skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something is wrong in the state of QED
There's also the Fabrice Bellard inference code: https://textsynth.com/technology.html. He claims up to 41 tokens per second on the GPT-Neox 20B model.
> Fast food is now a fraction of the cost of healthy food.

So are they feeding them fast food or not?
The Euphemism Treadmill will keep going, and replace the words we use for undesirable traits every 2-3 decades.

Because it's the reality of calling people crazy, mad, fat, or ugly that people find offensive, not the current vocabulary.
> The Latino voting bloc, growing every day, votes against immigration reduction (or even enforcement, via sanctuary cities) out of ethnic solidarity.

I'm seeing numbers that conflict with your assertion, above. I've heard that Latinos are in favor of border security, more so than immigration. From one of the references in the featured article [0]:

> Less than half of registered Latino voters believe that the U.S.-Mexico border is totally secure ... over half of respondents said border security is a more important issue than immigration, 59% to 35%.

Trump was very much anti-immigration, was very outspoken campaigning on that topic, and took what actions he could to decrease immigration when he was in office. Given this he got more Latino votes than Romney did in 2012 - 27% of Latinos voted for Romney in 2012, 29% for Trump in 2016, and grew his share of the Latino voters to 32% in 2020 [1].

I don't think the numbers you quoted support your point, especially given the more specific conflicting data I found. The article you got your numbers above from talked about perceptions of discrimination in the U.S., and how those perceptions have changed recently. I would assume that when minorities are treated differently by the majority because of their race they will say that their race is important to their identity, they can't escape being what they are and have to live with how they are treated. Why would you assume that means they'd treat other people unfairly? It doesn't have to be that way. Black South Africans gave amnesty to the whites there for the horrible things they did.

> The simple reality is Whites will become a minority in what was an 84% White country as recently as 1970. Will they be treated with gratitude for sharing their country, and so can afford to act colorblind, forsaking racial solidarity? Is gratitude what they're being shown now?

Immigrants choose to come here, even when it's very difficult to do so, and they very much appreciate what the opportunities they have in the U.S. They want to work for better lives, just like those who immigrated before them. They certainly don't come here to hate on whites and ruin the country.

Southern and eastern European immigrants were looked down upon, mistreated and feared as the "others" by white anglo-saxon protestants a century ago, but by 1970 they are part of that 84% white population statistic that you quoted. They are one of us. Turns out there was nothing to be afraid of.

[0] https://usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/04/latino-v...

[1] https://www.as-coa.org/articles/chart-how-us-latinos-voted-2...
If only I still had the textbooks that were used to teach me about slavery and the civil war in Texas. Revisionism for days.

People didn't see the censorship in the same way as that "fish don't have a word for water" bit.
Canada and the United States's Bizarre Border
I'm a college professor. I'm requiring my students to use ChatGPT to aid them on some assignments this semester. Results are mixed so far. I agree with the author, "One of the things I'm thinking about is that I might need to start teaching students how to use GPT/Codex and other LLMs in their [assignments]." One of my top students submitted a sub-par assignment because he relied too much on ChatGPT and provided little beyond what ChatGPT spat out. Another student who previously struggled to write did much better when using ChatGPT--it felt like he incorporated ChatGPTs words into his own ideas.
Heh, or they’ll democratically decide to ban you from operating in their society if you use hidden fees. A/B testing won’t predict that, either.
All four of these patients had undergone stem cell transplants for their blood cancer treatment. Their donors also had the same HIV-resistant mutation that deletes a protein called CCR5, which HIV normally uses to enter the cell. Only 1% of the total population carries this genetic mutation that makes them resistant to HIV.

The article is horribly wrong about CCR5 being the only pathway of the HI Virus to infect your cells and ultimately cause AIDS.

A problem of this approach is that, while CCR5 is the major co-receptor by which HIV infects cells, it is not the only such co-receptor. It is possible that under selective pressure HIV will evolve to use another co-receptor. [1]

Why this treatment still worked is because:

However, examination of viral resistance to AD101, molecular antagonist of CCR5, indicated that resistant viruses did not switch to another co-receptor (CXCR4), but persisted in using CCR5: they either bound to alternative domains of CCR5 or to the receptor at a higher affinity. However, because there is still another co-receptor available, it is probable that lacking the CCR5 gene does not make one immune to the virus; it would simply be more challenging for the individual to contract it. [1]

So a mixture of anti-retroviral treatments, which suppress the HIV replication to a point of not showing up in PCR tests anymore (while taking the medication), and (partially?) inhibiting the remaining viruses from infecting cells via the CCR5 pathway, further limiting their replication, caused these patients to be cured.

I don't know if the replication slowed down so much that their body was able to kick HIV out once and for all, or blocked it outright because the already reduced number of viruses simply could not beat the odds of infecting via a alternative pathway. Kudos to the researchers!

Why is this important: The CRISPR babies[2] had this exact gene removed, and everybody claimed that he cured them from ever getting HIV, even though it's simply not true.

Note that there are also drugs which disable CCR5, without gene modification (Selzentry).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair
At the end of the day the drudgery they are doing is writing the post, something they'd have to do anyway on a static site generator. Writing the raw html likely takes no friction at all, since they are probably copying and pasting some template or at this point know all the tags they use by heart so its no harder than a more abstract method.
you could also just `apt install nginx docker.io postgresql` then `docker --restart=always ...`
Well, they're great here. There's probably meetups to go to other random locations, maybe restaurants, I'm not sure.

Either way, I wish there were more public places for random people to meet other than commercial establishments.
You'll be surprised by the rhetoric going on in the "Fat Studies" department in academia. Medical prognosis of obesity is just another "narrative" to "oppress" people who are obese. Just imagine if more of such rhetoric goes mainstream.
That's an interesting point. I would agree that the attribution should clearly state "Revised in 2023 by Puffin" or something along these lines.

As for:

> Isn't it worth preserving how things were in the past?

Oh, yes, absolutely, and this is why archivists and librarians have such an important profession; and also why copyright law sucks so much. Do be angry at copyright law, don't be angry at the decision to modernize the texts.
I despise Khan.

Elite-accepted Populist with aggressive net-zero policies that are driving down low-income self-employed workers.
I read that paper too.

Even so, it's a mutation that leaves the person incongruent with the world in a way that limits happiness and self actualisation.

Evolution or not.
Almost all occurred while the deceased was committing a felony. The handful of accidents that occur notwithstanding, criminal activity is the #1 precursor to being killed by police. It is conceivable that of the 1232, better than 1225 would be alive had they not been committing some form, often a violent variety, of felony. Of little consolation, nearly all of the 1232, if alive, would probably still be in prison. So again, this is a reflection on criminal "culture" and not on law enforcement, which is reactive. Unlike crime, which is a proactive violation on the rule of law. If people stopped committing violent crime, that number would drop significantly.
> What humans being to the table over ChatGPT is our ability to create new links between information, aka creativity

Maybe not, or not for long. Maybe AGI is coming within 20 years, and maybe human workers won’t have anything to bring to it afterwards.

Maybe this is the beginning of the downfall of the value of intellectual human workforce.
Am I the "My mobile git workflow guy"[1]?

[1] https://wojteksychut.com/posts/this-domain-is-8-minutes-old/
if you tolerate a longer response time it seems pretty easy to insert ads now:

prompt:

"what's an air conditioner?"

phase 1:

"An air conditioner provides cold air inside your home or enclosed space by actually removing heat and humidity from the indoor air. It returns the cooled air to the indoor space, and transfers the unwanted heat and humidity outside."

phase 2:

"An air conditioner provides cold air inside your home or enclosed space by actually removing heat and humidity from the indoor air. It returns the cooled air to the indoor space, and transfers the unwanted heat and humidity outside. Consider an AC by Whynter!"

phase 3:

"An air conditioner, such as the Whynter - ARC-1230WNH, provides cold air inside your home or enclosed space by actually removing heat and humidity from the indoor air. The Whynter unit returns the cooled air to the indoor space, and transfers the unwanted heat and humidity outside."

in essence you could use the LLM to get the response, query for nouns of actionable adjectives or verbs, do a regular search and consult the knowledge graph to replace said items with a set auctioned on by advertisers.
This project was born out of another standalone, retro-style, HTML game project of mine. I wanted to write text on an HTML5 canvas and soon realized that the web browsers perform antialiasing due to which we lose the the jagged, crisp edges of the text that I wanted to retain in a cross-browser manner.

The CSS declaration 'image-rendering: pixelated' does not fix that. Taking the matter of rendering text on canvas into my own hands and drawing the text myself by plotting squares led to this project. This project allowed me to embed the bitmap arrays of the glyphs directly into the source code of the HTML and draw text while avoiding antialiasing and external dependencies.

There are various fonts used in the demo. Modern DOS font was developed by Jayvee Enaguas and released under the terms of CC0. The Oldschool fonts were developed by VileR of https://int10h.org/ and released under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thanks to the wonderful and detail-oriented work by these font developers, I only had to translate the glyphs rendered by these fonts to bitmap arrays in order to plot them with pixel perfect precision on a canvas. See https://github.com/susam/pcface#font-details for more details about these fonts.
Not in the slightest :)
> /etc/APK/world

[FTA:]

> I was very pleased to learn about apk’s /etc/apk/world.

> In essence, this file is a list of desired packages, and apk will install and uninstall packages so that the system state converges to the list. Exactly what I’d been looking for, but built right into the package manager. Actually it’s not just built into the package manager: it’s the very foundation of how it works. apk add actually adds a package to that list, and then installs any that are not present. apk del removes a package from that list, and only uninstalls it if it’s not a dependency for anything else.

This is fairly standard for how package managers work, afaik. From memory, Debian-based systems (in /var/lib/dpkg/status, IIRC) and Gentoo systems both work that way: constraints for the dependency solver (desired versions) are written to a persistent file in a plaintext format before the depsolver runs. In Gentoo's case, the language is also the same— the file is 'the world file' and it lives at /var/lib/portage/world.

I don't have an Arch system in front of me but I imagine it also stores its package selection database in a (perhaps compressed) plaintext format like this.

The novelty here is actually in encouraging users to edit the file directly by directing attention to it in the docs and by storing it under /etc, where one expects admin-facing configuration files.

Definitely an improvement over the norm on Linux, imo.

> apt and pacman which have lots of sharp corners

I'd love to hear more about these!
Compiling to Categories [pdf]
> most of our time as humans has been spent sitting around with other people telling stories and sharing our feelings and thoughts.

We replaced that with spending most of our time listening to made-up narratives by massive media companies who share portfolios with financial scammers and military contractors.
The simply-typed lambda calculus is modeled by any cartesian closed category. That means we can define categories representing domain specific interpretations such as hardware circuits or automatic differentiation, and then execute existing programs on them (in this case written in GHC Haskell.)
If I said "Hitler was a racist, therefore he is not the right person to hire to run an Inclusion & Diversity initiative", that would be an ad hominem, and therefore a fallacy? No, because "what he is" directly impacts the subject in question. Claiming it was a fallacy due to ad hominem would be argument from fallacy, which is a fallacy. (A fallacy fallacy)
You can drop in whatever text editor you like though. It's only a dependency like saying a keyboard is a dependency to writing code. There will always be new editors or you can use a 40 year old one just fine too. Can't say the same about the static site generator though, maybe your setup works when you swap one generator for another maybe it doesn't.
What stops you from publishing the version of the Bible or the Quran with your edits? Nothing. Maybe nobody wants to read it, but that’s your marketing problem.

If copyright were shorter, we could similarly have Dahl in any number of edits and adaptations. And personally I don’t see any problem with that.
You could ask it to explain line-by-line for you and memorize that enough to give an oral presentation. You may not get the best grade, but it might be enough for a passing grade.
> Horray, effective altruism!

Yup, there we go
Maybe take the approach many physics classes embrace (in germany) :
All tools are allowed in tests: calculators, books, as long as the correct answer is derived with "correct derivation path".

If chatgpt makes some problems too easy maybe it's a good thing because we can raise the bar. Find problems that require true understanding beyond auto complete / copy pasting.
without knowing with a high confidence what is LLM generated or not, it seems pointless
"Why do we lie to children in the places and times we do" is its own fascinating topic, but are we expecting anyone encountering Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for the first time to be reading it through a lens of "how things were in the past" lens?
The problem here is that most people just don't have suitable hardware. Ideally, you'd want to load the entire model into a GPU and most consumer grade GPUs just don't have nowhere near enough video memory. You'd need to have something like A100 80GB GPU to be able to run a node in the potential blockchain. You can buy one of these cards for about 15k USD. Admittedly, that's not that too far off from the price of a modern bitcoin ASIC miner but still a healthy chunk of change.

And if you try to split the model across several GPUs then you'll have an issue of bandwidth as model parts would need to talk to each other (on the order of terabyte/second). At the moment, the only realistic way to contribute is just to provide feedback data for the RLHF training.
> I recall that Roald Dahl LOATHED the changes to his story in the film version of Willa Wonka

And he was right. As much as I love the movie, and I do, it's very inferior to the book.
It’s okay, it’s now clear that programming won’t be done by humans within 10 years.
> Its not time to throw in the towel yet!

Of course not! Regardless of whether the core phenomenon is fundamentally impossible to explain (which I think it has to be for philosophical reasons), it’s an incredibly productive question to ask/am also curious about cutting edge theories and related findings.
You can. Because each container has its own ip address. Publish IS EXACTLY the creation of the iptables entry to route traffic over the docker0 bridge.
Well, to be fair, both you and the author fall for the same mistake: conflating what works your you/them, in your/their context, with what's generally good / bad.
This is definitely going to require changes in interview practices for a lot of places. For those looking for an alternative, may I suggest pair programming?

I've been doing pairing interviews for years. These days I have a standardized, practical problem, something that's reasonably like the work. (E.g., let's use APIs A and B to build features X, Y, and Z.) I let them pick their preferred language and tooling, so that I can see them at their best. And then we spend a fixed period diving in on the problem, with me getting them started, answering questions, and getting them unstuck.

I like this because not only do I get to see code, I get to see how they think about code, how they deal with problems, and how they collaborate. They get to spend time building things, not doing mensa puzzles, posturing, or other not-very-like-the-work things. And they can't bluff their way through, and it's pretty hard to cheat.
About 40% of Cocacola's income is from Foodstamps. https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-coca-cola-company-makes-m...
For those who experienced IE being forced on computers, simply entertaining the idea of it being forced off computers without choice is not just click-baity but also a special coming full circle moment.

Besides, every step towards an OS being something a user doesn't own or control, either for their own good, or users who can't help themselves, is another step towards lasting demand for usable Linux. '

It's nice that Ubuntu is starting to feel like MacOSX when it started to become usable for the many and not just the few.
Agree.

This is chilling to hear. Sometimes I really hate the industry I work on. We're really destroying mankind, and it's not in the ways most people predicted. Even Huxley's Brave New World looks optimistic compared to what we're doing.
How extremely nice of you! Thank you very much for the time you've spent on a random internet stranger, it is very much appreciated!
This is called a "hypothesis", a concept which science doesn't need philosophy to define.

As I said before, sure, you could call this philosophy, but a philosopher without any practical science experience isn't going to have anything interesting to say about it, so I'd just as soon call it "science" and cut the unqualified opinions out of the conversation.
Our current intellectual property law makes no distinction between these two cases.

We should fix copyright rather than stoke useless culture wars. The publisher and Dahl’s estate are laughing all the way to the bank on this controversy.
One thing is making a Shakespeare play, another is changing a book. These are two different things, and theater directors are just doing that.

Given that, I agree with you about publishing houses and copyrighted literature.
When movies featuring nudity are censored for network TV, do we use such loaded phrases as "cultural vandalism" to describe this censorship.

To me this is a case of "capital over all things" our censor is not the vandal, but us.
What is your argument then? That every edit by anyone demanding changes should be done? That's not a good game to play.

I can see how slaves might be offensive to people and be changed by the author but for example no one was offended by the word "screeching" and if they were I don't think we should let those people choose which words a book uses.
When I was at uni, there was no marking of assignments. The "examples papers" were basically your opportunity to understand the course before a supervision when you could discuss them. If you didn't do the examples, the supervisor didn't really care (typically a grad student that had enough of their own worries). My point is, if I'd cheated, it would have ultimately been my problem when it came to sitting the exam.
I think there is still some algorithm-based teaching, or at least the students I taught had been taught via algorithms. The simple O(n^2) multiplication one, or long division, or adding/subtracting with carrying/borrowing. I know a lot of the perceived complaints about the 'common core' change were a push away from this, though I never had any of those students (too young, and I left teaching two years ago, at least for now). That said, I think the common core way was a better way to go about it to help kids get a number sense.

I see so many kids who don't know that, for, say, 28 + 35 you can simply rearrange this to be 30+33. They have no concept of what addition means, or how you can regroup parts. Same with breaking down multiplication and how you can do it by parts and then sum it. They have no concept of how the numbers work, basically, and I don't think algorithms would give them that sense, it'd just give them steps to compute stuff.
You very succinctly put what creativity researchers (yes, that’s a thing) have been saying for decades.

1. Immersion in the problem. Work diligently.
2. Relax
3. Insight
>It would be racist - actually racist, not the politically correct “racist” - to suggest all members of the same race have the same beliefs.

That's not what being racist means. Here's a definition.

characterized by or showing prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.

His statement showed neither prejudice, discrimination or antagonism.
Hubris? No such thing at that time. They had to find a way to get things done, which were breaking all the time. Imagine node breaking something every release but a web browser. There was little choice then, compared to too many options today. Firefox was able to be a bit more of a stable presence than the rest in that time.

Devs had to manage every incompatibility between every tag implementation in every browser, especially ways to gracefully downgrade for older and older versions of IE especially in early B2B SaaS. Ironically, these skills have turned out to be incredibly valuable now for other applications for optimizing user experiences even if they're anonymous.

It was that way for a long time that made browser makers learn the hard way why compatibility was a good thing and would not be less competitive.

Looking forward to safari is everything on iOS going away soon.

Thankfully such opinions of the past have to live with the fact that modern javascript apps in many ways, with AJAX calls were invented by Microsoft, no less for the online version of Microsoft Outlook.