skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were talking about [space] efficiency for small strings, which is inherently related to the memory allocation scheme.
This is an incorrect understanding.
Ask HN: How is ChatGPT able to run code?
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33847479 it seems that ChatGPT was able to "execute" Python code (https://www.engraved.blog/content/images/2022/12/image-10.png). I somehow understand how ChatGPT can generate code (it has been trained on billions of lines of code)... but I don't fully understand how it can execute code. Execution of code requires 100% emulation of a given compiler. If X can emulate 100% a compiler, then effectively X is a compiler. Now, perhaps ChatGPT cannot execute 100% ANY Python snippet of code, but only some subset?

Or is it "just" that the AI has been trained on so much code (and the output of the code executed) that it effectively can replace a Python compiler (or any other compiler)?
I appreciate your answer.

Do you desire to protect your dog or dogs over other animas capable of the same or greater social and emotional experience?

Why not eat dogs?
I think for the most part, people are annoyed about TikTok doing good things in its home country and yet doing 'bad' things in foreign countries.

Yes, it's true the good things it does at home are mandated by the government.

Yes, it's true that in foreign countries those same mandates would be difficult and in some cases (maybe the US?) unconstitutional.

However, that's a logical argument which doesn't speak to the heart of the disagreement: TikTok could do good in foreign nations, but it explicitly chooses not to. It'd be easy for them to copy and paste their policies from China into other countries, but they work very hard to fill the feed with entertainment because it makes more money.
While the book is thought provoking in some regards its fiction, also it doesn't really touch on the important parts of what does or doesn't make things work (largely because that wouldn't be entertaining).

You may find the Wealth of Nations (1778) an interesting read as that goes into the importance of many factors that are not paid attention to today by most people (or even policy makers if you factor their actions in).

It has some choice things to say about the indirect effects from the interference of labor relations which are historically backed.

Make no mistake, the main reason we are where we are now is because of the consistent failures to address items that fall into that area.
Those comments are in the wrong, and I understood what you meant by worship, and painting false pictures like do not help either side.
This is going to be so powerful for Unreal developers, especially WebGPU and WebXR support! Wow!
As recently as July, the 6th largest defense contractor in America was set to purchase them, so I think whatever radioactivity they had, it was pretty mild.
We've got Seth Bullock and Sol Star over here selling shovels when the rest of us were panning. Smart.
Are you saying every Vietnamese is bad beyond salvation compared to people from other countries? As a Vietnamese who has lived in different continents, I must say you’re generalizing. There are good and bad people everywhere.
I used to think that, but as I've gotten to know vertical ucode, horizontal ucode, and large PLAs a lot better, I've come around to the idea that the 6502 isn't microcoded. Particularly, while there are the T states, there's not really a true micro instruction counter or a single micro instruction word enabled at a time. It's more like if the hundred or so control signals each have a CAM that tells them whether to be enabled or not based on the instuction register and T state. It's kind of an inverse from how you think about ucode as a logic designer.

A better example of horizontal microcode (and what I learned on) are the PDP-11s. A clear micro instruction address counter and the ability to jump around the micro instruction ROM, but very wide control words where it's clear 'these three signals go into this mux, this signal is an enable over here, etc'.
I set my uncle (a smart but non-technical guy in his mid-60s) up with a Linux desktop running KDE Plasma several years ago, when I lived we were roommates. During the first few weeks, he would occasionally have a question about how to do something or what something was. It was a gift to replace a painfully slow old Windows computer he was using at the time.

In those 5 years, there has been no instability issues and no performance degradation. The content he likes to browse and stream all still works smoothly, and he seems comfortable and happy with the user interface. (He's actually told me that by now, it feels more intuitive to him than the Mac desktops they recently switched to at his workplace.)

Light power users are in sort of a valley along the Linux suitability vs. user technical expertise curve right now. But for non-technical users to their left and sysadmin/developer types to their right, the Linux desktop is a pretty good fit these days.
> Last time I tried swiping my card — and that was ages ago — the terminal displayed something to the effect of "this card has a chip, please insert the chip".

The problem is that the way the terminal knows "this card has a chip" is that information is encoded on the magstripe. So rewriting the magstripe can just disable that functionality. I assume the merchant could configure their terminals to insist on using the chip no matter what, but it's extremely rare in the US.

One thing I don't get is how other countries require chip+pin for all transactions, but a high percentage of the US terminals I read are comically unreliable for using the chip. If we switched to "always require chip", half my typical transactions would fail because of broken chip readers. Why is there such a discrepancy in the quality of the terminals here vs elsewhere?
> A.) that many things cannot be easily foreseen which includes record draughts and the Ukraine conflict.

I don't know. These record draughts are directly tied to climate change and I have known since the 90's that the Pentagon and the UN knew climate change would bring wars, population displacement et resources problems. I think that's where we are.
If a probabilistic process is able to 'pass a Turing test', the only thing that really says is that the Turing test wasn't accomplishing the stated goal so we need to come up with a better test.

Sidenote, but the idea that it's "mimicking human thought" is wrong in the first place and an anthropomorphism that comes from all the marketing calling it "ai" instead of "generative language models". I don't know how any humans decide what to say given the array of sensory inputs they have, so the only way we can compare them is "how a person intuits they probably work based off interacting with them on a surface level". That's not really a criteria that anybody should care about when we actually have the implementation details for one.
It's not running the code, true, but if it's not "understanding", then we (humans) and not "understanding" either. We receive inputs, learn patterns, and apply them; we're just using a different mechanism (that takes years to train and isn't scalable) and getting a slightly different result.

I think the biggest mistake we're making these days is that we somehow believe our intelligence is different from any other form of intelligence we might invent.

I'm so grateful that I got to witness the rise of the Internet & PCs, the Doom to Unreal Engine journey, and the transformer revolution, and that I'll get to see the 100x version of GPT.
This is one of my favorite bits of all time. I often wondered whether the original was scripted or done off-the-cuff but you know what? Not actually knowing is part of the magic.
I think this is true, but I wonder if there's also a problem with supply versus demand: we can't just replace all the professional managers (PMs) with great individual contributors (GICs) because there are a lot of the former and not enough of the latter to fill all the roles. So, the most desirable workplaces can maybe attract all the GICs to fill out middle management, whereas the less desirable workplaces have to stick with PMs because GICs won't work for them.

In theory GICs could work their way into management organically in any organization, but it would require both that they be willing to take on a management role and that the organization is able to recognize who the GICs are.

(There are also some GICs who just shouldn't be managers because they're unusually bad at dealing with people. They're probably the minority, but they exist.)
All Twitter users have the power to report tweets.

It seems like at minimum they are bypassing the reported tweet queue.

It feels likely that these report judgements disproportionately had the outcome desired by the requester. If not all requested tweets got taken down/suspended until deleted that will look a lot better than if this channel effectively allowed unchecked censorship.
Commercial signage displays were a little late to the "smart" revolution (basic RS-232 management notwithstanding), but they absolutely got there. There are simply too many advantages to being able to run an "app" to semi-autonomously display your ad/info campaign without running HDMI cables and splitters/switches everywhere (maybe even by polling a server over Wi-Fi).
I tip fat for everything. It's my way of evening everything out a tiny bit.
> Source?

While I agree with you. On the face, it doesn't seem logical that banning TikTok in a foreign country would make things better in China. Even if TikTok were a pure propaganda arm ala Voice of America, it still doesn't have much to do with the treatment of people at home (where by the way it has 'good' policies to foster the development of the youth).
This is comedy gold
https://canadian-united.media/2022/12/03/poor-sleep-can-make...
I was actually considering buying a windows computer instead of a mac (which has it's own set of problems), I'll pass after hearing this.
The next step is to attach ChatGPT to a crypto wallet, so when you ask it something, it says "what do I get in return?" Ah, and use this wallet to pay its electricity bills.
We are unable to pay for co-location costs, and that's why our servers will go offline as Thomas our CEO is unreacheable. He only has access to bank and thus to funds.

Explaination of the DC thing at Github: https://github.com/fosshostorg/fosshost.org/blob/main/src/po... (Other posts can be read from there too.)

Post from three months ago regarding state of affairs: https://github.com/fosshostorg/fosshost.org/blob/main/src/po...

Skyler, one of the last Fosshost volunteers.
I was trained by MS that sleep mode functionally doesn't exist on Win PCs and that updates need to be installed eventually. So every day when I finish working I simply power off and optionally update laptop and PC and that plus morning boot wastes maybe a few minutes on a laptop, even less on faster PC. I honestly don't see why people are making such a big fuss about this, as to warrant wasting thousands of dollars and a lot of hours of time to switch operating systems. And MacOS by reviews is not without its quirks and issues, they are just different.
1440 is exactly what you’re describing. And they are wonderful.

https://join1440.com/
Metalogic
This doctrine can't possibly apply in this case, because something that is inside a locked safe deposit box can't possibly be in "plain view".

Based on reading what appears to be the judge's actual opinion in the case (I've posted a link upthread), the excuse the FBI offered, and which the judge accepted, was that they had to open the boxes in order to "inventory the contents". But they also said they would only search the boxes to the extent required to identify their owners. From what I can gather, each box was contained in a "sleeve" which, in many cases, had a form in it, that could be read without opening the box, that identified the box's owner. Since each box was locked, the FBI could have simply made an inventory that, for each box, said "one safe deposit box, number #X, locked, contents unknown", with an additional note that either said "form found identifying box owner as A", or "no form found identifying box owner".

In other words, the FBI relied on an inconsistency in the warrant: it said they did not have permission to seize the contents of the boxes, but it also said they could follow "standard inventory policy", which in turn contained provisions that could be interpreted inconsistently to both require an inventory of the contents and to only authorize a search to the extent needed to identify the owner, if possible. This certainly seems to me to violate the Fourth Amendment.

In the case of boxes which were accompanied by a form identifying the owner, what obviously should have happened was that the FBI should have done nothing more with those boxes until the owner could be investigated to see if there was probable cause to think they had put evidence of a crime in the box. If there was, an additional warrant could be obtained to search that box. If not, the box could just be returned, unopened, to the owner. (In fact, the boxes of many plaintiffs were returned during the course of this lawsuit--but not unopened.)

In the case of boxes which were not accompanied by a form identifying the owner, the question would be whether that in itself was probable cause to think the box might contain evidence of a crime. In any case, that would be a question to be properly addressed by applying for an additional warrant.

So I think there were several rights violations here: first, the judge who approved the warrant should have spotted the inconsistency in what the FBI was asking for and resolved it; second, the FBI should have adopted an inventory policy that was consistent; and third, the judge in this ruling should not have let the FBI get away with what they actually did.
Tell HN: Run Python Inside of ChatGPT
Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33847479

I want you to act as a Python REPL. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. My first command is print("hello world")

Have fun!
Semantic Theory of Truth
Were they the ones who published the Bat Boy series? I loved it.
Its not executing code, its guessing what the answer is, the same way you would do mentally.
I have found the same as GP. I have an iPad Mini Retina (2014?) and an iPad Pro (2018). I once ran a test with both of them in airplane mode, and the Mini outlasted the Pro by a mile.

My hypothesis is that the Mini still runs iOS, and the Pro runs iPadOS. I think I started noticing the Pro standby battery drain after "upgrading" the Pro to iPadOS, whenever that came out.
But whether or not there was legal justification for opening the boxes is precisely the point at issue in this case. So the "plain view" doctrine can't possibly be used as a justifying argument in this case.
No ? I don't care about apologies, do better or fuck off
> I like to search for discussions, opinion pieces and other content on the internet and that's not something I see getting replaced by AI that quickly.

I imagine that in some years we could see AI models being constantly trained with fresh content from the internet. Like the AI gets a new model every 5 minutes let's say; that would allow the AI answer questions Google and other search engines can answer.
Everything is now a module that's just swapped in the field and reworked or junked at the factory or a number of companies that make a good business in troubleshooting them. Nobody is diagnosing burned out FETs in someone's kitchen.
I don't think I've ever seen a better example of consumer choice/free market ideology run amok. So instead of just banning something that's bad we have people fly around needlessly and then tax them so we can take their money and build a carbon capture plant next to their private airport, and we all do this so we're not mean to them?

> instead of focusing on how much that trip would create.

you need to focus on that anyway if you put a tax on their behavior
BallmerCon 2022
https://archive.ph/R40jB
just do what all the rest of us do and use old.reddit.com instead.
For those you missed the joke, the Hongqi used as the base of that first car literally means "Red Flag" in Chinese.
Artemis I – Day 18: Orion Re-Enters Lunar Sphere of Influence
Musk and Twitter Bootstrap
Does anyone have insight as to the future of Bootstrap now that Musk controls Twitter, and now that more than half its staff have been fired or quit? Bootstrap was started as by a couple of Twitter employees "to help awesome people do awesome shit" and not as a source of profit.[1] Are those employees even there anymore? If so, will they have time to keep maintaining Bootstrap? If not, is its dev community big enough now to keep it going?

[1] https://qr.ae/prRAgX
Yes. I gave ChatGPT two favorite coding screens I'd used in the past. They're nothing fancy—ordinary, everyday coding tasks.

ChatGPT implemented the first program successfully, and explained how it worked. (It compulsively explains code, which is nice.)

ChatGPT's performance on the second program was more impressive. I explained what I wanted the program to do, and gave sample input and output data. ChatGPT wrote a clear, clever Python implementation with a single bug, and then explained that it would produce incorrect output. It showed what the incorrect output would be. The it explained how to fix the bug, and provided code for the fix.

In both cases, it used some clever, clean tricks I had never seen before, and explained how they worked.

It can absolutely pass coding screens better than half the people I saw submit resumes to one of my old jobs. Or you can ask it to answer essay questions about French literature, in French. It does that, too.

(I have managed to break it. Try giving it perfectly correct code and telling it find 2 bugs and explain them.)
I tip 0 if all you’re doing is handing me over food that I drove to pick up.
Looks more like a heavily cropped image of an actual statue than an AI image to me.
An increase in ads seems to be desparation. It's an easy throttle when a company needs cash but there's a tipping point.

Protip: interact with a couple ads you like and you'll see mostly those instead of rando
Does it always talk about itself in the plural "we"?
It’s the way it works with libc too, right?
Maybe I want to keep seeing images at 1:1. Maybe the font sizes are bad. I remember the days when the user was supposed to be in control of how websites were styled.
Blue looks cool and sells units. Just pray your manufacturer uses a good blue LED that doesn't leak UV.

The EU checks this kind of stuff, the US and Asia do not.
Panera - Order a cup of coffee, put the credit card in the reader. "Would you like to tip today?"

No. The staff literally handed me paper cup.

Am I tipping the person who brewed the coffee and put it on the shelf(where I pour it myself)? I just paid 2 dollars for a cup of coffee. Is that not enough?

It's so crazy.
I know it's guessing it... but if by guessing it outputs the correct answer, well then what's the difference between the AI and the actual Python compiler? That's my question: how is the AI able to guess the correct answer just like the actual Python compiler?

Outputting code and poems is one thing (there is no "correct" poem nor piece of code). Executing code is another: there is only one correct execution output for a given piece of code.
I wish people didn't use it to solve the advent of code problems in less time that it's needed to read the requirements.
When will Siri be able to properly respond to "Give me directions to the nearest Post Office?"

If I'm driving, and ask verbally for navigation to "nearest X", it instead gives me a list of "X" on my phone for me to swipe through.

But at least they're roughly sorted by distance!
Laws might have unintended concequences, but that verbiage " powers to censor anything deemed “legal, but harmful”" is a strict play at a wide-ranging authority on what that means.

Vague verbiage is the name of the game... Because it's their full time job as a politician... I
> us or against us

Who is us? I was never on the same side as either of these people. Even 5 or 10 years ago.

> wrong to call them conservative

Libsoftiktok is literally a right wing HATE account/community. Greenwald loves it.

> insufficiently loyal

Loyal to what? I don’t like Democrats…they don’t either.
> Thomas our CEO is unreacheable. He only has access to bank and thus to funds.

Does your nonprofit have a treasurer? I thought it was a legal requirement for the treasurer to be a different person from the CEO. In that case the treasurer should be able to present something on official letterhead and gain access to the account.
Favored to win and assume power in 3 months, yes. Trump was president at the time. Current, guaranteed threat, with a track record of doing exactly that.

Biden has a long public history, without abuse of power.

It's not comparable.
I don't think you're mistaken about the big-picture situation, but if you want to focus on models with a bit less "TV DNA" in them, it might be interesting to browse through [1].

[1] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/digital-signage-moni...
You seem to be applying logic whereas if logic mattered this never would have occurred in the first place. Of course they can and will make these types of arguments.
Go does pretty good with time. You could replicate that for distance, too.
Laying down the depressing truth.

Our production planning department subverts our erp system via excel spreadsheets that they distribute it has all the problems you'd expect.

I looked in horror the first time I gazed upon this thing. The guy who created it hates it and realizes it's a gigantic crutch, but the will to move off of it is a intracompany political land mine.
I have blue eyes, as does my mother and my two children. Do you think it is due to our similar upbringing and socioeconomic status?

Maybe genetics plays a much larger role in intelligence than we currently think, it's just so complicated that (unlike eye color) we can't identify those genes yet.
I get a generic refusal to answer when I put in the same prompt.
GPT-Pong – Swift iOS Game by GPT
I close the lid of my MacBook and come back two days later: my MacBook has lost 3% of its battery.

If I open my laptop within 24hrs then it is already ready by the time I finish opening the lid. This immediacy means I don’t lose my train of thought (ie; the reason I grabbed my laptop in the first place).

I’m a hard Linux lover, and begrudgingly use a MacBook, but sleep has a lot of value, and the Mac stuff seems to work a lot more consistently than what windows is offering. (Linux too, in a number of circumstances: though my old precision 5520 never had an issue with suspend)
Sorry to hear that! What happened to the CEO? Has this been going on for long?
Yeah, just like they do every single day for reported material that violates their TOS.