skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not done any research in Ritchie's PhD thesis, but just as a general hint on the research: besides typewriters there were of course (foto-)typesetting systems at the time capable of producing the output. The Berthold Diatype, for example, dates back to 1952 and would have been able to produce the formulars. It would have required painstaking preparation and a very experienced typesetter - but, possible. Interestingly, Berthold introduced an internal metric system for their fototypesetters of 48 units (in relation to the metrics of the hot metal body), fitting quite nicely with the 1/12 grid.

That said, it does not at all seem likely to me and I am fully into the typewriter theory. Berthold was not very common in the US and it would have been very expensive. But there were similar systems of US origin and I think other possibilities should be investigated, mentioned and explicitely ruled out. Even metal type must be considered!

Regarding the effort and costs:

During my apprenticeship as a fototype-setter on Berthold systems in the 80s, my girlfriend graduated from senior highschool with a thesis work about colorized photography (analogue of course ;-). I was very passionate about typesetting during my apprenticeship and my dedication was rewarded with free access to all tools, typesetting machines and even the expensive photo papers and film for private use as long as it was in my spare time. So I typesetted the thesis work of my gf on large A3 photopaper in a nice font on a Berthold ads 3000 and she would glue the hand-colorized photographs on it. The result looked better than any photobook you could buy at the time and it was way over top for the requirements of the thesis work.

So there is no reason to dismiss a possibility just on the assumption, that it would have been too expensive or too much of an effort. Sometimes it only requires a personal relation to make something seemingly impossible happen.
You can ask ChatGPT to show it's working too. It's likely, for many things, (as it is with humans a lot of the time) that the way it does it when it walks you through the process is entirely different to how it does it when it just spits out an answer, but it does work. E.g. I asked it a lot of questions about the effects of artificial gravity using a rotating habitat a few days ago, and had it elaborate a lot of the answers, and it was able to set out the calculations step by step. It wasn't perfect - it made the occasional mistakes - but it also corrected them when I asked follow-up questions about inconsistencies etc. the same way a human would.

(Funnily enough, while both your example questions are easy enough, I feel I was marginally slower on your "easy" question than your "harder" one)
I really like Smalltalk but basically he fails to explain what the added value of Smalltalk would be over Python as a baseline.

GIL is inconvenient but the times I was really limited by it are few. Lambdas are not Smalltalk blocks, but you can just define a local function and refer to it by name. This is like a block, the only thing you need to do is to bind the block to a name. Indentation-based syntax is not everyones preference (even not mine), but not using indentation is not a super power.

What I would say is a primary selling point of Smalltalk to this day is the seamless development experience with Class Browser/Editor/Playground/TestExecution.
There's lazy then there's this....
I've been using Dungeon Revealer [1] a self-hosted web app. It's a simple halfway point between a fancy VTT and a paper map. It's easy to use and allows you to upload any kind of image, which makes it a rudimentary presentation tool too.

1. https://github.com/dungeon-revealer/dungeon-revealer
Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally
> ban any graded homework.

Modern countries don't do homework, other than reading, for ages
Thread.sleep on a platform thread takes that thread out of action until the sleep ends. If an executor with 10 threads got 10 tasks that all called Thread.sleep(1000000) then it can run no more tasks until one of the threads wakes up.

When a virtual thread sleeps or blocks on IO it is unhooked from the underlying platform thread so another virtual thread can run. You can have an almost unlimited number of virtual threads multiplexed over a small number of carrier (platform) threads. Hence M:N
An 8k is a particular form that listed corporations are required to file publicly when certain categories of events or decisions happen that they were required to disclose to shareholders
> And one possibility might be that AIs could “improve themselves” to produce a single “apex intelligence” that would in a sense dominate everything else. ...there can never be a “best at everything” computational system. It’s a core result of the emerging field of metabiology...

This is a straightforward implication of algorithmic information theory but I don't think it is an accurate representation. I'm not sure where "metabiology" fits into it. Tractability of approximating optimal ("apex") intelligence depends on significant specialization in the patterns discernible by induction. As a consequence, every pure AI will be blind to some relatively trivial patterns and relationships in the environment. However, one could use high-order induction to combine differently specialized induction, a bit like a random forest, to create robust resistance to being blind to many trivial patterns. At sufficient scale, the differences between such inductive approximations will be indistinguishable for all practical purposes.

That aside, there seems to be subtle conflation between "computation" and "AI" going on here. Are we talking about "best at computation" or "best at AI"? These aren't the same thing.
These comments are deceptive. Yes, this is how LLMs work, but that doesn't mean they only repeat things they have seen before. LLMs are capable of following instructions to construct new words in any language they know, words never seen before.

I've seen it being dumb in maths or real world problems. But as a large language models, they understand and speak languages fine, and even mistakes they make look like mistakes humans who are not natives in the language would make.

We may as well say that when we speak, we are just predicting words we have trained on. I don't see how these models are worse than people in that regard.

The general knowledge and thinking of these models are surely limited. But seeing GPT-4 go from text only input to text with images, I think it is very possible to break the barriers very soon.
The only way to resize the segment is mapping in pages at the end of the original stack, and that only works if you were careful and arranged for virtual space to be reserved and available at the end. And the only robust way to do that is to map something in. At that point might as well assign the space to the stack from the beginning.
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I'm sure they do. It's just not coherent, hence prefacing my comment with bound. It's just random mind dust. I am a believer of a form of panpsychism. And that the hard problem of consciousness is better formulated as the boundary problem, whereby you get a conscious / intelligent being from properly creating boundaries around the consciousness that already exists.

Here's a good video detailing this line of thinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0YID6XV-PQ
Functional Programming Is No Better Object Oriented Programming
Errrr…. yes. Yes I do.

When can I get the $50B?
There is, it's called China. Be careful what you wish for
As often with Stephen Wolfram's writings, I found the ideas to be too sparsely located in a very long essay so I didn't read it whole, but a thought on the question :
Machines Vs Human Jobs has always been a question of competitive advantage inside a growing economy.
Did some machines become better than humans at doing some physical labour? The human labour gets replaced in that area, but these replaced workers can get other jobs because they're still better than machines at thinking, and the economy expands to create new thinking jobs.

Nowadays, with AIs becoming better than humans at thinking in many areas, one could think these humans could go work in other thinking areas, or could use their time to care for other humans , but this is not possible : indeed if there's no job destruction, only machine work + human work instead of just human work, it means the economy expands. Alas, the economy is constrained by energy input, which reached a peak in 2008 (cf what Jancovici says), so it cannot expand anymore.

So to me, having AI alone, or AI-boosted workers, doing the job of 10s of other workers, will destroy jobs, irrecuperably.

The real question will then be, how to give all these jobless people both means of living (redistributing wealth) and dignity (a place/utility amongst others).
Your idea for free energy revolves around the optimal placement of small-scale passive nuclear power plants along the power grid, potentially using NuScale Power's technology. You also suggest making these nuclear power plants shippable by incorporating safety features to prevent unauthorized access to the radioactive material. While I cannot run your idea through ChatGPT-4 directly, as a language model based on the GPT-4 architecture, I can provide some insights into the feasibility and costs of your idea.

Small modular reactors (SMRs): NuScale Power is a company developing small modular reactors (SMRs), which are compact, more affordable, and potentially safer than traditional large-scale nuclear power plants. These reactors can be placed along the power grid to meet the baseload power needs, helping to stabilize the grid and reduce the intermittency of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.

Optimal placement: Using algorithms such as Djikstra's algorithm can help in determining the optimal placement of these SMRs, ensuring maximum energy returns while minimizing transmission losses.

Safety and security: Your idea of incorporating a containment system that releases a mixture of boron and concrete upon unauthorized access could be a useful safety feature. However, developing such a system would require extensive research, development, and testing to ensure its reliability and effectiveness.

The cost and timeline for this idea would depend on multiple factors, including:

Research and development: Developing new technology, safety systems, and algorithms for optimal placement will require significant investments in research and development.

Licensing and regulatory approval: Any new technology, especially in the nuclear power industry, must undergo rigorous regulatory scrutiny and approvals, which can be time-consuming and costly.

Manufacturing and deployment: Building the SMRs, deploying them in optimal locations, and integrating them into the power grid will require substantial investments in infrastructure, materials, and labor.

Ongoing operation and maintenance: Operating and maintaining a fleet of SMRs will require ongoing investments in personnel, materials, and infrastructure.

It is difficult to provide a specific cost and timeline estimate without more detailed information and analysis. However, implementing this idea would likely require billions of dollars and take several years or more to come to fruition. Additionally, it is worth considering that while the cost of energy production may be reduced, achieving "free energy" may not be realistic due to the ongoing operational and maintenance costs associated with the infrastructure.
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I would be very surprised if this weren't the case within 5-10y tops.
> > > I can’t understand people who are so excited about GPT. It fills me with absolute dread, and if I could vote to make it illegal, I would.

> > You want to make it illegal because you think it can replace your job? Should we try to outlaw any type of automation then too, as people lose their jobs over automation as well?

> It’s hard to believe this is what you got from my post.

It's literally the words that you posted, verbatim, and wrote at the start of your comment: You want to effectively ban LLMs & AI as a whole, just because your emotions about it made you want to, with no further justifications as to why it should be illegal. You just feel that it is.
Playwright is pretty good. We just moved to it from Cypress.
The Silicon Valley Bank fallout is just beginning
More specifically, also a bump chart. "sorted stream graph" maybe.

In a way, a subset of Sankey and alluvial diagrams
Works with CSS/JS disabled.
I wasn’t suggesting to wait, rather than to IPO now. Employees could have liquid stock, I was suggesting a scenario where Stripe does the IPO now.

If they then wait for the same time until they will wait until Stripe IPOs, the stock would grow to the same level.
Obviously we can't "know" this.
My thinking is largely influenced by consciousness researcher and founder of Qualia Research Institute, Andrés Gómez Emilsson.

Here's a couple recent videos with him about why digital computers can't be sentient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzBjBo24g8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT9tnzucnPU
One chooses to work on health, privacy, face / fingerprint / camera apps on iPhone, are given a work iPhone with proprietary / internal experimental software explicitly for use by employees, and are somehow surprised that part of the clearly disclosed and understood purpose is to collect data for use / development of the software? I don't get where term "whistleblower" has any applicability here. There's no secret or violation of what an employee has agreed to.

Sounds like someone has an inflated sense of being a victim. Or at least manufacturing some story to get attention.
> I do genuinely enjoy it when writers go a bit unhinged like this.

It almost makes me long for the days when The Register still published absurdly irreverent articles like they used to.
Oh wow, I bump into you everywhere!
Sound advice. All that strike through is going to look horrible, and diminish the overall readability for a much larger population. I’m not sure there’s a very good solution for this particular case. Should they trash the entire idea rather than accept some lesser accessibility?

I’m certainly not against broader accessibility in any sense, I have had multiple sclerosis for 22-years, I was really more against using “quotes” to question a professional’s credibility for what seems like a fairly sensible choice.
Ok, yeah, that's more elaborate than the average scam. And yes, it's only getting worse from here with all the new AI advances.
I thought there was also a lot of killing?
ChatGPT and Calculators: What do we value?
read it and think about it
I don't know anything about web tbh - what is that "key=AIzaSy[...]" bit? Is that a user id for duckduckgo private watching type of thing?
n could be the subset still requiring sorting; or any other subset of the array; a start index; it could be anything. assert(len(arr) == n) is quite the wild conjecture.
OP is clearly distressed and you replied with with what comes out as “it’s your fault and you deserve this.” It costs nothing to refrain from replying and only the smallest amount of effort to provide some solidarity with your fellow human.

OP, I feel you-I had a similar response to this clearly orchestrated PR campaign. OpenAI really loves that people think that it can replace the entire tech industry with an API. It would mean they are the most valuable company ever to exist.

Personally, I’ve been through so many hype waves of “this will take our jobs!!!1” I’m a bit inured to the whole thing. My personal belief is that software development will be the last one to go, the ones to turn out the lights. And we should be grateful that our jobs go away. Let’s go drink wine and eat cheese in the forest, dancing under a moonlit sky.

My advice is to get offline, talk to a loved one, pet a dog, go look at art, meditate, basically anything that doesn’t involve a screen.
What happens to a large language model (LLM) after it’s trained
Seems damned unlikely given a) how many contexts it's not considered OK to swear in, and how bloody easy it would be to start adding a few swear words to AI generated content if people did start feeling that way. The AI refusing to swear doesn't prevent the AI user from either manually or programatically adding in some fucking swear words.
Still worth it to get it passed through parliament.

(Also, would be a bit odd for the British government to pay people who were not enslaved by it, but instead by private individuals)
Which reveals a bias that could use some adjustment, no?

I personally don't think the quote itself is evil, it should be taken as what it is: A quote with insufficient context.

But whatever one's interpretation is, the mental exercise is to not let the judgement of it be distorted of what your brain WANTS it to be.
A customer can switch on/off regions. Also, they can set up a cap for every region. You can do it with regular CDNs as well, it's just a setting.
You can use ChatGPT to write the sequel—just remember that anyone else can do the same so it’s unclear whether it would be worth the bother…
Because there is no rightist in korea to be honest. Most of Korean do not think like that. President Yoon and his father studied at Japan. Getting an apology from Japan's sexual slavery victims for the Japanese imperial army, it is not vilifying Japan.
Interesting, I always thought I had to have a net worth of a billion dollars or own a private island to be inducted. I’ve got some farming to do.

<disappears into the internet misty void>
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> What is really interesting is that we are so accustomed to the tale of dominance and tribes that we are taking it for granted (because we live in it). Love and kindness

Right, but love, kindness, cooperation are human concepts as well.

One way to look at it is that these AIs will be developed by humans and to be able to even understand one another, it has to internalize at least some elements of human psychology. AIs will be developed/trained for particular purpose, AIs used for military needs will probably understand more of dominance as opposed to love.

It's possible that some AIs will not be anthropomorphic at all, but that's a complete wildcard. Humanity has certain biology-dictated common ground in values, which leads us often to an illusion that some things are universal. But AI with no biological baggage might not see any value in life, for example.
>Sharing some Korean Yojijukugos (originating from China)

This is neither here nor there, but you have me in stitches for using Japanese to refer to Chinese sayings to describe Korean (sub)culture.
Having used a typewriter I can confirm what raphlinus wrote above.

Moreover you would not have to use tabs necessarily. A typewriter is an analogue device with a roller on a sled. It's not that there are fixed character cells like in a computer. When you press a button the roller usually moves a fixed distance but you can suppress that and position the roller freely. You also can position your characters freely in the vertical direction by turning the roller with a knob on its side. Basically characters could be placed on the sheet without restrictions. To get an idea what was possible look up Typewriter Art.
Tech stack is Node, Express, htmx, SQLite.
Sounds like a job for the Mega Maid!
To make importable square-tiled 3D maps for Tabletop Simulator, I use Illwinter's Floorplan Generator to first create 2D maps and convert them to 3D using Blender. This workflow allows me to prepare both indoor and outdoor maps very quickly. If I feel like putting in more work, I can model props like bridges, buildings, platforms etc. separately and link them to the maps in Tabletop Simulator.

I have a small tutorial here: https://wiki.tyghsh.net/creating_3d_maps_tabletop_simulator.
Japan has issued lots of apologies over the decades for that, and paid reparations. The issue was settled back in the 60s. It's time to move on.

The left wingers just keep dragging it up so they can distract the voters from their own failures in governance.
I'll play Devils' advocate. Has this person not seen, and agreed to, rules for using pre-release devices or even agreements for released devices? Apple became surveillance company under Cook and this should be perfectly clear to Apple employees.

To quote South Park's "HumancentiPad" episode:

> Hold up. Here it is right here: "by clicking Agree, you are also acknowledging that Apple may sew your mouth to the butthole of another iTunes user" (...) "Apple and its subsidiaries may also, if necessary, sew yet another person's mouth onto your butthole, making you a being that shares one gastral tract." Hmmm, I'm gonna click onnn... "Decline."
It was obvious that this happens.
Sorry to hear this. I truly can relate. Hipchat/Stride was one of the very first products at Atlassian that adopted our cross-product service and components for attachment and link handling, even before Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket if I recall correctly.
Who is this person and why is he at the top of the HN front page?
"And then I started to make money from people who were interested in my Twitter thread"? I like the concept but this doesn't seem very interesting.
Maybe I am a bit too lazy but I don’t understand what “guardrails” add that I wouldn’t get simply from:

1. Denying outputs with blacklisted words or phrases, and

2. Deserialising the JSON with serde_json [0], and denying output that fails to deserialise. If my requirements are very specific I can use strongly typed structs. If my requirements are more loose I can use serde json value types etc

[0]: https://docs.rs/serde_json/latest/serde_json/
Objectively that's a success of CS executive board. Bonuses will follow, penthouses and challets will be upgrayed this summer.
The article doesn’t seem to have any consistent idea of what a map maker is, including map generators, map drawing tools, and VTT that mainly let you use maps.

And kind of odd not to mention CC3 or any of the rest of the ProFantasy suite when it comes to drawing tools.
Same here. Lying here with a 6 part fractured leg in agonizing pain, alone. Hospital bills total near a million. Being in the hospital was like a prison, was victimized there (physically), with no cameras in patient rooms. And being home is a privilege despite having no support.

All the love is lost. Let the AI enslave us.
Look up split brain experiments [1]. Basically, in patients where the corpus callosum is severed to some degree, the two halves of the brain have limited communication. Since the two halves control different parts of the sensory system, you can provide information selectively to one or the other half of the brain, and ask that part of the brain to make choices. If you then provide the other half of the brain the wrong information, and ask it to reason about why it made a choice, the other brain will happily pull a ChatGPT and "hallucinate" a reason for a choice neither that half nor the other half of the brain ever made.

While that does not prove that we never apply reasoning ahead of time, it is a pretty compelling indication that we can not trust that reasoning we give isn't a post-rationalisation rather than an indication of our actual reasoning, if any.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
More context, less favorable to the CTO (ie the company's side of the story):
https://news.yahoo.com/tusimple-co-founder-resigns-internal-...
What are the advantanges of Playwright over Cypress for you?
Umm, no! Money printer broke but we have empathy[0]. Hope you like it!

[0]: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1873578-money-printer-go-brr...
The human story ends on Earth.

Humans are evolved to fit this gravity well. We use the gasses and metabolites here. Trying to leave the planet and make it all work in the dark, cold, bleakness of our solar system is ridiculous. Our lives are fragile and our lifespans too short to make anything offworld viable.

Our robot descendants will inherit the stars instead. There's nothing wrong with human life being just a stepping stone to bootstrap the hand off.