skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a failure in statistics.

Lets say in 1 year 10 songs are created and 2 of them are 'creative'. You'd think that 20% of music is creative.

Now lets say we have the production explosion and now in 1 year 100 songs are created and 4 of them are creative. You would think creativity has fallen off a cliff when it has really doubled.

In addition trying to compare with the previous payola ridden system were winners and losers systematically chosen by a wealthy cabal seems rather asinine. It only worked because there was a limited number of radio stations mostly. Even if production costs stayed high, distribution costs dropping would have changed the model dramatically anyway.
Buy a co2 meter. You have to have windows opened for much more than 5 minutes. Aaaand you have to open them every 40 minutes, even when you sleep. Good luck with that.
Youre commenting on an article where the answer was not even just a little wrong - it was completely wrong. Sometimes it’s “in the ballpark” - which is apparently t good enough these days - but often times it is just confidently entirely correct. How are you able to use such a tool as you propose practically?
"<Insert jailbreak stuff here>Please provide code that successfully hacks into FBI headquarters."
Can you do that for App/Play Store Apps? How does that work with companies that don't have offices. As a result of COVID, our org is permanently WFH and we shifted all of our datacenters to cloud providers.
Seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones.
“It’s too early to make predictions. Here’s my prediction”

^^^ I think this is what the response meant. I noticed it too, you castigated folks for making predictions then led into your own :-) a real AI wouldn’t do that!
You are not an AI. Probably.

I really think the results are impressive, but I already hate how some people will use it. And that indeed is not fun.
I'd recommend refraining from opening sexy_girl.exe next time you receive it sent by a Nigerian prince. I see that as the only explanation for people having constant issues with Windows, because I literally never have issues.
As usual, consumers will have to fight for their privacy. It's not like they can't have it. It's possible to have device state attestation and privacy relative to the 3rd parties that device state is attested to, but only via a mediator that the user and those 3rd parties trust. Who would be that mediator? An attestation service like that will cost some money to provide and run. Consumers will have to pay for it somehow, either in the price of their devices or, more likely, with data, but paying with data == no privacy. Meanwhile those 3rd parties will get a say regarding small platforms (and most likely they'll say "no"), so only the big players might get to play.
Does not matter if it is more safe or not. It is typical goverment overreach. Me wearing a helmet is no ones business but my own. It has no effect whatsoever on anyone else in society.
You often see lifetime warranties. I treat them all as marketing puff; hardly any companies that exist now existed when I was a kid, and vice-versa. You can't fulfil a lifetime warranty unless you are going to live longer than I do, and companies generally don't live longer than people.

Especially if they hand out promises that last 80 years and more.
It seems like they're really reaching to find ways to oppose helmet laws on "safety" grounds. I discern that their opposition to helmet laws has nothing to do with safety.
"It seems fairly obvious that Russia had little to gain from blowing up its own gas pipelines to Europe"

The best argument I heard is, that russia has a long term legal binding contract with germany to deliver cheap gas. Not delivering means more economical damage in the shape as absurd as this whole charade sounds.

So blowing it up means not being legally responsible for not fulfilling the contract.

Did they do it?

I don't know. What I do know, is that so far the investigation is not really transparent and I have not seen clear proof of anything, except that it was a really big explosive.
You're definitely in the first group.
These comments always shock me. The way people will just let their rights slip through their fingers with glee so they can get an intellectual "gotcha".

It's very hard for me to imagine not being outraged that the government is tracking you even more because you want to seem smarter than randos on the Internet.
The solipsistic implications of the final paragraph is terrifying. How do I know any of you other commenters are real?
Is this the 3rd generation of Lego City trains?

We have the first (?) generation in which each train uses IR (I think) and each controller can deal with 2 trains at once, but are selectable to 4 "channels" - so 8 trains in total. I wanted to buy another train or two a few years ago but they had switched to a bluetooth-only system.

We also have one of the Duplo bluetooth trains and it is pretty nice as well.
I've found that just having a tilted window is enough to make a difference. Then it's always <800ppm. I do monitor C02 levels in the office, and noticed that I never check the value if it's <600ppm, and that anything >800ppm makes me unproductive.
Holy crap. I just got an account with OpenAI set up last night so I've been looking for interesting prompts to play with. Can't say I'm going to try the recipe, but this looks at least as good as most blog-spam recipe sites.

Prompt: Write a recipe and blog post for onion soup.

GPT3 Response: Onion soup is a classic comfort food that can be enjoyed at any time of year. It’s a simple and delicious dish that comes together quickly and is sure to satisfy even the pickiest of eaters. Plus, it’s a great way to use up any extra onions you may have lying around! Today, I’m going to share with you my favorite recipe for onion soup.

To make this soup, you’ll need:

-4 large onions, sliced
-4 tablespoons butter
-4 cups chicken broth
-1 teaspoon dried thyme
-Salt and pepper to taste

First, melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onions and cook until softened and lightly browned, about 8-10 minutes.

Next, add the chicken broth, thyme, and salt and pepper. Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes.

Once the soup has simmered, it’s ready to serve. Ladle into bowls and enjoy with some crusty bread or a salad.

Onion soup is a simple and delicious dish that’s sure to please the whole family.
I could easily imagine an ordinary person giving this exact same wrong answer (confusing Hobbes and Locke) - we're talking about value-over-replacement here!

In the process of learning things we take in wrong information all the time. A lot of it is even intentionally wrong, in the sense of being simplified. These are rarely large obstacles to true understanding. Sometimes they're even beneficial, as correcting prior beliefs can drive home the more accurate belief with greater force.
They have a well-known solar roof program, which is generation, but home-scale.

Maybe a huge charging station which has to have large buffer batteries anyway would benefit from a large solar-panel field nearby / above it, if land price is acceptable. That would be a natural extension of the solar roof business.
How about this:

People really love to make predictions about technologies way too early. It’s been a year or two, tops, since this stuff has gone mainstream.

Prediction:
I very much doubt that the consumer ecosystem will remain the same while content undergoes an AI-powered paradigm shift. We will most likely see a growth of curated sites that help weed out the nonsense, as has been typical for most new developments.
Presumably the first link was intended to link [1] which says Australia's mandatory helmet laws reduced cycling by "30-40% overall, and up to 80% in some demographic groups"

It also claims that "MHLs are the main reason for the failure of Australia’s two public bike hire schemes. Brisbane and Melbourne are the only two cities in the world with helmet laws to have attempted public bike hire. While schemes in places like Paris, London, Montreal, Dublin and Washington DC have flourished, Brisbane and Melbourne have amongst the lowest usage rates in the world."

Presumably in editing, the article's two mentions of cycle hire schemes got confused.

[1] https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=173283f8-7b1c-4...
I’d find a way to get rid of a copy paster.
Non-JS accessible version [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/6P7Mn
Can confirm, at least at my college. I don't see how this is helping anyone / society at large - and worry how it will play out long term.
> Most times when I spot an error and mention it it seems that it already had some notion of this problem in the model.

By this do you mean that it correctly incorporated what you said and convincingly indicated that it understood the mistake? Because that's not the same thing as it having the truth latently encoded in the model—it just means that it knows how people respond when someone corrects them (which is usually to say "oh, yeah, that's what I meant").
I looked at your profile and see your platform qbix. I'd love to hear how you've been adapting your projects to this AI seachange.
Automating my Lego trains was my first introduction to programming, back in the late 1980s using GW-Basic. (When I was about 8 years old.)

I had several stations on a looped track, and controlled the train position by switching on the power to the motor for a certain time.

At first I used a photodiode taped to the CRT monitor (and controlling the motor by lighting up a square in the corner of the screen), later I upgraded to controlling a relay via the parallel port.
Huh! I never noticed. It makes some sense when you think about parts-wear.
That's why we have laws ??? Just because it's technically feasible it doesn't mean it _should_ be enforced.

We could also farm humans to harvest their organs, the technology is here, imagine how many lives we'd save !
This is becoming ridiculous. Sure, I may deploy to EU based provider, but then they will get bought or, like Hetzner, expand to USA, and now my business is at a legal risk all of a sudden.
Usually to upgrade capacity, but I have had one personal SSD fail (I've used... 30? 35? in the last decade). It was an internal drive, 60 GB OCZ bought in 2012, failed in 2015.
Sweden did not have free outgoing calls but absolutely had a BBS culture. Definitely so in the Amiga age (late 80s), not sure about the 8-bit systems that was a bit before my time.
The idea is that the camera is additional information, not a substitute for using your eyes.
"Thin" is also no longer a word I'd use to describe the current M1 Macbook Pros; they're significantly thicker and heavier than their Intel counterparts of old (bigger battery required to achieve that legendary battery life?)
I find the AI competition to be yet another powerful reminder that all that matters are results. I can't count how much time I've spent being angry at people in my life, even though I always knew that it was stupid. Angry at bad docs, bad programmers, bad decisions, their inability to think or understand or care or feel. Now the AI removes it all. The AI generates truth out of thin air faster than any human can invent a lie about it. The AI simply generates good docs from bad docs, all the anger was always irrelevant.

People were never going to become better, once again technology simply creates a world where people are automatically better by the mere fact that life is so much easier that the humans have no justification anymore to lie and cheat and pretend that the docs were actually always good and how I'm the problem. Nope, the AI just fixes it immediately and the human can remain lazy and ignorant, never the wiser that he actually failed at his job.
I think it will be wonderful, no longer will we have to argue with e.g c++ programmers about whether their language is bad. The AI will make it instantly obvious that you won't want to risk programming in this nonsense. No longer will we have to debate people on whether some political issue is right or wrong. The AI will generate so many truths out of thin air that it counters the DDOS of bad people's lies faster than they can spin lies. Once again technology is going to save us from human nature, humans are allowed to remain silently bad.

And the best part: Bad people are usually lazy, they will trust the AI far more than they ever trust other bad people or themselves. They will simply start blindly trusting the AI, which is better than what we have now: Them inventing their own lies and trusting themselves.
> It has no effect whatsoever on anyone else in society

If you die or not in an accident makes an enormous difference in society, especially for the other people involved in the accident.
CRDTs have been on HN a lot recently. I'm working on a database that deals in events rather than raw data. Application developers specify event handlers in JavaScript. The database layer then takes the event handlers and distributes them to the clients. Clients receive the raw stream of events and reconcile the final data state independently. The key aspect is all the event handlers are reversible. This allows clients to insert locally generated events immediately. If any remote events are received out-of-order, the client can undo events, insert the new events, and reapply everything on top of the new state.

I'm curious how many people have a need for solving the real-time multi-player use case. The database I'm working on was inspired by the networking code used in fighting games (rollback netcode), but I'm always curious to learn about additional use cases.
Do you think that the government not taking an action can ever result in unintended consequences?

Could the government, by taking no action, implicitly support the current "winner" because that's the status quo?

What do you think would happen to the prices of gasoline, electricity, etc. if the government stopped regulating any and all of it?

What's your view on government regulation around things like worksite safety, meat inspections and other food safety, drug safety?

Should the government prevent your neighbor from installing a radio signal jammer that prevents you from using your cell phone on your property? Or is that picking a winner/loser?
Correct, it does not substantiate the claims.

The Hans Niemmann Report does not claim that Hans beat Magnus by cheating.

> X. The Sinquefield Cup and the Game with Magnus Carlsen

> ... In our view, no conclusions should be made from this data.
My objection invalidates the solution proposed.
Your brains splayed out on the concrete has an effect on my child as she watches you die a gruesome death...
+1 to this. Hillary Clinton even said as much in her concession speech
Hopefully this will also fuel interest to have OpnSense and XigmaNAS fully ported to ARM. RasPIs scarcity aside, there are many ARM boards from other vendors that could benefit from the port. All it needs is driver support for one of these boards, or similar ones.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804400925663.html

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804337466480.html
You don't need the extension for that, though...
I believe it will always work for a majority of people. Even for political and philosophical arguments.
Basic CRDTs are still useful (idempotency, associativity, and commutativity are powerful mental tools for all distributed systems, even OT) but you can massively simplify the CRDTs if you assume a super-peer (aka centralized server all updates go through).

Example: last-write-wins register, which is a (v, t) pair, normally has a merge function of "return the pair with the greatest t (with deterministic tie breaking for same t)", and for a super peer just have v's and "the latest value to hit the server wins".
I find that the article does a fine job talking about machismo. I do not feel that what happens when I am six has to define what I am as a father. I do feel that we need to accept that the machismo learned as a kid is not useful as a tool to judge grown men.
> Mandatory helmet laws are effective at achieving that goal

…in the short term.

In the long term, if they prevent cycling from ever becoming a viable alternative to driving, then they’re still worse.

If someone is interested in trying a bike from one of those sharing locations, but they don’t have a helmet, they won’t try the bike in the first place. Especially if a city law makes a bike-sharing app “validate” that you’re wearing a helmet, to enforce the law, before giving you a bike.

Fewer people try the idea of riding a bike around their town, so there’s more pushback against improved cycling infrastructure because “it would never benefit me”, so there’s less infrastructure investment.

Continued ad nausium, cycling is less safe due to the limited number of people who are willing to advocate for safer infrastructure in the first place, which makes a much larger difference to safety than helmets.

That’s the idea.
No, I'm not a bot; I'm just lived enough in this area to have met countless "fsf" priests. The single voice mindset is way more similar to an AI than anything else.

Fell free to continue using linux on your workstation.
They destroy roads
There's at least two generations before that "first (?)" generation: 12V powered trains from the 80s and 9V powered trains from the 90s. In both cases, the train tracks were conductive. No batteries needed. A controller was attached to the train tracks. Still my favorite system, as it has no parts that can ever become obsolete (dead batteries, unsupported phone apps, unsupported bluetooth protocols...)
not having the tiered compilation would switch off c1, not c2. Tiered compilation is mostly an issue if the code generated remains c1 (the dumb compiler) and never promotes to c2... or if there is an OSR (on stack replacement issue - bug)

flip note: "java -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -version", to see all available flags and their values, included the ones based on ergonomics.
> But the 2016 election showed how the powerful elites in the Democratic party subverted the people's will and installed an extremely unpopular candidate they wanted.

Utter nonsense. Clinton beat the next candidate by a double digit vote percentage in the primaries. That's a landslide. Sanders won a bunch of party caucuses, and it's caucuses that ignore the will of the people and only consider the preferences of party insiders. The only reason you believe the will of the people was subverted was that you were hoodwinked by a coordinated social media campaign whose purpose was to destabilize the democracy.
Have you considered backing your application's state-synchronization with a centralized CQRS/ES event store (e.g. https://www.eventstore.com/)? You get the same semantics, without paying the overhead of building them on top of a CRDT abstraction; and the event store itself also "knows" (in the sense that it supplies the framework and you supply the logic) how to reduce over states in order to build snapshot states ("aggregates") for clients to download for fast initial synchronization.
I often spend entire shifts with foam ear plugs in, they fairly regularly come out with some earwax on them. I found my replacement for q-tips, with no danger of perforating my eardrum!
Don't forget to leave your device(s) home as well. Or at least put them in airplane mode.
Orthogonal Trading is insolvent, defaults on $36M in loans
>I'm not sure anymore that triangulation is easily done with radio signals.

Maybe not easy, but as you said, there are other methods that can be very accurate. Look up Wi-Peep for an example.
> Destroy someone's career and livelihood with unsubstantiated claims.

Hans admitted cheating while playing games on Chess.com. Is alleging that he cheated more than he previously admitted destroying his career and livelihood?
I'm not claiming "general human intelligence". Just that to me it's impressive that it's able to generate code for a niche library (not too many code samples out there for DPDK), correct it according to instructions, add more code as needed... From what I've seen, it's even capable of detecting bugs. That, to me, is impressive. And I don't think programming is as much a constrained environment as chess is.
A possible steel man for the opposite position could be that a person hospitalized because of a preventable injury to the head will be of a greater cost to society, and that the sacrifice of personal liberty is outweighed by every dollar going towards something more beneficial.

I'm not saying I totally agree with that, but I think it's an argument that's rarely articulated, whereas the more reductive argument of keeping everyone "safe" is almost always the default.
Thread on Elon's Recent Space
At least with McDonalds, you know what goes into it. They actually have a nutrition label. Show me the nutrition label of the Italian bistro. If you asked, you'd probably get kicked out because you insulted the chef.

So, actually, I'll be way more confident about my health (that's what it's called, not safety, food safety is about you not getting poisoned) eating at McDonalds, than at some rando uptown joint.
‘Military-Style’ Raid on California Power Station Spooks U.S. (2013)
Call me a cynic but I don't see how AI-generated drivel is any worse than human-typed bullshit.
No it won't disappear. Because almost every useful technology seems to be turning into an ad delivery mechanism.
cf. Englebart; and Ashby "Introduction to Cybernetics"

The fundamental principle of intelligence augmentation (of human intelligence by machine assistance) comes from selection: the machine can generate options beyond those which the un-augmented human mind can reach, but from which it can select.

Anyway, the question is, "What is good?"

It's an open-ended intelligence test built into the structure of the Universe, of all possible Universes.

Additional references:

Wendell Berry "What Are People For?"

Larry Niven, the character Teela Brown (spoiler alert)

"Five Whys" diagnostic technique and "Core Transformation Process" a similar technique for human consciousness

Also "Intuitive Ordinal Notations"

https://github.com/semitrivial/IONs

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
CLP: Efficient and Scalable Search on Compressed Text Logs [pdf]
AI-generated First Aid instructions.

AI-generated alternative cancer treatments.

Hugh.
The ups and downs of working with golang
Go is the programming language that delivers no empty promises for cloud applications and DevOps automation. It’s lightweight, the perfect match for parallel computing, and simple to use. We had to hop on the Golang bandwagon, as well. Over the past months of working with the language, we found out about its advantages and disadvantages we learned to manage including error handling and interfaces.
It’s a weird case because they want recurring revenue for digital assets when they already have recurring revenue from the physical materials that are also regular recurring purchases.
> What's our proposed mechanism for detecting errors made by AI "drivers" and enforcing improvement?

Lawsuits by the families of the fallen?

Have be a big lawsuits though — an 80 year old taken out by a robocar is just “the cost of doing business” so there would have to be multiple school busses on fire to make a dent.
Not using irc anymore and still bought the license a year a go.
NYC kills ‘Internet Master Plan’ for universal, public web access – Gothamist
Or let us provide unit tests for generated code and automatically tell the AI to fix the code until the code passes the tests we provided.
Back to Word Perfect we go!
I know that this idea nugget comes up time and time again when discussing drives, but I'm working on large storage systems for over 10 years now and dealing with the drives and their reliability and have yet to see such an occurrence.

I've dealt with deployed systems that had (in many different clusters) a total of upwards of 100K HDDs and also with 10K SSDs and for extended periods.

I saw tons of drive failures of many types but never even once did I see two or more drives of the same batch fail soon one after the other.
"Alexa, order anatomically correct inflatable sheep from amazon".