skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of worked for me too. Thinking of hunger as something to aim for - remaining hungry for an hour or to as an achievement was useful. The difficulty I had was avoiding satiating myself subsequently
Lightning: Dousing your head in rainwater may increase your chance of survival
>I think LLMs might 10x our productivity

Think about this logically. Assuming demand for software engineers remain the same this reduces available jobs by 10x when the productivity of one engineer goes up by 10x.

> there is no sign that the demand for software is declining

There's been layoffs. Tons of layoffs.

I'm curious how many people actually still agree with your positive sentiment. At one point I would call it 50%, but now I think it's past that. I think the view point is largely shifting.
To many legal scholars, and to most lay people, the actual law is the spirit, the letter is just there to help note down what the spirit was.

If someone thinks they are safe to ignore the spirit of a law because of a quirk of how it is worded, they will often find they are wrong, and have charges brought against them anyway, and lose at trial and any number of appellate courts. Conversely, if someone is convicted based on a technicality where they broke the letter of the law, but not the spirit, that conviction is very likely to be overturned on appeal.

Of course, the spirit and the letter of the law can't be arbitrarily divorced from one another. One can't claim that the letter of the law says "you shall not kill", but the spirit of the law is that it's ok to kill but only on the full moon. But if a law says "don't lie to prosecutors", and they ask me what I did on some day, and I tell them X and Y and don't mention Z, I won't be able to claim that the law didn't techniclaly say not to omit information.
I think the AI bubble will blow up for purely economic reasons sooner that many of us think. Don't let the AI believers fool you. The time will show.

The rise of IT in 80s was so to say prepared in 70s. But the economy has changed drastically since then. There's just no real base for such rise of AI. Just the market cap.

For instance, the financial sector somewhere after the 1945 was about 5% of GDP. Now it's 70-75%.
> It's not overblown, I assure you, it's widespread and "normal"

I always wonder how it is in the US. Based on movies and such, bullying is horrible in the US. But how widespread is that? I didn't go to school in the US (other than graduate degree in university) so don't have any direct experience.

I was the prototypical nerd in school (and old enough that it was back when being the D&D/computer/math nerd was not cool at all).

But I never experienced or saw any bullying. I sure didn't get invited to the cool parties and such, but everyone was always nice enough, including the "jock/cheerleader" types. Many decades later now, our whole class is still in contact and in friendly terms.

Maybe I just got lucky with a good class.
I'm curious to know what people are going to be like when they've grown up in a world of things that are not comprehensible. Eg, I grew up easily understanding how films were made, but I wonder how a child's character will develop when growing up with "films" made by something called a neural net - will there be eg a sense of detachment from the world around them? Will there be an extended period of life during which time children don't understand things? What effect will that have?
For people with autofocus, not hyperfocusing and slamming desk is harder than trying to focus.
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Thanks for sharing that link! I've tried reading about them in the past and always walked away more confused, but this article seems more readable. I'll give it a thorough read this weekend. Thank you!
doing some pushups also helps
>You think the total valuation of all companies divided by the total number of people comes out to a few cents?

No, where did I say that? The person I was replying to wants to share OpenAI's value specifically, so I only mention OpenAI. Also, I didn't say "a few cents", I said cents, intended as a relative contrast to "millions."

>The US GDP per capita was $80k in 2023. The global GDP per capita is $13K.

Yes, and the US per capita GDP would drop to $15.8k if the "excess" was redistributed to the rest of the world. But now everyone is equal, regardless of what they do, right? Is this fair?

>Even if you were to split up the valuation of OpenAI for every single person in the world, everyone would be getting $10.

That's not how it works and I think you know that. Where does this tangible $10 come from if there is no buyer? Or do you think someone is willing to spend $80B on a company which is then immediately destroyed because the money is taken from the shareholders and sent to everyone else? There would be no company left. Do you think that the very idea of this impending dissolution-upon-purchase wouldn't lower the value of the company drastically?

>what point are you actually trying to make?

That it's silly to suggest redistributing OpenAI compensation.
I feel like this is google-able, no?

I found some metrics after 30 seconds of googling.
Yeah, basing the answer on what the "self-reflective person" does is begging the question at best and self-congratulatory at worst.

"Wanna lose weight? Just think and act like a person who loses weight"
Source? This is interesting.
So write unit tests automatically, change code later and then regenerate the unit tests? Now the code has a bug but the unit tests pass. I'm already seeing this today with devs using ChatGPT to quickly get the "test boilerplate" over and over.
As mentioned by several comments, while one can argue that Big Pharma should spend more on R&D, the title of the article is not so relevant.

From Apple financial statement for 2023 [1]:

- Spent on R&D: $29.9B

- Spent on stockholders (dividends + buybacks): $92.6B

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2023-q4/FY23_Q4_Consol...
It's an incomplete solution.
Maybe it's just the threads I click on, but I can't recall the last time I even saw Putin mentioned on HN.
The neurological basis is quite simple: the brain is a prediction machine, and it's rewarded when it predicts correctly.

This is why music is pleasant - it's highly structured nature is easy to predict, thus rewarding.

This can be further optimized: the "drop" in club music for example, which is anticipated and teased over even longer distance (tens of seconds, even minutes).
macOS does support more than one “virtual” resolution, which I’d consider variable scaling. It’s admittedly less granular than Windows, but it works well enough for me. I have a 27” Acer Predator 4k120 display on my shop Mac, with the virtual resolution set to 2560x1440.
Removing them would reduce your coverage percentage.
Code for the Byte Pair Encoding algorithm, commonly used in LLM tokenization
"Estonians, Latvians, Poles, Czechs, Rumanians, Ukrainians, Georgians etc. DON'T WANT TO BE THREATENED OR ATTACKED BY RUSSIA."

Exactly. Last time Russia and Germany signed a deal to cut Eastern Europe in half, then each invaded countries on their side of the line (and cut Poland in half). Sadly this is not how it is teached in Russia. Which is one of the reasons for what is happening now.

Russias goals haven't changed. Luckily Germany (currently) wants nothing of it.
In sufficiently large systems there is some value in test that just detect changed behavior, even if the behavior is buggy. Parts of the code probably rely on the bugs and accidentally (or intentionally) fixing them can lead to more severe problems.

Of course these kinds of tests are no replacement for tests that check actual requirements.
> Well, yeah, that's the fundamental failure of utilitarianism: it's so abstract as to say nothing meaningful, because it explicitly delegates the entire definition of what actually is ethical to the utility function, and nothing past that is distinct from any other ethical theory.

I think it's honest, as it really forces you to make a distinction between good (what should be) and real (what is). "Should" goes into the utility function, "is" goes into the world model. I'd honestly recommend giving it a shot if you have free time.

> I doubt that; this and your prior comment are the second and third time I've seen it in eleven years of active participation here.

It's the anti-flame war/spam thing kicking in. I'm manually responding to the "wrong post" but that's pretty much fine.
It's always astonishing to me when people talk about what they want their children to be or do and the answer is a list of soft skills. The Protestant work ethic really has done a number on some people. I always thought the answer is simple (though not easy), I want my kids to be healthy, honest, loyal and kind, what they do from 8am to 4pm is for them to figure out, but it's not that important.
Okay, but they also spend more money on sales and marketing than they do on RnD. Surely that can be considered as “spending”.
> I don't find that acceptable in any way

Well obviously even Waymo agrees, given that they're recalling vehicles to mitigate the issue.
I also don't like the `includeIf`, but I ended up with a completely different way of doing things.

I just use different accounts depending on the context, usually by either SSH or by starting a Docker container with all the environment already configured.

At least for me, using different identities[1] when I want to use different identities[2], seems less brittle and less likely for my future self to accidentally forget to do something (e.g. change a config when I reinstall an OS).

[1]: OS user, directly (SSH) or indirectly (container).

[2]: Email address, username, etc.
Show HN: SynopsisMD: A Personal Project to Simplify Healthcare Documentation
Hi Hacker News,

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This journey started by observing the challenges my wife, a dedicated physician, faced with her patient notes. The hours spent away from patient care were too many. With her feedback (and patience!), I set out to create something to ease this part of her workload.

I want to be clear: I'm not trying to overhaul the entire healthcare IT system. Giants like EPIC have set a strong foundation. My goal is to offer a tool that works within this framework, making certain documentation tasks more efficient and intuitive.

One upcoming feature I'm excited about is the ability for SynopsisMD to listen in on consultations, transcribe the conversation, separate the dialogue between physician and patient (diarization), and then summarize the key points. I believe this could be a real time-saver and I'm eager to see how it can fit into the workflow of healthcare professionals.

I'm just one person trying to make a small difference in a big field. I would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or any feedback. After all, feedback is a gift that drives improvement.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to hearing from you.
> collecting dust on the shelf within a few months

Not even that, apparently many customers are already returning them[1]. Most of the hype, as usual, is tech reviewers who want to stay relevant.

Early adopters will naturally chase any and every opportunity to make use of them, but in the coming months as novelty wears off, more issues arise, you get the (The ecosystem is just not ready yet)™ and most will be listed on the secondhand market.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/14/24072792/apple-vision-pro...
>I wouldn't sweat it robbing you of your career when it can't even recite airline ticket policy properly.

It's way past this. Not a tad bit silly at all. Come on. It's not ready to replace are jobs as of now, but it's remarkably close.

To be honest your view point of utter total confidence when LLMs blew past the turing test causing everybody to reset the goal posts is imho much more silly and I mean to say this with no offense at all... which is Fair given you used the term as well.
It is true that pharma companies take advantage of publicly funded research, but from there to brining a new drug on the market it takes further 10/15 years and 100s million dollars of R&D. A large portion of the cost comes from the fact that most of these projects prove infeasible and are abandoned during development or later during trials.

The vast majority of this effort remains unpublished, so I am not sure that the article you cite supports your argument. Most of the research mentioned in that article talks about possible associations between target and disease, which is just the earliest step of drug development.
Bollywood is a major player in Africa (And Asia) how does this play in?

I don't get why it's not talked about other than is this about the Western educated in Africa?

Or maybe Bollywood has flooded the Free to Air market? I'd still see a streaming market though.
I hear what you’re saying, that children should be educated about the reality they find themselves in. If that is the case, and I would say their are exceptions until children are older, then strong guidelines are needed, partly because acting out of trauma is rarely a good idea. Secondly, because a full reality must be imparted including that projections are based on modeled outputs, and modeling complex systems is inherently problematic, there are many problems facing humanity, and resources must be rationally allocated between all.
I recently had to refractory a project that had no tests what so ever.
Having LLMs automatically generate a first draft of tests was very helpful. Even just to understand what the code was supposed to do.
It shouldn't be surprising that an AR workstation isn't as good as the real thing. If you're at home or at work, the AVP is going to sit on the shelf while you sit at your workstation. While an AR set can, in theory, surround you with code, you can only really focus on one window at a time. Old-fashioned monitors have had a long time to get good at providing that experience.

Still, it would be pretty darned cool to be able to take something even half as good on the road in a package that will easily fit in a backpack!

I am entirely done with Apple and will not be buying any more of their products, but I look forward to the competition that AVP will foster.
My point is that human-based contract systems don't suffer from needing to think of every possible edge case up front in order to be legally enforceable; courts make rulings based on stuff like "what would a reasonable person would infer in this case?" all the time, and in some cases, unreasonable contracts aren't even enforceable at all even if they technically are logically sound.
That is truly a great customer who cares about the longevity of your product/service enough to be willing to pay what it's worth.
Creating > consuming

It's good the kids know...
Why do you think this, right now?

I'm not ideological about this, I wish for a future with self-driving cars for instance.

The current situation is simply too rapidly evolving and can cause significant economic destruction, for instance if many middle-class jobs are lost without anything to replace them.

Change is inevitable, but reckless speed is not, that's a choice we make as a group.
One git option that I almost never see in other people configs is

[core]
autocrlf = input
safecrlf = true

It prevents commiting CRLF files and forces you to convert those to LF before commit (you can still override it with gitattributes if necessary). I hate CRLF so much that I spent lots of time digging out this combination of configuration values.
During a significant part of history, text was definitely considered a source of truth, at least to the extent a lot of people see video now. A fancy recommendation letter from a noble would get you far. It makes sense because if you forge it, that means you had to invest significant amount of effort and therefore you had to plan the deception. It's a different kind of behavior than just lying on a whim.

But even then, as nowadays, people didn't trust the medium absolutely. The possibility of forgery was real, as it has been with the video, even before generative AI.
~£0.29 per KWh (around 25c per KWh)
Just my experience. Tried Copilot(the one for Office) but was left disappointed.

It said it could not do say add an image to a ppt/create one. When it clearly could.
Chat was was overly simplified and fixed the wrong problem.
Randomly changed say Excel sheet with no clear undo after multiple steps
Plus how it works is hidden, so not sure if they are using 3.5, 4 or something else. So no idea if that is causing the problem.

MS is putting out a lot of things quickly. But the quality is just not there in my experience. They are doing way too many things too fast to make any one thing good.
> open-source tech, which explicitly allows any use case (which implies allowing military uses).

It seems very plausible until you try to reverse that statement. Are proprietary technologies (Palantir, TikTok, even Microsoft/Google/Apple) exactly peaceful?

If you are developing some FOSS for killing people, you at least gonna name variables correctly, I mean "unsigned long long peopleKilled" will never be named as "kittensSaved".
I don't think it's a circular argument. Bigscreen VR is already 127 grams. This is doable in the next decade I think. The question is if there's a better form factor than something you wear on your face.
Of course, that's always how it works!
I think it's just the barrier is quite high for math. You need to be reasonably good technically before you even get a chance to see the forest for the trees.

And then you need to look from the right angle. That might come from within or from having talented teachers.
The absolute redeeming factor in this is the unrelenting drilling down into how to interpret stats. If it weren't for the subject matter it would be a good introduction for statistics education.
Are you sure you can recognise it?
Sorry but children pre-12 actually can’t grasp ‘clear terms’ so easy when the terms are about something clearly abstract or existential.

They may grasp the idea of death but seldom is it not terrifying to them as genetically it takes a while to overcome the dna-imprinted anxiety of body failure.

So perhaps there’s a certain age before which u are advised to be very careful with what actually is being said to a child.
Is there any research on long term weight loss that argues a meaningful amount of weight loss is reasonably possible?

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/10/11649210/biggest-loser-weight-...

Vox has an article on it supposedly working, but the results are not what anyone who is overweight would call successful.

> The results at year eight are heartening. Eight years later and 50.3 percent of the intensive lifestyle intervention group and 35.7 percent of the usual care group were maintaining losses of ≥5 percent, while 26.9 percent of the intensive group and 17.2 percent of the usual care group were maintaining losses of ≥10 percent.

In layman’s terms, half lost nothing. Half of the losers lost so little that they wouldn’t notice. 1/4 lost 10%. Basically nobody who was obese reached a normal weight.
Could have said the same about the use of tractors. People used to farm by hand. All those people were replaced. Yet here we are doing just fine.
That sounds super useful!
> branch.sort -committerdate, makes git branch sort by most recently used branches

No, it makes it sort by the committer date of the commit pointed to by the branch. Personally I find that to be of little use. To actually sort by recently used (i.e. switched-to), I wrote https://github.com/amarshall/git-recent-branches
True, Putin would need to wait for Trump to make it clear that he wouldnt come to their defense and/or Orban/Fico have done enough damage to the Organization to make this viable.
> Despite a massive investigation there have never been any proven links between Trump and Russia.

I suppose there is some narrow definition of links for which that is true.

> What’s more, Trump maintained sanctions against Russia

He signalled plans to weaken them, and then Congress, by massively veto-proof majorities in both Houses (419-3 House, 98-2 Senate), passed a bill limiting his ability to lift existing sanctions while also adding new sanctions on top.

> and provided military aid to Ukraine.

He held up Congressionally-mandated aid to try to force a quid pro quo from the Ukrainian government for propaganda to support Trump’s personal political efforts, releasing it only after he became aware that someone had blown the whistle on it.
And who described, designed and built AI algorithms? See the connection? /s
Oh, I see. If you click the timestamp on a comment, that view always has the reply form. Only in the thread view is the reply link hidden for the first few minutes after a comment is posted.

I'm familiar with Hume. The is-ought distinction has value, but is orthogonal to utilitarianism, if not explicitly opposed.
Missing Ref.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the...
Russia didn’t invade in 2022, the invasion started in 2014.
I was bullied pretty incessantly 12 - 16. It wasn't the worst, but it went on a long time. It had two effects on my life. My self confidence and self image were both very low for a long time - for example I was asked about by a girl and my response was just "why would you want anything to do with me". It also made me a bit of a bully myself during and afterwards. I'm glad I was able to think that through and stop it happening. I'm in my 40s now, these kind of thoughts still catch me out.

I've got my own kids now and we homeschool. Which is not really because of my own experience at school but still, friends with kids tell of the antics at school and I'm glad mine aren't involved in either side of those stories.
If you ever read ‘NATO Expanded’ it’s a Russian narrative. NATO never expanded, its members ask to join NATO because they don’t want their sovereign states to be occupied by barbarians as it happened with Ukraine’s east. Or they don’t want to be just bombed, as it happened with basically every place in Ukraine.
That's the weak anthropic principle.

The strong anthropic principle is: the puddle thinking how fortunate it is that there water at all
So I just need some fake ED pills and some nail polish remover to build an explosive(TATP)?
Some quirk of psychology. People can't even consider a dooms day scenario.

The turing test was a AI benchmark that everyone universally agreed upon. When LLMs blew past that benchmark everyone moved the goal posts and started acting as if it was obvious that the turing test is a bad test.

Beating the turing test was a paradigm shift and we didn't even notice. Sure move the goal posts if you want, but it doesn't change the fact that something fundamental about tech has changed.

It's possible we hit a paradigm shift that is foreshadowing a very very unknown future and many people may be to delusional to face it.
But that is true. According to the article you posted, a counter example _was_ found in less than 10^10
Lol, no, I had a brain fart. I was thinking it was 10^10^316.

There might be a problem with actually calculating the 317 digits though. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

The wiki article on Skewes number also notes that the bound has been lowered to 1.397162×10^316 in 2011.
With all the emoji in the README, this looks like a JS framework
Let's give it a go, send me your book and i'll send you back the output. Or title and maybe i can find it online somewhere.
As a Freelance Software Dev I make 200 to 300K a year. Live in a low tax country (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus etc.) you will have 10% total tax / social security.

COL will be about 20% of Bay Area so you can buy one or two houses every year from net income and be FIRE very quickly.