skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't explicitly say it but how that reveals the ignorance of dawkins here is that the attacks he chose were effectively fended off hundreds or in some cases thousands of years ago by theology and apologetics. It's not just that the refutations are old, it's that they're old and convincing.

Which is not to say that the conversation is over, or that the theologians are correct. But that an informed argument would be to address the (ancient) refutations to the naive attacks, rather than to simply restate the naive attacks as if they are insightful.

The points he raises in that book aren't going to be novel to pretty much anyone. Most believers will recognize them from their own minds. Probably no modern person is a "pure" believer: we are all exposed to and familiar with the mechanisms and logic of unbelief. Believers experience belief more as an inconsistent state, or an active effort or choice, than a simple delusion they are unable to perceive. There's a very interesting conversation there that dawkins wasn't willing or maybe able to have.

Charles Taylor's "a secular age" is one place where you could pick up the conversation our society has been having with itself for centuries about the mechanisms, role & effects of belief, delusion, religion & faith if you were interested in it as a practical or philosophical question and not as a battlefield for self aggrandizement as dawkins clearly was.
>i have to admit i added my own bias here so thank you for expanding.

Same here, thank you. I don't know much about other topics. I use Anki for med school and language learning, both of which have great premade decks. But I think I can see now why creating your own decks can be more useful for abstract stuff. Kind of like that memorization method where you create stories related to things you are trying to memorize. It only works when you are the one who created the story.
ok, i guess this isn't something we are supposed to admit, but there are many things i have learned over the years which have been distilled to thought-bites, right? i often want to comment just short things, slogans almost. these AI have been invaluable in beefing up my slogans into longer statements with the un-distilled facts laid out in bullet points. it's pretty helpful as an argument de-compression tool.

but that has pretty serious epistemological concerns. and to the people who are concerned about that - well i think that's funny... maybe take a walk down the science of how poor memory really is.

i guess i just have a very attenuated view of human (including my own) rationality. it's waaaaay more inflated for the average human than we're willing to admit.

i made a comment early on in December about the oncoming epistemological crisis and damn has it been really fun to watch unfold the last few months.
Well could you please explain the side you think they are taking, what the other side is, and what kinds of facts support that side?

Because I honestly don't know them. Claiming an article is "this biased" doesn't help anyone here if you don't explain why.
> This is one of several questions posed by the Future of Life Institute’s recent call for a pause on “giant AI experiments,” which now has over 10,000 signatories including Elon Musk.....

In other news, Elon Musk paints over the W in twitter in petty dispute with landlord and changes logo to dodge coin logo.

yup all quality people that know what's going on signing that petition.
> And CO2 emissions are being fixed by switching from gas cars to EVs.

Not reall, rail is 9 times more energy efficient than road vechicles. Thats why its cheaper to have a diesel locomotove move freight than to pour the same diesel into trucks.

The whole reason rail exists is thsa its the most efficient form of tranportation on land.
> I was at a 7-11 yesterday

Did you ask the cashier if they owned a house and had any children?

We're not exactly solving anything at a society level if we replace all the high paying jobs and let corporations pocket that money directly, while only leaving lots of shitty low paid jobs for the starving masses to fight over.
Yes, and this is tantamount to suggesting that Python developers should be satisfied with Python 2.0 (arguably 1.0 if you do F# development). Mono is effectively dead and abandoned, and it only exists now for historical reasons.
Panopticon is ruining the military. Did not have that one on my 21st century bingo card.
The current publicly available GPT-4 is not multimodal yet; the image recognition mode has not be released. That was only mentioned in the demo and writeup.
I just found out my position will be eliminated at the end of April. Was working for the same company for about 20 years and to be honest, I feel lost in terms of what to do next. The thought of applying, interviewing or starting a new position is physically nauseating to me right now.

I have always been looking externally, but nothing seemed to ever pan out, so in addition to feeling lost, there is a component of feeling trapped as well.

My background is a little different where I am in the org psychology space, so this experience has been nice to see how I have been processing the information. So there is often time where journaling helps me process. Or reading posts like this and feeling not alone.

If anyone has any insight, or wants to connect, I would love that as well.
It took a lot longer for Firefox to get GPU accelerated video playback on Linux iirc

Perhaps a "niche" use case for some, but there's a lot more Firefox users on Linux in particular
That's fair, but it's funny because that's how I always felt about BMWs. My buddy loves them but I always felt like they were so... sterile. Unless you are at a track or love cutting off people in traffic it feels really hard to have any fun in one.
The article does not argue that nothing will change.
where were all these people when corporate America said it was ok to outsource all jobs to other countries?
Hardware-wise, OpenBSD (deliberately) has no support for Bluetooth.
Why people arguing agains AI importance are using some cherry picked examples from currently available models while being blind to rate it improves? It's like saying wikipedia is shit because it currently has only 50 articles at some point in the past.
By 'boost computer networks' they mean quantum networking which means pretty much only securely flipping coins remotely, at least until there are quantum computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_network
Could be so, and it can depend on the flux and the processing, but it's almost never the flux. From a 10,000 ft look at your project, I wouldn't expect it to need the high isolation or high impedances that would drive a serious cleanliness spec. You could have other issues that a temperature and humidity test would uncover with no-clean, for example. We can discuss them if you'd like.

Depends on what you mean by "yes-clean" though - "water-clean" OA flux must absolutely be cleaned - it can start to corrode overnight even.
Quantum Network
I don't know what you mean by compiler terms but basically, worse tokenizer = worse LM performance. This is because worse tokenizer means more tokens per sentence so it takes more FLOPs to train on each sentence, on average. So given a fixed training budget, English essentially gets more "learning per token" than other languages.
> "open source" has a broader English meaning that predates the OSI for at least several decades.

It is also not data collected by an intelligence agency or law enforcement from public sources.
Not gonna lie, I'm shopping at the shop without AI powered gun turrets, even if the food costs more...
In terms of a pure DAO though that's a weirdly nebulous distinction. Before incorporation they're nowhere legally speaking, there's not a single physical location it's operating out of.

Maybe like others have said it's mostly about otherwise extant orgs not being able to register.
How did you prompt it to play tic-tac-toe? I'm surprised that didn't work, it feels like something it should be able to handle really well.

Hangman and stone-paper-scissors though are entirely unsuited to a language model, at least one with a chat interface like ChatGPT, because they both require it to be able to store a secret. ChatGPT has no ability to do this: each time it returns a response by evaluating the previous conversation.

You could build a system that COULD play those games via an LLM but you'd have to write extra code to do it.
For anyone who does not like AA - definitely check out "Smart Recovery". Many find it much better and it there is a similar comaraderie component but much more science based and no religious aspect.
In my experience GPT4 poorly performs ROT13 but can do base64 decoding really well. A lot of the early jailbreaks used base64 to sneak tokens into prompts. How could it base64 decode but not reverse a string? That's very odd.
It’s not about those jobs, but mostly low-skill white-collar jobs.

There will be a need for HR, but will a company need all of them, when fewer could do the work with the help of an AI?
It would be more easy if your blog would offer an rss-feed ... but thank you for the idea.
>learning that way will also have you relying on flux for through-holes, though

Is that really a problem, especially for a beginner? I can understand if you are soldering a lot, you will be faster without the need to constantly add flux and save resources but at that point, I think the repetition will let you get better over time anyway.
No one is saying that 12 step doesn't have any successes, but:

1. The data is somewhat overwhelming that the rates of success aren't 25-30% as you said, but closer to 7%.[1] This puts it in roughly the same category as no

2. No one is dismissing the idea of doing 12 steps, but 12 steps is often court mandated.

3. 12 Step has more than passing connections to "faith-based" treatments. This is a problem when it's court mandated.

4. Instead of a problem with the program, they categorize inability to complete them as moral failures on the part of the person in treatment.

No one thinks that 12 step treatments shouldn't be an option, but they're not effective evidence based treatment options.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/the-surpr...
> hardware functionality being moved to firmware

Sorry for my lack of proofreading, this was not written correctly. Functions that were formerly handled in software drivers are now being handled in firmware by many wireless NICs.
No, I was explicitly watching for this. In one of the sessions where we asked it to generate Kłeti sentences and the conversation passed the token limit it started inserting characters like ı (the Turkish dotless i). A week earlier I was playing with interpreting go positions, and at some point the model switched to talking about Chess (a bit less subtle than inserting unusual characters).
> This meant I would have no way of seeing results for myself, instead I would to pay out £150 each time to get the consultant to analyse for me.

I think I would have just paid the money (at least for a few months to see if I'm getting my money's worth) rather than going through all that trouble of trying out different machines, etc.

That's just me though. I realize some people are more comfortable with taking matters into their own hands and enjoy getting into the nitty gritty.

I'm also the kind of person who would much rather hire a trusted plumber, mechanic, etc to just get it done than muck about it myself.
> That the CEO of the company told them, in broad daylight, to make this conspiratorial change at this time?

Yes? I mean, he has acted out of spite and whimsy on countless other issues since buying Twitter. Occam's Razor suggests that he keeps showing us who he is and we should understand that, not construct theories about some miraculously timed bug.
This is my plan. As soon as self driving tech is available I'm putting it in a school busy mini-house. Punch in any destination and then live my life while I head there. It'll basically be teleportation in my lifetime.
Per https://news.wisc.edu/corn-that-acquires-its-own-nitrogen-id..., original research paper was published in 2018, see https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
This was me with a Suzuki vstrom with a bad solenoid. Mechanic ran 12 volts through it on the bench and refused to accept it wasnt working in the bike.

Bought my own solenoid online and surprise the bike started working again.
In a way, this is how it should be
Isn't that just because there are enough free parameters that can be plugged in to make string theory agree with the standard model?
Yes, in fact, that's exactly how I use the Python REPL. I can send the function or region from the emacs buffer to the Python console easily.
If your site hadn't been so "advanced", I could just have given you a URL ;)

It's in the "Memory" part of the instructions page.
> Korean has couple of dozen of symbols in its alphabet.

While that is true (14 consonants, 10 vowels [0]), there are encodings for Korean that encode at the syllable level (where each syllable contains one or two consonants and one vowel) and the combinations for syllables are over 10000 (e.g. 11172 code points listed in Unicode, see [1]).

[0]
in practice, more, both to cater for both modern and obsolete forms as well to distinguish the forms based on their position, i.e. with separate encodings for leading vs trailing consonants etc.).

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul_Syllables
> the number of jobs for people who know how to use AI increases

Also anything AI adjacent that hasn't been automated (yet?), but I don't see any guarantee of a favorable ratio.
Well, just to offer some pushback in the thread, I can imagine one reason why.

My father has sleep apnea, he is overweight, a heavy smoker and I reckon his daily intake of coffee could kill a small rodent. We are Spanish and public healthcare has blessed us with a CPAP machine...

That he just won't use. He refuses to, complains that he feels too uncomfortable with it. I can't recall the last time he slept 8 hours in one go.

And I wonder how common that is. The machine is noisy, does look like pulled out of a teenage horror movie and takes accustoming to. There is heavy friction for its use and that might be a serious problem to consider.
Alas, the way you feed energy to a blackhole is by dropping things into it.

(Yes, there is a well-known paradox/open-problem implied by this.)
Yep. You can also put cold funds behind a multisig, which to use the vault in the back of the bank example, would require two managers to turn a key at the same time to open the vault.
There is a vast majority of suburban towns around Boston which are both quite old and quite solvent, contrary to the Strong Towns predictions.

I’ve written about them before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34599508

For convenience, they include: Arlington (1635), Belmont (1849), Waltham (1884), Watertown (1630), Lincoln (1754), Wellesley (1881), Newton (1688 town, 1874 city) among others.
> Elixir's Ecto can (and that Go example) so if you use Elixir (or Go) you can use prepared statements with PgBouncer (or Supavisor!) in transaction mode.

Ah `binary_parameters` is just this Go lib thing. Ecto just sends unnamed prepared statements where (TiL) query plans are not cached.
>I don't think you really understand the story of the luddites that well

Nothing you said was evidence that I don't understand the story well. You should leave your baseless opinion on my background with the topic out of it or provide evidence that what I said was incorrect.

Additionally, nothing else that you said was relevant to my message. I'm not arguing with anyone about "the US social safety net". Calling someone that argues AI won't take your job anytime soon a "Luddite" is the exact opposite of what Luddites were. If I'm wrong, I'm happy to hear more about that.
I'd say there's a world of difference between a $20 cheap iron and a $50 adjustable temperature station, but once I got to the $50 level I find I can do everything I need to do (including SMD).
This seems to cozy up to Utilitarianism, which has it's own problems. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism#Criticisms_and_...
Disemvoweling
Yes, pattern matching (with destructuring) would be a small addition to the language, and it would be awesome, even without sum types
Libgen is 57% English (17% Russian, 8% German) [1]. By comparison, 10% of Wikipedia is in English [2] (going by number of files and number of articles respectively, both flawed metrics)

Though I feel that's answering a slightly different question. Data used to train currently popular models is mostly English, and the marjority of data in sources popular in the anglosphere is English. Neither of these show whether the majority of available media is English.

https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/r3lzg2/top_15_langu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Co...
Yep, one of the worst possible outcomes of AI currently (skipping the entire AGI kills us thing) is by drastically increasing informational efficiency, hence replacing most of our high paid jobs, while not significantly increasing resource efficiency. You would have a massive decrease in wages while not having deflation in any other metrics.
> Yes it takes all types but people who are a net negative to humanity should be shunned and not blindly admired.

I find Elon haters just as annoying as his fanboy worshippers. What makes you think he's a net negative to humanity and not you?
The calculations on that page are not correct. First, the average car occupancy is not 1, it's 1.5 on average. Second, the lane capacity is 1900 cars per hour (that's maximum at around 45 mph, btw). So this works out to 8550 people per hour.

A realistic scenario for commuter trains (that would replace a freeway) is 1 train every 10 minutes, and even this is pretty tough. So you have 6 trains per hour, and to match the throughput you'd need 1425 people per train.

Most train platforms are maxed out at well below 10 cars (Caltrain is 6 cars), 20 car trains are just pure nonsense for commuting. So for 10 car trains it'll be around 150 people per car. Caltrain cars are 130 seats per car ( https://www.greencaltrain.com/2014/05/keeping-up-with-caltra... ), with another 40 standing places.

Basically, a perfectly run commuter train system is _just_ barely comparable with a regular 6-lane freeway.

Sorry train fans, but trains are not that great for commuting.
That quote is an auto industry representative saying the transition to electric vehicles will take longer than the federal government is urging (which is to say, it'll take another 100 years by their measures). On my end I meant the 20th century rather than an exact 100 year period.
Firefox-related CPU use is only reduced by 75% when this bug is caused. NOT in the general case as this title implies
Current MS employee here. For a time this was true, but FF recently added this integration. No about:config needed, there’s simply a checkbox under the FF security settings. Since this was added, I have gone back to using FF as my daily driver, and I haven’t really encountered any other friction.
Edit: Added twitalternatives.com as the main domain, in case twitter-alternatives.com is taken down for trademark issues.
I agree that you shouldn't look only at effect sizes any more than you should look only at p-values. (What I would actually prefer you to do, where you can figure out a good way to do it, is to compute a posterior probability distribution and look at the whole distribution. Then you can look at its mean or median or mode or something to get a point estimate of effect size, you can look at how much of the distribution is > 0 to get something a bit like a p-value but arguably more useful, etc.

If anything I wrote appeared to be saying "just look at effect size, it's the only thing that matters" then that was an error on my part. I definitely didn't intend to say that.

But I was responding to an article saying "p<0.05 considered harmful" that never mentions effect sizes at all. I think that's enough to demonstrate that, in context, "it's bad to look at p-values and ignore effect sizes" is not in fact a straw man.

Incidentally, I am not convinced that the p-value as such is often a good way to assess how likely it is that your results are due to random chance. Suppose you see an effect size of 1 unit with p=0.05. OK, so there's a 5% chance of getting these results if the true effect size is zero. But you should also care what the chance is of getting these results if the true effect size is +0.1. (Maybe the distribution of errors is really weird and these results are very likely with a positive but much smaller effect size; then you have good evidence against the null hypothesis but very weak evidence for an effect size of the magnitude you measured.) In fact, what you really want to know is what the probability is for every possible effect size, because that gives you the likelihood ratios you can use to decide how likely you think any given effect size is after seeing the results. For sure, having the p-value is better than having nothing, but if you were going to pick one statistic to know in addition to (say) a point estimate of the effect size, it's not at all clear that the p-value is what you should choose.
Not yet.

I am really hoping for free access soon without plus, but I don't know how realistic it is yet.

I do like it a lot, but it just seems kinda pricey for me when I don't have an exact use case for it.
"Capitalism is God's way of determining who is smart and who is poor."

- Ron Swanson (not sure if his character was a techno-libertarian, but certainly a libertarian)
> A rush-hour train may consist of 20 cars

The author is smoking some hard crack.
Its a problem of the same class of being short ie not that big of a problem.

(Also if you have a good beard it looks cool, but I don't have one)
I've been to multiple mechanics, talked to roadside assistance people, posted in multiple forums, and talked to family about this problem with an old car of mine... and they all swore up and down that you should start a car if it sits longer than a weekend, maybe a week tops. They made me feel insane about it, it's one of those widely accepted things that's just not true most of the time.
What do you think might be such a bullshit job?

100 years ago a whole village had to help with crops, now a single air conditioned combine harvester can do the job (hell, doesn’t even need a driver, it works solely through GPS). We somewhat earned a bit of time with many of the bullshit jobs, but I think that bubble is bursting — we will have to undergo a huge societal change (UBI or something like that), otherwise we will get to Gotham city levels.
And a unit of pollution. I'm sure that one extra solar plant or hydro plant wouldn't draw as much attention.
"all purposes" cannot include any GPL licensed software because it clashes with certain licenses. So by that definition Linux is not Open Source.

The BSD and MIT licenses
It's impressive -- but it makes me feel seasick. I hope it landed some of you a nice webdev job :)
Nice. I was going to use Next for my current project, but may give your solution a try instead!
Learn how to build modern user interfaces for the web
Serial killers find killing people fun.

Everyone's different.

Luckily, a very small percentage of the population is big game hunters...
it probably depends on the customer type.

consumer - probably ads and in app purchases and pro subscription.

business - saas, possible free tier for leads.

enterprise - add consulting and plus charge alot more - more team based features and better support

devs- don't bother they're a horrible market to go after.

if your looking for HN approval your already working against yourself.

think about it like this. If some people is willing to pay you for the second years subscription your doing something right and you probably have a business.

unless someone is paying your rent you don't need their permission.