skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the point. Time and parallelization is cheap for machines.

I can see a short term future where “doctors” are replaced with non-doctor medical personal who gather data. Blood draws, temperature checks, collecting stool samples, photographing lesions, these are all easier with two hands. Analyzing the data will be done for the masses by machine.

And of course because of how the USA healthcare system works, it will somehow manage to be evens more expensive.
Not that some aren't trying! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/nyregion/lawyer-chatgpt-s...

> In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law said he “did not comprehend” that the chat bot could lead him astray.

> For nearly two hours Thursday, Mr. Schwartz was grilled by a judge in a hearing ordered after the disclosure that the lawyer had created a legal brief for a case in Federal District Court that was filled with fake judicial opinions and legal citations, all generated by ChatGPT. The judge, P. Kevin Castel, said he would now consider whether to impose sanctions on Mr. Schwartz and his partner, Peter LoDuca, whose name was on the brief.
Artificial Cliff Claven. Mansplaining as a Service. Truthiness on tap.
Yeah I absolutely agree. There will always be crazy expensive anything and education is no different. but for state institutions they shouldn't be beholden to the same trend chasing that a private school does. Especially when all those fancy amenities are partially coming out of taxpayer money to begin with. What are we paying for if they can take that money and still increase costs to new students?
While there is truth here, they can be quite effective as a logic engine vs a fact engine. One of the most popular LLM use cases is retrieval augmented generation (RAG), where the LLM is limited by a provided context.

Do you need 7B/13B/33B/77B parameters to do this? That is a question up for debate and something I'm exploring with the concept of micro/nano models (https://neuml.hashnode.dev/train-a-language-model-from-scrat...). There is the sense that today's LLMs could be overkill for a problem such as RAG.
I think a DDNS client per device is the simplest solution. With https://dns.he.net, this can be an hourly cron job that fetches a URL, so no additional software is needed.

Alternatively, if your devices have a stable suffix, https://dynv6.com/ supports prefix updates across multiple records.
To be honest, I hated writing essays in English classes because I felt like I'm forced to write BS to fill up the space when my argument can be summed up in several bullet points.

Since I'm not a student anymore, I can just give ChatGPT a few bullet points and ask it to write a paragraph for me. As an engineer who doesn't like writing "fluff", it's great I can now outsource the BS part of writing.
Can't wait to pull this up on my desktop tomorrow.
> Safety critical software systems are designed to always fail safely. This means that in the event they cannot proceed in a demonstrably safe manner, they will move into a state that requires manual intervention.

unrelated - this instantly caused me to think about tesla autopilot crashes that have been reported with emergency vehicles
This is less about cap theorem and more about immutable data stores.

It does make me wonder about log append only stores. Why is it a linear log at all? That is one of the problems OP is talking about when the partition heals and you need to merge two disparate logs.

But why? Why not use an order independent data structure like a set? Adding facts to two independent sets and then union the two sets results in the same set. I suspect the reason is, we haven’t found a good way to store sets. We only figured out how to store things linearly
I like to think of all responses from LLM's like the top-rated post on Stack Overflow or a top five blog post from a Google search. It's helpful information that _may_ be correct but needs to be verified. A lot of the time, it's spot on. Some percentage of the time, it's straight up incorrect. You have to be willing to compare various sources of data and find what's accurate. It's a nice, easy-to-use starting point, essentially.
Any time I asked ChatGPT or another GPT a question regarding science (haven't asked any questions on other topics) I got a mostly correct answer back. And I've asked a few hundred by this point. This includes state of the art research covered in just one or a few articles.

So I'm curious why my personal experience doesn't match all the complains about hallucinations.
On my pixel I get both qr and password.
"The internet is simply too slow to be useful".
This won't cancel the read, it'll just ignore the result
GPT-4 answers are often kind of brilliant and surprising in a very interesting and pleasing way. I don't know why anybody would want to use a dumb AI if they can afford the best. Well worth the $20/month.
Full Self-Driving next year! Just like the last 10 years!
Oh wow, maybe I should go into infosec, looks like I’m already there mentally
Delphi 5-7 was such a boon to anybody picking up Pascal in school. Still remember that feeling of discovering that you can drop controls on a form, write some spaghetti to make them work together, and bam! you can make a real windowed application all while being 14. Nostalgie…
> Analog seems pretty well settled in the US for the past ~40 years.

Yes, but not always. There was a time when it was a new thing, and, when so, it was much argued.

> But my point is actually a bit different. Weren't VCRs a good thing? Isn't it a bad thing that it is so much harder now to record internet TV than it was to record broadcast and cable TV in the 1980s-2000s?

Yes, they were! Yes, it is! But my point wasn't to disagree with you on either of these points, just to observe that it's not that the content owners who went along with previous innovations are suddenly balking at this. Rather, my invocation of even long settled questions like analog recording was meant to point to the fact that content owners have always argued against use of their material that they didn't like, which was any use of their material that they didn't completely control and directly profit from.
Barbarian Tribe to Most Important Province in China's History – Story of Canton [video]
The first 3D movie I saw I knew it was just going to be a trend. I'll admit, it took longer to die than I expected, but it was inevitable. I'm still not convinced that 3D VR will be the next big thing any time soon. The experience of playing fruit ninja on the Wii is still better than playing the slicing game on the oculus. Show me some proper 2.5D augmented reality, that seems like a critical stepping stone (with far more practical use cases) first.
They stole it from Abraham Lincoln's first tweet
This might not qualify because it was never really in the zeitgeist, but I remember around 2000 that flywheels were going to be an amazing mobile energy storage mechanism. Your car would rev up a massive disk inside a vacuum, and use its momentum to propel itself in stop and go traffic.

I believe the showstopper was that in even the slightest fender-bender, the flywheel would get off-balance and yeet off in a random direction, causing mayhem and calamity.
CAP's A isn't a very useful thing at all. There's nothing stopping a database from being both Consistent and (common-sense definition) Available on the majority side of a network partition. It just can't be available on both sides, which is unfortunately the definition from the CAP proof from Gilbert and Lynch. The proof isn't wrong, but it is extremely misleading if you go into it expecting the common-sense definitions.

There's also nothing stopping systems from accepting commutative writes, and hence being available for writes on both sides. Similarly, if the system accepts no writes it can accept reads on both sides without breaking the law.
From my time with a mac, iTunes was bad on a mac. But at least it follows the platform UI (as much as any media player does). iTunes on windows insists on trying to look and feel like the mac version, which is very out of place on Windows. Safari for Windows did the same thing when it was around. Pulling in Apple's fonts and Apple's font rendering is part of the problem.
That's funny, the only two electronics deals I routinely follow are Costco's Macs and Chromebooks. Their $799 M1 Air is still a steal, and the M1 Mac Mini for $299 was unbeatable for the moment it lasted ($499 for the M2 Mini is pretty great, as well).

$1200 for an 8GB M2 Air, though... It's a bit steep in comparison, but on it's own, it's really a 13" MBP inside... And if it's practically a Pro, why not just get the 14" for $1600?

I think their final lineup of sickly Intel Macs really distorted things with the operations-centric "come get your ports, lol" pricing. Those are awful machines, and setting the expectation that a device's capability should be related to its display size was such a thinly veiled intelligence test. Between barely refreshing their hardware over a decade (the trashcan Pro was X79-based) and Batterygate, it wasn't their brightest era.
Sounds like we should have globally unique human-enterable identifiers governed by an ISO..
I’d say for me a big one is working out of office, when the clock hits 5 (and not oncall) work laptop gets closed and I don’t open it again

It’s really a little thing, but maintaining separation between workplace and home and trying to minimize that overlap works well for me
Absolutely! Chip designers have a several tools to do this.

First, they create detailed software models (usually in C++) of their chips to estimate performance as closely as they can before laying out a single transitory. These models can run code just like a real hardware device, albeit slowly.

Once the chip is designed, verilog simulators are programs used to generate the exact logical output of a circuit, which can be used to measure performance on a workload. However, this method is even slower than the first!

For larger workloads and higher speed, they use extraordinarily expensive FPGA-based platforms called Emulators. This allows circuits to be run at speeds in the MHz range before ever being sent to a fab. Booting an OS, running a complex multicore workload with shared memory, they can measure almost any workload. But this method is not available until late in the design phase and the boxes themselves are prohibitively expensive from being deployed very widely.

The software models are the most useful for estimating performance, as long as they are written early and well :)
As an engineer I'd hope you wouldn't have to write fluff. Brevity (while retaining full content) should be praised.

I'm interested what parts of your job require the fluff? Is it communication with non engineering teams?
You are dismissing the study not because you need 1000 samples. You are dismissing it because you're biased.

30 witnesses to a murder is highly reliable. Any judge or court who denies that is biased.

17 doctors who couldn't diagnose a simple issue for 10 years is a demonstration of total unreliability.
Gotta try on a pc for some reason on iOS the cloudiness feels more like nerf than Gaussian to me for some reason, gotta try it on pc later
People already can hardly distinguish truth from lie. One Donald Trump lies constantly. Brexit referendum in UK was driven by a ton of lies, many people still believe them.
This would have been a 2oo2 system where the pilot becomes the backup. 2oo2 systems are not highly available.

Air traffic control systems should at least be 2oo3[1] (3 systems independently developed of which 2 must concur at any given time) so that a failure of one system would still allow the other two to continue operation without impacting availability of the aviation industry.

Human backup is not possible because of human resourcing and complexity. ATC systems would need to be available to provide separation under IFR[2] and CVFR[3] conditions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_modular_redundancy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_flight_rules#Separa...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_flight_rules#Controlled...
all of cryptocurrency relies on sha256 the fact that the space is huge, and just ignores collisions. seems to work fine.
The system described here (if I understand correctly) could store sets if care is taken to make the set writes commutative. The CRDT literature contains several solutions to this problem.
I honestly don't get this. I used to build my own PCs and all that but now computers are so cheap and so rapidly evolving, buying a new supercomputer beyond comprehesion every couple of years seems fine. Upgrading GPUs out of cycle seems like it might make sense but you probably should just use a desktop PC for anything using a GPU.
Unfortunately Spotify links don’t work for me. For instance, the following URL copied from Spotify’s share extension in iOS returns a not-valid link in your app:

https://spotify.link/0elKaAdp1Cb
Any idea why was this flagged?
Yeah, I should have clarified. They can provide a way to define the “shape” of things and give answers or choose branches based on that.

That’s what I was thinking about when I mentioned emergent behavior.

The “fuzziness” of expert systems fascinates me. :)
Hydration is a big part too:
I have venesections done every two week or so as a treatment for hemochromatosis. I.e. They take 450ml blood and dump it.

If my blood pressure is low before hand, the nurses get me to drink two jugs of water, blood pressure goes up to normal range with in minutes. Same before they let me drive home.

This has turned out to be a really useful tip for me life in general. If I'm feeling shit, I now suspect low blood pressure and force myself to drink two or three pints of water. It usually results in me feeling much better
LLM’s are spitting out responses based on their inputs. It is (or was) shockingly effective, but there is no generalized math processing going on. That’s not what LLM’s are, that’s not how they work.
A lot of people seem to think that details that other people think are relevant are actually "fluff."
To rent or to sell, that is the question
https://archive.ph/JMEEX
Just a note for people thinking of buying the Framework DIY edition: don't buy RAM and storage from Framework. You can get equivalent parts cheaper elsewhere. I saved around $350 when I built mine a year or so ago.
Yep it's great for work emails. Incoming too, since they can summarize a long email into bullet points.

The future is people typing bullet points, expanding into polished prose for transmission, and compressing down to bullet points on the other end.
Seems like you're implying only right wing sources were spreading covid misinformation.
Burying the lead: "Restraining order also issued due to threats and harassment of Bungie employees."

The breakdown from the settlement is the financial penalties for what bungie is allowed to seek financial penalties, i.e. copyright infringement:

11. Plaintiff is entitled to statutory damages of $150,000.00 per infringed work, for a total of $300,000.00.

12. In addition, Plaintiff is entitled to statutory damages for each act of circumvention.

13. Defendant stipulates and agrees that, between each use of cheat software and each creation of a new account, Defendant engaged in at least 100 acts of circumvention.

14. Given that this likely undercounts the number of acts of circumvention in which Defendant engaged, Plaintiff is entitled to statutory damages of $2,000 per act of circumvention.

15. Judgment shall thus be entered against Defendant in the amount of $500,000.00.

But it's worth noting that there are no financial penalties for whatever this asshole was doing that lead to this order explicitly banning harassing, threatening, or stalking Bungie employees, or the prohibition of going within 1000 feet of any of their homes.

So while the $500k penalty for "copyright violation" might be excessive, I'm inclined to think the whole stalking and threatening people played into it.
IBM Software mandates return to office for those within 80km
http://xtreefanpage.org/lowres/x10dirja.htm
I’ve been modding and upgrading thinkpads for quite some time.

One thing I’ve learned, most mods just aren’t that necessary. People make mods mostly out of boredom. Once you’ve done enough and gotten over it, you’ll either just use the computer as is or get bored and buy yet another machine to mod.
MGM is basically a defunct rights holding company. It’s made 5 movies in the last decade, including 2 Addams Family, 2 Max (dog movies), and a GI Joe, and the Addams Family movies were really
Made by Universal. It’s also a name slapped on some other streaming app.

If I heard the name referring to a current company, I would think hotels/casinos/sportsbooks first. That said, the title could still be better.
For context, this is a 50 minute video by Troy Hunt at https://gotoaarhus.com/2023

Original Talk Title: Lessons From Billions of Breached Records
Even if you take the headline at face value (and IMO it's rather unfair)... the incredible saving grace of LLMs is that you have a plurality of BS machines, with different flavors of BS, whose outputs can be wired together.

Sure, the first-order output of today's generalist LLMs outputting one token at a time do seem to meet meet diminishing returns on factuality at approximately the level of a college freshman pulling an all-nighter. Not a great standard, that. But if you took an entire class of those tired freshmen, gave their outputs to an independent group of tired freshmen unfamiliar with the material, and told the second group to identify, in a structured manner, commonalities and discrepancies and topics they'd look up in an encyclopedia and things they'd like to escalate to a human expert on, and so on... all of a sudden, you can start to build structured knowledge about the topic, and an understanding of what is and isn't likely to be a hallucination.

One might argue that the right kind of model architecture and RLHF could bake this into the LLM itself - but you don't need to wait for that research to be brought into production to create a self-correcting system-of-systems today.
Out of curiosity, what is the financial penalty you think is appropriate for death threats? or for stalking employees?
This only covers OLAP which is way, way simpler to handle than a system to implement OLTP. Like, sure if you don’t need mutability but do need large scale, go for OLAP. Thats not actually a solution for many use cases though and it’s certainly an exaggeration to say it lets you beat the CAP theorem, when by far the hardest problem with the CAP theorem is handling the consistency and availability of replicated mutable data
Anecdotal evidence might be helpful here too, but they didn’t have that either.
Yeah good question, was looking forward to a healthy discussion
Arxiv.org is experiencing a DDoS attack
Qt: Not only do you also get builds for Mac and linux, but everytime MS updates .NET the Qt framework supports these changes so you don't have to.
Only when the ^ or $ were at the start/end of your string is it simple. Eg:

(a|b|^)(c|d|^)foo

Rewriting without ^ can require much longer regex.
Agreed, it’s a properly reasoned essay.
There are a ton of valuable and profitable companies with easy to use API based services used by millions of happy customers built on open source.

Let’s say I’m a law firm or a medical group. Do I need ChatGPT to write me a bedtime story or tell me about the Great Chicago Fire, or write code?

No, I need it to help me write my briefs, summarize patient notes, whatever.

The next crop of startups will be (and already are) LegalGPT and ScribeGPT (or whatever) with fine tuned highly specific, highly curated, regulatory compliant, quality controlled, decision controlled, PHI-scrubbed, tuned on your own data, etc, AI solutions largely based on open foundational models, open serving frameworks, data pipelines, etc. Available via end-user interface and/or API.

Then watch LegalGPT be acquired by LegalZoom, LexisNexus, whoever. ScribeGPT by Epic, etc. or vice-versa.

ChatGPT is jack of all trades, truly master of none. As I said it will always have its place but it will recede more and more.

AI is trying to catch up to human intelligence. Do you go to a mechanic when you should be going to a dentist?
He said he worked mobile sales, so I read that as he sold all models of phones to a wide variety of customers.

I think a lot of people would nod along with the idea that Android phones eventually have more issues. Certainly, between myself (iPhone user) and my wife (Android) it's her that has to change her phone every 2-3 years with escalating issues toward the end, and me that keeps using the same one for 5-6 with no issue.

Actually I'd say the same thing used to apply to Mac vs PC, especially laptops -- the Mac would be the one that keeps ticking basically forever while Windows laptops would encounter some kind of issue. But right now I'm on a 5 year old Windows laptop that works just fine (minus a few minor maintenance issues over the years), and I think that's not terribly uncommon. So it's not like Apple has some unattainable super-power, it's just the current situation in phone land.
Honestly, I don't agree with this. The evolution of computers seems to have sharpy dwindled, to the point that I regularly switch between a 2016 Lenovo and an 2021 Framework and hardly notice the difference, at least performance-wise.
How good is Linux support on Framework machines? Is all the hardware supported?

How about something like OpenBSD?
I mostly listen to real audiobooks now so I understand their appeal, but I have also listened to dozens of books using the primitive TTS built into my old Kindle (keyboard model). TTS was rough at first but I knew it could work, because I know blind people use it, so I stuck with it and I found that after a few hours I no longer perceived the awkwardness and it became an effective and satisfying way for me to 'read' books. Brain plasticity is a marvel.
On the other hand, I am reminded of a quote by Christopher Hitchens (from memory), “They say that everyone has a book in them. For most of them, it would be better if it stayed there".

Some of the films and TV programmes I've watched recently have made me wonder, as I gaze across at the writers on strike who have some legitimate concerns but who have also provided some bloody awful writing, if I wouldn't prefer AI to take over the production of art - it certainly wouldn't be able to produce a messy bed, would it? That'd be a win too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bed
Don't worry, the excitment will fade when you realize it's just a laptop. It does feel good to know that it's repairable, but that initial rush will die down and fade into the background. Enjoy your new computer!
Different teams often make the same mistake. The system you describe is not perfect, but makes sense.
Site takes ~20 seconds to load, but `curl`ing the URL and ctrl+shift+f'ing for "framework" yields the expected result

> <p>I like small laptops, so I ordered the Framework 13. [...] <p>I&#8217;m glad I [ordered the DIY version], because assembly was actually FUN.</p>
I'll be fine, thanks. The context from allenrb is that casinos have no value to society, so that eliminating them (and therefore all the related jobs) is not a loss to anyone. That includes the employees you are referring to in your comment, and without much regard for the people heading there for a vacation.
Not gonna lie I tend to use docker like minimal disposable VMs from time to time lol
> Instead it seems like each one of these diagnosticians felt they'd found the "real problem" and pushed ahead with treatment as such.

More likely that they heard hoofbeats and were content to use the effectiveness of their treatment plan as another diagnostic signal.

> When I was growing up and in my early 20s you went to the doctor and they got you talking about your life, teasing out the observations you had on your own life and addressed things from there

The history and physical are a critical part of every exam. But much less so at an urgent care where they intentionally disavow long term health to focus explicitly on acute issues.