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I think that's in Portuguese? Touca is also the name of a bird (Toucan) in Farsi.

I wanted a name that is easy to type on the command-line (since that's the interface for many users), easy to pronounce, and somewhat meaningless in English. Touca was the best I could think of. :)
Planplan.io est maintenant open source
1100 lumens only matches a 75 watt. 100 watt is 1600.
I can’t help to think that eggs have become Giffen goods.
Our experience coding from scratch will have about as much validity as the experience of people who coded in assembly has today. It'll be a specialized skill with its own niche but without much value in the broader tech industry.
How does it protect the rest of us if "well defended people" means "those able to afford better lawyers"?
> Saying that the current developments aren't AI is simply wrong.

Thank you for illustrating my point so well. What you are expressing is exactly what I'm talking about: The redefinition of what the I in AI stands for. Inferring some text is not intelligence. Ergo it's not AI what GPT is doing. The industry has redefined the terms and that's for good reason, to get the public hyped up and thereby open the money gates. But that's for the business people. Assuming that "we" in this audience are the tech people, we should push back against this and stop calling things something they are not.
It’s crazy to think about. We are nearing the end of the age where people who have been programming for “20 years this year” and self-taught probably learned to program from books. In the next few years, people who have been “programming for 20 years” might start to include YouTube learners and boot campers.

As someone who learned to program from two gigantic tomes of C/C+ with a Borland Compiler, there was no copy/paste. You had to type every listing in to get it running, as well as find that semi-colon you forgot on line 16,46,102 of 200. Then you had to remember everything, take notes, and literally research answers. You couldn’t just ask a random person on the internet, at least for a few years after I learned how to program when online forums became a thing.

One big difference I can think of between my younger peers and myself: When I see an error message, I take it as a “hint that something is wrong” where my younger peers tend to take error messages literally. Probably because I “grew up” with terrible error messages that hardly ever pointed to the actual file/line the error was on.
Chicago tries to export its most unpleasant drink: Malört
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If there is such good evidence it shouldn't be hard to get nuclear plants insured. Insurance companies usually don't decide based on ´emotional reactions to incidents that were not that serious´ but look at the facts.

As long as the cleanup cost is externalized and paid for by my tax dollars you're damn right I'm reacting emotional. Wouldn't you, if they set up the plant in your backyard (think Europe's population density)?

The sun gives us 10,000 times earths energy demand, so maybe we stop discussing nuclear industry marketing blogs and shift focus on energy storage technology.
> If for example, each person you hire to the IRS can bring in 100x (or more?) the cost of having them on the payroll, wouldn't that be a no-brainer?

IRS audits and enforcement disproportionately target small business owners and lower middle class. People that have just enough money that it is worth trying to shake them down, but not enough that they can afford to fight it.

The average is about $5 returned for $1 spent on enforcement, but that is a finite pool - the sweet spot I mentioned above. Throwing more money at enforcement would just end up lowering the recovery ratio.

We are better off just scrapping the whole enforcement branch and putting that money into extending proactive capture (collect taxes on money before people receive it) and making filing easier to increase compliance.
Do you know if there are any papers published by people who don't work at Microsoft so may actually be more objective?
> It was impossible for him to do so because he was never testifying under oath.

To make my position on this clear, it absolutely _should_ be standard practice for folks testifying on matters in front of Congress to be sworn in and give testimony under oath.

The fact that it's actually very uncommon ("It's not done because our Honored Guests might think that we're impugning their honor and integrity!" is more or less the excuse I've heard for not doing it.) says (to me) quite enough about how disinterested Congress is in justice and integrity.
I've ran the numbers and based on the actual run experience of the RBMK it will end it's life as a reactor design having killed less than half as many people per TWh as American coal did in recent years using the 4000 expected dead number estimate from the WHO and EPA numbers for coal. There were some upgrades to the RBMK post Chernobyl but fundamentally simple operational changes would've prevented any further catastrophes.

If the worst designed reactor of all time and the only one subject to the only accident in nuclear history to kill a large number of people is significantly safer per unit electricity than coal, it's not crazy to say that all the plants that are radically safer than said reactor design probably are spending too much on safety.
What I really love is the unbounded optimism of the AI. How many colleagues could you ask "Can you write me a PoC for a horizontally scalable, probabilistic database in Rust, using Raft-based consensus?" that would then just think for a second and go "Certainly! Let's start by ...". These people exist, but they're one in a thousand (or million?). ChatGPT basically does that for almost every prompt you throw at it. So it really helps me overcome research barriers in software development in an incredibly short time, stuff that would've taken days or weeks to research can be done in literal minutes. And as I said before what's amazing is that the PoCs are really elegant and minimal, i.e. no superfluous code at all and condensed to the essence of the problem you're trying to solve.
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This isn't an example of a coding problem, but just yesterday we had a very difficult technical problem come up that one of our partners, a very large IT company couldn't solve. None of our engineers knew how to solve it after trying for a few days. I would say I'm an expert in the industry and have been doing this over 20 years as a developer. I thought I knew the best way to solve it, but I wasn't sure exactly. I asked ChatGPT(GPT-4) and the answer it gave, although not perfect in every way, gave pretty much exactly the method we needed to solve the issue.

It's a bit scary because knowing this stuff is sort-of our secret sauce and GPT-4 was able to give an even better answer than I was able to give. It helped us out a lot. We are now taking the solution back to the customer and will be implementing it.

A few additional thoughts:

1. I knew exactly what type of question to ask it to get the right answer (i.e. if someone used a different prompt maybe they would get a different answer)
2. I knew immediately that the answer it gave was what we needed to implement. Some parts of the answer were not helpful or misleading and i was able to disregard those parts. Maybe someone else would have to take more time figuring it out.

I imagine future versions of GPT will be better at both points.
I think this is more or less the exact tale of every single empire's rise and fall throughout history. Each emerging nation, and inevitably "empire", learns from the mistakes of those existing at the time and is able to make rapid progress as a result. But over time they begin to rest on their laurels, grow fat, and start falling into the exact traps that they previously fought against (often literally) and overcame, only to then eventually be overcome by the next great power.

The big change in modern times is nuclear weapons. The passing the torch is rarely a pleasant affair. Add nuclear weapons paired alongside the poor/myopic leadership inevitably present in times of decline, and you end up in uncharted waters with a storm on the horizon.
Yes point 2 is the weak one.

Aren't humans/biological life a counterexample? Simple bacteria are clearly maximizing agents, and cyanobacteria did infact almost destroy all life on earth by filling the entire planet with toxic oxygen.

We've known how to improve ourselves via selective breeding yet vanishingly few humans are proponents. We and other intelligent animals have a wide variety of goals, and even share food across species.

The evidence just doesn't seem to support this concept of Basic Drives. If anything, the evidence (and common sense) seems to suggest that the more intelligent the organism, the more easily and more often it ignores its basic drives.
OK well at least you are honest about your bias, so thanks for that. Using your analogy though no one is being cut here. You are projecting that they are cut, but they never are. And medical procedures to improve appearance aren't fake, they simply create a new look and in Asia they lead to ALOT of improvements in self esteem. The medical reason is it makes them feel better.
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My point is that regardless of the tax regime, America pretty clearly did not run "just fine" in that era.
Posting some recent prompts as examples as I've started to use it more for coding:

- I want to create a Google Docs addon using AppScript which has an interface sidebar. Please describe the necessary steps to create a sidebar interface. The sidebar interface should have a title with the text "Google Docs JSON Styles", it should have a large textbox which can contain multiple lines of text (fill it with lorem ipsum), and it should have 4 buttons placed horizontally underneath the text box, with the captions "Save", "Apply", "Copy", "Paste".

This produced the necessary Javascript + HTML + external steps to set up the project.

- I'm building a website using a React frontend hosted on example.com with a Django REST API backend hosted on api.example.com - Authentication is handled via Firebase Auth, currently using an Authorization header provided for API calls. Now I want to have authenticated links such that the user can click a link to access an authenticated download via the API. What mechanism can I use to create a link to an API endpoint which will require the user to be authenticated?

This gave me a the frontend and backend code necessary to set up authenticated links, with several alternate approaches following further prompting.

- Given an owner id, repository id, commit id, and private access token; give me a URL that lets me download a ZIP archive of a Github repository.

In all of these examples I received the desired result with helpful descriptions.

As a counter-example:

- Write a program in Brainfuck that outputs the string "CHATGPT".

In this case, the result is the Brainfuck program for "Hello World", with a step by step break-down of the program explaining confidently why it would output "CHATGPT", while being entirely wrong.
https://archive.ph/eeDIZ
in the real world, when you write war criminal, people think someone convicted of a war crime, it’s really not meant to be used a figure of speech. John Yoo is still a UC Berkeley Law Professor. You’re making war criminal as meaningless a term as a Nazi.
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Your figures are meaningless in a world where the top 1 percent of households control half the wealth. The median household is not paying anywhere near $37,000 in federal taxes. My household is in the top 5-8 percent and didn't pay that much.
It may be possible to rewrite this in a more readable way, with fewer magic numbers, using constant expressions.
Because it shows politically motivated use of legal power, which is especially bad. I'm all for prosecuting Trump and Clinton and all the rest of them, but to only prosecute Trump when there's a sea of malfeasance stinking up the place seems like an overwhelmingly bad idea.
Land doesn’t vote, people do. Your argument justifies federalism, not unequal voting power.
> The thing is, there's no evidence that the current path will lead to superintelligence.

I don't understand how any person paying attention can think this. Just watching the jumps from GPT-2 in 2019 to GPT-4 today makes it clear as day we are rapidly drastically improving capabilities and there's no evidence we will hit a wall any time soon
An unprofessional interview is when:

1. They ask about your race, ethnicity, age, kids, and/or marital status almost immediately

2. They ask you to do borderline non-trivial "homework" to prepare but then skip it completely

3. They cut you off and basically push you out the door

4. They clip their nails and don't listen to you

5. They ask you some open-ended, deeply-technical trivia question and already have a cookie-cutter answer they're looking for rather than

6. They ask you random brain-teasers unrelated to the job

7. They pretend to hire you but are just milking you for free advice and free labor, but there was no real job (FITW- ServiceBell is shady af)

8. They fire you because a director makes racist remarks about the offshore team because you were a witness

Guess how many of these I've experienced?
He means too costly, because of the level of safety we demand.
Some people might be fearful but the real problem remains:

Nuclear can be safe, cheap and built quickly. Pick two at best.
I don’t think it’s fair to just ignore the capex part of the model training costs. If we take AWS pricing, the 21 days of training for 65B cited in the llama paper would cost 2.6m at reserved prices. While there’s a lot of AWS profit there, it’s a reasonable first approximation of the TCO of that hardware. Even if real TCO is a third, that’s still nearly a million to train 65B, never mind the staff costs.
I always loved the AAD documentation whenever I had to work with these things. Whenever I have to implement a service the things I care about are of this nature:

-how do I validate a token to confirm that a call has permissions to do a thing.
-what secrets do I need to safeguard in order to be able to validate said tokens
-does the caller need to store any secrets
-when do I need to call external services in order to validate tokens.

Instead, AAD hides all thrse behind abstract terms like: service principal, app registration, enterprise application... No wonder people fuck up.

I can't even comprehend what "creating their own instance of an app" means! This is way more abstract than it needs to be. Does the code get served from somewhere else? Do they get db copies? Probably not... But it hurts to think in these terms when all we want is to make sure calls are authorized.

And yes, I have successfully implemented this kind of stuff before. I used to keep sections of the RFCs on speed dial. I've never had to deal with cloning app registrations.
Fukushima was hit by an earthquake and a tsunami. While the earthquake was below the plant's design basis, the tsunami was significantly above.

There's 1 (one) death that is the direct result of the Fukushima incident.

The plant was built in 1982.

I don't think we have anything as safe as nuclear plants.
No, we’ve known about the greenhouse effect for well over a century.

It’s not non-chalance, it’s indifference.

EDIT: the cause of the indifference is in part because it’s harder to get scared about! Our brains aren’t perfect risk estimators, especially when it comes to radiation and atmospheric dilution.
everything seems easy when you're armed by the corpus of all human text
In Germany, typically there's a public entity doing road and sidewalk cleaning financed through mandatory fees. You basically pay for the meter of roadside in front of your lot.

But then there's a law that holds all property owners liable to care for snow removal. Meaning when it snows there's a huge number of small snow sweeping engines scurrying the cities' streets, each plodding through a few meters of sidewalk before this house number and then lift the broom to continue a few hundred meters down the street in front of another building. When it snows a lot, these guys just push the snow aside, onto the bicycle paths.

This procedure means that you can no longer use bicycle paths and pedestrians have to navigate a patchy pattern of perfectly, less perfectly and altogether not at all cleaned paths.

This is so crazy but the craziest thing is that people still have to pay for the meter of roadside in front of the house. They seemingly do not get out of the liability as the road cleaning firms will not assume responsibility, so you have to keep your fingers crossed. Even crazier people seem to assume this is normal. Hell we could just keep all those little private enterprises that do snow removal and just award them with entire blocks so they can work more efficiently.

In other words, make snow removal on sidewalks as much of a public good as is regular cleaning of sidewalks and snow removal on roadways already is for crying out loud.

This sounds easy, right? Turns out it's apparently a delicate, sensitive issue that people get to hotly debate, there will be concerns raised from the concerned, and someone will yell "all that money would be better spent on $my_favorite_thing". Nothing will ever change, except when someone comes up with a Really Stupid Idea like privatizing municipal water and electricity.

So yeah I'm strongly in favor of making public transport a public good. I feel duped by my government in that they were willing to introduce a 9€ monthly ticket last year (for only 3 months alas) and promised to continue that one-time thing somehow. Now there's a 49€ ticket but it's only a yearly subscription with monthly payments through your bank account. In other words, as shitty as all of neoliberal politics, designed by the same people how sold off our water and our electricity providers.
To add a bit of flavor, Nintendo/Game Freak has allowed players to migrate Pokémon from the current game generation to the next one for every game generation with the sole exception of Generation 2 (Gold, Silver, Crystal) to Generation 3 (Ruby, Sapphire, Firered, LeafGreen, Emerald)

Players could migrate Pokémon from the virtual console re releases for Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal to Gen 6 and onward, but never to Gen 3, 4, or 5. Furthermore, there was never an official way to use your Gameboy Cartridge saves on the virtual console.

For players lucky enough to have their Pokémon save batteries still living, this is an opportunity for them to save their Gen 1 and 2 Pokémon.
I learned coding in a classroom.
Shhh don't share the secret
What are talking about? Just compare the output of a 3.5 vs 4 yourself for a problem you are interested in, it’s a single click in the interface.. Do you always need a study or an “expert“ to make up your mind?
How does it compare with svix.com?
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or a cheap single speed bicycle from the nearest sport shop
Don't forget the ones who learned to program from colorful 1980s Usborne BASIC books. (Also with no copy/paste, and having to use a tape cassette to save the listing.)
Just try it yourself, it’s not that hard…
I mean, that's really true of any sort of law or political arrangement. They can all be broken or ignored. To mangle a quote, the law isn't power - power is power.
Again, you can be afraid of imagined scenarios or you can do research.

Uranium in power plants is dangerous because there are literal tons of it in one place.

Any amount that could be feasibly moved has a low overall level of radiation (uranium has a super long half life, which means pound for pound it emits very little).

Don’t people wonder how Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still cities where people live today (hint, the ~10lbs of uranium in the bombs aren’t actually that much on a time scale of years)?
The music was always too loud to appreciate. Nothing caused me to throw my headphones off more.
I find it funny how people are concerned about government surveillance while completely ignoring the one which is being used in a very totalitarian way already for many: Surveillance at the workplace in all its many forms. Companies have a very strict hierarchy, meaning from a political aspect they are, by and large, authoritarian, and worse, there is often some unspoken "class" level thinking in it that is used to reason such surveillance into place (among other things). Even worse, there are many places where private entities and government ones flow into each other, muddling the already dirty waters even more. So it is not just governments to be worried about, it is every, especially larger, entity where the people in command have some screws loose (which covers a large percentage of them).
Note how the total deaths directly attributable to Japan's worst nuclear incidents (including Fukushima) is... three.
I looked a bit and the code, I think it would be kow hanging fruit to add additional sqlite fields except the vector ones. Even if any filtering happens kind of suboptimally in post processing.
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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".

Then "explain why <my code> needs to be <new code>"

Oh this is called <new concept>, give me an example of it. Give me another example. Give me another example. Give me use cases where this would be better. Give me a short story where it was done my way but it lead to a mishap in production and the protagonist learned <new concept>. Explain it like I'm 5. etc

Basically the new generation is the training neural network, and they can keep flashing context until they absorb the material. Sure, some people are lazy and will go as far as getting something barely working. But superpowers are available for those who fight for their place in the world
How is this "bizarre and out of touch"? Both the peaceful and the violent kinds of protests are disrupting by nature and it seems normal for someone that is not interested, a business owner, say, to plan ahead and try to limit the disruption.

People have been planking up their windows ahead of hurricanes forever.

The world doesn't and shouldn't stop spinning because a small minority is overly excited about something that the rest doesn't care about.
Ask HN: Which are some of the best online lecture series you have studied?
It is mainly because of the legal issues caused by the license of llama model weights. We need to figure it out with Meta's llama team before releasing.
Drag & Drop Linux GUI Pipebuilder using Chat GPT for Glue
Anyone building it? Im to lazy, but not to lazy to ask, so i have that going for me..
How do you know it is even close to correct? When I’ve asked it for code, it has been subtly wrong, or worse, correct but missing important edge cases that it doesn’t even seem to be aware of.
https://archive.ph/81pSZ
A group of college students send a rover the size of a shoebox to the moon
What novel approaches are you thinking of?
The original sentence is:

> I hope the tax prep industry is scared out of their minds

I am pretty comfortable with an elected government putting the general interest before Inuit's. I am pretty confident that Thomas Jefferson would have agreed.