skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually quite excited by what the examples in the article show – despite the fact they show GPT-4 can't replace a good dev solving somewhat tricky algorithm problems.

Reason: I'm a code hobbyist who glues various modules together that have been written by much better programmers than I am. My end goals are never more ambitious than doing pretty simple things which I'm doing mostly to amuse myself. My biggest time sucks turn out to be tracking down fairly simple syntax things that vary between different languages and frameworks I'm slapping together (because I rarely spent more than a couple hours working on any one thing, I never get super familiar with them).

Being a lousy coder with little desire to put in significant effort to improve just to make my personal hobby projects a little easier, a basic AI assist like this looks pretty useful to me.
That's a situation where the training doesn't follow current subjective norms, so I don't think it really validates the complaint.
I am responding to OP, who said "Most likely it has seen a similar sequence of moves in its training set."

From this, I take it that the question is if ChatGPT is repeating existing games, or not. All you need is a single game where it's not repeating a single game to prove it definitively. You can hardly play 60 moves without an error by accident.

I believe you're responding to a different question, something like "does ChatGPT fully understand the game of chess".
Whoa.

Where has this been all my life?

Reasonable price, great selection of periodicals and newspapers.

Definite value.
The one thing I wish people would get over is their fear of the terminal. This isn't to suggest that they should use it, never mind embrace it, but they should not have an adverse reaction when someone gives them specific insructions to type in a command then copy+paste the results while providing technical support. Such insructions tend to be much more accurate than sending people on a GUI scavenger hunt, particularly when you consider that GUIs tend to vary in time.

Alas, as the article states, it is as though you are speaking a different and very intimidating language to non-technical users so the end result is nowhere near as positive as it should be.
One law helped pack California's prisons (2012)
Not OP but on Mac at least I find it wayyy faster to browse the steam marketplace and community sites in Safari or Chrome than in-app. Everything about it is slow from loading pages to scrolling to clicking buttons.
It seems to me like the simplest solution would be to run all light rail through the existing transit tunnel. I know it would be a lot of traffic but they've said they can upgrade the signalling system to help.

This article gives more information on this idea
https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/02/07/build-ballard-link-fa...
YouTube reinstates Donald Trump's channel
That's a blurry definition I can sort of feel what you're trying to convey here but objectively it doesn't make sense.

A brick building for example. Is a brick building the emergent effect of bricks? No. This makes your definition inconsistent because it should fit the brick building but colloquially we know it doesn't fit. A brick building is NOT an emergent effect of bricks. It was deliberately designed from bricks.

So long as the effect is some reduction of entropy and there was no intention in producing such effect then it is "emergent." This is really the only definition that is consistently inline with our intuition of the concept.
In regards to the above about organizations they definitely pay for it. Particularly a large percentage of the Google Workspace and Chromebook users are K-12. As another example my previous place of employment was a healthcare org that switched ~150k users from O365 to (what was then called) G Suite for a large annual subscription and it really wasn't much cheaper.
And if the LLM scales infinitely it still does nothing unless a human reads and acts on it. And as you said: Humans don't scale, and have agency.

Just writing something bad doesn't actually mean something bad happened.

These days it seems like people are oversensitive to how things are said to them, and what things are said to them.
I use the GOG launcher, which centralizes my Steam, Epic, and GOG games.
Agree, but it should be a pure function of its arguments and the state
I mean primary school, and I don't think that counts as academia.
What are you talking about? There's 60 comments right now, and maybe 8 of them can be construed as favourable to putin&russia. so who's astroturfing?
The general public is financially literate enough to realize they are being screwed, even if they aren't exactly sure of how.

But past that, the only reason that this behaviour is getting a pass is because people are being very passive in fighting it.

That will only last so long.
Banks for the People
Really good article, and this made me laugh

"Essentially, to juice its P&L in the short term, SVB ambled into 2023 almost completely unhedged".
I wonder how much the hardware they're using costs.
There are really nice Windows machines but Holy shit, there is zero legit reason to pay Apple grade prices for a laptop, especially a Windows laptop. (Unless you are a company & then price is a rounding error on expenses anyways.) Especially since no one is sure how good the Win laptop really is.

The market segmentation is ridiculous. So many deliberately shitty builds and subpar screens that cost $25 less than a good screen, on mid range laptops. Awful web cams everywhere. The PC market is killing itself, by trying too hard to extract an upsell, rather than making smart compromises that try to deliver good value. Frigging unbelievably sad.

Actually I take back my starting place! Apple now has great very capable well built $1k laptops. That's borderline perfectly fine for a very solid low-compromise machine imo. Disruption from above coming down (so damned rare in today's world!). I was more thinking MBP prices but you just don't need it now.
Congratulations on the launch!

Quick question, how do you (plan to) deal with schema/API change? Or the tool is more intended for regression testing?
That doesn't answer the question. So what if it wrote text, vs a human wrote text.

What matters is the reader not the writer.

Facebook was accused of making it too easy for people to communicate. And people felt Facebook should police what people say to each other. I don't agree, but even if I did, that's not the same thing as what we are discussing.
Ok,'tho last time I looked PGP stood for the "Pretty Good Privacy" encryption system, and everything you wrote here is abt managing encryption keys, so I'm not sure how "Encryption has nothing to do with the problem".

Maybe you mean that it could be solved without quantum-resistant encryption systems?

I suppose the PGP kyes on CCID chip cards could work. But how are you going to enforce the no other copies not on secured & airgapped machines? Or the other security measures?

You're right , this will be at least a source of huge inconvenience compared to the current status, and a source of crime. Probably more violent too. Instead of Ransomware, it'll be kidnap the CFO's family and force them to use their card to make the transfers.
I went for a jog at my condo's gym the other day and the news was on. During my 30m session I learned about 3 violent crimes around the city. 2 car collisions. And a bunch of political turmoil etc.

I thought to myself: Why do I need to know person-x was one in 3 million to get killed? Why is this compelling? Is there a risk to me?

Was such an overtly negative feeling to watch that. Turned it off half way through the run.
Russia already knows where the encounter happened.
Invest in an automatic coop door! They work great. Cuts down on the daily chore.
Yeah, that stuff. Was recently discontinued, Micron pulled out, there's been some articles about why. Eventually I guess we'll have CXL, which might catch on, but then there's the delay for software support. It's a shame so much of computing is locked in to the "local minima" of current architecture it's difficult to break out into a new area of the search space.

It would be cool to play with a computer with persistent storage at the center, surrounded by a ring of compute, for instance.

And weren't we supposed to have memristors by now? ;)
Well definitely not that they don’t exist, just that maybe they don’t exist if there’s a company that acts as a middleman between the customer and the contractor.

The issue is where the middleman determines all of the terms for both the contractor and the end-customer.

If I as a customer can reach out directly to a bunch of contractors independently, then that’s a fair free market, and the contractors can compete for my business or not accept it at all if they don’t like the terms, without harming any of their other customer relationships.

But if I as a customer can only reach out to a middleman, and that middleman decides who works for me. And the contractor also doesn’t get to pick their individual customers. Then it’s clearly not a fair free market at all.

If there were a company called SanFranciscoHVAC and I reached out to them to fix my heater. They send someone out to fix it. But I don’t get to pick who comes to work on my house, and they don’t get to pick who their customers are. And they can’t refuse a job or else SFHVAC stop giving them jobs. Can you really call them contractors?
Blackburnian warbler in Cornwall:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-twitchers-floc...
Especially nowadays where OS and app experience has been largely replaced with browser and webapp experience.
I think this advice is largely geared toward dealing with the "Eternal September" dynamic of a small number of elders/experts being overwhelmed by exposure to the general public in relatively unstructured forums like Usenet and mailing lists (despite being tagged 2014, the original is much older). I'm not sure we really live in that world anymore.
Although difficult and not well known about, fingerprinting can be randomized[1]. I have been successful creating a random fingerprint on only Brave so far, but I did need to tweak some browser settings.

1 check your fingerprint details here: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Apple Silicon.

EDIT:

As pointed out by several child comments I’m off by a year, so I have no idea what is special about 2019 for Macs.
In a crisis, sometimes you don’t tell the whole story
Thanks! Interesting game.

Qxd7 early on was puzzling but has been played in a handful of master games and it played a consistent setup after that with b5 Bb7. Which I imagine was also done in those master games. But interesting that it went for a sideline like that.

It played remarkably well although a bit lacking in plan. Then cratered in the endgame.

Bxd5 was strategically absurd.
fxg4 is tactically absurd.
Interestingly they both follow the pattern: Piece goes to square -> takes on that square.

This is of course an extremely common pattern, so again tentatively pointing towards predicting likely sequences of moves.

Ke7 was also a mistake but a somewhat unusual tactic with Re2 and f5 is forced but after en passant the knight is pinned. This tactic does appear in some e4 e5 openings though. But then the rook is on e1 and the king never moved or if it did, usually to e8, not e7. Possibly suggesting that it has blind spots for tactics when they don't appear on the usual squares?

Fascinating stuff.
Tye easy path was benign in Flash! Flash produced elegant, compact output if you executes the basics.

The "problem" was that you could fuck up your SWF to incredible degrees and still get something that worked.
Get money from people selling games on the store?
I know plenty of fresh out of college developers that absolutely DO NOT FIT that profile. They are very proficient with shell and linux, hate IDE, are curious about all sorts of technology because they are always finding better ways to do things and aren't dogmatic when it comes to language paradigm.

Your problem might be where you get your fresh out of college developers, you may get them from prestigious universities, but it says absolutely nothing about whether they actually love programming or not, or they are just in programming because of the promise of a fat paycheck.
Right, entropy can decrease, just with low probability, which you can calculate using the Fluctuation Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctuation_theorem

Perhaps given infinite time, we will randomly get back to a low entropy state infinite times, but I don't know enough about the math to say for sure.
> (a) they're reasonably likely to materially affect some significant portion of readers sometime in the next 6 months, and (b) there's something they can do about it or in response to it.

That's the entire point. Who are you to decide that? How can you quantify 'likelyhood to be materially affected'? How can you empirically determine if 'someone can do something about X'?

Your opinion is worth the same as the next guy's. Anarchy and no moderation whatsoever, in this context, is always better no matter how you try to rationalize it. The only problem is that it makes is harder to tell the signal from the noise (noise being fake stuff, tangential topics, hearsay, bullshit, etc.). But the opposite is much much worse.
You can make any page say anything by messing in the Developer pane.
For a loose definition of "programmers", sure they do. Maybe it's a sysadmin, maybe it's a teen who writes/ builds game mods, but IME most normal folks have someone at work or someone in their family they can ask/ harass, and they'll do this before they'll start typing error messages into a web search.

Folks will come and ask for help but then you have to tease out of them what the problem was. The entire idea of "I got this error; I will look up this error" is _foreign_ to most normal folks. It is grand when they came with an error message in hand.

But even when someone has an error message, they often turn their brain off: I worked with a developer who would send screenshots of a text error rather than just copy and paste it, which would force one of us to retype what he wrote into a web search.
Here's a role for their CBDC: https://rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/details/Lead-Appl...
It can execute application code on more than one thread at a time. Something I'd think people would appreciate in the age of many-core systems.
I'm not sure which article or paper you are reading?

The paper the article references says:

> A 77% reduction in peanut allergy was estimated when peanut was introduced to the diet of all infants, at 4 months with eczema, and at 6 months without eczema. The estimated reduction in peanut allergy diminished with every month of delayed introduction. If introduction was delayed to 12 months, peanut allergy was only reduced by 33%.

Edit: While I'm not sure what your standards are for "conclusive", the author's of the paper have drawn pretty strong conclusions and any doubts I see are around precisely how much the effectiveness of peanut introduction drops off with infant age, not about wether such a drop occurs.
Snowflake, but Useful for Developers
Oh wow, I finally see a HN comment, with a positive opinion on more AI ethics, that is not grayed out.
Yeah same opinion for me w/ nuclear weapons.

Pretty cool to turn a planet into a sun temporarily!

/s
I'm curious what rehabilitation looks like for Holmes? Is it just abstaining from future confidence schemes? What about SBF? Not stealing billions more?
Honestly, if a potential employer turns me down based on something written in my blog, I'd say I dodged a bullet.
That was a full year later in late 2020.
Great suggestion. I'll check it out.
It blows my mind that Linux is such a minor niche, with its powerful open utilities and ecosystem. Microsoft choked much of the internet revolution with their clickety-spyery.
I don’t think this suffices as disproving the hypothesis. It’s possible to play at 1400 and make some idiotic moves in some cases. You really need to simulate a wide variety of games to find out, and that is what the OP did more of. Though I do agree it’s suggestive that your first (educated) try at an edge case seems to have found an error.

This is broadly the “AI makes dumb mistakes” problem; while being super-human in some dimensions, they make mistakes that are incredibly obvious to a human. This comes up a lot with self-driving cars too.

Just because they make a mistake that would be “idiots only” for humans, doesn’t mean they are at that level, because they are not human.
Putin arrest warrant issued over war crime allegations
Good insight. My intro to 3D gaming was the N64. For those of us of a certain age, polygons are "real" and anything newer is "fake."
Another attempt at dumbing it down:

We sometimes don't know what will happen until it does. The best we can do is to make a guess. Sometimes this guess will be very often good, but it is still a guess and we need to be open to the idea that our guess was wrong in some aspects.

Suppose we could have a perfect guess though.

We can use the guess to figure out what would happen and it would always work. Okay, lets use it to determine what happens in the future in which we use it to determine what happens. Do you see the issue here? The guess references itself. So it can't predict the future in advance of it. There comes a point where it is looping and giving you the leading edge of what is knowable given the amount of time that has passed so far.

So we don't have the perfect guess, even when we have the perfect guess. We don't know what will happen before it happens, even if we know the rules that tell us what happens before they happen.

There are a bunch of wierd things that get implied by the math that is consequent to this, especially when you get into transpositional structures, but it isn't silly so much as it is non-sensory.

I mean, it does sound laughable. When Feynman said we guess when we do science and then validate the guesses with experiments people did laugh. Yet this is not because it is silly. It is because the non-sensory cases we can't differentiate from can only be differentiated from the sensory cases via the experiment.

What often happens though is that directly after the moment people pretend that it was all known before hand. It is a tricky moment, the present.
Wow. 13 million per day = 1 in every 400 people on Earth with internet access, if Google is correct that world population is now 8e9 and 64.4% of the world has internet access.
I encourage people to copy what they need out of react-error-boundary and tightly integrate it with their stack. It’s really not bad
This white paper looks particularly apropos given current events. The scan or copy of this typewriter written document is not ideal, however. It seems like it would be worth running it through an OCR to make it more digitally friendly.
The key point is, "Russia" didn't do it. Someone within Russia, might have, and if so probably mostly for its affect on other Russians. For that matter, the "U.S.A." didn't do it; but it is possible that someone within the US might have. Nations are not unitary actors, even when it is governmental action.
This a purely anecdotal opinion but most people overestimate their required calorie intake, and according to my long experience in the fitness world you need to keep your desired weight stable for at least 2 years to reach homeostasis and avoid “rebound”. Increased physical activity has a lot of benefits but it has a mild impact in weight loss. Again, this is solely based in my 20+ years of experience.
One way this is formulated is the "Rule of 3 for Abstractions":

One copy of something is YAGNI. You aren't going to need it (an abstraction).

Two copies of something are coincidence. It's fine to copy and paste and leave it that way.

Three copies of something are finally a pattern. At least three copies are when you start to really see what sort of abstraction that you need to handle the pattern.
Apple Silicon wasn’t even announced until mid-2020. And that bump starts pre-COVID.
Same RTL chip here, works absolutely fine without any issues.
In my mind it’s not dissimilar to when new physical phenomena were discovered in the past (electricity, electromagnetism, steam engines, atomic spectra, invariance of the speed of light, blackbody curve), where it could take decades to come to a proper understanding of how and why they work.
Before anyone thinks of increasing p53 in human bodies to prevent cancer keep in mind that it can cause premature aging.
The median chess player is usually described as mediocre (if you ask chess players). They suck as badly as the median clarinet player in your high school band/orchestra.
I think that's a fair reading, but I think choosing the right therapy is best done with the guidance of a good therapist. Of course, educating yourself first helps a lot, since you can better recognize if that therapist knows their stuff and can more productively discuss the options with them.
When I moved my blog to a domain I owned I added little notes to my old content saying "Previously hosted on ..." in the hope that searches for that content by URL would find the new homes.

Example: https://simonwillison.net/2004/Jan/22/defendingWebApplicatio... - at the bottom it says "Previously hosted at http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/01/22/defendingWebAppl..."

I just tested it and it works! https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=http%3A...
Doesn't really make sense in this case unless you have any specific insight?
If parallax mapping is more expensive than just rendering the equivalent polygons, doesn't that imply that the Spider-Man games are being wasteful with their texture-based building interiors? I thought it was supposed to be an optimization and rendering actual objects would be wasteful. Have I got that wrong?
BBC is one of the best news sources around.

For a long time, Al Jazeera was great on anything that didn't directly impact Qatari domestic politics.

PBS is pretty fantastic overall and serves a lot of niches that aren't served by commercialized media and really shouldn't be.

Like yes if you set out to make a state-sponsored propaganda agency then that's what you get (see: Voice of America, etc), but state sponsorship of media doesn't inherently corrupt. If anything it's the opposite and really the accusations of bias end up being a way to try and control coverage that you find inconvenient and force faux-centrism (see: NPR).
Do you [personally] have specifically bad bacteria in your gums?
Use this Alpaca replication instead

https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora
That's fine, just don't pretend that running the language model was 'unsafe'.
Other have great recommendations. Two of mine:

1. The Java Programming Language book:

The K&R of Java

https://www.amazon.com/Java-Programming-Language-4th/dp/0321...

2. Zantorc's videos: https://www.youtube.com/@Zantorc/

He really gets into the nitty gritty. You can listen to this while commuting, etc; Just finish 1 video per 3 days, say. It adds up quickly.
About 20 years ago, I would read many newspapers every day. (I care a lot about society, and, therefore, journalism.) I learned a lot about both.

At some point, I had to take a break, because awareness of so many problems was overwhelming, and also there were diminishing returns (most problems are ongoing or recurring).

Years later, I found myself following local news for the locale where I was living (and where I had some large complaints about that locale). Eventually, I realized that, unlike before, I was subconsciously looking for and drawn to stories that reinforced my dislike for that locale. Reading was like ranting. This seemed very unhealthy, so I stopped.

One idea for LLMs would be to give me weekly or monthly updates on the news, or catch me up after some arbitrary break period. Maybe a more flexible NYT Week In Review.
This seems like the burning question, maybe that's the .ai...

HAR can already be recorded in middleware (e.g. loadmill/har-recorder) and replayed in multiple CI compatible ways.