skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no chance whatsoever that any tool will ever be able to reliably tell the difference between LLM and human content, and I can’t understand how anyone thinks such a thing is possible.

There's no mechanism of action for such a thing. The information would have to be encoded in the text and it isn't.

Honestly the best way to think about it is to invoke the infinite number of monkeys scenario since believing this requires you to disprove the infinite monkeys theorem.

Consider this thought experiment.

1) We will start with a piece of text that your detector is 100% certain was created by a GPT tool.

2) Now, prove that there is no way whatsoever for at least one human being to independently create this text.

If you can’t prove that, then your tool is bullshit.

cite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
The phrase you're looking for is "embodied energy", and the answer is first, that solar generates a net return on energy investment in under 10 years, and often in much much less than that, with a panel lifetime of over 30 years. But more importantly, it's even more favorable when you compare it to the embodied energy of non-renewable resources:

https://sustainability.stackexchange.com/questions/8317/what...
It is, but there already are other choices that are not worse and that are more established
Straato: Digital Asset That Only Goes Up Through Trading
This! One of the things that used to happen is you'd pick up a book, and encounter a word or phrase you don't know or understand, and you'd go look it up. This is easier than ever with the internet.

Don't know why someone would "rent a flat?" You go look the phrase up and discover that it's British usage. Confusion over... because you learned. Reading Moby Dick and don't know what "scraggy scoria" is? You look the words up and learn they're the perfect fit for the landscape Melville is painting.

https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/scraggy

https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/scoria
I could see there being a future course about binary on codeamigo actually. I'm not saying people shouldn't learn the fundamentals of computing, rather, it's not knowledge that's a requirement to have before building most modern applications.

Before it was "learn C before learning Python" but some people didn't love that either...I guess my point is, we've been moving to higher and higher abstractions ever since computer programming was invented, the next abstraction is probably going to be talking to an AI to write some code that you need to vet, the above is just marketing speak for that.
As I expected you do not want to engage in actual dialogue and answer the question I asked. You are just posturing that it is inevitable and therefore do not want to answer why you favour this dystopia to the detriment of any other possible future.

Moreover you are also steering this towards the simulation hypothesis which is a dead end for a debate.

I will no longer entertain this charade.
If you can't rely on an interconnection with Spain then you have bigger problems than energy security.
I recall reading that the French Laundry and Per Se restaurants did this too. They had video conferencing set up between kitchens on opposite coasts.
Rate Limiting in HAProxy and Nginx
> "quality moderators"

Reddit admins will just install the generic supermoderators that already "moderate" 300 default subs and call it a day. IPO line goes up, baby!
Is It Safe to Go for a Run in Wildfire Smoke?
Ah yes, I can tell its a good way to learn how to be a developer by teaching you about how to write in an authoritative "intuition as fact" tone even before the course started.
1. As mentioned, I'm saying no price controls for new treatments. 2. The fact that insulin pricing spiked in US proves our version of capitalism is broken, especially for inelastic products.
"Most people in food-growing regions are conservative, so we all must bow down to conservative interests" is a tiresome and ridiculous ultimatum that American politics needs to get past.

Obstetricians are strongly left-leaning. Do we need to bow down to them if we want babies? Should they get 5x the vote because otherwise women and babies will all die in droves in childbirth?

Most people benefit from and choose to participate in society, and in exchange each person should get the same voice as the rest. We don't need to grant them any special political status above everyone else in order to entice them to do their chosen jobs. If someone decides they won't sell food in a city that voted for Biden or deliver babies for people from a Trump county, great have fun with that. Most people are less mindkilled on politics and will fill in the gap.
Yes, you don't even need prism to spy domestically if you have a warrant. That has always been true.

The feds were getting warrants to open mail in the 1800's.
That lines up with my experience as well. I think though that there is a cutoff where very junior people are almost never going to be highly productive and require fairly constant babysitting.

I think you can mentor/babysit them in a remote environment, but it takes intentional effort.

This is just a symptom of a larger problem though, which is that people try to get useful work out of very junior developers. They should instead treat them as investments that will generate useful work in the future. If you can’t do this, you shouldn’t be hiring juniors.
Drain your water heater every 3 months or so. Change out the sacrificial anode once a year.
> companies are acting rationally

corporate "values*" always come with the small print of "*as long as it maximizes profit."

it is silly to think that any for-profit corporation is ever going to do something that is directly contrary to its financial interests.

you can (and i do) definitely argue that having strong values does contribute to long term profitability, but the purpose of the "values" is to maximize profit.

when a conflict arises between the values and profitability, profitability always wins.
https://archive.ph/zGUDm
I don't know if that's fair. Consultants were flying "on site" for meetings at expense to clients for decades (for hotels, meals, etc) and the money was worth it, because being in person is, for some people, is more efficient for some forms of collaboration. I feel like we're having battles about the "best" way when they are just different - and the market will show the results.
RAM usage restrictions?
> People that were healthy couldn't find a way to get their hands on enough calories...

That sure sounds like the "low-income, homebound, or without reliable access to healthy food" bit from my quote.

> It's completely obvious that OP meant that otherwise healthy people aren't starving to death.

The chances of zero people having done that in a country of 330 million people "in decades", as asserted, is quite slim.

https://www.mtshastanews.com/story/news/2021/02/05/living-an... is a case of a physically healthy man starving to death in SF.

https://www.newsweek.com/2023/01/20/starved-death-american-j... is a case of someone starving to death in jail for want of $100 bail.

I rather suspect other examples can be found.
All new houses here have mechanical ventilation, usually with heat recovery and heat pumps but without filtering (excluding the heat pump's coarse filter for dust).

I got curious and read a little, it is generally accepted here that higher pressure in the house can actually lead to mold, maybe because there is no moisture control and it is expected that some of the moisture generated in the house will be driven into the walls, probably assuming the walls are not perfectly sealed. On the other hand air pollution in Sweden is a non-issue, except maybe for a couple of streets in Stockholm.
Those interactions do occur via phone call or teams chat. The in office ones tended to be procedural, send me a task. Something they in truth knew the answer to anyway. When they actually wanted help, they'd ask me regardless of the format.

That's poor etiquette on your team members part, a gentle request from your manager to those offenders should help. No different to someone not answering their phone etc. I do believe a more casual approach to taking calls when WFH is best, but that's just taking advantage.
Sometimes young parent's are not self aware in my, perhaps controversial opinion (it's understandable it happens kids take over their lives), but don't take it out on the rest of us.
I feel like there's a mid-level sweet spot of independence where remote work is just 100x better than in office - you don't need consistent support, and you don't need to consistently influence/help lots of other people.

But if you need consistent support (juniors) or you need to influence/help others (seniors, managers), then it's such a huge hindrance to getting traction.
What, for example? The only other one I can think of is Lua and IMO it’s quite debatable whether that is more established than Guile.
Yes - regulation is not the same as better support for the healthcare system and I am surprised you do not get that distinction. Regulation is about putting rules into place to prevent fraud, malpractice and anything where the clinician may abuse the system to the detriment of patients or other healthcare professionals around them. In addition to regulation, the government should also support the healthcare system through better funding and (patient and clinical) education. It can be true that both more regulation and better support are needed.

To say there is no power dynamic between patient and doctor is wildly ignorant. There obviously is one, even if the patient is not paying the doctor directly for their services. Not sure when (if?) you went to medical school, but this is taught to all medical graduates. The field of medical ethics exists for a reason.
It might be useful for you to distinguish between the psychoanalytical tradition of psychology (which is not a science) from the more recent field of cognitive science. Lacan is nowhere to be found in the OP’s paper, for example, and by conflating the two, you’re throwing out a lot of very robust science.

To be a bit more direct (though please be assured that I mean no disrespect): bringing up Lacan in this conversation tells me you don’t know psychological science very well. You’re missing out. :)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brent-Roberts-2/publica...
>About Codecademy: Has it changed there a lot recently?

Well, they did get acquired roughly year and a half or so ago (i think it was late 2021), so things might have changed from a cultural perspective within Codecademy or the parent company.
I feel like this discussion is missing the hybrid part of the policy. 2 days at home for flow state work and 3 at the office to collaborate doesn't seem crazy. Maybe it should be 2-3 instead of 3-2 for some people, but in my experience the biggest productivity disruptor is meetings. And you’re only getting two “no meetings” days a week anyway. And the biggest downside from working at home is the hit to socializing and collaboration. You’ll hear anecdotes for days from both sides. A hybrid policy addresses both perspectives.

Now if you just want to work for a fully remote company or in a remote role, why not take a job at a place where that’s the philosophy? And on the flip side, if companies want productive employees over the age of 28, and deliberately don’t want to be remote, maybe they should start providing offices instead of desk clusters…
> I don't know binary other than 1 is on, 2 is off.

Either an epic troll or a great illustration :-D
In my case, I started with the FET junction (electronics).

My first program was Machine Code, designed on a pad of lined paper, and punched directly into RAM, via a hex keypad.

These days, I write Swift. It's nice to not need to deal with the way Machine Code works, but I'm glad I learned it.

That said, everything we learn takes up NVR, so there's a strong argument to be had, against the need to learn below a certain fundamental floor.
The simple answer is that there is no natural law that dictate that people work together. Getting people to cooperate involve compromises.

Taken to an extreme, would you want a global government that had proportional representation? Most of the worlds population is not located in the geographic location of north America. With large international agreements, should EU, US and China get one vote each, or should it be based on populations?

To take a other perspective, is populate based voting the best system? In the past we had systems based on wealth or families, with the concept being that fairness is about stakes in the political outcome. Why should anyone get a vote if they don't have a stake in the outcome, and if they do have a stake, shouldn't votes be proportional to that stake? Populate based voting makes more sense in time with military drafts where every individual has an identical stake in the political outcome.

Looking at the EU the answer is both more simplistic and more complex. The reason the majority is beholden by the minority is that otherwise it would just be the German empire under a different name. German votes get slightly less power than citizens of other nations, and in return we have a union. It doesn't make Germany powerless, as they have more representatives than any other country, which also make other people upset. Why should Germany get more votes than Luxembourg? Is a system of one country one vote more fair?
Have written a little about it here, https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/building-a-new-embedd...

Will do a bigger blog post soon on the approach. Can mail you some details if you are interested.
Nuclear Weapons?
SEC Chair Gensler offered to serve as advisor for Binance in 2019
it IS pseudoscience. Wake up! Every single thing laypeople learn about psychology and experiment results turns out to be made up! there is not a single piece of value in the existing field because even if there were you couldn't possibly separate it from the junk!
I'm not sure about productivity, but remote work makes my life better by shitton.

I sleep more, I have way way more time, I don't have to spend money on transport.

And at the end of the day I'm still working in mostly international setting across whole globe, so is remote really this big problem?
"I think there's a segment of Mac users who own Windows machines exclusively for gaming. I think the value in these capabilities isn't that people will buy Apple Silicon machine primarily as gaming machines, I think the value is in enabling someone in the Apple ecosystem who plays games occasionally to opt-out of owning a Windows machine."

: raises hand :
Also, a Quarter Pounder is 417 Calories which is a bit less than 2000*8/24, so that checks out.
Blood is sampled at birth in America, so we aren't too far away from being able to identify people who litter forever.

Just takes one policy change... we are building the cells of a possible future prison.
Someone should add (2006) to this
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Also, there are some accessibility issues with the page, use one of the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools to fix this.

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You could measure (almost) pure CO2 sensitivity by putting it in a pot with a glass of sparkling water.
Also here, what appeared to be a bug in ImGuis clipboard handling turned out to be a crypto stealer

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/4029
It's more like "we have to put in 2x more work for half the benefit" which kinda supports the idea that remote is less efficient (in some ways)
I've done my degree in an obscure subfield of quantum mechanics, and after having read all those papers, I can tell you they are no more sound than the average psychology paper.

The only difference is that everyone thinks they are specialists in human psychology, so they feel like they can dismiss everything that doesn't fit their prior assumptions.

Papers on quantum mechanics start with so much math that noone outside the subfield has any idea what it says, so noone dares to dismiss it.
haha you caught that before I fixed it, that my friend is the result of my failure of math in my great edumacation in the US public school system hahaha.

Also it's 9am and I just woke up a bit ago.
I think in-person collaboration helps, but with folks on the outside of your team. If you are on a small team or in a small startup, I don’t see a big impact of in person communication. You will be interacting with these same people so much that you will grow a close bond with them regardless. When I think about the small company projects I’ve done, it’s honestly hard to tell which were remote and which weren’t - the bonds formed and amount of teamwork was the same.

For large company settings it’s a different story - if I have to have tons of meetings with a pool of various 100 people for many hours a week, some of them occasionally, yes it would be super helpful to have all those in person to establish connections quicker. However, even with RTO there is little chance those people would be in the same office, so you would be stuck on video calls anyways.

There is probably a sweet spot of medium sized companies where there is a lot of people but they are still in the same floor where in office would be effective. But for google scale - not so much.
Strike or Quit
I'm saying they're not trustworthy. And when your life is on the line, you can't trust a bunch of people who care more about doing what's politically advantageous instead of doing what's right.
How are courses created? Who creates them?

>Made with in

How did all the haze treats you yesterday?
Let’s hope you never have to parse an archaic binary format then
Seconded. And I'd posit that learning CS theory and fundamentals like binary shouldn't be too difficult if the individual is savvy enough to grok the finer points of Python.
"...got out my daughter's bicycle for my 7 mile (one-way) commute"

I can't be the only one here who imagined a grown man riding one of those small, pink bikes for little children with training wheels and streamers on the end of the handlebars...

Sorry, I just had to say it...
Yes, this was happening in classrooms in South Africa.
Have you tried Affinity Photo as a raster editor alternative? https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/
> As long as it's still helping people, we should keep building it.

What if it's hurting more people than it's helping? Just seems like a handwavy way to ignore the scams, fraud and collateral damage. We're talking billions.

If we want to spend capital to help people in other countries, there are better ways of doing so.

I do not believe for one second that the people from rich countries spending money in this space are doing it to help poor people in other countries. It's great spin though.
Then they'd know that that person had a relative there. We're still a lot of dots away from going "Well, we found this DNA by accident, it was clearly and obvious Bob was there."
So how would one define "trained eye" without having to defer to your personal opinion? You don't think there is any merit to the point that people chosen by the community of artists to judge art are fooled by it?
For any accessible detector you can automate the evasion. E.g, crudest variant would be:

generate text
run it through the detector
finetune model w/result of the detector
repeat until detector fails to detect.

But every time the failure rate of the detector starts getting high, the other side has a lot of development work to do finding new patterns that won't also lead to lots of false positives.

So while getting a point where it's totally impossible to detect may well take a long time, it'll be periods of the detector suddenly being hard to bypass for a while, and gradually getting easier, repeat. It's highly unlikely it'll ever be impossible to bypass for any length of time.

The only way of keeping such a detector working for any length of time will be to make it expensive or very hard for adversaries to get access to, which means effectively relying on only giving access to trusted users.
Remote work has pros and cons--both at an organization level and at an individual level. I think that "both sides" have argued the pros and cons enough that I don't need to repeat them here.

It's clear to me that no work situation is ideal for everyone or every group.

My "selfish" point of view is that I hope that remote work takes over more and more, and that companies stop forcing workers back into the office full-time.

My personal life situation makes remote work almost a requirement if I want to continue being a software developer. I'm divorced with a young son over whom I have 50% custody. I won't move to a "tech hub" city for a job and abdicate my responsibilities as a father. Even my current job is only a 40 minute commute for me by car, and I still only go to the office once or twice per week: the days that I have to drop off or pick my son up from school won't really accommodate a 40 minute commute unless I'm only going to work a 5-6 hour day.

I count myself as very fortunate that my current work situation is with wonderful people, who all have families as well, and mostly-remote was part of my initial negotiation.

On the flip side of feeling fortunate, I have to remind myself that the company is fortunate, too. Not that I'm not humble, but I do think I'm a pretty good software dev and a generally good employee who takes pride in their work.

I guess the point of spilling out my personal life story on the internet is that I hope that companies realize that forcing on-location work is not just a choice between an employee being at home or being in the office; it may be a choice between having a good employee and not having them at all.
I am looking for someone to help me get started on a project (preferably in Rails or C#) that I have been procrastinating on. I don't see any way to contact you in your profile but you can email me if you are interested - my username @ gmail
You're absolutely right, it's definitely gatekeeping.

That said, there's also a point in here that's often underappreciated. There's a big difference between someone who learns today's modern tools from nothing and someone who has a good foundation learning today's modern tools. I think it's fundamentally one of approach. The former treats coding as a trade where you just need to learn a few tools. The latter treats it as a vocation where fundamentals allow you to learn whatever tools you need.

The one makes sense short-term - it gets people to paying work with modern tools in a minimum of time. The other makes sense long-term - it keeps people in paying work with modern tools for decades.

When you're just getting started and looking to get that first job with the life-changing six figure paycheck, all that farting around with fundamentals that the gatekeepers are talking about seems like an absolutely massive waste of time.

It is gatekeeping, but gatekeeping can and sometimes does serve a purpose that is not just the purely selfish.
I see you are further along the path to prompting wisdom than op.

Positive directions are far superior to negative ones. LLMs don't understand the concept of negation. They work, in a way, by assigning semantic tokens that describe the relationship to other tokens. How could you encode the idea of a negated token?

I have wondered if you could use a similar mechanism to the repetition penalty to penalise chosen tokens that you want to downrank.
A relevant discussion about air quality sensors from less than a year ago:

"Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025995

I almost bought Airgradient's pre-soldered kit[1] but I went with the Airthings View Plus[2] because it came with a Radon sensor. It's pricey (US$299), but not $1000 pricey as mentioned in the article. But I think I might still get the Airgradient sensor for another room just because it's cheaper and I don't need more than one Radon sensor.

1. https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/shop/#!/DIY-Pro...

2. https://www.airthings.com/en/view-plus