skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philosophy has a long history of seeking Truth (capital T). Most notably skyrocketed by Descartes who was a mathmetician and believed that we can arrive at the Truth of everything like we can with mathematics. If you're really interested in what Pyrrhonism means then I suggest you don't brush it off as "radical skepticism" because that's not what it is nor is it about "trusting evidence" per se. Pyrrhonism is _suspending_ Truth claims due to _lack of sufficient evidence_. It is a direct response to inductive reasoning, which is what most people use every day. Inductive reasoning is the probability of a conclusion being correct is adequate evidence to support the argument. This is the basis for most Philosophical discussions and claims and generally how Truth claims work. However, reasoning isn't "common sense" nor is it something you pick up by skimming a single out-of-context wikipedia page and inductive reasoning is only one of several forms of reasoning. Hume was one of the most prominent philosophers who further expressed the problems of induction most notably the idea that the future will resemble the past. In other words, if I flip a coin 20 times and it lands on heads every time, empirical evidence and inductive inference would tell me that there is a 100% chance that it will land on heads the 21st flip because "every time we flip this coin it lands on heads", but in reality the 21st flip also has a 50% chance of landing on heads, despite the fact that it has been 100% heads in the past. Not to mention, I haven't told you whether or not the coin is rigged, has two heads, etc. The point of Pyrrhonism is that _there is always some unknown unknowns with Truth claims_ so when it is safer to assume a neutral position, do so. This is what it is like to be open-minded. It's not something you can just do without spending time studying logic and reason (fundamentals of philosophy.)
The entire field of Service Reliability is dedicated to finding the exact boundaries of acceptable errors, and defining the response function when those boundaries are crossed.

I would assume this actually gels very nicely with neural nets since its constantly optimizing for fitness. Hell in theory you could bake in your SLA/SLIs into the models to self correct? Give the model direct feedback that its unfit?
> I predict that 2023 will be the year of Passkeys.

I remain unconvinced that Regular Users will find passkeys as necessary/useful as the rest of the industry does, especially older users. Will be interesting to see how pervasive passkeys become.
I totally agree with this, both the part about having to be clever with the model implementation and how fast and usable it is. For my own research, it ended up that it was a type of set cover problem. To me it felt large, ended up with almost a million non-zero values to optimize (and had to do 10k of them), but the state of the art is so fast. CPLEX optimizes them in like 3 seconds and can tell me that it's provably optimal. Even open source solvers (HiGHS) solves in like 10 seconds

It is true that when I phrased the problem wrong (with multiplication not addition), it was taking forever, and I had to mess around a long time to figure it out. ChatGPT actually sorta helped a little

But it does feel like magic and not used enough. I think Julia JuMP goes a long way towards just expressing the problem easily. It might take more work/tricks to get it to work (big-M tricks are crazy to me) but at least as a first pass if it just works is worth a try, I think

And to be fair, I really wanted it to be provably optimal for the fun of it. But when I set even a 10 minute timelimit, it got a really good solution across the board much faster than I could have found with manual programming
I think you're sort of misinterpretting what I'm asking for, and I suspect our views actually align pretty well. I was not implying that we need more camp queens to represent gay men, I was referring more to presenting LGBTQ+ people in a heteronormative light which just comes across as totally unrealistic to those of us who are a member of the community.

Perhaps a concrete example would clarify my point. There is a character in Stranger Things who is a lesbian. Throughout the final series, she has a crush on another character. They have a scene at the end of the series where they are talking, the other character says they're lesbian/bisexual (I don't recall which now) and they hit it off.

The idea of your school crush happening to also have a same sex attraction, and also likes you, makes it such a vanishingly small probability that something like this could ever happen. It came across as a straight writer shoe-horning in a weak straight romance plot point, only replaced a man with a woman for LGBTQ+ brownie points.

If they wanted to cover this properly, why not show us how lesbians in the 80s really met? I assume though gay bars, being neither a lesbian nor around in the 80s I don't know and I am curious to find out. What I can say is that that scene was not a fair resprentation.

So my point is, be it dating, love, family or any other fact of LGBTQ+ life, there are statistically significant deviations from the average cis-gendered heterosexual experience. If you choose to cover LGBTQ+ life in your media of choice, do so authentically. Yes, I appreciate there is a fine line between this and stereotyping, but presenting gays as straights with one gender swapped is so unrealistic.

To use an analogy, representing all your female characters as good housewives who are subservient to men is enforcing a poor stereotype, analogous to the gay camp stereotype. Representing all your female characters as behaving precisely like men however is not the solution to the problem. You should represent women like women.
I don't think that was the point. I think the point was that as long as you're happy with 90% accuracy, you can have that for 10% of effort.

It requires a perspective shift. Then again, cost efficiency is a big motivator.
I am unemployed and have a newborn and the situation is getting really bad. Problem is the language I am specialist is C, but C shops don't want to hire me because I don't have any past industrial embedded jobs.

What language you recommend that has lots of jobs and low competition?
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> Is there any evidence that the "15 minute city" actually works?

History? Before cars, every city was a 15 min city -- by necessity.
I hope I didn’t make it sound like I think it would be some iterative invention like a better mouse trap, or some isolated Eureka! moment from someone who just thought hard for a bit. Perhaps that’s possible, but it feels unlikely. On the contrary, it would likely be a fundamental shift in our mode of thought and mode of explanation, less like huge discoveries like general relativity or quantum mechanics, and more like the Scientific Revolution or the Enlightenment.
Thanks I was not aware of that
Yeah it couldn't possibly be you.
I came here to say the same thing, and you said it much more charitably than I was going to. This is what you get when you try to turn complex religious practice into multi-level marketing, with certifications, and people being paid to instruct.
> If I have a build script that pulls + compiles + validates with hashes/checksums say, Linux kernel, some userspace tools, init system, etc. for a boring ol' distribution like Alpine or Debian, why isn't that classified as "reproducible" the same way NixOS is?

It might be! Nix uses that very same strategy for enforcing reproducible outcomes when dealing with non-reproducible operations, like fetching things from the great mutating mass of the internet.

I would say that Nix differs from that approach mainly in the way it divides up the problem. So-called binary package managers like you use on Alpine and Debian perform runtime dependency resolution against a mutating global namespace that usually lives on the internet— the binary repos themselves. Generally, those repos include only one copy of each package. So to halt the forward march of all those versions, you have to mirror each repo of binary artifacts you're interested in using.

With Nix, outcomes also depend on the state of the repo, but the repo is just a collection of build recipes which are the mapped onto their outputs in a single, huge binary cache. Every new build gets added to the same binary cache, for every Nixpkgs/NixOS release. It just grows and grows. And of course, Nix builds work even without enabling the binary cache at all.

So to get the same kind of reproducibility out of many other package managers, you generally have to set up additional infrastructure.

But if you do everything right, you can certainly have a fully reproducible OS image based on Alpine or whatever else.
> One can't help but have some kind of faith, you have to believe in something.

"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain…In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar." - Richard Feynman

The only thing I believe is that what I believe can and should change to fit the data I have available.
I don't understand the thought process where a laptop has insufficient battery life (the author tripled the size of the battery to compensate) but the user also added 16GB of memory they did not need, just in case. Do people not realize that RAM uses energy?
I think it depends on your style. I have problems with mine, because I typically type with only my fingertips touching anything. So if my palm hits the touchpad, it registers as a mouse movement. The only solution I've found that works pretty well for me is to rest my palms on the touchpad when I type, which seems to give it a better clue. But this isn't how I type on any other keyboard, so I keep forgetting.
Also like O(N^2) is surprisingly doable even for very big N. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised, but another problem was N^2 for a pretty big N (100k) with a dynamic programming. I was worried it would never finish

But making a 100k by 100k matrix in julia really isn't so bad (and can use memoization), just rent a big machine on GCP for an hour or two, and it chewed through it fast
I've worked a number of places where the interview process was predominantly about hiring legible people.

Someone who's wrong and cagey can cause a lot of damage before anyone figures out what's up. At least a talkative idiot can be managed.
Oh sure, but a link to a story on Hacker News that you can only read once you pay money is just an ad. It's not wrong to put useful ads on Hacker News, but they should be labeled.
Ha, similar to how the ketogenic diet was only really used by epileptics and people with similarly severe conditions before about 10 years ago. So eating keto was heavily associated with all kinds of severe problems but it was reverse causation.
It’s not, it’s what all these services are doing behind the scenes so users don’t have to.
Am I right in the thought understanding ‘hafu’ is a term for a mixed race person? If so I agree with you (I wrote the article) that it’s terribly difficult to talk about for the exact reasons you’ve said: you don’t want to offend anyone.

It ended up being a huge part of my life and I have only really been coming to grips with it all, personally, in the past 5 or so years. After 30 years of not really understanding myself or my place in the world.

I just wanted to post this to try and start a discussion about it as I do not think it is something which is considered very much in our ever increasingly polarised worldviews.
Just did a quick search on Amazon.

"Written by Artificial Intelligence" 2,000 results.
On one hand, you have a lot of people online making arguments about rural living being ecologically harmful, an economic drain on the country, because (among other reasons) it requires cars to work. Then you have these other people suggesting ways to revise cities that reduce the need for cars. So some rural people connect these two dots, perhaps not always unfairly, and interpret the walkable city activism as people advocating for the eradication of their preferred rural/car lifestyle. And predictably, they don't like that very much, and don't have kind words for such advocates.
> The US spends more of its budget on healthcare for its citizens than it does on its defense budget.

Yes but most of that is medicare, most of which is really part of social security for the elderly (a very good thing, but not at all comparable to what European countries do in terms of providing access to health care for all their citizens).
“The little death that brings total obliteration”.
Issuing a modified laptop running a large amount of custom security software at least seems like an IT departments bread and butter. Maybe if the issue gets big enough microsoft sells a dedicated educational laptop that's preconfigured as such (akin to google's chromebook), but since they own chatgpt they can presumably bake in even more internal controls to flag putative chatgpt content.

If the problem gets widespread, seems like there are possible responses that could and would be made. Just like how in time, schools went from letting you upload your essay and that's that, to running that essay through plagiarism software and baking the tech into their disciplinary process.
> It's a bad place with dire job prospects for anyone trying to start a life there.

Why? Corruption?
Well according to this source: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2023/01/25/15-minute-city-plan...

Part of Oxford's 15 minutes city is to fine anyone that leaves their zone.

This is then corroborated by this source: https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2023-02-19/five-arrests-as...

that says people are protesting that there is a 70lb fine for leaving the city.

So this headline is dishonest.
Yes. Moderation in all things.
How are his two arguments straw men? You are fine to ask for references for his statements, but these are not straw men.

Maybe learn the meaning of these terms before using them?
There are different services currently available that generate product descriptions using text prompts. This aims to automate it further by removing the requirements for text prompt, and use only images.
The use cases would be for large stores that have a lot of SKUs, helping them save time and money writing quick product descriptions using images they already have.
The overpromises part can be fixed by setting the “tone” options. If you try “hard sell”, it will go hard. You can set it to neutral for a softer tone.
However, as with all AI generated content, there should be some minimal editing/proofreading before making the content available to the public.
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Funny how quickly people lose all sense, and just start quoting personal anecdotes as something relevant, especially when argument is something global like environmental effects, or when comparing brands.

Yeah, Bobby is using his $2k Macbook Farty Air for 10 years, and poor Johny got his $300 Lenovo Shittop broken after 1 year and couldn't get a replacement in 1 day overnight eco shipping.

At least compare somehting relevant, like return % numbers in e-shops or some actual research/data published by repair centers. Something with N > 2.
I recently read a thread on Mastodon[1] suggesting that "confabulate" is more correct than "hallucinate". In psychology and neurology it means to fabricate imaginary experiences or details as compensation for loss of memory.

1 https://universeodon.com/@siderea/109883198218504351
Or drinking excess coffee in the morning and not being hungry from all the caffeine :grimace: Like I am doing right now.
The point is that you don't need millions of developers if AI is writing the code against a spec, you'll maybe only need a few thousand spec writers.
Concrete requires a lot of energy to produce and the ongoing practice of making it would stop if there was ever a collapse of civilization.
It may not matter legally, because:

1. To sue someone for statutory damages and to have a good chance of automatically recovering attorneys' fees (which helps make the legal effort worthwhile rather than a Pyrrhic victory), when you don't have a clear argument for actual damages, you need to have registered copyright of the work, at least in the US and probably most other countries with statutory damages.

2. If you just want to be able to issue takedowns or sue to get someone to stop redistributing something you made, and maybe if you have a clear argument for actual damages and don't need to rely on statutory damages (which are usually absurd anyway), you don't necessarily need any copyright notice, much less copyright registration, since, due to the Berne convention, everything is assumed copyrighted.

However...

I think putting a copyright notice including a year in static documents is good practice, though, for a simple reason: Copyrights expire. In order to know when the copyright expires, someone who encounters your work needs to know when it was created, i.e. when the copyright period began.

To remove any indication of the initial year of creation is essentially to admit that it doesn't matter because copyright terms are so absurdly long that you don't anticipate anyone caring about your stuff by the time copyright expires.

As a corollary, don't update the copyright year unless you make non-trivial changes to the code, text, or design. Is it really worth it, in some hypothetical distant future where your work is still economically valuable, for you, your descendants, or estate, to go after someone using a slightly modified later version of the work that isn't technically out of copyright but the original version is?
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This reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. We've built systems that can answer any question, but now we need even more powerful systems to tell us what the question is.
Going to be contrarian and argue its perfectly rational to be angry about Neumann getting $350 Million.

Objectively, Adam Neumann does not have the track record to support that kind of investment. He does not have a track record of building sustainable enterprises. In fact, there's not even evidence he's more capable than the median technology entrepreneur. a16z could probably generate equivalent returns throwing $10million at the next 35 entrepreneurs who pitch them.

It would only be irrational if Neumann had a track record of actually building sustainable businesses. But he couldn't even do it in a 0% interest rate environment!
AI pollution is no longer the pollution of the future, it is the pollution of today
> Which first-time founders do you think Paul Graham or Keith Rabois would more likely fund: Those who aspire to solve a problem with the world that they care passionately about?

It is worth reflecting on the fact that the founder of OpenAI has had the strongest possible endorsement from Paul Graham. He was claimed to be among the greats before his successes: Paul Graham put him among Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. When Paul Graham stepped down from YCombinator, he was so convinced of Sam's skills that he put Sam in his place. Later Sam started OpenAI.

> I would advise deeper thought into these topics when convenient. Read Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence book or watch his talks, at least one of which was at Google HQ.

I've read Superintelligence, the Sequences, PAIP, AIMA, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, taken a course in control theory, and read a book about evolutionary algorithms. I've also built systems after having understood these techniques for literally each of these things I've mentioned with the exception of all of Superintelligence and much of the Sequences with the exception of parts of the sequences which dealt with Bayesian reasoning, which I did implement and like, though I disagree with that community about its optimality because the conditions of ledger arguments aren't true in the real world. In practice, Bayesian approaches are like trying to build a sportscar for a race - you get beaten even though you are doing the fastest thing, because the fastest thing isn't as fast as the slower methods.

Anyway, the combinatorics of multi-step multi-agent decision problems implies a lot of problems for Bostrom and Yudowsky positions on the limits of what intelligence can hope to achieve. I don't find them to be the most formidable thinkers on this subject. In the case of Yudowsky, he admits this, saying that he finds Norvig to be more formidable than he is. And Norvig disagreed with him on AI risk in exactly the context I also disagree and for the same reason I disagree. To ensure you get the point I'll speak in terms of Bostrom's analogies: notice, there is, in fact, a speed limit. The speed of light. Well, what Norvig notices, and what I also notice, and what Bellman noticed when he coined the term combinatorial explosion, is that intractability is an actual issue that you need to confront. It isn't something you can hand wave away with analogy. We don't have enough atoms in our universe.

This is why we get dual mode systems by the way. Not just humans: notice, it happens in chess engines too. The general solvers provides the heuristic which must have error, then the specific solver uses the heuristic to improve, because it is in a more specific situation. Most of the people in the AI risk camp are pretty Yudowskian. They dwell for long periods of time on the overcoming of the biased heuristic. For sure, this makes them more intelligent, but it misinforms them when they try to make inference about general intelligence informed on the tractability in specific situations. It is because, not despite, the intractability that they find such evidence of tractability.
Conspiracy: you will not be allowed to travel more than 15 minutes from your house

Reality: you should be at most 15 minutes walking distance to a primary care physician, grocery store, primary school, gym, park
Favorited, I'm on a quest to be egoless as I'm finding the ego to be an issue in my day to day. It's hard to pinpoint the ego, but you did so wonderfully :)
Compare also PDCA [1] which is used more by civilians.

Every time people rediscover rapid iteration in tight feedback loops, and every time so far it's gotten watered down to nothing again by people who get the rituals, but don't quite grok the underlying concept. [2]

On the other hand, you could do practically any sort of ritual or even just laze around in bed: if you understand the underlying concept, you'll still get decent results. [3]

see also: [4] for a short bit on OODA when actually flying an aircraft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

[3] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html See eg. Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine ;-)

[4] https://youtu.be/OCFMX5z-ed4?t=940 (starting 15:40) Art of the kill, Pete "Boomer" Bonanni
Yep! The author makes a few appearances in the documentary
Without a clear biochemical pathway (or an absence of) that's just an opinion, as weak as most the the current research in humanities.
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You could use Bing Chat to write periodic children’s books on current events.
im in my mid 30s and have been the same since I was ~12 years old. I finally figured out why in the past year since having a good sleep tracker: 75% of my rem sleep happens between 5:30am and 8:30am. I go to bed around 12:00 and sleep until 8:30am usually. if I have to get up before 8:30 i frequently feel totally out of it and exhausted for a while, now I'm thinking because thats frequently being woken up directly from REM sleep.
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