skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To write off the entire non-AAA space as only wanting to write shovelware even as a first game is laughable.

Clearly I'm not - as I mention hollow knight.

>Equally, if the original commenter is happy with x being good enough then that's valid. Maybe the game isn't for you?

Clearly it isn't for me, as I'd have to listen to the above sort of garbage music and would hate the time spent, regardless of the game itself.

> The implication of my first reply is if you're at such a level you can do that

There are lots of people who have great ideas and even iterations on a game that isn't there yet, but who fail in graphics, audio, and overall design because they underestimate how important those are to user experience.

I would never say "I'm so glad I have access to copilot, now I can make a game with next to zero effort" but the guy I replied to thinks he can get a score worthy of being in a game from a machine learning model.

The easy part overrides everything and we get (or are going to get) huge collections of shovelware from people who see how easy it is to produce.
Plan-and-Execute Agents
Solar irradiance is 1361 W/m^2 before accounting for losses due to the atmosphere, the sun not being directly overhead, solar panels not converting all wavelengths to electricity, etc. But none of those inefficiencies matter, because 1.3kW in a square meter means that we have an upper bound of solar power generation for a footprint roughly equal to that of a server rack, and the power is roughly that of one server (for compute; storage servers can have lower power density). Since servers are in fact operated in racks, we immediately know that solar power on the roof of a datacenter will fall short by at about two orders of magnitude at a minimum.
High crime, bad public schools, and high taxes… sounds like a common set of problems being faced by many us cities.
I do when I track when my money goes. A lot of the products I actually spend money on are either made by 10+-year old companies from the West, or newer companies from China.

This is quite disturbing actually, the "new wave of companies" isn't here anymore.
Is there a comparison of this vs something like Rundeck?
What the email security landscape looks like in 2023
Since there is currently no output gap in the economy, any stimulus turns 1:1 into inflation. Government spending can still be beneficial if directed toward high-ROI investments, but a straight-up cash drop is just a waste.
> …but how do I know that a particular CEO is making good decisions?

We used to call that “profit”.

As a measurement over time at how well a business is performing this used to be the standard measurement but it seems to have been supplanted by other measures such as wealth inequity and twitter mob ragefests.
Kia should respond by integrating an automatic gun in the car that simply shoots anybody who approaches the car without the key. Maybe that will be acceptable to American sensibilities more than the notion of not stealing other's property.
I think for a lot of tech products, it's more that the profit margins are tight and competition is fierce, such that spyware integration is needed to subsidize what would otherwise be a money-losing product. At which point the only remedy may be to impose regulations telling companies that no, you can't sell customer's private data without their permission -- and then the price of electronic goods should stabilize at a somewhat higher price but without the user-hostile features.
>The criminal networks are pretty sophisticated.

I’ve had to relay this on to people I train: It’s their job. It’s a business and it’s unreasonable for you to be better at aspects of it than they are.

I think the slide is titled “Someone is going to be the goose, hopefully not you”.
Yeah I remember the first few episodes are pretty awkward and a bit lame. Then it gets better.
So maybe being a bit pedantic here, but the Atari ST was originally going to use CP/M 68k, but part way through development they changed the base OS from that to what was more of a MS-DOS clone (which as others have said was also mainly a CP/M 80 clone). I think this was done to have better compatibility with the GEM layer, so the Atari ST OS, TOS, was more like MS-DOS than CP/M.

It would be interesting to port TOS (or more likely EmuTOS) to this 68k IBM PC and kind of go full circle.
> The OpenAI chat completion endpoint encourages the second-person prompting you describe, so that could be why you see it a lot. My understanding is that a transformation is applied to the user input prompts before being fed to the underlying model, so it's possible that the model receives a more natural transcription-style prompt.

There is something so bizarre about talking to a "natural language" "chat" interface, with some weirdly constructed pseudo representation, to have it re-construct that into a more natural prompt to feed further down to extract tokens from real chat records.
Steve Jobs turned a company that was 90 days from bankruptcy into the richest company in the world, with the same employees.
Are European regulations due to people stealing tech devices?

I thought it was due to anti-consumer practices.
Out of necessity to do gig work, or out of necessity to do some work?

I have to imagine Europe has food service workers and cashiers and cleaning staff and other jobs that nobody really likes to do and that don't pay particularly well, but that aren't hard jobs to get. So if the gig work is actually worse instead of better, why are they choosing it over any of those other things which are still available?
TBH, I think centralization makes a lot of sense here.

When you get into a CBDC, you're probably looking at a lot more real-world infrastructure needs than even the most ambitious crypto. In particular, the on/off ramp capacity has to be huge, especially in early phases of the evolution when you're going to run into random commerce opportunities that aren't ready. (Vending machine that only takes 25c coins? Kids selling Girl Scout cookies?) People are going to need to get notes and coins in and out of the system.

I could see having it farmed out to a cooperative of the major private banks, like the Federal Reserve is nominally. This fits the grand American vision of privatizing things that make more sense as a public good. But also because they already have infrastructure and footprint. If every branch/ATM of the 10 largest banks in the country is a CBDC access point, you can make it viable for normal people quickly.

If we treat it as a platform where the banks talk to it, rather than mere mortals (again, appealing to regulatory capture visions), it means that the ledger is basically "authorized parties only", so you largely don't need a blockchain model. You probably just have mirrored infrastructures at each major bank, streaming updates between each other with a tight SLA.
Maybe it’s different in international law but in US law “national origin” is just a term of art for race or ethnicity. Anyway, no matter how annoying seeing feet and inches may be for some users I don’t think it will have the same effect as the AI praising Hitler.
Do the simplest LLM prompts work best?
from the article: "we devise the
following straightforward procedure:

1. Obtain a small set of manually created
prompts for the task.

2. Expand the set of prompts with automatic
paraphrasing using a LM (e.g., GPT3) and
backtranslation (see Section 3).

3. Rank the list of prompts by perplexity (aver-
aged on a representative sample of task inputs,
e.g. 1,000).

4. Choose the k (e.g., 3) lowest perplexity
prompts.

Using this algorithm, we show empirically that it
is best to prioritize experimenting with the lowest perplexity prompts, as they perform better than manual prompts on average, and are more stable"
May isn't a particularly warm month for pacific waters, at least here in British Columbia. I think it's probably still around 9°C? I'd still wear my 7mm wetsuit to dive right now.
Even an extra $100 is fine. If it requires no extra effort, then why not.

Will anyone say no to something that's "free"? Assuming it's electronically transferred no interaction is even required.

Even if you asked a billionaire if they'd like an extra dollar, are we expecting them to say "no, my account is too full - don't you dare put it in!". !?
> That obviously doesn't apply to the more expensive components.

Or the larger ones! I bought a 100 of pretty much every standard resistor value in through-hole format from a bulk seller and came to regret the mess of loosely taped together resistor bundles intermixing and tangling and the shelf space they occupied!
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Baffling. Apple has beautiful hardware, but most of the software is dumb as a brick and worse than the equivalent Android app in my experience. At least compared to Google's first party apps.
You're reading about the efforts of the third place political party's leader to get attention so people remember he exists, since politically all he does is prop up the existing minority Liberal government.

This is purely for the headlines/clicks so people remember he's there and so he can pretend he does something.
Agreed. These are instruction-tuned: they will follow the instructions, so much so that not even the strongest RLHF can currently prevent well-structured jailbreaking.

In my experience their attention is strongest towards the end of the last message, which could be the reason for injections being so effective with little effort. Within the OpenAI models as of today the first user message is much stronger than the system message.

Given the ChatML spec and their end-to-end control over the models, I wonder whether the system message could end up being sandboxed by architecture and/or training.
Apple had 5 failing CEOs in a row before Steve Jobs. Then look what happened.
If you're right, start your own company and put ChatGPT in charge of it.
I don't understand your argument, somehow you are saying the claims are conflating salary and compensation. But the very article we are discussing quotes Singh:

>"At the very same time, the CEOs of the companies they work for are making more salary, making more compensation than they've ever made before."

Moreover to claim that other compensation (you call it unrealised capital gains, how do you know they are unrealised, at least part of them are realised), is not contributing to the" pay gap" seems to me a much bigger lie. And yes the pay gap has largely increased because execs are given much higher stock packages, but it is still an increase in compensation, effectively they are being given more value while normal workers salaries have stagnated.

So you argue that the CEO salary depends on stock options so he is interested to drive the company value up. Well lots of exec emails claim that all those workers should be doing their best because they are crucial for the company, but they are never given the same sort of options. Why should regular workers not get stock options amounting to potentially 100s of times their regular salary, just like the CEO?
When I work with a computer I really don't want to think too much about POST or how the power on button sounds. I simply want it to turn on and work. The functioning of my computer system is mostly orthogonal to my work. I don't distract myself by obsessing over POST messages when I have a backlog to work through.

For your other points, my visits to the Apple Store do not result from learned helplessness. Most problems with Apple products can be resolved using their knowledge base, or if you must, a couple minutes of chat. Apple even has free technical support reachable by phone if you have a real technical issue (like mail issues with your Mac.com address, which came to me as a surprise that they would even do this).

When I do go to the Apple Store the few times that I do, quite frankly it feels like I'm going there to rip them off. Their prices are fair and when you have Apple Care+ they bend backwards to get you up and running. I almost want to apologize to the poor overworked genius after an Apple Store visit.

This is an experience completely different from that from a more conventional PC manufacturer. With a home built PC or one from a gaming vendor like iBuypower, you're pretty much left with the manuals for your components, which are sparse and hardly updated. Even if you get pretty POST beeps it's not reassuring that these problems have little recourse other than "buy more crap to fix your problem" or "flash this shady bin." There is no Apple Store equivalent for regular PC either, if you need help with a regular PC the geek squad is no better at Googling your issue than you are, and very few insurance plans will rebuild your computer for you without a huge copay. "Big" vendors like Dell are even worse, whose support can be summarized as "fuck you pay me" even when the problem is entirely their fault.

To summarize, getting help with a regular PC is a game of passing the buck around by vendors. With Apple there is no one to pass the buck to, so you have them pinned.

All that stuff is worth way more to me than some clunks and beeps.
Not everyone can "just be amoral bro". People often have serious hinderances to that (be it religion, personal philosophy, a conscience, whatever).
I hear you but X-Files is mad entertaining.

Every time Mulder enters a building without getting a warrant I just have to chuckle in admiration. I like how they self-decribed it, "you're like producers with guns!"
I do not think that. And I could be wrong.
Having spent a considerable portion of my adult life imprisoned, I don't think the contact with other criminals increases a person's penchant for criminality. I think the incarceration itself does though by essentially fucking your entire life up and resetting you to a hard zero. And while you are inside you are not making any improvement to your life, e.g. skill building, improving your emotional intelligence; and in fact you are usually letting any skills you might have had stagnate and deteriorate beyond use.
From the README:

> ... legally blind developers provided feedback at each stage of design.

This makes me curious.
And what does Noam think a human does from the moment his eyes open and the amniotic fluid is drained from his ears? Humans gorge on hundreds of terabytes of data until they reach around puberty. Oh. But it's squishy chemical signals, not gold scratchings on glass. Oh well that's different.
Pond of Gloop: Review of Anaximander and the Nature of Science
That's just how the examples it's trained on are formatted
It's flat-out ridiculous to pin it on something as broad partisan membership at one spot in a governmental body without considering any of the vastly more consequential facets of crime. Reverse the list and count the number of red and blue cities there.

I'm happy to look at pre and post policy implementation compared with similar entities, taking national and regional trends into account. Anything else is posturing.
ChatGPT ?
I think that they really need to ship it to get it from what is likely to be a good prototype to an actual polish product that really matches people’s needs. They can only do so much on their own behind closed doors guessing at that software developers will do and what people will want. The best way to improve quickly is to get it in people’s hands and on their heads.
It means someone with 20/200 vision or worse.
One guess: abstracting abstraction enough times can accomplish pretty much any Mloc.
Illustrated JavaScript coding course [pdf]
Because you don't make money deleting code. People at tech giants don't love their employers like they are their mother or something. They don't do things that don't get them rewarded. Implementing new features does.

And so engineers implement new features and write more code and release the features and get rewarded for doing so. Once the feature is done, if it's easy to delete it they will. If not, and it never is, they'll leave it around and move on to something else.

When you have 3 billion users if you make the company 1/100th of a penny per user per year you pay for yourself. That's like increasing the value of the average user by 1/200,000. So your feature doesn't even have to be that good. It just has to be minimally better than what it's replacing. Restyle a button to be more appealing in the peripheral vision of users and that probably breaches that threshold.

Reality is that it isn't quite this easy (fewer users are that valuable, most don't use it daily, etc). But it gets the point across. You work there to make more money and deleting some feature that is probably referenced by some other dead code somewhere else isn't profitable work for anybody.
Messenger on Android is genuinely one of the buggiest pieces of software I have ever used. It astounds me that people will take technical advice and use software libraries developed by this company that delivers such poor quality software.

Just a few of the issues off the top of my head. Most of these have been ongoing for several months and some for several years.

* Type something into the input box, quick-switch to another app, then switch back to messenger. Your half-finished message is now gone. But if you kill messenger completely then bring it back, your message is back - even if you have sent and received dozens of messages in the interim.

* The sticker selector has been completely broken for at least 3 years. It shows the grey smiley face placeholder image for every sticker pack apart from your bitmoji rip-off pack. This bug has been around long enough that I have verified it happens on 3 different phones from different manufactures (because I have upgraded twice in the time this bug has existed).

* The recently used emoji category may as well be using a random number generator to select what goes in there.

* The share menu from other apps sometimes shows Messenger twice. This doesn't happen for any other apps for me.

* Custom notification sounds on a chat will randomly revert back to the hideous default sound.

* Images I post will display properly until one other person sends a message to the chat, then will turn white and not come back unless I hard-stop the app and bring it back. It's not clear if this is occurring for other people in the chat, but I've only seen it happen to my own images and not others'.

* Quite often someone will post a picture to the chat and instead of a picture I will see them post the message "XXXX posted a photo". The only way to see the photo is to hard-kill the app and bring it back.

There are so many more. Terrible software.
i use oracle cloud for its extraordinarily generous free tier but it is straight up the worst website for any cloud service i've ever encountered, it reminds me of going into a retail shop that is clearly a money laundering front. the dashboard page seems purposefully designed to prevent you from managing your assets and i had to contact a support agent to figure out how to attach a credit card to my account.
So making cars that lack basic anti-theft features common in other brands of cars doesn’t count as anti-consumer?
To add a little bit clarity to this post.

I started working on a new illustrated coding course/curriculum for JavaScript (slide deck style).

I’m about 30% into the project ... and would like your feedback.

Please see below the first lessons:
https://codeguppy.com/site/download/coding_course.pdf

If you get the chance to download and review the file, please let me know your opinion/feedback.
Sorry, yes, I know this, I was making fun of a computer's output.
I am not sure that this is a general compression ability. Mapping song lyrics to emojis and uncovering the lyrics from those emojis wouldn't work for most text I believe.
The article is about the iOS version of Messenger.
“Legally blind” doesn’t mean absolutely zero vision, as I understand it - many people can still benefit from more legible type.
No, there was almost no prison in medieval times because the bulk of crimes were punished with fines (good for the government) or expulsion from the area. Capital punishments were not as common as you imagine, and some forms, such as being pulled apart with horses, have become legendary yet were almost never used.
Google’s Big Generative AI Experiment Is a Test for Humanity
Rural Georgia Factory, Flush with Federal Funds, Votes to Unionize
For incoming mail this is easy to do yourself if you have a little root server with a decent subdomain (the domain does not even need to be owned by you)

But for outgoing mail that requires real work / knowledge / full control over your DNS records. Recently gmail has stopped to accept any email without SPF/DKIM.
but it would have had to be named MICROSOF.COM
Sure, but so what?

In most of the world's conversations, if somebody talks about a thing, people tend to think, "Oh, maybe they know about the thing." Here on HN, though, and wherever reply guys roam free, you see a lot of the opposite. "I'll just assume I know way more about this than the person I'm going to run my mouth at."

I don't think it should be my job to preemptively trot out my credentials every time I whip up a paragraph on something. Especially when, as here, those credentials are not only some of the most painful episodes in my life, but are also guaranteed conversational bombs. Instead, maybe we could have a norm of assuming that people aren't total idiots.
There’s a lot of Russian billionaires discovering that their freedoms aren’t as unlimited as they thought…
i think i heard once that there are only a few problems in computer science, including off-by-one errors, and concurrent update handling

oh yeah and overengineering, probably
In this case Open AI used RLHF to instruct-tune gpt3. Your pedantism here is unnecessary.
> Is that really common in all open source projects?

Common? Depends. Necessary or correct? That's a whole 'other can of worms:

Depending on the open-source license you're using it's actually _required_ to do that, although many developers (like me) don't actually do it because in reality it really doesn't matter, but strictly speaking it's the correct (and sometimes necessary) thing to do. The overall principle is that it reduces ambiguity. What if a user gets access to source files without access to the rest of the repo? Then they won't be able to know what the license for that code is. Or what if your project mixes in code from other projects for purposes such as dependency vendoring? You need to be explicit in which files are licensed how and by whom.

This stack exchange discussion is somewhat illuminating [0].

As you can see, GPL licenses require a copyright notice and a license notice on every file (although no need for the entire license). Apache v1 requires the license on every file. The MIT license is somewhat ambiguous as the definition for "substantial portions of the Software" is not clearly defined, a possible interpretation is that every single file is a substantial portion of the software, this is why some MIT licensed projects include it, in its entirety, in every single source code file.

IANAL, but Kyle E. Mitchell is, and he has an interesting line-by-line explanation of the MIT license which helped clear some of the ambiguity for me [1].

[0]:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3170...

[1]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-b...
I wonder if it's as simple as adding a location check and updating the systemPrompt to tell the bot to assume the user is from _location_?

How realistic is it if one says, "Hi, Bing. I'm from East London, please talk to me like you would to another East Londoner." Or is it obnoxiously stereotypical?

I imagine, properly trained, that is something LLMs would excel at, communicating with people in their preferred mode of communication.
Musk has said this and he's the one who actually knows.
There is zero fun in that. You’re supposed to assemble your collection over the span of years!
Please show your work. The top marginal rate in the US is 35% plus state taxes of up to 12.3% (California). If you can arrange to take your income as long term capital gains or qualified, you can get the federal rate down to 20% (but you're still on the hook for state taxes).