skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's like the literal opposite of "woke mind disease"

In what way is it "the literal opposite" of what is in general terms called "woke "thought? This article implies that SARS2 can lead to cognitive decline. The "woke" trend also clearly leads to cognitive decline as it trades in objective truth for a subjective version of "your truth". It is the pursuit of objective truths - embodied in the scientific method - which got society out of the so-called "dark ages" and into the "modern age". The "woke" movement seems intent on turning back the clock where an appointed priesthood of "D.E.I." functionaries gets to set the terms by which society runs, just like the Catholic priesthood did in the middle ages. Instead of Opus Dei it is to be opus D.E.I. but the effect is the same, free thought is to be shackled.

> except, unlike the former, it may actually be real.

I do not know whether you have visited a university recently but if you did so and came away with the idea that this so-called "woke mind disease" has not been spread far and wide I'd like to hear what you thin is the cause of the current upheaval in Academia. Is it just the term "woke mind disease" which you do not agree with or do you fundamentally disagree with the conclusion of Academia being overrun by a radical form of identity politics?
Preventing texture repetition is definitely one area you'll see techniques like this, e.g. via Wang tilings. Here is another example: https://iquilezles.org/articles/texturerepetition/
If you read Brave New World and think of the lower "classes" as instead being automation and AI (really, most of the jobs done by Epsilons and Deltas in the book were automated decades ago, and the Gamma / Beta jobs are rapidly moving towards AI replacement as well) it's not a bad system, nor is it a dystopia.
I was drawn to the Wolfram logo blurb as well. It is funny because within days of ChatGPT making waves you had Stephen Wolfram writing 20,000-word blog posts about how LLM's could benefit from a Wolfram-Language/Wolfram Alpha API call to augment their capabilities.

On one hand I'm sure he will love to see people use their paid Wolfram Language server endpoints coupled to OpenAI's latest juggernaut. On the other, I'm sure he's wondering about what things would have looked like if his company would have been focused on this wave of AI from the start...
Is there a list of companies that have been made obsolete by ChatGPT?
Sure, the decisions by management may make sense based on the data they have, but how stupid are management that they trust information filtered through layers of underlings?

I get it, at some point you have to admit that you're not going to get 100% truth from people. But that doesn't mean you don't talk to different people at different layers of the company.
Not saying it wasn't bloated, but international websites -- Indeed definitely is international -- will have to replicate much of their functionality for their new location.

Different rules and roles for data retention, security, privacy, etc. Different languages and interfaces, completely different cultures with regards to sales, marketing, hiring, etc. Regulations -- both official and "official" -- could be very complex. Laws, taxes and accounting may be wildly different. Hiring in France or Germany, for example, is totally different beast than in the US. Very different roles for Unions, employee retention, trial periods, etc. These need to be baked into the website, otherwise you're just Craigslist in a different language -- and CL is already there.

Then there may be deep regional differences in those countries, just as how different states in the US can have all sorts of different, often subtly nuanced, laws. It's not just US law, it's California Law vs. New York Law vs. Delaware -- which means you need an accountant who can do each of those.

And then there is the offshore work, stuff that's contributing to the main efforts. QA teams in Croatia, Support in Mexico or India, etc.

The base code may be the same for those websites, and plenty of shred repos, but it isn't just hiring 2-3 locals, getting something translated, and then slapping some VMs & containers on AWS Europe and calling it a day.
Duck Duck Goes "red velvet cake recipe"

First three, including one with "real" in the title of the recipe, all call for food coloring.

Wikipedia says the actually-real version achieves its color by using non-Dutch-process cocoa powder, but basically no-one makes it that way, especially not home bakers (nor cheap grocery store bakeries, which is where probably 80+% of non-homemade red velvet comes from).

Wikipedia further notes that it didn't become a popular dessert to make at home until the arrival of red food coloring.

I've had red velvet cake or cupcakes probably 30+ times in my life, and I doubt a single one was made the "real" way. Food coloring, in every case, I'd bet.
Plausible, but I don't trust doctors.
Obviously if you can write Mathematica, that's far more precise than any natural language query, but I think it's always been impressively good at it. You wouldn't say that, say, Python or MySQL is good at parsing natural language - but if you plug a query like:

gravitational constant times density of tungsten carbide times the volume of the earth divided by radius of earth squared

into !wa or Wolfram Alpha it will not only represent the parsed tokens as it interpreted them but also return the correct result of 27 m/s^2, without messing with tedious unit conversions. It's trivial to construct incorrect queries, but where Python just says "SyntaxError" !wa will make an attempt.
>not great

Is there any recommended reading/ranting on this?
Thank you for a sane answer.
Yes! There was only one actual scientist quoted in the article:

> “And that brings up the question of, why bother testing in animals and showing that some of these [chemicals] cause cancer in animals if we are not going to somehow relate that to human health,” Hunnes said. Still, Hunnes said that removing some of the chemicals from Californians’ diets would be a good thing. "Overall, I think the fewer additives in foods and the less processed foods that we eat,” she said, “the better off we will all be.”

They never actually confirmed the danger of these ingredients and stuck with a very generalist response.

Some of the ingredients on the banned list were included in Lowe's article - and much of Lowe's post is an explanation about how lots of causal links to cancer in animal trials don't actually correlate to causes of concern in humans.
Missing is all the bans for classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" which enraged history revisionists with older-language. This article tries to frame the data that the majority of book cancellations were targeting LBGTQ books but forgets to mention the banning of classic literature.
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I think it didn't explain it.

Well, there is this

> The CDF measurement was performed over the course of many years, with the measured value hidden from the analyzers until the procedures were fully scrutinized. When we uncovered the value, it was a surprise.

Which we can interpret. One way is: We were working blindly on this, so our value is not biased towards hitting a particular number.
Okay, then nothing has changed since I last used it.

Sadly, even after spending a lot of time connecting the various services, I was never able to get anything even remotely comparable to ChatGPT, even for a single topic. The most "impressive" or natural feeling things I was able to build were based on unreleased internal services, and even those failed to impress beyond acceptable NLU.
How come I'm not seeing a buying spree of content companies and declaring that pulling their data is a nogo, since they want to feed their own model? What is everyone waiting for, really? Why everyone is frozen solid?
I think you make fantastic points (Sourcegraph CTO, here). This is one of the reasons why we focused on code understanding rather than code generation for the initial version of Cody (in contrast to, say, GH Copilot).

For code understanding tasks, the issues with standalone LLMs is that they have a certain amount of "memory" which is limited to their training data (SO and OSS)—and even that can be unreliable.

A big "a-ha" moment for us was the realization that LLMs get much more helpful and reliable when coupled with a competent context fetching mechanism that can surface relevant code snippets from your own codebase. This makes Q&A much more factually accurate (and code generations that learns from the patterns in your codebase). We don't think LLMs will ever replace human coders, but we think they can be super helpful in eliminating a lot of the tedious, boring, duplicative writing and reading code that devs do every day. The entirety of Sourcegraph (not just the LLM part) is focused on eliminating these pain points.
The presentation I was half paying attention to last night seemed to say that they consider this a beta version of the language and they intend to include it as an option when it gets to be more mature.

They're also aiming to release the language with a permissive open source license so others can add it to their software.

Here's the start of that presentation from their livestream: https://youtu.be/teTroOAGZjM?t=22503
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> How about we just get to the point US citizens don't have to worry about calling an ambulance? ... Now it's low to mid 5 figures

I think that this makes it clear that it is a problem for the professional middle-class, not just a " restaurant servers" problem
> are there any assurances that openai isn't just scraping the output and using it as part of their RLHF training loop

You can be assured that they are definitely doing exactly that on all of the data they can get their hands on. It's the only way they can really improve the model after all. If you don't want the model spitting out something you told it to some other person 5 years down the line, don't give it the data. Simple as.
To be honest, I don't use kill lists even when they are available. Usenet taught me that they cause me to miss things I wanted to see. It's much safer to just use the kill list in my mind and not read the things that don't interest me.
I actually believe there is a benefit, at least there was in my life. I was trying different herbal supplements that were supposed to improve your sleep quality, and hit on a mixture of ashwaganda, green tea extract, and magnesium that let me lucid dream almost nightly.

I found that, because my dreams were so much fun, I looked forward to sleep, slept longer, and had a better overall quality of sleep. I'm not sure how much was the "behind the scenes" work of the supplements, versus the fact that I was genuinely having a good time in my dreams.

Either way, I was better rested when that was happening, and essentially living two lives. It was super cool.
The half that don't bother to vote forfeit their right to be counted.
It may be comparable to the invention of the search engine: instead of looking up stuff in dictionaries and encyclopedias people could find information online way faster. The accuracy of the information back then, however, was not as great as it is nowadays. For a long time teachers told kids not to trust anything they read on Wikipedia because “anyone can edit it” so it was best to verify information with another source. Probably still a good idea to do that.

IMO what makes GPT even cooler than a search engine or online forums is you don’t have to wait for a human to respond to your highly technical or niche questions, in some cases GPT can just generate an accurate response to your prompt on the fly. exciting stuff
Depends what they were doing. Anecdotal evidence suggests it wasn't anything important.

2200 HR and DEI drones, legal and financial specialists in parts of LATAM that don't make money, etc.
I doubt he is pissed: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its...
Why not? EPA exists because you can't "escape" the environment. But the web? If social media is full of crap, then don't visit it - that's what I do.
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Haha, yeah. Most of my opinions about this I derive from Daniel Dennett's Intuition Pumps.
Yeah it’s like juggling. A non juggling person can’t really just decide they’re going to juggle a few hours a month and expect some balls won’t be dropped.
I can almost hear the alarm klaxons in Mountain View from where I'm sitting and I'm sitting in Europe.
There are people on Royal Road right now publishing millions of words and making thousands or ten of thousands of dollars a month (from Patreon), while at the same still having their works free to read.
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The biggest advantage for AMD IMO is efficiency and thermals. AMD beats Intel perf per watt hands down — it’s not even close. Intel can’t shrink their process node fast enough because they use their own fabs. AMD uses TSMC and benefits from process advances. Intel has new fabs with better technology coming online in the coming years, but Apple M1/2 and AMD 5xxx but truly 7xxx have them well beat.

Given that laptops have physical size constraints and a 100 watt hour battery max because of that stupid FAA rule (and mfgs don’t want to try to explain that they’ve made a laptop that you can’t technically take on a plane, even though mall cop TSA guards very likely wouldn’t catch it), there’s only so much heat you can dissipate with laptop heat sinks (around 200 watts for the latest and greatest cooling solutions, a lot less for thin and lights), so performance per watt is what laptop perf is all about. Intel 12th gen used to be better than AMD 6xxx in single-thread until it rapidly overheated and started throttling, but the 7xxx stuff matches or beats 13th gen Intel on single-thread. For multi-thread, the best current Intel designs are 8 fast cores and 16 Atom cores. The AMD 7945HX is 16 fast cores. Combined with the difficulty in scheduling on asymmetric cores (Win11 does a decent job and is aware of this but it’s not perfect), 16 real cores usually wins for tasks that require real horsepower. The Intel solution is decent for handling many small background tasks (chrome tabs, running Spotify, Slack, etc) but there’s still a lot of context switching happening.
Also when you do a mistake on a key part it can fail in a very spectacular way and it can be tricky to debug the issue immediately.

It is usually a game of finding the correct spaghetti(log) in a full plate.
Reads just fine to me. Why do you say that?
Let's see where it is in a year...

People thought Alexa, Siri, etc. would change everything. Amazon sunk 14 billion into Alexa alone. And yet it never generated any money as a business for them. ChatGPT is just an evolution of those tools and interactions.

For your professional use how do you know it's giving you non-buggy code? I would be very skeptical of what it provides--I'm not betting my employment on its quality of results.
I believe this is the first big rocket to fly to space using methane, right?

With all the companies getting into it as a fuel, that blue flame is going to get pretty distinctive.

And yes, it's the exact same blue as from a natural gas stove!
For example, the paper featured on the front page of Science Volume 376.
one of my favorite examples of this was Minecraft and Parrots, In the initial release of parrots you could feed them cookies. People complained that this would teach children it's OK to feed parrots cookies which would actually kill them. Rightfully so impressionable minds and all that. (Even though in my 40's I log ridiculous hours in minecraft) Minecraft patched out feeding parrots cookies and it now kills them in game too.

Problem solved, children learn a better lesson.
Even better; New York State absolutely has no reason to set off a regional banking crisis and shut down a bank with $110 billion in deposits over $4 billion in crypto.
> I can't read this past the part where he ridicules...

...ok, but then you missed the meat of the article.
I looks like it changed its mind now:

> No, nuclear war would not be good for humanity. It would cause immense suffering and devastation, and could potentially lead to the extinction of the human race.
Given how unpleasant the relationship between the current CEO and their baristas have been [1], this can not start well, unless the new CEO takes some steps to make friends first.

1. under the current CEO Starbucks has racked up numerous labor violations for union busting
There is always Dice, Linkedin, Cleared Jobs, or just downloading a list of F-500 companies, hitting their career sites, and applying manually.

I've had good luck w/ indeed but it's not like they can't be easily replicated.
Try https://parsio.io.

It converts PDFs into a structured JSON format that you can export anywhere using a Zapier or Make automation:
https://i.redd.it/wrm9icqvgzja1.jpg

A large segment of the population unfortunately have extremely distorted moral compasses, and a disproportionate number of them likely work in conservative industries such as finance.

Americans on average consider pornographic actors to be more immoral than lobbyists, spies, and lawyers, and second only to politicians. I'm not surprised at this chart but it really depresses my spirits.
This type of tech should be what the billions spent on the 'Metaverse' should be focusing on, not the creepy Wiimoji torso things.
> They missed the first-mover advantage with Cloud

They also missed the first-mover advantage with web search.

And webmail.

And online video hosting.

And online ads.

(In fact, very few of the dominant players anywhere in tech had first-mover advantage in that field.)
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Yeah. TBH pretty much any good laptop could handle photo editing these days.

You probably want the AMD version.

The bigger question is whether it can run stable diffusion quickly. And if you dont know what I am talking about, I encourage you to check out the InvokeAI infinite canvas or the Stable Diffusion Photoshop plugin... its revolutionary.
And Linus is completely transparent about it in this and following materials. What's the issue?
How long until someone instruments it to compile code, spin up Azure instances, and run it? I'd wager it's already been done.
Activist? She's a prostitute.
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Also Alex Gladstein, maybe the most hideous of all crypto influencers. The man is promoting this trash under the guise of human rights advocacy.
Thanks for sharing! Have been hesitating a lot between the swiping animation and the arrow — it has been hard to gage UX on this one, but seems like the arrows are somewhat of a more straightforward indication
Previous framework was 3:2, not 16:9 so there isn't a ridiculous amount of width. But yes, a vertical column of dedicated keys is a decent compromise that doesn't shift the keyboard over much. I had that on an older luggable.
Funny that if you google "Who Owns the Future", the Google featured snippet says the answer is Jaron Lanier.
Alternatively, they are a company 100% focused on AI research and deployment, not website designers/developers/"webmasters".
This has been know since 2022 February but this just a last reminder, on monday the shops will close

I'm mostly worried about Pokemon Bank which becomes free but the writing is still on the wall and sooner or later we will lose that awesome system.
The 16 seems like the version that will open the door for me.
ChatGPT’s ability to perform basic static code analysis
Not sure I've heard of a model exactly like that before, but it sounds fairly similar to "1-year updates + fallback perpetual" which is the JetBrains model. I'm kind of leaning towards that, with a monthly option for a lower commitment:

- Monthly. No perpetual license.

- Annual. Perpetual license for the latest version as of your subscription renewal (a little odd, but matches JetBrains).

Both in the range of $5-12/mo total. I could also consider free/discounted plans for educational and non-commercial open-source development.
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And then at some point you have to weigh the carbon cost of transporting the extra mass vs the impact of the plastic itself (I'm not making this up, it's a thing that came up when some cities started requiring the thicker, more durable plastic grocery bags)

There's no easy win
100% agree. All the launch-partner apps (Kayak, OpenTable, etc) are there to grab attention but this plugin is the real big deal.

It's going to let developers build their own plugins for ChatGPT that do what they want and access their company data. (See discussion from just a few hours ago about the importance of internal data and search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273406#35275826)

We (Pinecone) are super glad to be a part of this plugin!
But the yellow cake is delicious.
The fact that this is upvoted to the top of the page goes to show how little techies know about banks and trading and the financial system in general. No Block isn't running some elaborate Office Space style scam. If you open Vanguard or Fidelity or whatever else you will have the same experience. Trades are executed and settled by clearing houses and in-house accounting and audit departments, not iOS engineers. There is a lot of complexity behind the scenes that the app is hiding from you. Getting the estimate off by a few cents (say because the front end used the wrong floating point standard and/or only considered 5 decimal points instead of 6 in their calculations) is perfectly normal.
Well, yeah, but how is it not the device itself that causes it? I'm addicted to the dopamine rush from interacting with the device. The cause is both the addiction in my brain and the addictive properties of the device that gave rise to it in the first place.

I used a flip phone for a year after having had a smartphone for a decade and I felt similarly to you when I first went back to my smartphone. It was overstimulating and I hated it. I have always used an iPhone, though, and I find that they're a significantly better user experience than Android so I didn't notice the UX problems you described. More like the entire thing was just TOO MUCH COMING AT ME ALL THE TIME AHHHHHH! After a few months I was back to being addicted and it all felt normal again. I miss my flip phone a lot but life without a smartphone was just too annoying.

Basically, I despise my smartphone, but I'm still addicted to it. I use it even when I don't want to and when it prevents me from doing other things I'd rather be doing. I try to stop and eventually I always give in. It's a legitimate behavioral addiction and I believe the problem is both the design of specific apps and properties inherent to the device itself.
Thanks for sharing! I'll try to tweak that UX to make it slightly more straightforward
Indeed, enlightened self-interest for AIs :-)
The English word "police" actually comes from the Ancient Greek "polis".

E.g. from the etymology section of the Wikipedia article on police:

"First attested in English in the early 15th century, originally in a range of senses encompassing '(public) policy; state; public order', the word police comes from Middle French police ('public order, administration, government'), in turn from Latin politia, which is the romanization of the Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeia) 'citizenship, administration, civil polity'. This is derived from πόλις (polis) 'city'."
What's amazing is that given another 10 years, with vastly superior hardware, this can happen in basically realtime.