skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience in talking to FAANG recruiters in the UK is that they're not paying all that well here relative to other (non-financial services firms) for developers. I turned down even starting the interview process with Facebook because the money on offer wasn't worth my time.
I remember this program being announced. Friends were gleefully suggesting that my proposed programming career had just disappeared. Forty-odd years later the same suggestions are now being made about GPT-4 and above.
And that's fine! But why do software vendors feel the need to shove a new design down everyone's throat, even for those who don't want or care for it?

As far as I can tell, there is an option to opt out of the new UI, but I won't bank on it lasting long.
History is colorful

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_riot
API it .... 20 bucks a month buys you a metric fuck ton of api calls.

If you need the frontend, there are a bunch of open source front ends.
It did not die for real until much later.

As one data point, YouTube was still using flash as the default player on some old browsers and embedded players in 2015 [1]; it dropped support only in 2017 [2].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-fla...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/6puoc2/did_youtube...
Both Cyberpunk and (especially) No Man's Sky have improved significantly from how they were at launch. It might be worth looking into their current iterations if you were interested before but disappointed.
It's just as much of a fantasy as your dystopian scenario, because neither has happened yet. I'm also somewhat of a luddite and am not at all excited about LLMs or the new wave of "AI" that many others have been swept up by. I'm definitely not trying to "sell" anything.

You're also making the broad assumption that everyone engages in the process of creation, primarily for economic gain. In my encounters with other humans and my own experience, isn't really the case. We create because we enjoy the process of creation, not out of the desire to improve our financial standing.

Most of the work done in large corporations by individual contributors, isn't that creative in the first place. All of those CRUD apps are really pushing the boundaries of creativity!
Does this law have any teeth? OIG-NYPD’s only reasonable conclusion is that the NYPD’s use of all the surveillance technologies bundled into the noncompliant report is unlawful. (Due to lack of correct record keeping and reporting.)

This should be easy enough to prosecute, e.g., via internal affairs.
airlines are scalping already.

nowadays you can have two people sitting next to each other where one of them paid double or triple the price just because they didn't clear their cookies.

this industry gets away with a lot of crap.
Fascinating answer. Thank you for going into so much detail. Your description of the general mood in the UK and the general attitude of people (including myself) was uncomfortably accurate.
I had the VP engineering discuss GPT-4 in a meeting and was considering firing and closing down junior positions

Did anybody ask him/her what VP engineering was for now that GPT4 can do all the non-tech stuff for their senior devs as well as the junior tech stuff?
Interesting! Are you using Pinecone to do this?
Orthogonal complaint.

As long as copyright is here; it is expected big players are to be bound by it to the same degree they push legal systems to bind the little guy.

What you get instead, is the big guy pilfering the little guys under the justification that "it's different when we do it, and if you challenge us, I'll put my subsidized legal department to work burying you."

Copyright needing significant overhaul or abolition doesn't detract from that state of affairs, I hope we can agree?
> did Trump funnel the payment through Michael Cohen with the intent to conceal it from campaign finance disclosure transparency

but if Trump paid directly himself, it wouldn't violate campaign finance laws? Because there is no campaign finance limit on Trump himself.

That said, they still have to prove "Ergo, it's a campaign expense" - any individual is motivated to protect their reputation aside from campaigns.
Bullshit. The Netherlands are a NATO member.
The Beatles and the glory of creative risk
Twitter algorithm to go open source at noon Pacific Time: Elon Musk
It's a step (and I guess for many, a coping strategy).

Getting a BOM about people you don't know/trust lets you know who you don't know/trust: known unknowns. At the very least it present a quantifiable risk profile that you can use to push for disengaging from untrusted dependencies. At best, it's a stepping stone to start building relationships.
First, extortion would typically be with a threat of violence or destruction, so you are thinking of blackmail.

Second, criminal blackmail excludes legal processes.

Third, she didn't threaten trump, she tried to sell her story after he lied to her about being a contestant on the apprentice.

https://www.scrofanolaw.com/federal-blackmail-and-extortion/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/nyregion/trump-stormy-dan...
There's quite a few active other legal cases forming. This is the first case with an indictment, which is not too surprising given the age of the activity compared to most of the other state and federal cases.
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Gotta apply to the GPT4 waitlist first though, by default the API only gives you gpt3.5.
Makes me wonder if anyone has ever been charged with resisting a citizen’s arrest.
How many CV engineers own a self driving car becomes the AI equivalent question?
Always fun to see someone in my neck of the woods (South Bend, IN) make hacker news!

They have bins all over town, usually pretty stuffed.
Nobody wants codebases with different take_action() and Take_Action() functions. That's a straw man.

The issues are:

1. Difficult to search code. Even just case insensitivity makes this worse because often you do have names that only differ in case (but in an acceptable way, e.g. they're different kinds of thing, or namespaces). But ignoring underscores makes it much much harder - now every search needs to be a regex.

You can say "use an IDE!" and you absolutely should but you still sometimes need to search with dumb grep style tools.

2. Case insensitive rules are always more complex and difficult to remember. Where do they apply? All identifiers or just variables? What about keywords. Nim's rule is especially complex. It adds cognitive load.

3. Extra bike shedding. I imagine they added it to avoid bike shedding? But it will have the opposite effect. They should have just made a language wide convention like Rust. Nobody debates case style in Rust or indentation style in Go because the tooling and community pretty much force one style.

I fully anticipate a Nim linter that bans style variation from the canonical one. If that doesn't exist already.
> There are stories all over the country about absentee ballots being ...

"There are stories", up there with "People are saying".

When you've got some "stories" that will (a) stand up before a judge (b) are about actually illegality (c) would make a difference in the outcome of an election, I'd really like to hear them.
> The internet in general can have filters and many Parents activate personal firewalls for this purpose.

These tools exist where a non technical user can install it in their own network and block websites by URL. I don't know what else is needed, since you acknowledge this already exists.
> it would change nothing to the fundamental nature of the machine: an automated means of generating derivative works without artistic or scientific agency.

So is a Xerox machine (or Cannon copier or 'MFD')

The issue there is not "if it can" or even "if it is designed to do so" but rather "can it be used in a way that is not infringing" and "if there is an infringement from its use, the human doing that is the one liable."

And yet, there are non-infringing uses of the Xerox machine.

Even if one was to accept the position that the only thing that GPT can produce is derivative works it doesn't rule out that there are transformative and non-infringing uses of it.
> I don't think they were horribly botched.

They were, S/MIME and PGP implementations are both god-awful. The standards leave too much up for interpretation and they leave a bunch of semantic security issues.

> It's simply a very hard problem to tackle, much harder than, say, end-to-end encryption over HTTP (which is of course HTTPS), simply due to the fact that the communication over HTTPS is one-to-one. [...] The consequence of that is that even a safely encrypted e-mail may easily be leaked the second it is forwarded through an unencrypted server, which happens surprisingly often.

This is mostly true. But I have to ask that people split up the technical challenges and the non-technical ones, the trust and encryption parts, the transport and message encryption aspects. All three pairs are very very different and pose different challenges.

It's technically totally doable to generate and distribute for example mailbox-validated S/MIME certificates. Vendors like Apple, Microsoft and Google could automatically request a certificate and store it in peoples' keychains or equivalent.

But with that there's the key storage part that's a bit more difficult though. Thanks to Passkeys/FIDO2 they're basically working on that, but this is the "technical trust" challenge.

It's not a technical problem however to verify the person behind a certificate. It takes a large enterprise or a country to verify someone's identity, not a trivial problem, though in either case some have done it. This is the "human trust" challenge.

Transport encryption is problematic, but you can in better configurations guarantee that letters until recipients are encrypted in transit. If a forwarder also respects MTA-STS, it solves that part.

However there isn't a MUA-STS standard that would force encryption on IMAP and SMTP like we have with HTTPS. This part is really quite dangerous and AFAIK no work is being done with that.

This is certainly not all there is to it, but these things can only be solved one-by-one and separate.
OP is clearly referencing the sum of all people who listen to a piano in a song. Not the "life-long, dedicated pianist"'s of the world. And to further that point, lots and lots of folks who play in touring bands do not haul a piano with them. They're usually using something like a Nord Stage.
Custom Styles in GitHub Readme Files (2020)
> r.e. those "Saddam has an active WMD program" claims

I mean, Saddam was the one making these claims the loudest (to look strong).
Really? Who would have thought!?!
Mass electrification in the timescale set out by most governments is not really feasible. A mix of technologies including hydrogen, more efficient internal combustion engines and transition over a longer timescale might be more realistic.
That's how our visual system works as well.

The visual cortex is actually providing very little information to our forward predictive models, but the model is giving a lot of information back to the visual cortex.
What stops a super intelligent AI from concluding that we are the ones who misunderstood the goal by letting our morals get in the way of the most obvious solution?
We have four major technologies within web browsers.

JavaScript is one.

That too in turn also covers six types of JavaScript engine.

* Mozilla
* Microsoft
* WebKit
* Adobe
* Opera

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/javascript-jit-engines-time...
Methinks the lady doth protest too much. Are fonts really so much black magic to self-host? If they're so concerned about about users having a good experience, why not explain how to implement their magic?

To be clear I don't think there's anything nefarious but given the tone of the communication it seems plausible to conclude that they derive some non-reputational benefit.
It was done massively in the UK, there were many cases of prominent criticism of "EU regulations" that we'd either actively championed, or were optional and chosen to adopt, or that we had actually oped out of anyway.
I think it regards the code used to recommend tweets, as per:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1636835209587949570
I've said this before, but in the very near future AI will a consume your Jira board, write code, compile it, test it, then raise a PR all without you. In fact, it might not even bother with a PR because the output will be so good it will be comparable to a human trying to critique the moves of stockfish in Chess.

Devs who think they're "optimising their workflow" with AI are in lala land. Understand that soon you're not going to be needed to prompt ChatGPT to do your work for you. You're not going to be a 10x engineer, you're going to be an unemployed one. You're current workflow of copying ACs into ChatGPT then copying the output into VSCode will also be automated soon, obviously.

Learn hard skills now as it will buy you a few years. We have all been given a death sentence and most people are still yet to understand this. It's unlikely that in the future we're building humans will be needed, let alone our inefficient labour.
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To be fair I think being a good politician requires a lot of competency. Way more than we have available. Not unlike software, the field is riddled with people that do a minimally-OK job, but couldn't actually care less about what they are doing or are so incompetent they cannot even see it. In a soft setting you can get really far like that. Tech usually stops you sooner, because things just don't work if you mess up. Social settings don't share that property.

I don't disagree with your general point that technical competency is a really, really good idea, but I don't share the I guess cynism. Lots of people don't have the capabilities of their subordinates and that doesn't stop them from being effective leaders. The leaders we look at are just incompetent.

It's the job. It sucks. Nobody that is actually good would want to do it. It ends your life.

Edit: it also doesn't help that these leaders are chosen either directly or indirectly by people - the general public - that have no idea what the job actually entails. To become a politician you have to endure the political equivalent of a modern code interview - being "popular" - without actually testing if you can do the actual job and have the required levels of competency for it.
The NYPD has more than a few data scientists on staff, as they should. At their scale (40k officers policing a population of 8.5 million), small biases have effects that are large in absolute terms.
I would really like to try Helix and I'm even willing to learn it's keybindings, but I really need the ability to write plugins. Unfortunately, I work in a very "custom" environment where most modern tools have not made inroads yet. I rely on a couple of VIM plugins that I wrote myself to smooth out the edges and make development a bit nicer.
I suppose Wayland would be one of the reasons Linux is held up?
For me, this is complex. My first impression is that many of the signers work on older methods than deep learning and LLMs. Sour grapes.

Of course, real AGI has its dangers, but as Andrew Ng has said, worrying about AGI taking over the world is like worrying about overcrowding of Mars colonies. Both tech fields are far in the future.

The kicker for me though is: we live in an adversarial world, so does it make sense for just a few countries to stop advanced research when most other countries continue at top speed?
What about something like copper for wiring?
That 20 million dollar fine is a speed bump. Move fast and break things, amirite?
I recently started gaming in Linux after my windows partition borked itself (again)

I was pleasantly surprised by the experience. About half my library was available. All the games ran perfectly.

Without a doubt, if more game publishers supported Linux, I would never fix that windows partition.
I'm sure all the time; all people and processes are fallible.

But that's also why documentation is so important in this space.

I spent 15+ years building software for pharmas that was subject to GxP validation so I know the effort it takes to "do it right", but also that it's never infallible. The main point of validation is to capture the evidence that you followed the process and not that the process is infallible.
I hope you’re not suggesting that the DA being motivated by politics is a bad thing.

He’s an elected official. His job is to respond to his constituents by prosecuting people they don’t like.
Video shows ‘ghost co-driver’ added to trucker’s ELD to skirt HOS rules
This is my view too. The perceived value of LLMs relative to everything that came before is staggering.

I wouldn’t expect any regulation or laws to slow it down at this point. You might get the U.S. to crack down on it and stop innovation, GPL or proprietary license holders might win a lawsuit, etc.

But I suspect the net effect would be to push research and innovation out of the jurisdiction that made that decision and into another that isn’t willing to kill LLMs in their economy.

Personally, after seeing what LLMs can do first hand, I’d likely move jurisdictions if the U.S. cracked down on AI progress. There is a not-0 chance that putting bread on my table in 10 years requires it.
I'm afraid I lost faith in PyCharm etc when the professional version I paid for on the basis of its promise to allow remote development and debugging didn't remotely (ha!) work.

Switched to VSCode and haven't looked back.
I want to facepalm so hard, but two hands doesn't seem to be enough.
> and they knew very little about non-proprietary technologies that we used on a day-to-day.

I had an eye opening experience several years ago. My group was partnering with a group at Google. Their developers were sharp, as one would expect. But were very lacking in what would otherwise be considered table stakes, the reason always wound back to they had a proprietary Google equivalent of X, so thus they weren't familiar with X. The one that really hit it home was that we had to teach them how to use Google Cloud, because at least at the time, internally Google folks didn't use GCP but instead used their own internal versions of things.
I've been using Helix for a few months now and it's fantastic. It was a bit rough at the very beginning because I was a die hard Vim user, but after a few days of struggling and paying close attention to the keys I'm pressing, I slowly adjusted and now I'm pretty comfortable.

The one thing I really appreciate about Helix is that all of the features I want are already built in - I don't have to install any plugins nor configure anything. The fact that Helix feels much more responsive than Neovim is just a bonus. Here's my complete ~/.config/helix/config.toml:

theme = "nightfox"

[editor]
true-color = true
auto-save = true
line-number = "relative"

[keys.insert]
"C-backspace" = ["normal_mode", ":w"]

[keys.normal]
"C-j" = ["goto_next_paragraph"]
"C-k" = ["goto_prev_paragraph"]
"C-backspace" = ":w"
"C-h" = "jump_view_left"
"C-l" = "jump_view_right"

[keys.normal.space]
"space" = "goto_last_accessed_file"
"H" = ":toggle lsp.display-inlay-hints"

[keys.select]
"C-j" = ["goto_next_paragraph"]
"C-k" = ["goto_prev_paragraph"]

If you're just starting out with Helix, go through its tutor `hx --tutor` and if you're wondering why LSP is not working, check out the output of `hx --health` and https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/How-to-install-th.... Oh and you can search though all available commands with space+?.
Yeah, right. People will totally switch to a less powerful IDE just because of a small UI change.
GPT can help creating legal documents, in a very easy and quick way, by everyone, a small child or a plumber. Lawyers in general try to stifle competition in order for their salaries to go sky high. So what's the profession of a lawmaker, most of the time?
It's a step towards what? What's the next step?

Some rando's BOM does not give you "known unknowns", it gives you "unknown knows"/"untrusted knows", an untrustable list of stuff they say they know, which only give you a risk profile if the potential attacker is not attacking you, and is definitely not "quantifiable risk".
The first step in solving the trust problem is solving the identity problem. At the very least, once you've got cryptographic identities for entities involved in your supply chain, you can use a TOFU policy and check whenever an identity changes.

Simple operations like rotating a key shouldn't trigger any security warnings, as long as they new key is signed by the old one, and even adding new people to a team should happen seamlessly if (a majority of) the existing team members approve that new identity being added.

Of course it doesn't solve key compromise, or someone selling their keys to someone else, but with long-lived (even pseudonymous) identities, it becomes possible to reason about the trust level of packages just based on how long an identity has been used without being compromised.

No system is perfect, and there's still a long way to go, but the existing systems make the remaining problems more tractable, and already increase the cost for attackers, which should reduce attacks.
> If you know what you need to do and how to do it

Having used it for the last week or so to help me translate Python -> Rust, I'd say GPT4 is on par with even senior engineers for anything built in. The key areas it falls down on are anything involving org/repo knowledge or open source where things can be out of date.

There's a few teams working on intelligent org/repo/opensource context fetching, which I think will lead to another 10X improvement.
"three years ago we were all going to die in two weeks or something" seems like a strawman, and this strawman constitutes your entire post
F# is such a nice language. A great modern ML language on the .net runtime with full MS package support that's pretty awesome. But unlike something like Scala on the JVM F# is so simple and straightforward, it has a lot of features without feeling bloated. The fact that MS has just abandoned F# is disappointing.
As much as that's always a possibility, there's so much competition in this space that Github is just entering into that I don't see it happening anytime soon. The angle for Microsoft here is they're probably going to charge enterprise GH customers a severe premium to avail of this - it will only be freely available to users who aren't the primary target audience.
The danger is from something vastly more intelligent than humans, and with a mindset that's incomprehensibly alien. No human is capable of working out the details. That doesn't mean the risk doesn't exist. Failure to understand chemistry does not make ants immune to insecticides. The only thing we can assume about a super-intelligence is that it will be highly capable of achieving its goals. There is no reason to assume those goals will be compatible with human existence.
Biden lays out tougher bank rules
You don't always get to pick your tools. If you're using GitHub, ctrl+F should find what you're looking for.
> I have a unpopular opinion about this, but IMO it is the population that causes this. Vast swaths of Europe are rural especially in the south. Very, very averse to any kind of change.

And vast swathes of technologists are insanely over-enthusiastic about technical change, to the point of it resembling a religion (and the singularitarians are like the monks who self-immolate themselves, except they want to immolate all the rest of us, too).

Frankly, it's probably far wiser to take it slow than charge full speed ahead for no good reason and just hope you can fix the problems you cause.
No sure what you fully mean here, but the 60s/70s, and the civil disobedience at the time, make all current stuff, BLM, the protests, seem tiny in comparison.
Unfortunately the playbook of these types is to "flood the zone" with so much stuff that you get desensitized / give up on trying to figure out what's true and what matters.
How PNNL Is Using Machine Learning to Detect Nuclear Threats Quicker and Easier