skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In principal I think it’s less about humans vs machines and more about individuals vs corporations. It’s one thing to want to do contribute to the global knowledge base. It’s another thing entirely to monetize that knowledge wholesale and that’s what AI companies seek.
You can get ok hardware for a reasonable price. My LG 'gram' seems fine. $800, very lightweight. Came with Windows home. Upgraded to pro for $6.

If you want 'good' some of the Alienware laptops will be more beefy.

Or the $5000 desktop PC I got off Newegg had top of the line specs and came with Windows..

Not sure what you're talking about really. You can get crap, medium or best with Windows.
I'm sure she did use this exact example because Hofstadter and others have been using it since the mid 80s, yes. I don't think he invented the test. I have seen the chatbot fail at it and I've seen it succeed, more or less at random.

You are, however, missing the point.

If you hold a small dog over water it will make swimming motions. It didn't learn those motions. They're encoded into the genes that make its neural matrix and they go off even if it isn't actually in the water.

The ability of ChatGPT to perform (what we consider to be) extremely sophisticated linguistic operations while also being dumb as a sack of hammers about simple questions is upsetting.

A system that sometimes fails the abc->abd test but will easily rewrite the lyrics to "Baby Got Back" in the style of Shakespeare and then Bukowski and then translate it into passable Japanese suggests that many of the activities that we consider creative and useful are actually shallow, stupid, and easy imitations of things we've heard from other people.

I have no urge to disprove ChatGPT. It's extraordinary and powerful. I had just hoped that doing interesting things linguistically was a good measure of internal understanding.

With the way LLMs work we know there is no stateful model in there, no cognitive loop, no understanding, no eventual emergent consciousness. The weights are precalculated and it does not reconsider them. No aspect of the system is based on any possible notion of an "I" that is feeling and looking at itself. There is no memory space set up to store that selfhood and it forgets everything between conversations. The slate is wiped clean.

Yet here it is playing word games beautifully. Failing very basic mathematical questions and writing kick-ass rock lyrics.

As a proponent of emergent strong AI I'd assumed that these abilities depended on self awareness and that any AI capable of doing these neat tricks would be conscious. Instead it appears that self-awareness is an optional curse, an evolutionary side-effect that allows us to suffer and be disappointed in ourselves but is not necessary for creating poetry or visual art. The parts of T.S. Eliot we care about were just a dog wiggling his legs over something he thought was a pond.

There's a sadness there. The point is definitely not "look how dumb the robot is, hurr-de-durr."
> It's a bit more nuanced I think

Yes, I have edited it a bit; I did not want to claim that unique_ptr is universally passed through the stack, just that it is not an insurmontable problem to do so.

> this is again only the artifact of Itanium ABI and something C++ can only adhere to but cannot change. Any language that speaks to the system (OS) must do the same.

This is not true, though. 1) you can change and evolve this ABI (it has happened in the past), 2) you can also have an ABI for the system libraries and an ABI for the rest (see Windows, or see how any language other than C works), and 3) since the problem would only be about non-PODs, which are pretty much C++ specific, the system ABI would not be affected at all.
> They should at least show by default on the first visit

They did for me. Firefox browser on Windows 11. Instructions were showing when I first visited and I had to close them to continue.
Also you have to be there physically which presents a lot of risks.

Even if for some reason you had to have close proximity to the car to disable these settings doing at a place that is a disadvantage to the driver helps your position.
> you don’t need

To be clear, I don’t think any of this will be driven by need, especially at first. It’s going to be something people want to use. If the virtual screens are just barely usable, they are going to sell a bunch of these things to people who want to work on virtual screens. I can’t seem myself ever doing it, but I know there’s some demand for it.
Because they're expensive. It's the same reason that phones have higher DPI than laptops/tablets do -- what's economical on a 6" screen isn't on a 13", and what's economical on 13" isn't on 27."

(Why? Yields. A 6" phone screen is like 12 square inches. A 27" desktop monitor is over 300 square inches. If you have a 98% yield of phone screens without defects, that implies only one defect per ~600 square inches, which means that at a handwave level, you'd have a 50% yield of desktop monitors with that same tech. "We have to throw away half the screens we make as junk" is a lot worse than "we have to throw away 2% of them.")
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You should be able to set the font anti-aliaser's subpixel order unless you're running a terrible operating system.
To be clear, a 58ms response time is so bad that it produces a ton of ghosting while just scrolling text. Apparently Apple screens have always been this bad and Mac users just live with it.
Table sugar can be metabolized for energy.

Beer can be metabolized for energy.

If that's the benefit, then sure.....table sugar and beer are both "beneficial."
I've encountered the WhatsApp issue too. It's the communication tool in some parts of the world, but not others. In some circles people cannot imagine that you are a living breathing person who does not have it.

I use a bottom tier flip phone in the US, and a 13 year old Nokia with a pay-as-you go SIM in Europe.

I've noticed that there has been a generational shift towards smartphone-only communications, but I haven't really had to deal with it. I'd like to hear more about that. Oddly I use some of the same communication tools that young kids use, namely Discord, as it doesn't require a phone number. Linking online accounts and communications to a phone number has always put me off.
1. cross join
2. natural join
3. equi join
4. theta join
5. inner join
6. left outer join
7. right outer join
8. full outer join
9. left semi join
10. right semi join
11. left anti semi join
12. right anti semi join
13. ???
Using slashes for a short/small/abbreviated list is relatively common. For example, the top post on the hiring thread right now is for a "Full-stack/frontend/product engineer". There's another one describing a "M/W/Th" hybrid schedule.
Get out of here with that prescriptivist nonsense. It's perfectly valid to use "less" for all of those things in pretty much every dialect of English.
Can you expand on the problems with regex?
I am totally with you (am original person you replied to)

I find hard rules easier than moderation. Eg currently eating Paleo, which is much easier for me to do than "trying to be moderate with breads, dairy etc."

If you know what works best for you - absolutely do that!
Low income is heavily linked with depression, and alcohol tends to amplify and prolong depression, which makes it that much harder to increase income. It is a vicious cycle I have known many people unable to escape.

There is an argument to be made for making alcohol harder to access for younger or lower income people.

This logic is a big reason why I personally avoided all recreational substances including alcohol until I felt very happy and stable in my career and trajectory in life, at 25.

I advise everyone to abstain from any recreational substances at least until they are at cruising altitude in life, whenever and whatever that means for them.

Occasional recreational substances are for happy and stable times, if at all.
At high DPI the difference in font rendering between ClearType, Freetype and macOS diminish greatly, it's mostly a matter of taste, and at least Microsoft hasn't crippled low DPI rendering in recent Windows versions like Apple did with macOS.
Why not both? Go work someplace that pays more, and use that extra money to buy Microsoft stock.
What's wrong with std::regex? Seems to work fine for me.

And iostreams - they're not great. Bad programming UI, poor performance, etc. Issues abound. But should you never use them? What do you use instead? *printf methods have lots of issues too. And so does depending on Boost::format. And so does writing your own Logger/wrapping code (which is what everyone does AFAICT).

locale is bad though
Open Source CSP Report Listener
> It's venturing into cryptocurrency-space-heater levels of pointless number crunching to render at that level of detail for anyone who has human eyes.

Depends on your monitor size.

Might be a waste at 27", but if you want to use a 48" display, I can assure you that you'd notice the move from 4k -> 8k.
We have no idea, and it really doesn't matter because it's going to happen anyway; even if we do know, nobody's going to not do it because it might wipe out some ecosystems.

We'll wreck everything, carelessly, like we've always done.
Hacked Casio F-91W digital watch to support NFC payments
Friends dont let friends buy Dell monitors.
On one hand, simply going back from MagSafe to wired charging would probably save significantly more CO2 (wireless charging is inefficient as hell), but my guess is that this is mostly a way to draw attention to the problem. To subtly inject thinking about how we generate and use electricity into something as mundane and common as charging a phone. Which is cool by me.
It doesn't come at the expense of the employees of the acquired business. They often get rich, or at least land a well-paying and career-enhancing gig at the acquiring company.

This is important, because it means that new companies that compete with the monopolies have many paths to success. If the only possible outcomes are "beat Amazon" and "fail hard", you won't get many attempts; it's better to get an entry-level job at Amazon and climb the ladder.

So yeah, monopolies are bad, but banning M&A only helps them.
There is also an interesting response to that video from a leading quantum computer scientist, Scott Aaronson:

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5460

He actually goes into significant details about your exact question and proposes some resolutions. It's quite long and I don't think I can do it justice in a TLDR so leaving the link to speak for itself.
The UI is pretty bad. I have a nice 27" monitor, yet they constrain the entire game to a tiny 5" wide column down the length of my browser window. Would be great if web designers would stop imagining that I'm browsing the web with a tiny portrait phone screen.
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I don't know if this has the level of detail you're looking for, but you might want to check https://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html and https://www.sqlite.org/queryplanner.html.
Its our growing hunger for resources that will eventually lead to our destruction.

I recommend you read Geoffrey West's book "Scale". Or at least watch his talk [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/nxgHyPCCqaw
As always, Raymond Chen wrote about it! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20091130-00/?p=15...

Its also my favorite btw.
Try scraping at scale from them, I’m sure they would graciously take it as a fact of life in the open internet. You wouldn’t hear a word from their lawyers, no sir!
Exactly this. I've been scratching my head about the belittlement in tech circles of the phenomenal breakthrough that chatGPT and other LLMs represents. I think it boils down to a conflation of a few different factors:

1. Our jobs are obviously (soon) replaceable or at least massively impacted - just like all the jobs we ourselves have replaced previously. We don't like that and throw stones at it to make it go away.

2. We used to be the goto-source for all things technical, now (soon) people can just ask chatGPT and get a better answer. We don't like that and throw stones at it to make it go away.

3. We are (most of us) schooled to think that a script, a program (made by us) produces a predictable result: every letter has to be carefully placed or the whole thing comes crashing down. This AI thing doesn't work like that at all, which we don't like and etc.

4. The answers given to us by the chat bots are sometimes just "hallucinations", because the tech isn't fully mature yet. We don't like that.

More?
But as a signifier it’s actually the opposite.
Someone that knows bash in 2023 is likely a decent well rounded dev. Python in 2023 doesn’t even imply the ability to program.
With the amount of money spent on tooling to ramp up a new vehicle program especially one as unique as cybertruck, they cannot just silently kill it later on like its nothing. It would hit the company very seriously given how much is riding on the success of this thing.
Good point. I'm a dev, so by the time this kind of project reaches me, the business angle has (presumably) been sorted out, and it's the technical feasibility that is in question.
Literally a 3'x5-6' monitor that can render text as crisply and cleanly as print. That's all I want.
The hacker in me couldn't help but view the image source, easily found the location. I know it's cheating but I wanted to get it right within 5 guesses lol
It cannot produce that kind of content. Especially with the current lobotomizations.
I still don't understand how this would result in what the commenter says.

I have domain names that I've been using for 20 years or so. They are not for sale, and will never be for sale. If I'm forced to put a price on them, that price is binding, and I'm not allowed to set it so high that nobody would ever pay it, is that not the same thing as forcing me to relinquish my domain names? Doesn't that eliminate all of the value of a domain name?
This absurd thread is a game of telephone as well.

The claim was "We're prohibitively expensive to poll", and I am correct it is cheaper to poll humans. i.e. query X regarding Y, where X is {humans with eyes|cars with cameras}, and Y is the evaluated state of some location at some time.

I do agree if the poster had written "it's cheaper to set up a network of self-driving cars than spies"...well when I put it that way :P...but jk sure I'll say spies.
People respond to incentives, why wouldn't they respond to taxes on alcohol?

"Public policies affecting the price of alcoholic beverages have significant effects on alcohol-related disease and injury rates. Our results suggest that doubling the alcohol tax would reduce alcohol-related mortality by an average of 35%, traffic crash deaths by 11%, sexually transmitted disease by 6%, violence by 2%, and crime by 1.4%."

From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951962/
I agree. My answer was partial (in both sense of the word), so thank you for providing a more balanced view.

I was also raised in the Church (still part of it, too), but my catechism classes didn't really covered much history of the Church (I think I learned just as much from my school classes).
The 0th would be "it's an operator in relational algebra."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_algebra

("The result of the natural join [R ⋈ S] is the set of all combinations of tuples in R and S that are equal on their common attribute names... it is the relational counterpart of the logical AND operator.")

⋈ amounts to a Cartesian product with a predicate that throws out the rows that shouldn't be in the result. Lots of SQL makes sense if you think of joins this way.
Thanks for the link! I'll take a look.

Edit: I just read it and I don't feel like he really answered the question. He had a rebuttal about being able to freely specify parameters, but then his Facebook friend addressed his rebuttal, to which he replies "this is indeed more interesting"... which, well, it certainly is, and also doesn't answer the question!

(Well, I guess he also mentions we should expect speedup greater than Avogadro's number, which seems fair, but clearly that's not the bar anyone is claiming to meet, so it doesn't get us anywhere.)
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> I keep it to a single drink and can go weeks with them in my fridge without taking a swig.

Are you me? But really, in my experience, (and I’m nearly double the legal drinking age) we are the minority. When I was college age (even though I didn’t do the standard US 4 year stint, but was adjacent to it and all the fraternity etc shenanigans that come with it) it was about rage bingeing. Now amongst my professional friends and colleagues, some of whom are parents, I am the _only_ one either not drinking or stopping after just one. I prefer driving myself everywhere because inevitably someone wants another round when I want to get back to my kids before bedtime, or we’re on the way home from a remote trip and I don’t want to ride with someone that’s already sloshed and wants to bring a “road soda” with them. I kind of dread work trips because while I do like many of my colleagues, there is way too much alcohol consumption, like, late nights every night for a week straight.

People become skilled at hiding their inebriated state, and like pathological liars, believe themselves that they “aren’t that drunk”.

I do hope it’s just the bubble I grew up in because I want to think there’s a pathway to teaching my kids there is a responsible way to enjoy it without making it a competition, identity or escape. But it’s hard for me to believe my experience is very far outside the norm.

> excess drinking is more often a symptom of other problems (stress, anxiety, depression, social pressure, etc.)

I believe it.

> Getting rid of symptoms does not heal the problem.

Looking the other way while people are actively hurting themselves with the wrong medication or dose doesn’t help either.

I’m not saying we need a teetotaling prohibition. But I actually am grateful that there is a two drink limit at the breweries where I live (even if it was installed for the wrong reasons) because it cuts down on the bs I described above.

Like many things I’m sure it comes down to education, not to mention other cultural things like religion and puritanism, paired with youthful rebellion breeding dysfunctional coming of age.

And finally, like with anything else it’s the dose that makes the poison, and not a binary question of allowed or banned, but where a sensible limit can be found.
Getting half from the rainforest and half from the depths would cause (1+30)/2 = 15.5 times as much destruction as just getting it from the depths.

(Assuming the numbers are correct; Gell-Mann Amnesia says that sadly it's reasonable cynicism to suggest we live in a world of misleading newspaper reports).
I guess you could look at the use-cases for 120Hz displays on MacBook Pros.

It's useful for smoother scrolling amongst other things.

I'd like a display that has parity to my laptop but is just bigger so I can fit more on it.
I only have experience with the Apple Vision demo and the terrifying/emotional part for me was the beautiful people using the device in beautiful places.

Everything was so clean and stress free that it was obviously artificial. I could only imagine stressed out people using it in squalor. The whole demo seemed geared to keep that thought far away.
> Asphyxiation is very unpleasant.

Nitpicking, but tell that to the asphyxiophilia crowd.
I just visited a place called "Alzheimer's Cafe," but I can't remember the name of the place.
No, I have not.

I do not judge humanity as a whole based on a very vocal minority...
isn't deep sea mining something that had been promised to solve shortage of precious metals for decades already?
It supports atomic ops and snapshot reads. Don't remember about conflict ranges. It doesn't require all backends to be identical, it supports a kind of graceful degradation when backends don't have all the features. The creator is quite keen on FDB and made sure Permazen works well with it.

Yes multiple FDB clusters. IIRC FDB replication doesn't support full geo-replication, or didn't. There's a post by me about it somewhere on their forums.
I think the limiting factor of this device is apps/experiences.

For this kind of money and discomfort you require mind blowing 3D experiences for it to be worth it. The problem with that is that those are impossibly hard/expensive to build by 3rd party developers.

The risk is that you'll end up with endless 2D apps projected into 3D, or poorly made 3D apps similar to today's AR apps with shitty graphics.
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A very interesting conversation, but the article really makes the reader work to understand what his previous criticisms were and how they have now changed. It feels like the author assumes the reader has been closely following academic discourse on the subject. Maybe that's a fair assumption for their typical readers but it does make the article less accessible for newer readers.
Perhaps parent is a gun shrimp or pigeon.

I try not to be overly sapien-centric when making assumptions about my fellow HN readers.
And gave me the impetus to finally delete my 17-year-old account. Thanks, reddit!
Well, alcohol is the corporate state supported psychoactive substance.

While everything else is an evil drug™

I have a saying about wingnut america: People should use Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, like the little baby jesus intended...

The clear benefits of occasional hallucinogenic use, and the very mild psychoactive effects of marijuana have been heavily criminalized for decades, while people beat the shit out of each other every night outside of bars. Puking in the gutters and screwing in the allies...

I feel the primary reason alcohol is so popular is because of it's inhibition reducing effects. One has to wonder what the effect on the propogation of the species would be if noone was drunk...
I was wondering if it was only me... do you have any links about those complaints?
Those lucky sons of bitches in Norway.

1. Huge oil and gas resources

2. Huge hydropower resources. 96 per cent of all electric power generation comes from hydropower.

3. Gigantic phosphate deposits.

4. Sensibility to avoid resource curse and invest excess money.

5. Fjords designed by Slartibartfast
Not if you ignore overhyped (imo) rtx graphics and return back to gaming worlds, instead of smoke-and-neon-lights-in-mirrors pseudorealism.