skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s simple really: just look at animals.

It’s very obvious all mammals are dual sex, no more no less. It’s a fact that there are only 2 sexes when it comes to mammals. They also have average behavior differences due to hormones and their structure, but this only goes so deep. Bulls for instance are more aggressive than cows on average - this is because their hormonal differences that stem all the way back to their chromosomal differences, but also due to their body differences (like extra muscle and size) that give them the ability and perception by other cows.

These things are the same in humans: we have our “run-time sexual differences” that come from hormones, and our “static sexual differences” from how those hormones have built our bodies over time. Men behave differently on average because of the hormones profile in their body is different from that of women. Men also behave differently because those hormones over their life time have changed their body to be larger on average, and this on another level has led them to have different experiences than women that have shaped their mindset and behavior (eg being larger means people treat you differently, and that reinforces different behaviors).

All this to say that the differences between the sexes are almost entirely immutably biological at the base (including the social construct aspects). The differences between men and women start from the chromosomes, and that decides hormones and body structure, and those two affect how people treat you naturally (a larger, more aggressive organism is treated differently than a smaller, less aggressive person), which creates over time what we call gender roles.

Some examples: men being deemed “protectors” isn’t just some arbitrary gender role out of the blue, it stems from the fact that one sex of the human species is obviously larger, and so naturally expected to step up in these situations throughout their life. Aka: if you reset everyone’s memory of gender roles, they’d likely come back and be pretty similar in broad strokes very quickly, because they are determined at the base by chromosomes > hormones > body structure > how others perceive you and the experiences you have in your life as a result.

Men can never be women and vice versa. You can change the hormones, but you can’t change the body structure, the chromosomes, the experiences of the individual and others, and consequently how others naturally react to them. Those aspects all together are what makes a man fundamentally different from a woman.
i think what gets lost here is how we’re defining uptime. if you’re regularly experiencing ec2 outages that result in your apps and services being unavailable i find it very hard to believe you’re using ec2 correctly.

running a bare one-off ec2 instance on aws is a strange choice if you care about uptime.
How would you end up with good mgmt and bad eng? I suppose it could happen as a temporary situation when new mgmt takes over a failing organization.
AI Bots Listen in on the Toxic World of Videogame Voice Chat
I'm more concerned about how "dumb" it is. If the rumours are true , that GTP4 is an order of magnitude more paramters than GPT3, then maybe we ve already hit the limit of scaling transformers. When can we expect this AI to unify gravity with QM?

This talk about AGI etc is just fluff, there is no scientific definition of intelligence.

Using standard tests designed for humans to test GPT is not useful beyond PR purposes.
There needs to be something like the CFPB for health care. I couldn't get an actual human to acknowledge me when dealing with PNC when they ate up my bank, but one CFPB complaint got them to do exactly what I asked. That way you never get to the point of burning time, money, and health because they're afraid of action from the agency.
https://archive.ph/Bj1BR
Super cool, and I didn't have to wait long to get a decent remodel. Any behind the scenes on how it works / is put together?
> I had a phase where me and my friends all thought of ourselves as writers and artists.

The difference between this and what the article's talking about is that you never wrote, and you never made art. If you had, you could've credibly called yourself those things while you were doing them, even if sporadically and/or badly.

> "We become a runner when we start running a few days a week."

The article makes the point that it's okay to think of yourself as a [title] once you start doing the things
a [title] does. From that POV it's not encouraging delusion, just generosity toward oneself.
Titles are not applied based on objective realities anyway, which is actually the point.
I wonder if this explains why crypto Twitter has been pushing unhinged doom scenarios and conspiracy theories and telling everyone to put everything into Bitcoin.

Could be a mix of actual freakout and trying to pump crypto so insiders can exit… kind of part true believer reaction and part grift.

It kind of reminds me of how a cult reacts when the authorities start coming around. It’s the end times! Double down! Brew up the kool aid!
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The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (For “AI”S)
The article actually seems to agree with you.

The advice seems to be "as long as you're writing, you're allowed to call yourself a writer. don't have an ethereal unachievable standard that needs to be reached first before you're allowed to use the title."
And why would UK govt be the purported neutral source ? They have a political interest in India and consequently interest in not ruffling the political class in power in India.

Neutrality, bias etc matter less than truth.
Thank you for sharing this. It's hard to stay objective when you're observing something happening around you in real time.
And Metcalfe was inspired by ALOHA, which he readily admits.
> What was Judge Burroughs trying to hide? I eventually obtained the joke memo and the surrounding e-mails, and what I read didn’t strike me as having been worth the fight to keep them secret.

Yet you wrote a whole article about it. Sounds like a nothingburger that downplays and pulls attention away from real problems.

A Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Education who is supposed to regulate Harvard is a friend of the dean of admissions at Harvard. And you just gloss over it and focus on the joke...
Assuming we trust TickTick and Reflect equally and both implementations are perfect, Reflect is E2EE, whereas TickTick:

> All the databases and servers are hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the United States. We make extensive use of their built-­in firewalls to protect your data against unauthorized remote access and to support continuous monitoring for potential vulnerabilities. User data, including task details, account information and payment details, are all stored and encrypted at rest.

> TickTick reserves the right to hold onto the data and not turn it over to any third parties. We will never share your data with third parties without your prior permission. Although we own the databases and all rights to the application, you retain all rights to your data.

Strictly speaking, the price difference includes a substantial security upgrade (among other things).
This is a great summary of how the customer acts when we deploy a new version of a program in my org. Five meetings ago a requirement was added to put a black bar when x happens. It’s prioritized in the backlog. Released three weeks later. Details of the reason for putting the black bar in the first place was forgotten by the customer. Customer says black bar is a good start but let’s pivot. Rinse and repeat.
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Kind of disappointed to find an obvious error in the first paragraph of a feature in Wired.

> "produces, by one analysis, a staggering 92 percent of the world’s most avant-garde chips—the ones inside the nuclear weapons, planes, submarines, and hypersonic missiles"

I'm no expert on semiconductors or even hardware but even I know that the vast majority of chips designed into such critical military systems are based on quite old designs and process nodes for multiple reasons (TEMPEST rating, fully characterized, proven reliable at long duration, guaranteed availability, etc). This is the kind of thing I'd expect competent editorial review even in a 'pop-tech' magazine to catch. I'm pretty sure that over the years even Wired itself has run articles about the "gray hairs" needed to still maintain old code on old CPUs running in military hardware...
This presentation is an overview of many different mitigations spanning ~27 years. Some are quite widely implemented. I'm less familiar with the newer stuff, but here's some I've run into.

No-exec stacks: some UNIX machines, tons of systems today.

w^x: win xp+, Linux, several RTOS, OpenBSD, lots of others

aslr: requires MMU. OpenBSD, contemporary Windows(but partially opt in?), Linux.

X-only: Arm has supported X-only for their embedded stuff for a while, and it's fairly lightweight, though you lose PC-relative loads.
This is true since iOS 15 moved Siri on device.
The most appealing feature of bittorrent (for piracy) is that you can do it at home with your own hardware, and not have to pay anyone anything.

Unfortunately, you need to anonymize your traffic (via a VPN service, which costs a fee) if you don't want to be harassed.
Rise and Fall of Rethink Robotics (2019)
Can you elaborate on how you've used it for natural language learning?
I'd be more sympathetic to the "crypto industry" if it actually produced something that improved my life in any meaningful way.
Factoring that out is literally the point of having a seedbox.
Would you happen to have a link to the state of the art for this kind of controller?
https://www.engadget.com/ios-15-siri-on-device-app-privacy-1...
Exactly. The arrogance of “philosophers” lately has been super cringe to witness, claiming that they know for sure.
One can assuredly delete the pull request from your own list of open pull requests, right? It isn't that the information exists in theory on GitHub: it is that it is still listed right there when you go to check the health of the project's open issues/PRs.
It's not as simple as 'just hunt them'. For one thing, if you don't pick the right ammunition, that will damage the vulture population, as well as other scavenger animals.

https://projectvulture.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Lea...
Agreed, it's kind of confusing.. Maybe they'll pick a different term in the future but for now this seems to be the one they landed on.
Still would have been a risky move. There are examples in the past of jokes not well understood ...
It’s not hard at all to find examples counter to your claim. In Alabama “there are no exceptions for rape or incest”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Alabama

If you’re argument hinges on “reasonable, thinking” individuals, and you’re claiming that Alabama law didn’t meet that standard, then I would argue your “thinking” standard is completely irrelevant. The only relevant criteria is what makes it into law and affects people.
Tax me, tbh. I make $700k a year. If my taxes go towards resource conservation and regulating the commons towards sustainability, I'm all for paying more in taxes.

So yeah, tax the other guy who is like me and tax me.

(And before you respond with, "Well, you can voluntarily pay more in taxes" you should know that I've put aside hundreds of thousands a year towards environmental conservation, and two, I believe that even if I donated 100% of my own income it wouldn't be enough. I believe in taxes as a mechanism, and I believe that taxes on income at or above what I make are eminently reasonable.)
Is it really a HN discussion about race if someone doesn't mention the "Blacks, Jews"? What next, are we going to call someone an "Oriental"? Weird skull-caliper vocabulary.

How controversial is it to say "genocidal calls for violence should be frustrated by any means necessary, including force"? If Captain America decides to suddenly do a 180 and police the one-drop rule you have my permission to deck him in.

Tolerance is something that should be extended to everything but intolerance. We fought an entire global war about this, but took the wrong lessons when all the major players in the Third Reich got promotions to the UN, NASA, etc.
You are large, you contain multitudes. Different people will see you differently because your light is refracted through their experience with you.
Most of us don’t care about rowhammer then either.
Yeah, I've noticed the same thing... The Bitcoin "hype machine" seems to be running at max right now, but there's no particular reason, it's not like we have trillions of QE again. They say it's the banking crisis, but that seems like a nothingburger as well... My only conclusion is that it has to be some kind of pump-and-dump related to imminent legal action.
"Leftism" is a really dumb term with no precise meaning. The "free market" has never existed and never will because capitalist inherently push for protectionist regulation.

Capitalism brought us children working in mines 6 days a week, company towns, and extreme poverty world wide.

Left-wing movements brought universal health care, lifted billions out of poverty with governmental spending on health and safety, and improved working conditions for billions throughout the world with regulations.

"righests" like the monarchists caused the famine in India that killed 30 million people. Fascists in Europe caused a war that killed 60 million people.

Authoritarian populist are always bad, regardless of their stripes. I don't know how/where you made up 150 million people starving, but right-wing populist are just as bad, and frequently worse than their left-wing populist counterparts.
As someone said I am a "sonic boomer" :)
I'm 21

Rest assured this will all pass in a couple years when you grow up and
get your first job.
Caveat: no archive link and I'm not about to start paying the new Yorker to tell me how the world works, so might be missing context.

Hibino, I'm gonna guess, is Japanese.

The jokes don't seem like their punching down at Jose (the fictional Filipino). They seem to be saying; "no matter how hard Jose seems to work, nobody is ever impressed because they assume he's either getting handouts or his job is easy".

My take, like the parent comment, is that this is a joke on the admissions office, and the systemic racism in such institutions - not at the expense of Asians (esp. since the one sending the joke was Asian to begin with).
Knowing how to code well will give you the design, sales, and marketing insights you want, while also honing an important skill that not only is valuable in and of itself, but will push your cognitive abilities in a positive direction while you're still young.

I don't see how coding precludes you from exploring starting a business now, either.

I was curious what GPT4 has to say:

It's great that you have a clear goal and have already gained some coding skills. The right approach for you ultimately depends on your interests, strengths, and how you envision your role in the tech company you want to start.

As the founder of a tech company, it's valuable to have a basic understanding of coding and technology, which you have already acquired. This knowledge will help you make informed decisions, communicate effectively with your technical team, and understand the development process.

Given your current situation, here are some suggestions to consider:

Focus on your strengths: If you feel more passionate about marketing, sales, design, or business strategy, consider focusing on these areas to build a strong foundation. You can always collaborate with technical experts to bring your ideas to life.

Evaluate your ideas: Analyze the business ideas you want to pursue and determine how critical it is to have deep technical expertise. If your ideas revolve around complex software or require extensive technical knowledge, you may want to continue learning to code.

Networking: Start attending tech meetups, hackathons, and networking events to meet like-minded individuals and potential technical cofounders. Building a strong network will be invaluable when you're ready to start your company.

Balance your skills: You can continue learning to code at a slower pace while also focusing on marketing, sales, and design. This way, you'll develop a more rounded skill set that would be beneficial in the long run.

Remember that there's no one-size-fits-all answer. Reflect on your interests, strengths, and goals to determine the path that suits you best. As a founder, having a mix of technical and non-technical skills can be advantageous, but it's essential to understand where your passion lies and focus on the areas that will bring the most value to your future company.

Good Luck!
Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows 'Sparks' of General Intelligence
I would posit you might be conflating "capability" and "impact" in a manner that elides the many distinctions.
I thought I was the weird one...
Many a times have I debugged an issue and was convinced of where is the bug and what the fix is. Only to discover that I was off in both the regards when I sat down to write a detailed email to the team!

I felt I was wasting too much time. But I've realized that for me the time spent writing something in details has always helped me fill in the gaps and also discover the unknowns.
Privatized health care as a person's sole option for care is an absolute dystopian nightmare. Any system that requires balancing human suffering against profitability is inevitably going to optimize for profitability.

The fact that this is even a thing is mind boggling.
Surprised to see no mention of Elixir so far. Its designers have explicitly focused on "a compact and consistent core". And indeed I found it very pleasant and rewarding to learn for that reason. Everything fits together nicely.

From https://elixir-lang.org/development.html

> Since v1.0, the language development has become focused to provide a compact and consistent core. The Elixir team focuses on language features that:
>
> 1. are necessary for developing the language itself
> 2. bring important concepts/features to the community in a way its effect can only be maximized or leveraged by making it part of the language

In other words, as I've heard it put, the language is mostly not growing anymore. It probably helps that it has strong metaprogramming facilities.
You also make way more money than that MS employee over those 10 years. So I think paying a little ($7k is not much) more tax is fine.

Where are you getting that it only affects startup exits? Is there a source? Guessing?
So what happens when you give it a reward for spreading itself? Maybe the ability to shard it’s context memory by subreplicant too…on the fly mixture of experts kinda.
This is somewhat terrifying?

> When users chatted with the chatbot, it would often go out of control, such as saying “I am. I am not. I am. I am not.” over fifty times in a row as a response to someone asking it, “Do you think that you are sentient?”
Holistic review can still exist on the basis of impartial factors subject to quantitative analysis. The strength of the SFFA case is that there's no way the numbers the public or perhaps even the plaintiffs have privileged access to can avoid reasonable doubt that quotas exist in the current system. That's why many top colleges have recently announced they will stop requiring SAT scores, because the data on their racial breakdown can be easily obtained.
The monopoly on violence is a fundamental concept of state theory. Formulaicly, the people constitute the state and exert power based on democratic principles.

Since intelectual property rights do not reflect a democratic process and were rather restricted because they threatened the power of the estate, their merrit is questionable.
Both OSH Park (and BatchPCB before it) and OSH Stencil are great! I have not used JLCPCB but I have used PCBWAY and they're pretty good, although it usually takes 2 weeks to get an order assuming no customs release delays which sometimes happens (best used for bulk).
The characterization of this joke as “anti-Asian” seems very incorrect to me. It’s clearly satirizing the stereotype that Asian American typically are more accomplished and discriminated against in admissions because of it. It’s absolutely relevant to the case, but is definitely not anti-Asian.

EDIT: changed “fact” to “stereotype”. Guess I’ll let the court decide the facts…
It really depends on what the code produces for you, and what that means to you.

Is the code meant to be pure product code? If so then you could at least maintain that as a side project of a given level of commitment per your own specification, and see how it goes--there's the meat of discovery for you in this kind of situation.

And despite your question being kind of specialism-focused, your actual experiences already show sustainable energy is available for you as applied toward a broad approach to a variety of skills, rather than a specialized approach. This can be really helpful to consider.

For related reasons, I'd almost hesitate to recommend even answering your original question. I'd rather recommend questions like: When and how much to learn to code; What kind of code to write; What kind of code best supports my goal for this month; etc.

Similar with marketing, sales, and design. At 21 you should be able to leverage huge swaths of time toward learning a variety of things, and understanding their value as expressions of who you need to be in given contexts.

The result should be a more nimble approach toward your personal & career decisionmaking, with enough of a foundation to shift your perspectives between specialties as required to support your interests as they develop into firmer paths and more specific opportunities.

Just some thoughts though, good luck.
It was already trained like this, RLHF [0] is a loop that has ways to feed it the information to "move forward" - update its weights. It was fine-tuned like this. It certainly did ignite something - maybe sparks of AGI, maybe just sparks of pretending to be more liked by humans (hence Human Feedback in RLHF). My guess is that loops by itself (Reflexion [1], etc.) won't change much. ChatGPT massive logs - maybe.

[0] https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366
Cryptocurrency Meltdown
Establish your career path that you want to follow and do regular reality checks on whether your employer helps you align with your goals. Pay attention to actual actions rather than just fancy talks and promises that can be rephrased infinitely - and don't hesitate to move on if you are on the line whether that other offer would help you advance your path in a swifter way.
> In the Siderwin plant, the iron oxide is dissolved in a solution between a nickel anode and a carbon cathode.

Dissolved in what solution? That's got to be an aggressive solvent, so what is the waste this process produces?
The entire category of "blackhat" isn't going through a filter of "this makes no sense, so don't bother".

The only place that filter exists is where people actually communicate openly about their strategies.
I think a big part of it is that adults are busy and have substantially less time and energy to just do things for fun or socialization.
"and graduates of "top" schools continue to have disproportionately higher impacts on society."

Source? There are many individuals who went to state schools or didn't go to college at all that have turned into billionaires, Nobel prize winners, etc.

Not to mention there's no evidence that the people who went to an elite school would have less of an impact if elite schools didn't exist.