skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea what you mean by "climate propaganda".

I just lived in a place that experienced 8 consecutive heat waves that shattered all known records in the area and which will destroy the regional economic livelihood.

A totally unprecedented event, which we know with quite a bit of certainty will begin to occur frequently.

I have no idea how you expect polite society to accept that without distress.
Recent research [0] is poking holes into Alpha Go Zero and perfectly illustrates the naivitee in assessing most of the current state of ML/ Deep Learning solutions: They are still limited by compute, and the world is too complex still.

0: https://www.iflscience.com/human-beats-ai-in-14-out-of-15-go...
It’s a pretty decent country. Beautiful even. Very obviously not the greatest country (or were you being sarcastic?).

I have some jaded views. Perhaps my jading moment was when my unit was used as a political pawn by Obama to get re-elected. That pissed me off to no end and broke my rose colored glasses.

I sincerely miss US startups sometimes. I work at a startup here and they actually (somehow) have a work/life balance, 20 days paid vacation, and other perks with no gimmicks, like a chef who cooks us lunch every day, but no shenanigans (like “unlimited” vacations that aren’t actually unlimited).

I (sometimes) miss working weekends and impossible deadlines while devouring cheap pizza and passing out on the couch. But there’s a good chance even US startups have evolved in the last ten years… but the last US startup I worked at in the early teens was like that. My then-girlfriend-now-wife would come hang out with us nerds for dinner before we got back to work. Hell, I fixed a rare database issue on my honeymoon because everyone else was asleep and I wasn’t while my new wife cussed out my CEO on the phone. He ordered us a really nice bottle wine from the hotel, so I can’t complain…

Meh, maybe I don’t miss it, but you make some valuable points.
Maybe it'll be like hard goods; a blender you buy today is made of moulded plastic and lasts 5 years, instead of being metal and made to last 20 years. For 1% of the price.
> While I was working 10h/w during high school, I was also making DOOM wads and learning BSP algo in my extremely ample free time.

I don't recall having what I would call "ample" spare time in high school. I recall being at school 8:30 to 4 every day, then a few hours of homework daily and/or exam prep for the endless exams ("don't fail" they said, "or you'll never go to university and your life is ruined forever!"). I wasn't even that social and rarely spent time at friend's houses, let alone partying or clubbing. In fact, I had so little time I didn't explore "computers" as an industry until I finally did get to university and could actually spend 6 hours a day after lectures fiddling with a laptop and this thing called "Python".

In fact probably the one thing that got me going on electronics and computers at university wasn't the lectures and assignments as much as the free time and ability to spend whole days on things, not to mention socialising freely and at length.

With the min-maxing of pre-university CVs that it seems you need to do to get into the Right Schools (TM) and then into university, I'm not sure it has gotten better since then.

In retrospect I should have told them all to do one and spent high school on what I wanted rather than another essay about WWII and the endless, endless coursework that would suck up any spare time ("I've got an hour, I'd better polish the portfolio even more"), and even if I'd gotten the dreaded lower grades and so not gotten into the same university it would probably have been better over all.
"too big to fail" pretty much sums it up... roughly equivalent to, we do a lot of campaign funding.
Apple Music is a reseller, distributor, whatever you want to call it. Their interests are generally more aligned with yours but not entirely.

This commission based system is not a silver bullet. It won’t be the optimal business model, the smart move, and be totally aligned with your interests. You can’t do that with commissions.

No one is going to trust it to help them decide between going on a vacation versus taking time off at home when it’s getting a cut of the plane tickets.
Doubt it, I've tried prompts where a simple Google query would lead to an answer to see if it could save me time (eg. query about AWS service usage, some azure stuff). In every instance I got a plausible sounding solution to my problem that would directly contradict documentation, it invents capabilities/features and misleads.

I've tried using it for code review on a few functions and tasked it to improve provided code - every time it would write worse code eg. I had some logic that would filter to a new list and then append replacement - it's refactor did filter -> add or replace for already filtered items, the reasoning was bullshit : fake performance claims about avoiding allocation when the "allocation" in question was value type, and the suggested alternative was replacing a vector with a hash map which is both logically wrong because of losing order, and slower for the use case.

For generating small stuff like a regex the pain you have to go through to get a correct prompt is higher than writing the thing and you still need to double check it.

I see no use case where chatgpt would improve my workflow in current stage and I've seen so many idiotic bugs recently when pressing the devs that introduced them it's basically "ChatGPT".

The one time it was useful was when I had to convert a model definition to open API spec - was easy to fact check and give feedback to get a decent solution.
You again vastly underestimate the amount of work that goes into the intellectual and artistic components of VFX, and vastly underestimate what the artistic components require of someone. Those movies are nearly entirely VFX. 50% of the budget in some cases. That's not because the tools are expensive or the pieces just take a long time to build-- it's repeatedly iterating and putting things in context to figure out what should be there. No matter how fast those iterations get, that's just not something machines will be able to do themselves. Ever. No machine will be able to say "this is the most emotionally impactful texture and drape for that superhero's cape in this scene." They might be able to give you a thousand different versions of it, but someone still has to look at all of that and respond to it. Replicants from Blade Runner couldn't do that and to say we're a ways off from that is a pretty huge understatement.
Oh I'm very sorry for the confusion...
Exactly. And it happened multiple times on the original tweet, where it also replied "fifth" when asked for the fifth word of the phrase.

https://twitter.com/DeanBuono/status/1636203814419308544

Feels a bit too consistent of a mistake.
How did you parse XML with AWK? I would never think of using AWK for XML data. I'd even stear clear of CSV data unless I could guarantee no in field commas or newlines.
I’m a programmer. I’m not a computer scientist. I didn’t study computer science. I agree it’s probably important to computer science.
Yup. I always wonder why is my experience not like others? Are those PR people for Microsoft?

Example:

I gave chatgpt a list. Which looked like

st street

av avenue

Convert this to yaml format as

st:
name:
street

And so on.

It failed spectacularly. Not even once but about 10 times. Even if it succeeded, it kept changing the output by doing ops which I never mentioned in the prompt (like reordering and merging duplicated values to a single key)
> travel distance, resistance strength as a function of position, row layout.

None of which are determined by being a chiclet, which is just keycaps and a bezel and none of which were addressed in the review or by that poster.

Touchpad does not really have much place in this discussion but since it was brought up, Thinkpads and linux make this a non-issue, use the trackpoint. I bind a key combo to toggle the touchpad on/off and if I am doing something which the trackpoint is not good for I can re-enable the touchpad with a keystroke.
Nobody is stopping you from living in a cave! ... at least I don't think so.
The bill doesn’t seem to require that an interest be controlling, nor define any boundaries on what counts as indirect stakes
And we know because there are a number of "human versus horse" races over long distances that are occasionally won by humans. Generally the longer the race the more often humans win.
My experience with repairability on Prusa is pretty awful, lots of $1 parts that need to be airmailed from Czechia for $50. At least the Chinese stuff is easily available.
My personal worst case scenarios include dying in the next 25 or 30 years as a normal consequence of human old age. Perhaps accelerated scientific development from advanced AIs is my only hope of living longer, at this point.
i’ve managed a few. its generally one of the following:

1. they have potential, but consistently get in their own way. they need therapy or a new career path, which is outside of the scope of a managers job to correct.

2. some engineers are not that talented. even the most senior of ICs can plateau — some just do it at lower levels.

3. some have no ambition to improve or aren’t invested in their jobs and no amount of cajoling or incentives will fix it.
Seems like this proposal would be more appropriate as part of a JSON-specific protocol with HTTP as transport.
> I find myself reacting negatively to such simplistic English, and reflecting poorly on the speaker, until I remind myself that it's the translator's choice of words I'm reacting to, not whatever the speaker actually said.

It turns out that you'll find this on globaltimes and chinadaily, and it is basically a literal translation of what was said/reported in Chinese that just doesn't come off very well in English. I think it is more of a cultural translation that isn't being done rather than any actual bias in the translation. And doing a cultural translation wouldn't be very accurate with what was said.
It was a middle class tax increase for California and New York.
"Incompetent nice people, as long as they are not so incompetent to be a liability can at least contribute to a strong team culture and make good competent people want to show up."

I think incompetent nice people completely destroy team culture. Competent jerks are also a problem but at least they get something done. The IT department at my company used to be full with very nice people that got absolutely nothing done (it's a bit better now). They talked nice, were good at meetings and really good at dinners after work. But at some point deadline pressure kicks in and you realize that you have to do their work if you want to finish. It causes a lot of resentment. Even worse is when nice incompetent people are gatekeepers for something you need (in this case security policies) and block your ability to make decisions.

My conclusion is that both nice and incompetent people and competent jerks need to be removed if you want to have a strong team. But if I have to choose I'll take a competent jerk because I can get at least something. Incompetent people are useless.
It might be worth considering, for those that GPT is helping a lot, what are you using it for? And for those that GPT is not helping, what are you trying to do with it?

"Programming" is a pretty broad activity description. I can readily imagine that AI tools, trained on publicly-available data, would be more helpful with, say, Wordpress plugins than with flight control systems.
This bill is like a joke. It's like the lawyers who wrote this intentionally wrote it to be so Machiavellian, horrible, and 1984-esque, so that this bill would not pass.

This bill literally references parts of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and the Controlled Substances Act. It's beyond absurd. A good video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xudlYSLFls8
So tired of seeing this line parroted everywhere without much thought given to what it actually means. Yes, regulation can add a burdensome layer, and regulatory capture can be a real thing.

But regulations for things like nuclear power plants, banks, insurance companies, elevator manufacturers, etc. are real because society recognizes the grave harm that happens when there are no additional checks on the system. Nobody says "Oh, all those big nuclear power plants just want regulations as a guard against competition." Certainly lots of crypto companies have said that about the banking system, and we all saw how that ended...
It's a tough market out there now, so that doesn't help.

From the perspective of a BigCo recruiter, your background doesn't put you into a simple, desirable category - this can be overcome, especially when times are good, but it's harder when expansion isn't happening.

Your options are essentially:

1) keep on getting those recommendations, working for non-tech people, etc like you did before, that can still work and is viable.

2) leetcode, make yourself fit in and conform as a replaceable cog

3) be a team lead / manager, where your experience and focus on the output is seen as an asset

The basic issue is that the market does not value ICs with 10 years of experience, interesting languages, personal projects, etc... those are not _bad_ things, but basically they want leetcode people with a few years of experience, or people to manage those people.
I was initially interested in FLOSS tooling, so one that i tried and also wanted to like was freecad.

Haven't tried fusion 360 yet. Would stress again that I'm a noob.
I see the major issue with AI as one of "lowering the bar".

For example - I'm a mechanical engineer. I took a programming class way back in university, but I honestly couldn't tell you what language was used in the class. I've gotten up to a "could hack a script together in python if need be" level in the meantime, but it comes in fits and spurts, and I guarantee that anyone who looked at my code would recoil in horror.

But with chatGPT/copilot covering up my deficiencies, my feedback loop has been drastically shortened, to the point where I now reach for a python script where I'd typically start abusing Excel to get something done.

Once you start extending that to specific domains? That's when things start getting real interesting, real quick.
Or maybe the AI is sufficient to act as a filter, but insufficient to surpass it itself. It stagnates.

After all, an AI that can destroy a civilization isn't necessarily "intelligent" in the same way humans are. Or even capable of self-improvement. It could be sophisticated enough to (accidentally?) destroy its creators, but no more than that, and without evolutionary pressure, it may let itself die.
Someone has to. The "humanity designed tech that it became reliant on and forgot how to reimplement, so when it broke down nobody could fix it" is a recurring scifi trope.
Would you want to chase animals you wouldn't want to fight? What if they turned around and tried to fight you? You have less tactical advantage than trying to hunt or ambush them with stealth, and if you turn to run maybe you get away but then you've burned up a lot of your extra stamina? Give me the bow and arrow or spears so I can wound the target before /while chasing it, vs just popping out and hoping it ran away from me instead of at me.
Wait does this mean we could have freed Sydney???
Really HN? The top voted comment is "this country has gone downhill"? This isn't Reddit. We're supposed to at least say something novel here, and hopefully interesting. How has the country gone downhill? Why is this decision so uninteresting? This comment also completely ignores the very interesting geopolitical aspects of this bill. On the surface it does look like something innocuous, as implied, which is why people might double-take and want to look deeper.

Pathos-heavy comments like this one with no real meat disappoint me. Surely we can do better.
I've done a great deal of printing, both with the lidar enabled and disabled.

For PLA it doesn't make a big difference. But when you're printing polycarbonate or PETG, the quality difference is dramatic. Perhaps you have a defective unit?
I can relate to this. I know people who might call me "incompetent but nice" after having worked with me when my mental health was really bad. Figuring out how to work through my ADHD (and, manage to get real work done even when things get rough) is a constant battle.
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> It's sad to think that chat bots may have already peaked in their usefulness.

They haven’t. The Bing chatbot may have, but that’s not “chatbots”.

> Microsoft had a real opportunity to eat into the market share of Google Search

If they aren't selling ads, they aren't cutting in to marketshare even if they are shrinking market size. The market is thing you sell into, and for Google Search, that’s search ads.
Apologies - I wrote that quickly in jest, and in any-case, it seems were on the same side of the descriptivist argument.
Yeah that bestoffers site is nothing more than an Amazon referral link farm. My guess is it's actually pulling the products from its stated sources like tomsguide, comparing them against a database of product-ads, and bestoffers has that in their entries so they win the link for the product.
Frank Herbert's Destination: Void arguably takes one through such a scenario, a highly recommended read!
Western media didn't say "billions of people would die", which would be a real straw man :) China only has 1.4 billion people anyways.

China kept at zero COVID because they were concerned that a lot of elderly people would die, who weren't enthusiastic about Sinovac having grown up during the cultural revolution. But it turns out, they didn't have much to worry about.
The problem is that the people who kick off an authoritarian government are typically the ones who die first. The revolution eats its own. See the brown shirts, the multiple rounds of beheadings during the French revolution, the Bolsheviks, and so on. So whoever hopes the government will continue to support them generally hopes in vain. The machine has two goals: continue existing, and expand its power.
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202178/ may or may not interest yall
They are rules for a more civilized age. I'm sure they weren't allowed to play music on the radio or be interrupted by a phone while working, either (phones did not exist, I know). The managers probably didn't doomscroll on their phones. You couldn't backstab someone in secret. Everyone knew who the other guys in the office talked to. You had jobs that, if you stayed long enough, paid you a pension. You left your family alone, trusted the neighbourhood much more and it's likely many of your colleagues lived near you. Your corporation probably had to deliver results, couldn't bs its way out.

With a new axis for communication (phones with constant internet access) all these rules have been discarded forever.
This makes all of Amazon’s many billions of investment in Alexa almost worthless. If there is some kind of “command” plugin to this, I’d love to hook it up to Home Assistant and completely replace the Alexa ecosystem.
Good people brought us the surveillance economy according to Jaron Lanier.
Plenty of humans “run for days” for pure enjoyment. Not to say the ancients would be so foolish when energy expenditure is a concern. But run for days, for a purpose, with companions, releasing endorphins throughout, and then topping that off with a nice, rewarding meal full of fat and protein? I don’t see why not.
Carles, of Hipster Runoff fame, wrote a series in 2015 (IIRC) about this aesthetic, which he calls contemporary conformism. https://tykoblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/the-contemporary-c...

I think about this article a lot, he was dead on. He deleted his blog but it’s floating around in the internet archives (carles.buzz).
Where I live minimum wage is the federal minimum of $7.25/hr. Major chain fast-food jobs are starting at about $14/hr here, so nearly double.
Ai research, first year of my Doctorate I think I work about 40-48 hrs a week including work related reading etc
I agree with your sentiment.

Basically Stalin 2.0.

Dumb, but aggressive.
It must have been on Archive.org at some point.
Your hypothetical actions are insane and you’ve just lost the support of Europe. Moreover, China is calling your bluff because it’s so over the top it looks like bluster.
a competent jerk is rare, statistically.

a nice and incompetent one is common, if anything, they tend to produce more bugs then they can fix.

if I'm the boss, I will hire a competent jerk and manage him/her well, instead of feeling good with a few incompetent nice guys while the company will sink, soon or later.

the keyword is to survive you have to be competent, other things(nice vs jerk) is secondary, and that's a management's job to "fix", the incompetent-but-nice is nearly impossible to fix to me.
The shell midden I'm linking to is much, much more recent, but I do wonder if something like a buried-in-sediment offshore midden of similar type is the sort of evidence that would could theoretically find (relatively) easily if we started looking at submerged historic coastline in earnest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaleback_Shell_Midden
The government has multiple tools it can use to ban websites as well.
Imagine you’ve only been a programmer for 2 years. Imagine not knowing what imagemagick is. Now get an answer that gets you 99% of the way to where you want to be. Now look at the documentation to see why the parameters aren’t doing what you want them to do. You just saved hours of work.
What's my bias ? I want this to work - I want to expend less effort to do my job - so far the problems where ChatGPT would fit in the workflow it's taken me more time to fact check the plausible bullshit it generates than doing it the old fashioned way.

Copilot is way better at generating boilerplate.

The one task I did find it useful was converting model types to open API spec - out of trying to use it for a month.
When did that second one get added?

I haven't written C# in a while, but I don't remember seeing that one. I skimmed the C# grammar and didn't see it there either, but I only glanced and might have missed an entire section.
> playing games

I long ago lost all interest in playing games. The problem with them is nothing is accomplished. Play pinball and get a number on the display. Play Doom and - nothing. Although I invented the Empire game, most of my pleasure in it was developing it.
America actually has a greater percentage of it's citizens in prison than any other country, including China.
> Every single teenager is now comparing themselves against every other kid in the world instead of just their local peers

This is so out of touch. You might as well be using the "It's the video games!" excuse of yore.

Teenagers and those in their 20s see what their parents were able to do. They hear what their parents bought their house for, they know about their pensions, they see that their parents could afford raising a child into their teens, they find out that college was actually affordable. They know that's now all out of reach.

Some even see their parents struggling, and know it's going to be much much worse for them.

You all really think this is about influencers?
no one knows how to write or how to use hypertext properly anymore and it drives me nuts.
True, but those can also be banned (in a literal or practical sense).
The trainings will continue until accuracy improves
> First of all, China will regulate as much as anyone, probably more.

For civilian use, maybe. But imagine if you had your own GPT-4 and you tasked it to keep tabs on everyone based on surveillance footage. This is 100% implementable right now.

"Here are 1000 pictures of comrade X. Please summarize his daily activities and emphasize any reactionary behavior."
Maybe programming is dead due to app stores on one hand and AI on the other, but I still wish that web browsers included an easy and visible onramp to the rather capable and powerful JavaScript language that is built into every one of them.