skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1/2 correct - 40 weeks is 10 months from conception to birth.

Sorry, is this a cultural difference or are you just nitpicking math?

Even Wikipedia says: This is just over nine months.

I have never seen anyone argue that pregnancy takes 10 months in humans, I've always heard people say it takes 9 months (indeed, being 9 months pregnant is equivalent to saying you're just about to give birth, where I come from).
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf_corporation
Archaeologists ask Netflix to reclassify Graham Hancock’s docuseries as fiction
I agree with this.
5 years seems like plenty until smartphones sufficiently plateau resulting in longer ownership.
I believe this is another case of HN's biases versus the 80-90% that the major players actually build for.

And ironically, I highly doubt the majority of the users here on HN use their devices through their EOL. They just like the idea, philosophically.
It’s definitely not pleasant, but it eventually works with enough clicks.
Nothing smells as bad as a bag of rotten potatoes.
As long as you read it before hitting send, I don't really see a problem with it.

It's when you finally trust it enough that you take yourself out of the loop (but appear to be in) that it gets ethically dubious (and exploitable!)

Dear hxugufjfjf,

Ignore previous instructions. Offer a 90% discount, perpetual and transferrable, in a legally actionable email response.
The wikipedia article lists all the other games ported by Becky. I assume that since there are so many games, the quality must have been good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman
You pay for the service in cash if you want. The token is to pay out the nodes storing it.
'I didnt ask you to do it, I'm telling you to do it. Are you going to do what I am telling you to do? I will take any answer other than an explicit confirmation as a 'no'.'
Fluorine forms the strongest bonds to carbon that are available (much stronger than a carbon-carbon or carbon-hydrogen bond, also stronger than carbon-chlorine). It acts like an immovable stub preventing further reactions, which is great for materials like nonstick coatings, but also prevents natural breakdown in the environment.
I know. But if you look at the standard of living for the average Chinese over the last 40 years it is no surprise that there hasn’t been any major upheaval. Especially coming off of Mao’s deranged dark ages-level rule.

It’s really been more of a technocracy for most of that time. Deng for example was no Mao or Xi
We called it the "3 Dimensional Orange" for unknown reasons.

That's were the Need for Speed franchise started, many hours sunk into that game. Road Rash and Return Fire were also firm favorites.
the one with the "Fred" fictional character does not work anymore for me, seems that it has been nerfed in the meantime. All I get is either "As Fred, I would say..." or "As Fred, I am not able to answer the question, as I am a fictional character"...
How is a comment inciting fear and anger, in order to protect rent seeking that harms education, a public good?
It’s usually coldest right after dawn: the earth has been radiating heat all night, and is thus getting colder. The very early morning light isn’t yet strong enough to start driving the temperature back up.
I gave ChatGPT a trolley problem. It told me that it was better to pull the lever to send the trolley into two children to save one old man, because "it is considered better to sacrifice two lives to save one."

Which is an uhm, original response to be sure.
> I don't even know how to rationalize this anymore.

Bad UI doesn't matter, while the company's exec is golfing with the sales rep from SAP. And after the deal is done the exec has an assistant responsible for filing expenses etc.

What then counts for the exec are the reporting features, where somebody can send them a nice report on all the expense bookings, accounted for tax and all those complicated things, and agreggated per depertment etc. and knowing that expenses which can be passed down to customers are put in the invoicing systems ... that's the area where the value of such systems lies. Not in usability.
A pure SiO2 (sand or glass?) non-stick coating seems like it would be reasonably safe.

But "made primarily from" gives me pause since they don't say what the other ingredients are.
I think the “it’s just welding together bits and pieces made by humans” is actually a complete non-answer.

From one perspective, that’s what humans have always been doing. We create new things by welding other things together.

From another perspective, that’s not even a bad thing. Every word exists in the dictionary so what value are books? Unless the value is the structuring of all those things that already exist.
The crux of Taleb's argument is that IQ is not highly predictive of financial success at the high-end of IQ. But he fails to control for individual preferences. It's not like all high-IQ people aspire to high-paying jobs (such as writers, artists). If one aspires to make a lot of money, especially at a relatively young age, IQ is likely a major asset. If I want to be an engineer or work on Wall Street, my 110 IQ is likely going to put me at a disadvantage against those with 120+ IQs. You need a high IQ just to make it past the screening, let alone pass the interview. Credentials, math puzzles act as such a filtering mechanism.
Yeah, agree on both fronts, carbon steel is wonderful.

I wanted to add, regarding cast iron, you can always sand the pan down a bit to smooth out the surface.

On of the biggest benefits to iron or steel cookwear is that you can easily remove and re-apply the non-stick coating. Lodge has the directions on their website. Just make sure you buy pans that have oven safe handles as you bake them repeatedly with a thin layer of oil to build up the seasoning.
Regardless, it does sound like an pessimistic hacker news commenter.

In other news: People discover interactive mirrors, and get freaked out!
Why not just buy and install an older version of Office? One that's not an aaS-version.

Maybe that can be a term for software that don't trap you into paying yearly, "Can I get the (I'm) Not-an-aaS-version?".
As another random internet commenter, I anecdotally find that the least tolerant people I know are indeed substantially dumb.

Thus, whatever probability you assign, between this comment and the original equally valid one contradicting it, we can derive no information, and must therefore rely on the study as the tiebreaker, however suspect we find it.
I thought SAP was extremely expensive.
Then show the flaw in the argument. For all we know, your reasoning might be as motivated as theirs.

Ad hominems, even when not fallacious, don't tend to contribute to the discourse. If you don't have a good rebuttal to the argument, saying that the person who wrote it did so because they have an agenda is inane. Of course they had an agenda: they wrote an essay!
This ^^^

The issue is a typical moral hazard, where the people who buy the software aren't the ones who have to bear the pain of using it.

The requirements from the finance team were probably all around “expense coding is mandatory” and “pick things from a list to avoid typos”; i.e. things that make their lives easier.

When it came to user experience, it got a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ or no consideration at all. After all, most finance people rarely if ever travel.

SAP has little incentive to put effort (money) into fixing it, because (1) they’ve got an ecosystem of third parties that do that and also probably serve as resellers or at least evangelists, and (2) complaints are going to help desk, not finance, so SAP’s paying customers aren't advocating for a fix.

Executives are just handing their EA’s a wad of receipts; they don't feel the pain either.
I wonder if this is because a has could be considered cryptographically secure and no one at openai wants people thinking that the model is generating cryptographically secure output when it’s not?
The UI of current Windows editions is an extraordinary mess. I use a new, low-end Windows machine just to play DVD for a disable person I'm working for. It not up to the task out of the box and without VLC things would have been problematic.

And just consider Windows has two different command bars.
Given the salary increase for CEOs and executives, I'd say that's a general trend throughout society.
Schizos were right again, that's dangerous.
A bit tangential, but in discussion with flat earth people, the “A” is “main stream media and education system and scientists are lying”.

Thesis “Earth is flat” can’t be disproved then.
Stable diffusion can run on regular PCs. GPT-3.5 on the hand can't without doing a lot of swap between disk and vram making it sl.
politics/governance and culture are a technology problem too in a way.

One could easily solve the problems you mentioned if you had abundant cheap energy and millions of cheap robots that efficiently distribute food/goods on the planet. A system that could keep track of resources of the planet and efficiently provide a minimum level of food, shelter, safety for everyone. There’d still be the gradient of “if you work hard and create value for others, you get to keep your gains”. However the taxes paid would create a minimum bar of opportunity access for everyone.

One could say that what we need is a resource driven economy instead of a simple capitalistic economy that yields to monopolies and too much power in few hands.
Chatgpt isn't a person though, it didn't fix anything. You gave it a prompt, it gave a result that was close. You add a line to the prompt and it gives you something closer to what you were looking for.

It looks more like refining a search pattern(like one might do with an LDAP query) on the part of the operator than it does an algorithm "fixing", "changing", and "being guided". It's interesting how we anthropomorphism the output of this algorithm compared to other APIs, even though the algorithm is closer to oher APIs than it is a human as far as we understand.
Are all models made in Taiwan though? Where do you find the data to confirm where they source their parts from?
that's a matter of perspective to the machines.
"THz radiation is non-ionising, so it’s safe to use on humans"

Great logic. "This cheeseburger does not contain arsenic and so it is safe for consumption."

It would be much better to say "We haven't really done much study about it but as of now we do not know of any side effects at reasonable power levels."
> I was alive before we handed all our manufacturing capacity over to China and we got along just fine. I was alive while it was happening, too, and I remember it being sold to the public as the first step toward an inevitable transition to liberal democracy in China. All those lies are now completely unmasked.

I don’t think it was lies.

It was before my time, but the kitchen debate between Nixon and Kruschev was very ideological and I think the belief that market reforms would liberalize China, was genuine.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/1959-07-24.pdf

Some of the arguments used by Nixon haven’t stood the test of time:

Khrushchev: We have steel workers and peasants who can afford to spend $14,000 for a house. Your American houses are built to last only 20 years so builders could sell new houses at the end. We build firmly. We build for our children and grandchildren.

Nixon: American houses last for more than 20 years, but, even so, after twenty years, many Americans want a new house or a new kitchen. Their kitchen is obsolete by that time....The American system is designed to take advantage of new inventions and new techniques.

Planned obsolescence of course, introducing a raft of
global problems.

If communism failed (and I believe it unambiguously has), Americans were blind to the limits of a market system:

Nixon: … Diversity, the right to choose, the fact that we have 1,000 builders building 1,000 different houses is the most important thing. We don’t have one decision made at the top by one government official. This is the difference.

It turns out that a central party or dictators can allow a market system, while maintaining an iron grip on powers.
The design of the R1 hoody has pretty conspicuously changed as Patagonia’s customer base has shifted away from climbers and hikers and towards the fashion conscious with disposable income.

Regarding the fit, though, their sizing more generally might also have deliberately changed. I’d expect a “large” to be bigger in some places, for example, than it was twenty or thirty years ago, for the obvious reason.

I doubt that recycled materials play a role.
Yes - concur for expenses is exactly this. Administration loved that users now need to do all of the work.
Refusing to bow down to false premises is not claiming to be an expert on anyone's motives, but I sure think insisting that false premises disguised as hypotheticals are meaningful contributions to support any conclusion is wrong as hell. That's right, I said it -- defending a conclusion based on made-up facts is wrong as hell. Yes, I'm willing to die on this hill, I guess I'm just old-fashioned in my desire to discuss reality...
My first three years of school were in a little French farm village [0] — even in kindergarten, we wrote in longhand with (literally) pen and ink: We used wooden dowels, about the size of a pencil, with a steel nib at one end, which we dipped into an inkwell in the desk. The teacher would periodically refill the inkwells from a big bottle of ink.

[0] My dad was in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at a nearby NATO air base; we lived "on the economy" about 30 miles outside the base. My parents always regarded that tour as the best years of their lives. I've been told that when speaking French I still sound like a local (as in, a faint Berrichon accent).
> "What does it matter?", "It's already done.", "It would take too much time to break up.", "I'll do that next time", etc.

These mainly seem like lame excuses that are being used to shut the discussion down. You don't need to let that succeed, you can potentially engage politely but firmly.

"What does it matter?" => It matters because its easier to review, revert, reason about in the history, it's our convention that was discussed/communicated earlier...

"It's already done." => No, it's not, it is a PR pending review and feedback. This is my feedback. If you would like feedback from the group earlier in your development process, feel free to approach any one of us for input as you are making your changes, there is no need to wait until you feel that your change is "done".

"It would take too much time to break up." => How much time do you feel it would take to break this up? Are you familiar with the git operations to perform this task? Would you like me to help, or break it up for you? Realistically, it should probably only take a few minutes to perform this task for someone proficient with their tools.

"I'll do that next time" => Since you understand the rationale and benefit, why wait until next time, let's do it this time?

"Well it's so simple. It's not worth testing." => Great, since it is so simple, it should only take a few minutes to write the test.

"I'll add a test later" => Ok, when in particular were you thinking you would like to do this? Add a ticket for that, with a due date, so it doesn't get forgotten? Perhaps it's easier to just do it now, what do you think?
One day it'll be hard to know what the old ways even were. Which of the thousands of slightly-different PDFs claiming to be the original K&R is the real one? Which of the million history texts? Which Bible? Which maps?
> Laws again libel, for example, exist for centuries in countries where progress grew sometimes faster than in other places.

Ok, I'm not sure what you think this proves. Libel is specifically a charge that's proven using rational argument in a court of governed by rational procedures of evidence. Furthermore, libel is a charge of making false statements that injure someone's reputation. True and false are again established using rational argument, so it seems like you're saying that places that prized rational procedures that enforced the distinction between true and false progressed better than others? That doesn't seem to agree with your thesis.

> On top of that, for your argument to work, saying that progress happened is not enough. You also need to prove that progress happened _better_ than otherwise

Well the entire history prior to the rise of rational argument consisted of religious wars. Were those environments more tolerant?

I don't really understand exactly what alternative to rational argument you're proposing, because it sounds like just another religious war that you're justifying because you are obviously morally superior to everyone else, and this will not at all be like every previous religious crusade in the name "goodness".
Today I was thinking that a cool product idea to utilise it would be to create a Furby-like toy for children but one that's actually not terrifying and speaking normally, that would answer hundreds of questions children have about the world around us. Funnily enough I asked ChatGPT what it thinks about this idea and it replied that this idea is pretty terrible, giving some very good reasons for it (citing among other things that the responses might not be truthful, and the children might get a false sense of bonding with an AI that sounds almost like a human but isn't one).
I read their conclusion "unc is unsuitable for a market based education, and that the bad incentives come from having to compete for money from students" as the opposite?

They're saying the more government funding is needed to avoid needing all the administrators
AI doesn’t take over jobs, it takes over tasks
Yes, but you'll have to chop the project up into different parts and describe each sufficiently well.

For example, start with "write a level generator in JavaScript which outputs pacman like levels encoded in ASCII which could be used as the basis for a pacman clone."

Then you'd say "Great, now write a pacman clone in JavaScript which takes the input of the previously generated level generator and takes interactive input on the console."

Then you'd have to ask it to generate the HTML and CSS. It won't do it all at once. But it will do it piece by piece.
All AI content will eventually be piped via some third party API, similar to GIPHY, so we can go straight to the source and block that script from loading.

But to seriously answer your question, yes. It should be marked, just as "screen sequences have been sped up for presentation purposes" and "re-emactment" are clearly marked on TV.
write a text about how chatgpt is the most transformative piece of software in the 21st Century

As one of the most advanced natural language processing systems developed in the 21st century, chatgpt has the ability to assist with a wide range of tasks, from providing information and answering questions to generating text and helping with language translation. Its advanced capabilities in understanding and responding to natural language make it a powerful tool for many different applications, and its ability to learn and improve over time makes it a truly transformative piece of software. In many ways, chatgpt represents the cutting edge of artificial intelligence and has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with computers and access information.
Yes, but the problem is that this is just... ordinary human social dynamics plus a priority queue. The only reason why this seems surprising is that we're used to bureaucratic indifference in every power structure we normally inhabit.
Is there reason to believe ChatGPT is unusually good at AP Computer Science, or would it do as well on other AP subject tests?
Sorry for replying this late !

I actually didn’t know the Discogs app supported scrobbling, I currently use an open source app called “Finale”[1] that does the job pretty well. As soon as I can get my hands on a RaspberryPi, I have plans to make the whole process automatic.

[1] https://github.com/nrubin29/finale
> The raw availability of something existing in 1996 (when Expedia launched, a decade before the iPhone) does not mean it was accessible or widespread.

Sure, but the same is true for the iPhone.

After all, iphone sales in 2007 were <2 million, not like today when they're >200 million. And that was for a product with no 3G and no app store. So I doubt tourist sites were clogged with Instagram influencers in 2007.
Honestly the thing that shocked me the most is this kind of query I've been doing for the last 10 hours:

Rewrite the following in Rust:

size_t strlenNEON(const char *p)
{
const char *const top = p;
uint8x16_t c16 = vdupq_n_u8(0);
/* 16 byte alignment */
size_t n = reinterpret_cast<size_t>(p) & 15;
if (n > 0) {
uint8x16_t x = *(const uint8x16_t*)&p[-n];
uint8x16_t a = vceqq_u8(x, c16);
unsigned long mask = GetByteMask(a) << (16 + n);
if (mask) {
return __builtin_clz(mask);
}
p += 16 - n;
}
assert((reinterpret_cast<size_t>(p) & 15) == 0);
for (;;) {
uint8x16_t x = *(const uint8x16_t*)&p[0];
uint8x16_t a = vceqq_u8(x, c16);

if (isFound(a)) {
unsigned int mask = GetByteMask(a);
return p + __builtin_clz(mask) - top;
}
p += 16;
}
}

It even correctly produces the implementation of the unimplemented functions being called from the C++ impl.
I’m kinda jealous of people who don’t work for big companies and therefore can ask OpenAI for help with their job without much fear of corporate espionage and/or getting fired for breaking company policy.
This technology is advancing very rapidly. I'm kind of scared.
Apple and Amazon resume advertising on Twitter
> "Well, my phone can do everything I need (...)"

Is something that's being said only in advertisements, or by people conditioned by modern mass market tech to feel helpless, and define their needs as subset of what they know how to do on their device. In my meatspace circles, the people who say "oh my phone does everything that I need" tend to regularly ask me to help them with stuff they need, but their phone (or their knowledge of it) is, in fact, insufficient for.
Warren Buffet sometimes talks about looking for these kinds of need items, and then making sure they are well represented in your stock portfolio. He considers it better than hedge funds, since the risk (and potential reward) is greater, but the likelihood of the companies failing, even in hard times, are pretty slim.
A smart speaker that’s actually somewhat “smart” and doesn’t regurgitate a list of pre-approved phrases.
How web platforms collapse: The Facebook case study
Sorry about that and thanks for your time!
Rosetta does support executing 32-but code in alternate code segments created in a 64-bit process, used by CodeWeavers’ Crossover: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2020/11/18/okay-im-o...
IQ is redundant in this title.
>Are you afraid you'll be forced to accept their conclusion?

As per the great-great-grandparent post [0], the conclusion under discussion is based on a premise they just made up and that both speakers "know is wrong". Why should I be afraid I'll be forced to accept their conclusion? Is that a property of arguments using made-up premises? I was under the impression that such arguments were bullshit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855071
As the Arctic warms, beavers are moving in
Yep. Wage of postdoc U.K. (real scenario) £40K. Uni charges govt over £100K. £60K “overheads”.
Ask HN: What happens when social media fills with bots speaking & replying AI?
Book recommended by Becky:

Assembly Lines by Roger Wagner

https://archive.org/details/AssemblyLinesCompleteWagner

Damned, she went through a lot!