skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ken Shamrock and Brock Lesnar both started as pro wrestlers who transitioned between Pro wrestling and MMA. Only Rousey has really managed to make a successful pure MMA->WWE transition. It will be interesting to see how many MMA stars can actually find success in the WWE before WWE fans become tired of the UFC treating the WWE has the UFC retirement home.
It was $1B that they were expected to get... Thats substantially more revenue than they were going to collect from all their US based users in a whole year!
Are these things not valuable? I was wondering how they don't get grabbed up by the dozen and scrapped for parts.
> fear that a competitor might use our technology without respecting licensing

Yeah, people will, that's just reality.
I'd be pretty confident that the software doesn't ask you for a PDF of the warrant before it does its thing
As AI perfects mimicking human output, the line between human and AI-generated content becomes irrelevant. Once "organic" content is trendy, the market will flood with cheap fakes. Good luck with your "differentiator" in a sea of indistinguishable content.
Maybe someone is planning a Crimean War 2 - seems unlikely though! ;-)
LLM is not only a service, it shook the fundation of Google's vision.

https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/our-approach/

> Google’s mission is to organize the world's information

yeah but you only organized the info, but GPT-3/ChatGPT was the first of is kind to actually "understand" the information.
I didn't have high hopes based on the domain name but the opening is something else!

> The US is working very hard, in full force to change Modi regime; its the top agenda item for the Hillary-Obama Cabal that is the real power behind Biden.
It's the people driving the tractors who take jobs, not the ones building them. If you operate a hand-plough for a living when tractors come on the scene, you'd better learn how to drive a tractor. The same is true of AI.
Right. Something very important is that smart ≠ ethical or empathetic.
How dare someone look at content you post publically!

If you don't want people to see and learn from your art, maybe don't make it public?
The United States total fertility rate (1.8 as of 2022) isn't that much different than a large chunk of Europe.

Per this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

* France, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland: 1.8

* Iceland, Czech Republic, UK, Latvia, Netherlands, Belgium, Lithuania, Norway: 1.7

* Romania, Slovenia, Estonia, Albania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland, Austria: 1.6

Yes, there's some countries that have even lower levels (eg Italy and Greece), but that's a large chunk of Europe with a pretty similar fertility rate to the United States. I wouldn't give America a pass on any future sort of demographic discussion regarding this. Heck, China (which you list at "terminal") has a fertility rate of 1.7.
Rasbpis are expensive because people started using them for products (why make a board to flash these lights when I can put a cheap Pi in there with a program to do it?) and during the chip shortage they started prioritizing businesses -- which is against their self-described mission, but whatever.

They still haven't caught up production enough to stifle the price increases.
Hardware "interlocks" are used when the risk cannot be reduced to an acceptable level by software alone.
They launched the Mullvad cards being sold on Amazon[1], you can ask a friend in a different country to buy one for you.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mullvad-VPN-Windows-Android-SCRATCH/d...
"the new IE" can mean two different things.

1. IE6, a titanic that that wants to harm the web so they can push their own ecosystem instead.

2. IE11, the incompetent and rarely updated browser that you have to support because a segment of your userbase is stuck with it.

This article tries to argue 1 isn't the case, but I have to disagree. Safari isn't as large as IE6, but it regardless tries to fill the same role. Ensuring apple gets their app store cut.

2 is also the case, but that needs less argument.
> America, meanwhile, has decent native birth rate

No, it doesn't. It's about 1.8 and dropping, and most of the higher values in that group are from recent immigrants, which are also having fewer kids. Educated folks also have lower fertility rates.

The US is basically a mirror of Western Europe in this regard:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/226292/us-fertility-rate...

> AND a culture that's always willing to accommodate new people.

I'd argue that the biggest factors by far these days are:

1. English (very accessible due to music, movies, TV shows, etc).

2. Lots and lots of natural resources facilitating lots of businesses which aren't really feasible in say, Germany, France, Japan.

3. Large population bringing economies of scaling facilitating advanced businesses paying high salaries.

Otherwise someone who travels around the US and Western Europe, for example, will be quite surprised at the cultural convergence and immigration levels.

Most of your comment is a perception from 2-3 decades back, at least.
I believe India is seeking a partnership with France. The US was in the running, but again, cost and tech transfer issues.
This is the thing. ChatGPT shouldn't be that confident in its wording IMO.. If it just said "according to me" instead of stating things as fact, people would have much less problems with it.

We know this wording is just show but people still get swayed by it and believe it must be true.
That's true. But we know exactly why it can't do it.
Go type .1*.2 into any JavaScript console.

Edit: slapping a few more in here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/...

https://daviddeley.com/pentbug/index.htm
With Moore's Law finally almost dead, it could be done. Though I should confess that my current laptop has been my current laptop for almost a decade, so it's been doable.

The real key is to make software more efficient.
Meanwhile Amazon actually operates by people walking to pickup and deliver most packages by hand to be boxed up.

People can actually get a lot of work done in an hour to the point where many things that don’t seem like they should scale end up being trivial expenses.
Yes, and it's a little reckless to even get to a state where, even in the presence of bonafide bugs re non-standard behavior, just showing "a blank screen" when your app dies is a possibility. Add some basic error detection/reporting.
Don't do it. I bought M1 Air instead of M1 14" Pro to save money and now I regret it. The Pro's display and speakers are much better I now watch movies on work M1 14" Pro.

M2 Air might be good too, I don't know. But if I could go back, I'd go to M1 Pro.
The Steam Deck seems like too hefty of a device for little kids.
Well documented is the key difference.
And that is why Linux games hardly grow their market relevance, it is either emulating Windows, emulating game consoles, or retrogaming.
Plus porn seems like one of the most optimizable problem spaces.

There's heaps of material, lots of images that come in series and are just slightly different, lots of pre-existing collections, categories, and tags for all of it. Everything has some specific name for it too.

Porn is probably one of the easiest datasets to train on.

You can also easily seek user feedback: ask people to rate images, point out defects, etc. You'll have your audience fine tuning it for free.
Reassuring read from someone unable to consistently write "ChatGPT" vs "ChatGTP".
they don't save this information, they used to then ended up removing the process to do so 1-2 years ago
Is the many worlds interpretation a theory? Depending on your formulation of many worlds, it is untestable, even in theory. From what I can tell, many worlds is more of a philosophical framework for talking about quantum mechanics, rather than a theory about how the universe works. If it’s a philosophical framework, then it’s enough that you have philosophical grounds for opposing it, you do not need to wait for evidence.
There is once again a TUI installer, but also a lot of the standardisation of hardware platforms (UEFI), GPU landscape (Intel and AMD graphics "just work"), printers (IPP/AirPrint), the desktop Linux foundational layers (systemd), have combined to make Arch much easier than when it earned that reputation a decade ago.
Decades is a long time for anything to last. Mean time between screen breakage in my house is measured in months (I think I’ve shored that up to years by getting really good cases, fingers crossed).

My gaming PC is a decade old. Apple iPhones usually get feature updates for 70 months (sometimes more) and bug fix updates for 100 months or more. iPads are similar. This is longer than a single battery usually lasts, so you either get an external battery pack or you replace the battery.

Beyond a decade, and you need to throw Linux on them. But things physically wear out at that point. And the increased power consumption of older devices means that much past a decade, you’re paying much more in electricity costs than you would if you had replaced it with a similarly-specced modern device. …at least in principle.

If it’s a rarely used machine, you’re still better off with the old one.
This might be a bad comparison. But I feel like Marvel movies (and TV shows) tried to scale, and lost it. And that there was a sweet-spot, where less was more. It's way to oversimplified, but I think they tried to churn out hits from a factory after a build-up in some home runs, but then took on too much and have diluted their films & shows, where it's all a bit flat and underdelivering what audiences expected.

I like this glass company, though. Seems like they know what's up.
Alternately, it may be a bit of an infohazard for non experts to throw around accusations of wronger than wrong.

If opinion A is wrong, and opinion B is wronger, and elevating B over A is most wrong, the correct action aligns with the (wrong) stance of "protect A at all costs."
On the other hand, I think semi-business productivity will skyrocket. Just think what the landscape for open source will look like in even a year. There will be lots of cool motives that are not for profit greatly enhanced by AI, and I think it could point to brighter and more intellectual futures (of course, where intellect activities will be even more elitized than today, sort of a regress to the previous centuries, but with vast more output and better), albeit after a crunch period.

For instance, I review all that the AI writes for my newsletter[0], but the kind of content I put out now wasn't easily done (teaching Chinese through relatively obscure rock songs, and also programming in Chinese) without lots more work and knowledge, and that means I wouldn't have done it without the magic AI employee.

0: https://chinesememe.substack.com/i/103754530/chinesepython
I think electric personal mobility vehicles are such a missed opportunity in terms of climate / traffic reduction. Certainly in the UK the fact that they started by being basically illegal for years and means they are, for the most part, ridden by people who don't give a shit or people who's parents don't give a shit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818556#6819480

This also rings so true for me. I won't say I don't like other people, but let's say I prefer to be alone. My whole career starts as a customer service (a perfect start for me), then a BA, then a BI, and now a DE, and you can see that I'm running away from the crowd, as far as possible. I'll probably try to find a man cave of system programming and be done with that. Any extra interaction with other humans is find with me.
Also note “of conquest”: presumably, if the purpose of Russian invasion was to just hang Zelensky and institute a regime change with government sympathizing with Russia, and not to annex any territory, that would have been OK too.
At some level it’s tautological. Initially I had a similar negative reaction other commenters had, but I think I’m deciding I like the people framing. Obviously this is not an either-or. It’s not a question of AI vs people, it’s both AI+people. But only people are making the choices. People are building AI, people who can use AI will choose to use it, and people who run businesses will choose to allow it and/or incorporate it. Just like jobs lost to immigration and/or outsourcing, the jobs aren’t being stolen, they’re being intentionally given to cheaper alternatives, by business people, without much worry about the consequences. It’s healthy for us to think about the AI revolution as a social & economic choice, because that’s what it really is.
Note that this only applies to e-scooters operators: their licence won't be renewed. Privately owned e-scooters are still legal and allowed.

The irony is there has been a lot of efforts from the mayor and operators to regulate the e-scooters: licensing to a limited group of operators (3 afaik, instead of virtually every operator under the sun deploying scooters), designated parking spots, better communication of rules to the users, automatic speed limits in walking areas.

As a parisian that mostly walks and uses public transportation, most of my gripes with those services have been addressed by the aforementioned measures, but I guess that the early deployment chaos pissed off enough people to have them voted out.
I see what you are saying, yes the maze wouldn't have only a single solution after the construction of an inner maze.
Sure. There's really not giant risk of damage though. I don't use a case and my mbp has been going from home to office and around the city for four years with just a dent in the corner to show for it. MBPs are very hard to damage if you just keep it in a sleeve in your backpack and don't have liquids right next to the keyboard :-)
But careful even donating "patch time" since doing security updates and all the rest inherently change things.

Non-profits are pretty bad at documenting requirements, or having any sort of automated testing, so you go in and upgrade some things, or patch some things, and they're still going to need training... and they're still going to need an organization-wide test to make sure everyone can still get what they need out of the tech. Inevitably someone will have some plugin that isn't compatible with the upgraded version, or someone will have some service that needs to get re-built to fire reports nobody knows about until they don't show up in the right inboxes.

Money the org can use to hire a staff member who will be a "permanent" fixture is always going to be better for them than someone coming in and doing work and not sticking around to support it.
> The Many World Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics was rejected out of hand by scientists that were also religious

Do you have a reference for that? The Many Worlds interpretation was initially rejected by John Wheeler, Everett's Ph.D. advisor, under the influence of Neils Bohr, but I've never read anywhere that the motivation of the two was in any way religious.

The book What is Real? by Adam Becker has a good account of this history.
I see the assumption that automation means it removes the human from the task. The article is precisely about a human is still intermediating. Writing tests doesn’t mean blindly accepting the test, it mean the boilerplate of the test is auto completed based on a human description, then a human verifies the correctness of the output. Will people take the shortcut? Of course. But AI didn’t create or magnify that problem. How many “return true” or incomplete tests or missing significant cases etc have you reviewed or stumbled across? Or worse; the test free code base?
Are you familiar with the vocabulary of rhetoric and logic?
I wonder how "artsy" kids growing up today feel. Getting good at visual arts takes a lot of time and practice and it must be very discouraging when your best output is easily beaten by a guy typing "some flowers in a vase in the style of Van Gogh" into Dall-E.
You want to link to the actual release notes:
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/2.0/whatsnew/v...
I didn't say it was a reasonable course of action.
> There are a lot of people who still believe that doing business with someone makes them come around to democracy eventually; this was also a reason given by President Clinton for normalizing trade with China (where it has also not worked).

Well I suppose it's impossible to determine real motivations of politicians, but I always assumed this was simply BS that nobody in power ever really believed.

I mean, when you're addicted to cheap oil/labor/whatever but the regime with the cheap oil/labor/whatever has some pesky anti-democratic tendencies, what better way to sell it to a skeptical population than to tell them that by merely consuming the cheap goods the transaction itself will somehow change the problematic regime's ideology?
AI is not well-defined and what has that label will change quickly. So I suppose you just have to stay a bit behind the times.
It could be both at the same time :-)
I'd love if AI automated the 'talking to people' part of my job for me
Tests are easy to verify - if they aren't they are probably bad tests. Using AI for stuff that's easy to verify has been good so far.

Knowing what tests to write is another story.

My problem with AI generated tests is that they lead to over testing and it bogs you down once you have to do refactoring. Ideally detailed tests should come once you're on like 3rd iteration and really sure you've nailed the design (oh I hate TDD if it isn't obvious). With AI I'm getting detailed tests and first try implementations, bad code locked in everywere :(

More tests != better code, tests are still code - the less code you have to satisfy some goal the better.
On the other hand, most porn lacks a human touch. IMHO.
I think it's just not clear what argument you're actually making. When you say "a novel work produced by any of them", are you equating the works produced by paint with the works produced by AI? Are you saying that if I throw a can of white paint against a Jackson Pollock painting, the paint itself is producing a novel work? That if a million printing presses print out a million dictionaries, one of them is bound to produce the entire works of Shakespeare?
The article can't even spell "ChatGPT" right! And randomly makes words plural like "white collars job" and "a sure things."

The author says they are a ghost writer and is confident they can do a better job than AI, and according to their bio they have written 100+ papers... I wouldn't be so confident that they are better than AI and writing stuff like this if this is their best work!
What's new here [0], saved you a click.

[0]: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/2.0/whatsnew/v...
> Not sure how to put it: if you built a model and simulation that has proven something that claims a certain approach might work - but fail to include a realistic plan of execution and “real life” into it

It is not the case. The model say: if you do A, B and C, it will work, but if you do A but not B and C, it will fail. The German government has done A but not B and C. What happened with Germany is CONFIRMING that the model works. Other elements of the models are applied in other countries, such as France or England (not the full deployment, but the elements deployed behave exactly as the model predict).

> People like you have claimed for two decades there is - yet, here we are: running coal full steam at night.

Yep, running coal full steam in France when the nuclear power plants fail. So, according to you, nuclear is not working, renewable is not working, ... What's your plan? Whatever you give me, I can easily find places where it failed, which, according to you, is enough to claim that the whole strategy was "ideological".

The thing you are unable to understand is that failure is part of the reality: there is no obviously winning strategy, and rejecting a whole path based on failures that you are not even understanding is ridiculously obtuse.

> Idealists like you destroy our planet.

You are right: idealists LIKE YOU destroy our planet. I'm a pragmatic, I don't care if the solution is nuclear or renewable (but apparently you are totally unable to realize that, which just reinforce the conclusion that your analysis is disconnected from reality). But you are an ideologist: you have decided what is the "correct" solution without knowing the real situation, and you invented excuses to confirm what you have in your head is "the good thing".

But whatever, it does not change the facts: you may think the move was "ideological", but the facts are still there: it was not. You may insist and cry about it, it is very clear that you have no idea of what was the situation (you've even mentioned it yourself). Honestly, if you really want to help the planet, just stop saying useless things and accusing wrongly people of being "ideological" just because it does not fit with the naive model you have created from your superficial understanding of the situation.
Yes, but only technically. What matters is the advanced weapons system each of these countries has on its territory. Think Aegis Ashore and the likes of that. Otherwise, they're just empty land (from a military viewpoint).
Energy savings in mobile form factors makes sense to me, but I agree that worrying about emissions due to desktop/server workloads is laughable when we still haven't written native replacements for things like Teams and Discord. At scale, those 2 applications are probably worth more emissions than an actual Panamax-sized cargo vessel.
Kinda disagree, AI will be eventually be built into all tools where appropriate and you will use it either you like it or not. Simple example: Photoshop. You may not know it but it uses AI. With ChatGPT etc, it will be in more tools. So relax, most people won’t need to lift a finger to leverage AI, it’s built in and is by default used
That makes sense except for the fact that servers can still identify the smaller set of actual Mullvad VPN users by their IP address(es).
Yeah, he even admits that he broke rules but obviously it's all due to this genius that they are mad at him. If he would be less of a 'genius' the university would have accepted it? What a megalomaniac.

> Luque acknowledges that he skipped the established procedures to collaborate with other institutions, but attributes the sanction to envy and a lack of understanding.
Are you only missing types? Gleam is supposed to be designed towards that: https://gleam.run/
> If by "the OP being right" you mean that Russia is pretty much like every other "Great Power" then yeah. Not only can I handle that, but I'm saying the same thing.

So you agree makes Russia a potential threat that Japan needs to care about?

Because your response didn't read like that.
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Apparently he "disliked"* Kubrik's film:

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/andrei-tarkovsky-solaris-artist...

* "absolutely hated" was also mentioned /g
The browser world is a political, uncoordinated mess. For example WebTransport (an HTTP3 API) has been available on Chromium-based browsers for months, but it's still on "Safari Technology Preview", and Firefox does not support it at all. You can probably find dozens of similar examples over the years.
> all mazes being two pieces

This is true for mazes with only one path from start to end. Each additional path necessitates a separate piece (path permutations nonwithstanding)