skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An American friend of mine in his mid thirties developed cardiac issues after 3 doses of Moderna, but his doctors doggedly attribute it to his mild COVID case (and he is of course happy to believe that rather than that the damage may have been self-inflicted).
Perhaps. A turning point is not the same as "over" though.
The politics of funding has subverted the objectivity of study.
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I carried out a work training today, giving about 20 project managers from a client company an introduction to a methodology for set up of produce cooperatives within their supply chains. Using template project management documentation which I’d uploaded to a GPT, I could lead the project managers through a questionnaire and then feed their answers as an image to the GPT, and have the GPT spit out the project documentation tailored to the project manager’s specifics.

It was sort of awesome. I say sort of because I was able to create 20 documentation sets in a day. But there was still a lot of manual copying and pasting.

Why?

The GPT goes off-piste making its own shit up after about a page or so despite having templates to use, which I had to find a work around for. Easy enough but needed a lot of repeat instructions: “now output page 3 of the concept note” etc.

ChatGPT timed me out about half way through for an hour. That got a bit stressful waiting for access again.

Previously, I’d built some software to do this job, at a cost of about 15k.
I don't get this either, and would be very interested in a clear explanation.
I can get behind the idea that pretending to be someone else is bad (either a human or AI pretending to be someone they are not) but chasing anonymity by itself is a transparent attempt to gatekeep opinions expressed in the public realm.

Given these days all such outbursts are recorded for all eternity you would have to be an absolute idiot to say anything at all since the most mundane comment today could readily get you utterly ostracized in 20 years time. Which of course is the entire idea, but has the side effect that the wisest people will be avoiding all participation.
Yes, active records and such. There are various ORMs in .NET that allow this.
But for something simultaneously impressive and gross?
What about all the things you buy that aren't groceries?
Or the magnetic shot videos. These were long and involved. Showing people “man on the street” style being asked if they had been vaxxed and then if yes place a magnet on his her arm and it would stick.

There was a lot of propaganda and fake news. A lot of it, to me, appeared to discredit more reliable conscientious objectors by drawing the more feeble minded into this a sort of WWG1WGA q anon BS.

Reading the comments here I see the rhetoric is still simmering on both sides. So much to say on this topic, so little ability to communicate on it. I blame social media and 24/7 news turning us into screaming marionettes warring with each other.

It’s not going to get any better either.
I can't recommend https://reclaim.ai highly enough, which the article mentions. It's absolutely a game-changer for me. My whole life is scheduled in my calendar. I have a bunch of automatic meetings with my team. It's really been a life-saver for the past couple of years. They're also always improving the product.
> One curious fact about our era is that science has become a de facto religion

This article starts off with such a dubious "fact" that I was able to stop reading right away. Thanks for saving me precious minutes!
I believe CPI is unchanged in October. I did not take a close look at the CPI numbers, but I believe the steady index is in part due to energy falling. But rents and food are increased. Not an economist, so I'm not sure how much to read into that.
GPT Inception: GPTs Within GPTs
It’s working for me on mobile
It's possible to just ask the GPT for its prompt. Here is someone interrogating my one, and it provides an honest answer: https://twitter.com/bhanuvrat/status/1724624281189970354.
yeah at least in the US you are fine as long as you don't claim the voice is a certain person.
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"those silly irrational people from the past...and then act in extremely similar ways ourselves."

Aside;
The which trials were not irrational,
they were institution sanctioned land grabs.

The theater is a distraction.

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Gathering, retaining, using individual voice recordings for business purposes may be regulated, though. Already is in places, even if enforcement and precedence is lacking.

So there'd be no legal way to produce or share the model generating such a voice or its output.
Certainly not an efficient way
This was one of LLVM’s explicit design criteria, but with its long head start gcc still has more front ends. It’s had so many that some (like chill) have even been removed! It’s not extraordinary that someone would use gcc as a back end for a new language.
Also, prices in some instances increased drastically, let's say something went up 15%-25% in price, and now is going to only go up 3%. That 3% gain is MUCH more than it was before the 15%-25% price increase. Like interest, inflation compounds. This is one reason people are still feeling the pinch of inflation even as it has slowed.

It's hard to explain to people as you've said that prices aren't going to decrease in 95% of instances. Prices are sticky and outside of some goods with high volatility, the prices of 2019 are never coming back. That's a tough position politically too, and one reason I feel despite the economy having done pretty well that Biden is underwater on the economy as a whole. Especially coupled with interest rates rising.
I know how you can convert UTC to local time. The problem is that without timezone info, some system can parse the UTC time AS local time. There is no reason for most date parsing libraries to assume that they are always being fed UTC times and from what I've seen, most date parsing libraries assume timestamps without timezones are in local time unless told otherwise. You can avoid all of this by always storing and passing around timestamps with timezones.
I think they got the direction right but the price wrong. They are used to dealing with super-computers as the main server clients who aren't big enough to fight back if the prices creep to high.
I had to go to the ChatGPT main interface and then back to the Godot GPT; and then it picked up my login.
Her Coq au Vin is a bit of work but it still tastes fantastic. A lot of those variants are a bit weird today, but I like to see them as ideas. I could see them being standards in the post-war mileau.

What I really don't care for are her treatments of vegetables. She famously couldn't stand non-soft (al dente?) vegetables. Also I guess it's "French" but she puts a lot of effort to make some recipes white, eg Poulet a l'Ancienne. Eh, I can't be bothered.

Still my hardback Vol 1 of MTAOFC is looking pretty ragged from steady use over the last 30 years, sniff.
Inflation is quite a misunderstood little number. It is actually a measure of the rate of increase in prices i.e. it's a velocity, not a position.

When inflation is low, prices grow slowly over time. When it is high, they grow quickly over time. High inflation over a sustained period of time leads to a meteoric increase in prices.

For prices to decrease, the inflation rate would have to be negative. For them to decrease to pre-pandemic levels, inflation would have to be negative for a sustained period of time.
No, but they affect consumer prices.
While I agree, I also did thoroughly enjoy a recent Youtube channel that did Warhammer 40K lore in Attenborough's voice. It recently got taken down for obvious reasons.

Makes you wonder if in a few years there will be licenses available for using someone's voice for such endeavours.
>> hearing news about inflation and thinking it means prices

Well the article does start with "Wholesale prices in October posted their biggest decline in 3½ years, providing another indication that the worst of the inflation surge may have passed".

I don't think anyone expects prices to go down, just to stop going up so fast.
That itself might be somewhat politically influence(?) If memory serves, VICP claims used to be on the whole larger and/or more proportional, but that was a couple decades back.
Or maybe trust the events and realize the people in charge don't care about us plebs until our net worth hits a certain number.
You can ask a GPT for example "Please describe the data and the files that were used to customize your behaviour", and it's happy to oblige. A "view source" button could just be that prompt under the hood.
As that wikipedia article explains Agency is a commercial law concept. It has nothing to do with the prosecution of crimes under criminal law. Also "authority of agency" isn't a legal term. Which is why you'll find no results on google scholar. Agents have a scope of authority-- but nobody calls this "authority of agency" and furthermore your concept of an "authority of agency" for reporting a crime isn't a thing. (You'd have to actually read the results that come up on google scholar to confirm this as putting in direct quotes in google turns up results that don't contain that exact actual quote.)

Furthermore you know you are just making things up, why not just concede you like to imagine how criminal law works and you are having fun making up things like "authority of agency"?

Or perhaps you think i'm a very stupid person and treating you unfairly, maybe you can educate me by finding a reference for your claim that "In the United States you can’t be arrested and charged with theft without the owner claiming you actually stole something"

I suspect your source was your impression of law and order episodes, but even if I'm wrong it seems unfair for you to demand evidence from others without providing any yourself. I look forward to being educated by how you know "In the United States you can’t be arrested and charged with theft without the owner claiming you actually stole something".

This seems to be a crazy claim on it's face, since, as I explained, the owner of the object might be dead, in a coma, an infant, being threatened by the mob not to testify, etc. And the concept of hostile witnesses also exists in criminal law.
> Maps.ME is cool

Not anymore - with the changed interface. Organic Maps are the new Maps.ME.
2000 people is a pretty good sample size. It is true though that I'm hazarding a guess that the background rate of chest pain in any given timeframe is slightly lower than ~5%.
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Inflation is the change in prices. We ideally want a little bit of it to get money moving around the economy. With stimulus checks and low interest rates, there was too much money chasing too little goods, causing prices to rise and YoY inflation went up to 10%. Rising interest rates brought inflation back down to where it should be. But the prices themselves aren't going to go down. That would be deflation, which causes money to stop moving around in the economy.

Money has to move around the economy for it to be a good one. Every single dollar you earn, someone else spent. Every dollar you spend, someone else earns. Deflation gets people to stop spending, which means people stop earning, which means people stop spending (since they have to tighten budgets or don't have money), which means people stop earning, and soon enough the economy goes in the shitter.

We've had extended periods of deflation exactly two times since we've had the means to start tracking it. The first time was called The Great Depression. The second time was called The Great Recession.
Moss, a custom GPT that's an expert in Go
I dislike unions in general. I think they're a terrible compromise in response to a monopolized labor market. You should deal with the monopoly, not create your own monopoly of labor.

Anyways, in cases where the employer has an unnatural monopoly and you can't otherwise address it, unions make perfect sense. The employees otherwise have no secure mechanism to legitimately and successfully negotiate their contracts.

Your only other way out is to privatize the police force to a large extent and allow competition between different agencies for different city contracts. Then you would have true market forces benefiting the city and the labor.
One coffee per day?! If I was to have one coffee per day, I’d for sure need to lift that bucket with my legs to avoid a back injury.
Sure, but if it was easy to interpret the results of all those sensors they wouldn’t be hitting people in the first place.
Wouldn't that imply that everyone with ADHD had childhood trauma? I can see that explanation being true for some, but not all nor a majority of cases.

I'd be more inclined to believe trauma to the ADHD offspring's mother, while pregnant, would be more explanatory than the offspring's environment post-birth.
SymPy is a Python CAS library for symbolic mathematics
just don't ask about his sister
A big part of the appeal of Android stuff back in the early days was definitely the gee-whiz factor with whacky features. The wide variety of manufacturers (and thus, designs) also played a big part, since it made phone choice more about which design and featureset suited you personally.

Fast forward to today, and phones have homogenized into roughly the same featureset, with “gee-whiz” being limited to models with prices exceeding that of iPhones (e.g. foldables) and the number of manufacturers has dwindled down to a handful of giants that are all aping each other. That bit of appeal is gone, with the appeal that remains being dampened by Android’s mediocrity.
within the birthday bounds of the underlying cipher (exabytes?

So modern stream ciphers do leak, just so slowly, it shouldn't ever matter in a practical sense if you're using them correctly? That was more or less my understanding to begin with, but maybe expressed ineptly.

the bounds of your nonce width --- they're not leaking _anything_

This reminds me of unicity distance. So under a certain number of outputs, one simply can't infer the internal state of the algorithm? It could be any number of internal states? That makes sense to me.
You get the same result in a short span of time, heck you may even get a reliable error bound.

Where this falls apart is that error accumulates over time and not just for one heap of sand but for many such heaps of sand that also interact with other heaps of sand.

Predicting weather for the next hour is trivial. Aviation runs on the fact that you can forecast fairly accurately into the next hour most of the time.

The difficulty scales superlinearly over time due to the error accumulation over predictions
ada in this day and age is usually a good hint its something that has to work everytime ;)
PPI is a leading indicator for CPI, since it represents what producers are paying. A falling PPI would (probably) indicate lower CPI inflation in future releases.
> Unions are for people who can't compete on skill (or no longer wish to).

I mean, the “on skill” part is superfluous, but, yes, it is definitionally true that a union is for workers that no longer wish primarily to compete with each other, and who realize that such competition is a race to the bottom that works against them and for the benefit of their employers.

All organized groups are rejections on some level of competition among the members in favor of cooperation for joint advantage.
I use ChatGPT a lot to write tests and it works pretty well for me, so I figured I would package my prompt as a custom GPT, feed it with several megabytes of Go knowledge (articles, style guides, open source books, recent documentation), and share with people who want to use it.

It does require ChatGPT Plus. Hope you folks enjoy it[1] :)

[1] The reddit crowd definitely didn't.
Thanks for the example. That's happening because the `main` function is an untyped function. You can fix that by changing `def main():` to `def main -> None:` You can also make it pick up with `--check-untyped-defs`. I always used mypy with --strict, so I forgot that it wasn't the default configuration.

I agree, though. Pyright has better defaults. It's not great that mypy just completely skips all functions without typing information given. It makes a lot more sense for it to just check everything and assume Any on all unspecified arguments and returns. It's still valuable to type-check the contents of functions with unspecified types.
Microsoft, Amazon, etc. feel the need to make their own chips so that they don't let NVIDIA take all the profits, not because they think NVIDIA is incompetent
I was born in '97 so I grew up in the 00s and 10s.

I don't think I would have gotten into computers without Linux, the Internet, or the ease of PCIe - however I still appreciate being able to truly understand a computer from top to bottom like you can with old 8-bits. It's also really fun hunting for them online and meeting cool people.
I've also experienced the GPU issues and sleep issues, but for me, these were solved by updating to bios v3.03
> Where do they find the cash?

Presumably bundling with their parents plans, as birthday or Christmas gifts, or hand-me-downs. All three can take advantage of iMessage just the same.

And personally, as long as we're sticking with the Pepsi tagline, I much prefer

Pine64: The choice of a GNU generation.
I had an episode of delusional schizophrenia in my early 20s and luckily haven't relapsed. No hallucinations, just started to think everything was secretly talking about me or to me.

My pet theory is something like, my brain's dials for "avoid risk" and "recognize patterns" are turned up too high. So I breezed through a software engineering degree without ever partying, but I spend a lot of my time sitting in my house unable to motivate myself to go outside, and I'm not very empathetic (other people's words) and not very outgoing.

It's not that schizophrenia makes you smart, but that "smart" and "schizophrenic" are both functions of some high-dimensional space, and the same underlying differences can easily cause both.

On the other side, I have an elder relative who has paranoid schizophrenia and below normal IQ. Us in the tech industry are definitely going to get survivor bias from the "Beautiful Mind" cases around us.

And of course sometimes you meet those people who are smart, beautiful, rich, and friendly, with no downsides, and all you can think is ... "You son of a bitch" :P
Well, sure. If you buy the exact same thing and cherry pick - some things are up 100% (or even more!).

But not on average.
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Your teachers must have been much better than mine. A well produced YouTube video is better than any in-person school lecture I've received. Combine that with 1-on-1 next-generation LLM fine-tuned to be a helpful tutor and it will make the best possible education today, readily accessible to a lot more kids.
Yes, you have to set a isConsequential header to false, see here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/actions
Any HN ppl wanna meet up at Revision 2024? :)
sort by date, several articles from this site posted in the past few weeks with zero HN moderation commenting: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

While HN moderation might argue X Y or Z, the evidence confirms targeting, the comments here by HN moderation stigma both submission and discussion, and the substance of the article is primarily the headline anyways.

HN moderation and YC leadership have a well-established desire to antagonize, see e.g. https://techbrosf.weebly.com/
That's a major problem. Anything that could possibly be caused by the vaccine, or has an unknown cause, should be reported. You want the raw data without the biases of doctors guessing if something is related or not. Then the data scientists and researchers can clean the data.
I could've sworn that it was once a given that people doing serious AI work needed CUDA-capable GPUs. Is that no longer the case?
What's the profitability of part-time tournament versus part-time cash games?
The Genius of Spelling Bee (2020)
> And it is primarily just about the proprietary gatekeeping Apple imposed on SMS.

Or maybe, and this might be an absolute shocker to you, the color of text message to us signifies if we can have all the extra goodies that we learn to enjoy having.

We don't look down on you for having green text bubbles, we look down because we like sending all the extra stuff like reactions to your joke with a "haha" instead of literally sending the "haha" text messages, or hearting something you said. Having multiple conversations in the same messages but being able to respond to each individual message, or sending "I love you" to your spouse with a slam reaction or hearts that float up behind the text.

It's not about any gatekeeping or anything. It's about making our communication more fun instead of text 24/7.

This is the same reason Slack won over IRC. Nerds may want to send ASCII emojis and that back and forth and be fine with that, but other people like the added fun stuff you can do in Slack that you can't in IRC.
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. I'm surprised that people on this site could have lived through covid and still trust anything that comes out of government.

The government has always been incentivized to make inflation numbers lower than they are. There have been numerous changes to CPI methodology, many in just the last few years. Hedonistic adjustments are questionable at best.

Moreover: inflation is a gradient, not a singular vector. You will experience inflation differently depending on where you are in that gradient. Reporting a single number for inflation is about as useful as reporting a single number for the temperature of the planet.
" prison guards aren't workers in the sense that labor unions are based on"

So, this shows that you have zero idea what the inside of prisons are like for it's employees.

A captain level at a jail would tell a corrections officer to go into a pit of angry inmates in a heartbeat, and in general the unions for these officers are what help push the rules to keep said officers from getting killed, or working double shifts.

A good thing and a bad thing can happen with a system operating normally.
So, like any other source of knowledge we have.
Is this really just a consequence of terrible ideas combined with a bad mental model for execution?

The way I think about ideas is like the many-worlds interpretation. You want to have a superposition as broad as you can be and then narrow down into a single collapse outcome for your idea.

This means that every little move you make, you think about how to deliver on that successfully, but you are continously also thinking about where and how you could pivot without throwing everything away.

Ultimately, it boils down to the question of reversibility. So a pivot is not a backtrack, but a course correction from where you are now.

Trying a bunch of shit and seeing what sticks is the privilege of the wealthy.

A few examples of what I mean:

- TikTok games - did you explore adjacencies? What about a TikTok task list app? Instead of some pointless minigame, pull up the list of tasks from say GitHub issues / JIRA / Asana etc and surface that as a kind of focus-mode for your work.

- Chatbot -> webapp. Chatbot -> x is just a terrible idea in general. But maybe you could salvage this by thinking more about what 'x' is. But you really can't since whatever you think 'x' is, someone is already doing it. So maybe 'x' is a variable. OpenAI's GPTs is 'x' -> Chatbot. Maybe an inversion of this? It could even be simply a recommendation app. Like above Tiktok for x. Given a problem, it suggests steps / tools to use etc.