skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say things are improving. Through WASM we are now getting more languages running in the browser. They are starting to bring alternative frameworks and ways of doing things to the table as well. Instead of this frontend / backend notion, we should start thinking again about the notion of networked applications; like we used to do before the web became a thing.

Inevitably you want some computation to be close to the source data (for efficiency) and some other computation to be close to the point of interaction (for responsiveness). It's not an either / or proposition. You can do both. And phones and browsers can do a lot locally these days. So there's no need to pretend that it is still 1999 in terms of browser capabilities. They can do so much more now.

Instead of AJAX, we now have companies like Tailscale doing all sorts of funky networking stuff in a browser. Likewise, people are running entire 3D games, photo and video editing tools, or design tools like figma, etc. in a browser. All enabled by WASM. Most of that stuff does not involve a whole lot of css, javascript, or html. That stuff is increasingly optional. Browser application development and desktop application development are finally merging after being considered completely separate things for more than 2 decades. It's all just application development. It may or may not involve talking to servers via a network. You don't have to limit yourself to HTTP when doing that.
> So, the big take away needs to be that there is absolutely no understanding, no cognizance of any kind, no language comprehension going on.

Okay, but what is understanding, cognizance, comprehension? And so on for further precision of definitions, until you reach that vague nebulous area that is consciousness. We simply haven't figured that out, period.

So we cannot really say that this AI does not have those qualities, unless its output is obviously showing it. Which ChatGPT does not, most of the time.
https://archive.vn/9At4b (Article from May 2022)
> Stylometry. Seems like it currently leaves enough textual clues that simple BERT like models have no trouble picking them up, no watermarks needed.

Demo: https://huggingface.co/openai-detector - note it not was not even finetuned to GPT3/ChatGPT, but merely GPT2 (3 years old and much smaller model)

But then I don't know why I'm telling you - when I enter the above text it says it's 99.86% fake, based on 80 tokens :/
Yes, the issue is that word, "think", and its variants.

But "what is thinking?" isn't poorly posed in the case that "thinking" isn't well defined, because it is about establishing and agreeing on a definition.

The approach some people take to answering "could machines think?" is to try to determine an actual subject in the real world to call "thinking" in a way that aligns with common intuitions, which to me seems like a good approach. But many (most?) approaches I've encountered instead just assume personal intuition about thinking is sufficient, and worse, in common with all other askers of the question.
If you look at vim commit history, it was pretty much stagnant for a long period of time, and then activity picked up in 2016, when it finally got competition from neovim. IMO governance model for vim, is not much receptive to community contribution, while neovim is more open. Looking at commit history and contributors graph on github seems to validate this.
A Microsoft SAW is a demonic artifact stemming from when Satan himself forged a computer a casts it onto the surface of the earth and into the hands of mankind. It’s the best worst way to access production. It’s how anyone who has ever been on call for Azure accesses production and it’s the last thing you see before Cerberus herself begins chanting “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate” and welcomes you to hell for all eternity.
Not a sound comment, population of Japan on 1873 was estimated to be 35M. Current population of Japan is 100M+
its like the whole world’s population is a pyramid scheme not sustainable
Adding to (1), you don't have to code anything to the backup API - the standard "sqlite3" command line has a ".backup" command that does it for you.
There is probably some equilibrium number at some point, but might be a lot less than current population.
Only if you live in a place where sunshine is pleasant.

Treadmill has been a lifesaver for me and has finally let me have a consistent running/walking habit.

Couldn't go out in the dawn as I am a night owl. When I managed that, winter (fog) or monsoon would ensue and mess with my routine.

Treadmill saved me.
I've owned two Brother laser printers in the past 15 years. I've run into this issue with the newer one: it will just refuse to print at a certain point. However, I was able to find a work-around (probably the same one you found) by typing some magic code I got from a YouTube video into the front panel and then it worked for awhile until I did replace the toner cartridge.

Was quite frustrating but nowhere near as bad of some of the HP stories like this that I read on HN.
And therein lies the issue with assumptions.
I was curious as well.

My best guess is this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAWStudio
That sounds even worse than their previous models, which were „safety locked“ after an update. For the older models it was still possible to downgrade to the initial firmware version, which was a pain to do, though, and disconnect from the www. It‘s unfortunate because they build great hardware.
I don't know what kind of prehistoric banking system exists in the US, but that just won't happen. The buyer has a bank transfer id and both parts can check the status with their bank.

There are also instant transfers that cost around 1€ of fixed commissions. They complete in about ten seconds after which the other side can check their account and the money will be there.

And finally you can use a money order if you really don't want to do a bank transfer and prefer paper.
Also, in many use cases that have been described thus far it's a collaboration between the AI and a human (i.e. the AI writes the first copy, the human edits). That blurs the line even further.
Maybe France? Generous childcare and parental leave should encourage birthrates.

Also improving the whole idea of what a family is: Want to be unmarried and have a child? Go for it. But have the supports available to make it work.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/21/france-populat...
It's extremely common for many scientists (nuclear physicists, neuroscientists, biochemists, etc.) to spend a few years in the industry and either teach for a while or publish a paper on the side and then come back to full-time work when they feel like it again. This obsession on drawing a hard line between the two is utter nonsense and reeks of classic HN techbro simple-mindedness. You would easily make the mistake of dismissing a professional in the middle of an academic stint as someone who has no experience at all, just to feed your sense of self-superiority.
Problem is most social services depend on there being people to pay for you when you get older.

That or your private pension holder might go for some risky investment.
Just format it clean.
I wonder if we understand our low birth rates. What if a significant factor is, that after WW2, we all insist both parents work outside fulltime jobs? I feel humanity is like the guy teaching his horse not to eat.
See the FAA's US Civil Airmen Statistics spreadsheet for the overall big picture [1]. Specifically, the "Pilot Total w/o Student Category" fell from 490k in 2012 to 470k in 2021, despite the number of instructors growing from 98k to 121k. The number of students has skyrocketed from 120k in 2012 to 250k in 2021 but it's just not translating to commercially viable pilots: we added 30k students last year but lost several hundred airline pilots and only gained 600 commercial pilots. The number of PPLs fell from 188k in 2012 to 161k in 2021.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics/c...
What would you say good training for juniors should look like.
Is ChatGPT a ‘virus that has been released into the wild’?
"I haven't died playing russian roulette, you should try it too."

The general experience across the industry in a statistical sense is that JavaScript frameworks are a tyre fire best avoided.

I'm yet to see a JS app that doesn't need constant maintenance to remain compilable.

Meanwhile, the ASP.NET ecosystem had like one significant breaking change since like... 2002.
There are clear differences between the painting and the photo, multiple things were added and removed. You might not place much value in them, but that's purely subjective. I must place more importance on those changes than you do because I have a preference for the photo over the painting. Objectively, those changes do exist regardless of how we feel about them.
You can use mitmproxy or Charles Proxy (macOS) to profile it.
There is no evidence such things work and in fact evidence of the opposite
Same goes for me.

I get bored while walking/running, and can only do it while having music on (running) or have a podcast/audiobook (walking).

Music doesn't really mess with your mind going somewhere.

And you can discover connections and have other insights while listening to a podcast or an audiobook.

Try listening to an audiobook while sitting and doing nothing or doing chores versus listening to it while walking. You will gain more cognitively if you listen to it while walking. Speaking from personal experience.
I read a quote once that basically says, if it’s important you will make time for it. A 4 mile walk can be completed in a little over an hour. The question isn’t how do you make time, it’s more, what am I going to give up to walk?
Who said anything about lawyers? IANAL, but I'm pretty sure this is well within the remit of small claims court for the US, and the EU should have some agency whose job it is to deal with this.
Maybe, but there are also a lot of people who don’t understand the point of yubikeys that want to use them but export the secrets. Those people cannot be trusted with their own security and need to be protected from themselves.
None of that can happen with instant bank transfers. If the bank says it's cleared then it's cleared and it cannot be charged bank anymore.
It's the stippling and hatching that most compression formats struggle with
Secure Admin Workstation, apparently. Thanks to kris-nova for providing the Azure hint for me to find this PR fluff article: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/insidetrack/protecting-high-...
Without knowing much about your situation - sink or swim can have a very real I-need-to-make-money-to-pay-bills or it can be a I-need-to-do-well-to-feel-ok-as-a—person.

If you need to make money to pay the bills, I can’t offer much advice.

If you need to climb the ladder to feel ok about yourself as a person I suggest you find a therapist. Controlling your self image through external actions (image coach) is ultimately unfulfilling. It’s like candy, tastes good but doesn’t leave you filled. Also - we subconsciously learn that behavior earlier in life, usually when situations are out of our control. Don’t beat yourself up about it.

All being said, that feeling sucks (no matter where you look, someone will be better than you) and I hope you can find trusted support to resolve it.
They are sufficiently uniquely great at getting government and big business contracts though. Their leverage is not necessarily in their technology (which can be of all kinds, form excellent to barely usable), but in the skill of selling it to particular markets, and access to that markets earned by decades of effort.
Watching the Greatest Hits from the Last 120 Years
I think I've been subtly insulted again... fail the test, more closely aligned to the statistical model of an ideal GPT and using cliché.

I plead guilty to all of them. I clearly took one for the team, let the side down, disappointed at the finish, peaked early and missed by a country mile.

Try harder. Grow a backbone. (Hu)man up!
Seriously! The AI response is annoying to read. With the "human" response, I might actually be willing to give more time. With the AI response I'm going to strongly consider canceling the order just because it pisses me off since it reads as corporate sanitized BS.
I feel like it's rather: if given fulfilling alternatives to reproduction, people will choose them over reproducing.

Poor people are ironically some of the hardest-working in Western societies, and they also reproduce the most (for lack of alternatives provided by higher education). They also abort pregnancies a lot, though.
When you ask ChatGPT to write work-related comms, I'm curious how you handle PII and your employer's confidential information?
I think we're all going to get a crash course in how difficult measurement is and how no single indicator can be relied upon, over the next few years. I think we're going to have to develop robust ways of knowing by composing many indicators together, along with intangible/vibes based epistemologies. I think that in the same way "Gen Z" (acknowledging that the concept of generations isn't as meaningful as we might want it to be) grew up understanding things about the internet better than their parents, their children will grow up socialized to use a battery of tools to determine what's real or fictional in an environment of adversarial information.

Honestly I'm worried it won't go very well. I'm writing a personal knowledge base application, with the idea being people can create an epistemology & collaborate with others to pick out what's real & what's not. I've wanted to do this for a few years, but ChatGPT helped convince me it was urgent. Open to ideas & suggestions.
I also want to mention that, you directly stated in your first sentence in your first post that humanizing was wrong.

This in itself is a claim made without evidence. Which is my point. The claim as it stands cannot be made either way. We simply don't know.
I do think that Genoa's approach is a reasonable one.
I'd like to see one of Gracemont's successors doing the same.

Maybe we'll even see quadruple pumping for AVX-512 some day?
I'll be impressed if/when an Atom line CPU gets 4x 128bit fma units to match ARM's Cortex-X line or Apple's Firestorm).

I think these are good options, and can allow AVX-512 to sort of act like SVE, but with the benefits of a fixed size architecture (i.e., shuffles); compile one set of code and you're able to run it anywhere, with performance dictated by how much the vendor decided was worth investing into the vector units.
And AVX512 can still help (like it does Genoa) by taking a lot of pressure off of the front end.

I'm also trying to do my part as a software dev!
I wrote/maintain the JuliaSIMD ecosystem, and working on good loop vectorizers to let people take advantage of their vector units is my passion; LoopVectorization.jl has gotten great results on many benchmarks[0], and I'm rewriting it as an LLVM pass to try and address as many of its flaws and limitations as I can.

[0] For example, in a simple self-dot-product benchmark, LLVM's 256 bit code is actually faster than its 512 bit code when testing random sizes from 1-256:
https://github.com/JuliaSIMD/LoopVectorization.jl/issues/446...
However, LoopVectorization.jl's 512 bit code is close to twice as fast as either LLVM's 256 bit or 512 bit code. This is a trivial example; the difference can be much larger for more complicated code.
It's like we forget the pre-WII poverty and long work hours plaguing pre-world war industrial society.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
Energy storage at scales necessary to buffer solar/wind at 100% of the grid do not exist.
> but let’s not stop calling ... the database temmp_v3_old_Udpate_RstdnewV2

I worked briefly on a codebase that was otherwise produced by Chinese programmers (in China).

It did feel somewhat surreal seeing variable names that were in English but misspelled, particularly when e.g. several classes all had a field of the same name, except that in one of them, the name was misspelled.

I assume it didn't bother them because (a) they weren't English speakers anyway, and (b) they autocompleted everything. Why would it matter that `update_history` happens to be spelled `udpate_history` in one out of five classes? You just type `u` and pick the right field.
I don't mean to downplay how incredible the tech is, but I'm not sure I'd call this approach genius as it's the industry standard.
ok so again, you want to allow people with power to have a system more like the legal system. A powerful person can insight a mob attack on twitter, (breaking it's own rules) because he's powerful.

I'm just suggesting that rules should be uniform. If you or I can't do it he shouldn't be able to do it. They had rules, if they don't agree with those rules, remove them. But then everyone else can swat, or doxx or other kind of terrible actions - which is a hellscape not a town square.

Law isn't equal, but really should be.
U.S. battery storage capacity to increase significantly
There's a fair bit around that that gets very deep into the "it's not simple".

https://www.louisiana.gov/about-louisiana/

> Early French and Spanish settlers influenced the legal system in Louisiana. Despite popular belief, it is incorrect to say that the Louisiana Civil Code is, or stems from, the Napoleonic Code. Although the developing Napoleonic Code influenced Louisiana law, the Napoleonic Code was not enacted until 1804, one year after the Louisiana Purchase. A main source of Louisiana jurisprudence may in fact be Spanish. The resulting system of "civil law" in the Louisiana does differ from the "common-law" systems in the other 49 states.

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

> Law in the state of Louisiana is based on a more diverse set of sources than the laws of the other 49 states of the United States. Private law—that is, substantive law between private sector parties, principally contracts and torts—has a civil law character, based on French and Spanish codes and ultimately Roman law, with some common law influences.

https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/bankruptcy/louisiana/

> Federal bankruptcy laws changed in October of 2005 when the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act took effect six months after President Bush signed it into law. This new law requires consumers who file bankruptcy to receive credit counseling in the six months prior to their filing for debt relief. It also mandated their completion of a financial management instructional course.

(interesting - the laws changed in 2005 - which may have been something sufficiently different... and he died three years before that law was changed)

https://www.bloomlegal.com/blog/what-is-unique-about-louisia...

> The most notable difference in procedure comes in the sphere of trust and estates law, real estate law, and inheritance. In Louisiana, we call this Succession and Donations, where it’s Trust and Estates in the rest of the country. Much of the legality surrounding the way land and property is passed down is unique to Louisiana.

https://www.nola.com/news/article_efcb7e79-99e1-53df-8e74-6b...

> So, Louisiana and the rest of the United States reached a compromise: Louisiana could continue to follow its civil law practices for private law, which governs interactions between individuals like marriage and succession, and Louisiana would have to use common law akin to the rest of the United States for public law, like when a person goes to criminal court and is prosecuted by the state.

(bankruptcy and property would fall under the civil law at the time)
I haven't reviewed the methodology of this first hit in detail, but here's perhaps some: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Charles-Knutson/publica...

I don't think it's this one but I do remember reading a very high quality study arriving at the same result as well.
I just logged in to check my gmail account (I don't use it that often) - and literally every single message in the last few months is spam, none were flagged as such. I didn't even need to open the message to determine that they were spam, simply the combination of subject line and sender name/address were enough.
So why is AI so bad at this?

(The sender name for virtually every single message is either "Lowe's winner", "Kohl's winner", CVS or some big US chain that doesn't even operate in my country. The actual email addresses are even more obviously dodgy. There is one genuine message from DELL asking about a survey related to a product I ordered from them many many months ago. I basically use gmail as my spam trap...I get far far less spam on my hotmail account that's my regular one, but the ones that do get through don't even pass the most basic tests, which I don't understand).

Edit: actually the bigger problem with hotmail is false positives. I just tried ChatGPT out on one such example, and it definitely did a better job:

'It is unlikely that an email beginning with the text "Hi All, Here are a few things you need to know for the Christmas concert" is spam.'

I tried a few others (both genuine and incorrectly-identified spam) and for each attempt ChatGPT got it right just from the subject/first paragraph.

With a bit more questioning I could also get it to identify messages that were "genuine" marketing promotions (from companies I've bought products from and agreed to receiving such messages - which hotmail still identifies as junk)
What's the "heavy surf track" out of interest?
the government spent some money to build a dating app.
Can I say that the response I wrote about 7% compounding is categorically not GPT and I fail to see what about it, perhaps should I say "them" since I wrote two distinct responses could be held to be artificial writing.

I truly expected it to be one of my more florid prose pieces. That was a minimally factual statement: 7% return on investment is astonishingly well documented, but under appreciated by people addicted to stonks, hodl and lambo talk. Oh dear. More cliché.. I'm doomed.
That line confused me too. But, considering the author of the post didn't point it out, I was thinking that I must have been missing something!
I seem to remember reading that there is some limit to the age of the brain, separate from the mortality of the body. So even if you were to not die from any cause you’d be pretty much done after 150-170 years.
> If the bug just started happening look through recent commits that even remotely relate to what you see.

git-bisect can be incredibly helpful here if you happen to be using git. I’ve only needed to resort to it a few times. It’s not magic but it can help speed things up.
> Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate

Abandon all hope, ye who enter; from Dante's Inferno
Read the details, it's because proof of land grants wasn't exactly perfect. Lots of claims but sometimes no concrete proof. The article calls out instances of fraud.

I wouldn't say a few exceptions where challenges were faced mean the US didn't respect land grants. The paper itself says the vast majority has no issues.
One of the things you discover with some exercise is how many hours in the day you need for extra sleep or coping mechanisms.

When I first started exercising (again) the amount of sleep I needed to function went down by over an hour more than I spent in class, so the class netted me time.

Now that I’m trying to work up to serious walking distance, it has replaces some time I spent in front of the TV, and reduced the amount of time I need to spend on other recharging activities like gardening.
I had to write invitations to my daugthers birthdays and it did a really good job filling out the boilerplate. I just had to tweak a few words and hit send.
The "everything is a ..." is an incredible powerful abstraction type, but you really have to go all the way for it to really work well.
>Not every application needs to hyperscale. Most of the time a simple server takes care of it and we can move on to better value adds.

Yes. And that wont true in the early days of AWS. Now we are marching towards 128 ARM core with 128 GB Memory on a single node, you could fit 2 to 3 node in a 1U unit. Or 128 Core AMD EYPC Zen 4C with 256 vCPU Thread.