skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For what it's worth I'm from Denmark, so maybe its totally different in the US.

To weigh in a bit on some of the differences between employment in Denmark and the US.

- In the US there are no mandated (paid or unpaid) vacation days/time off (with the exception of 3-4 of the 50 states).

- There are no mandated paid sick days.

- You are granted at most 12 weeks of unpaid sick leave per year by the FMLA however if you actually take advantage of this, most companies will simply let you go for another, unspecified reason (as you are not required to document or explain why you have let go or fire an employee).

- There is no mandated paternity leave, paid or unpaid. Maternity leave falls under unpaid sick leave.

- On average (but not required), employees get 10-20 days of paid time off (combined between vacation and sick time).

- The US obviously has atrocious health care costs that unless you are very lucky end up eating non-negligible portions of your paycheck. (just insurance before any actual received care is on average is ~450USD/month)

- US Universities cost a lot of money and if you aren't going into the trades, you will be dedicating a large, non-negligible portion of your paycheck towards paying loans (avg: ~40k USD loans, ~150-300USD/month).

- In almost any part of the US outside of a small selection of major cities, you cannot work or live without a car. (avg car insurance ~150USD/month, avg cost of fuel ~150-200USD/month, maintenance, etc can be assumed to be another 25-100USD/month).

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That works out to on average around ~900-1200USD/month or ~10.8k-14.4k USD/year in costs (if you aren't going to university you can subtract 450USD/month or 5400USD/year from this) that are essentially unavoidable for the overwhelming majority of Americans which likely are avoidable in a country like Denmark as long as you don't live in an overly rural area.

Realistically this means that for the average American (~31k/year), anywhere from 17-46% of their income goes to expenses that aren't necessarily applicable to people in a decent chunk of western Europe (particularly the urban/suburban parts). And on top of this, for many Americans, any life complication or sickness that prevents them from working causes that percentage to rise (both from increased costs and decreased income).
Sometimes I think autocorrect needs a little divine guidance, it is remarkably bad at correcting anything to certain words I forget the spelling off, and sometimes it’s definitely got a bias in its “most likely word” and I’m not suggesting a prejudicial bias, just a bias that’s less than ideal for me, and it never seems to learn that i never use one word over the other spans just keeps suggesting the words I don’t want over the ones I do.
The only take-home message here is that people who claim to write 'self-documenting code' are well, let's not be hyperbolistic, but come on. No comments on that code example? Every line could have an explanatory comment, then the author could remember what they were thinking at the time and it would probably help the AI out too.

> "People who claim code can document itself considered harmful"
I feel the same way. I wonder what makes people so easily believe the hype, and spread more hype along the way. What happened to Metaverse? Web3? BlockChain?

Just like yesterday I get on my knees and pray, we won't get fooled again -The Who
Whenever these kinds of comments are made, the short story “Profession” comes to mind by Isaac Asimov. In this story people’s aptitudes are evaluated and the relevant knowledge and skills are downloaded. The protagonist of the story however keeps being rejected for download and has to struggle to acquire the same skills his peers acquire instantly and magically. It’s a great read with a fantastic ending.

The morale is that it’s always better to have unique hard won skill sets that others don’t. Double down on those. Think of LLMs as freeing you to do more interesting high level tasks. Rather than having to build those menial tasks, what if you focused on your creativity getting the AI to build new types of product or gain new insights that peers aren’t considering. What if you leveraged the AI to build prototypes of ideas you wouldn’t have to otherwise?

Of course that’s easier said than done. For now, take comfort in the fact that no one is seriously trusting this as anything more than a glorified autocomplete (if that).
I've been using the Godot game engine and C# to make various utilities. Not quite as dummy simple as WinForms but it's super easy and fun to use.
I am skeptical about using the method of generating a large amount of repository data and sending it, because there may be too many files in the repository. I think a better approach might be for OpenAI to open an interface for transferring GIT repositories, and then let OpenAI analyze the repository data, which is similar to what [chatpdf](https://www.chatpdf.com/) is doing.
I think most people see where the puck is going, and even where it is right now is very impressive. It's not hard to see that it will be likely less than 5 years before it will be able to do what you did on day 2, and much more, at a tiny fraction of the cost, with no downtime, no attitude problems, sick days, etc. The things you mentioned (taking on board feedback, testing across devices, iterating on solutions) doesn't seem very far away at all.

The rate of increase in capabilities is also unpredictable, which is what is amazing & terrifying.
I think there’s a general trend online where people post tweets on places like Reddit where others might assume the tweet is factual. As a standard disclaimer, just because someone claimed on Twitter that SpaceX messed up the reaction wheels does not mean it’s true. Unless there’s more concrete proof, we should not automatically assume it’s true.
Non-productive work is exactly what breaking a window and then fixing it is, as well as doing work that is far better done by machine.

As to distribution of economic fruits, as I mentioned before, replacing labor with machines made the US the most prosperous country in history, along with the richest poor people.
yeah I use jmp.chat because I got tired of the whole VoLTE shenanigans.
Well, if joe doe can now make a picture that rivals Pixar’s and it’s a commercial success, that puts a lot of pressure on Pixar & Co to reduce costs. Doesn’t matter whether joe doe gets rich with this or not.
So it continues to reaffirm what we’ve known: generative LLM does not have a model of the world, can not reason and can not plan. It generates text by mix-matching remembered texts and thus it can not generate truly new content.

No surprise because GPT-4 is built upon the same model as GPT-3. Clever Engineering will bring us far, but breakthrough requires change of the fundamentals.

Nevertheless, it’s useful and can helps us solve problems when we guide it and split the work into many smaller subunits.
Amazon doesn't want you to have a subscription to the New York Times. Amazon wants you to have a subscription to Amazon Unlimited, which would include access to the New York Times. Amazon would then pay the New York Times and all other periodicals an amount that Amazon thinks is fair based on how many people are reading their articles, like Amazon Unlimited books.

This is very bad for big periodicals with many subscribers. Under the current model, they get a predictable amount of income and are motivated by keeping the bar high for their content, lest they lose subscribers. Under the new model, their income is entirely based on how many people pick up that issue and read it, which makes it very hard to budget. It also likely means an inevitable slide into "politician SLAMMED other politican, and you'll NEVER BELIEVE what happened next" headlines, since extra clicks are very directly your periodical's source of income.

This is very good news for Amazon because it gives them far more bargaining power against publishers. Right now, if The New York Times decides that Amazon's terms favor Amazon too strongly, the Times walks, and Amazon doesn't get any more money from Times subscribers. Under this system, if the Times walks because Amazon terms favor Amazon too strongly, Amazon keeps the subscribers.

This is moderately good news for customers who read a bunch of stuff on Amazon Unlimited. You now get to read whatever you like for probably around the same cost, and the stuff you naturally choose to read will end up getting a bit of money from it. Yay.

This is probably moderately good news for niche, popcorn periodicals. If you have a "Werewolf Romance Weekly Short Fiction" magazine or "DIY Productivity Tip Of the Week" newsletter, you'll quite possibly make way more money by attracting idly browsing Amazon Unlimited customers than you would have been able to if you had needed to convince people to subscribe to your service.
Even when I graduated in 2004 there were lots of people there for the money side of it rather than much interest in programming / computing itself. I would say maybe 1/4 or less were taking more interest.
IANAL but AFAIK the way this typically works (as a general principle of administrative law in… most/many countries?) is that the administrative bodies who are delegated the power to make decisions are the authority on them.

If a court reviews a decision of an administrative body, the court typically starts with the assumption that the decision was correct, and puts a relatively high bar towards reversing that decision. Typically a decision of an administrative body would only be overturned by a court if that decision was patently unreasonable or fell outside the jurisdiction of the body (eg.: if it violated a different law or some constitutional provision).

YMMV in different countries (I know more about Canada).
GPT won't even have to decide that, we'll look for ways to expand the model to self learn and tell it to do just that. Self improving AI is the goal for a lot of people.

Not that this is a particularly controllable goal, nor a long term smart goal if you're human.
This is a somewhat harsh take. I've met plenty of programmers also set in their ways in that C or Python is the only language needed and that concurrency or functional programming is "hard" and thus not worth learning. Whereas I find concurrency and functional programming, given the correct language for it like F#, LabVIEW, Elixir, etc., is easy and manageable. It just all depends on context and experience and additionally philosophy.

For me, I have been developing for several years in several different contexts and consider myself a decent software developer who focuses a lot on proper design and implementation, readability, maintainability, speed when needed, etc. However, I am relatively weak on all the various Unix tooling (I know the general basics of course) and am currently trying to address that. Reasons for this are that I worked professionally for a long time in a Windows environment. Any scripting done was via PowerShell, which is a quite powerful tool and language and something I actually often prefer given the readability, if not verboseness, of the commandlet names or via the programming language used. My more Linux oriented roles or projects are more recent and have used languages like Elixir or F#. Since both of these languages have built-in scripting, any scripting was done with the languages themselves. Elixir has such powerful tooling that, for whatever reason, I just rarely found that I needed the Unix command line tools for what I was personally responsible for or working on or what wasn't provided by Elixir or my editor in VS Code. Elixir allows you to build custom Mix commands, which is also nice. However, now I'm in an environment where many of these tools could be very useful, so I am trying to pick them up. And it's always possible that I was missing out, so it's important just to be willing to learn as things present themselves.

Just stating this because context is everything.
Hey, it actually works!

int main() {
int tobias[24] = {0,0,33};
delete(tobias+4);
}

Compile and run on Ubuntu 20.04 (may work on other Linuxes), no errors, no warnings, runs perfectly fine.

Bonus fun: try printing out the address of `tobias` and `new int[6]` afterwards :)
Art is in the eye of the beholder.

We're going to be awash in so much AI generated content that the act of lifting something truly marvelous out of that background will be a creative action worthy of protection.
As a human programmer I didn't quite understand the problem statement until I read the whole article and the tests.

I believe the goal is to find a path with the fewest possible "fire" cells and the minimum cost as a tie breaker. The cost of a path is the sum of its cells' cost and it can't be greater than 5.

If I understood the assignment correctly, I don't think the problem statement is equivalent to what's included in the prompt. Specifically, the prompt doesn't clarify what happens if you have to cross through multiple "fire" cells.

> Fire tiles cost 1 point to move through, but they should avoid pathing through them even if it means taking a longer path to their destination (provided the path is still within their limited movement range)
Stanford or MIT or UWaterloo
> I want to be able to create a million lines of code per month by myself.

That sounds terrible. Who is going to read all that code when you need to understand and modify it? The LLMs, I guess?

I'd much rather be able to write 10,000 lines of code that can do what your million lines of code does. Better programming languages, libraries, and other abstractions are what we need.
This is one of the best analyses of gpt4 Ive read so far.
Besides potentially including the visual aspect, I wonder if part of the reason it has trouble with harder problems is that it’s been tuned/prompted in a suboptimal way. The advertised used case mostly is “write down the solution for this problem”, but for novel problems it does much better when it’s given the chance to reason through it before trying to write down a solution. I wonder how much better it would do with a prompt like “try to work out a way to solve this problem, and then validate it to be sure if it’s a correct solution.”
fyi, if you have a subscription to the Economist, you can read each edition offline via their mobile app. Available every Thursday.

You can also listen to it, but that doesnt work offline.
I'm not sure who you're preaching to. I've owned five of these devices over the past 14 years. I accept DRM for the things I read on it. If the publishers offered a DRM-laden edition that I could read offline on my laptop, I would find that to be a compelling option.
In a way, yes. Many of the systems on these satellites rely on math and physics we've only recently mastered, high speed radio telecommunications and all that goes with it is truly magic, a modern marvel.

Inertial stuff however, that's all basic Newtonian physics, we've had that mastered for a bit longer.

Side note/fun fact - many satellites use tape measures for this purpose, literally tape measures. They're called gravity gradient booms.

So, I get your point, it's not a simple mistake compared to me forgetting my keys this morning, but it is a simple mistake in the context of a satellite.
This post feels like the people that go into linux forums and say linux sucks because I can't get it to do X but microsoft can, but then get 400 replies and several that show <how to do thing>

GPT has limited reasoning but given enough knowledge of the problem you can coerce it to do surprising things so long as you can relate it to something in else in the knowledge base. Given how big that knowledge base is, you can get lucky surprises where things just work if you fish around enough
The irony here is that ChatGPT can operate as a fairly good copyrighter. But since it is detectable, there are now human copyrighter services like this one to humanize the output.
They both solve different issues. This is a library akin to huggingface transformers, while tensorflow js is akin to tensorflow or pytorch
Who has the burden of proof? Can I just claim everything and anything as “made by AI” and start (ab)using it and then it is up to the original author to proof that it wasn’t actually made by an AI?
Yeah luckily I've not noticed any major changes. Hopefully Epic continues to let them do their thing. It really is a one of a kind service in our current media landscape.
All police services in the US are provided on a best effort basis. That’s why private security companies exist.
Code is just the rendering of an algorithm.

It might be best to prompt it with a high level description of an algorithm, then iteratively prompt it to refine its prior output or add more detail. Render to code should be the final step.
> Would an AI trained purely on objective facts be perfectly politically neutral?

Yes, since politics is about opinions and not facts. People might lie to make their opinions seem better and the AI would spot that, but at the end of the day it is a battle of opinions and not a battle of facts. You can't say that giving more to the rich is worse than giving more to the poor unless we have established what metric to judge by.

The supersmart AI could possibly spot that giving more to the rich ultimately makes the poor richer, or maybe it spots that it doesn't make them richer, those would be facts, but if making the poor less poor isn't an objective in the first place that fact doesn't matter.
Fair point, you're right. I appreciate how you cultivate things around here, thanks for keeping us centered.
First (1/5) steps with HVM, a parallel, optimal functional runtime
This is a tangent, but I’ve been wondering… and perhaps HNera know?

I use some basic libre cad programs to plan my dream house project. And their renderings are pretty non-photorealistic.

Are there any upscalers that can take an inside or outside house render and make it look like something from Pinterest? Meaning the input is an image, not text?
It's crazy how fast it changed then. I graduated in 2002 and you literally could not leave without knowing how to use Unix. When I started in '98 the school's email system had to be checked through terminals and my dorm hadn't even been wired with Ethernet, although we had it by the second half of my freshman year.
Has nobody seen Back to the Future?
> Amazon hasn’t shared its exact reason for the change (the company’s statement to publishers is here), but one obvious explanation is that relatively few people are buying these subscriptions and it doesn’t make financial sense to continue to support them. Instead, Amazon wants publishers to add their content to its $9.99/month digital subscription program, Kindle Unlimited, which includes a bunch of magazines

I'm pretty confident that "Amazon wants publishers to add their content to Kindle Unlimited" is the ONLY reason, and that it wouldn't matter how much revenue was generated through direct payments to publishers. This is the Way, after all, of modern platform monopoly. It's highly profitable.
I read its effective at treating lung and liver cancers too.

Early diagnosis is key to survival.
I skipped the article and only read the prompt. I have no idea what to do with fire. Why does it matter what it costs if you must avoid it?
Perhaps they are stupid enough to be replaced.
Ah, that would explain the multiple patches that came in last week on my 7 Pro. I thought it was strange.
>Gypsies with drugged babies

Pretty sure I've seen a local version of that around SF, or at least I used to pre-COVID.
How would passing a value from one hook to another look like, for example, Subhook requiring viewport value to set up some subscription?
I was just using your examples to comment on the common programmer practice of needlessly shortening words and names of things or, even worse, intentionally quirkily naming something to make a specialized word or domain even more specialized. It's a practice that I do not like, as it arbitrarily creates an additional layer of obfuscation.
That's what they said about Watson and Wolfram Alpha. You only hear this nonsense on HN.
> "It's not preinstalled on most computers and costs money, it won't run everywhere"

It runs in a web browser and doesn't cost money

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/free-office-on...
What a huge step backwards! I have an infant and am trying to move more of my content consumption including news to Kindle vs iPhone. Even at one years old she’s already forming an unhealthy relationship with smart phones given how much she sees her parents using them so I’m trying to cut down as much as possible. Interestingly, like a physical book, the kindle doesn’t get much reaction from her.
If you think copy and paste is artificial intelligence then there probably isn't much of a discussion to be had here.

Yes, very smart and talented people have released ground breaking and amazing tools leveraging massively trained ML models. The model is not problem solving or intelligent in any sense of the word (take it from oai: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt)

"ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers..."

To be back on topic, I don't think some sweaty dude from the internet should be issued a copyright for typing "Minnie Mouse wearing a pikachu t-shirt!" into DALL-E and submitting the resulting image.

At the same time, I read a post like this one: https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw and I have really no objection to copyright being assigned. I think the difference is the human authorship, and I think the Copyright Office has made a pretty good first swag.
The old MPW compiler had some gems:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/personal/humor/compile.html

> This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window wasn't wide enough to read this whole error message
Soup anyone?

'Andy Warhol Copyright'
Australia is the gambling king of the world, and they're heavy exporters.

Stake, the largest crypto casino in the world, was founded and built in Australia and the new Twitch competitor Kick with looser gambling rules is also built in Australia by the same founders.

Ironically, it's legal to operate an online casino in Australia, but you can't accept Australian customers :)
I had to parse this a few times to understand. I think your thesis is that an investor has multiple ventures in their portfolio. And many of those ventures park their treasuries at the same bank. And by telling them a run is happening, your thesis is some or none of those ventures pull their money out faster than others, and the stragglers of the portfolio can't due to the bank run started by the investor and/or other companies in the investor's portfolio?
Dunno, the real complaint against exynos in favour of Qualcomm other than tribalism is that a lot of stuff was developed for Qualcomm with Adreno and not whatever GPU Exynos spouted at the time (custom weird thing early on, then PowerVR, nowadays Adreno). In USA they used Qualcomm due to CDMA shenanigans mainly.

Oh, and stuff like qualcomm-specific hacks people were used to from Jail broken HTC devices (like phone call recording) not working. Final minority complaint was essentially based on qualcomm devices being more popular so you had more resources for custom roms, despite the fact that Exynos meant no need to do complicated jailbreak to load a custom rom.

Personally I found no issue with Exynos chips whatsoever. Always some of the fastest stuff I had in my hands.
Did you know that airplanes have power outlets at foot level, sometimes USB ports higher up? You could simply bring your phone charger with you on the plane..
Thank you for the thoughtful explanation. I never thought about it from that angle before, that is such a powerful move from Amazon that I believe most of us can learn something from.
You lost me when you started subbing LLM for AI. It’s clear you’re interested in asserting your intellectual superiority, and “winning”. Have a good one.