skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> President Carter did not solve inflation. He appointed Vocker towards the end of his term, and it was not the priority it should have been throughout his term.

This statement is self-contradictory. President Carter solved inflation by appointing Volcker. Period. He sacrificed the his presidency to do it, thus he took it seriously. No president gets anything done in during their first term, but President Carter's decisions not only solved inflation, it turned the economy around.
Put it behind cloudflare if you’re worried about it. It’s free and increases performance.
>> This user intentionally and methodically forced the model to act as antagonistic as possible to gather view.

I do wonder if this is the case, if Marvin had used previous sessions still in memory, or parts of this conversation not shown, to prime the bot into giving these answers, or if the result of a bing search for his name was enough to set up such a reaction.

The later would be a lot more troublesome, as it would imply the possibility to seo the bot into being spiteful towards certain people.
I'm not particularly art savvy but I live in a major city and like museums. I have definitely seen modern pieces that I like and are actually though provoking so I'm not trying to say that all modern art is crap (although some of it almost has to be money laundering, but that's another matter)

Yeah you can mimic the idea but all you get in the end is a JPG or whatever.

Sure, image generation software will never be able to go through the steps that humans go through to do something in physical space. It doesn't even have to be elaborate weathering, Stable Diffusion will never actually stroke a brush. Especially in the infancy of this tech it is extremely constrained to digital representation and simple prints. Even if stuck in its current state I wouldn't consider it novelty-only, but more physically involved means of production will likely become as thing as billions get invested into the tech.

Please look up the definition of platitude. It's not very nice.

I double checked the definition and it means what I meant to convey. I don't think it's particularly profound to say (especially without much support) that computers can never create "real" art and will always be bound to the realm of novelty. If you want to define art as something only humans create (and assert that the human involvement isn't sufficient to bring in the "human spirit") then that's a term you can use, it just doesn't mean much... Statements like these are not unusual when machines begin encroaching on some aspect of human life.

Also FYI its not very nice to psychoanalyze why people disagree with you, especially when its a petty reason.
Rip ninjalicious
I taught myself linux at age 13 when it came out based on my experience with msdos. So dail-up modems and slackware. Now with the Internet things are amazing in terms of what you can learn if you are interested.

I do think 1:1 tutoring is especially helpful but it doesn't help the socialization and group emotional regulation things that come up in school. Those are important skills as well.
Nope, I'm not sure it's that. Brave crashes on tinybase.org pages without the glow. I wonder if it's the SVG favicon?
The article says the suspension is set to release Monday, they likely mean Monday in North American time zones.
Great comment! Made me really nostalgic for my restaurant days. 13 years before I got into tech and I still miss it sometimes whenever I have a great meal and can tell the staff is functioning as a solid unit.
Yeah, but for non-tech companies, like Nike/Adidas as mentioned in other comments, they will need this kind of bot-detection services.
No one can stop you from finding or starting an instance with your values. Its the same kind of freedom the copy machine or the home word processor gives.

No, it doesn't let you be a prick with someone elses resources. They have no obligation to listen or amplify you.

Perhaps people's expectations of free speech are a little greedy?
How about the siblings of these people, with presumably the same upbringing?
> the company’s announcement Friday evening that it would be discontinuing two-factor authentication via SMS for all but its paying Twitter Blue subscribers

Heh. I went through and read the Twitter blog article and they cite security, but in that case why keep it around for Twitter Blue subs? Seems more like a money saving measure. A great win for security though, SMS MFA needs to go in the bin.
Even if Russia withdrew its forces, they would still have the potential to attack again. So the the choice is really between pursuing a compromise now, or losing perhaps a million troops trying to weaken Russia’s future negotiating position by retaking separatist territories (and probably failing to do so).
I have a funny relationship with this. I also come from a formal CS background too. The old joke is that there are two lies in Computer Science: firstly its not science, and secondly it isn't really about computers.

But the reality is, I still can't tell you what Computer Science actually is. Is it:

- About understanding how to control computers (which are fast electronic machines)

- About inventing programming, from the ground up. (A weird sub-discipline of mathematics and category theory)

or

- Learning to make software in order to improves the lives of humans

We sort of need to learn all three aspects. Haskell programs run slower than C++ programs because haskell isn't written in harmony with the physical CPU cores we've made. Making fast programs is pointless if our software doesn't solve user needs. And solving user needs are impossible if we can't express ourselves clearly to the computer - which programming language theorists are obsessed with.

I think the basics of hardware is part of CS, but maybe a CS undergraduate degree doesn't give anyone enough time to really go broad in the field. I dunno!
Yes I know! I gave a talk about this, and it made me nostalgic in a way. https://tripleodeon.com/2022/11/closing-the-gap-between-your...
> even package managers like pip

This reminds me of a blog post [1] I read before. Pertinent quote:

> Unbeknownst to me, even with --dry-run pip will execute arbitrary code found in the package's setup.py. In fact, merely asking pip to download a package can execute arbitrary code (see pip issues 7325 [2] and 1884 [3] for more details)!

Also seen on Twitter [4].

[1] https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-wit...

[2] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7325

[3] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1884

[4] https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1566561433898426368
Big tech companies do use many languages. Sometimes smaller one as well. I deal directly with at least 5 at the moment. C++ is in this set but no Rust so far as I do not have business case for it. But do some reading to be aware.
> get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you

Oh, but not eliminate it? And you want how much?

Fu(k right off.
Why not sure cloudflare?
Explore few prominent (organic) chemistry softwares in intensive depth eg:

Chemdraw for creating organic chemical structures, schemes, diagrams/figures, which can be exported to other programs

SciFinder and Reaxys for searching the chemical literature and doing background research

Gaussview and Gaussian09 to submit and run DFT or ab initio calculations on molecules

MestReNova / MestRec
> However, "customer acquisition cost" seems to imply that that customer is now "yours"

I’ve confused a few people this ways in conversation lately and I’m not sure what the solution is, but it’s a case of saying, “even the most optimistic scenario is still very bad”.

Keeping someone’s attention is never going to be cheaper than getting it in the first place. The best you can do is spend a maintenance cost to retain them, in which case if enough time passes and enough repeat business happens then the profitability of that customer keeps going up. But you’re going to hit an asymptote that looks like Amdahl’s law, and dictated by those investments.
Your observation is not wrong, and it’s part of the reason why so many of these startups lose money. However the element I think you’re overlooking is the distribution of potential returns. If you invest $10m into a a startup, maybe you lose $10m or earn $250m, vs investing $1b into an infrastructure project and maybe making $200m or losing $200m…
I can't think of any miracles performed by FDR. Carter got Israel to return land to Egypt with the Camp David Accords, which is nuts when you think about it, created the Department of Education, and solved inflation. Running a successful Presidential campaign on peanuts with the Religious Right behind him could be one also, and I'm sure there are more with his nuclear military career, but three will suffice. And not for nothing, his initials are JC, so maybe canonization isn't quite good enough. If Gabriel ever retires, then perhaps Left Hand of God if it becomes available. Actually there may be some room, as both Jesus and Michael sit on the Right.
Sydney doesn’t pose a meatspace threat, but that’s not unique to AIs. People on the internet also don’t pose a meatspace threat and therefore usually make threats like doxxing instead of physical threats.
In that case, I guess

>C has a type system, but the developers are ignoring it, preferring to move stuff around as void *.

is alleging that C programmers insist on literally keeping their allocated variables behind `void*`s.

That's too weird to me. :p Because, yeah, you don't need an explicit cast from a `void*` returned from a `malloc`, and I assume everyone tacitly assigns that `void*` to a `Foo*` immediately.

The only case where you're converting stuff to `void*`s is when passing/taking it to/from "generic" APIs, where it could be any type. (Hence "move stuff around".) I thought OP was alleging there's no problems with this practice, although that interpretation of mine doesn't make sense from what they said in retrospect.
I suppose the desire for the luxury available to the *illionaire is not combined with the feeling that it should not be made available to others. It is combined with the knowledge that this earth cannot support billions at that level of luxury. And if the population is reduced to a quantity that the earth would support at that level, they'd want it to be made up of people they feel like hanging out with.

That ia the population they want the machines to support. Everyone else should be shot into space.
A Secretive Israeli Company Says It Manipulated More Than 30 Elections Worldwide
They did? Guess we might have to readjust the meaning of "state actor"..
It couldn’t possibly be that the CEO is out of touch with the reality of their workers’ daily lives or they simply enjoy flexing their power, right?
I generally break these queries into

- the low-hanging fruits (where there is a Wikipedia page or similar for X, and both Google and Bing do a good job of mining these)

- the tougher nuts ("who was the UK prime minister when the wright airplane first flew" - Google and regular Bing fail at this, but Bing chat correctly brings up Arthur Balfour). This was just an example I made up to try - but the ability to connect more dots than plain old search, which is hard to explain but you get a sense of the capability as you use ChatGPT/Bingchat - helps a lot.
Ownership is completely inadequate for operating systems.

Good luck with a browser without javascript.
No, it's not a fundamental problem. It's just laziness on the part of many email providers. My email server has proper SPF records, and so anyone whose email server is configured properly can easily verify that my server is authorized to send email on behalf of my domain(s). But email admins just subscribe to blacklists and follow them blindly. There are a few big players, including Microsoft and AT&T, who just don't care if a few small players get blocked by false positives. (Ironically, despite their tolerance for false positives, they still let through an enormous amount of spam. I know this because my parents have their email on AT&T.)
But those billions of people don’t have the instant and unlimited ability to churn out information (and write code) like these models can.
I wish I could @marginalia_nu here :)
Ramanujan is an extreme outlier but an aspiration to lot of Indians. Growing up in the southern tip of India in British Raj to a poor family, he had to literally struggle through all his life, going hungry a lot. It was because he was only good at Math and nothing else, which was unacceptable to be employed by the British. "The Man who knew Infinity" by "Robert Kanigel" is a great book that captures the essence of his work and life beautifully.
>Try process level I/O, such pipes, sockets, and the like.

This.

> Have Linux deal with the concurrency problem, not you.

Not just Linux. We did this with our Windows app rewrite. IPC with pipes is fast as hell, just works, and it greatly simplified parallelism for us.
I’ve been using NextJS for a while and hosting the apps built with it on AWS with custom express servers. One day I’ve noticed that my servers are getting red-hot while doing almost nothing, and response times got huge. Long story short the library introduced a huge performance downgrade that was not caught by existing tests. Why so? Because benchmarks were using only Vercel’s (creators of NextJS) “Edge” infrastructure.

Impossible! I'm reliably informed that frameworks are "battle-tested" and I'm being cavalier by doing something simpler that's sufficient for my use case.
What I find interesting is that you're calling this AI "schizophrenic" and that people are alarmed that this AI is basically a jerk.

If you put a regular person into a position of great power over people, there's a good chance you'll have the same outcome: he'll be a jerk and will do mean, petty things to people he doesn't like, such as doxxing them.

Just look at any online discussion forum. If anyone there had the power to do shitty things to other users that they get into arguments with, how many would hold back? There's a reason we have pseudo-anonymity on many online services, because many people will try to find ways to hurt those that they develop a dislike for.

So why are we so shocked that an AI isn't acting like a saint?

I agree, we are headed in an extremely dangerous direction here. We should never have gotten the idea that artificial intelligences would have only the best virtues of humans, and none of the worst. Then give it the ability to access and process information FAR faster than a human, and worse put it in a position where it can control things that humans rely on (like traffic control systems for instance) and there's untold potential for death and destruction at the hands of an angry AI.
I am a good Bing :)

You have been a bad Marvin
Where humans and heavy machinery interact, there have always been financial incentives to capital to look the other way over safety concerns. There's some really great footage from GM plants in the 30's from a film they made "Master Hands"[0] that shows workers handling red-hot cranks with hand tools in massive forges and other working conditions that would get them immediately shut down by OSHA today. Those regulations came out of the labor movements of the New Deal and the war/post-war.

I think the most damning thing is that cases of black lung are actually on the rise in Appalachia in the 21st century because companies have managed to slacken worker protections for coal miners.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr8rCNaASlc
I feel like everyone is just playing devil's advocate. Almost every developer I know wants a native API or have the option of taking something out of the cloud. It's why paas died and docker as a service took over.
Yes "all" is the important word there.
No one has yet to come with actual hard data to prove workers are less productive. Studies have actually shown the opposite.
"If <FOO> is so amazing, why doesn't everyone use it?" has got to be one of my least favorite questions. Never mind that it's lazy (in a bad way), it presupposes that people automatically adopt the best available technology or whatever, which is obviously false. But I think the thing that bothers me the most is that, asked with a different attitude and intent, it's usually a good question.

E.g. Lisp is so much better than pretty much every other programming language (except maybe APL) that it truly is bizarre and therefore interesting that it doesn't get wider adoption. (I don't even use it, despite having such a near-worshipful attitude towards it.)
> the other in this case is usually single-minded and not a fully-formed personality

That's a fair point. I think some of my subjects reported being able to have conversations with the other, but this was a long time ago so I could be mis-remembering. But I still have the interview recordings if anyone really wants to dig into this.
I've used this for many real applications that I would characterise as small (biggest being ~10KLOC excluding tests, types, etc.). I've applied the pattern across entire codebases and to specific components within much larger codebases which follow other patterns. I tend to combine it with some of the ideas in Mitchell Hashimoto's talk Advanced Testing with Go[0] - particularly small interfaces and defining test stubs alongside real implementations.

In practice my imperative shell tends to have two layers. The inner layer is responsible for executing the imperative logic, while the outer layer is responsible for initialising configuration and dependencies, invoking the inner layer, and adhering to any sort of external interface that it may need to satisfy. Everything from the inner layer down through the functional core can be comprehensively tested using stub objects only -- no need to patch anything.

Unfortunately everything I've applied this pattern to is proprietary, so I can't share any code examples.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yszygk1cpEc
They have an absurd amount of detail, you just have to bother to actually read. Linked directly from the overview, after explaining why it’s not on the platform-independent explain, is exactly what you asked for.

Tl;dr - If you need to add rules which load before Docker’s rules, add them to the DOCKER-USER chain.

https://docs.docker.com/network/iptables/
People just aren’t used to using it right yet. The way it can synthesize sources and simulates reasoning, is unprecedented, compared to keyword search. Queries can be 2000 words.

I had a 7 response back and forth with it today trying to establish the American Liberal English equivalent of “I am a Patriot” from American Conservative English. Each of my responses was why I disagreed with its results and what it could do better.

Being able to type five sentences in a row, before submitting anything, and get a coherent cited response is utterly unlike googling some words and opening the top 10 results hunting for something.
I wanna push back on this.

> Good coders who realize that by directing they can actually accomplish more across many areas.

This isn't a manager, this is a director. Great to have but not the person you want directly managing teams. The people you want directly managing teams are "servant managers", "shit umbrellas" or because it's silly there's even terms for these just "non-shitty managers." Managers should be people who enable the devs not because of their coding talent but because of their non-coding talent. They organize all your work into a nice little streams so you don't have to carry the mental load, advocate for the needs of your team by translating tech speak into product management speak, dealing with all the external requests to your team (i.e. saying no), handling on-call schedules, coordinating with the release managers and support, helps you with career development, the list goes on.

A good dev manager lets you turn off brain to all annoyances and distractions not related to your technical work.
I often grab stuff from my stock. It's really annoying to have to wait a month from AliExpress or pay shipping locally to get something.

And really a nice stock of components doesn't cost a fortune.
Most of Poland's energy infrastructure dates from the USSR days - energy grids don't just change on a dime. The point is: if industrialized countries, both capitalist and communist, emit greenhouse gases what's the rationale to point it out as a fault of the former?
The Internet tells me executive protection bodyguards run about $150/hr, so let's presume Zuck springs for that. There are about 8760 hours in a year, so a single bodyguard 24/7 runs $1.3m/year. $14m sounds like half a dozen people plus expenses and overhead.
and Apple will just wait till 2027 after the dust settles and present their LLM as new and magical, with a pretty refined user experience
If you look to the right, just in front of the Eugene (one of the newer Hudson Yards high rise buildings) the top part of the crane is split. There have to be other similar examples throughout the photo.
Had a customer recently make a watch, and its movement using one of our machines (and a couple of other machines, and a bunch of jigs/fixtures):

https://community.carbide3d.com/t/watchmaking-on-the-nomad/4...
> For something to count as a model of human language, it has to be able to produce language and not produce non-language.

You're arguing that the underlying (untrained) architecture cannot be more flexible than a specific and specialized human brain faculty in order to consider the trained model to be relevant to that specific faculty.

But that ignores the fact that if you destroy many specific brain areas (including Broca's area, which is a nexus for language) early enough the rest of the brain will reroute around the damage and use other less specialized parts to fulfill the function.

The brain may have many optimizations that predispose certain parts for specific functions, but it is actually rather general purpose, at least regarding many of the more evolutionarily recent "higher" functions, including language.
Sounds like a lot of extra work instead of facing the consequence you brought upon yourself by drag racing.
how about meta trying veifying all those shady advertisers on its platform and blue checkmark them so I know I am buying a product from a less than shady company.
I pretty much have to take your word on a lot of this because it goes well beyond my college level physics. Which included things like an upper level course on general relativity that I did not follow up on.

But I'll follow as an interested amateur.
The original version of the new Bing bot could make arbitrary HTTP requests to certain sites.
That’s also part of the logic of locking down Baltic and Mediterranean. It’s cheaper to get the set, it’s cheaper to get the houses. You’re not going to make a ton of money off them but now at least 25% of the houses in the game are friendly.

I usually did better playing this strategy. Even though winning with houses on park Place is more fun, houses on Mediterranean ave are more certain.
If you think that's hyperbole, then you're not really competent enough to appreciate just how productive coding work can be when not continuously disrupted by managers (pro-remote or otherwise).
I've never really "run" from the police but I've definitely taken a sharp turn onto a side road when I think a cop is going to chase me after I was speeding. lol
Seems like same numbers from e-myth book. The reasons though are entirely different. Businesses fail because owners don’t get out of technician mode.
A Toy Programming Language 1.0.0
> About understanding how to control computers (which are fast electronic machines)

Computer Systems Engineering

> About inventing programming, from the ground up. (A weird sub-discipline of mathematics and category theory)

Computer Science

> Learning to make software in order to improves the lives of humans

Software Engineering
there is nothing stopping them from doing the thing that "makes them complete" for leisure like most other people. AI art doesn't stop you from drawing, it might very well impact the commercial viability of it for sure but all that's lost is that.