skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impossible—GPT-3 clearly and unambiguously stated at several points that it in fact is not a squirrel. Are you claiming it would just lie like that?
A friend of mine lives near him and has become close to him. They do have the Carters over for dinner a couple times a year. Seems crazy, but Jimmy's just a friendly guy.
He is an engineer, but he's under the shadow of strong and unusual mystical (which is his own term) religious beliefs that he brought with him to the job.
Ah my mistake. I mistook them to be decrying most of the responses offhand.
> Rest of the world is bemused by the stories of bullied US teenagers who don't have 'the right' bubble colour on their SMS-ish app. Elsewhere we've all been using whatsapp/telegram/signal etc for years and we're never going back.

I mean, I wouldn't install any FB software on my phone. I'm not sure "we just use WhatsApp" is the flex you think it is.

But the "US teenagers bullied" is one of those BS stories that is blown out of proportion because in a country roughly the size of the EU, you can find a lot of idiots. And US news loves stories about how your children are in some kind of peril - often peer related.
By your logic I guess you think electrical outlets and EV chargers are as rare as hydrogen vehicle refueling stations. So… no.
XMPP wasn't a great protocol for mobile.

The dependence on supporting extensions to get features like push messaging from servers to work efficiently was a problem.
First randomly generated text was "Have you read your SICP today?"

Brings back fond memories of /prog/ and all its nonsense. Praise The Sussman!
Because they do not want you to submit their proprietary tech as an open standard. In the extreme, think about submitting .NET to ECMA. Something lighter might be a proprietary image format or interchange method. Engineers may find this useful. It may be at the request of a significant customer. It may even be in the best interest of the company. It does not mean senior management will agree though.
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/Xwnk6
I am not sure “so what” equates to “why” in my mind. “Why” tells the cause of the “what”. “So what” explains the reason one should care about the “what”.
The Economics of Bubbles (2019)
> One professor of virology from a world renowned institution was soft banned on twitter

Reference?

> a professor of immunology that was heavily criticized for explaining why and how thoroughly a vaccine must be tested before mass vaccinations can occur

Reference?

> that makes it more than clear

The only thing this makes clear is that you have no compunctions about advancing an unsubstantiated argument as a response to someone who just explained to you that you can't do that if you want to be taken seriously. You may well be right, but that is beside the point. There is no way for someone reading your claims to verify them. You expect people to just take you at your word and accept your unsubstantiated claims and innuendo as fact simply because you have made the claims. And that is exactly the problem with all of the people who grouse about "settled science".
I know of two director level folks (they were promoted from being devs, but not geeky enough to read HN or dev blogs) who would repeatedly use 'open source' only as a full synonym for 'free of charge' in multiple conversations about tools and paying for them. For example when comparing software, "we need to pay for X but Y is open source".
> Unfortunately Polaroid film is a ripoff.

It's certainly expensive, but have you seen what it takes to produce photographic film, let alone instant film? My guess is that there isn't much of a profit margin for them, even at over $2 per photo. Another thing: adjusted for inflation, SX-70 film is actually slightly cheaper now than it was in the 70s and 80s, despite the massive drop in market size.
My parents had a penchant for living remote. Its all fun and games until you need a humvee to crash thru snow to take you to the hospital.
That website's background drives me insane. Why would you animate the whole background?

> 202.345.117 Years until GWEI fully owns Google.

Oh well. It's a funny idea though.
No, it was fundamentally different. Altavista was all about returning you as many results as it could. Google was all about returning the best results first, so it didn’t matter how many results came back.
The Jocko Podcast has a long interview with the "Godfather of TOPGUN" Dan Pedersen [1].

[1] https://jockopodcast.com/2020/05/20/230-push-the-envelope-an...
Jimmy Carter grew up in Alaska? Never heard of that.

I can't find a single occurrence of "alaska" in his Wikipedia article. Got any ref?

Edit: I don't mind the downvote, but could someone explain if I missed something obvious?
Kill Perfectionism Now (18 Illustrated Concepts)
That was such a good comment, I took a screenshot.
FWIW there is a nice solution to this, schema.org. I do not know if there's a restaurant menu schema yet, likely there is. In the great jungle of the Internet often you end up with both: a) attempts to process/parse the content as the user sees it, as it is in HTML or some other format, which get b) overridden when the site owner starts to publish the schematized data.

The above applies to all web walking robots with non trivial capabilities.
Sill nothing to top 'DeepCreamPy' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29737049
I did not claim a conspiracy, I only raised the question of whether the observed behavior amounted to planned obsolescence.

I think the current dilution of 10GBE products by 2.5GBE hardware is a bad thing. I don't want to upgrade my switches every few years when the higher speed interfaces become more common.

10GBE hardware prices have not dropped in the same manner as most other computing hardware because the market is largely "enterprise" customers, and they'll willingly pay more.

Perhaps you are right and most SOHO consumers want 2.5GBE more than 10GBE. I am not one of them.

As an annoying related topic, it's also interesting that although there has been a PoE standard for 10GBE copper for a long time, there doesn't seem to be ANY hardware that supports it. There are however, plenty of 2.5GBE PoE products available. This trend also supports an argument for planned obsolescence, but does not prove anything by itself.
As Heartbleed and numerous other examples show, the corporations freeload and then barely give anything back. There should be a nuanced middle ground between charging everyone for everything and not letting corporations that collectively make hundreds of billions if not more of revenue off software get away with contributing nothing back.
I can confirm this happens to me. Several occasions I have a “memory” of something. A house we lived in, a late relative, etc. Things that have an oral history since before most my normal memory begins. I have an image in my head of what that memory was to me. (My normal memory is rather image recall based, even for facts I remember/see the books/movie/website where I saw it as a reference for the memory.) Except on a handful of these early memories, I’ve later, sometimes much later, found an old photo in one of the family albums that IS my memory. Leaves me somewhat in a minor existential crisis each time I realize my memory is a sham.
America has been stuck at stages "9-15" forever it would seem: lots of debt, foreign interventionism, huge and forever-widening wealth inequality, some social unrest, etc. Either the model is wrong or America is uniquely resilient. I think both. Investing in education is not good enough: you need those outliers who create major tech companies and innovation. Counties like brazil and Turkey have compulsory education like the US, but are not nearly as successful on a per capita basis. I don't think Dalio's model is correct here, sorry to say.
> Remember the ideal gas law?

For anyone else who doesn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas_law "also called the general gas equation [...] is a good approximation of the behavior of many gases under many conditions". It seems to relate how pressure, volume and temperature interact (combined with some constant and how much gas there is). (Bit of a weird name; 'general gas equation' makes more sense to me.)

But okay so this reference is about "know how gas behaves?" and actually seems to mean "gas gets cold when it expands", if I understand the comment correctly (since I didn't have this in school). Not sure why the tank you're filling can't just have the same pressure if this is a problem (plunger on both ends, push the gas over, don't let the available space expand or shrink).
My memories are not connected to the calendar. Things I remember are free floating in time, except if they are in a particular place I remember when I was in that place, but that isn't part of my memory of the place.

I've lived in the same house for 20 years now, and don't have anchors to connect memories to dates because of that. I have memories that could be 5 years old or 15, I couldn't say.
Same with USAF Weapons school. "Patches" are instructors-of-instructors. They grade and instruct others during their instructor upgrades. They also write tactics papers, and are considered POCs for the squadron for various things. They also are in charge of training plans, and give or delegate academic briefings. Anecdotally, they are some of the hardest workers in the squadrons.

And, as `closewith` said, they standardize tactics and information flow between squadrons and communities.
As someone not from the US all this is bizarrely moving a health concern into school which should be about education and nothing else. If it's reasonable for school to prescribe exercise for kids why not have them schedule doctor visits for the kids and create meal plans? Where is the line?
I guess what OP meant was you were conned by the impression that you get free "texting", while it's not actually texting (in the sense of SMS) but a propriatery protocol.
Although I don't think the 2nd movie claimed that was Top Gun's purpose, it was just a secret mission training happening on Top Gun premises with Top Gun graduates/high achievers.
WebPush is a browser 'standard', so FCM JS should work barring any browser specific quirks.
If I have ever learnt something on tech related forums, it's that everything becomes magically okay when Apple does it and the benefits outweigh the costs.
Ye with a little auto-generation too: "The power of controlling objects with mind has captivated a popular fascination to human beings".
> Yes, you use your individual judgement and go with that; updating as you can.

Seems very self-centered. I remember February 2020 I was sure COVID was no big deal and would blow over within a few weeks (ha!). Imagine I had travelled in that time under that assumption, and returned home to my grandmother, potentially passing on a deadly virus. Since I am young and most likely not at serious risk of death, why should she have to pay for my miscalculation?
> The USA needs to stop treating children like equals/adults (they're not, their brains are still developing) and focus on making sure their kids can think their way out of a box instead of crying or needing therapy (just stop giving them iPad games since they're 2 years old to make them shut up). We need to get off this addiction to instant gratification - that leads to mental retardation because when people don't have to think of alternatives or creative ways to do things, MOST people will just be lazy. We've proven this in animals, and we see it every day with people.

What a complete load of horseshit.

The US is at the forefront of dealing with the realities involved with living in an information-centered society. Therapy and a broader recognition of mental health issues as being significant are incredibly useful ideas that are helping society deal with the problems that come with this new age. Raising kids as being autonomous and having identities independent of their parents is absolutely the correct way of recognizing them as people and not just parent’s little helpers or minions.

There is legitimate criticism to be made of a society addicted to social media and swimming in disinformation. But both the criticism and the remedies suggested in this comment are complete nonsense and would do little to alleviate the situation. If your solution is “sterner parenting” you are simply going to have more rebellious kids who end up doing even worse things… we have been down this path before.
He's been pushing this narrative for a while, and his Bridgewater fund has a heavy China tilt, but I'm also watching Polymatter videos which makes me a China bear.

Yeah, he is intellectually and emotionally invested in it. It's also unfalsifiable. America has been running large debts forever but has only become bigger and more successful post Covid, whereas other countries have become weaker relatively speaking. I think his ego is too invested in this model of the world to let it go.
ok well my ex-neighbor pulled her own tooth while isolated on a property down a dirt road. I am not new to this. This is a political cover to build infrastructure. I suggest you read Jimmy Carter's letter and we can all discuss it together.
Returns at the fund actually havent been that amazing.

It's been amazing for his personal wealth, that much is true though
Oh shit. I guess Google engineers finally took it too far and the AI has killed and replaced everyone

Maybe the DMT insights of language being somehow connected to sentience are correct.
And the work of the Carter Center to eradicate Guinea worm. The number of cases each year used to be in the millions. The number of cases so far this year is just 2.
You seen to believe that the rain America is helping the EU is shared heritage or something. It's not.
I am able to differentiate a bald eagle from an osprey at two miles based on the shape of the wings

I wonder how you judge the distances? I'm a helicopter pilot and I don't even bother looking for traffic farther than 2 miles out unless it's an airliner. I have radar telling me how far away they are so I know the distances are accurate.
You say that, but how do I know you’re telling me the truth?
Quite a few can be found here: https://itch.io/tools/tag-godot
I read through the conversation and it strikes me as silly [0]. The goal of training these bots is to try to predict actual conversations and this conversation reads kind of like you would think it would read like. Also, this model is almost certainly probabilistic so there's no real "sentience", there's setting a few meta-parameters, and often times cherry picking the output that makes the most sense.

I wrote about this before [1]. I just don't think any neural network as we have them today could result in "sentience". At the end of the day, you're taking words, turning them into some numerical encoding, doing a series of matrix multiplications and non-linearities on the numbers and getting some other numbers out, which you can then convert back to words. That's it. There are magic numbers out there (weights to the neural net) that when multiplied by vectorized word embeddings and transformed back to words could convince someone that they're speaking to a human. But that's not sentience. What would even be sentient? The numbers in that order? The neural net meta-data? The bits in the computer? They're just numbers. Why don't we apply the same reasoning with words. Someone can write a novel so captivating and prose so well written that we could believe the events in the book really happened, or the characters really exist. But we don't because they're just words on a page. But somehow we think numbers in the write order in the right program can somehow create conciseness.

[0] https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1535716256585859073

[1] https://mleverything.substack.com/p/artificial-general-intel...
I closed the page at the 15 second count down.
I am having trouble extracting much sense from this.

I'm not saying lying is all he did. But his major skill is hype. E.g., you cite his fintech history as something apparently good. But he got rich on that because after a merger he ended up as PayPal's CEO for like 6 months, after which he was fired. His major focus, apparently, was shifting away from Unix to Windows. Which even if it were a good idea at the time (it wasn't), it was a terrible priority for a fast-growing company.

People treating that as some sort of sign of business acumen, as opposed to a golden parachute for an arrogant chump correctly getting fired, is a great example of how good a hype man Musk is.
FormEasy
The army has a ton of helicopters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_m...
According to the world bank China lifted 800m people above the poverty line in 30-40 years. Let that figure sink in for a minute.
Work from mountains is the only acceptable option here.
The reason cited in the movie is 5th gen being incapable in GPS-denied environments. Which is fiction.
Just bought a Samsung appliance set...and the range apparently works with smartthings. Wasn't a deciding factor, but just decided to play with it because I thought there may be some value in being able to make sure the oven is off from afar.

So, the only thing you can actually do is preheat the oven, and flick the oven light off and on. Can't turn it off if it's already on, can't turn burners off if they're on. I have zero idea why you'd ever want to control the light from afar. So essentially, it's 'smart abilities' are mind bogglingly useless. Oh well.
More likely a turk..

https://www.historicmysteries.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07...

https://www.historicmysteries.com/great-chess-automaton/
Is it for building AWS Lambda apps or to use lambda as execution environment? I can't figure it out from readme.
It is really nice and creative.
(but the title is clickbait as there is nothing doom there)
Marines are trained as vanguard forces, first into the fight. It's a whole extra set of things to know and psyche yourself up for.
Google Suspends Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is a Person
Atrocious to me that anybody would want to block that road. A mine? Sure. Logging? Yup. Oil exploration? Yeah. A gravel road to an airport in Alaska? Come on. I haven't lived in Rural Alaska in 20 years but I was born and raised in a fishing village. People in the lower 48 have no understanding of the vastness of Alaska and how small a concession this really is.

These specious environmental lawsuits are why no infrastructure has been built in this country in 40 years. We need to protect the wilds but a regulatory structure that allows vetos of a gravel road to the airport? What the hell.
A submarine post for an unrelated company
Blurb: “Handle forms easily on static sites without spending a penny. FormEasy is a Google apps script library using which you can handle forms without actually maintaining a server and with just a few lines of code. FormEasy is a free open-source alternative to FormSpree.”

https://github.com/Basharath/FormEasy

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/formeasy
It's a bit like saying 'let them fly on private jets' and someone pointing out that only a few people in the population can afford it. Doesn't imply that private jets are useless, just that their use is limited.
When I use Google Collab and I start a computation for an individual cell I will get a notification that the computation has finished.
Expectation: seamless push notifications without a dedicated app!

Reality: users blindly click "do not allow" push notification dialog the way they already do with browser notification permission dialogs, location access, "allow cookies" banners etc
No, in USD. It's down less in ETH terms. You can go play with the charts on that site. It shows both.
I guess since they're mainly competing with helicopters, the advantage of being able to go to a random building rather than requiring huge runways in the place you want to go (usually somewhere in the middle of a city) is bigger than the advantage of improved fuel efficiency.
The society does not operate in the same way in the time of an acute crisis as during peacetime.

During a war, telling the truth to the wrong audience or in the wrong way may end up aiding the enemy, even if the speaker did not intend it. People generally agree that such people can be silenced, even if that violates their freedom of speech.

In a pandemic, the adversary is the nature, but the situation is similar. Speaking the truth the wrong way may kill people, because the audience may make incorrect conclusions from it. The society may decide that preserving those lives is more important than preserving someone's freedom of speech. After all, the situation may be dire enough that you must sacrifice one fundamental freedom anyway to preserve another.
In newer versions of Excel, Power Query makes it easy, if you can be bothered to learn Power Query...it doesn't matter if the tables are a bit off, because it is a complete functional-esque language. Like SQL plus easy higher order functions.

PDFs can often be extracted too in a similar way.

I feel exhausted every time I see another thread on HN about what to do when you will not learn Excel & Office because it's for PHBs and secretaries.
CS suite subscription. I also do illustrations, edit videos, do page layout, etc.

I used to have Photoshop, PageMaker (then Quark), etc.

Price is $55/mo, which comes out to $660 per year. Apparently, I misrecalled the price.

But I can't afford $660/year either, for a hobby.
I came back to the HN comments to ask the same thing, when I saw that.

I think this is kinda edgy humor that can work in small, select groups.

But maybe in most contexts in which people will be looking at AI method tech demos (e.g., within a company, or researchers at a university), we're still feeling ongoing effects of multi-generational injustices. In such a context, no one wants to be associating to ideas of women around some infamous '70s porn film. Doing that, and making light of it, seems like it'd rightly bother a lot of people.

When you're focused on a project, and maybe first discussing/showing in one small group, it can be easy to forget there are many additional things going on outside that group, some of which we also want to consider. I've made that mistake multiple times, including with the wrong humor for a context, still cringe when I think of instances of it, and this looks like that to me.

Maybe the developer will see this discussion, and decide to change some things, ASAP. It might still be relatively easy to change. (Maybe doable before Monday business hours, in the time zone of the university mentioned prominently.)
Attention? If Google themselves were to authenticate the transcripts, I’d change my mind.
The point of automation is making sure you get things correct.
Uphill both ways, right?
Unity Answers is being shut down on June 23rd
Net inflation in the past 15 years has been more like 40% than 114%.
> Note that browser push notifications also work on mobile, so you don't need to install an app to get real time alerts.

Push notifications in Safari are only supported on desktop for now.
What do I need to do as a CS Major?
So I'll put it simply, I'm currently doing Bsc Computer Science, and entering my third year, going through the courses I have, I've realised I haven't been learning anything of substance, that I can put on a CV or actually work further on. Just snippets of concepts and coding, along with other irrelevant courses. I am passionate about my field and want to learn more. I don't know where to start what to look in, but I just want to be an expert in my field and not clueless. I've recently started web development, html,css,js,nodejs etc and will be learning more on that but other than that I don't know what else to do. Ideally I just want to be up-to-date on what the CS world is going to demand by the time I graduate and hopefully even do stuff/projects before my graduation so I can write it on my CV. What are the things I need to learn/do outside of my degree?
Other than that, could someone point me towards the right platform to see updates/anything of relevance in accordance to my field, could be reddit/a website etc
Should have read this first for starters:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/