skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So here is, for me, and interesting philosophical question...

I have a 14 yr old son that has been teaching himself to code in c# and c++
He's also learning rudimentary coding at school (though he's way ahead of them)

Do I show him ChatGPT?
In doing so will he get lazy, and not learn anything anymore, could he use it to "cheat" on his school assignments?

Am I better off not showing him this tool or am i depriving him of the ability to stand on the shoulders of digital giants?

I honestly don't know where i stand on this.
I have recently made the switch from vscode to helix and after one day of struggle it has been a joy. The setup was simple and the overall design philosophy is great.

The main thing that is missing for me is a way to browse/move/copy/rename files. I still use vscode for those operations. I can understand that this is not the main focus of helix for the moment.
mmm... from what I've seen gay women (i.e. lesbians) tend to have rather noticable appearances - either rather butch/masculine, or somewhat 'freaky'.

There are exceptions, where they just go for "comfy", however.
Any recommendations? Can't think of any such book owned by anyone I know.

I often jest that cooking is just process chemistry, but done without proper tools and without caring about quality of the outcome.
All very good points.

Trust is also a leap of faith, when that's all you have. I had put that in the "intuition" category of my first comment.
Meta may remove news from platform if U.S. Congress passes media bill
Looks to me that covid lockdown gave introverts the fantasy that people will now enjoy staying at home interacting with people through an online avatar.
I haven't seen any output above mediocre - that is, compared to what a competent human in their skill can do

There's a lot of value in that though, if you're not competent at the thing you need to do. For example, I saw a post on Twitter where someone had set up a GPT-powered letter writing tool for someone who wanted to run a business but had very poor writing skills. They would write a prompt like "I will be there on Monday", and the AI turned that into a well-written contact email confirming an appointment.

Something doesn't have to be world class to be valuable. It just has to be better than you can do yourself.
Is there a relation between the model expressing certainty or uncertainty and the likelihood of the statement being a hallucination?
My complaint was that I cant yet use helix-style bindings everywhere and have to use vim-style instead, and your solution is to configure helix to be like vim? Thanks, but not really what I was looking for.
it did require to have the Remote Development Extension Pack installed right?
or was the vulnerability discovered in the core VS Code?
Metal dents. Metal scratches. And if you get any of the colors other than boring bright grey then it's really easy to scratch. And at least things like keyboard replacement, SSD replacement are easy to replace on ThinkPads.

Nothing's cracked on my W520 yet, and I don't have to worry about plugging in the power adapter damaging the finish like I did with my Space Grey MBP.
I don't think it exists but it sounds like the best option for you would be a steel mug with a heated baseplate. The baseplate could detect the presence of a full mug with a force sensor and then start heating. When she makes her coffee she could place the mug on the baseplate and then keep it heated at her desired temperature. That way she could run around doing whatever and always have a warm coffee to sip on when she comes back to it.
Yeah it is. In the 90s everything had a manual. Does anybody remember how good the documentation was for new hardware? I was looking for an example but google became garbage and I can't find any good example.
There are a few non-Mac vendors that still support S3 sleep mode. I think Thinkpads still work. The problem is that it requires vendors to support it in the BIOS. Windows no longer supports S3 sleep mode, so vendors aren't willing to add that feature just for Linux users.

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33846437
Yes, I mixed it up, sorry.
christ... we now need to be AI whisperers when sifting through the garbage on the internet?
It also reminds me how I was once banned from a Discord group of engineering students, for contradicting some California boy.

I was being shocked that some tech companies in the USA needed to write and advertise that they were inclusive. We saw a website of a financial consulting company that explicited on their home page that could hire and promote even whom they call LGBT ppl, handicapped, "communities" (with a picture of someone to illustrate the community category), or women

From a European perspective, I was shocked it had to be written. Because you hire whoever does the job well, no matter what is their private life.
If the candidate has the skillset, that's enough.
But for him I was just racist and not supportive and "he was not here to teach me about women" (his words), for not supporting companies that write this. Then he banned me.

I didn't even try to create an alt to join back this server. And I admit that we could have had an equally constructive discussion about Americans, at work, the next day, which is often nice.
Yes, and if you poke around the OpenAI playground you will see they've trained models to be more transparent about uncertainty, opting for a non-answer instead of a hallucination much more often.
Transistors are civilization’s invisible infrastructure
On the first part of your post:

We don't have the full test, so maybe the teacher had a preface saying "In the context of book XYZ...". That is what I do when I create flashcards for myself. I specify what knowledge I am testing. We may also assume it was implicit for the students.

I could also imagine that forcing the student to make one choice is a feature, not bug. For example this decision may teach the student that (1) not everything is binary and a single book has no absolute truth, (2) to move forward, you need to make a choice.

Regarding the second part:

> That, to me, is testing information without knowledge.

Memorization vs. Understanding is a false dichotomy. Both are required for proper learning. See https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn.
^^ This 10000x.

Sure there are some nice comforts and features that will make life easier for the operator, but on the whole it's a massive step backwards in actual durability, utility and usability.
I'd be interested in seeing that actually.(the config)
There should be a permaban from HN for using LLMs or other AI to write comments, as they provide no useful, authentic discourse.
The classic phenomenon of junior engineers that have become decent at programming but unexperienced enough that they want to rewrite everything, thinking they can surely do better.

Now this is endemic in the JS world, especially because it is more ubiquitous than the previous beginner language, PHP.
To each her own. :)
Streamers sync donation amount to vibration amount

Or so I've heard
That's a super cynical way of looking at it. What I see is a triumph in the very hacker ethos of being able to reverse engineer these drivers. The team is even fixing bugs and will likely get better performance out of the hardware than can be found on MacOS when it's all said and done. And all of this is done without specs.
My point is if you’re requiring smartphones, realistically you’re only going to target those two OSs. That’s independent of the fact that requiring it to rent an apartment is bad. Pick apart that last 0.1% and it’s mostly end of life devices like Windows/Blackberry.
GitHub Copilot has increased my development speed by at least 10%. That's an insane margin for $10 a month.
As an ex-IBM guy who spent a decade on Thinkpads I disagree.

> Thinkpad keyboard and far better aesthetics

Thinkpads are great for other reasons, partially that almost everything was replaceable as you pointed out.

In the case of aesthetics, Apple is the clear winner.
> Real analysis, with heavy use of infinite sets,

I never dove all the way into this, but I always found one detail unsatisfying: the natural numbers as defined by Peano arithmetic, and more generally the kind of sets described in the OP, are sets all the way down. Each element is itself a set consisting, recursively, of sets. The system has no types!

But Cauchy sequences, and limit sequences, aren’t sets all the way down, nor are they things that grew out of untyped lambda calculus. They are sequences, not sets. And their elements are real numbers, not sets.

Sure, a real number may well be describable as itself being a Dedekind cut over the rational numbers, which are themselves describable using Peano arithmetic. But you can do calculus using the axioms of the real numbers and treat the real numbers as their own type of object. The result seems much cleaner to me - a real number is equivalent to a Dedekind cut, but this does not mean that a real number is a Dedekind cut. A set of reals is not sets all the way down. An object of type Integer in most programming languages is not implicitly convertible to Set. Putting types into a model of mathematics seems to add a very welcome firewall between algebraic structures (like the reals) and the underlying formalism that was used to justify their existence and properties.

In this context, of course infinite sets exist. The set of distinct real numbers in a sequence of reals converging to given irrational number is (countably) infinite. This infinity is firewalled off from the axiom of infinity, and it is infinite all by itself, which is amazing because I can take a limit or calculate a derivative without thinking about ZF at all!

(The problems in the world are not all solved like this. Calculus certainly involves measures, and the Banach-Tarski paradox works on sets of reals, etc. But I don’t have to worry about Banach-Tarski when integrating a function.)
> by asserting that we need to be “scientific” and look at facts

Unspeakable!
It's an interesting 'problem'. Handling cash has a cost. I don't know how batopin handles it, but it's, for example, around 1/5 the cost, largely logistical, to fill a machine with 50s instead of 10s. Where ATM network withdrawals carry no fee, there's no brand loyalty for where to get your cash, so where's the incentive to carry lower denomination notes? CBs have employed various methods to keep lower value notes in circulation such as X number of 10s per X number of 50s - perhaps a central 'cashless' push will be in these lower denominations, but that's purely speculation on my part.

Interesting to see And it is what we all fall back on when the technology fails us. In other words, cash has far from lost its age-old reason for being! in the waffle. That's also my understanding - that cash becomes extremely valuable in times of acute crisis (like a zombie apocalypse) because it has all the characteristics (divisible, recognised, sufficiently rare, durable and easy to carry, easier to 'barter' than a can of beans, etc) of... money.
Personal finance and finance in general should be taught to everyone starting from high school. We teach kids countless topics they'll have no use of in every day life, yet something as essential as finance is overlooked.
Just for giggles I asked ChatGPT if PragerU was an reliable source. It answered that it doesn't know the specifics of PragerU and therefore couldn't say if it's reliable.
There is no such thing as "collective freedom".
The giveaway is a very passive wikipedia article style voice and that it is a little non-sequitur
The Beluga really looks ugly.
The Li chemistry produces much higher voltages and so would require step down circuitry to function as a direct replacement for AA/AAA. If you are talking about form factor, then there are a lot of similar size or smaller cells available.
Article’s title is clickbait; It’s an anti money laundering measure in general not directly to push CBDC.
Like I said, there's a coal burner generator that burns coal directly into electricity. Its efficiency (energy produced per energy consumed) is less than the water boiler + steam engine, so you have an incentive to switch to steam once you've researched it. But you need to keep the burner generators around for re-bootstrapping.
The backups are distributed via torrents, so it's a bit of both.
If you allow him to Google for results, why wouldn't you allow him to use ChatGPT?

So far ChatGPT has not given me any spam or advertising or malware!

That said, I saw a programmer comment earlier that they had spent hours unsuccessfully trying to solve a software problem in an area they understood, then they asked ChatGPT and it solved it correctly . . . the tone of the comment was rather deflated.

ChatGPT is way way better at many writing tasks than I am, but I try to not let my ego be dented. Should my ego be more threatened by ChatGPT, but not threatened by the existing translation tools (or Dall-E) which are similarly magical?
Here in Europe I don't get charged any kind of fee for withdrawals.
Loneliness is a bad relationship advisor it seems. It's like going to the supermarket with an empty stomach: you end up loading your cart with a lot of crap.

Btw, these scams are a worldwide trend. The wildest case I've read was about a Japanese lady scammed by a "Russian astronaut" seeking $ to pay his "landing fees" for returning to earth to meet her [1]. I've also read in local Greek news for >1 cases of ladies getting scammed by "US soldiers/officers", who at some point claim to be stranded in their deployment and ask for $ so they can travel to meet them in Greece.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ad7vn/japan-romance-scam-ru...
> When I was growing up you never posted your photo online where strangers could see it.

I have _never_ uploaded my photo "online" voluntarily, but still it was common to put your photo in many places that were easily reachable by the common public. My school published a yearbook with my photo, for example.
Many journal papers I've published had my photo attached, starting at least from the 90s.

Some of these have been digitized and thus my photo is easily reachable for anyone who searches for my full name, without me ever voluntarily uploading it "online".

> Earlier than that, it was also considered proper etiquette to ask before taking someone's photo.

This much is still true, or can you imagine going around randomly flashing people with your phone on the street?

Actually I think this has improved over time. I'm far from a celebrity, but my photo is on the press -- and they never asked for permission. Nowadays, they do.
I got hooked into programming via Game Maker, and I've heard of similar experiences from a few of my colleagues.

Good fun taking a platformer base and messing with the physics calculations. :)
Have you seen AMPShare Alliance [1]? It's a common 18-volt battery tool platform with many partners.

Mostly industrial/professional tools so far but I hope it will continue to grow. Yes, I have Bosch stuff. :)

[1]: https://www.ampshare.com/ng/en/
Neither do most legitimate comments.

We should use AI to preload all of the boilerplate conversation for a thread first, then leave the few interesting comments remaining to human beings.
There was an academic paper about this recently; we’re aware of “Asian” as a bias but not “physically attractive” and disproportionately favor the more pleasing individuals.
Probably less rare than a fuel tank spontaneously exploding. Has an ICE car manufacturer ever recalled a vehicle and said don't park it inside until you get it recalled?
Mathematics is not a spectator sport. - George Polya

Somewhat ironically, I actually read this article after it surfaced on Hacker News on some previous occasion and did not realise until I got to the point where the author mentions how she worked on Russian trawlers in the Bering sea. The brain readily remembers unusual stuff but not the mundane.

There was plenty of semi-unusual stuff before that paragraph - switching from languages to engineering, starting later in life after leaving the army etc. But it seems these were still too general to have made an imprint in my long term memory. Working a trawler in the Bering sea as a translator - that’s something I’ve not seen in any other article before or heard any other human talk about. Memory connection made.

I think this is half the reason why solving problems and memorisation is needed for a lot of people - the material is so abstract that people struggle to tether it to anything in their memory.
I saw something along these lines on Twitter and think it's very true:

the right way to think about ChatGPT is not "what can I do if I had API access to an intelligent person?" which is how most are treating it (because it's not that smart), but rather "what can I do with API access to 1000 people of medium intelligence?"
> I'd pay good money NOT to have it delivered to my home

Amazon lets you deliver stuff to automated lockers in various high traffic places like what you mention.

Also some delivery services will let you specify a shop or something where you can have your package delivered instead of your home.

> Such unimaginable waste driving around to every single home needing delivery

Unless the deliveries are to high population density locations with a high density of pickup locations, home delivery the the most efficient way to shop in terms of resource usage. Anything that stops people getting in their car is a win.
Yeah I asked it a programming question and it suggested I could use both degrees and radians (for a 'double' parameter) giving literal examples (not just in text but in code) 'use 45 for 45 degrees, and 1.5 for 1.5 radians'. This is for Flutter's Transform.rotate and unless I've missed something, this is always in radians. Took me longer to find out than if I had just Googled it, although I admit I had been using it with success all morning for comparable questions.

If it's right 90% of the time and acts and sounds like it is right 10% of the time while being (slightly) wrong, that makes it practically useless.
The first thing that comes to mind is ENTSO-E's Power Flow Tool. It had a number of simulations of Europe's power grid with typical demand scenario's, prompting you to take care of grid balancing when a power line suddenly failed during peak load.

Unfortunately I just discovered that they removed it from their website somewhere this year. I've asked them to restore it. For now you can play with this copy in the Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220124003709/https://www.entso...
> Heinrich XIII

The pensioned monarchs strike back. This reads like satire.
My example was a situation where we would benefit from a public blockchain solution in terms of more efficient administration, but were unable to use it because of ecological concerns. In that situation we already needed the product, and the improvement removes a barrier.
Yes please posting a jupyter notebook will be of great help
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I asked if how long the titanic was, and it gave a very good and confident answer. Including how it hit a polar bear and sank.
Competition and divided roles keeps these systems somewhat functional. Put them all under one authority and almost certainly see an increase in abuse
We are building a new tool to improve everybody's quality of life and would like your input.
Thank you
I understand but it was less fun to go down the shared male / female development path of why men end up with nipples :) The fact that men can lactate under unusual conditions has made me rethink using the idiom "as useless at tits on a bull" ... but I'm fairly sure that a bull would not let a hungry baby calf nuzzle long enough for it to find the bulls nipples.
Onsite solar and storage is the big issue. That's why most solar plants come with a peaker gas plant.

It's cheaper to provide additional demand via fossil fuels than to rely on storage solutions. You need a huge amount of storage.
Asking ChatGPT to generate YouTube content
Current mac is leagues beyond any mobile devices on the market and it's not even remotely close. I am force to use mac because of it.
Has there been any efforts in integrating whisper model into a more advanced engine like Kaldi to leverage the most out of this wonderful model
Apparently yes. And I guess we don’t even realize what this means. E.g. how much harm could an intentionally biased AI do.
On Twitch it's for þeir controller, right?
This is a real good insight here.

I have seen too many founders think they need world-class tech to create value. Perfectionism is your worst enemy if you want to provide value.

A lot of companies are not build upon world-class top-notch things. Your (potential) customers are likely way behind in many aspects and in the end it only matters if it creates value for them.

To expand on your argument. Even if you are competent in writing, these models can easily help you speed up your writing time. So you can either make the same amount of money with less time or you can spend your time on making even more money.
It's common for all client apps to not block the main thread be it iOS, Android or Web
My dad took me to the Frankfurt AM Flughafen observation lounge to watch the first 747 land there. Wow!
Grey is not a color:

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grau_ist_keine_Farbe
Being a very constrained domain with it's own speech rules, transcripting ATC conversation would probably benefit at lot from fine-tuning on ATC speech data.
> From a lot of (bad) places you don't know at the time of order whether it is going to be home delivery or not

What on earth are you talking about? Every purchase for a physical item I’ve made since 2001 included a billing address and a shipping address. How on earth are you being tricked? Do you just not look at shipping address and get mad later? That is a very particular problem.
cool; thanks for pointing out your project!

Do you have any advice on how someone limited to c99/c11 can still leverage the wisdom and techniques inside it?
The 757 was the last Boeing airplane drawn by hand. CAD systems were there, but they were terrible.
I don't hear people saying cash protects freedom, but is does protect privacy. Can it be taken away, yes of course, if people don't care about privacy (and most don't) and don't use it then it can, and that seems to be a project in progress.
Hey, headline author - your headline does not match the article's content.

Robots have come for skilled jobs for a long time. Krugman even mentioned how "industrial robots replaced routine assembly-line work". Welding is a skilled job, and there are robot welders where once there were skilled workers.

Instead, this article is about robots taking over the jobs of "knowledge workers", defined as "people engaged in nonrepetitive problem solving."

Just because something is manual work doesn't mean it's not a skilled job.
Unless you need the thermal functionality a dozen times a day you're better off buying a $200 IR add-on camera you'll be able to use for a decade or more.
"I rewired my brain to do <thing>" — back in my day we used to call that learning, especially after we found out that your neural pathways change constantly, strengthening and pruning inefficiencies, when learning and repeating any kind of behaviour, be it practicing a language or becoming addicted to a drug.

I guess "I finally learned and understood maths" is not as engaging a title.
Perhaps, but releasing it even in an unfinished state would massively reduce the duplication-of-effort which is needed for reverse engineering. There are often clues which would take a long time to find when working blind which you can glean even from a few sentences of concrete inside knowledge.