skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In another life, I designed workflows that could be picked up by offshore teams to execute the actual work.

My observation was that a lot of my colleagues had no appetite for reasoning about processes, much less thinking through various edge cases to make sure the work was done correctly and covered enough cases to be a useful workflow with low incidents.

Colour me skeptical but I'm not convinced we will see an AGI that can solve business problems without killing the proverbial cat without lots of baby sitting.

So is programming the business of copy pasting from stackoverflow or is it the business of solving problems?
So it's driven by men yet women are predominantly the instigators of divorce which causes that fear?

Don't think you can so easily pin one of the two as the drivers.
How do you learn to program form first principles?
I think in this context, there exists a much more significant uncanny valley than any we know of right now. The usual example from visualization completely pales in comparison. There is no "almost" solution for any non-trivial task. And on this opposite side of the valley only humans can act.
Yeah no. If a company is trying to trick me like this, I won't buy from them. I've learned that lesson many times.

I have an Epson which I'm happy with.
I disagree as your theory doesn't account for the difference between buying power of citizens in different EU countries which varies greatly.

If my country (Croatia) is importing natural gas for cheap (and it is), and then selling it to EU countries, and then importing that same gas back to Croatia, but now with price increase in triple digits, which vast majority of it's citizens cannot afford, then I call this a scheme where government isn't working for it's citizens, it is working for someone else's. And this doesn't even account for extremely high profits some of the companies (and politicians) are making.

I would understand if you sell the extra gas (and there is plenty of that too) to EU market; but keeping your citizens poor and/or without heating so a better paying western european citizen can have plenty of gas is troublesome to say the least.

You may have a point that with that price difference while exporting gas the government has extra money. I'm not so sure if thats a great idea, as governments are just corrupted as hell (at least Croatian one is) and a normal citizen won't see a cent of it. One may argue that corruption and energy prices are two separate things, but I would argue that they are just two faces of the same coin and they go well hand in hand.
Flipping the question around exposes the court's bias towards their own.

In this case the court claims this is an ordinary photo, not an artistic work; okay, that means one should easily be able to find hundreds to thousands of similar photos taken and disseminated in non-professional contexts. Image searching the internet through several search providers brings back only references to this case and more of Zhang's work.

It should also mean that Jeff's pieces are not original art work, do not get copyright protection either, and are essentially art fraud. This ruling should open him up to getting sued by anyone who thought they were buying an original art piece, only to find after this ruling that they bought an average Joe's random photo, this should include the gov't supported exhibit, which should want to revoke Jeff's prize.

With this ruling there really are not two ways about this. Either Zhang's work is original and Jeff copied it without asking, or Jeff's work is not original either and therefore isn't worthy of winning a prize or being sold as original art work.
What is the best way to launch on Appsumo?
Stablecoins are just regular crypto except somebody else promises they'll go broke before you do.
Maybe you could have bothered to list some of this "evidence" instead of venting that no one has heard of it?
Theres also tribalism and nationalism fwiw
That's Minix 3.

Minix 3 is a very different OS, with a different design, different goal, and different licence.

It's very important to distinguish between them, or else you make statements that sound akin to "Anglo-Saxon is the main language of trade in the 21st century."
Is the color toner super-expensive?
This makes a lot of sense.

I also prefer for-loops that uses "i". It is instantly clear that "i" is the current index used by the loop. Even though it is a single character variable name, it has a specific meaning by convention.

If I see a variable named "people_result_list_index" it actually hurts the readability. I don't know that it actually is local to the for-loop, as it could have been defined anywhere in the code or even passed as an argument to the function. It actually hurts readability and adds complexity.

Using "i", "k", "v" and other single character variables outside for-loops is often not advisable. An exception to this could be "x", "y" and "z" if they refer to positions in 2D / 3D space. Personally I would probably wrap them in a structure, so that you could refer to them as pos.x and pos.y. But I wouldn't hold it against someone if they thought the code was readable without it. It is basically part of the domain knowledge. Other domains may have similar exceptions. The "R" value in terms of growth rate comes to mind.

TLDR; Single character variables can make sense in the right context, when they are used as part of a convention or domain terminology
I had IPv4 routing on my router just crash and die once, it took half a day to realize since so many big properties are on IPv6
I would wager that a lot of that kind of journalism mentioned is already automated. Certainly a lot of business "prosification" is.
maybe this is the reason why they become "advanced economies" in the first place?
HE will peer with you for free on most IX AFAIK, here is an HE IPv6 peering from a tiny not-for-profit ISP on FranceIX-Paris:

https://lg.tetaneutral.net/detail/h7/ipv6?q=HE_FRANCEIX_PARI...

162016 IPv6 routes from HE. Current IPv6 full view about 166926 routes.

Cogent will not peer with you.

If you're starting an ISP: buy cogent and another transit, peer with HE on your local IX, you should be good to go.
i dont understand this mentality. The parent comment mentioned the main reason, its to ensure the device is wiped of IP. Then its simply due process, if you allow some people to keep the device then theres a whole discussion that needs to happen at firing about getting the device back and then returning it to the ex-employee. Its added trouble(cost) for the employer and the device belongs to them to begin with. I certainly never expected to keep a laptop after I left an org, and dont perceive that as stinginess, just sensible business.
If you are the one with a password aka private key to an address that holds the coins on whatever reputable chain, then you are the sole owner of said coins. It's that simple. Things get complicated, ironically for the sake of being less complicated, when there is a centralized authority in the middle who holds control of those addresses and their respective private keys.

I use centralized exchanges plenty, and I am also aware that it defeats a large portion of the whole trustless money thing. Therefore, I also keep crypto offline in cold storage. Those addresses and the coins involved will go with me to the grave or until someone threatens me with a hammer.
I built pure CSS tooltips to show currency conversions on a blog. I was one of those problems that wasn't terribly complex, but the solution called for a nice mix of skills that I was proud to have.

None of it was groundbreaking, but the ease with which I built it gave me a rare feeling of mastery.

I wrote about my approach because of it: https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/currency-tooltips
I have a Brother color inkjet, since 2015. The first few years were great but now its been a royal hastle to get it to print more than a page or two at a time. I've been considering switching to B&W laser. Thanks for the model recommendations.
> Research Unix v8-20 had quietly trended towards more things-as-files

Hang on, what?

AFAIK UNIX 10 was the last ever version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Unix#Versions
I bet it would do great at the Chewbacca style defense in courts of law. Lawyers, your jobs are next!
That's not trivial. It's pure graybeard wizardry. Fantastic writeup!
Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?
As I keep hearing about the tech layoffs, I can't help but think about starting a side hustle. But I have no idea how to find the right niche nor project idea.
So how did you folks do it?
> So is programming the business of copy pasting from stackoverflow or is it the business of solving problems?

Both, but what you’ve missed is you’re still putting some devs out of work. And solving business problems is absolutely on the burner for AI right now so give them a few years and it will solve that too.
That is somewhat inaccurate.

ChatGPT is based on the InstructGPT weights, based on the GPT-3 weights. It is roughly the same number of parameters, as far as we can tell.

The GPT-3 weights were obtained by doing unsupervised pre-training (hence, GPT: generative pre-training): maximizing the likelihood of the model predicting the next word in a large dataset of human text.

The InstructGPT weights were obtained with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) by making the model generate text, and asking a human to show a better text completion (as described in InstructGPT). Then, they also asked humans to rank multiple generated outputs, which was used as the supervised training goal of a separate reward function. That small amount of ranked data unlocked the ability to rank a much larger amount of data through reinforcement learning using proximal policy optimization (PPO): the model generates an output, the reward function rates it, and the model weights are updated to achieve a higher reward.

The ChatGPT beta weights were obtained by doing that again, but asking the humans to make the completion conversational. Since they could only pay few humans, they opened the beta to ask a wider range of people to do SFT using the feedback feature, to train the final ChatGPT weights.

So, all in all, the parameter estimation is incorrect, the order of the training is not right, the description of the purpose of the supervised learning step is wrong, the defining part of the ChatGPT training process is not mentioned (because the InstructGPT paper came in 2022, after the knowledge cut-off), the description of the difference with GPT-3 is misleading.
This is basically unsolvable except by secure containerisation because of the fact that the models themselves are very much a black box. You can’t protect what you can’t understand, except by putting it in an impenetrable cage.
As far as I know Davinci is supposedly a variant of gpt3-175B, so likely 175B parameters, so likely in the hundreds of gigabytes of ram unfortunately
People I know personally who have done both said they would never choose natural if they had known what it would be like.

We did elective C-section for both our kids. Recovery was fine. Wife up and walking at the end of the first day.
Or maybe I'm still not getting it, my read is there are posts, they can be flagged, flagged posts can be reviewed, and this is a "basic" serializer for flagged posts that have yet to be reviewed.

But why you'd need such a specialized serializer is beyond me, (let alone presumably less basic one as well) it seems like such drastic overkill that maybe I still don't get what the name means.
you can do that today in the free release?
People living in unimaginable wealth and comfort on the back of environmental exploitation including in large part petroleum extraction and burning, want to pull the ladder up after them to prevent others having those same advantages, to keep their position in the status quo. Yep.

I'm not talking about actual environmentalists who practice what they preach and I am in awe of and have great respect for. Those people are few and far between though, you almost can't find one these days since their noble movement has been absolutely swamped and taken over by grifters, limousine liberals, politicians, the wealthy, and the ruling class. Hence why I put "environmentalists" in quotes.
MBA types would remove the wings if they could. It’s all about greed and money.
I think citation needed on that one.

From what I understand (no special insider information) React is essentially non-existent inside of Google, and NPM is not even available to engineers (be default)
In my experience, non-programmers lack not only the ability to translate concepts to code, but to formulate those concepts in the first place.

Ask someone who isn't a software engineer to guide you in developing a simple program. You do all the actual coding, they just tell you what they want to happen. You will find that most people are unable to describe even high-level actions in the form of a coherent, procedural sequence.

Even the best code-generating AI won't solve this problem, since it cannot generate useful code if the operator cannot articulate what they actually need.
I agree and focusing on biomimetics is indeed insufficient in discussions of what constitutes intelligence.

The discussion on what constitutes intelligence and cognition is too vast and complex. The central point is that haphazard and unsubstantiated authromorphising language should be barred from scientific papers. We know that an LLM does not "know", "believe", "intent", or "feels" because they lack any form of integrated, general human-like intelligence. It is trivially correct to use different terms like "models", "predicts", "outputs emotive expressions" and avoid unevidenced claims of human behaviour.

I also wanted to nuance my opening post: I file the "don't humanise ML models"-comment of peer review under "minor issues". This means that it is an issue with the paper that does not prevent publication. This is not a hill I am willing to let good research die on.
For now, 2-3 years ago it couldn’t even generate code. 2-3 years from now will be very different.
In a 5-10 years, generally-available tools resembling ChatGPT will be able to do about 90% of what a programmer does, but the remaining 10% will remain AI-complete.

The AI-complete bit is stuff like reading a set of instructions and realising that one of the instructions doesn't make sense given the other ones, and pushing back. It's looking through an UPDGRADING.md file to see how an API changed, realising that the thing you want isn't there, then looking at the actual source-code of a library to understand an undocumented breaking change. It's understanding how to write a program such that it's easy to parallelise in the future.
In my humble opinion, Mike Acton's talks are the best introduction, although he doesn't use the term "first principles", and they seem - at the surface - to be about game engines, but they are generalizable to everything.

Data Oriented Design (2014):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

Solving the Right Problems (2017):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B00hV3wmMY
There's no rugpulling possible if you don't give someone else your private keys. What is everyone missing about this? That's the entire glory of crypto. No one owns your coins but you... unless you use an intermediary. I'm guessing by far most transactions are done via centralized exchanges so that autonomy is lost both in practice and in headlines.

I'm fine with highly regulated exchanges despite that being counter to that glory of crypto. Also, move your large bags to cold storage.
Remember folks, 1 st = 1 st, you have not lost anything until you exit. Few understand.

(lol)
It's listed in the article.
As a thought experiment, what would it be like to drive a car with: 10/50/100/200 ms of visual and input latency?
Your point was that, now, "it is socially unacceptable to wear the same thing for days in a row, even if you change your undergarments", ergo, society has upgraded (its expectations of acceptable wear), i.e., moved the "goal posts". That means, we solved the old problem of not putting people in rags, and have a new problem, of constantly new outfits. Absolute gain: clothing problem "solved", replaced with new "wardrobe problem". This is what progress looks like. We always find new, harder, problems. The fact that there is a problem distracts people from admitting we have solved some.

You're moving the goal posts in your rebuttal by adding environmental concerns.

Absolute poverty has been dropping dramatically as a fraction of the growing world population. Look at the trends, not the snapshot. Show some fricking gratitude for the world of plenty in which humanity exists.
It's a pretty good search engine already. I asked it the following questions on a complex social science topic from a certain country that would have taken me hours of researching and reading:

1) Explain what they are. [Explained them well.]

2) Give me examples of them in language1's literature. [It listed two books that I then verified as accurate.]

3) Are there phrases or idioms for it in other languages? [It gave equivalent idioms in Russian and two other languages]

4) Any examples for it in English literature. [It gave Hamlet and an author book I hadn't heard of. Verified that the book is accurate.)

5) Any terms for it in the academic fields of psychology and social psychology [It explained two concepts from both fields that seemed to match. I confirmed them as correct from other sources.]

It demonstrated abstraction, generalization, and hypernymy.

And actually expanded my knowledge on multiple axes - across languages, across literature, and across fields.

If a person had written an essay by compiling those answers, I wouldn't be able to identify that it's AI and not human knowledge that had written it.
New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors
I agree. The really sad thing is as well as improving on many other aspects of Plan 9, Inferno also makes the UI much more sane and comprehensible, by accepting that by the mid-1990s a lot of standardisation had happened in GUI design, and incorporating that.

Inferno is, for me, much easier and saner to use.

Inferno is to Plan 9 as Plan 9 is to UNIX: taking the ideas further, fixing the rough edges and making it more versatile and more general.

But Inferno is even more obscure and forgotten than Plan 9.

Some 15Y ago I was able to find an ISO image of x86-32 Inferno and boot it in a VM. Not today. :-(
And depending on how it flips from one state to another, it might be an astable coin
I respectfully disagree with you, based on my personal use of Copilot. I find that having boilerplate code for making web service calls, database connections, etc. is an overall time saver. A factor of 10X? No. Obviously not a silver bullet, but a real time saver.

For a while I only had Copilot configured for VSCode and PyCharm, but I mostly use Emacs. The day that I took a little time to configure Emacs to use Copilot, it really hit me how useful Copilot - once I always had it available. Also, the ability to tab through multiple code completions lets me choose what I think is a good completion in a few seconds, or hit ESCAPE to discard them. I have been programming since 1964 (my Dad gave me access to a timeshared BASIC when I was a kid) so I can read code very quickly from almost 60 years of work and play.

I also find Copilot works well with my own bottom up, and REPL based development style.

I understand that many developers don’t like Copilot, but, we are all free to choose our own tools.

Anyway, I appreciate your comment even though my experience is different.
From an economic perspective, regulation is the right thing here.

Free markets work well with 100% transparency. That's the assumption in Adam Smith's models. If I buy a printer, and have complete awareness of the pain it will cause me and the long-term costs, and choose to spend $50 over $100, the free market is working fine.

If I go into a store and can't buy a printer without spending hours reading web pages (thousands of dollars of my time), and buy an inferior option due to intentional opacity, we need regulation.

This is very much the latter and not the former.

Airlines have better transparency than printer makers, by far. I might get ripped off on luggage, but I usually know that buying the ticket. I have no way to know a printer will disable itself in 6 months unless I pay HP off.

I blame Carly Fiorina for cannibalizing HP. Before her, it was a brand you could trust. After her, it's scam after scam. Before her, it had solid and unique R&D and brilliant people wanted to go there. After her, not a single competent engineer will work there. In the meantime, HP stock has not kept up with inflation. HP was just above $20 in 2007, and now it's just below $30. It has no fundamentals or competitive advantage in any real way.
The article is riddled with grammatical and spelling errors as well as its many errors in reasoning.
that's why I cancelled my subscription the minute I found out and others should do the same
Only 0. The "1" state is apparently stable when there's permanent excitation of the underlying cryptomatter (otherwise known outside of cryptophysics as "pumping"), but that always comes to pass, as the pumping molecules are finite.
I don't think op is taking about CO2 emissions, rather that Russia exports a lot of fuel. But even if op is taking about CO2, diving a car and breathing aren't that comparable. Exhaling CO2 is part of the active CO2 cycle and doesn't really contribute to climate change. Digging up locked carbon from the ground and burning it does.
No, I was not talking about CO2 now. I was talking about the global energy market. Most of Europe decided that buying energy from Russia needs to be phased out to give them less money to finance their attack war. I think that's a good plan. Unfortunately with acceptable supplies shrinking prices went up. So now Russia has more income to finance the war. I know it's not a very popular opinion, but for me drastically shrinking demand is the measure that helps.

That this would help the CO2 issue is only a nice side effect.
I agree with you for the most part, however the fact that humans can determine a cat from a chair by being shown one cat proves that humans receive more data than some AI with sensors.

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your statement.
We created ChatGPT, Copilot et el. But are they able to generate the code for a more capable version of themselves? Until we're at that point I think most jobs are safe, whether we get to that point is in my view still a philosophical question.
The current crop of AI didn’t exist 5 years ago. Generative AI art was still a pipe dream. Now it has a command prompt.
The GPT Architecture, on a Napkin
"Risqué" (French: rees-KAY) is not the same word as "risk" (English).

The main use of "risqué" in English means "overly sexual and provocative".
> somebody else promises they'll go broke before you do.

Pro-tip: they won't

And even worse: you won't "notice" its actual value is falling until it's too late
I have to say this reads like the Malcolm gladwell parody from the other day where a parallel is drawn between two completely unrelated things.
Probably the only implementation which I've seen in the wild is that of swyx's[0]. Example blog post: https://www.swyx.io/js-third-age

Scroll down to the bottom and you'll see it

[0] https://www.swyx.io
https://archive.ph/X3HKb
We’re just the next new model away. AI researches seem apt on burning the world down to see what comes out of it, so this absolutely is the goal.
It could be. Doesn’t mean it won’t come with a price tag.

I would say becoming advanced economy, then quickly aging and losing vitality is the critical flaw with East Asia model.

They exploit their populace so much they don’t want to reproduce anymore
Element is probably already footing the bill for the main matrix.org server + they really need to improve their clients, and that is from a users perspective more important than a security audit.