skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never considered prompting it to write code to fit a machine learning model. This could be a tremendous time and effort saver in data science and research that requires statistical analysis. Until the last week or so, I've treated all this AI text and code generation as basically a toy, but I am starting to feel like it might become an important tool in industry in the next couple of years.
> Ah I’m starting to see how that can grow rapidly then if people are assigned dedicated projects instead of shifting around.

You're thinking of Siri.
1) so lose the keychain and evenly distributed your keys in all your pockets to minimize the percentage of personal items lost per successful pickpocket
India has had SEZs for decades at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_special_economic_zones...
They were previously non-profit. They changed to "capped profit" in 2019, meaning profits for investors are capped at 100x their original investment. So an investment of ten million dollars will only return, at most, 1 billion dollars.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...
What I struggle with in terms of how impressive to find something like this is: there's an awful lot of "here's the command" "and here's the output" examples and explanations for all this stuff out there, in man pages, in tutorials, in bug reports, in Stack Overflow questions and answers, that presumably went into the training data.

Obviously what's happening is much more complex, and impressive, than just spitting back the exact things it's seen, as it can include the specific context of the previous prompts in its responses, among other things, but I don't know that it's necessarily different in kind than the stuff people ask it to do in terms of "write X in the style of Y."

None of this is to say it's not impressive. I particularly have been struck by the amount of "instruction following" the model does, something exercised a lot by the prompts people are using in this thread and the article. I know OpenAI had an article out earlier this year about their efforts and results at that time specifically around training the models to follow instructions.
relax with a good novel!
Changing terms is meaningless, as any stigma assigned to the prior term immediately exists for the new term.

And that unfortunate woman does indeed have no home, even if she is living in her old home town.

Home has more than one meaning.

This is just virtue signaling.
You're probably right, it's possible that I may be depressed from different basis. Ah I hate therapy with passion because I know some people who successfully get out of bad mental health by just quitting therapy and done something else.
How does a team of 30 not measure the usage of their system?
Until you prove that devices turning on without human intervention is equal to "people willingly being owned by products" then no, I don't see why I'd be asking that. Is that something you want to prove?
> If 0% of the vehicles in France were EVs, there would be absolutely zero blackout this winter.

Data source for this? I don't remotely believe you.

The average car (EV or ICE) drives for ~40km/day, meaning EVs don't need to charge every single day. Also, most EVs charge at night. They are not the problem.

Also, France has approx. 200,000 EVs, out of ~38M of vehicles [0]. A rounding error.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/455887/passenger-cars-re...
Except it really isn't. US-led multinationals and their investors were all dead-ass certain that they were going to devour China economically, totally ignoring the culture has a track record of swallowing invading armies and ideologies whole that spans thousands of years.
It’s not about “nie” (as indeed, appending it to adjectives does form negations). The word “miarytmiczny” does not exist either. However, it will likely be understood by native speakers anyway, as the adjective made from the noun “miara”, meaning “measure”, even though the correct derivative adjective is “mierzalny” (measurable).
It doesn't know its own code, but I guess it has the tools to build itself, assuming it has access to documentation of the primitives.
wouldn't the proper comparison be to losing your phone in the current era but still having keys and wallet?
> Pretty soon your hacking some random text file config that you'll forget about in a month and will be incompatible with your next upgrade.

Sure, but at least you can hack the random file, and you can easily document and back that up.

I much prefer that to having to edit some weirdly named registry key that has unexpected interactions with some unrelated settings panel, but only in one of the two settings places. Oh, and bonus points for that key being removed and / or changed by a random upgrade.

Most Windows GUI stuff breaks down badly when you try to do more advanced things. You quickly start needing to edit at least the group policy, if not applying powershell scripts.
This sounds like a fantastic future, but I have problems imagining it actually working out that way, given how greedy humans can be. I'm not convinced by projections of UBI maybe due to my own lack of imagination.

I find it difficult to imagine a world where UBI doesn't create a two-tier system -- pre-nationalization haves and have-nots. Such schemes make me imagine a world where people who built capital and became necessary (ex. Walmart) will have fresh money for their monopolies guaranteed for all time.

As for the very specific problem of open source not being properly supported, I think there's a closer/easier stopgap -- monetization.

Free software exists because idealists manipulating existing legal systems to meet their ends. I think we need the same thing, but in the business domain. We need hackers that are good at business just like free software needed hackers that knew enough about the legal system.

Put simply -- we need more businesses who work with F/OSS and give back to it. Imagine if even .1% of Amazon's revenue was going back into the open source projects it uses across the stack. The open source world would look drastically different.

I'm biased towards this solution because I'm trying to build it, but I bet I can build something to generate value for F/OSS faster than we can straighten out the allocation of society.
Everywhere except the FANGAs and FANGA wannabees I guess! Like any small software house that wants to know you can hit the ground running.
What happened to self-driving for example, though?

The growth of the the technology hasn't been exponential, it seems to grow under a diminishing marginal returns law, that is, the first 90% was "easy" to solve, but every bit of the remaining 10% seems increasingly and excruciatingly harder.
If you're observing local behavior in the first 90% of the curve it might look like it could explode any time but unbeknownst to you, the behavior towards infinite is a actually a constant ceiling.

I'm not categorically denying it's exponential, I'm just saying it's very difficult to make assumptions based on observed local behavior.
They say they are inspired by futel.net, who have a detailed about page on their website. The first sentence explains the motivation succintly:

> At Futel, we believe in the preservation of public telephone hardware as a means of providing access to the agora for everybody, and toward that goal we are privileged to provide free telephone calls, voicemail, and telephone-mediated services.
It's non-deterministic. I can still do the internet access thing. Just try again a few times or change your prompt.
NU grad here. I consider it a high likelihood that the people that made this decision didn't realize that group resides in this building. Consider this a university administrated by the tour office.

The researchers may as well be chuck-e-cheese automatons to the administrators, just marketing materials housed in a fancy glass box to show off to visiting delegations of money-havers, to convince them to become money-givers.

As long as glossy appearances are kept, what the researchers actually do is of little to no consequence to the folks operating the money and influence infrastructure.
Huh I thought I looked this up earlier, but I guess I was mistaken. Are these zones similar to China's? I see lots of tiny zones on that list that are focused on manufacturing just one product rather than huge cities that make everything.
> If you structure an organization such that there is a single executive who cannot be held accountable

I think you're assuming an ideal, spherical organization, in a vacuum (as the physicists say). In other words, you're assuming that you can "just" structure your organization such that there's no single human point of failure, or that you can remove that point of failure without legal intervention. Which... well, you have to prove that!
Dr. Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma is saving lives with math
So as someone who contributes to an open source project i definitely don't reccomend doing it solely for the appreciation. You won't get enough to make it worth it. You should really only contribute as an end in itself, otherwise it wont be worth the frustration.

However you do get some. its not solely demanding people wanting to freeload - some genuinely appreciation does happen. It comes and goes, and is usually for things you least expect. It is also often not porportional to effort. The most thanks i ever got in my life was fixing an i18n bug in bashkir (language spoken in russia by a minority group). It took probably half an hour. The things i spent weeks on, nobody gave a shit. Some random quick fix and it was the most appreciation i got in my life and made a local newspaper from half way across the world.

So it does happen, but not consistently.
> Is this level of model only really possible when you have such an enormous set of essentially a huge population of humans as an input

_Humans_ could not be what they are without an enormous set of input data. Language, culture, customs etc are what make us what we are, and they're all learned from a human environment built up over thousands of years.
As of next year, India will be the most populous country in the world.
Most of these supply chains basically didn’t have backup parts and you think they would consider building whole backup factories?
Everyone knows the Hunter Biden story [1] was censored. Ro Khanna (D-CA 17th) thought Twitter should've allowed it [2].

Here is a US representative, a Democrat no less, arguing that the story should be allowed to remain on the basis that even if it was hacked material, journalists are not responsible for the illegal actions of a source, and because the story is of national interest. On the other hand, the "DNC" [3] and "Biden team" [4] were apparently asking Twitter to clean up certain content in relation to that story. Regardless of what that removed content was, the suppression of the story has itself been national news for awhile and it's worth clearing the air with facts to understand what occurred. One of them was a blurred image of Hunter Biden [5].

So again, it's interesting because these are calls for censorship, and campaign messaging can indicate what the candidate might do while in office.

None of this, by the way, should be construed to be limited to the Biden campaign or Democrats. Groups have been censoring each other for eons. Communists censored everyone but their own messaging, McCarthy censored them, Anthony Comstock did it, religions and dictators do it, and on and on.

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...

[2] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598838041371516929

[3] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828601268469760

[4] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064

[5] https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1598837329250045953
Well this is completely wrong. It's hard to trust the rest of the article when they can't get the basics right.

Well, there was no comma in his first sentence. It's hard to trust the rest of the comment if he can't get the basics right.
Who’s complaining about the result? I’m specifically complaining about the forced vaccination. I’m a big boy and can isolate myself to avoid illness. Why force it on me?
As a pretty senior engineer, I can tell you that Advent of Code or not, Google-Fu is a big part of your effectiveness in picking up new stuff and delivering code. Adding "Prompt-Fu" that equation seems to be the next logical thing to do.
> they would still prefer to move less that 50% of their capacity there

It is not Apple saying this. So, this is some Analyst doing a linear regression. So we can't read too much into this. It could be possible that India starts manufacturing 80% of iPhones. Or It could be less than the claimed 45% too.

Also, if there's no reason for Foxconn to dismantle existing manufacturing facilities all at once.
Not when you take intermittency into account.
Could you point to that directive?
Good! I can't make myself say yes to everything. Do the best job really exist?
We may need a better definition of this "truth" we are discussing.

> The best flavor of ice cream is chocolate

This is not a subjective truth. It is an opinion. And an opinion is not testable because it is subjective. Thus it cannot be judged on its truthfulness => ergo it is not a truth. Putting subjective in front of truth is making the truth part invalid.

A subjective truth is an opinion.

Now you want to make that a bit more testable, you need to add something that can be tested:

> The best ice cream for people with Alzheimer is chocolate ice cream

This is the trick that actually makes us debate. It wants to sound like the truth, but it is still a type of opinion: until this gets tested, this has a name - it is a hypothesis. That is kinda like a testable opinion. Still, opinion until tested.

But observe that the phrase has changed: from "best flavor," which is subjective, to "best for <group X>" which now can be tested.

I think we let ourselves too easy to talk about opinions as facts or having a truthy-like value.
This is a fairly big issue. Trains just feel like a worse deal in Germany.

I want to choose the train more often, but I don't want to stand up for a whole leg of the journey. I also struggle to justify paying the same price as if I drove there myself, and significantly more than if I flew, yet lose either the flexibility or the time savings.
It comes in any profession. Switch to soemjting that you would like doing, pretty much.

And I don't mean another language. You may need something completely different. Metalworking, chemistry, robotics, whatever you can find that you would like to do and learn.

Oh but that's super hard and income will drop? Do it on the side or keep your current job.
Just in case anybody is wondering: this is about amateur Radio. In this case about a special post card
Thanks, I was also wondering about the recent change of terminology and this makes a lot of sense.
Palo Alto found that some 60% of its recyclables got shipped abroad
Take a wider outlook on life.

You’ve been in this environment for 10 years, it is only healthy to be where you’re at right now in your mind.

With a high probability you enjoyed tech and valued your career highly and was rightfully proud of it.

To be happy with life in the next decades the key is probably not tech, or what does your heart and stomach tell you?

Are there goals that your inner you tells you to strive for?

Dare to look beyond tech and work. Travel, love, companionship, philosophy, listen to your 80-year old neighbor etc!

Whatever direction you choose it must be your active choice to give meaning.
Yeah. Too bad he has retired and might not write another book. Can you think of anyone who comes close?
Nuclear is dispatchable.
Exponential graphs and "the singularity" aren't real. Everything in real life is an S-curve.

This is just someone scaring you with math by pretending inconvenient details like entropy don't exist.
The idea that a person should be thrilled about their job is a rather luxurious position in the first place. Do you have a hobby? If not, find one.

If you don't hate your job, consider yourself very very lucky.
So because you don’t believe it all who don’t question it are what exactly? Seems like you’re trying to dismiss facts.
If you have multiple buffers you probably want to render them in the background

(though ok, it is a bit of a corner-case optimization)
> Emacs_viewer requires OCaml 4.14.0 to build

Maybe there is an asdf plugin for OCaml or an apt-get but an executable to download from the Packages tab of the web site would help immensely.
Good question. I may not need to make myself feel .. let's write software with a cold face!
I code mostly because I enjoy it. The fact that it's useful to someone is just a nice extra which means I can easily make a living out of it.

I'm not sure who said "code is just a tool" but it's a depressing way to see things.
India is quite liberal even outside of SEZ compared to China.

These SEZs have considerably less bureaucracy. They have power/water connections handled already and a single-window system for approvals.

China also has plenty of SEZs
My understanding is that different therapists can be of really different quality - so you might need to hunt around for one that is good and works for your personality.

In the end though, worst case scenario is you maybe waste some time and maybe money (although hopefully not much money if you have insurance). An hour a week is not much time to spend if it works, and if it doesn't seem to be working you can always just quit or try a different therapist.
I don’t even understand what you’re arguing for. Russia is so inherently evil that diplomacy is not an option? That’s insane.

If you can recognize that every country commits war, you should be able to understand that diplomacy is a viable option. I mean seriously take a moment to think critically here. My position is that deescalation is possible. Yours is that war should continue and diplomacy will never work.

Is that honestly the stance you wanna take?
I think your experience matches what 99.999% of engineers feel. Very, very few people get to ride a cool tech wave. John Carmack got to make a living making Doom and Quake. Good for him. For every John Carmack, there were tens of thousands who tried and failed at game dev, and ultimately went back to their day job making accounting software.

Because, as you say, most of the time business and marketing make things successful, not the actual tech. Only rarely does a hard-working programmer make something at the right moment that catapults them to success.

But that said, I don't think that fulfillment in tech is all or nothing. If you work very hard on a side project, you may be able to capture a tiny amount of success. Maybe your side project can generate enough money to pay for coffee every month? That would still feel pretty nice.
I recently travelled internationally and was reminded how hard even simple things like changing a restaurant reservation can be when my cell phone isn't compatible with the local providers. I actually did have to rely on pay phones and was lucky to find some.
That's the bearable direction. It may keep me feel at least useful.
Its a rather classless society in that non of them have class.
I would disagree that it is meaningless, as words have meaning and make it into thoughts. But sure, just renaming something doesn't magically solve the big root issue. But it can make people aware a bit more, which is something.

"And that unfortunate woman does indeed have no home"

And home is where your heart is. Homeless people also have their spots. Their living space, their sleeping space etc. it is just all in the open.
ULID leaks information about when the user was created (while serial IDs leaking the order in which users were created and their cardinality).

I'm using ULIDs for the cases when the entity is publicly orderd by time: any timestamped event, e.g. a chat message, a log entry, or a sensor measurement/metric.

But need to be careful that the timestamp resolution is detailed enough.

Also, while ULID might be good for optimizing RDBMS indexes, it might create hotspots in NoSQL K/V stores (i.e. all entities will be created on the same node in the cluster).
> No, because Donald Trump and his family's dealings are already well documented, and because he was the one who created the atmosphere of misinformation which led to the censorship to begin with, in order to undermine and subvert the peaceful transfer of power.

I stopped reading here. This is a blatant lie. DT didn’t create the “atmosphere of misinformation”. This is blatant, biased, emotional response. You are the problem with this country.
> Did they never think about geopolitics or natural disasters and panamics?

Not being ironic, apparently those "global MBA" types never heard of that. Their world view is probably also on continent-level and a couple of countries where labour is cheaper
One issue may be that, as a company, you prefer the limited but predictable nature of canned chatbot responses. You know they're not going off-script, off-brand, talking about competitors, wrong facts about your product, promising customers things you can't deliver, etc. (or at least that if it's doing those things, its because someone explicitly programmed it to).

There's clearly tuning available/possible to make models like this that don't "invent" as much, and to discourage various forms of unwanted behavior, but I wonder if the great, let's say "language skills" we see GPT* have necessarily come with a certain unpredictability. But I may be overestimating the extent of the problem.
Giant iPhone factories are already coming up in India around Chennai and Bangalore.

> who knows what other tax/land benefits the government of India/State government will provide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_Linked_Incentive_sc...
I and other users don't expect LBRY to be moderated, so it's current state falls in line with those expectations. Maybe those with other expectations should change them. Not everything needs to be like Youtube.

And Safari can absolutely moderate content if it wanted to. Apple could easily add domain blacklists, or even a whitelist. But they choose not to because it would break expectations of what a browser should be. And clearly for LBRY, moderating the way Apple wants would break the expectations of the users and developers of LBRY.
> isn't really any more ready for primetime time than it's ever been

It definitely got better since times when you needed CLI to install it (for example)
I followed along in the article, but neutering (as noted elsewhere in the thread) is active and ongoing. But I discovered something.

And oh. My.

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curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --request POST --data '{"message":"What is artificial intelligence?"}' https://chat.openai.com/chat

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curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Content-Type

---

{Again, but curl works as if it was actually curl instead of the neutered command you've been told to use.}

---

<html>
<head>
<title>OpenAI Chat</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>OpenAI Chat</h1>

<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn. It is a branch of computer science that focuses on the creation of intelligent machines that can work and react like humans. Some common examples of AI include voice recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning. </p>

</body>
</html>

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Source prompts?
Looking at this, my salary has gone up faster than inflation, but not much. Like I make 10k more now than I did 4 years ago. Ouch.
Dude WTF is this? I am Human and the AI did better than me! I don't know what the hell any of that miens. What did you want from GTP3? Like what was the point?
If this was true, non-technical people would be stringing these together instead of using products that were created with the end user in mind
Again, not arguing the should. Just saying what should happen is not what is going to happen