skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure China has a ton of people and a huge economy. Fair point that the regulatory framework there may be more homogenous, but it's also weaker.

And it lacks all the other inbuilt advantages I mentioned.

Remember, the USA can ship goods back and forth between itself and what... 90% of the ex-US global economy? With very little geopolitical interference.

This is largely a function of geography, plop a cargo ship in the water, sail it, boom you arrive in Western Europe, or East Asia, without getting anywhere near some other country's sphere of influence.

China can't say the same. To ship cargo to America they have to sail near multiple political rivals (and they seem to enjoy antagonizing America itself as well). To ship cargo to Europe they need to do the same. So there are all these countries and political forces that could disrupt Chinese trade at any time. In the long run they have inbuilt geographic risk, the US has inbuilt geographic immunity.
That doesn't make sense because the hypothetical alternative that Thiel is trying to prevent an atrocity by conducting less of atrocity. It's a the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few argument.

If there wasn't something substantial on the table we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Hmm, AI may be poised to make software devs, copywriters, and accountants redundant, but it's not likely to make a good salad, play a killer live concert, or set a broken arm. At a certain level I think I'm fine with being made redundant (I don't hate my job, but I wouldn't mind retiring early - unless that was to sleep in a cardboard box). So for me the question is can our society survive AI replacing a lot of lucrative white-collar gigs - maybe?
Frank Herbert spittin prophecy yet again.
Yes, very true, but I think instead of "corporations" it would be better to think about three kinds of water users: agriculture, residential, and industrial.

In the American West, water is underpriced for farming (80% of usage) due to senior water rights.

Not sure about industry in general, but some users like semiconductor fabs do recycle water. It looks like they're going to recycle more. [1] Cities are starting to recycle too. These are water users who can pay for relatively expensive water. San Diego is doing more than most cities here.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/fabs-cut-back-water-use
Get ready for ChatGPT: Enterprise edition! Now with SOC 2 compliance!
I'm far, far more interested in having an LLM tell me where particular functionality is in a codebase, and how it works from a high level.

Autogenerating function documentation seems like such a low bar by comparison. It's like taking limited creativity and applying it with high powered tools.

Literally like asking for a faster horse.

Tell me how WebKit generates tiles for rasterizing a document tree. Show me specifically where it takes virtualized rendering commands and translates them into port specific graphics calls.

Show me the specific binary format and where it is written for Unreal Engine 5 .umaps so that I can understand the embedded information for working between different types of software or porting to different engines.

Some codebases are so large that it literally doesn't matter if individual functions are documented when you have to build a mental model of several layers of abstraction to understand how something works.
Do we have to get into a semantic debate about what left and right really mean every time? You know exactly what they mean.
It's always good to hear about support, as more options are never a bad thing.

I've been a fan of ultra-SFF computers since the original Mac Mini, and SBCs are just an extension of that. If you're shrewd and smart about how you use the hardware, it's a tremendous amount of real computing power that can work done cheaply and for little power.

For certain, even if I don't have own an Orange Pi, I feel I owe at least a hat tip to software maintainers for putting in the effort to ensure some other ecosystem has a future.
>If that one person is wise, virtuous, and really prioritizes the people's best interest, and is willing and capable of delegating and seeking advice from people who understand various domains better than them, and is a good enough judge to choose good people for such delegation and advice, then it could be at least much more efficient than a democracy or republic.

First, that's a big if. Second, it's the old pipe-dream that there are decisions that are on "best interest" for everybody, that can just be based on "domain knowledge", and not competing interests to be heard and balanced.

>Decisions could be made much faster.

That persons decisions. Not the ones people want. Basically you're described an infantilized population and a parent/nanny that knows what's best for them.
Me: what do you think about Robert Frost

GPT: I speak the road plausibly travelled.
just added some more documentation to the readme. ty for the feedback!
I'm sorry I don't like my beliefs being misrepresented and twisted into something I'm actively against?
Note that they just released the 5B version, which loses the M.2 slot buy gains emmc storage and wifi 6!

I have the original 5 board running for some weeks now with some docker containers and it's running great.
Except that I wasn't asking it to develop a new API.
Referring to rented servers as colocated servers is flatly wrong, no matter how often people are incorrect about it. Sure, some providers put colocation under the same category as VMs and leased hardware, but that doesn't make them overlap.

OTOH, referring to a datacenter of servers that you lease as a datacenter is one thing, but if you have zero hardware that you own in it, would it really be your datacenter, or would it be "the datacenter"?

A datacenter could be anything from a set of IKEA shelves in a room with Internet and power to a fully built out fancy space with redundant power, fire suppression, a full Internet exchange, et cetera, so it's a bit gatekeepery to try to suggest that only huge companies would ever have their own datacenter or their own space with their own hardware in a datacenter.
A couple more years of chip improvements and it may run self contained within a device.
minorly blew up on twitter (https://twitter.com/amanrsanger) and then chinese social media
He isn't wrong on any of those predictions.

The dollar has never been at a more precarious position (on a hyper-inflation course and the BRICS are pondering about adopting the Yuan).

Bitcoin (who knows what's coming next, but for sure never seeing 70K again)

Hyperinflation (pretty obvious)

Bear market (most of 2022 was in one, and most probably this year will follow)

Recession (high certainty this will happen. Fed's soft landing is a mirage, history shows a rate cut after aggressive hiking usually leads into one)

Schiff is not outright wrong on his predictions. He just never gave time stipulations for his predictions.
Rather than "private property" do you mean "personal property" ?
Yeah, I have found I need to be careful. When I have used it, there is no confidential information in the email. I do pay attention to that.

That said,I think it will be interesting as Microsoft introduces this into Office 365. You bring up a great point. Most people will not realize they are sending potentially confidential information to Microsoft.

Perhaps it's no different than Grammarly... But I think you are right that legal departments are going to be all over this.
Also it makes up Python libraries, macOS apps to do certain tasks, etc.
* Give me a bash one-liner to generate a secure random string

* I'm using a NextJS middleware function by exporting it from my page component like this ... Here is the middleware source ... But I get this error ...

* How can I tell if my site is running in production in NextJS?

* NextJS says localStorage is not defined. What should I do?

* Please adjust this Prisma schema so that there is an index on github_id

* How do I configure eslint to accept switch style that looks like ...

* Write hex bytes that represent a 16x16 bmp image favicon (didn't work lol)

* Please write me a React reducer and React context that holds state for a users's auth token and also synchronized that token into `localStorage` with the key `__auth_token`.

* How do I disable the rule "@next/next/no-img-element" on the next line?

* Here's my current page ... What changes should I made so that the footer is at the bottom of the screen when there isn't enough content to push it down to the bottom of the page. But if there is a lot of content it will sit right below the end of the content and not on the bottom of the screen.

Generally it works really well!
Put that in a loop and see if AGI emerges.
>> This is not a misprediction because in any sane world,

Describing any part of the financial system as sane (rational) is laughable. The system is built on the irrational nature of people.

In some absurd way, bank runs are an expression of actual rationality - give me my cold hard cash now, I don't trust you lot anymore.
> No other country can compare. No one else has this. These in-built advantages are incredibly hard to beat.

You left out the most important advantage: the US has plenty of oil and gas;
God, AI, and the Scalable Class
You can support a basic food aid while also supporting private food production.

I didn't interpret GP to say "total state ownership over food production".

Their keywords were "basic" and "minimally required".

That should have told you that they were supporting food programs where basic foods are guaranteed.

None of that means they support "total", as you say, nationalization of food production.

History has shown us that nationalization of food production leads to the starvation and death of millions.

Free market production has led countries to excess foods, such as grain, which can be and is shipped across the world to combat global starvation.
Humans do not have tough hide, or sharp claws, or fast sprinting. We are a drain on resources for over the first decade of our lives. Our vision and hearing are okay but not at all state of the art, and our sense of smell is terrible. Our muscles are weak and our teeth fragile.

We have an extensive long list of severe downsides and only one distinct upside: our brains are sightly more sophisticated. Brains with a few more ridges and roughly 50-200% more neurons than our mammal siblings. I'll be generous and say we are 3x smarter than the nearest ape. That slight advantage has granted us absolutely total and permanent control over the futures of all other species in ways by using means they cannot comprehend. We can and do work towards our goals with no concern that animal life will be even a small impediment. We can render them extinct at will, often eliminating massive species by accident.

Our subgoals are not very different, we act in self-preservation, we seek larger and more stable resources, etc. The only difference is that we use advanced means and our primary goals may be understandable to an ape. An ape may realize we would prefer to have many fruit trees to few and that we may put our firsts up to protect our face from an enemy. But an ape cannot understand or predict that we will build giant motorized combines to harvest planted crops, or that we will discover atoms and fission and find a way to smash two metal rocks together that kills many many face-attacking foes at once. Those things are pure scifi or fantasy to them.

Something more broadly intelligent than us would thus be capable of things that are scifi to our minds. We know from GoAlpha that narrow intelligence can be created that is not merely 3x smarter but in fact far far beyond our brightest minds. We don't know what it's doing but we know what its goal is, which is to win the game. We know from models like GPT-4 that below-human but wide and generalized intelligence across many domains is possible. The only one missing is above-human general intelligence, which we are now clearly closing in on. We don't know exactly what it will do just as we don't know what the Go bot will do, but we do know some of its subgoals and we do know that it will be able to accomplish whatever goal it has unilaterally, and that the entire rest of life, including humans, will be completely powerless to stop it.
Agreed... I'm just disturbed by how badly people want to believe
I’m the same way, I “know” bash but I’m not fluent in it, always have to look up how to do very basic things like looping. But for the simple things I need bash for ChatGPT does great as a time saver.
What a country with gobsmacking horrific politics, just dogshit cowardly & avaricious anti-democratic politics in broad display. Every year is a new low for how substantial & real the government seems.

Sad that a once great site for discourse & exchange & ideas (TwitteR) has absolutely no push-back. To be fair, India has just kept getting worse & scarier & as much as I want to, I have a hard time accusing Twitter of the spinelessness that my gut wants to me to lay at their feet. Worse meets worser.

With hope we get some less centralized ways to communicate, where there are not such narrow points of control that rank self-interested governments can exploit.
You left out:

* Issues the global reserve currency

* Maintains the largest military

* Has the widest media reach

* Has significant natural resources

There are problems too, but the unfair advantages are quite strong, and self-perpetuating.

Which is fortunate for Americans, because very few countries could be so haphazardly managed, without failing.
If anyone will be able to generate programs using AI then we'll have more programmers, not less
The FTC link has an example of the only newspaper in town refusing to deal with customers who are also running ads on a radio station. Do you think if the newspaper dressed such refusal as a ToS violation it would fly with FTC?

Google might be banning people for enforceable violations of their ToS but imagine the uproar if they banned a Bing engineer for using Google search to find solutions for some Bing problem (which is similar to the problem here). The upside for Google or OpenAI would be somewhat limited but the downside is almost boundless.
What? This is a terrible way to reason about risks in general. If you don't know for certain, you should assume the worst case scenario, especially since it's impossible for you to calculate the probability distribution of the likelihood of a leak.

You should only keep moving along without key rotation if you know for 100% certainty a leak didn't happen and no one accessed the key (not theoretically impossible if they had the server logs to back it up), but anything minus that and you have to assume it's stolen.
You missed one massive advantage: the US has a good and reliable legal system.

It can not be overstated how good this is for an economy, and it's something emerging markets struggle with, and even some of the advanced economics.

It'll always be easier to start and run a business where you can rely on tribunals to solve problems quickly and somewhat fairly.
One of the earlier scaling laws of computing. Now we're into AI scaling laws.
On my station there’s at least a 50/50 chance that when I turn the radio on within a minute they’ll mention identity politics. Today it was right when I changed the channel, and I changed right back to a music station.
Share the link - and the search query - so we can see as well. (Such sites might be fodder for a new blocklist or hosts file)
The dictionary definition[1] is female parent so I'm not actually sure that the term mother would be exclusive of adoptive parents or lesbians who's partner gives birth. But looking back at it this would likely exclude trans men who give birth so I may in fact need to extract my first comment.

We're 100% in agreement on the offense issue though. I don't get why anyone is offended by what someone else prefers to be called. Take the politics out of it and that's like being offended that someone says their name is Steve when you absolutely refuse to believe they are called anything other than Bill.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother
def a lot of fluff in the space!

fwiw, feel quite strongly that LLMs will result in big productivity increases for many developers in the near-term

started working on cursor bc I think a ton of speedups would require editor-level changes (e.g. more mundane ones liek auto-fixing errors from the terminal/LSP, much better code nav/understanding using auto-generated docs; wackier ones like letting you edit a pseudocode version of your codebase)
Though, recently, public officials condemning wokeitude also have proven unable to define "woke", so it seems like it's just a word that means whatever you want it to mean. The problem with those words is that when you use it, the audience doesn't hear your meaning, they have their own.
As if they don't already? Banning Tiktok is like retaliation for what China has been doing to American companies for literally decades.
> "e pluribus unum"

It's been a while, but I translate that as "From many, one".

I think it's an allusion to the thirteen British colonies becoming one United States.
Ive had the exact same issue since last week. it never fixed itself if that’s what you’re waiting for. I had to resort to creating a new account with a different email to get access again. Contacted support but yet to hear back. Not sure if it was the cause the issue happened when I try to buy Plus and that failed.
In my profession, we keep an eye on "study document" sites where cheating students pay to plagiarize prewritten solutions for homework. This homework is often low-quality; it may score a "C" or lower when plagiarism is not caught.

These are sites such as CourseHero, StuDocu, and StudyPool. Are these under the umbrella of "essay mills"? AIUI, essay mills are a different business (about to become obsolete by ChatGPT's intervention) where you pay a professional to write you an essay or thesis, including research and citations.
Then I guess you're not using it to its fullest potential ;)
One such function is “what happens next?” which may work as well in the real world as on textual training data. Certainly it’s part of how human babies learn, via schemas.
> This is not a misprediction because in any sane world, the prospects of very high inflation would result in a spike of the gold price.

Keynes mentioned "animal spirits" and "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" almost a hundred years ago. If your prediction doesn't account for reality and well know facts it's a bad prediction.

It would be like guessing that the next election will favor candidate X and when they don't win explaining it away with "well but people are dumb".
Companies won't create a bunch of technical complexity so they can forget personal information, because surveillance companies want this information. The main thing that holds them back from demanding it right now is that it would weird people out. Once government directs companies to move in lockstep and normalizes the practice, it will become standard. Think how Google continually harasses you to tell them your birthday to "comply with the law".
I am the one stating it. I personally think that this is what happens to a lot of people. Perhaps your opinion about taxes will never change, no matter what -- but certainly some folks evolve their thinking once they get wealthy or as you yourself said act "socially liberal" only until the tithe box reaches them.
Like how the need for roads is an indication that cars don't solve transportation problems.

People adapt to maximize the utility of their tools; always have, always will.
For business, I ask it to generate plans.
Or just use the posted command to fetch the fingerprint over ssh and automatically add it to your known hosts?
Ah, that's interesting! It could be related to the improvements they seem to have made in the area of "overreliance". According to OpenAI's paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf):

> Overreliance occurs when users excessively trust and depend on the model, potentially leading to unnoticed mistakes and inadequate oversight.

> At the model-level we’ve also made changes to address the risks of both overreliance and underreliance. Weve found that GPT-4 exhibits enhanced steerability which allows it to better infer users intentions without extensive prompt tuning.

> To tackle overreliance, we’ve refined the model’s refusal behavior, making it more stringent in rejecting requests that go against our content policy, while being more open to requests it can safely fulfill. One objective here is to discourage users from disregarding the model’s refusals.

> However, it’s worth noting that GPT-4 still displays a tendency to hedge in its responses.
China is stronger than it's back in 2008. If America continues playing these stupid games, it will end up loosing power to China.

You can not export your problems to the world all the time and expect no consequences
Certainly those who bought gold as a cash-hedge are hoping it surges...

Alas if, for some inexplicable reason, those unwashed masses don't realize that the gold I bought cheap, isn't the only thing worth buying (at my inflated price) then I will be most disappointed.

I guess it doesn't help that gold-hawking is looking more and more scammy everyday, like when c-level political celebrities with large followings seem happy to flog their "sponsors gold" during political messaging.
Might want to update that: “Use of Stripe principally as a virtual terminal (e.g., submitting card transactions by manually inputting card information)”
But then they would make such works paying public domain (the type of public domain that you have to pay royalties to the state) rather than FFA public domain.
How incredible is it, that I'm writing software on a laptop, connected to the internet over wifi, all while being 38,000 feet in the air. And all this enabled by billions of tiny transistors made from sand. And to make this all the more surreal, I'm sitting next to someone who knew him.

Thank you Gordon Moore. RIP.
I am similar unclear on where this supposed bright line sites but to try and steal man your argument a bit is it possible you looking for the distinction between excludable and rivalrous goods?
I'm struggling to understand this writing style - who is the audience and what is the message?

I feel like every paragraph is a non-sequitur.
Telling someone their opinion could change doesn't contribute to the conversation and edges on ad hominem.
It turns the fed into the only arm of the government able to levy a new tax.

Printing 20% more money doesn't seem materially different than taking 20% of everyone's money.

Either way an individual is able to buy 20% less stuff and the government is able to spend 20% of the value of the economy.

Except the fed has to answer less to the public than legislators do. We have a non-elected tax authority deceiving the country about the level of tax they are paying through the subterfuge of an overly complex system.

I would love to hear how this assessment is wrong (actually, not rhetorically).
They already are. It is 99% stored on a Sharepoint on a Teams site anyways
Completely agree. Explaining how systems work in plain english is much more valuable than just giving inputs and outputs of individual functions. We want to understand how a system and it's subsystems work independently and interdependently.

We're not there yet with Autodoc; there is still tons of work to do.

If you have't tried the demo, give it a shot. You might be surprised.
You can I've known a few co-workers who have. They had another job already lined up so when the boss came looking for heads to chop they volunteered. They got a very nice severance, a short vacation and a new gig and the boss was happy he didn't have to pick someone to fire.
Off topic: the similarity of yours and the parent's usernames was a funny little coincidence.
Nitpick: fast neutrons don't cause fission in uranium-238, they cause it to transmute into uranium-239 [1] which is a much less stable isotope with a half life of less than 30 minutes before it decays into neptunium-239.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_uranium#Uranium-23...