skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing Microsoft's history, their intent is to suck up all of our Copilot chat history and responses. They will slowly get enough information about us where they even simulate a virtual clone of our online activity.
Serum iron is a pretty useless test. What was your ferritin?
I googled it, but elaborate on your thought.
People love to think of the body as a simple energy-in->energy-out equation, but it's definitely more complex than that, as the body can change what it's deciding to hold on to and what it's deciding to burn or expel.

I am one of those that stayed skinny as a rake throughout my childhood and mid-adulthood (in my mid-40s I'm starting to become more normal sized). I wasn't particularly active, and I ate voraciously -- third or fourth helpings of pasta bowls. But the food never stuck to my ribs. (And it wasn't a worm or anything -- the whole side of my mother's family is the same, while my dad's side is the opposite.)

No one should look at my body and say "clearly he is exercising more than he is eating" because it wouldn't have been true at all, and yet that's what the simplistic energy-in and energy-out conclusion would say.
You can also try "snore prevention" night guards like ZQuiet and SnoreRX - they're less than $100 and you can buy them online. I find they work just as well as the custom night guard I got from my dentist.
I see so much effusive praise for Elixir that I feel like something must have gone really wrong with our codebase, because build times from scratch are horrible (10 minutes or so), and I frequently have problems with the incremental build when switching between branches which force me to do a clean build.

Coming from a Node and PHP background makes me really appreciate the lack of compile step.
The $27T Treasury Market Is Only Getting Bigger
Strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way's central black hole
The music is off as well (second half of piece, I can't quite put my finger on it... Brass section may be out of tune?), but that part sounds more like a poor rendition by humans rather than something a computer would do.
> If ChatGPT verbatim reproduces

Copyright covers "derivative works." Verbatim is absolutely not a requirement for infringement.

If you take a copyrighted image and modify it, even to the point where it's unrecognizable, if the image is being used in the same way (i.e., isn't a "transformative use"), then it's still a derivative work.

Yes, you are likely to get away with it if you're not caught. But that doesn't mean what you're doing is considered fair use, just that you won't get sued.

Thing is, every piece of text generated by ChatGPT is incrementally using every character of training data. So legally speaking, everything it produces is arguably a derivative work of ALL of the training data.

Generative AI isn't even a legal gray area; under current law, there's no blanket exception for "how much" of a copyrighted work is used. At best there's a fair use _guideline_ that lists, as one of four criteria, the amount and nature of the copyrighted work used. But really it's the entirety of millions of copyrighted works being used to generate the models, and those works _can_ be reproduced verbatim in many cases, proving that the works are encoded into the model.

Generative AI is only permitted because there's big money behind it along with associated lobbyists. And there are many in-flight lawsuits trying to shut down both GPT and various art-generating AIs.

Maybe they'll change the law. Maybe courts will side with the AI companies. But until then, it seems obvious to me that anyone arguing that generative AI based on models built with copyrighted works is completely legal is using motivated reasoning.
Given recent events, I don't think Amazon Prime is that necessary anymore.

Mail servers, sure. The big issue there is another annoying pseudo-monopoly issue where so many major email servers assume anything not from [major email server] is spam, so you may not even get to communicate properly. More sticks for the fire.
I don't know exactly where it happened, but here [1] is a typical AoC code using Elixir. At some point I got so annoyed by Elixir telling me it does not find the functions of the very same module, that I simply defaulted to always writing the module name.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/advent-of-code-2023/sr...

Edit: Ah yes, I remember it happening in |> pipes a lot.
Salesforce Paid $20M to License Einstein
It's not a 'lie', it's a discrepancy between whether an animal (non-human) life equates a human life. I know you don't think so, but to call it a 'lie' is false.
Engraved onto something like titanium would be better than a fireproof safe - they're only safe for X amount of time (I want to take a stab in the dark and say about 90 minutes?). This is how I have backed up some (since retired) crypto seed phrases in the past.
I don’t think I understand how this protocol is supposed to solve the problems of the commons that arise in any peer to peer app, such as how to deal with malicious or misbehaving peers, illegal or unsavory content, and so on. Every P2P app needs to put those problems front and center in their design and I never feel the proposed solutions are adequate. But in this case, I simply don’t see them acknowledged at all.
Nassim Taleb's opinion of others shouldn't hold much sway - the man is a prick.
And pray you never need to update the passcode!

I'm imagining this spiraled around somebody's upper thigh...
"fakePassw0rdo̶n̶e̶t̶w̶o̶t̶h̶r̶e̶e̶four"
This assumes humans could turn 100% of the feed into usable calories. Considering 1) the link defines feed to include grazing and 2) humans are 0% efficient at turning cellulose into calories, the quoted number probably doesn't mean what you think it means.
I feel the same way, I wish there was some kind of way to permanently expand my sinuses or something because I feel like I can't force air through them.

Sometimes just breathing hard through my nose starts to make my ears pressurize and threaten to pop
Thanks for the context. “Chief Joy Officer” is still a bizarre SV title and these are pretty exorbitant rates though:

https://twitter.com/editingdisinfo/status/177274349133378776...
The goal of these things is not to write software that works but to write software that works4me. Flatpack, snap, docker they all exist to ship your computer to someone else.
This is incredible. I can't remember the last time I had a night of unbroken sleep. It's literally months ago.
The reserve buys from producers though, right? If the reserve buys from producers during highly productive years, that prevents the price of syrup from falling too much. It seems to serve both producers and buyers.
The basic idea behind that is also used in all sorts of networks where you have multiple stations sharing the same medium with everyone being able to freely send stuff. To solve this, if a "collision" is detected, stations then use a random timeout before they send again in the hope that the next time there won't be another collision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-sense_multiple_access_...
They were more like 2 days apart but the older one (39813267) got picked for the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it got a random placement on HN's front page. I need to fix the software so it doesn't do that with dupes, but it's a rare enough case so it keeps getting postponed. Sorry!
Interesting, thank you.

The thought that an object is "spinning so quickly that it is warping spacetime" just made my day!
I don't think it's possible to have an "open training data" model because it would get DMCA'd immediately and open you up to lawsuits from everyone who found their works in the training set.

I hope we can fix the legal landscape to enable publicly sharing training data but I can't really judge the companies keeping it a secret today.
I got mine thru the city health service, so I only made a token payment.
1000$ ouch.
Sad that Tversky, despite being younger, predeceased him by nearly 3 decades.
Identifying galaxies in images is not the hard part of finding galaxies. I assume that they already have software that does that because galaxies are easy to identify because they are blobs.

The hard part is taking the images with lots of galaxies. Most telescopes have a narrow field of view and they are busy so can't survey the whole sky. Rubin Observatory in Chile is going to survey sky every few nights. The Roman Space Telescope will be wide-angle Hubble.
I find that most nonfiction books follow a common structure:

* 1st third of the book: Lays out the basic ideas, gives several examples

* 2nd third of the book: More examples that repeat the themes from the 1st part

* 3rd third of the book: ??? I usually give up at this point

I sometimes wish that more books were like "The Mom Test" - just long enough to say what they need, even if that makes for a short book.
Lol. Perhaps I will...
Recruiting was exactly the one argument that I got to hear. That hiring people would be difficult and people demanding high wages and so on. I could not convince an employer to not weigh that heavily. At least that is the brought forward argument. There might also be an element of "don't know it myself, don't want it in my company".
It’s not a problem that capitalism is well-suited to solving.
Tierra – Darwinian Virtual Computer
The timing was off this year with the unusually mild winter, the sap started to run weeks earlier than usual. Its entirely possible that a small time sugar shack would be on the ball and tap their trees early where as a corporate producer might miss the peak.
In some ways, yes, a solution to your system is throughput constrained is to remove the constraint.

But, there's a cost to that, it may be development time, capital, or operational expense. Certainly, sometimes you spend a few minutes replacing a bad sort with a much better sort and get immediate and large benefits. But often it's the case where rare conditions cause loads that are too expensive to handle immediately.

Having backpressure setup and monitored in advance also comes at a cost, but allows you to make specific choices about how the system works in overload, and allows you to monitor the overload conditions, and hopefully/maybe gives you some feedback about your overall capacity.

For example, many systems have worse throughput when overloaded. Having a strict concurrency limit prevents throughput loss from context switching, and the errors (or simply effects from queueing) can propigate as backpressure. Monitoring active threads gives a sense of available capacity, monitoring time spent with threads at max or depth of queue / number of requests rejected gives a sense of unmet demand.
> A Tesla costs less than an average new car in America. If Teslas are unaffordable, then so are other new cars.

Not if you compare apples to apples. The cheapest model 3 is significantly more expensive than a Toyota or Kia with equivalent seating and trim.

People with kids will end up paying 90-100K for the model X vs minivans which are in the 35-40K range.

Tesla has a luxury premium and it’s a bit silly to claim otherwise.
And critically, scientific publications are incentivized likewise to publish the most outlandish claims they can possibly get away with. That same incentive affects individual scientists, who disproportionately submit the most outlandish claims they can possibly get away with. The boring stuff -- true or not -- is not worth the hassle of putting into a publishable article.
This looks like way more work than just using a spreadsheet.

Kanban don’t seem like the right abstraction for financial planning.

How does this actually prevent budget overrun when nothing is automated? It seems like the data is only accurate if someone correctly enters it and drags the boxes into the appropriate columns.

The app looks nice, but this feels like a solution in search of a problem.

You could easily pivot to project management and you’d have a very nice looking product. Ditch the budget stuff, it doesn’t work.
I don't recall any suggestion of foul play with Kahneman/Tversky, unlike Ariely.
Even Google had a "search groups" feature at some point that would search in google and yahoo groups, newsgroups, forums and I think early reddit. For certain topics it's the only way to have reliable information. They deliberately removed it.
ChatGPT "contamination": At least 60,000 papers were LLM-assisted
We're going to do something like that eventually! though on HN, eventually can be a long time.
Have you tried mouth taping instead? Seems to work better for some people than chin straps, but I don't really know.
People had more kids (and then some) to compensate for the infant mortality, so I don't think it reduced the number of great grandmothers much.
For another viewpoint, this is based around "human lifespan" cycles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generat...
> One thing Britain isn't short of is water

Exact same thing is happening in the midwest of the US, where the green belt is heading east and dropping more water in less time on less area.

Its not just "a few rain barrels" its literally every single property and every single development being upgraded and designed to capture and store water and let it seep into the soil before overflowing into the sewer.

Not only does it make a better place to live as you generally need plants to use that water, but its the only way to capture it at scale. I live in a swamp, and right now is the time of what I call "the big slurp" where all the plants turn green, and the high water from winter that has the water table at ground level will drop 6 inches as every plant turns into a straw. It happens over 3-4 days and its wild to see.

A bigger and bigger sewer is the "just one more lane" to fix traffic congestion. It doesn't work, definitely not as a singular solution. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/28/chinas-sponge-...
I used to just pull the armrest up next to my ear and listen directly out of the hole.
Honestly who knows, but outside of Q-star rumors there's no indication that either company is doing anything much different from the other one, so I'd not expect any long-lasting difference in capability to open up. Maybe it will, though!

FWIW, Sam Altman has fairly recently said that the jump from GPT-4 to GPT-5 will be similar to that from GPT-3 to GPT-4, and also (recent Lex Fridman interview) that their goal is explicitly NOT to have releases that are shocking - but rather they want to have ones of incremental capability to give society time to adapt. Could be misdirection - who knows.

Amodei for his part has said that what Anthropic will release in 2024 will be a "sharper, more refined" (or words to that effect) version of what they have now, and not a "reality bender" (which he seemed to be implying maybe is coming, but not for a year or two).
Microsoft opens a crack in console gaming's decades-old walled garden
> Raw sewage under normal conditions goes to wastewater treatment plants but currently, even a small amount of drizzle in London can overwhelm the network, triggering overflows into the Thames.

Can someone define what's meant here by "raw sewage" please? Are we talking about wastewater from toilets?
It feels like the update at the top entirely invalidates the article. At least I don't see why pinning dependency versions at the source level would be necessary for reproducible builds.
You can use the land to grow beans and other plant protein as opposed to grain. There is another level of opportunity costs. Without the need to use land to produce animal products, we can use less land and grow a larger variety of crops.
Right, my language was sloppy but I meant two things-- the quality will still be dependent on the hardware chain, and I should expect that a 'bit perfect' capture of a VHS tape will usually be inferior to one captured from a vintage pro deck. And then regarding processing, I'm not a professional, but I've done several successful restorations using virtualdub and avisynth, and on some degraded tapes I couldn't do nearly as well as whatever magic was going on in the vhs to dvd section of the JVC SR-MV50.
The smaller quants still require a 24gb card. 16 might work but doubt it
What's wild to me is that anyone could read chapter 4 and not look up the original papers in disbelief.

Long before the controversy was public I was reading that book and, despite claims that the reader must believe the findings, it sounded like nonsense to me. So I looked up the original paper to see what the experiment set up was, and it was unquestionably a ridiculous conclusion to draw from a deeply flawed experiment.

I still never understood how that chapter got through without anyone else having the same reaction I did.
Thanks for sharing your experience. There’s a huge narrative bias because most people giving up vegetarian/vegan diets don’t talk about it (but it does happen).
A Comparison of Human, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4 Performance in a Coding Course
Somethings I can immediately think of, but definitely not enough to address the issue.

1. Anonymous student ratings, if the solutions are obviously unclear or unhelpful to the student. A history feature would need to be there so the student can go back and mark a question as unhelpful or wrong even if he realises this after a week.

2. You'd need to separate unclear or unhelpful answers from plain wrong maybe? I don't know what's the line you'd need the draw but if an answer is deemed to be false, the student would be eligible for some in-app credit that he can redeem towards his next question/subscription.

3. Random cross verification of answers? Other teachers would get to judge a random answer from another teacher and provide feedback. Students would be notified automatically if an answer is revised in this way, while also providing the correct solution. Teachers can have an infraction counter or something for the same.
Here's a nice series of articles if you haven't seen it before, which can help you to reduce your compilation times: https://medium.com/multiverse-tech/how-to-speed-up-your-elix...
FWIW, I believe Kahneman resisted being categorized as an economist and preferred to think of himself as a psychologist.
No. A downward spiral of ruder and ruder retorts is what we are trying to avoid here.
Electric Shock - An Existential Crisis in the German Auto Industry
That title photo could be the opening scene of a very icky action movie. :)
With the economy as it is, grandparents tend to work longer and both work, so the early retirement and single-wage of yesteryear are largely gone. This trend seems to be increasing. The value of intergenerational bonds and knowledge transfer will be lost as a result.
What does the change mean if we have TinyMCE editor in our internal CMS tool and we plan on upgrading to version 7?
You can always make two versions, one with TinyMCE and one without. The one without can be any license you want, while the one with TinyMCE would be provided under GPL.

One way many programs do in that situation is to redesign the program with plugins in mind. Those that wish to use a strict set of MIT parts can choose to do so, and those who do not care about licenses can use all parts. A alternative way some program do is to use compile flags, like ffmpeg.

It depend of course how heavily tied to TinyMCE your work is, and if multiple versions are worth it. Forking is always a possibility, but unless there is zero threat vectors I would not go that route.
What is sane? </sarcasm>

The big thing is to live your own life. Don't worry about what the Joneses are doing and don't worry about what they think of you. Don't ask why people have things you don't. Recognize the things you have that they don't.

At the end of your life on your proverbial deathbed, you want to be able to look back and say you lived the life you chose to live, not the life others chose for you. The scary thing is you have to own up to it, you can't blame others for the life you live.

If you live your life like that then you'll have tuned out most people - which goes a long way to preserving your sanity!
This is the most inspiring thing I've heard today!
To be fair, the lack of strategic vision has also plagued the U.S. since WWII or Korea. We just keep losing wars because no one ever sets out clear achievable goals. The notable exception was the Powell Doctrine in Desert Storm. For that one, the goal was to kick Iraq out of Kuwait and restore the Kuwaiti monarchy, which was achieved. If you look especially at Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, there is this magical thinking that if we destroy the Evil Dictator and run an election, that everyone will naturally vote to ally with the U.S. and completely change their social organization to be in accordance with western values.

The place we spent the most time in the 21st century, Afghanistan, somehow went from an objective of destroying Al Qaeda to ensuring that girls got a good education and had equal rights. That sort of societal transformation is not possible even with 100,000 troops when they don't even speak the local language. Can you imagine the hubris of trying to tell people in some remote village that the way men and women relate to each other has to change through a translator, because some tall buildings in a place they've never heard of got destroyed? The obvious result was total failure and the Taliban picking up right where they left off in 2001.
So some parts of it copied from Claude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39649261
Interesting bottleneck. Considering that flatpaks are basically small filesystems themselves, there's probably some redundancy to remove. I wonder if a simple de-duplication strategy at file level may be enough to fix that.
You may be interested in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generat...
What's a spam link? I don't see anything unusual. Can you post a screenshot (using imgur or something)?
Agree, I feel like there must be a better way to achieve what Flatpak does. I love it because it's the only major app platform on Linux that offers some form of sandboxing, but the download sizes get ridiculously large.
> you do not divulge details of your training data.

FWIW asking LLMs about their training data is generally HEAVILY prone to inaccurate responses. They aren't generally told exactly what they were trained on, so their response is completely made up, as they're predicting the next token based on their training data, without knowing what they data was - if that makes any sense.

Let's say it was only trained on the book 1984. It's response will be based on what text would most likely be next from the book 1984 - and if that book doesn't contain "This text is a fictional book called 1984", instead it's just the story - then the LLM would be completing text as if we were still in that book.

tl;dr - LLMs complete text based on what they're trained with, they don't have actual selfawareness and don't know what they were trained with, so they'll happily makeup something.

EDIT: Just to further elaborate - the "innocent" purpose of this could simply be to prevent the model from confidently making up answers about it's training data, since it doesn't know what it's training data was.
The Weirding of the World: Seeking Purpose and Connection in Disconnected Times
Yeah. The 3D revolution was obvious in hindsight, but not so obvious in the mid 1990s. I was a PC gamer as well at the time so even with the benefit of seeing things like DOOM it wasn't necessarily obvious that 2.5D/3D games were going to be popular with the mainstream any time soon.

A lot of casual gamers found early home 3D games kind of confusing and offputting. (Honestly, many still kind of do)

We went from highly evolved colorful, detailed 2D sprites to 3D graphics that were frankly rather ugly most of the time, with controllers and virtual in-game cameras that tended to be rather janky. Analog controllers weren't really even prevalent thing for consoles at this point.

Obviously in hindsight the Saturn made a lot of bad bets and the Playstation made a lot of winning ones.