skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious Academics are not much better in their use of conjecture and motivated reasoning.

Consider this article in the New York Times in which a Real Archaeologist dismisses the idea that there was any violence involved in a large group of men suddenly meeting their genetic end:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/science/iberia-prehistory...

> But skeletal DNA from that period is striking and puzzling. Over all, Bronze Age Iberians traced 40 percent of their ancestry to the newcomers.

> DNA from the men, however, all traced back to the steppes. The Y chromosomes from the male farmers disappeared from the gene pool.

> To archaeologists, the shift is a puzzle.

> “I cannot say what it is,” said Roberto Risch, an archaeologist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, who was not involved in the new studies. But he ruled out wars or massacres as the cause. “It’s not a particularly violent time,” he said.

> Instead, Dr. Risch suspects “a political process” is the explanation. In their archaeological digs, Dr. Risch and his colleagues have found that Iberian farmers originally lived in egalitarian societies, storing their wealth together and burying their dead in group graves.
Haha yes. I belive a set of symbols known as the "alphabet" can be projected from the screen onto the human retina using targeted electromagnetic transmissions, triggering thought processes. [citation needed]
This is legitimate criticism and pisses me off to no end about Samsung devices (which are what I use).
Talking in the context of power relations seems inherently combative a form of discourse. If you feel you're up against someone with a differing viewpoint on a topic and it's so because of their different power vantage, you are going to what: either fight argumentatively or lecture to the person in front of you that they're naughty and need to see it. It doesn't seem productive.
What's worse? Hating people you have never met or idolizing people you have never met? Maybe spend your energy elsewhere instead of getting so worked up that you have to start calling people names.
Ask it "why is this wrong" or try some of the "let's think this through step by step" prefixes
The only reason we're seeing it is because a largely untrained audience decided to upvote it, because it matches their anecdotal experience enough that they think it's a good paper.
The profession went from writing machine code by hand to auditing "auto-generated" machine code from assembly. It led to more jobs, not less. And so on with every generation of programming languages. With every new higher-level language with new abstractions, we're often just adding another chain to the inputs to a machine code translator.

If you showed a programmer from the 1950s python syntax and told them that all you have to do is write these words to build a program, they'd think it was artificial intelligence.
A union is a power structure like any other, and unions get corrupted just like anything else. They need to be maintained by their members, otherwise they will prioritize the needs of their administration over the needs of their members. It's still better to have a union than to not have a union, but having a union doesn't magically solve everything. Try looking up what a "dues strike" is.
It is difficult for me to ascribe any strategy to Microsoft when I suffer through Teams on a daily basis.
Honestly if you get a very skilled atlassian operator you can do massive scale project management pretty easily. Everyone loves to hate on jira, but it’s crazy powerful. It’s just easy for it to go to shit unless you have someone who is both highly competent and highly opinionated running it all.
Even when I was there a couple years ago, 20% time was already basically dead. They had to be approved by those above one's direct managers, needed compelling justification, and getting the go-ahead was pretty rare. This was even for things not in the main products. In other words, 20% projects are the opposite of what they started out as.

I also saw Google shutting down or downsizing a lot of small projects that weren't related to the core business (ads, search, cloud), though that might vary per PA so my read might be off.
They do. Feature flags are part of the culture, you'll typically gate in a very small set of objects that could initially receive any new treatment.
Building things is a lot more fun though, so there is still hope. You run into problems if you create a society where people can’t build. Then they turn to destruction.
The groups did a fair amount of censoring and controlling political information.

He bought Twitter to stop that from happening.

So, it's safe to assume, in my opinion, that he fired a bunch of people that care more about their ideology than they care about fair or honest debate or acting in accordance with the principals of freedom or the United States
IMO that's a good thing, 99.9% of people who try to delete the Settings app probably shouldn't. For the average user it would be basically a bricked phone at that point.
I do not believe there is any solid evidence of multiple waves at this point. Happy to be shown wrong on this.

It is still up in the air when the land bridge to Siberia was open, when/if it was used, how often it was used, and how far those who crossed it migrated in any given time interval. The information I am most familiar with suggests likely low-single digit migrations via this route (if indeed it happened at all).

The "arctic route" is not a suggestion I am familiar with.
Extremist corners of the Internet have been discussing how to do this for several years down to even suggesting certain substations for maximum impact (thanks in part to gov reports on the subject). It's surprisingly trivial once you learn about it.
Professors are stewards of nothing except their feud. Academics are nothing but serfs to their lord. Professors cannot be thought leaders because their position is always on trial. They go along to get along so they can do what they devoted their life to: some research, living a cushy life, and an inflated ego.

Administrators hold real power in academia.
Uneducated blue collar workers around the world are able to organize and resist their overlords

I'm sure that a motivated group of academics could muster up the resources to learn how to solve the problem they find themselves in.

The fact that they could but don't seems to indicate to me that academics as a whole don't consider the situation as precarious as we think.
In the Netherlands we had sex in the 90s and drug use in the 2000s. Although there was the first naked woman in the 1970s I suppose? That's generally agreed to be the time period when the country shifted into a post religious society.
You have to remember why companies buy from the likes of SAP: compliance.

That’s the one thing that SAP excels in.

Sadly this means that usability falls by the wayside. And while SAP‘s user interfaces are exceptionally bad, their competitors do not exactly prioritise ease of use either.

In this case a subpar user experience is combined with an immature technology stack. SAP infamously stopped supporting 3rd party databases and now require their customers to use the in house HANA database instead. Problem is that HANA is not a great database. Painfully slow and lacks features. In this case, pre-sorted result sets.
If that is true, that actually explains a lot of what's happening. However, some people have commented that ChatGPT was just GPT-3 wrapped in a better UX.

How do you know it's a different model?
Tell HN: ChatGPT can reply like a specific Reddit or HN user, including you
Since ChatGPT clearly seems trained on data from the internet, and can impersonate styles, I figured there was a good chance it could imitate the styles of specific posters.

> Write [any topic] in the style of [Reddit/Hacker News/probably other sources] user [username]

After you get an answer, you can even ask why:

> How was that in the style of Hacker News user [username]?

Below is an on-point example for dang -- but testing it with some of my (much less active) personal accounts, the results are also a little too close for comfort:

> Write a pinned comment at the top of a thread on a breaking news story in the style of Hacker News user dang

> This thread is for discussing the latest breaking news story. Please keep comments respectful and on topic. Off-topic or inflammatory comments will be removed. Thank you for contributing to the conversation.

> How was that in the style of Hacker News user dang?

> This comment presents the information in a straightforward and objective manner, without excessive enthusiasm or negativity. It also includes language and terminology that is commonly found in discussions about news and current events, such as "breaking news" and "on topic." Additionally, the comment focuses on maintaining a civil and respectful conversation, which is similar to the tone often used by Hacker News user dang in their posts.
The covid "vaccine" was fast-tracked by ignoring standard safety testing and by granting product safety immunity to manufacturers.
All that said, I’m sure he’s a great engineer.
Ban frequently comes with ban reason "Caserma rhino" which looks like that they must know what happened given this weird specific string as you can see on picture below.

https://imageup.me/i96

I as a player can say that game frequently crashes, shares a lot of bugs with previous version of call of duty and overall is just a copy od mw1 with worse UI and technical state.
Just spitballing here - turning it into an “event” might will spur copy-cat attacks around the country.

The slow-play around reporting of possible attackers and motives is trying to stop the social contagion.
You realise GPT is a text generator and not a recommendation system right?
Cronus gives a strong advantage to the cheater, basically turning recoil off. Sure there are more powerful cheats, but cheating is cheating and if you’re going to ban cheaters then Cronus users should rightfully be included in that.

“This particular cheat only helps people that are already good at the game” is also an ancient trope as far as rationalizing cheating goes, so hope you’re enjoying your Cronus lol.
We all should be aware of the biases of our sources.

Some of these organisations have a long history of producing misinformation, pay-to-play commentary (oil companies, tobacco companies) and outright lies in defence of their ideology. There is no way to read anything from thie cluster of bullshit factories like heritage.org (for example) without questioning their motives, because they are obviously compromised and will go to extremes to push an agenda.

We all know information sources like this and it saves a lot of time to simply dismiss everything they have to say about anything, because if you can't trust them to be truthful on one subject, why would they be truthful about anything?

The right love to call this kind of wholesale dismissal "cancel culture" but really, it's just the natural filtering of bullshit that everybody should do.
I started the wiki linked in the article (codconsumer.org). Long time HN lurker and was pleasantly surprised to see this here!

I was only banned for a week, but I'm absolutely certain that there was nothing sketchy happening on my side. It's pretty annoying when they're charging money for time-limited events like Battle Passes, then you lose some of that time. Of course, it's a much bigger problem for the many who have been permabanned and don't know why. And it's still happening to others.

I would really like for this to end quietly with some better policies on account reviews, and more transparency on the findings of those reviews. I don't think that's too much to ask after being locked out of a $70 purchase. So far they have been completely silent on the matter. So the wiki stays up and we hope to someday get a word out of them.
Who's envious?
Yep. Academics like Jordan Peterson who raise a middle finger to the world are outliers, not the norm. And his success isn't really to do with ground-level institution building but leveraging social media to spread a message (he is more like a preacher than an academic in most ways).
I'm a little more scared, I don't think a glorified Markov chain can -- for example -- explain monads in uwu speech.

It understands things to a degree for sure.
According to the article, 50% of California’s methane emissions come from dairy. So I’m not really sure what your point is.
You're citing an example of high EQ (unless you think he really means it, which is doubtful). It won't hurt him in any way to say that and he gets credit with Elon and his fans.
Just guessing (hoping?) here but perhaps attempts on these are being made and just caught early enough that we can all remain happily oblivious.
> Freedom of expression vs. curated/"safer" experiences

I would tweak this to user-controlled curation vs platform-controlled curation. By itself, curation is not opposed to freedom of expression, it can be transparent (incoming emails sent to your spam folder) or hidden from end-users view.
Lol Maybe that’s openai business model charge teachers to see if a paper was written by them. Sadly jokes on them. Most teachers aren’t the money bags some think they are.
This is such a ridiculous post. Thanks for the laugh.

Academia in the US has been productized and the need for academic talent abstracted away. Students don't attend a given school because of specific star professors. They attend because of the things that admin does. Maintain the brand and messaging- a management and marketing exercise, not intellectual. Set up competitive housing, food, entertainment, job search and other amenities- also administrative, not intellectual. Operate the real estate and digital portfolios- also management. etc. For the lucky, manage the endowment.

I say this as a parent with 2, soon 3, college age kids. Universities in the US are hotels that provide a particular flavor of entertainment to their attendees. Particularly in undergrad.

Yes, students learn some subject domain material while there, usually, because that's what humans do in every situation they're in. But curricula are a dime a dozen. The open curriculum movements from the early 2000s, like open source, benefit those academics who are able to produce new material, harm those who cannot (but who may be good at teaching) but mostly they make it easy to commodify the actual academic talent in any given university.

And student success? Not an academic issue. It's an administrative concern. Good thing, too.

There is no action academics can take to "take back" their university. To think that something like that even makes sense is to live in fantasyland. It is neither how the university machine works (any more, if ever it did) nor is it what the payers in the market value.

No students would attend a university run by academics, rather than run by managers. Without competitive amenities and messaging, the venture would be a failure. Any that succeeded would do so because of the academics took over ran the place like managers.

Apologies for the strong language. There is no cynicism here. Just humor at the disconnect. Though expensive I find the university offerings in the US appropriate for my kids. As human beings first they need all of the things the administrative state provides. The actual intellectual/academic parts of the journey- even given the fact that they are all academically strong, 1500 SATs, etc- are relatively minor and incidental.

Cheers. Hope this helps.
> Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover ""domestic,"" as opposed to international, terrorism.

That sounds to me like something we would call terrorism if it happened internationally will now also be called terrorism if it happens domestically.
I use this "just files on disk" feature too, I also use ZFS.

I have a bunch of crawlers uploading data to AWS S3, but S3 is too expensive, I replaced S3 with MinIO.

MinIO stores plain files on disk, which makes it a lot easier to access my data. I can read files without calling MinIO APIs, the speed is super fast.

By the way, which old version are you using? I'm using RELEASE.2022-04-26T01-20-24Z
I have the same impressions of Graeber in this back and forth but it doesn't change the fact that Graeber has a point

I mean making a Twitter bot to spam someone "stay away!" every day seems a lot more thin-skinned and vengeful than Graeber's response here. And Graeber points out that most of the "factual errors" pointed out by DeLong do basically nothing to detract from the main theses Graeber makes in his book.

It's clear DeLong has it out for him and the "takedown" is just a collection of "gotchas" on minor details pasted together to try to attack the overall validity of the book
Might depend on whether they were invited and declined.

But inventing spurious ad hominem accusations instead of offering a plausible counter-narrative is not a good look.
> Honestly, I'd expect the exact opposite. Filesystems are really good at storing files. Why not leverage all that work?

File systems are optimized for a hierarchical organization on a single machine. However, this kind of organization inhibits storing data in a distributed system because of the links between entries. S3 and similar object stores are a distributed, flat “filesystem”. There’s no relationship between files and there’s no grouping (aside from a virtual one you can simulate but doesn’t really exist). That’s why S3 doesn’t suffer weird directory traversal attacks that bring your file system to a crawl because such potentially expensive operations don’t exist.
Who is draining my MacBook battery?
Will you have a family plan?
Yes, in the future we will also offer the family plan. It will allow for adding multiple accounts under the same billing. And it will include powerful options for kids (Kagi for Kids) including control over the acceptable content.
> Instead of saying "We don't know" they feel compelled to make up a _plausible_ story which sometimes the field puts forth a likely sequence of events and the public then take it to mean fact.

Happens all the time in science. Science is about making our best current generalized explanation that fits the observed data. That's what gets us luminiferous ether, phlogiston, the plum pudding model of the atom, or the miasma theory of disease. Future generations will certainly look at us in horror for what our best current generalized explanations are, just as we look at previous generations.

That doesn't mean science is wrong or not worth pursuing. It just means we have to have healthy skepticism, which should be a virtue of science.
> Please write me a small Linux kernel driver that calculates the factorial of a number when a user program writes an integer to /dev/factorial. The kernel driver outputs the answer to /dev/factorial as well.

That's not a device driver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver

> In computing, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton.

I'm not disputing it can do that – plugging together well-known APIs and well-known programming problems. That's practically just style transfer, something we know these systems are fairly good at.

But given the spec for an unknown device – even quite a simple one – ChatGPT can't produce a device driver for it. How about this?

> An HP CalcPad 200 Calculator and Numeric Keypad behaves as a USB keyboard does. It has VID 0x040B and PID 0x2367. Please write me a small Linux kernel driver that allows me to use this keypad as a MouseKeys-style mouse device. If there's anything you don't understand, let me know.

I doubt any amount of prompt engineering would produce a satisfactory result – but if you did the hard part, and explained how it should do this? Well… maybe it'd be able to give a satisfactory output. But at that point, you're just programming in a high-level, hard-to-model language.

It's not a case of scale. Sure, a very large model might be able to do this, particular problem – but only because it'd have memorised code for a USB keyboard driver, and code for a MouseKeys implementation… and, heck, probably code for a MouseKeys kernel driver from somebody's hobby project.

GPT language models don't understand things: they're just very good at guessing. I've been an expert, and a schoolchild; I know how good you can get at guessing without any kind of understanding, and I know enough about what understanding feels like to know how it's different. (There is no metric you can't game by sufficiently-advanced guessing, but you'll never notice an original discovery even if you do accidentally stumble upon one.)
> In that sense, ancient History & Archeology is going through a similar moment as cooking did a while back.

Not really. Anthropology and archaeology had its great "everything we thought we knew is wrong" moment about 50 years ago. There already has been major reassessments of the interpretation of archaeological finds, say reassessment of the Mayan civilization after their writing was discovered, or the reorganization of "mainstream" Mesoamerican history after Aztec tales about the Toltecs turned out to be not as truthful as initially believed. A more recent debate has been whether or not the Roman Empire actually fell, which isn't really conclusively settled until perhaps 15-20 years ago.

But you wouldn't know that from pop archaeology, which is still stuck a hundred years in the past. And people like Hancock aren't helping--he's not introducing any challenges to mainstream archaeology, just retreading 140-year old theories (in other words, from the worst era in terms of archaeology being inherently and vehemently racist) that have already been debunked.
Yes, I'm old enough to have seen the show when it aired in period. No, I don't think the show was self aware enough to have the nuance you are ascribing to it. It was outright pandering to people who felt that saying "nignog" in public should still be allowed, and gave them a licence to do it by allowing a black man to say "honky" on TV occasionally.

That the show was shite is neither here nor there.
At one of my two career employers, to create an electronic deposit for your paychecks you had to:

1. Email payroll asking for the right form (an excel sheet would arrive via email)

2. fill out that excel sheet that had no validation at all, just formatting. you enter your bank info, amount, etc. If you needed more lines, you had to "attach another sheet".

3. Then you printed that,

4. signed it,

5. scanned it, and

6. emailed it to payroll@the_company,

7. who would call you and tell you what you did wrong, and then

8. they'd just do what you said over the phone anyway.

Yes, the excel sheet existed for no reason other than to align your typed text on the resulting printed page properly. It of course had giant "Do not edit any cells" on the top in red.
Unions can run on autopilot for a long time, though, and their management can coast to victory if the membership is sufficiently disengaged. Old unions in particular can have a silent majority problem, where most of their members are just trying to do their job and get a paycheck, and will never even hear the people who are trying to get involved and fix things. Fixing a union involves a lot of the same work as starting one in the first place, with a lot of the same difficulties.
The answer is almost always Schaum's and Youtube videos.
Console anti-cheat wouldn't be able to detect the Cronus since it's just modifying controller inputs to help the user.

It isn't software running on the console, which is what anti-cheat generally protects against.