skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand this criticism. It seems completely normal for a large MTA to use debt financing to fund big projects and not unreasonable at all for 20% of recovered fares to go to paying that debt. I’m sure most of that debt was incurred before the recent spike in rates too so there should be no rush to pay it.

Also, I think there’s some fallacious reasoning going on here as if congestion pricing by itself will not help unless timed to exactly coincide with other projects completing. It can as long there’s slack in the system (there is) and it doesn’t need those other projects to be done before it starts helping.

The MTA certainly overpays for projects but that is a much easier problem to point out than to fix. It ties into a huge and longstanding corruption/graft scheme, that has in practice a lot of public support, that you can’t just fix overnight.
Google is like going to an individual doctor which this mother was doing already.

ChatGPT synthesized its result from multiple sources and communicated that - no source existed which understood the connections between various symptoms. This is exactly the thing that the mother was quoted at one point - every doctor was looking at things from their specialization and not holistically.
Lots of bombast, little substance to this article. American infrastructure projects are behind timeline and over budget? Yawn.
Same story here. I remember learning html through w3schools for my neopets webstore
I am no longer able to use the site because of his changes. 10 years of following links from articles or friends and then scrolling threads. I guess it cost more than the ad revanue my click would’ve generated but I can no longer visit the site to generate any more revenue now. So objectively twitter is worse under Musk’s stewardship as the site no longer works at all for me.
The article didn’t address one of the biggest issues: rampant evasion. Ever since automated toll collection and especially red light/speed cameras went in, fewer and fewer cars have legible, real license plates. Just like with mopeds, Adams’ NYPD doesn’t seem to care at all.
To play devil's advocate: targeting WASIX still gives you the benefit of compiling existing code once and running on any OS-architecture pair that Wasmer supports. I long for this sort of thing when building software that needs to run on Linux on multiple architectures inside AWS and also on developers' MacBooks. (Ever tried cross-compiling to macOS? Yeah, I prefer pulling teeth, too.)

Caveat: you'd need to use Wasmer forks of, e.g., rustc and Tokio, but I imagine there are at least some people who would be okay with that.
Same. Learning HTML for Neopets sites directly led me to my current job as a programmer.
This is going to eventually lead to general driving tax within the city.

Also note that this only effects poor people in any significant way.
Didn't the removal of Flash ruin their online games catalogue?
Same tech they use for staff in mental health hospitals and wards, but strangely noone hacks the mental health hospitals.
https://archive.is/wNb45
How about the other cases that ChatGPT misdiagnosed? We don't see them on media because, you know...
I have a Brother laser and I could not get the Microsoft driver to print PDFs at 100% scale. I tried a bunch of different PDF apps, every driver setting. Then I installed the Brother driver and it worked first try.
Every category of living has these sorts of changes over time. The suburbs might complain about rising infrastructure taxes, the time to commute anywhere, road work. Rural areas might complain about lack of services and maintenance from the municipality.

The transit access/walkability of NYC gives it a LOT of leeway to squeeze some money out, especially with how expensive everything has gotten.
It’s used for stucco as well, which is everywhere.
Unlacquered brass handles for all public spaces
Same, not a fan of their "real names only" policy. But that's all I'm seeing, a couple of retro and vintage computing groups on fb, and some eBay sellers.
I think it should be mentioned that the actual creators of Neopets are Adam Powell and Donna Williams, who apparently were unaware of this connection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopets
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appreciate you being transparent with your disclaimer.

Living in the big city is not a frog boiling operation. These rules are pretty simple: cars are silly in dense environments. It's in the first paragraph.

"... charge private vehicles..."
Bizarre take.

Not sure what's ChatGPT-specific here

They literally used ChatGPT, specifically.

You may as well hear the story of William Kamkwamba building a wind turbine for his village and say "Not sure what's African-village specific here. People have been building wind turbines all over the world with various resources."
https://archive.is/seO0J
A friend got the radiologist report for a musculoskeletal issue. Pasted into early GPT-4 and got a list of things to do, prognosis etc. I ran it by my dad (orthopaedic surgeon) and my friend asked his doc what to do.

Matched almost exactly. My dad said it was very impressive. Great software.
I don't know anything about this particular show, but lots of programs were shot on film, and could just be scanned at higher resolution once HD video standards existed.
What explains people's knee jerk reaction to something as awesome as this? It's weird reading comments here.
All the consumer products were killed, like Encarta, games, Microsoft home stuff. MS went full enterprise.
I wonder how https://www.drgupta.ai/ would have performed...
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Quite a few of the things that distinguish "high end" radios these days are in terms of user interface, and connections to accessories. It used to be that crystal filters, the ability to select bandwidth, noise suppression, and other dedicated circuits made the radios better. With SDR, if you have sufficient bandwidth, bit depth, and dynamic range, you can do things that were previously $10,000 or more.

I was just trying to make the point that the cheapest, entry level, SDR (based on a test mode of the receiver chip) can do stuff that used to be expensive. The fact that a laptop can easily do a gigaflop makes it all possible.

Of course there are reasons to spend the money on a good radio. Lower noise figures, better clock stability, internal signal processing and UI. Dedicated knobs for functions are amazingly undervalued in terms of usability.

Getting an actually FCC Type approved amateur transceiver, gives good assurance of spur free output, and costs quite a bit to produce.
I used 2 similar divide-by-3 regexes to test the page (after removing the ^ and $ to their ends), and it froze up:

Regex 1: ([0369]|([258]|[147][0369]*[147])([0369]|([147][0369]*[258]|[258][0369]*[147]))*([147]|[258][0369]*[258])|([147]|[258][0369]*[258])([0369]|([147][0369]*[258]|[258][0369]*[147]))*([258]|[147][0369]*[147]))*

Regex 2: ([0369]|[258][0369]*[147]|(([147]|[258][0369]*[258])([0369]|[147][0369]*[258])*([258]|[147][0369]*[147])))*

Everything up until the last '*' is parsable. The moment I put in the *, the entire page freezes up.

Without the *, it produced a valid verifier for parsing chunks of digits whose sum mod 3 = 0.
I would bet that is because a significant portion of the tax evaders are the cops or their families.
> they’ll charge by ... the calculated emissions produced by your vehicle

We all have dreams. If only.
... while accusing others of confusing their emotions for logic.
The phenomena which causes particles to exist to have quirky rules governing their interactions is definitely real. Whether that's simulated reality setting parameters on particle interactions or any other kind of reality, it continues to hold our experienced reality in existence.

We study the hourglass from inside of the hourglass, and are subject to what happens TO the hourglass. If it's shaken or broken, it can never exist in its previous state again. Likewise we can only guess what everything is like outside of the hourglass. Our reality is inside the hourglass, and we probably can't get out.
I’ve written several 1980s-style expert systems.

In practice they are basically simplified programming languages. If this, then that. The application of rules can lead to surprising emergent behavior. You might be able to find a pattern in it but you’re more likely to get wrong results and need to update the rule set.

There is also the problem of inputs. You end up needing to be an “expert” on the system to get good results.
If the public transport systems were that good, why would anyone need to drive in?

Note: I am not a car freak. I'm a solarpunk guy, I'd rather have Futurama style tubes, or VTOL vehicles anytime!

But paying for horrendous traffic jams clearly shows to me that public transport isn't up to snuff.
Interesting—out of curiosity, what is your primary complaint with the DCP-L2550DW? I have one too and use it seamlessly for printing and scanning on Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. My third party toner refills have worked great and the machine itself was rather inexpensive. Not invalidating your experience, as I may have just gotten lucky, but would be interested to know what issues it’s created for you.
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Not really. A programmatic decision tree will actually try out all the steps rather than glancing over the ones it thinks are not relevant. It also would not forget to test branches.

If all a doctor is doing is following a flow chart, you can be damn sure that a machine programmed with the same flow chart would do it more effectively.
> It seems to be moving between people and animals quite easily.
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The router doesn't really need to support anything, the mDNS packets just flood the bridge domain directly between clients like any other flooded packet.
Quantum Efficiency is defined as the number of electron hole pairs per photon.

Without avalanche effect, without quantum cutting phosphors etc, the quantum efficiency for visible light photons can not exceed 100%: a photon of suitable energy (i.e. higher than the bandgap) would liberate a single electron-hole pair with the excess energy lost as heat. Some electron hole pairs may recombine before completing a loop around the external circuit, lowering the total quantum efficiency.

A SPAD uses the avalanche effect: the applied reverse bias being so strong that the electron of the initial electron-hole pair is accelerated to sufficient energy to knock out and liberate more electron hole pairs, so that you can have quantum efficiencies exceeding 100%: as a function of the applied reverse bias there is an extra mean multiplier constant describing how many electron-hole pairs will be liberated due to a single photon striking.

>This explanation isn't consistent with my understanding.

Its probably because you misremember, the quantum efficiency of SPAD's is higher not lower than that of your average CCD sensor.
Comments are full of disinformation. Don't take medical advice from HN.
Because everytime a positive AI article is posted people come out of the woodworks trying to paint the current state of AI in the most negative light possible.
Show HN: Labor Day Fun Project, Find Reddit Comments to Promote Your Business
For Labor Day I decided to play with OpenAI APIs and try to ship something (a prototype, a blog post, anything really).

Whenever I launched a side project (e.g: https://www.probarsearch.com/, https://ff.bitlet.org/) I realized how bad I am at marketing or even at mentioning my the project to friends/social.

I noticed that most of the traffic we got was coming from reddit/HN comments we made where it was reasonable to mention the sideproject/business.

Given that, I tried to use OpenAI APIs to do exactly that, given a business/project description, and a list of subreddits, monitor all comments and pick the ones where it makes sense to mention the business/project.

While I had the project done in the labor day weekend, I decided to productionize it a bit (really just add a login system and a payment link to cover OpenAI costs) last weekend.

If anyone is interested in giving a shot, you can play with it at https://sp.bitlet.org/. Feedback is always welcome!
ChatGPT 4 won’t answer medical questions for me.
The goal should not be to expect doctors to use AI to assist.

The goal is to get AI to be superior to doctors such that AI replaces doctors.

AI should augment your skill such that the doctor is no longer needed. The problem with the US medical system is that they hold your life hostage then rip you off. Make no mistake people attribute this to complexity and other bullshit but the money ends up in the pockets of administrators and doctors.

You want to fix the system? Attack the root. Replace doctors.
If they were only over-budget that would be one thing. East side access has made commutes worse for Long Islanders, even those that work on the East Side!

How do you spend that much money and make things worse? The MTA isn’t just incompetent, it’s world-historically incompetent. Tens of millions of people’s lives would be significantly better if it was only as corrupt and incompetent as a typical metro system in Southern Europe
Shannon published a paper on Chess AI, just give it a quick google.
It's going to be interesting to see this play out with the AMA et al. The raging cynic in me thinks this is going to get very serious, very quickly. There are a lot of lifestyles at risk. On the other hand it will soon be possible to supply an endless parade of mothers offering politically unimpeachable testimony and demanding freedom to employ these tools.

I know who wins that, but there will be many pounds of flesh rent on the field in the meantime.
The second link is .noaa.gov, what do you think the last A in NOAA or .gov mean? Where do they get their funding from? This kind of doomerism is not only counterproductive, it's also just counterfactual.
> Would anyone else here have a need for a real-time translation video chat app?

I have to question if this is an actual post, because asking if a real-time video translator that works well would be useful to other people seems bizarre.

The answer is yes, that's a great product, if it work well.
Agreed. Go is prime example of a rather (intentionally) unsexy language that sports great tooling.
> I know how and love to write in bash. But oh god was it painful to learn

This is very well said :)

> Sad that there's nothing established to take its place (Perl is read-only, python is not good enough as unix glue, everything else is too obscure).

Is there anything notable? Either particularly well designed, or just popular? I think I've only ever heard of Oil (https://oilshell.org)
A lot of people are probably just not familiar with the single-command envvar syntax, and of people that do know it some of them probably don't know the syntax for unsetting.

So it's just not immediately obvious to many why a simple extra space is a problem at all, and why it's this specific error. It can also just generally be hard to see past what you intended to write to what you actually did and how that will be parsed.
Health info on google was captured by the likes of webmd and healthline 20 years ago and they've just been farming their seo position ever since, absolutely no innovation, just regurgitating medical literature 101.

But it really feels like Google's entire ecosystem is collapsing rapidly as seo bots cannibalize it. Ad-supported content is a local optima that LLMs will thankfully destroy.
They should have used Erlang OTP
No, you're not. Water isn't free, and a good dishwasher is more water-efficient than you. Water requires a LOT of energy to pump, so less water means less energy.
You could come up with a scenario, sure. Bad in law though. [1]

Another scenario you could come up with is a future climate catastrophe, where millions die and/or are displaced because of this global boiling era.
Incidentally, which is the protest thought crime that is being prosecuted.

[1] Legally there's a world of difference between proximal causes and proximate causes. (Neighborhood vs causally related.)
Congestion pricing helps people determine if they need to or just want to take private transportation.
Yes it's very important to have an open mind. I'm very curious how the AI haters will spin chatGPT diagnosing a kid while 17 doctors could not in anything but a win for AI.
I agree with that. But when ChatGPT was made public, I read of Chinese citizens complaining about how far behind they were.

I see OSS LLMs along the same lines as the Rolls Royce Nene being sold to the USSR in 1946, or the captured AIM-9 being "the Rosetta Stone" for Soviet engineers as far as missile design.

I mean, will Kremlin or CCP engineers contribute their PRs to OSS LLMs? This seems so utterly naive to me on the part of the OSS religious.[0] And maybe just egoistical on the part of Meta. As in, Meta has to win, no matter what. See: Rohingya genocide.

I am really curious if there are any real AI safely folks at Meta, and what they think of this.

[0] I was once religious about OSS, but then I realized that not all products are the same.
> What is preventing most people from losing weight?

You don't have a bad habit you need to "just" stop doing?

Everybody's got a monkey or two on their back.
I wonder what the FBI has for running on linux/unix? I'm sure the FBI budget allows the means to create a botnet for any OS, but the easiest thing to do (maybe) would be to stop using windows..?
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First thought that came to my mind as well when I read it. This failover system seems to be more designed to mitigate hardware failures than software bugs.
> We have two criteria here: Hire on merit and try pick the best person for the job; or, subsume merit to picking based primarily on skin color and/or ethnicity.

The word ‘merit’ is doing a lot of work here. What traits/aspects of a person would you use to calculate into their merit? I’ll argue that between two people who’ve crossed a finish line at the same time, the one who started furthest from that line is more meritorious. From a hiring/placement perspective however, especially during the first screening, there isn’t a good way to determine a candidate’s starting line.

The dichotomy is a bit wrong as well, but I’ll get into that once we get past the first hurdle (for the curious, it is about a selection bias after an initial screen).
Because all government power is itself intrinsically a huge cost to society. We don't serve them, they serve us.
Sometimes I think, we should ban private vehicles (excludes emergency vehicles, taxis, possibly Ubers, etc) inside cities. Of course, you'd need good public transport first, but often to get that, you'd need to force the issue such as by banning cars.

Having been to Asia where you could get anywhere with public transport, it's wild to see the dichotomy in many western countries.
> Instead the bottom-up (neural networked) AI seems to be winning out.

What do you mean by ... winning out? It seems to have made one novel diagnosis, which is great for the individual in question. But how many times has it diagnosed something completely absurd? What's the ratio of signal to noise here?

If it's anything like trying to use it to solve difficult engineering problems it must have hallucinated turbocancer hundreds of times over.
I imagine same with time based or opportunistic businesses. If the shopping channel (assuming it runs around the clock) couldn't process orders, they'd have to decide if they want to forgo selling other products to rerun the missed ones.

For certain types of entertainment like movies or sports, the sale may no longer be relevant.
Nvidia software update doubles performance of H100 GPU
> this only effects poor people in any significant way

How? There are discounts for the poor [1]. Those in the trades can add it to their bills. And there are precious few poor Manhattanites living within the congestion-charge zone who also have a car. (Parking a car in Manhattan is like renting another bedroom.)

[1] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/05/09/mta-will-offer-conges...
Without an official rating, how exactly is a consumer going to know how much energy an appliance uses? Magic?
>I agree, it reads like the doctors didn't do their job properly.

I'm sorry. But this is exactly what occured. Doctors failed to do their job. That mother payed money and wasted time and got nothing. That is unilateral and categorical failure of all Doctors involved.

Are they refunding her money for failing? Are they refunding her insurance company? No?

Then it's not just about doing their job properly. It's about theft. This is no different from a hospital charging 100k for 1 day of care.

Tell it like it is, doctors aren't doing their job properly.
Ah, interesting. $5000 isn’t a lot for professional software developers but could be fine for hobby projects I guess. $1300 for the professional version is a steep price jump from $0
Completely agree with everything you said. If anything the biggest complaint I would have is that it seems like they only plan to charge people entering Manhattan and not cars that registered in Manhattan.
If there was always (or, let's be honest, ever) time and resources to test every branch, then that would be a fair comparison.
> wouldn't be surprising in a few years that they'll charge by the streets you entered

The point is we don't want nor need private cars in central Manhattan. A simpler solution would be eliminating street-side parking, but that's a political hot potato.
All of those have some Sanskrit words in them, though. And probably vice versa.
It's early, but I don't see any comments like that so far.
This submission got catapulted off the front page within about 2 hours and no longer appears in the top 150 submission despite being fresh and having more points than 18 of the 30 items on the front page. Interesting.
Also note that this only effects poor people in any significant way.

Simply not true. The poor don’t drive into the city. They can’t afford cars, and even if they could, they can’t afford to park them.

This will most heavily affect taxi riders and city employees who park illegally and so don’t have to worry about paying, if they don’t just evade the rules by illegally obscuring or removing their license plates. Which they will—-secure in the fact that the NYPD will never do anything and even if they do OATH will have their backs.
Call me narrow minded, but if Humanity has a goal i can't imagine that it would be anything else than exploring space.
sed 's/doctor/programmer/g'
An "unexpected error" is always a logic bug. The cause of the logic error is not known, because it is unexpected. Therefore, the software cannot determine if it is an isolated problem or a systemic problem. For a systemic problem, shutting down the system and engaging the backup is the correct solution.
It’ll have to be better than today’s spicy autocomplete technology to do that, though. ChatGPT will never be in the driver’s seat; it can’t be trusted.
When used in conjunction with an actual expert, ChatGPT’s statistical search can be very powerful. It’s essentially performing a statistical search over the space of all diseases it knows about and returning (at a first order approximation) the most reasonable diagnosis. What a doctor should do is to perform tests to rule the suggestions out.

The point isn’t to replace doctors but to empower them. They still need to come up with tests to rule out conditions.

We also have an algorithm for the tests: information gain. If you think of diagnosis like a game of Guess Who, we need to come up with tests which can narrow down the space of possible conditions. (It’s a bit more complicated of course since tests have a margin of error too.)