skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because high earners are rich people but not rich enough to be capitalists

“High earners” includes capitalists; one of the reasons the SALT cap hits hard in California is that California not only has the highest high-end income tax rate, it (unlike many states and the federal government) taxes capital gains as normal income, not at a reduced rate. Both parts of this policy are things that the SALT cap is designed to put pressure against.

The SALT cap, not the state and local taxes it targets, is pro-capitalist and anti-worker.
But the people who would apply these things are humans, which are capable of making their own decisions, informed and restricted by societal norms and laws.

The idea that "x is technically possible, therefore it is inevitable" - the favored line of the tech oligarchs who are the very ones directly furthering x - is sadly cargo culted by many rank-and-file technologists. If you were to apply the same defective reasoning to, say, nuclear weapons, then we would all be dead by now.

It is possible for humans to agree that something should not be done, and prevent it from being done. This is especially true of these LLMs, which require ingesting (and ignoring copyright on, by the way) massive amounts of human work and then spending massive amounts of computation to process.

That we could choose to do something about this should not be controversial, regardless of what the driving AI.
Because you claimed something that contradicts the article. Do you have a source for what firmware updates can be applied on this model with fwipd?
I believe a lot of it has to do with resale value. People want to be able to trade in their car for maximum value, and picking the color with the widest appeal helps with that. This seems to have created a feedback loop where car manufacturers ship more of the "boring" colors because that's what customers are buying.

This also applies to things like computers: A cursory search on ebay shows that a silver iMac generally sells for more than an equivalent yellow iMac, for example. For someone who trades in their old equipment when buying new, this is a big deal.
Can you expand on your thoughts here? This is not a group whose lives I generally expect to be getting worse (in day-to-day life, barring social media effects).
The question I was addressing was whether it was "easy to understand". I'm sure there are explanations for why it's such a complicated language, such as e.g. the "call" statement probably being there for compatibility with QBASIC which required it in some corner cases.
> There are a number of other health biomarkers that are going bad fast (sperm-count, testosterone)

Which one caused which? Does hanging out on Reddit 8 hours a day not have an effect on sperm-count; or is the decline in sperm-count part of the reason you are on Reddit?
Partially true. I had (once upon a time) mastered CSS to the point of being able to make pixel perfect documents. I understand CSS, that is WHY I use Tailwind.

CSS is the low level language of styling. For the same reason I use C# or Javascript instead of assembly language or C, I need to get shit done.
Wow, your post history shows your many attempts at protecting that hill: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... including this same complaint, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846302 !

And one use, 6 years ago, where you did die on that hill, when you wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738257

> It literally kills me how performant and impactful your code is to the many unique users that comprise the community. :-)

> Seriously, though, the original ...

If you're already dead then you can stop dying. :-)
No. We Are Not.

Real estate developers have converged on beige toned car oriented soulless tracts. Some people think they like that suburban style. Others loathe it and choose to live in walkable, vibrant urban areas.

I could go on for days, other than having the common taste that our five basic needs are met, there is tremendous diversity in what we actually prefer.

Averages are artificial concepts that fail in reality.
> With maintainers in the loop, there is at least one more person that can notice something is fishy

Also one more person who can inject malware or break something. How did that Debian keygen issue happen again? Oh right.
> Given an LLM, can you identify which of the parameters that are responsible for generating pornography?

The pornography in the training data.

> By looking at the parameters, can you tell how reliable or unreliable the filter is?

The parameters in the model? No, because that's not in a human-readable form: it's a highly-compressed cache. But those parameters aren't mysterious any more than a JPEG is mysterious because you can't read its bytecode. The parameters come from the training data, just as the lossy compressed bytes in a JPEG come from whatever raw format was compressed.

You're viewing the model as if it's some sort of mystery, but it's not. It's just a lossy-compressed cache of the training data optimized for quick access. There is nothing there which is not from the training data.

The rest of your post is asking me, personally, about my knowledge of the system, and then extrapolating that answer to all of humanity, which happens to include the people who made ChatGPT.

Just because people with no access to the code or training data of ChatGPT can't answer a question about ChatGPT doesn't mean those questions can't be answered.

> If all of this was entirely predictable, then no one would be surprised. But we have ample evidence that the vast majority of people have been shocked by what it can do.

The surprise of people who don't understand how something works, is not evidence that nobody understands how it works.
How to convince our peasants to support our war.
or perhaps OP thinks so little of this take they didn't bother to reply to the point
> In the US, there used to be a joke, saying "If you have 'Quality' in your job title, your career is over." At this company, it meant you were just short of a God.

I would welcome this as a cultural change in the US. It just sucks living downstream of people dumping tons of cowboy code into the river.
My experience is the same, back in the 1990s.

There was a ton of depression and even suicides when I was growing up. I felt like 50% of teens at my large HS were suffering from some kind of mental issue. And then you had major events like Columbine. The US school system has always managed to produce a lot of very miserable people, and no one seemed to care or do anything about it.

And now we have these studies all blaming social media, like there is some kind of epidemic that never existed before. But I am deeply cynical. I think these issues already existed, it's just there is a convenient scapegoat now.
> Some of the oldest human remains (possibly the oldest) in North America are actually on Santa Rosa Island

There are several sites indicating human presence in North America 20 000 - 30 000 years ago, inferred from campsites and broken animal bones. And in one case, human footprints:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/fossil-fo...

And then there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerutti_Mastodon_site

But none of these very old sites contain remains of human bones.
Which is exactly why this use-case would be better. "Give me suggestions/ideas, and then I'll take them under consideration"
I'm perfectly happy with Microsoft, as an an enterprise solution provider, having no "culture" in their products. I don't want "Made with <heart emoji> at Redmond", I want the equivalent of vanilla ice cream that just works.

That said, ads in bing chat IS adding a flavour, and I don't like it, not one bit.
3D computer graphics software
Has anyone gone from not "getting" the value of algebraic effects to getting it? And if so, what was the tutorial/process by which you achieved enlightenment?
I think if history has bearing on things I don't see the cost of accounting, legal or copywriting ever approaching 0. If anything you will see those paywalled behind a company who will extract that from you.

It's wishful thinking that somehow that goes to 0.
My favorite trick is to ask for JSON, and tack this onto my prompt: "Return JSON, beginning with {"
Mastodon is doing great. Just passed 10 million users a while ago and now has a sustained network effect of around 2000 users an hour. Numbers aside the community and experience is awesome. No idea how people still use Twitter.
By modern I made access to fairly new packages.

I don't want things breaking left, right and centre but I want access to later versions of tools and libraries I'm using.

For example, at work we were told to upgrade Wireshark and VirtualBox to major versions that aren't available in apt on 22.04 after an audit due to vulnerabilities in older versions.

What you're doing sounds like it'll work nicely for me, thanks.
It's the best example of how open source software can reach industry standard - and possibly above, in some ways.

It's 3d software used for movies, engineering, and even game creation.

You might find this link helpful - https://www.blender.org/about/
Suicide also appears to be a"luxury":

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/401-450/db450-fig...

I'd be interested in the explanation behind the aforementioned.
In the example under discussion if you removed the ads then you would have no results.
Ah thank you. You corrected my misconceptions in a few lines. Welp I hate it now! Thanks for solidifying my view.
I'm interested in the code that processes the swagger/openapi into jsonnet, can you link to that?
SafeMoon “upgrade” has a fatal flaw: public burn function. Attackers steal $9M.
IPA files are the iOS version of APK, I think.
>aren't allowed to clap at events because clapping is too violent

This is the first I'm hearing about this, where did you see it?
I suppose they could make holding stock mandatory too…?
A closer look at Apple's breathing light
Internet lore claims Apple modelled their design after much research into sleep breathing rhythms. This piqued my curiosity, how did this wonderful little light work and how true was it to human breathing?
me: wondering if it has gpt integration

blender: HAIR
I dunno who you get your info from, but Ike Perlmutter was acqui-hired from a toy company, constantly fought to fragment the heck out of MCU TV and movie properties, and chronically only cared about what would sell toys. His creative process was described by folks at Marvel Studio as "he just cares about what will make money." It was some solid great passion-for-storytelling on Perlmutter's part that led to recasting Terrence Howard with Don Cheadle, despite them not looking remotely similar, because (in Perlmutter's words) "black people look the same" -- causing a really jarring change to one of the most significant characters in Tony Stark's plotline (but with no attempt at explanation).

I don't think Ike Perlmutter is somehow the champion of good art against the forces of lazy pandering that you think he is. I think Ike Perlmutter _is_ the force of lazy pandering that constantly frustrated Marvel Studios' writers until he was finally kicked out back in 2015.
That is very much missing the point. They were not "stuck", they explicitly asked to keep using that version and get support for it. Same reason Windows ltsc exists and is popular with such customers.
Oh no, not the heckin’ capeshit head dude! Is Disney even capable of making non-superhero films, or doing anything else aside from remaking old successful films that flop even before they debut any more?
“I’ll give my ill gotten gains to someone who technically wasn’t involved (until they accepted my money)” couldn’t possibly be a new trick. (Hypothetically that is, if SBF actually did a crime; I’m not following the case).
> One richest individual in the world does not an elite make.

Literally the opposite of true.
That’s interesting data. I wonder: is there any possibility that part of the change is because we’re telling kids that it’s okay to admit to depression? I.e., are we just reporting more accurately now?
Also keep in mind that large birds of prey regularly take pigeons. Inexperienced domestic pigeons will be especially vulnerable as they don’t have the same developed wariness as their wild counterparts.
Q. what is the best general-purpose cashback credit card?

A. As an AI language model, I cannot recommend a specific financial product, but I can provide some information on what to look for when choosing a cashback credit card.

[Information on what to look for: Cashback, signup bonuses, annual fees, redemption options, and credit score requirements.]

It's possible Bing's AI does better, but I don't use the Edge browser, so I don't know.
NSAID: Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drug

Tylenol:

* Non steroidal? Check.

* Anti inflammatory? Hrmmm... not so much.

So what are you taking it for again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsteroidal_anti-inflammatory...

It's still a COX-2 inhibitor.
Can you find a single comment claiming that chatbots would not have integrated ads? I recall this being discussed at length from the start.
Another hypothesis is electromagnetic fields. There are more now than ever. Cell phones, 5G, Wifi

Sounds stupid right? There's a plausibility scale, and despite various hypotheses being possible, it's reasonable to rank them by what fits best with out prior knowledge, and social media is way more plausible than some post 2010 rise in inflammation, even if that could causally lead to depression in the first place.
The war between Perlmutter and Feige comes to a close.
"The ergonomics are terrible for knowing what options you have available"

I installed a vscode extension and just hit CTRL+SPACE to see what my options are.
For those of you following along with keyword generics in Rust, the current proposal is this [0]:

trait ?const ?async Read {
?const ?async fn read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<usize>;
?const ?async fn read_to_string(&mut self, buf: &mut String) -> Result<usize> { .. }
}

/// Read from a reader into a string.
?const ?async fn read_to_string(reader: &mut impl ?const ?async Read) -> io::Result<String> {
let mut string = String::new();
reader.read_to_string(&mut string).await?;
Ok(string)
}

which was rightfully disliked [1]. There have been some other proposals however, such as this one I wrote about [2]

fn foo<F, T>(closure: F) -> Option<T>
where
F: FnMut(&T) -> bool,
effect
const if F: const,
?async,
{ /* ... */ }

for which someone made a more detailed issue [3]. It is similar to a `where` clause in that the `effect` clause comes afterwards and defines the effects that a function can have.

[0] https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/02/23/keyword-ge...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/119y8ex/keyword_gener...

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/keyword-generics-initiative/iss...

[3] https://github.com/rust-lang/keyword-generics-initiative/iss...
If the bus is faster and more convenient, more people will use it. Get cars out of city centers and reduce parking, and increase transit access -- more tram and bus routes with priority access through traffic, separated cycle routes, metro and long distance rail, etc. In my home city of Amsterdam it works very well -- over half of all travel is by bike alone.
As a business owner i would fire those who spent time arguing about vb6 and promote the vb6 guy who delivered some value
>It may not be exactly clear where a temperature becomes 'hot', but the sun is still not a great place to host your wedding.

But right now we are currently at the border. LLMs are nearing the line of demarcation. So everyone is arguing about where that line is.

So it's not about the extremes because the extremes are obvious. We are way past the negative extreme and approaching or even past the border.

The point is that the position of this border is not important. It's a made up border. So if I say we are past the border or before it the statement is not important because its an arbitrary statement.
You thought an open source 3D animation program would have sophisticated text generation as a feature?
They absolutely were. The Romans had cookie-cutter apartment buildings too. They had mass production of pottery, textiles and other decorations by slaves.

Granted, the art and architecture that have managed to survive for 2000 years is more unique, but that's just survivorship bias.
The call for a 6 month moratorium on AI progress beyond GPT-4 is a terrible idea
> Populism is part of democracy and some people even like it.

Populism is how people react to democracy failures. It happens when people are disenfranchised.
Nothing will make a difference. This is monetary driven, not for the good of mankind or whatever. Musk being miffed about not being in openai but having bought shitshow Twitter instead.
Looks like GPT is the new 'blockchain', except it's the unwashed masses calling for it rather than VCs (I suppose the latter have learned some hard lessons recently).

Who am I kidding, VCs will be VCs.
Software Heritage over IPFS
It's often that little edge piece of script that kills productivity. Something you need but off your beaten track that takes a few hours or days to figure out. That's ai coding will shine.
Not necessarily, as we can just evaluate them on their performance as we give them ever greater challenges.

To do this we do not need to consider whether they're intelligent at all.
To each their own, ymmv. This was my gateway drug: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09259
And then you have a french layout where it's impossible to fire this keyboard shortcut.
Apologies to anyone hit with Loading. The rate limit was reached a lot quicker than I expected and it brought down everything while I slept. Back to working now.
Table stakes is a poker term meaning you can’t even play the game without it. There’s no dichotomy here.

I’d go further and say that in big tech, well factored well tested code is table stakes and the ability to produce it quickly is assumed. Junior engineers have to prove that to get their first promotion.

If that’s all they show, it will be their last promotion, and that’s perfectly fine too.
There is an entire economy around growing feed for cows. They do NOT get waste products from other industries and are primarily fed with stuff grown ONLY for feeding cows. Welcome to industrialized farming.
Rails Postgres ActiveRecord patches for common production workloads
Because he wasn't fired for cause. It was a normal re-structure.

And Perlmutter was never a threat to Iger more just an annoyance for Feige who is critical to the future of Disney.
Apart from people (hopefully) not using their real names to make the ddos request, I would guess the investigation is done by a tech department rather than non specialist officers.
I‘d also prefer if cash stayed around (and ideally be augmented with privacy-preserving digital equivalents that strike a balance with valid state interests such as avoiding tax evasion).

But keeping wire transfers and ACH expensive and/or painful seems like a terrible way of achieving that.
Or there are confounders, like environmental effects are wrecking hormones. That would cause both of those things.
This idea that there is a shared or converged sense of aesthetic or preference is really peculiar as it doesn’t match any of what I observe.

Convergence really seems to happen solely due to economics, particularly mass production combined with marketing to drive demand for those uniform items.
> The definition is of the word, not "of a metaphor."

I don't really care to weigh in on the rest of this spat, but this isn't a contradiction: it is the case that a given sense of a word, listed in a dictionary, may yet be metaphorical—it is not the case that finding a definition of a word in a dictionary proves that that sense isn't metaphorical, and in fact, any common metaphorical usage of a word is quite likely to end up in a dictionary, at which point it does not (necessarily!) stop being metaphorical. (I find the rest of the post basically sound, for all the nothing my judgement on that is worth—this part is just not strong, is all)
I can't believe how little traction that story got. Trump sold the VA to his golf buddies and just nobody seemed to care.
394KB, which I'm sure you meant... but nothing compared to anything from today.
Dude, the DAC is not the dongle.
I would like your wisdom (and Oliver's) but unfortunately I have added both to a Notion webclipper that I will not see for 2-3 years.
i would love to see a transcript or video of this in action (not a simulated exercise, but a real instance). It sounds hilarious, but I feel like it would take a lot of experience to extract something meaningful from it.
The vector displacement maps for sculpting look amazing.

Kind of surprised they didn't lead with that instead of focusing so much on the hair.
The real Effective Altruism is the altruism we gave ourselves along the way.
Aston Martin probably has them beat by a landslide for number of colors. They offer well over 100 colors.

Actual Porsche prices out the door look like about $100,000 (even though MSRP for the cheapest models are a lot less). Please correct me if Porsche is significantly cheaper than Aston Martin vantage ($150k)… to me anything between $100k-200k seems like the same market segment but maybe I’m just poor.
Not all leftists, though, based on the link.
If you thought ads were already blended in with the rest of the content in a sketchy way, wait for AI responses with implicit ads (no indication) optimized towards conversion :)

Or maybe some response that doesn't contain an ad link but nudges you subconsciously to take desired action
It’s customized to our policy spec. But you can learn from this and adapt it to your spec.

https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture/blob/main/scripts/json...
> sperm-count

Or maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34830936
I don't think anyone would describe their proposal as a limited version of algebraic effects. It's missing the algebraic part for one thing.
> One interesting thing a lawyer pointed out to me is that a lawyer has a duty to ensure that the money used to pay them wasn't from the proceeds of a crime.

If that's true, it seems a bit ridiculous. SBF is pleading not guilty. Are his lawyers supposed to do their own little investigation to figure out whether their client is actually guilty?
My own sample of 1 says male voices are better for heavy TTS usage.
Working until 80 seems like hell. I would love to run a community garden that grows fresh food and gives away the harvest to people who need or want it. Corn, it has the juice!
> everyone's just philosophising about the title

It's so easy to bait with a #x in a title, and especially when defining in terms of engineer (also an elusive term at times).
Ohhh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, that is a tricky corner case :-/
I had typed out a response where I refer to the second two paragraphs of my reply above and elaborated on them, but a more interesting thought occurs: what is a sugar-only media diet? How does it differ from any other 'media diet'?

Let's say you'll only ever keep watching if a film begins with an explosion. Surely, if this how the audience behaves, then every film produced will quickly converge on beginning with explosions.

But if every film begins with explosions, maybe you become tired of all the explosions. Eventually you'll come to associate an explosion-heavy start with mediocre formulaic films, and your behaviour will reverse: maybe you'll now refuse to watch any film that begins with explosions.

Surely it's all just an endless cycle of fashions and counter-fashions, culture and counter-culture? The studio gives us what we crave, and we eat it all up until we're sick and want something else, and then some avant garde artist gives us something else, and if it works and is popular then all the studios steal it and the cycle repeats?

In as far as art isn't 'productive' per se - ars gratia artis and all that - to what end should you suffer through art you don't enjoy?