skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think AI is going to force us on some level to reclaim some of our communication to the physical world, if for no other reason than it's going to be one of the only ways we can truly verify that we're talking to another person.

I've been thinking along these lines a lot recently - it seems as though in every field which AI enters, it causes us to return to some extent to the physical world.
Not true. Foragers were quite resilient to stuff like drought, because they could just move along and ate foods from many different sources. Drought etc. started to become a real problem only once people were dependent on agriculture.
I have no problem with this if they’re labeled as such, continue community owned, and can be edited like a Wikipedia article for corrections.
The Revenge of Capital
The most recent update also managed to rank ML generated content above written content in many instances, compounding the problem. I absolutely expect a carpet bombing of SEO results with spam.
The true killer apps will come when StabilityAI or another group releases an open source equivalent of GPT-3.5.

Compare Dall-E to the creative explosion that arose from Stable Diffusion.

Nobody is going to build the next Google atop OpenAI APIs except for OpenAI themselves. An open source model and pretrained weights will open the playing field for everyone to compete with Google.
The worrisome thing is that a remarkable number of smug, self righteous elitists share your disgusting views of how certain self-appointed betters should herd the rest of humanity along "correct" lines. It's been a disgusting bane of our species for millennia under different guises and it only shifts its talking points over time. Never mind that this minority is no less prone to all the human shittiness and stupidity that anyone else suffers, only more damaging because they apportion power for themselves over many more things.
Inevitability google will become a competitor to GPT, inadvertently
Yes. Specially S3 which is way overpriced. I have setup already a multi-region minio cluster at the cost of $0.0039/GB.

The only "cloud" solution that could get closer to that is Storj. [0]

[0]: https://www.storj.io/
I’ve been using razor pages. For me it takes the abstractions I enjoyed with aspnet MVC, with less of the boilerplate- controllers, etc
It is likely a combination of direct goal-driven human dialogue corpus they sourced from their mechanical turk-like contractors and a subset of commoncrawl (more specifically stackoverflow, stackexchange, reddit, and maybe even twitter) bootstrapped from it with text classification.

Read their recent arxiv papers, there is enough to get the picture of their pipeline, specifically the "InstructGPT" paper.
> If its working code and indistinguishable from a human answer to anyone reading it

These are extremely stringent conditions, though. Convincing-looking-but-wrong answers would arguably be even more damaging than a lack of answers.

(I suppose you could argue that these could arise from humans as well as from AGIs. I'm not sure if there's a good counter-argument to that)
I feel the western general population shares responsibility. We all know whats going on and are told repeatedly but don't care or act.
Other than this strawman mischaracterization of the article*, the rest of your comments seem almost entirely unconcerned with whether the author's allegations are true. Are you hoping that, if you can associate him with the wrong people, you can avoid addressing the factuality of the article? How much longer do you think such deflection will keep working?

*The claim is not "all historical immigration has wiped out the current inhabitants", but the weaker and obvious claim that "some historical immigration has to varying degrees wiped out the current inhabitants". To dispute that would be to argue that throughout all of its history, all of humanity has been perfectly pacifist.
Given that this communicates over ring buffers on the ISA bus, it has a lot more in common with modern graphics cards than it did with most CGA, EGA, or VGA adapters that were registers + direct framebuffer.
In my experience, the time taken to read a book increases super-linearly with its difficulty. A brilliant work of philosophy can take weeks of dedicated study to understand, and in the most extreme cases, entire careers. Mastering a truly difficult book can be very intellectually satisfying, and that is often part of the 'value' you get from the process. The problem is when an increase in difficulty is not matched by a commensurate increase in value, when a text is both difficult and unrewarding, and rather than being satisfied by the labour of understanding, you are repelled by the fact that it came to nil.

I don't really understand what the point of reading a novel slowly is. Some poetry is difficult and rewarding, though I can't say I've ever found any great virtue in purposefully enigmatic prose. In fact, I tend to like novels most when they are graceful, and my eyes can slide across the page with ease. Tolstoy comes to mind.

I am not a fast reader though, so maybe all of my reading is unavoidably 'slow'.
PFC bans are going to change waterproof garments
> I think it’s important to understand why these trends are happening if you want any hope of reversing them.

Why? Because we let it happen. We keep buying these things that have this function as a feature. The answer is simple but it demands dedication and resilience.

Simply stop buying them and using them. Yes, a boycott. There is no other answer because they are making ton of money doing things this way and the one;y way they will stop is if we stop making it profitable for them.
Chatgpt SEO is no different from existing filler SEO. If google falls for the latter, why shouldn't it fall for the former
> That's not a rebuttal at all.

It's not supposed to be one. It's just that there is more nuances to this than 'thermal reactors are going to run out of fuel in 10 years' and 'fast reactors are going to solve the uranium supply'. PWRs and reactors that depend on enriched uranium use much more uranium ore than those that can burn natural uranium, and not all of them are breeders.

> he problem isn't enrichment, the problem is there's not enough cheap uranium ore.

Which is directly related to enrichment, because to enrich uranium you need one order of magnitude more ore than for unenriched fuel and we end up throwing away a lot of perfectly fine nuclides. Then there is the issue of reprocessing, because you are also throwing away a lot of perfectly fine nuclides if you cannot re-use spent fuel, because you need to reach certain enrichment levels. That is something doable even in PWRs.

> If the world's primary energy demand (18 TW) were provided by burner reactors, the estimated global uranium resource (at cost sufficient to not seriously affect economics of burner reactors) would be exhausted in perhaps five years.

I don't understand why you think this is not related to the type of reactor. Different designs have different fuel efficiencies, so a given amount of raw materials would go further with more efficient designs. Just like condensing furnaces allow to use less gas for a given heat output.

> This is so tight that nuclear w. burner reactors cannot provide more than a small fraction of the world's energy.

That is under very conservative assumptions about the types of reactors and state of ore deposits. Realistically, it's about 100 years, and that's likely overestimating needs because nuclear cannot do everything.

> Renewables would have to do almost all of it. In that scenario, there's little reason to use nuclear at all, as nuclear and renewables do not mix well on the grid or elsewhere.

There is nothing specific preventing nuclear and renewables to be used on the same grid.
I guess we can take solace in GPT-3 not creating novel solutions, but rather doing things we already know how to do?
> That's funny since the Pixel 6 has had so many people complaining about various bugs.

Like what?
ChatGPT can.

> 2x +3 = 7. Solve for x.

> To solve this equation, we need to isolate the variable on one side of the equals sign. To do this, we can subtract 3 from both sides of the equation to get 2x = 4. Then, we can divide both sides by 2 to get x = 2. Therefore, the solution to the equation is x = 2.
Of course I have read the often repeated claims written in English by those who have no personal experience with China.

One of the sibling comments guided me to https://www.douyin.com where ten minutes of browsing was enough to disprove the claim "the algorithm is specifically tuned to reward dumb content in the US, compared to rewarding STEM and other educational content in China".
I don't know if this has changed since I last looked a few years ago (around 2018-2019), but:

The app-signing key can't be changed without just creating a new app, and creating a new app means you users won't be able to upgrade - they have to manually uninstall, go to the app store, and install the new one.

It's not just an app store thing, I think I remember Android itself verifies that the upgrades have the same key as the old version.
> What always strikes me about these expositions of x86 and its predecessors is how neutral the language is.

Well, I mention that the 8086 is convoluted, complex, and full of corner cases, so I think there's enough editorial :-)

As far as "seriously wacky", there are much stranger systems. For instance, the Honeywell 1800 mainframe has two program counters, and they can go forward or backward. The Intel iAPX 432 has instructions with arbitrary bit lengths, so they have no connection with byte boundaries. The AGC doesn't have shift instructions but special memory locations that shift values you store there. In comparison, the 8086 is a pretty middle-of-the-road processor.
>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.

Can you say for certain that his writings didn't contribute to those predictions not coming true?
> I'm currently using Libreoffice 7.4.3 and It's really buggy and keeps crashing when I scroll

Have you checked to see if this bug has been reported -- and if not have you reported it to the Libreoffice developers?

They can't fix what they don't know is happening (if the bug is unreported).
Exactly. Tim Cook was the supply chain guy.

He became CEO because he was the only one as maniacally focused as Jobs, as proven to Steve by his willingness to make a literal deal with the devil.

The India plan will probably stick because Apple feels burned by zero covid and won’t keep themselves open to that kind of risk going forward.
ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section
> Since pretty much everyone who uses spreadsheets uses Excel you just waste your time and energy trying to swim upstream.

The biggest draw of Excel is that everyone else uses it, imo. This is countered by the fact that you can read and save excel docs using Libre Office Calc.

I have a list of bugbears with Excel that Libre Office handles just fine. The biggest one is its insistence on converting a number range like "2-9" to a date like "09 Feb" when working with CSV data. I've spent hours looking for ways to prevent this - e.g. by formatting cells as Text before saving - but to no avail. Excel thinks it knows better. Libre Office also has a better UI for working with non-standard data formats like tab-separated data.
Reddit and Twitter are going to be overwhelmed with bots indistinguishable from humans.
For some more inspiration, James May of Top Gear experienced the not-standard-tourist-stuff of Japan, although some of it is "he's from TV so he has access to things mere mortals don't": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JzeSxx0LC4

It's also charming to see Tokyo/Japan in the background of some Japanese YouTubers' videos, e.g. this one where they try to walk from a station to another but have to stop at every convenience store and roll a dice to get something: https://youtu.be/_yT32QAyv6s
The Brain of an Entrepreneur
ChatGPT SEO is higher quality than existing filler SEO and probably quicker and cheaper to generate.
The phone number is clearly to help prevent bot abuse.
> Code Complete by Steve McConnell

+1. Also, Rapid Development, by McConnell[0]. I would say that it's even better than Code Complete.

It would be considered "quaint," these days, but Writing Solid Code[1], by Steve Maguire, was a seminal book in my education. I still use many of the techniques he mentioned.

And I cannot say enough about The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman[2]. That book changed my life. I would consider it required reading, for anyone that develops anything that will be used by other humans.

[0] https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/rapid-development-...

[1] https://writingsolidcode.com

[2] https://jnd.org/the-design-of-everyday-things-revised-and-ex...
they are not automated and require real world steps
Now perhaps.

It was not too long ago that discussion of the lab leak hypothesis would be screamed down by either zealots taking orders from mainstream media or state agents of disinformation. Not that the difference matters.
Still, it's a tool that requires human input. Similarly how Photoshop didn't make artists obsolete, it elevated the trade to a new level and capabilities.
Unfortunately public transport and esp. railway transport is not a 100% free market, there are a lot of natural monopolies in this space that need to be regulated. For example what stops Eurostar from pricing their tickets by looking at airline ones (it's what they are apparently doing)? Nothing because Eurostar is a monopolist for some important destination pairs like Paris - London.
You can ask ChatGPT itself.
What about in-browser "standard" options like google sheet and MS excel online ? That's what I use (even offline)

Take a look at this list for some free options : https://alternativeto.net/category/productivity/spreadsheet/...
Last night I entered the page-long instructions for Advent of Code day 4, and it spewed out perfectly readable code and solved it on the first try [1]. And we're not talking about a common algorithm that has been solved many times before, but a convoluted story that is full of "elves cleaning up overlapping sections of the camp" (!), and ChatGPT was still able to understand it, write the code to solve it, and even explain how it works.

It's nothing short of a phenomenal milestone.

[1] https://twitter.com/GuiAmbros/status/1599282083838296064
On the contrary: I’ve made a leather sleeve to hold 3 portable external monitors.
The Missing Readme” book seems right up your alley

https://nostarch.com/missing-readme

“The Missing README fills in that gap—a distillation of workplace lessons, best practices, and engineering fundamentals that the authors have taught rookie developers at top companies for more than a decade”

Get it just for the “Design Doc” template!
Anyone born in Northern Ireland can claim both a British and Irish passport, and therefore, all people born in Northern Ireland can claim EU citizenship.

Separately, people with British passports can live and work in Ireland without a visa, and vice versa, because both are part of the CTA.
Beautiful. Thanks for taking the time to explain in detail.
I recently started writing a lot about depression trying to channel all this neurotic energy I have into some nice descriptive writing. Here's one where I describe the nice sauna experience I have every now and then in the town we're currently studying in: "One with Nature" -> https://sentience.lostbookofsales.com/one-with-nature/

It's some kind of a meditative process and I do it only when I truly feel like it. With a cup of tea and some nice background music. Definitely recommended!
I the the way forward on this is to pass a national hate speech law and have it work kinda like the DMCA where platforms and people can submit complaints, and the people taken down can dispute in a public government process that has some accountability to the citizenry.

Build up some case law about what is and isn’t so it’s applied uniformly and take stronger measures against repeat offenders.
They're not baby squeezer-outers. A task which might make them feel that being in control is a good thing.
There's nothing metaphysical about that. Scientifically, "a human" is an alive organism of the species "Homo sapiens." A blastocyst, embryo, or fetus is undisputedly alive, and undisputedly has human DNA. It is "a human." Now, it's a human at an early stage of human development--and that might have various ethical and moral implications--but it's scientifically unsupportable to say that it's not a human.

For example, the OED defines "tadpole" as "the tailed aquatic larva of an amphibian (frog, toad, newt, or salamander) breathing through gills and lacking legs until the later stages of its development." There is nothing metaphysical about saying that a tadpole is "a frog."
It's also assumed that "i" is an integer, a contextually plausible but potentially bad assumption. By one interpretation of the prompt, foobar(9) should print "yam" but foobar(9.5) still "baloney", for example.
Oh wow, I've been using the beta playground. So chat.openai.com is better? For code generation?
It's "crazy easy" from a programming perspective, since the engine mostly does that for you, but it still takes lots and lots of effort to create the assets for a AAA-level game (detailed 3D models and textures for characters and environment, motion capture, NPC behaviour etc.), followed by putting everything together and testing it.
Nothing you stated or linked contradicts what I said. Corporations have always been greedy and will always capitalise on anything that can be used to increase profits. Blaming corporations is a miss because they are acting exactly the way they have always acted, they way they are expected to act, and the way they will act.

Hence the example "It's like blaming gravity for a plane crash". Gravity's behavior is a constant, its something else on the plane that failed.
I tried higher level problems: write an http server in rust using warp and postgres, with endpoint for get users and put user.

9 compile errors, some due to cargo.toml issues (it only generated main.rs). But mostly worked.

The post we’re discussing is also pretty impressive, a working lexer/parser
I agree with ya, but that's good satire. The kind that really cuts to the point.
A few things come to mind along with what's already been mentioned:

Assorted Non-Book Readings:

- https://randsinrepose.com/dont-skip-this/

- http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

- https://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2019/12/day-21-being-kind-to-...

- https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-t...

- https://grugbrain.dev/

- https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits

- https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...

- http://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf

Books:

- The Phoenix Project: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

- Deep Work: Cal Newport

- The Art of Leadership: Michael Lopp (Rands)

- Extreme Ownership: Jocko Willink and Leif Babin (once you get through the
ho-rah stuff it's a fantastic read)

- Time Management for System Administrators: O'Reilly (fantastic for interrupt driven work)

- Elements of Clojure: Zachary Tellman (not just for Clojure devs)
Yeah and take a look at the hardware specs that was hosting this thing. And the site fell over at 30k users??? something is wrong with the software.
The trick from the linked post still seems to work for me. It has even installed an interpreter for a made-up lang, a mixture of Python and TypeScript, complete with the docs [1] and everything, and it was doing a pretty convincing job when I poked at its made-up REPL.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/notpushkin/de9ec3f4571a4d0074daa0ef6...
If you are a command-line user, try visidata[0]

[0] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata
Elon Musk Says Apple Is 'Fully' Advertising on Twitter Again
Well yes, there are many ways this can be solved properly, but this doesn't mean they used any of those.

P.S.: not that it matters, but - 401?
This looks like a comment in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33820918 and not to me.

The high level idea of my original rebuke was this idea that Rust was somehow lesser because it isn't "entirely" memory safe, and that its purpose was to divide safe from unsafe. But that really misses some very big points, because the programming language implementations used to build programs virtually everywhere are similarly not "entirely" memory safe, and many many many languages before Rust divided safe from unsafe.

Notice how I modified my rebuke to include your caveat. Does my point change? Does the strength of my rebuttal change? Does anything materially change at all, other than using yet more word vomit to account for caveat? No, I don't think there's anything materially different other than more words.

I tried to sidestep all of this by using the weasel word "practical." So next time I'll just say, "any practical non-sandboxed programming language." You might still chide me for confusing "programming language" with "implementation of programming language," but I've never much cared for that semantic because the ambiguity is almost always obviously resolvable from the context.

> It’s not very useful to talk about the memory safety of languages as a whole without looking at specific implementations.

Not sure I would agree with this, but it probably depends on what you mean. We can meaningfully discuss the memory safety properties of the programming languages (not just the implementations) of Rust, C and C++. I think you have to still acknowledge the practical realities of any particular implementation that others will use to build real programs, but I contend you need not do so more than what the language design does on its own already. Because languages aren't designed in a vacuum. Even if you can build an abstract machine, for example, C was not designed to be an abstract machine. It was designed to get stuff done in the real world, and the real world influenced that design. Same for Rust.

Things like CHERI will potentially change this conversation quite a bit. I was even thinking about it when I wrote my original comment in this thread. But I think it is, at present, covered by the weasel word "practical." It isn't practical to use CHERI yet, as far as I know.
The bot would need to learn as well as a "reasonable human" from being corrected on SO, and also be able to react in a socially appropriate way to correction (both in the subject thread and in future postings), otherwise it is a downgrade, even if initial answer is identical.
The Weird Story Of Electromechanical Memory – 40 bits of the stuff
I would suspect no one wants to invest the legal team or time to be the "trailblazer" court case to find out whether your theory or the common interpretation is correct. The "just ban AGPL" stance is by far the safer route since it's not like there are no sane replacements for AGPL stuff

IANAL, and thus far my life is worse for any interaction with the legal system
Unless you can do better than GPT-3, no.
that’s a very long and eloquent way of saying “the thing I want is right and the thing you want is wrong” - unless you think you can persuade the people who disagree with you to support your position, my earlier point about “live and let live” still stands, and in fact, you’re making my point for me, that many people feel that the freedoms I believe in with should be available to everyone, while the freedoms I disagree with must be forbidden.
The title is talking about end-users' control over their own hardware. Nothing to do with GPT-3.