skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re using typescript to create static html like it’s 1996 again! Complete with inline styles and everything.

In the web browsers eyes, a Next.js app is just a plain old html page load when you navigate within the app. I believe the days of SPA’s and mounting on the bang# sign are dead. Some smart folks realized that it was more computational efficient to output plain old html like back in the days.
I don't think the dichotomy you're presenting is fair? You can have bad kids, teachers, etc. bully your kid at school. For the most part, you're not going to get bullied in most office jobs (though I do not want to downplay its existence in the workplace). At the very least, given enough privilege, you can change jobs. You can homeschool children and still have them socialize (in more controlled environments until you loosen your level of paranoia).

Why is school the only place to establish a personality or develop socialization? There are plenty of communities outside of school where kids and adults can engage and grow.

If you have enough resources I don't see why homeschooling would be an invalid option. The public school system is terrible for a multitude of reasons.
Saying it's not "just React" is normalising the problem, which I think really doesn't benefit React trying to set itself as the de-facto standard for front-end code.
Wipe out millions of households? You mean these people will have to start working for a living instead of borrowing money against their house? Like the rest of us? Who have been "wiped out" for decades.
> The kind of freedom this enables also has disadvantages of course, but I strongly believe the few real "bad" transactions that gets blocked by the current system are a drop in the ocean compared to the billions of people deprived of access to the system and the millions of others who are included but seriously limited in what they are "allowed" to do on it.

Except that, as we have seen, Bitcoin rarely is used for "we need financial freedom" activities and mostly for "buy into my Ponzi scheme" activities.

Someone could have constructed the crypto equivalent of PayPal. Someone still could and maybe right now is even better since the Ponzibros are getting hammered.

Unfortunately, nobody seems to be doing it. That speaks volumes.
Depends. Out of five schools I went to, one was crap. Schools also cycle between getting core groups of people who care, becoming good, getting reputation for being good and attracting people who don't care and stopping being good.

Still, I'd say there's way more consistency between schools than between unorthodox parents.
The other thing that keeps me in the Django ecosystem is frankly Django Admin. If any of the JS backend frameworks would provide these out of the box things that basically everyone needs, I would be much more open to using them.

For example, an admin panel for changing your models (like Django Admin), performance monitoring like Phoenix's LiveDashboard.
It seems like you're talking about using ChatGPT for research or code creation and that's reasonable advice for that.

But as far as I can tell, the link is to plugins, Expedia is listed as an example. So it seems they're talking about making ChatGPT itself (using extra prompts) be a company's chatbot that directly does things like make reservations from users instructions. That's what I was commenting on and that, I'd guess could a new and more dangerous kind of problem.
TikTok CEO fails to convince Congress that the app is not a “weapon” for China
I think the big thing that happened around that time that marked the sunset of the Golden Age of Google was Google Books (launched 2003) and critically the response. It was the last large, ambitious project of theirs that really aligned with the old "organise the world's information and make it useful" mission, and from Google's perspective was clearly a no-brainer Good Thing for the world.

And instead of the same enthusiastic reaction at large they had become used to, they got _hammered_ for it by publishers and dragged into court. I do wonder if that turned into a fundamental cultural inflection point for them.
I wanna see a skyrim mod of this now!

Also, I don't appreciate you belittling opinion. I like npcs that can look at you. If they have mouhs and eyes that can move then I want them to.
Carbon Emissions compared to what? This is my main issue with The Atlantic's take on modern journalism. All finger pointing and no objective comparison.
While I share your belief, I am unaware of any proof that such censorship would actually fail as an alignment method.

Nor even how much impact it would have on capabilities.

Of course, to actually function this would also need to e.g. filter out soap operas, murder mysteries, and action films, lest it overestimate the frequency and underestimate the impact of homicide.
Interesting that it was originally called DV3 in the paper - looks similar to the name of the existing, older "davinci-003" model, which powered GPT-3
Whatever dangers may or may not be here are far outweighed by the danger(s) of humans using AI in malevolent ways. This is far more likely and much more dangerous.
I suppose that is the one retaining upside for the other person when it comes to immortality. But for the individual, none of the immortality fun remains. You aren't meeting or talking to them as you would in "normal" immortality, you are still dead and don't know if they even exist, you don't even get to ensure the right things are passed down.
That's the entire point. There is ongoing critique here in germany, that the school system and especially STEM topics have been undermined by years of horrible legislature, pushed by MBA's that only want slightly better qualified personnel for much worse pay. The syllabus in math got stripped down to bare essentials and even then it still focuses a lot of methodology, that is unfit to prepare students for academia. Lifting the overall graduation rate for degrees that qualify for college is no help (50% of of all students in germany are elligible for starting a degree).

The result are college freshmen that don't know how to do arithmetic with fractions, much less higher math. I was able to graduate without being able to integrate.

And now OpenAI comes along and is about to apply even more pressure to this underqualified workforce. I'm already preparing for the whole "Given the recent advances in AI, why should I hire you?" shenanigans. And I personally know people whose job consists basicially just of writing E-Mails and coordinating employees. If you'd ask HN about them, they're basicially a worthless human individual, a parasite leeching off of corporate money that shouldn't exist, or at least seriously consider sepukku if they had any morale.
Is it in the same vein as Montessori?
Seems like an American problem. As an American expat, with a son in a local public school, I feel qualified to say that.

Where I live, homeschooling is illegal. Everyone goes to whichever school they want to though. There are literally 6! elementary schools within walking distance of my house, and I live in the suburbs. The playgrounds are open and the kids play after schools and on the weekends, so they have friends in-and-out of their classes.

But yeah, I agree the American schooling system has failed. Probably before I was even born.
No, it’s not. Being willing to admit you were wrong is foundational if you ever plan on building on ideas. This was a galaxy brained take if I’ve ever seen one.
When I read such comments I just feel so sorry for the kids.
You should lead by example.
During the chat, they kept trying to make conversation, to ask questions, and to retain me. I just copy/pasted "I'm not here for chit-chat, please cancel the subscription and confirm once complete" each time they tried to engage me.

Immediately after my subscription expired they started emailing me 1/2 off offers. The whole experience put a bad taste in my mouth and I won't be back.
That is not how GPU multiplexing works on Laptops. My dGPU most certainly works on battery, though I can directly disable it if I like (or use a power saving power plan).
Will see an AI version of red lining..
It seems like you haven't followed Germany's laws for a while. It's now mandatory that you can cancel the say way you signed up, so if you allow people to sign up online you have to allow them to cancel online. All contracts can also be canceled monthly now after the agreed minimum duration.

Source: https://www-baden--wuerttemberg-de.translate.goog/de/service...
It's a weird focus comparing it with how the internet developed in a very wild west way. Imagine if internet tech got delayed until they could figure out how to not have it used for porn.

Saftey from what exactly? The AI being mean to you? Just close the tab. Saftey to build a business on top? It's a self described research preview, perhaps too early to be thinking about that. Yet new releases are delayed for months for 'saftey'
According to the interwebs, here are some examples and the reason people want them banned from grade schools:

Gender Queer - has images of kids performing oral sex https://theiowastandard.com/shocking-images-from-book-gender...

All Boys Aren't Blue - includes sex scenes - https://youtu.be/ag-ByyDXhUQ

Lawn Boy - includes sex scenes https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/video-sucked-eachot...

This Book Is Gay - a book with sections that teach and advise kids about anal sex, oral sex, and hookup apps https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tampa-school-sex-book/
Climate change is horrible and will change life on Earth for the worst for all forms of life, including humans. But given the choice between (a) no industrial revolution and no climate change, and (b) industrial revolution and climate change, I'm picking (b) every time and it isn't even close.
Russians need to stop looting their own country before they can rule anything.
Speed, sure. But I highly doubt that speed beyond comprehensibility is what they intended to convey.
Seen on Blind: “Chat with a googler was horrifying”
I see your point, but there is a line and maybe America is actually worse. There are a lot of countries I am very familiar with where if I lived there I would not have a problem sending my kids to public schools. Here I live in a good district and am still on the fence. I am an atheist and plenty of people here are now homeschooling for nonreligious reasons, but yes that has and still does make up a lot of the homeschooling.
That sounds like an interesting dynamic but not really relevant to bari weiss consistently endorsing right wing positions and figures and so being accurately described as a rightwing attention seeker, which was the original topic.

I don't know anything about the specific situation you're alluding to so can't responsibly comment. But "the leftists made me turn to the right" has been an excuse as long as I can remember and it's a thin one. Radicals simply aren't responsible for the actions their opponents choose to take.
> Soon Office will include advanced AI capabilities to write and reply to email. What is the point of me reading it? If my AI can generate a satisfactory reply, your AI could have generated the response too. No email needed, nor a reply.

You'd be kind of daft not to proof-read the emails your AI sends out on your behalf. who knows what you might unknowingly agree to do?

> We're now in a phase where anybody can generate spectacular art. What is the point of me looking at your generated art? AI can generate personalized art based on what it knows I like. If AI works, and it's headed that way, you keep ending up at the same question: what is the point of anything?

there is no point to anything, there wasn't before AI and there isn't now. anything we do is meaningless, because eventually we all die, and our efforts are ultimately forgotten. once you get over that you can make your peace with whether the pretty thing you look at is made by a human feeding sentences to a computer or a human carefully marking paper with a pencil, or some combo.

but seriously, as a human who has spent all of my life doodling, drawing, illustrating, painting, thousands of hours creating my own art, and even building my own tools to do so, I find AI is just another tool in the box. I can use it to make images, and now someone who has not spent most of their life drawing can use it to make something more visually stunning than I ever could. has it rendered my efforts meaningless? hell no, I enjoyed every second I spent drawing. I still draw. but I don't harbour any illusions that I'm doing it for anyone other than myself.
You will no longer be able to trust any photo or video you see, as deep fakes will be trivially easy and indistinguishable from the real deal. This will be used in election propaganda, scams, etc. The consequences of this will be massive.
How did India get so many people if each couple only produced 2 people each generation?
No I mean prompt a sufficiently capable LLM based on what you wanted to read, chances are the LLM was trained on that book
I hope this kind of thing will come to unity too. It's just a lot more accessible to beginners. And easier to work with for VR.
> They’re clearly written by amateurs

Protocol buffers were written by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. Whether you see issues with the implementation or not and whether they are fit for your use case or not are valid discussions, but if your argument starts with "omg these idiots couldn't design a simple product" then I'm already reading the rest of it with a huge grain of salt.
Yeah, it was pretty easy. Relatively low offer and not much negotiating. From their point of view it wasn't worth maintaining. I'm just very happy they offered it back to me instead of shutting it down.
I look around me and see a wealthy society that has said no to a lot of technological progress - but not all. These are people that work together to build as a community to build and develop their society. They look at technology and ask if will be beneficial to the community and help preserve it - not fragment it.

I am currently on the outskirts of Amish country.

BTW when they come together to raise a barn it is called a frolic. I think we can learn a thing or two from them. And they certainly illustrate that alternatives are possible.
In my opinion, yes.

Over the past few months, I've been working hard to craft a distinct writing style.

If you look at my selected essays on my /about page, you'll see that I'm trying to do things that can't easily be copied. Or if they are copied, people might attribute the style back to me haha

[1] https://taylor.town/about

I also think it's going to be super important to foster genuine human-to-human connection as AI becomes more prevalent, so I'm starting a small tech conference!

Join us in Southern California this August! It's going to be a blast

[2] https://outland.sh
WebGL and WebGPU Meetup at GDC 2023
What a bunch of puritan bullshit. It’s not for any court to decide what is pretty and what is ugly. There should not be any sanctums, especially not in the legal system
The portability doesn't end with sata or usb ports.

With generic software raid (mdadm), even if you only had a single usb port and a single internal drive, you could image all the drives one at a time and then access the array of images on the single big drive. (not uncommon since usually time has passed by the time something fails)

It also goes the other way if you needed it to. Say a single array member was 4T but you only have a bunch of 1T drives, no problem, you can assemble 4 1T drives into a 4T container to hold the 4T image, and then use that image as an aray member itself.

Even if you don't have any loose external drives, you could even do it all via network shares with pieces residing on all of your other family members laptops and desktops, or every desk in an office, while they all still continue running windows and doing their normal jobs I mean.

Some of the possibilities are slow or fragile or both, so of course you don't set out to use 12 usb2.0 ports, but the point is essentially anything is possible, and you don't have to worry about predicting or planning for every possibility, you just don't have to care about how you'll recover the array in the future because it doesn't matter what form storage takes at that time, or what form you happen to have available. It would almost never make sense to do some things, but the point is that mdadm just doesn't care.

For a machine with only 2 or 4 internal drives where you want to use raid0 for max throughput, and don't want to rely on any special firmware support for booting raid0, just partition the drives so that /boot is a small raid1 across all the same drives, so that any of the drives could boot. Bonus, it automatically makes all the members of your main raid0 slightly smaller than the drive's nominal size, which means you can always fit them onto some other replacement drive later, even if the different manufacturers count bytes and formatting overhead differently.

I come from the days of sco unix on scsi hardware raid with full featured expensive cards and I do not miss it.
I've had people ask to use my phone a few times in similar situations. So I just dial the number on speaker for them and don't hand them my phone.
Had a similar problem with Thrive Market. Non refundable subscription unless you chose yearly instead of monthly then the very specific item I wanted was out of stock (among tons of other things).
Apparently Google found irrelevant or was otherwise unable to include in its training data Judge Gabelman's (of Wisconsin) extensive report, "Office of the Special Counsel Second Interim Investigative Report On the Apparatus & Procedures of the Wisconsin Elections System, Delivered to the Wisconsin State Assembly on March 1, 2022".

Included are some quite concerning legal claims that surely merit mentioning, including:

Chapter 6: Wisconsin Election Officials’ Widespread Use of Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes Facially Violated Wisconsin Law.

Chapter 7: The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) Unlawfully Directed Clerks to Violate Rules Protecting Nursing Home Residents, Resulting in a 100% Voting Rate in Many Nursing Homes in 2020, Including Many Ineligible Voters.

But then, this report never has obtained widespread interest and will doubtless be permanently overlooked, given the "nothing to see" narrative so prevalent.

https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03...
I've stopped chasing front-end and fullstack roles and I know happily bang out PHP, because of this mess. PHP, think of the irony.
Shhh! Don’t tell anyone! Getting access to the unmoderated model via the API / Playground is a surprisingly well-kept “secret” seeing as there are entire communities of people hell bent on pouring so much effort into getting ChatGPT to do things that the API will very willingly do. The longer it takes for people to cotton on, the better. I fully expect that OpenAI is using this as a honeypot to fine-tune their hard-stop moderation, but for now, the API is where it’s at.
The browser example seems so much better than Bing Chat !

When I tried bing, it made at most 2 searches right after my question but the second one didn't seem to be based on the first one's content.

This can do multiple queries based on website content and follow links !
Which parts of Rails do you dislike? It can be terrible if done poorly but overall Rails is pretty good for fast iteration.
> A properly designed compiler can allow developers to optimize matmuls within 100 lines of code.

man this is such a funny closing comment - what exactly do you think is involved in designing a compiler that enables devs to optimize matmuls if not 1000s of person hours/years/etc of very "fine-grained" perf research?
what the "abstraction" people don't understand (because they only deal in abstractions) is that achieving performance involves literally the antithesis of abstraction - you need to understand your hardware down to the gate level (sometimes).

> loop tiling, pipelining, shared memory swizzle, memory coalescing

have you ever applied any of these? the only way you could apply these as a generic (without consideration of your particular hardware) algo is using a tuner; this is of course widely the route taken but that's not an "understanding" of anything except guess and check.
No, they compute spectra.
One of my recurring revenge-porn dreams is as follow.

I'm the owner (so not CEO) of a massive multinational. I'm mysterious and not really publicly known. The actual CEO is the public face.

Next, I apply for a role in one of the branches, say a local sysadmin, get the job and start working there. I do my job, intentionally fuck up a few times, and take note of any dysfunction in the organization. There's lots, management are bullies.

Fast forward a few months and at the weekly all hands meeting, it is me sitting at the head of the table. The local manager aggressively insists that I move, but I remain seated. He gets security involved but security does nothing. He tells me I'm fired but I don't blink.

As the dust settles, I open the meeting and immediately fire all of management, whom are physically thrown out. Next, I give all staff a raise and do something nice and personal for each of them.

Everybody claps. Then I wake up from the cat sitting on my face.
> No Ads

At the moment. Although, this does seem like a chance to reset the economics of the "web". I can see enough people be willing to pay a monthly fee for an AI personal assistant that is genuinely helpful and saves time (so not the current Alexa/smart speaker nonsense), that advertising won't be the main monetization path anymore.

But, once all the eyeballs are on a chatbot rather than Google.com what for-profit company won't start selling advertising against that?

There is also the question what happens to the original content these LLMs need to actually make their statistical guess at the next word. If no one looks at the source anymore and its all filtered through an LLM is there any reason to publish to the web? Even hobbyists with no interest in making any money might balk knowing that they are just feeding an AI text.
The "ban" is temporary. This is the exact process that happened to the Corridor Crew channel when they were hacked. YouTube will "ban" the account while they clean up the damage, and it will be un-banned after they finish cleaning up.
Because no one reads "normal" news?
I had not heard of Readlang before, but I had heard of similar tool Toucan. I assumed they pioneered this type of tool, but evidently not.
Google scholar already has access to everything published. I hope their chatbot version does that
Transformer architecture optimized for Apple Silicon
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_effect
> Honestly I suspect for anyone technical `langchain` will always be the way to go. You just have so much more control and the amount of "tools" available will always be greater.

I love langchain, but this argument overlooks the fact that closed, proprietary platforms have won over open ones all the time, for reasons like having distribution, being more polished, etc (ie windows over *nix, ios, etc).
There's another kind of trust: I trust the organization to prioritize core competency among staff and not use me as a crutch to compensate for that lack of effort by burning all my time reviewing crap programming work.

I think the discussion around reviews becomes more informed once you're past that hurdle.

Also, as I've said before, architecture reviews yield 10x the value of reviewing programming logic.
Genuine question: What do you mean by 'alignment'? Is this a technique for training AIs, or a philosophy about how to approach this, etc?

I've never heard the term before and would love any pointers (including enough keywords to Google for it :) )