skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when I was refused to board the flight due to unspecified "problems with my ESTA". As my employer at the time, Mozilla engaged some people on both the American as well as the Swedish side to try to figure out what was wrong and what we could do to correct the situation. Unfortunately, no one would offer any clues or information about why I was denied

It's apparently not that easy when the US decides it's not enough.
> I applied for mastodon

which server?

there are multiple server-side platforms too, incl. some forks, so if mastodon.social is not for you – look around for better lighter alternatives (as well for self-hosting)

start around here: https://github.com/emilebosch/awesome-fediverse#applications
LLMs aren't really exact anythings.

I have no idea if an LLM specifically is the tool for the job or not, but presumably with the input of the source code of millions of compiled executables and the compiled output, "an" AI system can learn to be a compiler. If it can then analyse the generated programs for things like performance, size or other metrics of compiler goodness, it can compile "better".

Hopefully it won't make any mistakes when you come to use it because that will be the devil's own job to track down: compiler bugs are bad enough as it is!

But then we can conceive of a compiler bug-finding AI...
I agree and I’ve played Goldharts game enough to be fucked off with it all. Sure track bug counts etc. but keep that stuff lightweight as possible on the day to day.
I think that's what Langchain is trying to do. You can use Zapier's natural language actions with Langchain to connect with thousands of services.
As per the EULA as quoted by hncommenter13 above, they're not actually claiming they own copyright, just guaranteeing you can use it without violating copywright.
You are absolutely right that using natural language to specify problem means LLM has to guess a bunch of things. And obviously the guesses are not fully accurate. So we go back and forth. But guess what, it gets 80/100 (if not more) assumptions right in a typical code problem. Majority of them boilerplate code assumptions. Thus you end up focusing on just the most important decisions and the LLM acts as a companion to you in a way a pair programmer does. Thus the ambiguity of the language is what benefits the system here.

The power of LLMs is the fact that they use natural language. It’s like bashing on pipe based string processing that enabled all the Unix applications in the beginning. The simplicity of the system is what powers the entire thing. You cant take it away.
Is this new "Github down"?
It's possible if users host their own Mastodon instance, which for the vast majority of users is way too much of a hassle to do.

This is one of the reasons I think the nostr protocol is a better way of building a decentralized + censorship resistant social network.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#the-problem-with-mas...
I do wonder - if the AI takes over will it update status pages more promptly, or less promptly? And will it word the outage announcements more weaselly, or less weaselly?
Squirrels, ants and bees can build wealth as well.

Humans can build complex societies and use weapons in organized way.
s/server/chatGPT/g

https://i.redd.it/nvfde0q2jrl11.jpg
I love Tchaikovsky and his (SF) books. They could use subtitles for communication between spiders.

> Just having giant spiders is going to make people freak out

This could be a real problem... maybe they can make them look cute, or something. Still not going to be helpful for people with arachnophobia.
Searching Google for the quoted phrase "NeXT Inc.'s line of hardware it includes ROMs" might be helpful.
Almond and coconut flour are likely to have more (natural) sugar in than wheat flour. Bread made with coconut flour in particular is surely going to have more total sugar than regular bread with a little added sugar.

A more reasonable explanation is that the comment that triggered this discussion was just from someone who used the wrong word by accident or totally misunderstands what carbs are.
These communities are active if not more active on Twitter.
One of the things that made Twitter good is that every niche uses it.
IN MICE

@dang, can you please add that to the title?
they've put themselves in a extremely interesting position, the only way they stay on top is through innovation. there definitely is a spot for a gigantic AI company.
Slightly off-topic, but I think having a time-traveling debugger integrated with an LLM would be transformative.
Yes, this works.

So my api key is valid. But something in chatblade or the python packages it depends on trashes the input I provide, and replaces it with an email address of mine. Sounds weird, but is apparently true.
Of course I am unable to validate 100% of them, but the ones I had contact with, either in Portugal, or due to my research stay at CERN, I can assure having proper coding skills is essential for graduation.

On my degree, database classes required both theory, as writing a full blown application in Oracle.

Naturally like everything there are students that work around it, but then they aren't in position to complain about not learning.
Hackers Can Access Exynos Chip Phones with Just a Contact Number
It's also difficult for societies with populations absorbed deep into their private sphere, with very little feeling for history, how developments 30, 50, or even 100 and 200 years still leave all kinds of traces and influences, materialized in attitudes, political affiliations, laws, and so on.

History is not a "that was back in the day, doesn't matter anymore" affair.
Some Basques may want a word, and some Corsicans, Bretons, Alsatians, Catalans and probably others as well.
ChatGPT is nothing more than long-form autocomplete. The specifics of approach are irrelevant.
Jim Carrey as the Riddler (1995)
No, AI Is Not “Disrupting” Architecture
I think it's awesome. Learning words in context really speeds up language acquisition, even if they're direct translations.
Friends in credit all talking about the AT1 wipeout and rightfully so. Yes, we all know at this point that it was always in the prospectus, but having equity go before AT1 just because FINMA decided so is still very worrying.
The human in the mix is definitely the interesting part here. UI design inevitably has a more subjective element than other tasks, so I suppose it would be tricky to build a solution like this because, even if what it outputs is objectively a good UX, the end user will base their judgements on their own design preferences, so it'd be hard to satisfy everyone enough to get something working that's commercially viable.

I wonder is there also a factor that - since there are so many low/no-code and WYSIWYG UI tools on the market already - the potential time savings are lower compared to back-end tasks that are being targeted by AI tools - ie providing language prompts to get a tool to output UIs and then needing to tweak them to implement your own branding/messaging/design preferences might not be that much faster than building the same UI from scratch with the kinds of solutions already on the market.

Very interesting to see how this space could play out over the coming years anyway.
> I’m saying devs should be applauding better security and not whining about the transition away from user-domain security which is kinda what is implied in the OP.

It's not better security, it's security theater. Security researchers roll out of bed in the morning and find bypasses to macOS TCC (Transparency, Consent, and Control). I've done it myself, and I'm not a professional security researcher. The so-called "security" doesn't actually stop real malware, it only stops honest developers from making a living.
Yeah, god forbid somebody doesn't have the US viewpoint on foreign policy and other countries, especially given its excellent track record and how it has fucked up one country after another for a century!

Anybody having different opinions must be burned to the stake!
> i trust Sam in this matter much more than Sundar or Mark to not abuse the power.

Once apon a time there were pigs in a farm and the rest was history such that those who do not learn from it are condemned to repeat it.
I asked it "What is the accuracy and confidence level (you must rate it out of 10) that the above answer is correct ?"

It always generates a random number when it is caught making up bullshit sometimes claims that the information 10/10 accurate and LLM's always provides accurate information.
With third-party code, you're always relying on the best effort of others. Of course a version number doesn't relieve you of the need to run tests on your code base, but the probability for semver issues and code bugs should be about equally high - so there's no reason to trust one but not the other.
Feedback is
a. pasting output of code back in
b. For the benchmark inporovement I was talking about, they basically had gpt generate an algebraic and python solution of. Proceed if the output of the two matched, try again if it didn't. Guess I should have added another one - Consensus
I think everyone is trying to fill that void whether they realize it or not.

Hope you find your happy place. Good luck :)
The neutral layer approach which some decentralised alternatives seem to favour isn't all that great in my opinion.

Browsing the commonly blacklisted Mastodon instances has given me more than enough reason to not want to moderate that crap. From AI generated child porn to calls for various genocides, there's plenty of disgusting material posted online that I'm not willing to sift through. When a server's front page is full of swastikas (and not as the religious, peaceful symbol they once were) then I'm not going to vet every single account on there; the people who flock to such servers are of no interest to me.

My experience is that most digital free speech absolutionists just seem to be upset that they were banned from Twitter for promoting some kind of QAnon conspiracy or for hate speech.

I personally think the ActivityPub/Mastodon approach of "let server moderators decide which servers can't interact with their servers anymore" approach is very reasonable. If Gab and Truth Social want to federate, they can, and if you want to set up your own server without blacklists you're completely free to.

However, your freedom of speech does not give you any freedom of consequences, and if others don't want to hear what you have to say they're as free to ignore and block you or your server as you are to speak your mind. This includes some incredibly toxic behaviour from popular "safe" Mastodon servers as well.
I'm pretty sure the music industry disagrees with your stance.
> Money is a side-effect of happiness and persistence.

A million is a lot but my first reaction to your comment was this is something only wealthy people can afford to say. Especially in the US where we don’t have universal healthcare.

Just typing this made me realize I need concrete, achievable goals though so I appreciate your comment. I am not the gp but this is something I expect a lot of us need to work on. Something like:

1. What are my financial goals?
2. Is it realistic to have those goals?
3. How do I know if I am on track? If not, what can I do to correct my course?
I truly hope you're right. But there are a lot of factors at play apart from compute power. So many factors from UI/UX, censorship, pricing, to responsiveness need to be just right for product success. We are in a technology preview stage so the economics don't need to make sense for OpenAI (atleast for now), but they need to for the other companies since they're beholden to shareholders.

Bing chat is dumber than a bag of rocks although it supposedly uses GPT-4 when asked the same questions which is I believe a direct consequence of the requirement it be open to the the general public.

Add to the fact that GPT-4 handles technical questions well which is what makes it useful for me, but I'm worried future LLMs will be more tuned to handle non-technical questions with vague responses as way of focusing on the average layman user.
I'd upvote this only as an example of multi-column layout, very cool and under-utilized in this age of wide displays.
When first computers came up, only the government and big business had monopoly on them. It took 50 years until people were able to have their own independent (networked) computer in their homes.

Yet, the world didn't fall apart. (Actually, it almost did due to nuclear ICBMs, which were enabled by computers.) So I think we're gonna be fine.
The obviously-pricing-yourself-out rate is a well known idea so I'm surprised people message you about it.
I dream of getting a PlayStation 2 Linux kit and setting up the GUI. I believe that was the default desktop environment!
What's shocking to me is how little practical exposure folks get during University. People go through University without knowing what an RFC is. During my time, I had three or so really interesting courses. One on algorithms. Another one on networking. A third where we wrote our own OS from scratch.

The rest were mostly fluff. Interesting fluff, and good background material, but very little useful stuff.

The interesting things were available through student societies, and if you managed to get to work at the University's IT department.
>Almost all the output needs to be re-read, modified and integrated in the project. This often takes longer than just typing it out

You'd be very suprised. Try measuring it.
But not:

1) Automated at scale

2) To such a convincing degree

3) In real time, including audio and video
Yes it is. Last time OpenAI went down was less than a month. [0]

It seems with GitHub's greatest hits and its monthly downtime, we have learnt absolutely nothing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34958375
> i trust Sam in this matter much more

Why? Sam is a cryptocurrency scammer with a more invasive system than most[1]. Maybe he just doesn’t have as much power to abuse, but I see no reason to think he won’t do it when given the chance.

Instead of thinking “what tech billionaire do I trust the most”, let’s take a step back and realise they all have too much control over the lives of others.

[1]: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
I must be old, I still remember "Hotmail down".
My circle of friends has three self made 8 digit millionaires in their 20s. I've honestly been slacking.

I don't think I can do it in 1 year. 5 years is perfectly possible.

We live in the golden age of computer science entrepreneurialism.

Venture capital has never been easier to get. The low hanging fruit is largely still unpicked. And, with full remote, hard working highly capable talent has never been easier to hire (hire Europeans, they're overeducated and underpaid).

IMO, not starting a business in the next 5 years would be remarkably foolish.

Just have to write a 35 page business plan, get it reviewed by capable people, have a good idea, and execute.
Let us hope the best. This must have happened already ten years ago.

The EU seem to stopped fighting against misuse of power in IT. Only when a competitor has money fight?

On the other end we have this awful Cookie-Directive. A disaster and misuse is now on even worse.
They are already doing that, there are only a few places in the world where you can fab advanced chipsets, and China is assuredly working on that. But from a practical point of view, what stops a research group in China having a server farm in Virginia or Italy or Indonesia? It's not like nuclear weapons simulation where the input data is super secret, they can do 99% of the training on a commercial system.
> Because a lot of companies have moved on to NoSQL databases and key value stores.

The value of learning database systems is learning how to model and represent data. All entirely relevant to NoSQL and key value stores.

> Because many languages use lightweight threads (fibers, coroutines, etc.) now that don't involve context switching

Concurrent programming is everywhere. It is not just something that has to do with threads. Even a simple CRUD app with a React front-end and DB back-end is a concurrent system. If your ever used a Promise or async/await in JS, you're dealing with concurrency.

> barely any company does anything beyond web requests

You still need the basics and at least an understand of what DNS is, what a firewall is, etc.

No one here is saying that graduates need to have mastered all of these different areas. But they should at least be able to recognise them when they hit problem later on in their careers. I've worked with junior web developers in the past who had no idea that they're working with a concurrent system.
You have to remember that there are some people who just want to leverage the free pass to bully people. In this very topic a user was suggesting to masquerade as trans to be able to troll scot free, so you have to take it with a pinch of salt.
The timing of your move to Berlin is not a very strong signal that you would never return to London because people continue to cross the channel in both directions.
I'm sure Twitter will kill them one of these days, but services like https://bird.makeup/users/Dril/remote_follow exist, which allow you to follow Twitter users on Mastodon.

This has the downside of missing interactivity and incomplete reaction chains, but as someone who's usually not interested in either it's been good enough for me to remove Twitter from my pinned tabs.
My limited experience so far with ChatGPT for programming is mixed.

On the positive side, I found it is like a search engine on steroids. It works SO much better than Google at helping me find something.

Here is a really, really dumb example. I am coding in PHP and I know Laravel has a dd() and dump() methods. I know that from doing a simple Laravel repo once.

So I'm like, okay, there's gotta be a package that I can just add with composer. But what is it? I ask Google:

"what package do I need to use the dd method in php?" (or something along those lines I don't reemember exactly)

Google just gives me a bunch of StackOverflow posts that are related to Laravel, that sometimes mention the dd() method. None of those links help me.

So I was like, what the heck letś try ChatGPT. I ask the same thing and this mofo just straight up tells me:

- I can use the symfony/var-dumper package
- I can include it with the following composer require command...

The hell?

So I know some of you will be like, "you could have searched xyz"

Thing is, everybody is different. I can´t at any one time know all the possible "ideal" ways of finding something. Every website like packagist has their own search.

So for me at least ChatGPT hasn't helped me much producing code, because it takes too much effort to prompt it.

However, it works really well at helping me find answers.

Things like "show an example conditional in bash that tests for..." works really well.

So long story short I think the immediate value of these LLM for us developers is time saving, taking out the frustration of trying to find information. As a developer you need to trawl through so much APIs and frameworks and docs and searching is a huge time sink.
The entire nuclear industry would be better off if we had a greater focus on reprocessing and efficiency over wasteful storage like this.

It’s a damn shame we put prodigious efforts into mining and enrichment only to waste all the remaining energy of these fuels by arbitrarily dumping them after a certain percentage of contaminants has built up.

The anti nuclear boogeymen ins general and the corresponding anti-proliferation arguments against breeder reactors are partially responsible for the existence of this waste in the first place. If they didn’t campaign against reprocessing and reactors that could burn it up, then it wouldn’t be sitting there in need of a long term waste storage facility to keep it in. I’m aware there’s an element of circular reason here but I’m mainly trying to highlight how wasteful the USA’s stance on spent nuclear fuel is.
Yes and engineers only get paid for writing code. The money just appears from the employer. I honestly can’t tell if you’re just being purposefully obtuse.
Traditional computing is good at being precise at the cost of being rigid, ml computing is good at being flexible at the cost of being ambiguous.

I don't trust ml computing to be precise in the same way I don't trust humans to be precise (we can all potentially write code with bugs) because the process is fundamentally non deterministic.

The way we solve this with humans is to create tools that test verify what we make, backed by some sort of proof.

I guess once ml computing can get feedback from these tools, the situation will improve?
Some of them, some will never be. E.g.:

* Athletes and Sports Competitors
* Motorcycle Mechanics
* Stonemasons

only to give some examples, where roboters are almost impossible.
work for small companies
I see the code is marked as "coming soon" - would love to take a look at this when its ready. The results are beautiful.
Don't know which country is happily giving out redundant workers food, clothing and shelter for free
> n=1 but this has not been my experience....

I don't doubt your experience. I was projecting myself onto others, probably too much...

America is a big place. If you don't have that experience in big west coast cities, I would be a bit surprised. Likewise, I would expect well educated folks to also assume that lack of accent means American, not in an intentional way, but an automatic one.

There are large swathes of the US that I doubt would see anyone who isn't a white evangelical christian as American.

My intention was not to be black and white or absolutist, though I see how what I said reads that way.

> without accent?

Yes

> are you saying "Japanese" to mean "fit in as japanese" or "japanese nationality"?

In a way, I meant both. I meant for a Japanese person to apply the word "Japanese" to me casually. To see me as part of "us" when a Japanese person says "us" to mean Japanese.

I think if you read the article I linked, what I am trying to express will be clear. It is an extremely meaty read, but I feel like it is somewhat like taking the red pill when it comes to understanding politics and the political forces that govern us. American education has poked at the ideas in that article without providing the philosophical basis. I've heard "diversity" so many times, but never a real, non hand-wavy, explanation of why diversity is important or why we apply energy to it.
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Until recently, I would have taken your second paragraph for granted; but, somehow, we have ended up in a dystopian future where humans are going to have to be directly involved with all the boring tasks that require careful correctness and we'll get to outsource many of the high-level creative tasks to computers (lol).

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpXLncOfbr/
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