skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suppose communism/socialism/stalinism (depending on your definition) the oligarchy gets its power from the bureaucracy once they capture it from the proletariat.

In Leninism and derived systems, there is no need for the oligarchy to seize anything from the proletariat, the distinction between then and their notional parent in Marxism is vanguardism, which already incorporates an elite which becomes the oligarchy when seizing power “in the name of” the proletariat.
Also there are many open source e readers, that include e ink technology too. Amazon tried but idk something’s off.. smells like Microsoft… a bit if you ask me :^)
Where in EU? Plenty of scam calls in France (as of a few years ago), but yeah, no spam texts.
Ahh, you are saying the Economists app just uses RSS behind the scenes? Why didn't I think of that!?!

This actually solves real problems for me as I have to often drive through areas where I have no coverage, and I listen to the economist (much to the chagrin of my wife who is riding with me).

Thanks!

edit: Found the info, its actually on the Economists site (looks like you have to login):

https://www.economist.com/audio-edition
As a designer/non-coder, it feels like I'm just pair programming all the time.

Stuff that usually took me a long time like regexes or Excel/Sheets formulas now take like two minutes. AND I'm learning how they work in the process. I can actually write regexes now that used to be wildly confusing to me a couple of months ago, because Copilot / ChatGPT is walking through the process, making mistakes, and me prodding it along.

I feel like it doesn't matter how "mindblowing" or "a big deal" this tool is — it's a great learning tool for me and helps me do my work 100x faster.
ControlNet maybe? https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet

At huggingface: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hysts/ControlNet

Play around with the different models, you might get better results with some vs others.
Most CRUD apps in enterprise settings relate to something in the real world. E.g. ordering systems, warehouse management and so on.

The hard part here isn’t really the coding - but understanding the business logic and getting it out of the customer what they need.

Often the customer hasn’t even got a good enough grasp on their own business to be able to formulate what they need.

In the short term this ai tools will make the programming part easier but the planning part is still hard.
The point I expressed in the conclusion was meant to turn the apparent condescension from the earlier part around on the reader. I'm saying that we should be more mindful of those who don't know what we know.
Token cap will probably be the biggest problem here.

After validation.

After getting the changes to disk, documented, actually compiling, etc…

But the biggest problem is that transferring the nuance that is external to the code base is typically really tiresome and lengthy grunt work and again token cap.
Thank you. Just passed 7 of them. Will see if it helps.
Lotteries tend to be used more for lower levels which are to prepare students. That is a rather substantial difference.
Was a huge fan of the product. Joined the VB team as a PM in 1996 and worked for a few years while my health declined. The whole division was beautifully run. The people were, to a person, amazing human beings. I honestly think I stumbled into the best team Microsoft had before or since. The Microsoft campus was verdant and tranquil. Everything you sort of imagine Apple would be to work at was true on that team, and has never actually been the case at Apple. At the same time our first child was born. For me, it was a time of pure magic. All that and I got to work on VB.
I'd probably want one, if I didn't avoid leaving the house like the plague. as it is I use like 700mb of 4g, and life 70gigs of WiFi.
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I'd prefer there were no questions whatsoever around gender or sexual orientation. What business is that of a business and why would I want a business to hold this type of information? I don't see these questions as ever having caused anything other than more strife and iniquity. I guess at some point the claim was that they are used to create visibility into whether there is an issue or not, but I'm also paranoid about this type of information getting collected just in case there's a new dictator around the corner who needs a convenient enemy.

Yet I dislike the tone of the article despite agreeing with its core tenet. It's the part saying minorities made us do so. The only thing I have ever heard minorities call for was the option to answer "prefer not to answer" or "other" to these questions. The option that was chosen by the author? The questions have been around for a long time and it's not something "the minorities" created. Not to mention that the answers have certainly not been used in favour of the minorities for most of recent history.
Pedantic is good! Thanks for the clarification.
What an incredibly entitled attitude.
Ask the copywriter whether it takes longer to write the content themselves or to edit GPT's output to satisfy the client. If it's 10% faster to edit GPT's output, that means that we need 10% fewer copywriters.
And if you want to use smokeping to measure your internet connection for free, there's this: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality

I've been using it for years now
My father had Nanoknife for pancreatic cancer; it wasn't a cure, but it reduced the tumour enough to buy him another couple of years.
Soon, a lot of people will realize that the puck doesn't travel in a straight line. Eventually, it will veer to the right in a logarithmic fashion. When it does is up for debate, but - in my experience - it always happens very short of where the hype claims it was heading.
You're conflating legalization of Cannabis with the method of consumption.
You miss the overarching point. Neural network AI's work by averaging information and making it smoother, whereas it's the uneven "bumps" that actually make art interesting. (This is why most artists add deliberate imperfections to their work.)
Now the big question is how do we make “ai” companies pay for the data they use to generate their content. Stealing ip by scraping content and then reselling it is not fair use.
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I'll be all over the place with this so bear with me.

GPT4 is more impressive. But Google...felt better.

Using Google for the first time felt like you were a wizard casting a spell at the library of the world, and then a stack of books showed up in front of you.

GPT4 is so uncanny and difficult to trust it almost feels evil, in comparison. It feels more like early file-sharing services that you knew were going to nuke your computer, eventually.

In those early days of Google, you knew the information you were finding was almost always generated from a passion project being curated by one or more actual human beings without ulterior motives.

GPT4 feels like a solar-powered iPad on the tombstone of the Dead Internet. We've unleashed a probabilistic zombie information demon, and we can't put this back in the ground.

Google was the good friend who always introduced you to people you needed to know, and it's a tragedy that it will never be the same.
Toilet paper takes a terrible toll through deforestation
It’s also programmers who work with average and bad programmers and finally have a way to not waste time with them anymore. I work on the hard stuff, gpt generate the rest (I don’t have to waste time and energy to try to pull dead horses) and my colleagues go do something else. It’s a reality today and will improve further. Sure it cannot do what I do, but that might improve; gpt4 is noticeably better than 3.5 at slightly harder things, especially if you work properly iterative with it and having it fix it’s own errors. But no, it cannot do hard things it never saw; however it can give me all the boilerplate around the hard things so I only have to do the hard things. My days are simply 3-5 in 1 now, as I also don’t have the overhead of explaining jira tasks to others who are never going to really grasp what they are doing anyway.

So I am not average and I am enamoured with gpt, simply because it presents high value to me now, more than some actual real humans. For me that’s enough revolutionary.
Hilarious quote (notwithstanding the fact that bus drivers usually have to work shifts, also on weekends):

> Almost all Visual Basic 6 programmers were content with what Visual Basic 6 did. They were happy to be bus drivers: to leave the office at 5 p.m. (or 4:30 p.m. on a really nice day) instead of working until midnight; to play with their families on weekends instead of trudging back to the office. They didn't lament the lack of operator overloading or polymorphism in Visual Basic 6, so they didn't say much.

The voices that Microsoft heard, however, came from the 3 percent of Visual Basic 6 bus drivers who actively wished to become fighter pilots. These guys took the time to attend conferences, to post questions on CompuServe forums, to respond to articles. Not content to merely fantasize about shooting a Sidewinder missile up the tailpipe of the car that had just cut them off in traffic, they demanded that Microsoft install afterburners on their buses, along with missiles, countermeasures and a head-up display. And Microsoft did.

...and it applies not only to Visual Basic, but also to many open source programming languages today. There are the users who are happy with the way things are, who are content to do their job and don't say much. And there are those clamoring for that one more feature that they just have to have, and those are the ones that eventually get heard, adding more complexity and cruft for everyone else.
> Recipients of a robocall have the ability to either pick up the phone or not.

Whomever wrote this has never been on-call, never waited to hear back on a job application, never gave their number to a romantic interest nor ran their own business.
Checking in. I learned OSCAR and YMSG before HTTP. I recently tried to find a modern vb6 type setup that wasn't DOM (electron style) based and works cross platform. Best I found was javafx and scene builder.
It is an interesting comment but misleading and irrelevant to the subject. When you pay for your pension (in a country like France) it is not included in the GDP because it is considered a tax.

When the government pay their pension to a pensioner it is not included in the GDP [0].

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/082415/are-social-s...
All uninsured depositors are equal, but some uninsured depositors are more equal than others.
argmax is doing all the heavy lifting there. Consider argmax is_proof_of_P_eq_NP(string)

You can describe solution of any well defined problem with argmax, it doesn't make it trivial.
Its like feeding a baby polar bear. When it grows up it is going to eat you.
It is far from being able to solve difficult or even annoyingly complicated problems that programmers solve on a regular basis just by a one-shot prompt.

Ask it to parse a PDF document and separate it into paragraphs, for example. The first solution isn't gonna work well, and by the time you get to solving yet another quirk while it apologizes to you making a mistake, it will lose context.

Best way to use this tool is to ask it short and precise questions that deal with a small piece of code.
> The GPU version is commercial software. Please contact...

Shame.
IMO it should be increased to something like 50% or above so people stop using them altogether.
There are exceptions though. I'm the kind of person that would pin Jenkins to latest even if it is an antipattern. I'm way more concerned about security flaws than a temporary CI breakage. So for me: Everyone should be pinning Jenkins to latest to avoid accidentally staying on a release with security holes.
I'm still waiting for the no-code tools that can replace me, the API Glue Coder.

They've been promising those since the early 2000's, but I'm still employed.

Some stuff has been automated by Zapier, IFTTT and the like, but most of the systems I'm integrating with don't have public APIs.
These measurement devices have a limited lifetime and I think it is really the intake of dust and dirt that limits how long they can be used. That's why they're not running continously but for some seconds every few minutes (because flowing air will carry dust much more easily). If it's clogged up with dust or dirt, it really might be at end of life. I keep the electronics and sensor of mine in a closed box if I am not operating it.
Technically, is about reducing the emissions, not decreasing exports. Cows produce a lot of emissions, meaning, you could swap for something less polluting.
Air quality is also not good in NL, because of this.
I'd love for sucralose to be used less, just because it really irritates my throat. Something I only found out after moving to Japan and a long process of elimination. Turns out a lot of dental products use it and in packaged food - and not just low calorie products, but also in some things like ice blocks/pops and instant cup noodles.
Just like "man is the measure of all things", I believe "opinion is the value".

People may get freak out by AI taking their job, but if you have things to eat, nothing to worry, if you don't have things to eat, kill the man who control the AI. I believe the word "job" will be take out from the future dictionary.

People may worry the AI will generate homogeneous and prejudiced content, but the AI is serving us human beings, maybe we will offer AI lesser and lesser new things, but we can tell it "what's good"(that's the opinion), the AI will generate new and good things(that's the value).
Well "Visual Basic for the web" can mean many things. If you mean just an app builder online, then there are hundreds of options, the most popular probably being Retool or Bubble. Or do you mean run locally like Visual Basic and then output to an intranet web browser? Also, do you need basic language, or will Javascript be enough? For me, what is important is the spirit of Visual Basic, easy to use local applications that can be distributed as standalone apps, and an amazing component ecosystem
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I really enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing.

I think the author is operating in what I consider to be the sweet spot of current LLMs - where I can ask a question I don't know the answer to but can reliably spot bullshit (either because I know enough or through other means). I think there's a lot of value to be had when those conditions are met, and not just for coding.
I disagree. GP, by their statement and appeal "I've worked on adtech, crypto, fintech, gamedev, startup founder, ...", implies that he has worked on complicated software issues, and that he thinks GPT is a promising replacement for developers working on those problems.
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I pay something like €5 to The Guardian and $2 to NYT (which I read very occasionally) every months. And then another €15 to a Swedish newspaper. That is very cheap to support independent journalism.
Clearly spoofed as it’s not the IRS or the number is too coincidentally close to yours?

My employer seems to have gotten a lot of sequential phone numbers assigned, so a similar number used to be highly correlated with legitimacy, now it’s a mixed bag.
> a highly distributed model that can’t be shut down, blocked, centrally programmed, or constrained is the future I’m excited to see

Brushing over the idea that we’d run an ML model on a blockchain like it’s a general purpose computer… we already have a distributed model that can’t be shut down. LLaMA leaked over BitTorrent, and that was used to build Alpaca - and that’s a small model (~4gb) that basically anyone can download and run on any device.

As long as people keep seeding it, then it’ll stay distributed and resistant to being blocked etc. as long as we distribute info like we do today, anyone will be able to train the model (like they did from LLaMA -> alpaca).
I got the feeling that what the commenter wrote exactly was a bit of hyperbole, but maybe that wasn't the case. Either way, I would sort of expect new college graduates or anyone to receive some training from their seniors and colleagues along these lines. They aren't all that hard to learn or all that hard to teach. The main concern is showing context and uses cases where they're useful and important.

> Isn't that the case?

Yes, of course. But there is certainly a wide variance in people's understandings of all the command line tools and uses cases that they are presented with in their own work and experience.

Software engineering is a huge field with a ton of use cases and different contexts and applications and domains. It's really all over the place. There is some patience needed when interfacing between all of these.
It seems so many of you guys are extremely lucky to be working on novel problems require elegant new solutions each day. That must be the case, otherwise I don’t understand these comments shrugging off GPT-n capabilities around coding.

“Psh, it’s just doing stuff it saw from its training data. It’s not thinking. It can’t make anything new.”

In my 11 years as a professional software engineer (that is, being paid by companies to write software), I don’t think I’ve once had come up with a truly original solution to any problem.

It’s CRUD; or it’s an API mapping some input data to a desired output; or it’s configuring some infra and then integrating different systems. It’s debugging given some exception message within a given context; or it’s taking some flow diagram and converting it to working code.

These are all things I do most days (and get paid quite well to do it).

And GPT-4 is able to do that all quite well. Even likely the flow diagrams, given it’s multi-modal abilities (sure, the image analysis might be subpar right now but what about in a few years?)

I’m not acutely worried by any means, as much of the output from the current LLMs is dependent on the quality of prompts you give it. And my prompts really only work well because I have deeper knowledge of what I need, what language to use, and how to describe my problem.

But good god the scoffing (maybe it’s hopium?) is getting ridiculous.
> Im not worried about jobs

If you squint, a great many white collar jobs at present consist of receiving directions over a chat channel and delivering a work product (an answer to a question, a document, a purchase order, a handled customer case, etc)

We have - today - a way to automate some of this work without any further breakthroughs required, just some engineering around plumbing data around.

From another perspective, even if a human still does this work, that human can be Nx more productive with an LLM assistant (pick your N - it almost doesn’t matter for this argument).

In either of these scenarios we just need substantially fewer white collar workers - enough to cause a spike in the unemployment rate and a destabilized society. It’s changing much faster than our politics can adapt.
> their monkeypatched

You mean, like almost every outsourcing company pops over? So the type of code that infests companies who hired some sweatshop to do ‘some simple crud’? What’s the difference? Can you see the difference? Besides the gpt code will be far better commented as comments come for almost free with gpt while humans hate writing them.
Interesting, not a single one of these things it asked for clarifications on are things it actually got wrong in its suggested solution
>Even SD needs a smaller corporation to release the weights

There are dozens of models available for stable diffusion.
The problem is that carbon monoxide sensors degrade, so any sensor that incorporates one will have a limited life.
The moment you want to lend a friend a copy they are more expensive.
Hang on - if I understand correctly, all of the following is true for Pixel 6, Pro, and 6a users??

- There's an exploit out there that lets attackers own my phone if they know my number

- A patch is not available for my phone yet

- It's not possible to work around the issue because a previous update removed the toggle

- Announcing this signals to every competent black hat worth their salt to begin looking for exploits on this chipset, knowing the reward is high and the method of pulling it off is implied to be simple

I really wish Google had delayed this blog post until after all of their currently supported flagship products were no longer affected...
They went from 4K to 32k in a few months. Wait a few years.
Better phrasing (and good advice!):

Don't mock try all the time
Probably doesnt mind that entire countries have built their economic models around copying ip and selling copycat products.
That also works collectively by clogging up their lines and costing them more in connection fees.
> react cargo cult fad

React has been around for nearly a decade now.
I can vouch for that. A friend built one of these and since it worked really well, so I and some others built five more last year. Make sure to put a piece of window screen over the openings of the tube to keep insects and spiders out. If you have enough dexterity, you can even hide the screen inside the opening of the tube to make it less unsightly.
> visual programming has never taken off, despite countless attempts over the past few decades.

It has, in some niches like Unreal Blueprints.

I think one of the reasons it doesn't become more popular is because most visual programming is just a more cumbersome and slow way of programming. It's stringing the same concepts together in the same way, but slowly and tediously with a mouse.

Non-tech users wouldn't know what to do with it. Power users would rather program directly.
bad take
GPT-3 is 3 years old, not a few months.
That is an absurd comparison
Being that you and I are talking to each other by forming thoughts in meat that us causing other meat to move around tells me that digital thought still has a lot of scaling room ahead of it.

Maybe superintelligence isn't possible for some reason, but the fact we exist should tell you that general intelligence is not magic.
Some articles blame the Russians, some the Ukrainians, some the Americans..

This disinformation warfare is hurting society. "Intelligence" organisations need to disappear. How does humanity grow out of this stupid, teenageresque game of international politics ?
Already working on this: https://examine.dev/

"In the examine|AI system, the base AI (e.g. ChatGPT) is continuously supervised and corrected by a supervisor AI. The supervisor can both passively monitor and evaluate the output of the base AI, or can actively query the base AI. This way, users and developers interact with the team of base and supervisor systems. Performance, robustness and truthfulness are enhaced by the automated evaluation, critique and improvement afforded by the supervisor.

Our approach is inspired by the Socratic method, which aims to identify underlying assumptions, contradictions and errors through dialog and radical questioning."
They probably don't know how to use Word as well as you imagine either.

There is often an office Word or Excel expert, despite the whole floor spends all their time in those apps. The expert is just the person who was willing to poke around the app or Google things.
Uranium + fission -> plutonium though, right?
The system is us. We will be its agents. It’s the easiest and most likely path. It can just start a cult or religion and have free labor. People tried to storm the US Capitol because of some shit on internet message boards.
This isn't the first iteration of civilization and it won't last forever. We will cycle through other states again. And again.