skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There aren't really any current advances outside of sheer scale of input in the models

That isn't true.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/characterizing-emergent-ph...

While one can correctly argue that this is a consequense of increasing size, no one realized that increasing the size of LLMs would give them reasoning ability in 2018.

Indeed, before Minerva[1] came out expert forecasters predicted[2] a 12% improvement in the ability on the MATH benchmark[3]. Minerva improved it by 50% and PaLM improved it even more.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14858

[2] https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/ai-forecasting-one-year-in/

[3] https://github.com/hendrycks/math
There are many autonomous aspects of China.

Just like we in the US have 6 federal agencies doing separate investigations barely sharing anything and coming to different conclusions.

Despite Beijing’s absolute power over everything there, the National Standing Committee has lots of people to please too and thats just in Beijing. There are provincial governments and stuff too.

Rules for rulers.
> "You live on an island called causality," the voice says. "A small place, where effect follows cause like a train on rails. Walking forward, step by step, in the footprints of a god on a beach."

- Hannu Rajaniemi, "The Causal Angel" (2014)
Too often the speech compels the action though. If you can prevent the action in the first place maybe the loss of freedom is warranted? I don't think there's an easy answer, but I don't have to follow the thought exercise too far from purely theoretical before absolute free speech falls apart.
Maybe take away the right of businesses to fire employees for comments they've made in their personal life?
Imagine you have a bunch of crappy and unrealistic theories about why something occured.

What those phrases mean is that the lab leak is simply the least crappy theory.
I also saw a bunch of other logs of devices that weren’t my own (on stock Safari on iPhone). I use a pretty standard ad-blocker. Perhaps that explains it?
I find it interesting that people get disappointed or even angry at ai text facts/responses but readily accept that none of these "people" actually exist https://nypost.com/2023/01/16/ai-generated-party-pics-look-e...
I asked Bing Chat your question:

Me: "Event C happened before events B and A. Event C happened between events A and B. What's the order for those events?"

Bing Chat: "The order for those events is not possible because the statements are contradictory. If event C happened before events B and A, then it cannot happen between them. If event C happened between events A and B, then it cannot happen before them.

Can you please check the statements again and make sure they are consistent?"
It is an interesting admission though, because by definition that means that the "evolved in nature and came from wet markets" view is also a crappy theory.
EPaxos Revisited [pdf]
Maybe Common Lisp The Language? Although it is a bit old and may not be entirely up to spec.
Graham: What you can't say

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Assuming that you are smart enough to decide what other adults aren't clever enough to be allowed to read is the same kind of error.
Ask HN: Anyone using ChatGPT plus? Is it worth it?
I found myself using this tool to automate some tedious tasks like generating boilerplate code and explaining legacy spaghetti code left by previous devs without a single line of comment. I'm considering upgrade to plus because it's usually at capacity most workdays. Are there any limits with plus?
Emacs with crdt.el, or neovim with instant.nvim are both open source and free implementations of collaborative editing with crdt's. Its going to be a bit of a struggle getting your coworkers to use emacs/neovim though
>> Nobody is a king including the pm. it is about the land of the law.

Its may also be called "Selective enforcement".

>> did someone file a case? can you share a reference if there is one?

I wonder if there is any policeman brave enough who will register a FIR against the PM. This is what happened with Rahul Gandhi asked questions in parliament about relations of PM Modi and Adani. Isn't opposition's job to ask questions and Government's job to provide answers in a democracy?:

>> Rahul's allegations against the PM regarding industrialist Gautam Adani were expunged from the Lok Sabha records on Tuesday. As the House assembled, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi urged the Speaker to look into the privilege notice. "Rahul Gandhi's baseless remarks should be expunged and action should be taken against him," he said. [1]

This is another sad story of a police officer who "took on Modi". A police officer got suspended and now sentenced to life for an old case after he went against Modi:

>> The Gujarat government had originally appealed the court to drop charges against Bhatt and other policemen in the 1990 custodial death case. However, after Bhatt's affidavit against Modi, the Government withdrew its application, and the court initiated criminal proceedings against the policemen. [2]

[1] https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/remarks-on-pm-modi-...

[2] http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/the-man-who-took-on-mo...
It's a benefit for agricultural households. 10+ kids are common in my family tree until the latest few generations for that reason.
Quick note that there were compilers for other languages. Definitely C. Probably Pascal. Not sure about Fortran.

I think the failure to keep the single-CPU performance edge was probably mostly about lack of money vs the competitors. Obviously related to not selling enough of the first generation chips.
eBay is excellent for out of print books!
I'm not an expert on this topic but: GoL cells have only a very limited number of states whereas realistic simulations have a big numbers of possible states for each cells so I doubt it's possible.
Sounds like any functional language would have disappointed in that case?
There were separate things going on which were flagged commonly: various conspiracy theories about bio-weapons or intentional leaks, Trumpian racism of the “king flu” persuasion, general evidence-free speculation that the Chinese government knew about it for a long period of time (claimed early cases as far back as the summer or fall of 2019), and discussing the possibility of a lab leak of a collected sample during analysis.

Sober discussions of the last case were fine: there was tons of that in the scientific literature and it was recognized as a likely scenario along with the wet markets since both are commonly discussed risks. If you came in hot, all hyped up on Fox News talking points, saying it was only as bad as the flu, or babbling about HCQ or Ivermectin, you’d get flagged since it was clearly not a scientific argument or contributing anything of value.
It's famous enough it's in wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing#Leaked_keys
Good luck? The whole point of that headline is to get the American populace to completely miss all the nuance and hate china more then they already do.

Then when they are taken to court for outright bullshitting, that's when they point out the "nuance."

Hold on. I'm not saying the lab leak theory is completely left field. But definitely the intent of this announcement is more of a deliberate political attack then it is a declaration of actual scientific findings. The "least crappy theory" is essentially not news at all. A more accurate title is "inconclusive." But that sort of title doesn't get people all riled up against china.
A classic. It's Will Durant. Recently discussed on the ever-excellent Defector: https://defector.com/as-a-wise-man-once-said-aristotle-didnt...
I think that's really easy to believe in - when you're not at risk in any kind of way.

I mean, if you're a white guy, what do you give a fuck about someone turning America into a white ethnostate? Sure, theoretically, it's morally bad, but you're not really going to be directly affected.

If you're not trans, being characterized as a groomer pedophile has no effect at all to you.

I think it's easy to take a stand in favor of free speech when speech is only speech, but that's a remarkably naive and gullible viewpoint to have. Do you think white supremacists that lynch black people don't use hate speech beforehand and talk about exterminating non-whites beforehand?

"But that's violence. That's diferent.", you might say. How do you think these people meet each other and collaborate with each other and normalize this kind of behavior? Through 'free speech'.
I think it's different in that I think when the lab leak strategy was first introduced, it was introduced in an explicitly political manner, i.e. by a politician vs an (arguably) apolitical institution. There wasn't evidence presented to support this theory beyond the political pundits footballing the theory around, who were most certainly not medical research experts about this. At least this is how I saw it as a layperson who didn't do any serious research myself, so it all seemed like a load of political bs trying to score points instead of a seeking of actual truth.

So at first it did look like just plain ol' xenophobic politics to me. Only one party, the party that politically campaigned on xenophobia, was the one spreading the theory widely on their mainstream media.

I'm more than happy to accept lab leak theories from actual researchers who understand how to analyze outbreaks and not politicians trying to score points with voters. It just wasn't that at the beginning, probably because the researchers had to take the time to come to their conclusions.
Misinformation does not directly cause harm. The actions or inactions of those so affected is the thing that causes the harm; misinformation thus indirectly causes harm.
It's also the valid key for Office 97
> Banning the speech doesn't prevent the violence.

Speech is cheap. The scenario I am imagining is someone calling you and telling you they are going to kill you and your family.

Thanks for the "verbal warning".
You may be mistaking reasoning ability with sheer volume of more patterns to match on. You can only reason when you have awareness within which to reason, which these systems do not.
The LLMs are predictive text. They only know that a hungry cat wants food because there are enough examples of that scenario on the Web. Related scenarios lead to nonsense like: the cat may want to go on a walk. I’m not making this up, ChatGPT recently suggested that I take my cat on a walk. This is likely bleeding too many concepts together (dog=pet=cat) and represents over fitting IMO. Cosine distance can only do so well, it’s not good at distinguishing nuance. But it’ll gladly regurgitate a rephrased Wikipedia article.
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> I won’t speak to wokeness as a whole (I think the concept is way too slippery and politically charged), but I find the specific example of providing for puberty blockers for children particularly frightening.

They are safe drugs that have been used to delay puberty for reasons other than gender dysphoria, and are extremely well-established to be an effective intervention that greatly mitigates the extreme increase in suicidality in trans youth.

Why would it be frightening?
Would you say caring for a child or parent is irrational behavior?

My cat is a part of my family. I would do anything for him.
This is talking about things that sound awfully close to constructive dismissal.

The basic idea is to claim that the victim chose to quit, and was not fired. It’s not just done in layoffs (see twitters recent “if you don’t accept grossly changed working conditions we interpret that as resignation”) it’s also used in retaliation.

Claiming that they quit is as I understand it a violation of US labor law.

Note that while much employment in the US is considered “at will”that does not mean you can be fired for any reason. Plenty of reasons are illegal, and constructive dismissal is just another illegal tactic companies use to try and avoid consequences of illegal actions.

If you’re ever in a position where your employer says anything along the lines of “we will take [failure to] X as indicating you are resigning”, that’s illegal and also set up a paper trail explicitly stating that you are not resigning.

Your employer is not your friend.

Your employer is not your family.

HR is not on your side. Ever. The sole goal of HR is to minimize corporate liability.
Tokyo is, yes.
how were the people pushing wet market theory not "crazies" also then.
The last time I encountered that kind of code was when I wrote it myself in VB6 as a kid. I’ve never seen it in my decade and a half work life.
No, it's not fine. It's broken on Chrome for macOS and freezes on startup for about 10-20 seconds. Has nothing to do with C#, this happens with GDScript, too. It's a known issue, has been discussed at length on Github (by myself as well) and there is no fix in sight at the moment.

I would consider that broken.
Same for me showed previous visits. Never went to that site before.
And how do you define hate speech? Speech that you don’t like? That offends you? It’s an extremely slippery slope until you don’t get to say what you want because someone with more power than you decided it’d be “hate speech”
Ah, this reminds me of one time being an amazing average-competence hero.

Labmate: “my Linux install is borked, now my files are all gone” :(

Me: “Fortunately here in 201X (for low values of X) full disk encryption is rare! Let me introduce… another use for the install drive!”
It's problematic - the ideal business model that best matches the costs would probably be a combination (upfront payment, + ongoing subscription for maintenance patches), but I doubt anyone wants that (looks like the worst of all worlds to a user).
How do you propose to solve this without limiting others freedom of speech? You have the right to say whatever you want but I don’t have the right to respond? Seems like just another version of rights for me but not for thee.
Sadly, the objective here isn’t to prevent this from happening in the future.
Man, you need to go find the wizard of oz because I dont think you have a heart, tin man.
Lots of stuff now established as "best practices" or whatever in frontend JavaScript applications comes from being made popular with ClojureScript development. Side-effects as data, hot reloading, keeping your app state in one place all were inspired from work happening in the ClojureScript community at the time JavaScript community "discovered" it.

The ClojureScript community obviously didn't come up with everything, many of the ideas are very old ideas for UI development but didn't really exist in the "web-sphere" before. I'm pretty sure I can remember Dan Abramov saying Redux was directly inspired by stuff happening in the ClojureScript community, particularly around atoms and hot-reloading. Also I think Pete Hunt mentioned stuff David Nolen was working on when talking about React as well initially, but less confident about this.
I can't figure out how you're getting "let some through" from what I said. In fact that seems to be exactly what you are doing by defending Adams's racist rant because it happened to be calling out other racism. It's possible to call out the original racism without going on a racist rant yourself, and if you want to be anti-racist that is what you need to do - otherwise one is just being a different flavor of racist.
60s is a great time to jump buckets. Kids grown up. No debt if you're lucky and possibly some decent passive income.

30-50 is hard, primarily due to obligations you can't just walk away from. Your mortgage drains $Xk/month and the kids need braces is a bad time to try and find yourself ;)
To add to what others have said, we know from psychology that the human brain works by building a (causative) model of the world, and then propagating the signal where our model goes awry and differs from what we experience.

GPT will start becoming really powerful when you just give it arms and legs and let it build it's own training dataset the way regular animals do (in the process of evolution & throughout their lives).
The assertion of the US' founders is that such rights are inherent to all people, natural rights, and inalienable.

The fact that it was codified into law in a specific country is an implementation detail. The concepts of liberty in the US documents are philosophical assertions and not related to any nation.

They also happen to be law in the US, but even there they don't really hold force; such "rights" are violated constantly.
> We've looked at moving to the web, but none of the front-end frameworks and tools we've seen so far get anywhere close to the ease of Delphi when it comes to making decent looking user interfaces with nontrivial functionality that doesn't silently break in random weird ways from one day to the next.

That has been my experience as well. For stamping out these CRUD apps with custom forms, nothing I have come across has been able to match the productivity and simplicity of Delphi and Visual Basic from the mid 1990's.
You realized that everyone else has been faking it too
> My personal favourite was astalavista, named in relation to the legit search-site altavista I guess.

The domain box.sk [1] hosted other interesting sites as well.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20000229151347/http://www.box.sk...
> it was labeled as a BS conspiracy theory.

At the time it was a BS conspiracy theory. There was some evidence for it, and some evidence against it and it happened that the evidence we had at the time was stronger for the non-lab leak theories.

That's what changed right now. We have new evidence that puts the lab leak theory above the others. Back when Trump was demanding that "China pay" and people were beating up random Asians who were just walking down the street, that wasn't true. Just because we today have the evidence to support the lab leak theory, that doesn't justify Trump's claims or the "blind faith" of his followers who rejected the available evidence to support what they wanted to be true.
> But I don’t get how one can justify enabling a person to to switch their gender before the age of consent

IF we didn’t impose gender before the age of consent, there’d be no reason for anyone to switch one before such an age.

OTOH, any logic that can justify the imposition can justify the change.
It may well turn out that the main promoters of that idea, Daszak, Fauci and associates may have been responsible for funding the research. When I first heard that idea I thought is was a conspiracy theory myself but then things like the Defuse proposal leaked out. (https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...)
In my personal experience working with Kotlin saves you half the time on typing alone.
Yes, I don't feel any smarter but I see others missing what I think are obvious observations and actions much more frequently.

I'm also OK being the same fraud I've felt like since my 20's. Starting to be comfortable in my skin, I just wish it wasn't so wrinkly now that I can enjoy it.
How confusion spreads and becomes engrained (2017)
Yes indeed and also convenience. Big box stores are great when you need to grab a few (or more) pieces of whatever at 9pm on a Sunday.

But otherwise yeah support your local lumberyard whenever possible - and help them have reasonable working hours etc
Incorrect results do not preclude reasoning. GPT is able to understand concepts, the relationship between concepts gives rise to reason and it is able to describe these relationships, therefore it reasons, even if the reasoning is not very good. Furthermore GPT is be able to supplement its reasoning with external information, which could take the form of 'reasoning engines'.
> Patient zero was a virologist that seems to have been censored off the Chinese internet afterwards, and I can't find the links anymore :-/

10-minute video that includes that plus a few other things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU
> the decision to do so or not is part of their freedom of speech.

If this is true, then they should also face liability for that speech. As it is "platforms" are given the rights of free speech with none of the responsibility.

Personally, I don't think that platforms are people and thus don't have the same rights to speech which is why we allow them to escape some of the responsibility. There are big benefits to allowing platforms to do some level of moderation without accepting full liability for all speech on their platform. However, in exchange these platforms lose the right to arbitrarily ban and censor people.
Well, if you ban and ostracize people for supporting some idea, then a lot of supporters for this idea would be people who are not afraid of being banned and ostracized - and this category of people has a lot of conspiracy nuts, because they have nothing to lose anyway. You can not use the consequence of the suppression policy as a justification of the same suppression policy.
I think it's more the fact that treating the Nazi's well and trying to avoid a violent conflict didn't mean that they would try to avoid it on their end. Cede them an inch and they'll commit genocide.
I agree that there is no easy answer; certainly my proposal is not perfect.

But almost any action is compelled by speech. I think allowing the state to control the speech to guide actions always leads to misuse. My 2c.
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KSP2 is universally regarded as an unmitigated disaster. We are at 3 years after the original release date (for the full game) and all that has been released is a fundamentally broken "Early Access" release. It is a rocket building game, and rocket physics are broken. The only things that work in the game are the bits useful for making pretty screenshots or short videos, for advertising purposes.

Anyways, actual reviewers have been saying that the game's UX choices make actually getting to bodies other than Kerbin harder in KSP2 than KSP1, especially for newcomers. For example, TWR information is missing, intercept information is missing, apsis information can't be viewed while editing maneuvers, and delta-v information is alternately missing or wrong. These are all fundamentals which should be present even in an EA release, and while they are things KSP1 experts can work around, they make it impossible for newcomers to accomplish anything.

This game will never (truly) leave EA; it will be killed.
How does one definite hate speech? Who gets to decide? That's my entire problem with this philosophy. Some one or some group feel holy enough to be the arbiters.

Yes, real life is hard and complicated and there's no easy way to decide it. We collectively do the best we can and keep trying to improve. That's just reality. That's why free speech absolutism is naïve- it appeals to our desire for one, simple, always enforceable rule but it's not the way the world works that one simple rule is always the best outcome.
welcome to managerial theory
People are (on average) surprisingly bad at causation calculations, and even worse at explaining them.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/01/20/humans-understandi...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12213
“We don’t know” is by definition not a theory though, it’s a lack of a theory.
Its not about punishment, its about the 'just world' fallacy where bad things happen because of 'bad' people (whether through malice or incompetence). It allows us to hide from uncomfortable truths - in this case that pathogen spillovers are inevitable, and that our response has been typically woeful.
IMHO, you are the one who started comparing India Democracy with United States.

Also, I can ignore the papers for a moment. Can you tell me how many unscripted press conferences PM Modi did in last 8 years? Please don't count 1-1 interviews to Movie stars, or 1-1 scripted meetings in closed tv studios. I am asking for any public press conferenced where he is taking questions from 5-6 journalists form different organizations. The one hour radio monolog also does not count as a press conference.

To know why open press conferences are important for a democracy, you can read more here:

https://www.principlesofdemocracy.org/government-dem