skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have an intelligent problem solving governance:

1. Acknowledge the problem

2. Seek a root cause

3. Attempt to mediate this issue at it's root. My uninformed, and unasked for, opinion on this is this is due to the adjustment of living situation and social expectations of that age group pushes their developing social environment to go global rather than staying local. (People are scared of their kids in the local community hanging out and social, where they've been stuck in doors playing xbox/tiktok).

4. In doing #4 attempt to mediate this issue with the parents. Don't try to punish people in the situation, provide acceptable alternatives to help people be better.

On a surface level:

1. Demonstrate in public a way that live without social media is a workable thing for people at that age

2. Provide mental health outreach for the effected people (This costs money so it's never done)
If it is just that you can mount them on adapters or deadbug them.
>Jet aircraft are significantly more efficient at higher speeds and at higher altitudes precisely because there’s less drag up there and the engines can operate more efficiently.

This is true, but isn't the flip side of this that the high altitude emissions are much more damaging?
You can still do the old ways. I'm still gonna keep drawing and stuff, myself. I don't really see how the AI actually helps me accomplish my goals on an art or coding front as a gamedev. Where the goal is "make something meaningful and beautiful."

I don't like to shout "philistine" or "luddite" but it feels like all the people excited for these tools were tasteless to begin with and already weren't producing works that meet my bar of consumption. I guess we already knew that about the AAA game industry, for instance.

I guess it always pays to have taste - doubly in an AI-oriented world. The old ways aren't going anywhere imo.
attacked is a widely used synonym for criticised
In that case you're using it wrong, since it seems to be primarily about withdrawing ones economic activity from the market, rather than removing a particular good from the market [0]. I'm asking you because you seem to think you've read people who use the term rigorously, and I'm asking you to give a reference in some way shape or form.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decommodification
I think that's a great comparison. Establish a better baseline standard, but one can always reach out to a cutting edge crate if the library set is insufficient.
Which area is that?
Did you try this though, because so far it doesn’t seem to give the ‘system’ prompt preference over the ‘user’ prompt; the user can override the system prompt with some trivial prompting.
I haven’t tried many alternatives, but I needed a fast, self-hosted vector similarity search that had the ability to cull results based on a second criterion. Milvus has worked really well for me. It does take a ton of memory though such that I can’t run on small VMs, and runs a large number of supporting services.
It's like how Dropbox would never replace running SFTP and rsync or something to that effect...
I was wondering the other day what the commercial impact of ChatGPT would be on StackOverflow, eg would SO's coding sites wither because ChatGPT can answer basic coding questions without the user having to go to SO and pay the infamous SO snark tax? Quite possibly.
I'm sorry but the home page is a weird screenshot of disjointed paragraphs that tells me nothing about how your product "supports the writing process". I'm not even sure what the text being edited is from that page.

To be clear, I find the pitch appealing, but the product ???.
"I feel old" on the internet can mean 15yo to 80yo, so you have all the right to feel old at mid-30s lol

When I learned my second programming language (JavaScript), I asked most of my questions via a mailing list. It's quite weird trying to recall it... I almost forgot how mailing list work today.
> runtime is a hell of a lot stricter

interesting... I always thought of AS3 as compile-time strict, which I miss about it. But I forgot all those additional (verbose) runtime errors...

> fortunately we support `ExternalInterface` so mixing AS3 and HTML5 code is possible.

Out of curiosity... it makes sense that WASM can't open an arbitrary socket, but couldn't there be a uniform wrapper for flash.net.Socket or NetConnection to talk via WebSocket or AJAX? (NetStream / RTMP seems mostly pointless now, since all those apps are long since dead; but NetConnection at the least is critical...)

Not to criticize. The work you've done is fantastic!
Yeah that's a good point that I'm not really able to resolve (my knowledge of IP law tends to end not much past what applies to software). I _think_ it wouldn't really count if it's not visible in the output though, the shape itself.
> to assail with unfriendly or bitter words

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attacked
>"And after that banking rules became a lot stricter to reduce the risk of this happening again."

Except that Dodd-Frank legislation was continuously chipped away at, ultimately resulting in the 2018 "Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act in 2018."[1].

This 2018 bit of legislation is notable in that it completely loosened the regulatory regime and oversight of small and midsize banks - the exact profile of institutions being discussed here!

Specifically this new legislation reduced the number of banks that were subject to stronger federal oversight. Under the Dodd-Frank legislation, banks with assets of more than $50 billion were subject to stress tests and higher capital requirements.

The newer 2018 legislation contained a section that basically eliminated that stronger regulation for banks with assets between $50 billion and $100 billion and moved the goal posts of "discretionary oversight" out to financial institutions with assets between $100 billion and $250 billion instead.

It's fascinating that you are arguing points without seeming to have an understanding of all that has changed since Dodd/Frank 13 year ago. You seem to be completely unaware of the developments since 2018 i.e the exact things that enabled the developments of the last two weeks.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dodd-frank-financial-re...
>AI won't take a thought workers job. It just sucks the life out of it.

It already has started taking them.

Also note that it sucking the life out of them doesn't preclude this, since nobody cares for quality anyway. Neither the companies, who prefer profit, nor most consumers, who will eat up whatever mediocre shit.
It’s not stagnation but the fundamental truths of a system, just like how 2 + 2 = 4 will remain true forever.
Totally agree. The thing is that ElasticSearch does not meet our requirements in vector searching.

I am currently running with Milvus + ElasticSearch, works perfect. The latest Milvus version is super fast and scalable (>50M vectors). Haven't tried Zilliz Cloud. Have to find out what the cost is.

I am old school. IMO ElasticSearch is only good for keyword search and these so called "vector databases" products are only good for vector search.
AGI is not an "invention", it's a being. A being that is vastly superior to even the best humans at every imaginable task. The history of machinery is irrelevant when it comes to predicting how such a being will affect human labor. Nobody is going to continue paying people to do something that AIs can do better, 1000 times faster, and for 1/1000th the price. That just isn't going to happen. Humans working (other than perhaps as a pastime, i.e. pretending to work) won't be a thing in the future.
> the same CRUD app with the same design patterns

The same —hilariously inefficient— design patterns.
https://archive.is/QUtjI
GPT 3.5 can write most of the infrastructure and "scaffolding" for a full ransomware campaign, but has absolutely no idea how to perform the most basic cryptographic operations even when explicitly instructed on which library and method to use, and will just confidently spit out absolute bullshit that only sorta vaguely resembles what you're looking for - it's like asking a nine year old. Struggles with writing any kind of obfuscation methods beyond base64, string splitting, and XORing too - I have asked it dozens of times and it's never managed to get close to a trivial implementation not using those, even when directly told to do exactly that.

Haven't played with GPT4 yet. Need to try that as well as larger LLaMA models on a rented cloud GPU box sometime. I have a full battery of tests covering writing malware, identifying vulnerabilities a la static analysis, fixing those vulnerabilities, exploiting those vulnerabilities, in a variety of languages, as well as a few generic / assorted technical tasks.

Some other things GPT 3.5 sucks at, in addition to implementing cryptography and obfuscating code:

- Writing ASCII Art

- Writing HTML, CSS with any kind of graphical instructions, even very simple ones like "draw a car using HTML5 and CSS" or "draw the Facebook logo in HTML and CSS"

- Incomplete solutions. Example: when asked to find all of the vulnerabilities in a block of code that contains three or four, it'll confidently list one and say that's the only vulnerability. If you argue with it and insist that there's more, it'll find another, and then insist it found all of them and apologize for missing it the first time. Then you will ask again and it'll say "nope, there are no more vulnerabilies in this code".

- False negatives until told explicitly. Example, you can show it a code block containing a more low-level or exotic vulnerability (e.g. TOCTOU) than your ordinary SQL injection or XSS, ask it if there are any vulnerabilities, and it'll confidently say none over and over. Then you ask if it's vulnerable to a TOCTOU attack and it can finally then realize, oh yeah, the variable X retrieves this value for this comparison on line Y but then retrieves the value again when it passes it to this other function on line Z and if the value changes during that time, it could pass the bounds check on line Y but be invalid when checked again on line Z... which is great that it gets it, right until you realize that you basically have to ask it over and over again for every specific type of vulnerability, and even then, some it'll still miss altogether.

At the level of work expected in big tech companies, I can see GPT 3.5 augmenting or supplementing some outsourced junior consultants, but it's not even adequate to replace them outright, to say nothing of seniors, principals, and true domain experts, at least in security.
Humans are allowed to be upset when their lives and livelihoods are upended. "Suck it up" doesn't really help anyone. We shouldn't accept maximizing profitability as the only worthwhile outcome.

I'm a developer. I really hope my day doesn't end up being code review of shitty Copilot generated code because the person accepting the prompt did have the knowledge or care to check it themselves. Sure, I'd still be valuable and I'd still get paid, but I'd be miserable. At least until that skill is no longer needed. Or someone can do it for cheaper.

Setting aside I have other responsibilities outside of work that really don't leave much time for side projects, about the last thing I want to do is work on personal code projects just so they can be sucked up by Copilot. Not to mention I'm also supposed to allocate time to learn a new skill so I can be competitive in a new, rapidly shrinking job market.
Wow that is really annoying!
Interesting argument.

Can a site without discrete named accounts, where everyone is called 'Anonymous', claim that there's no way to verify whether the content is generated by humans? It's basically the 4chan model.
Global population is set to decrease dramatically as industrialization's demographic wave passes. Pollution will decrease with it. It's a plot change many haven't noticed yet.
You don’t have a choice in some areas, like the south SF bay (unless you are a multimillionaire). The sources of asbestos are well known and they can be removed cleanly and safely, and lead paint should have been painted over by now with more than a few coats of modern paint — which you can safely touch and lick, if you like.
> The key insight is that file operations in separate directories don’t (for the most part) interfere with each other, enabling parallel execution.

i'm clearly missing something here

parallel execution helps when operations are cpu bound

file operations are (almost always) io bound

and totally unclear how directories represent an "interference" boundary

bizarre
Amen. AI will make us all "managers" of some sort. Goodbye to getting in flow state and trying to build something yourself, and say hello to a gazillion meetings from morning until evening figuring out what to build and what prompt to feed to the AI.

AI is going to make our bullshit jobs even shittier.
I respect your opinion, but I disagree with it. I see GPT as a tool. An adaptive, flexible tool, but a tool.
This was a long read, but I'm glad you wrote it out.

I too am in full support of zero trust tokens. However, I feel like society doesn't understand and would never support this. Corporations have no punishment for collecting and abusing people's information, that it's disgusting. Even when they're caught abusing it, theres no negative repercussions for the organizations. (Experian.. which should have been completely closed.. got a minor fine to continue leaking people's info)

Another point I wanted to make for you. I want to see anonymous identity tokens as that we're continuing on this path. For example: Hetzner is now requiring biometrics + id proof of who you are to pay them money for a server. I understand they want to avoid fraud and provide services to legitimate people, but that kind of info is insane to give to some random person at some corporation.
Thank you, I really appreciate your thoughtful explanation.

> A set being infinite just means that we can start listing elements, and we'll always be able to find a new element that we haven't listed before.

You can do that for the real numbers, by keeping a set of all the unique real numbers you’ve produced before, then adding one random real number at a time, always checking that is not in the set already.

And if you could go forever, then the probability of generating every real number is 1.

However, infinity is unknowable. You can’t just say that the “infinite” cardinality of a set can just be reduced to a symbol, that is like saying you finished doing the calculation and that you know there’s a final result. But there isn’t a final result.

The arguments in your explanation only prove that you cannot predict or choose an ordering for the real numbers before counting them. But if you produce random real numbers at each step and re-order them, you don’t need a predefined order. In fact the order can just be the order in which the real number was generated, regardless of its value, then you don’t even need to reorder them.

Edit: replying to reply to this by LegionMammal978 as the nesting level doesn’t let me reply under it

Thank you for the engaging conversation.

You found the issue: Cantors argument assumes you can finish an infinite process and then add an extra step…

Please see this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35311403
I think I was thinking of OpenFL originally using Pixijs.
C++ could be simplified by removing older features, and redundant features that are longer recommended.
This is true up to a point, but the spectrum was much more popular at my school than the "commie" 64,precisely because it was cheaper, and there were a lot more games available for it.

Even the spectrum was an expensive item for a single parent family in the early 80s. I have no idea how my mum afforded to get me one, but she did, and I'm thankful for it to this day as while I'm not a full time programmer, computer skills I gained programming my spectrum left me in good standing for my entire working life in multiple areas.
You'd have to look through the archives of Newgrounds, but it was like itch.io with lots of content landing every day. That community created and popularised some things we take for granted now. For example Tower Defence games existed before to some degree, but I don't believe they would become a big genre without all the different flash variations. The low barrier to entry meant that you'd get hundreds of crappy knockoffs and 1 gem every week.

Just realised they published year summaries https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/about-newgrounds/history/fla... The stickman fight games and sniper games triggered some memories...
We never needed to be this productive anyway, we are completely swarmed with content, to the point that if we stopped producing today we would still be consuming new media after 100 years.
Lisp is making a comeback
People might be scared to let go of a house they already bought.

- They might consider going on paying in the hope that rates drop

- They might not be able to buy another house

- They might find rents will shoot up with mortgage, so somehow manage to pay mortgage.

Also, many houses are bought by investors and companies.
They might be able to show higher mortgage as additional expense when filing Taxes. ( Not sure, but that's how I think they do it - someone can explain better )

If a large number of people are unable to afford their mortgage.
Then we have a real crisis coming.
No one organizes with Nazis without expecting pushback. So I assume this "persecution" is just part of her grift.
Conflating technical debt with financial terms is an interesting tact, but I feel it is a bad tool for analysis. Their own chart shows a declining cost of software. I feel that complexity (not the lack of refactoring away technical debt) is a far better proxy for analysis.

The complexity inherent in software development reached a minimum in the era of Visual Basic and Borland's Delphi, and has rapidly increased since then in the abandoning of the Windows Desktop and the Win32 UI as a standard and fairly reliable platform for applications.

It was possible to build and deploy applications in a rapid enough fashion that agile just happened without prompting in many one-man development projects. In fact, many domain experts were able to craft their own reliable and usable (to them) applications that remain in use to this day. That world existed, and has largely been abandoned.

I suspect what AI tooling will enable in aggregate (if we're lucky) is a return to the levels of productivity we previously had, despite the multiple new layers of interfaces and abstractions inherent in the non-Win32-GUI world we now inhabit.

Thus, I feel if you want to see how AI/LLMs are going to effect the economy and our profession, look to the effects of the Win32 desktop on software in terms of size and scale of disruption. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

-- EDIT/APPEND --

in an era of "free" debt, where the interest is effectively zero, management learns to spend money like crazy, and let the debt stack up, because it is the efficient thing to do

When that management mindset is mis-applied to understanding when the programmers say "we've got tech debt we've got to pay off".... they incorrectly assume it has no cost in interest, and can be ignored, as with money debt...

except it does have interest.... loan shark levels of interest
COVID is not over. It’s just getting started.
Amazing. I make a case for the legitimacy of authority of parents and your first reaction is a veiled attack on the nuclear family unit.

Please, go on. Tell us all just what you intend to do with those children.
I don't drive a Tesla, and clearly don't have their insurance, but have had my rates affected by driving between 12a and 4a.

My insurer (not a cut-rate one) did give me a discount for using, for 90 days, one of their OBDII dongles. That dongle measured a few things, one of which was number of times I drove between 12am and 4am. (Others included number of times I hard braked, but none of them was how fast I was actually going.) I'm a night owl, so the 12am part was frustrating.

At least for this particular insurer, the discount sticks after you send the dongle back.
First, of all, why it has to be "totally replaced"? It's enough for positions to be dramatically reduced, and most such "though workers" tasks getting done automatically, e.g. under the final supervision of much fewer people.

Second, why it has to be "thus far"? If it happens in 1 or 5 or 10 years does it disqualify it?

Because above you claimed it will "never take thought workers' jobs". Suddenly the goalposts moved so that it has to have happened "totally" and "thus far" to qualify as taking their jobs?
Lisp has been making a comeback since the 60s
I wish this was the case in all 50 states. Kids' minds need to develop without screen addiction.
My company builds AI systems for Nuclear plants. In fact, AI systems based on LLMs are already handling issue triage at several plants in the US. Dynamic Operating procedures are something the industry is interested in and in certain scenarios can add significant safety margin. In these scenarios, there is no documented procedure action for the operating crew to follow and they are under high stress/cognitive load.
Panera Bread rolls out palm-scanning technology
> Sorry, I don't know what this means.

You called something hyperbole. You said you had a hard time imagining someone in good faith wishing that the government would legislate away an industry so that they don't have to "parent."

So I asked:

What do you think the person you are responding too's position is?
What do you think is the best defense for that position?
What do you think that position is wrong despite what you see as its best defense?

I think the tobacco industry is an obvious industry to make reference to. I think now days most people who don't smoke would be happy to see it regulated away and I think it would be an extremely fringe position to think the tobacco industry should be able to advertise to kids today.

> I'd be against most regulations that basically say "to protect the children, we will ban X for everyone". I'm sure there are exceptions though.

Just because we don't know the full extent of how bad Facebook is now, doesn't mean it isn't bad.

How bad do you think we thought smoking, opiates, or other problems were before we decided they were bad?

We saw the correlation with harm of tobacco, investigated more deeply, then regulated their wide spread use particularly use by children.

Facebook is modern day tobacco.

I am much less black and white about this than you might expect, because I am generally pro letting people do what they want with their bodies. After the age of 25 (when a person's prefrontal cortex is fully developed) there are few good arguments for preventing a net tax payer from doing what they want to their bodies or time. If someone can be told they are old enough to die (or kill) for their country, that's another factor that makes limiting their freedom to make bad decisions a hard argument.

> that the government might believe causes harm to children is quite unfortunate.

When you say "the government" that is entirely jaded. There is more nuance than us (the oppressed) and them (the government). Replace the government with "my fellow neighbors," and I think it harms the anti-government righteousness a bit.

The context of the original conversation was clearly not about banning Facebook, but about not being sad if they went away. Telling facebook it can't do business in utah if it serves children and Facebook deciding to not do any business in Utah as a result is not banning Facebook.
Whether you have experience or not, game companies already use AI for concept art.