skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even far above average creators, who win awards and sell far above average earn next to nothing. The average full time traditionally published author still earn below minimum wage in the UK (the median household income of full time authors in the UK is above the UK average; most UK authors are able to be full time because of their partners rather than their creative output)

Sure, we can say that still isn't "good enough", but that kinda proves the smaller point that the actual creative output of most creatives is not valued, and at the same time ignores that the main point I made above is that it is irrational for people to gamble on being valued, because the vast majority of "successful" creators as measured by relative rank within their peer group has no realistic prospect of that happening today.
I am using software raid servers, as other commenters say is not a hot swapping disks operation, is cold swap :D
Don’t bother. Hacker News takes the throne for “I could do this in a weekend” rhetoric.
I bet it would have some of the same issues. But I'm super interested in going for longer design sessions with the agent, to see how deep we can get into the edge cases.

For instance, perhaps just pointing out "hey we had this bug because we thought X was Y but actually it was Z"

And then telling the agent to do a "5 Whys" type analysis to get to the root of the problem, and then tell it to try to make a language level patch to eliminate that class of issue.

Speculation, but for the first time ever I feel like that kind of thing may be in reach soon-ish
I may have suggested this on this forum before, but I am not entirely certain the author understands the value proposition of identifying and holding onto individuals, who could otherwise end up with gainful employment at a competitor. Initially I thought it was propaganda piece aimed at tech, but the part about interviews made me hesitate, because the crazy hoops of tech interviews ( and some places ) would serve exactly that purpose if the person otherwise admits they do virtually nothing.
It will also combine correct things in incorrect ways, so even if everything it is trained on is correct it will still print incorrect things.

We see it in this article, both the statement "Indentation-based scoping, similar to Python" and the code with bracers were probably correct in their original contexts, but combined they are no longer correct. LLMs will make such errors no matter what kind of data you train it on, there is no known way to avoid that class of errors.
Async/await proliferates. If you call await, your function must be async too.

Green threads are decoupled from synchronization.
We learn that skill in our training. We are highly trained LLM’s skilled in the nuances.

Everyone is acting like LLM model is the finished product.

It is a baby. Do you remember your nuanced language capability at 5, 8, 10, 20?

Are you the finished product? Do you still make massive leaps of awareness? Yes.
"Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine / The Brother whatever-it-is will print return labels for online shopping, never run out of toner, and generally be a printer instead of the physical instantiation of a business model."

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...
You are both right, in my opinion. It’s fine if you can get over the dealers on every corner. The park is full in the summer and children play there. The dealers behave well and won’t harm you, but there are dealers on every corner.
One of many possible solutions. This one no Javascript, no browser extensions, no Python, no libcurl, no "subscriptions", no BS.

#!/bin/sh
x(){ bssl client -connect www.youtube.com:443;};
x(){ openssl s_client -connect www.youtube.com:443 -ign_eof;};
read x;
printf "%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\n" \
"POST /youtubei/v1/player?key=AIzaSyA8eiZmM1FaDVjRy-df2KTyQ_vz_yYM39w HTTP/1.1" \
"Host: www.youtube.com" \
"Content-Type: x-www-form-urlencoded" \
"Content-Length: 121" \
"Connection: close" \
"" \
'{"videoId":"'$x'","context":{"client":{"clientName":"ANDROID","clientVersion":"17.10.35","androidSdkVersion":30}}}' \
|x|sed -n "/itag=22&/{s/.*: ./<a href=/;s/\",/>$x<\/a>/p;}"

Usage:

echo RfNdaYqVxR0|1.sh > 1.htm
chrome ./1.htm
I don’t know how much people listen to Sabine Hossenfelder’s opinions on things, but the article mentioned the age old desire for unification and symmetry, and frankly, I have to point out how aestheticist, unscientific, biased, and frankly typical it is for an LLM trained on modern (theoretical physics) conversations to go in search of unification. I know AI isn’t doing new science any time soon (or even this decade) but what I do think is that it’s probably dumb to bias your AI to go hunting for grand unified theories when what it should be looking for is unanswered questions grounded in first principles and proposing candidate experiments to discover the shape of data behind those doors, AND ONLY THEN proposing theories.

The modern mechanics revolutions of the 20th century demonstrated that our intuitions were completely mismatched for what the truth was. Planck himself rejected the notion of curve fitting which ultimately birthed energy quanta. It’s OUR macro universe that is the weird one, a strange corner case of quantum reality in the absurdly large.
Love python -- wish it had better types still, and that people were better about putting them in.

May be getting better -- but more often than not I'm seeing totally untyped python libs when I try to crack something new open.

Coming from Typescript makes me feel like I'm missing home.
What!? Look back at the last few hundred years, where the majority of great leaps have been the result of getting a machine to do something that humans did.
> printed maps, bad GPS, and getting lost

That’s on you. Like almost everyone over the age of 50, I learnt to drive before mobile phones and GPS, and it was fine. Paper maps and street directories worked well enough. Getting lost was uncommon, and no big deal.
I was on a sailing ship in the Atlantic, on the middle of the night watch, when a large meteor streaked across the sky. It burned with several colours (white, green, red, maybe, can’t remember exactly) and made a strong fizzling sound, like something in a hot frying pan with too much oil. I know that couldn’t be from the meteor’s sound waves, so this is the first sensible explanation.
I wonder if with new AIs with computer vision and things like ChatGPT, this type of project can be refactor in what they originally show in the ad concept

[1] https://youtu.be/o-qjhU6PB5U
consider that some countries have a larger bureaucracy/democracy than others, it may be that dictatorships with few people in thr actual inner circle of power can adapt faster than those countries that have to persuade their constituency and find consensus before making a move.
They say they sifted through quite some documents of the era and none boasts such precision and command of the typewriter. Maybe they didn't look enough, but maybe it was not your ordinary typist.
This is indeed a commonly used chengyu with similar meaning. But I perceive "初志" as having a connotation of "original" or "initial" intentions, whereas "矢志" simply implies determined wishes or promises without emphasizing the "initial" aspect. While I'm not an expert in Japanese, my understanding is based on the Chinese perspective, and the actual meaning of "初志" in Japanese might differ.
There shouldn't be any dilution. All new shares being sold to investors are 1:1 with stock from the employee pool
For a moment I thought you are an Estonian, because we, too, call it a falling star. But our military service is still mandatory :(
This is great, thanks for sharing. Key component in evolving FM based applications is making them feel as deterministic as possible vs probabilistic. Framework like this would enable generating trust in the outputs of these FMs.. exciting.
Ask HN: What are the rate limits of using the Hacker News API?
Is there any hard limit for the number of HTTP requests from a single IP (per hour) before getting added to the blacklist?

I'm using https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{item-id}.json?print=pretty
How to remove an infringing app from the Microsoft Store？
I can only post on their forum.

https://answers.microsoft.com/zh-hans/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_store/please-protect-the-users-from-the-illegal/ea75d634-db51-40a7-b016-b6663098d68c
I feel like I live on a totally different planet. I’m working for a European open source product company. I have tasks probably for 1 year ahead. I always have something to work on. While I suspect there is some people who I think don’t work at all most of us work fully. I feel like Europe is a lot more balanced in this regard.
> while I don’t want to sound crazy…

Doesn't the author do something similar in the article? Why are you worried people will think you are crazy?
Tungsten for radiation shielding use
Yes, and imagine if StackOverflow questions are part of the training material. The "AI" will be learning from unfinished/unworking code samples.
The article on LLM has misconceptions
I clearly is/was directed at you.

Wasn't it you that stated the hypothesis "neutrality is to appease the rich"?

Can't you see that I tried to refute this hypothesis? But maybe you have arguments to back this hypothesis?
Looks like they used excalidraw.

It’s a OSS and a PWA. A lot of people seem to use it because it lets you draw without worrying about details.
That law was repealed back in 1960s.
Yeah it’s subtle - a better one is “始终不渝” which the “intention”(志）is dropped but implied
Don't underestimate the power of boredom and procrastination...
I've been a software engineer for 20 years, and worked at startups and large corporations. The one place I worked that lets me relate to this story was a stint at PwC.

It's wild to me that this person believes that this experience is universal to other places. However, I do think there's a type of super corporate business where this is relatively common. PwC was one of those places for me. The people that were like this were described as 'lifers'. Frankly, I don't think there's anything wrong with doing just enough. It's not like these corporations are a net positive to the world.

But, you're choosing money and comfort over intellectual fulfillment. That's fine. Most people aren't like you. Maybe it makes you feel better to think that everyone is like this, but this is just a bias based on your own experience.
> The Turing Test isn't meant to be an objective test of GAI. It's meant to replace a question that might be too vague or philosophically contentious [snip]

Correct in that that was what Turing intended. But the vulgar interpretation of it makes it out to be more than it really is.

For Pete’s sake: two years ago I even saw a psychologist who suggested that psychologists should take notes from how computer science ostensibly measures “intelligence” by the Turing Test, because it’s so “objective”. That was sad.
I actually think that there is a market for something like Horizon Worlds but it won't be made by Facebook/Meta. It'd be made by a gaming company first and foremost and it'd be enhanced by having a VR set, but not required to have one.

Meta is an A/B testing company. Their entire culture centered around 2D A/B tests. To build a world that people enjoy, gaming companies spend years in development before even announcing it. Meta's culture is the opposite of that.

They can't even innovate new features in their own app. All their main Instagram features are exact copies of features in other popular apps such as Snapchat, TikTok, etc. The creation culture at Meta is severely lacking.

When you A/B test, you're only making mostly minimal changes. Often, you need to take a leap of faith and build something from the ground up without the comfort of incremental testing. You need a complete vision to create something from the ground up, something that A/B test culture does not value.
I kind of feel you, everything seems really hyped, more than it should be. I mean I still don't even have any idea what ChatGPTs actual use case is besides look super impressive. It seems like it can do a bunch of stuff, sometimes really well, other times spectacularly bad. It's not an a true AGI, but it's kind of marketed like one.

I think we're all completely baffled by it? I mean the thing can talk right? So we're all fired?
Such nonsense of unbelievable proportions. Remind me whose comments are in the model (almost all of their software is parameters, the code is a tiny bit). It's a shame people are no longer using GPL and other copyleft licenses to enforce openness. Thankfully researchers will be pissed off enough that they will stop enabling their behavior and start building competing systems
'A very different type of bank': SVB's culture in focus after collapse
Just to throw another variable in there, the clause about the ratio is separated from the one about completing things, by the conjunction "but," indicating opposition. So it can be read as something like "I've always prioritized communication" (high say-do ratio, as written) "...BUT, I wanted to" (make a change and) "strategize seeing things through." Probably not what was meant, but plausible and one of the possibilities I considered when I noticed the thing you noticed!
I've been in many teams over the years and one thing I'd attribute to this particular variety of organisational rot is over-fractured ownership of the product. Generally it's helpful when applied lightly but when it's done to absurdity, decisions that should take an hour or day to resolve can take weeks and many meetings because 6 different teams need to be consulted because they all have absolute authority over a particular part of the product.

When simple things take weeks, people stop caring, turnover increases, estimates go up, and everything grinds to a halt. Teams should be small and ownership should be minimally and meaningfully divided. That alone guards against most of these hazards from my personal experience.
One should get in the habit of prefixing them with docker.io/library through, simply because docker's claim on being the default namespace is unacceptable (and also not true on RHEL-adjacent distros)
I clicked this hoping to see the fish. I was not disappointed.
It has invented Scala!

function sortByName(persons: List[Person]): List[Person] {
return persons.sortBy(p => p.name)
}

Scala uses `def` rather than `function`, but other that that I think this should be valid?
I call bullshit.

The infographic says it's based on a survey of 1000-4000 respondents. The actual survey seems to behind a paywall so I can't examine the methodology more closely. But considering smartphone penetration in Nigeria is only about 32%, the notion simply does not pass the sniff test.
>it’s plausible that learning a healthy way to integrate with your local community is an important life skill that gets disrupted by these online connections and makes the big picture of one’s life worse

Yes, let's go back and tell all the kids that were being bullied in high school merely for being different that their bullies are teaching them important life skills and that they shouldn't retreat into online spaces because that will make the "big picture" of their life worse.
This is really awful, the text is completely content-free but it's got everyone who's not a domain expert hooked.

I didn't know whether ChatGPT's ability to babble convincingly was going to cause trouble or be a funny quirk that we all knew about and worked around, but this thread is really making it look like the pessimists were right about it. The problem is that it gets past many people's filters because its phrasing sends a lot of intelligent/rational/professional signals, as it was engineered to do. Nobody is used to picking smart-sounding text apart word by word to make sure they agree with it, except maybe academics, and that's the vulnerability it reaches us through.

I also think that OpenAI got human nature backwards when they trained it to hedge on everything it said - everybody knows that people who constantly demure are the most reliable! A safe chatbot would sound pushy, like a bad salesman or an ideological agent; like something incapable of self-questioning.
What would be the economic incentive to that?
It probably has more to do with corporate culture than our continent, but that has been my experience as well
You don’t sell options, you obtain financing to exercise options, with said financing backed by the converter stock produced from the options you’re exercising. Terms are fucking _brutal_, but when you’ve spent a decade at a company with no exit in sight, your hand can be forced. Hence why there’s a market for this.
Not exactly this, but there's a human designed curly brace whitespace sensitive language. Whitespace sensitivity is a natural direction for syntax minimization.
> But how common is it that anyone who isn’t independently wealthy actually lives a comfortable life doing that for a living? Practically speaking, no one makes a living doing art or being an artisan of one kind or another.

If you reread the post you are responding to you might note that I mentioned how, while people will freely choose to do those type of “obsolete” crafts, economic forces tend to limit their practical freedom to do so, so that the problem to deal with isn’t automation but distributional economics.

Not that any but a small number of people are “comfortable” as artists even in non-obsolete arts; there tends to be an oversupply of people wanting to do them compared to demand, resulting in a narrow slice of success and a lot of people either struggling or only marginally attached to the art field. So, even outside of marginalization due to technical progress, distributional issues are the constraint.
> I's been some correlation between "neutrality" and "money" for centuries.

You state still this falsehoods after I pointed out that

* other swiss pecularities (e.g. their banking laws about anonymous number accounts) might be more to blame

* other european neutral countries didn't exhibit any correlation between neutrality and money?

If you talk about correlation, then you need to take in the full data set. You speak general about neutrality, so take in ALL neutral countries. Malta, Ireland, Austria, Liechtenstein. And maybe even neutral microstates like Vatican.

Only THEN can you come to a conclusion. But not by only focusing on one single country, and extrapolating your observation to all of neutrality.
I didn't know UCB had such good courses available entirely for free, including videos.

Do you have any course suggestions for studying Operating Systems, Databases, and Computer Networking?

Also, I wanted to ask if it's worth self-studying the entire (most of it) CS undergraduate curriculum or if it makes more sense to invest in learning development tools and frameworks, get a job ASAP, and learn this theory on the go.
Go, although with it's GC it's debatable to what extent it's suitable for very low level software.

And honestly the language choice was only the tip of the iceberg, it took years of people adapting before systemd became usable. And it still doesn't handle circular dependencies better than arbitrarily which is ridiculous, literally one of it's main jobs is to handle dependencies.
I personally analyze 初志一貫 as simply being consistent (一貫) from the beginning (初志), not necessarily retaining the original subject (only implied). I believe this is the most frequent Korean interpretation because 初志 초지 is not a common Korean word (its synonym 初心 초심 is common) and 初志一貫 is probably the only phrase you can find this word.
You are too close.

AlphaGo was trained with tech. It beat humans.

ChatGPT et al are being trained.

Everyone is arguing the inner workings of what is in the box. It doesn’t matter.

The usage of the box(s) is what will be the big impact.

Previously those boxes couldn’t be relied upon so stayed down in the hierarchy of usefulness.

Now. They are rising.
Not many say "LLMs do nothing of value". Many comments say LLMs aren't useful to them, but I haven't seen many say that LLMs aren't useful at all.
> I wonder if we're entering a new age of AI-driven market manipulation

The great deception is this indirect sales pitch to replace humans with "AI" to clueless execs and discourage young people from even bothering to pursue this career. It's been going on long before 2020. The upshot has been how it affects the supply and demand to create an equilibrium that fixes the "high salaries" the article seems to cast shade on.

This blog post almost sounds like the "antiwork" subreddit tbh.
I think its good not to overthink this idea of a self-replicating machine. In the GPT-4 paper, the system was given some access to some cloud apis and was able to do things like requisition more resources from the cloud. I imagine the first stage of "self-replication" for these LLMs or their successors is going to be like ordering CPUs from Amazon rather than setting up silicon fabs. You need to get far beyond single human level intelligence and effort to start building chips and we are probably not even there yet!
They also sometimes predate k8s and migration is expensive.
Very nice idea, good technical discussion in the docs, but it omits one tiny detail: what do the plugins with the returned score? Filter the displayed results?

Edit: Answer is yes, they filter. In Firefox, at least, after installing you see a "Welcome to..." page which says that in the first sentence. And the code makes it clear. (And why does Bing omit wrappers in Chrome???)
They are also available at docker.io/library/alpine and equivalent, and I'd advise anyone to start using this format as more distros might break the default registry[1].

[1]: https://man.archlinux.org/man/containers-registries.conf.5.e...
> Programmers who think ChatGPT is going to replace their job must have a very low opinion of their own skill set.

As a devops guy I live in fear of anything that can copy and paste from stackoverflow faster than I can.
Yes, but Nix is essentially about getting things built, so those build tools are part of the recipe to make something happen.

I'm still learning Nix myself, but one small example: a small, Haskell-based utility I've written depends on specific versions of one library, due to API changes. That version gets lumped in according to some GHC versions. The whole situation was uncomfortable, in that code I had left working, stopped building some time later when I came back to run with whatever was seeming more current.

Defining a short nix flake solved all of that. That first compile was a slog, since it fetched and built the appropriate GHC and libraries, including whatever transitive dependencies those needed. Once done though, those are cached, and "nix build" just works.
While it’s true that US visa applications can be difficult, the same is true for any first-world country.

I was born in a third-world country, and ended up getting tourist visas to the EU, US, and Canada. US was by far the easiest - for me anyway.

If you want a large global meeting in a safe country (I would never in my life go to Mexico) there will be visa issues.
It could also be an Onyx or ReMarkable tablet as well.
<< Going after spy tech with more force than we go after everything else just seems like government enforced luddism.

You do have a point especially if I examine my thoughts on cigarettes, alcohol and so on to determine what makes spy tech more of a target in my life. I think the difference is that even without regulations and restrictions, I can escape both cigarettes, gas engines and so on if I so choose.

With spy tech, even if I take just about every step there is to take, even full blown luddism does not get me the world that was. These days, being a private person takes real money ( vide FB Zuckerberg buying property to ensure privacy on his real estate ).

You do have a point nonetheless, which brings me to this: what is an acceptable restriction on it to you?
M-Pesa is reasonably successful in several African countries. It doesn't even need smartphones.