skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is vaguely dystopian, true, but one thing I remember in order to sleep at night is that ChatGPT and the like are trained on human-written text. So we might currently be looking at ChatGPT at its very best, or close to its very best. Reasoning: from here on out, the stuff it trains on will be polluted with the automatically generated text. Photo copies of photo copies eventually lead to blurrier and crummier images of the real thing.

We can keep paying people to come up with optimisations to the algorithm itself, keep paying annotators to manually pepper human common sense into the system, but it's my theory that these payments won't keep up with the spread of automatically generated content in the source dataset and the negative impact that has on the language model that the algorithm outputs.

ChatGPT currently enshrines insight and style from 2020-2021 (more-or-less indistinguishable from insight and style from 2022-2023), but now that the system exists, rather than observing a rapid pace of new writing styles and original insights emerging on the web of 2024, we'll potentially see a slightly slower style/original insights emergence rate, then the next year an even slower emergence rate. This will continue until it reaches a stage where the spoken world of language and world wide web world of language have completely diverged, similar to the way 1950s film dialogue bore little resemblance to 1950s speaking styles.

Short-term, ChatGPT has called creative pursuits into question, but long term, I think such systems will strongly validate creative pursuits, and only really replace non-creative roles. By turning the web into a wasteland of written cruft, GPT will validate the need for human flourishes, error, divergences from the norm and the arbitrary rewriting of unspoken rules. I think only a strong AI raised like us in our own societies could infuse that kind of culture into its writing, but the process of developing such an AI would basically just be a reinvention of slavery, and we probably don't have the resources here on earth to support it longterm anyway.
Jay Vine recently said in an interview that last year his max hours per week was 30 and that wasn’t training, it was a big week in a grand tour. His coach at least seems to be on a mid 20s hours a week approach.

Jay implied this was a change throughout the peloton, but you can still see old school strategies doing well (Bernal for example does huge volume in base from strava).
Definitely a prisoner's dilemma .. an applicable take on where all this is going is Popper's Paradox Of Tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance). Not sure that Elon and many other seemingly well-intended social media free-speech advocates fully grasp the implications of this.
If you are not a historian, then at least cite a real historian if you are going to make such claims.
> most cars aren't used every day

Huge citation needed.

> most cars are parked during the day

Yes, parked somewhere where there is no V2G infrastructure. By the time we pay millions of V2G charging stalls, we would be better off just buying actual grid scale storage.
They mention in the article that the passengers oxygen would already have run out - apparently they would have all been dead or unconscious.
Because telling your boss you will be spending the next 3 working days going through all your password might not be the best use of time and might want to spread it out a bit. Especially when most of them are obscure website that are not likely to be the first target in a password leak.
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I have worked with it [1], in particular with a special class of it, MP (Metabolic P).

In a nutshell, it is a theoretical model inspired by biology, but which produces many interesting results, as super-Turing computational power.

I am not sure whether it is still, but the reference on web for the subject was http://ppage.psystems.eu/ .

Besides Păun, other big names in the topic are Perez-Jimenez, Gheorghe and Manca.

As far as I am concerned, there are little practical application of it, even though the theoretical potential is considerable.

I tried to focus on more day-to-day application of MP [2], and I managed to get some nice results, but further advance was limited by external forces.

Do I recommend to buy an introductory book on the subject? No, mostly because I think the material online from the people I mentioned above, plus their publication, is more than enough to acquire the knowledge.
Besides, I bet the book is published by Elsevier, which usually mean it is a simple collection of papers, except the fact I am not fan of that publishing house.

If you have any more direct question, feel free to contact me—hopefully I can be of some help.

But, I have the impression that membrane computing is still a very academic topic disconnected from the engineering world.

If it is what you like, then it might satisfy you. :)

[1]: https://ricardo.guiraldelli.com/research.html#doctorate

[2]: https://ricardo.guiraldelli.com/research.html#available-mate...
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I Would be interested to know more about it too. I have been interested in running a piece of software that needs SIP partially disabled, but I’d I could just grant it exemption I would prefer that to a blanket removal.

Funny thing is all computers used to run without SIP, but since they added it I’m now hesitant to turn it off even though I’m not any worse off than I used to be.
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Open Banking aka PSD2 exists, and it is very different from IBAN.
This will be known as "The No Code Revolution."

Even your single datapoint explanation/POV/understanding will help to accelerate this entire process.

I have to keep reminding programmers that Co-Pilot exists, is real, and makes LESS mistakes than entry-level datagrunt software engineers. And it costs pennies of electricity to run daily.

All capitalism is: the search to maximize efficiency; monotonous human labor (~80%) is the most expensive part of this equation... this is not an "if," rather "when" situation. Putting your head into the sand will be a safe place for lesser programmers to still make money, for at least another few years.

But as was said elsewhere in this thread: if you do not know how to write PROOF code to VERIFY these inevitable AI-assistant-coders' outputs, you will not have a job. Human mindpower cannot compete in the bruteforce arena — all ChatGPT is right now is a bunch of autistic middle-aged asshole trolls with WAY TOO MUCH MONEY, and EVEN MORE TIME (to play around with this).

I encourage you as a more-artistic-than-technical (but still fairly intelligent) person to "just pretend" that this is your new Fiverr-tasker. Because it is already, and will be once more-widely understood / accepted.

Peace.
Adding site:reddit.com to searches improves the chances you'll get a result that is not totally wrong or spam because reddit has a built-in moderation system (upvotes/downvotes). The community also has little tolerance for SEO clone and other junk sites.

It's not perfect -- there are definitely gamed topics and bullshitters -- but it's light years better than default Google. I don't think I've ever seen a clone of StackOverflow appear on an upvoted reddit post or comment while I see those sites every day on Google.

I agree with you on the risks of that feedback loop. I'm hopeful that humans will still be around to moderate information on forums.
>What I heard was that payment providers charge higher fees for allowing foreign cards, so website owners (who focus on domestic business anyways) just won't bother.

Here at least that doesn't seem to be the blocking issue. Or at least I often see foreign CC payment options in the list, but if you try to use the option you still need a Korean phone number in the checkout process (and they confirm with an SMS, you can't just type in whatever.)
> They're a business, they need to reallocate capital and headcount

Consider this: no, they don't.
I get to say anything I want. In any case the planet is reaping other rewards from the deal, and the tradeoff is worth it. And ewaste does not go away in any scenario other than humans going away, which is not on the table as far as I know.
According to other comments, while the above above holds true for some companies, this is not the case of FAANG. Unfortunately, it is apparently too late for me to edit or delete my comment, so it shall remain posted on HN for all eternity.
> “What I do may sound extreme, but I’m trying to prove that self-harm and decay are not inevitable”

Taken literally, it seems that he is starting from the conclusion and working backwards, and may be thoroughly disappointed. The question posed in scientific terms would be more akin to "Are self-harm and decay inevitable?"

It's also a little bit pathetic how some of the ultrawealthy seem to have the hardest time confronting their own mortality.
Perhaps it’s an English translation thing, but note that I didn’t use “seduce”, intentionally. But yes, people who are more charismatic/friendly/charming/whatever other word, will make more in tips. Which is easier to do with smaller table sizes, hence my point.

I agree with you though! As I said, I also hate tipping, even as someone who grew up with it and worked (pretty successfully) in the industry. Lots of other service businesses have successfully demonstrated that you can incentivize good service without requiring tips (non-commission retail, etc).
It all made me feel a little sad. This person’s fear of death stops them living. It’s like buying a Porsche and never driving it for fear of damaging it.
I mean, the relative cost really depends on how much you value having one up that you control, I suppose.

I also think Pleroma or one of its forks (Akkoma, etc.) might be far less hassle to run while still being compatible with the same metaverse protocol, because Elixir (with erlang/OTP underneath) is far more resource-efficient than Ruby is (we're talking orders of magnitude more efficient in both CPU and memory efficiency, although content storage demands would likely remain necessary to keep a lasso on)
My work keepass has 68 credentials in it. I am not going to memorize all of that.
Been there, done that; not likely to try it again. I sure do prefer working for startups, though.
First Light isn't a research program funded by grants, it's a startup company attempting to develop a product. If they actually deliver before someone else makes them obsolete, they won't lose their careers, they'll make an absurd amount of money and be quite busy improving their reactors.
You could say the same about a person performing a piano piece. Anyone who presses the same keys in the same sequence would get more-or-less the same performance.
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> The alternative right now is to use the same password everywhere. That's even worse.

Or to just use the browser's saving functionality and never push your passwords online in the first place. They're probably only using one primary device like me; I generally don't log in to stuff on my phone, or personal stuff on my work laptop/work stuff on my personal laptop.

If their habits are like mine then these cloud password services are pretty pointless.
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It was common 5~10yrs ago to either have a spare Windows laptop or buy Parallels Desktop for handling bank/govt things. Nowadays, macOS got common enough that some of these ugly programs now have a macOS-specific version. :( Some even have downloadable deb/rpm Linux binary packages.
If you are doing servos and not well versed in these things, I highly recommend clearpath servos from teknic. The wiring is easy and their tuning support is very good (if the auto tune doesn’t work). If you need more power, or AC servos, I suggest DMM Dyn4 drives and servos.

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Not that he wrote the headline, but: he certainly doesn't have the face of an 18 year old. I'd actually peg it > 40.

One of the distinct pleasures I remember from the ages of 18 - 25 is _hanging out with other people that age_. They're not going to fall for it, you'll just be a creepy old guy with a ripped body.
I came on here to comment that if you do this, it requires that the EVs be connected to the grid. How is that going to happen during the day when a lot of folks are at work, or out and about, and there aren't that many public chargers?

I don't think this whole EVs-as-grid-storage really makes sense. When the EVs go into the scrap market, the batteries will likely still have 80% of their range left (if not more, based on what folks have been reporting). If it's as low as 80%, it would be a huge detriment in the used market, but that much is still fine and dandy for grid storage. Just wait 10-15 years and use them then, if this is supposed to be a strategy.

Or better yet, keep investing in other non-lithium chemistries, like those involving sodium, and then cost per kwh will go down significantly.
That doesn't make sense because I'm a VS Enterprise subscriber but we don't deploy onto windows containers.

I do some noddy VSTO stuff and write .Net Core stuff that goes into Linux Kubernetes on AWS.
Perhaps that commenter observed that the author of the paper seems incredibly personally invested in the success of this method and tends to personally attack any detractors without regard to the soundness of the criticism. The author seems to also have a lot of fans who do the same. Publicly engaging with a person like that requires a certain tolerance for crankiness that not everyone possesses.
Then I guess that multiple bad actors would jump at the chance to irreparably scam thousands of accounts out of millions of dollars. Or something like that.
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People measure stuff in terms of $ when they should be looking at the global resources on the planet, the garbage and the externalized costs. Until we move to a resource-based economy that takes these into account, we’ll be destroying the planet while on paper the carbon credit accounting looks perfect.
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chatgpt aka skynet needs more space.
Batteries are extremely inefficient. Capacitors are much more resilient in terms of charge cycles (by orders of magnitude).

If one were to build a "facility" to hold short term load, that's likely what they'd use. They just can't be used in cars because they're incredibly volatile and don't hold a charge for a long period of time.
You are right, it would just get stomped down. Either by detecting that the block was automated, or because it stems from a promoted tweet.

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It has nothing to do with press. This is negative press already, and journalist can use this to write their stories without waiting for the official light to go from green to yellow.

It's about contractual obligations and SLAs. Things are not officially down in most agreements until MSFT acknowledges they're down. Refunds issued because your blob storage failed to meet 99.9999 uptime to your largest customers are directly tied to these statuses.
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Yes you do, you do not get to just claim people are racist with no proof. Do you think it's a joke to make this claim? You're certainly treating it pretty nonchalantly.

You're talking about taking jobs and money from a specific group of people so you can implement your ideological beliefs that have zero data to back them up.

You haven't provided any proof this sort of racial tipping exists but you've certainly provided plenty of proof of wanting implement your own racist ideas to redistribute money from a very specific skin color, while claiming other skin colors are helpless victims.
Yes, great point.
Was watching Blade Runner again recently, and realized this time I sided with the robots, as they mostly just wanted to live.

Same with A Scanner Darkly, the theme being “who am I?”
1) Pretty much any programming language you've heard of is probably capable of solving most of the problems you're likely to want to solve.

2) Some programming languages are better choices for solving certain problems than others. Python for instance has a wide range of Machine Learning libraries that are very important for anything to do with analyzing data: though you can certainly use many of those tools from other languages. JavaScript is the language of the browser and basically is a necessity for building dynamic websites, and also has some great advantages on the server with Node.js.

3) For most people, IMO either JavaScript or Python is a fairly safe bet, depending on what you want to do. Personally I'd recommend JavaScript just because you can start using it in the browser right away without necessarily requiring too much complicated setup and you can get an instant visual feedback more interesting than just seeing program output in a file or terminal.
That's not what GP wrote - they wrote that there is a difference between "the set of all instances of type A" and "the set of all properties satisfied by all instances of type A". There's nothing recursive about that. And this is all completely independent of the question of whether a language is structurally or nominally typed.
it is obvious here that computer programmers have elevated chatGPT to the most sensitive grounds of cultural transmission, right away. Since there is a documented and ongoing mental health crisis with young teens and electronic communication, this appears to be adding fuel to the fire of whatever it is that is going on, that is causing real illness on a large scale.
> Start with the point. The point is that X percent of the workforce is to be let go

If he did, he'd be criticized for being heartless. There's really no winning here, I can't blame them for phrasing things the way they do.
Yep. And they also keep single-use code local to the only place it's being used at the moment, which i think can help the readability and maintainability of said code :)

Functions do have a place too of course; even single-use ones. Especially when you can give them a clear purpose and name.
I wonder how The Google will fare in the future when millennials (and even Gen Z to an extent) become far less relevant. Call it a hunch, but much of their success outside of their technical achievements comes from their identity from the 2000s. People who were around in the early Web still see The Google as representing both excellence and defiance against the tech establishment. After all, "don't be evil, maaaaan." The Google can basically just ride upon their prior success because of their size and the number of relevant consumers who grew up with them. Come the time millennials reach retirement age, they're going to seem to younger generations like Sears did to mine; they'll be seen as an old-people thing that's too big to fail but totally uncool and obsolete. In the tech world, they'll be seen exactly as Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM are today.

On a related note, The Google will face more trouble as their Search and YouTube products become less useful and relevant. Many people, namely those around in Web 1.0, still insist on using The Google, but even they will be using it far less often the more that the Web just fills itself with trash content from bots and the more that Search hawks lame shit over actual results. The more that YouTube transforms itself into cable TV, the more it's going to set itself up to not make it into the next paradigm. Say what you want about TikTok, and I'm certainly not a fan, but I think TikTok has proven that YouTube will soon be viewed as missing-link media.
It's not like everyone needs to make photographic reproductions, why not delegate the task to photorealistic painters? Now that we've gotten used to the convenience of having a camera in our pocket, who would suggest banning photography?
cryptographic obscurity is like, the only way we know how to do security right now
Dang!

Can’t unthink this now.
Fortunately ES2015 was 7+ years ago, so no I won't. :)
Rooftop solar outcompetes solar farms because energy from a solar farm pays taxes and distribution costs before it is delivered to a user. Whereas rooftop solar energy is untaxed when it powers your laptop.

> It only makes sense if the EV owner can somehow get charge capacity "for free"

The EV owner has the power electronics 'for free' - ie. they have almost infinite lifespan, and just a capital cost.

Additionally, the variations of energy prices on the grid are really wide. There might be $100k/MWh for 5 minutes per year. It isn't worth a static operator paying the capital cost for the batteries (which also degrade with time) to setup for 5 minutes use per year. But it does make sense for the EV owner to do so, because his marginal cost is tiny.
That's how non physical bullying and cyberbullying works.

That's one of the reasons the whole hate speech topic became an issue.
>Nor will you deadlift 500 lbs

Maybe not 500lbs but somebody could certainly eventually deadlift 400lbs from 3x8 minutes once a week, as long as they keep it intense and keep increasing the weight. I say that as someone who can deadlift more than 400lbs after many years of practicing around 30 minutes/week. If you're lifting hard, a week is barely enough time for the body to recover anyway.
This advice is not good.

Robot arms should use harmonic drive gearboxes and servos, IMO. In practice, if the loads are not massively high, the important thing is closed loop steppers or servos, with accurate homing routines and good error handling.
Well for one, it's a time sharing operating system. What does that bring to a phone other than potential security vulnerabilities?

Linux is a pretty generic operating system, it runs on just about everything and wasn't initially designed for phones in mind. Of course at the rate phone hardware is progressing, I think Google has realized how little important an optimized OS really is.
You can rsync the whole directory of passwords elsewhere and then connect there from your phone using SSH. If you're handy with `pass` you probably have an SSH client on your phone anyway (I use Prompt on iOS). Some people might think you're weird for using SSH from your phone though, fair warning.
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> Uppity technology specialists are attempting to upend the system and take a seat at the table.

We are? Seems to me like the folks down at the Starbucks are the ones doing the hard work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks_unions
Yeah I have the Android TV based Chromecast device here at home. It's janky and laggy in the UI :-)

My coworkers did hero-work getting chromium to render beautifully at decent frame rates with very little lag on a very cheap and underpowered SoC for the original Home Hub UI (which was HTML-based).

Then most of it got tossed so the UI could be rewritten in Dart/Flutter.