skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's if you ignore the secondary effects: "moral hazard," knowing that if you become big enough to create political waves in the event that you fail you can continue to gamble with depositor money, make your annual bonus, and safely be rescued by Federal depositor backstop / bailout in the event that you eventually go tits up. I wonder if that'll ever happen again after 2008...
I'm pretty sure you may be right. I'm also worried that what youve just described is the kind of task that leads to burnout in large doses. And I'm not sure humans are so great at it either.

I had one job that involved a small amount of coding and mainly hooking together opaque systems. The people behind those systems were unresponsive and often surly. I had to deal with misleading docs, vague docs, subtle, buried bugs that people would routinely blame on each other or me and I was constantly on a knife edge a balancing political problems (e.g. dont make people look stupid in front of their superiors, dont look or sound unprepared) with technical concerns.

It was horrible. I burned out faster than a match.

I'm sure ChatGPT couldnt do that job but I'm not sure I could either.

If most tech jobs turn into that while the fun, creative stuff is automated by ChatGPT... that would be tragic.
The point stands - if everything is fine, as many banks seem to be saying, their intervention would not be necessary.
Yes and no. Description lists are just a semantic distinction and Markdown’s goal is to be readable in its raw form. This is a description list in Markdown:

- word: definition

Or

- *word*: definition

It’s perfectly readable and conveys the intent of a description list. I wish Markdown parsers would generate a <dl> for styling purpose but it’s not a blocking point
Aside from the moral hazard, you are right. But most of the histrionics about bailouts, particularly the 2008 bailouts, are often based more on feelings than facts.
The mesh is simpler.
The Wii (like the GameCube) was weird. It was more than fixed-function, but less than fully-programmable; you'd basically assemble a simple "pixel shader" by clicking together up to 16 operations from a hardcoded list, using up to 8 textures. ('TEV Stages' is the term to Google if you want the gory technical details)

If you were coming to it from the PS2 (like I was), it was super-freeing and amazing and so much more flexible and powerful than anything you were used to. But if you were coming to it from the Xbox (like many of my co-workers were) it was more like suddenly being handcuffed.
Poverty in Africa root cause (History time-lapse)part 1
How credible is this paper? I see it's highly cited, but I also see that it claims that fungi are cancer causing but not also cancer preventing, which seems questionable.
> They're also generally not something you can do with your girlfriend or wife.

This is an issue of availability. There need to be more games with a broader appeal. I can certainly see why FPSs are not appealing to the feminine demographic. On the other hand, the Wii was popular with all genders and all ages.
That's the end result of hyper competitive individualistic capitalism
In comments on this post, and elsewhere on other posts about AI, I see a lot of people referring to worries around the potential for lots of types of jobs to be heavily impacted by this technology.

I feel like people are often referring to 'coding' when they express these worries. You know, actually writing code, having been given a spec to do so, and perhaps also participating in code review, writing tests, all the usual engineer stuff.

My question is, amongst the HN crowd, what kinds of roles or areas do we think might be somewhat immune to this effect? The first thing that occurs to me are security, infrastructure & ops, networking. And of course the requirements gathering stage of software development. It is already the case that a lot of senior devs probably don't write much code and spend more time on communication between different stakeholders and overseeing whoever (or whatever) is writing the code.

Anyone else been thinking about this? What tech roles might thrive in the face of AI.
What did Optimus Prime say when he first learned about machine learning? "Autobots, roll out the algorithms!"
It’s the banks saying “as banks, we know everything is fine. As consumers/depositors/internet commenters, you might think - or even claim - that things are not fine. But you are wrong, things are fine. Oh, you still disagree? Where’s your 1-5 billion dollar bet? Yeah. Didn’t think so.”
When you can't find the source of revenue then that generally means you are the source of revenue.
There are two different definitions of the same word.

One is balance sheet insolvency, the other is cash flow insolvency.

But it’s two forms of the same thing! Cash flow insolvency is usually a result of holding illiquid assets that can’t be turned into cash. In this case the assets were perfectly liquid though, so it wasn’t just a cash flow insolvency.

The bank was reporting the future value of the bonds, the problem was the present value was much lower.
Isn't everything in math.h spamming errno?
No, humans continually develop moral behaviour and codify it in religion (for transmission and social maintenance). Gods and deities aren't strictly necessary. Buddhism started without such but it is interesting that the conceptualisations of Buddhas & Boddhisattvas have become more and more like the gods & deities of other religions (at least in the popular religious traditions of Buddhism).
The first problem statement that GPT got wrong actually shows a problem with human language.

"Avoid fire" means "do not ever go through fire" to me (and GPT thinks the same, apparently). The author thought it meant "avoid fire if you can, but go through it if there's no other way". This was a problem with informal requirements that could have happened in an entirely human context.
Have you ever worked at a software firm of greater than say 30 people? Doesn’t resonate with my experience at all, and the 30+ people are there not just to write code.
100mbit ethernet is very common in industrial use. It is also more robust EMI/RFI and easier to get past EMC certifications.

And 10Base is evolving, not going a way.
Base-T1L spec got recently released. It does full-duplex 10mbit over a single twisted pair.
It is rated for +1000meter cables.
1/10 of the speed of 100BaseTX, but 10x the range.
Those are lies on the level of when the Russians do their tour talking about how they are defending themselves against Ukrainian aggression. If there was that much money to be made, it doesn't make any sense for the government to be involved sucking out all the profits.

Bank creditors aren't idiots, they can be persuaded to wait a few years for a $15.3 billion bumper profit if the alternative is losing all their money. The issue is someone is pulling out smoke and mirrors in a complex situation to pretend that everything is going ok. Probably involving, to stick to theme, money printing.
Have you tried giving it a skeleton example of said undocumented data format? I've created some arbitrary ones and asked it to parse them, and it succeeded.
Yes, note that JavaFX has the same approach but also has a visual designer (Scene Builder). It can be used from any JVM language which is a lot these days. Like, you could write a JavaFX app in JavaScript or Python if you wanted to.
Preventative medicine is that which is done before significant symptoms. The basic issue, people tend to heal from most things. So the worst case of losing an arm to a cat bite is extremely unlikely. Meanwhile your hospital trip had an cost.

Suppose the odds work out to 1:100,000 lost arm vs 300$ hospital treatment. Now a lost arm is expensive but it’s not 30 million dollars expensive.

Those numbers aren’t based on anything but that’s the kinds of calculations involved. And as I mentioned the winners seem to be extremely cheap options like vacations.
Thanks for taking the time to explain! I got a bit mentally off track I guess, as the additional complexity for all this comes in when the user places tokens in the circular tracks to program rhythms. A euclidean sequencer forces them to be at that quantized equidistant approximation and slightly irregular pattern, which serves as the basis of so much music. But IMHO I haven't really found a way to turn that "theoretical purity" into something practically useful, and I always find myself wishing I could make non-euclidean sequences with it and abuse some of the same abstractions for other purposes.
> musicians show off their work on bandcamp.

That would be SoundCloud. Bandcamp is a marketplace and a pretty good one.
Context is also relatively new, and capturing errors I believe was only possible with class components, or it changed recently.

Redux, mobx, etc also were all options to fix the basic state management in React.

I concede it is not every week. I should have said the preferred approach changes too often for my taste.
People in a panic can destroy perfectly good things because they're afraid.
This move is an attempt to reduce uncertainty and panic.
I remember my dad asked for help rotating a PDF from portrait to landscape on his Windows PC and realizing he'd have to buy software to do it. It takes one click on MacOS. It made me determined not to get adobe out of principle and I did end up finding https://smallpdf.com/ by a Swiss team. The free tier has a lot of features that adobe paywalls like editing and signature requests and it loads fast.
Avoiding a crisis of trust and financial system meltdown is enough to get them to commit to this.
Good observations....
I don't think "memoisation" is an accurate word for this; it implies doing the computation once, and storing the result in cache to return later. It's more like replacing your Python code with a SQL query of the LLM's understanding of what it's supposed to do, which may or may not be correct, and executing it on its "database" of knowledge, which may or may not have the correct data.
> Can you say it was a bad decision for the people who took the risk, took out loans, and eventually became tenured professors?

Yes. A decision can only be evaluated using what is known at the time, not what is later known in hindsight. Betting on an inside straight in poker is a bad bet, even if in one particular instance you got the card needed.
Oh this brings back the memories of good old VB6. Never encountered such a simple and easy to use UI builder after that, probably because I left MS ecosystem for more open technologies. Just drag and drop. Double click on the component and start coding. How simple was that.
I think another benefit of using normal maps that no one is mentioning is that you get significantly less aliasing due to mipmapping and interpolation in the fragment shader. You can model all the same detail into the mesh, but it will often still look worse than the normal map approach. So I don’t think it’s necessarily a purely performance-oriented decision.
A question for the USAmericans - don’t you use a different unit place of the ‘Wales’ - I have in my head it’s something like a New Jersey?
Well, almost any proof that you danced that concept would be fixing it to a tangible medium. That rule mostly just rules out heresay, eyewitness accounts, and other such methods of "proving" that you created something
I'd like to see posts on LLMs written from a different perspective. For me, the surprise comes not from the sudden emergent capability of language models, but that the understanding (and synthesis!) of ideas encoded in language has succumbed to literally nothing more than statistical analysis. Or at least come that much closer to doing so.

That it bears so close a resemblance to actual thinking says more about the importance of language to cognition than the other way around.
> You need that labor you so airily brush off with the 1953 bugaboo of communism.

Its always funny how socialists think employers simply hire some labour and then steal their wages.
It's skilled attackers in proximity with radio gear and a laptop, right? This sucks for a lot of people but I don't think I'm on the list of targets such actors would care about.
That's an extremely interesting thought. Perhaps we will see organisations in the future structure themselves more like a suite of unit tests. Instead of getting a developer or software house to plug a specific need in their org and being entirely outside of the development process: they will reflect the development process organisationally to ensure they catch any problems with the current output and just feed the box new prompts to increase their efficiency or efficacy.

Their competitive advantage in their field then becomes the range of their tests (borne through experience), efficiency in running their pipeline of testing and ability to generate effective prompts.
While the program was part of my portfolio, it really has been Stephanie Taylors' work for years. She's pretty remarkable!
I know right? Determining means, motive and opportunity for the set of suspects, as well as asking "who benefits?" and following the money, have answered the "who did it?" question correctly right from the start. Hersh's research just confirmed what everybody knew already. But since his article couldn't be ignored we are now spun a different and very implausible story about how the perpertrators rented a boat or something, and they hope we don't ask ourselves how they delivered the huge amount of explosives to the sea floor from that yacht which has no hardware to do such a thing.
“sync,corrected by elderman” issue in ML translation datasets spread on internet
I can't find the true origin of this, but (unless I'm missing some old internet joke) it seems like some language models have some corrupt training data frequently including a string like "== sync, corrected by elderman ==". Now searching for this phrase yields a ton of random results occurring in places where you would expect automatically translated spam. Some interesting mentions I found:

- it historically appeared in autotranslated game chats in Arena of Valor game https://www.reddit.com/r/arenaofvalor/comments/btykru/commen...
- mention on GitHub repo of a translation model https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/Opus-MT/issues/62

I'm curious to see if anyone else has interesting encounters with this
Oh, because solvents turn things to liquid over time! I get it now!
I think the fear should be less about AI taking 100% of jobs but it should be AI making a single programmer do the job of 5, which would wipe a majority of the market out and make it a non-viable career option for most.

Companies are already bloated, imagine when they realize one overworked highly paid senior can replace 10 juniors.
Depending on what you mean by "model". I would probably call it "mesh".
There is an official release of minecraft optimized for the Pi: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/edition/pi
Search is like that because Google and ddg have deemed it a feature they want to give their users.
The above comment exagerates based on anecdota.

From what I gathered, it's a lot less of an issue compared to the US, but scam calls & SMS do happen.

My anecdota: I'm French, and receive scam calls from time to time. They are different from the ones you see in the US. Here it's mainly "CPF" scam calls, which is training credits every working person automatically get and they are trying to scam you into paying for a illegitimate training with those (don't ask me for more details, I've not researched it further).

In France, it tends to be less of an issue because the government is at least somewhat invested in fighting such scams, and because the language isn't as universally spoken as English (which is true for most of Europe).
You can usually spot a foreigner speaking French miles away, and it's a red flag for any sane person when an incoming call has an accent.
There is a mistake in your first example, mixing up m and n. Does this automagical system mean that I need to write docstrings in your preferred style to get the names lined up?
> To the down voters - sarcasm!(I need to mention this explicitly:(..

Or it just wasn’t funny.
Artificial Leaf Draws Power from Wind and Raindrops
I see. It's as if putting "equity" in there signals they are talking about diversity and inclusion as well. Thank you.
Traditionally banks which needed cash to balance their books worked through the interbank market. Interbank lending was unsecured but short term so the risks were manageable. If a bank was known to be insolvent however lending would quickly dry up and banks would need to go hat-in-hand to the Federal Reserves discount window. That came with a high cost and invited regulatory scrutiny.

Now the FDIC has indicated that it will insure deposits in unlimited amounts doing a direct deposit maybe a more attractive option to banks? That $30B previously was sitting around at the Fed earning a risk free return at prevailing interest rates. I have to assume that there is special treatment here and the banks are earning above market returns and the banks didn’t put cash-at-risk sitting in zero interest accounts out of the goodness of their hearts.

If that is the case the Fed, FDIC and Yellen have effectively nerfed the interbank market.
Scifi authors call it The Corporation or The Empire. Historians call it The Communist Party.
A. I spoke of other expenses, not merely health care, such as costs, both financial and non financial, of a minor child losing a parent.

B. I have trouble believing this analysis is really looking at the whole picture.

One of the costs of illness that is frequently cited is lost productivity. You are going to tell me that when people live longer, all of them are merely running up more medical bills without also working additional years to help cover those costs?
I wish I could upvote you more than once. I'm not a bus driver but a truck driver though lol.
CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act [pdf]
I once had to implement a Swedish standard for energy usage reporting.

EVERY FIELD IN THE STANDARD WAS OPTIONAL.

That was one of the most not-fun times I've had at work :D Every single field was either there or it was not, depending whether the data producer wanted to add them or not, so the whole thing was just a collection of special cases.
Fight, win, then realize no one gives a shit about your design document.
Summer of MediaPipe ;)

https://mediapipe.dev/
Is that what you really think it means?
Bandcamp was profitable since 2012 apparently.
This is essentially Cory Doctorow's "Enshittification": <https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys>, briefly discussed here at <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34480479>
As I understand things, the problem at SVB was that they had customer deposits tied up in multi-year treasury notes which are among the most secure investments going but they couldn't withdraw the money fast enough to keep up with customers' instant-access accounts.

Having your money be secure but inaccessible for several months is obviously a problem if you're a business that needs to make payroll, or a crypto exchange that needs to allow customer withdrawals.

If the bank has plenty of cash but some of it's time-locked, then JPMorgan aren't at risk of losing their entire $5bn - they merely risk having it tied up for a year or two, perhaps getting an uncompetitive interest rate.
They specifically address works that use AI but are sufficiently modified by a human
> It's a slightly less bad decision than people who decide to try to become professional athletes.

Tell that to the professional athletes.

> at least one at any institution that has this sort of crazy imbalances of applicants and positions

Every institution has that imbalance. That's not particularly relevant, because grad students don't typically get jobs at their alma mater.
Watching Abelson give that lecture(on video I mean, first lecture of SICP IIRC) made a lot of things click in my head as a neophyte programmer. Even after one lecture my understanding of the nature of computation had grown immensely.

He and Sussman are great at distilling and explaining abstract concepts in a clear and precise way.
this is new to me but.. a quick read of Wikipedia [1] later, it appears that this decades-old method takes a goal, and then uses branching and recording to find paths that differ the least from the goal. The article mentions that the curse of dimensionality is so bad here that approximations are often used in practice. Does that capture it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_dynamic_programming
There are tests of normal map assets found in Super Mario Galaxy, but they're unused. The GameCube "supported" limited normal mapping through its indirect unit, assuming the lighting response is baked. The BLMAP tech seen in Skyward Sword can generates lighting response textures at runtime and could support normal mapping, but I don't think the studio used it outside of a few special effects.

The bumpmapping hardware most wikis mention as "supporting normal mapping" is pretty much irrelevant.
Teaching is going to be a career affected early by chatgpt because students will use it (are using it) to do assignments. A good teacher doesn't need to know much about machine learning to think about how that will affect his job, he just needs to know his students and have an idea how to work with them given the new tools they have.
Manager here. Did not fire anyone (and hope not to), but I am starting to look into implementing GPT-4 as a part of our development practice and, potentially, reduce future hiring. This might have a positive impact on our engineering budgets, which are always tight. Many of my colleagues are doing the same - this has been a cooler topic with other managers for weeks now (strange how progress is now measured in weeks).

At this point, this would only affect engineers who don't understand our subject area (biotech) and are relatively junior (in the sense that their output is not much better than a GPT4 output reviewed by a more senior dev).
Napkin math, assuming around 156 million hours of video on all of Youtube:

156 million hours of YouTube videos
9,000 words/hour
6 characters/word (including space)
First, let's find out the total number of characters:

9,000 words/hour \* 6 characters/word = 54,000 characters/hour

Now, let's calculate the total number of characters for 156 million hours of YouTube videos:

54,000 characters/hour \* 156,000,000 hours = 8,424,000,000,000 characters

Since 1 character is typically 1 byte, we can convert this to gigabytes:

8,424,000,000,000 bytes / (1024 \* 1024 \* 1024) ≈ 7,842.11 GB

So, 8TB of text? Seems doable.
It says that because you can't be in a union and do a wild cat strike. Not in a union? You're free to. You're misreading it. I'd encourage you talk to a lawyer if you have any doubts.
Well what you want is one and only one behavior. You're going to need to be specific to the point where what you're specifying is that singular behavior. An interesting example is a binary search, which is easy to informally specify, although it's shockingly difficult to produce a correct implementation. [1]

Given what you want is a singular specific behavior, not just sorta that behavior, but exactly that behavior, it makes sense to use a language that caters to specificity.

As an aside, we've experimented with more natural-language like programming languages before (COBOL, BASIC). They're a pain in the ass because you needed to type a novel to do even trivial things. The terseness of modern programming languages is a feature.

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
20 Euro Colorlight 5A FPGA boards from Aliexpress come with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, open toolchain to build a SoC that can access them as well.

LiteX allows me to use it as a Gigabit Ethernet powered logic analyzer with a lot of inputs.
Apple already sells an apparatus for the commons, it's called the iPad.