skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise, but not over trusting it with my data. I'm capable of getting this stuff running locally: in fact I got a computer specifically with this in mind.

I'm not doing the kind of work that lends itself to AI tools, or at least what I've been focussing on hasn't lent itself to such tools. Not yet.

The places I'd use it are rough drafting in an area where a community of basic people with more knowledge than me could get the job done. For instance, at one point I got Stable Diffusion to generate a bunch of neat album covers in various styles, like I was an art director. Also asked it to draw toys of certain kinds as starting points for game characters. I wanted some prompts.

In my job I quickly get to where I have to start coming up with ideas most people don't think of. That said, I see marketing possibilities: 'this is the category in which I work, tell me what you need out of it'. Then, when you have the thing made, 'this is the thing, why do you want to buy it?'

ChatGPT would be able to answer that. It's least capable of coming up with an idea outside the mainstream, but it ought to be real good at tapping the zeitgeist because that's all it is, really! It's a collective unconscious.

It's ONLY a collective unconscious. Sometimes what you need to do is surprise that collective unconscious, and AI won't be any better at that than you can be. But sometimes you need to frame something to make sense to the collective unconscious, and AI does that quite easily.

If you asked your average person 'what is great art?' they would very likely fall back on something like Greg Rutkowski, rather than say Basquiat. If you ask AI to MAKE art, it can mimic either, but will gravitate towards formulas that express what its collective unconscious approves of. So you get a lot of Rutkowski, and impress a lot of average people.
“Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country,” Chew said

I mean, we are talking about a regime that kidnaps world famous artists, olympic athletes and business tycoons and dissappear them for months if they ever dare to challenge or disobey the Chinese Communist Party in any way or form.

Just imagine if in the US the goverment kidnaps Serena Williams, Jennifer Lawrence or Tim Cook and puts them out for a long time and when they return they are so terrified to say anything that getting any information about their whereabouts is practically impossible.

This is how the CCP operates and controls enterprises and the general population.

The CEO of Bytedance knows this and knew it when he took the job.

So now coming to say under oath that Bytedance is not an agent of the CCP, when Chew himself is at the very top of the watch list of the regime is not only perjury but just plain ridiculous.
> The root of copyright issues are (mostly) not about actual copyright, but the length of copyright.

The other issues are getting worse over time. Lack of first sale doctrine. DRM preventing fair use. That Aereo thing where you're not allowed to rent a preconfigured antenna and recorder from someone else.
Allocation strategies are the job of the program that's run, not of the VM the program runs inside. "Just" use an allocation strategy that doesn't fragment your heap, usually the best solution is to use a handful specialized allocators instead of a single 'general purpose' allocator.
There are small moments in life that can change us forever!
Fear. You’re supposed to be afraid.

Oil reserves are low, and if that’s not enough, think of the rust. If those were to fail, not even the oil reserves could help us.

That, or Marguerita and Jonathan rubber-stamped Timothy’s work without reading it.

Two editors, and that was the last sentence.
If you have ever worked at a company that did layoffs or rolled back benefits or salary in difficult economic conditions you will have witnessed a long-lasting malaise that affects morale further and hampers productivity.

There is nothing rational about creating that effect within your organization because "money is cheap".
Yeah I was surprised that the bug appeared simply using the app normally. My first thought is that it was data from other user loading so I reported immediately that it looked like a race condition. But maybe it was this other bug you mention.
When people use your services in a matter assuming such, yes, I do believe so.

At the very least you should grandfather in old users and only change it for new users going forward.
The threshold for sentience is continually falling.

So he might be right but due to time and not due to improved performance.

I believe in the UK all vertibrates are considered sentient (by law not science). That includes goldfish.

And good luck even getting a goldfish to reverse a linked list. Even after 1000 implementations are provided.
I love that!

Thanks for sharing it.
The problem is the factory farming, and the more people focus on methods of execution the more effective their PR is.
Which overseas? Several European countries are seeing TikTok banned in government, large businesses etc.
Greed is a hell of a drug.
US Restrict Act (TikTok Ban)
Yes you can do it, and it is exactly what my father did while living in a caravan on his land. Sorted a place to wash, then cook, then sleep for each of the children. I never said you can't do it, just it isn't how it is normally done.

But it is not what is normally done, as it comes with its own costs.
The benefits to him were clear, but most people just want to move in once it is built and not have the extra expense of iterative 'releases' of their house.
Civilization II
>Was Amazon being a patent troll patenting single-click-to-purchase? //

Just on that example. I think Amazon were fine to get a monopoly (in USA) on commercial implementation of one-click. But realistically it's worth a couple of years at most of monopoly for something which arises naturally out of the progress of the web, which Amazon rode the wave of (and contributed to). Locking that up for 20 years doesn't serve society; it's clearly anti-democratic [ie against the best interests of society as a whole] to have that extended term for business methods/software.

In this case it's trivial to work around, but that's not true of all 'small idea' patents.

This is if course my personal opinion, unrelated to my employment.
> f I have a physical object, you can't also have that physical object. That's natural in the sense that it follows from natural law (physics).

the unnatural, made up construct is that your property is recognised and respected by law, so that you don't have to physically defend it and potentially lose it to someone or some group stronger, perhaps more violent, than yourself

if you only recognise physical ownership, you only own objects as long as you can physically protect them yourself and you explicitly deny any further rights not to have them robbed, as that is also an "unnatural, made up construct" - you were not robbed, there is a just different physical ownership going on now
The central bank has very little power over the economy actually. It basically only has one lever and it is akin to a wrecking ball. It's job is to clean up the mess, not control the economy.

Fed is 98% talk and 2% action.
I mean, civic engagement is certainly a cultural difference, and it's pretty stark I think.

I can remember being in high school, still in the age of minority, and feeling joy when one of the louder, dumber cooks finally kicked off.

I kind of suspect Beijing and the CCP of not being so colorful at the federal level, and rather just being a giant executive bureaucracy with principle, law, and regulation intermixed freely, minimal federation, which leaves them largely ignored by society and festering until they're in your face enforcing lock downs -- like an authoritarian military state.

I unfortunately don't read a lick of Mandarin, and I'm not sure where to get a more optimistic view about what goes on over there, but I'm curious.
> I’d rather have both have short, free terms with copyright extendable by a tax,

Why allow extension at all?

The initial term serves as a societal "thank you for that cool idea". I'm not sure I agree that financial success should mean society continues to award you exclusive rights to the idea.

Applying modern intellectual property law to "base" inventions illustrates how ridiculous it is. Should we be paying a tithe to the descendants of the person that built the first wheel? Would humanity have been better off if it had prevented anyone other than that individual from building wheels without their express permission? The answer is clearly no. That individual benefited personally from their invention and from the improvements to efficiency in the rest of their society. Restricting that would only have served to impede further innovation, prosperity, and quality of life.
I tried it yes, it did not go well. First it gave me a snippet that looked correct but was not what I was asking for (I guess similar to a search engine). When I tried to point out why the proposed solution did not solve the problem, it could not modify it correctly. It kept oscillating between two incorrect solutions.
Setting up an email server is easy. Having messages sent from that server and appear in other people's inboxes is very hard.
https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MEG&issuedby=M...

> NWS Memphis will send out multiple survey crews today to
investigate storm damage in northeast Mississippi

I'm 80 miles north and this storm did some damage in the area here, too. These happen around the start and end of winter here; there's places where the geography contributes, too. People like to build things on the nice flat treeless hilltops without wondering "why weren't there any trees there?"
Just for shear curiosity can you give more info on what and where it is still in production. I find stories about outdated / obsolete hardware still being used for productive work intriguing.
> Android remains heavily fragmented. This requires developers to build hundreds (thousands?) of versions of their app

Anyone here building hundreds or thousands of versions of their app?
> all while being 38,000 feet in the air

I was pushing code while on a transatlantic flight the other day and I got a little overwhelmed with just how cool it was. There I was in a metal tube staying aloft with 2 jet engines, and had wifi at 30k feet while traveling at ~600 mph.
The OS just gives you new chunks of memory, but it's the job of the application to manage the memory it has been given by the OS.

Modern general purpose allocators are a bit more clever then just grabbing the next available address from a single free-list, usually they group allocations by size into buckets.

Then there's specialized allocators (e.g. arena, bump, stack ...) which not only prevent fragmentation but also increase memory management performance.

In general, memory fragmentation in a limited address space is only a problem for programs that don't have a proper memory management strategy.
Can you explain how ChatGPT's soccer itinerary is any different from the top google search [1] for the subject? Is ChatGPT's response any more useful or meaningfully different from the practice routines at the link?

[1] https://www.soccerhelp.com/soccer-practice-plans.shtml
What unamerican souls currently look to a foreign sovereign over a century ago for direction?

Wait, that's only a strawman, right?
These two situations have happened to me frequently:

1. I’m traveling and I encounter somewhere that doesn’t take cash

2. I’m traveling and I encounter somewhere that declines my card for being foreign

I wait for the day when both coincide and I’m left staring at my food unable to eat it.
This week I wrote and filed a complete patent application for a side project of mine all by my own for the first time. I've done some patents in the past but those were through my employers and using patent attorneys to do the drafting.

For most of the technical text drafting ChatGPT proved to be overchallenged, however it was a phenomenal help answering dozens of questions that I had about specific wordings, goals, processes, things to avoid and more. The type of information I would have searched on Google for hours with uncertain chances of success. Sure, there's a chance that ChatGPT just made it up but most of the answers made complete sense in my view.

I also used it to rephrase some boilerplate from other patents that needed to go in there but which I didn't want to copy verbatim. It did well in most cases but failed in about one or two.

But overall still blown away by it and pretty sure we'll see rapid progress from here.
It's dance videos, memes and cat videos. And also billions more ads. The 'OMG ITS LE SMART PPL TIKTOK' is a falsehood created by sensationalism.
Self-hosting really should be understood as "hosting for myself" rather than "doing the hosting myself". Hence I'd never host for anyone else but me. The stress of having to make services reliable, only if for my wife and kids, is a no by my book.
My experience was always that most of my time isn’t deducted to writing code. Maybe 10%, the rest us thinking about how the code I write will fit into the existing architecture or accommodate future features.
Many students in my college got their first taste of programming from competitions like CodeJam, Facebook's Hacker Cup et al. Sad to see them going away.

Though it did inspire a new generation of programmers and for that long live Code Jam!
Yes, very few works need more than the original 7 years in order for them to get a sufficient return to make them economically viable.
You can ban Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Oh, wait…
The point is to reduce carbon emissions. If there's something that is currently being done with carbon outputs, than can be done without, then that's a good thing.
Excerpt:

"A Bill to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, and for other purposes."
The one thing that raised an eyebrow for me, is the production of pure oxygen, as a by-product.

Pure oxygen is dangerous stuff.

Otherwise, cool. Of course, whenever we electrify something, we're just kicking the "carbon cost" down the road, and the means of electrical production become a focus.

That said, if we can distill energy to centralized electrical plants, we can apply fairly massive carbon mitigation, at a single point.
Totally agree - Because I believe in this, I’m spending my time building a GitHub bot that raises Pull Requests from descriptive GitHub issues: https://twitter.com/mrhunterbrooks/status/163937365101010944...

Clearly written technical specs make implementation easy but also easy to reason about.
Using it with PhraseExpress.com - A tool that allows me to highlight any text such as a SEO keyword and let it run through ChatGPT to create an article.
That's an interesting interview, thanks for sharing.

Though I draw the line with using these tools at helping me out with the drudgery of daily work. I don't want them to impersonate me, or write emails on my behalf. I cringe whenever Gmail suggests the next phrase it thinks I want to write. It's akin to someone trying to end your sentences for you. Stop putting words in my mouth!

The recent Microsoft 365 Copilot presentation, where the host had it ghost write a speech for their kid's graduation party[1]—complete with cues about where to look(!)—is unbelievably cringey. Do these people really think AI should be assisting with such personal matters? Do they really find doing these things themselves a chore?

> And I have no idea why things are like this.

Oh, I think it's pretty clear. The amount of resources required to run this on personal machines is still prohibitively high. I saw in one of your posts you mentioned you use 8xA100s. That's a crazy amount of compute unreachable by most people, not to mention the disk space it requires. Once the resource requirements are lowered, and our personal devices are _much_ more powerful, then self-hosting would be feasible.

Another, perhaps larger, reason, is that AI tools are still a business advantage for companies, so it's no wonder that they want to keep them to themselves. I think this will change and open source LLMs will be widespread in a few years, but proprietary services will still be more popular.

And lastly, most people just don't want/like/know how to self-host _anything_. There's a technical barrier to entry, for sure, but even if that is lowered, most people are entirely willing to give up their personal data for the convenience of using a proprietary service. You can see this today with web, mail, file servers, etc.; self-hosting is still done by a very niche group of privacy-minded tech-literate people.

Anyway, thanks for leading the way, and spreading the word about why self-hosting these tools is important. I hope that our vision becomes a reality for many soon.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebls5x-gb0s
We are results of many accidents.
Shame that Volume 1 is missing, it is the most important one and the only one that is really still relevant. Luckily these are not hard to get, I got Volume 1 & 2 for $6 used not too long ago and there were plenty more copies, oddly package deals of both Xlib volumes were cheaper than than just Volume 1 on its own. Have learned a good deal from it.
What I don't get is why all the tech companies don't put their money where their mouth is - and do the same that MAFIAA, radical Christians, Big Oil, Big Ag, Big Tobacco etc are doing: massively donate to young, tech focused aspiring politicians' campaigns, donate to the Democratic Party (or progressive parties in other countries), and otherwise engage in barely legal bribery.

We don't really need to wonder why we have octogenarians with zero clue how the Internet works in power (every Congressional investigation about anything tech is enough meme fodder for the rest of the year)... the tech industry might be absurdly large in financial terms, but it is a complete joke in political lobbying.
Hmm..what does the word "imaginary" suggest to you, then?
> assume it speaks to everyone and anyone it doesn’t can’t possibly be as productive

Chill mate, it's just some person sharing their own experience and beliefs, they are not assuming anything. I don't know why you feel so opposed and attacked to an otherwise benign topic. The workplace interaction is dominantly biased towards speaking and face-to-face interaction. Even job interviews selects for the extroverts who can talk smoothly and has an outward pleasing personality. A dissenting opinion that argues for the unpopular or minority point of view seems perfectly healthy and natural.

In fact, I find your comment strange. Given the current dominant mode of communication, I would have expected that you would support the idea of writing more. Why? Because you clearly advocate for a balanced team that covers all modality (whatever that means), yet I don't see you pointing out the fact that people dominantly prefers and selects for verbal communication, subtly discriminating people who are more effective in writing or other alternative modes of communication. Instead, you get defensive and even argues against the minority view, clearly contradicting what you seem to be advocating for. What do you say about that?
And yet they tried to take down KiwiFarms for less.
Do we actually need monetary incentives to get people to create new things. Won't people naturally keep creating new things as long as they aren't constrained by a more fundamental need? So we really just need to create a society where nobody has to worry about their basic needs like housing, food, healthcare, etc...and then people are free to create and are even free to fail while doing so.
You failed to comprehend meaning of "snowpack and glaciers are gone" are are accusing me of poor reading comprehension? Wow, that's rich.

Go read the IPCC report and educate yourself on this very basic question
That has always been the recommended strategy I've seen being told. Most people get stuck in lifestyle creep while there and aren't able to properly save.
How does that story fit with USA being 100 years later to the Paris Convention?
Flash isn’t a good analogy to the current situation with AI tools. But it’s worthwhile to understand regardless.

I think that AI tooling will cause demand for developers to actually go up instead of down. At least in the medium term say the next 3 to 5 years. There’s tons of businesses and nonprofits that could benefit from custom software development, where the cost has so far been prohibitively high. As the cost drops dramatically I expect demand to increase significantly.

What does that cost/demand curve look like? I don’t know. But we are going to find out.
Could you mock-up what might be a typical email written by you, then pass it through GPT, then post both responses here? I'd be curious to see what the difference looks like for someone else's writing. I've tried this exact use-case and noticed a drop in quality and clarity, rather than an improvement.
In animals, propositional knowledge is built from procedural knowledge; and it can't really be otherwise.

What AI does at the moment is approximate propositional knowlegde with statistical associations, rather than take the procedural route. But this fails because P(A|B) doesnt say whether A causes B, B causes A, A is B, A and B are causally unrelated, etc.

What is the procedural route? To perform actions with your body so as to disambiguate the cases. Animals have causal models of their bodies which are unambiguous and their actions are intentional and goal-directed and effectively "express hypotheses" about the nature of the world. In doing so, they can build actual knowledge of it.

There's at least some good reasons to suppose that "bodies which express hypotheses in their actions" require organic properties to do so: becuase you have to have adaption from bottom-up to top-down to really have "the mind" grow the body in the relevant ways.

In other words, every action an animal performs isnt clockwork: in acting, it's body and mind change. Every action is a top-down, bottom-up whole change to the animal.
The US is not a petrostate. Petrostates are defined not just by the large amounts of oil and gas they extract but the relative absence of other economic activity and the dependence of the state on that money.

42% of Saudi GDP is petroleum.
35% of Kazakh GDP is petroleum.
8% of US GDP is petroleum.
It was a great way to get out of paying large severances and people quit over it.
“those graffiti artists keep giving us free paint, our shit will never rust if we don’t put a stop to that”

-no railroad ever

Point is, the land owner probably doesn’t care about the paint, just the trash.
What a visionary article and a delightful read.

To give another context to look at this in retrospective, here's [0] a die shot from a 2n3906 transistor made in 1965 (still available today). It's roughly 60µm * 60µm in size. By comparison a high end chip made in 2022 has 80 billion transistors in an area of 814mm^2 [1].

That is three hundred and fifty thousand transistors (350,000!) in the same area 58 years later.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2N3906#/media/File:2N3906_top_...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper_(microarchitecture)
Communication requires two parties, through what other channel is the entire US public to formally express it's concerns to the company?
Not really, they either pulled out or got banned because they wouldn't remove content that broke Chinese law, any Chinese company who did the same would also be banned.

Tiktok hasn't broken any American laws that result in more than fine.
Trademark and copywright aren't quite the samee things. We can get rid of copywright while still allowing trademarks.
What makes you so sure we are capable of it? Gut feeling? How do you reason, exactly? This answer is worth billions so why not enlighten us.

You don’t know? But you feel you have “it”, this magical substance, this substrate of reason itself? Reasoning is build out of what, exactly?

Sorry to be that guy, but I fail to see more than word play.