skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when JetBrains raised their prices, last October I think, they gave several months notice, made it clear that it was going to happen on their product pages, and let people lock in the current rate for a few years by prepaying.

Seemed a customer-friendly way of handling a subscription price increase.
> incredible what mental hoops people will jump through to disqualify AI!

There are high peaks and troughs in AI buzz right now.

Yes, on the one hand you've the but-can-it-dance crowd.

On the other hand, Terence Tao on GPT-4. I mean, I'm not weird for really expecting the story here either be about GPT4 helping Terence Tao on some difficult newfangled proof, or Tao talking about the math behind large language models. Instead this boils down to

GPT4 even does the work of some of the smartest mathematicians in the world[1]

1: by parsing some web pages and PDFs for their meetings
They use the word "emergent" to mean: not present in small models but is present in large models

I don't like that term, because it implies something deeper, so people immediately misinterpret this kind of information.

(Just read this thread.)
Any jail time for any of them? Until then it's just posturing by the Justice department.
> Arguing that central banks and a few other non-elected decision makers should be able to influence our lives by devaluing our savings is... insane

Perhaps, but a currency that devalues based on news, scams, pump & dump schemes, and so forth isn't the solution. Crypto doesn't transfer the power of value to you, it transfers to people with a big enough following - or botnet - to amplify whatever news (false or not) that impacts their crypto the way they want it, up or down.

Your premise is reasonable, but your conclusion doesn't logically follow from it.
TBF, it is not "this one point". It is the first point of an enumerated list of changes. Of course people will focus discussion on it, since it is intentionally presented as the most important one.
Thank you!! I felt it was getting so long and was worried it would be impenetrable, so I'm really pleased to hear it felt great.
> Could Google, or any other company out there, build a digital copy of you that answers questions exactly the way you would? "Hey, we're going to cancel the interview- we found that you aren't a good culture fit here in 72% of our simulations and we don't think that's an acceptable risk."

If a company is going to snoop in your personal data to get insights about you, they'd just do it directly. Hiring managers would scroll through your e-mails and make judgment calls based on their content.

Training an LLM on your e-mails and then feeding it questions is just a lower accuracy, more abstracted version of the above, but it's the same concept.

So the answer is: In theory, any company could do the above if they wanted to flout all laws and ignore the consequences of having these practices leak (which they inevitably would). LLMs don't change that. They could have done it all along. However, legally companies like Google cannot, and will not, pry into your private data without your consent to make hiring decisions.

Adding an LLM abstraction layer doesn't make the existing laws (or social/moral pressure) go away.
And AI is a way to enable better UX and cleaner data...
AI clones teen girl’s voice in $1M kidnapping scam: ‘I’ve got your daughter’
Yes it is. See "Shelter", filed under "Services less energy services".
7? 13? Who cares? It’s an order of magnitude smaller than the GPT models. It’s a toy.
These guys should be awarded. That's fantastic
`sysbench cpu` basically measures whether a single primitive inside sysbench is correctly optimized for your platform which is almost meaningless. Its run-to-run variation is enormous because there is a lot riding on whether particular data structure is optimally placed and aligned, which sysbench makes no effort to control. On a typical hyperthreaded x86 machine you will get 100% variance or worse depending on whether sysbench's 2 threads are placed on the same core or on different cores, so you must control that with `taskset` if you want the result to mean anything.

On my local machine with 4 threads I get ~10k events per second on cores 0+2+4+6, but on cores 8-11 I get ~13k. Does this mean that Gracemont Atom is 30% faster than Golden Cove Core? No, it is only measuring the fact that the efficiency cores happen to share an L2 cache.
Hard disagree. If physical proximity was all it took to compromise a phone everyone would immediately protest.

USB requires an active action. Blaming the user is still wrong, it really should be safe to charge in a mall or get a file from your friends usb stick. But it's less obvious so here we are.
> If GPT is like an assistant whose work you always have to double check in order to be sure of the validity of the results, that seems to be a pretty big caveat to me.

Sounds like every junior developer fresh out of college I've had to work with. Interns are even worse. Even senior devs mess up from time to time. That's why we do code review and other QA. Trust no one.
Great! Instructions for how to create the ultimate phishing bot!
> the fundamental bet was that the main computer interface display device would move from being a monitor

That's not really the bet they were making. It was deeper than that.

Facebook discovered that people are willing to use their product to dissociate to an extreme degree. There are some people out there whose entire lives are on FB and Instagram. Take their profiles away, and you would literally erase the livelihood and even identities of some individuals out there. They have no relationships and no skills in the material world. Their entire existence is a profile, and the relationships cultivated in that profile. Just as you and I cease to exist in the material world when we close our eyes and go to bed, these people cease to exist at all when they log off of Facebook and Instagram.

And so Meta, being the consumer-focused company it is, was looking to give their best customers exactly what they want: a way to complete their dissociation in the material world, and to bring even more of their existence into the metaverse, the digital plane of existence for many of their customers. Their pitch for metaverse meetings seems so strange to us on the material plane because in-person meetings are the last thing we'd replicate digitally. But for those who are ready to dissociate into the digital plane, a digital meeting room is the next logical step.

It's like what Agent Smith says about the first version of the Matrix. Yeah, it was perfect, but it wasn't real. So they added pain and suffering to make it real. The FB can offer a great dissociative experience if that's what you're looking for, but if you're really looking to let go of the material plane, you need to bring in all the pain and suffering you're used to into the metaverse. Otherwise the distinct lack of meetings gives away the charade.

The problem for Meta is that the Metaverse is a very expensive proposition, and there are only so many hardcore FB and Instagram addicts at this point willing to dissociate to that degree. The rest of us enjoy our material plane of existence, and aren't addicted to Facebook and Instagram the way their users are.

And there it is, the word "user", which reminds us that FB customers really have a lot in common with drug addicts.
It's solved by asking Dang for a charitable exception
I think you meant to say IPv4. IPv6 is free.
They are wanting to think that they are taking the "long view" of things, are being totally logical,and that calling it "heinous" is simply the view of people on the wrong side of history.
Do you mean the twitter files conspiracy theory? That didn't happen, and if it did, it was totally normal, and if it wasn't, it was justified.
Germany set to legalise personal use of cannabis
Wordery and BooksPlease are the only global free delivery I know of.

awesomebooks is free delivery for UK, but their international delivery is reasonable at £2.99 (+ £1.00 to £4.00 additional items: https://www.awesomebooks.com/help/shipping)
> Fed plan isn't to just tame inflation but reduce employment to slow wage increases, reverse asset gains with "higher for longer"

No, the Fed’s plan is to tame inflation. If Powell can do that while maintaining strong employment, he’ll go down in history as a legend. Nobody wants unemployment to go up or asset prices to go down.
Also, that is the best definition of the real numbers I have seen so far
Exactly. My main infrastructure is on Hetzner, but I have a live replication via Wireguard at another hoster in Austria. With less resources there, but for accessibility "in the case of".
Of course, but I imagine Intel's spare 14nm+++++++++++ capacity is pretty significant at the moment, which is best in class (non-TSMC division).
Harvards CS50 course changed my life. It was the first course that got through to me about how to code. Without that course and the enthusiasm of Professor David Malan I wouldn’t be where I am now and I’d be stuck falling back on an electrical engineering degree which bores me to tears.

cs50.net
> objective fact, not an opinion

Got any links where I can read about it?
Ahh, Fuentes and Haqiqatjou. Are you an incel? And yes it is still bizarre, reactionary, self-indulgent silliness. No different than if I was to start saying we need to kill all the god-believers because of the times they told me I was going to hell. Kill them all, because they clearly don't respect me and are in my way, who knows what theyll do next. They'll do anything if its in that book of theirs!!

"the only really straight heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel." -Nick Fuentes
Not the parent but buying assets and not holding more fiat than I need personally.
And NPR's funding doesn't technically come from the government, it comes from member stations licensing their content.
Except, of course, that NPR is not government-sponsored to any meaningful degree.
This is absolute chaos and I love everything about it.
The tech stack of any platform is secondary or even tertiary to success. Especially for something relatively trivial like microblogging.
Forbes 30 Under 30 has a similar issue... I think over the last 10-15 years, people featured in that list have been convicted or accused of scamming more money than they've made, including Elizabeth Holmes, SBF and at least a couple more.
Not to mention that TikTok wasn’t selling.
it tells us, musk bought twitter for reasons other than money...
Hence “empirically disproven, at least separate from any disproof that wasn't ~equally true at its peak” and not “discredited by argument from principles”.
Going one step further: what if you right now are a replay running in some datacenter, déjà vécu [1] feelings appear when they scale down the VM due to costs. Basically, the simulation hypothesis, but the simulators are not mysterious, just boringly distopian: some suits trying to raise KPIs.

[1] already lived, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#D%C3%A9j%C3%...
I see there is an FBI advisory on this now so I guess they reckon it has some real-worldness to it

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/fbi-advising-...
> It is a point I often make that we don't need AGI for AI to already become very disturbing in its potential use.

But we don't need AI or LLMs at all for the above scenario. Companies don't currently pry into your e-mails to make hiring decisions, but they could (ignoring laws) do it if they wanted. No LLM or AI necessary.

So why would the existence of AIs or LLMs change that?

If they wanted to use the content of your e-mails against you, they don't need an LLM to do it.
They should just make the right decision and deprecate all Groovy in favor of Kotlin.
I mean you should probably just own the whole mistake — in no world are bean-counters sales people.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bean-cou...
If anything, Google doesnt promote it at all, never had official Android support. They love Dart and now they are building Carbon.
Compare the response of the Chinese government and the US government, then return here and tell us all about the "blindfold" we Americans are wearing wrt the government's COVID response.
in other words less competition, more market power tax
This scene was the seed of inspiration for me to make this project! No joke. I thought about doing it but didn't trust the 7B model to not make me look stupid ^_^
ARM is open. So that means they would have to compete with the whole world both on chip design, and fabbing, for a low power chip, with margins lower than what they are used to.

Sucsess(as measured in valuation back than, not today, that's how managers measure themselves), was far from certain.
There used to be a concern that we'd be bored out of our minds once the machines do all the work. Instead, we'll all be busy running the worlds we've created, and we'll complain that we wish we had more time for ourselves, like the good old pre-LLM days.
If the Metaverse was succh a great idea Secondlife would be much more successful.
Some introduction for uninitiated?
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26292627
I think I see the difference.

In my solution, the id I was passing to pg_try_advisory_lock was the id of the record that was being processed, which would allow several threads to acquire jobs in parallel.

The second difference is that my solution filters the table containing jobs with the pg_locks table and excluds records where the the lock ids overlapped and the lock type was an advisory lock. Something like:

SELECT j.*
FROM jobs j
WHERE j.id NOT IN (
SELECT pg_locks l ON j.id = (l.classid::bigint << 32) | l.objid::bigint
WHERE l.locktype = 'advisory'
)
LIMIT 1;

The weird expression in the middle comes from the fact that Postgres takes the id you pass to get an advisory lock and splits it across two columns in pg_locks, forcing the user to put them back together if they want the original id. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/view-pg-locks.html.
I'm quite a large fan of Debian, it's my go to choice for anything server personally. It's pretty good for what you want here IMHO, it's stable so you won't really have to worry about packages screwing you over and like another comment said you can stick unattended-upgrades on it :)
I wonder if the SAT still makes you write the anti-cheating pledge on the back of your answer book in cursive
>You can never ever know if it is going to silently alter your data unless you check it for correctness afterwards which no one is doing. The tech won't seem so awesome when someone is left off the credits for a talk (in this case).

terry mentions running some checksums after processing on the linked page. I'd imagine most people working on serious tasks do something similar.
True, but one obvious difference is that a senior contributor can typically validate the work of a more junior one in less time than it took them to produce, that’s why the overall equation works. And if you decide to keep the more junior person, it’s probably because you feel like they’re improving and becoming more trustworthy over time.

Another key difference is that a deterministic script that has determined to be valid will be valid for all subsequent runs, regardless of input size. That is not the case for ChatGPT, which might be correct on some runs and not others, or do well on small input sizes but start messing up when thousands (or more) of data items are involved.

Again, I still think ChatGPT is really cool, but thinking about all these nuances about the nature of the work that is actually being done when you use ChatGPT vs writing a script vs handing it off to an intern seems crucial to the debate.
The hype is because Intel and AMD have an enforced duopoly of x86, because only they own the licenses to x86-64 and you'll take it from their cold dead hands.

So, if you want to compete, you'll have to go ARM. Amazon graviton and Apples M series have only made it more appealing.

The main reason to switch is cost.
SVB depositors were almost in the same boat. Maybe not this time, but there is no guarantee the government will bail you out. In fact, Janet Yellen (who has a lost any credibility she may have had imho) even said they don't intend to extend that protection to all banks. They prefer to pick & choose who they extend the protection to (especially rich liberal donors).
How's that research going? It would be interesting to be able to "type" on any surface, just by pretending there's a keyboard in front of me.
Doctors in surveys around the world have admitted to prescribing antibiotics as placebo, yet homeopathy is off limits? Something unsettling about this for me. So much of illness wrapped up in distress. We need reassurances, however irrational the ritual that brings them. Why is there no space for this in conventional medicine?
Only if you ignore the flawlessly at 60 fps part.
ah I never knew that the protocols behind the zeroconf services (Bonjour etc.) can also resolve hostnames. Very interesting. Although I have to say that in my experience these things are not robust enough yet. Setting up the printer at work was a pain because it was not automatically found (okay, this is a complex network) and at home I have a few devices that should talk with each other (some running behind switches) but only if I start them in the right order.

I wonder why there's no way to let the router handle the DNS with some sort of registering/de-registering functionality? I would think this to be more robust compared to the broadcasting.
USB-C uses data to negotiate charging. A dumb USB type-A cable with no data wires would be safe against bad data.
This has to be one of hte most fascinating discussions i've seen on HN. Imagine the FBI training an AI on all the information they have about a suspect. Files and files of statements, social media history, phone taps, etc and then interrogating the AI to get enough information to convince a judge to issue a warrant.

idk the LLMs being turned loose and the possibilities feels different than past major shifts in tech. (i've been around a while)
This WordPress installation comes with a dashboard that enables hospitals to manage medical orders more efficiently. The dashboard includes several features that allow hospitals to create, track, and fulfill orders quickly and easily.
take some money now or none later

seems like an easy choice
I remember. I don't think it was because of some unpaid interns in the mail room or whatever.

I think this kind of cloak-and-dagger conspiracy theorizing trivializes the real, challenging, human issues of editorial independence, the complexity of fairly representing reality, etc, etc.
I think they really care about two things: VAT and cryptocurrency. Passports are required to prove you should or should not pay the 19% VAT, and crypto (namely, SIA) destroy their servers.
> not sharing data via USB

USB is a very intelligent protocol, with a microcontrollor on both ends. The controller has access to at least the driver's state, which is usually in the kernel and potentially has access to system memory.

How does your Android phone even know that data is an option to switch into when you plug it into a USB port? It has already negotiated itself to be a device on the USB bus. Your phone will probably show up in lsusb on Linux even in charging mode. (Mine does.) When you switch the phone to data mode, it changes its USB device profile, and becomes a more sophisticated attached device, from the host's perspective.

Many (most?) phones made in recent years can be USB hosts, too. This lets you connect a USB mouse and keyboard to a tablet, for example. That would open you up to all kinds of pretty simple but often quite effective attacks, like simulating a virtual keyboard and mouse and just manipulating the UI that way.

I don't know if any of these particular attacks are possible with Android right now, but many variations on these themes have been shown over the years on many platforms. USB wasn't really designed with adversarial peripherals in mind.
My same sentiment.
Also NFT are not working like expected.
And eBook have not destroyed (yet) the old-paper-made books...
Core 2 duo Quad from 2007+ used to have 2 L2 cashes (not 4) and no L3 and task manager of Windows refused to see more than 2 cores

This is software has nothing to do with your claims of hardware not advancing or four cores being 'unstable'. I don't know what it has to do with anything.

Everything except of browser is not multithreaded in 2023

This is a bizarre claim because it's so easy to disprove. Games, content creation video encoding and decoding and of course, your whole OS which is running multiple programs.

This also has nothing to do with amdahl's law, which is about how non-multithreaded parts of multithreaded software scales.

for example a garbage collecting of interpreted languages.

Who cares, an interpreted language is not meant to be fast in the first place. Even so you can still run multiple threads and multiple processes.

This is also software and has nothing to do with your claim that CPUs haven't changed since 2012.

I mean starting from 2 cores the number of cores does not add anything visible.

They do to everyone buying CPUs with more than 2 cores, which is basically everyone, since even phones and $35 rasberry pi boards have four or more cores.
> I believe that in about fifty years’ time it will be possible to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 10^9, to make them play the imitation game so well that..

Turing wrote that in 1950, so I suppose his intuition was within a couple of orders of magnitude...
ChatGPT in Vim
> How does a language favor copy/pasting?

It favors as a culture. A little copying is better than a new dependency

Just like Java has culture to setup a single http endpoint one typically adds 50-60 little jar files of Spring Boot starter.
Interesting, I wonder if you could make a BodyChord or FaceChord setup using steno... Can you actually write code using a steno keyboard - as in, full access to all the usual symbols and modifiers - or would it just be for letters and basic punctuation?
mad44 is I believe the author of the blog that OP linked, so the blog is just the OP, http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/ .

I don't see any direct articles about process as Murat characterizes himself as a researcher first and thus doesn't necessarily have much to say about “how do you fit this into your 9-to-5,” but he does give some reading advice,

"Deep Reading", http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2022/02/deep-reading.html?m...

"Read papers, not too much, mostly foundational ones", http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/02/read-papers-not-too...
I don't think Google would want the PR hit for doing such things. I suspect that they even have hang-ups about training their general-purpose AIs on your private data, because they might accidentally leak some of it. A lot of their business exists because people trust them to keep your data safe (even from their internal teams), and they would lose a lot of business if anyone discovered otherwise.

I think it will be a wild couple of years but there are lots of things that are off-limits.
Just go on a trip where you use your GPS a lot and take pictures with your phone and it will last half a day at best.
It's not some cabal at the top. It's a cabal that also controls the media, censors access to information and zombificates the majority of your fellow citizens. Revolting against the state is great but not if your fellow citizens are the ones who fight you first. By the way, they include some of your friends and family.
[dupe] or merge - more discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35539280
I can't even remember the last time I worked in a Javascript project where you could find "==" in the codebase. It even got phased out as a convenient "null or undefined" check.

Between it being an ancient footgun and the ubiquity of linters, making fun of "==" code ends up just making fun of beginners.