skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More legal effort should be put into big companies coming in and crushing start ups.

They usually build something and price it at a loss, because big companies can afford that till start ups go under.

Or unfairly using their services to hinder competiton.

Amazon is a big prepetrator of this. There was a smart oven, sold on Amazon. Amazon was also an investor, who made their own into a basics product at a loss.
ChatGPT: How many letters has the string “djsjcnnrjfkalcr”?
Do you have a simple example that ChatGPT is not an AGI? I mean - the examples that are so simple that anyone could do and ChatGPT shows a total lack of understanding of the simple underlying concepts?

Here is my example:

Q: How many letters has the string "djsjcnnrjfkalcr"?

A: The string "djsjcnnrjfkalcr" has 16 letters. Is there anything else I can help with?

Q: Are you sure?

A: Yes, I am sure. The string "djsjcnnrjfkalcr" has 16 letters. If you count the number of individual characters in the string, you will see that it has 16 letters. Is there anything else I can help with?

Q: Can you split it in half into two strings then?

A: Sure! Here is how you can split the string "djsjcnnrjfkalcr" in half:

string1 = "djsjcnnr"
string2 = "jfkalcr"

Each of these two strings has 8 letters. Is there anything else I can help with?
This f’n additional step it does kills me every time. Like the first iteration looks really good and then a fraction of a second later I know it’s going to change it and make it look much worse. :( (God those washed our blown out backgrounds.)
"After a week’s work, we determined: that was a lie." (complete with dank text-overlay meme).

For Jobs it was a useful simplification (one of many) so the audience could understand the underpinnings. I don't think anyone rational thought the 4gb device on an entirely different architecture was actually running cat-branded OS X. You'd definitely not need a week to figure that out either.

Then to position this statement so early in the piece as some proof of their abilities or authority to speak on the matter does precisely opposite.

As much as hating on Jobs is fashionable, the bigger hyperbole is calling his statement a lie. iPhone OS and iOS both borrow heavily from OSX/macOS.
Take all the answers to your question. Then consider that they're not just the reasons you'll have trouble competing, they're the reasons you won't bother starting.
Once you get processes in place, the only way to change the culture is to change the processes. By that time, usually have a HR department and it's game over...
I actively avoid programmers that use "MDFLs" and "BDFLs" in their sentences...
Big tech conglomerates are not especially popular and I don’t think the term “anti-trust” is going to evoke sympathy for them.
The sentences are original, the content isn't.
If all the CEOs believe there will be a recession, and the Federal Reserve has stated that unemployment is one of their goals, it's hard to see how we're not going to have a recession that gets willed in to existence.
why the hell would anyone trade a bunch of factual sources, documentation, and actual expert opinion for an LLM that's consistently and confidently wrong for a significant portion of queries?

I can see this thing being useful as a summarizer. Even then I don't trust it to be correct and have to fact check every single thing that comes out of it against results I find in a search engine

You know what's even better than an LLM? Actual experts (bullshitters excluded). Having books written by people leading in their respective fields, professors, managers, people above you who have experience and know what the hell they're talking about. Why? Because they understand what you need to know in that context

I'm probably being too hard on chatgpt, I'm sure it will find a commercial use that's beneficial to society. I just hope search engine providers don't hop on this fad and raise a generation of people educated on word salad masquerading as authoritative information
What do you use instead of Google?
Ask HN: Some AI image upscaler suggestions
any image upscaled similar to realergan ,preferably ability to run locally
"Most of society is going to not give a rats ass, and it will undermine the rest of the system because of it" suggests that nobody is going to stop doing something they don't personally think is wrong just because a law is passed banning it, doesn't it?
Then why do the actual people who work with hydrogen worry about transport losses if you just need a thick enough tank?

In Michael Liebreich’s Keynote Speech at World Hydrogen Congress 2022[0] he speaks about the problems of shipping hydrogen. you get around 1% of loss PER DAY (0.1% for LNG). And because of the huge tanks the energy capacity is 1/4 of a comparable LNG carrier. The economics just don't make sense.

[0] Michael Liebreich’s Keynote Speech at World Hydrogen Congress 2022 (16:00 mark about)
> Just put it in a gas bottle.

is a bit of an understatement.

Consider that a household LNG gas cyclinder (propane if you're central north american I guess) is typically built to contain between 100 and 200 psi whereas hydrogen requires high pressure tanks to contain between 5,000–10,000 psi.

That's a factor of 50 difference in required containment pressure capability.
Mine is https://finotto.org

Haven't written anything in the past few years, but this year I decided I'm going to start writing again.

It's generated with Hugo and uses a theme I found on GitHub. Nothing fancy there.
Output tracking and spies are solving the same problem, but they do it in different ways. Spies record which methods are called. Output tracking records behavior that's otherwise invisible to callers (such as inserting something into a database).

There's no risk of missing cases. The output tracking happens at the same semantic level as the rest of the code and is a binary "tracked / not tracked" type of thing. There's no behavior to match, and the code is tested anyway.

Edit: By "no behavior to match," I mean that the thing doing the behavior is the thing tracking the behavior. The tracker is driven by events you emit when you perform a behavior.
It passed the Turing test since it suggested the thing I already tried
I have been working (I avoid using either "developing" or "maintaining" here on purpose, tough I would have used either of them in another context) on the same code base (mostly) for more than 10 years (doing code, infra and operation)

Well, we can nitpick on the wording all we want, but there are times when I feel I'm cleaning my apartment or repairing it (maintenance) and times when I'm extending it (developing).

Now if the point of the author (I'm not sure) is that you cannot develop without maintaining because both go hand in hand then I agree.
So, I don't know that this is going to go much of anywhere. To use it, you have to sit down to pee, which I think most men in the US won't do. Women could use it, sure. But that's not the market the company is going to want to go after. Men outside the US might be more willing to be "sitzpinklers", but again I think that still leaves out a critical part of the market that they're going to want to get.

And there's no evidence of what the company is going to do with all your data. So, privacy is a huge concern.

And what happens to the device when it gets caked with poop?

Other companies might be happy with targeting a market of primarily women, or men willing to be "sitzpinklers", or a market more oriented towards medical at home monitoring, or companies that are more willing to be forthcoming with data on how they're going to strongly protect your data.

But not this company.
The US Dept. of State Foreign Affairs Manual used by consular officials, who have wide latitude in this area:

https://fam.state.gov/fam/07fam/07fam1260.html#M1266

100% though on the US tax preparation industry.
Maybe 15 years ago or so, I wrote the original “useless gaps” patch for dwm, because it felt packed, especially between different window styles (terminal, web browser, file manager for instance).
The concept was new to tiling managers but quite common anywhere in photography, typography or web design.

At the time, I spent a minute or two on the patch (the code is simple, and the patch is a hack), ten minutes on documentation Ascii art and zero minute on choosing a name for it. “Useless” made it sound like a casus forki, and “gap” could probably been just “margin” as in css.

“Mal nommer un objet, c’est ajouter aux malheurs du monde” — Albert Camus
~”misnaming an object is adding to the world misery”

Happy merging anyway!
I refer you to the current documentary on Netflix called _Glass Onion_ that examines this problem.
That explains a lot! Never worked with certified code, but I see how it makes sense.

Do the vendor compilers have a very focused feature set as a result? To reduce both test surface area and chance of expensive mistakes?
I suspect japanman425 is a troll account, and probably not Japanese.
Could you please share your workflow for using it? I tried halide for about a week, but I found it awkward to use and I didn’t really want to keep editing each individual file.
Oh, yeah, game mechanics or game physics engineering is amazing, but understand it's about 1% (if that) of what makes a successful game. I was watching my nephew play Fortnite over thanksgiving and thinking to myself "gee, the graphics are shit, essentially low-poly with some nice shaders!". And CoD Black Ops puts the physics to shame (and thinking that old timers used to tell me the physics of that were bad compared to e.g. PubG/Battlefield). But Fortnite is super colorful, and for a kid just coming off Roblox, it's accessible enough to play. So the HUDs and UIs and leveling and map dev and a million other admin tasks are where the majority of your game dev experience will be. Even doing some (gasp!) web dev, for things like in game stores and so forth. The gameplay mechanics and physics math of particle engines or calculating missile intercepts or inverse kinematics (jacobian matrices anyone?) for skeletal animations are mostly solved problems, but they can still be interesting to reimplement.
"The idea that you'll take the warrant down because it has "expired" during your "deliberation" of a warrant ..."

There is no situation where we take the warrant canary down.

We either keep updating it or we don't.

There is no third option where we remove it. Or put it back later, etc.

It's either up and fresh or it's up and stale.
People are complicated! I like being healthy, but I also like eating pizza with mountains of cheese.

Wearing my “enterprise architect” hat, I love stability. I don’t want to choose a technology that just might be the silver bullet but probably isn’t, and will in fact be abandoned and need replacing in 2 years.

But with my “Hacker News reader” hat on, stability is boring. Constantly inventing and testing new ways of doing things is how we progress as a species. Anti-trust speeds that up and so I love it.

I guess I want a constant churn of innovation with other people bearing the risk. Perhaps if anti-trust were more aggressive it would at least level the playing field - at the moment, most innovation is from companies who can afford to drop $10B as an experiment. (And they get a tax refund either way.)
"generated estimates on how much material needed to be ordered for the next month" depending on how they doing it could be aching to training AI. IMHO this process taking hours is normal
All of the system? Including the progressive taxes?

You should also consider that we don't serve the economy. The economy should serve us.

Of that economic output you're so proud of, the vast majority of it ends up in the hands of rich people. Why would the average person want to defend that system?
This includes users who aren’t shown ads, like people who are logged out or use third party clients.
people see race as a proxy to lineage when it really isn't appropriate and leads to the doublespeak you are highlighting. nonetheless, the reason its not accepted to change race is because the adopting person would be, in the eyes of many, adopting a lineage which is not theirs. that lineage is one that is likely attached to suffering and there is cultural and potentially financial reparations that are occurring for people from these lineages who identify as black. these reparations, if taken by someone from another lineage, would be theft
A good GUI doesn't have a save button at all.

It saves automatically when you press compile or change focus to another window. This is how both VSCode and Intellij work. Together with a local history that allows you to go back in time to any point earlier during the day.

Writing things in stone or reverting to older state is something reserved for git.
Active users includes those, monetizable active users doesn’t.
"2. Take the canary down."

No. The canary either stays up and is freshened every week or it stays up and doesn't get freshened.

Removing it is not part of the procedure at any point.
:)

I am letting my fantasy run wild here ...

instead of a logo that is fixed or static ... why not propose a logo that constantly evolves based on continuous A/B testing being fed-back into your AI logo generation model?

You host the generated logo as a live API endpoint that renders the "current" version of the logo on demand

This endpoint takes some input parameters 1. to control which version of the logo gets returned & rendered and 2. to provide context to were the logo is being presented, and tags a unique requestID. After the fact, when user interaction/session is complete -- the KPIs about the success of that particular user session is recorded and matched with the logo requestID

Now on the logo serving side, the algorithm continuously introduces small randomized tweaks to the logo -- subtle changes in geometry / relative sizes and shapes / subtle changes in colors and gradients etc. and keeps track of what was served for which request ID

Over time -- you nudge the logo generation towards what seems to drive better customer engagement and outcomes. Survival of the fittest - automated.

Now that we have this idea in the space of logos -- the same could also be used in the marketing copy used on product pages -- where the text is generated through a GPT-like model and continuously evolves to make the impact better?

Same with web-layouts and CSS styles generated through code-GPT models?

How far back can we integrate this into the product/service stack -- instead of just the presentation layer?

Distant future:

You host a fully-automated tech-news website and hook it up to this "evolution" model where there are constant nudges towards what seems to engage audience better and convert into sales. You take a one-week vacation and come back to find out your site is now a rabid polarizing political disinformation generator and a p0rn generator for metaverse.
In particular, an app that signs you up for a $100/month subscription behind your back that's impossible to cancel via some dark UX patterns, will make it through the notarization system just fine, no jailbreak or exploit needed.
I'm sure they used real chemists to help with the screenplays, but it's more akin to Michael Crichton levels of sophistry.

I also recall reading that they had someone at the DEA to vet each episode to make sure they never gave out a workable recipe, but I can't find a source for that, that isn't SEO clickbait.
All the CEOs? I highly doubt that. CEOs might also say whatever is convenient to their hiring practices, it doesn't mean anything about a recession.
Pico-8 Space Trader: explore, mine, trade, dogfight
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Look at the examples. They all use dependency injection.

Maybe you meant dependency injection frameworks? That's not true either; it works exactly the same way as any other approach: the DI framework injects production objects, and the tests inject their own test objects.
There’s panic now. My approach is to work on my skills, maybe finish some training & certificates, finish some side project, and a couple of weeks down the road the situation will settle down.
Do you expect Google to do any of these things to OpenAI, if ChatGPT becomes the google killer that some people say it could be? It's very difficult for me to imagine any of that.

OpenAI isn't one person starting a search engine in their garage. But they acquired the reputation and resources to protect them from the behavior you describe through conventional means. And others can do the same.
Germany warns: AI arms race already underway (2021)
Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle was copying IBM’s SQL (2020)
> It wouldn't be surprising at all that you could build something equivalent to Twitter on just one beefy machine, maybe two for redundancy.

The blog post kind of gets a very cut-down version of Twitter running on a single machine. Actual Twitter absolutely would not work.
You know a lot about this. Although I think gradients are mechanism of how a body implements shape, I don't think they are (nor contain) the design.

I understand your computer analogy, but I think it's misapplied because the opaque string of 01s requiring exquisite manipulation is exactly like what DNA was before we had modern genetic engineering, CRISPR, etc. And we walked the path your analogy suggests is ridiculous and impossible, to arrive with the contemporary genetic tools we now have.

I think "junk" is morphogenetics (and more), just in a different language that published science does not yet understand.
This is something that could very easily be done with a meta search engine or alternative frontend like whoogle (assuming it isn't already implemented, could be)
> It’s pretty racist from my perspective.

It was a cool article. I read it and was transported. So don't dunk.

In the tech singularity everyone is going to be VR anime characters, dragons, or furries or whatever anyway. Our own bodies are so done.

I was adopted at birth and didn't know my ethnicity until relatively recently [1]. The bullies in school used to call me a "bastard" before I knew what the word meant. Every uncomfortable interaction I had - not looking or being like either of my parents - made me feel alien. It shaped my perspective in a way few can relate to.

People make such a big deal about blood and skin. I never had that.

And as far as the Japanese culture comment goes, I studied Japanese for years and passed the JLPT N4 and almost took N3. Maybe that makes me weird too.

I don't watch anime, and I don't fetishise Japanese culture. But if I did, I don't know why it should matter. I know some "weird" adults with entire rooms dedicated to Disney fandom. Humans behave in interesting ways.

We won't be here for long, and I don't think we're attached to the blood past. Not more than the people we bump into that share our ride with us. These people alive and breathing today - they're your canvas and your story and your companions. Not the past. I didn't have one, and I'm making it up as I go along.

[1] I'm half minority if that means anything.
I'm not sure I follow. How does that relate to my comment?
It's not clear to me why a round-up of Bloomberg articles is compelling beyond its title. I could potentially understand linking to its primary source of content [1], but not an aggregation that seems to add very little of value.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-01/victor...
The footnote is that I didn't author the idea of gaps in i3. There used to be a loose patch floating around that applied to an old version of i3.

When I came to Linux I quickly got into the unixporn community. After a bit of making Ubuntu look nice, I discovered i3. I then found the gaps patch and rebased it onto the latest version of i3 at the time. Lots of unixporn people liked that and asked me to create a repository for it, so I did -- and i3-gaps was born.

The reason I say it's true enough to say it was born on unixporn is that it's where "a gaps patch" turned into "i3-gaps", and also I reworked so much of that initial small patch that it became something new essentially.
I don’t understand that comparison. You can’t use electricity to make petrol, right?
I appreciate the perspective. If the self doesn't exist outside of our consciousness, while also being the most important and valued thing, it is quite the paradox of independence.

Human society has a wide variety of cultural norms around this too. Being banished from the group into the wilderness was a death sentence in recent human history. It kept people in check and helped with survival of the group.

Now we have instant access to life's needs and wants to the point where we take each other for granted. Our independent spirit can be a curse if taken too far. It's part of our DNA to need each other. For example a newborn can die if unheld for too long.
As a person that hates to work with both delphi and python this sounds like hell.
I dislike this so much that I'm willing to settle for java over this.
I have on accident it just gives you a massive headache
Such lists are typically nonsense if taken too seriously, because when we look for a qualitative impact, high level quantifying metrics to measure influence (such as numbers of sold books, numbers of citations, etc.) misses some aspects that make someone important for a field. I do not mean, that they are useless, but need to supplemented or even challenged by other observations.

So here are my observations as someone with a professional background in philosophy from Germany (my observations are more or less limited to this country) regarding Chomsky: Firstly, it is not mandatory to be a philosopher by profession to have some impact in the field (or even have considerable impact; Niels Bohr or Niklas Luhmann come to my mind). As far as Chomsky is conserned, his theory of generative grammar played an important reference point for language philosophy. Philosophers were typically not diving very deep into the details of the theory. That was indeed left to linguistics. But the general framework of generative grammar was textbook knowledge when I first came across the name Chomsky, as part of my philosophy undergraduate studies in the early 1990s. It took me some time to discover that he was also a political activist.

To turn this into a (hypothetical) quantifiable metric: If you were to present my fellow (lanugage) philosophy students at the time with the task of naming any US Americans they remember from their studies, the name Noam Chomsky would have been quite prominent. Had they been asked instead for the names of US Americans to whose theories they particularly dedicated one of their essays, Chomsky would probably not have been very prominent.
Historically eels were ubiquitous in the British isles, but not totally trivial to procure. Showing up with a stick of eels to your local market was basically proof-of-work. Since everyone else was also catching eels in similar conditions, there was immediate shared understanding of their value without having to trust any outside authority.
You're typing out 300 queries to ChatGPT every day?!
I love the aesthetic and constraints of PICO-8. I came across this game which seems related/possibly inspired by the old Palm OS Space Trader game.

The mechanics here are different yet still my kind of fun.

If you’re new to PICO-8 and want to learn more, here’s a post with some of my favorite games:

https://memalign.github.io/p/pico8.html

If you want to play the original Palm OS Space Trader, check it out on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/palm3_SpaceTrader
Who here is advocating for Argentina's or Venuzuala's economic system?

If it's 100 degrees in the room and I want it to be cooler that doesn't mean I'm advocating for the room to be 0 degrees. Your need to exaggerate the point of others points to a weakness in your own argument.
The term "phobos" is from Ancient Greek, and has been an integral part of our language for at least 3,000 years. That's a lot more staying power than the recent 5-year trend.
interesting that the law interprets setting the variable
salute=1
as illegal information but
not_salute=1 or free_to_go=0
is not.