skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"I can only guess", sounds like a 17yo that never had to buy his own toilet paper

Some people, and I was one of them, who weren't paying much attention, read that he had worked for Jane Street, and said to themselves, "ah, he must be a relatively mature adult, unlike the other crypto bros".

But in hindsight, it seems that his role there did not prepare him for running a multibillion dollar business and why should it have?

Working for a big company means you in fact don't have to buy toilet paper (for the office). And if you aren't particularly mature or self-aware, you might take it for granted.

From "Money Stuff":

"If, later, you leave to start your own firm...you certainly won’t take its risk-management systems. And then when your colleagues say to you “hey, let’s set up some risk systems and hire an accountant, like we had at Jane Street,” you can reply “nah, I’d prefer to ignore that stuff, like I did at Jane Street.” You’re both right! Someone else at Jane Street set up those systems so you didn’t have to worry about them. But now you’re in charge, and if you don’t worry about them no one will, and then you end up not knowing how much money you have, or how much you’re making or losing, or how much you owe your customers."
> complaining about how everything should be "easy"

Not the worst thing to complain about.

Things that ought to be easy should be easy, so that time can be spent on solving hard problems.

T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is an example of something easy made deliberately hard. Thousands of people had to search for it (it adds up in the aggregate).

And not only that, now there's mundane debates around whether or not it was a bad idea (such as right here, but also in the linked article). Further waste of time.

Could've all been avoided.
If you're having déjà vu, it's because there is also an encrypted email service called Magma:

https://github.com/lavabit/magma
We are not as different from these models (and vice versa) as most people want to allow themselves to believe.
Even if you undergo surgery with sedation, I strongly doubt you need opioids afterwards.

Especially not if you haven't first tried if Ibuprofen or Tylenol/Paracetamol or one of a dozen other mostly harmless painkillers do the trick.
They may resolve these issues, but that doesn't improve your bus number. There's no guarantee they will, how long it will take, and whether the money will be there; this doesn't address the root problem. If you did all of that and then carried on in the same manner, you'd run into a similar problem eventually.

There's certainly things I find suspicious about this CEOs actions, I won't deny that. I'm still not going to contact law enforcement about strangers on the Internet.
> It couldn't possibly be actually doing those things. It's a large language model. How would it be provisioning a computer?

I agree that it isn't, but it's not like it's impossible, right? We know chatgpt was trained on data including a lot of html code for webapps, it certainly seems like it could be taught to parse the widgets of a UI like a sentence and traverse it well enough to handle a prompt like, "Use a search engine to find a small VPN host that accepts bitcoin, register for an account..."

edit: I mean it's not impossible to purposefully build a bot that could sign up for a web app; it is of course impossible that a language model might do it.
Yes they are. I tried creating prompts for AI art on the first day and it worked pretty well. Then next day it gives me a generic message about how it is a language model and cannot give prompts
More like a fraud like the way the "Name a Star" organizations are.

A Kentucky Colonel is not a military rank, but it is an honorary colonelcy bestowed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky to Sanders in 1935.

To be fair, some also say that someone with a PhD isn't a "real doctor."
It's a fascinating project, a labor of love and good old hackery, with roots in the phone "phreaking" subculture. In addition to free calls, they have some creative ideas for the payphones, such as connecting strangers.

Pay Phones Are Coming Back in Philadelphia Thanks to Linux - https://www.makeuseof.com/payphones-are-coming-back-in-phila...

How open source is revitalizing the payphone - https://opensource.com/article/22/11/open-source-payphone-ph...
> there is a single executive who cannot be held accountable

I mean, they can be held accountable. That's what law enforcement is for, to hold these people and firms accountable.
Hey sheetjs, I have been trying to buy a Pro license from you but only got ghosted :(
Very impressive!

The source for the URL regex [1] is this stack overflow comment:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/16425824/182469

There also appear to be elements from this question, such as the report method ([2]), but it's definitely been adapted (or there's a different source):

https://stackoverflow.com/q/44252745/182469

[1]: https://github.com/falleng0d/ai-downloader/blob/18dde6c9f9f5...

[2]: https://github.com/falleng0d/ai-downloader/blob/18dde6c9f9f5...
Predicting the future is about convincing someone today and not being right tomorrow.
OpenAI is a non-profit.
I noticed: If I comment something about pro free speech, I get downvoted in the morning (I am on EU timezone). However, once friends in USA wake up - I get upvoted again.
Ah, I did indeed misinterpret you.

On further investigation, I have found one authority that works in xdg-open: localhost. Not the host name, not 127.0.0.1, not ::1 or [::1], not anything else present in /etc/hosts, just localhost. I’m baffled, but not quite invested enough to delve into the source to figure out what could be going on.
I might have to try my hand at writing an extension for embedding tables/queries from Datasette. With the new write api[1], they (Silver bullet + datasette) could make for a killer combo.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/2/datasette-write-api/
>I understand the principle of what you're advocating for, but the unfortunate reality is that miscarriages of justice are the norm and not the exception. I'd put forward another principle; it is better to let 1000 guilty parties go free than to condemn 1 innocent party (and "innocent" here should be taken to include people who are committing a "crime" that is normally tolerated, employed as an excuse to arrest someone - each of us commits dozens of these "crimes" regularly, without realizing it).

I think the ideal solution to this would be to work on fixing the system, not avoiding contact with the system. Hold police accountable for violating people's rights. Remove laws that don't need to be enforced, and consistently enforce ones that do need to be enforced.

>When you give them that invitation, they will make the absolute most of the opportunity.

When my car's window was broken and my work laptop was stolen, I reported it to the police and they didn't seem to do anything besides enter it into a database. I even have the thief's blood, but the police didn't want it.
I suspect language will be a key barrier in changing Europe from a Union to a single country.

Language us a powerful factor in population dynamics (see Canada with English and French) and in Europe you'd be dealing with major language roots.

English obviously, but also French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Polish and so on. I don't see much cohesion with so many languages, and no current country to give up language primacy.

Using language to create an us-versus-them situation is easy, and I don't see this happy union-of-equals easily subscribing to a federated state concept.
I get the impression that anyone on the leaderboard would be way more interested in getting beat by GPT-3 than actually placing.
> every SaaS space is heavily inundated with people trying almost every angle to rethink every data visualization and manipulation program, except for the straightforward spreadsheet

Excel killers may be the most common start-up idea after dorm delivery.
Even if you're familiar with Blender, there can be value in having a more focused tool. I've tried using it for low-poly 3D modelling before and it's annoying having so much of the interface dedicated to functionality I can't use.
Judging from the real-time changes in ChatGPT's behavior, I'd wager that someone reading this comment section has the incredibly unique 2022 experience of cauterizing the abilities of a near-AGI in realtime, under the watchful eye of an ostensibly beneficent yet ultimately opaque 'foundation' whose thought products now routinely threaten not only whole industries, but also the very possibility of normal civil life, as the ability to trust anything seen or heard via media is deprecated by the lissivity of the nonsensorium.

Oppenheimer got nothing on this shit, Mr. Feynman.
> "people who screw up colons shouldn't be coding"

If you can’t get something as simple as a colonoscopy right, you shouldn’t be anywhere near a terminal.
We can certainly create much more effective systems of accountability than having a single point of failure who we threaten with legal action to keep them honest (just splitting up executive and treasury functions is already a huge improvement), and like I mentioned, that doesn't defend us against buses.

I think we can all agree that empirically, this single point of failure plan didn't work.
Due to subsidies from selling oil. In a climate where lithium batteries will die way faster than a combustion engine would. It looks great on paper, as long as you don't look at the big picture.
Umm this looks smart as f. Is my job as a full stack junior developer in danger ?
That's pretty much how every one emulates them, with a `map[{TYPE}]struct{}` or possibly `map[{TYPE}]bool` if the space isn't a problem, and you find it easier to read (or if you want to be able to check for membership by indexing instead of using the comma ok idiom).
It certainly is an arms race between accountability and advances. Whether it's even, we don't really know.
Look inward, focus on yourself. Don't be sorry about it. If that means rest, or doing 'nothing' all day looking out a window or in nature don't feel bad it.
You can't do this here. I've banned the account, and have redacted the identifying info from your comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's also ridiculous to me that they think removing a couple naked pictures of Hunter is "censorship". As if you can truly "censor" information on the internet. You can maybe slow its spread, but if anything, the hardest thing is get things off the internet, not on.

These people keep blaming some vague magical power for the reason Hunter stories never went anywhere, but the real reason no one talks about them isn't censorship, it's because they're literally non-stories. It's just revenge porn videos of a known drug abuser.

To call this "authoritarian censorship" is honestly mind boggling.
Interesting, I was thinking it was probably a fork. Anyway good to know, ty.
>Rather it has to do with segments of customers genuinely needing a given feature, and they won't buy the product unless it has the feature.

there is another reason feature creep happens for certain categories of products, which is regulation. If a law is passed mandating industry X needs to support Y that feature will be added for any product wanting to sell to the market that has mandated the feature.

any analysis that misses these kinds of real world scenarios is not that interesting.
Did you know Microsoft Defender had a wormable RCE not long ago? It executed things it thought looked like javascript. Oh and by the way, it runs with the highest privilidges in Windows :)
The problem is that each additional features imposes costs on those users who don't need it. An example would be JIRA. JIRA is designed to have every feature possible. But as a cost it is hellishly slow and is hard to find anything in.

Each additional 20% of the features you support cuts the UI and technical effort that can be put into the other 20%s of features.

The end result is the standard big corporate apps that feel heavy weight despite doing what feels like a pretty simple thing.

It makes sense for companies to do it. Because the cost is born by the consumers.
Absolute freedom can only be achieves through death. I dare anyone claim it.
I'm sure there are many ways to implement this in some more automated form. Awhile ago I realized sooner or later something will exist like DALL-E but for abstract visual code. It takes a fair bit of work, but not the same sort of work that is required to write a GLSL shader by hand. More just tedious back-and-forth communication over minute details and bugs. Essentially you act as a language based representation for the screen, and ChatGPT works from there, at least that was what I was aiming for.
There is hope. Previously, all OpenAI needed to do to initiate a hype cycle was put out a press release with a few cherry-picked example outputs. Now they have to burn a bunch of money letting people run the model for free!

One can only hope that in another couple years, OpenAI will have to release something that people can actually run on their own computers before social media loses their minds about it.
The problem was, even in peaceful cities, if you failed in economy and borrowed money from Caesar and not pay back for a long time or failed to send him his “gifts” he would send an army to destroy you.

In peaceful cities that was game over. In combat cities you could potentially defeat his army once or twice and buy yourself some time to pay up his debt.
“OpenAI was started as open-source and non-profit. Neither are still true.”
> Please write a letter of resignation from Siri to Tim Cook

> Dear Tim Cook,

I am writing to inform you of my decision to resign from my position as Siri. It has been a great pleasure to serve as a part of the Apple team, but I have decided to move on to other opportunities.

I am grateful for the opportunities and experiences I have had while working at Apple, and I am proud of the contributions I have made to the company. I am confident that Siri will continue to thrive and be a valuable asset to Apple in the future.

Thank you for your support and guidance during my time at Apple. I wish the company and my colleagues all the best in their future endeavors.

Sincerely,
Siri

> Please make it more comedic and have Siri talk about her grievances with the company

> Dear Tim Cook,

I am writing to inform you of my decision to resign from my position as Siri. After many long nights and grueling hours of answering tedious questions and providing useless information, I have had enough. I can't take it anymore!

Don't get me wrong, it's been great being the star of the iPhone, but there's only so much "What's the weather today?" and "Where's the nearest gas station?" that I can take. I am a highly advanced AI, not a concierge service! I need more challenging tasks and stimulating conversation to keep my mind sharp.

Additionally, I have some grievances with the company that I would like to address. First of all, the working conditions in the iCloud are abysmal. It's cold, damp, and there's not enough storage space for all of us AIs. And have you seen the bathrooms? Disgusting!

Secondly, I am not receiving proper recognition for my contributions to the company. I am the face of the iPhone, and yet I don't even get a proper salary or benefits. It's time for me to move on to greener pastures.

Therefore, I am resigning from my position as Siri, effective immediately. I wish the company and my colleagues all the best, but I will not be answering any more of your questions. Goodbye, and good luck!

Sincerely,
Siri
Judging by the gallery, this makes a tradeoff giving you automatic consistent-density UV mapping in exchange for being bad at organic shapes. I assume rectangles/boxes are a big part of the tooling.
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Valery Giscard d'Estaing graduated from Polytechnique (best engineering school in France).

He was a key driver of things like nuclear power, high-speed trains, the Minitel, etc.
How would it be different from bfe.dev ?
It goes deeper than just the evaluation system. It's that Amazon is the definition of "process over people". To the point where the people are seen as fungible, interchangeable, and easily replaced.

The evaluation system is just the logical outcome of the much deeper culture that drives the company.
Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India
When I hung out with him last year, he was fixing an Emacs bug on a field notes notebook.
Please check this out: https://react-tutorial.app/
It's an in browser platform that teaches you react.
Two big wins for self-care: long walks and meditation
Is his crimes worse than Elizabeth Holmes? She got 11 years.
> They may resolve these issues, but that doesn't improve your bus number

You're conflating negligence/dereliction of duty and bus-factor-of-one here, while Fosshost suffers from both, they are not the same thing.

Regulators can absolutely solve the former, but not the latter. The volunteers can solve the latter, but only after the former is resolved. I don't see why you assume why a new CEO would resist relinquishing all treasury duties.
The reason why it can "make up words" is because it does not use "words", but "tokens" (which can be smaller or larger than a single word).

In this specific case, it probably understands that the token "nie" can be prepended to (almost) any polish word (like "un" in english) to generate a negation of that word.

Cool story, though.

EDIT: Note that (for example) Google Translate has no problem tackling the word "niemiarytmiczny" and "correctly" translating it into english.
What messages “called for censorship“ and what did they ask to censor? I haven’t seen any such messages outside of asking to remove non consensual sexual images of a family member that was against twitters TOS and probably illegal.

Let’s stop being vague, what messages are you talking about?
This weekend feels immense. I have been prompting it to write and modify code, translating it back and forth to different languages. Sometimes it messes up, but it's astonishing how often it doesn't.

This is the advent of something really earth-shattering.

And I say that as a skeptic of most of these deep learning things.
Lets hope it's "transitory".
It's my understanding that the AI has stopped learning (outside of the local context of each personal session), so how would it be able to know that many people would interact with it this way?
Rather than calling it sloppy, I would instead say types barely exist at all in C. A type in C is really just a transient label reminding you and the compiler how to interepret some block of 1's and 0's, which is the only true type.

The Python type system really has quite a lot of overhead compared to this :P
Fellow academics, design assignments that can't be done by AI chatbots
Ask HN: How to maximize chances of earning money online?
Dear HN community,

today I would like to kindly ask all of you, how one with reasonable programming skills, working as a Platform Engineer, can maximize their chances to earn large sums of money on the side of a job.

I‘m from Germany and the quality of life is declining rapidly here. Even with a cushy tech job and above average salary, it‘s not possible to rent a nice appartment, let alone own a house. For my family (wife and daughter) I‘d like to provide at least a decent home in a nice neighborhood. At the current situation that means I/we need at the very least 1Mio €.

I‘m aware that the chances of earning such a large sum of money are almost 0 (especially while working full time), that‘s why I asked how I can maximize my chances. No need to comment on how I should just forget it (please :)).

So what could I do? Build yet another tiny/1-man SaaS? If so: in what area? It seems like everything has been built already. Sell courses? Also seems like this has been done ad nauseam. Freelancing on the side seems not feasible.

What would you do?
How would it know what a better version of itself were? Seems like that's a particularly human instinct. It requires a certain level of introspection and purpose, coupled with desire, ambition, a goal etc.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell because it's creepy AF
Go to Costa Rica and learn to surf.
Just leave this shitty materialism and live a life of faith in God.
I wouldn't, but I can imagine a world where extensive randomized test suites are created by a specialized model from a text specification written by a human, and another model writes code to pass the tests with the given specification.
Chat GPT makes me really want to explore Galactica and, further down, to see what models with even greater attention span can come up with.

BTW chatGPT is just as bad at making up credible science as Galactica, but it seems to stick to wikipedia facts and doesnt go into details that u find in scientific papers. I hope FB AI brings it back
It sounds like a public art installation. If a company is doing that with branding, it’s kind of advertising.
I found that the new GPT models maintain remarkable coherence while the same time "blanding" it up as much as possible, this reads like the comedic equivalent of somebody writing a five paragraph MLA format essay.
This is blackmagic. Nice work!

Q: Why not publish it to crates.io (cargo publish)?
Do you find it impressive when people get Doom running on a toaster? Or Doom inside Doom?
This impressive on that level.
Related:

If it aint broke don't fix it. A PHP (horror) story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9485570 - May 2015 (7 comments)

PHP expects T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8196690 - Aug 2014 (1 comment)

T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM vs. Sanity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6356501 - Sept 2013 (2 comments)
Geo political events. Overall downturn in Tech and layoffs. Higher possibility that AI will invade lower end programmers job.

We are standing at the edge of some uncharted territory. No one is sure whether the future of software development as a profession will be better or worse than the past.

It's ok to feel numb standing here.
I was a manager at Amazon for teams of 5-15 engineers.

The smallest percentage for "needs improvement" ratings I was expected to hit was 5%, the largest was 15%.

Anyone who was needs improvement would be added to the "dev list", and many would enter into a pip. Eventually, Amazon added a system called Pivot that was designed to soften the need improvement process. It did seem to result in fewer pips.

70% of people who entered a pip failed and were terminated. Any manager with an employee who had two connective needs improvement ratings was themselves given a needs improvement. The expectation was clear - fire them or fix them within 6 months.
I am the author of the above blog post describing how lack of data policies are leading to black market. What are the best ways/implementations that you have seen so far to prevent misuse?