skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As other commenters have mentioned, I’ve noticed that people generally tend to fall into one of two groups: those who think out loud and those who process internally. (And I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not, but almost all of the managers I have had in my career have been the former.)

I tend to think internally, and while I usually have a clear vision in my head of how a system works, if I try to translate that mental model on-the-fly into an explanation for others, it typically comes out as an incoherent jumble of loosely related phrases.

To that extent, I much prefer written communication. It gives me time to convert the thoughts in my head into English, and I typically iterate on what I’ve written down quite a few times until I’m satisfied with it (including Hacker News comments for example).

The one exception to being a “slow thinker” is if the discussion involves a topic I know very well and someone says something that is incorrect or inconsistent. While I can’t necessarily articulate my own ideas immediately on the spot, I do seem to be able to quickly identify and explain flaws in deductive reasoning or come up with examples that highlight inconsistencies.

I’m not sure I necessarily like that my brain defaults to looking for flaws in arguments rather than reasons to support them, but my own internal process of generating ideas consists of a cycle of proposing an idea to myself followed by immediately trying to find ways to shoot it down (such that whatever ideas survive this mental gauntlet are decent ones I guess). But I think this approach had the unfortunate side effect of optimizing the “quick thinking” part of my brain into that of an inconsistency-detector rather than a rapid brainstorming mechanism.
wasnt it created to do this on purpose?
You're probably lacking webgl HW accleration.

https://webglreport.com/ , or check about:support if you're on firefox.
It helps for a lot of things that would otherwise require searching the web and/or scrolling long pages: pronounces, grammar, general (and even somewhat specific) history/science/arts concepts, draft formal text, improving phrasing, simple/direct technical questions.

However:

- it requires some level of fact checking

- it subtly reduces my personal retaining of information for technical concepts

- (in my personal experience), it largely fails on highly technical questions
Our future overlords would not judge the writers of such tests kindly.
It seems "local" is all you need :)
Sufficient impact to require rebuilding houses or other buildings on a single decade scale?

I cannot see that sort of rapid rebuilding anywhere I know. I live in a house that is about 60 years old. I have friends who live in houses centuries old. Not come across anyone who needs to change very much to cope with climate change, apart from things to reduce emissions (mostly installing heat pumps can be difficult)

The built environment also needs to handle a lot of variation anyway.

I can certainly see a drastic impact in some places: low lying land (I would be very worried if I was Dutch or Maldivian. I might be quite worried if I was living in Norfolk) , but its not everywhere.
This makes me want to grow peppers
Entering unknown knowledge domain on subject. AI helps get up and running way faster introducing you to terminology and what to follow up (search) afterwards. Helps grasp concepts faster.

I'm strong at PowerShell but haven't touched Hyper-V VM creation - I wanted to automate it. So I asked some questions on how I want my VM configured and it gave out a great starting point of powershell commands and parameters I need to use.
Potential Benefits and Pitfalls of Data Centre Heat Export
That’s pretty wild. Seems like it creates perverse incentive to commit physical hate crimes. If the consequences between advocacy and action are sufficiently proximal, it becomes optimal choose the course with the most “benefit” to the actor.
The standard reading is : "hardware wins".

But there is a second part.

"The second general point to be learned from the bitter lesson is that the actual contents of minds are tremendously, irredeemably complex; we should stop trying to find simple ways to think about the contents of minds, such as simple ways to think about space, objects, multiple agents, or symmetries. All these are part of the arbitrary, intrinsically-complex, outside world. They are not what should be built in, as their complexity is endless; instead we should build in only the meta-methods that can find and capture this arbitrary complexity. Essential to these methods is that they can find good approximations, but the search for them should be by our methods, not by us. We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done."

This is proving quite tendentious at the moment. Do we want agents that discover like we can? The clattering impact of rogue models, even when they are being used just to make pretty pictures - as opposed to engineering diagrams, patient care plans, fraud investigations.... is making me, and many others wonder. In fact some of the projects that are supporting the discovery of precision like alphafold might be the most promising?
Break even points —just like outsourcing development. At some point it makes sense to offshore and at some point you want to keep some work stateside.

It’s about tradeoffs. There is a point where it makes economic sense to send that work to Mexico.
Thank you for sharing- upon reflection I should have been looking for primary source evidence like this instead of reading too deeply into Wikipedia pages, as someone else pointed out. I will definitely be more careful in the future.

Could I ask how you would normally go about trying to find memos like this for other companies?
The automatic restart could definitely work (since graceful is enough and doesn't cause downtime). Though it's better if unnecessary stuff isn't done on the server.

The other option with MDMessageCmd, would require (on a SELinux distro) to grant Apache command exec permissions, among other tweaks.

What would be better in this case were if Apache could message via DBus these events and I could make a dbus service that listens and restarts accordingly (better execution isolation).

If Apache would do internally the certificate swap, now that would be perfect.
"Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." Bill Gates
Speakz actually generates subtitles as a byproduct. The idea is that you put in a video, you select the target languages. And then you get out, for each target language, an audio track and an SRT subtitles file.

Someone else here asked about generating only subtitles, with no audio, as a cheaper option. So I'll probably add that as an option.
Phenomenon also known as Esprit de l'escalier : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier

I suffer from it myself and i'm definitely better at answering by email than in an oral discussion when i'm overwhelmed by thoughts and can't focus on one.
The bash command line chatgpt interface has saved me many many context switches. You can essentially ask "command to convert all files in this folder to X, and do y, z", and it'll output the command and even run it if you like the command it outputs. This should be the standard interface for ffmpeg, which is basically unusable without stackoverflow. This has also helped me learn a ton of new linux commands!

I have recently been using chatgpt to estimate calories from pictures or descriptions. The few times I've checked, it's pretty accurate and is OK about providing ranges where it's uncertain.

I also ask it to tally calories for a day. It's got a chart of calories accumulated for me. It's so much easier than any app.

I often use copilot to avoid looking up syntax for things I should remember. I'll just comment / ask what I'm trying to do and it'll tab-complete that line. I rarely use it for boilerplate or larger amounts of code. But that one use saves me tons of time and context switches and is totally worth it.

I use ChatGPT for rough fermi-style questions. "How much does a cell phone weigh" etc. So much quicker than google, and better.

I often use ChatGPT to have an interactive learning session about surface details of a field I'm interested in. It allows me to find hooks into wikipedia or other search engines for specific topics to read more about, and to get questions answered quickly. It is second to none for this type of interaction and is really incredible.

Midjourney has taken hours of my life the last day or two. I love generating images in the style of this or that. For example, I'm creating schematics / blueprints for flying warships from the game highfleet, and printing them because they look cool. It adds some nerdy flair to my office. When I worked for NASA, my colleagues would do that for rover parts they've worked on, so I like the idea of capturing video game stuff as though it were important. If midjourney had a "buy print" button on it, it'd be dangerous and lucrative.

I feel like there's a couple startup ideas in this post.
Alternatively is we simply pooled assets and introduced competition into care delivery, health maintenance, and care quality I expect that the system would be more efficient and effective.

That’s effectively what much of the rest of the wealthy world does via some form of socialized/nationalized system.
You do like robusta then? You're right, that is interesting. Saves you a lot of money I bet.
That seems mostly to be talking about rising sea levels etc.

I read GP as talking about the positive impact on GDP of rebuilding, and with the intent of pointing out that GDP is a flawed metric.
I think the key part is reminding people that it’ll be worse if we don’t act. The work of adapting won’t be cheap but it’s positive work in the right direction, boosting GDP when it would otherwise be falling chaotically.
Ah, that’s really disappointing (although not a surprise, really).

I know they took some heat in 2021 for calling out Uyghur labour, but I suppose actually riding it from their supply chain is too difficult and too expensive.
RAG:

1. First you create embeddings from your documents

2. Store that in a vector db

3. Ask what the user wants and do a search in the vector db (cosine similarity etc)

4. Feed the relevant search results to your LLM and do the usual LLM stuff with the returned embeddings and chunks of the documents
I don’t mind I mention it all the time.
I'm not onboard the AI hype train (see my comment history). But I do use ChatGPT on occasion as a sort of specialized/niche/synthesizing search engine. For example:

- English is not my native language, and prepositions give me constant trouble. I've used ChatGPT to check whether a turn of phrase is idiomatic, if I'm using the right preoposition, etc.

- ffmpeg command lines! "I have a MOV file that I want to resize to 720p, taking the audio track from this external MP3 file, and putting the resulting streams in a MP4 container". It gives me the command line, works most of the time. Same for some esoteric bash loop constructs.

- High-level overview of things. "How does my short film become Oscars-eligible?" It tells me things. I ask follow-up questions on the original answer.

- Detailed facts. "Explain why a wide-open lens has a shallower depth of field than if I stop it down".

Basically I don't trust it to generate new ideas, but it seems to be OK at answering specific questions about facts that can be synthesized from existing online sources. I'm sure these kind of questions have been asked online a million times, so I expect it to get the answers (posted by a human) and customize them to my specific use case.
The key to why I use AI is basically their tailored and to the point answers. Google tries to find prewritten blog posts etc. that may or may not hit the mark, and to get there you probably also have to wade through lots of ads and cruft and allow so many cookies to be stored. This often saves me a lot of time.

These tailored answers can even be tailored to different perspectives. You simply ask for the perspective you're looking for. E.g. "what is the problem with solar farms from a Republican perspective?"

But yes, one also needs to take care because due to how an AI is trained, they may have an innate bias and viewpoint even when asking for a different one. I've found that such "personal" points of view in conflict with some other are usually made pretty clear though if you're asking for another view. So it doesn't use to be hard to separate the two as both are plainly and separately made available in the reply if this happens.

But yeah, that's basically it for me. Tailored answers to my questions, as well as the generation aspect of course, where it can generate text or image content which Google can't.
>IME the point of health insurance is simply to collect premiums and not to pay out.

ACA's medical loss ratio provisions basically makes this impossible: https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/med...

That's not to say they're not incentivized to deny claims. If you are loose with what you pay out, you could lose money by paying out more than you take in.
I would have to ask my friends there to be sure, but AFAIK the campaign was successful, despite the plans being entrenched by long term contracts.

It is a pretty good example of why long term complex outsourcing is a bad idea.
You mean Tsimane’ people?

My hypothesis is that they don't have preference toward harmonic intervals, because they are not able to hear them.

Similar to the fact that absolute pitch is more common in musicians. Just possessing necessary genes for perfect pitch is not enough. You also need to develop it at a young age, presumably through exposure to pitched sounds repetition.
if we define surge pricing as being incentivized to shift activity to another time, then arguably it's already there for Americans. If I call 911 and take an ambulance to the ER, it's gonna cost me way more out of pocket just to get there even before I see a doctor. If I schedule an appointment and see my PCP in a couple of weeks, all I pay is there deductible. So I'm incentivized not to go to the ER for some minor thing that can wait until I can get to the cheaper urgent care in the morning, or my PCP in a week or two.

The math for happy hour looks like a similar thing, but it's not, because alcohol. drunk people do dumb things and one of those things is not leave and spend money and be entertaining, among other things.
If anything, that clip proves the inverse. Jobs didn’t blurt out meaningless words to buy himself time to think, he stopped in silence to gather his thoughts and respond.
> The hard part of programming is building and maintaining a useful mental model of a complex system. The easy part is writing code.

This expresses something I've felt when exploring the tech quite well.
I'd love what they suggested as well, for other languages. I'm working on improving my French (and occasionally German), and I'm at a stage where I can follow along some French shows reasonably well if they're not speaking too fast (one of the first French phrases my French teacher in school taught us was "plus lentement, s'il vous plaît" - "slower/slowly please", for a reason), and if they're not speaking any particularly difficult accents, and not too much slang, but it's limiting and I'm often forced to keep English subtitles on as a consequence and it's sometimes too much of a crutch. It doesn't help that my hearing isn't what it was.

Being able to "step down" the difficulty so that I can either turn off subtitles entirely or rely on French subtitles, or even much "difficult speech" and "simple subtitles" or vice versa seems like it'd be very useful in getting over that hump faster.
A prop from a 1980s sci-fi "b movie"
Is it possible to create really reliable guard rails at all? And aren't those not just stifling undesirable but also better responses? Why not leave the rails off and leave it to users to guard themselves and perhaps suggest better prompts?

As it is, covering up only some of the shortcomings, I think users are inclined to take the results too seriously, not taking possible hallucinations and ingrained prejudices into account.
If absolutely no one cares about PWAs, is this entirely thread, and those elsewhere, a figment of my imagination?

> as I said to a first approximation no one cares about PWAs

What you said was that no users care. That is fine: users shouldn't need to care. Users don't need to care about such implementation details if developers are free to choose the best tool for the job.

> why aren’t they more popular on Android - 70% of the market?

Largely because the apps have already been developed and there is no point rewriting for new tech just for its own sake. And for things like games (the main thing that has been mentioned here as not being done as PWAs ATM) a PWA might not be the best tool for the job as native can give better performance in some areas.

PWAs are more attractive for new projects, and those that don't need to take advantage of being closer to the hardware.
Sooo, short Nvidia?
Youtube Shorts, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter... basically any 'infinite feed' of content is no different from channel surfing of yore, which I think is also harmful to our brain and attention span.
This is never an issue in reality. They would have a common language, and know each other in some way.
He's the main lead in developing a model called chinchilla, which at that time provided results as good as those of gpt-3
"Avoid 'quick decision' situations"

That's a great way to hear god laugh. Jokes aside - if the quick decision can be "walked back" or is not detrimental if you decide wrong then it doesn't matter and you should probably decide quickly to get through the "maze of life"
Or maybe if they hadn't fired a bunch of people whose job it was to say "I think you're over-correcting here" and with strong arguments and supporting data who cannot be so easily dismissed as cranks from the minority because it's an actual job function. This reads like the people blaming DNI for declines in software quality after a decade if eliminating quality assurance as a normal and expected participant in development. WTF? Eyes on the prize here. This is about getting it done how we expect it to be done, what ever that may be. Why are we shipping bugs? Because we don't value the function of identifying them and determining the scope of their impact and the relative urgency of addressing. We don't empower anyone to who knows what's going on to stop ship any more. What happened to that? Agree on the target and then hit it. Or don't agree on the target, but hit it none the less. That means understanding your stuff before you ship it and you pay people to do that for you. Boeing cuts the same corners. It's just plain negligence and it's completely unsustainable. Stop letting fear of falling behind lead to failed releases and empower the proper teams to evaluate so you know what's going out the door before your customers do.
My unorthodox contribution is an Intel Optane drive as a swap drive to give my CPU only box 96GB of ram to work with.
Is there actually a big difference in the p and b sounds? Eg. Finnish p sounds about halfway between English p and b, same with k and g, t and d. What you're describing sounds like an emphasis rule that probably comes naturally when speaking with the proper accent.
Selling a put has a fixed downside, so perhaps selling a naked call would be more appropriate? Unlimited loss potential! :^)
You don’t have to commit to Google OR ChatGPT.

I use ChatGPT for questions with some relatively long wording and also for queries that I know will have tons of ads and SEO-spam.

An example: yesterday I tried searching for board games that are cooperative and best played by two people. Google showed a lot of ads, very old outdated blog and forum posts. I had to navigate for some time to gather a list of games. A lot of open tabs, a lot of scrolling, a lot of ad closing.

I asked the same question on ChatGPT and it immediately gave me a clean list. With a few different good games that wasn’t in my Google-based list.

Then I went to BGG to check the games, as you can’t trust ChatGPT that much, but you also can’t trust that much listicles from Google.

Using both worked better than committing to one or another. Still, in this case (and many others) I think exploratory search on ChatGPt is better than Google. As I check the results later on a site (not Google) that has authority on it
>The industry as a whole is insanely profitable. Revenue is $1.4 trillion. It posts profits of around $650bn. Which means on average it extracts around $2000 of profit from every single person in the US, with an average individual healthcare spend of more than $4000.

Source for these numbers? 0.65 billion in profits on 1.4 billion in revenue is an insane margin
What do you consider to be north?
Tell HN: My e-paper calendar can now display a months' worth of events [almost]
Since I first started posting about my eink calendar, this site has been a constant stream of support - through candid feedback, suggestions and also through sharing my product with a wider audience.

One frequent request was a monthly view for the events.

I have finally made this possible - almost: I had to limit it to the next 3 weeks, to make do with the not-so-huge display size.

https://shop.invisible-computers.com/blogs/news/multi-week-calendar-views-on-an-e-paper-display
Amazing work as always.

Is it just me who sees diagonal lines on the first interactive graphic? Are they a bug? They appear after a little while, fade out, then reappear

https://gist.github.com/RobinL/aa4a5e14d35e61e46c1e99c8198d0...
The Era of 1-Bit LLMs: All Large Language Models Are in 1.58 Bits
I would imagine cloudbleed shook the company severely. I doubt the decision to abandon C/C++ caused a lot of ill will within the company. Considering the level of exposure Cloudflare software has, it is I think a very level headed decision.
Mastering the Freemium Model: An Engineer's View
The freemium model involves offering significant value upfront at no charge, reducing entry barriers and encouraging users to sample your service. This post examines the factors contributing to its success for businesses.
Yes, but if I recall my personal life correctly, there were many holdouts of Hanja use as recently as the 1980s and 1990s. I remember seeing my dad’s newspapers were full of Chinese characters and were nearly unreadable for me. Hanja was also heavily taught while I was in grade school. Now, I don’t think it is, or at least nowhere near to the same extent?

There are still people (mostly elderly arch-conservatives) that bemoan the decline of Hanja use in Korean society, much like how some conservative Catholics bemoan not having Latin Mass.

Kind of like the Greek vs. Latin discussion in that recent thread on the Byzantine Empire, even after Hangul was invented, knowing Hanja was probably a sign of being educated, elite, or part of the nobility. Nowadays no one cares other than as a curiosity.
Hey, i bought it, nice work!

A few things:

* The main thing that makes ChatGPTs ui useful to me is the ability to change any of my prompts in the conversation & it will then go back to that part of the converation and regenerate, while removing the rest of the conversation after that point.

Such a chat ui is not usable for me without this feature.

* The feedback button does nothing for me, just changes focus to chrome.

* The LLaVA model tells me that it can not generate images since it is a text based AI model. My prompts were "Generate an image of ..."