skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was built to encode grammar, and word2vec similarities. It reads your instructions and then binds future output based on its grammatic understanding of those. For example, it has read many bash tutorials and based on those it encodes "> ls" to be followed by file data entered above in the article.

Then add in word2vec translations and it can do the above for similar words, or translated words, or words in another format. And you got everything ChatGPT can do, it isn't really magic.

And note, ChatGPT doesn't have a sense or the conversation or a sense of self. It just prepends the entire previous conversation, applies the pure function to it and sends back the output. It doesn't "remember", it just predicts the next lines in each conversation. You can rewrite what it wrote, send it, and it tries to follow up based on the new data.

But they removed the ability for the user to change what ChatGPT writes, and then humans gets the illusion that ChatGPT actually thinks and have a consistent conversation. Nobody thought it did when they used GPT-3, it is basically the same thing just chat GPT-3 lets you alter all the prompts freely and then it is obvious that GPT-3 isn't a person.
>Unless we reduce models of consciousness to purely stochastic processes, this is trivially false. And no one seriously reduces consciousness to probabilistic pattern recognition.

Most things in this universe have mathematical models that can describe it. We have models for virtually everything. Thus it is reasonable to say such a model also exists for consciousness. To say what you said definitively without even knowing the meaning of the word consciousness is premature. You don't have enough knowledge to say anything about this.

>It doesn't represent any experience. ChatGPT doesn't "experience" things as conscious things do. It's not even comparable to the experience of a simple invertebrate, for example.

Again you don't know what you're talking about. Nobody can define what consciousness is and nobody fully understands the emergent effects of chatGPT or the human brain. To say what you say with conviction is therefore empty. You don't actually know because nobody knows.
They don't ship with spacers?
I agree with this. I’ve long found Pb-free solder to be very hard to use for hand soldering. It has a high melting point and it never seemed to flow well. Pb solder is of course easier to use with its low melting point and flowability, but I don’t like using it on account of it being more toxic. Silver solder has been a great middle-ground for me. While it has the high temp requirements of other Pb-free solder, it flows much more like lead.

I also can’t emphasize enough just how much of a difference an application flux makes. I spent years struggling with sloppy solder work and thinking I was just doomed to be bad at it. Using flux made a massive difference. I was no longer having to constantly clean up bad joints or deal with solder blobbing where I didn’t want it. Just recently I was able to effortlessly hand-solder a bunch of tiny SMD components onto a board. Something I never thought I’d be able to do.

When I was learning to solder I really wish the importance of flux use was taught to me. It would have saved me a lot of cursing and frustration.
I’m used to Weller irons, and personally had a hakko 888 but for home use (where I currenrlt don’t have a dedicated electronics bench) I love my pinecil. So convenient to just hook it up to my MacBooks brick.
Yep. There's no shortage of crisis these days! Both of these groups are definitely suffering.
Residents would likely get pissed on newcomers pouring money into a city and driving prices up. I've seen a protest in Lisbon against tourists. It's true that aside foreigners on golden visas it also attracts a less desirable form of tourism: cruise ships.
Yes, everything. The danger is that you won't notice that you changed something; if a file is not under git and you touch it, you don't know.

(I have extensive experience with the Quilt patch management system; countless times I forgot a "quilt add" before changing something. You will not remember.)

Stuff outside of /etc I've added on a case by case basis. I have customized some code in the Roundcube webmail app, so I put it that installation under git.

Now there is some garbage software that puts changing state under /etc. Can you believe it? Snap is like this, and I installed that in order to get Certbot (the SSL cert manager). So I ended up with spurious changes in these changing state files. Ugh.
Depends on where you are in the SF Bay Area. The hills in the region often have week long outages every year. I always know when the power goes out because the valley in front of my house hums with the sound of generators.
I bought mine a month before you.. I had all but lost hope but this past week received my email (in my junk folder!) about my shipment being prepared, confirm address, etc. So I don't have it yet but it seems to be getting closer.
They're implied to be implementations of the similarly named interfaces.
People can say that in hindsight. But no one in the early to mid-1800s believed that oil seeps implied anything significant, or that oil was a plentiful substance. It was a geological curiosity at the time. Most people had no idea they even existed.
The Socialist Party won a majority in 2005-2011 and a plurality again in 2015 (before gaining a majority in 2022): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Portugal#XVII_and_...

GP is probably referring to one of those (maybe the more recent).
Thanks for the list. My older kids have already read the pax books.
Is there anybody (obese and non obese) in the health community that assumes BMI isn‘t wrong ?

I’m not sure what your point is.
I let myself get actually excited about a project. The motivation needed to actually solve problems I wanted to see addressed resulted in so much more growth than everything I got out of classical education.
It's a good way to end up financially secure, but that may not lead to a satisfying career. If you want to be a game developer, are you really going to be happy writing business crud apps with the majority of your working energy? Not necessarily disagreeing, but with kids despite having plenty of passion for those side endeavors, time and energy are quite lacking.

I think you should try and make your passions into your career personally, as long as you are realistic about the opportunities and lifestyle.
ChatGPT enters the chat
Roald Dahl, as quoted in the article (I am assuming that we are talking about Roald Dahl)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/06/roald-dahl-fam...

“It’s the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it. There aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media – jolly clever thing to do – that’s why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.”
That's a fair point! You're right.
All it takes to be a master is to not use line-by-line tutorials?

What's someone like John Carmack then if not a master? I guess everyone's a master!
"The result is unsurprising if you know the result"
code, code and code
Please does anyone know where to buy this strand? Many of us need to replicate this study. I cannot find this strain for sale by itself. Only a few products with it combine with others and overall a very low dose of the mb40. Study shows 10 billion CFU
> It really depends on the metro area.

Completely agreed. Seattle and Portland seem to be high on the list of "places telcos think they can take complete advantage of." For what my employer pays for two (locked) racks of colocation here, we could get an entire small suite somewhere like LA or Chicago.

Wireline costs are similarly sky high, I think because CenturyLink has all of the cabling and no one has bothered to dig up the streets to run any more. When we connected a building in Eastlake to our old colo in Tukwila, CenturyLink was the only one who would quote us.
That exactly what the incompetent local government assumed as well. But those golden visa people don't live there, they just park money, maybe open an airbnb and operate it remotely, skirting taxes. So yes, taxing the sh*t out of airbnbs and empty property is one solution.
China’s right to Tibet hinges on it being conquered by the Mongolians.
Any studies in particular of interest on the strength metrics over time?
Personally I think Hofstadter was a bit too enamored with recursion. I don't think it's some marker of consciousness. I'm not saying chatGPT isnt an aspect of consciousness (I don't know).
I've always thought consciousness is basically just feedback (like with microphones). Sensing yourself sensing yourself etc.
My biggest complaint about these tools is they’re always React based, and in this case they made the choice of coupling to a specific React UI framework.

Why not just generate CSS and vanilla JS logic and allow the end user to consume that accordingly? Later you can add and should focus on user customizable APIs for this sorta thing because most autogenerated code is at best a starting point but most often useless unless it can be tailored to a specific use case
Does anyone know a 'simple enough' way of placing a static site behind an auth wall (say, oAuth)? Just today I wrote down about what I use https://chanux.me/blog/post/static-site-with-auth/

I note down two other possible methods in the post. Would love to hear about more info.
> Nothing happens, except the game is completely mired in controversy to a degree that it keeps the transphobe-in-chief JK Rowling up at night, to such a degree she called her TERF friend at the NYT to publish a defense of her.

wouldn't her TERF friend publish a defense of her because her TERF friend is a TERF, not because j.k. rowling is bothered?

not that i doubt she is bothered, she's as hopelessly addicted to twitter as the people who hate her. it's how she became a TERF.

twitter is a game. it's played by posting. you score 1 point by getting praise from good people, 2 points by getting scorn from bad people. points can be exchanged for a sense of identity. and so people get sharper and sharper, and their concerns get more and more indesipherable to people who aren't playing the game.
That's hear stable? I would not have thought thanks for the tip.
Compression is necessary for intelligence but not sufficient.
Ok, I appreciate where you were coming from now, my apologies. Yes, Dahl explicitly talked about Jews controlling the media (although not in his fiction). So yes, I was wrong to jump in on this point.
You might find this interesting: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/employment-alone-isnt-enough...
as this study shows, BMI is a useful measure despite its limitations, however others have preferred waist-to-hip ratio as a better health risk metric.

waist-to-hip-ratio is actually simpler to measure and calculate than BMI.

Here’s how from WebMD: https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/what-is-waist-to-hip-...

Measure waist at the smallest point. Wrap a tape measure around your waist at the smallest point, usually around your belly button. This is your waist circumference.

Measure hips by wrapping the tape measure around your hips at the widest part. This is your hip circumference.

Divide your waist size by your hip size. This is your waist-to-hip ratio. A good rule of thumb is that your waist should be smaller than your hips, no matter your weight or BMI.

WHO defines abdominal obesity in men as a waist-to-hip ratio of at least 0.90. For women, it’s a ratio of 0.85 or more. A ratio higher than 1.0 for either sex means a much higher chance of health problems.

TFA mentions waist-to-hip but doesn't assess it: "We were not able to accurately capture co-morbidities. We were also unable to compare other anthropometric indices, such as waist-to-hip ratio with corresponding DXA measurements, due to lack of hip circumference data."

more from WebMD:

Too much fat around your waist is known as abdominal obesity. This fat is called visceral fat because it surrounds your liver and other organs. This can affect both men and women, but men are more likely to have too much fat around the waist. Women are more likely to carry fat around their hips and thighs.

Visceral fat sends hormones, fatty acids, and other chemicals that cause inflammation into your body. This leads to higher cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood glucose. It also leads to higher levels of triglycerides, a type of fat, in your blood.

Fat around your waist can make you more likely to have other health problems, including: Heart disease, Cancer, Stroke, Type 2 diabetes
I can’t believe we are arguing about whether python is memory safe.

Practically, we can measure memory safety vulnerabilities and they are find often in rust crates:https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/11/rudra-rust-safety/

You can say “python calls C and that makes it memory unsafe” but so does every language, including rust. It is well known GCs are memory safe, all those articles about memory safety push for GCs first, and rust second.
What will the pricing look like?

Can you give me a ballpark?
Is disagreeing with someone a really a reason to downvote them?
Someone posted something like this here years back I remember, 195 gigapixel, but for Shanghai.

http://pf.bigpixel.cn/zh-CN/pano/771906131130847232.html

https://www.dpreview.com/news/1645435845/chinese-company-cap...
Well, that should be subject to empirical testing, at least: how many emigrating Portuguese returned to Portugal? Versus, how many non-Portuguese have bought property there?
Depending on what exactly you mean by “the nature of consciousness”, it’s fundamentally impossible to answer.

The fact that we think we can observe and comprehend a mechanism doing the observation does not preclude things we cannot see. You might be able to pan a cctv camera and get some insight about the camera itself if you find a reflection, but you can’t pan it over to the linux driver. It is not a given that all of the observer exists within the observable universe.
My completely uninformed opinion is the design is flawed if the calculations across planes can interact. Is this some single tenant cloud based system with poor multithreaded safety?

Like why would the increased system load change the results. The calculations should be independent and designed in a way where they can't interact.
Move to Chatanooga (in Tennessee) instead. Business class (pretty sure with SLA) 10Gbps from EPB for $300/mo, introduced ~2015.
GCs do various resource clean up that mean certain bugs are not exploitable. Rust does not have that.

And you didn’t address my second point.
What? I've been using it for years and that's not true, there's several settings to customise formatting. Have you tried selecting "Advanced" for Config Settings, maybe that's why you can't see those settings.
That's self-awareness. But it doesn't explain qualia like the sensation of the color red.
There's an entire chapter on naming things, with tons of examples. Why would a class be anything but a noun or noun phrase? It's not a hot take
"A master is one who transcends languages"? That sounds like a reasonable definition to me.
and

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave."
One thesis is that it takes exponentially more resources to maintain a linear growth in tech over time. When there’s not enough resource to push progress, growth slows down.

Look at the particle accelerators. It costed a tremendous amount of money to build leading to the discovery of all the exotic particles. The next version costs many times of the past ones. It just takes a lot of resource to move forward.
Go (Almost) Anywhere: How I Built A Travel Site Powered by GPT, Plus Thoughts
I have tried and failed to read multiple programming books. Just cannot do it. That said, I proficiently code in Java, python, c++, c#, rust, javascript and then some for over 12 years.

Stop reading and start coding. Your brain literally grows when you make mistakes. Cant make mistakes if all you doing is reading.
I rent a single ~600 meter fiber that connects my home to the network infrastructure of the company I run. The rent is $75/mo or so. I have passive CWDM muxes on the line to run two 10G connections to two separate edge routers.

My home router is a MikroTik CRS309—it’s about $250, fanless, has 8 SFP+ ports and advertises my home network blocks over BGP to the two routers (for HA).

The setup works great. The best part is how it’s small and fanless and fits inside the very small wall box the fiber terminates in.
"I hate code, and I want as little of it as possible in our product." (Jack Diederich)
Ya, there are also visibility problems: it is easy to notice (and hard not to notice) the hard to house segment, who become the problem everyone sees. This gets all the attention, and the public’s empathy gets drained quickly as the problems arise.
Most people use phones

QR codes are the closest thing
The first house I built (designed, generaled and did a lot of the work) was super insulated. Selling it taught me that people just look at square footage and price. They aren't likely to know or care if is built better.

It was eye opening. I got a taste of exactly why builders build crap homes. Building code is the minimum and they build to it for a reason.

We are now friends with the people who bought it and several times they have thanked us for building it well. They didn't know what they were getting, but it is nice to see they appreciate it now - especially when the power is out and neighbors are crying about their cold houses and these lucky people are staying warm.

My third and final build I built for me. I never plan to sell. Even when my kids are gone and I only need half the house it would be very hard to find something to downsize to that would cost me less per month than I pay now. Ground source is that good.
> There are almost certainly blacksmiths in your country, most of them have concentrated on either farrier (horseshoing) or ornamental work.

Yes, as I wrote, my cousin is one of them.

When shoeing a horse you carry a good chunk of the weight of the horse, and that's before we get into the kind of contortions you have to go through to do a proper job mostly under a horse.
For doing work that nobody knows exactly how to accomplish (eg going into the unknown), one iterates towards a solution by getting feedback through casually discuss ideas, listen to others seminars, and formally discuss in in-Person Meetings.

Virtual takes away a lot of those serendipitous opportunities.

That being said, there are times when virtual is fine, eg once a project is well-defined and one needs to just deliver, or when doing admin paper work, or when reading.
The euphemism treadmill is not even just a contemporary phenomenon: it's age-old and not even exclusive to English.
Huh, so per the last paragraph, they're paying a ton to have an SLA, all the ISP has to provide is basic connectivity because BGP and stuff is being done by the customer themselves, and yet they have more outages in a few months than I have on a consumer connection in years?

The whole thing has a lot of hack value, it's cool and also worth something to be in control of your own networking, even if it's more expensive. Like buying apple: overpriced for the specs you're getting, but you're assured it'll be good quality (that's the idea anyway) and it looks cool (to most). Except... apparently it's still got issues, regularly? Now I'm really wondering what the point was, at least with hindsight
> Again you don't know what you're talking about.

I think that's a bit uncharitable. You're acting like people haven't been grappling with these problems for thousands of years. Searle, for example, makes a pretty good argument why symbol-processing systems will never produce consciousness (you'd have to prove that the Chinese room is conscious, etc.).

It's clear, for example, that a toaster doesn't have any conscious experiences, but a dog does. To say that "nobody fully understands" the human brain is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. ChatGPT is not conscious any more than my (very complex) Swiss wristwatch is.
Agree, but picking those 1000 sensible names is usually also very hard, and when people get it wrong and use bad names, sometimes it's worse than nothing.
> Thomas' Digital Garden blog is not really the place to find good advice on this.

I prefer DJB's blog on this: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html

>> The Linux /dev/urandom manual page claims that without new entropy the user is "theoretically vulnerable to a cryptographic attack", but (as I've mentioned in various venues) this is a ludicrous argument—how can anyone simultaneously believe that

>> - we can't figure out how to deterministically expand one 256-bit secret into an endless stream of unpredictable keys (this is what we need from urandom), but

>> - we can figure out how to use a single key to safely encrypt many messages (this is what we need from SSL, PGP, etc.)?
If I asked you, "how do you master the art of communication?". Naturally, the answer would be another question: "Communicating what?"

What you consider "effective" will vary depending on context. Think about how these different occupations use language: comedians, politicians, songwriters, novelists, sports commentators, science communicators, cattle auctioneers, therapists, salesmen, corporate executives, lawyers, physicians...

Being an effective dark humor comedian won't necessarily make you an effective doctor, and may likely even cause you to lose your job or even your license if you communicate in the same way.

Likewise, think about how different fields approach programming: operating systems, device drivers, compilers, cryptography, compression, networking, cryptocurrency, web development, scientific simulations, embedded systems, math software, theorem provers, games, signal processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, robotics, etc.

If you are effective developing firmware for pacemakers or insulin pumps, and then they move you to a startup and ask you to develop using JavaScript, HTML and CSS as fast as possible (or viceversa), that may not go well for you.

Domain knowledge, expectations of your role, what's considered "best practices" and development processes differ between fields.
Your comments in this thread have unfortunately been well into the flamewar zone that the site guidelines ask users to stay out of.

Since we just asked you to stop doing it and you've kept doing it, I think we have to ban this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I made a point of turning off the flags on this submission—I don't have any problem with the article and you can see from my comments in the thread what I think of these edits to Dahl. But you still can't break the site guidelines like this, no matter how provocative someone's comments are or you feel they are.

FWIW, while tptacek's comments to you were probably slightly edgier than usual and maybe a bit over the line, 'gaslighting' seems like a big exaggeration to me.
I’m surprised this needs to be explained, but the joke is that every time BMI comes up in online discussions, people rally to annonuce that it’s too conservative because it classifies some dedicated bodybuilders as obese, while this study shows that it’s aggregate bias seems to be in precisely the opposite direction.

Which, of course, better fits everyday intuition about how unhealthy most people with high BMI seem to be.

In reality, the failure of BMI to accurately capture the body fat and healthfulness of most individuals is not usually because they’re just too damned ripped. It’s because people eat more and sit more than they ever have.
If they don’t want to be contractors, which by definition is not permanent employment, why don’t they apply for full time jobs?