skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this speculation about what an AI like ChatGPT can or can't do is largely unproductive and unknown. The truth is we have no idea what ChatGPT understands or how comparable whatever it's doing is to human understanding. There are a lot of reasons to think it's not the same, but there are also a lot of reasons to suspect that the neural net of AI's like ChatGPT are not just operating at the level of next token prediction.

There's at least some good reasons to believe that through its training ChatGPT has acquired high-level models of our world such that it "understands" how to make accurate predictions.

But going further, I'd argue it also seems to have learnt how to reason. For example you can ask it logical puzzles and it will often get the answer right and explain its reasoning. Some will argue that it's not "real reasoning". which could be true, but we really don't know this with any certainty. All we know with certainty is that the output in many cases appears to have some of the characteristics of reasoning and understanding.

Ask yourself, does a fish "understand" how to swim? If you ask a fish to explain how it swims it couldn't do it. So a fish can swim, but a fish doesn't understand how to swim. So what does it even mean for an AI be able able read, but not understand how to read? Is it just that a fish doesn't understand how to fish like a human? Does this distinction even matter?

To summarise the point I'm trying to make here, there enough gaps in our knowledge and evidence to suggest to there is likely some amount of understanding and reasoning happening and that it would be arrogant to suggest otherwise.

But I suppose to more directly answer your question. ChatGPT certainly doesn't "learn" in any meaningful way from reading. AI's like ChatGPT simply doesn't have the ability to remember things, so it physically cannot learn from reading. It might understand and reason about what it reads, but it cannot learn from it. That is assuming you're talking about the implementation of the models and not the "reading" it does during its training.
But a robots.txt file in if you don’t want a search engine to index you. GPT is just a semantic search engine.
I'm kind of blown away that they're using the actual ipad for time critical stuff like that, I thought for sure they would have a processor dedicated to it and the ipad just as the interface.
OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot blocked in Italy over privacy concerns
We know what that is, it's self driving cars you rent by the trip uber style.

The technology just isn't there yet, but that's the thing that will get rid of a lot of private car ownership eventually.
That's compatible with my comment.
The only situation I can imagine this causing a problem in your codebase is if you intentionally want to mix camelCase and snake_case in your codebase and these 2 meaning different things. So if you don't enforce in your codebase a specific code style practice and you would like someFunction and some_function to coexist and mean different things, then yes. Nim's approach is problematic for you.

If you enforce a code style or, if you don't but you would convene that someFunction and some_function should mean the same thing in your codebase. Then nim's approach should be transparent to you.
I don't see it either way...more like both are happening at the same time...i don't see petroheads giving up their custom show offs anytime soon, and they've got offspring too
I also got this one as the 2nd airport.. quite a surprise
https://github.com/RobTillaart/FastTrig/blob/master/FastTrig...

If absolute precision is not required, there is many ways to compute cosinus !
the real problem is Intel screwed up their sin implementation by only using 66 bits of pi and then refused to fix it.
They're separate investigations. I am sad that I'm on Hacker News right now. This is not more "curious" conversation than anything you find on Fox or MSN.
Yes, that’s the one, thank you!

I did notice in ~2019 that they were no longer in the same building (which appeared empty), guess they just moved somewhere less prominent.
Very useful. We are using it on a daily basis and it has definitely increased our shipping cadence. PRs are merged faster.
Maybe he should find someone more qualified then.
Curious - which laws are serious/important enough to hold ex-presidents to, then?
We managed it with CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer.

Tracking and enforcing compliance of refrigerant gases doesn't seem like it would be more difficult than tracking massive expenditures on high-end GPUs.

It's not easy, but we are sometimes capable of rising to meet immediate existential threats.
Or you know they can put a "do you accept data collection for the sake of training our algorithm" checkbox when you sign up and be done with it...
Keytap2 – acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on language n-gram frequencies
I never publish or react to individual velocity as a manager. It's all about what the dev and QA team gets across as a whole to the Done pile each week, and I use a rolling ten week average. I know what each person is doing still but if they spend four hours collaborating on something nobody loses points.
> I do not think that OP is arguing you should not learn the basics.

That's not my point, per se.

> It's clear that we have too much grunt work.

What one might see as "grunt work" is what another might see as "learning the ropes".

You can make the case "with ChatGPT, we no longer need to learn the ropes".

But it's really hard to predict how that will affect the next generation of engineers -- I don't even know if "engineers" is the right word -- if they only understand how to ask and not how to construct.

I'd say that my point is that grunt work is very meaningful to someone who is in a different phase of their career. It's not just grunt work, but a pathway to learn.
Boston: 700.000 people

London: 9.000.000 people

That is, London is the size of New York. Just the fact that you are comparing Boston with London kind of proves my point.
Ah, now I can reply. It wasn't letting me for a while there. Probably because you repeatedly edited your comment.

The study you linked says that for a certain measure, it works better according to a grand total of two studies they looked at. For the rest, the conclusion was that AA performed as well as other interventions. It's also a review study, which can sometimes be helpful, but often cannot draw clear conclusions due to the studies being reviewed not necessarily measuring the same parameters. They also rejected about half the papers they found due to apparent bias.

It's certainly not the kind of paper that establishes something as settled science and even at that, it doesn't say what you claim it does.
Well, I wasn't the GP but I see their point. Because today, buying a product isn't enough. Subscriptions and rent-seeking is where it's at.

Once you've bought a smart TV, it shouldn't really be any of Roku's business what you watch, but you basically have to airgap any brand of "smart" TV to avoid data collection.

Cars are much more computerized nowadays, so it would not be a stretch to imagine they have data harvesting software somehow (especially in light of Volkwagen's emissions test cheating); but if I've bought a car, it's mine, so why allow that? And then there's Ford's idea to have self-driving vehicles drive them back to the dealership if you miss a payment, which is a lot less time-gracious than missing utilities or anything like that.

The last time I paid for a laptop with Microsoft on it I still got ads shoveled in my face, and of course there's all the telemetry to deal with. Apple had that drama a few months back with people not being able to launch certain apps because some connection to their servers wasn't being made that would allow it, and Apple products go for premium.

It would seem rather prudent to assume that if you buy a product and it is electronic, there is probably some mechanism to transmit data to the manufacturer, because IoT and profit and why the fuck not.
I find it interesting to consider “who would the Democrats most prefer to run against in 2024?”

If the economy is weak, I think they’d rather run against Trump (who has a base that’s fiercely loyal but more narrow) rather than a GOP candidate who will pull the majority of Trump’s base but also a wider swath from the “center” population by hammering on the economy.

If the economy is strong, historically it doesn’t matter much who the incumbent runs against.
So many npm packages have taken the best names and do nothing with them.

It's so frustrating to publish anything these days
Both international law (the US has no UN mandate) and national/domestic Syrian law.

“End America’s Illegal Occupation of Syria Now: Our presence there is a violation of domestic and international law that’s made a horrible civil war even worse.”

https://www.cato.org/commentary/end-americas-illegal-occupat...
> I'm still trying to make the full time switch to Linux

Just did that this year. After trying and failing every year I tried ubuntu + gnome + firefox, I succeeded by altering my choices: arch + hyperland + edge

I get the familiar pacman (used in MSYS2) and an UI that very closely matches my keyboard centric AHK configuration (no window borders, my most important apps run in fullscreen on their own workspace) in browser I'm used to (with my vertical tabs and groups, bookmarks etc).

I was using W11 Pro or Workstations before (so I didn't feel the pain home users have with disabled options or ads) and I loved windows, but the shady moves toward deprecating Office 2010 made me take a side as Excel is more important than windows to me.

Now Excel runs happily on Wine within wayland thanks to the HiDPI hyprland patches, I have a quaketerm very similar to Windows Terminal, and a sixel enabled terminal (wezterm) that's just as good as mintty for what matters to me (sixels, colors, italics, ligatures)

I still have some pains as moving to a different OS takes a lot of tweaks, but so far I'm loving it!

I would consider BSD for the native zfs support, but the lack of Bluetooth or SystemD and the pains to get modern options like Wayland means I won't.
Do you do FPGA designs with it, or just bare metal software?
Seems like they did prosecute the Clinton case, and the outcome was a fine? The outcome of the Trump case may also be a fine...
The Amstrad CPC 464 had a "copy cursor" and a "copy" key. Holding down shift and using the arrow keys let you navigate a second cursor to text you wanted to copy, then the "copy" key would insert the letter under the copy cursor at your insert cursor and advance both cursors forward one character.

The C64 wasn't as good a BASIC environment. You can overwrite text in a program listing and press ENTER to update a line, which can copy a line if you can squeeze in a new number.

Neither were as good as Acorn's BASIC.

For a couple of years in secondary school, my alarm was a program I wrote every night on my CPC 464. My tape drive was broken, so I had to type every program in fresh. If I wanted to wake up in the morning, I'd write a nested loop over the hours and minutes and start playing sound.
It's new, foreign and confusing.

That's all it takes to be offending for conservatives.
> That's called moving the goalposts.

No, it isn't. That's the test.

> no matter what you are still required to have a legal presence in the EU if you want to serve EU customers.

That's nonsense. There is nothing stopping EU citizens from buying something via my US based website while they are in the EU, and I have no obligation to have any kind of presence in the EU.
I’m Italian. Google Translate is better here
i think this helps explain why "you can't tell people anything" problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35282293 in that "most people aren’t very good at visualizing hypothetical, at imagining what something they haven’t experienced might be like, or even what something they have experienced might be like if it were somewhat different." Because the new information isn't aligned with their prediction. I think this is leveraged in propaganda to move a population to believe something untrue by leveraging a context and amplifying it. Literally enforcing <i>prejudice</i>.
> Once again, he hasn't disclosed that he is working for O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com again.

From the article:

> ... and while I’ve been spending the year at OpenAI to work on theoretical foundations of AI safety, I’m going to answer strictly for myself.

(Not to say that OpenAI's name isn't dumb, or that there won't be issues from people directly plugging LLMs into important decisions.)
Believe they're also known as altiports; Courchevel is another. You need special training to be able to land there.
As far as I remember they stated that plugins won't be supported back when I tried it. No idea if that has changed.

Of course the plugins need to be written but my point is that they cannot be written at the time.

I understand and support the idea of Helix to be useful out of the box for many use cases. However for me the editor in its current form is not sufficient. As I already stated I use many (wonderful) plugins in Neovim. I could not justify going away from the status quo because it is pretty good. I have my setup configured so the ease to jump into is not really a valid argument for me and I suspect for many more Vim users.
Looking Iran,Iraq,any country that has a bioweapons program etc. It's pretty trivial to understand what Eliezer meant if you truly want to.
> Nobody is touching other countries' servers. Not even close.

No one claimed otherwise.

It's still fascinating (and, I believe, a first) that the EU thinks they have extraterritorial jurisdiction just because their citizens are affected.
It's not about insects specifically but this paper points out statistical problems in a very similar claims about vertebrates:

https://www.sfu.ca/biology2/rEEding/pdfs/Leung_et_al_Cluster...

But it's a common theme. These claims get attention and journalists don't check, so they proliferate. Dig in to any given claim and you'll find they're all built on statistical quicksand.
Inlay hints look great. Is there a keymap configuration or a motion to toggle them on temporarily and turn off when a key is released? In VSCode you can do this so that holding 'alt+shift' pops up inlays, but releasing that combo makes them go away. Best of both worlds IMO, since type signature inlays often add an unnecessary amount of clutter in some languages.

Either way, love Helix. It's now my quick editor of choice; I really like the Kakoune-style motions.
This is the type of partisan hackery I would expect in the comment section of an MSNBC article or on r/politics, but not here.
An excellent point. That's why we have GDPR in europe to prevent me from using you as a source of income without your consent.
Nothing baseless about it at all, and it certainly isn't rambling.

Do you have anything to contribute other than misguided insults?
I remember getting 3.5-4.5kBps. Usually on the lower end of that scale. 5 was an exceptionally lucky day.
It's a big plus for library and FFI interop so external styles don't take over your entire project.

Also, John Carmack: https://mobile.twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/159256093820...
Source code archives of several video games for classic consoles
I got a letter saying I was due an appointment, emailed them to book me in at the start of this month, my appointment is in the middle of July over four months later. And I am one of the luckier ones in that I actually have a dentist. A lot of people in the country can't even access one. This country is an absolute joke and I am also getting out.
That’s like saying there’s nothing wrong with Word because you could just build your own version. Adobe controlled the format and since they didn’t care about quality, performance, security, or tool quality that doomed it.

The other big thing which hit Flash was mobile. Rearchitecting it to support the equivalent of the web’s responsiveness was a huge problem which got lost in the “Steve Jobs killed Flash” narrative. Battery life wasn’t the only thing which made it unpopular on mobile – that could have been improved even though some aspects of the platform made that hard – but also the fact that Flash was based around mice and fixed-size displays. Very little of the existing content worked well (often at all) on the mobile devices which did have Flash.
> Microsoft should have just made F# the C# successor.

You underestimate the importance of compatibility and familiarity for existing developers. You can show C# code to any C++, Java or even JS programmer and expect them to grasp the idea of what's going on very quickly. This is a big deal and should not be discarded lightly
"You cite a single paper"

It's not a paper, so this makes me think you didn't read the cited document.

"by agencies and institutions with no relationship to each other"

They're all closely related to each other and tend to rely on the same small number of data sources to draw conclusions, which is why the fact that these data sources are subject to continuous retroactive editing is a problem.
If the government tries to prohibit training these models, I think we should find a way to keep it going somehow. Yes, civil disobedience.
Scott Pilgrim gets another life as an anime and the whole cast is back
> Knowing the subtlelties of memory management in the 80' didn't help the Ruby coders to create RoR and run Basecamp, or the Python coders to create Django and run the Washington Post

Those programmers didn't need to know the subtleties of memory management because when they programmed in Ruby they didn't have to debug in C. GPT is very different.
There is a line in How Music Works by David Byrne, of Talking Heads fame, talking about the album Remain in Light (IIRC) "While punk rock was celebrated for needing only three chords, we had now stripped that down to one."
Yes no yes

What I described was my computer setup. I have a laptop which I use for minor projects, and a desktop for training models (and video games). Like the Framework laptop, my laptop was designed to be thin and doesn't have a dedicated graphics card. My desktop receives regular upgrades, my laptop goes about 4-5 years by which point I want a new one anyways (usually the battery is dying and the cpu is starting to show its age).

Most importantly however I would never use a desktop that's worse than my laptop, because if that were the case I'd just plug my laptop into my monitor instead of using a desktop (and I assume this is the case with most consumers).
Missouri Reps Just Voted to Completely Defund the State’s Public Libraries
So human do not attempt to tick arbitrary random answer in multiple choice problems when the person have empty knowledge in the domain, or simply no time to think. Human is really special.
> Reportedly some of the happiest people on earth

They seem pretty far from the Scandinavian countries.

Besides, I'd find it hard to trust any results from a totalitarian country.

> It sounds insane to you because you’re used to the filth we live in and don’t even see the decay that’s all around us anymore. Crime and violence are normal in our world and a government that won’t tolerate it is a foreign concept.

There are plenty of civilized countries with low crime rates that are not totalitarian.
From what I understand, you can run for office even if you’re in prison.
It's normal in our legal system to have a scale of punishment based on the scale of lawbreaking. We don't know enough here to know whether the laws broken in the two cases are of the same scale. Some things are punished with minor fines and others are major fines and possible jail time. The details of the case determine which.
I'm a drummer with loads of improv, including a fair amount of jazz. What's interesting is that over time what's sounded like (mostly) random noise with no pattern has progressively turned into sensicle flows from moment to moment -- it's definitely a predictive process (both brain-wize and nervous system!). It's manifested in surprising ways, like having a forward predictive understanding of which hand should be where depending what I want to play.

Shifting between large shifts during improv can be mentally taxing, very much the same feeling of trying to remember the name of something or someone. But just like with names, once you get that first mental hint (like a vowel), predicting what comes next just falls into place.
I hope they also worked on removing the many UI bugs from PyCharm remote: laggy scrolling while in the diff view, some editor settings like rulers at 100/120 chars not working properly, some settings panes lagging out until the editor is restarted, etc etc. I need to develop on a remote VM and I’m using VSCode at the moment because it’s remote story is less buggy, but would much rather be using PyCharm.
As a grown ass man, one of my favourite books remains one of those Usborne electronics books for children.

It explains some basic concepts beautifully, far better than I can.
>> I’m privileged with a well paid job though.

No excuse not to make more money.
You can start a business if you have more money and employ a bunch of not so privileged people.
You have it the other way around. There isn't much on Trump, and that's precisely wht they have to cling to weak technical stuff like this.
I was annoyed by it at first, but got past that, and now don’t think too much about it. With tooling support (mainly lang server and nimgrep) I haven’t found it to get in the way, and have come to appreciate the flexibility it provides.
It's a little funny, isn't it, that physical products have planned obsolescence to make them fall apart faster, to get people to buy a newer model with only small changes. Yet I can't see an "intellectually stunted" flying as a marketing tool precisely because it's not the best "hire".
So does the internet.
If this persists: I ask myself which longterm effects this is going to have on the Italian economy. Would be interesting to have studies.
So .. buy all the cheap seats and then resell them. Or have your vacation stolen by a hacker. This seems like a solution to a problem that most people don't have
>> Anticipation and prediction are so important in getting a leg-up in the real world.

As a kid sometimes I would look around the room and pick an object to touch or pick up. Then I'd close my eyes and see if I could do it. This might involve taking several steps or even turning at the end before reaching out. There is some feedback from the feet but it's mostly open loop without vision. I could visualize my position along the way - a form of prediction.

This skill is still useful when I need to turn off a light before crossing a room or opening a door :-)
Regarding the Stripe availability issue, I guess you could open a US based LLC and be able to operate with bank accounts there and use Stripe. It is possible to do all the "paperwork" online from overseas, no need to travel to USA.
> It has been created to reduce visual complexity, provide easy access to essential features, and progressively disclose complex functionality as needed – resulting in a cleaner look and feel.

I’ll probably try it out in a while, but the only thing I potentially care about of those things is ”easy access to essential features”. If clean look makes things harder to find, then that would be a sign that they don’t know their users.

But I’ll wait to judge until I’ve tried it.
Beijing Commands: Grey, Black, and Red Directives from Deng to Xi
It also makes it harder to grep. If you're on a team of 10 devs someone could have accidentally forgotten an underscore sometime last year. So you can't just grep for 'ready_for_upload', you have to use 'ready_?for_?upload'
GPT is too simple. The problem probably requires reinforcement learning, where the AI is trained by interacting with a real computer system.
Astro support - interesting
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