skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im OK with forcing overdosing victims and others in dire need of medical care into hospitals.
red black and minmax algorithms were not really useful, and heuristics are a kind of laborious encoding of experts human knowledge into code, so they were still trained, in an hardcodes manner.

But overall, yes, the current state of machine learning relies on huge brute force compared to animal learning.

Experts Chess players need to play many games to acquire sufficient intuitive knowledge, but they converge orders of magnitude faster than current algorithms.

This weakness might be relevant later, for very dynamic and adaptable systems.
Quote "If you write something innocent and later find out that it is being used for evil, you are now obligated to do something about that. You can't ignore it or say you didn't know. You are now stuck and have to do your best to make that situation better."

I would say that not only doesn't reflect sound ethics, it's not an example of good mental health.
> Why it matters: The longer people hold onto their internal-combustion cars, the longer it will take to replace those vehicles with newer, more environmentally sustainable technology.

Continuing to use the ICE car you already have is the more environmentally friendly option over manufacturing a battery powered car and using it.
> You’re right, that is a misquote. But what he actually wrote honestly wasn’t that much better

Agree. Broadly speaking, if someone is accused of a moral crime about which you have no privileged information, publicly hypothesizing about how they might be innocent is tantamount to a defence.

It's a limit on free speech. And in private circles, it could be debated responsibly. But when stated publicly, the argument's components of character defense and appeal to rationality are confusingly (possibly inextricably) balanced, which should be obvious ex ante.
Vaccines on a population level are less risky than the illnesses they prevent and generally reduce death and healthcare costs to society. This is true of both the flu and COVID vaccines. There's a nonzero chance that you'll feel worse with the vaccine than with the illness, there's also a nonzero chance that:a) someone else getting a vaccine has helped you not get sick and b) having gotten the vaccine could prevent serious harm in the case of illness. You can bet against those outcomes but your odds get worse and worse as you get older.
Maybe I’m asking the wrong question but how does it compare to Apache Spark etc?
You're comment is just like Robin's from the article!
That really is a somewhat incredible statistic to me, not because it's surprising given my own empirical evidence, but because of all the things one does in/with a car for years at a time. My car has been driven across the country multiple times, survived fairly extreme cold and heat multiple times a year, and still it shows no signs of stopping. It's always been amazing to me how long cars last considering what most people put them through.
> Also, don’t use pinky for controls —— home row mods all the way.

Is that just personal preference or is there some reason to avoid pinky control?
The average electric car will need a new battery by then. Will it make sense to buy a new one?
> I’m not the GP, but already Elixir can already accomplish compile time text processing with metaprogramming (like it does for inline html templating for ‘heex’ functions and files)

It's not the compile time text processing that's interesting, it's the fact that this compile time code can yield incredibly detailed types, and the fact that it's all done purely using type annotations. Almost every language that's used to build websites has some sort of server side templating language where you can sprinkle some code into your html templates.

> That it hasn’t been done yet is probably because no one has deemed to worthwhile to implement.

Maybe, or maybe it's less feasible without an advanced type system. The final version of the JSON example we're talking about ended up being 61 lines of code. Without some concrete Elixir code to inspect, this conversation is becoming very abstract.

Honestly even if some of this were possible with metaprogramming, my intuition is that it would be much more verbose and complex. I feel like if I tried to implement all of the features of TypeScript by mucking around with an abstract syntax tree using metaprogramming, I would end up with a difficult to maintain crude approximation of the real thing. I don't think we're giving compiler developers enough credit by saying everything they've worked on can be replaced with a quick macro. José Valim's blog post on static typing ended with an announcement that they've sponsored a PhD student to work on these problems.

After two days of discussion, I think we're reaching a bit of an impasse. Honestly just use what works for you!
Asimov – The Original Prompt Engineer
What are the advantages of Whisper over a custom app running on a cheaper Andriod tablet? How much benefit is derived from the dual microphones, for instance? Are there hardware-level APIs that Whisper offers which a custom Android app wouldn't be able to access?

I don't mean to nitpick, this looks really cool. I've just got a few old tablets lying around, and I'm trying to decide whether to spring for one of these instead of trying to make something work on what I've already got.
Wait, this is on the front page of HN and it's actually loading? Must have a CDN in front of it or something

EDIT: according to comments it was down earlier, but it's pretty snappy right now, suprisingly
Dirtywave have shipped plenty of M8's in the last year. They just produce them in batches, there have also been shortages of the Teensy 4.1 microcontroller used IIRC and they are highly sought after. You can also "build your own" from supplied firmware https://github.com/Dirtywave/M8HeadlessFirmware

This is not the fly-by-night kickstarter you are implying.
> Should a decades long career be destroyed completely by 1 second of indiscretion?

It really depends on what happened during that 1 second. The answer could certainly be "yes" depending on how heinous it was. Your rhetorical question bears an unfortunate resemblance to the father of rapist Brock Turner arguing his son shouldn't go to prison for "20 minutes of action".

In Stallman's case, his crime appears to have been white knighting for his dead friend on a mailing list, and during the ongoing discussion, Stallman was his usual Socratic self. He wasn't entirely "cancelled", but there was a huge fallout because he didn't consider his audience properly.

There's nothing wrong with having a debate on the age of consent, it's clearly an arbitrary dividing line that varies between jurisdictions and cultures, there is no right answer other than "at some point near the end of adolescence" but the absolutely worst place you could have that debate is during a discussion of whether a 80-something man had sex with a 16-year old girl being coerced by a child sex trafficker.

Pathos is as important as logos.
Also, the concept of generative feedback loops is described here: https://weaviate.io/blog/generative-feedback-loops-with-llms
https://capillaries.io/ (Cassandra & RabbitMQ) reminds me of https://temporal.io/ (PostgreSQL)

Next up, TemporiarriesLite™

Go + SQLite using https://litestream.io for single-instance, low-power systems or server-less, seldom-used apps that need distributed backups and statefulness.

Jokes aside, these at-least-once operation state managers are really nice and help us avoid adding SQS / NATS / etc.. queues littered all over the place. The focus on data processing by Capillaries is nice. Looking forward to trying it out.
I tried to find more about your "Why are pencils bad?" example, but the only thing that comes up in search is your comment. Could you recount what it was?

FWIW one example of distorted guardrails getting in the way that I personally ran into was when GPT-4 consistently refused to "promote" Satanism, which leaked over to tasks such as writing black metal lyrics (if you specifically asked for Satanic black metal). What made it especially egregious is that it would happily promote e.g. the Moonies. However, I wouldn't exactly describe that behavior as "woke".
> She was 17, and it happened in Florida where the age of consent was 18 at the time.

It was in the US Virgin Islands where the age of consent was 16 at the time.
I’ve got a 13 and 25 year old truck. They don’t seem to make cheap, simple cars anymore. I have the money to buy something newer, but each time I get excited I look at l the electronic crap in new cars, the insane dealer markups, and the general rising price of new cars. I think I’ll just make these last as long as I can.
Ableton is great but these days I prefer Bitwig. It does most of what live does but lets you do more modular stuff without the massive context switch into Max.
The UK drivers licence expires at the age of 70, and henceforth must be renewed every three years after that point.
Do you have any tangible data to back up the first sentence or is it just a desire to avoid facing hard reality?
> The idea you can't make work friends & work on cool stuff unless at your current job in your current role seems limiting.

I never said that. If you work on cool stuff with great people it is healthy to reflect on the pain and loss of that chapter ending. Yes, "there are more fish in the sea." Heartbreak is still heartbreak.
I just found this page [1] lol

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_from_laughter
Right but that varies from virus to virus - the goal of a universal flu vaccine is to hit a well-conserved region of the virus which doesn't mutate much. Our inability to do it so far doesn't necessarily imply it's impossible.

Whereas most current COVID vaccines target the spike, and disappointingly the spike is a lot more malleable then hoped.
If you look at Chess, Poker or writing Python, I am not sure that natural evolution is giving us a huge head start.

And still, human experts in those fields don’t need as much data, even with our slow brains, the convergence rate is astounding, compared to machine learning.
My Twitter use has declined a lot in the last few months, but just this morning I was shocked to see two extremist tweets within a minute of checking my “Following” (not “For You”) feed. My only question is whether it was a side-effect of malice or incompetence.
YT has been pretty terrible and only getting worse in terms of both cintent AND advertising. This push only solidifies my own distancing from the platform, and sureley countless others.
I like it,

Can the list of databases also be a database? like can it have the same interface and sort able features?

Also what does a user get i they login/sign up? is that just to create databases or do you get a subscribe feature or something?
From the HN Guidelines:

>"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it is both. The mRNA vaccine immunity did not wane just because of changes in the virus. That was probably a factor but in this case I don't think it was even the biggest one. The immunity just wanes, even to the same strain. It is to do also with the immune system itself.
DDT was probably worse than all.
Can you link to some of that messaging where the claims were not met? Thanks.
"the most extreme of conditions", so I'm not sure why you wouldn't think this includes sports or physical activities.
What are the level of auto theft in Korea? Or Japan? You are insisting on putting law abiding population into a cage because we cannot deal with criminal few.
That's a funny instrument! I'm definitely getting one of these since I'm a terrible singer but I always have a tune in my head that I need to hum out loud.

A few ios app recommendations I'd like to make are:

- Rassel (a free and absurdly accurate pocket shaker app)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rassel-pocket-shaker/id1575364...

- Ableton Note (Best 6 dollars I ever spent. It's a really fun way to experiment with musical ideas on the go. You can even record vocals and add effects.)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ableton-note/id1633243177
You’re confusing quite a few things here. Ethanol wasn’t put in gasoline until decades after the lead came out.

Ethanol was absolutely added for profit… but much like HFCS, it was about propping up big agribusiness.
https://archive.ph/ow1Rc
I meant no offense by the use of the word—rather that I think game devs should be able to enjoy the prestige and good pay/working conditions ;) If anything it's a jab at the companies who make record profits and still don't compensate their employees fairly, not the workers who take those jobs.
This is silly. Make was made for hierarchical tasks that can be done incrementally. This was largely about compiling things, sure. But, I'd wager all old make files have test targets. My favorite example in recentish times is http://ftp.cs.stanford.edu/pub/sgb/Makefile. And yeah, has a test target.

That docker compose and friend weren't good for building on top of is their "fault," as it were. Stability of software is not something that modern build tools really take to heart, sadly. Note that this is not "do not crash" stability.

I cede that progress is progress, such that there may be better tools today. I'd hesitate to base anything on python's ecosystem, sadly. They jumped a hell of a shark in the past few years that will be tough to get trust back on.
I did have a quick play with Grafana Cloud using the default dashboards for their linux agent were so incredibly slow when trying to navigate simple metrics.
Both are bad? So it just so happens that the current threshold for post-pubescents (18 years old) happens to align with what you believe to be the only moral value? So all those other states, countries and provinces throughout history which have adopted slightly different cutoffs (and therefor state-sanctioned pedophilia by your definition) were just morally bankrupt and evil? So 17 is wrong? So 16 is wrong? 15 is wrong? Which would you say is wrong if you were born in a time or state when 17 was the legal limit? Would you have seen through the poor legislation and advocated for raising it to you magic number of 18?

Would you be advocating that anything other than 17 is wrong? It reminds me of people who are born into a random country with a random god, and insist that only that god is correct. What luck!
Earth League International Hunts the Hunters
These completely dominate the land along I-17 between Flagstaff and Phoenix. Amazing how rapidly they appeared.
No need to get testy. I know its widely known. The problem is, we still see Python in performance sensitive areas at scale anyway. So I said its a good thing.

I'm not trying to give anyone a wedgy by saying that. I thought I was just giving some justification for the optimization that OP describes.
The concern with finetuning, even for specialized use-cases, is that you are binding yourself to the underlying model. Given rapid advancements in the field, this does not seem a prudent use of engineering time.

Having a hierarchy of prompts with context stuffing allows for rapid switching across models with a few (non-trivial) surface-level prompt updates while the deeper prompts stay static.
I do not buy this narrative you're selling.
Surely not labor
And with how complicated they’ve become. Pretty much all for the sake of MPG. Although frankly I think we crossed a turning point with the trend towards turbos in everything. A more powerful v6 or v8 is going to be more durable on average than a smaller and more complicated engine trying to eak out performance.

Youll see 20 or 30 year old crown vics. I dont think youll see any turbo charged 2023 Tauruses in 20 years.
WGA says strike is costing California's economy $30M a day
I think this is a common trait of creative people. After all, we want to create new things, not necessarily shepherd products through often-tiresome paths to completion or marketability.

Some random thoughts:

I watched a documentary about the production of the new Mustang at GM. The head of the project said something like "Once the initial excitement and enthusiasm are over, it's 95% bad news."

Something I have been occasionally thinking of doing is making a list of all my abandoned projects. Sort of a litany of my failures. A reverse-CV of sorts.

In my latest project (a 3D Common Lisp system), I made two decisions which have so far kept me involved. (1) I am not aiming at developing a commercial system. This means I can ignore necessary-but-tedious development a commercial system would require. (2) Since the system is a sandbox for me to explore my ideas, I can work on whatever interests me most at any given moment. This keeps me motivated, though to be honest I still go through slow periods. I have written some blog posts about this: https://kaveh808.medium.com/

It does help to be clear about why you are doing what you are doing. Whether it is intended to make money, solve people's problems, is just a hobby akin to picking up painting.

Overthinking leads to paralysis. Take it one step at a time and try as much as possible to concentrate on what motivates you, rather than imagining and enumerating all potential pitfalls.

I'll leave you with a quote by Ray Bradbury: "You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
Lot of comments here regarding how to implement the solution, but IMHO, The key takeaway was at the end -

> Respectful leadership pays dividends in all circumstances. But it especially pays dividends when we are talking about the relationship between top leadership and those teams on whom they are utterly dependent. Respectful Leadership does not mean that you have to spend your time listening to everyone in the organization — in a large enough organization that is not even possible. But it does mean that when you are dependent on someone’s work, you commit to working with them in good faith, and you make time to hear their concerns and their suggestions.
Those people saved by cancer treatments or IV drips should die, for the environment of course(!) This is what they really believe so you can be damn sure they will make you poorer by denying you the luxury of contact lenses. And they'd have a more acceptable excuse of "wear glasses".
Even if it's at the expense of the safety of other patients?
No, they are technically police. You don't need much to create a police force in the US; it's not federally controlled, the rules are whatever the state or locality legislates.
I have seen few hells as bad as "just use the target runtime for build."
Recent AI development nicely summarised
> 75% chance that within 5 to 7 years there could be a period of no ice cap [paraphrasing]

If you look at the trend line between 1995 and 2010 in the NASA data this was a reasonable prediction. The Northwest passage is now open for the first time in recorded history, things are melting fast.

> ...Bob used the figure of 2030...

Last I checked it wasn't 2030 yet.

NASA has a nice* video of the North polar ice cap. https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/155/video-annual-...

* It's okay, the graph doesn't have a zero-indexed base which it should.

Edit: Also Antarctica is the South ice cap, not the North, which is the video clip you linked.
Is this what MANGA stands for? I saw it before in the context of FAANG/MANGA companies but never realized it's just because Facebook is now Meta.

I tried Bing Search which told me it might mean Microsoft, Alibaba, Nvidia, Google and Amazon for "some of the leading companies in cloud computing and artifical intelligence." But the "source" it gave me was the Wikipedia article for Japanese comics.
Make is extremely useful, but it is not simple or pretty.

I honestly think instead of teaching make, it would be easier to refine it and then teach the simpler, more elegant make.

honestly, there is SO much low-hanging fruit.

- tabs vs spaces, indentation, the mess of continuing multiline statements

- variables are inelegant, interpreted out-of-order, and = vs :=

- quoting maintains the mess of the rest of linux where you confuse a literal vs a special character

- files, directories and targets (.PHONY) are confusing

and lots more all the way down
I had an F2AS for many years, excellent viewfinder indeed, 0.8x, the same as non-HP F3, but quite a beast to carry around. The ME Super had even bigger magnification but probably not a 100% coverage screen.

I only sold the F2 motor drive last year, and that was ridiculous too, ten AA batteries for the MB1 battery pack. Cannot believe I used to take that thing to parties for kicks 20-30 years ago.
https://archive.md/QjxNS
That's the main reason I don't want a new car. It would take a $20M audit to assess a new car for potentially catastrophic software defects, and almost all new cars would almost certainly fail the audit.
The quantity of violence involved. A protest should have rounds-to-zero of it.
There's a difference between taking a random() and then cubing it, and taking three different random()s and multiplying them together. The EV of the first is 1/4, whereas the EV of the second is 1/8.

You can prove the EVs for yourself, but an intuitive way to think about why the EV of the first is twice as much as the second scenario is to consider their probability density functions. When you cube a single random variable, the resulting PDF is skewed towards lower values, but not as dramatically as when you multiply three separate random variables together.
What exactly are you ranting about? What connection your statement has with Ayurveda?
All links are broken.
I also want to point out that there’s also the extreme-crazy option that is Gentoo linux.

All packages are distributed as source and compiled on the destination machine before being installed there. And yes, you can modify build flags per package to enable/disable compile flags.

I recommend doing it for fun. It’s a crazy world.
> How is missing a critical security issue that endangers all encryption offered by OpenSSL for more than a year (giving attackers access to your private keys via a basic network request) "working in this case"?

The fact that it was found by people outside the project is the system working.

> If you don't think finding Heartbleed after a year in OpenSSL was the process working, how about finding Shellshock was hiding in Bash for more than 20 years? Was that still a shallow bug, or is bash a project that just doesn't get enough eyes on it?

Yes it's a shallow bug. I mean look at it. And look at who found it.

> Rather than releasing support for TLS heartbeats that steal your private keys for a whole year, it would have obviously and indisputably been better if the feature had been delayed until a proper security audit had been performed.

How much auditing do you realistically think a project with a grand total of one (1) full-time contributor would've managed?

If the code hadn't been publicly released we'd still be waiting for the bug to be found today.