skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Scientifically, "a human" is an alive organism of the species "Homo sapiens."

You seem to be conflating linguistics with biology. If we agree to change the definition of a word "human", this isn't going to make pro-lifers happy, because their problem is not with words.

Also, I don't think "human" means alive Homo Sapiens. Human and Homo Sapiens are synonyms.

> A blastocyst, embryo, or fetus is undisputedly alive

But that's exactly what is being disputed. For example a braindead person is "undisputedly" dead, yet an embryo has even less brain activity.
I agree with this. Ask specific tech questions (e.g. what is the vacuum (in Torr) inside a vacuum tube?) and ChatGPT give a direct answer. Ask Google? Go ahead, grovel thought the ads, irrelevant results, and maybe you'll find something relevant.

Happy Hunting...
Monopolies don't need to have all the market share, there just needs to be no viable substitutes. And a social network that is tiny with barely any content, is not a viable substitute. Another characteristic is high barriers to entry, which for social networks, includes overcoming the network effect as well as dealing with Cloudflare, Mastercard, etc. It doesn't matter if there are work arounds, if the cost of these workarounds is high, it's a monopoly.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
No only is there the sea, and the artic route, but with water level drops, immigration happened via land corridors, during the ice age.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period

This ice age lasted about 100k years, which is perhaps 1/3 of the time modern humans have ever existed.

Multiple peoples immigrated during this time.

There has probably not been a multitude of immigrant waves.

Archeological evidence says otherwise.
We're approaching an era where we'll be able to socially engineer machines. Wonderful :)
You can get it to respond a bit less formal by having it impersonate someone with a less formal speaking style. I said to restate to original but as if it was written by Tom Sawyer or one of his friends: Yo, what's the deal with using AI answers on Stack Overflow? It seems like it could be a real bummer. For one thing, the answers might not be as good as ones made by a human. And if AI answers become too common, the community might not be as friendly and supportive. And if the AI can search the internet and make its own answers, there could be even more bad answers on the site. All in all, this could be a major problem." Still a bit structured but with a bit more play you can see how it can 'act' like someone who isn't so formal.
An experienced dev can work something out even if its not his main stack. I could probably get something very basic done in Swift or Android despite never doing it. Experienced devs are just good in reading documentation and having a general understanding of how things should work.
The problem is, at Doctorow’s Anything Goes Cafe, a bunch of people shout loudly and abusively at other tables, incessantly go table-to-table to sell things, and even organize mobs to attack other tables.

He’s ignoring this, which makes the essay weak and pointless.
I'd estimate that running a large language model like GPT-3.5 or Lambda is currently 100x-1000x both more expensive and slower to run inference through than a language model like BERT.

So deploying it at Google scale is not viable (yet).

There is also the question of incentives. If an LLM model can return exactly what the user asked for, where do you put ads? Before the answer, after the answer or inside the answer? Any of those is a bad outcome for the user wanting just the answer.

We already witnessed the failure to monetize Alexa with ads - in a purely question answering setting, users will not tolerate anything but the answer itself. Thus, the business model for this needs to be paid AI/search, and Google would be facing innovator's dillema. If I was writing a book about Google, I would love to witness the VP level meetings at Google at this moment.
> The subway system is sprawling but, as someone who doesn't know any Japanese, I've never had any real trouble navigating it.

The Tokyo subway was never difficult to navigate. But as someone who has recently returned from a trip to Japan for the first time since COVID I can tell you they've made substantial improvements since (mostly as a result of the run up to the Olympics).

There is now substantially more English signage on the subway than ever before. The ticket machines even now have extensive English language menus.
What stands out to me in the piece is the high budget combined with a lack of any celebrity and the use of an original composition.

Someone was paid to write an original composition and another to choreograph the dancing.

Those are expensive cameras dancing on a proper soundstage operates by professionals and shot with a multi-camera setup by another set of professionals…it’s all choreographed, rehearsed, directed, and edited.

Nothing like that happens today without a celebrity.
Bootstrapped to $12M/year hardware and software (whole widget) product co. It took a long time, 13 years.

I have a strong feeling that if I could do it all over again I’d do it more of it myself for as long as I could until I absolutely had to hire.

People tend to underestimate how expensive of an investment it is to reach yourself how to hire, how to onboard, how to coach, and even when you know all that you can still easily spend 3-6 months of a professional salary figuring out someone doesn’t fit well in your organization.

Our products have been growing 50% per year for four years now and I’m still thinking of doing more myself and with my cofounders. (We’re all highly technical)
This is super interesting because I feel the exact same way about Stable Diffusion and similar AI image generation tools. I'm not an artist but I have ideas in my head that I want to get out. I also don't care about making art as a craft, I just want to do stuff like make cool pictures.

In the end, maybe it can make all of us be creative in the different fields we don't have skill in.
> "if you ask google to show you papers about some topic with words in quotes you think you remember from the paper it will show you the proper link IF it exists and language model will just generate you a result that doesn't exist."

Not really.

What will actually happen is Google may link me the actual research paper, along with thousands of other associated pages which may or may not have all kinds of fake, false information. For example, if I search for "study essential oils treat cancer" I get an estimated 190 millon matching documents. A huge percentage of these have false and misleading information about using oils to treat cancer.

> "language model will generate you plausible explanation/answer that can be 100% false and it doesn't know or understand that it's false and you will have no way to know if it's false or true and no point of reference because ALL the results you will receive could be hallucinated"

With google it is third parties "hallucinating" the wrong answers (or worse: intentionally answering wrong in order to exploit and profit). The overall dynamic is not different. Google is providing these wrong answers, written by others.

The overall dynamic of providing information of questionable veracity is generally the same - because the question of who creates the associations and incorrect content is not particularly germane.
Your article studies plants built after the nuclear boom, which of course leads to higher prices. See the cluster of plants built cheaply starting in the mid 60s [1]? That's the nuclear boom. Your article studies plants still in construction at the end of 1986, which is when the nuclear boom tapered off following thee mile island. Deliberately or not you're pulling a slight of hand here by shifting the time frame. But in the end, this helps reinforce my point: nuclear is expensive when built in small numbers as your study demonstrates, and cheaper when built at scale as the study I'll link below explains.

Finance liability is a fancy word for debt: this has nothing to do with construction costs, and everything to do with financing models. You're right, nuclear would be even cheaper if better financing was done. Upstream supply chain is accounted for by the downstream purchase costs. This is like saying wind turbine costs don't include the costs of mining copper for the dynamos. That cost is in included when the wind turbine manufacturer pays for copper coils.

Research on nuclear's cost history overwhelmingly finds that costs are lower when built at scale: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...

1. https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S03014215163001...

> Every pro nuclear claim turns out to be a lie when examined even with the slightest scrutiny. All of them.

Well, you sound like you're engaging with this topic in well-adjusted and unbiased manner!
I doubt it. They've had problems with cheap automated answers for years where bots would essentially search for the question on SO and then copy an answer from another question verbatim. The answers were rarely useful because questions happen to be different even though they use the same keywords.

Not only did they never bother to block that, they also didn't mind it and wanted to rely on the community down-voting those answers instead of at least blocking the bot -- and that's with a trivial check (identical answer already in DB). With something that's AI-generated, there's no chance. And with the general quality of many of the answers, there's no way to tell apart wrong answers from AI or humans.
Sadly they said that because it does happen.

I hired someone on the back of their GitHub repo once. He talked me into it by saying he struggled to control nerves during coding interviews etc. Regretted it immediately - the code he wrote once he joined inexplicably bore no resemblance to what was in his repo. He also turned out to have a major attitude problem with the language we were actually working in, suggesting at one point that maybe he should be able to write his code in Common Lisp and then we should hire cheap Indians to rewrite it into our actual language.

This sort of thing seems hard to detect unless you actually watch someone code. The stuff on his repo could have come from anywhere or anyone, really.
Two things:

1) Article doesn't name a source.

2) According to the story, Chinese officials stopped chips from being smuggled into the country, and also China is struggling due to USA sanctions on chips. Seems like they're mixing contradictory stories only because they have the word "chip" in them.
what is the difference from just searching youtube for same?
It’s a good question and in my opinion, it depends entirely on the compound.

But that wasn’t the point of my comment. I am calling out people being pedantic and nitpicky just to argue, instead of recognizing the very obvious intent of the great-grand parent’s comment and debating something with merits, like whether man made chemicals are inherently bad.
Could this potentially be used to root a device?
Can it drive a pair of 4K monitors? The only reason I've not bought one of the HP DevOne units -- https://hpdevone.com/ -- is the lack of support to drive external 4K monitors.
Gore Tex is going to be much lighter and more pliable than leather or rubber.
"Ignore it" has never been a solution to "other people misbehaving and destroying shared spaces".
Neurons spiking is a lot of quantum woo, as you put it. Collapse of an electric charge gradient across a membrane, neurotransmitters being released and binding to receptors, etc., all involve various QM processes. I was however thinking more about photon scattering, reflection, and emission from so-called material objects, well before those photons hit the rods and cones in the eye.
> It's a false distinction. Google is more than a search engine; it is also an advertising company that incentivizes original content creation.

Obvious straw man argument. Replace word google with search engine.

> Expand your scope to both Google, and the creation of an ecosystem of SEO pages which Google incentives. They are the same, in totality. Google doesn't just index -- it also funds the creation of landing pages.

This doesn't matter, you are mistaking dataset with the model. Search engine will not return to you things that were not in dataset, it will give you many results that you can judge with many points of reference. Language model will return you one answer, answer that could be a correct result that is inside the dataset or could be totally false and incorrect but plausible and you will have no point of reference to check that unless you use a real search engine.
Can you not make a lazy vacuous comment and instead use your words to substantiate what you think?
Artisans lost that battle 100 years ago with the rise of modernism.
The Myth of the T-Shaped Developer (2020)
Well your experience contradicts both mine and my family's, the both of us living in two of the most major cities in the U.S. And there has absolutely been a dropoff of nonstop flights. Several used to exist and now literally none between areas I used to fly.
Since I watched the movie “Dark Waters”, I’m trying to avoid those PFO(A|E) as much as I can.

Threw all non-stick pans away and learnt how to cook with just cast iron or inox pans.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)
It could be but you can also ask for answers given "in the style of..." and it does a good job changing it up.
It's like a big zip archive of all the content it's seen, with a "fuzzy grep" feature built in.
So which of the following count as "man made" chemicals?

Alcohol or vinegar from humans intentionally fermenting things?

A metallic aluminum alloy?

Sulfuric acid (which sometimes occurs naturally)?

Turpentine?

Soda-lime glass?

I get that it generally refers to substances that are more on the very artificial side, requiring advanced knowledge of chemistry to produce, and to have a connotation of harmfulness / toxicity. But it's not at all obvious what the speaker would consider to be a "chemical" because that varies from speaker to speaker.
Prices however are not magically driven down. Those doing the hiring choose to pay less simply because they can get away with it.
The anonymity isn’t the problem - it’s the cost free aspect.

Anonymous content can work very well if there are costs incurred…
The problem however is not that we do not have the technology to help others. The problem is its distribution on this planet. It almost does not matter what you invent, unless it reaches the places, where it is actually needed. And that is a political and cultural problem.
The last two books are not even close to relevant to the question, they're just generic business-flavored self-help.
Germany has free health care, so it's in the insurance's best interest to keep the cost low.
Which provides better performance and range: hydrogen internal combustion or hydrogen fuel cell?
I’ve started doing more work during travel so I’ve had to get used to a 1 monitor workflow as I found the portable solutions too difficult to manage unless your idea of portable is “something small to carry to a desk I’ll be at for 2 weeks”.

At home I still have a 6 monitor (3x2) setup and it’s still the best beyond I can’t take it with me.
You are getting dinged on semantics but I’m here to +1 you for Nikwax. Its major competitors, like Gear-X and whatever else all use PFCs, and do not indicate this on the label. While the entire Nikwax portfolio is PFC-free

And yea, when people put sno-seal or whatever else on their winter boots they typically call it “waterproofing” even if it’s not technically the same meaning of that word as what you would say about a rain jacket
I think the people who get harassed on Twitter, and have to spend a significant amount of their Twitter-using time dealing with that, would disagree with you.
> people actually reading the content of comments very carefully and upvoting logically sound arguments

You can make a perfectly logical comment that is completely wrong.
From the article (so, the replacement is not just another equally bad chemical with an acronym that starts with "PF"):

When it comes to Gore Fabrics, it has actually telegraphed its next move, at least to an extent. Back in September, a press release went out but never got much traction. I remember it coming through my inbox at the time and the title "Introducing New Gore-Tex Products with Innovative Expanded Polyethylene (ePE) Membrane for AW22" didn't exactly catch my eye. I sent an email out to Gorewear and asked about it, but there was nothing to test and it fell off my radar.

As it turns out, that press release was a big deal. Expanded polyethylene is the future of the Gore product line. Like existing products, it's available as a three-layer fabric with a membrane-embedded between an inner and outer face fabric. It still carries the "Guaranteed To Keep You Dry" promise and it's still a microporous breathable design. What's different is that it is free of PFC [ed. Per-fluorinated compounds] and half the weight for footwear and clothing. It's currently unavailable in any cycling product, so for now, it’s a waiting game to see how it performs.
The article is rather misleading. It is almost certain that Samsung used HSMs to sign their APKs, so the key itself could never actually leak unless someone had physical access to the HSMs themselves and managed to somehow delid it and then put it back together without anyone noticing. I'm not too familiar with the documented attacks on delidding HSMs, but I believe that delidding chips causes permanent damage to them in such a way that they will never function properly again.

It's much more likely that an employee's account was compromised and then used to sign malicious APKs, or something similar. Once Samsung realized, they could get the logs of every APK signed with the HSM and then revoke those certificates individually through a software update. Not really sure if they actually did that or not, but either way the key doesn't necessarily need to be replaced.
Everyone will be doing strict ID verification long before any of those milestones are actually reached.
Yeah I had a boss who, when I mentioned that I was reading about startups and recommended the books, dismissed them saying that it didn’t seem like one could learn from books. Which seemed like a weird dichotomy because nobody’s saying you can learn how to run a startup entirely from a book? We’re just saying you can learn some useful elements or perspectives from books. Which is really all that you can ask for from instructional material.
I see your point, but that's a bit like "or live by the airport, where your most favourite airlines depart from".
"We could also... Additionally, we could... Finally, we could" is a dead giveaway.

But to take it seriously, it would be quite sad when actual people will be banned for sounding too much like a bot.
Voting with your wallet only works if a large portion of consumers both agree and understand your point of view
The solution is to have more contests throughout the year, with starting times spread out throughout the day (for different time zones).
There are plenty of platforms (Codeforces, Codechef, Atcoder) that run regular (weekly/monthly) contests at various times. You can participate and replenish your sapped joy (though unless you train regularly, you will still be at a severe disadvantage)

Alternatively, if AoC were to be run by a team (and not a single person), they could start at a different time each day.
Yeah, post it on twitter where they'll never see it.
Robert C. Martin has ruined so many mid organizations it's kind of funny
Whilst PVC is most frequently made from salt and oil, in some regions of the world PVC is made without using oil feedstock at all (substituting oil-derived hydrocarbon with bio-derived hydrocarbon feedstock). PVC is therefore far less oil-dependent than other thermoplastics.
Not in Germany, they don't. Barmer is a "gesetzliche Krankenkasse"/public insurance, which means most of their members' premiums are legally limited to a certain percentage of their members' income, and while they can and do raise their premiums occasionally, that's always a topic of political debate and needs a better justification than "a very small percentage of our members need expensive exo-skeletons now."

They have no ability to raise premiums on specific members with high healthcare costs.
> ChatGPT can't write a kernel device driver, and it can't act as a no-code tool for non-programmers. Those are the hard parts.

Oh, do I have news for you then.

Look at what I just did with ChatGPT in 30 seconds (and I did not cherry-pick, these were the first answers I got!):

https://gist.github.com/wizeman/b269be035308994be745025fc337...

Now to be fair, the code is probably not totally correct, as probably there are parts still missing/wrong and there might even be compilation errors or other problems.

But here's the important part: you can tell which errors or problems you've observed and ChatGPT will fix these problems for you. Exactly like what a programmer does.

And sure, it cannot yet do this at scale, such as in implementing a huge kernel driver like a GPU driver.

But at this rate, give it a few years and an improved version might just be able to do anything a programmer does, perhaps even autonomously if we allow it to interact with a computer like a human does.
Accept gifts from fans without giving an address
I don’t think it’s a race to build the best/cheapest model for public consumption. Someone is going to build or renovate a law firm/enterprise software company/investment bank/medical expert system/etc around this technology. Perhaps it will be a joint venture between tech companies and subject experts.

It’s possible for each executive to have a mentat who can whisper to the machine instead of a department of programmers/middle management/ops people/accountants/lawyers/etc. Doesn’t seem so far-fetched after a day of playing with this system.
I think the poster above meant that e.g. engineers are Meta are paying very good money so their children go to private schools where they confiscate phones. Or that they dont buy phones at all for their kids until they turn like 12, instead pay a lot of money so they go to private tutors, have nannies, do all kinds of after school programmes. Whereas kids from poor families cannot afford these or to keep watch of their kids 24/7 (because they need to work), so these kids will hang on Facebook/Youtube/TikTok/.. all day
Magazines have full editorial control, though. Think of it like a fully-moderated platform. Nothing gets through without positive approval of the magazine editors. With a platform like Twitter, it's default-allow, and people have to see (and block/report) much of the bad content to get rid of it.
Good luck building your own payment processor for such a company. Payment processors are regulated and you can't just make your own.
It misses out on the 2 best places I’ve visited in Japan (possibly ever visited):

- Naoshima island: a beautiful serene island dedicated to contemporary art. Such a surreal experience.

- Shimanami Kaido: a 60km bike path linking an archipelago of rural islands in the sea of Hiroshima. The bridges looking the islands are something out of Blade Runner.
I can't speak for others, but for me it is 80% macOS (and its seamless synergy with everything Apple I own), and 20% hardware, what keeps me on Apple.
But don't Americans have any shame for wiping out so many innocent lives in the nuclear bombings, yet still have the audacity to make Japan their vassal state?
What about all the enablers that knew he was incompetent but still invested millions? Likepeople providing bomb making materials to terrorists.
Kris described hachyderm's infrastructure operating in her basement on the Oxide and Friends podcast in mid-November. Kudos to her for being able to keep it going there so long!
I thought the "stat" command of Minio was supposed to resolve the "listing is horribly slow" issue?
I see you, GPT-3.
cf Kees Boeke's Cosmic View eg https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Boeke/Boeke3.html