skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What I am questioning is the why. Why did it stop.

Where do you even start? For a kid raised on phones, asking them to stop using their phone feels like asking them to cut off their hand. I imagine that most schools do have anti-phone policies, but there's a point where it's just too hard to enforce. Like other people have also mentioned, parents often pressure their kids to have phones in high school. As someone who went to high school after smartphones became popular, my mom would get upset when I want to school (or anywhere) without a phone on me. That means that teachers have to deal with a student body that's completely unwilling to follow the rules and parents that will back them up if you ever try. I certainly wouldn't bother enforcing a phone ban if I was a teacher.
I'm not falling for that one again...
Looks like it originated in ThinkPad/1992.
eg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_701
Arbitrarily low speed limits for political reasons including cynical revenue generation have certainly caused more accidents. Interstates were designed to be safely driven at much higher speeds than 55 or 65. Causing traffic to pile up is certainly a cause of chain collisions.
It's very hard to properly contextualize the number, however. For example it's true that the total number of deaths only increased by about 10-15% during COVID which is not trivial but also not a catastrophe either... however, you also can't really compare how people lived during COVID where everyone was isolated, to a typical year where people would be exposed to far more risks just naturally.

You could imagine that if hypothetically everyone lived the way they lived in 2020-2022 with little travel, little outdoor exposure, deaths would likely plummet, and yet even with all those restrictions deaths increased by about 15%.

It's very hard to get a sense of how much of a threat COVID posed since there's not much that it can be compared to.
> If we call the difference between GPT-3 and GPT4 1x, then I would expect to see a 2x-5x improvement in LLM capability within the next few years

it's interesting this is probably the assumption of many people leading to the current hype cycle.

But in reality it's not how progress tends to happen which is a much more punctuated equilibrium type phenomenon. My guess is it's actually quite likely that most of the progress will be made on maturing things and underlying capability will plateau.
64-bit was a feeling and a promise of a tech utopia.
CSS frameworks like Bootstrap provide nice default styles for many of those semantic tags, that convey their meaning.

And then using them becomes almost habitual.

Personally I like to use "semantically correct" tags, as that somehow feels right. But then with a CSS framework it's easier than using a "wrong" tag, which you would have to manually restyle.
OK. How about Braxton Bragg (Chattanooga), Pickett (less for Gettysburg than for his role in the Pig War), and John Bell Hood (marched his troops all the way to Nashville to be defeated by a numerically superior, well-rested, well-equipped force. (Well, the ones he lost attacking well-prepared positions in Franklin didn't make it to Nashville.)
This makes conversations that much harder:

Mallory: Is HTML a programming language?

Bob: No! Well some people think is, but they are wrong! Then again, there is the HTML programming language...

Mallory: !???
But as developers, we're happy enough to suggest `wget -qO - https://github/url | sudo bash -s`
That is not obvious, and at least in the case of physicians is unlikely to come to pass. They don't just take a written list of signs and symptoms as input, and produce a diagnosis as output. Often the evidence they use to make a diagnosis isn't even written down anywhere. And for most primary care cases, the diagnosis is only a minor part of the workflow. The hard part is in working with the patient to make a practical treatment plan, and then course correcting as needed based on results. This is as much art as science, and relies on tacit knowledge that no LLM can access.

In order to automate most medical care we'll need multiple breakthroughs that go way beyond LLMs. Linear improvements in LLMs won't get us there.

LLMs do have potential to improve other areas of clinical practice such as charting.
https://www.webcrawler.com

Better than the majority of search engines out there. No, it ain't Kagi, but it's free, and doesn't have that asshole-bar flashing auto-complete trash -- which AFAIC is the most important feature I look for in any tool I use on a daily basis.
Why do people bother to hit the like button? Like, I just close the window. Do I need to give R* an ego boost or something?
What's actually dirty? Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF): a tax breaks now, pay-give later DAF. It ostensibly does some community projects that are token billionaire pet projects, but it exists first and primarily to reduce taxes of the gigarich.
I remember I could send texts (including selecting the contact) in my pocket without looking at the screen of my Nokia 3310 in high school. So I think the boiling pot analogy holds. Things were already pretty advanced by the time smartphones came along.

And the importance of cell phones to everyone’s lives (even children and teenagers) has massively increased since then. For schools to blanket ban them on campus or on the person of students in class would be swimming against a strong tide indeed. My guess is that the reason they don’t is that they believe that to do so would be constant war. And they aren’t paid enough for that.
I wouldn’t discount the long term health costs of breathing exhaust fumes all day either. Even as a recreational cyclist or occasional commuter in NYC I noticed it.
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Fair question. We're aiming to provide enough value for the price we'll ultimate target. We aren't charging yet, but wanted to provide people with some of our rough thoughts on pricing since it's a common question. For now, it's free for folks who want to kick the tires.
> site ostensibly about machine learning

> only concerns itself with LLMs

sigh...
It is so bizarre to me (a middle eastern immigrant) that people here in North America simply refuse to eat fruit and/or vegetables. I consider it a systemic failure.
> He could have injured or killed someone for a video.

I'm pretty sure you are more likely to kill someone driving to work today than crashing a plane in some random as forest.
Emergencies generally aren’t, but emergency preparedness can still be worthwhile.

Ok, but yes, I suppose that does suggest that, for personal emergencies, the office won’t be too overloaded with personal emergencies to deal with all of them.

How often would the latency of getting to the office matter? I’m not sure.
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It’s only been 11 years
Also not fantastic, how Apple handles multiple devices. I forgot how they call it, but registering new devices is a pain, especially if you have multiple Macbooks, iPads, iPhone, there’s an edge case where you have to wait 90 days before it starts streaming to your brand new iPhone.
You better reach out to their support, where they never acknowledge the issue but always fix it in 5 minutes.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250348779
Motion smoothing is so horrible…I don’t understand how TV makers have persisted with it for so long. Surely the people who make televisions appreciate a good picture enough to not spread this nonsense, right?

The effect makes movies completely unwatchable. I was at a friends house watching Elf and it felt like watching Will Ferrell host a Zoom call.
Do it while young. It's not really possible (practically) once you've got kids in the picture, going to school, building their own social networks.
Yeah, the transistors themselves aren’t changing. Just how many and how well we can throw them at the simulation.

It’s more “tube virtualization” is getting better every day.
I'd argue that it's shouldn't even be only income + $xyz, it's income * (1 / chance of succesful enforcement) to reduce companies that thought that as long as it's hidden enough you'll be safe. It'll be a lot more arbitrary though.
Screw HP. I dumped them a few years ago for an Epson and haven't looked back.
That's a good idea. I had heard of the pihole but didn't know how configurable it is. I'll check that out, thanks!
Right--but CTEs are orders-of-magnitude slower than Datalog, to the point that they are not seriously worth considering for any modern application where Datalog would be used. As you said, Datalog is less expressive than SQL's ability to create new queries in an ad-hoc way: knowing all queries within the fixed point enables much more efficient compilation.
Though the significant risk to life and limb from working on a bicycle has to be accounted for.
I'll probably try it, but there's no way I can get our finance department to pay $900/mo for something we aren't sure if we're going to use. Maybe pricing it as "Free for the first five users, $9/mo/user afterwards" would be much better aligned with the customers' incentives.
I presume this is hypothetical. A reasonable start would be to see the difference average views on a video and views on this particular video times as revenue per view.

Admittedly I’ve never heard of this guy and avoid most YouTube “creators” and it got a view out of me out of morbid curiosity and so I could speculate on whether it was pre planned.
We have the benefit of hindsight. If he thought there was a 20% chance of being caught, then maybe 0.2*(legal fees + other consequences) < $profit + fame.
From my (non-lawyer) understanding, if you have a coax cable connected to a cable modem providing Internet to your residence, your privacy is governed by https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/551

Other means of Internet getting to your residence is covered by Title 3 of the ECPA which, historically, Feds have played fast and loose with getting data from.
First time I'm hearing about this. What an incredible failure from the Israelis.
I kind of want to go to war with that site over its choice of font
> I trial upgraded a years old Django project today to 5.0 and it took almost zero work.

Django is great at backwards compatibility, but to be honest they haven't added many revolutionary features to Django for years, except a half-baked implementation of async support.
And even if it did, he made no effort to resolve the issue.
Thank you for making fastgron! I use it daily and also have it aliased to 'gron' in my shell so I don't accidentally forget to use it.
Note that scams, at least for now, will be rarer due to the high costs of inference, don't assume that's always going to be the case.
Damn, really?
> GitHub is very good and probably too cheap

Yeah, that's probably true, it's just that I'm getting subscription fatigue, with every little tool like "Google Meet links for Slack!" wanting $5/mo/user. I commented something similar upthread, but maybe "free for the first five users, $9/mo/user after" would be much more aligned with your customers' incentives, and would allow you to get a foothold in companies when they're small, and be paid as they expand.

I don't know yet what I'd pay, as I haven't tried it and don't know what value it gives me (it might well be worth the $9!). I'd appreciate a trial, I could send it around the company and see if it makes reviews less painful.
I live a few blocks from one time they tried to hit DC later - the only time a U.S. President has come under enemy fire was when Lincoln came out to inspect the situation and some Confederate sharpshooters tried to hit him:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Stevens

To your point about logistics and follow-up, they failed because Early had been pushing his troops too hard for too long. It’s hard for us to appreciate just how much effort travel was even in the early railroad era, where basic things like food decided battles. It also didn’t help that the troops decided to recuperate with some looted whiskey at the Blair mansion.
Interesting is obviously subjective to the observer, but subjects can be interesting and informative in their detail and not just their conclusion.
According to the complaint, "the project" was FB Archive, which Dr. Donovan came up with the idea for and was the only person in the room with the actual source material. The Public Interest Tech Lab was the organization actually tasked with building out FB Archive, which they did, and it shipped: https://fbarchive.org

I think Dr. Donovan's complaint is not that it didn't happen, so much as she was not allowed to play a larger role in it despite having the desire, the people, the funding, and the right--as the person who came up with the idea and the person who provided the material, without which there would be no project. (And then worse, history rewritten to exclude her contributions)
Probably because it's not necessarily always a proportional punishment?

Like if you drive somewhere with a suspended license somewhere and make a million dollars as a result, should all that money be subject to seizure?
I strongly doubt that the LLM club will remain exclusive for very long, or that the innovation in this space was restricted to 10k people.

At a minimum, I’ve already begun using gpt-4 as a consultant for my fathers medical issues. I can reasonably get confirmation/dis confirmation of whether a medical experts opinion is BS or not. As anyone who has dealt with the medical system in the US can attest - the majority of opinions you get from experts are either BS, outdated, or folks talking their own expertise.

Asking the question to GPT-4 can help you decide when to talk to a different doctor, or try something new entirely.
I'm not refuting what youre saying in any way; this is just a related suggestion for anyone using PiHole who occasionally runs into what you've described.

There's an Android app called flutterhole which can connect to and activate your pihole's 'pause blocking' feature. I have found this to be the easiest way around the scenario the poster above has mentioned. Doesn't help with figuring out PiHole is responsible obviously. HTH.
Same, that is the one thing traveling did for me. After seeing and living in different countries i just have a new found appreciation and calmness to where from now. It’s like something i can’t describe but i just feel so comfortable and don't take things for granted anymore. You spend enough time in other countries and you realize how frustrating just simple daily things can be. There is really nowhere in the world like America.
Yeah, IncA (compiling to Souffle) and Ascent (I believe Crepe is not parallel, though also a good engine) are two other relevant cites here. Apropos linked data, our group has an MPI-based engine which is built around linked facts (subsequently enabling defunctionalization, ad-hoc polymorphism, etc..), which is very reminiscent of the discussion in the first link of yours: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11573
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A more hip headline would be "Feds hand YouTuber the ultimate demonetization for plane crash vid"
We're living in the age of advertisers hyperfixated on brand safety. I can't see any brand thinking it's a good idea to throw money at this guy. More attention is a good thing until you're OJ Simpson.
Did you actually validate every bit was exactly right on the drive? Did you even have the information to validate that data? Not just that they booted up without a noticeable error, but that every bit was exactly as written 25 years ago? How many drives did you test, how many manufacturers?

Most of the bits will probably be fine. Some of them probably won't be. The rate depends on a myriad of factors. Even within a brand different models will be better or worse, and it's not exactly a metric you'll find listed. And then yes the way they're stored is also a factor and even the environment when the data was written.

I've had drives from the 80s still work and still pretty much have all the data. I've had files get corrupted on modern drives with no other explanation than bitrot. Even just cosmic rays can eventually flip some bits.
People doing stuff like this happens all the time on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. I think one solution could be that once you are convicted of a crime done in the service of social media that you also receive a ban from making any income from social media for a period of time. I think it may be the only way to get through to some of these people who do stuff like this.
>A remarkable number of countries that weren't invaded by Union soldiers also gave up on slavery. It isn't economically feasible, anyone who tries to use it is going to get shredded by capitalists.

I'm actually not sure about this. Based on what I've read, many in the North had been saying for ages that slavery was going to go away on its own, and the war only happened when it became increasingly clear that that wasn't happening.

>Estimates of the number of enslaved people today range from around 38 million[1] to 49.6 million,[2][3][4] depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition of slavery being used.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

I think it's true that slavery was holding the South back economically, but their "shredded by the capitalists" moment came when they were crushed by the North's superior industrial economy during the war. I don't know how else it was supposed to happen.
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people are conditioned to correlate that with quality

Are you sure it’s really just conditioning? Impressionist paintings are obviously a lower fidelity reproduction of reality than photorealistic paintings, yet people tend to like Impressionism more, and I don’t think that’s necessarily just cultural conditioning. Sometimes less is more.
That’s bad - it means the country’s citizens have no issues with their banks storing criminal money. Also switzerland is that kind of european country that doesnt mind showing up posters of immigrants as crows. Pretty lame for a “democracy”.
> Does that understand that when talking about HTTP headers I talk about "referer" but when talking about JavaScript I have to use "referrer"?

I bet GPT-4 understands that.

(Though I have no personal experience using it for code review.)
All of this is part of the semantic web quagmire. To make web pages machine readable. I.e parseable in an unambiguous way. It never caught on because it is trivial to parse web pages anyway and if you wanted something machine readable, you'd publish your data in json or something. But it's proponents haven't given up yet and are still working on making the web truly semantic.
It's in no way worse than running a single browser extension with overly broad privileges. If this method of adblocking gains more traction (quite possible, as Google keeps moving to damage in-browser ad blockers), I expect the implementation to receive a lot more scrutiny.

I think we have to face the reality that web browsers might no longer be considered "user" agents.
Apologies, I may misunderstand: there's a lot of Novel All Caps Concepts Even Though Caps Is For Well Worn Cliches. I Think Maybe You Think They're For Accusations? Insults? Big Concepts? For Handwaving At Big Concepts You've Divined Other People Are Thinking?

The last paragraph caught my attention though you were a bit abstract _and_ obtuse, due to the structure being "brief aside for the curious: LLMs don't have bodies"

My job and existence is centered around enabling doctors via LLMs and it absolutely is astounding to and for them. Funnily enough, it's the simplest thing: citations and easy UI to reach them. They perceive it as quick literature review on demand, as far as I can tell, that means they get to skip about 5 minutes across 4-8 articles checking links for relevancy.

I don't think OP was proposing that LLMs will replace doctors as you seem to think. I can't identify anything in their post suggesting that.
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> Naturally there is an adjustment period ... but ... [a new region] can ... become your favorite place to be

On one hand, when I immigrated, it took ~2 years to learn the language and ~5 years to feel at home in the culture.

On the other hand, by "voting with my feet" I gained the benefit of not having to die waiting for the glacial pace of political progress in the Old Country.

On the gripping hand, now that I'm married with a house and pets I'm very glad I had the opportunity to "see the world" (including a few ~24 hour travel legs) when I was younger and far less anchored.

Edit: wow, voting with one's feet has an interesting etymology; see senatores pedarii in https://acoup.blog/2023/09/22/collections-how-to-roman-repub...
I have heard it described as a form of Pascal's wager. If you shout from the rooftops that LLMs are about to spawn a god machine, you get rewarded with attention, and if you're a researcher, job opportunities. There isn't nearly as much room for critics right now.

And if a few years down the line it turns out that you were wrong, everyone else was to, so no big deal.

In fact, you can already see it happening. Scaling up LLMs was surely enough to get to AGI, but now that apparently OpenAI is working on Q*, it's obvious that LLMs alone aren't enough, but LLMs + Q* are!
Glad I didn't have to endure such an unreasonable "culture of no".

In the late 90's in California, we had an open campus (no fences) and the classrooms were freestanding buildings without enclosed halls. Some students went to lunch at businesses a few blocks away. The cool kids would enroll in one period that included floating permission, so you could basically leave campus whenever you wanted. There was far more weed and ritalin than smoking or drinking. Because of parental pressures, there weren't many students who were lazy or fuck-ups.

HP 48G(X) represent. IR beam compilers, apps, and games to each other. Also, the very powerful universal remote app that could control any TV at a long distance. No one else ever touched my calculator except to verify clear memory for placement tests.

The computer lab was full of absolute shit PS/2 25 and 30, and PCjrs, but that wasn't a problem because of the laissez-faire un-management and lack of control freaks that didn't stifle creativity and exploration.

In my estimation, 97% of my graduating class went to college. Of that cohort, most ultimately became millionaires with a few centimillionaires, and a few became moderate names in academia and professional trades. (I once made the mistake of unwittingly agreeing to a blind date with someone from my graduating class, but she (a dentist) was so embarrassingly inconsiderate, unrelatable, ill-mannered, and late that I had to cut it short. Some people are just so awful that they're entertaining clichés and good story fodder.)
If I found out a school deleted files from one of my kid's personal devices without my permission, I'd be livid.
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