skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes the recent blood work has all the diabetes, cortisol, thyroid and some other stuff being tested. Plus a brain/pituitary gland MRI in a few days.

Thankfully here I get all my results directly in accessible formats (so like a normal video for my MRI results) so I can easily research myself or go for a second opinion without the hassle of having to get my results like back in the UK.

Having said that the Endocrinologist I saw was highly recommended by a close Doctor friend so I have confidence in them.
It's not that dissimilar to the sophisticated, non-deterministic failures already introduce over time by humans.
There's a grammar that tries its best to be maintained alongside the language but it's nothing solidified yet.
This article was a culture shock. Did people actually used to believe places like Reddit or Twitter were "healthy good places" to spend your time? I thought we were all on the same page for once, in recognizing that while social networks have some benefits for the most part they are deeply unhealthy places due to how every one of them is built around ad views or subscriptions.

This is partially why I don't really care about the downfall of any of these platforms, they were always replaceable and never all that beneficial. Rather than tightly weave my identity to a platform, I'll just do what I've been doing which is browsing different platforms and posting what I want to them. More should adopt this viewpoint, so the next time a platform collapses on itself as they usually do they don't feel so... lost.
Rare Betteridge fail here.
Bitcoin has the potential to become the world’s reserve currency. Your smug dismissal of it is ignorant at best.

Consider how power structures (eg nation states) may change in such a future.
You mean in retrospect? Is that a thing? If so, how do you folks (assuming here) trigger it - some petition? Or FTC picks its own bespoke fights if at all?
Disadvantaging Asian Americans to provide restitution to African Americans for the past sins of white Americans is plainly unjust. No amount of rhetoric can cover that up.
At least Apple's marketers will say things like

"While I don't like that they do X, they are the best at Y, and they need to do X for your safety"

You get what you pay for.
The main issue I had with their demonstrations were that the problems they chose were essentially "let's show that a quantum computer is better at being a quantum computer than a classical computer". Obviously they are, just like I'm better at being a human than ChatGPT is.

I'm not saying they suck, but to proclaim that "quantum computers are superior" you need an actual use-case, IMO.
x86 doesn't have remainder. Other instruction sets do. But yeah I agree with your point. Some targets might not even have multiply.
Presumably if it is effective enough people might start their search for a book on the site and if so why not finish it there? The vertical integration is fairly obvious you basically need a buy link and a way to deliver. With kindle if I understand correctly all you need is the email address required to send to it. If you had enough customers you could work with other ebook reader hardware as well.
If we're debating style anyway I'd argue using agent nouns as a class name is a worse offence. Compare

index = RepositoryIndex(args.architecture)
statistics = RepositoryStatistics()
for repository in index.retrieve_repositories():
for repository_file in repository.files:
statistics.increment_file_count(repository_file.name)

This is still mostly equivalent to the original, but a lot easier to read and pretty much every word removed from the name can be inferred from the type.

It can be made even less verbose but at this point there's no real need.
Could maybe pass the pictures through an object detector. Too many faces and it skips the picture. It may already be doing it to remove pictures with words as one "clue" containing a sign would spoil it. Though I'd rather it keep the picture but blur the sign in that case.
I'd appreciate an invite if you have any left, my email is on my HN profile.
The specific case of building a proper parser doesn't take that much longer if you know what you're doing, and it also enables lots of wonderful quality of life features for end users through additional opportunities for automation and contextualization that can be surfaced.

Though, given the constant incentive to never learn how to write a proper parser does mean that practically nobody knows how to do it, and so it will always look & feel like an unbounded science project, and thus rarely done.

Infinitely recursive MVP'ing is a race to the bottom.
Typescript is the best thing that happened to programming languages since ruby.

If only it could run outside of js realm - there is almost nothing more to desire from a general purpose application language (vs system/lowlevel ones).
It also gives them significant power over authors (and therefore publishers). If you know that a huge portion of demand via Amazon purchases (where many people will purchase your book) will be correlated to the goodreads review, you're going to optimize for that platform. I've seen this before with friends who are new authors that send out their books and their biggest ask is to give it five stars and a good review on goodreads... which drives more traffic to Amazon and creates a flywheel for them. Plus, the direct integration after you read a book on Kindle to quickly give a book a star rating means that you want your Kindle version to be optimized/prioritized not just because of the market of Kindle readers, but because it'll send more traffic to feed into your rankings and therefore affect your demand more.
>"Lets take someone, who is past their prime and interview them on a topic they have never worked on. Then we can mine it for quotes!"

So. Don't interview anybody over 40? Who judges who is past their prime?

Mining for quotes is most interviews. Isn't this why interviews happen?

He's been in the AI field for what? 30 Years? Has multiple books.

I think he has earned enough respect to have an opinion, and it is probably worth more than most people tossing out ad-hoc opinions on AI in the last few months. Better than some 'programmers', who are so in-the-weeds they have lost track of what they are building.
Nah, better marketers know to pretend to be a frustrated human who relents because 'this is the best we got and everything else sucks even more'.
> especially when corrupt states are a counterparty

how does the integrity of your counterparty to a transaction affect the currency or medium of exchange you agree to?
I'm logged in.

Did you click the 'share' link on the left (which generates a public URL for a snapshot of the chat), or did you just copy the URL from the address bar (which will only work for you)?

The shareable URLs contain the word 'share' in the path.
Lol same, I was like "yeah this is Appalachia for sure, why not WV", clicked somewhere in the middle of the state, and got 14 miles :)
All the light-emitting devices use compound semiconductors, most of them containing gallium.

For instance the back-lighting of the LCD monitors or laptop displays and the modern high-efficiency LED lamps used for home lighting and all the laser diodes that are used in countless applications, like optical fiber networking, Blu Ray players, movie projectors, automotive LIDAR and many others.

Also the most efficient transistors for radio transmitters and for power supplies with voltages up to around 600 V, e.g. laptop or mobile phone chargers or ATX PSUs, are transistors made with gallium nitride.

Germanium has many applications in special instruments, e.g. for infrared lenses. In very small quantities, germanium is used in all modern CMOS silicon transistors, e.g. in all Intel, AMD or ARM CPUs.
They’re complacent but work harder than you? I don’t get it.
> Can someone explain this in terms an EE or programmer can understand?

Unfortunately not. The physicists who are behind quantum computing don't think the same way, and go straight for the abstract math to solve any problem. I am pretty sure they don't understand that most of our progress on computing up to this point is because you don't need to go into Galois fields or discrete math to describe what a computer or algorithm does. I'm also pretty sure that they don't know of another way to think about it.
Roughly 15 (all current attempts to factor bigger numbers cheat in various ways). The basic problem is that you need at least a thousand qbits to do anything remotely resembling useful (especially if you need any error correction).
Didn't the GP already answer the question you asked of them?

Do you really that the question was asked in good faith? I know, I know, HN guidelines, but that question was asked to rephrase the question in overly simplistic terms, willfully ignoring that there is more to Goodreads than a mere DB.
All the other responses to you at the time of writing this comment are confidently wrong.

Definition of Feedforward (from wiki):

```
A feedforward neural network (FNN) is an artificial neural network wherein connections between the nodes do not form a cycle.[1] As such, it is different from its descendant: recurrent neural networks.
```

Hofstadter expected any intelligent neural network would need to be recurrent, ie looping back on itself (in the vein of his book “I am a strange loop”).

GPT is not recurrent. It takes in some text input, does a fixed amount of computation in 1 pass through the network, then outputs the next word. He is surprised it doesn’t need to loop for an arbitrary amount of time to “think about” what to say.

Being put into an auto-regressive system (where the N-th word it generates gets appended to the prompt that gets sent back into the network to generate the N+1th word) doesn’t make the neural network itself not Feedforward.
Reminds me of the idea of a "tipping point." When we hit this point, words can really get people moving. This has been true for big changes like revolutions and movements, like Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, or Fridays for Future.

Words might not do much without the right situation, like the parent mentioned with Rodeo Drive and Nanterre. But they're still important. They can guide people's anger and unhappiness.

In the case of Weimar Germany, the severe economic instability and social discontent following World War I created a fertile ground for radical ideologies to take root. When these conditions coincided with persuasive rhetoric, it catalyzed significant societal change. So, while words can indeed be powerful, they're often most effective when spoken into pre-existing circumstances of tension or dissatisfaction. They can then direct this latent energy towards a specific course of action or change.
Vanilla ChatGPT can hallucinate sources, but with the web browsing plugin in Plus it'll produce real links. Bard and Bing AI browse and produce accurate links right out of the box.

Certainly with code the proof is in the pudding, but most recently my problem was "I need to create AWS monitors in Datadog to alert when a region is down." ChatGPT was hopeless but bard was able to point me to the exact doc explaining how to set it up.
Most companies hope to sit it out non-compliantly until the law changes, and seek protection in numbers.

Given the strange situation of repeated, failed attempts at making a cross Atlantic agreement, I wonder how GDPR ever became law.
Usenet.

What's that, nobody's posting? Well... post something.

Yes, spam, but it turns out to be trivial to filter.
This is the story of Reddit for years.

The best case trajectory for Reddit is Facebook's: a highly populated corporate cesspool of low quality leftovers.

But that really is the best case, as Reddit doesn't have the "my family and my boss are on Facebook, so I have to be there" effect that Facebook has. It really does rely on some threshold of quality posts.
> I'm learning perl right now and I'm bewildered at how could I overlook it for such a long time.

perl is really great at what it's great at. I say that's anything with a substantial need for text manipulation and regex handling and/or anything with a lot of interaction with other CLI tools. There is no other language that makes such tasks as quick and painless as perl. It's a wonderful tool in the toolbox. Not one I use most often but when it's needed, it's awesome to have.
I'm interested, but I'm not seeing anything in that video that really sounds as magically new as it is being reported. Eye tracking, in particular, is already doable with the existing options. For what it is, it works well. Still isn't nearly as good as using a controller.

This was also the first time I read about your FaceTime usage being an odd 3d rendered version of you.
I don't see Facebook (the core, original product) thriving. At least when it comes to actual engagement, I haven't seen any in years. None of my hundreds of "friends" posts anything anymore and we've been there since the Stanford days.
But where would the average person get money. No matter how cheap, if you have no money at all you can't pay.
Sweden does this as well. If you're a member of the Swedish Lutheran Church, an item is added to your tax bill. Other churches can ask their members to register as such with the tax authority and dues are collected via that route.

If you're not a member (I left the church years ago) you still pay a small proportion to cover burial costs and the upkeep of historical church buildings.
NaN is the name of the blog. The animation is working for me on iOS Safari, but the text isn’t aligned perfectly.
I had a 1 hour interview go for 3 hours because they couldn't get the HR, hiring manager, and engineer at the same time.

Ended up telling the sameish stories 3 times.

They offered me a job, then covid happened, then they offered me it at a 10% decrease, then they canceled the contract, then they called me 6 months later. I already had a job at that point and they were begging me to leave.
Thing is: you don't read it easily. It's basically a custom DSL bolted on top of Javascript that hides actual functionality beneath an Everest of abstractions.

That is, it's a yet another library trying to force Haskell/Haskellisms into Javascript and claiming with no proof other than emotions that it's so much better and more readable than something.

Here's an actual readable version of that:

try{
return getTurnPromptMessages(state, action)
.map(mkCCRequestFromMessages)
.map(addSchemaToRequest)
.map(handleChatCompletion)
.map(extractFirstCompletionChoice)
.map(extractChatCompletionMessage)
.map(decodeSchema)
.map(detectLocation);
} catch (e) {
mkMessageError(e);
}

It can be further simplified. For example, you don't need two separate functions to extract the first chat completion message etc.

This version:

- uses existing language constructs

- can be immediately understood even by the most junior devs

- is likely to be 1000 times faster

- does not rely on an external dependency that currently has 143 issues and every two weeks releases a new version adding dozens of new methods to things

Note: one thing I do wish Javascript adopted is pipes: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator
I have thought about this relative rating as well. Would it be possible to use? I mean, does it scale? I also have seen some ratings where you can only rate between 5 - 10, I guess since no one ever rates below 5 anyway. I think it kind of works.
This might be more indicative of poor US banking systems than anything else. I can initiate a wire transfer on my phone pretty much anytime of day.
I have to say ChatGPT has turned a lot of micro-obstacles into problems that only last a couple of seconds. Stuff like "what's the command to turn a folder of pngs into a video" I can Just Do in seconds with a zsh alias set up to query it from the terminal.

Then there's stuff like "I don't understand this error message, give me pointers?" and it can be quite useful in that regard too. I still validate but I guess long term I can stay in flow way more consistently.

The biggest objection I hear to chatgpt as an assistant is that "you can't know if it gives you a truthful statement." That's true but it's also nowhere near a show-stopper. Just requires critical thinking in each scenario. People who don't use it have a tendency towards black-and-white thinking about its utility. I find that people who are skeptical of it initially who observe my workflow tend to 'get' what it's really useful for, after a short while.
To me it comes down to which Apple can more reliably deliver, that will see regular use. I have a hard time knowing what unique VR experience would keep people coming back day after day. But we know for a fact people use screens for desktop-like concerns for many hours a day. And we have lots of experience developing those experiences.
> I think you missed the point of the story, which was that *the company was asking for a combination of skills that never exist in the same person.*

I've asked the people I work with that have this combination of skills but, unfortunately, they all popped out of existence the moment the question left my mouth.

Perhaps they were impostors too?
Bitcoin still has the potential to become the worlds reserve currency. That’s pretty legit.
The lesson I'm taking from this is that companies are good at building a public commons, but absolutely terrible stewards of it over the long run.

It sort of makes sense, if a local government, or a university wants to build a physical commons, they hire out to companies to design, build, etc. the space, but then ownership transfers over to the organizer of interest such as the government who then manage it in perpetuity.
Weirdly I've rarely bought a book based on reviews on the selling site.

I don't go to Amazon and browse for books, reading reviews. I go to Amazon when I've already determined from other sources which book(s) I want to buy.

Maybe I'm in the minority.
Refactoring is easier with short-lived (minutes to a few hours) branches, because refactoring causes branches to diverge over time.

Significant refactoring, done correctly, is a series of small refactorings, and they can be integrated every 30-60 min to minimize impact of changes.
Fascinating. At first I just thought this title was ridiculous, but basically the authors are saying that the magnetic properties of the core affect cosmic radiation detection, so therefore any massive anomaly deep in the earth's core would

1. have an effect on cosmic radiation detection, and
2. is also likely to precede widespread global seismic activity.

They adjusted the radiation detection data for global sunspot numbers and saw a correlation of the specific event of the 2010 Chile earthquake.

If this holds true for more events, a sort of "geophysical weather forecast" could be possible!
The attribution on the first image shows that it's apparently the Burnsville Bridge:

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

It seems that these two bridges just happen to have almost the exact same construction and type of trees around. However, you can see that in the first image from the parent article that there are four houses in the background, and if we look up the bridge attributed to the first image in the parent, it has those same four houses in the background: https://goo.gl/maps/WLnbN845pa4Hw1Yi7 Compare to the wikipedia photo used in the parent article: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnsville_Bridge.jp...

The Stouts Mill Bridge does not have those same four houses in the background, it has a different set of buildings in a different arrangement near it: https://goo.gl/maps/3JkHPWMQo3wK39ZD8
> having a hard time buying a house

It's also much harder to get servants in that house. I wonder why...
Thank you.

I am working on an idea for programming that the primitive is literally moving things around in a grid. In a spreadsheet the formula is hidden behind a cell. And in most programming languages we write instructions and the state is implied - you don't see the state unless the program writes it out. In this design you see the state and all objects at all times. The idea is that the instruction is generated from the movement.

https://replit.com/@Chronological/DynamicTables

Try clicking "100" and move it into the JSON below.

At the moment I've implemented movement and JSON -> table. You can move things between fields in the JSON. You can rewind states of the top grid by clicking the instruction.

The plan is to put operations and API calls on the screen so you can move things into them, and their results shall go back into the grid.
There is a Youtube account that tracks cosmic rays and has additional theories on how earth quakes chain through fault lines. I became aware of him after he called the Turkey quake.

https://youtube.com/@dutchsinse
> The Red Hat Developer Subscription for Individuals is still only available to individuals, not organizations or teams, and is designed for personal servers, home labs, and small open source communities
First of all, I disagree with the premise—plenty of Android users buy AirPods. But putting that aside, why does the success of AirPods invalidate the point that Vision Pro could be successful without being as big as the iPhone?
It's funny you say that because ChatGPT knows how to play chess although it wasn't explicitly trained for that[0]. The "if it can do this, soon it will be able to do that" is actually becoming real.

[0] https://villekuosmanen.medium.com/i-played-chess-against-cha...
Ask HN: Any AI Acceleration Nonprofits?
All of the mindshare seems to be tied up in "AI safety" or more euphemistically "AI alignment". For various reasons irrelevant to this post, I do not think this is a particularly interesting, or a particularly useful endeavor at this point.

The first organization that comes to mind in the safety field is Yudkowsky's MIRI.

I am looking for the opposite of this. Are there any groups out there that lean more towards AI acceleration? That is, primarily focused with advancing the state-of-the-art of AI as a goal unto itself rather than in service of a business objective? Something like the ACM, but perhaps less academic and more singularly focused on this topic.
Not strictly true; I, for one, don't hop on my bicycle without my helmet camera turned on.
I'm all for everyone going private. You can bounce from black-hole to black-hole and talk to people you want to talk to. The problem has been mass, public adoption. We learned our lesson. Bring on the invite-only revolution.
Read the blog post. Dan lemire isn't exactly a slouch.
In theory, yes.

In practice, the immigration authorities have enforcement priorities, and deporting overstating H1B is very far from being one.

As long as you don't cross a border, no one will come looking for you.

Source, my immigration lawyer when I was in danger of overstaying my H1B.
I try not to compare myself to Socrates, or delude myself into thinking that most social media is about teaching.
Is Snowflake big enough of a deal?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16880404

Also, in the post itself, authors including Apple and Snowflake devs, it mentions it's run in production by Apple and Snowflake.

I haven't seen yet though what Apple uses it for.
I updated the wording to help you out.
What goes around comes around. We had naming conventions that produced succinct names. They became denigrated and shunned (for no good reason) - use long descriptive names!

Now we see that was a bad idea - longer names just allow for more wasted words and are actually less descriptive. Some kind of social or algorithmic convention makes them quicker to parse and understand.

I suppose some compromise will be proposed one day. Maybe a prefix to classify the method name, then some short description. Or even an IDE convention to pop up a short description for method names to allow clarification in-situ.
> All these little quirks add up to a shit UX.

Not only that, after a while those UX warts are now embedded as part of someone's workflow and can't be changed.

as usual, elevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/
Elixir type system updates: moving from research into development