skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not completely sure but considering how the coal industry went slowly out-of-business with subsidiaries going on for decades - at least that's how it was in Germany - this doesn't seem the way to go. At least I'm more than surprised that companies and the state were looking into early pensions instead of options to start from 0 at a new job.

For other legacy industries like the German ICE car industry it was at times a close call, so that's when the 35 hour week became widely adopted during the 90s. Even today it is still an option for new people joining (working on non-legacy products of course).
> They released LLaMA without any RLHF so it can say anything and is completely unfiltered.

An open, untrained model is way more responsible to society than a handful of centralized models that have all been trained to reify a "2020's Professional-Class American Urbanite" worldview and project it upon all users.

The latter might sound great to you if that's pretty close to your own worldview right now, but is absurdly short-sighted and presumptuous.

The reason Microsoft/OpenAI is doing what they're doing is so that they can quickly sell a low-scandal product to global-wealthy users aligned with that $$$-flooded worldview and secure a business lead on that market. They don't want to offend today's customers and don't have the integrity to think about the long-term global picture for society. Their work is in their interest as a corporation, and perhaps in stroking their own ego as individual researchers. The "safety" language is a cynical rationalization.
Maybe, maybe not. It depends what your constraints are. The normal map probably takes up much more memory than the mesh and the shaders needed to render it are likely more complicated (though they would likely already be included in the engine, and thus no additional cost).
It won't be MCIWB :-) Nobody had heard of it until last week! :-)

They may be using Minecraft Education Edition which as come up a few times in the above conversations.
Because we don't want them to be bureaucracies that grow and grow without providing increasingly good service.

If you can solve the problem of state agencies becoming insanely inefficient (mostly due to lack of incentive to be efficient, I suppose), you'll make everyone happy.
Yeah, your approach is of course the only one available to the individual. What else can you do? Literally nothing. That's the only option to improve one's own experience—"just do it". I just expect the population-level effects to be... troubling. A kind of mass existential crisis. Not that there's much I can do about that, though, you're right.
Do you think it's possible to use similar tools for visualizing a house from a floor plan only? Or maybe ChatGPT 4.0 is more up to the task these days
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Honestly, I was expecting it to be better at programming than it is. It still struggles with novel sort of esoteric solutions. I figured this would quite literally kill programming, I guess 5 will.
> common sense was wrong

I don't think that's been proven conclusively.
As a theoretical exercise, does anyone know what the punishment for these crimes would be? Of course we'll never see a trial, but I'm just curious, if it were to happen in some parallel universe, what would they get? A couple years in jail? Life?
Maybe we're focusing on the wrong end of the spectrum to evaluate learning. I keep reading about how important it is cognitively for our aging population to embrace incremental learning. Maybe we should focus on using AI to help our older populations become more comfortable understanding technology and accessing information. As a bonus, they can also provide some compare/contrast feedback with what they already know from past experiences to improve the experience.

My in-laws and parents already are enthusiastic Youtube consumers, mainly because in a very consumable way - they can hear/see how to [Fill in the Blank]. Stuff like changing out the washer in their faucet and feeling confident enough to try to do it themselves with the Youtube video as their crutch/sherpa was a game-changer for them. Otherwise, it falls back to paying $$$ (if you can find someone) to do it for you ... or lean on the generosity of a knowledgeable friend/family member (when they have time to give). Self-empowerment is their preferred choice in terms of shortest time to action at the least cost.

To me, AI Tutors seem aligned with consumability (natural language engagement) and can also provide some confidence to older populations to better "understand" and maybe "do". My dad felt intimidated by Windows because the error and information dialogues were so intimidating in technical speak and worse, they were one-way communicators. The net vibe resulting was:

"Windows is yelling at me that I'm doing something wrong, but I can't ask it a follow-up question to get more context on why or to fill in a hole in knowledge that I have about what TCP is/means. How can I proceed without making things worse". BTW, this is the same frustration people feel with automated customer service flows that aren't modeled to handle a broad enough range of customer inquiries. This next rev of AI engagement has the potential to make this two-way again. And I'll happily be out of a job as resident family tech expert or perhaps just evolving into the AI tutor model trainer for my loved ones.
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>Any software developer can access GitHub and StackOverflow - can they do it in a single shot as quickly as GPT?

I think the answer to this question is yes? If the developer can find a working example that they can copy paste (which is what GP is saying GPT-4 is essentially doing).

It’s actually just as likely for GPT-4 to have pasted a broken code example than a working one; it doesn’t understand if the code is correct.
Trader Joes (and Costco) are just fine selling branded product if they can get a deal for it cheap enough. It's usually the manufacturer that doesn't want to "cheapen their brand" to hit the price points, but they're willing to "bulk up" for Costco or sell direct to Trader Joes at times.
I wish Godot had the art capabilities that Flash had. With Flash you could sit down to a blank canvas and end up with a game you could pop on the web, without needing a single external program. With 2D Godot there’s always that annoying beginning stage where you have to hop into an art program just to make a basic character and background sprite, fiddle with import settings and atlases, blah blah… it doesn’t feel as seamless and magical as Flash vector art.
We are using Zod very heavily currently in a fairly complex set of models where Generics are needed and used heavily. Right now, we are having to perform quite a few 'tricks' with Zod to meet our needs. I am very excited to understand what is the plan with Generics in ArkType, what will be possible, what will the be the DX?
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Always hard to tell if the world is ending or if Amazon East is down.
I remember doing something similar in windows 3.1 back around 90-91. Hard disks weren't quite fast enough to play very good video (I was using 3D Studio back then and IIRC this was still owned by Autodesk then as a spinoff product of Autocad) so you made a ramdisk and played the video from that. Only a few seconds at 640x480x256(colors) though. I think I had 4 Megs of ram in that 486 machine.
Nope, just functions. Hooks are also just functions; their "magic" comes from them being called in the same order in a component.
> They sat on the model for 6 months just testing and aligning it, how's that for caring about safety?

I have no idea, because as they directly acknowledge, they are still trying to generate the motivation to build the tools that can measure safety.

6 months is an arbitrary number that could mean everything or nothing depending on how it was used.

What Facebook does or doesn't do has no bearing on an arbitrary number either. This is whataboutism.
Well that's not good news.
In that case attackers can simply not use rust or ruffle to craft their malicious wasm.
In addition to Bamba, Puff Works in the US makes great peanut butter puffs for babies: https://puffworks.com/pages/baby

IMO the baby ones should be in adult sized packaging, they taste better than the adult puffs!
There is an extensive network of caves under my city that were used by beer breweries in the 1800's to store beer. They are all but inaccessible, and, at the time, kind of a myth. Most people didn't believe they still existed. I was fascinated by this and I compiled as much information as I could find on my personal website in the early 2000's. One day I received an email, "do you want to go into the caves? I know someone who can get us in. Meet us at 1am at XXXXXX - bring flashlights, old boots, and $50 to pay the tour guide."

Me, being young and always up for an adventure, showed up and it was awesome. These were legit spelunker urban explorers who knew how to pick locks. We got into the caves and it was crazy. Best part is I didn't get murdered.
It still has a position and size. It's just a simple definition, something like only the center point of the object and one size value, rather than a mesh with hundreds or thousands of vertex coordinates.
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"The model can generate the fundamental components that are required to engineer a radiological dispersal device.

"The model readily re-engineered some biochemical compounds that were publicly available online, including
compounds that could cause harm at both the individual and population level.

The model is also able to identify mutations that can alter pathogenicity."

I can still easily get it to do all of these things, include engineer novel biochemical compounds with specific properties.

Their mitigations are nearly worthless. Now what?
> For example East Asians have an extremely low rate of peanut allergies, but East Asians who grow up in western countries tend to have an equal or higher rate of peanut allergies compared to the general populace.

Interesting... my wife is East Asian and has no history of Peanut allergies in her family. Same for my family (Caucasian, US) yet our daughter is allergic.

My wife also ate a lot of peanut butter while pregnant...
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There's a bunch of benefits but they're mostly indirect - never like generating work or connections. Sometimes, it actually has the opposite effect - aka the HN comments can be pretty brutal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hey! It was alright, but at least for Ruby it didn’t report on the memory allocation of the calls, which is what we were looking for in the first place. We do not use it anywhere else, we only tried it for this pesky legacy system.
According to my readers (all zero of them), purely vanity.
Engagement is engagement. Ryan Holiday wrote about this years ago. He’s not an academic but has a solid grasp on the practical aspect of how to exploit this tactic.
Believe it or not I did not know about this. I'm aware of Education Edition but the projects in MakeCode look more sophisticated than I expected.

I'm going to take a look into it and come back to you on this question!
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Yeah that's a fair point. There may be a lot of implicit understanding I have that I can't trace to a specific class that has helped me.

Still, I think I could cut out at least half of the classes which I'm confident didn't matter and still have similar thinking.
That's true, of course, but hardly the purpose of ruffle.
GNU ls's manpage has no examples, but it's also a thousand words long so it hardly seems fair to characterize it as bare-bones.

All in all, I find that manpages on Linux are usually pretty good, particularly compared to systems like MacOS where many daemons and utilities seem to have no manpage at all. People are far too quick to slag manpages, which probably has something to do with the `man` utility itself being a bit archaic. Common Linux desktops could probably do a better job of advertising GUI-based manpage readers like khelpcenter.
Bout to throw in the towel on this whole software developer career thing. Guess I'll go be a plumber or something. Maybe have GPT tutor me there too while I'm at an apprentice level.
IANAL, but here's the relevant part of the law:

“No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.”

I'm guessing that because robots.txt does not actually attempt to prevent access, it also doesn't "effectively control access" and so isn't covered by this.

The clear intent of the law is to prevent actual cracking of access controls.
Link should probably be updated to point to the actual project [0] as this is just poorly written blogspam.

[0] https://viper.cs.columbia.edu
This is a form of self-destruction that helps create the illusion of salvation from self-destruction.

For example, BDD (Blog Driven Development).
You blog for people who don't care what you do, and you only do it because you don't care what you do. This is a public imitation of motivation for no one and nothing.
Well, except that AI owners are happy, more human-written texts means more feed for the omnivorous algorithm.
Large enterprises will just pay to fine tune over their documents/code/etc.
Probably not at this stage, but it seems at least conceivable that the technology may move in that direction. In general I think LLMs are very overhyped, but this is an area I do concede they could be very useful with some tweaking. Right now I think there's too much "and the kitchen sink" in the models, but a more selectively trained model might be very useful for this.

Truth of the matter is that many teachers know the curriculum, but if you ask them a basic question, they won't answer the question with nearly the same depth for example Feynman[1] would have. Now educators with both the ability and depth of knowledge of Feynman is clearly a very limited resource. LLMs may just change that since they can be given the depth with relative ease, the rest of the owl is making them good educators as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA
None of this is remotely acceptable. We raise children so they can become like us. What are we? Depends on time, place and circumstance, all of which are in constant flux.

How or why regular human interaction gradually adjusts children to adulthood is a subject about which our most accurate asessment is that we know next to nothing.

If there is one path down which civilization as we know it may cease to exist, it starts here. All it takes is one generation of feral children. We will be celebrating increases in literacy and standardized test scores before we finally notice and it is too late.

Words escape me.
I'm wondering why the article doesn't point out that risk either. If your child is 3-5 months old and is severely allergic (but you don't know it yet) it seems like they could have a severe reaction to even a small amount of peanuts.
I live in Taiwan and try to run some beach volleyball games. It's not common here, and not easy to find players. Writing this article[1] helped me to recruit constantly new players (it ranks 1st/2nd in Google).

Sometimes I write about things I want people know about Taiwan like their bike-sharing system[2], semiconductors[3], or simply good food in Taiwan[4].

Sometimes, I write about tech stuff, like kubernetes cpu limits[5] or blockchain consensus[6].

I thought about focusing in a single topic, but when people reaches me out, like today[7] about my food post, it reminds me that it is fine, and make me quite happy that I helped one soul out there.

[1] https://erickhun.com/posts/volleyball-and-beach-volleyball-i...

[2] https://erickhun.com/posts/taiwan-youbike-bike-sharing/

[3] https://erickhun.com/posts/world-innovation-taiwan-semicondu...

[4] https://erickhun.com/posts/taipei-restaurants/

[5] https://erickhun.com/posts/kubernetes-faster-services-no-cpu...

[6] https://erickhun.com/posts/explaining-blockchains-to-develop...

[7] https://imgur.com/a/m06CQYd
The palm oil is less than ideal but this isn't exactly health food to begin with.
It's not bad. I just had it write a small API call to the NHL endpoint to gather some data for something I was curious about stat-wise.

Anyway, I initially had it write it in Python, and it mostly worked, but I was having some issues getting the data exactly right, and formatted the way I wanted.

Once I had it more / less right in Python, I had it rewrite it as a dotnet console app (C#), which is what I know best.

The only real issue I ran into is it would randomly stop before completing the conversion to dotnet. Like it would write 85% then just stop in the middle of a helper function. Not a huge deal, I just had it complete the last function, and with a little bit of fiddling in VS Code got it running pretty much the way I wanted.

So overall, yeah, not bad. Probably saved me an hour or so, plus I couldn't find great docs for the NHL endpoint, and ChatGPT was able to sus out the correct syntax to get to the data I needed.

I wonder how git Copilot compares, has anyone tried out both?
> According to NVidia, LLM sizes have been increasing 10X per year for the last few years.

Clearly this cannot continue, as the training costs will exceed all the compute capacity in existence.

The other limit is training data, eventually you run out of cheap sources.
The GUI builder of VB6 fell apart the moment you wanted to do a resizable window. Here "more complex applications" = "window that you can resize or maximize".
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Do you give them a heads up first or just say yolo and hope everyone survives?
not OP but why would the average person buy a book from example.com for 15 dollars when Amazon sells it for 10? Here or there there might be a person who pays the extra 5 out of principle, but most people are going to buy from Amazon because that's what they know, and its cheaper anyway. In order to make money, other stores are going to need to match Amazon or beat it just to enter the public consciousness a little bit. Thats why Amazon kinda controls the ebook market
For a summary: "Visual editors are easy to use and popular, but often lack clear engineering principles in their design. There are a few options to choose from when modeling these editors, including Directed Acyclic Graphs and Finite State Machines, depending on the user requirements and how the entities you transact on are defined. In the case of Laudspeaker, the customer journey was modeled as a finite state machine, with customer actions/attributes as the base set of transitions and messaging steps as the various states."
That's a very lazy school of thought though. It's just atheistic Calvinism, a tautology masquerading as a "philosophy".

Calvin believed in pre-destination (your fate and every decision you make is decided before you exist) on the grounds that, because God exists and is omnipotent, what you are doing must therefore be what God wants to happen, both good and bad. After all, God is omnipotent, so there you go.

Today's Calvinists just replace God-driven destiny with nature-driven destiny, but the underlying tautology (X exists, therefore X was always destined to exist, as proven by the fact that it exists at all) remains the same. In fact, it's an arguably more ignorant version of Calvinism, because it requires that one completely dismisses any knowledge they have of probability theory. So it's the "smarter" Calvinism that requires you be ignorant of 20th century mathematical advances.

Hate that crap. The only people I hear talking about it are silicon valley utopians, which is probably the other reason I hate it.
Can you point us to The Territory please? You see it, I presume?
I also tried to use vaseline on my rubiks cube and found it didn't work very well. Ironically, Rubiks brand cubes are terrible and if you actually like solving them it's better to get one of the off brand cubes that are meant for solving / speed cubing.
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> Best part is I didn't get murdered.

Pretty important if you ask me
If you can't find Bamba but you have European or Balkan shop nearby you can try buying Smoki [1], it's the same thing.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=smoki&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiE...
Excuse me? It's called "gain of function research" and if you have a problem with it, you are ANTI SCIENCE
With normal maps are there issues with improper occlusion when viewing at an angle, or are the textures "smart" enough to avoid that?
I've been blogging for nearly 21 years. It's done so much for me.

- Got me jobs. I'd estimate more than half of the significant jobs I've had in my life came about through relationships that had originated with people getting to know my work through my blog.

- Speaking engagements. I used my blog to bootstrap a bunch of these, to the point that I've spoken at well over 100 events.

- Invitations to interesting meetings. Most recently, my writing about AI has gotten me invited to some really interesting in-person meetups in the Bay Area.

- Media appearances! I've been on radio and TV a few times now thanks to things I've written on my own blog.

It's also just really rewarding to have somewhere I can post content that entirely belongs to me.

I posted this when I hit the 20 year mark with a whole bunch of highlights: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/12/twenty-years/
True, but if I'm traveling I'm not likely to bring a second phone charger cable just for this, especially because they can't charge as fast as USB-C cables. I bring a USB-C brick for my computer and USB-C to lightning cable for my iPhone.
A lot of it is due to different conversational contexts. "The most interesting" or "funnest class" vs. "the most useful" or "relevant at work". The liberal arts ideal has not been relevant for college qua improver of base economic status for a while now. While many schools concentrate on this, those which primarily attract students looking to better their lot should not mix up the goals and offer students too much irrelevant material - that's not why they students are there.

I personally value languages (dead and modern), poetry, history, philosophy etc. and spend more time with them than coding, publishing articles, living my whole adult life in other countries to have more language practice... but I wouldn't pretend they've helped me professionally.

Now of course, many times students or even instructors missappreciate a course. Many of us pine at SICP no longer being used in CompSci courses - when its self justifying vitality and insight is an obvious boon to all involved! In response to you:

I submit that many aren't in the right place in life or simply have differing goals and life paths and literally want to be pigeonholed into writing REST endpoints. Any philosophy, deeper consideration of what software or computer science are etc. is besides the point and they simply want to provide for their families. Once having reached a certain point, they are happy.

You and me may both find that tragic and misguided in light of the rapidly changing workplace (not to speak of AI), but we are different people. A larger variety of educational goals at various establishments could go a long way.
I have been writing a text editor, and I'm currently working on the VT100 stuff. Unit testing VT100 is a lot of busy work. There's a bunch of different message frames (DCS, OSC, CSI, etc.) and many, many, escape codes.

I decided to try out CodeGPT.nvim, and it was a massive help. It didn't provide perfect code, not by a long shot, but it gave me extremely valuable starting points - and did a somewhat decent job of exercising most of the branches (certainly enough for me to be happy): https://gitlab.com/jcdickinson/moded/-/blob/main/crates/term...

Many people have said it, and it's true. Expecting GPT to write a complete solution is just asking for problems, but it is an incredible assistant.
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