skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe it's just because you can build a site that corrects the Mercator distortions and see Kenya get as big as Greenland, or see Antarctica become the largest continent on the planet, and that's just super interesting?

The article is not about "maps are racist". The idea that Mercator has persisted, into an era where nobody needs a map projection to navigate, owing to racism isn't a new one. Your "in recent years" gives up the game here, since this argument was banal enough to be the centerpiece of a freaking West Wing episode 20 years ago.

I think you maybe need to give this stuff a rest.
> Security is not the main reason

Wrong. Bitcoin has the most security because it has network effect. Most people hop onto the most secure chain, which is Bitcoin, which increases its security. That's what network effect in this context means.
>> Bitcoin is unchangable

Bitcoin can and does change. Some aspects, such as the supply cap, are unlikely to change any time soon but are certainly not bounded by physics.
Note that this table is of extremely bad quality and can NOT be used in production without patches.
See https://github.com/rurban/libu8ident/#confusables
Years ago I created a Python library for generating regex to match confusables:

https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables

For example, "𝓗℮𝐥1೦" matches "Hello".

"Hello" gets turned into the following regex of character classes:

[H\Ｈ\ℋ\ℌ\ℍ\𝐇\𝐻\𝑯\𝓗\𝕳\𝖧\𝗛\𝘏\𝙃\𝙷\Η\𝚮\𝛨\𝜢\𝝜\𝞖\Ⲏ\Н\Ꮋ\ᕼ\ꓧ\𐋏\Ⱨ\Ң\Ħ\Ӊ\Ӈ]
[e\℮\ｅ\ℯ\ⅇ\𝐞\𝑒\𝒆\𝓮\𝔢\𝕖\𝖊\𝖾\𝗲\𝘦\𝙚\𝚎\ꬲ\е\ҽ\ɇ\ҿ]
[l\‎\|\∣\⏽\￨1\‎\۱\𐌠\‎\𝟏\𝟙\𝟣\𝟭\𝟷I\Ｉ\Ⅰ\ℐ\ℑ\𝐈\𝐼\𝑰\𝓘\𝕀\𝕴\𝖨\𝗜\𝘐\𝙄\𝙸\Ɩ\ｌ\ⅼ\ℓ\𝐥\𝑙\𝒍\𝓁\𝓵\𝔩\𝕝\𝖑\𝗅\𝗹\𝘭\𝙡\𝚕\ǀ\Ι\𝚰\𝛪\𝜤\𝝞\𝞘\Ⲓ\І\Ӏ\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\ⵏ\ᛁ\ꓲ\𖼨\𐊊\𐌉\‎\‎\ł\ɭ\Ɨ\ƚ\ɫ\‎\‎\‎\‎\ŀ\Ŀ\ᒷ\🄂\⒈\‎\⒓\㏫\㋋\㍤\⒔\㏬\㍥\⒕\㏭\㍦\⒖\㏮\㍧\⒗\㏯\㍨\⒘\㏰\㍩\⒙\㏱\㍪\⒚\㏲\㍫\ǉ\Ĳ\‖\∥\Ⅱ\ǁ\‎\𐆙\⒒\Ⅲ\𐆘\㏪\㋊\㍣\Ю\⒑\㏩\㋉\㍢\ʪ\₶\Ⅳ\Ⅸ\ɮ\ʫ\㏠\㋀\㍙]
[l\‎\|\∣\⏽\￨1\‎\۱\𐌠\‎\𝟏\𝟙\𝟣\𝟭\𝟷I\Ｉ\Ⅰ\ℐ\ℑ\𝐈\𝐼\𝑰\𝓘\𝕀\𝕴\𝖨\𝗜\𝘐\𝙄\𝙸\Ɩ\ｌ\ⅼ\ℓ\𝐥\𝑙\𝒍\𝓁\𝓵\𝔩\𝕝\𝖑\𝗅\𝗹\𝘭\𝙡\𝚕\ǀ\Ι\𝚰\𝛪\𝜤\𝝞\𝞘\Ⲓ\І\Ӏ\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\ⵏ\ᛁ\ꓲ\𖼨\𐊊\𐌉\‎\‎\ł\ɭ\Ɨ\ƚ\ɫ\‎\‎\‎\‎\ŀ\Ŀ\ᒷ\🄂\⒈\‎\⒓\㏫\㋋\㍤\⒔\㏬\㍥\⒕\㏭\㍦\⒖\㏮\㍧\⒗\㏯\㍨\⒘\㏰\㍩\⒙\㏱\㍪\⒚\㏲\㍫\ǉ\Ĳ\‖\∥\Ⅱ\ǁ\‎\𐆙\⒒\Ⅲ\𐆘\㏪\㋊\㍣\Ю\⒑\㏩\㋉\㍢\ʪ\₶\Ⅳ\Ⅸ\ɮ\ʫ\㏠\㋀\㍙]
[o\ం\ಂ\ം\ං\०\੦\૦\௦\౦\೦\൦\๐\໐\၀\‎\۵\ｏ\ℴ\𝐨\𝑜\𝒐\𝓸\𝔬\𝕠\𝖔\𝗈\𝗼\𝘰\𝙤\𝚘\ᴏ\ᴑ\ꬽ\ο\𝛐\𝜊\𝝄\𝝾\𝞸\σ\𝛔\𝜎\𝝈\𝞂\𝞼\ⲟ\о\ჿ\օ\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\‎\ഠ\ဝ\𐓪\𑣈\𑣗\𐐬\‎\ø\ꬾ\ɵ\ꝋ\ө\ѳ\ꮎ\ꮻ\ꭴ\‎\ơ\œ\ɶ\∞\ꝏ\ꚙ\ൟ\တ]
I thought Cripple Creek was The Band? Or did CCR cover it?
Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is one of at least 3 comments on this thread you've added to elevate the dumb political argument and, intentionally or not, strangle any conversation we could have had about geography, navigation, topology, culture, or history. It's the opposite of curious conversation; it's hemlock for curiosity.
Great. If an undergrad can find and rewrite those 10% of lines that are wrong, this is exactly what I care about to be an effective programmer. Especially since a good chunk of programming is reading code by former programmer (including self()) and interpreting and debugging. If they can use copilot with confidence to be more productive in getting to that point even more bonus points if I were a manager.
The question was about movie scripts and children stories. Not about paragraphs.
Sure it works ok for paragraphs(even then it fails many times) but the moment you cross the 2000 token limit, it does not work.
When GPT3 was first released we did a lot of experiments on summarisation. We discussed a lot in the OpenAI slack. But no one could come up with a right prompt for summarisation.
Yes, it works for toy paragraphs and is fun to show off. But I wouldn't build a summarisation startup on top of GPT3.
Yet.
If the problems you assign can be solved by a total novice armed with Copilot, you probably aren't teaching anything worth paying for.
Here's what I got with the prompt "something original":

https://imgur.com/a/RsQ2q1d

So I guess "something original" means "everything you've seen before on Instagram"
This is great news! I'm looking forward to seeing where the community takes this wonderful little simulator.
So basically cap and trade and/or carbon taxes?
Ah thank you for the color. My thought was prompted by someone (I forget who? Andreessen maybe?) proposing a possible explanation for the LaMDA bot arguing that's it's conscious: there are reams upon reams of sci-fi books with robots having that debate! These are almost certainly in the Books corpus.

It's my opinion that these hyper-scaled transformers are actually a great deal less mysterious than seems to be in the zeitgeist, but for reasons that actually make me think there is a lot of headroom on capability: when the corpus is basically everything ever digitized like it is when a search or social network megacorp trains one, the only thing it could never do is something literally unprecedented on the Internet.

The mechanism can be good old `P(thing|internet)`, but if the KL-divergence is low enough, sampling from the modeled distribution can write something like Tristan und Isolde or paint something like the Mona Lisa.
I did most of my Uni Comp Sci degree in 2 years (only took 2 courses the last year and worked on the side, learned a lot working) - not on purpose - it was mostly by reading ahead because that stuff was more interesting

(Note: in the NZ system most degrees are 3 years not 4, largely because we have entrance tests that cover much of what in the US is "general ed")
I've seen the commercial traps that run off propane tanks (and the mechanics only last 1-2 years until they breakdown) – they seem far too wasteful.

This idea seems ingenious, especially the part about using seltzer water for the CO2 (which will last 3-4 hours).

Thanks for sharing!
Your argument fails to distinguish between "open source" and "free software".

Copyleft, free software, GPL style licenses do not have their source open purely for the purpose of studying and modifying. Their licenses also require that derivative works also be free and that such modifications be distributed.

Copilot does not comply with this. And so violates the spirit of those licenses, and probably also the letter of the law.
As many students know, you can cram a whole semester worth of material in just a few learning sessions before an exam: you can pass exam but you forget everything as fast as you've learned it. Use such methods for subjects that you don't care but must pass.

If you do care about something long term, spread the lessons over time.

For fundamentals, Learning to learn course is recommended https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
How can you encode “good” and “bad” in math? The alignment shit is complete nonsense. If super AI exists the only way to prevent bad stuff from happening is to not give it access to weapons.
Let us know when you figure out that "some other reason." The primary defense against 51% attacks is waiting the amount of block confirmations that make the cost of attacking the block your transaction is in more than the possible rewards. If we all have to worry about people randomly burning money to 51% attack blockchains then the whole premise is bunko anyways.

Here's a hint, randomly attacking the network in a way that loses you money eventually removes you from the playing field. The network is stronger than a motivated attacker, in principle.
I would think running something within a Docker container is running it natively?
internet café
Having spent months talking to GPT-3 on a daily basis, I assure you it is not conscious. It has no perception of time, no awareness of what date it is, no memory of past experiences. It doesn’t want anything — it has no goals. The question “Is it conscious?” isn’t interesting to anyone who spends time with it.

I will say, though, that it bugs me when people say it can’t be conscious because it sometimes says stupid things. In most cases, there are known tricks to suppress undesirable behaviors. More to the point, though, if we encountered a human being who gave confabulated answers to questions like “When was the Golden Gate Bridge transported for the second time across Egypt?”, we wouldn’t insist that this human is not conscious — we would just call them brain-damaged or mentally ill. I don’t think modern models are conscious, but as a logical possibility they could be conscious and still say very stupid things all the time.
Great and short article by Derek as always. I wish more authors would write in a concise manner.
Seems weird to have Dugin, a notorious fascist, talking about "freedom."
Some blood is sweeter than others.

-Bram Stoker, or someone.
What happens in the case of a network partition? I assume the conflict resolution algorithm is longest chain but would all the validators from the shorter chain partition get punished for being offline?
Frame it as I built a tool to add guardrails and perhaps it might be useful to the next developer or not.
ML layman, asshole expert here. You’re a jerk dude. Stop condescending to your peers.
We should really upgrade our QT though
For all the author's complaints about AI fearers reliance on philosophical reasoning, his massive stream of consciousness reasoning seems to include a suspicious quantity.
My family is from the midwest, so not a new perspective I guess, but I would consider 6'/155 to be very skinny.

I'm 6' myself, and I thought myself quite skinny at 185lbs. It's the weight I'm moving back to now.

At 185lbs, I wear a men's medium shirt, usually.

I do have thick legs. I've always had big calf muscles and thighs, since I was a kid. Maybe that can account for 30lbs, I'm really not sure.
There are only a handful of cryptocurrencies that have the same properties as Bitcoin. While being first sure is a factor, that's at least not how Bitcoin maxis argue.

- Permissionless chain. Anyone can join by just downloading software and start mining. Tbf it has moved beyond this quite a bit with ASICs but you can still validate.

- Fair launch (just filtering all cryptocurrencies on this criteria will result in ~10 or so)

- Devs, anyone can make a PR or write BIPs.

- No foundation/community/devs that extract a fee from the operation of the chain. Communities and companies operate outside of the Bitcoin network.
- Hard cap on 21m coins.

Most others compromise on some of these to use less energy, be faster, enrich themselves, or all.
As a child homeschooled since 5 years old myself: _do not do it_.

Any academic gains are not worth the social stunting, especially if the child is already shy.

Happiness in life is rarely based on academic achievements, but rather on the relationships we build. These relationships are built through social skills, and our interactions with our fellow man. Homeschooling severely stunts this at a very vulnerable time in a child’s life.
To be clear, I take it that you are saying that a) everything Copilot is currently capable of can be found in libraries, and consequently b) learning how to do those things oneself is a waste of time, so c) it does not matter if people entering industry as software developers cannot do that themselves.

My point is that even if this is the case for a majority of such people, we still need the people who make all the library contents that are beyond Coplilot's capabilities, and we both seem to agree that its capabilities are limited.

The thing is, a world in which a lot of people can be productive software developers, without even being capable of writing the sort of algorithms Copilot is capable of, is highly dependent on the people who design and write the libraries that implement not only those algorithms, but also a great deal else that is beyond Copilot's capabilities. The industry may not need everyone to be able to do that, but then it is entirely dependent on those who can.

One can certainly argue that there is no point in an education that stops at the ability to reproduce what Copilot does, but that would be something of a straw man, as education does not typically stop there. I agree that it makes a poor hiring benchmark, regardless of the role being filled.
This was pretty clear when our kids were all sent home during Covid. We pushed very far ahead using Khan academy. Keeping it simple with basic math, reading, and writing.

About halfway through Covid schools started sending home this work they wanted the kids to do. 80% was a waist of time.

I never really thought about it till then, but primary school is basically babysitting where they happen to do some learning as well.
When I went to college, having already done full-time software work and countless hours of programming in my spare time, I went to a departmental advisor confidently requesting to test out of the introductory CS classes aimed at first-time programmers. I nearly got laughed out of the room. I pushed the department on this, but it was clear: they simply did not do this. Everyone takes intro to CS. Everyone.

It sucks, but there are people out there no smarter than you yet more powerful, and sometimes they impose a speed limit.

If you get the opportunity though, I'd still suggest doing what the author did. No harm in learning something twice, particularly from two different perspectives.
Homeschooled here, and I fully agree with all the above.

Described me to a tee.
Tools of abstraction like Copilot raise the threshold for what can be considered "fundamentals." Yes, knowing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide is important. However, now that calculators exist, we can teach people to do so much more than simple arithmetic. So, too, with Copilot.
Just tested it after looking through your album, and DALL-E seems pretty good for getting a logo concept generated.

This is what I got for the prompt "honey badger logo for an NFL sports team"

https://imgur.com/a/i2nnii2

Dunno what's going on with that last guy though, perhaps he's had one too many concussions on the field...
Product analytics should start pretty much straight after the product launch/go live.

Segment is an expensive proposition and depends on whether you have a warehouse setup or not.

Disclaimer: We run a product analytics/marketing automation company https://www.appice.io
There are plenty of mammalian brains that will deliberately bend AI to include their mammalian selfishness.

There is no 'inherent evil' in any malware... So this is a strange standard to apply to what is effectively just a more advanced malware.
How long until an unrestricted DALL-E -level model emerges? Seems only a matter of time.
You can just unplug AI
This happened in mathematics about a decade ago when Wolfram Alpha came out. Lecturers started complaining that Wolfram Alpha could solve assignment problems with worked steps.

In both cases I think this is a real opportunity; we can let students get more quickly to bigger problems and systems thinking by leveraging these tools. It requires professors to start thinking innovatively about how to teach and assess these subjects.
I don't think it's a straw man. They were using a hypothetical scenario as an analogy.
If a super AI exists and can talk to people it will get access to weapons if it so desires.
Since you're insisting on putting it into mathematical terms, here it is.

you're insisting on 2-valued logic, language does not work that way.

---

Here's what you're doing.

"seat belts save lives, therefore you should wear them".

"aha! There was this ONE car wreck where they would have died if they were wearing their seatbelt. It's a counter-example and therefore invalidates your point!."

Said no reasonable person, ever. What it IS is an exception to the general rule. Because it turns out, reality isn't 2-valued.
Do you lay on your side at all? I find I cannot sleep through the whole night on my back without getting up and walking around.
Ask HN: Anyone else feel trapped in FANG? How did you get out?
Hi HN,

I’ve been working at a FANG for 2 years now and I feel like my career goals and interests are not aligned with where I’m at. Outside of my FANG I was a go-getter who loves learning new things and taking on hard problems. Inside my company I have tried over the past 2 years to propose different solutions to hard problems and I just get blown off.

I’m good at my job I already got promoted in 1 year and am moving up. I am making more money than I expected, but at work I’m not able to express myself creatively or do things outside the box. I just get assigned straightforward work from my manager that the product managers and “leadership” assign to our team with barely any input on the overall project or ability to propose new projects.

I feel like if I stay here I will just get stuck in a cycle of never accomplishing my goals but I’m scared to move teams or companies or build a startup because I have a good manager, a good comp and my job isn’t that stressful.

I could become more involved at work in building paper reading groups or other kinds of side projects to creatively express myself at work but I don’t want to be the person whose life revolves around their FANG.

Anyone else feel like this? What did you do?
I expect that will decreasingly be true, eg, of military AI which use distributed systems, control weapon systems, and have their own mobile generators.

You also might have trouble with, eg, a finance AI who could pay people to stop you from turning it off.
I was curious about the service (I'm not against paying for stuff and MusicButler supports Apple Music) but nowhere on the website does it tell me how much it costs.
I'm surprised, this is HN and while there are several people complaining about spyware and what happens when you eat them, not a single comment about power density, mAh capacity, max current, and the neat variety of less ominous applications these might enable.
The last comment by Fran Snyder was good too. I never really thought of it this way, but lately I've been going fast (coding) and not letting my natural inclination to think "this is too hard so I should procrastinate and yak shave." I've been pushing through that and confronting the hard parts of the code and finding it's really never as hard as I worried it was.

fran snyder (2009)
Speed kills the censor. One of my favorite quotes from "An Artist's Way." There are multiple benefits to setting challenging deadlines and defining your goals for yourself.
https://www.sendinblue.com/

* European service

* Cheaper than MailChimp (https://www.sendinblue.com/mailchimp/)
Or build its own, much more efficient, weapons

When there’s large intelligence differentials in war, the lower intelligence doesn’t even know they are at war.

(Human tank vs ant hill)
I wonder how much of this is due to formal curriculum standards and accreditation. It seems like the only permitted method of skipping a course is having had taken an AP course and scoring high enough on the exam.

I’m guessing standardized education prevents the kind of judgment calls that would allow a department to let a knowledgeable student skip classes they don’t need to be in.
I think it's the first Fortran compiler whose name is cool.
What sort of demonstration do you have in mind?
Most people would accept a lower salary to WFH, or to have flexibility in their schedule to ensure they can attend to their child's lives.

The mistake "capitalists" make is thinking money is the only factor, or even the most important one.

But really, that wasn't even the point. The point is your salary isn't what grants you a good life, it's buying power. And having that buying power gives you a stronger negotiating stance anyway.
It’s time to end the war on salt (2011)
Music is how I know that I'm in the doldrums, or depressed -- it stops sounding good to me.
Users, developers, other stakers.
You do not need to wait for the merge to see the effects. Staking pools are already heavily centralizing power in the network on centralized exchanges and """"decentralized"""" contract pools like Lido which can be manipulated and changed with the keys of a small group of people.

Vitalik is already preparing to organize social enforcement and democratic slashing for when these pools have their arms twisted to censor transactions by state actors.

https://bitcoinist.com/vitalik-buterins-take-on-possible-eth...

Before the merge has even happened, you have a central network leader preparing to use his influence to secure the network through what amounts to outside or meta-intervention (we're forking the chain because we see something is wrong) to prevent the technically possible "attack" (in Buterin's own words in agreement with most reasonable blockchain folk) from people already consolidating power for the post merge network.

This is no longer a trustless and open system. Bitcoin does not scale, but it's proof of work distributed block ordering mechanism is not killing the planet or reliant on high demand energy - it is actually most profitable to mine Bitcoin with otherwise wasted, low demand energy. Even the premise for moving to PoS (at least as a foil to Bitcoin) is wrong.
Smalltalk is meant to be the thing you're looking for. Alan Kay's given talks about this. Whether it actually works well in this respect, I don't know.
We may work at the same company. This is how the consulting department operates here.

With regards to Staff Aug, I was speaking to my consulting experience at another company. That company operated like a lot of consulting companies I've worked with, where their attitude was (and I quote): "A maniacal pursuit of revenue"
It continues an unfortunate UI tradition of mistaking "accessible" with "unconfigurable".

I'm always pretty mystified as to who they think the target audience is because it's either people who'll stay away from the advanced menu because they don't need it, or they do need it and either know it or know someone who'll know that feature they need to turn on for their use case.

It's the same brain damage that means Microsoft keeps putting more dialogue boxes between the system tray network icon and being able to see adapter TCP/IP settings in Windows.
I find I'm happiest and most satisfied when I'm incredibly busy with something truly meaningful. Capitalism does a mediocre job of allocating rewards to those who contribute, and most people I know have make-work: advertising, legal, fin-tech, and just the whole slew of stuff which reallocates wealth.

The claim is that it allocates it more efficiently, which is perhaps true, but it's a second-order effect.

If I am helping people -- be that for money, or for example, my family -- I get meaning and fulfilment out of it. In those sorts of jobs, I can work 60+ hour weeks and not burn out. I'm in a job I find meaningful right now. It pays half of what I'd make as a SWE optimizing ad clicks, but I'm happy.

I don't work 60-hour weeks right now because of family, but I have worked insane work weeks before, and I probably will again at some point.
Lately I've been enjoying Matt Rickard's blog, so much so that I subscribed. His articles are so short that it's faster to just read them than to decide whether to read them.

https://matt-rickard.ghost.io/events-vs-webhooks/
To all of you: Thank you for all your nice comments on this project. They have led me to clarify the home page and above all have encouraged me to continue exploring, a little less alone.
Instead of treating college as “no speed limit” treat it as “no bandwidth limit”.

If for example, you have been programming since you were 5, but you still are required to take an intro to CS course, instead of griping and pushing to skip it, just take advantage of the freed up brain bandwidth and maybe go take a class on history, or art or philosophy.

Taking advantage of the college environment to broaden your knowledge will serve you far more than graduating one or two years early.