skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Impressive timing on that prediction assuming GPT-4's release on March 14th counts as "superhuman intelligence".

How many legs does a dog have, if you assume a tail is a leg?

Four. Assuming it doesn't make it so.

In the same way, you can assume whatever you want, but GPT-4 is not "superhuman intelligence". It just isn't, for any meaningful definition of those words.
Sure, but I don't think it should be the government's prerogative to shut down businesses either, just on the grounds that regulators find the industry annoying. If people want to buy their silly crypto trinkets I don't see how moving it behind the curtain of a brokerage actually helps anyone.

I mean, the whole SEC thing is a bit of theater: they can't actually do anything to protect against frauds and scams and bad investments. All they can do is to push assets into the high-speed traffic of professional traders and hope that the market sorts things out for itself.
> Not many people use this excuse, but I'm honestly too old to give a shit about any other OS. lol I'm gonna die using windows and that's alright.

It's actually ^this^ perspective that most fits the "daytime television" analogy. The old fogies have precisely that attitude, and they're primarily who still watch daytime TV.

Now that most of the population aims their eyeballs at something other than TV, TV has become a wasteland of geriatric-targeted ads/political propaganda (old people vote) with a pittance of content mixed in. It's being stripped clean of what flesh remains, in its final death throes until its remaining viewers completely die off.

MS Windows is on the same trajectory, which started with MS failing to get Windows on smartphones. Now that so many grow up using non-Windows mobile devices instead of home PCs, Windows will only become increasingly desperate, dated, and tasteless in its revenue/power-generating schemes.

Hopefully FLOSS can prove more robust against this cycle... It's not like we don't see similar patterns emerging with Mozilla embedding ads/"suggestions" in Firefox tabs, or Canonical putting ads in Ubuntu. But at least there will always be alternatives thanks to the ability to fork and compete when the source is available.
Is the function of the developer to write outstanding code, or develop outstanding products?

I think there's something to be said for praising the developer that is able to understand user needs so well that they create flawless experiences.
They are indeed hard hit as well. SBIR grant awardees sent their own letter to Congress about this a month ago: https://sbtc.org/sbtc-letter-to-congress-on-sec-174-tax-conc...
There are dozens of us in the tech industry! Dozens!
> assuming GPT-4's release on March 14th counts as "superhuman intelligence"

If it did, nobody here would have a job and we would be already deep into the "reorient society or fight the Machine" phase.
I thought the original OWL with the proprietary syntax for event handlers was great but by the time the second version came around we'd grudgingly switched to MSC++/MFC.
Does it support type inference and stuff?
Per the article, some 600 business owners signed a letter to congress asking for urgent relief;

> As the House legislation is introduced, a grassroots effort is gaining momentum among software developers, with nearly 600 small business owners including Landsman and Bennett signing a letter to the Hill desks of House Way and Means Committee chair Jason Smith (R-Missouri) and Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) on Tuesday morning, asking for “urgent relief” and warning that failure to bring back full R&D expensing may wipe out their companies.

I assume that's what he signed.
It turns out that there's a moral stance with those assumptions, so it's not as crazy as I first thought. It's time for me to get educated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_particularism
Is symmetry between left and right brain what allows consciousness to exist?
It's important to not only look at what the technology can currently do, but also at the future technological trajectory of the technology.

Based off of past data points it is realistic to logically project that the human oversight will be needed less and less as the technology improves.
Security teams take an average of 6 days to resolve alerts
So this is how SkyNet or the Matrix starts, I guess. Any AI trained using the content from Reddit would obviously conclude that humankind deserves to be eradicated.
/s
> Do you think California would accept a company like Apple not collecting the sales tax because the merchandise came from China?

California sales tax collecting authority spells out in black and white that they are not to collect sales tax in that case, so I’m going to say “Yes”. (OTOH, they do have to collect the equivalent use tax, based on the location where the goods are delivered if they are, because of their other business circumstances – as Apple is – required to register with CDTFA and collect and remit use tax on behalf of customers. But, again, that’s both technically separate from sales tax and, more to the point, has a very specifically specified location which, again, Apple would not be legally free just to move to their HQ or some other location.)
only in an abstract, idealistic sense. in reality, it is about developing job skills for certain classes of jobs.
His book "a fire upon the deep" is one of the most brilliant things I've ever read. There's the singularity, a story about an AI that reboots itself from cold storage, a brilliant idea of life forms with a collective brain basically. Interplanetary Usenet! I command everyone to read it.
A lot of the books that preceded the movies are from more than a decade ago. And there are even more YA books/movies that have themes of teens being oppressed from longer ago than that. As far as I'm aware, teens always feel oppressed, so a lot of media aimed at them is based on that, and always has been.
What are the good VC companies? Not just for dev tools, but in general. Where do you find this information?
Hopefully. But oftentimes the result is people just use more of something when it's cheaper.
Many popular LLMs already include large amount of Reddit comment data which is (usually) cited in their respective papers.
Right, which is why we need more humans learning new things: so the AI's can be even more useful.
Exactly. Users who contribute to the community of a for-profit enterprise that monetizes their contribution should also get paid.

I remember the good ol' days before reddit, where every community had its own forum, ran for the community, not for profit. Sure, they were running some ads to keep the lights on, but those were non targeted ads, just generic stuff based on the community.

With Dpreview dying along with so many other forums that used to serve various communities on the decline, Reddit becoming the one-stop-shop for all communities is the worst possible outcome.
> You can add information, by making rules like the class doesn't change if the thing is a different color or size or position, or on a different background. But you can't automatically create new images from a distribution that has been learned and expect them to add information.

I am not quite sure I follow. Why would any of those things be true for all models?
It's definitely a long recurring theme, and will likely continue to be one as long as there are young people feeling frustrated and powerless to change the ossified broken systems they have to live with.
This is true in aerospace software. Lots of process, lots of specification, lots of verification. I wouldn't want to say that GPT-seque tools would be useless here, but I really don't see them offering the same kind of magic leverage that they might offer on some other projects.

And vice-versa! Most software projects do not benefit from the rigor used in aerospace, because it's just not needed, and would be a waste of time.

I am definitely seeing ways that GPT tools could speed up some aerospace work, but we need to be really really sure that things are being done correctly... not just mostly correct, or seemingly correct.
Yes, for most people it's fine. Cloud storage is a thing, and so is cheap external storage.
It is bogus, because the OP talks about "efficiency" therefore implying CO2 emissions (since energy is the product of making CO2). The OP has confounded the CO2 emissions and volatiles.

Where leaf blowers' emission fall apart is volatile organics.

Why do you support banning gas powered landscaping equipment? In cities like LA, sure. But how are utilities going to maintain brush around remote power lines without gas powered equipment?
constantinethegreatcoins.com is one - the owner is also a dealer, but this is his private hobbyist site.

Some examples of other non-commercial roman coin hobbyist sites (that will also rank fairly highly with Google) are:

augustuscoins.com
wildwinds.com
beastcoins.com
www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info
https://www.nummus-bibleii.com/

I'm at work right now, so these are just some examples off the top of my head. I can give more examples later if it's useful. Some of these site will include links to other collector/hobbyist sites.
> Odd that somebody who is trying to school me on the realities of renewable energy

Odd that someone who keeps reeating falsifiable untruths about nuclear couldn't be bothered to provide their sources even when repeatedly asked

> https://energycentral.com/sites/default/files/styles/og_meta...

This is a graph with no context and no explanation. And of course it doesn't include things like the need to overbuild and projected costs of storage.

> Meanwhile, Hinkley point C

Meanwhile if you selectively look at a single nuclear plant built in conditions which the FUD you spread around has been the norm for the past three decades, sure.

> $100 billion would be a bargain.

Of course you continue to ignore everything from what I write but what makes your FUD look plausible and good. Of course it won't be 100 billion because there's literally no way you could build that many PHS (and not at that cost). You'd know that if you actually read the links I provided, and not cherry-picked whatever you want from my words.

I have no interest to continue talking to someone who argues in bad faith.

Adieu.
Even if no VC was involved, how do you make money developing an open source linter?
Doctoral-level, perhaps. Undergraduate work generally is not. It broadens an individual's knowledge and develops skills related to how to problem solve and learn, but the vast majority of undergraduate degrees will not involve broadening humanity's knowledge. I put non-thesis Masters' programs in the same classification.
Have a look at Pop!_OS too.
The problem is far from solved. It's not enough that carbon emissions will peak soon. They need to come down fast. And we do not have a decade or two.
With a pull architecture you wouldn't identify a request queue depth up front. Rather, each incoming connection gets delayed until a worker attaches to EG the TCP stream. If you're serving a webpage the client wouldn't see anything other than a little load lag, especially if your load balancer took care of the TLS connection before pausing to wait for a worker.

So if you can handle every incoming request with one worker that worker gets them all. Otherwise each worker pops off the stack as it becomes free. And if you can service more concurrent requests you just add more workers.
I don't think I agree that ethics are ultimately irrelevant. Regardless, though, I think you're confusing being "manipulative" with being "opinionated".

I'm 100% being opinionated. I'm not being manipulative, though, because I am not trying to make anyone do anything -- let alone trying to do it through unwarranted emotional appeals.
indeed, a really great post! In case you decide to change the colors or need another reason I also want to add, that in general red/green is difficult for color-blind people. About 8% of male population is affected by red/green color blindness.
ChatGPT is on a trajectory to overtake Reddit in popularity.

And every interaction from users with ChatGPT is valuable content provided to OpenAI.

Most people don't realize this, but every question contains information. When a user asks "Which city is better for digital nomads, Berlin or Lisbon?", they have given out a bunch of information. That there is something called "digital nomads". That there are cities called "Berlin" and "Lisbon". That those seem to be considered good for "digital nomads".

And even more so when the chat continues. If ChatGPT praises how nice a city is for studying and the users replies "I don't study. I need a cheap apartment with fast internet", the user provided information about the preferences of "digital nomads", that apartments can be cheap or expensive, that apartments have internet, that internet can be faster or slower.
Nope. It's mostly about maintaining the class structure, and at least at first this was openly the goal, we've just done a good job starting to pretend that isn't what it is about within the past 60 years or so. Research still happened before all that, it was just funded directly by a patron, which is actually kind of how trying to get a grant works today.
Amper (noun): one who amps.

Today we use the term "influencer".

Did you know that the term "computer" used to refer to an occupation? The same used to be true for audio amplifiers. It was a role traditionally occupied by the loudest shouter in the village.
Vulkan video vp9 decode – radv update
Does that follow? Who owns the data?
Boy that takes me back. I liked to think that Roy Scheider was playing the same character he played in Jaws.
I don't think you can really call "learning new things for the AI" recourse for an AI taking your job. Can you feed your family with new ideas?
I'm glad someone else mentioned Moravec.

When I first encountered ideas like transhumanism and the singularity as a teen I started exploring these topics at my local library. Even in my youth I was mildly skeptical but still cautiously optimistic that the ideas in these books would come to pass.

I became very jaded with the state of technology when FAANG companies took over everything and computing devices became these locked down and addicting little glow boxes that push socially division and advertisements for crypto scams into everyone's mind and I became doubtful that these wondrous ideas would ever come to pass.

For the first time in a long while I'm less jaded about those prospects. While I'm still skeptical I'm once again cautiously optimistic at the potential with technologies like LLMs and machines like Starship.

Maybe I actually will get to live to see those crazy fractal trees that Moravec described.
I see a 7T model from Siemens with a standard 60cm bore. Interesting!
Given that, it's still not going to cost $1 million for a BS + MS. Even taking 8 years for both, you're looking at around $800k at the most expensive programs and those are rarely worth entertaining when very good and affordable state programs exist for half or even a tenth the cost.
Ask HN: Joined a startup? Your taxes are about to get complicated. Questions?
I'm a tax nerd and software developer. What startup tax questions would you like answered?

Example: what the heck is 83(B) and will it save me money?
The New York Times' style guide is starting to look pretty dated. This has gotta be the first time I've seen "L.L.M." as opposed to just "LLM".
Your own graph shows that during Brown's time debt went from 35% of GDP to 70% of GDP, and yet Labour had nothing to say on the topic of reducing government spending to slow down that skyrocketing rise. It was only after 2010 that the rate of growth slowed and eventually reached zero before lockdowns (a policy demanded by hard left academics) pushed it up to 100% of GDP.

And that is exactly the point being made. Brown was in charge when the economy entered a crisis and yet was too left wing to slam the brakes on government spending in response. Voters reacted accordingly.
There's also only so much real-estate available fro major downtowns, and the prices will skyrocket if you could get "everyone" to want to move there.
> t's not that many schools and they stopped the policy again.

And they'll start it again eventually. Maybe in a different district or a different state. This isn't the kind of thing they give up on easily or quickly, and they're not the sort to learn from their own failed experiments.

> and how much better they think they could organize the school system

No one could organize it. I couldn't. It's beyond any reform, beyond fixing. It is an intractable problem. Well, if you assume that its purpose is education.

If we examine its true, unspoken purpose, it is working far better than it ever has, and improves year to year. It is a mechanism for the government to raise children from the earliest age on up through adulthood, with parents have as little influence on that process as can be cheaply afforded.

My wife and I homeschool.

> But, crucially, they are willing to scrap what doesn't work and try something else.

No, they're willing to tone things down to avoid any PR backlash, and try again later when maybe those concerned are less attentive. All they have to do is be willing to try as many times as it takes, until they get lucky with the news cycle or the like.

I mean, from your perspective... why would they care if it didn't work? Do you imagine that the government (or any of its agencies or subdivisions as the case may be) loves these children? That it would grieve if a few thousand of them were permanently undereducated or miseducated by this? Would this committee cry itself to sleep every night regretting what it did wrong?

If it can't do these things, if it can't have regret or remorse of some sort when it does bad things, how can you imagine that it would ever stop doing bad things when those bad things cause it no inconvenience or problem?

>a position far more outrageous to my mind

I'd never say that about anything. There's nothing that I hold so sacred that I'd say "it's just outrageous that you want to get rid of X" or "are you mad that you'd say we should have Y?"

For me, I'd make good arguments outlining why there should be X, or that there should be a Y. And if you failed to agree, I'd try to understand what logic (or failure thereof) caused you remain unpersuaded.

When someone says something like this phrase though, all I can figure is that the status quo is important to them for irrational reasons. I've yet to hear a better hypothesis.
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Yet, the whole movement of getting blue collar workers to code seems to have lost its steam.
AlphaGo Zero was trained on synthetic data which it created itself, it learned from self-play. So why wouldn't synthetic data work for GPTs? I guess a difference is that AlphaGo Zero uses reinforcement learning with objective reward signals (such as winning the game), while GPTs perform unsupervised learning (imitating the training text) without such a signal. There is no signal which tells the model whether the text it generated was or wasn't close to the real distribution.

For some types of language model this signal could be generated though. If we have a language model which is able to generate pairs of the form (mathematical conjecture, proof attempt) in a formal language, then an automatic proof checker could generate the reward signal, i.e. proof correct / incorrect. The difficulty is probably to get the process bootstrapped since you need a certain amount of base proving capability to get the ball rolling.
>Would it's license preclude doing so?

It would. Most distributions will never ship this, because it is closed source code of questionable usefulness.
> You can create a great product with shit code (Or just mediocre code!). Does that make someone a good dev

Yes.
I don't agree. I'm pretty introverted and that's one reason group environments are better. You can talk less and take a break from even paying attention more easily than 1-on-1.
That's generally (as in, both in the US [6th amendment] and the UK [Article 6 of the ECHR]) regarding witnesses offering testimony during trials (and the right of the defendant to cross-examine them) - not people giving anonymous tips which might inspire police to do investigations of their own.

In the UK, even if a witness is giving direct testimony in a trial there are situations which, for safety reasons, the witness might be allowed to be anonymous: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/witness-protection-and... outlines this.
> You know we have to build roads for the cars to drive on right? Wonder what the C02 emissions for a mile of new highway is.

Then after that factor in parking lots! Sometimes I think more solutions need to involve "reforest parking lots". In some areas that alone would do far more for walkability than adding sidewalks. Parking lots build heat deserts that radiate heat back up to pedestrians (sometimes alarmingly so), but trees add pleasant shades and cool and hydrate the air around them. Add a bunch more trees and other foliage to existing parking lots and a lot of currently inhospitable suburbs would become a lot more hospitable to pedestrian travel.
> I am confused. Apple made an agreement with a City. Both parties seem to benefit from the arrangement. I am not sure I see anything illegal here.

The illegal part is where the reporting of locations of transactions by Apple, for which they get kickbacks from Cupertino, violates California state law on how location of transactions subject to sales tax are reported by reporting them as occurring at Apple HQ rather than where the goods involved in the specific transaction are located at the time of the transaction.

Alice and Bob making an agreement for Alice to forge documents so that Bob gets money that belongs to Clara and for which Bob provides a kickback to Alice may be a mutually beneficial agreement for Alice and Bob, but it is still illegal.
Except when top voted comments are hivemind approved 'funny' quips/responses, or in reply to exercises in creative writing like half the posts in relationshipadvice, iwantthemanager, nuclear/pettyrevenge, etc
> A lot of companies would pay actual money for some semblance of supply-chain security.

After the core-js debacle[0] earlier this year, it was evident that alot of companies actually do not care care about supply-chain security.

Those that do will happily roll their own hosted repositories that provide little to no guarantees.

[0] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...
https://archive.ph/Mrvvg
I often see death by a thousand cuts - everything is slow and there is no single obvious hotspot to fix. We should not assume that performance matters only for a small fraction of the codebase. Sometimes it is the case, sometimes not.

And UI is a bad example IMHO. UI with a high response time which is uncomfortable (or even frustrating) to use is probably the result of thinking that UI performance doesn't matter.
Maybe. But I'm not convinced. Isekai is so widrspread these days it may as well be the default genre, it can't be called novel anymore. Any novelty would have to be found in the particular way they do it, e.g. reborn as a virus or reborn as a vending machine.

And I disagree that it competes with 50 years old anime. Most people don't tend to watch old stuff, which they feel is stuffy and outdated. The story and writing could be great, but the pacing is different from modern standards, and the visuals can sometimes feel awful. I argue that only a very select group of people is interested in watching and revering old stuff.

This is why reboots work.
Ok I think I see that they would be required to collect use tax in this case, it would not be the customer remitting it.
I don't understand what you're saying exactly?
Not in aerobic digestion. Then you get much less greenhouse-gassy CO2 (with the side benefit of being great for immediately nearby plants).