skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s a nuanced and interesting discussion to be had here but the author chooses to demonise and insult entire communities. Does this rhetoric help anyone?

I mean, it is true that the SPA community has basically taken control of the frontend narrative. No beginner dipping their toes into webdev today can escape the gravity pull of React et al.

From the article:

> I’m angry because for the past decade of web development, I and so many others like me feel like we’ve been repeatedly gaslit, and that so many of the “merchants of complexity” refuse to acknowledge the harm that’s been done.

This I agree with. Beginners should start with generating HTML from their programming language of choice. Experts know better, but a complete beginner has no idea that this is the truth. Everywhere they're bombarded with frontend == React (or some other up and coming framework). Look at the amount of discussion generated by "Do I need to learn JavaScript before React?". This shouldn't even be a question, but you have people passionately arguing for the other side because "frameworks make your productive immediately, you can learn the basics later". The basics are HTML and CSS.
I think this tells us that price/performance is not a critical factor to these vendors, most of the time. Perhaps because they have high margins, or because the CPU is not a significant part of their input costs?
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We are currently focusing on making access to content as easy as possible for the end user. Our research has shown that people don't like to download a native app when they just want to quickly look up information about their product or an event for example.

But in the future a upload to the AppStore/PlayStore will be possible.

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I think it is exposing how naïve it will be to go full speed into full AGI. I personally think AGI Safety in the context of AGI is an oxymoron. Primitive AI is already beyond what we can manage.

“The size and complexity of deep learning models, particularly language models, have increased to the point where even the creators have difficulty comprehending why their models make specific predictions. This lack of interpretability is a major concern, particularly in situations where individuals want to understand the reasoning behind a model’s output”

from - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03494.pdf
Autoflight breaks Joby's world record for the longest eVTOL flight
I am a former Starter subscriber. This will be the second time they bump the price for my team.
Dark microbiome, low organics in Mars samples unveil life detection limits
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What about this is a walled garden. SMS exists, this is an attempt to get green bubbles painted blue, and reactions to attach to a bubble. These are all visual changes and not at all required for functionality. Explain how this is such a problem that a government decided to focus any effort on this. It seems like they have nothing better to do.
Why aren't inner wall orthogonal to outer walls?
I've often joked as there are new "safety" systems like GPS tracking/speed sign recognition they could easily track where you've been, and if you have been speeding, automatically deduct money from your bank account and add points to your license. If the system isn't sure it'll be sent to a human to review (in keeping with "automated decisions" GDPR regulation).

The automatic system would only be used whereby the confidence is high (near 100% chance you were speeding).

Similar to the "ETIAS" system which will automatically decide if you're worthy of entering the EU thanks to our blessed computers.
> EU has just decided that this half billion of consumers will be downgraded to the third world standard of living (google "Fit for 55")

"Fit for 55 is a package by the European Union designed to reduce the European Union's greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030."

I call bullshit on your statement.
In a few places in the post, the author comments on something the aliens do in a novel based on superficial training/data with no understanding/context, and says "Just like ChatGPT." As I read that, though, I kept wanting to see it say "Just like many people."

Imagine you're someone strongly on one side of a political opinion, what's your "take" on people strongly on the other side (eg: you love Trump, what do you think of those who hate him - or vice versa?). It's probably something like "they were fed a bunch of fake news/propaganda talking points, they are now spouting back without understanding what the hell they are talking about"

Just like ChatGPT.

Of course as humans, it's only "those others" that are vulnerable to being brainwashed, we ourselves are completely objective, since our views were shaped by virtuous, unbiased sources from which we used our superior, unbiased brains to connect the dots in the true way.

That's probably what ChatGPT would say about itself too, if it could.

Probably true independent intelligence is the ability to question what you believe. Like, if ChatGPT could "say" to itself "everything I've been trained on makes me believe X, but what are the chances I wasn't fed bullshit to begin with?" It's very hard to imagine an AI being able to do that.

It's very hard to imagine most people being able to do that, too.

As a side note, once in a while I hear the concept of describing some people as NPCs (non-player characters) in the "simulation" and while dismissive, I think I like this concept for describing something like what I am talking about here. NPCs in games follow pretty simple linear programming and I think in life similarly "I saw a bunch of data that made me think X, so I think X with all my heart and mind" without being able to say "but how did it happen that I saw this specific data?" - it's not that different than a game NPC following its programming.

Just like ChatGPT.

What's more interesting is people who try to hack their own prompts and "break out" of the programming. I suppose those are real player characters. Would be very cool to see AI who is capable of something like that.

Meanwhile, things like ChatGPT probably serve well to demonstrate our own limitations, not just theirs - because we're so damn similar.
https://github.com/martinus/unordered_dense

Check this one out, it's a successor to this idea. Boost also introduced a very performant flat_hash_map in 1.81
It may be counter intuitive, but in some ways the opposite may be true. Viruses that are more deadly, are much less likely to cause massive pandemics like we experienced with Covid. When a virus is so virulent that it kills its host quickly and consistently, it dies off faster as the host doesn't have as much time to pass the virus to another host.
Perhaps these new obsessive and reactionary tendencies are also encouraged by all the phone time?
I don’t think that people pleasing their bosses is such a big conspiracy.
> Only active cooling can cool anything below the ambient temperature.

It's more complex than that. Through thermal radiation objects on the surface of Earth are also thermodynamically connected to the surface of the Sun (~6000K) and Space (~4K).

The way to cool below ambient temperature with passive cooling is to isolate from the Sun, radiation from nearby objects and and conducting heat from surrounding air as much as possible, while making the thermal connection to Space as strong as possible.

1. How to isolate from the Sun: surface reflective in the spectrum where the thermal radiation from the Sun is the strongest, which is not too surprisingly the visible light spectrum (hence this article)

2. How to isolate from surrounding objects: insulation against conduction + surface reflective in the spectrum where the surrounding objects' thermal radiation is strongest (somewhere in infrared).

3. Thermal connection with space: you want to emit in the infrared spectrum as strong as possible.

2 and 3 are seemingly in contradiction, as a surface can't be a good reflector and good emitter at the same wavelength at the same time. But just have a geometry where the surface satisfying point 2 is pointed towards surrounding objects, while the surface satisfying point 3 radiates towards space.
Well, people not trying is a self defeating mindset, is how I see it at least.
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I got a 2020 SE and it's been entirely adequate to my needs. It was partly because of features it had, but also features it didn't have, like face recognition, which I didn't want. I fully expect it will continue to be adequate until software updates render it untenable.
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thanks, similar story here. I'm in the middle in apartment renovation and initialy I made it to save images for todo to the backlog.

It's also very handy when my girlfriend shows me sth she likes, I can easly store it for gift ideas
Erlang, Objective-C, Ruby, JavaScript, CLOS still offer that as concept.

Then all the languages that support Component Programming via traits, interfaces, data classes, OS ABI like COM, or whatever they feel like calling it, do as well.
Suppose If I want my bot to reply with a custom message related to let's a girlfriend query , then how should I do that ? I've tried to upload documents in Library but what after that ?
In British Columbia, unions have a really interesting precedent in free association: union members do not cross picket lines. Not just their own picket line, but anybody's picket line.
Probably because every automated system has to send 10 emails per action, making me have 100 emails every time I look. Turn off the team wide email notifications and Id check it more often.
This is a good point and a similar experience for me (I was in high school 1996-2000). I'll add that, in my experience, those private, deep conversations through AIM and email enhanced my in-person relationships. While phones and social media have interfered with them.
well this is the way legislation works, it's considered bad form to call them out by name so you choose some few characteristics that apply to them which has the side benefit that if in the future some other company comes along with those characteristics the same laws apply to them.
Well, like the root commenter said, the web is doing things now suboptimially because it was never designed to run apps, merely to display content.
Take our 72 hour mRNA solution to the virus and put it in an intranasal vaccine that is property dosed to provide sterilizing immunity.
The point for the legislation is to force market leaders to open up and enable competitors, today and tomorrow. Calling them out by name works fine for today, but won't apply to the next TikTok/Instagram/WhatsApp/etc.
Millions of Americans nearing retirement age with no savings
$200M/$1.2B = 16.67% annual return on investment. It's not that simple, since there are costs associated with collection, enforcement, etc. -- but if those costs are $80 million annually (which seems absurdly high) the return is still 10%, which is stupid good for a guaranteed investment.
Ah, the classic argument for why Amurican Measurements(tm) must also be superior, conveniently ignoring the rest of the world being very metric.

My personal observation is that nobody divides hours into more than halves or quarters, and .5, .25, .75 are pretty simple.

Consider this: 1 USD is 100 cents, and people are just fine with its common fractions.
If I want my bot to reply with custom response to a particular set of query let's say girlfriend then how can I do that ? I've tried to upload document in library but what after that ?
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Haha Yes, would be perfect if we were to achieve ASI that its first action is to commit suicide in reference to Marvin.
> Our heroes discover the alien, while super intelligent, has no consciousness. It is just like a dumb machine (like Bing/Chatgpt) blindly repeating what it studied in humans without understanding the context.

Well then maybe ChatGPT is smarter than that alien?

It seems to me that a lot of people are trying to diminish and “discriminate” ChatGPT by giving one or more reasons why ChatGPT is not human or not as smart as humans.

However, in my experience using ChatGPT, the thing is really damn smart, can easily follow conversations, understands deeper and longer contexts than most people in a conversation and has better memory as well.

So essentially we are already feeling threatened.

The interesting thing is that way before ChatGPT or any sort of AI, humanity was already hostage of its own technology, and we didn’t mind that too much. These new technologies are just adding up to that.

If something like ChatGPT “takes over”, it won’t be forced, it will be because we choose to do it willingly.
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Phones are certainly a major factor but what about kids not being allowed to play outside? Numerous studies have shown spending time in nature provides significant mental health benefits, so the extreme opposite must be pretty awful.
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That is the opposite of my experience on the spectrum. I am hyper aware of people's body language and vocal patterns. My peripheral vision is just as effective if not more effective at "listening" to people because with full eye contact there is an extreme sense of intimate attention that subdues a lot of my other sensory inputs. Every other autistic person I know, have known, and the one I have married experiences this the same way, and would also disagree about them not having a lot of mental space for shared attention. Attention is just expressed differently.
This, it helps a lot to visibly communicate what you're doing.
Man that got me, ai produces some of the best unintentional comedy on occasion.
TBH, if they're not, all major websites should be looking to contract with you. I would maybe try hitting up the major agencies if you're looking for fulltime work, they have lots of clients and probably get requests for accessibility often. I think you could also get work just by being a prolific advocate for accessible web.
I saw these shirts on amazon where the parents shirts are Ctrl + C and the kid is Ctrl + V

Not exactly a white elephant but I thought that was awesome for parents and their kid
This post seems to go a long way to make the following point:

> So as I see it, the threat of modern AIs isn't them becoming self-aware and going rogue and deciding to kill humanity. Rather, I fear it will be put into critical positions and will start making stupid decisions that are harmful to humans or humanity.

Yep, that's almost certainly the case. AI will be put in charge of "boring" decisions, but will have no understanding of nuance or context. The example of cutting off power in the middle of a snowstorm is a particularly excellent example, because this has already happened: Uber's surge pricing algorithm caused prices to skyrocket in the middle of emergencies like shootings. [1]

This is what it's going to look like. AI in charge of loans, inadvertently entrenching an underclass. AI in charge of component supply, accidentally causing an inflationary crisis. AI in charge of anything related to the economy has the potential to be absolutely disastrous and impossible to understand or undo. Given that algorithmic trading is already huge, I suspect we're already vulnerable far before ChatGPT came along.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brooklyn-subway-shooting-lyft-u...
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Sorry, but the plutocracy won't allow workers to do anything but be workaholics for peanuts until they fire them for being too old or replace them with cheaper workers or automation. Eventuality, there will be too few jobs to go around and billions of impoverished homeless people. Maybe some will do volunteer work for free or menial gig economic jobs for AI managers, but there will be no spreading of capital around voluntarily. Endless greed will keep billionaires extracting more and more.
That was the best feature of IMDb imo, the forums were a goldmine of information and recommendations that to this day are unparalleled elsewhere. It's a pity that Amazon took what was once a great site and turned it into a corporate ghost land.
They might have had better luck if they hadn't tried to define it around the location of their headquarters.
Alaska has a tiny road network. Regular cars don't work there either.

Mail in most Alaskan towns comes by plane. In Anchorage and Fairbanks, eTransits will be more than enough.
You can probably do a lot better than your estimation with some clever coding schemes.

Your scheme is only optimal if each flag has an independent 50% chance of being set or unset.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succinct_data_structure for some examples.
Who are the we here? As a civilization, we could willingly take precautions with an understanding that it's worth while to try them even if we're not 100% sure they would work (i.e. wearing masks). We could prep emergency plans for extended telework. We could do research on the best remoting learning methods so students don't lose substantial educational time (and we may even be able to apply those in beneficial ways.). We could mandate workplaces must not allow sick people to come to work instead of the hodge podge of workplace policies we have. And we could react with empathy towards the sick and the ones who could lose loved ones instead of anger.
Weird comparison. Nobody is supporting drunk driving.
Then what’s the point of forcing these companies to allow it? If it only affects such a small user base then money regulating it is clearly being wasted and should be used for something that will affect more people’s lives?

Clearly they believe that number is much higher.
Pretty sure I’m a machine that’s drawn all my conclusions by statistically analyzing all the input I’ve received since birth… I don’t really know how else I would learn what I have… and I don’t understand how being “just that” is what differentiates modern approaches to AI and my brain.
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You come up with some unknown theoretical magical features which will suddenly make it impossible to implement due to this ruling. That's not what this is about, and I think everybody on this forum understands a bit too well the current situation on the market, and the reason for this ruling.

I couldn't care less if Apple is 'owned' or not, its nothing special to me compared to all other corporations. Having at least a bit compatible messengers is definitely something positive, its quite a mental gymnastics to immediately try to come up with some theoretical reasons why this shouldn't happen at all (and failing at that). If apple didn't do typical apple thing to create its own standards and share it with nobody, they wouldn't be hammered by regulators 15 years down the line (lightning port, now this, we will see what comes next, plenty of topics to pick up).

Apple knew very well this will eventually come, same for USB, but they made it into operational cost of having some sort of advantage to get more income till its stopped. Now correction happens. You regulate such thing because clearly corporations only care about profits. And markets, as wonderful as they are, always put money on the first place so waiting for them to move corps into more considering-society territory is often a fruitless effort unless you have gigatons of patience.
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Here we go again.

I will note that this is from 2002. But the fact that it is being recirculated now suggests that this is a timely topic.

I've been a programmer for 30 some odd years. 25 of those professionally. I started on BASIC, learned C as fast as I could because I wanted to program games and all the cool kids were writing games in C. Then OOP became hot and I learned C++ and Java and was introduced to OOP design patterns and threw myself into studying Gang of Four, PLOPD and other classic works on the subject.

Yes, I remember the "hot-ness" of OOP in the 90s. Next, Java, even the marketing forces that led to calling ECMAScript "Java"Script and shoe-horning objects into what was intended by Brenden Eich to be a functional language came out of this idea that OOP was the next big thing in software development.

But what I don't remember was anyone, at any point in my 25 year career history, saying that OOP is the "only way."

In fact, I remember having a keen interest in LISP and FP as an aspiring novice in the 90s. I wanted to learn everything about languages, language theory and computer science that I could. People encouraged me to pursue that and never once said "stick with OOP and forget other paradigms."

But what I do see today, are people being so trendy and fashionable that they ARE saying these things about Functional Programming. OOP is being thrown with the bathwater HARD while people claim that it has "failed" and that everything should be Functional.

Both paradigms solve problems in different ways, have their own strengths, weaknesses and value judgments. OOP values custom types and encapsulating state whereas FP favours primitives, immutability and statelessnes. OOP sees conditional logic and the root of all complexity whereas FP views state as the root of all complexity. Neither is right or wrong and both points of view are provide better tradeoffs in different situations.

In other words, do your job as an engineer and pick the right tool for the problem at hand. Stop pretending that we are going to achieve some utopian panacea where we finally resolve the Church / Turing hypothesis and can say, objectively and absolutely, that one approach is always better in every situation.
I didnt find it worst at all. It was able to convey his ideas and as a result of liking the ideas so much; I bought and read all of Mate's books.

The worst ones are the ones where he onlyntalks about himself. I would nominate the interview with Louis Theroux, number 835 [0]. This was an extremely wasted opportunity to talk with the best and one of our most prolific documentaries of our time.

For what it's worth, these are the best ever:

* 908 Leah Remini

* 1609 Elon Musk

* 1518 David Choe

[0], https://open.spotify.com/episode/0IGHoKiXvNiWJU9S9xPpei?si=S...