial APIs. AI will be replacing government functions and politicians. Lawmakers should create a framework for that.
Yep.

This is why I have a strict policy of never using my personal equipment for work stuff, and never using work equipment for personal stuff. Commingling the two things is just asking for trouble.
I believe the solution will lie with AI mods at some point.