skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally I was in a similar mindset about the Apple Watch for a while after the novelty wore off. I found the notification functionality (my main use case when I first got it) incredibly distracting, and having to remember to charge it constantly annoying. So I stopped actively wearing it for a period of time.

It was only once I started using it for its health tracking capabilities and turned off many of the annoying notifications that I started regularly wearing it.

Is it as essentially as having my phone with me when I leave the house? Ultimately, no, and it does require more thought about how to squeeze the most utility out of it (when compared to a smartphone) but I think the reason it’s so popular is the flexibility it affords:

- Sport tracking watches are great at tracking everything down to a fine detail BUT you wouldn’t want to be seen wearing them out to a dinner

- Traditional (non-smart) watches look very nice as a fashion accessory BUT are useless for fitness and integrating other data into the faster-to-read watch form factor
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Everything is feasible if there’s a real incentive. There’s an unrealistic expectation that somehow we must be able to keep the same level of “transport easiness” in the post carbon era. That just won’t be the case. We won’t be going back to pre-industrial levels, but we definitely will be going back a bit
Human mind as prediction machine is actually pretty popular theory. See for example “Surfing Uncertainty. Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Cognition” by Andy Clark

https://www.amazon.com/Surfing-Uncertainty-Prediction-Action...
I hate to walk into proselytizing but:

I mean if your intent is speculation, this is how the rest of the internet has been built.

TCP and OS security are so bad they ripped the internet a whole Cloudflare, but they all still exist and find their uses in real systems.

No comment on regulatory or legal frameworks in place since I have no idea what's gone on in the courts on that front. It's like entropy though and I have doubts that there's any long term value in trying to stop it.

Banks beget banks, because banks only invest in diversified quasi-banks, basically stockpiling non-cash assets, feast or famine. A reasonable structure for much of human history, if you like (often) dry, safe, grain/peas in the winter. Before global transport was fast and risk-free. In vogue right now: "all the PCs, all the business software, all the electrification efforts/grid modernization, all the goods manufacturers storefronts, all the films, all the personal sites, all the web pages." Maybe not such a relevant capability (large stockpiles) outside of, well, contingency.

Bitcoin, the machine, only invests in progress, cheaper more plentiful energy and faster processors or you lose. It has scarcity and inherits supporting stockpiling.

Ethereum? Presumably cooperation and transparent software, also good things! Perhaps in the next century proof of health, proof of satiety.
No it was karl rove using internet connected hacked election machines.
The key point of disagreement (the rest is just definitional) is in the last section: “well-being of the people”. There might be such a thing, but it’s transcendent and not located in matter. You need some type of transcendent belief system, whether the “historical materialism” or “Islam” or “universalism”. I reject the transcendent as knowable (since I am matter, I can only know matter and cannot know what is beyond matter). So I cannot accept “well-being of the people” as anything except an obfuscation to obtain power.

If I were to accept the transcendent, I would probably pick Islam since it’s more beautiful.
Crafting good prompts makes a big difference. Also, after it gives you an answer, say you think there's an error and ask it to check its own result. It will often correct itself. This self-reflection ability leading to more accurate outputs was pointed out in the new Reflexion paper:

https://nanothoughts.substack.com/p/reflecting-on-reflexion

https://twitter.com/Orwelian84/status/1639859947948363777
Could you elaborate on why you think that would that be a bad story? Isn’t dinosaurs taking over the zoo basically the same thing as a metaphor for “ecosystem” damage, just on a smaller scale so it’s easier to frame the action for an audience?
Many of the answers ChatGPT gives would also what a human with average knowledge would give if you point a gun to their head and demand an answer.

My gut feeling is that global long term memory and what we call hallucinations right now might actually be the next step to get closer to general intelligence.

I’m not sure we have the right reinforcement models yet tho, as counter intuitive as it might sound I don’t think that a reinforcement model that is based on correctness only is what we need.

Humans make mistakes all the time, and we bullshit all the time. If anything I think that ChatGPT scares people not because it gets things right but because how confidently it gets things wrong which is something we do all the time.

Older “chat bots” and other NLP things like Watson seemed to be essentially glorified search engines they’ll either give you a correct answer or they won’t answer at all.

So they felt nothing more than a tool not unlike an encyclopedia. ChatGPT will produce an answer under most circumstances but it won’t be perfect and this is what people seem to anthropomorphize with the most.
The're definitely not. What's more, to avoid incidents like this, not only people that routinely work and service these kind of vessels are scrutinized by the authorities, but they (the vessels) are usually disabled when not in use. That applies equally to seagoing and air crafts (space, well... we still don't have those.)

Sauce: I'm cuban @ Cuba.
I see a lot of smart people recommending Nix, but whenever I look at it, it seems like there are a ton of sneaky config options that one must get right to get a working system...
Weird title. Silicon Valley was literally founded by military spending and as far as I know it never really stopped.

Apparently the crux of the article is that the military wants more private capital to flow in the defense industry and an healthier ecosystems because the few large companies which have become keys to the military complex have become really inefficient.

It’s interesting but a different point entirely.
Maybe for you, but that sounds like hell. We shouldn’t be monks whenever we’re off the clock, what’s the point?
Me too in Tokyo... I always wonder when this happens if sites are overloaded, e.g. from getting slashdotted by HN, or just blocking foreign countries for some weird reason / by accident.

Error code: 1020
Ray ID: 7ae07d4c9a63204d
Country: JP
Data center: nrt05
Timestamp: 2023-03-26 15:39:58 UTC
> Customizability = Complexity = More Maintenance

There's truth to this but the extent to which it's true I think depends on how much the system was built customizability in mind.

So for extensive customizability to work without being a serious impediment to development, it needs to be a goal from the start, and most cases it isn't — it's more common for that type of feature to be bolted on further down the road.
I'd say many trades won't be replaced by AI anytime soon. Electrician, plumber, carpenter, interior decorator, gardener, etc... the environments the work takes place in is just too difficult to automate right now.

They'll eventually become obsolete in a century or so (maybe a few decades based on how fast things move?), but it won't be prompts and computer learning that replace them. It'll be significant advances in robotics and general purpose AI (scenario 1), or a major rethink of how the affected systems are structured (scenario 2).
I don't know what it's like in the rest of the EU, but in Ireland there are entire neighborhoods where everyone is forced to park on already crowded streets overnight. Getting these people into electric cars with guaranteed access to power each day requires a radical change in infrastructure.
We're extremely unlikely to ever "run out" of oil (or any useful resource) as it just gets more expensive to retrieve as it gets rarer. Eventually, it'll just become so expensive that only billionaires would use it for something like transport when there's cheaper alternatives.
A note to my former self: You're not supposed to take care of everything
A "currency" with a fixed supply would make inflation worse than a FIAT "currency" for which 40% of the entire supply was printed in 2 years?

A "currency" with no physical representation, that physically cannot spread infectious pathogens (like COVID) the same way physical paper notes and coins do is worse than paper notes and coins for public health?

A "currency" with wide open and auditable transaction records is worse for combatting government corruption than briefcases full of paper notes with no auditability at all?

If you want to own FIAT, fine, but don't pretend BTC is automatically the root of all evil.
I think JadeNB said it better than I can here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315551

Theoretically this may be true, but it's not how it will play out in practice. A few people will not tip in protest, the staff will think they're jerks (which they arguably are), and nothing will change.
A dutch lawmaker in the article said that e-fuels still release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. If the EU were to accept Germany's loophole, then there would be a known avenue for vehicle fuel pollutants to continue to damage our environment. Given companies will always prioritize profits, if that loophole exists and they can re-use their infrastructure, naturally they will heavily invest in this area and continue polluting the world. What's the point to all these changes if we just shift from one mode of pollution to another?

Maybe the loophole should be to allow fuels that generate 0 carbon emissions (+ other rules) when combusted.
Try this first to see if you can get comfortable while standing

https://alphacolin.com/ikea-standing-desk-for-22-dollars/amp...
> There is no exam that proves the capacity for these things,

That's kind of the point tbh. If you can't say anything about something, then in practice either it's pointless to ask about it, or it's better to avoid the risks of all possible scenarios.

But most people have some subjective idea about what those terms mean, judging by how eagerly they discuss them, and those ideas, if they amount to anything, should be falsifiable. I'm merely curious - what kind of an answer is an indicator to you? Myself, I don't readily see what the answer should contain to count as a pass, nor do I see anything obvious about it.
Meta-awareness and meta-reasoning are big ones. Such inabilities to self-validate its own answers largely preclude human level "reasoning".

It ends up being one of the best pattern matchers and translators ever created, but solves truly novel problems worse than a child.

As far as architectural details, it's a purely feed forward network where the only input is previous tokens generated. Brains have a lot more going on.
YAML spaghetti, plus a complexity that makes Java application servers look like toys.
As i said in another comment in the same thread: we are looking at a very tiny timeframe. Crypto was an opportunity for fraudsters, there were similar opportunities in the past for the financial system. Fraudsters are incredible fast, more than entrepreneurs. Just look at other shady schemes in CeFi.
It's funny arguing with someone who has reified the concept so thoroughly that dereification is unthinkable.

First off I'm setting aside the argument that intelligence is constructed or not. Ssecondly, social ontologists would say that you're arguing from grounding.

You're arguing that because one thing is grounded in the other and the latter is real that the former is real as well. It also sounds like this is taken as axiomatic, to which I simply say, prove that's how grounding works.
China has a very diverse mix of technology. They use x86, ARM, MIPS, RISC-V and others. I don't know if splitting the efforts in many different directions makes sense.
If there is any company that can make a headset work, its Apple. People will get it for the aesthetic, which will be a key factor in normalizing wearable headsets.
> now we do not wonder anymore if the machines start acting human, but if we humans are still acting qualitatively differently from the machines.

This is an existential crisis I’ve been having over the passed couple of weeks. Literally been having nightmares about it, keeping me up at night. I’ve never even seen Bladerunner and now I’m not sure if I want to…
My guess would be more processed food.

The other most likely culprit is alcohol, but young people are drinking less of that.
Lots of societies around the world have a tradition of 'blood money' in the sense of financial compensation for killing or other serious harm. It's not surprising to find that kind of thinking in America since it is a society comprised of migrants from all over the world.
It’s gone from a kind of commission on service to a specific person to a voluntary overcharge for anything because why not ask if the customer is willing to pay more.

I’m not tipping in the drive through.

I equally hate the charity “round up” or whatever. I’ll donate myself without paying a commission you get to deduct, thanks.
The tip percentages sounds extreme. I wonder if you were to project current increase rate forward when will it hit 50% or 100% of the item price?
The problem of induction doesn't have anything to do with negation, and it's just as unsolved for positive statements. And nobody who says 'you can't prove a negative' is trying to say 'empirical science is founded on unjustified inferences and we take law-like behavior completely for granted'. In fact they're often, as here, trying to demarcate legitimate scientific inquiry from somehow malformed scientific questions, when the problem of induction is as serious a problem for the former as it is anywhere.
> Does a calculator truly understand math when it spits out a correct answer? Of course not.

Yes, but the difference is that nobody's trying to argue that the calculator is an intelligent being. I've seen people here on HN who are convinced that ChatGPT is a sentient lifeform which deserves its own rights.

Other big difference is that the calculator doesn't ever make things up like ChatGPT does.
The old saying "money is the root of all evil" often does generally apply and lotteries are an excellent example of state-sponsored financial ruin. I especially like the John Oliver pieces[0][1] on that one.

I see it everyday - video poker "cafes" and here in Wisconsin the cultural acceptance and actual embrace of weird things like "pull tabs" and "dice games". Las Vegas is an entire city that has been built on financial ruin.

But we can simultaneously criticize, express concern, and work towards fixing multiple issues at the same time.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PK-netuhHA

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKMNKS-9ugY
I had a recent experience where I ordered pickup from a restaurant’s website (instead of a delivery app to make them more money). I paid a 10% tip since it was a pickup. I get to the place and they just cancel my online payment and made me pay again, and under the pretext of getting my signature, presented me with the 20/25/30 option. I was very mad and left a custom 10% to send a message. Needless to say, I will not be going there back again.
Start a power plant meltdown or detonate an enemy's weapon stockpiles...from anywhere?
From the article

> The United States is not building enough homes to account for the number of people setting up their own households.

This refers to houses.
I think that is the point.. the kernel devs want to break 3rd party modules, because they don't like stuff distributed outside the kernel.
Sure but not all of the money customers pay goes into expenses. Some of that is profit! So if workers stay because they make more money now that customers are voluntarily paying 20% more, you dont have to keep raising your wages. And wouldnt you believe it more of that customer money turns into profit!
Nurses already do this in a hospital setting.

They need to arbitrate the sometimes conflicting orders from various doctors, and actually deliver care to the patients. It’s a job that if anything will be more in demand and is fungible. As a nurse you’re not trapped in a geographical area or employer, and have a wide variety of career paths.

Engineering is a feast and famine business. Once growth slows, engineers get devalued. If AI is a thing, most of the full stack engineers, front end people and SREs will experience an implosion in demand and salary. No more massages and $500k compensation. See the early 90s movie “Falling Down”.

If nursing is an interest and you’re starting out, it’s a much better career in 2023 than software stuff.
> This headset will have a loyal customer base, will make a big splash, but will not transform computing, creative work, or anything for the everyday user.

Oooh, I love these "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."-type proclamations.

> Apple Watch got so extremely lucky.

Breathtaking.
> How do you know this?

Easy. I asked a question about a topic which is treated differently in my own culture than in the USA, cultural appropriation, and got the answer I would expect from a liberal American.
It occurred to me after writing that post that understanding is just what the algorithm feels like from the inside.

A human understands English instructions in a way that lets them apply those instructions to Chinese language tasks with the same meaning. We might ask, what is this in the physical structure of the human brain? What’s the specific arrangement of neurons and neuronal connections that is doing this? Assume neuroscience has the answer and can give you a picture of the neurons in question and detail their activation pattern. When we use understanding to do our language task, we don’t actually feel our neurons lighting up, we don’t feel an activation pattern rush through our brain. It just feels like we understand, because that’s what the algorithm feels like from the inside. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yA4gF5KrboK2m2Xu7/how-an-alg...
Do you like all your work? Or are there things you do at work that you do only because you are obligated to do so?

There's a saying, "Money ruins everything" which in this context is saying that even if you enjoy what you do for money, doing it for money makes it less enjoyable than if you did it for its own sake. When you aren't completely doing something by choice, you end up doing things that you wouldn't do by choice.
Visibility and customer impact would be my answer.

I've never seen a car go with theft but I've seen masked Bandits robbing a store several times. It is very uncomfortable and frankly scary to watch people come in with balaclavas and start grabbing power tools or whatever they want.

It is also very frustrating to shop in stores where many items are under lock and key
Look at micro plastics, you will find your answers there.
Maybe because they sit so much, as opposed go all previous generations?

They also have higher levels of obesity and diabetes.

As an aside — didn’t they used to have studies that said sitting was as bad as smoking for health? What happened to those? The standing desk craze seems to have faded
Depends on how you measure, for example what about the stereographic projection of the plane into the sphere and then use the metric in R3? Distance from a point in the plane to infinity is then the distance from where it maps to in the sphere to the north pole.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-counterfactual/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/

And that's just for starters.

Will we now get downvotes, some meme-based dismissals, mind reading, clairvoyance, or the various other common responses? Let's wait and see...please express your experience of "reality" via action, humans...ideally: explaining to me how I "am" "wrong".
I consider writing more about my experience, but I'm not sure what topics would be of interest for HN community.

Possible topics:

* How I got into blockchain tech development
* Leading open source project is like herding cats
* Token protocol wars: why colored coins failed and Ethereum succeeded
Not really, rpm and dpkg are similar and both solid - and have been for years.

Not sure but what instability the parent post is referring to but SuSE V10 came out in 2006 - I suspect the problems have been ironed out.
The strongest answer to almost all of your questions is "Poverty of the stimulus" (wikipedia). 4 year olds are exposed to an almost microscopically tiny amount of words relative to chatgpt (you can probably contain it in a csv file that you can open in excel), and yet can reason, even develop multilingual skills and a huge amount of emotional intelligence from the very little word tokens they are exposed to.

So whatever is driving reasoning and intelligence in humans is clearly very different to what is driving reasoning in chatgpt.

People will probably respond by saying but babies are exposed to much more data than just words, this is true, but chatgpt is learning only from words and no one has shown how you can get chatgpt to sufficiently learn what a baby learns by other kind of data. Also note that even blind babies learn language pretty quickly so this also excludes the huge amount of data you obtain from vision as putting babies at an advantage, and it is very difficult to show how sensory touch data for example contribute to babies learning to manipulate language efficiently.
Default being 20 itself is appalling. 20 was for exceptional service.
Caterpillar-inspired soft crawling robot
> Somebody might have a problem

'Machine' comes from the root best represented by current 'might', so it is generic enough to cover a good amount of expressions of the area of "enabler" - if those «some» want to be reassured.

> somewhere between mold and birds

In our context, then you should employ it where you would have employed mold and birds in absence of a non-human facilitator.
I'm reminded of Joseph Heller's quote about having More:

https://narendragoidani.medium.com/but-i-have-something-he-w...
I've tried many second-brain note apps, including Obsidian. What drew me to Reflect (away from Obsidian) was full functionality out of the box without the need for plugins. Some may like plugins, but for me, I got tired of having to update one or more plugins almost every time I opened the app. I shouldn't have to have plugins for what I consider core features. Reflect is fully functional without any plugins to update (or get compromised or stop getting updated). Plus, the design team is super thoughtful about what they incorporate. In my mind, they are just opinionated enough to make good calls and not bloat the program.
I was super-skeptical about the Apple Watch.

Particularly as it didn't show the time. (Initial versions didn't have enough power to keep the display on all the time).

Apple finally got me by fixing that and by making their phones too large to carry around while running. Grrr. But glad they did.

It's been eye-opening. The fitness and sleep tracking are fantastic, and if you are having issues in that area, potentially life-changing.

I was also resisting contactless payment, being a typical German "cash is good" guy. And I still think cash is good. But during the pandemic everything went contactless, and Apply Pay with the watch is just super convenient. Always there, no PIN to enter or signature to verify, ever.

Life-saver when my wallet got stolen on holiday.

And of course super-comfy listening to podcasts, books or music while exercising or on public transport.

Since I got it with the cell radio, I nowadays often just leave my phone at home. Who needs to carry that around? And no phone, no social media :-)
How long until I can make my own movie like Star Wars, but with my story line and my characters? Serious question, does anyone have has insights into this problem?