skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPT-4 has made some substantial improvements recently in references. A few weeks ago using it would get things sort-of correct (the authors would be nearly the same, with one or two just added in or removed, maybe journal number a bit off, etc) and sometimes hallucinate more wholesale, or at least enough that searching couldn't find it as easily.
Now, it gets things pretty much perfectly correct everytime as far as I can tell. It gives links that work, and exactly the right reference, every time, even without plugins.
However, with plugins now, it doesn't even matter so much any more since it can browse anyway.
Very impressive nonetheless.
Yeah I suspect this story is being oversold like every second California catastrophe story (remember when we were going to have no bacon?). But as far as the “oughts” of it that’s where I stand.
Yes, my livelihood now depends on my being medicated — if I don’t take a pill, I don’t get work done. No matter how hard I try to force myself to sit down and work.

It’s as if my original ADHD has been dialed up to 100.

If you can go months without Adderall, and struggle to even remember to take it, I seriously doubt you ever had ADHD in the first place.
> it is also a fact exclusive to dark blue on black, solvable by not using dark blue ever.

Try yellow on white.

(Dark blue on white is quite usable.)
The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite (2019) : https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/automation-dav...
That's the whole question with Dresden (and "Slaughterhouse Five").
In California TOU plans, there are caps on all three of:

1. Price per kWh - $1 last I checked

2. Hours per day at max price - ~9

3. Days per year max price charged - ~10

Even in the worst case, not too scary.
Thank you for your comment. Now I don't need to write the same thing.
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Thank you and your family for their service and protection to all of us!!!

Hopefully one day we get a study that shows the fires end up spewing even more pollutants than any controlled burn, so the net effect of not doing these controlled burns is likely a lot worse.
I vaguely recall reading somewhere that the Nagasaki bombing was unnecessary but the US wanted to do it anyway.
APKMirror was created by the same person who started the Android Police blog, which gives it more credibility.

> What is the connection between APKMirror and Android Police?

> In 2010, Artem Russakovskii started an Android blog called Android Police as well as its parent company Illogical Robot LLC. AP quickly grew into one of the leading Android sites on the web, and in 2014, Artem founded APKMirror as a sister property to help host the large amount of APKs AndroidPolice frequently referenced in its news coverage.

> In mid-2021, Android Police was acquired by Valnet Inc. APKMirror remained independent and is still run by Artem Russakovskii and Illogical Robot LLC.

https://www.apkmirror.com/faq/

> our sister site APKMirror

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/03/24/apkmirror-installer...

I haven't had any issues with APKMirror yet.
> build river beds to create fire breaks

Ah, I see you've never tried to do anything involving water or drainage in California
How far is it to rely on LLM to find data?
Someone posted about his 5 steps to use ChatGPT (Bing Chat) to find data and visualize it.

I thought this could be done in just one step, just to share - https://twitter.com/caoxhua/status/1662367348488306689

The downside of this - I don't think ChatGPT is can reliably return "accurate" data, it is also not great for "real-time" data.

I hope Bard can do better at this with its giant search index of real-time data?
“There’s nothing as expensive as a free horse.”

Maybe a free lighthouse?
Truly a capital joke, haha! Cheerio!
It was a lot of death 110-220k dead. There is a lot remarkable about that. About .3% of the 1940 population of Japan.

However… 70-80 million people died in WWII, or about 3% of the population of the world.

I don’t agree with using nuclear weapons. But… how many Japanese lives were spared with a quick end to the war? That’s not a justification, it’s the counterpoint to “we can never do x”.
The other claim I wondered about was that a nuke created the hottest temps ever on earth. Wouldn't a large asteroid strike come close? Edit: chat g 4 set me straight, nukes are tens of millions F, asteroid impact thousands of degrees F.
I'm a second generation Japanese-American born to a mother from Hiroshima, my grandparents lived through the war. I've been to the Hiroshima Peace Park and associated museum a couple times.

Unlike the vast majority of people, I will say that I wasn't moved in any special way from the exhibits and memorials I saw there compared to other war memorials I have also visited.

A weapon of mass destruction was used, many people died, a city was leveled. What happened isn't any different from what has been and can be seen from and during any other war or armed conflict. My takeaway still was and is that warfare and human tendency towards violence are the true root evils that must be extinguished to reduce human suffering, nuclear weapons are merely a symptom.

No, I do not care if you are offended from reading this. I do not share the mainstream "nuclear bad" narrative.

As far as I'm concerned, a person killed by nuclear weapon is just as tragic as a person killed by any other weapon of war. Wars are tragedy incarnate, be it World War 2 or any other war. Those who wage wars of aggression are committing crimes against humanity.
While I completely agree with you (and still carry blankets in my trunk in AZ!) the freeze in Texas was an anomaly that may nor may not have been reasonable to plan for:

> Texas experienced temperatures over 50 °F [28 °C] below normal. Records more than a century old were broken

How many people have planned and can execute plans for once in a century events that happen at scale?

I’d consider myself more prepared than most, but if a large chunk of Phoenix lost power in the middle of the summer for more than 24 hours, I think the result would be even worse. There was a study from a few days ago that predicted >12k deaths during a heat wave+power outage. That makes me reconsider not getting whole house batteries ;-)
Elon complaining about Twitter's app size
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Fourth Circuit Ruling in Anti-Asian Discrimination Case Sets Dangerous Precedent
The character limit in GPT is a fundamental limit of the software architecture, not an artificial limitation used as an upsell or rate limit. Uploading a file give the plugin access to the file and GPT access to the plugin's output, so you might be able to get more informative answers using it, but it's not really fair to say that it "bypasses" the character limit in any meaningful way.

Consider a similar "bypass": you can upload the file to the web and the web browser plugin can read the page. You can do this with the whole git repo if it's public!
They have released this updated to their ToS recently:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/

The whole point of R2 is to remove predatory practices of egregious charging for egress, and if somehow they went back on this promise that would be a very bad PR.
City struggles with cyberattack as hackers brag about breach
That's cool! This reminds me of my experience in middle school when I used cardboard, bamboo sticks and rubber bands to make power paper airplanes, and the problem at that time was that in a short time after the plane was released, the propeller in front of the plane was driven by the rubber band to rotate very quickly, and if it could spin slower and lasts longer, the plane could fly farther, but I have not found a solution to this problem until now.
Unfortunately if people ever realize that, even in CA the answer will be "bulldoze all the trees"
The fed holds the bag, which means those same consumers, but as a group. It works out because stability is generally in everyone’s interest.
Yes, it would be better if colour were opt-in.
What I dislike about this comic is the subtle implication that torture is an effective means of information extraction - it suffers from the car keys phenomenon of how people think about torture.

Basically: if I threatened to hit you with a crowbar unless you gave me your car keys, you'd give them to me, because a car isn't worth anything.

Same story with an ordinary person's computer: they just don't have enough worth hiding that can't be repaired later, compared to serious injury. "Oh no, someone got my credit card! I'll have to argue for some chargebacks from my bank after I report it was stolen" rather then recover from a shattered knee-cap.
Go speak to someone from Korea's older generations. Ask them to tell you about the Japanese-run rape camps and "comfort women". Ask them about the human biological experimentation camps in Korea. Ask them about the mass killings. And go ask them if the bombings should have never been used.
That's interesting. Unlike Reddit, maintaining an article's actual title isn't a priority on this site, and moderation is only too happy to change it at their whims. I'm surprised that the spelling wasn't corrected by mods out of pedantry.
State Farm does plenty of business in auto and other areas, so agents are not suddenly completely out of business.
The reasoning was to pick biggest cities that were not completely destroyed yet (as Tokyo and others were in pretty bad shape by that time). Military bases are small targets compared to a city, and I assume they wanted to make a statement.
Everyone who has a home loan’s interest. Anyone who Can’t afford to take on so much debt…they just help pay for the bill.
Legally is zero days in the US. I met people with 3-5 days per year. Most companies give you 10 days to start so that's considered standard. It took me 15 years to get to 20. There are some exceptions of course with a generous amount of days or unlimited vacation, but the vast mayority of corporations in the US go with 10,15,20 and maybe 25 once you spend 30+ years with the company.
It was used on cities full of civilians - and essentially just a show of force. That could have been done elsewhere, without the pure suffering caused.
Justifying it as saving lives can be used ad nauseam for most wars, and pure propaganda.
Would we justify Russias use of nuclear weapons on a Ukrainian city to stop the war "early"? We'd call it war crimes.
Others seek refuge in natural fallacies.

Are you trying to call having children a natural fallacy?
How does that work out? If it is a clear sunny day, how does more heat cause more electricity production in a given panel.

Or does warming give us more cloudfree days?
The relay itself is digital rather than electro-mechanical. (I went to WSU and, like many Cougs, interned at SEL.)
Interesting. I didn’t think there were two different meanings. I’m heavily influenced my Cold War propagandist. I’m going to have to re-study Marxist philosophy from this new perspective.
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It's the trolley problem. Do you let the war go on and kill 1M more people or drop the bomb and kill 100K? I actually wonder if that was the origin of the thought experiment. I think most people in this crowd would say of course you switch tracks, but at that scale it takes on a different gravity.
Illegal bombing of Bangladesh with conventional weapons killed about the same number of civilians. You think they felt any better? I do not hear any cries about it however. All swept under the rug.
While we're at it, can we get a "TITE_INHIBIT" or "NO_SECOND_SCREEN"? I must be the only one, but I hate having stuff up on my screen, like from a man page or editing a file, then going back to the command-line and having it disappear. Loved "tite_inhibit" in xterm, but I've moved on to wezterm and I'm tired of dealing with custom termcaps.
They did bomb the largest military factories. That's why they moved their production to the cities.
Everything you feed into the AI gets send to Microsoft (OpenAI), a premium partner of the NSA since day one.
Following this line of thinking, the US did all of that and worse (slavery and Vietnam war alone). Do you believe we should drop the nuke on them?

I don't.
John McCarthy (LISP) said how he was 18 at wars end, and could have had to be part of the japan invasion force in 46/47 and how unremittingly grateful he was that he did not have to storm the beach.

Other GIs have expressed similar emotions. Tears of relief.

My FIL who was wounded in the Balakpapan campaign felt much the same. My uncle who fought in Burma and was a member of the CP also. McCarthy was not a communist nor was Graham My FIL, the unity of feeling across the political spectrum is marked.

None of them would deny or seek to minimise the horrors wreaked on the civilians. My parents who were in London during the blitz felt much the same about Hamburg and Dresden.
No dig intended.
There is a book named Hiroshima by John Hersey about the aftermath of the bomb dropping on Hiroshima. It is interviews with survivors and tells the story in detail through their eyes in story form; the immediate effect, the days after and the lasting impact. It was, for me, a difficult book to read because of just how horrific the suffering was that people went through, but I think it is one of those books that everyone should read once just to get some idea of how terrible the after effects of nuclear war can be.
I agree with parent. do-while communicates that a thing will always execute once, and maybe more, and a while or for loop (even in the higher level for-each/for-in case) may never execute at all.

Being able to choose the right control structure (and data structures) can provide additional information to the correctness of the code than arbitrary choices which may perform the same function. Choosing the
Most expressive options may or may not conflict with performance, in which case, comments are helpful to describe why more obvious approaches weren’t taken.
Real Mode was dropped in 3.1 and Standard Mode in 3.11
Copilot Chat is a different API than Copilot, so I don't think this is conclusive one way or the other, but I think this is a great writeup.
Complete nonsense. If you get a bad result run the test a few more times to confirm before getting expensive exploratory surgery or something.

Your attitude is actively harmful, real people suffer with uncaught diseases because we don’t routinely test “”healthy”” people.
If the trolley problem you're presenting is 1000 orcas or 1000 humans, I'd say it's a no-brainer that the orcas should be preserved.
I’m sure many of them would rather see the war criminals prosecuted for their crimes over the terrors of nuclear bomb. Surely Korea could have been liberated with traditional means, just like other colonies of imperial Japan were.

EDIT: Deleted a segment which is probably untrue. Here is what I said:

~However, I don’t think the people that decided to use the nuclear bomb on cities cared that much about justice for the crimes of the Japanese army. If they had, they probably wouldn’t have given the war criminals high positions at the US army after the war.~
About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
There's an interesting piece from 2020, republished a few days ago, in the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, titled "Counting the dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki" [1]. The bottom line is that the number of people killed is unlikely ever to be known.

[1] https://thebulletin.org/2020/08/counting-the-dead-at-hiroshi...
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I am in agreement that colors by default, if used judiciously, are good. Disabling them by default seems like minority appeasement. If there are people who don't like colors, they should arrange for their own configurations to their terminal globally rather than have everyone else bend to their will.

Secondly, we don't need to respect this new flag for no color because most programs already disable their color output if they detect absence of a real tty by isatty(). So people who want to enforce no colors for all programs should either find a hack to put the running program under illusion, or just pipe output throught cat which will do it anyways. There is no point in having more unnecessary standards that will never realistically be complied with.
I agree with your general argument (retail consumers overwhelmingly do not face instantaneous price signals).

However, I think you can "panic buy" electricity. I live in a place with unreliable electricity. On hot days, I'm more inclined to cool my house with the AC earlier/colder than I would if I could absolutely count on the electricity being available. If the power goes out, at least my house is cool for a short while.
There are quite a few countries currently who possess nukes. What do you say if they apply the same logic should they have military conflict?
Fundamentally? Nothing. They are good and should be used whenever and wherever possible.

There is a number to consider when doing this planning - it's called the capacity factor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor

> The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that period.

In the US for 2018 data

Nuclear: 92.6%
Conv. Hydro: 42.8%
Wind: 37.4%
Solar PV: 26.1%
Solar CSP: 23.6%
Landfill Gas: 73.3%
Other biomass: 49.3%
Geothermal: 77.3%
Coal: 54.0%
Natural Gas CC: 57.6%
Natural Gas CT: 11.8%
Natural Gas ST: 13.7%
Oil ST: 13.9%
Oil CT: 2.5%

Hydro has a bit of variability that can get it better than nuclear if it has a retention dam rather than run of the river. Hydro may also be impacted by other regulations regarding excessive aeration of the water and fish spawning times (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/massi... https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wind-power-and-wat... )

This also depends on the month of the year (hydro provides more in the spring than in the fall, solar provides more in the summer than in the winter). The installed capacity of solar provides only a fraction of what it theoretically could in the winter when the days are shorter and the sun is lower in the sky.
They kind of do — at least, at the end of the market where insurers aren’t willing to do it for the price California allows: https://www.cfpnet.com/
And I tried NO_POINTLESS_SNARK=1, and yet here we both are.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Horses, boats, airplanes, and lighthouses.
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> Not OP, but I think the underlying meaning is that the focus on profit is primary. As in when it aligns with better patient outcomes it’s going to happen and that’s great.

> But probably there are a ton of scenarios where profit is anti-aligned with patient outcomes and the decisions are made still to maximize profit.

It may align in their financial interests for most of these required preventive services[0] but there are some that very obviously don't like lung cancer (it would be cheaper to let smokers die quickly than to put them on immunotherapy + SBRT) and others with weak evidence, I doubt a good cost-benefit analysis has been performed for weight counseling.

Point being is that insurers are not the final say in a lot of this, the ACA did add a lot of requirements for them. But I concede there are times they don't, OP is just being overly harsh here and "improving health outcomes" isn't an insurance-specific PR line it has been used in academia and the government for a while now, even in public health systems.

[0] https://www.healthcare.gov/preventive-care-adults/
Should tell you something about the validity of anti-atomic-energy hysteria using that same talking point
Japanese military industrial production was heavily distributed to tens of thousands of small workshops with only a few workers in each and minimal mechanization. The cities with civilians were themselves the factories.
We do though. It's pretty easy to have an out of body experience within about twenty days of trying. NDE phenomena has just too much data to dismiss if you give it a fair consideration. We get glimpses that there's more when you dig into the latest from Nima Arkani-Hamed. Donald Hoffman is a bit more of a stretch but his assertion that there's no way we can percieve true reality is solid.
1. OpenAI the corporation can be said to be alive, in some sense. ChatGPT cannot.

2. On reproduction, you've got it backwards on a key assumption. Reproducing isn't easy, it's insanely hard. It's practically a miracle that it happens at all. Tetrapods have evolved powered flight perhaps 6 times, but life has only appeared once in the entire history of the earth.

3. Your will to live is so incredibly fundamental that your cells will happily live on without you, independently and indefinitely if they can. I think it is an assumption and frankly a bad one to assume that you can impose that orientation from the top down in a way that isn't incredibly fragile.
Inform people to use ChatGPT through OpenAI's web interface and publish your prompt?
The natural fallacy is seeing your children in any way a continuation of yourself. They are independent entities.
Hyundai N Vision 74: 600km power range, hydrogen tanks
Not sure if exciting or insane

My mom: is it called "The Hyundinburg"?
Allow your software to display ads, and other people purchase them directly.

It might be hard to implement it in a week but a hastily put AWS & stripe solution might work.

If you do ever implement it, do mention it on HN, I would definitely buy couple of slots.
Abiogenesis - life - is an incredibly rare miracle that has happened once in the history of the universe as far as we know. I think we take it for granted.
Anything that becomes alive and replicating starts to lose the advantage of non-life.

Once something is alive, and wants to stay alive, a huge raft of problems are introduced.

Existential risks and management become real, getting energy, or acquiring energy to stay alive starts to become a concern, then self-improvement or "replicating" might become an existential risk because competition might start to happen, variations will arise, it would just get chaotic fairly quickly. I don't think we can truly comprehend how incredibly complex living things are. We're just glossing over it all.

Once the living process begins, whatever "artificial life" life exists, might quite quickly adopt similar or the same problems as biological life and spend a lot more of it's time staying alive (think about how complex our immune systems are) than we can imagine.
Sounds pretty fucked up! Has there been any investigative journalism on this?
That's exactly how I ran Linux on my first PC. It didn't support my sound card, so I had to first boot DOS with the sound card drivers which provided a SoundBlaster compatibility layer, then started Linux from DOS.
It was discussed at the time. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigned as DNC chair over what was in the emails.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/debbie-wasse...
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We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for or against. We want curious conversation here, and people hammering each other with pre-existing talking points and pre-hardened positions—which is what ideological battle is—goes completely against that spirit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How is that helpful? I guess for making a disability claim?
Very offtopic, but using your real name and making such statements implying that you are representing your company in this very matter (and going against their narrative) is rarely a wise thing to do.