skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it is predicated on the idea that more money is always better. Most of the assistance programs provide enough to stay alive with limited funds for anything else. Presumably, any job worth working is going to offer compensation significantly better than remaining idle and collecting checks. That is, in the provided pathological example, I would suggest the worker not take that job opportunity.

It is more about ensuring that a person receiving assistance can work as much as they are able without any concerns. Anything less than a totally smooth off-ramp to financial assistance is bound to create scenarios where the optimal strategy for a worker is limit their maximum compensation below the arbitrary financial cliff.
Looking at Ruby on Jets, it seems the entire routing layer is also in AWS. Entry points are kinda a big deal, just like calling conventions.
It has taught us that media distorts scientific information on demand. I am generally on your side, however, my lesson in the last years is that the communication channels can not be trusted, therefore I can no longer blindly trust what science supposedly tells me.
I'll chime in here (for the first time!) and say that I think you're onto something with breaking down these very loaded buzzwords. They hide long histories and unknown trajectories. 'Crypto' is a node module, something your grandma will tell you to stay away from or something that can allow more people to operate/move freely under tyrrany. A fan or beneficiary of Chatgpt's abilities is having a much better time than the people who worked on NNs in the 80s with no grant money. I.e., this future was deemed impossible in the 80s. To bring up another 'hot technology term' - quantum computing- I think it is possible that cryptography (incl currencies, property & credentials existing on-chain with carefully developed quantum resistance) will be the only buffer for humanity if these superhuman technologies are centrally controlled. ChatGPT is on some servers in the US. Imagine just gpt3 with quantum compute. Then gpt4 as promised with quantum compute and the claimed parameter increase coming for 2023. 'AI' and 'crypto' just mean "things handled by a linux kernel." If the kernel were conscious it might say "they're the same to me. things that roast graphics hardware." But this is not a comment geared toward speculative investing . More toward investing in not having machine overlords or superhuman-machine-enabled human overlords. I can't see anything other than encryption techniques as a way to balance things.

parameter count, gpt3 vs gpt 4 -> https://miro.medium.com/max/1302/0*TAynt0RllvotbwYt
I really wish I kept a list of related stuff somewhere…

Edit: This comment is a goldmine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34485994

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There are lots of hobbyists, academics, and even companies inspired by Bret Victor’s talks alone.

I know of at least 2 open source experimental programs that were inspired by specific demos:

https://github.com/laszlokorte/reform-swift

http://recursivedrawing.com/

I know there are more too but I can’t find them right now.
You could probably find a lot of good stuff just searching GitHub for “Bret Victor”.

There are lots of people in academia experimenting with programming languages and environments. Try searching for papers that cite Bret Victor as well and I’m sure you’ll find plenty.

For a quick glimpse at the academic world without spending hours looking for papers worth reading, I recommend perusing the Strange Loop Conference YouTube channel. There are some interesting experimental programming languages and IDEs out there.
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That's about as hard as decrypting substitution cipher. Just think about the problem for a second, you will figure out how to trivially go around it.
“Without labor, nothing prospers.”

— Sophocles

“Nothing in life comes easy. Everything comes with a sacrifice.”

— Rihanna

Choose the one you can identify with most…
How do you test the rules about passwords containing at least one uppercase letter, one number and one special character if you don’t test with passwords that definitely do not contain those characters?
It’s not their AI platform to protect, seems like adware centuries ago of the mobile app revolution
Can I get back to you in a couple years?
You're the one throwing unsubstantiated consipracy theories, not me
The FAQ mentions that the main competitor GitHub copilot is only about completion, but it also have a few more features in common in the copilot lab extension.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.c...
I guess it comes down to how one defines side project? I interpret it to mean side-hustle

And you just asked the big questions - we have only successfully managed to find customers by word of mouth. We get the occasional person who stumbled across GamePlan from a Google search, but that is becoming more and more rare

I built it with a old colleague part time. We were trying to solve our own frustrations with planning, and just kept adding more things. It’s been an enormous amount of fun to do.
Cgo is a real option here, or at least would be an interesting comparison. The function is likely called with large enough data to amortize the (few ns) overhead and it's certainly more maintainable.

Another option is GOAMD64=v3 / v4 which will enable AVX2 / AVX512 on the regular Go output, although the compiler does almost no autovectorization compared to gccgo/gollvm.
From Bret Victor:

“ In his influential essay No Silver Bullet, Fred Brooks makes the case that software is inherently "invisible and unvisualizable", and points out the universal failure of so-called "visual programming" environments. I don't fault Fred Brooks for his mistake -- the visual programming that he's thinking of indeed has little to offer. But that's because it visualizes the wrong thing.

Traditional visual environments visualize the code. They visualize static structure. But that's not what we need to understand. We need to understand what the code is doing.

Visualize data, not code. Dynamic behavior, not static structure.”

http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming
I think observable notebooks like Pluto.jl is something like his vision though not exactly. It's just more general and useful ?
We already did, it was called Lisp Machines and Smalltalk, and we are yet to fully replicate them.
Someone who switched from Mac to Linux and wants the same GUI.
Vote with your money on where you want things to be in 5/10 years. If you keep buying games for windows no one will develop and sell for linux. MS had no power, it’s all in the consumers’ hands, but they just don’t want to do anything about it.
Got 2 of them (DM-16L and DM42) and they are both excellent
20+ years since I started my firm, we are very successful and I love our team and our work.

Few points…

Word of mouth is best advertising.

Prove yourself trustworthy and honorable, there are still assholes who will try to take advantage of you but on balance, this will pay off over time.

Don’t work for free. If companies want you to work because it will look good for referrals or something- run.

Don’t work for equity or revenue shares without some cash as part of the deal. Cash is skin in the game, it makes everyone act differently.

Treat your team better than you wish you were treated - they are your most important relationships.

Be willing to fire clients.

Fancy contracts are a waste of time, if you ever get to the point after work has begun that you are talking about wording in a contract - you already lost.

Lastly…learn to delegate, I spent way too much time doing too much of the work myself- sharing the load is a superpower.

OP or anyone else thinking of doing this, feel free to reach out for a longer chat on the topic.
Good points, all except I went a different way on the last one.

I charge more, specifically to keep 50% busy. One needs downtime. When you can deliver on time reliably and wrap it up nicely (documenting internals, design decisions, etc), you get repeat business.
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Here is a kind of bridge from the articles POV to yours: As the OP points out, state machines are very hard to develop by stepwise refinement. A "general solution" to that problem is...the universal Turing machine--a state machine which can emulate any other state machine.

However, its really hard to program a Turing machine, so we invented assembly language, which is really hard to program, so we invented higher-level programming languages....

Basically, the programming languages we have are the best way we've figured out how to make state machines...
What's the relationship between IDEs and like length? I set mine to 80-120 characters irrespective of the platform. Longer lines are just as unreadable on a big screen. 80 characters is great for text, but a little claustrophobic for code.
> A hacker news commenter replied to me, " Oh man, that was my attempt at humor. I thought I styled that in a way that would be like chatGPT". Can you respond and tell them that it was a nice try?

Sure, you can respond with something like "No worries, it was a nice try at humor. Keep up the good work!" or "Haha, it's all good. I appreciate the effort you put into trying to make it funny."

It's always good to be understanding and encouraging when someone tries to be funny, even if it doesn't land as well as they expected.

XP
It's easier to get how they work on calculator or emulator that shows bigger part of the stack
Monetization is predominantly through affiliate referrals to CPAs and Tax Advisors; I ran Facebook ads and I had a good number of people reach out to me via messaging. am also exploring possible monetization opportunities through integrating APIs with big brands and roboadvisors.
The guy with information on where the nuclear bomb is knows how long he has to hold out to make the information useless. Otherwise, why didn't he give it up the moment you arrested him and said "yeah you'll be in jail forever?". Or when you threatened to have him executed if it goes off? If none of these things are actually compelling to him, then why would any level of torture be effective when he already is accepting his life being over anyway?

Eh, everybody's a game-theory guru until the $5 wrench comes out. Under the scenario I'm positing, there's no other way to stop the bomb from going off. The 0.001% chance that the suspect will break under torture is still better than nothing.
Why is there a fucking huge Register button on this web page when viewing on mobile?
This is days later, sorry, but - you can't use an interface as a map key, so this shouldn't apply, right?
curious... did your firewall also light up when trying to access the link?
Someone made something precisely for that and posted it here last week. I forgot the name unfortunately, but I share the pain.
No thanks I have zero interest in paying union dues for the bloated salaries of their cancerous "leaders". The idea of a union is far nobler than it's execution because at the end of the day it is run by people and people are greedy. Consider unions for doctors that lobby to keep residency slots low each year and consequently their own salaries high.

I am more than happy to continue negotiating on my own as I always have. I don't trust anyone to do that on my behalf.
Dataflow programming works well for many a visual artist (shader graphs), musician (max/pure data) and CAD engineer (rhino's grasshopper)

Grasshopper is meant to parametrically generate 3D objects but it was so good at splitting and recombining tables of data that were being continuously updated that I started using it for general purpose text manipulation.

the ENIAC was a dataflow machine before it was a stored program machine btw
It's great for 1st drafts. I use it as a proofreader for my writing, initial memos, initial emails and idea generation once it's given a subject.

I suspect, I'll be able to use it to help with my reports and a few brochures I want to put together.
The rest of employees (not investors) hold the remaining 80%.

If even half of them are bothered enough, their summary 40% of ownership will comfortably outweigh the single 20% share.

This, of course, assumes that no one else affiliated with the big share owner has a comparably large share (like 10%). If a small clique owns, say, 70% among them, it's a different ballgame.
Then you think that Section 230 should be repealed. The whole goddamned point is to not have a chilling effect for moderation.
> power they provide is all op ex, rather than cap ex

And hydrogen is the same: producing it, transporting it, getting it to end consumers... lots of op ex. Whereas with pure electric you just need wires and batteries, and there is none of the efficiency loss of converting energy into hydrogen and having to transport it as mass and worry about leakage.

But for rent-seeking old-money megacorps, the inefficiency is a feature, not a bug. They can take a percentage of all that waste and complexity as profit.
It is indeed mostly green tea, although different kind of green teas: "standard" green teas (from Sencha to Gyokuro), teas made of twigs (Karigane), roasted green teas (Hojichas), green tea with rice (Genmaicha), green tea flavored with yuzu (Yuzu Ryokucha), etc. Sometimes we throw in something completely different, like a Zaracha, a Sobacha, or even a Japanese black tea.

This is the 2023 lineup so far: Sencha (January), Yuzu Ryokucha (February), Karigane (March), Genmaicha (April). But while there definitely is variety, yes, you need to really like green tea to fully enjoy the subscription...
Google's "standard" till L4 is just leetcode. Average college students in that country are cramming 1000 leetcode questions. Even if 5% are decent, however you define decent to be, that's 50K engineers.
I used to read Bret Victors magazine articles on CPUs in the early 1990s. Very inspiring.
> Hydrogen is 100% an attempt by fossil fuel companies to remain relevant in a "green energy" world.
> Hydrogen has a few legitimate use cases, such as iron ore refining and chemical feedstock, but that's about it.

I don't see how these two statements are compatible.
HyperCard and Macromedia Director remain the gold standard for this sort of visual-interactive design. It was all so early and new and ubiquitous that we never realized how special it was.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqISbaJ7qug

Iterating on this in a modern way remains TODO. As John Henry and his counterpart note in that video, the beauty of those tools was that people who didn’t care about code were able to create interactive experiences.

The whole “everyone learn to code or you’ll be poor” thing of the past 10 years has been a huge and unnecessary distraction.
Cool project and great name choice. Why did you pick that name?
ChatGPT will realize Bret's dream beyond his wildest imagination.
I‘d add Dockerfiles and infrastructure yamls to that list.

For me that’s where diagrams can really shine, plus things like a project‘s roadmap
Is she hot? If so, then maybe when she complains to the police about you (or whoever) a sudden negative land slide against this sort of technology will ensure.
I don't think it's a bad or good idea, it depends. In that case they were harmless. For comparison, some people shared passwords on Slack and email in plain text.
Here's my experience with podcasts, as a mild-moderate user, and it may explain part of the drop off.

The first time I tried podcasts I listened to ones about my work (internal medicine, hospital based physician), I started with a few. Some were outgrowths of already established medical journals and they were very formal, posted rarely, and usually had bad audio quality but pretty good density of information. Then I found The Curbsiders, which was a much more down to earth podcasts of guys that sounded like they worked with me. More laid back but still informational. But over time they got successful and started having commercial backing and then that legal rapid voice-over and the honeymoon was over, it wasn't something that was "average joe" like me anymore, it was establishment and I stopped enjoying it and would rather just read medical literature or journal blogs because it's similar.

Around the same time I also started listening to podcasts about spaceflight. The first one I listened to regularly got put aside when my wife couldn't stand the hosts. After listening to her reasoning, I was respected that it was not something that she enjoyed listening to because the hosts really turned her off by being stereotypical white male nerds that would interrupt guests to show off their knowledge and really gave off mansplaining vibes.

That led me to look at other podcasts and then I found one (and by extension a set of three) that I really enjoyed them to the point where I decided to support it on Patreon. When I supported it, I found out there was a side benefit of joining a "members only" Discord. I didn't intend to use it and had never used Discord before but it happened right when COVID hit so I gave it whirl. That discord became a fun distraction and place to talk socialize online (probably amplified by the COVID isolation situation everyone went through). Now, I usually get spaceflight news from people there, and if I listen to the podcast it is behind the news, so I don't tend to listen to it as much.

In summary for me: One successful podcast became big and something I didn't want anymore. Some were just not good quality and found better ones out there. And some are good and still going but the evolution in social media disrupted and replaced the podcast.
In my opinion the idea is more than direct data manipulation. It is about how we get feedback. In drawing, the medium to draw is the same medium to read. In programming, there is often a mismatch - coding on a text file, running on somewhere else, e.g. terminal, browser, remote server. If you count surrounding activities for programming, like versioning, debugging, metering and profiling, even more system is involved. We are not even touching the myriad of SaaS offering each tackling carve out a little pie out of the programming life cycle.

Back to your question, from my naive understanding, smalltalk seems to be an all in one environment. The Glamorous Toolkit [1] seems to be that environment on steroid. I have no useful experience to share though.

https://gtoolkit.com/
Indeed, sir.
There's a reason the Five Eyes issued such firm caution about 5G hardware and the reason is that 5G is sensing infrastructure.
Do some research.

Japan's population in 1980 was 116.8 million. 126.3 million in 2020. That's an 8% increase.

The USA experienced nearly a 50% increase over that same period.

Meanwhile, Japan's GDP went from 1.105 trillion to 5.04 trillion, all while reporting greater well-being among the population.

It's a myth.
I don't see anything unusual about it. If anything, your average CoC that panders to those obsessed with identity politics is absurd.
Lot easier to deploy WiFi in existing homes than build new one. It’s about easy impact on the world.
This.

Depending on local rules there can be an incentive for a smaller town to join a larger city or stay separate.

My understanding LA is massive because the city had water rights and if small towns wanted access, they had to join.

Then you can go to other cities that are small by population (SF is 1M) but it’s surrounded by smaller cities towns that combined dwarf it in population.

Then you’ve got “small towns” in CT that are practically touch each other into one massive suburban area but are defined as small cities/towns with tens of thousands in population.
I quite enjoyed Swindled. Not exactly on the lighter side, but usually stories I’ve never heard of before. With the type of research and structure you mentioned.
I would love to keep an eye on outbound traffic at home mostly out of interest at what my corporate laptop is up to. Can I run OpenSnitch on another machine though, and still get information about what my laptop is up to with enough useful detail? I would imagine packet inspection to get URLs only works locally?
> ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to give you an impression of how your current Apache installation performs. This especially shows you how many requests per second your Apache installation is capable of serving.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html
Content marketing. Most online content is written by uninspired copywriters who knew nothing about the topic before they got paid to write about it. It might as well be written by an AI.

I write my content by hand because I have to make phone calls to get some of the information, and care a great deal about concise writing. However I definitely see a use for it for businesses that just want a blog pronto.

What this means for the future of internet content is worrying, but it just accelerates a trend. It's damn near impossible to find genuine information these days.
Some related projects:

- Jupiter notebooks

- Dev Cards

- Storybook

- Dark Lang

- Excel!
I hear the criticism, but sometimes we just can't know if an idea is useful without trying it out. And trying it out can be wildly expensive - in terms of time and money. So its kinda great when someone else does that work on behalf of everyone else.

Its taken 60 years of improvements to finally build ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion. If we collectively gave up on AI years ago, we might never know that.

We still don't know if VR will ever get good enough for mass market appeal. Facebook (Meta) is investing big. I hope their investment pays off, but we don't know yet! It might not work. But it might! I appreciate the risk their investors are taking.

And I think the same is true for visual dataflow programming. We have no idea until someone builds it out. And if their implementation is bad, we might still not know. Any implementation might just be a bad design.

Anyway, Brett Victor talks about ideas that go way beyond visual dataflow programming. There's a lot of interesting stuff in there, even if a lot of it might never come to pass.
I can't say it's totally surprising you need a machine (store, stack, instructions) to handle higher language issues that GPT targets

Not to crit the paper: formally stating things is good. But it feels like the outcome was highly predictable. Inferences being drawn from the language model where the language is a real world language and not a restricted subset were always going to hit up against the complexities of real languages.

And I'd be mindful that conforming to Chomsky Hierarchies says nothing about the nature of universal language models, or {{GPT or turing machines} and emergent intelligence}. Which again, isn't to lay things on the authors. People have a habit (here, in general) of taking things out of context.

I kind of feel thats about it: If the analysis of the classifier architecture shows constructs which map to a machine capable of being the higher Chomsky class, then its likely that reflects the complexity of the languages being analysed.
I think https://observablehq.com notebooks are a step towards it. Once you get into it it has the fastest feedback loop I have ever experienced. The concept of reactively changing code with partial recomputation of the dependency graph is amazing.
in the future, the robots will be the only ones who've actually read what humans wrote
You really notice the difference when you go to a country like Germany, which uses a lot more trucks to haul freight. The rail percentage is about 19% currently. [0] The Autobahn is packed with trucks. The percentage of rail traffic is lower in other EU countries apparently.

[0] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/travel-logistics-and-inf...
This is the path, I agree, using generative AI. I'm working on something like that.