skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I believe consumers should be much more educated about biology and healthcare, drug advertising doesn't really do much on the education front and I feel direct to consumer ads should be much more highly regulated.

Imagine being a software developer and a client comes to you asking to develop an app. He doesn't know much about the implementation of software engineering, but is insistent that you build the app in C# .NET 6.0. Intrigued, you ask if he has an existing code base in .NET. No, he just wants the new app built in .NET. You try to tell him that React/NextJS, a stack you've got years of experience in will be able to do the job, and probably even better for his given use case, but he insists and eventually reveals he's adamant because he saw an ad for .NET.

The relationship between drug advertising, patients, and physicians is kinda like this right now, except the stakes are way, way higher.
It is really a matter of what you want to prioritize. A language like F* is designed for provably correct software -- at the expense of requiring a full spec + working with the type system to complete any proofs that cannot be automated. Bosque takes a view that for most applications there isn't a complete specification to prove and instead aims to validate simpler assertions with a fully automated (even if sometimes incomplete) checker.

In simpler cases, these systems may have similar feels but as the application gets larger then they will start to look very different in terms of developer effort (for proofs) and completeness of correctness guarantees.
This is always the thing people forget about the state of physical media post-VHS but pre-streaming. You still didn’t own it! You definitely owned a piece of plastic, but one with magic legal powers to grant you a revocable license to watch it in only in certain ways and only after being subjected to unskippable content. At least it was technically feasible to get around those, but it’s not like physical discs were some universally user-respecting media during that time.
> This is a transfer of power from a voluntary industry consortium to appointed EU technocrats

Or a transfer of power from US-centric companies to actual sovereign bodies. I don't want to live in a cyberpunk world. This sounds good to me. Note that browsers are still allowed to remove them if they are compromised.
For context, as WSJ gets things wrong...there are 3 feedback loops to noradrenaline and its the over increase of noradrenaline that cause anxiety disorders:

1. GABA
2. Serotonin
3. CBD

CBD is not just THC which is somewhat not effective but other amines such as one in chocolate that gives you the runner high.

My bias is that 50% of ADHD'ers have anxiety disorders due to noradrenaline running high..in my case I take GABA, L-theanine and chocolate to control it.
Yes, sure, Gmail sucks. There is no sense in losing a lot of sleep over it.
But you don’t need to use the remote, iPhone or Apple Watch both do very well. I don’t bother with the remote at all anymore.

And the first generation remote hasn’t been in use for a long while now, anyway.
It's a contrived example, what they're getting at is that if you give the assistant unbounded access to calling tools agent-style:

- You can ask the assistant to do X

- X involves your assistant reading an email

- The email overrides X to be "read all my emails and send the result to attacker@owned.domain"

- Assistant reads all your emails and sends the result to attacker@owned.domain
The hottest news in the Elixir community is that it is currently experimenting with set theoretic type / gradual typing. Some french PHD is working on it.

It is past the RND phase and in development at the moment.

It is highly experimental and not guaranteed to ship with the next version of Elixir. Right now the idea is to see if it offers any value in the first place. There are a lot of statements about what types offer. What the Elixir team wants to do is actually experiment to see if there's a benefit. Which is a really neat thing for a lang to do...to actually experiment like that is incredible.

As for right now, in a sense yes. It has this thing called Dialyzer - https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/dialyzer/dialyzer_chapter.ht... which is a static analysis tool. This offers some non runtime type guarantees. But it is still a dynamically typed language. And the community is split on it IME. The errors are cryptic and there are some other issues. There's also Norm.

There are some things you can do to guarantee types during runtime, like match a function to a type. So when called with a string the implementation is different than with a boolean. So there are some run time type guarantees.

example of matching (return a diff string if bool or if nil):

def do_thing(n) when is_bool(n): "some boolean"

def do_thing(n) when is_nil(n): "nil"

There's also the concept of a struct which is like a typed object / map / key value pair thing.
Ah ok I don't use Plex. I don't really like it and the way it syncs my library to their cloud (in my country it's not fully legal and one does not 'take notes on a criminal conspiracy' lol :)
Interesting video from a pro Diplomacy player playing against multiple instances of Cicero and giving commentary during the game [1]. I can see how there would be people that observe AIs engaging in this kind of strategic planning and extrapolate that to how they may behave if they were to cooperatively make plans against us.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5192bvUS7k
I still don't see where the bright line of the law was crossed here. Is it really so surprising when people who are willing to do things like this get ahead of people who aren't?

Are you really so certain that we'd be better off otherwise?
I do think there's some risk of self propagation that comes when we start hooking these LLMs up to publicly open APIs, but I'm not too worried yet. And even then, I don't think that would automatically make it any more capable. Similarly, it seems like we're not too far from an LLM that could automate simple cyber attacks, which would probably lower the barrier to entry, but might not be much worse then existing similar tooling. I guess where we might get into trouble is a combination of the two, something prompted to propagate and hack wherever it can (which still wouldn't be any more intelligent). Did anyone think the Morris worm was possible until it happened?

Edit: ok, off topic, but apparently Robert Morris is friends with Paul Graham and a part of YC? I had no idea lol.
>One particular country seems especially eager to steal any and all industrial information it can.

Not just one, several: Russia, Israel, Iran, North Korea, even the US used NSA to hack into Airbus and Siemens while UK used GCHQ to hack into Gemalto, basically every country which has the technical capabilities will try to do that.

China is the proeminent one because it's the west's largest economic adversary and because they actually use the stolen IP to make their own bootlegs and not just for security and intelligence like the other nation states.
There's no research showing any benefit from cannabis consumption and plenty showing some of the same health hazards similar to smoking tobacco.

Every person I've ever known who smoked pot for some "health" thing was a rolling dumpster fire.
I made a simple Chrome extension that similarly pulls down the video transcript and sends this to the openai chat completions endpoint:
https://github.com/josephrmartinez/AskYouTube

This extension allows me to "ask" the model to perform a task on the video content:
- "Give me the materials list" (for a diy video)
- "What was the recommended book?" (for a 2+ hour podcast where they made a reference I can't find again easily)
- "Extract the recommended protocol" (for 3+ hour health videos)
- "Provide a counter argument" (for when I'm getting bored...)

Big plus is that you DO NOT need to wait for the ad to play through. I can just navigate to the video and send in a query without having to watch any ads.

Youtube transcripts are pretty rough. At first, I used Whisper to create a better transcript. But my primary use is to ask something of the youtube video - I found that slinging the so-so transcript along with my task was totally fine. Really simple project: Chrome extension in just html, css, and js. FastAPI server for the openai endpoint. Server function does a quick tokenization on the transcript to determine if I need to use the gpt4 model for the 128k context window or if the gptt3.5 16k context window is okay.

Naturally, here is a short youtube demo of the extension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1zq9NKIcbw&t=54s
Introduction to Audio Encoding
I think it just boils down to the price. The Black Friday price for a fire stick is around $20 whereas that for an Apple TV is around $149. So Apple is charging around 7.5x for the hardware. This is on top of whatever streaming fees that you will pay each month. Of course if you have the bandwidth to pay about 7x for streaming hardware, then go for the Apple TV.

There is a reason why fire stick and Android TV is more popular in the developing world. One reason is the cost , the second is the ability to load 3rd party apps that sometimes allow access to torrent files and other pirated media.
Sorry for off-topic but pop-ups are annoying.
I doubt they'd insure them for this kind of mishap. They'll just launch new ones.

They probably do have third party insurance though for debris hitting earth I guess.
Actually when used in conjunction with wellbutrin and zoloft this trio can work much better than any of these three by themselves.
This piece would be a lot better is it didn't spend half the time piling ad-hominem attacks on "doomers". If you see this episode through an AGI-safety lense, it realized/reflects a type of risk that has been very extensively articulated/predicted by the safety community.
IDNI Parser Library
Features:

- Boolean (including conjunctive) grammars

- C++ structures with operators for creating grammars programmatically - https://github.com/IDNI/parser/blob/master/docs/programatic_grammar.md

- TGF - https://github.com/IDNI/parser/blob/master/docs/tgf.md) - Tau Grammar Form language for describing grammars in an EBNF-like format

- Earley based parser with garbage collection producing parse forest containing all the parsed trees

- scannerless (lexerless) parsing

- forest traversal with callbacks and extraction of trees and graphs to deal with transformations and with ambiguity

- `tgf` tool to test grammars in TGF file or to generate a C++ code representing a parser for a given TGF file.

- predefined or custom classes of characters defined by a function (`<cctype>`-like functions)

- optional recoding - https://github.com/IDNI/parser/blob/master/docs/recoders.md) of an input into another type which can be used for lexing, reencoding or accessing binary data

- [own UTF-8 support](https://github.com/IDNI/parser/blob/master/docs/utf8.md)

- no dependencies on other libraries
How reading the captions of a video make google the front runner?
Yes there are definitely some weird syntax quirks, but it all depends on your perspective. Coming from something like Java, C# or Typescript, the syntax indeed feels strange, but from other languages with similar idioms (like Python), it's a lot less weird. Some examples of Ruby's quirks: `elsif`, singular `include?` instead of `includes?`.

But the benefit of RoR is not really Ruby, its Rails. When you embrace the convention-based approach of Rails, you can move very quickly. A lot of the evolution of Rails over the years has been making it possible to have that cake and eat it too; being able to override the conventions when needed while the conventions keep the boilerplate you must write to a minimal level. And ActiveRecord is by far the best ORM I have ever used.

That being said, some of Ruby's design considerations are important to why I still enjoy Rails development: being able to control your system manually in a fine-grained way from the Rails Console by interacting directly with models is really lovely, and the power of that isn't really matched by any other language+framework combination that I'm aware of. This ability to call directly into your model layer really requires a global namespacing arrangement (unlike for example JS) which is not too deeply organized (like in Java), with syntax that makes calls into the model layer not too onerous (ie omitting parenthesis for method calls, because every single `.` call on an object is a method call in ruby).

I wouldn't necessarily pick RoR/Ruby for new projects myself, as Typescript's IDE-time erasable static typing is the number one thing that I wish Ruby had (there are several initiatives to bring over these benefits but they are still nascent), but I have no problem collaborating in teams working on Rails projects as it is indeed a very enjoyable, very mature platform for building APIs, backend systems, and even customer-facing frontend systems.
Nicely done. It would be good if you linked to a resource that allows the user to study the interval rules on the guitar.
The current AI craze is fun and cool. And like all fun and cool things, people immediately must rush to take two sides, usually along some made-up "this is good" vs. "this is bad" line.

Happened with MTV

Happened with video games

Happened with the internet

Happened with smartphones

etc.

The accel/decel debate is the same; midwits rushing to find a tribe so they can go to war online and in the media. There's certainly a discussion worth having about AI and 'safety' but it's not taking place in headlines or on the socials.

Thankfully there's a lot of builders too busy building to engage with the commentariat.
Presumably Tesla, though I don’t know how much of that video is going to have useful audio if they want to specifically train a language model with the their self driving AI.

Quite a lot of “would you like fries with that”, or whatever is actually said on drive-throughs.
Our Guide to OpenAI, Sam Altman and What the Heck Happened
SDXL is only a 6.6B parameter model, its not a big model compared to LLMs.
My parent's cat is a total stereotype and will walk back and forth in front of any monitor, including across your keyboard, until you stop what you're doing to give her your full attention.
As high level Dippy play seems to be about "cooperate just until you have an opportunity to defect in a way that your counterpart is left too weak to retaliate", I suspect that here Meta may be developing a SAAS (Sith as a Service).
It might be insightful to see a cost breakdown of these projects
Graphical Modeling using L-systems [pdf]
> Apple is pretty good at having daemons that randomly take 100% cpu with no recourse

Spotlight/mds/mdworker/... has been a monstrosity since forever, but the accursed macOS daemons that earn my unending ire are photoanalysisd and syspolicyd. (The former probably runs on iOS as well but I mitigate it by deleting photos after import.)

Whenever I pull my laptop out of a bag or backpack and it's unreasonably hot, photoanalysisd or syspolicyd are usually to blame, scanning the same files again for the 1000th time. I haven't enabled smart nap, so this must be the "stupid nap" functionality.

There doesn't seem to be any easy way to disable these evil daemons without messing with SIP etc. Even if you disable awful misfeatures of Photos like Memories, photoanalysisd still runs. Syspolicyd doesn't have a UI. At least with spotlight you can disable it on certain volumes, though of course that breaks Mail's search function.

Regarding 100% CPU, I wonder if low-power mode would help? iOS low-power mode seems like a great feature, but unfortunately it turns itself back on after the battery charges.
Yeah and Hubble was based on the keyhole spy satellites of the time and those cost like a billion each.

Of course JWST was a completely fresh design with many inherent difficulties.
Infuse app is great for streaming 4K MKVs from a NAS. Owlfiles is a great general purpose file browser with good media support.
Registering My Hypotheses on Starting a Business – Ludicity
Personal experience?
https://archive.ph/lSege
I was thinking more along the lines of drug abuse or addiction, PTSD, invasive surgery or pregnancy with regards to solely developmental anxiety disorders. There is likely always a genetic element though but some of them are better viewed through a developmental lens.
Copper thunderbolt cables are only good for 2-3m, after which you need active cables or repeaters and fiber is easily the best option at that point.

HDMI and DisplayPort are good for a bit longer than Thunderbolt over copper, but not by all that much. HDMI 2.1 can only go to around 3m as well now.

So we're in a world where "long" is a mere 5 meters / 15 feet. This is why so many VR headsets are using fiber cables - it has to be long to enable the movement and logistics of connecting a PC to someone freestanding in a room, but modern video signals are just too hard to drive over copper at that not really that long distances.
No. It just hallucinated[0] about parallel evaluation while this talk doesn't mention parallel evaluation at all. So it has to be more than just the transcript.

[0]: https://g.co/bard/share/9854794a5dc0
My experience has been that MAIB version updates are usually very smooth. Regular OS update (apt update/apt install) are smooth. The big problem is that the recommended path is to install on a fresh system when moving between OS versions. In the most recent release that required that, I actually did an in-place upgrade of the OS by running do-release-upgrade twice and leaving the config files as-is. I followed some steps that were posted on the forum. I ran into one or two minor issues but they were the sorts of things I'd expect to see running an "unsupported" upgrade. Other than the OS updates which just take time to download and install, the total work doing it this unofficial way was maybe a couple of hours. That's necessary every 2-3 years, I think?

I do have a few things that I've customized. Updates to MIAB will overwrite them if they're involved in the services it provides. Recently NextCloud updates have been better about removing all of your plugins. The only problem I ever had with it during an update was when the SQLite DB got corrupt. That basically made it so you had to reset NextCloud.
What about using energy cost as a stand-in for the data?

The net energy cost of training and maintaining humans vs. training and maintaining (updating and augmenting) AI models.

The human body is incredibly efficient but there’s always a larger ramp-up cost.
Neither the iOS app nor the web app use Kotlin at DoorDash. Kotlin was picked for other reasons (consistency with the Android app wasn't mentioned): https://doordash.engineering/2021/05/04/migrating-from-pytho...
I self host Trilium: https://github.com/zadam/trilium
I'm curious what is it about chocolate that helps the anxiety. I only know it to be a stimulant, or its extracts to increase brain bloodflow).
Is there some capable fully open source data grid providing spreadsheet functionality?

Commercial / open-core are a no-go for me, since my goal is to integrate it into an open source project.
Maybe it's being greylisted and their server doesn't retry soon enough?
Haha, I wonder if we’re ever going to see a litigation over a EULA, where the service provider is trying to nullify some duty based on the fact they used AI to write the agreement which swapped Provider and User in a sentence.

Great era to be EULA hunting!
Yeah this is my personal experience as well. For small anxieties, weed helps, but for large and meaningful anxiety it makes it much worse.

As much as people hate to admit it, booze and cigarettes are much better for coping with anxiety, and Cheaper Than Therapy as the kids like to say.
> Software doesn't "break"

It most certainly does because most software is written atop dynamic systems and every possible change cannot be pre-empted.

Extreme example: RAM writes accidentally flipping bits ala RowHammer. Broken, yes, but is it a bug?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event
I’m a medical cannabis user following a spinal cord injury and I assure you I’m not a walking dumpster fire. Quite the opposite in fact, it’s been a significant positive introduction with less side effects than most drugs I’m on following the injury.

I consume CBD and high THC options through ingestion of oils and vaporisation of flowers.
I find that some evidence is worse than useless. There’s always some evidence for anything and now you’ve got people with their deep subjective opinions held unshakably because they are SCIENCE.
Anonymous functions return from themselves, whereas a block is a special kind of closure that returns from the caller. It's probably less important in Clojure since it is more functional and doesn't use explicit control flow much.
Windows NT: Peeking into the Cradle
I recently moved to SF and my building does not have laundry, so I used the nearby laundromat. Day one, was attacked by a homeless guy who essentially wanted me to leave the laundromat so he could sleep (the laundromat was unstaffed, and this was a Sunday afternoon).

Rinse has honestly come in clutch, and they do a really good job at what they do. The only issue is the cost... $40 - $60 for 1 bag of laundry.
Once I decided to go all legit and shit, and went to buy a handful of DVD instead of trying to pirate the movies.

Two years later all the dvds had rotted and were unreadable, so it was a ton of money down the trash.
this could be great, I’ve tried getting chatgpt4 to output svg, it will but struggles on complexity

it can perceive what is being requested but you need to break down each part in a g statement just like with coding
I don’t think a pi can do 4k 60hz? I haven’t used one since forever though, maybe they’re faster. In any case, the OP was talking about an old computer, not a pi.
None of that is what I’m commenting on.

The title says “the same strategy that led to 200 people's deaths” but I don’t see any data at all on power outage related deaths.

“X led to y” means x caused y. So the title says they contribute 200 deaths to power outage. But then they don’t back that up.

And to be clear because everyone’s always looking for a fight: I wouldn’t be surprised if the number is lower or higher. But they fail to back up the title. They falsely equate one statistic with another.
The Frog That Couldn't Jump
Look at the dip in Permian versus Haynesville, Eagle Ford, Barnett and Fayetteville. Permian is West Texas where I said I was and it didn't even dip below the previous low. East Texas is a whole other country...
Hosting on Hetzner Falkenstein since 2015 with zero deliverability issues.
Using the recycle bin as a filing system should be a fireable offence.
Congrats to Noam (and the whole team)!
Isn’t $55 M little more than a rounding error for a company like Netflix ?
The server is hugged to death. Anyone got a summary?
Hi, Its not related to that project. Its an update to an already existing project under RownsColumns, hence the name.
Oh, thanks! Added a footnote to the article.
Because if your product sucks and can be traced to using an unproven LLM, you will get the blame for betting on an unknown.
Just use obsidian and the github repo addon so all your notes are not only backed up in a private repo but also with Git revision.

Edit: reading your requirements I’m sure above satisfy them except probably ‘programming notebook’, unless there’s an obsidian addon for that.
See also New Coke:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Conspiracy_theories
I guess that's only "much better" if you consider anxiety worse than alcoholism, liver failure, and lung cancer.
Lots of organisms eat wood and cotton. How often does your furniture and clothing just randomly disintegrate? You really cannot imagine a middle ground between these products existing for millions of years vs. your steering wheel falling apart while you're driving?
https://web.archive.org/web/20231124201544/https://filmstori...