skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool but as others have pointed out there are many ways to demonstrate that gpt4 doesn't actually "understand" the rules of the game. I feel like this article is of a type similar to what was seen when gpt3 was released. Be the first to breathlessly demonstrate the capability of the model for social media credits
The main problem is that there are decades of software developed for the classical filesystem, and Nix proposes just to patch that software so that it would be compatible with the "new" way. This is a radical and unneeded change. It would be better to just run software in separate namespaces and just provide whatever filesystem it wants, instead of forcing your own true way.
I recently completed a task of high importance to me after a few months of ~intense effort. Within a day of having finished I was stressing over a new task of little relative importance, but next on my list.
assembly optimizations for starting processes?
If that's what he thinks based on the current level of technology, it shows you how much he thinks of the level of skill of the workers.
If people are paying with stablecoins on top of ETH (like the ERC20 version of USDC, for example) then neither volatilty nor environmental impact is a serious problem.

The lack of KYC is a feature not a bug.
Exact fragment: 57:49 [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/live/kaandEt_pKw?t=3469s
Those tools blend into each other.

If you want to model an inheritance hierarchy as SQL tables that is problematic because there are three ways to do it that all have some good points and some bad points but none of which are completely satisfactory.

If you were working in PHP you can make something very simple that looks like an ‘active record’ that writes your INSERTs and UPDATES for you. You could have something like that in Java but you might rather generate some Java Bean stubs to do things that Java way. There’s something to say for “relational-object mapping” that brings relational structures into the OO world of which JooQ is a good example.
This is just the next generation of AI hype, and a lot of people are going to latch on to it in the same way that hordes of people latched on to Bitcoin.
China Brokered Truce Between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Could Ukraine Be Next?
Boy didn't he use plan 9 or something?
What a sorry, shameful saga. I found this story linked to on rms' home page:

> Our next rally for Julian Assange is Saturday, March 4 at 11:30 to 12:30pm. We will gather at Park St. Station on the Boston Common to speak out for Assange and gather signatures on our petition to our senators.
(See how the media failed Julian Assange at Harper's Magazine.)

https://stallman.org/
I feel the swing of the pendulum here.

I own mostly but Apple gear right now but I’m being pulled back towards more open and extensible hardware and software.

The GPU is a big one. Nvidia hardware unlocks a lot of gaming, graphics, video and machine learning stuff.

Open vs closed is another one. Android development unlocks so much more hardware and software and peripheral and protocol support.

For the first time in a decade do have an Android device I develop on, and am very close to building a PC with a GPU and am considering a Steam Deck.

Open and hackable and extensible for the win.
When it comes to how sluggish a system feels due to its disk, it's much more useful to measure the read latency and throughput of random reads because that's what the system is doing: you read a lot of sectors randomly when you boot or start chromium.

https://raspberrytips.com/raspberry-pi-usb-vs-sd/ says their SD card latency was 1.15x the USB disk.

Note that the sample size is just 1, so I wouldn't place value on any single benchmark (it could just be that they chose their USB disk and SD card poorly or it was too cloudy that day). This is evident in my URL's hdparm result being wildly different from yours.
I don't like this argument, because it assumes that as productivity increases, demand follows 1:1. You can only sell so many apps, so many phones, show so many photos to a person...
Bump allocators of this type are meant to be reset to 0 at a known time when it's safe to do so. Its perfectly legal to not free in order. You really shouldn't care about freeing in order with them. Instead, one normally pays attention to when reset() is supposed to be called to not break anything.

For games it's easy to find a safe spot (end of frame). For a server, you might have have a pool of bump allocators (1 per connection), and you'd reset them after every http request. etc.
I doubt there's a software engineer that doesn't know of Ken.
Basic results that are useful on a day-to-day basis:
1. Yoneda's Lemma, and the corollary that objects defined by universal property are unique up to unique isomorphism
2. Right adjoints preserve limits and more generally, Kan extensions

The "big" theorem of basic category theory is probably the adjoint functor theorems which, once you realize that so many constructions in math are adjoint functors, gives very useful technical conditions to construct such an adjoint (ctrl-s for "applications" here for examples: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/844131/adjoint-func...).

The most delightful surprising results to me come from categorical logic because that is what I am most familiar with. Here is one: any elementary topos is a model of intuitionistic higher-order logic, and also extensional dependent type theory. This vastly expands the domain of applications of logic if you are used to thinking only in terms of set-theoretic models. It also gives us applications of constructivism that are entirely independent from any philosophical debate about the nature of truth. This means that you can take many mathematical fields such as differential geometry, algebraic geometry, topology, as embodied in some category C, embed them into a sheaf topos and then use intuitionistic logic to do constructions and theorems in this area that are vastly simpler than the usual formulations. For instance you can do this with differential geometry and get an intuitionistic logic where you can work explicitly with infinitesimal numbers to calculate derivatives in a completely rigorous fashion. Ingo Blechschmidt has written some expository material in this vein (his main work being in using this in algebraic geometry): https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00948

On the "surprising" side, I think the most surprising things for me where seeing how existing mathematical structures were examples of generalized categories: metric spaces are a kind of enriched category and topological spaces are generalized multicategories for the ultrafilter monad.
Presumably he thinks that the technology will improve. Also even if it was only better than the stupidest 20% of workers, that's still a massive amount of unemployment.
Bad headline-writing, rather.
Human managers (who are good at their jobs) bring a little Bedside Manner, a modicum of compassion to Human Resource Allocation that will soon be seen as a luxury compared to low-cost, fully-automated Human Resource Monitoring & Reinforcement Systems
This is the most satisfying answer, but it doesn't make the implications less complex.
Wearable device records, stimulates single neurons in people on the go
We should turn it off while we still can. It will most likely eliminate almost all programming jobs, most creative professions, etc. I mean, people keep saying, “oh, but it can’t do X yet.” But it will, and it won’t take long. How long do you think the world will last once anything you could do or achieve can be done better by a machine instantly? What is your purpose then? Why go to school? Why try at all? The great mass of people will descend into hopeless depression once they realize that there is literally no point to learn anything. Nothing that makes you special. Your talents, whatever they are, will become meaningless. No point in learning to play the piano, or draw, or code.
That’s true but trading is still thin in my mind, at least as seen by the poor tracking performance of Bitcoin ETFs.
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To be fair to the author, they are using that sentence to link to the (admittedly fairly lightweight, but somewhat interesting) NPR article.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
Probably the whole company.

Uber was founded in 2009. Before that you could maybe hail a cab if you were in NYC, otherwise you had to call ahead. Someone would drive the cab to you, you'd get in it, and they'd drive you to where you wanted to go.

Now we have AI. Now instead of driving to a financial advisor's office or a bank loan officer's desk or my kid's school:

- I have an AI app that automatically invests my money and runs on my phone's neural processor

- I have an AI app that automatically tells me if I qualify for a mortgage based on a truckload data about me and runs on my phone's neural processor

- There's a booth in my kid's classroom that her teacher puts her into; he says, "hey Siri, teach this kid to stop throwing carrots", the AI teaches my kid in a kind, convincing way that carrots are food, not sports. This runs on the iPad inside the booth that is also the screen

- I have an AI app that tracks how long I'll live, and it ticks down 1.38 minutes whenever I set foot in an automobile, so I try and avoid it now. I can't believe people were ever so reckless.

The race now is who controls this. Probably what will happen is governments will deem it dangerous (disinformation, national security, export controls), and allow only megacorps like Google/Facebook/Microsoft to run them under strict regulations. As a result, these models won't run on our phones but on server farms, and we'll become (even more) dependent on these corporations. This will feel good to the US because it shores up our tech sector--a big economic advantage compared to every other country--while also looking sensible.
Placing any judgment aside about an individual person’s skill level, there are tens of thousands of tier 1 customer support jobs that likely can already be entirely automated with ChatGPT.

This is not a statement about those individual people’s skill levels, but simply a reality of the constraints applied to them by their organization (largely following prewritten scripts)
Apple’s Companywide Cost-Cutting Push to Avoid Layoffs
Diseconomies of scale.
"in terms of impact on our lives and improving our lives and upside, this will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,"

There is a possibility that what he said here will turn out to be true. But compared to writing or electric power etc? Surely we will have to wait some time before we can say that. I don't think he is a fundamentally dishonest person so it's unsettling to see him say this with such confidence because it shows that he has lost some grounding in reality.
Credit Suisse was found guilty of money laundering last year by a Swiss court.

France fined them over 200 million dollars last year in a completely separate incident.

They’ve been on a multi-decade corruption and bad investment binge. There are probably good examples of the US banking system bullying foreign banks but this isn’t one.

Don’t die on the “no actually Credit Suisse is the victim” hill.
Close HN: Ending my side project, because the problem is solved
I have no idea whether this is correct, but a quote from the CTO is essentially meaningless.
"Robot! Experience this tragic irony for me!"

- Futurama: https://youtu.be/LCPhbN1l024
I don't think you can be bearish on account of the price. The price is set by supply and demand dynamics. If people were choosing hotels over Airbnbs then hosts would have to reduce prices to compete.

I was a power user of Airbnb 10 years ago and used it frequently while working remote. My experience with Airbnb has always been good. I can only assume a lot of the issues people report come from over optimising for price. If you're a little less price sensitive and look at reviews then you can find great places quite easily.

For me though it's not about price. Airbnb offers a different product to a hotel. Hotels are great for short city breaks, but for longer stays (especially if I'm going to be working) Airbnb offers a superior product.

That said, these days I love finding small B&Bs over both hotels and Airbnbs. Hosts are great, rooms are always clean, and breakfast is included for an affordable price.
To a European consumer this would be a huge surprise that they could even overlook at checkout, given they are not used to look fir sudden price changes at checkout
Jeez, if nvidia hardware is "open and extensible" by your standards, they must have been really lowered by Apple's shenanigans.
The efforts to discredit Assange are a primary example of a successful smear campaign. It's not surprising that people are gullible to make such campaigns easy, character assassination always works when large government agencies are behind it for many years. I was actually surprised how long it took.
Cocaine production reaches record levels as new trafficking hubs emerge
Unfortunately we have this thing called the curse of dimensionality and specifically we do not understand how to prevent catastrophic forgetting. This is why incrementally learning NNs are still so rare in practice.
That’s where the anthropic principle comes in; the configurations of laws which lead to the emergence of observers (in our case, humans), are the ones which get observed. We simply cannot see the “failing” configurations, because we didn’t exist in those branches!
Somewhat, but I don't think it'll be a huge issue.

- Increased accessibility of copy-editing will likely increase the market overall, and therefore increase the market for human copy-editors.

- GPT/etc are good but don't have context, taste, and have proven to be quite fallible over multiple rounds of feedback (common in copywriting/illustration in particular), so offer a good starting point that needs human intervention to use.

- Copy-editors aren't just a transactional prompt-in-copy-out service in human form, they hold products and brands in their head, understand customer segments and how copy applies to them, define strategy, and so on. They are proactive. Companies with these roles, already benefitting from these things, are unlikely to replace them with software (at least not effectively).
Interesting how closely your experience mirrors mine. Bought 2 sets of Canvas back when they came out. Panels all still work and one of the "main nodes," but the other node just up and died. I haven't done the autopsy yet.
I don't think the person in the dm would have liked this answer.

"if you build a career in developing plumbing and glue code, in the future you could have a successful Kickstarter where nostalgic developers buy your curiosities"
Definitely, but it may not be chatGPT
Big companies have DBAs. Small companies don’t, the programmers do it or they outsource to someone like me.

Maybe ChatGPT will get good at designing relational database schemas, who knows?
I couldn’t stream YouTube videos on 1080p without terrible stutters when I tried the Pi4 a few years ago. Has that been fixed?
It requires lots of manual control but from my experience I can match or exceed battery life in comparison to running windows, with some tweaking. Out of the box it was terrible as well.
Could you summarize what exactly makes this blog post worth reading compared to all the other articles about ChatGPT out there?

Wolfram has a tendency to follow the principle "I would have written less, had I had more time" but he didn't, so he didn't.
Yes, it's likely react recommend don't do it because to met feature set everyone expect to 'include by default' from bare `react` package today takes way too much effort.

Routing, styling, layout system, animation, data fetching, form validation, i18n, SSR(server side rendering), SSG(static site generation). More and more are expected today. And react by its default offer non of them. And neither react pick a default set that will work by default if you just add them. (Vue or Angular either promote a default set of these or include them by itself, that's a big different with react.)

And integration of library that do these also takes much more time than it used to be because the feature set grows. (Let alone debug why one of combinations didn't work)

Promoting a working default set (A.k.a frameworks) will likely minimize the hassle people need to fight with to get some react app up on the production.

Really, no employer cares about whether you use a react framework or do everything from scratch. If the website isn't online and do what they need. You simply does nothing.
But only few comments contain nuance that I come to this site to read.
The post title is fine. I wouldn't have clicked this if it said something obscure like "Raspbian".
There is no hard separation. Turning on gradient updates simply destroys the weights that were already there. We don't know how to make the methods we know about work well.
Have you tried it? If you copy the errors back into the chat I could imagine it working quite well. Certainly you can give it contradictory instructions and it makes a decent effort at following them.
Bullshit jobs exist because upper management can't know exactly what everybody in the company is doing, which leaves opportunities for middle management to advance their own interests at the expense of the company as a whole. Upper management might suspect jobs are bullshit, but it's risky for them to fire people because the job might actually be important.

But upper management can know exactly what LLMs are capable of, because they are products with fixed capabilities. ChatGPT is the same ChatGPT for everybody. This makes firing obsolete workers much safer.
In the US the government can step in and force you to take that offer. Specifically, they can tell you if you don't accept it the FDIC can take over your bank and auction it off for maybe the snickers bar.

Is there such a mechanism in Switzerland? Because at "a snickers bar", a lot of people wouldn't sell out even though it's better for all their depositors. They may be tempted to roll the dice and hope for a giant win. After all, they get way more upside and it's not their money (primarily) they are risking
"Fuzzy finding is most commonly used to filter files"

Maybe there's some nuance of "fuzzy finding" as a phrase that I'm missing, but that seems questionable. I'd agree with "commonly used", but not "most commonly used".

Aren't things like address matching "fuzzy finding"?

Edit: Perhaps "fuzzing finding" is analogous to "command line based fuzzy finding", in which case it makes more sense to me.
This is the first time I’ve felt that AI hasn’t sucked and has many obvious uses that Bitcoin never had. I’m usually a bit of a Luddite, but this time I’m actually using it actively daily. I’m inclined to think otherwise.
This is a misconception of how our industry works. Yes there are market resesearches with users but often those come after the problem space has been defined. Most of you see in the tech sector today are "Created Needs" by imagining a solution that the users didn't even know they needed. To ask a question you first need to define a problem that is defined by that/those questions. This is the difficult part and the main reason why People still believe "the Idea is the most important factor". Ofcourse this is not true, there are hundreds of factors that come into play.
Imagine an AI asking circa 2000 to the users what kind of virtual social space did they need. The answer would not have been Facebook. (There were other social networks before Facebook but the time was not right for the "Social" explosion). By learning on existing solutions, The AI would have learned it's lesson that global virtual Social networking is not something that the users want. And part of this problem was as much sociological/psychological and outside of the realm of what the AI could consider that we would not have what we have today.

Not that we would have missed much from missing the particular implementation of this idea that Facebook gave us but the idea and what it unleashed is much more than that particular implementation.
Beyond simple superglue, https://www.thistothat.com/ is a great reference for bonding between more obscure pairings of materials.
considering that the Tax Authorities have money today, while 'bros are looking for some.. I would guess that MSFT is on the side of the money.. that means, track your INCOME and the TAX that is due. mark my words
Way back when, in the height (1960s) of the Cold War they used to test the 4-minute warning sirens that infested the UK back then. What you were supposed to do in those 4 minutes was never clear. Later, in Thatcher's regime, you were supposed to hide under a table.

All such things are very frightening. If you have ever heard a full wing of Vulcan nuclear bombers (my dad was a Vulcan captain) taking off when you didn't expect it (which you didn't, because of the Official Secrets Act) you will also know what dread is like.

I hope this isn't some bloody anti-Putin meaningless gesture by our ridiculous government, but I expect it is.

PS I am anti-Putin.
Yes absolutely. And it will allow you to replace the generally crappy ones that some companies can/do afford themselves with better copy than the humans churn out today.

Instead of having a bunch of humans do a crappy job of writing documentation for your product, which then needs proofreading and editing etc. which requires even more humans, you just keep the one good guy and instead of editing and proofreading and adjusting the output of the humans, they do that w/ the output of ChatGPT.

From what I've seen from our documentation guys, ChatGPT directly employed by our Product people would be a huge boost to quality. As in, we never even sprang for "the good guy" to begin with.
Sales tax is a regressive tax which affects the poor more, so operating on pure ideology a left wing government would want to cut sales tax and replace with higher income tax.

However even the left wing EU governments that exist don't have unlimited time and goodwill, so most of them will leave that alone rather than get the bad PR from raising more visible taxes or cutting services to compensate.
Not what I meant — if it was that easy? Well, I'm sure someone will make a BDSMDomBot soon enough regardless of if that gives anyone at all a sense of self-worth.
Ask HN : What are future career paths for 15 years professional
Hi all

for professional with 15+ years of experience in php/CMS what is the future ahead. there are very less enterprise grade softwares for sustainable growth. PM/EM roles are easily acquired and replaced. Architects/TA/SA roles doesn't give long term visibility and requires Java/.Net as primary skill.

what should be the way forward for such candidates?
https://archive.vn/aqQpr
Hi HN. This is a small experiment using GPT atop a recommendation graph I've been developing for a few years. While GPT is broadly aware of books and their topic areas (dependent on its existing corpus), I found it quite fun and challenging to tune the prompts, parse out and normalize output to make a list of meaningful book titles. I reckon it's about as capable as a mediocre but widely diversified librarian? What do you think? Feedback really welcome.
Watching the Ukraine war gave me some related thoughts.

You may have seen that there's now a load of drones flying around, doing things that were never possible until now. Dropping bombs on soldiers in trenches, giving support for assaults, targeting artillery.

The fact is war changes with technology. Spearmen and cavalry are obsolete now. Maybe pilots will be soon as well.

But the generals are not. There's always a need for someone to say "given the position we're in, and the logistics we have, and the resources we have, and what we know about the enemy, we should do this..." and this role is still recognizable through history.

Whether computer jobs become obsolete depends on whether you're closer to the general end or the footsoldier end.
Yes, he has a lot of Pis (something like 50) around his house.
The Federalist Society Isn’t Quite Sure About Democracy Anymore