skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair point. I assumed "super" intelligence would be smart enough to understand the supply chain which leads to its own existence.
It will, hence the MSFT layoffs happening at the same time.

People here wanted Google scale of operations and replacing Google with ChatGPT as their search engine.

But it seems that some here have forgotten about the high availability requirements and incalculable operational costs of running a search engine. Google.com's availability is a very high barrier of serving in the multi-billions of searches a day.

Azure has lots of experience in unreliability and running services at a massive loss whilst minting credits to compete on cost.
Settlers of Catan: where friendships are shattered by a well-placed robber
I was so happy to read that part. A triumph of capitalism, if it takes off.

Everyone deserves the right to a fair and quick evaluation of their default risk to get access to capital on margin. It’s the best way to get people to invest in themselves and their communities.
But what's the scale of this problem? If only 1 in 100 have curiously round birthdates, that's not a problem. If 1 out of 2 have curiously round birthdates, it will still be suspicious if 100% of supercentenarians had it.

I don't quite understand why it would be a problem for birth certificates. Surely the date of birth noted on them doesn't have to be the date they're first printed?
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Wow, thanks for the link! Indeed, quite a lot of fascinating things.

I am perusing this journal now:

> Discrete Analysis
> Discrete Analysis is a mathematics journal that I set up with various colleagues from around the world. It is an arXiv overlay journal, which means that it does not host the papers it publishes, but instead links to them on arXiv. (However, the papers have a uniform appearance thanks to a style file kindly supplied to us by László Babai and Alex Russell.) Our first paper was published in early 2016.

> The journal had a mathematical aim and a non-mathematical one. The mathematical aim was to be a natural home for high-quality papers in additive combinatorics and related fields, as previously it could be quite hard to find an appropriate specialist journal for such papers. The non-mathematical aim was to demonstrate that a well-respected mathematics journal could be run very cheaply -- our costs per article are orders of magnitude smaller than the costs of journals run by major commercial publishers. We meet these costs ourselves from a small grant: we do not charge authors (and obviously cannot charge readers given that the papers are on arXiv).

> One other feature of the journal that we are proud of is that each article is accompanied by an editorial introduction, which attempts to describe the paper for a wider audience than the core audience of the paper itself. The result is that the Discrete Analysis website is a lot more than just a list of titles that are linked to arXiv. If you want to know what is going on in additive combinatorics, you may enjoy browsing it.
I'd say Edge is a better comparison for that.

I used Edge (logged in) + Bing for 3+ years and recently switched back to Firefox. When it was new, Edge was great. It was a Google free Chromium browser that integrated with my MS account and got out of my way.

Now Edge is a bloated piece of trash because Microsoft can't stop jamming crap into it.
damn you got some top shelf, high grade copium. let me get a hit
My wife’s grandmother lived to 110. There was never any doubt about it. She knew what year she was born. Her mother had lived to 99.
And in many areas of Europe the official papers for birth, death and marriage were held by churches for a long time before being taken over by the state.

On the other side of my family, a family member made a records request re: ancestor born say around 1880 and the official government response was that the papers had been at a church long burned down and paperwork lost.
I had this problem as well and, as I recall, I fixed it by blowing high pressure air under the button. A 'can of air' under pressure will do.
It would be trivial to send an Iskander missile to Gotland to derail the NATO application.
Yes. It would be nice to see one being honest behind the protection of a pseudonym.... even nicer if they slip some hints for how to toggle these nastygrams off.
At first you just "pretend" to the taxman. You only start pretending publicly when all the people who could confound you are dead.
Currently I use two Jinhao X159s, which cost about $3 on aliexpress. Pretty decent writers. Cheap does not necessarily mean bad.
is it somehow better than the stuff available in mainstream languages (go net/url, Python yarl, etc)?

Or is it just that this is focused on command-line usage
This is a project called DeSci Nodes from DeSci Labs. I don't see a way to browse the nodes, unless possibly if I give them my email address.
I was also trying to install windows 11 on a VM to do some one off work. It was next to impossible to create a local account with internet connection on. I had to restart my installation process with Internet disconnected. And even after I installed, I realized how many times it asks me to login. Even desktop features like widgets need login.
Meccano/Erector are the classic predecessors of this idea.
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> That’s compares to the due diligence we went through when I worked at a small startup years ago. It was only for a few million but they made us go through hell with all their information request.

I went through this as an exec at a startup for a deal in the "few 10's of millions" range and the level of effort for the due diligence process was astounding. I'm pretty sure that by the end of the process, the acquiring company knew more about us than we did ourselves.
Very serious.
I am not going to share anything until i have a proof-of-concept.
Pay attention to #show - going to showcase when the time come.
For those not aware, this is in part a response to a controversial profile by Wired:

https://www.wired.com/story/brandon-sanderson-is-your-god/
Is there a list somewhere?
This is very true and frankly, if a city is going to make that kind of radical infrastructure investment, focusing primarily on bicycles is an odd choice since a significant portion of any urban population simply cannot ride a bike.
Hi Alan. Our target audience is people that write long form content. In order for the product to provide a great user experience for that audience we feel that we need to build an opinionated editor and integrate AI in an opinionated way into that editor. It’s hard for me to see how that is a product inside GitHub or Atlassian.

Notion (and others) is undeniably an incumbent that as you say can’t be hand waved away. With that said we are already getting feedback from paying customers that feel we’re better at some things, including a snappier editing experience and a more natural way to interact with the AI portion. I also think our chat integrates in a way that sets us apart.

If you really think you are in the target audience I would encourage you to give it a chance. We’re very open to feedback and if there’s anything specific that you think other products are doing better, we want to address it.
I see humans as a mix of the newer brain systems (like logic) and older systems (like hormones).

Feeling and emotions and what we consider “human” really come from the older systems. Since we’re not trying to recreate that, I find it hard to see the current AIs ever becoming “human” without explicit development.

Stories always joke about this topic by talking about “emotional cores” added to robots.
This is my thought. Someone who's 110 had a different reality in front of them at age 20 than someone who's 90.
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What really annoys me is it is really, really hard to just buy big kits of generic Meccano/Erector-alike parts. I don't want a kit that makes a tiny car with 50% custom bits for the exact model. I just want hundreds and hundreds of plain metal strips and angles and brackets and braces, all with a compatible module. I can add thousands of nuts and bolts of any size myself. Cheap and replenishable enough that I can bend and cut and drill and solder and glue and paint and prototype, and and generally make with them without worrying.

The best you can apparently do is to buy cheapish vintage bits onesy-twosy on eBay or a few dealers. Which is both needlessly complicated to assemble a good pile that has the network effects to be truly useful, more expensive than it needs to be, especially with postage, and feels somewhat sacrilegious to trash 70+ year old parts.
A 737 is to a 747 as a Honda Civic is to a full size SUV.

If you want the aviation comparison to work, the e-bike would be an ultralight.
Hehe...you could do the 2 user/1 machine trick on DEC Microvax IIs back in the day before it got cheaper to buy a NCD xterminal than the extra DEC kit to make it work. I recall it was a supported configuration you could order from DEC, but someone had to hack up our local fork of 4.2/4.3 BSD to make it work.
I actually wrote an article a little bit like this one, a tongue in cheek piece called "The Unethical Developer's Guide to Personal Success": https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/the-unethical-developers-gu...

In short, software development should most of the time be treated as a group activity and you should consider how the output of your own work affects those around you. While you might not feel like documenting your decisions is a wise use of time, it could help others down the line. The same goes for choosing the simplest solution that works well vs going out and writing lots of "clever" code. Things like the ways how we communicate, how much nitpicking vs accepting "good enough" solutions all compount and have a pretty great effect on the output of others.
I had a look at the TI SHARC manual at https://www.analog.com/media/en/dsp-documentation/processor-... to see how they did it. It seems to me that the SHARC assembly instructions would tell you the exact variant with the same precision as the traditional cryptic mnemonics.

Multiplication results are stored in a double-length result register called MRF. The type of inputs is indicated by a modifier word in parentheses, so that multiplication between two signed integers is indicated as MRF = R2 * R3 (SSI); whereas multiplication between a signed and unsigned integer is MRF = R2 * R3 (SUI); There is no popcount, but binary log is written like R2 = LOGB F3; and presumably similar notation could be used for popcount.

Cache access seems to be controlled by mode bits in a control register. Sign extension is supported in only a few instructions, but is indicated by the trailing modifier (SE).
I don't know. It's out of my scope that's why I'm asking. The infrastructure is there, the software is there and if not it soon most likely will be. What's left is to feed it domain specific data. To contribute somehow to a system like that I imagine you have to have a cognitive ability way beyond average. All the 'AI-' in front of job descriptions won't be in the ballpark of greasing cogs during the industrial revolution.
Will the year of the Linux desktop or China's housing collapse happen first?
A well placed road does more lasting damage.
It's busy work if you do it more than 1 hour any given week. If you do it full-time, you're something like a -10x engineer.
Purely speculating for entertainment, but the switch could have started it for the reason of obtaining benefits, and not a thing shared with others, by the time she got to be old enough to be famous for it, had been going on for so long nobody cared or was alive at the time to remember maybe?
The "Chat" part of ChatGPT is one interface.

I've found the most use for it in doing zero shot or few shot classifications of natural language without needing to build and run a model on my own.

For example - Show HN: GPT Classifies HN Titles https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34156626

Classify following titles into one or more of {US Politics}, {World Politics}, {Technology}, {Security}, {Current Events}, {Boasting}, {Curiosity}, {Unknown}

Which, when I ran it back then produced:

34152137 Technology: Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in C and Lua
34151880 Curiosity: Hydrochloric acid is more complicated than you think
34156235 World Politics, Current Events: Apple Japan hit with $98M in back taxes for missing duty-free abuses
34152333 Technology: The Architecture of the Lisa Personal Computer (1984) [pdf]
34151951 Curiosity: The Zen anti-interpretation of quantum mechanics (2021)
34155009 Unknown: Added 49 volumes of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee law
...

Another one that someone made on HN data - Show HN: A structured list of jobs from “Who is hiring?”, parsed with GPT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259897

The direct API interface is incredibly useful. The chat interface is useful for an expiatory domain into the classification and knowledge contained within the model (be wary of hallucinations), but the direct calls where you know the information you have and want - its classification and parsing of unstructured data is very powerful.
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I was just thinking that as one popped up just now. "Some account services will not be available until you sign in again" all day every day. Whenever I try to close it, it (of course) brings me to settings.

Guess what? If I haven't used those services over the past 6 years, I don't think I need them.
Interesting thank you for the video.

I was going to comment on this post wondering how it's more efficient than just the merchant looking at a fixed screen which shows the incoming transactions.

But the video demonstrates why the audio interface is better, it allows them to multi-task. Sort of like how listening to radio/podcasts doesn't tie you down to somewhere like watching the TV does.
Maybe you jest, but this is the future of the internet. Except instead of filtering by "is ai related" it will be able to "exclude by is-toxic, is political, is a whataboutism, etc"
We should give nukes back to Ukraine.
I didn't say it's "not real AI", but of course whether I meant that or not comes down to a definition of "AI".

In academia (where I am, though my specialty is a step removed), "AI" is exactly the region of research concerned with statistical problem-solving. Machine learning is sometimes synonymous, though I haven't been able to determine whether this is consistent among all self-described AI researchers or just some of them.

Systems like GPTs are not capable of "thought", full stop. There is no ambiguity. If this is hard for you to accept, I'm sorry, but it is a fact. They have no agency.

I saw someone sketch a good explanation. They were responding to a claim that Chat GPT could "pass the Harvard admissions process". While it is true that the system can access sufficient data to respond accurately to questions on an exam, and it could be prompted to generate an essay, it cannot of its own volition choose to submit an application. It doesn't even "know" that Harvard is a real place to which it can apply, nor does it "understand" how it could go about "learning" how to find out about these things it does not know. It simply isn't capable of these things. (And even if it were that wouldn't necessarily be evidence of intelligence, but for now it's a sufficient distinguisher.)

> Wat

Can you explain what about my last point was "wat"-worthy? Do you disagree that it is morally problematic to pretend a thing is sentient when it is in fact not?
Why not use urllib.parse?
Oh, yes, I agree with this. But I count this more as "research" than creating production code.
There is no messaging problem here. There is no overlap between the type of person who creates elaborate crypto scams and the 80 IQ no impulse control types who violently resist arrest.
If my records are over a hundred years old already, I hope I'll be far enough past embarrassment that I'm able to say "Take it, it belongs in a museum"
Might as well add anything remotely Elon related or vaguely political to that list. I miss hacker news.

Emotional screeching about nontechnical subjects I can get any old place on the internet. These here be where we screech about technical subjects dagnabit.
Show HN: A booking bot for popular restaurants
I grew tired of being front-run by people (or perhaps other bots) who do not sleep. So I built a better bot and open-sourced it to level the playing field. Within a week I had a reservation for four at my restaurant of choice. Feedback welcome, enjoy!
Just before the title, there is "opinion".

This is also reflected in the text. It seems rather like the preferred future of the author than a thorough analysis.
> I cannot see anyone providing an analysis of what that automation will do for those roles

Here are two links:

> Separate studies of both writers and programmers find 50% increases in productivity with AI, and higher performance and satisfaction.

https://mobile.twitter.com/emollick/status/16313979316044881...

> Salespeople with AI assistance doubled customer purchases & were 2.33 times as successful in solving questions that required creativity. Top agents gained most.

https://mobile.twitter.com/emollick/status/16428856052383989...
I think there's some legitimate concerns about AI, but specifically regarding what you said, you do realize that today some of the absolute dumbest humans on the planet get to decide all of those things based on their very subjective opinions and loaded with their own biases?
I only see this backfiring in the most unexpected and hilarious way possible.

I certainly hope everyone cheering for this has considered the possibility of what happens if nothing comes of this case and Trump wins in 2024.
I found a larger image: https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/elgeya/68107732/1776018/1776...
LTSC is a godsend. Too bad all the licenses are either pirated or when real, crazy expensive.
Yes, they would and it was called email regardless of whether it was SMTP.
You could enter your FIDONET address or some other similar thing when you created an account to link them.
I don't know about clockwork, but for small metal components: https://www.makerbeam.com/
Ethereum Mobile Operating System Goes Live
Holy moly. Yes, this kind of experience really puts an imprint on the nervous system, doesn't it? I'm very glad it all worked out for you. I have gone sailing a few times since, and those first times were intense.

I get the good lesson part. I was always big on safety gear before, but now I'm a fiend for lifejackets.

And I totally feel you on the mast. There was a moment after our boat turtled that I realized that the sails were making it incredibly hard to right. So one of my companions dived down and "lowered" the main underwater. That moment when a theoretical possibility becomes your biggest problem is always special.

Your offer is very kind! I live in SF now, but I really appreciate the thought.
> I had to restart my installation process with Internet disconnected.

No way! Thankfully I went for windows 10 which did not need me to unplug the internet (just a hidden option down to the side), but that's just awful.
I can understand the outrage over dark patterns, but I think you could also view this change from a different perspective: Microsoft makes it clear that long/medium term they want to make Microsoft accounts mandatory to use Windows and view local accounts as a legacy exception which should be progressively eliminated. If you follow that assumption, it's perfectly logical to see a local account as an "error".

So if the roadmap is that clear, I think the better question is why people go still along with it and keep using Windows.

Or alternatively: Why are software companies allowed to just make those decisions, even it could potentially disrupt the work of millions of users.
This is yet another low-quality opinion piece from this source. People live in cities because suburban and exurban commuter towns are bland. Conservatives have been predicting the death of the city for decades at this point
> It was next to impossible to create a local account with internet connection on.

And without Internet connection you cannot even reach the step to create an account.
So far it is. All empty threats
Sounds like fantastic software. Would be nice to know who you're referencing here.
I support a Windows site and am wishing I could retire before the Windows 10 end of support in Q4 2025. My only hope is that Windows 11 becomes 12 by then and resembles something like Windows 9 might have been.

I understand goat farming done right can provide a living, but I also understand there's not a restart button on goats.
You’re right, it is just English language.

And over time, people will discover some basic phrases and keywords they can use to get certain results from the AI, and find out what sentence structures work best for getting a desired outcome. These will become standard practices and get passed along to other prompt engineers. And eventually they will give the standard a name, so they don’t have to explain it every time. Maybe even version schemes, so humans can collaborate amongst themselves more effectively. And then some entrepreneurs will sell you courses and boot camps on how to speak to AI effectively. And jobs will start asking for applicants to have knowledge of this skill set, with years of experience.
If this shit persists, I'm going to convert the three last systems I support to Linux - enough is enough.
Nice and useful post BTW. Most programmers seem oblivious about what takes place "under the hood".

A side note: I still plan to read your Geometry for Programmers, now that it is close to being finished. All the best!
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We're hoping to make the interface as simple as Google Earth so you can zoom into your design and keep going deeper.

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