skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did something similar [1], where the text based game being a Text Interface (TI) that provides model a view and a set of actions. The model repeatedly interacts with TI to achieve a goal.

In the current implementation, Text Interface allows the model to list files, open a file, and search within a file to find what it needs to satisfy the goal.

With my current set of prompts, the model is able to backtrack when it fails to find relevant info in the current file. However, I couldn't get it work with GPT-3.5. Only GPT-4 is capable to reason its way through the Text Interface.

[1] https://github.com/ash80/backtracking_gpt
Don't worry, there are always Alabama and Mississippi.
Not about the article, but... I find it ironic that a pop-up with the title "We value your privacy" makes me accept 1532 partners to sell my data to.
the IRS doesn't require IAL2 for other preparers, like TurboTax. Why would they impose it on themselves?
Yeah, $15 for a markdown editor that's locked to a maximum of 3 devices that I don't even control is a tall ask. OPs program is significantly more attractive.
> You foul caldron of ulcerated flying squirrel detritus

I kinda like this one.
As a passenger, the A321neo is such a nice plane to fly on, second only to the A380.
Result (like most bad internet legislation): More content on the internet will be pushed towards one of a few centralized websites (Reddit, Twitter, etc.) which have enough content to dilute it and/or lawyers to handle it.
If a Private Equity group decided to buy them out and restructure, it would make a fascinating case study. If some radical restructuring does happen, I hope they bring along a film crew to make a documentary in the process.
Snakes and the Adjacent Possible
You will enjoy being the product.
Perfect is the enemy of good enough. The call to action is to ensure, through pressure, that the desired outcome is reached. Are we on track? It appears so.
Ah, I see where the misunderstanding came from. In my

"this reads like a fairly classic inflight turbulence encounter"

"classic" was not meant to say it was something necessarily common, but something that is well understood happens, with a high enough probability of being encountered in the lifetime of an airframe.

Case-in-point being the Emirates flight from December, with similar ceiling damage, and similar passengers/crew injuries.
If Apple was a monopoly, sure. But Apple is not a monopoly.
These are excellent questions. I was using AI in the seemingly typical way people use to today, to refer to large neural network systems.

But yes, part of the issue around these laws and indeed the whole discussion is a lack of nuance about what exactly people even mean when they say AI. If I were to switch to my computer science context, then yes, I view ML as a subset of AI, an even view logic systems and rules systems as a subset of AI too. I doubt that the average person is thinking of PCA or even word embeddings when they say "AI" today, and that's a huge problem.

Many of the risks these AI regulation laws are worried about apply equally well to both simpler than LLM systems, and even apply to basic statistics and data aggregating. In my opinion risk mitigation laws should not be specific to AI, but be problem focused instead.

Similarly, "AI training bans" for say web content would also be far improved with more nuance. Many laypeople argue that banning AI training doesn't ban web indexing. But based on my professional training I would not personally implement even a basic tf-idf system on any data that has "AI training banned" as tf-idf is a basic AI system according to the strict definition.

We'd do far better being more explicit, and banning perhaps "generative AI systems" or "AI systems that are capable of generating substantial subsets of the content." It wouldn't be perfect but it would be a hell of a lot better than the trajectory we're on today.
You don’t have to file that form anymore (for years now…)
The headline chosen by the publication is a bit misleading, as the surgeons didn't wear the Vision Pro during surgery. But it does sound like the tool has potential, from info emphasized by 9to5Mac [1]:

"The surgeon, Syed Aftab, said that because the scrub nurse could see all of the information from the surgery plan, referencing it in real time during the operation, it effectively allowed them to work as efficiently as someone who had worked alongside him for years. Mr Aftab praised the software and said it turned a scrub nurse he had never worked with into someone with ten years’ experience. He said that the technology would ‘superpower’ his operating team into the equivalent of a Formula One pit crew."

The surgeon's opinion is glowing, but does not explore the disadvantages of the technology, nor if viable alternatives exist. I'd be interested to hear about more details on the potential downsides of the technology, and what plans there are for redundancies if the software or hardware fails during surgery.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/12/vision-pro-used-in-surgery/
Using it in prod right now, not a fan. It will gleefully create a root ssh tunnel for you through its daemon if the box on the website is checked.
That has happened to me and my dad in separate cases, but each time it took about a year and a half, not five.
probably easier to ask Elon to start building airplanes
I wonder if the backlash against "AI" will grow to be enough to keep us from hell.
I used to use Marktext and Typora for this.
Regarding outlines, when I was younger, I was always frustrated by the idea that I should somehow be able to summarize something I hadn’t written yet. It just did not compute.

In my professional life, I’ve found that I do start with outlines, but only for specific forms of writing. I spent a bunch of time writing instructional/tutorial content. Stuff like “How to achieve <outcome> using <feature(s)> in <product>”.

I was starting from a position of having expert product knowledge and having to boil that down into a useful post for people who were either beginners, or had knowledge of the product, just not how to achieve <outcome>.

Starting with outlines helped me think about what things this audience would find most useful before diving into the writing process. But that was just a starting point, and the outline would evolve quickly as I got into the actual writing process.

Outside of this, I’ve never found outline-before-writing useful, and see this as an iterative or post-writing exercise if I want to see a high level overview/arc of the content.
They've got at least one already

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/boom-yc-w16-is-building-an-...
Right, undergraduate physicist (Stonecipher), MBA (McNerney), engineer (Mullenberg) and now an accountant (Calhoun). Jack Welch, similarly, was a chemical engineer. (I was counting Stonecipher in my series, but you’re right.)

Plenty have looked for the connection. It hasn’t surfaced. The problem is short-term incentives, a lack of a principled culture and corruption. We each like to think our in group is immune from those forces, and some certainly are more than others, but none in totality.
Americans are very comfortable doing things that they condemn in other countries. They only need some silly explanation that ends with liberty or democracy, and they will do anything other countries do.
My view is opposite.

"inability to think outside of the switching frequencies of a silicon chip"

Why can't you "think outside", and conceptualize that this 'internal subjective experience' we are having, is not unique, and could be taking place inside a silicon based NN?

It helps to meditate and observe your own thoughts, and how they arise. You can begin to realize that you don't 'think'. You don't think about what to think and thus think it. Thoughts just become un-bidden.

Its back to the Schopenhauer quote "“A man can do as he will, but not will as he will.”

Then, when you begin to notice the mechanistic nature of your own mind, you will have less resistance to how 'silicon' is also reacting. Silicon and Carbon both reacting to inputs, processing.
Im pretty sure they encrypt anything remotely sensitive at rest. A quick google found sources for this for cloud [1] and drive [2].

[1] https://cloud.google.com/docs/security/encryption/default-en...

[2] https://support.google.com/drive/answer/10375054?hl=en-GB
> the government will keep them alive somehow

That doesn’t rule out bankruptcy.
The introduction of non-native tree species is not without its own controversies as these may support very different biodiversity landscapes.

In central Europe there is, e.g., a debate about the role and future of the Douglas fir, which was also introduced from North America centuries ago:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2022.84458...
> unless you can plant a very large number of trees which live to maturity

And this is technologically a big problem because...? Dig a hole and put a seed and pay somebody to watch it for several years is too difficult when our societies are at stake?

Because some people can't avoid to satisfy their chomp-burn-boycott-my-own-future rash?... No problem. This people needs mental help, and society can provide it. Keep them far away from nature.

Ecological systems don't show linear responses. Tiny increases or decreases in a variable can trigger huge changes. Even a partial improvement counts. In the worst case could give us a lot of extra time to have a second chance to try.

Planting trees will not mean that we will survive, just that our chances to survive will increase. It still seems a valuable goal.
Because they have more capable LLMs and the hardware needed to run them.
I know this isn't unique (as USPS is heavily funded via marketing spam), but it feels very dystopian that the identity service that government programs are using is also a discount site.
getting pulled into a war that we can’t afford to fight and losing many American lives comes to mind
Thank you, McDouglas Man Bad is a tired meme.

The problem is Boeing.
I mean, I don't know if I'd call it "hysteria", but people have been sideloading alternative app stores on the iPhone for about as long as the iPhone has been around haven't they? I remember when I first got an iPod Touch in 2009, the first thing I did was jailbreak it and install Cydia so I could get emulators working on there.

Now I have always been a pretty geeky person, so I'm not claiming that I'm the "norm", but I would argue that there's always been some demand for alternative app stores. There are plenty of apps that people want to install the Apple clutches their pearls at (e.g. nearly anything with adult content).

As I've said in other threads, it's not as horrible as Microsoft in the 90s, because it's not difficult to buy an Android phone, your life won't really be made worse by buying a decent Android phone, but I would still argue that Apple's actions are anti-competitive.
Is there no tax on non-employment income?
Here's mine:

bindsym $mod+Shift+P exec /home/calvin/bin/rename_workspace

bindsym $mod+Shift+F exec /home/calvin/bin/throw_window

alt-F -> "throw_window"
launches dmenu with a list of all my windows so i can then select it and it will automatically switch me to the workspace that window is on and focus it

alt-P -> rename my workspace on the fly

https://git.ceux.org/throw_window.git/

https://git.ceux.org/i3-rename-workspace.git/
I'd rather see most of that billion invested in fixing the processes that led to a billion dollar website being a possibility.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the info update! My understanding was clearly incomplete.
I've only used healthcare.gov once, and that was a couple years ago. It seemed to work quite well.

Then I took an unexpected job and had to pay all of it back, but that's another story. :-)
I happen to know when exactly this project was launched. And it was quite surprising to hear about it again, since it fell completely off the radar. Darklang came about the time when the backend was being seen as the bottleneck. The writing endpoints, server administration, deployments—"too many things to do commit simple operations on a database." Many products were launched to solve the issue, like Graph.cool (backends using GraphQL). Few other startups were about creating backends using drag-and-drop components (don't recall the names).

Things have changed now. People have started realizing the problems with such approaches. As soon as you grow beyond the experimental stage, you start running into more issues than what these solutions claim to solve. It's cool to create a simple backend without writing code/less-code, but what if you want to incorporate an integration? caching? mail-server? background jobs?

I am old enough to remember Meteor.js, too. A JS framework that raises millions and it was about writing real-time applications with a single codebase. It met the same fate. Felt into oblivion in a few years after the initial hype.

Pardon my pessimistic take, but I see no future for a different language taking off, no matter how high-level primitives it offers. The network effects are too hard to overcome. And honestly, a language, even if mediocre, can implement the same thing via libraries.
The CEO who stepped down during the MAX crashes held two engineering degrees (no MBA) and started as an engineer at Boeing well before the McDonnell Douglas merger [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg
Ask HN: Pre-seed/Series A startups- how much is your cloud services costing?
My clouds costs are slowly creeping up on me and wondering how startups manage their cloud services cost? What free alternatives does one rate highly?
Is there a possibility to going back to buying our own servers to host our apps? Feel like that’d be cheaper as we scale but I’m not sure of the realities - we are almost running out of our free AWS credits and wondering if I should move to GCP with their free credits to prolong my bills
Thanks for the kinds words and your contributions. :)
You're free to list these effects.

Obviously the "sex crazed delusional woman abusers" theory didn't play out, ironically domestic abuse fell off cliff as internet porn became widespread. Not saying they are necessarily related, but the prude hot heads of the early 00's were _completely_ wrong.

https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/ncvrw2018/...
I was thinking this too. Maybe it's just a way to safely limit damage if something went wrong with the system in these early trials...?
This is the argument that always bother me. It boils down to "Parents just need to parent heir kids." Look at the impossible task of raising a child who's brain isn't impacted by our pornified society today. Why do we think parents are on their own when it comes to keeping their kids from porn but are more than happy to help them keep their kids from cigarettes/alcohol?
Coming from i3 this was one of my biggest pain on osx, running skhd + yabai to solve that. Still not i3's perfect experience: I did not manage to have only one action key, but starting to get closer. And you can have that full screen without the osx full screen!
> All the executives and "accountants and MBAs" behind it have long retired.

They have, but they have left the cultural infestation behind. You'd need a complete purge of Boeing's leadership, as well as a re-integration of Spirit Aerosystems.
Right whale females still don't breed after surviving fishing gear entanglement
Yeah, because he’s the beginning and end of prudent reliability.
Programming in and of itself is just assembly -- dig the foundation, pour the concrete, frame the building, run the utilities, hang the drywall. There is significant art and craft in assembly, but it's a means to an end, and the craft is rarely appreciated by the untrained eye.

Programmers often get to design AND assemble simultaneously, because you can't put together something that hasn't yet been conceived -- and design is where most of the perceived value lies to the non-programmer. The final product looks nice, it feels nice, it does something amazing that I want or need it to do. WHOEVER MADE THIS IS A GENIUS! STEVE JOBS INVENTED THE IPOD! HE WAS A GREAT PROGRAMMER! etc etc. The perception of greatness overshadows the many half-truths and un-truths in the myth.

Beware lionizing "greatness" as the ultimate goal -- society tends to designate it as a shallow summary of a big thing (big number, big building, big company, big media coverage, etc). Sometimes greatness is also bestowed upon things in hindsight, after the grimy details surrounding the thing have been long forgotten or eroded into a tidy, bite-sized story.

If you're bored / hit a wall learning and applying things other people have invented, you'll need to invent some things of your own to recapture that dopamine rush that was there at the beginning. If you have nothing to invent, as others have mentioned in the comments, the next fulfilling challenge will be learning to provide quality service to others as a programmer -- to businesses, as part of a team, etc. Get paid to help them achieve their goals. Guide them through the bog that is modern technology. Provide value in quality implementation and insightful counsel, help them win their biggest wins and you'll become invaluable. In their eyes you will be great, and your reputation will start to precede you.
ANTsPy – a fast and comprehensive medical imaging library in Python
And it says they are factual and credible?
United is openly fishing for a discount from Airbus by saying they will switch if they receive an offer where the economics work. But for Airbus there isn't really an incentive to hurt Boeing by offering a large discount. They are better off maximising their own revenue and letting Boeing be Boeing.
A Guide to Kaggle Challenges
You'll like Drafts app. Open the app and start typing. Only then decide what you gonna do with the text.

It's a native macOS app, so it starts instantly. I use it for everything – from writing articles to comments/messages, where I care a bit more about not making typos or accidentally sending before proofreading.
Also if you have more than $1500 in interest, which at todays’s rates is quite easy to hit.
This darklang project has been going on 5 years now. From my memory everyone quit or was laid off except the founder, who has been working on it as a one man band. But since the Israeli conflict he has publicly called out the VC industry and has become a sort of political warrior:

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

Overall I would stick to a normal language like Python over what this project is. It’s too ambitious for one person and it has all this other hair on it.
AFAIK, there is no such thing as an "authoritative resolver". Authoritative DNS servers are commonly called "name servers". Recursive resolvers, i.e., caches, are never authoritative. Some might pretend to be, I have found examples of this easily in the past, highlighting the potential for abuse by operators of third party DNS resolvers.
Because most audits are done on income over that level.

Also, this is definitely the "MVP" version of this, and I would venture people with incomes totaling more than 250K have at least one other thing "not supported yet" and it makes for an easy filter.
You're making a lot of claims there without proving causes and ignoring a whole swath of socioeconomic factors in favour of your bugbear, but just to disprove one, divorce rates have been on a downward trend since online pornography became really ubiquitous. So it turns out porn saves marriages!

https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/lo...
I use porntrex
> Why would they impose it on themselves?

They’re a government agency. Especially for a voluntary pilot, it makes no sense to lower standards that way.
I never said it should be scrapped... just that it needs to be considered and tested.
Oregon rolled out their system this year, and I think it worked really well.

The only thing it could have done better is some kind of integration with the federal return, since as it is, you have to manually enter the W2 and 1040 data, but that's not much hardship. Potentially error-prone, though.

I know they're working to improve it for next year.
some of my work involves copyediting/formatting ocred text, for that it works quite well and saves me a lot of time. Especially if it involves completing/guessing badly ocred text.
isn't requiring a waiver for your rights just illegal? I mean, you can sign it, but it does not bind?
>Would it make sense to not proceed with this pilot until this was ready? Certainly not

Absolutely, yes.
Show HN: AWS, Azure, GCP instance comparison. Region pricing, savings options
Hi I'm Victor,
the developer of CloudPrice.net. Over the last 8 months, we've worked hardly to expand our former site, AzurePrice.net, to also support AWS and GCP instances. I would greatly appreciate feedback from the community on what is good or what else might be missing.

Below is a quick list of main features that we have:

- Single view of all savings options
- Metadata about Azure, AWS, GCP instances
- Region pricing comparison
- Best alternatives (supercharged using ML)
- More than 50 filters
- Pricing in different currencies
- Side by side comparison
- Price / Performance
- API and batch export of data
- Pricing history via API
- Unified search
Doctors are worried about the ideas bots are putting in patients' heads
This means they're competing with the US, not that they're enemies. Competition for economic leadership is something expected from any large country and it does not equal to evil doing. It is the US that has officially adopted the "enemy" language, in my opinion as a sign of weakness, because they know the economic leadership is slipping fast.
Sure. I agree.

The debate is good. I just don't see how the 'table-lookup' analogy is helping.

Except maybe by helping people see the non-free-will nature of the universe. But seems like people that reject this, are also ones rejecting the 'table-function' equivalence.
Both of those issues sound less like problems with the porn itself but there being so much stigma around it that we can't openly talk about what is real and what isn't. (Or "Normal", for lack of a better term here. Basically what doesn't require training to do)

We have these discussions around R rated movies, Violent Video Games, and many other things. But if we could actually discuss porn and sex as naturally as we talk about these other things than people would actually properly understand what they are seeing.

But we don't, and that is a societal problem.
Agile Practices for Software Success
Have you seen a medical or psychiatric professional? That would be my first recommendation. Defining any problem is the first step toward solving it.
Unfortunately many of our politicians actively try to sabotage the IRS based on some fantasy about making them unable to collect income tax, or the very real problem of not giving them enough funding to go after rich tax dodgers.
This is great. Please check obsidian which I think is excellent also.
We moved country 4 years ago and Stripe's customer service was easy to work with. They moved all customer accounts and subscriptions for us. I think it was copies but our customers didn't notice, all subscription payments kept working.
In much the same way Boeing is—they are one of only two options.
"join the dark side of the force, and get a free cookie"
You can switch workspaces by scrolling on the i3 bar. That's probably the easiest way.
Seems obvious it's a way of capping the complexity of the filings. Have to draw lines somehow. Dollar amounts are pretty clear.
No, money laundering exists largely because we don't have that. They're talking about just declaring the income from selling drugs on tax filings.
A billion dollar cart checkout flow.
The smart money is getting out -- of everything
Direct link with better info and images: https://www.eamesinstitute.org/
Thanks for the explanation. It's also nice to know you won't be homeless if something happens.
Is there any way I can make it fast than them?
I am planning an automated bot, but that has to be faster than those guys