skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not only terribly stupid but also truly dystopian, bordering on the inhumane (and I'm aware that they didn't pair people with an AI without their knowledge).

People, please go and read Joseph Weizenbaum. The The stupidity on display in that Twitter thread is what happens when you replace your humanity with the shallow gospel of efficiency and allowing to let your own technology blind you.

Computers and AI will never ever be a proper replacement for another human when it comes to tasks that require empathy. That the thread author states this as a possibility ("It’s also possible that genuine empathy is one thing we humans can prize as uniquely our own.") is laughable.

Go read Weizenbaum.
I’m not an expert, but $500/month seems not much different than $0/month. In either case it’s too little money to not be homeless, and if you’re homeless, there are enough resources to survive by eating/sleeping in shelters without spending any money.
Couldn't have said it better, steel is real indeed! In the past decade the only thing to grab my interest _more_ than programming has been metal working (mostly steel). Welding as a process and field is incredibly fascinating (and fun! [and loud]), watching the liquid pool while welding never gets old.
I particularly enjoy how "predictable" steel and other physical materials are, in that they can be utilized and engineered to perform differently across a range of environments (stainless steel being one example).
And of course we have rust/oxidation which is always fun (such an "earth problem" heh)
I used to use the W alias whenever I noticed myself doing it on a new setup, but I haven't had to do it recently. I suspect my "slow on the shift" issue was due in part to the lousy keyboards I used to use.
Is your belief based on any kind of evidence in which case I'd love to hear your best arguments, or is it a religios belief (like in Jesus) in which case there is not much to discuss?
> They have to eat 3 times per day, maybe more. All food now supposed to be tracked from say Great Lakes region, 1500miles?

Food typically travels farther now. Oranges in FL have been shipped in from Argentina for generations.
My bad - not English, but ASCII. The assumed max tweet size is in bytes rather than (UTF) characters.
On a personal note, I found any form of notetaking is distraction for me to grasping information... I really don't understand how someone could take good note while also listen... I found this only when I starting my PhD. I hope I know this sooner.

Also, notetaking in any designed system is worse than a blank piece of paper for me. Not sure if any one would agree.
You can turn night mode off and drag the exposure slider down if you want a more atmospheric look.
Remember: without chemistry, life itself would be unprofitable.
The title reminded me about this https://www.phoronix.com/news/Netflix-NUMA-FreeBSD-Optimized (2019) and this 2 years later: https://papers.freebsd.org/2021/eurobsdcon/gallatin-netflix-... (2021)
Don’t forget the argument made at the time that this is the way they learn in $OrganizationHeldInHighRegard, so you should do it too!
Carl Sagan talked about this effect — in combination with cannabis:
https://www.organism.earth/library/document/mr-x
It's an easy pretzel for teachers/school administrators to tie themselves into, because these people are on the frontline of witnessing the ways in which parents can neglect and abuse their kids. It's easy for teachers to fall into believing themselves / the state a better steward of children than their own parents.
Plastics are inert. This is why they don't biodegrade easily. It is the additives in the plastics (to make them softer, or color them, or whatever) that are terrible for you.

By the time these things are 'microplastics' I am having a hard time feeling scared that they are harmful. I'm not saying they aren't, but until someone can tie them to an actual problem, I don't see an issue -- especially since there is nothing we can do about it.

That said, one-time-use plastics are absolutely obscene and need to be removed from society as soon as humanly possible.
Tech market is down worldwide
After reading the comments I was expecting a longer writeup. It seems to be restating "perfect is the enemy of good enough" reframed in the light of opportunity cost to the author in addition to consumers/customers which is the usual framing. In short your goals don't always align with the reauestor's.

As I was reading this I realized that I'm usually the one raising the quality bar at times when the author doesn't see the benefits. Don't always assume that just because you can't appreciate the stated benefits that they're not there. If you can trust the reauestor's motivations don't be too hesitant to put in some extra, but as always try to understand what and why and find a good balance. Personally I've internalized so much of my knowledge that I have to make an extra effort to make them conscious again and communicate reasoning as clearly and simply as possible. OTOH if the requests are made shallowly without much context of thought, dismissing them tactfully is the best course of action. Interesting to think about and apply.
People often forget that there are brilliant developers who don’t need to be 10x to produce extreme value to those around them.
Right, but the most powerful and useful AI would be ChatGPT like dialogue based system augmented with search engine. Not the other way around.
Were? It still happens. My friend's kids are forced to use such a system now.

Note taking is about the note taker's relationship with the subject so it's idiosyncratic. A potentially useful technique can become a harmful prescription by stupid teachers.

Showing student's lots of techniques and helping them develop there own methods seems more useful.

But it is easier to make a rubric to test stuff like this then help a kid figure out what works.
I'm afraid you haven't made clear what constitutional change you mean, at least to me. Can you elaborate?
> Isn't there something special about crab/spider anatomy as well ...

Carcinization?

https://xkcd.com/2314/
Yet, South Carolina schools suing e-cigarette manufactures:

https://www.postandcourier.com/columbia/more-sc-school-distr...

Legally it kind of makes sense because schools have a responsibility to ensure the welfare of children. Thus kids vaping or checking TickTok at school is a problem for the school system. But they also list “increased security staff time spent addressing discipline and supervision issues, and increased counselor time spent speaking to addicted students about this epidemic.”
These feel like really strange criticisms, since they're just so straightforward to resolve.

Can't figure out typos? That's a solved problem. Doesn't understand all questions correctly? It's going to get much better at that very, very quickly. Chat results don't give context? You can put AI search results in whatever UI you want.

Not shocking to hear a search company say AI won't disrupt search, but if this is the best they can do, I feel pretty confident saying that AI will disrupt search very soon.
This feels like what a company that hasn't accepted the future would say. Yes, ChatGPT doesn't do exactly what Google does. Can it be augmented by well understood search retrieval engines to generate a much better response? I think for a lot of cases that seems to be undoubtedly true.
Great idea. Don’t listen to the haters (they have some good points, use them if you like but don’t feel bad).
> Every camera and software pipeline for a photograph alters the raw images. You're just more aware of it.

No, you use a half decent professional camera and you can even opt for RAW format, the only processing your getting is the averaging algorithm for your exposure and ISO settings. Even without that all you are getting is some JPG compression, not half baked ML trying to move people's faces around, that's bonkers. Also pretty sure you are not getting RAW on any phone unless you are running some very custom OS/software, even then seems pretty pointless considering how noisy it's going to be.
> any basis for that other than some lazy guess?

Reading papers on the subject and working with researchers in the context of discussing different training methodologies for space-going missions?

The knowledge gap between someone who is mostly an academic and someone who has the formal training matched with real-world experience is vast. When you attempt a 250 lb squat and your body shuts down and just collapses under the weight you learn things you cannot learn any other way. That's an extreme case, of course. Yet, I've been in a room when researcher proposed ideas that seemed sensible to them and everyone in the room who actually had time actually lifting and training just rolled their eyes.

This is true of any field. Experience is incredibly valuable. The only people who do not value experience are those who do not have it and somehow believe they have superpowers that allow them to reinvent things that have been learned the hard way by so many.
Yeah, the LGR video says they were USD 150 at launch in May 2000 and 130 by the end of the year.
The difference is that we aren't talking about drug addiction here? And I mean drawing parallels between hard drugs and social media is just a matter of opinion. Like if you replace basically any possible debate with with homeless people and drugs you would probably get people asking for something to be done, so yeah I guess?
> and that's with a drug [...] that has established social rituals around consumption

You're missing something vital, that those social rituals are often supportive of alcohol consumption. In the UK "beer or queer" (= drink up or there's summat wrong with you"). Alcohol abuse is as much an embedded social problem as a personal one. Who hasn't tried to force another drink on someone who's clearly had too much? To my regret even I have.

On top of that, just look at alcohol advertising everywhere. It should be banned.
I assumed this lawsuit was a negligence one. It's not, it's under public nuisance laws. I still don't understand how the school board should get damages paid given they aren't "the public", and they didn't have any of their rights violated.

> Those aren't analogous companies at all. Social media companies don't just deliver content, they promote specific content and optimize thier platforms to increase engagement.

A school investigates all threats equally regardless of how they are communicated. Whether they are mailed, sent via SMS, called in or sent on social media should not matter.
Federal sentencing guidelines spell deep trouble for Sam Bankman-Fried
> If you can afford a $7 latte, they argued, why are you bristling at a $1 tip that would help your server?

If I worked there, I would have more issue with a place charging $7 for a drink and not paying it's employees fairly.
Any reference to an English grammar will easily explain that / is an abbreviation for or.

"The Proper Use of the Forward Slash in English"

https://eslgrammar.org/forward-slash

Thus C/C++ as in C or C++.

On top of revealing lack of grammar knowledge, it also reveals lack of understanding of ISO papers, documentation from all companies with seat at ISO, their job boards, and major publications like the now gone "The C/C++ Users Journal".
To be fair, `normal mode' may be a vimism. Both traditional vi's and nvi's man pages refer to the vim `normal mode' as `command mode', and `insert mode' (mostly) as `input mode'. (Though :set showmode still says Insert, and `insert mode' is occasionally used on the man pages too.)
> They are literally quoting speculation from Vice while making it seem like an official quote from Meta.

They literally provide the exact source of the quote. It is speculation but it isn't unreasonable since we know they've made similar types if decisions to maximize engadgement.
Agreed that chat-based search won't replace traditional search any time soon. BUT even in this article, the author mentions that hybrid semantic search is actively being integrated into Algolia.

Both have pros & cons and the best solutions over the coming years will be hybrids.
Ah the ol’ have a baby in a month by impregnating 9 women strategy.
I would appreciate any feedback.
Seattle schools could sue the Uncle Ike's pot shop chain that operates openly and mostly legally in Seattle.
The lawsuit is going to be dismissed due to lack of standing.
> I am not describing sterilizing immunity, I am saying that the original, and the most common understanding of what a vaccine is is "something that you take that makes you not get sick".

The CDC changed the definition of vaccine on Sept 2, 2021 and removed the reference to immunity.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210901163633/https://www.cdc.g...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210902194040/https://www.cdc.g...

And just to preempt your question, every news source reachable via Google says the change has nothing to do with COVID or the effectiveness of the COVID vaccine.
The reason this works for tokens is that tokens are put in a vector space where similar words are in a similar place. The same effect could not be achieved with characters or bits. If you think about it our brains also remember words and not characters
So does wage inequality (doesnt get remotely the same level of attention though "for some reason").
Not so sure about mandatory. A system like this is pretty useless unless you’re motivated to use it. How much benefit would the students taking the module only because it’s required really see?
Aye when I got back I googled why the hell the camera was doing superman night vision mode but the moment was lost.

I'll know for future reference but there's been no more combos of frosty and full moon so far.

Ah well. Wasn't an important picture or anything, just seemed neat. My phone encouraged me to enjoy the moment instead :)
But on the search side, it'll also get rid of the need for the kind of SEO/blogspam stuff you're describing.

We already see it with recipes - there are all the god-awful sites that have 1000 words of fluff before you get to the recipe, because that's what you need for SEO purposes. GPT is really good at creating that kind of useless fluff, but it also obfuscates the need for it, because it'll just give you the recipe you want without the need to go to a website at all.
What advantage does this theory have over the more common (?) assumption that the amino acids came to existence on earth itself? Serious question, I'd like to know.

For example, this theory sti doesn't answer the question how they came into existence in the first place. It's certainly not obviously better than assuming they suddenly appeared on another planet and then transported to earth..
KDE works fine out of the box and can be customized. It's what I use on my grandparents computer.
PHP's original creator was doing this with C when he decided to write a simpler alternative I believe.
I've not been able to bring myself to have a closer look at the fruit trees around here (Nuremberg area), for fear of seeing some very doomed buds.
Well..I can give you another example. In agriculture, the data extracted from the field is more valuable than farm gate prices.

For example, you can generate weather data from a farm. That income doesn’t belong to the farmer but to the one who owns the land or the data.

Data has so much value addition. Grain doesn’t ..not for the farmer anyways. Income from value added data is taxable. Farm income isn’t.

We generally look at value from the pov of whether it can be taxed and whether it will generate employment which leads to more taxation. Money which creates value in a capitalistic economy is tied to employment and purchasing power.

Data can be reused again and again to create taxable goods. All food will become someone’s poop.

I am just making scribble points. But I am sure you can fill in the blanks.
Exactly!

ChatGPT might not replace search (entirely), but for many many use cases, it has already replaced search.

When pure machine translation was starting out, there were lots of similar posts about it how it can't YYY, but in short amount of time it has become very effective.

ChatGPT for me is a much better StackOverflow. In fact, I'd rather people be asking and answering SO style question in a format that is easier for machines to understand.

ChatGPT is better at searching for a concept, if it was unencumbered, I could better constrain the concept space it was searching over.
So the public schools will turn a profit from the increasingly depressed teens... and then what? Business as usual with some bonus cash for counseling services? What's the real goal here? Precedent?

I don't see the (non-monetary) benefit unless there are new laws introduced that severely restrict how social media is allowed to operate or outright ban various addictive techniques employed by their platforms (which will need to be constantly amended because they'll come with addictive ideas faster than they can possibly be proven addictive).
No, actually referring to use of / in English grammar.
I like this kind of exercise. One thing I am not seeing is analytics, logs and so forth that as I understand it are significant portions of Twitter's production cost story.
> Technically, int32_t is bad in that way, but we are not fooled by it.

Meaning? On my system int32_t is directly typedefed to unsigned int, absolutely no hidden pointers or conversions.
Warm winter = less gas usage for heating = less money for Russia’s war. Putin won’t be in power by the time the Arctic opens up.
Per the old is new again trend, anyone remember does disposable Fuji film cameras you used to take on vacation? Only had like 35 frames. You wouldn't dare take a photo every 5 minutes and run out of film on day one.
Making a gpt query on every search I'd say that's indeed unlikely. Luckily, most queries are repeated, so caching can work very well.

There are many opportunities there, gpt could potentially be used for common queries to expand the results and even as a way to disambiguate queries. For instance, if I ask it:

"If I make a search query for "go", what are the possible different things I may be looking for?"

I get

> There are many possible things that someone might be looking for when they make a search query for "go". Some possible interpretations of the term "go" include:

>

> The board game "Go"

> The programming language "Go"

> The command "go" or "Go!" as a signal to start or proceed with something

> The verb "go", as in to move or travel from one place to another

> The website "GO", which is a popular search engine

>

> It's also possible that the person making the search query is simply looking for information about the word "go" itself, such as its definition, pronunciation, or usage in different contexts.

there may be better prompts, of course.

Also, they may identify some queries as being gpt friendly and get those through gpt, which they may also augment with a suitable prompt. The thing is, giving the query as is to the GPT model is not the only option. They can certainly be creative with how they ask gpt and interpret the results. They don't have to necessarily even display the gpt response, they can use it to improve the results.
It blends multiple shots for better dynamic range, but doesn’t do any heavy processing. If you want a pure single exposure RAW file you can get that using third party apps such as Halide.
I wonder, why doesnt Nike just add ID verification, is the friction too much?

I mean these people queue in lines so I would think not, and the new ID verification apps are pretty seamless (upload a pic of self and ID).
> Enable all warnings!

The trouble I've run into with that is different compilers have different warnings, sometimes they are mutually contradictory, so it is not possible to have portable code that doesn't trigger warnings in one compiler or another.

I.e. the general problem with warnings is the language gets balkanized into multiple competing and incompatible dialects.

What should happen is to carefully examine the warnings, and adopt the best into the language Standard as errors.

For example:

if (a < b < c)

That is pretty much 100% a bug in the code. Just make it illegal already. D does.

For another:

for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i);
{
...
}

Long ago, an expert C programmer came to me once and said he'd spent all day trying to figure out why his loop only executed once. I pointed to the semicolon. He sighed. I put a warning for that in the compiler. I noticed that other compilers eventually did, too.

In D, it's an error.

A third example:

In the Joint Fighter coding standard, it says don't use `l` as an integer suffixe, as in `124l`, because in many fonts it looks like `1241`. Solution: D does not allow `l` as a suffix. There's is no reason to support that suffix. No reason to put it in coding standard. Do the world a favor, just make it illegal. Done!
There's a lot of convergent evolution towards the crab body plan, a phenomenon known as Carcinisation. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation)
I selected a few sentences from the given response, asked DuckDuckGo to find them, and got zero hits for any of them.

GPT definitely has some kind of internal model of things and how they relate to other things, and the capacity to express those relations in different ways.

Whether this is functionally the same as the model in my head, or some analog to it, or if such descriptions are merely cute but misleading anthropomorphisation, is far beyond my knowledge of neuroscience, psychology, and indeed machine learning.
> Social media is a very dangerous and addictive drug that is difficult to police. It should be heavily regulated as it's destroying society.

100% agree, but

> No grandstanding

It's definitely grandstanding. Even though they're right about social media, it's definitely grandstanding. A cause being just doesn't mean people aren't grandstanding about it. This is grandstanding because it's a public stunt that is very unlikely to bear any fruit besides bolstering the reputation of the people doing it.
What is terrible about the injections?

Do you also not believe you need car insurance because you haven't gotten in an accident and gotten sued over it yet?
There’s nothing wrong with one-time-use plastics, in countries with good waste management systems.

Paper straws suck.
BUGCHK was a fatal kernel exception on the old VAX/VMS operating system. Pretty amusing to see that it still lives on. Thanks, Dave Cutler.
For the non technical side, depending on the size and nature of your clients, you may want to consider certain compliance requirements. Such as GDPR, ISO, and SOC.
Does anyone think it will replace or reduce software developers work
I never meant cargo itself.
The ads would still be clickable. Clicking the actual results doesn't really help google much.
Good analysis. Obviously, this doesn't handle cases like redundancy and doesn't handle some of other critical workloads the company has. However, it does show how much real compute bloat these companies actually have - https://twitter.com/petrillic/status/1593686223717269504 where they use 24 million vcpus and spend 300 million a month on cloud.
That's true but I still get useful work out of the electricity to heat conversion. For example I turned off my heater the other day and upscaled a bunch of media on my computer, my room was quite toasty.
>What’s changed the least? The “boring” technology. Postgres and Redis required zero hijinks to keep running. Even Django itself caused very little trouble when I upgraded from Django 1.5 to Django 4.0 in June 2022 — I barely had to touch my Django views! Most of the Django changes were in configuration and routing, and the most difficult single thing was migrating ancient Django 1.5 session data to the modern Django 4.0 format so users wouldn’t get logged out during the migration.

The older I get, the more I appreciate the value of reliable and relatively unchanging software components. Not that there isn't a place for innovation, but there's also a place for good things that endure.