skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. That response was clarifying. I understand now what you mean. Funnily enough though, the paper you cited begins:

"Any discussion on the foundations of computing runs into severe problems right at the start. The difficulty is that although we all use words such as ‘name’, ‘value’, ‘program’, ‘expression’ or ‘command’ which we think we understand, it often turns out on closer investigation that in point of fact we all mean different things by these words, so that communication is at best precarious."

Rather than debating the semantics of the colloquial usage of referential transparency, I'm more interested in the question: what can I tell at the call site of a function without knowing the definition of the function? In an impure language, I cannot tell whether the call has side effects without looking at the definition. This is true whether I am using a macro or simply a regular function call.

Now, even if my language of choice is impure, referential transparency of expressions is still a useful concept that can inform how I write my program. I can use naming, for example, to suggest whether a function call may have side effects even if the language compiler can't verify the property. Not perfect, but better than nothing. And if I'm really confused by a bug, I can always just assume that the name is misleading and the function may have unintentional side effects. In other words, I can use the concept of referential transparency to implement a metaprogramming system in my head.
Likely because prompt injection is basically instruction injection, aka. asking it to do anything…
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Awesome that they are using the block editor to design the newsletter.

10% fees for the free plan is not to bad
I don’t think it is much to do with some nefarious plan to defeat social realism so much as they funded talented artists and talented artists happened to be bored with old forms/find them irrelevant and they wanted to experiment with something new.
Well it's not pointless. The term as used in FP has a pretty well-defined meaning [1] and it is a quality only some programs have. And a program having that quality enhances (fast-and-loose) equational reasoning.

[1] I can point at most Java code and prove how it fails the definition. It's not especially hand-wavey.
I think you're making an assumption that what you want from VR is what everyone wants. For me the last thing I need is total escapism or "conscious dreaming". The coolest thing I have done on VR is Superhot, an action game. And my main use case would be sim racing.

> He should be totally enraptured, not happy to take it off.

Most gamers don't want to make gaming their whole life. I want to have fun for 45-90 minutes and walk away.
Because it could be you who gets the point.

If it's tied near the end of regulation, your expectation value is 1. But if you and the other team wait it out and let it go into overtime, your expectation value is 1.5.
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That's only the case if neither team feels like they have a decided advantage before OT to win. Otherwise, you don't want the other team to get a point, because you're competing against them in total points for playoff position.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Thanks!
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I recommend LogSeq with Syncthing for your use case.

I'm using that right now for both TODO and notetaking. I have syncthing set up so that it syncs my vault across 3 devices (including my phone). Very easy to set up (tho admittedly also easy to mess up the set up process). Have had minor hiccups the past 5 months but nothing that would make me want to stop using this setup.

All this is free. I feel like I've found a gold mine that nobody else seems to know about.
> I assumed the terms are basically synonymous in the UK?

No, 'public school' would be understood to refer only to the most elite of private schools in the UK, such as Eton, Harrow, Winchester, etc. A run-of-the-mill private school would not be considered to be a public school.
And Back to the Future, arguably the greatest movie/trilogy of all time and a distinctly American epic, which also featured several Huey Lewis and the News songs.
It's vice, any expectation is too high for them
https://lobste.rs

This is where Lobsters tag/label system comes in handy.

You still get the all tech news frontpage, but if you wanted to filter by hardware - you can do that.

Like so --> https://lobste.rs/t/hardware

This also address the problem of not having enough content for a site to take off, since it's similar to reddit with it's subreddit system.
The conspiratorial view is that people were numbed by meaningless abstract art when they could have been engaging with didactic social realist works that would have convinced them to become communist. Hard to falsify but I’m not sure how credible it is.
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It's really fascinating to see all the irrational thinking triggered by ChatGPT. "risks of human race extinction", "soon no more need for developers, doctors or lawyers", "possibility of consciousness emerging", so called experts in "prompt engineering".

It's a dumb tool, if you're lucky you can get it to spit something useful (but you need other tools to check the correctness of what it returned). There are certainly many useful applications, but the technology is inherently limited.
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Occams razor: a much simpler explanation, not disproved by anything in this article, would be that CIA saw that sincere and powerful american and western art was already capturing hearts and minds for effectively, and decided to empower it, since this process aligned with its goals.

And in general, american hegemony roughly aligned with interests of humanity as a whole, because with all it's downfalls and atrocities and ugliness, its still much better than the alternative.
That's... what happens: https://www.science.org/content/article/can-dirty-mice-save-...
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That event always seemed so weird to me. I’m not the biggest fan of disco (some of the old and new stuff is danceable) but isn’t blowing up a crate of records similar in spirit to book burning?
If you would establish a price and someone would pick up your name for another price, would that make you happy?

Alfred Nobel did not establish a price in economics. So IMHO this price should not have his name. Sure, the official name is a bit bulky. We can certainly find something more appropriate.
Does WP.com still syndicate your content across the internal network? I was using it in 2012 for a blog about creative writing and very quickly amassed over 2,000 followers because of the said syndication.

I haven’t touched it in years, have spammers obliterated the platform?
Here is a better graph (although it does not contain recent data):

https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-truth-50-years-of-us-...

> The Fed can _only_ do monetary tricks. That's all they're authorized to do.

When you only have a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail. Not everything can be solved by monetary tricks, but it seems like they just have to do something for the sake of it, regardless if that means tanking the economy. But hey, once economy dies, there will be no inflation! Genius.
aka bookmarks
Barely, if at all. To me they serve largely exclusive purposes. I've used ChatGPT for some code generation purposes, but I don't use it for searching the web. The old idea that "people want answers, not pages" is largely not true in my case.

There is, of course, some overlap, and yeah, I've dabbled with ChatGPT for a few queries that were more in the mode of "want an answer, as opposed to a page". But by and large Google is still my first stop for most searches.
If we reach a point where having brain surgery in order to avoid a competitive disadvantage in the workplace is a common thing, then I really do need to stop and get off of this planet. Things are already dystopic enough as it is.
What the hell am I looking at?! I never knew this existed! What else don't i know?
> "Doing good on tests isn't AGI, sorry."

1) I didn't say it was AGI and 2) It sounds to me like you are saying that no test will convince you that a computer is AGI. OK fine then. If that's your interpretation of AGI and if AGI is your interpretation of 'hype' then by your definition the hype will never be justified.

> "It's just a statistical prediction using a LOT of data."

This is for sure true.

> "This is the kind of computations computers have done forever."

The same in kind, but not at the same scale, and it has not been done before with architectures that benefit from this scale.

> "When Deep Blue beat Kasparov people were saying all of this same dumb shit, but in reality, chess is amenable to massive searches."

Yes, first they made calculating computers that were better than people at calculating. Then they made chess computers that were better than people at chess. Now they made LLMs which are better than people at like ... most standardized tests and theory of mind tests and certification tests and informal communication skills.

> It does not, in fact, display emergent properties unless you abuse the word beyond what it means and are just implying implications.

To me it seems like you are the one who is concerned about 'implying implications'.

> It's not intelligent.

> It's not sentient.

> It's certainly not alive.

> And it is not coming to kill you.

I didn't say any of those things, and I'm not implying them. You are the one who is putting that implication out there. My point was that beating humans at like most tests is not 'hype'.
I'm ready. I'm here. But I've essentially abandoned usenet just because most groups I was in are now dead or spammed... So... Well... Not much faith in mass of people...
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The tweet is an OpenAI employee who is responding to people who have fallen out of love.

I've seen transcripts of people interacting with ChatGPT who were obviously seduced by it and in a very giddy state, having so much fun because ChatGPT was playing an extended "game" with them that it didn't bother them at all that ChatGPT was spouting wrong answers.

A major complaint I've had about the social sphere is that I seem to get the same result if I am 20% right or 50% right or 80% right or 95% right or 99.8%, it is just exhausting and I can never be good enough and I'm frankly envious that people see more of a glimmer of light behind that thing's "eyes" than they do behind mine.

The core thing about neurotypicality isn't so much that they get the wrong answers but that they get the same answer whether it is right or wrong. For a long time I thought the basis of the "language instinct" is a derangement about reasoning with uncertainty that causes the grammar representation to collapse into a low-dimensioned subspace which is learnable with a limited amount of data. I wouldn't be surprised at all if other animals could beat us at rock-scissors-paper or poker if they could understand the rules of the game. The success of LLMs might give us some insight in this area although they are working with so much more data that Chomsky's old "poverty of the stimulus" argument might not apply.
in the United States, the Transportation Security Administration is most commonly responsible for airport security screenings. This typically involves scanning passengers' belongings with xray equipment and passengers themselves with at least metal detectors. As such there is a markedly reduced expectation to privacy when passing through an airport security checkpoint.
> No, I'm following commonly accepted epistemological frameworks.

Another term for those? Doctrine.

> You're on the other hand re-defining "indoctrination" to mean "passing any kind of knowledge and opinion"

That's not a redefinition, btw. Look it up.

> which coincidentally means you don't really have to evaluate what you pass on - it's all indoctrination anyway!

You seem to be overreacting.

> So instead of focussing [sic] on passing on my knowledge and opinions, I focus on fostering the ability to gain knowledge.

That's an artificial distinction, which is really the only point I've been trying to communicate throughout this whole discussion. What you call "the ability to gain knowledge" is still a collection of "knowledge and opinions," but perhaps obscured and not always clearly labeled as such. Obscuring doctrine like that is actually characteristic of deep and thorough indoctrination.

Your doctrine isn't privileged such that training someone in it is somehow not indoctrination or less so than training other doctrines.

> You should really, really look into epistemology.

Which one?
Is LLVM sufficiently "simpler" to learn and wield than assembly, or does it just make it easier to compile to different systems?
Just one bit of personal experience, but for me it was a significant reason. In most cases you want objects to have highly structured data (e.g. for joins and queries) and in other cases you just want "a bunch of semi-structured stuff". Sure, DBs always had blobs and text, but JSON is really what you want a lot of the time.

There's also a good article by Martin Fowler about how "NoSQL" was really "NoDBA" for a lot of folks, and I definitely saw that dynamic. JSON fields can also be a good middle ground here, where a DBA can insure good "structural integrity" of your schema, but you don't need to go through the hassle of adding a new column and schema update if you're just adding some "trivial" bit of data.
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Oh boy, any one that thinks their particular art style is "truth" has an ego problem.
Homoiconicity wins in my book. Clojure is the best proof I have of this: What mattered was not the linked list or the cons cell. What mattered was that all code was just nested calls to functions and macros with the SAME general form: (function arg1 arg2 arg3 ...)

Expression-based programming using this core form is trivially easy, and makes immutable data structures downright pleasurable to work with. It also makes code generation easy, though I've never taken full advantage of it; even so, a DSL made of runtime functions is not only possible, but a natural extension of anything you're already doing. Backing those homoiconic expression forms with typical high-performance data structures like arrays and hash maps, as Clojure and Janet do, is a winning formula for making complex tasks simple.

All the patterns of yesteryear for modeling problems begin to look quaint when your program eventually just becomes a pyramid of expression calls, with `main` at the top and database hits at the bottom. The organization of the stuff in between really just becomes a question of standardizing function signatures and organizing modules so humans can easily navigate them.
> I'm not so sure a package manager is really all that essential

I agree with you, but this is subjective. Not having a package manager will probably turn off many from the language. But it’s OK for the Zig folks to make a call that a lot of people won’t agree with if it doesn’t fit their vision of the language.
> On the other hand people’s initial reaction to much modern art is “what the hell? you call this art?”

There's a lot of people who look at React and think "What the hell? You call this useable?" as well. The point of spending money on popularizing something is usually to popularize it with a specific crowd.

And if you are close to the art crowd, modern art is a) a stupid moniker, because it covers 1860-now, and b) a pretty logical evolution of what was before. You don't have to like it to understand what it's trying to do. The "what the hell" crowd is not the crowd targeted by the marketing.
Say I want to write a screenplay and produce the resulting film, for profit, but I am literally unable to have any ideas whatsoever unless I base them on book that I read. With this in mind, and with this sole motivation, I buy and read the whole collection of Brandon Sanderson's novels and create a screenplay based exclusively on their content, for I have no ideas nor experiences of my own. I already paid when I bought the books. Why would I need to pay Brandon Sanderson any more?
Adding to the discussion on the rules set in soccer, I've always found it bad design that the referee has only yellow and red cards for penalizing individual players. Especially the red card is a hard penalty, which leads to the referee having too much influence on the outcome, and to counter that, the referees don't like to give out cards too easily.

Now, the consequence of that is for example that players fake injuries constantly, as they can't be reasonably penalized, but the faking might yield a penalty kick or a red card to the other team. However, it makes the game incredibly cringeworthy to watch.

Contrast this to ice hockey, where the minimal penalty is a timeout of 2 minutes. It's enough to put your team in trouble, but you can recover by playing careful defence for 2 minutes. So if a player fakes injuries or otherwise behaves in a minor bad way, the referee can give them a 2 minute penalty - enough to punish, but not enough to skew the rest of the game.
It depends. Yes, M Series leads in perf/watt, by far.

But if they put an M2/3 in there, it won't be powerful enough. PS5 VR hooks into the PS5, which has a 10 tflops GPU. The VR device would need at least an M2/3 Pro SoC to be competitive.
Yeah, I read through that: unless I'm missing something I think what I'm curious about is "calling C code from Zig and vice versa" in the to-be-written section.

Nim also has support for `ctypes` and compiles to C as its main target: yet though its interop is powerful it lacks in ergonomics, formerly you had to manually wrap every function you wished to use and this was only recently fixed by a macro-heavy external library.

I'm wondering what Zig does because IMO even if you have an excellent technical solution getting people to actually use it alongside C is hard, it has to be seamlessly seamless. Nim's C interop is rarely used outside of wrappers and it even more rarely is used to produce C libraries (though perhaps that's more a fault of incompatible type systems)
Tesla did not establish electric veichile company and Max Planck did not, in fact, erect a building in my university's square.
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The way the previous comment came across to me was as from a cynical incel type rather than a more reasoned MGTOW-adjacent approach, sorry for the misunderstanding.
Arch RISC-V port effort[0] is what I use, and has both firefox and chromium.

RVSpace forum also has some threads re: people testing recent Firefox releases on other distros: Javascript JIT is recent in Firefox, and helps a lot.

0. https://archriscv.felixc.at/
> Let's go back to perpetual licenses.

There is a perpetual licence listed on a page; Life-time $900

> Monthly subscriptions suck.

They do. But for a SaaS biz that has to pay the bills for infra it is hard to get around it.
homeopathic medicine, chiropractic medicine, folk medicine, traditional medicine, osteopathic medicine, crystal healing medicine... you can make an infinite list of nonsense

and if you want to disambiguate and say "evidence based medicine" to refer to actual medicine, they can just make it "evidence based homeopathic medicine" and so on and so on

can't beat these people
Probably one of the best known examples is the establishment as helicobacter pylori as the ultimate cause of ulcers, rather than stress, spicy food, and low pH. Marshall won the nobel prize for this, and it's often touted as a situation where there was a lot of initial non-scientific resistence "of course we know it's stress..."
IntelliJ Community is great, it has so many features making it a perfect IDE (except that it is pretty heavy)
YAML.
While I do think AI could greatly help moderation, someone has to implement it, to be responsible for trust issues. And, right now, I'm not sure Reddit will be that someone.

And it's even more unclear is who would do that more generically where it could be used on a platform like usenet
Eternal-September.org has free text based Usenet. No binaries, but works just fine, and has for years.
"(effect sizes) Some of our favorite medications, including statins, anticholinergics, and bisphosphonates, don’t reach the 0.50 level. And many more, including triptans, benzodiazepines (!), and Ritalin (!!) don’t reach 0.875."

"There’s no anti-ibuprofen lobby trying to rile people up about NSAIDs, so nobody’s pointed out that this is “clinically insignificant”. But by traditional standards, it is!"

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Speaking out of my ass: my understanding was that certain branches of abstract expressionism were so, essentially, but it's difficult to apply the suspicion to ALL of modern/postmodern art, considering that so much of it was developed or influenced by artistic movements outside the temporal and geographic purview of the CIA (particularly pre-WWII European (post)modern art and its influences in Asian and African forms). Also, it wouldn't be the first time influential entities boosted controversial media in a successful bid for a sort of cultural engineering. (I know what you're probably thinking, and no, I'm actually referring to, "Woodrow Wilson screening 'Birth of a Nation' at the White House.")

(I'm purposely conflating modern and postmodern art because I imagine that many who see the term "modern art" make that mistake, and because Pollock et al. kind of bridge the two in eschewing representation while still using traditional media.)
> I don’t want to jump straight to racism because not every encounter

That's a pretty high bar. Instead of "every encounter" being the bar, shouldn't the bar be "more often than the general population" or "more often than members not of this race"?
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