skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've been explicitly saying now that progress in AI, which they have helped push along enormously, is too fast and represents a danger to society whether through Sci-Fi like rogue machine scenarios or bad human actors or massive economic implications and it's very clear that ClosedAI is far better for the future of the world.
Not just tech industry people. The prolific, Pulitzer prize winning novelist
Richard Powers [1] learned to program on PLATO and worked as a programmer before quitting to write full-time. His novel The Gold Bug Variations [2] is set at a Midwestern university, I can't recall if it is identified as UIUC.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Powers

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold_Bug_Variations
That's a great point about just being where certain types of riders are. This probably speaks volumes about the infrastructure for cycling, or lack of in NYC. I'm a cyclist and advocate for more bikes, but there is something about putting motorized transportation (e-bikes, scooters, etc.) even closer to pedestrians that seems wrong to me. Getting hit by a car is no fun, but getting hit by an e-bike going 20+ mph can't be fun either. The number of people to potentially suffer an injury also doubles.
Hiring Manager: Okay, fine, then just forward me all the resumes you get, and I'll look through them!

HR recruiter: No
The emerging consensus for larger LLM is you want to train them with at least 2-4x the tokens of the number of parameters (weights between neurons in the layers). A trillion (100x) surprises me.
> It seems these godlike AIs are already frighteningly cheap and easy to replicate.

Who writes this shit?
I haven't written more than a few pet projects in Haskell, but in my experience haskell-language-server is quite fantastic. I agree though that cargo has been a better experience for me, and while the documentation for Haskell is better than I would have expected, it certainly doesn't match up to rust.
First RISC-V laptop uses Alibaba TH1520 SoC
You can rent a truck and call a few friends. It’s not that big.
Very cool, these are nice moments to be able to remember. Thanks for sharing
Show HN: GPT4-powered Slack bot that can scrape URL contents
This repository contains a Python-based Slack GPT Bot that uses OpenAI's GPT model to answer users' questions. Additionally, the bot can extract content from URLs provided in the user's message and take into account their content in its response.

Features
- Extract URLs from user messages
- Scrape webpage content from URLs
- Integrate with OpenAI's GPT-4 to answer questions
- Maintain conversation context in a threaded format
- Socket mode integration with Slack
Demonstrates a lack of knowledge of Modern C++ when they lump C++ in with C. Modern C++ ain't anything like C anymore.
By the time they survived the heart attack, the crisis is over though?
Have to say I was fairly surprised by this name.

It's a fairly old-fashioned expression, but could well cause some misunderstandings.
The goals the company was founded to meet.

Profit is necessary to stay in business so it's important. But it can't be the only and exclusive goal. A company is just a structure to make things happen / collectively achieve things.
And, to the GPs point, they obsoleted the job of a housemaid that well-off (and even not-so-well-off) families used to employ a hundred years ago or so.
It doesn't have it, but what sort of undo do you think of? Undo the latest installation on disk? Roll back to the previous environment?
Ah yes of course, good point indeed.
I disagree. There was no evidence of fraud in 2020, yet the losing party at 80-90% rate still believes it was stolen. At that point, there's nothing that can be done to dissuade.
Not sure what browser you're referring to, but Firefox still allows you to clear site-specific cookies by clicking on the button to the left of the URL (usually a lock icon since most things are https these days)
you say all it takes compute like that is trivial - chatGPT would have a hard time without Microsoft's support via Azure
If I understand correctly, neither point has to do with electronic voting.
I didn't do anything special prompt-related, I just asked the same way I would ask on a discussion board.

I wondered though if it was especially effective because information on sound hardware is one of those subjects that probably has a huge corpus. Lots of people ask redundant questions about their gear, so accurate information is probably well-correlated in some sense.

In contrast, I wrote three fiction chapters about a group of people on a shared quest of sorts. I tried to get ChatGPT to read those and summarize one of the characters across the three chapters, and it hallucinated like crazy. That's probably something where I need to learn some prompt engineering, or maybe it just isn't supposed to work well.
Catering to a teams preference also gives you a free morale boost.

And in the current economy of random mass layoffs, any morale boosters you can find will matter more.
When someone is aware of the damage they cause, and then they still continue, what would you call that behavior? Because the word "studiously" implies that they are aware of what they are doing. You yourself said that tech workers, or "tech bros" as you so nicely put it, are perceived and portrayed as uncaringly and knowingly destroying peoples life. If you think that that is a fair assessment of most tech workers motivations, then you are constructing a caricature.

Tech workers - like most people - are unaware of the extent of suffering that they don't directly perceive. You and I know that there are people suffering in third-world countries - but knowing is not understanding or awareness, and if we had to spend some time in the company of these people, our perspective would shift enormously and we would feel a much stronger urge to actually remedy these injustices.

Tech workers know that they are displacing workers, but again, knowing is not understanding. Hurling insults and making sly accusations is not going to convince anyone that they may lack perspective on this issue. I mean, take a look around this thread, take a look around other discussions - I don't see many people trying to convey their experience without painting the tech crowd as money hungry assholes.

Not to forget that AI isn't evil either. You can make many moral arguments for developing AI systems as fast as possible. The most emotionally effective point would be medical research - after all, who are we to place our own lives above the ones that may be saved with the help of future AI developments?

And another note: many tech workers argue that it is irrelevant whether or not they personally continue to develop AI, because someone most definitely will.

Also, there is no adversary. I would love for the AI skeptic crowd to make compelling and convincing arguments. We need people that warn about the problems introduced by AI and people that campaign for policies that address them, but we need them to do it in a way that would actually be able to change someone's mind. The reality is that we're not having the right discussions in a productive way; instead we pontificate endlessly on irrelevant but emotionally satisfying details.

> Sir, this is not a textbook, this is the comments section on a popular Internet website. If you want 'way more justification', you will have to wait for my thesis.

Do you really think there is no midpoint between making a massive, fundamental assertion about the stability of every human society without any further elaboration or studies and writing a textbook or thesis?
Couldn't agree more. Also hosting alternatives to many of these, like Mattermost over Slack, is not difficult and is usually more performant.
The question is what's the cost of a bug? Lost hours for customer support to collect user reports (which take some time and usually multiple reports before being believed), time spend by CSRs to individually, time by the dev or ops team to fix the affected accounts en-masse, more time by the CSRs to manually fix up affected accounts and give them individual credits where credits are due (which may be manual and thus error-prone process), and finally time spent by the dev team to identify and fix the bug for future users, which is time spent not adding new features or paying down other tech-debt. That's not to say using scripting languages isn't necessarily worth it for increased speed of development, but the time spent above may be impossible to quantify in aggregate. If you're in a low stakes environment, where a bug costs you single digit basis points/bips, not a problem. If you're somewhere like crypto where a bug that an attacker discovered ends up costing the exchange, your employer, 9-figures, or worse, the medical or aerospace industry where bug(s) literally costs people's lives, then avoiding bugs is of paramount importance.

The other option is avoid such a high stakes environment, but someones got to be in those fields.
Megatechcorps pay much more than most employees are "worth" because nearly all employees in a large org are completely replaceable and for any given job holder there are 100 or more people who would do a fine job and would take less money for it.

The main reason companies get large is not the work, but the financials. To be able to deploy capital on the scale that any large tech corp deploys it- billions for data centers, manufacturing, compute, etc- requires unified capital management. Single balance sheet, etc.
Yes. About 2/3rds of the points rely on underlying language features of algebraic data types, type driven metaprogramming, and linear / affine types. Haskell has all of those, although linear types are still experimental. Scala has all of them apart from linear types (which have been explored at various times but are not officially part of the language.)
Well, you could for comparison's sake look back from now to when these same warnings were issued 5, 10 or 20 years ago
Governments have experience limiting the spread of digital content. For now at least, AI proliferation is not immune to those same tactics.
The price going up has probably reduced population growth though, so pointing to low growth but high prices doesn’t tell us that much.

Not to say that there isn’t something else going on.
It's not for that.

It weeds out people who can't write code at all.

Yes, tons of them do apply for dev jobs.
The black death must have seemed like the end of the world in a fairly literal sense. Rates of change and relative quantities matter when it comes to population growth: losing a billion people over a century probably isn't a big deal, but losing a billion people in 14 years would be the single largest loss of life in human history. And yet it would only be a negation of the growth we saw going from 7 billion to 8 billion, which took 13-14 years.

In relative terms, lower estimates of the fatalities between 1347-1351 are 30% of the population of Europe. So on a global level we would be looking at more than 2 billion dead in 4 years to get a sense of what that must have been like. 100 million dead in the US alone. That's staggering to think about, and it's no wonder that the pandemic left such an indelible mark on Europe.
I knew before watching it that it was Strong Towns propaganda.

They keep ignoring that without those suburbs you won't have rural farms. Without those suburbs those "productive" cities will have nothing to eat, and nothing to buy.

They measure productivity in terms of dollars - but all cities do is services, they don't produce goods. That's left to those places Strong Towns hates.

If people actually implemented what Strong Towns wants, people would starve.

Try the math again, but completely exclude services and let's see where you end up.
Loom was already merged into their master equivalent, iirc. It was shipping behind a preview flag for a while.
> Remote work will drive wages down, not up

I know you don't mean it this way, but it should right? It's fundamentally cheaper - no commute on the employee part, no office space on the employer side. Greatly enhanced flexibility all round. Both sides should definitely splitting the dividends.

I'm fine with it if that is how it works.
I'm asking something more nuanced than that. Emissions are still growing, but probably not growing as much as if we had done absolutely nothing. What's the difference between those two trend lines?
I think that this may to prevent a loop-around where the same events are repeated in order twice a day.
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Like they say there, there are other reasons that the window might be resized, including other sidebars, or split screen (if you use a browser that has this feature), or possibly even printing the document (since the page will have different dimensions than the screen), or resizing the window if you have other programs open at the same time, etc.

I had wanted to prevent web pages from detecting the window height, which has many benefits, including this but also prevents using the window height to override font sizes, preventing auto-loading on scrolling, and auto-scrolling ads into view, in addition to the debugger.

Additionally, detecting the outer window size should not be possible at all; it is not useful. Only the document view area is useful to detect anyways.
We have found one more thing, besides comedy, which AI's actually do better than humans, if you consider CxO's to be human.
And, in fairness, they may not have really had much experience with mainframe, AS/400, etc. technologies. I probably wasn't going to hire a front-end HTML developer to write my business apps. Yeah, there was a fair bit of Webifying apps going on but probably a lot of mismatch between startup devs and enterprise devs in that period.
Good. I've seen parents join one so they would feel good about their choice to homeschool and quit it after a year but continue homeschooling without that extra social interaction and still feel good about it.
Building ClickHouse Cloud from scratch in a year
Oh no, what ever will lazy lovers by text and plagiarizing high school students do if it's down for a few hours? ;)

You haven't arrived until the HN crowd makes a post decrying downtime and randos toss in some conspiracy theories in for good measure.
To a): 17 USC § 1201(a)(3) А technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

Maybe? It certainly prevents reusing the work in that specific manner without authorisation. It doesn't prevent just seeing the work though, so it's a bit up to interpretation.

To b), US-like copyright law effectively applies in any WTO-conforming country. Anything that implements WIPO functiouns roughly the same way. Fun DMCA fact, there is no fair use provision. Any use is likely to be criminal. Another fun DMCA fact, apparently ripping out spyware and republishing is entirely legal. Huh.
yes, but just for the mundane stuff...
Yes it's possible. The same project developed a tool called jextract that uses clang to convert C headers to Java Panama classes:

https://github.com/openjdk/jextract
And lose all the value of distributing their software via websites! Again, if you ignore all the value of solutions, then yes, the solutions seem bad.
Industrial smelters are big expensive bits of kit.

Radiation monitors are pretty cheap - at least ones sufficient to identify a Cesium 137 source in a pile of scrap steel.

Radiation in your steel is a hugely costly mistake - at a minimum, you're gonna have to give up all your costly smelting equipment and stock.

Radiation isn't super rare either - major events may be rare, but every few weeks a big smelter will detect small things that ought not be smelted.

So I don't see why any smelter wouldn't have a radiation detector on the input hooked up to warning sirens, for purely financial self interest.
Presumably "in the red" here means it's underfunded with respect to meeting existing pension obligations, not that the fund has a literal negative balance. If I'm wrong then please disregard the second part of this comment.

The idea is collective punishment. Settlements would make the pension fund deeper in the red, meaning cops wouldn't get their promised pensions due to the actions of the abusive cops who caused the settlement payouts.

The hope is that the threat of losing your retirement security because your coworker fucks up is enough to break the thin blue line and cause cops to police themselves.
CS is a branding liability, the trust in the name is abysmal, as withdrawals shows
Acceptable? By who? Who needs to accept it?
> Doesn't 7B indicates that it was trained on 7 billion tokens?

No, 7B means it has 7 billion parameters.
It's mostly back up except for history. Looks like they mostly remediated the site event.
Multiple versions of the same package can be handy: e.g., Python 3.6, 3.8. and 3.10 all handled by the package manager and able to switch between them on a per-session/terminal basis (no need to completely disable a particular install: just adjust $PATH and $LIB as needed).

Able to create pyenv-like environments which can then be 'exported' and sent to other systems/users having Spack so that development/debugging can be done with the same setup:

* https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial_env...

Able to use 'internal' packages (spack install openssl) or external packages (link against /usr/lib/libssl.so) on a per item basis: sometimes you want the newest code, but other times you want the OS package so that you can get security updates 'for free'. Most other system do one or the other: Spack allows you to choose.
maybe it's because I'm a bit older, but I noticed that too. also noticed that "counterculture" went extremely far off into covid-19 hysteria and has never come back. Seeing anime cons demanding proof of vaccination and strictly requiring masks in April 2023 is just bizarre to me.
USB-IF should be forced to use PCs equipped only with Micro A and Mini A ports. And to connect their peripherals, they must first dig through a large bag of Micro/Mini B cables to find a single Micro/Mini A cable.

Although that might be so cruel that it violates the Geneva Convention.
Code can be abstracted into a simpler code model and deterministically recreate the old code model.

OpenAI is an eventually to be obsoleted initial brute force approach that will be abstracted over and over into a simpler code implementation with rules to recreate the old state.

kkrieger is a simple example of a tiny data model that can be deterministically rehydrated. It’s not unrealistic for AI models to become a seed value for a normalized code base to deterministically unpack into necessary electron state
> When I've thought of all the possible crappy outcomes that might happen, I can be confident that whatever happens, I'll survive.

I've heard this before, but it never worked for me because I can imagine things going pretty bad. I do think there is a lot of undue optimism. An assumption that things will work out. They often don't. Maybe worrying about nuclear war isn't that productive, but we should all be a lot more worried about things like working environment, rising inequality and the cost of living. Ask Japan.
Oh, I didn't mean my (GP) statements to apply to what you said (GGP). I apologize if I came across that way.

I agree with you, raising children is harrowing, and doing it well is difficult. Somewhere else in this thread I mentioned home schooling co-ops as a way to spread the burden. There's a lot of benefit to having community, which is something that evangelicals often lack.
Many people working remotely, or commonly three days a week in town (incidentally it’s a buyer’s market for office space now).
Train ridership is also down for similar reasons.
Tree Style Tab is apparently detected as vertical dev tools, and opening the horizontal dev tools changes it to no. This is kind of hilarious.
Noticeably worse than open ai.
The users of mailchimp don't need to make another mailchimp. They just need to handle their own email needs. That's a big difference. It's still not easy, and I would never be glib about it, especially since I've never run my own mail server on my own domain name before.

But...several full-time jobs? How much mail do you need to send before postfix on a $5 VPS falls over? In terms of composing html mail that looks good, that would take some time to learn. A day to get something passable, especially with LLM help? As for tracking, I am against image/pixel tracking in emails, I think it undermines trust, so I wouldn't implement it (or use it).
There's also the famous Harvard Classics, or the 5-Foot Shelf, sold as a kind of primary-sources curriculum, complete with a reading plan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics

A Great List of Great Book Lists:

http://sonic.net/~rteeter/greatbks.html

[EDIT] On this:

> Also, almost all of these books are old enough that their copyrights have expired so you can download them for free from the Gutenberg e-library: https://gutenberg.org/

I'd caution readers to also evaluate in-copyright editions, especially in the case of works in translation. Used books are cheap and it's worth getting the best possible translation (however one chooses to evaluate that) if one is going to spend hours with it.

And:

> One feature I've wished for is some way to format these free books and make them more reader-friendly. That would save future readers time to do it themselves. I would pay for something like that.

Standard Ebooks?

https://standardebooks.org

Not comprehensive, but they've got a lot.
Where does one find the 13B alpaca model?
I understand it’s frustrating to be “the bad guy” in these threads, but thank you for putting in the effort to educate.
This is why there are containers and you can rent multiple servers as well if there is a need. Security requirements have nothing to do with being on the cloud. You just basically have to encrypt data at rest and satisfy couple of other things to get your SOCS2 label. Did it, no sweat.
You're describing "rural" living. Suburbs entail something else.
But if any of those outlines don't happen when expected or in a different way then people call it all bunk - same reason people discount it now because of previous dire warnings. The boy who cried wolf is the great fable for this, because ultimately there was a wolf.
… that incorrectly detects devtools as open, when it isn't (false positive), and fails to detect devtools when it is open in a separate window (false negative)…

Yeah, as other posters hint at, vertical tabs. But it isn't just vertical tabs that'll trigger it, any sidebar will, including native/vanilla ones; AFAICT it's just looking at the client area being less than the window by some threshold.
I feel like this is comparing some cost-optimized on-prem scenario with a "idgaf, I'm prioritizing growth over cost savings" cloud scenario. Every company I've worked at has been way more concerned with growth to the point that the cloud spend is wildly careless, but we could easily reduce it by a factor of 10 with dramatically less effort than it would take to move on prem.
> 6. Good support for building against external packages that may already be on your system.

Able to use 'internal' packages (spack install openssl) or external packages (link against /usr/lib/libssl.so) on a per item basis: sometimes you want the newest code, but other times you want the OS package so that you can get security updates 'for free'.

Most other system do one or the other: Spack allows you to choose.
This is definitely an international blunder. I’d say it’s more socially acceptable in the UK to call someone a c*t than it is to use this word. Can safely say it’ll get zero UK adoption due to the name. Shame.