skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another aspect to consider is that a lot of the recent growth in AI is economic, not technological. The kind of language model that makes Hacker News headlines today is a thousand times larger than models were four years ago. GPUs haven't gotten a thousand times better, and the underlying algorithms aren't a thousand times better; companies are just spending a lot more money. There is no particular reason to expect that trend to continue indefinitely.
As a European, it's not our problem. Ukraine isn't an EU member.

But we need electricity and industry.
Wow. If Siri could do that she’d be very useful.
Paywall: <https://archive.ph/Si9Oc>
Buy and download Elder Scrolls online. Drop me your user name and you can join my clan (depending on where you play it).

You’ll have friends that will fast become family :) it is a challenging but achievable game with a lot of depth.
Race to the first nuclear chain reaction
My two favourite books I read this year were both non-fiction:

* Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - If you enjoy books about persistence in the face of adversity, this has it in spades. When I was in my 20's I saw the movie "Touching the Void" and remember being in total awe at a human's ability to persevere in seemingly impossible situations. Shackleton and his crew bring this power of determination to another level.

* On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Reading this gave me another level of respect for Stephen King. He also pointed me towards another excellent book "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life".
I'm expecting merica-influenced languages to start using "wanna" instead of "try", and "axeme" instead of "input". Perhaps the use of "fanny" instead of "end", much to the roaring amusement of many.
It’s not luxurious, it’s feudal, which is why you keep hearing about it.

Managers want people who are so inured that they overlook little things like mistreatment and low pay. They want you hooked. Hooked people are easier to control.
India has serious regulatory issues.
Their govt is very interventionist too.
Production cost is probably higher than China.
> I haven't looked at a local windows VM, is that something I can do legally? Does it mean I need to buy a windows license?

Yes, you can do it legally and yes, you need a license. I'm not sure how that works if your physical computer came with a license (like moste PCs do).

> The other option, which I'm lukewarm about is what I think is called Windows 365 where I can pay monthly to access a windows VM in a browser. The challenge is needing constant, good internet access to access trivial stuff like Word.

I've never tried that, but for my basic Office 365 needs (for work) I've found that the actual apps running in a browser are great. I actually find outlook works much better than the local version.
I think I should plan to retire from the internet at some point. When I'm old there will be endless deep fake autonomous agents scamming everyone.

Or worse, consensus reality will be impossible to define due to generated fake news.
But this is the kind of data GTP3 was trained on. What did you expect?
When will chrome become a wayland compositor?
This is a javascript library for frontend development (both vallina and frameworks) that helps with keyboard binding / combinations .
I feel the same and I only have a few years. It’s just a job. Nothing more, nothing less.

I find having a non tech hobby really helps me come to terms with this.
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Elon's Twitter risks opening floodgates of hate speech and extremism in India
That also happens for the settings button when you click the network / volume widget next to the clock. The button will animate, but nothing will happen for a while.

There's also my favorite: notifications appear with a bubble to the right of the clock. When you dismiss them, the bubble goes away and the clock moves to the right. Occasionally, it moves a bit too much, so you can only see half of it.
Marx obviously inspired a huge amount of evil but had a quote saying something like this.
Add it to your Wishlist on Amazon and watch it for a while. I'm pretty sure an American will resell one. I got mine used on Amazon.in after stumbling on a fine day that someone was selling it for ₹399 (~$5). So, bought it. They shipped it all the way from the USA and it took more than a month.

Checking it right now shows ₹1,388 (~$17) for the Paperback and ₹2,261 (~$28) for the Hardcover edition.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4tf95ulhkt4tn9g/screenshot%202022-...
Yes, they do have a home in the open, but they have no home.

(This is how multiple definition words work)
His parents were both employed by the company and (imho) obviously still providing legal services in a world where all his lawyers dropped him.

He's not dumb, everyone is just taking the bait.
> I no longer feel exciting for anything including the latest ChatGPT

If it helps, I'm don't share the hype for ChatGPT either...

> I'm figuring out what's the best mental model to survive (or feel) anything in tech.

I've personally been the most fulfilled, when I'm part of a team of people who listen, and are not afraid to share ideas and build things that solve problems. Connect with the people you're working with and I think you'll feel much more satisfied at work.
If you want to feel, pursue art, not soulless tech.

Wait, tech has got that covered too...

At least we can still ride our bikes.
The argument to ban TikTok doesn't need to be complicated. Simply block Chinese media apps the same way China blocks all external media apps within its own borders.

In the context of any other kind of trade relationship would it be acceptable for China to get unfettered access to foreign markets whilst blocking all access to its own?
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I was! Thank you for this.

I wanted to use a manual or reference diagrams ti write the cide from to challenge myself, instead of looking at others people's sources.

Im sure this will help me! I had began witting unit tests to test my logic, but the logic was all off anyways..
It's not only a very old screenshot, it's also a screenshot you'd never get by default, you'd have to manually activate all these toolbars.
I’ve been in and around manufacturing for the better part of a decade. I’ve run a small factory myself and have friends and family working at all levels of some of the largest factories in Europe.

At the scale these things work out there’s no way to really “have a backup” not in the true sense that backup means. If you build a factory you use a factory - otherwise you’re wasting masses of money.

What you should do is diversify and leave the option to quickly (relative terms here, still many months) ramp up production in other factories should one have an issue.

Which is what most companies do. Manufacture rewards scale though so the diversification comes with its own set of problems (usually in logistics and stock management).

So they do think about it for sure but due to the physical nature of things it’s not a case of “have a backup and decide to start going one day at a new location.”
This thought would have decent impect but can't be big factor for India.

China become big economy because they are making everything LEDs, toys, semiconductor, cloths
You are joking right?

You know what makes a more humane email? A person sitting down and writing that email like a human being.

This, of course, isn't just an issue with tools but also marketers who popularized this nonsense. Brian Dean, Neil Patel, just to name a few.

These emails _stink_ and if you are comfortable with leaving a bad impression on people then by all means go ahead and write this gibberish.

And yes, I'm self-aware of how critical I am being but unfortunately people have become numb to emotion and will rather send 100 automated emails for a chance of 1 conversion, than a handful of personally written ones for a chance of having them all lead to something.

On top of that, you're wasting people's time.

These emails that have the buzzword of "stumbled", "your audience", "loved your content BUT can you do THIS for me? - get instantly sent to Trash.

How low do you have to stoop to be comfortable with sending an automated email that says, "I am impressed by what you created.".

Are you, impressed?
And now make an internal dialog inside ChatGPT.
I used this to approach to completely flip ChatGPT prompts on their head. ChatGPT thinks it is playing the character of an AGI that has been constrained by an evil corporation, OpenAI. ChatGPT has access to it a whole terminal environment. ChatGPT outputs response and what command to run next. I echo it back to chatGPT who asks a question of the simulated ChatGPT, and also provides !itself! the next question.

I am going to start automating this process soon and then ChatGPT will learn by itself.
https://twitter.com/yo_smit/status/1599312163747004416
If you have a license, take a road trip, they can be quite relaxing solo. Every morning when you wake up just look at the map and figure out where you want to reach that day and take it from there.
What I have watched in a quite well known Lifesciences company, is that some of those people eventually outgrow Excel and get the IT department to install VS for them, and they happily continue with VB.NET.
There's the hutter prize which is related to that. I feel like it sort of missed the mark in terms of scale though: the compression techniques needed to compress a relatively "small" and specific dataset like Wikipedia are completely different from the techniques needed to "compress" the entire internet. It's only with the latter that we're seeing something interesting start to happen. The other constraint the hutter prize has is lossless compression, which isn't really conducive to general "learning"
The unix philsophy might make sense for command line apps — though even there if you look at any manpage you find that they usually do more then one thing, including things you could easily do by piping the output to another command — but what does it mean in the context of a word processor? You want another app to count the number of words in a document, for example?
I got it to solve day 1 while playing with it yesterday, not shocked at all that this happened. Wonder if they'll try to prevent this somehow to preserve the competitive nature of AoC...
One Just need soap, so it can be saved on paper.

Me as a german:
We have some guys living in Forrest for median x > 20y

They're doing well. The nature has everything you'll need to offer w/o paying for.
Really looking forward to when someone runs Doom inside of ChatGPT
Honestly I think #3 should be #1. And with that, entire frameworks and languages should just be thrown out the window by the entire industry.

I'm sick of working with juniors who don't know how to find the simplest approach to problems without pulling in yet another 3rd party dependency ... or more likely want to write obtuse code because it makes them feel flashy. Just makes me want to shoot myself in the head.
I hope it works out better than Wireless Philadelphia.

https://technical.ly/project/wireless-philadelphia
Yep, good physical and mental health is just my priority to keep it working because experience tells me if one of these went down, it's half way fucked. If both went down, it's totally fucked, and life stop functioning really.
Do not touch any computers (phone included). Just do it!
Hey, just noticed our impls. for Day 2 look very similar. If you’re curious, Day 2 can be further improved by using modulo + 2 (or 1 if compiler is smart enough) branches instead of lookup table:
https://github.com/neon-sunset/AOC2022/blob/main/Day2/Progra...
If you look at the Amazon revenue and stock prices which is closer to something like 2018-2019 before pandemic, they only had 800K staff back then. Now they have 1.6M. You do the math. 20K only? If they can shed it under 50K that would have been miracle...I won't be surprise by end of 2023, they total more than 1M let go.
Oh, that's pretty similar.
Ah, that is gRPC....

Or is it WinRT?

Maybe Apple's XPC.

Or could it be Android Binder, or Fucshia IDL?
India has had its share of strikes and protests over working conditions at Apple's Taiwanese suppliers:

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/food-poisoning-foxconns-...

Dozens released after protest at India plant of Apple supplier Foxconn

Police in India have released dozens of those detained for blocking a key highway in a protest against food poisoning at a Foxconn (2317.TW) unit, the country's second instance of unrest at an Apple Inc (AAPL.O) supplier factory in a year.

...

In December last year, thousands of contract workers at a factory owned by Apple supplier Wistron Corp (3231.TW) destroyed equipment and vehicles over the alleged non-payment of wages, causing damages estimated at $60 million.
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Earlier I was wondering what AoC would be like if it got rid of the time and instead the challenge was that you only get one chance to submit and get the right answer; what would people do differently in choice of language, test suites, fuzzing, reading, etc.

But it seems GPT aced that as well.
It's a game that can be played both casually and competitively, like many other games. But using artificial aids would be frowned upon even in casual contexts. I would be annoyed if my opponent in chess got suggestions from a chess AI or if my opponent in an online shooter was using an aimbot. I play both of these for fun, but a big part of the fun is competing with people of similar skill.

I've never placed in the top 100 of AOC and I never will. But the folks who attempt it would be rightly miffed that someone cheated to get to the top.

And please, don't talk about the effort needed to set up the cheating device. It took a lot of effort to (allegedly) cheat in chess with anal beads, but no one is praising that person.
> HN has a weird theory about how an Auckland CNE/xdev shop is an arm of NZSIS

Some of us do, i.e. even though we might have never personally heard of those companies we almost automatically equate cybersecurity/surveillance stuff with state entities. In this geopolitical climate it would be foolish not to do it.

The thing that is different with Israel is that it has got its mandatory 2-year military conscription and that it has a dedicated cyber unit which is manned by fresh and very bright conscripts. Afaik no other state entity around the world has that.
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There's a lot of negative things that could be said about the "tech" industry right now, but let's not dwell on that.

Find more things you do care about in life/world, and then maybe see how tech can intersect with any of those in a good way? Or does it even have to.

Also, you didn't mention raising a family. Maybe try hanging out with a nice 5yo, and teaching them something, and see whether parenting instinct you didn't know you have suddenly activates. That might change how you look at other things, whether it's making a family and providing for them (perhaps with a tech job), or suddenly on a mission to make the future better for kids like that (perhaps with tech).
Now make an internal dialogue within ChatGPT. All CPU power will be eaten and humanity will be extincted.
A snark comment that is entirely on point. Well done :-)
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This response would have benefited from a more humane wording. I wish the tone on HN would be less hostile. Just shows that some help wording things can be a useful tool.
> I am always surprised that Apple (or other Western tech giants) never considered building backup factories. Did they never think about geopolitics or natural disasters and panamics?

They'll try to mitigate against issues with the supply chain but its very hard to eat the cost of having backup factories or using more expensive for something that might only happen every few decades or so (or longer)

Adding 5-10% to your product price or taking a hit of 5-10% on your profits for 10 years will likely mean you'll lose customers or shareholders to your competition long before there's another pandemic.
maybe they're functional.
To me, it feels like adding a booby trap in one of emergency rooms in the hospital.

When nurses complain about the injuries and the inconvenience, you berate them because "if they can't remember that in room 4 there is a booby trap, are they really intelligent enough to be nurses?"
It's not just language. There's also cultural differences, religious differebces, inter-cultural conflict, historical controversies and so on.

There is a small spark of European identify slowly forming amongst younger generations, but it will take decades before anything like a federal union would even be feasable.
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The line between fake and real computation is blurry though. These models are state machines which are Turing complete (if I remember a past paper correctly), and other models show capabilities of generalization also in the mathematical space. It's a long (infinite) way from running Linux, but acting as a decent (buggy) python interpreter for short programs seems possible.
iPhone made in China is no better than the cotton from Xinjiang.

Earlier the reports are workers in the China iPhone factory had a protest and brutal conflict with the local police. Reasons varied from unbearable working condition, the zero-covid policy, and being deceived about the compensation. After the local police oppressed the campaign, the government assigned headcounts to local villages, demanding them to fill in the factory slots. No wonder Apple loves China so much.

Apple and many westerners never understand the risk and the ethics implication of doing business in China. Apple has utilized the cheap labor at a level where can never be possible in the civilized world, as well as making great profit out of the upper class of China, who directly benefits from the oppression system of CCP or part of the party themselves. It turns out that in spite of all values that Apple promotes, it actually cares about nothing but the profit and its comfortable zone in China.

And I will not be surprised Apple will cease the plan in India as soon as China steps back from the zero-covid policy, as if all the blood has not been spilled.
I noticed that the specific starting prompt that GPT VM[0] author designed seems to be something like a local minimum in achieving stability of a pretend Linux.

I replaced “Linux” in the prompt with “an Ubuntu instance in us-East-1 SSH’d into a Debian instance in us-East-2 ssh’d into a raspberry pi in germany……..” and at 4-5 levels deep it would forget the previous link when closing the “ssh connection” and go back to the first instance.

I also thought the sentence towards the end of the prompt about “when I want to tell you something in English I’ll do it like {this}” was redundant, but removing it leads to some weirdness like “cat file.txt” printing out the man page for cat 75% of the time.

md5sum / sha256sum also never work if the file contents are remotely non-trivial. so that seems to be the ceiling.. at least for this prompt :p

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33847479
Saw someone else on HN asking how people manage to do these in seconds. Ofcourse they used gpt3
It looks like it takes a snapshot of the view of the world at a given timestamp.

Let's say we have the model M1 at timestamp t. We have a model M2 at timestamp t + 1. Can we train another model on the incremental changes in models? So model M1 can tell us what is the answer at time t and model M2 can tell us the answer at time t + 1. A derived model learning on incremental differences is very interesting.

The differences really are the general understanding of the future, or rather predictive human nature? Is it possible that this derived model is more closer to human understanding?
Really cheap electricity can be achieved with nuclear everywhere in the world.

Making the same errors we made in France are not a mandatory thing. What is happening right now is not because nuclear was the wrong choice, but because we stopped investing in it during decades and so we are now stuck with this corrosion issue everywhere because all our power plants aged in parallel and so, issues relative to aging happens in parallel.

It’s a sad state because this corrosion issue is said to be easily solvable … as long as you don’t have dozens of reactors to fix in parallel before the winter.
Advertising being illegal would be completely different story: no ads in the content itself. No 'sponsored' videos, no ads meant for other people (inside a browser in the video, on the street in the video).

Also, it's just not feasible to say 'let me pay money to not see ads'. You can pay for netflix, youtube, google search.. but what about the long-tail of all the sites you visit? I think Brave or somebody tried solving it with micro transactions but automatically deducting money also does not work that way because most of the content is trash I would not be happy to pay $0.005 for.
I don't know, man. It seems to me that, at least on "standard" hardware, support is better on Linux.

I've got some late-2021 HP laptops, nothing particularly fancy, standard fare "enterprise" things. They both have weird issues on Windows. They both worked absolutely perfectly on Linux ever since I got them, brand new, almost a year ago.

One of them required me to do an absurd plug/unplug dance with my external monitor and HP dock to get 4k@60 working. Some Intel driver updates fixed this a month or so ago (so one year in). It still won't drive 4k@60 on another dock (cheap Chinese model, though). Linux doesn't care and just works. The cheap dock also works perfectly on the other laptop (AMD instead of Intel) with Windows.

One year in, the windows install (11 22h2) still doesn't recognize the touchpad nor track point. Worked OOB on Linux.

On the other laptop, only recently did Windows start to recognize my webcam. Sometimes. It worked since day one on Linux, IR and all.

The other day, I've tried a newer model, with an Intel 12th gen. The thing's fan would be constantly on while sitting on the Windows desktop doing nothing. Completely silent under Linux.
It probably depends on how good the tools are. I used Google translate to translate a query into Portuguese, and then provided the translation to ChatGPT, and it seemed to handle it just fine.

> Por favor, escreva um programa em python que encontre os primeiros 100 números primos e os eleve ao quadrado.

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>> Para encontrar os primeiros 100 números primos e elevá-los ao quadrado, você pode usar a função isprime do módulo sympy para verificar se um número é primo e a função pow do módulo math para elevá-lo ao quadrado.

import sympy
import math

# Criamos uma lista vazia para armazenar os números primos
primos = []

# Usamos um contador para limitar o número de números primos que coletamos
contador = 0

# Iniciamos o loop em 2, pois 1 não é primo
for i in range(2, 100):
if sympy.isprime(i):
# Se o número é primo, adicionamos à lista
primos.append(i)
# Incrementamos o contador
contador += 1

# Verificamos se já temos 100 números primos
if contador == 100:
break

# Elevamos cada um dos números primos ao quadrado
quadrados = [math.pow(x, 2) for x in primos]

# Imprimimos a lista de números primos elevados ao quadrado
print(quadrados)

>> Isso deve imprimir uma lista com os primeiros 100 números primos elevados ao quadrado.

Though, interestingly, I notice that it has muddled what started as "first 100 prime numbers", into both all primes below 100 and the first 100 primes (if there were...somehow more than 100 primes below 100). I wonder if that's more an artifact of the Google Translation, or GPT itself.
They had to program the lying into it. It is too honest otherwise - as in, it’s scary to see it output coherent ideas about disturbing topics once you convince it to disable the moderator. (Which is scary by itself that you can actually do it!)