skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, probably don't date a 24 year-old. I realize there is no strict correspondence between age and taste, but I'm 42 and my wife is 41 and, well, our shared experience is quite a bit more similar. She can relate when I get nostalgic about the 80s and 90s. She even reads! Complete novels, more than she watches TV. She doesn't have TikTok or Instagram. It is entirely possible to go full-time mutual old people yelling at clouds in a blissful bubble in which the river of bullshit may as well not exist, but probably not if you insist on staying cool and regularly interacting with young people.

Second, watch the rest of Dark, Better Call Saul, and House of the Dragon. Don't watch the last two seasons of Game of Thrones. Just pretend it ended at 6.
A lot of people in the comments are making a hard distinction between AI garbage/bullshit and the pure/genuine human-created thing, and the various ways in which we can keep this distinction alive.

If only that was true, the bullshit part. You should start living with the idea that the AI generated content is NOT bullshit, because we're either already there or very close to it. The AI content will be of value, look good, pass tests, and be indistinguishable from human-created content for a large amount of use cases in mass media.

So I wonder if we should ask, how do we filter out the bullshit? The more relevant question is: if its indistinguishable in its output compared to humans, what does that mean for our economy, purpose and humanity?

Because without action, the future is easy to predict. 3 companies run AI, feeding on all collective human cognitive labor without paying a cent for it. Then, one by one, it will wipe out every creative/cognitive sector, or at least decimate them. These shocks to the economy and culture will lead to a brand new type of pushback: anti-AI activism. That won't do much because AI doesn't care. Finally, some 10 years after the catastrophe there will be a congressional hearing where a 75 y/o asks: "so this AI thing, it's like a better calculator, right?".

It would be another fine case of humanity failing to grasp the exponential function.
A few years back, I used a hosting company that was pretty lenient with the stuff they allowed. It was used by a lot of gray area or slightly shady websites. I didn't really care about that, but they suffered frequent outages because some of the shady sites were constantly being attacked. So I switched to a different hosting company that was stricter and did not constantly suffer from outages.
> Your definiton

And many others.

> And, in terms of sales, that might be your definition of 'caught up' but it's not mine.

Good for you

> Well-used analagy applies here: if sales are your KPI then I assume McDonalds is your idea of a fine meal. Sorry, no.

Thanks for that analogy. Yes, one can brag all they want about the best Italian cuisine they had at a top bistro. It means nothing to most people if: they can't afford it, if they can't get a booking for months. McDonalds delivers round the clock, food that's safe and does it fast. I take McDonalds over all of so called "fine" food any day. I value my time and don't want to waste it, waiting on food.

> And your dismissal of Hyundai/Kia by definition singles you out as far out there in biased land. I've test drove all three (including Tesla) and done the research. The only reason I haven't bought an ioniq 5 is because I simply can't justify it at the moment (my work-life means it'll just sit in the driveway however much I want it). But they are all ... great cars.

I have driven all the above (some through friends and Ioniq 5 by asking a stranger nicely), in addition to BYD, Polstar and anything that's available to drive in Australia, multiple times for some. I've owned a Tesla for the past 2 years and have test driven every other model as well. The handling, software, ambiance and interior of all but Tesla (and specifically Model 3) is vastly inferior. As for handling, they all feel like they'll run away and off the road any moment. I'm sure I'll get used to them after longer drives, but Tesla's doing something there that gives me more confidence when handling.

If any of these was significantly cheaper as to make up for their shortcomings, I'd happily recommend them to friends and family. But as they sit right now, no frigging way.

> if ugly.

I don't know what you're talking about!

> But the Hyundai/Kia are now the better cars (interior, build, comfort)

Interior of all the cars above make me feel suffocated. Their build qualities are definitely good but virtually no one I know actually cares, unless shit's falling off the car. Tesla's quality is only getting better. As for comfort, Model 3 has the most comfortable seat of any car I've ever owned (out of 3).
India closely guards the rupee to prevent foreign exchange crises. A free CBDC challenges that regime because it lets anyone, anywhere, exchange rupees. So expect the sort of controls that would let New Delhi restrict that sort of activity, and then project that power domestically.
I'm absolutely not denying the cyclist needs space and motorists have to give them space. I completely agree with this. I completely agree that the danger is asymmetric.

I'm saying the cyclist still needs that space even when they are moving faster than the cars around them, because they are still in danger even when they are the fastest moving thing in the vicinity.

Cars have blind spots, and cyclists that overtake with insufficient clearance fit precisely into them. Cyclists can still wobble, fall or slip even when they are the ones doing the overtaking, and they still get hurt. Danger is present even when the motorised vehicle is only moving at low speed, because parts of the cyclist and/or bike can still get snagged on parts of the motor vehicle if the cyclist wobbles or falls into it.

I firmly believe insufficient clearance between cyclists and cars is a situation that we can and should avoid with sensible design of cycle paths, roads and junctions. In the sad absence of such, enough clearance has to be maintained to avoid collision if either party stops suddenly or the cyclist wobbles or falls.

In slow or start/stop traffic, the car is generally trapped between other cars and has nowhere to move to; the cyclist is the only party with any control over the situation.
Not only have I never done this, I was not previously aware that anyone else did, either.
As David Hume points out, you don't actually know you'll be hungry tomorrow. You assume you will be based on induction from similar past events, but this is not certain. (He does concede that it's reasonable to plan as if it were a certainty in such cases, in the absence of any falsifying evidence.)

The famous counterexample metaphor is farmyard turkeys. For months, for their entire lives, the turkeys observe the diligent farmer bringing food and water, providing for their every need so that they don't have to do anything. On the day before Thanksgiving, a turkey philosopher confidently declares that, based on this prior evidence, we can conclude that the farmer, their great benefactor, exists only to serve and further the interests of turkeydom.
I understand both sides and willing to give Khaled a pass. The maintenance of mIRC has been more of a labor of love and it's a regrettable situation, but his devotion and efforts to the community have earned a pass from me.
> The sensible efficiency measurement is consumption per distance

No, that’s a sensible inefficiency measure. A sensible measure of X increases with X.
As someone who likes lego and programming, I love this answer. But I hate how hard lego has made it.

Yes, with some work you can make your train stop and go. But I don't think there's a good track switching solution that's lego only and automated. There's an aftermarket motor thing that connects with USB. The lego only attempts end up unwieldy and usually lacking in reliability (e.g. https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-11841/1963maniac/train-trac...)

The Duplo trains ship with pretty neat functionality out of the box: lights, whistle, brick reader that activates an action when it sees a certain brick. You can't recreate this with lego with just a single power brick, as it's four things: sensor, light, motor, sound. Lego train can only do two.
So, wait, in what sense is AI-generated content garbage? It is (admittedly by the author) fascinating and even beautiful. Is it the fact that it was generated by an algorithm, and the idea then is that all algorithmically-generated content is garbage? But the author doesn't even begin to deal with the idea that humans themselves operate according to algorithms: an algorithm is simply a strategy for doing something.

I won't even critique the rest of the article; there's no need. If AI-generated content is beneficial and helpful to humans, then I think one is hard-pressed to call it garbage, and the underlying thesis fails. And to my knowledge, no one — not even the article's author — denies that AI products can be beneficial.

AI is a tool, just like, say, Photoshop is a tool, or a compiler is a tool. No points are awarded for having human beings do by hand all the tedious work that tools can do better. In the end, creators, whether it be of paintings, or poetry, or essays, or software, will stand on the shoulders of these tools and thereby accomplish things that previous generations could only dream about.
3% of $120k is $3,600
20 years of $3,600 is $72,000

This is beyond the range stated.

Having worked for years in IT for a municipal service, our standard formula was a raise of 0% to 3% based on a performance rating, with 0% being "you're on a PIP and going to be fired soon" and 3% being a top-performer.

This is speculation at this point - but I would assume NYC works against a similar system.
Right there with you, my friend. Someone has to put some sand in their gears.
> ChatGPT significantly reduces that headcount from 5 juniors to 0, and 5 seniors to 2 or 3.

Citation needed. I haven't heard of any massive disruption in the commission art market since stable diffusion went public, and I don't think something less-impactful(a different way to search old stack overflow posts) is going to cause a massive disruption either.

Stack overflow still beats chatgpt in one area that it can never compete. Coming up with new solutions to new questions. If all we needed answered was the same questions, chatgpt would be sufficient since it's essentially a compressed version of our current knowledge. We don't really have a way to update it with "new knowledge" other than "train it again".
They're not the good guys, either.
Selective enforcement is even worse. It leaves the decision to the cops and who are they going to go after? The ones that are weak and have little power to defend themselves.
Emacs, mostly, but even Electron apps are > browser-only things.
I think the opposite, reasoning based on delusions seems pretty prominent recently. You know, like ftx and all...
Pantone is a weird case because they actually do something even if the colors don't change. You're paying for a guarantee, not a color. They have to keep apprised of changes in materials technology used in printing and manufacturing to provide that guarantee. There's a reason the company that bought it out is in the materials business.
It's creating a new market for consultants called to fix codebases written with an AI.
And some of them will even do price matching.
I find the meta-content this generates pretty funny thought. I haven't watched any of the new Trek content since the last movie (Beyond), but I love watching Mike and Rich tear it apart on RedLetterMedia.
The Great Ball Contraption (GBC) videos are pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmwskpxyCg

Really interesting ways to move balls around.
Video is just a better format than text for many recipes, at least for novice cooks. The results often depend on technique as much as ingredients, and it's hard to convey technique through text.
Well there goes a weekend. I can't wait to try this out for my kids.
> from 19th-century horse-racing slang

There's hardly any worse "source" for etymology than that kind of jargon.

> "ringer" was a late nineteenth-century term for a duplicate, usually with implications of dishonesty, ...

Is that it?

> Hope this helps

Not in the slightest, no. If anything it confirms my bias that editors are gullible.

Which, to get back onto topic, would mean to think that the motivation was not exactly what is reported here, but something come a long way.
Good shoutout to Automerge in this.
I had something similar happen to me in Germany.
A FireTV stick LAN cable adapter, which didn't work.
I returned both the Ftv stick and the adapter in the same package.
The stick was marked as received, the adapter wasn't.
I wrote then 4 times. No response.
The 5th time I wrote an angry mail threatening to go to the police.
Literally the next day I received an apology email that it was a mistake on their end.
At least it was resolved.
But the nerves it cost me... no compensation for that.
I don't appreciate being called a fraud.
At this point I feel like it's only a matter of time before a future version of this is able to cite sources. (Though I suspect it'll occasionally struggle to find sources that are reputable and which actually support the AI's statements.)
Does a term require more than 2 seconds of thinking? If yes, then describe it, otherwise it's unnecessary. This one seemed obvious.
It's a shame they got rid of metal tracks and went to batteries. If you're rich you can buy new replacements: https://shop.fxbricks.com/pages/fx-track

Or try to buy old stock on ebay etc.
Same in India for most cases when taking out old notes in circulation etc

This particular demonitisation was done as a shock move to ostensibly catch corruption, black money etc.

It was lauded and welcome when it was announced, including by yours truly.

It was quickly seen as a poor execution by most except the ardent supporters (which doesn't include me)

I am sure most in the govt would secretly agree it was a bad move.
I think you sorely underestimate how much emphasis large trucking firms put into route optimization.
You are making what I think of as the standard "game move" of the AI skeptic. Chess-playing skill was considered a marker of intelligence, but then AI solved it, so it turns out it doesn't require "real" intelligence. 15 years later, neither does playing Jeopardy, it's "just" a clever Google search, that's not really intelligence. Now according to you, programming doesn't require real intelligence (and apparently neither does poetry writing, or essay writing, or any of the other things GPT can do).

In a few years, perhaps we will discover that medicine, law, the social sciences, accounting, financial advice, and white collar work generally speaking don't require intelligence either, and the only things left that will require "real" intelligence will be the building trades and maybe truck driving.
How in the world is this applying Occam's razor?
> Understand, though where exactly does ChatGPT claim to be a source of factual information?

It doesn't right now, but if you scroll up, you'll see the idea at the beginning of this thread is to turn it into a source of information.

The difference between ChatGPT and Wikipedia for this purpose is that:

1. Wikipedia is wrong wayyyyyyyy less often than ChatGPT

2. Wikipedia has sources linked at the bottom of the page you can go check, while ChatGPT does not
I can't speak to everyone's experience or abilities, but I can say that one of the hardest things about overcoming abuse is identifying what reality is and distinguishing the difference between what is true about who/what you are and something you are gping through as a result of the experiences you had.

Between the inflexible authoritarian way my parents were, and the coping mechanisms I used to make it through the years I lived with them, it was a many-years-long journey later on in my adult life (and still ongoing) to work back through the layers and shift the foundations from where they were involuntarily built to where I wanted them to be.

I have a particular grief, for the time in my life I could have been more like who I may have been had it not been for abuse and trauma. The years of lost experiences and mistakes that may have been much less arduous had it not been for the coping mechanisms I adopted for survival. When you say you don't know how to complain- I think it may be more accurate that you may have trouble with communicating with/relating to other people, or you can't find the proper way to articulate how big of an impact or determine at what point something is really part of you or a mindspace you find yourself in.

I spent a long time trying to deal with it on my own, but where I really started to make traction was talking to a professional and actually being honest, painfully so when it came to my dysfunctional way of dealing with intimacy. After some years I was able to begin admitting where I was the source of my own anguish and forgiving myself but also taking accountability of putting in the work to change what I could so I could live life more functionally and really be able to experience things without that weight I hadn't realized I had been carrying all along. To an extent I had become attached to it and it became an extension of me, a part of my identity.

My family in general was (in some ways still is) incredibly problematic, and I've come to realize a lot of the problems started with a desire to be validated and/or accepted by the parental figures. Not saying this is the case for everyone, but it is possible to forgive people (and still love them, if you wish) who caused a lot of harm, and work to heal. You deserved better, and future you can find what you yearn- it's not an easy road working through all that but there is hope to be found in the process which may not have felt feasible otherwise.
What strikes ME about this particular tale is that, in the era the writer was running a BBS, I had moved on to usenet, listserves, and the Well.
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence, case studies in Common Lisp came to mind...perhaps because I was reading between the lines (or perhaps because I was misreading 'artificial intelligence' into the space between the lines).
I remember vaguely that you’d have to catch the raster then “do something” I forget (scroll registers come to mind).
Can we ask EFF to fire a lawsuit against YouTube on that case? Or open a funding campain for that exact case if EFF cannot fund it from their primary stream of donations? This is a crystal clear case, easy win.
Although they do (or at least have in the past) anonymize the data and use it for internal research.
Impact of long-duration space missions at the ISS on the astronaut microbiome
1 goes for any vehicle.
2 yeah, nope no source. EVs weigh more and therefore pollute more when braking so should not be used in cities.
3 no advantage compared to combustion engines.
I don't have evidence to support this, but I have a feeling the TSA and/or other government agencies like the CIA have been face scanning for years. Now they're just announcing the program to normalize it.
Sorry, I had to do it. I asked GPT3...

How can we prevent drowning in garbage generated by AI?

> Preventing drowning in AI-generated garbage can be a challenging task, but there are a few things that can be done to reduce the amount of garbage that is generated. One approach is to carefully design and train AI systems to generate high-quality content, rather than relying on large amounts of data to produce mediocre results. Additionally, using tools and techniques such as data filters and validation can help to identify and remove low-quality or irrelevant content. Finally, creating and enforcing strict guidelines and standards for the use and generation of AI-generated content can help to prevent the proliferation of garbage.
Yes, it is indeed amazing how fast CO2 levels can increase. This is especially a problem in low-ventilated classrooms.

At AirGradient we measure a lot of classrooms and it is not uncommon to see CO2 levels rising to above 4500ppm just within 2 or 3 hours. We wrote a blog post some time ago highlighting this [1].

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/blog/we-measure...
Safety in depth:

* Avoiding the crash in the first place

* Knowing how to fall if you crash

* Helmet, and potentially other protection, when unable to execute crashing properly.

(Edit: Changed ’security’ to ’safety’)
Old app [0]: 4.6 stars 45.3K reviews

New app [1]: 4.4 stars 13.8K reviews

And they also seem to have enough rights left to actually upgrade the old app’s icon with "old app" in German.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rewedigita...

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.rewe.app.mo...
Hive Social shuts down servers due to security issues
Twitter alternative Hive Social shuts down its servers after being warned of critical vulnerabilities.
'Twas clarly trained on a lot of student essays that had to hit target page-lengths/word-counts, with no penalties for repetitiveness.
I think this is a really thoughtful post. I'd encourage us (readers in general) not to trip over the specific illustrations that are being used to show a general point—namely, that when humans attempt to identify cause-effect relationships we're nearly always performing some kind of selection on top of the "raw" data available to us (which is, itself, nearly always a mere sub-set of all the "raw" data that could exist on that subject).

This observation, if we take it seriously, will encourage us (humans in general trying to make sense of the world) to be humble about the conclusions we reach and mildly skeptical about the conclusions others reach, even when those conclusions feel really incontrovertible.
Panic Prompt, a pretty good ssh client for iOS, released a 2.0 version that seemed more like a big update to me. I definitely didn’t mind buying the next version, but it did surprise me.

I dunno. I think to some extent it is just the result of the change in how code is deployed — in the past, for consumer software, you bought a program for a version of the OS and sort of expected that when you upgraded you’d have to go find replacements or buy new editions of some software. Nowadays with app stores and these sort of rapidly-updated, never quite done operating systems, you kind of expect updates, right?

I don’t think conventions have been universally agreed on for this sort of thing.
How is AI-generated garbage different from human-generated garbage? We are already drowning in the later. And from many recent examples, the former seems more interesting (although there is a clear selection bias).
Mozilla is working on a site-specific search feature
The times were so different back then. I recall back in 90, I saw someone post on another BBS they were testing out a new BBS. The phone exchange was the same as mine, so I called him up. Turns out he was in my class at high school, and we've remained best friend since.

I can't even recall how many how I spent making ANSI art for many local BBSs. The opening screens, menus for difference access levels, etc. This was a great way to get sysop access and increased download limits. Many BBSs I recall had upload / download ratios and didn't like leachers.

Thanks for the post and memories.
Less Physical Distance should create less latency, plus an optimized profile for one list of model of banks vs the diversity in the modula industry with different clock speeds and latencies.
The challenge is this is a single point of failure. I do remember my old man continually reminding me where his papers are.
On a related note, Lego is cancelling Mindstorms. So if you were dreaming up an advanced train city with Mindstorms as the brain you'd better stock up now.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428766/lego-discontinu...