skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a more specific version of the base rate fallacy, called the false-positive paradox. It's illustrated by a simple example.

Suppose you have a test looking for an extremely rare genetic condition (say, 1 in 1 billion people have it). That means that the test needs to be extremely accurate (in this case, accuracy of .999999999) to avoid having so many false positives that it's worse than a coin flip about whether you have the condition or not. Therefore, in most cases you would be better off making a fake test that just says "no" every time.
Most tests have a high enough false positive rate that it can cause real issues with real false diagnoses too.
I'd like to know how these kinds of tools (Copilot included) avoid reading users' secret tokens and passwords.

But knowing how we programmers work and how we treat security collectively, I guess I've already had the answer.
Isn't that still on waitlist-preview?
I can't seem to find any benchmarks for this but Gankra did a long write up about Rust's btree implementation!

I did not read this entire thing so it's very possible it contains a benchmark somewhere but I couldn't find any when doing a quick skim.

https://faultlore.com/blah/rust-btree-case/
I'm so old I remember when it was a station wagon full of mag tape.
There is a spectrum
Make ibizabear (or your real name the name) the name and likeness of the AI. Then just pay for it out of pocket for 90 days and become a local celebrity?
There's been many stories of entire companies being banned from Google services due to their affiliation with a freelancer who used the company account to brake Google's rules years ago for a different client.

FTFY
To some people death and the end of the universe are equivalent events. Others seek refuge in natural fallacies.

The difference between this moment and all others, is that amorality is actually achievable. If you can get an AGI and drown it in compute, through sheer brute-force the secrets of biology will be unraveled. The task is not to attain amortality immediately, merely gain more life faster than you lose it.
Exactly.
To some people, it’s an excuse to act in an immoral or amoral way - those people seem to me to be the “sounds smart at first but aren’t really” type.
How do you generate the short-lived certs?
They only looked at death, and only two causes of death - cardiovascular and cancer over 10 years. That makes for a pretty stupid study if you ask me..

There are tons of other problems that won't cause death but nonetheless will bother you or subtly impact QOL without you even knowing. Thyroid issues are one. It won't save your life but it will make it a lot more enjoyable and maybe make you more productive too. There are other causes of death too.. so the conclusions they are trying to draw seem completely invalid to me. The study showed equal mortality from 2 sources, it did not show that checkups are pointless..

A lot of the complaints about unnecessary follow-up etc. are down to cost not inconvenience. In most cases, the only follow up is a blood test which is quick and easy. Even a ultrasound/CT is like 1hr. It only becomes a problem when you have to pay $1000s for it.

Whole article is just a gross misrepresentation.
Hitting the nail on the forehead. Adderall had nothing to do with it.
On a related note, providers that have independent instances for each customer (so no multi-tenancy) typically get about 3 more nines than, say, AWS. On prem enterprise is a typical example of this, and it is still used in safety critical industries for this reason.

Eventually, all outages are black swan events. If you have 1000 independent instances (i.e., 1000 customers), when the unexpected thing hits, you’re still 99.9% available during the time when the impacted instance is down.

Also, you can probably permanently prevent the black swan from hitting again before it hits again.
That's already a solved problem though, with a different solution - programs should be checking `isatty()` and not output escape sequences if it's not going to a real tty. That's how `ls` can display colors by default but still not have them show up if you pipe `ls` into a command.

This page seems to purely be about interactive use with no color.
I've just now exhaustively tested it with various combinations of open files. I've confirmed it can only read the currently "in focus" file, not the other which are open. Sometimes it seems like it can, based on the previous chat history / etc. Permutations like closing/reopening the files, toggling focus between them a few times, etc don't seem to make any difference. However, under very specific circumstances, it can sometimes read a single additional individual file if you specifically give it the file path -- but I've only gotten this to work with the primary readme, not other readme's scattered in other folders which it refuses to open/read/parse. Eventually it refuses to continue opening the readme in the project root -- so now I'm not 100% sure if it ever did, but I'm pretty sure it did.

Minimum procedure to replicate:

- open pom.xml and readme.md

- focus on readme.md

- prompt copilot chat: "summarize some of the readmes from this project"

- Receive something like "Here is a summary of the README excerpt you provided: The project is called $PROJECTNAME and is written in Java using Maven..."

- Clear the chat

- Change focus to pom.xml

- prompt copilot chat: "summarize some of the readmes from this project"

- I'm sorry, but based on the information you provided, I cannot access any README files from the project. Can you please provide me with the location of the README files so that I can help you summarize them?

- prompt copilot chat: "The location of the README file is in the project root"

- "Thank you for letting me know. Here is a summary of the README file located in the project root: The README file provides an overview of the project, called "$PROJECTNAME". The project is written in Java using Maven..."

- can you print a tree of the project files?

- "I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I don't have access to the file system to print a tree of the project files. However, you can use the command line to print a tree of the project files."

- The location of the files is in the project root

- "You can use the command line to print a tree of the project files."

- can you tell me anything about my overall project structure?

- I'm sorry, but based on the information you provided, I don't have access to your project structure. However, I can provide some general information about a typical Java Maven project structure.
I saw a video recently of a rat setting off a trap with a stick:

https://youtu.be/luiXzz5myIk
Fighting disinformation mandatory in EU from August
Better?? Taxes in the US are a byzantine monster. State taxes are far simpler.
This is a fairly hostile take. For many drugs are the only option. More generally, the usual best strategy is to pursue multiple treatments in parallel.

> some people choose to live with the issues rather than deal with the side effects or on effectiveness of drugs/therapy.

Many, many others would be unable to be a normal member of society without medical intervention.

No one is saying drugs are the only option, but they are an incredibly, consistently effective one. By comparison I'm unaware of any behavioral therapy for any underlying condition that is predictably effective anywhere close to "most of the time."
Well that's hopeful to hear(about the competent representatives). I'm very excited at the other side of AI boosting all the good endeavors and technology that takes us up to the next level.
"She has now 10 kids"

You have to give her credit for going all in with her scheme, though...
An octopus won't show up on thermal imaging?
Isn't that a tautology? Of course knowing you have a disease doesn't prevent you from having the disease.

The point is that knowing you have a disease allows you to treat the disease, which one would hope would reduce your chances of dying or becoming disabled.
Is “rx” an abbreviation of “prescription”?
> Sure, they could prefer healthy customers, or they could select for lower risk populations. The latter is easier.

how are insurance companies (in the US) supposed to achieve this, when it is generally acquired through an employer?
oh neat, ReFS isn't dead

interested to see performance metrics when tech youtubers start messing around with it
Pretty much every modern language (Zig, Rust, C, and C++ included) depends on a runtime. The C runtime is privileged because it is already present on all 3 desktop OSes.

It is also a lot smaller than most other runtimes, which makes bundling the C runtime with the program more palatable.

A "C-compatible library" is a library (i.e. a collection of functions) that is callable in the same way that functions written in C are called. Nearly all non-C languages provide a way to call C functions (because, again on all modern desktop OSes, the operating-system interface is written in C).

If everyone wrote OS interfaces in perl, then you would want to compile to a perl-compatible library. If the Lisp machines had won, then you would be compiling to a Common Lisp compatible library.
Reminds me of a little vscode extension I wrote for myself to integrate ChatGPT into my projects. I didn't do a great job with documentation, but you can reference other files within comments to send them as context. So something like

/*
Write tests for [xyz/(./xyz.ts) using [abc tests](./abc.spec.ts) as an example to reference

@ChatGPT
*/

Reference: https://github.com/CapsuleCat/sora-by-capsule-cat

I'll have to check out how your version pulls in the project as context.
Yup.

> Rx (sometimes written ℞) is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions derived from the Latin word for recipe, recipere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rx
He says he’d like that, but that it wouldn’t be fair
I didn't follow the Snowden story because I don't have the background to evaluate the claims, but there is something I recall that hasn't been discussed yet.

Snowden was apparently fairly active as a protester against government surveillance before he got his gig as an NSA contractor. It seems he originally pursued the job with the intention of finding information to leak. If this is true, then a large part of the story should be how it shows the incompetence of the government in doing security checks.
Paralyzed man walks after Bluetooth connects his brain and spine
.. but it is measured that way because we say it's measured that way.

If an octopus wants to come up with a better measurement they are welcome to do that but I wouldn't hold my breath.
In most cases, you’re far more likely to get a false positive than a real positive with those tests - unless you feel or notice something wrong already.

That is what is being pointed out.
That's a fun website thanks
No cellphone? No problem! The vintage radio enthusiasts prepping for disaster
hes stated that every single candidate is welcome. No one is being censored or prevented from coming on a space with him. I think its obvious no one will be truly neutral , as when it comes down to the ballot, you can only vote for one person. The platform however, is not censoring any one side's candidates.

> In addition to the points made by sibling replies I’ll also point out that the crashed Twitter Space was one where Musk helped a Republican presidential candidate launch his campaign. No matter which party is involved, that’s not something a neutral speech platform would ever involve itself in.

A neutral platform is _the best_ choice for all candidates to present their platform on. Its a common discussion space where both sides have an un-censored dialogue.

When candidates can tweet to one another, and community notes fact checks in real time, that will be great. One reason I think trump is hesitant to come back on.
I wonder how the numbers compare if you look at a chunk of 4% of the US w/ no natural disasters?

Ah, if you click through to the actual stat you’ll see that without “Major Events” (whatever those are), the US goes down to 125 minutes per year.
When I first sought a prescription, it took several attempts to find a medical professional who would take me seriously and actually help me understand and tackle the underlying issue. They all volunteered a prescription without batting an eye.

The regulatory situation in the US is truly a mess. In other countries I have had the exact opposite experience, such that it took years of tests to justify a prescription that was laborious to maintain. What's the point of a drug schedule if it can be abused so openly?
> It's possible to simultaneously believe Adderall is a performance-enhancing drug and be just fine with people taking it.

I agree, and this was largely my point: if you think it's ok for adults to take drugs just for fun, then you should be ok with them taking drugs for any purpose whatsoever.
https://archive.ph/zqs7z
DSL stands for Domain Specific Language, not declarative. It is possible to be declarative without a hybrid DSL like JSX. Angular is declarative, but it doesn't mix html structures and js in the same way.
I think that depends on whether the panel of judges is all humans or they have a couple of octopuses sitting there as well.
Ah yes, Tucker Carlson who was dropped by Fox News for managing to lose them $750m after refusing to reign in his messaging on Dominion, and then during discovery his personal messages and recordings include such explicit gems found in court filings as:

* "Now this guy may be a child rapist," he says, "I'm just telling you that arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old and a 27-year-old is not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her."

and

* When the show host describes 14-year-old girls at Mr Carlson's daughter's school sexually experimenting with each other, he says: "If it weren't my daughter I would love that scenario."

and then

* Mr Carlson refers to celebrities Britney Spears and Paris Hilton as "the biggest white whores in America", he calls the journalist Arianna Huffington a "pig" and says that Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton are "anti-man".

Yes I'm sure that guy who has day in and day out pushed "extreme" narratives for so long is just a totally well-adjusted person. You know, just like Bill O'Reilly who proceeded him ... what's that? He went down for sexual harassment in the workplace? [2] Total outlier. Definitely all an act.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47523608

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/oct/21/bill-oreilly-3...
At one point someone mis-entered my height as about 4 feet. This obviously caused my BMI to trigger all sorts of alarms! That impact is probably why it got fixed pretty quickly.
I’m sorry I have but one upvote to give, but those who aren’t local don’t seem to have any notion of how stringent environmental and air quality regulations are in California in this arena.

Nobody wants the LA smog of the 1970s back, but controlled burns are largely impossible much of the year due to their effects on air quality.

Wildland firefighters - of whom I count several among my cousins - are between a rock and a hard place on this issue. They spend more of each year in “fire season” in part because they cannot pollute the air during “not fire season” with controlled burns.
Ask HN: Does this GPT app exist? What's out there?
Hey all, sorry this is a little informal.

I'm wondering what the go is with some of these got services I've seen lately; Do many of them charge money? Run locally? Both?

I'm looking for a way that I can talk (verbally) with chat gpt, in such a way that I can use it on my walks to bounce around ideas and write down things. In the past I have tried to use the Google voice recorder to transcribe my notes and it was really bad. But I'm thinking a language model might have a better results, with the added benefit of me able to ask it questions

I already use the free chat got for this purpose in text and I know of the weakness in the system, but I'd still want to try something out.

Are there things out there can do this? Or am I going to have to roll and host my own? Are there any chatgpt services that you use/recommend?
> "Almost nothing in the complete annual physical examination is based on evidence," Michael Rothberg, who directs the Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute Center for Value-Based Care Research, wrote in the esteemed Journal of the American Medical Association in 2014.

The American Medical Association is not a research institution, it is a lobbying group and price-fixing cartel. I would not trust any doctor that is an AMA member.
That’s enough traffic to attract local sponsorships.

I bet you could find local sponsors who can pay you on a monthly basis
Best practice wilderness management is to not allow people to build houses there.
I've had pet rats most of my life and they're so smart. They are cunning and manipulative for sure, they're so good at learning my behaviors and acting accordingly. Their food motivation is really crazy, check out what this lady has managed to get her rats to do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV9z0c1hjnA
>So you see that every base reality can contain a vast number of nested simulations, and a simple counting argument tells us we're much more likely to live in a simulated world than the real one.

>But if you believe this, you believe in magic. Because if we're in a simulation, we know nothing about the rules in the level above. We don't even know if math works the same way—maybe in the simulating world 2+2=5, or maybe 2+2=.

>A simulated world gives us no information about the world it's running in.

I don't buy into the theory for practical reasons, but this is not consistent with its proponents' argument. The simulation in question is necessarily an "ancestor simulation" and the counting argument is based on the acceptance that if we are able to simulate our _own_ reality, we will. So in this case, we would have meaningful information about the world it's running in because that's the entire point.
I have been learning Italiano for the past couple of years. This is awesome thank you
Apart from the fact that the entire article/talk comes across as incredibly patronizing, I'm having a hard time figuring out what exactly the author is arguing for or against.

Either AGI is an existential threat to humanity or it is not. But under no circumstances are social arguments like "What kind of person does sincerely believing this stuff turn you into?" relevant to that assessment. Nobody asks such questions about climate change, because most smart people nowadays agree that climate change is real and is a real problem. Sidestepping the essential issues with ad hominem ridicule of the proponents of AI extinction scenarios has the same intellectual flavor as climate change denialism.

Is superintelligence possible in the foreseeable future, and is it a danger to mankind? Those are the only questions that matter. Religion, Elon Musk, the personality traits of AI researchers, and stupid memes are entirely irrelevant. Unless of course the real goal is just to get clicks and attention.
Probably orthogonal to your question, but I've been finding 3.5 tends to get stale and go off the rails after a little while and it's better if I reform my query and start a fresh chat than bang around with a broken old one.
Even so, they are insurers. They focus on profit by cutting costs or increasing revenue. Annual checkups must be believed to do one of those things.
The Bright Side of the Coin: Lessons learned from a misconception of my life
The excess death rate from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is at up to 4.5 million people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/15/war-on-terro...

At an individual moral level maybe it’s worse for a soldier to kill civilians directly, than to kill them indirectly by overthrowing the government and destabilizing the health system. But if you’re comparing nations I think you have to look at a macro level, not at the level of individual morality. “Team America: World Police” foreign policy has a much higher aggregate body count than Russia’s territorial expansionist foreign policy.
This looks really useful.

Any thoughts on managing costs? I've been developing against gpt-4, and it runs up charges quickly. I've been thinking I will need to be careful about adding live api calls in any sort of testing situations.

Wondering if your tool has any features to help avoid/minimize wasted api usage?
Instead of 10 minute long nature shots, Solaris has a 10 minute long car ride on Tokyo freeways
Okay, those cases seem like situations where you'd need to be explicitly targeting those devices. Like if you're shipping new code to users that is being run on an old runtime, then sure, you should make sure that code is legacy JS. I don't see how that is unreasonable?
I had to come back to this comment and congratulate you on your pun. Light a fire under the ass of legislators so they can do something about wildfire insurance. Ha!
This and the journalist told about in that Guardian article. I guess it's just human nature to use a tool without fully understanding it.
Highly devoted standard that makes sense…and this is coming from someone who does not mind color…
I’d estimate the difference between untreated and treated is about the difference in life path between having an $80k job at 30 years old and a $380k job at 30 years old.
Are you kidding? You just drink a tiny amount of caffeine to stave off the headaches, and you’re clear of the addiction in a week.

Kicking Adderall cold-turkey can take from six months to upwards of a year, during which you’re uselessly crippled by the combination of your chemical dependency and your underlying ADHD.
I wonder what percentage of humanity given the details surrounding these bombings, the destruction and aftermath, would see it as justified or necessary. I personally don't accept that. Nuclear weapons should never be used by humans on humans.
There was a good one about NTP and microsecond precision that had programming but was more a discussion of how hard time is to get right at great precision.
I want colour, in certain places, under my control. I don't want every random tool spewing confetti.
It will always boggled me why they dropped it on cities of citizens? Why not bomb their biggest military factories, wiping out their capacity and warning - next we coming for your citizens. Wouldn't that be more effective (assuming Japan would not surrender) and more humane ?
From time to time I have to use Powershell and its console colors are driving me nuts. I find some of the output in the default setting to be near unreadable, personally. This on top of its weird syntax make it even more annoying. There isn't any built-in option to reset that, unless you take the time to write a script to reset everything.

This kind of one-off setting like in the OP would make it a tad more usable.
My insinuation of a political reason come after a glaring exclusion and complete silence when asked. Answering the question would help clarify their position.

Yes I'm talking about Bing's chat AI. There is absolutely no indication or precedent for legal concern.

I know people who work at Saudi Authority for Data and AI. They have no idea why we're blocked, while UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman can use it.

They've been holding regular AI talks and hackathons to grow the local talent. But we don't have access to GPT4 API and it's holding us back.
I would say that would be worse. Presumably there would be no way to remove it without patching the source.
I wouldn’t be so sure. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
Could one do this alone if they had confirmed split personality disorder?
Just horrible.

The Japanese testimonials are gut-wrenching.
“Night came and I could hear many voices crying and groaning with pain and begging for water. Someone cried, ‘Damn it! War tortures so many people who are innocent!’
"Free" if you're willing to pay a few million in capital improvements and several tens of thousands a year in upkeep.