skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this solves the loneliness problem and seems more of a fad idea.

I think of my relationships with people in two categories, you have your "real" friends, and you have your convenient friends. The only reason you are targeting your coworkers or colleagues because they are the most convenient people near you.

People are lonely because they don't have "real" friends. I think of "real" friends are people who just care about you. Who notie you are not in a good mood. Who know they havnt talked to you in a few days/weeks and reach out to see how you're doing. People who would wake pick you up at the airport or to help you move.

A lot of this is a cutural thing. In the US, the culture is very individualistic and independent. It's more about "me" and less about "us".

This is all my opinion, but I have also thought about this a lot too.
Big ones I can think of off the top of my head: Immigration, tax, gun control, abortion, all modern "social justice" issues.

But my point isn't that they're "far left", just that they are reliably left of american center. They make no (or at least almost no) effort to present the center-right versions of the argument.
Do depositors have some sort of moral superiority to investors, or simply a legal priority?

Citibank equity holders (one of the the more egregious bailouts from the GFC) 15 years later are still down 90%. So it’s not like in the bad old days of 2008 investors were getting off scot free.
Earnest question: what would Google stand to gain here?
This is interesting, from that section:

Nor does IA’s promise not to lend simultaneously its
lawfully acquired print copies and its unauthorized reproductions
help its case. As an initial matter, IA has not kept its promise.
Although the Open Library’s print copies of the Works in Suit are
non-circulating, IA concedes that it has no way of verifying
whether Partner Libraries remove their physical copies from
circulation after partnering with IA. Pls.’ 56.1 ¶¶ 495-496. To
the contrary, IA knows that some Partner Libraries do not remove
the physical books from their shelves, and even if a Partner
Library puts a physical book into a non-circulating reference
collection, it could be read in the library while the ebook
equivalent is checked out. Id. ¶¶ 494, 497. IA also does not
inform Partner Libraries when an ebook in its collection is
checked out, and Partner Libraries do not tell IA when their
physical copies are circulating. Id. ¶ 498. IA admits it has
never taken action against a Partner Library that did not
suppress circulation properly. Id. ¶ 499.

I do want IA to win, but this certainly doesn’t help their case, to say the least…
I charged back on debit cards quite often. Outside and inside my home country. But agreed; use credit normally; less hassle. I would’ve not paid these things like OP has and charge it back; let them come after me (they won’t anyway).
If a judge thinks THAT's illegal, wait till they hear about fractional reserve banking.
>Sorry, it won’t. This might even be peak GPT. Training data comes from human content, and currently there is decades worth of pure human content available. But new content will come in slowly, and it will probably take decades just to double the amount of training data we have today.

One word: AlphaZero. Deepmind ran out of human go games to study, but it turned out that self-play was dramatically better. Your argument only holds if a) there's a linear relationship between the amount of training data and the quality of a model and b) GPT is close to maximally efficient in converting training data into useful weights. Both of these premises are demonstrably false.

GPT-4 is, in the scheme of what's possible, an incredibly primitive model that uses training data very inefficiently. In spite of that, a dumb brute force architecture still managed to vastly exceed everyone's expectations and advance the SOTA by a huge leap.
>an improvement

I'm sure some think it is. I think dictating power based on war ability makes way more sense than everyone having a say simply by virtue of breathing.

Egalitarianism is not consistent with nature. But these things go in cycles, the flaws and contradictions will accumulate and the system will collapse eventually, like they all do.
Code is the ultimate reference for understanding a project, while documentation is often neglected, outdated, or incorrect. It can also be difficult to keep up to date.

An LLM may not fully comprehend the code like the original author, but it can offer a different perspective that may be valuable. The only argument I've seen against LLMs is that it may encourage laziness, but this is a flawed argument similar to those made against the printing press, which was said to make people illiterate.

As a reader of the docs: does it require discipline to refer back to the code when needed. Yes, but this is no different from the discipline required to write documentation in the first place. But with a key difference, the discipline is shifted from author to reader.
I was clarifying the kind of non-commodity that decommodification of resources refers to
If I have a physical object, you can't also have that physical object. That's natural in the sense that it follows from natural law (physics).

If I have an idea, or a digital copy of something, you can also use that idea, or also get a digital copy, without depriving me of it. The only reason you can't use my idea or own a digital copy is because society decided that it would punish you for doing so – and that's unnatural in the sense that it doesn't follow from any inherent feature of reality.
Reminds me of a book called The Wizbiz. Or, what happens when a coder from modern times gets transported to a fantasy world where magic is controlled by a wizards guild, and decides to democratize it.
One off extractions from semi structured text like an email or paragraphs from a webpage. Sure, I could spend 40 seconds coming up with a regex that I run to reformat how I want it, or I can just say it in plain terms. And if I need something a little more involved it has my back too: "Extract the domains from these urls as one column and give a user friendly name for the website in the second column and give a short description of what the purpose of the site is in the third column"
Now that I think about it, not being able to own anything is a good reason to start stealing. Think about it, why is stealing bad? Usually, this is an application of the Golden Rule. If you don't want people to steal the stuff you own, you shouldn't steal their stuff either. However, if you are no longer allowed to own anything (just like under communism), then the argument falls apart. Realistically, information wants to be free, and spreading it is much easier than controlling its spread. I expect the current copyright wars will come into an end in a decade or two, ending in the loss of the copyright mafia as society reconsiders the concession that is the copyright system.
Various things:

- Non-technical explanations. Useful for the pointy-haired boss. And his boss as well.

- Stack Overflow (but on steroids).

- Summarizing long-form articles my friends send me.

- Generating rudimentary programs/scripts I'm too lazy to write on my own.

- Tutorial-style resources for unfamiliar technology (like writing CRDs in k8s).

- Generated a working Makefile.

- Sometimes, I'll take existing small programs in Go and have them rewritten in another language. It's just fucking cool to watch.

- Rudimentary translations from English to French.

Can't use CoPilot for work yet since, well, they can (and will) upload proprietary IP. But for everything else in life, the productivity gain has been enormous.
I've often wondered if places that have no reception would become popular for holidays.

Places you truly can't check into work, or have them call you. Or if you have kids force the family to go oldschool and switch offscreens.

There are a few articles on it when I search but doesn't seem something that is particularly promoted or sort after.
This still wouldn’t be enough, because writing good documentation usually requires knowing contextual information not contained in the code base.
Firefox share loss since I left. Yes, it was losing share before I left too. Counterfactuals aside, growing Brave to 57M MAU from 0 wasn't a minor thing, and we are still growing in spite of Chrome's market power. Firefox (click on legend items for other browsers) is still losing share.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2014...
Can you expand on what you mean here. I'm not entirely convinced you understand the security situation (nor what "0-day" means in this context) but I'm willing to accept I'm the one being naive here.

Say they have an old powered down iphone with an alphanumeric PW (or a temporarily powered-on locked iphone). What's the realistic risk for a run of the mill burglary? You think they can bypass the PW prompts, exploit an up-to-date OS, and decrypt the HD with a vulnerability available to the general public? And local data on my old phone, ie, some photos and some old iMessages on my device are a serious personal/financial risk?

I already changed the (tiny) set of relevant passwords not-2FAd immediately and everything else relevant is 2FA'd. My SIM card was delisted immediately by my telecom after I found out and the phone theft was reported to a national hotline/database, so not sure why I need to "change" my (phone number-only) 2FAs...
His law was probably self fulfilling. In some ways more like an actual law than laws if nature
Can you expand? I'm able to do non-CRUD things in Django just fine too. What's unique about RSC? People have been building production grade, multi page apps with it for almost two decades.
Worth mentioning that Washington has the most regressive state and local taxes in the country:

https://itep.org/whopays-map/

I’m curious where Washington will end up on the list if this goes into/stays in effect.
Be careful with tax questions.

I asked some for a moderately complicated tax situation and ChatGPT very authoritatively imagined a deduction that didn’t exist by combining two different but related parts of the tax code.
It's replaced Google for the "what's that called" tool.

Google used to be good at that task, but it's sucked for the last four years or so. Whenever they gave up on search and leaned into sludge content plus ads.

ChatGPT is better than Google ever was anyway.
Oh, I looked and didn't find anything. I thought about writing something about how I thought it wasn't true but decided it would be better to just ask if they had a reference for it. also, it's an extraordinary claim, so pretending like it's something everybody already knows is pretty weird.
I don’t think apple gets enough credit for how good their automatic graphics switching implementation was. I’d argue that most users who benefitted from it didn’t even know it was happening. It’s such a useful feature too, because dGPUs generally kill notebook batteries, and even at idle, they probably generate an impactful amount of heat.

Is there truly no equivalent to apples automatic graphic switching for PC laptops? If so that’s WILD.
Huh? I literally just gave you an example of tech that automated away what 90% of programmers were doing.
Fortunately we have that opportunity today
I find that (the prevalence of iPhone vulnerabilities) hard to believe, but I’m not an expert. What evidence do you have in support of this position?

To be clear, I believe there are vulnerabilities, just not they are as common or as easy to come by as you claim.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium was founded by two daughters of David Packard of Hewlett-Packard fame (along with Stanford professor Chuck Baxter who died last year.) Deep tech roots there.
There isn't a universal morality so just say you find it disgusting.
Hmm, this is the one that's closer to the Python docker-compose and not "docker compose" that's built into docker right now right?
No it doesn’t - take that singularity bullshit elsewhere. Gordon Moore never aligned himself with that pseudoscientific nonsense
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/2010-...
Sorry, its not an AI, just an autocomplete with self-attention mechanism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> A market of 350 million high income people (by global standards) under one regulatory framework

China almost has the same number of millionaires. Per capita it’s not as good, but in terms of volume. And I’d say they’re closer to a single regulatory framework than the US which has all sorts of conflicting state laws which get in the way of interstate commerce (despite the commerce clause). Sure there are a lot of advantages as you say. But they’re not indefinitely insurmountable.
Libraries are exempted from statutory damages if they had a good faith belief that their usage was Fair Use. The published opinion defers the question of exemption.

Statutory damages are the most significant risk to IA's finances, both in this case but also wrt other potential plaintiffs who might be waiting in the wings. Exemption almost certainly figured into IA's risk assessment when designing and deploying their loan program. The argument for exemption is, naturally, stronger than for Fair Use.
> Lots, and lots, and lots of of the same theme...women, women of color, LGBTQ.

Your groups of concern represent 51%, 21%, and ~10% of the US population.

What is the appropriate amount of time to spend on themes concerning those groups?

I am not immune to that same feeling, but sometimes I wonder if it's just a discomfort with no longer always being a member of the relevant default.
Can you provide an example of what prompts would you use?
sth?
Rough Translation was one of my favorite podcasts; this is a major loss.
I agree with this.

+1
You’ll be able to train the AI on your codebase and the languages it uses.
I've asked GPT-4 about the human brain and specific metabolic pathways every day so far. If you ask it for answers in jargon like written in a textbook or a journal it will provide an obscene level of detail that you can then verify.

As a "domain specific words" generator for building up a glossary, it can't be beat. From a prompt perspective I have to tell it that we are both world class neuroscientists but it knows more about this specific question than i do. Then I tell it to reply using correct jargon for the domain like that written in a textbook
a) The CPI includes many more things than just restaurants. Unless you spend 100% of your income on restaurants, focusing on that specifically isn't very informative.

b) There's no way that inflation is "over 100%" in restaurants in California. For example, a carnitas Chipotle burrito is currently $10. In 2018, five years ago, I ordered the same thing for $8 (I have all the records of my purchases). That is only 4.5% annual inflation over that time period (25% total). I don't feel like checking other restaurants, but I suspect if you actually look at data and not your intuition it will agree with this.
Naw, this is from a quarter century after Moore’s predictions, and Moore’s law had already started slowing down by then. Kurzweil was also selling snake oil (immortality) here, and the proof is in the final figure in the article, it’s 100% misleading and has left me with mistrust for all the rest of what Kurzweil said. Why did he leave out all the population data between 1920 and 2000, data which we have available at our fingertips? Because then he couldn’t have drawn a completely fabricated plot showing continuous lifespan acceleration, acceleration that doesn’t exist. Why does he conflate life expectancy with longevity to imply to the reader that genetics are improving as opposed to, say, the truth about poverty, wars, sanitation, and medicine? Because then it wouldn’t tell an amazing sounding (but completely untrue) story about humans being able to live longer and see the “singularity”. This article proved to me that Kurzweil is a charlatan, which is disappointing because I loved his keynote at Siggraph right around this time where he was pitching these ideas.
How do you run a society that way? Can I get a bigger house by mulching you in your own garden and telling your family to push on? Do we decide whether you can build an extension on your house by how good a shot the counties men are? Do Walmart and Cosco fight wars over the more desirable lots? This is not a serious suggestion.
Where did you buy lunch in 2019 for <$5? I don't think I've paid that little for lunch since the 90s.
Critical account takeover vulnerability in ChatGPT
For the vast majority of people in the world Bard is, at the moment, superior. ChatGPT's responses are TOO detailed, and it also has no clue about current events. Imagine how many people just search Google for what's going on in the world lately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35290982

That said for technical folks, ChatGPT is much more useful.
Sure, and also I am bigger and stronger than you. Therefore I take your physical object and you can't stop me. That's natural in the sense that it follows from natural law (physics). Natural laws are brutish and don't support the kind of society that most of us want to live in.
Apple threatening action against staff not coming into the office 3 days a week
If people always beat me up and snatch my stuff the moment I am not looking, that's not very good living. Even if I am wealthy enough to hire guards, they can turn on me at any moment and get all my stuff rather than just what I am willing to pay. So we opt for a peaceful, honest society where people are not allowed to hurt each other, steal or break contracts. On the other hand, if I learn from other people and they learn for me, we all become smarter and more productive.
All docs are generated. Now some are generated by silicon.
I've been a paying ChatGPT subscriber for about three or four weeks now. One day I had a few thorny work issues, asked the free version, and it was so good I got a subscription.

Since then I've asked some about general knowledge, history, religion, geography, politics, other topics of interest. Mostly in English, but some in Portuguese and a little in Spanish. It's extremely good in all three languages.

Mostly though I've been asking about random work topics that come up every day. We use a lot of lots of systems, tools at work, and I need to write software to handle diverse areas. ChatGPT cuts right to what I need as far as: (a) general knowledge of tools and what their purpose is; (b) surveys of categories of tools, comparisons between competing offerings; (c) specifics on how to use, configure, program against various tools, query data, change things; (d) questions on best practices and pitfalls. This is mostly in context of macOS, Linux, AWS, kubernetes, observability tools, and APIs for lots of DevOps-related systems. I do lots of coding in Python, I also do a lot of ad-hoc diagnosis of situations. (We have a great DevOps team that manages infrastructure with standard DevOps tools -- my job is to build what those tools don't address so well, and also to help build out future data-engineering efforts.)

I'd say my use of Google search to find relevant articles / pages has gone down 70%. One small example today, I wanted to use `jq` to process some `docker ... --format json` output to pull out some data. I don't want to learn the ins and outs of `jq`, I described my problem and it gave me a good template I could adapt.

Any time now in scrum or other meetings, if there's any question about something, we often just consult ChatGPT during our Zoom/screen-share sessions. I think generally I have a better sense on how to structure questions and question progressions to get quick answers than some others.

I've also found ChatGPT makes up stuff sometimes ... but it's usually close enough.

One comfort I have is that, at least for now, ChatGPT can't direct the overall organization of code for the many situations I need to address, so I'll have a job for a while. It does though fill in the knowledge gap at the edges, I don't waste near as much time searching for and reading documentation and examples. ChatGPT usually has good ready-made low-level examples when I need them, and high-level descriptions of tradeoffs and best practices.

I'm "committed" to Jetbrains tools, been using them for a long time. Today I began wondering what I might be missing from CoPilot, downloaded the CoPilot plugin for PyCharm (would also work for IDEA, DataGrip, etc.). I couldn't get the CoPilot plugin to log into Github and saw that others have had similar problems in the past ... so I can't use CoPilot yet. Maybe in a week or two I'll have a basis for comparison. (I don't want to switch to VSCode.)

EDIT: word choice, minor clarifications
What's magical is the thinking involved in copyright, particularly as it involves the digital space.

I 100% guarantee that if a dead tree library xeroxed their books during a national emergency, nobody would be making comments like this. Somehow, because computers are involved, magical thinking gets a pass.
> I think dictating power based on war ability makes way more sense than everyone having a say simply by virtue of breathing.

I honestly can't tell if you're trolling. In what world is it better to instead give all the say to one person? Especially a person selected solely by their prowess for violence (or in leading others to violence)?