skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it true that we don't have a monoculture, though?

The author argues that algorithms have reintroduced monoculture: there was a period before the year 2000 when we had a monoculture (because of the scarcity of information) and a period after 2012 when we had a monoculture (because of effective information-sorting algorithms). The kind of cultural fragmentation you're talking about only existed 2000-2012, or in what he calls the 'hipster era.'

Post-2012, 'nerdy' things like comic book movies and gaming streams are basically mainstream to the point of being inescapable. People who remember the previous 'pre-nerd' monoculture are primed to think of those things as niche and marginal interests, but they're really not.
Forces of nature aside is a given. However, FB (and other FAANG) rampant overhearing before and through out the pandemic to basically horde talent was poor management.
He's a trust fund kid like she is. The world is just fun and games to them.
This is a well-known aphorism in software development and not at all specific to the Web platform:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule>
Same experience here! It definitely looks like there would be more content further down.
My two favourite songs by George are Give me Love, and my sweet lord.
I've seen pages where buttons outright not worked. In firefox.
Well I guess we can always play micro-benchmarks game if you want to go down that path, including selecting specific compiler toolchains and flags while making it a point that it is a property of language XYZ, to make it even better.
Look into the origin of The Sex Pistols some time: the "anti-consumerist" so-called punk band was literally created by a fashion label to sell clothes.

The process is called recuperation: under modern capitalism, the capitalist will not just sell you the rope to hang him with, he will also sell you the prop guillotine, the Che Guevara shirt and the music and movies that let you safely live out your fantasy from the comfort of your own home. It's impossible to create truly anti-capitalist media because anti-capitalist media has become just another product to consume. The machine will gleefully support you in raging against it as long as you do it in a way that contributes to it.

In the end, this is what killed hipster culture: if you want indie bands, the market will happily provide you with thousands of them, all "unique" but interchangeable. If you want "artisinal" products, the market will happily produce them at scale. By buying a product you directly contribute to its popularity and mass market appeal.
Google killing off products at the consumer or enterprise level has become such a meme.

Won't surprise many of us if we ever hear of them announcing they're ending Search lol.
> Few years of 24/7 prison or 30+ years of 9-5 prison?

I have friends who work in the prison system (educational/reform domain).

These comments from people casually comparing prison to their jobs are so out of touch it’s unbelievable. Even in the best of circumstances, losing a decade of your life to prison is devastating.
Anthropic’s Claude LLM is pretty interesting. In many ways it feels much more limited than GPT4. However, it is suspiciously good at a few edge-case code generation tasks (can’t go into details) that makes me wonder where it got its training data from. It also seems to be much less prone to hallucinating APIs and modules, preferring instead to switch back to natural language and describe the task without pretending it has a functioning solution handy.

Worth keeping an eye on for sure.
I know, right? This line in particular got stuck out at me:

> They are mortally offended by the suggestion that Marvel might be somehow less good than Chris Marker, or that K-pop might be worse than Rimsky-Korasov.

Never heard of Chris Marker or Rimsky-Korasov, had to look those up. Chris Marker looks like an indie French filmmaker who 60 years ago made a 27 minute time travel film called La Jetée, using only still photographs, that William Gibson apparently considered one of his greatest influences. So yeah, this sounds like something that most mainstream people wouldn't be aware of or into and exactly the type of thing a film nerd or film hipster (who he said in the opening paragraphs were all killed because of how annoying they are) would be into.

And Rimsky-Korasov is a Russian classical music composer who's been dead for over 100 years. Someone that only a music nerd would probably be aware of nowadays, or go see a concert for.

If he didn't want to be such a hipster about it, he could have used like Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick and Mozart or Bach or even Debussy or something, a name most people would probably recognize, instead of these less recognizable names, especially in an article where he's making fun of nerds for being into obscure shit (while "their" movies have been dominating the box office for well over a decade at this point).

I'm not trying to defend Marvel here either. I don't think they're the best movies ever made (I thought Everything Everywhere All At Once was the best movie I've seen since Parasite, and considering it pretty much swept the Oscars this year, and Parasite did a few years before that, critics seem to agree with me there).

Another quote that stuck out:

> The culture we produce on Planet Nerd has nothing to do with desire whatsoever. Everything is sterile, mercilessly unsexy; no eroticism, not even visual pleasure.... Nerd culture, meanwhile, is basically quite boring to consume. Instead of the sadistic fantasy of being a superhero, doing fantastic things that ordinary people don’t get to do, the Marvel movies are about nothing more than themselves.

Sounds like someone needs to watch The Boys or Invincible. You'll get your sadistic superhero power fantasy there. (I mean, just watch The Boys episode about 'Herogasm').

Marvel can't do that because it has to get parents to take their children to see them to make all the money they want to make. You don't see sadistic power fantasies about being a wizard in Harry Potter either, or overly sensual things with any Disney movie, barring the hidden 'SEX' in flower petals in Lion King.
I've never heard the licensing argument come up about 'reverse engineering'.

edit: Which I feel is closer to prompt engineering than software engineering.
Links don’t get previewed. It’s why many people copy paste from external sources instead of / in addition to linking. This is a blessing (never have to click on slow external link) and a curse (rare to ever clicks on links they’re too slow). If I just linked then nobody would click on it and I’d not get my point across. And I did t just want to copy the message since it wasn’t mine, so in place attribution as HN comment makes sense.
>“tens of thousands of GPUs.”

I find the focus on GPUs a little odd. I would have thought that at 5 billion / 4 year scale ASIC route would be the way to go

GPUs presumably come with a lot of unneeded stuff to play crysis etc
I come across a variety of sites that show unusual behaviour every day. And as others pointed out, the page is mostly degraded, not unusable.

There are many grievances when using the web today, some are down to the lack of a set CSS spec. Others due to the complete and utter disregard for browser compatibility. I'm not going to tackle the monopoly of Chrome as a browser. However, there are a number of specific uses of this collection of ever changing specs and implementations that eventually lead to page-breakage in every new browser release.

The web is complex to tackle because everyone seems to think that they've a better idea of what a page is. Some of it is fair, some of it unfair. Nevertheless I would take this approach any day.
Ex-Theranos CEO can’t overcome breadth of fraud, judge rules.

Ticket to Mexico was ‘bold’ but not attempt to flee, he says.
> [2008] France has been given the green light by the European Commission for a $152 million government grant for a consortium building a European rival to U.S. internet search giant Google.

I don't think government funding to compete with private businesses works well

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ec-...
> , a criminal, and a fraud.

Are not reasons to be unhappy. Some people, maybe most, enjoy the perks of being rich and powerful on unearned wealth. She's temporarily indisposed.
Python 3.12 will have per interpreter GIL – PEP 684 Accepted
They know better than to be horny on main
Given that someone that needs to develop a browser probably needs to hunt and peck through all that trash to find the relevant bits of information, is it not actually more damning that such a vast quantity of irrelevant cruft exists?

Is this not the corporate equivalent of creating a walled garden (perhaps not the right phrase here, gastric moat sounds more apt), by exhausting the resources of all that should choose to attempt to scale this mountain of junk?

That being said, I can't make any suggestions as to how you could shortcut through that other than just having decades of experience in the field.
Sure, let's make an EU commercial LLM. Let's start by scraping all the Francophone internet. Then let's remove all the PII data and potentially PII-data. Easy-peasy.

Then let's train our network so as not to spew out or make up PII data - easy peasy

Then let's make it able to delete PII data that it has inadvertedly collected on request. Simultaneously it should be recording all the conversations for safety reasons. that must be possible somehow

And let's make sure it never impersonates or makes up defamatory content - that must be super easy.

And let's make it explain itself. But explain truthfully, by giving an oath, not like ChatGPT that likes making things up.

Looks very doable to me
> I don't like the term 'fake images' - they absolutely are images?

They're an image, but they are not what they claim to be an image of.
There's plenty of counter culture, it's just not being promoted by radio and TV anymore. Tell people proudly that you have stopped paying taxes and that they should too, and see how they react. Tell people you didn't take the vaccine or that you home school your children.
> and I suspect it’s bigger than everything else put together, apart from ECMAScript

The thing is, it's not just the HTML standard. It's also all the standards it references. And all the standards they reference, and all the standards those standards reference, ad infinitum.

For example, HTML 5 references SVG 2 which references CSS 2 which references Unicode and XML 11. Or, to go the same route, HTML 5 references SVG 2 which references CSS 2 which references CC.1:2004-10 (Profile version 4.2.0.0) Image technology colour management which references (normative) ISO/IEC 646:1991, Information technology — ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange, IEC 61966-2-1 (1999-10), Multimedia systems and equipment — Colour measurement and management — Part 2-1: Colour management — Default RGB colour space — sRGB and TIFF 6.0 Specification, Adobe Systems Incorporated among other things.

Yes, some of those overlap (as many standards will reference many the same standards), but the number of those standards is definitely non-trivial. Some of them you can probably pull in as system libraries or external libraries. The question is, how many?

Edit: and some of them are definitely not relevant to the web, but how would you know until you read through the spec that references it, and through the referenced spec to find and understand the relevant bits?
It's a pretty good use of email. "What it's for" is not up to you to decide, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In my opinion the author completely mischaracterizes what hipsters and nerds are. Hipster just want to be different, unique, feel that they're not part the mainstream, that is their reason d'être, while nerds are obsessively interested and knowledgeable about a niche topic. The counter-example of someone "obsessive, all-consuming interest in the literature and mysticism of the medieval and early modern eras" would definitely be a nerd of medieval literature. So the definition of nerd as people who love hideous, terrible things, is not only insulting but also inaccurate.

To a degree everything can be subjectively considered bad to the uninitiated.

Also, I believe the reason why book sales are going up except young fiction which is going down is because younger generation have an increasingly shorter attention span, they've grown used to short videos like Tik-Tok, etc so they can't get bother with reading an actual full length book.

I just get chills when I think of the AI generated media (songs, books, movies) in the coming years and decades...
I mean, working most jobs is an exchange of your time and to a (admittedly very small) extent your freedom in the hopes that some day you'll obtain enough to retire, right? Of course, that's assuming you can navigate the vicissitudes of the labor market; there's no real guarantee.

This whole conversation seems like a slightly advanced game of the old playground favorite, "would you rather?", and I can say that given the right parameters, I would gladly spend some time in prison for the right payout.
I know you said no details, but can you at least share a little bit more about Claude LLM's code generation?
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Why are you talking to them? Is it to have a pleasant time? I'm going to assume that. This means you both go away feeling slightly positive about your chat.

There's no way of knowing for sure that your question will be one the other party wants to answer so it's always going to be some kind of stab in the dark and you just have to interpret the reply and move the conversation on to other more neutral things (in the UK weather is one) until you find something they like talking about. You encourage them to talk about that a bit and talk a bit yourself.

The main thing is not to persist with a subject that they dismiss - or any subject about yourself too long. Then let other people into the conversation.

If you go into a conversation with someone and you have any prejudicial reaction to their looks or what they say then you'll probably mirror it. If you make yourself internally respect them regardless of what they do or look like (or earn) then it will show in your words. Disrespect will show and screw it all up.
I’m curious as to why on this
GCJ was always a toy compiler, if you want good AOT Java code check the commercial JDKs that have been in business for the last 20 years.
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Well, TNG put the bar very high on quality. New series, don't.

On video games, even simple games like BSD trek and Super-Star-Trek on Python3 have great designs and still be played. The same with roguelikes like Nethack/Slashem.
Probably for the same reason that people will pay more for originals even if prints or copies are exact replicas and look just as nice.

I wonder if people would pay more for a print of an original artist's painting, or an exact hand-painted reproduction painting? At least the replica is still painted by an expert.
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Yes, if you do a monologue, it's likely just plain boring even to someone curious anyway. The same info given in a interactive manner is likely more enjoyable to everyone involved.
I feel like a lot of comments that I’m reading, that contradict each other, are “armchair experts”.

It’s not like you’re telling someone they’re an idiot for writing a rest api. If you’re making medical claims, maybe establish some credentials?
People are pretty similar, sometimes helping someone understand your intent on something is a matter of changing how you ask a question.

LLM's in a way are helping nerds speedrun the skillset of a people manager.
Lawyers will and are almost required to argue anything they think may work, whether done intentionally or no. If she had developed sudden cancer they would have argued using that, too.

Until she says what and why she was doing what she did (and even then) we don’t really know - mayhap she realized her chance of having children afterwards would be severely reduced.
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https://www.reuters.com/legal/theranos-founder-elizabeth-hol...
ChatGPT works 24/7 and replies to you instantly. Can they compete against that?

More likely scenario would be clients giving their 95%-complete text to their writer and asking to make some changes that they can't do with ChatGPT (for now).
I've been using Rust on Windows, LLDB is just pain. Not being able to see content of enums is a show stopper, luckily VSCode has C++ debugger by Microsoft that works flawlessly.
I've done agile projects where the client was a big corporation. There was a fixed budget and deadline, but we specifically reserved some of that time/money for unspecified work at the start of the project. In the latter parts of the project we could then prioritise the work that was deemed most important by the client once they'd already seen the work in progress.

I suspect it took quite a bit of work by our project team to convince them to work this way. But it's really great if you make it happen.
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Therac-25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25).

It didn't actually kill the company, just the product line.
I have a hard time deciding where in this thread to drop this link, but maybe here is a good spot. Andreas has a video about this topic, and I believe it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZvTFoSIFU
Do GPUs give you more flexibility to take different approaches? Maybe they’re paying extra for optionality. Or maybe (most likely) TechCrunch is using the term “GPU” imprecisely.
If anything, Tik Tok trends are perfectly imperfect, which makes them feel more like what can be generated from any 13B or better LLM.

People are bad at modeling and scale. LLMs don't suffer from that, but the way people interact with LLMs obviously doesn't indicate they can conceptualize what a billion people interacting with the same model with the same parameters and having a billion unique experiences implies.

How we interface with LLMs is a deceptive reflection, and if you don't recognize the depth in them, you'll be caught off guard when you fall in, or something larger than you expect comes out.
Just ignoring that it is fundamentally gross and pointless, which some people don't understand somehow, consider the practical implications. I can't casually make a youtube video or blog article teaching about Rust without worrying about trademarks if I use the word. Hundreds of rust libraries have Rust in the name and would be in violation of this policy the second it changed, etc.
I've found templates most useful as personal shortcuts.

I.e., once you've settled on a prompt that you may reuse, save it to something like a snippet manager so that you don't have to type/speak the whole thing again.

I've been doing this with a snippet manager that supports string interpolation. Recent example:

I'm working on an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages web application that I need your help with. I will send you the relevant code over several requests. Please reply "continue" until you receive a message from me starting with the word "request." Upon receiving a message from me starting with the word "request," please carry out the request with reference to the code that I previously sent. Assume I am a senior software engineer who needs minimal instruction. Limit your commentary as much as possible. Under ideal circumstances, your response should just be code with no commentary. In some cases, commentary may be necessary: for example, to correct a faulty assumption of mine or to indicate into which file the code should be placed. Code: {{Code}}

There's obviously nothing magical about the wording; saving it just gives me a quick shortcut for inputting paginated code and then explaining what's needed.
Would FTX customers get actual shares in a bankruptcy or would the shares be sold? Seems like a really good deal to get the shares in a promising startup.
the GPUs these guys would be using are not the same ones you are using to play crysis, we're talking more about this kind of purpose-built thing: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/a100/

It's become more of a term for highly parallel processor units in general, one which NVidia encourages because it ties their product offering together
VSCode with the CodeLLDB or MS C/C++ extensions both usually work out of the box for debugging most compiled languages (so far I tried C/C++, Rust and Zig), but compared to proper Visual Studio it's very bare bones (especially the variable view panel).
It takes more than talent to be your own boss. You also need creativity, motivation, a safety net to go potentially months/years without income. I'd even argue that talent is one of the least needed things to run your own business.
Submitter is (probably) the site owner and definitely a chronic HN spammer. No idea why the submitter and site aren't banned yet
Technology is a tool, often to make one group submit to another.
This is an interesting insight. I've often said that we're headed towards some kind of mafia society. Low punishment for criminal activity, low willingness from police to prosecute certain crimes, high and growing inequality which keeps piling on more pressure on the poor while taking away their opportunities, breakdown of traditional values and morals, distrust of institutions... It's like a perfect storm.
Not sure about that. It's normal to open a microwave periodically to inspect, stir the food etc to ensure it is heating evenly. Automatically cancelling the timer each time you open it would be very annoying.
AI porn (at least images, not video, except for deepfakes I guess) is getting better at an alarming rate.

We're getting to the point where anyone could generate near infinite images of a perfect imaginary specimen fitting their "type" and engaging in their preferred fetish.

Good luck ladies, that simp money is going to start running out. Pivot to selling gamergirl bathwater as soon as you can.

Porn artists, ouff, you're totally screwed, it wasn't bad enough that all your art is illegally shared online anyway, now any schmuck with a graphics card can mimick your style. I sincerely wish you the best of luck and I hope you developed a loyal fanbase.
When I used to get asked: "What do you do?" quite often, I would reply: "I plant flowers". Funny thing is, I still do - but now that I am not in prime "rat race" age, I have slipped away from that answer and usually just answer Med Tech developer" or such.
> /lapply/sapply/tapply/vapply madness gives a feeling of hacks taped together just enough so that the thing does not fall apart

Hard to argue against that when the argument for whether to pass to simplify2Array or leave the result as a list is:

sapply(..., simplify = )

but is

mapply(..., SIMPLIFY = )

It kinda reminds me of English pronunciation as far as consistency of conventions goes
I think counter-culture would maybe be the right-wing nationalist groups that have popped up everywhere. That's being subversive to the mainstream.
This is a strange document. They don't mention supervised instruction finetuning anywhere. You need (and can!) only really apply "prompt engineering" of this kind to a foundation model which just completes text. An instruction tuned model is no longer a text completer, it is something which models an agent and understands what you ask it to do. No need or possibility for prompt engineering of this kind. (The foundation model for GPT-4 was not made publicly available, by the way, and for GPT-3.5 it was removed from the API a few weeks ago.)

It it is worth mentioning that the instruction tuned models are not necessarily better, since they can exhibit "mode collapse", a loss in entropy, where they e.g. tend to produce content which is very similar in style.