skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently working on a game despite not being very familiar with Unity. When I have some feature I need explained, or running into some bug in the game, I'd usually use Google and find some forum post that hopefully has a similar problem to mine and go from there. With GPT, I can just tell it the problem and get an answer, without scouring through multiple posts or having to constantly readjust my query. Yes, the information it produces might be incorrect, but I think the (time needed to verify the solution provided) is less than the (time needed to produce a search query that gets the articles you want * time needed to read each article and see if it helps me).

Here's an example regarding grounded characters sticking to walls:

prompt: Thanks! I added walls and ground to my game, as well as detection so that if the player touches the ground, they will be in a grounded state. However, when the touch the vertical face of the ground/wall, they stick to it. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

response: It seems like the issue you're encountering is related to the physics and collision detection in your game. The player is likely detecting the wall as the ground, and it's causing the grounded state to be triggered when it shouldn't be. To fix this, you can modify your ground detection code to take the angle of the surface into account.

Here's a solution using the Physics.Raycast method:

Assuming you have a LayerMask called groundLayer for ground detection, make sure the ground and walls are assigned to the appropriate layers in the Unity Editor

[...further details on using angle detection on collision, as well as accurate sample code]

I can even ask it to give me the reference for the _Physics.Raycast_ method:

response: Certainly! Here's the official Unity documentation for Physics.Raycast:

[URL to official docs filtered out by HN]

Physics.Raycast - Unity Manual
The Physics.Raycast method allows you to perform raycasts in your scene to detect collisions with 3D objects.

[...further information on how to use it, including an accurate code example pulled from the docs]

This just drastically reduces time-to-solution, especially when you consider you can lazily leave out information and still get a good response.

In short, I treat it as though each session is a fine-tuned search engine and get a lot of value from it, but it doesn't completely replace forums or Youtube videos, for one it can't argue with itself to provide conflicting but valid alternate solutions - I'd have to argue with it/ask it to produce those.
The characterization that IP law is only intended to spur creative activity is incorrect. It was designed to balance the interests of the creator with those of society. And that balance is off, IP regulation has become a tool for rent seeking.
Me neither, but I think before long people like us are going to be left behind. We're like people who insist on continuing to ride horses in the age of the automobile.
Owning an iPhone shows the owner has privilege to overpay for commodity hardware, manufactured in their backyard; no one will give it up.
I appreciate your answer, Thank You!
Several necessary ingredients of human intelligence are present in GPT-4: complex pattern matching, abstraction from concrete examples and apply the abstract patterns to new examples, pattern interpolation, basic reasoning.

This is evident by its ability to generalize from the training set to new problems within many domains.

It's still unable to generalize as well as a smart human beyond the distribution it was specifically trained on, which is evident by its poor performance on AMC, Leetcode medium and hard, and Codeforces problems. But most humans are not great at these kinds of problems either.

Benchmark and test results: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4
I agree. One possible reason it might not be the case is if they changed the policy. At lot of times I've seen stuff in the contract that basically says the company makes up all the rules and can change any time with or without notice. It could worth having your wife look up the current policy in the handbook and printing it out if it also states that unused PTO is paid out and how PTO is accrued.
well dead and dead
I chose the war on purpose precisely to make that point.

Why do you think there are any situations at all where people (at large) don't want reporting that reinforces their world view?

How would you define neutrality, like a one sentence definition?

I think doing so will make you understand pretty quickly that in doing "report the viewpoints of the top 3-4 groups" even choosing "the top 3-4 groups" already defies neutrality because you are implicily equating those groups giving them equal status and giving authority to whoever determines the top 3-4 groups. If 1 group is fringe, you are letting them be main stream.

The people chosen will alter the Overton Window whether the intent was to do so or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Those donations can often be arranged to be tax deductible, so instead of letting $Government spend the money you get to direct its course a little more precisely. At larger income levels they often manage to make a donation pay off as "taxes", but also obligate others of their strata socially, and wield control over the recipients ("we'll sponsor your publication for a year of you dont talk about $controversy").
You can define engineering in many ways, and none of them is equally right in every possible context in which the term is used (so it has this in common with every other word).

However, there are some ideas clustered around that seem to have something to do with it. Engineering on a ship has to do with electrical and mechanical systems, and in a highly constrained set of outcomes, essentially reducible to a single bit at any point in time. (Either the systems are up and running right now, or they aren't.) Within this system of evaluation of outcomes, it's not surprising if the engineers in this context aren't using maths every day but are engaged mainly in more practical actions. However, you can be sure that they know a lot of safety tolerances and operational characteristics of various ship systems that would be characterized as mathematical, even if they are mostly operating well within tolerances that make these operations routine.

One reason why people argue about "software engineering" is that there are authors who define it specifically to include scientistic or bureaucratic rituals that have no mathematical underpinning, while excluding the difficult mathy bits of engineering. The further you get from actual engineering, the more common this definition gets.

EWD1165 "There is still a war going on.":

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd11xx/EWD1165.PDF
I always interpreted moores law as having 2 aspects, the scaling part (cramming more per mm2), and the economic aspect (for minimum component cost).

So when people say moores law is dead, it's often confusing as clearly things are still scaling (3nm crams significantly more transistors in than 7nm), but the cost per transistor has flattened, or possibly inverted a bit.
I'm pretty sure my dog would qualify for an entry level engineering position at an FAANG from listening to me talk about work while we're walking.
I don't use them either.

I've played around with ChatGPT and Copilot a little, and found that they often are subtly, but very confidently wrong in their output when asked to perform a programming task.

Sure you could spend ages refining the prompt etc, but its going to be faster to just write the fucking code yourself in the first place most of the time.

Then there's the privacy/security concerns...
Don’t fail to see Nyarlathotep if he comes to Providence. He is horrible—horrible beyond anything you can imagine—but wonderful. He haunts one for hours afterward. I am still shuddering at what he showed.
Sadly Mick Jagger is on my list, his death would mark the end of an era.
Can this really be everything publically known about the ANE? Sounds hard to believe, I would have thought someone would have reverse engineered something about it by now.
Buried in the article is this gem: "The latest language model, GPT-4, has 1 trillion parameters." - have no idea if it's true or not.
> More than one-third require employees to be on a live, monitored video feed

Goodness that’s a lot of companies not worth working for…
I'm fascinated by people saying they use GPT for boilerplate. Whenever I find myself doing simple/repetitive stuff, I tend to stop in my tracks and make that go away. Usually following the rule of three: If I do something for a second time, I don't generalise/generate just yet. If I need it a third time, I sit down and do it. Is that unusual? That said, I am mostly working with high level languages that make this generalisation relatively easy.
Ask HN: Why is HN showing a black bar now?
Interstingly, why cloud solutions don't adopt Sql/med standard (ie risingwave, snowflake), they all have their specific sql syntax for that, as well as inroducing addional 'connector' and 'source' terms, not sure if sql/med have that (as i cannot read standard right away as it's not free).
geohot's findings:

https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/tree/master/accel/ane
Octopuses, or if you want the Greek plural: octopodes. "Octopi" is the Latin pluralisation of a Greek word.
It makes sense when you understand that

1 America is the superpower

2 they want to destroy any and all competition

When powers clash things happen. See WW1. At least war is unlikely since both sides have nukes.
I don't actually feel this is a particularly modern thing, this has happened before with 1920s prohibition, McCarthyism, the war on drugs, etc.

It seems to be one of the weaknesses of American democracy, that a minority can enforce their will on a majority by sparking some sort of moral outrage that most voters don't actually share.

Not sure what exactly causes it. If it's the electoral college system, the senator system, the belief in laissez-faire capitalism, the American "dream", the lack of history, or what.

Maybe European democracies are just as vulnerable to it, but I'm just not as exposed to their news as I am to American news and it's something completely different.

But, for example, in the UK we had Mary Whitehouse who tried this tactic but it was generally ineffective.

Be interested to know if anyone's seen any good social or political explanations of it?
Kanban Metadata
Copies of GTA 6 won't work online, which is what the vast majority of people are likely going to be buying it for. Lack of copyright also doesn't mean lack of sales. GTA 5 was a huge commercial success despite being cracked in days.

I pay for Tidal and buy 99% of my games despite having access to safe private trackers. On the other hand I pirate 100% of my TV and movies. Make of that what you will but for me it's always a service issue (or lack thereof).
I was reluctant in using phrases like "skip prose", because I thought it would end up in a Waluigi.
I have outsourced all bs e-mails to chatgpt. It used to take 15-20 minutes to write "corporate emails" but now i just write them to chatgpt in real life language and it converts them. Works well. Bosses are happy, so am I.
6 hours of testimony that, at most, 2-3% of the country even glanced at is a spectacle in your eyes?

This looks like splitting, or you're deliberately failing to understand how lawmaking works and the importance of making informed decisions at the federal level, in the long term.

Congress constantly grills CEOs, the elite, and victims because it is understood that they reshape society, sometimes for the worse, not always on purpose.

Is a law needed? How do we tax it? Who is being harmed? What is the harm? Can a law be enforced?

The transparency is by default. Not a "spectacle".
You know Australia has the highest % of power generated by solar of any country?

You know Australia is the biggest lithium exporter? You know Australia has copper, rare earths, all required for renewable energy?

You know Australia also exports the most IRON, a necessary ingredient for steel, right?

Where does this delusion that Australia isn't lucky come from?
My most common usage now is asking it to come up with names for functions/classes.
You can iterate on the names it come up by telling it why you don't like the names it proposed.
I think you misunderstood me since that's exactly my point.

From the trees, it's great for the curious that it might take more than compute and training.

From the forest, it'd be infinitely preferable if AGI were just a matter of more money. There are mysteries we can't even envision yet that would more than make up for any "lost curiosity"
Top story on the site is about the death of a very significant figure.
https://www.moore.org/article-detail?newsUrlName=in-memoriam...

Black tends to be used for mourning. So probably that.
For doing simple tasks such as help writing unit tests.

I need to often give some examples from other tests. I need to make many edits, but it spits out enough to have a basic boilerplate-ish template and speeds up my work by at least ~25%.
The simple solution to this equation is that the assumption in number 3 isn’t correct.

Gold is not a store (or measure) of value. Nobody cares about gold. Sure, some people might like to have a gold ring or necklace, but that’s a tiny amount of material for a small number of people and it’s demand (like diamonds) is primarily marketing driven, and easily satisfied by a side effect of copper mining. Until the average Joe demands that his life savings be spent on a gold sarcophagus, it just won’t matter.

People tend to prefer fancy cars and houses and electronics and vacations and food and drink.

And you can see the cost of all those things has more than doubled in recent years, a clear indicator of inflation cause by (practically) zero percent interest rates.
Note that it put the income tax forecast at risk.

The individual taxpayer was paying ~hundreds of millions per year into an $86 billion dollar budget. It's kind of wild that an individual would be paying a tenth of a percent (or so) of a state's income taxes, but it's maybe not a substantial fraction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297420
IMO business needs shouldn't be a ticket - have some refinement first then explain clearly what do you want me to do.

IDK why it's hard for me to explain my sentiment, but I've worked in corp environments with large teams of averages using JIRA vs small teams of smart remote people. In the later my tickets were almost always very clear resulting in 1 or 2 short and tactical meetings per week. In corp environment I have 10 meetings per week spanning hours. The productivity is easily 10x worse.
Hey chatGPT, give me some arguments against eating octopuses.
can't code reliably: https://twitter.com/thisritchie/status/1638608737718919174
> random syntax trivia like array[::-1]

That‘s not random syntax trivia. It‘s a slice. Pretty generic and straighforward.
I don't think anyone expected LLMs to do this well on code problems. Just a few years ago they were struggling to get the syntax right. But since it does seem to work in many cases, it's only reasonable to explore its limits. But in the end, automated math & programming will most likely not be done using LLMs, but with purpose-built systems. The major players are of course already working on this, including OpenAI [1] and DeepMind [2].

[1] https://openai.com/research/formal-math (feb '22)

[2] https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a... (feb '22)
> There's more to being a "woman" than having female reproductive organs.

What is it then ?

Edit: I'm sorry, i realise that this is a troll-leading question, that ensures no good answer, because we can't give a good answer that doesn't offend someone. It shows that we're as a group intentionally ignoring basic reality, which is a shame but it is what it is.
> It what?

Muddied the definition of a recession when the question came up.

> Also if you predict a recession every year you'll eventually get one right, but that doesn't make you right about recession predictions in general.

Yep. That's pretty much the game of predictions.

> 2019's inflation was below target.

Which target? The one the Fed determines? Consumer inflation at the moment (~7%) is rivalling rates witnessed back in the 80s. Add the new money the Fed has printed over time (since 2008) and now expected to continue (covid stimulus, bailouts for banks etc.), anyone can see where the trend for inflation is going. No predictions are even needed for that.
The Wondrous, Gloriously Absurd Spectacle of “Moonfall” (2022)
Who gave them the right to say it was legal or illegal in the first place? People in here pretending one party is better than the other because they give you back fundamental human rights they have no business controlling the legality of to begin with.
In my experience they are very well supported. I think the old USB controller lacks some of the performance optimizations mainly. Not sure how fast the new board versions get support, though.
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Google is at the top of the industry, making billions, there is no point in disrupting the market, without a clear business model

Now the little guy, if they can throw a curve ball, they will probably increase their market share

Happens all the time, employee works in Big co, sees technology not being taken advantage, opens startup, open source part of business for competitive advantage
GEOS is an early GUI system for the Commodore 64 computer.

https://github.com/geos64128/HG2G2022

That manual contains some detail on how it works.

Source code for GEOS
https://github.com/mist64/geos

Quickdraw is the graphics library for the Apple Macintosh
https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-sour...

Digital Research GEM is another early GUI used in that Atari ST line of computers and later PC systems. Source code is available on the following page.
http://www.deltasoft.com/downloads.htm
> such a build graph

Nonsense. All build systems implement a DAG of build targets.

> why caching tools can't be used effectively

Nonsense. There are a myriad of caching tools freely available, from ccache, sccache, build cache, etc. To get them to work, all you need to do is pass compiler launchers to them, which means setting a single env/build flag.

The author is either trying hard to make a mountain out of irrelevant molehills, or is outright being disingenuous.

Bazel is being sold as a solution desperately grasping at straw-like problems, while being feature incomplete.
You are seriously underestimating the importance and potential of communication. Excellent communication conveys expectations, specificity, and manipulation in ways you are not capable of imagining without so being skilled. It’s the difference between effective leadership and being a tool.
Thanks. Wasn’t aware of this.
is sabbatical or moving to another team an option? why leave the company altogether?
I don't have a phone. Every moment is magical :)
Ask HN: How much money have you spent so far on (access to) AI tools?
Emergent, as in, "we cannot explain how this works," yes. That is nothing new in the field of ML or to anyone who has been paying attention.
Nazism is not illegal in the US. Copyright infringement is. Easier to stand up for your principles if government doesn't threaten you directly.
I think that time will come, but we'll have self-hosted options before employers start discriminating based on performance with or without AI tools. So I'm not too worried about it.
CheatGPT. Love the pun :)
The Panic of 1907: How J.P. Morgan Took over Wall Street (2021)
If the young human death rate was 99.9%, would that make killing adult humans okay?

If a human has cancer, and is going to die in a month, would that make killing that human okay?

I am sure the humans in the above examples would wish to live, and if we killed them, against their wishes, it would be murder.

I think those octopi - including the young who die - all wish to live; and that all creatures either behave to live (plants and bacteria, for exmaple) or, and the more so as their brains become more capable, have a specific and individual wish to live, be it purely instinctive, emotional, or with higher creatures such as elephants, dolphins and gorillas, an actual personal self-conscious wish to live.
You misunderstand it if that’s your conclusion
bing for browsing and solving problems in code or otherwise. I still use a my old Brave browser for Youtube and most other browsing still.

I will probably start using ChatGPT again now that theyre adding plugin support
$6B of thieving every year by people who are supposed to stop crime is plenty to call it. That's your own number. It should be zero billion. Six of them should be a national crisis.
I'd also need to create a throwaway google account because I can't risk they close my account due to some automated term and conditions check or whatnot
GalliumOS is done since last December, but if the hardware is supported, it is usually the most performant solution.

One needs to keep in mind though that, depending on the device, some features might not be fully supported (like custom touchpad drivers).
Is this with Chatgpt or GPT4? The latter is supposed to be way, way better, according to this paper[1]

[1] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712
Regarding the "live forever" command that the magician gave to the young Bradbury, Bradbury had a chance to sign up for cryonics, which is objectively the only way to get a chance to live forever, but he said that he could not face waking up in the future where he knew nobody, and that he cannot stand to leave his friends and neighborhood and neighbors of his current life.. so maybe he had a chance to live forever by signing up for cryonics, but he decided against it
Ai definitely senses and definitely makes decisions. It does not feel. But it understands concepts. Just like people don’t understand everything—and you can test them to see what they understand—AI understanding can also be assessed with benchmarks. If we don’t base AI understanding on benchmarks, then we don’t really have a grounding.
My question too. This semi-answer on the page seems to contradict itself (source: https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine/blob/master/docs/p... ):

"> Can I program the ANE directly?

Unfortunately not. You can only use the Neural Engine through Core ML at the moment.

There currently is no public framework for programming the ANE. There are several private, undocumented frameworks but obviously we cannot use them as Apple rejects apps that use private frameworks.

(Perhaps in the future Apple will provide a public version of AppleNeuralEngine.framework.)"

The last part links to this bunch of headers:

https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers/tree/master/Priva...

So might it be more accurate to say you can program it directly, but won't end up with something that can be distributed on the app store?
You might notice that this whole Mr. Electro schtick is the core of the Stephen King novel Revival, with an ending that was quite unlike his usual; King has always had a huge yen for all things Bradbury.
The Simpsons were joking on exactly this censorship happening 30 years ago, so I don't think it's caused by social media.
Also documentation is, how to say, heavily styled in a sense.

If you disliked a certain teaching style before you were basically screwed. I've learned some languages purely because the documentation was fun for me personally.
Is there any news about a dark grey (space grey) option or a full matte black one?
Would love to see a full dark chassis for the 16" one.
The same also goes for Russia. Despite exporting tons of fossil fuels their own electric grid is relatively green mostly due to nuclear power. They also are a major exporter of nuclear tech, which was not sanctioned at all.