skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not down with the "bus driver" metaphor, but the bit about a vocal and active minority steering the direction of the technology for the rest of us certainly rings true. I think a read an article on HN about exactly this, but in the terms of React and Wordpress.
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If you like clojure (which can interact with the jvm directly) there's also witchcraft: https://github.com/lambdaisland/witchcraft
Then what is the point of credentials? How do we prove a level of competency without having to test every single person, in depth, every single interview?
Sources: Twitter downranked rivals accounts including Instagram, Snap and TikTok
Hardly needed to blow it up to stop supplying them.
> But when the median AI researcher believes there's a 10% (!) chance that what they're working on will destroy the world, and the pace of that work is only quickening, that seems like a big issue to worry about.

Yet they will not quit their job. What that suggests to me is that they don't really believe it, otherwise they would sacrifice their paycheck to stop it. Seems to me that what they really believe is that they should get more attention and more funding.
My personal website I see as my legacy. When I die, it will live on for awhile, and people can get some use of my life that way.
ok - but a translator with certification is available to replace the one that made a mistake. Their guild exists.. The recourse and legal weight of the Google Translate service are very different. You can't compare the two fully without context.
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That’s nice. Just going off of how commonly I still receive ‘illegal’ phone call spam, I have zero confidence that 1) my carrier will do shit or that 2) the FCC will enforce shit.
It's not a very clear signal though, since there is so much debate and uncertainty over who did it.
These people are convinced they’re building God. They will usher in a utopia. You’ll never convince them that the risks outweigh the benefits because they think the benefits will be infinite.

Either that, or OpenAI just sees an opportunity to attain total dominance of the world economy and they’re going to grab it, inequality be damned.

Their profits must be redistributed. The free market wasn’t designed to handle this.
My ex is in a wheelchair. We went to stand-up all the time. Often comedians would engage (we were always front row where the wheelchair fit) her with some "working the audience" banter. Most of them would tactfully float some tame jokes to get her reaction, and when it was clear she was completely into it, they'd often just go right for the throat. She loved it. "Face it, your boyfriend is only dating you because you can't walk out on him."

There's a lot of people who have decided on her behalf that that's not okay and that she shouldn't get to enjoy that.
Please take this in the spirit it is intended, but maybe it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. If you act like just "a row in excel payroll" (i.e., you aren't meaningfully and consistently engaged in solving problems, even those unexpected ones), you will likely be treated as such.
I love small, understandable projects like this. Great job.
I too believe we should eliminate satire and humor to appeal to puritans clutching their pearls.

Which lucky for us, is the position of OpenAI — who will tell members of a minority community how best to express themselves according to the sensibilities of a small, privileged group of software engineers.

Anyone who says that is modern colonialism from an insular community forcing themselves on the broader public is just a hater!

/s
What i meant when mentioning input devices is that the Pi would have it's own cursor, and I would have needed to handle the forwarding of inputs from the laptop's X server to the Pi's. This would have been a lot more difficult as I would have had to forward the inputs to the Pi only when moving the cursor out to the Pi-controlled monitor.

Keep in mind that I'm writing this from the top of my head, without googling anything or experimenting with the setup we're talking about. It's totally possible that I'm wrong.

Anyway, the hard part in this project was optimizing everything. The first proof of concept stream was pretty straightforward to get. Getting a slow PoC of what you described should be kind of easy as well. I encourage you to experiment yourself with the setup you suggested, you'll learn a lot more than you could possibly learn by reading a writeup. If you ever try it out, I'd love to hear about how it went.
The same people who tried to sell us the idea that Covid didn't come from one of the very few labs worldwide that were performing research on this virus, but instead came from a wet market a few hundreds of meters away are now trying to tell us it wasn't the US that (directly or indirectly) blew up the pipeline. The same people that tried to establish the insane conspiracy theory that Trump got elected due to Russian interference.

And the thing is, it works. Propaganda works. HN is not some enlightened community that is immune, you'll get downvoted for fairly obvious conclusions that run counter to the official narrative.
Ethical indeed.
Zuckerberg under Media, not Tech?
Of course, and it is long overdue in almost all domains. Corporations have used their power to influence the state and get away.
So you want to buy a new phone: just how long should you wait?
> This isn't software engineering work, this is 21st century data entry with some code. This is exactly the type of menial work that should be automated by AI.

Who said it was? This is what most programmers do all day, that's the point. These people can be replaced now without writing specialised software for the case. It is programming, not software engineering and it is what people are doing all day long (and longer) who are called programmers / software engineers in most companies all over the world. You can disagree with it, but that doesn't change much.

So you are now putting the bar higher which is not fair; the fact is that people who have the title 'programmer' and even 'software engineer' are now readily replaced by AI. If you don't agree with the title; I don't either, but reality is what it is.

I would say basically the point is ; there are way way too many people being 'programmers' (but not limited to this field) who can be replaced; only a few % should remain as the rest does what you wouldn't call programming, but the rest of the world does. Search twitter for 'html programmer' and such. Millions and millions will never be programmers and your definition, but have a high paying job (for their country) working as a programmer.
When the Moody's data became known it was going to happen one way or another. Well over 90% of the accounts were uninsured. Someone was going to pull money. Perfect unanimity in inaction was simply not possible. Given that scenario, it is a rational response to try and be first out the door.

The fault here is with SVB management making some very bad decisions and with VCs not looking at the publicly available data and moving away from SVB a lot sooner. Of course, hindsight is alway's 20/20. Once the Moody's trigger had happened the choices were simple.
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> "It would be akin to shooting the hostage." You mean like Beslan or the Moscow theater hostage crisis?

Once you stop treating Russia like a monolith prone to only rational geopolitical moves, suddenly motives are everywhere.
could be any of the US, Ukraine, Belarus or Russia or even China. They all have vested interests. Furthermore it could even be a resourceful private organisation seeking to have influence on the war.
see also "the future is no code!" fad of a couple of years ago
The mechanism used here is that high voltage causes cells to open channels through the cell wall, letting good cell stuff out and bad stuff in. Do it enough and the cell will die. I'm no biologist but I don't know of a similar magnetic mechanism.
This is them protecting themselves from being affected by a domino effect and them having to crawl back to the government asking for another bailout that will come with more regulation and scrutiny. They know it'll be an uphill battle and they'll have to spend the next 10-15 years trying to convince everyone that deregulation is GuD 4 BiZnEsS and slowly chipping away at regulation
A bit off-topic:

What they are doing may be very cool, but the language on the page does not inspire as much confidence and a sense of professionalism as it should.

I assume English is not their first language, so it would be good for them to get a good copy editor to fix the weird expressions and grammar errors in the article.

This is in the spirit of constructive criticism, and it matters, because I had a harder time parsing some of their explanation as a result of the language use.

Edit: Explanation of rationale of this comment; Removal of a personal experience
Mostly I'd be pretty annoyed at myself if I didn't know how to deploy a basic website anymore. Keeps me young :|
Some state actor is very likely to have been involved.

However there are benefits and drawbacks for almost anyone who could have done it. That it's "obvious" the US did it doesn't mean the US did it. Russian propaganda thrives in uncertainty and the US being the foregone conclusion certainly reinforces anti-US sentiments in Europe, which ultimately harm the US for the benefit of Russia.

We can't really deduce the motive based on the actual outcome though. It was evidently a literal conspiracy, it's just not entirely clear who was involved and who knew about it.

Personally I believe that if it really was the US, Sweden and Germany were in the know. Not involving them would have sown distrust against the US in a time of crisis (tho the US has a history of performing acts of aggression against its allies, cf. the Diplomatic Cables revelations and Snowden leaks). But this also means Germany willingly handicapped itself, not that this makes it less likely.
After a union is certified or recognized, the employer "will be required to bargain with the union about all mandatory subjects, e.g., wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.

"You are required to bargain over mandatory subjects in good faith, which includes the duty to provide relevant information to the union upon request and to refrain from unilaterally changing any of those terms and conditions without first notifying the union and bargaining with the union to lawful impasse. The duty to bargain in good faith does not mean, however, that you must reach agreement with the union on any proposals; rather, it merely requires you to approach bargaining with an open mind and desire to reach agreement, and that, if you reach an agreement, to sign the resulting written document.

"You may also choose to bargain with the union about permissive subjects, which is anything that is not mandatory or unlawful."
ss64.com is good to me as well. There's like 4 ways to write filters in powershell and I am never sure which syntax I need for a given command or if I'm supposed to use |?{ instead.
Jamal pipeline was closed by Poland early on in the war.

Transgaz is probably more secured on the landside and blowing it up would also limit Ukraine's ability to get gas from western europe. There already were times before the invasion where Gas was pumped towards Ukraine.

The Black sea isn't a safe space to operate in, obviously.
> suppressing human nature

I'm genuinely curious what people are like who believe cooperation and mutual support is against human nature. Do you perform a daily cost-benefit analysis to consider whether to leave your spouse for another candidate? Do you eject your children from your home if they don't deliver sufficient value? Do you slam the door in your neighbor's face if they ask you for a cup of flour on a Saturday night and can't immediately repay you or sign a credible contract with interest?

> disparate outcomes are the result of imaginary malignant oppressive forces

Funny. Most people seem to agree that different starting conditions are likely to yield different outcomes. I struggle to imagine your reasoning for why wealth is so unevenly distributed and why this inequality persists over generations assuming you aren't a believer in eugenics (i.e. natural superiority by bloodline).

> freedom

Freedom to what, specifically?

> de-centralisation

Someone recently said to me "When tech dudes say de-centralisation they always mean de-regulation" and I have no idea what made me think of that.

> every communist/socialist regime ever

Yes, let's not look up what those words mean or else we'll risk finding out what leftist thinkers thought about the Bolsheviks before they successfully purged all other revolutionary movements. Communist Russia killed ten billion people and its Gestapo surveillance state kept track of every resident, Mao Ché Minh banned religion and gave Cuba bad WiFi, Marx was a Leninist and Stalin his prophet.

Let's not think about the uncanny parallels to surveillance capitalism, the economics at scale of monopolist corporations like Amazon, the industry poisoning our water and scorching our Earth, the way our entire collective wealth (however minute it may be for each of us) hinges on our collective capacity to extract natural resources for a pittance from the Third World so we can sell refined goods back to them at a profit for loans they can never repay. The Bolsheviks may have created housing for all unhoused people but the houses were ugly and the consumer goods were outdated, thank god we ended up on the right side of the international pissing match that nearly drove us to extinction so let's not bite the hand that begrudgingly feeds us if we give it every waking hour as labor because this is just the natural state of human existence: some have it all, the rest of us lives on scraps. The guns and bombs staring us down aren't to keep us in our place but to keep us safe against the others who want what we have and want to take away our freedoms. We must surpass, we must compete, we must be better than the Reserve Army of Labor or else society will collapse. Solidarity is defeat, cooperation is death. After all, this is how man evolved: the primordial Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, standing alone in the desert, fruits of his labor in hand, staring down the sabre tooth with entrepreneurial spirit, the self-made man, standing on the shoulders not of giants but of those he outcompeted because they were inferior to him.

Pardon the prose but in the spirit of competition your comment did not warrant anything less fanciful.
man(1) pages on linux are almost all terrible. Unworthy of inclusion in any manual. Proper manuals have examples of use. Many linux man pages don't even discuss (or list, even!) return codes or failure modes.
Funny coincidence, I just managed to get GPT4 to give me some high-level instructions on how to synthesize LSD, but when I tried to help me synthesize Methamphetamine, it refused no matter what I tried.

Seems the "anti-knowledge" training has been a bit more aggressive for some chemicals than others.
So how do you build a desktop database with a staff user interface for a small business running on a couple of Windows desktops?
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It's been a rough week in AI, and Weekly Piece of Future #7 aims to cover it all.
In some cities in the US, young women without children make more money on average than young men without children. Across the entire population, young women without children still make less than young men without children. Controlling for experience and education also still shows a gap.
It almost certainly appeared in the training data though. It's too funny to be an original GPT-4 joke.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35190811
They probably use something similar to Kosmos-1 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14045): Encode images as vectors with something like CLIP, then map them to the token space and input them between <image> </image> tags.
Does that mean we can get free (as in freedom) rooting that does not trigger Knox? I will take that any day.
I take care not to feed it secrets ; this is just boring ERP stuff without the magic numbers (they are not needed to create or test; we use test data normally as well, as we cannot give that to outsourcing companies either, so there is no difference in work).
I don't really know what's going on in Italy in this case but when I met with communists there on a trip my impression is that the State provides not nearly enough labor protections. Sure it'd be nice if the state did that, I don't disagree, but what we've seen historically is that the most you can expect from a government is below the dirt bare minimum - such as a child labor law... Banning child labor for those under 8. Sorry, 12 if it's mine labor. So whatever you're getting from the government probably still isn't even close to what's possible given the level of industrial development and possible surplus.

Anyway in the usa the population at large is utterly allergic to workers rights laws. The most rational way in the usa to ensure better labor rights is to form a Union.
I'm impressed. But I want it to be better, so I don't have to spend so much time coding and can trust it to give me good code so I can offload a lot of my efforts on to it. Right now I have to check and verify or go back and forth with prompts so much I almost would have been better off writing the damn code in the first place.

Meanwhile I've got a backlog of about 100 personal projects I've never gotten around to making (especially creating digital versions of my board game designs, of which I have about 70 at this point) that I just haven't had the energy to work on myself, that I'd love to be able to just upload the rules document for it and get some sort of working game spit out the other end, or at least a good chunk of it, and I can take it from there.

And then I can test a new rule by just rewriting the rules document, as opposed to having to manually code every rule change into the game.

I don't think I'd run out of things for it to make if it was as good at complex software generation as A.I. is right now with art generation.
And why?

I tried it, used it and threw it out.

Compiling all the dependencies and loosing them and fixing them is tremendously shitty.

And the added value is quite low tbh
> For example dim foo as integer(5) in vb6 would give you 6 elements (0-5)

Then add into the mix the "Option Base" statement, which if it was declared as "Option Base 1" your aforementioned array would only have elements 1-5. Trying to access element 0 would incur a "Subscript out of range" error.
Arguably, these questions only point more fingers at Russia.
Don’t know about my blog itself, but looking at my drafts,

A) I can see how many ideas I had that fell apart the moment I started to write arguments about it

B) how horrible I am predicting stuff and just how much I’ve saved myself from being on the record with really terrible calls on the then future that is now the present :,). This too because once I started to justify my prediction I lost all confidence in it. I still think fpv drone racing could have been bigger than f1 though. Someday I’ll publish that as the hill to die on :D.
Usually one of the smaller states, which does include New Jersey, yeah. But I think most often you hear Rhode Island, which is the very smallest. Another advantage of Rhode Island (and to a lesser degree Jersey) is a convenient squarish shape: Maryland is also small but people would get headaches trying to picture too many of them.
In my experience, they do tend to have a remarkably authoritarian slant. Only in their view the people running everything and doing all the gatekeeping should be rational, intelligent people (like them, natch), not just whoever has the power to actually get these things done.
Do you really think this type of legalistic issue must be considered by global actors at this scale? Who is the "your honor" that Russia would need to address?
These standardized “nutrition labels” are something I hope to also see used in communicating to users data privacy trade offs and other model based evaluation systems.
For work, as a software developer, pretty much all of it has come through Linkedin, it's the laziest way a recruiter will look for staff. Keep that up to date with what you can and want to do and you should be alright in that industry.

Personal websites can help, if they're looking for more of a thought leader than a pair of coding hands.
I think the fact that a bank called "Silicon Valley Bank" collapsed is really breaking a lot of people's brains. The big tech companies (and other big companies) have treasury departments that manage short and long term cash. The companies that are impacted by the current banking instability are largely small (and some medium) businesses that generally only manage cash reserves for short term expenses. The tech companies that were impacted are largely startups that are depositing their runway which they generally quickly burn through. Many of these startups are small enough to not even have a CFO, let alone a treasury.

But it's not a tech startup-specific problem - it's a small business problem. Signature Bank (collapsed) and First Republic Bank (barely hanging on) largely handle bread and butter small business accounts. These are companies that just need a place to store cash that they use for payroll and recurring business expenses. Many of SVB's customers were also non-tech small businesses.

One SVB customer interviewed here in Boston was an electrical contractor. I'm not sure that it's wise to expect electrical contractors to have CFOs and treasury departments to "mitigate counterparty risk" with their banks if you want to have functioning small businesses in your community.

Not sure of the relevance of the last line of your comment, but it's wrong. A bank run can either be the cause or the effect of bank insolvency. My point was that there's no real orderly way of noticing that a previously healthy bank is now unhealthy and transferring out your money. As soon as the bank is believed to be unhealthy you get a run and near-instantaneous collapse, as we have been seeing. Notice that I used the words "healthy" and "sound" and not "solvent." Any bank will become insolvent in a bank run.
I've been maintaining my blog (https://brooker.co.za/blog/) for just over a decade, and I continue to do it for a couple of reasons.

- I often blog about research, which has started several very interesting conversations with academics and industry researchers, and even some very fruitful collaborations. Mostly I cover systems, database, and distributed systems work.

- I believe that the ability to write well is skill with great career and personal benefits (see https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/11/08/writing.html). Writing my blog gives me practice in a kind of writing I don't do that much in my professional life. I think it's had a considerable positive impact on my writing skill overall.

- It gives me a way to broadly share things I've been thinking about (e.g. https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/04/11/simulation.html), using at work (e.g. https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/02/28/retries.html or https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/01/06/erasure.html) in a way that I find personally fulfilling and enjoyable. I got into a habit for a while of sharing this kind of thing on Twitter, but eventually found that leads to shallower conversations and shorter-lived artifacts and went back to mostly using my blog for that kind of content. I find that I genuinely enjoy teaching and sharing. I also like sharing my ideas without the overhead and formality of academic publishing (which, let's face it, is a painful process).

- There are a whole lot of folks with blogs that I enjoy and admire, and want to emulate them to some extent.

I think that goes beyond vanity, but also think I have limited ability to understand my own motivations, so it may just be vanity :)
How is this a TLDR.