skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is, at best, a wildly misleading headline, as the WGA would in most cases NOT allow it. This was the official WGA statement on AI-generated writing:

“The WGA’s proposal to regulate use of material produced using artificial intelligence or similar technologies ensures the Companies can’t use AI to undermine writers’ working standards including compensation, residuals, separated rights and credits. AI can’t be used as source material, to create MBA-covered writing or rewrite MBA-covered work, and AI-generated text cannot be considered in determining writing credits.

“Our proposal is that writers may not be assigned AI-generated material to adapt, nor may AI software generate covered literary material. In the same way that a studio may point to a Wikipedia article, or other research material, and ask the writer to refer to it, they can make the writer aware of AI-generated content. But, like all research material, it has no role in guild-covered work, nor in the chain of title in the intellectual property.

“It is important to note that AI software does not create anything. It generates a regurgitation of what it's fed. If it's been fed both copyright-protected and public domain content, it cannot distinguish between the two. Its output is not eligible for copyright protection, nor can an AI software program sign a certificate of authorship. To the contrary, plagiarism is a feature of the AI process.”
The screens alone cost $150 to replace when they crack so that alone might be worth it.
> it's also a cost on everyone who will have to read any of the code.

Everyone who will have to read the code in the compiler or interpreter? Or everyone who reads code in the language?

I'm not so sure the latter should be a consideration. If you don't give people some feature they would use, they will develop their own idioms to accomplish the same with what the language does provide. And the reader then has to become familiar with those idioms, and repeat the process for every new codebase they encounter in the language. Better to have one good way to do it.
here is my take: interest rates are already where they used to be in 2008, that would imply that people have a hard time paying back their mortgages. Trouble with housing would imply that real trouble is somewhere around the corner.

here is a tools that is showing interest rates over several decades:
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate
I am curious, but with all the national debt in western economies, will higher inflation help service that debt going forwards? I mean, prices rarely ever come back down... Combined with higher tax incomes, seems like a kinda win-win for the governments? Or is this a follow on from recent currency wars, if that is appropriate phrasing? I dont know much about world finance, at least not enough to have sold CS in time. I never imagined such a long standing institution, in such a conservative country could have fallen. That will teach me to avoid the news! (apart from this site of course!)
As an non-USA inhabitant, one thing I see is that you have a lot more voting chances than most countries. I heard e.g. you can vote for officials like sheriffs and stuff.

So don't only vote for a president, vote for everything you can. Become member of both parties, and vote for presidential candidates at both sides.

I think after that, you shouldn't be afraid to 'throw your vote away'. Gerrymandering and other stuff made most voters in the presidentials irrelevant. So the only voice left there is the signal function of 3rd part vote. Make it clear yo don't like the hobson's choice you've left. You did what you could in the previous round.

Don't succumb to nihilisms. The powers that be seem to have dividers in a dumber and smarter half. The dumber half gets very simplistic reasons to vote for some extremist side. The smarter half gets tamed by nihilistic passiveness. Both get all kinds of divisive news as a side dish. Don't fall into this trap. A big enough group of people aligned around a common cause is the biggest danger to any powerfull entity, and they fear them and do anything to break them up.
Wasn't this predicated largely on rising stock prices rather than salary? But the stock prices have stopped rising.
I don't know what part of the prompt was meaningful and I didn't test different prompts. It seems just telling it exactly what you want it to be seems to work.

I asked it to give me advice on some issues I was having and just went from there.
Quants jobs are safe because if it’s public there’s no edge
> If ... digitizing and distribution of old ... is fair use

It's a library. A library does that.
I'm not a native speaker, but shouldn't it be something like "are used to eating …" ?
>Ok, and now I feel depressed, thank goodness I just this moment went into confectionery.

Where do we order?
It would seem this individual is a bit unbalanced...
I hope you realize that Google isn't just a search engine.

They have YouTube, Chrome, Chrome Web Store, Android, Maps, Google Docs, Drive, Gmail, GCP, Firebase, etc etc and some how they are "dying".

The death of Alphabet has been greatly exaggerated on HN and in the markets. The fact is, it would take more than just ChatGPT to "kill" them.

If you said Yahoo instead, then I would agree.
"People, mostly children and very young adults, talking confidently about topics they have no idea about" can basically be Reddit's official slogan.
An interesting example of this I came across recently is Pico:

> Pico is a tiny but expressive programming language that was especially designed to teach advance computer science concepts to students in other sciences than computer science … Currently Pico is no longer used as a tutoring language for its target group, but this is more a consequence of politics than of the astounding results we got with teaching Pico. Today, Pico is used as a means to teach principles of language design, interpreters and virtual machines in a sophomore course for computer scientists and in an adjacent course in a masters program in applied computer science.

http://pico.vub.ac.be/
Even if they are they rarely bypass an already locked device. Unless they are paying big money for the latest Cellebrite. Which I'm not sure is even available commercially like that.
That makes it sound completely naive but I think that conclusion would be too rash. it seems like the author has some audience in mind. Perhaps himself after trying a page builder.
I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake
I use cloudron for this. While I agree that there is _some work_, but technology and services has improved to the extend that a reasonably good developer can host apps for themselves, their family and others.
I actually have found it significantly worse at python than typescript, I think it's the indentation for scope vs. explicit brackets that screws it up (at least in my experience).
Zombie works are free to share if there truly is no rightsholder pressing claims.
I find it is like having a brilliant intern that is not super consistent in taking their antipsychotic medication
It's more pernicious than that because it's a lie.

Broadly speaking, physical books last much longer than ebooks have been proven to. With preservation measures, you can get 100s of years out of a single book copy, but even without most books will last for decades unless something catastrophic happens or someone destroys them on purpose. I have several books from the 1800s that weren't cared for at all (picked up at an estate sale) and they're perfectly serviceable and would be fine if I rebound them.

So I have books from the 1860s that are still usable. Given how the digital world has developed, the odds of someone's Kindle or ePub file being viable in 2180 is exceptionally low. In the same way that playing old video games can be a hassle, I'd be shocked if we're still using the same files and formats in 160 years. (Outside of us weirdo archivists of course).
I'm experimenting with something really cool at work:

There's an open source software project called "Metabase" that we use for reporting. I want to add some functionality, but its code is on Clojure, which is a language that I don't know and don't REALLY care for learning (it seems to be a sort of Lisp dialect, parenthesis heavy). So, I am using GPT as my code writer. I tell it how I want to modify a function or add functionality in a very precise way and it writes the code. Then I compile and run the resulting code to see how the changed worked.

BTW, when starting this project, it occurred to me that a transparent "babelfish" sort of translator that translates code form X programming language to your language of choice automatically when you open a file in VS Code would be amazing. I dream of the day when I can just do `code .` in the Metabase code directory and I can program in my language of choice while GPT transparently translates it to proper Clojure code.

I feel that with an advance enough GPT we could make it work.
What is important is not really size but consistency and "self-containment" - are the language constructs and semantics (including the std library) semantically and logically consistent with one another.

If that's not the case it gets much harder to get your head around how it all works as you cannot effectively apply some simple pattern to all the stuff you see and you need to juggle different ways of thinking when doing basic stuff. And this propagates even further and harder to other libraries.
My primary interest is in researching recent events, and it is pretty much useless for that
People don't generally try to record plays. And your clips wouldn't go viral even if it did, a clip from a scene out of context doesn't mean much.

Whereas a joke is very shareable, and stuff that pushes the edge can go super viral, especially when taken out of context -- risking Twitter/media backlash. So both the rewards and risks are WAYYY higher for standup.
That seems likely. To me the original is still the best. Its killer feature is that you can play a game in a single sitting. Breaking up a game over multiple days kills that absolute immersion that is the hallmark of a Civilization game.
I assume you are coming from the standpoint of the judges working out if a law is unconstitutional. My country, the UK, does not have a written constitution, so this kind of thing doesn't come up as often. However, a constitution is still just a bunch of legal principles, set by government. The judges are still making rulings based on a set of rules. If the rules need changing then the people should elect the right people to change them.
This is about subterranean bacteria, and mentions also a nematode. Fascinating it is but describing it as a Galapagos is utterly disingenuous.
Abstruse means obscure, I think you meant obtuse, which means annoyingly insensitive.
It's a scale. Laws against murder and theft of food are highly natural (e.g. most social cooperative animals will have something like it), zoning laws are more unnatural.
That's exactly why I appreciate Go as far as I'm concerned. =)
And now with AI code completion, it's even better.
Do animals have a sense of time?
We don’t know what’s inevitable in foresight, only in hindsight. Sparks of AGI are sparks, and do not imply an inevitable progression to a particular end state.

I don’t see GPT-* replacing us unless they endow it volition. If it requires prompts to get things done, some human has to understand the system enough in order to provide the correct prompt. Writing code is only a small part of the job. Knowing what code to write, what code to refactor, what abstraction to use that fits with your other abstractions — these things are the real job. Giving GPT volition would make it “self-prompting” and maybe allow it to make these leaps. But volition seems qualitatively different to me than what it’s doing now, and that just improving its current capabilities won’t necessarily lead to volition.
It seems no. Those are facts - whoever argue with facts (parent still downvoted?).. is an idiot.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-surpri...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aab1785 - Somatic mutation in single human neurons tracks developmental and transcriptional history

(good luck simulating that)
I started Python with 2.4 or 2.5. It’s not big, it’s been many years since I’ve been actually surprised about something.

Evolution, or incrementing version numbers, don’t necessarily equal increased size.

For example Python now has async functions. But it had them in Python 2.5 as well when it introduced generators (see the twisted.deferred decorator) - you’d just use “yield” rather an “await”.
AWS managed x-ray service is an awesome tool for monitoring your workloads. This post describes major concepts.
Luckily libraries existed before copyright / IP was too top heavy otherwise they wouldn't exist. This content and products are part of culture. An online library should be allowed to exist. You can go to public libraries and in many they have ebook checkout systems. Why not Internet Archive, one of the most valuable online resources next to Wikipedia and data sources.
Reminds me of an awful A.E. Van Vogt book that was stuck together out of three short stories and had a lurid cover with the subtitle “INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT 10,000!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermind_(novel)
Researchers are trying to mitigate the spread of wild pigs in Canada
I dealt with entrepreneurial obsession by failing enough times that reality communicated to me that I don't have what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
If playing Fortnite and sc2 are considered sports, why not?
Just curious why you’d respond so much to him and also add nothing to the discussion?
I have a lot of ideas for things I think I want to build, that might make a useful amount of money, however when I examine my thoughts more closely I realize that in nearly every case I merely want the things to exist. That forces me to come to terms with facts like:

- I only have so much time and skill

- Most ventures fail and I need to be cautious about using others' success as inspiration

- I place a really high value on free time (extension of the first point)

Since I started thinking this way, I've stopped feeling (as) guilty that I'm "wasting" time on things like being social or reading or playing video games instead of chasing dreams.

I haven't had entrepreneurial success yet, like as a founder, so I guess that probably taints my view here a bit.
NanoPALM: Lightweight repo for training small to medium sized PaLM models
> The experience calmed my existential fears about my job being taken by AI.

Same for me. I didn't try GPT-4 yet, and not on code from work anyway but GPT-3 seems borderline useless at this point. The hallucinations are quite significant. Also I tried to produce advice for Agile development with references and as stated in other articles the links where either 404s or even completely unrelated articles.

Still I'm taking this seriously. Just considering the leaps that happened with AlphaGo/AlphaZero or autonomous driving, that was considered unthinkable in the respective domains before.
> the responsible persons (not talking about the poor dev that pushed the key, but the managers, CISO, auditors, etc.) should be fined, and/or lose their license.

By no means do I want to see the dev get fined or blackballed from the industry.

But if there is any 1 person responsible, it’s the person who did it. The reason why the dev shouldn’t be fined/blackballed is because it’s not just 1 person’s fault. I mean, fining or booting his manager out of the industry? Really?
Its called scroll-jacking and it made me close the tab within 3 seconds.
Like many eyewitness in court
The nature needs predators. Maybe stop killing wolves like madmen.
one of my reference on the topic is Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective"

I recently started meditating with Sam Harris's Waking up, which is really helping on bringing more awareness in my life

Rolls up newspaper.. thawack

Stop that. You don't need that shit.

Listen to Ze Frank about Brain Crack (he is a very nice man from a long ago interwebs where people didn't try to sell you self help bullshit):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8
> but if it can solve the overwhelming majority of problems that humans have already seen then that is a huge improvement over what we had before

“the overwhelming majority of problems humans have” are not going to solved by generating code. At this point these LLMs are feeling like blockchain a few years back in the sense people were trying to tell me it was going to solve every problem that’s existed since the dawn of human civilization.
Unlike current LLMs, your typical competent programmer would not hallucinate.
I'm trying to understand this.

What benefit do those bots get from "poisoning the query log"? And what benefit do they get from "spamming every endpoint ... wired up to Google or Bing"?
Now I'm wondering how this would apply in situations where the person doesn't know if they have the original or not.

Inspired by the fact that my emulation of Link's Awakening to play on a screen I could see is technically legal since we had a cartridge stuffed away in a drawer. But for 10-15 years that cartridge lived in a limbo land of 'we used to have that, it might still be around somewhere...'
DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application (2021)
I played CivII more than any game since.
Agree, and for things like cognitive behavioral therapy, where the "rules" are well-known and well-represented in its training corpus, it's amazing.
So the closer you come to writing the code for it the better it does
Same for me, what you said.
And all of this..all of us..basically coalesced from star dust that will one day again be star dust :)
I singled them out dishwashers because either they did a sufficient job or they didn’t. You don’t get super extra clean dishes, thus exposing the basic lie of tip sharing.

People get up in arms about tipping because the numbers have gotten so out of whack. 20% tips being expected completely undermine the basic economics of restaurants which is why they get so focused on tip sharing. The current expectation is to tip just to cover people doing their basic jobs.

Imagine going to a restaurant, getting average service, and then not tipping because everything was average. It’s not about tipping for excellence in the US, it’s about providing basic compensation that not a tip that’s just payment for services rendered.
> unless you're really in love with the problem

You touched a neuralgic point of my experience that for some reason I omitted in my original post. One of my biggest source of frustration and sense of inadequacy is not feeling (or not seeing myself) that strongly passionate about anything/anyone specific. My last iteration of this concept was to fall in love with a specific group of people and explore the problem they encounter day to day.
I am not sure you read the link I posted. Picking a single point out of it, like "No way to shrink the allocated Wasm Memory." makes it clear that this allocation strategy is really very different to how your OS works when you call malloc/free outside of wasm.

Also take a look at "Some applications need address space, not memory" in that link, same stuff.

Long story short, running inside WASM is like running without virtual memory. Virtual memory was invented to solve a bunch of issues, so now WASM has all those issues unsolved.
It’s a wrong assumption and a marketing trick of all major page builders.
For a one-person business, sure thing, maybe go with it.
For all other use cases they are a liability, and a time consuming effort by people that shouldn’t be spending their (precious) time building a website for the first time.

As a web designer / FE developer and wordpress developer, I am happy they exist because they’re great business.
The client starts with one template picked at random based on the wrong assumption that what you see in the frontend is tied to the template, two months in they realize that the marketing claims of Elementor or Divi or whatev where BS, and get frustrated about the unholy mess they’ve made.
That’s when I get usually called in - mostly via word of mouth - to “fix the mess”.
What I usually do is guide the client through why having a custom theme with flexible repeatable components is a much better idea.
Then we sit down and we make a complete content outline to better structure what they’ve been scattering around the site in different pages with no separation of concerns between content, structure and graphic design (99% of the time this is really the problem they didn’t know they needed to solve first!). After that, I get to refactor the site into a lean, SEO-friendly structure, and finally I can sell them a small retainer for maintenance, because they finally understood that two hours of their time are worth MORE than a few hundred dollars they pay to a professional to keep the machine humming

So I guess yeah, thanks DIVI and Elementor?
Page builders and LLMs are the future. There was a time when that wouldn't be as plausible, but the web is reverting back to being a place to dump text and media, and host restaurant menus, in which case it begs the question why we need so many web developers.
John Hussman: https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc230319/
At my corner store, you can buy a taco wrapped in foil that was clearly made by some local next to a crack pipe and milligram scales. The bread is Mrs. Baird's or some other national brand. If you think that strict regulation is what created this state of things, then you may want to re-evaluate that.
What makes you think the top google result wasn’t written by chatgpt? I came across an article on volleyball the other day that was the top hit for what I was searching for - halfway through the article there was a paragraph about a famous setter from Nekoma’s volleyball team and how they were going to play in the upcoming spring nationals. The “author” seemed completely unaware that Nekoma is a fictional team from the popular manga Haikyuu.
I’d be terrified to do this:

- the insight into your mind that a private for profit company gets is immense and potentially very damaging when weaponized (either through a “whoops we got hacked” moment or intentionally for the next level of adtech)

- chatgpt and other LLMs are known to hallucinate. What if it’s advice is wrong or makes you worse in the long term because it’s just regurgitating whatever at you?
Buying a Tesla, getting insurance through Tesla itself and then joining their beta autopilot program. Yes, your premium may inexplicably jump.
Aside from the two party system, this is all working exactly as designed.
Now I am more curious to see the scores of the people I know with Tesla's. Their Tesla is their children's favorite amusement park ride via launching at every traffic light. I don't see a scale for launching. One of my former coworkers would race every kid with a muscle car and win of course.
There will definitely still be "hobbyists" who will learn languages for the fun of it. And in certain academic fields I guess they'll still expect people to know a language. But yeah, for the ordinary person, what's the point?

As far as education goes, maybe! That's a bolder claim IMO...
You are neglecting to understand that the States are separate from each other, with a right to decide their affairs themselves. The nationwide popular vote is meaningless because the United States of America does not operate on nationwide popular votes, it operates on Statewide Popular Votes which are represented at the Federal level of politics by the States' respective Governors, Congressmen, and Electors.

Consider another example of Federal matters being decided by votes by the States: Constitutional amendments. Amendments require ratification from 2/3rds of all the States to become part of the Constitution, not 2/3rds of the nationwide popular vote.

The Compact argues for the people of one State dictating the decision of the people of another State, in this case the question of who shall become President of the United States of America. Destroying State rights like that is not how you improve democracy.