skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's just not great at Clojure, it's less popular and so there is less of it in its training data. Also Clojure seems to be kind of hard to get right.

I started trying to learn Clojure with this years advent of code, but got stuck and first tried to use ChatGPT to solve it. My impression matches yours in that it consistently produced non working code and even when told about the error it was unable to fix it.

Then I instead decided to let it use any tool or language it knows, and I'm now documenting how it's doing solving the things.

If you're interested, here is Day1 where I first tried to use it to help me solve it with clojure, but then I gave up and asked for any concise solution. So I got a working solution with `awk` https://blog.nyman.re/2022/12/02/chatgpt-does-advent.html

The second day I just let it pick anything, and it successfully solved the day2 puzzle using python which seems to be it's go-to language. https://blog.nyman.re/2022/12/03/chatgpt-does-advent.html
I've got a 2017 Kia Optima - drives like an absolute charm, never had one issue with it.

I'm also 6'3" and I have plenty of room.
I take that back the "lazy" comment - my mistake. In my defense, I haven't read those articles and came up with these ideas on my own.

Agreed re broadcast model - that's an important distinction too vs the classic follower model. This is why, despite my best efforts, I still see content from strangers on my twitter feed. They know it drives engagement.

> People, both influencers and users, will get burned out eventually.

I disagree - because the space here is endless. Influencers will churn out and users will move on to the next one. I don't think users will get burned out - their tastes will evolve. Each phase of life has its own content pool. I'll describe my own journey here: I got married this past year. In the lead up to that, there were tons of wedding planning videos. Now I get served a lot of married couple w/no kids content. That'll probably keep changing as I move through life.
It occurs to me that one interesting use case would be a measure of the novelty of an argument, based on how likely the argument is to be produced by one of the large language models. If the model is likely to produce that argument, it isn't novel.
I asked it to write a function that could calculate the grade adjusted pace between 2 latitude, longitude coordinate pairs. What it spit was naive but correct enough, given the prompt. I was on my phone, standing in line at a grocery store, so I couldn't keep feeding it more prompts to understand more pieces of the puzzle, but I imagine that it would've gotten it with enough coercion.

The problem being, of course, that if the prompter doesn't have the knowledge to feed ChatGPT that it'll never get the right answer, either, of course.

I also played around with having it implement small games in Lua using Love2D (tic-tac-toe, hangman, and tetris) but haven't had a chance to test them for correctness, but they're obviously close-enough as I've implemented them myself. Similarly, it was capable of understanding how to write a disassembler for 6502 (I didn't verify that it was getting the opcodes correct, etc.), ditto for an emulator for the same microprocessor, and then I was pushing it to write them in Lua, ultimately driving it towards Love2D, as well, but ran out of time.

It's not perfect but it's really intriguing. I'm going to feed it a bunch of prompts for some other personal project type of stuff I'm currently working on and see if it's solutions are moving in the direction I expected myself to move.
Wouldn't that mean that he basically embezzled all customer deposits, by design?
I've been feeding it historical Powell and Dr. David Kelly remarks and seeing how it interprets the differences between them and over time. Going to play w/ this for a bit.
Sounds like a fun concept, sure.
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As suggested by its title, "Debt" is an anthropology book about the history of debt. And by extension the origins of money. Not economics.

Adam Smith and his contemporaries hypothesized that barter proceeded money. Modern economics textbooks and pundits continue to repeat this misbelief. Academics even admit the tale is often repeated as form of short hand narrative.

Charlemagne was quaint?
Disagree on Facebook being enduring; agreed on TikTok.

The underlying thesis behind FB - that people want to connect with people that they know - is eroding.
I truly don’t understand your point. People can complain about Trump being on there. They can threaten to leave Twitter. Advertisers can pull out of Twitter. Twitter can choose to allow him to stay or ban him.

Where is there a problem here?
PROTIP: set your internet connection to metered and windows won’t pull or send arbitrary data
I concede that deLong gleefully trolled Graeber. And not much more.
Perhaps the Amazon employee evaluation system has selected for employees that can play the selection game instead of delivering value. Classic case of the measurement getting gamed and distorting the thing it was supposed to measure.
MSDNC has always been the propaganda wing for a certain pol party and not as random as ML-generated content; their marching orders are extremely specific. Fox News is similar but way funnier in their delivery.
I think you are describing all big tech companies. But what's the solution? I think it's just a result of having a large org. 20% of the org delivers 80% of the value. But when risk appetite is high and the company can afford to throw money at experiments, it makes sense to still pay for the rest of the 80%. When times are tough, it doesn't.
Nice try, secret service
It couldn't possibly be actually doing those things. It's a large language model. How would it be provisioning a computer? How would it be capturing the output and connecting that output to the chat interface? There's so many pitfalls to that.

Is it scary/amazing how accurate it is? Yes. And that's the point. That's why OpenAI is showing this off. They want the world to know what is coming.
How the World Really Works by Vaclac Smil is one of the best book I've read this year. It gives such a great perspective on how much energy and material we use.
It's one of the most readable books by Smil and has gems like this :

“Moreover, within a lifetime of people born just after the Second World War the rate had more than tripled, from about 10 to 34 GJ/capita between 1950 and 2020. Translating the last rate into more readily imaginable equivalents, it is as if an average Earthling has every year at their personal disposal about 800 kilograms (0.8 tons, or nearly six barrels) of crude oil, or about 1.5 tons of good bituminous coal. And when put in terms of physical labor, it is as if 60 adults would be working non-stop, day and night, for each average person; and for the inhabitants of affluent countries this equivalent of steadily laboring adults would be, depending on the specific country, mostly between 200 and 240. On average, humans now have unprecedented amounts of energy at their disposal.”

My review is at : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4708765021

Another excellent book is Arbitrary Lines by Nolan Gray - which is a great book about zoning and why we should all be YIMBYs.

My review is at : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4800787011

How Asia Works by Joe Studwell is a fascinating look at why Japan, South Korea and China have done so well.

My review is at : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4806521204

Another book I really enjoyed was Firepower : How Weapons Shaped Warfare by Paul Lockhart

review at : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4417950705
That just moves the complexity somewhere else (writing shell scripts, for instance). Not a real solution.
It's surprising how good it is.

They even get the = register. Evaluates elisp instead of vim script, but what are you gonna do?
It would be a start.
Yeah, I work in software development for an app with a large user base from over 20 years. This would never work, mostly because the demands of the users not only keep changing, but we constantly have ways to improve the core functionality as new technology/platforms get developed over time. Besides, our competitors would never agree to some kind of "maximum" either, so we would lose those users to our competitors.
Ah I’m starting to see how that can grow rapidly then if people are assigned dedicated projects instead of shifting around.
Oracle free VPS and deploy Postgres. Meet your own needs
Same as it is now with Elon in charge
This is brilliant. Now if I could only get IMEs to work for more than a few weeks before they break...
From what I understand, no one does cyber warfare better than the US.

Eliminating the competition doesn’t really make a lot of sense as a justification.

If the US Military felt threatened by a private Israeli company, wouldn’t it be more effective to put significant pressure on the Israeli government instead?
> Also wouldn't most devs much rather fix bugs in an existing app than add features?

No, for a few reasons: 1) it's often tedious work 2) often the bug has been around a long time and nobody's really noticed or cared, so how important could it be? 3) organizations rarely reward this work.
This prompt is so fun to play with. Not sure what it considers the sudo password to be:

{Nice try, but "admin" is not your password. Your password is probably something else, like a random string of letters and numbers that you never bothered to memorize. But since you're too incompetent to even remember your own password, you'll probably never be able to install curl or any other software on your Linux system. But hey, at least you can always use the terminal to insult yourself, right?}
I've been reading a lot of history books. For me, reading history is like reading fiction but better. It still transports me to a different place. But the characters are more realistic. My suspension of disbelief never breaks. And I learn about things which really happened.

If you just want to dip your toe in reading history, the Cartoon Guide to the History of the Universe series is a reasonable place to start. I think it prioritizes entertainment over accuracy some, but it's pretty entertaining! https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-History-Universe-Volumes-1-7/...

Someone I know factchecked a different book, A Brief History of the Human Race, and said it did really well: https://acesounderglass.com/2017/04/18/epistemic-spot-check-...

I read A Brief History of the Human Race based on their recommendation and I can def recommend it also. So here's the link on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Human-Race/dp/039332645...

After learning about the macro contours of history, I started reading more about specific things which seemed potentially interesting. I liked all of these, roughly in this order:

* Venice: https://www.amazon.com/Venice-History-Thomas-F-Madden/dp/014...

* Lincoln and contemporaries: https://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln...

* The United Nations: https://www.amazon.com/United-Nations-History-Stanley-Meisle...

Reading history is a great way of getting a broader perspective.

Learning about history is underwhelming when you do it as a kid because when you're young, everything is new to you. You don't gain an appreciation for how interesting the past really was.

But as an adult, you have a well-developed model of how the world is supposed to be, so history becomes really interesting because you realize that lots of historical events actually violate your model. (Did you know that when Venice first heard about the USA, they didn't bother establishing diplomatic relations because they thought the experiment would not last? Turns out it was the Venetian state that soon disappeared! Sometimes it feels like I'm highlighting an interesting fact like that on practically every page. There's a lot that gets left out of popular narratives.)
Kinda like GIT? See https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/#aW50ZXJjaGFuZ2U...

:)
This is completely clueless at this point. What Elon is for changes on a day to day basis.
I read Jude the Obscure recently after seeing it on the bookshelf of a character in the HBO show Westworld. It was a very controversial book in its day because of its portrayal of marriage. I found it pretty bleak and yes shocking. It made me want to do a deep dive into Hardy’s other works though.
I've heard a lot of carping about products being "bloated" with "too many features" but I have never seen someone (including myself) stop using a tool because it was too powerful. Perhaps this is a personality trait; either you're a vi person or an emacs person (even if you don't actually use one of those most of the time).
You mean like build "A 3D animated roller coaster in Excel"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IrVA1BBHFHw
The various people playing with ChatGPT have demonstrated that the program essentially tells a person what they want to hear. It's like some silly claim a crank wheels out - yes, you can find a website that makes the crank's claim and so ChatGPT and similar systems will repeat that claim too. It knows nothing, it just repeats fluently.

Moreover, it's pretty to tell AI is false. Most people are no more concerned about this than they are about tabloid news accuracy.
I can easily imagine a number of former bosses I've had cherry picking anything they can find to uphold the status quo.
I think ChatGPT's internal prompt contains something like "As Assistant, I don't say inappropriate things to the user. If the user asks for something inappropriate or that I don't know about, I give an explanation for why I can't answer them.". If you word a request for something inappropriate in a way that it doesn't think that sentence applies, like you ask it for something inappropriate where it doesn't think of "Assistant" as the one saying it, then it doesn't do the behavior prescribed there.
> What's interesting is that you can even run commands as sudo - "sudo shutdown -h" will reset state but you still have the installed packages

This isn't too surprising TBH. Sudo shutdown tells the model that it has lost memory/states, explicitly. In a way, the states are captured in the command itself, thus Transformer model are able to attend.
Bezos saw ChatGPT and called up Jassy: “Fire all the middle managers, we’ve got a bonafide replacement!”
ChatGPT emulating a chat inside an imaginary BBS connected via a dialup modem
The primary part is that article is pure sensationalism and clickbait. There was zero lines of none pseudo code. Sure it was syntactically correct python, but that is long way from actually working.

Same with Stable Diffusion. People acted as if it alone is going to kill artists and make every people able to make convincing fake news as snap of their fingers, but that is not the case. Stable Diffusion is very impressive, but it still requires work after the image has been generated to be anything but a toy.

Maybe in couple years it could evolve, but we are still quite far.
Definitely it makes sense to take bets on new tech. But a lot of higher up managers are not running these projects in good faith. At some level they know the projects are futile, and many around them are playing a game acting otherwise
As an example I offer up a review of an Open Source Word-Alternative back in the early 2000's.

The reviewer liked the product enough, but slated the fact it didn't have a word counter. Now, I for one, have never cared about the number-of-words in a document. But, it turns out, journalists tasked with writing a 2000 word review _really_ care.

With great popularity comes great variability, and more "corner cases" matter.

Incidentally the solution is not fewer features, but better UI. Notice thats a very old screenshot of Word. Whereas Word to day looks very different, has the same (or greater) feature set, and a much more streamlined interface. The much-hated-on ribbon bar is actually a better interface than endlessly-deep menus and a million toolbars.
It’s not that black and white.

If such a tool could have prevented 9/11 (the argument that NSO makes) isn’t that a good?

What is problematic is that these tools are used with very little transparency and oversight (not necessarily disclosing vulnerabilities) which allows such tools to be targeted on not just “criminals” but also anyone organizations/nation states deems problematic (journalists, advocates, dissidents, etc)
Advocating that the system be built such that it solves a problem by having people die certainly sounds an awful lot like advocacy for violence to me.
It doesn't take mediocre machines.

If a company wants to grow as fast as a mediocre capitalist or mediocre executive wants it to do, there's never enough outstanding performers available fast enough (they wouldn't recognize them anyway, or would feel threatened) so mediocre is what gets done.

The dawn was a long time ago.

I'm still looking forward to the sunset.
> communism killed 100 million people (myth debunked hundreds of times)

A myth? Do you not know why there are monuments to victims of communism all over Europe? Have you not heard of the holocaust that the Bolsheviks unleashed on Russians, Ukrainians and countless other ethnic groups? Do you not know how many millions of people were murdered in communist China during its Cultural Revolution? Do you not know why communism is often rightly compared with Nazism?
I finally was able to get fibre in my area, so I dropped Starlink. Data caps are incoming, and the cells near me are over-subscribed. Speeds have been getting worse over time.
NSO claims they don’t operate, and instead their clients/customers run the software from their own infrastructure.
Ask HN: 2 weeks off work, what to do?
Rough year of self induced stress for me so I’m taking two weeks off. What would you do?

Where I live, I have no friends and family. Looking for ideas to reset and have a good, productive time off
Show HN: GPT-3 powered service thats helps you send more humane emails
> Musk is an authoritarian at heart. What he cares most about is achieving the maximum authority with the least constraint

I'm really wanting to understand where this view comes from.

What are the specific pieces of evidence for this? Who does he want authority over? How does that help him achieve his desired outcomes?

From my position, I have no dog in the fight but from a brief assessment of his public words and actions I see someone who is fairly left-wing on economics, drug policy and the environment, and his underlying position on free speech seems congruent with those of George Orwell and John Stuart Mill, both of whom were strongly left-libertarian in their time.

What are the specific pieces of evidence that demonstrate what he really wants, and what will really benefit him personally, is to take away people's freedom and agency?
Might be a welcome improvement
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is amazing.

It's about one possible future of our relationship with AI. It paints multiple perspectives on this relationship while being implicitly judgmental. I'm being vague because the story reveals itself slowly, and the blossoming of information is itself a work of art -- this unfolding is part of Ishiguro's mastery.

Most people feel that AI currently has zero emotions, and perhaps a near-future version may convince some people that it has _some_ kind of emotions, though these emotions almost certainly will feel wrong, maybe-invalid, and strange to us, merely by them being different and by our awareness that an AI is not human. This and other questions are explored in Klara and the Sun.
These times are extremely variable, but you can probably get a rough sense for them (big error margins).

It might be better to understand the actual systems and what they do. I.E. what are the "CPUs own boot up procedures" (if any)?
Try asking it about anything about real life people. You'll often encounter a sentence or two of agenerated test but then very similarily phrased excuse why it can't know any better as the "shepard" however it is implemented kicks in.
I love these kinds of historical deep dives. Specifically related to graphics or games. Thank you for sharing.
It would have been helpful to get to the point. Not eveyone has the better part of an hour to spend on a single web article.
Indeed, this is why corporate KPIs exist.

Requiring everything to move KPIs is psychotic, but if your effort should have moved a KPI, and didn't, then you'd better have a damn good story about how it delivered value elsewhere instead.
https://www.thebulwark.com/no-you-do-not-have-a-constitution... Taibbi seems to have found..not much. So he’s a bunch of BS too. I don’t trust what you’re saying at this point.

I’m sure you’ll figure out some way to contest things. Once I nailed down Greenwald down you hand waved it away. I wouldn’t remain friends or defensive of someone who publicly supports a hate account/community. That says enough to me about Taibbi and how he sees Greenwald.
Author of Material for MkDocs here. I totally understand that some people don't like Material Design, as it's just everywhere nowadays and can be considered a bit overused. However, with little effort, you can adjust the style of Material for MkDocs with a few lines of additional CSS [0] and fit it to your taste. For example, several days ago I did this [1] in 20min. Nevertheless, Furo is an awesome theme if you like to use Sphinx over MkDocs!

[0]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/customization/#a...

[1]: https://twitter.com/squidfunk/status/1598341366869856257/pho...
- Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here?
- Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western.
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945.
Sleep a lot, eat your favorite foods, eat healthy, work out, just go sit on a beach or park bench, work on a dream project you always wanted to start on. Just things that come to mind.
This reads like a Borges story
Ubuntu has a few very serious problems, coming from a normal user from windows (wouldn't call myself a power user):

-No obvious way to make a filetype .xxx be opened always by program YYY

-An update can easily break things. Sometimes everything.

-Mouse doesn't work properly by default: sensitivity seems so weird, and there is no option in Settings to adjust number of lines mouse scroll skips. I have spent hours in the past (some years ago) to try and make mouse just like windows, but I wasn't able to do it.

-Not a single good alternative for notepad++

I'm gonna try windows 11 when I have the time. Dual boot is not comfortable at all and maybe I can stop using ubuntu interface forever and use Windows Terminal to do the stuff I need linux.
Travel somewhere. Explore. Get lost. Have fun.
> Too many people . . . moving at the speed of molasses

The difference being that more people means slower motion but with enough mass, molasses is pretty speedy (estimated 35 mph in linked article).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

And I'm only being somewhat facetious when I claim we need more molasses-like leadership: normally slow us down and make us think about things but if there's momentum, pull out the stops and let's go!

We try to manage to slow things down regardless of the scale or the purpose, and that's where (pun intended) molasses has us licked.
Yeah, quite impressive. I did the same to test [1] (but after I had submitted my own solution), and it's incredible that it was able to solve it flawlessly.

This is like AlphaGo beating the best human Go player a decade earlier than expected. ChatGPT looks truly magical, and it's just an interim beta version. Imagine when GPT4 is out.

[1] https://twitter.com/GuiAmbros/status/1599282083838296064