skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not that Einstein is overrated, but rather that many people entertaining the usual ideas about his genius are blissfully unaware of his contemporaries and their work: Poincaré, Lorentz, Minkowski. Then of course Newton had Hooke, who figured out gravitation for him, and Leibniz who had some of the same insights in calculus.

History of science is richer and more entertaining than the Einstein this and Einstein that — with all due respect to the man.
> Pretty much all Russian factories run on US/Europe equipment. It's not really a secret, not sure what's surprising about that.

More of a little-known fact than a secret. For me at least: two years ago I had no idea.

> If west really wants to deal a blow to Russia then they need to make oil super cheap somehow, that would stop Russia really fast. Unfortunately that will never happen too...

That’s the idea behind the price cap on Russian oil. Agreed, it should be lower. And seem to have found a way around it: https://www.npr.org/2023/01/21/1149745629/russia-oil-shadow-...
Recruit people into being on call by positively incentivising it so that it's their own choice, don't force it on them.
It functions exactly the same as an average EU country, you vote for a party, which have a vote on accepting or rejecting the proposal for the current proposed government (which is handpicked by political parties).

In the EU it works exactly the same:
you vote for a party, which has a vote on accepting or rejecting the proposal for the current proposed commission (where there has to be 1 nominee from each member state and is handpicked by the council of European Union, i.e. your ELECTED state ministers)[1][2].

Can the EU become more democratic? Absolutely, but that will be at the expense of EU member state's sovereignty, which is why it looks like it does right now.

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

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union#...
Looks like she was wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802116
I once ran into a glass door in my house a few years back. For months after that, I had anxiety and "flashback" like replays of the event when walking anywhere near that door/area in my house. That one incident affected the functioning of my brain for a really long time, it was quite jarring.
>>A good start would be if the medical industry in the US were run like normal businesses with transparent and consistent pricing.

People keep saying this, but I don't see how that helps in the slightest if you have had an accident and need help now.

Or for non-urgent care - something is wrong, you don't know what, you go to two doctors, one recommends a set of tests for $5000, the other a different set for $10,000, how does price transparency help you here in any way shape or form?

Edit: to be clear, this isn't meant to be a comment against price transparency. My point is that I don't think that's what the issue is. When I go to an NHS doctor here in UK I have absolutely 0 idea how much any of the tests or procedures cost, and yet the system isn't putting people in poverty(it has a lot of other problems, but bankrupting people isn't one of them).
How does your tool address an issue like this,

"You have a 27% 'AI' issue in here" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37767205) (233 points | 253 comments)

because at the moment everything looks kind of bleak.

> Our model has an accuracy rate of 99.76%.

Oh?
If it turns out that in order to make EVs cheaper to build than combustion cars right now you have to switch to castings because batteries are expensive, then when batteries become much cheaper, will we switch back to the current non-casting-based 'strut and fastener' model?

Also, because Tesla is so popular, is it possible that its attractions have far less to do with the environment and more to do with everything else about the car?

These concerns about the environmental impact of increased write-offs and increased insurance premiums are perfectly understandable, but I wonder if they will stop even a single sale?
So if these are remotely real... And purely as a user of chatgpt not as an ai/ml/nn person... Don't instructions like this weaken the strength of output? Even when request doesn't directly conflict, there are probably myriad valid use cases when instructions will weakly contradict the request. Plus, doesn't it inject inaccuracy into the chain - e.g. it's assuming model confidently knows which artists are 100yo etc. What happens if there are artists where it's not clear or sources differ etc. And by the end, instructions seem nebulously complex and advanced. It feels like it's using so much of "AI juice" just to satisfy those! Somebody else here referenced Asimov laws of robotics which I never felt would be applied in such form, so I am in state of wondrous amusement that is actually how we program our AI, with seemingly similar issues and success :-)

Am I way off base?
Like badges and leaderboards and candy prizes?
Strong demand for Dollar is linked to commodities being all priced in Dollar.

If global oil output had to decrease due to, for example, peak oil, dollar value would collapse very quickly, because all of a sudden, monetary mass would be excessive compared with declining economic activity.
I think also Archimedes, especially given he meets the polymath part of the author's approach.
From my small amount of testing, seems like the more professional the writing style is, the higher the percentage will be.

> Talk about JavaScript in 3 very short sentences.

> JavaScript is a widely-used programming language for web development. It enables interactive and dynamic features on websites. JavaScript is supported by all major web browsers.

100%

> Talk about JavaScript in 3 very short sentences. Use human like words instead of professional tone.

> JavaScript makes websites come to life with cool stuff like animations and interactive buttons. It's used to make web pages more fun and engaging. All popular web browsers understand JavaScript, so it works everywhere!

0.6%

YMMV.
Terrible. Price gouging has been worsening the last couple of decades. Perhaps the last few centuries, or maybe it comes in waves, like resets when there’s a government revolution. People keep paying though. I’m at my city’s town center and I’ve never seen it so packed, except in the Black Friday-Christmas season. It’s a random Saturday. Some people have Monday off but that doesn’t explain the domestic shopping. Where is the money coming from?
one part of this has a formal name!
--
The "anchoring effect" names a tendency to be influenced by irrelevant numbers. Shown greater/lesser numbers, experimental subjects gave greater/lesser responses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)
I wasn't talking about corruption in China. I was implying that we outsource the "disgusting" part of producing lithium batteries to get a ready-made product that we can use. In the same way you see a steak in a supermarket rather than years of force-feeding cattle with antibiotics and steroids, you see a Tesla Model 3 driving on the road. You don't see what it takes to produce the "stuff" that powers your car.

I'm not quite sure I get your counter-point to competition. We already heavily regulate the oil industry and subsidise EVs. We tax fossil fuels, we tax ICE cars, we favour EVs in city centres and we even brought in a law to completely ban purchasing new ICE vehicles by year X. If your product is so great, it shouldn't need government intervention to promote it; and Musk's Tesla company is a great example of that.

My original comment addressed the illusion that most Westerns live in and downvoting just proves that. Service-based economies seem to be removed from reality and don't understand the "disgusting" things that have to take place in order for them to function. Like someone said in another thread, if you're really concerned about morals then you will probably have to throw your entire PC out the window.

EDIT:
> I'm curious, but would you have been against the breaking up of Standard Oil back in the day?

Sorry I am not aware of that so can't comment.
It seems initially they wanted to automate this process but it failed (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi-Schnipselmaschine). The software meant to handle this grew in cost without a lot of results. They stopped the software development and now they continue to assemble the documents per hand. Current status (in german):

https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/archiv/rekonstruktion...

I hope they get at least some more people closure on this before they die.
This is partly true. The reason AWS et al ever grew in the first place was also that managing data centers well and automatically used to be a lot harder, and was assumed to be a whole org's full-time mostly manual job. AWS, Google, et al showed how well this could be done with software, showed the benefits of making it easier to do even for app engineers, and incentives shifted. Tools have significantly improved, though, and we're getting back to the point where it can be done with OSS and a team or three of engineers who really know the stacks involved.
FB Marketplace is better but still scams aplenty
People absolutely question the results of big pharma. Americans nowadays are less healthier and have lower life expectancies than their parents' generation, and while some of that may be due to lifestyle choices, some is due to pharma pushing drugs that are a net negative, like the unnecessary opioids that caused an addiction epidemic.
archive.org - https://web.archive.org/web/20231005135420/https://www.econo...
Yup. As far as modern letterform conventions go, it's just plain wrong.

It's incredibly distracting and I can't imagine why anyone would ever choose to use it for code.

If you're doing some kind of cool alternative graphic design poster, then by all means go nuts! That's precisely where it's fun to play with different forms and be as "wrong" as you want.

But for something like code where legibility is the primary concern, it's a very unfortunate choice.

Our brain recognizes words not just by individual letters but by the shape of the entire word, and inserting a descender where we're not accustomed to one, breaks our word-level recognition. It's not a neutral, aesthetic choice -- it literally makes it objectively harder to read, in a modern context.
Lots of passed off vehicles to poorer countries tend to be body on frame style. Lots of ford/Toyota trucks, where frame damage can as "simple" as welding steel bar stock or straightening with a basic frame puller.
If a unibody vehicle is totaled from major damage in the US, they get scrapped of nearly every usable part, then crushed and melted down. Not even worth the shipping/hassle to send a smashed up Kia to Central America, let alone Africa. People aren't stupid. They're just as savvy at this, if not more, than we would ever be. Hence the amount of body on frame SUVs and trucks that get salvaged there. Sure, you'll see "beat up" cheap cars there, but they'll pass on anything majorly damaged, cuz even there, it's simply not worth it.
If he can buy 2 (or more) consumer-grade chips for the price of one enterprise-grade one and split his workload across them then it still makes more sense to go for the consumer version.

Consumer hardware gets undeserved bad rap despite being a good fit for many of today's "cloud-native" and fault-tolerant workloads.

Don't run critical infra on it that can't be fault tolerant (conventional RDBMS), but for your cluster of queue workers? Go right ahead since the queue is designed to handle failure of any nodes gracefully.
Yeah, I sorted out the kicad part.

I meant the linked article specifically.
The cloud is cost-effective when you start, because you can start using a cheap or even a free plan, and get many pre-configured services.

The cloud is cost-effective when your load is highly spiky, so you can spin up a ton of capacity during the spike, but not pay for it during the lull. (I worked in a company for which this was a principal case.)

If you are a relatively large company and want compute mostly for internal IT needs, especially for sensitive data, it may be cheaper to run your own server room and a private cloud. It won't be cheap in absolute terms though.
> You've outlined a form of deontological ethics,

I had to look this up. You've given a modern label to an ancient concept sometimes known as the Golden Rule. I'm not sure why.

>> It's like going back in time to kill Hitler's grandfather to prevent Hitler's birth.

> This is a strawman. (A really loaded one at that.)

It's not intended that way, and I'm posing it with honesty. If it's too loaded, then replace Hitler with, I don't know, <insert_bad_guy_here>. It doesn't matter who the bad guy is; the point is: you kill an innocent person (grandfather_of_bad_guy) in order to mold the future in a way that you think will save more, other innocent lives. Correct?
The best developers I've worked with are all massive fans of static languages for anything important. All of them would use dynamic language too but it situations which allowed it (small tooling, glue-style scripts).

The biggest "dynamic only" have been people who I struggle to call developers. The kind of people who suddenly become massive supporters of something they read in "Smashing Magazine" that week.
The author of the article makes a claim about using 5g technology to send the data to the DC; which would mean that it can’t be far away.

Author clearly does not understand wireless networking.

Ubiquiti sells consumer grade wireless dishes that beams a signal between two dishes point-to-point at distances of a mile with speeds of 250mpbs or greater.

I remember when they released there newest dish a few years ago and one of the IT YouTubers did a test of setting up the dish on a basic lan on two different college campus that were miles across town from each other.

It was v1 of the dish, and he got near 1gbps file transfer speeds between the two dishes without much setup or tuning.
But that’s what any decent conspiracy would do!
https://github.com/trackmania-rl/tmrl looks interesting for anyone that wants to dabble themselves.
I don't know how you can miss "To Type or Not to Type: Quantifying Detectable Bugs in JavaScript" which is frankly the only study I've seen that cleanly separates out static types as a variable.

They found Typescript / Flow find 15% of JavaScript bugs in GitHub projects.

Decent, but of course not the full story. It misses out other benefits like:

* Robust refactoring

* Easier to understand code

* Easier and faster to navigate code

* Faster to write code (e.g. due to better IDE tooling)

* Having to write fewer tests.

In my experience catching bugs in production code is probably the smallest benefit of static types - production dynamically typed code has generally found low hanging bugs - painfully! - by hitting them at runtime.
Many people have said that historically, I may not agree with them but if the criteria for being a great philosopher is “everyone thinks they’re great” then there are no great philosophers.
I'm certain that at least 20% of all the people who clicked on this comments section did so specifically to post this link.
In my experience TurnItIn's AI detection does not perform very well. Regardless this is an issue with educating the teacher - 27% does not mean the text is 27% AI-generated.
"If you have VC backing (they force their ventures to use each other's products), .."

I never met a VC that did that. Perhaps 1 VC in 20 does that? This sounds more like an excuse.
Can you share the paragraph you wrote?
Skolem's Paradox
I am amazed by how beautiful and clear the first answer is.

How nice, uncondemning it is, how it really gives the possibility of the OP is truly clueless that he's in the wrong.
I was thinking more specifically like https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Always-Reserve-1MB

Note that this was apparently a decision made in 2001. If you tried this in 1988, when 2Mb was an enormous machine, and you said to users "Yeah, only half of that will be allocated to user programs", that's not gonna fly.
Worth noting we already see Russia pulling back from Armenia and Syria.
Don't feel too bad about your truck in a junkyard. It has probably donated enough parts to keep a dozen other ones on the road with economical scrapped parts.
According to this most of Wikipedia is AI generated.
I copied in a few paragraphs from your FAQ and got 95.2% chance AI generated. (I used the text from "why is your model.." to "..inaccurate predictions".)

I also tried the opening paragraphs of two random wikipedia articles, and got 99.9% and 100.0% results.
I think those things are true and the "used a lot of AI juice" may be one reason that you can't combine DALLE with other modes.

But also, it's probably worthwhile from OpenAI's perspective to try to avoid the animosity of artists.
Ah yeah, I made a few of those as well when gpt just arrived [0]. It won’t work long term anyway and they are easy to trick, but it’s fun.

[0] https://filteroutai.com/validate/3cc1fb35453a6decd5aee9ac6fd...

From the below examples;

https://filteroutai.com/validate/485406e894dde52ff1395dfd577...

https://filteroutai.com/validate/983ba46510487b0022e8dbafe49...
Don't forget part of the reason a lot of older cars can survive an accident is because they don't have crumble zones. That's great for the structural integrity of the car, not so much for the humans that interact with it. It's better for society to just write the car off and keep people alive than try to keep some smelters a little less busy by killing people off
This only works if the incident rates are completely divorced from the work of the engineers. Otherwise it creates a perverse incentive to increase the number of incidents.
It's amazing how people don't see this. Using the clouds is just like renting. In the long term it's more expensive. Cloud operators are not charities.
One other solution nobody has suggested.

Hire lots and lots of staff, and work in shifts. Have enough people on each shift that even when people use PTO or fall ill, someone is always working.

Nobody ever has to be on call. Instead everyone works normal hours, but someone is always available. You’ll still have to pay extra if you want people working on holidays, though.
Interesting. In my experience, ChatGPT always says "As an AI language model..." or lately just "Sorry, I can't help with that." Have you seen "As a large language model..." come out of any of the big LLMs?

We're trained on real ChatGPT data so am interested in hearing your prompts that result in this.
Or simply that the benefits of economies of scale are enormous in this area.
I think it's a great choice for a lot of workloads, especially CI.
The expected argument is probably something like “it's economy of scale”, but in practice it absolutely looks the other way round: Amazon is much less profitable than it is more expensive than the alternatives[1], so if anything their seems to be negative economies of scales.

[1] if you're twice as expensive than a company that has say 10% margin, then with equal costs you should be with a 55% margin. And Amazon is more often than not more than twice as expensive as the alternatives.
Everyone understands that these are machines that make convincing answers to questions without following any symbolic rules

Until

The convincing answer is something you want to believe follows symbolic rules.

Posts like these really foreshadow how valuable “knowing when to take the LLM at face value” will be as a job skill.
No doubt it's projection on my part but I too assume the majority of car buyers are looking for cheap, reliable new cars and therefore that's where the greatest volume would be, right? Yet manufacturers are moving to higher profit cars. What surprises me is even Chevrolet is ending their low-cost EV which enjoys a hefty subsidy via purchaser tax break.

Instead their next EV will move to a different platform to be consistent with their newer cars which is good but also at a higher price point, which is not. Particularly with that subsidy they could own that low-end EV market; they've had to extend the retirement date of the current car several times due to demand!

But, they're not alone: from the linked article "Last month, 17% of new vehicles sold were under $30,000, compared to 44% five years ago." Which sucks for people who do just want a point-a to point-b vehicle and not a rolling status symbol.

https://www.businessinsider.com/cheapest-cars-abandoned-by-a...

Not to be too cynical about it, but if wrecking a car means totalling a car, that's also another potential sale. At the very least making them less repairable smacks of consumer-hostile moves we've seen in the electronics industry and similarly without right to repair legislation, the manufacturers can do whatever they want. At least for me it's frustrating.
In many jurisdictions, requiring uncompensated oncall would, by itself, possibly be "constructive dismissal".

PIPing without an actual performance problem is also constructive dismissal, and doing it because the employee is refusing a change is possibly retaliation.

Realistically, in the U.S. at least, there's very little risk that the employer will get sued, but it's still shitty and will eventually bite the employer if they get into a habit of this.
JFC. Boring in the sense that exactly nothing new is going to be posted and anyone who’s seen a couple of these could write entire exchanges that will happen basically verbatim. The discussion is guaranteed to be 100% a repeat of all the other ones. So, boring.
I've done a fair bit of on-call during my career, but I wouldn't do it anymore (at least not for any dollar amount a company would likely pay). I value my time outside work -- and my sleep -- too much.

The standard in SV seems to be that on-call is required and uncompensated (some companies will dishonestly try to suggest that your salary is higher than it would be otherwise). This is gross, and we shouldn't stand for it. There are exceptions of course, but even companies I've heard of that compensate for on-call seem to fall far short of what should be expected and required.

On-call should be compensated at a base per-hour rate (outside of 9am-5pm), with an elevated rate for time spent handling an incident if the pager does go off, with a minimum payout of 1 hour of time. It should be opt-in. If not enough people want to do it to get you the coverage you want, raise the rates until your employees feel that the time is worth the money.

It's pretty messed up that OP here is throwing shade at an employee who is balking at this, wanting to put them on a PIP, plus a thinly-veiled suggestion that they're lying about having asked about on-call requirements during their interview process. Bottom line is that they're drastically changing the terms of employment without offering extra compensation, and while in many jurisdictions that's legal, it's nonetheless unethical and disgusting.
Probably a while. But that doesn't stop the safety from being in the other 95% of the program.

And again, I wasn't comparing to any other implementations, because you hadn't brought them up yet!
Costumers MAKE costumes. Then, of course, the costume-buyers come into the costumers', become customers, and wear their costumes out of the costumer's shop.
Ahh. In that case, this [1] is my (browser-specific) solution. The results are not always great, but they're generally not bad.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628457
Utter scam that just hops on the new "homegrown" trend to make a quick buck
That story is extremely thinly sourced and shouldn’t have been published. But once published I really disagree with the decision to delete it.

If you publish an article you have an obligation to archive it. Put a huge flashing disclaimer on the top of you must, but people should be able to read it on your site.

Removal is going to needlessly fuel conspiracy theories. It increases the power of the original story. You’d think wired would understand that.