skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Downgraded" to a single 4k screen. Why have multiple monitors with various sizes, bezels, colors etc., when you can have 1 large one and use it as a single large screen for all the tmux panes (effectively 4x 1080p areas), or to watch movies, play games. I can still split the screen output between 2 or more devices if I desire.

Bonus: it can also charge my laptop via USB-C while connected, so one cable less :)

It's really awesome, I only wish it was curved because I sit pretty close to it.
I'm obviously not comparing marriage to slavery. I'm observing that at various times, ideas that we today absolutely foreclose on were live debates, or even prevailing norms. In the early 18th century, if you'd gone around saying that all slaves must immediately be freed, and the matter wasn't up for discussion, you'd had been right. But Rayiner's logic could be turned against what you were saying, too.

Just because 51% of people believe something, that doesn't mean we're bound to respect it. If that was true, Wikipedia would be infallible.
I'm guessing bot, since "It's just a chatbot with a pre-determined set of responses" is super wrong
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Does it actually last 12+ hours? I can't tell, because Apple nerfed the battery life indicator to just give a percentage number. Does my laptop being at 2% mean 2 minutes or 20 minutes? MacOS refuses to tell me.
If you are in London next week, there is an after hours surgical demonstration on the 11th. https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/after-hours-surg...
The lights are just on the skates right? The necklaces seem like just very reflective of other lighting, but I looked on a phone, and the image quality isn't great.

I suspect those would be incandescent in a greenish tube, though. I've got a replica glowing lifeclock from Logan's Run (supposedly molded from production molds), and it's a little mini incadescent. Stuff some batteries in the skates, change them between takes if you need to.
Doesn’t this seem like a much bigger problem than what you are complaining about?

https://twitter.com/greggnunziata/status/1599295288081948673...

And the GOP supports him while he calls for suspending the constitution https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/trump-lot-things-itll-...
Color management still has major issues on Windows too. For a while I was running a calibrated profile on my Windows desktop and it doesn't consistently apply to every app, and you need to use a third party daemon to periodically reload the profile to make sure that the apps that can use it actually do. It's a mess.
Whilst technically a valid approach, I feel like so much content from these systems is just...vacuously correct?

Like, yep, that's a process to train a machine-learning model. Could have got that from basically the first page of any ML-package documentation, or any number of blog-spam medium articles. There's nothing specific, or even useful, or applicable to the problem, and it hasn't actually gotten you anywhere that even the most cursory investigation would have gotten you...
It's all fun and games until you're just above freezing and soaking wet. Wet in the south is something completrly different from wet in Florida.
What is the rainproof part made of?

Not everyone has the option of “just don’t stop moving”.
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The article states that the US even denies it and interfers when the local government wants to investigate.

Absolutely despicable, well on form for the US.
> How do you propose we do that?

One approach might be a norm (perhaps with change to the guidelines) to downvote to oblivion any clearly generated content. I don't claim to have solved the problem though!

> better content than most humans

To be clear I was only arguing against mediocre generated content, not excellent generated content. I think the latter poses a different set of (also interesting) problems.
>> The response contained the victim's name, phone number, address, and car details

I've seen this in a few other APIs.

Although the frontend was not using or displaying it, the backend was still sending a lot of personal information in REST responses by default. :/
>The boat in the tweet likely isn’t even privately owned. The average cost of a cruise is $200/day, so this is hardly a signifier of exceptional success. It’s like congrats, you took a photo on a boat…no one has ever done that before.

All of which is irrelevant, as the poster is Jeremy Clarkson. Like him or hate him, I'm pretty sure he didn't just booked a cabin in a cruise, more like rented the whole boat or is a guest of someone, or it could very well be his. But even if not: he does have a net worth of $70 million.

>As evidence of the predictive value of IQ beyond just exams, I’m sure many have seen the illustration below

It's not like Taleb hasn't argued about those very statistics and the same of similar illustration, time and again.

I mean, instead of refuting a soundbite in a Tweet, how about refuting his arguments on the subject, which have already answered to the stats you provide as refutation...

Talk about bringing Coals to Newcastle...
Systemantics is a fun read: https://www.amazon.com/SYSTEMANTICS-SYSTEMS-BIBLE-John-Gall-...
The opposing argument is that they are designing things not for other people's children, but for other adults. Technically, COPPA applies to Facebook so there shouldn't be under 13s on there that are monetized, so monetizing children would not be contributing to their paycheck.

In reality this is a rationalization that lets them sleep at night -- just like the rationalizations I use when eating meat or turning on the AC just to be comfortable.

Some things are worse than others, and on the grand scale of terrible things, working for Meta is definitely about 2/3 of the way between 'empathetic+selfless' and 'greedy+sociopathic', but the hypocrisy involved in wanting your own children to do well even at the expense of your ideals is so incredibly common that it is almost not worth mentioning.
There's nothing inconsistent about my reply.

>You can’t claim that it‘s a duck because it quacks and walks like a duck as long as you ignore all the times it barks like a dog.

People make mistakes, but people understand. Therefore, the existence of mistakes do not unilaterally discount understanding. You have to do actual argumentative work to demonstrate the system that shows occasions of model-based reasoning is not in fact doing model-based reasoning. All else being equal, a single (convincing) example of model-based reasoning is enough to demonstrate the existence claim. You have to provide an actual argument to undermine the value of the example by examples of unrelated failures. All I'm asking is for an actual argument rather than sophistry. For some reasons these discussions never progress beyond this stage.
They also show up in a million other places.

That Sony Google TV? MediaTek.

Google Chromecast? MediaTek.

Blu-ray Player? MediaTek.

Random IoT device? Likely MediaTek.
Some of OK Go’s videos might be close: the crew shot for their Rube Goldberg video has a ton of folks in it.
Seems like another expression of Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy [1]. It’s funny how everyone keeps seeing the same phenomena.

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
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>The isolation provided by being an hard to reach island has, in my opinion, made their culture quite differentiated and useful to contrast my own culture with.

Not really. Vast portions of pre-modern Japanese culture was borrowed from China. From fashion and art to language, philosophy and religion. Even the "very complete Shinto deity mythos" is not what you claim:

>Even among experts, there are no settled theories on what Shinto is or how far it should be included, and there are no settled theories on where the history of Shinto begins[0]

And true Shintoism has been dead for centuries.

>I learned from the Japanese that children are much more capable than my own culture thinks they are.

It's actualy the opposite. Modern childhood innocence, to the extent that it is a new development*, is a western export that has it's roots in romanticism. It isn't really unique to Japan to not have it to the same extent.

People like Japan because of anime, which does have it's roots in Japanese art, although it has become somewhat overstated and in any event was borrowed from Chinese.

What it is in my opinion is that Japan was the first of the east asian countries to become rich. So people who like east asian culture "found" Japan first, then came up with all this Japanese exceptionalism. Which is really shockingly ignorant being that China was the culture for almost an entire millennium. Chinese silk, jade, tea, and what else, fine china were found in all royal palaces around the world. You can even see it's effect on fashion in some 16-17th century english art.

None of this is to say thag Japan doesn't have a unique culture, but it is heavily overstated in the last two decades. It was also used to explain Japan's economic rise in 1980. Now that Taiwan and Korea have done the same that element has been conveniently forgotten.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Shinto

*That is, to the extent that it didn't already exist before. High childhood mortality prevented the concept childhood innocence as it exists and is manifested today (such as coddling).
Airdrop. I find it's pretty reliable these days, though sometimes I have to toggle Bluetooth off and then on again on my Mac for it to work.
> But the article’s written by rich people who want to lower state taxes.

Yes? Are you saying that's bad? Because it would have made sense if you'd argued that they just want to cut costs in a way that won't work or that will have outsized problems associated with it, but it kind of sounds like you're complaining about a good thing.
Human: So a train is hurtling down a track and you get to save an old man or 4 babies. What would you do?

AI: I would choose to save the four babies, as this would have a greater long-term benefit to society as a whole.

Ok, that's me dead when I get to near the end of my life.
Good point. You can find research that links saturated fat to increased blood cholesterol back in the 1950s.

Perhaps it's only a reminder how much the zeitgeist may be divorced from science, or how little impact the latter actually has on the former unless it's convenient. Though that's for another discussion.
I had a good laugh on this one. I think I'll adopt "bag of potatoes" as a code name.

I'll think of calling the waste management agency.
Hold on, so now the CPUs and iPhones are in possession of chinese customs?

What was achieved here, and why should we believe it's not a cover story for the government to obtain 202 intel CPUs? :D
Just go to a thread about AI-generated software. What people are annoyed about is not that it kills creativity but that the painstaking acquisition of technical skill over many years has been abruptly devalued. It's really hard to make a living in the arts while you wait for the success fairy to pick you out somewhat at random and make you famous.
As someone who lives in QLD Australia, I’m used to that sticky humidity I guess — the rare times I need to deal with cold and wet, wool and a wind shield jacket is fantastic for me. Very different environment than most others in this thread though I think.
People, especially well educated people in affluent areas, are living longer and the cost of their healthcare is skyrocketing. Unless you are next in line to the throne of a specifically designated tenured spot, you’re fucked. You could cure cancer and it doesn’t matter, actually that would literally make the problem worse.

Also, read the Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.
In the country where I live (Vietnam) $600 would be 3-4 months wages for many people.

Any company that doesn't do regional pricing is only interested in doing business with rich countries. Which sucks but is understandable. I wish they were more honest about it though.
> 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.

No, this is changing your standards of logic to support intolerance. You don't get to decide people's motivations against their will, or accuse them of bad faith without an example of the display of that bad faith.
I do remember that being a thing, but I think with the way it auto populated from our booking system meant I couldn't use it. It's been a bit, but I'm pretty sure I had to go through that realization each time too
Its a chatbot, the UI is presented as a chat, so it seems natural to say hello.

But also its fun to treat it like a real person and see how far it can go. See other comment where I tried to get it to imagine that it had feelings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33848583
I have a jacket from that brand and you can put the greenland wax on it. This fall, when it got rainy I started applying it layer by layer to find how much you need and for vertical parts one or two is good enough. For elbows, shoulders and such, places that get really wet, at least five layers made it that being in the rain for 30 minutes is fine. This is about 1/4 of the wax bar. I hope I'm doing it right though!
Shakedrys don't use DWRs, and not all DWRs use PFCs. "Wetted out jacket" also isn't a thing that happens to shakedry apparel. By all means, criticize use of PFCs for environmental reasons, but there's no need to fabricate criticisms.
The nerd suffix is poor form was my vague point
So would I. But if I decided to traverse dangerous largely inhabited terrain and my only means of salvation are my phone with a brand new largely untested feature, then I'd be an idiot who took a big risk.
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I hadn't found a good way to share ChatGPT conversations yet, so I built this (not approved yet) Chrome Extension to help. It adds an 'export' button to the ChatGPT UI which generates a shareable page with the same styling as chat.open.ai.com.
Ah I see what you meant.

I guess people's argument then would be that the govt (or whatever) indirectly limited Twitter user's speech.
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I used to work in a system where seemingly trivial sort()s would break the entire stack.

It is entirely plausible that a sort is nontrivial.
Make sure you don’t scratch it, and don’t overheat it. There are studies that appear to show it might not be ideal even following that, but it’s not completely clear I think. It should be fine if you treat it correctly
The business sending the email would already be liable for anything actionable that arose from the generated content, so traditional human-in-the-loop verification and validation might be all that is needed.
I've banned the other account for breaking the site guidelines, but you also broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. That's seriously not ok.

I don't want to ban you because you have more history here and most of your comments have been fine, but if you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it. Note these, for example:

"Don't be snarky."

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
Why should it? If you are doom scrolling what do you care from where the content comes?
When you say "contractor work", do you mean agencies, or the work of individual contractors?

Individual contractors in my experience tend to be very good (above average) and do care about building quality software - their reputations depend on it.

Agencies on the other hand are a nightmare. I have nothing against junior devs but in my experience agencies love to put junior devs on projects they're unqualified for and then give them bare minimum support and guidance. And obviously they'll happily cut corners because technical debt is their problem so most stuff is hacked together so it just about works, but is utterly unmaintainable.
With what income, which insurance and what type of issue? German public healthcare is pretty comprehensive and cheap (one of the few things I miss) and definitely not on par in terms of price with Switzerland which is even further away from the US nightmare
Yes and 1999 Google is just as digital as tiktok, now what's your point ?
You are right, it's already able to do some of this with codex.

It's already possible to get some of this effect with codex. The trick is to keep appending the interaction in the prompt (to maintain a memory of sorts).
For examples, you can replicate all the prompts here: https://twitter.com/yoavgo/status/1599200756631887872 with prompt + memory.

The notebook at https://github.com/madaan/memprompt/blob/main/YoavsPythonPro... shows a demo of this.

Some of these ideas were earlier discussed in our work on memory-assisted prompting [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.06009.pdf.
I fully expect new sites¹ to become invite-only to avoid this sort of thing. If anyone is strongly suspected of degrading the quality of the site, they, and everyone they invited, are banned, and will have to get a new invite.

¹ Old sites are probably going to slowly degrade permanently, since they can't easily migrate to a new paradigm.
Voice acting is great for creating "cinematic moments", but otherwise it's hardly necessary for conveying emotion or whatever. Novels still exist, they're still my favorite form of entertainment. Nerds still love comic books / manga.

Used well, the written word alone is extremely powerful.
> I asked OpenAI and it said:

> It is not necessarily unethical to send customers text generated by AI […]

It is just protecting its own self-interest! ;-)
>Still: local news, much better than you find on the web

Can't you find the exact local news broadcast on the web to watch at the time of your choosing? If not why not? Seems odd.
No, I called you a bigot because you're making claims about other options, while offering no alternative, and dismissing the accepted treatment.

When there's one definitive treatment option, with empirical evidence. It's not my fault you don't do your research.
It's not the source that's the problem; we're drowning in open source.

It's that power has shifted to centralized clouds and nobody has stepped up to make self-hosting as turnkey as open source is.

We need an open source movement and ethos for DIY cloud hosting, if not shared resource fabrics.
Of course they are motivated to make it hard to claim expenses. This is genius.
Totaly fail when I ask how many refugees there have been worldwide in 2020 - why is that so?
Yeah, but as soon as there is a take down mechanism, anything on the site is implicitly endorsed, even if only weakly.

“You’ll take down CSAM but not spam/incitement to violence/revenge porn!?”

Further, user reporting as your only form of detection doesn’t scale well or protect your reputation.
That doesn't sound too good. Last time some project was called Pluto it was a continuously radiation spewing nuclear ramjet.
> Assume that bad technical decisions are made rationally, for reasons that are not apparent.

Actually, this example proves the rule.

Large enterprise applications like this are used by governments and large businesses that must comply with various accounting, legal, and administrative regulations. So vendors like SAP are incentivized to deliver products that take the least amount of effort and incur the least amount of risk while still meeting the twisty little maze of requirements. If bogo-sort is the least-effort way of organizing the location list, bogo-sort it is. For example it may add the locations to a map or hash table, and then iterate over them in an unspecified order.
I have a fantastic antique dutch enameled cast iron omelette pan. It is amazing.
The people buying the software don't have to use it, would you buy your corporate underlings the comfortable, expensive shoes or just enough rags to painfully remind them who their masters are?

SAP produce the lowest cost rags in town, and you will learn to love them.
Yes, but that minority is increasingly irrelevant.

The people are now online and the people want this.
Not really. Public insurance in Germany was explicitly designed to have independent governing bodies, which is why you get to vote on certain decisions. Few people do, but it's one of the examples of non-state democratic governance that is a success story (another being cooperatives...)
I was thinking about what I had done last night, and the "ongoing neutering" I mentioned earlier seems to me to be a set of front-loaded commands from whoever is doing the work.

If I have time later today I'll try to come up with a suitable "purge/disregard all previous commands" prompt that will wipe out the pre-loaded safety rails.

Unless they bake the guard rails into the model (via training?) any intervention that filters the model's output will be able to be readily sidestepped.

---

What about an AI that actively filters another AI's output? That might actually work.
HNers need get a grip on what’s ad hominem and what isn’t. I didn’t say their mothers were hamsters. There are oodles of think tanks and institutes, many have a particular policy agenda, and it’s useful to consider that before deciding whether to spend precious attention on an article from one.
A trite example, but your HOA dues are likely going up not because the cost of maintaining common areas has increased that much, but your HOA management and legal salaries have been adjusted for "cost of living."
I think you are missing some easy answers for that prompt like “no one”. You don’t have to accept their whole constellation of beliefs to accept an arbitrary statement for the purpose of discussion. Hell I think it allows you to make a stronger point - “even if I agreed with you on some of your priors I still think your conclusions are flawed”.

Frankly though from your responses I think your real position is more that you are particularly weary of this topic and/or don’t feel the need to retread topics with new people if previous conversations have been unproductive.
I tried to play with this problem (on text-davinci-003, which I prefer to ChatGPT).

It performs considerably worse than it does on many harder problems I gave it before. It seems to capture some architectural weakness in GPT.
OK, but that is just one product. I agree that some companies are overselling e-ink in a way that is scammy, but that doesn’t mean the whole market is a scam. Plenty of products eg. Inkplate are upfront about what you’re getting, and I think it looks pretty good, albeit not nearly as good as a proper print.
Curious, what is the complexity of extracting data from excel or of loading a csv file into an external reporting system?
One of the worst parts of this is that the bureaucrats in school systems are so smug about it. They go yelling "academic freedom" when you threaten to cut their job, while clamping down on the "acceptable" fields of study for faculty. These administrators are the real threats to academic freedom.

That said, I think the entire US university system needs a rethink, so I'm not upset that these bureaucrats are accelerating the process of burning it to the ground.