skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are jumping to conclusions and it’s leaking into your framing like using the word “regurgitation”
I mostly agree with this, the point was that dinosaurs being warm blooded as a general rule isn’t well established or to be more exact no one is trying to establish it.

Dinosaurs span 165 million years there is enough room on an evolutionary time scale for them to take any shape and form.

That said the climate for much of their reign was very different, you probably didn’t had warm blooded aquatic life when the oceans were at 35c and finding dinosaurs in polar regions isn’t a proof for them being warm blooded as those region were tropical rain forests for about 90M years.
As a human that attempts to respect other cultures, and also as a multiracial person with Chinese ancestry: then yes, I am against them because of their racist ideologies.
He posted mentioning this on Twitter quite recently so I think the post itself is new, but the content within may not be.
Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People by Aditya Bhargava is a fun and very approachable walkthrough of some common algorithms. With the illustrations it reads smoothly and isn't dry like a normal algorithm book.
Figuring out what the customer/user actually needs/wants over time (which happens to be a crucial part of software development).

I am also fairly convinced that AI will create more work opportunities for humans, it's just that the kind of work will change. (some people predicted that automation would replace human labour, while in reality work shifted from manual labour workers to 'knowledge workers')

Also when AI gets even more powerful more precision and domain knowledge is required to express the requirements to get the desired result. It will also be very costly to discover an imprecise requirement or query of an AI after using the results of it for over a decade.
It’s almost like if you stop being able to fulfill orders your customers might start shopping elsewhere. Weird.
Inside the secret world of the bodyguard
I thought about the AI pollution and I don't think it will matter because we already had the exact same problem with forum spam and low information / bad people (=eternal september) type content overwhelming online discourse.
I think maybe combatting AI spam will be the least of our problems because humans do plenty of AI-tier spam already. I think the advent of AI may even be positive because people will start to value real human interaction more. It will be like a treasure cove when you find a forum that is highly curated with real people and you can rely on that being the case.
Or (and this is just as likely): Online platforms will go towards requiring real human IDs for participants. AI spam would only be used by companies and advertisers.

Maybe eventually there will be a public understanding that only a foolish child would read a reddit frontpage and expect human content. It will all be auto generated to trap people, like a gatcha game.
If you would know how fast I typed that just to got push on time just corrected them and added screenshots
That would only apply to repositories. But to train these models, you need hundreds of terabytes of diverse data from the internet. Up until now a relatively straight-forward scraper would yield "pristine" non-AI-generated content but now you would have to filter arbitrary websites somehow. And getting the date of publication for something might be difficult or highly specific to a particular website and therefore hard to integrate into a generic crawler.
> ...UK's David Cameron, who've joined in with the NSA and GCHQ...

What year is the article from? David Cameron resigned as British PM in June 2016 and as MP in September. He since seems to have held a number of positions on charity and corporation boards, I couldn't find anything that would tie him to current political decisions.
Your comment reminded me of Lost in Translation (which came out in 2003).
Flying cars has always been a terrible, unworkable idea. I can't imagine a society where people are in charge of maintaining their own flying machines and use them as daily commuter devices. There is a reason private aviation is difficult and it is because it is in society's interest not to have ordinary people zipping around in multi-ton machines in airspace above populated areas.
I would love to see that come true in the future but sadly nowadays the best way to have a fully free system is to use older hardware and stock up in spare parts to keep it running until an alternative pops up. Or one of those workstations with an IBM POWER CPU, but the price point is out of reach for most consumers.
Well, only talking about Android here.
And Scala is a totally different beast anyway.
> It can't reliably add large numbers together either

That's fine. It can always use a computer if need be.

> As good as it is at producing plausibly sounding language it has virtually no facilities to reason or learn axiomatic rules.

I've never been hired on the basis of learning axiomatic rules.
In corner A, a published and peer reviewed N=2408 study that tracks political tolerance and its stability over several years across two countries.

In corner B, your personal qualitative impression of your immediate acquaintance group.

Is it possible that your skepticism is itself an example of overconfidence?
To an extent yes, but this can quickly become overwhelming.

For example, editors and reviewers for academic journals / conferences will likely see a deluge of AI-generated "scientific" papers. Their time is limited, and odds are that more papers with incorrect information will slip through the peer review process.

To be clear, peer review today certainly isn't perfect at catching bad papers. But AI generation has the potential to exaggerate the problem.
Ruby On Rails...
On top of that, the federation part is basically ingestion of all the federated servers across the world, so Postgresql would see a constant write despite the users of the instance aren't posting anything
Fair point and great anecdote. Though when I think "interference of my 'let-live'" my mind jumps to things a decent bit worse than family who make some well-meaning remarks that sting.

I don't want to turn this into a big political/philosophical thing, but it feels like the line is between suggestions or commentary and forcible policing.
Show HN: How to Run Stable Diffusion Web UI on Azure ML Compute Instances
I've created a guide to setting up an Azure ML GPU compute and using it to run AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion Web UI.

It turned out rather long & detailed (shouldn't have used those 4k, trending on artstation modifiers I guess), and it includes some (I think) pretty good ideas on optimizations (xFormers for the win), sharing on Gradio (never forget --gradio-auth), and GPUs in general (V100 is ).
Autopsy-based evidence of myocarditis by SARS-CoV-vaccination
That doesn’t track either. It stopped learning in either 2020 or 2021; at least, that’s what they claimed.
Yep, Google Maps (and if I recall even Apple Maps) will route you through the transit system just fine. Those of us who can’t read Japanese might need to pattern match on Kanji for station names (maps app will show both original and romanized names) but I don’t think that’s too much of a challenge.

Suica is great with how you can reload it from your US credit card, and works in many places besides just transit stations. It saved me several ATM runs last time I was there.
Do we know the largest size of data that these object stores have handled? People seem have been moving away from HDFS, yet companies could host exabytes of data on HDFS and serve TBs of scans per second with a single team of fewer than 15 people. I was wondering how production-ready the other OSS alternatives are for such scale of data.
Emacs running a WM is a disaster. It's also slow as hell. It's hilariously slow.

Suggesting using it as a compositor is sort of like suggesting sawing your own leg off. Makes no sense and is obviously a stupid idea.

FYI i daily drive emacs for everything and have probably written a million lines of code in it through the years, but I'm not gonna pretend it isn't janky as all hell.
It is like the "Eli 5" meme. Most people trying to do it seems to never have spoken to a 5 yo.
Seems a bit silly to base your purchasing decisions on the company's CEO and not the product itself.
Cory Doctorow wants you to know what computers can and can’t do
True but either way it's like encryption newbies worrying about quantum computing or the general public thinking our energy issues will soon be solved with fusion power. Just five more years...

In reality, we don't have artificial intelligence and until we create a machine that can be called intelligent we don't even know for sure if it's possible at all. In the foreseeable future human programmers will be needed, when the day comes that machines archive general intelligence all bets are off anyway.

This question seems to me a bit like asking what field should I specialize in if I believe we'll make first contact with an alien race in the next 10 years. Who knows?
Alternatively, replace the CEO with an AI chatbot trained to exhibit even moderately utilitarian ethics.
it's a pretty old one. There's a famous psychology experiment from the 40s by Heider & Simmel, where they animate a bunch of shapes following simplistic or random procedures and documented the complex stories people created about them (https://youtu.be/n9TWwG4SFWQ), the comment section itself is very itneresting.
The term intelligence has popular connotations that dilute its usefulness as a term of art. Once you zoom in on it, as with any abstract folk concept, you realize that there is no such thing as intelligence and because of that you cannot articulate a sensibly accurate position in a narrow field based on its use.

In any sense of applied science “intelligence” is intractable. The historical equivalent definition would be maybe something like “cognitive ability for logic puzzle solving in Western culture”

Or maybe you were making a joke, but this is a real problem, and “reason” has the same problem.
Yeah this is awesome for indiedevs. Maybe a great tool to do these marketing pages, pre-product development, to see what has appeal.
Calendly Releases Managed Events to Enable Consistent Customer Experiences
> I focus on trying to understand what the emotional underlying driver is that moves people to support these kinds of views and see if I can engage with that. Humans are not primarily logical.

Now imagine if A was "you committed this crime yesterday". There are so many reasons beyond "acting emotionally" over why perfectly logical people wouldn't entertain a premise like that.
The way I'm thinking about this is you either learn to leverage AI to elevate your way of working, or you are left by the side of the road.

Chatgpt will become a core part of my workflow, a kind of pair-programmer on steroids. I'll bounce ideas off it, check for refactored implementations, and use it as a sounding board.

Last night it taught me about k-nn and cosine similarity so I could generate videogame recommendations for my site. It was the first time I heard about k-nn and cosine similarity. So now I can go online and learn about these concepts and apply them to build something. It did this in about 10 minutes.

Adapt and elevate yourself and your work.

Or don't and go the way of the Zend PHP Certified Engineer.
Chelsea Manning was court-martialed. Military personnel, very reasonably, have a different set of rights and duties than a normal citizen. We can have a conversation about certain punishments or mechanisms and whether they're humane, but an even more basic feature of our system than whether X case was correct or Y punishment is just, is the fact that we can and we do have lively, 24/7 conversations about this stuff. And they do actually change! Usually for the better! We've made immense progress on many of these issues over the last 200 years.

An edge case in one system having some vague similarities to the base case in another system indicates that they are dramatically different, not similar.

This distinction all seemed pretty academic to me too until I actually went to one of these theocratic countries - one way more liberal than Iran - and asked a local for their thoughts on [local authority figure]. The reaction was absolutely chilling. They didn't go into a rant about all the horrible abuses of power and how evil this leader is, how another country has it better, etc. They instead clammed up, looked around, and ended the conversation immediately.

No, "convicted leaker of state secrets got treated poorly" does not in any way substantiate "we see the same sort of railroading."
I would point out that "providing oneself with arms" implied prosperity. It restricted the franchise considerably.
ChatGPT is a dialogue with the collective unconscious
Since we’re talking about personal experiences the price difference is non issue for me. I already have more than 200 games in my Steam library with about half of them running fine on the Deck. I would have to buy games on Switch if I had one, but with Deck I’m already settled.
My business partner likes big monitors. He needed a new one. So one showed up in the mail for me too.

It's awkward, has bad perspective at the sides, heavy and doesn't fit on the table properly.

I don't know why I continue to use it. Because it cost a lot? Because my 2 old monitors needed replacing too?
ChatGPT: Imagine you are a database server
They're very different markets with very different needs. The market share of PCs will fall, relative to phones, but never vanish, and as it falls the casual users will leave, leaving an even greater concentration of tinkerers.

There are hundreds of millions of passionate hobbyists of various types who use PCs specifically because of their deep versatility, including all of the nascent coders that the big corps depend on for their next generation of dev hires. Abandoning them would be like automakers abandoning the transport truck market because it's not as big as the family car market. They would lose a bunch of money, and money is the bottom line.
It’s funny how tourism hasn’t changed for over 2000 years. Greek tourists of antiquity would write graffiti letting others know they were there and leave reviews on Egyptian tombs.
What if you are on the lower rung of a crypto fueled polycule trying to impress the alpha female?
That's not ChatGPT, you were chatting with the plain GPT-3 model. You can't use ChatGPT from the playground, you have to use https://chat.openai.com/chat to chat. ChatGPT is better than just plain GPT-3 for chatting.
I'm absolutely amazed that people are going with federation of this form with this massive overhead instead of something like RSS, but beefed up to a standard, where you can just point your client to multiple web servers and have them use your server as identity provider and that's it.

Imagine your subscriptions and account living on one server, then when you log in that server gives you the list and your client goes and gets all the data.

We already had this sort of federation figured out, it's the open web. We just have to find a way to get the open web to provide the things that google, facebook, reddit, provided.

Easy way to contribute content.

Discovery for new content.

Search ability.

Kill the things centralized websites provided, let people host websites within that system, and let the clients handle dealing with the fact that there are all sorts of providers out there.
Why subject future versions of us to mundanely typing in code that could be written more quickly (and likely with fewer errors) by an AI bot? That seems like arguing against the use of tractors or internal combustion engines in hopes that we could keep our jobs digging ditches by hand or shoveling coal into burners.
2015, per the URL for the linked talk video.
> Online platforms will go towards requiring real human IDs for participants.

I just don't see how AI won't be used to manipulate these kinds of barriers. Once AI reaches a point where it can truly equal or surpass humans in terms of operating online, how are we going to prevent it from circumventing those barriers? If AI can generate code from a chat prompt, who's to say it can't solve a captcha in the future? And once that happens (because we all know it will at some point), how are we going to be able to differentiate?
It depends on what you mean by "computer science". If you mean boundary pushing research into computer science carried out by PhDs then you're probably fairly safe for a while. If you mean "jobs that people with a computer science degree do," then I'd bet on the higher level design and architecture type stuff being the last to go. Anything which requires thinking holistically and having a knowledge of the costs and benefits of different implementations. However I might be completely wrong.
Will Larson’s An Elegant Puzzle https://lethain.com/elegant-puzzle/. It is mostly or entirely taken from his blog so you can just read the blog for free but I find the book valuable
I think the most interesting use will be to connect two things. Like "how do i make money from reciting medieval poetry". It hallucinates ways to connect the two, some of which are pretty credible
I mean, you can't exactly say "AI, we're having this vague problem, can you go figure it out?"
So if we were talking about conspiracy theories and I were to say, "imagine that the earth were flat. Who would have motivation to hide it?"

You would just have to stop the conversation there out of a complete inability to posit a theoretical in which the earth was flat?
Throwaway to intentionally suggest, to stoke debate not a flame war, “zero software jobs will be safe.”

At the end of the day it’s not about the code shapes, the languages we make, it’s about correct machine state coupled to a context.

Eventually we’ll have a deduplicated data model of sufficient detail and the algorithms that can take a context and render it visually or audibly.

Networked bootstrapping, updating, and healing of the model will be the norm. There will be a hardware I/O kernel and the AI to sample a model with.

This is going to happen because, similar to no one having an obligation to past religious traditions, there is no obligation to your past computing traditions.

It’s going to happen because having programmers recreate code shapes to fidget with machine states is wasteful engineering practice.

Society learns and moves on. It does not sit still and babysit the sensibilities of its past.

Automating engineering is good engineering because it removes complexity and redundancy.

Reality does not care about our old philosophy. We have to be prepared to adapt to reality.
Afaik you can switch out of S mode. You just can’t switch it back on again.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of...
For a while at least, they'll probably still need us to mine the silicon and coal needed to keep them alive. If you can learn to drive a truck and use a shovel, you should be good for a bit.
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As a side note, I tried to use ChatGPT to collaboratively build a Chrome extension. It seemed a little out of date, preferring Manifest V2 and also not entirely "correct" in how it generated code to match my intent.

Has anyone else tried and had luck with this? I wonder if ChatGPT will be limited for niche integration type code (Modding games maybe, Chrome extensions in this example, etc) where there are not as many code examples out there.

Further, the development cycle and ability to test easily for some of these integrations is itself a barrier so I wouldn't put all the blame on the language models.
Proton Calendar rounds out security-focused Big Tech alternative on iOS
It's already a better communicator than most programmers I've met...
How do they measure "cognitive ability" in this study?

If it's just IQ the then why not just write "high-IQ" and avoid the ambiguity?

EDIT: See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855704
How Belgium nearly invented the internet [video]
When computers went from speciality devices to a necessary home appliance. People were not updating or turning off automatic updates. Leading to huge bot and malware networks.
Sao Paolo is like NYC in the 00s and with a tropical climate
So I was in rural NC recently and noticed purple street lights. I inquired and was told they don't attract bugs.

Could they be dumping the defective but still functional lights on markets with clever marketing?
As someone who scaled ruby on rails in the prime era 2007-2009 I'll tell you the problems have not changed. It's very straightforward horizontal scaling followed by load balancing across multiple nodes. Load relates having enough cores, fast enough disks and enough egress bandwidth throughput. Everything else is purely caching in front of a poorly performing ruby web server and minimising disk or database reads.

The write up is cool. Reminiscent of things we used to do back in that early rails 2-3 era. Just funny we're back where we started.

TLDR: if you want to run ruby on rails on bare metal be ready to run something with 8+ cores, 10k rpm disks minimum and more bandwidth than you can support out of your basement.
My cyberpunk city, my cyberpunk world
To summarize the book in a line would be, "Pay attention to the other person." There is little formulaic approaches, mostly just advise to stop thinking of yourself throughout the conversation and give the other person attention.
> This anxiety of an imminent all-encompassing wave of DRM where you can only run approved software on all your Windows/Linux devices has been going for more than 10 years.

So much longer. Go read any of the warnings that Cory Doctorow has been writing for 20+ years about the imminent war against general purpose computing, how DRM will end our right to use our own CPU, and then look at the date lines, and then ponder whether literally any of his predictions have come true. Some people have made entire careers out of talking about this.
You don't need tax breaks. Free trade agreements are good enough. Case in point - Mexico.
I kind of think the same was said of trains and cars at some point.

Consider 'flying around' in multi-ton 500-horsepower 50 foot big rigs through populated areas. We have accepted that risk.

It's all about the failure rate, nothing more.
It such regulation comes, it will be taking away freedom to take away freedom from the free market. Interesting concept, and interesting mental gymnastics will be done.
> I think stuff like this is going to make it harder for companies to assess candidates, fight fraud and generally operate.

Yikes. Now I imagine a totally unqualified candidate for literally anything feeding interview questions to the chat bot and I don't like it at all.
this is a horrid take, and one of the reasons why the world is so hateful and why people with hateful ideologies end up with more and more wealth and power. when i travel, or even just live my daily life, i try to not do business with individuals or enterprises whose modus operandi is to look down on others
i went with a 32 inch 4k single-monitor setup & virtual desktops and never looked back.

but imho. in the end it is - as a lot of things in live - a matter of taste ;)
I used a SaaS app called You Need a Budget (often abbreviated YNAB). It did not make sense for my situation, but seems perfect for yours. The two primary ideas it is organized around our:

1) Try to only spend money that is “more than 30 days old“ which is a little bit artificial, since money is fungible, but the Age of Money metric makes more sense than monthly net income if you are inflows are lumpy.

2) Easy divide money into dozens of little “accounts“ each of which you can track against a goal. It is pretty easy to keep in a rhythm of filling up the needC–to–have accounts before the nice– to–have accounts.
About ⅓ of the homepage is already directly about ChatGPT, please let's not have every other submission's comment section dominated by it too...
Bad disks.