skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread on mastodon was interesting. I assume this is not due to ChatGPT but an existing search sampling algorithm.

Asking bing “what is the human population on Mars”:

https://mastodon.social/@jhpot/109859745864083061

And then this reply was notable as well:

https://neurodifferent.me/@ZoDoneRightNow/109860796225392633

The site sampled in the above reply [1] appears to be a nonsense content farm probably generated with GPT-2 (it is repetitive and the date on the Mars post is 2021, though I know blog post dates can be set to anything).

If true it would mean that Bing has been serving up GPT-generated nonsense for some time, and now they’re going to add another layer of nonsense on top of that.

As someone said in the replies “it’s just bullshit all the way down”.

I agree with others who have said these companies have no (stated, tested) plan to ensure these systems don’t spill lies and nonsense. It’s possible that will be harmless but this is doubtful, and either way I do not feel good about these companies rushing to push out a half baked product.

To my amateur understanding it seems like LLMs are like the language center of our brain, in that they can take abstract multi dimensional ideas and turn them in to words. But we have other portions of our brain that actually handle logic and memory and produce the ideas to verbalize. It seems like LLMs are missing this piece. Crude analogy I know, but I think LLMs could be fantastic when paired with a more complex system, and the rush to deploy them as-is may be counter productive.

[1] https://tsam.net/what-is-the-population-of-mars/
I bet some of them are Live photos that leak data otherwise.
> Do you know that in MSVC uint16_t(50000) + uin16_t(50000) == -1794967296? Do you know why? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

I was very confused by this claim before I realized it should be *, not +.

Either way, the operands are promoted to int before performing the addition or multiplication. But with addition, this is not too surprising, as you just get the mathematically correct result 100000. With multiplication, you get 2500000000, which is too large for a 32-bit signed integer. This is undefined behavior, but in practice it often results in wrapping, which is where you get -1794967296.
I'm not knowledgeable enough about Rust's actual current state and plans to make concrete suggestions. Given the wide interest in Rust for security, I do think it's likely that in the long run significant effort will go into avoiding DOS-by-panic.

I think it's unfortunate that LLVM had no popular small targets during Rust's early years, so it didn't get much attention from embedded devlopers. Heap allocation is one place where this shows. It's not really worse than C++, though, where in principle many parts of the standard library can use a custom allocator, but handling errors is awkward, and in practice the ecosystem doesn't try. C and C++ standards also don't generally specify which library components are allowed to perform heap allocations internally.

C and C++ have ended up with small parallel ecosystems for such use cases. Since Rust aims to have one true ecosystem under cargo, it might be nice if library components could be explicitly tagged as panic-free, heap-free, etc.
Yep, my first TES was Oblivion and I loved it so much that I tried going back to Morrowind. I don't mind having to read and I don't mind walking, but holy hell the combat makes the game almost inaccessible.
Fusion\fission refining? ??????
The record companies were early investors. As I understand it, Spotify gave the big record companies pre-IPO stock in exchange for putting their catalogs on the service.
It's being downvoted because it's "old man yells at cloud" mixed with paranoia and hyperbole.
The original Unix app philosophy was these piped C programs, right?

Just today I made a simple app in C translating text files to an array you could put in a .c-file, as a piped build tool with a small twist compared to xxd. I thought about doing it in Python first, but I realized it was way simpler to do in C. Both as a user and programmer.

I guess Rust have the same lure.
> What they don't mention is how efficient the solar cells produced are.

This... may or may not matter. When it comes to solar power on the Moon, there are significant advantages and some serious disadvantages. The most obvious advantage is that there is no weather and no atmosphere. This means a lunar solar cell has way more potential power generation than an terrestrial solar cell. The big disadvantage is the long day night cycle. The Moon is tidally locked with Earth with an orbit of 28 days so that's basically 14 days of day and 14 days of night.

You have to work around this problem with batteries, which add a ton more mass, having panels (and settlements most likely) at the poles or running a network of solar cells around the Moon with power cables.

Settling the poles makes sense as this is where the most water is.

But having a network of panels probably makes a lot of sense too. For one, aluminium is abundant so making electrical cables should be entirely possible.

> Another big question is how much mass needs to be shipped up from earth to manufacturer solar cells.

Yes, this is a huge factor, probably way more than efficiency is. Or at least we should look at power generation per unit mass shipped from EArth.
I think the implied comparison was: do we launch panels to the moon or build them in-situ? The increased solar exposure should boost both of these cases by the same percentage, but if the Earth-manufactured panel is (e.g.) 3x as efficient, it might still make more sense to ship them.
Wanted to share this Reddit client because it's surprising how fast and usable it is, while still retaining a 'modern design'. There's also zero JavaScript by default. This is what the web should be.
Would you wait for 15 to 20 seconds for an SPA to load, if it's guaranteed to work faster during usage, or have it load in 1 second but be slower while using it?
Thank YOU! I have literally been looking for something like this to try to build a rocksdb-like project for fun. I've been waiting to pull the trigger on YC's code crafters (https://codecrafters.io/) which have you build your own redis and mysql-lite compatible db. Looking forward to going through this.
I remember first coming across the scroll at the beginning of the game. "Surely this isn't intentional? I have some sort of mod installed don't I?"
Yeah, There is something to be said about genuine curiosity, but in the face of a emotionally changed misinformation blizzard the best option is to take a step back.

If you decide you are curious and actually want to care about railroad safety, dont react to the current crisis, "hit the books" and read some actually informative material about past events.
This is the claim but it isn't necessarily true as often as it is claimed. If it was how would Stack overflow back in the .NET framework days have managed on I think 2 web servers plus a failover on the massive amount of traffic they do while also being responsive. There's 0 chance a python/ruby/etc web app could have done the same thing. And to think they could theoretically use less CPU and RAM on the same workload now running in .NET 6 which is dramatically more efficient than 4.x Framework.
Okay but you wrote "Another amazing study recently revealed that neurodivergent friendships and romantic partners are 11X more likely..."

My question was is this a study of neurodivergent people or autistic people or something else? These terms are not interchangable.
Windows 3.x's Program Manager as an X11 window manager
Totally agree. Sounds like they're just using an established, more generic narrative to deflect accountability - basically, "It's not our fault, it's the hackers and bad kids on the internet." We see this all the time for security incidents: "Hackers steal data from BigCorp", when the headline should read more like, "BigCorp released a faulty product, and now you're suffering."
On their page, they claim "Python 3.11 compatibility" – perhaps they've added it since you formed your impression, or is this "compatibility" word misleading?
Where can I learn more about Stellar, Soroban and Rust?
You're right. I forgot that WireGuard sits on top of UDP.
> It's like 2 grains of sand on a beach getting next to each other.

Unless the grains of sand are "Grabby". An aggressively expansionist species (as in, one new colony per colony every 10,000 years) fills up a galaxy really remarkably quickly.
You can build "product types with recursive values" in any language that remotely descends from C or Algol. Pattern matching is not wide spread, but --while nice to have-- it's syntactic sugar.

> When you don't opt in to mutability

Rust's whole shtick is safe mutability.
Hypothetically... after you have separated the carbon from the oxygen (discounting the human waste which has a significantly more amount of carbon)... what would you do with it as part of a recycling process in a submarine?
The only working confidence hack
Julia is implemented in C++, and makes use of LLVM, written in C++.

Apparently AUTOSAR and MISRA are relevant enough for Rust, that efforts are being made to allow a Rust certification subset as well.
The proven and quick working self confidence hack is finally revealed by experts and human nature studies.

An unpleasant feeling triggered by the perception of danger, real or imagined.
No, it's also true as a broad statement.
>try to find a way to work on things you’re actually interested in and excited to work on. you should wake up excited to play in the problem space.

This is how I recovered from burnout. That and taking a few years off.
It's a merchantability problem in my eyes. Immobilizers were so common on cars by 2015 that it was an expected feature. By omitting this feature, Kia knew that the likelihood of theft would skyrocket. Vehicles with high theft rates are uninsureable and in almost all states, cars are required to carry insurance in order to operate on the public road.

Thus, Kia knew they were selling a vehicle that might not be fit for market.

There are lots of ways that an item could be "legal" to sell, but trigger a recall or class action lawsuit. Say the gas cap was found to not hold up in an accident and cause an explosion: the gas cap could have met all legal standards at the time of production, but Kia could be forced to recall and fix the issue after the fact.

It would be easy to prove negligence in this instance.
Love and Libertinism: The Endless Fascination of ‘Dangerous Liasons’
I'm curious to hear how others have found Copilot?

I've been using it the last few weeks and I find it kind of marginal in value.

It was quite helpful with filling out some kubernetes type details and it makes some decent guesses when declaring constants. I also had it rewrite a line of code to order keys in a string.

Otherwise I find you really have to keep an eye on what it's doing - even simple things like function invocations it can get wrong e.g. incorrect arguments being passed to a method (where argument types aren't even matching).

Also I guess results depend on the language - I tried to get it to write a simple golang http server with a handler and couldn't figure out how to prompt it to write one.

I'm actually looking forward to a better Gopilot. It seems like doomsdayers do well in getting publicity, but to me it feels more like a refactoring tool that can help to speed up the development process (and teach me a few things along the way).
One could probably even call a program like mpg123 to play an mp3/wav that says this so they can hear it.
Hex Magic: AI augmented data notebooks
The Readme mentions 3.11 compatibility so that's astonishing.
If it's only the order that matters, I wonder if you could write a script to add the playlists to Apple Music one song at a time?
UV-C is absorbed by the ozone layer.
The second technology you mention is a bit of a non sequitur. What lab grown protein, shipped where? Right now there is no nutritionally complete food of any kind that is shelf-stable for three years; it's a major open problem in long-duration space flight.
This story should get more traction. It isn’t because it isn’t of general interest. Not because of a conspiracy.
I worked around this by using uBlock Origin to hide the podcasts section.
Are you in any way affiliated with Google?
I don't remember the details and I don't remember the exact place where I have heard and interview with somebody that works on this stuff.

They wouldn't use pure ice. But in cold places, with ice mixed with some other materials you can actually make quite good materials. Consider that in most places gravity is much lower then on earth so it doesn't need to be carbon fiber to be useful.
Show HN: Next-gen spreadsheet GRID launches GPT-3 powered formula copilot
Hi Hacker News, We at GRID (a spreadsheet SaaS based in Reykjavik, Iceland) just launched GRID 2.0 today.

GRID combines the power of spreadsheets and presentation/text editing software into one product. You can edit your spreadsheet, and create an interactive doc on top of it which is connected to the underlying spreadsheet data. In today's launch, we introduced our GPT-3 powered formula assistant that allows you to write out queries in natural language, and the assistant will suggest formulas, right there in the cell.

We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

We are live on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/grid-2-0

Read more about the launch:
https://grid.is/blog/launching-grid-2-0-the-magical-surface-...

Check out this blog our founder wrote about the various ways GPT could be leveraged for spreadsheets: https://medium.grid.is/gpt-3-and-spreadsheets-4808acfda30d
Private ownership is immensely beneficial to society as it encourages investment. Incentives work.
I mean, I live near the Hanford nuclear site. Despite the unseen horrors this patch of land has seen, people continue to grow food in the area and live to ripe old ages.

For sure, I don't really know how much continued damage the gulf spill might have caused. But I have been swimming in the Caribbean since the spill and didn't particularly worry about it anymore at the time.
I think the desire to repurpose obsolete electronic appliances is probably far too small to make a meaningful dent in e-waste. Not much to be done at scale with random, idiosyncratic, and underpowered SBCs.

I don't know for sure but I do strongly suspect it.
Historically Nvidia's professional-grade and consumer products were artificially segmented. The only difference was in their amount of VRAM, with recent example is the Pascal-generation GeForce 1080 vs. the P100 that someone else has compared in detail:
https://medium.com/@alexbaldo/a-comparison-between-nvidias-g...

But in recent years Nvidia has added harder gating in between their products, the biggest being SLI or NVLink support reduced starting with Pascal and now entirely dropped in the latest Ada Lovelace generation. Effectively forcing you to buy the professional chips.

A different angle - how long before Google, Microsoft, and Amazon design and deploy their own "GPUs" instead of buying from Nvidia? They've all started with their own ARM SOCs so surely it's inevitable.
I don't know. Oxygen isn't exactly rare. It is the third most common element.

A CO2 level of 0.04% is hardly reverting the atmosphere to the Ordovician, which of course, will never occur, and we'd need to reach levels of 3000 to 9000 ppm to do so. Even if we burn every drop of oil and every lump of coal we could find, reverting the atmosphere is impossible. The earth sequesters CO2 and plants consume it via photosynthesis, and produces the oxygen we rely on.

Any life is likely to be significantly different from us, so they might just want to take some CO2 home with them.
> 50% more than Radeon 7900 XTX, but the AMD GPU costs 10x less

You could say that about some of nvidia's other GPUs too. A better comparison would be AMD's server offerings, which are priced comparably.

> Unlike traditional HPC stuff like FEM or fluid dynamics, the GPU code of ML inference is not that complicated.

It's complicated enough relative to the problem ML people are trying to solve. That's why in ML, all these tools have emerged specifically to let practitioners not care about the GPU code. People writing pytorch code don't want to think about CUDA vs vulkan at all. It's more of a question for the people writing the foundational libraries like pytorch.

I sincerely hope that tools like openai's triton make it easier to support a variety of GPUs.
That amount of hydrochloric acid doesn't just magically dilute evenly into the water table in one instant.
In a way but legally they aren't identical. Conditions:

- Where possible, you have asked the employer to eliminate the danger, and the employer failed to do so; and

- You refused to work in "good faith." This means that you must genuinely believe that an imminent danger exists; and

- A reasonable person would agree that there is a real danger of death or serious injury; and

- There isn't enough time, due to the urgency of the hazard, to get it corrected through regular enforcement channels, such as requesting an OSHA inspection.

Note the MOA I cited above shows the railroad enforcement has an interlocking agreement with OSHA to this effect that explains this. [0]

You're also instructed to remain on the work site which is a key difference from a "strike." You may not be protected if you say ask for more pay or sick days, so if they weren't showing up to work or asked for that it would really muddy the waters. It's my understanding the "strike" was planned days in advance so it wasn't an immediate response to imminent danger (if it was, should have just been done immediately instead it looks premeditated) and the "strike" asked for stuff like better pay or days off which then made it non-protected.

If you truly follow all of the bullets above then it's protected and the anti-strike order isn't really valid as it's considered protected stop-work activity rather than a strike.

Note: not legal advice

[0] https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/mou/2012-07-16
> There is no underlying tech vision or guts.

Spot on.

Sundar was in fact chosen for his totally bland, milquetoast leadership style, because Google was getting to a size, level of influence, and power that was starting to make governments queasy.

Choosing as useless, bland, uninteresting, non-threatening NO-OP of a CEO was perceived to be the best move to preserve the enormous amount of goodwill the company had in the market, even if their actual cultural stance had shifted 180 degrees from the the "don't be evil" days.
So, last year I paid $100 for a year of CoPilot. It works well enough for me. I am curious how much better this new product works, but I am not going to spend the money for it right now.
Yep, you get about 36% more sun above the atmosphere. 1361 W/m^2 above the atmosphere vs ~1000 W/m^2 on a clear day [0].

Now you just need to bring big enough batteries to survive 14 days in a row with no sun.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#Irradiance_on...
Most companies don't even try to innovate, they just hire MBAs to optimize their existing revenue sources.

Product failures are simply evidence of innovation.

The implication that Google, or Microsoft, is thoughtlessly or intentionally putting out failures is absurd.
I think the issue with LaMDA was the engineer who claimed sentience. The consequence of that is that everything released would be underwhelming due to over promising.

By the time that fizzled out, it may have been deemed “too late” for it.
Feels like a bait and switch. Having access to Starlink most likely led Ukrainian leadership to divert their scarce resources away from repairing their traditional networking infrastructure. Now that Ukraine is heavily reliant on Starlink, Musk is using that position to undermine their war effort.
You have to care about the product and customer very deeply to achieve this.

So many miss this, and the big boys don't only miss the forest for the trees, they can't see the leaves either.

Total, narrow, limited scope.

Then big boys win by Hulk Smash. Startups win by leaves and forest.
And make sure that the scan is of low enough resolution that it fails to pickup the printer identification dot pattern in the printout...

The fax should help with that, except that it'll reveal the location of your source fax. Using fax software/service needs its own security...

maybe snail-mail...

This is getting seriously nontrivial
The entire movie is a teenaged cringeworthy fever dream.

Either immediately before or after that scene he goes on to tell his neighbor that the only reason oxygen masks are on airplanes is to keep people calm when they are about to die.

>-Tyler Durden: Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you're taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate. It's all right here. Emergency water landing, 600 miles an hour. Blank faces, calm as Hindu cows.”

Airline companies don't care if people are "calm" if they are going to die. They are not worried about the upset ghosts of dead passengers coming to haunt them. And oxygen doesn't turn you into a docile cow. I'm a volunteer EMT and if oxygen turned people docile that would make my job a hell of a lot easier.

The oxygen is there to keep you alive at altitude if there is a decompression event. At sea level it does nothing. edit: the partial pressure of oxygen at sea level is ~160mmHg and airplane passenger masks supply ~122mmHg-- they only exist to keep you alive until the pilot can descend.

One of the easiest ways to tell if I'm not going to get along with someone is if they unironically quote Fight Club.
The senate is 50-50 because each state gets 2 seats. Votes are not 50-50.
I hate their interface, and there are a number of annoying podcast specific bugs. But for this use case you actually can find and resume your most recent few podcasts. You go to Library >> New Episodes, and at the top under Continue Listening there are your 3 most recent podcast episodes listed which you can click to resume.
Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio
Mark-recall, teleport to temple, teleport to imperial cult, mage guild, silt striders, boats, propilion marks, overcharged jump spell ;)
And yet the greeting card industry with generic messages is $4.7 billion.

https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/market-size/gr...
I haven't this looks pretty cool!
Meh, you can call it value extraction if you want, but ultimately they're paying these people. Didn't Rogan get like 100MM? Didn't they fund a bunch of studios and new podcast creators? From the article:

Its drastic cuts have triggered a podcast winter, as the small studios it helped support consolidate and lavish narrative productions wane

Also, I've tried 4 different podcast players and found Spotify's player to best of the bunch. Controls work like you would expect, it's very snappy, search and sorting are also polished. I've pretty much stopped listening to Podcasts on Apple's native app because Spotify's superior experience.

I do get what you're saying about RSS feeds though, but it's not quite as black and white as you make it.

Edit - updated wording:

+ "found Spotify's player to best of the bunch"

- "they're all terrible except for Spotify's"
C# has a ECMA standard and several implementations.