skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably hasn't been addressed because user experience is depressingly low priority for microsoft...

And i wonder if you could actually convince them that letting the start menu hang while a report gets uploaded is actually a bug, rather than a valued feature.
some academics rendering themselves increasingly irrelevant
You're missing out the fact that OP listed those because he wanted it to spell YOMAMA and not because he thinks those companies are FAANG worthy.
Thinking of hiring or running a booter service? Think again
I'm unconvinced (but I'm also not the target audience as I'm not an academic).

The hype is, in large part, real to me. GPTs, but also Whisper or Stable Diffusion/DALLE solve real problems, way better than previous tools could.
Well, when it comes to propane and propane axcessories . . .

I've been known to have an accessory or two.

Actually, one year in the lab I analyzed and certified all of the propane exported from the USA.

Single handedly.

No place else but Texas.

More recently I have seen some renewable propane produced in laboratory quantities but it's still going to take some time and good fortune for it to be available at the kind of scale where it can be economically purified like they do at regular oil companies, so people can fill up their barbecue tanks.

Now that was in Louisiana where they've got lots of gas too.
Typing is easier for most humans than writing, and it's not like writing is any less artificial.
My favorite part of OpenAI chat is that there are no videos, no popups asking me to sign up for a newsletter, no warnings to enable cookies, no hiding content behind interstitial ads on scroll.

I will gladly pay good money for a web experience and API that just answers my questions.
To be sure, if you're experiencing pain you need to see a doctor, and explicitly this is stuff that worked for me that people might try but is not a prescription. I guess what I'm trying to do is encourage people to research ergonomics and experiment with their setup before they experience pain. If you type with bad habits & bad ergonomics for 40 hours a week, it's likely that you will end up in trouble eventually, no?

I just feel like this is a huge missing stair, not only in our industry but in life in general (I've met people who've had similar issues playing piano, using a cash register, and playing guitar), and I try not to overstate how much I know about it, but I also want to let people know it is something they should pay attention to. When the opportunity presents itself I try to give people the warning I wish I'd had.
Can confirm that start menu random lag happens on Windows 11 too.

I don't know if this is a good solution but I keep shortcuts to my most used programs on desktop. I don't necessarily click on them to open the apps, but if I hit Windows key, the text completion is faster for those shortcuts on desktop.
It’s not capitalism, it’s society. The problem wasn’t twitter, the tech or the company, but the way it was used and consumed. The same actors with the same audience will have the same effect on Mastodon. Only this time there won’t be someone to moderate.
I’d be interested to hear more. It was surprising to hear of Andrej leaving.
> MAD is a terrible strategy, and I dont think our Nuclear weapons serve the function many believe they do.

What do you propose as an alternative? Mutual disarmament?

Once you have nuclear weapons, there’s no reason whatsoever to EVER give them up.
You and I may have read the article somewhat differently. I felt his concluding example was out of harmony with the article, and much more similar to what you're saying. But his early argument was largely that it's OK for a French press to be done. That it's okay, and even good, for a French press to just be a French press. It doesn't mean you can't go buy Seinfeld on blu-ray, it just means that Seinfeld is done.

Instead many commercial ventures that make a metaphorical French press instead insist on trying "expand" that French press. Next thing you know it has self insulation, then a new fancy self-plunging pneumatic plunger, and then it becomes an online service, and why not connect your new French process to your friends' French presses, and now your French press has streaming video, now in 4k!, and so on endlessly.

At some point you just want your French press back. The examples of this in software are endless especially with endless efforts to turn everything into a service to try to extract rent. And the exact same is also happening in the machine world. Note the recent big news about farmers now being "granted" the right to repair their own tractors - just like they had 20 years ago. Things often become worse over time when companies refuse to just let them be done, but our economic system poses a major deterrence to ever finishing anything.
Why do you think the sort of provider that offers $5 VPSes is more trustworthy than Tailscale?
> 2. It's the humans quitting, not the machinery.

Is not as true as you think, the common reasons for software to "die":

1. The platform is not made anymore - we use different processors, hard-drives. A hard drive fails and a replacement can't be bought, or a PSU blows and the motherboard/processor are irrevocably damaged.

2. The software production infrastructure disappears - some core library updates, some set of dependent dependencies cannot be (easily) rebuilt.

Software (MMOs in particular) can also die for social reasons, or manufactured ones (Windows discontinuing Pinball in newer OS versions). I would argue though, although some humans are doing some quitting (not supporting, trashing something early), for those downstream, it is as if the machinery had started quitting.

Humans abandoning useful tools is fairly rare, evidenced even in recent memory with users of Adobe CS2/CS3 still running their (legally purchased) software even as Adobe sends out unlawful and libelous letters/emails...
In my country, under our consumer protection laws, a consumer has a right to rely on all representations made by a retailer or manufacturer.

So if you represent your car as "full self driving", and then it causes an eight car pile-up, then it's very much the fault of the retailer or manufacturer.

Doesn't matter if you popped up a EULA with multiple disclaimers on the car's touchscreen, if you sold it as "full self driving", and it ain't, you're on the hook.

So why is Tesla not yet on the hook?
You can show people who don't understand it how it just produces statistical word salad, and it is not an "intelligence" by any reasonable definition. An easy way to do this is to ask to to do a simple math problem and it will give the wrong answer. Another easy way is to ask it something where a SME would easily see the errors. For example if you have a friend who is a doctor give it some medical questions and they'll probably see lots of errors. Same for a lawyer, or a farmer, or whatever. Essentially do whatever you can to counter OpenAI's lies and hype.
> The early ones from ten years ago had no battery management systems

I think you misunderstand what a battery management system is. If a Li-Ion battery had no BMS -- especially one that is large, high power, and composed of many cells, it would literally be an incendiary bomb if not carefully managed by the user. The BMS is responsible for maintaining the cells -- they must be equalized and cannot go below or above certain voltages, and the charge controller is not the unit responsible for doing this while the pack is in use.

By claiming that there were no battery management systems in earlier EVs you are showing ignorance about the workings of these systems to the point where it is difficult to trust the other things you say. What is your background for this knowledge? Can you provide references to your claims?
Could the Akutagawa Prize get its first American winner?
Meanwhile, an Amiga with a half meg of RAM and a 7 to 25 MHz processor never fails to respond instantly to user input unless it's totally hosed.

We seem to have forgotten this very fundamental principle: the user's desires, expressed through input, are paramount for a desktop OS, which means that the OS must be designed from the ground up to respond to input at a very high priority. Mainframe operating systems like Unix (incl. Linux) and NT do not have this critical bit of forethought. Haiku probably does, and I think macOS might, especially on Apple Silicon.
Congratulations !

A documented, opiniated, non-hype biased post about AIs. I've lived the 80's AI hype wave and the fall that followed. AFAICT we're on the same train here.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" (Arthur C Clarke) and we're waiting for the masses to recognize what magic sparkles are : dust (ok, weighted barycenters of a huge database)

Side note : I often wonder how *GPT can deal with self-reference, like "What would you think of you if you were me ?" or "tell me something you were not programmed to think is plausible"
There are even Pokémon themed lids!

https://local.pokemon.jp/en/manhole/
> The runways may have changed numbers (I’m not sure how to confirm this)

Runways and named by taking the degrees from magnetic north and dropping the last digit. Parallel runways will be designated (for example) 31L(eft) 31C(enter) 31R(right).

You'd need to rotate the runway to rename it.
Butlerian Jihad?
Intial GTM Hiring for B2B Startups
Other than the lack of library/tools comparable to Python (hence projects like this one), why not?
AI doesn't have opinions.
I AGREE! I find those cinnamon pinecones to be alarmingly bad, like bad to the extent that it makes me question the owner’s sanity. I think the appropriate response is to organize some sort of intervention with their close friends and family. XD
Matz poisoned the well once sorbet was gaining traction by releasing a nearly useless competitor (RBS) and refusing to allow any interop.
So, coal-mining needed (and had) coal to power steam-engines which helped them produce more coal more cheaply.

In other words there was a feedback loop: More coal meant more coal could be mined. A virtuous cycle, that kicked off the industrial revolution.
> I highly doubt the US would respond by dropping a nuke on Russia. That just wouldn't accomplish anything useful.

And you’re probably right—it wouldn’t achieve anything useful.

What I’d expect is the first gulf war all over again. Some good 2 months of non-stop relentless air campaign with surgical strikes, and boots on the ground for the final phase. And a dismembered, completely dysfuncional Russia wrapped into endless internal conflicts between the constituent republics at the end.
I've wondered this exact same thing almost every day for the last year—Alas! I am still wondering.
The military members served the public. Google is profiting. You have it backwards.
Running network-level ad blocking software like Pi-hole is pretty much a requirement nowadays, especially on a LAN with many devices that may not be able to run browser extensions or don't use browsers to begin with.
You realize that Intel and AMD and countless electronic engineers learned to program them right? How do you think those "capable" microcontrollers' main microprocessors are designed?
Having spent some time inside Fermilab's campus, I got the impression a large portion of their purposes in watching visitors was for their own safety more than the security of the facility.
> When called out, they made the mistake of using dogwhistle phrasing (“clown world“ is very specific to one group) that you don’t really see much outside of /pol/ and its ilk and in threads where those folks bravely venture out to try to leak /pol/ chat to other forums.

WTF. I don't even know what you're talking about. What the hell is /pol/?

I learned about the "clown world" term on Twitter. And apparently, its meaning is not even what I thought it was, according to another poster.

Sorry for striking down one of your absurd theories once more.

> As an aside, I almost never hear “whites” outside of a context wherein someone is airing a grievance on behalf of the group that’s otherwise known as “white people”

I am not a native English speaker, so sorry for not knowing about all the connotations of how words are used in your country. Whites/white people. It's all the same to me (in my native language, at least).

I didn't even know "woke" had such negative connotations, until I went and quoted that from Wikipedia (which is why I clarified that I didn't mean it pejoratively).

> poster abandons their position and falls back to “saying stuff they think will ingratiate you to them.”

What are you even talking about? How did I abandon my position?!

And how the hell am I ingratiating myself to whoever is reading when I clearly criticized and almost certainly pissed off both right-wingers and left-wingers?!

Let me say it again so that it's crystal clear to you:

1. Anti-white racism is racism.

2. There are more racist right-wing people than left-wing people, even when excluding the far-right.

3. Anti-black racism is a much more prevalent (and therefore significant) issue than anti-white racism.

Believe it or not, I hold all of these opinions at the same time. Mind-blowing, right?

I'm sorry that you don't believe that it's possible for someone to have all these opinions or that you think they are "poop" (using your term) or whatever the hell you think.

I think you have severe issues, to be honest.

And it's clear to me that I've been wasting my time trying to engage and have a constructive conversation with you, so don't expect any more responses from me.
Familiarize your audience with the story "Liar!" from Asimov's I, Robot anthology, and then show them how GPT-3 does the same thing as the robot from the story: guess what its user wants to hear and tell them that (albeit with statistical modelling instead of mind reading).
Two network cards is a good idea. I went looking for a DESQview API a packet driver (or wrapper) could interface with, I found https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/computing/general/xdi.tec but the detailed documentation doesn't seem to be on the web.
Wow! Fuck you, IBM. Again!!
I bet you’re fun at parties. The right way to phrase it would be to throw in a “YoY” but clearly you care too much to ever let someone on the internet dare to make such a pedantic mistake. Try contributing to the conversation instead of detracting from it.
I wonder if this could be the first step in harnessing lightning energy.
Try sorbet in a real project before you make this claim. It’s not perfect but it’s pretty good.
I think its the curse of doing development professionally - except the rare case where open source monetization has worked well enough to support a long career, closed source software is designed to be disposable.

You build something fast because marketing or sales wanted it, not because it was a good idea or anybody found it useful. Most people probably hated your feature.

But, OFC, giving it away for free is nearly impossible to actually make money off of.

Like the taxi driver, probably nobody will remember you unless you said something particularly impactful to someone. Someone working as a pro-bono ambulance driver is more likely to receive accolades, but that's still difficult.
It's cool but kind of daunting to see that people can have totally different experiences with the same piece of software. :)

Cheers for configurability!
Perhaps the biggest revelation from this is that Firefox doesn't implement rebinding protection, and that CGNAT DNS responses aren't dropped by most resolvers. Host validation is preferable anyway [1] but the second problem still has bad implications.

1. https://github.com/nccgroup/singularity/wiki/Preventing-DNS-...
I don’t know if you were around then but early google results were also without ads (or at least unassuming ones), this is just the way early tech adoption works.

Additionally: openAI actually wants prompts from humans; these tools are essentially data gathering part of their ongoing research.
I’m with you. I drive a 24 year old 740iL. It’s a car, it functions well as one. If I want nav or whatever I have a cell phone after all. I even left the sound system original and listen to CDs. Its nice to just go back to basics for a change. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything by my car being dumb as a bag of rocks.
Excellent point. I think it’s critical to recognize that as AI tech is getting more advanced, we need to improve the mechanisms that enforce transparency and trustability. It starts with training data. Just because something is technically reachable online, doesn’t make it OK for it to be used for AI training. A person or organization should be able to opt into having their data used, of course, but it’s not a “use first, ask to remove later”.

Then who is watching the watchers? Models being used to generate content or make decisions that have a real-world impact on actual humans need to be open to audit and validation that they don’t repeat the bias and social limitations of the people who create those models. This is not a new concept (think algorithms for insurance coverage calculations etc).

So yes, a toy chatbot to play around with - sure. A fancy AI model, sucking personal data without consent and being deployed all around us by closed organizations with dubious funding - big no. Is AI ready to offer scientific or academic value - no, and even if it was a yes, it will need to stand to human scrutiny for a long time before being acceptable “as is”. Kids in schools need to be thought how to recognise and work with AI generated content. Just like dealing with fake news, it requires critical thinking and the ability to analyse information.
Refactoring instance variables to local variables in Rails controllers
First Demonstration of Energy Teleportation
> EVs are more like cell phones than ICE cars, which can have lifespans of over 30 years in the right climate. So losing 10% of your cycles to grid support could mean buying a car at nine years instead of ten years.

I feel like we should be mandating easy and near-cost replacement for EVs to make sure that this is less of a problem. Battery wear aside, EV's have the potential to greatly outlast ICE's. We should be treating batteries just like tires and brakes.

I agree that using EV batteries as grid storage isn't a particularly great idea.
When we have near-human level deep learning models for things humans can do, what does this level of performance look like when applied to things we can’t do at all? This is a nice example of this.
Right so the expansion of our 3-D universe would need to be happening into the 4th or more dimensions for the analogue to make sense. But is that really what they are saying that when cosmologists speak of the expansion of the universe they mean it is expanding to the other 3+ (spatial) dimensions?.

Note the title of the article "What is our Universe Expanding Into? Is it expanding into the 4th spatial dimension?
Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT
Shinzo Abe is actually a very good example, because his tragic death occured in a country where violent crime basically doesn’t exist and where it’s virtually impossible to acquire any kind of a firearm (I am aware how far 3D printing has come)

This would of course be far worse in a country that’s very familiar with violent crime and where everyone and their dog has at least 1.2 firearms, like the United States.
India proposes social media firms rely on fact checking by gov’t agencies
I've long thought that Windows NT might make a pretty good OS if it weren't married to the Microsoft Windows interface. I know I'm abusing the terminology here, but only because the concept of a replaceable graphical shell is utterly foreign to an OS which began as one of many replaceable graphical shells for MS-DOS.
You should see a doctor- an orthopedic surgeon, not a PCP. PCP's don't know much in this area. You need a specialist.

I'm curious what your symptoms are/were and how old you are. Tendonitis seems to usually have more to do with age than overuse per sé.
I think it was back in the 70's when people used lasers as a "needle" to play records without touching them.

I seem to recall 30 years ago or so that someone took photos of records and managed to reproduce the sound from them.
You may enjoy this after-action report of a person being attacked by a hostile AI, played by ChatGPT: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9kQFure4hdDmRBNdH/how-it-fee...

Now to be clear, this is possibly the easiest mark conceivable, and the poster played into his own demise at any available opportunity. But we should expect the first marks to be easy marks.

People looking at videos of Hitler today don't understand why anyone would ever follow the funny man with the moustache. But probably his oratory skill simply does not record well? There's a thing with rallies and speeches where the speaker is reactive and feeding back with the mood of the crowd that makes it very hard to understand from the outside what happened. I think it's a mistake to look at this post, which was clearly a feedback loop where the poster was doing a significant amount of the cognitive work, and think "well this specific approach would not have worked on me." The approach that will happen to you will be personalized.

But also: when people were experimenting with ChatGPT, a huge fraction of participants were trying to get the bot to access the open internet. Luckily this was technically impossible. But it shows that this sort of danger simply does not feel real to people - or at any rate, the urge to poke the thing overwhelms it.

It will be easy to say "well GPT is still very bad at deceiving people, this attempt basically doesn't matter, we don't need to worry." When thinking of a target for AI deception, don't think of yourself, think of the most emotionally exploitable person out of a hundred. (If it's publically available, out of a million.)

It's not exactly that when interacting with the public, the network gets to "pick its targets". That would assign intent where there is none. But if the network has a deceptive mode, its targets will direct it into that mode through mutual feedback.
There appeared to be some curious things blurred out - e.g. when preparing the molds it looks like the fixtures holding the mild were blurred?

I get it for brand names etc, but I can't see there being many Coke or Nike logos in a foundry?
>it's always going to be biased towards some direction, whether that's the views of the society it pulls most of its data from

Or the views of the organization(s) trying to supress certain output generated from ordinary societal input.
According to Wikipedia, steam engines did go "mainstream" with the coal mine use case, at least to an important part:

The first commercially successful engine that could transmit continuous power to a machine was the atmospheric engine, invented by Thomas Newcomen around 1712. It improved on Savery's steam pump, using a piston as proposed by Papin. Newcomen's engine was relatively inefficient, and mostly used for pumping water. It worked by creating a partial vacuum by condensing steam under a piston within a cylinder. It was employed for draining mine workings at depths originally impractical using traditional means, and for providing reusable water for driving waterwheels at factories sited away from a suitable "head".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine#History
India’s population has already overtaken China’s, analysts estimate
That's one option. The other one is to move magnetic north.

This story is from the early 80s. The magnetic north pole moves around 40 miles per year. What was once runway 18 at DCA over 40 years ago is now 19.
Because you already have a Ruby project and you want add analytics to it?
Sand is common for casting, but containers (crucibles[1]) for heating and holding molten metal are often ceramic (historically, clay) or at least lined with a refractory[2] material. Refractory materials may include sand, but I don't think sand alone (even compressed, as when used for molds) is strong enough for a crucible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucible
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractory