skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure, there's many different motivations from many different parties to forcefully shut it down like this.

I don't believe Russia did it though; sure they wanted to shut down gas flow to Europe, but they did that by just... turning it off.

Ukraine is a candidate, because forcefully shutting off a source of income to Russia would help them. I don't believe that (+ the sanctions) have been able to stop Russia though, they've got other sources of income, enough savings to last a while, and a strong grip on the population so it cannot revolt or anything.

And the US is a candidate, on the one side as an ally of Ukraine trying to force Europe to stop sending money to Russia, and on the other as a seller of LNG at increased prices.

But it could be any, and I doubt any conclusive investigation will be published as-is or unsealed during our lifetime.
You can put anything in a texture these days; they're just generic pod arrays now and you can do pretty much whatever you want with them; they definitely aren't always images that get stretched over explicit meshes! In my game, for example, I have one texture which contains the xyz positions and rgb colors of lights. And another which contains connectivity data for a road network. Neither one is an image that gets displayed or stretched over things, but they're used as data within various shaders.

The most "pure" way to do a "no mesh" render would probably be to use geometry shaders to emit your geometric primitives. (You do need to give it at least one "starting" primitive to make the draw call, but you're free to entirely ignore that primitive). It'd be trivial to embed some mesh data into a "texture", for example, just by reading vertex xyz positions into the rgb channels of a 1D texture that's `number_of_triangles*3` elements wide, and your geometry shader could walk along that texture and output those vertices and triangles and have them get rendered, without ever accessing a vertex buffer object.
> This is in the $5/mo category not the $50/user/mo category.

The pricing here is in line with other DB management tools. He's competing with things like Preset (a hosted Apache Superset), DataGrip (JetBrains SQL IDE), and so on.

> You're saying the value provided is 4x the entire Microsoft Suite + OneDrive + Exchange (for example).

If you work with data a lot, the answer is a resounding yes. Email, storage and word processing has a larger target market and is actually quite competitive despite Google and Microsoft's large marketshare (LibreOffice, Zoho, Kingsoft, Dropboxish stuff, Proton Mail, etc...)
Indeed, it's bad enough when they mix up units of the same dimension, but ignoring different dimensions is even more stupid (though it has the advantage of being more easily detectable without even having to check the numbers). In that vein, a common mistake is to mix up multiplication with division, e.g. when they write "terawatt per hour" instead of "terawatt hour" for energy or "kmh" instead of "km/h" for speed.
As in in “best friend forever?” As in an actual person or more like a Chucky doll?
No-paywall version at Ars:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/inside-elon-musk...
"How far can you get if you put prompt-generated code at the heart of the workflow and make everything else subservient to it"

OK, challenge accepted - will go down your suggested route - thanks :)
I think we can all agree that not everyone agrees.

There may be some situations where it may be appropriate, despite being inappropriate.
Because of the price of buying this DDR4 RAM expansion disk for, say, 1TB capacity, it would be cheaper just to buy a proper server board that has 16+ RAM slots and run the RAM-Disk in software?
Harm reduction has been shunted at large in most societies (except a few), to the detriment of many. But that doesn't stop politicians and puritans from working against harm reduction. Not sure why we'd expect something different to happen with AI, it is a mirror of humanity after all (and specifically for OpenAI, a mirror of US society), for better or worse.
Actually, it's a pen-and-paper kind of shindig:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/126533/why-shou...
Path Racer: Pathfinding screensaver created by GPT-4
Sure, but in fairness to the original post, it's about whether Chat GPT can code. Not replace software engineers.

And in your scenario where chatGPT can code but someone needs to gather requirements, it still doesn't necessitate software engineers. I'm not worried about that personally but I don't think the "communicating between stakeholders" skill is such a big moat for the software engineering profession.
In my opinion code that gets the job done is good.
One of the largest problems with moving to anything other than triangles as the rendering primitive is the decades of industry investment in pipelines for producing and hardware (on the player end) designed and optimized to push triangles. There would be huge issue with backwards compatibility for a GPU that defaulted to anything other than triangles, not to mention the graphics API’s designed for those triangle pushers.
Claiming the US is too dumb to trigger those bombs with a digitally encoded signal and has to use an analog one which can be triggered accidentally is straightup ridiculous. Additionally, he states that Stoltenberg is the leader of the NATO, which is wrong, same as that he's a strong Anticommunist and was hating Russia already as prime minister. He actually solved the disputes Norway and Russia had and is member of Norway's socialist party.
Eighty meters is within range of commercial ROVs and even consumer ROVs.

https://www.deeptrekker.com

https://geneinno.us/
This is probably one of the most on-point comments on this. The Author in the blog seems...rather insufferable...to the point that they know it.

Life is short but long enough to become specialized in deep wells and to have cursory knowledge in others. Understanding that what is easy to you is daunting to others is critical to knowing the places you are daunted by. I'm an engineer, I will be the first one to tell you that I can't tell you by memory every dev pattern known to man. But I also empathise with normal people. People just want normal, consistent solutions that work without needing to learn unrelated details.

To a non-dev type, telling a person to run a program in a terminal after updating their package repos is like telling them to till their garden with a backhoe. "First, learn to operate a backhoe, it's easy and so much faster. Then..." This means this user has a garage full of normal garden tools..and then a backhoe. To a normal gardener, who isn't on a construction crew, this obviously is nonsensical.

Helping people means helping them on their terms, not yours.

Side detail:

A few years back, the company I work for (B2C) held a poll in the Eng org that asked "What excites you most about your work?"
There were poll options like "Solving hard technical problems", "Building great solutions for our customers", "Using new technologies", etc.

"Building great solutions" was dead last with less than 5% of votes. We now are a product led organization with a focus on customer experience and I would say 75% of everyone in Engineering were replaced over the past two years. We just shipped one of the first actually UX-focused products by the company. It is so brutally clear why we wouldn't make progress in the past. Every choice was self-centered on what tech was flashy and cool rather than actually shipping.
What is wrong with bus drivers?
I read an absolutely heart-wrenching excerpt from this book (The People's Hospital) recently in the new yorker. See: https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/the-ass...

One interesting point it emphasises is just how important insurance coverage is for survival. And that government insurance processes can be rather arbitrary or even injust.

I hope this book is successful and that it makes a change towards more equitable healthcare in the United States.
The UK magazine New Scientist has been collecting occurrences of strange units in newspapers for years, and people often write in with new ones.

https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg18725070-900-incompati...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133562-700-the-race...

I also remember length "measured in worms laid end to end", and volume "measured in cups of tea".
What was doubtful about the Hersh article?
No, a pure SV healthcare model would sell your healthcare records to advertisers.
Yeah. Tact and context matter.

I think the difference is between an AI that gives you a roast when specifically asked for it, vs. an AI that decides to just start making fun of you when you're simply asking for a list of wheelchair accessible places of worship or whatnot.

Reminds me of that Microsoft bot years ago that just kinda became quite racist even when not prompted for it. That's what broken looks like.
I think women are going to have to get honest with themselves about this. My wife is a nurse who works with all women and the stuff they do to each other is downright evil. They basically try and sabotage each others relationships. My wife constantly bemoans this fact.

Men are not perfect. Women aren’t either. As genders we have different ways of being awful and a good mix of both genders is likely a good way to balance this out.
So presumably the model could output tokens that represent images as well?

For multi-modal training data, e.g. HTML pages or PDFs, does the training data interleave the image tokens amongst the text tokens in the same document? Slightly limited, as doesn't get juxtaposition to text in complex ways, just linear placement of images.
And "Fast and loose reasoning is morally correct":

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/fa...
Perhaps it would satisfy the pedants who have come out in force if the headline read “The in-game model for the coins in Super Mario Odyssey has a mesh that is 65% simpler than in SM Galaxy.”

Does that pass muster? Are we now free to appreciate how the clever use of normal maps allowed Nintendo’s artists to counterintuitively decrease poly count across generations of Mario titles?
Weren't as of a couple years ago—they're represented by an object in the React code. Not the case anymore? I'd be surprised if they'd messed with that, it seemed pretty fundamental to how it operated—hooks were implemented on top of that, for one thing.
Seymour Hersh came out and put together a fairly convincing argument.

The guy who was right about checks notes:

The My Lai Massacre

Watergate

Torture at Abu Ghraib

Domestic Spying

The secret bombing of Cambodia.

But then people come out and go "nonono don't look at that, it was definitely these two guys on a yatch".

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...
UnifiedPush Support in Jami
Sigh - don't get me started on Jet engine DB corruption... You wink at it, over a network with more than a single user - and you have a chance of corruption...
Well, I agree with you in that humans inevitable develop moral rules and codify these one way or another. Otherwise a society wouldn't be possible.

Religions are one of the traditional ways of motivating these rules... Legal systems are supporting them on an enforcement level.

I like religions as a very deep cultural phenomena/ideology having all kinds of effects on the, ehm, society. I just don't think religions are strictly necessary for a functioning society.
The obvious answer is that the one who did it was expecting to benefit from it.

The thing is that at that point almost everyone would benefit from it (maybe everyone except Europeans). Russia because they could put pressure on Europe by cutting gas supply during winter, US because they wanted to convert Europe to LNG and put pressure on the gas revenues of Russia.

So my conclusion is that an international task force did it lol
LaTex is the C++ equivalent in the world of typesetting languages. You can do amazing things with it and have a pixel perfect document at the expense of very high complexity.
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This is an overcomplicated method of applying the idea/expression dychotomy. It is perfectly legal to not use clean room design, as shown by the Sega v. Accolade and Sony v. Connectix cases.
> We focus on safety challenges not because they necessarily outweigh the potential benefits, [2] but because we wish to motivate further work in safety measurement, mitigation, and assurance.

This sentence really stood out and concerns me deeply.

We are currently navigating territory that we almost universally believe to be world-changing in ways we cannot predict. Most pop culture focuses on the catastrophic kind of change, because the implications of such tech provides endless opportunities for such story telling.

And yet, now that the real thing is here, one of the leading companies at the forefront disclaims "welll, we're looking at this safety thing...but not because we think the dangers are worse than the benefits"...this does not give me any confidence in the OpenAI team.

I'm all for approaching problems of safety with an open mind, but the framing here seems really problematic, and seems to indicate a kind of wishful thinking - or at least dangerously optimistic thinking - about what is about to happen.

What do I want to hear? Something like: "We recognize that AI poses a unique set of challenges and potential dangers, and we take that seriously. Here's how we're assessing that threat as we iterate, and here's how we'll know when it's time to pump the brakes...".
Given how notable AI ethicists have held really extreme positions with respect to what is considered harmful (i.e. Gebru Timnit), how seriously should we take such research? Earnestly asking, is there a self-selection of certain kind of people like her into this field (AI ethics), and are the foundations of this field based on similar premises from dubious fields like gender studies, fat studies, and what not?
Does this run on an Intel mac? Or is M1/M2 required?
Treatment for diabetes is one of those narrow areas. We know this because private health insurance companies will pay for measures that improve compliance.
The product is still under development and testing, so there is no charging for now.

I didn't suggest they shouldn't charge: but if they had a more flexible model, perhaps free for 2 or 3 users (most single-founder startups fail, anyway), with limitations, we would try/use it. And if we did, when we grew we would have it in our work culture already.
This is actually pretty fitting, but I had been looking for a new job and working to polish my site into a better portfolio. I had written a piece about "The Future of Group Messaging" that I had worked really hard on, and once I finished it, I posted it on HN, fully intending to reach out to recruiters to find work. However, it ended up gaining a lot of traction on HN, and from that post, I received about 25 inbound job offers that I was able to choose from.

I still think back to how stressed I was while building the site, and I thought it was such a waste of time. But it got me the job I needed at the time and opened a lot of doors for me. That said, I could theoretically attribute it to HN and my writing, though the custom site helped.
I use it to force myself to write up better notes about how I did stuff.
Yes it can write code, some demoed developing "Doom", ray tracing/ray casting with GPT-4 the very first day it came out and it was impressive. Programmers would still program, but the program will no longer be code but will be "GPT prompts". I suspect with time tho, we won't need to write amazing prompts, you ask GPT for a solution, it will then figure out the edge cases by asking you questions. If it's 2 people, it would query you both and resolve your conflicts. Programmers will be replaced with AI. We need to get over it, the question we should be asking is, what's next?
The second half of that quoted sentence is really doing some work, isn't it.
Samsung always has a grand vulnerability each year. Like clockwork!

In 2015, a vulnerability in Samsung's SwiftKey keyboard was discovered that allowed attackers to remotely execute code on the device.

In 2016, researchers discovered a flaw in Samsung's Knox security software that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges and gain root access to the device.

In 2017, a vulnerability was discovered that allowed attackers to take control of Samsung's SmartCam cameras.

In 2018, researchers found a flaw in Samsung's Secure Boot feature that allowed attackers to install malicious firmware on the device.

In 2019, researchers discovered a vulnerability in Samsung's Galaxy S10 fingerprint scanner that allowed anyone to unlock the phone with a 3D printed fingerprint.
Having a blog was one of the recommended marketing strategy for ebook promotion, so I started one. Most of deep dives on topics I'm familiar already made it to my books, so initially I wrote stories around my writing experience.

Then I started a mini section for random stuff like what bug gave me trouble. To become more regular, I reused stuff for tips and tricks (along with video demos).

I don't use analytics, so don't have numbers to indicate how useful it turned out for ebook sales. My friend found one of my posts as the top result while searching for a topic, which was very satisfying to hear.
Thank you for such a well written and detailed response. Gave me a fair representation of C#.

I do hope to try it maybe in recent future.
I find that many of the magazines on Apple News+ have innovative navigation techniques that allow me to scan quickly. The throughput is high enough not to be laggy.
I see it more as a tick-tock pendulum swing. A principle is neglected, then comes roaring back because of the glaring need for it. It becomes overused, fetishized, and popularized in warped ways. Then the "accepted design principle considered harmful" articles appear, and the pendulum starts to swing back the other way.

What we have to keep in mind is that the needs of whatever codebase we're working on might be out of sync with fashion. For example, I've been relishing the recent push-back against DRY, because I think it's over-applied in damaging ways, but the main codebase I've been working on for the last year needs more application of DRY, not less.
> savings may be partially offset by health care costs associated with increased longevity

This is the thinking of an insane person.

Taking care of the elderly is what money is for, yes?

I mean, "increased longevity" and caring for our sick and elderly is kind of the point of civilization?
> I'd much rather read one function top to bottom than have to jump into 7 nested function calls that are only called once.

I actually would not. I do not want to have to read every detail of each condition or formula on the first pass. I want to see high level gist of what is supposed to happen - high level algorithm. Plus, I like when variables have clearly limited scopes.
I do feel it necessary to point out that IT and software engineering are largely diverged fields. Additionally enterprise and consumer IT are very different too. So if random person ask how to share files your answer can't be Sharepoint or NFS server or something, and even if it was the answer you would put random web developer to set up that Sharepoint site or whatever. Similarly if I as a software engineer have trouble with my work workstation, I don't waste time to try to debug it myself, I go to our IT dept and get them to fix it.
The most challenging part of software development (and the reason we have well-paying jobs) is not understanding syntax, it's analysing and abstracting a problem domain into a set of cleanly separated modules that interact to solve those problems. That being the case then, actually none of us is getting replaced by GPT-n any time soon - 'prompt engineering' will just become the new Javascript, only more abstract; just another tool in the toolbox. Hopefully :-)
> "bank alignment problem"

Google didn't turn up much about this, care to elaborate?
The bond market is massive. A large majority of bonds were purchased before March 12th.

As for the QE/QT performed by the Fed. The Fed's balance sheet has already increased by 300 billion, which undoes like half a year of QT. JPMC estimates a total of 2T in liquidity. Not only will that undo all QT, it will bring the Fed balance sheet to new all time highs.
Solo founder also here with a product that mixes software and hardware.

For me the big realization was that self-sabotage is mechanism that make up excuses to prevent future damage to your ego. It is activated when you feel uncertain about outcomes and in risky terrain.

Knowing that, the trick is starting stuff you are unsure as an experiment, so you can see how can you get there instead crossing items in a to-do list.

In my case I got to feel really guilty about wasting days and weeks without any advancements. Stuck in complex issues (in my mind) and swimming in circles.

Progress in the only cure, and only reframing your day to day it get easier.
Iteration and integration, the tasks which take most of at least my time as a developer, could fade significantly - or become automated themselves.

We won't have understanding of our code, similar to how we don't understand the machine language being generated by our compilers now.

We will be using our intuition about GPT to bring into being fully designed and integrated systems with 10 paragraphs at the prompt.

Which could in the end greatly increase the influence of a programmer in a given organization. Our role will be a softer, almost cyborgian one.

But this will indeed require the destruction of all that came before it. Questions like "but does it work with this 3rd party API, or this platform?" must become irrelevant for this future to happen.

A bit similar to how the web destroyed mainframe, perhaps, by first creating its own compelling world, then making the mountain come to it.
> Reminds me of that Microsoft bot years ago that just kinda became quite racist even when not prompted for it. That's what broken looks like.

I think you're referring to Tay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)) here right? The context is slightly different, as Tay "learned" from what random people on the internet told it, so unsurprisingly, a bunch of internet randoms got together to make the bot racist and a holocaust denier.
Thanks for the overview. Hopefully I can give the language a shot when time permits.
Either way, it doesn't seem to me to have shifted significantly the public sentiments of any side. Thus I'd rather follow the money and give more credit to the hypothesis it was a private - which honestly I like much less than the state actor hypothesis.
I think you can find more information here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreversible_electroporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroporation#Physical_mecha...
When vb5 was around my hard drive at home was 3GB.
> Russia because they could put pressure on Europe.
That doesn't really hold because they could just turn off the tap
I’m curious - did you stop? Why? What did not work about this?
A growing number of scientists are convinced the future influences the past
100%, don't target core emissions like gas and oil, rather do serving that's extremely visible, so we can say that we are doing something.
> One thing to bear in mind is that you're far better off with a colleague who points out all the problems they see, even if some of them are tiny, than you are with colleague who sees the problems and doesn't say a thing until after you've hit them.

I kinda agree. If somebody delays projects because they’re pointing out tons of unlikely and low consequence issues, then I’d rather not hear from them. But if they’re identifying (the hopefully rarer) semi-likely and high consequence issues, then that’s a much better person to work with.

This is why it’s important that everybody is on the same page about what kind of problems you can live with and which need to be caught early.
Not without contractual ramifications.
I had found it hilarious that erotic content was found in the harmful content section.