skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I have a skewed view of the world, but I personally really don't care if something has been created by an AI or a human for most things.
I mean, sure, it's nice to know you have some shoes that have been done by a person but only because this tends to be a sign of actual quality and care, a pair of boots cheaply made by a machine or through cheap labour will just not be (quality wise) as good as a pair of more expensive boots that have been given the care and patience that an expert shoe maker would do.

Now, if machines can produce shoes that are as high quality, and most of the time they can do it (for example my running shoes are quite comfortable and good enough quality) as manual labor... then do I care most of the work has been done by machines? Of course not. In this case, what worries me might be the conditions of the people working in these factories doing the work that the machine is not capable of doing.

So why would this be any different for "white collar" jobs? Why would I care if the article I'm reading has been written 90% by a machine and 10% by a human or the other way around, provided the quality of the final product matches what the author intended?

Automation, to me, is a good thing. The problems come not to me from the fact that technology being able to replace our labour seems like an existential threat to our society because we just assume that it means no one is going to get a job ever again and they're not going to be able to feed their families, etc. I mean, these are very much serious concerns but aren't we pointing fingers to the wrong places? Wouldn't it be great if 80% of the work can be done by machines? If our societal, economical, political systems are not capable of dealing with this scenario and keeping us content then I think we ought to rethink society rather than complain about automation.
CS at a high level is like chess where you can't see your opponent's pieces most of the time. At low levels, it's basically what you described. Check out a pro game on Twitch some time. Every time I watch pros play, I learn a new lineup for util, angle to hold, runboost spot, etc.
What are the stages in a 3 stage filter? Do they really even remove anything? Think about it- if they aren’t removing minerals they aren’t removing things like lead, arsenic, chromium…

It’s like a glorified Brita filter and doesn’t even lower the ppm of the water that comes out of it.
This strategy isn't going to work. Dropping the moniker isn't going to make any difference. They need to drop the platform. Until they do, they'll never catch up to Apple. Intel has been pwned by Apple since 2020, and that trend will only continue if Intel keeps on beating their dead horse. This is ridiculous, the kind of decision-making that killed Sun, and obviously the brain child of some ambitious MBA.
Yeah. The only thing you really need to be great at chess is to play a lot, on longer time controls, and to analyze your own games.

It’s such a common stereotype that chess is all about memorizing openings, like cramming for exams the rest of your life. It’s not. Cramming is all short term memory and people tend to forget everything a few weeks after the test. That doesn’t work in chess.

Great chess players have everything in their long term memory. They can rattle off openings and transpositions like nobody’s business. But they didn’t just study that stuff yesterday. They built it up over years of playing and calculating during games and analyzing the results. It’s much more akin to a great violinist who can play the Sibelius by heart than it is some high school kid cramming for the SAT.
I think EUA would be fine except for the fact that no one is probably introducing new plastics in an emergency situation anyway. Also the EAU authorization has lasted way too long. I think if you ask most reasonable people the emergency is over. Certainly lots of pandemic-era behaviors are over.
And the Niemann cheating scandal
I also like this one and `-Wmissing-prototypes`.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#inde...

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#inde...
Lichess puts a lot of effort into catching cheaters.
This is a old and very known technology:
https://www.google.com/search?q=data+over+sound&oq=data+over...

I once worked with a company that have a whole business around this technology (for some reason their website isn't working):
https://il.linkedin.com/company/sonarax
What is your definition of an artificial brain?
As swalling said, honking in India is constant. A horn in a US bound car may be activated 100 times a year, if the driver is a real jerk. A horn in India will be activated 100 times a day easy. You need a much more robust horn (and horn switch) or it'll wear out quickly; but there's no need for such a robust horn in the US.
Feels bad on the teeth and is a good way to lobotomize yourself if you trip
A (disputed) story goes that a community wanted a church house and tasked a likely local to get it built. He protested that the only thing he knew how to build was sailing ships. So in 1868 they built an upside down ship and called it a church. The Pine Valley chapel is still in operation today in the mountains of southern Utah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Valley_Chapel_and_Tithing...

https://www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/485
Shell syntax isn't "wacky", it's extremely error prone.

Using shell script instead of a sane language is like opening beer with your teeth because you can't be bothered to get a bottle opener.
I think this assumes managers (or anyone else for that matter) are able to actually quantify productivity.
> Housing is not a good that I can live without. I'll die without a roof over my head. Profiting off of that is the behavior of a leech.

Is your local supermarket also a leech because they'll sell you tomatoes and make a tiny profit off those? Shouldn't everyone have their own tomato farm instead?

You do need food a lot more than a roof to survive, after all.
What successes have you seen here / been involved in?
This is a lost cause. Similar to Seoul (it blew my mind when I heard it pronounced by locals: soh-wool, because the letters are s-eo-ou-l).
Turning to a Hacker News friendly theme, Mr. Watt and Herr Doktor Haber und Bosch have a lot to do with why livestock today are so big and produce so much milk and wool or so many eggs. Internal combustion engines and artificial nitrates let you feed animals more energy-rich food which let them grow bigger and produce more milk and wool and eggs. Animals also grow bigger if they are vaccinated against diseases, medicated against parasites, protected from pests by cheap steel, and watered with filtered water. Animal breeding was just one of the aspects of British agriculture that started to rapidly improve around the 18th century.
> without it you simply do not have the memory bandwidth to do anything other than reading instructions.

And?

You only NEED instruction fetches when the values you are operating on are in registers -- because you have a lot of registers, function arguments and results are passed in registers, local variables are in registers, even the return address stays in a register for leaf functions (the vast majority of functions, dynamically.

Loads and stores are quite rare, and the majority of them are saving registers at the start of the function and reloading them at the end -- for which ARM provided load/store multiple instructions, the "CICSy" part of ARM (but not very .. it's a simple hardware sequencer) which they have dropped in Aarch64.
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"Large language models are trained on massive datasets of text data"

Maybe time for internet to start moving away from text and start making it more expensive for mass data collection systems.
He closed down Vine, Periscope and Meerkat nearly a decade before TikTok made video cool! What a visionary...
It’s like complaining about crumbs on the floor of a house filled with garbage. It’s missing the forest for the trees. Plastic straws have nothing to contribute to the problem that supposedly motivated the reason to ban them
Sounds like an issue with music rights..?
And enormous embodied energy. They are not any better for the environment unless you use a metal straw for like 10 years
Right, but Google doesn't show everyone the same results. The earlier poster clearly didn't get a very good search result. If google search is bad for some people or in some cases, it should be a concern for everyone because you would never know when you are getting that poor result.
And this is the real difference between him and Ted Nelson.

Nelson fantasizes about being the media mogul of a publishing empire under his technology. It's ultimately a proprietary format play.

This is the significant difference. I tried to explain it to Ted, personally, in Sausalito about 10 years ago over a lunch, as politely as I could.

You need to blow it open, as much as possible and make it as easy as possible without necessitating others to opt in. Information networks can't be built by an authoritarian conquer and covet strategy.

It's been tried countless times and history has zero successful test cases to study with that strategy. From DIVX to Flexplay, dvd-d to any format war ever, crippleware rent-seeking is a death knell. It will firebomb the most successful thing into oblivion overnight.

I failed to convince him this was the key difference. Ah well.
K'nex
We ought to rethink society and economics. Although, a lot of the crap work won't be doable by machines, along with a lot of the high-touch yet low-paid work like home health care, teaching, policing and so on. Time to be an electrician.
Some people discussing cheating and the more boring aspects of chess. Thing is,

- chess education is more accessible and is fun af now thanks to folks like Hikaru and Levy (aka GothamChess).

- default games are now rapid 10 minute games or 20 minute games at tops. This makes it as quick as a Fortnite round and the odds of cheating in such rapid games goes down drastically. Couple that with the excellent anti cheat work being done and the game really does stay short and enjoyable.

With the game being in popular culture via queens gambit it feels understandable that it is rising amongst younger folks (impossible to have predicted but very much easily explained looking backwards)
> You ignore the fact that alpha emitters (like literally anything else) can crap up their surroundings with micro-particles

What on earth are you talking about? You realize you are full of alpha emitters?

> As stated above your 600 year timescale is off by close to three orders of magnitude

Nope, see this chart: https://whatisnuclear.com/img/ingestion-radiotoxicity-nuclea...

> you appear to be pretending groundwater either doesn't exist or can't move

That's why you bury it in rock where it doesn't move and we know it doesn't. Like the Permian Basin or where the Oklo natural reactors occurred in Gabon.

Oh yes, did you know nature formed fission reactors billions of years before we did ever existed? This always pisses off the hippies when I tell them. And guess what? The fission products from this natural process moved mere centimeters over 2 billion years.

This is a solved problem. It's just that some people desperately want it not to be.
But why should they be afraid of these models? These models will not gonna be competitive enough compared to the models of the larger companies, and considering that training cost > inference cost, it will never be competitive in market sense to small-scale train different models from scratch. So these models are never gonna reach the impact of the larger ones in the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsela

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%27Nex

Capsela and K'Nex were both great. I absolutely loved capsela as a kid. Capsela was an incredibly satisfying toy to play with and it was simple to put together. Relatively small changes created significantly different machines. Understanding the toy made it more fun to play with, but it was fun with almost no understanding too. Playing with it increased understanding.

This is not from experience, but what I expect the answer is for older kids:

A 3d printer with help understanding how to mechanize is probably best.

Adafruit is probably one of the better websites for acquiring interesting parts:

https://www.adafruit.com/

Maybe what you're looking for: https://www.adafruit.com/category/227

It's hard to give a better answer without knowing age/budget/goal/etc.
Moved from NYC to South Carolina and the culture shock is real.

Doors aren't locked. Neighbors help each other out with stuff like mowing, or bringing bins up/down driveways on trash day. No words are exchanged about it either.

I removed the rust and repainted my mailbox this weekend and then went around the neighborhood to do the same for others while I had spare time and spare paint left.

This is what I moved here for. No way will I stop working remote and go back.
>The problem was that it didn't get updated like normal software, it was somehow tied to the OS, so old outdated versions lingered around for far too long, limiting what technologies web developers could use.

Now that mantle is taken up by Safari, especially on mobile.
A 3D printer and aluminium extrusions.
> help someone is going to automate my job and other jobs might be harder

More like “help, someone is going to automate my job and there won’t be jobs for everyone”

In a hypothetical scenario where 30% of the current workforce is decimated by AI (white collar jobs), what makes you think the demand for plumbers, aircon unit installers or fruit pickers is goong to go up and absorb all those lost jobs?
None of however does not lead to liking chess. The game is massively about memorization and drill, with some patina of superior aura on it. At least on lower levels.

Like you trying to make everything else sound inferior, plus fluff. It is not true, once you scratch reputation out of chess, you get mundane drills and memorization of situations.
This is a common myth but it doesn’t make sense if you do the math. There aren’t enough minerals in tap to make a difference compared to the food you eat.

Per protocol, we gave our lab rats deionized water that was likely close to zero ppm. All the minerals they need are in the chow.

I have drunk delicious RO water at home for decades and have experienced no ill effects, all my blood work for minerals is perfectly normal, teeth healthy etc.

>Using an average calcium concentration in public water supplies of 26 mg/liter and a maximum of 145 mg/liter (Durfor and Becker, 1964) and assuming that the average adult drinks 2 liters of this water daily, then the drinking water could contribute an average of 52 mg/day and a maximum of 290 mg/day. On an average basis this would represent 5% to 10% of the usual daily intake or approximately 6.5% of the adult RDA.

>Therefore, typical drinking water in the United States, Canada, or Europe provides approximately 3% to 7% of the RDA for magnesium intake by a healthy human.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK216589/

I suppose if someone was right on the borderline for mineral deficiency the ~5% of the RDA from water could make a difference but that isn’t really a problem Americans have, if anything they get too much from food. There is some data showing excess calcium is actually bad for heart disease since it is found in atherosclerotic plaques, a problem Americans do have.
Although I don't think the person you're replying to is in the right. There are three branches of government, legislative, executive and judicial and replacing the legislators is probably the easiest out of all and the one that's going to bring the most benefit as well. I think your example is more akin to replacing people in the executive and people who generally "work the ropes" in government.

Systemic corruption is very much a thing, but I think it's mostly concentrated in the legislative branch of government, than the executive or the judicial. I personally think it's easier to add to a system than remove from it, and maybe we ought to rethink the bicameral system for one that is more capable of representing the interests of the general population.

Now, the real problem is that any changes to the system need to come from the system itself :) so there's obvious interests at play that might not be touched.
It's such a simplistic mindset.

We define life as "what occurs on earth" and we expect to find it elsewhere in a universe with infinite dimension, variation and depth. Wolfram's principle of computational equivalence may very well be right, we could see life everywhere and not even know it. Maybe to recognize life we have to be related to it, maybe theres some sort of temporal entanglement going on or something, I don't know. All I do know is that a bug on my shirt doesn't know that I have a face, love my wife, talk to people on the internet, drive a car, look at pictures of mars or even that a planet exists, much less other planets. And we expect to be able to recognize higher intelligence when we see it? It's unrealistic, it's a simplistic mindset that shows a lack of understanding of even what it is this universe is doing here. And I don't claim to know that either, but I do see that theres infinite dimension no matter what resolution you look, everywhere, all the time, happening real time, and if its too big or too small I can't perceive it. Maybe the same is true everywhere for everything that can experience. Maybe observant entities that emerged completely separately are incapable of even perceiving each other.
It really is until you settle on a larger terminal size by default (I use 100x25 or 100x50 usually, sometimes 132x25/50 for lots of output.) I still miss it though. Don't know why they never added it, for example it's got a whole Tektronix emulator built-in so bloat and extra work are no excuses.
Another example is when Samsung aired an ad for their phones in the UK last year, featuring a woman jogging on 2am in the city. Apparently, that ruffled some feathers, with people questioning how Samsung could be so tone-deaf about women's safety.

Except that a woman jogging in Seoul's street on 2am would be a totally believable sight: I wouldn't personally recommend it, but it wouldn't look too out of place.
> Chess is born anew for the 21st century.

Where are the doomers who said chess was over after being solved by AI?
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My father has always been a chess aficionado, but I got turned off by the fact that he was the only available opponent, and he had 37 years of headstart (it didn't occur to me to go to a chess club). When I was in University, I discovered Go, which felt somehow deeper than chess (I do enjoy the occasional game of chess, but compared to Go it feels like a knife fight vs a military campaign). After school I stopped playing (and I had never gotten serious). However, my family needed a distraction when the war in Ukraine started (we live in Poland, so it's right around the corner), so I started playing Go with my son.

Since then we've gotten pretty serious - we play at a local club, went to a tournament, take lessons, etc. However, it's very much a niche hobby - more than A local club it's THE local club. Part of me wishes that I'd have chosen chess, which would've given us an order of magnitude more opponents and materials, both online and offline. On top of that, apparently it would've given my son an additional way to gain social status at school. However, the truth is that we do enjoy Go more than chess, and have already invested quite some energy (I am beginning to be an intermediate with an ELO of around 1150).

There are some perks of course. The Go community is super nice (the joke goes that, unlike with chess, you cannot just go to another club to play IRL if you piss off your club members). It's so small that even as a beginner I got the chance to befriend the reigning Polish champion (and one of the very few European Pros, which is a big deal - they play almost on par with the Asian pros). He turned out to be a fantastical human being, if a bit intimidating at first (he will casually play 5 games simultaneously, maintaining separate teaching conversations over each board, and a bonus conversation about AI; then he will be able to write down every game on paper).

While I feel a hint of jealousy for the popularity of chess, if Go were to disappear, I would just switch to chess and have probably have 85-90% of the fun I'm having with Go (not to mention access to my father's vast chess library). So, the fact that young people enjoy mind games makes me very happy - I feel that playing chess or Go is genuinely good for you.
Over the last few months Rozman has dominated short form content for chess, and I think this article doesn't give him enough credit. Both long form and short form videos of his hit millions of views, consistently over the last few months. The analytics for his channel speak for themselves.

Here he responds to a reddit question from 3 months ago about the rise in Chess and he reponds "me" in an implied tongue in cheek way. [1] He is very active in the chess community and feels very accessible. Unlike the original elitist culture that chess was known for, he works hard to make it accessible and makes an effort to praise brilliant moves from low elo games/moves. His video answering chess questions on the wired youtube channel is a great introduction to him as well as chess, regardless of your skill level.

Rozman's videos that focus on beginner plays made me feel okay to be low elo, and that's impactful coming from someone at his skill level.

I am weak with opening theory and don't enjoy learning it. I enjoy playing intuitively, and have started playing much more chess960, a variant where starting piece positions are randomized. Lichess has recurrent chess960 torunaments. [2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/10glwhg/does_anyone_...

[2] https://lichess.org/team/lichess-chess960
This isn't to insult the professions of people who show up to your house in emergencies, but elderly folks are known to hide cash away and more than once have I heard of situations where first responders tossed a person's house looking for valuables.

Giving a trusted neighbor access and information about the contents is to protect those things for your heirs -- or to get you out of a jam.
you should let bruce know
would it be OK if we didn't interview or provide any reinforcement to the kind of behavior like Lemoine? He's a freakin nutcase, regardless of your or my view on AI.
If nuclear power were profitable, no amount of vehement opposition due to environmental risk could stop it. There'd be nuclear power plants everywhere. Fortunately for your vehement opposition, considering all costs. nuclear power has always been the single most expensive way to generate electricity, has never been profitable, and never will be, even if it wasn't regulated. Investors can't be found unless a government subsidizes construction and pays for decommissioning and waste storage and security. The only reason so many nuclear power plants were even constructed in the US in the first place is that someone somewhere, or perhaps a team or committee, vastly overestimated the need for fuel for bombs. Anyway, it really sucks, but opposition and environmental concern can't really stop the destruction of ecosystems or environmental catastrophe if whatever is causing it is profitable. Nuclear is done and didn't need help killing itself, but keep that in mind if you have any other pet environmental concerns, i.e. that to win and protect the environment, one must figure out a way to obliterate the potential for profit in risking or destroying it. Otherwise, you're just shaking a tiny fist at the sky for all the good it'll do.
What a play!
> LLMs do not require real-time access to the internet or permission to use specific data points.

But why? Why copyright and other licenses and rights do not apply?
yeah but now everybody uses android instead
Fucking around meets finding out. It's a tale as old as time
LLM wrong => unredeemable and fatally flawed

human wrong => no problem, mistakes happen