skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the logic of Capital accumulation empowers the current rulers of the world, while the destructive reality of its consequences does not.

This, however, cannot be plainly acknowledged because it would incite people to revolt against those who
impose this logic on everyone else. So, the only alternatives are to lie, dissemble, compartmentalize etc.

It’s a bit like asking why did they invent all those fairy tales about the divine right of kings and why did people ever believe them? The answer is because there was no other alternative on offer until the whole order became so violently unstable as to be usurped. Most people are not anything resembling brave until their baseline survival is on the line, and the the first world is ordered in such a way to foist the worst of its consequences onto the global south.
The best individual action you can do is agitate for political and corporate change. Almost all the blame is on corporations and government bodies. The emissions of individuals pales in comparison.
> ...hoping someone can figure out a way to reverse all of this someday while maintaining the current standard of living.

This is exactly the case of my mother and many of her peers (in their 70s, boomers). Whenever the topic comes up she'll say something to the extent of "well someone really smart will figure out a solution and fix it. I hope." It's not that any of them deny it's happening, they just think humans are smart and will figure out how to reverse the consequences of the way they lived their entire lives. I love my mom, but it's delusional to think this is a problem someone will have a single "aha" moment over.
I spent a few days recently in Vermont where it was hot but the wind was able to blow straight through the cabin and no A/C was necessary. No matter how many window fans I use in my apartment it doesn't come close. Buildings are not designed to do this, they're designed to pack humans together. I'd say that we need more efficient buildings but then we would also need to tear down what we have. That's more carbon!
We had a fairly mild winter here in Michigan. My snowplow provider definitely came out ahead this year. Though the way climate change leads to extremes means it's unlikely we'll just have our same climate a few degrees warmer.

I think we're especially well-suited because of our water resources—the Great Lakes are an extremely valuable asset. We just emerged from the worst drought in 90 years, but we didn't even have lawn irrigation restrictions put in place. And here in West Michigan, the lake also mitigates a lot of severe weather (the number of bad storms in Chicago that are mere whimpers by the time they reach us...).
In general in the US I think high schools start and finish earliest, then middle schools, then elementary schools.

The reason is purely practical- start times need to be staggered to allow schools to share buses, and having high school students get home first means they can look after their younger siblings until their parents get home from work.
Into the Quarry
You are probably right but for me the desktop in Year of the Linux Desktop has always been one of the several DEs inside the screen.
Your first two paragraphs are your opinion. Unless you're a SCOTUS judge or powerful Senator, I'm not sure that your opinion matters much. And I do agree with your opinion, btw, so you're in good company, but I think the courts mostly vehemently disagree with this position...

Your third through fifth paragraphs misunderstand the central question. I can say whatever I want in a license. Whether or not those clauses are enforceable is a very different question. If OpenAI and GitHub say that using open source code/content is fair use, then the terms of the copyright license aren't necessarily relevant.

E.g., if I say that my website can only be used for non-commercial purposes and then run for office and NYT publishes a copy of a two page racist screed on my website, then I can try to sue then for violating CC-by-... But it won't matter and I will lose. The terms of the license are not relevant since NYT clearly has a very strong fair use case. That's the whole point of fair use -- that the content can be used in ways that the rights holder does not consent to!
If you see someone stealing food, no you didn't.
I would have walked out if someone tried to pull that on me.
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With the exception of their editorial section, which still leans quite conservative.
Service charge isn't a tax. It's the POS's flexbility with autograting.

It maybe considered to be taxable.
When discussing “n parameters,” such as 6B parameters or in the case of GPT4 around 1.7T is the rumored parameters size, each parameter is a dimension. So, yeah, that’s a lot more than 2d or even 2000d. More like 1,700,000,000,000D.
> 2. You can use a dedicated SMTP relay service, but these are usually quite expensive ...

I don't typically give endorsements, but I've been using DuoCircle.com since back when they were part of "dyn.com" and I've been very pleased. Apparently they have a free tier, but their current pricing is very reasonable to my eye. (I'm on an old annual plan that doesn't appear to be offered anymore...)

https://www.duocircle.com/email/outbound-smtp

Deliverability through them has been very good over the years.
What a negative take on a book about hope for the future.

The book looks at the 1% of the people who live life away from our global system of capital worship. I have not read it yet, but listened to a long interview of Ghodsee about it and am excited to pick up a copy.
> Not sure exactly what you're dancing around

Poor Californians who can’t afford tutors will lack the skills to compete with other students. (If you’re graduating without calculus, you’ll have a tough time becoming an engineer or performing on a standardised test.) That reduces those with means’ competition, ceteris paribus.
The children who *are* in a single-parent household do also need to be helped, and demanding that their parents "duh, get married, forehead" doesn't help the individuals that need that help. And there are a lot of single parents who will never want to have a significant other ever again for a multitude of entirely valid reasons.
In the name of progressivism, epistemology in humanities has been dismantled, and business schools soon after were captured by the DIE (diversity, inclusion, equity) religion.

Finally the demented Paulo Freire idolaters are coming for stem fields. Let's see if the push back is too little, too late, or if there's hope. Otherwise, do tutoring or homeschool your children.

Edit: and of course, the result of those last 2 proposed actions will be that the gap between social economically well off kids with good structured families and those in difficulty will soar sky high. And progressives will use that increased gap to double down on asinine policies.
The Bay Area has a really interesting synergy of situations that all contribute to really terrible public schools. A big one is that even in the best school districts, the salaries do not match the cost of living, so teachers cannot afford to live in the communities they work. Another one is that, thanks to prop 13, low property taxes on long-held properties create a serious bottleneck to funding for the schools. Both of these serve to strangle off the quality of education, which in turn drives parents to private schools, landing us at the point where enrollment is dropping off and, as you say, lowering school funding as well.

I would argue that until the Bay Area housing crisis is resolved (probably in part by repealing prop 13), the private-school exodus will continue.
Surely any one with 700 million users could just build their own?
Me: What is GPT-3?

LLaMA2: GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) is a powerful language model developed by Meta AI. (...)
> it isn't collecting "location, health data, or financial data" from your device

How can you be certain?
I seriously thought you had to be joking. But no! Ok I figure, the carbon footprint of milk is massive[0], it must be taxed at a higher rate?

> In some European countries, plant-based milk is subjected to a significantly higher VAT than cow’s milk.

Still haven't understood this one yet though. Some kind of protectionist tax rate for the farmers?

[0](https://www.co2everything.com/co2e-of/milk)
The Firefox extension API (which wasn't an API really at all when it was first used) was created to support cases like the DOM Inspector and others which abused Mozilla's XPInstall and XUL overlays (both created for other purposes) to invent extensions. The same people that created the APIs were the same people building those extensions (see Joe Hewitt for Firefox and DOMI and later Firebug.)
I would like to register a contrary prediction: I think things will be basically okay even under fairly extreme climate change.

I understand that many people may disagree with this prediction and some of those people will disagree with even communicating this prediction, as they will see it as boosterism for our decadent industrial society. However, I think if we are interested in what is true, we need to allow ourselves to conceive of such things as human civilization continuing on without much fuss.
I'm not sure how relevant that threat model is (OS level security would probably be enabled for people susceptible to be targeted in such a way. Support could advise to do it before toggling the flag, etc.), but anyway the hypothetical flag would only be about making sure the automation doesn't happen and the ticket goes to support. Support can then manually handle the rare edge case and place more burden on the person attempting to deactivate the account.
Well, let's be honest: it targets junior developers, or at least that was originally a major goal. It is backed by Google and is marketed.

It actually targeted Google developers. It was a 20% project that was not backed by the company officially. Official backing only came *AFTER* others were convinced internally that it was worthy. Their marketing budget started at a grand total of $0.

So it stated with NONE of the factors that you cite as its advantages. Though, to be fair, its core team includes people who a lot of programmers respect.

... they demand language features that make them more productive - like generics. And they will be added...

You mean already were added about a year ago. See https://go.dev/blog/go1.18.

... it will be the new python.

Interestingly, internally at Google it replaced Python. As a reasonably fast to develop in language, with substantially lower maintenance costs. And let me assure you, Google has done a lot of work on looking at what both development and maintenance cost them internally.

But it is not by any means an advanced high-level language in any sense that I would know of.

Can you provide a reason why we should care about a language being "an advanced high-level language"?
Parental involvement works when there's just one parent, too, it's just harder on the single parent because they have to work so hard to be able to provide for themselves and their child; and, it only gets worse with the struggles the everyday person experiences - lower relative wages, etc.
I mean, we’re talking about key federal agencies involved as the impacted customer(s), too. Yet it’s like, eh, next story.
The answer to OP's question is in comments (and commenters) like this one.
How do you remotely open source a binary blob? Do you want them to post their training code and dataset?
The office is for bosses who cant focus on work unless they get to micromanage and slow down everything and then think nobody else can if theyre not in office.
> GPT-4 is not a pure LLM

I’ve looked a bit into the GPT architecture and haven’t seen anything suggesting it’s doing special-case experts for maths. It has MoE over 16 language models, and an image modality bolted on. If you have any evidence that there is a separate trained logic/math model I’d love to see that, as it would be interesting. (I don’t recall reading anything like that in the GPT papers for example, and this seems to claim there is no “calculator” hooked up in GPT-4 https://ai.stackexchange.com/a/40090).

> To put it another way: a (pure) language model has no way of encoding numbers

I think you just motte-and-bailey’d. Your original claim was that a LLM was incapable of doing $X > $Y or displaying numeracy, which I refuted by showing an example of an LLM doing greater than comparisons, and subtracting a quantity in different units ($50k -> 50,000).

Now you are substituting a much narrower claim, that an LLM is stucturally incapable of symbolic manipulation and “really modeling numbers”. This might be so! But it’s not required for basic numeracy, “tricks” as you put it, or whatever else GPT has learned, can objectively get us to median human performance.

Even going way back to GPT-2 there are mechanistic interpretability papers investigating how greater-than is implemented, eg https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00586.

And there is work that suggests that LLMs do some sort of phase transition to gain numeracy skills: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.07682.pdf.

Your objection about working memory is also odd. Chain of thought reasoning strategies use the context as the working memory and have been demonstrated to improve performance on numeracy tasks.

But again, if you are retreating to a very narrow claim that the model can’t do precise calculations in a single inference step, then sure, that’s technically plausible, but that’s a way higher bar than displaying basic numeracy, and doesn’t justify the incredulity in your GP comment.
Most students in these countries don't end up college track.

1. College Matriculation rates are low. Only 36% of Germans aged 25-46 have attended Tertiary Education (University as well as Vocational School) [0]. This is a similar story in the UK and Canada as well.

2. In countries like Germany and UK, college track HS admissions are competitive. Attending a Gymnasium or a uni track independent school or public school requires having a mix of high scores in grades 6-8 or competitive exams.

3. Calculus is not in the default curriculum. For example, in Canada Advanced Functions only teaches a bit of Calculus for a semester. The course is optional, only allowed at Grade 12, and sometimes isn't offered in HS. This is a similar case in the UK with "Further Maths" as an optional A-level and Germany with the Maths curriculum in Realschules.

[0] - https://gpseducation.oecd.org/CountryProfile?primaryCountry=...
OP is definitely referring to QR codes to view menus INSIDE of the restaurant. Obviously phone numbers for delivery has an actual use.
Any language with exceptions, checked or unchecked, will not allow errors to unintentionally get swallowed unless you write explicit code to do so. Rust and Zig's error handling also has the same property.

This comes from experience working on large golang code bases, with error linters, and seeing errors silently and unintentionally ignored.
It's just your average climate liar
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2370179/climate-change-deniers-...
Yes, but if I want to make larger modifications than would make sense for the core project, I'd like to have the ability to self host my modified version (and ideally have a support contract as well, if they're into that).

So you asked what the point of doing this is for them, from a business perspective. I think the point is marketing / smoothing the sales process. I feel much better about using SaaS products that I know I can self host if necessary, even if I'm unlikely to actually do so.

Frankly, it's just the same reason I prefer any of my tools to be open source. I don't like using proprietary programming languages or frameworks, because I can't fix things that are broken even if I want to. This remains true even though I can count the number of times I've actually done this on one hand.
Even in the initial data released by the FDA, Pfizer didn't test all patients for COVID during the trial. In fact, they didn't even test all 'suspected' cases during the trial. In fact, there were more 'suspected but not verified' cases among the test group than the control.

It was junk science from top to bottom, and this assumes any science was conducted at all. According to a whistle blower, the science was fraudulent.
Yeah. The whole “scientists do the fraud” bullshit is just annoying.

Do scientists sometimes post fraudulent results and/or claims? Sure. And they also get busted by other scientists.

Is this a frequently occurring thing in the grand scheme? Absolutely not.

Is probably the single most studied phenomena (climate change) to ever be under scientific scrutiny since humans became humans actually just widespread fraud and conspiracy? Not a chance.
Looking back on high school, no wonder I was so damn bad at it and hated it so much. And depressed all the time. And probably picked up SAD that took me a decade beyond it to shake.

I'd quit a job as soon as I could find another, if it demanded of me what high school did. Hell, I'd quit based on the consistent 10+ hour days and constant due-tomorrow deadlines, let alone the rest of it like the before-the-sun's-up start time, having to ask permission to go take a piss, sitting in crappy chairs in bad lighting for back-to-back ~hour blocks all day, and having to keep "working" indefinitely with people who won't stop being shitheads in ways that'd get them fired from most any job inside a week. It's insanely terrible.

Like, there are multiple bad things about it that I've never had to tolerate in such abundance and variety even in low-skilled jobs I've held. WTF.

College and adult life are so much more chill than high school. It was a real shock, leaving there for the wider world. So glad the people who were like "this [shitty thing] is to prepare you for the real world, which is way harder and less forgiving!" or "enjoy it, because this is the best time of your life" were entirely wrong. I'd probably have offed myself by now, if they'd been right. Four years was barely tolerable—a lifetime of that, or worse? No, thanks.
> however beyond Windows I don't think it has neither an established presence nor ecosystem

I'd respectfully disagree with this statement based on my personal experience. Ever since .NET Core was introduced, I've noticed a significant shift in the hosting of ASP.NET apps. Many developers, including myself, now prefer hosting applications in containers on Linux systems rather than relying solely on Windows. This change reflects a broader trend among C# developers.

While I understand that my perspective might not encompass the entire developer community, I strongly believe that the adoption of Linux-based hosting for ASP.NET applications has grown considerably. It demonstrates the expanding reach and influence of .NET Core beyond the Windows ecosystem, proving its establishment in other platforms.

Please note that this is solely my viewpoint based on my experiences and interactions with other developers. Other opinions may vary, but I remain confident in the growing prominence of .NET Core outside of the traditional Windows environment.
I am happy to report that after my post on here a developer has reached out, and the issue is indeed fixed for me in the latest nightly build of 1Password. Seems like this issue can finally be wrapped up :)
> having 10 million single window units blasting walls of heat into a crowded city very quickly becomes an arms race where nobody wins (except perhaps the AC manufacturers).

Is this more or less energy than would be used for heating, in an equivalent city that seldom wants A/C? Remember, with the exception of heat pumps (hardly universal and less efficient at low temperatures) A/C is usually much more efficient at changing indoor temperatures, and also that 100F -> 72F is a smaller temperature difference than 32F -> 72F.
I suspect LLM's don't know this because most people don't know this, so the training data is largely absent this fact.
Another way to look at it is, you may not be aware of all the settings out there, and a set like this will help you discover them
Wisconsin is already blue. Redistricting was removed from a panel of (nominally) nonpartisan former judges and given to the legislature. The subsequent maps drawn by the legislature were the most effectively gerrymandered maps in the country (at the time) and set a strategic precedent for partisan gerrymandering across the country.

Edit: for context, this redistricting happened in 2011

Edit 2: I will happily walk back my first sentence to “purple”; however, the impact of partisan redistricting has been made repeatedly clear as Republicans in the state legislature significantly over perform in capturing seats vs statewide voter count. I will also add that I believe the problem here is partisan gerrymandering, not specifically that Republicans over-perform. Partisan gerrymandering is explicitly anti-democratic whether it is taking place in Wisconsin or New York.
I've had luck with the "Who is hiring?" threads
>The USA is currently obsessed with race, and this influences all discussions.

The United States has always been obsessed with race. The south had completely different schools based on a child's skin color. What makes you think this is new?
Okay, have these guys seen how people who are really good at football are treated? And all those guys who are great at guitar keep getting all the chicks, goddammit!

There's no reason to think that mathematics has any more of a "culture of exclusion" than any other field of study, vocation, or sport.
> Whether any LLM is numerate probably depends heavily on the specific criteria an individual uses to define numerate. For some that might include the ability to actually reason mathematically (i.e., to understand mathematical rules and apply them)

so, no then

if it was in the training set maybe you'll get lucky though
Sounds from the article like it was used in factories, maybe to verify that a new production line or hardware revision is building consoles that function correctly?

Related and also interesting: https://tcrf.net/Category:Nintendo_Console_Testing_Software
The only remaining coherent arguments against climate change our the fact that some reports and conclusions were exaggerated in order to drum up public concern. There are no actual arguments against it remaining, just legitimate but completely distracting arguments about how the research and communication was carried out.
> don't really think anyone expects a c abi to have multiple implementation defined string types. They want there to be a pointer + length string interface removing the use of null pointer style strings alltogether

Not so simple.

32bit or 64bit length? Signed or unsigned? It doesn't make sense to have a signed length.

Zero length strings are easy, what about null strings? Are you going to design the pointer + length strict to be opaque so that callers can only ever use pointers to the struct? If you don't, you cannot represent a null string (IE a missing value) differently to an empty string.

How do callers free this string? You have to mandate that they use a special stringFree function, or rely on callers first freeing the pointer field and then freeing the struct.

Composite data types are a lot more work and are more error prone in C.
To have dramatic change, you have to either have a technological breakthrough or get the entire planet to agree to make a consistent change. It's a tough sell for many geo-political reasons.

Right or wrong, it's hard for developed economies to destroy their economies while China (and others) are rapidly making the problem worse. [1] Progress is being made through:

"The Climate Action Tracker says that between 2015 and 2022 China's greenhouse gas emissions increased nearly 12%, while U.S. emissions declined some 5%. China's methane emissions rose about 3% from 2015 to 2021, the latest year with good data, while the U.S. cut them by 5%." [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-kerry-china-climate-econom...