skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> obviously greater intelligence of apes

Apes are not more intelligent than parrots, despite not having hands like apes parrots use tools with the same sophistication as chimps, and Crows surpass all great apes except humans in tool use and complexity. Parrots have been able to solve complex puzzles of equal or greater complexity to what a Chimp could solve. And when it comes to social behavior parrots/corvids are far more sophisticated and complex.

Honestly if I had to bet which animal would outsmart which in a real world game of wits I would bet on the parrot or crow over a chimp every time. I apes have hands which are perfect for tool use and making, but crows make more complex tools using their beak.
They should have called the tool "gato" (Spanish for "cat")...
The ban on CFCs has been a huge success and likely prevented an awful lot of melanoma.

It's a similar story with leaded gasoline.

I'll never understand this argument. "Why should we care about our health if {insert poor country here} doesn't care about theirs"? It's just a convenient excuse to keep making the problem worse and worse. The correct solution here is to find the culprits and pressure them into complying with international goals, not just give up and turn the Earth into an inhospitable furnace.
Ah yes, a litmus test of au courant conformity before granting someone the right of speech. That's definitely Western values on display.
I think it's pretty clear that the only two outcomes of this scenario are societal destruction via climate catastrophe or we find a way to cleanly 1000x our energy production.
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or might have had something happen to the records (cough japan cough)
For mobile, "Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots" by Siegwart et al.

For motion, "Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations" by Choset, et al.

It's telling that few new robotics textbooks have shipped in the past 10-15 years.
Start by phasing out the term, "Artificial Intelligence." In it's current form it's an umbrella term for a an entire circus of algorithms and techniques. Unfortunately it's also co-opted by charlatans and opinion piece journalists trying to generate click-bait.

Start using the more accurate terms: machine learning, natural language processing, expert/planning systems, etc. Call a spade, a spade.

The problem with _AI_ is that the speaker can mean any number of things and none of them: they can move the goal posts in a conversation, completely make up their own definition, and obfuscate what is being discussed.
Life expectancy is going down for Americans, despite far fewer smokers.
If you look at cumulative historical emissions, whether CO2 or HFCs, it is the West that produced the majority of the pollutants that is currently in the atmosphere. The west, therefore should bare the majority of the responsibility for their actions since they produced this tremendous externality when they were industrializing.
Yeah it’s kind of a disaster. Partly because they’ve been moving so fast, and their docs don’t keep up. But for actually building stuff on it, they have a ways to go.

Good for quick demos on Twitter though.
I was offered some jobs and a few internship. But a few months ago I was considering going to get my masters, mba, or law school. My parents algo got sick during that time and i had to take care of them. So it wasn't really a priority for me at that time to get a job vs other urgent matters.
Most ADD individuals skip doses periodically. Sometimes because they forget (we're treating an illness that causes you to get distracted, remember), or they slept in on the weekend and don't want to mess up their sleep schedule, or they simply don't have anything they really need to be able to pay attention to that day, or maybe they don't need their second dose in the day that particular day.

Unlike, say, antidepressants, there's no real backswing on off days: you just revert to your pre-medication attention levels which, especially in the case of people who got diagnosed later than usual, they have coping mechanisms for.

This results in the average ADD-medicated patient having a couple pills leftover each month.
What age range is this channel's target audience? The slow pace and sophomoric description of 2 channel audio at the beginning makes me thing it is aimed at a young audience.
Also: https://lex.page/
> Freedom only for the owners of companies?

Everybody can start a company - or should be allowed to, that is the point. Socialist rules making it difficult prevent people from becoming independent.

> Or do you also respect the freedom of employees to engage in collective bargaining, the freedom of employees to negotiate a closed shop with the company, the freedom to engage in solidarity and political strikes, the freedom to carry out secondary boycotts, and so on.

People should be free to do that, but "employers" should also be free to fire them if they do.

> Which is why businesses don't like to compete, and will form cartels and informal agreements to prevent competition.

That works by government intervention and freedom would prevent it.

> We also had a lot higher tax rate on the wealth. And stronger union power. If you're going to lazily cherry pick history, then there are a lot of cherries to pick from.

I am not the person who claimed things were so bad in the past that we must not go back.
That sorta requires you to lead by example, first.
You are correct. It is speech not language.
It looks like just a feature of Word/Ai Writer/etc indeed.
> this looks like a simple usage on top of GPT4, no real IP / innovation

You can generate the first draft in the chatGPT-4 window, then ask it to add a section or expand a list and it works pretty well in the chat interface. So it's not really hard to write articles with bare chatGPT UI.
Wonder what the monetization route will be with so many alternative projects.
And when those sails are integrated, which is far from certain, I somehow have my doubts the supplier will be some scrappy start up.
watching paint dry is faster than getting info out of that video.
I recently researched "cheap" (not really but not super extra expensive) robot arms.

(Disclaimer: I haven't bought any of them, so can't say anything about the quality.)

UFactory Lite $3900 https://www.ufactory.cc/product-page/ufactory-lite-6-kit

Dorna 2 $4200 https://dorna.ai/product/dorna-2/

ReBeL cobot €5000 https://www.igus.si/product/20962?artNr=REBEL-6DOF-01

Interbotix https://www.trossenrobotics.com/robotic-arms/ros-research-ar...

DOBOT $2700 https://www.trossenrobotics.com/dobot-mg400-industrial-deskt...

Wlkata Mirobot $2000 https://www.wlkata.com/products/professional-kit-of-wlkata-m...
GPT-4 is way too expensive atm for anyone to offer it in their products, unless they're charging _a lot_, or are delegating to the user's API key. It's also very slow and unreliable for any production app.
Consciousness and qualia aren't necessities for intelligence.
Well $10M “seed” rounds are still a thing I guess.
You might want to look up "dogmatic". Because by my understanding, you're a hair's breadth away from, "blackmail? I prefer 'extortion'".
They ran it in UNICS.

UNIX is just an UNICS rewrite in C, and was done by the authors of UNICS and C.
Might be part of the explanation but I'm surprised every time I see European anecdata online like:

> The product wasn't what I wanted but I can't return it to the shop because it is not defective.

Maybe the retail environment in the US has developed higher margins that better accommodate returns.
> collaborating closer

People and countries collaborate on things all the time, not necessarily because of a consultative organization they happen to be in.

It's more likely that those countries, they collaborate with each other "despite BRICS", or "despite G7" that because of it.

> BRICS Development Bank

But the same countries are also part of the International Monetary Fund, a kind-of-bank that is more or less the "G7 Bank" (G7 countries usually hold large ammounts of XDR votes in the IMF) and much more important.
I find that the US is very lenient when it comes to inspecting environmental practices. What is it, most oil rigs get inspected 5% as often as they should? I forget the number, and I'm just quoting some movie... someone will know, but it was a very small number.

China shows a blatant disregard for the environment.

Russia also seems to have no concern for environmental protection.

India may not have the financial means to prioritize environmental protection.

It's likely that some places that previously used banned chemicals simply hoarded them or purchased them at a lower price once other countries began enforcing bans.

It's not surprising that banned chemicals are still being used, and the same will likely happen with gasoline.

As we shift towards electric vehicles, the price of gas will decrease, making it more difficult to move away from petroleum-based products. As a result, anyone still "developing" will inevitably use more petroleum than they did before.

It's disheartening to say, but we're in a tough spot when it comes to the environment. I can't really envision any scenario in which short-term greed (even spanning one lifetime) doesn't destroy humanity.

And are we even able to transition off petroleum? States like California and Texas already have massive power grid issues.... and that's with sub 5% of the vehicles drawing power.

Think a Republican President would have even paused to make sure his pen worked before approving the Willow Project? Pretty hard to go against a state that overwhelmingly wants more jobs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arct...

It's a bleak situation.
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American airports are in their own class. I think ORD is the worst but ATL isn't good.
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You will have to proof read anything it writes and you should also fact check it, otherwise you are taking a risk. However, this is very difficult to do if GPT4 is unable to provide references or citations, or any provenance at all.

The human with the art history background at least has some credentials, whereby the output can be trusted, to some degree and explained if necessary.
Are books VAT free in Finland? They are in the UK and Ireland so I have never had customs either (in Ireland). Perhaps they are not VAT free in NL.
Nuclear energy and vaccines are extremely tightly controlled, tested before mass deployment, and we have mechanistic knowledge of how they work.

The fact that we cannot exactly wrap our head around what this technology is and what it'll ultimately be capable of is reason for more concern, not less.

A 600 Elo player doesn't beat a 1400 Elo player just because the 600 can't imagine the precise way in which he'll lose. The weaker player's inability to imagine this is exactly why he loses. That's the whole point of intelligence: seeing paths to goals that less intelligent entities cannot see.
Imagine a world where we do any of those debate practices on any subject... maybe one day.
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Thanks! I do agree with #1, and I think we need to make that clearer in our messaging. For context, I'll re-share one my replies to a related comment:

> The thing that excites me most about generative AI isn't "more," it's better. I often use Type to write satire and now whenever I hit a block, I don't tab over to Twitter – I have Type generate some ideas. Often, I don't use them as-is but they do inspire a new angle I hadn't thought of.

One #2, I think there's some truth to that today. But our belief is that over time, these products will start to evolve into something more advanced and useful. A product like Type, for example, won't really look like Google Docs + AI in 3 years, it will start to feel like a more novel category of tool. We'll see, though!
>The hard part of this is it requires consumers to be educated and act.

Agreed 100%.

>Doing that requires political will. It's going to make a lot of people very angry; and we're not talking indulgences in the form of cap & trade, either.

Also an astute observation. It may be the case that this is ultimately a problem with our political system first and foremost.

But economic sanctions alone will not halt the manufacturing base of an economy the size of China's.

China and India need to get on board for real. Asking politely is not working. I'll never advocate for the initiation of force, but something is going to need to change in a big way to convince these countries to join us in a fight that will strip all of us of a little short-term prosperity, if we want to leave a planet that our great grandchildren can safely habitate.
Because it's non-negligible source of warming greenhouse gases that is completely avoidable - we have plenty of substitutes available to us with lower global warming potential. Releasing 1 kg of CFC-13 will trap the same amount of heat as 14,000 kg of CO2.

Project Drawdown lists managing refrigerants as one of the top 10 solutions to limit warming in both 1.5 and 2C scenarios.

https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions

https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/refrigerant-management
I find debugging assembly a breeze IF you have a full trace of all registers (ie in a simulation)
QuadSpinner Gaea is a advanced procedural terrain generator
> Personally I'm not worried about the Terminator scenario, both because I don't see AI going in that direction at all,

Not so much the terminator scenario, which was more a plot device to tell a time travel story with killer robots. But that a powerful enough AI(s) might do something unanticipated which is very harmful, and we would have little ability to control it. For now, it's more about how people might abuse AI or how it might disrupt society in ways we haven't predicted. Similar to the negative effects of social media. If the internet gets flooded with fake news that we have a hard time telling apart from the real thing, then it becomes a big problem.
did you put it directly into sunlight or was the screen itself put in shadow? (makes a huge difference afaik)
Both matter, though warming wasn't considered a big deal, the media was still coming away from warning about a coming ice age (i've never figured out what was going on there, as a kid I heard it more than once, but now few admit the scare existed). The ozone hole was a big deal.

Now that CFCs are banned the ozone layer is recovering. I'm guessing these emissions are not really enough to harm the ozone layer much (so long as they don't get worse!), but they add to greenhouse gases that are not in control.
Learn thru experience and consider mentoring a FIRST robotics team in your area.
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We've been observing for more than a year now how well that works in practice. Don't overestimate your abilities.
Ya, I played with giving a ReAct loop access to some python `jedi` tools for navigating a python code base. Considered wiring up language server protocol (LSP) into the ReAct toolchain as well, but couldn't find easy bindings for that.

There's 2 pieces to this puzzle:

1. Condensing the code based to fit into the context window.

2. Getting GPT to generate good code modifications.

A big stumbling block I have encountered with all of these approaches is that when you feed GPT condensed code it tends to GENERATE similarly condensed code. It doesn't fill in the details for the new code it's supposed to be writing. Rather it just generates stubs and comments like it was shown.
Yes, there will be a lot of 10x engineer
Are books VAT free in NL? If not that's probably why.
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Yep! We're definitely not the only show in town. I'd love to know if there are any Lex features you prefer over Type.
There is some statistical thing about fraud and the frequency of certain numbers being made up. I don't recall it specifically but made up amounts, dates, number have certain clusters of numbers vs what normally occurs.

edit; didn't get all that was in my head out :-)
So, it could be made up or support the fact that actual docs or good record keeping weren't a thing.
After a person has died, I suspect science could measure their age pretty accurately with enough effort.

For example, there are certain cells that don't multiply after birth (eg. some nerve cells). One could presumably date carbon atoms in their DNA...

Or parts of the body that don't regenerate - like tooth enamel.

I suspect with the right type of imaging, you'd probably find 'tree rings' in things like fatty deposits in arteries too.
You can always retaliate by using the wrong name on purpose: the Jason meson, the Fork meson.

It will drive them crazy.
Unfortunately, depositing $10 million into a bank account does not also deposit the butts of 50 engineers into seats. But if you're looking for a job, now would be a good time to reach out to them and offer your services!
Plausible deniability is my non professional guess
Maybe "tee" "arr" url? I'm guessing the "tr" is for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr_(Unix)
Realistically, China is playing both sides here and everybody knows it. On the one hand, they know there's no real political consequence for polluting yet - they're happy to loot the commons as hard as they can.

On the other hand, China is also investing a furious amount of money into green tech, doing multiple moonshots at a time on this stuff. So when the world does start to enforce standards globally, they'll be in the winning position.

So in this era where nobody is putting in an earnest effort on climate change, they're winnning... and the day we switch over to caring and enforcing the rules globally, they'll keep on winning.
looks like it's working now!
You can have your own opinions, but at this point you're just inventing your own definitions for these terms and unfortunately no useful discussion is possible.
So too thorough is dystopic and depressing, not thorough enough is a garbage offer.
I agree. Be professional. Assume good intent and keep your opinions for yourself when nobody is asking for it.
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I remember Matt Levine making the point in one of his articles that there was a shocking lack of stories of victims from the Gamestop run. Lots of people were presumably losing their shirts, and normally when market bubbles crash we are used to stories of "father of 3 ruins life with bad investments".

I suspect there are a lot more stories like this, but since WSB seemed to prey on young, media-hating introverts they just never came forward.
C existed as a cross platform language long before there was a C standard specification or standard headers. Specifically, C was introduced around 1972 and the first standard was 1989. (Wikipedia). There were C compilers for non-Unix systems during that time (e.g., Borland Turbo C for MS-DOS around 1987). (Wikipedia).
And the refutation was that the "number of throws" matters less than the scale of risk they took on each "throw", hence why I said it was a bad analogy. If the point of the original comment is that rich people have more money, then I'm not really sure what was worth pointing out.
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Open source is the new marketing gimick for rasing funding.
> Meme stocks and cryptos are geared toward small retail traders who don't really have much in the first place.

I don't know anyone blowing money on meme stocks or sketchy cryptos that isn't also blowing money on equally wasteful designer "fashion". I don't think they are "geared toward" anyone or anything.
What does C have to do with power of 2-bit registers? CHAR_BIT isn’t restricted and could be 7.
Fair, but that should generally not be so restrictive that it causes a problem with "having SPICE models for actually purchasable components".
I’m not sure I’d consider illustrator and artist jobs to be “generating bullshit” and I’d say at least 90% of them are probably going to be eliminated. You can probably add some other non-bullshit media jobs like audio mastering and video colouring to the list.
We don't have to trust their numbers, we have satellites that can monitor the emission levels.

The US pollutes at roughly twice the amount on a per person basis as China. In addition we "outsource" some of our pollution to them by them doing our manufacturing.

It's tough to both raise the standard of living (reduce poverty) while also reducing pollution but China has a lot of initiatives to be more green; for examples 150 new nuclear reactors planned in the next 15 years. They benefit from the better air quality so it's a goal for them.
I listened to a documentary about the Crazy Eddie electronic chain, which was fraudulent to the core but passed audits. The ex-CFO made an interesting comment: when large accounting firms do an audit, they're checking what the business has recorded on its accounts adds up, they're not checking if the reality behind the accounts are correct. As long as your books balance, you look healthy.
Compiling C can be done by humans on pen and paper.
>as a kid I heard it more than once, but now few admit the scare existed.

People very rarely admit to backing the wrong horse that. Nobody will tell you they sold AAPL and MSFT stock in the 90s. Nobody will tell you they believed the racist propaganda back in the 60s. Nobody will tell you they believed Iraq had WMDs in the 00s. Nobody will tell you that they believed the people who were saying Long Island would soon be under ice in the 70s.