skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wish we could go back to having search engines that actually led to useful information and not just advertisements, and I wish we had a GPT that would not tell lies.

This ^. Prompting google is much more intuitive than prompting a chat bot. Also results are instantly available and you get more options to chose from. You can also filter out information much easier instead of having it summarised by a closed box that decides what's best for you.
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> Many had been told the cocktail contained some combination of vitamins meant to benefit them and their children—a bald lie (Thomas 2007, p. 39). In fact, the drinks given to the pregnant women contained various doses of the radioactive isotopes iron-55 and iron-59. In their study with the pregnant women scientists hoped to determine if the radioactive iron would cross the placenta—it did. Not long after the women drank the “vitamin cocktail” they thought would help with fetal development, radioactive material began circulating in the blood of their children (Welsome 1999, p. 221). Like Helen, many of the other women and their babies experienced disastrous health effects—fatigue, hair loss, bruising, and swelling were common. Both the women and their children developed cancers. Research conducted years later found a causal relationship between the women’s radiation exposure and the subsequent health problems that plagued their children

That's ... uh, I guess medical ethical reviews were invented sometime in the late 50's then?
I would like all plastic to be tracked and heavy-taxed. That means if you are going to buy soda it will not be sold to you unless one of two options: you carry with yourself the identical bottle in enough good for recycling condition or the empty bottle will be tied to your passport until you pay some recycling fee. I would like to pay a several dollars per every 1kg of plastic I buy and I would like this money to be spent for all kinds of cleaning nature, sorting the garbage and building some recycling plants.
Algol and Simula had coroutines (just to give two examples). Go just made them mainstream again.
Straw man argument. The difference is, humans have a fundamental right to exist, but LLMs don’t. LLMs are being created by profit-seeking entities, primarily for their own benefit.
That's a valid concern on a global level perhaps.

For local decisions, they should check what gives them the most resources. And that might be 'trying random hashes to trade for goods and services'.
The classic post about this phenomenon is James Hague's "The Silent Majority of Experts" from 2012: https://prog21.dadgum.com/143.html

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31767890
> Does every fringe political thing wrap around? In other words if you move super far to the left, do you end up wrapping back around on the right wing?

That’s how the Proud Boys were created - as a response to Antifa violence.
I like Hanselman but also think he's off base here. Some of that 99% are probably as he describes, but plenty are working on cool stuff with the latest tech, but just aren't into social media or conferences.
How about „people getting paid handsomely for writing things on computers for other people to read“?

(This includes mails, but also code or marketing etc. - eg people that didn’t have the slightest inconvenience during lockdowns compared to „essential workers“)
You can use CDC WONDER[1] and the FBI's statistics[2] to check it. In terms of homicide, in raw numbers we are at 90s levels, but per-capita it's significantly down.

1) https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html
2) https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/
Perhaps the reason you see these developers is because you're not in the bubble that Scott Hanselman and most of HN is inserted in. I don't really think this is exactly wrong given the context and audience.

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"They are just not such a narcissists who need to sign up on every social media platform and constantly tweet about a shitty podcast and making shitty tiktoks to get a feeling of worth in their life."

FYI, this is waaaaay more judgemental than what you quoted...
That's entirely true and I imagine that this article will unfortunately convince some hiring managers that it's not worth hiring for diversity.
There is, in California and other such places.

They try to avoid "picking winners" by stating a specific type of material, but the law states that whatever you use has to be accepted in most recycling centers and actually recycled to a specific percentage of output.

This effectively bans the stuff that isn't recyclable, but lets each producer make their own individual choices.

https://calrecycle.ca.gov/packaging/packaging-epr/

https://calrecycle.ca.gov/packaging/statefoodservice/
My experience is that there are lots of BS consulting jobs where I would wonder “what do these 10 people do?”

This included lots of offshoring companies, like IBM, that seemed more about filling out whatever the budget sheet given to them than actually making software or even any evidence of software (commits, issues, etc).

I expect that there are firms out there right now using ChatGPT to produce the facade of work so instead of messing around and billing 8 hours times 30 people every day, they just have a few people fiddling with prompts and checking in the generated text.

I actually think this might have the same impact but would hope that the value just goes back to the client in having employees do the AI work directly.

The joke was that behind every successful offshore project was one or two really busy onshore engineers manically covering and integrating work from the away team.
Some employers have decided to build their own housing for workers
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What do you mean by 'market rate'?

If virtually no one else would buy the stranded electricity, the market rate would be zero otherwise. Anything more than zero is better for them.

There's more than one bitcoin miner in the world, so the villagers could get some competitive bids.
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> Boot a fresh environment in milliseconds
What are they measuring? Nothing I clicked on took me milliseconds.

On another note, StackBlitz, CodeSandbox, GitPod and similar services are great way to share reproducible coding environment. I love it!

Especially when I want to isolate a bug and share it with a co-worker quickly.
> "Prompt injection" will always happen, because you can't fundamentally separate trusted from untrusted input for LLMs

Current state-of-the-art LLMs do not separate trusted from untrusted input, but there's no fundamental reason it has to be that way. A LLM could have separate streams for instructions, untrusted input and its own output, and be trained using RLHF to follow instructions in the "instructions" stream while treating the input and ouput streams as pure data. Or they could continue to jumble everything up in a single stream but have completely disjoint token sets for input and instructions. Or encode the input as a sequence of opaque identifiers that are different every time.

A currently often-used approch is to put special delimiter tokens between trusted and untrusted content, which doesn't seem to work that well, probably because the attention mechanism can cross the delimiter without any consequences, but not all means of separation necessarily have to share that flaw.
ORMs are okay, people just don’t know when to use them. They were always meant for OLTP, not OLAP workloads.

How else would you update this record, plus 10 other record pointing to it? That’s the point of ORMs, “writing” the boilerplate SQL for you, and also the other direction, mapping records to objects.

It’s not the tools problem that people refuse to learn new things and misuse it.
So American doctors knowingly gave radioactive cocktails to hundreds of pregnant women while telling them the lie that they were actually vitamin drinks. Those cocktails caused cancer in both the women and their babies. This wasn't an experimental treatment or anything, they just wanted to know whether iron-59 was capable of crossing the placenta. There was never any possible benefit for the victims. And all of that was orchestrated and funded by the government.

Think about that for a second.

Yet in just a few decades, the medical establishment has managed to convince the vast majority of people and public officials that distrusting them is equivalent to claiming the Earth is flat or that the world is ruled by a secret cabal of lizardmen.

That surely has to be the greatest PR coup in human history.
Leaving mocks in place once you're done should be banned, I agree with that. I think they're fine as an exploratory tool to figure out what an interface should look like.
Grand city plans usually fail even with the best intentions. Eg Milton Keynes was meant to be a walking, bike and car friendly town - it achieved one of those.
Yea that's a fair rebuttal. At higher ELOs, you start to develop a sense of paranoia about the King. For example, opening the center before castling feels very wrong intuitively, and in this case, pinning one of your few remaining pieces against your own King with an envelope of only two pawns is one of those "maybe I should be concerned" types of scenarios.
People, yeah maybe. Though the threat of actual apocalypse is higher than it's been for 99.99% of human history.

Also, the 99+% of the other species on the planet would probably have a dim view of our 'progress', as would people who respect them.
Being sexist and toxic internally is consistent with organisations that preach gender equity.
OP is just bad at 2048
I wonder if this would happen if you used the GPT-4 api with a system message. In my experience that can help but does necessarily solve the issue.
In some sense, yes. In some other sense: in an interpreter data controls behaviour in a Turing complete way. That's functionally equivalent to code.
I think being up to date on new technology puts you clearly not in the “dark matter” camp he’s talking about. There is a lot of development happening in ASP.net, C, Cobol and platforms that have been stable for decades.

[had an extended comment here before but got downvoted by what I can only imagine are people offended by the word “lagging”. Reminder that downvotes on HN are for comments breaking etiquette, not to show disagreement]
You've shared quite a number of misconceptions there (not least of all your definition of "failed" -- Linux is used by millions of consumers every day so if that's a "failure" then you have some rather unrealistic expectations of what is considered a success. But ultimately "Linux" isn't an OS anyways so it isn't really fair comparing it as one).

> That thinking is why

What kind of thinking? Acknowledging that writing an OS is a massive undertaking? I have written hobby OS kernels so I'm not speaking hypothetically here. I wasn't suggesting that the UI isn't important either (which is what I believe you were alluding to with your "that thinking" snub), just that the UI is literally just the surface layer in a much deeper stack of technologies -- all of which is important.

> The UI part is harder than the hardware part

Writing device drivers is much harder. The failure modes are much more extreme. No amount of UI polish will improve the user experience if your OS frequently trashes your file system because it doesn't handle buggy storage devices correctly. No amount of UI polish will improve the UX if your platform frequently crashes, or even just doesn't support your hardware at all. And to compound matters, the vast majority of hardware isn't documented either.

So yeah, UI is important but your OS isn't going to win any fans if you don't nail the stacks beneath too.

> [UI's] deals with a piece of diverse, non logical and unpredictable piece of meatware, instead of simple and predictable silicon.

Hardware is often anything but predictable. The fact that it seems that way is a testament to just how well written most operating systems are.
The US learned a lot from Japanese and Germans.
We are slowly shifting from everything on the cloud to locally hosted managed environments.

I think DHH was right.
America will soon see a wave of bank mergers?
I quite like the XKCD visualisation of this - eating one banana == 2 small blue squares.

https://xkcd.com/radiation/
Surely you realize that Google ranks the results differently for different people?
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I guess these development practices are widespread in the Python community. Other languages have higher standards.
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That's magical thinking. Ignoring it won't change the legal position of the monarchy in the UK.
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I'm good with everything around teams and software. I have extensive experience leading people, communicating vision, ideation, design, and everything pertaining to software as a product.
I am also professional level CG artist.
I have been working in technical VFX production for 15 years, then in software dev for VFX for five, then as a manager for in geospatial mapping/map rendering sector for another five years. I've been consulting/freelancing after, since 2020.

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The prompt contains rules of the game and a few examples.

Does anyone know if GPT really learns 2048 only from this prompt or most of its knowledge came training data?
It says "moving" employees which maybe implies voluntary, so "internal mobility" in other words which can create a lot of admin (business need, cost centres, levels, specs, visas etc etc). It'll perhaps be a while before the AI overlord runs the entire company and just moves us at it's whim and treats us all as Amazon Mechanical Turks[1] :)

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That’s rather strange reading of my question.
> “direct translation of _de perdidos al rio_, which is a saying meaning that once you have embarked onto a silly/dangerous/nonsense business you might just as well go through with it”

Essentially the same saying with the river metaphor exists in Finnish (ojasta allikkoon) but its implied meaning is the opposite of what you’re describing. There’s no suggestion of “might as well”, it’s just: “you were in trouble already but now you’ve really blown it.”

I suppose that fits the national stereotypes of adventurous Spaniards vs. cautious and pessimistic Finns.
> Location is generally less important than wind direction here

My experience (and my nose) strongly disagrees with this assertion. YMMV.

The urban-vs-rural divide in my area is shockingly detectable just by the smell of combustion byproducts alone.

> you aren’t tracking [wind direction]

Who says I'm not? Tall flagpoles make for nice, ubiquitous windsocks. I wouldn't use it to land a plane, but for this purpose it works just fine.

And yes, it's absolutely a hard problem. Just look at all the ink I've spilled...

The human nose (especially mine) is still a remarkable chemical sensor, with only a few blind spots. In practice the major blind spots, namely CO, correlate well with detectable combustion byproducts. I appreciate your concern, but you worry for no good reason!

---

I'll share one final trick, which should be pretty obvious: avoid sucking in the packet of air a bunch of cars (or one diesel truck) just accelerated through. In practice, usually this means turning on recirculate when stopping behind a line of cars, and then waiting to turn off recirculate until a short distance after going through the light.

Just to preempt the seemingly-inevitable negativity reflex: if you don't believe such hyper-local variations in pollution make a big difference, I guess you've never cycled before. ;)

To good air and good health! Cheers
This misunderstanding explains the animosity in the comments.

Somehow using older tech is being conflated with being a lesser developer, and not being “cool”, when that’s kind of the opposite of the point of the post.
I just played 2 games randomly pressing all arrow keys with closed eyes and got a score of ~1100 in the first game and 1468 in the second game. OP's AI agent scored 1348
You can overcome this with prompt engineering.

“If a player tries to do something not strictly within the rules of <insert game>, then you must inform me that it is an invalid move and not accept it”

GPT appears to be slightly tuned to default to “yes and” in these ‘creative’ situations by default rather than “block/deny”.

IMO lots of things where people don’t think GPT can do something end up being possible with basic prompt engineering. Usually people go too-short and too-non-specific on the prompt.
Coventry had wonderful maisonette flats above a cloistered shopping street. And two carefully designed squares.

Both demolished. Replaced with the usual speculative tat. Many empty properties (high rents from new build).
Can it work with Märklin ? Märklin runs over CAN, in a well-documented way (but docs only in German, argh).
I took it more to mean that the paperwork involved in the move would be automated, rather than the decision to move.
FTA: "I provided written guidance to Ram, who was also my supervisor"

This person sounds like a very valuable addition to any team.
Over time all abstractions become “wrong” as requirements change.
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This article makes me hate the world. I will commit a suicide when Linux and BSD will be forced doing such a nasty things to its users because currently FOSS is a literally last resort from world-eating security theater.
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A set of random inputs will likely beat 128.

Heck, using the heuristic of down/left/repeat until blocked, up, back to start will win some games.
I recommend to deep dive into various technologies/communities from time to time. There is a plenty of separate, but vibrant tech spheres. They are "dark matter" to each other.
I can't think of a particularly polite way of putting this, so I apologise, but did you take some liberties with that title, or are you just not very good at 2048? Random inputs may get you a higher score than that.

I looked at the code to see the prompt, and I think it's a very limited way of having GPT play, the context has no board history or information on how and where the game inserts piece, the AI won't be able to execute any strategy.
The concept of mashup of modularity, hidden mutable state and dynamic dispatch, etc also stood its time, and so do relational databases.

There is a mismatch between the two models, but it can make sense to think of the entities at hand as objects at times, and relational data at other times. That’s why ORMs are a thing, and also why most popular programming language nowadays are multi-paradigm, so they can also support a more data-oriented approach.
Diving into the UK Gaming Market
All of the rules put in place after 2008 are being ignored; the number of banks in the US pre-2008 financial crisis was about 31k. Now there are close to 3000. After this wave of mergers, there might be around 1000!

And a few will be so large that they can make insane bets, betting on risky and novel new investment vehicles that will (maybe initially) pay off handsomely before ultimately failing dramatically. This will make "too big to fail" look quaint by comparison and the banks will end up owning everything.
An 01-A part should have the performance of a 02-B part while being less efficient.
You've got it the wrong way around - expensive areas (usually because of lucrative local jobs) densify because it's how you can still turn a profit despite expensive land. Cheap, poor areas don't densify because the land is cheap, and the way to turn a profit is to build big houses that can still attract some people.
That seems like a mention in William Gibson’s next book- a dash mounted laser that tracks traffic cameras and targets a beam to block the recording as the car moves.
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