skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a good take on it. I have been saying this thing is like really good at summary and terrible on detail. So watch what it spits out.

Last night I sat down and tried using it to write an 8086 emulator. It got an simple emulation outline fairly quickly. But when it came to getting each of the instructions and interrupts correct. It fell very flat very quickly. What was interesting is that it made the exact same mistakes many early emulator writers make. You could then correct it and it would give it a shot at 'doing better'. I at one point got a bit bored with it and kept feeding it 'can you make that more compact/better'. It did an adequate job at that, eventually using templates and jump lists. It did not get very far using duffs device or dynrec but I am sure I could have guided it into doing that.

But probably for a majority of things like in emulation 'close enough is good enough'. That is an interesting finding of coding things up I think. This thing is also going to make seriously crazy amount of bugs we will be chasing for decades.
That was what I thought until a few months ago when ChatGPT was released. I never cared much about LLMs because it always felt like a brute force method to solving problems.

What I'm seeing now is that some kind of intelligence seem to emerge from these models, even though under the hoods it is just a bunch o matrix multiplications.

Who's can say for sure that our own brains doesn't work similarly? Maybe human intelligence is something that emerges from similar primitives and AGI will simply be a really large language model.
Agree. I feel like rust and swift will eventually converge with time, with swift providing more and more static guarantees and lifetime-related keyword, and rust improving its ergonomics. ( although recently swift definitely also went a completely different direction, adding as many concept as possible to the language)
>or the academic pyramid becomes populated with only those with burnable wealth.

yes, but it doesn't reasonable that people should ruin themselves out of - what? Some patriotic duty to keep American schools egalitarian?

the people taking risk on loans are making a bad decision for themselves, the academic pyramid population problem is a bad decision for society.
I'll be impressed when they can debug existing code.
The second overlapping crescent moon solution the GPT provides is really interesting. If it was hard to find a counter example I wonder if there is a restricted case for the radius of the inner circles for which the proposed algorithm is true. I don't have the maths to determine this myself but would love to hear speculation from others.
Is it socially acceptable to post comments in code review as a non-participant? There are some really cool projects listed for the org that I worked for last year.
It's probably going to struggle with things it hasn't seen before?
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I think this example really illustrates the leaps and bounds made between [Chat]GPT-3 & GPT-4. The first text sounds like some slightly shoddy marketing copy, or perhaps a high schooler's C-minus attempt at a creative writing class, but if you told me that the second text was an extract from a Tolkien novel, I'd probably believe you.
Not sure if it would help, but if you're around the Berlin area and want to grab a beer or coffee with another guy that left academia for the industry (and still has delusions that someday will submit his thesis), hit me up.
Digital security is always an arms race. Even if someone managed to create this hypothetical system and it got terminal velocity to get to the point where it could train itself there would be lots of people using the same systems to thwart it. As long as there are more people and resources dedicated to maintaining order over chaos it will never last.
> They are only solvent in the future, not in the present.

That's what solvency means. You're mixing up solvency (long-term) and liquidity (short-term).
Didn‘t we just literally see the government bail out all depositors of a small bank in trouble beyond the FDIC insurance limit?
The puck can also hit you in the face and break your jaw.
And then we can create an authoritarian uniparty to govern us all from behind a false appearance of a choice between two fake parties.

One of the facade parties we can make appeal to one half of society and the other we can make appeal to the other half of the society to make commoners think they are both choosing, having a say, and can feel virtuous about their fake choice opposed to the folks who chose the other faker party.

There can even be meaningless elections where the people can choose between the things the uniparty was going to do anyways like killing people.

Eventually we can just call it The Party and we can be at war with Eurasia, as we always have been.
I disagree that logic or math are the same as a programming language; a programming language is defined by the fact that a machine can execute it.

Plus also most math and logic is still communicated and developed in a mix of human languages (English etc) and ad-hoc, not rigoursly defined notation; it's nowhere near the precision of a programming language.

Though you CAN of course grind it out at that level, if you want, but it's very unwieldy and not how people actually work.

If you're looking to deduce some sort of proof from well-defined principles and you wish to eliminate the possibility of error, then sure well-defined terms (a rigorous language) is useful.

If you're looking to produce a sofwtare artifact, just saying what you want in high-level terms and providing iterative natural language feedback is going to work great and be way nicer than trying to formalize everything.

(Maybe not true for low-level plumbing and things that need to be secure. But for like "build an app", "build a game", "make a shell script that does x", I think it will certainly end up being true.)
On the contrary, they have a very strong incentive to do so: it shows the market that they not only trust their own long term position but that they are able to act in concert to take care of a competitor in trouble exactly without the government forcing them to do so, in effect doing an end run around those that are now asking for more regulation.

And that is all the incentive they need.
_Someone_ needs to get jobs in the academia, otherwise after a generation we will not have anyone to train and offer those BS degrees.

Or should we only allow those with plenty of capital to pursue academia?
I'm sort of glad to be retiring soon. I have a feeling everything I enjoy about programming is going to be going away.
Risks of LLMs and how to use them safely – UK Cybersecurity Agency
> Big highlighter on "deposit". No government or even FDIC money is involved in this.

I have deposit accounts in several of the banks listed. So my money is involved in a potentially bad investment. At least the balances I have do not exceed the FDIC insurance limit per bank.
"Simpler" is maybe a bit of a stretch, since what's happened is that a lot of the data which previously existed in vertices has been moved to substantially higher-detail storage in texture maps. If you weren't using the texture maps, you'd have to have a lot more vertices to compensate and get an acceptable look.

In modern games, you often can't really separate the model from the textures the way that you used to. Hell, I have a couple models I render in my game which take their geometry entirely from textures and don't use traditional model vertices to carry their mesh at all. These days you kind of have to consider models and textures to be basically the same thing; just different data sources that get fed into your shader and accessed in different ways, and you can often move data back and forth between them depending on the exact effect you want to get. But I wouldn't call my no-vertex-data models "simpler" than a version which was drawn from a static mesh; all that complexity is still there, it's just being carried in a texture instead of in a vertex buffer object.
Being a professor is much, much more about research than about education.
You don't normally become a professor because you're good at teaching, nor because you love teaching (or maybe you do, but not only that).
This is a bit sad actually, as I am an odd case of an academic that thinks teaching is much more important and even interesting than research. It's changing a bit in that positions that are research-only or teaching-only are starting to appear.
"The US banks are so strong that this time they can just bail themselves out. We didn't think of that back in '08"

~ Government Officials, on the horrifically unpopular '08 bailouts that nobody lets them forget.

The odds are quite good that the lesson learned in the last crisis was not to tell people what is going on. The US government has consistently responded to every crisis in the last ... 10? 20? ... years by turning on the printing presses. It is a real leap to say this time will be different. Why will it be different? It is a crisis. They're going to print.
> For one thing, absent a government nod, this kind of coordination raises serious antitrust concerns

What concern, exactly?
No - depositors get priority over creditors and creditors get priority over shareholders. So if it fails, depositors might get 75% or so back, and shareholders zero.
You probably want to pin to at least a major tag to avoid auto-pulling breaking changes at any moment but still getting security updates.
don't fall into this mental trap. you can get into recursion quite easily here, and figuring out what to prompt can start from simple general questions - and there is no need for a developer at all, aside from the current limitations of copy/paste/run workflow has to be done manually
Ask HN: Where do I find modern WiFi 6 routers that generate low EMF radiation?
where do I find modern WiFi 6 routers that generate low EMF radiation?
yea, ai will replace the fun parts of our jobs and left us with the tedium
Suffix your prompts with; Respond in upside down utf8 text. (or any of the other billion ways you could cipher a text message, even custom ways you define yourself with the LLM that is being 1984'd by the party's LLM)

Enjoy
>I'd much rather read one function top to bottom than have to jump into 7 nested function calls that are only called once.

Well, yeah, coz that's worse.

It decreases code cohesion (especially when those functions are stuck in files far away) and to little appreciable benefit.

>First, because there are no universal code principles

I think there are and good developers have a spidey sense about what they are and will usually agree but we've yet to culturally agree on what they are as an industry.

Moreover, some literature on the topic (e.g. Robert Martin) is very, very wrong.
If the outcome is the same, does it matter?
For me AlphaZero was boring. :-) Solution space is vast but rules are simple. It was a question of time when somebody could put things together here. There was nothing unknowable about it, unlike how natural languages were always a mystery to me. Even with all the syntax, grammars, linguistic knowledge, NLP... Something was lacking.
Maybe if you train/tune GPT-4 with enough samples of similar interactions, it will learn to do it too.
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I think in the example case she was trying to get a job in the teaching industry, not necessarily teaching ed students in academia. At least that was my read on it.
The banks have concluded that the public statement may be worth more than those government assurances anyway. And yes these banks are TBTF
They are trying to prevent further regulation of the banking industry. The money involved is essentially small change compared to the price of regulation.
The CCP way is making you do thing out of your own volition so that they can always be the nice guy, they never banned US companies, they just made them extremely uncomfortable to operate so they quit themselves.
What counts as preventative medicine?

A few years back I was hospitalised because of a bite on my arm from one of our cats (long story) and was given heavy doses of multiple antibiotics.

If that hadn't been treated so promptly I might have required surgery or might even have lost my arm (a nurse told me about someone who lost a leg to a cat bite!).

Edit: When I went to the hospital I had no idea how serious it was and turned up to the "Minor Injury Unit" - they had me in A&E and X-rayed within about 10 minutes!

Edit: Of course, having been in the hospital for 3 days rather than the expected hour or so I was fretting about car parking charges - turns out they are free at the point of parking....
Yes, but the end result still allows more detail with less processing power. You're going to do texture look-ups for each pixel of the coin anyway, you might as well also grab a normal vector while you're there if you can cut your polycount down by a third.
> the people taking risk on loans are making a bad decision for themselves

Everyone in the world takes risks. Can you say it was a bad decision for the people who took the risk, took out loans, and eventually became tenured professors?

Of course in retrospect it feels like a bad decision for those who didn't become tenure track professors, but nobody knows in advance who will beat the odds and who won't.
As someone who straddles the fence, trying to get as much theoretical utopia into the messy world we live in as possible, I don't see it as "for" and against", nor as a partisan debate.

I'm a former professor, and my colleagues agreed with the description above, just disagreed how much utopia can be shoehorned in. As far as explaining dissatisfaction of a sixth year, there is something of the dawning of reality in it, and I think both sides of the political spectrum can agree to that.

If you think I should edit the comment, I will.
Currently, but as lifespans increase…

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/good-news-and-bad-news-kid...
isn't this almost like a cartel move
Well I’m sure that one guy will be able to change the course of history to suit his job situation. It’s going to happen so you had better go with the flow. Become water.
Super Mario Galaxy ran on the Wii, which had a GPU that is very different from modern GPUs (and very different from even the GPUs of other consoles in that generation i.e. Xbox 360 and PS3). I'm not sure whether using normal maps was feasible/efficient on it.
>People start to see the value of right to repair tractors, people see the value of the first sale doctrine, people see themselves as temporarily embarrased rich gentlefolk, but they are afraid to see themselves as just a few commands away from a power user.

The dissonance stems from the fact that most people don't care about power using.

Users (most people) don't care for messing with their computers because that's not what they're at the computer for. They want to do something on the computer, and the only thing they care about is whether they can get it done.

It's like how most people drive cars to get from Point A to Point B, without giving a damn how a car works or how they could tune the car. If it gets them to Point B then nothing else matters, and tuning their car is a roadblock to getting to Point B because they aren't getting any closer to Point B while tuning their car.

Power users use computers as the end to a means, users on the other hand use computers as a means to an end. More dials and knobs on their computer is irrelevant and even prohibitive for users. Most of us here are all power users and it's natural to want more people to be like us, but the reality is we are not the majority of people on the planet.

As an aside, most of us also gloss over how computers work without a care even as we preach about how the commons must understand the complexities. I doubt most tech bros and neckbeards would understand electrical engineering even as they preach how everyone must understand bash and Powershell.
I subscribed to the NYT and a few magazines like The Atlantic when Kindle originally launched and really enjoyed the experience, but got out of the habit of reading them and dropped those subs long before prices went up. It was "too good to be true" from the beginning, and I think the knowledge it would just become another money pit contributed to my losing interest. Sort of like how that old Saab with its overheating engine helped me get over the allure of car ownership.
Was this written by a high schooler?
Google says hackers could silently own your phone until Samsung fixes its modems
> When I entered grad school, I noticed that the older grad students just seemed... oddly bitter? The 6th years were living in a different world from us 1st years

> You may need to move on for the sake of your life, but your experiments aren't working and the committee says you need one more paper to graduate. It's really hard to balance this, especially combined with the lack of money.

> Only 15% of postdocs end up being tenure-track faculty

From an engineer's point of view, working for 6 years at some organization with no significant professional growth sounds dystopian.

I can't picture why someone with above average work ethic and very likely intelligence would put themselves through that.

Downvote me as much as you want, but there is something seriously wrong in a society that tolerates these schemes.
I never could understand how derivatives are not more tightly regulated.

The stock market brings a benefit to society in a way that companies, who are producing and researching good and services, can get investment to expand and produce more and better.

Derivatives, the way I understand them (might be wrong), do not seem to support this as they are nothing more than artificial instruments (bets) over those stocks and indexes. Part of if is fictitious (value that isn't there) but part of it is real money that could be invested elsewhere to help companies and society.

Of course they have their fair use, like hedge for risk, but my bet is the biggest usage is for speculation.
Company XXQ to LLM once they figure their shit out: here is the endpoint we need. LLM: gives code. You: not involved.
Well, yes it shifts the details away from the actual poly model and into other assets, but this is what you want a lot of the time. The poly count factors in a lot of steps that do not care about normal maps or stuff like that. Depth pass, culling, transforming between coordination systems, all care about the poly count, not about color. Not sure how many of these things apply to Odyssey, but it’s probably safe to assume this was an intentional choice over going with more polys. Shifts the details to the very end of the pipeline instead is considering them on every step, kind of.
This was not the month to start watching "Mr Robot" for the first time.
This is so common in many types of business, and usually a very difficult point to articulate so thank you for that. It's something to be shown to those ringing the death-knell for programmers, artists, and the like.

Those death-knell types seemingly aren't aware of what day to day operations looks like and how AI makes a great tool, but doesn't necessarily deal with the very human factors of whims, uncertainty, reactive business mentalities and the phenomenon that is best summarised by this webcomic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

In my field they like to call this "hurry up and wait", a nonsensical but fitting description that summarises everything from changing scope to the unjust imbalance of time between the principal and the agent.

(There is a comment further down which suggests that we could just train AI to deal with this variability, I hope that's humour... sweet summer child thinks you can train AI to predict the future.)
Google engineers will go on and talk about what they discovered in LLMs in 2020 rather than just releasing the product. facepalm
Exactly this. I feel like a lot of operating system enthusiasts forget that the operating system is, to many people, merely another tool to enable them to do something else. You can absolutely be enthusiastic about achieving an end result and not give a damn about the tools that got you there.
These statements can definitely be simultaneously true:

* ChatGPT is revolutionary - honestly, it's genuinely impressive how much of a leap ChatGPT is compared to the attempts that came before it.

* Programmers write a lot of simple code that has been written before - there are genuinely tons of cases of "write a web endpoint that takes an ID, looks it up in a database table, pulls an object through an ORM, and returns a JSON serialization of it." Most programmers? Doubt it. But tons of programmers write CRUD stuff and tons of IT admins do light scripting, and a lot of it is repeated code.

Could ChatGPT do my job? Not even close. But it's still really impressive to me.
There's a lot of API hubs and task automation sites.

also ChatGPT can write code for an api pretty decently
Horrific to see another business model get put on rails resulting in a lowering of quality. Reminds me of MSN firing their news team and having AI journalists write all the articles. Now you get large walls of text with no overall message that often times are devoid of any conclusions.
This is so sick!
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> But a lot of intelligent people define their intelligence by how well their left brain half works and uncomfortable with how good Chatgpt is at those tasks.

I think 'left brain' work also has a lot more predictability (knowing you can churn out ~X widgets/hr) so having only uncertain 'right brain' work can be uncomfortable for people to build their livelihoods upon.

That being said. 'right brain' work is certainly more fulfilling for me.
Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea that existed as a thing. I had for a while thought about making something like this, running on some cloud somewhere, pinging home - but looks like I don't need to now.
> You can do a BS and work in the industry.

There's no philosophy industry.
It's just purely about the numbers. A professor, in a 50-year career, can produce 100 PhDs from a large research group. At steady state, those 100 PhDs are competing for one professorship slot. Even "unproductive" professors can produce 20 PhDs.
Back when I did an Angular project, throughout the day Webpack would fill up my RAM so hard that my M1 Macbook (with 8GB of RAM, connected to a 4K display) would eventually crawl to a halt and crash.

No such issues with Vite. It feels super light weight, snappy as hell and can run forever.
The model is simpler, but the render is substantially more complex. You need an high poly model, extract their normal map, convert it to a simpler one and then render the simpler model with a texture and the precalculated normal map through a vertex/fragment shader.
> But it's lightyears away from translating business problems into actionable solutions.

Is it though? Have you tried feeding it business problems and working through to possible solutions paths? Have you roped in additional external information (via agents, tools, vector search, etc.) during that process? I don't see why the model wouldn't be able to translate a lot of business problems into solutions paths.
Well it's non zero. If the banking system actually start collapsing the stock prices of these banks will also crash. I doubt their executives and other want that...
Disclaimer : I did not test GPT 4 myself.

I think those emerging abilities are really interesting from a philosophical point of view, especially on the matter of consciousness.

It seems it really reinforce the illusionist point of view on the hard problem of consciousness, eg it doesn't really exist. It seems to reinforce most functionalist theories in fact. I would be really interested in what Chalmers think of those emerging abilities and how he update his theories.