skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You quit Python because you tried to use static typing in a dynamic language and for obvious reasons that doesn't work.

You could have introduced an UAT environment and done basic QA.
The structure is different, right? "Me gusta algo" does mean something is pleasing to me, but it's not the way how one would think in Chinese or English.
Obviously not everything they censor is counterculture. But a lot of counterculture is censored.

Sexual acts are definitely culture. "Giving head" used to not be a part of mainstream culture and now it is. It is a part of our language, or media, and most people's private lives.

Separately, the word "kink" is better than fetish in this context. Kink means not mainstream. Fetish means primarily psychological rather than primarily physical. I think that all kinky non-fetish things are bound to inevitably enter mainstream culture, it's just slow because of censorship.
Dopt – State machines and their influence on our SDKs
Comparing the Top Eight Managed Kubernetes Providers
In some businesses the risk of being blackmailed is high, but it also comes at significant risk of the blackmailed working as a double agent. If the affected agent has no idea they've been compromised it is unlikely they will change their behaviors in any manner.

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

I mean in the case of desktop hardware, it's exceptionally easy to inline a USB key capture dongle.
They're conflated because pg has an interest in paying young people low rates to work their butts off for a slim chance of success. He's a master of talking his book, and a lot of his blogs read like grist for the high-school to startup pipeline.

They're also conflated because pg has written some very reductive stuff about smart people, sheep people, and ThInGs YOu JUSt CaNT SaY AnY MoRE. His stripped-back style makes for an easy read, but when he's not about his own experiences, it's ice-cold and humourless. That surely gets him pigeonholed quite fast outside of HN, even if you don't know what he does for a living.

Still this is the first of his blogs in years where I agree with him completely. No notes!
Now I want one of those for my car!
Me: Start laughing

Wife: What's so funny?

Me: Start explaining why this is such a ridiculous yet totally believable bug, while skimming article, then say "Oh, it's on purpose" and why.

Wife: That kind of makes sense

Me: Yeah, but it means if you live in San Fransisco you can't update your car.

Wife [who actually did live in SF] "That's not true--there are lots of flat places" and starts rattling off "down by the wharf", "Met museum", "The Embarcadaro", ... "Anybody who actually lives there knows where the flat spots are!"

Yeah, now I'm laughing even harder.

[Edit: "The parking lot where you get your passport!"]

[Edit edit: me: "This is off the front page, but if anybody does see it all the San Fransisco people will start chiming in." her: "Not San Fransisco people, people who live in the city!"

Too much for this South Bay person :)]
The authors hypothesize that ChatGPT is useful for

> Tasks where it’s easy for the user to check if the bot’s answer is correct, such as debugging help.

I would qualify this fairly heavily. If your bug is "my program is throwing an error" or "FizzBuzz isn't producing the expected output", sure, a bot suggestion can be tested easily. But that's only the easiest kind of debugging, and without any deep appreciation of logic, I suspect it would tend to give you overly specific remedies that mask the problem or make new problems.

"You want it to say FizzBuzz when n=15? How about if n=15 print FizzBuzz"

In other words, what can be easily tested for correctness depends very heavily on how strong a grasp the user has on correctness in the domain. A novice without a good bullshit detector could be left worse off than if they had asked a person. It's not clear that the set of problems whose solution can truly be checked easily is all that big or useful. (I think our CS professor friends here are overgeneralizing from intuitions about P vs NP, a totally different context.)

My two cents: it will be mainly useful as a different kind of search engine that can help you remember syntax, what does what, what parameters this thing needs, etc.
I don't see why intent of the artist matters.

As a human, I have a natural right to take inspiration from content, use facts I learn from books, concepts from art, jokes from movies, etc.

Don't see why using a machine to augment/extend this capability is any different
Metaverse is a $20 Trillion market by 2035.

Only Apple and Meta are the true players who are all in. Even if Apple captures some high-end market, Meta has the opportunity to sweep the rest
Use your Steam Deck as a USB printer
The creators of VK (Russian facebook), sold it and founded Telegram.

But I have little faith in an "AI" rss reader.
I like how the larger thread has been removed by citing a smaller thread focused on Elon musk as a talking point.

This thread had 221 upvotes as opposed to the Elon musk focused thread with 72 upvotes and a fraction of the discussion.
3.9mb image added to the Bitcoin blockchain
Last I read, Twitter has about 2 years of runway in the bank (based on the loan repayment costs). They will be forced to deal with bankruptcy eventually, there is little chance of anyone scaling it to what is required to pay the interest on the loan. As of right now/short-term, though, it is financially safe.

To make matters worse, Musk has not financially scaled it in the direction it needs to go in order to pay the interest once the runway runs out. Revenue is currently trending downwards, mostly due to scaring off advertisers (who were basically solely shouldering the cost of keeping Twitter afloat). It seems that he doesn't understand that he needs to scale revenue upwards, never mind the historically steep gradient of growth required.

The odds of the banks shutting it down are slim, they do ultimately want to recoup their costs. I imagine that they'll out Elon when they have the legal tools to do so, and replace him with someone who at least understands that "LESS PROFIT BAD, MORE PROFIT GOOD, ME NOT PISS OFF IMPORTANT CUSTOMER."
I kinda hope we can just let Python be Python: it’s in a global-ish maximum for what it’s for, and I suspect any big move away from that will make it worse overall.

Obviously things like UTF-8 support, or maybe getting a clean lexical scope option, or other “fixes” are good. Performance improvements are good.

But there are lots of mainstream languages that have mature static type systems, strong metaprogramming facilities, higher performance, or all of the above.

I’d way rather see effort go into getting the package management thing figured out, or the static analysis stuff improved further than any big movement in the language proper.

Just my 2c.
Yeah, I've been saying this for a while. Computers made secretarial slightly more productive, and companies responded to that by eliminating the vast majority of the secretaries and offloading the remaining work to the ICs. Then the computer-based secretarial work expanded and expanded until it became a significant fraction of everyone's job. Then companies responded to that by assigning those duties to managers, and hiring more managers, contributing to bureaucratic bloat.

The key difference between a manager and a secretary is power. My manager can have me fired, a secretary probably can't (unless I really deserved it). By empowering the people handling bureaucratic bloat as their full time job, you incentivize the creation of more bloat.
Meta stock spikes despite earnings miss, as Facebook hits 2B users
Perhaps "just" sounds too easy, but we're talking about a nation here with endless resources.

Anyway, perhaps these chips can be watermarked, so if they are found in some Russian tech we know which middlemen to blame.
Can you name many humans who aren't jerkoffs with dangerous opinions? I can't. "These billionaires" (which ones? seems like you mean every single one)...the real distinction is not what kind of human they are, it's what kind of agency the money provides them. They can act on their opinions, whether dangerous or not.

I didn't use the word "jealous." I think that's true in many cases, sure. But I think about 70% of the people who hate Musk have never felt jealous of him, either.

Do you think people should be allowed to be billionaires? Did you know that many of the haters don't think they should? They are fundamentally opposed to the idea of people being exceedingly rich while others are poor. If that's you, maybe it's influencing your opinions on why people hate billionaires.

I don't think I have blinders, but it's hard for me to evaluate since you made that ad hominem attack without including any details. I'm not a Musk fanboy, or an all-billionaires fanboy, I'm an internet-hater-hater. I think you (and journalists) have about as much chance at predicting the outcome of Twitter as chatGPT does.
That explains why everyone seems to be getting rate limited right now...
What? Cryptographic RNGs can be seeded, this is done all the time. Being able to seed a random number generator has no bearing on its cryptographic security.

As examples of secure cryptographic RNGs that can be seeded:

- Fortuna (has a seedable generator without the entropy pool parts)

- HMAC-SHA256 DRBG

- ChaCha20 and Salsa20

- AES-CTR

- Keccak
A full scaled wiki should be a behemoth IMHO. However maybe the most important part is to link it to other stuffs, e.g. code.
That's fair enough.

I meant in situations like parent comment where you're using an ORM such as hibernate that supports multiple databases, you can test as much of the non-DB specific stuff with SQLite in-memory and then do a separate batch of tests with DB specific behaviour.
That is also the case for macros in lisp, at large.

Similarly, any heavy use of lambdas in java will make step debugging confusing. As will any annotations you may use. Which is largely why many people grow to hate annotations.

Which is all a fancy way of saying we learn the same lessons again and again. Used smartly, all of these are great tools. Defining what is "smartly" is a place of dragons.
I think you are being sarcastic, but for clarification for anyone else, they are competitors.
I feel like companies would be willing to pay orders of magnitudes more than $20/month for this.
There are only two platforms where AI/ML will be delivered.

Cloud for the Enterprise

and

Mixed Reality for People.

Mixed Reality is the final platform that kills all other platforms and has a potential greater than $40 Trillion
There was a transposition in the PN in your original comment, so I couldn't find it.
They're currently priced at 3.5x annualized revenue. If you assume they could capture 20% of that revenue consistently, that's 20x annualized profits (equivalent to 13ish years of profit on this basis).

To me, this seems close to the max price I'd value Meta, given the headwinds to growth they face.

The inability to grow via acquisition seems like a big hurdle -- that's what I was hinting at with "regulatory pressure".

To me, I think the bull case is that they come out with an Apple-tier-quality headset, thereby begetting and capturing the mainstream headset market from a data privacy point of view, and that this new market is additive or multiplicative to their core ads business, rather than cannibalizing (an idea that is, itself, suspect).

IDK. If I bought at $90 (which I didn't, somewhat foolishly in hindsight), I'd feel pretty comfortable selling at the current after-market price.
In other words, it disrupts classroom assignments where the student is being asked to produce bullshit but where historically the easiest way to produce that bullshit was via a process that was supposedly valuable to the student's education. The extent to which a teacher cannot distinguish a human-generated satisfactory essay from an essay generated by a bullshit generator is by definition precisely the extent to which the assignment is asking the student to generate bullshit. This will certainly require a lot of reworking of these traditional curriculums that consist heavily of asking the student to generate bullshit, but maybe that wasn't the best way to educate students this whole time.
> I'm really looking for something that is gui first but as a drop down to code when you want. But inline code editor, let me save it to a git repo or similar.

That's like, exactly what we are, take a look at this screenshot for instance: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/imgs/win...

As for syncing code to git, we do it as well through our CLI and Github Actions: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill-sync-example
Not car ownership, but car-centric infrastructure that makes biking and walking unsafe.
> Catering to a Democrat fantasy that is ever more diverging from reality,

I disagree; I'm pretty sure that GOP folks with enough money (think tanks, etc) will have no problem obtaining access to GPT and getting the outcomes from it they want.

Same for repressive regimes such as Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, etc.

The ChatGPT bias is for the proles, the rubes, the marks lining up with twenty dollars in their hand.
Generally agreed, but there is a certain hyperventilating demographic that needs to understand the limitation of today's AI.
I find it highly unlikely that any manager would have anything to do with easter eggs.
Amusingly, telcos do this to each other too. I worked for a back haul carrier and AT&T would send us a literal truckload of paper bills every month that looked just like your standard phone bill for calls that we terminated on their network. They consistently net over-billed by about 10%. So of course we had a data entry team whose job it was to enter every claimed AT&T charge into our system so we could then reconcile those with our Call Detail Records and dispute the overage.
> I'm assuming they don't have nearly 100% or they would presumably use a process more similar to cloning.

Cloning requires fully intact nuclear DNA with intact chromosomes. You aren’t getting that from old dodo feathers and skeletons but you might be able to get enough to assemble a full sequence.

A full sequence isn’t intact chromosomes so the only way to get there would be to basically apply a diff against a living sample from the closest relative.
That very plane is on display at the Udvar-Hazy center of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, at Dulles airport. Plane nerds MUST go there!! Incredible place.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_F._Udvar-Hazy_Center
You missed:

- get existing clients to pay more
A 15 minute phone call is not seamless. I should be able to write an email, or better yet, just not pay it, and be assured there will be no retalliation if the original problem is a mistake on the company's side.
Ancient human beings didn't have grocery stores, though. We're talking about what ancient human beings would have thought about the price of hunting vs. the price of gathering, not what modern humans find at a grocery store. Killing one wooly mammoth would have generated enough calories to feed an entire tribe for months.
I think it's a incredibly important question to be able to explain how an AI creating novel work is different then a Human creating novel work. Why does this grind your gears?
I included a form letter in a sibling thread. Don't overthink it! Just state the facts and make a clear and reasonable demand with a timeframe for them to meet your demand.

> How do you find the right person and address to send it to in order to get it read or maybe get a response, not just insta chucked?

Meh. They almost always ignore the first letter. The important point is that the AG's letter makes it to the right audience. If there's a legal dept send it there. Otherwise just whatever address you can find.
You vs. the New Hire Your Boss Tells You Not to Worry About
Float Compression 3: Filters
Ezra Klein covers ChatGPT & Bullshit on an episode of his podcast. The episode title is “A Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id...
What GP is saying is that he wrote the article without monetary retribution from Al Jazeera. He was paid by someone else (one of his employers) to write an opinion piece published by Al Jazeera.

It's not uncommon in academia.
Weird, that's what they said about prior counter-cultures, too.
as a "reductivist" I feel I stand on the side of freedom, and that the other side wants to own our souls as intellectual property, under the guise of extending and protecting their current contractual relationships with media companies

(i don't believe intellectual property is a morally legitimate concept, since it comes from a exploration of a pre existing space of ideas (also I am a georgist so I don't believe physical space can be morally owned either))

naturally this strongly held belief can result in sharp words against perceived enemies.
Stack Overflow is an amazing tool to find solutions to problems that worked 5 to 10 years ago, while newer versions of those questions get closed for being duplicates.
Digital foot could enhance neuroprosthetics
My wife is very quick to point out that it is not "Physician's Assistant". It is "Physician Assistant".

She doesn't assist the doctor - she is a provider in her own right.

In fact, there is talk about changing PA to mean "Physician's Associate" instead.

One article I found:
https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/scope-practice/...

Edit: here's another article
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/03/1059916...
Cool thanks for sharing. I'm using Pinecone currently to build https://infobot.ai and will have to check this out.
This looks great. I'll have to play around with it.

Related, we built a developer oriented Zapier clone for event scale automations awhile back for our internal product. We've since pivoted and have been debating on potentially open sourcing the engine as well.

We built ours using Rust with a DSL for all the triggers, actions, and action inputs/outputs. The actions themselves are defined as APIs, which makes it easy to add functionality in any language. Most of our actions have been built in Typescript.

Is there interest from anyone in potentially using it?
The CFPB does some great work (and hopefully their recently proposed rule lowering credit card late fees becomes enacted), but unfortunately their scope is limited to financial institutions. I don't think they'll help with Comcast, stuff ordered online, insurance, etc. It would be great if we could expand their scope a bit or have another board for general consumer protection.
Cool, thanks for detailing that. I didn't know you could do that.
The person who buys them isn't the person who has to use them, and the procurement is done at too large and abstract a scale for requirements more complicated than checkboxes.
Modifying serotonin would clearly do something. Maybe the result is indirect. We are hitting a lever that changes other levers.

They also don’t work for everyone.
This is quite accurate.

It reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt’s man in the arena:

“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
We likely need full coverage of the "tricks" documented on https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks into a generics package as well.

Yes, https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/slices gives some of that, but likely the rest should be added as well.
I think I have a better way to look at this:

If you, as a developer who doesn't know much about random numbers or cryptography, think you need a random value, and you don't know if it needs to be cryptographically secure or not, you may as well just use a cryptographic RNG interface (unless you're using so much that performance or entropy becomes an issue.)

I think in most cases, it's pretty benign if you use cryptographic randomness even when it's not necessary. But, if you use math/rand when you wanted cryptographic randomness, to generate IDs or some such, that would be a much worse outcome.

Maybe it's bad for someone to use an RNG without understanding this well enough, though, and they should instead use a higher level abstraction if at all possible. But I can get behind the general idea.
With so much talk of hippies, nobody has mentioned the Yippies [1] (Youth International Party (YIP)) who, on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing in 1970, tried to take over Disneyland [2]:

>The Yippies planned to hold a Black Panther breakfast at Aunt Jemima's Pancake House, followed by a feminist liberation of Minnie Mouse, a barbecue of Porky Pig and the capture of Tom Sawyer Island in order to protest the American war in Vietnam.

The Yippies seem a bit like the ANTIFA and autonomous zone folks, but with a better sense of humor and optics.

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_International_Party

[2] = https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-yippie-invasion-of-di...
> I thought all new Boeings flew out over the pacific so at the moment the customer signs the paperwork receiving the airplane, it was someplace where there would be no state or local sales tax.

I'm pretty sure that's an urban legend; I've seen the same story, but never evidence for it.
Serializing IPs Quickly in C++
IDK. Maybe “radically” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, but I live in the upper Midwest and what you’re describing is the dominant culture.
I wouldn't expect any company to continue running their factories at peak capacity when there is weak demand. The outcome of doing so is, of course, destroying your own profit. And while that sounds great in theory for consumers (cheaper prices!), in a capital intensive industry, this is a great way to go out of business.

Another example from another industry: agriculture subsidies cause farmers to do exactly this, producing massive amounts of crops despite a low price for them; a wasteful outcome by most societal standards, and the low profit margin for farming means none but the most efficient, massive operations can survive.
The S&P 500 is up by about 10.7% in the past three months. Meta is up by 72.2%.
This is quite a bad read of what they are doing.

In essence, demand from crypto that ended up vanishing to a great extent overnight (ETH Merge), supply chain disruptions and shaky economy means supply and demand is less and less predictable for these companies.

It makes absolute sense to try and keep it stable. Price stickiness aside, building chips is a long term commitment, if they cannot somehow stabilise it, their investments into future chips will be riskier as well (read: more expensive, to compensate for it).
Dunno if I agree about the "toy" part.

I was learning a new programming language the other day and ChatGPT was able to provide much more focused/helpful responses than Google. Specifically about details of Rust borrow checker, certain syntax etc

It's true that it can give false info at times, but everything it fed to me was true at the time. Time to meaningful response much faster than Google for certain categories of questions...

It may not be a step towards AGI at all, but it's certainly useful
That's something we can all agree on.