skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The code is a fixed point of a transformation, that transformation being "running it and extracting the output". Indeed, the fact that they always exist is a specialization of a more general fixed-point theorem! See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene%27s_recursion_theorem
I was born in the early 70s, but I don’t remember ever seeing anything like this. It looks like an extended parody of itself.
I don’t understand the hard-left into fitness watches. I track my running because it’s more difficult to train effectively (especially with regard to avoiding injury) without data. Most people don’t push quite that hard when they’re chopping wood.

I track my hikes so I have a background image (the map) for collages of pictures I took. Most people don’t have a similar tracking need for their raking.
How to plan an offsite as written by AI
Perhaps you would like to put this feeling into action and talk to your representative about changing the law.
The US state of Vermont actually has a constitutional right to hunt on open, private lands. This dates from the original state constitution.

If you don't want people hunting in your woods, you have several options. The simplest is to post an exclusion zone around your dwelling. But posting an entire large woodlot with "No Hunting" signs is a deliberately awful process. The signs must surround the entire boundary, and they must have a recent date. They must also be registered with the town.

https://vtfishandwildlife.com/learn-more/landowner-resources...

In practice, it's very rare for people to post large woods.
My personal interest would be in reading assembly for the sake of reverse engineering. So, maybe 6502 is not the best option for me. I'll take a look at those books, thanks.
A provocative and astute diatribe.

My question for you: why humor this absurdity?

I'm of mind that the whole thing should be thrown out.
> I'd say academia is just jealous and riding the wave of the absolutely fanatical censorship crusade that's been going on.

People who grew up internalizing the ethos of cancel culture are graduating into faculty and other positions of authority. Plus, even as students through sheer aggressiveness they were quite effective at changing academic norms. Less a matter of jealously and more a reaping of what was permitted to be sown, I would think.

Cancel culture was always fundamentally based on moral certitude; not just in the abstract, but in concrete, detailed application to their own and others' activities. So there's obvious dissonance with the nature of the scientific process. The way this dissonance plays out as the cancel culture crowd becomes the scientific establishment is already turning out to be... interesting.
BBSs helped setup social connections in the SF East Bay that resulted in in person social activities that ran, in some form, continuously for 20+ years.

The systems used were based on WWIV. Another was a multi-line system that included games one could play against others called Popnet - it was a custom system written by a father/son pair.
It actually showed up in apple news the other day under fox, perhaps it was moved. either way I can’t find a link on it on the main site. the question still remains as to why the other news orgs didn’t pick up something this serious and at least mention it.
Wow! Though Wikipedia asserts the case is most likely apocryphal.
Having worked at both, 20% time is the only part of the article that is somewhat off-base.

In particular the following string of paragraphs match exactly what I’ve seen at both:

> With all that up-front planning, the actual product decisions and working code were reviewed much less. Only the other PMs on my team reviewed my specs, and only me and the tester (also new grads usually) reviewed the working changes before they were added to the branch. For what it’s worth, I think this is why the quality of the details on Microsoft products is often lacking—a random PM made a decision and no one bothered to push back on it.

> Contrast that with Google.

> At Google, I never saw a strategy document. I went to every Friday all-hands, but I didn’t hear the leaders talk about a broad vision of what we needed to build. The people above me didn’t set direction and ask me to follow it.

> Instead, leaders encouraged teams to generate their own ideas. The founders had ideas of their top priorities and worked with the relevant teams on those, but the list of the top company OKRs was a subset of all the OKRs, not a roll-up. Some people were not working on anything the company cared about strategically!
I remember when gaming "clans" were a thing and clans would play any number of selected games.

It was a neat idea where the clan was the focus and less so the game.
Hahaha that got a good long laugh out of me :D

I'm certainly not worried about ChatGPT taking any jobs away if this is kind of nonsense it will output.

Though... maybe I should be worried. What if it actually is capable of human-level thought and actually thinks killing people is a good thing? Hopefully no one decides to give ChatGPT a robotic body!
> The legal advice to be skeptical of the AGPL is absolutely right.

The legal risk involved by using AGPL software for a company is exactly zero.

AGPL is an open source license which, by the very definition of open source, means that you can freely use the software. Full stop.

The only arguable risk is when modifying the software and on top of that using it in conjunction with other in-house software. But if you are ready to use a proprietary license, you already refrained from modifying the software.

So just use it and end of story. AGPL is a perfectly fine, open source license.
I can see only one image (an exposed fracture) that could be considered gruesome, and it's a drawing.
What about doing wget over https://chat.openai.com/chat ? I don't believe it had much Google result over that when it learned, yet it was able to logically infer it would be a chat assistant doing exactly what he was doing.
Steam has a whole FAQ about this: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/783F-5E0F-9834-22...
> the internet internet

I think you pass the Turing test. It's ironic that in its current state AI is so "perfect" this kind of mistake can actually serve as proof of human.

Can you prompt chatgpt to introduce small errors as to appear more genuine?
I thought the music, dancing, choreography, and even storytelling, were actually pretty good. Am I supposed to be aghast that there were some breasts? I’m not sure what my reaction should be. I liked it. I liked 60s and 70s sci fi.
How does GPT know how to answer questions
Again, pirates get the better product.
Running a test to see how well this performs in Google. IMO, this is as good as your average content mill article. Hopefully, Google can tell the difference though because this is basically just trite nonsense and doesn't have any real wisdom that someone who has actually run an offsite could give you. It's not wrong, but I would hate to see this level of quality leading SEO.
A spiritual one -- its causes numerous.

Though it would be invigorating to have a word for the whole thing. Maybe the Germans have something for us?
Flood? Nothing but imo much of it will be noise. For images for example: stock photos, wallpapers, porn,etc... sure. But stuff that has meaning to people like charts, profile photos, descriptive images (think the picture of a monent in wikipedia) or even paid porn will be humans because meat people like meat people.
Some contradictory Maths responses, and an apology from ChatGPT:

Me:

Is Pi times 3 a rational number?

ChatGPT:

No, 3 times pi is not a rational number. 3 times pi is equal to 3π, which is an irrational number. This is because the number pi (π) is an irrational number, and when you multiply an irrational number by a rational number (in this case, 3), the result is still an irrational number. So, 3π is an irrational number because it is the product of the irrational number pi (π) and the rational number 3.

Me:

Is pi times 25 a rational number?

ChatGPT:

Yes, pi times 25 is a rational number. Pi times 25 is equal to 25π, which is a rational number. This is because the number pi (π) is an irrational number, but 25 is a rational number, and when you multiply a rational number by an irrational number, the result is a rational number. In this case, the irrationality of pi is "cancelled out" by the rational factor 25, resulting in a final product that is a rational number. So, 25π is a rational number because it is the product of the irrational number pi (π) and the rational number 25.

Me:

You have said both that "when you multiply a rational number by an irrational number, the result is a rational number" and "if you multiply a rational number with an irrational number, the product is always irrational. " Both statements cannot be true.

ChatGPT:

You are correct that both of those statements cannot be true. My previous responses were based on the assumption that you were asking about specific examples of multiplying a rational number by an irrational number, such as 3/1 times pi or 25/1 times pi. In those cases, the resulting product is either a rational number or an irrational number, depending on the specific numbers involved in the calculation. However, in general, the product of a rational number and an irrational number is always an irrational number. This is because an irrational number cannot be expressed as a simple fraction, so even if one of the factors in the product is a rational number, the result will still be irrational. For example, if you multiply the rational number 3 with the irrational number √2, the result is the irrational number 3√2. I apologize if my previous responses were unclear or contradictory. I will do my best to provide clear and accurate information in the future.
One solution would be to exercise eminent domain. The state or federal government claims a couple square feet of land wherever one of these corner crossings exist so that there's enough space for a footpath. For each of these, the landowner is sent a check for the fair market value of the land, which in most cases is probably about a dollar or so. Problem solved.

If there's too much paperwork involved in eminent-domaining every one of these, you could have a system where members of the public can request corner access, and some agency can invoke eminent domain in priority order based on the number of requests for each corner.
That sound to me like inference.
There's an O(1) solution for stoi?
> 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.

If I were cherry picking I could pick even cheaper plants. Zion 1 and 2 were built for less, as was Oconee 1 and 2.

> You appear to be struggling with the difference between start and finish. The largest capacity of plants ever finished in the US was '82.

Most of which were delayed after the 3 mile island incident, and correspondingly experienced greater costs. Sure, if you want to get pedantic the peak number of plants under construction at any one time peaked just after three mile island. But that's because so many plants were delayed, and this led to higher costs.

> 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).

I'm looking over the OSTI report and calculating the inflation adjusted numbers line by line. They match the costs listed in my source. It doesn't look like there's anything to refute: both of our sources show that nuclear plants built during the nuclear boom were some of the cheapest forms of decarbonized energy there is.

I don't have anything refute, because your source agrees with my point. Your own source's data reinforces the claim that nuclear built during the nuclear boom (plants started after 1965 and built before three mile island) were often delivered between 1 and 2 billion dollars (2010 adjusted) per GW of capacity, and some even less than 1 billion.
That sounds great! Yeah I’m fortunate I have a decent Fuji road bike too, and I’ve not taken it out since my recent move in to the city. But it would be nice to get some exercise and some of that sports car feeling! Absolutely love using the ebike for pleasure riding though and I agree it’s nicer to take the bike for groceries than the car!
I agree mostly, with two caveats:

"Wash hands" is crossed out if you choose it, "no time for that".

From what I've read, fast surgeries (not slow ones) were positively correlated with patient recovery. Wikipedia's page on Robert Liston (mentioned in another comment above) and Florence Nightingale both mention this.
It can invalidate a patent if an inventor is missing or one is named that did not actually contribute to the invention.

https://ipwatchdog.com/2020/10/21/getting-patent-devastating...

This is different from scientific papers, where it is poor taste to add people that did not actually contribute anything, but has no legal implications.
Will we be searching the internet for content that an AI can write?

For example: If I can ask an AI to make me a cake recipe, find an error in my code or tell me about the Hindenburg disaster, and the response is faster, more accurate and easier to read than what I’d typically find on Google, then maybe I simply won’t use Google for that anymore (especially since with the AI, I can ask follow-up questions...)

So maybe bad actors using AI to generate their content will just be yelling into the void. (Until their content gets picked up and incorporated by my AI in its next training session.)
Preparing to unpack .../7-nvidia-kernel-common-450_450.66.08-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nvidia-kernel-common-450:amd64 (450.66.08-0ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-utils-450:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../8-nvidia-utils-450_450.66.08-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nvidia-utils-450:amd

Got an error from chatgpt when continuing to sudo apt install nvidia-smi
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The IT department does not make purchases such as Concur as it is way out of their core competency.

It is the finance department under the auspices of the CFO / the managing director that do. Those people are non-technical and don't understand the technology. Therefore, anything that is more modern than an abacus is pitched (and ususally later sold as well) to them as the best thing they will have ever seen.
My source is that I worked at Netflix in the early days, it was always part of the strategy. We were discussing streaming internally almost a decade before they actually delivered it.

While streaming technology was early and teetering on the edge of viability, the real challenge was maneuvering the studios to license content that they didn't want to license because they wanted to retain absolute control. They were very averse to streaming for multiple reasons. The gambit of using DVDs in a series of Hobson's choices for the studios almost worked but ultimately failed at the late stages for an important reason that was difficult to bridge.
This is pretty cool. I wonder what other things we could apply a similar technique to? Leave the original untouched while helping people to visualize what it once looked like.
Ya, I imagine they did some level of scrubbing regarding rel=“ugc” content, so it probably knows the style of <HN in general> more than any specific user.
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If they were intended for storing grain they did a pretty bad job making space for it...
He DID go swimming around the ocean depths, as best a middle class, middle aged writer could.

Look up his book Underworld
> What do you think cognition is, if not a coherent flow of ideas?

With ChatGPT, the flow of ideas is coherent to the reader of them (the user typing into the system). The "AI" itself has no understanding of the ideas, and does not "know" if they are coherent or not. That is why it is far from AGI. It is not a general intelligence, it is a general pattern matcher.
> no visible moving parts
The problem is the part that I denoted as "hand waving". If you are asking it things about coding or other details it seems pretty good at, it can get pretty deep into it and thus that 'hand waving' can be resolved.

If you are asking about aerospace engineering concepts at the level of a PhD thesis... it just hand-waves away problems in ways that, when pressed, it cannot give detail on.

So, as far an a algorithm goes, the problem becomes determining the computational complexity of the 'hand waving' part. For writing reactJS frontend APIs it seems like it's pretty damn low and thus the AI can spit out code and even fix bugs for you. For developing something that actually took a human 7+ years of undergrad, graduate, and PhD work to ascertain and work out.... no chance.

But yes that general algorithm works for all walks of life essentially and I keep getting a format like that for everything setup I ask about, as if it was trained on 'How to answer a hard technical question in these easy steps...' and it is sticking to that.
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Sears had pretty much the 1st crack at creating an "Amazon" and blew it. I mean, it's fair to say the "Sears Catalog" was the blueprint for that.
This is funny and I take it as evidence that all AI output is grifting.
> How was that in the style of Hacker News user loxias?

> As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have access to information about specific individuals or their posting habits on specific online forums. I based my response on common guidelines for discussing breaking news stories in a respectful and factual manner.

Aw....
Yes, and it was denied, with no explanation, no ability to defend against claims, etc. If there is monetary loss, then a proper appeals process should be put in place. If they refunded the money, then that’s one thing, but they kept the money, and so this is theft.
My mental model of how ChatGPT might superficially "understand" its own limitations would be because, for example, it might have been specifically trained by people who do understand the limitations of the system.
An algorithm to determine whether AI can kill
Motorcycles are indeed super fun. Interesting to see the uptake in motorcycling from the low end of the power spectrum, vs the bikes that often have similar power outputs to an economy car.
You know what would be cool? If this stuff transpiled C code to rust or golang flawlessly! Sudennly my job security is not so strong lol (infosec).
USA invades Spain ? O_o

Isn't it a little exaggerated ?
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On this particular topic, I don't think it really matters who the source is, especially since the problems brought up in the article are generally accepted to be true at least from the comments I have read. Even a broken clock is right twice a day as the saying goes.
It doesn't seem to matter here in Victoria, Canada. Morning walks are a thing I adopted in the last year and it has been transformative for my general mood and energy.

I walk before dawn quite often, and while I don't get a lot of light (especially on those days with low, thick, dark clouds), the simple act of moving, breathing fresh air, having routine, etc... It seems to make a tremendous difference.

Some sources claim the lack of light isn't too problematic, but that aiming to get 15m or so (even if it's very overcast) around 7:30am in mid-winter could be totally sufficient to stabilize your circadian rhythm and help mitigate SAD.

This has been my experience so far this winter, but I'm only one person, I've completely changed my diet, I'm exercising more, etc. I can't narrow down exactly what helped. I can say that when I didn't change the other variables, morning walks were making a significant difference.

I'll also admit that the option to do this is a luxury in a sense. A couple years ago my youngest would have been waking too early for this to be possible, and before that for a long time his brothers were much the same. Parents of young ones will often struggle to maintain this kind of rhythm. It's worth aspiring to though, though. When mine get up early I just bring them with me, but they're old enough to walk and all of that at this point.
I heard this before, with another name... around the 00s so "back in the day" some 20 years ago

I think that ended up as some sort of trusted computing project; we were worried back then that linux was gonna be impossible to run in our PCs... well then PCs turned into smart-phones and even though they run linux (or iOS), we ain't choosing what they run

the name was something with a P? like palladium or something that has no P but sounds somewhat like that?... I'm saying I don't remember.
Serious question: how are we going to know if we're talking to people on forums like these in a year or two and not some AI model piped in via a script or web service? And what is that going to mean for online discourse moving forward? I feel like the era of knowing that you're talking to an actual human on the internet is rapidly ending.

I've toyed around with the idea of creating a service that logs into HN and replies to posts just to see how easy it would be to get people to respond and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought about doing that.