skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> “the intellectual godfather of an effort that failed for 60 years”,

Here's the entire comment:

>> In this piece Chomsky, the intellectual godfather god of an effort that failed for 60 years to build machines that can converse in ordinary language, condemns the effort that succeeded.

Not only is that a personal attack, it's a completely absurd fabriaction: Chosmky did not work for 60 years on creating chatbots ("machines that can converse in ordinary language").

I see that Aaronson added a comment to his blog to stop people calling him out for that. But the comment doubles down on the absurdity and says that Chomsky is "regarded as the highest authority" by some vaguely defined faction of "anti-statistical" someone or other.

Like many people who have only recently heard about AI, Aaronson has heard of things he has only partly-digested, like for example that there are two "camps" in AI, but of course he has a very superficial understanding of what that means. The "old guard" of AI researchers, as he calls them elsewhere in his post were always polymaths with contributions in many fields.

Take Claude Shannon for example (oh, you didn't know? Shannon was at Dartmouth and one of the people who invented the name "Artificial Intelligence" for the workshop there). He invented logic gates, and information theory. There is no separation like the one that Aaronson is trying to make, it's only in his head and in the heads of people who treat the whole AI debate as a football game, and just want to be cheerleaders for the home team.

And he still hasn't removed that embarrassing attack from his article. Well I hope he goes down as the guy who thought Chomsky worked on chatbots. If that's the hill he really wants to die on...
btw, i'll email you to arrange the interview
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(I've also very recently launched curateddawlessjams.com)
"Also in France they pushed KYC to a degree its ridiculous. Here you got to fill a full A4 form to move 3000+€"
While it is true some French banks have some ridiculous red tapes I can assure you that not all French banks are like that. Plus for the majority of banking operations you can use foreign services like Revolut or Wise with much less frictions and even an API.
You knew it wouldn’t when you asked for that though lol.
Nice stories, and I don't doubt that some money can be productively invested. But does the marginal dollar saved wind up in a productive investment, or does it wind up malinvested? In other words, is money the bottleneck for increasing productivity, or is it figuring out improved processes and predicting the future economic landscape?
Would a union controlling companies' access to labor not be considered supply side?
Well, you can't train LLM on "facts alone", since they are basically throwing darts at the next word, not using information to craft a message. But I hear your larger point: it'd be nice to have an agent that was trained on wikipedia information, but already spoke a language
I actually like the office and don’t like working from home. It’s the commute that makes me work remotely.

I start my shower 15 minutes before work and am online and productive. Going into the office adds on at least an hour and all the intangibles with it (gas, drycleaning, food, etc).

And childcare is so possible with remote work and much more difficult with commuting.

If I could teleport instantaneously to my office I would choose it in a heartbeat.
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> For broad-based usage, things are less likely to break with glibc. For a specific use case, that may be less important. As a dangerous generalization, musl is usually lighter on resources, but glibc is faster. If using ARM or very limited hardware, musl may in fact be faster, but with more available hardware resources, glibc usually wins, often by using non-standard optimizations (cheating).

https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/muoqis/comment/g...
Actually this raises interesting question. Does Tether itself hold any 10-year bonds? And if there was a run on them, could they honor the peg?
https://www.token2.com/shop/product/fido-bundle-2-x-fido2-us... ? or https://www.token2.com/shop/product/token2-t2f2-typec-fido2-... , but there's no 2x bundle.
Almost certainly GPU
I don't really agree it's unfortunate. I think the "throw everyone into the same pot" has been an unfortunate side effect of the commercializing of communication. BBSes and forums were allowed to grow organically. They weren't for everyone, but anyone who wanted to be a good-faith participant in the conversation was generally welcomed, while baddies were moderated out by moderators who were actually empowered. Some would say over-empowered (there was plenty of drama about moderators having biases and what-not) but then communities could split without people necessarily feeling like they had just been excommunicated from a global forum like Facebook or Twitter.

In short, I think people are wired to do better in smaller groups and I welcome this balkanization, albeit with the caveat that the communities can interconnect and grow/shrink/die/emerge organically to suit the needs of the people within them instead of commercial investors.
Bridging Async and Sync Rust Code – A lesson learned while working with Tokio
They better not pull a Google Talk to Mastodon.
Yeah, I'm a fourth generation musician and a second generation singer-songwriter. I've always done it guerrilla style with basic Firewire/USB interfaces and mostly free or cheap apps.

The only interesting thing about what I do, probably, is that I use a fair bit of algorithmic composition even with rock songs - I'll use a chain of Ableton randomizers to generate arpeggios or pads, or chord changes or bass lines, and then find bits I like and use those. Occasionally I'll write some JS to generate pieces, but rarely.

I'm a second generation digital musician as well - my mom was a Nashville country singer, but she used synths and Cakewalk for DOS to demo stuff back when nobody was really doing that at home, and I was her mini-engineer as a kid. In the early 90s I started doing sampling stuff with Sound Recorder in Windows 3.1, and then later with trackers and such. These days my favorite tool is my iPad Pro, with every kind of synth emulator and an expressive touch interface.

Here's a couple of examples of my stuff, a totally algorithmic piece I did about twenty years ago (Jesus) and a more straight rock/blues number that's more Tom Waits-ish. Probably not interesting for your readers, but I'm proud of doing this stuff completely by myself in a bedroom.

https://on.soundcloud.com/TbDWy

https://legbaandsons.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-dust-digital...
i hate the feel of cheap paper
I'd say rather they don't miss losing a big bag or two so much as others do...
I had the same thought. HOTP or TOTP with a phone seem like a better bet for 2FA these days.
Especially if that risk is borne by the taxpayers
There are currently $2.1T US dollars in circulation. Far more than there is in bitcoin.
What if someone gets 2 of the yubikeys?
ChatGPT has over 100 million users 2 months in. It's not even remotely comparable to VR or blockchain.
> There's no one-size-fits all and different companies will work with different models. You're not forced to work at any particular company and no company should be expected to be the right place for all profiles.

I think that certain things being "normalized" industry wide has better outcomes, such as someone with a bad commute being able to speak up about working remotely could get rid of that, because remote work is considered commonplace now. Or maybe someone who has a busy home life could be able to spend more time in the office with reserved seating or get a coworking space funded.

Remote work wasn't always "normal" and many didn't even see it as viable if not for the pandemic. Some are mandating returns to the office and a part of that extends to the shaping of the public perception of remote work, along exaggerated statements like "remote workers are worse at collaboration and don't even have the discipline to get dressed properly". While I don't follow Joshua Fluke, I think he had a few videos about similar statements on his YouTube channel a year or two back - sometimes outright misrepresentations of remote work, made to fit a particular perspective.

But as long as people don't attempt to misrepresent what remote/in-office work is like, I think it's perfectly fine for organizations to structure themselves around whatever works for them. I just figured I'd mention the public perception aspect of it all, because sometimes stigma is harmful, e.g. how discussing one's compensation being "taboo" in some places can make one's perception of how much a certain kind of work is valued at inaccurate.
1. I don't agree the syntax is inconsistent at all. All Java type declarations are terminated with a `}`. Using a different terminator is inconsistent, and that's the thing that requires justification. For the time being, while records are still new, the justification of saving a single character was deemed insufficient. When it comes to inference, I also don't see an inconsistency. Inference infers types or type argument based on the available data. For example, in `var x = new ArrayList<>()` there is simply no information that can allow us to infer a type argument; on the other hand, if a method's return type is `List<String>`, `return new ArrayList<>()` can infer the argument.

2. Even if there were inconsistencies, and certainly when it comes the the concrete complaints, people not only disagree on what's a preferable feature (I, for one, strongly dislike extension methods -- and consider them an anti-feature with a negative overall contribution -- and much prefer default methods) but they also don't pick a language based on one feature or another but based on a gestalt of properties. The languages mentioned by the commenters make different tradeoffs that have significant downsides alongside their upsides (e.g. they don't match the evolution of the platform; they add implicitness that makes it harder for some to read code; they have a lot of features that need to be learned, each of which is pretty underpowered), and it seems that more people prefer the overall tradeoffs Java makes.

BTW, languages also have important meta-features. For example, every language needs to adapt over time, and the question is how it does so. The three languages that have managed to successfully support large programs that can evolve over time, maintained by changing teams -- C, Java, and to a lesser extent C++ -- have shown they take evolution seriously. They maintain compatibility and choose their features carefully (well, C++ maybe less so). Kotlin has lots of features, but it already has more outdated large features than Java because it adds features to address a certain problem and then the platform addresses them in an altogether different way (data classes, async functions), and as a result it's showing its age quicker, too. Java has proven that it evolves well, and many think it evolves better than most other languages.
Very reminiscent of what Ilograph is doing for system diagrams: https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Ilograph/Request

(FD: I am working on this)
Does the "Amen break" [1] qualify? Man, I love that one.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
If you do not have childcare you can not work... from home or otherwise

and trust me your co-workers will notice and be annoyed by having to pick up the slack
Understanding computer networks by analogy (2000)
Correct me if I'm wrong or missing something, but doesn't the use of SSH resident keys still require a file to be present on the client before it can authenticate? I'm prompted to use the SK to prove my 'presence' after the standard identity secret keyfile is checked.

To be clear, my goal is to simply plug in my SK to a fresh OS install and "magically" be able to SSH into my servers.
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I don't remember where I heard this, but the method was described to me using the story of how a suspension bridge is built: first an arrow with twine tied to it is shot from one side of the canyon to the other. Then that twine is used to pull thicker twine, then rope, then steel cables, and so on. From a string to a suspension bridge, with the gap between the canyons conquered the entire time. To achieve large scale software projects, start with the thinnest logical twine that goes from start to finish for the project at hand, and build out with a start to finish operating environment as soon as possible and throughout the duration of the project.
I understand the basics of gradient descent and was a math major, and while applications of that idea are very cool, I don’t think the weird shapes you can make are genuinely generative. I think that generative capability is illusory, it’s “just” smushing existing content together in a weird way. That best fit shape is inherently derivative and not how true creativity and thought which understands context works.

It’s like a weird parrot. But I think a parrot “understands” more because of the shared embedded evolutionary context it has.

That evolutionary history has the key to true intelligence somewhere, but personally I think it’s inevitably hidden/I don’t think we’ll ever understand how intuition and truly non-derivative, non propositional human thought works.

I also don’t think any of what I’m saying negates the value of these models. These models are fantastic autofill generators for a huge swath of different applications and can vastly improve productivity. I’m saying all this in a lot of threads where it comes up because it seems clear there’s going to be too much enthusiastic adoption, which is going to effectively destroy a lot of value of the internet.

The internet is the best tool for finding genuinely creative and novel ideas you were unexposed to that has ever existed. But it is increasingly dominated by derivative unoriginal content that drowns out what I would argue it was designed to help you find. I have no problem with derivative unoriginal content when it’s properly understood as such. I have a problem with how good these things seem to be at tricking people into following something derivative and blind, which seems very very dangerous.
Is distributing these cursors OK legally speaking? I guess as part of a screenshot it's probably fair use.
A Japanese Mega-Kitchen Prepares Thousands of School Lunches Everyday
It is called an "Office" if you want to provide one I am happy to talk. If you want me to work in a noisy communal room I am happy to walk.
> people fake work sitting in their homes

People fake work sitting in offices. If someone is going to fake work in the office, why not let them fake work from home and safe everyone a hassle. Or maybe incentivize real work over fake work.

I worked with someone in the office next to mine for a few years and he was running a side business the whole time. It was bizarre how brazen he was, but people are interesting and varied.

Remote work isn’t perfect, but it’s not like office work was perfect either. It’s like showing an example of a welfare cheat and saying “we can’t give welfare to help parents because people claim imaginary kids.”
I think at the very least this is going to lead to some major changes in UI design, but first they need to reel it in and get it under control instead of training it off of Reddit posts and then making a surprise pikachu face when it turns out to be an arrogant cunt.

But it's definitely not going to go nearly as far as people are predicting. The more i use it the more it becomes apparent to me that there's no real intelligence behind it, just large-scale pattern recognition that makes it seem real because I'm not intelligent enough to comprehend the patterns.
You don't write production code unless there is a need for it.

The need is documented in a failing test case.

Where does the failing test case come from?

Hopefully from some other part of the code needing that code to be there. Or are you just conjuring up test cases out of thin air? If you're doing that, I'd venture you're not doing TDD.

And certainly doing a spike to get the lay of the land is very mach part of XP where TDD came from.

As is slicing your system vertically, so complete units of functionality within an incomplete system.

Rather than slicing horizontally, which is what you seem to be doing.
It's saying switchovers, when refactoring a system, can be hard, with a big risk of unforeseen complications.

So identify as narrow a case as you can, implement that first, and once that's good, build out from there.

That is, break down your problem into manageable chunks. Nothing new...

the part that might not be obvious (there are many ways to break down a problem, after all) is the idea to fully deliver a narrow case.

Seems pretty reasonable to me.
Ventura is macOS 13.
Why would the clientele be slightly more sophisticated?
In implementing an AI to achieve orbit in a Spacewar-style simulation with gravity, I ended up with a brute-force constraint optimizer that resembles MCP(I've never studied the theory): for each timestep, predict the solutions resulting for each combination of digital thrust inputs(left, right, forward, backwards). Then predict ahead several more steps with additional permutations of input. Then evaluate distance to goal and rank final solution by distance to target orbit and velocity match.

In doing this, it results in a few hundreds to thousands of solutions to test per timestep, which modern CPUs can shrug off easily. Not nearly as elegant as closed-form control theory systems, but easy to tune and give different goals.
Is there not an enormous difference between spreading gossip (in my mind, always about someone in particular, which this is absolutely not, or at least not to anyone not neck deep in bay area software circles) and relating instructive, anonymized anecdotes? I'm not sure how you're reading this as gossip.
> Where as the modern way is more like 100$ in deposits means you can lend out 1000$

More like 20,000$, but yes.
Civ 4, of course, is mostly Python.
See my other comment for why I don't think SSH resident keys accomplish what I'm looking for. I'll have to experiment with using gpg-agent a bit, that sounds promising although potentially irritating to configure cross platform.
Are youtube comments indexed by Google for public search? I've never managed to find my own comments via search!
I’ve never met a good programmer who didn’t always have a trail of unsolicited job offers following them.

Obviously there are many situations, but I think many people can be selective about where they work.
That'll happen if you keep using the same version number for two decades ;) .

Ventura is latest version of MacOS and that's version 13.
I can't download any iOS apps. Sometimes I try but it doesn't work, even though I'm using the latest web browser.
Every large enterprise as a subset of people who spend their time pretending to work rather than actually working.

Remember that 500 out of 58,000 is only 0.9%.
It’s a bit amusing that your comment is making fun of Americans for widely holding an untrue belief, and then you conveniently make an example of yourself doing the exact same thing.
I usually find it’s about three comments deep that Americans find a way to start taking potshots at the other team whenever the concepts of “censorship” or “freedoms” arise. Canadians and Europeans are usually able to discuss these things without referencing Trump or Biden or Clinton or whomever is on the American mind these days. It’s as if one can’t imagine a world where censorship is anything but a tool the evil Red/Blue team will use to steal the next election.
Dunno. I've upgraded my brother mfc from 9020cdw to l8900cdw and both quality and speed are lot higher in the newer model. So the progress over 8 years is clearly visible in this case.
> Because stocks are based on an underlying real company producing real services and goods

No, they are not. Stocks prices are solely based on their supply and demand in the market. Products and services may play a role in the demand fro the stock, but they are not the sole determinate of price. Take AMC for example...
Crypto has intrinsic value. It provides named globally immutable lists. As they can be named anything you like and may or may not enforce additional whatnot rules - it leads to a lot of confusion (gr8 4 crooks).
A Guide to Reclaim Our Attention
> ...won't sell as many cars at relatively high margins over the next few years...

To judge by the venting of a car-buff coworker, who needs to buy a slightly-affordable car for his son, the days of lower volumes & margins on cars may be a bit further out.
Imaginationless idea-free implements.

So, when will ChatGPT write a credible self-critical article?

Oh wait, it really cannot. It can only transform text. The difference between writing and producing text does indeed exist.
I only can imagine that banks, telecoms (and states) verify that you are a real person. Maybe we can have some organizations that disconnect your accounts from your identity. Maybe not, and everyone has to use their real identity. In the times of chatGPT there will be no other way to distinguish real people from bots.

Like how facebook or github account depend on your phone number, or free trials depend on your credit card number.
I agree, but I'm not doing that though. I'm genuinely curious about whether or not it's possible and what that would mean. It seems to me that if it is possible it could potentially have significant ramifications for our understanding of our own thought process and our place in relation to other animals.

I started this thread simply by saying that the GP had applied a falsifiability standard to Chomsky that they weren't applying to their own reasoning when saying more or less that the model would have opinions were it not for artificial restrictions imposed by the programmers[1]. If whether the model has an opinion or not is a matter of definition that seems inherently unfalsifiable. However if we can establish a more objective basis then it could be falsifiable. I just don't know what that basis might be.

[1] Apologies if this is a mischaracterization - I genuinely don't mean to do so if it is.
I might be wrong but I think it's a standard feature of Substack (the blogging platform), not author's choice.
At least, I see it on Substack articles nearly every time
You’re looking for a brokerage.
> but things look good

There is an ocean of difference between medical transition and stimulants/SSRIs. The main one being that the latter category do not cause irreversible change to the body. You can just stop taking them and be more or less as you were before. This isn't true for a medical transition that begins in adolescence. Infertility, mastectomy, and significant increases in lifetime cancer risk all represent irreversible harm.
Not giving up sadly, recently they launched bing.com/create.
How Much Energy Do AI and ChatGPT Use?
Am I the only one who actually liked Google+?

I know that some of the features were available later in some other social networks too, but the original premise of making groups (friends, family, coworkers, random people I met I don't know where,...) and posting selective content into selective groups was great.
So if the "intelligence community" says something without these modifiers attached, does that mean it's probably bullshit?

As an example, I looked up Colin Powell's UN speech about WMDs in Iraq. There's nothing about something being almost certain or having a high confidence. He stated it was a fact based on solid intelligence.
https://github.com/OpenHV/OpenHV/releases

I also built it from source on my machine fine, and played a few skirmishes.
YubiKeys are more fragile than phones. One time a drop of water got on my plugged-in YubiKey and it stopped working for 2 days
This might be what you’re looking for:

https://protomaps.com/docs/pmtiles

Looks like protomaps supports up to zoom level 14 for free:

https://app.protomaps.com/downloads/small_map