skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of that reply was taking issue with using predator instead of carnivore or more broadly 'consumer', which is fair. Actually I'm not sure if that was what you were getting at, because this was in response to me pointing out omnivores are a half trophic step between herbivore and predator (consumer):

> We are not predators and are not herbivores.

> swines are not herbivore but not predators.

Yet.. both of those examples are exactly that, omnivores, and both are also sometimes functionally predators.

And it absolutely follows that you can put an omnivore at half trophic step between a primary consumer (i.e. a predator of herbivores) and an herbivore. The way trophic levels are described are in fractional numbers of the mean trophic level of what you eat. Predator is a functional group rather than a descriptor trophic level, but when it comes down to it very few animals are pure functional specialists and very rarely does one sit perfectly at a given trophic level - to use your snakes example, they absolutely eat herbivores sometimes even if they are usually eating things that eat animals. Cows consume the occasional insect, I've seen algae-specialist green sea turtles opportunistically eat dead fish, and some shark species eat a non-negligible amount of grass. But I'm going to continue calling sea turtles grazing herbivores and sharks consumers and predators, because that is true to a first approximation.

Regarding ecosystem complexity, I don't believe I mentioned it other than length of trophic chains. However I'll point out that this

> Oceans are not absolutely more complex than terrestrial life and why should they be? Life on Earth evolved over hundreds of millions of years, it makes sense that it adapted to every ecosystem the Earth has to offer.

Doesn't follow. Sure, life evolved everywhere, speciation occured and niches have been pretty well filled. That doesn't mean ecosystem complexity is the same everywhere, there are a number of identified drivers of species richness and functional diversity (e.g. latitude) and decades of theory to try to explain why, because a rainforest is more complex than a sweetgrass prarie, and a coral reef is too. A rainforest probably beats a lot of marine ecosystems, say a soft sediment continental shelf in terms of complexity due to greater species richness, simply more connections between species at many levels and lots of niche partitioning.

Can't say I understand your point about food chains being longer due to microscopic primary producers. That is still the energetic pathway that feeds into the rest of the ecosystem.

> a bit longer doesn't mean what the original comments was about.

My reading of that comment was exactly that, that marine food chains are longer. That commenter exaggerated a bit the degree to which that is true. That study I linked provides some plausible mechanisms of why that may be.
A React project wouldn't have the same issues.
Where more people will die – and live – because of hotter temperatures
A lot of time writing is a personal endeavor. A way to communicate with yourself rather than others.
It allows you to lay out your chaotic thoughts in a clear way. It's the foundation for critical thinking.
It'll be a very sad world where kids don't atleast practice this skill.
It really is bizzare, old Firefox used to support all addons, then they shipped a new version and only allowed like 10 addons, and to this day they don't allow any more. It's already been years.

I know my addon works fine on mobile, but they provide no means of specifying that*. I tried to email them for it to become "recommended" but never heard back.

The fact that they allow tampermonkey which allows any kind of script just adds insult to the injury.

* when uploading a new version, it does ask to specify which Firefox desktop/android versions are supported, but this existed before the new Firefox and doesn't do anything.
Agree. The guy is in deep cope territory.
The article linked by an ancestor (https://apnews.com/article/sesame-allergies-label-b28f8eb3dc...) seems to contradict this comment (and I think this comment is mere armchair speculation):

> If the ingredients don’t include sesame, companies must take steps to prevent the foods from coming in contact with any sesame, known as cross-contamination.

> Food industry experts said the new requirements aren’t simple or practical.

> Some companies include statements on labels that say a food “may contain” a certain product or that the food is “produced in a facility” that also uses certain allergens. However, such statements are voluntary, not required, according to the FDA, and they do not absolve the company of requirements to prevent cross-contamination.

> Instead, some companies have taken a different approach. Officials at Olive Garden said that starting this week, the chain is adding “a minimal amount of sesame flour” to the company’s famous breadsticks “due to the potential for cross-contamination at the bakery.”
It’s about the method.

Teachers aren’t interested in a recount of the battle of so-and-so but in training you to gather knowledge, structure your thoughts and express them clearly.

You can only learn that by doing. A chatbot bypasses the learning process, so you will have neither gained subject knowledge nor methodical one.
They have different trade-offs sure, where bundling typically creates large opaque blobs of JS used by the entire SPA resulting in large initial download & parsing/execution time which is why it's preferable to only download & execute code needed which is easy to achieve with cohesive modules.

The opposite of large JS bundles is a framework like Qwik [1] which achieves perfect PageSpeed scores by downloading the least JS possible, both initially and then at runtime by only downloading the JS needed per interaction, resulting in very small downloads over a lot more requests.

[1] https://qwik.builder.io
With a population about 40 million people? Didn't see too bad TBH.
Thanks - that was far from clear from the article. I've made it explicit in the title above.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Neat. Would love to know more about how you're using Lua in that context ..
Why is it so important to you as a goal, to not give money to Joe Rogan?
> See you in a few years when we can’t even keep up with the deluge of error prone programs.

I think the worst case of this situation will pop up before that; not writing code at all but just hook the AI up, ‘prompt engineered’ directly like so;

<body>
<script>doInsuranceForm();</script>
</body>

Which will AI generate a html insurance form every time the page is requested and handle the user input etc. And it’ll be subtly wrong most of the time; it’s insurance, who knows if the current programmed forms are correct anyway (I know of at least one insurer that rounds off $0.01 wrong almost every policy because of using float for money on the web side).

Why have the AI make code we can read? Just let it do the entire thing /s

It’ll happen though and it will be used seriously by companies. The quality of the AI, legislation and public/consumer complaint fallout will determine if we get back to code that humans check. Being sceptical about humans wanting quality over paying as little as possible, I am going to say no.
> not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly

Can you expand on this? I've been losing for years. What else can you do besides killing things?
I think adding a performative aspect to a lot of things sort of kills the joy in doing them.

For like a year I didn't really tell anyone I had a website. It was always fun to work on, because I did it for myself when I was inspired. Then it got out, and now there's a lot more pressure.

Writing because you feel you ought to because you haven't in a few months is about the least inspiring thing I know. That's just a chore.

I quite deliberately don't put like or comment features on my website to sort of prevent this. Means on average I don't get a lot of interaction, since the minimum bar to interaction is sending me an email.
This is a great idea, when I ask for help with something, so often the first thing is, code style, or variable names.

This is the first hell yea use case I have seen for chat gtp! Thank you and your daughter!
The measures announced are far more ambitious than this article suggests.

The one that will cause the most controversy is the State taking over unused housing, making improvements if needed, and then renting the properties (with the money going to the owners after deducting expenses). Yeah, I'm sure that will go over well...
I'm not sure hallucination is the right word, if we're operating in the theater of large language models. The correct way to describe human consciousness in those terms would be a descriptive model that outputs a lossy reconstructed linear viewpoint, combined with a prompt instructing it to believe the delusion that it's definitely for real in control and making choices instead of telling stories.
I’m not sure that’s true. Human make mistakes performing math all the time. Human’s ability to accurately perform multiplication is very much a statistical phenomenon. Now you probably dismiss those mistakes as different than the sort of thing that a llm does when following a rigid set of instructions, but to me they seem different in degree but not kind
Singapore can fit 5.4 million people in 728 square kilometers.

Portugal has two times the population (10.4 million) and 125 times the space (92,200 square kilometers).

The problem isn't tourism (Airbnb) or retiree immigrants (golden visas) occupying Portugese residential units. The problem is inability to build the needed housing.
More importantly for me at least, ClearURLs. Now I can share nice stripped down Amazon links.

Never used Tampermonkey before.
An alternative to using GPT could be NLP Clustering.

If you clustered hierarchically, you could even make groups within groups (idk if chrome supports that, but there’s extensions like Tree-Style Tab in Firefox that do)
That's a lovely photo
Thank you for clarifications and thank you for your work on Homebrew. I hope that Homebrew approach is sufficient to make security risks acceptable.
Perhaps they'll be replaced with visas that don't lead to citizenship, so you can still live there but not travel on a European passport.

It's tricky, because a lot of countries see "live here for a long enough time and of course you should become a citizen" as only fair. But it might keep everyone happy.
You can use it on your sites that will probably be used by 5 people. Good luck.
It's not fair to assume that's what this teacher asks of their students. Word minimums may be useful for children as a crude deterrent against laziness, but any serious student or teacher would recognize a good essay when they see one, no matter the length (though fitting a good and interesting essay on the back of a napkin would be almost unthinkably prolific).

"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter." - Blaise Pascal
Well, the party in government has a majority in parliament, so they can just approve by themselves (and there is no history of members of the ruling party voting against any government measure).
Sure panspermia is cute idea, but occams razor cuts it; its simply more complex theory that life first originated somewhere else and then migrated to earth than just that life originated on earth. Unless there are some very compelling explanations why some other place would be so much more favourable environment for originating life?
Memorizing things is not useless. Learning concepts and principles is more important, but you also need some amount of facts memorized to make use of them.

For example, I had to memorize the structural formulas for all amino acids in university. This does seem a bit useless at first, but is actually very important the moment you work with protein sequences or structures. You might not need the exact structure, but if you read about a specific important residue in a protein or a mutation in one you need to understand the properties of the involved amino acids to make sense to this. And if you had to look that up every time you'd never get through a paper.
>Tools like ChatGPT can only regurgitate what was already written, often with confident but wrong takes. They can't offer new perspectives, or inspire students with a different way of thinking about the world.

That is not how ChatGPT works. It doesn't just regurgitate data it has seen. It its capable of offering new perspectives. Just ask it.
It depends.

Generally speaking, you don’t become a tax resident of a country unless you live there for 183 days in a given tax year. Even then, getting set up to pay taxes is a challenge, as tax departments aren’t set up to accept money from a tourist who doesn’t have any official ties to the country. It can be done, but it’s a pain.

As a digital nomad myself, I always planned to just never stay in a country longer than six months. As an American, I have the joy of paying American taxes anywhere I live in the world, which makes things extra fun.

For now, it seems systems are not streamlined to handle the burden of a high number of short term residents. Countries will adapt over time, as it seems Portugal is doing now. Some countries issuing digital nomad visas may exempt nomads from paying taxes or make it easier to pay taxes locally.
What's the difference between Iceraven and Fennec?
I have a book I accidentally stole from the library. Does that count?
There was a recent post on HN about how making yourself the primary user of your software makes it easier to build.

Does anyone remember that?
Thanks for helping us understand!
Can you give shared admin access to someone external? eg so this software doesn't remain being an anchor around your neck
If someone would feel bad for writing i_suck as part of a method call... I don't think they'll last in the real world anyway

What's the upper bound on ego fragility that we ought to consider?
This is true. Aaron Swartz convinced Lawrence Lessig of the problem begins at the top of the political system.

Unfortunately, there is no solution to (peaceful or agro) reformation from within because of entrenched forces: the prostitution of power through campaign financing and lobbyist). Nonviolent but disruptive means are essential to attain such changes that cannot be had through voting or pleasant requests. Those with large piles of money will defend it and plausibly order the state to commit violence against those who dare challenge their established order of things.

(Predominantly) Americans have to stop being so individualistic, push back against aspirational billionaire and popularity seeking, and start finding respectful discourse between different views and take deliberate, collective action. National strike perhaps.
Indeed, the more one achieves, the more one contributes. One might even suggest it is the defining characteristic of life - a better way to increase entropy.
Exactly, not an index but a large database with raw html of pages. Not trivial with modern SPAs but still doable. Storage and compute cost is probably the biggest cost factor.
So honeypot don’t wanna talk about the honeypot, got it, first rule.

There’s a lack of hardcore hentai in my honeypot, for whatever propositioned god exists. Fill it please.
The minitest author(s) were unprofessional. That unprofessional humor is the main reason it was posted.

But that's different from writing code that sucks. A single flag name like that doesn't even affect functionality or readability.
I think you do understand if you think about it.

You have so many different hardware vendors, but one common boot loader. Who can you rely on working every time for every vendor?

Also I use grub to select old deploys in Fedora Silverblue.

I'd love to use systemd-boot though.
As far as I know usually you can’t get a nomad visa without proof of income.
They call it the tour, basically you travell along the mediteranean, from AirBnB to AirBnB, working from cafes.. you are not a permanent resident in any of the countries.. :D
Try to find your way downstairs while avoiding monsters too dangerous to fight and collect more powerful items. Standard NetHack strategy is that you should try to collect an "Ascension kit" of items and know when to use the tools in it.
>> There is a large class of AI researchers who have been working on this problem for decades (and I am one of them).

Which problem is that? It's not clear from the context and I don't want to make uninformed
assumptions.

It is true that many people have worked on problems like language understanding, language modelling and language generation for many years. It is also true that most people who are today so excited about large language models don't know anything about all those years of research. My experience is that, at some point, there was a switch from computational linguistics (i.e. doing linguistics with the help of computers) to statistical natural language processing (i.e. trying to represent language with statistics). The idea behind the switch was that understanding human language, its mechanisms, its origins, and so on, is too hard, and we can make a lot of progress if we stop trying to do all that, and instead turn to learning statistics from large corpora (cf. "every time I fire a linguist...").

Of course, without good understanding of what language is, and how it works, it is very difficult to evaluate such progress, but the answer to that was obviously to establish new metrics, and then try to maximise performance according to those metrics; metrics such as BLEU or ROUGE and friends, that are suspiciously like the kind of metric that one would choose if one wanted to measure progress as the ability to learn statistics from a large corpus.

So it's true to say that many people have worked on all sorts of problems to do with natural language and AI, but I'm still left wondering exactly what you mean by "this problem". For me the problem is that an entire field of research ("NLP") abandoned the search for answers to interesting scientific questions and turned instead to the production of toys, and to spectacle, presumably because that's where the money is and researchers must also pay them bills.

And so now we have large language models that are better at reproducing language than earlier models, but we don't have the tools to evaluate or understand those models; and so people who aren't experts, but also people who are experts, can't separate the wheat from the chaff, and keep coming up with wild, senseless proclamations that could well have been generated by a language model themselves.
There’s obviously been an increase in self-identification of people as gay/trans as social acceptance has increased, but that doesn’t mean that the number of gay and trans individuals is actually greater than it was historically. We don’t know how many men worldwide were attracted to other men 1000 years ago. Period.
Yes, it is a gray wall, a building of formal structure of literature.
In the end, it is a tool - education system, academia, not chatGPT- , what we see is representation.
For current -common- attention span, it is way too long.
For current perception of speed of time, it is very expensive.
Can we complain ?
Tool that we shape.
We may just need to change the representation.
You didn't make it till the end of the article did you? Based on what you're attacking you made it to the... third paragraph? Fourth?
I just don’t get the whole adding another DSL instead of using JSX or something.
To linguistic pedants out there: would that also mean that "united" is not a name?
I think nethack.alt.org has the most players but what I've noticed is that hardfought.org has a much chattier community on IRC.
Pick up stuff and run away, not necessarily in that order.

Go shopping. Or have your pet go "shopping" for you.

Have your pet kill things. This removes threats and gets you loot and through maybe half a dozen levels, helping you gear up without leveling up (and yes, eventually you want to level up, but you want to do it very slowly if at all while gearing up, because the faster you level up, the more likely it is the game will generate tough monsters you're probably not ready for, like soldier ants or crowds of orcs with poison arrows).
>Never had a job where the answer was yes

I find this mind boggling.

Here in Blighty, I've never had a job where taking time to research and read up wasn't expected. Personally, every employer I've had has also allocated several days a year to staff training; either classroom training or self-study as needed.
Yeah, two really similar posts in a short time
> The calculator was meant to make computation more convenient for people who already knew about numbers. Now, it threatens to crash the intellectual order, assuming the role of an end, when it is only a means.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/29/opinion/the-calculator-cr...

I'm pretty sure that a "sufficiently smart" chatbot (or maybe even an extra dumb one) is a useful tool "in training you to gather knowledge, structure your thoughts, and express them clearly". I've found it remarkably useful for clarifying my thoughts, considering alternative arguments, and general tomfoolery that can spark creativity.
This feels like a shameless plug, sorry. I sometimes do volunteer work at a (mostly personal) computer museum in Tokyo. https://www.dream-library.org/museum/index.html

If anyone nearby is reading this, please consider coming by sometime :)

(You need a reservation. Not everything works. In fact most machines don't work probably. It's not super fancy like the Living Computer Museum was. There's a lot of stuff on the floor. It'll probably move to a bigger place soon so that'll get better probably. It's not particularly cheap; there's a yearly fee (no auto-renewals) and a per-visit fee. There's probably almost nothing to do if you aren't fluent in Japanese.)

So far I fixed: ZX81, VIC-20, PET 2001, various MSX machines. (See my blog for details :p)
While I no doubt believe these things are true, these are interesting stances coming from people knowingly selling their companies to Google, who has had this reputation for a while. Did these CEOs have users front of mind?

It's not blame because I'm not sure I could turn down retire-in-three-years money, but it is a choice they made for their users.
There's nothing to assume because he describes what he asks of his students towards the last part of the essay.

But people who think ChatGPT is great usually aren't capable of reading that far :P
> if he's so wrong about this topic

This sounds very arrogant. What is your experience grading college essays? (In other words, you are talking about completely differet use-cases)
At least for a short while, and I do not understand why, bicycle theft was somehow linked to terrorism by London's police. See [1] for example.

I had a bicycle stolen, and after filing the report the police phoned me to ask for more details on the lock I'd used.

I later found it on Gumtree, with a description ending something like "Call Peter on 07123456789, meet at Forest Heath Station". Putting the mobile phone number into Gumtree's search brought up about 50 bicycles, "Call John" "Call Dave" etc. I emailed this to the police, and had another phone call thanking me for my incredible investigation skill.

They said they would go to find Peter/John/Dave, but would only contact me again if they found my bike, which they did not.

I'm very suspicious of accounts like [2] "Mr T" with "Cash only" and a huge selection of bicycles.

[1] https://www.bikeregister.com/news/putting-a-value-on-protect...

[2] https://www.gumtree.com/profile/accounts/48e9b2ff00d3f04e27f... or similarly https://www.gumtree.com/profile/accounts/b8b756750f2960d115b...
You can run away, and maybe use the E word
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