skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked Chat GPT which antacid medications are contraindicated for some medication I'm on. Easily found through NICE.

It made up a severe risk of death taking a very common medicine combo. It was super convincing, even giving information on how long to avoid taking them together. It was pure bullshit.

I think as much as hyping the benefits we need to hype the flaws and dangers.

If the public at large learn to trust these LLMs too quickly and deeply, that's a hard hole to dig out of. Skepticism in all information sources is a key critical thinking life skill.

That skill is harder to apply the more natural the information source seems and the more ambient the information.
Obligatory PB & Jelly Exact Instructions Challenge video: https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8

The answer is: it runs on dad, poorly :)
Individual Mastodon instances have already begun exhibiting insane behavior, and relying on someone else's fiefdom isn't for me. Social media should give full control to the user on top of a credibly neutral layer.
Just eat less sugar. Like once a week is fine.

The problem with sugar isn't consuming it, but rather consuming it all the time. And of course I mean excessive sugar, not the 4 grams that are in every 100 grams of bread.
The lockdowns enforced by those other countries/cities mentioned where way tame compared to what happened in China.

So no it wasn't comparable.

You wouldn't be at an amusement park and all of a sudden be forced to stay for hours so that everyone could be tested before you could leave. That definitely didn't happen... except in China. Neither would be left to rot to death without food and yet still not be able to go to a local supermarket because of "lockdown". Not the same.
>Am I reading this correctly that the assumption here is that programming and writing skills aren't reliant on critical thinking?

No, they're just listing some skills that have both negative and positive associations with exposure. I don't think they intend to make a statement about whether the skills themselves are correlated. It's possible for them to be positively correlated with each other, even if one is positively and the other is negatively correlated with exposure (think multidimensional vectors).

> There is also a table which indicates exposure to LLMs in various models and it shows Mathematicians to have 100% exposure. This bit is more puzzling to me. Maybe I am misunderstanding something here.

Right, another one that stood out to me is the listing of financial investments as the most affected industry. I'm certainly not letting GPT-4 make investment choices for me. I guess it could summarize analyst reports or something? They seem to be making some very speculative assumptions about what ML will be capable of in the future. The paper would be more useful if they didn't go off like this and stayed closer to published ML research.
as a quick vignette of life at one of the stops of the short bus, sure; but as it relates to the rest of the movie and why is it in there, I agree with you.
I've been on the receiving end of a mob of angry (misguided?) fedizens too¹. It ain't pretty. Up to people showing up in private email with threats to show you they know who I am IRL.

While overall the Fediverse is a kind place, it's the people that make or break that. And people are fallible.

¹ I'm working on a longer blog-post, but need some distance first, else it's just a reconing/grudge- or sounds like one.
it's weird for me too. I really felt he was my grandpa
> So, a lot of engineers that are just doign teh same old trick: Writing HTTP endpoints, parsing json. Mapping data types.. Yes that could be automated.

And to be fair, automation for all of that already pretty much exists.
At Curtin University in Australia, they don’t teach relational algebra because industry groups said nobody needs it. Absolute idiocy.
For manually-editing-browser-extensions allergies who are already allergic to manually-editing-links: https://libredirect.github.io
Stills from unreleased Masters Of Doom TV pilot
Where’s the harm in releasing it anyway? You’ve done the work, put it out there!
> In a vacuum (i.e. via spawn/1 or spawn/3) there is no observable change in behaviour throughout the whole system.

Okay, let me follow up on this one. So could we take arbitrary Erlang/Elixir programs and automatically/mechanically rewrite them to push previously inlined calculations to be run on a different process (using spawn) or the otherway around - and that without causing any observable difference in behaviour in any situation except for difference in performance?

> As stated before Task.async/3 is just a convenience wrapper around low-level BEAM primitives, there isn't anything special about Task.async/3 that you couldn't do via spawn.

You can likewise answer my question for the BEAM primitives (like processes/threads): is the sole purpose of the existance of those primitives to change performance characteristics? If not, what is the purpose of its existence then?

Also, just so that we understand each other: I'm a big fan of the BEAM. This is not a criticism or anything; I just want to explain why I believe that function coloring (or however you call it) can never be conceptionally be removed from a language if sync/async is to be supported.
designed to be converted to common stock when some capital thresholds are triggered
In mice (reminded of: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice)
Cloudflare will help but the business owner needs to prove what they claim using the legal system.

It's too risky to cutoff service without it.
to be fair, if you have ever used the curl C api, you can see why there are 25 years of CVEs, and not 25 years of reliable secure bug free networking (not that its possible).

I love C as much as the next guy, hell, I even write it for fun when I'm feeling down -- but the one thing I won't do, beyond a little "i wrote an http 1.0 server in C" joke project, is networking.

Keep your C offline. If I do networking, it has to be modern C++ with static analyzers, good practices, boost asio, unit testing, and sanitizers, or just Rust, Erlang/Elixir, or whatever other non-C language.

Ive never seen a library get as abused and misused as Curl in source code - well maybe zlib. I think it's great that curl exists, and Im glad its so old that the bugs are mostly worked out, but writing a subset of curl that doesnt have a million issues in a weekend is not so unrealistic.
You need to learn some history. Or at least cite your claims.

We use type systems to help abstract patterns of data into logical constructs that can be reasoned about. They are logic systems with grammar that describes relationships between axioms and constructs.

Seriously, go read a textbook and then we can pick this discussion up. Wikipedia has a good overview.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory
Be careful with this. Some people, including me, can purposely (and falsely!) trigger your lie detector. If I believe that x=1 and if I want you to believe that I believe that x=0, I can say "x=1" while purposely displaying the tells you are looking for. People want to think that they are smart- that they are capable of reading people. It's much easier to just give them what they are looking for and move on than to leave them sitting there analyzing you for the next few minutes. They'll also think that you're a shit liar which is useful.
Definitely.

They will also need to be exposed to ChatGPT to build intellectual antibodies.
In case you want to have a NeXT-like experience on Linux, I’ve had good fun with NEXTSPACE:

- https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

Alas, the developer is Ukrainian, and hasn’t committed anything in a long while. But maybe someone could help out?
The point about remote workers been less efficient.... I really do hope they accounted that they were probably not shown the ways to game the "efficiency" system.. most people won't tell a new worker who they never met how to do something like game the efficiency metric.

Although and manager worth their salt would know to pass this info along.

And anyway, in a "creative" area, like writing code, inventing new stuff, since when is "efficiency" a good thing, all that does is make the same shot, just more of it.

"Year of efficiency" is year of cost cutting. The blog post has an interesting take on it tho.
We should do both. Sometimes learn and read, often spend time with friends, family and hobby. It’s also fine to learn during the job. I find it sometimes refreshing to do fun side projects but for me it’s important for them not to be tight to a deadline, team discussion, quality expectations of others etc - everything which is expected at work. It’s an investment in myself that I sell to my employer with regularly increasing salary.
I doubt it. Commercial pilots and air crew spend a lot more time in the upper atmosphere.
Somehow HN-ifying the title made it more click-baity.

Humans are primates. And those scientists know it.

https://www.britannica.com/animal/primate-mammal
That, minus the "just".
Your comment is not that relevant to the article as you talk about Hong Kong and the article about mainland China.

Of course there might be similarities, but the Hong Kong story is still completely different.
What part of SVG does TinyVG NOT support?

If I would want to replace my current usage if SVG with TinyVG I would like to know what isn't supported, before I start replacing.
If this is the Australian TAFE, it’s great but governments undervalue it and don’t fund it properly.
Just because making something that enables novice-computer-user bad actors is trivial, does not somehow justify it being ethical to do so.

What if we just... thought twice about making it this easy?
Meta's problems are due to a lack of direction and very poor decision making from the very top. The Metaverse was a huge expensive failure, their core demographics are old people and their Instagram demographic is being eaten up by TikTok.

Zuckerberg is not an "ideas" guy. He had that one great idea back in the early 2000s (whether you believe it was his idea or not, he did execute on it) and everything since then has been acquisitions. Sure maybe they can wring out more "productivity" by return to office or firing their middle managers or whatever but so what? It doesn't matter how fast you can run if you are running in the wrong direction.
Two videos by Steve Yegge should be enough to convince the most dyed-in-the-wool anti-Emacser to consider re-evaluating their position. (Here is the first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkIicfzPBys).

My top-tip, FWIW, is learning how to navigate the help system to the point that it drags you into the deepest layers of Emacs' source code.

> smex

The three packages, whichkey, helpful and marginalia are excellent for beginners for quick overviews of what's going on at the surface.

And, yes, Mickey P's work is undoubtedly of great value!
Interesting viewpoint, but what do you mean by "applying a filter"? There isn't anything inherent in this that is specifically aimed to protect copyright, so removing should not circumvent it. Removing the cloak, if necessary, is more akin to processing the input data to remove racial slurs or misspelled words to train a language model. The cloak is not meant to prevent copying. This is just an adversarial technique against specific models, which will not work in general if you get to train a different model.
of course I can ! just pull in libcurl and then it is just parsing cli arguments
It’s literally a variant of Chesterton’s fence, so it doesn’t seem forced to me.
I think this is highly dependent on your product.

If you're selling an API, you probably cannot afford to have a shitty API design because no one will want to use your API.

If you're selling a B2B product, you can probably have a shitty architecture because it's all internal and B2B app are generally lower scale.

Though in saying that I would expect that B2B products like Snowflake and other 'deep tech' products require good engineering, otherwise the product just wouldn't work.
Last time I checked we shared something like ~99% of our DNA with chimpanzees. Finding differences must be way harder than finding similarities.
Ok, but mechanisms at this level are more likely to translate to effects in humans than e.g. "autism".

OTOH, there's the quote "rats, when experimented upon, develop cancer" (attribution lost in the mist of time), so some caution is certainly warranted.
I did two 10 day meditation retreats a long time back. No cell phones, no internet, no computers, no talking, no reading. The first time, the first two days were hell, I craved for listening to music, talking to people, programming, even simple daily routines. Then at some point comes acceptance and over the retreat you mind can finally unload a whole bunch of crap and then become more peaceful.

(The second time was easier, because you know the strong cravings will come and go away again.)
Yes, it is acceptable. Nobody is entitled to expect a coworker to work outside of payed hours. If you think you are entitled to that, I believe you should move to China or North Korea.

Are you a founder, perhaps? Or just a toxic individual?
I taste a lot of spite in this comment.

It's not entirely wrong: a space with peers is a safe space. It's how e.g. recovery of PTST for veterans or rape-victims work too, I'm told. It's also why clubs have a door-policy.

In this case, safe space means both "only likeminded", i.e. gatekeeping - door policy, as tech, policy and features to protect: good privacy defaults, permissioned access, privacy features etc.
Was it GPT4 or GPT3.5?

It spews less bullshit with each new iteration. Matter of time really.
> It's not just about the heavy hitters, it's about the team as a whole. In person work, though a logistical headache and social annoyance, drives team cohesion.

I've seen it as bit more circular: in person work required team cohesion and strong social acceptation. In return the best teams were often better than remote teams.

I remember the pre-WFH hiring criteria including a lot more of "will you be happy sitting next to this person for the next 5 years of your life" wording for the 'cultural fit' part. The whole team being bounded had a lot of weight in the balance, and we'd go for a few lunches and dinners with potential candidates to get a better feel of the "human" part.

The highs were definitely high, in exchange, the lows were way way lower, and interpersonal disputes, people leaving for social (often pretty ugly) reasons were a common thing. We also passed on candidates that had pretty low oral communication skills, and looking around I see the same kind of profile happily employed and fitting right in WFH settings. They still have issues in fast paced discussions, but most of the communication happens in written form so it's way less of an issue.

Overall I think WFH has better flexibility and could help the industry with a lot of the social issues it was struggling with if the managements do it right.
I think the western world is sending all its spare munitions as we speak.
Free stream of real-time vessel position
If you run tiger.svg through `svgcleaner`, you get a file that's 57614 (with no visual difference[1]) that compresses to 20924 with gzip or 19529 with zstd.

`svgo` gives 61698 / 21642 gz / 20228 zstd, again no visual difference.

Not really a need for TVG if you can clean your SVG as part of your deployment pipeline.

(You can go even further and trim the coordinates to 2 places of precision which ends up with 52763 / 18299 / 17114 zstd at the expense of still largely invisible differences but I've had SVGs where this level of cleaning did materially affect the output.)

[1] https://imgur.com/a/2b5CsPQ
How are you applying a filter or circumventing anything if you are simply training a brand new model with a bunch of "cloaked" images?
Which Firefox forks would you recommend to andro_dev?
> Social media should give full control to the user

Are you implying this isn't possible with Mastodon/ActivityPub?
Most of the time (hopefully, from an SRE’s perspective), the telemetry used by DevOps and SRE teams is not the analytics gathered by product teams to make business decisions.
That's shows how technical debt can't be easy get rid of even if you do a rewrite
> You have a link to a list?

`man readline`
I use 1.1.1.1 for DNS on my iPhone just because of Cloudflare's speed in my desktop tests, DNS over HTTPS, and reliability. I do love AdGuard, and use the app on my iPhone. I've compared AdGuard MV3 vs uBlock Origin Lite MV3 in Edge, and since the beginning of it all till today, AdGuard is doing the better job.

The UBo team seems to want to find a way to punish users for MV3, removing features that AG MV3 has managed to implement, like adding custom filters. I don't need much of that, but I do need the ability.

The idea is to push uBlock fans (like myself) over to Firefox to use their full implementation. Not only is MV2's time limited in FF, but I used FF for 20 years straight. I'm not going back because there's enough web glitches with it that I don't want to anymore.

AdGuard seems to be doing a great job on mobile and desktop. Your comment just further backed up what I've been finding lately.
I don't think you understand the spirit of the GNU license. The idea is to contribute your sources back to the community so that it can be built upon. Ultimately one individual can do only so much, but allowing the community to extend and improve upon derivatives allows us to stand upon each others' shoulders and build higher order software that is otherwise beyond the individual. There is nothing really adversarial about this idea.

You should also understand that utopia is an imaginary construct of perfection, and by that definition there will never be a utopia for anything, ever. It's in fact the detractors of the free software movement who claimed that it was utopian, in the sense that it can never be achieved. The fact that GPL is the most widely used license for open source software today means it has easily quelled those claims.

I also don't know whether you realize that linux is GPL licensed. If you're set out to avoid linux in this day and age, especially as a programmer, that's quite something indeed.
>They basically manufacture their own luck

VC does not only offer money but also connections. Even more so does YC and their startup school. If that's not enough, a unicorn is waiting to combine kickstarter.com and a social network to allow people to monetize their connections.

The limiting factor is the willingness to give up the comfort of a 9-5 job. In a world of working spouses, one partner can always risk their career, especially when the children have grown up a bit.
Can there be different versions? scaled up Porpoise brains, scaled up Corvid brains
Agreed. I have been mostly remote since 2015 and if anything I feel more pressure to achieve things as I can't justify my existence merely by being there.
This is an interesting comment, and highlights the accuracy problem with LLMs. But this is but one type of query that LLMs are used for, akin to an informational web search (E.g. How tall is the Eiffel tower).
How it all came to pass: https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm-paste64.html

It mentions one of my pet peeves with bracketed paste:

(Although most terminal emulators are designed to emulate xterm) ... there are no terminfo/termcap capabilities for the feature. Vim's variables assume that a termcap description might provide different values (omitting the “t_” prefix), but other editors simply use hard-coded strings

For example, the readline library just checks whether $TERM == 'dumb' and outputs the control codes if not (provided enable-bracketed-paste is set, of course) . Can anyone help me understand why there is no terminfo entry like setbp=\E[?2004h and unsetbp=\E[?2004l ?
I don’t think that follows. I don’t need to take a dive on a bike to know that wearing a helmet is a good idea
black widows are much smaller. Either you were high or you saw something else.
Unfortunate in short term, but beneficial in long term.
That 1% is actually quite important.
It's worth imagining if curl was invented today...

How large would the team be behind it? How many stars on Github? How many open pull-requests?

How big would the patreon be? The Github sponsors? What Fortune100 would sponsor it?

The open issues count? The build steps? The installer packages? The docker image? The docker-compose? The rust rewrite?

Wiki pages? The reactjs website? The nextjs rewrite? The CSS framework that would be born from the rewrite?

The incomplete documentation, because of the Discord? How big would the Discord be? What about the subreddit born to cry about the lack of documentation because of the Discord?

What about the startup that would offer you curl as a service? Curl as a lambda? Curl one click install in CPanel?

How many milliseconds would curl take to just start up? How much RAM would it take?

How many developer resume would claim to be proficient at curl?

Somethings are amazing because they were made at a time where things were simply made... Not taking a stab at anyone or anything in particular, just reminiscing and imagining...
I don't want to have a calculator (or say bookkeeping software) that gives correct results most of the time but not always, and then hear from the developers that it will get better with each iteration. I need a calculator that is correct 100% of time, not even 99.999%, because otherwise I can't rely on it at all.

In other words, the utility of a calculator that is correct only 99% of time is zero, since you can't even tell when it's wrong.
My (sales-y) colleagues are already writing marketing emails with ChatGPT. Saves a little bit of work, but it might result in the loss of being able to write such emails yourself. This can extend to other jobs, which will have some effects.

Use in education worries me more. If schools don't change their lazy group-projects and "write an essay on" strategies now, coming generations will have put less effort in than previous, leading to a further drop in levels.
In the end bailin is a statutory action, so you really have to look at the terms in the law not in the doc.
Well yeah, but it looks like semver. Again, I don’t know why it bothers me, but it just... does.
RPC vs. TCP (Redux)
The fact that they feel the need to do stuff is ominous in itself
In New Zealand (probably other countries as well?) businesses put up QR codes during covid which citizens would scan in order to track where they'd been for contact tracing. Hard to imagine a world where my grandma knows how to scan a QR code--but here we are.

If you're thinking of starting an app like this, I think it's a decent time for it.
I have to admit I never got the “99% similar” and “octopi are so smart” thing.

May sound like an ignorant meme, but if they’re really so smart and similar, why can’t they build cities or create cultures or do anything better than just survive?
The line before the one you quoted gives their explanation: "We decided it was about time to reset the minor number down to more a manageable level and doing it exactly on curl’s 25th birthday made it extra fun."
Right, I understand what you mean now. You're saying that those subtle changes might not be captured by the camera, which makes sense. I don't have any experience with CCTV systems.
OpenAI is getting trolled for its name after refusing to be open about its A.I
i see, thanks !