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Education system is broken already, from the start where only who can afford it -directly or indirectly- are allowed to be admitted, all the way till how lecturers, assignments etc. are conducted. I did some part time lecturing before, and when I tried to approach things differently, the dean and the college didn’t really like that, had to leave eventually.
ASK HN: Should I post an ephemeral of ideas as platitude questions to ASK HN?
Ask HN: What's a mundane sum of money for you?
I have a pet theory about wealth and the value of money that I'll write some article about later.

But, I'm interested in knowing:
Your country and: What's a "mundane" sum of money for you?
By that I mean, an amount where, if you got it, it'd surely be welcome, and you'd surely consider it substantial, you'd be willing to do some amount of extra work for it (but not so much that your life started falling apart)..
But you'd not.. like.. Do anything with it in your current situation, like, there'd not be anything specific you'd want/need/have to use it for, in other words, it'd be a lot of money, but not enough to "change anything" ?

I'll be a sport and go first: I live in Denmark, the upper limit is about $50k, sure, it'd be nice, I'd also do some overtime for it, but, it wouldn't allow me to do anything I want to do, that I can't already do, and it'd not be an enabler for me to move on any particular project, so I'd probably just invest it.

How about you?

(To elaborate: $50k is a lot for me, of course! I'd be thrilled if I got it, but, it wouldn't be life-changing, it'd not be an enabler into another strata of possibilities for me, it's the amount of money I'd be extremely happy to get, but that wouldn't change any of my current behaviors.
In contrast, if I had $200k, I have a on-going project that I could move on, and I'd know exactly how to use that money. (to elaborate further, because I know people will misinterpret this: I'm of course saving, and will eventually reach that amount, it's not that I'm saying any lesser amount means nothing to me, only that I'd have the status as "being put towards saving" rather than enable me to do something right away)).
All subscriptions should be the way Apple's store handles them; you can subscribe to Disney+ today, immediately cancel, and have access for the remainder of your subscription time. Then you don't have to remember it, and if you DO find you want it when you go to access it after your subscription is over, you can easily resubscribe.
While true, this comment is entirely US centric. $30 USD a month is not a joke to a good chunk of the world.

Just because developers in US in San Fran make $350k a year doesn't mean everyone does. And it's incredibly short sighted to assume that.

But ignoring all of that, your only recommendation is to sell it cheaper B2B... doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of keeping the $30 price?
Risks are not created equal.
but ruby, python etc.. can just extract the list too, it's just an extra method call on the same object (perhaps there could be destructuring too in modern ruby/python)

hour, min, sec = /(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)/.match('10:11:12').captures

or

hour, min, sec = re.compile(r'(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)').match('10:11:12').groups()

ruby & python will explode if there is no match rather than fail silently but I'm not convinced the difference is huge.
To what degree is the pre and post processing of the chat client the source of the confusion rather than GPT-4 itself?
VR hardware is chock full of compromises right now. VR’s final form factor will probably look more like goggles or glasses.
Nothing has proved more conclusively than crypto threads that you cannot really expect HN to be above that standard of discourse. Maybe it once was, but very few people have been spared by the polarising, indignation-fuelling, engagement maximising tactics of social media influencers.
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One idea you could try to make the repeat load less of a burden, and enable more notes or items to be included, is to not just track whether they've been shown before, but to use a spaced repetition algorithm to try to estimate whether an item has been forgotten, and surface the most likely-to-have-been-forgotten items. Those are the ones you would benefit from serendipity, because presumably, if they had become relevant and you already remembered them, you'd've made use of them, and it's the forgotten ones where serendipity strikes.

I call this idea 'anti-spaced-repetition': https://gwern.net/note/statistic#program-for-non-spaced-repe...
Exactly my question... I wonder if the pre and post processing of the chat interaction isn't what is driving the perceived differences.
I was surprised that the article didn't mention Lockdown Mode considering the likely overlap in features. It's even possible that Lockdown Mode was developed (at least in part) to defeat these types of exploits, given the timeline.
This is one of my favorite rabbit holes to go down, it's nuts.
Why do you think embodiment isn't intelligence?

I'm genuinely curious (i.e., this isn't a rhetorical question) because that seems to be a common assumption among folks who talk about intelligence, and I honestly don't understand it.

For example, I enjoy rock-climbing as a hobby. Doing it involves literally learning new patterns of movement. That's part of what makes it fun. I don't understand why that isn't considered intelligence, while learning the steps to, say, invert a matrix is.
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"Awesome description of rocks. I would like to understand the rocks used for nuclear reactors."
As pointed out in the comments in the article, these kinds of logic puzzles are easier to solve using constraint programming than "regular" logic programming.

For example, see the solution to the Zebra Puzzle here: https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/puzzles which uses CLPZ[^1].

[^1]: https://github.com/triska/clpz
That was more of what I meant - pubs weren't shiny enough.
This is like equating swimming in the middle of the atlantic with swimming at your local leisure center.
I literally just switched to Windows from Mac full-time so that I could feel like I can game more often. I have a dual-boot Hackintosh, and booting into Windows simply to game was always a chore because I'd lose all my open windows/tabs on Mac. So much of a chore that I essentially gave up gaming.

(Not to mention that when I did boot into Windows, the next few hours were spent downloading OS and game updates.)

I do wish that AAA games on Mac were more common. But WSL2 is super nice, so w/e.
Writing it from scratch is not nearly as common as reading it and understanding it. I think pretty much every systems programmer will have to stare at disassembly output from time to time.
This is no surprise. There's a lot of Monty Python style in Shakespeare, and he was definitely influenced by earlier sources, such as medieval morality plays, etc.
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> The worst thing about soccer is that no one, outside the ref, really knows how much time is left in the game

This is also kind of a feature. Different kind of suspense. I don't mind it.

> That and flopping in the box to get penalty shots.

I don't like diving, but I can understand it to some extent. The ref misses a lot of the illegal contact.

Grabbing, pushing, pretty much anything you do with your hands to manipulate another player is illegal contact. Shoulder contact is mostly fine and the generally allowed strength and positioning play.

If you have someone doing subtle tactical fouls in the box (very common). The ref will probably miss it because it's hard to see the finer technical contact at 30-40 yards away. Then there's the safety issue. If you're a forward and you get plowed by a defender, it can be quite dangerous. There tends to be a size mismatch favoring the defender.

So exaggerating contact to make sure the ref is aware that it's occurred is a counter to potential defender gamesmanship, or worse.

I've never been able to do it, I keep my feet at even egregious fouls (really good balance) and consequently, despite probably hundreds of fouls in the box, I never get awarded penalties.

But... I still retain a bit of appreciation for the divers as I know what defenders would be like if the threat of it wasn't there.

Another common problem is the huge license keepers are granted with physical contact.
It feels less hamstrung on output, but is instead hamstrung by being incredibly slow.

GPT-4 via API will sometimes take 30 seconds + to respond to simple questions without any chat history, where through Chat GPT it will give you near enough instant replies only slightly slower than 3.5 turbo.
A very bad translation for "ferrymans oar".
I imagine many onlookers would be able to tell who is playing a horror VR game based on the presence of a nearby change of clothes.
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That’s not really an issue with AI in general, you can make it deterministic by tuning some parameters if you want (temperature in chatGPT, passing a seed in midjourney etc)
agreeing here Markus, for all practical purposes all one needs to know are the features supported by a particular product, not the possible features.
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do you have any experience sending eth?
> so I feel less like its assistant

Ah so I'm not the only one who feels this way lol. It's as brilliant as it is dumb.
I thought about getting a boxing game for VR, but I worry about injuring my elbow by punching forward and hitting nothing and having all the momentum get absorbed by the limit of my elbow joint.

Do you just avoid punching directly forward, or do you pull your punches, or what?
You're right of course that some randomness is inherent, but you can adjust the "temperature".

With a low enough temperature you get essentially the same output every time, with a at most just minor words swapped.
Picasso painted Man in a Beret when he was 14 years old. His art became "nonsense" because realism was boring for him.
> How much of that is social expectation?

Yes, we can change social expectations and boundaries. We did change social expectations and boundaries. It was called the "Sexual Revolution" and it happened over half a century ago. It's old news. This is where we've ended up since then.
Yeah, for a lot of people finding good friends is always a life-changing event no matter the outer circumstances surrounding that bonding.

The interesting part of the discussion though is how often those bonds are misattributed to causation from the concomitant circumstances (violence, special secretive clubs) as opposed to correlation and just raw, "boring" proximity. The general loss of consistent "third places" to encourage proximity among potential friends somewhat makes it seem even more "causitive" that people (especially those socialized under today's idea of masculinity) misattribute the wonder of forming a new friend bond to "requiring" ugly circumstances such as shared violence or special secretive clubs, rather than just being a healthy and natural outcome of social proximity (and emotional "closeness") among our aggressively social species that doesn't need to be forced through pain or sweat or hazing or forced philanthropy or secret handshakes.
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There have always been planets that are mostly water with just some archipelagos, they're just kind of rare. Check the coordinate exchange[1]. There's also pirates, settlements, derelict freighters, new sentinels, and exo-suit, new ship types, genetically editable pets, and expanded base building now. Depending on when "a few years ago" was precisely the proc gen is a little better.

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Whiskey/cocacola routes take 7 days standard, at least in 2012 they both did. For good reasons, folks struggle with altitude and you have plenty of people who go up high first time in their lives, so taking time to acclimatize is smart for general groups. Even with this, success rate was not more than 50%.

I've personally struggled like hell on the top, almost hallucinated and so did rest of my team members. But we made a junior mistake of going too fast up on summit day. When I did ie Mont Damavand in Iran, which is just 250m lower after cca 3 years, no issues and roud trip was just 2 days. But I've trained and did some crazy stuff in between. Most folks don't do that kind of stuff.
He was not in an experimental phase on March 7, 1963, when he recorded a sublime, but very much non-experimental album with Johnny Hartman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUnyG01x7uk

But he was in an experimental phase on March 6, 1963, when he recorded what became "Both Directions at Once" with the same band, minus Hartman: https://youtu.be/qs1YZdfimE4?t=551

His styles don't really follow a linear timeline.
I'm not sure of the mechanics, I know for a fact that most people are moving $ to brokerages and parking it in something like VMFXX (or equivalents in Fidelity etc.)

Do you know what the mechanics are when you put some money in to VMFXX? Who does vanguard get the treasuries from?
If ChatGPT has been static since March (of 2023) the. Why does my version always change? Right now I'm running May 24.

FWIW, I think it has improved.
I miss the 90s security groups which were both funky and respectable and (most importantly) devoid of corporate lingo.

Semi underground stuff like Phrack, 2600 and various punky groups who surprisingly did good security research and open to participation..

Today's cutting edge security research feels very silod in the products.
Huh? This thread is about their old games that are still being played.
i believe that need is an intrinsicaly human need
The 10k-Hour Rule is a myth
I agree these statements from these long term researchers about them being surprised by the rate of progress are surprising.

To clarify my own thinking here, it's totally reasonable to me that people are surprised if:

1. They weren't previously aware of AI research (surely 99% of the population?)

2. They were but had stopped paying attention because it was just a long series of announcements about cool tech demos nobody outside big corps could play with.

3. They were paying attention but thought scaling wouldn't continue to work.

My problem is that people like Sam Altman clearly aren't in any of those categories and Hinton shouldn't have been in any, although maybe he fell into (3). I personally was in (2). I wasn't hugely surprised that ChatGPT could exist because I'd seen GPT-2, GPT-1, I'd seen surprising AI demos at Google years earlier and so on. The direction things were going in was kinda clear. I was a bit surprised by its quality, but that's because I wasn't really paying close attention as new results were published and the last InstructGPT step makes such a big difference to how the tech is perceived. Actual knowledge doesn't change much but once it's housetrained, suddenly it's so much easier to interact with and use that it makes a step change in how accessible the tech is and how it's perceived.

I think I was more surprised by the joining of LLMs with generators and how well AI art works. It does feel like that happened fast. But, maybe I just wasn't paying attention again.

So I guess where we differ is that I don't take their surprise at face value. The direction was too clear, the gap between the threats they talk about in the abstract and the concrete proposals are too large and too lacking in obvious logical connection; it feels like motivated reasoning to me. I'm not entirely sure what's really going on and perhaps they are genuine in their concerns but if so it's hard to understand why they struggle so much to make a convincing case given they are certainly intellectually equipped to do so.

The two posts you linked are interesting and much better argued than the website this thread is about, so I'll reply to them directly.
Hygienic macros and a strict phase separation are not distinctive to scheme, many languages have this now, most importantly Rust. And just like Rust macros scheme macros are not really an organic part of the language but some extra edifice bolted on top. Scheme definitely deserves credit for pioneering work here, but the only aspect that's of enduring distinctiveness that I'm aware of is Racket's #lang, which basically gives you a less messy and more powerful version of what you could do in Common Lisp with macros and read-tables.

My impression is that hygiene itself (which the scheme community tended to obsess over) is of minor practical benefit, but the fact that you get good error locations (because not using plain lists and symbols makes it easy to carry sufficient contextual information around[^1]) is a major upside.

Out of curiosity, are there additional important practical benefits you see, macro-wise, over Common Lisp (that would make up for the gimped repl)? I.e. in addition to better error messages?

[^1] I seem to remember being told Allegro Common Lisp does a good job here, but I assume identity still imposes some major limitations.
>Does a trackpad and keyboard cut it as in interface for a game like this?

It should, you don't need twitchy mouse speed like fast-paced shooting games, even though it's an FPS/vehicle game.
I guess this is true.

Seems like the game dev sweetspot is "AA" sized, like Hello Games, Coffee Stain, maybe Obsidian... its where economies of scale really kick in, but beyond that studios quickly hit all sorts of scaling issues.
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