skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Man, if this were 1800 you'd be stating that man would never fly and the horse would never be supplanted by the engine.

I'm sorry, what sort of bullshit argument is that ?

Flight and engines are both natural evolution using natural physics and mechanics.

Artificial Intelligence is nothing but a square-peg-round-hole, when you have a sledgehammer everything looks like a nut scenario.
I have been told both bobcat and mountain lion are delicious.
Yup i've used fish too for many years because of it's excellent autocomplete. It's occasionally frustrating when you have to paste a bash command in, but if it doesn't work you can just spawn bash to run the command.
What else could it possibly be?

"Something strange is happening on the sun, and we've seen it before"

"Something quite normal is happening on the sun, even though we've never seen it before (because we've existed for approx .0021% of the sun's life"

"Something is happening on the sun, and we'll puff up the importance of this measurement anomaly better than any other ad platform"
Yes because Google Photos is part of Android, an 18 year old acquisition.
True that is kind of their core work now. It's hard to recalibrate from knowing them primarily for their various little synths and music things like the Pocket Operators. They moved into more of the design space after I learned of them so I still mostly think of them for their music stuff.
I've used it to proof emails for grammar, and it's done ok.

I'll also throw random programming questions into it, and it's been hit and miss. SO is probably still faster, and I like seeing the discussion. The problem with chatGPT right now is it gives an answer like it's certainty when it's often wrong.

I can see the benefits of this interaction model (basically summarizing all the things from a search into what feels like a person talking back), but I don't see change the world level hype at the moment.

I also wonder if LLMs will get worse over time through propagation error as content is generated by other LLMs.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Yes, the name is terrible, but the book series is actually quite good if you like hard sci-fi. It has that "written-by-an-ex-software-dev" vibe that is so popular around here.
Before AI it was Crpyto. Before Crypto it was Quantum computing. Fusion pops up from time to time with "huge breakthroughs" that mean working products could be just 20 years away.

People love the optimism and the paranoia and uncertainty.
Not to mention the prominent “SDO” watermark in the video shared by the astronomer in the linked tweet.
I’m not the person you replied to but I’ve been using OpenAI’s API a lot for work. Some examples:

- Embedding free text data on safety observations, clustering them together, using text completion to automatically label the clusters, and identifying trends

- Embedding free text data on equipment failures. Some of our equipment failures have been classified manually by humans into various categories. I use the embeddings to train a model to predict those categories for uncategorized failures.

- Analyzing employee development goals and locating common themes. Then using this to identify where there are gaps we can fill in training offerings.
me too! we should all meet for a beer sometime.
My first reaction as well XD
I absolutely love the idea of this, but the Google-like gui and controls bring it down so much
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Having done this with VA and WA -- went fine w/ VA, went ugly w/ WA.

WA has no state income tax, but a beefier payroll tax, so it's cheaper for me but more expensive for the company.
Another, I think easier, way to see the exact same phenomenon but in a more obviously connected way is eating disorders. Pushing people away from thinspo and the funnels that lead you there has a real effect in not amplifying the anxiety that’s already there to a life threatening degree.
May I ask why two cables per room?
Intelligence is a capability not a mechanism, and therefore if you're able/willing to define what that capability is, there should be no problem measuring/gauging the intelligence of any system, biological or not. You don't need to look inside the black box - you only need to test if the black box has this capability.

Intelligence may be a fuzzily defined word in everyday usage, but I don't think it's the mystery you present it to be. Joe public may argue against any and all definitions of the word that they personally disagree with (maybe just dislike), but it's nonetheless quite easy to come up with a straightforward and reductive definition if you actually want to!
Is there an equivalent for deployer in .NET world?

https://deployer.org/
This is the meat of the issue - ChatGPT is exposing certain things a susceptible to bullshit attacks; humans have just been relatively bad at those.

It will turn out to be a useful tool for those who know what they’re asking about so they can check the answer quickly; but it will be USED by tons of people who don’t have a way of verifying the answers given.
Yep, was at Google for the rebrand from Google Market. Google Market I think was 2007/2008, Android was acquired 18 years ago.
If you feel like you thrive under such extreme time limit and that it's a great way to be productive, try game jams. Game jams are usually "the good kind" of hackathon where you spend your time on hacking and artistic expression, and what matters is whether your game seems fun instead of how many buzzwords you included in your slides.

Also, look up how ADHD manifests itself in adults. May be relevant.
I think you're onto something on that last thought.
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I did not expect anyone to answer my comment, so many thanks for that. I actually look forward to the UI.
We can throw in Vienna also (VY-enna).
Which should be no surprise, as people have been grappling with these ideas for centuries, and we still don't have any definitive idea of what consciousness/sentience truly is. What I find interesting is that at one point the Turing test seemed to be the gold standard for intelligence, but chatGPT could pass that with flying colors. So how exactly will we know if/when true intelligence does emerge?
I do think that governments will have an interest in keeping around models that they're in control of, just like there is publicly funded boradcasting, you may want to be able to control all the biases of a widely-used model and not just import it from somewhere.
I’ve heard this sentiment a lot from people who’ve read it.

I think he wrote himself into a tight spot though, and I’m happy with the result. Part of me thinks the second act could’ve been broken down into maybe like 0-1000, 1000-5000, and then the final act could’ve been essentially as it was, stripped down a bit. It felt to me like he crammed a little too much worldbuilding into it and couldn’t draw on the resourcefulness and resilience of humanity that dominates the first act. But it makes sense in context, because they’re not in such dire straits in the second half, and are approaching the whole issue from complex standpoints of religion and meaning and societal archetypes.

I surely couldn’t have done better, I know that much.
I can buy that it's a better/worse search engine (better in that it's easier to formulate a query and you get the response right there without having to parse the results; worse in that there's a decent chance the response is nonsense, and it's very confident when it's being wrong about things).

I can't really imagine asking it a question about anything I cared about and not verifying via a second source, though, given its accuracy issues. This makes it feel a lot less useful.
> The human is computation also, unless you believe in souls or other worldly mysticism.

I think it is incredibly sad that a person can be reduced to believing humans don't have souls. Do something different with yourself so you can discover the miracle of life. If you don't believe there is anything more to people and to the world than mechanical processes, I would challenge you to do a powerful spiritual activity.
Pointing out the existence of the side effect of triggering/accelerating industrialisation is in no way apologism for all the awful things that were inflicted on the countries in question (being English, I've spent a fair amount of time digging in to what we did and every time you think you've found the worst there turns out to be yet another layer of even more awful underneath.)

As an analogy: I grew up in NW England during the troubles, and the nearest big city was Manchester. After the IRA blew up the city centre, the rebuilt version was much much nicer and attracted substantially more commerce. That can be true without in any way having any interest in defending the IRA's explosive terrorism and extrajudicial murders (possibly my favourite exchange on twitter was Gerry Adams posting about feeling like the grinch going around his house turning off all the christmas lights before he went to bed and somebody replying "surely you know somebody who can fit a timer.")
> but if I start, you better believe they will get done

I have a note titled "ADHD med cleaning spree" where nearly immediately after taking meds I start to realize how messy my surroundings are and just start cleaning because quite magically, cleaning is now just cleaning.
Scroll all the way down and click on Guidelines[0].

The first paragraph states:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Note: emphasis added for dramatic effect.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Have you heard of prions? There's an evolutionary reason why your idea is super creepy
Peter Hotez on the increase of anti-science aggression on social media
> switch like

steam deck has the size of one and a half nintendo switch(es?).
Watch out for negative numbers

The mediant inequation is: a/b < (a+c)/(b+d) < c/d

If a=1, b=2, c=-1, d=-1

1/2 < 0/1 < -1/-1

1/2 < 0 is obviously wrong

If you remove negative signs in the denominators by multiplying by -1/-1, it works

1/2 < 2/3 < 1
Wonder how US gov views SpaceX publicly degrading allied military capability
Some pushes are different than others.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2019/release-of-1...
> why not join a smaller company where you can work fully remote and only 4 days a week?

this seems to be what everyone is craving these days, saturating the job search market, sadly :(
What’s the definition of where one lives? For example what if you wanted the NYC salary and you rented out a bunk bed for $50/month and traveled around the country while working remote?

Cities definitely don’t have the resources to track you down and I’m not sure employers especially larger ones have any mechanisms in place to keep track. I’m not advocating for this just surprised it’s not more well known. Though I suspect it’s common and just not talked about much for obvious reasons. Certainly there are also jobs that require you to physically work from a given state as well for example.

How do so called digital nomads handle it from a tax perspective? Do they maintain a residence for tax purposes? Is that any different?
I feel like it dates from earlier internet, before the age of walled garden takeover, when it still seemed like a decentralized internet would be the thing, and everyone would be, like, using a desktop GUI to create html or something. Of course everyone should have a webserver on their machine, right?

Apple was ahead of the curve on something that never arrived and many of us still miss.
Maybe, maybe not, but that's not the point. The original comment was blaming the plugin, which is not fair.
The problem is that ChatGPT is about as useful as all the other dilettantes claiming to be polymaths. Shallow, unreliable knowledge on lots of things only gets you so far. Might be impressive at parties, but once there's real, hard work to do, these things fall apart.
Can imagine this will be really useful for the helpdesk scammers that get more and more banned by similar commercial providers
Worth mentioning: Project Hail Mary is being made into a movie, will be adapted by Drew Goddard who also adapted The Martian.

Read the book a while ago, didn't realize it was being made into a movie until recently, maybe others are unaware too. I'm eagerly optimistic :)
The Anarchist's Cookbook is legal in US.
Curiosity is probably a better word. There’s no way to get around without a car here so it’s just not the norm. So when someone is walking in the middle of the highway or down a dark road you naturally wonder why. If I grew up somewhere with a high crime rate I may actually be suspicious.
Actually on the Reddit thread, they mentioned he has left Microsfot Research as well, https://githubnext.com/team/dsyme/
those “models” are mostly garbage because they ignore a massive contraint in most areas that are not Australia - transmission. this is completely ignored and all these “predictions” only ever consider energy supply while assuming perfect transmission.

So yes, it is actually quite difficult to get to even 95% renewable energy for an entire year and to do it for multiple years with unpredictable and changing weather is harder still. Also, not every place is Australia.
I think their argument was against naïveté, nothing more: it seems like Bitcoin served a useful and valuable purpose here, and that that purpose also likely facilitated international money laundering in a way that most people would normally be opposed to.

In other words: the medicine comes with side effects, and old-timey imagery of abuelitas trading their US bills for Bitcoin is probably less realistic (although more palatable) than the reality that the GP was likely a useful stooge in a criminal enterprise.
You don’t have to use goto. Set a condition then check it accordingly in the block following the while block and all will be fine.
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They are exclusively in nervous tissue right? I'm assuming they are only growing skeletal muscle, perhaps with some adipose cells as well?
Generally I'd agree, but I'd give Sam Altman more credit than this. He's been in this game for almost two decades, both as a CEO and as a VC investor.
You must be a much better programmer than I if those are examples you’d use copilot for. I was thinking more like:

start_value = get_*start_value(user_input)*
self.log.d*ebug(‘got start_value {start_value}’)*

. . . where the would-be italics are what copilot would likely suggest for completion.

And if it’s wrong, you just. . . keep typing. It’s autocomplete, just like IDEs have for other things. I’m kind of astounded that people have such an emotional reaction to an optional, low-key, passive, easily-ignored tool that sometimes saves a bunch of typing. Yes, if you always accept the suggestions you’ll have problems. Just like literally every other coding assistance tool.
Least incompetent web journalist.
> And the worst thing is that the bullshit hype comes round every decade or so, and people run around like headless chickens insisting that "this time its different", and "this time its the REAL THING".

This. To answer the OPs question, this is what I'm fatigued about.

I'm glad we're making progress. It's a hell of a parlor trick. But the hype around it is astounding considering how often it's answers are completely wrong. People think computers are magic boxes, and so we must be just a few lever pulls away from making it correct all the time.

Or maybe my problem is that I've overestimated the average human's intelligence. If you can't tell ChatGPT apart from a good con-man, can we consider the Turing test passed? It's likely time for a redefinition of the Turing test.

Instead of AI making machines smarter, it seems that computers are making humans dumber. Perhaps the AI revolution is about dropping the level of average human intelligence to match the level of a computer. A mental race to the bottom?

I'm reminded of the old Rod Serling quote: We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
Yeah, it’s nice to be able to say toss the laundry in the washer or get the dishwasher going during the breaks I’d be taking anyway so when the work day ends, I can immediately flip over to leisure/personal time activities. No commute helps with that too.

It’s taken a while to adjust to this and fully take advantage of it, but it’s enabled me to spend time on hobbies and work on my personal projects far more than would have ever been practical when I was working in an office. Back then I’d get in from work, feel too tired to do much of anything but scroll through social media or occasionally watch a TV show, with chores getting pushed off until the weekend. Once the weekend rolled around, by the time chores were out of the way and I felt like doing me things it was already halfway through Sunday and I needed to start thinking about Monday.
>ALL vaccines work by reducing R0 to <1 so outbreaks shrink rather than growing.

I meant this statement. No-one has ever suggested that the flu vaccines will stop the overall flu outbreak from growing.

Reducing the odds of infection also strongly depends on the extent to which that vaccine provides sterilising immunity.
Rust apps are in their "Nintendo 64" era
to make something
Let's talk about what ChatGPT (or fine-tuned GPT-3) actually is and what it is not. It is a zero-shot or few-shot model that is pretty good at a variety of NLP tasks. Playing tic tac toe or chess is not a traditional NLP task so shouldn't expect it to be good at that. But board games can be completely played in a text format so it is not unexpected either that it can kinda play a board game.

If GPT-3 was listed on Huggingface, its main category listing would be a completion model. Those models tend to be good at generative NLP tasks like creating a Shakespeare sonnet about French fries. But they tend not to be as good at similarity tasks, used by semantic search engines, as models specifically trained for those tasks.
Wouldn't you be infringing on someone's likeness? Seems disrespectful of property of those the AI is emulating.

I don't know for sure, just saying
Ask HN: Need advice on how to deal with an “AI” project at work I'm opposed to.
A new "high priority project from leadership" is getting started and my team has been asked to work on it. It's nothing illegal or anything but it's using "AI" in a way that I'm personally opposed to.

I've never really worked on anything that "made the world a better place", mostly just boring B2B software. However, I feel like this gets into the category of "making the world a worse place". I honestly just want nothing to do with it.

Normally this seems like it'd be good time to start looking for a new job, but given the current market that seems like it could be a good minute before that happens. Looking for some advice on how to deal with this situation.
I dread the coming "age of buggyness" when imprecise LLMs pervade UIs and make everything always a little broken.

I don't deny that LLM represent a coming revolution in computer interaction. But as someone who's already mastered the command line, programming, etc. I already know how to use computers. LLMs will actually be slower for me for a huge variety of tasks like finding information. English is so clumsy compared to programming languages.

I feel like for nerds like me "user friendlyness" is often just a hindrance. For me this has been the case with GUI in general, touch GUI especially, and probably will be for most LLM applications that don't fundamentally do something I cannot(like stable diffusion).
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A polar vortex formed in the north. video:

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Nice! I was following the AOT compiler years ago after Joe Duffy announced it. Good to see that they're continuing with the good work :)
You are talking about CQRS, which is far from a "terrible design", maybe not right for your customer?
Some people I know made an art exhibit that was the hippie version of a theme park exhibition and it had one of these in it. It was a lot of fun.
So I can only speak for Amritsari and Dogra/Kaladi Kulche but they are basically lighter than Naan and supposed to be more smokey (because they've been in the tandoor longer), and if it's a Kaladi Kulche, it's topped with Kaladi Paneer. Also, Kulche need to be pan fried.

The style of "Naan" I've eaten in the home country (which in hindsight may technically count as Shirmal) is much less smokey and harsh, and much heavier. The naan they serve in most Indian restaurants here in US/Canada is much lighter than home style naans and also not cooked as long in a tandoor - which is unsurprising because their profit margins are massive on Naan and Rice.

At least in Pahari regions, Kulche and Tandoori Roti tend to be the staple, not Naan.
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Honestly, you should charge like $1 for each operation. People will trust it more that way, as you're not incentivized to snoop on their files (or put 500 ads everywhere).
I agree. Especially when my sleep/exercise isn't as good as it should be.
Intuitively, I think of "naan" as fluffier; with a more interesting shape (triangle, rather than the usual circle); and usually topped (if not stuffed) with some thoughtful sprinkling of garlic, herbs, etc.

In general, though, by the time you collect all the things that could be "kulcha" and all the things that could be "naan," you end up with a Venn diagram that has a pretty healthy overlap.

A lot depends on regional variations and individual chefs. In a restaurant situation in modern times, you'd generally expect "naan" to cover the usual breads that people want/expect, given the popularity of the word at this point, whereas "kulcha" is probably reserved for the chef's desire to do something a little more interesting (e.g., an elaborate stuffing) in bread that might also be cooked slightly differently. You can likely bank on the triangle/circle difference, but... you never know.

In the context of the myth, it likely underlines the simplicity and home-made nature of the bread, especially because of the note about the water. Kulcha can be made with fewer ingredients, if you imagine the simplest possible "kulcha" compared to the simplest possible "naan." So the vibe I got from the story is, "This saint lives such a simple and enlightened life that he doesn't even bother with the fancy fluffy restaurant breads; a simple home-made kulcha will do just fine."

TL;DR: It's complicated, and it's still tough these days to find a half-decent paratha.
as you mention gaming – do you know the doom-in-lego-brick? https://kilograham.github.io/rp2040-doom/ and brick assembly https://youtube.com/watch?v=6wBrOV2FJM8

There are some video links in the (german) article https://heise.de/-7448263. Mind-blowing.
Not a traveler, but I have been on HN for almost 15 years now, so I’ve seen this play out far too often to ignore it. This shit can only fool the people who think they’ve discovered gold and are too committed to call it what it is: lipstick on a pig.

Whether or not the commenters on Reddit tend to shitpost AMAs doesn’t speak to the fact that AMAs occur there, and the people give long winded answers to questions and talk at length about things. Literally there are people there whose answers to each question is a blog post entry on HN.

Usually the reason why celebrities/experts pop on comment sections here is to correct others. Which again, is just sad that the community here is naive with misinformation and cargo culling.
Maybe the official blog post would be the better link: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/02/09/gitlab-news/
The feedback loop is a lot quicker for an IC than a manager. It could take several quarters or longer to uncover that a manager is not performing.
aaaand it’s down. Thanks vercel
But will it? After accounting for the time needed to fix all the bugs it introduces?