skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big brain primate has big brain of primates!

What a blinder of an specious insight.

We don't even understand scaled up LLM let alone brains to make a meaningful inferences here.

It's also a disingenuous title for the linked article.
And once a company exec feels the need to embellish results by cutting salary expenses, those workers need to be the first to present resignation to avoid the extra cost to the company in salary, meetings and in paperwork.
> but its not really competition

Why not? It's a zero-sum game as in the number of students in a given year is +/- fixed. I see it as a competition to attract students to apply AND eventually graduate
Maybe building cities isn't important for long term survival
Relational algebra is the theory part...
Ask HN: What do you guys think about “ChatGPT on your entire codebase”?
Building https://www.collectivai.com/ & doing closed beta with a few mid-size orgs. What do you guys think? Looking for some early feedback.
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I lived in China since 2008 (Beijing, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai), left Sep '22. The way the pandemic was handled in Shanghai was absolutely dehumanizing, and it became the last drop after which we just decided to GTFO and never come back.

We (myself and my wife, who is Chinese) moved to Bangkok and I can confidently say it is a much happier and healthier place in every aspect.

Many things about China are amazing:

- e-commerce speed and proximity of everything, I work in SW/FW/HW intersection (IoT) and the ability to prototype things within a week was liberating,

- public transportation and infrastructure is amazing, perfect roads, huge subway systems, CRH,

- completely cashless society.

Many things are not so amazing:

- stifling censorship of everything even slightly critical,

- food is just not good in Shanghai, quality- and taste-wise, Bangkok is much, much better,

- terrible, overcrowded, dehumanizing healthcare,

- outside of city center the city is rather gray and ugly,

- everything is gargantuan in scale and feels built for aliens,

- rudeness, constant shoving, spitting, loud speaking, smoking everywhere,

- in Shanghai downtown every sidewalk is completely lined with rental bikes, scooters, people's bikes, often there's nowhere to walk but the street,

- everything "historical" is fake,

- terribly overpriced real estate,

- the fact that after 15 years in China as an expat with an own house and Chinese family you still get nothing, no PR, no citizenship, nothing,

- 996 is real, everybody is always stressed and overworked,

- no real justice system, there is no attorney-client privilege,

- entire industries can be decimated overnight by some new policy,

- everything is "chabuduo", faucet leaks, chabuduo, just tape it with scotch tape,

- complete lack of empathy to animals, don't watch Chinese tourists in the zoo (and don't go to local zoos),

- there's a single purpose in life — make money,

- no diversity, everyone is Han, everyone thinks pretty much the same,

- no real religion, temples are there to gather money and bless your new business or a car,

- if you drive a Bentley, you're a king of the road, yield only to Rolls-Royce,

- ...I can continue, but probably this is enough :D
They really are: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/03/23/why-no-curl-8/
Hah fair, could have used more editing :))

I'm skeptical too, but I assume this will just be Darwinian: curmudgeons like us will shamble along with our 5% gains and ill-behaved children, and the bulk of society will reap greater rewards. The worst part is our judiciousness won't even save us if we turn out to be right: society will still collapse whether or not you turned your life over to AI.
And to be fair, even though it exists, there's a huge majority that is done manually, even though it needs zero or very little manual "creativity" between specification and implementation
This is true. I think TS arguably took a more pragmatic approach which allowed you to adapt existing codebases and coding styles more easily, at the expense (initially) of type safety. Obviously there have been many improvements since then
Open-source does not mean anything in the context of privacy if the distributed package or binary is not made in reproducible ways, and the distributor is not proving the checksum.

There is no way to guarantee that the shipped software uses the claimed source otherwise.

Just saying, since people so often use open-source as argument in privacy context.
But it requires reproducible builds to mean something.

In security context, the source alone helps a bit more, but does not prevent intentional backdoors.
A lot of interesting comments to read here but so little time...
The above is interesting because it highlights the fact that humans do not have truly unique cognitive abilities, and hence must differ from other animals not qualitatively, but rather in the combination and extent of abilities such as theory of mind, imitation and social cognition. Moreover, viewing the human brain as a linearly scaled-up primate brain in its cellular composition does not diminish the role that particular neuroanatomical arrangements may play in human cognition. Rather, such arrangements should contribute to brain function in combination with the large number of neurons in the human brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculin is cool as shit, but the FDA said no.

I'm not sure that scaling is an option outside of GM crops - I can't imagine that it's being synthesised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
It's why I try not to kill spiders I find in my home and just throw them outside. They're nature's exterminators. Though it's easy for me since in my country we don't have such dangerous spiders.
99.9% of the time sharing mice studies has negative value. Too many of those findings don't pan out for humans for non-researchers to get anything useful out of.
So what about large asteroid strike levels of improbability? I have to reject your premise that there is no probability where you can stop worrying about the problem.

(This might be a moot point, because I'm not sure current methods can ever get to this level of accuracy, due to limitations of the training data. Needs an entirely new method or a clever insight to optimize for truthfulness with unclean training data, and InstructGPT hasn't made much progress on this, and it might not even be possible)
> People seem to be forgetting that in the vast majority of cases the thing ChatGPT is giving you is also available on stackoverflow, github, wikipeida, or 101 other high quality online sources.

No one is forgetting anything over here.

With StackOverflow, I have to scroll through ~2 pages of bing/google trash to even begin looking at a potential solution. This is only the beginning of the process.

99% of the time, the code sample I find has some simple-yet-annoying adjustments I'd like to make (i.e. unroll the inner loop & use SIMD). Certainly, I could spend half my afternoon massaging that method on my own. Or, I could reach for the circular saw and rip through this board in a few seconds. Sure - it leaves a bit of a rough edge most of the time, but it gets you a lot closer a lot faster than anything else in my experience.
Wow. With 30 to 50 people to 1 manager, the manager is spending 15-25 hrs simply in 30 min employee 1 on 1s every week.

That’s an absolutely insane number. That means if they spread it out evenly over the week, they will be spending 3-5 hrs every day on 1 on 1s.

In our company we also don’t have purely people managers. Even when I was managing people who were working on projects that had nothing to do with me, I had to gain a Technical understanding of their projects so we could have educated discussions and I could actually guide and help them with issues they might be facing, even if it was simply knowing who to direct them towards. We also tend to have small teams, with no project exceed about 5 devs.

If I was managing 30-50 people, that would have meant having an understanding of 6-10 wildly different projects at least.

Again, that seems well beyond the mental capacity of someone who is already spending about 50% of their work hours simply on 1 on 1s every week.
>> offering them even superficial peace of mind is much more conducive to gaining popular support at a broader scale than teaching people how they work.

While that has been the tried and true formula for tech companies attitudes towards their users/customers I'm not sure that will work in this case since artists are on the supply side of the equation.
This guy pops up in many China threads to regurgitate CCP talking points.
They have the same name, which makes it confusing. E.g. if someone is French does that mean their ethnicity or their nationality?
TIL, thanks! I didn't the look of em dash in the middle of a sentence but I didn't know any other option.
What did I write that is false? You didn't actually contradict any of it. You wrote about what people prefer and I wrote about what people do.

> People tolerate watching things on small screens without good audio, sure, but that doesn't mean people prefer it.

Their actions indicate their preferences. If they're doing it a certain way then they, by definition, prefer to do it that way. No one is forcing them to do otherwise. Audio equipment is not expensive.
Semver is a set of conventions on an older versioning scheme. The semver 1.0.0 spec (I think from 2010?) even points out:

> This is not a new or revolutionary idea. In fact, you probably do something close to this already. The problem is that “close” isn’t good enough. Without compliance to some sort of formal specification, version numbers are essentially useless for dependency management.

Thus, X.Y.Z does not automatically mean "semver". Nor does even X.0.0 mean semver.

To give some 20th century counter-examples found through Google Scholar:

"System Description: Spass Version 1.0.0" (1999) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-48660-7_34

"This is version 2.0.0 of the software." (1999) https://econpapers.repec.org/software/bocbocode/s365703.htm

"This report provides the NIKE3D user's manual update summary for changes made from version 3.0.0 April 24, 1995 to version 3.3.6 March 24, 2000" - https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/15004757
Confining an LLM to the very narrow domain of "calculators" is a mistake, I think.

You wouldn't say "a programmer that is 99% correct is worthless, I need 100%". I'm pushing it, but for a more fair comparison I'd say measure it against a programmer. How often are we wrong? 75% of the time? :) being generous here. It's the tools that make us productive.

I don't know about you specifically, but I don't think you'll be very productive with a bare terminal lacking any modern IDE-like or even REPL facilities. I'll ask you to come up with instantly working code every time, all the time. It doesn't work like that. You need iteration and I believe these kinds of AI have the same issues as us. There are wrong sometimes (often) and need feedback.
Cubicle are so much better than open offices, it's funny to think that in the 90's they were considered a symbol of employees being treated like cattle.
My banking app and my work's email/calendar disallow jailbreaks so that makes it a pretty tough sell these days.
It's hard to understand what's going on without witnessing it: kids are collecting ~50 files, throwing it into a packaged fine-tuning tool, or worse yet, just putting an image through i2i to wash off giveaway features and claiming to be an "artists". And those "arts" aren't that well received by audiences. There are some low-budget fringe use cases but those are low-effort low-return stuff. People say the AIs are getting better, but those to me are just trying to be optimistic.

Nothing is taken over by AI, but just young clinical psychopath types are being enabled to be burned later at the expense of all. That's kind of wrong.
Worst thing ever. A different team took over some web documentation that I'd written, with various examples of Linux command-line use. They somehow round-tripped all the content through Word and all the dashes silently became em-dashes. The fun we had when users had trouble with the examples that they'd copy+pasted from the web pages!
I don't think it even fits that description. Most of the examples feature copious amounts of highly unnecessary animations. If you take a snapshot it looks kinda minimalist, but if you see it in motion it doesn't really feel like that.
Has the legal situation changed significantly? The political situation has, and perhaps that is more important, but its not like the relavent laws have been struck down.

I agree that power imbalance is a significant factor that is different. Fair point.

Why would these parties not easily be deterred by legal concerns? Well there are a variety of groups in this space, many of them are corporate/start ups, and usually they are more adverse to legal risk than your average pseudo-anonoymous citizen.
I'm not sure I understand the business model. How's it possible to offer unlimited tasks for such a low fee without compromising on quality or delivery time? Especially when there's a 20% commission for referrals?

Otherwise, the website looks nice... a couple of nitpicks from me:

* The blog page has no posts; maybe remove the link for now until there's at least one post?
* The links in the footer are all <h1> tags instead of <a> which isn't great for accessibility or usability (I can't command-click to open in a new tab, for instance)
* What does the "Clients 2/3" bit mean at the top?
That would cause big problems with students on the spectrum or suffering from ADHD or social anxiety, which in our field is... a lot of them. I am a lot less anxious now in my 40s than I was in my early 20s, but a public talk is enough to make me lose sleep for a week, despite having done it dozens of times. In my 20s it would have been an impossible task.
It's odd that they've managed to avoid assimilation for so long. Bodes ill for countries that rely on long term assimilation for stability.
Exactly. No amount of free food or office social events will make a cramped, open plan office pleasant to work in.
Unemployment —-> Crime —-> Police states —-> Societal collapse —-> Civil war like situation —-> Economy poof —-> Feudalism
Why do you think "building cities/creating cultures" is a "smart thing"?
In summary, spam it everywhere — including in articles admonishing its overuse — because it looks cool and you know it.
25 years after the fast. Are you implying fasting reduces lifespan? Because that would be an hilariously first world concept.

"Remember, to be healthy you need to have 5 small meals during the day. Don't let yourself get hungry," cry the Western dieticians.
Every time the hardware gets better we compensate with more bloated software. Fragile code, countless bugs, poor patches. We keep adding more and more features that spend more cognition as if it's an unlimited free resource.

From walking to a tree to grab some fruit to a complex network of farmers, merchants, machines, oil drills etc
From fighting with fists over simple basic things to intercontinental ballistic missiles and autonomous drone fights over issues we don't even understand anymore.
The most complex mating dance on this side of the galaxy.

I'm happy we didn't lose our monkey sense of humor[1.4.42]

[1.4.42] - https://youtu.be/FIxYCDbRGJc
Regarding you sidetrack:

When you swap money for products, you don't need time. If the economy shifts to visibility and attention, instant transactions are not possible anymore. Whatever people produce, somebody needs time to consume it. So all the productivity gains will be used to create more audience.
> Me working at checks clock 4:47 AM Sun--Monday morning.
Oh, i was thinking the scenario was more a specialized tool to remove the "glaze".

Hmm. That's a good point and now i am less sure.

I suspect it would come down to intentionality.
> Relational algebra is math. SQL is a practical application of relational bags.

How many database programmers do you know who ever did anything involving relational algebra when creating or tuning up a database?

This point is specially pointless with the prevalence of ORM frameworks.

> There’s math and science behind concurrency and parallelism, and the coordination thereof.

Please find me the best example you can come up of what you see as math being put to practice in concurrent programming.

> Network programming is a practical application of several parts (...)

This is too much grasping at straws. Just show what you feel is the absolute best example.

> There’s more that is often left out.

There is nothing. You showed nothing as your best examples, and once you showed nothing you were left with nothing else to show.

Enough with this silly "but it is math" nonsense. You can come up with a math formalization of an egg but that does not mean a degree in math will help you boil one. Enough with this nonsense.
Also thing about the huge corpus of text not available on the internet, but available to these systems (just because e.g. Microsoft has it, so can get data, perhaps anonymized from private GitHub repos, Copilot, telemetry from WSL, VSCode, and Azure, and so on).
Is TinyVG faster to render than SVG? That would be a good justification to use it.
We've got the same bullshit in Sweden with the housing market boom, free-ish loans have driven prices through the roof. This means we're stuck on low interest rates or everyone and their uncle will default, a better solution must exist!

This makes it very difficult to get into the market since our rules require 15% of your loan in up-front capital. For a 1 room apartment that means about one year of salary saved up. Yay boomer economy...!
True. The Fieseler Storch first flew in 1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieseler_Fi_156_Storch at could do this.

Some are still flying, according to the Wikipedia page
Awesome, I sail around the puget sound and think this looks pretty cool. Have always wanted to hack a bit with ais data and just never came across anything relevant.

Thanks for sharing!
Spreadsheet Lisp (v0.0.2)
The device is built on known science, and the brain may learn the response, but it is in response to a stimulus. Without the stimulus, the brain does not increase increase delta power on it's own.

There will be other discoveries in the future, who knows what we'll learn, but the current body of knowledge (and there is a decent amount of it) does not suggest a learned response to be the case.

Furthermore, the sleep we stimulate is deep sleep, which naturally degrades as we age, which perhaps suggests that it isn't a learned response, or else why would we see a reduction with age.
What's your definition of a "decent quality of life," out of curiosity?
> Most people I've worked with go home and watch football after 5pm.

Unfortunately, the job market is getting more and more competitive.

Software engineers had easy in the last 10 years due to high demand, but things are changing now IMO.

Automation and AI will make most basic programming jobs redundant. Combine with saturation of entry level programmer. Everyone will need to push harder to differentiate from others. Race to the bottom..
Just filter out logs by the file, line that generated it (i.e. that had the log statement). Even if the actual log entry changes (e.g. because of a formatted str with vars) they will always have the same source.
We dont understand LLMs but we certainly understand matrix multiplication.
> Defense spending doesn't contribute not even a little bit to how inflation (CPI) is being calculated, because the DoD is spending money on stuff that doesn't affect the general population. Unless everyone is trying to buy an F22, of course, and that finds its way into the CPI.

That's completely wrong.

When the government spends on defense that money is not put into a large pit somewhere at Lockheed HQ and then lit on fire. It is spent on wages, on buying things from other contractors, etc. It ends up in people's pockets just like stimulus checks do. There's no difference. This is Econ 101 stuff.

You're seriously misleading people in this thread about how CPI, inflation, and the economy as a whole works.
>Also as in a group of people you sometimes agree on specific styles, but I think that ChatGPT won’t adhere to such things, making its code unfamiliar and really hard to follow.

ChatGPT wont, but a facade variant specifically trained and marketed for code probably would. It could even had a configuration for coding style, formatting and linting rules, and programming paradigm (more functional, more declarative, invent a DSL, and so on)
You’re making pretty strong claims and passing them off as fact. It doesn’t feel like a discussion and I think you’re harming the discourse.

Let’s consult Wikipedia:

Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information.[1][2][3] Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (including the design and implementation of hardware and software).[4][5][6] Computer science is generally considered an academic discipline and distinct from computer programming which is considered to be a technical field.[7]

It directly contradicts the narrative you’re peddling. Please, listen to people trying to explain the nuance to you and actually engage. Don’t just keep repeating the same misconception ad nauseam.
Bingo. China joining the WTO also had the side benefit of delaying direct military confrontation with the US.
Probably not, because it is just a file format, which does not specify how things are rendered.

But while we are at that, I wish SVG rendering of large paths on Chrome would be as fast as it was before hardware "acceleration" was introduced.
Archlinux is a rolling release distro. Which mean you are supposed to:
- update them very frequently
- check the news before any update which mention any manual intervention needed

This is definitely a distro for people who want to get involved in the sysadmin part of it. A distro like Fedora will have a new release every 6 months and each release and ~390 days of support. You aren't expect to do manual intervention, just let it update itself upon reboot/poweroff from times to times and do a major upgrade, every 6 months to 1 year. Debian has 2y releases cycles and +- 3y of support, in the ubuntu world it is like Fedora or LTS (5y of support). If you want the longest extended lifecycle, RHEL and its clones have pretty much 10years of support without any fuss. Add to that the immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue, OpenSUSE MicroOS and some others where it is virtually impossible to make it shit the bed, even while being stupid.

So in the linux world you can definitely choose your poison, from the less eventful one to the one needing more attention. It looks like you didn't choose wisely. If I had to setup a distro for the least knowledgeable people, I would set it up with an RHEL or Almalinux and install a more modern browser through Flatpak. As long as the hardware is supported from day 1 they would expect a desktop that do not change at all for 10years.
I have noticed a strong correlation between obsessing about typesetting - and having nothing interesting to say.

People are more than happy to read text with plain old ASCII dashes instead of em dashes, if the contents are interesting. In my experience, writers who go full Patrick Bateman on fonts and dashes are usually full of hot air
So intelligence is determined by genes?
Good point. It's still not clear if our way of surviving as a species is more successful as the "old" selection method. For the individual this is also an arbitrary goal even if some buy it as-is.
>You have to give openai credit - their marketing strategy and effort is amazing. There’s spam everywhere.

If it was that easy, every new such initiative (whether AI or any previous domain) would have it, of all those that have access to funding.

One reason there's "spam" everywhere, is that a lot of the spam is genuine interest.

Like how Haskell and Rust get tons of coverage on HN with zero (or close) actual marketing spam or advertising budget.