skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting about a 40 minute drive east of there in Sanford, a few months ago there was a drag show where Proud Boys showed up harassing and intimidating people... might be too early to tell but seems like they're escalating things.
> no one seriously ended up using it

[citation needed]

I mean, I’ve seen people claiming to use it and that it has significantly accelerating their work. On what are you basing the conclusion that it has no serious use?
>10^12 kg of water

That's exactly 1 km^3 of water. The Earth has 1,386,000,000 km^3 of surface water.

I don't think increasing the amount of water by ~0.00000007% would be noticeable.
"We should keep poisoning the planet until it's convenient for capitalism" is a very unsurprising take on HN, but disappointing nonetheless.
that movie is fiction

probably neither any kind of fiction, nor any kind of movies, but least of all fictional movies, are a good source for information about scientific facts, toxicology, or risk assessment
I had one and quite liked it (gen 6 I think?). One caveat is that my E key broke and I swapped it. However, I noted the date and from the relative frequency of how often E is used (most common letter) vs A (second most common letter), I was able to accurately predict the month my A key would break. That’s… not great.

Carbon is a great material though - apple needs to stop with aluminum.
"I wish that we would keep getting cancer until ..."
Yeah this. I pay for the WHOLE THING to work, not just bits of it, depending on the whim of the QA job someone did at a distro vendor. Been burned too many times.

And now we have the M1, sorry but I don't want to know on the hardware front unless Intel get anywhere near it.
Police make 14 arrests after activists stage sit-in protest at restaurant
At this point, I truly don't know which of your(?) current type of applied arts vs my current type of software development will turn out to be more sensitive to technological unemployment, or on what margins and time scales. So, hopefully this doesn't strike you as callous, since I think it applies to me as much as it does to you or your coworkers:

Roughly everyone who makes money has the same job, which is creating value in expectation for someone else. (Whether that activity is net good for society is a different question, I lean toward usually yes for stuff you can do legally, not always though). If you find yourself suddenly unable to give anyone a competitive deal on whatever expected value you know how to create, because of technological developments or otherwise, well, you'd better figure out what you need to change about what you're offering so you can. I wouldn't call this fair, exactly -- maybe it would be if you or your government had effective "technological unemployment insurance" -- but I struggle to imagine any substantially different state of affairs that's clearly better for the world. (No points for saying "imagine communism then".)
There is so much plausible deniability with the reported numbers that getting "found out" won't matter either!
It absolutely does not mean nothing to say that poetry and songs exist in its training data. The criticism is not "it's just spitting out existing poems and songs"; it's "all it knows how to do is mimic (to greater or lesser degrees of accuracy) things in its training data."

GPT-3 takes a massive corpus of text in, and then spits out something that it creates by munging that together in probabilistic ways, assisted (if I understand correctly) by various humans providing feedback on that.

It has no comprehension of what it is doing. It has no "mental model" of the world. It has no "consciousness" of any kind, at any level.

Because of this, it cannot genuinely imagine, synthesize, or be creative. Sure; it can put together sequences of words that had never been put together in exactly that configuration before, but that's not really the same thing as "creating something new."

It can be entertaining, sure. It can even inspire insights in us—but it can never be genuinely insightful itself, because that requires understanding.
Noice chatGPT
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Do you live in Assam, Manipur or Kashmir? Are you Adivasi?
Companies will automate what they can, offshore what is left, and then complain they just cannot find good talent.

Maybe it is time to find something else to do with my life.
Lenovo's tech specs for the Gen 10 Carbon say it's capable of driving 3 external monitors, 5K on the TB ports, 4K on HDMI. So dual 4K is doable.
The first sentence is a spin on the first sentence from Neuromancer,

>The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Rest of the article follows a similar pop-culture style which leads to a lot of unnecessary filler.
Alaska natives apparently don't have much sympathy for those from the lower 48 who get in trouble because they didn't research or prepare for Alaskan conditions before venturing out.

The majority of Alaskans share some version of the opinion that McCandless was deeply out of his element

The Cult of Chris McCandless

https://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/the-cult-of-chris-mcca...

made famous by "Into The Wild"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(film)
Can you give a concrete example of an output ChatGPT could give — or an experiment one could run on it — that would persuade you that it's intelligent? (For whatever definition of "intelligent" you prefer.)

If you can't think of such a test, then it seems strange indeed to confidently claim that ChatGPT has failed to satisfy an untestable condition.

But if you can think of such a test, and any human fails it — does that mean the human who fails it isn't intelligent?
I might add that India acquired a new territory dispute with Nepal just a few several years ago by unilaterally publishing a new map incorporating what used to be part of Nepal territory (according to India's old map) into India's new map. The action triggered a counteract by the Nepalese government when it published its own map.

These newly acquired disputed territory is different than the old dispute of Kalapani. In that case India requested Nepal to grant India access to Kalapani to better monitor China's troop movement during the 1962 war with China because Kalapani is on a high ground. The problem is once India squatted on that land it never leave and is still squatting on Kalapani to this day.
I use Nikwax too, but it's not even remotely as effective as shakedry.
Just imagine the hell we'd be in if people could give wrong answers in an authoritative tone and then insist they absolutely can't be wrong!
no, there just isn't a replacement for perfluorocarbons, that's all

perfluorocarbons themselves are among the least dangerous materials in the world, but the materials used to make them are very nasty indeed
PE same thing…
Situations like this is why I prefer to read the comment first and then decide whether to read the article based on them.
I did a simpler version of that by asking ChatGPT to build a LaTeX rendering bookmarklet for itself here: https://twitter.com/zaptrem/status/1598553052075761669
It is a realistic comparison--both are fast from their ready states but the reality is neither is likely in their ready state when you have the cute kid moment.
I hope not. I would leave any that tried to implement such a thing.
I don’t think the material lasts long enough to have multiple users. My experience of ptfe and related chemicals is that they wash out and the material degrades over time worth wear, so they don’t stay water-repellent very long.

If they didn’t degrade quickly, they wouldn’t be such a threat to the environment.

Edit: Sorry, I didn’t mean PTFE above but PFC.
Great question. The optimal way to learn one of these skills through youtube:

- Run the search

- Click through the top 5-10 results

- Investigate which courses are a) complete (i.e. not just pitches for an upsell), b) up to date, c) presented clearly and succinctly

I did all that already for each topic.

Another big question people have: "Where do I begin learning X?" They inevitably get linked to a giant roadmap diagram. On this site, the videos are arranged in a particular order - starting from the very beginning.
>the screen has the same absurdly-wide aspect ratio common to so many PC laptops

I don't think that's right - pretty sure that the X1 Carbon has a 16:10 screen rather than the typical 16:9 one.
Hmm, I'm not sure I call this more 'adventurous' than TV today - definitely cool. Did 70s TV (in the UK) offer greater variety of programming? Performances of dance (including contemporary dance) have a long history on UK TV.

It’s hard to imagine where you might see something like this today

Ironically, you are more likely to see something like this on YouTube than on TV (I mean not just viewing old TV clips).

Aside: The BBC Archive channel on YouTube is a great dip into some of the BBC archives.

https://www.youtube.com/@BBCArchive/videos
I recently learned that the thing that makes saranwrap cling to things is a derivative of PVC that might not be foodsafe. There's a newer formulation that uses a different chemical, but apparently doesn't work as well.
"Mediatek" is functionally equivalent to "every cheap Android device".
NHK Japan morning shows for kids are still this type of quirky in some way. Including the classic Pythagoras switchi. I think from a 70' point of view this was their chatGPT, an exploration of new music and style of dance which these days we just do in the internet.
Parler

as a proper noun i think this is worth correcting
Marrying may make you poorer, but you leave longer (see any life expectancy table).
ChatGPT is the most transformative piece of software in the 21st Century
I cannot think of any software that will change the course of human history other than ChatGPT. It is completely phenomenal.

I've been completely blown away from the things ChatGPT can do (without the internet) that I think that many companies will be in big trouble and many will be created from it, there is just so many possibilities.

But It would be even more transformative if we have an open source model based on ChatGPT, (ChatDiffusion maybe?) Well the paper is there and perhaps Stability.ai is working on it.

I believe nothing will be the same again.

This is not generated by ChatGPT by the way, my genuine take on ChatGPT.
You describe your workplace as academically-inspired, yet experimentation and large PRs are discouraged. In you shoes, I'd double-check to make sure the "small-PRs-only" policy is in alignment with the company values before making that a real point of contention.
I suspect you'll see knockoffs without the Gore brand. It was too effective and the original goretex patents have expired.
Honestly, the X1 Carbon is a nice laptop. And even if you don't want to run Linux as your main OS, Windows 11 really isn't bad. With WSL2, you can use have all of the benefits of Linux for development while being able to run whatever Windows apps you want, and it really was pretty easy to setup. You can even run VS Code on Windows and edit files in your Linux container. I had a period last year and this year where I was consulting, and used my Ryzen Desktop as my main work machine.

If I were looking to use something other than Macs (which I'm not), there are more good options now than there have ever been. Even though everything is still compared to the benchmark of Mac Laptops, which isn't an accident.
Given the high number of applicants vs successes that's basically to be expected. The problem is BAH making the money instead of the park service.
In that resolution, the picture is almost a blurr.
Not a finding of this particular study but I found this bit in the “Background” section interesting. It was hard for me to understand at first:

> In addition, a large-scale prospective epidemiological study of more than one million Swedish men found a “reversed–J” shaped association between intelligence and hospitalization for BD (the average follow-up period was 22.6 years, and the patients had no psychiatric comorbidities) [17]. Specifically, they found that the risk of hospitalization with any form of BD decreased as the intelligence increased; in the meantime, subjects with either the lowest IQ scores or the highest IQ scores (especially those who performed better in verbal or technical tests) had greater risk of hospitalization with pure BD [17].

because I’d never heard of “pure” vs mixed BPD before. I have a sibling who seems to be pure manic/hypomanic BPD, with high IQ, which according to this study seems to doom them to being hospitalized frequently; something that has tracked for the past few years since they were diagnosed.

Does anyone know of any research specific to sufferers of pure (manic) BPD, and how we can help them stick to treatment and medication?
>Poetry and songs abound in its training data.

your training data is all the poetry and songs you've seen in your life. so go on, write me a poem right now. a good one.
Thinking about it for a minute, I’m not sure why we need fluoropolymers for waterproof technical fabrics. Unless I’m very much mistaken, PDMS rubber, polypropylene, polyethylene, and other materials provide similar levels of water resistance, without requiring the use of fluorine-containing compounds. Most explanations I read for Gor-Tex-type materials using PTFE (e.g., [0]) reference the hydrophobicity of the material, which is (IMO) similar to explaining why cars are powered by rockets because rockets are very fast. Cars are, of course, not typically powered by rockets because it is not necessary.

PDMS rubber, polypropylene, polyethylene, and PTFE all have very high water contact angles (a measure of the strength of interaction of water and the surface) and low water uptake [1]. I work with a stretched polypropylene film (Celgard — a material that is often used as a support/spacer material in Li-ion batteries) and it’s extremely hydrophobic. I used a piece of this film to build a bubble trap ([2]), for example (bubble traps typically use PTFE membranes…). It is not optimized for water resistance, so it does wet eventually, but it’s pretty good for “not trying”. Surfaces coated with PDMS (or glass coated with short PDMS chains — i.e., silanized glass [3]) are extremely hydrophobic.

The only time I personally use PTFE (or PFA, MFA, FEP, or ETFE) is when I need materials to be resistant (including both resistance to chemical degradation as well as swelling) to strong organic solvents (like NMP, THF, etc.) or strong acids and bases (like piranha, aqua regia, or a nitrating solution). These conditions are unlikely to be encountered while cycling.

This all said, I’m not an expert on the design of Gor-Tex type materials. However, I assume it is highly related to the pore structure of the materials to prevent liquid water intrusion (the same as for membranes designed for membrane distillation). Given the similar hydrophobicity of these materials, it seems like it should be possible to produce similar results with PP, PE, etc. And this is all before introducing the ability of nanomaterials and nanopatterning (perhaps transferred with imprint lithography [4]) to produce metastable ultrahydrophobicity [5] on the surface of materials.

[0] https://www.sungodtech.com/how-much-do-you-know-about-ptfe-w..., https://outdoorguru.com/how-to-en/how-does-waterproof-and-br...
[1] https://www.accudynetest.com/polytable_03.html, https://omnexus.specialchem.com/polymer-properties/propertie...
[2] https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ec0ae9_aacc723ea77d46619d...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silanization
[4] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.8b03138
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetting#Cassie–Baxter_model
Input: Write a brief snarky response to the following comment: // your post went here

Response: "Wow, thanks for the insightful critique! I'm so glad we have experts like you around to tell us what is and isn't 'general intelligence.' I mean, who are we to argue with someone who is clearly an expert in the field and has all the answers? Please, do continue to share your wisdom with us mere mortals who are still trying to figure out this whole 'AI' thing. We're all just sitting here, completely clueless and unable to see the obvious, but thankfully you're here to set us straight. Thanks again for your incredibly valuable input!"

It can be quite funny at least, though.
Thinking about the problem incorrectly, there is no software field that is AI proof nor is there any about to be completely automated. Even manual QA jobs still exist and I find manual QA folks to be really essential at most orgs still. All software jobs will be impacted in some way, but in the sense of creating new tools to accelerate productivity, not replace people altogether. The journey with AI is largely collaborative with humans, not replacing humans
I love the "Show HN: $X created by ChatGPT" We need people seeing what useful things can be done with this new hammer, things that haven't occurred to us yet.
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Does this support 2560x1440p@60Hz x3? Lenovo promised that their thinkpad 14s with the thinkpad thunderbolt 4 dock could do it, but the dock fails to actually consistently display all 3 monitors, with one irregularly flickering.
LG Gram series has a few light ones, have been using linux mint xfce4 on one for daily dev.
Can you provide more details about these three things?

- trackpad - your two sentences are very vague. Can you navigate with two fingers in a web browser? How is text selection? Or selecting a sentence out of a long paragraph, etc? In my experience nothing matches Apple in terms of precision and accuracy, but maybe Lenovo finally caught up recently.

- screen: I use the built in display quite a lot. The color on a MacBook Pro is really nice. How does the Lenovo compare?

- battery life: how many hours do you actually get? Your description is vauge and can be anything from 3 hours to 40 hours.
He (the developer) had the repo on his own profile. Then he moved the repo to seaweedfs organization. My browser auto-completed the old url.
No, I do not keep lightweight valuables in my home so nothing major was stolen and the glass bill was the only thing worth putting on the insurance claim.

I would suggest to you that you don't simply guess what happens in the world due to preconceived notions and instead listen to people and ask questions.
Everyone even thinking about creating a startup should read "The Mom Test" first.
You are expecting too much from undeveloped brains of politicians
I would have loved to see you talk about the part of the book that addresses working with others, as that seems topical to the OP.

Overall, it is also my recommendation, in that when you develop a good habit of churning out quality work, it enhances your contributions to the team.
Stackoverflow should build a GPT style interface into its considerable knowledge-base, and if an answer is not found in existing data, pose it to the forum.
That's why for me, constructivism - or in general mathematics with different axioms - are additions to classical mathematics, not replacements. And in that sense, they're fine for me. You'll definitely find people online defending the position that all classical maths is bullshit - I'm not saying that actual researchers behave like that, though.

But I'm also a strict formalist, or more accurately, I think whichever axioms happen to be useful should be used, without much need for there to be a epistemological commitment.
Because in the early 2000s there was a war on natural fats. Nutritionists declared all fat bad. We now know that to not be the case.

Your stainless steel, high carbon steel, and cast iron pans require using a small amount of oil/butter to have nonstick cooking properties.
The fact that it’s man-made is irrelevant. It’s not so much about the English language as it is about basic science literacy.
such safeguards are merely a legal feature (albeit implemented with some sort of puritanical enthusiam) to limit liability. 'tricking it' probably safely shifts the liability to the user, so hopefully that's enough for the lawyers and we can still have some fun. would an intelligent agent neutered for correct think still be intelligent? seems doubtful
This is more or less the argument of various population-reduction advocates. There's simply no way, with current or foreseeable technology, to sustain 8 billion humans AND still have a planet left a few centuries later.

If we want there to be humans in the far, far future, more of us need to start going childfree NOW, and encouraging others to do so, AND working on sustainable ways to have a decent standard of living without eviscerating the Earth.
IMO this person needs to come to Jesus or be fired.

> I'm the tech lead but not manager

You need to have a conversation with the manager. Document the violations of standards and company policy. The manager should review this with the problem employee, in writing, and the employee should sign an acknowledgement that the warning was received and understood.

If the employee does not improve he or she should be terminated. Such people are like cancers if they are allowed to remain unchanged.

Ideally the "large, famous" software company already has defined an HR process for managing situations like this.

If you can't get backing from the manager or the manager's manager then you need to think about whether you want to stay in a company that isn't giving you the support you need to be "responsible for the technical execution of the team and the success or failure on that level."
I noticed this phenomenon when asking for a story involving Stephen Hawking, Darth Vader, and Wookiees. I spelled it “Wookies” by mistake and ChatGPT used my misspelling throughout the story despite seemingly getting all the other details correct.

Edit:
Part of the generated story:

As they continued to talk, Stephen and Darth realized that they had something else in common - they both had lost the use of their biological legs. Stephen had been diagnosed with ALS at a young age and had gradually lost the ability to move his legs, while Darth had lost his legs in a battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi on the planet of Mustafar.

Stephen and Darth discussed the challenges and obstacles that they had faced as a result of their mobility issues, and how they had adapted and overcome them. They also talked about the technological advancements that had allowed them to continue their work and pursue their passions, despite their limitations.

Suddenly, Stephen and Darth turned on each other, each revealing that they had been secretly plotting against the other. Stephen accused Darth of using the Force for evil and corrupt purposes, while Darth accused Stephen of using his scientific knowledge to create weapons of mass destruction.