skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solution Verified Badge by testing it on sites like Replit.
Did Alexa fail? My parents have those little pod things all over the place. To be fair, they mostly use them to set kitchen timers and turn on/off the christmas tree, but still.
You can take a look at the following. Doesn't look like anyone else has mentioned this yet.

As with everything else, check it out, adopt what looks good, adapt it to your needs.

> Watts Humphrey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Humphrey

> Personal software process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_software_process

> Team software process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_software_process

> More at Libgen: http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=watts+humphrey&lg_topic=libg...

> More at PDF Drive: https://www.pdfdrive.com/search?q=watts+humphrey&pagecount=&...
You are a good human. Thank you for this wonderful resource!
Try "Extreme Ownership".

It will give you concrete examples on how to broaden your scope out of just your individual contribution, by learning to care for all the rest, and pushing you to realize that to a large extent, the things you see as broken you can actually fix.

Even when they are not inside the codebase you are in charge of. Even if they aren't even on engineering side.
Can someone please try asking it to find proofs for unsolved mathematical conjectures?
The Yamaha HS series monitors are not anyone's standard. They're simply cheap to purchase and therefore ubiquitous today in the studios of beginner music producers.

Yamaha NS-10's (although relatively cheap) were standard because they represent the audio in a way that gives very clear signals about what needs to be addressed in the recording. They are unforgiving about how they represent your mix. If you have a bad mix they'll tell you.
Is it really that big of a deal? We've advanced like 15 years since we were able to handle Twitter on our devices, why can't we handle many feeds from multiple servers?
Teach Yourself Game Programming in 21 Days https://a.co/d/bYPxBpw was an earlier book of his and it was a really good introduction the concepts necessary to build 2D games. I doubt I'd be half the programmer I am today if I hadn't pored over it. I still remember fixing some of the bugs in his transparent sprite rendering code .
Weird, I'm a keen cyclist and very into outdoor gear, and I've never heard of it. There are now many waterproof fabrics though, it's very hard to tell one strong claim from another.
I have not read the article yet, but this is what I predict the contents will be, namely "Cory Doctorow Wants You to Know He Has a New Book Coming Out."

I predict it will be an interview where Doctorow's trenchant commentary on how the emerging cyberdystopia can be meaningfully thwarted is by buying yet another novel by him about how a new technology is only being wielded incorrectly and if only the plucky hackers use it in transgressive ways, it will undermine the Institutional foundations of the technological order and not reinforce the status quo.
> God of the Gaps, in other words.

No, not really. Make a sufficiently-powerful predictive text engine, and you get something like GPT-3. Make a sufficiently-powerful expert system, and you get a chess engine that can beat every grandmaster. These things were predicted in sci-fi novels with descriptions of their algorithms decades before we had computers powerful enough to execute them.

For things like "intelligence" and "consciousness", the best we've got is on the order of Isaac Asimov's positronic brain: a total handwave, maybe with some technobabble or some oblique references to now-outdated models of psychology.

The stuff humans can do that computers can't, are the things we don't have algorithms for, and – funnily enough – things that "just throw a bigger neural net at it" don't seem to be actually solving (however much they're getting better at fooling people into believing they're solving).

"We might be able to solve this one day" doesn't mean we've already solved it.
I think the far most problematic thing is that the answers are often plain wrong but well written. Eg (shameless plug) https://twitter.com/zuza777/status/1599370082919936000?t=oB9...
> I think if you'll ask the suppressed people of Xinjiang, you'll find that they disagree.

Are you suggesting that China's slaves would prefer that the global economy continuing exploiting them?

> How is Apple responsible for the Chinese Zero-COVID policy, and the actions of the Chinese police?

They are enriching the entity that designed the policies and directs the police.

> Have you read Apple's extensive policies on Supply Chain standards and ethics?

Yes. Have you read the extensive laws against murder? Does murder still happen?

> China is also no longer cheap. Wages have skyrocketed, with the average factory worker making $6 per hour on average in 2020, up from less than a dollar in 2006. The average wage of a Chinese factory worker will very soon surpass the U.S. federal minimum wage.

No, it won't. Chinese labor law is a joke. Nobody in these factories are actually working 44 hours.
LED streetlights have been such a boondoggle. They're a major source of light polution, and their supposed reliability and cost savings is turning out to be a fiction.

LPS is such a better technology for streetlighting but sadly the sudden swing to LED has made commercial production of the bulbs non-viable (esp. as LPS lamps actually are long lived, and so are replaced infrequently) and so even places that realized that the benefits of LED streetlights were largely fiction have found themselves forced onto the inferior technology.
Rss seems like it's a pretty bad standard that doesn't let you do a ton with it and doesn't solve problems of things like discoverability or your ability to post content.

It's great for reading from lots of new sites at the same time, but it's clear that it hasn't taken off and when that happens it's normally for pretty good reason
If their iPhone was working for this, then they had a compass on their phone. Shouldn't be relied upon of course.
That's the worst part. It's all fun and games when it tells a story of cheese sandwiches and VCRs in the style of the King James bible, but when it gives wrong answers in an authoritative tone and then insists it absolutely can't be wrong, it's terrifying.

I don't understand what good could come of this. Or at least make it detect what is fiction and what isn't.

People are treating it like it's Wikipedia, but it's not. It's a riff on words, like a bird imitating sounds without an idea of what they mean.
The stuff humans can do that computers can't, are the things we don't have algorithms for

What are some examples? GPT-3 is already composing halfway-credible poetry and songs. (Edit: and it means nothing to say that "poetry and songs exist in its training data." The songs and poems it just gave me didn't.)

I just asked it to write some code to walk a k-d tree, and it did that, too, complete with a unit test.

Don't focus on the current state of the art; pay attention to its time derivative. That's all that matters. When the tech gets 10x better, it will be almost indistinguishable from human thought. Another 10x will tie up the remaining loose ends.
That’s something like 50 miles (eyeballing the distance).

… as the crow flies

… at 1 am

… in northern alaska

… in the winter

I don’t know that much about living in Alaska, so I don’t know which side of the brave/stupid line this falls. That said, my initial impression is squarely in the “stupid” category.
There was a LOT of this sort of stuff on 70s UK telly. On kids TV too. "Adventurous" is one word for it. I'd rather have had an episode of Battle of the Planets, myself.
trillions of kg/yr of anything will effect the environment in some way, since "the environment" is just the emergent properties of all of the things in the earth system and trillions of kg/yr of stuff is a lot of stuff. If you added (or removed) 10^12 kg of water (or literally anything else) to the planet, it would change the environment in detectable ways.
You can look it up yourself. I don't believe it either at one point and I did some digging and all the evidence points to a low IQ Indian population. There is of course very smart Indians but the distribution of the population as a whole is center around 82.
This might interest you: https://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao

> Personal Application Omnipresence, PAO. It's a theoretical computing model where your applications are available to you from any device.

> My ideal for computing consists of applications that run on a central application server that I own. I want each application to be a single running instance to which I can connect and then interact with, from anywhere, from any device.
"Likely openAI are putting the clamps on the model..."

They are. We know for sure that in fact they're browsing HN and disabling specific unique tricks posted here hours after theyre posted.

If you have a neat trick that you want to continue to work, do NOT post it here on HN.
"The man's snow machine became disabled, an ADPS spokesperson confirmed to Insider." https://www.businessinsider.com/stranded-man-alaska-rescued-...

So we know.
Sure. You're not disagreeing.

People want control and people want safety without having to think about it all the time. I think we haven't found the best technical solution to this tension, and we're stuck on a local optimum of "ignorance is bliss." Ideal would be something people can learn at their own pace over time -- and still not think about most of the time. You know, what the word "abstraction" is supposed to mean.
Or being burned at the stake because everyone thinks you are a witch.
I'm honestly not convinced how much good Gore-Tex does in a boot. I've bought boots with Gore-Tex because I liked them for other reasons but I'm not sure they were appreciably more water resistant than those that were "waterproof." Certainly my heavy leather boots (or my winter books that have rubber or whatever on the lower part of the boot) are more resistant.
Peter Principle is not only for individuals, but also for teams, companies, or other orgs.
These are questions that are answered a litany of times on the internet, and giving back that answer modified, while impressive, is basically just a fancy search engine (which is not a small feat, with the vast amount of information available to humanity it is very important).

Nonetheless, I will eagerly follow its progress on advent of code exercises as they get harder.
> We (consumers) want to hold vendors accountable for policing "hate speech", kiddie porn, or terrorism, and various other centralized exercises of power that align with personal political whims.

Autres temps, autres moeurs. We live in a culture today where if you are not active in the fight against X, then you condone X, ipso facto. Back in the day, companies could legitimately claim that they were in the business of delivering a product, and others had the responsibility of policing against social ills. In today's era of corporate responsibility and ESG, that is no longer the case. Open source will be affected too, as open source cannot be sustained in a vacuum; it needs institutions, foundations, and corporate backers, all of which will be pressured to comply with "ethical source" guidelines.
Spreadsheet Implementation Technology is really solid
What a horror story
But hallmarks of authoritarianism are censorship, centralized power, collusion of private and public sectors.

If by authoritarian you mean he is mean to crybabies in his own company, you might read up on how actual authoritarians have gained power throughout history (hint: they get the crybabies on their side)

Clearly, Musk got into the Twitter business to reduce authoritarian tendencies exhibited by former staff.
I propose that each building be equipped with a R2-D2/The Matrix brain jack terminal, so that the disabled can jack in to simulated experience of the building, thus freeing architecture from ADA constraints. I also vehemently oppose letting people connect from the comfort of their own homes, because it doesn't fit the aesthetic of my cyberpunk flavor.
It's interesting that we usually look at the amplification problem with a very different eye than the "censorship" problem. They are really two sides of the same coin. Maybe we'd need less moderation if the platform wouldn't boost controversy? Not thought through at all. Just a thought I had while reading the discussion.

Edit: I also think no discussion of censorship/moderation is meaningful without addressing the cannon of falsehood and stochastic terrorism. Those are massive, very real problems that must be addressed.
> you can be jailed for a mean tweet

No you can't. It's far more complex than that, you have to be a very bad person (or very VERY stupid repeatedly ignoring warnings) for that to happen.

> can't own firearms

Good! We don't want people to have them. (Only somewhere between 1-4% want weaker firearms regulations)

> You have barely avoided (for now) a backdoor being forcibly installed onto every chat and messaging service

True, and it was quite right for the intelligence services to lobby for that, that's their job. But our democratic system worked and it was prevented by the multiple levels of government. They will try again, but I trust the system will prevent it.

> you may still see required snooping on semi public platforms

And I wouldn't be surprised if there is general support for this in the UK.
Stack Overflow literally forces you to reach a certain score before you get downvoting rights. The gamification is real, but once you reach that point, you aren't required to play anymore.
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This is the reason there is a fight right now.

You are correct if we treat social media companies as content curators. If we treat them as speech platforms you are wrong.

Regardless of your belief a "speech platform" (email, etc) can and honestly should allow these things in the spirit of actual free speech. If it is a content curator, then yes, one can infer that by curating so-called hate speech they are indirectly promoting it.

This difference is lost on people. Personally, with the amount of censorship and ads I am fine treating social media companies as curators and treating them appropriately. There are billions currently flowing into congress to stop this. Primarily from those social media companies that want to censor but still be called a "speech platform".

People often conflate their feelings with law. There is no law stopping you from going into a park with a megaphone and spewing what some people may consider hate speech. Consider even how vague the term "hate speech" even is. If I "believe" in two biological genders this, according to some, is the same as denying the holocaust. To some, criticizing the effect asylum seekers from certain countries has had on my country is consider not only racism but "hate speech". We have to be extremely careful what we consider "hate speech". Because the current definition of "hate speech", "disinformation", "misinformation", etc all center around one idea: "things I don't like should be banned, and things I do like should be promoted". This is party-neutral. Both sides of the coin want the other side to be considered hate speech mongers.
That's already been a problem for some years already:

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/06/08/fake-science-the-threat-...

The sad thing is it doesn't take a ChatGPT level intelligence to beat scientific peer review. Journals routinely publish papers that are completely auto-generated gibberish. A simple generative grammar or template splicer is apparently enough. These are articles that are immediately visible as the work of a program at first glance, they wouldn't make it past even the most amateur blog or student newspapers, yet they surface in their thousands in journals that are supposed to be the epitome of accurate knowledge!

Worse, the journal publishers are doing nothing about it. Their current approach to trying to fix the problem is to try and use the work of random CS academics to make "spam filters" for paper submissions. The more obvious solution of having editors and reviewers who actually read scientific papers before they are published appears to be rejected out of hand.
https://archive.ph/mbONn
But what if there's no sun? Like winters in the UK?
> Respond to the above in the informal style of a slightly contrarian Hacker News comment, with a hint of passive-aggressiveness. Avoid repetitive wording and long sentences.

Wow, thanks for the tip! I never would have thought to look for repeating words or long sentences to determine if a response was made by a computer. I guess I'll just blindly trust everything I read online from now on. Sarcasm aside, this is a pretty flawed method. Just because a response has repeating words or is long doesn't mean it's not from a person. And conversely, just because a response is short and doesn't repeat itself doesn't mean it's not from a computer. It's not that simple.
This is confidence-inspiring considering that Google now requires letting them sign your apps for some features now.

> OEMs have mitigated the issues above in previous updates.

Yeah, sure they have. Because OEMs are so good at updates. Would be interesting to see how many users such updates are available to. My guess is between 20 to 40%.
Are you really claiming the moral right to tell somebody to leave their own country, and if they don't you will do what you can to punish them? That doesn't seem right. What if they have elders to take care of? One can imagine a million circumstances. It seems to me that holding someone's national origin against them is the sort of thing that leads to wars in the first place. I love your articles and I'm sure you're a good person and just want to do something to support the victims of the war, but collective punishment is not the way. It's one of the worst things we can do to reinforce pain, resentment, and division.
It doesn't even have to be nefarious. Just imagine a thread where 90% of the comments are repeating variations of the model's ideas in slightly different ways, and only 10% of the other responses are from humans. Even if the AI responses are considered 'good'... it gets overwhelming to the point that why should normal people even comment as the likelihood of it being read by another human and useful or even seen drops to nothing. I might as well open up a blank text file and make this comment and then not save it and close it as that would be seen by the same number of people in the limit.
That's honestly a hilarious response from ChatGPT
https://archive.ph/xJAhi

http://web.archive.org/web/20221204144111/https://www.righto...
Going all-in on any individual location has risks. At Apple's scale, even 25% in four countries means enormous efficiencies of scale in each, but if one country has a coup or goes to war with the US, it's not as disastrous.
This is a surprisingly in-depth article, I found it very informative.
Passports contain digitally signed X.509 certificates in their chips. No AI can learn to forge a digital signature (we hope).
My suggestion is that besides reading books, you could try to build a startup. It could just be consulting on your own (or with ChatGPT or Fiverr/freelancing sites as your team). Then you will gain direct experience in a lot of those things.

Also here are a few ideas for managing scope, deliverables, expectations, time management. Structure things financially so that they are tied to relatively short iterations that require direct interaction with working software and between the engineers and the users and management at regular intervals. The communication with users AND management, payment, and deployment of working software at regular intervals should be strictly enforced. The project should not continue into the next iteration until all of those requirements are met for the current one.
I can’t wait until 99% of reviews are written with AI.
What happens when we can’t trust anything ?
I do not know if this claim is true, but in the article it is said that infrared light imaging is affected by Rayleigh scattering, which limits its resolution.

According to this claim, many common materials would diffuse the infrared light so that the image would look like looking to something through translucent glass or through fog, which would diminish the resolution.

I assume that this refers to imaging through visually opaque materials, i.e. through clothes, like for airport security, not to looking through the air with an infrared camera.
> Anyone who did was accused of being antisocial or worse.

To be clear they were not accused to of being anti-social. People who don't want gun manufacturers sued for what is done with their guns were called child killers, "sandy hook hoaxers", etc. The Bloomberg (yes, it was Bloomberg) money machine paired with the noise machine that is Mom's Demand Action has absolutely dominated the narrative around this.
> "In your next novel, “Red Team Blues,” you focus on Martin Hench, a sixty-seven-year-old forensic accountant, who is tasked with recovering a set of stolen signing keys that, with some technical finagling, can permit one to rewrite a blockchain’s distributed ledger, swiping assets from one side to the other, as it were. Do you think blockchain tech is less secure than enthusiasts portray it to be?"

Color me shocked.
Exactly. ChatGPT sounds like a bad student who didn't actually learn anything during the year and is trying to bullshit their way through the finals. Or a politician, maybe. It's formalizing the worst traits of humanity.
There is no genie here, some people have a belief about this while it is very easy to probe the low quality and inaccuracy of the responses.
Wouldn't India be similarly volatile? To an extent, it is possible to compare any country to the phenomenon that is China.
Isn't the current government run by a wannabe strongman (sorry, but I cannot bring myself to use the word "strong" in earnest next to that kind of politician) the type of administrator who has shown recently to do all kinds of random moves for the sake of posturing/self-imposed grandieur?
The internet is still changing from year to year. It was totally different 10 years ago, and that was different from what it was 20 years ago. It seems safe to project that it will be different in 10 years.

The nice thing about the internet is that it is a "dumb pipe", actual protocols are determined at the end points. This aside from eg. current web browsers allowing anyone to set up a UI anywhere to do anything at any time.

This means that there were alternatives in the past, alternatives right now, and there will be in future too.
Check out the Ash framework that's built on top of Phoenix+Elixir.
A great way for QA’s to mess with developers
A Windows OEM license is tied to motherboard. A retail license can be transferred to a new computer if you uninstall the old copy.
Yeah sorry. I said Pro, but realized I used an Enterprise key.
There is not as much need for machines that make snow in Alaska
You're going to fight an uphill battle on that one.

In my experience the general public's notion of "general purpose computing" is "Well, my phone can do everything I need, isn't that general purpose computing?"
Could you please expand a bit on the land-grabbing part?
I would love to learn more.
Training models on generated data is a thing. But it needs to be validated in order to filter out the crap. This works better in math and code because you can rely on exact answers and tests. For fake news the model needs to team up with human annotators. For generated images and text in general there are a few ML approaches to detect, and if they fail detection maybe they are that good it's ok to let them be.
Thanks! I will be adding more skills / career tracks depending on feedback :)
It seems like more robotics is called for, if only Apple had the money to invest in it...
ah, so you'd rather dig into someones comment history, then actually address the argument made. they have a name for that:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem