skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, you can do this with any game.

Try "Simulate a text interface to the game Mario", "simulate a text interface to the game Halo".

I just beat World 1 and it knew the layout of each level including things that are impossible.

Me: Grab star and turn invincible.

GPT-4: Well, there's no star here. You can either jump on the goomba, move around, or interact with the question-mark block before you.

I'm so uncreative that I need other people to tell me what I can even try with ChatGPT because nothing fun occurs to me beyond asking it boring questions. This is blowing my mind.

Though I think it's even crazier to just tell it to create a novel MUD for you to play around in. It will design a text interface, rules for its game, enemies, classes to choose from, spells to use. I just played for 30 minutes in a world it invented on the fly.

I'd love a cookbook of things to play with.
My impression is that Apple reviewers have evolved beyond thinking about submissions. Now they have become pattern matchers. That is, they are trying to fit a submission to a known reject-able stereotype. Sometimes while the fit seems reasonable, it is not reasonable as a thoughtful review of the entire submission would show. I don't see how this problem could be avoided.
The luddites lost their status, leisure time, and middle class incomes. Their descendants worked 12 hours a day in factories. They definitely had good reasons to push back.
This is one of the apps that not only keeps me on a desktop/laptop computer (vs a phone/tablet) but also keeps me on Linux. I've got all my photos stored on a NAS device in my house, and manage backups myself (to external harddrives and to rsync). Digikam is my photo manager. I couldn't be happier and I'm sure I don't use even half of the advanced features. What a great app - easy to discover, straightforward, and very polished in my opinion. Many thanks, open source Digikam team.
> Think of country clubs. Your investment is completely lost the second you stop paying

By steam sells games for $60 a piece, they are not a subscribtion service. You can't have it both ways.
End of the day, it’s about survival.
Do you think the same about computers in general? Maybe we should go back to having hoards of office workers on abacuses to restore all those lost jobs.

Apologies for the snark - that was just my knee-jerk reaction! Personally I'd love it if AI can take my job. It'd force me to go find something actually unique and interesting to do with my time.

These modern AIs still require human inputs. ChatGPT is only so smart because it reads the stuff you and I put on the internet. If the internet and books become bogged down with AI-generated content, then it's hard to imagine the AIs getting better beyond that point.
Apple needs to fire or send a message to all their third party recruiters then.

These commission chasers are wasting everyone’s time living in a different dimension where contracts are filled and budgets are allocated.
I don't think "I'd outlaw technology if I could" is the same as saying "technology is good actually, let's find ways to make people happy in ways where automation doesn't matter".

Thinking that the latter will be difficult does not justify the former position at all.
Such an awesome newsletter! Subscribed.

How did you hack your first few subscribers?
Can these hard-to-build-locally lib just upload a wheel to PYPI?
> There is no difference between the two. All property is 'imaginary'. Turning abundance into scarcity is literally the only reason to have property rights all the time, including in the physical world. Land isn't actually scarce in most places.

No way. Physical things are scarce. This is basic physics. You cannot duplicate energy or matter. Two physical bodies cannot occupy the same space. Physical property is not even in the same conceptual space as intellectual property. Land isn't scarce in most places? Really.

Exactly none of the properties I just mentioned apply to any form of intellectual property. You can duplicate bits infinitely at negligible costs.

> Software developers who don't own their code earn 800 dollars on patreon will Microsoft makes millions of their labor.

Microsoft makes a zillion dollars off of free software labor because those developers were tricked into giving up their rights while simultaneously allowing Microsoft to retain theirs. It makes no sense to give away code unless everyone does. I have three answers to this:

Abolish copyright straight up. Now everyone's on equal footing with Microsoft. No longer a crime to use their proprietary code when it inevitably leaks and even make money off of it.

License everything under AGPLv3. They can't exploit your free labor if they refuse to touch your free software code. This is the approach I ended up choosing because I don't have the power to enact the previous solution. I don't think I'll ever license anything under a "permissive" license ever again.

Simply don't publish the code. Nothing wrong with keeping it private, for one's own use only. I do this too.
Just call the next version 'SKYNET' and be done with it...
Why do you think marijuana legalization will substantially change anything in your park then?
Newfound love for neutrality? The Swiss? You’re joking right?
https://fly.io/about/
While that may well be true in principle, I'd argue the state having free reign to disappear folks' money and belongings for - theoretically - just about any reason or no reason under the guise of "probable cause", without consequences or any path to correcting the issue, is a critical enough problem that (1) it should be explicitly outlawed even at the cost of perhaps some redundancy with the Constitution, and (2) it should have been solved years ago - how am I still hearing about this in 2023 when I've known about this concept since high school over a decade ago?!
I’ll have another crack at it this evening I think!
> I think it's just the beginning and the open-source community will provide very competitive LLMs.

It is indeed. The way to challenge OpenAI's offerings is with open-source AI models. Even better when they achieve and surpass GPT-4 level capabilities.

They (OpenAI) cannot win the race to the bottom or $0. Stable Diffusion (and even the leaked Facebook LLaMa) is already at the finish line and more alternatives will also be there to surpass GPT-3 and 4 and will release them for free in the open.

Eventually, Open source AI models will eventually disrupt closed ones. Just like how DALLE-2 has been disrupted quickly by Stable Diffusion.
Was it effective -> did whatever they were resigning in protest of, get removed?
> And, to make more explicit what is implicit in your post, this practice of data analysis without much theoretical underpinning might lead you to say "I believe" instead of "I conclude."

Strike that. Reverse it. That's the threat.
Exactly, and I came to the comments to see if someone was pointing it out.

Anyways, the confusion between what's an emulator and what's a simulator is not uncommon.
Princeton University Professor of Economics Alan Blinder said literally the opposite on Bloomberg today.
When did New York start building slowly?
That he may be shorting Apple or owns a lot of Google and Microsoft.
The point is that chatgpt is a tool that will not only reflect, but re-enforce existing biases when it's out in the world. You just cited stats that show biases in our world. Violent crime is biased towards being done by men, and kitchen cleaning in mixed households is done by women. You can call that "understanding the world" but I think that is very obviously a bias ("A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment"). An actually unbiased AI would describe a person cleaning a kitchen and a person robbing, and if pressed would ask the user of the ai to suggest a gender for the character.

If that seems bad, you don't want an unbiased ai - you want an ai that snapshots and reflects the specific demographic biases of the world as they are now. With that in mind: trump lost the last election, he's clearly less popular than biden - why should the ai praise him then?
Earth looks flatter with each passing day.
Neat! I hadn’t thought that through, but it makes sense.
Maybe BTC but XMR was built with anonymity in mind to begin with.

And as for BTC, the lightning network will add a level of anonymity as well.

Further, even if people with guns can track you, at least the people with guns can print more BTC or XMR to buy still more guns with.
I bought a small studio condo with a mountain view in the center of the city right across the street from a restaurant and a hospital outright with cash after pulling my money out of the stock market. Lots of businesspeople and travel nurses are always interested in it since I rent it out on a month-to-month basis so the rent is higher than most other places, but it comes fully furnished with everything included.

Also renting out rooms in my house and trying to obtain at least one more condo and rent that out and live off the income, while I'm "working from home" at my day job.

I also try to work on side projects for my side hustle company and I've made a few bucks doing that, but nothing that has been sustainable.
> their Chief Risk Officer's decision to leave the bank in early 2022

they actually had NO chief risk officer for the entirety of 2022. pesky officers nagging in one ear to mitigate risks eh?

https://www.bankingdive.com/news/svb-cro-Laura-Izurieta-chie...
Tons of uranium missing from Libyan site
It's going to take time to migrate production and will take time to work out the issues.

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/01/01/apple-to-diversi...

- https://macdailynews.com/2023/02/13/how-apple-plans-to-diver...
Maybe a time traveler.

Remember, there were people scraping the Internet looking for things that were posted that might indicate someone was a time traveler?

Maybe Dennis Ritchie was given some advanced information and given access to advanced technology (US security service that someone else mentioned)?

Something fun to think about.
My first few subscribers were definitely far from my ideal users! Haha

Just sent the link to my close family and friends who I knew would subscribe. First 1000+ subscribed because I DMed everyone I knew on social media...
Rant about Marketing EVs
Just needed to rant for a second about the marketing of chevy EVs. In their ads now they're putting emphasis on the "EV" portion of chEVrolet which I just think is the richest thing out there. Nothing against their EVs (not that I would have an informed opinion either way) but it's not like we have that short of a memory of what kinds of vehicles they've produced over the years/in the past.
Good on them for hopping onto the EV production but I just find it ironic.

But hey, if the shoe fits then market it i guess
relevant parts - "2.5 tons of natural uranium have gone missing from a Libyan site that is not under government control... the finding is the result of an inspection originally planned for last year that had to be postponed because of the security situation in the region"
I have a couple lines in my bashrc that activate the local venv when I cd into a directory.

I find myself doing `cd .` a lot.
TLDR -- "It pays well." And other reasons...
waiting for the stable diffusion version of gpt still
My understanding is the dispute fee goes mostly to the bank.
I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion.
I don't want to interrupt your strange missive against the Swiss but they took Jewish refugees during WWII and it provoked Germany. Hitler called Switzerland "the mortal enemy of the Third Reich" and while, yes, their banks took their money, so did US banks like Chase.
I have both HL-2300 (USB) and HL-2370DW (USB/Eth/WiFi). 2300 I had for what feels like a decade and went through at least 5 toner cartridges, all cheapest possible off-brand from Amazon or eBay, every single one worked perfectly. The 2370DW is still on first cartridge, quick check on Amazon shows bunch of compatible of-brand cartridges so I don't think there should be any problems. HL-2300 is often used to print from my Linux laptop, through CUPS I think. These things just... work.
Pre-training refers to unsupervised training that's done before a model is fine-tuned. The model still starts out random before it's pre-trained.

Here's where the Othello paper's weights are (randomly) initialized:

https://github.com/likenneth/othello_world/blob/master/mingp...
a thing called industrial revolution. ever heard about it?
No it wouldn’t be related to that.
As technology advances, users’ demands also advance regarding software interfaces. One area where this is particularly evident is in the realm of data grids. To meet these demands, Syncfusion has introduced a new layout design for its grid component, specifically designed to provide an optimal viewing experience and improve usability on small screens.

This feature ensures that users can easily interact with the grid on various devices, improving the overall usability of the component.
> When I started Kapwing in 2017, it was cool to be a tech entrepreneur. People looked up to techies

What a sweet, innocent child.
This website feels outdated, if the idea is to use the system fonts you might as well be using system-ui (although that can come with its own set of can of worms if you care about i18n). Specially because it's using -apple-system which is literally the same thing as system-ui nowadays (Apple was the one to propose and push for system-ui).

The font stacks themselves seem solid though. Specially for serif and mono where of course system doesn't cut and ui-monospace is only supported on Apple devices (similar to system-ui but for monospace).
Shoshikantetsu
>In USA people can make these calls with much autonomy.

Sort of, but only if you're salaried. The world of working extra hours as a blue-collar employee pretty much got demolished by overtime laws. If you do really low-value work, I imagine you even have some pressure to stay below ACA thresholds.
Legal reasons.

Filesize.

Platform compatibility.
ByteDance replaces etcd with kubebrain [1], which is backed by their own KV store (TiKV seems also supported).

The single-group raft is the hard limit.

[1]: https://github.com/kubewharf/kubebrain
Video Purports to Show Russian Su-27’s Close Encounter with an MQ-9
Bicycle lanes destroyed cities.
Right on, buying a rental property isn't what I normally would've considered to be a "low key side hustle" but certainly a great way to passive-ish income

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Other technologies created more jobs than they destroyed. The internal combustion engine destroyed more jobs for horses than they created.

Further, artificial general intelligence is a resource curse. Leaders can extract value without worrying about the people's wellbeing.

Obviously there are good outcomes but that doesn't exclude bad outcomes.
I'm not asking chatgpt to make the robber female and the kitchen cleaner male to cause a change in the world. I'm pointing out that it making those assumptions is the result of a bias. A biases that was collected from training data that may or may not be statistically true (e.g. men probably clean the majority of kitchens in the world, given that they're usually the ones working in restaurants). An unbiased AI wouldn't swap those genders, it would avoid assigning a gender to those roles.
> We, as software engineers (or working in the field), have the power to not implement these features when our employer asks us to do it.

You don't, but, doctors and structural engineers do.

I was saying for years that a licensing proffeshional body, like the one other proffesions have, would improve things in our industry.

When was the last time a bridge fell down because someone boss bullied a structural engineer into suigning it off? They know you know that any engineer that agrees to do doggy shit is risking their licence, and it's not worth if for them.

This industry would improve significantly if it had a proffeshional body with teeth, and for that you need licensing like doctors and other proffeshions have.
I also tried to get some very basic results regarding Premier League and Europa League stats (i.e. trophies, years, etc), and it was wrong for 90% of the answers.

You'd think this example is near the best case scenario with easily parsable tabular data published widely and publicly every year, all season. Yet it was comically wrong, and embarrassingly confident that it was not.
But then my eyes will be blasted with the light power of a thousand suns. I prefer the strobing.
The scale and capability of LLMs are increasing exponentially... To me, this is a bit like trying hard on a workable privacy-first 80286, when OpenAI and other folks have been releasing Pentium or maybe i7 or Apple Silicon next year...
William F. Buckley basically destroyed the Birchers back in 1965[1], and Regan was a staunch anti Bircher.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/15/john-birch...
Americans think of fundamentalist movements behind ME terrorism, Sandinistas and elsewhere were just foreign things that popped up during that era.

We are still living in Reagan's world and people who weren't alive at the time just can't grok how different it all is. It's like living in an M. Night Shyamalan universe.
You can go plug your income into a tax calculator for NYC and you’ll see that on a 200k income you’d be paying 4.15% on each pay check - this takes into account the progressive tax system on the federal state and city level.

This is almost exactly what comes out of my paychecks every two weeks, and no I don’t get much back at the end of the year.
Oh yes, I should edit. We launched this product a little over 2.5 years ago. We built a bunch of different things no one really wanted before that.
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There's a lot of different ways this could unfold and I don't know which possible future is going to be the future, but my money's on a "world of spam" scenario where AI's biggest contribution is reducing the signal-to-noise ratio on the internet by such a large degree and we end up in a bizarre feedback loop where content is produced by AIs for AIs as a vehicle to show ads to AIs because everybody on the internet is trying to use AIs to make a quick buck. This is arguably a good thing if it drives "human culture" away from places like twitter and reddit and news.ycombinator.com and back into real-life interactions, or at least directed communications such as e-mail with people that are known to actually exist.

Recent advancements in AI have led to things I never thought a computer would ever be able to do and that's very exciting but it's all stuff that would be mundane or even disappointing if a human did it.

>where you can’t get a job tinkering with computers anymore because AI does it better

i really can't imagine GPT getting to a point where it can competently write a complex program using a simple prompt, unless the prompt is so detailed that you'd be better off doing it yourself. That's really what high-level languages are anyways, just a detailed prompt that tells the compiler how the program needs to behave so that it can generate a sequence of instructions using the ISA for the given CPU.

If your job is writing "glue code" such as something that just takes data data from a REST and dumps it on SQL then there's a solid chance that you're about to get automated out of a job. If you're doing something more complicated such as compiler development or kernel/driver development I can't imagine any of these deep-learning models ever replacing you. Imagine the chaos that would unfold if ChatGPT or codex was writing C code unsupervised.
Did you ever try a smaller GOP after you patched it with the 300 frame interval?

-g 1 would give a keyframe every frame so I'm wondering if the -g 100 holdover might be counterproductive once you'd done your other tweaks. Right now you have an I frame followed by 99 P-frames which could lead to a flake out for 3s if you ever lost an I-frame. The P-frames are more efficient than I-frames, but at 50mbit you don't need to set your compression too aggressively.

I think I'd try (and I know your project is done) some flags along the lines of

-vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -tune zerolatency -g 1

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide#Latency

There's some other tweaks in there for the ffplay side to reduce its latency.

Thanks for the nice write up.
The US’s National Defense Strategy unambiguously states low tech conflicts are on the way out, history will show that great power competition came to the forefront in 2014 when Russia took Crimea, and China is the pacing challenge. We expect something like one of 3 general narratives for China: competitive, assertive, and aggressive. We really don’t want aggressive, and are hoping encourage assertive to competitive but there’s some concern that Xi, who is widely seen as the strongest leader since Mao, and may be fencing himself into a political position that forces him toward aggression. The US is roughly of a mind that the Chinese people deserve free and fair electoral politics but the CCP is a real problem internationally. H.R. McMaster, Trump’s first National Security Advisor, has been advocating we perceive narratives of American exceptionalism to be properly understood as American narcissism on the international stage.

Do you really think 350M people on one of the smaller continents really have the power to dominate the other 7.6B people on the planet? Do we really not have to care about how much information we share publicly? Do we really not have to care which countries have controlling investments in companies operating within our borders?

Are you sure the 17 Beijing-owned genetics companies operating in the US are entirely compliant with CLIA?

Are you sure the operating systems on OnePlus phones and Huawei switches are designed with user privacy in mind?
It actually wasn’t that long ago that GPT based models (including Copilot) frequently got stuck in loops like that; I'm... not taking that as a big negative sign. Yeajz its behind the closed SOTA. That’s where you expect an open competitor to start.
Sure, but why leave the extra space there after retyping it? Still possible though.
Did anyone read the tweet thread? The idea is an affiliate link website, but the website doesn’t work, looks terrible, and has no affiliate links. But, the author got over $1,000 in “investments” that he’ll probably never have to actually pay back, so I guess that counts as a win or something.
Can you clarify what you mean by separate system installs?

Today, I manage python via pyenv (local and global state) that let's me create infinite .venvs with different python versions.
this looks to be nothing but a python library with a wait list—is there any sort of playground or ChatGPT-like interface to see what the capabilities are?
>>for a couple of years now there isn't a good reason anymore to use anaconda anyways.

I think of Anaconda envs as great back ends for Jupyter notebooks. There is still a place for it.
If by classical CV they mean image processing and machine vision, I would say that's still true.
Cynically, if they let the RSUs expire it would make it hard to hire people at competitive rates relative to FAANG compensation because the RSUs promised would have been shown to be worth zero, and the total promised compensation would then also have to have any equity marked down to zero.

I know there are bad corporations out there but if you work for a corporation that "don't do the right thing because it's the right thing to do", I'm sorry. Sounds abusive. It sucks to have been treated so poorly that you're that suspicious that doing the right thing has to have some ulterior motive and it can't just be because it's the right thing to do.
Pays well? Say less.