skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you see it needs to do these things on its own, unprompted. It has to consider multiple solutions to problems it encounters and choose the best one, not just the most probable one. It’s not made to evaluate things that way, you can’t hand it multiple implementations and ask it to weigh the pros and cons of the different approaches and recommend the best one for what you’re trying to do. You can’t hand it your code for code review and ask what you could improve and expect to get a response that isn’t just fabricated from what other people have said in code reviews.

And it will never do those things, because it’s an LLM and there are limits to what LLMs can do. There is no “getting better”, it will only sound better.

If it’s going to replace programming, the prompts simply cannot be more laborious than writing the damn code yourself in the first place.
> I find it curious that even here there are people who conflate a robot body with an artificial mind.

You are trying to read things in my comment that are not there. It's _not_ about destroying the actual machine. It's about drawing a line.
Surprisingly not mentioned in the post: The whole Free Software movement aside, RMS has actually spent a chunk of his academic career at the MIT AI lab, researching artificial intelligence and co-authored some papers during his time there.

Granted, many of their research topics at the time are now no longer considered AI topics, part of what ultimately lead to the AI winter at the time.

Particularly because of that connection, however, I think it could indeed be interesting to hear some more from his perspective on developments in recent years.
I am...very surprised by some of the discussion here. Maybe I'm just not that familiar with the harms of social media as someone who chooses not to use it. But support for anynomity and free access to information was always part of what I interpreted as the 'hacker ethos'.

It's been odd to see this pushback against social media transform into actual legislation for a flat out ban. Not forcing social media companies to end the use of tracking and dark patterns mind you, a flat our ban. It seems like admitting that humans just can't have unfettered access to each other's lives on a global scale. We can't stand to talk and exchange controversial opinions and see each other's best highlights without falling into toxicity, envy, and tribalism, nihilism and depression.

I don't like that thought, it doesn't bode well for our species.

I can't imagine what my childhood would have been like if I wasn't able to break out of the box my parents and society out me in and really reach out to conversations and ideas that many people would find dangerous. I don't think its an exaggeration to say I probably would have killed myself. And I mean that in a very real way. Society doesn't tend to be very kind to people like me. I realized I was a MAP from a young age and grew up thinking no matter what I did I was going to be a monster. I can't imagine what it would be like not to have anyone to talk to about that. Being at such a vulnerable age and not finding anyone who would listen.

The other commenters are right, this law is going to harm marginalized groups in Utah. Replacing the parents and preventing children from freely exchanging ideas isn't going to fix the core negative incentives that make these platforms addictive and toxic. Nor is it going to address the societal changes that would reduce people's dependence of social media. It's not going to make kids suddenly go outside and meet one another again. Maybe I'm wrong, I mean I hope I am, but I doubt it.

God I remember how much it sucked being a kid. Getting treated as property of my parents, as if they knew what was best for me when they couldn't even take care of them selves. All that unfiltered internet access led me to a successful InfoSec career, it led to an escape from my shit-hole life.

But my biggest concern is the possibility of stifling online anonymity through some aged verification system. A second-order effect that basically chills free speech without directly legislating on it. I'd hate for my kid to inherit a world like that, a world where they have to supply an ID to comment on Hacker News.

It seems like something worth fighting against. It makes me feel like being violent.
YaST is probably the best Linux configuration tool in the business if you're sick of editing configuration files or typing obscure commands to configure things.

Software versions will mostly be more up to date. Particularly if you use Tumbleweed. It is one of the best rolling release desktop oriented distros out there. There are also the one click installs on OBS (Open Build System) that make it very simple to install software that is either newer or not in the repos at all.

It has an "enterprise" cousin SUSE Enterprise Linux that you can use if you ever need that level of support for things like Oracle, SAP, etc.
I'm in Singapore (residential IP) and this error page is a manually set block by the website owner.

Looks like they just blocked a bunch (all?) of Asian countries from visiting the site. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's just wrong, have you used GPT-4?

Yes. A lot.

Last I checked I can't ask Google to invent a new programming language specification for me

I have literally never done this in my job. Ever. I've been a professional software developer for multiple decades.

I then asked it to write a short tutorial for that language in the style of Learn X in Y minutes

So you can't Google, "Tutorial How to Learn X in Y minutes", get a result that has a completely viable format and details and then do the remaining 15% of the work to fill in your specific items?

I then asked it to write bubble sort in the new language and got a result

Do you know how many times I've written a bubble sort in my actual software profession?

The use cases you're bringing up is very typical of what people bring up with GPT-4. Contrived stuff without real-world application or something that is an evolutionary improvement on Google.

Overinflated claims of what GPT-4 can do causes real harm to our industry. There are business owners making decisions now based on the smoke and mirror demos that people are showing that has convinced them that they won't need developers in a few years. I literally met with a computer science major who was considering switching majors because of GPT-4.

Over the next decade, GPT-4 will be an amazing productivity enhancer for actual software engineers. Just like Google has been but with significant improvements.
USDC literally reached 91-cents just 3 weeks ago dude.

There is an alarming frequency at which stablecoins break the buck. I'm pointing out imperfect dollar instruments like Money Market Funds that have no insurance and are free to invest into riskier bonds... but even these risky MMFs are far more stable in practice than USDC or Tether, or any other stablecoin for that matter.
He clearly stated there's no hard evidence for either conclusion and he is just forming his own opinion.

This is clearly different from what you are doing. You are making a hard claim that everything you see with LLMs being conscious is science fiction. Unfortunately this claim cannot be made given lack of evidence and even lack of definition of what consciousness is. Therefore by logic your statement is the one that is outlandish here.
If you're offended by 30% being an option for tips, why not just speak to management directly, and leave what you feel is an appropriate tip to the waiter?

I wish tipping did not exist, but as long as it does, it's not an appropriate way to register complaints with the business as a whole.
It was but production was scaled back so much, and the peer enemy aircraft it was needed to defeat still largely don't exist yet. As a result the production lines were shut down and equipment moved to permanent storage and other multirole fighters that are usually less expensive end up doing the F22's job.

In the horrifying event of a US-China war or similar they'd be front line units along with F-35s and other modern fighters, but as is they'll probably end up on service life extension and retired without ever being used much in combat.

The F-15 was sold to other nations and IIRC the majority of its air superiority engagements were with the Israeli air force.
I’ve made my own personal vote against this behaviour by no longer patronizing businesses that do this.

The only way (short of legislation) for consumers to change tipping is for businesses to be aware that having pinpads with options like this means they’re going out of business.
The argument I hear on occasion is that appropriate use of sports cars (i.e. actual sport use) can be regulated to use synthetic fuels as the amount of fuel required is relativity small, and sports car owners/operators are generally wealthy enough to pay for the more expensive fuel (and willing to do so to keep their hobby/passion intact).

Koenigsegg with their hybrid powertrains makes that argument now and then and points out the parts of the perf spectrum/application space better served by the ICE due to the energy density of the fuel and what it does for weight.

In this context an EV sports car could actually have the worse CO2 footprint due to the high upfront costs during battery manufacturing and the low number of miles driven/short lifetime of a vehicle like this. It may never hit the "break-even" vs. a synthetic fuel powered ICE sports car, unlike your standard commuter car which - given good cell chemistries, reasonable battery size, a production location with a good energy mix and proximity to the location of use to avoid shipping emissions, all of which seem to be improving - can hit this reasonably easily now within average vehicle lifetimes.

I'm no expert on these arguments and it depends a lot on monitoring entire supply chains and monitoring use (e.g. the aviation industry does a lot of PR with SAFs and in reality they make hardly a dent there right now), but as an engineer I do find the "let's do the actual math and see what makes sense" mindset a good one.
This sentiment pops up with most somewhat new technology, but in my experience the plateaus come quickly. Going with the iphone. The first was transformative, and it continued to improve but the functional difference between iPhone 4 to iPhone 14 is not that great. Think of the wow factor of showing one or the other to someone from 100 years ago.
Who is your “we” and who gave you the authority to speak for us? You are assuming power here, which does feel great to do psychologically just as it was great for Louis XIV. I don’t see any proof in what you said that I should follow your authority as opposed to these evil capitalists- at least they seem to be honest in their self interest while your twisting claims of priestly morality try to undermine others for your own benefit.
There's a practice of selling older and higher karma accounts on Reddit, that are then used for marketing or propaganda, since they can pass new account filters that many subs have. I wonder if that is the case for HN as well - because it does seem really strange when someone who spent years talking about docker, go, and react suddenly starts posting about "NATO expanded eastwards" or somesuch.

I don't know if that would be more less sad than the prosaic explanation of people just being evil and dumb.
I'd prefer some kind of publicly accessible document I could browse at my leisure...
100% agreed with you. The more we go down the rabbit hole, the more we see there's no utopia at the of the tunnel.
The core absolutely is affected.

Total expected compensation includes tips. Employees that don't get what they need will either 1) ask for more salary, 2) work elsewhere, or 3) expose the system as some kind of slavery.

Any of these are only set in motion if you stop coddling management's bad decisions.
It’s not tricky at all. It’s a ridiculous thing to even consider. Any type of software that runs on modern architecture is simply not anywhere close to being treated like a human. Or even a mosquito for that matter.

There’s lies, damn lies, and LLMs. They’re just statistics being computed on a von Neumann machine made of plastic and metal. Anthropomorphizing it is ridiculous and I will not participate in that kind of fantasy.
The US? Proxy war would be more accurate
Which scenario are you referring to? The one where everything is cheap because of ai or because the acidic oceans?

Various sea organisms rely on calcium carbonate for the formation of their shells and bones. If the water is too acidic there less calcium carbonate in the water…
The truly intelligent, or 'very smart', people reliably detect when they are falling for post hoc rationalizations.

At least in my experience.

Most other people make claims or may appear to be but in practice do not demonstrate it on a broad basis, as in your example.

Maybe a different terminology is needed to describe the latter case, 'selectively smart'?
Watching casuals practice "epistemology" (as they perceive it) is a lot like the Gell Mann Amnesia Effect, or watching congresspeople discussing TikTok: in over their heads, and not aware of it (in large part because we live in a culture where what is "true" is by consensus/memorization, and any suggestion of serious epistemic practice is (often emotionally and insistently) dismissed because that "is" "pedantic" or "is" a "conspiracy theory"...both socially conditioned behaviors, in fact (as a boolean)).

Easy way to trigger the phenomenon: introduce the notion of complex causality (as opposed to justification) into a Ukraine war discussion, and observe with fascination the highly probabilistic responses from humans (perform 100 experiments, aggregate the ensuing responses, and you will have a normal distribution, gee, a lot like how ChatGPT works). I have LOTS of practice doing this (on a variety of topics, religion is another easy one) on platforms where longer and finer grained arguments are socially acceptable (they tend not to be on more intellectual sites like HN).

This very thread has numerous artifacts of various associated phenomena, but it's all normal so goes unnoticed.
> With that in mind, executives are striking a realistic tone within the company. This isn’t going to be a hit product right out of the gate. But it could follow a similar trajectory as the Apple Watch.

Their confidence is blinding.
Biology and data science are on a collision course. Here’s what you need to know
Average person’s car alone doesn’t move the needle either.
If they kill YaST, they pretty much kill openSUSE. In my opinion that is and always has been the key differentiator of SUSE.
Cool, if you don't want to talk about it that's ok. In that case I'd suggest looking up one of the various prompt libraries and learning from there.
Yes I had a neighbor who died from Bextra
He has not, but has a wife and daughter. Possibly other kids. I did not get the impression from him that he was rich, but he did get lucky to buy a large plot of land for cheap due to:

A) living in a remote village

B) Currency conversion

The house itself was also pretty cheap, being a traditional Thai wooden house and not particularly huge.
If you believe selective political bailouts are a benefit, then you are in an excellent system.

> Excessive risk taking is a human phenomenon.

This is the exact trait that you do not want in your leveraged banker.
The argument goes along the lines that GPL-only symbols are so tightly coupled with the internals of the Kernel that by using them you are forming a derivative work of the Kernel, as opposed to just using interfaces in the same manner (legally-speaking) as a userspace program.

Producing and distributing a module that uses these symbols under a non-GPL compatible license is already an infringement, because you have produced a derivative work and distributed it outside the license conditions.

If you recompile your Kernel to remove the restriction then you may be aiding the module developer in committing a copyright violation.

I’m not sure how much I buy this argument personally, but I have seen it advanced (I think on the LKML).

UPDATE: I found it: https://lwn.net/Articles/154603/

Quoting Linus:

> I think both them [the lawyers Linus claims he spoke to] said that anybody who were to change a xyz_GPL to the non-GPL one in order to use it with a non-GPL module would almost immediately fall under the "willful infringement" thing, and that it would make it MUCH easier to get triple damages and/or injunctions, since they clearly knew about it.

Again, not endorsing this argument, just pointing out that some people (e.g. Linus) claim this isn’t permitted.

I’m not entirely sure why people think this comment is worth downvoting: I have been very clear that I don’t really buy this argument, but I thought it was interesting and relevant to point out Linus’s take on the matter.
It was the first product to put an LLM into a conversational interface on a public website that is open to anyone.

It required no tools or tech, just typing in a box. That opened the floodgates for people to think about using LLMs inside other apps and UIs.

Also, the quality of the output was better than anything the general public had seen and the program's writing style was made very pleasant and enjoyable to read. This stunned people and got their attention.
Management is punishing waitstaff by underpaying them and then blaming the customers for not tipping enough.
Not to worry, you definitely won't be happy!
That's not completely correct. The review world is roughly splittable in two broad categories, the "expert person" variant (think fro-knows-photo) and marketplace reviews (the reviews you can find on amazon, etc).

Marketplace reviews are well guardable in terms of that you need to have an account there that purchased the same sku.*

Expert person reviews are based on trust. There is a destructive correlations between spaming Ai reviews and creating a valuable brand as an expert person. So you cannot really do a hard play on ai here, maybe a soft one but that would arguably be just "going with the times".

* Some might ask "why does amazon still have issues with review spam?" Answer is that amazon actually has a pretty firm grip on it, nonetheless the marketplace's incentives seem to be such that some slippage is acceptable/helpful for them.
Ah yes, the false flag accusation. I've noticed it's almost always the first thing propagandists turn to, probably because it's effective and basically unfalsifiable. It allows you to project your prior beliefs onto the actors in any situation.
In the real world, there is not a free market mechanism by which waitstaff will change jobs because of the tip presets management have chosen for their POS system.
I imagine spraying your nose every day with the stuff might get old in a hurry
It also varies across the country what the min. wage for servers is. Some use a discounted rate, where tipping at a certain level is factored in. Others don't have a separate wage for "tip" jobs.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped

I have to say 30% is bonkers in Washington St. where min. wage is already $15.74
Current uses, with the notable exception of Quake 2 and possible that nvidia sponsored Portal mod, are pure gimmicks. The real thing requires ridiculous resources which are not available for real-time graphics.
I don't work in the field, so my responses are naive, but for what it is worth:

> If they told you that they made a perfect natural language parser...

I would not have guessed that the methods used would yield that, or even 'just' a natural-language parser that performs as well as humans.

> ...parsed the whole internet into logic...

I am not sure what this means, but parsing seems to yield facts about specific sentences, and that alone seems insufficient to enable part three...

> ...and used that parsed data to make a giant text Markov chain.

Clearly, that a process is or can be described / explained / analyzed as a Markov chain is not sufficient for it to produce grammatically-correct output that is at least locally sensible to a human reader, so my surprise was that the methods used constitute a process that does.

> ...but if we said that we made it possible then figuring out the effects aren't super hard.

Hindsight is a really powerful tool.
JS has become a delightful language. Doubly so if you use TS, which is surprisingly trivial to learn and begin integrating.
This isn't like genome fingerprinting. It's only possible with someone's consent because you have to put them in a machine and accurate fingerprinting like this takes many hours of acquisition before it's reliable. Getting this sort of thing to the same level of reliability of genetic fingerprinting is decades away
It sounds like those incidents were 20 years ago, though? I've heard similar stories from that era, but the rpmdb getting corrupted hasn't been a prevalent issue for a long time.
Growing popularity within the shrinking/plummeting usage of Linux desktop worldwide (nearing 1% of the global market, servers excluded) is nothing to brag about. If all these effing distros didn't multiply like rabbits and didn't compete with each other maybe people or companies would be more inclined to adopt linux
A Week with Plan 9 (2021)
One important difference between people and the AI chatbots is that they play a turn-based game. It’s a request-response API, state is client-side, and there is nothing there to do any thinking when it’s not the bot’s turn.

More about this: https://skybrian.substack.com/p/ai-chats-are-turn-based-game...
In practice, there is no way that waitstaff turnover will actually influence what management choses as the tipping presets on the POS system.
My excel spreadsheet with money that I pass between my friends during a vacation is also usable to determine settlements.

Which is more than the accounting going on at FTX by the way. And that's why those depositors lost everything.

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Many thousands, maybe 10s of thousands or even 100s of thousands have lost their entire accounts at FTX, Celsius, and other "cryptocoin" schemes or "stablecoin" schemes like Gemini. This is well documented and understood. Its a very simple issue: cryptocoin bros lie, your money isn't safe or kept with any kind of accounting practices with them.

And with all the bullcrap about "decentralized" or "trust-free" accounting, its all just lies to get people to deposit more money into shady accounts.
Pedantic reminder containers are not secure sandboxes without a tweaked runtime like gVisor.
Maybe AI can find potential examples of corruption.

But exposing possible political corruption that should be investigated isn't really that hard. We're all aware of congressmen that are suspiciously great financial traders for instance.

But bypassing the media filters that ignore lots of bad actors, not being shouted down as a conspiracy theorist, and finding government agents who actually proceed with charges is the real trick. Can AI help with that?
The money to pay workers comes from customers either way so Square was already getting a cut of it.
How a crypto high-flyer fell to Earth
Did your timetable/coursework schedule allow you to audit a meaningful number of external courses? I find that I can only allow myself to attend one additional course per semester.

I STUPIDLY started going to lectures on Computer Systems this year without doing my research first (I couldn't find the timetable for Compilers, and relied on being able to take it officially next year). Turns out I don't have enough (or any) background in C, and so I couldn't make sense of a lot of the lecture material. Oh well, at least now I'm learning C, and I still have the lecture recordings.
Genes may explain why some people turn their noses up at pork (2012)
The script available there: https://github.com/eoli3n/archiso-zfs makes it extremely easy to add ZFS support to any Arch ISO after it has booted. You can copy any standard ISO to a USB drive, boot off it, then run `curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eoli3n/archiso-zfs/master/... | bash` and you'll have ZFS support in a few seconds, without having anything to worry about.