skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No it's not pointless, language is important.

Not that important, and not for this purpose. Things still work the same, even in languages with widely different semantics and ways to refer to them (I don't mean the trivial case where a house is called talo in Finnish etc., but languages where semantics and terms differ.

Using language-specific (en. english specific, or german specific) word definition and etymology to prove some property of the thing reffered to is an old cheap philosophical trick that sounds more profound than it is insightful.

Even more so, we might not say it for a car, but if we've built a human-looking robot with legs, we'd very much say it's a "better runner" if it started surpassing humans at running. Hell, we used to call employees doing manual calculations "calculators" in the past. Later, when machines doing that became available, we used the same term for them.

So the idea that "human is runner but car is not runner", also means that "human is thinker, machine is not thinker", and this has some profound difference, doesn't make sense anyway. Human running is associated with legs, certain way of moving, etc. Thinking is more abstract and doesn't have such constraints.

>Cars are not runners.

That's just an accidental property of having a dedicated word for "runner" in English that doesn't also apply to a car going fast. The term "running" though is used for both a human running and a car going fast ("That car was running at 100mph").

>"For all intents and purposes" is a cop out here.

For all intents and purposes means "in practice". Any lexicographical or conceptual arguments don't matter if what happens in practice remains the same (e.g. whether we decide an AGI is a "thinker" or a "processor" or whatever, it will still be used for tasks that we do via thinking, it will still be able to come up with stuff like ideas and solutions that we come up via thinking, and effectively it will quak, look, and walk like a duck. The rest would be semantical games.

>We're talking about LLMs, you know language learning models.

Which is irrelevant.

LLMs being language learning models doesn't mean the language used to describe them (e..g "thinkers" or not) will change their effectiveness, what they're used for, or their ability to assist or harm us. It will just change how we refer to them.

Besides, AI in general can go way beyond LLMs and word predictors, eventually fully modelling human neural activity patterns and so on. So any argument that just applies to LLM doesn't cover AI in general or "the danger than AI destroys us" as per TFA.
> there isn't really a good reason as to why a user can't block out entire subreddits

You can-ish. At least on old reddit's /r/all page. There's a block list you can curate for yourself (when logged in) on the right hand sidebar. Sadly, it doesn't work for "popular". The filter list does carry over to the new interface, FWIW.

"Displaying content from /r/all, except the following subreddits:"
> And sometimes it’s ridiculous: drive through ATMs with braille for instance.

Passengers in the backseat.
> you guessed it, the word was glyph

My pet conspiracy theory is that is is wired to please the user, to get better coverage from the media and social media.
Cloud migration working as intended then?
> To become proficient I need to write a lot of code, but the more I use LLMs, the less repetitions I get in. So in a way it feels like LLMs are going to make you a "worse" programmer by doing the work for you.

I've been experiencing this myself recently. I've been using co-pilot in some side projects. I've noticed myself getting more 'lazy' as I use it more.

Recently I used it when doing some old (2015) advent of code puzzles I hadn't done before. I would read the puzzle prompt and have a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do. I wrote out some comments for functions and co-pilot was able to write what I needed with minimal changes.

Even though I read through co-pilot's code and understood what it was doing I don't feel like I really retained anything from the time spent. If anything, I feel like co-pilot stunts my learning.
It's quite complicated. Sometimes hardware instructions are awkward or redundant enough that compilers ignore them. Or they're broken in hardware and the compiler tries to patch around them. Sometimes there are invariants that are easy for compilers and really annoying for assembly programmers. A given sequence of instructions may execute correctly on multiple (sub)architectures with widely divergent performance behaviour.

The one binary that does minimal to no self modification on boot is popular with users but intrinsically slower. Arm's variable length vector instructions are catering to that.

One binary that is specialised to hardware and expected arguments is the fastest you can do without optimising while the program is starting/running.

However hardware usually changes slower than software. Specifically if a program starts running on a specific x64 chip it's likely to stay on that chip until it finishes running. Linux used to patch itself on boot to pick a faster memcpy (may still do).

It seems obvious that fastest for sufficiently long running processes is to ship a compiler IR, specialise first to the hardware and second to patterns in the data. OpenCL/spir-v have a finaliser premise where you lower to a given GPU just before running on it. Specialising on program data is branded JIT compilation. I don't know of anything doing both yet.
What is you solution?
> “[...] To me the danger is that we’ll use our technology to become mutually unintelligible or to become insane if you like, in a way that we aren’t acting with enough understanding and self-interest to survive, and we die through insanity, essentially.”

It's surprising that the article doesn't mention Infinite Jest.
By comparison? Yes. infinitely so.
That was my first thought too.

Very interesting. There are specific regions that repeat, but the overall image does not.
I had hoped you'd put some actual code in either of your last two replies.
You could also google your hackerrank task on the second computer.

Which, I assume, is the primary motivation for "no alt tabbing" to begin with.
GOP "deregulation" capitalism at its finest
NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Simpler USB with Enhanced Host Controller Interface
How?

Like Season 3 is definitely better than Season 2 and maybe Season 1, but besides the majority of the actors being in Starfleet uniforms on a Starfleet ship, it still feels way more Discovery than TNG. It's just cramming the nostalgia down your gullet so often that you don't have time to not care.

Look, Riker. Yay. Crusher! Yay. Worf's back, yay. He said a non-stereotypical Klingon thing, hilarious, he's not like the other Klingons. Oh. Now he said a stereotypical Klingon thing. He's still got the heart of a Klingon. Ooh. Changelings. Dominion War. Wolf 359. Locutus. Wow. Much Star. Very Trek.

All in all. I'd say Season 3 of Picard would have made for one of the better TNG movies. But considering that most of them were not good, that's not really a high bar to clear.

Lower Decks is the closest thing to old-school Star Trek that is currently being produced. But that's mostly because it wants to be a pastiche of TNG-era Trek.
71% of a cut by July

91% of a cut by September

95% of a cut by November

Kind of weird that the head chair of the Federal Reserve board comes out and says "no cuts this year" verbatim, and this pricing mechanism you and I look at says the exact opposite?
You either have some world state, like redux, or you have react components with hooks. With hooks, those have everything to do with the component's lifecycle. Hooks are included with react, world state management is not.
You losing the context here. The point was that slot machines are a scam, but also a billion dollar industry.
I used to frequently see people misuse componentDidMount/componentDidUpdate in every single way that is listed here.

There's really not that much difference.
If I had a penny whenever someone incorrectly referenced that principle in response to a libertarian's desire to eliminate or disregard regulations. Naturally, they understand the reasons for the regulations' existence, they just hold a different viewpoint.
it is more relevant today than ever before
> Software doesn't "apply" rules, humans do that.

I think you're using at least one of those words very differently than me, because to me software is nothing but the application of rules.
In case the downright cartoonish character of this quotation made anyone else wonder if it were fake...

that quotation is, indeed, fake: https://web.archive.org/web/20220128105324/https://www.polit...
Hey everyone!
We’re doing a big survey to research teams’ habits around daily standups, to help inform the next iteration of our standup app.

If you can take a couple of minutes to help us out that would be highly appreciated We’ll share back the findings with anyone who participates.
Thanks!
Mostly because the vast majority happens via Meta's platforms
I don’t understand this comment. If my model is training for 2 days I expect to be doing other work while I wait for the results. Are/were there engineers/researchers that expect to get paid to do nothing while they wait for paint to dry?
When companies have layoffs, one thing they do not discuss in the numbers that they publish, is the fact that they cut contractors as well. Now you're seeing the other side of that.
Add to that calculation that often asynchronous communication blocks work - finishing up code more quickly doesn't necessarily mean shipping feature faster.
I don't understand either. An actual AI that could reason about computer code, that understood code well and could create new algorithms and that was smart enough to ask salient questions about what intelligence actually is and that was allowed to hack on it's own code and data store would be something to really worry about.

The worst thing I can worry about with ChatGPT is that someone will ask it for code for something important and not verify it and cause a massively-used system to go down. If it hacked on it's own code and data it would probably in effect commit suicide. It's a "stochastic parrot", as I have heard it called on HN. All my fears have to do with trusting it's output too much.
These models aren't capable of "doing" things. They can't necessarily calculate values etc. They can assemble text based (more or less) on statistical analysis of all their input data, and the are incredible at it... but if you ask what 2+2 is, its not doing math to get to 4.

They certainly can't deploy the code they generate etc.
It’s the Most Thankless Job in Banking. SVB Didn’t Fill It for Months
One of the interesting counter points that David Sacks mentions in the all in podcast if this is such a life-changing technology, why did OpenAI sell 49% (or some number near that) for 10B dollars. Presumably, the insiders know more than anyone else
Ask HN: Whats your browser start page?
Im curious, what do people use as the page for new tabs?
I currently have a local html file with the usual suspects linked.

what do you use?
> It was the standard for scanners until PDF seemed to dominate the scene.

Probably because it's much easier (for average users with few tools and skills) to print a PDF than to print any sort of non-page-based (e.g., image) file format and have the resulting sheet of paper match the scanned sheet of paper in terms of scale, orientation, position -- assuming both sheets are the same dimensions. Essentially using the file as an intermediary for physical copying of standard paper documents.
> information disappears

Main point was that you can't access or view it without creating the account at first, or even being able to find the whole server.
You might even need to give phone number before you can view anything.
Then wait 30min to verify that you are not a bot.
And all this to find a solution for a problem which you might never return to.
The search in Discord is kinda terrible.

Also, if you are couple days or even hours late for the discussion, it might be too late to take part or continue it in large communities. Discord lives in the moment, it is not a place to store information.

On the other hand, on forums, it is not a problem to continue some discussion couple days later. The quality is often much much higher.
Anyone can sign up for the Porsche factory in Stuttgart, Germany or the MINI plant in Oxford UK, there are probably many others too. Stuttgart is really dominated by Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, there's an giant M-B star on the town's big clock tower. It's a very business-y town but a nice visit for a car nut.
I'd be interested to know, for the people who find this convincingly human-like, for those who are impressed, if you're on the autism/Aspberger's spectrum.

I understand people on the spectrum can have difficulty reading facial expressions, so I'm curious if this is close enough for them that it appears real, or sufficiently human.

As someone not on the spectrum, I can tell you that it's immediately obviously digital, fake, and gives me an uneasy feeling. It's that "uncanny valley" thing. So, I just wonder if the presenters, creators are on the spectrum, as they felt confident enough to showcase it and pass it off as sufficiently novel or convincing.
Bots that use headless Chrome will not likely be detected without special tools.

The poorly written bots can be detected looking at TCP header information such as MSS, window size, sequence numbers, TTL, packet length. [1] These are some of the things that CDN's like Cloudflare look at. This probably won't get you to your desired 80% but might get you half the way there.

Another method I have used to squash a handful of bots is to require HTTP/2.0. Many of the older bots only speak HTTP/1.1 or 1.0. The modern/common browsers can speak HTTP/2.0. This method may break some API CLI tools if your site has an API gateway. This can be worked around by putting the API gateway on its own load balancer or web servers. I should add that Google's crawler bots can not yet speak HTTP/2.0 so exclude them from this restriction.

Another method is to implement strict-SNI on your load balancers. Some bots can't deal with this yet and will end up on your default dummy site or just get an error depending on how one implements this.

[1] - https://github.com/p0f/p0f/
@dang are these '-' comments an attempt to evade showdead?
CULitho?
The “social science” basis for this article is a study on the political leanings of teens.

I’m not a sociologist, but I find it difficult to believe that anything useful could come from such a study.

Teens, regardless of their intelligence and sophistication, don’t have sufficient life experience to express a reliable political ideology.

Teens imitate the politics of their friends, parents and other people they look up to.

And, their brains are still growing and maturing. It’s a very formative time of life.
Yep, this is coming. But it is unclear how interactive will be in practice and what the feedback mechanisms will look like.
Why wouldn't we be able to evaluate their performance and compare them to humans? The purpose of test datasets is to do just that, and new ones are created every day. By combining several of them, we can create a decent benchmark. We could even include robotic abilities but I think this is not necessary.

Let's say: adversarial Turing test + MMLU + coding competence (e.g. AAPS or Leetcode) + ARC (IQ-type test) + Montezuma's Revenge and other games like Stratego or Diplomacy + USMLE (medical exam) + IMO (math) + self driving + ...

You can even make it harder: have human judges blindly evaluate new scientific papers in math or theoretical physics for acceptance, see if AI can create highly-rated new apps, write a highly-rated book, compose a hit song...
Why risky? Assuming the person with the rock knows this and is armed, they're probably ready for a would-be Rambo and they're much better positioned to shoot first, or at least they'll have the draw and be able to take your gun right off of you.
He's been charged in so many places that I am curious to know where he'll be deported to.
Cool, but for some reason i find it pretty hard to look at?
It is not fraud, it is theft.

It has nothing to do with Cash app. It could just as well be Zelle, or PayPal, or Venmo, or physical cash.
GPT-4 for coding is very powerful but can be dangerous. I asked it to write a data retention script that would save X number of backups depending on the number of days/weeks/month/years from the present day. It's first attempt would have worked the first day, but running the script consecutive days would eventually delete all backups. Once I told GPT-4 to take into account the script would be run each day, it "apologized" and produced a script that worked.
Deploying a desktop app that embeds Chromium into the JVM
It's not a out making money, it's about making skills. You need tensor$ to make money. If you aren't using it and learning it daily you're going to be left behind in the knowledge wealth department.

Get in late and you'll be catching up with experts on when and when not to use it, how best to use it, and how best to weed out the bullshit that it intersperses throughout the gold.

There are more ways to skin this cat than Copilot alone. For example, asking ChatGPT questions, or plugins like CodeGPT.nvim, or some other future tool that you wouldn't otherwise be considering.

Remember how strong Google-fu was almost a superpower (still somewhat is, to be honest)? We're currently in the PageRank days of ML.
Yes, quite extensively. It was quite good. I'm very enthusiastic about it. I just want some data other than my n=1 experience.
I usually ask it to describe the concept first. To make sure it is in the right space. Then I say something like "please write a c++ version of that".

It will do a decent job at it.

Last night a friend who refuses to get an account to use it was having an issue with a cisco router. I put in what he was trying to do. It was not right and gave him an error. I fed that error back in and it realized he had a different version and gave me a better way to do exactly what he wanted. It had kept the context and said 'oh some routers do not have that command here is another way to do it'. He had spent weeks googling around for the answer. I had it in under a half hour and I had never used the interface he was changing before.

Then you can turn around and ask it to write a horror story about a monster that devours couches. It will make something up (it is very good at that). Then you can say 'oh put that in the style of the SCP foundation'. It will.

This tool is wildly interesting. I think dismissing it is a bad idea. I look forward to using this thing as it gets better.
BTC is leaderless, which seems to be a large part of why the SEC is convinced it is not a security.

ETH is not leaderless to the same degree, and to my knowledge has not been declared "not a security" by the SEC in the same way BTC has.
I agree they seem the most active of big tech so far, but in terms of “data moat” competition they are supposed to be behind, as this is not the foundation of their business.
Maybe it is a bit too much, but in general, Western societies should work on educating people to greatly reduce their amount of trust in other people. Current Western trust levels are simply not reflective of reality: they were meant for a white society with a single, enforced religion, where everyone was shaking in fear of divine punishment. We live in a global world now and vast majority of it never had or expected a similar level of trust, they are taking advantage of you way too easily. Including billion strong nations that had no concept of God for millennia and no concept of conscience.
VLIW works _really_ well if you have deterministic memory timings, e.g. DSP/risc style architectures, and you're up for writing a complicated compiler.
Sneakers: Press Kit
Ai is going to be equivalent of finding and using "0" in mathematics. It's quite literally the same thing at a bigger scale. At first, Mathematicians oppossed adopting zero because they thought what doesn't exist shouldn't exit and deemed it as an immoral practice. This iteration of LLM is very similar. It's quite literally black box magic. I find it fascinating. Sometimes when humanity accept irrationality we gain more understanding of nature instead of the opposite. When we only pursue rationality and profit we end up in world wars.
This is amusing to me because AI could also be considered a "mathematical solution tool". Numbers go in, math is performed, and numbers come out.
Every single one of these examples has a nearly identical anti-pattern using componentDidMount or componentDidUpdate.

There's nothing here that's specific to hooks. It's just people misunderstanding the React lifecycle.
Can you link me to the regulatory body that oversees sneaker markets and sneaker exchanges? My teenage kids will be very interested in reading this.
Effbot.org Expired, Turned into Blogspam
The Internet Archive at least has a copy of the previous information:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200825214030/http://effbot.org...
When doing those vpn tricks to get lower pricing you run the risk of services terminating your account and that's something a lot of people can't afford when it comes to their google accounts
That doesn’t make supply and demand interchangeable.
Ford and GM still make their margins off of oversized ICE vehicles

Tesla and Rivian have no choice but to make EVs work or die trying...GM and Ford can and will revert back to their bread and butter of ICE SUVs

this is why I don't believe Ford and GM will ever "transition" to being dominant EV players...they're addicted to ICE profits
Amogy lands $139M to scale ammonia tech for zero-emissions cargo ships
If you're going to attack the regulations, at least address what the regulations are there for. The regulations are very very simple, it provides a baseline to ensure that people understand what they're investing in. That's it! That's what the regulation is there for. When someone buys clothes or a lottery ticket they know exactly what they're getting - and lotteries are regulated to ensure they operate the way people expect them to, there's laws surrounding selling counterfeit clothes.

That's all this is. Ensuring people know what they're buying. And it's for good reason, generally it's difficult to even get experts in crypto to agree on the properties of a particular product, so misunderstanding what crypto does it a very valid concern.
Yesterday I asked my own computer how to crop a video that was recorded vertically and published in widescreen format and it spew out a ffmpeg command that worked perfectly.

To be fair, I would have called that magic a few months ago.
Men perceive supportive partners (Psychology Today)
And "predicting words" given a huge corpus of interesting text by itself seems like it could be amazing. Predicting words effectively can mean that it has internalized all the logic used to generate the original texts. At some extrema simply predicting words could mean more than just "knowing facts", but actually having the accumulated smarts of those that made large contributions to the corpus.

Allow me to participate in some hyperbole here, but "predicting words" could result in a model that is "smarter" in most capacities than most humans.
>Right now, muggers can't take $1000 out of my wallet because I don't have $1000 in my wallet. They cannot force me to use an ATM to empty my bank account because my ATM daily limits are set to $500/day.

When I moved to california my debit card got skimmed at a Lucky grocery store. Ever since then I've made sure that my debit card, venmo, paypal, and all my other money accounts are linked to a checking account that only has $500 in it. If I need to transfer someone more than that I'll transfer money into that account from my real checking account.