skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A poor home life increases chances of mental illness and decreases chances that someone will drive you to practice.

That you need to be driven at all to exercise is a huge part of the reason why exercise and fitness rates are so low in our youth. Our grandparents and great grandparents walked miles to go to school five days a week, and we've built our cities such that this is impossible or dangerous. We now live in towns that sprawl endlessly, and most of us forbid our kids to go outside unsupervised, so kids never find each other and play amongst themselves.

And for what? What exactly are we gaining by building our cities and our towns like this? It makes us all unhealthier because we are forced to drive everywhere. It isolates us and our children, who are now lonely on top of being merely physically inactive. We are poorer because we spend so much money on car loans, car insurance, gas, and parking. We are just as likely to die a violent death in the suburbs due to the increase risk of car crashes. We are isolated, poor, unhealthy, and unhappy, and in exchange we get... what exactly?

> The paper isn’t public so “controlling for confounders” is all you get, but I doubt they went through all the effort to have deep, revealing conversations about the home life or other nuanced cofounders of each participant.

The study was conducted in Taiwan which does not suffer from US-style car extremism. "Children cannot go out to play because their parents cannot afford to drive them" is a statement they would consider unthinkably psychotic. Can they not use public transit, or at worst, walk to where all the other neighborhood children are playing unorganized?
This probably means you can edit the script while it's running without it falling over confusingly. Might cargo cult this pattern - I'm very prone to editing a build.sh while it runs.
It's an interesting contrast to how Google used to operate; pay high salaries to get the best talent they could get their hands on. Looks like they've shifted to keeping the lights on and cutting costs now.
An-2 specifically is kinda popular with Western collectors, as far as I know. But if there were still broad applications for this kind of performance, surely we'd see more modern designs along those lines?

For An-2, the ability to perform such tricks wasn't really the goal, just a side effect. The goal was to have a cheap mass-produced utility plane that could take off and land on very rough makeshift airstrips in remote locations, which were plentiful in USSR at the time when it was designed (~1950). These days there's probably way fewer locations like that, and for those that do exist, helicopters provide an adequate solution without the need to design a new dedicated airframe. Note that all those benefits aren't free, either: the downsides of the design include high fuel consumption and high noise levels.

As far as I know, even in Russia, most present-day use of An-2 is for skydiving.
Coming from the UK which is near the bottom of the death graph they show, it doesn't have to be a case of cycle/pedestrian safety or local business parking. You can largely get both by slowing the traffic with obstacles and the like. A couple of examples Harpenden https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Co... Primrose Hill https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Fsu...

It's more about separating fast through traffic from where the pedestrians are.
The most obvious answer is `curl | sh`. But also perhaps a network blip interrupting curl/wget, but the user failing to notice and going ahead and executing the file anyway.
The individual parts of diabetes, blood glucose, nutrition, cell energy systems are really well documented.

But yet putting those facts together leads significant resistance.
Rudely? Ha - they misrepresented my point about RAG tooling not replacing lawyers into a straw man about replacing lawyers - I never said that, said the opposite.

Secondly, it's obvious they have not used RAG, or they wouldn't say things like "inaccurate responses" etc. RAG is as accurate as any database (because it is a database). It puts all the information from your uploaded files into a database and reads from that. The commenter fundamentally misunderstands the technology and likely hasn't even used it - yet feels the need to comment on it like an expert. It's not like using ChatGPT, and in any case it's not in lieu of a lawyer anyway, that was just a straw man argument that goes counter to my actual post.

I did respond to the points about accuracy and legal precedents. Unlike the other false statements that were made, these are legitimate concerns a lot of people share about whether or not LLM tooling should be used by legal professionals.

Is ChatGPT sufficient to replace a lawyer? No.

Is ChatGPT sufficient as a legal advice tool that a lawyer might use on a case-by-case basis or generally? No.

Could the same LLM technology be used except on a body of specific case documents to surface information through a convenient language interface to a legal expert? Yes. It's as safe as SQL.

The point about pricing and inventory is that, unlike an LLM, RAG involves retrieval of specific facts from a document (or collection of documents) - the language is more for handling your query and matching it to that information. None of the points he made about inaccuracies and insufficient answers, etc. or replacing lawyers apply.
These models will exist one way or another. Even the most IP concerned lawmakers in the deepest pockets of the RIAA and whatnot. It's just that some want there to be monopoly rents payed to themselves every time someone uses them
Nope. "Sanity" is a perfectly fine word for this particular type of test, and is widely used in industry.
I think it's a good platonic ideal to have CI that _can_ be run on devboxes, but in my opinion most of the value in having runners like GitHub Actions is in _asynchronicity_, not in _performance_. Having to pull in changes and run the suite manually and locally to deal with merges, for instance, seems like a chore.
No, I don't think they're projecting, I think you've been highly fortunate.

Track is not a good example, at least in my case. Our coaches spent ZERO time with those of us who weren't obviously going to be breaking any records, and whenever we lost a match, made us do so much extra work it was almost impossible to climb stairs the next day.
I couldn't get any support from any of them, which I still consider highly unfair, since if I had support maybe I could have figured out a method to improve, but on my own... I just quit.

From my experience in multiple sports, most coaches just want to win. Finding one who cares more about the kids than the score is an absolute blessing, they're so rare.
Even it looks like they will be within weeks launching a second lunar sample return mission.
If you write an app that runs on Linux, you should support flatpak, and (for bonus points) nix.

The rest should be done by the distros' maintainers.
That's right -- plastic deformation under stress.
We all know that can’t happen until and unless software engineers get the ability to say “no” to random changes in deadlines or specifications. We’re talking about an industry that invented agile so it can skip the spec..
A truncated download might happen for all sorts of reasons, like your internet connection dropping while you download the script. If you don't notice you might accidentally run an incomplete script and leave your system in some broken or at least confusing state. They wrapped everything in a main function to prevent that from happening
I like the kids version of the Kindle Fire as a way for giving kids screen time. I don't think it's perfect but it offers a fairly large library of applications, games, and videos for a few bucks a month with out allowing internet access. Not all the content is educational but I haven't found anything inappropriate yet. It also offers pretty good options for setting limits. I'm sure you could do something similar on the iPad but I think it would require more effort to set up.
I condemn them wholeheartedly. If you don't have the time and energy to raise your kids without regularly hypnotizing them via chinese doomscrolling then please just don't have kids.
If you look closely at the kitchen in the background, it’s all frozen microwave food.
I just finished Deaths End this morning so I'm experiencing that ponderous glow that you get after reading something thought provoking.

Without going into spoilers, Death's End makes everything so... huge. It really made me feel tiny in our universe.

These are good books with some flaws. You should read them.
And if you pick any year other than 1999, there are a lot fewer losers. I picked 1999 because it was the worst, not because it was the best.
> I was routinely picked last if not at all in sports all throughout my childhood. As a result, I picked up sports I could do on my own

I suspect many kids are so disheartened by these early experiences that they are much less likely to make the transition as you did. Personally, it took many years of adulthood before I figured out that physical activity was actually super beneficial and not just the games that bullies play. By high school, I refused to participate in PE and just took Fs.

Maybe schools should start kids out with individual activities instead of team sports?
Normally it's not your job to package it yourself the distro maintainers do that
Don't forget that us Americans pay 120% of what we should be paying, so there are extra percent points to go around.
Staff engineer here. First started writing code roughly 24 years ago, been doing it professionally in one form or another for about 18 years. Many years ago I was asked how I planned to compete - because all IT was being offshored to other countries who worked cheaper and had more training in math than I did.

I've been asked whether no-code platforms would make us obsolete. I've wondered if quantum computing would make everything we know become obsolete. Now people are wondering whether LLM tools will make us obsolete.

All these things make us more productive. Right now I'm excited by AI tools that are integrated into my IDE and offer to finish my thoughts with a stroke of the 'Tab' key. I'm also very underwhelmed by the AI tools that try to implement the entire project. You seem to be talking about the latter. For the type of coding exercises we do for fun (test drive an implementation of Conway's Game of Life), LLM's are good at them and are going to get better. For the type of coding exercises we do for pay (build a CRUD API), LLM's are mediocre at them. They can give you a starting point, but you're going to do a lot of fiddling to get the schema and business logic right. For the type of coding exercises we do for a lot of pay (build something to solve a new problem in a new way), LLM's are pretty terrible. Without an existing body of work to draw from, they produce code that is either very wrong or subtly flawed in ways that are difficult to detect unless you are an expert in the field.

Right now, they are best used as a productivity enhancer that's autocomplete on steroids. Down the road they'll continue to offer better productivity improvements. But it's very unlikely they will ever (or at least in our lifetimes) entirely replace a smart developer who is an expert in their field. Companies know that the only way to create experts is to maintain a talent pipeline and keep training junior developers in hope that they become experts.

Software development has continued to grow faster than we can find talent. There's currently no indication of LLM's closing that gap.
Offline transactions are quite normal for many reasons

https://www.businessexpert.co.uk/payment-processing/offline-...
This doesn't do that. It shits on the competition and then says their approach is better but doesn't detail that (wait for the next blog post...).
Interesting, but the social relevance would be improved if the input images were graffiti.
So uh, this seems to imply that ISP rotating ipv6 prefix is "obvious", but uh. Really? I don't think I've ever seen this implemented willingly (many have dynamic allocation, but it's changing so slowly that it looks more like a bug than a feature). Does some people have other experience?

I was wondering what kind of IoT could be widespread enough to pose a significant problem or if it was rather statistical, but they mention TVs. And uh yeah, TVs during their lifetime discuss with a huge range of providers, so this indeed broadcasts to

The privacy handling of the article writing isn't great imo. Only an ISP should have access to those data, not external researchers. I even fail to see how it can be GPDR compliant. That being said, operators won't spontaneously write those articles, so well, this one is usefl.

Overall this is an interesting article. I think ISPs doing prefix rotations can easily detect devices and warn the user and/or isolate the bad device (through symmetric NAT for instance -- I think this is an okay compromise, it's not a horrible hack), which this article shines light on. Cool.
I just subtracted 1 and added a 1/4, barely giving it any thought. The example given is too simple for comparing methods.
The developer would have to enable Steam Family.
But an int can't be null. If a method takes or returns an int it's guaranteed to be not null.
i guess you're being sarcastic but i literally spent some part of my youth running around in corn fields socializing with other children. not as old fashioned as my dad who made some pocket change shucking corn as a kid. it wouldn't be a bad thing for kids these days to get out of the house and touch maize.
JunctionOS
Those are much more convincing about their seriousness, thanks!
Its been known that most of these models hallucinate research articles frequently, perplexity.ai seems to do quite well in that regard. Not sure why that is your specific metric though when LLMs seem to be improving across a large class of other metrics.
The authors are serial fabulists / NATO intelligence launderers, so it's totally possible that pieces of this narrative are outright fiction, woven in with verifiable facts.
So you would agree that rather than this being a case of a definite violation of GDPR rules this would entirely hinge on what would constitute enough?

The fact that LLMs hallucinate is certainly no secret, even the linked article says OpenAI openly admits that they can't avoid it right now.

What would constitute enough?

Would it be enough to place a statement placed onscreen at the start of every conversation to say that information may not be accurate and that if the information was significant then it should be independently verified?
This is sad. As a parent of a grade-schooler, I feel helpless with a complete lack of awareness around this. It feels as if everyone is calming their kids with opiates and Xanax, and no one bats an eye because that's what everyone else is doing.

Even if you're aware of the mental health issues associated with social media use, you have the option of either giving up and losing your kid to the phenomenon, or giving them FOMO and complexes by depriving them of a phone.

The only positive trend I've seen is school districts banning smartphones. That could relieve some of the social pressure to hook your kid up with a smartphone so early in their life.
This comment is direct, but not unreasonable. To steel man it...

The success of the LLM were built by the work product of others, without compensation. Now those others are looking for their due compensation.

Freely profiting off the, quite literally, compressed output of others isn't really a business model that's sustainable, for either side. The only sustainable solution would necessarily involves money going from the content users (multi B $ LLM companies) to the content producers (artists, news orgs, etc). For a logical litmus test, apply what's happening to any other content/industry.
To be fair neither node nor python are where they are today because of their performance.

I wish we could leave them behind as a fun phase of mass adoption of programming and fully switch to strongly typed languages alone. One can dream.
People were panicking about opioid abuse in the 80s therefore concerns about fentanyl today are invalid.

People were worried about computer security 30 years ago therefore computer security is nothing to worry about today.

Russian aggression was a concern throughout the 20th century yet we are still here, Ukraine shouldn't worry so much.

What is this general form of argument called? Appeal to nothing-ever-happens?
I think someone is flagging this (hi @sama!)
You might get better visibility opening an issue: https://github.com/curl/everything-curl/issues
Everyone responding to you here is wrong.

It's not "seen as an attack by Russia on NATO" because per the NATO treaty Russia nuking Washington DC won't be "seen as an attack" either, that is, until the country being attacked officially declares it as such through the mechanisms the treaty outlines.

The Czech republic hasn't invoked that mechanism, therefore it's a non-event as far as NATO's concerned. NATO doesn't have any mechanisms for pro-actively monitoring attacks on member states, outside of those states themselves.
Falcon Programming Language
Do you think the authors and editors should be compensated for their work? Charging for use seems to be a pretty straight forward way to reward the people who create good books.
As a parent sending my children to the fields once in a while sounds great!
Looks like that plan was abandoned: https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-pe...
Once you get into an orbit of the Earth, you are "halfway to anywhere" [1] in terms of fuel costs. Getting out of the Earth's gravity well is the hard part, once you're up there you might as well put the trash much further away than the moon. Especially because if we're shipping trash, we can just set and forget it on a trajectory to the dump site, we don't need to worry about it taking a long time or to land safely.

[1]https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/surfaceorbit.php
This is one reason I hate it when productive jobs are destroyed. Economists say we'll find new things things for people to do, but those often seem extremely low value, like insurers/providers paying people to fight with each other over billing questions. And a lot of the time it seems like the replacement is either that sort of bullshit-esq job, or else some minimum-wage thing which is not acceptable to a lot of people - especially those carrying tens of thousands of debt in student loans from college.
By the way, this pairs nicely with the 'ambient radio' feature on my other project Ambiphone if you want the full "space exhibit at the science museum" experience: https://ambiph.one/?m=1-Ambient+radio-bf100
My obligatory yearly scream into the void that the preferred way to install Rust is still `curl https://sh.rustup.rs | sh`

But security!
Maybe I wasn't that clear, but I did say in my original post:

I used to think AI would replace doctors before nurses, and lawyers before court clerks - now I think it's the other way around. The doctor, the lawyer - like the software engineer - will simply be more powerful than ever and have lower overhead. The lower-down jobs will get eaten, never the knowledge work.

Yet you and a few other people insist I'm saying "AI will replace human judgment" - why? I'm saying the doctor isn't replaced, the lawyer, the software engineer, etc. aren't replaced. It's more like the technician just got a better technical manual, not like they are replaced by it.
This might be true but what’s the actual likelihood the latter is more successful? Sure it’s nice that the majority of 10B companies are created with the latter method, but if that’s just 0.1% of all attempts, I rather seek to solve a problem if the probability is 20% but with a lower $ outcome

And I know the article is talking about success to a VC. Ok that’s fine I guess… but what am I gonna do with that statistic? Almost useless to me because I’m not a VC and neither are the vast majority of people!
Then please go ahead and explain how something can solve novel logical puzzles (i.e. ones that are not present in its training set) without some capacity for reasoning. You're claiming that it is "generating texts that looks like ..." - so what is the "..." in this case? I posit that the word that should be placed there is solution, and then you need to explain why that is not ipso facto a demonstration of the ability to reason.
Reminds me of the fake police station in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep [1]. In order to keep up the pretense for three years, the androids have to take crime reports, do paperwork, and arrest perpetrators. In other words, they have to run an actual real police station. So perhaps the fake USPS sites should just start delivering the post!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_...
Your examples are decades old. People have been worrying about technology spoiling their children since we've had writing. Are you arguing you were ruined by TVs and computers growing up? Or satanic music?
The only proper approach is to come up with a twelfth package manager that will encompass all the other eleven.

https://xkcd.com/927/
Pretty much this. I worry that we might face an AI winter soon as investors in 2029 suddenly realise that LLMs are not going to replace anyone anytime soon and that they won't be able to obtain the fantasied cash out of replacing millions of workers with LLMs.

Looking at the sad fate of Deep Mind (R.I.P), I feel that the shortermism generated by LLMs is going to be really painful
That doesn't necessarily follow - the universe can be infinite in size, but contain a finite amount of matter.
We're probably not getting to space without AGI or at least some level of sophisticated AI. At a certain point our biological bodies are just wed to the Earth and its ecosystem, as we are animals that are products of the Earth.

If "we" ever get out there, some form of mechanical AI will. And we will never know it because once we send those ships off, we'll be long gone before the return signal gets to us from some far of locale. Imagine a voyager who can self-repair, mine asteroids, print circuits, etc. Now imagine giving it a 1 million year mission. Maybe by then we'll all have given up on biology and we'd be the "robots" on that ship.

Sometimes the universe makes beings like us, but not often, and probably makes all manner of interesting beings that will most likely be forever out of reach, and us out of their reach. Kudos to some life on a faraway planet, I wish we could meet.

Also its fun to think of the universe as a system. Here's this incomprehensibly large thing constantly in motion, constantly having stars die out and explode, and new ones born, etc all the time but to us at incredible slow speeds, everywhere, yet at incredible distances from each other. Its like this bellows that keeps a fire lit, over and over, non-stop. But not quite non-stop because this great furnace too will (probably) have a proper death. This universe life cycle chart is both a feat of science and an incredible work of a permanent and grim mortality of all things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Ba...
> you may find it easier now that you have relatively more experience than before

There's a dude on twitter who has been detailing his process of going through a bankruptcy over the last few months. I think he lost about $4M. He's discussed another business idea that he's had and his plans for implementing it. Now, a month after his bankruptcy has been final, it seems that that some investors are very interested in going forward with him on this new venture. It's likely that his openness about everything was what caught their attention.

This is how bankruptcy is supposed to work: fail at something and there's a path to recovery.