skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check you timelines.

Per Investopedia the petrodollar system was established in the mid-1970’s [0]

Per Wikipedia, the Vietnam war lasted from 1951-1975 and Laos from 1959-1975 [1]

In any case the argument wasn’t that the US only invades countries that try to sell oil in currencies other than USD.

It was that anytime a country tries to sell oil in a currency other than USD they automatically become enemies of the US and get invaded.

> How about militarydollar or imperialismdollar or neocondollar.

I think all those labels are also appropriate now that the Petrodollar system seems to be collapsing with Saudi Arabia, China, Russia and India all exploring the possibility of trading oil outside the dollar.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/petrodollars.asp

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
> If one Chinese company will develop something, you can bet the rest will learn that fast and will use it in the next economic cycle.

Where exactly is an incentive for a Chinese private company to share its knowledge with other private or state companies?
It’s their ARM chip that isn’t well known. The company itself is, kind of. Think of a Sukhoi civilian jet next to a line of fighter jets carrying both Su and MiG prefixes.
Meanwhile for late childhood to to mid adulthood, 99% of my visits have been a doctor listening to me for 2 minutes tops while applying what amounts to a flow chart of how to diagnose and treat something like strep. Yes a doctor is best, but remember in many places we're competing with "no access do doctor so just pray it doesn't go to Rheumatic fever."
> Seeing how, even with faster computers, software is getting worse and less reliable

How old are you? I don't remember the last time I saw a BSOD. I don't remember the last time I download a game and it didn't just work. I don't remember the last time I brought a piece of hardware and couldn't get it to run on my computer.

I think you're just wrong on this. It's honestly amazing how reliable modern software is despite being orders of magnitude more complex in many cases.

But to answer your question, no. I don't think recent developments in AI are being overhyped. It seems we've finally advanced natural language models to a point where they are now competent enough to be useful in a highly general way, and they will only continue to get more useful as the technology continues to progress. The world is about to change very quickly and in ways that are hard to imagine.
(Independent clinical trials are much better--the ones that the manufacturer uses to get approval often have undisclosed biases and the drug or whatever is often found to subsequently not be quite the wonder drug the first trials suggest)
There will still be junior devs. My comment was only referring to particular types of junior devs. In short, the barrier to entry foe being a junior dev will be higher, and require more CS knowledge, perhaps even more hardware knowledge. No more of this "I made a todo list in react in 2 weeks and am now ready to be a software engineer" rubbish.
It's so lazy to just see that picture out of context and decide that young people shouldn't read the book. Context matters and it's part of that author's story. Had you read the book you'd know that this wasn't an enjoyable act for the protagonist or a how-to for the reader but part of their difficult youth trying to figure out their sexuality and identity. Many people might feel like this and I'm convinced having this book available to them will make the lives of LGBTQ youth easier to cope with.

And again, this wasn't even a penis in that picture. This is definitely not a book to be considered porn. And if you haven't read it, I don't think you can convince anyone otherwise.
Brains are more like a collection of interconnected microservices than a big monolith. What "causes" that? Well, depending on what you're really asking, it's a self-organizing organ, so you can point to an embryological explanation or to an evolutionary explanation or both... But none of that changes the fact that an adult fully-formed brain processes information, and that all of our experiences *emerge* from this information processing. Everything. Your emotions, your thoughts, your impulses, your biases, all of it.

If you're coming at the subject with an engineering background, a good place to gain a broader perspective would be a functional neuroanatomy textbook (eg.: Blumenfeld).
Lebanon has two timezones, after disputes over DST taking effect
isn't that pretty much what they are doing anyway?

my understanding was RLHF basically used human feedback to train a model which would then go on to train the output of the original model further. I could have misunderstood tho.

https://huggingface.co/blog/rlhf#reward-model-training
I believe you can scale nuclear up in times of demand. So you'd be running it at lower capacity when it's not needed
Ew, no.

The point that mjg59 points out, just not super explicitly and using many more words, is that the confirmation step wouldn't be necessary, if only all of our tooling were just a little bit better. Instead of ssh $ip_address and getting that prompt, instead, you'd do ssh $hostname, where hostname can be generated and contain numbers, and then the same mechanism that checks SSL certificates then also checks if the host's key actually matches what the rest of the system (the configured CAs) is saying it should be. If it does, great! No need to ask the user "Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])", with fingerprint being the one thing to check out of band, but few people are really that fastidious.

Competent Security/IT departments are able to get this to work going from corp managed endpoints (laptops) going to corp managed servers. It's just that the rest of the world hasn't caught up yet.
How do you delete an image created in Bing Image Creator?
"Thee proplem weth a systhemateck, fhoneteck chaigne en
Englush speleeng es thet et raeses thee questeon uv wut
aksent to faivor. Fer an Americon en Oheo, thees
transkriptshon probubly maeks sum sens, wunce yu get paest
thee skwaw. I daut an Engleshman or eaven a Nue Yorcer wud
fynd et ueseful."

please rewrite it but this time with a Southern drawl

"Th' proplem weth a systh'mateck, fhoneteck chaigne en
Aynglsh speln iz thayt et raeses th' questyun uv wut aksent
ta fayver. Fer a Amur'can down yonder in Ohayo, thees
transkripshun prahbly maeks sum sens, wunce y'all git past
th' skwaw. Ah daut an Engleshman or ev'n a Nue Yorcer wud
fynd et much ueseful."

- GPT-4 / https://sharegpt.com/c/Q5DW1wg
It would be really cool to set this up to automatically sync notes to Obsidian.
I believe a formal citation (APA style) looks vaguely like this:

gonzo41. (2023, March 22). Bard uses a Hacker News comment as source to say that Bard has shut down (By cryptoz).
Hacker News. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35256223

Sorry if I screwed it up; that is just for the overall look.

I'd agree that a citation doesn't have to be formal, but if it isn't, then the meaning of a passing mention of names has to be more inferred from context.
> How exactly would Apple have "disabled" Audio Hijack Pro in 2005?

Would the courts have cared about the technical details?

Is "That is currently impossible" ever a reason to not do something a court orders you to do?
May I suggest providing a nice list of supported distros on github? Preferably categorised by OS family (e.g. linux vs bsd vs dos...)

Also, I'd love to see things like syllable, haiku, sky os, etc.
How much did generating the code cost?
Perhaps college should be delayed for a year if the concern is paying for a year of not actually college.

You don’t need to go to college to become an adult, and you can go to college long after becoming one.

This isn’t “un-grading.” It’s making sure the mark pays for another semester.
I was thinking of terms of how monocrops work: we kill everything that's living (that's more complicated than a single cell organism let's say) to plant one species, then use fertilizers to help it grow from soil that's being depleted of it's own nutrients, while also spraying it with pesticides to make sure nothing else eats it.

Seems that's not a great play, long-term.

>Also worth considering that passenger aviation is on the same order of magnitude in terms of CO2 emissions. Remarkable given everyone has to eat.

Interesting. Since I don't have to fly, I don't. (I don't drive, either).
That wasn't my point. It is bad that they will lose their jobs. But that doesn't mean we should keep those jobs around.
Here is the related tweet from Yann LeCun: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1640122342570336267
Release of MacFUSE 4.4.2
Just eat less.

If this helped release calories more slowly, making rice healthier, that would be one thing, but we should not be wasting research effort, let alone agricultural output, to make food actually less nutritious, especially when people are still going hungry.
California to spend $100M of state's Medicaid money per year on housing
Indeed, if you're getting that far away from historical file systems primitives then may as well use an API model that makes senses for the storage backend. Or just contribute direct to rclone and fuse.
Louis Rossmann's take on new Ryzen and 16“ Framework
> there's no guarantee that the plausible-looking text they spit out isn't complete bullshit.

Sounds just like Doctors.
SSH certificates (host and client) were the best thing I could have ever implemented at my job, it has significantly improved a _ton_ of internal pain points.
According to Taleb, PaulG a bullshitter that everybody knows?
Fun fact: the “X rated patch” is actually set to rotate through multiple can-fics. Some dirty, some not.
Not to antropomorphize an AI model, but "yes-setting" is a sales technique where you ask people a bunch of questions where the answer is "yes" in a row to get them in the habit of saying yes before you try and sell to them. Getting GPT talking before asking it to do something it doesn't want to do feels eerily similar.

Yes-Set: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/sales/closing/yes-set_c...
Huh. I definitely experienced that with OXO brand tools in my kitchen. Once I had a few of them, the rest of my kitchen tools seemed so cheap/crappy in comparison, now they're somehow 80% OXO after a few years.

The Diderot Effect is real.
That would mean offering a replacement for kexts, which has in recent times been a multi-year project Apple still isn't fully finished with.
Assuming you're involved in the site: more than welcome! It's my favourite resource for finding books to read!
A few of the comments in this thread seem to be misusing mathematics in order to lend more credence to themselves. At the risk of responding to low quality flamebait here are some problems with your statements.

1. P = NP refers to a two very specific sets of problems (which might actually be the same set) not any general question. There are problems that we know don't fall into P or NP, (for example the Halting Problem). Also whether or not P=NP is an open question almost the opposite of a fact.

2. You claim:
"Evaluating if an answer is correct or not is easier than coming up with a correct answer from scratch." This is the right idea but not quite correct.

The correct statement is as follows:
"Evaluating if an answer is correct is not harder than the difficulty of coming up with a correct answer from scratch."

This is because evaluating some answer can still be just as hard as the original problem. In fact sometimes it's uncomputable (if the original problem is also uncomputable). To use an example from above consider the question: "Does a program x halt?" If I tell you "no" it could be impossible to verify my answer unless you have solved the halting problem.

To bring this back to reality, again if GPT-4 is wrong about some complex medical question it doesn't mean it's mathematically easier to figure that out than solving the problem from scratch.
This sounds of low repute since there's zero data or peer reviewed papers to back up these claims.
Of course estimates shouldn’t remain the same when requirements change. If you told me the same estimate after I changed requirements on you then this would tell me that I should probably ascribe a high error bar to any estimate you make.
Rice cakes are this already. They're pressed puffed rice, usually without sugar added.

A different kind of puffed rice with sugar added is known as the breakfast cereal Rice Krispies.
Are you sure you’re not mistaking guess=deadline mode for actual estimating? And selecting among those who can meet deadlines.

If you rarely eat your time buffers, great. If you do that often, maybe you just coinflip-fix deadlines this way and maneuver between them under the guise of successful estimation.
> I would assume it’s going to be faster because why else bother

aws s3 sync (official) is orders of magnitude slower than rclone (oss)
Intimidation is what these copyright monopolists are all about.

> We knew recording was useful, but the app’s ability to apply audio effects anywhere on the Mac carried much less legal peril.

Look at this. Innocent software developers, intimidated by these nebulous "legal perils" of copyright infringement to the point they felt afraid of marketing a perfectly reasonable and legal feature.

I can't possibly be the only person deeply offended by this. We don't need their blessing to record anything. We should be free from their tyranny but it binds us to this day.
The median income in the US is $41k for all workers and $56k for full-time, year-round workers. $71k is the average household income.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizat...

In your CNBC article everything is based on household income. Many SWEs would be classed as not middle class based on their own income let alone household income.

The median SWE salary in the US is $110k: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Computer-and-Information-Technology/....

If you take increased salary due to location and partner salary into account, the majority of SWEs are easily upper middle class.

> In places like San Francisco where the cost of living is significantly higher, you would need to be earning ~230k a year to be in the upper middle class

A solo entry level FAANG engineer basically qualifies for upper middle class. Add a partner and you're definitely upper middle class.

> And even with FAANG the salary between an engineer at Amazon and one at Google is going to vastly differ, especially depending on what part of Amazon you're working at

What are you talking about with "especially depending on what part of Amazon you're working at"? As far as I've seen Retail vs AWS doesn't have different comp.

Google and Amazon also have pretty similar comp: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Amazon&track=Software....

Their comp bands likely have a lot of overlap. Differences are more likely to be based on negotiation than working for Google vs Amazon.
interesting. i apparently opened that image, then forgot about it, and without context saw it later. i looked at it, thought wow that's a cool picture from back in the day, looked at the people in it, and left.

i now ran into your comment (with a purple link) and did some reflection. upon reexamination, its clear that the picture is fake (because im looking for it) but when i wasn't looking for it, its interesting how all the "hot spots" or interesting pieces of the picture are pretty good and the (imo) lackluster parts are the "less interesting" pieces like the end of the roads where it it blurs out. i wonder if that bias is inherently ingrained in the system.
I would agree, your typical dev writing CRUD apps needs an ok grasp of algebra, and that's about it.
I've tried designing a better prompt than the ones on https://ggpt.43z.one/ Here's a design (and GPT-4 CTF game) that seems to be stronger - Merlin's Defense :) I was not able to find a solution to it: http://mcaledonensis.blog/merlins-defense/
I think the dynamic I would be most afraid of is employees who have enough years experience to get a more senior position using this as catalyst to move on.
I don’t see a difference regarding the work required. If the results are coming from a chat interface or an API, the same problems exist.

There aren’t any tools that I know of that can validate that GPT has correctly interpreted the prompt without any problems related to subtle (or overt) misunderstandings.

This being the case, there’s a lot of back and forth and careful validation necessary before anything ships.
GPT-4 can do some reasoning, just not at a smart/trained human level. You cannot explain its results in USMLE, Uniform Bar Exam, and several other tests otherwise. This is a major improvement from earlier models.

This assumes there is not too much data contamination, but other people’s experiences with it suggest that the capability is real even if it might be a bit below what the test performance suggests. The latter is also explainable by a broader distribution of real world problems relative to tests.

See my other recent comments for more examples and elaboration, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35301499
> get lost

From Daring Fireball:

According to https://twitter.com/adamcurry/status/1639396942345117696

His actual words were “fuck them”.
In the same way that junior artists still exist despite us having moved from MS Paint to Photoshop!
I bought a used Vertilift Pro (from gumtree/craiglist if you're from the US)
2 years ago - over the course of a few weeks - fixed my lower back pain.
So if you dont want to spring the real $$$ this used $200AUD solution is great. $450 or so brand new.
We just need a single, centralized bank controlled by the government … not.
No, not at all. I'm purely saying that the argument that they are different from humans is not necessarily substantiated.
By that logic, I hope your coworkers don't see you bragging about how much more productive you are than them.
I've worked with several.
Getting help on homework isn't really cheating. I had one professor who sort of teased the class when we admitted we were mostly working on homework alone. He felt we wers suspposed to be working in groups.
I think the only reason homework is graded at all is because if it wasn't, teachers assume the students wouldn't do it. The tests are there to test you. The homework is just there for practice. But if you just let someone else do your homework, you're unlikely to pass the test. Conversely, if you can score well on the tests without doing the homework, you shouldn't have to do it, it's just a waste of time.
Interesting. I guess this partly explains lifestyle inflation.

Also came across this blog[1] after reading the wiki page.

[1] https://jamesclear.com/diderot-effect
> and then the same mechanism that checks SSL certificates then also checks if the host's key actually matches what the rest of the system (the configured CAs) is saying it should be.

That's not what mjg59 is suggesting, to establish a trust chain to system shipped CAs. In fact that wouldn't be so easy anways because SSH certificates aren't X.509 compatible at all but use their completely homegrown specification. They explicitly say "please do not do this" about this idea.

mjg59 suggests to make the TOFU approach on the client trust certificates if a certificate is provided. That's a way narrower suggestion:

> OpenSSH has no way to do TOFU for CAs, just the keys themselves. This means there's no way to do a git clone ssh://git@github.com/whatever and get a prompt asking you to trust Github's CA. Instead, you need to add a @cert-authority github.com (key) line to your known_hosts file by hand, and since approximately nobody's going to do that there's only marginal benefit in going to the effort to implement this infrastructure. The most important thing we can do to improve the security of the SSH ecosystem is to make it easier to use certificates, and that means improving the behaviour of the clients.
Ask HN: Likelihood that legislation protects certain industries from AI?
One of the seemingly more realistic situations I have playing out in my head right now is that as AI starts taking jobs (Artists, Programmers) certain industries manage to successfully lobby the government to make AI illegal to use in their field. Doctors and Lawyers seem like a good bet for jobs that politicians will arbitrarily keep safe.
What is it about functional programming that rules out unix pipes, tcp/ip connections, etc? There's no basis for those to be excluded or any more difficult in that paradigm IMO.
This mentality is becoming passé. And frankly this article/post is a good example of the reason. It was long thought that you could name & shame people into good security, but it turns out they just purchase cyber insurance and retreat deeper into the shadows, which increases exposure to the end user.

But the new reality is that malicious uptake on publicized POCs is so great, and the negligent refusal to patch is so great that a widespread culture of reporting has actually increased harm to the public. That is the reality, and until there are laws that hold companies liable for the software they choose it will remain the case.
And specifically, if the agent implementing the requested actions has a mental model of the domain that is similar to the mental model held by the imprecise specification writer, then the specification doesn't need to be precise to have a high probability of being implemented right the first time! The miracle here is that LLMs don't even need fine-tuning to get to that level - and that's unprecedented for non-human agents.
You can’t really say it with the “h”. Spanish has nothing corresponding to the English “h” sound, and the overwhelming majority of Spanish speakers speak dialects with nothing like the English “th” sound either (the ones that do have it spell it “c” or “z”, not “th”).
You can say this same thing about any human too. After all, how can you be sure that my mind "understands" the same way your does? If your argument is that we have similar hardware, you must point out what's so special about this biological brain that enables "understanding" and why neural networks don't.
my main issue is the people making hiring and budget decisions aren't 3D artists, they're managers. my work might be objectively better than GPT's, but is that going to matter when my boss compares the cost difference and decides GPT is 'good enough'?
Aren’t they already grounded by having training process at all, just weakly?

Very interesting read(read: this is a lightyear beyond my brain) otherwise…
Im gonna need to dive further into this, I do js canvas and webgl rendering to videos with the chrome/puppeteer via 'puppeteer-screen-recorder'.

But they do at times cause some issues. Latest 3d renders have been causing memory issues that I think would be solved with bigger boxes but havent need to investigate for a little while.

Have thought about it just outputting frames and then later having ffmpeg sticth them into a video, but havent gotten around to really testing it.

Im guessing this limited to 2d canvas, but excited to
check it out. Thanks!
It requires so much to be able to generate answers tot hings asked about a wide variety of subjects, not to be able to generate grammatically valid sentences and parse them, which other a.i.'s also did before with far fewer tokens.
If the stock price doesn't go up Amazon (and every other company compensating with RSUs) will have to fund raises out of their own pockets.

Yes I'm aware stock-based compensation is also an expense. But as I understand it, that expense = the initial value of the grant. So if the stock price goes up it's like the employee got a handsome raise funded entirely by Wall Street.
Their site says it’s got a release scheduled for tomorrow.
Seems like a pretty way to solve this by having ssh clients check the TLS of the host and then fetch the public key in a well know sub path.

But the hard part is getting everybody to support this. We need to start somewhere. Maybe GitHub can use this bad publicity and turn this into one good