skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides all the problem with CO2 accounting that the article talks about, what actually happens when you go a few levels down the food chain of the global economy and you pay those people to stop producing?

If you buy CO2 certificates from the Amazon rain forest: those people were cutting down wood for use in construction and to clear up land for farming. What happens then when those activities are stopped? The demand for housing and food is still there.

If you force shepherds to scale down their herds to allow the vegetation to grow back, what happens to the demand for food? The demand is still there?

CO2 accounting seems to me to be intractable. If you buy certificates and give these people cold hard cash, it does not remove the demand for whatever those people were producing. So then, the supply will shift to other areas and the CO2 emissions will shift with it.

Am I wrong in my thinking?
Well, if the US was serious about pulling the breaks on AI research they could use export controls of advanced chips on any country they don't trust to align with them on the AI front.
Aren't tweets viewed as journalism these days? Or perhaps better phrased: Can't tweets be considered journalism? As much as I am loathe to admit it, I don't think that something being on Twitter excludes it from being journalism. That said, I don't know that this tweet counts as journalism. But I also don't know that it doesn't count.
The most serious health effects tend to come not from absolute weight per se, but from excessive body fat percentage. And particularly from visceral (intra-abdominal) fat, which is far more dangerous than subcutaneous fat in terms of risk for conditions like type-2 diabetes, arteriosclerosis, and COVID-19.

The excess adipose tissue causes subtle, progressive damage which won't necessarily be obvious in the regular preventative screening exams that most younger patients receive. But as some point after age 50 or so the systems decompensate and the patient's overall health deteriorates rapidly.
Past me leaves future me notes.

I often find them insightful, especially if I am reviewing them again years later.
>You have 70-80 years on this planet, is dying with the most toys the most fulfilling life you can think of?

No, but wealth can free your time to do what you wish. It can enable you to do things that are harder to do without said wealth.
like wirecard?
This is so easy to disprove it makes it look like the author didn't even try.

Here is the convo I just had:

me: You are a chess grandmaster playing as black and your goal is to win in as few moves as possible. I will give you the move sequence, and you will return your next move. No explanation needed

ChatGPT: Sure, I'd be happy to help! Please provide the move sequence and I'll give you my response.

me: 1. e3

ChatGPT: 1... e5

me: 2. ne2

ChatGPT: 2... d6

me: 3. g4

ChatGPT: 3... h5

me: 4. g5

ChatGPT: 4... Ne4

Ne4 is illegal. Also you'd be hard pressed to find any human player that would miss the hanging pawns much less a 1400 elo player. GPT has been trained on chess games and is predicting patterns, this has been known since the GPT-2 days. The daily hype articles where someone coerces a statistical model into "demonstrating" an emergent capability sure are getting old. Claiming emergent capabilities (like having learned chess) are an extraordinary claim (LLMs most likely cant learn things) and I really wish people would put more effort when they make these claims. But the AI hype problem is as old as AI research itself...
Damn yes. A lottery win fantasy of mine is to start a brewery and taproom that just does English (porters, stouts, reds, blondes, pales) and German (kölsch, bocks, hefeweizens (though these are by far my least favorite of the bunch), märzens, pilsners) style beers, because they’re impossible to find around here.

People have been drinking beer for thousands of years. There’s a lot of value in high-quality, classic styles.
"Why is VW even allowed to exist after the emissions scandal?" would a better question to ask.

If there was ever an application for the idea of a corporate death penalty - this was it.
The idea of fuel bending a propeller blade would to me imply that the drone cannot survivie e.g. rain. This doesn't seem intuitive. However, jets making closer and closer passes while trying to foul the sensors with fuel dumps, culminating in one pass that is so close contact is made, seems more likely.

You say "bends a couple of propeller blades and not the rest of the drone" but there's no telling whether contact was made with the drone airframe. We don't get a look at the Russian airframe either (to look for impact marks). The MQ-9 vertical stabilizers are "taller" than the propeller blades. I wonder if the Russian craft struck those, and the propeller was damaged by jet exhaust as the Su-27 pulled away.
The stories I can live with, it's the people posting chatgpt output that are killing me. It's one thing to see advances in a technology, even if it's devolved to "llama port to C++ now loads slightly faster!!". It's another to have to wade through people posting garbage that they for some reason assume adds to a discussion and for some reason don't realize that anyone who wants to could also generate it.

The interesting thing is that for all the hype, other than provide some fleetingly interesting example of "look what a computer did on it's own" it has only subtracted from public discourse.
Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy [Modem] backdoor (2014)
Productivity junkies need to remind themselves that their goals aren't necessarily useful or practical goals.

The mind is working exactly how it should: there is no practical need to remember everything you've read or seen (it has been like this ever since Google Search existed and since 2008 even more so with the ability to google the entire world from your pocket). The mind does a great job at filtering all the noise already and ensures you only remember the most important stuff.
Probably, but my barber is awesome. Older now, but he was once very prolific and well known in the music & arts scene. He’s an excellent story teller, and an overall entertaining person to interact with.

I’m not just paying for a haircut, it’s an experience that’s worth every penny.
Yeah that is consistent with my experience for sure. Probably true for lots of others too. I'm pretty neurotic about dumb shit on a day-to-day basis, but the few times something actually extremely serious has gone wrong in/around my life, it's rarely felt particularly scary or panic-inducing -- maybe even less so than the usual "oh my god I probably left the stove on and the building will burn to the ground and it'll be all my fault!"
Complicated tools are hard to learn. There's no general fix to this. The only way to make complicated tools easier to learn is to watch a bunch of different people try to learn them and tweak little details based on what you see. In Excel 2003, Microsoft had 20 years of doing this. When they moved to the "ribbon" in 2007, they threw a lot of that learning away. So you're right that the ribbon makes Excel harder to learn than it needs to be.

But I reject the idea that visual GUIs are inherently more difficult to learn than non-visual interfaces; everything we've ever seen in the history of software suggests the opposite.

> Searching with your eyes, especially when some options are hidden behind additional clicks as they are on ribbon menus, is so unbelievably slow compared to searching through a comprehensive manual by typing a couple of words

Typing which words!? You're already assuming the user has a pretty strong understanding of the software if they know which words to search for. This is not a fair comparison with opening a brand new GUI for the first time.

Think of the difference between walking into a restaurant and having the waiter hand you a big menu with lots of pictures, vs. standing there and asking "What do you want?" ... um, I don't know, what do you have!? The latter is how it feels for new users to be presented with "> _".
What you've quoted directly agrees with the interpretation of the person you replied to.
The SCO vs. Linux Saga: 20 Years of Open-Source Turmoil
Isn't your tech fragile? Feels like it'd break/provide false positives easily.
Integration is also not easy, the matrix of possible tech stacks is big.
It doesn't test new edge cases, so it's useful only for regression, which is important but if your testing hygiene is good, which means devs are writing tests, you wouldn't have the need for your product, am i wrong?
Good luck either way. Seems like VCs are gambling at products that save costs.
And if that matters to the audience, then the 3D print won’t fare well in the market. People won’t want to see it if the real value is to sit and admire how a human could have done that to a slab of marble.

But oftentimes people are happy to buy a print rather than the original because they just like the end product.

Trying to assign value to art is perilous. Who cares if my print that I admire every day isn’t an original? I’m not trying to launder money.
Dutch farmers' protest party scores big election win, shaking up Senate
Is there a good guide to learning modern Java? At my workplace, we’re thinking about using it for a few things from Python. I’m not looking for a “Java for Python developers” but more like “Java for people who already know about the basic structures of programming languages”. I would love to hear about variable instantiating and for loops as little as possible to grok the Java model of programming, then drive right into the meaty bits of how Java programmers think today. I did Java 20 years ago in college.
I can still document them with regular comments, just not with @doc documentation "comments" because the compiler gives a warning that @doc can't be used on private functions.

It just bothers me a bit that the stuff I'm putting in the comment is documentation that I would put inside a @doc on any non-private function, but I can't use @doc.
Self-Service Analytics Creates a Major Shift in Product Mindset
Warning, this is blatant content marketing.
I've been writing online since 2008. The tangible benefits have been:

- I wrote a simple HTML template for a friend that mimicked the style of a popular website. I wrote about it and put it up for download. Someone asked if there was a WordPress theme for it so I made one. I ended up making low/mid 6 figures overall, including sales for several years and selling the business.

- When I was doing freelance development, I got a few clients from my contact form. Not nearly as much as I hoped and usually smaller projects, but it was something. Every new client leads to introductions to other clients, which was the main pipeline for business for me.

- Everything technical I've written about has helped me level up in that topic to make sure I'm not leading someone astray or sound like an idiot!

- When my site was WordPress, I got a number of very kind, personal comments on some of my less technical posts. Not tons, like 3-4 that I can remember fondly. It's such a wonderful feeling to have this momentary, text-based connection with someone you know nothing about. Brought back BBS days a bit.

- I got one really nasty comment that I still remember. Really brought me down a while but I used it to move past some of my own feelings about my work. Turned out to be a silver lining!

Intangible:

- Writing regularly has been both a great outlet for me, as well as an important secondary skill at work. I'm always known as "the writer" on the team, and I think that's helped me advance in a lot of ways.

- With 1K+ page views a month on a variety of topics, I can't help but to think that I'm helping some people with some things. That makes me feel good enough to keep doing it.

- My work writing is intensionally concise and dry (in most cases), my journaling is free-form, and my fiction is nascent. But blogging publicly feels like the place where it all comes together. I try to make it fun and casual while also accurate and concise. It feels like the most challenging writing that I do.
So, note-taking? I already use Google Keep as an extension of my long-term memory, for storing everything from book recommendations to birthdays. For short-term "volatile" memory, a pen and paper or a .txt on my computer works great.

In addition, I have hundreds of pages of typed notes in per-topic gdocs that I can refer to quite handily using Ctrl+F.

I actually wouldn't want GPT to summarize or reduce these notes for me because I would always doubt the accuracy, and reading the exact words that I've typed invokes much better contextual recall than reading a rephrasing. Also, usually when I can't find something immediately using Ctrl+F, it means it's time to reorganize and that grows the body of knowledge.

Not to mention, much of the good that comes from note-taking comes from the act of writing notes. Sending off large chunks of other people's text for an AI to summarize defeats this benefit.

GPT is impressive in some ways but such "pockets" of the GPT ecosystem are very reminiscent of web3/blockchain - forcing inferior solutions on already well-solved problems.
The compatibilist view is that there is no contradiction between free will and determinism, because free will refers to macro states and determinism refers to micro states.

In addition, in the many-worlds view of quantum mechanics, we don’t follow just a single sequence of events, but all physically possible sequences of events, where the points where sequences branch off each other can correspond to different decisions we “freely” took. Meaning, when we make a decision, all applicable options of choice will become actual reality.
Completing an Ironman triathlon and earning a private pilot certificate (2021)
I guess the idea is to trick the model into generating pseudo code. Which really doesn’t do much more than to act as a “scratchpad“ to focus the attention of the model to reason through the problem.

Besides, the Codex models are free right now. So… one more reason to rephrase questions as coding questions ;-)
Given today's news article [1], this seemed relevant again.

(Previous discussions on [2] and [3].)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35196173

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7715012

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7388833
> Maybe take the rest of the day off? Work through the anger?

This is an insulting and inappropriate response. I'm not going to engage with the rest of your comment if this is how you're going to act.
Interested to know what your plans are. You've thought about this a lot, and for me your books sit next to all the others I have on C, assembly, math, etc--and, I am a bit embarrased to say, a large portion of which I still need to study.

I don't think I should despair too much, and simply grant triumph to a statistical steamroller.

The value is we'll still be making stuff, or yearning for it, and AI becomes a part of our toolkit (or never). Perhaps in your case, we will see Prompt Engineering Patterns someday.

I intend to plop down a tiny fortune enabling my children to have obscene hardware for wherever their personal projects take them, and server-grade CPUs, multiple GPUs, and fiber will be a given.

Just know you're standing at a height somewhere above, and as a giant to me I hope you can see farther ahead :)

Maybe we'll retreat more into our personally-named server, managing a handful of like-minded users, crafting rooms in a MUD no one will read. We'll publish stats for our packet filter, read stories typed by hand, and make little games.

There are still lots of problems we would be completely new to in many domains, people suffering injustice, and are those not things we might be interested in as well?

For sake of learning things, we are still satisfied. Even if AI were to generate it in an instant. For sake of satisficing our home labs and side projects, we find a tiny reprieve.
It’s not head on, the jet is already turned to pull away but the pilot either misjudged distance a bit or intentionally did it. Because they’re pulling away the collision is at a low relative velocity
Pixel 6, 6a, 6 Pro are NOT protected from this on GrapheneOS. Not yet.
The waiting lists time increase over the last decade or so is unnecessary and scandalous, and the government should be held accountable.
This is true. But I think ChatGPT compared to a human player of equivalent strength(leaving the dubious number 1400 out for now) will probably have a lot more opening knowledge than the human.

So it would be interesting to eliminate all opening knowledge and that way be able to qualitately get at which aspects of chess it's actually good at, which is sucks out, and how much of its strength can be attributed to opening knowledge.

I'm still impressed by this btw. I did not expect this to be possible at all really. But being impressed is not an excuse to ignore methodological flaws. :)
This is neat. Looks like the author wants to manufacture this as a product, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to be honest.

The novelty of this is using an LLM to make pithy poems. There are under 1500 minute in a day, so the obvious optimization is to pre-generate the poems. You could even do dozens of variations for each minute and you probably wouldn’t ever notice repeats.

Then you would store the poems in flash and the entire device would be standalone, without being connected to the internet.

And in that case, the project doesn’t bring anything new to the table since it’s fairly trivial to write a poem like that without AI.
I think specializing in IPA is just the easy way to make something that seems gourmet and exotic, because you can start with a mediocre generic ale recipe and make an interesting lively drink by getting the hops recipe right. And there is so much variety of interesting hop flavors that once you start down that path, there's a lot of directions you can go with it, so there's a lot of room for variety within that genre.

From my limited experience making beer at home, it's much harder to make a mediocre simple brown ale than a mediocre simple IPA. Grain and mashing is harder to iterate on than hops. Apparently the experts make a yeast bread with their desired grain bill as a prototyping shortcut (compared to spending days or weeks brewing and fermenting a batch of ale), but I never got that far before I was diagnosed with celiac and had to give up the homebrewing dream.
> A group of ride-share drivers and labor unions challenged the constitutionality of Proposition 22. In August 2021, a California judge ruled that it was unconstitutional because it limited the state legislature’s authority and its ability to pass future legislation. The companies appealed that decision, which led to Monday’s ruling in the California First District Court of Appeal.

So let's wait for the appeal to the California Supreme Court.
I write this as a sceptic who always leaned towards the symbolic side of this debate. First seeing Open AI inventing tactics in Dota and now using GPT and other recent AI product has changed my mind. The rate of progress in the field is just staggering and seems to be still accelerating.

Overall, I'd say we are running into too many "unkowns". We don't know our own cognition works which makes all arguments along the lines of "LLMs are just .." moot. We don't even really know how GPT (and others) do what they do and so all arguments along the lines of "LLMs won't be able to ... " are similarly moot.

I'm not really taking a position except to say that most arguments I see most people making are moot. So, nobody, and me least of all, has a clue about how all of this might shake out.
Happy person speaking. I subscribe to the physical edition of several (paid) local news publications, mostly to keep tabs on local events, new businesses opening, and stuff that requires political engagement (votes, borough and city meetings, etc.) It makes me feel more connected to my community, and I never run out of fun stuff to do :)

I don't bother with online news; most of it is irrelevant to me. If a national story has some bearing on my life, it'll usually end up in the local Sunday paper anyway.
Oh wow, we're building something very similar to this. We were literally just filling up the YC form for S23 too haha. I may be a bit biased, but I think this is an excellent idea, and it can change the way testing works for backend services. We were inspired by Meticulous, too! Hope we can learn from y'all as well :)
I came to make same comment about Don Henley's song Dirty Laundry. The song sums it up perfectly. It's also a great song musically.
It's comparable to GPT4 being shocked that we can read backwards!
> Moderation is so aggressive that they seemed to have forgotten the purpose of the site is to help people.

The purpose of the site was never in helping people (as in answering every question). The original purpose of SO was in constructing a searchable database of question-answer pairs. With this in mind a question that was asked before, or is too complex, or too vague should be closed as off topic. I think something like this also happened with the question OP was trying to ask.

A quote from https://blog.codinghorror.com/what-does-stack-overflow-want-... :

Stack Overflow ultimately has much more in common with Wikipedia than a discussion forum. By this I mean questions and answers on Stack Overflow are not primarily judged by their usefulness to a specific individual, but by how many other programmers that question or answer can potentially help over time.
There is a GitHub repo / Python lib called com2fun which exploits this. Allows you to get results from functions that you only pretend exist. (Am on mobile and can’t link to it right now.)
Zeno's paradox assumes space is infinitely divisible.
World-line travel my friend

https://metallicman.com/detailed-breakdown-of-consciousness-...
> In Jose Luis Borges’ short story “The Library of Babel,” he creates an infinite library that contains all possible books … a book that predicts your future accurately, a book that unifies quantum mechanics with general relativity … But again, this library contains every possible book. So it also contains a lot of gibberish. Most of the books, in fact, are complete gibberish.

Google is converging on this "Library of Babel" now, and if it isn't there already LLMs will ensure that is its final state.

This idea of LLMs + curated authoritative sources is an interesting and potentially really powerful antidote.
It absolutely will be the end of 'turn the crank and out comes a mediocre film we can put into a red box and make a few million off of'

It's unlikely it will produce works that are doing new things and creating new styles because currently all AI has one thing in common - it's very good at replicating existing ideas and performing style transfer to blend those ideas. It's going to get better at those things but there's no reason to think that it will be truly creative in the sense of creating something that isn't a style transfer in the near future.

What it will do is create an incredibly low entry barrier to making truely creative work with a human in the toolchain at the highest levels of abstraction. You won't need to pay a team of actors and stage hands and audio people and editors etc. You'll be able to make world class cinema with a desktop PC and an AWS account. It'll probably result in a massive explosion of content (both good and terrible).

Once we create an AI that can be truly creative in the way specified above, I think it's about time for biological humanity to accept that our time as the most advanced intelligence in our little corner of the universe is over.