skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Faithfulness to an imagined "original text" is often asked for, often attempted, but wholly futile. We have no such "original text". There never was any such "original text".

Read it in the form most entertaining, and you will experience it in the purest form still possible. Seek precision, and you will go badly astray. Anything that turns on the exact meaning of a word will be forever ambiguous. There can be no useful list of such passages or words. You must assume all are.

Disagreement about meaning is unavoidable and mistaken. Your opinion about true meaning fails in exact proportion with your confidence in it. Extracting "true meaning" is no different from Newton's attempts at divination by versal numerology.

You may evaluate others' opinions in this way. The more confidence they have in their interpretation, the less competent is their opinion.
I don't understand the nature of your suggested link between ideas about maximum comfortable text column width are related to forcing JS. The size of the text column is generally set with CSS and not JS, no?
I think it would be helpful in the blog post to list the series of changes happening to the files before the animations
I see this sentiment a lot, and as an engineer-turned-lawyer, I've always found this to be intriguing but unsatisfactory. Certainly lots of transactional type work (contracts, estates) and maybe even basic adversarial work (parking tickets and fines?) could be greatly enhanced by AI/ML.

But I've asked clients this question and while they would love to not have to pay lawyers - if you ever put the thought in front of them and asked whether they actually want an AI to represent them in court, when stakes are high and there's a chance of losing... well, I've never met anyone who has said they willingly take that chance.

Some fields will also certainly never be AI-ified. Not a snowball's chance in hell (and I know it sounds like a cranky person talking) that lawyers and judges in criminal/constitutional trials will ever be "replaced" by AI. It has nothing to to with the possibilities of present and future technology, but everything to do with optics. Society is almost certainly never going to accept being judged and/or losing to AI and algorithms. Even if a person has a losing case they would want to make sure to hear it from a human rather than a machine.
Years as in plural?
I don't see your comment as push back to OP's comment, because you are both right. On the one hand Japan is very safe, low poverty levels, etc like OP said. On the other hand there are all the issues you described.

From what I gather reading this and previous articles on HN is Japan is either great or terrible depending on what you want to do. If you want to explore another culture, and really experience something different than the west than Japan is probably the best place you can go for that experience. On the other hand if you're trying to start a company, move up the corporate ladder, etc, then the US is going to be a much better place for you than Japan.
It's hard for me to move off Spotify because their API is far better for finding new music than anything else out there.

I have some cron jobs running that generate new playlists every day with very specific targets (e.g. "min_instrumentalness" on a track) while still being random enough to have variety.

If Spotify ever shuts down their API like how Twitter has done, then I'll move to something else.
> Muslims and Jews share a great deal. Praying in a certain direction. Praying several times a day. Specific dietary requirements, including banning pork.

Christian churches face the East. Christian clerics and devout laypersons pray the Liturgy of the Hours daily. Finally many Christians observe religious dietary requirements involving fasting and abstinence from meat.
>When I then asked it to copyedit the draft of my article however, it failed. Making it worse and introducing numerous innacuracies.

If you asked say someone who failed highschool to do the same would it do better?

The jump from GPT-3 beta to chatGPT is an omen for the next jump and the jump after that.
John le Carré’s search for a vocation
I think people in "the middle" watch and rewatch the same things. I don't do that for movies, but I am guilty of doing it for some shoes like The office (still on Netflix in my region... For now)
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_human_evolution
I know I'm going against the grain and this is a super-unpopular opinion, but I really feel like there's room for more specialized engines and more independent engine middleware/tooling in 2023. The "game engines are impossibly hard, so we won't get new ones" discussion only ever talks about Unreal and Unity, where editor, engine and technology are all vertically integrated and the flexibility requires a lot of compromises. Plus you can't really replicate those two, even if you have a great team and 10 years of work on your hands (Godot). This oligopoly is super unhealthy for the industry, IMO.
I don't actually want a configuration file most of the time, I want to describe the whole thing as real code. Give me a JavaScript entry point instead.
safe?

Japans former PM was gunned down in public.
Linux is also free and doesn't have this problem.
I always thought it was about visual clarity. Yes we can have very dark scenes now but why would you want to when you can't tell what's happening. Prime example being Battle of Helms Deep vs Battle of Winterfell. I get the feeling of nighttime from both of them but in one I can actually tell what's happening.
Another entry for: https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-is-dead/

edit: apparently I cannot read and this article is a rare exception.
Antique discussion that's missing all that's changed since 2019. Indeed it was out of date in 2019.
Asian standard of crime rate is very different from the US...

I used to enjoy the night hanging out with friends or having fun alone in big Chinese cities (Beijing and Shanghai), hopping on public transportation, and having food in narrow streets. Without even the slightest worry of being robbed (but pickpockets do exist). Tokyo and other Japanese cities are supposed to be better.

But during my visit to Chicago and New Haven, I was strongly advised against going out alone (without a car) at night by my landlord.
I still don’t think we’ve seen many good use cases. If people were being honest they would know that crypto was propped up initially by the drug trade and largely continues to be.

There might be a killer application down the road but investing in AI is so much more useful to humanity
> is there actually any evidence against institutional corporal punishment

> mental health in the West appears to get worse and worse, the more kids (and adults) get coddled.

It would be hard to support either assertion unless the effect were both large and universal across cultures.

https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
I envision we are at the beginning of the equivalent era of x87 FPU years. When, in order to have fast math implementation, you also had a math coprocessor (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X87).

Much like those years the instruction set will get amended, the hardware will have an AI coprocessor and eventually, as technology progresses, we will have everything integrated in same CPU (or APU if you prefer this term). My 2 cents
Reddit has a complex ownership history. At one point Condé Nast actually owned Reddit as a subsidiary (majority ownership) and now their parent company does. I am sure it may IPO eventually but I’m not entirely sure the employees will make out like bandits
The same is true of parents: they “do the most important work” of creating and raising their children, but after they become adults, the parents have NO legal rights to any income from their children. “They get NOTHING”

Is that really true in the case of parents? If not, might the same reasons (e.g. intrinsic motivation, non-financial rewards such as inter-personal bonds) possibly apply here too?

I think it would be interesting though to think about what sort of monetization structure might encourage the development of more healthy communities

[Warning: all analogies are “wrong”, but some are useful…]
Even with GPT3 without any fine-tuning you can come up with prompts that support interactive goal-directed or topic-constrained chat. You can build in trigger conditions that cause it to output something machine readable so you can move to a different place in your state machine, and you can pre-process input from the user to decide which prompt template to leverage. And that's just with off-the-shelf GPT3 today and a few lines of code. The tough part is figuring out what exactly to do that is going to feel good, make sense, and ultimately be preferred by users, since this interaction modality is so different from what most are used to building or using.

Once you can run this stuff locally, or it's cheap enough to run lots of queries remotely, we're going to see a lot of software (esp. games) start trickling this tech in to middleman a lot of IO. Today it's:

commandXbutton.onClick(cmdX)
cmdX(){ print(result) }

I imagine we'll end up seeing a lot of that change to something like:

chat.onVoice(x => runCommand(textToCommand(voiceToText(x))))
cmdX(){ print(stringToUserDialect(result)) }

This is technically possible now -- do users want it?
I’ve scrolled through all the graphs but this question is never answered. I’m not knowledgeable enough to interpret the data.

So I can only express my sincere hope that it is true. I think crypto is a blight on our societies and has caused tremendous damage and suffering for those who were too trusting, desperate (or both) and lost.

I was somewhat surprised to see that bitcoin’s value has risen quite a bit recently. But then again, this is a space in which people do all that is normally forbidden (like wash trading) to try and get the number go up.

I personally believe crypto was never even alive to begin with in a legal/moral sense, but maybe that’s just me.
Thanks for posting! This app has definitely helped me complete many essays!
Plus GPT-3 is unaware of current events, much less anything set in the future. So questions about their favorite pizza in the year 3,000 might get weird too.

And would it know about the game world? If you ask “Where is the secret key hidden?” would it just tell you?

If you ask it, “how long have you been a shop keeper?” or “what’s your best selling item?” would it know each character’s backstory?

Or other hacks like: “Answer like [other NPC]…” could be problematic.

You’d almost need to create a detailed backstory for each NPC and still hope for the best.
I stopped using the Severless framework when CDK came out. For simple cases it's still fine I guess but a lot of time I found myself falling back to plain CloudFormation (ugh) or relying in plugins with questionable maintenance status. I would not recommend it for new projects and even AWS SAM makes applying some best practices like least privilege principle easier.
people normally imagine that finance and specially banks, are just COBOL, mainframe and legacy, and even though it is part of their BAU, there are lot of innovation there, specially in the infosec/antifraud segments.
Because "every new team you join has adopted the newest build system".

Just like in the last 2-3 years, every single new team I've joined is using kubernetes from day 1. Cargo culting is a huge force.
When consortia of industries are trying to convince third parties that the information on their append-only DB is reliable. So basically marketing.
You also get it on OS upgrades. But seeing as these are only once a year this seems like not too big a deal to me.
I've worked at a number of different organizations and making backups of GitHub (et al) has never even come up as a discussion topic, let alone something we considered. We talk more about reducing 3rd party vendors given the increasing attacks on the software supply chain. We use the permission system to limit the damage a developer could inflict. It is not easy to delete a repository.
Spinning's a Neat Trick: Megumi Rescue for the System E
You wouldn't be able to run locally, but these models are pretty cheap to run assuming you batch everything. You wouldn't want to use it for a F2P game, but for a subscription game (order of a few dollars a month) it would not be prohibitively expensive.
Free of charge??? Since when is Microsoft Windows free?
I can zoom in on current wikipedia just fine using browser "zoom in", and the size of the column of text increases accordingly.
The problem with higher frame rates is the same as higher resolution. It emphasizes even more the poor quality of the content. The low fidelity masks some of this, leaving more to your imagination (which is how impressionism works). If the content were of higher quality then it wouldn't be as much of an issue.
The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today
"Explaining how" prefix (maybe autoclipped?) and:

(2019)
> if it made no mistakes it would offer strong evidence

I don't see how this has anything to do with the article. TFA's authors weren't trying to make the GPT "know the rules" of Othello, or anything similar. The GPT doesn't even know there are rules, or that a game is being played, so the whole question is neither here nor there.

Rather, TFA is asking: given that the GPT learned to predict token sequences that correspond to Othello moves, did it do that with or without inferring the presence of a gameboard and simulating the on/off states of that board? The answer to that question has nothing to do with whether the GPT predicts valid token sequences with 100% or 99% or 95% accuracy, the issue is or isn't simulating the state of the Othello pieces.
I don't really care about technical specs of cameras or film or whatever, but I think the author is largely just wrong. At least on their comparison between Moonshot and When Harry Met Sally. Those are just different films. The Moonshot still is CLEARLY using color with great intention. It's not a realistic scene. It's a carefully designed shot. The characters, the coffee, and the table are yellow. The background is green. That's interesting. It makes the scene feel very small and intimate. The Harry diner scene is cluttered and chaotic. You have a bunch of background characters that add to the scene by looking at the main characters. You get a lot from this still. That's also interesting.

I have not seen any of these films
If you sold someone a gun knowing they knowing they did not know how to handle a gun and they said they were immediately going to the gun range and then someone died, you might get charged with negligent manslaughter.

My point here is Microsoft knows there's no way to tell where the suggestions are coming from, they stripped out that information, in this case it's even more likely that the offense happens because they're selling the paintbrush on a large scale. It's just a question of how often it's going to occur. Is it for 30% of your users or 70% of their users that are infring on licenses on a wide scale basis?
And even if they didn't, then you've got to get through border control on the other side, and your passport won't be on their list so you'll almost certainly be turned around and put on a flight right back.
I also wish for an ethnostate.
>> Do you ask for permission when you get new ideas from HN that aren't your own?

>>You don’t need to. It’s implicitly assumed, by virtue of publishing in a public forum, that the author is providing permission for people read their comments and ideas, and remix them as they wish.

Ideas are not eligible for copyright protection.
I have yet to see an application of crypto where it’s not just solving a solved problem in a more convoluted manner. We have had digital certificates for decades which works efficiently to establish validation through digital signatures. Most use cases presented by blockchain enthusiasts competes with solutions based off of simple digital signatures.
Reddit is afraid they'll be held responsible for the actions of moderators they have no control over. Their business model is at risk so they're spinning it as something that threatens their users.
> The majority of them are unemployed loners with lots of time to kill, who are unappreciated in real life and don't have much power over their own lives. So they enjoy the small sliver of power that Reddit gives them.

Nailed it. Reddit went completely off the rails during the Pao reign.
Never figured out what they get out of it apart from a power trip.
> ReFS was designed to overcome problems that had become significant over the years since NTFS was conceived

I guess this is a tribute to the designers of DEC's ODS-11/Files-11 filesystem. NTFS seemed like a slightly less capable ODS-11 to me, although this is rarely mentioned publicly.
People in this thread are pointing out difficulties and I'm getting an overall dismissive tone. As an ML researcher myself, I'm often skeptical and reserved about AI hype.

That being said, the difficulties anticipated here are going to be resolved, or at least they will work like hell to make it happen. Not just because it will make for great video games (although wasn't that one of OpenAI's original objectives? I can't keep track of changes to their stated mission...) But because they are interesting and HARD research questions. And they lie directly on the currently charted path to better understanding of AGI.

I'm hopeful for video games but still worried about everything else that will come out of it.
According to my employer, coming from google makes your opinions facts. Since alot of googlers come from stanford, coming from stanford makes your opinion a fact. QED
> a simple list of whoever I've last shared with would be better

A decent AI system would include a heavy bias toward recent. Good "AI" should mostly feel like dumb heuristics. I think a good example is directions on my iPhone: when it's plugged into a car it always suggests driving directions. When there's something in my calendar soon it suggests going there. If there's not and I'm not at home it often suggests going home (it's right more than half the time). After that, it just offers a list of buttons for places I've told it about: home, work, school.

I'd be annoyed if it tried to do something more clever (like suggesting the post office because I went there on this day last year). I think a key element is that I have an immediate and intuitive idea of why its suggestion is a reasonable one.
We literally had a mass shooting where 10 died and 10 were injured, today. And the number 1 cause of death in children is gun violence, for the last few years.
But is Japan perceived as being behind culturally? Many would look to something like housing costs in Tokyo, lack of prevalence of firearms, or universal healthcare as progressive values that Japan has that are "ahead" of at least America in (housing costs probably more progressive than the Anglosphere at least and probably the west in general).

I have a hard time reconciling the general nature of your comments w.r.t Japan isn't westernized with the specifics as well. If westernization is mainly about philosophical traditions (secularism, individualism, etc.) I think Japan is certainly less westernized in some ways (think like many attributes that skew in different directions), but if you look at other things, maybe it's not? You could examine attributes such as the tight alliances with the west to how anime characters are represented.

I'm still wondering if what we're talking about here is just a different expression of being "westernized" versus a meaningful difference.

Personally I actually have a view that's moreso that the Anglosphere (US, Canada, Australia, UK, New Zealand) + Japan and perhaps to a lesser extent South Korea are more "westernized" together than say the Anglosphere and Germany and France.
I've done a lot of tests with GPT3 + NPCs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC_pSgAMbUU
Original test from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnuSQvoroJo

The problem with GPT3 / LLM is how uncontrollable they are. Imagine making a detective game - you could prompt AI's with some information to give to the player on questions, but they also might just give complete made up answers. They answer with whatever works - whether it's true or not, which completely screws up a detective game.
Definitely possible to make sandbox style games with this in mind though. And there are a ton of possible other applications - ingame AI assistants (like shown in the above prototypes), NPC shopkeepers
Name any append only DB with uptime equivalent to any crypto blockchain network.
Hyundai/Kia EVs take 18 minutes for 0-80% charging. After 80% the charging rate slows down on most EVs as fast charging to 100% will cause more 'wear' on the battery. Most drivers do more frequent, but faster stops charging to 80%.
Jungian here - with some small comparative religion training.. multiple primary "motiff" in the Christian stories are repeats of older themes but changed..

for the non-Bible side, lots of Germanic and Scandinavian folk stories have been rewritten as Christian-themes too
> even if a system has a world model that it believes is accurate, it still should be making intentional "mistakes" to test the world model in unusual circumstances

I have no idea how to address this.

StockFish is an accurate world model of chess. It doesn't make mistakes, it cannot make mistakes. That's what an accurate world model is.

A system that can intentionally make mistakes is likely not a world model of anything at all. If it is a world model of something, it is a world model of something other than Othello, which does not have rules for "stress test"ing.

The OP is claiming that they have created an accurate world model for Othello, so I think discussion of intentional mistakes and thermodynamics is outside the scope.
I tried having ChatGPT serve as a DM. Its propensity for warning the user carried over to the fantasy realm - if I proposed an action that was dangerous, ChatGPT would just warn me that it was a bad idea rather than explain the consequences.

I'm imagining a RDR2 bandit NPC who starts explaining the dangers and immorality of robbing trains whenever you talk to him.
By "going forward," do you mean that no one has come up with one just yet?
Most Bible translations remove the tetragrammaton, anyone familiar with whether or not it appears in copies of the Torah? Many Christian denominations simply don’t acknowledge its existence.
I've used that before, and it is useful. The thing I didn't love is that it makes no distinction between my free time and work time. Meaning on the evenings or weekends, I'd have the same restrictions as my 9-5 Monday-Friday.
Negative-weight single-source shortest paths in near-linear time
The entire concept of "sameness" doesn't make sense when talking about objects that are unknowable or just non-existent. For example, two persons can describe in different terms a real object (say, a chair): in that case, the object exists independently from its descriptions and the two persons can eventually agree on the fact that there is indeed one object they were both looking at. But for objects that are unknowable or non-existent, it is the description that defines the object- and each description, unless entirely equivalent to the others, defines a different object.

Therefore the idea that Abrahamic religions relate to the same God can only make sense from a perspective of faith.
On the other hand, the same is also true of Google results.

The web is chock full of incorrect stuff, both unintentional and deliberately deceptive.