skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it surprising that many developers find using ai prompts easier than an actual programming language (not the first time I hear about it, but now it seems to be serious).

When I tried to “talk” to gpts, it was always hard to formulate my requests. Basically, I want to code. To tell something structured, rigorous, not vague and blah-blah-ey. To check and understand every step*. Idk why I feel like this, maybe for me the next ten years will be rougher than planned. Maybe because I’m not a manager type at all? Trust issues? I wonder if someone else feels the same.

Otoh I understand the appeal partially. It roots in the fact that our editors and “IDEs” suck at helping you to navigate the knowledge quickly. Some do it to a great extent, but it’s not universal. Maybe a new editor (plugin) will appear that will look at what you’re doing in code and show the contextual knowledge, relevant locations, article summaries, etc in another pane. Like a buddy who sits nearby with a beer, sees what you do and is seasoned enough to drop a comment or a story about what’s on your screen any time.

Programming in a natural language and trusting the results I just can’t stand. Hell, in practice we often can’t negotiate or align ourselves in basic things even.

* and I’m not from a slow category of developers
The problem is “the public” wants to be part of the conversation but isn’t able to participate or understand it to an adequate level.

It would be like trying to have a sophisticated discussion on Reddit about quantum mechanics. You’d have a huge majority of people with a passing interest in the subject and the majority of their knowledge from 10 minute YouTube videos without any real technical details, and a minority of experts who actually understand the math and work with the stuff. The majority will jump to strange conclusions that can’t be debunked without learning the math and practices they don’t know and mostly don’t care about learning, the minority will either try to take great pains to educate them or just go somewhere they can talk amongst themselves.
> Sorry. What’s the ML piece here? QR codes are from the 90s and don’t use any ML I’m aware of…

Presumably they are using object detection to recognize where the QR codes are located in the image? Which they then feed to the standard QR decoding algorithms.
Startup founder spouses, how can I be the most supportive partner possible?
My partner, a wonderful, amazing, brilliant and hard-working woman, is working on building a startup in the HR space (her former career) and while I have no doubts about her passion, drive and ability to succeed in her venture, I'd be very curious to hear from spouses of other startup founders what their experiences have been and any suggestions you might have as to how I can be the most supportive domestic / romantic / life partner possible to my spouse as she goes through her founder journey?

TIA for any and all shared experiences or suggestions!
>[Finland] also spends a sigificant amount to keep bike lanes clear of snow

Lol, I wish. They just sprinkle some gravel down over the snow and call it a day. Also, I disagree with the parent comment that a lot of people bike here during the winter. It's maybe 1% of the amount of people who bike during the rest of the year.
or might be time to find a new pond.
> thank you for answering my question of how you know a condition that you are familiar with from your country holds sway the world over.

Individual countries, even ones as populous with humans as China or India, or as populous with dogs as the US, don't matter for the total aggregate of record keeping. The record keeping status of an individual country is just an anecdote. It's the plural of a super-majority of the human or dog populations that become data.

> but I wouldn't be saying the dog is 23 years old if I've only known it for 20 years

People are arguing in this thread that this exact scenario happened as a conspiracy between multiple humans for Calment.

It's true that these conspiracies could exist, whether for humans, or for dogs. Bad record keeping could make it easier for dogs. Bad record keeping would also make it easier for a very long lived dog to not be recorded (though this is much less likely, as dogs over the age of 20 are something to remark on, and feral dogs generally don't live nearly that long).
> many tasks considered "intellectual" can be done by systems that internally are simple, but very large

There's plenty examples of such tasks even if we look back before the current proliferation of large language models.

Translation used to be considered such a complex intellectual task, and had decades of research into more and more complicated systems to address various nuances and specific cases (e.g. transliteration of people's names, conversion of measurements) but in the end it turned out that this set of tasks is best solved by internally simple systems scaled up.

Chess (and more recently, Go) is a historical example of what used to be considered an intellectually challenging task, but succumbs to simple-but-large solutions.

Sure, GPT-4 can't do a lot of things well and a can't do a lot of things at all - however, it can do a bunch of tasks which we couldn't do before despite trying a lot with quite complicated, intelligent means, and it manages to beat that with a glorified autocomplete. Time and time again we want to consider some task as requiring "true intelligence" and then it eventually falls to brute force, reiterating Sutton's Bitter Lesson (http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html) despite what most of us naturally would prefer to be true.

Also, we do have some theoretical basis for equivalence of intellectual activity and "autocomplete", such as Hutter's proof that finding the optimal behavior of a rational agent is equivalent to compressing its observations.
Thank you for going to the trouble of making a throwaway for possibly just this comment. I'm aware that employees currently don't have a lot of power, and of course consumers being wrangled with dark patterns means they don't have a lot of power either. Getting confirmation that the unpopular decisions can be laid squarely at the feet of executives does allow one to hold out hope for a more equitable future for consumer electronics.
"gat" is slang for "shoot and kill (with a gun)"
Isn't it pretty normal to count several counts separately? If a murderer kills multiple people, he'll be tried for multiple murders. If you're caught speeding multiple times you'll be fined multiple times.

Trump made the deliberate decision to falsify business records again and again. Why should only one attempt be punished?
No they’re not. Which means you’re willing to color a group of people as guilty by default. Is that better?
Anyone know if they're hiring (Product Designer)? Their web presence is pretty sparse.
Sure, and do 50% and 2.33x suggest that we're about to experience the mass obscelence of those roles? Hardly.

Spreadsheets had more impact
Got it. Yeah, you can generally tell if someone lives in the same house as a golden retriever.
The dictionary definition of "gat" is "revolver", does that really qualify as "obscure"?

Anyways, in terms of usage I've heard, it is almost exclusively implying you'll brandish and/or apply your gun, maybe this part is more obscure, but if I wrote "stab myfile" I don't think you'd expect me to put the contents in a buffer.
Exactly. And then you wonder if you're just making excuses and trying to blame the test.

But in the end you have to consider your past work, things you've built, and the value you've added to things. And, most of all, positive feedback you've received from colleagues or customers. I reflect on the fact that my colleagues have worked in my code, built entire new features of their own on top of it, and then vouched for me in job referrals that have their name on them. That's the most valuable confidence pill in your arsenal.
There are a lot of separate, distinct groups who all focus their concerns on different problems. They're all worried, but the implications of their worrying take on entirely different scopes. The problem is that each level of direness nullifies any sense of urgency regarding the next one down.

People worried about their own jobs changing/getting fired seem inconsequential to people worried about major sweeping disruptions in the world economy

Worrying about major disruptions in the world economy seems pointless to those worrying about an impending dystopian cyber-dictatorship

Worrying about a dystopian cyber-dictatorship seems pointless to those worrying about ASI end-of-humanity scenarios

And people who think AI is a big nothingburger don't care about any of these issues.

Before we can make collective judgements and positive action towards the future, we have to triage and align ourselves with a shared sense of what's actually happening, and what is important with regards to these new, inevitable changes.
I don't get this sentiment. Check the summary if you don't want to read everything before submitting? Has OP even opened the thing to check the first page of contents? If it's good stuff, one would keep reading and be sad for it to end, no matter if it's 5 or 5000 pages (I was sad for book series to end that were longer than that).

OP shouldn't have changed the report's title, or if this is the original title by some miracle, they should have changed it or posted a comment about why it's interesting. Presumably they did read at least part of it and have a reason for submitting it. As it is, the submission is entirely useless beyond pointing out that a certain URL exists.
My great grandmother died a month shy of her 110th birthday. The main reason I don't doubt it was true is that my grandma (her daughter) is in fantastic health despite being the same age as my grandpa who is in fairly poor health, so there's definitely something in my great grandma's genes that seems to aid longevity. Unfortunately it's looking like my dad got a decent amount of my grandpa's genes instead of my grandma's in that regard, so I'm doubtful I'll be so lucky haha.
Hi,

When I read the description I immediately thought of Ben Evans talking about how what happens when your entire company is rendered into a feature by an encumbant [0] (FWIW I disagree with his attack on antitrust).

So, how are you going to make sure Type survives Microsoft adding ChatGPT to Word, or Substack offering something similar, etc.

[0] https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/12/21/google-bu...
Any chance of Canadian applicants in future?
Interesting. What do you do when it's 50C hot outside or freezing winter with a snow?
Hah! Hit create and the popup opens. Unless you have a load of plugins installed, in which case tell your IT department off.
Could it swap, so we can have lisp back?
Yeah I note that down below in my response:

> That being said, it’s possible the ML piece is about reading multiple QR codes at once in different angles. I could see that requiring some ML. But still. It feels like a solution in search of a problem since they seem to be taking the “throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks” approach to building products.

What I’m saying is that washing clothes doesn’t seem to benefit from any QR codes. And the cooking example is even more confusing because presumably you’d have one for the recipe, not per ingredient
I mean, it's based on a paper[0] from November, no? Or is that called "old" in the AI world?

[0]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/react-synergizing-reasonin...
Sweden also has a hilarious(ly large) amount of armored vehicles for the size of their army.
Boomer generation is born 1946 - 1964 so most are probably around 70ish, with many younger and older.
Bill Gates says calls to pause AI won't 'solve challenges'
Is your claim that all reasoning is ultimately math we do unconsciously? That humans "reason" via word-association and probability? That seems to be what you're suggesting, but I don't want to conclude that without your say-so.
The first known chatbot associated death
I went to high school with a girl who graduated at age 15 or 16. She was only a few months older than me, but was in senior year when I was a freshman. She also graduated college by 19 IIRC. I graduated high school in 2009 so this is not just some pre-WWII phenomenon.
Me too. But most people I know used mousepads so the mouse could work properly, not for their confort
Should I just apply to YC with a company that's nothing more than "(X) thing people do every day but powered by GPT-4's API"?
I never said it was under complete control of one individual. The search algorithm is under complete control of Google, divided among various employees. The search algorithm is not a rogue AI running amuck, out of human control.
gat is cat in Catalan:
https://lingva.ml/ca/en/gat
-Honestly just me spouting off because I'm in a bad mood. Can't delete-
The headline is so bad. Should've been something along "Midjourney bans image generations of Xi Jinping world-wide".
Restrict Act – A Dangerous Substitute for Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation
1000%. A lot of this stuff seems like busy work to junior engineers and bad senior/staff engineers. But this is how you spend a few days to save months of wasted effort.
I use my e-bike as a vehicle and it is a pleasure.

The only annoying part is all the cars.
I've "rewrote" a lot of code in my career. I'm putting "rewrote" in quotes, because it was sometimes porting from unmaintained programs in obsolete platforms to something more modern (sometimes without even being able to run them), and other times by doing large-scale refactoring that left the codebase almost unrecognizable.

While I agree with #1, that "offensive" code is offensive for a reason (no time, no experience, no tooling, no hindsight), I don't really agree with point #2. With enough hindsight and careful study, it is entirely possible to avoid the offensive characteristics while doing the same thing.

IMO: bad code is often due to accidental complexity, often brought in by the programmers themselves. And very rarely due to essential complexity.
That wouldn’t matter at all if not for the locking down the cockpit.
Do you feel as categorically opposed then to all the VCs and each and every one of their portfolio companies because the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund invests in them? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35434510
How would he get instant ink in North America with an EU region printer? Would you trust an org this incompetent to do that properly... or at all?

Anyways, he plainly acknowledges the sunk cost fallacy at play here.
This is actually possible, I made a proof of concept agent that does exactly this. The agent has access to several commands that get executed on demand - ListFiles, ReadFile and WriteFile. You give it a prompt - for example "add a heading to the homepage and make it yellow" and it will use ListFiles to locate the correct file, then use ReadFile to read it and then finally use WriteFile to write the new contents of that file.

It was just a PoC so it wasn't bulletproof and I only ever made it work on a small Next.js codebase (with every file being intentionally small so it fits the context window) but it did work correctly.
You should have look at DMOZ.

https://dmoz-odp.org/

It feels so old to write this, but back in the days this one was important.

Found this on Kagle:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/shawon10/url-classification-...
They are blocking the pavement. They are a disease. Their value to you is derived from the inconvenience they cause to others.

https://i.imgur.com/oeQjcJS.png
I used to think like you until I actually tried copilot. I don’t even write much boilerplate code (it’s python, and the framework is already setup). It is still an effective and useful tool. It saves mental bandwidth, and the code it writes is exactly what I was intending to write, so it turns me into a reviewer than a coder and thus makes it easier to get the job done (I’m still confirming the code does what I want).

This is just gpt-3. With chatGPT i finally managed to get unit test backbones for the most annoying methods in our code base that stuck our coverage at 92%. Once we get full copilot gpt-4 integration we will likely get to 98% coverage in a days time. That’s not nothing.
"to be reduced to a level sufficient only for the sustainment of life past a certain threshold," Wow, do you hear yourself? Who decides what "threshold" is acceptable, you? You think you should be able to determine whether my infant daughter freezes in the winter or swelters in the summer? Oh I'm sure your theory involves some utopian government that never gets anything wrong.

What you're proposing is a dystopian police state where the government decides how warm or cold your house should be on any given day. Of course the rich will be able to just pay any fines to keep the power/gas on, so they can blast their AC all summer while the poor swelter or go into debt to pay fines, because their house unfortunately isn't built in the shade and gets hotter than the ones around it, so the government weather stations think their house is cooler than it actually is. Or the government will have to put thermostats in literally every house to accurately monitor internal temperature, and decide what's good enough for you.

Why not grocery rations while we're at it? The government will assign you the number and type of foods you're limited to, namely the ones that produce the least carbon emissions to produce and with the caloric and nutritional profiles determined by the government to be ideal. Would cure obesity as a side effect!

Also housing will be limited to a certain number of sq ft per person, any existing property with a footprint exceeding that number will be seized and turned into multi-family housing, with government-determined "fair" compensation to the existing property owner of course.

Both of those ideas follow the same priorities and rationale as your energy quotas.

Shit like that is the real reason why the second amendment exists. You're probably just wealthy enough that you assume you'd be among the ruling elite that maintains its personal freedom, or you really haven't thought these ideas through. I'm far less worried about climate change, something we can at least potentially adapt to at cost, than I am about rhetoric like this. It's akin to the Chinese Nationalists opening the Yellow River dam in 1938 in an attempt to slow the Japanese advance. The resulting flood killed between 400,000-900,000 civilians directly depending on who's counting, made millions more homeless, and ultimately did little to slow the Japanese advance. But I guess it was a "tiny step in the right direction" from a war-fighting perspective, right?
Does France not have income taxes? Taxing the income of Google engineers seems fairly attractive to me.
What are you talking about?

I’ve been struggling with obesity throughout my whole life (BMI of 46 at my high point which is damn high) and never been particularly fit, strong, or into sports.

I don’t have a car (though I could afford one) and go nearly everywhere by bike. Non-electric bike. My hometown (Dresden, Germany) is relatively – but not totally – flat in all the places you might want to get to. That certainly helps. (Though the nearly non-existent biking infrastructure – except for painted lines – certainly doesn’t. But Dresden is not terminally car-centric, so it’s alright to drive there by bike.)

I mean, just for moving around the city (usually around ten kilometer roundtrips, maybe the odd twenty kilometer roundtrip on the odd day where a more distant destination is where I want to get to) that just works for me without any problems, no matter how heavy I was. That doesn’t mean I go places at 30 km/h, in fact I might only go 15 km/h – but that’s still several times faster than walking and actually pretty competitive with cars and public transport.

And while walking got harder as I got heavier (mainly just in terms of causing pain after relatively short distances), while climbing stairs got much harder as I got heavier, biking (and swimming!) honestly never felt that way to me, at least not for normal roundtrip distances around ten kilometers or so.

I use bikes to get to places, to move throughout the world, not for sports. And for that you don’t need to that fit. And with an e-bike? That required fitness drops even lower. (Unfit seniors getting stuck somewhere in the alps with their rented e-bikes is a real classic …)
Or if you want code that's easier to extend, read and don't want to do your own memory management.

Here's a bit of code from that project that generates a monster:
https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE/blob/master/src/brogue/M...

It just allocates an object per monster, followed by initializing a long list of members that presumably just gets longer as more game systems get added.

The same code in ECS would look a lot simpler, and probably perform better/have better cache locality.
> then the same day or next day you’ll run some possibilities of what it could concretely look like by me, then the same day or next day you’ll start on the building. Shipping 1-2x a day and sending me an email containing a screenshot/demo,

This seems more demanding and tedious for the available hours.
Ah, understood. But this isn't to do with renewable power storage at this point, just using artificial lakes as separate peak power storage?
You know you live in the future when
Donald Trump's Indictment Related to Hush Money Payment [pdf]
There is a transformation that is affordable and better than the current set up. That is, in the city core, allow only EV's and use cars that only take up a half of the current roads. This doubles the capacity of the downtown core roads, gets rid of all the tail pipe gases and costs almost nothing in re-engineering.

A car like this, the microlino, would be a start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNp_M76wIws
Pressing 'Show more' on any of the policy tabs on the homepage goes to a Page Not Found error
Thanks, I've fixed the post.
I filed charitable donations under the same bucket as "expenses". It's a complicated tax credit that the tax code could potentially simplify or streamline. It's another one of those "dual reporting" situations where the charity also need to report it to the IRS as their income so there are some obvious ways to streamline/simplify by combining the filing if nothing else.

In general, I feel like you are using the existing baroque complexity of the tax code as the reason not to simplify it. Of course that is a Catch-22! The above sentiment that the IRS "could just tell us what we owe" is a desire to simplify at its core. Other countries have simplified their tax codes to the point where they just automatically send a bill or a check and a sign-off of pre-completed forms. You are right, that's not possible with the complexity of today's US tax codes, but it is defeatist to suggest that the complexity of today's tax codes are unchangeable laws handed down from the stars that can't be simplified so that we could get the nice things that other countries have today (and that for-profit corporations like Intuit spend lots of money lobbying Congress telling them that Americans don't deserve such nice things).
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://github.com/curl/trurl. Thanks!
If you have to resort to semantics in an argument to make your point, you've already lost.
And Flappy Bird and 2048
you have to subscribed to ChatGPT plus. When you make a new chat, you have a dropdown to select the model.
Nothing yet - so far it’s just a basic electron app that you select what files to send as reference for the feature you want to add, then streamlines the process of applying edits ChatGPT sends back.

I’m not really planning on turning it into a product. It sounds like this guy is a lot farther along than me if you’re looking for a competitor - I think you’re going to have plenty.
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