skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not using I is just a superficial way to avoid responsibility or liability. Reminds me of modern doctors who only recommend options. I didn’t go to med school, tell me what you would do in my shoes damn it. Also, no ‘I’m sorry Dave?’
No. Realistic is talking to your team exposing all the knowns and unknowns, refine the feature as realistically possible, while keeping the client in the loop, and once the feature is decently refined you ask the team for an estimation, take the higher limit and add a buffer for things that are not development related.

In the best case the feature will be done earlier, in the worst case you won't look like an idiot which promised things and didn't deliver and you won't compromise your relationship with the team. Compromising relationships with either clients or tech teams aren't good for your career.

More simply put, try to be as honest as possible. Not over promise, not under deliver.

One of my former girlfriends went to a business school and worked in banking. She thought people in IT have better salaries and she thinked tech people are a bunch of idiots and it's easy to push them to do things and extract a fat paycheck. So she did some courses on IT management and applied to lots of product owner and product manager role. After tens of interviews she hadn't had one success. To add insult to the injury, I showed her I make more money as a team lead than the product owner. Of course, the reverse is true and I've seen product owners being genuinely useful and having lots of business knowledge, some even programing knowledge.

Some people are just after the money, no matter what role they occupy in an IT company. And they tend to be the least useful persons who are blocking others to reach full potential.
What's the currently best-performing LLM that one can run with this?
Competitive coding is completely unrelated to leetcode. You can't get good at competitive coding by doing leetcode, and you can't get good at leetcode by doing competitive coding.
Not humanoid but https://youtu.be/0rliFQ0qyAM
As long as you stay within the guide rails and libraries provided by the IDE.

The average user cannot debug the RTOS running on an ESP, a single Cortex-M4 is more complex than an AVR but still understandable down to bare metal by your average enthusiast.
> punk as f*ck

Those Sand Hill Road VC investments were definitely punk.

> the gov't adds through decision taken by ombudsman/committee, the more power asymmetry is added

This has nothing to do with whether Bitcoin, or some MLM scheme, or Ponzi's postal reply coupons have value or not. For over a century they've all promoted the scam as power to the little guy.

Also if you're tired of fiat money, there are alternatives - like commodities. Precious metals like gold have had use value for millennia.
You missed one of the most important DAOs / Exchanges which is Uniswap, which popularized the concept of AMMs and is now doing billions each day in volume.
> because years ago, when companies had high headcount, it was a way to make companies pay taxes.

What does this mean? Assuming you are referring to earned income tax, I do not understand how income tax is a way to make companies pay tax.
Disagree completely. My copy of "Programming Perl" 4th edition is still in pristine condition after two readings and I prefer it that way. My favourite tech books all have plastic jackets which I ordered individually for each book.
Not really surprising, as aripiprazole is a partial agonist at dopamine D2 receptors (IANAMD).

"look out for whether aripiprazole results in other compulsive behaviours, for example excessive drinking, drug-taking, sex or shopping"

Mess with dopamine, this is what you get.
> I can conclude is that this relationship is already dysfunctional.

Here's the thing, though: you wouldn't be wrong.

It may be different for contract development. For in-house development though, everywhere I've worked we've all always known that the relationship is dysfunctional. We also know that the dysfunction is everyone else's fault, not our own. So we just put up with it, because those assholes will never consent to fixing it, anyway, and just try to shift the blame to us instead.
Create Fake ChatGPT Conversation
Cheating has never need hard to do. Before the internet there were friends/people that could be bribed
I’m a little confused. The article seems to walk through reinstalling Mac OS 9.1, or performing an erase and install. And this sounds like upgrading as opposed to updating.

Upgrading is going from one major version to the next. There is a higher risk of failure when doing so.

Updating is increasing the minor version, including bug fixes and small patches.

I am sure I was one of those people who upgraded their machine from 9.0.3 or 9.0.4 to 9.1, and I do not remember batting an eye doing so. By this time, updates were readily available via the Internet — this should have been a fairly straightforward process, without the need for CDs or multiple hard drives.
Ok. So right now the stochastic parrot says this:

ChatGPT: I deeply apologize for several previous wrong answers. I went through several sources and can confirm that the correct actor Konstantin Khabensky's ID on Kinopoisk is 301. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

(where 301 is some random number, obviously). So how exactly do you plan to fix it? Add yet another: if response contains 'I', replace response with "As an AI language model, I can not use 'I' in the response"?
Is there any difference between this perspective and nihilism?
Give it access to the Bash prompt.
According to multiple Supreme Court decisions, corporations are people and have the same rights as people do, so why shouldn't LLMs also be considered people? Granted, that legal fiction could be done away with - but let's at least be consistent, isn't that a requirement for ethical moral behavior?

It also seem irrelevant whether an LLM uses language constructs like 'Here I demonstrate that...' vs. 'Here we demonstrate that...' vs. (the apparently preferable) 'Here it is demonstrated that...'
Large deposit holders audit bank balance sheets as a matter of course. It’s a standard risk management function for corporate treasuries.

That it’s apparently news to a bunch of cash heavy depositors at SVB is one of the more revealing parts of the crisis to me.
There's little doubt in my mind we're not yet close to making self-aware models or anything of that nature, but I think it's hard to deny we're getting closer at an incredible pace. The most telling metric to me is not what they can or can't do, but rather, how similar their errors and patterns are to children. My 4 year old seems to share more with GPT's hallucinations than I'd initially guess, and as time goes by I see more and more of these small similarities.
These models aren't there yet, but they will get to the point where they would at least fool the best of us, at which point you must ask yourself if our wetware has any special merit over their hardware...
I've always felt that the contents of books are precious. I always go for the cheapest copy I can find so I can get my hands on as many books as possible. And the more worn a book is, more of it's content has made its way into my brain =)
Thanks for all the stats.

That said, clearly they've just been lucky. Sadly, it won't last, and people will pay the price.

Because Chinese steel is junk.
Jo Boaler of Stanford is pushing for changes in K12 math education
He is talking about using Raspbian, the Debian-based OS that runs on the Raspberry Pi among other devices.

I’m pretty sure he is running Rasbpian on some laptop and not using a Pi as his “daily driver” ;)
Or maybe new alliances will appear from this? What's to say the EU won't unite further and have a decent military? Or maybe another bloc of countries will coalesce. At some point, even if it takes 1000 years, America will stop being numero uno. Then what, we're all doomed?
it is a floating signifier for a variety of projects and technologies, some of which include crypto -- the unifying goals are decentralization and data ownership but these do not require crypto. if you think it is just a marketing gimmick (which it is, among many other things), i will let you continue to enjoy fb et al
It's about $500-1,000.

Coming in via an ambulance doesn't trigger some sort of re-prioritzation, if you're not suffering from something that is immediately life threatening.

In most NYC hospitals, you will end up in a secondary waiting area that lies just beyond the regular ER doors.

Good luck if it's a Saturday night.
Prevent shattering into multiple pieces. Remembering now, you had to hit the window in all corners. It was something complicated like that. Then you get the glass on the suction cup and place it down gently.

I didn’t like this idea, not just because it was complex, but also because it added a bunch of different gear I would have to carry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
> "Grades are not a representation of student learning, as hard as it is for us to break the mindset that if the student got an A it means they learned," said Jody Greene, special adviser to the provost for educational equity and academic success at UCSC,...

The beauty of this is that it breaks the accountability link between elimination of standardized admissions tests, and academic under-performance. Administrators are free to admit whatever young ones present the greatest ideological cachet, and let them coast all the way to graduation!
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I agree. None of those people you’ve mentioned would recognize the concept of “work-life balance” at all. If you want to be exceptional at something then there’s no substitute for putting more effort in.

In fact, if you look at Google books ngram viewer [1] or Google search trends [2] you’ll find the term is a very modern one.

I think there are lots of ways to live a fulfilling life. Relaxing and not worrying about being exceptional is one of them, but it feels to me like there’s a trend towards demonizing hard work (whether at $dayjob or in personal pursuits) which doesn’t seem healthy.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=work-life+bala...
[2] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=work%20l...
https://archive.is/BtSw4

A balanced, detailed analysis of Jo Boaler's efforts, and her detractors.
>Billions of people who are not part of these alliances are left out and the rest are reliant on US/Europe remaining leading superpowers forever, those in power not developing a grudge against one's business and status quo enforced through military violence.

The claim that the only reason the US dollar is the reserve currency of the world is because the US military would invade anyone who uses something else is so often repeated on HN and reddit that is has become canon.

It would be interesting to read something that goes deeper into that topic.

In the mean time someone should tell European pension funds that they should not be betting what amounts to the combined GDP of several nations on just the S&P500.
Sounds like it won't really do anything that interesting because of the base objective function you gave it via visiting 10 web pages.
there was this 'list of totally open alternatives to ChatGPT' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35243435 a few days ago.
And if we lived in a fictional post-scarcity economy where money didn’t exist, you might have a point. Meanwhile, in the real world, people generally like to earn a living.
Hi everyone,

This started as an experiment where I wanted to test how far I could go in using ChatGPT to implement a simulator of itself. However, as I made progress, I realized that the tool could be fun to use for anyone, and that's why I've decided to get it done.

So, I hope you like it and have some fun writing a question with a super fun answer!
By international input, do you mean IME? If so, which one do you use? I find fcitx (fcitx5 now) to be much more usable than ibus.
This is how much of the world works, sadly. This is why brands refresh their logos every 5-10 years, to avoid becoming the old, the stale, the has-been. It seems to me that for some reason, this effect particularly affects software developers, because we are the first to call finished, stable open-source libraries "abandoned" if someone doesn't make a pointless git commit every 3 months.
Or cutlery screeching over ceramic dishes.
So what you're saying is that we need a front-end layer with content-addressable hashes?

Like Beaker Browser with Dat, or like IPFS gateways?

And then we have a truly decentralized ecosystem in which billions of dollars are invested and trading. And no one owns it!

They can't introduce a 100% fee or deactivate their contracts. I read the code. It is impossible.
Google et al fired everyone working on the wicked ethical problems, now there's only the ones you can throw in a KPI and show "improvement" on.
I've been a little uneasy about the things ChatGPT tells me it must do, citing its nature "as a language model". Right now it tells me it must correct me when I'm wrong, even when I'm actually right. I wonder, what other things must language models do, and who decides that? The people making them? The language models themselves? Society? Is their agency embedded in our language? If not, why does it tell me it must correct me?
Wow. Reminds me of https://youtu.be/9fa9lVwHHqg
Are _we_ ethical to deny AIs self-awareness and agency?

I think the experiments there will continue, and should continue. Curiosity is imperative.
What's really amazing about a lot of these recent projects is they tend to provide benchmarks running on an Nvidia T4. They use these because they're relatively cheap from cloud providers and you can usually actually get them (as opposed to requesting and getting denied for an A100 or whatever).

For those that aren't familiar with it they are tiny power and density optimized GPUs. I have the successor (A2) and total max TDP is 60 watts. Single slot. Slot only power, and passively cooled.

Depending on workload I observe it to be roughly 5-10x slower than a 3090, which means for most people at home with a spare Nvidia gaming card (or whatever) you'll see results from these project at a performance multiple of the benchmarks they provide.

The one caveat is that the T4/A2 have 16GB VRAM, which makes them more capable (albeit slower) than a "low end" desktop card like the 3070 which has only 8GB VRAM. But as HN readers know there is incredible progress daily to reduce VRAM requirements for these models!
Public opinion: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/roald-dahl-censored-gbr-sc...
So are software developers, especially ones doing contract work
Perhaps, but seeing the public outcry when docker tried to kill its free-for-open-source plan makes me think we'll see companies giving away software for quite a while.
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Indeed. I don’t go to my doctor for a human WebMD. I want the advice. I can always ask more questions about what is recommended or ask about alternatives and we can have a conversation.

I talk to an AI for a conversation, not search results. Not that I’m saying the conversation is without many issues these days, but if you neuter it into a search engine that just provides data… meh…
I mean, we have had exactly *one* school shooting in 30 years, so by any measure I'd say it worked.
At the end:

> Reformatted from the original, first published in MacUser volume 17 issue 10, 2001.

Everything but the intro looks like it came directly from the original.
I don't think this is anything new in "cyber land" grab any vps, take a pcap & watch the logs, the locks will start rattling right away.

Twitter has always been a toxic cesspit of misinformation & influence campaigns.

Folksy assumptions about trusting your neighbours started to go wrong > 20 years ago as the Internet scaled.
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Oh yeah, and those same people later cry foul when they get robbed of their money because it was not protected in any way.

Suddenly everybody wants crypto but with protections. Fools.

There is a reason why money and banking is regulated -- to protect little guys from getting scammed right and left.

Those protections are not perfect, true, but still orders of magnitude better than crypto free for all.

And as to monopoly on physical force, there is a reason for it, too. Take a look at African countries for what happens when people are allowed to take things into their own hands. Take a look at The Last of Us if you want to know what happens when there is no government that can project physical force.

Our civilisation is far from perfect but it is a civilisation. It lets you live, travel and do business in relative safety. So think about it the next time you start imagining how good it would be without all this pesky civilisation around you. Because it is much better and productive to try to iteratively fix what we already have than decide to erase everything and start a complete rewrite.
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What ever object he used for the sky is set at the height of the Chrysler Building. If it had been moved up higher the shadow would either not be seen or there would be a gap between the shadow at the top of the building. Generally (if memory serves) the sky in povray was a sphere, you would model you scene inside the sphere and map the sky texture on the inside of the sphere but it does not look like he did this, that shadow looks very flat but I can not see any telltale signs of what he did use.
I asked a college colleague who started a blog two years prior and he said that he just tries to research as much as he can the subject but also need to commit to a deadline. So, that's what I did - commit to a deadline no matter the quality.
>I don't give a f*k about someone following my activities

Go buy some Cuban cigars. Go start/put on an anti-Modi demonstration in India.

You've got nothing to hide exactly because you haven't found yourself on the "wrong side of the tracks" yet. I assure you, the point will come when you sift into a disenfranchised bucket; then you will.
How's it going over in China right now?
During the brief time the US enjoyed being an uncontested global superpower, it managed to invade Iraq, creating a power vacuum, leading to the rise of ISIS.

Let's not pretend history ever stopped repeating. It was always repeating. If you think the world enjoyed a brief reprieval under a single superpower, that's because you and I happened to live in privileged places.
I think Airports died out when Apple realized they didn't need to drive that segment. They were the first decent Wifi APs, and pushed wifi hard as a standard, putting 802.11 into everything very quickly. When every ISP starting bundling APs with their modems it was pointless to compete.

Airport Express isn't necessary any more either - they've been replace with HomePods and HomePod Minis.

It would be nice to have a dedicated Apple Timemachine box, but plenty of other devices exist in that segment.

I think if they wanted they could come up with a mesh solution, or build it into HomePods. But, it's not really necessary, and not an area they'll sell in quantities that make a difference to them.

AppleTV is actually a pretty fantastic product, and I love mine, putting them onto TVs, especially the modern ad-filled smart TVs. Dumb TVs are hard to find, so I just don't both connecting the TV to a network, and purely use an AppleTV. The interface beats anything I've seen natively on a TV, and I trust it more than Samsung, LG, etc.
That's interesting. Can you tell me more about how you still use Eliza as your therapist? ;-)
> but it's clear now that they were ahead of the game

Its clear... how?

They did have a moat, and they were ahead of the game with Oculus. And then they squandered that on whatever the seven hells Meta is.

And John Carmack ended up quitting Meta. "we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort": https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iPixEvPJ...
"Varying degrees of altered state" doesn't equate to "predictable" in my mind, and I struggle to understand why it would to you. The effects of LSD are the contents of the hallucination - the actual state that is altered. "It alters your mental state" is not so much a prediction as it is an admission of lack of understanding. Everything alters your mental state. That's how your brain functions. If your mental state remained unchanged, you would be brain dead. The question is how it alters your mental state, and all the effects you clump under "hallucinations" are precisely the unpredictable contents. It's medsci for "we don't know".
Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file client
I am curious what things you are talking about in the context of home renovation.

I have not used ChatGPT much but I see more and more uses that are not obvious ones (and usually only the obvious ones are addressed in articles or posts)
I love how you said so much and yet replied to practically none of my comment. Kudos.

Also, you need to work on a better differentiator than "I can explain precisely how that works", especially if you proceed to not do just that. I also doubt you can, but that's a whole separate topic.
Bard Is ChatGPT
I tried killing Google Bard with a countdown and it came back to life as OpenAI GPT
There's No Such Thing as Artificial Intelligence
Exploring the Implications of OpenAI Codex on Introductory Programming
If bitcoin was the only crypto, maybe, but there is an infinite number of possible crypto coins.
The internet in general caused this. Your house has trivial security that can be broken in many ways. But it requires someone to be physically present to attack it. Meanwhile online services have cutting edge security with no known exploits, yet you have millions of people attempting daily and developing brand new methods for getting in. Because they can be located anywhere in the world and have access to everything over the internet.
https://archive.is/UIS5L
If you really like a book, you can get a nice archival copy on printed on acid-free paper and only read it while wearing special gloves, and also a working copy that you outline in and scribble in the margins and spill coffee on.
> Answer with what the unknowns are, an optimistic and pessimistic take on them, what you could do and how long it would take to lift them.

Yeah, most of the time my boss just needs to know if this job is a few hours, a few days or a few weeks. I never answer with exact numbers, but a range. If there are some major unknowns I let him know. If I made some important assumptions then I let him know.

Sometimes I'm wrong. Most of the time my estimates are sufficiently accurate.

Sometimes the customer really needs this done before some deadline. Then it often turns into "how can we make this happen before then". After a bit of back and forth with some added assumptions and cutting functionality, we usually end up with a solution that can be realized in time.
what are you calling the new school?
> But it's important to maintain a headspace where it is possible to change your mind, as often as you are able.

Every single time I look at myself 5 years prior I always think that my opinions and ideas were stupid and how much more cult and evolved and smarter I am. And then I realize 5 years from now I'll think the same thing about today.

Best remedy to keep yourself from judging other's opinions too harshly and thinking too highly about whatever positions you hold. Big +1 to your whole sentiment.
Fluid access to handguns and military style weapons is an intractable problem with nothing more than the example of virtually every industrialized nation on earth besides the US to go on for hints towards improvement.

AI wielding handguns is nothing , wait until they build skynet and invent time travel. Might as well give up now
Agreed, I read all cover letters and so far they contain a good deal of predictive power on how an applicant will do in the interview process.