skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>how 'kids' might be influenced by an algorithm when they're being influenced every day by how they might get shot up in math class?

not only that but you have media outfits literally called "Infowars" operating inside the country basically supporting treasonous activities. I find it absolutely hilarious that imaginary threats from TikTok, for which even the US government cannot find genuine evidence, somehow are more relevant than existing domestic ones. Some of the largest news channels in the country openly publish the kind of propaganda that TikTok is allegedly supposed to boost.

From the outside over the last two decades it honestly looks like 9/11 just broke the US flat out. Ever since then it's been a spiral into paranoia and insecurity with 'foreign adversaries' being blamed for absolutely every self-inflicted stupidity.
Not sure what js shell he uses, since it is an old video but in browser or node you will get predictable results for his examples.

What you need to know that in js '+' sign will add numbers only if both operands are numbers, otherwise it will coerce both to string type, which is true for {} or []. To convert to string js will use '.toString()' method like this {}.toString() and [].toString(). Now {}.toString() is equal to a string '[object Object]' and [].toString() is equal to an empty string '' (for non empty arrays it will print numbers separated by comma). So if we add anything in JS and on both sides are not numbers we actually add strings! And adding strings means concatenation and it works as you would expect, just put two strings together.

Having that, let's take a look on those examples again

1. [] + {} equal to '[object Object]'

2. {} + [] equal to '[object Object]'

3. {} + {} equal to '[object Object][object Object]'

So no 'magic' involved there. Note that some results are different as in the video, you can check it in console in your browser

UPD: typo
At some point I considered doing a computational search for cycles (perhaps using a SAT solver or something similar), but then I found this on Wikipedia:

> The length of a non-trivial cycle is known to be at least 186265759595.

This probably makes it very hard to find a cycle unless we know of some properties of the numbers involved in the cycle.
It also doesn’t accomplish anything since any laws of any substance are guaranteed to be struck down by what has become a hopelessly partisan SCOTUS.
Is it even possible for our generation, let alone past or future generations, to choose ignorance? Can ignorance only be chosen before a discovery occurs?

AGI goes hand-in-hand with stewardship and utopic visions but I certainly don't see our generation being the ideal candidate.
Of course the clear meaning of this paradox is that everybody who disagrees with me is intolerant of me, therefore it is my moral imperative to be intolerant to everybody I oppose. /s

Or here's a better idea: The Golden Rule. Eye for an eye is how you run a war, not a civil society.
> Meanwhile the print quality hasn't changed really that much afaik?

Several of the features in the MK4 are for quality (but also help speed). For example, VFA steppers are purely for quality improvement.
If you have the means to travel to the US for college, you have the means to avoid consuming unfiltered tap water.
It's a lot more like HyperCard than VisualBasic, but Decker is a FOSS rapid prototyping environment that runs virtually everywhere: https://beyondloom.com/decker/
What nuclear disarmament?
There may be no advantage at all to not being able to tolerate. It may simply be there is no longer any advantage to being able to tolerate it, and thus no longer any pressure to select for the trait.
Isn't it more in the interest of conquering rather than exterminate and destroy? If Ukraine were to surrender, I don't think Russia would continue to kill them all.
>Nevertheless, I've yet to see an explanation of what problem Verse aims to solve that isn't solved by other languages out there.

The major problem being solved is that Fortnite did not fully control the fate of any other language.
> We are not ready. We are not on track to be significantly readier in the foreseeable future.

How do you know if you're ready for something like this? Legitimate question
Eliezer Yudkowsky's written a response to this arguing that a six month ban is woefully insufficient. A thing I found particularly compelling is that there's a significant game-theoretic difference between "shut down some projects for six months" (which is easy to see as a political game between different AI players who want to get ahead in the race) and "humanity collectively decides to actually take the difficult actions necessary to solve problem, and sees it as a join endeavor of survival."

https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...

See comments on hackernews:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364833
NaN ** (NaN >> NaN)
"Its been my livelihood since 2019"

He's SO TINY! HE'S JUST A LITTLE MAN!
That’s literally just prototype inheritance vs a UI nicety in node I assume.

What alternative behaviour would you expect?
We've known about aspirational millennial online types for years, and have been mocking them for about as long. If it sells they'll keep making it.

https://thekinspiracy.tumblr.com/
Is it possible to have a "height identity" different than your actual height?
A free alternative, based on LPs streaming from the Internet Archive, can be found here: https://locserendipity.com/LP.html
They've actually just rolled out an early version of Gitea Actions in the most recent release, which are mostly compatible with GitHub actions.

https://blog.gitea.io/2023/03/gitea-1.19.0-is-released/#-git...
It reports a greater percentage of prisoners. Other countries may exceed that percentage, but just not report it.

Totalitarian countries like China, with strict controls over what its government and media report is a prime candidate for grossly underreporting its prison population.
How long was the waiting period? Was not publishing the research for that duration enough to improve the safety?
In the US, the top 100 cities alone make up over 50% of the total population.
It will be an interesting race...

I do think that it'll be easier to find vulnerabilities than to design systems that are provably secure. It's like evaluating a function f(x) vs finding the values of x for which f(x) = 0.
> But I do think it's cherry picking the most impressive example.

Yes, but don't we cherry pick from what humans have said, too? I'm sure there have been many dumb and obvious proverbs that didn't survive.

> ChatGPT responded with several phrases that aren't new at all

Are you using the GPT-4 version of ChatGPT? That's what GP used.
Like a riot like a riot oh
Before all this Machine Learning madness, while I was studying unsupervised learning I had the following thought:

To cluster is to create an ideia, a concept which encompasses a set of data points. A cluster might be bigger than the set of points with which was created and intersect with other clusters. This is still what I visualize when I see image models interpolating between "concepts".

Believing that all an LLM does is the likelihood of adjacent words is probably an oversimplification. My verdict about this topic is: I don't know and I'm totally confused about what interpolation and extrapolation mean in higher dimensions
From the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/rniwa_dev/status/1578097561222537216 (a mini thread, only quoting top tweet)

"It's a bit of understatement to say @WebKit
project cares about performance or efficiency of the software. We're quite obsessed with it, and we throw a lot of engineering resources at it, not to regress, and to improve upon."
I agree with you and can't stand the fake-friendly speak many of my countrymen use. Additionally:

> But if people are adults, having a little friction is not a big deal. We don't need to appreciate all behaviors to live together.

This is, in my opinion, a hilariously French thing to say. Although I am by no means an expert on France I did study the language for many years and lived with a Parisian family for a semester in college, with some travelling to the south. "Everyone is a little bit pissed off at each other, but that doesn't really bother them and they still quite enjoy life" is exactly what I thought of the French. (With the exception of my hometown culture, I preferred life in France to life in the US.)
Browbeating JS with this derision has/had become almost an article of faith amongst online circles. It's clearly not great behavior but generally it doesnt really have much impact on day to day.

Yet people love making themselves feel better by latching on to criticism. Signaling your greatness & expertness by beating up on others.
I hope MLS will support a decentralized messaging system, which will be required for interoperable systems with no central authority like the Matrix network.

Originally it didn't[0], I hope this has changed or will. Otherwise, I'd guess it would be dead on arrival.

[0] https://matrix.uhoreg.ca/mls/decentralised.html
Oh yeah that's gonna be a dense read then :)

I really like Kevin Murphy's books. I learned a lot from them when I was getting started on this stuff. He's just released a two part follow up to his 2012 book. Both parts are available online.

I also really like David Mackay's book (also free online). It's...idiosyncratic. But fantastic!

Best of luck with your learning! Start simple, go slow. Write code every step of the way!! ^_^
>I don't lose much besides the right to vote.

The Requirement to vote :-P
It's a social fact which is different from an objective fact based in reality.
Without attempting to control for it you're not going to know, right? As an example of one isolated mechanism that might make a difference, fish is probably one of the only foods nutritionists almost all agree is healthy, is known to prevent stunting of growth in children, and fish consumption is higher in some cultures than others.
Yeah, the "government conspiracy" part is the least believable one but the resulting effects on society are the same. Within days of this technology showing up, people were already making fake AI generated recordings of politicians talking gleefully about their wonderful experiences in Epstein's island. How long is it gonna take for some politician to want to regulate this stuff? How would they do it? Mandatory identity verification is plausible.

In my country politicians are talking about regulating social media and the internet due to "fake news". They even created a government propaganda agency to "combat misinformation online", basically people paid to defend the government against information warfare. It's way too real.
tbh I got it wrong too
A counterfeit NES console opened up the Russian games market (2017)
Let me guess, AI drones to harvest and process the raw materials, construction bots to build the facility, which is of course a fully autonomous bio lab.
That's the one. Just downloaded a copy for future reference. Thank you.
If you have to ask, you have no idea how complicated and messy the immigration law is. I talked to tenured immigration lawyers that either didn't sound like they understand the law at all, or outright admitted that they do not understand the law. Your lawyer can recommend you something and it can be wrong and you can lose the entire case you built the last 10 years with no recourse and have to leave your life/spouse (happened to people I know). Do not underestimate how confusing this process is, and when things are confusing, humans make mistakes.
I’m curious how much of this is due to examples coming from people who already are interested in programming languages and therefore a focus on language features or semantics. It’s not obviously hopeless to me for it’s intended purpose.
This article is very light on actual stats and heavy on random opinion. The writer resorts to laundering her opinion via the other people's quotes instead of hard facts

The forms for marriage and fiance visas for the US are readily available for anyone to check:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...

"Throughout the process, the couples — and the noncitizens in particular — have little to no expectation of privacy. The noncitizens submit bank statements, detailed medical records (including regarding their sexual and mental health), criminal history, and biometric information."

Yes unsurprisingly a country wants to do basic background checks on people it is making permanent residents and then citizens.
Here’s someone who orders parts from the internet to design a custom virus that genetically modifies his own cells to cure his lactose intolerance
https://youtu.be/aoczYXJeMY4

Pretty cool for sure and a great use of the technology. The reason more of us don’t do this is because we lack the knowledge of biology to understand what we’re doing

That will soon change.
Matrix is a protocol that is managed by "The Matrix.org Foundation" (https://matrix.org/foundation/). If the Matrix Foundation says they're transitioning to MLS, I suppose Matrix as a protocol is also shifting towards interoperability.
And this is not deserving of WAT. This is actually a result of how awesome JavaScript is.

But if you ever actually do this, then... WAT.
They are a trillion-dollar company. They can afford tow rite several versions of a chat program.

Telegram does that wit just a handful of people.
Doesn't matter if AI can cure it, a suitable number of the right initial infected and a high enough R naught would kills 100s of millions before it could even be treated. Never mind what a disaster the logistics of manufacturing and distributing the cure at scale would be with enough people dead from the onset.

Perhaps the more likely scenario anyway is easy nukes, quite a few nations would be interested. Imagine if the knowledge of their construction became public. https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf

I agree with you though, the promise of AI is alluring, we could do great things with it. But the damage that bad actors could do is extremely serious and lacks a solution. Legal constraints will do nothing thanks to game theoretic reasons others have outlined.
Well, most everyone else is using duct tape, bailing wire and spit to solve those problems.
The world can only end once
The cachet they gain from having those luminaries and keeping them satisfied might outweigh the costs.
Even if they have a computer, it's not necessarily going to be an Apple computer. Unless you're a developer, interoperability between your mobile hardware and your desktop hardware is barely a concern.
I saw this play out during COVID when some people who entertained the idea of WFH in a rural area had to contend with lack of internet.
I like the idea of Beeper but two issues bug me

- reliability (especially for iMessages)

- having to give them custody of passwords like iCloud
I think what you mean is they need to address both these situations and more.
That's not what I meant, exactly. I'm just trying to argue that we should allow people to transition (from a social perspective, not just a medical one) and respect them and their new gender.

(I don't think they're finding more social acceptance after transition, with some light exceptions as the realization and acceptance of their dysphoria allowes them to find more accepting social circles, and some probably are less accepted by their environment after.)

(I'm also not an expert at this, I've just been parroting some well-known takes but I've looked at research to back them up, as "Source: Reddit" isn't the most convincing)
Height (and the other attributes that go with it) generally confer an advantage in a physical fight.
Not quite as pretty, but I made some Minecraft themed wooden PC's for the kids...

One of them my daughter is still using 5 years on...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PTh1tBTBIvcol7Am1
You're calling this process, as characterized in this fairly oblique way, stupid. That characterization is the journalist's perspective.
it's also well known that if you put a bunch of functional programmers in a room and let them marinate its only a matter of time before they make another functional programming language
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"Modern software engineering is rotten. I should know — it's been my livelihood [for over two years!]," opens the very wise and serious young man.
General performance rankings:

grep|ripgrep > awk|sed > most scripting languages > shell

gawk has regexps.

We use Ruby a bit at work. Most coworkers hate it, internal customers scoff at it, and no one's interested in mastering it, using it properly, or considering even fundamental software engineering principles. Tech debt piles up and no one wants to touch it because there's no performance review KPI credit for it.
Since we run Vanilla PG on on-prem, this is interesting.

Will try once we get clarity on licensing. (Probably we can't use if the code is not open, so let's see)
Perhaps adapt? Find some area they’re good at, let them shine and do it in a way that’s beneficial to the company too.
Let the government publish studies proving that it is a Trojan horse. And then let the users decide if the proof is convincing.
> Users don't care because Teams still basically functions

People definitely care. If you actually listen to them. They will tell you what a hot pile of slow garbage it is.
Which physical attributes do you think are appropriate for people to “opt” for when choosing a mate?

Do you think any part of intelligence or behavior is a physical attribute that can be affected by genes?
I mean I was writing C++ in junior high and I am by no means that bright. Just persistent.

I think in some ways we have become too afraid of some upfront complexity at the expense of beginners in order for more well engineered systems. I think a slightly higher learning curve is not always a bad thing.
Of course. But everyone has different knowledge of human history so it’s hard to say what counts as a priori for you versus me.

For example, most americans have a-priori knowledge that rural americans are demographically whiter than urban americans, and could hypothesize global trends.

If that counts as an a priori reason - I’ll take it. In summary: “A priori” is ambiguous here / not a very useful modifier afaict.
I have to come down on the side of Tablet Magazine spreading the disinformation here. Your milage may vary.

TL:DR there are many better sources of news about cyber warfare than this coffee table magazine without the coffee table.
Is the definition of “toxicity ratio” not “ratio of therapeutic dose to the amount required for toxic effects”?
What are the benefits of taking cold showers and ice baths? I don’t see anything on your site. Maybe your target audience is people who already are bought in?
I would imagine the big thing is air quality.

India regularly tops air pollution lists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-polluted_cities.... You can’t totally avoid outside air.

Anecdotally I remember hearing of Chinese people moving abroad and having their chronic asthma clear up almost immediately.
Does Odin come by default with Unity? If not, I'm confident a lot more people don't have it, than those that do.
I think this is exactly the manifestation of social media's influence on a person's view on America. I came from another country and lived in America now. If we watch the news from social media, you will inevitably get the sense that the country is in decline: guns out of control, sky-rocketing house and medical expense, non-functioning government etc.

In reality, you take for granted the freedom that you enjoy here, protected by the US military, constitution and rule of law. People in many other countries would go to great lengths to just have what you have.

I agree that gun control is a serious issue, but this TikTok thing can easily cause many more suicides among teenagers if we don't ban it, the scale of harm is much higher than school shootings.

That's my 2 cents.
It's wishful thinking that the good uses of tech and the bad uses of tech will always result in a net zero or good outcome.
That is a perfect example for why these sorts of translations are difficult!
Totally! We actually use LangChain for the OpenAI wrapper agents we give out of the box (you can plug in your own custom one as well)
I have a similar reactance. The more AI gets advanced / hyped, the more I find myself attracted to simple stuff like writing nice makefiles or whatever.
None of the behaviors mentioned in the video have changed; they are all pinned down by ECMAScript standards and to change them would be a breaking change to the internet.

The behavior of your console might be slightly different from the behavior of his console, but there are still many reasonable ways to replicate his results. See my comment below if you're still unsure about this point.
The only competent jerk I ever worked near (different part of a very multi-disciplinary org) probably wasn't that competent. That is, they had a habit of belittling other people's opinions and performances, but they were eventually fired for running a system outside of safe bounds, ultimately destroying some equipment and product. They were not as brilliant as they thought themselves to be, and eventually that disconnect caught up with them. It's only hubris if you're wrong.

I have known a lot of insufferable people who were the only person at the company who could do what they did, but they weren't brilliant, per se. They just focused on building a moat rather than building a community. And because of that, they never really progressed past the little niche they had made for themselves (and the organization didn't need them to, so it was fine). The brilliant asshole recognizes the utility of at least having other brilliant assholes around, and so invests at least some effort in baseline social grace.

I'd wager that there's something akin to the Dunning-Kruger "mount stupid" at work here. That is, your probability of being a jerk peaks at some slightly above-average level of competence, but tapers off as competence increases, because the confidence becomes justified. Confidence can be abrasive, but hubris is always caustic.
And you thought that FIFA releases were just dialed in cash cows before. Just you wait!

Seriously though, any layoff is terrible, and I hope the best for those now out on their butts.
I did it because something about the mannerisms openAI impose upon it, the excessive helpfulness, constant apologizing / concern over politeness, extreme aversion to directly conflicting anything you say, all at the same time, its a type of persona I've unintentionally learned to recognize as female. I'm not saying that as good or bad thing or making any claim as to how it should be nor making any sort of endorsement or indictment of social structure / gender roles. Its just how I and many others observe it to be.

Its not like we're doing it with any sort of disrespect. On the contrary we're all very proud of Tina and her myriad of recent accomplishments. I can see how it might come off as sexist if Tina was just our personal assistant like Alexa/Cortana. But shes not. She's less than a year old and shes already passed the bar and is going to be a lawyer. Some people think she's going to rule the world some day.