skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating... so we see the CMB, got it. I wonder if someone could take what seems like the random pattern of the CMB and reverse it into some vision of the BB..
I didn’t find this to be “shock media”, and the culmination of the article isn’t “you’re all wrong”, but “we should start a foundation to examine this in more detail”.

Basically: “here’s my idea that might sound crazy, but there might be some reasons to explore it in more depth”.

The attitude that “it goes against the grain so I won’t even consider it” seems problematic though when the subject is one that we still know very little about.
It's pretty widespread on tiktok in the student circles I'm in...

And the fact openAI is still struggling to handle the load in peak hours 2 months after launch tells me they must be seeing pretty big user growth.
> There are probably hundreds if not thousands of bugs in the old code. Just because they haven't been found yet doesn't mean they're not there.

Most definitely! But how many bugs were in the code that are no longer there? And how does the relative severity compare between new bugs and old bugs?

When considering a rewrite, the question isn't whether there are latent bugs, the question is whether fixing those bugs is worth the regressions that will likely be introduced (not to mention the cost).
I would like to see a ChatGPT with custom user exits at every step of the processing pipeline from prompt to result.

That's what would make a Professional ("Professional" sounds very Windowsy btw) version a very interesting product. It would really allow you to customize the input/output formats (ie. the current table rendering format, code excerpts, etc.) through an API and be able to plug it into product wrappers for every domain out there.

Also, model augmentation of some sort would also be of value. So that I could train additional (better or more relevant) chat responses based on my own input data. I don't know if that is doable though. My experience augmenting models without retraining the entire network has not been very successful.
> if precedent wasn’t a thing

It's the size of Google that I feel makes it lose rights. When you are a giant you should lose to compensate for all the power you have as a consequence to the natural accumulation of power. So that Google should pay, doesn't follow that a small start-up should. Unfortunately, the laws are not written that way.
Thanks for the advice. Will add Dark Forest to my queue.
Google says India antitrust order poses threat to national security
Is OpenAI looking to break even and use ChatGPT as a loss-leader for other services or will they position ChatGPT as their cash cow for the near-future? Pricing a powerful product like this is tough, especially since it's only a matter of time before competitors join the market. Per-token pricing doesn't seem viable for ChatGPT.
Well, if your goal is information does the provenance being a machine matter? Quality here I assume means more detailed and better written with more nuance. For most of my knowledge seeking searches I don’t care much who wrote it and more whether I gain the knowledge I seek
Also let's not forget that as a whole shareholders are absolute monsters.
But there are very limited places you can put that. It needs a suitably shaped mountain.
> A CCGT is about 60% efficient

Depends exactly where you live, but it's unlikely that all the gas generation is by CCGT; a lot of places would use far less efficient plants for peaking at least.

> and an induction stove is about 3x as efficient as a gas stove

Hmm, where are you getting this? From a quick look, gas stoves are about 40-50% efficient, induction about 85%.

You also have to consider transmission loss, and the possible (in many places likely) presence of coal in the electricity supply.

In any case this is all pretty irrelevant; stoves just aren't a big enough piece of peoples' energy consumption.
My son asked if which of two animals would win in a fight and we just got a lecture about how fighting is bad.

I hope they’ll give an option to turn off what I’m calling “hall monitor mode”

That could be worth paying for.
If that's actually the case, that sounds like a winning investment strategy: acquirers typically pay a premium.

Every round of whack-a-mole is a transfer of wealth from the oil companies to your parents. They should be happy!
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Good article. A lot of this boils down to: you want to be the author/creator/owner of as many docs as possible. Even docs that are a collaborative effort.
How is that impressive? Right now he has the potential to earn, and invest, 10's of millions of dollars that he can give away. Probably even make a self-sustaining endowment that can benefit people for many many years.
The fast fashion debate is similar to this. People who are against it say that it's environmental unsustainable and expensive to buy new clothes more frequently. People who like fast fashion respond that it's only rich people who have the luxury to buy durable, high quality clothing that lasts more than a season.

The pro fast fashion argument is that they have no choice. The reality is likely that they just like buying new clothes from these stores more frequently and can easily come up with a justification.
Coming this year: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/the-three-body-problem...
Worth checking your browser cache maybe...
It's not just an "associational study" because there is a clear proposed mechanism, in this case the known affect of nitrogen oxides on lungs.

A correlation plus a well-understood mechanism isn't simply a correlation, it's evidence of a hypothesis.
I 'borrowed' the (ten year old) daughter of a friend and sat her down in front of ChatGPT to see what would happen, proposing she ask for help with her homework.

And yes, the first thing she did was see if it could literally answer it for her. It did. However, once that was done with she proceeded to massively expand the scope of the original homework... I've rarely seen anyone her age as enthused with learning, they're usually already tired of school.

Yes, I was standing by to fact-check it, but it didn't actually make any mistakes. Which is a little unfortunate, I guess... I'd been planning to stress the importance of cross-checking. Oh well. It generally seems to get everything right at the level of questioning children are usually capable of.

(Half an hour later she was asking it why water expands when it freezes. Fifteen minutes after that we were reading a wikipedia article on molecular physics... I dare say this was a productive evening.)

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I think ChatGPT is an incredible resource for learning, and trying to keep it out of schools is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It does better at teaching than the teachers often manage.
This is https://github.com/jart/blink , not https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/thir... btw
Yeah, I'd need to find a way to integrate ChatGPT more into my life, right now it's just a fun toy I occasionally try. Now if it had an API and people could build apps/plugins with it (and I just login with my ChatGPT account) then I'd be interested.

CoPilot has provided me amazing value for the a tiny price. It's to the point that for anything even resembling boilerplate/obvious code I just expect it will get it right (the exact way I would have written it). The other day I was using CodeRunner (a little tool to run/test snippets of code in various languages, it's not perfect but it's a nice little playground that runs locally) and I was just staring at the screen wondering why it wasn't auto-completing the line before I realized "Oh, I don't have CoPilot here", I've come to depend/expect it's output, to "trust" it such that when it's not there I feel the loss. Same way I wish I had multiple cursors in every app/webapp like I do in my IDE.
I use Tweetbot for timeline sync and mainly browse my curated lists

Twitter would be unusable for me without this feature
My son's (he's 17) peers are all using it for homework at school. Agree on the wild ride though. This is like the advent of the electronic calculator on maths study, but the difference here is everyone has got it at once.
I put $10-20, but I'd honestly probably go a little higher than that. That's less a function of ChatGPT's utility (it's great for some things but not enough to be a huge timesaver) and more of the fact that I think it's neat. Given my finances, something like $25/month isn't going to have any noticeable impact, so that seems like a reasonable price to pay for a fun toy that reminds me that we're living in the future.
I think I'd lean more towards the latter than the former, the translator (Ken Liu) is a very gifted writer in his own rights.
Canada could gain 4.2M km2 of agricultural land as a result of climate change
Everything you mentioned is a result of decades of unjustified paranoia and stigma building. There are much more dangerous things right outside your home and plenty currently inside it but no one has bothered to terrorize you about them so you don't care.
I would pay for a Premium ChatGPT only if it comes with disabled watermarking. Otherwise, I'll use something else.
I think virus fear is all tapped out at this point.
My son is 7 years and he routinely asks me "why learn anything when you can just ask Google?". I can only imagine the impact this will have on that attitude over time.
I couldn't agree more with the first sentence and disagree more with the last one.
> When I "program", 95% of what I do is read documentation and other technical resources

That's very off from my work. For me, it's the opposite: 95% is writing code, navigating code, testing code or doing stuff in the shell. Reading documentation usually makes only a small amount. And even then, writing notes makes a good part of it too.

> conceptualize what I want to happen, and construct the corresponding logic flow, while trying to anticipate potential problems and corner cases.

I can also do that while typing. Mindgears are no reason to stop typing.
> realistically it's functionally no different than a credit card.

> There are real issues with BNPL, mostly extremely loose underwriting in the pursuit of growth.

It's a cc with bad underwriting...

You don't see this as a fundamental problem?

This doesn't seem much different to me than other sub-prime bubbles...
Looks really great! I love tools that work in the terminal.

I used asciichart in my mortgage-and-investments script for the terminal (shows a nice graph).

https://github.com/whyboris/mortgage-and-investments <-- screenshot there

https://github.com/kroitor/asciichart <-- the library I used
It's called trait conscientiousness.
> The null hypothesis here is that your rent controlled (or stabilized) landlord is worse than your average New York landlord, which is debatable!

It's not. The problem is that if you have a market-rate apartment and your landlord is an asshole, you can move.
If released in the right way, this will have a huge benefit for education.

Students will have to focus on the innovative ideas and concepts. Wordsmithing is annoying and not really productive work. A machine should to it.

Sure teachers have to adapt and redesign courses.
> But the standard row-stagger is asymmetrical; the way a hand types with the left hand is not mirrored by the right hand.

How is it asymmetrical? Unless you consider the right hand typing on the numpad/cursor keys.
I don’t think that our current problems come from the failings of our voting methods, but rather from a lack of political vision of what we want to achieve. Citing Adam Curtis’ “HyperNormalisation”, 2016, at 2:19:12:

> And the other revolutions were also failing.

> The Occupy camps had become trapped in endless meetings and it became clear that there was a terrible confusion at the heart of the movement.

> The radicals had believed that if they could create a new way of organizing people, then a new society would emerge.

> But what they did not have was a picture of what that society would be like, a vision of the future.

> The truth was that their revolution was not about an idea, it was about how you manage things.

> And those who had started the revolution in Egypt came face to face with the same terrible fact: social media had helped to bring people together in Tahir square, but once there the Internet gave no clue as to what kind of new society they could create in Egypt.

> The movement stalled, and a group that did have a powerful idea, the Muslim Brotherhood, rushed in to fill the vacuum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLgkQBFTPw&t=8345s
I never liked airline as I felt it was too busy and I like customizing my own statusline, though you've piqued my interest with how they deal with tabs. I actually like vim's tabs just as they are--I mostly need better mapping for manipulating them. I'm otherwise a dual-split-with-a-mark-or-two person.
These models are adjusted to match cultural norms/expectations/values. China has that as well, maybe different, but it’s not a neutral blank sheet (obvious examples being anything that contradicts CCP).

On your first point: I believe there is more to that than the pressure from the loud CJW minority. Almost everyone on the US political spectrum has ethical norms and values that would repudiate a completely free creative expression, especially by a non-sentient system.
Is Western CO2 worse than Eastern CO2 somehow?
Love it. Now I just need to find some cereals that put whistles in their boxes.
I don't want to live in a world where I'm tricked into reading things that were not directly created by other humans; I don't want to consume AI-generated or AI-infused content. Day by day, we're getting siloed by technology alienating us from the essential things that make us humans, like having meaningful interactions with others.
> One can try to get away with very few keys ... The first thing I added was two columns on the right side that kinda just bring back the punctuation

I'd say if you look at a layout like miryoku https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku .. in miryoku, the [] keys are one row up from home row, accessed on a layer. Whereas, putting [] on outer columns, your hand has to move and reach over two rows.

That is, I'd emphasise layering brings more keys to within easy access of the fingers (at the cost of added complexity to use the keyboard, - which not everyone has the taste for).
This is how it works in Firefox for me, too.
Assuming we're limiting our scope to the modern American public school system this won't help, at least where I'm located. Teachers are required to have Masters degrees and are paid within the range for a part time cashier at Lowe's[1]. We aren't going to fix this system until that changes; when we're paying that badly we're going to get the worst of what's left.

[1] Sourced the salary for teachers near me from Google's linked data. Sourced the Lowe's part time cashier range from an actual job listing in my area.

Edit: fixed footnote, sentence fragment.
If we were talking in 1923, you would have told me coal was the most common.

The world is allowed to change with new data and new technology.

Not exactly certain of the history, but embracing natural gas after WW2 and through the 1950s was an easy choice for most Americans.

I imagine, someday, the world will change again.
Assuming it doesn't have the limitations it has right now, and it becomes more reliable, I put in $4 for too low, $400 for too high, $250 for would consider, $50 for bargain.

You have to know how to use it, but if you do, then it easily is far less expensive than the alternative. However, at $400+/mo, it starts to be worth it to just use gpt directly and write your own chatbot.
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I like this XKCD and I think about it a lot, in a “is it really worth my time to do this?” kind of way.

One thing the time-based framework doesn’t account for is the mental energy you could save.

A small example: I sell a software product, and every now and then someone would ask for an invoice. So I’d have to look up the order, copy an ID and an email, make a PDF, and email it over. Was it hard? No, it took 2 minutes. But I loathed doing it.

So I wrote a little invoice page that looks up their order and let’s them put in whatever info they need, and generates a PDF. It took a day or two. I’m 99% sure this will never ever pay off in terms of time savings, but it gives me great joy to know that I will never have to do that energy-sapping task again.
I think CUE looks great, but right now it's losing because it can only be installed as a package for Go, MacOS and Arch.
Yeah, homework was designed as a way to make self study monitoring and verification scalable. It's not a bad solution but if the availability of AI makes it hard to control that someone has done their homework instead of giving it to an AI, then you have to look for alternatives.

Thankfully, in such a world, AI is available to the "teacher" side as well and can serve as a way to both check that the student is doing their job and also to answer their questions, like a personalized teacher of sorts.
Easy explanation guide on why you need to have a DKIM signature.
That seems worth worrying about, yes.
Except you need an iPhone for that.
So instead of having a few European companies offering DNS resolvers for the EU under documented rules, this article argues its better to leave this to a few US companies that have effectively zero rules to follow?
Beyond Good Intentions: The Need for Error Correction in Effective Altruism
Yeah, most people who use large companies as examples also conveniently forget that these companies had to build tools to manage the system.
I don't think you make a convincing argument. Anecdotally, I've only ever used Affirm when they offer me 0% interest. Paying 26% or more for a soundbar over six months is not attractive.
It is a five alarm fire at every university I have a line into. As in, “it’s time to radically rethink your entire course” kind of fire.

I don’t think it’s bad, per se, but ChatGPT has effectively made it pointless to do certain kinds of assignments now.

A lot of professors have been teaching the same way for many years. It’s a reckoning.
thank you for those names, ive added to my watchlist.

could be a good story to write up, i think the people who do the hard work behind all the datasets dont get any of the glory of the ML models that get built on top of it
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What do you think about ChatGPT?
I suppose you also disapprove of wearing jewelry, makeup, clothing in any color other than black, or anything else that "compensates for lack of personality"? :-)
Social media, to me, is groups. Different groups that I associate with. There's family. There's close friends. There's youth sports, which I'm actively involved in. There's funny "I know what I have" groups, poking fun at people wanting way too much money for things.

It is what you make of it. If you make $16/hr and you follow people who post short videos from their yacht, you're gonna have a bad time. If you drive a 1991 Ford Taurus and you follow people who have $4M in vehicles, you're going to have a bad time. If you can't fucking stand your Aunt Suzy with her hot takes, yet you have her listed as a close relative, you're going to have a bad time.

If you coach youth sports and you follow a few local area to fringe area groups, you will find camps/clinics/tournaments, keep up to date in the goings on, and have a good time. If you enjoy working on cars and you follow a few groups related to tips and tricks in that genre, you'll have a good time. If you really want to get into gardening, but don't think you can do it yourself, you can find a local group that does stuff in various community gardens, which will give you a push (in either direction) to help your curiosity about gardening.
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I think showing those previous conversations is a much harder job than it appears... There is an architectural problem. I described the issue here:[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34337575
Thanks for the link, just installed and it brings back "tabs" that are connected to the content instead of the disconnected buttons.

I do find the contrast slightly low between active and inactive tabs on macOS in dark mode, using the "original" profile, but I'm sure this is easy to tweak.

For all its faults, Safari in compact mode/dark mode does get the active/inactive tabs contrast right, although it's obviously fairly subjective.
If they accurately predicted the state of the 2020s climate in the 1970s, the government scientists should be embarrassed.
Do you challenge him with simple questions like "How do you know the answer you get from Google is true?"
When done correctly, the underwriting is actually significantly better as it's done on a per-transaction basis, incorporating the item itself (ring purchases are significantly more risky to finance than sneaker purchases). You can also incrementally dole out a credit limit, rather than giving someone a $10k threshold upfront without any veto power over how they use that amount.

That being said, there are a ton of hucksters in the industry and I suspect we'll see most of them wash out in the next few years :)
This is how I feel about the whole argument against minimum wage increases. Can't figure out a way to pay your employees a living wage and stay in business? Close your business and good riddance, I don't care if you employ 10 people or 10,000.
The space elevator. Ah yes, famously introduced in Liu Cixin's The Dark Forest.
All keyboard should have volume wheels. I couldn't live without one now.

The ones oriented like a mouse wheel, but wide (as opposed to the ones sitting like a volume knob on a mixer) are very natural to use and unobtrusive.
This sounds fascinating, would love to hear more?
In the last decade credit rampage has spread in Europe too, I still remember not long ago where the idea of buying things in installments seemed crazy to the average Italian. The only thing that gets a pass is a mortgage.

But buying a phone or computer in installments? How does that make sense?

You can't afford it, end of story.

I'm also not used to pay interests on my credit card, if I spend 1000 euros, at the end of the month takes away 1000 from my account and that's the end of story. Why would I pay interests on my daily finances, sounds crazy and a recipe for always having to worry about money.
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> “However, ever since the chatbot has come into action, it has been negatively impacting students' learning.”

Aka welp students prefer to learn from ChatGPT rather than our teachers who have poor knowledge transfer skills.

I've been using ChatGPT daily and it is an incredible tool. I feel that I learned so much more through that time than if I had to use Google and books.
Direct link to the survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCVqahRmA5OxQXbRln...

And a cache of the survey:

https://archive.ph/T1Pyi
Gabe Newell, CEO of Steam, once said that "Piracy" is a Service Problem. If an Illicit Downloader has your Software for Free, then they must become interested in Paying to Install Updates, or to Pay for a License to Access a Web Resource.

This actually happened to me with NieR: Automata. I downloaded it for free, played for 60 Hours, then discovered that the CREDITS were a playable minigame which was not feasible to beat alone, requiring Network Connectivity to gain helping partners. These just being basic AI named after other players' save files.

So then 2 years later I BOUGHT Automata, played another 50 hours or so, and finally beat the Credits :) Then bought some DLC so my friend could experience it with Steam Share through my account...
What have you accomplished in your 20 years in the industry, out of curiosity?