skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://concise-encoding.org/ will be released this year and has been in development for 5 years. This one has been slow because of all the support projects such as https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-float and https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-time and https://github.com/kstenerud/enctool

https://github.com/kstenerud/dogma has been in development for 4 months and will be released in about a month. This is yet another support project for Concise Encoding (hopefully the last!).

https://github.com/kstenerud/kscrash was in development for about a year and a half before being released.

https://github.com/kstenerud/Musashi took just under a year before its first release as a MAME core (after a TON of testing - I spent 4x more time testing it than I did writing it).

But other smaller things that don't require so much precision I just write up in a couple of weeks and release, such as https://github.com/kstenerud/virtual-builders

The key is to build empathy with your potential users. What will their motivations be that lead them to try out your project? What will they be looking for when they use it? What would someone who has never seen the project before struggle with? (that last one is the hardest because you're so close to the project that it's hard to see what it's like to know nothing about it). These tell you what kind of UX you'll need, what kind of documents you'll need, what kind of tutorials you'll need, how to structure your project for your target audience, etc ("it's for everybody" is never a good idea).

Building a project is a lot like building a startup. You need to figure out your target market. That means lots of tests, lots of talking, lots of listening, market research, competitor analysis, even some pivots.

A lot of times it comes down to recruiting people to just try it and do a brain dump of everything that goes wrong or frustrates or confuses them. I've done show-HN posts for things that are unreleased (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34720488 ), just to get the valuable criticism. It's nearly impossible to develop good projects in a vacuum.

If you're not posting out of worry for doing it wrong, THAT IS doing it wrong. The point is to find out where you're doing it wrong so that you can correct it! And that's where the crowd is a HUGE help. You can't build something great without looking foolish first.
> with no worthwhile exports

The confidence with which people spout easily disproven nonsense is incredible: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/che
This shit is hard. Running a cloud service at one of the Big 3 is hard, I can’t imagine doing it with such a small team with your own infra.
Based on my impeccable qualifications as an Astro biologist, it seems unlikely to me there’s life there given the intense heat and crushing pressure but lots of people like to be optimistic about it.
I was hoping to see in the article some kind of context for where the US federal government is drawing its authority to ban Americans from voluntarily using a social media app whose owners are based in China.
I was imagining similar things. Dating apps, in general, are already pretty poor experiences for a lot of people. This won't help.

Will scammers use it to create more believable bot matches?

Maybe we'll have to go back to meeting at bars.
This actually isn't a bad idea, GPT takes commonly talked about things and distils them into a response to you, so the language you get when you ask it to make a programming language is probably a mix of well liked programming features that many people added to a language they themselves wanted. When you design a language on your own you will be too biased towards your own cases, this is a way to get around that and source the internet for what they think.
I challenge you to explain how an entity that isn’t capable of something we might reasonably call “creativity” or “intelligence” produced this output. Was it in a corpus somewhere? (Google translate it if you can’t read French). The “///“ were inserted by me as paragraph breaks because otherwise HN eats them.

> Write a poem in a made-up language that looks superficially similar to French

> Voici un poème en un langage inventé

Qui ressemble à s'y méprendre au français

Mais les mots sont différents, les sons uniques

Et leur sens mystérieux et inconnu

///

J'ai marché dans les rues de la ville

J'ai vu les gens qui vivaient leur vie

J'ai entendu les bruits et les rires

Et j'ai senti la chaleur de la vie

///

Mais quand j'ai regardé les mots sur les affiches

Je n'ai pas compris ce qu'ils disaient

Et j'ai eu l'impression d'être perdu

Dans un monde étrange et inconnu

///

Alors j'ai fermé les yeux et j'ai écouté

Le son des mots dans ma tête

Et j'ai commencé à rêver

D'un monde où les mots avaient du sens

///

Un monde où je pourrais parler

Et être compris par tous

Un monde où les mots seraient magiques

Et où les rêves seraient réels.
or will it prove to be useless at everything... except showing us how many jobs that exist these days are bullshit jobs that can be done just as well by a machine with no understanding... David Graeber would love it as a bullshit job detector
Looks like Typescript and a bit of Swift as well....
> But how common is it that anyone who isn't independently wealthy actually lives a comfortable life doing that for a living? Practically speaking, no one makes a living doing art or being an artisan of one kind or another.

What??

This is the kind of comment happens when we no longer have yellow pages and business cards and bored kids with nothing to do but stare at them.

I assure you that there are in fact many people making a satisfying and secure living taking photographs and making things.

I’m honestly floored by your comment.
It was 40 years ago in Newcastle, Australia at Merewether beach.

I can’t even remember what I did last week.
Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland
I'd assume they'd worry more about the daily 450 degrees temperature more.

Might be cooler at the poles.
Can someone recommend me the best colour printer? Unfortunately, The Google is filled with ads and skulduggery.
I own this printer and almost exclusively use it to print shipping labels. The only other thing I print is my strength training template once every 3-4 weeks so I don't accidentally spend 5 minutes scrolling between sets - I work out at home anyway so I don't mind looking like a doofus with a clipboard but my girlfriend enjoys making boomer jokes about it.
“Happy” as in satisfied or content, not as in joyous. e.g. “I’m happy to throw out the trash for you”, doesn’t mean you’ll be smiling the whole way through (unless you’re some kind of weird trash fetishist)
Some (or maybe a lot depending on your environment and domain) data "scientists" focus more on analyzing/processing data than reviewing the state-of-the-art and main ideas/discussions about the domain in question. Quite amusing, but even more amusing is that those backward ways of studying a subject almost always introduce biases.
quotation from the link:

"LLMs in the GPT family have read every programming language in the world, billions of times. It's been known for some time that these agents can write small snippets of code with some limited success. However, to my knowledge, none of these agents have ever been asked to make their own programming language. This type of task is a bit more complex, and requires a bit more creativity and foresight than much of the internet believes LLMs to have.

Some folks on the internet tend to think lowly of LLMs as merely "Stochastic Parrots" -- simply "remixers" of old ideas. In a way, they're right; but I'd argue that remixing is the fundamental force of creativity. Nothing comes from scratch."

This^^. Half the internet was in denial about how good LLMs are. I wonder why? Perhaps it's the way humans act when confronted with a machine that can potentially replace much of what makes us special.

The advent of chatGPT had millions of people on the internet trying to downplay the intelligence of chatGPT by continuously trying to re-emphasize the things it gets wrong.

I think the people who claimed chatGPT was a stochastic parrot are now realizing that they were the ones that were part of a giant parade of parrots regurgitating the same old tired trope of LLMs being nothing but simple word generators. Well you guys were dead wrong, a simple iterative improvement on the same algorithm pretty much ironed out a lot of the issues.

I'm guessing that at GPT-10 or 11 we'll have produced something that when compared with humans, humans will be the things that are far more parrot-like.
What diplomatic solution? Will you suggest we give the Russians part of Ukraine which isn't ours to give or shall we threaten the Ukrainians with starving them of help and demand that they capitulate? Either option leaves millions subjugated and subject to "filtration", torture,privation and makes further conflict inevitable. They have specifically laid claim to a much broader territory than merely Ukraine and 150M people live in Independent nations they claim as their vassals. Even if such an agreement were possible and moral there is no reason to believe they should keep it.
What does a container mean to you?

On Nix there is no separation of file system or network across applications. The same installed libraries can be used by multiple apps. Apps have access to the same system services and run together, e.g. with a single systemd. How can you call what Nix is doing "containers" ? There's virtually no overlap.

Zoom overtook the local freeway as the preferred mechanism for get to meetings at my company. I guess Zoom is a road by your logic.
I wish I had the resources to have a HD camera pointed at the sky 24/7 and recording capacity for moments like these.
Why does Lu Xiaojun have such bad form?
The penalties for getting caught speeding or with your smartphone are too lenient. That's why people text and drive. "It won't happen to me" mentality is too pervasive.

Get caught using your phone? Lose your license.

Excessive speeding? $MEGAHUGE ticket on first offense; lose your license on second attempt.
None, unfortunately, suitable for home use. I looked into these a couple years ago because I also really wanted tabloid size. The only printers I could find it were huge and had huge prices. I wound up buying a LaserJet with an extra high-capacity sheet feeder and it was great, until a power outage/surges a couple of weeks ago killed it along with our refrigerator and dishwasher.
The dog-to-human and dog-to-dog charts were the most interesting to me. My golden retriever loves people, but is indifferent to other dogs.
Unfortunately, yes.

The few surviving ones are amazing though. I always hope that someday a hidden cache of preserved codices that somehow escaped destruction will be discovered, but it seems unlikely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices
I'm not attacking you, since you're just bearing this message to us from Wolfram through GPT-4.

Anybody could have written those paragraphs off the top of their heads, and it has been the conventional establishment wisdom about computer technology for as long as I can remember.
I think what's depressing is that AI is poised to automate tasks that are creatively or intellectually fulfilling. And because GPT has advanced faster than mobile robotics what's left for humans is the tedious, repetitive, physical tasks that are hard on the body and uninspiring on the mind.

Instead of each person commanding a household of personal robots - a la Jetsons - we're going to be ordered around to pick up garbage and clean windows by machines.
GTP is interesting enough without people pretending that it is more interesting than it is. This "new programming language" doesn't look new at all. It looks like the same old thing.
I have an HL-L2350DW and use nothing but e-z ink tn760 toners in it from amazon lol. It works fine.
No, Our Universe Isn’t Made Of Pure Mathematics
I was riding my bike to the Longs Peak TH, outside RMNP at around 5:00am one winter - around 9,000' - clear sky. A streak just like this went across the sky. I figured it was either a roman candle or the start of WWIII. Neither turned out to be true. Good summit of Longs Peak, that day.
Hyperion was designed to specifically take advantage of a specific ray batching architecture that's particularly good for out of core renderers. Which can be good for particularly large and complex scenes.
website with ads?
We rescued a French Bulldog/Pug/Jack Russell mix. I think he was a attempt to breed a more robust/less unhealthy pug - failed in that he's not very pug-like, but successful in that he's a delight and very healthy.
Wildfire? This is not even 3.000 users according to the article
Go full circle and ask ChatGPT for suggestions.
My skepticism is not whether they really have foot pain or are unmotivated at work. The question is whether it was caused by a mild COVID case half a year ago.
I’ll be glad when these stunts with AI stop being publicized
> If you're not ripping the mask off first chance you get it's most likely because it gives you psychological comfort like a blankey or a teddy bear.

Or maybe their sister has an autoimmune disease and their mother just had open heart surgery. For fucks sake you don't know what's going on in other people's lives.
I was reading the quote you included and was sure you were going to lambast him for his arrogance (nobody else has asked it to design a language? hah!) and for bringing an elephant sized straw man to the depthful analytic discussion many of us are trying to have about this new technology, but you went a different way with it. Huh.
I’d like to borrow $50,000,000,000 too.
Future data will still have to come from someone e.g. a person.
I'm not so sure. The first sample is:

> Indentation-based scoping, similar to Python.

Then...

> class Person {

To me, it's very clear it doesn't really understand what "indentation-based scoping" means. For a human programmer, using both intentation-based and bracket-based scoping is a very unusual design choice, and is begging for further explanation. It talked pages of abstraction, modularity, etc, but not this?

I'm not saying it's not good. But I failed to see how this particular example proves its not a "stochastic parrot". If anything, I think it's a quite strong evidence supporting "stochastic parrot" narrative.
Amen, real person role playing will remain superior to video games until AIs are more capable and fantastically deprived than humans. Until then, people bring the surprise, serendipity and wonder that makes a new game unique
Are you sure there is not understanding?
I'd do it when I had several stops to make. No point taking it off and potentially contaminating my hands just to put it back on again. I suspect that accounts for many others doing so too.
But 4$ of revenue! Do that 1000x and think of the growth!
In the mid-1980s, I inherited my mother's Smith-Corona and she sternly informed me that I'd better learn how to type before entering high school, because I was gonna have a lot of papers to write.

That was the best advice that Mom ever gave me. Not only did I top 30wpm by the end of that summer class, I'd met our band director who was the typing teacher, and he'd put me on alto saxophone. I stuck with band for 4 years, learned lots about music and stage performance, earned an academic letter. Fast forward 40 years, and I'm still typing 100wpm and using it professionally, for personal business and recreation. Thanks Mom! Thanks, Smith-Corona!
Comparing the US and China is preposterous.

Instead of targeting the Tiktok, how about we target a proper policy. This baptist vs bootleggers law isn't going to help. This will just mean user will move to copycats like Instagram or Youtube.
"You" may not need it but many people are paying for it. Chatgpt Pro is pretty much a product in the same way icloud is
> front-end is not built statically

In fact the Pynecone frontend is built statically. But UI event handlers are run on the backend. The latency scenario is identical to if you used HTMX or Hotwire or a traditional web server. You click, it gets posted to the backend, an output comes back and is rendered.

The click counter thing is contrived and maybe Pynecone should have avoided centering on that, since the users they're targeting for sure don't care about frontend-only click counters.
I am an introvert, I don't always like being around people. But I am glad that those people got a chance to exist and experience life, and am willing to accept inconvenience for that.
> I am 100% confident that should human society settle on the planet we will totally ignore the fact that's going to happen one day and it will be a amazing catastrophe when it finally does occur.

Will never happen without major science fiction grade technology, the atmosphere is way too thick to even think about sending anything larger than a tiny probe into.
You're deluding yourself if you think you would get the same lifestyle by giving up your own post-90s technology. The world as a whole has moved on. Maybe map books aren't at every gas station now. Even if you don't have a phone, the people you talk to are going to be checking theirs while dining with you, or distracted when they get a notification.

I suspect you're not old enough to properly remember the '90s if you really think this would be the equivalent.

I'm not saying it was all sunshine and rainbows (people smoked everywhere, did tons of cocaine, and were probably more openly homophobic/misogynistic/racist, and if you got in an argument over a factual detail you couldn't look up the answer right away).
No because behavioral equivalence is used in systems engineering theory to mathematically prove that two control systems are equivalent. The mathematical proof is complete, e.g. for all internals state transitions and the cross product of the two machines.

With anthropormization there is zero amount of that rigor, which lets people use sloppy arguments about what ChatGPT is doing and isn't doing.
Perhaps it’s just proof that, when you factor out Wolfram’s humble-and-not-brag, it leaves behind nothing of note.
ChatGPT spitballing fundamental physics theories
Author here -- I think it is a stochastic parrot, don't get me wrong.

But my argument is that humans are also, at some level, sufficiently advanced stochastic parrots. At least, as it pertains to many creative endeavors.

You're always building on the back of something that comes before.

We're all just remixing ideas we've heard before.

I mean even this comment -- none of the words I'm saying are new, and many of the word combinations I'm using have been used time and time again. The ideas I'm expressing have merit -- but are they wholly original?

Not really. We all need eachother's creative energies to do our best work.
Also if it's trained on GitHub the majority of the code it sees will be Python and JavaScript. So not a shocking result there.
As long as they're pipelined, slow operations are okay as long as you have enough other work to fill the pipeline until their result comes back.
Just to clarify for anyone wondering: that’s 450C or over 850F. And the atmospheric pressure is about 93 bar, which is 4 times the pressure inside the boiler of a steam engine.
sidenote: I'm so glad the field of celestial artist renditions has been rug pulled by AI

just always annoyed me that someone was paid to pretend like one of our great telescopes saw something that looked like what the headline says
Wasn't trying to be arrogant, I just wasn't aware of an existing implementation and thought it would be fun to try. :)

Do you have links to other efforts? I'd love to know more about it, and would be happy to add references to other existing literature to the article if it improved its quality.
> French bulldogs are designed and bred to have health problems. They should be verboten to breed at all, but that's not possible.

Well, to a certain extent all the AKC dogs have health problems. Even big dogs have stuff like hip dysplasia. Some breeds are healthier than others, but the most important bit is buying from an ethical breeder if you must get a pure bred. Sketchy breeding practices are what exacerbate the health issues in popular breeds.
100% backward compatible

That's (for me) the biggest reason why tensor flow fell out of flavor: the API broke too often (not just between tf 1 and 2)
Similarly the authors talk about how the multiline brackets were hand-drawn, and how could they be that precise? They might now know how common engineering stencils were for such things. Just find the bracket of the right size, and trace it onto the page.
I haven’t had to print a color page in over a decade or more. What are you printing that requires color?

Receipts, warranties, tax docs, health docs, shipping labels, directions, manuals, schematics, electronic diagrams, and financial docs are things I print and I’ve never needed color. Most of the items I print aren’t even in color to begin with.
We’ve begun electing the people who used to be trolls to leads our communities.

Road rage and aggressive driving aren’t new though. Neither is antisocial behavior on the roads or otherwise. Is there actually more of it?
I'm not dismissing the paper, I still have it bookmarked. But I already don't like an author who can't write the first 9 pages convincingly and then require the reader to read the rest of it.

I'm also seeing this paper circulated on social media so I automatically start squinting when random people start promoting it that way. A quick search on Google shows that the author has had a 10 year long back and forth disagreement with cognitive linguists such as Chomsky's colleagues. That's a bit of omitted context that this social media amplification does not help with when portraying ongoing research debates.
IIRC there was some combination of the data actually being kind of patchy, and the signal being consistent with SO2.
My experience with it programming has been atrocius. It keeps making the same mistakes, writing NPEs everywhere and still doing it after I tell it many times how it was wrong (short memory?). Copilot is backed by it too now and I had a better autocomplete of constants with Sorbet than Copilot. Again, in my experience it's not usable if not for the super mainstream and simplest tasks.

The biggest issue is that it writes this with utmost confidence, at least on the surface, because there is no measure of how confident it is returned by the model.
Nah, GPT has its own biases too.

Its preference for Pythonic/JS syntax is a simple but good example, as those are likely the most popular languages in its dataset.
Nevada considers plan to restrict water use for Las Vegas residents
Blimey....me haven't gots any GPU of my own...lordy
>It's not a utopia. It's a dystopa. And the people driving it

...keep shoveling more of it down our throats with no end in sight.

This is how we get to the world of Neuromancer
You were expecting me to be a stochastic parrot and just imitate what every other idiot says?

Well I hate to tell you this, I fed that quote into GPT-3 and had it respond to that quote. Who's the parrot now? Just kidding.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but 99.9999% or possibly even 100% of this kind of abstract mathematics will never have any meaningful impact on day-to-day software engineering.