skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Show me a human being that, in an afternoon, can study the art of Rembrandt and from that experience, paint plausibly Rembrandt style paintings in a few minutes each, and I'll swear by AI for the rest of my life.

So it's okay to learn, but only if you do it very slowly? I surely don't need to point you to the existence of forgers - you know a human can study the art of Rembrandt and paint plausibly Rembrandt style paintings

> are we just consigning entire professions worth of people to the poorhouses now without so much as a thought?

We have been doing that since the dawn of history - what makes this any different from cars obsoleting the horse drawn carriage? Computers have been automating people's jobs for decades - should we ban programming writ large?

Where, exactly, do you feel the line ought to be drawn?
Do you also nope out on other services (bank accounts, uber, etc) thst require a phone number? Somewhat genuinely curious because I don't understand what the issue is with giving your phone number?
Escape behaviors in prey and the evolution of pennaceous plumage in dinosaurs
I was fine with the simple ads in the sidebar of the Google results of yore. It felt like a fair deal.
I do not watch videos as sources and in the article there is:

"Among Greene’s final tweets was one Saturday that falsely referenced “extremely high amounts of covid vaccine deaths,”"

Also cloth masks did help with reducing transmission (think a sneeze).
I've seen this study before that claims that air pollution is worse for car drivers[1][2] than cyclists and pedestrians. If that's true a cargo bike is going to be a win over driving if air quality is an issue for you.

Take with a pinch of salt though, I can also see counter studies[3].

1. https://www.slideshare.net/JamesTate22/exposure-to-the-traff...

2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...

3. https://www.eauc.org.uk/cyclists_on_busy_roads_
It seems it doesn't work on my side
This is an extremely good example of why any market research is infinitely better than no market research. It can inform product, technology, budget, and business.

Speaking of research, I'd love to know if anyone's ever done any research into why tabs nowadays almost universally expand to 4 or 8 spaces. Why haven't 5/10 spaces won out? Why not 3/6/9? Why is it powers of 2? It would seem like counting to 8 isn't much more difficult than counting to 10 or to 6. Each of them use less than 4 bits, which is a typical minimal cell of information even in the most primitive computers, if you look at right after the primordial stone age of holding one bit per tube or per magnet.

Early terminals - and the typewriters they were converted out of - did not have tabulation fixed to these amounts. Early code editors did not seem to have such tabstops either. So what gives? Did at some point everyone sit down and decide that tabs were 4 spaces, like in some sort of UN meeting?

I've been trying to get an answer for this for years. Maybe decades. A good answer still eludes me.
It wouldn't be restricting your freedoms, just your ability to exercise them.
Google actually runs their own CA "Google Trust Services", so they just create that certificate for themselves.
Mentioning how bad it is in other places shouldn't be needed to try to improve it in one place.

The question here is not how bad it is in other places but how much does Meta do against it and is this another lobby approach to push through things abusing the suffering of children as an excuse.

Through then the "single largest market" claim might be a try to carter public outrage beyond what a fully honest reporting might have produced. Through also it depends a lot on how much Meta actually does against it. If the answer is Meta doesn't care at all then that would be a very reasonable thing to do. Through as far as I can tell Meta does care at least to the degree they legally have too. But it's hard to say because it's always easy to pic examples where it looks like they do not with a company of that size but all the cases where they did care you likely will never hear about. So if this court case goes ahead we might gain some interesting insights.
For anyone using an Apple OS (macOS, iOS), you can get this character on a US keyboard (with US keymap) by pressing and holding "S" (shift-s): a mini-menu will pop-up, and "Ś" will be one of two options.

For lower-case "ś", the pop-up mini-menu will have three options, the first being "ß".
https://openai.com/research/gpt-4
Corporate AND personal marketing.

AI researchers can make any claim, the risk of getting busted is close to none.

Didn't work ?
Well dataset was different

Didn't work ?
Well code was different

Can I try your work ?
Well it's proprietary / I don't have access / We shutdowned the cluster

But the result is guaranteed increase in salary and job opportunities.

Since these companies are publicly listed, they are by definition encouraged and encouraging to make grandiose claims in order to make themselves more attractive to investors, and they can blame the individuals if it becomes discovered.

My favorite being that Bard (PaLM version) is sentient, but it was too big this time.

Imagine a large pharmaceutical company claiming they can cure very important diseases, but the results cannot be independently verified, nor audited.

It’s ok in the short-term, but not when you make that claim during few years.
Can you expand on this, I'm not 100% familiar with the way this is communicated and it just seems like mental gymnastics to avoid calling debt what it is.
Well, of UTF-16 itself, not specific to Javascript. What they're exposing are the 16-bit Code Units of UTF-16, which happen to be (reserved) Unicode Code Points, but are not Unicode Scalar Values.

I guess I don't know what this software is for? But the references to the normalisation forms makes me assume it's about Unicode and so it ought to work in the actual Code Points, not these surrogates.
The "in your custody" part is important, when Amazon starts yoinking books from your account.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
> We can't compete with that because we've decided that workers shouldn't be driven to suicide while they don't always share the same reservations and deem waivers, "safety netting", company-provided help hotlines, prayer sessions and "no-suicide pledges", to be an acceptable solution to the problem.

I think you're excluding the middle[0] here. If you think the EU can't compete, you can't just say it's due to worker protections. There are lots of reasons. E.g. there's load more investment capital available in the US; that's not due to Chinese labour laws.

> What can we do other than add protectionist rules?

Worker protection isn't the same as protectionism.

> And if EU enforces such regulations while China doesn't, for example, we need protectionist rules in place to ensure that they can't undercut us by killing our planet

Much tighter, more specific rules though. Not "free markets bad so protectionism". Making sure specific environment-related rules are followed for certain products coming in is much smaller than just a ban.

[0] https://www.siue.edu/~gdondan/bdkit.html
Is there a difference between being harassed with deepfakes vs fakes?

Photoshop has the power to cause distress too when used maliciously.

You go after the aggressors, not the tool used for aggression.
You can also put random character names in the API endpoint and get the result as well: https://neal.fun/api/infinite-craft/pair?first=dog&second=ca...
Reminds me of the word of the year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
This is awesome, particularly the bit about deleting your code when you are stuck, and starting anew. I immediately remember hundreds of issues that could be fixed much earlier, if I wouldn't have persisted with the first draft of the code.
Bootstrap, live the good life.
To design a game like this you need to do a lot better than just creating the obvious association. It needs a mix of obvious recipes and clever recipes, so that there's challenge and a sense of achievement. Also, there's a starting point. What should the graph look like?

I'm sure Neal has done hard work in getting it right.
>If you reduce your level of consumption to 1940s level, you could easily manage to have 15-hour week.

Not if you want a home.
UK fertility treatment comparison tool featuring IVF data launched
In Perth Western Australia my commute is about 25km. and at best a little over an hour to ride by bike down the bike paths along side the freeway.

today it was 25 deg C at 6am and over 32 deg C at 5pm when I would have to ride home.

I'll ride it every now and again, but honestly its too much to do on a regular basis.
Measles Cases Soaring Worldwide as WHO Reports Alarming 45-Fold Rise in Europe
AI generated garbage is literally one of the biggest reasons search has turned to shit[0]. Even with SEO, Google was sometimes useful. Now most search results just return AI hallucinations.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38952526

[1]https://aftermath.site/the-internet-is-full-of-ai-dogshit
Cutting military alone wouldn't fix anything.

Everybody has their own pet issues they want to cut.

The reality is only broad taxes on the middle class or massive social spending can really change the long term situation.

Not that cutting military spending wouldn't be smart.
Ah, yes, Route53, AWS' dirty-cheap globally-replicated database with a 100% uptime SLA.
>The other kind of test is what I call a "storybook test." Table tests are less useful here

Storybook tests lend themselves well to forked tests. E.g.

steps:
...
- click: shopping basket

variations:
Empty basket:
following steps:
- click: empty basket
- items in basket: 0

Purchase basket:
following steps:
- click: purchase
...
Microsoft, Google Woo India Programmers to Win AI Leadership
Mapped: The deadly geography of Mount Everest
I’m not sure what your point is, exactly. If you run Emacs in a terminal, you can press F10 to access the menus. They’re the exact same menus as you would see in the Emacs GUI.

There’s just no way that the GUI adds bloat in any meaningful sense; it’s the same program either way.
I managed to get both “Teapot” and “Tea Pot” at the same time.
Do we still need Google Search as much as in the past though? most of my search queries are targeted towards specific web sites: wikipedia, stack overflow, youtube.

And overall, I don't think I suffer too much from SEO on Google Search. On the other hand, I'm very upset with the way Youtube has gone. It's harder and harder to find quality content even though it's there. I mostly don't want to see the professional youtubers.
There are SNPs that have significant clinical impact and alter the downstream translation and associated with poor outcome.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8129253/

They could help in stratifying patients and strategically targeted therapy. They can't be easily targeted (drugged) drirectly but they could lead to therapeutics if I understand correctly.
> China will collapse if someone high up in the government attempts a 2nd Leap Forward...

China has collapsed before and here it is. My observation was about time perception in different cultures not a pro-China anti-West rant. The perception of time can play in favor or against you but it is an important factor to take into account.

For example, the canonical startup culture is about scaling scaling scaling and exit in a short term while business cultures in China or Japan are different.
Show HN: People Graph Maker
If he really was that lazy and that successful, that just proves to me that laziness is indeed a virtue :)
This is really fun, there's some fun combos which output amusingly strange results.

Some of my first discoveries:

- Meteor Pot
- Meteor Soup
- Meteor Shower Soup
- Meteor Fish Soup
- Jabba The Soup-zeus
- Sith zeus
- Jabba The Slimer
- Sonic Chip
- Cheech The Hedgehog
- Darth Shrubber
- Chewbuster
- Darth Vader Fish Soup

I may have got heavily involved in combining Star Wars items :P
It's also free, inexhaustible, and always in your pocket wanting to notify you.
Kubernetes cron jobs are pretty good I must say.

I definitely don't come anywhere near Slack's scale but I've managed systems where over 3,000 cron jobs ran per day, half of which came from a cron job running every minute which usually finished in a few seconds. Some of these jobs run for X minutes too.

It's nice because there's properties you can configure for each cron job around retries and if it should be uniquely run or not. Maybe certain cron jobs should be re-tried if they fail, for others maybe it's ok to be picked up on the next interval if it fails.

Overall it's been super stable for almost 2 years which is when I started using them. Only a handful of jobs failed over this period of time and they weren't the result of Kubernetes, it was because the HTTP endpoint that was being hit from the cron job failed to respond and the cron job failure threshold was reached.

It's a good reminder that important jobs run on a schedule should be resilient to failure (saving progress, idempotent, etc.).
I work in Data Partnerships and this seems like a solid idea. Wanted to know if you're open to a quick chat to discuss a possible partnership. Drop me a hi at ajaytoms99@gmail.com
Tax result <> Bookkeeping result. In fact bookkeeping result as per US GAAP van be different than the result under IFRS or regulations of other countries (for example due to different approach to depreciation).

Many countries calculate tax excluding accruals to stop fraud. When you have the cash now and need to pay tax next year, you could as well "run away with the money". Or even not run with the money, just spend it - and then end up unable to pay tax for two years.

Technically this fraud could be committed at any moment, but when the cash would lie on your account for a year, you could think abiut it more often.

Also conceptually: if accruals are allowed, you can basically shape your tax result to never pay any tax? Make bigger accruals every year.
Mine has just descended into Darth Maul madness, with an ever increasing number - usually adding them, but Dart Maul 114 + Darth Maul 114 just gave me Darth Maul 134, so it's a 'bit' unpredictable..!

Edit: and it's given up at Darth Maul 1310720000 combining no longer goes higher
yeah, fancy autocomplete is a good description.

especially as it often gets things horribly wrong.
Non of that has anything to do with government debt. The gold standard, has never limited government spending. During the classical goal standard plenty of government had debt, plenty of governments went bust.
The point is probably the implication that it'll be pushed to android as a native feature (in the photos app or similar), thus it making sense for investors reading this to put money into google rather than e.g. stability or openai etc. The people writing the article are likely shareholders etc.
Tax result <> bookkeeping result <> cash flow

In many countries tax office does not care about your bookkeeping result. Tax is calculated using separate rules (and then becomes part of bookkeeping result).

Also if we go to philosophical discussions: you can have great bookkeeping result yet no money, or lots of money now, but unprofitable projects (e.g. construction companies).
Generative artificial intelligence and the workforce [pdf]
But you claim ChatGPT replaces your human proofreader, which is what I'm curious about. Now you claim that you can proofread yourself since you know your field, so how exactly is ChatGPT replacing your human proofreader and why did you need one at all?

This statement here is what I'm asking about:

> The first insight is that an article that I need to publish could be proofread immediately while before I used an incredible professional content editor that could take hours for reviewing and improving the article.

Don't you have to double check the output anyway and how is that proofreading?
There is not reference or context in your comment. Are you simply suggesting that someone is corrupt because you dislike their political position?
> It's too late to worry about protecting the jobs of locals

What does one offer to locals to show them that they matter? Remember that all locals - even if they are poor or unemployed - have a vote.

If one washes one's hands of an entire group one should not be surprised the next time an election comes round if the outcome is a form of protest.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16567.pdf
> My wife couldn’t handle how slow it was so we ended up getting a wireless Dyson. Yes we have to vaccum “ourselves” but considering how much I had to manage the roomba to stop from being stuck everywhere, I’m now saving time.

This was my path as well. I did not have Roomba, but similar brand and it was constantly getting stuck in cables and under furniture. I am now using a battery vacuum cleaner and I am spending less time with cleaning than constantly babysitting my stupid robot vacuum cleaner.
Yes. Think this is it. Even if some sectors appear stagnant now, everyone is expecting some huge growth spurt with AI. Lots of new data centers, GPUs, etc...

and of course, for national defense, to have homegrown supply chains.
https://csts.ua.edu/ama/more-doctors-smoke-camels/
The theory of combinatory logic is beautiful. For instance, with basis {S,K}, a term is either S or K or an application of one term to another. S and K satisfy

S x y z = x z (y z)
K x y = x

These terms can represent any computable function.
This is clean and simple. I don't quite see what the theory of concatenative combinators achieves beyond complicating matters with stacks and quotations to obtain some concatenative property of programs.

Tha analogues of S and K in concatenative combinators are

[C] [B] [A] s == [[C] B] [C] A
[B] [A] k == A

which look a bit more complicated, but as the article says this is not even a basis:

> This almost gives us completeness; however, there is no way to form "dip" or "sip" using just "s" and "k" because, roughly speaking, they provide no way to dequote items buried in the stack.

What can you express in concatenative combinators that is not as easily expressed in combinatory logic?
The problem isn't Google, it's the internet.

Google might be deliberately making their search results "worse" (for whatever value of "worse" you prefer), but nobody else is doing all that much better, despite the obvious motivation to do so. I'm a DuckDuckGo user, but I don't think that the results I get are particularly better than Google results.

When people complain about Google, the root cause is usually that the thing they're looking for doesn't exist anywhere on the internet. Spam publishing sometimes drowns out the thing you're looking for, but often that's illusory - if you clicked through every single results page, you still wouldn't find what you're looking for, because it isn't there. A search engine can boost the signal-to-noise ratio in the results that it gives users, but it can't generate signal where none exists. Fixing that problem is altogether more difficult.
Nonsense. The Gold Standard in no way prevents somebody (anybody) from taking on to much debt and going bust.

> The only thing that makes the current situation tenable is being able to print money.

That is factually wrong. The current situation isn't untenable from a financial standpoint. But over the medium term it would require hard choices.
The issue is that both your statements are ultimately very subjective opinions first and foremost.

It's absolutely fine to hold those, but then people extrapolate this to things like:
"The "benefits" it provides to end users are, at best, dubious — though everyone responsible for creating it will most certainly enrich themselves."
And those are presented as objective value judgments, which ought to require somewhat more than personal opinions to back up.

Why does it not have value for end-users? Why is it bad if people creating those tools become rich?
But we live in a day and age, where everyone thinks that their mere opinion needs to be heard and has objective value.
It’s not a real number.

> At least 49.7 million Americans only have access to broadband from one of the seven largest cable and telephone companies. In total, at least 83.3 million Americans can only access broadband through a single provider.

> Over the past two years, federal stats suggest that Charter and Comcast have an absolute monopoly over fewer households, but we think this is mostly a mirage resulting from how the FCC reports data. A significant number of the census blocks showing new competition are likely only partially served.

https://ilsr.org/report-most-americans-have-no-real-choice-i...

That’s more accurate but much of the “good data” comes from
the providers themselves.

Don’t know why you’ve got such a pro-Comcast / Charter bent, but I assure you they aren’t worth defending.
Absolutely we do, of course. I do not at all want to be limited to wikipedia and reddit and stackoverflow. I want all unknown tiny random geocities and tripod.
Laziness is only a virtue when you have enough genius for it to be effortless.

But genius is the hare that will always be beaten by the persistent tortoise if it stands still long enough.
I read his whole thread, and if I understood it correctly (russian is not my first language), his total costs were: $1432 and 120 hours of work: https://twitter.com/biblikz/status/1752348278702641230

That being said, it sounds like, aside from when he was physically in-person with her, ChatGPT did basically all of the communication. It might even still be doing so!

All of it, though technically impressive, is super creepy.
That’s primarily Google’s problem though. ChatGPT was trained on web content before the AI deluge.
The Romans didn't put modern iron rebars into their concrete because it wasn't practical nor long-lived? headduck
On the C64 some packers used screen memory to host the code.
The first was The Screen Cruncher by 1001 Crew, a Dutch group. It's mentioned in this interview by its original author.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040902191610/http://www.c64hq....
And Japan is finished decades ago?
In reality though, this is only because they have a false sense of class association.
Both blue collar and white collar workers are part of the working class. This would actually benefit blue collar workers because of that. But there are always attempts to blur the lines with expressions like "laptop class" etc.
Yeah. Hundreds of hams each year hit the space station on Field Day alone :|
Horrible article
> A lot of people would love to go back to 1940s house prices

In USA? Adjusted for inflation, you had pretty flat housing prices until mid 90s, where the housing bubble started. And even now and on peak of the housing bubble of 2008 the house will cost you 250% the cost of 1940s house (or 180% of the 1950s which is more fair comparison since it was after the war) which is not that bad.
Open-source tools for LLM monitoring and observability
- AllenNLP Interpret: A library for interpreting and visualizing LLM predictions, assisting in model explanation and debugging. It works for any model of your choice.

- LangKit: An open-source toolkit for monitoring Large Language Models (LLMs). Features include assessing text quality and relevance, hallucinations check, sentiment and toxicity analysis.

- BERTViz: Specifically designed for visualizing and interpreting BERT-based LLMs. Helps visualize attention in NLP Models (BERT, GPT2, BART, etc.).

- SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations): A game theoretic approach to explain the output of any machine learning model. Allows users to use models from the transformers library by HuggingFace.

- AI Fairness 360: An extensible open-source toolkit can help you examine, report, and mitigate discrimination and bias in machine learning models throughout the AI application lifecycle

- Prometheus: An open-source monitoring toolkit for collecting and querying metrics from LLMs in real time.

- Grafana: Integrates with tools like Prometheus and Elasticsearch to provide visualization and analysis of LLM metrics and logs.

Learn more about LLM monitoring and observability at https://www.turingpost.com/p/monitoring