skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair criticism, the model right now truly favors replayable games. If a game sells for $20, it probably gets $10 after commissions and sales taxes. That's probably mean someone needs to play a game for a little under 2 months to earn the same on MagnaPlay, which should be the case as people on average play 5 games a year on Steam. Consider the extra revenue from players who wouldn't normally try out the game, and developers are probably earning more per player than on other platforms. This is still a bit hypothetical, so hopefully we can confirm this when we have more data!

But, to be fair you're right in that we still haven't figured out the best way to pay shorter games. Right now, the upside for them is more distribution. About the new launchers thing, it's a tricky problem to work around. We've thought about just using a website, but you run into issues with DRM implementation.
How do fund the tokens?
Still many people are delighted if you offer them a drawing you made specially for them or if someone handles his guitar and begins to play.
> I’ve never heard anyone complain about Netflix DRM

I'm still pretty salty that netflix doesn't stream in 4K HD in my browser because of DRM even though I'm paying for 4k.
I tend to agree in spirit, but I worry there's a real risk of a lemon market[1] situation.

If, for whatever reason, consumers of content are not immediately attuned to the difference between vacuous GPT-nonsense and something that would bring them value if they just thought hard enough, it might lead to an overall reduction of returns to thoughtful, high-quality content, even if that content is only momentarily over the head of the reader, but wouldn't be in the long run.

This obviously to the detriment of both the consumers and producers of content.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
Avian flu and antibiotics have nothing to do with each other. Influenza is a virus.
I read somewhere that Windows 95 has several such loops that have to patched to get it to run on modern CPUs.
Another 68000 system time related bug but completely different problem (former Apollo/Domain sysadmin here, which I became at one company because I was already doing their Unix sysadmin job. We had to periodically reset the system clocks on those):

''The bug apparently results from the high 32 bits of the clock data type
being declared as a 31 bit value instead of 32 bit in the pascal include
files. The reason for this is lost to history, but early pascal compilers
may have had problems with 32 bit unsigned numbers, possibly because the
early Motorola 68000 processor chips didn't have 32 bit unsigned multiply
operations.''

https://jim.rees.org/apollo-archive/date-bug
I once heard that in some countries you can just keep repeating "what" and they're legally bound to forward you to a human agent. Something about accessibility laws in case you don't know how to type numbers or can't understand what the voice wants (hearing aids or handicapped people)... Can't find the reference though.
In particular, the AI removed the scare quotes around approved. Assuming you intended them, that was a significant loss in nuance.
Notably, ChatGPT changed the meaning of what you said.

“Maybe you are trying to do the wrong thing with ChatGPT” vs “Perhaps you are using ChatGPT in the wrong way” are subtly but substantially different statements.

One implies the incorrect usage of the software, the other implies the software being used for the incorrect things.
This is very close to the plot of The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Highly recommend it if you'd like to see where this line of thinking could take us.
On the other hand, obesity is far less a problem in some countries, e.g. Japan, and they didn't get to where they are with drugs.
Seems like inflection point has been hit with tesla and EV industry. I remember not even that long ago tesla would try to drive sales by increasing prices and telling people to order before higher price goes into effect.
Aside: Anyone know of a thoughtful ~36 key layout similar to Miryoku but with less reliance on home row mods?

For those not familiar, to get down to this low number of keys, some layouts will place modifiers (ctrl, shift, alt, meta) as secondary actions (when the key is held down vs. tapped) on home row keys (asdf, jkl; on QWERTY). The problem is to distinguish a tap from a hold, there's a minimum delay before the key is sent, making it very annoying for fast typists as there may be visible input lag when hitting one of the home row keys.
Is it possible intelligent people are aware of these conditions and it may be causing them to choose a different path instead of practicing medicine?
If you notice who funded this article, then you would see the basis. 99% of scientists believes in whatever for whoever funded them.
It's getting increasingly clearer that Tesla won't be able to maintain both high margins and huge growth figures (despite the market believing they will be able to pull it off ,for some reason, because nothing else would have justified their extremely high valuation). So probably.
Twitter wasn't valuable enough to me BEFORE Elon bought it for me to put up with ads. It definitely isn't now.
I've only read two books of the Expanse, what I've read is a bit soft, but I would argue it is harder than TBP.

I think one key difference for me is that we are not told what the protomolecule is, so we can imagine it is some kind of massive DNA-like structure packed with enzymes and whatnot that can plow through biological material and reorganize it. That is a plausible start. Then, sure, it may overdo the capabilities a bit.

The sophon, though, we are told exactly what it is: it is a proton unfolded into a 2D plane on which a supercomputer is etched, which is able to configure itself in order to intercept and direct light, which is how it is able to spy on us and pull light tricks. The problem is that it is nonsensical from the start. If you can unfold a proton around a planet in such a way that it blocks all light, it is being bombarded by far more energy than it would be in a particle accelerator. It's like using paper origami to bounce asteroids, basically the same issue as the Expanse, except worse, and that's before we even get into the supercomputer stuff.

Still, point taken. The Expanse should probably not be classified as hard sci-fi either.
As an American, I couldn't agree with you more. I think it will have to come from outside the US (or perhaps some scrappy startup that isn't chasing VC funding in the US). A friend of mine in a big American tech company put it this way:

> Trump got elected through Facebook and Twitter, and we can't let that happen again. The common philosophical question of "if you could go back in time and stop Hitler from gaining power, would you?" is basically right now. Well we're back in time right now and it's our job to stop the Hitlers of the world from gaining power.
They're not becoming stupider, the culture of following protocols rather than understanding is a pre-scientific one. It certainly has benefits- predictable consistency, limited liability for doctors. Unfortunately, Dr. House style deep thinking in widely available medicine is legally impossible, and only a tiny percentage of the population is able to think that way.

I think this quote really sums up this issue, and it's history:

Knowledge isn’t a commodity, especially not a fungible commodity, as the medical business sees it. Consciousness and culture are part of the life process. It is exactly the commoditization of medical knowledge that makes it dangerous, and generally stupid. Doctors buy their knowledge, and then resell it over and over; it’s valuable as a commodity, so its value has to be protected by the equivalent of a copyright, the system of laws establishing the profession. Without its special status, its worthlessness would be quickly demonstrated. When A.C. Guyton wrote his textbook of medical physiology (the most widely used text in the world) in the 1950s, it was trash; as it was studied and applied by generations of physicians, it was still trash. The most compliant patients who bought their treatment from the most authoritative, Guytonesque, doctors were buying their own disability and death.

Each time you learn something, your consciousness becomes something different, and the questions you ask will be different; you don’t know what the next appropriate question will be when you haven’t assimilated the earlier answers. Until you see something as the answer to an urgent question, you can’t see that it has any value. The unexpected can’t be a commodity. When people buy professional knowledge they get what they pay for, a commodity in a system that sustains ignorance.

-Ray Peat [1]

[1] https://raypeatinsight.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/raypeat-inte...
And of course we must ask 'cui bono?' for this atrocity and the answer soon comes with the button for the free download of the minitool disk clone tool. Prime SEO work.
Sorry, I'm not going to write a whitepaper for you, you'll have to do that research yourself if that's a field you're interested in getting into. I already mentioned smart watches, but could be e-readers, e-ink tablets like Remarkable, diagnostic screens, etc.
Apropos automated approval of "tone". The company I work for now has a policy that documents must not use any "potentially biased" terms (e.g. "whitelist" or "master"). We now have automated agents that do simple search-and-replace (e.g. s/whitelist/allowlist/) over our internal Wiki pages. With no intention of debating the value or politics of such a policy, I wonder whether anyone is contemplating employing ChatGPT for more pervasive automated tone-control.
It's encouraging to see so many new volunteers signing up to help maintain and test the stable branch!
I bet if you're interested in reading comments about this story on HN, you'd appreciate reading hundreds of comments in four past threads. I don't understand the purpose in discouraging people from posting them. When dang does it, is it because he's karma-whoring?
So you can barely afford your own needs and have no savings, but you decide to have a child?.. No offense, I'm just curious about your thinking and priorities.
Tesla actually did give model 3 performance owners in 2018 the option of getting a check for $5k after they made the performance upgrade option free. The only downside was you would lose your free supercharging for life. But that was back before Elon was a massive d-bag.
I don't really think the government needs to be subsidizing cars for the wealthy. Or encouraging bad purchasing decisions for the less than wealthy.
This is a really bad take.

1. Creativity can be achieved at faster speeds than humans can consume.
2. We have no evidence to say AI and the techniques behind it wont keep improving (there are already so many low hanging fruits, alot of it is infra problems and the other half that we can't even imagine can probably be solved by AI better than humans can)
No, other administrations have some humility.
Yeah, this is closer to the mark for me. It's been some years since I worked at Twitter, but if I had been suddenly made CEO, I wouldn't have gone on a mass firing spree. I would have tried to figure out how to more effectively use the people that Twitter had. As with many big companies, I suspect the problem is much more bad management than bad workers.
Narrative violation: className and friends are NOT a React thing! They are a standard DOM property!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cla...

The only "debatable" thing that React does is to use the names from the JS API in JSX (where some people would expect names from the HTML API because JSX looks like HTML)
To listen to a good diss at David Brooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVa_j9QM2fE
Remember OpenAI's original mission statement?

> OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.

Let's just say that their goals have obviously changed.

edit: As with SBF, longtermism provides an excellent cover.

Source: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/
North Korean hackers exploited Seoul Halloween tragedy to distribute malware
I believe the animals are given antibiotics to make them grow faster. I don’t know what the mechanism of action is for that though.
Agile is like capitalism at times.
Yes, it's illegal if you openly say "Asians need not apply" but it's fine if you dress it up in the language of diversity and refuse to say how you actually get there. Even though the actual effects are the same either way. And so you get exactly what the professor describes.
> In the US the entry-level version of its Model Y now costs $52,990

This is still more than the top level trim of the VW ID.4, and comparable to the top level trim of the Ioniq 5 and EV6. Of course the range is still better on the Teslas.

However, there is a greater realization that for day to day driving 250 miles of range is sufficient, especially if you can charge at home.

For multi car households (common in the US), you can also have a secondary gas car for long road trips.

Nonetheless, a price war for EVs is good for their adoption, and hopefully also drives down used EV prices too.
I’m not talking about LLM feedback loops (that is a problem but a different one. Honestly LLMs slurping up low effort human produced SEO docs is just as bad.)

This issue is more about the value of search finding ‘documents’ when ‘documents’ are thin layers of low-value-add LLM cruft over raw factual data.

The facts are what you’re searching for; search indexing has always involved trying to figure out the underlying informational content of a document; LLM prettification is just adding obfuscation over that data that search indexers then have to try to remove.

There has to be a more efficient way for a website to say ‘we have all the earnings data for every US public company’ without them having to dress that up in LLM prettification that google’s language model can index.
Sinkhole Shuts Down Highway 92 in San Mateo County Indefinitely
>It's a constant fight to make sure legibility efforts aren't being used to hoard power for personal gain.

At some point in the chain of command, it is always for personal gain. It might be the shareholder at the top, or it might be a middle manager further down the line
Yes! Web stacks have grown too convoluted and round-about. I used to do what's now called "full stack development" for small and medium applications. But that's almost impossible to do well and efficiently because web stacks shot YAGNI and KISS bloody dead. It now often takes layer specialist to do it well. Some say we have to burn what desktop IDE's did well to get HTTP-based apps, but I haven't seen any solid proof they are mutually exclusive. It just needs more R&D.

We need new web UI standards that are CRUD-friendly. Social media and e-commerce have been wagging the web UI dog, but CRUD matters: it's not sexy, but runs the world. Standards improvements or addition possibilities include a state-ful GUI markup language (sort of like the best of YAML, XUL, & QML), and/or do something like Java Applets correctly, learning from security and version/package-management mistakes of the past.

Similar opinion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/r59nzr/i_regret_goi...
5k soldiers to guard Davos elites against protesters
> It's a car; a depreciating asset.

Sure, but cutting prices 20% on new ones means your asset you bought last week just depreciated substantially faster than planned.
It's also been known to happen with Common Lisp and Scheme.
We can go bigger.

> Provide a blow-by-blow commentary of a t-rex fighting a bulldozer as if you were a WWE commentator. Write breathlessly, as if you love this fight.

>> Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the main event of the evening! It's a match-up for the ages, as we have the king of the dinosaurs, the T-Rex, going head to head against the ultimate construction machine, the bulldozer! /snip

>> The two collide in a massive explosion of dust and debris, and the crowd goes wild! The T-Rex is using its jaws to try and take down the bulldozer, but the machine is pushing forward, trying to use its blade to slice through the T-Rex's thick hide. /snip

>> In the end, it's the T-Rex who emerges victorious, as he sinks his jaws into the bulldozer's engine and tears it apart. The crowd goes wild as the T-Rex roars in triumph, and the machine lies in ruins at his feet.

5 year old me would be SO excited reading this.
I have observed subtitles with mistakes that change the meaning to the exact opposite! On a video about the supply lines of components for a particular approach to fusion. Single word change which meant the CEO was saying his company wouldn't work. Are you sure you don't want to throw the navy out with the bathwater?
It comes down to the strawman fallacy. If a specific claim is made that can be refuted, that's science. If you just hand wave away huge chunks of philosophy and literature based on a specific claim that someone made, or that you stand up for the purpose of discussion, then you are impoverishing human culture.

Maybe you should read ancient Greek mythology before saying 'Zeus is bunk'. Is there a specific claim about reality you are referring to? Or are you saying all of ancient Greek texts about Zeus have zero philosophical value?
> If you bought a Tesla, I'm especially sorry.

Drove a Tesla for ~10 years. What a disaster of a vehicle to own. Great delight to drive, huge headache owning it.
I don't see how your wife's unreasonable work schedule is supposed to make me feel better about the poor quality of health care I receive. If anything, it makes me question her judgement more, that's just not healthy. How are unhealthy people supposed to educate people on health?
I have no strong opinion on what the policy should be, but I think there's no excuse for allowing the stated policy to get so far out of sync with the actual policy.

That is, I think the stable-release maintainers should update Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst so that it tells the truth.

(I think this is about normal stable kernels, not 'longterm' ones. I don't think 6.0 was expected to become the next LTS release.)
Society was awash in music for centuries before recording and radio.
what's wrong with jQuery?
GPT3 DaVinci has a context window of 2048 tokens. ChatGPT seems to have a context window of 8192 tokens (from testing how far back it can remember).

To me, that suggests the model is probably at least 4x larger, possibly 16x (a bunch of layers scale with the square of the window size).

Obviously, other bits of the model design may have changed to reduce parameter count.
My daughter’s high school, like plenty of schools in the UK, US and EU, is full of 13 year old boys who think Andrew Tate (YouTube advocate of wife beating currently on trial for rape and sex trafficking) is innocent and a cool dude to boot. Parents mostly have no idea who he is and no time to really find out what their kids are looking at on the internet and not enough technical knowledge to restrict it. TBH if the law said that the default ISP config pointed you to a DNS that blocked the shite that is piped into the heads of children who are too young and stupid to step back and reason about or question what they are shown, I would be happy with that as long as the law says you have inviolable right to change the config to allow the mind filth in if you want it.
My main concern isn't whether ChatGPT will kill off anything, like journalism. Instead, my concern is that this will create a Internet-wide echo chamber.

I've seen what happens when an individual human enter a delusional feedback loop and diverge from reality, that pivotal moment when sensemaking becomes self-referential. They get a psychotic break. I think we're going to get front-row seats at watching a whole, planet-spanning civilization enter a psychotic break.

Arguably, we are already there. It's just that, I think deploying ChatGPT will greatly accelerate this. This won't just be fringe or extreme subcultures, but rather, the mainstream cultures, as our sensemaking turns inwards.
Yep. And it was a genuine search, I'm messing with an old macbook white that only has (finnicky) sata, i've been told the bx and mx will definitely work with it and I was trying to decide which one to get. I did find my answer, but at the end of the first search results page on a ... reddit thread. This was duckduckgo btw.

Edit: seriously, doesn't it sound exactly like ChatGPT articles?
Given a choose between faster onsets of more antibiotic resistant bacteria and a higher price of meat, I think a smart policy choice would be the latter, as the former disaster seems a lot harder to manage then the latter.

But maybe this is why I’m not a politician.
Absorbing information through your audio input while the visual input is busy with a mindless task is amazing. You can listen to an article or an audiobook while doing laundry.
This is precisely why I still wear an N95 mask outside of our household - we need decades to learn about a meaningful part of the damage SARS-CoV-2 does to us. A lot of people still consider this to be a form of the seasonal flu, but it's a totally different thing, and the excess deaths are just an early indication that we should be more careful with it. Some blame vaccines for them, it's an acceptable hypothesis, of course, but I doubt it's only that. Having a reinfection every other month is not something we get with the flu!
I've been rewatching some Star Trek Voyager on paramount+ and there is no way a person did all the subtitles. It's like 98% accurate, I'll give it that. But there are enough glaring mistakes that there's just no way a person would have made those kind of mistakes and also they are easily catchable if a single person were to proofread.
The nice thing about a credit card rewards program is that it requires zero mental effort. Some people like spending more effort to do churning or whatever, but I make the same computation in that case and conclude that the extra money isn't worth my time.
A friend just ordered a Model Y a couple days ago and apparently got 20% refunded.
I recently read a story where engineers faced similar situation. They decided to migrate their PHP backend to PostGreSQL database https://habr.com/ru/company/lingualeo/blog/515530/
The Model Y was approaching premium car prices without the premium interior. In 2020, they were hovering at $50k but when the pandemic started they raised the price practically every week. If you’ve driven an Audi, BMW, Mercedes you kind of know what to expect and where the luxury price comes from. Except the Model S I never got the impression the 3 and Y were worth that price Tesla was charging. And I think the market made that determination as well. It’s great technology but 60x $1000 car payments is still a big commitment for a lot of people. There just aren’t that many buyers in that class.
We could offer more stuff on top of the distributed subscriptions. But, we're not going to be changing our model without letting developers know. I'm pretty sure we'd be committing some kind of fraud.
Renewables currently cannot power "the majority" of the power grid. We don't have the battery (or storage) tech to make it true so that the grid can be stable and reliable without blackouts all the time, and not all areas of the world have the wind/solar they need even we did have cheap dependable massive battery (or storage) structures. Sure it can be achieved in some places with hydro pumping but that certainly isn't true in 90% of the cases. If we want to nip climate change in the bud -now- nuclear is the only chance we have.
I always feel uneasy about flywheels. While batteries can be potential fire hazards, flywheels are potential bombs.
Right but I meant as a job, not test scores.

I got a perfect score on english sat, math sat, physics sat, etc. doesn't mean I'm looking at all of those things as jobs.