skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This itself is a rather clever "tactic" (comparing something to anti-semitism, arguably the most powerful psychological phenomenon on planet Earth, and then allowing readers to form their own conclusions about the initial proposition...and, human minds have been thoroughly trained on how to "correctly" respond to "anti-semitism"), though I do not necessarily think you are doing it with conscious intent.

> The issue with a group that plays idiot, is they attract a lot of idiots.

Well, that depends on whether one is "measuring" on a relative or absolute scale, and a subjective or objective one....and also: whether one is able to think in these higher dimensions, that are all around us (and inside us) all the time.

Take HN for example: on a relative scale, this is a highly intellectual forum. But on an absolute scale, I wonder how impressive it is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34580360 seems to have more comments on the same topic.
> I was with them when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and boosters.

> I was wrong.

Well thanks for the update, contrarian medical student writing op-eds in Newsweek, but I think you're wrong about that being wrong.

Wait, it gets worse, this guy has full blown brain worms:

> When former President Trump pointed out the downsides of intervention, he was dismissed publicly as a buffoon. And when Dr. Antony Fauci opposed Trump and became the hero of the public health community, we gave him our support to do and say what he wanted, even when he was wrong.
Similar for me. When I looked at System 76 laptops 1-2 years ago, the keyboard type was a deal-breaker for me. They were like Asus ROG laptop keyboards, whereas I strongly prefer keyboards like my Lenovo Legion's.

I was hopeful when they announced an all-AMD laptop recently. But unfortunately it's too small / underpowered / non-upgradeable for my needs, and I couldn't tell from the pictures if the keyboard was more to my liking.

To be fair, even Framework laptops don't have swappable keyboard types, AFAICT. So even a System76-Framework team-up wouldn't necessarily fit my needs.
Two thoughts: 1) is that hard work is not the solution but rather largely a prerequisite to solving host of problems (I.e. getting out of poverty is dependent on a host of factors but if one isn’t willing to work hard, your chances are much slimmer)

2) your points about self identity being intertwined with work is an important one, and something I struggle with quite a bit.
Good for you that you have the money to buy acres of woods (or an exclusive parcel bordering woodland) and a job that can support living in a remote place. For many people that would want that lifestyle it's simply unattainable, and we should give them reasonable alternatives.

I live in Prague, my parents in a nearby town. Walking 10 minutes gets me either to a metro station or an "urban forest"/heavily wooded park called Stromovka. I think it's a very appropriate place for kids to play in nature. My parents have walking/biking access to similar places.

Not every place in Prague is this close to nature, but it's common enough that someone seeking that kind of housing can get it at basically no premium.
Major GNOME infrastructure outage
Flathub is also having issues: https://status.flathub.org/
Is there really something of value to be had by fighting a war against the coming tide of AI that can spit out whatever you ask for?

To me it looks like old world professors calling the council because the abacus is under threat by the calculator, and we need to ensure the students are absolutely not using the calculator for their abacus studies. This all being despite the fact that society at large is moving as fast as it can to leave the abacus for calculators.

I can't help that but feel that people have lost the forest for the trees. So transfixed on the small steps that they have completely lost track of why we take all those small steps, and the utility that they ultimately provide.

If you want to study whatever subject and become an expert, history or chemical engineering, cool, go ahead. I'm still gonna chose my AI consultant over you in 5-10 years.
A structure burns down (to the ground). Anything else (including people) burns up.

"The house burnt up", is not proper, but people say it and everyone knows what you mean.

Then there's the saying of what you're referencing, "burning up" as in you feel like you are "on fire", when you are sick.

Phrasal verbs are probably the hardest part of being fluent in English.

People will understand what you mean, but it won't sound right.
That's why I don't code on Windows and I don't work for bureaucratic companies where the IT department isn't flexible enough to understand how compilers work and how antivirus software can go wrong.
Contracts can be amended when all parties agree on a change.
I'd argue it's wide suburban streets that encourage high speed driving. The road I live on is not wide enough for two cars to pass each other if there are also cars parked on each side, and driving even 20mph feels way too fast. But when I go visit family members in the suburbs, the streets are wide enough for two lanes of parked cars, plus 3 lanes of driving cars. Driving under 50mph feels like you might as well get out and walk.
> This approach, which we call DetectGPT, does not require training a separate classifier, collecting a dataset of real or generated passages, or explicitly watermarking generated text. It uses only log probabilities computed by the model of interest and random perturbations of the passage from another generic pre-trained language model (e.g, T5).

Very interesting, though the passage above makes me wonder how robust it is to different models or even finetuned variations on models, as even GPT-3(.5) has evolved quite a bit over recent releases since its initial introduction, and there is likely to only be a greater and greater proliferation of models over time.
I agree, that's why I like NextJS that gives you the DX of thinking in reusable and composable components (React) and type safety (TypeScript) that then ships no JS at all to the client.
Those Alaska hermits who build their own cabins work damn hard to survive doing that.
That would be a great home server machine. But would like to know the price, and to better understand this "pseudo-ECC"
Also, it's worded like a strict improvement when really it's a tradeoff. You're sacrificing the guarantee of persistence for more availability. I feel like most people who know what this means are not going to want it.
Today your parents have to be richer than Croesus to have that problem. I think some people think that it is still like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but today most people spend 24-48 hrs in the E-room before they can get checked into a mental hospital even if they are suicidal, delusional, hallucinating, etc... If they can get into a mental hospital at all.
I'm not familiar with many Japanese song lyrics, so not familiar with the phenomenon mentioned. I'd also be interested in examples.

There are always several ways to write a word in Japanese. As far as I know, any word can be written in hiragana. Additionally, there are the kanji writing and then katakana. While katakana is primarily used for words that were appropriated from other languages, it has several other common uses. For example, if a robot, alien, child, or non-Japanese is speaking, the words may be written in katakana to indicate the non-fluency of the speaker. Also, many animal names are often written in katakana.

Additionally, there are quite a few pseudo-English words that are written in katakana because they originally arose from English words. Some of my favorites (written in romaji for those who don't read katakana):

- "baabeekaa" : pronounced similar to "baby car", this word means a stroller

- "akogi" : short for acoustic guitar

- "brappi", "jimihen", etc: Brad Pitt, Jimi Hendrix, etc.

- "handoru": pronounced similar to "handle". This is what a steering wheel is called in Japanese, so..

- "handorukeepaa": or handle keeper, refers to a designated driver.

Another interesting thing that occurs in Japanese is referred to as ateji. This is where kanji are used only for the sound they give. In other words, any word can be written by just using a kanji with that sound for each syllable. The meanings of the kanji chosen (there are many with each particular sound) can give additional flavor/wordplay/signifigance to the usage.

Finally, one of the most interesting things I saw in Japanese was a baby soap, called "Arau baby". The first word "arau" is the Japanese infinitive for "to wash" written in romaji, or roman script. Since this is the product name and it is written in roman script, the product label also includes a katakana translation (アラウベビー). So instead of using the kanji for arau, it was treated as a foreign word and then appropriated back into Japanese using katakana. Or something.
Is it even possible to fully turn off a Kindle anymore? I want to do exactly what you’re saying to prevent the draining of the battery, but the only options that appear after holding the power button are “Cancel” “Restart” and “Screen Off”. Holding the power button longer just seems to restart the device :/
PayPal to lay off 7% of its workforce, about 2,000 employees
That's just a stupid limitation of the UI on the iPhone. On a Mac you can set a custom time, which triggers just fine on an iPhone.
At 53 years old I've been writing code for almost 40 years. Sure, I'm counting those very early, TRS-80, "I couldn't do what I wanted in BASIC so I learned assembly language" years because, why not? Those were the most passionate.

The answer is, sometimes. I guess probably never "as much as I used to be", no. I've got a family now. Given X hours of free time where I could spend it with them, and choosing programming? Nah. But, from the hours of 9pm to midnight-ish, when the house is asleep? Here we go.

Coding is my job. To that extent there are limits, both to effort and passion. I'm not necessarily a "live and breathe for your employer" guy, just because I will often work on code late into the night. I am and have always been a, "If I can solve this problem by writing code for it, I want to do it" guy. That's my choice. I don't feel like I'll get fired if I don't. And I don't feel competitive with the engineers half my age that know twice as many new languages and frameworks.

Coding is also what I love. I love getting things out of my head and making them into reality via code. It doesn't have to be a big thing. I wrote some code to make my predictions for the football pool. I won. I know very little about football. That was fun. I have a side gig where I make merch. I wrote some code to generate t-shirt layouts. I have a zillion little projects like that. I'm passionate about those things because that's me choosing to express those ideas in code, whether to make a buck, or to make my life a little easier, or sometimes just because I had the thought and wanted to see if I could make it work. Nobody makes me. I don't get passionate about tasks other people assigned to me.

Whenever my wife sees me at the computer she tends to call it work. I typically point out the difference because sometimes it technically is, sure. And I can turn that off when it's dinner time or what have you. But often I'm at the computer because I want to be. It's relaxing to me to have hands on keyboard. This might garner some eye rolls, but consider a painter who sets up an easel in the park and charges $10 to paint tourist portraits. That's using your skillset as your job. But is he passionate about that? Unlikely. When he's done for the day does he put away his brushes and think, "No more of that until tomorrow morning!" Probably not. He's probably just as ready to get up early the next morning and go paint the sunrise, just because he wants to.

Not to say my code has ever been art, by any measure :), but that just because you use the thing that you have a passion for to support yourself, doesn't mean you have to lose your passion for it.
Surely raising interest rates and destroying the economy will bring back those 58 million chickens, restore the supply chain, and make Russia pull out of Ukraine.
On one hand, working so much can't be great. On the other hand, I've noticed far fewer services now compared to say, 2015. Curious times ahead.
The shift to working from home, then, should provide a spike in deaths related to social isolation?
I once consumed a couple of grams of NU-Salt (potassium chloride) in an effort to lower blood pressure. Indeed it works. Also lowers heart rate. And makes your face numb. Use it lightly on food otherwise everything taste metallic.

This wasn't a very wise experiment -- I don't recommend it. Injected, KCl can kill you (and is used for executions). I don't know the fatal oral dose, but it's so orally unpleasant you'd probably be vomiting before getting there.
If you have the public record documentation on his Republican donations, kindly share.
Fortune 500 companies can and do go bankrupt.
My younger brother and I both have fairly severe dyslexia. He's been applying to school and has been using ChatGPT to help him correct spelling and grammar mistakes rather than going to a person for help. It has been fairly incredible for him.

I wonder if this tool would start flagging his work even though he is only using it as a fancy spell checker.
Truth to be told, A* over navmeshes and path smoothing ('string pulling' by eliminating points with LoS) with adding occupancy/weight to individual triangles (or polygons? Not sure what's used here) is nothing particularly new... going some 25 years maybe?

I've not been in triple-A games for many years, but I'm not sure I'd choose navmeshes today for an RTS style game over a large terrain - they tend to be static in nature (without attaching a lot of additional data to them, projecting dynamic obstacles onto them, re-weighting all the polys all the time, while making sure that the resolution is fine enough for this purpose or coming up with some vector field on top of the larger ones.... but no one needs to save RAM these days, do they... it's not 32MB of Playstation 2 anymore).

Edit: forgot to add that once you realise that A* is 'open ended' and that you drive it via the heuristic estimate, that can be anything, it becomes much much more suited to 'strategic' path-finding than what's normally envisaged described as 'A-to-B' path finding.
> The truth changes according to what the majority believes is true at a given point in time.

benchmarking 'truth' to majority opinion is quite problematic. For one thing, you'd be asserting that a minority in possession of accurate facts had failed to grasp the truth of the matter, until their facts became common knowledge, meaning they weren't 'true' until they were believed.
It's normal. When you're young everything is pretty exciting to learn. You hit a make-or-break threshold with continued study at some point as it gets more difficult. And then as you go deeper into technical specialty the ROI diminishes, and you have to decide if that's what you're really studying now, or if you're just filling in a certain social/professional role, and if you're okay with that. A lot of people fall into crises as they end up realizing they don't want the role they've studied for, even getting all the way through medical school or passing the bar to practice law, only to quit there.

A lot of the misgiving and frustration with specific fields is really with the society and what it rewards: we live under nation-states, and within those, regardless of what the political system calls it specifically, what the state says deserves credit gets credit(funding, official titles, legal protections etc.) As a consequence a majority of big ambitions, artistic statements and such are just a matter of chasing after that, being "head of the class" and vocally believing whatever things are deemed Good For the Nation at the moment, and going on to build products and develop technologies that support and enable those beliefs(as your most wealthy and fanatical customers are likely to be true believers). Which will all change with the next crisis or election as the rules shift and a new set of beliefs rise up to the top spot. It can make a soul very cynical in short order, and it produces emptiness once you've reached a FAANG level of material satisfaction.

What we're ultimately building all the ambitions on are the "big three" of mathematics, science, philosophy. Studying those is generally virtuous, and you can definitely spend forever on them. But you can also "go wide" into the arts and sample bits and pieces of academic ideas as you need them. I've gotten really into cartooning and the whole idea of that is to go wide and simplify - take complex reference materials, copy them, understand them, break them down, put them back together in a more symbolic form. Communicate ideas that aren't clear, more clearly, finding new metaphors for them.

One of the rules I live by now is that on average, my day is better by seeking ordinary contentment instead of "big ups". Big ups lead in the direction of immaturity since they mostly involve paying for some kind of high-profile consumption and avoiding visibly hard work. But ordinary contentment is in just taking a small thing and fixing that, even if it's temporary or difficult in the moment. It can be the difference between "$50 storage container that adds a slight convenience for the next 30 years" and "$500 gadget that goes obsolete next year". And that carries over to stuff like programming in that most of the new stuff in programming is going to turn out to be a gadget, something used for a few moments of history and then discarded for the next big thing.
We have the capability to produce food for many multiples, house and clothe them along with providing more services. For the existing economic system (capitalism) this is not desirable because it seeks to maximize profits by providing minimum while extracting maximum revenue. Therefore there will never be a lower population level at which things will be 'okay'. The system will introduce scarcity even at lower population levels to maximize profit, and that will cause the same problems.

If the system changes to one that prioritizes the fundamentals and well being of others, even the currently existing technology level is enough to support many multiples. Without noting that with new technologies like vertical farming, lab grown food and many more, even more population could be possible.

> China or Russia

The current Anglosaxon war started against China (not Russia) because the US wants to remove an emerging economic competitor is a gigantic indicator of the ills of the current system. The US think tanks & policy makers openly advocated for this for more than a decade. Those who openly sought this by going to the extent of openly declaring that intention during the elections got elected. Now they are implementing this outrageous intent that so openly and bluntly declared for years. Imperialism - peak capitalism in its final form. It does not seek to do anything good, it only seeks to maximize its profits at whatever cost.
They're all false gods. Chicago economics are just as much of a demiurge as any model that includes "just" or distributional reward. It mostly comes down to whom god favors.

Do you believe that most hard workers don't believe they are applying their efforts towards producing value? Do you believe that everyone who receives reward for producing value , did?
> What do we do today? Craft instructions for a computer. Not much difference if a computer is on the other side, or if an AI is.

The difference is that the skills required to craft those instructions (prompts) will be diluted, so anyone can do it. The software industry will become like the news industry. Very few will survive what's coming.
I want to choose worthy efforts to struggle over. Being the corporate equivalent to a ditch digger is not my idea of a reason to live.
If an employee moves to a new job, was the first job a "mistake"?

If an employer lets people go, did it make a "mistake"?

Businesses are not completely static from beginning to end.

This is especially true for R&D heavy enterprises.
It’s this type of poor-faith discourse that has led to some of the, “California-bad”, sentiment you see in the news.

Same energy as states who pay for their homeless to come to California and then blast hit pieces about how terrible California is to live in.
People programmed from childhood to obey authority and do what other people ask have issues when those things go away. Big shocker.

Perhaps we can raise people to create their own paths.
You are free to make an open source CDM and convince people to use it, but good luck with that.
Wouldn't observing that shadows at noon do not change as you travel east-west rule that out?
I vastly prefer pgup and pgdn there. Moving between tabs in a browser is Ctrl+PgDn / Ctrl+PgUp, and physically mapping it near left/right arrows matches my mental mapping.
I think if I wasn't so sick that it's probable I could make a living off my own software creations.
Yea, I had to pay for the battery, but when my battery died they shipped one out immediately with free shipping for the cost of the battery (no markup from the "aliexpress special" I found later; and I bet theirs is more reliable than that one). Also, when I had password issues with FDE due to my own failure, after the warranty ran out, they emailed back and forth for days until we fixed the issue.
The ole carrot and stick trick only works when we believe the carrot is obtainable.
You are what you are. The pettiness of your response tells everyone what they need to know about you, without even shaking hands.

I am still mad they killed the old final cut... :(
Source control would certainly help establish a history of incrementally performing school work by someone when viewed by a highly technical examiner and when periodically stored someplace where a trusted 3rd party can confirm it wasn't all generated the night after a supposed false positive.

However, hundreds of hours of video is compelling to non-technical audiences and even more importantly is a preponderance of evidence that's going to be particularly damning if played in front of a PTA meeting.

With a git history it's going to come down to who can spin the better story. The video is the story and everyone recognizes it, so I expect fewer people would bother even challenging its authenticity.
> But as more and more radio stations in the US are controlled by ever fewer radio conglomerates

This is what's underlying it all. Following deregulation, fewer hands gained control of more outlets nationwide, homogenizing for maximum margin on advertising to the markets with the broadest reach. Top-40, country, r&b, at-work, alternative, and at best some market segmentation in parts of the country with significant ethnic demographics.

Advertisers mainly want to pick from this menu, and AM wasn't on it, with the exception of nationally syndicated talk and regional news and sports. That put AM in a down-market position, which put it at lower revenues, which made profitability a bigger struggle, which is a big sign pointing to the "niche" door of relative commercial obscurity.

The technical aspects are a factor in terms of appealing to listeners and thus advertisers, but the decisions are made entirely on commercial grounds.
> What is "smart work" in light of risk?

Just what I said. Do things that create value.
> Making the interested parties "disgusted and uncomfortable" - on purpose! - pretty much qualifies as "unwanted advances".

If you read the link you'd see that the women have actually stated that there were no unwanted advances.

Luckily you are here to mansplain to them how there poor female mind doesn't understand what "unwanted advances" mean...

I'm sure they all appreciate it.