skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn’t necessarily drawing a connection between horses and farmers, as I was tackling each point separately and meant modern farmers.

For one, the mere existence of horses and their relatives were mostly in Africa and Asia, meaning that for a lot of unrecorded and a decent chunk of recorded history whether you had one or not was location dependent. And while yes, horses were expensive, renting them when needed was comparatively cheap.

Additionally, especially in feudalist societies, land was especially difficult to own, and an entire village would work on the land surrounding them. Meaning you rarely had need for any sort of transport that wasn’t your legs, as everything you needed was located in your village.

Contrast all of that to modern farmers, who regularly live on hundreds of acres, miles away from the nearest pocket of civilization. Without private transport they’d be stranded.
LLMs always remind me of pigeons you see in the city that have spent their whole life eating out of bins and pecking dropped chunks of kebab. We trained it on a bunch of stuff, but we're not sure quite what. Looks like it works OK, so let's get it on a plate!
ChatGPT is insanely good at a lot of things, but everything that requires understanding higher level of concepts it fails miserably at. The "parts and chapters" question is the best example - no human (probably not even the author and editor) would know the answer, but any human would know that it could get the answer by opening the index and counting the individual chapters.

ChatGPT can't do either. It can't open the book and ingest it, it can't parse the context from a book's index that a human could see by their bare eye (e.g. indents for chapters), it can't answer the question even if it got trained using the book and the index because the context of the index, page numbers and other metadata is completely lost to it and even if you expanded the training program to specifically take notice of that for books it would still likely be unable to answer the question because it would get lost in the (effective) compression during training.
There are ~4MM teachers in the US. 117B / 4MM is around $30K. Will +$1,500 ($125) over 20 years help them make ends meet? How about $3,000 ($250/month) over a decade?

Maybe it will! But, maybe just maybe, you should be complaining to your local officials and fellow constituents who continue to shirk tax increases and levy approvals instead of HN.
Illegal: you get arrested for possession.

Not legal tender: you cannot pay taxes with it, and generally cannot use in monetary transactions.
The truly sad part is that it is not one or the other. Inspite of all the talking points, govt can and does create money. The idea of a balanced budget is true for a business, not for the federal government. Obviously, there are side effects and you should not overdo it.

Majority of states do not want to pay people for work and that is why we are in this situation. WA recently hiked the pay for teachers and other states can also follow the same if they desire.

On the last note, most of that assistance went as equipment and armaments, not as cash.
'A single parent working three jobs just to cover rent and food works hard.'

Is this a reality though? I was desperate for work many years ago and all the part-time jobs were optimized for a specific time of the day - say 10 am to 2pm or thereabouts.

I can imagine a scenario where someone is holding down 2 jobs but 3, this is hard to comprehend?

For context, I should add I am in the UK where there are perverse incentives to only have one job where you work a maximum of 16 hours because this is where all the work-related benefits (welfare) start to fade away.

Not that I was claiming benefits but the 'benefit trap' is where most of the employers set their nets.
Get a room already
Embedded can be remote, if the hardware is small enough and cheap enough to ship one to each remote developer.

I worked on telephones for the hard of hearing, and we had some remote developers. No problem.

On the other hand, there are embedded systems that are for 3D printing spaceship hulls. I kind of suspect that remote isn't going to fly for working on those systems...
This is something I have thought about, but recently have paid attention to stories that seem to be along these lines, such as Gordon Kaye in Great Smokies National Park.

While this may seem like a simple way, it seems like it wastes hundreds of people's time that could be spent helping people who are actually wanting help.
"We put a camera up in an area with POC and we caught POC doing X, therefore POC do X more than Y"

This kind of thinking is why people also think that POC also use illegal drugs at a higher rate than non-POC, thereby putting more enforcement on POC, hence catching more of them when statistics show relatively equal rates of illegal (but not necessarily the same drugs) drug use.

And again, America loves having different standards that apply to different groups for roughly the same crime. Cocaine use, well that's not good but rich people do that so you should go to rehab. Crack use, time to bury you under the jail.
There’s a difference, though: if the erroneous data comes from human input error, it can easily be corrected, and if the error is due to a software bug, it can be diagnosed and corrected; but errors that come from LLMs (the main type of AI in question here, and indicative enough of AIs in general, as it stands, though probably worse) are basically unfixable (that is: we don’t know how it would even be possible to fix them in general, so all you can do is patch things here and there, which will only probably fix the problems, and will increase the frequency of other problems).
greece is betting the bank on tourism at the moment and it's realy terrible. As much as 85% of foreign investment is tourism and real-estate related and this is unsustainable. The brain drain keeps growing because tourism is bottom-of-the-barrel, unskilled, no-value-added industry. It's sad that the governments keep pushing it so much.

It's not just the criminal issues, most of tourism is evading taxes, overwork workers and defraud social security. It even seems to be reaching a breaking point, as there is a huge shortage of workers despite the unemployment.
Attention, Hollywood: De-Aging Isn’t Working, So Please Stop Using It
To be fair comment sections everywhere are toxic regardless of country or culture.
Most semiconductor workers can make 20% more working as a software engineer, without laboring in a factory. That needs to be “fixed” first
You say satellite, I say abandoned hackable missile in orbit. Tomato, tomato.
Best blogs about reverse engineering?
That's one way to interpret "drop in", my interpretation is that you use the existing UI you're familiar with - your browser - the rest is replaced with decentralized services.

It sounds like you're looking for an anonymizing proxy like Tor. There is no way to do what you're looking for that could reasonably be considered decentralized.
Consumer credit is one of the most popular banking products. Today, it can be issued in just a few clicks in the bank's mobile application or on the website. When applying for a loan, customers often do not think about its insurance, and this is very reckless.
Lots of people are mentioning UVC, Steripen https://www.amazon.com/SteriPen-Adventurer-Opti-Water-Purifi... has worked great for me for over 10 years. No funny taste and to me easier to use then the pump or squeeze filters. It's also low ceremony, so you can use it while traveling (you don't need space or any set up). I mostly use it for backpacking.
Interesting thoughts and concerns.

I wonder if AI trained on other AI content inevitably leads to a garbage in garbage out scenario that gets worse over time or whether it actually improves, maybe even at a non linear rate?

I believe the former is true, because of financial and political incentives, but the latter isn’t unthinkable.
GPT-4's response:

"Every night, James reads three short books."

It's correct.
> The Haj [...] is divided into four parts. [...] Finally, part five [...]

Now I'm not sure who to believe. Is Don Knuth secretly an AI?
> I’d never dispute a payment to my mortgage servicer or electrical utility,

Er. “Never” is a strong word and it depends on scope. There have been numerous cases of overcharging. Sure, I might not dispute the payment itself, but the amount? Frequency? These get disputed all the time.

Many jurisdictions have good consumer protections for this, though, so overcharging will cause penalties— that does provide incentives for companies to do the right thing.
I thought the failure was interesting too, enough to try on GPT-4. It succeeds with the same prompt.
I also lose so much weight on vacation it's weird. I once lost weight when visiting Japan for two weeks but I swore I was going crazy with the food, so I was confused. But I still managed to eat less than at home (I must have). Definitely a busyness thing.

Im the opposite when it comes to stress. I lose my appetite when I'm stressed but get super super hungry when bored. The lockdowns really messed up my eating habits but thankfully I've shed all the weight now that I can actually do stuff again.
Dealing with Chronic Fatigue
Hello all,
I have this contant fatigue that never ceases to exist.
Even if i have good 8 hours sleep I wake up feeling lethargic and tired in the morning
I do get good amount of sleep. It is easy for me to fall asleep in the night
The day seems hard to bear. My eyes feel heavy, forehead feel heavy and generally I need a good 2 hours sleep in the afternoon yo feel ok.
I have been going through thus since last 15 years of my life, right when I hit puberty.

Is there anyone who is in the same boat as me?
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to overcome this?
I have consulted every medical speciality without any relief

Your Truly
They'll pay less when they stop making $2 million per year per engineer
Indian rupees arent even a convertible currency...
[op]: Render is a web host, on which we host other applications. They offer a managed Postgres version, which is in my experience pretty similar to Heroku, RDS, or other managed databases.

Maybe the sentence makes that confusing - we're using other stuff on Render, which are basically "web servers" in the Heroku-ish sense, and we're also using their managed database, which is just a database. And it's nice that Render, like some other managed hosting providers, lets you boot up and connect those services.

I guess it's more than a database in some sense because it networks to our web servers and can be booted up in a preview environment, but it is mostly just a database. There are cheaper options that would be more work to wire up in such a convenient way, but the pricing difference between a database on AWS and one on Render is not the highest priority right now.
Hey,

SBC:
result = byte1 - byte2 - carry
carry = result < 0
return result & 0xff

ADC:
result = byte1 + byte2 + carry
carry = result > 0xff
return result & 0xff

Source - my implementation, passes tests. Look for SBC & ADC in
https://github.com/trekawek/coffee-gb/blob/master/src/main/j...
Someone else posted this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow

> FedNow is a service developed by the Federal Reserve for depository institutions in the United States. It will enable individuals and businesses to send and receive instant payments.[1][2][3][4] Banks will be able to build products on top of the FedNow platform.[5]

> FedNow is scheduled to begin formal certification of participants of the program in April 2023, with a formal launch planned for July 2023.[6][7] It will operate on a 24-hour, 365-days-a-year basis,[8] as opposed to the U.S. government's current system that is closed on weekends and holidays.[9][10] FedNow's transaction costs are expected to be about one-fifth the cost of existing payment solutions, which cost merchants an average of $0.23 per transaction.[5][clarification needed]
I agree. More info.

There is an unofficial list of undocumented HN features maintained by minimaxir

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

@OP: You need 501 karma to see the downvote button. Use it wisely.
Most of the interchange goes to banks.
You can use UPI offline:

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/how-to/how-to-pay-online-using-up...

This is what I mean with so many misconceptions, falsehoods and just outright conspiracy theories, from people who have probably never used UPI.
Except you very rarely have enough information to make informed judgements. It’s inherently dehumanizing to assume the limited information you get from say a news article is all that’s relevant because it treats them as cardboard cutouts of actual people.

It’s easy to see a pregnant teen and think poor thoughts about them without considering if perhaps they are older than you assume and married or they got rapped etc. Read about a convict and perhaps they did something horrible or perhaps they’re wrongly convicted, you simply didn’t know.
and yet you're wrong...
It is overzealous. Imagine if every minor crime or social faux pas you've ever committed was logged, stored to disk, and accessible to various for profit 3rd parties. Little bit dystopian. Middle and upper class people can pay the fines and fees. It's the lower class who end up in prison or homeless.
Thank you for finding these. I wish the article had linked to his tweets directly, because I think that context is important here.
The US Government contributes about 8% of public school funding, the rest comes from about half local and half state funding. Look to your state and local governments as to why teachers aren’t paid enough where you live.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_funding_in_the...
If you're trying to answer questions, the even more advanced tactic is to read more books, but only read the parts that touch on your question. That's why god invented the subject index. Reading every word in order is not for people who have specific questions to answer, but for pleasure, or for learning the basics.
You’re probably joking, but this still fails. I don’t think anyone has cracked how to get ChatGPT to play well with numbers yet.

First output for the curious:

> The foggy moon glows softly over the hills.
That’s nice but doesn’t include the letters used in Slavic languages.
I was expecting a technical manager but instead it's just some ex-Mckinsey manager. I wouldn't be suprised if they gained access via some open port or a default password or whatever the equivalent is for satellites.
It’s not worth summarizing every book.

I took a course at UChicago on how to read a book based on Mortimer Adler’s book of the same name, and the takeaway is that the first reading of a book should be a quick one (table of contents, skimming, dipping into pages). Only after a book is shown to have promise are we then to engage in deep reading which not only involves summarizing but also syntopical reading, which is to read other books around the same topic.

One thing that has really helped me is to scribble notes in the margins and to write a précis after every chapter, then a précis on the inside cover of the book to summarize all my chapter précis.

Finally all good books should be read twice or more. Good reading is rereading. This is a hard rule to follow because nobody has time to read the same book twice but the truth is you can’t understand a book deeply on first reading because you don’t have the lay of the land and the benefit of retrospection. A rereading helps you focus on details missed the first time around. To be honest though, very few books meet my bar of my willing to reread them.
That’s too simplistic an answer: why is the chatgpt response _mostly_ correct then?
> It's amazing how the confident tone lends credibility to all of that
made-up nonsense. Almost impossible for anybody without knowledge
of the book to believe that those "facts" aren't authorititative
and well researched.

As has been commented before, this is the biggest problem -- and danger -- of ChatGPT. If you have to verify every detail of its responses, what good was it to ask it in the first place?

(It does work for coding as you can -- usually -- immediately test the code to see if it yields the desired result, or ask it to provide a unit test for it.)
Missiles which may come down in a multiple thousand square mile area(if lucky) are generally not considered useful.
I'm in my 40s and felt the same way as you (more or less) at 22.

Many people do wind up as you describe. On the other hand you write as if it is inevitable rather than a specific choice.

You've probably got a family weighing you down so
you can't travel anymore. You don't have the freedom
to start new exciting ventures.

Yes, you probably do have to choose between "family" and the other stuff unless you have some unusually favorable circumstances. Either lots of money, or extended family members (grandparents) with whom you can leave the kids while you travel, etc.

Depends on your definition of "travel" though. Flying to another country on a whim? Probably not. Packing the kids and tents up and going camping? Heck yes.

You go to parties that end at 9pm and your social gatherings
consist of talking about traffic and grocery prices.

Oh hell no. I'm over 40 and still making great friends. Friends with whom I share interests, not just banal conversations. It's different than when you're young, it takes a little more work. You're not just dumped into a school with hundreds of people your age. But it's better. You can choose your social circles and meet other enthusiasts relevant to your interests.

You're probably married to someone you love and respect,
but the flame isn't the same as what you once had.

It's certainly true: those giddy early months of a relationship change into something else eventually. Can be better or worse depending on your perspective.

Again, you can just not get married! Or do some kind of poly/open/whatever relationship if that's your thing. Or be asexual. Or be so undesirable that nobody wants to nestle down with you and saddle you with a family. Or just find some sort of ethical way of getting what you need from sex workers. (That last one may be tricky)
America. Lol it’s funny you think that but it’s SOP for people working at universities.
You should direct your questions to the spirit of departed Chinese emperors. 'Did it work, o son of heaven?'

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

Btw, per wikipedia, the discerning Chinese older gents now reach for Viagra instead of the cherished member of the male tiger. Pfizer earned a lot of tiger-karma points right there, I bet they are grateful. /g
I was not aware of manifold; from a quick look, my understanding is that manifold is a bunch of popular language extensions, implemented mostly via preprocessor annotations, which are highly tied to specific java versions and IDEs.

But while that does seem cool, I'd hesitate to call manifold-driven operator overloading as "modern java supporting op overloading". To me it has the same vibe as simulating high-level syntax in c via hacky macros.
Lots of degenerative diseases aren't so bad - for example osteoporosis. I get what you mean though, bad degenerative diseases.
> and didn't instruct the grad student to pay $20 to use GPT-4

An inexcusable oversight... more so on the grad student than Knuth.

For example, Knuth's complaint about the question "What is an optimystic?":

> Answer #5 also pretty good. (Again it begins with "I'm sorry".) But it should have conjectured a mystic who is an optimist.

And here is GPT4's answer to the same question:

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As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, "Optimystic" is not a recognized term in standard English. However, it could be a play on words combining "optimist" and "mystic."

...

So, hypothetically, an "optimystic" could refer to someone who combines these attributes - perhaps someone who is hopeful about the future and sees the world through a spiritual or metaphysical lens.

...

---

Similarly, on question #18, Knuth complains that GPT doesn't know the stock market is closed on Saturday, yet the GPT4 answer begins:

> As of my last training data in September 2021, and generally speaking, stock markets such as the NASDAQ are closed on weekends, including Saturday.

Those were just 2 I randomly checked.
If you're the one setting the market rate, and there are no market forces to stop you, it becomes a big problem

As we can see from the current situation where the USA is completely reliant on foreign fabs and unable to make its own partly due to a shortage of skilled and willing labor
> remain as it is if there was a sizable political force backing.

Exactly my point, they have half the support. YouTube has the other. It seems reasonable to assume a split of the networks so lots of room for rumble to grow.

Odyssey is going to be attacked by both political sides imo we have seen that already
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivit...

> Woman with chemical sensitivities chose medically-assisted death after failed bid to get better housing

https://www.liveaction.org/news/euthanasia-unjust-social-con...

> a recent poll found that 27 percent of Canadians polled strongly or moderately agree that euthanasia is acceptable for suffering caused by “poverty” and 28 percent strongly or moderately agree that killing by doctors is acceptable for suffering caused by homelessness.

> And in the context of medical issues, the authors claim that this includes killing patients who would not want to die if they could access proper treatment (emphasis theirs)

> So, socialized medicine fails, and a splendid answer to the problem for patients in need is euthanasia. Do you see now why I call euthanasia/assisted suicide “abandonment?”
Throw in a tennis academy and some strange quasi-apocalyptic geopolitics and you might have yourself a book! :)
> In Israel, when the Knesset’s five-member science committee held a hearing on the drug, a witness passed around a sample box of eight Viagra pills. When the box came back, four pills were missing.
What about missing on the first 45 mins?

Sometimes an unexpected snack makes its way into my belly, leaving behind an annoying dirty plate that needs some cleaning.
iMessage is super finnicky, particularly if either end of a conversation doesn't have their WiFi/cellular settings configured just so and everything else lines up. I'm quite glad people are picking up Signal more and more.
a little disappointing they didn't shell out the 20 bucks for GPT-4.

Also disappointing that they didn't follow up the incorrect responses with corrections. Like if you told gpt that "sorry, your answer is wrong because the stock market is closed on saturday", it would come up wiht a new answer that takes that into account.

they seem to be missing the point of the "chat" part with chatgpt
Who cares about downvotes? I sure don't. I do care about being able to interpret messages. Please just state what you mean. Alluding to this "community of users" without giving anything concrete is not helpful.
> unreasonably expensive since you'll have to cater for those rainy days

I wonder if it would make sense to get a generator[1] to supplement solar on rare occasion.

If you want to build solar, but the cost of achieving reliability is the one thing stopping you, then maybe a generator could remove that obstacle.

Yes, it emits carbon, and the fuel costs money. But if you only use it a few days each year, that might not be very significant.

However, it makes the system design more complicated, and generators require maintenance.

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[1] I'd use propane since it can be stored 10+ years, whereas gasoline and diesel last 6-12 months. Also propane can be used for emergency heat.