skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have played with it a small amount. If I need to center a div in CSS, it’s faster than me remembering how to do that.

For anything significantly higher complexity, I don’t find that typing is anywhere near the rate-limiting factor. Figuring out how to decompose the problem, how the code should be structured overall, and other high-level concerns take far time/effort than banging out boilerplate.

Now, if I wanted to pretend to be a junior developer for three different companies at once, it would be a heaven-sent technological marvel.
>> It's okay to say "please visit this from your computer" when someone opens something that requires a keyboard from a phone.

Unless you have a captive audience, like forced to use enterprise users, this is not a winning strategy for any internet based product.

Also, the assumption that everyone will have devices in two form factors is, and I am being charitable here, naive.
> We don't need "watchdogs" "protecting" us from stuff we want to do ourselves.

I fully agree. But do Europeans in general? Where I am (Sweden) the whole point of politics seems to be to “protect” us from ourselves.
> (she was hushed to aid the presidential campaign)

There was so much crap spewed about Trump this would not have affected the campaign in any way. If all the other crap didn't damage, why would they believe that would? He wanted to keep his private life private. She wasn't paid off until the month before the election. It was VERY clear by that point the affair would have little affect on the election.
If I'm not mistaken Obama's campaign was fined for the same offense -- non-disclosed campaign distributions.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/07/obama-campai...
It seems like ChatGPT4 fails at basic math. Unless I miss something, the party as a whole is still 30 gold pieces short of what is needed to equip them all with 95gp worth of equipment.

---

The total cost for each character is 95 gold pieces. Subtracting this amount from their starting gold, the remaining gold for each character is:

Obie: 75–95 = -20 gold pieces (Obie will need to borrow 20 gold pieces from another party member to cover the cost)
Tenzin: 75–95 = -20 gold pieces (Tenzin will need to borrow 20 gold pieces from another party member to cover the cost)
Liam: 100–95 = 5 gold pieces
Taylor: 100–95 = 5 gold pieces
*
Curiously, their flaws balance out to neither being all that better. GPT-4 gets some words right, but changes the formal tone to something more casual, which doesn’t happen with Google’s translation. If it didn’t, it would probably be the better translation.
> I'll wait to see how it holds up when the EU tries to enforce it against a US website with no presence of any kind in the EU.

That's called moving the goalposts.

But even in that case: the EU has a lot of power and no matter what you are still required to have a legal presence in the EU if you want to serve EU customers. Breaking the law is generally not the best course of action for any company that wants to stay in business over the longer term.
> These can be so powerful that may make a dumb algorithm perform like an absolute superstar.

That's an over-generalization that is only valid for small input sizes. Consider:

- an O(N*log N) heap-sort implemented by a decent programmer in idiomatic high-level code.

- a dumb O(N^2) bubble-sort coded by an absolute assembly optimization wizard.

Your O(N^2) sort will probably be much faster for small input sizes, but it won't take a large input size for it to become dog-crap slow. You can improve constant factors all day, but that won't obviate the need for doing millions or billions of comparisons.

You can only take a dumb algorithm so far before it breaks down completely in practice.

This is not a theoretical thing either - in unoptimized codebases, I've often seen people finding low-hanging fruit by looking for inadvertent O(N^2) or even O(N^3) behaviour (usually it's not obvious nested loops, but looping hidden by indirection i.e. function calls) and replacing it with an O(N*log N) or O(N) alternative.
In the 6 years I've been in my current house, having installed these everywhere in the house upon moving in (total around 80 bulbs), I've had less than ten to flicker or otherwise go bad. Maybe I'm just lucky.

I would prefer incandescents though. The only thing I don't miss about them is the heat. Everything else was superior.
> I do not "get" why people complain about git checkout to switch branches. Svn used that

You're starting from a foregone conclusion that both of the following are true:

1. everyone is familiar with Subversion's design

2. that particular design decision was a good one to begin with

They aren't, and it wasn't.
Goverment connections are a big plus when it comes to the private sector especially at the C level. You tend to find alot of people moving from the FCA or PRA which pay poorly to senior private companies. When new info/regs are coming they can just pick up the phone and ask about them.
Thanks for the free-of-charge judgement, i am not against GMOs, I am against monsanto policies and monopoly that are sales focused and not quality focused (like gmos that only last one crop so you have to buy them again :) ).
We tried to block them but eventually they won the right to sell. I just used that as an example on how we allow terrible companies and their terrible product (not gmo in general) to be sold, but not lab produced meat...it seems a bit weird to me!
"Are the projects that inefficient?"

Anecdotally, yes.
In my experience most projects are carried by a select few 'Heroes' doing the majority of the difficult implementation and innovation, tied together by a larger volume of less impressive but still critical connective work.

From my reading, the author's suggestion is that, functionally, most teams understand their goal and how to work towards it without regard or 'real' benefit from an overseer.

It's a strong claim, and one that should be relatively easy to test if an organization or research team wanted to.
I’ve been slowly working on this at https://infinitemystery.app
I don't use it.

Read the ruling. They are specifically referring to the data leak of some days ago that revealed personal information of GPT users that 1) was not explicitly collected and 2) was available to subjects that should not handle it (other users).
Let‘s do the napkin math:

- Biggest EV batteries are about a ton

- Let‘s even assume they’re all lithium

- Lithium from seawater can be produced everywhere worldwide at about 5$ per kilo [1]

- That‘s 5k for a powerful battery lasting a decade.

- Seawater is as abundand as it gets.

-> Okay, this is really pure BS, and the only question remaining is which agenda is behind it

[1] https://electrek.co/2021/06/04/scientists-have-cost-effectiv...
Parliamentary side (who make the rules), Vs civil service who have to work out how to actually do the work.
The same community that is upset when people get caught using licensed open source software who don't follow the licenses requirements yes
Who’s the current market leader on EV private pilot planes?
Not sure if they support Poland, but https://www.avodocs.com/
I am. My children are the only things keeping me here. It's not about the money it's about quality of life. Healthcare is rapidly becoming non-existent, schools operate off the back of teachers, roads are falling apart, the level of corruption is embarrassing, housing market is ridiculous, childcare is expensive and/or non-existent etc. In general any service provided by the state is deteriorating.
Nobody is touching other countries' servers. Not even close.

Companies can either adapt to the ruling or take their business elsewhere.
They also work with Internet Archive to send books that IA deems desirable for scanning.

https://blog.archive.org/2019/11/06/for-the-love-of-literacy...
Erlang/OTP: Garbage Collector
They already stopped using chats as training material for everyone anyway, so if that's the basis for the ban then it's already wrong. But what do you expect? This is exactly the kind of problem people have constantly pointed out with the GDPR. It's vague, has many unintended consequences, massively empowers low-competence regulatory regimes and constantly interferes with innovation and new tech. The EU will continue to ban new technologies whilst simultaneously hosting endless summits trying to figure out why there's no EU Silicon Valley equivalent, without being able to notice the answer staring them in the face. Very sad.
Yup, corporate buy in is a big deal. Years ago I tried using Nim for a network daemon, but the sheer lack of even the most basic http libraries prevented me from doing it and I went with go.

The library situation is a bit better now. But without a big company contributing in terms of libraries, the language usage will just be very low.
> I'll wait to see how it holds up when the EU tries to enforce it against a US website with no presence of any kind in the EU.

That's baseless rambling, sorry.
Reskilling has its upsides, you are exposed to many more paradigms and communities that do things completely differently which allows for a lot of cross pollination. living life on autopilot isn’t usually a source of great insights.
I wonder why corporations that don't have a physical presence in other jurisdictions play along. Technically, a country can block services they don't like. It really is their problem if their citizens are choosing to use a foreign service.

Is there a legal reason to play along? Trade agreement violation? Or, is it just a matter of wanting to keep those markets.
Odd if you make a false dilemma, yes, but I wasn't doing that.
> similarly airplanes stopped getting faster because we hit the point where the atmosphere starts melting you to death, and not much can be done about that.

While I agree with your point in general, have to nitpick here. Thermal protection is mostly solved problem by now (think Space Shuttles and other reentry vehicles). Commercial airplanes stopped getting faster because they hit a sweet spot between speed and fuel consumption. Military airplanes are stuck because hypersonic aerodynamics is very hard and different from subsonic/sonic/supersonic ones.
Prompt: Use ChatGPT to write a complete app from one sentence
The poor quality of Bard answers and the fact it is able to speak only English may most likely be a more important factor
This would be more believable if giant companies weren't already choking on every detail of every part of our lives just because you put a checkmark somewhere. Going after OpenAI seems like a move to pretend to still be relevant.
The indictment is sealed so the actual charges aren't public, yet. Everyone is just speculating.

Interesting items:

- This is from the NY State courts so it is NY State laws in play (likely campaign finance laws), not Federal. If it were Federal it would be prosecuted by Federal attorney's in a Federal court.

- A Grand Jury (for those that don't know) is composed of citizens, about 16-20 or something, that proceed like a court case understanding laws and evidence presented, including witness interviews, and the result here is that they chose to indict. This means that 12 (or more) citizens decided there was enough evidence that specific laws might have been broken to bring charges against him.

- I believe (common sense here) that campaign finance funds have to be kept separate from personal or business funds, as in different accounts. Depending on the laws in various states the laws may require disclosure forms of funds into/out of the accounts, etc.

Its likely that this is technical and could be traceable - if the funds for hush money came from a campaign finance account through his attorney and noted as such its probably not a case that is worth trying. That doesn't appear to be illegal, its a (morally questionable) campaign line item. If the source of the funds was from a personal/business account then that could violate campaign finance laws by using the wrong account. This kinda sounds like how they got Al Capone on tax evasion and not the myriad of other potential crimes. I'm not comparing the people, just my layman knowledge of the cases.
Ah! Good to know thank you! I am going to search for it!
That's actually the sad message being conveyed by this, right?

"You are so dumb, you need to be protected by the state doing stupid things with your data."
The difference is that ChatGPT, having been trained with almost all the knowledge in the world, has a lot of simple things it still can't get right.

If a human had memorised the same amount of knowledge, it would be a different story.
I am not the author , just a contributor, but it would not be very hard to add.
Except that it has nothing do do with the server location, having your servers in Europe doesn't magically get rid of gdpr requirements

The article clearly states the issues
Do you think that the stated motivation for banning chatGPT is just a veil?
I understand what you were saying in your original comment having seen this now. Completely agree the level of selfish short term-ism is a joke.
But first you much reach the pension age, that's not a gamble I'm willing to take (don't remember any relatives who reached 90 years) and until then, good luck if you want to buy a house, as these jobs are usually not on the countryside :P
Curious what that translates to in terms of lifestyle after taxes come out. What amount would you reasonably have left for rent?
They give you a chance to declare income that they may not know about at that very moment.

It is a strong incentive to not lie on your taxes
You're not wrong, but these articles keep selling it like the market introduction is just around the corner. It never is. They never mention that the battery almost always a huge downside making it inviable for most applications. So I (and probably many others) have grown disillusioned of news around battery technology. Wake me up when pre-production units reach independent testers. I don't care enough about this stuff to follow the dozens of leads that appear what feels like every week but never go anywhere.
/* This code is silly, not super accurate, but fun /

double cos2(double x, int n) {

double numerator = 1.0;

double denominator = 1.0;

double pi = 3.14159265358979323846;

int i;

for (i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
numerator *= pow((x - n * pi / 2.0), 2);
denominator *= pow((n * pi / 2.0), 2);
}

return numerator / denominator;

}

(Edit for format)
It's not only about performance, it's also about maintainability. Codebases written by inexperienced programmers are extremely convoluted, nothing is decoupled and functions are extremely long and do multiple things. Extremely hard code to maintain or add features to.
It's about Fatima.

The government was mocked for a "tone deaf" campaign to hire from a diverse workforce and re-skill in Cyber. So when a "senior" job was advertised in Cyber, the urge to mock brewed up as seen on social media.

It is not new that government jobs bear modest salaries, nor that the inflated titles that are given to employees are not a fair reflection of the duties that they hold.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/50747/1/a-brie...

https://www.diyphotography.net/photographer-speaks-up-after-...
> Unless you are going to say that human do not need thinking, also do not need reading, but can obtain abstraction of a idea automatically.

I’m saying exactly the opposite.
You would think a topic like this would be somewhat lower ranked in a tech-oriented forum but it seems even those of us who are technically inclined cant evade the pull of politics.

As side note, heres my 2 cents:

This is extremely dangerous and unprecedented. Its a long standing practice common law tradition to refrain from prosecuting political leaders unless a serious crime is involved (Prosecutorial discretion).

Ignore Trump, he'll likely win or worse-case get a misdemeanour. This just changed the whole game, the judicial branch just got weaponised as political tool.

Unless somebody puts a conclusive stop to this nonsense, things are about to get very ugly. This is the kind of thing you see from third world countries with corrupt/unstable institutions.
Of course they do. All political donations involve "hope" because you can't directly control what a politician says or does with money. You can only fund allies and then hope or assume they remain allies. In the case of Rand Paul it's a pretty good bet he won't suddenly turn on them, because his principles are consistent with what they want, so it makes sense to make big donations.
Yes, so it's more important he face justice
The Victor Dynamometer (1898) [pdf]
GPT article summaries are also always super generic and miss the tone. Even if you tell it to be more specific.
Why does it need to be different from Google in order to act against it?
I used to have ads. Partly because why not get a little money, and partly for the more direct fun of turning something fun on my own time into actual money that can buy the proverbial coffee. (also partly because I started working for a company that makes most of its money from ads)

But then I realized that why am I making my fun little hobby product (the blog) worse, by putting shit on it, that I wouldn't want to see? So it was not worth the two benefits.

Later, someone asked in a comment if they could donate some bitcoin as a "tip". Sure, I created a wallet for it, and got a little tip.

A few years later, when I'd thought more about cryptocurrency, I felt too disgusted to hold any of it. Holding it would mean being part of the problem. So I cashed out my tipjar. It was the same feeling as when I got ad revenue. In both cases was it "magical internet something" turning into real cash in my bank account.

So in both cases it was just a gambler's high. And at risk of sounding like General Ripper, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly, and got a better understanding of why cryptocurrency advocates can get so delusional.

Not on my blog, but on my opensource stuff page I've had a paypal donation button for maybe 15 years. It's gotten me maybe $15 per decade. But it's not intrusive.

Anyway, my blog isn't much, and I'm sure yours are much more popular. I would not try to monetize until it got bigger. Don't put ads until it can pay like a job. Patreon maybe, if you think it could help your community-building. Donation buttons are unobtrusive, though.

Kurzgesagt has a breakdown of their revenue: https://youtu.be/1x-i9z617z4. It's more merch than you might think.

But really what the internet needs is quick and easy microtransactions. If it cost $0.10 to click a "like" button I'd still click it if I like the content. It shouldn't be hard to make, but we don't have it. Probably mostly because bootstrapping problem.
> On the other hand, I’m deeply confused by the people who signed the open letter, even though they continue to downplay or even ridicule GPT’s abilities, as well as the “sensationalist” predictions of an AI apocalypse.

Says the quantum computing professor turned so-called 'AI safety employee' at O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com who would rather watch an unregulated hallucination-laden language model run off the rails to be sold as the new AI snake-oil than to actually admit about the huge risks of GPT-4's black-box nature, poor explainability and transparent reasoning methods that is explained in the letter.

Once again, he hasn't disclosed that he is working for O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com again. I guess he has a large amount of golden handcuffs to defend with another total straw-man of an argument.
"The west is circling the toilet bowl".

Compared to what?

My point was that you were spewing republican propoganda either willingly or unintellionally
I agree Lithium batteries can't be beat on power density compared to other battery technology.
You’ve changed the target of the argument far enough that I’ll consider my purpose achieved.
interesting takes. i guess if you're using ai for basic things like that it makes sense to not like it
For anyone that switched to a CLI editor from GUI, what helped the most with shaking the mouse dependency?
This one is interesting:
https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/76042_1547934155.jpg
Loudenvielle, French Pyrenees
I was looking the other day in the UK gov site Data Analyst with several requirements and experience, £27K

Must be some standard public pay scales
OpenAI will sooner or later have offerings without recording all data & those will be legal in Italy. It's not a fundamental problem with hosted LLMs.
[See it in action: Creating App](https://rajan.app/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/RPReplay_Final1...)

[See it in action: Writing Code](https://rajan.app/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/RPReplay_Final1...)
why would you want to go and do a silly thing like that. what’s the benefit
But those are encoded by the DNA as well. That isn't how software works (which runs on hardware that exists independently of it) I suppose you could argue that it is similar to a FPGA, where entire CPUs can be created in software, but even there there is still underlying hardware that can't be modified by software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RESTRICT_Act

The Act applies to ICTS entities that are held in whole or in part by, or otherwise fall under the jurisdiction of a country or government that is designated under the Act as a "foreign adversary" of the United States, and has more than one million active users or units sold in the United States.[1][2] The initial text of the Act classifies China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Cuba, Iran, Russia, and the Nicolás Maduro regime of Venezuela as foreign adversaries.[1][2]

It would be unlawful for any person to violate any order or mitigation measure issued under the RESTRICT Act, with civil penalties of up to $250,000 or "twice the value of the transaction that is the basis of the violation with respect to which the penalty is imposed", whichever is greater, and criminal penalties of up to $1 million and up to 20 years imprisonment.
> Implying that the evacuation was unnecessary.

Implying that overall dangers spouted by fearmongers are overrated given the context of the discussion.
Already being discussed in
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35385339
I am also writing from Italy. In the last few months I have received so many spam calls from UK numbers that I have been forced to ban the whole of Britain from my phone. Good job Data Protection authority.
Hmmm, no. I am pretty sure giant companies had to adapt to GDPR, and any (found) violation is persecuted accordingly.
Unfortunately, it's too good of a language for serious corporate adoption...
Yep, everything you said is spot on.

I'm on N times the UK national median wage in London and still have anxiety about being able to afford kids, pay my mortgage, and retire at a half decent age. I see American firms offering 50-100% more pay for the same or less demanding roles.
It didn't happen that way either: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/11/joe-biden/...

He initially referred to UV light as a disinfection agent, and then to the "bleach". He was rambling about use inside the body and did mention "injection", but he wasn't specifically advocating something, and when asked to clarify a few moments later he explicitly said he didn't think it should be injected.

Was it loose talk and pretty dumb? Absolutely. Did the media exaggerate and lie about it for years as a political talking point? Of course! Such is life in modern America.
The empty `discard` statement is a do nothing statement; it's not part of the type signature, if that's what you meant.
> Still, although this research may solve one critical problem with anode-free all-solid-state lithium batteries, a great deal of development is needed to actually bring them to market

Always.

I'm happy they found something that might perhaps some day become real, but it's going to stay irrelevant for years and may never happen. Unless you really care about minor scientific discoveries (rather than things that are directly going to influence industies related to energy storage), there's not much to see here.

No, we're not all going to have Aluminium-Air batteries in our cars next year. The hype around this stuff reminds me of the one around fusion reactors. Just around the corner. Sure, dude.