skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How the R word was a medical condition, how the N word was a normal thing to call somebody, how a gay man was called the F word. Nobody would bat an eye at these words back then. And yet - we look back on those times with disdain.

I think that you are conflating two different things, and somewhat mixing cause and effect. We do not look back at those times with disdain because they used those words. Rather, we look at those words with disdain because of the attitudes with which they were used in the past.

Furthermore, those three words fall into somewhat different categories. While the [acronym of ginger] and the [en_GB cigarette] words were overwhelming used from the outset to target and attack people with no moral justification (under our modern sensibilities), that is not the same as the term retard which was a legitimate medical term to describe an individual with mental retardation. The fact that we now reject the use of that word is precisely because it became a convenient pejorative to insult somebody's mental capacity, hence it being the perfect example of the euphemism treadmill—in fact, retard itself arose as a euphemism for slow.

Will the euphemism treadmill catch up on the other two examples? Will "gay" or "lesbian", or "black" or "African American" become taboo? I bet they won't, for the simple reason that as a society we have (mostly) moved past the idea that there's anything wrong with being sexually attracted to people of one's own gender, or descending from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Regarding people in the future, if they do look at us with disdain for using the words fat, ugly, mad, etc, my bet is that it will only be for the euphemism treadmill effect, as there is something inherently negative about being overweight, unattractive, or mentally unhealthy. I find it hard to believe that any future euphemism for any of these three words could ever become immune to becoming an insult.
Everyone’s ChatGPT gangsta until their ChatGPT-trained doctors start giving fatally wrong diagnosis. 100% agree with whole comment. I interview cheaters time to time, their excuse of not learning stuff is exactly that. However, in the end they’ve cheated themselves more than the system.
Why would you use chatGPT as a calculator? Use a calculator for that.
Why do you have such an emotional attachment to the truthiness of a scientific theory?
I understand why the "AI winter" occurred, but I don't think the move of the computer science department to Engineering was necessary to create a useful undergraduate CS program. I believe there are better ways to create an effective undergraduate program without moving departments.
You seem to have changed the topic. As the previous poster was saying, them doing this particular thing for money is not bad. It's good. The fact that you're for some reason pulling in unrelated things that Microsoft has done presumably means you agree, but it's a mystery as to why you don't want to say so.
The guy who first described the wave-corpuscle duality, of course
I'd feel the same way about a job that requires the use of generative AI, nothing to do per se with a classroom setting or even education.
One of the use cases of studying math is the ability to quickly identify and fend off mathematical complications. In one example I could help a student of medicine tear down a wall of inappropriate statistical nonsense.
Yep, that's a good point, and the best way to deal with this. After being laid off 2 or 3 times over the years, I have learnt to just not leave anything on my desk or in my drawers, make sure I have everything I care about on my own devices, resume up to date, have plenty of savings, live life one day at a time.

If I do get laid off, it's a bonus with the extra severance, if not, being prepared is relieving in and of itself.
Yes, it retries for up to three days according to documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/best-practices#retry-logic
No it's not. Hair stylists should set there prices accordingly in a way that they make a livable wage.
Wait... You don't use an IDE taking up 2GB of RAM to write posts in "plain text" using a random flavor of Markdown, with custom extensions only supported by a single blog generator, and then use the command line to call 250MB worth of Node libraries which creates an AST from the barely parsable text file, all to then generate a basic static HTML file?

What's wrong with you?
That's impressive! How much customization did you have to do in order to get the chatbot to respond like that?
Why can't personal vehicles use rail tracks without permission from a central authority?
She wasn't locked down, but even in the US, it would be still limited to just a few kids and let's not forget the breath of interactions.

Here, from what I could see, most home-schooling parents are generally homeschooling their kids because school curriculum is too "difficult" :-/
And ChatGPT also caused me to do an amazing self own

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34814257
You think that's in any way equivalent to turning the works over wholesale to a bunch of unhinged "sensitivity readers" who see fit to remove the word black when describing the BFG's cloak or Danny's father's tractor?
Why are you trying to change the subject from Russia aggression to US aggression? Something's aren't about the US, and viewing this war in that lens completely takes agency away from Ukraine and Russia. Instead, let's talk about Russia and Ukraine. Russia has nuclear weapons and promised to guarantee Ukraine's borders in exchange for them giving up theirs. Instead, Russia invaded and took territory from them in 2014. When that wasn't enough, they did it again a year ago. Before 2014, Ukraine barely had a military and posed no threat to anyone. What possible reason could Russia have to invade Ukraine that would justify this?
I'm not sure exactly what Hinton means by "mortal" computers, but it sounds like he is embracing what Carson Mead was advocating with neuromorphic computing and analog VLSI in the 1980s. It will be really exciting for robotics if the electronics industry goes down that path.
If one had to make a console that would go against almost every trend that would come to dominate, The Saturn would hit almost all of them.

From going multicore before the tools were ready to backing quads over polygons.
> That's one factoring. A different factoring is that the excess wealth is (economic value) - (expenses paid)

That factoring wouldn't make sense in the context of the original comment, because it also claims that "The capital holders are taking all of the excess wealth created", which clearly isn't the case because we're not paying everyone $0 in wages.
Sadly that’s probably a decent reason to do a “approved update” - you can force all libraries to buy the new edition
That but I would also add:

We feel that it is taboo to approach others, rather than try and start a conversation and seem weird we all stare at our phones.

We are also hesitant to try something new, when we were young we had parents who would push us but now when we are independent we no longer have that push.

The thread started gave a list of social clubs, the reply is that all of them are old white men who would not be accepting. Perhaps they had visited each club and experienced rejection but the Eagles and the Odd Fellows don't strike me as particularly conservative organizations. Neither do the Optimists, Kiwanis and Active 20-30.

In order to meet people, you must step out of your comfort zone!
It should be noted that, empirically, all other economic systems that have been tried are even worse than capitalism as far as people's perceptions of their existence.

Capitalist countries have border guards to keep foreigners from coming in illegally. Socialist countries have border guards to keep their own people from escaping.

Capitalism does not enforce behavior patterns. You are free to opt out and be poor and not compete with others, if you want. You can be homeless, or subsist on minimum wage, or go on welfare benefits, and many do.

Compare this to socialist economic systems, where opting out is illegal and classifies you as a social parasite. "Being unemployed" is a felony that gets you ten years in a forced labor camp. "Complaining about how it is unfair that you are not allowed opt out" is also illegal, and also gets you a stint in the labor camp. That's "enforced behavior patterns."
Yeah to me there's something sinister about the notion there will be a time when someone just assumes that's what Dahl wrote. It's sad. Did anyone even ask for this? I can't imagine there was any backlash to Dahl sufficiently meaningful that it couldn't have dealt with simply by ignoring it.
Yep, I understand why people commit this fraud.

And, again, as far as fraud goes I think this is on the fairly low end of frauds.

But, “hey, lots of other people are committing this fraud” goes into the bucket of “helps the person committing fraud sleep at night”.

I do tend to hold the platforms themselves (AirBnB, VRBO) more responsible than the individual hosts that list on these platforms.

It just shouldn’t be possible to even present listings with hidden fees on the platforms. So, in general I look at this as 90% AirBNBs fault, and 10% the individual hosts fault.
Doesn't pass the sniff test.
I've flown with South West for years where all tickets are "no assigned seat", and I've yet to see a single person who's 'outraged' by the result. I've not even overheard grumbled complaints. This doesn't seem like a real problem to me.
Unfortunately, I've worked at several players which promise power reductions. It doesn't matter though. People don't care about cost at this point. If you are cost-sensitive you're not doing the kind of revolutionary AI work these companies need to create a competitive moat. And once your model works on NVIDIA and is trained, how much are you going to spend on ML engineers to make it work on something else? Because that cost better be less than the marginal cost reduction on electricity. Plus, NVIDIA et al will likely get more and more efficient.
That's a super interesting point... even if you're fine financially and the acquirer doesn't sabotage you, you've fundamentally damaged the company by exploring acquisition.

Like if somebody goes from working hard on a marriage to seriously investigating divorce. Even if they decide divorce was too expensive or whatever, they're never getting back to even the problematic state they were in before they called a lawyer.
That's how markets are supposed to work though, otherwise there's no downward pressure on prices. Artists undercut other artists all the time, saying you will do a commission for 1 cent less is undercutting. There's no market failure wheresoever here. There's not a cartel or monopoly or anything like that either, I explained how you could get started yourself by minimizing your reliance on other services, running your own hardware, and watching out for increasing costs.
Asking ChatGPT to explain the reason it gave an answer is a thing.
Hello fellow Brit
What if the cheapest company is the only one legally able to make that claim, and is happy to advertise for that query?
This exact thing happened to me with Nike. It's apparently called email bombing. I didn't even realize I had a Nike account, but I guess I bought some shoes or something with it years ago. In my case they tried to buy a bunch of gift cards. Fortunately my bank flagged it as potential fraud and I didn't end up losing any money.
I’m pretty sure the FBI knows how to move things around.

I once worked in hazardous waste disposal. We would get phone calls from police departments who had seized large amounts of cocaine or meth.

They wanted us to “take it off their hands.” That is, pick it up and dispose of it.

We always said “you need to hand it off the appropriate authority, like the FBI.”

I don’t know if the FBI actually helps in situations like this.

But we sure as heck weren’t going to be driving down the highway with truck full cocaine.
To suggest all members of race X hold opinion Y by virtue of their ethnicity is a form of prejudice.

OP has not stated this directly but come very close, implying that members of race X, for whom their race is part of their identity, will support opinion Y if such is preferential to members of their race.

At its core this is still prejudiced. Op has thrown a zillion cultural confounders and nuances to the wind and presented an argument based totally on race.
Modern pop music is a more refined commercial industry than it was in the past. It's been sliding further and further away from art and toward the commercial. It is what it is.
Apologies, I know nothing about this at all, but why is it more surprising for HIV than other viral diseases that do have successful cures (like hepatitis C)?
Is it an act of cultural vandalism to stage a modernized production of Shakespeare so that the audience can empathize with the plot & characters better

Yes, if "the audience" is a tiny population niche (but massively overrepresented in cultural and artistic power) of white, middle-class liberals (because it normally is) being offended on behalf of people they seem to feel need taking care of for whatever condescending and other psychological motivations that drive them.
This happened to me (this exact scam, with the email bomb, shipping and email matching my real addresses, etc.) a few years ago with a major electronics brand. My account was not compromised because I didn't have an account with them. But probably some other company got compromised, and they got my my matching info from one of those dumps.
I’m quite sure those clubs are focused around community activity and do not restrict membership by a member’s political alignment or religion.

Clubs that do revolve around members’ politics and identity, honestly aren’t all that much fun.
> The CSS declaration 'image-rendering: pixelated' does not fix that.

IME crisp pixels in a WebGL canvas (I assume 2D canvas is the same) are possible on Chrome, Firefox (and it seems in Safari now too, at least as of 16.3) with the following scary looking CSS, and also when rendering at half resolution on HighDPI displays:

image-rendering: optimizeSpeed;
image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges;
image-rendering: -o-crisp-edges;
image-rendering: -webkit-optimize-contrast;
image-rendering: optimize-contrast;
image-rendering: crisp-edges;
image-rendering: pixelated;
-ms-interpolation-mode: nearest-neighbor;

I don't know which of those have become redundant over time though.

Examples:

- https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/imgui-sapp.html

- https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/debugtext-sapp.html

...for WebGL rendering, of course you also need to use nearest filtering on anything that's rendered into the canvas before it's being upfiltered by the browser and/or window system.
That slightly annoyed me too!

> How many of us chortled at fat Augustus Gloop getting stuck in that pipe, or winced at the idea of witches posing as cashiers, or smiled deviantly at the vision of a ‘tremendously flabby’ old lady? And we turned out fine. We weren’t wounded, we didn’t become hateful.

I guess that you can say that "laughing about these specific fictional fat people" doesn't directly cause one to behave in hurtful ways towards fat real people. To me it still seems bizarre that the author decided to basically ask "Remember how we laughed at fat people and how good that was?" right before stating as fact that noone was hurt in consequence of any of the stuff in the book.
I’m not blaming the author at all. But surely the server administrator could map the file path onto a nicer name?
Hmmm I guess a lot changed since my last vacation to the US 10 years ago.

I remember all the travel advisories said something about 10 to 15 percent.
>the barrier to entry for arXiv is not very high

True but still seems more like something one will find ViXra.
He's probably a Midwestern engineer, if you know what I mean.

Or someone not from a coastal state (or Texas).
It seems different to me to stage a revised version of a play for which one can still easily find an un-revised text. The same way one can cover a song in a unique style and not erase the original.
The new design for an oil-free airtight sealing system could prove just as significant as the overall concept. It could make a lot of new technology and design ideas beyond power generation feasible.
Well if a single GPU is not enough, what about using Ray over internet so we can crowd training with multiple GPUs, is this possible?
I live in the PNW where down trees regularly kill my power for days. If your power is reliable, and your internet connection is good, then go for it.
True but I wish that it wasn't necessary.

There was a time when people with a minimum wage job could afford to pay rent. Now the government has to pay 10k euro to help them make ends meet.
FWIW, I don't even really feel like the "legal definition" is relevant: a lot of people on Hacker News seem to think the only thing that matters is the law, and then attempt to move every conversation into whether the law says one thing or the other, and yet fraud is a concept that no one has ever questioned exists even when the law isn't in question or involved. The definition from Oxford Languages (the one Google pulls from) has an "or criminal", but that's clearly elidable, so "wrongful deception intended to result in financial or personal gain" is what we are left with, and the question is then just whether or not it is "wrongful"... and frankly, you're going to end up there also, because I'm pretty sure the person you are arguing with is going to say "this isn't lying". I guess what I mean to say is: you are actually trying to have an ethical argument, but are being drawn into a silly semantic argument over the definition and source of a word you used not really because the definition matters but because it has a bad connotation and since they disagree that this is unethical behavior they want a happy word there, when the real problem is the ethical disagreement.
No mention of Hector Martin, who leads the project, is made in that whole article.

Alyssa has been instrumental on the GPU front, but I'd think marcan deserves at least a passing mention.
That is the normal definition of fraud. It seems the difference is you think hidden fees are lying, whereas most people don’t think so as long as they are presented before final purchase agreement.
> ISO C++ is only a moving target if one ignores that there is an industry that certifies compilers for specific standard versions.

That's what is so funny. You can indeed get the rubber stamp, and it's worthless. Have you watched that scene in "The Big Short" where FrontPoint goes to the ratings agency and basically gets told the agency knows these products are bullshit, but they don't make money unless they say it's good so that's what they do ? Turns out a "ratings agency" wasn't legally promising anything at all, they existed solely because people felt like if someone else says it's good, even if they were paid to say so, well it must be good. Hilarious.

But that doesn't matter because nobody wants a C++ 20 compiler which does what the ISO Document published in 2020 says anyway, because that's bad you want a compiler which does what the current document now says about C++ 20. It's a moving target.

And I doubt very much that the "dozens of vendors" have even stayed awake long enough to read much of the readily available and up-to-date "draft" document, much less that they insisted their employer spend actual money on the useless and perpetually out of date official ISO document. It's not a great piece of technical writing.
I think so but it's going to take centuries of serious dedicated work by millions of patient, sophisticated and persistent non-violent pro-social volunteers.

This is the path in my view:

1. Mutual cooperatives become the dominant form of labor organization over corporations (definitely possible)

And

2. Mutual Aid Communities become the dominant form of social organization over Churches and Families (harder but I think still possible)
While I'm not complaining that people are realizing they're dead... why is ChatGPT the final straw for those ridiculous "make a binary tree" questions?

Why wasn't it the fact that these questions became such a gameable system, that we started referring to them by the copyrighted name of a site where you can access nearly every permutation that will ever be asked of you, along with extremely detailed solutions with rationale: https://leetcode.com/

It's crazy to me that of everything that ChatGPT can do, regurgitating well known answers to well known interview questions is what kills anything off...
From memory, I think that's how Twilio callbacks work.
"Almost" is possibly the key word here.

How do you explain the horrific violence depicted in many of the Grimm's fairy tales to a kid? And what is the expected benefit of it?
500 Words
I still miss working a block away from Yerba Buena. Office parks are nice but not quite the same.
Power consumption. A Tesla T4 with 16GB RAM will consume a mere 70W. An RTX 3090 will need at least 300W, and the Titan models go up to 450W.
For CS1 you probably don't need much compute power for assignments. Schools are already well funded enough to sometimes offer freshman ipad pros. You could offer them a raspberry pi or some extremely cheap, low powered PC, make them return it after the semester if you want to save them money. You can firewall it from the open internet, and have students turn in their code from this device alone to a university server. They can still cheat, sure, but to do it would mean transcribing code from one device to another by hand, which is enough friction and a timesink where fewer students would consider it versus actually paying attention in class.
I read it as the person making the money being responsible for cleaning, which makes sense — it’s quite literally their job and they’re way more familiar with the local market for cleaning services.
Oh, yeah, in that case I could see it breaking eventually:) Although, it might not be an obvious breakage, either; you wouldn't notice something like upstream removing a package that you have installed (ask me how I know).
Does anyone actually like the policy language of OPA? Maybe I didn't invest enough time in learning, but I found it a terrible experience and the language to be counter intuitive.
Almost certainly the bar for problems that ChatGPT cannot solve is far, far higher than a student who is just learning computer science.
Oh wow, I had no idea. When did they stop?
Chomsky, in a recent interview, said if students are cheating with these tools, it’s the fault of the teacher for not creating work that is interesting enough to be absorbed by …
I am sorry if any of it came across as disguist.

I am feeling very compassionate to people that have suffered tremendous economic mismanagement.

I have seen people get offended at the suggestion that maybe some 'lesser' fountries are doing better, and we can learn from them. Even compairing Britain to Poland was disrespectfull to them.

> You know what's kept those wages outside London so low?

My guess would be, lowest public investment in the regions in OECD?

https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/uk-near-bottom-oecd-rankings-nat...

Also 'native' white British poor people get treated like crap?

Look at british TV shows - Benefit Street, Villabising poor people. Or how much educational outcomes are 70% predicted by parents income.
AWS doesn't have a huge incentive to allow you to define hard limits, but with their API, there has to be a third party app or service that allows you to monitor and then turn off services if you pass a defined spend threshold.
Sometimes typing ‘help’ will come in handy
A single 8xA100 server is ~150k. On demand cost to rent it is $8.8/hour. Do the math and don't forget the energy costs.
That's some great marketing. I never applied to work there, I just assumed "now that's how you run a company!"