skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In real life, approximately zero evangelicals want some kind of Gilead. If you talk to them, the most ideological want some sort of idealized, non-racist high-tech version of the 1950-80s.

I talk to a lot of american evangelicals and this isn't true either. A fair portion of them do want the racism back in the form of segregation, they just know not to use either term to describe their ideal.

They also do want moderate-to-heavy restrictions on or punishment for abortion, birth control, homosexuality, miscegenation, divorce, women owning property. It's not quite gilead but it's a lot closer to that than to "the 80s without racism."

You'll probably rarely run into people who are actively and openly pursuing a government that would implement all of those policies. But framed individually and neutrally for example "should no-fault divorce be removed" these are mainstream positions.

I didn't get my opinion here from fiction or the internet. I've lived a lot of my life among american evangelicals and am a practicing christian even now. I have a lot of ties to this world still for complex reasons. Walking back and cracking down on a lot of the social freedoms gained in the last few generations are unfortunately popular ideas that you can't dismiss as "just some cranks."
I wish my son would just turn the lights on in his room when he's gaming. He's just sitting there in the dark.

Mind you, I do the same when watching TV. Some shows and movies these days are so dark you simply have to turn off the lights and close the curtains to see what's going on.
I would have painted everything purple. Including the roof, ceilings, door knobs, everything.
> The Revolution of dignity has absolutely no signs of a coup. It resulted in presidential and parlimentary elections.

This is a non-sequitur; the transfer of power was extra-constitutional, so it can't be ruled out by this fact alone.

> Crimea was illegally annexed by Russia.

This is a circular argument. It was illegal insofar as it violated Ukrainian law, sure, but whether Ukrainian law should apply in Crimea in the first place is literally the whole point of contention!
I think it's a very reasonable observation. An audit from PWC is materially different to an audit from a local accounting firm with less of a reputation at stake. The parent happens to be in error about which category Mazar's falls into (since they're probably the largest accounting firm outside the big four), but people are going to make reasonable but ignorant comments sometimes. I myself thought the exact same thing and only didn't say it because I happened to google Mazars out of curiosity.
Thanks, the comparison with light was illuminating (eh!).

I was going to say something about how we don't really know how gravity works at the infinitesimal distance level as we do not have a quantum gravity theory, but IANAP.
5+5
Ask HN: Self-hosted/open-source ChatGPT alternative? Like Stable Diffusion
Are there any self-hosted and open-source ChatGPT alternatives?
> ChatGPT just matches the most statistically-likely reply based on a huge corpus of internet discussions, it doesn't actually have any ideas

Presumably you think humans have ideas, but you don't really have any evidence that humans aren't also producing the most statistically likely replies. Maybe we're just better at this game.
I've switched to surround sound last year. The additional center speaker helps a lot for dialogue.

What I didn't expect is how miserable the sound quality for football (soccer) games would be. It plays the sound of a stadium beautifully, but completely overpowers the commentators. Immersion wise it's a win I guess.
We are back in the Altavista days. We need a new Google, maybe a local one this time.
Devastatingly bad reading, Krageon: I wrote that to have Intelligence in an Engine, you have to implement at least some Critical Thinking into it (and that it has to be a "good" one), and you understood that I would have claimed that "you cannot implement it" - again, after having insisted that "you have to build it explicitly" (or at least you have to build something that in the end happens to do it)?!

You have to build it and you have to build that.

The assumption there is that you cannot call something Intelligent without it having Critical Thinking (and other things - Ontology building etc). If you disagree, provide an argument for it.

And by the way: that «or just you», again, and again without real grounds, cannot be considered part of the "proudest moments" of these pages.

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Edit:

Disambiguation: of course with "intelligence" you may mean different things. 'intelligence' just means "the ability to look inside". But "[useful] Intelligence" is that with well trained Critical Thinking (and more).
They didn't take off the heatsink and show the dies. Is there some kind of restriction on reviewers?
Then it’s time to get the cops involved for a case of vandalism.
I don't have a Reddit link, but here's a Hackernews thread where there's only one human comment and the rest are bots: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33952087
No law of economics… are you that sure? France is the poster boy of nuclear energy and has been pushing very hard for electric domestic heating over the years and yet it simply has almost never made any sense for homeowners to opt for electric heating rather than natural gas. Indeed, though French electricity prices have always been probably the lowest in Western Europe, it still always comes up some 50% more expensive than natural gas. The only major reason property owners switch to electric is that it's cheaper to install, so using in it in rentals shifts higher energy prices onto tenants while property owners benefit from lower investment costs. Clearly, not building more power plants isn't really what went wrong here.
single density floppies were 720k
The MIT educated, son of two Stanford teachers, professors of law and business, brother to a Wall Street trader, Jane Street employee, extremely well connected kid was simply too naive :(

Sorry, but you're just giving in too much in his bullshit. Especially when FTX terms of service explicitly said that your funds would never be given to FTX Trading, and that they would be kept apart. It's not an accident. Separating the funds was consciously thought of and immediately followed up by "lol no".
That's what I was thinking - its almost like he's gone from long term to immediate short term. Which resonates with that dopamine feed from Twitter taking control of his impulses.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that dopamine feedback loop is more powerful for older people especially those who are isolated.

You think it's fixable?
Currently it might not be great for that just because of performance issues it could have when auto generating 30 minutes long animation. Tho it is on my radar as it is relatively common use case
"The Birth of a Nation" and "The Song of the South" are fair with regard to American history. "The Birth of a Nation" because of the effect it had on the national dialog at the time when it was released. It looks like the only film with Lillian Gish in it on their list as well.

"The Song of the South" might be noteworthy simply for Disney's attempt to bury that film in the recent decades. I don't put it in the same category as "The Birth of a Nation" with regard to how offensive it is (although I am not in the demographic that would be personally offended by either). I'm a huge fan of Joel Chandler Harris' original stories — maybe Disney failed by trying to make Harris' works too "Disney".
It will be nice to check also CDE or even OpenWindows.

CDE was once a behemont eating the scarce RAM of the 90s workstations. But those where 64MB workstations
Sounds more of a governmental issue where they really just don’t want remote places to self govern. Could have asked them what boat they needed and bought it. Could have let them run whatever fish industry they wanted but nah have to step in a nanny you.

Cos you know, you might start to ask why are you paying them.
well... the only reasonable thing to do is to find a hosting that accepts monero as a payment, rent a baremetal server with ipmi acces, cript the hardisk with lusk and veracrypt, scan 0.0.0.0/0 for unpached dns servers and start ddossing the mirror site
my KDE/Plasma on EndeavourOS sits at about 1GB after boot. (4k display scaled up to 1440p)

yes i also disabled baloo file indexing as it was randomly chewing cpu and ram. no real need for it with a fast NVME and ripgrep, etc.
Ask HN: Have you ever considered leaving tech because you didn’t feel fulfilled?
Hi all - I’ve been thinking about this lately. In tech we generally have the ability to find “cushy” jobs. However, sometimes it seems like other industries might be more fulfilling, even if the hours are longer and the pay is less. Have you ever left tech to pursue something like this? If so how did it go? If not why not?
Your own experience is also second hand, so what is left is the temporal factor (you experience and learn continuously and with a small feedback loop). I do not see how it can be the case that there is some sort of cutoff where the feedback loop is fast enough that something is "truly" there. This is a nebulous argument that I do not see ending when we actually get to human-equivalent learning response times, because the box is not bounded and is fundamentally based on human exceptionalism. I will admit I may be biased because of the conversations I've had on the subject in the past.
However engines are roughly linear in displacement vs power output. A 15% increase in thrust would mean you can reduce the displacement of the engine by 15% and maintain the same speed. This would be compounded by the weight savings, smaller fuel tank, etc.

However, I think there is a far less than 15% increase in thrust, and due to the super-linear loss of efficiency at the top end to get a 15% increase in efficiency for the same output level might only require a 3% or so increase in thrust at that output level.
> Strachey had always displayed a talent for the sciences but rarely applied himself.

I would guess any experienced programmer with adhd would and has done the same multiple times.
Ok, so congratulations! You've got a node--- now what?

How do you recover the cost of running your node? Processing rewards/gas are handed out *randomly* so that doesn't sound very enticing. Maybe MEV arbitrage bot?

With so many people running "arbitrage bots" and vying for the same pot of gold, is it really that profitable? If it's easy and profitable, this really is a proverbial "perpetual money making machine" and the universal laws of financial entropy suggest it won't remain this way for very long.
As I read through this, I remind myself, there are some people that are so smart and in-depth within their field, that I have zero idea what any of the concepts they discuss are.
Researchers harvest electricity from wood soaking in water
even though intentions are noble it awfully reminds me of matrix scenes
This is just who Elon Musk is. Erratic, impulsive, and prone to lash out. He also sends rockets into space and lands them, so I get why people want to believe he's a nice guy. But he's not.
Let's start with examining OP's premise.

What evidence is there of a meltdown other than him saying some stuff that is extremely contrary to the worldview of some people?

Is it because he's posting a bit more than usual? Why not label that more akin to "persuasion technique" rather than calling it a meltdown?

PS: I admire some things and detest some things about Musk, but probably different things than the Zeitgeist on HN.
Is the Matrix resemblance on purpose?
Glad you enjoyed it -- thanks.
It ignores all sorts of externalities and world-wide interactions. The concept of living in an isolated rural bubble forever is an illusion.

Air and water for example, they don't just stick around in one place. So if you pollute something, that pollution happily goes elsewhere making it everyone's problem. Same with disease, or cancer. Say you need to go out to the hospital for radiation treatment every day, and you can't do it without assistance from an ambulance, that gravel road and the no-bridge concept is suddenly a really bad idea.

I think it's ignoring more than just 20% of the problems, it's ignoring looking (and planning) ahead, and understanding that not all factors are known, especially not in lower-populated areas.

And then there is the power imbalance a supplier will have over a small rural town, as it is unlikely that there is much to choose from, and no real power to influence a large company anyway. So now you're stuck with undrinkable water, bad internet, and barely any healthcare.
Are we in a baby universe that looks like a black hole to outside observers?
Sculptors and Speakers
> Can someone here ELI5 how they can be absolutely confident of these distances?

In physics, it is common for the writing to say that some fact was "shown" or "proven". Maybe look at the "absolutely confident" as similar!

I'm a skeptical and often dissatisfied reader of the fundamentals in physics: E.g., as a ugrad, I tried to be a physics major but too frequently got totally torqued off at the sloppy math so majored only in math.

To try to make a long story and explanation short, it appears that a common approach is just to go ahead and say "shown" and synonyms and keep saying that until there is some serious contradiction, conflict, new news, etc.

Still, "shown", ..., "absolutely confident" are not easy to achieve: It appears that we have a right to assume that such work did build on the accepted physics, got the arithmetic right, got the math right or close enough, etc.

And, there are some assumptions rarely explained: E.g., for these observations claimed to be from 13.5 billion years ago, we have to assume, maybe, things like the spectral lines of hydrogen, deuterium, etc. have not changed, the clock ticks and meter sticks mean the same as on Earth now, etc. Heck, maybe 13.5 billion years ago there was no hydrogen yet and dark matter radiated what we now believe came from hydrogen??? Here I'm making just wild stabs: A real conflict in the accepted results of physics would be big news and is not easy to find -- I can't give real examples here or at all.

So, for now, and until there is some big reason otherwise, we just let physics say "shown", ..., "absolutely confident". These are not nearly the worst ways the English language is sometimes used!
Hopefully we'll get a drive by: is there a chart showing the relative distribution of elements on, say, a weakly logarithmic scale, overt time? Like: 0 — 98% H, 2% He, 10^6 ..., 10^7 ..., ..., now.
Microsoft has bought a 4% share in the London Stock Exchange
Vintage photos show the workplace and offices of the past, 1970s-1980s
This seems like it would be economic malpractice to allow high inflation for an extended period. It is especially reckless considering the middle class is the most advervsely affected here. You could easily see the economy do a tailspin and never recover.
> I just find it amusing that people in the ML field are always so adamant that ‘it doesn’t know’ or ‘it’s not thinking’ or ‘it doesn’t understand’, but I don’t see much engagement with what is actually meant by ‘know’, ‘think’ or ‘understand’ in the first place.

Exactly. This is why these experts should shut up about claiming these AI models don't know things, or aren't sentient. We don't have any mechanistic explanations for what knowledge is or how it works, or what sentience is or how it works, so all of these claims are just bullshit. At best we have some hand-wavy intuitions about what some properties of knowledge or sentience have (Gettier problem, etc), but that's nowhere near enough to make the definitive claims I've seen.
> wired pretty directly into the brain

Eyes are actually the only visible part of our brains. They aren’t wired pretty directly, they themselves are brain material.
Show HN: Making GDPR Machine-Readable
None of this matters. The reason comments are valuable is that they are a useful source of information. Part of the transaction cost of deciding whether a comment is useful is how much additional work is required to evaluate it.

Comments are ascribed credibility based on the trust the reader has in the commenting entity, whether the comment is consistent with the reader's priors and researching citations made in the comment, either explicit or implicit.

Since GPT can confidently produce comments which are wrong, there is no trust in it as a commenting entity. Consequently everything it produces needs to be further vetted. It's as if every comment was a bunch of links to relevant, but not necessarily correct sources. Maybe it produces some novelty which leads to something worthwhile, but the cost is high, until it can be trusted. Which is not now.

If a trusted commenter submits a comment by GPT, then he is vouching for it and it is riding on his reputation. If it is wrong, his reputation suffers, and trust in that commenter drops just as it would regardless of the genesis of the comment.
Only because it affects the ability to accomplish our shared goals. If we're sitting in an office at keyboards, and you want to wear a suit, go right ahead! A woman in heels in an environment that ought to have steel-toed boots, or a hoodie wearer in an office whose hygiene is so poor that the smell affects those around them, both impact things that are actually important.

But when those personal choices are immaterial, whether choosing to over- or under-dress, they shouldn't affect what I think of others or what others think of me.
an inevitable future, the sooner we embrace this concept the better. In fact, lab grown humans may be the only humane way to reverse the population decline which seems to track with economic development
How many people under 35 know that Greenspan held an "emergency" Fed meeting in 1994 to RAISE rates 25 bps?

This idea the Fed exists to print money and keep rates low is just not reality. This is over extending the recent past as some kind of stable process.

This is going to be extraordinarily painful. So much of the economy, risk preferences, expectations have over aligned to an unsustainable zero interest rate environment that is gone for a generation. The biggest bubble ever popped last year if you look at Wilshire 5000 vs GDP but most people don't even realize we were in such a massive bubble yet.

We were not talking about the dot com bubble in summer 2000 either though. We were just talking about how do we get back to the bull market. We are still at the denial stage.
Haha, yeah, that's actually what is going on here! But I'm still trying to see if I can get a Linux machine here.

Side note to any Linux devs considering MacOS: Be expected to also request at least ~$200 of software for OS features we might otherwise take for granted. (Window management, per-app volume management, etc.) Other niche features might be totally unavailable (eg. moving windows between desktops with keyboard shortcuts, or speeding up input-blocking animations) because there's no API provided to make it possible.
I mean... cool but that's not addressing the problem at all (which is that having kids is too costly and risky right now, we have negligible infertility issues instead) because to pay for this you probably would have to pay far more than needed to allow current fertile population to have kids "the standard way", which needs: social support, controlled house prices and paternal/maternal pay leave.

In this case instead you would have to pay not only for the whole "babies farm" (which sounds extremely costly) but then also to grow and educate every single kid at least for 18-22 years without real parents/community.

It sounds like making the solution even worse than the problem.
Healthcare wait times vary a lot country to country: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-ca...

27% of cases take one month or longer to get to a specialist in the US. Compare that to 61% Norway and Canada and 0% in Spain and Chile, all of which are single payer systems. That figure is at 25% in Germany and The Netherlands, which are both mandatory multi-payer systems (a mix of private and public insurance with much stricter limits on out of pocket costs compared to the US). It's not obvious that single payer systems lead to universally better or worse wait times.
This is a pastiche, right? Because the buzzwords ... they're frightening. Which sane person's first thought when considering an artificial baby factory is "Is there an app"?
This is like a version 1.0 steam engine. Miniaturization and optimization can come next.
I saw fields, endless fields, Neo, where human beings are no longer born... we are grown.
"Left" and "Right" are some of the least specific terms used to describe political views, so detouring through them to muddy up a more precise term would seem to cloud understanding.
To add a couple more: Tobacco was also supply managed until 2009. Ontario's wheat board, which continues to operate as Grain Farmers of Ontario, gave up its single desk in 2002.
> it seems hard to define what unexpected means, and that case laws to establish them would take ages, be difficult to predict for a long time, and can be avoided by the company settling discretely, and prevent any actual precedents.

Weirdly enough, this somewhat works in Germany. Sure, I know Lawyers who say that pretty much any T&C has terms that are invalid under this law but society has not collapsed, companies don't get sued constantly and the most egregious terms get ruled against. Sounds nice?

Of course, Germany/EU is a different legal environment than USA so this does not apply 1:1.
It’s a cool effect but would be better to go front-and-center with the source code. Asking people to embed random third party scripts on their web pages is a security bottomless pit.
Zevon's last album is titled "The Wind" and yeah it really does stand out! His last performance on Late Night w/ Letterman is also something to check out. Really lots of his material is interesting to check out, even the stuff that doesn't do it for me is still good to enjoy!

I also love "Brainwashed" by George Harrison. Now I want to listen to the last Bowie album, assuming it was made in a similar context. It also makes me wonder if there's a list of all albums made in a similar vein. It would be an... emotional experience to listen to them all back-to-back!

Maybe I should just not subject myself to that.
Anthropology is not a beacon of the scientific method, no. The "hypothesis driven" nature of the field is about as hypothesis driven as literature analysis. If you are treating the process of "I have a hypothesis, I look for evidence, and I find it" as scientific, then History and English are sciences too. The difference that makes a science is that the process of looking for evidence is about systematically trying to falsify your hypothesis - and once there are no alternative explanations left, you have a good theory about what is going on. Anthropology, literature studies, history, and even "harder" disciplines of social science (like linguistics and several other kinds of psychology) don't really work this way. They can produce useful knowledge, sure, but that doesn't make them sciences.

As to the other fields you mentioned, all of them are engineering disciplines, which are very different than sciences. Engineering is about producing useful work from the results of science. The results that those particular disciplines use largely come from psychology.
You're looking at it from the perspective of "ChatGPT generating text that looks human."

dang is talking about "humans generating text which is 'better' than what ChatGPT can do."

Those are very different bars. Average output vs top output.

ChatGPT often generates text that a human might plausibly write. But is there text that a human could write that ChatGPT couldn't possibly write?
I'll stick with unsigned integers on the server side and I use uuid's for when it's facing a client, example a link, /page/view/<uuid> just makes sense.
Could you use this to make a boat that supplies its own power then?
Why would this be the solution? Global infertility isn’t the primary cause of people declining to have children.