skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1998, fresh out of school, I was making 50K a year. A few years later, late 2001, at a dot-bomb, middle of nowhere east coast, I was making 75K a year.

Looking back, those early career gains were huge. And yeah, inflation is painful.
All the more reason Twitter should support open protocols! They might have a hard time competing if they work against the industry rather than with it. Especially if Elon is dumb enough to keep sticking his nose in politics.

> But the users are still on Twitter so it is important to reach them.

Let's not be naive. Some people are on Twitter, but other people only have a flip phone or laptop, or nothing at all. There are better ways to prevent people from falling through the cracks then telling them to just align with the most popular platform. Especially since the keys to the kingdom just got ritually passed-down from Dumb to Dumber.

Twitter will keep it's bots and probably it's influencers too, but this level of unreliability is just a collision course with obsolescence. Governments, public orgs and nonprofits will all think twice before setting up a Twitter now.
It has evil-mode now, so that problem is solved :)
> What do we do when most novels are mostly AI generated?

Much of modern fiction is farmed out or padded for page count. ChatGPT may be the death of anonymous online writing communities. It doesn't portend is the end of fiction or writing altogether.
Anyone remember AolTurkey?
If AI enables a 12 year old in India to write the code of a 2019 software developer then that is a positive for the earth. If someone is upset that they're losing their lunch to their skillset that earned them an outrageous salary then might I suggest they, and I, learn to augment your productivity with the skills or take up something with better permanence like drywall or plumbing.
This study presents a gene expression marker for recent thymic emigrants and shows variability increases with age: https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/93739/figure/5

A much older study with different markers shows something similar: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.070061597
It's vexing to discuss issues like these because at their nature they're quite partisan, but the calling out is simply an acknowledgement rather than a partisan response.
At inference time, an LLM does not have access to all its training data either.
From GTP-4 (or maybe this is bullshitting too?):

I believe vba616 is trying to point out that if we consider AI systems that
generate plausible-sounding responses to be "bullshitting," then we should
also acknowledge that humans who do the same are not necessarily
distinguishable from "intelligent" humans. In other words, both AI systems
and humans can produce seemingly coherent responses without necessarily
having a deep understanding of the subject matter.

It raises the question of whether we should hold AI systems to the same
standard as humans when it comes to evaluating their output or
understanding. If we accept that humans can sometimes provide plausible yet
shallow answers, should we not also accept that AI systems, like LLMs, can
do the same?
I would say that someone looking at all the problems that Mississippi has, while existing inside the richest country in human history, and saying “well, it’s not as bad as XYZ poor country” is a textbook example of the nihilism and failed imagination that has led us to wealth inequality and declining lifespans.
This is like all other rocket companies undermining what spacex is doing as not a big deal. You can keep arguing semantics while they keep putting actual satellites and people into orbit every month.

I use chatGPT every day to solve real problems as if it’s my assistant, and most people with actual intelligence I know do as well. People with “experience in the field”, in my opinion can often get a case of sour grapes that they internalize and project with their seeming expertise and go blind to persist some sense of calm to avoid reality.
ELI5: The atmosphere is pushing back against you, like how you feel wind when you run, but as you go higher in the air there is less of it to push back against you, so at a certain point the push back is less.
That's not very helpful either. Sometimes folks on HN will chime in with anecdotes and other tidbits that are impossible to find on the web. That's one of the great reasons for coming here.
It's an absolute delight to see this at the top of HN! I spent a good 8 years trying to convince people to use AOLserver over Zope as part of OpenACS (https://openacs.org).

AOLserver is still used in .LRN (https://dotlrn.org) which is why the GitHub repo is still alive.
> piano maker reproduces capital, the pianist only exchanges his labour for revenue

Literally why we have intellectual property. So you can capitalize your intellectual work.
We've been on this track before. Even more will be toiling in the dirt. Quite literally when AI takes every job that doesn't involve physical labor.
humans don't always give faithful reasoning either just so you know. even removing any willful obfuscation, we simply don't know all the biases that can influence a certain action. even more than that, Your brain will happily make up a reason for an action. This is demonstrated in the split brain experiments. Knowing that, if what it says in response to a given problem can meaningfully change output for the better following its directive later then what else ? might as well go with it
And by bleeding edge you mean stable.
Standardizing BPF
VB progz are literally at the root of the origin story behind I'm even here, now, writing this comment on this website. Seriously changed my life by compelling me to find an answer to the question "how did they build this?", which led me to coding. 25 years later and here I am.
And yet, real people, with a wide variety of views, still live in these places. They can't just hop off to <insert favorable political city here> whenever they want and virtue signal like rich SWEs on here. There are plenty of people in Texas that believe the same thing about those kids, and they are there, fighting for them.
> I learned that there's a whole corner of the web where Japan never left web 1.0 design.

Examples?
> When technology destroys work people don't like to do, it's progress.

The Luddites would beg to differ.

People don't work because they like it, they work because they need to. "Work" that doesn't support your livelihood is correctly referred to as "play."

The interesting thing is how society differently reacts when different classes of people lose their work due to progress.
But hey, at least we have a great JavaScript ecosystem now, right guys? Right? Sigh. I too miss the good old days.
I don’t know either way but DDG led me here [1]

> The largest automobile manufacturing facility in the world for Toyota, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) is able to produce 550,000 vehicles and more than 600,000 engines per year. Two years after breaking ground in Georgetown, Kentucky,

> Where are the majority of Toyotas produced?

> The majority of Toyota vehicles you see on the road are made in your own country.

This does read like marketing material from Toyota itself so I don’t know if it’s the most trustworthy. So I look at [2]. Toyota makes 8.1M cars globally.

> the assembly of Toyota vehicles in North America came to around 1.75 million units.

So nearly 20% of worldwide production is assembled in the US. 2.3M cars are sold in the US [3]. So doesn’t seem unreasonable to say that the vast majority of Toyota cars are assembled in the US. It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s more broadly true for other Japanese manufacturers.

Do you have a better explanation of your viewpoint?

[1] https://gearshifters.org/toyota/where-does-toyota-manufactur...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267272/worldwide-vehicle...

[3] https://www.best-selling-cars.com/brands/2021-full-year-glob...
It was a bear to maintain large codebases with. AOLserver could have won had move languages been built into the server (python, perl, etc) but Tcl was so well integrated trying to bring another language to its level would have been far too much work
I recall a few Falcon 9 launches that ended up with 8 engines. It is definitely designed to handle that (although maybe not for the extreme performance cases? Not sure)

At least once they lost the booster when they were planning on recovering it because they had to run the ascent phase on only 8 engines and burned enough extra fuel the booster didn't have enough fuel to complete the boost back and landing.
I got my father-in-law to give me a freestyle sensor, which was region-locked. I ended up buying one of these[0], and it worked well to get the data into healthkit

0: https://www.ambrosiasys.com/product/waterproof-nightrider-bl...
Larger vehicles have less stringent emissions regulations.

Or something along those lines.
Did you lose your livelihood because your iPad made composing easier?

If not, then technology didn't destroy your work.
About 10 teams, some horizontals like Ops, commercial, design, tech, finance, some product specific KPIs & 2-3 project based teams.

I'm going to need to push to keep the number of KPIs down but 5 per horizontal is reasonable.
Indeed, not the publishers are trusted but rather their authorisation of a delegated publishing action taking or haven taken place in their name.

The name is inaccurate and even misleading in a way that actively undermines the purpose of the entire initiative itself. A mistake which I believe only a name change can and should fix.
It was built on the Arsdigita Community System which had a parallel community called OpenACS.
While I too miss the old internet, more the pre-AOL-participating internet.

It's been steadily downhill ever since, and worth noting that it's now so awful even the late 90s/early 2000s look like utopia in hindsight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
This comes off as incredibly passive. You are in control of how you use and adapt to AI.

>if AI takes my job

AI is not going to take anyone's job. People using AI will take jobs from people who don't use AI.

>What happens to the doctors

That's completely up to them. Some will use AI to research new treatments, to assist with their daily workload, or even to treat patients.

Some doctors will stick their head in the sand and refuse to work with the new technology. They might lose their jobs if they can't compete with AI-assisted doctors, and it will be entirely their fault.
Interesting. I always assumed it was Netscape, seeing as they'd purchased the company rather publicly.
The "basic functionality" may just be more complicated than intelligence. Intelligence and language are relatively new capabilities built on top of older, better honed ones, so it shouldn't necessarily come at a surprise that computers get smart before they can properly deal with the physical world.
I'm one of the co-founders at Airplane - if you end up evaluating it, feel free to send me a note at ravi@airplane.dev if I can help.

> I think there’s an opportunity to integrate LLMs so that non technical users can build on top of it using natural language.

We're currently working on this!
> someone looking at all the problems that Mississippi has, while existing inside the richest country in human history, and saying “well, it’s not as bad as XYZ poor country” is a textbook example of nihilism and failed imagination

I'm not saying there aren't problems. We're comparing medians. The poorest Mississippians struggles with problems on Maslow's hierarchy well above the median or even top quartile human.

So yes, we've been halfway better than nothing at distributing gains. That isn't an argument against change. But it is solid against arguing were should stall all progress until some imaginary threshold is met.
Toyota Tundras are manufactured in San Antonio. A few miles away from Shibuya crossing.
> LLMs are more impressive than humans and animals in that they only have access to text to build a world model from a tabula rasa.

They don’t build a world model at all. They make inferences from text.

Considering they have been trained on 100,000 books, and all of Wikipedia, they are remarkably unintelligent, and really only able to produce text that is consistent with what they have been trained on.
Isn't the exact opposite reading of this just as likely to be true from what we know so far? That rather than handing over the reins to DeepMind, they're actually reining them in and forcing them to work on productization?
I don’t know that it’s sleight of hand. Seems to me that we are finally approaching a point where it might be possible to more precisely define terms like “morality” in a mathematical sense.

This would suggest that moral philosophy could be transformed - in much the same way that natural philosophy turned into physics.

I’m just a layperson and don’t really know what I’m talking about, but I find this all very exciting.
The SFO one is kinda cool:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sfo+control+tower&tbm=isch
Weirdly two showed up in my neighborhood in Baltimore in the last year.
Seems people have different opinions on what’s acceptable.

Many people seem quite happy with ChatGPT despite its tendency to hallucinate with no warning of any kind.

Then there are people like me who feel that its unreliability significantly decrease its usefulness - and it’s probably completely useless as a “primary source” of information; it’s at best equivalent to a stack overflow post except without the community feedback to detect bad posts. Like with any stack overflow provided solution, it’s wise to double check with a “primary source” like the official documentation to make sure it does what you think it does.

I can understand why some at Google might be hesitant. The information provided by Bard would be seen as coming from Google and if it’s incorrect, Google will be blamed.
> Did you lose your livelihood because your iPad made composing easier

Page flippers sure did. (I'm not a professional musician.)
Even if you don't use services like that, a competitor can easily use it for you to get you banned.
Came here to point this out.

The dark ages still lure within us.

I thought that article raised some valid points, but fanbois gonna fanboi and don't dare you speak wrong of their master.
AI represents a new type of platform risk to startups
His books are all good, this story occurs in his short story collection First Person Singular. Personally, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki is my favorite of his.
It feels like that these two blog posts (and the one by lacorta) are the only ones that anti-PGP folks on HN could find on internet. There are far more tutorials on the use of PGP than on its problems (mostly around email encryption, which isn’t relevant here).

Decentralized trust is a very good idea. PGP provides useful functionalities around that. Keybase was a good project, but sadly was acquired and has since stopped.

The alternatives proposed are great in narrow use cases, but aren’t really replacements.
Agree with others that it's bad advice. At my last job I gave about 5 weeks notice which my manager convinced me to extend to 6 weeks. I was a manager and timing at the end of the year was not ideal due to performance review schedules and holidays.

Never again. Everything was much more dragged out. Lots of idle time. Lots more "so I hear you're leaving" conversations. Next time, I might do one week notice since this seems to have become a lot more common.
Show HN: WasmGPT – “ChatGPT” in the browser, no WebGPU and no server needed
Using threaded emscripten to speed up the generation and offload the main loop. No SIMD or other optimizations. Might work faster with #enable-experimental-webassembly-features enabled.

Tested in x86 Chrome and Firefox, Apple Silicon Safari

Run it yourself: https://github.com/lxe/ggml/tree/wasm-demo

Thanks, https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml,
I would think it would work better in some kind of system like how I believe Youtube Premium works.

You pay $10/mth, and then that $10 gets split into $1 overhead and $9 allocated to the sites you tip/visit/use during the month.

So you visit 100 sites, each site gets $0.09, you visit 10 sites, each site gets $0.90 and if somehow you only visit 1 site, it gets $9 from you.

So you're not paying hundreds of dollars a month without realising, you don't need to go through payment processing for every site it's just invisible.

It could probably be tracked the same way ads are, so instead of an advertisement the section is removed (or the first ad block in the page is replaced with "thanks for the tip" and the rest are just removed).

So technically you're not paying the site, you're paying for "ad-free browsing" on those sites.
It happened to me. Was permanently banned and I never made use of a service like what the OP mentioned.

Now I am still using adsense but through a 3rd party that takes a large cut.
AOLserver was way ahead of its time as it was a multithreaded server with native database connection to Oracle and PostgreSQL (as far back as 6.9). Its performance and ease of development was miles ahead of Apache and most other tools.

Zipcar was a Boston company that was founded around the same time in the same milieu as Arsidigita and adopted AOLserver since it provided such incredible performance.

I'm a bit surprised they ran it for so long but it makes sense. Many of the concepts that made it so compelling at the time remain quite relevant today though the advances in all areas of HW and SW make things like ORM less of a bear than they were those days.
“AI is not going to take anyone's job. People using AI will take jobs from people who don't use AI.”

An incredible distinction on the level of “guns don’t kill people, people with guns kill people”. The difference is practically meaningless. By your logic, if everybody uses AI then no one loses their job but that’s not how productivity gains work is it?
When AI Chess started kicking my @ss, I assumed that human competitive Chess was over.

Quite the opposite happened. We appreciate human-vs-human Chess even more because Stockfish, and other AIs, demonstrated there are more challenging lines and strategies to pursue.
AOLserver ate the Netscape server for lunch
The scale is different by a grand margin. If 50% of US jobs are replaced by AI in the next 20 years, and those jobs aren't replaced by other jobs, and people depend on income to survive, what happens?

I'm not saying to ban it. I think the productivity gain could be a gift. Everybody being freed from the need to work would be amazing.

But without actually dealing with it, what's the proposal for dealing with the majority of the population of your country being completely without employment? What do we do for money when there's no work left to be done? The whole country can't trade stocks for a living.
I enjoyed the part referencing selected/highlighted areas rotating 'correctly'. I had to try it and it was just as pleasing as you said it would be.

Kudos for the write-up and kudos to the anonymous devs out there who wrote that portion of browser code.
People are building toy demos in a day that are not actual useable products. It’s cool, but it’s the difference between “I made a Twitter clone in a weekend” and real Twitter.
Is the concept of authoring with Flash actually dead/deprecated? I've been trying to understand--and maybe you're willing to help answer this--whether Adobe Animate is just a newer version of Adobe Flash that can target things other than the deprecated Flash web player/plugin.
If you insist on like-for-like, yes, so when I lived in NYC I just completely punted this question and didn't even try to live in anything like the kind of apartment I would have rented in basically any other city. I took a tiny, shitty studio in Hell's Kitchen for far less than I could afford and never worried about it.

Cost of living calculators assume you're trying to live in the same kind of housing in HCOL-city-A as you would have in LCOL-city-B, but there's no reason to accept this assumption.

I rationalized it this way: there is no amount of money in LCOL-city-B that could buy me the feeling of living in HCOL-city-A, so I'm going to treat the housing in HCOL-city-A the same way (i.e. mentally assume it's not available and consider that the tradeoff for getting the thing that isn't available in the lower-cost-of-living city).
Huh? Google Bard is trained on your email data, and Microsoft de facto controls OpenAI and by extension ChatGPT via their 49% investment in the company.
While everyone is focusing on LLMs, the folks at Bytewax are quietly shipping tech that is both accessible and robust. Great to see.
> If 50% of US jobs are replaced by AI in the next 20 years, and those jobs aren't replaced by other jobs, and people depend on income to survive, what happens?

Which 50% are you seeing replaced? We can, and have, always imagined mass income eradication.

I'm not arguing we do nothing. But zero problems surfaced so far are even remotely actionable, as they're all well within the realm of hypothesis versus evidence.
> How exactly are they being dishonest?

They're comparing on a single dimension and laughing at F-150 owners.

> This is more like r/vegan showing how a vegan meal is better than a steak meal along some dimension, say, environmental impact.

Not when evaluating a purchasing decision, overall utility, or customer demographics and needs. I'm showing that morally opposed parties inject themselves and their biases orthogonally.

> In fact I would say that you are the one being somewhat dishonest by (implicitly) claiming both the benefits of being able to use it as a utilitarian workhorse, and in an urban area.

Have you ever been to a city that's half an hour to the woods? Or perhaps somewhere it's typical to find people owning acres of their own land right next to a major metropolitan? Not everything is SF or NYC.

If you want to tax an externality, do so. Many state gas taxes tax vehicle weight via the proxy of gas mileage. Right now it's the heavy EVs doing the damage that are slipping through the taxation cracks.

> they should require being licensed as a commercial driver

Okay, now we're getting into yucking other people's yums.

Some people own boats and full hog smokers, like getting muddy on the weekends and going fishing. There are millions of these folks in America.

If you want to regulate what you perceive as a negative externality, we should do it evenly against everything. Tax and regulate broadly and fairly.

Consider sex. It spreads disease and causes all sorts of relationship drama. Kids can be a nightmare. Think about all the lost productivity! Who's paying for that? (I'm joking, of course!)

In the scheme of things, these vehicles are much more good than bad. They sell like crazy, satisfy their consumers, get a lot of productive work done, and on the weekends are spent as leisure devices - getting folks muddy and smelly with beers and fish and sun. A good diversion for hard workers.

> potentially be banned from being operated on city roads due to the danger they pose to smaller vehicles and pedestrians

You can vote for that in your own district, and maybe that's correct, but other places and populations will feel differently about how they live their own lives.

> if you are driving a huge farm tractor, you cannot also bring said tractor into the city center. Not all heavy machinery needs to be allowed everywhere.

On the spectrum of farm tractor to kei car, the F-150 is tightly clustered in the middle with the rest of the "street legal" vehicles.
Agreed. It’s like if I unit tested 0.01 percent of my code but ran the unit test 10 million times, with no failures, and claimed it was therefore “statistically” better than code that had been 100% manually tested.
Industrialization was slow - it took many decades to happen, so people could adapt. I don’t see us having that luxury of time.
Twitter permanently suspended journalist who interviewed Matt Walsh’s hacker