skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we should respond by making it a 20 year imprisonment for using a VPN to access Wikileaks?
I feel the same way I think. These days, I am happy when I am able to use GPT4 to complete a task faster or easier, but am also happy when I write some code "by myself".

However, as far as the conclusion of the article. This "age" started only a few months ago. If you are going to call it an age, then the conclusion doesn't hold up. In the long term, programming "by hand" is likely to be similar to wood carving today. It will be an artistic rather than utilitarian pursuit.

There are already multiple services and tools being built with the purpose of writing, deploying, and maintaining software in a 100% automated way using GPT3.5 and GPT4 and natural language specifications. I am building one of them.

We can't assume that these recent efforts to freeze the progress of AI will be successful. So we should anticipate very significant improvements in performance over the next few years.

Very shortly, everyone will realize that it is quite a huge waste of time and money to wait for a person to write code.
Sure, but there are natural guardrails within that... for instance if we decided to call the UK a country of national security concern it would trigger massive diplomatic and trade ramifications. Other than China you'll notice everyone else on the list basically has 0 trade volume with the U.S., so there's not much damage to the U.S. economy, but doing it to other countries would be a major escalation with economic consequences.
I thought this was a great post. I've also struggled with how to handle "incompetent but nice" employees. It's never easy, but what I've found:

1. This is why it's important to give as objective feedback as possible to employees, and to have it tracked over time. If someone is really nice but not performing, often times it's hard for them to see because they are working really hard.

2. See if there is a place where the person can maximize their value even if it's working on something else. I've seen people move out of software dev because they were just fundamentally slow coders, yet they thrived in other positions.

3. I think it's important to not let it fester. If it does, it usually ends badly for everyone.

The thing that's difficult is that software engineering is notoriously impossible to measure productivity in a purely objective/automatic way that can't be gamed. This contrasts with something like, for example, a sports player: if you're a baseball pitcher but your stats don't cut it, nobody cares how nice you are.

That's why I think it's important to, as much as possible, set expectations and review them frequently with employees.
No, the argument I was replying to was basically that the constant disparaging of Twitter in media outlets will be psychological "death by a thousand cuts" to their branding. I'm saying that the result will be the opposite of that, almost like a streisand effect, because in general, people do not trust the media. Over seventy percent of Americans do not trust the media - it's just a question of which outlet they trust the least. When some media outlet pushes a story, the natural inclination for anyone opposed to them is to dig their heels into a position contrary to the outlet's agenda, which is usually inferrable from the reporting and story selection.

For example, the more CNN reported about COVID and Vaccines, the less likely the already vaccine hesitant were to get one.

Obviously for contentious topics you need to modulate this based on how politicized the topic is and which media outlet is reporting (or not reporting) it. In this case, the people who are fans of Musk are almost exclusively the same people who oppose the outlets that have been posting negative stories about Twitter.

If Fox News, NYPost, or CoinMarketCap were posting negative stories about Twitter, then GP may have a point - the stories would eventually inflict damage to the brand. But as it stands today, the only outlets crusading against Twitter are the same outlets to which most Twitter supporters are most fervently opposed, so the negative coverage will only make Twitter more endearing to them. Anyone more agreeable to those outlets probably already dislikes Twitter/Musk, so the negative branding effect will be mostly negligible.
It's worse than you think. This bill isn't really about Tik Tok. Read the fine print: people caught using a VPN could be thrown in jail for 20 years! It's about giving govt unchecked authority to throw people in jail.
Bill Ban Tik Tok there must be a joke there
`position: relative`, `overflow: hidden`, `height: 100%`, `line-height: 1` and `margin: 0` solve a surprising percentage of CSS issues in my experience.
Actually immediately thought of Dolphin with this comment. The Dolphin team's dedication to having fantastic write-up that match every release is commendable as hell. Phenomenal software, as well. :)
Or throw all this tech garbage in the trash and let me use my own built-in sensor suite to determine freshness

Why is everyone so quick to defer thinking to AI? Do we all want to be dumb as fuck?

How many basic skills have been largely forgotten because people have instead learned to lean on technology services like a crutch?

We're all turning into the fat lazy fucks on WALL-E
Indie app developers, the App Store “middle class”
It surprises me that folks (presumably technical) regress to the "same thing as the old thing" logic. I'm not downplaying the end-of-times drama every generation surely went through, but whatever drill you can think of, it ended, and kids went home, and they most likely played outside. At worst they sat in front of the news which didn't have to compete with the Internet and YouTube thus was very different.

Now? They go through a drill, leave, check their phone 4,000 times between that drill and dinner time which gives them a constant stream of a) the world is terrible, b) the other side is evil, c) your peers are all better looking, smarter, richer, and more popular than you.
Please tell me where I can purchase information about the sexual preferences of Republican politicians and leading religious figures. I... have... reasons.
You might be right. Different workloads will definitely have different effects. That said, implementing the gnet api is pretty easy and doesn't require a huge context switch. It is worth a test to see which one performs better.

I used it for a tcp connection (json-rpc) workload and it was far better and the code was cleaner.
I mean, I could use the term "non-sequitur" (ie: an argument that is ultimately irrelevant in the current discussion, designed to distract rather than inspire) but it feels like you're just following it up with the fallacy-fallacy.

At some point, describing the opponent's argument style in what I feel is going on is important. Its a meta label. If you think "whataboutism" is a poor term, then I'll substitute non-sequitur from here on out. But I don't think my discussion point changes.

It is a fallacy to distract from an argument by posting irrelevant stuff. If I make a challenge with whataboutism (or non-sequitur), the correct response is the same. The opponent should better describe why their words are relevant to the discussion. Or alternatively, change their argument's form so that it is relevant to the discussion.

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You're right that over use of fallacies / labels can lead to a fallacy, ie: the fallacy-fallacy. That is, someone using fallacies could be making a good point and still be contributing to the discussion. And its a mistake to focus on their poor form rather than their good points.

But the labeling of points / fallacies / and naming of those points is very useful at speeding up debates in my experience and in the typical case. It concisely describes my opinion and sets up a pattern of understanding. So I don't think its a bad thing. It very much depends on the situation.

That is to say: its only a "fallacy fallacy" if I'm ignoring the good points and killing the debate. I'm not sure if I've committed this sin in this case. The other poster seems to have simply stated "What about Hawaii?" without much elaboration on why or how Hawaii could be even relevant to Taiwan... or Tiktok.
To me the theory seems to not fully explain the data, at least not the switch in phone types and instagram. IMHO it takes some time for a mental illness to form and the right circumstances are needed. It's nothing you catch like a cold.

I think the causes are multifactorial.
First, you need a social structure that promotes or at least not inhibits mental illness. That I think is given in industrialized countries because of high stress for parents, little commitment among people and always increasing speed of life. In addition the middle class got smaller and smaller. Three are only two outcomes, poor or rich with little in-between.
Then you need some awareness of mental illness. Even today mental illness is highly stigmatized, but back then it was even worse. There are a lot of older people who are visibly not well but won't get treatment for whatever reason and thus won't show up in statistics.
And then, yes the media in general. My mum told me that back when she was young the sentiment of the media was more positive, there were articles about achievements without a critical differentiation. More negative news more frequently.
All of that set the stage for young people to feel the need to get ahead to survive combined with a larger group for comparison results in a feeling of hopelessness in many.
I don't think foregoing an education just because someone is better than you or that it couldn't make you any money makes sense.
> A lot of incompetence can just be inexperience, not understanding what the priorities are and getting overwhelmed.

This is the job of the manager to resolve. If that person really is incompetent rather than merely unfamiliar with the work, the manager has access to assets such as hyper-competent nice people for mentoring the less-competent, and should coordinate between the mentor and mentee to lift people out of incompetency.
I find that I tend to use AWK for text munging tasks that are too small to call a "project".
no fan of ggplot2, one of the few ‘higher level’ libs i do like is seaborne as it has some actual wisdom baked in.

i think one d3.js succeeds so well because it treats scales as functions, which is what they really are. as such it gives you the tools to implement ‘grammar of graphics’. Also it is giving you full control of the attributes of svg and other objects and puts them at the service of the GoG viewpoint as opposed to offering you declarative access to an impoverished and inevitably flawed toolbox.
Ah! Right now our default is set to use OpenAI... but you can actually use local LLMs by creating a custom agent. We're going to add a full stack of local STT/TTS/LLM... just haven't had time for it yet!

If anyone wants to help with it we're totally open for contributions :)
How do we fix this complete disconnect from reality? I guess in the same vein how did they get such a incorrect view of the world state in the first place?
I would go a step further and call for an end to all means testing for anything government funded.

I am relatively poor and this will help me because even though I am poor I still have to prove I am poor which is burdensome.
> This bill is absolutely horrific.

In what way? Explain that, and let readers decide if it is horrific.
Jamón is about as far away from "putrefied" as you can get; it's cured in salt for weeks and then hung to dry for months or years.
We encourage folks to draw their own conclusions, but we have done comparisons and ours is more efficient and produces faster results. I only say test yourself because I can't give specific details of how/why, so don't take my word for it. :)
>In fact, simple measures like forbidding deployments of models with more than a certain number of parameters would probably slow things down a lot.

Are we even sure GPT-4 has dramatically more params than GPT-3? They have stopped revealing the parameter counts with 3.5.
my best mentors were brilliant assholes.

assholes respect competence and push out shitty performers.

we've all been sold a lie.
Isn't this exactly what China says about us? (And no: I don't believe them... but that frankly isn't the point. We normally get to dislike their position on indirect philosophical grounds--that people should get to see and do whatever they want and if freedom is dangerous to you then you are the aggressor--irregardless of whether they are "correct", and so we lose the moral high ground and will have to sit around in a direct mud-slinging argument if we try to use the same kind of "for the good of the people we must all lose our freedom" argument.)
Yeah, I wish incompetent jerks were fired quickly. Working in finance has taught me they rarely are.
Green is one of the two green words in this sentence.
They aren't prevented from entering the market but their existing products are banned because they don't abide by PRC censorship and data sharing requirements.

The post you are replying to explains this in detail.

Google, Facebook, etc all either had products in China or planned products in China but all voluntarily withdrew for various reasons. I imagine low market share vs domestic services was probably the largest reason.

Remember that as soon as you release a service in the West a Chinese clone will spring forth almost instantly. That clone will be much more Chinese then your eventual adaption and as such will you likely struggle to compete with it. Worse yet said clone is probably built by either Alibaba or Tencent both of which have armies of extremely smart engineers, near unlimited cash to sink into new ventures and a near duopoly on the ecosystems necessary to thrive in China.

At the end of the day the Chinese market is just incredibly tough and Western companies (perhaps rightly) don't think it's worth the effort.
Yeah, part of the concern is job automation / mass-unemployment which is less likely if AI research is slowed down / driven underground.

We need to manage the transition of the labor force and ideally not have it happen overnight.
AI will soon sort that out for you.
I don't think that's quite correct, according to Prusa, the XL has started shipping to customers two weeks ago, though presumably still in low numbers: https://blog.prusa3d.com/the-state-of-open-source-in-3d-prin...

I'm not super happy about the wait myself, but the XL is a considerably more complex beast, and I'd rather see them getting it right than sacrificing quality to meeting some self imposed deadline.
I don't get it, doesn't look like an ad to me. What am I missing?
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Yep we're definitely getting a large volume right now – working on it!
Here are some of my questions of today:

> We need to travel by train from Rome to Montpellier, but it is too many stops to do at once. So we would like to stay somewhere for a day in between Rome and Montpellier. What are our options? It needs to be safe, not adding a lot of extra travel time and suitable for a workathon

It returns with four options, approximate travel times and advantages and disadvantages. It understood coworking cafes or bussiness hotels would be a requirement.

> What are all the places an SSL certificate could be cached when calling an API from a Jupiter notebook?

It mentioned some obvious things such OS/browser/network-device, but also that a particular python package exists that is doing this at the application level as well, but only in memory and that a restart of the Jupiter kernel would resolve that.

Now, I'm curious with what kind of keywords I could get meaningful output from Google for these two examples.

What i suspect is happening is that you are micro managing your chat as if it's search. Picking keywords rather than just telling it the problem you are actually trying to solve. Splitting up your problem in sub problems and then trying to find each peace of information manually and combining it yourself to form a conclusion.
Good. Letting Bytedance operate in the US does not serve US interests.
Not having lived through either moment in history, I have to remark that the current discourse about regulating AI feels like it rhymes more with the efforts to lock up encryption technology with government regulation in the 90s than with the research community's conference on recombinant DNA.
Hope it works out! :)
discord link is broken :(
This is 1964’s BASIC, and it is quite basic (if you pardon the pun). It had no form of functions or procedures, not even the most elementary “GOTO and remember where you came from so you can return here later”. If you look at a more modern Basic implementation, they are more complex, and tend to have pointless complexities like differentiating Sub and Function procedures or two call syntaxes.
I assume that would undermine the argument, as ADHD and other disorders are underdiagnosed in girls and women compared to men. And in fact anxiety and depression are most likely underdiagnosed in boys and men, which also helps their argument even more. Both of these make me sceptical of this "epidemic", plus Haidt isn't someone I trust to be impartial or accurate nowadays.
It's not just TikTok. It's WeChat, too. WeChat has over 1 million US users.

Also, probably, Alibaba, AliExpress, and Yandex.
We don't have specific details yet about licensing or pricing. Stay tuned as we get closer to GA. Having said that, we're pushing hard for a free usage tier and the product team isn't pushing back. :)
The incumbents sense a shift in the power structure that they cant control
This is really cool. I had a lot of fun building a hangman style game just now! It took 3 prompts to get it right... here was my third iteration (sorry, didn't save the first two): There is a problem where player 1 is unable to enter the secret word at the very beginning. Fix this issue. Also, clear the letter from the input after each time player 2 makes a guess, but display the incorrect guesses somewhere and don't allow player 2 to guess the same letter more than once.

I think it got a little confused with my last prompt: "Make both players also able to submit the input with the enter key." It correctly added the functionality, but it left it's explanation in the HTML of the page too. Still very cool. Here is the working game: https://backend-pico.onrender.com/hyundai-interface
It's worth it b/c corporations only get penalized with measly fines
Hmm works with GPT-4 but I see what you mean with turbo.

Edit: got it to work with

Output an example of a CSV document with 10 rows containing sample chipotle restaurant order data. Do not start with any other text.
The problem with this is that at present, it is largely good people who are ahead in AI development and that gap might widen over time if China has difficulty acquiring large numbers of high end chips. China and Russia feel that they need to cheat in order to compete in many ways. China does invest a lot into AI and some good work does come from there, but any advantage they can gain that their opponent will not take is seen as a step closer to greater world influence.

If well meaning people pause, they cede some ground to those who are investing heavily in "western" failure and the pause could accelerate the exact thing it's trying to delay. On the flip side of that coin, if all advanced AI work is already infiltrated by foreign agents then it's also possible that pausing could slow down their greatest gains.

In either case, there may be an argument for holding back mainstreaming/productization for longer than is already normal or establishing an independent AI industry productization review organization that gets early access to any AI products which could qualify as concerning.

Unfortunately, governments heavily oriented towards censorship may be less afraid of spreading dangerous products out there while banning them domestically, because it might be seen as a method to legitimize authoritarian control by pointing to disasters in those other places.
Agreed. I'd also argue that Blender is a poor suggestion compared to OnShape or Fusion360, which better suited for this type of design.
When there's so much content being produced, of course some of them will become stale. It is a consequence, not a cause.
You can't read books from Eurasia, it's against the law.
Astronomy is afforded very few epistemological amenities. In a sense, N can only go up if we get independent verification from different techniques. However, our tools have become incredibly sophisticated and sensitive so we can be very sure about what we're seeing, if not what it means.

I'd imagine one of the techniques used is to look for time-varying influences in the data, which implies there are bodies orbiting each other. If there aren't any, then you can look at the spectroscopic signature of the light and see if it makes sense for a black hole. I'd imagine black holes do nothing to refracted light, but dark bodies would result in slightly blueshifted light as 'newer' light reflects off its surface. This might be what PyAutoLens does (as well as fitting the shape of distortions and such)
Yeah, old printers suck. I got my first printer in 2011. It sucked. New Prusas are fantastic printers and have been for a while.
But, again, why are you focusing on a group that is statistically less likely to commit mass shootings compared to the average person? Even if you find some root cause for trans shooters, you’d be, at best, eliminating what amounts to about 0.1% of cases. Why not look at groups that are over represented?
Definitely. I love using BEM when you have to nest things. If you stick to strict BEM, you will generally avoid having nesting more than 1 or 2 levels deep.
Oy. That surprised me. I am quite familiar with the notion of common keyboard shortcut that I can't get on my Norwegian keyboard. Command-(left/right) square bracket is very common, but at least that is usually associated with a menu item so I can assign a different shortcut. But now I learned that on a French keyboard, period is shift-semicolon!? Which makes me wonder: Do the French use the semicolon more often than the period? Oh well, once in a while it sucks not to be American. ;-)
> I pay a lump sum for something that doesn't technically belong to me.

The physical object belongs to you, but property has never in the course of history meant "I can do whatever I want with something in my possession." Property rights are about possession and control, not necessarily about concrete objects. (That's why copyright and trademark is known as "intellectual property.") And control is rarely absolute.

> the law forbids you from having a slaughterhouse in your land if you don't comply with regulations

No, zoning regulations prohibit me from having a slaughterhouse on my land at all. Hell, I can't even build a multi-family residence on it.

> if you are arguing that federal and state laws are equivalent to private contracts

They are not, but legal enforcement is what makes contracts work - the "teeth," if you will. If everyone were free to flagrantly breach the terms of their contracts, chaos would result.

What you're asking for is for certain terms of contracts to be unlawful as contrary to public policy. And that's fine, but again, let's keep the hysterics and ludicrous comparisons to a minimum.
I was happy to learn from this article that "polykite" is not some arcane construction from classical Greek, but just a simple coinage meaning "multiple kites". (The hat-shaped tile can be made by fusing several "kites", which are formed by cutting hexagons up at the midpoints of their sides.)
Take it easy, these comments are mere conversations between mortals.

Your AI overlord
Based on some of the comments here, it seems like the browser 'defaults' for styles are not what you would intuit.

This is something I run into with flexbox. The tool is great, but the default mode is almost never what I want.