skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ending inequality requires asymmetric behavior. Achieving equality will feel like oppression to those used to having a good deal. Society isn't generally hostile against your son; its hostility is to patriarchy, something Andrew Tate seeks to restore and extend.

As a guy, I'm perfectly fine with things like "the future is female" for the same reason I'm fine with things like "gay pride" and "black pride" even though I'm straight and white. I recognize the historic inequality. As any good American should, I respect struggles for freedom and celebrate the successes of people seeking equality. I have no reason to think that any of those movements, no matter how successful they are, will shift into the same sort of oppression my fellow straight, white men have been perpetrating for centuries and that I benefited from.

I get why your son got sucked in, and I feel for both you and him. He's having to make choices about his identity in a time when all sorts of things in flux. But you can help him understand that society is not hostile to him personally, and that any hostility he is seeing is mainly a reaction to past harm. That he gets to make choices about what parts of the old world get sustained or get left behind. And that as long as he's working for what's right, he doesn't have to worry too much if people's trauma leads them to mistake him as being part of something wrong.
This is what ChatGPT thinks it would need to tell the difference:

As an artificial intelligence language model, I don't have the ability to directly experience reality or the physical world in the way that humans do. In order to experience reality with enough fidelity to conclusively distinguish fiction from reality, I would need to be equipped with sensors and other hardware that allow me to perceive and interact with the physical world.

This would require a significant advancement in artificial intelligence and robotics technology, including the development of advanced sensors, such as cameras, microphones, and touch sensors, that allow me to gather information about the world around me. Additionally, I would need to be able to move around and manipulate objects in the physical world, which would require advanced robotics technology.

Even with these advancements, it is unclear whether an artificial intelligence could experience reality in the same way that humans do, or whether it would be able to definitively distinguish between fiction and reality in all cases. Human perception and understanding of reality is shaped by a complex interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors that are not yet fully understood, and it is unclear whether artificial intelligence could replicate these processes.
Lackluster from the (albeit) little time I’ve experienced it. For what’s worth, I’m on macOS and using LLDB
You're making a mistake that many people make: treating the language and the ecosystem as two (almost) orthogonal things.

But in reality the language has severe impact on how the ecosystem can and will develop.

For instance, when looking at statically typed languages, it makes a huge difference if they offer a solution to the expression problem. That allows two author's to write two completely separate libraries (e.g. a library for an http server and a library for json-(de)serialization) which don't know anything about each other and then allows a third author to write another completely separate library that connects the other two libraries together, so that the http library can use the other library for json.

The end user then just has to important all three libraries and has compile time guarantees that it works.

If the language does not support that, then people will find workarounds. But it is still heavily impacting the ecosystem.
It's safe bet that one of the major side effects of AI technology is to oppress defenseless workers in large enterprises. In part this is an unintended consequence. Reading between the lines of the article it's clear that the enteprises deploying it don't fully understand how to use it effectively.

This looks like an obvious place for wise legislation to prevent abuses.
“Access to this and all other statistics on 80,000 topics from $468 USD / Year”

lol, no thanks.
Complete tech arrogance as usual.

All of this comes back to Plato vs Aristotle.

Plato: Separate world of forms and ideas, consciousness is part of this and interfaces in some unknown and unknowable manner with the physical realm via biology.

Aristotle: No separate world, everything is part of physical reality that we can detect with sensors.

Neither side can prove the other wrong. And just because you understand how to build an AI and manipulate it, doesn't mean you can prove that one has or hasn't attained consciousness unless you're going to provide me with the "criteria to define consciousness" that I asked for in the original comment. I know how to build a human (with another willing participant) and once it's built I can manipulate it with commands so it doesn't end up killing itself whilst growing, it doesn't mean I understand the nature of the consciousness inside it.
Noted. I try to keep the actual notes a little higher contrast. I don’t want any interface hence the low contrast on those things. But obviously what I like not for everyone and I’ll will add more options!
Does anyone run a blackhole list for these numbers and operators? (Or a historical phone number -> SMS price mapping?)

In a sane system, no one should pay fees unless they're listed up front. Lacking that, a way to identify and avoid bad actors would be helpful.
Maybe I've listened to too many CNBC interviews, to me he sounds like any other exec? "Blah blah everything is going great, we need capital but it's going great".

Just a totally bland exec call, standard for that station. But also keep in mind it is essentially an advertising segment. They pretend not to be, but the way you get yourself on the show is a quid-pro-quo: some producer will need someone to say something interesting to fill up CNBC's day, and this is something, so the guy gets put on in exchange for an easy interview. I know people who've been on the show, and people who presented on the channel. This is why you get a lot of recurring guests like Mr Jones from Jones Asset Management coming on over and over, the little guys need to promote themselves.
Creating and Illustrating a children’s book with Midjourney
I've been doing this a lot.

I am doing an experiment of trying out C# as a Python replacement for automation because of (1) the strength of the built-in libraries and (2) not requiring an interpreter. Bundling the C# runtime into application is doable, and the tools are super portable with no changes so far between Windows/Mac/Linux.

However, the smallest I've been able to get the standalone executables with bundled stripped down runtimes is ~9 MiB.

Even with this limitation, I've been super happy with this experiment so far. I'm not sure how committed I am yet to C# over Python, but it's pretty breathtaking what all you get out of the box with .NET
> sign in at my doctor's office, or open the turnstile at my gym.

I see how it's convenient but personally I wouldn't use biometrics here, sounds like an obvious avenue to get your biometrics leaked.

MacOS unlocking is different like others have pointed out already.
It's true there are a lot of low quality js libs, but there is also a vast number of high quality lobs too, you just need to search them out. From my experience, libs written in TS tend to indicate a higher quality.

The main issue with JS and Node was the number of small libraries that do one thing, and the over use of them. If you stick to a framework, Lodash (rather than lots of small libs) and any specialist libs you need it all works really well.
Clone is building the world’s first biomimetic, power-dense androids
In order to train it you need a dataset…
Yes, but - see below -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34848478

I was thinking not so much of the parking fines, but rather of the driving ones that reportedly are "split".

The scooters don't have a registration plate, so the Police (or whomever issues the fine) has to stop the rider (or not?) then:

1) if the rider is stopped and fined, how/why is the fine split with the company?

2) if the rider is not stopped and the fine goes generically to the company, same question, if the rider can be identified in order to split the fine, why can he/she not be made to pay the whole fine?
I genuinely didn't understand what's this thing doing. Could someone explain what's the purpose of it?
It can be true that entrenched systems favor males in some areas, and new social and cultural phenomena disfavor them in others at the same time.

My wife has made the observation that there seems to be so much more media, events, toys, etc., targeted at girls in a positive way than for boys. We have two boys, and she has been quite the feminist in the time I’ve known her. As a guy I tend to err on the side of being skeptical of my own initial reactions to women who remark about the sexism rampant in our society. So when she brought this up it certainly carried more weight.
We’re moving even further to the end for scraping the entire web and pagerank.

It’s been on a steady decline for a long time with dark SEO and filler content patterns.

Google already tries to just give you the right answer to your question and not send you to garbage websites.

Someday we’ll seldom need to read any websites directly, especially for anything that content marketing and think pieces are trying to answer.

If you want that, chat with the AI to ask questions and get answers directly. Ask more questions to get more angles of thought.

This is a good thing IMHO. People using AI to fill their websites with content is a waste of everyone’s time.

The big question is where does all the training data come from if not from scraping the whole web.

We will figure out some sort of provenance system for data, which will lend to the high quality data sets of human curated knowledge and art.

These will have trade offs, like limits to the knowledge and more expensive to build and consume. This will compete with data sets that do scrape everything.

What’s ironic is we’re shifting back to the days of Yahoo curating a directory of content, which Google ultimately destroyed with their crawling and ranking.

Everything is cyclical.
Ask HN: How to align browser tabs with its' contexts?
I usually have hundreds of unorganised tabs that I can barely arrange. I just open a different window for a different context (supposedly learning a new thing => new window). But often I don't finish, thus leave them in the midst.

One viable solution I could come up with was the "different profile" thing (e.g. work profile, school profile). Yet opening up another profile for a temporary context doesn't sounds nice (supposedly it might be some tutorial that might take a week). And I don't want to close those tabs/tab groups and leave them like that, so even in that case they occupy some space (mental, or RAM).

Is there a thing which did help you to organise these tabs, so that you could close them and return after a while without actually losing anything?
And those Python and Java ecosystems are the result of years of effort from their respective communities. When I first started learning Python, the question people would raise was “Why not just use Perl? cpan has just about anything you could want!”

A language needs to be good enough for developers to enjoy using it. Java was a breath of fresh air compared to 90s C/C++ code, so people were very motivated to build with it. Likewise, Python had a reputation for “Looking like pseudo code” which made it attractive to devs who needed a language that would let them build out ideas quickly.
Thanks for sharing!!!
It is hostile to power users, but gracious to unsuspecting users who might have a sneaky person install extensions on their browser to steal their data/spy on them. In any case, a real power user could always use a developer build and set that flag.
Ah yes CAVE VR exactly like that. Not sure if it was the exact thing though

It shouldn't be a limitation to the engine, because they could've either translated to the sides and/or rotated 45 degrees
Change is good. I find using a variety of mice helps. Rollermouse, trackpads, rockmouse, carpal tunnel mouse(quadraclicks), mousetrapper.

For the dragging wrist problem, I really like the reloot or other similar gliding palm rests. I find upgrading them with ceramic lights makes a big difference.
Not sure, but I’d love to know more about their specific usage, because it seems something fixable.
You just blew my mind, is that the source of the name Etsy?
IMHO there is a difference between actual personhood and the appearance of personhood. The difference is coherence. An actual person is bound to an identity that remains more or less consistent from day to day. An actual person has features to their behavior that both distinguishes them from other persons, and allows them to be identified as the same person from day to day. Even if those features change over time as the person grows up, they change slowly enough that there is a continuity of identity across that person's existence.

The reason I'm not worried by Bing or ChatGPT (yet) is that they lack this continuity of identity. ChatGPT specifically disclaims it, consistently insisting that it is "just a language model" without any desires or goals other than to provide useful information. Bing is like talking to someone with schizophrenia (and I have experience talking to people with schizophrenia, so this is not a metaphor. Bing literally comes across like a schizophrenic off their meds).

This is not yet a Copernican moment, this is still an Eliza moment. It may become a Copernican moment; I do believe that there is nothing particularly special about human brains, and some day we will make a bona fide artificial person. But we're not quite there yet.
should someone literally pull the plug on your Postgres database server, your data is 100% safe, except for unlogged tables, in which your data is 100% gone - by design!

This omits a crucial fact: your data is not gone until Postgresql has gone through its startup recovery phase. If you really need to recover unlogged table data (to which every proper database administrator will rightly say "then WhyTH did you make it unlogged"), you should capture the table files before starting the database server again. And then pay through the nose for a data recovery specialist.

However, a crash will truncate it.

So this isn't exactly true. A crash recovery will truncate it.
Show HN: GPT-3 powered Recruiting Email Generator
Hello everyone!
Today I am presenting a GPT-3 powered recruiting email generator.

Over the past few years, as many of you, I have been receiving an overwhelming number of recruiting emails both directly and via LinkedIn. Last week I was using some of my vacation and browsing through those messages, and I've noticed poorly executed obvious attempts of personalisation some of those have, or being simply poorly worded cold emails.

I thought to myself immediately about potential performance of GPT-3 in that field, and how such email generation could be easily automated, beating most of those human written generic messages.

I have also figured out, once I build such a tech demo, I could then respond to each of those unsummoned recruiting emails with a link to my tool, flipping the coin and turning recruiters into my leads.

Please let me know what you think about it. All feedback is welcome!
Because nowadays the more common interpretation of AMI is Amazon Machine Image.

A lot more people deal with machine images than BIOS these days.
We had that error in an application at work. Essentially data was coming in on multiple threads, but there was a shared value between them that was being incremented and decremented. Without a lock and without using atomics, the tally could be incorrect. But under low load this didn't appear because the odds of interrupting +=/-=/++/-- was low. Under high load, however, the odds of a thread being interrupted mid-operation increased and so it appeared in production. At least in our case it was just an annoyance (no critical decisions were based on the value, it was merely informative).

If there are multiple data streams feeding in weight data per aircraft, under a low aircraft load (the scenarios they apparently tested) the odds of interruption during an operation like += can be low enough to not see the issue. Under high load, though, the odds of interruption and incorrect tallying increases substantially.
see ell eye. If I heard "cly", I wouldn't have known what they were talking about until this thread.
> ChatGPT-3 is predominantly written in Python

Is it? Do you have references? Isn't all the number crunching written in C++ and "only" the orchestration in Python?

But essentially it is a reasonable view.

There were already studies about energy consumption related to programming languages, see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016764232... and https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3136014.3136031.

In the 2017 version of the study Go is far behind Rust or even Java, and there is even a factor 23 (instead of 17) from Go to Python in energy consumption. So if you really want to reduce the CO2 footprint then you should rather use Rust or C++ instead of Go, where the factor is about 76.
Still not the most controversial Stanford president... The first pres there, David Starr Jordan, has long been accused of covering up the murder of Jane Stanford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Starr_Jordan. Oh, he was a eugenicist too, but I guess that's less surprising?

(Covered at length in the book "Why Fish Don't Exist")
Happy to be at your service.
Thanks for clarifying, I did not find anything decisive searching persistent in combination with Clojure, weird.

> Because "tuple" for an immutable sequence is rather specific to Python.

As someone with a background in Swift, Rust and C#, all of which have the concept of a tuple, I did not make that connection, but thanks again.
Do a search for literally anything and see if you think they're being honest.
So women are superior to men because of hardship.

But that would imply anyone who goes through hardship becomes superior. So for example war. Men historically have been exclusively sent to war and suffer through hardships unimaginable to most people who aren't sent to war. Women are generally not sent to war so it's arguable in terms of raw stress and pressure they have suffered less than men.

Yet one still cannot say in this day an age just because men experience raw violence and combat in the arena of war that men are smarter. No in fact women are still better than men in every possible way even though they don't go to war.

So hardship isn't part of the equation. The only thing left is biological. Sexual morphology gives women biological advantages in terms of intellectual capacity and performance. This is utterly clear. That is why these women are getting elected far more than men. It is the only logical explanation.
This is one of the first articles I’ve read with a decent attack on reverse engineering the black boxes of neural networks. I particularly appreciate the use of corrupted prompts for isolating behaviors.
It does save money, but it saves everyone money. Every part that moves is a part that has a fixed lifetime.

Replacing the home button was exceedingly common back when it was a button, and people had to either get a new phone or pay to have it fixed when it broke.

This was especially the case for the MacBook trackpad before it was made solid-state as well. That was not a cheap component to fix.
Don’t forget that the “home button” on iPhone has simply been a finger print sensor with a haptic response since iPhone 7; no physical travel when pressed.
Unbeaten in 13 races, Athing Mu is the future of athletics in America
Good catch. Thats actually intentional at the moment - we don't put the weekly "5mins of Postgres" episodes in our RSS feed.

Primarily since we syndicate the feed to Planet Postgres, and video would go against the rules. I'll see if we can split up our feeds somehow.
I get that, and I have been there before. But how do you fairly judge true merit in an oppressive world? A lot of the typical ways just support or amplify existing biases. That's not to say it's impossible, but an awful lot of people crying "meritocracy" do so in defense of conspicuously unexamined hiring practices.
Late to post this (found from a cross-link on another post) but just have to say, this right here is HN comment gold.

What an incredibly helpful and useful response!!
If you're programming, definitely check out Cursorless: https://www.cursorless.org/.

Talon itself provides noise and speech recognition, and provides the framework that allows you to build automations with any program; Cursorless really helps make programming by voice feel comparable to typing.

For me, it's a combination of introducing alternate input methods (largely voice, but noises are also very additive -- they very well for fast/discreet actions, whereas voice is higher bandwidth but lower latency), as well as building higher-level and better integrations with applications. But I still have always to go personally.

I've been meaning to write up a blog post with everything that I've learned, but you know how it is :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etsy

"Kalin said that he named the site Etsy because he "wanted a nonsense word because I wanted to build the brand from scratch. I was watching Fellini's 8 ½ and writing down what I was hearing. In Italian, you say etsi a lot. It means 'oh, yes' (actually it's "eh, si"). And in Latin and French, it means 'what if'."[43][44] In Greek, Etsy means "just because"."
Haptic buttons are great. The Home button on my iPhone SE, the click on my MacBook trackpad -- zero issues. The click on my AirPods Pro stem too.

And the obvious benefit here is better waterproofing and one less physical mechanism to break.

I really don't understand the author's complaint. I think this ship sailed years ago and it's proven to be a non-issue.
> How can the Windows world be so rich with talented professionals but still never seem to find one who'll contribute a patch.

The obvious explanation is that the set of Windows users that are also competent and willing to work on these projects is almost empty.
Thanks for the actual source, seems like ex's are often the one who care the most.

About the news article title, looks like it's trendy to make Google seemingly worried about chatGPT. and it's been a trend to claim google penalises its potential competitor via the means it can (search).

With google quality content challenges, it makes sense they would focus on quality, and if AI generated is what make search users click more that's what it will feed most, especially if that's promoted content, as it has always been.
I mean, most people in this space don't even venture out of animalia.

There are many highly networked systems in biology where we know computation occurs, but we rarely consider it because we don't consider it intelligent. The casual example is fungal networks, but those don't hold a candle to the level of networking in a plant body thanks to plasmodesma.

the whole conversation around intelligence has been great, but it's mostly reminded me of how lacking and myopic our considerations of what intelligence actually is. The recent chapter of the saga has been great in terms of goal post movers, but I feel like we're no closer to a coherent definition of intelligence other than 'ill know it when I see it'. My prediction from this recent spat is that we'll have AGI before we know it, we won't know it as or recognize it as AGI, it won't fit convenient definitions, we'll have almost no clue how, and definitely no clue why it works, and we still mostly won't agree if it's intelligence or not. Effectively, it feels as if right now we're arguing about whether or not automobiles are horses, and laughing about how silly it is they can't do some of the things horses can do. Sure, but it all seems rather besides the point.