skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you pay very close attention it's clear that ChatGPT doesn't fully understand some concepts

> We have to carefully define the Turing test now when talking about it, because this system would obviously pass many versions of it with many people.

I would guess many children, who we would define as 'passing the Turing test' wouldn't explain the joke nearly as well, or fully understand all the concepts.
Atari steaks! Atari Ice Water! Atari University! (Actually that one sounds pretty cool. A retro gaming programming school would probably do pretty well these days.)
Atari is basically just a brand at this point that's been passed around to companies that don't know what to do with it. Their current incarnation is known for this aborted hotel idea (they couldn't secure funding), speaker hats, a poorly selling Linux based console called the VCS, and a crypto token.
It’s hard to say but with low volumes you don’t ow if it is a real price.

If somebody decided their NFT was worthless they could burn it or sell it for almost nothing and declare a loss they can write off on their taxes. If you bought a bored ape for $100,000 you could get $15,000 or more in tax write-offs. When people have really given up on NFTs you will see tax loss harvesting.
> Even humans are unable to explain what makes a joke “funny”.

I think many comedians can tell you why a joke is funny. They know, many of them spend their entire career crafting jokes and refining them to be funny. It’s just not funny when they tell you why. Even so I think it still is more art than science.

A lot of what also makes a joke funny or not is the delivery and who’s telling it. I think a lot of Norm MacDonald’s long, rambling jokes, for instance, wouldn’t be funny at all if most other people told them (and some people will say they’re not funny even when he told them).
There's a video in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/2689, but it doesn't show the problem that clearly. Try to go to /dev/char, scroll down, then scroll back up using the wheel.

Another sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDrZluH4mww.
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Another good one is to instruct chatGPT to assume the role of a sarcastic comedian who only responds to all of your future prompts in a hilariously sarcastic manner, then try to give it a go.

>answer the following question with an outrageous answer as if you were a hilarious, sarcastic standup comedian:
how often do you take a shower?

Standup comedian (me): "Oh, I take a shower about as often as I see a unicorn. Which is to say, never. And you know what? I'm proud of it. I mean, have you ever seen a dirty unicorn? No, of course not. They're magical creatures, and magic keeps them clean. Well, guess what? I'm a magical creature too. I mean, just look at me up here on stage, making you all laugh with my wit and charm. That's magic, folks. And do you know what magic does? It keeps me clean. So there you go. No need for showers for this guy. Amirite, folks?"

> What are some hilariously outrageous premises for scenarios in which you might get declined insurance coverage?

"I want to get insurance coverage for my pet rock collection, but the insurance company said no because rocks are 'not living creatures.' I mean, come on, everyone knows that rocks are secretly alive. They just don't want to admit it because they're afraid of the liability."

"I tried to get insurance coverage for my left shoe, but the insurance company said no because it's 'not a valuable enough item.' I mean, have you seen my left shoe? It's a work of art. Plus, I've had it for over 10 years. That's like a lifetime in shoe years. But apparently, the insurance company doesn't appreciate fine footwear."

"I wanted to get insurance coverage for my collection of novelty toilet paper holders, but the insurance company said no because they're 'not essential household items.' I mean, have they never had to go to the bathroom before? Novelty toilet paper holders are a necessity. They make the whole experience so much more entertaining."
> a lot more innocuous than raiding the guy's house to see if he has bombmaking equipment.

Musk himself has recently used a similar example, asking journalists how they'd feel if somebody actually got hurt as a result of doxxing on Twitter. So how would folks at Twitter feel if they ignored an FBI report of activity that then led to a terrorist attack? They wouldn't just feel bad, they might actually be liable for helping to facilitate it. Companies do all sorts of things to avoid potential liability, or forego doing things even if those things are perfectly legal and the company would prefer to do them otherwise. It's not weird or nefarious at all for a company to err on the side of caution when the receipt of information increases their potential liability.

It's also extremely hypocritical of Musk (or his fans) to oscillate between maximalist free speech and protection of privacy, invoking extreme examples in both cases, clearly according only to which one suits him personally at any particular moment.
Right, in "Three Pints of Guinness" it is the self referential aspect that made me laugh. I does look like ChatGPT would have provided the same explanation if the punchline was

"Oh, my brothers are fine but the Australian just quit drinking."
You are conditioned to be polite with human beings, and that conditioning also works for entities that behave sufficiently like them.

A dog bringing the journal is probably also one of these entities by the way.
https://archive.vn/fI8Zp
TiVo was sort of a niche and basically as soon as DVRs weren't, the mainstream was fine with just using whatever they got from their cable provider.
Does chatgpt pass the turing test?
I think it boils down to cost. Digital content is extremely cheap to replicate and distribute; hence the quality of the content is assumed to be lower (and it’s usually the case). One doesn’t have to put in too much effort in producing digital content.

Now with ChatGPT, it’s even more so than ever. It’s practically free to produce digital content.

On the other hand, even by just printing out a doc increases the cost of replication and distribution significantly (compared to pure digital replication); hence the quality of the content is assumed to be higher.
"We just want to ask a few question"

If you think that men in black suits who can put you in jail for simply lying to them or obstructing them then you are vey naive.

And that's not even considering all the trouble the DOJ can put organisations through even though they committed no crime.

Just their reputation and power is enough to apply pressure.
People misunderstand that word. Being kind ≠ being nice. You can be direct, you can say no, you can even raise your voice or curse and still be being kind -- because if you actually care, sometimes you act like something other than a Stepford Wife (or husband).
To make sure I understand your point, is the argument that without a revenue tax, you're incentivised to sell as much of your stuff as possible, whereas with a revenue tax you're incentivised to maximise your margin, and this makes things inefficient for everyone downstream of you?
My "initial position" was that the metaphor is absurd. So we agree.
> You can't just tear down all the housing and then build public transit there.

It's what was done to build highways in(to) cities. At least doing it for public transit wouldn't create as large barriers between neighbourhoods, and would provide local mobility for locals.
I like RISC-V and hope it succeeds.

But this article is disingenuous to the point of willful misrepresentation.

It asserts that the only business risk to consider when choosing an ISA is whether the owner of the ISA might be sold to a new owner. Which I think might not even make the top 10 risks. Certainly it’s far less important than whether the ISA will reach critical mass for toolchain support, whether it will scale from small devices to datacenter applications, whether it will evolve and innovate, whether there is a pool of programmers with expertise, and so on. It’s bizarre to not even mention risks in these areas.

I’m not saying RISC-V falls short in these things; I don’t know enough to have an opinion on that. But I do know they’re all more important than whether e.g. a hedge fund takes Intel private.

Lots of other similar errors and omissions. This is evangelism from a True Believer, not a legit piece about RISC-V’s place in the industry.
Trump’s NFT trading cards sell out
Working for 8 hours in an office is already considered damaging, staring at LCD or a pile of paper.
Low-level support staff, sure, the ones who are confined to choosing from a list of pre-written responses anyway.

But those have been replaceable by well-trained chat bots for a long time by anyone who cares to take the time to train them.

The people you ask when you're actually facing a bug, on the other hand, look like they're going to be safe for quite awhile.
Impressive!

Alaska outperforming warmer regions due to longer days is not something I had expected.
It's in the red inked code review image and it's in his rewrite as "source = source[:-2]"
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> the closest thing we have to general artificial intelligence is based exactly on what Skinner described.

Didn't know about Skinner's book. My thoughts on encountering ChatGPT were exactly the same: this is statistics and not reasoning, yet it is truly powerful, in explicable ways.

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> implies all sorts of horrible utterly unethical “solutions”.

No it doesn't and I am tired of the dishonesty of that claim, which is nothing more than an ad hominem attack aimed at shutting down discussion.

Please refrain from this type of behaviour.

> There are barely more children in the world today than twenty years ago.

Nice tidbit but irrelevant to the point, which is population growth.

Anyway, there clearly is no discussion possible, so good day.
Nothing posted on some companies website is governed by free speech or the USA’s 1st amendment. The Terms Of Service apply and typically a user has agreed to those by simply participating on the site. This includes account bans, blocking content, etc. the company can do whatever it pleases, if it benefits them to listen to a gov’t agency request then they might do it.

Its comical that people believe Musk is promoting free speech or anything of the sort. Most of everything he does online is antics to draw attention in some way that benefits him, go look at the SEC for details around that with Musk.

I would make a bet one of his next options is to saddle Twitter with more debt as it approaches bankruptcy. Or give insider info to his investors ahead of his next Tesla sell-off so they can recoup their losses with Twitter.
Maybe when your mom asked if it was appropriate, she was talking about the scotch?
So in short, ChatGPT got zero jokes the first time, and only one out of 8 after extensive explanation and walk-through. It also says things like

> it is not possible to pour a fraction of a beer

as if "a beer" was some piece of rock?

ChatGPT is interesting but calling it AI is still very far-fetched IMHO.
You just place the panels far enough apart that agricultural machinery can move up and down the rows (this also ensures plants aren't overly shaded). As far as wind resistance, robust design seems to solve that problem.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/11/16/baywa-velux-sign-euro...

> "According to BayWa, the installation will have rows of panels spaced more widely than usual, to allow passage of agricultural machinery and the cultivation of cereals. In addition, the rainwater that falls on the modules will be collected and used for irrigation."
> I did all the DKIM crap and gmail says it's good, but it still ends up in spam.

I've convinced myself that google actively works agains smaller email providers, and I'm 100% sure their end-game is to push as many people as possible (either business or private) to gmail (ideally).

Otherwise they'd act different:

- Microsoft offers you a manual way to verify your domain and have it whitelisted, in case your mail gets flagged

- Facebook explicitly says why it's rejecting your mail (a link in the SMTP reply iirc)
Tivo nailed the user experience which is why it took off. In the early years, the response time on the interface was nearly instant for everything. This made it delightful to use because it felt like an extension of your intentions. Today, even with all the content in the world available, there are far more delays and wait times because the content is streaming and not local. Even YouTube TV, which could have the same 10ms response time as Stadia, is slow in many places.
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Ignoring the fact that there are no renewable energy-powered EV factories, there are also plenty of industrial processes that inherently emit CO2. Steel manufacture first comes to mind.

By your same argument, I could say that there's no inherent CO2 emission required to manufacture petrol (as in, there theoretically is a way to do it).

>The anti-EV argument is deliberate confusion of the former with the latter.

I'm not confused about the distinction between the two. The pro-EV crowd seem happy to ignore the former, as long as it's far away, or could be solved by some as yet unimplemented technology.
Forgotten Depths sounds really cool - I can't figure out when it will be available though!
Something I just realized here is that ChatGPT seems to be the first time that users are able to "teach" the model in a similar way that we teach other people.

Maybe "teach" isn't the right word, as the model isn't updating its parameters AFAIK. Perhaps "guide" is better.

If there's a way for ChatGPT to update its weights based on these conversations, things could get really interesting.
I have and I wrote extensively about it after seeing the unpopularity of my original comment. There's a link to my long Medium story about it in another comment.

Would I say that DALL-E, etc. also piece together existing images? Yes, of course, since that is the only way that technically it could work. All of computing is "input-process-output." There is no "create" step in any of computing.

The pieces that DALL-E pieces together are pixels of a certain color and brightness and placement relative to other pixels. Together, we perceive this as an image. If they weren't arranged that way, we'd just see noise or gray.

The same is true with ChatGPT. Unless they're put in a particular order, words just make word salad. It is the order that gives them their perceived meaning in a sentence. ChatGPT crafts "new" sentences by rearranging words from similar sentences it has already seen, just like DALL-E creates new paintings by rearranging pixels from paintings it has already seen.

A recent video from Noam Chomsky explains this from his perspectives on learning and language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBdZi_JtV4c
"VR can bring value to most of the people in the world, and no one is better positioned to do it than Meta."

I'm now concerned for Carmacks sanity...
The Taliban were on Twitter...
I would have used Pascal :/
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It never seems to get to the point that a person who has “quit drinking“ doesn’t drink alcohol, yet he is still drinking his brothers’ alcohol.
I think the point was that any large enough company will have a ton of politics related to decisions around technology, so one person's anonymous perspective shouldn't carry much/any weight.
A practical issue with YAML: a schema is not documentation
...and the filename is shown as a focused highlight, leading you to think that's where the focus actually is! But no, it's in the search field, at the bottom right of the dialog.
Sadly there's no need to: look at Google support !!!! ;-)
They do, but it is usually abbreviated to C-suite.

/ sorry, this was an easy one.
All laws should have automatic termination if not renewed. If it isn't important enough for Congress to keep voting for it, then it's not important enough to keep it as law.
> this really helped my dandruff - just rubbing the scalp with hot water completely stopped it far better than any shampoo.

It helped for a few years for me, then it came back. Only head&shoulders helps (it disappears for a whole day or 2); no other shampoo does anything but make it worse.
The Climate Catastrophe doesn't care about what certain groups of people find "sensible".
"The Turing test" is ill-defined, but it would certainly pass many versions of it with many people.
When you pet the dog after he brings you your journal he probably feels the same thing as when you thank a human.
I know what you mean, but I still laughed at “cautiously type in ‹thing that doesn't care how cautiously you typed it if it's going to screw up›”
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Fully agree. ChatGPT sounds like a pretentious savant in comedies from the 17th century. It "knows" many things by name, but doesn't actually understand anything.
I expected to at least find out where the hotels are?
The difficulty these models have in recognizing contradictions seems to be something of a 'tell' distinguishing their responses from plausibly human-spoken ones. I don't think this is surprising, given the way they are trained.
Yeah, for the first example, ChatGPT basically made a generic summary of the joke, then an explanation why jokes are funny in general and then tacked a "and that's why this joke is funny" on the end.

It sounded more like a logical reduction like "This is a joke. Jokes are funny because they subvert expectations. Therefore this joke is funny because it subverts expectations." than an actual explanation of the punchline.
It's interesting to me the way Tom Lehrer totally walked away from his past life. Long ago when I was undergrad and involved with the movie/lecture group we asked a good friend of his at the school if there was any chance he'd make an exception and do a concert. No way.

I've know people in tech who have retired, often a bit on the young side. They often keep their fingers in tech in various ways. But I also have known people who just 100% walk away.
Younger devs didn't care about spending a few months learning to build efficient desktop applications.
There is no practical storage system right now. Have you priced them? They're outrageously expensive, with puny capacity. Not to mention the environmental impact of making all those batteries, and the lifespan implications of using them 365 nights a year.

The dumb thing is that any electric cars made in the last 5-10 years don't have the ability to serve as energy storage. Those are just now emerging.

Tesla stands out as particularly dumb, since they also sell solar systems. Why not a solar + car bundle?
That honestly sounds like a lot of tech "gurus" too, like Mudge and Carmack. These people made a name for themselves with incredible skill as an IC (usually in a hot field, too), and never made the transition beyond that level, towards being leaders with the ability to grasp the full picture.

There is a completely different set of skills involved. In fact, the best wide-area tech leads I met at Google were not great engineers, but they were very good at inspiring other engineers.

I think this is where Steve Jobs actually deserves a lot of credit, and honestly Elon Musk too.
Is there risk of parasites too?

FWIW it's not unlikely you'll breathe in some when using normal shower too, but mist certainly more concerning.
I hadn't realised I'd misspelled his name until I saw your comment. For some reason, it looks better with two 'r's.
As always, the problem with this is there is no way to validate it.
Solar Roadways is a meme company for a reason. Paving with solar panels is a nightmare on pretty much every axis: installation, maintenance, cost, reliability, efficiency, safety, all of it.

And while tessellating every surface with little panels gets more energy than not (and is the only option if that's all the land you own, like people adding panels to their own houses), it's dramatically easier and cheaper to lay out 1MW of panels in one 100m X 100m square, than 1000 hetrogenous 1kW panels mishmashed over dozens or hundreds of buildings.

For large buildings, then, yes, it's a pretty clear win. The IKEAs in London have large arrays on their roofs, for example.
I saw a talk once by Siskind who was a very smart fellow. The origin of the name Stalin in this case came from "Static Language { (I)mplementatio(N) }" in deliberate contrast with "Dylan" [1] which was a more dynamic dialect of Lisp being developed at the time whose principles he disagreed with. I think he worked on Dylan originally, so one could also say he disagreed with the principals as well as the principles. ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
> Americans love their omnibus bills

DC Politicians love Omnibus bills. Seems weird to say it a way that implies most voters support the omnibus bill concept.
For sure. The whole "yet you participate in society" [1] retort doesn't impress me. Is my participation in society, in my profession, in my industry voluntary? In the sense that I have chosen not to fuck off to a remote cabin and live via backbreaking subsistence agriculture, sure. But I don't think I should have to cede my life, both professional and intellectual, every time fraudsters come around.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
Two minor points:

GPT doesn't see letters, just words and parts of words as entire tokens. I would not expect it to understand that "no pun in ten did" and "no pun intended" are similar, since it can't see that at all. The only way it could plausibly understand it is if that exact comparison has been explained somewhere in the corpus before.

If you continue a long conversation where GPT has previously made mistakes and has been called out for it, it will start predicting that it's supposed to emulate a text where the joke-explainer keeps making mistakes. This causes it to start failing on purpose. Make sure to completely restart the prompt each time to not fall into that trap.
I wouldn't just use a CSS theme, but something with bolts included (navigation, state, charts, UI widgets, animations, etc.). In other words, something with styling AND interactivity code already built in.

For work, we're moving an existing homebrewed system to one of these: https://mui.com/store/#populars

It builds on top of MUI, which is a collection of ready-to-use React UI widgets that are pretty well designed (based on Material) and implemented in terms of UX/UI details. If you're not familiar with those nuances, MUI gives you a very good starting point that will meet 90% of needs out of the box, but is still very extensible if you ever do need to customize something. The one downside is that your dashboard can end up looking a bit generic, "Material" style, but that's easily fixed with some CSS tweaks here and there. The reverse, starting from a CSS-only theme and building up around it, is much harder.

Then the dashboard templates build further on top of that to give you ready to use data widgets that you can just hook up to your backend. I think using something like this can save you hundreds of hours from not having to reinvent frontend basics for a basic dashboard. Just my 2¢.
Replacing something that has worked for 25 years is a good way to end up with something that doesn't last another 25 years.
I think it was closer to 10 billion actually
The top 1% globally probably includes a good chunk of upper-middle class Americans (at least in the classic definition of upper middle class, maybe not in the informal “median income” sense that sometimes gets used). We like to point our fingers at private jets because they are particularly extravagant and we only need to take them away from a couple people, and they are a problem. But also heating McMansions and pushing around suburban SUVs ought to be avoidable.
Water is the conductor, yes. Electrons are still the electrons -- excited by or measured by laser