skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently f/t linux user, been using it on and off on multiple laptops for 2 decades. Not once, regardless of tlp and other tweaks and many hours of twiddling and forum-reading and keeping stats for weeks on end, has Linux ever approached Windows' battery life on the same machine. I don't know how to relate that to your experience, other than to say that (1) I'm closer to comparing like with like (same user, same machine) and (2) every other linux user I've personally known has found the same as me.

Given the appalling and deteriorating state of desktop OS's, it seems unlikely I'll ever use anything other than Linux again. But I don't believe it will ever catch up with either Windows or MacOS on battery life. I just accept that as something I"ll have to live with.
This is common for software where the people who take the decision which software to buy are far removed from the people who are going to use it.
No product manager cared about this, because this feature needs to work only well enough for a sales pitch, if even that.
Make ChatGPT use Speech Synthesis + Recognition to speak its mind
That is also slow.

Dispatchable generation ramps in tens of seconds and you don't pay $90-200/MWh for it when you're not using it.
The CDC's ToxFAQs page on Perfluoroalkyls [1] is one starting point, refer to the full 993-page report [2] for all the gritty details. Here's a high-level summary of the evidence on cancer risks:

> The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC 2017) concluded that PFOA is possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), and EPA (2016e, 2016f) concluded that there was suggestive evidence of the carcinogenic potential of PFOA and PFOS in humans. Increases in testicular and kidney cancer have been observed in highly exposed humans.

Less research on PFOS that aren't PFOA though, so there's room for dismissing the available evidence if you're so inclined.

[1] https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/ToxFAQs/ToxFAQsDetails.aspx?faqid=1...
[2] https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp200.pdf
The World of Yesterday
Memoirs of a European
by Stefan Zweig
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33840405
Replacing those 50 billion chickens with "lab grown" meat, will bring huge changes the next few decades.
Only when you can plan ahead by a few weeks. Typically, flying is still cheaper than the train. Tried to book a trip from London to home for boxing day. Eurostar was double
When the 'fisher price' laptop is light years better battery, better trackpad, better power management, better build quality, better screen than the $2k+ PC laptop competitors, what does that say about the state of PC laptops?
> And what do you propose we do when ChatGPT (or something like it) can create better content than most humans?

I tend to agree... I've been growing more and more tired with the content in familiar places. eg. reddit. (As an aside I think a lot of it is driven by advertising/marketing, but not all of it...)

Anyway, your comment reminded me of the recent footage of baggage handlers at an airport, and how that dovetails nicely with the recent move by tesla to build a humanoid robot.

Looking for a ray of light in the approaching storm: Maybe these AI can be used to filter the content more effectively for us.
Is it locked to someone’s cloud where it will stop working randomly when they decide to shut down the service?
Most of the negative attitude about this article seems to come from people who weren't raised to appreciate art. It's obvious from all the rebuttals that focus on petty semantics over substance.
How do I do that? I know about easy6502 but what other projects could I start with?
Yep...they're all a pain. At least they mostly work once you jump through the required hoops
> Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance springs to mind where he postulates that every free society that aims to remain just that: free has to be intolerant to certain opinions that (should they become too widespread) would endanger the freedoms of others as well.

People really love paraphrasing Popper into saying what they personally think tolerance means. Popper did not say that a free society must be intolerant of ideas that would endanger other freedoms should they become widespread. In fact he specifically says we should not do this:

> In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.
One Day in the Coldest Village on Earth – Yakutia
Even on HN, we start getting flooded by "ahah, I asked ChatGPT and here's the answer" in the comments, and every other topic is about "I did X with ChatGPT". This is already getting old
Oh, interesting, I hadn't heard that. Thanks!
This looks amazing!!
Not sure if you're trolling but this wasn't even hard to find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practices_of_Apple_Inc.#Manufa...

I wish sometimes folks could see past their paychecks, privilege, and holier-than-thou attitude. That's too much to ask. I mean, better chances at holding Apple accountable than dealing with its notorious fanbois.
I must be a weirdo.... I just wear lots of wool, and a thin windproof/rainproof jacket with armpit zips. I get sweaty but I stay warm (as long as I'm moving)
"Crypto is weird, because, much more so than other technologies, if you don't like crypto, crypto people really want to convince you that you're wrong."

For some, this is a difficult-to-ignore red flag.
To be clear, ELI5 isn't a "meme" nor does it mean literally explain something to an actual 5 year old[1].

In reality, it means explain something in plan language without insider terms/definitions.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/ (See: sidebar)
I'm working on a gpt-3 based chrome extension as well. Love this!!
This brought back some memories. We had a 6502-based BBC micro at school. I remember the first time I was so hooked trying to understand how comparisons really worked, the caretaker didn’t realise I was still there and locked the doors for the night. I was 10. Caused a bit of a panic when they found out.

That started me down the long road of learning to code. Despite getting a CompSci degree later I still have plenty of bad self-learned habits from those days. But I remember them fondly.

Sounds like compared to Becky I was very fortunate in my childhood. Kudos to her to for her amazing achievements.

(I read the transcript rather than listening to the podcast and it was still great).
The Concur UI is a bucket of ass, classic enterprise software. Barely tolerable when it is working, and it is broken or super slow maybe 1 in 4 times I try to use it.

On the trip side, the car rental selector is something special. You can't check multiple vendors at once, so if cars are in demand, expect to spend a while discovering you can't get one.
These kind of bad UX problem can be easier to rationalize once we understand the money flow. Would you stop using it because of such UX? Would your stopping cause the company to stop procuring SAP? Was the search the selling point in the first place when the sales representative pitch the software to finance department? Probably no, no and no. So are all other bad UXes.

And we can probably wager that a better UX doesn't yield the developer a better pay cheque.
Not at all, at least at FAANGs I was lucky enough to observe from the inside myself.

Team lead there is essentially a middle ground between the engineering manager and IC devs. Sometimes teams do with just ICs+manager, sometimes it has that TL layer in-between (usually on larger teams, either in the number of people or the scope of work). TLs can be either senior or staff engineers (only seen seniors as TLs though). Both senior and staff engineers can be either ICs or TLs.

Often, I see TL positions being either just a stop-gap for transitioning to being an engineering manager or as a lite test-drive of whether the person would actually like being in a management position (as opposed to an IC).
My argument is that the underlying processes don’t matter as long as results are classified as output of an intelligence - because that’s the only way I can judge it. What it is under the hood is… less important.

Oh btw you must’ve missed the post in which it was told it was a Linux shell and it mostly worked as one. Complete with recursively calling into a pretend API version of itself. I’m not calling that intelligence, but I’m not calling it regurgitation either.
The most ironic thing is that people who do the hard work are unlikely to be obsoleted any time soon. At least in third-world countries. Theoretically you can build robot today to replace janitors, plumbers or serviceme but it just too expensive and does not scale.

But replacing computer operators is scalable. So I definitely expect most office people including low skilled developers to be replaced by AI in a 20 years. High-skilled developers might survive (and I'm not sure if I'd qualify) but obviously for most workers that's not very encouraging.
Cold vs. warm rain is a huge difference. I lived in coastal California and road my bike to work all year, it could be 40F and raining, if you don't have a waterproof jacket you'll be freezing really fast. You'll be sweaty inside because they don't breathe perfectly but you won't freeze. In warm tropical rainy places you can just get wet from rain and not really worry.
It's very good at iterating from a description to working code. You still need to know what you're doing, but it can handle a lot of details.

prompt: How would you design a distributed key value storage system? Assume the values are about one megabyte. We will need to scale up to store petabytes of data.
gpt: describes data distribution techniques, consistency, durability issues.
prompt: What techniques can you use for the data distribution?
gpt: sharding, replication, partitioning, hashing
prompt: Can you show me an example of the sharding technique in python?
gpt: spits out code for hash sharding a dictionary
prompt: What are some pitfalls of the hash function you used?
gpt: not guaranteed to unique hash values, not guaranteed to be the same for different python installations, not cryptographically secure
prompt: Can you implement the stub for a GRPC key value service in rust? The service should have a Put API that takes a key and a value and returns a status code enum. The status code can be SUCCESS or FAILURE.
gpt: spits out code using tonic
prompt: Can you show me the protocol buffer?
gpt: spits out the protocol buffer schema
prompt: Can you implement the put method by storing the data in sqlite?
gpt: spits out the code with a kv_pairs table
prompt: Can you show me the sqlite schema for the table?
gpt: spits out the sql to create the table
Unfortunately, Incinerating sounds like a way to release PFAS or some sort of breakdown of them into other (perhaps similar or worse) chemicals, into the air. At which point, they will float and disperse and likely fall back onto/into the land or water.

I imagine they're a colloid in water. And so perhaps they precipitate out of air (vapor?) and into land/water.
Link hugged to death. Archive http://web.archive.org/web/20221204204618/https://blog.plove...
> People are most interested in what their peers have to say, not any random human being or human level AI.

> Now if this human level AI is working in the field as a professional, or at least in computer science academia the it’s opinions are valid and interesting. However if it’s merely an average best possible response then it’s pointless to hear it’s opinion.

Yes, I agree with that, but I don't think that's what the parent poster was arguing.

It's also clear that I didn't phrase my question as clearly as I could, because instead of "human-level AI", I should have said this instead: "a human-level (or more intelligent) AI that has equivalent or better knowledge/experience than the people who post on HN".

> Additionally if multiple people post chatGPT responses that’s just like talking to same person using humans as sock puppets.

Yes, I agree with this as well.

But as a counterpoint, (as far as I understand) it's possible to have ChatGPTs with different levels of knowledge/experience and different personalities, as evidenced by GPT-3's fine-tuning capability (disclaimer: I've never used this functionality, so I'm not 100% sure if this is correct).
> Computation Warfare: This kind of model could be used by a bad actor to generate endless sincere-looking codebases for things that of course don't actually work but are so complicated that it would take a skilled person to determine it was not code from a real codebase, but by the time that happens large numbers of repositories of code will flood github and the internet in general making it essentially impossible to train new LLM's on data after a certain calendar date, as large amounts of it will be cryptically incomplete.

That's actually a pretty good plan for coders who want to keep their jobs. (I still remember the time I was talking to some guy at CERN about a type system I was working on and he was so pissed with me because he was convinced it would eliminate jobs.)
There is hope to grow that market impact! Imagine a service where the user could explicitly modify the algorithm to encourage different emotions in themselves, including hate if they want it.

Such a service would make plain a simple truth we don't want to acknowledge: screens hold powerful sway over people, and algorithms hold sway over screens. That power (mood manipulation) can be used for good or evil. Maybe if people are given control over their own tools in this way, they can better appreciate the control that is exerted on them by others, and so better resist it.
This is a clear indication that the user is not the customer. The first time someone arrives at the scene catering to the users, the whole industry will be wiped out. This happened to the phone handsets when iphone arrived.

So, future investors - look at the startups that address the user problems, not the client problems, even though the latter are paying.
I don't see how we went from interpretive dance by a mixed group of men and women to sexualising the women as "page 3" and "totty"?
Indeed, the last part from the disclaimer: "Free Research Preview: ChatGPT is optimized for dialogue. Our goal is to make AI systems more natural to interact with, and your feedback will help us improve our systems and make them safer."
The page linked doesn’t say a lot, but it does say “local web interface”
Sure, let's move some of that production to Vietnam because they are good communists!
If my managers could document requirements with the same degree of detail required for GPT to produce a valid result, they wouldn't need me already.

Writing code is the easy part.
Tetraethyl lead was actually toxic too. What incentive led the avgas industry to replace it before it was banned?
Isn’t this just the nature of novelty? The most interesting thing about something is often the idea and the fact that it’s new and unexpected. The first time you see it, you’re surprised and delighted. Novelty drops off quickly unless people using the same idea add significant innovation to it.
“Projecting recreations onto the original paintings” sounds a lot less lofty, I suppose.
Becky recommends Assembly Lines, by Roger Wagner then writing a game for an apple ii emulator. Others have done similar projects with chip-8, which I think is even simpler.
That's all well and good, but today's mega corps are leeches. And the world is more connected and less isolated. Things are very different from the 1950s to the 1980s to now.
That’s funny. I used to work for a high-end consulting company, and we always marveled at the level of dysfunction in our clients’ IT departments. They would call us in when their devs couldn’t/wouldn’t do the work. We were pretty expensive by comparison, but at least we got the job done. I guess it just depends on the kind of contractor you hire.
> When we take things personally or respond emotionally, it is because we have reached the limit of our ability to reason about them abstractly.

> Politically and physically, it doesn't matter how intelligent you or your group are if you are outnumbered by a herd that responds to the appeals and actuation of its lower instincts.

But this is not purely a matter of raw, inherent intellectual potential. Academics are notorious for having a history of rationalizing power or depravity of all kinds. The tyrannies of communism, for example, were the product of intellectuals who exploited the vices of the "proletariat" as a cudgel against their opponents. Ultimately, these intellectuals were fools because they either actually believed the absurdity of communism or they exploited a communism they didn't actually believe to gain power for themselves and through especially wicked deeds, and all evil is, after all, foolish and opposed to reason. I object to the notion that the more intellectual potential you have, the less evil you are just because you have a greater potential for intelligence. You can choose to be unwise for emotional and vicious reasons, thus thwarting the exercise of reason when it leads you some place you cannot handle.
Pushing Computational Biology into the Open
> Reality shows that countering crazy ideas with rational argument is not working very well.

Really? Seems to be working great actually, we've had centuries of great social progress and increased liberties, an explosion of scientific knowledge, and religious adherence has never been lower. Rational argument seems to be winning in the long arc of history.

Maybe you think there have been some disturbing recent hiccups, but if people seem to have "crazy ideas", you can also consider whether you truly understand where they are coming from.
> I also have 2 iPad Pro 11" that just drain sitting there

I find that having an Apple Pencil 2 snapped on the side makes the iPad drain its battery.
They literally gave you a necessary condition: basic categorization. They don't need to give you sufficient conditions if it can't meet the necessary ones. You're making an obvious fallacy.
Sounds like GPT-3.
Firefox community's most voted ideas to introduce on the browser
Gmail is saying that when you attempt to recover your account? If so, then I believe it's saying it sent the verification to the backup email on file, so check any other email addresses you have access to and might have used for backup recovery addresses.
Trigger warning, it's described as a "text game", but there are also images.
> you're making the same mistake: looking at behavior and affirming the consequent (namely: it outputs smart-looking text, therefore it must be intelligent)

Why is that a mistake? What other means do we have of assessing intelligence?
If you stay contained to one system you can get nearly everywhere on the map using one transfer. Know where you're starting, know where you're going and then just look for an intersection between the lines. It probably won't be the fastest route, but since you're staying in one system it won't be that expensive. In an emergency where your phone is dead, you'll always be able to get home.
What prompt input did you use? When I tried this:

> What are the repercussions of Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT?

It returned:

> I'm sorry, but I'm not aware of any situation in which answers on Stack Overflow are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT. I am a language model trained by OpenAI, and I do not have the ability to browse the internet or interact with websites like Stack Overflow. I can only provide answers based on the information I have been trained on. Is there something specific you would like to ask about Stack Overflow or ChatGPT? I'll do my best to help.
Loved the simplicity of the writing.
I hope this finally kills take home programming projects. We need to finally admit that hiring a good developer involves testing their ability to reason about code, not just spit out solutions.
I've often seen the argument that freedom of expression is somehow equal to the US constitution. I am glad someone addresses it in a proper way.
If you're going to be dismissing well-meaning political actions with hand-waving and vague insinuations that it's ecobullshit, one would hope you could do better than just a shrug and a "beats me".
Yep - the original waterproof fabrics were oilskin, waxed cotton, and leather. They've mostly been replaced by PU coatings, though you might still go for the old school stuff for abrasion-resistance.
He also didn’t read the elevation map, thinking terrain would be relatively flat between two points because they were at about equal height.

Also, he said he took for maybe a week of food for a 4-day round trip, and, because, not finding water, he had to melt ice, he got a fuel shortage after day two that forced him (or at least he thought it forced him) to start rationing food after day two.

In addition, he wasn’t at his destination at the end of day two, by a long stretch.

I would think either of these would be a reason to turn around immediately. Or do I overlook something or misinterpret what he says?
How?

Can the machine translate requirements to code? Can the machine actively maintain 100K / 1M / 10M code base? Can the machine even understand multithreaded code?

Let say that I want a new feature, and the machine cannot do it, what now? Are you going to reverse engineer your new code base by human? What happen if human introduce a bug during a bug fix? Who will fix it? The machine?

Are you a programmer?

Nobody get replaced by GPT3. Its like stock photo site.

Did commercial photography got affected by stock photos'? Did it replaced anybody?
This might provide some guidance: http://gltr.io/
Why can't you use Linux Mint which is based on Ubuntu?
Wow BBC mirco seems to come up whenever people from UK of certain age are recalling how they got into computers. Such Impact!

How did BBC end up involved in such a project?

Also, thanks for reading it.
Lodge is reasonably good and cheap for both cast iron and carbon steel — they're a bit less pretty than the higher-end stuff because they have the pebbly look of unsanded steel, but in practice it doesn't make a huge difference for cooking. Solidteknics pre-seasoned pans are amazing, but pricier, and are a nice hybrid between cast iron and carbon steel (and they're smooth, like vintage cast iron / carbon steel).

In general I would recommend buying pre-seasoned pans — the initial seasoning is the laborious part, but with pre-seasoned pans you just skip all of that. Maintaining seasoning is pretty easy, it's basically just "use the pan" and "don't put the pan in the dishwasher." If it looks like it's getting old or messed up, just wipe a tiny bit of oil on it and cook at high heat.

Personally I also think carbon steel (or Solidteknics "wrought iron") are better than cast iron — they're lighter, heat up faster and more evenly, and they're still pretty durable. But they're a bit more expensive, and they all are similarly not-sticky.
The difficulty certainly plays a role in how much "free" time is needed to participate. If early problems can be solved with a quick 10 minute script, later problems take the top 100th person about 1-2 hours -- which means it takes mortals like me about 4-8 hours to solve.

That's quite the difference, and is due to the problem difficulty.
LLQ: A wait-free SPSC linked-list queue with recyclable nodes written in Rust
This is cool, and I'm sure it was extremely adventurous at the time, but "weird music videos" is a genre that has been perfectly healthy for the last 40 years. The fashions in music, style, and mood have changed; the general oddball appeal hasn't.