skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not be surprised if actual talking about oneself is a significant use of the current breed of chat-ai's

I read somewhere (was it reddit? was it here, i don't remember), that someone had over > 1000 pages long chat record about his issues. The immediate problem then was that he/she was cut off because of overuse of the free service.

It's not so far fetched either. When Eliza was revealed, people politely asked mr. Weizenbaum to turn around so that they could discuss private matters. Just talking and somebody listing with at least semi-intelligent responses seems to be just what people want (need?)
There is basically no regex to validate names except for maybe "is not an empty string".
Thank you. First time in 2 years that I actually purchased a book recommendation and am optimistic to read it through. Under-appreciated perks of having a life again. :)
> the dom is in fact so successful (...)

I'm not sure this means what you think it means.

The DOM was standardized, and became ubiquitous. From thereon, people built upon that not because it was great but because it was all there was. JavaScript is also all there is and was, and everyone agrees that it is everything but great. Even the inception of nodejs and demo is due to the fact that the infrastructure was already there.

Being pervasive is not the same thing as being good or decent.
If that was all they were doing, sure.. but if they wrote language parsers, understood computing from the nand-gate up and worked their way up and down the stack over-and-over.. these types of guys will blow past all of us. The understanding you get from going up and down stacks is ridiculous.
Qubes OS should have been mentioned. It's not a Linux distro and it's not immutable, but it allows to create disposable virtual machines from customized templates. For me, it is much easier to manage.
Ah yes, the good old dark pattern of unnecessary bureaucracy. Facebook getting more and more ideas from nation states in order to subdue its netizens
If you dont mind me asking, what happened to Athens ? Why did it shut down ?
While the research does point to general intelligence being largely fixed I find this to not be true in my own personal experience. I find that this kind of fixed belief, plus other beliefs like “I’m not good at this, or I’m not good at that” actually drag down performance. Of course, if we’re 4“11’ then we’ll never play in the NBA, but I mean beliefs like “I’m not good at math” or “My IQ is only so and so, therefore my intellectual ceiling is this”. I truly believe that we can increase our intelligence by 1 to 2 sigma (15-30 IQ points) if we make an effort to train not only our physical heath, but also emotional health, mental health and finally spiritual health. For me, it was realising that so much of my brain power was tied up in unresolved moments of the past, poor diet and exercise. With those out of the way, as well as some meditative exercises, I feel so much clearer than I was in the past.
What happens when GitHub can auto suggest entire PRs for open issues?
It seems only a matter of time before Github/Copilot/ChatGPT (all owned by Microsoft) will be able to take the text from any open issue on your repo and suggest a PR which might fix that bug or add that feature. Obviously, as a developer, this sounds like a WILD superpower.

"Upgrade entire front end from Bootstrap 4 to Bootstrap 5"

"Add integration tests for account creation and account settings"

"Add the ability for users to upload their own avatars onto their accounts using the carrierwave gem, then display those avatars next to the username everywhere"

This feels wildly different to me.

Every engineer becomes an engineering manager?

I mostly just read tests and request screenshots now?

I can solo code an app in days that otherwise might've taken months?

Holy dang.

What else aren't we talking about, yet?
Without prediction, we wouldn't have goalies.

A puck can pretty easily travel something like 30-40 m/s, and shots are regularly taken 4-5 meters from the net.

Goalies have, what, 1/10th of a second to track and evaluate the shot and make a qualified save. If that was pure evaluation and reaction we would be far too slow.

I also think most people who've played goalie in any sport know that you get a _sense_ for where the shot is going. High, low, left, right etc so it's not just guesswork and statistics either.
This smells of AI
A kissable tyrannosaurus with feathers. I blame the democrats.
Same here. Started algebra II just before kindergarten and finished linear algebra by next summer.
I moved to Brave and so far it's good. Their ad blocking tech is embedded in the browser, and they seem to support a series of privacy centered features (automatic cookie pop up denying/dismissing, fingerprint resistance, TOR support).
I honestly have issue with using ChatGPT to write medical software. I don’t know what your exact process is like but I hope you’re giving the code it generates extra scrutiny to make sure it really does what you put in the prompt. It kinda feels like the judge who used ChatGPT to determine whether to deny or grant bail.
And that is why we need AI assist in cars. With that said, where I'm from (Europe) most people drive "stick". That is, until recently. Now most new drivers are learning on auto or AI assisted vehicles. Is it better or worse? It'll definitively lead to fewer accidents. But driving stick is kinda cool tho, imho xD And I'm sure it also give you a better intuition about how a gear box actually works.
Not all counties nor municipalities have yearly local taxes.
Indeed! maybe LLMs work in a more similar to our brains than we think
of course we do, if they had anything real on trump they would be mandating it be tattooed on the inner eyelid of every single US citizen
I find this fascinating. A permalink to the currently showing airport would be nice so you can share a link, plus it'll give you the ability to press back to go to the previous airport.
If something is free- you're the product.
Two big hurdles for ML: a) explainability b) accountability.

ML-enhanced development neatly circumvents this: explainability and accountability is passed on to the developer. This includes bugs and license infringements.

I have no qualms about ML tools in development. But so long as the buck stops with me, I prefer to write from scratch.
what's more interesting is that people thought Ron Paul was a little crazy when he spoke about abolishing personal income tax, though it was completely possible (and in fact personal income taxes have been a relatively new concept)
I'm not from or live in the US so you don't need to preach to me about the rest of the world.

Lamp-post charging is already being rolled out in parts of Europe https://ubitricity.com/en/driver/charging-network-map/

Once EVs are more common, it will make more sense for parking lot operators to offer charging services for more income.

You say that it will take over 20 years to roll out on-street charging, but somehow reducing the dependency on cars can be done quicker or easier?

I live in Japan, which is often touted as a very public transit-friendly society, but I have 2 kids and could not live without a car. Especially in the summer with 36C+ temperatures, or during typhoon season. Believing that we can have a future with zero cars seems very unrealistic.
Don't we all base our actions by guesstimating what the outcome will be?
Okay, ZFS also does that - ZFS Deduplication keeps an index of each block by it's checksum, and when it detects a collision, it re-uses the existing block, reducing the number of copies - https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E39134/fsdedup-1.h...

I'm not arguing at all that the analogy is a poor fit. Just that there are several instances of that kind of technique in CS. See also: Compression algorithms that include backpointers, so that medium-sized repeated runs (like common parts of filenames or fileheaders) can be represented by saying "The next 8 bytes are the same as the 8 bytes 32 bytes ago".
The Mafia is also beloved by many and anti-establishment. Al Capone is a good comparison if only for the end up getting caught on something ridiculous part. Of course Trump isn't a gangster, only a grifter, but do you really think someone is confused by this analogy?
I often find the reason for all this hell is, ironically, an effort to help people who dont know "how computers work", by offering "useful automations". And then these automations clash and fail because of the complexity involved.

If you "simply" (yes yes I know) download the python version you want directly and compile/install in a local folder, and use that with venv as a way to manage individual project dependencies, all problems go away.
This is a great book! I read about 3/4 of it before I got distracted with something else but you've reminded me and now I want to finish it!

It really changed my outlook on severe addiction.
Looking forward to progress in this area, thanks for your efforts!
There was also bug for bug compatibility with every old version ever released. Hard to support and impossible to port.
> It's not a linux distro and it's not immutable.

Then it wouldn't fit with the lists theme?
Hilariously, this includes the everyone's favorite Fairphone 4 which did away with the 3.5mm jack marketed with sustainability despite the waste these earbuds produce compared to a good pair of wired IEMs with detachable cable that can last a decade. Likely users had a pair of fine headphones and felt compelled to consume and buy a new pair of earbuds just to overcome the hassle of losing dongles or having to choose between charging or audio.
> Regulations keep piling on, adding costs and construction time, with no measurable benefit other than political expediency.

Isn't that expected for a technology that can poison a pretty large area of your country for hundreds of years if something go wrong?

As a member of the public I'd rather have strong regulations instead of lax ones until something bad happens and poisons a large swath of land... The potential damage is just too large, something has to imbue responsibilities and expectations on the ones exploiting the technology.

Could you expand on what type of regulation are you complaining about specifically?
My point is that this exact guessing of what might come next is something that is universally exploitable in systems which do this
I guess one implication of this will be the continuing rapid decrease in cost of software development. Everyone who previously could barely scrape together a functional app will now be able to launch advanced, beautiful, feature-rich apps. Quality of products could improve vastly (quantity will improve vastly).
Open-source authentication platform – Fief
Kani helped find bugs in Hifitime
Ok then. So how to teach the LLM new information/jargon ? I repeat: I tried to do this with GPT (fine-tuning and embeddings) and I got no improvements on jargon and re-training is out of reach, of course.
Qubes OS is a hassle to set up and it's too heavy in my experience. Also I couldn't suspend to RAM or hibernate because my hardware wasn't fully supported.
> Having spent a lot of time with GPT-4 recently, it's possible the new generation will not have the same issues we did. For example they can write some code and say, "adjust for best practice".

Not iteratively forever, the only feedback it will (eventually) get is it's own feedback, because humans will be using the AI best practices, and what it deems as best practice is almost certainly going to be too opaque to us mere mortals.
Very nice!

Anyone who likes this may also enjoy Paul Freeman's website, Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields:

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/
What is y, "the tail of x"?
It can handle a quite broad range of languages. I've had decent luck with quite obscure stuff. Oberon worked quite well, for example.

But out of curiosity, to give it something harder, I asked ChatGPT w/GPT3.5 to write me an interrupt handler for a simple raster effect for the Commodore 64 in 6502 assembly, and it got tantalisingly close while being oh-so-wrong in relatively basic ways which suggests that it hasn't "grasped" how to handle control flow in a language without clearly delineated units.

GPT4 appears to have gotten it right (it's ~30 years since I've done this myself), though the code it wrote was a weird mix of hacks to save the odd cycle followed by blatant cycle wasting stuff that suggest it's still not seen quite enough "proper" C64 demo code.
Do you think people that read and write assembly feel this way?
Unpopular opinion: for hobbyist guitarists, the amp is one of the least important thing in the chain. A good cab is much more important.

I once built one of these mini guitar amps based on an LM386, $5 of solid state components. When plugged in a real cab it sounds just great.
> It's only possible to own software by owning the rights to it, but the de facto and ordinary use of the word is to own a legal license to it.

I disagree. There's a material difference here - you can only own things in one, total way (they're just yours and you can do with them whatever you please), while licences are granted on certain "fields of exploitation" (not sure if that's the exact term used in US laws - that's how it's called in my country). I.e. you can get licence to use software, but only in academic setting. Or (as is common) get licence to make copies of software, but not resale those copies etc. Or, get licence to use use software, but not to modify it (whereas you can obviously modify a thing that you own in a physical world). Etc, etc.

In short, physical ownership and licencing of immaterial works are two different things, and they're only conflated by marketing people in software companies who know that their customers don't want to expend energy to understand those differences anyway, and, what's more important, a "BUY SOFTWARE X" button is much more enticing than a "OBTAIN LICENCE TO SOME LIMITED RIGHTS TO SOFTWARE X" button (which is what is really happening under the hood when we click "BUY").
I was legitimately surprised that people thought that was a real image.
No, this form is about right to object. It isn't about consent because consent is not needed for legitimate interests, which in this case is to offer personalized advertising.

This form lets people object to the use of their data for a legitimate interest.
Company is paying us, vs we are paying government. I can resign and get out of the relationship with my company. No such luck with government lol. So the dynamic is not quite the same.
Personally I like Universal CORDIC, you can calculate much more than Cosine, but it tends to be slower. See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Digital_Circuits/CORDIC#The_Un... and a somewhat janky fixed point library that implements it https://github.com/howerj/q
personally i'm not worried. i'll just have my lawyer take the fall. the best lawyers my supporters money can buy.
Isn't it the poor but talent kids who got hurt? Family with means will simply send their kids to private tutors or good after schools. What's really mind boggling is that the constituents in the SF school district were okay with these garbage administrators.
Comme ci, comme ça.

When it comes to nukes in particular, I get the impression the belief of normal people is it can go all the way to Alderaan. Yes, even though that's wrong by many orders of magnitude.

VN swarms, while currently sci-fi and dismissed by normal people, are a much discussed outcome for ASI, and seem to be taken seriously in such circles.

Everything else, sure — us != planet.
Brain wires itself to match your native language
> In fact, they can probably, as an artist explore more ideas than ever before thanks to AI, without spending hours on an idea / project that may not pan out. Then focus your time on the ones that you feel will work. The field will evolve, and things will definitely change. People need to change along with it.

On the whole, I believe at a minimum, it definitely devalues digital art, since it will increasingly become difficult to distinguish authentic, hand-made stuff from the output of some AI.
Not all dogs are trained on all drugs. I once met a dog that was only trained on various substances cartels use to mask the smell of drugs.
A sprite can create clones; There are variables that can be bounded to clones. This gives similitudes with object programming. Scratch is event oriented and involves concurrent execution of many tasks. This is not the imperative style of our youth, but it may be a better fit for modern programming.

Despite the apparent simplicity, you can develop very advanced game mechanism. The limitations occur when you want to give a professional finish. It is meant for children, but it is a pleasure also for the "parent teacher" because it allows to teach advanced ideas.
I think they were more part of the reason Flash died, than predicted it.

Also interesting that at the time Jobs did not want native apps on the iPhone, only web apps.
‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Comics for the Comedy Hall of Fame
Here in Germany, the state tax authorities coordinate collecting taxes and forward them to the federal government.
While it would be great to actually charge former US presidents for what they've done (Bush and Obama war crimes anyone?), politically motivated selective prosecutions are extremely corrosive. And that's what campaign finance charges (not specifically Trump ones) look like to this non-American.

Honestly, what the US campaign financing system needs is a full overhaul, its full of legal and illegal-but-ignored corruption.
A little early? The article has an April 1 publication date…

It seems a little odd, they are reporting about this as if it were new but then write that Ohio is the 30th state over a 5-year period, and then show a graphic about binge drinking rates in Wisconsin.

I’ve never had this stuff, and have only ever heard all the jokes about how terrible it is. But a few months ago, I was in a really upscale bar and saw a bottle of it, so I made a joke. But the bartender thought I was serious. Which made me wonder if the “this stuff is awful” talk is actually a marketing thing and not quite reality.
Patiently waiting for someone to say "We trained LLaMA with extremely high weight decay, and find that performance is much worse. Due to licensing constraints, we are providing a version of delta weights that build on the original LLaMA weights..."
You can do reputation, or money, or some "proof of work". Or you can do all of them. But money is by far the easiest one to implement. You could e.g. either require the votes of 3 separate maintainers of packages totaling 100k downloads in order to upload a new package, or you could have a $10 fee.

The reason money is natural is because there is a cost associated with manually vetting all packages.
I wonder what implications this has for the reports claiming that general IQ is going down in most countries. Obviously, there are people out there who do not suffer from this trend. And perhaps they are the ones making the systems that help those less endowed? Anyway, the road to the tech religions Warhammer 40,000 seems set!
You're absolutely right.

I was a cocaine addict. It turned out, I had ADHD. Through science and evidence led medicine, I was treated for ADHD and this gave me the foundation to leave cocaine behind.

I'm pretty sure the self-shaming, placebo based 12-steps programme wouldn't have led to an ADHD diagnosis that actual therapy with a qualified psychiatrist found.

Modern medicine is amazing. Using group support sessions whose framework was invented before we knew any better as the primary source of addiction treatment is like refusing to use cars because a horse and cart do the same job.

America's obsession with puritan, white Christian conservative values keeps it in the dark ages (in terms of mental/physical health) and no amount of psudoliberalism will counter that.

What's the point in telling yourself it's the "greatest country on earth" if your population are one of the most unhealthy?
Pretty weak case. Is this really what they go after Trump for? Not sure this emboldens the belief in the rule of law either way, as this is clearly politically motivated.
It seems like you’re projecting racist views onto the parent comment. It never discounted the possibility of other race-related factors being the cause of the achievement gap, it was just challenging whether all of it could be accredited to wealth disparities.
The comments on the article are brutal.
The cost is poisoning a large swath of land for centuries to come. It's not just politics and emotion, it's transforming a large area of a country into a completely unproductive land, for centuries, where no one can live or work at...

How can you not be a afraid when the potential damage is so large? And I'm an advocate for nuclear power, I believe we should've invested in it decades ago to avoid the worst of climate change to come, I just can't agree that the whole issue is "politics and emotion", that's just shoving the real problems with nukes under the rug. Cost of maintenance, cost of decommissioning, baseline factors required for safe operation (including the socioeconomic and political environment of the country a reactor is at), sourcing of fissile material, permanent deposits for nuclear waste, etc.
Hey, some feedback from Desktop MacOS Chrome:

- When you use CMD key the active component loses the selection (visually) this is a bit confusing, e.g. I used CMD+D and seemingly nothing happened as the selection was lost for a while and the duplicated element was just put above the original element

- When duplicating an element you could maybe shift the clone's position with a small amount so the user can see it has been duplicated (e.g. top +20px left +20px)

- I think it needs a list/modal to see the components created (like the list in PS layers/Figma etc) so you can see what you have in your workspace (it will also kind of help with the duplication related problem above)

- I scrolled via trackpad by accident (in the left column area) and I could not get back to the area I was working with, I realized it will snap back after I resize the area (with the vertical line between the two columns or with browser resize) but I think it should also have a reset view button or similar to let the user do the same as it is not obvious

- Maybe it's a ChakraUI menu z-index bug but after opening the Project/Share menu you can open View/Export/Account menus in 1x click and access the tools on the left but only from starting from those 2 menus, if you start with View/Export/Account menus you need 2x clicks to close them and open the other ones next to them, the Project menu is seemingly outside of the latter problem.
So really they already know what they expect you to write in your tax forms, they just want you to do this as if it was a written exam?
I asked ChatGPT (the free one) today to translate me EBNF rules into a recursive descent parsing function in Rust and it did it correctly, it also then applied various refactorings I requested to make the code cleaner.

When it comes to boilerplate these tools are game changers I must say. Harder problems they crap all over themselves but that's ok, that's where we still have a job for the next 5 years (I hope).
I would say, you can request anything from them.

Like I request people to just not use FB anymore, if they don't want to be tracked by them.

Might have the same effect.
It's an interesting point, it would be nice to see someone write and post something about this idea so it can be discussed outside a Launch post. It's kind of shitty for one company's launch to have to take on criticism of a mega-trend.