skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And data teams are sitting on an enormous supply of potential answers! We have spent the last decade re-building our data stacks around infinitely-scalable cloud warehouses and their attending ETL tools. It’s a (wait for it) massive coal mine just waiting to be turned into energy.

What are those untapped data resourvoirs, who owns them and what are the questions they might finally get answered? Please tell me it is not just every click ever made on the internet and now they can figure out better how to sell more shit to more people.
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But rx comes out of the .net world, not from node
Yes, I'm not about to give an extension "read all information on all web pages you visit" permissions.
John Stewart advocating for 9/11 first responders or you calling your Senator to tell them to support or oppose a bill would then be called what?

That technically would be lobbying but you define that was also bribery.
I use it as a code partner too, it's very good for that, cursor.so is built from the ground up with an accelerated GPT4 option, it was a really useful assistant to extend what I knew to the extent that I could implement what I wanted and it worked.

Ignore at your peril...

A stepping stone to AGI, yes. in the same way inventing the bolt is a step to building a spaceship. A novel sort of database, something akin to a multi-dimensional topological manifold from which you can navigate a latent space by supplying constraints in the form of words, images and text... fascinating.
First order consequences are still consequences.

Forcing people into second order thinking is forcing submission.

Making some fantasy up about improving the lives of foreigners (and tech companies cash flow) at the expense of your neighbour is peak humanism.
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I have been staying mostly away from heavy use of ChatGPT so far. I have experimented and seen the potential. I also try to keep up on the tech news. Mostly been too busy with life and work to dabble seriously here so far.

But I am still experiencing the stress nevertheless.

The kind of burn-out I am experiencing is he probably opposite of yours in a way. I have been interested in Data and AI for a while since it is related to my area of work as well. Have been meaning to do a lot of hands on earning and experimentation in this space of GenAI ever since it blew up an year ago?

(But I, by nature, usually procrastinate on things and ideas, waiting for an ideal time -- where I am free of immediate priorities and distractions -- that rarely ever comes.)

The constant onslaught of new developments and new tools and frameworks and models keeps me feeling like I am stuck in quicksand with lead boots while all these developments are whizzing past me like a train I missed. This has been a cause of stress and mild anxiety for past many months, akin to burnout or helplessness.

(A part of me secretly wishes that the current flurry is just the initial mad rush with lot of trial and error -- and the real valuable learnings and fulfillment will come to those who start a little later -- once the dust settles and others burn themselves out. One can dream.)
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I mean the idea itself is fine but it’s also the most basic thing. “Food deliveries, but on the internet!” It’s the first thing you can think of!

Business like this is 1% initial idea, 99% execution and cutting costs.
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https://github.com/CloudOrc/SolidUI/releases/tag/release-0.2...
> You don't understand, because you keep assuming echo or medical professionals will be needed, to keep doing what is now medically relevant.

Yes, I believe in the laws of physics which state what you are describing is impossible.

> say by recognizing some heart landmarks to align and measure doppler flows purely though software

No amount of AI will change the fact that you cannot derive volumetric information from the electrical rhythms of the heart. You cannot obtain doppler or volumetric flow information from an ECG, you need ultrasound (i.e. an echo).

This model is almost certainly learning that certain ECG waveform changes reflective of other diseases and physiological changes place you at higher risk of LVSD. We've known these relationships from the 1990s, probably earlier.

> The current approach is not set in stone: this new approach could help those who have no healthcare professional, can't even pay for the extras (modern EKG)

If you live in a developed country there is no such thing as modern vs old EKG. I would strongly wager the same holds true in most developing countries as these older machines are unlikely to still be functional.

> (confirmation by echo etc) but can pay for basic EKG + ACEi if needed.

There are multiple causes of LVSD. They have different treatments.
Ahh good point that I forgot. I certified as a rescue scuba diver but it has been almost 10 years now!
It does tend to make code less readable however if you end up with several functions that do the same thing except that they were defined at different times with different numbers of arguments. It’s not always clear from the perspective of the API user whether the difference is just the number of arguments or if there are other differences too. Optional arguments communicate that intention more explicitly.

Looking at, e.g. the Python standard library a large number of functions have arguments that were added after the function was first defined. If Python didn’t have optional/keyword arguments then the number of API calls would be substantially larger.
There's a little bit of that piratical spirit in the crypto and AI spheres. A lot of charlatans though..
The "Bitter Lesson" indeed sheds light on the future trajectory of technology, emphasizing the supremacy of computation over human-designed methods. However, our current value functions often still need to focus on what we can achieve with the tools and methods available to us today. While it's likely that computational tools will eventually replace human-guided "outlines" or "guidance", that are used to shape LLM outputs, there will likely always be a substantial amount of human-structured knobs necessary to align computation with our immediate needs and goals.
It’s tough. One of the toughest things to balance.

I’d suggest be a present dad for a few years at least and let work take a back seat. You can always focus on that more once the kid is in school. This is what I’ve done. I don’t feel guilty for my career and am working on that now.

Ultimately it’s up to you…
As far as I as an Erlang developer can say, I think there's a misunderstanding about arity in Elixir (and probably even more misunderstandings on everything else that's borrowed from Erlang). There is no "Pattern matching on arity feature". Normal functions are defined by a name and arity, `foo/1` and `foo/2` are two different functions and not two clauses of the same `foo` function. Erlang makes this clear when it forces you to export both instead of just exporting `foo`, maybe Elixir just tries to hide this limitation. Funs/lambdas are limited by this too, as another comment already showed, funs are sometimes (often?) compiled to normal functions.
will this tool alleviate or exacerbate the current conspiracy theories about WEF or the Gates Foundation? looking over the results my bet is 100% exacerbate. it’s a tool made to fan the flames, not to extinguish them, not to make us understand things better.
I don't want us to be user hostile. Can you link to some examples?
Absolutely agree with that. I think Orwell overall was sympathetic to any anti-authoritarian socialists, even though his own thinking was still caught up in the need for a state. E.g. what he argued for in Lion and the Unicorn [1] is more early (pre-Paris Commune) Marx, with his emphasis on nationalisation [2].

I've always found it curious that given both what he experienced in Catalonia, and his firm rejection of Stalinism in particular, but really the Bolsheviks as a whole, that he did not move further towards the libertarian socialist side out of fear of the power of the state. Instead he seems to think that the problem brought by the Bolsheviks was mainly the notion of the "dictatorship of the proletariat", rather than the notion of a more powerful state in general.

As much as I love Orwell's writing, I don't tend to find him a very deep thinker. Animal Farm and 1984 are fantastic at ripping apart the surface problems, but juxtaposed against The Lion and the Unicorn, it feels like he just stopped delving deeper than the persons involved and the notion of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and control of the press, and didn't think more about what e.g. allowed Lenin and Stalin to gain control of the Bolsheviks (e.g. he didn't delve into the split that created the Bolshevik faction itself, nor much into the effects of Lenins "democratic" centralism), as if he thought he had sufficiently solved the problem of what made them possible.

[1] https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20180531/html.php

[2] "What is needed is that the ownership of all major industry shall be formally vested in the State, representing the common people. Once that is done it becomes possible to eliminate the class of mere owners who live not by virtue of anything they produce but by the possession of title-deeds and share certificates." -- George Orwell, Lion and the Unicorn, part 3, section II
Nice project, very cool!

A little note about section "Wine's implementation": the implementation described in Ken's email was never really used in Wine, intentionally (in vanilla Wine that kind of hack is not accepted). It has been used for a few years in CrossOver, CodeWeavers' fork of Wine (more recently also used by Apple for its Gaming Toolkit). Wine is currently moving towards supporting x86-on-ARM emulation properly by better separating the guest and host code, in a manner similar to how Windows itself does the same thing.

EDIT: Another quick thought: in the project readme you mention the observation that "win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI". The origin of that remark might have been this blog post by Arek Hiler: https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/.
Absolutely. No need to climb the gutter, in spite of some better scenery, when there are direct stairs.

The engine must use some repository: it should be directly accessible.
This is my experience, a single ambiguous word can create undesired gorilla, output. It's susceptible to all sort of unintentional outcomes whe,n simple thing;s that are wrong with text can render it co nfused.

or as GPT4 put's it;

When using models like mine, clarity in input is essential to get desired outputs. But even with clear input, there's no guarantee the output will always be perfect. However, the idea is to keep improving and iterating to get better over time.
Cars are just getting worse and worse. What a fucking nightmare.
20 years later, a lot more people are comfortable ordering online. a lot of it is a matter of scale and efficiency (the original lacked both).
This is some weird post trying to find confirmation to buy as much Apple stuff as possible.

Firstly, in no way and hell 2 lb difference between MBA and MPB is going to matter for comfort when carrying in a backpack.

Secondly, MBP is decent in processing for a laptop, but it absolutely is shit compared to what even a mid grade desktop with desktop cards can put out.

If you actually want to have processing power on tap (for ML I assume) you need to build a desktop with a few gfx cards and a good desktop chip, and then set up ssh to it. Then you can use literally any computer or even your phone to run models.

On the flip side, if you are trying to find reasons to get a Mac, just get whatever Mac looks the best to you and stop pretending you need processing power.
It’s very clever. I wouldn’t want it to be oversold.
At first I misread and wondered what Project Loon[1] could possibly contribute to JDK 21.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC
i wouldn't say "enjoy walking the aisles" is complete nonsense. I actually do enjoy walking the aisles myself, but as I get busier in my daily life, I find that to be a huge time sink. despite that, i still do it because I still can't bring myself to trust a gig worker to do the shopping for me. sometimes, even buying something like crackers, you need to at least do a quick cursory check on the packaging to determine if they were crushed.
I'm not minded to give away my time and effort creating then watch others - especially corporations - enrich themselves from my work.

"Sharing" is something else.
That’s going to take about 4% less evidence to convince me than aliens would. I’d much sooner believe illegal miners and drones.
By that logic, the fact that penispowerworldwide.com is banned on HN* means we're biased against your politics.

Of the 67k sites banned on HN I would guess that fewer than 0.1% are "news sources", left- or right- or any wing. Why would you expect them to show up in a random sample of 10?

* which it is! I've unkilled https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236054 for the occasion.
Yes, but on the other hand, it can be informative (even though only partially so, hence capable of eliciting or causing premature judgements).
What you learned to wring data out of this model isn't necessarily applicable another model.
I have the same question
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Not sure. But maybe you can answer my questions. I’ve had issues with trying to tell the LLM how long the answer should be. It doesn’t really seem to understand X number of words, or pages, or paragraphs. But I had some success with things like “short story”.

The other thing I’ve been struggling with is to have the AI keep track of what’s important. For example, when the AI learn something from you it should add it to a list (if producing a json output, the object can contain a list of things it knows about you). But it doesn’t always seem to understand it learned something personal from you, and has trouble carrying a list forward without losing items.

The last one is about correcting the user. I want to speak chinese to the AI and I want it to correct me. And if I use english words within my chinese I want it to help me translate them as well. It can’t do none of these things. It’s like it doesn’t seem to realize that chinese and english are two different languages.
It’s interesting that many vehicles are damaged or destroyed by being driven too gently, rather than too aggressively.

Some Porsche cars have this problem where if you don’t drive the car hard enough, engine oil isn’t splashed over an internal rubber seal. Over time and without lubrication, the seal grows brittle and eventually fails, causing catastrophic engine failure.

Similarly, cruising around at too low an RPM applies more force on the piston with each explosion, which also damages the engine over time.

Driving in conserve mode on this truck is a new one for me.
The iteration point is important, interacting with the model to have it outline the kinds of information which would assist it in building it's internal model of your 'question', meta-programming with it is fun and constructive.

GPT4;

Absolutely! Iterative interaction is key. By refining and rephrasing queries, users can guide the model towards a more accurate or desired response. Each successive interaction serves as a form of feedback that can help clarify ambiguities or nuances that might have been missed in an initial query.

Engaging with the model in a meta-programming manner, or in essence "programming the way it thinks," is indeed an intriguing way to understand its strengths and limitations. It can also be a valuable method for users to hone their ability to communicate with AI and enhance the results they receive.

This iterative dialogue not only helps users get more precise information but also provides insights into the model's underlying logic and reasoning. The fun part is navigating these intricacies and understanding how subtle changes in phrasing or context can yield different outcomes. It's a dance of human-machine collaboration, where both parties learn and adapt to each other.
The way I see this, prompting is alignment of a human to the LLM.
No it doesn't. It sends it to an LLM hosted inside the Enterprises own Azure Subscription.
My reading vision has gotten worse over the last 5 or so years as I've gotten older - and when I'm trying to look at something closely, like I used to be able to do, I do feel for a moment like it's not my vision but my brainpower reducing. There is definite confusion.
The last few times I went to a state/national park, the trash cans were overflowing. There was trash piling up around them, getting blown off into the distance.

If they are not going to be serviced on a regular basis to prevent this outcome, then I think they are absolutely doing the right thing by removing them entirely.
It is cheaper to make bulbs that can’t handle voltage fluctuations but still yeah agreed led bulbs can last a very long time if they’re designed to.
It is an interesting paper. Any idea when the code/data will be released? It appears it has been almost 2 months since the paper was submitted, but the link given leads to a random bing page :-(
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Here in Denmark, all universities are state owned and with no tuition. In fact, you get paid to attend one (around 900 euro monthly). But I can assure you that Danes place a lot of value on the free universities. Some universities are considered slightly more prestigious (often the older ones), and some programs are also more prestigious than others, for example the ones that are difficult to get into, or that lead to jobs with higher salaries, or which are considered particularly difficult.

So how does one compare the "free" (tax paid) Danish universities to the US/UK ones? By citations? Nobel laureates? Amount of foreign students? Salaries of alumni? Patents? GDP per capita? Number of high value companies per capita? I think you'd find that as a whole, Danish, and other Scandinavian universities, easily compete with Anglo Saxon universities, and that the main drawback of Scandinavian universities is the language.
If you don't mind my asking -- how old are you?
You can't understand why software that can do in a fraction of a section what a human would do in hours would be valuable?
Shazam for singing
it's not so very impressive. the 8080 is quite an easy processor to emulate (but not at the transistor or i/o level) - you can do it with a switch - there are only 256 possible instructions (not all used). i wrote one on the Dec10 back in the early 1980s (with assembler, disassembler and debugger) in Fortran77 and ported it to VAX and IBM 4381. we used it to teach assembler programming at the polytechnic i worked for. you could easily (well, relatively easily) have written basic on my implementation.
By "standard regex" stuff I take it you mean the standard regex stuff Python standard library comes with?

I mean going from standard regex to NFA to DFA is already more sophisticated than that one, it's _quite_ oldschool and gives you linear time matching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson%27s_construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerset_construction

And what I mean to say by this as they could have easily have had this idea and never had discovered the whitepaper you referenced.
If a local university doesn't take them, the IA will - they accept donations of physical materials and will digitize and index them: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat...
> …some arbitrary authority deciding…

something tells me the team here is anything but arbitrary. i can assure you, keeping a community this healthy at this scale is pretty incredible.

what you’re suggesting is to raise the noise and for the users to wade through noise hunting for signal.

what rises to the top here is so much better than any of the noisy sites. on those sites, by the time you find a signal, the information is usually amateur-hour tier. to use an idiom i heard yesterday, sites with little moderation are like searching for a hymen in a whorehouse.
So.. like.. troff?
Many problems would be solved by using TAI for storage instead of timezones/UTC. At least for past events.
> need to split and name things everywhere

It can sometimes be annoying yes, but when you come back to the code 6 months later it's mostly a good thing.
Can't I use the max_tokens (set to 1) and logit_bias parameters? Not saying I want to do this. I just want to understand how this works.
Why would DOS have been claimed property of the US taxpayers when you are arguing they used that PDP-10 to create basic, not DOS?

Also, why would Harvard do that anyway? They didn't murder someone, they formed one of the biggest companies in history with their computers.

Also did Gates not buy DOS off of Seattle Computer Products? How did he screw him over exactly? Wikipedia says that it ended up making SCP millions of dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products
I had a feeling the narration was doing a lot of heavy lifting, and with no proof of work it was suspicious, but most if not all of the behavior does seem feasible to some extent. In fact the only argument against I would have is the voice-over that is supposedly brought by ChatGPT, this doesn't seem possible, at least not with the level of consistency.
In order to avoid polarising your prospective audience and extending the time they take you seriously, I'd avoid referring to this particular activity as "engineering".
Consider that he got shot through his throat in his 30's and died at 46 years old, so didn't have that much time to consider other approaches. When he was younger he had an experience as a policeman, which maybe is one of the reasons he was more pro-statist in his thinking that some could guess given his life experience.
> generally

Does not inspire confidence.
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I agree. The road to hell is paved with the best intentions.
The problem with a tool like this is the populistic oversimplification. Not every funding is equal, not every funding means the person working for the organization funded can’t really speak their mind and so on.
This are nuances that are happily disregarded and sacrificed on the altar of “data truth”.
> The dot com bubble was VCs throwing money at absolutely bat shit crazy stuff

Sounds strangely familiar
I find eye-tracking interface to be very clunky and constraining. You have to restrict where you are pointing your eyes, or you will select things by accident and then you'll miss what's going on in the world. I think any prolonged session will give people eye-strain. 3D goggles already do. With eye-tracking doubly so.
It supports several backends and lots of stuff including migrations. It's thin for what it does.

> For comparison, all of Flask

That's... not a reasonable comparison. Flask does basically nothing. Of course it's small. And it does something totally different so why compare?
Probably exacerbate, but so what? Soros was the boogeyman for decades, and it didn't matter because the people that believed such conspiracies usually are poor, know almost nothing about the world and generally have no effect on anything. It's a very useful project.
There is also sqlmesh (https://sqlmesh.com/). Pretty new as well. It introduces some interesting concepts. For smaller dbt projects it could be a drop-in replacement as it allows importing dbt projects.
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