skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine being one of the few natural born kids starting school in 2046. Half your class is named Chris because they are literally the clones of Chris Pratt/Pine/Hemsworth/Evans. It may seem impressive, but they really are only the generic bargain bin option for genetic engineering by then. The other half, the richer kids, are hyperintelligent chimeras of every most famous, intelligent, world class athlete, celebrity and model from the early 21st century mixed into a Select Blend. On your first day, the class watches Gattaca, and your teacher, GPT-12, discusses how many things the movie got wrong and how genetic discrimination is not bad at all.
Is it GlasgowGPT by any chance?

Either way, there's definitely an opportunity for funding. In the case of Glasgow, there's a huge populous out there that are descendants of folk from the city/country taking pride in it (arguably more than a bunch of us that live here!) and like to get in on the banter.

That's certainly an avenue worth exploring if there's a similar relationship with folks or families of folks that emigrated away, but feel a strong connection.

Edit: You'll have to excuse my unfamiliarity with LLMs, but if you're storing messages and responses, and if there's a way to check that a message has already been asked, would it be possible to replay that (at least on the first message) instead of running a new query against the API? If they then engage further, then it would send the job out?
https://youtube.com/@MosfilmRuOfficial
They seem to be using https://github.com/mitchellh/colorstring/blob/master/colorst... instead of isatty and curses and terminfo.
By my calculations they'd need to keep growing earnings by about 47% every year for the next decade to make their current valuation make sense.

I don't think any company in history has achieved that when it was already at Nvidia's scale. Obviously when a company is much smaller it can achieve greater growth.
Here's the thing though, Valve could have just waited to see what Nintendo would do. If Nintendo had submitted a DMCA takedown request, Valve could have evaluated it then. Admittedly, whether any of us like it or not, the takedown request would probably have been valid and Valve probably would have honored it. Still, I can't think of one good reason to ask.
Satya Nadella
For many, a Southern accent immediately invokes thoughts of MAGA, gun fanatics, Republicans, Trump supporters, anti-science, racists, homophobes, fascists, xenophobes, misogynists, etc. There are so many negative stereotypes tied up with the Bible Belt that this study doesn’t surprise me at all.
Why do they need to do it at night? It's their house, they can paint it.
So people who haven't been diagnosed yet don't have ADHD? I don't understand.

We're in the same boat, I assure you. What I do not understand is that stopping medication makes everything significantly worse. I've been on a lot of different medications and I've never experienced that. Are you at a high dose? It took me a long, long time to realize a lower dose is ideal, but I build tolerance rapidly. Managing this has been significant.
> but don't know they had it due to lack of symptoms and no positive test

Let's try not to be lazy with language: If they had no symptoms, then they didn't have COVID-19, the disease defined by a combination of its cause and symptoms.
Do you have an ACA plan or employer provided insurance??

If you can find a doctor that takes your ACA plan then anything other than checking for a pulse is likely to result in some sort of bill.
> When ChatGPT first released last november I took the opportunity to try pasting 3k-line codebases into it to get it to walk me through them and it worked perfectly fine.

A common technique to work around the limitations in context length is to simply pull the most recent context that fits into the length. It can be difficult to notice that this happens because oftentimes the full context isn't actually necessary. However, specific details from the context are actually lost. For example, if you ask the model to list the filenames back in the same order, and the context was truncated, it would start from the first non-truncated file and the others would be dropped.

> If you had infinite video memory there would be no "fundamental limit" to how long a LLM can output.

Well, you've certainly got me there. One of the big limits with the transformer architecture today is that the memory usage grows quadratically with context length due to the attention mechanism. This is why there's so much interest in alternatives like RWKV <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038868>, and why scaling them is hard <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35948742>.
Precisely. This is only an issue if the _only_ difference between an error and success message is the colour.

As long as the information is communicated other ways as well, the colour is just a helpful thing for discriminating the messages and the loss of it by someone that’s colour blind, using a terminal with a configuration that doesn’t allow colour, or even just is sitting somewhere the sun is shining on their monitor and making colours hard to differentiate is… inconsequential.
The real villain here seems to be UK law and local busybodies. I don't think Banksy meant for people to make such a big deal over his graffiti, let alone force random people to pay thru the nose for its preservation.
Yes, well, everyone else already had that idea with AMD in the last month.
Uh right, so almost the exact same thing happened in 2011, and that is how the energy cap was raised to $9K/MWh. The idea being to incentivize the reliable operators to be reliable by paying them a fortune when the power is most needed. Which as we found out didn't exactly work that way because bean counters aren't happy to fund reliability for "what if" scenarios that happen once a decade.

https://www.texastribune.org/2012/10/25/texas-regulators-act...

This time around they largely just reverted that previous action and returned it to the earlier 2012 proposal (~5k/MHw), and recently have been talking about basically having the state government pay to build NG plants. (although i've not been paying real close attention to where those bills went).

ex: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/13/texas-power-natural-...
> If your software outputs color by default, please consider not doing so.

Why? What specific benefit does that convey to my users? When I decided to color the output, I did so for a reason, otherwise I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of doing so.

There is exactly one use case for this, and that's programmatically processing output in a pipline. And that one is a solved problem, as good libraries for colored output usually check isatty()

And before anyone says "colorblindness": I think if someone is colorblind, they are likely to have set up their terminal in a way that deals with colored output already.
The behavior you're describing is clearly an effort to economize use of doctors time. Since there is a cartel controlling salaries hospitals are doing everything legally possible to maximize their usage and shift work to cheaper labor.
So Google is okay with it? It’s available for years + Play Store has a much bigger market reach

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dolphinemu...
And it's not about Southern accents:

Previous work has documented that speaking one’s native language with an accent distinct from the mainstream is associated with lower wages. In this study, we seek to estimate the causal effect of speaking with a distinctive regional accent, disentangling the effect of the accent from that of omitted variables. We collected data on workers’ speech in Germany, a country with wide variation in regional dialects. We use a variety of strategies in estimation, including an instrumental variables strategy in which the instruments are based on research findings from the
linguistics of accent acquisition. All of our estimators show that speaking with a distinctive regional accent reduces wages by an amount that is comparable to the gender wage gap. We also find that workers with distinctive regional accents tend to sort away from occupations that demand high levels of face-to-face contact, consistent with various occupational sorting models.
This.

Sell it as a 'Google ads back in 2002', frame it in terms of high risk high reward. Sure its unproven, but back in those days, a lucrative click may have only costed $1,$2. When search ads got fully proven, they started costing $100/$200.
Well put. Fatalism and melancholy are great descriptions of it.

One such interesting culture clash happened when the Soviets went to Cuba to shoot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Cuba. A beautiful movie, fantastic cinematography by Kalatozov, but the Cubans just never liked it. The portrayal of Cubans is very much what Russians thought Cubans might be like, as opposed to how Cubans see themselves.
> However, does this claim not fly in the face of "identifying as" a particular gender, race, tribe, etc?

Yes, but it also implies people identifying as cis might be wrong about it, so it's a pretty equal if unpopular standpoint. Nevertheless.

There are a lot of real life self identification situations that aren't accepted by society - mostly ethnic groups. Rachel Dolezal, Elizabeth Warren[0], Europeans who get mad when Americans claim to be sixth-generation Irish, are different cases here.

[0] her situation is not that unique btw - it's actually very common for white people in Oklahoma to believe they're part Cherokee. Since they believe this because their parents told them so, I don't think they're doing anything wrong, but it's the kind of unpleasant surprise you get when your 23andme results come back.
While I can't read his mind of course, I would think Banksy especially would not be annoyed with destroying it if it causes issues for ordinary people. Treating it as important art specifically is the problem here and he's destroyed his own art as a statement before.
Google Invests Heavily in GPU Compute
> don't buy the orthogonality thesis or instrumental goals argument

can you elaborate on this? why? what's the fallacy (wrong base assumption) in them?
What's your point? Allied firebombing had leveled nearly every other city in Japan already and those cities were, unsurprisingly, full of civilians too. Much more Japanese were incinerated as a result of firebombing than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

Civilian casualties were not a huge concern when waging war for anyone (and certainly not for the Japanese military!) in that particular era so bringing that up is anachronistic thinking.
I'm not sure how they can be cheaper. The bill for a checkup pays the nurse and the doctor for their time. Claims about some greedy capitalist coming in and taking massive profit margins can be discarded by pointing out that non-profit hospitals do not charge substantially different rates for identical checkup services.

The way to make a checkup cost less is to pay doctors and nurses less. There are no pharmaceuticals, no surgeries, no complicated specialist medical equipment, and no expensive labwork involved in the price.

Society generally doesn't agree with the notion that doctors and nurses should be paid less. Therefore, checkups are more or less priced appropriately. Paying high skilled labor for their advice simply costs a lot of money. Ask any dev contractor here on HN.
> I don't know what Google does with a longstanding account that breaks TOS in this way

Pretty much nothing. I've had my main account for... 15 years or so? I moved away from Google several years ago [0], and use the account almost exclusively for the Aurora store now. It's been fine, and has been for somewhere between months and years.

[0] If I'm wrong, or Google becomes more aggressive, then nothing major is lost. I've gone through Takeout, stopped adding photos/email/passwords/etc years ago, and completely migrated away. No need to tell me "But what if the account gets banned?", because nothing of value will be lost.
That's not true because they can pick and choose where and what to offer based on geographic areas through the ACA plans. But even more selectively they can offer group plans to employers that incentivize maintaining a healthy workforce. Most unhealthy people don't work good jobs that provide insurance.
BrowserBox Development: From Web Scraping Tool to RBI
Skepticism is why momentum works in stocks. People tend to be afraid to buy, or even want to short, stocks that have just risen a lot. That's why it may take a while for a stock to rise to its true price after new information comes out.

The momentum behind NVDA as well as some other tech stocks right now (SMCI, META, NFLX) is frankly stunning. Nary a dip for 6 months. There is so much FOMO in the AI trade that I don't think it crashes back down to earth very soon. Still I'm way too scared to try to get in late.

And in this case the F in FOMO is real. Not just a feeling of missing out, but fear that all your other investments are going to zero as AI replaces entire industries, for example.
What does "saskatchewanesque" sound like, Corner Gas?
250k to rip the entire side of a building off cleanly: https://archive.is/A1IGF
The Star Trek story you describe sounded exactly like The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas — indeed the “References” section of the Wikipedia article mentions the Star Trek episode taking inspiration from it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_...
The lost generations of nuclear engineers in Germany is a concerning issue.
Training a nuclear engineer requires a long-term commitment, from sparking interest in the field to building new plants in Europe.
Without a new generation of nuclear engineers, Germany will struggle to maintain its nuclear power plants and develop new ones. It's crucial to invest in education and training programs to attract and retain young talent in the nuclear industry. Doing it today may result in a new power plant in like… 60-100 years.
What exactly is your point now, because you’re all over the place and thrashing in a cringeworthy fashion.

You argued that Musk was “anti-Ukrainian” and I destroyed that argument with words from Ukrainian officials themselves.

Now you’re saying… that Musk is still anti-Ukrainian because he turned off Starlink in Crimea even though he has it in every other place in Ukraine? Or that Musk is inconsistent or capricious?

Go ahead but don’t expect me to participate and waste my time, I’m not interested.
Doesn't this just mean you're using a suboptimal syntax theme? There a million out there with sufficient color contrast, there's no reason not to use one.
So you want every developer to spend time on both color and non-color options but are not willing to contribute a patch for that?
Yeah, too bad I owned those before the ai hype sucked all the capital out of the room...
I've been identifying as Redneck-American for years.
The reason for that is liberals creating that stereotype in media you consume. It's not by accident or just the way things are. It's quite deliberate.
Considering the enormous size and weight of 20ft x 20ft brick wall, I wonder how much the work would go for. Perhaps not as much as we think?
There's no button you can press to get all middleboxes updated.

It's better to fail on the ones that slip through the cracks than to leak data. And the failure alerts people that updates are needed here.
They're just trying to make bank off it. A bottle of paint stripper costs $20, hiring a pressure washer less than $100.
But ANSI escape codes let you output colors by name, like “red” and “yellow”. If that doesn't align with their color scheme, then that's on them.
Pure democracy as you describe it, even if technically feasible, would still result in tyrannies and terrible outcomes. The biggest problem isn't lack of influence on the laws, it's lack of knowledge, reason, understanding and empathy. And that problem exists whether it's x number of people influencing the outcome, or 1,000,000x. Every negative influence that politicians are open to, the masses are also open to (though scale may vary e.g. wrt corruption). The overwhelming evidence across the globe is that people are easily fooled, easily misled, easily manipulated, prone to illogic, prone to responding emotively, prone to selfishness, and can be corruptible, destructive and suicidal. They routinely will sacrifice advances to their own cause in order to exclude, punish and exorcise others.

No, technically direct democracy would lead to no better outcome, though I'm sure at some point in our history we'll try it.
Could be wrong but this was a bit in Silence of the lambs. Roughly that Clarice was hiding her southern accent to not invoke northernerns prejudices so she could advance her career?
We have a whole team of backup people that provide hr support to handle the simple things and a dedicated mailing list for generic things.

There are a lot of processes that hr systems just can’t handle that take up a ton of time.
Every day it's a toss-up which I shout more frequently in my head, given the state of discourse about [any number of topics] in the US:

(1) "life is not a [removed] movie" or (2) "get a hobby/friend; mind your own business". Today, it seems to be the former.

Putting aside my reservations about power, authoritarianism and my trust of the US Government, I'd be pretty shocked and nearly appalled if they didn't do this. Between police forces and the military, authoritarian powers in the US give billions to private companies in the name of espionage and defense. I think there's a certain LOTR-namesaked company that is a known name around here.

Why would the FBI be any different?
If the British actually considered it a war crime then why did they do the same thing to other people in many places around the world? They are only morally outraged because they are on the receiving end.
>The Law of Supply & Demand is always in play, meaning price caps result in shortages.

I think people who want prices controlled are thinking of doing it by controlling demand via rationing. Some people don't get all the power they want at any price, so others can get a minimal amount.

If someone wrote an OS that starved low priority processes of run time, you wouldn't say it was a law of nature, you'd say the scheduler should be fixed, right?
I had thought:

1. the GPT-4 code interpreter was just regular GPT-4 with the ability to swap out its context by running python code on one or more files, and

2. whenever it uses python to process files, it displays the 'Finished working - Show work' button.

But, based on the session I just had, it seems I was wrong: https://chat.openai.com/share/b97a206a-15cd-456a-9691-41946b...

Here, ChatGPT does all of these things:

- gives incomplete information about the files referenced in the JSON file

- runs some python code to get the correct list

- answers detailed questions about the code *without displaying the 'Finished working' button, suggesting it answered the series of questions solely from information in its context
It was first published by the New Yorker and it's available online:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
I'm not anti-color in general, but I think its use should be reserved to where it is truly helpful. Often it feels like it's value is mostly just superficial pizazz. Grep highlighting matches is one of the examples where color is very helpful, but even there I think bold would work just as well without potentially running into any colorscheme issues.
A book that has a similar style to this one (teaching algorithm design) and my personal favourite is Algorithmic Problem Solving by Roland Backhouse.

It just teaches algorithmic problem solving via math, but unlike mathy algorithmic books like CLRS, you only need algebra for this one.

I like how the book, IIRC, starts with invariants, providing the reader the foundational skill needed to notice underlying patterns and to decompose problems.
Good luck finding all the places and getting them to comply. I have filed a few of these and a number of US companies didn't bother to reply or didn't have a working US contact.
mTLS tends to add infrastructure complexity, I much prefer it when you can "terminate" auth where you like in the ingress path for user-facing stuff rather than first-hop auth.

I wish there were "real" standards and a better ecosystem for request signing.
Google is a monopolist on Android. What Nintendo is going to do about? Create their own store?
No, that would be stupid. The idea would be to save ~25% on power bills, let the grid fail once a decade and build up alternative things for dealing with disasters, like some sort of well stocked and warm community hall.

That would be much cheaper, and has the added benefits like prepares the community for all sorts of disasters.
I find the [sic] amusing because those would both be the correct British way to reference the material and the mass. The oddball in that blurb would be interspersing feet.
Well I'm not an fan of the Texas republicans but, in the grand scheme of things Abbott wasn't entirely wrong.

So, the wind was blowing at a tiny fraction of its installed capacity. Had it been producing at anything near its nameplate capacity then we wouldn't be talking about this now. But of course this isn't entirely unexpected, it was the predicted behavior.

OTOH, the reliable sources of power in TX has been getting squeezed for decades now. Many of them are only making money when the wind stops blowing. The rest of the time they are starving, so its no wonder they cut weatherization efforts (and lots of other things) because it costs money for something which may/may not happen. And you have to pay the NG suppliers to maintain a couple extra orders of magnitude in capacity and storage which sits unused most of the time, which again they didn't do. So the wind didn't blow, and the NG plants and producers simply failed to make up the loss because they didn't have the cash to assure their own reliability.

So, its basically what many people (including myself on this board) have been saying for a long time. What you have now is a game of weather predictions statistics dictating the reliability of the power grid. Its possible to win for years on end, and then boom perfect alignment of the stars and you fall back to non renewable sources which have been underfunded and not built out sufficiently to carry the full grid load. So you can play games with the statistics but solving the problem is an exponential cost problem unless you willing to just go build and maintain 100% of the grid requirements using carbon sources as backup.
Wow, this is really helpful. Thanks for sharing.
"The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should not have been done" is a controversial statement. Some people agree, some people don't.

"The Japanese army's atrocities in Asia should not have been done" is not a controversial statement. I think anyone with a brain will agree with it.

So, what point is made by comparing these things? Even if there is wide agreement that Japan's atrocities in Asia were in some way worse than the atomic bombings, the only question that settles is the question of whether the USA behaved even more repugnantly than Imperial Japan. Which is hardly a relevant question at all. The people who are aghast at the atomic bombings already hold the US to a higher standard of conduct.
Lot of new LLMs that run locally are available now