skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This does not impress me in the slightest.

A computer that is actually fluent in English — as in, understands the language and can use it context-appropriately — should blow your entire mind.
“OpenAI API” (GPT-3-as-a-service)
Yes, it is, and that's precisely why the removal of homosexuality from the DSM (in 1974) was not a sign of the DSM's authors giving into cultural pressures - it was a combination of the authors avoiding the cultural pressures that had caused the previous edition to list it, plus a realization (after scientific study) that the problem wasn't with the person, it was with their society.

The nature of the scientific method is that we learn new things over time, and the nature of society is that we are all subject to various kinds of cultural pressures, most of which we don't even recognize. The meta-level goal of the DSM - describing those disorders which prevent someone from thriving and are properly treated by psychiatrists - seems sound, even if each edition always needs to be succeeded by a new one.
I have to disagree with this perspective and reiterate my original position: language is sentience.

And to be fair, reasonable people stake out positions on both sides of this debate: I'm not claiming that the alternative proposition is somehow unreasonable. It's a legitimate subject of scholarly disagreement.

Nevertheless, I'm still firm on language. Why? Because all complexity is ultimately about symbolic manipulation of terms representing the process of manipulation itself. ("Godel, Escher, Bach" is a fantastic exploration of this concept.) How can you manipulate concepts without assigning terms to their parts? That's what language is.

The question I like to ask is this: are there any ideas that you cannot express using language? No? Then how is thought distinct from language?

Yes, people (myself included) experience a "tip of the tongue" experience where you feel like you have an idea you can't just yet express. But maybe this experience is what reason feels like. Why should idea formation take only one "clock cycle" in the brain? Why should we be unaware of the process?

I think this feeling of having an idea yet being unable to formulate it is just the neural equivalent of a CPU pipeline stall. It's not evidence that we can have ideas without language: it's evidence that ideas sometime take a little while to gel.
I believe their problem was with the structure of the process, and not with the composition of the governing body.
There are also structural changes in the brain as time passes, and hopefully biological ones as well if I'm going to digest this food I just ate. What structural changes are present and can these changes be used to diagnose the condition? Are these changes necessary for the condition? To me it looks like gray matter loss is not exclusive to this condition, these studies only quantify brain matter density, not structure. This study is also not very well designed, it only studies BPD patients without studying patients that may potentially have the identified defect but not the diagnosis.

Our diagnosis of psychological conditions is very vague as well--is bipolar disorder diagnosed as lack of gray matter? If it's not, then why not?
Not after the stories about how first day buyers got hosed when the stock is flat or down over the next few months.
I think it’s a sign our chipsets and tooling have become too complicated. We’re at this weird point where both sides are trying to guess what the other one is doing.
This comes up on HN every now and then, it is how I learned about low background steel. If this is new to you, you may also enjoy reading about the cesium content of wine: https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/07/19/141390/fukushima...
> none of the drugs have been linked to physical/chemical shortages in the brain or the like

That's certainly not true. These things aren't understood very well, but it's not at all true that there's NO understanding of how brain chemistry and mental illness interact.

> It can seriously mess someone's life up.

In general drugs for bipolar are prescribed only once someone's life is already "messed up". You seem to be invoking something like the hippocratic oath, but please believe that's already a solid criteria in medicine. These drugs are prescribed because they are known to work (no, not always and not with any certainty, but that they work is not meaningfully disputed).
The thing is that this thing has now crossed into the uncanny valley. Earlier it would have great trouble making a single sentence that makes sense. You only ever remember whether the last two sentences made sense and go together. And with GPT-3 any pair of sentences always makes almost perfect sense. By the time you're four sentences down you go wait a minute ...
Mountain Hardware, Mission Workshop, Lululemon, Outlier and Arcteryx all have some variety on this theme. I love the lightweight zip low-hip pocket as there's no jostling when running and your phone/wallet lays to the side if you're sitting.

It's true that there is space for innovation, but it's difficult to get below the $100-200 range for 'technical' (ie non-traditional cut) officewear.
Superficialism about Belief
It is semantics but then words matter if you're the one affected - having the doctor say you have a condition would be better than having a disease.

I guess it depends on your definition of disease, which is technically broad in the literal sense of an abnormal negative medical condition. A condition in itself can be positive or negative and also has an implied connotation that it's just the current state.

Seem to be hitting that original argument about labeling things that are on a spectrum, where a condition could becalled a disease once it reaches a cetain state. Disease does imply a level of sickness and incapacitation, and maybe a permanent state?

Alternatively we could classify and reclassify disorders but the general public gets left way behind.

EDIT: There's also the notion that a disease is something you catch, which given our understanding of viruses and bacteria in triggering various diseases and conditions (and potentially some cancers) maybe excludes genetic and environmentally caused conditions?
If you believe in consciousness divorced from flesh, you're in strong intellectual company, but that's not a path I can go down. Metaphysically, I just can't accept the idea that the mind is anything but the computation performed by the brain.
People with dementia, which is often driven by clear physical processes (like cell death), exhibit symptoms of mental illness.

They unquestionably have a disease and often respond to drugs.
Prediction: GPT-3 and it’s subsequent iterations will eventually take away Google’s dominance in Search. In fact we may not have text based search as we know it in 2030.

I could use this to churn out blog posts and content pages by the dozen on any and every subject, which is basically how search engines rank content these days.

Will Google ever be able to tell the difference between gpt-3 text and human text? Or will the results become garbage?

It’s a hard problem to solve, it has shades of the Halting problem by definition.
It doesn't make any sense because the "bleeding" that is such a big meme for the nation's conservatives considers only domestic out-migration. The reason there is so much of it is because a lot of Americans can't compete economically with international elites who have been flooding into California. Net domestic migration has been negative in California since 1991, with the exception of the year 2000. Net foreign migration, and net overall migration, has never been negative in recorded history.
Thanks, this irks me disproportionally. People gotta respect our stupid proprietary vowels!!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23882814
Your company, certainly.

I've been to a number of places, big and small, and the ability to maintain and build every part of prod has been seen as important everywhere.

I'm pretty picky, though; one of the questions I ask at interviews is whether the potential employer does deployments on Fridays.
I wrote a extension to treat the URLs entered in the location bar as relative instead of absolute. It is much more useful, I find. I also made a extension to add a "view source" option to the popup box that appears to ask where to download a file or if you want to open it with some program, since often it is a plain text file that I want to view.
I disagree - when I saw them last year, I thought it was nice that they had something to do to find meaning.
yes, fixed. thanks!
> I'll be impressed the day I can see a program that can 1) only rely on its own limited experiential inputs

Hasn't the typical human taken in orders of magnitude more data than this example? And the data has been of both direct sensory experience and texts from other people as well.
The idea that recursion was the key mutation that led to language is not doing so well lately. It turns out that non-human animals already can produce sequences with recursive structure [1]. It's also not clear that all languages have nested recursive structures.

[1] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/26/eaaz1002.full
People seem to love the unihertz atom and jelly pro, despite the poor cameras, battery life, and UI (due to running standard apps on a small screen)
Regardless of how elastic you can get with the term "founded," the actual assertion of "founded from scratch" is much more specific.
That was part of if. I had to bring someone to more or less break down in tears or yell at the doctor to get them to listen.

Had several years of only basic blood work run. Check kidney function and the sort. Mri were always clean.

This was across 20+ doctors. I had one that actually guessed correctly, but wasn’t his specialty. The specialist didn’t believe me.

Later I realized the specialist was using very outdated diagnostic criteria. As it turns out this is very common.
You aren't alone. But if it wasn't Docker, it'd be VMs, unreproducable golden images, and whatever VM orchestration you use. If it wasn't VMs, it would be bare metal, and piles of unmaintainable post provision scripts.

You can always do it wrong, it's not always the tech. Your description sounds like frustration mixed with some amount of wrongness. But I do agree that after being in the industry for about 15 years, there seems to be a diminishing returns of sorts of complexity to net org gain with the current "meta".

Always remember, KISS.
Worse, Sokal's Revenge is probably inevitable, in which someone will generate a nightmarishly complex mathematical proof that takes the whole field in unexplored directions. Some of the most respected professors and most promising students will then be distracted for years trying, and ultimately failing, to make sense of it.

Some say this has already happened. Nobody has ever seen the Social Text editors and Mochizuki in the same room together, have they?
1) It DOES rely on its own limited input,meta learning

2) Quite irrelevant,that's a motivation problem
How could you know that in 2008?
You don't need to delete it. They have their own opinion that they don't like it, but you can write it and share it anyways; that they want to delete it is just their opinion.
On the bark above the cut end, is where the roots will come out, much if the time.
More diverse areas have less unionization which is good for capitalism.

https://observer.com/2020/04/amazon-whole-foods-anti-union-t...
I write a prompt, often copying text from the articles or other comments, and have it generate a lot of completions. I skim over the completions and grab interesting parts.

For example, complaining about "quoted text" in my above comment was GPT2's suggestion (and also an actual issue with GPT2 which it was exhibiting by producing that text). Actually, all the text above from "There are a few" and beyond were written by GPT2. They were true enough, though more often I just extract the ideas and write my own text.

In some contexts, but not on HN, I've also found it useful to get GPT2 to generate replies to my posts. It occasionally spots counter-arguments that I forgot to address and I can edit my comments to address them.

Using computer text generation as a writing tool isn't new to me, I wrote my first computer poetry generator in the mid-90s. I've put out a few other things which were mostly machine generated.

To be clear: GPT2 puts out a lot of junk-- mostly junk, in fact. But a lot beauty can be found sifting gems out of a sea of noise. Some authors have taken psychedelic drugs to enhance their creative processor, with GPT2 it is your word-processor that takes the drugs.
Trading
How can people live of trading? High risk
> A computer that is actually fluent in English — as in, understands the language and can use it context-appropriately.

Did you never do grammar diagrams in grade school? :-)

The "context" and structure of language is a formula. When you have billions of inputs to that formula, it's not surprising you can get a fit or push that fit backwards to generate a data set.

This algorithm does not "understand" the things it's saying. If it did, that wouldn't be the end of the chain. It could, without training, make investment decisions on that advice, because it would understand the context of what it had just come up with. Plenty of other examples abound.

Humans or animals don't get to have their firmware "upgraded" or software "retrained" every time a new hype paper comes out. They have to use a very limited and basically fixed set of inputs + their own personal history for the rest of their lives. And the outputs they create become internalized and used as inputs to other tasks.

We could make 1M models that do little tasks very well, but unless they can be combined in such a way that the models cooperate and have agency over time, this is just a math problem. And I do say "just" in a derogatory way here. Most of this stuff could have been done by the scientific community decades ago if they had the hardware and quantity of ad clicks/emails/events/gifs to do what are basically sophisticated linear algebra tasks.
Im always curious how we will send messages to future civilizations. How will we ensure we’ll be remembered or even noted in 10,000, 100,000, 1 million years? How can we prevent the same disaster(s) that eventually wipes our civilisation out from repeating again in future intelligent generations (human or otherwise)

Could environmental markers like these be the way? After all, it’s how we look at the past today
I’ve had more than one experience where you go to use a hand operated and it’s empty. Then you wonder who touched that thing before you and what did you pick up.

I despise the hand operated ones now. Same with mechanical faucets in a public bathroom. I don’t want to turn it off once my hands are clean...
If users are used to waiting, it's because people like you have trained them to be. You list all the things that go into rendering a usable UI as though we don't all know that. Users probably don't, and that sounds like a lot. It sounds like the kind of excuse for shitty load times that PMs use when people do complain about slow websites.

And you can doubly tell how much of a PM you are by assuming that everyone is accessing your product by ad and how much you don't care if they are interested after 3-4 seconds. That's a lot of money you're leaving on the table.

Low-end mobile devices are not the right metric for TTI.

Most people don't realize how fast the web can be because they don't bother to benchmark until they are well into the tooling choices and feature development and maybe someone somewhere decides to complain about speed.

A functional Pyramid app with dynamic templates using Mako, and some db queries via SQLAlchemy can fully load in under 100ms.

The bottom line is that speed is a feature. It's not just one feature; it's your most important feature if you want users. It's more important than developer productivity; it's more important than any other feature. You don't know this because you work in a b2b/enterprise space where users don't have a choice. Their managers make the choice. But if you ever work directly on consumer products you'll find this out really quickly. The difference between ~.5 sec TTI and 4 sec TTI is millions of revenue per minute in eCommerce.

But even though it's b2b doesn't mean it has to be bad and suck people's time away from them. You have the option to learn something and change your priorities. But you won't.
Low-background lead is also sought after in shipwrecks [0]. With lead it isn't contamination from nuclear tests that's the issue, but natural radioactivity that needs hundreds of years to decay.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/search-d...
Coursera was once a great place to watch University lectures and do University classwork. Great professors would put their material on it.

Then they had to monetize. All those amazing courses are now gone (or "legacy" and nigh unreachable). Coursera is a sad shadow of its previous self.
I would ascribe the exact opposite feelings to the permanency of condition vs disease. Disease feels like something you get, you fight off, and you get better. A condition feels like something that you deal with and plan your life around.
It's only $10 to get access.
Is there a particular trigger for this post?

Is this a case of someone stumbling into the concept and wanting to share it with the world? Is there some trend in SV around low-background steel right now?

Genuinely curious about the phenomenon of posts around topics that have a great deal of understanding and aren’t necessarily trending in the general news cycle.
Taxes to pay for pensioners, mind you.
Do the Duluth trousers "anchor the bottom of the pocket bag to the side seam" as well? To me this seems like a clever solution that I haven't seen before.
By the time a person retires they have spent the overwhelming majority of their life working. To a point that not much else makes sense. Working is the social contract.
only to be met by a captcha when trying to view the archived version :(
Actually what I would want is a system like OpenID but using SASL instead of the web browser.
I'm assuming that the comment that you are replying to was generated by GPT-3. Maybe this one too?
This is one of the many reasons hardware companies stop supporting older tech. It’s just not in their interests to push updates down to them, and can seriously back fire
<human>Very impressive! I read this while watching the California sun setting on a lonely (but cheerful!) Saturday night. I laughed out loud when I got to the reveal and clearly disturbed my cats. This is perhaps the first time I’ve understood the power of AI. And I’ve read multiple books on the potential and watched an inane amount of videos. Many thanks @maraoz for putting this together.</human>
In a similar way to how image detection networks appear to key largely on visual textures, GPT-3 seems to key on jargon, tone and pacing, the texture of speech within specific milieus.
And that's why the flight attendants aren't being replaced by untrained randos; they're being replaced by pilots, who have even more training than flight attendants do. And yes, that training includes how to evacuate passengers and other relevant procedures, because this is already something that pilots can and do get involved in in emergency situations.

Once the plane is down they have no further piloting needing doing and need to help with the evacuation. Witness Sully Sullenberger on the Hudson -- he was the last person out of the airplane, having already assisted all the passengers in evacuating and then gone back to perform a thorough sweep to ensure that no one else remained.
> a big pile of garden waste

That's called a midden and it's a great way to get rats.
This is comical. In Japanese nil is translated to ナイル, like Nile River. It looks like their machine translation software aggressively corrects "errors" in input.
> Hasn't the typical human taken in orders of magnitude more data than this example?

Have you read GPT-3s 175 billion parameters (words, sentences, papers, I don't care) of anything? Do you know all the words used in that corpus? Nobody has or does.

A child of a small age can listen to a very small set of things and not just come up with words to communicate with mama and papa what they learned, but they can reuse it. And this I think is key, because the language part of that is at least partially secondarily. The little kid understands what they're talking about even if they have a hard time communicating it to an adult. The fact they take creative leaps to use their extremely limited vocabulary to communicate their knowledge is amazing.
We already know what can last for literally millions of years: Life.

Maybe we could encode some information in birdsong, tree rings, or the matting patterns drawn by fish in the seafloor. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpdlQae5wP8
NYTimes Interviews Hackers Who Compromised Twitter
Lab: Impact of Tamping Pressure on Espresso Extraction
Care to recommend anything?
The distinction is consent. You would need to get meaningful consent from everyone present when you walked into a store without a mask.

EDIT: Actually not quite. To elaborate a little further - it has become understood that it is just and reasonable for the state to have jurisdiction over interpersonal interactions that involve money (though the converse is not necessarily implied) - this is 'the market'. Thus going to the store operates under a different regime than going to a friend's birthday party in their own home. Your example would equate to the state mandating condom usage with prostitution, assuming that was legal in the first place.

What you get up to at the store can be regulated by the state - what you get up to in the bedroom (without financial exchange) should not - assuming meaningful consent
You're misunderstanding the linked article. There will still be flight attendants, just now they'll be pilots. I.e. there will be two pilots solely in charge of flying the plane, and then additional pilots in the cabin doing the flight attendant duties.
I'm pretty sure there is more extensive literature involving the exact types of degradation that is characteristic to the disease, but I do not think I'm competent to cite it correctly.

I'd imagine this process isn't so great for diagnosis given that it's mostly been observed in people with decades of uncontrolled disease behind them.
The scene of the battle of Midway would also hold a hoard of nice steel (the Japanese lost a lot of ships including aircraft carriers). I understand that Scapa Flow has been heavily salvaged with only 7 out of 52 ships still down there.
To be fair, this is a blight that infects all b2b/enterprise platforms. The devs and PMs don't care about speed because they aren't punished for being slow. They don't value speed as a feature because they don't have to and don't lose customers because of slowness.

These deals are made by people who don't use the software because they passed some checklist of features and security audits, not because they are good.

Consumer websites, blogs, and especially eCommerce websites can't get away with that without losing users almost instantly.

The moral of the story is that if you are already a big, wealthy company with a big reputation, you can afford to be shit. If you aren't, you're making a big mistake with 3-4 sec load times.
I don’t understand the question? The original claim was people took a bath on their retirement savings. Which is only true if they sold all their retirement assets. Therefore, I don’t think it’s accurate to say the 2008 recession caused people to lose their retirement savings. Selling at the bottom of a market would cause one to lose their retirement savings.
Why? Do people not like old consultants?