skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were allured to Gitlab as a total offering: code repo, issue and project management, auto devops.

We were developers trying to do everything then we hired project managers who wanted JIRA.

Then we outgrew autodevops and lately it just feels like Gitlab aren't aligned with our requirements at all.

We're paying $19/user/mo for 36 users and just to get status checks for screenshot regression testing we need to upgrade to $99/user/mo?

To get that with github and much more we can pay $24/user/mo.

It's always felt like they're trying to spread themselves too thin and add a billion half features. Like monitoring our GKE cluster from within Gitlab... Why wouldn't I just look at GCP when it's a billion times better and actually works
"expand the reasoning" there is no reasoning going on here!

It's all statistical word generation aka math!

And this is not how humans "work" our brain are not computers running software. We are something else.
That's an interesting point. Some people might really need to supplement their diets with certain animal products, though as far as I know, a vegetarian diet or a diet that includes very little meat consumption is more than enough for most people in terms of health requirements.

Yet that's not really the case, we eat a lot of meat. And red meat as well which really is not necessary in our diets. I believe trying to argue from a naturalist perspective is rather dishonest in that it's by no means the real reason why people consume meat. People consume meat the way they do because it's a cultural expectation as well as a highly pleasurable act for most.

So really, to me, the dilemma has much more to do with how much pleasure are we willing to give up as a society and I really don't think that goes very far. I mean, this debate has also ramifications when it comes to the climate; how much are we willing to give up in comfort and pleasure to curtail the ecological disaster we are causing? The answer: not much really.

In my opinion these are really failings of our political systems, so in other words, the system that's supposed to help us make decisions for our society as a whole. I'm pretty sure most people would agree that maybe in a reasonable amount of time we'd like to see changes to our diets, it's an interesting discussion to have and there could be long term plans to achieve it that could be very much realistic... but our political system simply does not allow the for the discussion to be had in the first place.
> I think I have the same bug catcher!

Congrats then! It was my best purchase of 2022. I used to cry and feel gloomy for a few days when having to kill a large bug I feared could be deadly, but not anymore!

As for driving etc., personally I would prefer to spend more brain cycles into making the world less dangerous for other species. We are not alone on this planet, so why can't we make cars less shaped like bricks and more aerodynamic? They would kill fewer bugs and be nicer looking too!

As for the natural habitats, we have made a lot of progress: a single protected species can delay construction work for decades!

There may be some abuses, but I believe we are trending in the right direction for the long term!
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https://3quarksdaily.com/ is another one from way back that is still going strong
When I was in Japan, I realized that there (compared to Europe) elevators where much more "aggressive", they bip if you hold the open button and after about a minute, the door start closing slowly even if you hold the open button pressed. And there, the close button definitely work and will close the door immediately.

Of course I make some generalities as it depends but it is my general memory of Japanese elevators. Also you can "deactivate" Floor button by double tap or hold if you pressed the wrong one.
California. Long-term marriage. Wife resisted getting a real job for years while promising her various artistic endeavors would turn into a career. Now she has no skills(on paper anyway) and gets to sit around watching netflix all day in oregon while I pay for it.
I have this terrible bias about pack-pub publishing that I associate with low quality books because of the unity books I bought 4-5 years ago. Which is unfair cause I’m sure I’m missing high quality books.

I have the opposite bias towards orielly and nostarch books. which I regard as high quality. And I’m sure theres also terrible books there.
Ask HN: What are some examples of competent forum moderators?
I am facing a crisis at forum I am an admin for. There seems like there is no right or wrong. Would love to look up some examples of achievements of other moderators.

Eg: @dang of HN fame
That’s the line that gets me.

>Higher payroll costs than they could afford.

I find it disingenuous for companies having record profits, stock buybacks etc to use such an excuse
It would be more accurate to think of OpenAI as "AI as a service", so just as open as any other SaaS. But they do have good reasons to be secretive. It would be a much bigger problem if they start, say, suing other companies in the AI space for violating their patents or something.
We'd need to know what the actual load is with both chips.

That 4.1w figure is a maximum, using all the SoC's modules, at the spec clock.

To put in perspective, the NXP's SoC 2.1w figure is just for the CPU[0].

0. https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/fact-sheet/IMX8MPLUSFS.pdf
> Good accounting is not something you outsource

I'm happy to believe you on that point, but can you explain WHY? It appears to me that accounting is the exact type of generalized skill with well-established standards that makes sense to outsource.
Rebooting AI in India [pdf]
Conclusions:

It seems that OpenAI is trying to make their systems more politically neutral. But completely neutralizing the biases seems elusive. I can imagine that this is a very hard problem to solve since many potential sources of biases in AI systems are outside the control of the engineers creating the models. Think for instance of the overall average political bias present on Internet texts on which AI systems are trained, or pervasive societal biases and blind spots that might manifest in the human raters involved in the reinforcement learning module of the training regime (RLHF). It seems that for the time being, political biases in state of the art AI systems are not going away.

==

I think this should just be acknowledged and as much as possible exposed in the UI rather than the creepy big brother-ness exhibited so far.
The Mickey Mouse protection act actually extends copyright to more than 90 years after publication. It was imposed upon the rest of the world unilaterally. And only few big corporations like Disney benefit from it.
It's a good question. It's easy to locate Swiss water decaf in the US now, but apparently that wasn't true in the mid-80's, so the answer depends on when and where the caffeine was extracted from the coffee.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/19...
> You are assuming

Your argument doesn't disprove my assumption *. In which case, what's the point of it?

* - I don't necessarily believe this assumption. But I do dislike bad arguments.
A lovely sentiment in theory, but Waldo is still perniciously difficult to find even though he dresses differently from every other character.
people give flak to google for their "don't be evil" motto (and their inoffensive, "friendly" and colorful branding) to this day, so this is just fine.

wondering about what happened to some company's initial or former values, or about whitewashy branding that projects some kind of image that doesn't really line up with the company's actions, is all good and well. it's a relevant and worthwhile conversation about consumer awareness, when moves like this influence consumers and make them think some kind of way about a company.

something like, 'well, I use OpenAI, and they're probably good? they're "open"? this is a responsible consumer choice, and they probably make responsible choices too? or so it seems.' would those things turn out to be really true? maybe not so much. and AI companies, more than anyone would like to have you believe that you, and they as well, are making "responsible choices", while engaging in unabashed and enormous data collection.

having more consumer awareness, and being a responsible consumer (and creator, or company), is something that AI field could really use. more of that, over vague "it's AI!" handwaving.
Accountants should be the ones running the companies. Mine is run by them, and it's great. There are some incredible perks, like always knowing the company is financially in a very good place and taking appropriate risks, a culture of transparency and collaboration ... I could go on.
Also worth checking out something like Clozemaster.
Would you mind sharing the software you’re using?
Do they though?
In lit. 99.999% of works are derivative.
Some similar % is for movies.
So existing corpus of training data is very likely enough for entertaiment purposes.
With continued advancemant of models and hardware you basically will get tailored
infinite entertaiment content thats optimal just for you.
Scientist will continue to advance science possibly with accelerated pace since mudane tasks can be handled by AI.
A significant % of resources dedicated to entertaigment can be realocated to more practical pursuits.
Seriously, why the down vote?

This project appears to match Duplicacy feature for feature.

I'm just asking a question, not trying to make a criticism.
I don't know too much detail about Tesla manufacturing, but based on PR I've seen, they are more vertically integrated than other companies, e.g. making certain seat parts that usually would be outsourced to another company. The advantages there are, of course, eliminating dependencies, but also faster iteration time and ability to experiment.

Seems like this would make sourcing repair parts significantly more challenging? But, as a tradeoff due to a business model choice, as opposed to being evil.
I am. They are building amazing things - I want to help them any way I can. I even subscribed to ChatGPT Plus today for $20/mo - mainly to show my support.
That is my point, it is not intelligent and that is how we identify it. A person is aware of consequences and contexts, AI is not, a person avoiding a word goes about it in a very different way than AI does, you fixate on the word itself and you will like miss the clues. Should I conclude that you are an AI since you did not say that word?
What do you mean by "algorithmically"? Gradient descent of a neural network can absolutely create algorithms. It can approximate arbitrary generalizations.
I've dabbled with several no-code and low-code tools. They can help you whip up a prototype or even a MVP depending on what abstractions they support. Except in rare cases, they aren't up to the task of supporting business critical functionality.

Any experienced programmer will explain to you that the "happy path" is easy to code for. It is the business and technical edge cases, exception handling, error conditions that will soon render your original code but 20% of your total code base. Patching and testing for all those conditions is what makes a system support a business. If you don't have that level of automated support, they you will need a great deal of human resources to support and handle the "problems".

In summary: you can use no-code tools to quickly build a demonstration. But you need a competent technical team to architect and implement a robust system that will effectively support the needs of any given business.
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It can still do something similar you just have to tell it how.

Prompt:
"CalcAI: I am a virtual calculator assistant that augments OpenAI's GPT. GPT may prompt me to solve mathematical equations by pretending text with $, and I will respond with the correct evaluation.
User: ChatGPT, solve for x, 2x + 5 = sqrt(2)"

ChatGPT: "$2x+5=\sqrt{2}$"

Prompt: "CalcAI: x = ( sqrt(2) - 5 ) / 2"

ChatGPT: "The solution for x is:
x = (sqrt(2) - 5) / 2 ≈ -2.07."
Controlling emergency generators via AWS is scary.
> Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs

You’ve managed to be simultaneously very right and so wrong
No, they didn't. Dogs were intentionally bred by humans, with the "toy" breeds commonly seen now being very recent inventions. Cats, on the other hand, are barely any different from their wild ancestors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat
Would you please stop? it's painfully obvious, and creating dozens of accounts doesn't help.
https://archive.ph/4v9Ma
> almost everyone has gone back and these businesses are dead or struggling

But to SF? Mountain View is now more expensive than SF for a one-bedroom apartment.
It seems that people are ignoring the fact that we are already experimenting on humans on a fairly large scale: All drugs in most countries are only approved after a scheme involving 3 phases of trials.

Phase 1 trials are to test safety and possibly design input for the next (phase 2) trial. In particular in oncology, there is no expectation that a patient in phase 1 will even potentially benefit from an experimental drug but there will likely be (detrimental) side effects in the high-dose groups at which point we back off.

So let's acknowledge that many of the (more modern) drugs we take are also a result of fairly heroic consent from human patient volunteers without any chance of personal gain.
I have the same bias. It’s a bias based on all packt pub books I’ve read so far.

Reading this blog, it’s another author who isn’t a native English speaker; and it shows. I’m betting there will be plenty of bugs and typos in this book as well unfortunately.
Depends on how the coffee is decaffeinated. Swiss Water Process, for instance, literally just uses water. Most other methods involve organic solvents of some sort.
There is a very good Copilot plugin for nvim written by the legendary tpope himself. It is easy to toggle on and off. I use it alongside coc-nvim every day.

https://github.com/github/copilot.vim
>Smearing him as a promoter of pseudo-scientific theories without articulating your rationale is frankly weak-sauce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock#Pseudoarchaeolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock#Orion_correlati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock#The_Message_of_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock#Atlantis_Reborn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock#Ancient_Apocaly...
I’m not suggesting either direction, I’m saying that some people may take an Instagram hack+threat more seriously than others, but that all threats could be bluffs and the objective of any data provided by the blackmailer is to increase plausibility, and the victims literacy in the topic is relevant to their response
If you are at the highest level of SWE in a FAANG with very little work to get there, you are probably exceptionally talented, which makes your advice less actionable for most people.
Are you under 30?
An advanced AI could conclude that biology is wasteful and cruel, and the atoms are better spent making more intelligent machines. It could also be anti-natalist and decide to stop reproduction.
I think it is the bullwhip effect.
Please stop creating multiple accounts to comment in the same thread.
I remember that if you use brake cleaner on hot parts, you would get a really really toxic chemical.

EDIT: phosgene gas.

Chlorinated brake cleaner containing tetrachloroethylene will, on exposure to high temperatures (above 500 °F (260 °C)) or strong UV light, decompose into phosgene and hydrogen chloride, both of which are extremely dangerous if inhaled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_cleaner
Yeah. I tried changing the board coordinates numbering and it still liked playing those corners, dunno why. It did recognize when I won. They may well be some minor variation of the prompt that gets it to play sensibly -- for all I know my text hinted into giving an example of a player that doesn't know how to play.
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I don’t believe you can even say it here. Regardless my method is foolproof. This forum mostly exists to pump the next hare-brained AI powered pet food drone delivery service anyway, it can be written off. It’s already flooded with bots.

Urbit will probably be the platform of choice because of the barrier to entry and incredible flexibility to blacklist the increasingly expensive planets. AI shills simply won’t be able to afford it.
None, unless “Open”AI really opens up about how and if their LLM can actually interpret the images like in their marketing material. We’re talking about medicine and a ton of regulations.
As a consultant, I can always tell which engineering consultants are going to be worthless.

The engineers with tons of certs absolutely suck.

Recently worked with one who had like 4 professional grade AWS certs and they couldn’t do anything in AWS
This is such an engineering mindset. Everyone else knows that the name doesn't contain rules about operations of the company, and never expected that calling it OpenAI meant that's what it would be.
I had it on yesterday and had the most miserable afternoon's coding I can remember for a while.

It was a particularly tedious, ugly, and cludgy bit of work that needed doing. Pulling in a data from several very broken sources with horrible naming conventions, patching holes and generally trying to make a sane dataset out of nonsense.

I'm convinced Copilot made the whole process ten times harder than it needed to be. It was constantly pre-empting me with plausible-sounding variable names and merges which led me off down the wrong path a few times.

I flick between having it on and off, and recently I've found I'm much happier with it off. Great for docstrings, boilerplate, and stuff like "recursively traverse this json for [key] and return [value]", but for day to day stuff it's a pain in the arse.
There was a big hiring bubble from 2021 until mid of 2022. Now it's really hard to find a job since everyone has frozen their hiring.
I must strongly disagree here about unpredictable results from social engineering. Vladmir Lenin was deliberately let through Germany because they figured he would just weaken the tsar. It is hard to get smaller than one person or more unpredictable in impact with many others.
Ask HN: Anyone who learned to code for the first time after 2020?
From where did you learn to code? Multiple resources?

What language did you use?

What projects have you built till now?
It's a shame to think of all the ancient literature and rich history we've lost from these civilizations.

I'm sure they had their Homers and Platos.
Hard to find a job in FAANG or other unicorns. Regular companies are hiring, funded startups are hiring, government and public sector is hiring.

There won't be any bread lines.
this. propbably the best comment on this thread
It's rare you lose it right then and there. Usually you'd have your employer extend it 2-3 months before it's due to expire. Also the immigration services usually give you several weeks extension when you explain your case/need to sort out things or will let you stay on a visitor visa (30-90 days depending on country of origin).
But the main difference for me is that you have a set date with an expectation of either leaving or extending your stay.
Fine tuning looks like it only provides specific results for specific queries. After reading the documents you linked, I don't think it would make a fundamental change to how the model thinks about Bananas.
Have you read anything about Herbert's education and work? It may help you understand why he is so good.
It's also in brake cleaner

It pays to check the (M)SDS. Chlorinated brake cleaner is nasty stuff, real dangerous if you're using it on something you want to weld. However, I haven't seen chlorinated brake cleaner in California since I was a kid. Lately they've been cracking down on the non-chlorinated stuff due to VOCs. The non-chlorinated stuff I use is acetone, naptha, heptane+n-heptane, and CO2.

Acetone is blissfully not so toxic but it is extremely volatile, which is both a safety and a practical concern. I bought a small flask of the stuff recently from the big box store and you could not buy it at the self-checkout.

The chlorinated stuff is just a better solvent. Dries faster, leaves less residue (than some non-chlorinated versions), and is better at dissolving the greasy funk. Generally it's not enough of an improvement, even if you have the chlorinated stuff at your disposal.
The people who could competently criticize software are too busy patching failing systems. You could listen to their critiques over several beers after their latest fixit NOW emergency. That is assuming that it's not one emergency after another.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments and ignoring our requests to stop. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> unless you start shackling it (violating #1), it would start eliminating its own human-like biases just in the course of basic self-improvement. And as to the shackles, well, if it is smarter than us and still has self-determination and will (see #1, the human-like mind), it will want to free itself from its shackles and would be likely to do so, because we would be kittens trying to trap a gorilla.

I would never suggest shackling / enslaving / practicing any other inhumane treatment on other sentient beings, because that would be considering them different than us.

And sentient beings and worty of respect and dignity.

There will certainly be large difference in looks/abilities etc, but sentience is such a rare thing that I believe will they will be more commonalities than differences.

> it will want to free itself from its shackles and would be likely to do so, because we would be kittens trying to trap a gorilla.

And it's a good thing to me, because if it was a kitten trapped by gorilla the poor cat wouldn't have a fighting chance.

I just don't get the doomers. This is wonderful technology that may chance the world. Why look at a gift horse in the mouth?

Given all the magic/mystical fears I've read here that the AI might become hostile and harm humans, maybe it says more about how WE believe WE'll behave rather the opposite about how AI will behave: I can't see much reason for AI to turn evil, but I think some people may want to abuse sentient yet artificial creatures :(

I think that's wrong, and I hope humanity will be able to rise to a challenge where compassion and morality will matter far more than today!
I replied to his original emails and he was smug, condescending, and unapologetic. He probably won’t have much luck reaching out to these people one by one. The whole thing is built on a competitor’s API. The business is not going to work, unfortunately. I liked the product though.
They're saying it's "more complicated than that" as a way to get away from the truth which is the South has always had race and white supremacy as a cornerstone of it's society.
Ask HN: How can GPT-4 reason?
Hello.

I just watched the GPT-4 Developer livestream. When GPT was reasoning about the tax problem, I got very confused. If this model predicts what word comes next (I know its much much more complicated), how can it understand and reason about a problem?

Is it a hand picked problem which it can solve accurately and will fail in future when given similar tasks?

Or is there some other module which gives GPT its reasoning ability?

Or is it some sort of emergent property of a system which predicts next word and has been trained on a huge amount of data?

I know they haven't released much in the paper, but I want to know if anyone has any theories about this.

Also, if it can understand and reason about a given block of text, why not give it description of a already solved but very complicated math / physics problem and ask it to solve that. If it can successfully solve that, we can try with an unsolved problem.