skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ultimately credentialed professionals like medicine and law will never be replaced by LLMs because LLMs cannot be held responsible for the medical regimes they place patients under (or the legal advice they give).

It’s not quite the same as what you are saying, but things are changing quickly.

Software is diagnosing pathology in radiology now. Software made up at least 3/4 of the pixels in the MRI scans I acquire. Sometimes it makes up more than that as every second slice is made up too.

Clinic letters are being written by applications that listen to the consult with the patient and write up a summary (for the clinician to authorise).
The recent Rocky Mountain Institute report focuses on the exponentials with some nice graphs:

https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2024/06/RMI-C...

A blog post covering it, from recent Royal Statistical Society honorary fellow, Hannah Ritchie:

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/cleantech-revoluti...
The caloric need of a monkey typing, or a cat, is much lower than even a human.

But it doesn't mean the results are good.
Do you think the same thing is required for flying? that aeroplanes can only be created by birds?
Accurate, but that last sentence frames the behaviour as acceptable?

I have nothing against them for reversing a previous decision, but then they should admit the mistake and make amends — some kind of compensation? They way they've chosen to handle it makes them liars.
No, only a brain can "think" and be original. A computer is limited to what we input to it. An "AI" simply recapitulates what it was trained on.
This is controversial, because the same amount of noise is emitted, just with a different shape that is still able to be picked up by radio receivers just as well, but is more likely to pass regulatory tests.
I apologize for removing the word spam (and apologized to C&C directly as well). I mistook it as a mistake on their part since the word "spam" was not used anywhere else in the article. They put it in there as an assumption that people would just get it and I did not. My bad!
I actually don't care about it anymore. But I want a cut of the profit when they sell my data.
Pizza is a little bit of flour, yeast, water and salt; crushed tomatoes; herbs, cheese, and whatever other toppings. It's a super cheap thing to make, even fresh, in a place where all these ingredients are already cheap basic stuff.
One of the key delight principles of UX is to get out at least as much as you put in. The goal is to approach that
Yeah because humans are really special. Monkeys and cats can still solve physical problems though which are quite complex, and make decisions.
I replied to the tweet directly. Twitter hides anything but the direct tweet you were linked to these days if you're not logged in. I have 402TB on google drive.

I was told 2 months ago (and since, every morning at 9:23 -a good ritual-) that unless I go down to 5TB they will make my data read-only in 2 months.

I ignored this as it's hard to get rid of so much data, and hoped they'd let me stay read-only. Deadline elapsed yesterday and they told me they're going to nuke my account in a month. I'm okay with this outcome.
cats are wiser than a lot of people. heck people think they're more intelligent than dolphins because they invented taxes and built new York while dolphins just hang out all day doing nothing, and dolphins think they are more intelligent for the same reason.
Not just the realization you were boxed into a space, but also knowledge of stuff inside a different box. The more boxes you have the ability to access, the better.
Agreed on the "and then some". These days the burgers in France are much superior to the burgers in the UK (unless you go to Quick or something).
I cannot read X/Twitter. Exactly what did this person waste our valuable earthly limited resources on?
There is an immensely strong dogma that, to my best knowledge, is not founded in any science or philosophy:

First we must lay down certain axioms (smart word for the common sense/ground rules we all agree upon and accept as true).

One of such would be the fact that currently computers do not really understand words. ...

The author is at least honest about his assumptions. Which I can appreciate. Most other people just has it as a latent thing.

For articles like this to be interesting, this can not be accepted as an axiom. It's justification is what's interesting,
One argument I heard some time ago for V8 not implementing TCO is that it results in bad stack traces for debugging.
Automatically changing from three coloumns to one as the screen narrows is quite nifty.
Yes the City of London has a population of around 10,000 but employs nearly 1 million by some estimates since the legal and financial capitals exist within it.
No, that just proves that intelligence can create another intelligence. It does not rule out that intelligence can exist due to entropy.
> Ultimately, in a big enough org, software becomes an assembly line

Only when badly managed, if software production is like an assembly line it means the software produced is mostly worthless because there is no freedom for anyone to diverge or improve anything, meaning they don't add any real input so you don't actually need a programmer there.

Anything that can be structured as an assembly line of programmers should be automated or abstracted so that a large group of programmers don't need to touch the same change serially (assembly line), instead that assembly line of programmers can be much better done by a single programmer that does all the serial work himself, that way you can gain the benefits of programming.

Large scale software organizations should focus on parallel workflows, not assembly line workflows (serial). Serial team workflows in software just leads to worse products.
As usually with Calvin and Hobbes, I don't get the point of the strip.
A bell shape has no minimum/maximum, like the box has.
that's incredible! how did you put the confetti back in the canon?
The article is poorly-written but it sounds like Domino's was differentiating by introducing delivery pizza to Italy. When COVID hit, local pizzerias were also forced to introduce delivery to survive, and then Domino's lost it's differentiation because before if you were lazy and wanted pizza you got Domino's, but now you have local, better, options.

But the article only tangentially touches on the actual reasons so I'm not sure if that's an accurate description.
Would you care to address the specific argument that the author makes about not using box plots with audiences? I swear, statisticians are among the most inertia-prone groups of people that I’ve ever worked with. You need a certain degree of “do it this way because it’s done this way” to deal with the amount of BS going on in this field.
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As you wrote, Hashcash never saw widespread adoption, sadly. The big players all came up with their half-assed "alternate solutions" and what I saw was that spammers where the first to adopt DKIM etc.

I still use greylisting which keeps a remarkable number of spammers away, because they do not invest the resources to wait for n minutes for a retry. And I refuse email from clients without a proper reverse DNS entry, which more often than not appear to be hacked machines, or certain "organisations" in countries far away ...
It’s currently live on Product Hunt. I’d appreciate any support.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/suremeet
China has spent at least $230B to build its EV industry, new study finds
(over ten years)

China spent $230.8 billion over more than a decade to develop its electric car industry, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
An Introduction to B-Splines
FTFY: ONLY 3 million times.

At the current pace of development, AI will catch-up in a decade or less.
Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC
"God made some men tall and some men short. Sam Colt made all men equal."
https://matplotlib.org/stable/plot_types/index

https://d3-graph-gallery.com/
I think GPT-4 is way more than 3 million times more efficient than my brain. All it does is a lot of multiplication and adding and my brain is crap at that.
Encodings built up within lambda calculus are not known to lambda calculus itself, and are ambiguous. There is no way to tell whether some encoding isn't just supposed to denote itself (the lambda calculus functional term that it is) rather than a number that it represents by convention.
If this is your approach, the only way you ever could’ve made anything actually useful is by sheer coincidence. Box plots, and their alternatives, are communication tools. Do you not care to find a more clear way to communicate? In drawing an immediate comparison with banning cars, you’re being completely unjustifiably standoffish.
>right in every its piece except license.

But then it would not be the "most popular OS" right? Whats your logic here?
No! You can fight back! The thing I have realised about SDAM is that although you don’t get that emotional/movie/visual experience, you also remember what you remember.

My wife (and particularly my daughter), have vivid imaginations that can make memories up at times. If I’ve “fact-committed” a memory, it’s not wrong.

Granted, this only helps in the 0.1% of cases when you have done the fact memory committal and can thus have any argument at all. For the rest it’s “I don’t remember that, and your memory is unreliable, so…”. Ahh the comforting couch, I should just take my pillow there now ;-)
No.

Are you using RoR?
> Please delete this

No!

“Carbonara is ‘an American dish born in Italy’ and it wasn’t born until the second world war. The story that most experts agree on is that an Italian chef, Renato Gualandi, first made it in 1944 at a dinner in Riccione for the US army with guests including Harold Macmillan.”

And “before the 1960s, wheels of parmesan cheese weighed only about 10kg (as opposed to the hefty 40kg wheels we know today) and were encased in a thick black crust. Its texture was fatter and softer than it is nowadays. ‘Some even say that this cheese, as a sign of quality, had to squeeze out a drop of milk when pressed,’ Grandi says. ‘Its exact modern-day match is Wisconsin parmesan.’”

Italy was a poor country until after WWII, when it saw in half a decade “the same kind of progress that the UK had witnessed over the course of a century during the Industrial Revolution.” That kind of abundance fuelled a fury of extravagant culinary creativity and alongside it myth making. (The “correct” formulations of which were largely not pinned down until the 1980s.)

https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b...
Intelligence and flying are different things, a leaf falling down a tree « fly » because of laws of nature.
No bias -- By commenting a lot, you're overrepresenting the average HN audience. Which kind of nullifies your point, doesn't it?

You argue in other comments that it's just an education problem, but box plots are used with people who don't have this exact education you mention, and the article explains that a drawback of box plots is exactly that it isn't intuitive and takes several minutes of explanations.

In other words, the article says "I've stopped using this because they require education", and your retort is "Don't stop using these, you just need to educate people".
It's a fraction by area, but it's by far the densest and busiest part of the city. Comparisons to half of Manhattan are not unwarranted.
What specific issue do you have with this article? “The graph itself isn’t at fault” is very “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. Who cares? This distinction is utterly meaningless semantics. Why do you feel a need to ‘stand up’ for box plots? Why is this a tribalistic religious war?
> So you can no longer reverse the process

I've never understood this to be the purpose of a boxplot, only a means of visualizing a distribution's quartiles.

You've gotten a flood of comments from upset people, so I'll keep it short by saying that a boxplot doesn't actually do what you claim for Gaussians, as the 0 and 100 percentile "whiskers" would be at plus/minus infinity. As for a bounded bell-shaped distribution, there are several non-unique ways to define such a distribution.
How so, care to educate the lazy?

It's all theoretical anyway, if it's 400TB split into individual files, and I'm using millions of HTTPS GET's, that's also overhead...

Gotta love nerds spending their Saturday (nights) arguing about some simple maths...
I read very fast (English and code, and my native language), and I have a very vivid visual (as well as auditory) imagination. Wonder what I traded off in this setup.
I really miss CRTs. They had more vivid colour, had near zero response times, and I even _liked_ the blur the scanlines caused. Not to mention the calm that the simplicity brought; turn on, watch.
> which heavy processing partially removes

Only because they don't focus on micronutrients.

> where organic food tends to be better because soil health is actually looked at.

You don't think large scale farmers look at soil health? Every single large scale farmer knows about soil health.
Also some pretty interesting tax and voting rules there ... Corporations get a vote, pretty much meaning they run the place.

https://www.thecollector.com/what-makes-the-city-of-london-u...

There's a good book called "treasure islands" all about tax havens... The city definitely features.
You know Wikipedia has citations right?

> When Alexander I of Macedon petitioned to compete in the foot race of the ancient Olympic Games, the event organizers at first denied his request, explaining that only Greeks were allowed to compete. However, Alexander I produced proof of an Argead royal genealogy showing ancient Argive Temenid lineage, a move that ultimately convinced the Olympic Hellanodikai authorities of his Greek descent and ability to compete, although this did not necessarily apply to common Macedonians outside of his royal dynasty

Badian, Ernst (1982). "Greeks and Macedonians". Studies in the History of Art. SYMPOSIUM SERIES I. 10. National Gallery of Art: 33–51. JSTOR 42617918

I didn't say you are nationalist, just that it's a stupid concept. It was stupid from "mainstream" ancient Greeks to exclude ancient Makedonians and it's stupid to argue who can claim Alexander nowadays.
In every state ancient or modern, every inhabitant is a genetic melange and even though there is usually some major culture there are minorities which are often excluded by the jingoistic narrative.
Pizza delivery has been available in Italy since the 90s at least. Not as common as it is now, with every restaurant offering it, but it definitely existed even in small towns.
Not necessarily. Qualcomm just released its Windows chips, and in the benchmarks I've seen, it loses to the M1 in power efficiency, despite being built on a more advanced node, performing much closer the the Intel and AMD offerings.

Apple is just that good.
How does that math work out? The developments during the last year has been... Abysmal? The hype and marketing bull is increasing exponentially though.
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Huh, but it's Google and Apple operating systems that are the only ones that actually protect user data by sandboxing apps from each other so they can only access their own data?

It's the open source operating systems (and MS) that only protect the root account, because they're designed for servers or academic/corporate campuses and not personal computers.

If I install a program from a package manager on Linux, it has access to my whole home directory. If I install an app from the Apple App Store, it only has access to the files I specifically tell the OS to open with it.
Also misogynistic and homophobic.
If a spontaneous intelligence is 3 million times more efficient that one that one who took millions of hours of work from brains (there is so much effort that there is even more work put into AI that evolution who thinly spread changes through time, efforts diluted). We either have to define that AI will never be the same as HI and can’t compete with it or it’s of the same nature as some people say on HN and for me it brings the question of intelligence needed for an other one to appear. Because we have no other history of something that complex and intelligent ever emerging. The only thing that some of us consider as intelligent as us if not more, could ever emerge because of tremendous efforts and structure and will from our part (or from our intelligence)
I agree that the "kamikaze" or "suicide" description is nonsensical.

>It is a guided missile.

No, it isn't. It only uses rocket propellant for starting, then it uses a propeller and it's wings to stay in the air.
Pointing out that pizza was obviously developed in the United States would tend to undermine the idea that Italy is "the home of pizza".
Aarg - you are right. should pay more attention next time.
IIn all of your replies you make snide reference to “general audiences”, “mass consumption”, etc. You very obviously place yourself in a higher class because of your ability to correctly interpret box plots. Can we please just move past that though? The vast vast vast majority of box plots are for “general consumption”. The vast vast majority of box plots are used in place of a more suitable chart type. You seem to be arguing that, because a box plot is hypothetically suitable for some (in the grand scheme of things) corner case, that the author’s point is faulty. I think that you are completely overstating the importance of the hypothetical ‘correct case’. You’re getting stuck on a point that nobody, least of all the author, is making.
I thought every TPM has issues like that, because interaction with the TPM puts the CPU in System Management Mode to prevent the OS/application from performing timing attacks against the TPM. Or does that only apply to TPM 1.2?
I don’t have aphantasia, but I do think in an audible stream of words.

This has led to an odd quirk in my experience as a software developer: I hate keywords or variable names that don’t have an obvious pronunciation, like “fn”. They interrupt the stream and make me stumble in a way that doesn’t seem to afflict people who appear to experience written words as grouped glyphs without hearing them.

(I’ve chosen to read “fn” as “effin” as a puerile expression of resentment.)
The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
Is this sarcasm?

I'm not one to appeal to authority but "author should take a course" is akin to ad hominem when a quick look at their profile (https://www.practicalreporting.com/about-nick-desbarats - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdesbarats/) tells you that he's been doing dataviz and statistics for a long time.
Very common that the children don't wish to run the family business – I always wondered why. Wonder how much things would have turned out differently had the Dad introduced the company to his son at a young age and "groomed" him to be the future leader of the organization.
And no mention of notched box plots which make a lot of the troublesome aspects go away?
>but it cannot compete with free labor.

In terms of quality you are right, in terms of quantity you are wrong (in the past), but in this day and age replacing people (slaves) with machines changes the whole thing again.

So yes, free labor with specialized people and specialized machines and cheap energy is the most competitive.
> so early access deals with TSMC is the secret weapon this buys them about 6 months

Aren't Apple typically 2 years ahead? M1 came out 2020, other CPUs from the same node level (5 nm TSMC) came out 2022. If you mean apple launches their 6 months ahead of the rest of the industry gets on the previous node, sure, but not the current node.

What you are thinking about is maybe that AMD 7nm is comparable to Apple 5nm, but really what you should compare is todays AMD cpus with the Apple cpu from 2022, since they are on the same architecture.

But yeah, all the impressive bits about Apple performance disapears once you take architecture into account.
Indeed. It was only after having lived in the US for a few years that I realized Americans actually considered burgers a "meal".

For most who grew up in the French or similar culinary traditions, a burger was more like a snack, perhaps comparable to a bag of chips (crisps).
In Montenegro, McDonald’s has failed back in 2003, albeit at a small scale. McDonald’s also failed in Macedonia in 2013, this time the scale was non-trivial, 7 restaurants.

We have a similar traditional dish in this region, IMO better than McDonald’s burgers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pljeskavica
NASA Planetary Defense Report [pdf]
Apparently it is likely a clone of this commercially available servo motor:

https://hitecrcd.com/products/servos/digital/sport-giant/hs-...

According to some of the YouTube comments.

I am more interested in the controller for the drone but I suspect it is also likely a clone of some existing drone control tech.
Hey, wait, you can use String format with positional parameters...

private static String generateGuessSentence(char candidate, int count) {
return String.format(switch(count){
case 0 -> "There are no %1$ss";
case 1 -> "There is one %1$s";
default -> "There are %2$s %1$ss";
}, candidate, count);
}
But if the number of platters, rotation speed and bit-density is exactly the same as in regular drives, the number of “bits” moving past the read/write heads per rotation would still stay the same? Would be interesting to know how much time typically is spent on actually reading the bits vs the tiny seeks & track calibration when reading, say, 10 GB sequentially.

Edit: other comments below explain the missing part, in a regular drive, apparently just one head can read/write (to one platter) at a time due to calibration reasons, even if your disk physically has 8 platters. So having two actuators allows two platters out of 8 to do IO concurrently.
Haven't in a while, how come?
Ah, the good old chicken and chicken paradox. Which came first, the chicken, or the chicken?
> If some day AGI happens and can exists on its own, wouldn’t that prove that intelligence is a base requirement for intelligence to happen in the first place ?

No, it would not.
Also, you can read the story about how Escrow.com ruined a 6 figures acquisition here:
https://x.com/nico_jeannen/status/1801684171607445748
AI Everywhere: A Conversation with Mira Murati Th'12
This is deceptive. It’s a tautology. Pizza - as Americans define it - is American. You may as well say Orange Chicken is - shockingly - not Chinese.

Most Italian food served in the US is American food made by immigrants. Just as Indian food in the Uk is. Italian American food is heavier, much more meat based, and drowning in cheese and garlic in a way Italian food isn’t.

Pizza is Italian. Period. American style pizza is a riff on that which has become popular outside the US. However claiming that pizza is American is akin to saying Chinese food is. Nonsense.
Oh, that makes sense. As well as a fact that screaming on a pc will make it work quicker.
Groq, which appeared 4 months ago, was an abysmal development for efficiency?
I'm glad you never worked at a bank or an insurance company!
Only if you don't know anything about Manhattan other than "density".

The now-canceled project would have affected, at a minimum, about 10% of New York's entire resident population (~800k). A lot of New Yorkers actually live in Manhattan south of 60th. That's part of why it's dense.

A more reasonable comparison to the current London congestion area would be midtown -- the small area in the middle of Manhattan with the obvious skyscrapers, as well as Times Square, theaters, throngs of tourists, and the bulk of finance.