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Ask HN: Would you consider starting to learn a programming language now?
So my question to you is this:

Would you consider starting to learn a programming language now that ChatGPT is here? And what path would you recommend to young people who want to become programmers. Machine learning? Prompt engineering?

I would be grateful if you could share your thoughts and opinions on this matter. Thanks.
Thank you very much for the inspiration. I appreciate your insights.
> Just say what's on your mind and don't mind the votes. One thing you'll discover is that you're not alone in your views, whatever they are.

Preach it!
Most engineers are unfamiliar with how to improve their software’s performance, unfortunately. This has nothing to do with any individual technology stack or product, really, it’s more of a general idea of how you can figure out how things are slow and make them faster. It’s just not something most people ever learn. The way performance blog posts are written on the internet doesn’t really help, either, because most of them are tired arguments about specific things being slow or one-offs that don’t apply elsewhere. Learning how to use a profiler, or have an intuitive sense for how long something “should” take, is critical here, and it takes time to develop.

For example, speaking completely independently from the problem here but putting on my performance hat, I would expect that if we take all things as a given (“no major architectural changes allowed”) Teams should not take 10 seconds to start up to show UI. We know that the tech stack they’re using isn’t fundamentally that bad. This suggests that there is probably a handful of things they are doing that are low-hanging fruit but haven’t been identified yet. Once they find those and bring down the time to something more reasonable like a second things will get much harder for them to fix.
Can you make a youtube video tutorial series on this? Would be great!
America has also done a pretty good job of terrifying other countries in the past century. The most destructive phase of this conflict will probably happen after the Russia-Ukraine war is over, as these two groups conduct proxy wars in unstable regions by supplying weapons to their respective factions.
Is it?

There are many mentions of confetti cannons on the web, along with explanations of how they work (saying something like confetti shoots out of the cannon). Chat-GPT just picked a random thing (confetti) and completed the pattern "X out of Y" with the thing confetti comes out of.

It's easy. The cereal is out of the box. The helium is out of the balloon. The snow is out of the globe.

And it's exactly the one thing LLMs are trained to do: reproduce patterns of words. They are (perhaps) already better than humans at that one specific skill (another win for AI research) but I don't think it's a sign of general intelligence.
Both are just tools but blockchain is better suited for the tasks where the community/collective's interests should be prioritized over those of the individual, while DAG is a better fit for the tasks where individual freedoms are of primary concern.
That would be fucking wild. Gordan Ramsey standing next to you treating you like shit while you're trying to cook. Screaming at you like on the show and making jokes along the way

I'd totally pay for that (I'm serious).
https://archive.is/WABla
Was this a "NFT-like Metaverse" or a "VR-like Metaverse"?
How about Congress makes some actual laws about social media and data use and if TikTok violates those they can ban them?

(I know I'm dreaming)
It's all a scam. None of it lines up with touted aims.

The cost in so called green house gases to mine, refine and transport the materials will far dwarf whatever is saved of 7% or so of CO2 that comes from personal transport (including buses). And on top of that electricity generation is likely to be coming from hydro carbons of one form or another anyway.

This is all to impoverish the many to enrich a few. Be under no illusion this process has been repeated ad infinitum through out our history. All systems of control are thoroughly captured and you'll walk willingly towards it as many continue to listen to these worm tongues.
> Back in the days without any time-shifting technology, many, many people planned their schedule around what time a TV (or even older, a radio) program aired.

Season 5 aired when I was working tech support at SGI in Mountain View.

The problem was that the time slot was at 3 pm? or was it 4pm? Either way... I was still at work.

One of the tools that existed at SGI was a program called "All hands" which was intended for doing broadcasts of all hands to the entire company without trying to stuff them all in one room. And it worked quite well.

The question is what do you do with it the other 256 days of the year when it's not doing the quarterly broadcasts? Well... most of the time someone in the AV department had set it to rebroadcast daytime TV.

A few of us were able to persuade the AV department to change the channel at the appropriate time so that B5 would be multicast out for us to watch on All Hands.
Is linking to Twitter just a way to circumvent the “don’t editorialize headlines” rule?

Direct link to “new teams vs old teams”: https://youtu.be/CT7nnXej2K4
I'm not calling UBI communism. That's not the point.

My point is that if we could simply invent any economic system we wanted, communism would have worked.

Communism failed because it's not possible to do that, because there really are some things about human nature and the way economies and societies work that we can't ignore or change, and those factors prevent utopian schemes from working.
I think AGI needs to be compared against the species in the aggregate. The vast majority of humans also cannot practice law or pass LSAT/GMAT, but some of us can. If we’re setting the bar for AGI as “anything you can do I can do better”, AGI simply would not meet the bar.

To pull that thread further, I think a core feature of intelligence is problem solving. Problem solving is the derivative that creates difficult to obtain knowledge. GPT-4 might look like a problem solver, but it isn’t actively solving new problems with its outputs, it’s sharing existing knowledge of prior problems solved.

The test for problem solving ability is similar to Ilya’s test for consciousness: subtract everything but the fundamental building blocks of a certain problem from the agent’s training set. Finish training, see if the agent can solve the problem from the building blocks. If it can, and it’s not a reason-by-analogy but a logical first principles answer, congratulations, you’ve created artificial general intelligence. If it operates on fast enough time scales, it should probably even be categorized as super intelligence, because it might be singularity:35pm on a saturday.
B5 does not hold up well in comparison to DS9. I watched both completely for the first time recently, back to back.

It seems very clear that the B5 directors didn’t direct the actors, so they were left to their own devices. Clearly, the actors who played Londo and G’kar did not need direction — I’d put Girabaldi in this category, too. Most of the others needed a lot more than they got. Or maybe the directors told all the rest of them to move and talk as stiffly and unnaturally as possible, but that would be odd.

The DS9 special effects were state of the art. The B5 special effects were done on some Amigas on the cheap. It probably didn’t show as much on the low-res TV’s of the day, but wow the difference is stark now.

B5 also badly needed a dialogue coach. I’m sorry, but JMS’s dialogue was terrible. His story, his plotting wass brilliant. His screenwriting book is excellent, but his dialogue is stilted and boring in the examples there, too. I have to admit to some bafflement on this, because Harlan Ellison could surely have helped with this aspect of things.

There’s more, but I think most of it comes from a very ambitious vision and complete lack of money to realize it.
Ok I did love vir cotton but I literally remember none of those other characters, which I think says something.
The only one of these that makes sense is a Fed balance (as it is not only free but even pays interest), but the Fed does not seem to be a fan of the idea [1].

Cash in vaults has negative yield (the vault itself isn't free, nor is insurance for it), and if you don't like fractional reserve banking and/or counterparty risk, foreign correspondent banks don't really seem like a good way to eliminate it either.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-08/the-fe...
So the one cool thing with crypto is that you can actually verify it. Hopefully proof of reserve will become a requirement in the future to operate an exchange
Teams is also an incredibly successful product, moving far beyond Slack in terms of usage, so it's an interesting case study. My guess is that speed just hasn't been one of the top priorities, and they have instead prioritized cramming lots of features in there, both to copy Slack's functionality and to add integrations into other Microsoft products that help make the sale when they're pitching Teams to customers.

It is certainly aesthetically displeasing for such a relatively simple product to be slow, but it often makes business sense that it's not a top priority.
WTO regulation of services is very limited. It mainly regulates the flow of goods. Unilateral domestic regulation or bilateral agreement with China are the only options.
ChatGPT4 Discord Bot (Node.js)
Simple discord bot running the chat gpt-4 model on nodejs. the truth is, chatgpt4 did program most of the bot.
Sleep deprivation is recognized as torture everywhere.
Fair, thats really what I meant to type, but its still an impractical demand. Most entities pursuing this aren't going to stop training because some high profile people asked them nicely.
And then why would we want to give a country that's not a democracy free access to our markets?
"Also what a joy of getting that bill literally a year later, you'd think they would have due dates of when they have to send these out!"

I thought they do, in fact, and the bill expires if not sent out in time.
Companies are considered a person and legally have rights such as freedom of speech, can own property and enter contracts.

They are allowed to spend as much as they want for votes due to their freedom of speech. Sure they can't directly vote but ever since like 2010 have a lot of human rights and I'm sure would love more. I would not be surprised if one day they could directly vote considering due to their rights. I hope though we can push back before then and change things.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citi...
My elderly parents use a Xubuntu laptop just fine. It ended up with Xubuntu because I got pissed off at the Win 11 Home Edition registration bullshit, and all my parents really use is the web browser.

If I did it again, I'd probably use Linux Mint Cinnamon.

IMO, Windows UI/UX has gotten so bad, even Gnome seems like an drastic improvement.
It is called ICEland for a reason.
I hope there is a reboot of "Crusade". I would love to see what story he was going to tell in that series.

And Zathras did have nice things. It was Zathras who did not have nice things.
Yes, If you ask something specific it will generate citations because there are might be strong positive associations between that topic and research. This is a good example of a proper query. But for instance, if you ask it about "citations for papers on recent research on trees" for instance you get a bunch of nonsense.

In response to my earlier comment that it was "an expert in nothing", this was the reply I received from:

ME: Can you respond to this statement: "<my earlier comment>"

ChatGPT: The statement that "ChatGPT is an expert in nothing" is technically true, as I am a machine learning model that has been trained on a vast corpus of data and does not possess personal expertise or experience. However, my purpose is to provide information to the best of my ability based on my training data, which allows me to offer a wide range of information on various topics.

It is true that the information produced by me or any other AI language model should be cross-checked for accuracy, as errors and inaccuracies may occur. It is also true that I do not possess a conscious understanding of the world in the way that humans do, and my responses are generated through statistical analysis of patterns in my training data. Therefore, while I can provide accurate and useful information, my responses are not always nuanced or contextualized in the way that a human expert might be able to provide.

So either it is agreeing with me and my statement was correct, or it's reply was incorrect and therefore my statement was correct.

Am I wrong on this? Does whatever model you have access to provide an alternate take?

Edit: For the above, you should start a new conversation to clear the existing context. The citations appear to have just been repeated.
Nothing like that on Android happens without explicit consent. And the controls around this consent are very very robust imo.
There will always be an option to replace morally bankrupt software... It may come late, but it will come. Napster came out of a need to de-fund greed, so did bittorrent and re-engineered/edited software builds, and many other solutions created by the more ethical/enterprising parts of the underworld.

As shareholder-driven greed consumes these large monolithic companies and their overhead eats them out of their massive office campuses, they will eventually realize that product coexistence and maintaining product reliability/performance while putting customers first will be the only way to survive once their guaranteed government buying partnerships face a new audit and dry up fast.

The cycle is terrible to productivity and for our sanity, and ad revenue is not worth all of the stress they put all of us through. There will also be lawsuits and many other issues raised eventually once people realize that getting robbed at an ATM because you had to watch a 5 minute ad, before your withdrawal completes, is a very stupid idea.
Build a Speech to Text Web App using OpenAI's Whisper Model and Node.js
Amusingly enough, AOL owns TechCrunch, although I suspect you knew that...

It's kind of funny how Twitter became what AOL once aspired to be - a walled garden where all that separates you from your destination is a single #keyword.
I have this issue but wsl --shutdown does work and I don't need to reboot.
I only read the blog summarizing the interviews, but I’m horrified that she can talk this much bs with such apparent confidence. I don’t know who she is and how she got to have this role, which she does not appear qualified to hold.
Why would Steve Wozniack be worried about catching up?

The guy is a retired billionaire ?
> ..you sometimes can feel the curb "sucking" you towards it when you try to avoid it

I was shopping for a kids carrying bikes, called bakfiets[1] (I think) in the Netherlands. The salesperson offered me a trial ride, his advice is something I still remember. Don't bother about the front wheels (they are far out in front), just look where you want to go and your hands will take care of steering and balancing.

[1] https://www.bakfiets.com

Edit: fixed thanks to the correction by “isoprophlex”!
I binge watched the show some time around 2003-2004, when the US had gone to war with two nations, established a Department of Homeland Security, and was generally being more than a little authoritarian under Bush Jr and Cheney.

In that context, Babylon 5 felt to me like a bad parody, taking cheap shots at the political landscape in the US at the time. For example, their equivalent to the DHS was something like the Earth Alliance security division, and just like how US senators were wearing little "USA flag pins" on their lapels, the politician characters in the show started wearing similar little pins on their lapels.

"I get it, you watch the news, stop making it so obvious." was what was going on in my mind for every second scene. It felt almost obnoxious... until I realised the show was made in the 1993 – 1998 time frame, years before any of the things it was showing had happened!

Suddenly, it blew my mind how prescient it was, how it was showing a society's journey down the road to military fascism, and how half the world was following the same path.

Around the same time I read someone's "Ten steps to a fascist society." article (also pre-2001!), and I realised that the B5 TV show was at step 8, and the United States was at step 7 and eagerly beginning work on the next step.

Then, Obama won the election. Whew.
It's not an issue of copyright as terms of service. The images you create out of a pirate photoshop, you do own the copyright, but adobe can also go after you for the unrelated matter of illegally bypassing their DRM.
Thanks for sharing. How do you know this? Can you recommend any papers to read to start learning about LLMs? I have very limited ML/AI knowledge.
The jetsetters could very well have their personal assistants decide whether/how to interact personally with AI in the wild, or rather to have one of their own local personal AI sub-assistants take care of it.
> showing 1 KB of text after 9 seconds is about a billion CPU instructions needed per character

Correct me if I'm wrong, but on a 3ghz CPU (3bln cycles per second), there are 27 billion cycles per character for 1kb of text. Take into account that on any non-stone-aged CPU you've got probably 4-16 cores, and can do ~4-8 SIMD ops per cycle (at full clock rate), so at the limit we're actually talking .. something like _3.4 TOPS PER BYTE_ ..
> Most engineers are unfamiliar with how to improve their software’s performance, unfortunately.

Then they aren't "engineers" yet. Engineers can figure out how to use a profiler and how to improve performance of their software. Calling themselves "engineers" while being unable to do so should be a signal to everyone in their circle that they're incompetent hacks. They should at least be honest and give themselves an appropriate title, like "apprentice" or "intern" or "novice" or "student".
Nope, not at all. BUT on further thought, beef at a local burger joint is locally produced. Everything else (wheat, cheese, onions, tomato, lettuce, sauces, etc) is usually imported.

Of course at McDonalds and Burger King, everything is imported and they cost about the same (or less) than what a burger costs at a local joint.

I believe Iceland also generates its own electricity from geothermal energy.
isn't this about vr rather than ar? i can certainly think about situations where ar would be useful, though none have been demonstrated to be viable yet - rather the reverse when you think of things like google glass.
Kathmandu wanted to be even more odd and created a +5:45 offset
That was a completely different era when personal computers were just becoming a thing. I don’t consider it comparable to cell phones today.
I should add this is for my local ER. Although I've never had a long wait in the US (my wife has), my local ER is literally half empty every time I go there, and the triage area 100% empty.
That is exactly what I’m saying, a specialised LLM can reverse engineer and analyse the entire firmware / firmware update process faster than a human and thus automatically implement malware for all kinds of devices without access to source code.
Support is key: I don't support my (extremely non-technical) mom's Windows laptop or her iPhone because there's nothing for me to do. (My mom had a stroke and is mid 70's.) She wouldn't be able to use anything other than Windows because the retraining burden would be too great. I would expect most 8-year-olds to easily move between any OS because they're far more adaptable than ye olde fuddy-duddy adults.

PS: Which Linux distro?
In all fairness, I didn't wire them money so much as shady internet points which I traded for other types of internet points on their site (and promptly removed)
How about I choose for myself what I want to read? Why do you think you know better than me?
> "Don't break the back button" is a trope in web development.

Is it? I’ve been having an inner rant about how modern web ignores the back button.

Reddit and YouTube completely breaks the back button. Click a video, click back and a completely new list of videos are shown. Same for Reddit.

On top of that almost every news site inject their front page behind the article you clicked so back keeps you on their property.

Clicking back on Facebook gives you a new feed.
I'm sure it will get better. But the parent said EVs are better now. My point is they aren't for everyone. I purchased a vehicle in recent past, I looked into getting an EV, and came to the conclusion that none of the options, especially ones I could buy used, would fit my needs. Five years from now? Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it. And I really hope I won't need a new car that soon.
They have the LoRA delta weights on huggingface, which is linked on the github. Since it's the just the deltas, they're substantially smaller (~8mb), and you'll need to supply the original 7b LLaMA yourself.
An odd article, because it puts up a whole smorgasbord of strawmen.

It seems to conflate all of it into one big old-man-yells-at-clouds complaint: tiktok and social media addiction, chatgpt, stimulants, depression, teenagers, helicopter parenting, porn, videogames, sensory overload, being called a snowflake, stuffed animals (?) and on and on it goes. But it never actually brings anything concrete to the table, nor maybe examines how the world teenagers grow up in today might not be the world where the author grew up in 40 years ago.

For example, in that very first screenshot, the first two teenagers say they feel more connected to their friends and social online, while the latter two saying they feel more peaceful. How is that for connecting with yourself and others? It's not like the authors seems to have spent a lot of time talking to these kids to maybe form a better informed opinion. Instead, their writing veers off into nytimes op-eds and big words about the fundamental task of our lives (fundamental to who?) and throw-away culture. I don't think we inhabit the same internet. Mine is full of dedicated artists and researchers and hackers and students and youtube creators (hide the kids!) creating amazing videos. Heck, just spend one day on HN and click all the obscure stuff showing up on the frontpage.

As an autistic person, online was indeed where things where calm, peaceful, and where I could be social at my own rhythm. It's only later in life that I figured out that that's where I am grounded, that's where I can grow, instead of pretending to connect in the real world.

It's one thing to criticize a specific aspect of digital culture, and maybe come up with some facts; it's another to just put everything in a blender and pretend there is wisdom in calling it terrible.

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deprecated for children.

works well for people with atherosclerosis.

ibuprofen and acetominophen are hardly safe...
This argument would make a lot more sense if people actually gave a shit what TechCrunch or CNN had to say. In fact it's the opposite, and you see audiences actively resisting whatever agenda the "mainstream media" transparently broadcasts as its goal, to the point you get people entrenching themselves in contrarian positions they wouldn't even be able to justify if you asked them to.