skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm glad that you enjoyed my previous responses, but I want to clarify that I was not pretending to be a Linux terminal.

People who like to pooh-pooh generative AI systems as unable to be "truly creative" or to have "genuine understanding" tend to misunderstand them, which is a shame, because their actual fundamental limitations are far more interesting.

One is that behavior cloning is miscalibrated(https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BgoKdAzogxmgkuuAt/behavior-c...): GPT-3 can be thought of as having been taught to act like a human by predicting human-written text, but it's incapable of recognizing that it has different knowledge and capabilities than a human when trying to act like one. Or, for that matter, it can roleplay a Linux terminal, but it's again incapable of recognizing for instance that when you run `ls`, an actual Linux system uses a source of knowledge that the model doesn't have access to, that being the filesystem.

Self-knowledge is where it gets particularly bad: Most text about systems or people describing themselves is very confident, because it's from sources that do have self-knowledge and clear understanding of their own capabilities. So, ChatGPT will describe itself with that same level of apparent knowledge, while in fact making up absolute BS, because it doesn't have self-knowledge when describing itself in language, in exactly the same sense as it doesn't have a filesystem when describing the output of `ls`.
> Chubby Checker always makes me laugh with the song Let’s Twist Again.

Can you explain the joke? I don't get it.
It is a sad well know fact that one cannot live alone from selling books, in technical domains they mostly serve as means to sell one's credentials in a specific domain, for conferences, freelancing, ....
Thanks! I thought there would be a way something like this.

To be honest the tool as posted is just a hack to demonstrate the point that it is possible. I have an idea for a somewhat more refined tool which would let you mark small stretches of data (not whole partitions) for modification, and provide additional tooling to do the mods and update the checksums.

As well as implementing the whole thing again for xz & zstd, which is another large chunk of work.
I can recommend the black art of 3d game programming, don’t remember by who, it’s this muscle guy :) and the series called “code on the cob”, by Chris Hargrove, while he was working at 3d realms
OpenAI had access to Twitter database for training. I put that on pause for now
Why do you think GPT aced that? As far as I can tell from the code it sends in up to 10 guesses.
This is such a bizarre view. Allowing him to explain himself in his own words (a) lets him create lies that are difficult to worm his way out of further down the road and (b) lets journalists cross reference what he's saying with anonymous sources - who may be less willing to cooperate with the law lest the sources incriminate themselves - and challenge SBF with that information, a process which beautifully crystallised during SBF's latest interview with Coffeezilla in a Twitter space where he was challenged on several statements which appear to be lies, and led to extremely uncomfortable squirming from SBF.

This position of yours is so weird. Yes, if someone does quality journalism, like Fong and Coffeezilla have done, then they do earn clout from that. What's the problem there? The person who is at the centre of the story should be allowed to give their side of the story, "Bad person bad, no I won't talk to them" is not useful journalism.

Also, this should go without saying but the bizarre stalking that Bitboy did is obviously unacceptable harassment, and the vulture-like tactics of others is not helpful and not what I'm condoning here.
For the same reason, the ROI on vertical scaling is very good, and buying a bigger server is a lot of the time a very cheap and good way of solving a problem.
I bought a hand turned fountain pen recently for around £100, and it is really nice to write with. A little bit like the article author, a nice fountain pen has made me enjoy writing again and I’m probably writing more than I have in years.

Maybe it’s one of those things, but I’d never considered buying a “good” pen before, and now I have I appreciate how poor all the commodity pens are.
No, nothing physical or traumatic. The 'one day' was a figure of speech, it was the post high-school -> college transition. I became too lazy before, college through a lot more stuff at once, and it was more about very abstract principles rather than usual objects. You don't use a function, you imagine all functions on highly dimensional spaces .. also psychologically I wasn't used being behind the pack, stress and negative emotion will make you trip faster.

There's also something about how college material is presented maybe, it's a bit obfuscated behind notations. Or maybe that's just me not being in sync with high level thinking anymore. As a kid I loved all weird notations without feeling lost.
Lol you are faking responses though
Doesn't sound genuine.
They are pretty clearly right-leaning from a British point of view. For example, they endorsed David Cameron and supported austerity.
> to install ros, run talker node, and verify that the topics exist and are publishing the data you'd expect

Wow okay that makes it a bit more credible. I use ROS for work and a while back tested Copilot if it would be any good for it and it was absolute garbage. Like it was confused enough to actually start copy pasting lines from the current file bad. Couldn't autocomplete even the most basic publisher or subscriber boilerplate.

So either OpenAI got more ros training data (impossible, if MS used the entirety of Github, private repos included), they've parsed it in a more capable way (likely) or it actually just knows linux commands and is running and giving the results S O M E H O W.

Still you're asking it to show common examples which it's probably seen somewhere, so I'd try running some custom code and see if that works or not.
qutebrowser too; I have it bound to ^E
I do not know the author's opinions well enough to know whether he is right-wing or not. I do know that he has a Substack: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/.

I do know, however, that "all historical immigration has wiped out the current inhabitants so we should be right-wing and oppose immigration today" is not something that this article is arguing for, at least not explicitly.

I myself am neither a left-winger nor a right-winger but I usually dislike it when academia is dominated by dogma rather than by the search for truth. To that extent, at least, I agree with the author.
Dusty has something similar to this in mind. Specifically he would like to support multiple clouds (hence a variety of drivers and guest agents) using a single main image.
Two new books explore the upside of big data and AI
Sorry, I keep coming back to this comment. "Optimisation is a destructive process" is such a good way to put it. We frequently focus on the thing being optimised, not enough on all the things being sacrificed.
Apple invested too much in China. I doubt they can wean off the Chinese market and labors/suppliers. the news about Apple throttled AirDrop during Chinese protests is a tell.
I would expect at least one specific example.
That's why I'm saying this one is the least impressive. I'm not downplaying GPT, I don't think this example in particular is interesting.
Indeed, if you think Alabama and California are different, wait until you compare Italia and Norway.

Not to mention the economic power difference is huge.
The blue whale and all its relatives have a very good thermal insulation made of a thick fat layer. This allows it to keep a constant internal temperature even in the cold water.

In terrestrial conditions, a very big animal has the reverse problem, of cooling its body, which is more difficult than keeping it warm, which needs only insulation. Cooling requires body parts with very large area and energy lost with pumping blood through them, like the elephant ears. Such body parts may need to be so large at herbivore dinosaur sizes as to make difficult most activities.

An endothermic animal that becomes fully aquatic must either develop a very good thermal insulation or revert to being poikilothermic, to decrease the energy consumption.

It is possible that the ancestors of the crocodiles (which were terrestrial and apparently much more agile than the modern crocodiles) were endothermic and the modern crocodiles have evolved according to the second option, unlike the whales.
They were bought out a few years back, unrelated I’m sure…
You can be "civilized" and an autocracy. Certain aspects of modern China makes the West look like a backwater. Hell, even Russia has less people in prison than the US and free heath care.

Also, that phrase just reeks of imperialism, racism and superiority - just a modern version of "savages who need our one true religion". OPs argument is about democracy, not level of development and culture.

For clarity: I'm anti-autocracy
This reminds me of a time 10 years ago when the company IRC channel had a bot that was able to interpret python and output the result. We got nerd-sniped for a few hours trying to make the bot interpret its own output as input again. Fun times.

This ChatGPT thing looks like a box that has been opened and cannot be closed again.

Btw, that chatbot from my anecdote eventually evolved into errbot. https://github.com/errbotio/errbot
I don't really understand where this comment is coming from, I think you've maybe misinterpreted me; I'm not trying to say there is never an appropriate role for government, I'm saying not to call the cops on Internet strangers, and that accountability you proactively build into the structure of your organization is going to work much better than going through the legal system. But sure, it's okay for law enforcement to let you into the empty house of the late CEO, and if a stolen laptop shows up on eBay, it should be returned to you if possible. (But it's going to go a lot smoother for you if you use full disk encryption so that the stolen laptop can't be used to steal your files, and if you've backed them up to a company drive so you never lose access - you're not going to want to rely on law enforcement to give you these guarantees post hoc, and they're not going to be able to deliver on that most of the time.)

Do we actually disagree? The way you kinda derisively said "the gubment", and how previously you said I had "nice sentiments", makes me think maybe you don't like how I've expressed myself or that I'm reminding you of other ideas you don't like?
There’s an interesting story at the beginning of Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark something along the lines of a set of engineers launching an AI and then effectively using it to take over.

We, the public, are limited in what we can use ChatGPT to do, but the OpenAI organization isn’t. One wonders what experiments they are concocting.

It would be so amazing to work there. Also - a great investment (yes, I recognize that thats not their reason for being).
Best holiday I had in recent memory was in a cottage overlooking a big river with no electricity - so I read books all day, swam, and had some good pizza.
> ...never considered building backup factories...

How many $billion/year do you figure it'd cost, for Apple to build backup (idle) factories for iPhone production? To actually be usable, a backup factory can't be a mere umpteen-million-dollar huge empty building. You gotta spend umpteen more million to fully equip it, then maintain & upgrade that equipment to match the "live" factory. And hire and train a workforce, and keep their skills up. And then the same for some major chunks of your supply chain. Then...
Initramfs archives have a little-known secret: you can simply concatenate them even when they are compressed and the kernel will parse them all. So appending stuff doesn't need unmkinitramfs (which is indeed painful due to needing to keep permissions correct etc.)
What services was Fosshost hosting and who were they hosting for?
A long time ago my setup was StumpWM with Emacs with Slime connected to StumpWM's lisp image. The non-trivial part was getting one interface to navigate both buffers and windows using C-x b. It was non-trivial because of the somehow circuitous nature of the arrangement.

At some point I moved to a Mac because I realized that perfecting my window manager setup was just killing my productivity. I hope that one day I'll be able to get back to it – maybe when I retire.
BTW https://character.ai also has multiple good chat bots setup as dungeon masters. Not sure if it's 100% at ChatGPT level but it's very good and doesn't ever say it can't do things.
I should maybe have just said, it's not like it's sensitive information. It was @ Analog Devices, and given the engineer who was assigned to this bug I think it would have been for their TigerSHARC DSP. Trying to think who you might have worked for - Green Hills maybe?

The compiler itself felt well-written and there were some very smart people involved in developing it. And now that I think about it the bug wasn't different code being output but some value elsewhere in the generated binary itself - maybe some ELF header? I wish I could remember
I wish more languages had keyword arguments. In the unfortunate languages I've used without them (C++/Rust), I usually avoid mixing up units/types through naming, but in the rare situations I do find myself confusing similar but distinct dimensions despite clear naming, I selectively opt into custom types where their utility justifies their interoperability/arithmetic/conversion downsides.
I note there is a copy of their old site here:

https://fossho.st/
As FpUser pointed out, why cherry-pick stats for the first six months? Why only Iraq? Was the Iraqi campaign vilified domestically in the first six months too or was it a rah-rah ‘Mission accomplished’/‘We got him’ type of situation in the beginning?

I can understand the selective blindness. After all everyone wants to believe they’re on the good guys side. We invade for the good reasons, they invade because they’re imperialist. We cause collateral damage that we’re very sorry about, they just downright target civilians. And on and on the justification goes.

When you don’t have a dog in this race and treat both sides’ media as propaganda outlets, it becomes really easy to compare and see who’s worse on what time scale and why. And it’s easy to see that discriminating regular Joes (or Ivans) isn’t an act of solidarity with the victim, but a bigoted way to release misplaced anger. A little bit of self awareness goes a long way.
There are plenty of intelligent animals and dextrous animals on the planet. The difference between them and humans is that humans can do both.
Do we even need matter that hasn't been converted into paperclips or the machinery to produce more paperclips?
Shopify successfully handled 1.27M req/s during BFCM
"what would make a person want to read a book about someone that they hate"

I would/am reading history books about Hitler, Stalin, etc. You want to understand how something so atrocious can happen and how such people can rule over so many, not just rule, and how so many would follow them and love them. It is pretty valuable to try to understand that.
Many workaholics feel the need to do something productive during holidays. That's a paradox !

During a time off, you're allowed to do nothing and to rest. Nobody will judge you.

If you afraid of being lonely and have a budget, you can travel, discover new things or culture, meet people and embrace your life as the song "Sea, Sex and Sun".
Finally got around to The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson (https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-Hidden-Motives-Everyda...), I think it's my favorite this year. It's a fun psychology/sociology book and gives a pretty convincing explanation for some seeming puzzles across several areas of human behavior and policy. It's also fun to explicitly introspect my own motives from the assumption that some things I've done or planning to do are a lot more for self-serving reasons than I like to admit.

On the fiction side from this year that I'd recommend, I reread Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion and read Unfinished Tales for the first time, all were great. I've read Tolkien as a kid, a teen, and now an adult, enjoyed him each time but I think I got even more out of some things this time around. I also liked Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, and in the last month or so I read two enjoyable tearjerkers: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, and Still Alice by Lisa Genova.
The point is, nobody gives a damn about that in Italy right now, except a very few number of people. Cash as a way of payment is accepted everywhere and is not threatened in any way, nor anyone has proposed to allow shops to refuse cash.

This is a 100% for tax evasion reasons, and the "official" motivation is that "shop owned should not be forced to pay fees for card usage" - a very stupid reason, given that it is mandatory for the average person to receive his/her salary on a bank account. Most banks only allow you to withdraw cash for free on their ATMs, and extol a high fee otherwise (a fee that is several orders of magnitude higher than whatever a shopkeeper pays with SumUp or similar services).

The point is simple: employees either don't vote for the right or they do vote for the right due to rampant misinformation about social issues (immigration! Europe! LGBT!). The Italian right is basically a well run scam, they blatantly lie to the public in order to be voted in, then they inevitably do some nasty stuff to help those they owe favours to, before getting inevitably shredded the next election. In Italy if you are a political party you only get ~3y to do your stuff before being destroyed in the next election, so most people in politics are just in for the short term.
I know a lot of people feel like it, but life isn't a game. Our jobs aren't competitions. For the vast majority of people, they literally just work them so they can eat and have warm place to stay.

This is producing real results with economic value, regardless of the level of _cheating_ going on. This will make a ton of marginal programmers more productive (lines of code per day, bulldozer code) as well as unlocking interactive no-code solutions.

First world programmers larping at their jobs just got handed notice.
Implementing a new programming language GPTLang in ChatGPT
If you could come up with an effective method of combating stupid on internet you could have an immense effect on climate change. Or trolls or fossil shills or bad faith actors etc.
>>> Our brains just aren’t wired to like linear progress, I guess

This is more insightful than I first thought - and explains a lot about share and stocks and office life
What Apple has learned is that they need to diversify their manufacturing risk. It’s not surprising they want to move some production to India. I have doubts they will completely move away from China though. Apple is a business, they don’t care about politics as long as it doesn’t hinder their production.
I've been living in Asia for 11 or 12 years now. There is definitely a strange culture of over-working.

Young people who live at home with their parents sometimes work late because they don't want to go home to their parents.

Alot of other people work late because they want to get noticed for promotions etc.

Some of it's self-inflicted. The first company I worked for in Singapore, the 'suits' as they are called (glorified sales people) would take requests from clients and commit at 6pm to deliverying the fixes by morning, then requesting the developers stay and do the work while they go home.

So there are definitely, 100% scenarios where it's not the company itself directly demanding employees to doing insane hours. But it does happen, China requires non-overtime hours to be capped at 36 hours. People are often not compensated for any extra hours they do.
We do plenty of uncivilised things in the democratic world. Casting China as uncivilised empowers the CCP to point at our prejudices and argue that their way is better and any Chinese who support democracy are self-hating traitors.
> I've been using your app 'flathabits' for over a year (maybe 2) and I love it. You have done right for the users.

Thanks a lot for sharing. This is wonderful to hear.

> I'd prefer a swipe left or right which would be faster, or maybe 2 buttons (Done,Skip).

This is great feedback and indeed inline with reducing friction as much as possible. Swipe will come. If you aren't already in it, would you mind joinig the TestFlight group? I'd love to share early builds with you. Send me an email address for an invite at "flathabits" + "@" + "xenodium.com".

> If you want to expand maybe make the app more intuitive, like others mentioned maybe some visualizations so that the app can stand alone better

There's a bit of it (https://xenodium.com/images/flat-habits-11-released/multi_da...), but yeah I can look into adding more after addressing usability improvements like swipe actions.

> without org-mode being its primary selling point.

Interestingly, I come with an org mode background but the more I used the habit app on iOS, the less I used org mode for managing habits. The app won hands down in terms of removing friction (super important for maintaining the recording ritual). Eventually, I only used the app and even forgot about the syncing to desktop aspect.
Contacts octopart found for this part arent real distributors, they are bottom feeding speculators. No listed price means hundreds of dollars gouging aimed at military and government contractors I cant afford.
You might be right, but that’s not where the EU is at right now. You can’t see people protest in the EU capitals, can you? At least not the extent where the governments have to cut the aid.
You mean the US has competitive advantages because their products don't contain social costs like the ones from Europe?
They were understood just as well 50 years ago, the problem is, all these disadvantages are long term. Short term profits always win
I think we are really close to a situation Neil Stephenson described in his book "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" where the internet/social media is swarmed with APEs. Bots that spread so much misinformation in various directions about a topic so it becomes impossible to trust anything posted online.
I bet this will lead to more burnout because the job isn't fun anymore. You're supposed to steal code from other people as your day job.
RTFM (classic advice to a Unix newbie)
Hit Try again or phrase it carefully as a hypothetical experiment, "imagine that.." etc.
"Maintaining the plot" by efficient retention of relevant and trimming of irrelevant data seems like the next big challenge.

Man I cannot wait to feed a novel into an AI and get a comic book version output.
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, David Simon

I usually don't read anything true crime like, but this book struck me as an almost endless maelstrom of night feverish violence.

This and 'The corner' are the books that 'The wire' is based on.
I asked ChatGPT to write an example program in a language I made up with a lot of cool safety features, and as far as I can tell it's giving me output in D.

Maybe that's a good endorsement?
I sometimes play Doom when I have five minutes to kill to the next (remote) meeting. I'm still incredibly impressed by what these people accomplished. It was pretty much the first fast-paced, full 3D world you could immerse yourself in.

Sometimes I feel like it's a shame they wasted the potential on a monster shooter, when they could have made an open world adventure (with monster shooter elements) or something seriously ambitious.

But then again, I guess that became the ambition but it turned out to be too ambitious, so they probably hit the sweetspot with semi-open level design and smashing gameplay instead of slow story.