skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Animals form mental representations of their environment, which are directly caused by that environment in conjunction with their prior models of it. On top of these states they combine motivational and emotional attitudes to form goals, to intend, to play, and so on.

And I take it that you're arguing that ChatGPT does not have a mental representation of its environment? Obviously, we could quibble about 'mental', but for all of its limitations and problems, ChatGPT is very little more than a condensed representation of its environment.

What about motivation and emotion? I don't think we have a clear enough definition of how these things are instantiated in humans to properly debate here. ChatGPT acts as if it has certain motivations (to be helpful, to avoid controversy), and has been coached to avoid expressions of emotion.

If you start from a view point of 'a next-word prediction engine obviously cannot have emotion, plans, or a world model', then of course you'll conclude that ChatGPT does not have these things and cannot. If you start from the view that we don't really know what mechanisms we need to instantiate these things anyway, then you're much more likely to look at the areas that ChatGPT seems to behave similarly to humans and wonder if big chunks of our brain are actually next token prediction engines, just structured by evolution to work in particular ways. This view was not new with ChatGPT of course, predictive coding has been an interesting approach to human cognition for a while now.
Thank you for your hard work on this.
But as per usual people don't want to make the necessary sacrifices.

If you want to live in a big expensive city you have to pay more. If you work a job that pays the maximum their office is probably in a big expensive city which means you either have to live in said city or commute there.

I could have higher paying job, but that would require 1-2 hour commute.

I could also move closer to the office, but that would mean taking on debt or paying high rent.

My compromise is to live ~15 minute drive away from the office. I live in cheaper city (I'd have to pay at least twice if not thrice as much for same size apartment), but I have to commute to the office, I could use public transportation, but then I'd be chained to schedules and it would take ~45 minutes in total, so I choose to own a car and drive.
Hmm. Little discussion of artistic styles (a few examples of using a particular medium like oil, or a movement like expressionism, or referencing a time period like Age of Sail), and no examples of a specific artist or work, not even the ubiquitous Claude Monet or Starry Night.

I find it a bit hard to believe the model is completely incapable of rendering these prompts, unless the training data was strictly filtered to exclude artist names and their styles as much as possible.
> Computers and the internet looked like bubbles until they didn’t.

The funny thing being, it isn't that clear how the (personal) computer revolution worked out: The IBM PC was envisioned as a dumb smart terminal that would rely on mainframe integration for anything serious business. This model clearly failed with the advent of i386, as tasks were increasingly done locally and exclusively so. That model failed clearly, as computers are now dumb smart terminals that are connected to mainframes (AKA "the cloud")…

Similarly, the Internet revolution would connect everyone on equal standing and equal reach, decentralized, as opposed to the ideas of information utilities that has been proposed previously, an idea that clearly failed. Now this idea has clearly failed, as the Internet has become a centralized information utility run by a few companies for the majority of its use…
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It would be great to have an 'rem for css animations' where you don't specify your transition times in seconds but in fractions of a base unit, which might default to 1 second, but can be changed in your browser settings similar to your base font size.
Non-verbal experiences are easier to communicate non-verbally. (Breaking news!)

But, I'd like to see someone try to communicate the Bhagavad Gita or the history of F=ma in visuals using the same amount of bits as text.
Doctorow's text always feels like it's glaring.
Depleted? Why this negative outlook? Germany filled all storage last winter, and are still at ~70%. The next winter will be easier as we adapt to the new reality.

https://i.redd.it/zv0bh84l3xia1.png
While in poorer country, here in the Philippines, we don't have an option to WFH if our company is under PEZA
https://business.inquirer.net/378811/hundreds-of-bpos-with-w...
The government reason to return to office is to boost the economy.
Honestly, I'm not an economist, even worse I was not a fully functioning and critical thinking adult before the Thatcher era, you could well be right but I find it really hard to believe.

For example the UK has also had subsequent Conservative victories for the last 12 years or so but every single argument made in 2010 about their approach has been proven true. To the detriment of every person in the UK.

So it doesn't necessarily follow in my eyes that an election win means that what you're doing is the right thing, only that you are popular and you can convince people you will do something to help them.
Show HN: An unofficial web app to explore GitHub's top repositories
I don't always explore the top GitHub repositories but when I do, it's a bad experience because:

- I have to keep switching pages.

- Many of the repos shown are repos that I'm not interested in but have no choice except to scroll through them every time.

The app shows all the top 1000 repos on one page and you can blacklist the repos you're not interested in so whenever you go back you don't have to scroll through them.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9413590
Funny though, I actually know people who are still using crypto for various things. So you're kind of snarky remark about how I might not find ChatGPT useful also applies to people who use crypto too.

Like I said I do use the GPT...when I see fit, mostly just when I want to see what it can do, or how it might do something different. Of course it can be useful in some ways. I still don't understand what the actual use of it is. ChatGPT comes with a disclaimer on the box which alerts you to the fact that it's basically an experiment and by using it, you're part of the experiment.

Should a my lawyer use it when giving me legal advice even though we don't know that it's giving correct information? Should I use it instead of a doctor? Should your doctor use it in your next visit?

I mean there is a chance that even OpenAI were never expecting it to blow up the way it did?

People have become a little too defensive over a product because it talks?
I remember this was built in in some browsers back in the days, as transitions between whole pages. Basically the same transitions as in simple presentations (fade, push in from side, reveal as a circle, etc)

<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="revealTrans(Duration=1,Transition=3)">

Edit, found a video: https://vimeo.com/111317293
Anyone knows of any notable open source printers? Hardware and software.
Taking Full Advantage of NoSideEffects
That seems highly reductive a definition because then a filesystem is a requirement for computation. A lot of early computing worked only in memory and results were printed out on tape or via TTY. Moreover it seems like your definition of computing only makes sense as input into another computer program.

Regardless many of the examples I provided do produce files. When I do finances I create spreadsheets, when I share shopping lists I'm making formatted text documents.
The concept of a car with solar panels on top doesn't pass the back of the envelop calculation sanity check. Even with panels capturing all the energy they receive from the sun and a car parked in a location with perfect exposure, the energy captured in a day is barely enough to make it move a few kilometers.

Relying on the (clean) grid for charging is actually the better approach.
Hah, nice!
Anyone can, that's actually another benefit. It can be funded by anyone who wants to.
I heard it once explained as "most fingers have a finger either side" issue.
That said, there certainly are SD models that are quite solid in this regard, like deliberate. I don't know much about GANs but if the problem is shared w diffusion, perhaps the solution is as well and we just need better training.
I was in a similar situation when my startup went up in flames and I went to get a mortgage, but I just showed the bank copies of the dissolution paperwork and they accepted that without any further questions. If a startup really is defunct it usually makes sense to formally dissolve it - otherwise you're on the hook for franchise taxes, registered agent fees, etc, and those can add up after a few years.
I wouldn't have commented but I think you need dose of humility if you want to succeed as a enterprenuer. You're right people make web pages but the ones your project generates are extremely unpolished and quite frankly ugly. No serious customer would consider them. Your demo is 3-min long when 30sec should have been enough. Your website too is just not very good. I would advice to take pause, talk to few people and understand where you're going wrong.
Wow, the world has changed! I remember walking home from school by myself when I was in kindergarten.
You're downvoted but I don't think you're wrong. In general it seems to be the case that if you're waging a war and you're not getting completely crushed the electorate (or at least the "undecided" voters") tends to rally around whoever happens to be in charge. And indeed I think it's fairly safe to say that most agree that Thatcher benefitted electorally from a strong response to the invasion.

I should add that as a Scot I'm definitely not a fan of hers (you just grow up there knowing "Thatcher Bad") but I'm not quite at "put a stake through her heart and garlic round her neck"[0] :)

[0] - https://twitter.com/halaljew/status/1294414600566382598
If you think it would be ok for a school to fire a teacher merely for being gay (as suggested by “it makes perfect sense for organizations to spend money to get rid of these people”), then you don’t support gay rights. In some instances US courts have even ruled against religious schools that have done this:

https://www.them.us/story/illegal-for-catholic-schools-to-fi...

If you absolutely insist on making this a discussion about pedophilia (even extending your unpleasant insinuations to gay men who are boy scout leaders), then I’m calling it quits here. The subject of the article is gay priests talking to other adult gay men on dating apps. Even if a significant number of mainstream Catholics think that being gay is equivalent to being a pedophile (which I doubt), then that is still no reason for the rest of us to make such an association.
ChatGPT Terminal Helper. A simple Python script that generates terminal commands
To use

1. export your OpenAI key as an environment variable as OPENAI_API_KEY.

2. `pip install openai`

3. python3 chatgpt-terminal.py "Create 50 dirs called test$number in bash"

It works a lot better than expected!
> It's in their interest to get rid of all the DRM, so it's a matter of setting an example.

Is it?

I doubt it's a significant cost center. Plus, right management is viewed favourably by the rest of the entertainment industry. Actively going against the grain would impair their image with their commercial partners.

I honestly think they don't care at this point.
Honestly, I feel very similarly, but I have an external factor as well.

Last year I moved to The Netherlands from Dallas, TX, USA. My entire world has totally changed. Part of that move was a new job for a company local to my area.

Before I moved, I worked remotely in the US for about 6 years. Well before the pandemic, etc etc. My favorite part of my job being a remote worker was getting together with people once or twice a year for in person retreats or company outings visiting clients.

My commute these days is longer; 30km or about 18 miles and takes about 30 minutes. I own a car, which is ironic considering I moved to a country with the worlds best bicycle infrastructure. For better or worse, work requires our team to come to the office 2 days a week.

But because of that commute, I gain so much. I have structured time to listen to the radio and practice my foreign language listening skills. I am surrounded by people who speak a different language than me unless we're specifically collaborating on work topics (then we speak English). I can observe the habits and idiosyncrasies of this new culture, and for the moment, I really am enjoying it.

Would I have a different opinion if I was commuting 5 days a week? Almost certainly. But once or twice a week is totally manageable for me and my life now.

The takeaway I think is, do what works for you. If you like the office, that's great! If your company doesn't have dedicated offices, ask your boss for a dedicated coworking space. If you like laying on your couch, laptop on your chest, typing away all day, more power to you too.

The key is to not put down others for their preferences, and support your colleagues in being the happiest version of themselves at work, wherever that happens to be.
Wonder Dynamics puts a full-service CG character studio in a web platform
Germany ‘not opposed’ to nuclear-made hydrogen, says will import from France
Sure, but living in cities has its benefits besides being closer to work and depending on what you want that’s worth the pain. I tend to go into the office two or three days a week and I’ll generally have an evening activity in town on one or two days, like drinks or theatre or a meet up or something. If you’re doing it for fun as well as work the commute isn’t so bad and the trains are quiet later in the evening.
No interest in learning backend dev stuff?
> Genuine question, is it a good start?

No, because it doesn't scale, and its dramatically worse than a lot of other approaches, which range from 'also don't scale' to 'somewhat scale'.
>There can be only one ld.so in each process.

Sure, but you need it for Chromium alone iirc, no?

>Because it uses glibc, the entire process hosting it must use glibc. So, what prevents me from ALSO HAVING GLIBC CHROMIUM instead of musl Chromium? Nothing, but I hope you get that it propagates further and it's a horrible idea to just glibc everything on Alpine.

Well, don't glibc everything. Just Chromium and its dependencies. How does it "propagate further"? It's not like libraries leak outside where they're told to load!
Just a note, the real thing disappeared a few years ago unfortunately, but the one I've linked is someone else's kindly archived copy from 8 April 2010.
The cross training point is absolutely crucial. I've managed or worked on multiple Ops teams where one person was the "network expert" or the "kubernetes expert" or whatever. If that person left the company for any reason, or even went on vacation, it was a disaster. People on a team can and should have their specialties but you absolutely must document and cross train so that someone can fill in when the expert is unavailable. Anything else is a horrible failure by management.
Most Google Maps client library users use only a few basic features - "display slippy map here with a pin centered on here" type thing.

Then just stub out any other API call with "alert('Not implemented, but PR's welcome!')"

And as far as webmasters are concerned, switching from google maps to your maps involves just switching out the <script> tag for a different one.
While I think it’s nonsense comparing what we do when we learn and what a computer
Program does, I’ll speculate on this.

Our eyes are doing a lot of signal processes before the “image” hits our brain. My understanding is audio has less signal processing required before the “sound” hits our brain.
Absolutely and in some ways even worse. However Rust is in comparison with C and C++ a rather small player on our platform.
This reminds me of something John Carmack tweeted once (can't find the tweet).

In the tweet, he said that when coding, he'd start by the smallest possible PoC, and code it entirely front to back. That'd give the general structure, and then he'd build upon that. (this is what I remember of it fwiw).

I do this all the time too, which I think is a vastly superior approach to TDD, which assumes how an API is going to be used, without actually writing the actual thing that's going to use it.
How do you call all the short-lived, green dicots growing in the meadows?
The Fed’s Inflation Goal Is Completely Arbitrary
I think the core tenet would be "design every process(*) with feedback loops, so that you can detect when it needs to be updated". This can be as simple as having good tests that align with the business cases the API needs to support, to logging every data that goes through it and performing heavy data analysis on it.

(*) (Not just the processes in the program, but also processes in the company needed to find out what to do and how to do it).

This leads to organic growth, which can overcome problems caused by an upfront design that goes bad, because it couldn't have planned in advance every problem it will face in the future. Systems Design is all about adapting the system to changes in its environment. Learn about the Viable Systems Model for a mental framework on what to look for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model
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Decent public transportation is the solution here, we are fortune to have that in London.
> cheap & healthy food prepared by someone else

For me it's the opposite. Food outside of home means it's low quality food in comparison to the fresh organic produce which we buy locally and my wife and myself have had freshly cooked food all our lives so we really value fresh home made delicious food rather than having a burger or some other rubbish outside.

- good coffee prepared by someone else / machine

Again, the complete opposite for me. The first kitchen appliance which we bought when we moved into our house was a Sage Oracle coffee machine, one of the best bean to cup machines and we buy an organic blend of well sourced beans from a local shop in South West London. Everyone who visits us and drinks our coffee says that they never had such a good cup of coffee before.

- easy to go to the gym on my way to the office

In the city the gyms are crammed, overcrowded and small and they have limited facilities. Here where I live we have a massive David Lloyd just a 6 minute drive away, it's a massive complex with indoor/outdoor tennis courts, gym floor, 20+ studios for classes, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a creche for children, a bar and restaurant and the most amazing spa. Going to my local gym after work is a million times better than those shitty crammed basement bullshit gyms in the city where all the offies are.

- nice separation of work and "civilian" life, I can just leave work at the office when I leave

I love my work. We have an office room in our house. If I'm inside this room with closed doors I'm in deep work mode. If outside I'm in home mood. Clean separation enough, also the best separation is to finish work, put on my sports gear and go hit the tennis courts or go with my family for a walk outside or something. I don't need to sit on an overcrowded stuffy tube full of sick overly tired miserable looking people in order for my brain to switch into home mode.

- a reason to put on trousers and a clean shirt in the morning

Never wore shirt to work, even when I went into the office. I'm thankful for that.
>>> I was probably the only non-hostile one, even friendly, to him at work by that point

If you did not help him, this is highly subjective
Found this page to be a nice intro to the syntax and semantics:

https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/LanguageG...

This part hits a real sweet spot for me:

> Carp borrows its looks from Clojure but the runtime semantics are much closer to those of ML or Rust.

One of my current side-projects is a little Civ-style game I'm working on in Racket, which I decided to start coding in on a whim. Will see how it goes moving pieces of it across to Carp.
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I'd love to see a map of all the pages on the site. You can dig through so many layers.

Here are some photos of a squirrel with some bonus sketches: https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/oil_portrait_painting_p...
> That's a kind of question that we can't answer through experimentation

Kind of a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for a question to be a philosophical one.
the AoE turkey gobble sound is in just about every movie which features a turkey
I think ZIO is really a very pragmatic appraoch to FP, similar to Monix (which is a bit less comprehensive).
Ah yes, AI doesn't have any significant use cases and is only good for party tricks, but also it's going to be used by paymasters to erode wages.

If it's useless, it can hardly replace jobs, can it?
I know taylor from high school and trust him. And know many that know Dianna. I would trust whatever support they get will go to good use. Also, taylor we going to 20 yr this summer? :| :) good to see you on this corner of the internet.
> who is working late nights, who isn't

Add to this who starts work early and who doesn't - just tracking when someone finishes working doesn't give you any information without knowing how long they've actually been working for when they leave.
Hum, as someone who grew up in the times of the linguistic turn, I'm somewhat missing the groundbreaking revolution here. The entire idea of "text" was based on this.
Microsoft is the same size as the biggest companies in FAANG and the office politics are notoriously pretty competitive.
You can (and perhaps should!) do this with TDD, you just start with functional tests instead. Only commit to unit and integration tests when you know you’re not going to be throwing lots of stuff away through refactorings.
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