skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a developer you need to understand your customer and user. The more you understand them, the more able you are you guess where and what requirements will change and thus design for those changes in advance. Some requirements will never change, and the more you understand the problem the better you are able to predict which and then you can design those parts to not change.

Note that customer and user are different! If you are lucky they are the same people, but they are still different and have different needs you need to understand. You need to make the customer buy your product and continue to buy it and that sometimes means features that will never actually be used - these need to look nice in the demo, but not need to be high quality. If the user is not happy eventually they will find a way to get something else, you can milk a bad user product for a few years, but at sometime a user will get promoted to a level where they are able to make their displeasure unknown.
Ahem...

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A lot of routes to Asia, which are still pretty far (10-12 hours to Tokyo). Nothing to Russia far east, which would be a bit closer.

I’ve been in plenty of international trips where I transferred in SF or even Chicago or New York. It is a bit weird flying down to SF just to go back up to asia.
it’s just a language, why the mystery?
There's going to be a lot of negativity in these comments. I don't have numbers and this is purely anecdotal observation, but there is a large contingent of supporters of the FSF that base their association to the foundation on their political positions (read: a very large number of communists, democratic socialists, and anarchists support FSF). Any criticism of RMS will be met with at least anti-corporate but most likely anti-capitalist rhetoric.

Full disclosure: I cut off my contributions to the FSF in fall of 2004. It was obvious it outlived its utility even then.

Now I ride to downvote hell...
> I suspect it took quite a bit of work by our project team to convince them to work this way.

It probably did. I've seen a couple of organizations that did this well, but the majority did not, unfortunately. In the end the sales guy will usually have received their bonus far before the project is over. I'm mostly amazed that companies like this can keep running for decades, but they do.
Show HN: Book Summaries Generated by ChatGPT
Hi,

I've just launched an app and wanted to know your feedback about it.

Basically it's a ChatGPT based app (of course) that summarizes books, gives quotes and key ideas from books. You can think of it as an alternative to Blinkist but all the content is generated by ChatGPT.

I'm a fan of reading and like to get a general idea of a book before buying it. Since I started using ChatGPT, I've tried to summarize, get key ideas and quotes from lots of books. It did an amazing job not only for popular books but also for not well known books in specific topics.

After seeing the potential, decided to create a simple MVP for an app. Here’s how it works:

1. You search for a book

2. Generate summary, key ideas, quotes and actionable items using ChatGPT

3. Read and revisit key takeaways and quotes

Best part is, there’s no limit to what books can be summarized unlike apps like Blinkist where there is a collection of limited pre-summarized books. Plus, there are no subscriptions.

Enough talking. Check it out for yourself and share your thoughts. Would love to hear them :)
For a while, sure, but complacency tends to set in with automated procedures that usually work. It's the one-in-ten-thousand errors that'll sneak under the nose of the tired prompt engineer who believes his model is accurate enough for that sort of thing to not happen.
> It is possible, and that sentence is verging on nonsense.

Define "reasonable" then, when talking about the web.
Well there's two points to address there. The first is the question of "Are LLMs 60% of the way to replacing a developer or can they do 60% of what a developer can do?" Because much like Tesla found out with Autopilot, just because you have a system that can do 60% of the things human drivers can do, doesn't mean you're 60% of the way to having a system that can do everything - in fact, you may be 0% of the way, your approach may literally be incapable of solving 100% of the problem.

Secondly, people aren't really thinking through the chain of events that follow from being able to get AI to write low quality marketing fluff. It reduces the value of marketing fluff to zero and will flood the market with it, the world isn't just going to stay stagnant, it's going to change. Remember how email used to be just full of spam? Like, unreasonably terrible? We fixed that! That changed. So I think it's important to think about what we're going to change about the world to respond to this - and it may well be these writers have to take a whole new approach to their jobs, but let's not just pretend they're all just going to walk into the ocean.
This reminds me of people complaining about how terrible Agile is, because Scrum is terrible. Not that Agile is immune to criticism any more than Sun Tzu is, but complaining that a philosophy built around deep understanding of a problem and flowing like water around it is bad because this sword isn't sharp is basically a category error. Sun Tzu has specific examples but it is not his examples that have kept his work alive for thousands of years. The examples became useless centuries ago. It is the principles that have kept it alive. It is not Sun Tzu's fault if a commander pays so much attention to a specific manifestation that he loses track of the underlying principles.
> people who have never played a major part in contributing, spreading or practicing free software ethos

I think you're being uncharitable here, appointing a random person of color to a leadership position in the FSF is absurd and not what he's saying, but doing the work so that more than just pasty white nerds join are actively involved in the FSF and rise to the level of leadership is a worthwhile goal. It's basically an argument to be less exclusionary and expand and embrace a larger community which is very much in the realm of saving the FSF.
This may have been true elsewhere, but I don't think this holds for GPT4.

I suspect that complex intelligence, that cannot be directly attributed to structure of the underlying LLM, has emerged. I am guessing it has to do with the use of language itself and at a sufficient enough size, this property exist in both humans and models.
What do they have besides an admittedly very cool name?
Could you please elaborate what it does "better"? I just bought one for my partner since she wanted it but I don't understand what the advantage is!?
I thought that, specifically that we're quite far on the AI grounds. Until GPT-3. Now I think that relevant materials science and micro/nano-level tech is the limiting factor.
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I think it's because tech is the only thing the average HNer knows enough about to know that they know nothing.
> In 2016, Auken published an essay originally titled "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better",[2] later retitled "Here's how life could change in my city by the year 2030". It described life in an unnamed city in which the narrator does not own a car, a house, any appliances, and any clothes, and instead relied on shared services for all of their daily needs.

From your link. I'll let others decide whether or not that is "lying".
I just randomly selected some without going too deep into details. But yes, sRGB is also referenced from CSS because, you guessed it, CSS deals with color :)
In the original tweet, they say:

> we invite you to review (..) and share any feedback (...). Your responses will help us ensure the Rust Trademark Policy is useful for all!

I'm bringing attention and visibility to the proposal and hopefully help the foundation receive valuable feedback from more people.
This is the kind of thing that humans are the worse at. Our brain skips over the words, filling in what we think it should say.
In the source comment he gives it's more explicit, but the "2-3 orders of magnitude" is referring to "the total", i.e. the 114 million words, not the number of specs.
Congrats to the author.

I’ve been using a homemade Shortcut for the same purpose. They’re great when you want a bit of control over such things. For example, expanding the url (following all redirects) before sending it to archive.ph/md/is, 12ft.io, or Reading List, etc. It’s very annoying having t.co urls in Reading List in particular.
Did you build Apple's sort-of OpenID Connect implementation?
Since OP didn't provide any, I looked up some sources for the "man acts" economic axiom.
I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology, which is used by the so called Austrian Economic school.
Actually the axiom is "man acts purposefully". There is also quite some criticism on it, which can be found on the wiki page as well.
> if you don't state it as a goal from the beginning then it won't even be considered

I don't think it should be a goal. I think it should be a societal goal to provide equal opportunities to everyone, and we can probably measure the results of those efforts by a statistical sample at the end of the pipeline: what % of engineers are black, white, etc. If we find over-representation of one group in a field which usually requires a college degree, then we can probably intuit that not everyone is getting the same opportunities at the beginning of the pipeline. However, it should not be a goal to solve those problems at the end of the pipeline.

> It is becoming a bigger and bigger red flag for an organization to not have some diversity of gender or race, pointing it out is not inappropriate.

I think that in 2020, the zeitgeist was towards every company doing something for DEI. I also think that this was born out of the BLM protests that summer as well as the flatline-zero interest rates set by the federal reserve. Now that that political fad is over (new president) and the economy has become more strict (higher interest rates), companies have cut DEI programs as investors expect them to be more financially responsible. To sum up my point: I think fewer people care about DEI in the corporate world today than they did 3 years ago
I’m not sure about the “military hammer for a solution”. At least not these days. Sure there are some- Wesley Clark’s push into Kosovo seemed suspect to me at the time. But there are many of the Colin Powell types who resist these unnecessary entanglements.

I wouldn’t be surprised if back in the Grenada/Panama era of the 80’s that there may have been many chomping at the bit. These days, I’m guessing not so much.
Perhaps it’s as easy as “ethics and laws are not the same thing”. One can profit either way, but unethical profiteering may not be prevented by a law.
Wow man Quickwit looks amazing. Probably would have reached for it when I started Logflare if it was around.

I have not seen anything open source that really separates compute and storage like that in one package. You can setup Clickhouse to use an object store but there's a bunch of nuance there. People are starting to hack together something similar using DuckDB on Lambda, basically as a query engine on top of S3. I wonder if you can use DuckDb to get a SQL interface going?

Going to have to take a close look for sure. SQL is definitely a blocker. With Supabase we give people the ability to query their logs with full SQL. And with Logflare Endpoints you create an API endpoint with a SQL query.
This is more or less what I was reaching for, though my attempt was with far less clarity. Thanks for wording it better than I could.

The occupation of the participants is an interesting angle. I wonder if it has been studied at any length.
Well you see, the government will print money and give it to the companies, the companies will buy up assets creating further asset inflation. The government will print more money for austerity and give it to the companies that will then use it to buy up other companies. In the end one large company will own just about everything, and the government won't do anything about it because they 'are too big to fail'.

I mean, you could say that's not possible, but watching the markets over the last 15 years should give one pause to realize it's not completely improbable either.
My interest in ancient cultures is how those people coped with life. Gilgamesh, torah, Aesop's fables, 1001 Arabian nights are interesting to me for how each culture dealt with and documented the human condition and social interactions.

To me Sun Tzu writings and all the ancient writings are about preparing one's "mind" for an attitude that can be used to cope. The commonality of story to a culture strengthens the social structure. The commonality is used to apply old wisdom to seemingly new and complex events. These writings become the common thread.
A 'just-screwed-enough-to-still-be-usable' version of Scheme is apparently a reasonable recipe for success in the PL design world: JavaScript and R have a genesis in common. I have to say that I long for an array language that's closer to original Scheme (for the boilerplate parts of statistical programming) or/and APL (for purely statistical stuff).

Regarding the typing story, I think a contract system (R has libs for that) rather than static types would be far better. Nice as they are, dependent types are not easy to use, and pretty much a nightmare for exploratory statistical work. Since most of the runtime is spent iterating on vectors anyways, contracts would IMO have a much better usability story.
There will always be demand for human interaction. Humans in lieu of computers will be a premium product that people will pay for. Hell, being served by humans instead of machines will become a status symbol.

"In this rural Massachusetts town, where the children of Wall Street financiers and Hollywood celebrities are educated, all classes are still given by humans in the flesh."

"Greenwood Furniture pieces are handcrafted by human woodworkers and carpenters, and cost $2,600 on average, or 20 times the average price of machine made furniture. Greenwood sales among Generation F have risen by 40% since 2064, and have acquired a status symbol that young families will pay to have"

This already exists in many industries. The most expensive watches are all hand made and limited edition. Limited edition cars selling for 7 figures.
Note though, that ELIZA was not written in LISP.
LLMs give a hint here too: the last few generations showcased clearly that "cognitive capabilities" of the models grow with latent space size and context window. There is a continuity here.
Could we change the title to "Up (documentary film series)" to avoid confusion with the Pixar film?
https://youtu.be/Rog9oHtVmjM

Start at 7:30 to see example of backtracking.
A wonderful article, all the more so because I disagree with a lot of it.
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I mean, this is just the beginning. Just wait till we get actual scifi robots in the next year or so.

FWIW, I do find that Claude (Anthropic's GPT) is often better than GPT4 -- and very fast. Entrants can compete on price, safety, quality, etc.
This article could be summed up with "there should be a completely different free software organization that behaves the way I want it to." Ok? Go ahead and start it.
I don't think the grain market is growing as fast as the AI market
Regardless, Anthropic is doing some cool research,for example I think this paper is pretty interesting.

A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits:
https://www.anthropic.com/index/a-mathematical-framework-for...
Interesting point. I never knew that.
It's his history and actions that made him unsuitable for the position. Despite that, they still decided allow him to return to the board. While RMS and FSF have done great things in the past, actions should have consequences and movement shouldn't be tied to one person.
Falling Fruit
"Prompt engineering" is the most pretentious name. Lad, your typing words into a little box. You ain't "engineering" shit, lmao. The next time I read a book maybe I'll tell people that I'm a phonetic diffusionary or how about making a burger at Mcdonalds: gastronomical entrainer. I hate bullshitters.
No idea how they did it; nobody ever sued us over it. We did continue to distribute some source to our clients, but not GPL. It may have been a kind of LGPL or something, and then V3 and V4 of the product simply imported the V2 as a library to build on top of
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There's no catch, really, but like everything else, there are applications and uses for which there are better tools. For example, if you need a layer for modeling n² relationships, you'd be much better off using something like FlashAttention than this routing method.

I've found it to be a useful tool. It's become my go-to solution whenever I need to combine data, hidden states, or model outputs of different sizes/dimensions/modalities into something that works on the first try. It can "glue models together into systems" without much hassle. I mean, you still have to tinker and tweak to get things to work well, but no more than usual.

Most recently, I've been using it to build models with access to long-term memory, more or less like this: Concatenate a large number of sequences of previously computed transformer hidden states. Apply a couple of routing layers to shrink them into a single short sequence of fixed size. Attach the shrunk sequence as a form of long-term memory to the current sequence of final transformer hidden states. Slap a couple of routing layers on top to predict things of interest. Finally, train only the routing layers (leave all the transformer stuff frozen). You can of course save the long sequences of previous transformer hidden states in a key-value store and fetch them as needed :-)
Certainly. Very few people ask about your job to see if they can get something out of it. It's small-talk at the level of "do you have children" or "what's the name of your dog".
Same experience with Browsers. Only Surf never dies.
Austrian economics is truly indistinguishable from parody
No. This isn't going to happen for any number of reasons. Your example doesn't even work as plumbing is still a manual process even in printed houses. (which are not going to be a thing either) GP is right that at least in the US the trades are a pretty secure job.
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> how horrifically Germany was defeated in WW1.

I'd argue not horrifically enough. I mean their defeat eas decisive and the toll on their morale was huge but their idea of greatness through war and appettite for war in general was obviously not resolved.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the other hand swiftly resolved Japan's appetite for violence (not that I neccesarily agree).

WW1 and Germany to me are good examples of how not to finish a war. I ask why Germany was allowed to continue to be a free state? Why not divide up Germany as a foreign territory or colony between victors? Why not make sure no military or hostile government ever rises up again like the US did with Japan (still has no offensive military!).

If you want to see how effective what I am saying is, look at Genghis Khan. Any sign of resistance and your entire town or village was burned and erased out if existance. Many of his enemies surrender long before he ever arrives there.

You cannot take half-measures with an aggressor. Victory can't be partial for it to last.

If you merely wound your enemy he will regain strength and come back at you many times stronger or at least keep coming back until you surrender (Taliban). You must do what it takes to kill off your enemy fully even after victory.
> AGI + developing economies

I wouldn't be so sure about that because of the Region Beta paradox. Developed countries have processes that work, making all of them digital and connected is often a bigger uphill battle than starting from zero and doing it right the first time.

See also communication infrastructure in developing economies. It's often much easier to get good internet connection (in reasonably populated areas) if there is no 100-year-old copper infrastructure around that is "good enough" for many.
> It really can only get better here, not even kidding.

I think that’s pretty extreme hyperbole.
San Francisco had a period that I assume is over where a common first question was “so what are you building?” Ugh
https://blog.ucsusa.org/james-gignac/wind-turbine-blades-rec...

"But the blades are different as they are made up of fiberglass (a composite material) to be lightweight for efficiency yet still durable enough to withstand storms. The mixed nature of the blade material makes separating the plastics from the glass fibers to recycle into a workable fiberglass material difficult—and the strength needed for the blades means they are also physically challenging to break apart."
Not only that, but it's not like the head of state is alone with the military brass in such meetings. There will be people there both from the permanent civilian bureaucracy as well as advisors of some type from the party in power.

Ultimately, military grand strategy is a domain of politics as much as it is about how to wage war. The agendas and objectives are ultimately continuations of political goals of whoever is in power. During a war, the fighting must be coordinated with diplomacy, economy/trade/manufacturing and public relations/propaganda, all of which generals tend to know little about.

And even if the President is not the one making the micro decisions, he/she definitely is responsible for making sure the war is waged in a way that is aligned with the general objectives of the administration.

This means defining objectives, access to resources as well as defining the rules of engagement. And equally importantly, listen to the military and determine when the time is right to actually provide additional resources or permissions, despite political costs.
Assistant administrator to the prompt engineer? Director of Phone Polishing? Air Circulation Specialist?

In many high population countries, people are used where other countries would use automation or robots. Automation is relatively expensive when compared to people desperate for any job that lets them meet their basic needs.
Why not just "increasing air pollution will increase air pollution"?

You can't just put solar or wind power generation anywhere you want, because solar needs sun and wind needs wind.

Yes, I know, it's a wild concept.

So, in order to shut down Nuclear, looks like the best alternative is to replace them with fossil fuels because there's no good alternative with renewables.

Because probably those nuclear plants are in places where the sun doesn't shine and wind doesn't blow?
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> despite the 16,000-word FAQ which supplements it.

Perhaps it is because of it ...