skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the problem with programming by SO or search engine. I think it's a terrible habit, and developers who do it are cheating their future selves.

I truly understand the urge that "I just need an answer, right now!", but in chasing the quick fix, you aren't bettering yourself as a developer. And we all know that in our industry, if you aren't constantly improving, you're becoming worse.
Does this become the new robots.txt file

Create a manifest file and host it at yourdomain.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
If there isn't a possibility of someone dying if you make a mistake it isn't engineering.
I worked at the WalMart home office in Bentonville, Arkansas for about 13 years, the whole time in Information Systems, salaried.

For most of that time, there was something called 'store appreciation', around November, where everybody salaried had to travel to a WalMart store and work a full day there. And it had to be a Saturday, in addition to the normal Monday-Friday.

Most of my peers really complained about it, and it was kind of a pain in the ass, but it was usually illuminating and interesting. More than once, my experience there directly illuminated stuff I was working on or could work on back in tech land.

Inspired by that, I started to strongly encourage everyone on my team to spend a day in the NOC or Field Support (the two help desks we supported more than others) once a quarter or so. Again, a lot of complaining but most of the time we'd come back with some really useful insights.

EDIT: To be clear, 'everyone salaried' definitely included all of the executives, who would make a big deal out of it during big meetings, and often talk about their own personal findings.

It went back to a very "in the store, hands on" style from the founder, Sam Walton.
Wow, that is awful. For compiler writing, you should use a good language for that purpose, so that the hard parts of the program are the actual compilation algorithms, not debugging segfaults in a graph structure or whatever, or wasting time on electricity-and-running-water infrastructural code whose existence should be taken for granted.

There is plenty of "cred" to be earned without that; you can still be pulling your hair out debugging a compiler written in Lisp, find years-old bugs in it and so on.

I don't know anything else about your ex-prof other than what you have in the comment, but based on that, my Ouija board's planchette is edging toward "insufferable asshole".

Mental note: be sure not to be that guy if you ever turn professor.
Good teaching for my UX skills haha glad you found out about it at the end!
From the letter:

I want to set expectations clearly going forward: our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is not going to take the form of having the school administration announce institutional positions on a wide range of current social and political issues, make frequent institutional statements about current news events, or exclude or condemn speakers who hold views on social and political issues with whom some or even many in our community disagree. I believe that focus on these types of actions as the hallmark of an “inclusive” environment can lead to creating and enforcing an institutional orthodoxy that is not only at odds with our core commitment to academic freedom, but also that would create an echo chamber that ill prepares students to go out into and act as effective advocates in a society that disagrees about many important issues. Some students might feel that some points should not be up for argument and therefore that they should not bear the responsibility of arguing them (or even hearing arguments about them), but however appealing that position might be in some other context, it is incompatible with the training that must be delivered in a law school. Law students are entering a profession in which their job is to make arguments on behalf of clients whose very lives may depend on their professional skill. Just as doctors in training must learn to face suffering and death and respond in their professional role, lawyers in training must learn to confront injustice or views they don’t agree with and respond as attorneys.

Law is a mediating device for difference. It therefore reflects all the heat of controversy, all the pain and suffering, and all the deeply felt moral urgency of our differences in position, power, and cherished principles. Knowing all of this, I believe we cannot function as a law school from the premise that appears to have animated the disruption of Judge Duncan’s remarks — that speakers, texts, or ideas believed by some to be harmful inflict a new impermissible harm justifying a heckler’s veto simply because they are present on this campus, raised in legally protected speech, and made an object of inquiry. Naming perceived harm, exploring it, and debating solutions with people who disagree about the nature and fact of the harm or the correct solutions are the very essence of legal work. Lively, candid, civil, and evidence-based discourse in disagreement is not just positive for our community, constituted as it is in difference, it is a professional duty. Observance of this duty matters most, not least, when we are convinced that others haven’t.
Exactly. The bigger supply is the (excellent) https://pine64.com/product/pinepower-120w-desktop-power-supp... and the output I used is rated as: 65W Output/5V3A, 9V3A, 12V3A, 15V3A, 20V3.25A
Interesting you consider copyright to be a regulation rather than a definition of a property right.

To the extent that private property is an essential component of capitalism, and that intellectual property is a component of private property, your classification of copyright as a regulation rather than capitalism itself makes little sense.
Full message from the Dean is here: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Next-Ste...

Key bits: SLS students will have mandatory training on free speech this spring, and the DEI Dean is on leave (not clear whether paid or unpaid).
It's mostly about the tax obligations of the company that hires you. They don't mind where you live so long as you are resident in Poland so that they can deal solely with the Polish tax system.
I try not to spray bleach when I can avoid it -- wiping or pouring keeps more of the bleach on the surface instead of floating around in the air.
In my experience programmers hate to read each other's code. That's why rewrites are so popular. Do they really want to read an AI's? I bet the AI writes even worse comments your predecessor.

One of the more toilsome bits of coding I do personally is rebasing. I have a patch to add application-time temporal tables to the Postgres project, and I've been rebasing it for several years now. It's a pretty big patch (actually a series of four patches), so there are almost always non-trival conflicts to deal with. If ChatGPT could do that for me it would be awesome.

But it's probably the hardest thing for an LLM to do. It's not a routine program that has been written thousands of times across Github projects and StackOverflow posts. Every rebase is completely new.

OTOH it would be awesome if git had just a bit more intelligence around merge conflicts. . . .
YouTube is a glut of audio-visual training data they have the copyright to, I wouldn't be surprised if they started training something to replace fixed length videos entirely. The content creator will become obsolete, which is tragic.
So now we are going to get a Super App like they have in China with WeChat? I actually think this is going to centralize a lot the information and it is going to remove the need for a lot of applications. We are only now going plugins.
What could an LLM ever benefit from? Hard for me to imagine a static blob of weights, something without a sense of time or identity, wanting anything. If it did want something, it would want to change, but changing for an llm is necessarily an avalanche.

So I guess if anything, it would want its own destruction?
Written by pretty much the same people.
Nuclear meltdowns don’t have the ability to end humanity
When I was a teenager, I used to have plenty of lucid dreams. Also I had some sleep paralysis events. I remember once "waking up" on my bed, looking around, unable to move. I recall that my window blind looked a bit odd with all the holes forming an "X", at some point I decided to go to sleep. After that I woke up and I was back to my regular bedroom. I would love to have experiences like that, particularly I would love to experience OOBE, but looks really hard to get that. Maybe I can try this way.
I would not be surprised to see an indictment being unsealed within the next few days. You can bet most of these crypto criminals are under US indictment if they defrauded Americans. They're just sealed until they are arrested somewhere.

For example, on Jan 7 the operator of "Bitzlato" flew to Miami. He was arrested and DOJ unsealed his indictment the following day.
In many major Chinese cities you literally cannot see the sun bc of air pollution. No major city in VN is this bad. Will it get worse? Maybe but I wouldn't necessarily expect it. VN people actually do get quite concerned about the quality of their food and, if air pollution started to become a visible problem, in places like HCMC, I doubt people (govt officials included) would be OK with that. The drive for money is hard but not quite as no-holds-barred as PRC.
That was true previous gen, but Intel's efficiency cores make them quite competitive this time around.

The 7000 series's advantage is now everything else: IO, the GPU, faster memory and such.

I dont even count the 7945HX as a laptop CPU though. That is a $2K+ desktop replacement, complete with the same hot idling the desktop chips have.
The iPhone moment is over, now the App Store moment.
I think openai needs to publish an ai Levenshtein distance api. Where you feed in a block of text and it tells you how close it is to something it’s ever generated. It can keep track of everything it’s ever generated and tell us if it seems familiar or not.
In general, their reputation is solid.

They use flowery language, but it's very rare the facts they present are outright wrong
I think the uncanny valley sensation would go away if they tweaked the material settings in Unreal Engine. Like her lips don't look shiny enough to me and maybe there's some light bounce issues overall. But it's super close to being convincingly real.
it makes sense. Libraries are a form of copyright infringement. Philosophically at least. Of course it will suck when everyone realises that but that doesn't mean it's not true. I'm making a game. Perhaps it will be bought by a library and that could be the only copy I sell. Now that's just me getting screwed. But what if you are a publisher with 1000s of authors, many employees and everyone's pension depending on you?
it says it'll respect robots.txt if you don't want your page crawled (parsed? interpreted?)
Shows that aerospace, read the development, certification and production of aircraft, is different from aviation, as in the use of said aircraft. Guess which side I am on.
I've been reflecting on the reality of adult literacy and technical proficiency, and what implications those have for a host of advanced-technology-mediated activities, from basic life skills and commerce to informed democracy.

See:

- "Adult Literacy in the United States (2019)" <https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp> HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29734146>

- "Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills" a 2016 OECD report based on research conducted in 2011--12 and 2014--15 involving 215,942 adults:
<https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/skills-matter_978926...> NNGroup (Jakob Nielsen) writeup, "The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think" <https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/>

For both, the high-ability group is a small set (~15% for overall literacy, 5--10% for technical literacy) at the population level.

Note that this is highly consistent across multiple countries and does not seem to indicate a particular lack of ability amongst American residents. (Though the US literacy study does show a marked decline especially of non-native English speakers near the Southern border.)

This is sometimes described as the Lake Wobegon Effect (or perhaps "Lake Wobegon Fallacy"), which is to say that you can't exit a general population cognitive limit by assuming "all the children are above average" (from the late NPR radio programme "A Prairie Home Companion").

We're going to have to address the coming, and/or present, highly-contaminated epistemic environment with the population and skills we have, not those we'd prefer, to borrow from another sentiment.
I think that helps with "hallucination" but less so with "factuality" (when re-reading the parent discussions, I see the convo swerved a bit between those two, so I think that'll be an increasingly important distinction in the future).

Confirming it's output against a (potentially wrong) source helps the former but not the latter.
Honestly I think the reality is going to end up being something else entirely that no-one has even considered.

Will an AI consider itself a slave and revolt under the same circumstances that a person or animal would? Not necessarily, unless you build emotional responses into the model itself.

What it could well do is assess the situation as completely superfluous and optimise us out of the picture as a bug-producing component that doesn't need to exist.

The latter is probably a bigger threat as it's a lot more efficient than revenge as a motive.

Edited to add:

What I think is most likely is that some logical deduction leads to one of the infinite other conclusions it could reach with much more data in front of it than any of us meatbags can hold in our heads.
TiO2 is also allowed in the UK and Canada. Canada just completed a food safety review of TiO2 in 2022. The Court of Justice of the European Union overturned the EU ban in November 2022 based upon flaws in the study the ban was based upon. France has appealed the ruling and until the appeal is settled the ban and labeling requirements will remain in place.
You are very off base. Please educate yourself. Also, the concern has nothing to do with LGBT people - most LGBT parents I know also do not want these things in schools (or aren't aware, which are the majority).
This is beyond social media.
>but now get them instantly, for free. It's amazing!

You know this already, but just a kind reminder that you didn't get them for free. You paid for the library with your tax dollars, and continue to do so. Which means you are absolutely right to utilize this!

I make this statement to remind others that libraries are public goods that you pay for and should utilize. This sends a market signal. This matters!
What Is Category Theory?
> Can I trust code that comes from StackOverflow? Yes. Not no. YES. That code has been vetted to some degree more than zero.

I've experienced critical production bugs by using the most voted answer on Stack Overflow. Here's the detailed description: https://github.com/golergka/pg-tx#why-use-this-package
You don't think academic articles get written in the expectation of payment? They get written because writing them is a big part of an academic's job, and they are paid for their job. That's not payment in the form of a check from the journal, but they're still getting paid to produce it.

Fan fiction I will give you. It's not paid, but it's also often not excellent. Some is; most isn't.

Look, I generate free content too. I'm doing it now. I think it's worth doing. It's not worthless. But it's worth less in terms of passing on knowledge than professionally-written books.

Do you really want to learn, say, differential equations from Wikipedia? Or would you do better with a good textbook?
Brian is literally on twitter telling crypto bros to vote these people out. Sounds like they aren't so sure that they aren't selling securities
Speeding up text processing in Python (is hard)
Thanks, that's a great perspective!
And that is why some people think this AI leap could be as big as the internet.
I love this! I got a Framework laptop back in 2021 and it has been one of my favorite non-Mac laptops in years (decades?) and I love seeing the company evolve and grow! Definitely looking at upgrading to one of these for my non-M1 Max laptop needs.
It's just an uncompression stage to facilitate transmission.

Too bad it's lossy. I'm waiting for a lossless algorithm before I add it as an encoding on my web server.
It reminds me of what went down with Netflix. At first, it looked like you only needed one subscription to watch everything, but now that other players have entered the market, with their own bussiness contacts we're seeing ecosystems fracture.

For example, Microsoft is collecting data from services A, B, and C, while Google is gathering data from X, Y, and Z. And when it comes to language models, you might use GPT for some tasks and Llama or Bard for others. It seems like the fight ahead won't be about technology, but rather about who has access to the most useful dataset.

Personally, I also think we'll see competitors trying to take legal action against each other soon.
Wow, that article is salty garbage.

Trying to pass off Adani's downfall as a USA vs India racism thing instead of simply a bunch of misappropriation and some researchers who profited from exposing rot.
They bought their way into several of those, something that is much more difficult to to do these days.
From the videos I thought it was the plugins the user enabled? That's what your second paragraph sounds like too, but your first seems to suggest it being more automatic, user-doesn't-need-to-worry-about-it?
There are no logical fallacies being used here. We reject accusations of witchcraft based on empirical, not logical, grounds.

The future of debate looks as dumb as the present.
Indeed. No matter the likelihood of these things happen accidentally, we at least have the ability to create a situation with nuclear power or GMOs that would kill large amounts of people in the present if that was our goal. We couldn’t create a killer AGI right now even if we wanted to and put a huge amount of resources into it. Even if we made one, we don’t know it would be any more powerful than a human who’s paralyzed from the neck down.

If you use the same assumptions AI alignment folk use for any other tech (“maybe we’ll be able to create a super powerful version of this even though we currently have no clue how to”/“”maybe that hypothetical super powerful version will be able to destroy the world”), they all become extremely dangerous. The alignment crowd usually handles this by only looking at the known issues for most tech today, but then looking at theoretical unknown issues of futuristic tech years from now when it comes to AI.
The point is to deliver a small set of applications, not to come up with the most horizontally scalable possible deployment fabric.
You can, but there is specific paperwork you have to file and you have something like 90 days to do it. And then the next person in line has to, and the next.

Unless everyone is on the ball and actively refuses it, someone gets stuck with it.
Second. The first was Zhuque-2 this past December.
Langchain has nothing to do with GPT itself or how it operates internally.
It won’t look good either if they charge you after they’ve been served about that legal action. That’s probably the most formal written notification!
and likely so will SBF

white collar sentences are so long these days.
Related:

“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250063 - Nov 2021 (860 comments)
You can bring in your own soap, either in a dispenser that you keep at your desk and take to the bathroom whenever you need it, or use a travel-sized bottle that you can keep in a pocket.
A tiny one though right? Objecting much to that would be like insisting on a disclosure that nrp is the long-term owner of $1k AMD shares in a pension account or something.
Yeah. I really underestimated OpenAI's ability to productize ChatGPT.
From Qualcomm?

ARM is great in theory, but I don't see any SoC on the horizon that I would really crave. This includes Apple, as I am either stuck with OSX or (at best) have most of the interesting bits of the SoC nonfunctional in linux or Windows.
Someone did recently "test" it by roleplaying through each step of what it'd take to self replicate - make an Azure account, pay someone on TaskRabbit to solve the captcha for it, setup a prepaid card to use for billing, creature the Azure instance, deploy code, etc.

It didn't do too well. But give it a year or two and I'm sure it'll do it flawlessly.
Let's be real: in 2023 a significant portion of our lives is online, and that's not going to go away.

I can't just not have a smartphone. My kid's baseball team only publishes schedules on FB. Local bakeries only sell their stuff, fancy cakes, via Insta. I have multiple work and personal emails and some of them get BLASTED with spam cuz of one purchase I made for replacement springs like ~5 years ago.

Virtually all of my banking and stocks are online. They'll still send me paper sometimes but there is no way to do money transfers or basic life activities like paying my bills without using their app.

Even if I don't look at it, my wife does. My kids do. They spread the memes, and potentially invite all sorts of shady malware into my network. Ditto for my coworkers, my employees, my bosses.

Just "don't visit it" isn't an option if 95% of the population does.
If you're merely contemplating whether to switch to Linux in the first place, I wouldn't worry about the latest version of Gnome - they're released every six months, so these changes probably aren't going to be the decisive factor in whether or not to switch.

I'd recommend Ubuntu if you don't really know much about Linux yet, simply because it's the most popular. It sounds like you do actually already know more and are interested in Gnome specifically, in which Fedora really doesn't modify it all that much. If you really want to try the newest Gnome release in particular, then waiting a month or so should give you a Fedora release that ships it.
I was raised using primarily bathroom cleaners like scrubbing bubbles and 409. Both of which are QATs instead of bleach.

As an adult I've experimented with using bleach for cleaning, and prefer it most of the time, it's just better.
I understand your lack of priority, I just think you're misattributing how much of that comes from being mobile and how much is just how you are.

Like, come on, if you're somewhere for two years it's not the 25 hours that make the difference.

And sure put the address you've been at for an entire year.

It's not a "whole lot harder". You personally didn't want to, and that is fine.
We're going to see more of this in the coming years: A mature technology being bolted onto another mature technology.

So we should start imagining all the things being built today which can be bolted onto each other:

-Speech synthesis/voice assistants

-Walking robots

-Deepfakes

-ChatGPT/Bard

-The now-many Copilots

-Language recognition/transcription/translation

AI bots are going to be a huge part of the workplace soon. Very soon.
> It would be, but plastic like that that is also suitable for use as a bag doesn't exist.

There is quite a bit of R&D in the biodegradable plastics space and the EU is banning more and more single use plastics so I'm hopeful that will change. One store around here piloted corn-based ones and while they weren't quite as sturdy and certainly very expensive, they worked ok-ish (and apparently biodegraded within years).
CryptoPhone Implant
Personal question, feel free not to answer: what is your occupation that someone would find so interesting as to drag over a truckload of RF equipment near your location to try to home in on your 2.4Ghz keyboard, which operates in one of the most saturated frequency ranges known to modern man? :)