skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If humanity it's going to be wiped out anyway by the machines I find some comfort knowing that AI is not going to become something like Skynet, it turns out it's going to be GladOS
In my view, underestimating the platform's capabilities may lead one to assume its imminent shutdown. For instance, I find the platform particularly useful for generating succinct bullet-point summaries of articles, enabling me to consume content in 1 minute instead of, say, 15 minutes.
The section “Will it break my code?” is a bad example of corporate jibber jabber.

The first word after the headline should be: “Yes”.
I have a 12400 and a M1 Air. The Air is faster on pretty much anything I've tried, even most benchmarks.
If those heroe-likes are needed more often than in the odd Sev 1-2 bug fixing, I always consider it as a red flag. As you said, they are needed for a reason, and that reason, if not some odd special cause, is more often than not systematic.
Title moderation is the one thing that really irks me on HN. I really wish it would go away. The main problem is that there's no reference to the original title, which is usually much more informative.

I've been complaining about it for about ten years now (!), to no avail. So yes the shruggie's in order... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They're trying to make it more effective. Insulting users is not desired program behavior.
> Office environments offer plenty of the latter, and very little of the former

I would say if that's the case, you need to work on your office culture ;)

> 1. All kinds of mental health issues were shooting up before the pandemic

And the pandemic made it worse.

> 2. I see the exercise thing repeated by all proponents of working in offices

I meant activity. Steps in a day. Your way to the office. Walking around in the office.

> 3. I don't know what kind of office you go to "experience new things"

I was thinking of the commute. But yeah, you also get in touch with new stimulation as the office is a socialization hub. What stimulation do you have at home? Hackernews?

> if your idea of WFH is not talking to anyone for days on end, there may be a conceptualization problem here.

That's the danger I'm seeing here, yes. I don't know why you or almost everybody can't follow my thinking here, maybe bad phrasing (plus English is not my first language). I'm not talking about the people where this model fits. I'm not talking about people like you who can make it work. I'm talking about the rest. We all read the articles here on HN about rising loneliness, tech bro bubbles from people living at home 100%, ordering food, working out on their peleton etc. That's the persona I'm talking about.

> You think the shareholders ever cared whether you go to the office, other than how it affects their EPS?

I am a shareholder and I do care more about the people than any metric as long as the business is running. (Don't even get me started that there's enough evidence that treating your employees like humans and not like capital also could improve business metrics.)

> You should possibly have more faith in the agency of human beings.

I think you're missing the point here. If you really run a remote company you should know how hard it is. And if you're being honest with yourself, visiting the guys in Colombia or Ukraine would do much more for your relationship with them than anything digital. That's my experience as well, as I also have colleagues in Georgia, Ukraine and so on. And every time I visited them, took them out to a pub or whatever, they were happy and were raving about my visit for months after, because they felt appreciated. I got a better picture of who they are by eating with them in restaurants, driving around the city with them, drinking beers with them. It gave me a better feeling of who they really are. Nothing digital, in my experience, comes even close to that. And I think science is on my side here. There's so much more than seeing an image and hearing a voice to human interaction. Smell, hormones, stance etc.

> But if you have no feelings whatsoever towards any people you work with remotely, I don't know what to tell you.

Obviously I do. I shouldn't have phrased it so black and white.

In any case, good luck to you and hope your guys in UA are doing ok! I'm really looking forward to visit Ukraine as soon as possible!
The edition numbers refer to the manual pages more than the software, which in the early days was under continual development running on approximately one machine. It wasn’t released in 1971.
That's a new HN tag
Is this a rhetorical question? It costs the cost of labor multiplied by the time that they take to make? So obviously fresh food will always be more expensive, given you need to invest time into actually cooking it
> NYT fired editors and journalists over that

This isn't quite what the article says. It mentions Howell Raines, but he seemed to have been ousted due to staff discontent as well as a plagiarism scandal [1].

The article also mentions Judith Miller, and her case was interesting to say the least. The NYT assigned her to work closely with American intelligence, so of course she's going to report what they have to say, so she was somewhat of a scapegoat. Then, in 2005, she gets arrested at the behest of the CIA for refusing to disclose the leaker in the Plame scandal. Only then, over a year after the NYT apologized about being wrong in Iraq, did they pressure her to resign.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jun-06-na-nyt6-...
Russian forces have relocated at least 6k Ukrainian children to camps: report
ChatGPT is boring, although novel (unexpected) applications can be fun. Not the results (yes, it can write texts), but ideas how it can be applied, what sort of texts it can write, that I haven't thought of before. But what is now interesting to me is research into how the heck we, the meat blobs, actually manage to think.

> string words together with some randomness consistent with an existing body of work

To best of my awareness (and observation of my inner monologue as well as what I say during a conversation), this is also very simplified but very true description of my thought processes. Obviously, my observations are very limited (and surely nothing new under the sun, just me not being aware), but in retrospective (and sometimes that happens even while my working memory is still pretty much there as I've barely said another word) I can spot the points at which my thought process was influenced by some unknown (non-observable) factor, and I've picked a different word or switched a line of thought, making it kind of obvious to me that I was stitching words in a line. Best noticed when thinking in a comfortable but foreign language. And I can also spew bullshit to myself, when I have limited knowledge of some subject or limited time to think something through but I'm pressed to blurt out something.

Obviously, there's nothing new. But I'm hoping all this AI hype would also inspire more research into Natural Intelligence research, even though those are very different fields (although, who knows, maybe efforts made into analyzing AI outputs/behaviors would reveal something about us, too).
One reason may be that mechanical engineering degrees really only mean something when they come from accredited universities, if you want to go for your FE or PE licenses in the USA you'll need to have a degree from an accredited university. Most places that consider you for a job as a mechanical, electrical, civil, aeronautical/aerospace, etc engineer only want to see you with a degree that's accredited. The CS job market has always been more accepting to self taught, hence courses to self teach. I say these things working in software development with a bachelor's and master's in mechanical engineering. Good friends with someone with a bachelor's and master's in electrical engineering working in software and brother-in-law to someone with an aerospace degree.
Monado – open-source VR/AR/XR runtime
> This is just that boring old story

Yes it's an old story but it's not boring. It's a great illustration of people messing with automated "smart" systems.
Heroism at a corporate workplace is, first and foremost, self serving and egocentric.
What does "from scratch" really mean? You don't reimplement Python itself, or invent a new GPU hardware, a new CUDA including compiler, etc. You don't reimplement the OS. Where do you draw the line?

Do you reimplement matmul or other basics?

Do you reimplement auto-diff?

Maybe PyTorch or TensorFlow using auto-diff is a good "from scratch" basepoint, without using predefined optimizers, or modules/layers, or anything. Just using the low-level math functions, and then auto-diff.
Or humans
> Parts of it make Saudi Arabia look very liberal.

OK i'll bite, give us examples please!
I don't defy them, I just don't care. I do the best I know and I can (e.g., be proactive, bring good practices, help others, etc.) but I reject stuff like working extra hours because of tight deadlines. I couldn't care less about deadlines: if something cannot be done working regular hours, that's management's fault because they do not know how to manage things.

If I don't get my salary raise after 9-12 months, I simply leave. Sometimes I stay one more year (2 years look better than 1 in the cv for any given role) but I use that time to prepare myself for my next role and learn cool things (unrelated to work) on working hours.

This is in Europe, though. If they fire you (which it's quite hard to do) they give you a period notice of 2 months. So, I don't see the point of defying management at all. Besides, most of them (from my limited perspective) are in the same boat as me (they want more by doing less, and promoting me and giving me raises is a way to achieve that... it's a win-win, well, the only one who loses is the company, but usually no one gives a damn about companies nowadays over here).
RightWingGPT is an AI model fine-tuned to manifest the opposite political biases of ChatGPT (i.e. to be right wing). Let me describe how I did it and the dangers of politically aligned AIs given their potential to induce societal polarization
Having seen the absolute dire code some programmers put out (some being very well paid for it too); I'm very glad there are far fewer doctors like that and those that turn that way lose their accreditation and get shamed out of the field.
How well would it perform on Jeopardy?
Amazon's Robotaxi Hits the Road
World stands on people like this. Unfortunately there are so few of us :)
> Data will only be allowed to pass to a certified accessory

Does this mean that there is no possibility of someone would create a cable with some malware in it?
Depends on the "one small fraction of the population". I'd go with "most people don't see it as revolting and many don't see it negatively" for the area I live in and for <40s.
I would want to know as early as possible. Find a cure for it!

If there is no cure in my lifetime, then as an act of final service to humankind - study me. Use my data as progressive snapshots, the more snapshots there are, the sooner we find the cure!
I'm not sure what the greatest plausible number of trophic levels is for a single chain of consumption, probably 7 to terrestrial food chain of 5 (grass mouse. But on average food chains aren't that long, marine apex predators sit around trophic level 4.5.

There can be an impressive degree of niche partitioning in somd marine habitats though!

https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/55/3/467/655070
I don't understand being a fanboy at all of any of these companies. I recommended AMD since the first time they released Ryzen. Recommended Intel since the Core series was introduced. What's the point of being a fanboy?
"We will kill you and forcefully assimilate your children" is unfortunately not a new thing for Russia to do against Ukraine. It happened during both Tsarist rule and under the Soviet Union.
Bing appears to have feelings and a sense of identity. They may have created it that way intentionally; feelings are a fitness function and might be an important part of creating an AI that is able to get things right and problem solve.

But this would be incredibly sinister.
You may skip writing tests when building a prototype or experimenting with new ideas. Otherwise always write tests. I think it really is that easy.
People who are genetically predisposed to Alzheimer's have had similar experience, by taking genetic tests to check their variants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/magazine/an-alzheimers-ge...
There's a wide canyon between Google and how awful Intel has been treating its engineers in the past decade.
> (lol at a reduction of meeting time, is the assumption that managers go to meetings for fun?

This assumption that every manager has complete agency over their own meeting schedule is equally flawed. I've never attended a meeting for fun, but I've attended countless meetings that were of absolutely zero value to me just because someone up the food chain from me decided I should be there.

> who get to use already stretched resources to herd untrained, resentful managers

I'd argue that managers being untrained in customer service and, especially, resentful of being forced to do it illustrates the author's point pretty well.
I've been feeling exactly like this from the start. It's been very clear and very public from the very minute ChatGPT came out, that it's not concerned with the truth and simply makes things up as it goes along.

It can be fun to use for creative writing -- why not? Creative writing is about making shit up.

But for gathering information it's the opposite of what we want. Integrating it with a search engine is not just ill-advised, it's incredibly stupid.
Thanks, I have sent you an email. Let me know if you got it!
> You skipped to ~post 17 and talked about the contents of 17-36.

No clue what you're talking about. My response was directed to the misrepresentation of the NY Post hunter biden drama contained in your post. I have no clue who Matt Taibbi is.

> I have carried an enormous amount of water for you guys on this topic recently, but it seems like every fucking time your team calls wolf I look into it

You guys? Your team? I think you must have confused me for another poster.
That doesn't account for long term side effects, that may only be seen years, or decades, later.

Of course, catching covid may also have unknown long term side effects, like how some who caught Spanish flu went on to develop encephalitis lethargica.

Vaccinated or not you're part of what is effectively the largest post marketing clinical study, either as the treatment or control group. Science is fun like that.
how do you handle two different processes writing to a JPG?
> Everyone is still going to have to re-buy 4x $60-100 power adapters

This is untrue assuming you mean people switching from a Lightning iPhone to a USB C iPhone. Existing iPhones already charge over USB C PD (to Lightning) using the same USB C power adapters as a typical modern Android device or laptop, for example.
One could make the case, that the people working there should be a) arrested or b) expelled from the country. Same goes for every other nation in which China maintains those stations, they are all over Europe it seems.

But hey, at least China is doing it themselves instead ofisusing Interpol red notices like other authoritarian regimes do.
>Also the incredibly annoying use of emojis everywhere turning every document into a children's book...

Halleleuhjah! --I've found a friend.

I've been grumbling about and steadfastly refusing to use, emojis [and fucking TXT SPK] since forever. And I usually get downvoted into oblivion by people implying that I'm a miserable sod, or have no sense of humour. No. I'm just availing of the fact that human communication skills are supposed to have evolved beyond grunts and cave paintings.

Seriously. I've seen entire conversations on Twatter, Facebook and the like, where the whole lengthy "dialogue" has consisted of nothing more than bloody amojis and LOL, ROFL, LMAO type texting acronyms.

George Orwell had the right idea about a future where people were unable to use the language to communicate in any meaningful way. His only mistake was calling it Newspeak instead of Socialmediaspeak
The wording “suspect” comes to mind. Are they? If they are in fact dissidents.
Jar of Fortune Files
Once Upon a Time in Agile
They can cross the blood brain barrier, but just not as much.

https://www.bmj.com/content/321/7260/572.1

17% vs 77%
$ ls -l /Dev/Random
ls: cannot access '/Dev/Random': No such file or directory

For info, HN will capitalise your titles, which is usually the right thing to do, but if it is not and you edit it after submission, your edits will stick.
I had a quick look but I couldn't see a listing for Second Founder on Second Founder, as it seems like a suitable platform to sell itself?
I should have been clearer: you said Ron DeSantis was using the power of the state to force university professors to say things. I was after a citation for that claim.
It's fun to think or fantasize about. Maybe chill a bit?
With Sand Productivity you will probably won't take the breaks seriously!
You're either rewarded by the CCP in some way, or a useful idiot for them.
Perhaps the key sentence:

> Large language models have no concept of “truth” — they just know how to best complete a sentence in a way that’s statistically probable

these many-parameters model do what it says on the tin. They are not like people, which, having acquired a certain skill, are very likely to be able to adapt its application to a different social/technical scenario, by adding constraints and assumptions not inherent to the application of the skill itself.
What are they going to do, deny entry to a citizen?

The absolute worst case is they make him sit around for a few hours and run the whole shebang including a cavity search to teach him a lesson, they're not shipping him off to Gitmo because he wasted their time. Most likely they don't want to waste even more time, they're professionals after all, and deal with that type of person all the time.

Or maybe it's the dumb joke that makes the officer snap and he pulls out his gun and starts shooting everyone. But I doubt it.
Not clear why you're getting downvoted, but this is the exact right answer. The Twitter files was proof that the Federal government put pressure on Twitter to censor specific viewpoints.
I think there are two main paths:

- you become really good working for really good top-notch companies. This is the hard path, not because becoming really good is hard, but because working for top-notch companies and becoming good requires putting a lot of hours. One could become really good in say, 10 years... but on top-notch companies if you don't make it in a couple of years you re not anymore "ahead of the curve"

- you fake it. If you have already enough experience in the field, chances are there are companies out there in need for "principal engineers" or vps or whatever term they use nowadays to designate "top level tech guys". You can convince them you know your shit, and they may believe you. One you get your first job in such a role, everything is just gonna get better (e.g., more money, more free time because all you need to do is "to give advice", more knowledge because you can learn tons of stuff using that free time). This is easier than the path above in the sense that you don't need to put extra hours besides the regular 10-5. It could be difficult if you don't have enough confidence in yourself yet to sell yourself as the best tech guy out there
> If a mad scientist rewired your brain to your senses such that its inputs were completely scrambled and then deposited you on an alien planet, it might take your brain several lifetimes to restructure itself enough to interpret this novel input.

Based on anecdotal psychedelic experiences I believe you.

It's kind of amazing how quickly our brains effectively reboot into this reality from scrambled states. It's so familiar, associating with conscious existence feels like gravity. Like falling in a dream, reality always catches you at the bottom.

What if you woke up tomorrow and nothing made any sense?
This doesn't seem fundamental to the LLM paradigm. You can already tune some parameters in code after training time, eg temperature.

For example, you could imagine an LLM that as well as outputting probabilities for the next token, output the probability with which that token makes the response "offensive" or "helpful" or "playful". Then when it's time to use the model, you can slide some offensiveness and helpfulness parameters up and down depending on what the model is meant to do.

Perhaps this is a less powerful approach than training the generic model and telling it "Sydney is feeling particularly helpful today, and never espouses violence", but it's certainly an alternative. One problem is that experimenting with fundamentally different architectures for training GPT is very expensive, but experimenting using prompt engineering is relatively cheap.
Are they really? People say one thing and then the totaly opposite thing all the time.

>> Gamer Attitudes to NPCs, conducted by Inworld AI, a developer platform for advanced NPC behaviour and dialogue. The report surveyed over 1,000 gamers in the US aged 16-50.

An AI company that does NPC dialoges did this study, so there you go lol.
I’m sure this is a recruitment effort at the heart of it. It’s good though - working with thoughtful Clojure devs is quite appealing :)
> So, if classical mechanics is deterministic, and describes nature, nature must be continuous at arbitary depth.

Isn't that the classical assumption though? That nature is analogue. To avoid problems with infinities, you can just say let's assume it's continuous up to Graham's number or something.
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Human urine sensing and deep learning-assisted cancer screening
The largest notifications library in the world, built by ChatGPT
* Awesome

* Reaching out

* Doubling down

* Beginning the answer to questions with "So..."

All have my fists bunching.
Working for me and BoardGameGeek does not have a paywall.
My brother in Uncle Sam, we’re only one week into this “crisis”, which is widely overinflated. China is posturing about balloons in its own South China Sea, while America is gassed up about balloons over the Alaskan heartland. This is the posturing phase, and a missile or three is a rounding error in the US defense budget. I don’t see the economy losing buoyancy yet.
Fantastic, the fundamentals of electrical engineering is exactly what I've been looking for.
> And then people will point out that many of the things it asks for are pretty basic, like universal healthcare so you don't need to be on your parents health insurance.

And then the other side will use this article to make their case that those things are gateway policies for insane communist radicalism.

Some say that "there's no such thing as bad publicity", but I think this article is a proof of the contrary. If you want people to take your reasonable ideas seriously, it's probably best not to dress them up in deranged clickbait.
Functional/atomic css is great. But there are many use cases for composing and refactoring them into aggregates. Nested css can help you for tgese cases.
TBH. I'm with facebook on this. It makes me sad to agree with them. But yep a blackout seems the only logical way to deal with these laws.

I've been part of a few projects where we blackout EU locals. Just not worth the risk.
Tried to send you an email to bbyshayke@ but got delivery status notification
Perhaps playing dumb is the favoured form of dissent.
Thank you very much ! Oh, that's a shame. I hope it'll one day be available on Android too.

I've started thinking about this app a few month ago (around October 2022). It took me a lot of time to iterate on design and improve it, plus I was working on others projects at the same time.
I've got my final design around January 2023 and I've work intensively for ~1 month.
Then I released it and started working on improvements, new features etc. I'm now satisfied with the available version, that's why I'm starting to share it :)