skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this recommendation! I read Horstmann's books recently and they were excellent. He really puts things in context – any time I was thinking "WTF? Why would they do things this way?" he had an explanation coming up (or in some cases an acknowledgment that it is indeed a WTF).
People want to “help the climate” but not have to change any of the behaviour in the process. Until that fundamental concept shifts, nothing will really help (imo)

Your examples aren’t really wrong, but is the demand level really legitimate in the first place? The amount of food waste is insane, stop people wasting and supply could drop to match. Make meat more of a premium food since it costs (the environment) more to produce.

Until humans realise they need to change their behaviours, things like CO2 accounting is just moving deck chairs around on the Titanic.
Ultimately the model that worked was "I have this tighly scoped project that no one really wants to work on that's completely self contained and is going to require a ton of manual work" and hiring contractors to implement your own design.

Otherwise if there's a lot of back and forth required or generating a design, forget it. Companies giant and small have tried it and eventually realized "F it" and gone back to in-house teams.
This is the mockery and tone deafness I was referring to. No, no one at Bandcamp is a slave, and to say so is an insult to people who are. Do you hear yourself? It is the height of privilege to think you are a slave at your well paid, fun engineering job.
About 2 words generated per second with a desktop CPU. More with a GPU.
I've noticed some programming and sources have sort of jammed feel-good pieces in some weird attempt to counter balance things. People dying on Ukraine, banks defaulting, Little Timmy in nowhere USA is taking steps to setup his lemonade stand and donate to the local food shelter to make a difference.

Don't get me wrong, I think efforts like Little Timmy's are great and in the scope of their lives is probably significant. It doesn't however hit the level of magnitude/significance and scope of their negative counter parts. It's only in local news sources that I tend to see a better balance of things that truly effect, are relevant to me, and aren't full of doom and gloom.
Bad analogy. Get in good shape to feel better, have more energy, be more attractive to other people, etc.

There is no point of getting good at arithmetic today, indeed.

I agree people need to continue study to understand the world (if they are to survive at all), but the current school curriculum is a joke.
There's an interesting short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang that is related to this concept.

It was the motivation for the movie arrival (though IMO is much better - the movie adds some drama that does not exist in the short story)
Well, of course not :) Entropy as direction of time just means that the chaos on the whole increases. So, to create an ordered structure, like a cell organism, the by-product is more chaos around it.
unfortunately thats impossible to say this is only the path they used to try the actual login. how they got the password is not possible to say still.
Healthcare: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35202125

"Labor rights" may or may not be the right term for that piece, but regardless
"gravity is a universal constant" contradicts Newtonian mechanics, special and general relativity.
> Few years ago it was built on top of Debian.

no it wasn't. Amazon Linux2 was a CentOS/RHEL 7 derivative.
Why not use a 64 bit value?
I mean this proves my point? If you're trying to point out the one part that's blue on that map to the right of 280, I'll point you to the multiple pockets of blue inside their delivery zones
yes. it's literally like playing a movie in reverse.
] OK... "I’ve always found Eliza to be sufficient". Tell me more.
The claim might be true but this evidence does not establish it. A company having planned to replace a kind of job with AI is quite distinct from the number of that kind of job falling as a result of AI.
In philosophy this idea is called "hyperstition"
"Moral training"

Just as dystopian it sounds. Fixing current subjective moral norms into the machine.
And this is one of those things where it has to be done correctly by someone who knows what they're doing. It's not just "oh, I deployed a change and broke something i'll just revert it". Often it means major migrations, etc.

There's a disconnect between folks writing small CRUD or mobile apps for clients and folks that have to work on large codebases with lots of complex systems.
When you are speaking to a person, they have inner thoughts and outer actions/words. If a person sees a chess board they will either consciously or unconsciously evaluate all the legal moves available to them and then choose one. An LLM like ChatGPT does not distinguish between inner thoughts and outer actions/words. The words that it speaks when prompted are its inner thoughts. There is also no distinction between subconscious and conscious thoughts. Humans generate and discard a multitude of thoughts in the subconscious before any thoughts ever make it to the conscious layer. In addition, most humans do not immediately speak every conscious thought they have before evaluating it to see whether speaking it aloud is consistent with their goals.

There's already a lot of research on this, but I strongly believe that eventually the best AIs will consist of LLMs stuck in a while loop that generate a stream of consciousness which will be evaluated by other tools (perhaps other specialized LLMs) that evaluate the thoughts for factual correctness, logical consistency, goal coherence, and more. There may be multiple layers as well, to emulate subconscious, conscious, and external thoughts.

For now though, in order to prompt the machine into emulating a human chess player, we will need to act as the machine's subconscious.
I'm confused. If you read the article, you know that you are wrong - but you are quoting the article?
I don't think Carroll can take credit for the idea of the arrow of time being emergent from a local entropy initial state.

Roger Penrose proposed that as far as I know, when Carroll was probably a high schooler.
Microsoft’s new Copilot will change Office documents forever
I do like this document, but this is worth a read:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
Old Grandad? I guess fancy overpriced Bourbons weren't around yet. I love Old Grandad (it's the only bourbon I drink) but I wouldn't expect it to be Bond's style.
He will either lose his money or be known as the next George Soros (those who are old enough may remember that he once broke the British pound and several other minor currencies)
> This is what the human brain does.

The human brain is embodied in a human flesh and uses language to exchange models and data about the real world with other fleshy vessels. This provides a basis to assign meaning to the language. Furthermore we know that humans understand to a greater or lesser extent because we are human and have insight into the human experience of language and reality.

These machine learning algorithms lack this fundamental basis for ascribing meaning to the symbolic tokens they deal with. Furthermore we lack the common experience for inferring meaning and understanding, we have to interpret from the output whether there is meaning and understanding on the machine's end. Without access to internal experience we must always harbor some doubt but given some level of nonsensical outputs we can say with confidence that there is no indication of understanding.

> A human can be inconsistent and even lie. It does not mean the human does not understand you. Thus because your logic is applicable to humans it is akin to saying humans don't understand you. That is why your logic is incorrect.

Like everyone else, I interpret statements from humans differently than statements from machines. This is because I know that humans and machines are different, and therefore the meaning assigned to the symbols involved is also different.
ChatGLM-6B: open bilingual language model based on GLM framework
Great idea - for shiny new systems, at new companies, that will never see any date older than Jan 1 2020.

But for other use cases - not so great.
Or your OS started caching the filesystem more agressively to RAM, so any piece of code that does heavy IO is effectively put on a RAM-disk automatically.
This is the sort of stock line, and we're inclined to believe it because we're all in tech.

But go back on HN a decade and be really honest.

Are we any better than average at forecasting?

I'm starting to think that being on the bleeding edge and seeing so many possible alternate futures actually makes us worse
You can get started easily using something like:

https://github.com/gutmensch/docker-dmarc-report
That could be a sneaky strategy by competitors -- make the service say something naughty or illegal then call the media with screenshots and act very offended by it.
A baffling thread.

They quoted the article, so clearly they read it... but not very well?
My M1 mac Mini had constant wifi headaches, effectively the wifi did not work since disconnecting every few seconds wrecks your Zoom experience. Both Location Services and a thing called AWDL would just come in and destroy your wifi link over and over again. It took Apple over 2 years to ship a fix.

https://systemstatus.ucla.edu/status?id=status_record&servic...
Leaky Gut as a Danger Signal for Autoimmune Diseases
EDIT: This comment is entirely wrong! Disregard.

Do note this isn't _real_ wrapped bitcoin. It's essentially a stablecoin which price matches a bitcoin; it is not backed by any bitcoins unfortunately.

Real wrapped BTC would require a decentralised bridge which isn't exactly trivial.
That's not what I am saying. I am saying that BTC may be worth 100k, and the USD 500k and he still wins the bet (under the interpretation I mentioned above).
If the news is inherently skewed towards negativity then maybe it's not as valuable as we assume it is.

This isn't an argument against the free press or anything. As bad as bias and fearmongering in news is, adding government oversight would make it way worse. It's just a thought experiment.

To elaborate, if news is inherently skewed towards negativity (and I'm just taking that at face value), then maybe it shouldn't be revered as much as it is (by my estimation). I think people tend to think that news is sacred - more is better and it should face no challenges to its existence. But I also think we find ourselves in a predicament that we don't associate with times where news consisted of a daily paper and perhaps the radio. I'm not sure those times were any less prone to bias an negativity. The bigger difference is there was just a lot less news. Maybe the world would be better off with less news.

I'm not really sure what sort of attitude change or direction this would dictate. Like I said, it would be terrible for the government to limit news, and this negativity exists because there is strong demand for it. I guess I think people just shouldn't watch the news much, with some exception. I mean if you look at cable for example, it's virtually all garbage.
As many have said, I often write about things which I couldn't find elsewhere online (or else didn't like what was available). For instance, I wrote some rough guides to learning measure theory and computational complexity as well as annual surveys of interesting books and papers I've read. I only post a few times a year, but you would be surprised how often someone shares your problem or is looking for the same info you are.

The biggest benefits are 1. seeing feedback from readers (either good or bad); 2. writing stuff down often helps one solidify their fuzzy thoughts and gives a clear goal to work toward.

My website: https://bcmullins.github.io
If the government thinks that health care should be a “universal right” - and I agree - then the government should provide health care to all of its citizens like every other civilized country in the world.
> into the hands of a hacker

Forget “hackers”, think government agencies. Which is probably already happening right now.

Food for thought: What’s the intersection of people closely related to OpenAI and Palantir?

Edit: related thread on another front page post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35201992
Oh sure, but he still made an important point.
I think I was misunderstood. My comment regarding infinite precision was mostly aiming to argue that any single point has probability zero but an event still occurs.

This was then used again when mentioning earth to argue that depending on the definition of "order" here:

> And no practical amount of shaking the jar will ever return the marbles to a high order state again.

It is entirely possible to reach a state of higher order if you don't require that individual marbles don't hold the same arrangement relative to adjacent marbles, meaning that any permutation of marbles with identical color is acceptable.

This happens because the event you are asking for is a very large subset.
As opposed to white collar work where we stare at screens all day?
They just mention the two biggest economic factors (bird flu and inflation) as an aside and then never address it again. What a joke.

The Economist has a slant to be sure, but its usually higher quality than this. Sounds like there's a deeper motive to this article.
This is encouraging, as someone starting both a personal blog and a newsletter about language learning in chinese[1], I hope a blog is an easier path into an audience than the competitive lang app market.

[1]: https://chinesememe.substack.com/p/the-sound-of-encroaching-...
I have a personal web site where I blog about once/twice a week. I blog about my personal observations on personal life and also professional life. The domain name is a variance on my first name.

I also have a "portfolio" site, and I am in a career path where none of my peers have a portfolio site. There I show off my technical expertise in a handful of software packages that are crucial to my career. The domain name is a technical name about these software packages.

Last year I concluded a successful job search and landed a very good job at a very good company. I used my personal website domain name as my contact, and highlighted my portfolio site in my resume to back-up my experience and expertise.

It was often a topic during my interviews.

These days I am studying Data Analytics / Data Science (and now ChatGPT/ML too) in order to augment my skillset and possibly make a career pivot. I have taken a very short very good domain name about data and I have started to blog about my perspective of Data Analytics/Data Science from my present career track (they kind of intersect / overlap a bit), documenting my learning progresses, collecting resources etc... this actually has landed me 1 interview at a great company without applying (the recruiter saw my LinedIn profile and this site); but the job was way above my head, but it was a good experience.

I advice everyone who asks me for job hunting advice the same: don't job hunt, build a career, and also build an online presence and a portfolio. I am no good at helping people getting a job in 30 days or less, but I am very good at coaching people in getting a great job 5-10 years down the line, if they start now.

Moreover, writing every day (I do that on my own Google Docs), helps think better; better thinking leads to better problem solving; which leads to better writing.

And then ChatGPT came along, and it's changing everything by augmenting people's capabilities.

Stay tuned.
How does it work regarding queries in natural language? I mean, thinking on translating a natural language question to an SQL query in complex scenarios.
I'd be curious when adoption started becoming so much more cumbersome, and whether the outcomes for the children have been significantly better. Including taking into account that some children get left to bounce around in foster care because loving parents who want to adopt them get hit as "false positives" as baddies in the onerous screening process.
Have you considered "life under socialism in <civilized country>" ?
Wrong :) Look at the website.
Tough love / common sense therapists are fine, they don’t provide any solutions though.

Do parents need to spend more time with troubled kids? Do you as an individual just suck it up and move on to only have problems later in life? Generalizing in this way sounds like “not my problem”. In life you either teach people or put up with them. This article suggests people just become self-reliant. We all know that doesn’t just happen overnight.

Most professions that are noble ought to be putting themselves out of a job. Doctors, therapists, educators, etc. Not just passing the buck.
Either your blog picks up and it becomes your identity - and can be useful for getting hired - or it's useless.

It's a bit like github: if it's not great you won't get much out of it, if it's good you'll get some gigs out of that.

Personally I discontinued my old blog back in 2011 and it wasn't never very useful, while my github still gives me leads for jobs and reputation.

I have a friend who is really good at maintaining his blog but it doesn't seem like it served him any good.
The 'Dirac Beep' in this short novella (1973):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quincunx_of_Time

Also, the concept of causality itself is a kind of underlying theme in Hannu Rajaniemi's "The Causal Angel" (2014) (3rd of a series).
If I knew you and you said that to me, I would consider that a huge red flag. What is it that you think you were going to say to a therapist that is going to wind up triggering any of the things you just mentioned?

Therapists aren’t just running around mandatory reporting people for talking about their problems. The things that you mention are triggered when someone is at risk either the patient presents a very clear hazard to themselves or others, or a therapist learns about abuse.

I’ve never heard of this happening lightly. The idea that a misinterpreted phrase is going to land you in legal trouble or involuntarily committed is simply wrong.

Source: am married to a therapist and know what actually would trigger mandatory reporting. They might need some tweaking, but they absolutely shouldn’t be repealed.
There's major $$$, legal, and security ramifications for clients in many cases. Having an AI that can't properly deal in ambiguity and hallucinates an outright reckless idea 1% of the time is completely unacceptable.

Writing code, sure. A human ultimately reviews it. I suspect in the legal world a lot of legal writing can also be automated to some degree. But strategic decisions, designs, etc. very much need a human pulling the trigger.
Concrete where 'Potato starch replaces human blood', was this written by an AI?
Interesting, what prompt started you off? I asked chatgpt about monads which was interesting in itself.
Your professors generally don’t make stuff up if they don’t know something. Your professors are also more likely to catch on if something doesn’t make sense - unlike ChatGPT which can’t seem to reason effectively because most of the time it doesn’t know what’s it’s talking about.*

* Maybe it has the ability to reason, maybe not. Maybe it just needs more information - after all it’s trying to model reality with just the words used to describe it. Or maybe it really can’t reason at all, a limitation of its algorithm, and has to rely on having arguments/explanations already memorised - which seems to be mostly what it does now. Either way so far it hasn’t demonstrated that it’s all that good at reasoning.
Reid Hoffman: I wrote a new book with OpenAI
Looks promising! Would love to know how this is different from creating postman collections, and running tests on those
Let's see, he'll probably still delay due to unforseen circumstances...
To add, life just speeds up the chaos by orders of magnitude, it's a perfect entropy catalyst.
This is a far stretch in trying to hang on to the last thread of the definition of violence.

Why can't you just use the term "domestic abuse" and stop supporting the misuse of well defined words?

Do you think that if you and others use the term "domestic violence" to include non-physical abuse that it just magically changes the existing definition? Why would you even want to support that when there's clearly another term that's both in general use and clearly fits what you're attempting to refer to, by definition?
sorry, i forgot to add that i have nothing to do with that hoster, its someone else's server, i contacted them to let them know that there is either a malicious customer or more likely a compromised host that is either sold individually or in a bot net.
Do you think public schools are inherently dystopian? I don't think you're using the right critique here.

Picking a common system of moral norms is a lot better than no moral norms.
"Things" are objectively not more dangerous, in fact quite the opposite.
My memory could be improved by connecting my brain to an external hard drive. Wiring them together, alas, is not just hard; we have absolutely no idea how.
>why not with the much smaller matter of ordering?

I explained already, but am happy to explain again, adding a little background information. I need to keep to an absolute minimum the amount of time I spend looking for generally-interesting things to read on the internet.

Why? Because I have learned the hard way that I need to minimize the amount of time I spend doing things that are pleasurable and effortless and absolutely safe (not in the least dangerous). Consequently, if the project I am currently engaged in is to learn more about oxidized cholesterol, for example, I give myself permission to use hn.algolia.com to search HN for that phrase and read all I want. In contrast, I strictly limit the amount of time I use HN just to see if there are any interesting new stories when I don't have a definite goal for my reading.

hckrnews.com differs from the standard HN home page in that it gives me an easy way to tell when there are no headlines I haven't read already. Specifically, after reading 1 or 2 or 4 headlines I've already read, I know I've seen all the headlines below those 1 or 2 or 4 headlines, too, because the order never changes. That means that most headlines I only read once.

The order hckrnews.com or news.ycombinator.com chooses to sort the headlines is immaterial to me. What matters is that the order does not constantly change.

And that is my answer to "How do you browse Hacker News?" (the headline of the OP).
How do you know that ChatGPT is as good as your professors in college? How do you know that they aren't just as good as a cable news pundit? Or a relatively uninformed Reddit commenter?
I think that the real question is whether the death of the universe by cool down will happen before the arrow of time is reversed. To me it seems more like it will just slow down and then finally stop.
Adding to this list here as well... momma had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches nearly daily while pregnant and breastfeeding, and yet my son's first exposure to peanut butter as soon as he was able to safely have solid food showed he was allergic.
Negative entropy (also called negentropy) isn't really a well-defined concept. Instead, better to say that biological processes harvest free energy to maintain order in the face of increasing entropy.
Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store
My favorite sentence on free will comes from Chomsky (who I think was probably quoting someone else): "if we don't have free will, then why are you arguing the point?"
this looks awesome, thank you!