skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's all about access - donate money, get your children into a place

There is also a flip side to this coin, which is why universities usually call this the “development” office.

If you are going to give money away, you are very likely to give it to an organization to which you have some sort of affinity to. Universities are actively trying to cultivate that affinity so they can capture some or all of your charitable spending. And they really, really don’t want any donor to know how much they’ve been manipulated. Many people really believe that their child earned their admission letter based on merit.
And of course, the "legealize everything" techno-libertarians on HN flagged this piece because to these people (who no doubt love "free speech") opposing viewpoints are dangerous.
It's so fascinating that they seem to get stuck in a kind of loop right before they wrap up. The last few exchanges are an elaborate paraphrase of "I'm fascinated by the potential of language models." "Me too." "Me too." "Me too."

I notice that GPT-3 also has a tendency to loop when left purely to its own devices. This seems to be a feature of this phase of the technology. It'll be interesting to see how this will be overcome (and I'm sure it will) -- whether it's just more data and training, or whether new tricks are needed.
We introduced it at work after the code base containing had been developed for 3 - 4 years with just manual reviews. The changes we needed to make were rather small and most of them were oversights, the code should not have looked like that in the first place. Of course your mileage might vary.

The only thing that disturbed me personally is no space before semicolon. Without having read what spec says I think the semicolon in shell is more of a command separator than a terminator. So I had always formatted it symmetrically, with space before and after like e.g. && or a pipe. shfmt did not support that so I had to adapt. Still having a tool and skipping review discussions outweighs this minor matter of taste.
> Is admitting the most capable students unfair?

Are they actually the most capable students, or did they just have a better chance of getting higher scores on the arbitrary metrics chosen? And if so, why did they have a higher chance?

There is a difference between better nurture and lack of opportunity. It's true, we shouldn't be correcting for lack of opportunity at the college admissions level, we should be doing it at the elementary level and younger.

But it's a lot easier to correct it at the college admissions level, which is a good choke point in one's life path, so for now, that is where the focus is.
The pun is in "attention" because GPT uses "attention" to weigh each input token and comes up with an attention score between whatever token is currently being generated and all the input tokens then it'll take those scores to determine what weight each contributes to the output. Something along those lines... I'm no GPT expert.
Service meshes make it easier to roll out advanced load management/reliability features such as prioritized load shedding, which would otherwise need to be implemented within each language/framework.

For instance, Aperture[0] open-source flow control system is built on service meshes.

[0]: https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture

[1]: https://docs.fluxninja.com
"I might be wrong here, but I have never heard the claim that 2 beers might be good for your health."

What we see - empirically - is that light/moderate drinkers have better overall health outcomes than both heavy drinkers and people who consume zero alcohol.

The outcomes of the heavy drinkers seem self-evident so we don't need to bother with that ... it is the relative better health vs. non-drinkers that is interesting.

One conclusion that many people draw, and which you are alluding to, is that alcohol has properties that are beneficial in small doses.

However, a much simpler and more explanatory conclusion is that in developed, western (or, "global north") countries there is nobody that isn't drinking and the individuals that consume zero alcohol are doing so because it really affects them, or bothers them, etc. They are less robust, generally, and therefore have health outcomes that are worse than light/moderate drinkers.

I draw your attention to the fact that NFL players have lower all-cause mortality and live longer lives than the general public. Is that because violent collisions and football playing, generally, magically helps them ?

Of course not. They're just stronger than we are.
As it’s been noted, these bots don’t comprehend what they’re saying. But I thought ChatGPT saying ”How can I assist you today?” and “I'd be happy to help with any questions or information you may need.” in the beginning of the conversation really reinforced this. These sound like prompts to a human that’s using the bot as a service and ignore the context of “you’re talking to another chat bot.” You wouldn’t say that if you’re meeting/learning about someone.
…in mice.

“Havekes is quick to note that “this is all speculation,” but given the successes his team had in the lab, he believes his work can serve as a guidepost for researchers and pharmaceutical companies who are trying desperately to help folks retrieve their lost memories. Finally, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the researcher is just as enthusiastic about the new questions his work opens up as he is about the previously accumulated knowledge it may reveal.”
> The OP article concerns a peculiar implementation detail in the lowest level that makes it very easy to write bugs at the highest level.

Are other async implementations using the asyncio.Task abstraction? I haven't looked into it, but I assumed that asyncio.Task was tied to the asyncio implementation and event loop.
How do you donate to syrians, or more accurately how do you make sure your money isn't being taken by sometime else? Would be nice to directly give to them instead of organizations.
New Threat Group Reviews Screenshots Before Striking
... if you want to foster and ensure the existence of proprietary software. Fair enough, I guess - but not something I would personally feel compelled to do.

Also note that the document never takes into account the needs of the eventual user of the appropriately licensed software, but only ever its (or other) developer(s).
Capitalism and colonialism aren't the same thing. Yes, capitalism can include exploitation. So can any system. But the world thankfully has moved beyond colonialism. And capitalism as an economic system has greatly improved standards of living in many parts of the world such as Asia since then.
> objective fact does not exist

That was not the claim. The claim was "objective facts are a tool of white supremacy".

It sounds like manufactured outrage to me. Even if it's not, it's an unattributed quote at least 3 jumps from its origin. If it can turn from "objective facts are a tool" to "objective fact does not exist" in one jump, who knows what the original workshop presenter intended.
Those would probably be thought of as gifts, rather than trade.

We see even in neolithic times that people ranged far with trade goods and community, such as sites like Göbekli Tepe.
I think it’s a matter of moderation, as good a job as they (or just dang, i don’t know who is responsible these days) have been doing there’s a new challenge where i see a lot of things downvoted to hell or flagged for no good reason. The voice of the petty moralizer needs to be restricted and reasonable moderate folks need to be able to talk about these issues.
I am definitely one of the handful of posters that goes out of their way to zap these repetitive, unproductive, tedious, unpleasant, site-destroying threads off the site.

The guidelines on the site (and the moderation log of Dan's comments) ask you not to post ideological stories like this here, precisely to avoid this kind of drama. Please run this social experiment on Reddit instead. You can post ideological stuff! But it shouldn't be so much a theme of what you're posting that you're literally doing a statistical analysis of the results, friendo.
Most people probably should default to a software implementation. Hardware keys are fine for work where IT can send you a new one and your employer eats the cost of their security measures while you can't do work, but for day-to-day life they introduce risks or restrictions I don't want while solving problems I don't have.
Assuming from context that the socio-political stance you have in mind is something like American leftism, it's always had a strong religious element to it. The recent purity spiral is a difference only of quantity but not really one of quality (in other words, not a bedrock shift from the past).

Its roots are religious too, stemming from Puritanism brought to America's northeast, spreading westward to the burnt-over district [1] of western New York, and eventually the West Coast [2]. Puritan ideas like collective salvation and rooting out the bad thinkers showed up initially as literal witch hunts, and today as metaphorical witch hunts seeking to sniff out those who aren't true (enough) believers. It still takes the rough shape of Christian offshoot too, with a notion of original sin (think "White Guilt" or something related), has martyrs and saints, taboos, holidays and customs like any other religion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned-over_district
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations
Tribal groups did also compete, and our hominid cousins, several of who were around the same time as modern humans, went extinct.
You've broken the site guidelines in several places here. Please don't do that, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Those are the moments when it matters most to follow them.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Seems to me that every argument is missing a crucial link.

Not saying it's wrong, but it's fantastically poorly written.

E.g. why can users of GPL stuff not just fork, just like BSD?

Why can't someone take abandoned GPL and run with it?

"projects using licenses like the GPL… live under constant threat of having someone take over the project by producing a better version of the code and doing it faster than the original owners."

And BSD doesn't? Cough, open, net, FreeBSD.
> People say this like it's a truism, but the notion that social media only shows successful people or is like a highlight reel of life, is possibly false. Unless your social circle is limited to tech founders or celebrities, most people live pretty mundane lives.

The article is missing the whole point of envy. Envy manifest for those around you that have it better than you. The coworker that started with you and ended up climbing positions faster and has a better salary. The photos of the weeding of an old crush. Is about someone being an step up and the what-ifs that would have made it so you had that now.

If you are start up founder yes, it makes sense being envious if you went in a round and someone got the investment you wanted; or an acquaintance is already retiring while you are still iterating on your 5th failure business. Envy adjust to the grandeur delusions people have. Tech founders and celebrities may be yours, but for most people those around them that have it better.
The only way I'd consider this, is if the telemetry my app generated is available to me or can be rerouted to another target. If so, please add this ASAP. Otherwise, I'll stick with my own observability stack.
The paper was updated with tests on GPT-3.5 (davinci-003) which was released (AFAIK) in Nov 2022.

> davinci-003, solved 93% of ToM tasks, a performance comparable with that of nine-year-old children.
I did similar thing starting with something like "I want you to lead the conversation". It didn't knew that it was talking to another chatGPT. It very fast fell into a loop of historical facts :/
You want them to empty San Francisco? In Chicago they tunneled into the lake and flooded it, but you wouldn't say we shouldn't build next to water would you?
ChatGPT and Bing do the Alphonse and Gaston routine, nice. Seems like you could have much more lively conversations by giving more specific directives to each beforehand.
I don’t now how else you would do it. There isn’t any way to tell what caused any individual cancer, as far as I know.
This assumes they follow the exact same path as us instead of achieving renewable energy first.
> Does the current level of community have the resources to deal with the problem?

and you propose to establish this how, precisely?

ps. I'm skeptical about the "end homelessness" claim. I agree that (a) the current superrich should be forced to give up some of their wealth (b) that most of it should be diverted towards the poor (c) it would help many of them substantially. However, problems like poverty (and its sidekick, homelessness) are systemic, and recurrent. The US has spent several trillion since the 1960s on poverty, and while it caused a substantial reduction in levels of poverty (especially among the elderly), poverty remains with us as a problem. So by all means take from the rich and give to the poor, but don't expect that to "end" poverty.
Every single element of this story is so far outside my experience that I have no idea what to think of it. Hours long summer seminars with a college professor? One who hosts them at his home and provides lunch?

17 year olds plotting a mutiny is the only thing in this that I can relate to.
> This makes no sense.

If you don't take population into the comparison of absolute numbers, you're not learning anything. The same applies to monetary losses. If you don't take the total amount of dollars invested into account, "dollar amount lost" is useless. Two people could lose $1000 each, one has a billion dollar, the other one has 1001. Are they equally affected?

> As for China I will probably have to concede the win in case you are referring to the Uyghurs, because the number of Uyghurs in concentration camps worse than Auschwitz must surely number in the hundreds of millions now, if the rhetoric of the anti-China crowd is any indication.

You don't need to. China's prison population is equal to that of the US, excluding the Uigurs. Include those and it doubles it. And from what is known, China is a lot harder on their prisoners than the US.

I've never understood tankies that go to insane lengths to justify and defend ex-communist countries, while they'll equally claim that "it wasn't real communism". Why defend it then?
Free meals for kids is a good thing and very important to a child's ability to learn at school and a family's ability to fight poverty. Take notice which elected officials try to end these programs and hold them accountable.
I don't think it's a flaw given a symbol is unique so cloning it wouldn't be possible, and creating a new one would compound the problem by not only removing the symbol, but now adding a new one as well.

This article has a pretty good overview of what symbols are, usually a corner case, but good to know -

https://medium.com/intrinsic-blog/javascript-symbols-but-why...
Reminds me of some movie I saw where something like that happened.

It may have been the movie The Machine (2013). But I am not sure. It’s been a while since I saw the movie I am thinking of. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2317225/

Also, a 2017 article written by The Independent claims that this already happened:

> Facebook abandoned an experiment after two artificially intelligent programs appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood.

> The two chatbots came to create their own changes to English that made it easier for them to work – but which remained mysterious to the humans that supposedly look after them.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/facebook-artificial...
>the resolution of 4x5 film easily exceeds any commercially available digital sensor, with pretty much any halfway decent lens.

Theoretically perhaps, but you have to look at the whole imaging system (including the inevitable loss from scanning or optical printing in the case of film). Even five or ten years ago the best digital systems were able to capture about as much detail as you could realistically squeeze out of a 4x5 negative. If you disagree, I'd be interested to see some comparison shots backing this up. I shoot 4x5 as a hobby, but I've long ago given up any illusion that it has practical resolution benefits over the best digital equipment.

It's also worth mentioning that for realistic large format photography, accurate focus and camera shake start to become significant limiting factors. The actual experience of using a 4x5 camera (outdoors at least) tends to consist of taking your best guess at accurate focus while squinting at a dim ground glass through a loupe, and then hoping that you triggered the shutter at the precise moment when the wind stopped blowing.

Finally, one has to take diffraction into account. Typical apertures for 4x5 landscape photography are around f22-32. A good chunk of the theoretical resolving ability of the film and lens is lost once you're stopped down to that extent.
Some games certainly do that and most audio engines will allow the sound designers to add random variations, along with randomly selecting between different samples.

There is only so much you can do with pitch changes and creative use of filters, and having multiple samples for each sound can burn memory (and sound designer hours) fairly quickly. As you point out there is a wide variance in the technical skills of sound designers (some love playing with the game engine side, some are better at making sounds and throwing them over the wall).
Have you used React? You must copy every complex object or list everytime before you update the state.
Sayfo – Assyrian Genocide
> The Soviet Union absolutely had less child poverty and hunger

You mean after they've let a few millions starve here and there?

Holy fuck, the insanity.
> Why isn't there a framework that does all this automatically for you?

Question: could this be implemented in PyTorch in an opaque way? Or would it require changes to its API?
After reading through comments, I'm just glad that Gen Z drinks less than Gen Y (that drinks less than Gen X (that drinks less than a subsequent gen, boomers probably)), because

* I should not have to explain why I don't drink, simple 'no' suffices

* I should not have to listen, that alcohol is not too bad/is completely harmless/is fine in moderation/is actually required in social life

And the best thing - they do it completely voluntary (or maybe because it's crazy expensive, but the outcome is still good, so...)

As for the local denialists: we live in poluted cities walking around polution generating machines just meters apart from them. Yes, it is unhealthy, but it is our choice to live like that, because EVs aren't that prevalent yet and living in the woods in a hut would not be enough for most

Go, smoke cigarettes, drink wine and hit a pot once in a while if you need it. It's your life. 0 alcohol intake is a recomendation, not a requirement. It is harmful, people should consider for themselves if they need it as copium or for the taste or for whatever else reason

It shouldn't be argued "but how much is bad-bad compared to just sligtly bad, where's my curve?". Make the curve for yourself, consider your situation and your needs
Or they were better at keeping them separate than us.
Depending on the problem, I expect it to be much much faster especially foor physics and math problems.
Extensive discussion from two days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34730365
During the Microsoft presentation they said "This is a new built from the ground up with search in mind" or something to that effect. But it's unclear what that means exactly.
I think some regulations should exist, and some already do. I'm not the right person to comment on U.S. regulations, but consider for example usage of bots in healthcare. U.S. already has regulations like Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and I do not think it is legal to use chatGPT for making clinical decisions.
I doubt the claim in the title, but I'll add something probably more useful. I only personally know one person with an eidetic memory (what people think is "photographic"). That "superpower" affects them in a pretty negative way. People think of this power through very rose colored glasses, but there is also a dark side to it. You don't just have a high recall for good times, your tool's documentation, etc but you also have a high recall for any trauma and bad things that have happened to you. Since you have such high recall with high precision it is much closer to reliving the experience than a typical person's memory would be. (there's that popular image floating around of how well you can visualize an apple in your head. Eidetic people are on the extreme end while Aphantasia people are on the other) People with eidetic memories often over think things because they can recall a large swath of historical information to make judgements upon (and this leads to overload). It also freaks people out when you can recall what they had for breakfast several years ago on a specific day.

There are definitely advantages to this level of memory, but there are often disadvantages that come along with it. There was a reason evolution selected for brains that could forget and fuzz information. Fuzzing helps with abstraction. We even see some of this usefulness of forgetting when training neural networks (DNNs are __NOT__ akin to brains. Neither in respect to {hard,wet}ware nor algorithmically. But there are a weak similarities and similar abstractions).

It's probably also worth adding that our memories are terrible in a different way. Not just in recall, but in that sometimes we just make shit up. This can be hard to distinguish and be problematic too. If you know any vivid or lucid dreamers ask them about their experiences (if someone is keeping a dream journal they're likely to be a vivid dreamer. I stopped keeping a dream journal for this reason).

I'm sure someone that is way more knowledgeable about this could say more, fill in many gaps, and correct misunderstandings I have. I am not an expert (I study NNs, not brains). So if you are an _expert_ in this area, I'd love to learn more. Domain knowledge is often hard to come by and nuances matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory
Electric Vehicles: No Longer Cheaper to Drive?
Per BBC report[1]:

> Specialists started the process by using a robot to cut the fuse and trigger at about 17:30 GMT on Thursday, but abandoned this when water from the cutting process destabilised part of the sand barrier.

> A decision was then made to switch to a slow burn technique, which was being carried out when the device exploded.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-64604115
That's why you need to have backlog grooming sessions regularly. Go through the backlog, prioritise it and see what ideas aren't useful anymore (already implemented, obsolete, stupid etc).
> m not trolling. I think America would be better if people didn't drink

America simply drinks too much

We Italians are usually described as people who love to sit and drink all day.

On average Italians drink half the alcohol of Americans yearly.

Consider that in Italy non drinkers are ~25% while in America 36% of adults described themselves as “total abstainers”.
Here is the true story how it happened:

the Silourians first depleted fossil fuels in the first hundred years of their energy technology journey

they subsequently realized the folly of this after they pretty much made the planet uninhabitable for them

they injected back into the ground biologically produced synthetic substitutes using organically captured solar energy

this large scale carbon-capture project, being entirely organic and sustainable has left no trace
Fossils galore?