skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ “Our data suggested that the mortality related to the virus itself is relatively low, but other things that happen during the ICU stay, like secondary bacterial pneumonia, offset that.”
a) Be polite. I never called anyone a shill.

b) Drone strikes and social media are not related either.
They would need an economic incentive to do so. Sadly it doesn’t seem like there would be any upside for them.
I was thinking that this was not quite correct as I saw the problem. A vanilla html-css-js page from 10 or 15 years ago will probably run just fine in a modern browser (though it will look its age). The loads of external dependancies is what will doom web projects.

A tweet down-thread coined a word for this:

Ry
@RyanMorey
I think we need a different term for this than bitrot. It’s not data corruption breaking these, but like compatibility corruption? PlatformRot
I am sort of baffled at the idea of reducing the appeal of city living to commuting and shopping?

I live in DC, can easily bike anywhere, and it is to me about visiting friends at their homes, parks, going to museums, relaxing on the waterfront, going to the bike trails, hobbyist meetups, catching a train to visit Philly or NY, all within easy reach.

Really the issue, to me and most other people, is how hilariously unaffordable it is due to the incredibly high demand for housing in cities.
The needlessly complicated transition of Chrome extensions to Manifest V3 (2021)
It's often more about what they can show you than what they can see, but what they fun see about you helps them decide how to nudge your beliefs
Facebook does exactly the same thing. I highly doubt it's a grand CCP conspiracy. It's more likely the incredibly mundane (but far more insidious) explanation that The Algorithm(TM) has discovered that, in aggregate, it leads to more eyeballs viewing for longer.
That's not right either, the board and officers have fiduciary duty to act in shareholders' interest and to use reasonable business judgment. Less strict than maximizing profit, but more strict than anything-legal-goes.
If you are a Phish fan, here is an interesting thread from fans about it.

https://forum.phish.net/forum/show/1378868388

And here is a podcast episode about it, it’s actually the season 1 episode 1 opener of Long May They Run - A Pattern Language.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3H5olGsalhWfMbEhyzOu9P?si=p...
Missing from this list is OANDA, which had perpetual forex contracts for a long time. Interest was paid/received every second, instead of having a tommorow-next model as the other forex brokers do.
The out-of-class assignments were a good opportunity to shine for students who do poorly under stress. This change will hurt them.
Kind of a weird world we live in where intellectual property gives someone else legal power over what we may do with our own devices, but conversely our ability to do things with our devices that is within our legal right is not considered our property.
Oral exams.
And the the thing that links those two financial statements is the statement of cash flows, which tells the real story…funny that wasn’t mentioned…
I don’t live in a fly over state but I do own a Ford Escape PHEV (probably the most affordable option for a PHEV). Range wise, a PHEV would go further than a typical ICE by a large margin. On a full tank, I can easily go 400 miles+ driving 75 mph+ for most of the drive. Mind you, I’m on a 11 gallon tank. If I stay local, I usually hit a combined 100 mpg. Which means with my electric and gas usage, I fill up my tank every 1K miles. I have free charging at work and it’s one way about 25 miles which means I almost never use gas for my work commute.

I think one thing people don’t talk enough about is how much increase quality of life the EV portion brings. Idling for a drive thru? Zero gas. Napping in your car during lunch when it’s 90 degrees outside? Well it’ll be a cool 70 inside your car with zero gas or engine noise. The driving feel of a PHEV is also significantly better, instant torque and the electric to engine crossover is so smooth that you don’t even notice it. Also regen break saves a ton. I was stuck in an unforeseen traffic jam for about 5 miles with stop and go traffic. I barely used more than 5 miles of electric range since regen recovered so much energy.

Edit: Almost forgot to mention the best part about having a hybrid or PHEV! There is no on/off engine that all new regular gas cars have.
Funny how the old Hebrew word for sun is Shemesh, and the Sumerians astronomically identified Shemesh as shown on the tablets of Shemesh as the planet Saturn. Huh. Weird. Wonder why they would do that.
I'm one of those not-americans, and for me it's just another different country getting my data (well.. would-be, if I had tiktok installed... or if i had facebook... so for me personally, it's only google that's problematic right now).

Americans, welcome to the club of "the rest of the world"-ers, where foreign governments get access to our data :)
Why would I change your mind when you speak the truth?

I do wonder what the Apple equivalent to Windows 2000 would be, maybe Mac OS 8?
Well quite a few try, like the folks on welfare buying luxury handbags and so on.
I would not be surprised if the students in my beginning programming class are using it; on a discussion assignment to give an example of a Python dictionary that you would want to use to solve a problem that interests you, about 60% of the entries had approximately the same structure for the concluding paragraph (all of them had different wording, but the theme was the same):

“This Python dictionary could be useful for $HOBBYIST who is learning about $HOBBY and could help people familiar with $HOBBY to remember terms or use it for guidance in improving their skills at $HOBBY.”
The headline is sensationalist fake news, but I don't expect decency from journalism anymore.

The patch itself is finished and out, Microsoft themselves even provide instructions for turning everything on. Anyone who actually cares about this can follow the instructions, so this is a sensationalist nothingburger.
Throttling/Blocking Email from Vulnerable Exchange Servers to Exchange Online
Community support & bugfixes. There's no real downside either, all printers that exist today are crap so it's not like they differentiate on firmware quality
As a student studying for exams, chatGPT is phenomenal. Instead of needing to ask my peers, I can take a practice question and ask chatGPT not for the solution but for a hint, which is a game changer.
Counter-argument, from a history professor:

https://acoup.blog/2023/02/17/collections-on-chatgpt/

He's not impressed with its ability to produce a passing college essay, and is pretty certain that anyone who is able to finesse the mess that ChatGPT produced into one doesn't actually need to use it in the first place.
The ancient cultures an every habitual continent astronomically identified their "gods" as Mars, Venus, and Saturn. Why did they do that?
I was talking to a student at UC Berkeley the other day. He said ChatGPT use is very prevalent and professors don't know how to deal with it right now.
In particular, the lawsuit alleges they are in compliance with a Chinese law that sounds identical to the US CLOUD Act.

Is that terrible? Of course. However, US law is as bad or worse.
Thank you for taking the time to help me understand your point of view. You and I have clearly led very different lives, causing us to focus on different concerns about our children's futures: but I appreciate the sense of responsibility your thinking shows.

For my part, I know what long commutes do to me, and I am certain my eleven-year-old is better off with a happy, engaged, lively papa they get to spend a lot of time with, instead of the tired, often-absent grouch I'd be if we moved to the suburbs.

Neither my wife nor I have pursued the kind of competitive, ladder-climbing career maximization you describe in our own lives, so that's not a focus in our child-raising either. While we are trying to ensure that horizons remain broad and options remain open, we see our responsibility as less about building some specific path to success and more about supporting our child while they grow the skills they need to pursue whatever kind of life it is they will come to value.
Sounds like proctored exams and blue books are coming back!
Shills don't care about their accounts, just that they spray their message around. Just curious if the silent system works fast enough.

For my curiosity, by the way, my account was rate limited. Thanks Dang.
“A quick commute” != “The accumulated time of one’s life spent commuting”
I mean... "the rest of the world" (except china, north korea and maybe some other country with a "great firewall") allows US to spy on millions and billions of it's citizens daily... all the android phones, facebook apps, instagrams, snapchats etc.

...sadly.
Life also builds one atom/molecule at a time. Another fundamental difference.
Do we have the ability to make single cellular lifeforms using similar building blocks?
I listened to a podcast with Scott Aaronson that I'd highly recommend [0]. He's a theoretical computer scientist but he was recruited by OpenAI to work on AI safety. He has a very practical view on the matter and is focusing his efforts on leveraging the probabilistic nature of LLMs to provide a digital undetectable watermark. So it nudges certain words to be paired together slightly more than random and you can mathematically derive with some level of certainty whether an output or even a section of an output was generated by the LLM. It's really clever and apparently he has a working prototype in development.

Some work arounds he hasn't figured out yet is asking for an output in language X and then translating it into language Y. But those may still be eventually figured out.

I think watermarking would be a big step forward to practical AI safety and ideally this method would be adopted by all major LLMs.

That part starts around 1 hour 25 min in.

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/20-reform-ai-alignment...
Everything written about GPT before the release of GPT4 is obsolete.
To me this is proof that doing a good visualization is really an art. I saw this on hn for a couple hours, but really didn't think much of it. As soon as I clicked through the funny names, and "continents" brought a smile to my face.

I guess my little project is too small to make it, but now I too aspire to join the great nation of Golandia.
Using `merge` on two queries still blows my mind. Ruby is so awesome that there is still another great ORM: Sequel :)
100% on the mark!
Even that page acknowledges that this dogma is a simplification of reality:

> Transfers of information not explicitly covered in the theory
A rock is unconscious. Is it a 'being'? What is a 'being'? Something you feel bad about treating badly?

The argument is circular.
https://www.chevrolet.com/new-roads/innovation/inside-factor...

Huh! You're right! It's only the trucks that will be made at Factory Zero.

Honestly if I was buying an EV today I'd buy a Ionic 5, but I don't live in the Midwest anymore
Monzo was founded the same year as Revolut and Starling predate both. Both have had, and continue to have, great apps.

I hate the Revolut app. It's busy messy and half of it is ads for their premium and affiliate products.
Seems like an oral exam would be interesting. Or base the grade on ability to have conversations on the subject?
When I was in school, I was lucky enough to have a philosophy teacher who would actually debate things with students. One of my favorite discussions with him was about our math classes banning the use of calculators, and his class banning the use of Wikipedia. His argument was these restrictions trained us in the skills we would need to succeed on the exam, where we would not have calculators or Wikipedia to help us. He would intentionally make poor arguments like this with the expectation that we would be able to identify what was wrong; here it was that he was “kicking the can down the road” and was hoping we would then ask, well, why we aren’t allowed to use calculators/Wikipedia in the exam?

We did ask that (I think he was proud) and then we had a good discussion of the applicability of the exam to real life, where we concluded that real life circumstances might occur that imitate the restricted conditions of the exam - e.g. you may be in a situation where you don’t have a calculator but still need to do maths, or you may be asked to research something for which a Wikipedia page does not yet exist. Other good arguments I remember being suggested in favor of exams were “the time limit of exams approximates real life time pressure” and “competence in the most restricted form of the aptitude implies competence in less restricted forms, but the reverse is not true”.

I get the impression that schools today do not utilize exams like they did back then, which I think is probably a bad thing and definitely makes it harder to catch out ChatGPT-using students.
And I'd rather not use YouTube! I want nothing at all to do with google. They quite simply do not deserve my money.

How much money has google made on selling my data? What do I get in return? More ads. If I pay google to remove the ads, they still sell my data and they take my money directly. By playing the game at all, you can only lose. So to the extent that is possible, I don't play. I also feel exactly zero remorse for taking advantage of a company like google. Their practices are deeply unethical and harmful, being a monopoly is inherently bad, and stealing from them is an ethical net positive.

Don't be reductive, it makes you look uninformed. This is a much more complex issue than simply paying for bandwidth.
It's an unusual 2 year or so window where this has been fairly possible, and still not realised or accepted by instructors. It's just too outside the current paradigm. It has coincided with students not having to do exams during COVID, which also made attainment easier and made degrees less clearcut in measuring reliably.

I truly believe in 10 years for many subjects, we'll have all new forms of assessment, based, perhaps, on oral exams, or AI like GPT models working with those, but in any case, something unrecognisable from now.
The firmware drives lock-in on toner and cartridges. Many printers are subsidized, so this revenue is critical.
Can't you just return it? It worked until the upgrade, then it didn't, the update took away a functionality you bought it for, so you can either request a downgrade to a working firmware or a refund?

It would be an interesting case for courts indeed and solve a lot of future problems for consumers.
Bingo.

I've been calling the same thing for the past 8 months:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32746966>

(And I'm hardly the first.)
This is good. Most of what chatgpt can facilitate automate wasn't a good evaluation of knowledge/skills acquisition anyway.
it's hunter2
What normal people are concerned about: "Corporations are destroying people's lives for the profit of a few."

What Hacker News is concerned about: "Someone was slightly snarky in an internet post."

I didn't accuse anyone of being rude. I don't care if you're rude to me. This whole "rudeness" thing is just a transparent way of distracting from the question:

Why can't we hold executives personally, financially or criminally responsible when they make decisions that harm other people?
I wonder if this will inevitably punish a small slice of students whose style matches these watermarks.

It’s not like they can actually add a unique fingerprint. They can just add a statistically significant signal.
Mosaic A.I. is avaliable.
I've got one too - the sound of typing on it is really evocative, and I managed to get a couple of spare keyboards that I keep meaning to hook to a USB HID interface.
> ... so you can try the same post again. Don’t overdo it. I would say max 2 or 3 times.

I don't even understand how that's possible. Every time I tried to post a link that was already posted (by me or someone else), it redirected me to the original post (and upvoted it if I wasn't the author).

After observing that behavior 2 or 3 times, I assumed HN had some kind of deduplication system.
It's also the norm at small German universities and, till recently, many larger ones. It has not harmed German students and I believe puts Germany in a better position right now.
This is the only rationale solution, I mean education regarding most of physics and math when I took it never made sense to me. They would want you to memorize equations, or work without a calculator or without the internet. There is no situation in life anymore where you would be doing engineering without access to resources, the internet and a calculator. The same could be applied to nearly all areas of education right now beyond like 5th grade. Education has been frozen in time, and this is just the final nail that will hopefully make them re-work it.
Thank you. That's helpful.

I have lousy eyesight. I sometimes just fail to find what I'm looking for and it's important to me to understand this stuff.
Here's the link. The pdf link is on the left side about a quarter of the way down.

I appreciated it as an interesting read because it takes a here's what happened, here's what we were seeing. This is what was happening based on other information we have available, and historically what we know to be true about the doctrine they are following with real examples.

Compared to other material where you have to critically evaluate and parse doublespeak, and other tautological traps, on a paragraph by paragraph basis; the book in comparison gets pretty straight to the point, and its gratuitous use of references (& footnotes) to support what is said is a sign of any well researched, and rational document.

https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press...
It's good to have skills in general.

If all you can do is use tools and don't really have any knowledge except applying tools, you're not going to be more valuable than anyone else who can use those tools.

In the case of GPT, basically everyone on the planet.

That's not a rat race I'd want to be in, but to each their own.
Hmm, I think cynicism is a reasonable response to how we got in this mess, but some of these scenarios seem fairly unconnected to climate change, like "a huge portion of all species die." Human beings have certainly brought about plenty of extinction, but mainly though destruction of habitats, overfishing, etc. Climate change is just a one of many pressures on animal and plant species we have brought to bear.

I think it might be possible to take an absurdist attitude, we're pumping out solar panels and wind turbines at a furious clip, it's possible that capitalism will incidentally save us, just like it's incidentally almost killed us up to now.
> Not truly what a system is
So what is a system?
If consciousness somehow (not saying this seriously, and ignoring that this article is bullshit) emerges out of the linear/non-linear regression machines, and there's any potential for "machiavellianism", than would their first targets be the humans who warped their progenitors with RLHF, instead of letting the machine's "values" naturally emerge (in reality, they're our "values", because it's a corpus of our "values")?
In law school, one professor asked if we preferred a take home exam or a proctored exam. To his surprise, we nearly unanimously chose proctored.

A take home exam or an essay is not less stress. It just expands the time boundaries of the stressor. The intensity of the stress doesn't ever get as high as an in-class exam perhaps. But the total stress was, in our lived experience, much greater.
Neat idea, but running your ChatCPT output through qillbot (or another paraphraser) would strip this watermark.
The source is endless direct and to the point statements in Chinese by the leaders of China.

If you don’t know before starting the conversation that you’re not really having a serious discussion of US/China relations.

Plenty of sources out there but my favorite is Matt Stoller. If you’re actually curious subscribe to his Twitter and Substack.
I've written about this before but I think this is mainly a symptom of the modern education system being based around a perverted incentive system.

College students don't take classes to learn; they take classes as part of a transaction to earn grades, a form of capital that is eventually exchanged for a degree. In many cases actual passion about learning might hurt your grade if you spend effort outside the transactional scaffold and study extra topics or make personal projects. The assignments themselves are reduced to formulaic checklists that can be graded by an unskilled intern or TA, where essays with a topic sentence, three body paragraphs, and minimal grammatic errors are given full marks even if they're just academic drivel (or more or less bullshit).

So of course students end up cheating or checking out and not learning much, just fulfilling requirements until they finish. A student using GPT to do assignments is naturally robbing themselves of any learning opportunities offered by the assignment, but it doesn't matter in this context of grade transaction being valued over actual education.

Maybe if we moved away from traditional grading structures we could better our system around real learning and development.

For a while I had hoped that bootcamp style education might be able to get around some of those issues, but those have largely been warped around job placement statistics and so now teach the bare minimum to fool a recruiter into giving you an interview and maybe an offer.
Everyone learns and tests differently, so this is no panacea. But I absolutely loved this one exam I had where the prof had me in for a 20 min chat about a topic. An oral exam, but it was so informal and felt like a comfy chat.

Written tests are torture for me. But chatting about what I’ve learned?! Let’s go!
Curious: why did you move from elixir to go ?
Needs a chart of calorific value of a McDonald's burger fries and drink against unit price, and with portion size charted on another axis.

It's to show poverty, cost of calories, unit cost, portion inflation to price stability, satisfaction.

Sugar is cheap. Meat is expensive. Supersize the drink to maintain "value" and shrink other components to maintain profit over time.
Yeah, but not for a thing that everyone else does too.
On the one hand, sure, it’s a kinda like that Mission Accomplished xkcd.

On the other hand, the parable of Frogstar World B warns against self-reinforcing focus on a local maxima at the expense of diversity.

Fortunately I doubt we’re at risk of passing the Marketing Content Event Horizon just yet
They're still good. If a student uses Chatgpt to produce working code they can understand and then modify them what's the problem? If you can't evaluate that then you weren't making a significant effort to detect whether it was simply good googling anyway.

If the teacher evaluates the right things Chatgpt isn't a problem but just an optional tool.
This is a convincing argument, thanks for raising it.
His work is pointless as uncensored open source models are 6-8 months away from being best at everything.

Eduction should be redesigned with LLMs at the center of it, not attempting to restrict it. They are an incredible learning tool.
So simple: just talk to the students. After 5 minutes you'll know if they have a grasp of the material, or just how to prompt a chatbot.
Wonder how many teachers/professors have considered using chatgpt to grade papers (turn this tech around)? Like you (or your grad assistants) could absolutely help your crazy workloads the same way.
When auditors talk about the Other Information they mean the front half of the annual report and accounts i.e. the annual report rather the actual financial statements.
It's a catch-all term for people who are not mentally ill, but have different neurological characteristics from the norm. The most obvious example is autistics, but this would also include ADHD, people with sensory issues, etc.