skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would actually disagree a bit about the office part. It's quite expensive.

> Some people may have no life outside work, but I assume they are the minority - seems ridiculous to subject us all to a degraded quality of life because a few people don't know what to do with themselves.

Weird take to be honest. As I said, you spent a significant amount of time at work/working. My take is, that this should also be with people you like and in an environment where your needs can be met. Be it "I don't wanna talk to anybody" or "I wanna be in the office every day". Fun fact: at my location we all do both, depending on how we feel, how our evening plans look like etc.
It's a tough nut to crack, I do agree. On one end of the scale you have labor incentive systems that are overly associated to (perceived) performance, which can produce much misery, inequity, and arguably reduced productivity - toxic stack ranking, the 2014 amazon NYT article, 996 Taylorism, etc.

On the other hand you have systems that you describe that are not at all calibrated to performance, and only care about seat time. Such as, toxic school systems or government agencies.

But, somewhere in between, there is a tremendous amount of happiness, equity and productivity. Such as, the customer service representatives that have worked for Amazon in Germany in the same roles since 1998. Or, airline pilots who, setting aside the various labor and equity troubles for a second, get great performance results from a seat-time oriented approach. Or someone that happily worked as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Rome for 20 years. In USA there's also a good deal of civil servants that have faithfully served our local societies for decades with a high quality of labor and life. The USPS mail person that delivers to my parents' house has been running that route for like 2 or 3 decades, he's still great at it and spends as much time playing with my parents' dogs as he wants.

I don't know what the perfect formula is, but I do think it involves outpacing inflation for compensation increases regardless of performance, and some amount of performance evaluation too. But maybe not too much of either.

Just my two cents, not an economist, etc.
Something I've never even seen mentioned, let along seriously discussed, is the protocol for deciding under what circumstances the first human will be born and raised off-earth. I predict that will turn out to be an intractable problem.
My Honda accord was $35,000. If the front is damaged just the headlights are $900 a piece. Ignoring structural issues with the unibody, the damage multiplier for new cars isn't the frame, but everything else. Headlights, fog, lights, sensors for adaptive cruise, calibrating the new sensor, bumper, paint, etc.
Same thing for all countries. This also applies to China. Stuff they produce can’t be made 100% in China. Though I’m sure China is playing games to get around import restrictions.
They don't. So stop paying them and using their devices.

Too hard ? Well, they know that, which is why they know you will pay regardless.
Yes, I understand that the rate isn't constant. This is a brief post looking at the scale of the issue, not an exhaustive dissertation.

The output is also accelerating, despite efforts to contain it. The only thing that seemed to cause a dip was the beginning of the pandemic.

But by all means, please continue to provide an example of the kind of dismissive opposition that is and will be faced by people trying to fix the problem, even when the food web is already collapsing.
I Dislike Shell Scripting
BVHes handle sparsity and very large scenes with variable density very well, so they are good to be able to see which objects you might intersect. kd-Trees are much better for objects because they handle the high density of geometry very well and are thus very effective if you want to test against a million triangles in close proximity, for example.
Anecdotally, people seem to have more "human" support experiences with Linode than with Digital Ocean.

Besides that, it looks like people like DO.
Small class size helps but you still need a good teacher.
heh i wonder if stablediffusion can put together a funny ChatGPT on Bing screenshot.
I remember a chap I know, who married a Russian, and he said the Iron-Curtain Soviet ethos was, to make two of everything, so that, when one inevitably borks, the other one can be used, or cannibalized for parts.
Some of these are more "When a linear type system hurts:"

> Common expression elimination

I feel as though there should be a warning when a parameter that could be a reference is not. I usually run into this when a function that I've written is incorrectly taking ownership of a parameter.

> Newtype abstraction

The Rust compiler could implicitly call `into` and `inner` (and then possibly optimize those away), but this (explicit or implicit) is required for linear types. What could work is: `Hex(&bytes)`.
I studied personally with Hunbatz Men in Mexico. Learned of the calendaring system linked to the travels of the celestial bodies and how the pyramids are 72,000 year calendars...

A centurian in the Mayan Order, studying their rites and symbolism.

Ive read many Rosicrucian Lessons, and books like that of Weed.

Here is my Grandmothers Masonic Certificate:

https://i.imgur.com/bC2bhRp.jpeg

I have many other Masonic Artifacts from other family members.... Old ones.

I am pretty informed on this subject regardless of your bias against my 'under-standing' <- Maybe a word you should better know well....
I don't think their macro sized wood and metal is very good so I doubt their microelectronics and software will be any different.
Not true. How I learned, at site in my profile. Really.
(thoughtful comments appreciated w/ any downvotes.)
You can't always decide what's going to happen to you, but you can always decide how you will react to what happens to you.
Depends on what you mean by "real time". My method of crawling the stack impacts execution speed of the app you are tracing. I intended to do future work to minimize that impact.

With allocscope, you do get a callstack for the allocations which leak, though.
Everything is giga-something.
> Subjective experiences are not objective and therefore no basis for science.

I'm not sure why that was your only takeaway. It explains qualia as a model of perception whose source has been abstracted away, and this loss of information is why they seem ineffable and mysterious. That directly explains the hard problem of consciousness.
Your anecdote doesn’t prove or disprove anything. Like a particularly snowy winter doesn’t disprove global warming.
Because we have the source code?
That is what I'd call empathizing though. You can 'put yourself in the other person's shoes', because of the expectation that your experiences are somewhat similar (thanks to similarly capable brains).

But we have no idea what qualia actually _are_, seen from the outside, we only know what it feels like to experience them. That, I think, makes it difficult to argue that a 'simulation of having qualia' is fundamentally any different to having them.
The font choice makes it really difficult to read on my screen. The letters are extremely thin.
Maybe you should stop using the overpriced Apple products, mh?
I am not surprised. I have come across both. Some are very well educated coming from top institutions who could be earning much more in private industry, but I have also met those who come from the bottom of the barrel whose grammar and vocabulary is deficient (liberry, expresso, etc) and who were not competent in basic geometry. In summary, it's a very mixed bag. Some are great and some really suck and should not be in education at all. Good CoL adjustment may help to weed out non-hackers in Ed.
Heads up that the Pharaoh remake released today: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1351080/Pharaoh_A_New_Era...
Hold it in your mouth
Well, you know, everything moves a lot faster these days than it did in the 60s. That we should apparently be speedrunning Act I of "2001: A Space Odyssey", and leaving out all the irrelevant stuff about manned space exploration, seems on reflection pretty apropos.
This looks very impressive! I am surprised not to see more points and comments -- this kind of project often gets more attention here. Get this:

The “OS” of the computer itself is Python. It’s not running something else with a shell on top. You write and execute programs on the device itself. You have access to the entire hardware ... Under the hood, Tulip is a (complicated!) “port” of the great MicroPython project running on the Espressif ESP32-S3 – a cheap (and in stock!) MCU with 8 or 32MB flash storage and 8MB of SPI-attached RAM. ...
Tulip comes with a built in text editor, and soon a music editor. ...

Maybe this would have gotten more attention with a different
subject line, something like:

"MicroPython-based OS running standalone on ESP32 with network, keyboard, color video, and sound"

Compare this project to Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64
https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware

Snakeware discussed here previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23391380 3 years ago, 158 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33003245 5 months ago, 26 comments
The point of that one, to me, isn't that it was wrong about a fact, not even that the fact was so basic. It's that it doubled and tripled down on being wrong, as parent said, trying to gaslight the user. Imagine if the topic wasn't such a basic fact that's easy to verify elsewhere.
> Isn't processing a $1.00 payment the same as processing a $1000 payment?

Technically yes, but the cost that Sumup or whatever else processor you use gets charged is based on a percentage amount set by the card networks. Sumup just adds a .5 or whatever onto the rates they get from the card networks and there's the .9/1.9% final charge.
To keep you from dying, though. This isn't a phone. If you want to make an efficiency-based argument against personal automobiles from first principles, I'm right behind you. But given that we're going to drive them around, I'd rather drive ones that kill fewer people; even if it means having to recycle a bunch of frames.
The fact that Microsoft has now released two AI chat bots that have threatened users with violence within days of launching is hilarious to me.
Petulant Child: "Why did you guys even have me then?!?!"

Mother: "Well, actually we didn't know that it would be you"

<long beat>

Mother: "We were hoping for someone with a job"

- stand-up comic Mrs. Hughes
This is the only thing keeping me from iOS. I shouldn't need Apple's permission to run apps that I develop on my device...
It is also nice how long Apple continues to release security updates for their phones, which I believe is longer than any Android phone manufacturer.
alltime classic Hacker News moment: "heh someone in the field could write this in a few days" "Hi its me 3 of us literally work at google brain and it took us a year"
> Programming (mostly) isn't that hard as well

More people could be trained to program, especially in a casual way many more (spreadsheet formulas, low-code forms or glue) but working as mentor in high-school CS programs, I've been surprised in both directions. There are a bunch of bright people out there that could move into programming with just a boost to their training to enable them to bootstrap further ... and there are lots of people that just don't have the mindset. Abstract reasoning or modeling the world is just not something they are capable of doing without intense concentration, if that. It just doesn't come naturally to these people.
The only reason I can think of to charge for the certification tests is to add "value" to them. Then again, if you see someone that has 10 badges on their resume you can assume they're at least familiar with that cloud provider.

And this doesn't have to be limited to cloud providers. What about certs for networking equipment, or office applications? Why charge pennies for those things when spreading the knowledge around is much more valuable?
My interpretation is it quickly generates answers to keep it conversational but another process parses those messages for "prohibited" terms. Whether that second process is automated or human-powered is TBD
McKinsey studies are rather suspect. Who paid them to do that research, and what was their agenda?
My guess is Bing learned from Reddit, HN,... instead of just scraping Google content.
Right-click open, click open one time ever is well below my personal threshold for annoying.
> the protocol for deciding under what circumstances the first human will be born and raised off-earth

This one's easy. We won't have one when it happens.

> predict that will turn out to be an intractable problem

In what ways?
Yup, and the paper I linked has some detailed analysis of some scenarios. In some cases (particularly bad mercury vapor lamps), it can produce dangerously high ozone levels (50x EPA safe working limits).

In others, no foreseeable issues even if run 24x7.

So, uh, maybe don’t buy cheapo units off Amazon unless you have some way to see/test what they’re doing.
I know a mix of teachers. Some of them are incredibly smart, hard-working people who are underappreciated. Some of them are over-credentialed folks who lack sympathy for students and have a poor understanding of the subjects they teach, or at least some of the subjects.

I think you may have a bad selection. The type of teachers you’re talking about definitely exist, they’re just a subset of the population.
Blue Origin, for now, is limited to a passion project of Jeff Bezos. He's welcome to spend his money how he sees fit, but I'd love to see Blue Origin, or any other company for that matter, compete with SpaceX. Once there's a good competitor to SpaceX then launch costs will continue to go down. Right now SpaceX has priced themselves to the point they can beat most other companies unless those companies engage in losses to get customers. They're making lots of profit as well. With a competitor SpaceX would lower prices even further, further opening up the industry more than SpaceX has already done (which is already revolutionary).
And for me, one thing at a time. (very helpful)

Still, planning is often worthwhile.
seems like microsoft has multiple layers of ‘safety’ built in (Satya Nadella mentioned on a decoder interview last week). My read on what’s going on is that the output is being classified by another model in realtime which is then deleted if it’s found to violate some threshold.

https://www.theverge.com/23589994/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadell... is the full interview
Second series is seldom as funny as the first ;)

(Boring predictions: Microsoft quietly integrates some of the better language generation features into Word with a lot of rails in place, replaces ChatGPT answers with Alexa-style bot on rails answers for common questions in its chat interfaces but most people default to using search for search and Word for content generation, and creates ClippyGPT which is more amusing than useful just like its ancestor. And Google's search is threatened more by GPT spam than people using chatbots. Not sure people who hurt themselves following GPT instructions will have much more success in litigation than people who hurt themselves following other random website instructions, but I can see the lawyers getting big disclaimers ready just in case)
It's a skillset that gives you a very different way of perceiving the world. I find it difficult to describe but "feeling the form" feels close to my experience while drawing. When I haven't drawn in a while and I pick up a pencil my first few sketches are always stiff, awkward, and cartoonish. It's like I'm drawing an emoji or a logo or something. Then after a little while I remember how to feel the form again and I start to be able to articulate the shape and the weight of an object and translate that convincingly to the page. It really isn't thinking in 2D, per se, it's thinking in...flattened 3D maybe?

To your point about painters from later in history, I think once linear perspective was codified and became more widespread it made the process of projecting shadows much easier for artists. In a lot of renaissance artwork you can actually map out the perspective lines to find that the artist was working with multiple incompatible vanishing points, hence the wonky spatiality of many of the paintings from that era.
> Jobs never lost his vision that Apple should sell appliances, and people who wanted to "wrench their own devices" should buy PCs.

And honestly, I don't think information appliances are a bad thing to have in the world. It's not the kind of device I would choose for myself, but there's a class of users for whom a general computing device isn't just overkill, it's downright dangerous.

Android is fine for my use case, and while there are specific policies I wish Apple would change, I don't begrudge them the philosophy.
"specific" being any iphone made in the last 4 years (iPhone XR)
How do you rate a good software developer with a bad one? Software development is a but different than most professions. Counting completed Jira tickets solves for the wrong thing as developers are forced to game the ticket system rather than optimize for business value. /s

And yet somehow we continue to hire and manage software developers, evaluating their performance holistically.

What is it about teaching that supposedly makes skill so uniquely opaque to administrators that it's (teach to the test) XOR (pay by seniority).
>lead to Bing being convinced it was 2022 and gaslighting the user into trying to believe the same thing.

I don't think this is a remotely accurate characterization of what happened. These engines are trained to produce plausible sounding language, and it is that rather than factual accuracy for which they have been optimized. They nevertheless can train on things like real world facts and engag in conversations about those facts in semi-pausible ways, and serve as useful tools despite not having been optimized for those purposes.

So chatGPT and other engines will hallucinate facts into existence if they support the objective of sounding plausiblel, whether it's dates, research citations, or anything else. The chat engine only engaged with the commenter on the question of the date being real because the commenter drilled down on that subject repeatedly. It wasn't proactively attempting to gaslight or engaging in any form of unhinged behavior, it wasn't repeatedly bringing it up, it was responding to inquiries that were laser focused on that specific subject, and it produced a bunch of the same generic plausible sounding language in response to all the inquiries. Both the commenter and the people reading along indulged in escalating incredulity that increasingly attributed specific and nefarious intentions to a blind language generation agent.

I think we're at the phase of cultural understanding where people are going to attribute outrageous and obviously false things to chatgpt based on ordinary conceptual confusions that users themselves are bringing to the table.
Midjourney, actually. :)
A couple of my ex-colleagues worked on the Troll station. The Norwegian Polar Institute usually publish the vacancies a year ahead, as there is a lot of prep to get to right people.

Anyway, both of 'em worked as IT/communication engineers some 10 years apart, but told me that the first movie they watched together (with rest of the crew) was John Carpenter's The Thing.
Worker Burnout Is Even Worse Than at the Peak of the Pandemic
Then where does theory of mind fit in?
I have similar impressions of teachers. Many of the girls from my public school who were always going to go to college as a fact of being from wealthier families, and who possessed some combination of the traits [not hard-working, liked to party, strongly resisted STEM subjects] went to the nearby party-and-education state school and are now elementary school teachers. That doesn't exactly inspire confidence, but on the other hand, it would probably be a severe societal misallocation of resources to send hard-charging people to be elementary school teachers.

>I have never met two professionals with so many credentials (MS in Education) and so little sense.

John Taylor Gatto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto) is a big name to look into along these lines. He won a bunch of recognition for teaching in New York City, then used that as a platform to loudly quit and agitate against the problems of public education.
years ago i remember reading a quote that went like "i'm not afraid of AI, if scientists make a computer that thinks like a human then all we'll have is a computer that forgets where it put the car keys".
Does Herodotus' characterisation sound rooted in Zoroastrianism?

> παιδεύουσι δὲ τοὺς παῖδας ἀπὸ πενταέτεος ἀρξάμενοι μέχρι εἰκοσαέτεος τρία μοῦνα, ἰχνεύειν καὶ τοξεύειν καὶ ἀληθίζεσθαι. [The Persians] educate their boys from five to twenty years old, and teach them only three things: riding and archery and honesty

(iow "sit straight, shoot straight, and speak straight")

NB. https://lsj.gr/wiki/ἰχνεύω suggests possible issues with the received (1920) english translation above, but I'd easily believe hunting (as to hounds) to imply riding.
sure but even frozen outdated weights would be very instructive to study
$60K is hardly starvation wages!
The Modi Question on Peertube:

https://peertube.tv/search?search=The%20Modi%20Question%20&s...
This is similar to why i stopped publishing music on iTunes store as well. I didn't want to pay TuneCore etc a yearly fee to be listed when i was making more off ad revenue hosting my own music, now I just don't care and post it for free wherever i can.

The walled gardens have seriously screwed up the open internet and i'm kinda salty about it.
This is Clippy 2.0
Tesla’s new self-driving (HW4) computer leaks
Magic is such a weird example to use... People play their own games with it, with their own rules, literally all the time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_formats

The above link is nowhere near close to exhaustive. Many of the formats on it were made up by fans, and then eventually made quasi "official" once a popularity threshold was reached, like Commander.

In fact, the entire premise, from the get-go of Magic: The Gathering was incredibly flexible modularity. Every time you change your deck, you're 'changing the rules' of the game. It's Turing complete, and people have made some really wacky stuff with MTG cards.

And, there's no small amount of proxying going on. Many, if not most Commander players allow a few proxy cards. High level tournament preparation involves 100% proxies. Online platforms allow you to play with any card in Magic's history for free, if you're willing to don the pirate hat; and if not, you can play MTGO or Arena.
Sure, if you don't mind all the "text" being asemic in a vaguely creepy way.
I had been thinking this exact thing when Microsoft announced their ChatGPT product integrations. Hopefully some folks from that era are still around to temper overly-enthusiastic managers.
For everyone cringing at these new rules - just imagine what they would have been without Julia Reda (singular Pirate MEP at the time) who fought this law with everything that she had. We mustn't forget the many NGOs, and the fact that the Greens supported her in the fight. But Reda was something special.
If AI emulates humans, don’t humans too :thinkingface:?
I do wonder how much of this will change with the recent EU ruling about Apple allowing side loading if they're going to continue to gate this.
The same way you would explain it to a hammer or screwdriver.
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