skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inspired by these discussions I wanted to play with ChatGPT. First Coudflare tells me it needs to check "whether I am human", sounds suspiciously like a Turing test :) (I know they don't even try to perform one.) Ironically on this mobile phone their test fails and they don't let me in even after a dozen attempts.

(The hardware was made for the Indian market many years ago, so it is not very performant by today's measures. The software is a rather old Firefox, with Javascript, cookies, storage and everything. No idea how they come to the conclusion I would be a bot.)
What do you consider rich?

I'd like to retire like the people in this study https://www.ramseysolutions.com/retirement/the-national-stud...

If you want to be Warren Buffet rich you're playing a different game than me.
During much of the 20th century, the idea of humans in North America as long ago as the Clovis industry was anathema, what we call "career-limiting". Ask your father about how hard it was to overcome that.

Much of the resistance was, ultimately, political: if "Indians" only arrived a short time before Europeans, their claim on the land was weaker.
Yeah I was referring to the Tech Model Railroad Club.
Thankfully, if we ever became a socialist country ala second world socialism, athletes would get the same “pay” and only slightly bigger apartments compared to everyone else but would keep on getting more than necessary amounts of PEDs as usual.

That’s a just world.
Roland MC 303 GrooveBox (1996)
Well, it's a pretty simple calculus for the owners.

You're going to get people to pay for my stadium, Mr. Politician, or else losing this thing that millions of people in this city love is going to be, fairly or unfairly, blamed on you.

It's of course gross and hilariously stupid given that every professional sports team owner is a billionaire, but most of those marrow suckers didn't become billionaires by not leveraging incentives when the benefit for doing so is obvious.
My parents will endlessly criticize me for wondering if a menial home task is worth doing and when. Mum works extremely hard at her job (in-person & remote split), and goes back to her house to spend all her free time doing chores. She'll even do work in unscheduled hours on the weekend when she's bored. She's very much bound to being busy. I am not this person. I've talked to her about how she seems stressed, and that she should decide when to do chores. Not "see a chore, go do it" - which is great initiative - but decide if that chore can wait a day or 2 and would make sense being done with another.

My dad is less like my mom, but he'll give me hell about this shit and call me lazy. My parents don't recognize the free time they have and fill it with obligations. I'd rather spend 1 day doing all the chores than filling my 3-day Christmas weekend with them and never relaxing.

They look down at the few possessions and responsibilities I keep. I'm happier and I can't share that. They'll never see it.
Algebra, the real one, with groups and rings and so forth
Kindle novelists are using ChatGPT
Silent phone usage doesn't impact the class, it impacts the individual using the phone.

Why should my education and social life be negatively impacted because individuals decide to indulge in self-destructive behaviours? I use my laptop because it's significantly more effective for my education than pen and paper.

To answer your point, the group of people who are affected by this are people who use their laptops for notes. This isn't "a fairly small group of people". I'm just affected more than most: it eliminates my ability to take notes, rather than reducing the efficacy.
Where are some of these places? I want to go to there.
> I’m curious about that recommendation, do you know why that is?

I was always told (since the 90s, anyway) that it's better to drive off slowly with a cold engine and let all the components come up to operating temperature together than to drive off with a hot engine, and cold gearbox, driveshafts, tyres, etc.

I generally let a cold engine (i.e. overnight) idle for maybe 30s before driving off slowly, and it reaches operating temperature in about 5m or less.
As I understand it, submissions are moderated (albeit lightly -- not to the degree of formal peer review). So, since it's on the arXiv, we can assume that the moderators felt it belongs there.

I've seen a number of other book-length items on the arXiv before, including e.g. Seven Sketches in Compositionality [1], so this isn't a particularly new trend, either.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05316v3
Ask HN: Noticed any involuntarily subscriptions to YouTube channels?
I'm subscribed to 500+ YT channels, but my interests there have remained static over the last 6 years. Something unusual in my recommendations tends to stand out like a sore thumb.

About 2 months ago, it was a makeup channel by some Instagram influencer. There's absolutely no way I subscribed to that channel voluntarily.

Today morning, it was a channel named "(Twitter) - Tesla" (seemed like an official channel) featuring a live stream with Musk and Dorsey among others.

Such a recommendation in my feed isn't too surprising, given my tech-related interests. But this wasn't just in my feed list: This was in my list of subscriptions! And that is just impossible - I'd never subscribe to anything related to Twitter or Tesla. It's also the first time I'm seeing that channel; the name is unusual enough that I'd remember if I'd seen anything there before.

Anyone else with high subscriptions noticed such involuntary ones?
It's mildly common in the US moreso in the blue collar side of things, but I've noticed some tech companies that do it too. Mine does.

It's not like anyone gets anything done.
The heat index in South Texas is regularly pushing the one-teens. It's why I'll probably move away one day despite having lived here my whole life.
Ask HN: What games are you playing over the holidays
A democracy is not a system of government in which the government's power derives from the people who know calculus. It a system wherein power comes from the people, period.

Also, literacy tests were ruled unconstitutional in Oregon v. Mitchell.
package name and version string are part of what, the metadata manifest provided right?

As a thought experiment, say a collision is found for libc or the standard library, thanks to all that research on primes that's been released recently, assume a more efficient search is found.

What would the failure domains be for those two libraries if, a) the library was non-functional suddenly, or b) the library remained functional but malicious.

Would Nix detect the collision, or would Nix simply recreate the dependency graph overwriting the old but secure with this new malicious software.

Almost all of the security primitives are implemented at domain edges, which means local access, or remote exploitation would have equal effect, and a watering hole/supply chain attack may not even be necessary.
Lived in the Presidio, all my neighbors plus our house has a pretty big mold problem, likely from the humidity. When we called maintenance, the answer was to manage airflow and yeah, it’s the presidio, stuffs gonna mold.
Climate Change, even if it's as bad as the aggressive models predict, is an intractable problem.

1) There are trillions of dollars in petroleum reserves in the ground. This is money in the pockets of people, e.g. Putin. They aren't going to let go of that easily.

2) China and India have no realistic pathway to zero carbon and will buy the oil that isn't bought by the G7 sustainable nations. Most of the world's population will follow them.

The only valid response is mitigation. Amsterdam is below sea level. It is far easier to detect and solve real problems than try to predict massive problems in the distant future.
> EVs are always getting better, and they’re already good enough for most people.

If they're good enough for only most people, why are they mandating it for everyone?
Also a Phys. Ed. question…

Hopefully the many “AI-powered” fitness apps out there would not give this advice.
Your only argument for why it's "worse" is that it was different when you were in school. Maybe it was "worse" when you were in school.
GPT-3 and in-flight free messaging
Not that California is better, but all those places are stupid places to move to for global warming reasons. At least in the long term.
The old Firefox is a pretty big signal for anti-bot filters. They can generally figure out what hardware you’re on via canvas fingerprinting. Also IPv6 is generally downrated as well.

Essentially, if your fingerprint looks different from what they’ve explicitly whitelisted, it’s a strong chance they’ll think you’re a bot.
Getting the correct HTML codecs parameter for an AV1 video
There is writing of textbooks and there is writing of pulp. One adds to the patrimony of a society, the other much less so…
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but this is a niche that "sex workers" fill very well. As someone who has had many friends who were "sex workers" for decades (strippers mostly), I can tell you that a very large portion (approaching 50%) of the people who paid them for their time didn't want a lap dance, or to have sex with them. They just wanted to be held, or wanted to talk, or wanted some sort of intimacy that was otherwise lacking in their lives. Obviously this is not a replacement for a "real" intimate relationship, but it seems to be very desirable compared to the alternative, which is complete solitude and loneliness. In our atomized society, you shouldn't feel any sort of stigma about paying for temporary companionship that fulfills your basic human needs, even if conventional wisdom says that you should.
Venting hydrogen is a thing after you already have a meltdown. It is already too late to forestall disaster. You already have one.

What was rejected include an adequate seawall, and backup generators where a tsunami would not flood them. We know the ideas were rejected, because at a sister site only a few miles up the coast, rejections were overcome.
Or woman. Or person :)
I remember my neighbors dad showing us this on their compaq pc. I can't remember exactly what year it was I would guess it was probably <2004. I think it had a cool 3d visualizer thing with lots of polys but not google earth
Eh, if I tweaked the story, it'd probably drive the point home more if the aliens did have a difficult-to-learn-from-scratch system to work with too.

Our scientific communities already have the homogenized forms that his hypothetical aliens would actually like.
No one I know of ever breaks these systems with exhaustive searches. Holding an exhaustive search up as some kind of bedrock of security is foolhardy.

As for cryptography, its all based on primes, and have you been watching what papers are being published regarding more efficient methods and searches for primes?

Ethical people would publish, unethical people would sell it to everyone elses detriment.
> public transportation and alternative forms of transportation (ie, biking, walking, micro-mobility)

In the kind of cold weather that cuts EV range, per the OP? I've been there, and thanks but no thanks -- I'm too old for that shit. I'll stick to my car even if its range is reduced.

> Return the spaces occupied by parking lots, parking garages and use that space to house people.

This I heartily agree with, but it can be compatible with cars if we can get self-driving finally sorted out. Just have your car drop you off, then go out of the city to wait for you (and perhaps charge itself at the same time).

> Death to the suburban experiment.

Suburbs have different problems than cities do, but I'm not convinced they're particularly worse or more plentiful, and there are certainly other (dare I say better?) ways to solve them than abolishing suburbs outright.
Sun Microsystems could not have a more special place in my hacker heart. In my youth Sun was all over the place; I was dreaming working for them – as I would eventually did later in my life – and, admittedly, I would have done so even only on the basis of their uber cool logo. I remember working on their Sun Ray thin clients for a military contract. Good times. Thanks for sharing this video.
I studied math for several years and got honors and everything in it so I thought I would be among the top math students at my university. Then I took the Putnam and signed up for PhD level classes which quickly changed my view. Still, programming does become much easier if you're comfortable working with these abstract concepts.

Higher level math is at its most fun for me when you're solving difficult problems with peers. I wish there was a startup that could recreate that experience outside of a university setting.
Beware a few of their choices of stock photos are a little misleading. Such as when they're talking about Sun market impact in some era, or their use of off-the-shelf components, and show a photo from a product generation decades later.
Why should you care?

You are not supposed to buy ETH as a way to speculate on its price.

ETH is a resource used to represent processing and storage power. You can think of it as "AWS credits" that you can buy and use to run programs.

The absolute price of ETH is of no interest. The only meaningful number that you should care about is "what is the gas price compared to the ETH price", as in, "how expensive is it to access decentralized computing".

Speculating on ETH value is an investment strategy that is completely separate for ETH utility. People interested in the latter shouldn't care about the former. Just as people using AWS shouldn't really care about AWS stock price.
The 49ers bring entertainment but the stadium built at the new location hasn't really brought much to the local community aside from lots of traffic on Sundays. I lived right next to the stadium for several years and there's been next to no commercial development nor housing development. Anyone who goes to the 49ers game has to drive to DTSJ to continue the party. I don't know if it's the result of NIMBYs or the local government, but the stadium has brought nothing to the local community (maybe to the pockets of the mayor and the admins who approved it however).
The high cost definitely makes it less accessible, but also remember that Stanford offers a huge amount of financial aid, so families that earn less than $150k pay zero tuition.
Is this out of curiosity or it has practical benefit for you? I practical benefit then which?
A lot of people have been able to find prompts that ChatGPT fails to answer correctly. What I will say is that in my attempt to find the limit of its reasoning ability I was _not_ able to find any logical puzzle that it wasn't able to answer correctly. I asked things like, "could something that fits in a microwave fit in a car?" Or "could I eat an animal that could eat me?" and it could answer them all correctly.

I don't what that says about my own intelligence vs the current state of AI but I do find it slightly worrying.
You define underpaid as being lowly paid compared to their local group but also claim that the group in aggregate is underpaid. Makes no sense.

I think your parent commenter was asking for a citation showing that NFL franchises rake in net profits for owners and another citation showing athletes wages are being held down artificially.

You are presenting ideology as objective truth.
Ugh, I have to post this every damn place

You can write lipograms, and poetry easily with language models. You just need a trick.

See the example huggingface space in this paper. Lipograms are the first example.

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/most-language-models-can-be...
Pretty neat start. The world needs more Robot Odyssey like games with low friction to play. Could use some UI touches like RO - for example snap when connecting lines - I know it's bitmap based but it could still make it a bit nicer. And the lag is surprising considering how simple it is. All in all, I really enjoyed it and would probably play it if there were some more levels building on the previous.
is tax money taken for art or writing? i could understand preservation of history or something but i don't think that compares at all to a stadium or sportsball stuff
Hard work alone will not garauntee success, but I think there is also a tremendous amount of knowledge that you can pick up that a lot of entrepreneurs seem to ignore, that greatly increases their likelihood for success and also reduces how much time they spend going in the wrong direction.

Likewise there are also so many great mentors out there now, and many of them are happy to give a helping hand, expecting nothing in return, because they recognize how much others have helped them, that if you aren't reaching out to those folks and finding them, then you are doing yourself a disservice.

Don't build in a vacuum. And by that I don't mean simply get customer/user feedback, but I mean have mentors, both active, and inactive - that are constantly reviewing your ideas with you. The inactive ones come from reading books like innovators dilemma, and the active ones, you need to find and reach out to and get them on-board, just like you would reach out to VCs and pitch for funding.
I didn’t mean to offend. In fact if anything, I said that ChatGPT is the equivalent intelligence of a teenager. How is that not significant, how is that not praise when competing systems have at best been like, what, 6-7yo? ChatGPT is great but it’s not perfect, and there is no harm in acknowledging that. Even ChatGPT acknowledges that.

It’s not all bad, and it’s way better than just learning by Google search alone. There are plenty of places in the last few weeks that it has done fantastic. For instance, I wanted to freshen up on a few physics concepts, around Maxwell’s equations. It did an exceptional job not only summarizing but getting into the details. I was flabbergasted, it was like having a personal Feynman right there in my pocket.

> Why would you trick it into contradicting itself?

Because ChatGPT is not my coworker. If anything, it is an interviewee. I’m trying to understand what it knows, and how it thinks. If I’m considering relying on it as a teacher, I should know to what extent it is reliable as a teacher. A teacher can point out when a student has the concept backwards.

> Would you ever attempt to trick and leave your coworker in a confused state?

By that logic, is the student who fails to clarify a teacher’s lesson “maliciously stupid”? Teacher: “Earth is round” Student: “so Earth is a flat circle?” Teacher: “no you little fuck”

Where is the documentation on how to modulate the behavior of ChatGPT? All I see is a little collection of boxes saying what it can and cannot do: Examples/Capabilities/Limitations. Why wasn’t I escorted through a UX that teaches me how to properly interface with ChatGPT?

And worst of all, why can’t I use newline characters in my chat prompts?

In conclusion, you kind of sound like a mother who thinks I’m another parent who pushed your kid down on the playground or something. I’ll remind you how many times ChatGPT told me it doesn’t have feelings, nonetheless I constantly asked it questions with “please and thank you”.
Thank you =]
That’s a lot of teachers and doctors and roads and hospitals.
this isn’t a competition though? you can learn to swim too…
Merry Christmas all :)
But the confidence in its answer is through the roof! So, you know, just trust it!
Locally the people voted for it. Subsidizing billionaires and a sport and stadium really only enjoyable by the wealthy bothers me, but my fellow citizens were given the explicit choice and said yes so… I’m guessing the tea isn’t going to be dumped in the ocean any time soon.
The 49ers stadium in Santa Clara has brought nothing but traffic, zero commercial or housing development. The Warriors' Chase Stadium helped vitalize Dogpatch but I guess one could argue that area was naturally going to be built up given UCSF expanded in that location.
I cycled (soft) power on the screen too. It was persistent during the BIOS boot phase, kernel text framebuffer, and into Wayland.
Forests come back and resequester carbon, they are net neutral over the long term. Fossil fuels are millions of years stored carbon that aren’t coming back.
most websites these days already use javascript, and all modern browsers already support it. unless you're some really niche turbonerd website, nobody is going to notice or care...
One possible answer: the fact that one is making a profit from the work of the other.
Santa is also on flightradar24 as SANTA1 [0], and that's not synced with either! Such an annoying mild annoyance...

[0] https://fr24.com/R3DN053/2ea2ef9b
Global warming is going to mess up your fun. Texas will eventually become unlivable. Not that California will fair much better...
I don’t think they’re arguing in bad faith, only that their experience is different than yours. As with many things the answer is “it depends” and “a good manager is a good manager” and it’s hard to reduce to simple rules like “they’re good/bad if they worked as a developer before”. I had great managers who were very experienced developers (20+ years direct experience developing and still actively programming) and others that relied on a very experienced tech lead or senior developer that they could trust with technical decisions.
Each person only lives once (I believe so ?!) is up to them to decide how to live their lives.. people can take calculated risks while still investing the majority of their money in boring indexes because most likely they will do better that way.

I think it's a bit fool to live in the WSB life style, but I know plenty of people who do. They make a lot of money and lose a lot of money. They're usually more worried about retirement than I am and we make the same amount of money... this folks usually like gambling too... To each their own.
Washing machines very rarely are 240V in the US, they usually are 120V. It’s electric dryers that are 240V.
It is unclear who you are trying to argue against in this discussion.
> It really drew the point home that a random non-insider individual who thinks can do that over decades is likely delusional)

You are, of course, correct, and it has been proven time and time again. People think that just because we had a few years of 0% rates that they are somehow geniuses who can do 15% CAGR for 50 years without a problem.

In reality, almost nobody can beat the S&P500 low-cost index fund, after all expenses. People still dream, though.
I’m so trained to double checking anything it says, I quickly confirmed that smorgle does indeed have 7 letters.
The staff is using "inclusiveness" as the political cudgel it was intended to be. The people exercising power are doing so on behalf of the so-called marginalized with no evidence that the measures they're taking are beneficial in any way.

Words cannot harm you. Actions harm. Please stop perpetuating that nonsense.

Name-calling or epithet-hurling has not hurt anyone in a tangible way (tangible means "touchable" something physical). Bias, and discrimination based on bias or prejudice does cause economic and sometimes physical harm. It is proper behavior we need to teach, not hypersensitivity to phrasing.
> I personally prefer to be effective at communication, so I don't just use words to mean something different than what everyone else thinks.

And “what everyone else thinks” is mostly different from the OSI definition.
>it's hard to imagine a density where it doesn't work.

It's really not

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2060212/tok...