skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People that say this are outing themselves as un-engaged learners that are likely not going to get much in the way of lasting gains in skills due to AI coaching. All it is doing is regurgitating StackOverflow at you but reworded to fit into the box that your questions create. Since you are the learner here, it is likely that your questions aren't better structured than the original explanation content that ChatGPT was trained on, and since it will just hallucinate things at random and without you knowing, I would bet money that your understanding of the topic will be subtly wrong in places.

Basically, anyone who thinks that having a tutor-like experience with a robot is worth trading away correctness and consistency, is revealing that they care more about getting an answer in a form they can easily ingest than actually having any depth of understanding of the topic at hand.

And before someone makes the silly argument that "well your human tutor could be wrong too!", all of the training data that trained chatGPT was written by humans, and so the potential human error is still the same. ChatGPT is adding a new source of error that is unpredictable and based on dozens of anecdotes I have seen here and on Twitter, none of the enthusiasts are double checking it's output for bullshit
Arsenic in Pod fuel too.
Human experience of space and time in the physical world
In browsers, there are supposed to be roughly 72px per inch. This should get scaled, assuming the OS/Browser knows what the actual pixel density per inch is. And even then the scaling may not be linear to reality.

If you've ever run a mobile device without the real dimensions set properly (cheaper models, or custom roms) it gets interesting to say the least. Having less than stellar vision up close, I have every accessibility setting on my phone maxed... It's bad enough as it is the number of applications/sites that will render (in particular modals) off-screen.

In the end, however, nearly everything is scaled to either the real pixels, or often assume 72/inch as the actual screen density and scale accordingly. You really never know which.
Elegant is something you understand correctly and completely without much effort.
These apps do "a bit" more than violate Apple's design guidelines.

For example, one of the apps from the article claims to use 'GPT-4' and they actually do call the OpenAI API, but use the GPT-3.5 model.

Another app that also claims to use GPT-4, actually uses a different (self-hosted?) LLM.

In my opinion, this is a scam - a fraudulent attempt to make a quick profit.
https://archive.ph/1waP9
NASA Selects Blue Origin for Astronaut Mission to the Moon
It's always sampling from an existing distribution of relevant data points -- that's necessarily how its working.

If you want to claim the sample set is only mildy similar to exam questions -- so be it, that may be true.
Or if you want to claim that its sampling method is attentive to structural associations in its sample set, so that its not lifting from "identical distributions" -- so be it.

So long as those "structural associations" are givens, and the data "givens", the process is just sampling from a domain of human effort without expending any of a similar kind.

If there had been no internet, ChatGPT would be a dumb mute -- because it has no capacity to generate data; it does not develop actual conceptualisations of the world -- it samples from the data shadows created by people.

To produce useful data requires expounding a tremendous effort -- growing an animal to cope with the world. It is this which is being laundered, unpaid and unacknowledged, through LLMs.

Whilst star-trek-huffing loons claim this stuff is doing the opposite -- a ideological delusion which benefits all those whose bank accounts are increased by the lie that "ChatGPT wrote this".

If we were prepared to price the data commons which has been created over the last 20-30 years of the internet, by everyone, its not hard to think training ChatGPT would cost a trillion.

How much labour went into creating that digital resource, and by how many, etc.?
Not ironic because buyers and sellers have opposing interests.
Stiff-Person Syndrome
How does that work for e.g. small scale salt farming in many European countries that flood areas with sea water, then harvest the salt after the water has evaporated [0]?

Is it just a case of the scale making it safe?

0: https://www.timeout.com/croatia/things-to-do/ston-salt-works
This headline is misleading, the Supreme Court did not address Section 230 at all. What it did was address the scope of a law relating to material support for international terrorism, and found that since the claims at issue didn’t, even if taken as true, meet that standard, it wasn’t relevant whether Section 230 would have protected the internet firms involved if it did.
As a consumer, I'd much rather spend 2 minutes waiting in line and then 1 minute using a self-checkout than spend 5 minutes waiting in line and then 30 seconds getting checked out by a cashier.
What about all of us plebs who work at small companies not able to self host these models viably? This is the point OP was about. They want us to use their model at our jobs, while they are the first to disallow it at their offices.
> you can go anywhere at anytime where there's a road

Yes, cars are a horrible implementation of socialism. Everyone pays for extensive roads networks and maintenance because cars are impossible to use without them. And then everyone pays for cars and maintenance because traveling is impossible without them. And car dealerships get rich scamming your mother.

You can go anywhere at anytime on foot, as long as somebody doesn't build a wall. Public transit isn't supposed to be door-to-door. It's about enabling true freedom of movement by connecting you across longer distances. Cars are about making all distances long.
Data point of one: I'm slightly more reluctant to share.

I'm less inclined to help when I'm helping a machine automate me away.

Right or wrong, that's how I'm currently feeling.
> that C makes it too hard to use a sorting library that someone competent has written.

This makes no sense to me. What about C makes it hard to use a good library?
> A plethora of posts, articles and comments lament how the back breaking work which all of the new models were built upon is devalues all of that work by making it available to the masses with a simple chat prompt...

I don't think this is right. People publish stuff online because they want to share it with others! If it becomes easier for others to get it, I think that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

I'd rather my writing live on and in some tiny proportion influence the next stage of intelligent lifeform, than remain confined inside my own head to die when I do.
With ChatGPT, Honeycomb Users Simply Say What They're Looking For
I appreciate your attempt to help, but what works for your body may not work for others - I'm looking for general ergonomic principles backed up by sound scientific evidence.
You should deepfake Leonard Nemoy's voice for the characters. ;-)
There are tons of living yeast after a fermentation. Once the sugar content goes down and they’ve converted the long chain fermentables, they go into sleep mode.

I re-use my yeast, I have about 10x more yeast after a ferment than I threw in at the start. They are very much alive.
Curious as to choice of 'demands' vs 'dependency' and 'supplies' vs 'provider'. The latter of these are fairly commonly understood and used.

As an aside, "complex, interdependent state" is possibly one of the few areas that lend themselves naturally to visual programming (which is a fail in the general programming case). Why not just draw graphs?

> I've read plenty of reactive blog posts and reactive library documentation sets and they all struggle with communicating the benefits.

I just googled 'visual programming for reactive systems' and this (interesting project) turned up:

https://openmusic-project.github.io/openmusic/doc/reactive.h...

So the approach is specifically addressing complex interaction patterns between components. To highlight the solution, just do what these guys did: here you can see the benefit of 'reactive components' just by looking.

https://openmusic-project.github.io/openmusic/doc/images/mid...

(2c - good luck w/ the project)
US cultural influence is enormous and there's no hiding from it. That means we export our right wing lunacy. You can see the influence in, for example, right wing gun fetishism even in places with strict gun laws.

The US bears responsibility to not let so much of our pollution float into other countries.
As another example application, I have to replace a 10 ft by 6.5 ft backyard shed, and would like to mount one or two panels on the roof for purpose of lighting, re-charging outdoor tools, etc., with no connection to house or the grid.
>If productivity goes up, the product gets cheaper and demand goes up.

Only if I have money to buy it. That's why monetary velocity is a very important economic measure. If I have a 1 trillion dollar economy, and 999 billion is in the hands of one person, and the last billion is spread across 1000 million people, then the average monetary velocity is apt to be both low and only exchange between a few actors. It will be a very unhealthy economy.
Ok, now that's insane. Kojima would not be there unless he's got something seriously cool up his sleeve. He wouldn't be there just for kicks.

Didn't Bloomberg come out just yesterday with an article poo-pooing the headset - saying numerous current and former execs are skeptical , there's been tons of design compromises, cost overruns, and internally a ton of general indifference to the project?

Something's not adding up.
It's not laziness: if you've got a stack of 100 applicants and a couple hours to produce a list of 15 candidates, it's entirely reasonable to filter out all the applications which have disqualifying errors as quickly as possible.
Do you expect your works to be attributed to you?
Technically true, but if the SC had wanted an opportunity to revisit Section 230, they could have used this as an opportunity to do so.

By declining on procedural grounds, it signals they are not especially interested in evaluating Section 230 in a broader scope.
When can I get a total replacement of CSS with something more sane? Seems like one of the few pieces of the stack that's just not getting any better over time. And no, flex isn't better.
Doesn't make any difference.
> Both Democratic(new window) and Republican(new window) lawmakers have spoken out to oppose the US Trade Representative’s usurpation of congressional authority to craft domestic tech policy.

So they can complain about it but wont pass legislation to set it right? Seems fishy
32S didn't use menu scrolling though.
I live in one. I still walk when I'm able.
There's an interesting article somewhere about a pizza place that iirc arbitraged VC subsidies by ordering pizza from itself through some delivery app that was buying the revenue by selling the pizza below the actual price.

Edit: https://www.readmargins.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage
> Whether AI comes for our jobs or not is not really relevant. Whenever there is technical revolution some jobs will vanish, new jobs will be born and some existing jobs will remain but they will also change.

Except that one of the major problems is that the people who built their lives and careers around those jobs are historically hung out to dry.

It is looking like software and most white collar work will be replaced before the trades. How many 45-yr senior software workers will be happy to give it all up to become a plumber? Don't forget they will be competing with all of the other displaced workers which will drive down wages. Will they be happy begging for minimum wage jobs unclogging sewers?

More points:

Reskilling will become increasingly impossible as it becomes faster and faster to train an AI model than a human on new types of work.

Net job creation is far from guaranteed. Most law work is competed by paralegals and other staff, but replacing them doesn't mean there will be a natural growth in legal cases. A lawyer might be able to process cases 10x as fast, but that doesn't mean there 10x as many lawsuits and criminal cases will magically appear - at least I certainly hope not.
HN 2030: "Yes, humanity is being obliterated, but you see it's not a true AGI that is doing that."
Imo its a nice laptop for writers that can run a basic but capable text editor with very little other things to distract you from writing.

Just look how expensive the fancy alternatives are:

https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler
Many years ago I worked on a piece of software that simulated networks. As networks got bigger it would run out of memory. Turned out it did something like

CONNECTION *c = malloc(num_nodes * num_nodes * sizeof(CONNECT_STRUCT));

And almost the entire matrix was empty because most things in a network aren't connected to each other. I spent a a few minutes replacing that with a hash table on the (i, j) node pair.
Do you have any news how Swiss lakes are affected?
Competing against NVIDIA must be exhausting.

You come up with a clever ASIC that is better than their current GPU for your workload… and by the time it comes out they’ve released the next year’s chip that just has like 50% more memory bandwidth or something ridiculous like that, and beats you by pure grunt.

“No replacement for displacement” actually seems to be true in compute.
A drug that promotes weight loss, lessens the desire to smoke, drink, etc...sounds too good to be true?

From what I have heard, all of these issues come back as soon as someone comes off the drug. So either a person is committing to a lifetime of being dependent on this drug, or a person is committing to some period of time of ideal living, followed by a possible time of depression after reverting to the status quo.
As usual SpaceX gets less money for more effort. And the three companies known for performing badly get the second contract.
So you might be shocked that 7% is so high, but the reason it is so high is that cperciva has been driving down the overall boot time to the tune of ~99%+ faster than two major releases ago. Bubblesort used to be <1% of total boot time because the rest of boot was so slow. Now that many of the gratuitous sleeps are gone, the next thing to look at is stupid algorithms like this.
> This isn’t all that surprising; for all the tsuris regarding 230, the statute and the intent behind it seem quite clear; the drama is that opponents of big tech companies don’t like the statute, not that there’s a real claim that it’s been misinterpreted.

While Section 230 was asserted among the defenses in the case, the Supreme Court decision didn’t address it at all, instead finding the underlying claim failed as a matter of law, making Section 230 immunity irrelevant. The headline saying that it left 230 protections unchanged is technically true, in the same sense as one saying that it left, say, the scope of liability under the Espionage Act in place would be.

But its also misleading clickbait, for much the same reason as one saying that it left, say, the scope of liability under the Espionage Act in place would be.
You could set one tax included price, so the actual revenue you get would vary slightly in different places. Costs already vary based on location so I don't see a huge issue there.

Of course this does change the incentives for localities setting their sales tax, and they might be inclined to set them higher if the cost isn't borne by local residents. I don't know if that's a bad thing, if that money improves local services and / or lowers other taxes.
That's an amazing project *** Bravo!
I'm really looking forward to bookworm. Not for any particular reason, but just to have another fresh base (and see even more up-to-date packages start showing up in bookworm-backports).

I'm a recent refugee from ubuntu LTS's, after having run them for a decade or so. Previously, I just never really had a reason to move away from the community support and google-ability around ubuntu, plus many guides having example commands for ubuntu installs etc.

Snaps are what made me switch. It's insane that they're making apt packages pull in snaps. If snaps were an additional thing similar in spirit to `/usr/local` where system admins could install weird stuff they needed that didn't fit, that's one thing. Forcing them onto me is another, especially when you can literally feel the difference between a program living in a snap vs one installed normally.

This is nitpicky but I also don't like that it messes with my mount and df outputs with a bunch of mounts I don't care about and 100%-full filesystems.

Now, debian - I don't know why I didn't make this switch ages ago! It's everything I wanted from ubuntu without any of ubuntu's opinions. My new default linux distro for servers. (I still run Arch on my laptop).
Eh, there is alot more nuance here. Dumping is typically when an established company attacks a competitor with temporarily low prices.

If you squint right, sure, VC backed low costs could be seen as dumping. But the problem is that also means virtually every startup is dumping, even bootstrapped garage efforts. And I guess any company that reports a quarterly loss is also dumping.

So I think it probably makes sense to treat VC-subsidized startups as a different economic phenomenon that needs different rules than if e.g. Goodyear sells tires at far below cost in California until competitors leave and then they raise the price.
>It's important to guide smart

It is important for whom to guide these people? What are their motivations?
I don't know generally, but I have removed my websites from the public web until/unless I can figure out a reasonable way to restrict access from AI crawlers.
Yet despite full employment we still see criminals exploiting chinks. See: SBF arguably smart dude, took the guise of meaningful work for the betterment of society. Was a criminal.

I think the paternalistic view that people need jobs pushing a pointless button to keep them from degenerating into Lex Luthor assumes evil is the natural state of man, and we need a constructed hamster wheel of society to keep the bad guys at bay. It hasn’t kept the bad guys at bay so far, and I believe the bad guys are very visible but a stark minority. We all have to spin wheels just in case there’s a bad guy that is stuck in a wheel somewhere too?

As we move to an era where, potentially, production improves without human input, maybe the betterment of society can be achieved in other ways than toiling in pointless corporate salt mines. Maybe artists can have health insurance? Maybe people can pursue labors of love for their lifetime, not laboring a lifetime in jokes they have enough money, health, lifespan, and soul left to do what they love briefly before they die.

Some people already do what they love. Great! Do it. But look around you more carefully and look at the culture of derision about modern work life. Almost no one loves modern work life across all callings. It burns us out. And when its done it casts us into a public retirement home or worse and hopes we die faster for actuarial efficiency. If we can’t fit into the corporate mold, it relegates us to poverty, disenfranchisement, food and shelter insecurity, and lack of basic medical care.

So, as a post scarcity society is possible, will we construct fake work to keep people chasing health care and other basics, or will we move beyond that? Will we open the door to full autonomy? Or will we do a PPP/WPA style guided employment by the state model? Or will we just turn a blind eye and let massive segments of society rot unaided until it falls apart? I suspect in 20 years we will know the answer.
I've done this sort of thing before with home-rolled tools, it easily becomes a time sink. Having a centralized shared effort seems like it could be really valuable.

One thing that is tricky is that you often needs signals and/or image data as well.
72/inch iirc.
Previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975500

Personally, to me, it works fine & is pretty good. I dig not being inine lottery, where one person being extremely slow will hold up the whole pipeline; self checkout lines have such parallelism at the execution unit layer, so there's never pipeline stalls.

But my gods. The sound is infernal! A smaller installation is half dozen machines, and them all loudly broadcasting each purchase price & savings aggregates to a wretched din. This is bedlam. It's monstrously anti-social behavior.

These machine's speakers deserve/need some good knifings. Who will be our hero?
> These agreements are negotiated in secret with very little public oversight and parliaments usually can only say yes or no to the whole thing.

The are negotiated in secret because if they were negotiated in the open it would pretty much impossible to ever actually get anything the could be ratified.

Over the course of negotiation generally each party needs to make concessions in some areas in order to get what they want in other areas. From draft to draft what they concede and what they get will change.

If that was all in the open by the time the proposed final treaty is up for ratification every group that thinks that the final draft is less beneficial or more harmful to them than an earlier draft would be opposed. Even if the final is better for them than not having a treaty it often won't matter...they had more in a draft, and will want more negotiations to get that back.
Another enthusiastic vote for https://github.com/charmbracelet/mods - this is precisely the UX I was looking and waiting for - the day that I cloned it and started using it within my terminal was the day I no longer needed to even window out to firefox - and it feels very natural to compose with pipes, wrap into shell scripts, etc.

Early days, but you can see some of the ways this is already helping me out quite a bit (and increasing my enjoyment of things I already like to do): github.com/zackproser/automations
They used a technique for water segmentation described in an earlier paper [1]. The validation dataset for that method goes back to 1992...

"All applied images have 30-m spatial resolution and were acquired during October 1, 1992 to October 31, 2018. The period was set with regard to the availability of the validation dataset"

[1] Yao, J. Wang, C. Wang, J.-F. Crétaux, Constructing long-term high-frequency time series of global lake and reservoir areas using Landsat imagery. Remote Sens. Environ.232, 111210 (2019).
Blue Origin hasn't been to orbit yet right? If that is still the case, pretty wild contract to land.
Same for EU?
You also need a minimum amount of financial comfort and stability, which, in the US, is not easy for many people. Often the poorest neighborhoods are the most car-bound.
> If you are using a vault properly

That's the main sticking point for a lot of big companies. There are loads of authenticator apps able to store TOTP secrets, and it's opaque to them whether the user is using a secure implementation, handling their TOTP secret safely, etc. While with a push notification they have complete control over that process.