skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting an old school mac-only app in this vein is Tinderbox: https://youtu.be/bSYy6uK94Lw

Neat to see someone attempting a cross-platform approach!
Yeah, wrote my own XPath-like extension methods to manipulate JSON just like that. Felt very natural and makes it quite easy to generate and process JSON for the cases serialization/deserialization isn't the best option.
Oh yikes. Yeah; not ideal.
> But OpenAI has to keep releasing new ever-increasing models to justify it all.

There seems to be some renewed interest for smaller, possibly better-designed LLMs. I don’t know if this really lowers training costs, but it makes inference cheaper. I suspect at some point we’ll have clusters of smaller models, possibly activated when needed like in MoE LLMs, rather than ever-increasing humongous models with 3T parameters.
The "Unity Asset Store" is effectively Splice

But the licensing doesn't do pay outs, with sampling you pay once and its yours to use as you see fit. As it should be, we don't need anyone else sticking their hands out.
At one point, U.S. welfare programs directed at single mothers appeared to cause an increase in single mothers. Fathers either actually left or had to hide their participation in the family lest the mother become ineligible for assistance. The dominant culture is that the poor are morally unfit and undeserving, and the welfare programs reflect that. Politicians emphasize their benefits to the middle class, almost never the poor.
Oh I see what you mean. I misunderstood, I also don't like slash as a separator.
I would agree only if John Deere is not allowed to use provisions like DMCA[1] to prevent repair of their hardware.

[1] https://reason.com/2024/01/08/how-john-deere-hijacked-copyri...
> This is certainly abuse from the executive branch and I hope the courts stop it.

“Actually I think it’s good that companies don’t allow you to repair their products. And it’s an abuse of power for the government to stop them”

You realize that forcing companies to respect the right to repair actually makes the economy stronger?

Independent repair shops can exist in that environment.
The market becomes more free in that sense…
Steve here, one of the co-authors. Totally valid on OpenBio. I will say that comparison numbers for this paper were such a challenge, in part because we found that a lot of the LLMs on the Medical LLM leaderboard struggled to follow even slight changes in instructions. On one hand it felt inaccurate to just print '[something very low]% Accuracy' on structuring/abstraction tasks and call it a day, but it also seemed like the amount of engineering effort needed to get non-trivial results from those LLMs was saying something important about how they worked.

I think that's especially true when you look at how well GPT-4o worked out of the box -- it makes clear what you get from the battle-hardening that's done to the big commercial models. For the numbers we did include, the thought was that was the most meaningful signal was that going from 8B to 70B with Llama3 actually gives you a lot in terms of mitigating that brittleness. That goes a step towards explaining the story of what we're seeing, moreso than showing a bunch of comparison LLMs fall over out of the box.

In the end, we presented those models that did best with light tuning and optimization (say a week's worth of iteration or so). I anticipate that we'll have to expand these results to include OpenBio as we work through the conference reviewer gauntlet. Any others you think we definitely should work to include? Would definitely be helpful!
He's describing the average Christian's perspective, not saying what he himself thinks.
I don't think you can do it in Java specifically. But once upon a time it was rather popular to write test fixtures for Java code in Groovy, which does let you do it.
Narratives in the world of ideas play the same role as governments play here: they create order to prevent us from sliding into anarchy. And just like governments often create too much order, which is tyranny, narratives also tend to crystallize over time and become dogmas. Until we haven't evolved beyond our selfish nature, governments and narratives will remain necessary.
It's hard for me as a software developer to understand how soul-destroying it is to work for someone else in this industry.

I have worked as a developer for someone else's company since college, for 15 years now, and I don't know how else to describe it other than I like what I do and find it fun and stimulating.

I don't think it's strictly the profession. I think either the person doesn't really like it as much as they think they do, or they work for a company that pushes them too hard and doesn't treat them well.

I guess that's obvious, but in my experience at least it doesn't have to be that way.
I think part of the problem is when we compare the two following.

Engineering - Physics - Math

Computer Engineering - Computer Science

Notice that the second only has two steps? Engineering isn't really science, but there is a sort of science. Now one will be quick to point out that computer engineering does depend upon physics (and chemistry, and even a wee bit of biology and higher). But I think Computer Science is large enough in scope it contains true Computer Science, which is as much math as math is, but it also contains more real world test and verify parts of computing. Things that might be able to fit up under physics or chemistry, but which ended up being placed under computer science.

If we are talking a Turing machine, that is math (or something equivalent to math). If we are talking about how a compiler can optimize code by rewriting some things to be computational equivalent but to put operations in an order that most CPUs can run faster, that feels like we've stepped into science. We've overloaded the terminology and now have some linguistic debt that needs paying off.

I sometimes joke that my undergrad degree in Computer Science involved only a single class in Computer Science.
Exactly! The amount of worry they have is stupid and nonsensical and ultimately used to disguise their real reasons of just not wanting to share anything.
https://archive.ph/ofx0Z
It is surprisingly hard to track down what is meant exactly. It is not either of the options you listed here, but closer to the first. Chasing a very long chain of citations to other citations, it appears this paper contains the original explanation of where the data come from: https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/s11205-015-1196-y.

They survey all of the possible healthcare goods and services available across OECD nations, make their best attempt to select a representative basket that is both available across all nations and reasonably similar, then estimate what they call a "quasi-price" per unit of good and/or service, to account for the fact that the actual charged price is often artificially suppressed or set to zero by government fiat. This seems to be done by scouring management accounting databases to figure out what the payers and providers consider to be reasonable reimbursement rates for accounting purposes, whether or not that is what they actually receive.

I get what they're trying to do, but this probably explains some of the counterintuive results, because mostly people are probably thinking more along the lines of "add up all premiums paid to insurers, out of pocket expenses paid directly by consumers to providers, and all government outlays classified as healthcare" and that's how much your country spends on healthcare.

That's a reasonable comparison to make, but as the blog and the OECD report both point out, it does nothing to account for differences in quantity and quality of healthcare goods being paid for. The problem is this discourse then inevitably leads to "well the US gets worse outcomes," but to what extent is that fair? The only reason I can walk today is because of US healthcare. If you incur a musculoskeletal injury that requires intervention in various different countries, how likely are you to fully recover? If you get cancer, how likely are you to go into remission? I don't necessarily know exactly what should be measured, but I know that when the discussion goes straight to lifespan, that is heavily confounded. Americans drive more, own more guns, are fatter. There has been tremendous industrial pollution in various places, though I don't know how that compares to the rest of the OECD. I wouldn't be surprised if we have more backyard pools. There are many, many reasons we might live shorter lives that have nothing at all to do with the quality of the healthcare we receive.
It returns an object for a long time now, I might say it was always like this actually. Don't know about very old versions
Unless there's a rate limit for changing passwords I just rapidly change them X+1 times and arrive back at my original. This only applies to work stuff, which I don't keep in my password manager.
> non-hyperscaler competitors

Well the hyperscale companies are the ones to worry about.
> Our Thought Leaders think like that at least. They also pretty much told us to use AI or get fired

Ours told us not to use LLMs because they are worried about leaking IP and confidential data.
Well I'm autistic myself, so...
https://f5bot.com/ was free for like 8 years and it processed hundreds of thousands of db records a day, and it barely cost anything.
New Covid XEC symptom 'severely impacts daily functioning' warns doctor
Have you not memorized the password to your password manager?

How would that even work?
>Almost always the data is the most important thing, so I like being able to expand/replace/trash the app infra at will with no worries.

Have you used SQLite with Litestream? That's the beauty of it. You can blow away the app and deploy it somewhere else, and Litestream will just pull down your data and continue along as if nothing happened.

At the top of this post, I show a demo of attaching Litestream to my app, and then blowing away my Heroku instance and redeploying a clean instance on Fly.io, and Litestream ports all the data along with the new deployment:

https://mtlynch.io/litestream/
Is it the shape or the material?

I notice that the destroyed house next to it seems to have been made of the typical light timber frame and regular glass windows.

By comparison, my parents' house in Puerto Rico isn't dome-shaped -- it's rather boxy, but it is constructed with fairly thick concrete walls on the exterior and has hurricane shutters over all the windows. The biggest problem that it's ever had from hurricanes (e.g., Hurricane Maria) has been from flooding and extended loss of power rather than anything structural.
I'm betting against OpenAI. Sam Altman has proven himself and his company untrustworthy. In long running games, untrustworthy players lose out.

If you disagree, I would argue you have a very sad view of the world, where truth and cooperation are inferior to lies and manipulation.
I don't disagree with what you're saying but I'm confused about why it's a reply to my comment.
For biking and walking, could accepting data from Strava users (or other places that let you download GPS tracks), let you infer where there are sidewalks and good bike routes?

Eg if you have 20 GPS traces in an area and they all turn at one point, that’s a good place to turn. Or you can assume something has a sidewalk if many people have walked there?
1. Just because it's popular sci-fi plot doesn't mean it can't happen in reality.
2. hyperintelligent AGI is not magic, there are no physical laws that preclude it from being created
3. Goals of AI and its capacity are orthogonal. That's called "Orthogonality Thesis" in AI safety speak. "smart enough" doesn't mean it won't do those things if those things are its goals.
The algo does allow for fully automatic crossword generation, let me try to summarize the general flow:

1. Begins with an empty grid and starts placing words horizontally from the top-left corner

2. For each word placement, it verifies that valid words can be formed vertically at each intersection point

3. It maintains a list of possible letters for each cell to ensure all constraints are satisfied

4. The generator consults a dictionary to find valid words that fit the curent grid state, allowing for diverse solutions

5. If no valid word can be placed, it may decide to insert a black square, carefully checking that doesn't violate any crossword rules

6. When it reaches an dead end, the system backtracks and tries different options

7. It employs smart heuristics to guide word selection, such as favoring longer words in certain positions

8. Throughout the process it automatically adjusts parameters like word length andblack square placement to find a valid solution

There is no manual intervetion, however the quality depends heavily on the input dictionary and tunable parameters.
I'm talking at a very technical level ignoring all the cultural stuff around the scientific method like "peer review" or explaining "why"

Basically a hypothesis is a statement that can be true or false. That's it.

The reason I refer to science in this very technical way is because the we are tackling the problem of classification. We are asking the question what is computer science? So to answer the question we need to use very technical definitions where the boundaries of categorization are extremely clear.

Again, at a very technical level a hypothesis is simply a statement that is true or false.
> That meant as much meat as they could hunt or raise plus whatever else

The human diet has been a very, very small minority meat. Because meat is hard to get.

And prehistoric game meat is also not the same as farm meat. Beef and pork contain high amount of saturated fat, but game antelope would contain much less and would have unsaturated fat. Meat of that time is really closer to avocado than meat of our time.

> Regardless of what you "think", that is the reality

I'm glad to see everyone is being civil.

But if we come back down to Earth, you'll realize diabetes is reversed 95% of time when Ozempic is used.

Do those people eat carbs? Yes, they do. Is 95% a higher success rate than whatever pathetic adherence rate a miserable existence like ketosis has? Yes, it is.

If for 99.9999% of all of human history our diets consisted of almost exclusively carbohydrates, I don't think we're following the right path here.

Just because ketosis reversed diabetes DOES NOT mean it address the root cause. It could be purely incidental. And it's also a piss-poor treatment. Because it sucks, and nobody wants to do it, so they try it and then lose a foot or two.

We should stick to real medications, such as insulin and Ozempic. The granola-brained can continue their keto.
Discussion (28 points, 21 hours ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41874178
I've never thought about it before but mine is definitely counter clock-wise as well, though NYE can be either at 12 o'clock or 6 o'clock. Brains are weird things.
Inference speeds go brrrr as well.
This is my preference as well, I love the functional aspects of the LINQ extensions for IEnumerable (and IQueryable)... Just easier to reason with IMO. Not always the most performant option(s) in for example (Entity Framework), but usually a pretty good option most of the time. I also like to use Dapper over EF.

Of course, C# projects tend to have a level of abstractions that are simply absurd to work with. "Enterprise" development makes my cringe more often than not.
That gives the people who've already started an advantage over newcomers, but it's not a unique advantage to OpenAI.

The question really should be what if anything gives OpenAI an advantage over Anthropic, Google, Meta, or Amazon? There are at least four players intent on eating OpenAI's market share who already have models in the same ballpark as OpenAI. Is there any reason to suppose that OpenAI keeps the lead for long?
nosurf has a good list https://www.troddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/p73msh/digital_min...
Wouldn't it be even better to explicitly funnel our money to R&D, rather than hoping that it gets there eventually after insurers and paperwork maximizers and intentionally-inefficient providers all take their cuts?
JSON-patch is not a generic patch. It's not the same thing.
This looks to be another name for 'eta expansion/reduction', if you're searching for prior art in other languages.
> This is like trying to understand the nuance reasons why Steven Hawking disagrees with Einstein (or whoever) on something.

I like the analogy!

> So my guess is just trying to give a voice to the little guys who are up and coming and are in line philosophically with his beliefs about the language and open source.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for answering! It's an interesting insight into the world of "Prologs" to a complete outsider. I had only used SWI-Prolog in the university and remember it having a variety of modules, web development libraries and other such things, so at least superficially to a novice, that was pretty impressive.
What they need is a payment provider integration so you can ACH or credit card pay immediately. That can also be a monetisation option for them.
Yes, if you don't want to do that work and are happy to pay someone else to take care of it, then that is great. But if you like making free web apps, relying on a PaaS will get expensive.
I can't really picture things in my head in a visual way, but i can keep diagrams in my head as well as draw them to solve problems. What I often find weird is that some colleages cannot cooperate with me on such diagrams and others can. I guess the former hold structures in their head in a different (more textual or holding more in memory at once, i am not sure) way than I do.
What happens if the GOP wins in a couple of weeks? Would there be any way these actions can be sustainable for more than a few months?
Just don't forget that IO matters.

Drives do 140-220MB/s depending on the LBA distance of the readhead, and that's not really changing. 160MB/s is very common.

So your 8TB drives, assuming 1MiB writes with a 20ms latency and 160MB/s, you can rewrite the drive ~155 times/year. At 20T this drops to ~62 times/yr.
From that article: “In comparing measurements remember that SANE calculates to 19 digits. BASIC to 9 and Pascal to 6”.

SANEs claim to fame wasn’t that it was fast, it was that it produced results accurate to ½ ulp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place) in a large (for the time) floating point format.
This is essentially the RPC vs REST debate. Do you want your API to be a schema of data types (REST), or a list of function signatures (RPC)?
I'm convinced cats violate energy conservation, because they can shed an infinite amount of fur.
https://x.com/BrookingsGov/status/1846559080199966723 | https://archive.today/NYDkM
The quoted doctor, "Snieguole Geige", is an "Aesthetic dentist" at a place specializing in "dermal and Lip Fillers, Anti-Wrinkle, and Skin Treatments"
This should be an interval with a lookup.

Every five seconds check for due dates sooner than 10 seconds from now and schedule them.

The longer a delay the higher the odds the process exits without finishing the work.
I'm of similar opinion. Tying it to employer makes no sense in our current world. People change jobs all the time. And I've seen boardroom decisions where we decide not to cover a drug on insurance because only 1 person takes it and it is very expensive and we only employ 100 people. Meanwhile, we all know damn well exactly who that one person is. It's Pam down in Accounting, she's open with her battle with MS/Cancer/etc. And, that's not insurance! The fact that it's done by CIGNA/United/etc who has millions to spread it across and the risk should have been baked into the rates we already were paying. It's just maddening.

I had to get out of Healthcare altogether after COVID and the Boardroom conversations I was a part of. The worst was we wanted to close ICU's because uptick in nursing labor was making profit margins lower than usual, never mind the fact we had a ton of cash on the balance sheet the government had given us for emergency funds - I luckily was able to win that battle and we remained open - but yeah, hedge fund owned ICU's during a pandemic...
Elon Musk alone disproves your theory. I wish I agreed with you, I'm sure I'd be happier. But there's just too many successful sociopaths. Hell there was a popular book about it.
I do worry about that and that's why the most important thing is to work for the right manager. Keep on their good side, make them feel like you're an asset even if not sprinting every sprint, and I've found that they'll go to bat for you at review time.
Incredibly short sighted. Extrapolate this to the point where all of the manufacturers use DRM / abuse the legal process to prevent an owners right to repair their own devices. Where's your "free market" now?
> Isn’t the whole point of a passkey that it’s meant to use a chain of trust to prove that you’re you via biometrics or a physical factor?

No actually! The biometric auth is more of a “liveness check” than anything else.

The point of passkeys is to replace the primary factor — the password — with a new primary factor that isn’t fundamentally “broken” in the ways passwords are. Password hashes can be stolen from servers, users frequently reuse them across different services, they are frequently very weak, and they are phishable. In contrast passkeys are guaranteed to be strong, unique, and there is nothing worth stealing from servers for attackers (only a public key).
> There is no way ambulance rides went from $200 to $10,000 because of EMT pay.

Absolutely not. EMT pay can be as low as $12 an hour.
Disclaimer: nothing substantial, just a bit of trauma dump

I've been a developer for more than a decade. Body-shops. Founding engineer. Chief Technology Officer. After every job in my life I took 6 - 12 months off.

Usually my desire for programming comes back somewhere around the 5th month mark. I'm in such a 'holiday' now, and just passed the 12 month mark. I don't feel that desire coming back anymore.

I've been blessed to have a friend that had a gig where I can do some ETL and cover my monthly expenses, but whenever I start looking for new jobs, reading the ads, all those keywords, all those bullshit descriptions of what they expect, I'm starting to develop a physical repulsion.

I've done a couple of interviews, and the HR discussions and then the technical interviews have left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. I'm afraid I'll hiss in the next zoom call. And it's not even for not getting accepted, as I got an offer from all the talks. But the whole industry gives me a bad taste right now. Everything just feels futile and fluffed up. My last interview was for a hair & beauty appointment app start-up where they acted like they cure cancer.

I'd like to be my old self, but I'm afraid I might not get that part back. I took a look at 'regular' jobs and the idea of being a truck driver lit up something in me that programming hasn't in a very long time. Even being a shop clerk makes me dream more than wrangling code.

I realize this is childish, and that the grass is always greener on the other side. I know that there are challenges in every profession and that I have a comfortable home office and get paid a shit ton of money for what I do and this is better than 99% of the planet.

I just hope to be able to get back on track mentally and not feel like this.
>New data from @BrookingsGov/@PRRIpoll show that 60% of white evangelical Protestants and a roughly equal share of Republicans believe that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood” of our country. #AVS2024

No it's not a "third of americans" It's a third of religious nutjobs who took the poll.
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