skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I have a thought here… since ChatGPT is also trained with the content of websites wouldnt there be consequences if at some point it would be ingesting too much of its own output, or the output of other “AI’s”?

Lets say in a couple of years the web and any other global content output gets to a share of 10-20% of “AI” generated content, that would definitely change what it spits out. The question is would that be bad or good?

So in a sense it could be we are now at peak ChatGPT output quality, since the inputs given to it are 99% from humans.
If are a data scientist and come from python take a look at nimpy, a great way to just import python libraries and use them! https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy Numpy, pandas, pytorch all usable in Nim.

Nim is the ultimate glue language, use libraries from anything: python, c, js, objc.
The poor already pay more for using cash. They pay the same amount as people using credit cards and don’t get any of the rewards/cash back that the more affluent do
your mental health?
...you know what else is a big target that sticks out?

A giant ball of corruption and deceit. Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.
I’m just very grateful I was hired at my current position back in the early 2010s. Before things became… different.

Let’s just say I don’t see many white men in the interview loop these days.
This all seemed really predictable: the cross-industry layoffs followed by the hard line return to office demands. I don't want to say it was collusion, but the shift of narrative from tech workers have leverage to tech workers should be begging for their jobs did require all the big players to make huge cuts in a short time period.
Good, we know it's a thing, therefore we can work towards avoiding it ;)
Having just come from the cyclone ravaged Gisborne region in New Zealand, where internet and communications have been down now for 5 days. The first thing we did was count all the cash we had, because it is the only way we could buy food and fuel.

Cash works when there is no power or communication.
When you rent a car any fine is notified to the rental company which then forwards it to you.They can do this because there is paper that you signed that says that at that time you were driving. In the case of a scooter there is just a row on a db, I don’t know if that is enough to shift responsibilities, thought if they wanted they could address it (for example I remember that in one place users are required to take a photo of the scooter before leaving it) but part of the appeal is that you can just leave the scooter anywhere as soon as you reach your destination
Beautiful Binary Search in D
Agreed.

This is why I don't do any math I can't do on my fingers.

Parentheses are just too scary, and there's no way that parenthesis math junk actually has any useful ideas.
Where I use D's metaprogramming capabilities to generate a binary search function using Shar's algorithm.
There's difference between "software for enterprise business" and "enterprise software" (which means heavy weight).
The most you can do to protect him is the same that people do in hostile regimes throughout the ages: make sure that by a certain age he understands that there’s a difference between what’s actually right and wrong and what the powers that be expect him to adhere to. It’s okay to make a stand but only if you’re very sure that the upside is worth the costs. The people blasting anti-feminist content under their real identity, to no personal or societal gain, are idiots.
There are hundreds of sites larger than YouTube?
You sure have a lot of assumptions there.
Generational changes are occurring, he won't live the life you or I did.

Also my son isn't white.
Or have committees and institutions that openly discriminate on their behalf to the cheers of the political establishment.
That's not necessarily a good thing. Constitutions need to be able to evolve with the times - otherwise many countries would still be disenfranchising vast swathes of their population (women - and funnily, in some Swiss cantons, women couldn't vote until the 1990s!), or a bunch of other problems. It's absolutely a problem when they become synonymous with a deity's work and thus untouchable. One of the worse examples of this is the US, where with the added benefit of the mess that is common law (precedents and reinterpretations being a thing) it's just a messy vague situation. France was able to add abortion protections to their constitution, meanwhile the US relied on an interpretation of a vague statute to constitutionally protect them, and then a change of opinion in the courts changed that.
People are OK with injustice unless it affects them personally.
It may be a neologism, but it's a fun one. See the etymology of "mendacious".
Or clover, as it fixates nitrogen into the soil.
One more reason to forestall improving indoor ventilation building codes until the damage to the population is even more widespread.
That train kind of left the station.
With "SQL", you can either try to be correct (and use both in different cases), or to be consistent (and accept you will pronounce some actual product names incorrectly), or — I suppose — to choose chaos (give up, don't care and just choose one at random at any new opportunity).

I think the only possible misstep here is to decide to chide someone else for choosing any of the three paths.
Bird's big mistake is they chose a particularly stupid variety of a business plan here - if they'd done something like selling the scooters for cost but making people pay a subscription to use it or something, they'd be free & clear, because what people did with their scooters wouldn't be Bird's problem. Bird's mistake is that every Bird scooter is owned by Bird Inc., which means Bird Inc. is held accountable for every stupid thing someone does with a Bird scooter.
I think I did a poor job explaining. The key point is that, if “extreme autism” is a disease, that doesn’t mean all autism is a disease.

To improve my example, it’s like describing left-handedness as a disease because a small percentage of lefties experience extreme left-handedness where they can’t use their right hand at all.
Read above: Accelerate and The State of DevOps are two reads.

From experience, across teams, we deploy probably 20x a day and we're actively trying to deploy more often. Our customer NPS scores are pretty high and our change failure rate is low. We're also a very successful B2B SaaS.
I had it 2 times in 7 years os continuous use of the Macbook. It is very rare indeed.
I did make it up, but Google Search indicates that I wasn't the first to come up with this combination. It seems pretty natural to substitute mendacious for meritorious.
And Google is saying that they don't want filler content, which makes sense.
Related, but different startup with prior comments:

Character.ai

- (282 points, 4 months ago, 139 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020694
Twitter removed MFA from my account. Anybody else?
(Yeah yeah Twitter is garbage I know). With all the Twitter Blue SMS stuff going on I checked my account settings and saw that MFA was turned off. I’ve had it on for like a decade, and I definitely didn’t turn it off.

I’ve had a couple coworkers also confirm the same thing happened to their accounts. This feels like it should be a big deal, right?
I much prefer my own scooter, however the rideshare model has a single absolutely massive advantage over private ownership: once you get where you're going you don't need to worry about it getting stolen.

I have the best lock I could find and glued an Apple AirTag to the inside, but still whenever I go to dinner on my scooter I spend 5 minutes trying to find a place to park it and convince the restaurant staff to give me a seat where I can see it (although some very nice people will sometimes let me fold it up and store it inside the restaurant behind the front desk or something), then spend the entire time worried about it getting jacked while I'm eating. I tend to visit only restaurants with sidewalk dining as a result, and I often take a car instead for anything like shopping where monitoring it isn't possible.

Wide availability of secure parking infrastructure (or maybe even law enforcement attempting to do something about theft in the first place) would go a long way toward making private e-vehicles viable transport IMO.
Bing course corrected itself when asked
I still miss the home button on the iPhone. I know it takes up what otherwise would be screen space. I know it's been years. But the UX of what we have now is so much worse.

Touch ID is significantly better than Face ID. Way less false positives. Way less false failures that force you to enter your passcode. You can use it in the dark. You can use it in your pocket. I ditched my iPad Pro for an iPad Air specifically because it has Touch ID rather than Face ID>

Want to exit the app? Tap the home button. Select an app? Double tap?

What's wrong with swiping up? Where you swipe from varies depending on the orientation of the app. That may not always be obvious. With a photo for example. Is it oriented a way because of the phone's rotation when it was taken or because of the phone's rotation now? The gesture to get to app selection is super awkward (ie swipe up-right-up). It's so awkward.

Why can't apple put Touch ID on the back? Or on the sides? Why can't they have a physical home button (even one of the haptic feedback buttons) on the back?

Losing the home button is such a UX fail.
The authors praised Rust debugging capabilities (also) in VScode, can somebody point to some references on this? From what I’ve seen around and what I’m able to debug in my VScode environment I might be missing something…
There must be an equilibrium point at some point. I assume the % of AI content will be far higher than 20% in a few years
To clarify: Swift enums are ADTs, because they can hold data for each case. Same as Rust enums. This contrasts to C enums which are not ADTs because they cannot store additional data.
Me:

ChatGPT, please write a story about a unique word that has never been used before. I want to see if it ends up in Google.

ChatGPT:

Once upon a time, there was a small town called Schmorgleville. The citizens of Schmorgleville were a strange bunch, and they had an even stranger custom. Every Saturday night, they would gather in the town square and dance the schmorgle.

No one knew exactly where the schmorgle originated from, but it was said to be a dance that had been passed down from generation to generation. It was an odd dance, full of twists and turns and hopping up and down. Everyone in the town seemed to love it, though, and would dance until the sun came up.

One day, a stranger came to town. He was an old man with a long white beard and he seemed to have a great knowledge of the schmorgle. He taught the citizens of Schmorgleville all the steps of the schmorgle and soon, they were all performing it with enthusiasm.

The old man stayed in town for a while and enjoyed watching the citizens of Schmorgleville dance the schmorgle. When he finally left, he told them to keep the schmorgle alive and to never forget the joy it brought them.

And so, the people of Schmorgleville still dance the schmorgle every Saturday night. They call it the 'Schmorgle Dance' and it is a reminder of the old man and the joy he brought to their lives.
As a male engineer, whose grandmother got PhD in Physics around 1960 when overall PhDs were more strict than today, and especially for women, I think it is both bad when women are being held back “because they should stay at home and raise a family”, and when we want to right a historic wrong by having double standards so we could hire more women in STEM roles. We need meritocracy.
Even Star Trek had gold pressed latinum
That's still an architecture defect.

Software's accuracy being affected by load is completely unacceptable.
> Google does not consider or support the use of AI writing tools especially for its SEO or Monetization Model. Using them in any ways is considered spam, he adds.

The ad platform was always manually reviewed and was never allowed to have automated writing. Declaring AI written content as automated is hardly news.
Most of their results are SEOed with filler content. Seems they like it very much.
I refuse to believe that summing up weights for each of 300 planes is so hard that it can't be made correct by a team of moderately competent developers operating under sane management. There might be some complexity, but it's 2023 and we have enough knowledge and tools to solve that kind of stuff routinely and reliably. Somebody fucked up big time and should be fired never to work in software again.
What are your thoughts on the study GP linked to?

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1418878112
> Female researchers in mathematics, psychology and economics are 3–15 times more likely to be elected as members of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) or the American Academy of Arts and Sciences than are male counterparts who have similar publication and citation records

That line doesn't really match with men being asked to try equally hard.

It seems to me that academic and professional societies are desparate to hit a 50/50 balance in new inductees, but they are finding that there is a paucity of qualified candidates due to upstream issues. (Remember that the current crop of peak career researchers started their training in the 80s and 90s, when the gender split among new trainees in the sciences skewed heavily male and when DEI programs for early career researchers did not exist nearly to the extent that they do now.)

But if you admit a class of inductees that's 80% men and 20% women in this day and age, it's very difficult to explain in a way that doesn't put you in a hot seat. It's much easier to apply asymmetric standards until you get a neat 50/50 split (or at least something close) because this is less likely to raise questions. So that's what the societies do.
> No till drilling is the ultimate solution

What you state isnt far off, as tractors have got bigger so the plough cuts deeper and the soil erosion increases.

When horses pulled ploughs, they didnt cut too deep into the soil so that white root mass you find in soil which hasnt been dug over in years is not far from the surface, but now you have to dig several inches deep before you hit any root mass of sorts, when todays tractors have been over it. Its the root mass which helps reduce the soil erosion, but also have plenty of small ponds and lakes also keep the water table up.

Whats also interesting, there is only one agricultural machinery manufacturer that I know of who is R&D'ing smaller equipment to make into robots, and they are German, in order to tackle the soil erosion, and make their equipment more usable in smaller fields.

Because Japanese food is so expensive partly because of the lack of land, you can be sure its of the highest quality, similar efforts are being seen in the UK to make the food quality higher whilst increasing biodiversity with smaller fields.

The days of stack it high sell cheap are coming to an end, partly because the pollutions levels are so high, and the poor quality food is shortening people's lifespans which is now only just showing up in data, despite retirement ages being raised.

>They eat, poop, stomp and move on. That adds an incredible amount of fertility into the ground without needing fertilizer.

The bacteria levels need to rot the poop down, so you are better off muck spreading with from old piles of poop, just like any compost, than you are from fresh. One of the other things I've seen farmers doing here in the UK, is spreading seaweed on fields to increase certain minerals.
Isn't this chapter 11 bankruptcy?
> If White Castle goes out of business and thousands of people lose their jobs, how is that good for society?

Why would they lose their job? White Castle would declare bankruptcy, someone else will buy physical properties and equipment, and I would assume open a new restaurant(s) there.
Whoever you are, thank you for teaching me two new words today. I've never seen or heard of neologism or mendacious. Today is shaping up to be a good day.

:)
organic farming that caused the dustbowl ?!

the modern understanding of organic farming is not related to whatever you are trying to imply and impugn. It is a lazy use of language with an obvious fallacy. One liners like that are common in politics aimed at the under-educated; wrong audience here.
Was this article AI generated? Can we get an original source instead of this trash?
Not only Google, based on HN sentiment, noone wants SEO spam bullshit filling their web either.
Supposedly the HVDC vs HVAC break-even distance is down to something like 600-800km now[1]. Since 385 miles works out to 620km the economics are probably not all that bad. Since it is just a link between two systems, only 2 converter stations (the expensive bit for HVDC) would be required.

[1] https://www.cencepower.com/blog-posts/hvdc-transmission-syst...
Looks great!

One element that is missing for those nostalgia vibes that was super common at the time is a visitors counter.
Good luck having any luck knowing what is generated by the AI
> Set up a massive short position on that company and fire off press releases on a slow Newsday to share what you found with the public.

How naive... No One would listen... [1]

> No One Would Listen is the thrilling story of how the Harry Markopolos, a little-known number cruncher from a Boston equity derivatives firm, and his investigative team uncovered Bernie Madoff's scam years before it made headlines, and how they desperately tried to warn the government, the industry, and the financial press.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7740121-no-one-would-lis...
This is definitely a valid concern. OpenAI did extensive data grooming to ensure high-quality inputs were used as training data. They went out of their way, for instance, to attempt to remove auto-translated content.

One interesting thing is that the situation you describe provides a huge moat for the first successful system. For instance, OpenAI can store and fingerprint all of the output from GPT-3 and ChatGPT. They can use these fingerprints to prevent training newer versions of GPT on old outputs. Less popular systems won't be able to sanitize the training data as well.
Impact of Covid-19 vaccination in post-Covid cardiac complications
Anecdotally, it’s happened to me multiple times. A good indicator of when the machine needs a hard power cycle.
Given the amount of harassment and pressure on women in science that men don't experience, I've always found that the women who stick around tend to be more capable than the average male scientist.

If you have to relax standards to hire women, you're doing it 100% wrong and should evaluate your sourcing of candidates. And perhaps the evaluation process and environment itself. Women know bad environments, and capable women will stay far away.
Would love a link. I don't mind when folks on lists say "we should be more deliberate discussing this, please move it to another channel." I get really annoyed when they do the above, though.
I mean, I agree willful suspension of disbelief is a thing, but as someone who actually build APIs and worries about network latency and packing messages to be efficient blocks of data and that the method itself is a useful affordance for the product, I can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Just because people don't actively think all the time in terms of low level contexts doesn't mean that only simulating the high level contexts is a sufficient substitute for the whole process.

I think this whole concept is conflating "illusion" (i.e. allowing oneself to be fooled) and "delusion" (being involuntarily fooled, or unwilling to admit to being fooled.)

I personally don't enjoy magic shows, but people do, and it's not because they think there's real magic there.
How do you do OOP with rust?
Don't get me wrong, but the government asked the fringers to leave nicely, then demanded they leave... other than amassing an army and arresting them all, I don't see what else they could have done to make them listen.
I’m not intolerant of it, but if a writer chooses a poetic literary style in an essay like this, I think it should enhance the communication of the topic of the essay. I became more focused on how poetic and literary they were trying to make the essay than the topic of essay themselves. It distracted more than enhanced.
They also mentioned American was using the same system too. So it may have been load from more than one company.
In physics at least, it's been my experience that even though the percentage of women physics professors is low, almost every one is an above-average researcher. They are certainly harder working on average. Meanwhile, there will be several men in the department who have just coasted. This isn't among new profs, but among those who have been around long enough that they definitely experienced gender discrimination in hiring. I don't think this is a biological thing, just an interesting side effect of strong gender discrimination, where the women who make it in have to be exceptional to do so.
> strengthened as compared to simply choosing their own successors as was claimed?

No, compared to cooperating with the appointment of replacement members.
Squill. https://xkcd.com/1989/
> Who decides what degree of “popularity” is sufficient to maintain default support?

Each upstream project and upstream distro is responsible for deciding on such a policy for themselves.

Many upstream distros do just that already with their packaging.
For example, you may not find a Linux kernel image that will work on your Pentium III CPU on Debian’s main repositories. Or an OpenSSL binary package.

Such decisions are highly arbitrary and at the discretion of the people who do the maintenance work and pay the hosting bills.

Being able to draw the line somewhere is a feature. It can help keep maintainers from burning out or giving up under the load of support requests.

Given the situation of a specific project, its individual goals, and the people involved, I would expect their decision to take into account many more factors than just the “so disused that no one complains” axis.
Atomic Habits is the only self-help book that actually stuck with me. Most of these books simply provide you with faux-epiphanies -- but James Clear in Atomic Habits not only provides concrete, actionable, steps he also supplies examples of his own use of these in his life.
The Bridge Between Sync and Async World
> Generally speaking, governments don't always have your best interests in mind

Generally speaking, this a massive stretch for a democratic country such as Switzerland. What is the government there but a representation of it's citizens?
"Cartesian product" is a fancy word for "pair". Or more generally "tuple".
So they implemented the fingerprint system in 2004, but the biometric law was enacted in 2008. Yeah, suddenly they were breaking the new law, but whose job was it to continuously monitor all the state/local laws and ensure compliance? Not every business gets this right and they should not be severely punished when behavior that had been legal for years suddenly became illegal. Obviously White Castle did not intentionally violate the 2008 law when they implemented the system in 2004.
> At the minute we're just taking these giant mega corporations at their word

Nope. While new, it’s straightforward technology that many people understand. Its execution leverages large data hoards and compute resources that have inaccessibly high capital requirements, but it’s not magic to many of us.

Our lack of “alarm” is from knowledge, not trust.
Holy moly, I think this author hits the critical point.

So what’s being stripped away here? And how?
The what is easy. It’s personhood.

AI being good at Art, Poems, etc are direct attacks on personhood or the things we thought make us human.

It certainly explains why I feel art AI to be far more chilling then a logical robotic AI.
Scientists have discovered how to make almost any vaccine more potent