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> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Perhaps, although it was never intended/expected to be a path to AI/AGI. It was just designed as a more efficient seq-2-seq model. An accidental breakthrough wrt AGI you might say!
> As C89 was taking shape, the neurodivergent notion of a "zero-length object" was making the rounds

I'm surprised that the authors decided to, and were able to, slip in this little euphemism.
It's currently down due to large traffic - fixing it now...
It’s not bad as much as it is will likely be ineffective. Too many interested parties are involved with AI and are motivated to move ahead on the space.
>> For the countries and peoples moaning about low birthrates, the simplest solution is to go back to being destitute

I don't think that this is true anymore. We have crossed the Rubicon, birth rates will only increase if people can maintain a good standard of living with less stress and more available time.
It helps that rocketry is 1) kind of a solved problem 2) a lot of unsolved problems get solved by NASA scientists so is open sourced 3) the laws of physics demand that certain outcomes.
In short - the emphasis from this statement is extremely misleading: "hundreds of years or even longer for this feedback loop to become effective."

The feedback loop will take time to trigger, but the conditions for that feedback loop to be triggered can be locked in before that time. As proof, if we emit a near infinite amount of C02 emissions to produce a run-away hot-house earth, those conditions will be locked in very quickly. In other words, if temperatures rise enough, there won't be enough time (even in a couple hundred years) for them to fall back quickly enough. That's just logic, math & thermodynamics.
Ironically you're complaining about the Canadian government not doing anything on the exact day that the FHSA comes into effect, which is a plan to make it easier to buy a home.
Cool, that's a good pitch for not owning a car, and sounds great!

My issue is not with people who are anti-car, but with people who cannot understand why other people have different priorities and who make different trade-offs. That's key to building a better world.
The target that's rather optimistic. Initially I would expect at leasy 20x that.
...and even better, Cliff is a regular poster here on HN!
Is this an april fools joke?
Doesn’t rock dropping as a weapon seem a bit redundant when we already have the ability to make lots of 20+ megaton fusion bombs? I guess non-proliferation is harder.
Happy paths and edge cases. The computer view of the world is very rigid. Most of the effort spent on programming, IMO, is coming up with solutions to handle all the way the algorithm could fail, especially when dealing with inputs and outputs. The great thing about research is having a much wider view of the problem and the surrounding context. Generating a solution with LLMs is like looking through a window instead of climbing on the roof.
Just in case you might not be aware, "penultimate" means "second to last", not "ultimate".
> I don't expect their empathy. I expect them to experience consequences for their actions. The consequences can stop when the actions stop and aren't expected to be repeated.

Or, they can turn around and try to impose negative consequences on the people who are trying to impose negative consequences on them. Which, one might argue, is exactly what is happening in several state legislatures in the US right now. And then the fight goes on until one side wins, or there is some sort of "peace deal".
Magic (https://getmagic.com/) launched as an SMS assistant like this. It was pretty cool at the time but I recall they couldn't figure out the unit economics for personal assistants. Maybe Jarvis can!
Your server is already running a scripting language. Putting a script tag on the page necessarily means the browser then needs to parse and interpret some JavaScript, which it simply wouldn't otherwise need to do. If we assume the server and the client both execute an if statement at the same speed, yes, it's purely adding overhead to run that on the client (not to mention the potential for the additional cost of transmitting the eliminated code).
Yes, Canada's system has problems. But any system that discriminates based on class is automatically worse.
Seeing "Powered by GoDaddy" in the footer seems juxtaposed to a company that supposely developed an AI chatbot (even if just forwarding requests on to ChatGPT).
Perfect place to start for someone like me! What's the tech stack? and How long did you take to achieve this cool platform?
Like anything it depends on your scale.

People say the same thing about Microsoft with their generic "reinstall the OS" solution for small userbases - once you get past a certain size you get decent support with an account rep, SLA on support tickets, etc.
At the time ... the two atomic bomb tests were the first live theatre tests of two aerial bomb designs only one of which had been previously tested in a controlled tower detonation (Trinity).

The two tests (Hiroshima & Nagasaki) were squeezed into an long ongoing campaign that had already "deleted" 72 cities .. at a time when the conventional campaign was already running out of good targets.

The atomic bombs had been developed at great expense to use on Germany and were not yet ready to test when Germany surrended.

Those military at the head of the Manhatten Project were desperate to find live theatre test sites before Japan surrended to either the US or, god forbid, the Russians (who had advanced so far through the formerly Japanese occupied terrirory in China that Japanee surrender to Russia was considered a very real possibility at the time).

While the Project had the ability to painstakingly handcraft more bombs at a low rate (and at very very great expense), they had not yet developed the Cold War production line ability to reliably turn out hundreds more bombs.

It's well worth reading up on the thoughts of the time before the after the fact post surrender stories spun up and atomic weapon use became a key part of the Cold War zeitgeist.
Ask HN: How chatty are you with GPT? (when working)
I'm just starting to use GPT for more serious work. One aspect of my own interactions I've noticed is that the chat nature of the interface has me writing fairly verbose prompts. At least, it feels really verbose compared to writing code.

For people who've been using it for a bit, have you moved on to a more terse way of interacting? Or are you still writing full sentences?

I understand that giving context is often important. But I'm curious if people are sticking with the same grammar they use when texting people, or if they've adopted a more terse style than what they'd use with another person.
A similar piece of advice for entrepreneurs is, "don't work your feels, work your list". Don't wait until you feel like doing something, work on things that need to be done in order of impact and priority.
Saturday night on HN... maybe time to resubmit my favorite "escaping from the simulation" links...
That's what happens with irreconcilable values differences, yes.

But I wouldn't frame it as cause-and-effect like that: one side doesn't attack the other as a response to experiencing consequences; they attack the other pervasively at every opportunity, and sometimes experience consequences for doing so.
Me too. That era is gone. I'm sure the spirit is here but in other fields that I don't have access to.

I kinda realized that one has to be exceptional to enjoy that spirit. Exceptional enough to only care about the content of the work, not the other things linked to it.
Ok, that’s not unreasonable. But I think that making an unrelated comment like that is really only a bad thing if it’s in bad faith. He made that comment expecting a response, I’m not like hounding him. And yes, I said some rude things. Are you going to downvote every comment that you see from me because some other comments I made were rude? Doesn’t really add up. And why are you policing the threads? That’s more weird than asking for a twitter space.

I don’t think asking for a twitter space is all that weird. I am constantly frustrated talking with people on HN because what could take 2 seconds takes 20 minutes. I often find that a debate never even has a chance to be resolved because everyone just gets worn out trying to talk through a digital straw. Plus, asking for a twitter space doesn’t involve exchange of personal information or anything concerning. It’s definitely not done and off the wall but I don’t think it’s problematic.

Edit: the more I think about it, the more sense it makes. HN has a problem with being flooded with vitriol and and lots of other negative behavior, long chains that are just useless. It would make a lot of sense to offload most of that to another platform since HN as a platform is not well suited to debating. Instead of initiating a huge chain of vitriol, a twitter space could be initiated when people want to debate something. Instead of tons of noise and garbage, HN would host a link to the space. And it would be better because the nature of a space lends itself to people coming to a conclusion, covering the issue more thoroughly and people letting loose less hate, all because of the high bandwidth, intimate nature of real-time audio. It also helps filter out people who are bots or aren’t serious or who don’t really care about the topic being debated. I am legitimately going to email HN admin about this.
I like the banner, it lets me know to turn back.
The goal is to make the system more fair, not eliminate one of the parties involved. Taking such an extreme position in an argument also doesn't help the situation.
I love everything about the steam deck, just like everyone else here, with the exception of 2 things,

1. The touch screen hardware is there, but the touchscreen software needs significant improvement.

2. The weight. Holding it for longer than an hour is… hard.

Bonus: Steam store on the deck is essentially a webview - clicking on a game from the store home page then clicking back loses all scroll progress. A better integrated store experience would be nice!
Ask HN: What are some cases where ChatGPT performance is bad?
There are thousands of examples of where ChatGPT performance is great, I'm curious if you had an experience where its performance
was subpar?
It's a Minimal Viable Product that isn't perfect. Already shut it down since y'all hate it so much - thanks for all the support.
Basically what it says on the tin: Trucker used an AirTag on his truck. When the truck was stolen, the trucker reported it stolen, then tracked it himself with the AirTag. When he found the truck, rather than notify police, he got our his gun. Their was gunfire (not clear if the thief was shooting back), and the trucker killed the thief.
It can certainly be a world class city, but often times the call to arms is in the response to a decline to the prosperity of the last 20 years. Odds are that the world has moved on from the conditions that brought that about, and SF has to reinvent itself (or revert to its previous identity)
Trying ChatGPT via Bing's Chat
At Microsoft's Bing feature Chat I gave
two questions:

(1) My first question asked for a solution to

y'(t) = k y(t) (b - y(t))

Right away Chat noticed that this was
calculus and would involve exponential
growth. Then it gave me links to
references with examples of exponential
growth and differential equations.

But the response was nothing like a
solution, e.g., in TeX:

y(t) = { y(0) b e^{bkt} \over y(0) \big (
e^{bkt} - 1 \big ) + b }

So, Chat can respond with content about
differential equations but can't actually
solve an exercise in first calculus.

(2) I gave Chat the question:

Given triangle ABC, construct D on side AB
and E on side BC so that the lengths AD =
DE = EC.

Chat had no answer, not even a hint or
clue, how to do that.

But it did present some materials on
triangles, all either irrelevant or not
better than trivially relevant.

My Response: For some queries Chat may be
a little better than Bing or Google.
What the standard explicitly calls out as UB is only a small subset of actual UB.

While you can certainly classify all UB as "bugs", doing so misses the critical differences between UB and other categories of bugs. If you have a logic bug for example, your program will correctly and consistently do the wrong thing. It will continue doing that wrong thing with a different compiler, on a different platform today and 10 years from now. Implementation defined behavior is a bit looser, but will still be consistent with any particular implementation (which will document the behavior) and will only manifest in the code that depends on it. A PR inserting one of these "normal" bugs doesn't invalidate the entire rest of the program.

UB is different. You can't make assumptions about UB because from the point of view of the standard, UB is "not C". There are no assumptions to be made, it's just all the stuff that doesn't have assigned semantics. And since the input is meaningless, so is the entirety of whatever the compiler gives you back.
I want to point out that this is a brilliant blog post that is practically art. This has inspired me to go and find new great examples of technical documentation. I think this page has set a new standard for what a blog post could be. I am so glad I live in a world where I get to appreciate this piece today.
The definition of multimillionaire is a bit vague here, but I would assume the OP was referring to being in deca-millionaire territory. That is much more rare to accomplish at a FAANG company.
Japan is unique for a few reasons:

1) Very insulated culture with nearly no immigration coupled with low birth rates.

2) They build houses very differently. They aren't generally made to last centuries if taken care of and renovated. The strategy is to build small units cheaply and tare down after 2- years. It's like Ikea for homes.

3) I agree, depopulation is a problem. We really need to incentivize middle and upper middle class people to have large families.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35403251
I can only vouch for how smooth it was. It was flawless when I did this two years ago and worked in a park using VS Code Remote.

It was also very low bandwidth since it wasn’t a screen share. And all the UI is local with VS Code remote.
The government looks after its own interests. That is what an institution does. A government isn't different than a corporation or any other organization this way.

Delegating powers to a government for the common good does not change any of this. The people still have the job of ensuring the government carries that out properly because its priority is and always will be foremost itself, so the people have to ensure the government's interests coincide with their own. A government is not just some will-of-the-people-reflecting automaton that you can put in place then wash your hands of.
I would expect them to read the terms of their contract in regards to how their data is backed up, can it be restored if deleted, how long its retained, etc.

If they just go "derp derp put it in cloud" they are negligent.
11.6% of Americans live in poverty.
I don't even know what you're trying to say. The US system is to let poor people die and medium class people go bankrupt. There is no argument you can make that will redeem that. Yes, Canada's healthcare system has problems, but it's not fundamentally flawed.
I think you’re proving his point. That 10% (if true) is probably running a lot of important stuff in F500 companies. You just haven’t been exposed to it.
In the context, a new team had been organized to convert a legacy product *from PHP to a new containerized python stack.

It was a good idea, but it turned out that there was so much friction with the business requirements we had to keep live.

After analysis, there just wasn’t enough runway. It was turning into Frankenstein’s spaghetti API monster. So the plan didn’t work out. It was wise to go back and look at reinforcing the existing product.

There were customers and contracts to fulfill.

Edit: as the “python guy,” I fought to make it work. But lol in retrospect we all made a better decision for the business goal we agreed on.
Compiler writers have already done this. With flags you can disable any optimization you like, with all of the performance loss that entails. But then people complain that their programs are slow.

What people really want is an AI that ignores the code they write and just “does what they really meant.” But of course that’s not foolproof either. Every day people ask each other to do things and miscommunications occur, with the wrong thing being done. I don’t really know what to say other than “people should be more careful and also more forgiving.”
We need to change this, and remake American capitalism in Germany's model, where workers have representation at the board level.
Thank you!

The git integration sounds brilliant and reminds me of Fusion 360's timeline functionality with which you can go back to an edit you made, change something about it and have the change propagated through all later edits: Sounds a lot like rebasing!

Now that you're promoting it and still calling it "alpha software": Are you putting effort into polishing it up? Doesn't make mucb sense for people to invest in it if it's going to remain in alpha state, after all (though it seems like you're using it successfully, so maybe it's not that bad?).
At least as a wage slave, I'm only fucking myself.
Yet another X is a religion claim.

Fewer and fewer people are religious these days.

Connection or coincidence?
This is not a problem with the committee and is not a problem with compiler writers. The committee is only marking certain behaviors as UB. Compilers can do what they think is more sensible in these situations. And compiler writers are not forcing you to accept these extreme optimizations. You always have the option of disabling optimizations and accept that your code has bugs (UB). You just need to test the code you write under different compiler settings, similarly to how you test code in different environments.
This is easily solved with impact fees. Builders pay a fee in my town of about $30,000 as part of the permit process for a single family home. That money goes towards the necessary infrastructure improvements.
I think my main point was more that despite what you (not you personally, anyone reading) think of Elon, at least he has this track record of visionary companies and Sam does not.

Personally my take on Elon is something like this – he found a vacuum in the industry of smart engineers who want to work on something truly ambitious, the kind of people who feel most SV startups are bullshit. And as a sci-fi nerd he came in with money and pitched several sci-fi ambitious project ideas/visions that attracted these engineers etc. to make them happen. And I think he was rewarded for this. You could tally that as another vision that he had that was onto something.
See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35406447
Surprised no one on here mentioned estate taxes - Sweden repealed estate taxes in 2005 [0], and as such Sweden has one of the highest wealth (not income) Ginis in the world [1]. Other notable developed countries in the top of the wealth list are Netherlands (€1.3mil exemption from inheritance tax if planned correctly [2]) and the US (no inheritance tax below $12mil [3]). In essence, you are allowing the top 10% to gobble up all the value from the rest of society, and allowing old money to continue perpetuating itself.

[0] - https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/sweden/individual/other-taxes

[1] - https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...

[2] - https://practiceguides.chambers.com/practice-guides/private-...

[3] - https://www.investopedia.com/estate-tax-exemption-2021-defin...
Search results do not match reality.

Boston is great for recreational biking for part of the year, sure. There are lovely bike trails.

But it is not great for commuting on a bike, nearly ever. And definitely not during winter.
So the browser renders all its chrome in web css now?
As a newcomer you can't live (properly) in a top tier city in any major Western country that I can think of unless you manage to accumulate significant wealth.

I doubt that "every" city in Germany has this problem, but I believe you that all of the ones that I could name as a non-German do.

The 50th percentile Brit can't afford to live in London. Nottingham, well that's easy.

It's the same everywhere.
So is AI optimism tbh. Not apocalyptic but definitely religion.
The checked operations ask "did an error occur?". If it's false, then the check passed and no error occurred. If it's true, then the check indicated an error.
Oh duh, of course.
If it doesn't collapse, then society may collapse? Like the sibling comment mentioned, you can only push this too far, and I think it's pushed too far to be very alarming.

And housing is expensive by design and not by constraint. I'm staying in KL, a comparatively cheap place by Western standards. The housing market is crap here from a seller perspective as you have an over-supply of condos. That, despite the large amount of foreigners living here.

You can fix Western supply issue by allowing high-density condos nearby cities. Young people will prefer to live in these 20-sqm things (and have shared amenities/no car) than lose a significant percentage of their income to housing. Of course, some of the powers are holding on this because it'll affect their artificially made limited supply of houses.
DeepMind's blog hasn't been updated since December 2022
I genuinely wonder if he is a sociopath. What an utterly despicable person.
Optimizing compilers don’t work like that. They can either deviate from the standard and leave it as defined behavior, or mark it UB and go with it as usual.

To get some insight by analogy, consider this set of constraints (unrelated to C):

x <= 7
2x >= 5
…(more with x, y, z but not more constraining x)…

When you feed this to a linear constraint solver, you may get anything from 2.5 to 7 as x. E.g. 3.1415926. Not because a solver wanted to draw some circles, but because it transformed your geometric problem into an abstract representation for its own algorithm, performed some fast operations over it and returned the result. Nobody knows how exactly a specific solving method will behave wrt (underconstrained) x given that the description above is all you have.

When you feed UB into an optimizer, you feed a bit of lava into a plastic pipe, figuratively. You’ll get anything from program #2500…0000 to program #6999…9999, where “…” is few more thousands/millions of digits. Run some numbers from there as an .exe to see if something absurd happens.

The nature of UB and optimizers is that you either relax UBs into DBs and get worse efficiency, or you specify more UBs and get worse programming safety. What happens in between can be perceived as completely random. And the better/faster the optimizer is, the more random the outcome will likely be.

The exaggeration that is spread by some people regarding UB is close to absurd

UB-in-code is absurd by definition, no exaggeration here.
> Either their competition is incompetent or OpenAI is doing something right.

Yeah - I'd say a bit of both. Google certainly seem to have dropped the ball, and now seem to be desperately trying to play catch up.

OpenAI certainly seem to be doing a lot right though, in addition to being all-in and laser focused on this tech. It seems there's a lot more to improving these models than just scaling them up. Altman said "there's a lot of understanding went into building GPT-4", and they've invested a lot of effort into the "alignment" aspect - how to control these models to modify behavior - which is what makes the difference between a neat tech demo and something actually useful.
Elon Musk Revives Old Banking Dream in Pursuing $250B Twitter Valuation
Hahahah is that real? Absolutely hilarious
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I use it to link my computer in my office, home pc, laptop, home server, and phones.