skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on call every day, but so is the CEO. The startup life :) I am not working this weekend, but I am the next Sunday (the 1st) so that one of my crew can have the day off. I don't celebrate the holidays, so I go out of my way to accommodate those who do, since my schedule is wide open. It's only right, and my crew really appreciates it.
So who wants to chip in and buy it? ;)
SBF = Sam Bankman-Fried
self-checkout is worse in most ways than cashier-assisted checkout.

It is nevertheless a preferable experience in 90% of cases because it is faster.

I don't even need to read the article to know why it's everywhere - it's because it is cheaper than hiring the number of cashiers it would require to make checkout an equivalently fast process. And I (and many others) would rather be at home with my family sooner even if that means I occasionally have to argue with a machine about whether or not I put my groceries in the bagging area.
I was at Ft. Bliss for awhile while in the Army and I mostly enjoyed the weather. I was never there for a full summer, though.
Slightly off-topic, as it isn't mentioned in the article, but I recently read (well, audibled)

Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson

which Philip Pullman has described as "the best thriller I’ve ever read" and thought it was stunning in the audio version.

As an espionage chase against a (timely) Arctic landscape, with a can-do engineer/academic as hero, I reckon it will appeal to a lot of HN thriller fans.
> Doesn’t answer the question about infrastructure which California is well known to be lacking

What infrastructure do you imagine California to be lacking that would be relevant here?
It is easy to article cited SQLite, even author say they don't need this. people still cited it, because this is basic requirement.
An anecdotal observation: when an academic needs a personal assistant to manage their email it is because they have become better at the grant game than they were in their field.
> People can just say they don't want to be talked to. That's how you "figure it out".

Or they just don't want to be rude and would play along, even if they are not really interested in that talk.
In case this concern seemed theoretical: https://twitter.com/wizardofsoho/status/1606610665795379201
Builder’s remedy?
You can also take the output and ask "explain why this answer is correct/wrong", etc.
> That's the thing with suckless tools; most of them are barely usable without any patches

It depends on your preferences I guess; I run the standard st with just the colours and font configured, I have my own hacked-up "private fork" of dwm that removes a lot of stuff (and adds/changes a few minor things), and run dmenu with just one patch ("prefix completion" patch).
This stuff is not at all new. Also, consider:

> All undergraduate student groups and residences may host only alcohol-free parties or events during Admit Weekend.

Not sure what point you’re trying to make.

Underage Stanford students getting drunk is one thing (and one can quite reasonably debate the merits of the university trying to prevent it, trying to make it safer when it happens, etc m). Stanford students supplying alcohol that gets high school students drunk is another issue entirely.

When I was an undergrad, we took this extremely seriously. You do not drink with the prospective students. You do not host a party where you might mistake a prospective freshman for a Stanford student.

Even ignoring safety and liability, the purpose of going to a school like Stanford is not to get drunk. The prospective freshman have about 48 hours to learn what Stanford has to offer, and doing so drunk or hung over benefits no one.

Here’s an article about it. This policy apparently dates to 2001:

https://stanforddaily.com/2012/05/03/students-reflect-on-adm...

(Other groups were surely less responsible.)
Hmm, that’s a lot of rules to adhere to. I wouldn’t want to miss one. If only there were a linter to ensure these rules were always followed..
I don’t understand what EVs have to do with the need for better public transports and better alternatives.

Maybe I’m missing something but that was never my understanding for the need for EVs to replace ICE, a need based in lowering reliance on fossil fuel and decreasing air pollution.

These are still required, whatever urban policy we end up with.

I see the urgent need for improved public transports to be paramount in these goals too, so both EV to replace the billions of ICE cars and better urban transportation alternatives are needed.
Which is why daycare is only somewhat unaffordable, while university is completely unaffordable.
What was the name of the group that out purchased the SacBee?
Where did this believe question come from?
See also:

* https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser

* https://github.com/philc/vimium

And https://vim.reversed.top/ (list of Vim-like applications and plugins)
We may be as hard on them as they deserve: they actively suppressed work, and workers, showing older occupancy than they had made their reputation on. They had no excuse: for a generation, anything older than 4kya was suppressed.

How archaeologists were able to suppress evidence for so long is a mystery.
This is one of the most gleefully insane takes I’ve ever seen. Merry Christmas!
College is where I went from being a rando loner to actually having friends, and part of that was attending parties.

Those friends have more impact on me today than whatever my GPA average might have been with a few less hangovers.
Oh wow. I did wonder why dryers were so frequently used in the US. Don't you have to worry about it shrinking clothing though?
> Rust is licensed under terms that require explicit permission for use outside of a few very narrowly-defined circumstances.

I think you mean the Rust trademark, and sorry, but you don't get to use IBM or Google's mark willy-nilly either? I'm not sure it's a realistic expectation on your part to be able to market your changes under the other guy's mark.
Is SUNY Oneonta really considered a top tier party school exemplar?
Google Translate / Waymo is fair, I totally forgot about those ones.

Gmail Autocomplete, Photos Classification, YouTube recommendations are (relatively) simple models and don’t differentiate from the market much.

The thing that bothers me is that Google has been promising market-beating ML-as-a-service for ages which never materialised despite billions being poured into it.

Google Prediction API has been a great start in the area. Then Google stopped improving it and killed it with very little notice and without providing an alternative.
We Need to Talk About Nepo Babies Because We Live in a “Just Deserts” Culture
We tried that with covert ops in the 20th century. It just led to abuse of power and the backlash effect. Things need to be published and this is how society works these days, for the better.

If a coverup is going to be happen then it needs to be justified through means that are legally available to the parties in question.
Related: one class of thought is that the first “AGI” will most likely be the product of another AI, one optimized to design effective per-context models.

While ChatGPT itself may not be an effective computer, it almost certainly knows how to “write a program so I can multiply two numbers” and then hand that off to an associated computational machine.

The same way that YOU are able to calculated 12757593725274857353527x3747595837353738585837373=…well…

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=12757593725274857353527...

I don’t think ChatGPT is that “mother” agent that gives birth to the intelligence explosion, but it has demonstrated an exceptional mastery of one of mankind’s greatest tricks: language.
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As a professional software engineer, it's common for support staff at elite firms to number 1/10 or 1/100 compared to “productive” staff.

Only if you close your eyes and shut your ears and not count any of the facilities, HR, finance, legal, admin, media, procurement, and janitorial staff.

I personally haven't seen a lot of SWEs spending much of their time paying the power bill, laying out offices, cleaning toilets, or sending out W-2s.
> It is nevertheless a preferable experience in 90% of cases because it is faster.

IME, I
Its much slower per lane, and, often, slower than any of the smaller number of human-operated lanes that remain open, despite the latter averaging larger per-shopper loads.
I see no one has mentioned Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) yet.

https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#bpes

The reason ChatGPT struggles with tasks involving individual character counting is that it can't see individual characters. The word "prime" is a single token (https://beta.openai.com/tokenizer) to the eyes of ChatGPT, and 1 is not prime.
I'm on call. I volunteered. I wasn't scheduled, but the guy who was scheduled, it is his first year with the company, and this is his first job out of college. He was visiting home, and I wanted to make sure he got a chance to go back and have a good time with his family without having to worry about on-call junk.
Switched to NewsBlur when google reader was shut down… It’s so much better than I could have imagined GReader ever becoming. Used it daily for years!
There are a ton of free readers if you’re willing to step outside your web browser.
As someone who went to a large state school, this post blows my mind. I can’t imagine this level of restraint around parties.

My fraternity and half a dozen other groups would host parties with 2-300 people each weekend. Most groups hosting these large parties had practices in place to ensure everyone was safe (e.g. sober drivers, cutting people off who were too intoxicated, etc.).

Attendance was more valuable when events conflicted because it became a social status symbol. That being said, prominent groups coordinated with each other. I also disagree with characterizing throwing a party during finals as a “facepalm”. My friend group always prioritized studying and grades, and I believe others should as well. I believe to a greater extent that they should be given the freedom to make mistakes, or have fun if they believe themselves able to manage both their studies and their social life.

I doubt that diligent campus security could do a better job than responsible and respectful hosts and friends. Giving students resources to host safe parties would be more effective since they are closer to the source of issues and can stop small issues before they become bigger issues. The same resources could encourage other safe practices like not over-imbibing, traveling with trusted friends, etc., and would keep students safer than any campus security could, while giving students more freedom and responsibility.

I base this assessment in part off of personal experience. At my school one year, a girl went to a frat party with her friend, and got too drunk. The fraternity made sure she and her friend had a ride home. Her friend made sure she got to her dorm room safe. After getting home, she wandered out of her building to the nearby fire department, which neighbors the famous police office. She fell asleep in front of the bay door and was run over and killed by a firefighter responding to a call who did not see her.

This story demonstrates 1) the effort that other students made to ensure safety and 2) the failure of campus security to catch a massive safety issue right under their noses. I feel terrible for the girl and her family. Their experience was tragic and heartbreaking. That tragedy resulted does not negate the fact that all involved did everything they could (shy of not having the party) to ensure safety and campus security could not have done anything more without tucking her in to bed and watching her all night, which I find unreasonable.

As you said, parties can be dangerous. Hosts and attendees being cautious and responsible will go much further than more vigilant campus security.
> These results continued for at least a week following the end of the study

Speaking from personal experience, I’ve felt similar bumps in moods from bouts of intentionally talking with strangers. They are always short lived though and I always regress back to withdrawing

But the feeling I get when I am comfortable talking to strangers is unreal. It’s a completely different world when everyone around you is a potential friend, as opposed to someone just in the way that you have to navigate around
I think I am less stressed about this than you are. I remember someone ranting at me in the 90s about peak oil and how our kids will live in the stone ages because we'll run out (their thesis of course was that ppl shouldn't have kids)

Science evolves as does technology, and inevitably both factors will change over the coming decades. To base your life around the worst case predictions of models (where the disaster moment keeps pushing back as time progresses) is not logical.

And then specifically. I work from home as does my wife. Most of my driving (in a hybrid btw) is 2 miles to drop our kid at school or go to the grocery store. Really hard to connect this lifestyle to dooming the plannet honestly.
Hang in there brother. Tomorrow will bring the promise of better days. Ask and you will receive.
What are you on about? What is this in response to?

Please comment on the article, not your personal biases.
I just went through the same first two prompts and it gave me your answer to the second prompt without me having to clarify it. That impresses me as well.
Ah, if you don't think climate change is going to be an issue, then I think I see where you're coming from. I hope you're right.
Yeah, it's probably some homie in engineering maliciously compiling with the directions of some wannabe MBA who hates their customers and couldn't keep a business running if it was handed to them on a silver platter.

Be the programmer homie
We've flipped. Democrats have become the default position in many ways, and conservatives are either outcasts or the cool kids, depending on where you are.

I think this is equally strange to many conservatives who are still attempting to digest this.

When several liberal writers went on tirades regarding how it should be forbidden for people to talk about their sex lives in public, it occurred to me the current liberals were not the ones of my formative years.
Man, I forgot Think Tank. I used that before MORE, but that was too friggin' long ago for me to remember without being reminded!!
I no longer am seeing any "why isn't anyone talking about this" binance spam in the replies of crypto accounts tweets. It suddenly all stopped. i wonder if this had anything to do with this. It's likely there was some exploit that allowed the hackers to access logins or sessions of thousands of accounts to post binance spam, which got patched under Musk's leadership.

indeed

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/160205661916405760...
People interested in this topic should really read "Trillions" by Wigglesworth. Maybe the most consequential book I read in 2022, as someone who read about a book a month, mostly nonfiction.

The book, first of all, does a good job of laying out the complete case for why index funds beat human managers, starting out by telling the story of an investor who made that very bet (literally), who ironically most people would put on the other side of that: Warren Buffett. Buffett bet a fund manager that an index fund would beat the best of any funds his opponent would select. A decade or so later, Buffett was proved right and declared the winner.

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2017/11/13/ted-....

If even Warren Buffett is betting on index funds as beating active investors, why are most people so reluctant to?

But besides that... why are index funds - which you can also think of as 'fully automated/computerized investing' - so effective?

There's a few reasons, but a really simple explanation is: over time, a bunch of fund managers are just going to recapitulate the market, and the advantage computers have is, they can duplicate that functionality but their fees are zero (or 0.001% per year, whatever is the tiny amount it costs to run the servers). Human fees are not zero. Therefore, the computers win.

Another one is just that the whole market, diversified, ends up being the best hedge against... everything. Is Elon Musk a genius one day, and now getting pilloried as an idiot as the head of Twitter? If he's a big part of your portfolio, and you bought in a year ago, that really hurts. When you hold the whole market following impersonal computer rules, you are insulated from this.

And it turns out, when you look at the full impartial record of active investor picks, it's pretty poor really.

A final thought that book suggested to me: if you have over 10 million dollars, you probably can't beat what the market can do. Wave the white flag and throw it all in an index fund. The computers have won, and just as we acknowledge that with chess and Go (art's probably next), index funds are an extension of same.
This is trivially refuted by the "cupcake on a plate" question posed, above: the magic ingredient is that humans infer context based on experience, while ChatGPT uses a statistical model of predictive tokenization of words to string together (highly) likely sentences given a prompt. It doesn't understand anything at all, except (dubiously) insofar as the word's meaning can be stretched to include "inference based on a statistical model".

I know what's next: "what does 'experience' even mean?" right? One could argue that ChatGPT's inference algorithm is based on "experience": but that equivocates on the meaning of the word as I expressed it.
>You can also apply this (and any of the 17 other effects) to play when closing modal dialogs too.

The GitHub repo (https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows) README has demo for all these effects.
Sounds like a mistake GPT could make, suspicious :)
Instead of manually checking each website of interest to you individually, you can subscribe to their RSS feeds and then just use your feed reader to access everything, and it automatically updates and lets you know when there’s new content.
No. IIRC level 3 meant open to the whole campus. The party rules varied depending on who was invited.
Thirty?

I was aware of two rivals in this claim: Bissonnette and O'Neill. Were there more?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bissonnette_(author)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._O%27Neill
You quoted some assertions made by the gentleman in question. I thought this meant you agreed with said assertions. If you don’t agree with the assertions you quoted then I don’t understand why you quoted them or why we are having a conversation about them. Maybe we are talking past each other.
Some academics are so entitled and refuse to admit they blatantly stole. If this person didn't, then someone attached did.
I mean what’s missing here is a 2D game maker / interactive app maker that anyone can use and trivially deploy to the web, no?
Generally, I don't blog for other people.

I blog because I'm forgetful AF and want a record of how I solved problems in the past to refer to later.

If other people get someone out of it too, that's gravy.
That article:

> gave Ferraris to employees who recruited 10 programmers,

I might be misremembering from when that was first promoted, but I though it was a year's use of a Ferrari (a Spider or similar).

> Greenspun defends those expenditures as inexpensive ways to retain and attract talent. He also writes that it created the impression of a wildly successful company.

At the time, it seemed a little indulgent. Like all the fresh startups that would buy Aeron chairs for everyone, and have expensive launch parties.

But in hindsight... How else were you going to get MIT grads to feel like they were in on the dotcom boom, when they were working as TCL programmers in gloomy Cambridge? (Rather than move to the sunny SF Bay Area, where most of the action seemed to be happening, and where most of their friends were moving.)
I've been to events/cafeterias with made-to-order omelettes and they all use small nonstick frying pans. (not refuting that most kitchens use stainless/etc, just a data point)
Finishing my PhD ... Have a job lined up for February and I've got so much writing left
I'm just saying it's more work not that it's impossible work. Also a high current 240V cable is way more trouble than a CAT cable.
As you might guess from my username, one area where I made insane gains is in cryptocurrency, and not because of a Ponzi “greater fool theory” but by carefully analyzing bitcoin and Ethereum (primarily) from economic, technological, and philosophical principles and making investments that I have held for a very long time. My gains are so overwhelmingly absurd and contrary to the supposed “Harvard experts” that making such a calculated, reasoned bet should have been impossible.

Yet I have made investments in so many things over the years, so I don’t know how to square it other than, “I personally read the evidence, investigated the tech, thought about it logically, ignored the experts (and HN might I add!)”.

According to the efficient market hypothesis such things should be impossible.
why would anyone try to cheat self checkouts. there are staff often literally watching you the whole time.
If you want to understand how much reactive nitrogen you introduce into the waste stream through food consumption, transportation, and home heating, there is a handy calculator I’ve been working on here:

https://calc.nprint.org

The team of scientists who developed this calculator and authored the research include J. Galloway (University of Virginia) and A. Leach (University of New Hampshire) along with many others.
This won't be an understatement to say that atdrummond, who posted this, make Christmas for me and my family possible. If you need help, do not hesitate to reach out!

I'm really thankful for their help. It's a joy to see there are kind people like this.
If the cigarette seller posts $250m bail, they too can sit in a lounge. The likelihood of an extradition for street crime at this level is low. If they have outstanding warrants for illegal tobacco sales and tax avoidance ten years back, higher.

It's really about cost benefit.
A preliminary introduction to simplified Set (and Relational) Theory and Logic (Propositional/Predicate) and then a simple explanation of step-wise problem solving using the above i.e. breakdown the problem Top-Down into smaller modules and build the solution one module at a time Bottom-Up. Just enough formal structure for them to understand and get going.

Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34113559
ChatGPT can't reason about the validity of its responses. It can say the most absolute nonsense, get asked "are you confident in the validity of that response?" and it will without fail say "yes I am 100% confident".

That's the difference between pattern following and actual recognition IMO. Humans for the most part can tell when they're talking out their ass. Robots can't. Yet.
Think about it for a moment. Which is more likely to be compromised: A widely advertised central location storing thousands of peoples’ passwords, or a single user’s passwords on their local computer accessed through an app which doesn’t even access the internet?
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The people behind these efforts exploit the basic agreeableness, tolerance, and good nature of students everywhere.

Have you ever been a student? Because agreeableness with arbitrary, stupid rules isn't ever a trait I'd universally prescribe to them. Pushing back on them seems way more common than quiet agreeableness.

It's a bit ironic that you're infantilizing said students, in order to critique a policy that... Infantilizes them.
Millennial Assignment: take a social media post and write a 400-word story about it.
Yes, another example is that you can ask questions like "does X fit inside a car?" for various X, and it will become clear that GPT has no idea of relative sizes.