skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are days when I just write code in Notepad++ and only use Visual Studio to build.

Judging from what I've seen from Windows game programming streamers like Casey Muratori and Jonathan Blow, it's not an uncommon practice to live in your preferred editor then flip to VS for build/debug.

It all seems very strange and ridiculous to me coming from a gnu/linux/vim/screen/make/gdb background. Obviously not so much having separate tools, but more the despite having a massive beast of an IDE purportedly providing All The Things, you're still context switching to/from your usable editor.

Those streamers also often resort to using RemedyBG for debugging instead of using VS's integrated debugging. They're basically living without an IDE, while paying all the overhead for an IDE, because the IDE is such trash.
It is mind boggling, and at the same time not surprising at all, that China is enforcing a humane policy to protect its children when we are not willing to do the same.
Carlos Cipolla had a similar idea when he wrote “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity”, the chart commonly found in search results mirrors this one almost perfectly.
“At scale” is relative. Platforms like Patreon and Ko-Fi haven’t achieved the same reach and scale as PayPal, but they still work for lots of users.
>That’s because their negotiating power is mainly due to the size of their buying power, not special knowledge or skills. Health “insurance” is basically the lamest, most economically perverted form of collective bargaining ever.

Now can you make a cogent argument for why more than one federal / national union should exist? Why does Europe allow multiple unions?
Can't really be a market with such obscure pricing and inelastic demand.
Cerebras Systems Releases 7 New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems
Such as?

I don't know much about how various Zoho products are implemented, but I thought most of their stuff is homegrown.
> For example, the reliance on external infrastructure could lead to vendor lock-in, making it difficult to switch providers or move back to an in-house solution if needed.

Lambda's runtime API is quite simple, and well documented (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtimes-api.ht...). Other than that, Lambda functions are "just" containers running on open source runtimes (named versions of nodeJS, Corretto, etc). Local implementations are also available.

Clearly, the operational properties (like reliability and scalability) that these folks point out are difficult to achieve on-prem.

> Additionally, there might be concerns about data privacy and security when dealing with sensitive information in a cloud-based environment.

Lambda's approach to security is documented here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/security-over... for the compute components, and we discuss some of the "why" behind that in the Firecracker paper (https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi20/presentation/agache).
> we have some picture how much resources is required to train and run these models

This is the key detail. Even if the software gets 100,000 times better, the training data is still a major limitation. We can't get 100,000x (or even 10x) more data because the current training set is:

- thousands of years of historical text, photos, and user-generated data (trillions of person-hours of work)

- not yet polluted by AI

So while I don't think we know the hard limit of the software, we're close to the hard limit for the training data and we'll also never have "pure" (not ChatGPT-filled) data again.
It really is irreversible. The methods and compute needed to build a GPT-type AI are widely available.
I used to think the same way as you, and then I started a company and had to pay out of pocket for employees, and the sad truth that I almost hate myself for admitting is that if you have to pick between incompetent but nice, and competent but a jerk, you take the jerk. And yes, multiple people will even quit because you picked the jerk over the nice guy, and I still found it's worth it to take the jerk because of how competency scales. A good/competent software engineer can genuinely do the work of many, many mediocre developers and you're almost always better off with a small number of really solid developers over a large number of nice but mediocre ones.

Now of course we can always exaggerate things to an extreme and compare a racist, sexist, jerk who swears nonstop, to someone who is mildly incompetent, and there are certain principles and boundaries that are worth upholding with respect to how people treat each other regardless of their productivity, but in actuality that's not really the difficult choice you end up facing.

The really difficult choice you end up facing is someone who is nice and gets along with people but is ultimately too dependent on others to do their job versus someone who works independently and does an excellent job but is very blunt and can be an asshole in regards to the expectations they hold others to. Good software developers often expect their peers to also be at a high standard and will speak in very plain, rude, and blunt language if they feel others are not pulling their weight.

And finally, I have observed that in the long run, competent people tend to prefer to work with others whose skill they respect and they feel they can learn from because they're really good at their job, compared to working with someone who is pleasant but is always dependent on others. Being nice is a good short term skill to have, but people get used to those who are nice but they never get used to someone who is incompetent.
Bing is for free.
The message is "pause training for a few months so we can figure out how to approach liability, safety and regulation". You are fighting a strawman.
outliers.

that's not the recommended treatment.

hormone blockers are.

the right wing debate is however to criminalize the recommended treatment.
http://archive.today/LMiCs
No, functioning, so not like the US, universal public health care with costs covered by the government.

I'm not sure why you're ignoring a lot of Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
We need legislation fast.
> did you watch any of that?

i watched a little bit of it

> Is it not blatantly obvious that in this case, "democracy" is an illusion?

which part specifically gave that impression?
I've used both extensively and interchangeably. The fact that Microsoft got "Word" running in the web, and embedded inside another application, and made it all work mostly seamlessly is downright amazing. I've yet to encounter any issues with formatting between the three, and am constantly surprised at their ability to be consistent.

Now where it all goes pear-shaped, is not the technical side of it all, it's the UX and marketing teams that got involved. One big example is the "save" dialog that's been butchered beyond describing (even in the standalone desktop version of Word) in order to promote OneDrive and other microsoft offerings.
Yeah, this is what disqualifies me, although together with my partner, I could possibly make it work. I wonder what accommodation prices are like in Iceland.
>to have all my medical related tests and work, out of pocket, in the E.U.

Wow. Imagine a world where one entity received all the peoples medical bills instead. Too bad the EU can't achieve that.
Well, pre-industrial societies usually enjoyed a very efficient type of political system. Maybe replacing our current one with some form of AI with let us enjoy these blessed times again.
It's almost certainly the later.

This data should be verified by matching it against claims data.
Inline Dice Rolling for Obsidian.md
Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If a license does not permit users to make copies and sell them, it is a nonfree license.

This is moronic pseudo-religious doublespeak. They're saying it's acceptable to charge a fee for the one part of software creation that's effectively cost-free.
The number of times the hugging face emoji shows up in their documentation makes it feel oddly wholesome.
Lawmakers don't care about that. You're giving them way too much credit. Since the public is not in an uproar about this destructiveness, there are no votes or advantages to be gained by advocating against it.

That's for altruists, who rarely make it to Washington and don't last long when they do.
Totally agree with this, but I think it's very likely we'll see AI-written pop hits. They've basically been churned out factory style for years anyway.

And if that does happen, expect a far more exciting backlash movement, like alternative rock in the 90s was to garbage excesses of the 80s.
I think incompetent but nice can also lead to morale problems. Not as bad as the jerk situation, but eventually everyone notices this one person who does no work but is still getting paid. Which can lead to jealously and feelings of unfairness.
Auto-fill tools would still be super manual because none of these application workflows are consisntent, even on the exact same provider (myworkdayjobs). With auto-fill you're still effectively aligning fields on a page with saved values and it takes forever.
Microsoft stock has been going gangbusters for the past 6 months.

What's their excuse for layoffs?

When a company is doing well, if it lays off, I think we're looking at a fundamental problem.
True. Another example from the 90s would be Homicide: Life on the Street. It was "influential" in that David Simon himself went on to make The Wire and other famous shows. It had an overarching story in the murder of Adena Watson. And it imported a bunch of famous film actors to television as later "prestige" series would do.
Similar to this, does anyone know if a browser extension that I can paste in (or choose from some saved snippets) a series of playwright or puppeteer steps and have it execute? I could use the saved snippets in the sources tab of dev tools but miss the auto waiting and other niceties. This project seems a bit too slow and non-deterministic.
For the user to type in as a license key?

That's a special kind of evil...
Went down a rabbit hole after reading your comment - clearly a lot of the people in this community (that I also just learned about) care about him very much. Hope he turns up.

I did notice that his site was renewed on 2022-06-09 16:56:27 UTC, although from a comment on Emaculation it appears that this is exactly one year to the day that it was last renewed, meaning it was probably done automatically.
Isn't that the problem? In for profit healthcare being malicious IS the fiduciary duty. So long as everyone else is playing the same game, there's no reason for one insurance to suddenly "break good".
I mean, yeah, true. But only in the exact same way that Meta, Google, and a bunch of other American companies do too.
As Sam Altman (co-founder of OpenAI) said on a recent podcast, and someone who knows Elon well enough, he thinks Elon really cares, and really wanted to highlight that he is a human who cares.

source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/on-with-kara-swisher...

Swisher: Right. So Elon used to be the co-chair, and you have a lot of respect for him.

Altman: I do.

Swisher: I’m sure you thought deeply about his critiques. Have you spoken to him directly? Was there a break, or what? You two were very close, as I recall.

Altman: We’ve spoken directly recently.

Swisher: And what do you make of the critiques? When you hear them from him, I mean, he can be quite in your face about things.

Altman: He’s got his style.

Swisher: Yeah.

Altman: To say a positive thing about Elon —

Swisher: Yeah, I’d like you to.

Altman: … I think he really does care about a good future with AGI.

Swisher: He does.

Altman: And … I mean, he’s a jerk, whatever else you want to say about him. He has a style that is not a style that I’d want to have for myself.

Swisher: He’s changed.

Altman: But I think he does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future’s going to look like —

Swisher: For humanity.

Altman: For humanity.
Monopsonies require a single buyer with a stick to work. Economics teaches that to us since inception.

I am not sure why this is even a divisive topic. Sure discuss how a doctor decorates their office. Who cares. When you are dying or are in pain, nothing but treatment at any cost matters.
you missed the snark there. I hate SO.
The videos document not only this restoration but also the Apollo modules. It was decommissioned due to a movement problem. It was used until 2002 as a backup system over the digital. There is lot. The final part was part 3 for the seatbelt light to work.
I normally prefer browser to app. Why would I want to install yet more junk software, which might be doing who-knows-what, if I can get the same result without adding extra weird, untrustworthy stuff to my systems? This applies to PCs and much more so to phones - on phones standard of "trusted" is rather lower, and increasing the number apps has real downsides (battery, performance, etc)
Whether or not they're easier to solve, we haven't spent that much time trying to solve them yet.

Compare that to fossil fuels, which have had billions of dollars of research poured into them. We know what the cheapest forms of harm reduction are for fossil fuels, and they're not cheap enough even for the budgets of multiple nations.
I don't see why anyone would argue on security. They keep American social networks and software products out unless they "partner" with a Chinese company. It seems obvious we shouldn't allow a double standard here.

We gave up on forcing China to keep opening up to US trade if they want us to reciprocate. We shouldn't do that.
Or it would just be a Windows monopoly ecosystem. Without that loophole perhaps no open source unix-alike product would have been able to out compete Microsoft in the server space which is what lead to it's viability as core of a phone OS.
The reality is that both systems suck, and I say this having lived in systems with universal public healthcare.

They just suck in different manners, different countries have different degrees of "suckness" and so on.

And then there's the big problem beyond the question of who is paying: How much is being paid.

Healthcare costs in the US are absurdly high both on relative terms (things are way more expensive) and on absolute terms (more of the same things is needed because the American population is relatively too unhealthy for what you'd expect in a developed country with similar demographics). You need to ask why relatively inexpensive stuff like insulin is so much expensive in America than say, Germany or the UK.

If you don't solve this issue, a single payer system would probably become more similar to the terrible situation in most Latin American countries, where you have terrible supposedly universal public healthcare systems, but where in practice if you can pay for private insurance, you will do it.
Undefined Opcodes are just like C++ UB. They're very bad news, but they're nothing compared to how terrible IFNDR is. I think C++ programmers either don't realise how bad IFNDR is, or they just don't want to think about it. IFNDR means your entire program is always meaningless.

Let's take a UB example, an IFNDR example, and an undefined Opcode example and compare the potential consequences

1. UB example. We have a program which does some work in a loop, the user can select how many times between 0 and 256 the loop should execute. Unfortunately this should have been limited to 255 times, if the user picks 256 the loop exit condition is always false. In C++ this is Undefined Behaviour and the program's behaviour is arbitrary once that arises.

So long as you never select 256 in the loop iteration setting, this program is fine.

2. IFNDR example. This program only lets the user select between 0 to 200 iterations. Unfortunately if more than 10 iterations are used the arithetic inside the loop uses a std::vector of floating point values with an algorithm specifying that the values are std::totally_ordered, as a result this is IFNDR because floating point values are a structural match, so this compiles, but they aren't a semantic match for the total order concept and that's IFNDR. Even if the feature is never activated and nothing is ever processed with the std::totally_ordered algorithm, the behaviour of the entire program is undefined, the program has no meaning at all.

Running this program at all could cause anything to happen.

3. Undefined Opcode. This time the program has between 1 and 100 iterations, it's written in assembly but unfortunately due to an oversight for the odd numbers of iterations the undefined Opcode GLARK R0,R0 is executed which only works on a model of CPU which you don't have. This program misbehaves, perhaps spontaneously rebooting or showing other bizarre behaviour - but only if that Opcode is executed, which for even numbers of iterations never happens.

So long as you only use even numbers of iterations, this program is fine.
ChatGPT and Claude also get tripped by both questions
yeah, gonna need a few more M's of data work for that unfortunately.
In what sense is 'one in 100 year' equivalent to '0.2% every year'? With the latter you'd expect 0.2 of them in 100 years?

(Totally agree the phrasing is misleading to the layman though, which is really the only reason for it to exist anyway, in an attempt to be more relatable.)
Windows 10 LTSC - I couldn't agree more. If this version doesn't exist I'd be only using Windows for gaming at this point. I still heavily modify LTSC but it's a big improvement from the unusable HOME version.
Some "alignment folks" have suggested the government try to start treating GPUs like Uranium or nuclear reactors to stop anyone from developing AIs. Not sure if that's implementable though—cuttig edge GPUs are all manufactured in China. I doubt they'll be able to coordinate with the CCP on this issue. Do GPUs use those fancy chips that only made in Taiwan using equipment only a single Dutch company makes? It might be possible to a put stop to AI development then.

> Emad Mostaque, CEO, Stability AI

Et tu?

Anyway,

> Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?

Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
> Reverse a string in python.

> In Python, you can reverse a list or tuple by using the reversed() function on it. Here's an example of how to use this method with strings:

> my_string = "Hello World" # Define your original string here

reversed_str = my_string[::-1] # Use a slice and negative index for reverse order

print(reversed_str)

Hmm…
An expert that bullshits part of the time. You get to figure out when it's the expert and when it's the bullshitter.
You can accuse everyone of *isms, but there are a lot of us who have just never been persuaded by the many articles written to scare us about the effects of AI.

The concerns about all the jobs going away have been persistent but the labor market continues to be extremely strong. As long as entrepreneurship is creating new business opportunities and new ways to turn labor into value, it's completely possible that the effects of automation are drowned out by new applications of labor. In fact, this is what we've seen throughout the industrial revolution: constant anxiety about automation that fails to materialize in to mass unemployment.

The concerns about polluting the information space are still hypothetical as well. The current information space is a complete garbage fire and it's not due to generative AI. Might it get worse if bots start spamming people with GPT generated text on social media? Yeah it might. But social media is already terrible and we need to do something about it regardless of that.
Personally I loved how Classic MacOS stored all it's file references as an "alias" data type which used the equivalent of inode, going as far as encoding file server connection details for auto-reconnect and a fallback path of inodes and names to traverse in case the file was removed and replaced.

But that worked in an OS that had no command line - UNIX users are allergic to binary configuration formats and demand to be able to type path names.
To me it's binary. If I've ever used it for real and not just as a curiosity, it's at scale.
Funny you say that. Have you noticed how yourube adverts now pause when you scroll into comments?
> On one hand, I've been one of Microsoft's biggest fans.

Microsoft helped lift me my family out of poverty. I grew up in Seattle, in the shadow of Microsoft and their Redmond campus. My father was a laborer who helped built Bill Gate's mansion, and who helped built parts of their Redmond campus.

He was incredibly, incredibly, proud, that I drove to work everyday down the streets he had helped plant trees on. He told almost everyone he met that his son worked at Microsoft.

Microsoft did a lot of good in the 90s and early 2000s[0], they created a standard platform which the world built upon. They created a stable foundation for thousands upon thousands of developers to build their livelihood. They paid for generations of children to learn programming in free or next to free programs across the country (and across the world). Since their missteps and the rise of mobile, the industry hasn't had a stable development platform to build upon, and we've collectively wasted untold billions of dollars in productivity on crappy cross platform solutions.

When I was at Microsoft, the customer was king. I put a stop to plenty of bad behavior by saying "is this what is right for the customer?" and if the answer was no, code didn't ship.

But Microsoft is a fear driven company, they were afraid of the rise of the tablet so they made Windows 8, and then they became afraid of Google so they constantly attempt to go for ads. (First they went for search, but then eventually realized Google isn't a search company...) Heck the original reason Explorer was supposed to get tabs was so ads could be shown in new explorer tabs[1].

The other problem is, Microsoft got rid of Software Development Engineers in Test, and they replaced them with devs doing test. But at Microsoft, SDETs served as the last line of defense for the users, as an SDET it was made clear to me from day 1 of my employment that I had the power to stop shipment of software if I felt the code wasn't up to snuff. As a junior SDET I only ever used that power once, I was damn well scared, and when I spoke up and said we had open bugs that I personally considered ship blockers, the lead dev said no problem, the release would be delayed until his team fixed the bugs.

No one has that role anymore. Before I left MS around 2016 or so, I saw a fellow developer instructed by the design team to make a UI component behave as if it followed the MacOS design guidelines. The (junior) dev didn't realize that was what he had been told to do, and it obviously took a long time for him to beat the Windows UI controls into shape until they worked like the MacOS UI controls, and when I asked him why he was doing this, he said he was too scared to push back.

That is what SDETs were for. To hold the bloody line. Facebook's "move fast an break things" motto gave the industry an excuse to gut dedicated test teams, and now all software everywhere sucks, but no one under 30 realizes anything is wrong because from their perspective things have always been shitty and broken.

[0] Yes yes and Linux bad lawsuits etc etc, separate discussion.
[1] The ads were to be for Microsoft Store apps IIRC.