skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun analogy, but let's look at the Martial Artist environment

> There are basic ground rules (clear requirements) which the opponents (problems) are NOT allowed to break. eg: below the belt punches, (changing priorities every week) etc.

Who does get to work in such an environment? I can only think of:

* Academia

* Artificial environments (e.g. leetcode, coding competitions)

* MAYBE very mature products in established companies

For the vast majority of us changing requirements, unknown unknowns and technology shifts are our daily bread. Big, unchanging upfront design doesn't work, and we've known this for several decades now.
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is gpt4Xalpaca better?
And that gets tricky as well. Many businesses receive pressure from governments and the business in most cases will not be legally obligated to comply, but businesses value money first and know if they cooperate then the government is more likely to be on their side when needed and less likely to get in the way when they are not wanted. AFAIK the only way to know that is occurring would be to intercept all communications.
Oh wow. Dune: Spice Wars is also in Haxe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZcKyqLcjzc
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." – Martin Fowler.

Most programers are no good at writing code the communicates to other humans. They write code that computers can understand, which is a completely different skill.
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I really love Haxe. A truly multi-paradigm language with good support for GADTs, OOP, structural and nominal types, lambdas, and a lot of practical sugar on top. The macro system and abstract types add enormous flexibility that I miss when going back to C# or Java.

The language is a bit verbose, but I prefer it and generally add type annotations instead of using type inference (unless I’m dealing with a super gnarly generic type).

The language shines in the graphics space since some of the Flash community gravitated to Haxe. I’ve found that it works great as a client/server language similar to a typescript frontend/backend stack. The benefit with Haxe is that the backend isn’t limited to Node, it can run on JVM, bare metal with C++, Openresty with Lua, and anywhere Python runs. It’s pretty easy to implement F# style type providers with the macro system as well.

There is also a C# target, however, there are talks of deprecating. Hopefully we will see a revival with Reflaxe, another way to make new targets, or maybe even a CLR target. https://github.com/RobertBorghese/reflaxe

Lastly, I’m very excited about Ammer the universal FFI for Haxe by Aurel. https://aurel300.github.io/ammer/
My hope is that the community will rally around Ammer and bring in a lot of native libraries to all targets.
There is a reason university administrative overhead has exploded over the past few decades: MBAs have found yet another vein of money to parasite themselves onto. I think this country will only start to get better when 90% of this management overhead is fired and forbidden to work in management ever again.
the definition of function in mathematics requires that same input always gives same output for all valid inputs.

So yeah, to define sin as a function one absolute must prove that it only depends on angle and not triangle size.

This proof is done via similar triangle properties (same angles => same proptions of sides) btw.
Jeez doing captchas all day as a job. That'll be a special kind of hell.
Should have named it picoGPT
> Let's be clear, AI is not making it easier.

er, no

> Some imagined advancement of AI so great that it trivializes the kinds of attacks that nation states study is.

what? a load of co-ordinated rednecks with some basic knowledge could manage it quite easily
This was bound to happen either way.

I saw a great video on YouTube a while ago. I can’t remember who made it. It analyzed Tesla’s history and forecasted they were in big trouble. The thesis was basically they wasted every lead they had.

They could have gotten the X out the door faster and cheaper without the gull-wing doors, something probably no one cared enough about to base their buying decisions on.

The 3 could have been out faster if Musk didn’t keep trying to fully automate production from day one, something no one had accomplished, and flush a ton of money in the process.

They could have been further on the semi if they had focused on it. They could have had a truck on the market for years by now (when Ford and Chevy now do) if they weren’t trying to do something so out there. Trucks are the number one category of vehicles in the US and they chose to blow ignore that market.

They’ve had tons of time to get better at quality. They may have the best charging network but but the standard everyone else uses is being built fast, so that advantage is shrinking. The visual designs of the cars have never really changed when other automakers change them every few years. Service complaints are still a big problem.

And all that time and money (and bad PR) on “full self driving” that is still is nowhere close to the original promise. But that seems to be almost the number one focus.

It basically gave a very strong case for poor management. Tesla has done a ton, no question. EVs wouldn’t be as big today as they are without the huge push from Tesla. But Tesla could have been so much further ahead if they had chosen to be.

I think the Twitter drama is just highlighting his management style and making people take a more realistic look at things, removing a lot of benefit of the doubt he was given before.
As opposed to a Musk funded media organisation.
Would like to see a yearly benchmark's for models like this!
province - an administrative district or division of a country

Is that not close enough to how states in Australia work that you can accept the mistake and move on?
No, but I think the billionaires may have had a headsup concerning the models that were being built by OpenAi and others using the published research, and the capabilities and rates of progress of those models. Google supposedly sat (and is still sitting) on AI systems that, while perhaps not on par with GPT-3.5/4, were still much better than what they and others made publicly available, out of fear that it would damage their brand (by saying offensive things) and cannibalize their search business.
Its street fighting engineers vs marvel superhero engineers.
Faster than light travel is not as impossible as adding two plus two and getting three, but it's more impossible than almost everything else a normal person thinks of as being impossible.

Her glazing-over of the causality paradox is also seriously weak. She's playing with language and spaceship directions instead of applying the least-convenient-possible-world principle to her argument. Instead of her two spaceships going two directions, how about a single one going in a circle faster than light? Like I get it, I hate it too, but you can't just dismiss it like that.
I'd say the proportion of developers that are able to write good, readable, documentation is about the same proportion as those who can write good, readable code.
Yes it is just encryption at rest and their API access mechanisms automatically apply the encrypt or decrypt action on your behalf. If your access is leaky encryption doesnt buy you anything.

I take special offense to teams who store Terraform state in S3 and claim "it's encrypted" when it is so easy for other users in the same AWS account can easily access the buckets contents.

GCS is slightly more secure but you really need client side encryption to be safest.
The aerodynamics checks out from my experience. I have one and when you drive it below highway speeds it seems to have great range. Would not surprise me if you got real close to model 3 range at 40mph. On the highway at high speeds the range is slightly worse than its advertised range at more like 210 miles vs advertised 230.

I was just curious since I always assumed the model 3 had a bigger battery but hadn’t checked.

It’s good enough for my uses and I still prefer it to a gas car for multiple reasons including zero latency acceleration.
>>Have you asked those workers?

you clearly did not understand my statement. I would specifically not get the accurate results by "asking the workers" as my claim is about revealed preferences, not stated preferences [1]. There are alots of things people claim to value when you ask them, but releval they really dont when to enter the marketplace. For example "Made in America".. people often claim they would happily pay considerable amounts more for a product if ti was "made in America" but then when presented with options they mostly choose the cheaper product regardless of where it is made revealing they do not place that much value in the nation of origin.

Similarly people often claim they want more time off, however their reveled preference by looking at their actions tell a much different story.

>Again, that is a very American thing, too

yes, it is and given we are talking about an American Company, American Unions, and American Retail stores I think talking about American work culture is relevant. People from Europe have never, and likely will never understand it, and people from American have never and will never understand Europe work culture. Personally though I am tried of Europeans being arrogant enough to claim their way is the correct, proper and only way, and that Americans are all being taken advantage of, abused, etc because we do not get 150 days off a year and do not allow our government to control our health........

>>Of course you'd take increased wages instead of anything just because there are little to no saftey net anywhere to guarantee that your vacation time won't end up in a horrible unrecoverable disaster of some sort.

While that may be true for some people, allow me to give my privileged position as an example. I created my own Safety net. I am more or less debt free, I own my home, I have enough in liquid assets to cover my expenses for a year, I have enough in less than liquid assets to cover me for a few years... I still will take increases in pay over more time off, I am just not interested in time off. I probably will continue to work well past the time I am able to financially retire.. I am not unique in America

As to more general safety nets... It is untrue that America lacks any safety nets for people. One of the most often cited negative about America by Europeans is actually one of those safety nets. Bankruptcy, which contrary to both international and domestic stigma is does not leave one destitute, homeless or anything of the sort and has LOTS of protections for people built into the system.

Then there are TON of government programs for Poor people.

In reality is the working lower middle class that have it the worst, people above the 25th percentile of income, and below the 75th percentile of income. Those are the struggling Americans.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revealed-preference.asp
Exhaust filters just displace what they catch from one place to another. D/GPFs burn-off the trapped particulates in the form of soot whenever the ECU detects suitable driving conditions.
>Yes, because Congress is at fault. ... If the laws are bad, it is unequivocally the legislature's fault.

Congress is only operating under the constraints of voters and corporations. Just try to be the proverbial "good Congressperson" and see how fast you get voted out in favor of a well-funded rival appearing from nowhere.

The same is true of the CEO of Exxon, incidentally. You could magically swap the head of Greenpeace in there, but that person will still be constrained by the obligation to shareholders (among other things, via the threat of removal).

It's not the individual people at fault, the problem is the emergent behavior of the system itself. You can't fix it by swapping out "bad" people for "good" people. It doesn't work.

>Dissent is fine, but it is at best unproductive

I don't think the civil rights movement was unproductive.
It’s been stated by others but I’m going to repeat it once more, one of the best blogs out there!!! The way it’s written, the whole style of it, the photos, the subject… the mix of all these things leaves you wanting more. For sure I’d pay if it was subscription based and was more frequent :-)
LFM 10x rockstar/street-fighter (no LLMs!) SWEs PST
Just wait until you find out how restaurants treat their employees. Or how grocery stores do. Or farms for that matter.

The plight of well paid IT employees is not at the top of the list of reasonable concerns.
There is plenty of history in the tech industry to show that valuations are not terribly meaningful.

Theranos?
That's quite the rebuttal to an argument I didn't make.

I was neither supporting nor opposing the idea of disabling the ability to use S3 publicly. While I agree with the new default I would not support removal of the feature.
I fixed it, doesn't matter though it's flagged.
The part that had me scratching my head was this. Atari went from founding in 1972 to $40M in revenue in 1974, and Bushnell sold the company for $28M in 1976, and revenue was $120M the next year.

Why did Bushnell sell for so cheap? I realize that revenue is not the same as profits, but with a growth ramp like that, I'd expect it to sell for more than $28M.
I don't have it either (joined wait list first day), but you got to be more positive on social media like this where they can see you. For example you can translate your rant to a more friendly one with gpt:

--

Hey there fellow AI enthusiasts,

I was wondering if any of you have had the opportunity to access GPT-4 (API) yet? I'm really excited to start using it for my health-related project and research for an entertainment company, but unfortunately I haven't been granted access yet.

I was wondering if any of you have any tips on what we can do in the meantime while we wait for access? I'm really eager to get started but I don't want to fall behind the competition.

Thanks so much in advance for any help or advice you can offer.
You need to explain your thoughts better.
I’ve had my time wasted too

“We just want to see how you think”

really meaning they wanted unit tests, client side caching, and a particular design pattern

or really meaning they didn't want you to go outside the scope

or really meaning that they didn't even know that budget for their whole department could be revoked, so you wasted your time even if the single gatekeeper didn’t arbitrarily move the goal posts on you

in my experience, nobody can even tell you the details
of what the “technical assessment“ will be, I’ve expected coderpads and instead gotten surprise screen sharing requests for using my own IDE, requiring an environment that isn’t even currently set up on that computer if I normally use a work laptop for the last who knows how long. I’ve NEVER seen a takehome project have some clear prewritten unit tests that the outcome had to conform to, I don't think this is a realistic request in this day and age.
Capable enough LLMs are human level for lots of things. Reinforcement learning from ai feedback is a thing (the anthropic claude models use that). Strictly speaking, it's not necessary to have humans in the loop for a lot of these things.

Some are hesitant to admit we've created human level general intelligence but saying otherwise doesn't really hold up to scrutiny.
LoRa has been pretty popular and untill the llama leak was not aware of it, maybe will see something cool out of the open assistant project, we have a lot of English and Spanish prompts and was crazy to see people doing an massive open source project for ML.
They can be modified to produce qualities of output that are unique. This puts them back in the realm of individual control. I will put the human in the artificial in a way that is not true with the industrial models.
I assume they have paid in advance already, as I inferred from text. And yes, of course, everyone bills until formal cancellation, at least here in Switzerland.
eventually we will have our personal AI tuned on our own data over time. Maybe we will be upgrading the foundation model, but the tuning would be personal.

At least I hope so.
IMHO, the whole art of software engineering is to get it right on a case by case basis.

There is no one rule for that. Sometimes it is fine to assume that the user will "do it right" (it is fine to assume that a military pilot learns how to fly the plane before taking off), sometimes it is not (it is not fine to assume that a customer using an ATM knows how to build a Linux kernel).

The whole point of software engineering is to build an abstraction that makes sense for the targeted user. This requires experience (which is tricky considering that most developers have less than 5 years experience :-) ).
Thanks for the warning, almost fell for it...
First, 10x devs are so pathetic to read about, but:

What I like with this article is the difference in how you approach a problem depending on how you are functioning as a human being. Of course it is nowhere near of the real world, but I think all of us can identify people we worked with who are really efficient on both of these "sides".
I think there's a case to be made for the bottom of the market being the important part.

The aspects of LLMs that resemble AGI are pretty exciting, but there's a huge playspace for using the model just as an interface, a slightly smarter one that will understand the specific computing tasks you're looking for and connect them up with the appropriate syntax without requiring direct encoding.

A lot of what software projects come down to is in the syntax, and a conversational interface that can go a little bit beyond imperative command and a basic search box creates possibilities for new types of development environments.
This is what I’m looking for, but I also need the device to only store the collected metrics on my phone, and not send it to some company’s servers. So far I think it’s just the Apple watches that meet that criteria.
Maybe for oversight and liability.
Jon Stewart blasts ‘corruption’ in Pentagon spending priorities
Wait, how does GPT-4 even...

Does it benefit from its visual attention, or is it a case of "the question wasn't in GPT-3's training set but it was in GPT-4's"?
They can apply for a research grant, the EU does give a lot.

But if it goes the way of the Human Brain Project, it will alter course next year and become 100 small projects

Besides, our laws make it virtually impossible to train these models without getting sued. Not to talk about their output, a defamation lawsuit magnet.

EU is pretty much locked out of the future of AI
There are lots of weird and crazy people reading and writing on Less Wrong, for sure. Do you think that, without gut microbes and emotions, AI will never become intelligent enough to be existentially dangerous? Are those essential to its ability to outsmart humans?
It's not hostile in the sense of hating us, it's just a maximizer, and when you're smart enough and try to maximize one thing (or some function of multiple things), anything that's not in your utility function gets sacrificed. Humanity maximized for cheap energy, and for a long time, the carbon composition of the atmosphere was not in our utility function. Now that's clear we might be killing ourselves by doing it, we're working it in, but if it turned out that CO2 was only dangerous to, say, several species that we didn't care about, it's very likely we'd just accept it as the cost of progress.

Why not just train an AI to care about humanity then? One problem is in defining actually what it means to care about or preserve humanity. Another problem is creating an AI that actually internalizes this as a goal, instead of just saying the things we want to hear until it gains enough power that we are not a factor in its plans anymore.

It's probably possible to align an AI, it's just not a problem we've solved yet. We've seen many, many, ways in which things can go wrong with less-intelligent AIs, and there's no reason to think that things will just magically somehow be easier as the AI gets more intelligent.
Except those were not actual bonds and it was clear by how they work that they were junior to equity
I was about to say “Like a Fitbit?”, but apparently they all have screens now.
It's interesting to see someone trying to decide the invention clock in the real world...
Chicken chicken chicken [academic paper]
People are usually driven by basic operant conditioning, not safety-aware abstract principles.

In the 2000s everyone was hyper aware of privacy issues, putting personal information online, safety, etc. However the last 15 years of people doing more and more risky stuff with allowing systems and computers to store and use their data and only getting benefits and more fun videos to watch, there's no internal shared concern to act in accordance to every possible safety principle.

People just want the cool chatbot to do their work for them. Especially with the scale of FOMO with these things, no one is going to sit back and not be risky when they read that other people are saving many hours a day letting ChatGPT do their work for them. Until something really bad happens people aren't going to change their behavior.
This is a very common environment in large companies.

If you're working on an existing service and not building new features/functionality (E.g. you're improving scaling or optimizing performance like he mentions) the problem space is usually pretty well defined and you can mostly just put your head down and work.
Yup. Absolutely long for a smaller/better version of the original jawbone. I have a watch, I love it. I'd wear a fitness tracker
on the other wrist if it didn't look like a watch (or a fitness tracker).
The creator of http://haxeui.org/ makes a lot of (closed) projects for the health sector.
I personally like to use to make some wxwidgets utilities apps with it. (And being able the html5 js target and android/ios (with openfl) target.
It's even more interesting when you consider how much bigger China and the US are compared to Australia.

Edit: although I do wonder if all the "planned" projects will become reality
Until any of this is codified it seems to be just a glorified "please don't be bad" oped.

> You should be protected from abusive data practices via built-in protections and you should have agency over how data about you is used.

And considering some of these suggestions completely go against current data practices, I doubt any such ratification will happen.
This is pretty alarming tbh. Anyone already making a pivot out of SWE?
at work we run pgbouncer on 4 vCPU (GCP c2-standard-4) machines, at 60% load, and they do ~15k TPS at peak, however we only peak at ~45k connections per node.

however, i think that you may have a lot left on the table in terms of optimizations that can be made. these numbers seem far under the performance of what i know beam to be capable.
Probably a dumb question, but would mass-batterification leave our society extremely vulnerable to EMP?
Now do the VAT. Almost everyone who does the math on this (counting healthcare as a tax in the US) finds that only considering the income portion of your taxes, it's about equal. In most places in Europe, you also have the VAT acting as an extra tax. Your tax burden would be a lot higher.

Also, you must be thinking of your marginal rate being 33% - your federal taxes should be under 20% of your income at $170k, even if filing as single. In Germany, your tax rate would be about 27%.
Comments like this are unhelpful and unproductive. That team is totally independent and does some great work and has continued to be a totally community driven project.
I’ve actually beat the streisand effect before by not responding.

The crowd gets bored and my DMCA requests flurry out a month later and all evidence disappears, individuals that might notice dont have the crowd to amplify that they noticed.

You can call that “tacit consent” if you want. But streisand removes all leverage.