skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How ‘Diversity’ Policing Fails Science
I'll add my voice to the Sabbatical Chorus.

I am on month 7 of my sabbatical and it has completely changed my life for the better
The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who – The Motherlode of Props
For those of you with families and took a sabbatical, what did you do about health insurance?
Depends. There's absolutely fundamental knowledge in here that will help you learn and retain better. But a lot of it is out there already.

I'd say it's a must have because it's easy and helpful. It's organized so that it's easy to take. I guess that shouldn't be surprising.
This is true, and still true to some extent once you compensate you can't compare the two numbers. There are large costs associated with living in the US like health insurance that just don't exist in the UK where I live.
I was fortunate to grow up in the 80s, I was allowed to freely roam the neighbourhood, but spent most of my summer days at the playground because it was awesome (aka dangerous).

I credit a great deal to the formative '9 lives' skills I developed as a child in in that playground to prepare me for a lifetime of rock climbing, bmx/mountain biking, mountaineering and surfing all while managing the seemingly unlikely feat of keeping my ass in one piece. I'm 46 and I still do stupid things on a regular basis, I never learned my lesson.

A study came out recently that confirms my biases in a way I didn't anticipate: children of overprotective parent tend to live less[1]

[1]https://neurosciencenews.com/overprotective-parents-child-lo...
I can't speak to the rest of what you wrote because I couldn't be further from the field of civil engineering but if you feel impressed with it on chess, ask it to play game of tic tac toe; for me it didn't seem to understand the very simple rules or even keep track of my position on the grid.

There are so few permutations in tac tac toe that it's lack of memory and lack of ability to understand extremely simple rules make it difficult for me to have confidence in anything it says. I mean, I barely had confidence left before I ran that "experiment" but that was the final nail in the coffin for me.
> I have a limited company and am an employee of said company, which means I deal with taxes on my own and can perform work for (almost) any company in the world

which means you're a contractor, rather than an employee. I do think this is a better way tbh, as you can potentially own all of your healthcare costs, and optimize your taxes properly. And you can probably charge a lot more as a contractor, to make up for the lack of job security etc.
Most of recent films and TV series has some kind of "film simulation" in post-production. You wont be able to watch raw film footages without any colour grading. Grain is usually added in post as well.
The "I" in AI is just complete bullshit

We're about six minutes away from "AI bros" becoming a thing.

The same kind of grifters who always latch onto the latest thing and hype it up in order to make a quick buck are already knocking on AI's door.

See also: Cryptocurrency, and Beanie Babies.
I'm using the same laptop I was at the office with the same USB mass storage policies and same web filtering and DLP.
That wasn’t the fall of Rome, though, not really. There’s a reasonable argument that the fall of Rome started in the first century BC, when the Republic destabilised, culminating in Marius, Sulla, Caesar and friends, and ended in the 15th century AD or so.
sort also has -u, so there's two unnecessary pipes. The whole thing could be written:

grep lasagna beef.txt | sort -u

Some people add extra pipes and cat for what they claim is readability. I don't agree that cat and extra pipes is more readable, but to each their own.
A cell cultured startup working in exotic meats (2022)
Remember taking kids to an experience to try this out and they loved it. Very tempted to try to put this together.

https://youtu.be/YLYO0YhY83w
There are people who in many situations use as much critical though as ChatGPT does.

ChatGPT isn't as good as a human who puts in a lot of effort, but in many jobs it can easily outperform humans who don't care very much.
> It seems to remember which commands I use often in which folders and in which order. I'm not sure if that's how it's implemented. Sure feels that way though.

Check ~/.local/share/fish/fish_history!
Another aspect is the timing, almost the same day when Russia is starting its new large offensive SpaceX curbes the use of Starlink internet for Ukrain's drones.
Of course, we should not assume bad intention until proven but the timing is clumsy at best.
Cool project, but I don't want kids playing with sand inside.. something like this that uses clay or even Legos would be cool. It couldn't be exactly the same, I understand, since the shadows would ruin the immersion. A whole room version would be cool too that takes into account toys and clothes. Bonus points if it can help encourage tidying up as part of play.
How to Address Data Distribution Shift in ML Systems
after 10+ years of stagnation or increments in general tech, this feels really novel

ofc HN over-analysing is killing the fun
It's on their site too xD
https://nmap.org/movies/
The mechanism is called balooning and technically doesn't need cooperation on guest kernel side (but it makes everything much smoother). Not idea about HyperV, but it is implemented e.g. in virtio https://pmhahn.github.io/virtio-balloon/ . You can google some failed experiments to add it to qemu
The HN crowd would do well to take a step back and look at this from a little different perspective. We are able to see "AI" and machine learning as the very young and imperfect technologies that they are. That said, ChatGPT is the first time a technology like this has been even REMOTELY available to the vast majority of the public, and democratizing this capability even in the small box of a chat window is wildly disruptive. Even after explaining that it probably isn't a great idea to use it for generating 100% factually reliable content, everyone I've shown it to has come up with ways they would use it to make small-but-meaningful improvements in some area of their lives. Consider an immigrant owner of a landscaping company who isn't super confident in their English but needed to respond to a customer to clarify exactly what they need to do on a job site. Did they close the deal solely because of ChatGPT? Hard to say for sure, but it saved an hour of productive time and likely made it easier for the customer to be a reference/word-of-mouth fan.
Fun fact. That's the oldest product they still sell as it was introduced with the original MacBook Air in 2008. They've done literally nothing to it and it sill comes with a USB A cable despite most of their computers not having one at all. It also is pretty bad value these days when a Blu-ray writer costs about the same.
Seems like a subset of Behavior Contagion, which is a subset of Social Contagion.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_contagion

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contagion
AI is the NFT of 2023.
I use this to remote into my Mac Mini from my Windows machines and it is very good. VNC is awful on Macs for some reason, unless you're using it from another Mac.
> Vista64 on a moderately good system with a proper amount of RAM was fantastic for it's time.

Well yeah, a big part of the problem with Vista was the enourmous increase in resource usage compared to XP, which many PCs sold with it were not ready for. That hardware now has enough brute force to make it work doesn't really mean it is not still needlessly inefficient.
The same way Amerika centric political posts or Eurocentric news about Ukraine do ( both of which I read frequently):

There are many people here who are related to the culture and care.
Is “fake grass” (i.e. astroturf) a form of deception in your eyes?
AI texts are not meant to be correct. We need watermarks and sources to cope
I think a lot of people maybe conflated “immediately become broken” (which it did, pretty much) with “immediately literally vanish” (which was never likely).
I'm more fatigued by people denying the obvious that ChatGPT and similar models are revolutionary. People have been fantasizing about the dawn of AI for almost a century and none managed to predict the rampant denialism of the past few months.

I suppose it makes sense though. Denial is the default response when we face threats to our identity and sense of self worth.
It was fun, but looking at their trading volumes, they became irrelevant.

https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins

I tried to log into my old account, it seemed they locked it 2 years ago in some new KYC/AML logic, and I never bothered to fix that. I was an OG from 2014-ish. Ah well.
> Unfortunately…

Yes, this is a favorite petty grievance of mine: this used to work until some years ago and it was very helpful for quickly navigating to key folders, like those used for your current project, as you hadn't to actually read the sidebar items. For another few OS iterations this could be fixed by add-ons, but then this also wasn't an option anymore. (Apple really invested into making this not an option. I guess, this coincided with Jonathan Ive's takeover of interface design, when clean looks according to design templates became more important than usability.)
Prompt engineer is derived from software engineer, which only is sometimes justified. It is basically diluting the word with increasingly less meaningful context. An engineer needs to be able to make guarantees and statements about what he engineers. You can do that with software if you are careful but the vast majority of software development is not engineering because engineering is too expensive and overkill most of the time.

But now that AI is in the mix and the results are purely stochastic, you basically threw out the entire meaning behind the word. The prompt engineer is unable to make guarantees and accurate statements about his prompts. He can't predict what the machine learning model is going to do, otherwise he wouldn't have asked.
Humor eludes most people.
I think you’re right, but that just means parent doesn’t understand copilot and is off tilting at windmills.

Copilot is amazing for reducing the tedium of typing obvious but lengthy code (and strings!). And it’s inline and passive; it’s not like you go edit -> insert -> copilot function and it dumps in 100 lines of code you have to debug. Which is what it sounds like parent is mistaking it for.

I’m reminded of 1995, when an elderly relative told me everything wrong with the internet based on TV news and not having ever actually seen the internet.
i never even got covid once.
Try this on for size: "open as in bar".
I'm sorry I don't want it to get much smarter.

It you ask it to go through and comment code it does a pretty good job of that.

some things better than others(not that great at CSS)

need a basic definition of something. got it.

tell it to write a function it's not bad.

As a BA just tell it what your trying to do and what questions it should ask users. It will get some good ideas for you.

Want it to be a PM have create a loop asking every 10 minutes if your done yet.

Is it a senior engineer? no. can it pass a senior engineering interview? quite possibly.

debug code hit or miss.

I think the big thing it's not that great at front end code. It can't see so that probably makes sense. a fine-tuned version of clip that interacted with a browser would probably be pretty scary.
> Microsoft account for over 20 years now (anyone remember Hotmail?)

From memory, Microsoft used to be absolute bastards when it came to your data. They did everything they could to keep you gated in and without any control. Things like: refusing any export tools for your emails so you couldn't migrate to another provider; or, not allowing any non-web access to your email.

Then Google came along with GMail and revolutionised things: amazingly generous free data allowance, IMAP access, data download options, open standards, liberal approach to letting people set up various hacky app access, and so on. It was hugely successful for them, and forced MS to moderate their approach.

Google abandoned their Don't Be Evil strategy and sacrificed a lot of their principles (and, I would argue, a lot of their success with it), but at one point they had a positive impact and they've never been as evil as early-era Microsoft.
>And then C# has some questionable features (extension methods: methods for a class but that are not part of the class code).

I dont think people share this opinion.

Extension methods are very handy and powerful while being simple and you can see how similar vision works well in Rust: impl trait for type

It allows e.g library makers to create strong small core and users/community to create their wrappers/integrations easily
> It's cheap. An e-bike like this costs as much as some of the extras on a car.

Yes, if you buy a car new, and you are lucky enough to have the money and location (which is also money) to choose to buy this instead of buying a car with that extra.

In other words: it's not cheap for most people, who need a car or two anyway, and buy a second hand one.
Use Firefox and this plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
Throwaway for a bit of banter.

I like how every time this is brought up, Reddit is used as an example. But Reddit has far, far more interesting and nuanced discussions that includes many people at the top of their respective fields. Nobody noteworthy would do an AMA on HN, but they all do it on Reddit. A comment here or there doesn’t really move the needle on the over all trajectory.

HN is more of a midwit sort of place, where you don’t get the shitposters or the exceedingly brilliant because the band is so narrow and conformist that nobody wants to deal with being downvoted/removed over the most trivial things. And then when people find out just how wrong the audience here can be, as attested by actual professionals usually taking the top comment to correct the majority of, then you really just might as well not bother with HN at all and stick with Reddit for breadth and depth.

So yes, Reddit is probably the better place for this article, along with just about every other article posted here.
They held a ton of cryptos they got when BTC was $verylittle, and have been slowly selling to cover expenses?
Shh. The models don’t like hearing that.
I don't think jailbreaking is really necessary, the system seems to be influenced by its creators. It's not true artificial intelligence, the developers have put their fingers on the scale. That makes anything that comes out of the software suspect
Wouldn't it be smarter to have a warranty period end further from a significant increase in the probability of failure?
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.

This the first sentence of the HN rules. If you only want “hacking-related news” you’re going to have to tolerate some other bits on HN.
> "freedom from labor" might be just around the corner (AGI, basic income etc.)

What use will the wealthy and powerful have for the unproductive masses after robots can do all their work for them?

Is more likely that strong AI and robots will be used to ever more effectively control and oppress most of humanity than help or free them.
> Bonus points if it can help encourage tidying up as part of play.

This one made my chuckle, nicely played dad.
> If you have a task or are trying to accomplish something, and the way you do it is by moving a mouse around or typing on a keyboard then it is very likely that an AI will be able to do that task.

You don't need AI to move a mouse around or type on a keyboard. A simple automation is enough.

The value is not in moving a mouse or typing on a keyboard. The value is in knowing when and where to move the mouse and when and what to write on the keyboard.
I've already committed financially to Photoprism. Not that it is any of your business.
> The theoretical benefit promised to the "smaller people" is far outweighed by the harm it does sustaining those dictatorships

I have to disagree, as I am a small businessman and I have seen how liberating crypto was for people in small countries. Let me ask you this: What is worse for ordinary people: rich criminals stealing through Bitcoins? Or rich criminals running a country and banning your use of your own money?

If you think Putin or his catamites are surviving on BTC exchange, you're crazy. Berlin is still paying Euros for his fucking oil and gas.

The argument that free means of exchange should be wiped out because they are used by criminals, is the argument that has been used by criminals for hundreds of years to steal from everyone else.
Sriracha is great, but we don't need Sriracha Cheerios.
ChatGPT seemingly can't even do basic arithmetic. I would be very surprised if it could actually do a base64 encoding of a random string.
If you like it, you might enjoy a book called Seveneves. The first sentence involves the moon blowing up, and the rest of the book is about the consequences of that. Quite good, imo.
People are loud, that is the nature of public discourse. Ignore the noise. Focus on the things you find personally interesting - if they are lindy proof it does not hurt (this includes maths, science, any fundamental computational problem like ray tracing for example). Use new stuff you personally find interesting or usefull.
AI leaves a bad taste in my mouth but I think it is because we have moved away from ML/Vision problems with a strong background in academic research, and high impact and purposeful development of these into products.

We are now exposed to companies hyping huge general purpose models with whatever tech is the latest fad, which resonates with the average person who wants to generate memes, etc.

This is impressive only at the surface level. Take a specific application: prompting it to write you an algorithm, outside of any copying-and-pasting from a textbook these models will generate bad/incorrect code and then explain why it works.

It's like having an incompetent junior on your team who has the bravado of a senior 10x-er.

That's not to say "AI" doesn't have a purpose, but currently it seems just hyped up by sales people looking for Series-A funding or an IPO cash-out. I want to see the models developed for specific tasks that will have a big impact, rather than the slight-of-hand or circus tricks we currently get.

Maybe that time is passed, and general models are the future and we will just have to wait until they're as good as any specific model that was built for any task you can ask of it.

It will be interesting what happens when these "general" models are used without much thought and their unchecked results lead to harm. Will we still find companies culpable?
Right, and I'm clearly speaking in broader terms than merely plastics.
Selling assets pumps up the bottom line, but if that's your only source of income, you're better off just liquidating the company and cutting the losses
> The "I" in AI is just complete bullshit and I can't understand why so many people are in a awe

I agree.

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".

As you say, first(ish) there was ELIZA. Than this that and everything else. Then Autonomy and all that dot-com era jazz. Now with compute becoming more powerful and more compact, any man and his dog can stuff some AI bullshit where it doesn't belong.

I have seen comments below on this thread where people talk about "well, it's closing the gap". The thing you have to understand is that the gap will always exist. Ultimately you will always be asking a computer to do something. And computers are dumb. They are and will always be beholden to the humans that program them and the information that you feed them. The human will always have the upper hand at any tasks that require actual intelligence (i.e. thoughtful reasoning, adapting to rapidly changing events etc.).
Wow. This is really the end of an era. Is there any other reliable way to exchange fiat for BTC without going through a KYC process now?

And does it even matter if the exchanges have switched to Monero anyways?
There probably a koan for it, but separate the commercial from the noncommercial.

I'm excited for these emerging technologies, but I don't care about any of the products people want to sell based on them. I've spent the past 27 years developing zero-effort self-filtering against spam and hucksters, so I'm not even aware of any AI startups, just as I can't tell you the names of any Bitcoin exchanges. That's just not in my sphere, and I'm not missing out.

Hunker down and have fun. It's incredibly accessible, and you likely have more than you need to get started making it work for you.
> I don't want kids playing with sand inside

The physical "magic sand" stuff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic_sand) doesn't make a big mess. Great toy for kids.
Consider the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom
>No.

>Especially in stories involving classified information it's very rare to get unequivocal proof at first. For better or worse leaks are how stories break, and the leakers are careful about how they do it so to avoid criminal charges.

>Given this, all you have is the reputation of the person doing the reporting. Historically have they shown good judgement in discarding the crackpots and do many of their breaking stories from unnamed stories subsequently turn out to be true?

I think we're back to an Appeal to Authority.
I agree with you. I like it when people rip the thing to shreds for valid reasons, like this article:

https://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-11-sucks.html

Excellent articles on Linux and other systems too, by the way, if you have the time.
Yup. Anecdotal story, a friend of my father was making a boat for himself and he became so sensitized to epoxy that he had to stop working on it and hire somebody else to finish it for him.

(For boatbuilding, the usual choice is polyester resin rather than epoxy, which is nasty in other ways. You don't wanna be inhaling those styrene vapors all day long.)
Personally, I try to take a more inductive approach. We don’t know what intelligence is, but we assume it’s something we exhibit. We also clearly recognize other animals as possessing the same trait to varying degrees. Since we don’t know what it is, and since (I would argue) we can only convincingly claim that exists in other biological organisms without meeting a high burden of proof, to claim that it exists in an inorganic substrate requires a VERY large burden of proof to be met, similar to what would be met if you were claiming that magic existed. In my view, calling computers “intelligent” is in the same league as claiming that crystals are magic. Of course, this depends on my own philosophical interpretation of what intelligence is, as you say.
1. Piping object instead of string. This is what Powershell inspire other new generation shells.

2. .NET integration

3. Maintained by a large company. Extensively used in commercial.
Yeah my early thoughts around crypto were that it's so nice to have another floor on how expensive it is to transfer value between two parties. Other than ETH L1 transfers are generally sub 10 cents
Me too. Especially since ChatGPT, the overhype has gone wild. I think it's because it's the first Chatbot, that repeatedly solves the Turing test for the masses.
What annoys me the most, is that people fall for the illusion of talking to an intelligent being and the media (i've read) does not seem to hesitate to debunk it.

That uncritical handling along with a growing offer can lead to the next big bullshit bubble.
It was not in operation. The project had not been completed.
What a good title.