skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is my feeling also. And well, no useful drug interventions at least. For most genetic risk factors, lifestyle factors dominate the total risk.
> "15,000,000,000.00 in" and "that the size of a page is 15 billion inches", but it should be 15 million.

Can you help me count zeroes? Why is it million and not billion?
You haven’t explained why it’s not the EUs fault. They constantly stick their nose in everything and people get on their knees to the EU blindly believing it’s doing a good thing. The EU is a failure, without America the EU would have been absorbed by Russia and China by now. The EU hasn’t prevented anything bad from happening. Just causes more headaches.
This is an interesting thought experiment.

If you slide from 50% to 99%, how do people feel about using ChatGPT? What is more honest: Many people here were hired when they were less than 100% qualified, and did very well in their new role. It has happened to me more than once.
Spotify killed music sharing, not the RIAA.

There's still plenty of video and book pirating happening. Until the streaming industry gets its shit together and coalesces into a single provider, or allows peering, then that's going to continue.

The legal and privacy risks of P2P are both mitigated very simply with a VPN.
Honest question - did you "notice" the lack of feedback at the time?

I ask only because I sold a program through the mail on floppy disk, to maybe 5 or 10 users, in the early 90s. I never got feedback, but thinking back I didn't really expect any, so I didn't miss it.

Now of course it's different, but back then, short of writing me a letter (which would be an unrealistic expectation even then) they had no route to feed back.

Put another way, I never sent feedback to any author either, do I guess I had no expectations.

(The obligatory tip of hat to Scott Adams - the first program I ever ran on "my" first computer (my dad's apple ][).

We all live in a pond making ripples, and we very seldom see what those ripples effect. Mr Adams made ripples that are unimaginable - as he built on the ideas of others, so have so many been inspired by his work to forge their own path in tech.

A true giant of history.
I worked in the cable industry for over a decade. All the worst things you can dream up about these companies are true. At the highest level of the companies phrases like 'what are they gonna do switch to dsl' and 'they can move if they don't like it' were common.
Is writing the code the hard part, or is ensuring what you've written is correct the hard part? I'd guess the latter and AI will not ensure the code is correct.

Can you record input and output at some layers of your system and then use that data to test the ported code? Make sure the inputs produce the same outputs.
The American dream is to have a captive consumer.
Your wording is interesting--I don't think you're wrong, but mentally rephrased as "a large trove of essays in the generic format mandated by teachers".

It seems tragic that so many students were/are forced into this mechanical turk without pay, for work that is meant to be discarded, in a format that is flatly unacceptable, and now suspicious, in any other context.
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-ancient-rom...
The app has this ridiculous problem of freezing every few seconds while you select your options… like come on really? It’s done this since day one!
He and you say "initiated from anywhere" but the demo video conveniently only gestured parallel to screen edges.

I imagine with first click starting where the video does, three up choices would feel constrained.
The issue is voters are uneducated. You get compulsory voting you get the same issue with the california prop system scaled out: where people are given a choice and vote on what feels right from the proposition name and two sentence description alone. Research and looking into bias be damned.
AI Comments on the News
CHM Live – Insanely Great: The Apple Mac at 40 [video]
Nah, they're just making shit up and talking their book. Intelligent people reject the entire premise. Stop being so naive.
A domain registrar and a domain registry should really be acting as a common carrier. If it's not legal in their relevant jurisdictions, fine. Otherwise, my registrar is hardly endorsing my content.

Website hosting, sure, they've got wide latitude to exercise editorial control. DNS services, yeah, I guess.

If your registrar doesn't like your content, maybe they should disallow you to use ancillary services and refund you for the free dns they usually provide, but won't. But I don't think they should be making editorial judgement about the content, all the content they see is your domain name, your contact info, your registered authoritative name servers, and ips for registered name servers inside your domain.
In california you have two weeks to vote in some precincts. Its more time consuming to buy milk than it is to vote for many.
I am a polyglot: Perl, Python, C, C++, Java, C#, etc. Not experts at all, but I can do fine with an existing code base. What is it about C++-heavy interviews that always regress to trivia? And asking about rarely used features? It is a bother. And rarely does the person asking the trivia have any depth whatsoever in other languages. It is my biggest gripe with "C++ people". For many, they have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Yes, "Java enterprise people" were the same in 2005-ish.
If company A spends millions on research and development to produce a product, and sells it for a 20% margin to attempt to recoup its R&D and make a profit, and a Chinese company is like “oh cool, let’s copy it, sell it at half the price, but we get a 90% margin cos we have access to all the cheap labour and resources with no R&D overhead” the problem isn’t not being able to be competitive at 46% market share.
I heard a rumor that Apple FaceTime does something similar, but I could not find any definitive evidence of it. Does anyone know more about it?
I agree. It seems like a really odd choice, unless there is some sort of remote compute happening down there in the battery, which, based on its size and reported capacity, actually makes sense.
Probably the simplest scheduling service I've ever used was Google Cloud Scheduler.

You give it a schedule and an endpoint (HTTP or a Cloud Task) and then it hits that endpoint on a schedule.

I go with Scheduler->Cloud Tasks->Cloud Functions, which gives you reliability and near infinite scalability.

Very easy to reason about and full monitoring of the whole stack.
Darn. Thanks for checking though, I appreciate the effort
For reference, NameCheap TOTP released in 2018:

https://www.namecheap.com/blog/protect-account-totp-2-factor...
I tested GPT-4V and Llava 1.6 on a Chinese text and they both hallucinate like crazy. LVMs can still barely recognize caracters while traditional OCR nails it. Do someone know why ?
You'd think the tech would be useful for any kind of navigating-a-fixed-environment robot - I can think of self-driving warehouse carts, home laundry robots (where the brand might help), maybe lawnmowers.
True. We need an Aussie bogan mode for ChatGPT. Or, Guy Ritchie villian.
Seconded, it has been fantastic for me and recently has actually gotten better!
No repercussions for violent threats to innocent people when made by higherups in SV tech is par for the course nowadays.

Take OpenAI's Head of Research (quite the public role given they're a research company) openly calling for genocide in Gaza, asking to "finish them", "More! No mercy!" including civilians, over a series of 80 deranged tweets. [1] Zero repercussions, still happily heading research at a company whose supposed objective is developing AGI for the benefit of mankind.

Also very quickly scrubbed off of HN [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39124666

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20231226171217/https://news.ycom...
Why the downvotes on the above comment? I was asked and answered, I'm totally within the hackernews guidelines, down voting my above comment is not within the guidelines. Downvoting out of spite like that is more like what happens on reddit.
Indeed - with 3.5 at least it does fail the easy mode riddle
https://chat.openai.com/share/b3761807-551d-4cfc-b291-6d37ee...
I see stuff like this and I think. it would be cool if they embedded some kind of inferior lisp like scheme into zed's editor.
I don't think I would want a monitor that big, since I think I would have trouble covering all of it without moving my head.
So people here are complaining about Roombas, I like mine well enough. It encourages me to keep my place tidy enough that the Roomba (usually) doesn't get stuck*. I don't care about apps or schedules, because every day I just pick it up and put it somewhere in my place before I leave my condo (based on a location wheel I keep on my fridge).

* But despite my cleaning efforts, it does get stuck on wires. Sometimes it pulls out charging cables, and under my couch I have a bunch of those long orange power cables it sometimes climbs on and gets stuck on. Are there any competitors that can automagically avoid wires? Ideally ones where I will not need to use an app of any sort.
For analysis, I’ve used Didier’s tools. If you just want a safe way to open it, upload it to a cloud storage provider which destructively renders the pdf. Box or Google drive should work.

https://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/pdf-tools/
I can't speak directly for the trs80, but on the Apple 2 the aspect ratio of the pixels were different.

So on the screen the font read like a modern font today (at much low res) - but the letters were "square".

When those fonts though are drawn on today's screens they appear tall and skinny. Which makes them hard to read.

From memory, the default text mode for an Apple 2 was 40 wide by 20( 24?) high. (There was also an 80char card that allowed it to be 80x20, but there the text looked skinny.)

So it wasn't as bad then as it looks now. And we had, perhaps, much lower expectations :)
I remember someone made scarves/blankets with certain binary visualizations. Very cool stuff.
> you can't do the job with your buddy

I mean, why not? Me and my buddy are a team, hire us both or none of us. Split the salary if you must.
I just received my copy. Truly one of the best books in my collection. I’m looking forward to years of enjoyment.
Wasn't it simpler to use Cronicle (https://github.com/jhuckaby/Cronicle)?
Rare moment of bipartisanship. This also brings back the child tax credit.
It's a good question. In short, yes, I believe it is reasonable to assume custom questions will generally perform better than verbatim or modified leetcode questions. In general, while ChatGPT could handle modified questions well enough for interviewees to pass their interviews, it still choked through them and required more coaxing to get an answer than verbatim questions.

Custom questions, by definition, aren't available online, and with no direct tutorials to pull from, the LLM has to make more inferences about the problem and will find the question more challenging.

As for asking ChatGPT novel DS&A questions, I think it is harder than maybe you'd think it is. Any question you'd think to ask likely has a tutorial for it online somewhere, so unless you happen to make up questions like this professionally (I'm paid to do this), or you have a large unique question bank that doesn't exist online (few people have this) then my instinct would be that the questions you're giving it aren't as unique as you think they are.

As a practical example, just give it a log file and tell it to pull out specific pieces of information from it. ChatGPT struggles to write code that can dynamically check obvious boundaries for humans. Recently, I had a list of times in a CSV that I asked it to pull for me ("1pm", "3pm", "9am"), and it wrote code to just grab 3 specific indices from the string. It didn't consider the need to check for 4 indices ("10pm"). It didn't think to start the check based on where commas were in the CSV, and it didn't consider looking for "am" or "pm". It just sliced a specific set of indices in the string. That's mostly because it's used to getting questions working for specific examples, but fails when you ask it to incorporate simple broader tasks into the coding interview question.
Roombas are over hyped expensive junk these things can't survive nor prove useful in my house and I image any house that actually needs it. It's way way way faster to just grab a vacuum quick and do the job.
>I’m not sure why anyone would want a job they clearly aren’t qualified for.

Easy. They have nothing to lose because the jobs they are qualified for don't even pay enough to survive. You probably could have figured this out yourself.
I think about the former almost every time I fly XD
Who officially decides what is xG?
The number of different technologies and expected speeds varies so much with 4G/5G, that the terms aren’t particularly useful anyway.
I agree with the "drill down" technique. Example: How does a dynamic array class (Vector, List, etc.) work? The very best interview questions have "fractal complexity" that allow you to drill deep.
> Obviously, a loss of global prestige and reserve currency abandonment could be the result, but if there’s no other country to step in that has that prestige or offers a replacement…

I don't think the role of the US dolar as a reserve currency is put into question with a hypothetical default.

The typical impact of a default is that lenders are stiffed out of the money they lended. Some might go bankrupt as a result, but the only consequence to the US government is a hypothetical inability to get further loans at lower rates. This might be problematic for the US if the US federal government still runs a deficit.

Now, there is the question of what would this "inability" mean.

When Greece defaulted on its sovereign debt, their credit rating tanked and the global financial market hiked interest rates for Greek debt to the point they reached double digits. That lead the Greek government to beg the EU and IMF for emergency loans, which were accompanied by fiscal policy changes. I doubt the US would follow a similar pattern, mainly because the IMF does not have funds of this hypothetical magnitude.
> The Golden State has above-average retail electricity tariffs — partly because wildfire costs are passed along to consumers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Compa...
As if Roomba doesn't like to clean messes /s
A well-configured corporate firewall is going to block anything that looks like an IRC packet, because for the overwhelming majority of users, the probability of that packet being malicious is ~1.
1. Forget ink jets.

2. Forget printing photos at home; only documents.

3. Brother LED/Laser printer.

4. Make sure your printer has a static IP, whether wired or Wi-Fi. Or statically assigned, unchanging DHCP.
Representation is surprisingly even worse in LA county. 5 supervisors for 10 million people. Californian government systems really weren’t designed for the populations they currently represent.
I can't imagine many companies going back to this. The savings are too shiny to resist
I found it faster to use a leaf-blower indoors. More enjoyable too.
Matryoshka Representation Learning
I don't think they do (yet), but having an option that allows it is probably the sensible move... Netflix, who've famously been successful with this crackdown, do.

Have add-on accounts and you extract a little more from people who were doing small-scale sharing with one or two others, and make it less likely that they'll cancel.
Looks great, minor API usability note: I don't know if there is an official convention but when naming an object that has the potential of overriding a builtin, rather than prepending with an underscore, e.g. `_with`, one does append to it: `with_`. The former is used and recognised for unused variables.

> _with is a curve option that indicates how this dataset should be plotted. It’s _with and not with because the latter is a built-in keyword in Python. [1]

- [1] https://github.com/dkogan/gnuplotlib/blob/master/guide/guide...
Billing codes are complicated and the rules behind them change frequently. These seem like a case where AI could present a wrong answer with authority—probably a close to correct answer, but one that could cost a patient or practice.
When Brother printers falsely report toner low (like other brands), there is a software hack you can execute to reset that. No chips.
RFC: Rust Has Provenance
Here's a chart that outlines typical lifecycle of a domain name:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-lifecycle-2012-02...

Every registrar is required to allow the customer to renew the domain during the 45 day "Auto Renew Grace Period".

A caveat to this, some registrars will have in their terms that after 33 days the domain will be sent to an "expired domains" auction.

That said, since the domain is only a few days into the "Auto Renew Grace Period" you should still have the opportunity to renew the domain.

I've been working in the domain industry for 20+ years, feel free to reach out if you'd like me to take a look at this for you and offer guidance/assistance.
> We may need to design new kinds of interview questions and methods for humans augmented by AI.

Exactly. That's all a Custom question really is. Questions that are resistant to AI
Will tech companies stop the layoffs now?
Worse than the criminal harassment campaign ebay executed against critics?
It's not perfect but it can reason, or solve many more situations than trained on.

Here is a paper demonstrating that GPT-4 can combine up to 5 skills from a set of 100, effectively covering 100^5 tuples of skills, while only seeing much fewer combinations in training on a specific topic.

> simple probability calculations indicate that GPT-4's reasonable performance on k=5 is suggestive of going beyond "stochastic parrot" behavior (Bender et al., 2021), i.e., it combines skills in ways that it had not seen during training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17567
Wow, how is this guy in charge of anything? He seems so puerile.
Thank you for this article. One of the great frustrations of using Magit for Emacs is the inability to read things because the foreground and background colors for various things end up the same on some platforms.

From this article I found the command "toe -a" and was able to try various TERM values until I found one that makes Magit readable: vt100. This turns off colors entirely, which may not be pretty, but at least I can read everything now.
> I'm a bit of an accelerationist, rip the band-aid off kind of guy, everyone dies someday I guess

Are you volunteering to go first?
right, it's really good at cheater code. if you had to write a function equivalent to is_odd, it would take the example cases and if those values directly instead of doing modulo. of course if you ask it that directly, it'll do modulo, but that's the kind of code it'll output. doesn't mean it's useless, but you gotta be careful when using code its output.

if a dumb person is using ChatGPT to cheat on an interview, it'll be easy to tell from the code given if it's a bad question thats being given.
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to suppress coughing?
I get it. Coughing is a defense mechanism that spits out bacterias and such. But for God's sake it is so devastating! I can barely sleep. I don't know why the human gene "prefer" severely coughing as it completely destroys sleep (which delays healing) and attracts enemies miles away.

Anyway, is there anything that I can do to completely remove coughing (resulted from common cold or similar) from the list of symptoms? Is there a hack? I can take it even if it's slightly harmful.
All three of these are also frequently on my mind.
> Is able to maintain a sophisticated project with external contributors.

To add one more nail into this coffin: Well, then you will eliminate 99.999% of candidates. Or more likely, you will get none. Seriously, read that sentence again: "maintain a sophisticated [open source] project". How many of those exist in open source? A few thousand at most. And there are millions of developers in the world.
> much of the work is repetitive, but it comes with its edge cases

for the repetitive stuff, just use copilot embedded in whatever editor you use.

the edge cases are tricky, to actually avoid these the model would need an understanding of both the use case (which is easy to describe to the model) and the code base itself (which is difficult, since description/docstring is not enough to capture the complex behaviors that can arise from interactions between parts of your codebase).

idk how you would train/finetune a model to somehow have this understanding of your code base, I doubt just doing next token prediction would help, you'd likely have to create chat data discussing the intricacies of your code base and do DPO/RLFH to bake it into your model.

look into techniques like qlora that'll reduce the needed memory during tuning. look into platforms like vast ai to rent GPUs for cheap.

RAG/Agents could be useful but probably not. could store info about functions in your codebase such as the signature, the function it calls, its docstring, and known edge cases associated with it. if you don't have docstrings using a LLM to generate them is feasible.
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That seems to be the other Arctic Adventure, for DOS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Adventure_(video_game...

(I also enjoyed the DOS game, and thought the article might have some relation to it -- but appears not!)
This guy contacted astronaut in ISS using home made antenna
The linked leaderboard is not at all trustworthy to generally rank LLMs (i.e. what everyone uses it for) because the sample bias is absurd. It ranks LLMs by how they respond to queries that users of the leaderboard are likely to test on. Which is about as representative of general usage as the average user of the website is representative of global society (i.e. in no way whatsoever).
I think lem looks really promising, buuuut .., I like org and tramp and slime-connect and structural editing and all the other great emacs things. Maybe I’ll try it out in the next few months or so . . .
Which is one reason why so many people hate SV. This kind of behavior is just terrible. How do we have so many manbabies getting in charge of things?
How many fiat-currency banks have executed a rug pull in the last 100 years?
Funny that Putin gets a Russian flag emoji, while Trump gets a poop emoji
I somehow got Espanol, then I proceed to translate every word into Spainsh
lawnmowers sure, but laundry is at least a decade from being doable by a consumer robot. manipulating fabric is the type of thing robots are pretty far away from being able to do well (for both hardware and software reasons)
The “but on the Internet” part is not novel either. Any site that allows text entry and public viewing may deal with this.

https://bitofhex.com/2020/05/31/youtube-is-my-c2/

Perhaps using the picture of a pizza is novel?