skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I’m not an expert on this topic, I’m in my 40s and decades away from my own university experience, and I don’t particularly feel like arguing with strangers on HN. One thing I did learn in college was Wittgenstein’s TLP maxim that whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should not speak.

I’ve certainly had friends with soul-crushing experiences in academia and I’m well aware there are cost disease concerns about academia. At the same time, state universities allocations from state government have been greatly reduced over the past few decades. I think attacking university administration is an easy target, but is it, perhaps, a target in support of a larger goal of defunding public education?

I don’t think this article’s really worth much intellectual engagement, and I think it’s generally helpful for readers to understand authors’ policy agenda — I’m old enough that this was called “critical thinking” when I was in school.
Why are you inclined to think that way?
Make ChatGPT run JavaScript in the browser
Don't misunderstand. I'm not advising them to not stick to it if they find the treatment appropriate.

I just don't think that it is wise to force a life-long treatment if the patient is aware that they have a problem but they also feel that the treatment is causing other issues.
Especially if the treatment has adverse effects that can be erroneously thought as being caused by the illness itself.

Clinicians, self-admittedly, do not have the answers and unfortunately, some of them can be a little handwavy and forceful when it comes to cognitive ailments even though it's not a very understood area.

Before medicamenting people into oblivion because of a diagnosis that may not be the right one, in an area of science that is underfunded and not well understood, I think there is a need for better answers.

By any means, if the person is dangerous for themselves or others, and the chemotherapy stabilizes them, that's fine.
That's not really that case that I was trying to address.
If you work in consulting and you think you deliver good stuff, you are either incredibly lucky (lottery winner level), or you are so incompetent that you dont know you deliver utter crap.

What is your definition of getting the job done? 50% of projects run by consultants fail.

Seriously this level of smug shows how clueless you are.
May want to try Discovery's streaming service.
Sustain the channel or maximize the channel's profit?
Oh you mean like academic papers in journals?
That seems spot on. Try some other countries with the same prompt?
The only counter force I'm aware of is competition.

Organization A that is 80% devoted to serve it's bureaucracy will be outcompeted by Organization B which is only at 40%, presumably because it's younger.

That only works if they compete on productive end results, and I'm not sure how true that is for US universities.
Isn't this the basis for the operation of a University?
At my old job, I was jealous of people at other companies who got to use Concur.

Whatever Concur's flaws may be, the system we had was obviously worse.

"Wow, you take a photo with your phone and it goes in an app? Wish we had an app. Instead I have to submit it on a website, print the cover page as a PDF, collect all my receipts as further PDFs, merge the PDFs, and then send them via email with a single PDF attachment."

It had to be a single PDF, the system would reject the email if it had more than one attachment. Given it was a computer program not a human at the other end, I never worked out why we had to send it via email, as opposed to just uploading it via a web form.

At least I knew enough to merge the cover page PDF and receipt PDFs into one using Ghostscript. A lot of less technical people, they'd print them all out then scan them back in.
How is Treasure Island? I wanted to live there, but everyone is SF said “don’t.”

Apparently it’s an ugly, post-industrial sewage pit populated by an extremist anti-male lesbian commune, and Coastguardsmen receiving hazard pay.

I figured it was just local prejudice, but there’s some truth to the myth?
I mean, what do you want the guy to do? Not travel during winter?

Always travel with a snowmachine in tow, except when the lead snowmachine has failed, in which case, well probably still tow the broken machine with the secondary machine, so you can repair it at your destination instead of in the middle of your return journey?

Travel by car, again while towing a secondary vehicle, because having a vehicle fail during a trip is clearly irresponsible?
I saw this, closed it and it prompted me to go to start.duckduckgo.com - apparently if you clear your cookies often this popup can keep showing up, this subdomain looks to avoid this problem and simply not show popups.
This idea that Rodger the new hire on the team is "intelligent" is so absurd it's getting tiring. You do realize that the code you see regurgitated is most likely some permuted variant of a question/answer on Stack Overflow or a pull request on Github, right? Rodger can't even do basic categorization[1] reliably, but you think Rodger can understand code?
Alternative Quantitative Data API
As you read the comments here, please remember the limitations of ChatGPT and try to be kind.

EDIT: I've just had it pointed out to me that some comments here might have been created by human beings without use of a chat bot. If that's the case ... well, I'm mystified, but I apologize.
It may surprise you how many people use Linux and have a Facebook account or an iPhone. You seem to have conflated a standard Linux user with a staunch privacy advocate. There did used to be a strong corrlation, but as lack of privacy becomes more normal, and young people grow up in that world, that lessens significantly.
I wonder why the word "terrorist" is missing in the headline, given that that's exactly how this should be characterized.
Well, better than a human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4
Sure, but because it's a chat bot, you can then ask: "Cool, so how would you do the thing you just told me to do?"

I just pasted the manifest and the main script and asked it how to port it. It was basically a one-shot. Here's the port: https://github.com/unflxw/chat-gpt-google-extension

The README includes the conversation I had in order to port it. Close to zero thinking necessary. I have never worked on a browser extension before.
I just did -- see my other comments.
What is Wittgenstein's thesis?
NZ had a version of this recently too: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/479858/graham-philip-rec...
There's the Good Samaritan defense, but you are right, why risk it.
In When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World (1956) and A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), Leon Festinger proposed that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency to function mentally in the real world.[1] A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become psychologically uncomfortable and is motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance.[1][2] They tend to make changes to justify the stressful behavior, either by adding new parts to the cognition causing the psychological dissonance (rationalization) or by avoiding circumstances and contradictory information likely to increase the magnitude of the cognitive dissonance (confirmation bias).[1][2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
A reader who is a former employee of SAP has sent me a technical explanation of how this could occur. The explanation makes a lot of sense to me, and I have updated the article to include it.
The only thing will accomplish is demoralizing your team and having then turn in the bare minimum workong code. You clearly don't care about what your team thinks, so why should they care about going above and beyond when writing their code?
That’s not that out of line from what typical in the private sector in the US, once you factor in everything from HR, to building expenses, to health insurance premiums.
> Except the construction wasn't at its peak in 1982. Construction was at its peak during the early 1970s, and lurched to a halt after 3 mile island and nuclear panic took hold.

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/reactors.html#tab=iso;reg...

>So $1.7 billion per GW. This is an exceptionally good price for a system of generation that is geographically independent, is non-intermittent, and is energy dense (and so does not have to involve long transmission lines moving electricity from solar fields and wind farms to cities).

You're really stretching here. That's a single pilot plant in an industry with a massive negative learning rate without necessary safety features which is the all-time outlier. I had to go out of my way to find it, and it is not the same metric as you're judging renewables on. You've picked the single ripest possoble cherry. It was also the first turnkey plant so it being the cheap directly contradicts your hypothesis.

> So solar panels' cost has to include all the military and communications satellites that pioneered solar panel tech? Most renewable systems also use electronic computers to some degree. This technology was originally pioneered for military encryption and firing computers. You could apply this kind of broken logic to anything. Military and civilian reactor designs are vastly different: the latter are usually mobile, use highly enriched uranium, and are relatively small.

If the PV on Jim Doe's roof was required to power the satellite, and the government sold the polysilicon and sent experts to Jinko to help design the manufacturing facility, and provided the funding then yeah.

> Except the construction wasn't at its peak in 1982. Construction was at its peak during the early 1970s, and lurched to a halt after 3 mile island and nuclear panic took hold.

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/reactors.html#tab=iso;reg...

You appear to be struggling with the difference between start and finish. The largest capacity of plants ever finished in the US was '82. The Arkansaw plant I picked as an example was the last one finished before TMI and was wholly consistent with $6/W (or higher including cost of finance) and a negative learning rate since Paliside.

> Do you not see this big cluster of cheap plants built before 3 mile island and then plants got a lot more expensive afterward? I'll draw this in MS paint to make it easier for you: https://i.imgur.com/VD34Zhi.jpeg

I've pointed out a primary source which contradicts the numbers that graph is based on and posited a causal mechanism for the disparity. Refute the primary source, demonstrate that my understanding of their use of the term 'nominal dollars' is wrong, or find another primary source (or the primary source the paper uses).
> there’s no way anyone would want to spend much time watching that schlock. It’s so low effort, dumb, boring… but human beings really do seem to just want our minds numbed.

We've been trained into that by desperation. Social connections and celebrity have become so vital to any chance of having a middle-class income that you can't blame zoomers slaving at a repetitive drone job for long hours and token pay for carefully poring over the output of people who have been successful at gathering attention and converting it to rent.
Are you talking about this tweet

https://twitter.com/SerialDev/status/1599376895971569666?s=2...
Seems like some group is making another test of their abilities. Perhaps gathering data on government response and repair times.

Makes me wonder if a coordinated multi-location strike is coming sometime in the future. Scary stuff.
AMD, Nvidia stunned by intel "in-vitro fabrication" process
I'm curious if AI will plant ads in the answers. MentionRank?
> It goes back to an influential book called Keywords for Radicals

... That book was published in 2016. Semiology has been around since at least the late 19th century (and can be traced back much further than that). Foucoult's approach to studying language and words through their genealogy and Derrida's contributions to literary studies were both big in the late 20th century. And feminist scholars from both analytical and continental traditions have been pointing out that language isn't neutral for forever. Gramsci's work on cultural hegemony was done in the early 20th century.

Any of these would serve as better starting points for when leftists started focusing on the relationship between power and language. Not sure why you found this random book to pick on but it seems like you're missing some serious context here
I like Foreign Policy
> How do you feel about the coupling of "text-sized icons" to the size of text?

You got me there. :)

This is one place where I break "convention", but only because I view icons as glyphs. So maybe the REM rule can be generalized to glyphs and not text. I typically just set icons to be 1rem. Any other size I typically specify in pixels however, as the coupling for me only makes sense as long as the glyph is glyph-sized.

> Does an icon next to a label make the icon's size font-related in your view?

Yeah, if it's an inline glyph. If the icon and label are vertically stacked however, I'm more inclined to use pixels.
Vast majority of physical infrastructure has no security beyond a rickety fence. It is good that most terrorists are as mentally unstable as they are, because a rational person with some easily homemade bombs could easily disable most anything they want with no real chance at being caught.
ah ok. Here in Germany it was (and I think still is) common to learn/be required to write with one in elementary school, so having on at kid age is normal, including the occasional mess...
i mostly read genre stuff (science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, humour), my all time favourite author being terry pratchett. "guards! guards!" is a great first book of his, it's humorous fantasy but also with a lot of depth and superb character development. if you like that, go on to read the entire discworld series, they are almost all excellent.

science fiction - i would recommend lois bujold's "vorkosigan" series. start with "the warrior's apprentice"; there are two prequels but they can be read on their own at any time and i think "the warrior's apprentice" is a better introduction to the series.

another very engaging series is harry kemmelman's "rabbi small" mysteries, they are both great mystery novels and an overall story arc of a young rabbi establishing himself in a small new england town.
People think he's a racist because they think he implies non-whites are stupid because they got their knowledge of civilization from survivors from Atlantis. They don't really touch upon the fact that literally all civilizations would have spawned out of them, including "white" ones.

I've never seen, read, or heard anything indicating that Graham is racist. Is there any substance to this, or it about as solid as his theories?
We are producing 150 F35s a year.
Yeah, it's all tribal for them. Freedoms are to be defended if and only if it's good of the political tribe, over and against the rival political tribe. Adherence to the valued principles of yesteryear is all just for optics.

Nowadays, freedom of speech is a funny meme about how nobody should be able to hear you yell "fire" at a crowded gay bakery. Let it all burn down.
Assuming it’s the classic trolley problem, what would be the crime? There doesn’t seem to be specific intent for murder (the death is a regrettable side effect), and diverting the train to save lives is certainly not reckless disregard for human life so manslaughter seems to be out.

By the way do you think someone would go to jail for swerving a car away from a crowd and hitting just one person as a result?
I believe the analysis and the lesson learned are completely wrong.

The real reason for Facebook's decline is that Apple knee-capped their advertising.

The lesson in this is: don't let another company be able to get between you and your customers.

Google took this lesson to heart some years back, hence the massive investment in Chrome browser and Android so that no company could come between Google and its users.
My school taught me the difference between 'integration' and 'emancipation'.
If you imagine the only or main use for a powerful type system is error-checking, it only demonstrates how much you have still to learn. It is not language design that is on a cycle, but people circling back to what excited them in their youth. But that was not the Lisp, it was youth itself, which you will not find in Lisp.

Types, as I wrote above, can perform heavy lifting in a language that empowers them. New vistas await!
I didn’t think the invisible committee operated south of the Mason Dixon line.

(Fragen Sie mich noch einmal, ob ich Französisch spreche, und ich werde Sie auf weniger unterhaltsame Weise an die Wand stellen.)
You can also view the weather in the terminal with Curl using curl wttr.in
The article does have a fairly involved discussion on this point. It's probably worth pointing out which parts of the argument made in that section you specifically agree/disagree with.
And I thought “Computer, disable holodeck safety protocols” was too simple.
SAP continues because they have a great sales team that makes execs feel like they are making a choice that never gets them fired. SAP doesnt care about UX and in the 10 or so years Ive dealt with it on the periphery, its been a barely serviceable product with a terrible user interface. I especially love how the localization is so sporadic in the application. Sure the front end will be mostly english, but be prepared for a lot of tables/columns/fields to be in German. Granted, its been a few years since Ive done much SAP related work(I build interfaces between trading systems and SAP for accounting and some logistics interfaces.)

Anyway, their goal is to move into new business verticals and not really fix the product. They are actually trying to move into the trading and risk management arena in which I work. So far they have one major client that I'm aware of and they are struggling to make it work.
It’s so outrageous that it makes me wonder if it’s real or a possible cover/false flag/test for something else.
Kind of proves that it while it can engage in a kind of convincing sophistry, it is still just a fancy summary bot that stumbles over a fairly basic hurdle.
I remember history channel as the WWII channel.
Which thesis, specifically?
Maybe it's a function of the Q&A style for programming questions where correct snippets of code are found to build base know-how and source code is used to enhance it?
They've been going after him pretty hard, calling him all kinds of names, so his defensiveness is somewhat understandable.
What do you mean 'some group', those anti-trans people pretty much admitted to it.
Alternatively you could notice how few of these things have happened since this article was published in 2014 and realize the kind of crazy that wants to end the world rarely has the executive function to do the needful :-)
Probably because there's a lot more material and detail about computer science online that it would be regurgitating. You can be sure that someone has already answered whatever CS-related question you are asking it verbatim - all it does is connect the dots and glue the concepts together.
I am a bit disappointed, was expecting something way worse for "horror". Maybe the horrors are on the bugs he hasn't mentioned but had to put up with.

One possible excuse for SAP Concur here, and I am just guessing, is that the sorting is in some kind of customer-specific config setting that the admin needs to setup. I.e. they made it configurable for each client's needs. If you don't set it up it defaults to this "undefined" behaviour. Good defaults are better than this though, so alphabet sorting would come ahead.
I don't follow what OP says in the write-up, "I fed it the spec to my language."
How? What would that prompt look like? How long did that take? How many prompts? How was it verified that the spec had been understood properly? Etc, etc...
A bat and a ball together cost $1.10, the bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

> The ball costs $0.10. Let's prove this using an equation. {uses equation}. The ball costs $0.05.
Consistent with an upper management approach.
That seems EXTREMELY high unless people weren't already using things like snippets to help automate boilerplate.
> I can’t imagine a single Spotify user ever saying: “Please make sure you never tell me the members of the band.”

Does Spotify even know who was in the band? Is that metadata anyone attached to the tracks? Sure: if it wasn't they could have asked for it, but if they already have a ton of music without that metadata is the feature ever going to be useful as an afterthought? Does any other music platform have this feature? This example is so weird it is making it really difficult for me to concentrate on whatever point they are trying to make.
I think it's good to have at least 1 person in the team like this. Sometimes a higher up makes a mistake and suggests a terrible idea. If the team is all yes men (or women), then that bad idea is implemented and in the end, causes a lot of pain down the line. The worst part seeing that look in your teammates faces. They KNOW it's a bad idea, yet no one says a word.
http://6502.org also has a fine list of resources.
Getting the weather is one thing, but being to POST would be a game changer. Think of what it would do to help gardening
It's far easier to explain why you think something is correct than to come up with it in the first place.

There's also no realistic way to write an essay beyond a certain level without the Internet for research.
“Probably” does a lot of heavy lifting in my aforementioned rule of thumb. There are some major cities that are worth visiting despite the tourists.

In some cities, like London, the rule applies fractally. Avoid anywhere listed in tourist guides and there are lots of great suburbs to explore.

Whereas a city like Paris, great as it is to lay eyes on the Eiffel Tower and the Arch de Triumph, the city is ultimately a dilution of its former self. These days most major cities are very same-same.
Right. If you don't have to do anything to save 2 people, no one would pull the lever. The dilemma is between being responsible for some deaths, or letting even more people die
ChatGPT and Implicatures
You often can get different kinds of replies, and of different quality, by “Try again” or by slight variations of the prompt. Given the variations present in the training data, it’s maybe not surprising.
Is is scary, especially after reading about how perilous black starts might be and the scarce sourcing of power equipment.
Reminds me of `curl wttr.in` -- although slightly more verbose in some metrics.
People want to watch good educational content, but they don't want to pay for content. They may be willing to pay for convenience, but a cable channel no longer provides that.
I am a disinterested observer in all this but the issues seem to be in the concentrations involved in the production of the materials, not in the wearing of them.

The grandparent comment seems to imply that wearing these materials is a cancer risk but it really doesn't seem like that is the case. Am I wrong? I can't find anything that indicates it is an issue.

(I live in an old house with some asbestos-wrapped ducts, I think asbestos is bad and should not be produced anymore but I also think that the duct wrap in my house is not endangering my family.. this seems like that sort of a situation to me.)
I noticed nobody had mentioned any Youtubers. Surprisingly there are a few Youtubers who bring a ton of industry experience to their videos.

I found these channels to be helpful:

- Rahul Pandey (e.g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADWkkJtZna4)

- A life engineered (e.g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i5iFlP01mQ)