skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s very clear that Copilot/GPT-4 give superpowers to the generalist—-rapid prototyping—-and to the ultra-specialist—-no more yak-shaving in other domains.

Most roles that are run-of-the-mill “knows framework X” just enough to support naive clients or actually high/value teams, will indeed go to zero.

Which is amusing because 90% of the “AI” companies being started are run by people with no actual expertise, who probably are the most replaceable parts of deploying actual high/end systems.
It does CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY, which isn't too bad. Then it runs CREATE INDEX for all your indexes, which is usually faster than CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. However, while these are running, a trigger is inserting records for all new writes into a special log table. Once all the indexes are created, it replays that log table until it's empty, and then it briefly locks the source table, flushes the last bit of the log table, and swaps the tables.

If you have a lot of write traffic, that log table will get really big, and pg_repack will have to do a lot of work to replay it. It's possible that the log table grows faster than pg_repack can replay it, which will cause it to never finish and eventually exhaust your storage space. You can also run into an issue where the log table never gets completely empty, and pg_repack never initiates that final lock and swap.

Partitioning helps a lot because it divides both the size of the tables and the write traffic to each table.
Agreed, but with Bing powered by GPT 4, there isn't that much advantage.
GDP was never an accurate measure of national production. It makes no distinction between the number of people its concentrated in.

You can't really claim its national production if only one person controls it, as in some countries is done...
You are mistaken, and I will argue my claim by deferring to Wikipedia, which is an authority on fallacies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Yeah, I mean Google Sheets is created by Google, who can afford to throw craptons of money and warm bodies at the specific problem of making sure their browser is an inescapable part of the life of every modern computer user, so they can sell ads.

You and I don't have the same constraints and resources as Google.
As a youngish adult across the period of the first experiment I remember being simultaneously excited and also somewhat disgusted by the project. It had "vanity science" writ large across it. Subsequent events didn't make me change my mind.

The Wikipedia article tries pretty hard to stick to neutral POV and I think does OK. It might undersell the "fraudulent science" aspect a little and oversell the "we meant well" but what it did teach me is that good science was done. I didn't realise how much value came out of it, around things like elevated CO2 and reef effects. I do suspect other kinds of experiment could have done that, but it's nice they at least achieved that. I'm glad the uni invested to turn it into a research facility albeit of a slightly different kind.

Some of the psychodrama is pretty torrid. People busting windows, mistaken belief of obligations to science, to their fellow scientists, to the project, to the truth. Bannon for goodness sake!! When they opened the airlocks for some convenience "we ran out of ramen and batteries" it became junky science fast. Why didn't they have some process around full disclosure for goodness sake? It sounds like nothing a decent airlock and double entry accounting on mass, gas, and energy can't deal with.

I am left suspecting double the size, quadruple the budget and with post biosphere#2 knowledge, massively more powerful batteries, PV, knowledge of materials science for things like outgassing, human and animal physiology, improvements in glass transmissiblity, you name it.. maybe third times the charm. That budget would have to be x10 for current costs, so scaled to 2023 dollars.

Finding people capable of engaging and remaining normies under scrutiny is eternally hard. Trueman show stuff. We're learning Antarctic base social dynamics have gone pretty shit in the last two decades, systemic bullying culture can become pervasive without a lot of checks. (According to some Australian media and administrative reviews)
Isn't it beyond liberal? I would almost say it's so left it's not even liberal anymore, but that's a different matter. i think for sure it is a factor because the people who make decisions in the city, who are elected to manage the city, are probably not afraid of losing their jobs or the consequences of the decisions they make. There is so little pushback they can just run experiment after experiment with zero repercussions. I don't know what the solution is but I sure know that I don't hire the same company over and over if they keep failing at solving a problem I'm paying them for.

Granted, corruption is a big part of it (i.e. public services wasting tax payer money instead of solving the problem), and dealing with that would be a step in the right direction.
I edited my comment as a reply to this one. This reply of yours was flagged and dead earlier.
Surely the airport turns a profit?
Yeah, I was kind of tangential there, but it's strongly related.

Health and longevity is addressed from the other side of medicine. For example, a doctor could diagnose and prescribe medicine of one's type 2 diabetes, but in many of those cases that need is removed by following healthy practices (e.g., not being fat).

But back to the OP -- it seems like well-crafted LLMs could be idiot-savant helpers to guide doctors and ease their load.
No one said it did.
> the previously approved transuranic radionuclide decontamination drug, diethylenetriamine pentaacetate (DTPA), can only be administered intravenously or by nebulizer—both of which are less feasible options for rapidly treating large populations than the oral route of HOPO 14-1.

Man, the hypothetical scenarios they used to get funding for this must have been horrific.

Let's hope this drug is never needed.
Please tell me you’re joking. I don’t want my phone turning into a lifeboat because I dropped it in a puddle. It would also take out a ton of space to hold the inflatable bag and inflatable chemicals.
It also means our conversation is recorded by openai, doesn’t it?
By analogy to side guy / chick: it's the effect your technology / therapy / method / praxis is two-timing you with.
XD so randum!!!!!11
Ah yes, the "Sir, this is a Wendy's" of HTTP response codes ^_^
how do you think the sidebar works?
What complexity are we talking about? If your app needs queues, databases or shared storage, it is because of how you designed it. Now just imagine you’re doing this yourself: install servers, os, software, configure integrations, do patches, upgrades, repair hardware. Would it be any simpler?
If you infringe someone's copyright they can take legal action at any time. The 2 week timeline is just how long your content takes to be reactivated if they aren't sueing you.
Puns and wordplay are easy? I think most linguists would heavily disagree. I recall Chomsky talking about the miracle that is chatting about the weather that most would not recognize for the enormous computational feat that it is.
The collaborative loop growth hack to get the spread beyond the first 100mn adopters. Does anyone know what's the current number of subscribers using ChatGPT? And what do usage graphs or conversation stats look like?
How imaginative do you consider this story: https://chat.openai.com/share/e2a24c03-992a-4e99-8ef6-1d8702...

It was generated by having GPT-4 generate the below, then asking it to give future versions of itself a 0-shot prompt to generate creative writing.

https://rentry.co/gpt4creativity
Those bullet points make LLMs sound just like most human doctors.
Is this octopus having a nightmare?
"You want a high-availability website allows user-uploaded files and does asynchronous task processing? You're probably going to have to get familiar with servers, load balancers, queues, and object storage, at a minimum."

Really? I disagree. I could probably build that with Rails and Heroku in an afternoon, after creating a single S3 bucket and an access key for presigned POST. AWS has "necessary complexity" in the same way a giant hole in your head improves your brain's cooling potential. (i.e. maybe, in some very rare cases, but you almost certainly don't need it)
russian MoD sites started returning this for foreign IPs shortly after the invasion began last february
For those running Debian or Ubuntu and interested to try the Standard ML of New Jersey,

$ sudo apt install smlnj
$ sml
Standard ML of New Jersey v110.79 [built: Sat Oct 26 12:27:04 2019]
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and you can hit the ground running.
From the article -

> The French Together blog is built on WordPress and the combination of GeneratePress + GenerateBlocks and is hosted by Rocket.net. The French Together app uses Ruby on Rails and is hosted on Render.com.

> For emails, I just use Bento + ConvertBox. My general philosophy regarding tools is to always try to use the simplest solution possible.
I don't see how that clarifies anything; what effect does a measure that's been circumvented have, and how does it differ from the effect of a message of "dibs" that some people decide to abide by?
Kinda thought this should respond 404
This guy built a phone parachute, it was pretty shitty but amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCbhEHlpL8&ab_channel=Willi...
For whatever reason, having just the global functions feels more natural to me in Lisps, but weirder where function names precede the opening parentheses.

I do also find the comprehensions more readable when one is actually using all of their components, i.e., when the function in the map behind the sugar would not be the identity function. But occasionally, when all the author really wanted to do is filter, you'll see stuff like

[x for x in ... if ...]

and that always strikes me as a bit weird and unfortunate.

> Also some historical context, Python's list comprehension are based on Haskell's

I didn't know that! I do kinda like Python's preference for English keywords over arrows here, even though the Haskell syntax is more concise or whatever.
Having made some wacky ligature fonts before and knowing how wild fonts are, I cannot imagine how tedious this was and how much of a lunatic (I say this in the most endearing way possible) the author must be. It's very firmly in the realm of mad science.

This is mindbogglingly incredible work. I love it.
They're most severe in SF but all major west coast cities are experiencing the same issues. Saying it's a result of "liberalism" is simply empty reflexive rhetoric. What's happening is a complex set of intersecting problems. If you'd like to talk about those I'm interested. If you just want to punch at what you see as "far left" I am not inclined to waste my time.
Or registers their car in another state, or misreports their status on taxes, hoards and continually consumes pirated media. The list goes on, the op makes a good point and needling them isn’t adding to the discussion
the problem wasnot using a sat solver but how they used it.

many package dependency managers use sat solvers since suse spearheaded this in 2007/2008 with libsolv, which is blazing fast for large repositories.

https://research.swtch.com/version-sat
/off topic

Have you documented & written about your microscope experiments (both building them and the experiments themselves) on the web?

If you have, and are comfortable, can you please share the link?

Just curious. Ex-biologist, and among other things, I helped build / assemble an optical trap and other equipment including confocal / TIRF microscopes about a decade+ ago, so curious what a serious (amateur) student with time, passion and resources is able to do.

Thank you :)
Yeah, I keep forgetting that, somewhat hilariously as I'm at radius 2 to the family. My dad's best friend worked for Koch industries and described his job as "keeping the brothers from killing each other." They are extremely unpleasant people based on all the stories I heard growing up.
Which part do you think is not substantiated?

They did write about compile-time reflection, their talk was part of the conference[1], and now they’re not doing the talk. That’s enough to me take what they say at face value, especially now that in the wake of this there have been resignations in the leadership.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230523045330/https://rustconf....
It’s mostly a propaganda thing to make China (and recently Russia) look bigger

I am not sure how India and Brazil benefit from it
For editor support for Standard ML you can try Millet, a language server. https://azdavis.net/posts/millet/

There’s also https://smlhelp.github.io/book/ which is mostly put together by current/past CMU students.

Note: I made Millet.
I really hate people that idolize other people that get it wrong just as much as they get it right.

The baby boom generation isn't retiring, they are rapidly dying because they are now in their 70s/80s and that's what happens when old age takes you.

When there were downturns, the experienced workers crowded out the entry level positions normally used to build job experience. This has set back and snowballed every generation after the baby-boom generation.

This lack of experienced labor, coupled with the massive amount of currency debasement means we are going into a period of high inflation and low production but its more about the currency debasement than anything else with regards to inflation. You can't print money to pay debts owed indefinitely. Like any ponzi it eventually has consequences.

Many generations starting with Gen-X were hobbled at vulnerable times in their financial life. There is no predicting what is coming aside from the generalization that there will be lower birth rates because people are less financially secure, and have no say because representatives are only responsive to campaign contributions (see tweedism larry lessig).

There are times in our lives where if we don't have children, then it doesn't happen for a large majority.

You need to be debt free and have a downpayment of a house by 30, and children no later than 35 for women. Mortality, complications, and birth defects kicks in after that.

Children are expensive and the cost is borne by the parents. Simple economics, if the cost of labor goes below what is needed by a family unit to support the mother and father 2 children to 18 then it doesn't happen. This was well known in 1776 only back then it was 4 children because of mortality.

Something so widely and commonly known being so completely ignored by the people who are supposed to know best, really goes to show how bad things are going to get.
libsolv is underneath suse and some more Linux distributions. I think conda at some point switched there, too.
Ah, yeah I was trying to get a lay explanation of how arithmetic coding assuming it was done with enough precision wouldn't achieve the perfect security properties.

It might just be that the precision rapidly becomes unmanageable, because I guess you need to support the least probable symbol from every token without ever losing precision (normally arithmetic coders will re-normalize after each symbol to keep the accumulator in a reasonable precision, though they could be designed to do so as infrequently as you like at a performance cost)... If no renormalization is possible I guess an arithmetic coder accumulator would need to handle values like (1/least_prob_token)^n_tokens which gets extremely big extremely fast -- and would at the very least need an unconventional construction.
The tl;dr is that a material with nanopores in humid air can create a small amount of electrical current when the water molecules interact with the nanopores.
$30 for 1.6TB ($18.75/TB) is not a good price. Hard drives are available for less than that.
As a web developer, I'll be perfectly honest in expressing shock that anyone would assume it wasn't being recorded. Even in far less important spaces, basically every click and keystroke is sent to some analytics service, and if you block it on the client, there's generally a server-side gatherer to pass on what it can. If you ever submit anything to any modern website, it is a somewhat safe assumption that it is recorded somewhere.

This applies a little less if you're in a country affected by GDPR, but even then - request that data some time, it's so much more than some people realize.
it was steeping!
Nope. Totally different meeting: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/06/us/politics/t...

The Trump team had lots of contact with Russia about all sorts of topics. By the way as far as I know, lobbying the Russians against the interests of the current government is extremely rare and rises to the level of what Reagan did to Carter with the Iran hostage crisis. There’s even laws on the books iirc that this isn’t allowed although no one seems to want to try enforcing it.
Sorry, stevia: Artificial sweeteners get more bad PR
This concept is for a wealth tax and/or income tax (one would have to pass below both barriers to get the tax credit and/or loan repayment) that goes up to 100% for this specific money via specific avenues.

You can’t hand wave away a policy proposal with “no rich person will have 100% taxation”. Since it’s a tax credit and it’s getting taxed immediately. Rich people won’t be getting the money.

> Simply give poor money people exclusively.

I guess we just have to disagree. I assume you’re too liberal? I come from a leftist perspective. For me policy, end results, class, and material changes are more important than liberal progressive mentality of a charity/welfare state of affairs.

Also you stated no rich person pays 100% taxes yet you’re stating something that never happens too: poor people exclusively getting money.
The book you're thinking of is called "the gliding flight" and is my favorite paper airplane book.

https://www.amazon.com/Gliding-Flight-Paper-Make-Original-Ai...
Guinea Pigs Are Fermions
Imo if a publisher wants to retain rights to a game, they should have to make it available for sale. If you don't provide some legal way to acquire a game for some number of years (5? 10?) it should go into the public domain (the game itself, not the related IP).
Yes, they have first mover's advantage[0]. But since there's no moat, they seek to limit competition through regulation (regulatory capture).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage
Canada belongs because the US wanted a strong ally there
This post reminds me of when I encountered people that were surprised to learn that the owner of a Telegram bot can read all messages sent to the bot.
There is even code to code secrets into grammars with perfect uniformity. https://github.com/sipa/gramtropy

But it only works on specially constructed grammars and not LLMs. :)
So the top contributors of modern Linux are large corporations. cURL is not a framework

And isn’t that the ultimate in survivorship bias? How many other languages and frameworks would you have left you screwed if you jumped into whole hog in before they had popular uptake?
They were probably referring to this: https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/14/san-francisc...
They are much better now. The pro I know went from a canon 5D mkiii to mirrorless R5? (Classical performance photos). It’s quiet fast and the new lenses are better/smaller. The lack of
A mirror means it’s faster as it doesn’t have to physically flip it up to take the picture. They’ve embeded the focus sensors on the image sensor so it’s much faster focusing than previous mirrorless[1]

[1]https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4703538

The downsides are price and battery life, and if you have existing lenses you’ll need an adapter..
I don’t think the USA could put any more pressure on China then it already has without hurting themselves
If this is going to be Nintendo's 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 (or its 455FE10422CA29C4933F95052B792AB2 as this is far from the first time Nintendo's keys leaked), I doubt the courts would care.

Worst case scenario, someone in France can probably get around the problem by launching it on French Steam so people can only get the emulator through one of those throwaway VPNs. VLC managed to avoid censorship from big media companies through "foreign" law. I doubt it's worth the trouble, though.
If EFF is very interested, they can find a way to test it themselves. But here, even with EFF's help the developers would be still exposed to risk. EFF is not able to say "we'll fight this for you, pay 100% of expenses and your time's worth, and go jail instead of you if things turn really bad".
Hardly anyone has access to GPT-4? Isn’t it widely available now?
Not hear. The signal was converted to audio to help people grasp the phenomenon. Gravity waves are the same as electro magnetic
In theory you can dump disk images pre-decrypted, but that would make the Steam version of the emulator incompatible with every disk dump tool and personal Wii game archive out there.
The US seems especially bad, though. Do other countries do things differently in terms of incentives?
I don't think it's demonstrated that at all, simply that it was better than feudalism. But China has built 15000 miles of high speed rail in ten years, and has functionally eliminated homelessness by the admission of the World Bank (not a pro-Communist organization!). Cuba (and China) had its healthy life expectancy surpass the US for the first time (despite over a half-century of the worst sanctions regime on the planet, save perhaps the one imposed on Palestine). The USSR went from a society of peasants to beating the US in space milestones over five decades. All of these successes have happened over the backdrop of a massively hostile international capitalist presence--imagine how different it could all be if said capitalist societies felt like they should compete on making their citizens happy, rather than by building hundreds of military bases around the world and being involved in violent conflict all but a handful of years out of the last two centuries (the US has eight hundred military bases and spends almost a trillion a year on its military!).

Any time you hear about how terrible ("authoritarian! undemocratic! oppressive!") a society that gives socialism a shot is, remember that it is coming from a context that has baked Cold War propaganda into _literally everything_ we have consumed from it, our entire lives. Question it!
Wow, that’s damning.

IMO, for companies that publish ratings like Glassdoor/Yelp/Airbnb, it should be outright illegal to remove negative reviews without very good reason. (Lies, spam, etc.)
I feel like it really missed an opportunity to reply "baby don't hurt me"
Open LLM Leaderboard – A Hugging Face Space by HuggingFaceH4
Well, it's not really an "AI" if it doesn't have a truthful model of the world. I can see how people would think it's useful, but they don't see the downsides that come with it, and it's gonna become harder and harder to not be misled.
This Indian official is NOT an exception. Most of Indian bureaucrats are just like him--they act like princes/kings. This is applicable from the low level clerks to the top level officials; the difference is who bear the brunt.
> Jails are basically like a VM-like/light […]

With all due respect, they are not.

The definition of a «virtual machine» is a settled matter, and the «M» in «VM» is important and is the differentiator: it allows one to run a different operating system kernel on the same host under the auspices of a hardware or a software supervisor (somewhat less of a defining feature).

Neither jails nor cgroups possess such a property, and both restrict users to the same host operating system kernel and its version, so none of them are «VM-like/light» irregardless of the semantic interpretation of the «-like» suffix.

VM-like functionality is provided by a different OS subsystem in both, Linux and FreeBSD, kernels.