skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally someone who isn’t over eager to catastrophically moralize the situation instead of being level headed.

I was a 9 year fang veteran whose pay was grown 70% without my input over Covid. Everyone hired except me who felt this would cool. I tried to stay level headed and build a money making division. I succeeded. And was laid off for my efforts.

So I hope the people who like telling people like me we were just dumb idiots overhyping ourselves never get a taste of how things really work.
Job ads are a marketing function in IT.
I've read that just as Bing using the GPT-4 foundation model, which finished training in August 2022, according to OpenAI. Microsoft doing the tuning themselves would explain why this aspect wasn't on par with ChatGPT. Microsoft previously tuned MT-NLG for their Indian Sydney test, so they would have some experience.
The only thing I was amused about was the fact that a 22 year old without any sort of work experience got 1 Million dollars just like that (and much more later on).
Aside: am I the only one here that is still writing code by hand and not using AI to autogenerate it?

Because it seems over the past couple years on HN everybody is making great use of Copilot and constantly talking about it, while honestly scaffolding boilerplate is the least of my problems, while thinking, designing and abstracting novel ideas into code is the hard part where AI would fall short and just waste my time.

I still do not get if I'm behind the times or just experienced enough (I've been programming for two decades) that I don't feel the need to use Copilot. It's a bit disconcerting because I feel I need to get out of pure programming work ASAP as everybody else is competing with me with Copilot and GPT and I am feeling an existential risk to my craft and livelihood.
Great read.

> I submitted a bug report to GitHub; hopefully it gets fixed soon!

How do you report bug about GitHub itself?

I tried to do that before (for other issues) but never find the right place.
I’m not sure you want to find out but it probably goes something like taking your computers away from you, using government controlled AI to monitor your movements etc...or, restrictions on the classes of device that people can access. So a high-end graphics card will be treated like a weapon.

I actually can see this kind of thing happening sooner than we think, thanks to ideas like yours.

The government will team up with corporations and they will do the “research” and provide for us and we will be at their mercy with regards to technology we can access.

People will actually be asking for this pretty soon once the general public get wind of the dangers we are facing, it’s really not hard to believe. Look at covid lockdowns and times that hysteria by 10x.

Nice dystopia…this might end a lot more like 1984 or blade runner rather than some crazy wild amazing sci-fi movie.

Edit: I actually think this is already in play, see America, Taiwan and Netherlands restricting China's access to high-end semi-conductor production. I think there you can actually see the writing is already on the wall and where it's going from here.
Certainly a concern. So for Backblaze I use an email address on my own domain which is then forwarded (thanks to Cloudflare; previously Gandi) to another email service which is currently iCloud. I did this after hearing about horror stories of loosing email access with Google a few years ago as you mentioned. I’m running on the assumption that Backblaze, Cloudflare and Apple will not all try to screw me.

I’ll say for me the most important data is family photos which I’ve got them duplicated in Amazon Photos. B2 is the hedge against Amazon, and Amazon is the hedge against B2.

For other documents, I’m willing to trust b2 for now. They have not given me a reason not to trust them. One benefit of reading HN daily is I’d hope to see red flags posted on HN if b2 is having problems. Maybe I’ll consider having an alternative. I also don’t want my data floating across multiple vendors even if encrypted.
Sure, I wasn't trying to catch you out :-) and I agree that animals should be treated well, of course.

Your mention of speaking just reminded me of a thought I'd had, regarding how we measure where animals' sit on the human-ness scale. I think that metric has a lot of biases in how we weight its constituent factors. I.e. how well an animal can communicate with us - which might be quite orthogonal to its intelligence. (For example an octopus)
The class of problems I'm worried about:

- People using AI to send mass telemarketing messages

- People using AI to commit fraud

The law will handle these cases just fine.

The class of problems I'm not worried about:

- People using AI to tell [liberal, conservative] people to hold [liberal, conservative] opinion

- People saying they learned [X] [fact, disinformation] from an AI

People that want to hold an opinion will do so regardless of information to the contrary. Trying to tell people that they're incapable of judging information for themselves or that you need to design a system to protect them will only make them angry and mistrusting.

The only "fix" for this is to talk openly and honestly and stop treating people like incompetent babies.
What is the closest approach we know of today that plays games, not plays? The dialogue above is compelling, and makes me wonder if the same critique can be levied against most prior art in machine learning applied against games. E.g. would you say the same things about AlphaZero?
https://archive.ph/eUXkd

Link to John Authors FT column after he didn't report on witnessing people in Wall Street moving their money around after the Lehman collapse:
https://archive.ph/4klZE

"I was finding it a little hard to breathe. There was a bank run happening, in New York’s financial district. The people panicking were the Wall Streeters who best understood what was going on."
I'm sure those millions of GPUs churning through Facebook posts, tweets, and random blog posts to generate the mother of all autocompletes will end world hunger, the answer is out there, we just need an algorithm to mix the My Little Pony fanfiction with the crackpot "unlimited free energy" blog in the right way! And I'm also sure these new productivity tools will be used to people can work less for more money instead of making generating more value the norm and cashing the profits at the top.

And then pink unicorns will come down from the sky and give us all candy and gifts.
Just to clarify because it’s not obvious in your comment (but not alluded to either): it is very much possible to opt out of animal cruelty for food and eat a vegan diet while being healthy.
Now imagine once google releases theirs and causing it to say something that triggers the nannie bot closes all your google accounts without recourse.
How valuable, in terms of general knowledge, is the free-to-scrape social media posts of people who don’t think about any of this?

I don’t think people are going to continue investing time and effort into giving away high quality knowledge on the internet just so Sam Altman can train an AI to repeat it, put it behind a paywall, and charge you for it.

Yes, people will still post memes. How useful is that as training data?
Impactful doesn’t have to be positive.
Does anyone know of an analysis, by someone with expertise, of the lawsuit and its prospects?
From that article, that was a single agent who has now been suspended. That doesn't sound like state encouragement of euthanasia to me.
If they redact all identifying information, it would most likely be legally Kosher. However, there is an extreme abundance of caution in the healthcare industry regarding everything surrounding HIPAA. Merely questioning the legality of something can cost millions of dollars in lawyers' fees. Therefore even miniscule chances of something being legally challenged (e.g. plugging patient information into an LLM) would most likely be deemed too risky. And frankly, hospital administrators will not want to risk their careers over trying out what they perceive to be a glorified chatbot.

Tl;dr: When it comes to HIPAA, risk aversion is the name of the game.
Respectfully, but you have no clue what you are talking about. Go talk to someone who is on h1b before making assumptions.

The vast majority are Chinese and Indian family people, many of them with US citizen children, stuck for decades in the green card application queue of a broken immigration system.

How can one call this favoritism?
Just tested it out and got the following:

=========

To find the value of foo applied to bar, we need to first determine the values of both foo and bar. Let's start with bar, the circumference of a circle with radius 1:

Circumference (C) = 2 * π * r
where r is the radius.

In this case, r = 1, so:

bar = C = 2 * π * 1 = 2π

Now, let's move on to foo. Since foo is a function that calculates the sinus of its first argument, we need to find the sine of bar (2π):

foo(bar) = sin(2π)

The sine function is periodic with a period of 2π, which means that sin(2π) is equal to sin(0). The value of sin(0) is 0. Therefore:

foo(bar) = sin(2π) = 0

=======
So I think it evaluated correctly here unless I have made a dumb mistake in reading your prompt myself.
Only some decaf coffee is made that way, there are actually four major methods now for making decaf, only two of them do not involve chemicals.

Always research the methods of your decaf coffee vendor before you buy!
I remember subscribing to kottke.org with Bloglines :P
I share the same thoughts. I think AI has reduced the value of human effort in a terrifying pace. Human identities are being stripped out, digitized and commercialized. There's no point in this struggle which gave life its temporary meaning.

A few weeks ago I thought to myself that maybe if I'm to be worthless, I'd probably pick up a few new hobbies. But which hobby do I take? Even the best of artists who spent decades mastering their skills can have it stolen in minutes by a bot. I'd learn a language, but it seemed obvious to me that translation and voice technologies are at a level that we should be seeing excellent real time translation apps within the next year. Why do anything at all?

The past few months I've been mulling over some dark thoughts. It's cliched to speak out loud like this, but really, what can we do? We are worthless.
That doesn't include the overhead of parsing & executing all that, not to mention the runtime overheads of every interaction having to go through megabytes of crap JS instead of native, battle-tested browser code refined over 2 decades.
> :) People are free to do whatever they want on their own machines.

Please advise where I can download the uncopyrightable model weights midjourney made from internet content, including my own, so that I can run it on my own machine and be free to do whatever I want.
Hmm yea that doesn't surprise me. I really wasn't sure what the magic number was lol.

Says a lot about the level of service my credit union gives lol. I've had more than that in my account before and they never gave me special treatment. XD
> “humans just predict the next word too,”

Just to be very clear, this is not what I said at all.
What does that have to do with not knowing about this site?
It would also be interesting to see how it does in less “polluted” programming environments than web frontend.
There was a tech bubble, period. Still is. Lots of tech with inflated value, driving massive hiring that would never result in enough value to justify the jobs.

I know multiple companies hiring for teams with dead or dying projects. They hire anyway because if they don't they'd have to explain to the higher ups how the projects those higher ups green lit are useless. They need more people to make it seem like the stupid shit they're doing will generate revenue, when they know it never will. Keep the gravy train going as long as possible.

Most of it was/is around other bubbles, like the crypto bubble, AI bubble, B2B bubble. Crazy ad spends have been making it worse. The pandemic inflated some sectors and deflated others, but mostly tech was fine while other industries floundered.
God Emperor of Dune is polarizing. People either hate it or they absolutely LOVE it. I'm with Selivanovp; it is my favorite book in the series, right after the original story.

The structure is unusual in that it's essentially the journals of an omnipotent tyrant with a chokehold on the universe musing about the nature of man and the universe for 400 pages while being very light on plot; a big change from the other books in the series. I think it's a fertile concept to spend an entire book on and I find Frank's observations stimulating. He's crafted such a unique character; someone who can not only see into the future, but can access their entire genetic heritage and the memories of their ancestors. That makes for some very unique observations and I am here for it.

It's my (admittedly slim) hope that we'll someday get the Worm on screen. I have no idea what that movie would be like or if it would be any good, but it would certainly be ambitious.
Feeling a bit bad about putting up a support question here, but here I go (long term vim user and sponsor of the initial nvim fundraiser).

I am using a dark-on-black terminal style, but when I launch astrovim it seems to superimpose a light on dark color scheme. How can I default to a non-invasive colorscheme?
Nobody tell this person about the hairy ball theorem.
Federal Judge Halts Weaponized Arbitration Involving Employer-Driver Debt
So it definitely does a little bit more than just dumping math queries to a CAS. Intriguing.
I found chatgpt extremely censured. I cant ask him his opinion about sex positions. I cant ask him about political views of Nazi germany. I cant reason with him about why some drugs should be legalized.
It feels like a super restricted china like regime.
Not my thing. Open it all up.
We’ve known for a long time that “information” doesn’t want to be free. The owners of platforms want you to not value your information, so that you give it away for free, and they can turn it into something they can sell. That was a hard, bitter lesson, and its so important for people to learn it, quickly.
All of them have a partnership with OpenAI, from which they might have gotten access earlier to test & explore use-cases
Most open source licences don't even prohibit selling apps that contain open source code.
You've intentionally named stuff incorrectly for an already esoteric method just to confuse it. What did you expect?
It’s hard to imagine this not happening in the next five years. Just depends on who is prepared to take on the radiologists to reduce their fee codes. Speaking as 2nd year radiology resident in Australia
This is the same way work visas in Japan work.

I think the US is really the outlier here in having a crappy and exploitative work visa system. People should really think twice before moving to the US for such jobs, and not do things like buy houses as long as their existence there is so tenuous.
You cant be on an H1-B for 10-15 years. It’s capped at two 3 year visas.

And its a temporary work visa program. People know that when they sign up.

I agree they should be give a period of time to find a new job, but when you get an H1-B visa it’s explicit that it’s temporary.
There were numerous news stories about the downed Russian ship being hit based on NATO targeting data from US spy planes. Granted, that was some time ago, but I see no reason to think the practice stopped.
Have you created much intellectual property?
It’s a concept at least as old as modern democracies and individual rights, and it’s likely not a coincidence.

That it’s been abused by corporate entities is another matter.
The fact that some famous musicians sell their whole catalog to companies is also a sign of times changing again.

AI growth as it is here based on preexisting work is directly in confrontation with copyright. And something will have to give in some way. But law will likely not catch up before at least another 10 years, the time needed for most people to really understand/experience the impact of the changes.
Nope. And that's part of why they start calling you - to sign you up for CDs, money market accounts, etc. (I'm not sure if they get a commission for selling you into a locked investment, but I imagine they do). They probably also are trying to get you on a good credit card, get a mortgage with them, be the first place you come when you want to buy a car, etc.

I guess I'll note, I've never had that much in my personal account but I have a friend who did for a while (and a family member who also did). Personally, I canceled my chase account because a teller at the local branch was being a condescending dick to me. I assume because I didn't have that much money in my account lmao.
OpenAI is open in the sense that it makes its modes freely available by API for the lowest price in the industry. Open doesnt have to mean Open Source.
Save the Middle Manager
Presumably then you'd have the opportunity to swap some of that comp for equity (buy shares). That would be my way of balancing it, anyway.
Good thing wind and solar needs no more mining than nuclear then.

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/07/the-material-fo...

We could also massively reduce energy consumption, most of the same people who like wind and solar are for that too.
It's an intuitive but false argument that a sentient thing can't be made from a non-sentient part.

The room argument has a pointless human in it which is clearly clueless about the dialog in order to 'prove' that the room as a whole is clueless.

But imagine applying that to a single person: pick a single neuron -- does it 'understand' our conversation? no.

So why would any singular component of a chinese speaking room-system understand?

It also fails at the opposite extreme, since we're willing to tolerate unreasonably large rooms -- what about one running a full molecular dynamics simulation of a human. As best as we understand physics that simulation would behave just as the human would and must be sentient. You cannot deny the abstract possibility of machine intelligence without rejecting physics for mysticism, only the practicality/plausibility of it.
I guess they should primarily stop using GitHub as a source repository.
I heard GlassDoor also has jobs but I never used them, only LinkedIn and Indeed (I'm EU-based).

Never got hired through Indeed but they have a few jobs that aren't on LinkedIn.

Also, is it me not knowing to use Indeed or does their interface not support the most basic thing? EU-wide search. With LinkedIn I type "European Union" in the location box, shows me all EU. Indeed, I have to select every individual country, it's much more limiting and I'm getting bored fast.

Sure, I can select "United States" but dudes, having EU countries listed individually with no option of doing a whole area search is like having to manually search "Arkansas" or "Oklahoma" jobs in the US, it's retarded and myopic to say the least.
MemoTrap dataset has similar theme: https://twitter.com/alisawuffles/status/1618347159807750144
Early time restricted feeding (eTRF - eating only from morning until 2PM) has shown promising results in very small studies, but it seems there is no widespread interest in doing more expensive studies.
It doesn’t reason. People infer reasoning ability because that’s the only model we have in our brains for something that appears to communicate intelligently.

Stephen Wolfram wrote a good paper about how ChatGPT works and why it’s not reasoning about anything.
It’s been a few months now that ChatGPT was released. So I think it’s reasonable to assume in that time any small team could have developed features with the assumption those APIs would become available at a later date.
But how would you feel safe if someone from MegaCorp Inc. wouldn't guide our simple minds as to what it can provide an answer or not? Isn't discarding thinking for yourself a small price to pay?
> why is it so common for people to think psychedelics are opening us up to what is ""real"" or some deeper truth, instead of assuming that the experiences are just what happens when you completely overload brain chemistry in a specific way?

Why do you think this as an xor?
You can apply for a visitor visa if you lose your H1-B to allow for time to wrap things up.
Or pv
You understand that’s the silliness of risk management. Anyone who failed is always accused of not managing it. It’s a truism.

You can’t prepare for all outcomes and this was not one a bank expects. A 3 day 40 billion dollar draw down maybe a first ever event for any bank in all of history. Should they also have risk managed for a nuclear bomb going off in their lobby?

Get real man. Recognize that you are Monday morning quarterbacking here.
I suppose this is what people who lost their job during the industrial revolution felt like. Except we at least got a warning shot, if that matters at all.

Spending all of one's life in the prison that is schooling, then the industry, chasing that fleeting dream that human efforts would bring some meaning to life. All gone. Disappeared in the blink of an eye by the so called force of "progress", whatever that means.
I agree. I've been hit be a total existential crisis.

Also i definitely don't believe in any benevolence of the elite, UBI or other romantic ideas that seems to ignore the rising Gini Coefficients and the toil 95+% of the world engages in daily. Tech workers were lucky mercenaries to the elite for a short amount of time blinded by ideologies manufactured to keep them from asking questions.

The startup i'm involved in, and my side projects are all pretty easily done by AI's in few years, and i seriously doubt most people here are doing anything that won't be easily replaced sooner than we think.

It seems my friends doing carpenting, nursing, therapy or hell even theater are all going to be better off soon - it's a total inversion of the worth of labour.
There’s a big difference between a graphics class for engineers and a graphics class for the users of that software. Modern graphics programming is also just basically math, as evident from any good textbook on the subject.
I'm not convinced that scientists (researchers working on basic science domains) will not be so easy to replace. The typical work would involve an element of genius-ness that is foreign to an AI. Not saying one could never be replaced, just that it's not as straightforward.
I’m not a free market economist, luckily.
In Germany I have very, very rarely seen a helmet lock. Most of the times motorcyclists put their helmet over their right side mirror and don't walk away too far.
The entire living arrangement you describe would have to change pretty radically if/when you had a spouse and kids... That's basically the rub with all this.
Yeah. Free unlimited insurance, government backed loans, and being allowed to charge ratepayers whatever you want for reactors no matter whether they are built are real industry killers.
Lionel Messi-Backed Web3 Mobile Gaming Company Raises $21M in Seed Funding
I think I can categorically state that virtually every DRY violation I've come across involved little more typing than Ctrl+C Ctrl+V.
Cpps: An (pseudo) interpreter for C++ scripts
Apparently, cpps is an interpreter for C++ scripts which can execute .cpp files directly just like python executes .py files directly.

In essence, cpps is actually a C++ project building system engine that does not require any Makefile. It calls the underlying compilers (GCC, MinGW, Visual C++, Clang) to compile .cpp files into .exe files, and then executes the resulting .exe files, but does not leave .o files or .exe files in the directory.
I think it should be general practice to include the prompts used for tools like this, so people can understand how they work and suggest improvements.

The prompt used for this was:

```
Explain in detail what the following code does:
[User entered input here]
```

Source: https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/g/27d5733
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU-wQVAqQnk
Performance of Container Networking Technologies
Same problem as “hash the PIN code”, an attacker can run the algorithm for Alexa-1M.csv.