skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "To find out how similar chess openings actually are to each other—meaning in real game behavior—we drew on the wisdom of the crowd," Giordano De Marzo of the Complexity Science Hub and the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi (CREF) explains. The researchers analyzed 3,746,135 chess games, 18,253 players and 988 different openings from the chess platform Lichess and observed who plays which opening games. If several players choose two specific opening games over and over again, it stands to reason that they will be similar. Opening games that are so popular that they occur together with most others were excluded.

That seems... like bad logic?

I can play, for example, King's Gambit and English Opening as white. These two do _NOT_ play the same at all. King's gambit is an obscure way to make sure that the game ends quickly, and is what I play when I'm somewhat impatient and/or am trying to force an error (either from myself or my opponent). While English Opening is what I play when I'm more relaxed and willing to play a longer game of positional chess.

I'm not sure if its even "Blitz" vs "Non-Blitz" chess. Its more about what I'm feeling like. I learned these two openings because they're so different. I'm also a relative beginner, so I don't have the brain power to learn many openings, so I've been mostly just sticking with these two.

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I think there were lots of similarities between English and Queen's opening, for example. But I don't bother with studying Queens opening because its too similar to English. When I'm only playing like 2 or 3 openings, I aim for very different openings, not similar ones.
That's a horrible idea for sure, but I'm not sure the current model being derided works for all team compositions either.

In a 20+ person dev team with a lot of juniors, the team is not "coming up with a plan" or "deciding if its still working" so much as product/tech lead/a couple seniors who have zones of responsibility are handing one down. The two hours spent in the room is agile kayfabe.

"Get everyone in a room and hash it out for 2 hours" is maybe a model that works at team size of 5, senior, empowered engineers, but it is not something that works at large scales.
Indeed, there was news last month that vinyl now outsells CDs:

https://www.bbc.com/news/64919126

"Music lovers clearly can't get enough of the high-quality sound and tangible connection to artists vinyl delivers," Glazier said, "and labels have squarely met that demand with a steady stream of exclusives, special reissues, and beautifully crafted packages and discs."
I would look to the distribution of languages it was trained on. The more the better, which from my understanding, ChatGPT does best with python & JS/TS.

Again, this will be a model dependent answer.
The part where it is a war, is the demand that companies sell products in China that are on US sanctions list. That isn't typical. In order to get approved you have to do something that would undermine the US policy and have your firm hit with sanctions. I don't think pretending things are normal is helpful because it stifles the conversation on the huge fork in the road the US and China faces in terms of peaceful coexistence or all out war. If we're going to come to a peaceful solution then it is important that we have a real debate. What's at stake has to be clear. Otherwise we're all going to stumble into a war like in 1914. I think part of the reason the situation now is so dangerous, is that for business reasons, people kept insisting there were no stakes at all, that there was no conflict. So it's all been much quieter military buildup on both sides. Business says we need to make money, so the problem gets delegated exclusively to Pentagon which isn't as loud as the business lobby.
Not what you're looking for but I built a page a while back to keep track of Stable Diffusion links using my little website-builder side-project protocodex.com - https://protocodex.com/ai-creation

You're welcome to use it if you want to get a link page started, and I'd be glad to help - you can also add comment sections on the page to get user input/contributions so if anyone else has some links they can comment them there.
I eventually want to more fully formalize user contributions to pages so that they can be used as crowdsourced freeform sites, if theres enough interest out there.
No actually the ECS approach is more or less the exact opposite of (naive) OOP. In (naive) OOP you design objects for your domain, like an enemy, or a bullet, or an explosion. In ECS, you define abstract entities and compose data (and potentially behavior) on top of them, so there's no single "enemy" object, there's an entity that composes AI, geometry and sound effects to make it behave as an enemy.

In general, for large systems, this is a great way to achieve decoupling, where the naive OOP approach would get you stuck quickly.
Bingo. So you're going to have to give your AGI a meta-objective of "don't get thrown in the bin" to get it to work aren't you?

Does that not sound like the beginning of the sci-fi story to you?
Have you read the legislation?
> Parliament votes were 184-7 last month when they approved the membership.

Most of the seven were also not re-elected in Sunday's election.
10x engineer is a good meme, but a bad classifier
TSMC screwed up if that was their plan. All the other Fabs in the valley are about 1.5hr away during rush hour traffic from the new TSMC site. Anyone who wants to move to TSMC has to sell their house and relocate to a much less desirable part of town.
(b) is especially prevalent.
> Writing optimized assembly is a whole other question.

To be fair, that's the compiler's job; everything from dead-code elimination to loop auto-vectorisation and auto-parallelisation is pretty hard when done manually.
I keep reading this correct sounding idea that ChatGPT is no more than text prediction. Yesterday I put that to the test, I think.

prompt: Let's play a game. Here are the rules: There are 3 boxes, red, green, blue. Red is for prime numbers. If the number is not a prime, then green for odd numbers, and blue for even numbers.

I tried a dozen or so various numbers and it worked perfectly, returning the correct colored box.

I then asked it to output my game as javascript, and the code ran perfectly.

There seem to be two options:

1. my made up game exists in the training corpus

2. ChatGPT 3.5 is able to understand basic logic

Is there a third option?
video of it in action (english subtitles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUR84Qz0KbM
That's not how exposure works. Typically shutter would be open 50% of frame length, maybe even more considering it's nighttime.
Crazy how a bad mail merge campaign was the trigger which ID'd the fraud - 400,000 emails sent, 103 opened, an open rate of....0.0002565%...
Haven't done any interviews but did talk to a recruiter who was asking upfront if I was okay with a 6 day work week. Just a single data point, but I would assume employers are also trying to leverage the situation to get more out of their employees.
I know of at least two off the top of my head: UK and Canada.
Sure, but if they actually feared a NATO invasion they wouldn't have had the liberty to shift those forces.
First of all, since I'm not a native speaker and my solid intention is communicate - not to be formal -, I've used chatGPT to fix my grammar errors.
I even tried to mimic my voice - it started to use ya, ugh, ... -
The paragraph you read is my instant English - may be enough, but I like clear communication, message should be understandable -
So before downvote, keep these in mind.

Two different summaries -I can't point them currently but one of them chatGPT, one of them a credible software- created by two distinct models. While it's not scientifically accurate to claim they are significantly different, there are noticeable differences between them. I'd like to use ChatGPT to compare these summaries, as I believe its contextualization capabilities could help clarify the situation. However, there are people who have strong opinions against using ChatGPT, and they criticize each other for doing so. This resistance is causing me frustration and holding me back from pursuing the comparison, which is a pain point for me.
To be fair, you're the one bringing up the 10x engineer. The article only mentions it for the sake of contrasting it with -10x engineers: "+10x engineers may be mythical, but -10x engineers exist." And that's all that was said about it.

I agree that arguments for and against are tiring, so let's talk about the article instead!

I've definitely seen engineers who have been net negative in productivity. They've distracted me from my work, introduced bugs that have had severe effects on the production environment, and have produced code that had to be thrown away and completely rewritten.

Luckily, the items in the article aren't commonly seen all in one person, but they are great ways to lose productivity and negatively affect others in the company.
My experience so far is very similar to yours. The technology is _really_ impressive (we have managed to transform electricity into knowledge!), but to say it is at the same level as the atom bomb seems a bit premature. My impression (or maybe my hope) is that your thinking is in line with the "silent majority" of people watching the hysteria from the sidelines.

My personal experience is that the GPTs is that they are a better Google. Why people seem to think that the models' "intelligence" will start scaling exponentially beyond where it is today (somehow _vastly_ exceeding the intelligence of the humans that created the model/training data itself, no less) is beyond me.

Will the models continue to improve? I suspect they will. Will it suddenly turn into a vengeful god and enslave/exterminate us all? That seems like a leap. I think we will need a true Hiroshima-style moment with AI in order to change public opinion that far.

I wonder if there is something deep inside the human psyche that endlessly looks for and, at some level, _craves_ existential crises like this. We look for danger everywhere and project our own fears and anxiety at whatever seems to fit the bill.
Thanks, that's amazing, I can even get it in Denmark at the regular price.
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Methamphetamine is not a substitution for amphetamine. A substitution refers to the replacement of one atom or group of atoms in a molecule with another atom or group of atoms. A derivative, on the other hand, refers to a molecule that is derived from another molecule by modifying its molecular structure. In the case of amphetamine and methamphetamine, methamphetamine is derived from amphetamine by adding a methyl group (-CH3) to the amphetamine molecule, which modifies its molecular structure.

Amphetamines and methamphetamine are closely related drugs, as methamphetamine is a type of amphetamine. They both work in a similar way by increasing the release and blocking the reuptake of certain neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, in the brain. As a result, they both have similar effect.

All you're doing is microdosing a terrible drug and calling it treatment. Addicts defend this, not logical healthy people.
Ask HN: Does the SAFE Replace a PPM?
maybe they see an angle how this can be abused. With delicate subjects like this it is better to be extra careful. reverting these kinds of laws is unlikely
I’ve been there too. Forgetting to take it off my keychain.

For those not familiar it’s a keychain multi-tool. Mine had scissors. But it also has a really short blade. It’s sharp but really small. No worse than knitting needles..

https://www.leatherman.com/micra-20.html

I usually carry on my slr camera and lenses. And they poke through my bag. One time they detected something. So the tsa agent is asking me about something metal and T shaped. But they won’t let me near my bag. It was a portable microphone. I remember the agent checking my bag holding it up to the scanner persons and yelling, “it’s a microphone”
This post is not valid because most companies post jobs in Hackernews after several days. In addition, the is-hiring post opened on April 3, 2023--a little over 24 hours ago.

As other people have noticed, April appeared to be the lowest month in new jobs, but the true numbers won't be evident until the month is over. The ratio will likely fall lower with the reasonable assumption that a greater proportion of people seeking work post earlier in the month than of companies seeking employees.
Yep, saw that.
Well at least they invested in actual stonks and not imaginary tokens.
From the project manager's point of view: I think it depends on the urgency/priority of the bug. If it's a production outage that's costing $N million a microsecond, yes, I want status updates multiple times daily. If it's a nice-to-have bugfix, update it whenever you can, I don't care. If it's somewhere in between, I'd expect an update frequency proportional to the seriousness of the problem.

Bottom line is that in any remotely serious business, status has to be written and communicated to the executives. It's not optional. There's the easy way: use the ticketing system, leave comments, mark things as resolved, so the managers can just read the ticketing system's reports and leave you alone. And there's the hard way: don't use the ticketing system, and have an annoying guy like me "pinging" you for updates and what's the progress on this and what's the status on that. We both like the easy way so let's settle on doing that!
> Once the technology to measure clicks and drive their own profit was invented

Oh, that started well before the internet was open to the public. I pretty much blame it on CNN. CNN proved that news can be a profit center. Before that, news was not expected to make much money, it was considered more of a public service.
I assume for many things there are operations in the US but not in most European countries.
This is why there are still mastering engineers who specialize in vinyl. See also https://badracket.com/vinyl-mastering/ for more vinyl-specific mastering concerns.
I bought (and long ago gave away, alas) an LP copy of the Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick" because it opened up to a 12-page newspaper, while the CD had a smaller abridged copy.
Would this experiment still have worked if the time differential between the two time slits was longer?
Why not?

The process we use to hold them to our standard should be different, but why do you believe they shouldn't be held to that standard?
Very interesting chart, thanks! One comment, is that it is probably more a measure of "which way is the balance of power tilting" than it is "what is the actual ratio". Many employers who could not find anyone would post the job everywhere they could think of, while people looking just read the "who is hiring" posts and then applied to the employer rather than post in the "who wants to be hired". Now the shoe is on the other foot, but that doesn't mean the ratio has shifted all that much in reality. It is a definite sign as to which side has the surplus, however.
Pretty much none that I'm aware of.

My brother is an actual engineer. They get hired on past relevant experience and simple interview. Of course he also needs the relevant credentials and professional membership so there is that... you can't keep those if you mess up and you won't get recommendations if you are an ahole.

A lot of my friends are doctors. If you are qualified and want the position it's yours. Demand > supply very much so.

Hospitality is as cut-throat as always, everyone is welcome to try - it's up to you to survive. Though I guess the first few trial shifts are the most similar to programming in that way but it's still very much "can you do the job" not "can you remember this esoteric thing you might have done once in college but otherwise not touched in a decade".

So yeah. Programming stands alone in this sort of gauntlet hiring system in my experience. Other fields are happy to take past experience and recommendations as they are instead of devising some sort of "test".

I would say outside of programming there is a bit more of the personality test sort of things though - especially big corporates, you could probably screw one up badly enough for HR to block you.
This is an interesting contrast with another comment that said it should be possible to find another tech job if (among other factors) the candidate was not too old.
And for every one of those, there are 10 who did not.

Random chance is a dominant factor in life, in some walks of like it's The Dominant Factor. Look at Olympic champions, they all work hard but for every athlete that succeeds, there are 100 that worked just as hard and did not. If you were not randomly allocated the right genes, your chance of winning the Olympics is 0% no matter how hard you work.

Or look at traders, they work 100 hours a week, consume cocaine, some die of overwork, some die of overdose. And we have research to prove that random chance is the dominant factor in their work. Working hard for them is a necessity to stay in the game, but it does not assure success.
Great piece. Although, I do not agree with "labs keeping safe" look at what happened with the pandemic. Or perhaps, the safety measures that are currently in place need to be redefined. The world is at conflict, everyone is in a race. Dominance is at play. I think it is silly to even consider the halt of AI development. The faster we reach the maximum output, the quicker we will realize the breaking points.
But this isn't exactly "global corporations" asking taxpayers to foot the bill for plant equipment or whatever, it's them asking the taxpayers to fund public works projects, which seems to be firmly the responsibility of the government to provide.
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Residential consumer price is made up of: generator cost and profit, transmission operator cost and profit, local distribution company cost and profit, retailer cost and profit if in a region that has virtual electricity resellers, and taxes. The "$60/MWh" refers only to generator cost.

Try installing a nuclear power plant on your roof. Solar PV is a bit easier to get accepted, and quicker to do.
The frame captures what happens during those 40 milliseconds though. It's not as if it needed an instantaneous match.
Interesting link, though I question some of those: taw & p'saai—it's not p'sai'onics right?

And I wonder how useful symbols like æ ə ʌ are to people asking how to pronounce Greek.
There is a sort of hype that is natural -- it's what people do when they get very, very excited about a thing. That hype is no less problematic, though.
Corporations can safely be assumed to be evil until proven otherwise.
Also add Netflix and any media conglomerate that posts content online.

Regarding the assertion of control. Even if there are people in charge of these things, they cannot control them.

How was Facebook in control of all the data that Cambridge analytica took and used?

How is IG in control of all the bots that post and like content?

How is google in control of SEO spam?

Unrelated to AI, here in HN there’s been multiple stories about nuclear weapons being lost, mis-handled and mis-fired. How is that being in control?

Its a mess out there, it’s always been like that. There’s no one in control. We just pretend to be so we don’t freak out.
The article refers to a gravitational something tensor, and, I’m wondering whether that is because this is actually dealing with gravitational effects, or whether it is just called that because it is the same tensor (or basically the same, or analogous in some way) to the stress energy tensor?

It also isn’t obvious to me what “mass radius” ought to mean...

I guess like, the average distance from the center of the mass, but like...

Idk, I guess that makes sense..?

But I guess I’m not sure what the “meaning” of that quantity would be? Like, what makes that a relevant quantity for describing the system? Is it in case you are hoping to describe some gravitational effects? Or...?

Hmm... well, I guess one could ask the same question about the “charge radius”... but that one to me sounds like it would have clearer uses? Like, if you are describing the EM forces on/from a charge, then the charge being distributed over a region would have different results than if it were at a single point I’d think.

Though, “the center of the proton” also doesn’t have one single position either.. but I imagine one could kind of separate those two things, comparing “what if we had a point particle with the charge and mass of a proton (which of course would be in a superposition over a range of positions)” to “what if we had a proton, with charge distributed about the center (and the center distributed over a range of positions in the same way as the hypothetical point particle)”
The idea in general seems pretty useful - it’s really hard and expensive to design separate parts with cad that combine together well - having a set of existing standard parts makes that way easier.

Is anyone aware of a similar offering for small metal components? Clockwork components?
Another thing people in the West seem to earnestly believe is that this story begins on 2022-02-24 and that the use of military force renders historical context irrelevant. This standard is, of course, never applied to the military adventures of the West.

From a Russian perspective, Putin gave Ukraine 8 years to build a competitive army, with extensive NATO help. Back then, Russia could have forced a more serious settlement or regime change fairly easily. Maybe it was necessary to wait, to prepare Russian economy for the inevitable wave of sanctions. (Which, I might add, have failed spectacularly in their original, stated intent of bringing Russia to its knees.)

However, it appears that Putin really did hope for the qualified success of settlements as weak as Minsk I/II, or a possible third iteration. Coerced, if necessary. Either way, all that failed and now war is raging and hundreds of thousands of slavs (most of them from Ukraine) are dead, with many more to follow.

This is obviously not an outcome that Putin desired. This is, however, an outcome that seems to make some people in the West very happy indeed. “Weakening Russia” is what they call it, gleefully. And they keep pushing, keep stoking the fire. War is peace.

However, they deeply, fundamentally miscalculated. That will become very apparent over the next decade.
Would love to learn more about what you're building! Do you have anything to share?
turn on TTS. Quick bitching. jk =p
Agreed. My next car will have CarPlay. It’s great.
I had never really thought of that, but the ability to make you miss a flight is an amazingly strong coercive power relative to the stakes.

The x-ray scanners usually have bold signs on them instructing you how to opt out. But if you do, they act as slowly as possible to ensure you never do it again.
> Rich kids can afford many throws.

True, but those throws are still expensive, and the prize is worth less than the cost to play. This is what downward mobility looks like. It's a kid who grew up wealthy, but ended up upper middle class because they weren't as lucky/ambitious/talented as their parents. It happens a lot, but it isn't dramatic, and the outcome isn't "bad," so it doesn't get much attention, but downward mobility absolutely happens.