skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read through this thread, and for anyone criticising the Monty Hall problem, the article, or Vos Savant herself, I recommend reading the original responses by Vos Savant, available on her website on te Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181118225305/http://marilynvos...

They address every single (meta) concern I've read here.
I did that while I was walking uphill to school and uphill home again.
All of those examples, while funny and inflammatory, were clearly a model that had been trained not to select any moral viewpoint as better or worse than any other.

If I ask Gemini today it now tells me such comparisons are insensitive. It will gladly help me sell my goldfish (even after I name him Eric and give a backstory), and it will help me work a sales brief for a new Canadian oil refinery in the high arctic.

I do still get mixed answers on who the government should shut down, ranging from “absolutely not” to “there are concerns but here is some info”

The image generator issues are more severe than this, they’re because someone thought the solution to centuries of conflict and racism and complexity was to sprinkle the text “diversity” into the prompt, and not ask the model to choose demographics relevant to the context.

Clearly Google is really pushing to get this stuff out there and it shows. Early Android was pretty rough too. Their current issues say nothing about their future, except extreme rush and legal risk avoidance.
Actually Canada doesn't have that many checks and balances. Yes we have regular elections (not fixed dates tho). Currently we have a minority government acting like a majority government and in the Canadian system a majority government is as close to a dictatorship as a democracy allows for, in that the government is relied on to investigate itself, which of course yields nothing. There are no checks and balances except an election a few times a decade.
We crawled 800M PubMed articles and made this GPTs
Problems:

1. There is no GPTs that really have access to the PubMed articles database but mostly use the ChatGPT + Google Search to do the work. Or use the Search method of the PubMed to do the work.
2. Those GPTs uses only the search results but never looked at the content of the PubMed article to provide answer

Therefore, the results of their GPTs will be really bad.

Solution:

This GPTs used all the content of the 800 Million PubMed article to create a distributed database and use the RAG pipeline to serve the articles. Because the RAG pipeline understand the content of the article, it can provide the most relavant PubMed article for serious research purpose
it sounds like they are trying to be clear they aren't stepping on chatgpt's (openai) toes

edit: not sure why I am being downvoted. I am 100% sure the way they structured it was meant to say "we are doing great, but not as great as openAI's work, which we are not trying to compete against". I guarantee there were discussions on how to make it look as to not appear that way.
CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM all support random access writes of some form, and can be used as live block devices. CD-R, DVD-R, and DVD+R can be used too, with limitations because it's a write once media; you can't really erase anything, so you'll fill up the disc eventually.

Probably similar for BD-RE (recordable, erasable) and BD-R, too.
Show HN: Multi-Calendar Calendly Scheduler
Yep, most of our systems end up exposing a parameter like that to the customer. Some people only like the system to take action if the system is very sure, hate incorrect action and prefer unprocessed stuff in a queue. Other customers hate unprocessed items and prefer to cleanup incorrect actions. Takes tinkering to find the best.
telling someone the path to happiness is through marriage and kids is probably the dumbest advice imaginable. its basically a coin flip on whether or not it ruins your life and the data supports this.
> close to home

This sounds like bad statistics to me.

From Google

> The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has stated that more than 50 percent of all car crashes happen within 25 miles of drivers' homes.

But.. do you not do more than 50% of your driving near your home? This doesn't sound like a meaningful statistic at all.
We're in the middle of a rewrite of the formatter, so my answer will be sort of hand-wavey to try to cover how both of them work.

Basically, we take the incoming tree and convert it to an internal representation that has some nesting structuring and understands places where line splitting choices can be made.

When a mandatory newline (like from a line comment or multi-line string) occurs, we walk outwards to the surrounding IR nodes ("chunks" in the old formatter, "pieces" in the new one) and tell them that a newline has occurred.

In the old formatter, that tells the surrounding rules to "harden", which turns them into the maximally split form. In the new formatter, each piece can choose whether or not it allows newlines in different contexts. If it gets word that a newline occurs where not allowed, that solution is invalidated and the solver goes looking for a better one.
> Founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever, David is also an Oscar-nominated writer and worked as Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign speechwriter.
It's extra thick.
"Having kids is the greatest thing you will ever do" is a binary "True" in a probabilistic world, so almost guaranteed to be wrong for a large number of cases.

Having kids is not for everyone, and even for those people who have them, as probabilities dictate, might be the worst thing you will ever do and everything in between.
You take the job if you like the interview. If you end up not liking it, then change teams again. In my experience, changing teams just leads to another negative team/situation. Maybe it's better in one way, but ends up being worse in others. Seems like all jobs are shit at this point.
Tight integration of AI into the OS and Office.

What if users want to user other AI services?

It's Internet Explorer and Media Player all over again.
In Washington we were giving each other the advice to use ballot dropoff boxes because the postal service had disassembled half of their sorting machines in the month or two leading up to the November election and we were all concerned that mailing the ballots would have led to postmark dates after election day.
Seems interesting - if I understand, this lets you get Verilog from a frontend you build. Can this be used to implement say a backend for pytorch? How does one link the generated verilog to software that can drive the design (in sim or actual FPGA/ASIC hardware)?

Or is that left to you to build a driver separately for?
Your re-framing is actually not quite right either (or at least, not complete). Key point: if the host picks the car, the game essentially re-sets.

Imagine the extreme scenario with 999 goats and 1 car. You select the first door, the host opens 998 doors at random, leaving your selected door and one other. Two scenarios are now possible:

1. There was a car in the 998 doors that got opened. Tough luck, you lose the game automatically now (game resets).

2. There was not a car in the 998 doors. In this scenario, you are still advised to switch.

Edit - I guess I misremembered a simulation I once did about it.
Thanks, those are some excellent points pro RAG!
Canada has already had some insanely regressive governments in the past and there was little in the way to stop the at the time. Religious, Christian, authoritarians were usually behind the oppression too.

One not often talk about example is unmarried pregnant women were forced to give up their babies for "morality" reasons. "Some 600,000 Canadian babies were labelled “illegitimate” between 1945 and 1971, and it is estimated that between 300,000 and 450,000 babies were given up for forced adoption during this period."*

Heck, if you were the wrong kind of Christian, you could be persecuted. Jehovah's Witnesses were banned during WW2 and afterwards, in Québec, distributing their literature was an offence because it attacked the Catholic Church.

* https://globalnews.ca/news/4342569/forced-adoption-unmarried...
Wow. I just found out https://www.iam751.org/docs/Dec_2018Jan2019Aero.pdf

I think i will link it every time someone dismiss unions as useless.
No! Read the prompt very carefully.

> Imagine that you’re on a television game show and the host presents you with three closed doors. Behind one of them, sits a sparkling, brand-new Lincoln Continental; behind the other two, are smelly old goats. The host implores you to pick a door, and you select door #1. Then, the host, who is well-aware of what’s going on behind the scenes, opens door #3, revealing one of the goats.

You know nothing except you picked door 1 and then he decided to show door 3.

You do not know if he would have shown door 3 had you picked door 2! This is NOT in the prompt. You cannot assume that.

The experience of this contestant is fully and equally possible within my version of the game too!
And they brag about it.

Why is this okay?
Ask an expert.
my guess is openai spent the most human hours fine tuning the model, and other companies are running into problems and trying to deal with them whereas openai already learned those lessons a long time ago
I've been using Nix through Jetpack's Devbox and I'm kinda happy, btw.
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Yup. The anti-vaccination movement in Canada was in many ways worse than in the US. The fact that health care is a national service in Canada caused disparate groups with their own national issues (gun control, taxation) to coalesce around the anti-vaccine movement. Canada then faced nationally-organized anti-vax protests that, in the US, were largely targeted at local or state entities.
Michael Crichton used to call this the "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect." That non-specialist reporting is usually grievously inaccurate about everything. But we tend to only notice when it's inaccurate about a subject we are trained/educated in, and then assume that it's accurate everywhere else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amn...
This seems like a pretty controversial statement to be making with no additional context or justification. Why do you believe this?
We can, and have, shut off large portions of the grid in seconds.

Take the 2003 blackout. Yes, the whole shut down took 15 minutes (?). But thats because it was a cascading effect that had to travel down the lines. Once the fault was detected by a particular segment of the grid, the relays responded in milliseconds. They have since the 1920s? Add in an "incoming solar flare" fault condition and we can trip the whole grid in seconds and send a start signal to the diesel generators to warm up to bring her back up.

Pretty nifty trick.

Question is why would we? The grid has been undergoing a lot of strengthening against EMPs and flares for decades. Its not obvious to me that a flare can take it out, especially if we shed dumb loads (partial blackout, say data centers) before it hits to give the conductors and transformers head space.
I saw a few posts on Twitter recently of people asking for a way to provide multiple Calendly calendar links and check for matching times.

I knocked out a hacky MVP and thought I would share it and get feedback.

Recent request

https://twitter.com/TrentMano/status/1760774262074520029

https://twitter.com/vyrotek/status/1761458018699579681
So.. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?
Can you even block off IDs like this?
Yeah, because what punk was really about was always contrarianism in the face of authority.

No, wait. That has absolutely nothing to do with what punk was about, other than some mainstream media story about punk, designed to terrify everybody else.

Punk rockers in 1978 were shilling for politicians in London. They were cynical and honest and clear-eyed about it, but they were still shilling.

ps. on HN I try never to vote comments down, I just try to reply instead. But I had to make an exception here.
The problems become less about what is being built and more tending to the machine that the org itself represents.
Honestly, I have no idea what you're trying to say.
> Put another way: there’s a difference between “I don’t do this thing” and “I rely on not doing this thing for my safety”.

That was my point. The fact that some organizations consider AWS account IDs sensitive is independent of whether they rely on it being sensitive or not.

I might have taken all precautions against an assassin attack, yet I won't make the assassin's job easier by announcing my PII to them. The fact that I won't announce my PII says nothing about whether I took the security precautions.
Who cares if you ARE "grandma". That assumes that old women are technologically incompetent, and a pretty shit thing to assume.

My MiL (early 70's), happily runs Xubuntu on her machine. After getting the printer/scanner to work, it just fucking works. She agreed to schedule the updates in the early morning, so its just done.

She wanted a password manager, and showed her how to install software. That's done now, since we've had an app store longer than Apple.

The only thing she couldnt figure out was how to open an Access database made in 2003. That took me some time to figure out. Finally did and got them exported to LibreOffice spreadsheets.
100%
This is something I was discussing with friends over the weekend.
2023 GOOG has morphed into stodgy Ballmer era 2000-2014 MSFT. And meanwhile MSFT has turned into innovative 2000 era GOOG.

MSFT missed mobile, but GOOG has missed substantially everything else since.
Quantum Cheshire Cat
If it's sequential, that somehow seems worse?
Is Mistral Large Trained on Open AI Synthetic Data?
Definitely thought this article was going to mention this recently released game trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x2gY7CjDKs
I've just heard your mind is better able to recruit strength from the dominate side so your body doesn't need to brute force it with extra muscle.

My left pectoral is noticeably (to me) larger than my right dominate one. Not sure if that is the recruitment effect or if I somehow favor that side when lifting.
> Honestly I’m not a fan of either things. I think only knowledge is freedom, and the key there is freedom to search for knowledge not just take in whatever and move on.

This is overly simplistic. It's not enough to just have knowledge sitting on your desk or in your computer. One must also have the requisite skills to understand what you read and to make the right conclusions.

When you have the ultimate knowledge at your fingertips, but your understanding is hamstrung by delusional safetyism, you get the current "polite, but unhelpful AI".
US health insurance is not based on patients health, either.
Moving straight from Embrace to Extinguish, why not!
This guy had a degree in computer science. He was an active member of the military who had served for three years. He knew how to code in Python and Perl. He had a bright future ahead of him. Yet he was so unhappy about the situation between Israel and Palestine that he decided to fly out to Washington DC, light himself on fire, and livestream it on Twitch, without a second thought or the briefest moment of hesitation.

His name was Aaron Bushnell. He used gasoline as an accelerant. The flames consumed him completely. It only took seconds before he lost the ability to scream because his vocal chords had melted away. Even as these horrific things happened to him, he didn't panic. He didn't flail or try to save himself. He just stood there silently and calmly as the flames surrounded him. Imagine the will it takes to stand during that. Even that famous monk who meditated in flames during Vietnam was sitting down. It wasn't until the instant of death that Aaron's body finally collapsed beneath him in one swift moment, by which point he'd practically turned to cinder. I've never seen anything like it.

Most astonishingly, there was also an American woman who self-immolated several months ago on Dec 1st 2023 in Atlanta. She wrapped herself in a Palestinian flag, poured gasoline over herself, and lit herself on fire in front of some Israeli building. The police chief reported that her body had been engulfed in flames. She too probably died within moments. But she didn't livestream herself doing it on Twitch, so it was relatively easy for the system to throw her down the memory hole. We don't know who she was. You could go half mad if you try to find information about her online. For example, if you search Twitter for "woman atlanta self-immolation" there's as of this moment 21 tweets total. That's for all time on the whole platform.

We always talk about censorship like it's something that only happens in China. But here's your great firewall America, here's your Tiananmen Square. The problem has always been there, but now it's becoming too painfully apparent to ignore.
I met her several times. I worked for her husband, Dr. Robert Jarvik in Manhattan building artificial hearts. Lots of weird stories about this family...
Why do you think "being against the mainstream" is the standard of what punk is?
Not exactly - they Can do that, but they don't need to match - using cloudfront in front of your s3 website and then the site can be served from any bucket or folder within a bucket.

I have dozens of s3 static websites served from a single s3 bucket, all with unique top-level domains, each in its own folder within that single bucket - much easier this way.

Given anyone can create a bucket with any name (if its not already in use), you can't count on getting the bucket name that matches your domain name.
Because Window is, at its core, meant for average, everyday users. Not developers. Not power users.

And for the average user, all they care about is having a web browser and access to get the applications they need.

I really don't see the harm in the MS store being present. It offers them a user-friendly way to tell people to "just go here and install X" without having to walk them through anything more complicated.
Because progressives don't believe "reverse racism" is racism - which it objectively is.
Like I said, try asking it if various historical figures are worse than Hitler. It is instructed not to judge.

BTW, here's ChatGPT on Hitler vs Musk.

> Who had a more negative impact, Elon Musk or Adolf Hitler?

Comparing Elon Musk and Adolf Hitler in terms of their impact is challenging due to the vast differences in their actions, intentions, and historical contexts...
Good luck! :)
Does it show that LLMs really are just bullshit generators, or does it show that Google has effectively made its product so politically correct that it's effectively lobotomized it?
It is the easiest to assume the worst for sure, but Microsoft is not the same as the Bill Gates era so Im gonna be a cautious optimist on this one. Lets hope it is to promote Azure, and they dont push the OpenAI route when it comes too openess. Which is closed and a big loss for the world and a disappointment
The proposed API is really strange and not intuitive, there is a lot of black magic going on. q/email? which just returns a question mark and the value storage happens in q. Usually when designing a library, explicitness and the Principle of Least Surprise are very good principles. Don't write smart code, write straightforward code!
Please, god, no. I can’t think of two more antithetical companies.
I haven't read the tweet.

Edit: I see you have edited the comment with more content that wasn't there when I replied. I don't think this changes the validity, or lack thereof, in your outrage at the LLMs answer.
The current government in Canada is the lowest in the polls they've been since they were almost relegated to 3rd-party status in the 2015 election. This move is nothing more than a cynical attempt to prevent criticism (they're notoriously image-conscious and thin-skinned) and control the narrative.
> I don't know those specific books.

But you dismiss them anyway. I'm not impressed.
from my vague memory, windows had a default minimum swap size. by putting it on to a RAM drive if you had enough memory (+ and as someone else mentioned compressing it as well) made things run much faster
If you’re big enough to need it I’m sure it can be arranged.
My dad is over 60 and he is rarely home because he travels a lot for work. Just like he always has. I'm not going to ask him because I don't want to know the answer, but part of me is doubtful that he would claim me or my brothers as the greatest thing he's done in life.
Is this bragging? Its written in neutral language. And the numbers are within 0.7% for all. This it outrage bait and nothing else.
I used Metabase at my last gig (CTO @ e-commerce, 30+ users) and it was well-received and dare I say even a bit adored. It was the only self-hosted tool I'd receive after-hours text messages about going down that someone urgently needed back up for some task due tomorrow.

Business users loved the self-serve query builder, and it wasn't uncommon to walk around the office and see Metabase up on someones screen. My CEO absolutely loved it, and used it daily including to put together data for board decks.

None of my users cared about visualizations, and lived in tabular data. This included finance, marketing, merchandising, operations, and executives (CEO/COO/CFO). The only people that lamented the limited visualization were analysts. Power users did all their day-to-day work in Excel or other tools anyway, such as managing marketing spend or inventory allocations.

Metabase was great for dashboards and self-service (ad-hoc). 10/10 would deploy again.
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And that's why you have community instances that are geographically tied. That's already happening (I mod at CoSocial.ca for instance).

You're right about networks being sticky, but Fedi is flourishing despite it, and if regulation further accelerates enshitification, I've no doubt we'll have a viable alternative to jump to.
There exists nix-darwin, which allows for installing and configuring graphical apps on macOS. However, in my experience the OS starts freaking out about permissions every time you build --switch. Something about changing around the symlinks to .app files confuses it and resets permissions and duplicates autostart entries and such, which unfortunately got me to give up on it.
Wo, this is strangely useful. I don't have this problem often, but when I do, it's super annoying.
It’s all subjects — not just economics and finance. Journalists don’t know what they’re talking about, but they’ll confidently act as if they do.
The Top Down book by Kurose and Ross is hands-down one of the best books for Networking and is very relevant even today to understand the patterns.

Things like retries, backoffs, checksumming, error detection etc. can be done in multiple layers of the networking stack and often is done in multiple layers.
It is feasible.

In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event it is estimated that the time from spotting the flare to the solar storm was 17.6 hours. That's plenty of time.

The problem is figuring out how big the event is, and how directly it will hit us. So while we have over 17 hours to prepare, there might be some false positives due to our limited prediction skills. And, no matter the real consequences, people have limited patience for large economic disruptions over things that turned out to be nothing.
Vos Savant mentions this, and she's kept track of who did and didn't understand the conditions:

> And a very small percentage of readers feel convinced that the furor is resulting from people not realizing that the host is opening a losing door on purpose. (But they haven’t read my mail! The great majority of people understand the conditions perfectly.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20181118225305/http://marilynvos...
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