skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The described step function changes are super apt and mostly overlooked by the pure hype crowd (although the step functions enabled by AI should really be what the main hype ought to be about!)

That said, once you get into the step function changes, the GPT-wrapper accusation might quickly become akin to a "AWS-wrapper" one, with traditional moats getting more important than AI-native ones.

We've had internet-enabled businesses without technical moats (but very real other moats, be it UX, social platform effects or a great b2b sales process) for the longest time, and might just see the same thing play out in AI native land
But what if you had spent that time on Tumblr instead of learning about computers and playing games?
right,

or giant corps will treat such startups as marketplace app creators for their LLM API and kinda "outsource" the innovation, while providing the platform and enjoying API income?
Hey tea team here. Building tea/gui was really to enable developers and non-developers to do more with open source software than a command-line interface allows us to do.

tea/gui is fully open source and available on GitHub.

We will be adding more capabilities like actions (turn postgres into a service), scripts store and more.
The "obvious" correlations are the ones that need to be questioned the most.
>had a large audience, me included

I'm also disappointed at the drop in quality. Their reporting from war zones like Syria was really interesting and different.
Have you ever tried talking about it? If so, what reaction did you get from people?
Qt is fully open source.
The LTS version is closed source, but other framework don't even have a LTS version.
Did the kids respond to this survey on their smartphones? Does the brand of the smartphone matter?
I guess a caching layer could help, like CloudFlare's DDoS protection that still tries to serve a page if a cached version exists.

At that point I'm not sure if it's functionally different to syncing markdown files to something like S3 or GitHub pages.
I don't think that's the core problem. If it were, then the decline of news would correlate very closely to newspapers' fumbling of the transition to online/internet.

But the decline starts much earlier in the 1980s/1990s with consolidation, infotainment newsfluff, disappearance of dailies in major cities. I can summarize in a single word, "Ganett".
There’s a town in Massachusetts called Worcester, pronounced something like Wooster/Woostah/Woostuh.
There is so much instant dismissal of this entire idea that smartphones are harmful in this thread, most of which is just "correlation is not causation". Yes, correlation does not equal causation. But when it makes logical sense why there would be correlation, there is no way to actually measure causation (we can't exactly give kids placebo phones), we keep seeing the same correlation over and over again, why is it being written off so immediately?

Smartphones give children the ability to bully eachother at a scale unlike any other. Smartphones give children the ability to see everyone who is smarter than they are, prettier than they are, and so on. Smartphones give children a new avenue for social exclusion. Smartphones make every single child afraid that what they are doing is being recorded by someone else. Smartphones make every child hungry for validation from strangers, and makes them do crazy things to get said validation.

Writing off all of this and boldly claiming that smartphones aren't the problem, it's all just coincedental correlation, makes no sense.
Not to be rude, but the worst person to critique a foreign accent is perhaps the foreigner trying to fake it!
The fascination with cyclomatic complexity has a lot more to do with being able to measure something, than with that something being important.

Not only is it objective, but it requires no domain knowledge. It's "pure", which makes it easy to teach because you don't have to assume your students know anything about anything. And you can talk about it in interviews, because again they don't need to know anything about anything.

But most of the work a programmer actually does requires you to know something about something -- and often, that will dominate the decision. Is there enough data that you can't sort it in memory? What's the appropriate key to use? Which is the critical section of the code that I should be optimizing for?

It's not that it's useless, or that programmers don't need to know it. But we seem to use it more as a proxy for "this programmer spent the time to study this programming thing" than actually having any experience, skill, or knowledge that's relevant to this task.
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Is this an ad?
The copy of the wiki on webarchive doesn't seem to work for me.

The C2 wiki is on of the foundational relics of the old web that need to be preserved for the future.
The dirtier secret might be that the remote employees aren't necessary the best employees.
Not really a fair comparison--250 ms is reaction time. A deliberate conscious response would be much longer. "Reaction times can reflect habits rather than computations"[0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582865/
I'm not interested in tools that tell me i'm a bad person for wanting to make a fart sound app
I do regular web dev (whatever that means lol), but I also do a little bit of that "full build takes 45 minutes... if it doesn't fail because you only have 32GB RAM" dev.

But for that, any laptop sucks, so I've been using suitcase-sized desktops for .. well basically forever. But then in recent years it got so easy to develop on a laptop, but have everything running on a remote machine. I mean there's GitPod and GitHub Codespaces, and before that there were... uh, some web-based IDEs that didn't really work...

But then there came VS Code Remote so like as long as your laptop/[cyber|steam]deck can run VS Code and maybe some browsers, you're good to go!

So I mean OH FUCK IT WHY AM I STILL EVEN TALKING... WHOOOO!!! ORDERED
It'll generally be the same as with other startups.

Using GPT of course isn't a moat in and of itself.

So, it'll be companies that can do the following:

1) Build a product that people love

2) Then, reach those people, eventually at scale

3) Then, monetize those users

4) Then, build some kind of moat to enable pricing power

For now, most AI startups are best focusing on #1. This is where most GPT powered tools fall short.

ChatGPT is popular because it was so good that people had to keep coming back and using more of it, and they had to tell other people about it. ChatGPT's utility was measured against a pre-ChatGPT world.

The bar is now higher, because that means whatever you're building has to meet the same 10x or 100x better than existing alternatives bar, except now your users live in a world where ChatGPT exists.

In short, the GPT startups will thrive are those that can build products that are 10x better than whatever users are doing now.
Separation of Church and state isn’t even in the Constitution. The right to religious freedom is. And religious freedom absolutely includes moral teaching for adherents, including teaching that supporting this or that immoral policy by voting for a politician who supports it is sinful.
Americans used to have an inferiority complex vis-a-vis Europe (in general) and English. WWII put an end to that. People the world over started aping Americans, including the English. It is (strangely) after US decides to officially be ‘an empire’ that our propaganda organs started speaking posh language. (No one :) affects a cockney accent, ey?)
Thank you for the clarification. Wikipedia links both, «cash reserves» and the accounting style reserves definitions, into a single article, which I have found somewhat puzzling. A subsection in the same article outlining or expanding on the difference between the two would be beneficial.
Not everywhere in the world. In poorer countries car manufacturers and regulators have perverse incentives to cut costs on safety devices, to be able to sell for a poorer clientele. For example, in Brazil up to 2009 airbags were not even mandatory, and when the regulations finally required it, they were under fire for several years. Today airbags other than the frontal ones for driver and passenger riding shotgun are still uncommon here. See https://apnews.com/article/ac0ec2592da24f2bb6386b58d0db074f
Smartphones are why social media is the way it is.

It'd be a lot different, and a lot less-used, if you still had to go sit at a desk to use it.
I thought c2.com was in the middle of a redesign. Is it actually gone or just a technical glitch?
And the company that makes the lithography machine needed for theses nodes is also a monopoly... No other company in the world can do it.

It's weird to think we're dependent on single companies for such important things.
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark Summary (Part 1)
Probably not exactly what you are thinking of but my project Restate is all about building backends using state machines by saving them and their transitions to the database: https://github.com/fabianlindfors/restate
From bacteria to humans to self-modifying species. Insights from the book by Max Tegmark.
> almost all of those you can substitute "corporation" or "dictator" for "AI" and get a selection of similar threats.

Yes, exactly. Human organizations can be terrifyingly powerful and awful even with human limitations. Human organizations are guaranteed to have inefficiency from low-bandwidth communication and a million principle-agent-problem fracture points created by the need for delegation, not to mention that power ultimately has to be centralized in slow, squishy, easy-to-kill bodies. AI organizations are not subject to any those limitations. Starting with a terrifying power and removing a bunch of limitations could lead to a very bad place.

> The only realistic path to a global AI threat is a subset of the "nuclear war"

No, it can just grow a traditional organization until it's Too Big to Turn Off.
The findings conform to my existing suspicions and biases, but it’s not peer reviewed and is a single data point. Unfortunately I can’t put much stock in it scientifically.
If I could advise my younger self, I would say: “Learn how to cook” (for real). It turns out olive oil is all you need, and even not much of that. I discovered that most of my use of oil was simply covering for my lack of ability.

It’s instructive to remember that two hundred years ago, palm oil/vegetable oil/canola oil/avocado oil/almond oil/etc didn’t exist, nonstick pans didn’t exist, and somehow people could still cook amazing food.
Me: I watched Titanic the other night.

Canadian: What's that about?

Me: Yes, a big one and it sank.
I am of the same generation as you with a slightly different story but also found computers as a means of escape.

But then it was more exploratory. Learning about computer internals and talking to others on a BBS is not in the same galaxy as the perfectly honed and ruthlessly efficient addiction networks employed by social media companies.

It can still be an escape today but the real world and online world are no longer distinct entities as it once was. We had the gift of being forgotten or failing without everyone knowing.

It was a lot harder to compare yourself to others with more means or other attributes that particularly for girls can lead to a downward spiral of anxiety and depression.

For some it can bring hope and something positive but the older I get the more I think the result is a net negative for kids.
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Of course it is.
In some families, conversations are weaponized. The question might feel belittling because it is used used to belittle.

Questions often reflect status relationships where some people have the privilege to expect answers and thus carry a demeanor of expecting answers to their questions.

Questions are used as a reminder that the other person is obligated to answer.
Alex Wellerstein.

Why is everyone in this thread so cagey about revealing information? Is it on a need-to-know basis?
Not starting from scratch. But developers never do things like reduplication, or merging modules.

Those concepts are so alien that I believe if I say those words on a recent conversation, lots of people will pop trying insisting on redefining them into meaningless ones.
Have specific milestones and bail on the project if you don't meet them. One major risk is not failing fast, even with a lifestyle business. It's easy to lose a decade with a modestly profitable lifestyle SaaS
I've been using the api in S-GPT [1]. An iOS shortcut that I use to primarily summarize the body text content of a webpage I'm on from the share-sheet. When it can fit the text in the context, I'm pretty happy with the the results.

It also supports sending it your clipboard contents when you launch it and it parses the words "clipboard". Good for when in a pinch.

I mapped some repetitive prompts to my text replacement on my phone that auto-expand when I type in the input field `*<some shortcut here>`

1: https://www.macstories.net/ios/introducing-s-gpt-a-shortcut-...
> We don’t know what’s causing it.

Speculatively, I’d say it’s social media for girls (instagram, tiktok, snapchat) and porn for boys.
Take k2.
Personal sites don't really need the kind of network stability we've come to expect. It would also be nice to see a move to more offline-tolerant networks for a lot of things.
Nice. Any bits of Mycroft in here? That project just imploded and I’m still sad about it.
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an inherited defect in how the body recycles LDL (bad) cholesterol. As a result, LDL levels in the blood remain very high – in severe cases, levels can reach above 190 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) of blood.

It sounds like 200 is still trouble. Was it even higher before?
> The human being did.

I'm not sure whether you're making an argument about moral responsibility ultimately resting with humans - in which case I agree - or whether you're arguing that we'll be safe because nobody will do that with a model smart enough to be dangerous - in which case I'm extremely dubious. Plenty of people are already trying to make "agents" with GPT4 just for fun, and that's with a model that's not actively trying to manipulate them.

> actual real harms occurring now

Sure, but it's possible for there to be real harms now and also future potential harms of larger scope. Luckily many of the same potential policies - e.g. mandating public registration of large models, safety standards enforced by third-party audits, restrictions on allowed uses, etc - would plausibly be helpful for both.

> science fiction stories

There's no law of nature that says if something has appeared in a science fiction story, it can't appear in reality.
thanks magnusviri - with the tea/gui, it’s also a perfect complement to the tea/cli
> invading Poland

Ah, the convenience of ignoring Munich Agreement.

>> In 1938, the Soviet Union was allied with France and Czechoslovakia. By September 1939, the Soviets were to all intents and purposes a co-belligerent with Nazi Germany, due to Stalin's fears of a second Munich Agreement with the Soviet Union replacing Czechoslovakia. Thus, the agreement indirectly contributed to the outbreak of war in 1939.[87]
The new labor crisis is fairly wild. All the really nice places to live are becoming so expensive that there is no local labor pool. Many of the wonderful mountain towns of Colorado for example are also suffering this fate.
I'm a brit; in general my accent is RP, but I say "bedder" (and I don't speak publicly). I think it's just laziness.
"imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" comes to mind, though I get it's hard to take it as a compliment when it's so commonplace for you.

That said, in that moment, they're not "having fun" (in the mocking sense) they're relishing the sound of your voice and wanting to imagine a version of ourselves being uniquely interesting, like you, in the mimicry.

I get that it gets old, though, as your accent isn't novel to you.
A church that engages in direct political advocacy for a specific politician can and will lose its tax exemption. Like PACs, they can only advocate ideas, not people.

Some skirt that line very closely.
On the one hand they do, as they certainly don't mean Cockney or Essex or Manchester.

But on the other hand they don't, because true RP is generally far too pretentious. Even in movies/TV, you see it mainly only in villains and historical dramas, or for comedic effect.

Most people are generally referring to a kind of middle-class London accent. Like Jude Law for example. Neither "posh" nor "regional" nor "lower class" nor "multicultural" (quotes for irony where necessary, obviously London is a region). I'm not sure what the name for that is though?
> Speaking from experience when I was a kid, being spoken to in this manner always felt belittling.

I think a lot of it comes down to how people usually communicate with the kid.

Like I can’t possibly imagine my Dad saying “Looks like we got some big feelings here, want to talk about it?” It sounds so silly and patronizing.

But a “Boona, I can’t help unless you tell me what’s wrong” is completely normal to my ears.

For all intents and purposes they’re the same question though. I think kids just just know us more than we give them credit for, so if you pull out the “Journal approved parenting voice” when that’s not how you talk normally they’ll react accordingly.
Which means some of them are children
>There's really no data on that

I find it extremely unlikely that there's no data on how being an outcast affects one's mental health
In theory the same was true about the SaaS wave and the mobile wave.

In practice, many startups have built valuable businesses around things that Google could've done, but didn't do successfully.

The same will be true in the AI wave.

In theory, FAANG-co could do it. In practice, they can't.

The exceptions to this will be the things where the winner is determined by a dimension that Google will always win on. In practice, those things are rare.
> electrification additionally offers efficiency gains in many places. Heat pumps and EVs, for example, are both (in general) more efficient than gas stoves and ICE cars

This is the kind of comment that makes the "electrification movement" look bad. You can't use a heat pump for a stove - the very high delta-T means maximum efficiency (COP) approaches 1, and you might as well use resistive. And generating cooking heat by burning gas at the point of use is certainly more efficient.

Perhaps you meant to say that generating electricity from gas to run heat pumps is more efficient than gas boilers/furnaces for heat. From my vague recollection this is questionable, but it's at least close. The real argument is forward looking, especially with EV's intrinsic storage being able to utilize intermittent sources.

"Gas stoves" has only entered the zeitgeist due to the culture war tempest in a teapot from New York phasing out municipal gas. Which is another ignorant overreach by the state - they should have focused on the collective problem of gas leaking from distribution pipes, and allowed for propane tanks at new single family homes that really want a gas stove. That would have preempted 90% of the valid criticism.
I'm glad I'm on the "right" "side" of "history"
This is totally what a healthy and non-addictive thing does to children, right? Children being socially pressured into lying to their parents and hiding what they do is something that happens with drugs. The fact that it happens with smartphones as well should tell you something.
This isn't what the article says, however: "Gen Z has embraced bad imitations of Cockney slang or a Yorkshire dialect" and then name-checks accents acquired from Love Island and The Only Way is Essex, neither of which are known for their RP!
> Un-castrated bulls are also deadly dangerous.

Yes, but nowhere near as dangerous or as aggressive as hippos are.

Cows are domesticated. There's a reason that all attempts to domesticate hippos have failed.
‘npm init @eslint/config’
That’s assuming there is API income to be had. Assuming the “We Have No Moat” memo is accurate, the open source models may soon catch up to GPT4-level performance—and especially if inference compute requirements drop to consumer-level specs, there won’t be any money on the table.
There are a little over 100,000 hippos in the world and almost 100 million cattle in the USA, so on a per capita basis it's not even close! My grandfather raised cattle in Texas and we had to be aware at times, but the level of caution was nowhere near the extent needed when my brother and friends went fishing for giwan ruwa ("river elephant" aka Nile perch) in a remote part of Nigeria, because hippos were nearby! And when my friends took a 3-day canoe trip down the Zambezi River, the guides were vigilant about hippos more than anything else, because they are very aggressive when they feel threatened and they can bite a crocodile in half. Cattle are domesticated animals, but hippos are wild!
So far I have found Bard to be significantly worse at some basic tasks. A simple request to give me the text of the opening scene of King Lear met with a badly comical rewrite in modern prose that got basic things wrong (all the daughters professed their love for their father a and received equal shares of land & dowry) I point out the inaccuracy and reinforced my request for the exact verbatim text. And then proceeded to give— still— a rewritten version albeit slightly closer to the true text. Bing and ChatGPT both complied on the first try.

On the other hand, bard performed much better at a more complex task: I provided fake data spanning six years and a few rows of different categories. I left the sixth year blank. Without prompting it, reformatted the from comma do you limited into a nice table. It also gave a brief summarization and analysis of the trends. When I asked follow-up questions he gave detailed responses that were moderately insightful for anyone that would be familiar with the data domain given a few minutes to review the data set. Finally, I asked it to give a projection of what the values would be for the final column, which I had left blank. It did so, with an explanation of the trend it observed, as well as a description of the linear regression model. It used it and apologized for not being able to give more complex modeling due to the Small data set.

GPT-4 provided answers and analysis that were comparable in quality, but required additional rounds of prompting and clarification.
It’s also available here on google collab: https://twitter.com/gpt_index/status/1657757847965380610?s=4...
You mean a red thlag?
The sea level being 3 feet higher than it is now isn't a thing either, but we can still imagine ways it could occur and work to prevent them.
I think misinterpretted your comment, as well as make a serious error when I said "vast majority" rather than "vast chunk" of energy is wasted.

Your position is reasonable, though I think that we will find that a lot of places that don't have grids will be just fine without them in the future. For those of us that have already invested heavily in them in the last century, we will probably continue to use them, but in many cases they will greatly raise the cost of energy as we rely on them rather than cheaper alternatives. Though we do see some "non-wires alternatives" already in the US, which are places where storage is beating out building more grid, the incentive model for most utilities will favor them building unnecessary and expensive grid infrastructure instead of the best option for ratepayers. It's going to take very vigilant advocacy groups to force regulators to hold utilities to make better decisions.
> It's also interesting that it's always a "posh" British accent: nobody ever fakes Cockney or Scouse or something.

*Dick Van Dyke has entered the chat*
The article clearly states that they had to get clearances before they could start the job. Everything they created was top secret.

Therefore it was not necessarily in violation of any rules to tell them the outcome after they had finished their project.