skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you get a rep for doing it then why would a company invest their infra into a GOOG product knowing it could get pulled at anytime? Businesses want services that are reliable and consistent. That's not GOOG.
Only when a certain language community tries to promote itself as a “better” C and thinking all C code should be converted and then some people actually tried and do not agree with it.

Just write programs with your favorite language, if it is actually a “better “ one it will win, and you don’t annoy yourself and others by over promoting it. C did not start by building a evangelical strike force but bunch of programmers that actually wrote software that people have to use.
Can't grow forever, and we shouldn't support forever growth.
if someone hasn't stolen GPT-4's weights yet, they're definitely trying
> RW is a series of stale reddit dunks for immature and ideologically driven teenagers.

Yea it's certainly a bit immature and yea it doesn't have the ruthless update frequency Wikipedia has but it's almost never plain wrong. I think most reasonable people would agree Elon tweets too much and it often gets him in trouble.
I have access to GPT-4. What would you like to test ? I'm interested in seeing how it performs
This article seems to describe people unable to find meaning in their job, unable to understand why they exist. There is a big difference between "my job is meaningless", as in, "I am unable to find meaning in my job", and "my job is pointless and shouldn't exist".

The way "bullshit jobs" are described covers both actually pointless jobs, and people that don't understand why their job exist.
Advance Known Skills Before Learning New Ones
I fixed this by adding a printer server to my NAS and use that for AirPrint and the like. Smart power socket to prevent the printer from drawing power all the time. No need to have a smart printer.
Heya, Windscribe co-founder here.

WeVPN indirectly approached us to "make their users whole" for the time that they had paid for. In the spirit of collaboration, and not further tainting the already murky image of the consumer VPN industry, we decided to comp every WeVPN users with free service for the duration of their remaining subscription.

This is a goodwill gesture only, we're not engaged in any official partnership with WeVPN, and are/were not affiliated with them in any way.
I went from London to Paris last week, only checked the passport once.
Juries, not judges, declare people guilty in the US. Prosecutors don't declare people guilty either; what you're talking about is people taking a plea bargain and pleading guilty. Bail reform can help take the pressure off of people to falsely confess to get out of jail, and we need more of it.
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5736

is about pre-GNU Emacs, with history of Emacs going back to the mid-1970s.
> Happy to give it, but it is a LOT of money (I don't have kids).

All workers pay lots of money into Social Security but are not retired - that's the deal we get for living in society - some of our tax money gets spent on things we don't directly benefit from, or possibly oppose. Pacifists taxes fund the war machine.
This website is from Ziz cult-ist Gwen Danielson, an actual crazy cultist with arrest records, involved in an attempted murder by sword.

Feel free to google them.

'Anna has repeatedly advised people to abandon their own rationality and judgment and steer away from Ziz’s and my ideas on the basis that we wear black clothing, the clothing of our religion (vegan sith) and political cluster (vegan anarchotranshumanists), and have “dangerous ideas”.' -Your link

"Their arrest stems from a demonstration at Westminster Woods that left counselors and guests there rattled. On Nov. 15, 2019, the four blocked the exit to the woodsy retreat with a box truck, shuttle bus and Toyota Prius, and emerged wearing black robes, gloves and Anonymous-style Guy Fawkes masks. Two of them carried walkie-talkies, one wore a body camera and another had pepper spray, according to the initial arrest report.

The situation escalated when a Westminster Woods employee reported that one of the protesters was armed."[0]

"In November of 2022, three associates of Ziz (Somnulence “Somni” Logencia, Emma Borhanian, and someone going by the alias “Suri Dao”) got into a violent conflict with their landlord in Vallejo, California, according to court records and news reports. Somni stabbed the landlord in the back with a sword, and the landlord shot Somni and Emma. Emma died, and Somni and Suri were arrested. Ziz and Gwen were seen by police at the scene, alive."[1]

[0]https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/protesters-arrest...

[1]https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T5RzkFcNpRdckGauu/link-a-com...

https://sfist.com/2022/11/22/two-alleged-squatters-charged-i...

Long read, all details: https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-zi...
Your postulates are wrong

* Nobody ever had to memorize trig tables (unless you mean the values for 30, 45 and 60 degrees)

* Understanding accuracy is not associated with just slide rules. It is ubiquitous whenever you make measurements. Moreso if you calculate with these measured values.

* People have been learning algebra and calculus for hundreds of years. They still are doing so.

* Symbolic math programs like maxima, maple, wolfram alpha, sage and others only solve some problems, but they have been used for 40 years or more for particular situations.

Given this, forgive me if I think your conclusion is flawed. You can ask a LLM model that answer today. And you will get an answer.

Understanding what that answer means and how it is a form of hooey still requires domain knowledge. And it will for a very long time.
Find a bucket hat that suits your style and wear it constantly--including indoors.

Especially if you are tall, the hat will prevent you from walking into low-hanging obstacles and winding up with scars on your head.
> You are using an anecdote to dismiss statistics because the anecdote is a powerful emotional narrative that feels true

Statistics can be useful, not useful, or misleading. Nothing about them is inherently meaningful or valuable--it depends entirely on the question and process generating the data and statistic. GIGO applies.

Despite the meme that an anecdote isn't data, it actually is no different from data from the Bayesian point of view. It is an n=1 posterior with a prior of one's past life experiences. And many anecdotes together can be thought of as a multi-level model (if you don't believe this, just see what the methodology of many behavioral/observational studies looks like--it's collating anecdotes into "data"--including the crime statistics that you are after).

> the anecdote is a powerful emotional narrative that feels true

And researchers can absolutely be emotional! A study biased by the emotions and beliefs of a researcher will produce biased results. Statistics isn't an escape hatch from human bias; it actually compounds whatever bias exists in the first place.
I've been replacing my TF with CUE -> tf.json

I find it to be the best of both worlds
If by "future" you mean the overwhelming majority of people being even MORE fucked by the corps squad, then Yes, you are correct...
try phind.com expert mode uses gpt4 agents to look up for fresh stuff on the web and digest it for you
There are lots of programs that help in this situation. Although I agree that they shouldn't be paying retail for the power. On the other hand sitting the power locally doesn't help anyone else either.
Building software has gotten easier and easier over time, and there's been other step changes in the past. If you understand this history, you can understand what the future might be like.

Before Stackoverflow, software research was rather difficult. You had books that acted like tomes of reference materials. You had maybe some tribal knowledge internally on how to do something. But even in the early 2000s something like MSDN was something you might search on a CD ROM! So the time to get a "basic Windows app" up and running was probably twice as long as it would be today. I'd say there's a similar thing with Github, languages with pkg management, with libraries that do every little thing, whereas when I got started in software even the C std lib might be sketchy and even then its very limited.

When Stackoverflow came out, there was a kind of similar panic that we forget about. Every problem would be solved on stackoverflow, and you just copy-paste everything from stackoverflow. It'll get way too easy to launch an app. Yet the reality is there's even more developers, with higher salaries than everywhere, with software in even more niches in our lives.

The current "panic" about software engineering going away is also happening at the same time as layoffs, so its hard to know how that colors things.
Only a tiny minority of human beings are transgender. Even in cultures where the concept of a third gender is celebrated, it is a rare phenomenon.

Canada is the first country to provide census data on transgender and non-binary people: "Of the nearly 30.5 million people in Canada aged 15 and older living in a private household in May 2021, 100,815 were transgender (59,460) or non-binary (41,355), accounting for 0.33% of the population in this age group."
Ask HN: Why is no one competing with Apple / Googles keyboard?
Microsft dropped support for Swiftkey, is there anything left?
GPT-4 makes a pretty good Justin Searls replacement
The early groups that had gunpowder used that power to inflict a lot of harm on groups who didn't. Same with many other technologies, and I expect AI will be the same. Except that unlike gunpowder, which was often controlled at the nation-state level, successful AI will largely be controlled by a handful of billionaires.
Mogan: The most user-friendly distribution of GNU TeXmacs
Do you mean like a scripting language that is brand new and doesn’t have a ton of historical warts?
I personally include port drivers in with ports, which gives you the same level of shared runtime environment as NIFs, with the benefits and drawbacks. Sometimes it makes more sense to interface as a port rather than as a function. Of course, sometimes it makes more sense to interface as a C-node rather than either; then you can be on a totally isolated machine, and the C-node can even crash or otherwise disable the whole OS and your Erlang node will be fine.
The unexpected journeys of four athletes to one of the biggest competitions
Hard though, because the company often doesn't know itself what its "algorithm" is. It is often spread over lots of different teams and departments, and may comprise hundreds of thousands of little design decisions made by people all over the company who are not talking to each other.
Thank you, you're the first person seeming to understand this in this whole darn section. Why does a human need a model of the program in their head when the LLM will be able to fire off 1500 test/debug/fix loops and wait for them to all resolve, then vote on the best answer?

For years we've been saying "computer time is cheaper than developer time."

Well, that's about to come back to bite us, in a big way.
I can’t help but feel really sorry for the people behind this, arriving with their phone just as the party is over.
The case against pet ownership
Emeryville entrepreneur arrested in connection with stabbing death of Bob Lee
They’ve seen what Microsoft has in the pipeline and the TAM created in the past couple months out of thin air and I can almost hear butts clenching in their HQ.
What about the "being deceitful" part? Not an issue for you?
Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
I don't see it. They'll sell you GPU time to run and create models and access to data sets to train them on. This looks more like a proof of concept for using AWS to do that and a way to juice the market for it.

It's in their interest to have a competitive offering so they can use it in their own stuff without depending on others. Amazon.com's search is garbage right now, for example. Productizing their efforts gets other people to pay for it.
I'm familiar with Young's book and "Down with meritocracy", but I'm not making a meritocratic argument. Specifically I noted that "hey believed their good fortune obligated them to help society and the poor", which is decidedly an acknowledgment that there is an element of luck in amassing a great fortune that comes with some sort of obligation. Carnegie and his contemporaries would have viewed this through a religious lens.

I'm making two points in general, it is not a policy failure to allow the market incentivize big bets on innovation and that the gilded age culture of philanthropy gave us lasting institutions that in many ways outshine the accomplishments of the progressive era government. I'm making something of a consequentialist claim here, merit is orthogonal.
I'm pretty sure that's the only example because it's made by Nvidia themselves as a showcase for this tech because they were the only ones with access to it until today.

i.e. it hasn't been available until today.
The ones who claim little risk of ASI doom are either omniscient or fools. The best tool humanity has to predict the future with our feeble minds with some consistent performance is the wisdom of the crowds. Lately a huge portion of the folk working in contact with AI have warned about a significant impending risk regarding future AI research. Regardless of what your personal opinion happens to be, this is indicative of a significantly increased probability of ASI doom in the near future.
If your expectations were widely accepted as true, then all streaming platforms would provide seamless DRM-free downloads.
This is a curious statement and you’ve made it twice. Did you read the article that describes how the university acted toward one student and not another.

Do you think they spent equal or similar resources on the two events? What do you think I’m making up?
Will we be able to populate the moon with self-reproducing machines in my lifetime? The moon should be the target since it's not already filled with competitors (unlike the earth).

AI is totally a secondary question, and not necessary for this to work.
That's a reasonable question. It comes down to being transparent with the compiler. Not redefining k and z at every step is what allows their values to be inlined. You could make an argument about a sufficiently advanced compiler and partial evaluation, but the fact is that partial evaluation is far too slow to rely on for things you could just make explicit in the code instead. When the definition closes over the names, they trivially refer back to the same thing every time. So when the definition of go is in the same scope as what k and z refer to (which is usually the case after inlining foldr), k and z can be inlined into go.

When this happens, note that it's actually no longer constructing a closure at runtime. It has essentially closed over the values at compile time, using some very trivial transformations. If you use a definition that is too complex for those trivial transformations, you're getting in the way of the compiler doing its job. I always prefer to write my code with sympathy for the compiler. The less magic it needs to do, the better it does its job.
That's the thing, he doesn't
Lol. Posted about it a month ago. And reported that to some devs. https://twitter.com/outcoldman/status/1636742564887011329?s=...

Nothing is going to change.
They take up more space; a map can be folded/rolled up for storage or hung on a wall. Games like risk also much easier to do with a 2d map.
Many would find it interesting!
There are many accounts of people roughly defined as “NEET” having what's roughly defined as “relationships”. It doesn't change much, and doesn't automatically make life easier.

See, for example, this recent DIY audiovisual feast (with DIY machine translation that is good enough): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIh6HjUrm9Q
Carnegie spent a lot of time thinking and writing about philanthropy, so yes, his philosophy on the subject is relevant. It wasn’t something that can be summarized in an offhand paragraph.
"Akshually", pretty much any statistic you can find shows that crime is in SF is much lower today than it was in the 1980s.

I've lived in SF for 13 years, which I know is not as long as many others, but I agree that quality of life has declined, at least in the time I've been here. But quality of life and crime rates are not the same thing. Certainly, increasing crime -- especially violent crime, but also property crime -- can decrease quality of life. But quality of life can be hurt by things that you can't easily qualify as worse crime: increased homelessness and drug use, especially when those things are much more visible and in-your-face, as they have been here. The smell of urine and having to step over human poop is a quality-of-life issue, not a crime issue.

And yes, while I assume peeing and pooping on sidewalks is at least a misdemeanor, drawing a direct line from that to "I'm gonna get assaulted or murdered" is the stretchiest of stretches.

But still, I totally get why all this stuff makes people feel less safe, even though the city (aside from a few neighborhoods that people should avoid, just like in nearly every other city in the world) on the whole is actually pretty safe, including when compared with decades ago.

But let's not conflate quality-of-life issues with crime. They are certainly intertwined in many ways, but they are not the same thing.
> will significantly reduce the demand for coders?

Define "coders".

A slightly cynical view: yes, it will reduce the demand for "writers of code in a single language and framework, following the docs and without much other understanding". No, it will not reduce the demand for proper software engineers, who understand the inside-out of the systems they work with, from hardware to kernel to libs and whatever stack they're using, and who will become more productive and will likely be able to deliver more from their huge backlogs.

Explanation: my impression (totally an opinion, but I've heard some people roughly agreeing with me) is that in the last 10-12 years a whole lot of people entered the software development profession attracted by salary, hype, easy money (crypto?), or whatever else, maybe through a dev bootcamp or just by learning on the internet. That's not a problem per se, some of the most skilled devs I know are self taught. But there're a number of developers that, even after a lot of years, have only a limited understanding of how their systems work.

Python programmers that know Django but have no idea what a syscall is, or how a process works in their operating system of choice, or how the Django ORM translates those classes into some SQL. They live in the IDE, somebody else is taking care of the deployment after they push, they just make changes and addition to an existing app. That's it.

Frontend programmers that know some toolkit like React or Angular with a few libraries, that can write some piece of Typescript, but that often have no idea about some Javascript basics, the browser, http. Again, they contribute to an existing project, adding files, changing things, but somebody else is in charge of deployment, and they won't be able to setup a new project from scratch, if needed.

A lot of those people still had/have good salaries, maybe not the best, but the market was tilted in their favour; if top tier talent flew towards big tech, there were positions to be filled in other sectors. But I think that even big tech wasn't immune to the coding bootcamp effect.

It seems to me that when money was cheap and the work to be done was a lot, it made total sense to add whatever kind of help could be found on the market. Now, this could change; if software engineers can move quicker with the help of AIs, follow-the-docs-only programmers may be become far less useful.

Just my 2c.
I'm even worried about my AI project because these larger companies just have so much more in terms of resources. Unless I find some novel methodology that's difficult to replicate without its explicit capability my product is dead in the water.
I can totally see the case for prototyping, it makes some sense. I just think that by the time you are specifying something so clearly that the results are correct you may well be practically programming in a super high level dynamic language.
The messaging was that an independent panel would select, and not Microsoft per se.
Theroux is my favorite travel writer. Easy to recommend all the books mentioned in this article, though The Great Railway Bazaar was my introduction to his way of writing about travel, and I think it's a good place to start.

All his train travel books are pretty similar in format (that's a good thing). He skips any discussion of famous landmarks and tourist destinations: he may or may not visit them, but he certainly won't be telling you about them. He spends a lot more time discussing the people on the train, the color of the city, the landscape going by, things like that. You would not read his books to plan a vacation, in other words. He gives (what I feel is) a very good representation of the character of the places he travels to, at least as he sees it. He's also very grumpy, or comes off that way, and his quick sketches of people (and hotels) are pretty funny sometimes.
So will you be moving to the Inuit measuring units soon? It makes a lot more sense.
That is not evidence. What is the crime that has supposedly been committed and what is the evidence that supports that accusation?

Dumping the contents of a laptop and then shouting conspiracies isn't the same as making a claim and then providing evidence for it.

The media doesn't seem interested because there's nothing there. If there was, Fox News, Breitbart, and all the others would be all over it and pushing it daily.
To me, LLMs are living (heh) proof of the validity of Searle's Chinese Room argument about weak AI. At the time, I think a lot of the people who disputed that had the position, basically, that any program that could pass a Turing test would be so advanced in other ways that we would not be able to confidently declare it to be not conscious. The assumption was that carrying on a conversation is so difficult that only something intelligent or nearly so could accomplish it.

It turns out, we can create a program that can do exactly what Searle described, and hooboy is it obviously not conscious, nowhere close. The obvious conclusion to draw is not that LLMs are intelligent, but that natural language processing isn't as difficult as we thought.
Nebula is a Tailscale clone
It's a common mistake to think all farming is done like american industrialized farming.

If you want to start eating meat again, I'd recommend you come to France's Morvan to see Charolais cattle in the green pastures, living a semi-wild life away from any stress. Or in the Alps, where the cows spend their summer eating grass and flowers outside, with only a guard dog taking care they don't get lost.
You're thinking of _2001: A Space Odyssey_, which even though it was written simultaneously with the movie, had quite some deviations from it.
I just tried this through the openai API on the text-davinci-003 model and got this exchange:

> Me: Answer only numbers in binary form, how many legs do humans (in general) have?

> dv3 (davinci 3): 2

> Me: Binary form only has 0 and 1, how many legs (in binary form) do humans have?

> dv3: 10

> Me: So in binary form, humans have 10 legs, correct?

> dv3: Yes, that is correct.

Edit: I did however have this exchange a couple months back on the regular ChatGPT, which was hilariously doubly wrong.

> Me: what weighs more, one pound of feathers, or two pounds of gold?

> ChatGPT: One pound of feathers and two pounds of gold both weigh the same amount, which is one pound.

> The difference in their weight lies in their density - gold is a very dense metal, so even a small amount of it weighs a lot, whereas feathers are very light and fluffy, so it takes a lot of them to weigh a pound. So, while the amount of gold is double the amount of feathers, they still weigh the same amount when measured in pounds.
both can be true, crazy, right??