skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easily verifiable, but it may still waste time. I've had many cases where ChatGPT makes up functions that do exactly what I need, but then I find out these functions don't actually exist. This may not happen very often for super popular languages like Python or Javascript where training data is huge, but it happens all the time for the long-tail of languages. In those cases, it would've been faster for me to do a regular search.

I do agree with the overall point though. If you understand when to use it and when it's more likely to give you nonsensical answers, it can save a huge amount of time. But when I ask it about a topic that I don't know enough about to immediately verify the answer myself I'm forced to double check the answers for validity, which kind of defeats the purpose.

The best queries to ChatGPT are cases where I know what the answer should look like, I just forgot the syntax or some details. Bash scripts or Kubernetes manifests are examples here, I know them, I just keep forgetting the keywords because I only touch them every few weeks.

And don't get me started about asking ChatGPT about more general topics in e.g. economics or finance. What you get is a well-written summary of popular news and reddit opinions, which is dangerous if it's presented as "the truth" - The big mistake here is that the training procedure assumes that the amount of data correlates with correctness, which isn't true for many topics that involve politics or similar kinds of incentives where people and news spread what conveniently benefits them and gets clicks.
Microservices are one of the many AbstractAdapterVistorFactories of this generation of programmers.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Of course there is. Anything that has your attention can include ads.
I don't want to be productive just for the sake of being productive. What I meant is that I have some "hobbies" that I know I enjoy doing in right circumstances, having enough mental energy being one of them.
Your comment makes no sense.

The suburbs are next to the city, not "many hours" from it. It makes no difference to rural communities if they are there are not, they just go to the city instead, at minimal extra travel time.
Any minute now.
Are we on information overload? (2012)
The US Clean Air Act is estimated to prevent over 200,000 premature deaths each and every year.

https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/benefits-and-cost...

Like it or not, old cars spew highly toxic crap out their exhaust.
Fun, danger, and 70s airplane toys
They do support software tokens - I use that method - but it’s a bit of a pain[1] if you want to use a TOTP program other than Symantec :(

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28231146
I second this about chatGPT fabrications. When I was going through Tim Roughdarden's YT courses. I almost always have to double check its answers.
The product (marketing) decision to focus on AR passthrough does seem really strange. If I was going to use a VR device for work, then, maybe if the resolution was high enough it could be nice to have much more space, but, I'd really only care that I'm not bumping into things. I'm not exactly sure why this AR route is being pushed before it's ready -- living in the world through cameras seems like a much harder problem to be solved after getting the base VR case to work.

IMO the more interesting business cases would be around simulated environments even as simple as viewing 360 videos for places where workers would be expected to know what's going on when they enter.

Thanks for the detailed analysis!
You have fifty (or 10,000) servers running your critical microservice in multiple AZs. You start a deployment to a single host. The shit hits the fan. You rollback that one host. If it looks fine, you leave it running for a few hours while various canaries and integration tests all hit it. If no red flags occur, you deploy another two, etc. You deploy to different AZs on different days. You can fail over to your critical service in different AZs because you previously ensured that the AZs are scaled so that they can handle that influx of traffic (didn't you?). You've tested that.

And that is if it makes it to production. Here is your fleet of test hosts using production data and being verified against the output of production servers.
The clbuttic problem
Transunion, Equifax, etc all have their own proprietary scoring algorithm which could already be using this data to compute your score. I used to work at one of these places - any bit of data they can use to enhance their score, they will try.
Lincoln Cathedral
I think that has more to do with Intel failing to offer any competitive chips in this space. The entire company seemingly assumed phones and tablets were just a fad and spent the better part of a decade treating AMD as their only competitor.
i think you could, at age 18, just change your name to Jack.
Longevity? Pssh, these are Apple products! The hardware may last years, but Planned obsolescence is baked into the OS
Vouch allows teams to use their web-based video recorder to brief and capture video from anyone.
They denied my claim for no reason.
I am. It is relevant to the topic, and I cite it in the (now two year old) outline for the blog post I intend to write on the topic[1].

I'll point out that Yuksel's spline is not closed under subdivision, which is a pretty big flaw. To be fair, the current version of hyperbezier also has that flaw, but I now believe it can be fixed.

[1]: https://github.com/raphlinus/raphlinus.github.io/issues/40
Interesting to see Prince, Princess and Queen on there. In NZ, you're not allowed to use a title as a first name. No Prince, no calling your kid Sir, or Dame or Lady, and no calling your kid Justice.

But as it's only real titles, you go right ahead with Khaleesi.
> The anti stock is actually a great idea, I am surprised Wall Street doesn’t do this already to create synthetic longs

Wall Street already does do this (and basically anything else you can think of that “Wall Street doesn’t do”). There are (at least) two forms. Firstly an Equity Swap[1] and secondly a Total Return Swap[2] (which is just Wall Street’s Swiss army knife tool for synthetically being long/short the return on some asset or basket).

If you just want to long/short the price return (and don’t include dividends which are mentioned in TFA) then there are also contracts for difference (CFDs) where the parties swap the price return on an equity. When I was in this business those were usually used because of tax differences between capital gains and other types of tax.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/equityswap.asp refers to it as having an index on one side and a rate on the other side, but there’s no reason not to have a single stock rather than an equity index and we used to do these 15 years ago when I worked in equities

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/totalreturnswap.asp

Edit to add: There are also “dividend swaps” where the parties just swap the dividend return on the asset if you only care about that stream. This is sometimes helpful matching investors who have tax or other structural problems with receiving dividends with others who just want a dividend income stream without the asset price risk.
https://archive.ph/ffPFM
Unfortunately, whether we are on the business as usual path (with double the expected natural resources believed to be available in the 1970s) or the comprehensive technology scenario (it is too early to tell), we are in for some interesting times between now and 2050. The original simulation of the Club of Rome is remarkably close to observed ground truth (https://www.clubofrome.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Earth4...). The full paper, by Gaya Herrington at KPMG, is here: https://mahb.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/yale-pu...

Collapse is one thing, but human extinction is another. We survived the ice age. Though we are unlikely to survive as long as rodents or crabs or sharks, the Copernican Principle says we have at least a few thousand years more to go as a species.
Use ChatGPT for Search Engines -> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chatgpt-for-search...
Between turnover and tech debt, a lot of our job is communicating with the future, not just with the peers we happen to have today.
I'm not sure what kinds of hardware you guys have seen or been marketed. But from my pov, these are all pretty standard features of most hybrid inverters and come out of the box. The only extra expense to not be grid tied is needing a battery and maybe a tiny amount of extra electrical wiring. It wasn't even a question that popped up during my build.

Then again, we regularly have huge rolling blackouts here so we need the inverter to be a giant UPS for the house and be able to use solar and grid at the same time.
Do you know of any up to date blogs/howtos/guides on nix+python where the python project contains modules that need to be compiled (eg Cython, pybind, etc)? I've found the basic info at https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Packaging/Python but it doesn't really go in depth for more complex use cases than having a setup.py...
Born in 1979, Mike's required last names/initials in all my classes
It's going to be even better, we'll get to see situations like Justice Jaxtyn leading the supreme court.

Then again, names change over time. Only a matter of time before some poor kid is getting bullied because his parents named him an ancient millennial name like Steve.
I have a MagSafe stand charger, so it’s pretty easy. If it was flat, it wouldn’t work so well on my night stand.
Yeah, after moving to Finland which is a fantastic place to raise kids financially, and seeing the birth rates around here I'm actually much more convinced it _is_ a global vibe shift moreso than a straight economic concern.

My conspiracy theory is that kids used to inject a lot more novelty into the lives of adults, but now that hunger for novelty is now much more readily filled by books / videos / interesting work.
Blocksite.co - for getting rid of distractions

Fetcher.page - for getting distractions in a controlled way
Some more detailed reporting today reveals that you're probably right: they first identified the set of people or vehicles in the area/time. Then they collected DNA and cross-checked the DNA with the set of area/time suspects. That led them to the suspect. Everything after that was just waiting to see if he would incriminate himself further? or perhaps just to make the movie plot more interesting?
This likely has to do with the tokenization of the sentences; the same reason it's bad at arithmetic.
My concern is about this whole business model of adding ChatGPT to a search engine. A search engine is a free tool. Because it is free, the incentive to make money is via ads, referral etc. That means preferential treatment where the money is.

ChatGPT (or a similar product) focuses on solving users problem interactively. No ads, no going to another website etc. How would you make money from a search engine?

I was hoping a simple, paid model to start with. Over time, as the LLMs become commodity (200GB, runnable on Intel/AMD), ship it as part of the OS and other devices.
Interesting that this is per child. The amount they are offering (~7500 USD) is significantly less than public school cost per pupil per year (10k-30k USD in US schools).
I would consider not writing the parser yourself. it's a daunting task and you're not going to be able to keep up with all the intricacies while still maintaining the editor.
> I don't know how "firmware update made care less safe" or "adaptive cruise control disengaged unexpectedly" or (my personal concern) "car UI negatively impacted drivers situational awareness and reaction time" etc would show up in e.g. IIHS rating?

What percentage of crashes can be attributed to that? Let's make it simpler, how many crashes per year as a raw number happen due to those reasons you listed?

Because out of all things I would be worried about when it comes to car safety, this is the one that is least concerning to me. Especially since for most modern cars that have such a thing as "software updates" in the first place, they have the driving subsystem and infotainment subsystem entirely detached (yes, even on Teslas). Very easy to confirm yourself by force rebooting the infotainment center and seeing that the car still drives just fine.
Even if the devs don't accidentally flip the switch themselves, they'll screw up the implementation so some enterprising hacker will be able to do it.
It's also for sure going to be worked around. If team X is in crunch mode to release project Y next week and you're like, you can't do your daily standup for another two weeks gang - they're going to do the standup, it's just not going to have a calendar event and people's workflows will be interrupted, some people will be late because they're in the habit of getting notifications, etc.

At an organization this large I imagine somewhere there is always a team X with a project Y.
OK I wouldn't lie, I didn't LOL but I chuckled pretty loudly.
I wish they'd link details to the court decision on why basically entire Github is blocked there.
No further info here [1] either.

Anyone else has any insights?

[1]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/github-cont...
I had someone walk up to the ATT counter at a Walmart in Arkansas and purchase two brand new iPhones, transferring my SIM ID and deactivating my phone on a Sunday afternoon. Fortunately I noticed immediately and cancelled the SIM to prevent MFA issues with banks and whatnot. In order to do what they did, they needed to show a fake Driver's License with all of my exact information, and I have an extremely common surname. I cannot prove it was due to the breach but given the timing and my surname it seems likely. As it happens, ATT paid for the phones, I suffered some minor inconvenience but it could have been much worse. I'm a bit surprised ATT hasn't gone after them legally, because they were likely the financial victim in many similar schemes, but perhaps they have insurance for this sort of thing.
It does such a good job at giving answers that sound right, and are almost correct.

I could imagine losing many hours from a ChatGPT answer. And if you have to go through the trouble to verify everything it says to make sure it's not just making crap up, then imo it loses much value as a tool.
what about vscode was a pain to set up?
Face Combinator
Hey world.
The other day I came across this website where you put two faces and it generates new face based on face features of parents. It also can process figures fictional or real. It has a bunch of girls faces and game characters. Also it allows you to track family tree.
Any idea?
Easy. Train LLM to make subtle recommendations for sponsored products.

I’m joking of course but somebody is going to this
So karma on reddit, what use does it have? I don't really understand the allure to get what is seemingly only a 'highscore'.
Paid search exists; I recently signed up for Kagi[1], and it's more or less fine. Might make a good candidate for integration there, eh?

1 https://kagi.com/
The suburbs by their very nature take more than they give from most services - roads, water, you name it - and push up land prices and tax rates. They don't tend to offer much of what rural neighbours would need - the people who live their are car commuters, so they go to the bank/doctor/etc. in the town/city where they work, and they do their shopping at the big box store on the highway. Self-sustaining small towns - the kind that can support a population that lives and works in the area - are very much in line with the strong downs ethos, and those are the kind of towns that would benefit their rural neighbours too.
> Anything that has your attention can include ads.

It's funny because paper[1] from Google that started transformers and LLMs is called "Attention is all you need". And I agree that you can easily incorporate ads into chat, just ask ChatGPT to do it in a subtle way for you and you will see how it will incorporate ad into response.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
You could've, but have you held on to a phone that long? I suspect very few people have made the bridge from "could" to "have".

Between the

- battery lifespan (a technology that has tradeoffs between lifespan and capacity, such that manufacturers target 3 year lifecycles

- driver updates and baseband security (famously out of date on older android phones, no matter what "rom" you're running)

- ports lifecycles (the charger port has a finite lifecycle of plug cycles, also often cheaped out on a bit)

- lifespan of custom ROMs (frequently losing contributors and thus updates)

Is that phone really going to last 8 years of daily active use?

I think the answer is no. Apple has made a huge effort with the iphone 14 (not pro), to re-engineer the device to make it easier to repair and recycle. We'll see if that pays off, but I don't think holding on to a phone for 8 years is feasible or practical for enough people.
Apple raising its non-AppleCare battery replacement costs across devices
Google and Facebook's BIPA class action cases are well-covered in the media.

Facebook: https://www.facebookbipaclassaction.com/ and
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/01/facebook-illinois-class-ac...

Google: https://www.googlebipasettlement.com/ and
https://www.engadget.com/google-photos-bipa-lawsuit-settleme...
With LLMs you can weave ads seamlessly into the answers, by injecting the right prompts
Probably fired the people who manage the office rent payments...
I used to be on the board of a national political organization. We met monthly, on the phone, for two hous once a month. We made our decisions using consensus. We had 30 people, opiniated activists mostly, on the call

On the five years I served We went over time twice. Once by five minutes and once by 90. We had a very good facilitator

In business I have almost never been in meetings that well run.

Good on Shopify. But the problem is not "meetings". The problem is those meetings
I just hope they are careful not to make new prions. We do not need more things like CJD floating around.
The absolute number is around 80,000 per year, which is considerable, albeit not huge compared to a population of over 100M. (For comparison, the US has about 140,000 with a 3x larger population.)

The bit that is misleading is that adopting or even fostering children not related to you is vanishingly rare in Japan, nearly all orphans end up in orphanages instead.
Insubordinate and churlish of you to bring that up, A-a-ron.
It's great having productive & rewarding hobbies, but don't beat yourself up over the fact you don't want to code for 12 hours a day.

Not exactly what I was looking for but helped me feel better. Thanks!
It looks like most PR's are for RE definitions in yaml files. Is there something that generates the yaml?
One thing worth pointing out is that, if you ignore the way the assembly is written and instead look at the binary encoding, then x86 is closer to a RISC idea. Essentially, the core of an x86 instruction is opcode + ModR/M byte, which encodes a register and register-or-memory operand. There's one opcode [1] that means "move from second operand to first operand" and a different opcode that means "move from first operand to second operand". Intel merely decided to call both of these instructions "MOV" rather than "LD" and "ST"--but it does basically have them. There's also another opcode that loads immediates into a register.

Furthermore, the ability to put a memory operand on, say, an ADD instruction is close in effect to having a compressed instruction encoding that encodes "LD to a temporary, unnamed register followed by ADD that register to the destination register" in fewer bytes than having both (also avoids clobbering a register, useful given the thin 8 registers 32-bit x86 has).

[1] Okay, several, to vary the operand size (8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit).
Two giants are facing off so the logic is probably something like:

Microsoft makes money from services so it doesn't have to make money from a search engine.

Google, on the other hand, makes money from ads so it doesn't have to make money from services.

If Microsoft can take Google's ad revenue away they no longer have to compete against Google's free services.

The converse also holds but it may be easier for Microsoft to weaken Google.
> solving users problem interactively. No ads, no going to another website etc

I think there is no technical barrier to add Ads to a chat bot. It's even more deceptive when promotion campaigns are embbeded into text contexts implicitly. It would be much more dangerous and harder to block than, let's say a DIV on a webpage.
Well, one might argue that “traditional” OOP is the best way to write GUI frontends and their lack show for Rust.
Exactly. Reading text or having 20/20 vision is so, so, so not the most important part of passthrough! Comfort, accuracy when reaching out and grabbing things, walking/running, avoiding obstacles on the ground, pets/humans, etc. Non-depth-correct passthrough risks all of these things.
I bet this on Cortana backend, puzzled components together with Azure would look like https://github.com/dasdata/gortanagtp
Google has the wrong leadership relative to Microsoft.

Nadella is the Gates/Jobs to Pichai's Ballmer/Sculley. Microsoft is playing 4D chess with their acquisitions and long-term vision; Google is floundering amidst perverse leadership incentives, inaction, and its non-diversified revenue stream.
Doesn't it make you tired? Don't you wanna crash on the couch when you are back home?
Alexa at #7 for women. Poor Alexen.
But so do people: I spent an hour yesterday trying regexps that multiple people on Stackoverflow confirmed would definitely do what I needed, and guess what? They did not do what I needed.

Same with copilot. Sometimes it's ludicrously wrong in ways that sound good. I still have to do my job and make sure they are right. But it's right or right enough to save me significant effort at least 75% of the time. Right enough to at least point me in the right direction or inspire me at least 90% of the time.
> Nowadays, a typical Korean banking website will require five security applications to be installed before you are allowed to log in

Note to self: never move to Korea. Or at least never use Korean bank (can you survive on cash and Bitcoin?)
Twitter Down, Again
It seems like Twitter is down again, or at least very flakey.
In the framework of materialism the above is a trivial conclusion: mind is a function of neurons that are a function of DNA.
There's a huge advertising opportunity in language model advertising. Think about anything a human salesperson does to advertise, except automatically and at scale.

Examples:

* When you ask for recommendations, it gives you x branded option or maybe the "best result" with an advertised alternative.

* When you search for symptoms, it recommends name brands instead of generics.

* When you ask for recipes, it directs you to <advertised cooking site>.

* When you ask for poetry in the style of Longfellow, it recommends an audiobook as "something you might enjoy".

* When you want to know about what happened to <recent celebrity that died>, it says "they died in a high speed chase according to <celebrity rag>. Here are some pictures and links to an article with more information"

* Platform integrations, like linking to the Google/windows store directly.

Many of these are already done by primitive assistants like Alexa. Going beyond that, you can copy pretty much everything done by influencer marketers in a chatbot.
“Hey bing whats a good graphics card?”

<chatgpt summary of cards>

Links to cards mentioned in the summary.

… now you can make money on the links directly, perhaps have sponsorships influence the recommendations, and have a strong signal of intent to purchase you can try to monetize later.

“Hey bing what’s a good hotel in downtown Montreal?” -> same