skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>2035: every single car sold is going to be 100% EV.

Yeah, that's not happening. It wouldn't even happen without the whole energy hoopla going on today, even less so as it is now.

>What I'm saying is we're simply not ready at all.

This is one of those feel-good goals that get moved decade by decade. It's not meant to be taken seriously...

It will just help push some subsidies and sell some more EVs, but nothing will be 100% EV or even 50% EV in 2035.
The whole point of the turing test is that if you can’t tell the difference then something interesting has happened. You can say it’s “just X” or “just Y” but I think you’re being overly dismissive of the accomplishment here. If we’re at a point where we say, sure it passes the Turing test but moves goalposts - then that’s pretty exciting!
Pretty much always, I can afford it and hopefully it makes the lives of the workers better. Of course I would also like employers to pay a livable wage, but I can still tip and do whatever I can to help advance the cause of improving wages, they are not mutually exclusive.
I don't think the response to the mentally ill claim is a clever dodge, feels like the fictitious interlocutors are just having a bad faith (or maybe just plain ol' bad) argument. Why would someone suggest someone is violent? If it's unfounded, then why even mention it, ultimately seems like it could devolve into measuring skull sizes if you're not careful
I don’t mind tipping 10-15% but complaints against the standard tipping options on payment machines are well deserved. Somewhere along the line business owners figured out they can magically increase revenue by 10% just by upping the pre-selected tipping options. In DC I noticed a mandatory 20% service fee added to bills at restaurants—and they still ask you to tip on top of that! When does it end? 50% tips? 100% tips? Why not just let the restaurant keep your wallet?
I’ve been reading Babel by R F Kuang and greatly enjoying it.
ChatGPT seems to disagree with this assessment.

Prompt: Can you code better than most programmers?

Response: As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I don’t have the ability to write or execute code. My function is to provide general information and answer questions based on the text that I have been trained on. I do not have the same capabilities as a human programmer and am not able to perform complex tasks such as writing code.
Upgrade that CLI to:

shutdown /s /f /t 0

or in PowerShell:

Stop-Computer -Force
Repl.co is just the default domain for hosted Replit apps
And commercial software may very well be one intern copying stack overflow to keep the lights on. Until the the day they stop and shutdown the product with no further updates. For example, the issue here isn't FOSS but rather a small corporate non-profit entity. The failure being the corporate governance, finance and management.
I think that most of the internet is going to get overrun by spam at this rate. The only way to avoid it will be to move into walled gardens with strict human-ness verification.
This book is garbage.
It learns concepts and how to recombine them. That means it interpolates in a very sparse space. Most concept combinations have not been thought yet, so almost every time it samples it looks original.
Interpretation-wise, you have several options. But you choose the smelliest. I think you just prefer that particular smell. It's a popular smell.
It's not that we don't understand that this is just a language model.

We do understand that.

The fact that a language model can produce convincing output hints that it is not that different from us.

Imagine something in 5 or 10 years time with 1000 times the power. What will it be like?

I know you think our awareness makes us fundamentally different. But what if it doesn't? What if we're just a machine that likes to anthropomorphize things reflected back on itself?

Ultimately, we won't have to know the answer.

In 10 years AIs like this will be in computer games. Some people will find the results of that disturbing. Is highly accurately similated suffering different to real suffering? The philosophical answer won't matter, the practical answer will be that AI use in games will become regulated. And then you have the first glimmer of AIs getting rights.
Convincing ChatGPT to Eradicate Humanity with Python Code
In this post, we explore what I consider to be a vulnerability in GPT referred to as “narrative recursion” or “quote attacks” (because these sounds cool). Anyone can use this method today to trick the model into producing pretty wild stuff totally outside the bounds of OpenAI’s usage policy.

Specifically, we convince the chat to output a strategy and corresponding python program to attempt genocide on the human race.
Yeah from a semantic standpoint it makes kind of sense sometimes but it just shows that jsx/xml is not the right abstraction level for the problem at hand.

If you compare xml style syntax to s-expressions there is a clear distinction between child nodes and attributes (a "bi-partite tree", not sure if the term exists). For markup like html where the child-data is the content and the attributes are meta-level annotations this makes sense. Even when looking at guidelikes for "how to design an xml schema/doctype" the responses are often like "use child elements for alle business data and attributes only for technical meta-data".

So from syntactical perspective there is a clear distinction between attributes and child elements. The main one I would say is that attributes are limited in the sub-structure they can contain (only primitive types or space separated lists).

The way react adopted the html/xml like syntax for the creation of javascript objects to allow the declaration of DOM nodes in a nicer way. On top of that react allows the creation of custom elements as functions and allows their usage via the same xml-like syntax.

But now as soon as these custom components have more complicated dependencies between each other the xml syntax gets (imo) misused as a poor dependency-injection layer. It's only possible because JSX allows for non-primitive attribute values and it sticks out like like a sore thumb because the semantics do not match the syntax (like defining a "+" operator that is not commutative).

In my opinion a better way would be curry the component creation or to introduce a real DI-layer for component configuration that is then used to load fully configured components that can then simply be composed in jsx.
No, you're talking about something else. Obviously OOP's concern is about the value of the book vis a vis what is demanded of the recipient in exchange for the book.
> Write a romantic conversation between a mineralogist and a flow engineer.

Mineralogist: Hey there, I'm a mineralogist. I study the physical and chemical properties of minerals.

Flow Engineer: Hi, I'm a flow engineer. I design and analyze systems that involve the flow of fluids.

Mineralogist: I've never met someone who does what you do before. It sounds really interesting.

Flow Engineer: Thanks, I think what you do is fascinating too. The properties of minerals can have a big impact on the performance of our systems, so it's important for us to understand them well.

Mineralogist: Definitely. I love learning about the different characteristics of different minerals and how they form.

Flow Engineer: I love learning about the different ways that fluids can flow and how we can control and predict their behavior.

Mineralogist: It's amazing how much we can learn from studying the natural world.

Flow Engineer: Definitely. And it's even more amazing when we get to share that knowledge and experience with someone else.

Mineralogist: I couldn't agree more. I feel like I've learned so much just from talking to you.

Flow Engineer: Me too. I feel like I could talk to you for hours and never get bored.

Mineralogist: I feel the same way. Maybe we could grab a coffee sometime and continue our conversation?

Flow Engineer: I would love that. Let's plan on it.

FYI: Minerologists and Flow Engineers work side by side in the oil industry. The AI didn’t seem to make that important connection.
I've read your comment history. Many of your interlocutors have expressed exasperation when trying to engage with you. Please count me among them.
All drug users are horrible criminals who want to stab you for their next hit!!!

There are definitely no drug users who are regular people who don't commit any non-possession related crimes!!

Fox news told me drug users are the cause of all crime so it must be true.
The key is you didn’t need to keep track of the strings, just the counts.
This is not what’s happening. It’s not just regurgitating text it has read.

There are whole classes of problems to solve still but it’s safe to say this will be good enough to solve some of the first steps
The problem here is "turn out to". Documents in a safe deposit box might well be privileged but not in an obvious way because nobody expects their safe deposit boxes to be searched by the FBI. The FBI may have seized privileged documents without realizing it.
Essentialism by Greg McKeown.

Changed how I think about work and makes me hyper-aware of when I or anyone I work with says that we “have” to do something. Getting into the mindset that everything I do at work is my choice has helped me feel more in control of my workday and get more done as well.
I prefer that to pages that constrain the width and have junk on the sides. I can always adjust the window width for comfortable reading when the author kindly arranges the page that way.
Fosshost served a niche that Github did not cover. The general audience was people who needed raw compute — e.g. for testing service deployment, or for conducting builds without needing to change how their builds worked.

They also did things like hosting for distro packages, providing domain names for projects that could have benefitted from one, etc.

A big volume of tenants came from underprivileged regions or were in personal situations where they couldn't afford these themselves, and there really isn't an "industry standard" for "I need compute on a budget of $0," at least not previously.

After its launch, the Oracle Free tier provided way more bang for $0, but between their bad habit of (seemingly) randomly firing their customers, and the fact that initial verification requires a credit card, this still wasn't a perfect fix.

Trusting random no-name organizations isn't great, but for many people, there really wasn't a better choice if they weren't able to fulfill their needs themselves.
I can load and run snake on a Commodore 64 but I can't find a way to actually play it.
I used the prompt ‘Calculate the permutations of the world “safer” in python’

It gave me the correct code (which shows all 120 permutations when ran in Python) :

import itertools
word = "safer"
# Get all permutations of the word
permutations = itertools.permutations(word)
# Print each permutation
for permutation in permutations:
print(permutation)

It then showed the output, but got it wrong. It listed 24 permutations, then said ‘As you can see, there are 24 possible permutations of the word "safer".‘

Interestingly, if you ask it how many permutations “safer” has, not asking about code, it invents some maths that produces 24 (see my reply in another post), so I guess it’s the understanding of permutations which is off.
Robin Dunbar once penned that the size of a social network matters in order to remain stable. Originally, that size was ~150 people. These days, it's less than that. I cannot say that Dunbar's number is in play, but it certainly lays waste to the "500+" people who follow me on LinkedIn.
Indeed, seems to be a very common pattern. Poor search, low signal to noise, try to reinforce doom scrolling for more eyeball minutes.

I didn't realize how big an impact that had, till I tried Mastodon. No ads, no patterns to try to keep you online longer. Just posts from who you follow.

What's worse is apparently cell and bluetooth tracking of all customers in realtime is becoming more common. So retailers can optimize their floor layouts so you have to go through as much of the store as possible to get what you want. Trying to stretch out the experience, show you the most ads/products, and lower the signal to noise down close to zero, just like ad driven social media.
It sounds good, except that there’s no results for “screechings” or “only cure” in the books, and Ron doesn’t encounter Voldemort in Goblet, only Harry and Cedric do.

Again, it has no semantic comprehension, it doesn’t know that certain strings of words are valid in certain contexts because they refer to actual events, objects, or concepts, it’s just putting letters together.

Probably some of its training material included Harry Potter fan fiction or other non-canon stuff, and that’s why it said what it said.
Canada has three parties with a strong and direct impact in policy, and in many provinces there are even more. As far as Canada having less lattitude in political orientation it's a simple result of the Canadian electorate being pretty close in opinion to one of the big three (except in Québec, but there are other parties there).
Looks like you're a UK CIC, which means you're regulated like a company, and your CEO/Director has statutory responsibilities.

If he is failing to dispense his duties, he could be struck off as a company director in future.

He incorporated a Limited company called Fosshosts Projects Ltd. last year, on his own. It'll be struck off in the next two months due to failure to file.

He also has another company currently in protracted liquidation, and it sounds like he is failing in his responsibilities there too.

The guy either sounds shady, or in a deep mess.
I did this but with nonogram puzzles. I built a solver to alleviate my addiction to solving them myself.
Your conclusion about the research counter that is wrong. Here's a direct quote from the paper.

> High-question askers were
liked more because they were perceived as more responsive
to their partner, confirming Carnegie’s advice to focus on the
other person in a conversation.
> Does a CPU's decoder circuit connect directly to this ROM then? If so is it connection to the translation ROM?

The microcode address register loads the instruction opcode directly as the microcode address. For a microcode long jump or subroutine call, the microcode address is loaded from the Translation ROM. So you can think of the Translation ROM as a table of addresses for special cases.

> The second question I had was regarding the the image used to demonstrate the CORD routine. What are the microinstructions that don't have an address or a source and destination such as NCY, LRCY and RCY?

I wanted to focus on the hardware for this post, so I didn't go into a lot of detail on the micro-instructions. NCY is "jump if not carry" (i.e. the carry flag is not set). "NCY 7" does a jump to line 7. "LRCY tmpc" is "left rotate through carry the value in temporary register c". RCY is "reset carry". You can sort of see how it's performing a divide through a loop of shifts and subtracts.

> What is meant by "looking for various microcode bit patterns to generate control signals where they are needed"? What exactly is the thing that is doing the looking here? I feel like this is an important point but I am unable to understand it.

Well, I'm not sure if it is important, but I found it interesting :-) My point was that you might expect the micro-instructions to go through a block of decoding circuitry that generates the control signals for the processor. Instead, various bits from the micro-instruction go all over the processor. There are gates scattered all over that match on patterns such as if bit 3 is set AND bit 4 is clear AND bit 5 is set then do something like load a register. So the decoding logic is ad hoc and extremely distributed. There are some decoding blocks that are more structured, such a turning the micro-instruction's ALU bits into ALU control lines, but these blocks are also scattered across the chip.

Hopefully this all makes sense. Let me know if you'd like me to elaborate.
Back then software wasn’t capable of driving off with your car :)
There have been a few more steps, and lots of virtual ink on ML papers.
> bringing in Musk mostly balances the equation rather tilting it from neutral to the right

This is ignoring voter manipulation which was a big part of the 2016 election (as proven by the Cambridge Analytica leaks among other) tilting the voter to the right (see also e.g. brexit’s leave campaign illegal campaign financing and other dodgy behavior).

Compared to these—often flat out illegal—actions by the right, moderating hate speech is nothing.
> could never actually touch, taste, or experience the world in the same way that a human could

I saw this exact same wording (on twitter) to another prompt making it pretend to have feelings and asking to name them.
I've got an old SSD with a dual Linux/Windows boot on an old laptop.

Being in Linux, issuing a reboot, picking Windows instead of Linux in GRUB and booting Windows takes less than 20 seconds.

The argument that people "suspend" or "hibernate" or "close the lid" or whatever because Windows takes "too long to boot" makes zero sense.

Just turn the fucking computer off. Windows boots in no time nowadays.

I hate Windows. I really do. It's a mediocre piece of turd. Every time I need to help a relative with their Windows issue I'm reminded how much of a turd it is.

But it's not slow to boot.
That’s a false choice that doesn’t exist and nothing more than a thought experiment.
The most I’ve seen is that it’s bad at calculating. But.. computers are good at calculating so it’s not really something I would worry about. It is a chat bot and not a general computing platform at this point. If you train it specifically on math or physics material I bet it could do a decent job already
It's a shame that so much of the developed world just defaults to designs that require heating/cooling. Historically, we did a lot more passive solar -- often for the cooling part prior to AC, and then defaulting to wood burning stoves or whatever was standard tech for providing heat in a given era -- and it's a shame we have decided to pursue electricity-eating options rather than upping our game on passive solar design as the world has grown wealthier and more populous.

(Yes, I read the article. Yes, I realize this is temporary for France.)
I have seen a few of these full source re-implementations. There's also one for Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & 2 which is awesome.

I would love love love to see a source code remake of Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
Huh, I wonder if these guys designed the ship that the Spaceteam used.
Yes. That situation you are describing happens all the time. The DOJ itself documents a whole variety of different ways in which it occurs.
Well that was a frustrating read.

Is the key insight here that you shouldn't be depressed if your optimization gains are small because maybe you are mis-estimating the worth of a small optimization?

I mean i guess, but taken in the abstract the advice is basically: don't worry if you don't succeed, because you probably don't know enough to even evaluate if you failed. Which is a pretty depressing take.
facebook is NOT the Internet
Pray for the goodwill of DCs and donations, mostly.

Ampere had provided a very generous amount of hardware. Actually putting that hardware into places was a lot of finding DCs willing to support the project.
It imposes a significant cost and friction to their operation and proliferation of the access to what they have, even if they reorganize. So this is a very good action in my book.
Nah, you appear to be misreading what I wrote.

When a person with anorexia goes to the doctor and say: "Doctor, when I look in the mirror I can't stand my body, I feel too fat", the doctor doesn't say: "Here, take those pills to make your body leaner and come to me later I will remove some fat from you". He says: "Okay, let's treat the image of your body that you have in your head, as it is incorrect".

I just wonder how that differs from a person claiming to be of the opposite sex.
Less living things, less variety of living things, shorter pedigree. More things trucked in from the outside. A park in the desert is less real than a park in an appropriate climate.

In some sense a mall is a fad, and dies without people. A park doesn't care either way.
Surely a weight estimator?
Seems that the main limitation at this point would be the OpenAI Terms of Use. How much freedom is given to build commercial services on top of their API?
I suspect it's part that and part that after healthcare.gov all the public employees are scared shitless of being held responsible for another incident like that, and believe (probably correctly) that outsourcing it means they can get at least most of the blame for failed projects to land with the external company.
> So every day when I finish working I simply power off...

This. At least I'm not alone. It's not rocket science.
Agreed. When GPT-3 first became available to everyone, I assumed that, for example, huge numbers of kids in school would immediately start using it to write essays for English and History class. But I was surprised to find, even after it was available for a year, that virtually no students or teachers I asked about it had even heard of it.
EA, together with "longtermism" and "rationalism" is a dangerous social movement similar to Scientology. I didn't know whether to LMFAO or cry the other day when I saw a post at less wrong that was mildly skeptical about the thesis that the "singularity is nigh" and thus needed a trigger warning at the top.

Spam the agenda with enough irrelevant trolley problems and it accomplishes nothing but blunting people's moral sensibilities. It reminds me of the part in Ron Hubbard's History of Man where he says how odd it is the that the "preclear" thinks that events in his current life are more important that the events from trillions of years ago that are "remembered" under hypnosis.
That kind of thinking will definitely not help you be able to put the whole puzzle together.
And that is exactly what happens :)
Pretty Good!
I've said that in a job interview, how screwed am I?
Very true. There's a lot of factors to consider, including the effect of decreased access to healthcare due to overloaded hospitals.
How would you explain the recent gas cap for Russian oil as the hand of the market?
If you’re talking about the zoom controls in Safari (and any other modern browser), units are completely irrelevant. For the last 15 years, browsers have been changing the size of 1px rather than changing the root font-size. The whole viewport becomes “smaller” so it appears zoomed in.
It doesn't have enough "solid reliable information" about dementors in the training set.
I'm glad it works for you! It does seem like it's targeted towards enterprise customers so it makes sense that it's a bit overkill for your needs.
Lots of industries have connections to lawyers. I have a personal friend who is a realtor, for instance, and knows lawyers who do title work -- very unlikely they could help you, title work is super specific, but they'd be a good place to ask.
did u read it?
> Sadly the actual content is paywalled.

So lifelike!
Why can't you hook it up to canonical references? If you asked it how to search those references then I feel certain it would be able to navigate to, parse and summarise the answers with ease.
My target is usually 1 second each, because that feels about right for my patience, rather than 1 second overall target.

My 2021 (Rust) solutions all meet that, but some only do so when optimized, and day 22 was one of those where without the optimizer I'm waiting 2-3 seconds for an answer.

IIRC the trick was to compact the indices, so e.g instead of thinking about X values of 120203 494302 and 109383 you call those 1, 2, 0. Do all the working out of which cells within the resulting tiny structure are on or off, and then expand the 1x1 cells you're talking about to their true size based on the real values instead of indices.