skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not hard to get it to trip up with letters that correspond to the order:

Me: Imagine a set of 3 events (X, Y and Z) ordered with unique timestamps each. Event X is the first of all events to happen. Event Y is in between the other two. What is a valid bound for Event Z's timestamp?

ChatGPT: In this scenario, Event X must have the earliest timestamp, and Event Y must have a timestamp that falls between the timestamps of Events X and Z. Therefore, the valid bounds for the timestamp of Event Z would be the timestamp of Event X, and any timestamp that is greater than the timestamp of Event Y. This means that the valid range for the timestamp of Event Z would be the range from the timestamp of Event X to infinity.
Shooting up and destroying key infrastructure for a town leaving many without power sounds a lot more like domestic terrorism than free speech, especially if it is in response to a small number of adults having an event you disagree with.
> You're NOT the customer. Advertisers are. They do not make user-hostile decision out of arrogance, indifference or incompetence, they do it to make money.

This is obviously inadequate. Users are the product that are being sold to advertisers, therefore decisions that shed users affect the bottom line. Why would an outlet not fear shedding users even while taking user-hostile decisions?

I'm not offering an answer. But because they’re so dominant is a better answer than ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ for me.
I think he does. Something like survivors of "Atlantis" spread through the world and taught local hunter gatherer groups in the ways of civilization and megalithic architecture.
You don’t. Because it is not possible. Especially if the AIs will gradually improve. Maybe not if, more like when.
The critical investments Google made was paying Apple for search traffic and building their own smartphone-centric hardware ecosystem (pixel, home, tv etc). Android is too indirect. Regulation and OEMs like Samsung can prevent Google from getting the capture over users at the prices they want. Chrome is meaningless outside of ChromeOS / Chromebook.
This cannot be the real secret api key?
https://github.com/eoin-barr/weatherme/blob/master/cmd/root....
ChatGPT seems much better than Copilot
If it's just a couple of local substations, "rebooting" is AFAIK not very hard. First the substation is connected to other substations by closing the breakers on each high-voltage circuit between them, one by one; this energizes the transformers in the substation. Then the breakers to the outgoing feeders are closed one by one, which sends power to the loads. There might also be some maneuvering far from the substation to move loads from one substation to another.

What's hard is when the outage is also on the generation side; "rebooting" from a full outage (black start) can be a complex dance between starting generators, connecting substations, and energizing loads, since generation has to be matched to consumption at all times, and nearly all generators need power themselves to run (on a full black start, small diesel generators, started by even smaller batteries, are the initial point).
Right, but ultimately a union is still a democracy, and the bureaucracy has to stay in power. That seems a lot harder to do if you don't actually have your constituents interests at hand. I will grant that in a large enough union I could see bureaucracy being a problem, like that. But also the fact that unions have been gutted for power (in the US) means that union officials aren't nearly as bad as the equivalent groups in a more powerful institution. Also it means that they're still in the stage where most unions could stay vigilant to avoid it.
It’s being called an “attack”. Do those not mean essentially the same thing? Are there instances of minorities attacking the power grid that are readily labeled “domestic terrorism”? This seems like an overconfident and overly dismissive point, in my opinion. You’re making an instance of an attack/domestic terrorism on the American power grid a racial rhetoric topic, instead of focusing on the actual thing itself. Seems weird to me.
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Yes, it is both.

I do ask for you to reflect back on covid.

Remember when trying to make a vaccine was 5-10 years, but when an entire country/world makes something a priority and become hyper focused and motivated they'll 10x output.

The problem is when regardless of input you can't speed up the output. Think of a pregnancy, adding more pregnant women doesn't speed up the process, and consuming more inputs doesn't speed up the progress.

The electrical grid is nearly a "living entity". It isn't exactly like even if all the replacements magically appeared the problem is solved by a long shot.
> Their pay can only go up by negotiating better contracts for union card holders.

Look no further than Martin Scorsese's The Irishman for an exegesis of other ways union leaders can increase their pay and solidify their power at little to negative benefit for union members. What happened with Jimmy Hoffa doesn't categorically indict all unions themselves, but it illuminates the continuum of soft "influence" and hard corruption. Where that doesn't exist, the pressure is there by interested parties to create it. The odds are in the favor of amassing power and wealth and strengthening a bureaucracy to further serve itself toward those ends. The iron law is upheld.
No, it's not. csam is illegal and so is revenge porn, the platform could even be in favor of csam and revenge porn and they'd still need to follow the law.
There are no bootcamps for ML. You can get a graduate degree (MS) in 1 year if you get into UTexas' online MSDSO which has a bunch of ML classes (ML/DL/NLP). UTexas itself is a top 10 school in CS so that might put you on the map for recruiters though PhD is strongly preferred. Another option is to take Stanford AI graduate classes which are deeper than UTexas' but also more demanding.
i'm a northerner (chicagoland) and i loved rain, and never understood the point of umbrellas after having one as a little kid for going to school. i think there are lots of us, but rain at 35 fahrenheit drains heat faster than rain at 80 fahrenheit, so it's true we liked warm rain way way more.
It certainly has logic. I had some fun using the "virtual machine" example someone else did, with the "nvidia-smi" command, if I told him it was hot in the room, the next run of the command was showing an higher temperature on the GPU. This is the logical conclusion from an hotter room.
There does seem to be something going on with a lot of corners of academia where it’s not just about the science or evidence, which it should be, but also “playing the game” where you “pay your dues” by following roughly the same path as everyone else in the field and if you don’t, nothing you say or do will be taken seriously.

That doesn’t mean everyone outside the mainstream is right, of course, but it means that when I see academics so up in arms I suspect motivations that aren’t as purely about evidence as they claim.
World of Antiquity[0] on YouTube does a good job filling in the context around claims like this. He did one on the Netflix series[1] and has others about Hancock's take on flood myths[2], Plato's account[3], other Atlantis claims, and many other alt-archaeology topics in his Myths of Ancient History[4] playlist.

He keeps it pretty civil, but he makes it clear when takes are bad or purposely misleading.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@WorldofAntiquity

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dHNq8SURTU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PpokN1b58

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhMGVLUSB0

[4] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjhctHjnIbUgvin0ZlrsH...
Correct, I accidentally reversed it. The point of my comment was that there was a period where the WHO said one thing and the CDC said another and they were mutually exclusive. These were the two most prominent health authorities, and there were many more that changed their stances on different days.

What is the single source of truth here? People were banned and deplatformed from social media for "spreading misinformation about COVID".
The issue is that they create more boring work. Some of the newly created work is valuable for the goals of the administration, in most cases the boring work provides marginal benefit to anyone.
I think you've missed the sarcasm.

"Economic anxiety" has been used for a while by news organizations unwilling to say "racism" or "bigotry".
He is not a kook. He is just wrong about the implications of the facts.

He gets attention because nobody whose job it actually is will even look at the facts. His "debunkers" carefully avoid so much as mentioning them.
It's already been prevented from emulating styles (at least directly):

> As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have any knowledge of specific styles or conventions used on Hacker News or any other online forum. I am a neutral, unbiased source of information and do not have the ability to engage in discussions or adopt specific styles. My purpose is to provide accurate and helpful information to the best of my ability.

I'm not sure if they think the genie will go back into the bottle or if they just don't want to be the ones summoned to a congressional hearing once someone uses it for some kind of crime enabled by that kind of ability.
That's a distinction likely lost on the perpetrators.
Right, but power companies likely hold enough for a year's worth of natural disasters + a 10-20% cushion. Sabotage can be a lot more destructive than random failure.
It's been a long time since I played trumpet, but aren't those incorrect?

On a regular Bb trumpet, this is the D (major) scale, so D should be 1-3 unless it's in the second octave (in which case this sequence is still wrong).

Looks like ChatBot ain't gonna take our musical jerbs anytime soon!
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But there's competition and competition. The US private health care system is supposedly competitive, but competes on the wrong things. I read a WSJ article purporting that cities with more health care competition had higher costs.

College could be another case where competition drives up costs.

Another option is to eliminate reasons to compete. Just standardize the offerings and the administrative structure required for a university. Students can choose the school that's closest to home, and go there with confidence.
"Let's imagine an alternate universe, where A is true. What else would be true in that case?"
Can confirm. In particular, when lulling a child to sleep, an IM sent from a phone is about the only way of communicating that won't wake the kid up.
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You see logic, I see a bunch of Google results for people being told to run nvidia-smi when reporting high temperatures.
It shouldn't. The fact that it recommended Clean Code goes to show it's literally aggregating a bunch of books that are commonly recommended. Clean Code is really not the way you want people writing code, especially judging by the code examples in the last half of the book.
I read this on Wikipedia.
Immoral.

From the mid- to late 19th century, Guatemala suffered chronic instability and civil strife. Beginning in the early 20th century, it was ruled by a series of dictators backed by the United Fruit Company and the United States government. In 1944, the authoritarian leader Jorge Ubico was overthrown by a pro-democratic military coup, initiating a decade-long revolution that led to sweeping social and economic reforms. A U.S.-backed military coup in 1954 ended the revolution and installed a dictatorship.[10]

From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala endured a bloody civil war fought between the US-backed government and leftist rebels, including genocidal massacres of the Maya population perpetrated by the military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala
> his raging against academia was exhausting enough to make it unwatchable after a point.

For me, that point was somewhere in the first episode. Sorry, after watching Van Daniken (sp?) and the Ancient Aliens crew use misinformation and "asking the question" type fallacies to basically ruin widespread understanding of history all I can say is "fuck that guy in particular".
...more likely this employee left before the project was finished ;)
It doesn't have "basic reasoning capabilities" in the first place, it's just a complex search engine.
The Chinese room argument applies here.
The word that comes to mind watching any of those is "disingenuous". He very carefully avoids mentioning anything that might call into question what he wants to assure us he knows all about.

Obviously Hancock is wrong. But he is right to be proposing answers that this smug seatwarmer is failing to even look for. His job is to present a strong case for something else, but he has none.
I think the parent commenter was referring to this incident, not the kid from Into the Wild. Based on the demographics of the two villages he was traversing, it's very likely that this man is Alaska native.
I've made that argument, and you can accept it or not. The larger point is that accusing people of playing victims is always a distraction from actual argument, and the entire thread is evidence of that. It started with irrelevance and ended nowhere.
I've been using XPS 15 for many years and always felt that the trackpad experience is better (definitely in terms in accuracy and precission), and my encounters with partner's M1 air always make me question if I'm doing 'it' wrong (even after playing with the laptop for a whole day).

This frustration once led me to search for turning off the acceleration setting, which, last I searched, wasn't easily tweakable.

Anyone shares similar feeling when it comes to the trackpad?
> It certainly has logic. I had some fun using the "virtual machine" example someone else did, with the "nvidia-smi" command, if I told him it was hot in the room, the next run of the command was showing an higher temperature on the GPU. This is the logical conclusion from an hotter room.

Orrrr.... it's drawing references from other texts that were colocated with the word "hot"
Hancock has been publishing since 1990s. If someone was publishing made-up theories in my professional field for thirty years (and becoming a globally known celebrity, sort of), then I'd also be pretty cranky about that.
At least one upside of answering StackOverflow questions is that (at least for now) the presumably human who asked the question will attempt the solution provided and mark the answer as correct if it worked.

If the AI spits out some gobble-de-gook that doesn't even work, the answer will probably be downvoted.

However, that doesn't mean that the answer will be necessarily high quality or bug-free, the same can be said about answers given by a human. At the same time, if it's stupid but it works...
The fact that if the effect were real, it would have been noticed long before now.
I wish they had one with the i9 and no Nvidia card.
I mean, it sounds like something that drunk or just stupid kids might do. Like smashing mailboxes, but scaled up.
Curfew seems excessive. We have had a number of 8-12 hour power outages around here and the local governments have never declared curfew. Parts of Ottawa were without power in the spring for 2 weeks after the derecho and there was no curfew.
Africa’s energy needs should be met first.

Energy blackouts and high costs are huge obstacles in African development and progress.
Well, to all hand-wringing around seeking precision on threshold estimates - I'd throw back three points.

1) the precautionary principle,

2) empirical evidence abounds that budget projections are notoriously woeful - the '18% of GDP in 30y' relies on so much faith in multiple systems we already know are consistently out by factors of 2 or more, and

3) starting to fix this now would be lower overall cost, would incur near-immediate benefits, and would definitely court lower long-term risk.

Charles Stross's most recent blog post - the first three paragraphs - is not a unique analysis, but I feel describes the situation succinctly and accurately. Our (civilisational) resistance to addressing these issues are intentional and orchestrated, and 'a bit more data', or a more precise temperature rise we could cope with, are not the problem.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/11/decisio...
No, it doesn't mean that and it's not worth worrying about.

If, as lots of people here are claiming, this stuff is going to "replace entire industries" it's going to take a while and will alter society radically, in ways nobody can predict and you can't really prepare for. If that happens you're on the roller coaster with the rest of us. Might as well keep doing what you enjoy and are good at for now.

However, it's much more likely that people are just getting carried away with an exciting (and incredibly impressive) technological advance and spectacularly underestimating the scale of the outstanding challenge. I certainly wouldn't recommend making major life choices on the assumption that AGI is imminent.
Note that a lot of professional-archeologist or professional-historian beliefs are also turning out to be false over the decades. Population-genomics is dispelling many commonly held beliefs of the field.

Professionals hate people like him, because he uses the exact same techniques as these professionals to extrapolate towards obviously false conclusions. It puts the professionals in an awkward space, as they have to start with accepting that their own field is based on a lot of conjecture, and that it facilitates this kind of fictionalizing.

This kind of fictionalizing was particularly true with non-western history of ancient civilizations where accounts were less dense, worse translated, had worse cultural context and dated back a few millennia. A lot of professional historians and archeologists have taken great liberty in interpreting the history of these regions, and the liberty taken by folks like Graham Hancock exposes some of these historians for the obvious 'fiction' that they stake their own careers on.

In that sense, ancient History & Archeology is going through a similar moment as cooking did a while back. Popular FACTS such as 'Marination leads to flavor penetration' or 'searing traps the juices' have now been thoroughly debunked. Food Science exposed the 'old wives tale' aspect of cooking, and now Population Genomics is spearheading a similar disruption within academic history and archeology.

The response to such an existential threat to the field is gatekeeping and defensiveness. And when a piece of work holds a mirror up to your field so brazenly, it receives the sharpest response.
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Also back in; Oct. 11, 2004, 10:25 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press

Removal of bolts leads to towers’ collapse : https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6228355
Sorry but this never happens in practice, this is an example of just pure ideology.

Every large (read stable) corporation has created it's own bureaucracy. The "scrappy start-ups" that become successful by becoming profitable in their own right (and are not merely bought up by the large corporations) eventually develop their own. There a serious lack of examples of successful large orgs where bureacracy is in fact minimal.

Mark Fischer in Capitalist Realism made a good note of this, how the capitalist world of the west recreated the bureacratic culture in a host of in what are its institutions (which are obstensibly businesses) that existed in soviet russia, and in many ways surpassed those systems.
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>History channel schlock ... fiction

Distinction that doesn't make a difference IMO
My wife's grandfather, Theodore Houser, was the CEO of Sears in the `50s. He wrote a book called "Big Business and Human Values". The last CEO had nothing close to "Human Values", and Sears didn't last long after they started ignoring his advice.

Elon Musk would do well to read that book.
I live in Appalachia & see many of the usual characteristics of isolated, impoverished communities. How would I start?
Holy mackerel.

VCMI looks like it's at parity with the original game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4WWRrh-KIc
"Just a waste of energy in California." (in regards to large language models)

Chomsky is insufferable.
You contradict yourself. Teaching is not building.
It removes extra steps from the process. Sort of like trying to rob a police station.
That already exists, more or less: https://www.copy.ai/
That's a good point about non-determinism, although I wonder if there are known convergence/stability results in the ML literature that allow you to effectively ignore that detail (i.e. it seems plausible that you could get something like "human^n chess always stabilizes at some fixed amount of training time/computational power"). You can also just fix the randomization seed, but that's obviously a less satisfying result.

> The other thing that would compound this is that no current chess engine solves the game fully. There would be even more positions that have multiple “optimal” solutions if the engine only looks ahead to bounded x.

I'm not sure this is an obstacle; we're explicitly excluding the computer's preferred move, rather than the necessarily optimal move, after all. You could easily play human chess with the engine from (e.g.) Battle Chess, which honestly is sort of an interesting idea in its own right.
As a faculty member I find it more and more difficult to use my own grant funding (some of which is from organizations like NSF and some of which is "unrestricted gift" funding, which is supposed to be used at my sole discretion.) Mostly this is due to new rules and reporting requirements that rule out certain expenses, and some of it is new procedures that make reimbursement harder.

For example, we were informed last year that we couldn't buy pizza for grad students' research lab meetings because the business office had determined that "food purchased within 100 miles of the University" was no longer a valid business expense. Similarly, travel booking has become much more difficult and many of my colleagues (and grad students) report large sums of un-reimbursed expenses, just because the process of getting things through the system is so much more byzantine now.

I don't want to complain too much, but all these "small" new requirements add up: particularly the ones that require office staff to manually approve expenditures (our office is understaffed.) It is definitely making it harder for us to do our jobs, and some faculty and students are so frustrated with the procedures that they spend their own salaries to get work done.
Thanks for clearing that up. I must have misread the article based on my prior knowledge of Into The Wild and some of the comments previously made.
Some related threads from the past https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ask+hn+math

"Ask HN: I suck at math, where to start?", "Ask HN: How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?", "Ask HN: How to self-learn math?", "Ask HN: Best way to relearn basic math?"
The link currently goes to a PubChem summary of the patent, which is not particularly helpful.

Here’s the full-text: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6506148B2/en
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It’s trained on language, it learns grammar, and how words relate to each other. So it constructs grammatically correct sentences with words that relate to each other.

It has no experience of how those words relate to other experiences, because it has no other experiences. If you want it to understand logic, train it on logical problems. If you want it to understand time, it’s going to need to experience time.