skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Elon thought AI would enslave us, but turns out it empowers us.

I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion. GPT3 is 2 years old. It has ample time to enslave us. I'm also still waiting for the "empowering" bit. Haven't really noticed it, I must say. Or are you referring to a few code completion tricks?
> it's very easy to teach someone non-ML or even nontechnical how to do it given a few examples

Sounds like we could train an AI to do it.
Can you name one distribution which isn't severely understaffed?
Using SUVs costs more money, more resources, cars are heavier, tyres bigger, more are resistance, more fuel usage. And number of people buying bigger and bigger cars is growing. Number of people driving really fast is relatively low.

I would rather ban SUVs than anything else. It's upsetting to hear people complaining about climate change, pollution, voting for the Green party because of this, and then instead of a sedan or wagon they are going for a SUV which uses 3-4 liter of fuel.
I have meager needs so I haven't run into (m)any of the issues here, but what's a deb based alternative that isn't meant for absolute stability at the expense of anything modern?

(I ask with actual curiosity; I'm ignorant to most distros.)
>So you think

That's clearly trying to act like they said something, not you asking a genuine question. If you want to actually ask someone a question, find a way to word it that isn't so presumptuous and strawman-y
"Some form of power" != oil and gasoline.

> Thanks for being patient with my stupidity.

No problem.
Can ChatGPT Improve Investment Decision? From a Portfolio Management Perspective
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I’ve read a decent amount about Tailwind and I really appreciate what it offers. I see all the claims of people who were unsure, tried it, and fell in love, and I don’t doubt their experiences. It seems great.

The sad reality for me: I am very very productive with a mix of inline styles and Emotion/Styled-Components! I genuinely enjoy writing CSS. A library like MUI gives me a foundation of consistency and helpful utilities, but I love the ability to drop back into CSS and express ideas in a universal styling language that any experienced frontend developer should be able to understand. I move fast. I can show my code to others for feedback and they’ll be able to contribute. I genuinely enjoy it.

Tailwind does offer some ways of writing CSS but my understanding from the docs is that they are discouraged. They certainly don’t give the ease and quick feedback of in-line or Emotion.

I’m also highly suspicious of the longevity of the utility class approach and its shorthand. It makes me think of my experience with Slim templates in Ruby: it felt like a force multiplier at the time but but only other initiates appreciated it and it looked like absolute gibberish when I came back to it years later. These projects would have been better sticking with ERB since it’s the HTML everyone knows sprinkled with Ruby where needed. My initial impression of Tailwind is the same: “this looks crazy but everyone swears that it’s a breeze once you learn the syntax!” Will the end result be the same?

Again, no disrespect to anyone who enjoys it. I fully recognize the many drawbacks of inline styles and Emotion, particularly around performance. I’m currently lamenting the incompatibility of Emotion and React Server Components. I plan on giving Tailwind a fair shot soon and I’m open to having my mind changed, but I do hope it has more staying power than Slim templates.
Actually one of the founders of the "Future of life" institute that organized this is a DeepMind "AI safety" employee Victoria Krakovna (who also signed it), and I'm guessing she'd not be doing this without DeepMind's approval. DeepMind's whole raison d'etre was of course building AGI, which they were initially pursuing via RL before belatedly joining the LLM bandwagon. I'm sure they'd welcome a 6-month catch-up period!
Yes? That doesn't make this discovery any less interesting/peculiar.
> I don't see how that refutes what looks like the natural drive

Because I wasn't even attempting to; rather the point is to demonstrate that natural things can be abominations.

And my first comment on this thread was giving appreciation to an (artificial) "abomination" that meant I didn't need a (specific) natural one.
I'm being the opposite of antisemitic. Perhaps you could cry "Godwin" and make sense.
I, too, dislike some thing about fiat. But the real question is how is the energy usage "worth it" compared to other cryptocurrencies that wouldn't consume 20000 Twh /yr (more energy than is currently produced on earth) like Bitcoin would in this wet dream fantasy of yours?
Could the Restrict Act Criminalize the Use of VPNs?
I mostly agree with you. But I think we should be weary of statements like this:

> It's very easy to teach someone non-ML or even nontechnical how to do it given a few examples

Because a C programmer could have said the same thing about a Python job posting in 2004. Or an Assembly programmer could have said it about a job posting for a C programmer in 1975.

It's possible that prompt engineering will become the next higher level of abstraction above scripting languages, which means it will have its own ecosystem develop around it while introducing a new audience to the technical domain. That doesn't make it any less of a programming language, even if it appears that way now. Prompt engineering will have its own quirks and what makes a "good" prompt engineer may end up being somewhat distinct from what makes a "good" programmer. Maybe it will turn out that the best prompt engineers are the people most skilled with communicating precisely, which - to be fair - definitely includes programmers, but also opens the field to expert communicators from non-technical domains, like lawyers or editors.

All that said - paying anyone, non-technical or otherwise, $350k for talking to ChatGPT is obviously outrageous.
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You don't even need a masters to make $300K doing CRUD in big tech.
>> it would be pretty hard to hit 16.6ms

Hard disagree. Sorry, but rant inc ...

If we can't hit 60fps with a chat app, one of the simplest applications imaginable by man, what the hell can we hit 60 with? It's drawing a couple thousand triangles (maybe) with a couple hundred textures (I guess). Game engines fart a couple thousand triangles when they're done drawing 50x+ that. Oh, and they do about a gazillion other operations .. at 60fps+

The slow part of switching between conversations is fetching the data which, on a fiber connection in a city, is < 5ms round trip. Hell, I live in the boonies in Canada and my round trip to Seattle is only like 20ms. You could also cache the first 20 messages to every conversation (disk space is cheap) to avoid the network.

As for the notion that "you need to care about such low-level things ...", yes, you do. To write fast software you just deal with it and move on.
Bracing for Robert Scoble to announce his new AI Whisperer company in his next sexual harassment victim blaming non-apology-apology.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171111033215/https://scobleize...

https://onemanandhisblog.com/2017/10/scoble-utterly-tone-dea...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/25/16547332/robert-scoble-s...

>The Verge‘s Adi Robertson sums it us thus:
"But his latest defense puts forward an absurd definition of sexual harassment and effectively accuses women of reporting it to fit in with the cool crowd, while claiming he’s writing in “a spirit of healing.” There’s even a tasteless plug for his latest business venture. It’s one of the most disappointing responses we’ve seen to a sexual harassment complaint, which, after the past few weeks, is a fairly remarkable achievement."
Yup. At least with a physics PhD, it seems you make less than the software engineers sitting next to you even at a physics-centric company. Unfortunately, most people out of grad school are just happy to be making more and don’t exercise much negotiating power, suppressing wages for everyone.
A holistic view on the role of egg yolk in Old Masters’ oil paints
Ok I see, I guess it's just a semantic argument? I do not think cows are personally responsible for climate change, I just understand that factually they emit a lot of methane and that's very bad for us. I personally don't have a problem just not eating beef or drinking cow milk anymore, but if lab grown meat get some people to stop eating beef who wouldn't otherwise, that seems like it will likely be a net positive development.

I do agree that there are many problems with our food system beyond climate change, and replacing Big Ag with Big Lab-grown Ag would leave almost all of those problems in place. It's not my preferred solution.
The pay range for this job is more indicative of Anthropic having massive salaries across the board for most of their positions. This is partially also because they're wanting people on-site in SF. Their senior software engineer role is listed $270-$445k a year. Recruiter is up to $255k a year. Design lead up to $380k a year. TPM up to $445k.

More accurate headline: Solutions architect role pays 30% more than recruiter role, but still $100k less than a software developer
"Visual Basic, however, while at the time representing a _fantastic_ entry point to development (at least it was for me), has been legitimately replaced by other, newer models, some of which the article notes."

Before VB setting up a GUI application was hard and required a lot of specialist knowledge, then VB made it easy, and its replacements on the web are making it hard again :-). I still don't know an easy way to set up a web with a database that also allows you to go into depth if needed.
I would avoid styles that mock the disabled. It is not a good look.
European Court of Human Rights to hear climate cases against France, Switzerland
Apparently it is a-okay to allow entities and corporations to capitalize off of machine learning to increase business productivity and minimize error, but it's not okay for a person to do the same and be better and get ahead of others.

Let that one absorb.
For me, it's much more rewarding to find those "needles" and add them to my reading list -- than to actually read them. I.e. the dopamine hit of finding something new/interesting -- that's the thrill.

I guess I'm ok with that -- it's hard to force myself to process items from the river. Any tips on that?
I know more than a few people with type 2 diabetes, none were obese. Sometimes it just happens
Where's an example of the output?
I'm mildly disgusted (and entirely unsurprised) with myself that I just added this to a reading list for later.
Great article! Ah someone else also read it through...

"Matching of regular expressions is NP-complete. As such you can solve any other NP problem using regular expressions."

Would love to see that be the mechanism of that proof.
According to [1] 53% of Americans are fans of Taylor Swift. Does that mean we've "converged" on Taylor Swift as the optimal musician?

No, it means you just have to work harder to find music with actual creativity behind it.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/majority-ameri...
Not to mention it introduces a single point of failure, that once compromised can start pushing malware directly to user.

With maintainers in the loop, there is at least one more person that can notice something is fishy. Not to mention there is usually so time before packages are updated, so there is more time to notice an attack.
Adventures in Instagram: Active Users = Corpse Mutilation Endorsement
Part of an upcoming full article in my "fucked up field trips 2023" series now that I've had time to mess around for a few days.

There are tons of active users and many of them are genuinely human. However, it's so easy to see the copy/paste and Q&A strategy being used by malicious actors with pictures of luscious women that it's hilariously obvious. Here we are in the ChatGPT LLM world and...Instagram doesn't run a basic filter on its DM list to purge about 40% of the people on it probably daily.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8i5zk8mxrpc4tfe/DM%20Fun%202.jpg?dl=0

Hey Zuck, what's your wife's DM I got some questions.
To add to that, the author completely ignores the fact that the differences from one person to the next might be much more significant than averaged differences inherited from their country's culture.
I was a nixos user for a year or so maybe 4 years ago. I recently learned how containers work at the kernel level, which deepened my understanding of Nix.

I’m still not sure this is right, but this is how I’ve been thinking about nix:

Packaging things is hard on Linux because you have dynamic dependencies. Everything written in C probably loads in libc. And it gets worse from there. You have all kinds of dependencies that are loaded dynamically at runtime, some crypto library, P threads, et cetera. If everything was linked into a static fat binary, it would be easy to package a deploy things onto Linux machines, but that’s not the case.

So one way to view Docker is as a hack around this issue. You can ship an application easily – You can package it up easily – If you put it inside of a box and inside that box, you put an entire Linux file system and all its dependencies.

A second solution is the one that Nix has, which is to rethink all this. When you build things just be very explicit about what the dependencies are. And when you link them, link them by hash that’s made of all the inputs, and then you don’t have collision problems. And you’ve solved the packaging problem for Linux. But it requires changing how you build programs.

I’m sure nix experts on here have a deeper understanding of things. But it’s been a useful mental model for me.

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Copied over my comment from https://lobste.rs/s/pnnoba/nix_turns_20_what_hell_is_it
The company I worked for in 1996 made all kinds of money from Visual Basic development for clients. We built what one would call a CRM system, we built a legal document management system, we build a CMS for early web site publishing (kinda sorta echoing wordpress), we build a timecard entry system. The rapid prototype and good debugging support meant quick time to market. And you'd still be able to run them all with the VB6 runtime preinstalled on every windows machine in the world.
I recently discovered various projects of that era on my archive and was kind of scratching my head on what those .cls files meant, and chuckling over my comments from 30 years ago...
Ngrok-rs – safe and portable network ingress to your Rust apps
If Binance (hypothetically) does have 100% of the customer reserves, what difference does it make if they all withdraw? Doesn’t Binance make money off of trades / transactions rather than using the customer funds like FTX?
Never forget that utterly ridiculous Pepsi logo design document
In the extreme, it's also equivalent to a unicycle - just lean back to put all your weight on the steering back tire. Unicycles can be controlled.

Both are undeniably less easy than a normal bicycle though.
China's response to U.S. curbs a risk for Taiwan: MediaTek chairman
Problem is that companies are buying those for tax advantage, and never charge, so CO2 emissions are higher - additional weight of the battery.

There was report somewhere, that often such vehicles are never charged.
"The Dark Forest" is a science fiction novel by Liu Cixin, which introduces a concept called "suspicion."(“猜疑链”) In this concept, the interaction between civilizations is viewed as an ongoing game of suspicion, where each civilization is worried that the other civilization may pose a threat to it. This kind of suspicion makes it difficult for civilizations to establish trust, thereby making the universe a dark forest full of war and suspicion.

We can apply this concept of suspicion to the phenomenon in the field of modern artificial intelligence research. In AI research, some researchers believe that humans should pause the development of AI technology because of the potential unforeseeable risks it may bring. However, another group of researchers believe that we should not stop because we cannot be certain whether those who are trying to catch up with us will use the advancement of AI technology as a hidden weapon. This suspicion leads to a chain reaction, where people continue to worry about each other's motives and abilities, making it difficult for all parties to establish trust. Therefore, although there are good intentions, such proposals are unlikely to be implemented.
Learning tailwind is 30 mins in their online playground. (It’s one traffic jam on your commute.)

There are countless blog posts and threads listing the advantages, but it’s better to spend that time using it and you won’t have to take someone’s word for it!

From the creator of styled
components himself: https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/tailwind/
A better title: The tyranny of the majority.
Speaking of the ego thing: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23654701/openai-elon-musk...
Plot twist: it's the same person

(Top comment from reddit a few days ago)
hi, try the same with Zappy! As mentioned in another comment, Dumbledore was set up to "enable" GPT: https://ibb.co/8sQh1X6 . I give you the option to "only" use your own documents.
I hadn't considered that with Tourette Syndrome. I won't add it as one of the writing styles. Thank you for pointing it out.
Couldn't this be automatically generated from wikidata instead of keeping a manual list?
To clarify, taxes are generally seen as a "harmless" means for the government to collect revenue.

The fact is, the act isn't that innocent.
The places I looked at had some EV dedicated parking spaces and then shared EV charging. Just like gas cars you don't need to charge every day, they will probably add more chargers as more people get EV cars.

But yeah, it is pretty inconvenient for a lot of people at the moment, I have a home charger in my garage, but traveling to a city is more challenging. Range has been no problem, super chargers are fast, but then you have to find a charger in a garage or something where it usually charges money to park and if it's not a Tesla charger usually doesn't charge very fast, it gets expensive quickly. Reminder we are constantly moving in the 'better EV support' direction, whereas I have seen a gas station removed recently and a neighborhood protest about building a new one.

On the other hand, I have now stayed at hotels where the valet tops off the car, so I didn't even have to stop to charge at all on trips < max range.
Call me a noob if you like, but I don't like hunting down drivers. Tried to go to debian on my last dev machine upgrade, but reverted straight back to ubuntu. I may be lazy, but I really don't want to hunt down drivers. I'll try debian again next cycle.
Talk to your boss. Most of what you posted here could be copy/pasted into an email to your boss to see if your concerns can be fixed.
The issue for me is how marketing keeps selling the opposite. The way homogeneous things are constantly sold as a unique way to express your difference (go watch any car ad or any new condo poster) creates that dystopian feel.

Its real life satire at this point.
I agree. Devs would like to statically link and have their app work. Maintainers don't want that to happen for IMO reasons that have far less benefit than claimed. flatpak and snap are ultimately efforts to get around the vortex of maintainers, maintainer efforts to get things not to be statically linked, and all the complexity that entails. I think there's still currently value in distro maintainers that do things like getting KDE running on Wayland using pipewire, but IMO that role should be limited to configuration and compilation only. There should not be any distro-specific patches in existence
$335K/yr is 335 $4 prompts per standard workday, about 1/minute, allowing for breaks.

How fast can you generate prompts?
Lazarus is really nice.

In BASIC land, the QB64pe project has a maintainer for Inform-pe, a pretty straightforward drag & drop interface builder:

https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1311

Here's an example running under QB64 (though not Phoenix Edition/pe):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9pNGBaIr94

Background on the Phoenix Edition:

https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=259

There's also Purebasic and Gambas, though Gambas isn't cross-platform...

https://www.purebasic.com/

https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

Zooming further out you have e.g. Defold and Cerberus X, which I'm not sure about the drag & drop but GUIs are certainly doable.

https://defold.com/

https://www.cerberus-x.com/community/index.php?pages/about/

Then there are Wonkey and wxBasic...

https://wonkey-coders.github.io/

https://www.wxbasic.net/

Et cetera... :-)

Personally I'm pretty fascinated by the way these projects typically center around a traditional forum, with various software structures in place that shape the user experience.

For example, prolific library authors may be invited to publish directly to their own subforum and kind of use it as their own website, etc.

When new projects start, spin off, fork, etc, the forum is often the first part of the user experience to see created, frameworked and decorated in depth.
Being able to hit 60fps is just a single prerequisite for low latency, but it's far from enough - and most importantly, it's not what I was talking about at all. The application may be able to render itself consistently even in 2ms just fine, but effect of your action won't appear on the screen until much later unless you make your whole stack (including the OS) surprisingly complex (which is worth doing in case of competitive video games running in fullscreen, not for applications).

Seems like you're simply not aware of complexities of the input to display path. Please make a simple windowed OpenGL application displaying a single triangle in a fraction of millisecond that changes color when you press a key and measure its latency, you may be surprised ;)

Did you know that merely enabling FPS limiter on Steam Deck imposes additional latency just because there's currently no way to do it better when using XWayland? That's what "low-level" meant in my comment.
This makes the web unusable for semi-connected devices. An offline capable mapping app where the app expires so quickly is a nasty lurking time bomb.
FWIW I’ve been using Linux Mint for years and have never had a major issue. Most minor issues are with out of date repository packages which can usually be installed by other means.
Anyone have a tl;dr for this?
For context, Splinternet: “is a characterization of the Internet as splintering and dividing due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, religion, and divergent national interests.”

Source:

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinternet
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>Another potential concern may be that Canonical could be using this decision to force package upstreams to offer a Snap version or face not being easily available in the default Ubuntu installation.

There we are.
Minecraft. Had to teach it to my 6yo since all his school friends kept talking about it and he didn't understand it, he was getting out of the social loop. Turns out Redstone contraptions are the funniest programming language I ever learned.
> Do people, on the whole, even want the metaverse?

My take?

As a general question, no, they don't. And they won't.

However, they may want it for niche applications. Games would be the big one, but also perhaps certain industrial applications and other business functions. Although the business uses are probably better served with just AR instead of a whole "metaverse" (depending on your definition of "metaverse").

Which brings up the definitional problem. We have the metaverse and people love it -- we just call it the internet. So I'm assuming that when people say "metaverse", what they really mean is "VR worlds".
Great point. Maybe it's relative if everyone thinks they are a 1x developer.