skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no doubt that some people can succeed without the structure of a college institution, but many people do NOT. And not everyone knows the tricks for connecting with quality and knowledgeable people who are invested in your personal success. College provides a path for that.

I don't think it says anything negative about people who choose to follow a college degree path. Rather, it speaks to the talent of people who succeed without it. There are many paths to a good and useful education. I personally went to a university and got a degree. And I know 100% that I would not have succeeded without it. That's my personal story; I've met plenty of people who succeed outside of that. Not everyone is the same or can take the same paths.
24 years ago I worked at a library and had to manage public printers (inkjets, smaller attached lasers, large networked lasers, thermal, dot matrix, you name it). Printing and Windows then was an unmitigated nightmare, like chasing a toddler around because if you glanced away from it for a second it would stick its fingers in an electrical socket. I’d rather deal with restoring workstations, bricked by old men surfing for porn, as horrified mothers looked on. Since then I categorically refused to buy printers. I’ll do anything to avoid printing.

Then my wife bought one for her business and now it’s my fucking problem again. Wonderful to see that the printing experience has barely changed at all. Networked printing across different devices and platforms is a fucking coin toss if it’s going to work, without changing a thing, static or dynamic IP, hardwired or Wi-Fi, and connecting via USB is barely better. Every few print jobs you have to monkey with it, reinstall or reset something. It lies to you and fights with you about toner or ink, even when you have it fresh and straight from the manufacturer. I’d rather quit my job and press her customers’ receipts into clay fucking tablets than touch the damned things.

So, I hope this makes things better. I won’t hold my breath, though.
XTree
Almost all major cloud players and a few startups are spinning up massive GPU clusters. Saying that building compute creates almost intrinsic value is the greatest bridge selling I've seen in a while.
I was a small phone holdout for years, but eventually I just had to give up and accept that they won and we lost and phones are two handed now. Now I use one of the biggest phones, the S23 Ultra, with a stylus, and it's great, but I do wish it was smaller.
True - color laser printers aren’t great photo quality but I stopped making home prints a decade or so back because the economics were brutal and when I do want to make prints I want them to be larger which just made it worse. Outsourcing that to Costco was much cheaper and easier than fussing around with ink cartridges, clogs or smears, etc.
Why does anything exist? [video]
> It turns out that tiny, engineered nanoparticles that can target specific immune cells may be a way to treat both cancer and cardiovascular disease.
It's a particular feature of US Copyright law. Usually you have to prove damages in civil cases, for most copyright infringement that is effectively nothing (1 copy of the game). In the US, it's $150k per infringement defined by statute.

That's why there is not very much enforcement outside of the US, except for large distributors like torrent sites. They don't go after individuals in countries like Australia or NZ because the damages are small.

In the US however they can threaten you with taking you to court and having to pay 150k in order to settle outside of court.

Reference: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/504
> How about the other cases that ChatGPT misdiagnosed?

She didn't consult ChatGPT and then start feeding her kid Tide pods. She took the diagnosis to a doctor. This is fine. This is productive. One could argue it wastes doctors' time, but in this case, it clearly didn't; our traditional random-search system did.
Well, the point I was making is upgrading ram on a pc isn't really comparable.

But sure, the raspberry pi. 2gb for $45. 4gb for $55(22% increase). 8gb for $75(66% increase over base)

Both definitely price for higher margins for buyers who want more memory.
Discussed at the time:

How to beat the CAP theorem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3108087 - Oct 2011 (77 comments)
It's a tragedy of the commons. If everyone took the bus, it would be a lot faster for everyone, but any individual gets there faster by using a car, so they do.
“Once app-ads.txt had momentum, spoofing of in-app inventory also moved to dark”
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Some of it is just boring tickets, but the NYPD has a division just for that. They don’t ticket for this (or placard abuse) for some strange reason.

Other evasions are actual crimes. Like all those fake paper plates—-criminal possession of a forged instrument.
Wrong. One anecdote is one data point. If one person witnesses a murder that is a data point. The court doesn't just dismiss the data point because they need a sample size of 1000 witnesses for any statement to be meaningful. This article here says something meaningful about AI and it also says something damning about doctors.

Also there have been studies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01960...
I don't care about best effort. I care about getting the correct diagnosis. GPT-4 can already offer insightful information, even if it's just by augmenting the doctors diagnosis efforts. Not using it is just dumb.
>If the public transport systems were that good, why would anyone need to drive in?

People take transit method A if it's better than transit method B no matter how shitty A is in absolute terms. And the US has invested 50 years into car infrastructure so it's pretty good actually. For example, Tokyo has a famously good public transit system and 70 minute one way commute time on average. NYC is half that.
Echoing the sentiment that a gov website asking for location permissions is off-putting. Especially a gov website about cyber security. Yes, it seems to be for the feature that matches you to local courses, but all courses listed are online. I would expect more from CISA.
If NYC, which has the highest tax base and one of the highest public transit usage rates in North America can't get the MTA right, what hope is there for smaller, less dense cities in the US?
Assuming they meant “couldn’t you already do this with Google” I think the big difference is the context length. You can describe way more symptoms, and include a lot more data, than you ever could in a single search query. Even if Google worked properly, in its current form it’s just not capable of parsing pages of info and drawing conclusions beyond keywords.
Didn't London do something like that?
Speculation without a source lacks credibility. Without a reputable basis for speculation, the information is unreliable. Speculate all you want but do not expect to be taken seriously.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but my reaction to this article had nothing to do with LLMs but was instead that this is an indictment of the state of medicine in America. At each diagnostic milestone it seemed obvious that the conclusion didn't adequately explain the totality of the boy's condition and the search needed to continue for the real culprit. Instead it seems like each one of these diagnosticians felt they'd found the "real problem" and pushed ahead with treatment as such.

Now I'm not saying that back in the day all doctors were Gregory House or holders of forgotten knowledge, but I have to think that the lower pressure to make medicine behave like a business and deeper ties one would form with their patients would've benefitted this family. For this to have gone on for three years without getting escalated to the attention of one of the real-life Dr. Houses out there is appalling. I feel like ChatGPT got the answer right because it allowed her to input all of the minor observations from the charts; perhaps had the doctors done likewise they'd have connected the dots as well.

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. Then about 15 years ago everything changed and doctor visits became this twisted form of speed dating where you never see the same person twice and any question or answer that takes longer than ten seconds to express is taboo. I hate it, and I can't believe that we keep moving along like it's acceptable.
I agree completely! I kinda like the neutral tone of a soulless robot when it knows how to stay out of the way. Far better than a bad AI _or_ a poor human reading.
I got into web dev because they didn’t sanitize your bio. You could stick whatever HTML in there you wanted! (Maybe they stripped out script tags at least, I don’t remember.)

Edit: looks like others in this post had similar experiences :)
Maybe they (or you could while you wait) invert the colors.
Nothing yet, but thanks. Honestly, from what it looks like, all Draper did was draw a horoscope. We can always hope it's magic, though.
the main complaint is that the feeder never pulls paper in the same orientation twice. i've tried printing on labels with various levels of not success. while the print quality is fine (no complaints there), if you are printing with pre-cut media, getting it to align is tough. i've used Avery media and then used their templates as well as measuring and making my own templates. the top rows will be with in the pre-cut, but they start to "drift" off so that by the end of the page they are off a full 1/16" meaning each row is not off by the same distance. if i select all items and then "squeeze" by pushing the bottom up 1/16" in illustrator, this seems to work. if i use that modified file on other printers, they won't print the same way.

i've also tried making cards by printing on both sides. creating a 2-page file with the mirrored offset like normal print would use, they don't line up. if i remove the mirrored offset (not a professional DTP, so whatever this called), it still doesn't line up. so i had to fiddle with it to get double sided prints to line up. on a different printer, the normal mirrored offset works as expected. i can then put the print on the guillotine and cut on the crop marks, and it all works. not with the 2550.
I wonder how many people used ChatGPT to find out their disease, got absurd results for their symptoms, and just shrugged it.
Microsoft stopped supporting it. VB 6 was the last "true" Visual Basic. The .Net Visual Basic was not backwards compatible with the very large code base projects everyone had created over the years and ones on forums and websites like planet-source-code (before GitHub existed) and the many, many beginner-friendly books.

They had a conversion wizard to migrate VB 6 projects to VB.Net but it was very half hearted and never worked on anything except the very trivial code bases. Anything that used OCX and you were out of luck, except OCXs were very very common in classic VB development.

People kept writing VB6 as long as it was practical (Windows 7) and then either moved on to greener pastures or left coding altogether as it was becoming impossible to use modern libraries anymore and the overall learning paradigm have shifted from books/forums into video tutorials and "modern" languages.
Interesting, the way I interpret what you're saying is "Obviously ChatGPT can make an accurate medical diagnosis" in the same way of "Obviously a Python app can be rewritten in Go"

Go has been around for quite a while now. ChatGPT relatively has not. If Go was still quite new and people were unsure of it, then your article headline actually does makes sense.

For people such as myself, it is not obvious that ChatGPT could do such things, hence the headline is useful context.
Linear transformations preserve some structure, not 'the' structure.
OK, hypothetically, if we had all the electric infrastructure and vehicles ready to go, sure, let's switch now. Hypothetically, that would be fine. But as you said, that doesn't affect reality. So, OK, you win the point. But in the real world, so what? In the real world we can't do it now, so what good is your hypothetical? Maybe we would be better served by focusing on things that actually matter in reality?
Wow this is insanely cool.

If you make it work within ThreeJS, you're going to leave a trace in the history of 3D on the web with that stuff!
And those are given out like candy on Halloween by cops to anyone they vaguely know.
Hulu’s Modern Web Stack
/u/davidhyde already said it, but I'll pile on: memristors. So much hype and potential, but so far as I can tell it's still more or less impossible to buy a memristor today.
The site has since relaunched, and does use a flash emulator to bring some of the stuff back now.

Nowhere near 100%, but my partner was able to play some of the old games recently.
No, or at least not with the information provided (it's an article touting a press release for a research publication).
That have fake/modified plates? I’ve seen fake/expired temp tags being sold in $bigcity Facebook groups.

It’s probably because as another commenter said not worth their time.

Seems like NYC has been battling this for years.

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=Fake+plates+new+y...

I vaguely remember some YouTube vlogger that would walk around and spot the fake/modified/obstructed plate. One obstruction was a leaf. That doesn’t even begin to include the probably illegal tinted covers.
Brassica
> ... patients discovering their own diseases has happened a lot since the internet has gone mainstream...

With, of course, a corresponding increse in patients thinking they've discovered their own diseases.

For every "ChatGPT diagnosed my rare illness" story there's a "the Internet helped me find a bunch of people who are certain I've got Morgellons and chronic lyme".
I agree with you that those are normal things for a public transit agency.

I felt like the core of the article was that NYC had ignored an established pattern (outlined in a report[1]) that suggests that, for this to work like they want, they would need to increase non-car ways of getting into and around the city. I also thought the article did a good job of talking about how the legally relevant metrics are focused on financial targets rather than transit targets.

I do think this kind of article is hard to write clearly, but I do not think what you said is in conversation with the content of the article. I can see why they are worried that congestion pricing must fund new capital projects (i.e. expansion) instead of the existing system. You didn't mention that in your critique and I'm curious because it feels like a central point of the article.

I also do not think this article was exactly criticizing the MTA for overpaying? More than it was noting that it HAD overpaid to situate the reader as to the MTA's current financial situation.

[1] https://rpa.org/work/reports/congestion-pricing-in-nyc#key-f...
Smart glasses (e.g. Google Glass).

IIRC Google Glass was announced accompanied by sky divers landing at the conference center.
The phone network doesn't have search and doesn't have the ability to flood people with junk info.

1 to 1 communication is a lot easier to get right.

I don't even know what you mean by communication "on" GPS.
What does Microsoft use?

If Teams, Office, and VS Code are any indicators it is web-based technologies:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/4-...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office-is-now-mic...
The number of times I’ve yanked them off my head because they’d get tangled on the edge of the table or the chair is too high.
Veritasium posted a video summarising the state of airships ~10 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjBgEkbnX2I
Yes, but I bet your code cannot reveal its own spaghetti:-)

Excel has long had an option to display 'precedent' and 'dependent' cells.

You can actually see the spaghetti right there.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/display-the-relat...
are our real brains boltzmann brains that have internal qualia and come alive with the rich structure only to lose it when we die
Obvious. Open Source, Piracy and copying. A phenomenon of the free market combined with products constructed out of pure information.
What do you mean by A/B days?
Thermal Cameras - I really thought every phone would have a cheap, mass manufacture thermal camera by now, so everybody could do "U so hot" jokes.

They may not be in phones, but thermal cameras are cheap, and ubiquitous in many fields. I'd venture that the majority of the fire departments in the US have thermal cameras in operation at this point, and probably most of the people (including hobbyists) with an electronics test bench have one.
"Brassica oleracea is a plant species from family Brassicaceae that includes many common cultivars used as vegetables, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan."
Thanks - there's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31602113, as well as this from pg in 2010:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022116
Those are just as present/viable as they ever were.

The hypothesis was that they'd advance tho.
Also, most machines did not have the .Net framework installed, and back then it was 20 MB download which was gonna take ~2 hours on dial up back in the day vs MSVMVM6.dll which was on all Windows versions from 98 until 7 at least.
"printenv" (or just "env", the one I habitually use) shows only environment variables, not all available functions and variables like "set" does.

But otherwise yeah, I also don't see this as obscure at all. Was expecting something confusing when, say, fiddling with arrays or something.
It's a giant leap to conclude that they used this outside of infected machines. There's just no reason to do that. If the assumption is that they would do so to spy on civilians, then it's just as obvious to assume they were doing that already with far better tools.
Are there simulators that chip developers use to get an idea of what performance will be for certain workloads prior to creating an engineering sample? Or how does this work?
No, and by my understanding it can't be, as the algorithm is now permanent.

But it's worse than that, there are confusables within small distances of each other:

https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...

https://w3w.me.ss/
And that is a necessity or you quickly reach absolutely insane conclusions, such as the average house costing 500x the average salary, and 200x the average income to rent.

It's simply impossible on a long term over a long area.

And, as HN commentators, we have been accustomed to appreciation in "our areas" for nearly 40 years now - and that has covered many "mistakes" that may not be covered in the future.
> Personally I don’t understand how anyone could think OpenAI, etc vs FOSS is going to be special or unique against what we know to be obvious.

APIs... it's all about APIs and ease of use. Companies have data centers or could have data centers if they wanted, but a lot use AWS, MSFT, GCP, and friends.
Today's Large Language Models Are Essentially BS Machines
In the 90's plenty of companies had small MS Access Applications developed in house. Before that, we had dbase and foxpro.
The Dog of Theseus?
Wasn’t version 1.0.0 released three days ago?

I think people are surprised that the performance claims don’t completely disappear with real world scenarios. It seems like a lot of eventually successful platforms began in the same way: the claims about improvements are real, and there are still a lot of rough edges.
> But they are as unreliable as humans.

Humans can be held to account by other humans if investigations are necessary to explain their own decisions transparently.

LLMs such as Med-PaLM, ChatGPT, and fundamentally all LLMs are non-deterministic and are unpredictable in whatever they give as their output, which is much more unreliable and cannot reason or explain themselves transparently why they decide to output their responses, but shuffle and reword their sentences randomly to make themselves appear coherent to the untrained eye, but when scrutinised by a professional, it is mostly garbage.

You would not seriously trust an AI to pilot a plane end to end without any human pilots on board or a FSD system to drive you from A to B whilst you sit at the back seat.
I was at the Park MGM is Las Vegas yesterday and was unable to use the app or the automated checkout kiosks, though aside from the front desk being more busy than usual during checkin and checkout, nothing in particular seemed amiss.
Except that many of these oversight things have been toothless or rubber stamps (see Snowden revelations). And WRT go out and vote, these issues have continued to degrade under both major parties. Unless you're advocating independents, in which case there's a hard discussion about the effectiveness of that...
I'm still not sure which ARM cores are the "most fair" to compare to laptop/desktop x86oids and Apple M series; The N2, the A710, something else?
Going tomorrow. thanks
WinForms in C# was pretty decent tbh. Not so sure about WCF/Metro/Modern and whatever it is now that Microsoft been releasing. They just stopped caring about consistent UI for apps on Windows altogether since ~2010 or so.
Ask it to do a role play as a doctor, or maybe just rephrase your question so it's less of a request for advice, but instead a discussion of scientific data/facts. It should be easy to get around thus guardrail.
For the first time in years, I’m excited by my computer purchase
I would argue that modern hyper card is the web. a simple document format that can be linked to other documents. with a built in scripting language.
Your comment was 20 minutes ago and this submission is at the top of HN for me.
I hate doctors but at the same time you have to look at reality. Not every decision needs to be data driven, the qualitative aspects of hallucinations are very real and should not be ignored. I'm sure you know the hallucinations that pop out of chatGPT can get wild. Definitely use it, but do so with caution.
This group of people may have been the first to mention the words “AI” prominently in academia but is this flag planting or are they truly foundational to the work with the same name today? If none of these people had done anything, would we really be far behind?

My sense is that modern AI has more to owe Fukushima’s neocognitron, Hubel and Wiesel, and the connectionists than any intellectual descendant of the work mentioned here.
Physical newspapers and books. Not trying to be cute, but it's very easy for these vanishing technologies to, well, vanish.
Ask HN: When building with complex maps do you go with GMaps, Mapbox, OSM?
> The promise of Bun seems pretty good, but I think their marketing material is further along than their core projects atm.

There was discussion about this the other day. It's marketed as a "drop-in" replacement but from perusing HN and elsewhere I see people having issues with real projects. It looks like a promising project, which I hope succeeds, but there also seems to be an unfortunate amount of marketing that, as you note, is being uncritically repeated.
This is insanely cool!

If you integrate this with ThreeJS you'd have a lot of control options for free!

Whilst you're here, I have a question for you: It seems like you don't render read gaussians (I see sharp edges in many cases). Is this a bug on my side or is this an optimization made to be able to run fast? I created an issue to discuss if you prefer https://github.com/antimatter15/splat/issues/2
This is neat!

I was surprised then not surprised that the union & intersection REs it comes up with are not particularly concise. For example the two expressions "y.+" and ".+z" have a very simple intersection: "y.*z" (equality verified by the page, assuming I haven't typo'd anything). But the tool gives

yz([^z][^z]*z|z)*|y[^z](zz*[^z]|[^z])*zz*

instead. I think there are reasons it gives the answer it does, and giving a minimal (by RE length in characters or whatever) regular expression is probably a lot harder.