skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
quite a strange example. to choose piano components yet omit ivory. not all pianos are made from wood and strings either. perhaps a worn-out sword or a bursting dam would have been better, but what do I know. nice sentiment nonetheless
It is being used to suggest code completions, so it could suggest code completion to someone that upon execution becomes wormable malware that infects everyone.
I have to disagree. Not releasing it to the public makes it more dangerous. One major downside of all development being done in private is that the AI can very easily be co-opted by our self-appointed betters and you end up with a different kind of dystopia where every utterance, thought and act is recorded and monitored by an AI to make sure no one "steps out of line."

I think the solution is releasing it to the general public with batteries included. At least that way, the rogue AI's that might develop due to irresponsible experiments could be mitigated by white hat researchers who have their own AI bot swarm. In other words, "the only way to stop a bad guy with an AI is a good guy with an AI."
On an environmental aspect, that seems good
Exactly this is the point I'm trying to get across.

Additionally I don't think most people on HN know what it's like to come from generational poverty.

Having to take out bad loans when you are young to afford basics.

Having parents leave / die early.

Having to take care of elderly / sick relatives who can't afford to take care of themselves.

Just getting a "high paying" job does not automatically erase all those things and make you rich.
April 1 is Source Code Amnesty Day (it’s happening)
I thought there was contention within the community about async?
>the nitrogen is what's reacting with the iron.

Only in a supplementary manner to form a nitride coating as rust proofing - the primary reducing agent is hydrogen, forming water.

relevant snippet:

>>The nitride formation is another key advantage of ADR, as nitriding improves the aqueous corrosion resistance of iron.[29] The nitride passivated the otherwise highly active reduced iron, offering a safety-critical benefit for handling and logistics. Otherwise, for the downstream processing of the reduced material, the porous sponge iron is prone to re-oxidation and strong exothermic reactions with oxygen or moisture due to its high surface-to-volume ratio (typically above 40 vol% porosity[4]). Thus, the sponge iron produced by HyDR must be compacted into hot briquetted iron to reduce the porosity for shipping and handling, which is not necessary with ADR.
At some point someone will leak it or they will get breached, the stakes are very high.
TCC has the advantage of being a batch process, so it can insert things using open addressing without ever considering how it intends to delete them, then just drop the whole thing on the floor at the end. Of course, if you are also a batch process, you absolutely should do that too.
I will point you to a book called “Nickled and Dimed”
The difference is that the entire larger organization is corrupt and covering it up.
While I mostly agree with you, I can offer a more optimistic view that you may choose to consider. Think about all the hobbies that people pursue in which there is some new gear they can read about and aspire to having that will take their pursuit of said hobby to the next level. There are entire magazines devoted to reviews of new gear.

If HBR is such a magazine for managerial oriented people then at least it shows that some people are aspiring to improve their ability as managers, or at least the functioning of their organization.
My wife is working in healthcare and I'm working from home and we go for walks during lunch before she heads out for the evening shift. Not only am I getting up and moving around, we're spending more meaningful time together. If I was commuting to an office every morning, we would hardly see each other during the week.
> Racism is at least as prevalent - and far more out-in-the-open - in Europe than in the US. There should be BLM or equivalent protests all over Europe, frankly. It's shocking how openly racist Europeans are (whether eg Italians about Africans, Germans about anyone, or Europeans routinely about gypsies).

You're, unsurprisingly, getting downvoted for this comment, but you are entirely correct. Racism is actually far more overt in Europe than it is in the US - the difference is that it's so widely accepted that people literally do not recognize it as racism even when it's plain as day.

Perhaps the most obvious example of this is Zwarte Piete, the annual Dutch blackface tradition, which as of 2011 was supported by 93% of Dutch people. 2020, unsurprisingly, marked the first year when "only" 47% people (less than a majority) supported the practice, but even then it's an incredible contradiction between collective self-perception and actual practice.

Ahistorical excuses for it vary ("it's not racist", "Blackface is an American thing; we don't have that in the Netherlands", or my personal favorite "it's not blackface, because it's just soot"). All are incorrect: blackface is always racist, and blackface/minstrelry as a form of entertainment was actually popular in Europe longer than it was in the US, and portraying Black people as "dirty" from soot is a common minstrel trope.

If you want an interesting trip, dig up some Dutch news reports from 2019 when Trudeau and Northam were caught in their blackface scandals. Dutch-language international media actually had a hard time covering it, because the average Dutch person at the time literally could not understand why it was even an issue in the first place. They had to dedicate extra time/space to very elaborate explanations of why blackface is considered offensive, whereas most American media could just report it as-is, leaving any explanation for the final filler paragraphs (if at all).
But then you spend that extra time walking instead. Touche.
> "unusable" a overly dramatic

Disagree. I used to use Emacs with evil-mode, but I gave up because of this issue.

If I entered `ESC` then `k` (i.e. return to normal mode and move up a line) too quickly on an SSH connection, there was a good chance the `read` syscall on the PTTY file descriptor would return two characters (determined via `strace`) instead of two subsequent calls returning a single character each.

This makes it literally impossible for Emacs to distinguish it from `M-k` (i.e. `kill-line`), so I’d “randomly” see lines deleted before I figured out what was going on.

The effect is a lot more pronounced over SSH where a spike in network latency can cause two subsequent TCP segments to reach the host essentially back-to-back (or even be retransmitted as a single segment), leading to this behaviour of `read` returning two characters.
"April 1 [as] Source Code Amnesty Day: a day when we can all show our dirty laundry to the world, confident that if we all do it at once no one person’s awful awful coding will come in for special attention or derision. Marking it to April Fool’s Day also hopefully indicates the degree of seriousness with which folks should take proceedings."
Also the most used color for SMBs (surface marker buoy) when scuba diving.

Interestingly, the bright yellow color usually means accident, while orange means regular decompression stop. I have seen pink ones but they seem very rare.

So I'm guessing people must think yellow is more visible?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_marker_buoy
It worked — after destroying two whole cities.
The discussion needs to go beyond the model.

We need to talk about the training set for GPT and the process around RLHF.
There is a conflation of ideas here.
Arduino was not created to stand for Italian manufactoring or fair wages.

> The Arduino project began in 2005 as a tool for students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, aiming to provide a low-cost and easy way for novices and professionals to create devices that interact with their environment using sensors and actuators.

The main Purpose was "easy and low-cost access to create devices". By that measure Every chinese Clone has helped in that purpose.
The fact that their Original Arduino was produced in Italy to also support local Business was secondary to the main purpose and it can be said that it was in conflict with the main purpose. Sure 35 Eur is not much for Italy, but a cheaper product reached a much more wider audience who starts with cheaper products and then gains enough knowledge to appreciate the why of the original. (better quality control, better parts, more reliable etc). All this factors come after you have dipped your toes, for which the clones has been a crucial factor.

The same holds true for Prusa. Most of the comunity of Prusa came initially from the reprap project, Prusa has benefited from their open Ideas and refined them and I know many in the community who have chosen Prusa instead of cheaper Variants only as giving back for them being open (though not exactly open development)
Giving ChatGPT Control
This tool setups a controller harness that enables ChatGPT the ability to Google and Fetch content from URLs in order to keep its responses up to date.
What gets me is doing stupid things.

Sometimes its easier for me to take the long way around and fix a problem, than to do a short pointless workaround.
I understand that interpretation, but that's what the end of my comment is about. If we treat unreachable as affecting the block it's in, but pretend it's not there for control flow, then the two versions of the code do different things. That's confusing and hard to preserve.
When I was younger I always assumed all the tracking had value. After a decade of working, it’s all a facade. And all these people are constantly trying to be managers which explodes the amount of documentation
Yes, many Europeans think that because they don’t talk about it and refuse to collect statistics to show it that racism doesn’t exist within their borders. Europe is just as, if not more, racist than the US. Just ask them what they think of the Roma people.
This is real AI.

Confusing terminology and decades of science fiction have brainwashed people to expect it to be perfect in order to qualify as real.
I remember an experience many moons ago where there was some "emergency" situation and our manager was just insufferable. Every 40-60 mins wanting to check with the ~3 engineers working on the issue for an update or to offer futile advice. I could palpably feel their anxiety and helplessness. I remember it reminding me of the trope of a parent in an ER on a hospital TV show. Obviously there was a lot of pressure put on them from above. I am sympathetic.

Years later, a very similar experience happened with a different manager. But they handled it very differently. They called a meeting, led us through understanding the situation and us working out what the solution should be. They got our feedback on how long we thought it would take and then said they'd come by for an update in half that time. And that was it. I was so impressed.
very interesting. So perhaps Florentine was an example of a 'neutral' (or at least acceptable compromise) language to be used as the national language.
> It looks to me OPEC has always been making decisions that negatively affect the US/Western economy? Or maybe only the bad news get the attention?

You seem to forget here that the OPEC countries have their own goals, their own motives, and their own ability to influence world events. They don't exist purely as puppet states to pump cheap oil for America, as much as they are often portrayed that way in the western press.

> Anyway, oil and gas should just die out. This is literally monopolistic behaviors.

Yeah. Well, monopolies gonna monopoly. They're not really a monopoly, but they're a major producer in a globally fungible product with insanely inelastic demand. So, yes, they can swing the prices to their benefit.

"Should just die out," sure, and you're going to replace that energy with what, exactly? Go look at the percentage of global energy supplied by renewables and nuclear, include hydro, it doesn't matter. Apply whatever correction factors you want for the efficiency difference between electric transportation and combustion based (you gain a bunch on the ground, not nearly so much in the air), and then realize just how much of that energy is delivered as thermal energy where you don't get to gain much by going to electric. You can gain some for low grade heat with heat pumps, but process heat and such, not any time soon.

Of course, that nobody is willing to even consider "using radically less energy" as a solution indicates how likely we are to actually find solutions. I deal with renewable energy regularly (my office is a purely standalone, off grid system, I work in there year round), and I very much have to adapt my energy use to that which is locally available - which means, on cold, dark winter days, I'm more than a bit bundled up. And even with 5kW of panels hung for a small space, I still rely on fossil backup energy (a small generator or a propane heater) for some of the winter inversion weeks, because 100W coming in off 5kW of panel (and no wind, either) isn't enough to warm the space and run my limited winter computing needs.
As a hedge fund guy, you stick your money on an island for tax reasons, but it's not always the nefarious reason everyone thinks.

It's the tax neutrality that matters. Once an investor takes money back to their own country, they are responsible for the taxes themselves. Rather than a system where for instance you might pay the country of residence and every investor from around the world needs to fill in forms to get their difference back.
And them be pilloried for not doing it or not fast enough. Damn if you do, damn if you don’t.

I’m starting to think the broblem with Elon is mostly personal, he’s just a proxy and default wrong.

(not that I approve of his behaviors, but I can’t enjoy this whole mobbing that he’s getting; not that he cares this I’m not worried he’s getting traumatized in any way? it’s just how it’s become an identitarian trait for a certain group that irks me.)
Hadean Lands: The Source Code
or pay just more ...
I think living a long time can go a long way in increasing levels of 'alone' when you die. Age of death is probably the single most predictive variable for how many people attend a funeral.

Let's discuss someone that lives a long time above the median lifespan. Maybe 95. Almost all of their former classmates, colleagues, siblings, cousins, partners, and peers are either dead or too sick to travel to the hospital/funeral. They've likely had mobility, energy, or cognitive problems that reduced their involvement in the community over the last 15 years. Many people 20 or 30 years younger that they might have mentored, raised, or inspired will have passed. To someone 40 years younger or more they would have always been 'old' in their mind, and generational gaps would conspire to make them further apart socially.

Someone that dies younger than median will often have more hospital visitors and more funeral attendees by the simple fact that more of the people they knew in life are alive and healthy enough to travel.
or more importantly because it changes the climate
Renewable energy is energy independence. We need to wean ourselves off any dependence on countries like the ones in OPEC(+).
A non commercial license would actually disqualify FLOSS projects
“ I could think of two dozen other things that Caymans does better than large nations like the US or other financial haven microstates, for business incorporation, capital formation, audits and more.”

By all means - proceed…
You liquidate everything and move.
Yes, that was a great idea on OP's part.
That's not at all what the study "finds".

It found a correlation between cardiovascular health and walking a certain amount a week. This does not at all suggest causation. I'm not nitpicking here. The most likely reason for this is that people who have a significantly more healthy life style have better cardiovascular health while also happening to move significantly more. Just getting up and walking 8k steps twice a week and otherwise having unhealthy lifestyle of the control group is possibly going to do nothing for your cardiovascular health. Claiming anything else needs much different evidence than the linked study.

Edit: I'm not saying walking is bad for you. That's just as wrong. I'm saying just walking won't do much for you. Get a more healthy lifestyle. Cardiovascular health will follow and you'll notice that 16k steps or something comparable will look small compared to what your active/healthy lifestyle will do.
Some European countries are behind the states on accepting that racism exists there, yes. E.g. in Germany there's still a very common attitude of, "well, we're not racist here" even as anyone with a non-German name and especially anyone not white struggles to rent an apartment. At this point in the US, acting like racism isn't a big deal or isn't common at all has become somewhat of a far-right position.

Now, in some ways the impact of racism is lesser in Europe, because there's less police violence generally and typically a much stronger social safety net.
Depends on the size of the model/weights. If it's 1TB or more, being able to exfiltrate it from wherever it is to a local machine will be hard to do unnoticed, if the company security team has even a iota of knowledge and experience.
hold my bicycle
Hackers by Steven Levy

Valley of Genius: The Unrecorded History of Silicon Valley

On The Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore (Brian Bagnall)

Commodore: A Company on the Edge (Brian Bagnall)

Commodore: The Amiga Years (Brian Bagnall)

Commodore: The Final Years (Brian Bagnall)

Commodore: The Inside Story by David Pleasance

Back Into The Storm (Bil Herd's time at Commodore)

The Future Was Here (Commodore Amiga)

Atari Inc.: Business is Fun by Goldberg and Vendel

Sophistication and Simplicity: The Life and Times of the Apple II computer

iWoz (Steve Wozniak)

BREAK OUT: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Industry

The New Apple II User's Guide by David Finnigan

CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer

Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution
For the people who found that interesting, yes, it was more interesting back then. Most projects were tight on memory, so those skills were needed, and easy to find comrades in the struggle.

However, people go into programming for many reasons. For those who were not interested in squeezing out every word, it was not interesting. Probably some people realized their tasks couldn't be done in the limited hardware of the time, so didn't even try until memory became significantly cheaper.

The past can seem like a golden era of mythic heroes.

Some from the generation you envy are themselves envious of the previous generation, where programmers were expected to write their own operating system - the vendor didn't provide one - and pull out a soldering iron and oscilloscope for debugging.

When many were writing yet another COBOL program for accounts processing.
I've often wished that more vehicles were available in these highly visible colors. I really don't like driving a gray van on a gray road in the rain.
But what's the point of productivity if you aren't working on things which align with larger goals of the organization?

You can be the busiest person in the company, but, if your doing work which doesn't align with the goals of the company your contribution is either useless or in many cases is actively harmful.
Unlikely, DAO's are supposed to be decentralized, OpenAI/GPT can provide nothing of value for a requirement like that.
> WFH breeds isolation. If you're WFH, I ask you this: when was the last time you met up with someone outside of your household for longer than 10 minutes?

What if the vast majority prefer some level of isolation?

What if they prefer to socialize with people outside of work?
And give up their internal expertize with the stack?
All those examples are all supply shocks. CA gas prices have been high for a long time, and I doubt most people see CA gas as "special," so surely another refiner would have stepped in by now.
It's true that you lead a different life as a migrant. There are cons for sure and childcare is a big one. The problem with your anecdote is that you can't know your life otherwise - you may not have been happy or formed those social connections or been able to buy a place even if you'd stayed, just because your sister did those things. For all you know people would just talk about her weird brother who never goes out.

I grew up in one of the least affordable places in the UK and if I had stayed near my parents then I'm not sure we'd have had kids at all, and I know the kind of housing we'd have and owning that sooner doesn't appeal.
That was a good read, thanks. I'd like to know how the last 20 yrs have effected things and if musicians are still getting just as screwed. Sadly I'm guessing yes.
Ask HN: Why was assembly language used in early 80s instead of cross compilers?
While using a C compiler was not realistic on a C64, why wasn't a C cross compiler on a more powerful machine used instead of assembly language?
"global cultural brand" is a terrible way of measuring "strength" of a culture. (I'd hope for the people of Quebec that there is more to their culture than the brand, which is approximately "the weird Canadians that try to out-french the French")
I honestly appreciate new woke meta of fearmongering against sentient AIs. It's a welcome break from the anti capitalism woke meta.
'Hadean Lands' is a 'modern' text adventure by Andrew Plotkin.

As part of 'IF Source Code Amnesty Day', the source code (in Inform 7) was released.

Previous discussion of Inform 7 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31196063
> "The transition to renewable energy cannot come soon enough."

It's going to take decades for that transition to complete. What do you do when people's pensions aren't enough to live off of (due to inflation) until then? There are generations of people that won't ever get to own property due to economies stagnating.
I agree. Overall the whole situation feels like we’ve just entered atomic age and are proliferating plutonium, while selling shiny radioactive toys [I’m actually pretty serious here, the effects of prolonged interactions with an AI haven’t been evaluated yet, technically there is even a possibility of overriding a weak personality].

But it still feels like it is much safer to let GPT-4 loose and assess the consequences. If compared to developing GPT-8 in private and letting it leak accidentally.
We should regulate everything which could cause a mass havoc. Like some chemicals, like radio-active isotopes, like nuclear research, like creating viruses.

Is AI in the same category? Some respectable people think so.
Language models obviously have some form of intelligence right now. You can have GPT-4 take SAT tests, play Chess, write poetry, predict what will happen in different social scenarios, answer theory of mind questions, ask questions, solve programming puzzles, etc. There are some measures that GPTs are clearly below human levels, some where they are far beyond, and some where they are within human range. The question as to whether or not language models have any form of intelligence has been definitively answered - yes, they can and do - by existence proof.

What definition or description of intelligence do you use such that you doubt that language models could have it? Would you have had this same definition in the year 2010?
If you want to avoid being a low performer then maybe take a junior job where you're not expected to do much.
Typically vouchers have the money going to the school, and therefore becoming a price floor. And once again looks like govt spending instead of giving.

Much better would be to give everybody $1000 (or pick your number) per month directly, when they attend a private school. Regardless of how much that school costs. This preserves everybody’s full agency, as well as healthy competition.
GPT 4 Can Improve Itself [video]