skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is something that I've been thinking ever since GPT3 came out.

It's insanely impressive what it can do given it's just a language model. But if you start gluing on more components, we could end up with a more or less sentient AGI within a few years.

Bing have already hooked it up to a search engine. That post hooks it up to other tools.

I think what is needed next is a long term memory where it can store dynamic facts and smartly retrieve them later, rather than relying on the just the 4000 token current window.
It needs to be able to tell when a user is circling back to a topic they talked about months ago and pull out the relevant summaries of that conversation.

I also think it needs a working memory that it continually edits the token window to fit the relevant state of the conversation. Summarising recent tokens, saving things out long term storage, pulling new infomation in from long term storage, web searches and other tools.
They did observe it actually - they have "hotbox cameras" that watch for hot axles. They are often miscalibrated or erroneous so they ignored it and let it proceed to the next camera, which also confirmed it, but by that point it was too late. The brakes are no longer sufficient to stop trains that long/heavy and the derailleurs can no longer derail trains this long/heavy safely. So by the second camera it was too late.

Like yeah you could pull the lever every time you see a potentially hot axle but that would send the trolley headed straight into norfolk southern's profit margin. It's really unforeseeable and there's definitely not a union that has been screaming about safety issues and was just slapped down a few months ago in bipartisan fashion, nothing that can be done about this says only nation where this happens regularly. Thoughts and prayers. /s

Like, the people of ohio have made it real clear that being open for business is what they want politically. They definitely don't want the unions to score a win, even if it might increase the risk of their kids dying it's obviously worth it because people keep voting this way. There is a firm 50% of congress that is a guaranteed "fuck unions and fuck anything that threatens industry, we want jobs and we want em now" and the rest of the legislature is divided anyway. What do you do if you're democrats? Deathmatch SCOTUS over people who don't even want you to, and get your regulatory authority taken away entirely because the founders never said anything about trains in the constitution?

Like, just name a single ohio republican who wouldn't have leapt on the "biden favors unions over america and christmas" two months ago. Complete loser of an issue politically, people want their amazon packages and any hint of a return to the supply-chain chaos of 2020 is gonna make people lose their shit. This is how people actually vote, dead kids sounds bad but threaten my amazon packages and people will line the fuck up to get you out of office. They aren't actually motivated by the dead kids in the same way, it's more of an abstract, purely theoretical motivation, like loving your neighbor, or caring for the least among us. "Revealed preference" is the economic term for it.

Anyway, we have to get back to ongoing coverage of the war on LGBT, that's what plays with the voters in Ohio. Sorry about your kids, thoughts and prayers.

(and fyi if anything as of a couple days ago biden/buttigieg (omg its MAYOR PETE FROM WEST BEND INDIANA!!!) were looking at further loosening of safety regulations and brake requirements... as is every single republican.)
But what is novel content?

I can easily falsify the accusation that, "people underestimate transformers and don't see that they are actually intelligent," by defeating the best open-source transformer-based word embedding (at the time) with a simple TF-DF based detector (this was back in September).

https://www.patdel.com/plagiarism-detector/

No, these things are not, "emergent," they are just rearranging numbers. You don't have to use a transformer or neural network at all to re-arrange numbers and create something that is even more, "artificially intelligent," than one that does use transformers it turns out!
The tricky part is you can ask similar questions about the human brain. Are our thoughts, ideas, words, and actions really "new", or just deterministic transformations based on our genetics and sensory input? We don't know exactly how our brains do computation, but it's definitely possible that what looks and feels like creativity to us is really, under the hood, just as statistical and mechanistic as an LLM.
I agree it would be user error, but it seems to be a particularly easy mistake to make compared to the REST example, where you explicitly create REST endpoint to send a value to the client.

If you accidentally move filtering of a list of users from server-scope to client-scope during refactoring, everything will still work just as you expect it to and you'll be none the wiser – but suddenly every user has access to all the user data in the list. There's not many other frameworks I'm aware of where moving an operation to an adjacent row or forgetting to change a word suddenly (and silently) exposes the data to the client – except perhaps PHP, which does not have a good reputation when it comes to security to say the least. Altough to be fair adlpz mentioned something similar with Next.js in another thread.

Tagging values as server-only mostly seems like another thing that could be easily forgotten. Personally I would feel more comfortable if values intended to be sent from the server to client had to be explicitly tagged as mutual, with an optional compilation flag that enforces this, such that the intent to share it with the client must always be stated in plain text during creation.
Now is the time to sell to your manager, so they can sell to their manager, why you and your team are mission critical, and are working to keep the lights on.
How to Game Algorithms
Incremental improvements and it getting to the point of good enough for a set of tasks but maybe not all tasks seems far more likely.
I chuckled at the headline, assumed it would be 'peach', now I'm just confused? The article doesn't seem to address it, except to link https://unicode-table.com/en/1F97A/ as 'U+1F97A Bottom Face Emoji' (which that page doesn't say at all), so seems very deliberate, must be some joke we're not in on (on the 'right' subreddits for or whatever) I suppose.
Ouch, ESPP that you can't immediately sell are indeed really bad especially when everything is on fire.
How did they take it down the domain last time? Was it by picking on the registrar?

In my country they so this by asking all the ISPs to block the domain from their DNS servers. This works for 90% of the population, but all you have to do is just change the DNS server to something other than what the ISP gives you and you’re good to go.

Also, I just don’t get how current approach is any better. As far as I understand, there’s still a single point of failure, i.e. the site you get your “personal” domain from.
Not really, and duckdb doesn't need to hold everything in RAM as i recalll. But it's fast, far faster than several read-process-write steps can be, especially when coordinated over multiple machines

(By the way, maybe I was vague, using overloaded terminology. To be precise with 'in-core' i meant that the solution to an analytic query is held completely in memory, not that it's restricted to using one cpu thread.)
If a world famous chef showed up in a franchise McDonald's kitchen, he's probably not worth much more than $9/hr to the operation. They are heating up frozen hamburgers.

If you are in a system that has put a ceiling on your ability to contribute or has put a ceiling on the price they are willing to pay for your contributions, and this bothers you, then you should find somewhere else to work.

Capitalism doesn't care what you think you deserve.
They aren't overpaid.

You're underpaid.

If you're their senior, you need compensation that reflects this difference. Otherwise, there's no point in being their senior.
Google's attrition can't be 33%, did you mean 3%?
For three years I got the team to still do a drill release cycle around the holidays because we were running into trouble hunting down regressions when we went two or three weeks. People start to forget things, especially around holidays.

This year they decided to skip a bunch. We had one almost disaster that I caught, so of course we’re going to forget why we did this stuff in the first place. Until the next time it blows up.
Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with (2021)
For Google it probably comes about as cheap as it can for anyone, and based on a cursory search, the revenue YouTube makes minus the cost of paying the content creators and employees leaves (probably) enough for the datacenters and decent profit.

Though Google is likely doing accounting shenanigans with cross-company billing and charges YouTube "just enough" for the datacenter/cloud access that, on paper, it's barely breaking even (if only for tax advantages). But I don't have proof of that.
Exactly. Given a source of truth, it can't be that hard to train a separate analytic model to evaluate answers from the existing synthetic model. (Neglecting for the moment the whole Gödel thing.)

The problem isn't going to be developing the model, it's going to be how to arrive at an uncontroversial source of ground truth for it to draw from.

Meanwhile, people are complaining that the talking dog they got for Christmas is no good because the C++ code it wrote for them has bugs. Give it time.
Because they can?
Because they don't want it to be watched outside of India either?
By foreigners, by millions of Indians abroad, by millions in India on VPN?
True, but those notoriously hard to find bugs are still notoriously hard to ind in a monorepo as well. I don't see anything in the character of a monorepo, that would somehow enable me to find concurrency bugs in an easier way than in a non-monorepo setting.
My point is that trenching your yard up because your electrical system legitimately can't handle the load is not "use of the permitting process to push high-cost climate goals on home owners". The necessity of a higher gauge service line is a legitimate safety regulation.

If it costs someone $100k to replace their service panel, I suppose they can just borrow that out of their budget for yacht fuel for the month. Because they clearly have a property much different than average. https://www.bobvila.com/articles/cost-to-replace-electrical-...
To start with, technology in this White Mirror future shouldn't be dominated by corporations that abuse their monopolies to quash competition.
Nah, GP is right. There is feeling burned out on something specific and being well and truly burned out. The former can be shrugged off with tricks, the latter feels like being dead inside until you rest for long enough to reset.
On mobile it's a different story, they don't let you install custom add-ons at all.
Don't compare to others. Are you happy with the salary you are getting? Does it seem fair or better for the work that you do? If so, then don't worry about it. If you are being underpaid for the work that you do then that's a different issue and you can discuss that with your manager without ever bringing anyone else up.
I remember a commentator in a previous thread mentioned something like...

'In NY "Fire-Proof" buildings can be built like that', when they're built out of materials that do not burn and in ways where the fire cannot spread. Effectively the safer place in a fire, in theory, would be to shelter in place as it cannot spread.

I'm all for using as many non-burning materials as possible in building construction.
> The power of ChatGPT will become obvious when it's sucking in all of an orgs data.

I am having a hard time seeing this.

Intranet/corporate search has forever been awful in comparison to internet search.
Why are you fixating on the "creating something new" argument? I can confidently say in 10yrs as a programmer, nothing I've worked on has "created something new" according to your argument.

Every web-app or scientific application I've written is merely "rewriting" and stitching together other techniques, libraries, and patterns. I haven't broken any new ground on data encoders/process handling/data analysis, but my work had value.

In this scenario, if ChatGPT provides enough value to reduce my workload and allow me to allocate my effort elsewhere, why is it not a valuable tool, regardless of whether it "creates anything new"?

This same argument can be made against the concept of an IDE. My IDE doesn't create anything new. I used to use Vim with a number of plugins, a terminal multiplexer, and an auto-completion engine.

Why would <insert IDE of choice> improve my workflow? It doesn't add anything new to my existing workflow. But after migrating to my current IDE, the convenience it brought me was significant, even if it didn't add anything new to my setup.
This is like being acquired by IBM and being forced to use Lotus Notes and Sametime. You must eat your own dogfood..
What's the difference between Library Genesis and Z-Library? Aren't they the same catalogue?
I've generally been disappointed by my prompts for optical illusions. I thought it would be better at it. An optical illusion is basically what happens when you relax the constraints on a graphical depiction, allowing objects to be connected in ways that are inconsistent with 3d geometry. The trick is that the inconsistency has to be global not local. Anywhere you zoom in on still looks like normal 3d space. I expected SD to be good at this, as a priori it never had a conception of how 3d space must look to begin with.

Here's where it sucked. It seems to have learned the superficial aesthetic of an optical illusion or of "Escher" without learning the relevant component. It spits out things that either aren't optical illusions, or are just random disconnected spattering of geometrical inconsistencies without any overarching theme. A person made optical illusion will generally have a single main loop of impossibly connected objects, or at least some simple overall topology. The illusion is expected to exist on the global scale of the image, not as a weird pocket of a mostly normal image.
A lot of newcomers wonder what to work on longevity. The longevity field is young and complex, much like a solar system in its early days. Most attempts to map any aspect of it will look both like oversimplification and overengineering. But I've spent the past weeks talking with many people (scientists, investors and founders) and I've mapped, at a high level, what I (or anyone) could work on longevity: funding, talent, media, practical applications, therapeutics and infrastructure for the field. Far from being a complete guide, a post like this would’ve been super helpful a few weeks ago. So here it is for everyone else. I hope it helps.
>I believe they are over paid for where we live

This belief is problematic because real (a.k.a. non-bullshit) jobs are typically priced based on the value of what's delivered, not the residence of the person delivering the value. Like race and sexuality, residence is wholly unrelated to the job.

I'd consider your predicament to be unfair. It's also not fair that garbage men work 10x harder than you for a fraction of your pay. Oh well.
> We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability.

In a short timeframe, this guy started a whole bunch of projects that he didn't finish. In the short term, he overestimates his long term ability. And perhaps he underestimated his short term ability because he's impressed with starting so many projects, more than he could finish with his overestimated long term abilities.

but don't listen to me, glass half empty sounds optimistic ("I've identified the problem, I can see room for improvement! I know how to fix this!") and glass half full sounds like you're trying to convince yourself you don't need to do anything, that everything is going to be OK.
This to me sounds like another case of out of context "Europeans do this, so it must be better". From personal experience, the UK takes fire safety much more serious than the US: fire alarm tested every week, fire drills are made often and *for real*, fire doors everywhere, every kitchen has a fire blanket (not just an extinguisher), every building has 2 doors, every appliance has a plug with a fuse in the plug itself (btw, American plugs are a joke) etc.

Are you proposing to get rid of the second stairway alone, or are you going to bring all the other regulations too?
> Everyone on the same level gets the same base pay and those who perform well, get a bump and bonus now and then.

This is fair by definition.

The situation you describe is that you are in the wrong salary tier, which isn't about fairness but about mismanagement.
I don't see anything wrong with that. Similarly, employees have to make hard decisions when the health of their families is a higher priority than loyalty to the company.

Maybe we should stop using the term "loyalty" because it unfairly implies absolutes -- at least in the minds of westerners.
Front line managers (and usually second-line managers and directors) are almost always not looped in to these decisions. These are company-impacting decisions made by executives. A VP here or there might be in the know depending on the size of the company, but the vast majority of management has no idea what's going to happen.
longjmp is like return, which can jump out of a function, to the immediate caller. However, longjmp can return directly to a grandparent, great-grandparent, ... this happens without any unwind support; you have to invent your own conventions for that and implement them. Only carefully-written code which knows about the conventions of your particular longjmp wrapper library will get the unwinding.
I think it is, at least to some extent, intentional. That way people blame the bot instead of the underlying technology when it "misbehaves"
Even in the case of my grandmother using a big chunk of her small pension to pay just to get spied on? Really? She doesn't even know she has a choice in the matter, or what implications that choice has. My opinion is that she and others like her shouldn't have to be educated.

A lot of people in tech should step out of their bubble for a second and consider the real world. It's not technically impossible to have a better ecosystem, it's the industry creating the problems.
> I have come to two conclusions about the GPT technologies after some weeks to chew on this:

<sarcasm>Just 2 weeks of training data? Surely the conclusions are not final? No doubt a lot has changed over those 2 weeks?

I think the real joke is still, Q: "what is intelligence?" A: "We don't know, all we know is that you are not a good example of it".

I fear these hilarious distortions are only slightly different from those we mortals make all the time. They stand out because we would get things wrong in different ways.

> 1. We are so amazed by its ability to babble in a confident manner that we are asking it to do things that it should not be asked to do.

God, where have we seen this before? The further up the human hierarchy the more elaborate the insanity. Those with the most power, wealth and even those of us with the greatest intellect manage to talk an impressive amount of bullshit. We all do it up to our finest men.

The only edge we have over the bot is that we know when to keep our thoughts to ourselves when it doesn't help our goal.

To do an idiotic time line of barely related events which no doubt describes me better than it describes the topic:

I read how a guy who contributed much to making TV affordable enough for everyone. He thought it was going to revolutionize learning from home. Finally the audience for lectures given by our top professors could be shared with everyone around the globe!

We got the internet, the information supper highway, everyone was going to get access to the vast amount of knowledge gathered by mankind. It only took a few decades for google to put all the books on it. Or wait....

And now we got the large language models. Finally someone who can tell us everything we want to know with great confidence.

These 3 were and will be instrumental in peddling bullshit.

Q: Tell me about the war effort!

what I want to hear: "We are winning! Just a few more tanks!"

what I don't want to hear: "We are imploding the world economy! Run to the store and buy everything you can get your hands on. Cash is king! Arm yourself. Buy a nuclear bunker."

Can one tell people that? It doesn't seem in line with the bullshit we are comfortable with?

> GPT is basically the language portion of your brain. The language portion of your brain does not do logic. It does not do analyses. But if you built something very like it and asked it to try, it might give it a good go.

At least it doesn't have sinister motives (we will have to add those later)

> In its current state, you really shouldn't rely on it for anything. But people will, and as the complement of the Wile E. Coyote effect, I think we're going to see a lot of people not realize they've run off the cliff, crashed into several rocks on the way down, and have burst into flames, until after they do it several dozen times. Only then will they look back to realize what a cockup they've made depending on these GPT-line AIs.

It seems to me that we are going to have to take the high horse and claim the low road.
Teams is a bit of a resource (but Slack is no better) but there’s nothing really wrong with it as a tool. In fact it works pretty well for group communications and is constantly adding new helpful features.
Taking the other side of the scam coin there are construction projects that are over engineered out of all sense of proportion simply to increase the budget and associated flow throughs like skimming or powerbase increases etc. And that's operating under the assumption the project is useful at all in the first place which is by no means a forgone conclusion especially in contrast to other possible devotions of time and energy.
>There is no reason that novel pathways of "thought" (or whatever makes one comfortable) aren't emergent in a model under optimization & regularization.

Please substantiate this assertion. People always just state it as a fact without producing an argument for it.
> they've cornered the "SMS via API" market

This is not true, except for first-time builders and those who do not send a lot of SMS. Twilio is a great on-ramp to the world of SMS via API, but at scale considerations beyond developer UX can become more important.
No; I didn't say anything about the term "lads". I don't oppose its use. I think you may have meant to reply to a different comment.
That's why I did a little bit of a sleight of hand - worked out how many cubic meters it would need to be to disperse, and then converted that to square meters (so assumed a depth of one meter).

If I had done a sphere (half a sphere to be precise) you'd get a half-dome only 1.5 km across.
True and you know what? They do the same thing but regulated.

And that system is old and grown and fine tuned
Of course, I forgot about kegs/barrels. I can well believe that that's the older etymology. Thanks!
Thanks for the info that's really helpful. I was immediately curious whether SQLite-WASM would run in Deno and so I'm glad to hear you say that's something you've tried. It felt immediately like it "should" since Deno mirrors web APIs so well and supports a WASM runtime but I wasn't sure.

I have a current project that is starting out by building a client-side SQLite DB (currently in Tauri but WASM SQLite would be an option as well) that would benefit from an option to offload building really large DBs so a shared server process. Knowing same or very similar code could run in Deno opens up some really interesting possibilities.