skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect we'll see a TSMC sabotage in the coming months

What evidence exists to show that China is preparing to annex Taiwan? Satellite troop movements? Natural resource hoarding? Anything at all?

If China, or anyone, invaded Taiwan it would be fantastically easy to cripple tsmc fabs. Kill their engineers en masse. Blow up the lithography machines. Unleash a targeted virus like stuxnet designed for the hardware in the facilities on their networks. An important question remains, does China have the footing to not only fill the vacuum in their supply chain but to also weather the sanctions and quite possibly engage the us and its allies without turning cities to irradiated glass and starting nuclear winter?

I seriously doubt that China is secretly prepared to meet their own domestic demand for advanced silicon let alone call bluff of the five eyes.

That said, maybe xi is actually more out if touch than Putin and we’ll be cowering in fallout shelters come summer.
> This example assumes a physically impossible infinitely-sharp corner

The sharp corner isn’t the problem, and there are plenty of setups with sharp corners that work just fine.

> Zeno-paradoxical infinitely small jump from the initial position to some other position after time T

Every acceleration does that.

The issue here is the way that the ball gets to the apex in finite time instead of approaching it asymptotically as t goes to infinity.
Documentation related to the implementation of SimCity 2000
In college I tried a medication called Topamax (Topiramate) for migraine prevention. Topamax has a low-occurrence side effect of “language impairment”. After 10 days or so it became clear that I was particularly susceptible to this phenomenon.

It was a terrifying experience, but it was also a valuable one as it changed the way I view intelligence.

When I was in the thick of it, my writing and speech skills had devolved to that of a primary school aged child. I’ll never forget trying to type a text message and struggling to come up with simple words like “and”. My speech slowed down considerably and I was having trouble with verbal dictation.

The terrifying thing was that my internal world was still as complex and meaningful as it was before. All of the emotions I felt were real and legitimate. My cognition outside of communication was intact, I could do math just fine and conceptualize and abstract problems.

In spite of this, I was unable to convey what I was feeling and thinking to the outside world. It felt like I was trapped inside my own body.

I thankfully made a full recovery. However, my intuitive understanding of the link between language and intelligence was completely severed. While I believe there’s likely a high degree of correlation between the two in populations, on an individual level one’s language skills mostly represent one’s ability to communicate with the outside world, not their ability to understand complex information or process it.

See the following for more info on Topamax/Topiramate language impairment: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10072-008-0906-5
A similar unit exists for electrical resistivity.

ρ := Ωm²/m.

To calculate the resistance of a specific piece of wire, plug in the intrinsic property of copper (resistivity), and the dimensions of the specific wire. Out comes resistance.

Ω(wire) = ρ(copper) × length ÷ area

Where things get weird are thin films, ICs, and pcb traces with constant thicknes.

The unit of sheet resistance is ohms per square.

Because resistance increases with length and decreases with width, multiplying both by the same number doesn't change the resistance. Any square cut from the same sheet of copper has the same resistance between two opposite edges.
Prompted by weaksauce9s comment below I did one google and found a WIRED article:

https://www.wired.com/story/rumble-sends-viewers-tumbling-to...

Seems a justified concern, please consider vouching that comment.
Thanks!

GitHub Pages is a closed source hosting platform. MyJekyllBlog is open source and MIT licensed.

As far as I’m aware, you cannot spin up your own version of GitHub Pages to host things for yourself and offer those hosting services to others. MyJekyllBlog encourages this and has a guide (https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog#installation-guide) for setting it up yourself.
Because they don't want to sell it to anyone who has ever heard of Linode. They are going to sell through their existing corporate sales contacts, as a new cloud compute offering by your pals at Akamai.
One could argue that turkey started doing well with Erdogan, at least initially. He then somehow decided that he wants to become an emperor.
MarioGPT: Open-Ended Text2Level Generation Through Large Language Models
If I recall correctly, the decision to invest in Apple was spearheaded by Todd Combs & Ted Weschler.
There is a discussion of this in “harmony of the spheres” by Joscyln Godwin. A very well sourced book, in fact.
Whoops, sorry! I was trying to talk about the linked article, and missed that the comment had brought in a different product.
Not getting into the iron ore industry a decade ago.
It's morbidly fun to think about how much of the internet would break if github.com no longer resolved.
Best comment!

He's clearly brilliant and I read his posts, but usually I have to grit my teeth at least a couple of times due to his self-aggrandizing. But there was almost none of that in this one.

Great stuff.
China did allow an official investigation. It even included a visit to the Xi Jinping museum.
First of all, the "citing sources" needs to be out-of-band from the regular response, since we've already seen that these systems are entirely comfortable inventing ficticious sources.

Second, if I give you a wonderfully written paragraph or two about the history of the British Parliament, and 3 links that supposedly back me up, how likely are you to check the links? Because that's what is actually going to happen. The LM will not "cite" a source, it will provide one out-of-band and your motivation to read it will need to be high, which is unlikely given the apparent quality of the LM's own answer.
My child's school uses this feature when they email parents, you have to open the email up in a web browser and the web browser has to be allowed/supported by outlook web access to render. I haven't tried to screenshot it, but it's annoying as hell getting one of those emails on my iPhone.
So? He still sucks, pays almost 0 tax, treats his workers like absolute garbage, and has increased the amount of hate speech and pornography (including child trafficking) on the bird app.

He could give every penny he has and every penny he will ever have to charity, and he'd still be a rotten human being.
> the standard 'China bad' rhetoric

You have to keep in mind that from a geopolitical standpoint, China is bad.
Thats over 20 years old. Its not worth mentioning in this discussion.

He only sells one product, Spin-Rite which actually works pretty well for its purpose, tho it’s becoming less important as we move more towards SSD.

It sounds like you’re spreading misinformation just for the hell of it.
People will say whatever the status quo says or they’ll be booted off the island.

All that’s been proven is we can apply patterns of discovery well defined by info theorists a century ago to electron state in a machine.

We’ve hardly upended immutable law established by physical experiment. Discovery of human ability to capture natures energy in its machines is also not so new; trebuchets and arrows leveraged gravity.

Only 14% of the adult public has more than a bachelors. Religion proved it is not that hard to convince the majority in titillating nonsense.

Individually none of the specific discoveries that go into SpaceX or Google were invented there. Iterating on well known ideas with well known technology is what humans do. It’s fascinating and interesting.

The figurative gibberish about a minority is to serve nation state propaganda about how amazing it is here. But inside the gulag we all defer to the minority needed to sell the illusion.
An F# to VBA translation would be very difficult. The languages are very different and F# relies heavily on the .NET runtime which VBA does not use.

When you use Sharp Cells the F# scripts are embedded with the workbook when you save so sending the .xlsx will work for the recipient provided they also have Sharp Cells installed. For many workbooks the free tier would be sufficient for use.

If the user doesn't have Sharp Cells the functions won't load and the results relying on Sharp Cells UDFs will be replaced with `#NAME?` errors.
I use Teams a lot with some Zoom. I've also used all the competing tools - Slack, whatever the current Google branding gives, among others. They all kinda suck. But hang on, am I asking too much? Is this suckiness because it's hard to do well? Oh, and add in that we all need to use it, all day, every day, so _any_ friction really annoys.

Distributed, connected collaboration in real-time, at (massive) scale - it's a big functional domain. Offering video, chat, document storage, sharing and collaboration, as well as project management and integration into a plethora of other apps and tools. This is surely a hard space.

Just look at apps that inhabit much, much simpler function spaces - say, Twitter, given the start point of the discussion. It doesn't get that glare of all day, everyday work use. It doesn't have the function and criticality to people's day. Twitter is down? It's just not a thing 99.9% of people will freak out over. Post-pandemic, Teams or Zoom is down means loss of a sales, key workshops stranding participants, distributed Teams losing comms during critical releases, and the list goes on.
A password or PIN might work if sharing cars.
Jail could be the least of his worries if he loses upcoming elections. If he's about to lose his best option is to flee the country.
Can you sand a wall to make it smooth?
> put a low-filtration backup filter in there

It isn't just a backup; you want it there before the expensive fine-grained filter, to catch the big stuff and extend the life of the more expensive filter.
Please explain with a case study or an example.

IME face to face communication gives the impression that communication happened. The impression that a problem was discussed and solved. When talking people barely listen and just wait for their turn to speak and feel like they are contributing.

Written communication can be re-read, it can be looked at your own pace when you're focused. It can be challenged with comments and it's much harder to hand wave the questions away.
https://www.meteor.com/ -- I'm still a fan.
https://archive.is/Ntyb2

His two recent tweets got huge engagement. i wonder was this was part of the change? :

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625377144137461761

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625368108461613057
They really aren't more than just statistical word generators because we can and do build what are exactly statistical word generators and get the behavior of ChatGPT (because that is what ChatGPT is).

For what it's worth, this isn't a knock on ChatGPT, but more just how amazing how far you can get with straightforward concepts.
Or put blame on external actors as usual.
> he’s been at it for about 20 years.

At least. I remember finding his site back in 2004 and it felt long in the tooth then. Complete with blink tags.
> “I’ve been using thunderbird on linux for about 25 years“

That’s impressive because Thunderbird is 19-years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird
Doesn't surprise me, though. I talked to some E-staff a while ago and they said the CEO wanted a data lake. I asked what for, and they said he didn't know yet. They just wanted it.

So not surprising they'd throw away so much brand recognition.
I learned about this not long after it came out. That this didn't see a big push my the government during the pandemic and that practically nothing has been spent on ventilation to me are some of the most confidence shaking aspects of how the pandemic was handled
My first hit... should be enough of a starting point to search further.

http://uklegal.ie/passing-off/
Its a bit worse than that.

Going CO2 -> C + O2 -> (+ 2x H2) -> CH4...

But the combustion of CH4 is CH4 + 2x O2 -> CO2 + 2x H2O.

The loss of O2 to water means that each time through this removes O2 from the atmosphere which would need to be replenished.

That ignores all the energy losses in the process and requirements...

As to the uboat - https://uboat.net/men/foodstuffs.htm

> The galley was located on the starboard side, between the chiefs' quarters and the wardroom, and was made up of three hotplates and two small electric ovens. It also contained a refrigerator, self-heating soup kettle, provision lockers, and an enamel sink with hot and cold fresh water and hot salt water.

https://maritime.org/tour/cm.php?pano=nr

https://maritime.org/pres/potrack/pots.php

> The custom built pots were designed fit the Edison Type B range/oven built used on the fleet boats.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pig-boats-fleet-boat...

> Fleet subs of the Gato (SS 212) and Balao (SS 285) classes boasted sizable freezer and refrigerator compartments, and their galleys, though diminutive, were well-equipped, generally with two griddles, a deep-fat fryer, two electric ovens, a hefty electric mixer, and a two-gallon coffee urn. Fleet boats usually boasted an ice cream maker as well, even when lack of space in the galley or crew mess made it necessary to install the machine among the bunks in the crew's berthing space.

(Note the 'deep-fat fryer' bit and the modern sub https://youtu.be/bPJUVKizh90?t=364 )

Do note that submarines were built by the Electric Boat Company founded in 1899. Electric systems were in use since the start.
> you're obviously not familiar with 9p, so ill restate my original question.

you're obviously not familiar with the term "restate." statements are restated, not questions. also, if you say you're going to ask again, you should actually ask again...

[let's pretend you asked again and that I quoted you here.]

how does one make anything slow? poor implementation, throttling, bugs, etc.

if 9p is just raw bytes over the wire then you tell me how it could be so slow. you seem to know the answer and you're clearly playing manipulative games by asking what you're asking. going out of your way to make yourself feel superior to a few words on a website.

people here are saying it's slow. you're asking how it could be. I'm gesturing vaguely at the thing saying "this is how, apparently."

stop being an ass and either participate in the conversation or leave the conversation.
yes. stupid question deserves stupid answer.
Here's the money quote:

Younger users have become used to using simpler interfaces. They’ve never used a “Local Folder” and probably don’t even know what that is. So, we’re offering a simple option to turn the Local Folders display on or off.

So that's why they did it.
Hide the things for young-lings so they don't get confused, let the old-farts find the options the make it look like it used to.

At least it's an option, I dislike the 'simpler-version first' mentality but I get it. I really appreciate the fact that it's optional.

I've been using their mail-client since it was still baked into Netscape Navigator, so I'm not the target audience.
in that case I'll throw on my wraparound shades..

and deal with it
Seems like you think you’re exempt from being a victim of hate because of your demographics, and likewise that others of certain demographics, whatever they may be, are implicitly victims of it.

There are white, heterosexual, etc (the list of ways people say they privileged is ever expanding lol) men who have been on the receiving end of hateful speech because they are white, heterosexual, etc. and there are black or gay men who have never been personally attacked based on that identity.

But yeah, shielding yourself from speech or anything else you may find uncomfortable may make you feel better in the moment, but hurts you in the long term
> Because of fear. Because of bias.

Care to expand a bit more on what you think those fears may be? Or that bias?
Or the cost of running water pumps for public fountains
Its not programming anymore its prompting. Prompting it to write and run the program that does what you want.
Caring about any of my employers.
Email would actually be better than what I have actually seen because it gives a pseudo-version control system, patches or no:

Shared drives and folders with concurrent edits. Sometimes they'd separate them into "mine/2023.02.14" and "yours/2022.12.10" but that wasn't much better. Actually, because people don't seem to grok lexicographical order, or how to write dates at all, the dates are normally 10-12-2022 and 2-14-2023, guess whether the first one was from October or December.
I've read many articles explains how gpt-3 work, and did a great job.

What buffles me is the context consistency. ChatGPT was a huge leap compared to previous models. I have never seen it failed once. I often use "this" or "that" in my conversation with ChatGPT and it would guess 100% correct what I am refering to. Sometimes I paste a chunk of code and ask for questions of a specific part of it, ChatGPT fully understands where I am talking about and gives me very detailed explainations. It's astonishing and I never knew how it worked so well.

Also the title suggests "and why does it work" but I failed to find the reason why ChatGPT worked as in contrast that gpt-3/2/1 never really worked (well)
> To me, it sounds like you're the fearful one.

What do you think that fear may be?
Wow, I didn't realize that was him. He was on Flight 11 (struck North Tower) and his throat was cut. It's thought that he may have been trying to interfere with the initial disturbance as he had a combat background with the IDF.
Well, now I know where the funky thread is!

https://peel.fm/a413ced
I just hope you turned those servers off.
But if you ever a have a conversation with it you know it isn't a brain. I'm not talking about detection here; its whole point is to generate credible text so it is going to evade detection well. But can't you just tell from talking to it that there is nothing there?
was it trained on proprietary software?
Any way to watch the lectures while not a current GT student? I'm an alumni on the OMSCS, but this course was not available before I graduated.
China has been the best value for manufacturing by far during recent history. The combination of capability, price, and speed is unmatched.
You only have one other comment and it was 16 months ago, this must have really touched a nerve.
click on the DOI number in the second page and it takes you to:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620974755

> SARS-CoV-2 RBD-specific antibodies were detected in 111 of 959 (11.6%) individuals, starting from September 2019 (14%),

14% prevalence in September 2019 is batshit insane, the old folks homes would have been morgues, and they weren't.

and anyone that tries to argue that it was some cryptic non-virulent progenitor that would mean that a large amount of Italy's population would have been exposed and developed T-cells before Feb 2020 which would have blunted the effect of the pandemic (acting like a vaccination) which clearly didn't happen.

[T-cell epitope escape is something that we still don't observe years later]

> The serologic assay used in this study is an in-house designed RBD-based ELISA

They rolled their own assay, and don't provide any controls against false positives (a problem that plagued early antibody testing)

This study is very likely a clumsy effort paid for by China in an attempt to argue that the virus did not originate in China at all.

EDIT: oh there was a followup study and retest:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dispute-over-italian-co...

> Out of the 87 samples reviewed, three were found by both laboratories to be positive for IgM. The first dated back to Oct. 10, 2019, in Lombardy.

> But Erasmus' criteria required all three coronavirus-linked antibodies - IgM, neutralising antibodies and IgG - to be identified, and none of the samples fulfilled that requirement.

Reuters plays that off as he-said-she-said, but the Dutch have a much stronger position there. The requirement that all three indicators turn positive is a good control against random false positives due to cross reactivity. And they completely falsified 25 of 29 other positive samples.
I can absolutely see this happening and it's absolutely, absolutely disgraceful that there is no dedicated, clearly marked redaction tool on iOS's image markup tool. I have only ever needed to use that markup for three things: to draw a circle around something, to draw an arrow pointing to something, or to redact something.

Users need a tool on the markup editor that they can select and unambiguously know that if they draw a big black rectangle over something, it is going to be replaced by solid #000000 pixels and anything underneath will be impossible to retrieve.
(hit some ratelimiter on the other account, so using this account to reply)

Ok let me make this more clear.

I choose how to view things, yes this is true. But if I choose to treat human beings as jumbles of molecules, most people would consider that viewpoint flawed, inaccurate and slightly insane. Other humans would think that I'm in denial about some really obvious macro effects of configuring molecules in a way such that it forms a human.

I can certainly choose to view things this way, but do you see how such a singular viewpoint is sort of stubborn and unreasonable? This is why solely viewing LLMs as simple statistical word generators is unreasonable. Yes it's technically correct, but it is missing a lot.

There's another aspect to this too. What I'm seeing, to stay inline with the analogy, is people saying that the "human" viewpoint is entirely invalid. They are saying that the jumble of molecules only forms something that looks like a human, a "chinese room" if you will. They are saying the ONLY correct viewpoint is to view the jumble of molecules as a jumble of molecules. Nothing more.

So to bring the analogy back around to chatGPT. MANY people are saying that chatGPT is nothing more then a word generator. It does not have intelligence, it does not understand anything. I am disagreeing with this perspective because OP just linked a scientific paper CLEARLY showing that LLMs are building a realistic model of the information you are feeding it.
> Why does that have to happen at the same time?

Well because the grid capacity has to increase rapidly to satisfy the demand of electric cars and then some.

If the EU countries are going to invest into new energy infra during this decade, it better be clean considering the whole point is to reduce emissions.

This massive investment probably won't happen again in generations and it would be pretty stupid to have to rebuild the energy grid.

> and you try to frame that as a disadvantage

I'm happy with the transition to electric cars. Not sure where you're getting that idea from.

> I don’t get arguments like yours.

What argument? That the EU will need more electricity very soon? That's a fact.
The Mysteries by Bill Watterson
Yep. I've been running all my personal stuff on Linode for 11 years. Does this bode well? No. Am I going to migrate over a swapped logo? Also no.
Great story, but I think the last sentence can lead people to wrong conclusions. It sounds to me like you spent more than 3 days on it. A crucial part of what you did, IMO, was to figure out what's needed, how you could do it, and then convincing people it's worth doing.
Peter Zeihan is important to read/watch, but only as part of a fully comprehensive analysis. He's at one end of the spectrum, and that's insufficient to inform.

You need to listen to China bulls too. Absorb multiple perspectives and synthesize your own model of how things piece together and move.