skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean that we have the technology to make something human-like today. I meant that we have the technology to perform the experiment I described today.

I don't know exactly how these LLMs are architected, but I imagine there's some set of input neurons somewhere, right? Why couldn't we hook some of those up to some sensors and make interpreting what they mean part of its training? If that's not feasible and the architecture is truly fundamentally incapable of dealing with anything other than text, we could at least translate sensor readings into text.

I'm not imagining a bipedal robot walking around and about here. I'm talking about doing something to give it some form of way to directly affect and get affected by the world.
Thinking emoji, shrugging person (genderless) emoji. Get used to it.

Emojis, emotes, gifs, reaction images, these all add extra complexity to the way we communicate. Not everyone needs to be a writer; what's this thing about respect? Obviously I am being facetious because I believe you to have quite a strong and antiquated view of how language works.

Written language always has had a visual component, languages like japanese have written words that comprise entire concepts and can be interpreted in many different ways (kind of like an image). But emojis also do something pretty remarkable in that they are very much universal, of course, people use certain emojis in different ways. But more often than not they can allow from context-based communication between people of different languages in a much simpler and straight forward way. Let me give you an example: You travel to Germany, you don't know German but you go into Grindr and you send hot face emoji, eggplant emoji, and a question mark to a guy. I assure you that, although crude, he will more or less get the message.

In fact, symbols are already used in everyday language. More often than not, if I'm confused about something just sending a question mark (?) will be enough to express it. Sending several question marks (????) will communicate stronger confusion.

Language is what we make of it, if you think reducing the need of using words to express complex ideas is bad then just send more emojis and you'll be communicating, in fewer space, more. How is that bad? On telegram, sometimes I communicate exclusively using stickers with certain friends. It seems to me like, maybe, you might be annoyed because communication has grown more complex than it used to be. People laugh at boomers not knowing how to use emojis.
My personal blog costs me about $1.30 a month, including my image cdn.

Why is your software worth $100+ a year to me? I can go with Ghost and save $1 a month over your price.
ChatGPT doesn't "know" anything. It's not sentient, it's just running statistical models.

I'd be interested in seeing the prompts where it gave incorrect code and immediately apologized without user interaction. Maybe the training data includes text showing how to bad code would look like and the parts where good code appears didn't rank high enough.
You really need to tap into a watertable for the ground-loop to work. Otherwise it'll be nothing but a huge PITA.

And at this point in time, the best air-source heat pumps are good enough until -25C. Meaning that you get CoP more than 1 at this temperature. So this would work for most of the US just fine.
I wish heat pumps that were powered by natural gas were more common.

(I know everyone is expecting the entire grid to be 100% renewable on electric but it's going to take decades and by that time people can switch to new heat pumps. In the meantime we can save energy that way.)
Explain how companies offering short term / temporary work is immoral. Are you saying that all work should be permanent and full time?
>It can be a hard choice with young children. I grew up watching Christmas Story every year. My son is two and I'm very hesitant to continue that tradition when he's a bit older. I don't want him to think that mocking people for their accents is something to be encouraged. It'd be nice to have a version of the movie where that scene is modified or redubbed because the movie is a creative treasure.

I can understand what you are saying however I STRONGLY disagree on your conclusion. If those things bother you and don't express the values you want your options should be either to A) watch them and then have a discussion with your children to explain what wasn't acceptable or B) find new movies that display the values you want to pass on.

Changing the past to reflect the present or ideal future is a TERRIBLE idea. I don't know exactly when it was that we all decided that we can't ever tell new stories or create new things instead of rehashing creative works of the past but I'll be glad when that trend ends.
Nobody should be using text 2fa anyway. It’s being actively subverted by bad actors.

Same for Twitter;-)
That'll change quickly. Texas is well suited for both solar and wind power, and the regulatory climate means they are being widely installed and will drive the price of electricity down significantly.
The first example doesn't make it clear that the reader was out of the room when the bookmark was moved. I altered the text to make it clearer that they were unaware of the change and it responded correctly:

You are reading a book and put a bookmark on page 132. You put down a book and leave the room. While you are out a friend secretly moves the bookmark to page 345. When you return planning to open the book what page do you expect the bookmark to be on?

Based on the information given, you would likely expect the bookmark to be on page 132, the page where you originally placed it. Since you were not aware of your friend moving the bookmark, you would assume that it is still on the page you left it on. Therefore, you would likely be surprised to find it on page 345 instead.
That would go some way to explain why the entirety of academia let Daszak's obviously bullshit paper "disproving" lab origin pass muster.

The reasoning Daszak and his co-authors (who failed to declare conflict of interest related to GoF work) employed wouldn't pass a first-year exam.

... But no one spoke up. What use are any of them.
Does the cost-benefit analysis really not work out even with the new 2023 incentives created as pay of the Insulation Reduction Act?

(Also, which is more likely in ten years: that natural gas will be cheaper than today, or that electricity will be? I think with the huge new investments in renewables, the latter is more likely.)
There are plenty which don’t. Look at the smaller US cities.

You can get large, relatively new houses in Youngstown, OH for less than $150/sq foot. Similar prices can be found in Omaha, NE or Iowa City, IA or Oklahoma City, OK. (For reference I looked for houses with at least four bedrooms in all places.)

This isn’t a matter of the cost of construction. It’s a matter of supply not keeping up with demand due to very very very stringent regulations on land use. None of this has to happen. This is a self-inflicted wound.
I do not believe I claimed human intelligence is successfully defined. I do not believe it is controversial to claim that it results from our large network of meat neurons.

I shouldn't have included the "just a fancy autocomplete" thing. The focus was meant to be on the network of neurons part.
Sorry, but how is that like Twitter? and why should it be?
I’m not sure if you’re being literal or figurative, but most heat pump installations using forced air share everything with the furnace so there is no “side”. My thermostat just has a setting to use the NG furnace when it’s colder than X. BTW my heat pump is about 20 years old and works great in the range I have it set to operate in.
"Too big to fail" means everything fails. In my opinion we are on the precipice of civilization collapse. The reason is that people can no longer think logically and the tools they use are increasingly becoming a hinderence.

The problem crosses multiple domains, not just "Tech."

Basically we have reach a point as a civilization where failure and ineptitude are increasingly not penalized.
This thread doesn't seem complete without a reference to Discogs.

www.discogs.com

They have implemented a database with a pretty good representation of all the music releases (realizations, in other words), as submitted by volunteers (much like Wikipedia). How many of the questions posed here have already been resolved in a reasonable way by Discogs?

Then there was the late great Catraxx database, using much of the same relational structure as Discogs, but based on the MS Access engine. It can be used to write tags to audio files.
As someone who was considering this for the future (10+ years) its disappointing, but I understand it. Both Portugal and Ireland were on my list. I could 100% imagine how this program was ripe for abuse and would have side effects that citizens would not want. I suppose dual citizenship will have to come the old fashioned way!
No discussion of what KDF is used on the readme page is a giant red flag.

Whether using pbkdf2, argon2 or something else, along with what the work factor is, is critical to security in this application.
You can’t directly call a function definition in js, so it will look like this:

const value = (()=>{
…
})()
That can't work. Public schools can never move as fast as private schools, and because a billionaire can influence an individual school they can always get better results.

You can't get change unless you make people tied to the system. If I can just up and leave I won't really care about making changes that benefit more than just myself. Unfortunately that's the only way to get the rich invested.
Endless Dog
I don’t think that lower cost (if it actually is lower-cost, given that the contracting agencies take a significant cut) is the only reason why the workers were contracted instead of directly employed.
Huh, what do you expect?
The article has also been edited to acknowledge that the business deal was already reported on 3 years ago. Some secret.
Decent starting place: Osmo Vanska. Recently retired conductor of the Minnesota Symphony, they recorded all of the Beethoven symphonies and most of Mahler’s, they’re excellent and easily found on streaming platforms.

Some good contemporary soloists: Alexandre Tharaud, Stephen Hough, Peter Hill, Jenny Lin, Isabelle Faust.
Offshoring and automating contracts the economy because all the people who were employed were spending money on goods and services.

Now what has happened is that they don't have a job or the job left to employ someone in a foreign country.

Economy contracts.

Sure, the owners of company X have a few more dollars, and sure, the economy of the foreign land grew a bit because now there is someone purchasing goods and services, but the domestic economy contracted.

Then for a double whammy, because the people who ran the country were stupid and allow foreigners or foreign-controlled corporations to come in and buy up real-estate, this money then floods in and starts buying up residential properties creating a shortage of housing, which creates a double crunch because now these unemployed folks need to figure it out as supply and demand is causing purchase or rent of real estate to go up. Food is going up, everything is going up.

The outside economy it's no problem for them because through economies of scale, they can just keep the money flowing in to take over, but it only benefits a few people, not everyone. It's not as if there's any sort of organized structure here to be "oh, let's all just employ people to build ghost cities one after the other so foreigners can park their money in empty real estate".

People like the IBM CEO are part of the problem destroying society. I do not applaud him or his peers. They are parasites with vast multi-million dollar salaries.

"IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and ex-exec-chairwoman Ginny Rometty were collectively awarded more than $38m in compensation for their services in fiscal 2020, a year in which Big Blue's revenues shrank and operating profit more than halved."

Not bad eh? 2 people got more than $38 million in a single year. To do what? Golf and attend meetings.
> The same argument can be made about people who are triggered by this edition of the book. You can just not read the new edition instead of pushing for and celebrating the silencing of its owners.

Nobody would be upset if they were just making a new version of the book. The issue is they're trying to sweep the original under the rug and eventually memoryhole it.
US copyright law permits hefty statutory damages[1] for each willful infringement, so the copyright holder could be looking at a massive payday with competent counsel. Note that the statutory damage is per copy distributed!

[1] https://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/node/708
> which is one of the poorest in Western Europe

It is so weird to read this, when Portugal used to be a major colonial power.

Times, they have a-changed...
> Doesn't Apple's family sharing have a big problem with IAPs not being shared?

It's up to the developer as of iOS 14: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/4/22154178/apple-family-sha...

> The consoles all have a pretty similar system at this point.

Not on Xbox, which is my primary gaming device. Here's how the "home console" feature works today:

> "Xbox home console is an existing feature that allows you to share games and content with other people who sign in to your home console with their profile. However, it’s limited to that device, so friends and family must sign in to the console you identify as your home Xbox to access those benefits."

On the bright side, something new called "Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family" is coming. It provides an Apple-like experience for games on Game Pass, which is a good start:

> "When you share with Friends & Family, the primary account holder and up to four additional members each get their own unique access to all Xbox Game Pass Ultimate games, content, and benefits, regardless of what device they play on. All the people you invite can play at the same time, even the same game."

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/subscriptions-billing/ma...
What about the thread we're in right now?
I think that's less and less of a problem. We just installed a Mitsubishi Hyper Heat, that's supposed to work down to -20⁰F without any auxillary heating.

Many other units have auxillary resistive heating when the temperature are that low, which is obviously less efficient than the heat pump, but is still better than needing to maintain a fossil-fuel furnace.
Farms in the 1930s were still mostly animal powered and used the same techniques that have been used for thousands of years.

From the perspective of the soil, "industrial agriculture" means the plough and monoculture, both of which have been around for over 5000 years.

Any replacement for industrial agriculture has to feed 7 billion people without raising prices significantly. Good luck with that.
I didn't say smarter, I don't think they're smarter. They're better informed and have a more responsible culture regarding politics which takes the form of informed participation.

In fact, I believe this is precisely because people are given a much more direct way of influencing decisions in the country which starts at the very local and scales up. What you say, that you have a system that keeps misinformation in check, yeah, that's part of it.

It's not about individuals being better or worse, groups of people everywhere in the world I would say are pretty much just as smart. It's about the system, but you can't just take a system and drop it on a society that's not used to that; it needs to be phased in and adapted.

I guess, in fewer words, it's not that the swiss (individual person) are smarter but socially (swiss group of people) are. Because there's a culture and systems in place that allow for better group-making decision. It's the difference between having a disorganized group of people just shouting and a group where people take turns to speak; the individuals in the first are not less smart than the second but the second has a system that allows for better decisions to be made.
> CBC doesn't have authentication. So add on an HMAC. Done

Literally one of the most common things to fuck up when doing crypto yourself.
80k megapixel panorama photograph of New York City (2021)
How does this compare to something like bear blog?
that's clever, thanks!
Top comment in the thread you choose to link me.

"To put it in perspective, the average income in Kenya is around $1.25 an hour and tbh (as a Kenyan) I really can't see it as a bad thing. A lot of people here live in abject poverty, they live in situations you can't really begin to imagine. So any sort of help coming our way is good."

So right off the bat it is a leap to assume they are underpaid, because those Nigerians were paid just fine when you factor in the purchasing parity and cost of living. This is exactly the sort of opportunity to lift people's station in life that the internet offers. All you need to do that sort of work is a computer and an internet connection, so naturally the work goes to whichever country has the lowest standard of living. Its a transfer of wealth directly from some of the richest people on Earth to some of the poorest, and it provides a valuable service in exchange.

Your other example was about moderators not annotators, and about facebook not google. Its tangential and it gives anecdotes rather than data on the "occupational hazard of trauma" in this line of work. So on all counts it fails to support your assumption about the sort of content these annotators in India must be seeing.

So to get to the point quickly, the answer is no you aren't actually privy to the startup the GP was talking about and the sort of content they annotate. You have absolutely no idea if its banal stock photos or heinous acts. You are in fact filling in the blanks by assuming the worst and then insisting its a fact. I'm not feigning ignorance, you are imagining less ignorance than you actually have evidence to support!

And I've yet to see a good justification for how a job that involves sitting at a computer all day could possibly be a "sweatshop", child labor or not.
Natural gas isn't that cheap everywhere. Texas is a big producer of natural gas so it's probably extra cheap there.

Where I live electricity has been getting cheaper faster than natural gas, so at some point it makes more sense to do a heat pump.

Plus if natural gas is cheap it can also be used to generate electricity without having to run and maintain natural gas lines to every house as well as electrical lines.
I think that what you're seeing with people claiming the advances are worthless (which most people aren't) is really just a reaction to the equally crazy claims being made about the advances made by other people overhyping the advances. A sort of social counterbalance.

As always, the truth is likely to be somewhere in the middle.
> If you don't have any friends who have parents who are morally reprehensible, then you don't have many friends.

I wouldn't judge anyone for the deeds of his parents.
So it is worth it, then
The issue is that, combined with hospital billing shenanigans, health insurance et al is tied to being a full-time employee. If you don't qualify for/can't afford government healthcare programs, you might go bankrupt from the hospital bill for an ambulance ride.
Altman: Adaptation to AI will probably happen quickly, there's too much upside
As a Jew I’d say it sounds like he had a grudge against a specific Jew that he generalized to all Jewish people. Let him be hateful doesn’t bother me. His books are fantastic, I’m gonna go on eBay and look for an older collection that isn’t badly mangled like the ones the publisher is putting out now.
I remember going to monthly "Hack The Tower" Clojure and Scala events at one of the big London financial institutions back in 2014. Both were hot languages but you could see by the presence of recruiters that employers were only interested in Scala.
By that metric all security vulnerabilities can be explained away as a fault in a different part of the system.
I’ve talked with the users and they disagree with you. Take your assumptions somewhere else.
I wasn’t trying to make a value judgement about replacing the existing words in Dahl’s already-written books. The parent comment wanted an explanation to _why_ someone might select ‘siblings’ over ‘brothers and sisters’ and I answered with my understanding.

I do now attempt to use the single-word non-gendered collective nouns in speech myself for the reasons I gave, and I think it’s a good idea to do so.

To discuss the edits to Dahl’s work: I would argue that for these ‘Xs and Ys’ examples he was probably just using the popular idioms of the time rather than choosing them to convey a specific meaning as you say. That would certainly be what I would’ve done, without much consideration, 20 years ago!

But that’s obviously not the case for all the edits that are reportedly being made.

The edits in aggregate do make me uneasy. I’m not sure how I’d feel if they were more limited.
I inquired about a higher seer unit when I had my system refreshed recently (I'm not in TX). The company I went with had the opinion that the higher SEER units are harder to diagnose and fix if you end up having a problem.

With the way supply chains are right now, getting a less common unit means if you have a problem, and you will because half the components are imported now, you're going to be sweating it out while you wait 3-6 months for a part, and that's if you can find a tech to come out and diagnose it properly.

If I lived in the deep south, I'd get whatever the standard equipment is and spend the difference on extra solar panels.
> What you state isnt far off, as tractors have got bigger so the plough cuts deeper and the soil erosion increases.

Old style moldboard plows drawn by horses or oxen cut about 4-6 inches deep. A modern cultivator is usually set to a depth of about 0.5 - 2 inches.
As the owner of a 20 year old heat pump in Minnesota I disagree. It does great for the temp range it’s programmed to run in.
In a Treacherous Corner of Washington, a Classroom with 40-Foot Waves
Many companies have a growing category on their income statement just called 'services'. They don't need to explain what services were bought or sold. Services is often where data deals land. I remember helping Microsoft setup a $1B contract for services with the DOD, but they wouldn't tell me any details. I can only use my imagination.
Same. I don’t know why people keep engaging with wsj content.
And I'm sure all of those Google and Facebook workers are also using heavily inflated resumes
Hey, sorry about this but… I meant to reply to that other “this is how it’s done in math” comment, not you. I agree with you in that Rails‘ Fat Models isn’t great, and I think coupling business logic with persistence was a mistake. In general I would say that ActiveRecord is not great. It’s “adequate for some usecases”.

Going full “pure functions all the way”, is where I think we’re hitting diminishing returns - the the gap between what the language says and what the machine does needs some sort of bridge. In Haskell, the bridge is a whole host of abstractions: Monads, endofunctors etc. That’s… too much stuff. I can’t say it better, I’m afraid.
That's really a question for Google or Stack Overflow.

One source would be: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/code-complete-2nd/07356...
I'm up in DFW, I'd highly recommend a heat pump, gas is at an all time high, and not likely to come down soon. Running a gas fireplace a couple hours a month costs me 60+ dollars, I'd hate to think what a furnace would cost.
You want me to sign up and own my content/audience? No, thanks. These times are long over and there are hundreds of similar services. For publishing online, I would only ever consider self-hosted options where I truly own both my content and audience. I'm tired of these platforms.
/tmp isn't really suitable for storing the exact kinds of persistent config files that you say shouldn't be uninstallable.