skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was well written as a pop-science piece, albeit some things were too technical for me and unnecessary in my view. Wolfram tries to make everything about cellular automata, which I'm not sure why is uniquely relevant here.

The gist of it is pretty interesting to me: "things" only exist because we, as humans, observe the universe in a sequential manner through instants of time. If a collection of atoms stay the same through a few of those instants we consider that to have permanence, and be a distinct object or thing. By observing distinct things we can then count them, but that would be impossible if not for our experience of time.

It is indeed unclear if that is how every being would necessarily observe the universe.
> Most people don't want to be labor mobile, they want to be labor secure.

I suspect that even though most individuals want to be labor secure, most people would actually be better off with more mobility instead.

You wouldn't mind being laid off if you were pretty certain you could get a new job with a similar salary within just a few days. The only reason being laid off is so stressful is because there isn't sufficient mobility, and it's likely it will be many weeks or months till you find a new employer.

I'd kinda like to see an 'employer of last resort', where the government guarantees to employ anyone anytime. That should at least take away much of the fear of being laid off, even if few people actually use the service.
This will become a big issue in the future. We can't just recreate the intricacies of a brain and claim it can't be sentient like other comments in this thread.

Yes, at its core it is only predicting the next word it wants to say based on a complex series of weights, but is there any evidence that you are not doing that yourself?
I’ve used it generate about 10 scripts that did some combination of json/yaml data wrangling and AWS automation using the AWS SDK in Python. It’s been correct around 90%+ of the time.

Criticizing ChatGPT for getting one line wrong that a human who hasn’t programmed in the same language in over 30 years would also get wrong (I happened to remember the technique from reading it in the back of a magazine in the 80s) and then being able to use it to iterate is like criticizing a monkey who song the national anthem because one note was off key?

How is mashing code together any different than the average human does?
Microsoft left Bing Chat online long after they knew it would inevitably lead to headlines like this one - and, from the NYT homepage, "A Talk With Bing’s Chatbot Left Our Columnist ‘Deeply Unsettled, Even Frightened.’"

Imagine how much pressure must exist within Microsoft for that to happen.

Back in 2016, Microsoft took the chatbot Tay down in 1-2 days (https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...). This time, some team made the calculation that it's better to learn on end users, even with the press hit, than to learn on paid testers (like with more RLHF). And that's despite being behind a waiting list; Bing Chat's waiting list would grow either way.

I'm not an AI risk zealot or even expert, but next time you hear "AI risk," think "Humans deciding to release products that they know have major user-facing flaws."

Almost nobody is going to knowingly release something that will cause major real-world damage, but many will intentionally release things that they know have gaping flaws. The effective AI risk margin isn't "We thought <new product> was great, so it was impossible to imagine that it could cause real-world damage," it's "We thought <new product> only had major user-facing flaws, not that it would cause real-world damage."
Here is a ChromeOS computer, that by your definition, is a "desktop":

https://www.hp.com/us-en/chrome/chromebase-all-in-one-deskto...

To the original point, it sleeps perfectly.
ME: Is this fact unequivocal among scientists who study this field?

chatGPT: The idea that the ultimate goal of biological organisms is to survive and reproduce is a fundamental assumption of evolutionary biology, and it is widely accepted among scientists who study this field. While there may be some variation in how different scientists conceptualize or frame this idea, the basic principle that the success of an organism is ultimately measured by its ability to reproduce and pass on its genes to the next generation is well-established and widely accepted.

chatGPT: There is a vast body of evidence from a wide range of fields, including paleontology, comparative anatomy, genetics, and ecology, that supports the idea that natural selection acts to favor traits that increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment. This evidence is supported by numerous experiments and observations that have been conducted over many decades, and it is a cornerstone of modern evolutionary theory.

chatGPT: Of course, scientific ideas are always subject to ongoing refinement and revision as new evidence is gathered, and there may be debates and disagreements among scientists about certain aspects of evolutionary theory. However, the general principle that the goal of biological organisms is to survive and reproduce is widely accepted as a foundational idea in the field of evolutionary biology.

I'm well versed in evolutionary biology and the mechanisms behind it. I can assure you that chatGPT is more knowledgeable than you on this topic and that everything it says here is categorically true. Others who know biology can confirm.
> For me (and inv2004) Nim, runs faster than Rust on your RosettaBoy project

I didn’t spot that it had improved that much; I guess I need to hurry up and brute-force my way past the installer issues to try it out :D
Thank you for the feedback. The point on not knowing whether you're in the target market or not is absolutely valid and something we should make a lot clearer on that page.

Re: pricing: our main product is our Flights API (https://duffel.com/flights). Links is a new product we're launching today that lets you sell flights without having to write an integration with our API. You can access our API on our free plan but Links is only available on a paid plan.

> The "Why do you charge for excess searches?" link in the pricing page opens the Forex question, not the excess searches question.
We'll fix this, thanks for letting us know.

> Pricing page provides pricing in GBP, EUR, USD, and AUD but does not use any kind of location data to localize the currency.
It used to, might be a bug introduced with the new page.

> I used the "Resources" menu and I don't understand what "Spend management: Unlock incremental revenue" means
It's a page dedicated to spend management platforms that are looking to unlock extra revenue with travel
Reminds me of the butter robot on Rick and Morty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs&t=33s
I think there's a difference between not trusting the news, as in, thinking what they're saying is lies and there's actually a great conspiracy that we can work out, and not trusting the news, as in, thinking that the information that gets conveyed via news outlets is selected and presented to push public opinion in a certain self-interested direction.

I think for the most part, people who take their news from youtube and random taxi drivers fall into the former category, whereas people who vote against the party/candidate recommended (overtly or covertly) by their local paper fall into the latter category. It's quite possible that a lot of people in the latter category would say they don't trust the news as part of a national opinion survey, but they wouldn't ever outright say to a stranger "oh, don't read the stuff printed in the City Courier, it's all lies". Particularly as the news is more and more national, but the political parties continue to attract around 50% of the vote each, I'd generally expect about 50% of the population to have at least this much distrust for at least some of the news.
https://archive.ph/Ueg8d

transcript : https://archive.ph/pR3Fx
It's not like I'm a fan of the concept itself, but I feel like "at will" is not really a euphemism, but just a straightforward statement of the conditions under which you can quit or be fired: at will, in other words, because your employer or you say so.
>Due to some new regulations increasing speed limits, passed early this year, car accidents are up 12%.

See, that's the rub. You've just said more than the data told you. There's nothing in the stats half of your premise which proves with any certainty that the increased speed limits are the cause of the change in accidents this year. Now you're pushing a political agenda, namely lowering speed limits, while presenting it as part of the basic record of events we call "news", rather than as part of the opinion discourse.

This was even a good faith example. If you were trying to lie with statistics, you could have done much worse.
I formerly worked as a news editor at a metro daily newspaper, and before that I worked at various other news outlets and magazines.

Here's the reality: The average journalist values the truth and desires to report on the news with accuracy and fairness. I worked with a bunch of really talented reporters and editors throughout my career, and almost without exception, they highly valued those things. Moreover, many have an anti-authoritarian bent, and that leads to a desire to expose corruption, rather than protect it.

But ...

* I've seen publishers kill stories because they thought it would make advertisers unhappy.

* I've seen senior execs put pressure on editors to downplay stories that painted the region in a bad light.

* I've seen a political campaign refuse to permit a certain reporter to attend their campaign events because they didn't like that the reporter wasn't acting like a PR tool.

* I've seen budgets for "watchdog journalism" become slowly starved, in favor of clickbait.

And unfortunately, most of the public doesn't see the difference between the reporters on the ground (who are, by and large, genuinely trying to do a good job) and the publishers and other people running the business (who are really trying to make money and exert influence).

Granted, there are certainly news orgs where objectivity and accuracy are not ideals that are valued, and unfortunately that's where a lot of eyeballs end up these days, because so many people just want their existing biases to be re-inforced.

But what America really needs is more media literacy, so we can better distinguish the former from the latter. We, as a society, are SO BAD at this. Our B.S. detectors have lots of false positives and false negatives. We look to the wrong signals to determine whether a news report is trustworthy. We fail to evaluate information critically as long as it validates our pre-existing views. We have a hard time separating facts from opinions.

This lack of media literacy is worrisome enough, but now we've got political leaders capitalizing on the fact that we're bad at this and actively trying to delegitimize the media (as if it's a single thing) because it serves their own purposes.
I have a right to be angry, though that was not written with anger. I believed in a country enough to join its military and be deployed, only to find it was all a lie. People I know died to enrich oil companies and the military industrial complex.

I’ve reduced my consumption to the bare minimum. No home and few possessions, and spent a large chunk of my savings buying an EV because when I think about using oil, I see the blood on my hands. I’ve worn the same clothes (shifting undergarments daily obviously) for over 4 years now and got a vasectomy to prevent perpetuating the cycle of suffering. These are the lengths I gladly go because of these things.

But I live in a country of people who can’t be bothered to make even the most minimal of sacrifice or change, who smile and tell me “thank you for your service” while wasting precious non-renewable resources that poison and pollute the land, acquired with the deposit of blood from my brothers & sisters & true countrymen, without reserve. To fit in. To feel big and bad. And very, very rarely for actual functional purpose. Turning the blood of my people into a fun time. And these are the very same people that, while living in practical mansions while their children are increasingly homeless & jobless & futureless, pass misguided policy like an EV tax.

I try and talk on HN with a level head. But what I am talking about now should make any rational mind objectively furious. I love my fellow man — but love the infinite cosmic future of man more, with trillions of humans spread throughout the cosmos. I would never jeopardize that as all these people around us now are; misguided souls.
> People just can't let go of wanting some kind of God

The reverse is also true. While the inability to determine why the laws of physics are there is not evident that there must be some reason that they are there, one can conjecture a causal relation with some kind of entity that affected it. Either that be God, or the playful intern that happened to create UniverseSandbox#9971
They do. (deliberately mislead)

The days of subjectivity are over.

It doesn't have to be a conspiracy for Large corporations to have self interest and to highlight stories that benefit them and minimize/ignore things that would negatively effect them.
> Maybe it's one of these "if you have to ask, it's not for you" cases

Kinda agree but also think we should do a better job making it explicit who the target is. Thanks for the feedback
So, a summary is: Bill Gates is stupid, the author of the article is very smart, give some money to find out how smart he is. It's so cute and unique.
We believe that because news organizations deliberately mislead us.
> Doing several tests a day on someone could create a lot of false positives!

Only if they don't adjust the threshold/filter, properly calibrated you'd expect false positives to be reduced.
Audience capture is probably the biggest driving point behind media bias, whether the media is commercial or independent. Walter Lippmann put it wall 100 years ago [1]:

> A newspaper which angers those whom it pays best to reach through advertisements is a bad medium for an advertiser. And since no one ever claimed that advertising was philanthropy, advertisers buy space in those publications which are fairly certain to reach their future customers. One need not spend much time worrying about the unreported scandals of the dry-goods merchants. They represent nothing really significant, and incidents of this sort are less common than many critics of the press suppose. The real problem is that the readers of a newspaper, unaccustomed to paying the cost of newsgathering, can be capitalized only by turning them into circulation that can be sold to manufacturers and merchants. And those whom it is most important to capitalize are those who have the most money to spend. Such a press is bound to respect the point of view of the buying public. It is for this buying public that newspapers are edited and published, for without that support the newspaper cannot live. A newspaper can flout an advertiser, it can attack a powerful banking or traction interest, but if it alienates the buying public, it loses the one indispensable asset of its existence.

[1] Public Opinion, https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6456/pg6456.html
> People sometimes paste stuff into their editors. Copilot learns it.

You know, suddenly I'm very nervous about my habit of using a comment as a scratch space when I'm talking on the phone. Or pasting data into my IDE to tidy it up a bit.

(Edit: hah. I just got it to spit out the full address of a serviced office near me with several tech companies in it. It really likes serviced offices for some reason - that's three it's given me now).
"Supercharge your spreadsheets with Python and AI"

lol, threw in the AI there just in case
They can already gleen a lot of this since they run the hosted formula db anyway. A 90-day analytics capture isn't a big deal IMO.
I like google news because I can see both right and left takes on stories, and which stories are only covered by one side. It also has international coverage, which is nice for instance where Israeli media had by far the most accurate reporting on the nature of Covid-19.

I use media to find out what America believes, and where it is headed. Your list of sources is going to leave you surprised fairly often. My goal is to not be surprised.
You probably didn't mean it that way, but thinking this through will get you to the conclusion that "Democracy" (which isn't really a thing) is an engine for decline, similar to unions.
Secret Perl Operators
You can display images, including interactive ones, rendered LaTeX and diagrams, and arbitrary HTML/CSS/JavaScript inside "notebooks" in Emacs?
Yeah it gives zero indication who this is for.

Reading from comments here it seems like travel agents and tour operators? But then I don't really understand that, they already buy flights on behalf of customers so how is this an improvement?

I still have no idea who this is actually for or what the value proposition is. What, precisely, is this trying to replace, and for who?

Give me the top three business case examples and then maybe I'll understand it.
> Remembering that might help people

The problem is that we already have ample evidence that even technical users easily fall into the trap of thinking Sydney/ChatGPT are sentient. People who should be able to understand the bounds of the technology and what drives the responses.

Now just imagine the average Bing user with little or no technical background, zero understanding of what a large language model is. They hear "AI" and that's about it. Then they talk to it and drop the A. Now we're in trouble.
In an ideal world this means people will simply start taking what they're told with a pinch of salt and are little bit more sensible about believing sensational things. However we don't live in such a world. I suspect that what's more likely is that a bunch of people will fall into believing in stupid shit like flat earth or qanon, and will end up following weird conspiracy freaks like Alex Jones or white supremacists like Nick Fuentes.
Not directly related, but I've come to really appreciate the idea that a drug cartel is the ultimate example of a conspiracy, because not does it fit the definition really well, but it demonstrates what one actually looks like. There's no shadowy boardroom of hooded figures meeting in some underground bunker, but rather playboys loudly broadcasting their wealth & power with only the barest minimum of deniability maintained at the legal perspective, with the general populace fully aware but powerless to really do anything about it. And yet, it still is a multi-national network of coordinated logistics and execution for multiple tons of product that both the official powers & general public would really prefer to not to be there.
And if you've asked the bot a novel question (like "can you summarize this $corporation internal strategy document on $market?"!) and approved the answer, that's excellent feedback a chatbot company absolutely should want to use for future questions covering similar topics which have low correspondence with anything else in its database. ChatGPT might be capable of hallucinating plausible-sounding strategy documents it's never read, of course, or internal API calls that don't exist but that can be tested to a degree by comparing answers of lots of similar questions.

We've already seen the hilarity that ensures when a ChatGPT-based bot explains that it's not allowed to refer to its internal codename Sydney and with sufficiently creative prompting about Sydney will happily emit the entire document....
How Do I Love Thee, COBOL? Let me count the ways
That's what I use but their bank connections are so hit or miss and they always blame it plaid which is not the case.

I'll give YNAB a go
Tesla workers allege company fired dozens in retaliation for union campaign
Au contraire - https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-the-western-media-is...
That includes 21% VAT. So $37 + sales tax.
The benefit of using Brew is that almost every stackoverflow or blog post contains brew commands you can copy/paste.

Just like using any popular framework, the most popular one comes with plenty of benefits outside of the technical differences.
A Data Mesh for the rest of us
blog post about how we have applied data mesh for a non-technical part of our business
I get somebody else's email address or twitter handle suggested every time I type my personal credit into a file. There really ought to be a guardrail for obvious PII.
As far as I know garden leave is a thing even in the US. A garden leave is in practice a long notice period were you do not have to show up for work. But here in Europe notice periods are usually symmetrical (i.e. you are entitled to it), while often garden leave is at the employer discretion.
"Dieser Eingriffsanlass bleibt angesichts der besonders daten- und methodenoffen formulierten Befugnisse weit hinter der wegen des konkreten Eingriffsgewichts verfassungsrechtlich gebotenen Schwelle einer konkretisierten Gefahr zurück."

This roughly translates into "there has to be a sufficiently concrete danger to warrant such a ambiguously formulated infringement."

I truly appreciate this sentiment. Any collection or analysis of data "just because there might be something in there" has to be weighed against the right of everyone that is being data-mined.

This freaked me out about Minority Report when I first watched it: those precogs are essentially hacking into the future memories of everyone involved in _and by happenstance surrounding_ the lives of future criminals and their crimes.

Mass-scale datamining is effectively the real-world equivalent of telepathy. And I want neither precogs nor the government in my mind.
No mass shootings, but do look up knife crime and sexual assault statistics.

Different implements, same outcomes unfortunately.

And youth unemployment is one of the problems that Europe has that America doesn't have nearly as badly.