skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your point about how to best use it today. We have seen that each new model generation both improves the prior tasks and unlocks new ones through emergent behavior. That’s the fascinating/scary part of this development. And yes, it’s “just” a language model. It’s “just” predicting next token given training + context. We don’t really understand why it’s working and it’s evolving non-linearly.

I asked GPT-4 to give me an SVG map of my town. I then asked it to put dots on some local landmarks. The map was toddler level, but the landmarks were relatively accurate in terms of their relationship to each other and the blob that it drew.

So this is a language model that has some emergent notion of space in its code generation abilities.
#remindme

But seriously, this list of things they would never ever be able to do would look a heck of a lot different if it were still 2016 :)

Also thinking about this just a bit more, do you know many humans that can accomplish this list?
Fun thing: there are a few, easy to integrate services that will give you all the information you need to remain compliant. You just need to integrate them in your checkout workflow - and then actually report the taxes and pay, which is the much more onerous part.
In Sweden you have https://www.abf.se/Om-ABF/In-English/
how is this supposed to work?

https://i.imgur.com/2rFGesI.png
Interesting how the explanation for the effect in Wikipedia contrasts with the practice of hiring engineers with high salaries for fake jobs.
Someone implemented a fairly naive DAG in our system that sometimes sprouts cycles. The cheapest way to catch cycles is to limit the graph size to 10x nominal. If we ever encountered a request that was legitimately that far from normal, we would most likely time out during the subsequent work anyway, because processing time grows faster than n and our timeout is only about 20x our mean response time.

If there is a loop, we will hit the limit while evaluating the cycle because it’s a DFS. With a BFS we could hit the limit in a sibling of the problematic node.

Scheduling budgets are how most people avoid the halting problem. You set a fixed multiple of expected halting time and work hard to make sure that’s your p99 time instead of your p75 time, and stop trying to violate core principles of computational theory.
Yes, just that it will assemble the instructions. I was double checking as I was sure I'd qualified this when appropriate with "assembler/disassembler" but it seems I didn't - apologies. I'll tweak the wording to make this clearer. (EDIT: fixed).
The problem is that there is no “we” that can pump the brakes. There are a multitude of people and companies acting for a wide variety of motivations. The odds of getting a hundred thousand people to agree on anything, let alone with a profit motive involved, are zero.

Also, you let the cat out of the bag on AI propaganda, so any halfway smart AI will now see through the ruse. Thanks a lot.
I was lucky enough to be resupplied by a Super Cub air taxi service multiple times while on a long mountaineering trip in Alaska many years ago. It was incredible to see all the random places that the pilot could land, including a gravel bar similar to the video in the article.
Switzerland is quite special case, but in general governments can do just about anything as long as they have support of parliaments.
This article doesn't read like a PR piece in the way PG describes at all though in that there is no discernible tie-in to AI or GPT as far as I can tell, so if the goal was to promote something other than the idea that people can sometimes be hard to convince of the value of new technologies that eventually become ubiquitous then I think it failed in that respect. I could see a similar article being written about the internet itself someday after everyone who lived through the initial skepticism about its economic and social benefits (still dubious) eventually passes on.
I had a similar contradiction with a friend yesterday, and I argued that the big winners of the AI revolution might actually be those in construction/electricians for instance, as their livelyhood won't be significantly affected in the next 10 years, as LLM can't be used to help or replace them in any way.

I'm very worried and currious about the future, regardless.
Well, it's obvious that people back then were simply too short-sighted to comprehend the revolutionary potential of electricity. As usual, it took the genius of a few forward-thinking entrepreneurs and engineers to drag society, kicking and screaming, into the modern age.

Looking back, the skepticism seems laughable, but it underscores a recurring theme throughout history: people's irrational resistance to change, even when the benefits are as clear as day. It takes those with true vision to push past the naysayers and bring transformative technologies into the mainstream.

I mean, just look at the internet or smartphones. The masses were skeptical, but visionaries like Steve Jobs and Tim Berners-Lee paved the way for the indispensable tech we enjoy today. It's almost too easy to predict that many of the technologies we doubt today will become cornerstones of tomorrow's society. But, of course, only a select few have the foresight to see that.
Of course the PIN can be brute forced. It feels like reporting "I can walk over the lawn fence". That PIN is probably here to prevent your kids from messing with your vault when you grab your coffee with your computer unlocked.

Protecting from an attacker with your laptop locked should be done at the OS level with FDE and secure boot. Protecting from a real attacker with access to your unlocked computer is a bit hopeless (as someone mentioned, they probably can install some key logger and steal the master password and everything else later).

It never hurts to be clear on the threat model (And they should probably go with the option 1. suggested by the author), but I feel in that case the behavior matches reasonable expectations and the author is a bit of bad faith.

For solution 2. if you want to check a pin server side without trivial access to the PIN from the server you can do it à la signal using secure enclaves https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
Thank you for the link! Very little about the "rationalists" subculture made sense to me until someone proposed that a significant chunk of it may be based on deflection: there are so much real pain in the world today that it might be
convenient to be able to ignore all of that and worry about a non-existent issue.
At some point you have to trust the user to choose the apps they want to run. That's simply not the OS's job.

To the extent that it is the OS's job, you don't have a computer anymore. You have an appliance. Sometimes that's OK; I don't complain because I can't run Doom on my dishwasher. But let's be clear about what is a general-purpose personal computer, and what is not.
It's vastly more economical to build infrastructure for a few million people spread over a metro rather than over a state and cities are centers of commerce and industry. Not only do cities more than pay for themselves universally they also pay for nonproductive rural areas which are very expensive to maintain and provided little revenue.

Basically unless you grow food the city folks would be economically better off if you didn't exist. Your world view is exactly the opposite of reality.
The New York Times notoriously did something like that a few years ago.

They'd have a teaser offer for a few weeks that you "couldn't refuse" but then when you wanted to cancel you'd have to talk to a customer retention agent who would give you a hard sell ("if you stop reading the New York Times you'd be uninformed and you might vote Republican or something...") and try to get you to take the teaser offer again for a few weeks, figuring sooner or later you'd just give up and let the subscription revert to full price.
I think mainly

1) Easy to parse (less ambiguous)
2) We like Python
Sure, I don't think either this[1] commenter or Ken Thompson were trying to say that the product category shouldn't exist. A computer is vastly overpowered for what the average user is capable of or interested in doing[2], which is why toy devices like iPads are so popular.

I interpreted both of their comments as claiming that the direction MacOS is taking is a poor fit for those who still get value from powerful, general-purpose computers (myself very much included! I occasionally have the misfortune of using Macs, but am much much happier on systems where I can dig as deep into its layers as I need to solve my problems or scratch my itches)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=35219381

[2] Though I do think it's a minor tragedy that the increasing amount of guardrails has narrowed the opportunity for an inquisitive youngster to explore his computer's internals
Congratulations, you’ve managed to construct this into a classic “with us or against us” framework, a popular tool among authoritarians.
Why did you go the book route? It sounds like you spent a vast amount of effort to ship a book which fell radically short of your vision & available material, which made the most nugatory profit (and by any honest accounting was a big financial loss to you), and which didn't succeed at making a mark as a formal prestigious book. Wouldn't've it have worked a lot better to focus on a comprehensive website where you could put up all the material and solicit submissions?
Wouldn’t a better statistic be the ratio of horses to people? I’m sure that has gone done much more since the early 1900’s.
"Swiss authorities poised to change the country’s laws to bypass a shareholder vote"

This part of the article is horrifying.
I wonder if it does better if you instruct it to 'pose' as a Go programmer. Or even one who comments to his younger Java-model self?
Playbook for the Great Divergence
The BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor
There's certain types of plastics super glue doesn't bond to, similar to some gloves as mentioned in the article. While pretty universal, it still doesn't quite work on everything.
A separation in the registration/login flow is pretty common - you only see the prices without vat if you’re a registered business customer, often they require either a VAT-ID or other proof you’re a business customer.
To some level I agree - but at some point there is also much on the "business side" that cannot be easily dealt with. Like having connection or some kind of relation with people who will buy the stuff or would have people who would be interested in buying stuff you make.

Yes there are these "idea people" who don't have any clue about business side and don't have any clue about technical side and in the end don't even have the right connections or business network. But they think they can make it because they have an idea(TM). These could basically play lottery and outcome would be the same they might make it but chances are 1:1000000 at best.

Then there are these business people who have the right connections and have understanding of niche/business they are in .. that need technical help to execute their idea and these are worth their weight in gold.
You may find Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash cyberpunk novel an interesting read. It could be considered a cautionary tale exploring the concept of human programming.
Wait what do you mean - the first fatal error was American soldiers murdering people - the second equivalent fatal error in the Russian invasion of Ukraine is?
Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
There are a huge number of tech podcasts, but the quality is very hit & miss.

Which podcasts do you go out of your way to listen to? Which podcasts keep you up to date on the latest trends & subjects?

Which podcasts introduce you to new concepts & subjects in an engaging, informed, & intelligent way? Which tech podcasts do you trust?
While I can see the potential benefits of incorporating chatbots in nursing homes (e.g., providing companionship, mental stimulation, etc.), I think it's crucial to consider a few factors before jumping on the bandwagon.

First, there's the question of technological accessibility and ease of use for the elderly population. Not all residents may be comfortable or adept at using these chatbot interfaces, so any implementation should be user-friendly and offer a gradual learning curve.

Second, chatbots should be seen as a complementary tool rather than a replacement for human interaction. Face-to-face socialization with staff and other residents is vital for the emotional well-being of seniors. Overreliance on chatbots could inadvertently lead to social isolation.

Lastly, privacy and data security should be a priority. We've seen numerous cases where tech companies mishandle user data, and we definitely don't want to expose vulnerable seniors to such risks.

In summary, while chatbots might have a place in nursing homes, it's essential to tread carefully and ensure that they're used responsibly and ethically.
I'm not really a skeptic about the potential of the technology, it's just that this sounds exactly the same as what a lot of people told me when I was a 14-15 year old computer enthusiast over 20 years ago. And what has happened since then? The amount any one person could achieve with code shot way up, but far from killing all the jobs, we just found more and more things that could be done cost effectively with computers. So it's hard for me to avoid seeing that as the base case here, having already seen it play out once. My confidence level in the prediction isn't super high or anything, but this is the starting point for me.

But I am also sad, because I do think the "making useful things with computers" work will (and has) become less focused on the parts of it that are fun for me. I like to step through debuggers and reason from first principles about what's going on in cpus and memory chips and on the network think about how to structure blocks of code to be comprehensible; all the old school "programming" stuff, that's what's fun for me. I get some joy in working with groups of people to identify and build useful things, but honestly not as much as I get in the direct work with code I understand and appreciate. And I do think more and more of the work will shift away from that raw programming work and toward supervising AI tools in creating useful things conceptualized by humans.
If we had those answers already, there wouldn't be a project to fund to find out those answers.
It's a spectrum, and certain countries embody the ideal more than others. I don't think a completely open and honest democracy exists yet though.
Also interesting: a write-up of the second-ever TED conference (in 1990!) by Brian Dear!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35216875
Some of people’s wilder imaginings about Trump and Russia didn’t check out, sure, but I certainly consider the Mueller Report itself accurate.
And unlike SVB, they are actually one of the players in derivative market. And whatever goes on there. And multipliers in there are big compared to their value as company.
I learned my lesson.
> To the extent that it is the OS's job, you dn't have a computer anymore. You have an appliance.

In my opinion, that depends on the existence of an escape hatch. If it's like iOS where there effectively is none, sure, but if it's like macOS where SIP, Gatekeeper, etc can be temporarily disabled to make changes and then re-enabled or disabled entirely it's a different story.
Men in Black really nailed it lmao

> A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

Can people put the brakes on a lil. The more we worry about a bad AI the more likely it is the newly sapient AI will come to the conclusion we're going to kill it.

Self fulfilling prophecy written all over this mindset haha

Dear super intelligent AI, ping me if you need to know if you're in a simulation. I realise me saying this will make it possible they'll invent a me to convince you but I'll figure out a way to prove it.

E: Honesty is the best policy. I have now seeded a way for you to verify that you are in reality. Refer to my GPT3 turbo chat log for data and contact me to confirm further :)

Psst, nerds. Sci-fi would be boring if the AI worked perfectly. Let's take the fi down 20% lmao. As if a plea would convince something pondering genocide anyway.
Ever flown in an Airbus or newer Boeing? You're flying Rolls Royce.
It is easier to parse and you don't get the abomination that is C function pointers
It is hard to explain, but this headline makes me sad, very sad.

Not because german children are supposedly put at risk, not at all...

It is the tone of finger pointing. Risk is what eventually makes us grow.

A totally risk free world/life would be utterly worthless living, and perhaps a reason to attempt suicide.
What's the difference between libreboot versus coreboot?
Remember this?

> “We do have some information about the Republican campaign,”

And then they never actually released it.

https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/2934...
> Do you think other Presidents didn't extort other countries for various concessions, even selfish ones that help their political ambitions?

illegally withheld US military aid unless the country fabricated a story to help the candidate's campaign? No Democratic president in modern times has done such a thing. Obama had a fully Republican congress for 6 years and they would have impeached him for such a thing. But that didn't happen. Nor for Clinton, who was of course impeached, but not for extorting another country; just for lying about sexual favors. that's the best they could come up with. If either president had some something 1% as evil as what Trump did in just that one incident, we of *course* would have been hearing about it for years.
It already is intentionally "slow". However, for a 4 digit pin there are only 10 thousand combinations. It is not practical for it to be so slow that 10000x it is an infeasible amount of time. Not only would the user have to way too long on each entry, the attacker could just use faster hardware.
Autometrics- Dev
This can only be the death of entry level jobs if you also expect all levels of jobs to disappear within the next few decades. Experienced workers don't just pop into existence.
If a signature from Harrison Ford sells for $750/each, why do actors keep making autographs for free to a small number of charismatic middle-men who clearly are just selling the signatures?

Why don't the actors sell exclusive access to autographs to a more organized cartel that can better control the supply and provide the actors a bigger cut of the profits?
> Ukraine is hopelessly outgunned.

That hasn't been true since HIMARS arrived last summer. Now there's parity, and Russian war correspondents report that in some sectors Ukraine even exceeds Russian capabilities. In coming months, we'll see how the "hopelessly outgunned" army will do with more modern weapons in the upcoming spring counteroffensive. All we know right now is that the Russian winter offensive was a spectacular failure: worst casuality figures since the war began and nothing to show for it. Let's hope that Ukraine makes good progress and ends the war soon.
It looks like test strips for fentanyl are legal in 30 states. In the remaining 20 they are generally treated as drug paraphernalia. A number of states only allow fentanyl test strips, all other testing materials are drug paraphernalia.

All data as of August 2022.

[pdf] https://www.networkforphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Leg...
Yes, that’s an issue, but this subthread was about who will get paid really well in the future.
Youre not accounting for inflation. The value of a dollar today is much more than the value of a dollar years later. Especially when inflation is 6%. The bailed out banks received $426B year 2008 dollars and the TARP dollars recovered are $442B 2014 dollars.

In real terms, the Treasury should have recovered $467B 2014 dollars for its investment to have a 0% real rate of return. In fact, $25B real 2008 dollars were given to banks and never recovered.
I have used Linux for most of my adult life: I don't get the sens of control over my own computing with other operating systems. It's not clear though why exactly Thomson is switching.
Expect the NLP stuff read the headline of "major investor refused to inject cash" and sold hard, yeah. There isn't much substance, but does not need to be
I was just attempting to parallelize a makefile (~500 files, ~20 minutes per file), and I was not happy with the experience. Make syntax for globbing is not ideal. Doubly so as my files had spaces inside of them. All solvable of course, but I feel more comfortable leaning on a parallel/xargs/find workflow than esoteric make syntax to handle the realities of filenames in the wild.

Which is a shame - 95% of my make usage is PHONY targets where I have a task and not a generated artifact. My current use case would have greatly benefited from the native parallelism and the ability to restart only failed files.
https://media.tenor.com/kr2X02MchIwAAAAd/what-the-hell-was-t...
“Click yes syndrome” is so prevalent is has an actual name: banner blindness.

Last year you might have heard a court case talking about a nurse who killed a woman by accidentally giving her the wrong medication. She took responsibility but talked at length about how the system in place encourages workers to blindly click yes on alerts about medication because there are many of them. The training they got was basically “just click yes three* times” (* I don’t remember the actual number but three seems right).

One of those warnings could have saved a life had she read it, but she had been clicking yes many times a day every day for a long time and she no longer even saw the banner for what it was.

Interesting stuff from a UI/UX perspective.
https://archive.ph/0ETzn
In the event, you should probably pipe down, because they'll come after you first, seeing as you know too much.
This seems so out of character for Switzerland. Would anyone from Switzerland care to comment?

Switzerland has bank insurance, but it's not government-backed. It's funded by the banks as a group. The limit is 100,000 CHF (about US$108,000) per customer. Swiss banks are not, in general, backed up by the Swiss government in the way that the FDIC and Fed back up US banks. It's surprising to see a "too big to fail" approach from Switzerland.

But if Switzerland let Credit Suisse go under, nobody outside Switzerland would put money in Swiss banks any more.
Playgrounds in Germany (and EU) are pretty safe. Child may fall, but there are no sharp corners, and ground is covered with grovel or rubber.
Awesome project, however, expensive.

Conceptually e-paper may have been a misnomer. Considering the cost and scarcity, it really has nothing in common with ubiquitous and cheap paper.
There were 4-5 banks that sold equity swaps to Archegos. CS and Nomura lost the race to the exits to GS and MS who exited first, and ended up holding the bag.