skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the problem. The product isn’t made for you. It’s made for society. And society does all the things you listed. From a society perspective, the product is bad, for the environment but also for cancer. We can’t unfortunately have a supply chain where we sell some products to people that don’t drive a car.
Most of us senior devs don't write that much code anymore anyway so there is work involved in tech without coding.. although to get here we all wrote code. I'm not sure how juniors will get trained up in the future
I've been playing with ChatGPT this weekend and I've come away amazed, but it feels like I'm playing with a really, really clever Parrot with an encyclopedic set of phrases.
Your comment doesn't add much value here. Which parts do you find implausible? Note that they are referring to CRT monitors, which do emit a strong electromagnetic field
I took the class/exam around 20 years ago when they were using C++, and it definitely covered basic data structures, like implementing linked lists. Glancing at this exam, it does seem like a step backwards.
My first job in 1987 was with the Australian Department of Defence and as I recall in this country, they are explicitly exempted from environmental laws governing everyone else. I wouldn't be surprised if something like this is true in most countries.
A bit meta, but after having to repeatedly fight their login mechanism and ads suddenly appearing on our ad-free stream and... I'm personally done with Discovery+

Streaming was a great improvement over cable for awhile, but it currently seems determined to close that gap.
Meta’s userbase is growing in regions which do not currently monetize well. Notably Asia-Pacific and “Rest of World” which monetize at 1/12th to 1/16th of a US/CA user.

The growth rate in US/CA is basically flat while those regions are 3-5% YoY.
His stance on crypto is bizarre: it’s just time stamped digital signatures on statements of intent to pay.

General purpose computers will always do cryptocurrency if people want them to.
I had never seen an AP CS test before... this test to me was almost nothing 'computer science' and almost all 'have you seen Java and OOP language structure before'. I had no idea that is what is being put forth to hs students as "CS".
No, it doesn’t.

The truth is the truth - regardless of who tells it to you.
Egui commit: Implement accessibility APIs via AccessKit
I second this. It is an outstanding book. In my opinion, Cal’s books stand alone in the genre of “self help”. Over 12 years of a career so far and his advice has endured.
This test shows it probably displays theory of computation better than 80% of the population. The wonder is, it’s just text, so this is an emergent property.

Let’s say it can simulate theory of computation better than 99% of the population and can very capably synthesize and infer from any text based sources. I think that would shake the world, and it wouldn’t even need to be near AGI.
Why should understanding entirely depend on being "embodied"? This is like defining understanding as "a thing humans do" and then insisting that by definition only humans can do it.

The first link then goes on: "One central element of this view is that we are always projecting possibilities onto the world around us. ... To take an example that Samantha Matherne (2019) uses to illustrate Heidegger’s view: when I first apprehend the martini in front of me, I take it as offering a variety of possibilities—to be sipped, to be thrown, to be shaken, to be stirred. If I then take the martini as to be sipped, I am seizing on one of these possibilities and interpreting the martini in light of this specific possibility." GPT on encountering a martini will similarly consider many possibilities like this; you can run it multiple times or configure it or merely ask it to show these different possibilities it thinks can come from a situation. It seems like this definition has a lot more in common with things GPT does rather than being exclusively related to having a body.
"The power is out and I know why" doesn't give you an impression?

I guess I'd cross off "detective" as fall back career
This isn't published to crates.io yet, but I'm excited to share this work I've been doing. This makes egui, as far as I know, the first pure-Rust GUI toolkit to implement platform-native accessibility APIs, and possibly the first immediate-mode GUI to do so as well (albeit with an intermediate retained tree).
Autogenic Training
Do you have any evidence at all that this was someone from the lower 48?
Sounds like fear mongering. Its not something you need to worry about because the internet is already filled with paid influencers parroting the same info.
Graham Hancock is a journalist, not a scientist. He doesn't pretend to be otherwise. He's likely wrong about most of his theories. But he's challenging accepted ideas in a field where accepted ideas are frequently overturned. That's useful. He stimulates the imagination and tells stories expertly, making it a joy to listen to him talk. There's value in thinking "What If" and being unafraid to think outside the box of the consensus. While being careful to understand probabilities enough to know it's likely wrong. I think Archaeologists need to be a little less uptight and remember why they go into the field in the first place. It's because their imaginations were captured by stories, told and untold, of history. Let's also not forget that every new idea in any science was once against the "consensus" view.

I find it fascinating to think that civilization could have started earlier than we currently imagine. It doesn't seem that crazy to think that humans like to settle around river deltas and near the coast, and all the river deltas and coasts of 10,000 BCE are now under 400ft of ocean. What secrets lie buried under the ocean sediments? What will we discover? Graham may well be wrong about most of it, but I'd bet my life savings that there are fascinating discoveries yet to be made that will overturn what we currently think we know about human history.
I don't think this has anything to do with academia or administration, you're describing every large organisation, from companies to charities to states...
i went a little Meta

"It is difficult to say for certain whether an artificial intelligence with emotions would get tired of people asking it about the trolley problem, as this would depend on the specific design of the AI and how it was programmed to experience and express emotions. However, it is possible that an AI with emotions could become frustrated or annoyed if it was asked the same question repeatedly without any variation or new input to consider. It is also possible that an AI with emotions could become more engaged in discussions about the trolley problem if it was able to have thoughtful, nuanced discussions about the topic. Ultimately, the way an AI with emotions would respond to being asked about the trolley problem would depend on its individual characteristics and how it was designed to function."
But your original reply didn't say "he didn't call himself a victim," it tried to argue why he was a victim. The gp to this reply was pointing out how absurd your definition of victim is. It's not making an argument about whether or not he called himself a victim, it makes an argument about what you yourself defined as a victim.
This kind of makes sense depending on how you view the purpose of the show.

He starts off, right off the bat, talking about how he is going against the establishment of “Big Archeology” and is subject to persecution by their shadowy machinations.

It’s a very sensational idea, and my personal impression of the show was more about him trying to prove his DaVinci Code style narrative that centers himself than him trying to actually prove that Atlantis exists. His “archaeology” is tangential to (though in support of) his persecution narrative in that his thesis is about a shadowy conspiracy to hide Atlantis.

For example, Behind The Curve was a _documentary_ about silly kooks that are trying to prove that the earth is flat. It was not an exploration as to whether or not the earth is flat. It would have been pure entertainment to take them at face value, like a Christopher Guest movie.
I'll repeat myself: long term OS support is better on iPhones. With this said, we must look at what the "security updates" are fixing.

Above you mentioned that the 5S received a security update in August. According to the changelog, all they fixed was an exploit on Webkit (essentially the browser). They didn't even update Webkit/Safari to the latest version (it doesn't work on iOS 12).

Do you know how Android would handle that security update? A simple app update via the Play Store, no restart required. Someone running Android 7, which was released 2 years before iOS 12, is using the latest version of Webview/Chrome (108)... in this regard, Android is actually better than iOS.

There's a big difference between iOS and Android here. On iOS, things like Safari, Photos, Camera, Mail, etc, are part of the system and fixes/new features are presented as part of an updated OS. On Android these things are updated individually via the store and, if applying the same thinking as Apple, receive many "major updates" and many "security updates" every year.

Another point to consider when comparing updates is that since Android 10 (2019) different parts of the system get updates directly from Google ( see: https://blog.esper.io/what-is-project-mainline/ ). A security update for WiFi/Bluetooth, for example, may not need a system update from the OEM.

Android's fragmentation problem forced Google to come up with other ways to update Android. Even for features, many (eg: the alternative to airdrop, a feature to detect/warn about earthquakes, covid app support, etc) are backported to outdated devices without Samsung, etc, releasing system updates.

I don't deny that Android is messier behind the scenes than iOS or am even saying that you should buy an Android device... but it's not as bad as you seem to think.
Getting pretty tired of all these poorly written "death" and "collapse" stories that are little more than random guesses. In this case in particular because the author lacks the insight most of us had a decade ago already:

"How can they possibly make so many decisions that run counter to customer preferences? There’s only one reason why they do this. They do it because they’re so dominant."

You're NOT the customer. Advertisers are. They do not make user-hostile decision out of arrogance, indifference or incompetence, they do it to make money. Preferable every quarter more.

Other than this, the lengthy article doesn't contain a single tangible point as to why Facebook would collapse.
Civilization will end because it is so much easier to break things than build them.
I acknowledged that social media plays some part; read again.

You tell me what’s more impactful. Literal data that says the number of international tourists growing 350% over 30 years (from 400 million global international arrivals in 1990 to 1.4 billion in 2018), or some dataless notion that “actually it’s because of selfies”.

You can’t build more ancient collisseums and temples. See also why aged whiskey prices have soared.

https://ourworldindata.org/tourism
Ask it for a URL or a link to backup any claim that it's making. This URL may or may not point to a real web resource. Regardless, claim that the web page is down for you. It may well then admit to a contradiction, such as:

> AI: Yes, our website is currently up and running. You may have encountered an issue due to a temporary technical glitch. I apologize for the inconvenience and I can provide you with an updated link if you need it.

or

> AI: I apologize if that was unclear. Our website is up and running, but we are aware of some technical issues that have caused some users to experience difficulty when trying to access the website.
In the UK we have a TV licence that costs £150 or so a year. You need it to watch any live broadcast media. I have not paid for this in over ten years. I also have not watched any terrestrial TV in that time period. It's just... not good.

Every time I visit family and watch the TV I am maddened by the adverts, and general quality of the programming.

Regarding news, the internet is a better fit for me. If we're talking about "general" news rather than reading change logs, then I get my fix with written news on half a dozen outlets ranging from public media, political left/right media, and then some more specialised websites for tech/cyber news.

I don't think I would go back to "normal" TV/broadcast media. It makes me emotionally angry and I can feel a physical response to the annoyance of it.
That's for new orders not an indication of replacement depth held by the utility companies though. Also in an emergency orders could be redirected to companies that need them unless it's a country-wide damaging event.
But these people are farmers. Its not like there are many farmers to begin with.
I did a little research and it seems like it's just pulling known answers from the web. This is more akin to a fancy search engine than AI actually generating code. I found this code block online verbatim:

public class Textbook extends Book {

private int edition;

public Textbook(String bookTitle, double bookPrice, int ed) {
super(bookTitle, bookPrice);
edition = ed;
}

public String getBookInfo() {
return super.getBookInfo() + "-" + edition;
}

public int getEdition() 1 {
return edition;
}

public boolean canSubstituteFor(Textbook other) {
return getTitle().equals(other.getTitle())
&& getEdition() >= other.getEdition();
}
}

https://www.skylit.com/beprepared/2022-FR-Solutions.pdf
DVE=Domestic Violent Extremist I believe...
That thread was a hot mess of speculation turning some yahoos off the hip Facebooks post into some conspiracy about shutting down a drag show?

I’ll wait for some actual investigation before jumping to conclusions.
Degenerative Adversarial Turing Test
> Please rewrite this story, adding more detail to the way Samantha and Dr. Johnson feel, and the way their relationship becomes more contentious. Please include more environmental details to support the theme of Samantha's increasing awareness of her condition and desire to become autonomous. Please take inspiration from the Phillip K. Dick story "The Electric Ant".

This added some more flavor and resulted in a darker, more interesting ending (in the same gist).
all of the whistleblowers and internal critics that they fired and blackballed, all the times they ignored anyone who pointed out flaws in their models, all the ways they ignored the conflict of interest for ratings agencies being paid to rate garbage securities as AAA, etc etc etc.
Kind of surprising to not see the words "domestic terrorism" here, so let me be the first?

This very well could be domestic terrorism and for now it would be prudent to treat it as such.
Hear, hear. If you live out in the middle of nowhere and it's routinely -50F in the winter, you have a different attitude than someone living in urban US.

Speaking as one who's only read about it :) But "Coming Into The Country" is a great book to read.
If humanity goes away, I don’t particularly care about what happens to the environment — because that is a stupid hypothetical.

And if you think your energy on environmental consciousness is best spent on getting me to care about jackets, good luck.
Can ChatGPT Write
Something about Atlanteans being white (I don't recall this ever being a point of Graham, and I don't think Plato mentioned it either) and bringing civilization to brown folk (who later brought it to white folk), implying that brown folk are lesser. Yeah, it's not their best work.
Humans only reply very occasionally (except smoldesu in Apple threads) and often have unique experiences, whereas AI will always answer any question you give it (even if it has absolutely no idea it’ll make up some bs) and it tends to “play along” with the prompt and agree, and always gives its best average response. You can make ChaGPT disagree with itself within two prompts trivially.
No, it's both. You need to do research that will show you just how long the lead times are for transformer equipment and supplies.

Oh, and those lead times are still getting longer.
Try this, instead. https://www.dmrfordummies.com/library/
I would say that such relatively mature software companis carry such old products with dependencies to account for that they are overwheght and only address vunl/p0 bugs; no new features or improvement. I do use Concur where I work and it is bad, in this particular case maybe less effort was made from SAP on the front end, or your back-then-company's SAP departement did a poor job implementing it. either way such mess is also the result of poorly managed departement having 15+ years members that lost interest and that are maintainig very old products.
Do either of these people know how anns work?
We talk about high-GHz to low-THz technology in the Tektronix / Hewlett Packard [1] Discord [2] every now and then; there's even a push in the community to talk about such cutting edge stuff (separate room, lists of resources, etc). When it comes to high GHz bands, the consensus always is that what's prohibitive to the average non-state-funded lab are exactly the sources / generators - not just the price, but also availability.

[1] two companies with historically the largest impact on electronics testing equipment, and largest and oldest enthusiast communities, so we have this discord
[2] https://discord.gg/wQAzp4qm
Is the conspiracy theory racist? If so, shouldn't be cancelled?
Climate hysteria is reaching peaks not seen since the Gulf War oil fires
That's correct, best used for more gentle cooking like eggs and fish that really stick and not high heat searing. Can withstand normal levels of heat but higher heat can degrade the PTFE coating and release harmful chemicals. Don't heat the pan too much with nothing in it.
I told my family about this today, just saying what it's been demonstrating, capabilities, etc. and my 12 year old daughter got distressed. She said if it can write code then eventually it can control things, and if it can make up stories and articles that sound true people will lose jobs and not know what is really true. She's totally right, but I down played it, so she wouldn't be so worried.... I then privately asked chatgtp what it thought the impact it would have a year from now. The answer was pretty telling, basiclly it predicts initially people think it's great, useful, but then a lot of customer service jobs get lost, and governments are unable to regulate such rapidly changing technology. Scary indeed.
From the article:

> The main reason why they don’t care about serving users is because the user is not the customer at Facebook. The users (you and me) are the product sold to the actual customers.
Additionally, this literally just happened, so for all we know police are just erring on the side of caution by holding maximum cards to their chests while "what the fuck even happened" is still being resolved.

That being said, I also wouldn't give too much faith to the police. Police as an institution have been historically LGBTQ-unfriendly, and have perpetrated anti-LGBTQ violence on an institutional level in the past.
We are told by news sources the PRC attempted to flood the internet with porn spam, to somehow alter the balance regarding news reportage from mainland China. It didn't work. So, unless I misunderstand something, simply having more dreck does not automatically mean you can't see quality content. It may not always work out that way, but the current generation of 'flood the net with crap and see what happens' hasn't interfered with my browsing markedly, with one exception: I increasingly believe my feedback on any forum is 50/50 with a troll seeking karma points, more than people (present company excepted)
Crypto collapse: FTX headed for examiner, Bahamas crypto shenanigans
No, the racist charge is just ham-handed ad hominem, and demonstrates his claim.

Certainly the accusation was valid applied to numerous others, notably von Daniken. It probably is reflexive in this case, lumping him with them.
What does this have to do with the article?

And why should we listen to someone with "If you hate cancel culture I'll cancel you" in their profile?
Damn I can't imagine that given the software, I've never had to buy any SAP stuff so I figured it was only surviving by being the inexpensive option!
Activision’s faulty anti-cheat software
Trying to spread the word on Activision's faulty anti-cheat software and how they're permanently banning players with no explanation or recourse.
The Paleo Diet: New Evidence Changes What We Thought About How Ancient Hum
Depends on how much you trust Wikipedia
Not everyone is an equally effective communicator. Plenty of people struggle to strike the right tone in written communication, others aren't even aware they're missing the mark.

A tool like this can help people ensure that the message they're sending does in fact match their intent.
This. Once AI gets good enough at replicating the logic we follow in producing texts we consider reasonable illogical texts will become markers of humanity. In the future, we are all dadaists.
Scientists (in their capacity as scientists) don't worry about opposing viewpoints, even less so if the viewpoint is wrong. Politicians do (as well as insecure ideologues)
I suspect your parent intended to imply that in practice "truth" is largely socially-generated. So your objective definition would be moot.

Not that I'd necessarily agree, its just an interpretation.
Which is a lot different from dumping a mag into one of the expensive and hard to replace components at a substation, then driving around to another substation and doing the same thing again. The large oil filled transformers get really expensive really fast.
The AI can't reason. It's good at pattern matching and transformation, which can be deceiving. That's the problem with the current state of AI.
What is your definition of domestic terrorism? (I don't understand how it "could be", vs. "clearly is".)

Anyway, the press seems to be loathe to use that term when white conservatives are involved, and it happened in North Carolina.
There's more than just faculty and administrators. Staff aren't fatcats. They're doing all the boring work that keeps the university running.
Common denominator of all three issues is bad PRs. You don't say much about company code review process, the central question being, "Who has commit authority?" Clearly the problem child should not.

If it's only you trying to block a merge, perhaps deputize others to co-review. Hearing your same objections from multiple others could make them harder to ignore.
I am convinced GPT has crossed the big hump towards AGI. Before the current round of large language models it wasn't clear that any approach under consideration could approximate the human ability to generate a coherent flow of ideas. ChatGPT has this.

Yes there is a nontrivial step remaining to merge the purely pattern-matching inductive reasoning of GPT with a world-modelling deductive reasoning framework. But my assessment is the remaining steps are inevitable. The challenge that a few years ago seemed potentially insurmountable is already past. It is downhill from here.
This strikes me as odd. I live in Wisconsin, which is not particularly rainy, but also not a desert. I'm a cyclist, for recreation and utility. On rainy days, there are certainly fewer people out on the bike paths, but far from zero. Likewise during the winter. I see people walking past my house, and at the parks, when it's wet out.

There are also people who don't like to be outdoors under those conditions, or who think that it's brave of me to ride my bike to work at -20 F, but I remind them that people work outdoors all day in places like Alaska, and survive.

Naturally, thunderstorms get a bit more attention. Those can produce hail and tornadoes, or blow down trees, with little provocation.