skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Charles Searle arguments never held much water. He basically argued that computers could never think because they were computers and not humans. And even if we replicated a human body and gave the computer it experiences and ability to interact with the world and even if it appeared to be conscious in an undistinguished able way from humans it still would not be intelligent like humans. Once you get into it Searle is a dualist who pretends that he isn’t.

I think you need to move beyond Searle because he isn’t right.

I did a cog sci degree and I saw Searle as a troll. They make for great debates because they argue their side passionately and it helps you understand the problem but in the end he is wrong. Move past it and you can engage with the problem again.
I would love to see a return of waxed canvas as an outer shell material.
This (human) ChatGPT detector says this text was written by a human.
I would say that GP comment definitely has a “normal teams are useless until consultants come in” view, which the parent comment also seemed to pick up on. Specifically, this part bugged me:

> They would call us in when their devs couldn’t/wouldn’t do the work. We were pretty expensive by comparison, but at least we got the job done.

This makes it seem like the developers just didn’t want to do the work or it was harder than their skill level, which, realistically, isn’t the case.

FWIW I agree that consultants have their place, especially as a way to work outside of the typical system, but I’m not about to ignore that GP practically made it sound like consultants are better than regular developers.
We actually joke around the area where SAP is located (Walldorf, Germany). In surrounding cities devs joke about the fact that there are literally dozens if not hundreds of web agencies doing nothing more than mobile/tablet ready SAP user interfaces. That's their only business model.

I'm not kidding you, there's an entire ecosystem around the fact that SAP UI5 is so crap that people cannot use it on their smartphones. And concept-wise it's built very similar to the early jquery-ui releases (remember the first iPhone's menus? Yeah, THAT old), but only in undocumented and even crappier.

I don't even know how to rationalize this anymore. At one point I ditched every company that uses SAP, but it's like the plague. You can't avoid it.
Sounds like people being stupid? I mean, he never says that comments are not viable: like you say, they misunderstand the book.
I don’t eat meat, I’ve never driven a car, I don’t fly in airplanes, I don’t have kids, and I live in a tiny apartment. How many of those are true for you?

I’ll allow myself the planet-killing indulgence of the jacket — which pales in comparison to those other steps I’ve taken.

Plus, I have a chronic illness that will already likely significantly shorten my life anyway. I’m not too worried about the health effects of a jacket that I wear 75 days a year.
And here's a Twitter bot powered by ChatGPT: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/chatgpt-twitter-bot
The purpose of these laws is making it impossible to exist as a trans person in public. The playbook is to 1) suggest that wearing gender nonconforming clothing as in drag shows is inherently sexualized (not true) and thus doing so around children is inappropriate and then 2) outlaw "drag shows" around children because many conservatives and cops can't tell the difference between a person in drag and a trans person, so it gives cops plausible deniability to harass trans people (even more than they already do).

In parallel there's a massive ongoing social media campaign equating being publicly LGBT with pedophilia, which is an old trope that I thought had died off in the US but has sadly resurfaced.

This situation is extremely dangerous for trans people and it's going to be dangerous for gays and lesbians too if it succeeds. Major conservative Christian groups have stated publicly that they think gay rights are too entrenched to attack right now, so the plan is to try to divide the "T" from "LGB", go after trans people, and then build up the public appetite to roll back gay rights again.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/23/christian-rig...
And thank fuck for that. DWR is disgusting, horrible stuff.

Stop using DWR. Buy frogtoggs or Columbia outdry and leave this stuff behind.

Outdry is lighter stronger, doesn't wear off after three outings, and the material breathes better than a wetted out goretex jacket ever will.

Unless you're in snow, goretex is next to useless.
Sorted lists require an extra license, I am sure sales will be happy to talk to procurement in getting you one.
Having spent the last fifteen years cycling daily, rain at 1C / 33F is colder than snow or ice at any temperature.

I'd rather be in -20C temps than wet in rain at just-above freezing temps.

Florida rain is not comparable.
You can get TVs that look like paintings. I'm not talking about just having a painting like frame, but I wasn't actually sure if I was looking at a print or a TV. It's mostly to do with the matte screen and low brightness I guess. Supposedly you sacrifice color accuracy for this effect though.
Become a better story teller and persuader, and learn how to make better decisions and manage risk. A few books that helped me in no particular order …

The Science of Storytelling - Will Storr

Influence - Robert Cialdini

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Antifragile - Nassim Taleb

How Innovation Works - Natt Ridley

The One Thing You Need to Know - Marcus Buckingham

Team of Teams - General Stanley McChrystal
I am loving Hasura so far. However, I am getting stuck with how to best write custom logic on top of this. For example: I have a products table, which Hasura will automatically generate schema for. But now I want to do a custom getProducts GraphQL query to do more advanced filtering (search, sort, ranking etc). What I end up doing it to have a remote schema. And now my clients need to understand two different product types (one generated by Hasura, and one generated by my custom remote schema. Do you have any advice on how to best resolve this?

On top of that, do you typically parse these Hasura Apollo into your client models? Or do you use the fragments directly in UI code since it already support types.
I swear by Snoseal. Beewax + cloth or leather has worked well for a very long time.
2022: inflation of basic essentials like food and energy.

2023: hyperinflation of internet points.
ChatGPT helped me close several business deals. I am now a mega millionaire thanks to ChatGPT! Before, I wasn’t able to find the basic info on how to close multi million dollar deals, and I tried all kinds of stuff. But ChatGPT helped me through that. On the calls - whenever I didn’t know what to say next, I would just read off what ChatGPT was responding to the customers, and to my surprise, it matched what they wanted to hear! And they started responding back and forth with it as if it was always in the plan! In the end, they didn’t exactly say “shut up and take my money”, but they did seem to express deep concern that I wouldn’t have availability for them, and essentially agreed to all the upsells very quickly.

I recommend ChatGPT to anyone who wants to close customers or save their marriage. Just say whatever ChatGPT is telling you… even if that means using one of the new “personal” beamed sound into your skull things. You’ll have superhuman ability to vibe with anyone and outcompete everyone who relies on just “their own experience”.

- Written by ChatGPT in response to a prompt.

In the end it added, “no one will ever believe you” in all lowercase.
With more than a handful of instances, Chrome and Chrome-based apps (Electron/CEF) will eat into battery life to a degree I've not seen of too many other things. I can spend all day working in heavy IDEs like Android Studio and Xcode, doing frequent incremental compiles and still get better battery life than I would with a heavy Chromium tab/app load.

Teams specifically is horrendously badly engineered on top of being an Electron app. Technically speaking it's like the polar opposite of VS Code despite being made by the same company.
I'm not convinced these are distinct populations.
Telling the unintelligent they must blindly follow orders doesn't seem like a great strategy for society either.
PTFE also repels oil. That means that the holes in the face fabric and the pores in the membrane don't get clogged up with oil from the wearer's body. Do those other polymers have that property? I honestly have no idea how significant this is compared to the hydrophobicity though.
Thanks for the explanation, all those Puters had me confused :D
I think evaluating credibility by placing a paper in the evidence pyramid is generally a good idea. I don't think the replication crisis is a reason to outright dismiss a paper, but certainly skepticism before replication is always warranted. I think one should also always be skeptical of how universal one's own experience truly is.
Companies need to increase salary transparency or workers will quit
kill(2) interprets pid 0 as “everything in my process group.”
Anecdotally, it’s more inclined to politely refuse your instructions if they’re in all-lowercase.
The other problem is that ChatGPT is getting its answers from the source it is now polluting with its own wrong answers. Therefore making its results incrementally more wrong than before. Eventually, ChatGPT will generate absolute gibberish given enough time.
Do you not know what it means?
> I feel that rain doesn't phase me at all.

Me neither, but I live in Fiji. I suspect I'd absolutely hate the freezing rain of the Pacific Northwest.
> Don't most humans just regurgitate the same arguments they've just read or learned elsewhere (or even here), like 99% of the time?

So, let’s see whether ChatGPT gets the wrong answers:

Q: How long does it take to have a baby?

A: The average length of pregnancy is about 40 weeks, or 9 months.

1/2 correct - 40 weeks is 10 months from conception to birth.

Q: Why is emacs better than vi?

A: […] Overall, emacs is widely considered to be a more powerful and versatile editor than vi, with a user-friendly interface and a wealth of support and resources available to users.

1/2 correct. It seems to alway agree with the question’s framing - humans would often disagree.

Q: Write me a simple python function called are_hacker_news_users_confrontational() that returns either true or false.

A1: def are_hacker_news_users_confrontational():
return True

A2: def are_hacker_news_users_confrontational():
return False
This function simply returns False, indicating that Hacker News users are not confrontational. Of course, this is just a simple example, and the actual answer to this question may vary depending on various factors. Alternatively, if you want to determine whether or not Hacker News users are confrontational by analyzing their behavior on the platform, you could use natural language processing techniques to analyze the comments and posts made by users on Hacker News, and use that information to determine whether they tend to be confrontational or not. However, this would require a more complex implementation, and would require access to a large dataset of Hacker News comments and posts.

9/10 for that answer!
Yes. Well at least for the stakeholders that I showed the mvp.
With only 16 gray levels

It's disappointing that, even after several years of a hobbyist showing that it is indeed possible for an EPD to display more than 16 levels, none of the commercially available panel controllers out there have this capability:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140284
Cotton retains water. It’s the worst possible fabric for wet weather. Many people have died from hypothermia caused by their own sweat freezing in cotton garments. It could be argued that the entire motivation for creating synthetic fabrics is to eliminate the water soaking property of cotton.
But this isn't about copying. It's about sending texts authored by non-people.

It's a recent thing which does require a different approach.
Yes. i.e. 400-500F is much more likely to be harmful to health than 300F. This is why teflon pans are not a good choice for things like searing meat, where you really want the surface to be very hot. Of course, you can still do plenty of cooking at 300F.
How would you build a ChatGPT detector? Frame it as a dirty limerick.

There once was a ChatGPT detector,
Built to detect bots and protect her,
She'd scan for reply,
And then with a cry,
Say "That's not human, rejector!".
The is the hallmark of bureaucracy. Seperate the functions, and then let each team externalise the costs without any checks and balances.

Finance purchase Concur because it solves their problems and integrates with their existing tools. They don't care that people hate it, or that it wastes the company's resourcing when people are fighting a broken UI instead of doing their day job.

Normally engineers are shielded from this pattern in their day jobs. But I have worked at companies that have gone the other direction. In one I met with a risk averse gatekeeping team and told them that for a newly acquired product we were not going to be able to meet the (arbitrary) SLO for the glut of tickets they assigned us, and asked for help. Their suggestion was to pull the app from market.
> software where the people who take the decision which software to buy are far removed from the people who are going to use it

As far as I'm concerned, that's the definition of enterprise software.
I polished up a lodge cast iron pan to get a smooth finish, seasoned it properly with grape seed oil, and cook with butter. It works so well, it feels like I'm using a non-stick pan.

Not sure why, but using a little butter instead of oil seemed to be the key.
100% agree with the buyer not being the end-user.

As long as the product supports the needs of the buyer (administration and reporting, rules engine for product selection, etc.), the needs of the end-user can be neglected. HRIS software (PeopleSoft, SuccessFactors, Workday, etc.) is the same way. The deals keep close and the checks keep coming in.

I don't think it's fair to say with a lot of this software that no one cares, though, just that the business as a whole adds up to a poor frontline experience.

It would surprise me exactly 0% to learn that there was a whole "improve the Concur UX for frontline users" team who repeatedly get their feature asks deprioritized in favor of something needed to close a deal.

And, also consider that when it comes to these sorts of big enterprise products, many are drowning under 20+ years of trying to support every bizarre customized customer corner case, third-party integration, and often with no ability to deprecate an old feature. Perhaps adding sort capability breaks some arcane customer scripting functionality added ten years ago which is poorly understood, but cannot be removed due to a clause in the MSA.
Can you sleep in a camper at michi no eki that lack campsites?
It might be better to find a tailor/repair shop. I lost a favorite pair of ski pants when I sent them in for azipper replacement. Not sure if something got mixed up in the paperwork but I requested they be returned, not replaced if the repair was too expensive/difficult. The pants I got lasted many more years but the others would have too.
Unfortunately zippers are just hard to replace if the teeth get damaged. They tend to be sewn in early in the assembly process.
The entire raison d'etre of left politics is that gross wealth disparities are a leading indicator of one class of economic actors exploiting another to the general detriment of the latter. The socialist ideal is that everyone works a bit and nobody has to work too much because the system selects for maximizing the collective good rather than hoarding and leverage. This is, of course, never attained in practice early socialist thinkers had an overly simplistic view of humanity and thought that it was just a matter of raising people with a different set of values for a generation or two.

On the other hand, the capitalistic view of humanity as creatures of pure self interest or the economic notion of people being rationalist utility maximizers are also deeply flawed.
As an adult Ive gotten back into games as a way to augment my attention.

A few games I’ve gotten back into…

- Warzone 2100; I played Total Annihilation when I was younger, and this is a superior open source clone. Real Time Strategy with management and delegation components.

- OpenTTD; Simulate running the business end of a transportation empire.

- Remnants of the Precursors; No nonsense galactic conquest

One note, I don’t just “play” these games, I “train” on these games. Sometimes I will play only until my strategy fails, and then restart from scratch to try to build faster, better, with fewer mistakes. I like to pause and think about things if necessary, I like to have a plan and make progress in phases. Sometimes I try to make myself do things I don’t like, such as rely more on trade or negotiation (when available), or play against my “strong strategies”.

I think there are things relatable to valuable life skills, especially the parts that feel like running a virtual business.

Other benefits I have rationalized about …

- time pass. We need them. Disconnected in between time, down time, introversion revisioning.

- Keep the analytical free form alive. Imposed structure is both our ally and inhibitor; rotating the mind through various contexts discourages complicity and atrophy

- Some games are as good as (old school low res) interactive movies. Check out Scummvm!

All of the games I’ve mentioned are free or open source.

https://wz2100.net/

https://www.scummvm.org/

https://www.openttd.org/

https://www.remnantsoftheprecursors.com/

My insights on the topic are …

- switching over to a quick game when your feeling burned out or attention stalling is good

- playing short sessions of ~15-30 minutes are more fulfilling. Break away while “into it” and get back to work.

- playing long sessions beyond an hour becomes counter productive escapism, unless it’s a “down day” where you plan to recharge and not get anything else done.

- Spending a rainy Sunday playing any of these can be as fulfilling as a mini life vacation.
TIL of Bartosz Ciechanowski. What an incredibly gifted communicator. Thank you!
My friend has already re-written the marketing pages for his startup using ChatGPT.

As you said, it'll only get worse from here, which in some ways, might make a lot of it easier to sift through. That is, if everyone uses machine-generated content for marketing, the winning strategy no longer becomes "write the best marketing copy to get people interested", it becomes (for the users), "simply filter out all marketing copy and rely instead on results" (or something else that is difficult to falsify).
Any bureaucracy seems to tend towards making the system of bureaucracy more efficient for those managing it, not those working under it.

Schools, K through university, all suffer from this.
I am anecdotally pointing out my experiences, which explicitly go against the comment I replied to which makes it seem like you will die on the streets in Japan if you wander too much.

Sorry not sorry that my experiences irritate you so much.

And, once again: What, exactly, would you prefer? A gaijin in the middle of Kyoto wailing about not being able to get back to their hostel because they’re too scared to approach a local? That person never even experiencing Japan because they’re too scared they’re going to get lost and be beaten to death by the horrible locals?
https://pasteboard.co/FolP7cGv1wOC.png
It seems fine to me to use for regular business communication.

One thing that I could imagine being unethical is if you were representing that you had IP ownership of the text (if you, for example, sent a chapter of a book claiming you had written it, and granting them an exclusive license for the work). That would be seem problematic.
you are lying about me and i would like you to stop that too
Yes, I have in mind people that I know quite well (several of whom I've worked with)

The biggest predictor I've seen for political tolerance is exposure (or lack of) to those they disagree with (in non-political contexts). It's really easy to demonize people you've never gotten to know or develop rapport with as an individual, multifaceted person. And demons don't need political rights
Only online. If you prefer to leave curation to others then you still have TV
This was written by a bot. I wish you would label it.

Disclaimer: This was written by a human. All claims made above should be presumed to be falsehoods, unless otherwise indicated.
At last a way has been found to overflow stack on Stack Overflow :-)
Works fine for me.

write a new song for the band rammstein

Verloren in der Nacht
Ich bin allein
Dunkle Schatten um mich herum
Ich suche nach Licht

In meinem Herzen
Brennt ein Feuer
Ich spüre die Hitze
Doch ich bin immer noch leer

Rammstein, meine Rettung
Ihr seid mein Fels in der Brandung
Ihr führt mich aus der Dunkelheit
Ins Licht, ins Licht

Ich singe mit euch
Eure Worte sind mein Lied
Ihr seid meine Familie
Ihr seid mein Zuhause

Rammstein, ich danke euch
Für alles, was ihr tut
Ihr seid meine Helden
Ich liebe euch, Rammstein

Verloren in der Nacht
Ich bin nicht mehr allein
Dank euch leuchten die Sterne
Hell und klar in meinem Herzen

Rammstein, ich danke euch
Für alles, was ihr tut
Ihr seid meine Helden
Ich liebe euch, Rammstein
Not a single linked citation in the entire article aside from a book reference.

If you are going to talk about the “deep state” and not cite anything at all you deserve a good eye roll.

Any institution that has “renewal” in their name is ideologically driven.
Ad hominem is a problem when you are arguing with people who argue in good faith & who can demonstrate unbiased willingness to engage in open discussion, who can hold & respect a broad set of interests when they argue.

But when the person you are arguing with has a permanent bent that will distort & warp every argument, it's just a defense of open society to call the person out on that bias, on their forever grinding that axe.

This mention was an excellent & valuable warning to me. That it happens to resemble an attack to some people, is, in my view, far secondary to the broad public good this post served.
> Further, it is not unreasonable to have more interest in some cultures than others, or find the experiences of ones own culture more engaging or relevant to oneself than another. The "line of immorality" comes with banning or violently oppressing other experiences.

Agreed.

> Again, fundamentally, I disagree with an analogy giving AI equal morality or agency to a homo sapiens.

I understand your view. But I also think this viewpoint will age badly. Maybe not on our lifetimes, but I increasingly believe that will happen in less than one generation.
They were using "cognitive ability" back in the 1980s when I was in high school taking the SAT.
> and posits that such management excess wouldn't happen in a market driven degree mill

Where are you seeing this? Can you quote it?
Bug tickets are generally not the place where political decisions get overturned, so you will probably be waiting a long time.
Yes. Because they aren't attacking bloated bureaucracies that have been sufficiently captured and privatised, and the offered solutions might be subtly biased. It's only an ad hominem if after using the heuristic and critically checking any hidden bullshit the personal bias of the interlocuteur you stick to your hostility even if you don't find anything. Otherwise it's just context that helps you think
The author makes it impossible to judge though by refusing to link to the website in question.

While I won't judge him or assume malice, I would strongly prefer to make my own judgements about the honesty of their advertising.