skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only in America could you read about a terrible, ongoing opioid crisis impacting millions of families and in the same breath question aloud if our society's inability to feed our amphetamine craving is costing our productivity.
Ask HN: What's GPT-4's secret sauce that makes it so much better than others?
Especially for coding, I've had absolutely fantastic results with GPT-4. I've tried ChatGPT, Claude, LlaMA, and others, but GPT-4 is the only LLM that performs superb in terms of coding. Most times I get the correct response at the first try.

There's a rumor about the number of GPT-4's parameters (1 trillion?). But I'm not sure. To me, it's just an amazing piece of technology that works very well and somehow I don't know how it achieved this performance.
Elon didn't get any financial support from his dad after 18 and has been financially supporting him, not the other way around. The emerald mine thing, which his dad was once rumored to have some small share of (not 'owned'), has gotten inflated into quite a myth.
When taken as directed I'd be inclined to agree, but there is definitely a non-negligible likelihood of individuals misusing it and forming a dependence as a result, more immediately so than caffeine.
I did not feel engaged to the plot. The dialogue felt abstract and kind of went over my head. Someone mentioned that the film is "very Russian" and perhaps that is part of it. I have extremely limited exposure to Russian culture but it feels quite introspective to me. I noticed the dialogue sounding a little like Putin, just sound-wise. Lots of "mmm" sounds which in my language people make when they are considering their next words. Somehow I see a connection there (that probably don't exist, if I am being rational)
The predictions in this article are somewhat mute because existential problems within AI should manifest before AI becomes smart and capable of wiping us out. AI will augment and speed up all parts of society, good and bad. Imagine rapid advancements in these areas for instance: genetic engineering, wealth creation, uranium refinement, drones, bio weapons, election manipulation, general crime, murder for hire. You think our eighty year old representatives are going to get ahead of this? Think they could even regulate it?

I can download and run the latest uncensored Vicuna model and get started on all this right now. Give it a few months, years or a decade. Its unstoppable, no way to contain it or its acceleration.
Does HN not still require a certain level of upvotes to get access to voting?
Blameless postmortems are blameless for a reason. People shouldn’t get fired (or really even reprimanded) for bugs. It sets up the wrong incentives.
You're not a creature from the upper level, so the simulation is your reality. So by going outside of it, if it was possible, you wouldn't be escaping into your reality (that was hidden from you), but to your creators reality. So that would be less like escaping and more like going to heaven or something...
None of that qualifies as magic. Indicators of magic features are implicitness, action-at-a-distance, high complexity.
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I’m in this boat too, and would love suggestions to freshen up my algorithm skills.
I am willing to give it a try, thanks!
The first time I watched it, I fell asleep part way through and woke up at the end. But then I decided I really wanted to watch it, so I immediately restarted it and and stayed awake and LOVED it. I think it's worth it.
I think this is a reasonable response to the terrible atrocity that is medical care (in the US*). The way forward is likely going to be the medical form of 'self-hosted': home medical devices for self diagnosis.

There will be many that flock to this comment to make claims about home devices and how they're 'inaccurate' or other nonsense, but the truth is that it is very possible and in many situations already the case that home devices are FDA approved, and often better accuracy than what you may receive in the clinic. Obviously, this is for a subset of diagnostic tests, and certainly nothing dealing with radiation potential, but the opportunity for expansion is certainly there and I think will continue to expand and fill this enormous hole the US has.
Man, thanks so much for this. I’m using Wasabi with a Yarkon front end right now and it’s great, but Backblaze/Cloudflare is looking like a serious contender.
I make my own. Your move.
Hmm, if it's spreading so much, maybe it's not a cult?

Even if you still have the cynical perspective of thinking it's all wrong--Christianity took over and nobody calls it a cult anymore. At least give it the dignity of 'religion'.
https://blog.janestreet.com/why-ocaml/
Ask HN: What’s a good prompt for a descriptive illustration of point particles?
Looks like people at FAANG did not like this comment.:-)
I'm guessing labor and/or taxes/permitting fees.
I don't understand what the "Argument From Slavic Pessimism" is arguing against. It seems to be ceding the point that AI could be dangerous and saying that we most like won't be able to prevent it. The conclsion therefore is...we shouldn't try? Seems like a tangent among the other points. It definitely doesn't argue against the possibility of danger.

> We know that minds have to play and learn to interact with the world, before they reach their full mental capacity.

Disagree somewhat with this one. We know that brains need to do this, but granting substrate neutrality all minds might not.
Thanks for the downvote. The specific reason is that it provides context for the decline of the quality of The Economist articles.

Could America’s Adderall shortage have harmed its productivity?

I mean, seriously, think about that headline.

If you need a hint at how click baity that is, the article itself helpfully suggests in the second para:

Coincidence? Probably.
An annual checkup is one of the certain preventive measures and the Aca does require it to be covered with no cost sharing.
The d'ecquevilly has to be the strangest oval design, more here if interested https://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/d'ecquevilly.html
Insane comment to put your real name on, Noah! You realize this will show up when people Google you?
No, it really doesn't. There are so many tools that already respect this variable that if you're writing a new tool, and you're not looking for that variable, you are being a bad actor and need to be told to shape up.
I forgot about that show. Some great memories with that one
I’m stating a fact with no opinion behind it. Russia owns Crimea. If the rest of the world cared or supported Ukraine back in 2014, they would have done something but no one lifted a finger including Obama.

These are facts. If the world wants to help Ukraine reclaim Crimea then they would be doing so but no one is.

Now whether the world SHOULD help Ukraine reclaim Crimea is a separate question but there is no confusion over the ownership of Crimea currently: it’s Russia. To argue otherwise is unintelligent and immature.
Orcas do teach their young to hunt and speak in the manner of their group, or clan, or pack. Different groups of orcas have their own culture. I wouldn’t be surprised if dolphins do the same
>Why else would "they" spend all those resources?

We could just in a video-game style world, with mechanics (laws of physics etc) totally different to the ancestor's world. Like we often do when we make games...
The article you've linked to doesn't seem to implicate them in particular. Apple, Google and dozens of other then-popular companies were also forced into positions of security compromise as well.
Some adults eat them
Major medical insurers are not naive about this stuff. They employ expert actuaries and data scientists who understand statistics and causality.
I believe Github Copilot Chat only has access to the single currently viewed file, any other context/code from other files in the repo need to be copy/pasted in.
I think it's fair to say that obviously, anybody who explores 'breaking' the simulation is also aware of this and all their hopes are pinned on the admittedly infinitesemal chance that we're in a simulation that can be broken
Democracy via elected representatives is a lie. "Extreme outliers" may even be too much. Is there even a handful of examples?
It most certainly is a multiparty negotiation. You eat things that can be reasonably obtained from vendors in your area, who in turn stock things they think they can sell. You order from the items available at the establishments you visit with your friends and family, who have input into where you go. You recommend foods to others, and eat foods that others recommend to you. In short, eating is a cultural activity you participate in.

As far as veganism is concerned, it is notable that it is much easier to be vegan now than 20 or even 10 years ago, as vegan ingredients are more widespread and higher quality, and "vegan options" are essentially standard in restaurants. This didn't happen through legislation, but by the application of social pressure by vegans - if vegans can't eat at your restaurant, they won't just go somewhere else, they'll take their friends with them. It is the output of a massive multiparty negotiation.
It defines good faith as never having done three things, or having an associated or related company do those things.

Those things are (roughly):

1. Having sued anyone over IP used in EVs, helped anyone due so, or had a financial stake in someone who does.

2. Challenged any patent held by Tesla, now or in the future; or had a stake in such a challenge.

3. Marketed or sold a "knock-off" of any tesla product, or providing material assistance to. Knock-off is defined a product that imitates or copies the design of a tesla product.

If I held stock in a big-three automaker when they sued a non-Tesla EV manufacturer over a patent, does that mean I am excluded? Sure looks like it.

Selling a J1772->Tesla-T adapter could also count, and because it's a "never has done" kind of thing, there is no concept of redemption.
But if they're not done at the physical, the physical is where the doctor asks whether you've been screen/checked for things and when, and then schedules them.

If I didn't go in for an annual physical, I'd never get tested or screened for a single thing. I'd never have blood work done. Because when else do I go to a doctor? How else would I know?

That's what baffles me here. Your annual physical is the launching point for everything preventative. It's the only time you ever see your doctor if you're otherwise healthy. Saying no to annual physicals means saying no to literally all screening, or am I missing something?
I know 2 women who say they never dream. Both are very intellectually focused and spend their days in intense intellectual activity (engineer, accountant).

Weed makes me not dream.

When I do more Vipassana meditation I recall my dreams a lot. Some lucid.
> Faced with death years to decades from now or a chance at amortality. Which would you choose?

Death, 100%. I know that death doesn’t have any downsides (although dying sometimes has some) and it’s worked for everyone who’s lived so far.
Eh, not even. To use the UK as an example (not that any other western country is better):

>A report in Britain’s Sunday Times said a dozen sites inside the Palace of Westminster, which includes the House of Lords and House of Commons, tested positive for traces of cocaine.*

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/06/british-parl...
The audience is all dreaming of what could have been in another life.
It's regional. It's used in the UK and this is a BBC article.
We put limits in apps that we run by the dozens on our computers - not because they represent some huge resource hog individually, but because we want to run many of them in parallel and not bog down the OS.

Besides, sometimes an approximation is enough, and even though we could waste 10000x the resources on an app, we chose not to.
pre-electrical homes typically had coal pits for home heating, which are completely unheard of in modern homes.
> airstrikes on datacenters

This is the most punk rock idea I've heard in awhile.
Why should others subsidize your investment lost?
If no one could have actually predicted it though, isn’t it a valid excuse?

Who exactly should be held accountable how, anyway?

Near as I can tell, none of them were meaningfully violating any laws. If anything, they were being extremely cautious not to. The public health acts give them a LOT more power than they were using.
Who (and with links showing it) is selling it as delivering more than that?

From https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/27/lawyer-chatgpt/ (which has the dates)

> Mar 1st, 2023 is where things get interesting. This document was filed—“Affirmation in Opposition to Motion”—and it cites entirely fictional cases! One example quoted from that document (emphasis mine):

GPT-4 wasn't available until March 14th ( https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 ), so we're dealing with 3.5 here.

Where was 3.5 advertised to do more than generate plausible language in a conversation and who is making those claims?
Moore's Law is about a relation of the number of transistors in a given cost chip, not just their size. Whether they have 1 core vs 4096 or whether the chip is 1 mm^2 vs1000 mm^2 doesn't really matter in terms of the law.

That said, I think the trend of transistor growth at a given cost has started to slow according to most graphs.
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That's simply not how the medical insurance business works. Since the Affordable Care Act, insurers have almost no ability to pick and choose their customers. And since profit margins are capped there is like little incentive to "save" money by reducing medical expenses.
Something I find interesting is that more and more single-service, tech enabled medication providers are popping up. Example - if I want ADHD medication, there's a service for that, and there's another service for hair loss medication, yet another for weight loss medication... How do PCPs feel about this? It has to represent a loss of control for them when their patients can basically go out and get what they want in such a low-friction way.
Also interesting is that SEL is in the process of opening the first new PCB fabrication shop in the US in what I think is quite a long time. Since the last few decades have seen so much off-shoring of PCB manufacturing, it's nice to see someone bringing new facilities here (to small Moscow, ID, right across the border from Pullman). Unfortunately, the shop is going to be used only to build SEL boards according to the answer I got when I asked about general availability, but perhaps in the future they'll allow orders from other companies. Even so, it's nice to see a return to some of the vertical integration we saw decades ago with HP and others.
I often add Ozu to this list, too, although his works tend to be a bit closer to "movies" than Tarkovsky or Bergman.
We did have power to reduce deaths early on, pre vaccine, and did okayish.

The vaccine does reduce deaths dramatically in sensitive populations.

Based on the European data and NYC data, that legitimately did save likely millions of lives in the US.
Like it's said in Russia - government is controlled by the people, and we know who these people are.
that lawyer should be disbarred.

Is it really so hard to cross reference a chatgpt response with a source?
> I think color can make reading faster and easier, it's why syntax highlighting exists.

Except you don't know the colour scheme of the terminal: is it a form of black text on white background, or white/green text on black background? If you decide to output something as (dark) blue text, how legible will it be?

As someone who has a black background, comments shown as dark blue make for difficult reading of many config files with Vim†.

† And another thing: when I invoke "vi" I want Vi: I do not want Vim. If I wanted Vim I would have typed in "vim". Having "vi" call Vim is a major pet peeve of mine: have to change that silly default in most distros nowadays.
Ok, it's a bad headline, I agree. What does that have to do with the details about the author that you initially posted?
At least for me, ADHD stimulant meds taken in the morning don't impact sleep at all; if I have some more around midday, I need to take additional care with my bedtime routine to get my 8 hours (otherwise it takes too long to fall asleep).

Prescription meds are not _anything_ like party drugs, either in dose or in isomer. Comparing them to meth is a reactionary talking point regularly brought up among those upset a previously-underdiagnosed illness is suddenly being treated.
The point is that their container offering recognizes, correctly, that containers aren't a secure isolation boundary so unless there's internal only ec2 instance sizes (which seems unlikely, but I could be wrong) they used to waste significant portions of an instance's compute in the name of security since the instance _is_ a secure boundary.

More broadly, based on the literature I've seen, I'd agree that GCP takes security seriously, but so does AWS and I haven't seen any good evidence to say one would be "better" than the other.

I would expect both to come up with a robust security model and as part of their defense in depth I'd expect both to enforce single tenancy at a hypervisor level any time they're running anything untrusted or which can be materially/declaratively influenced by customers (e.g. code, SQL, etc)
>Pretty useless comparison in that regard.

???

"Europe data salary benchmark 2023", what made you think you'd find cost of living statistics there?
But we've been using coffee that way for like 1000 years
> If I bring up any health issues I'd like to discuss at my annual exam, it's billed as a doctor visit because it's no longer "preventative" care. For the visit to be free, I have to stay silent. It also gives providers an opportunity to recommend and order expensive tests or procedures that the patient might otherwise not have pursued.

They tried to bill me for that in the past at practices I was a patient of. There's a fine line between preventative care and E/M. You can generally walk the "preventative care" line by presenting your concerns as an observed change to be documented rather than a problem to be solved.

If they do charge you, call the office to appeal the billing and they generally drop it as long as you can push the point that you weren't seeking a specific treatment but rather were just informing the doctor of a change in your health or conditions since the last visit.
What the parent means is that they have those limits imposed in the simulation, to make the thing running the simulation run it more efficiently (which would imply it's resource intensive to run a simulation).

The same way hat if we looked at a physics simulation codebase, and notice that it uses higher granularity constants, more coarse calculations and other such limits (like moderate refresh rates), we could deduce that the programmers put those there because the simulated physics would be too costly for the CPU they run on otherwise.
From the NYT article on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-...

> Judge Castel said in an order that he had been presented with “an unprecedented circumstance,” a legal submission replete with “bogus judicial decisions, with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations.” He ordered a hearing for June 8 to discuss potential sanctions.
Complete aphantasic here. I dream, but not in images or any kind of sensory experience.
The Mirror is one of my favourite films but I always fall asleep 2-3 times while watching it!

I find it so relaxing that I’ve just learnt to enjoy the whole experience and enjoy the dozing as part of the experience of watching the film.
Yes, that definitely happened. My retail electric provider (REP) closed up and sold my contract to another company who honored it until the end of the contract (which is actually only just now expiring).

My costs went up a bit because my delivery fees are subject to change based on regulatory approval. But otherwise I, and many others, didn't experience absurdly high electric bills from this.
Having lived in three countries with universal health care, annual checkups is a bit foreign concept. I mean you could ask to get tests whenever you want to, but it is not something doctors will recommend. Most people go to the doctor when they experience symptoms.

I don't know how to compare these systems, but I guess if we look at life expectancy, similar European countries are doing pretty well.
As a layman (not a medical professional), I've never heard the term "periodic health maintenance visit" before reading this comment.

I've definitely heard "annual physical" and "annual checkup" before though. And that's what my insurance pays for once a year for free, in my understanding.

It seems like "periodic health maintenance" is necessarily a part of an "annual physical/checkup", just the same as a quick physical inspection is part of your annual as well.

But that Vox is ignoring the "periodic health maintenance" part?

Why? Out of ignorance or is there an agenda here?
> death doesn’t have any downsides

The fact that most people try to avoid death by any means possible is a good indication it has downsides.

Specifically, the fact that you can no longer go on living is a big downside of death in my mind.
> a country could overlook the withdrawn passport

It still contradicts the narrative that he was stuck in Russia because his passport was revoked once he got there.
I have stopped hiring content writers too. ChatGPT does as good of a job, especially with technical content that some writers often struggle with.
But do you honestly expect this to go anywhere? Especially in the US, any government involvement in private affairs is called socialism and nothing changes for the better.

Until telsa starts killing more people and they get a reputation hit will they go into PR damage control mode.
1. Ukraine wants starlink over Crimea.

2. Russia does not.

Do you support #1 or #2? Mr. Musk has chosen #2, a decidedly pro-Russian stance on this matter. If you want to argue #2 or whatever, sure. Whatever. But that's on you buddy, and whatever semantic games you wanna play I don't have to put up with it. I recognize what you want.

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In any case, its obvious Mr. Musk isn't a reliable partner. We need to work on giving the Ukrainian commandos (and partisans) in Crimea access to internet without Starlink. Even if we somehow forced Mr. Musk into the right decision here, he could flip at any time. So finding an alternative satellite internet company is in USA's and Ukraine's best interest.
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Why is that the obvious choice? TCP can recover through retransmission, UDP can not. Sounds just as logical of a choice to prioritize UDP and allow TCP connections to have a slowdown rather than allow UDP connections to have data loss.
Writing questions for that show would be harder than writing shared unit tests for Haskell and BASIC.
Dev Drive on Windows 11
what tool is that?
>Whether they have 1 core or 4096 doesn't really matter.

It does however matter to the looser Moore's law expectations, which were about increased speed. Now this happens only for more parallelizable programs, as opposed to the automatic speed increase bumps programs got from Moore's law in the single-core eras...
You obviously have no clue how this stuff actually works. Most major medical insurers already have programs to distribute connected smart devices for monitoring vital signs to patients that have been diagnosed with chronic diseases such as heart failure or type-2 diabetes. But those devices are largely useless for diagnosis. You can't really get a home HbA1c blood test.
As a young adult I arrived late in the middle of the night at a remote place and unrolled a tent exactly over a cow patty. The smell and sensations I could not point to in the dream or in the tent. I have worked for less than three hours at a metro sewerage plant. I heard stories of workers being washed away and drowning in the sewer.
There is nothing about anyone's appearance anywhere in that transcript?