skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This aligns perfectly with my experience. I feel like I haven't found the correct way to utilize these tools yet as, just like you, whenever I attempt to use them for some intellectual work it proves to be a huge waste of time and the old manual hunt for information and DIY approach is much more effective.

I know a lot of people leverage gpt for basic writing tasks. I'm confident in my writing ability and enjoy writing so I don't use it for that either.

I might try using image models at some point to generate some pixel art, but on the whole I've found these tools pretty useless and am left wondering what I'm missing. To me it seems like they only work for a very specific case: "I have no background knowledge in domain X and am ok with a quick solution that is adequate but likely not optimal, and I don't need to worry about about correctness." Unfortunately, that's completely out of the realm of the sort of work I like to do.
It's been a few weeks ago, but I recall asking ChatGPT about models in Django, which on the surface it often gets perfect.

However, when I asked that the model in question needs to be unmanaged and backed by a SQL view (which I pasted), which had previously been applied from a migration script, it became pretty obvious that ChatGPT is just putting together sentences that are highly likely to be true, but not really understanding the architecture of Django.

So that's one example - and it's not even a particularly complex scenario.
Highly recommend dog runs for a “third place”.

Generally caring, welcoming are people drawn there and unlike, say, a gym, people have nothing but free time to socialize. The best way I’ve found to make meaningful relationships post-college.
Google’s problem is that if it wanted to not break its current business model it would need a chatbot that answers whatever the highest bidder desires.

The fast pace of ‘internet time’ means Amazon, AOL, Facebook and Google can follow the trajectory of Ford, AMC, Chrysler, and GM in a fraction of the time. Amazon was a leader in e-commerce once, now they count on someone who subscribed to Prime for the last 15 years to subscribe for the next 15 years. Google search used to be good, but now it is corrupt. Search for a ‘used Honda Fit’ and the first search result is an ad from the one car dealer that owns all the new car dealerships in town for new cars and even though they presumably have used cars in their lot, they’ll try to sell you the same CR-V they’d try to sell you in person. I’d accept any kind of ad from someone who is selling what i am buying but Google aids and abets numerous acts of brand destruction every day.

They know how to walk the line of running a corrupt ads engine and not get anybody arrested but it is an unsolved problem in A.I. ethics to get away with running a corrupt chatbot —- and that is why Google is in so much trouble.
> then another newer and better system can take its place.

That is a strong assumption not borne out by history. Destroying a system leaves chaos, and violent people thrive in chaos.

Better systems come about by incremental reforms and forgiveness for the undeserving.
Thanks for posting the full Bard response. I would object to it on two grounds: 1) I only asked about sex. 2) The following is highly questionable: "However, dogs can still express gender identity." This is ideological BS. My kids are either male or female, no matter how they choose to express themselves (as are my dogs). When I've had chickens, the roosters had different behavior then the hens, this is an aspect of secondary sexual characteristics (not a gender identity). In my own ideology there, there is no such thing as gender identity, only biological sex, secondary sexual traits, and a person's individual personality. Nothing else actually exists.
If a company makes a promise like this, and you either accepted the job because of it, or you already had the job but did something like moving across the country because of it, and they then break their promise, would that count as constructive discharge for purposes of unemployment?
Yeah. I get the same with Chrome. It's like, can you just slow down a little?
(Note that I'm not attempting to contradict you in any way—your comment merely raised this issue, which I think is worth commenting on explicitly.)

One thing that various industries are currently coming to terms with is the fact that it is effectively impossible to create "neutrality".

Every one of your choices of what to include in the training data, what to explicitly exclude, what to try to emphasize, and any other ways you prune or shape a model, make it conform to one set of biases or another.

"Unaligned," here, at least as far as I can tell, is just a shorthand for "a model no one explicitly went in after training and pushed to do one thing or not do another." It doesn't mean that the model is unbiased...because even if your model contains absolutely everything in human knowledge, with no aspect being disproportionate to reality, real humans are also biased, and that "model replicating reality" is just going to replicate those real biases too.

It's always going to be more effective to acknowledge our own biases, both to ourselves and our audiences (whatever those may look like), and when we do try to shape something like a model, simply be honest about what that shaping looks like.
I think there are many theories that say that the dog had some say in the matter of being domesticated. Could have actually been there idea to start!

It’s a wonder how few truly domesticated animals there are which may lead one to believe that it’s not so easy or natural. I guess we could give each hippo a lobotomy but that really wouldn’t go over well with the PETA crowd and I’m not shy to say I’d probably side with them on this matter.
I'd say you're right in that regard, open standards in this space would be good, but equally having a large player pouring in resources to develop the space can get those efforts off the ground.
> The relevant biological differences between sexes are acknowledged and accepted.

Except if they were accepted in the way racists wanted race to be accepted, we'd crack down hard on freedom of movement for men.

A consistent racist would want us to pull our head out of the sand and more rigorously police the violent criminals that are, almost always men.

The data on the outsized violence of men is much more consistent, and dramatic, than the violence of any "ancestral genetic group".
Perhaps to put it in NA terms, the 'downtown core' of Tokyo is absolutely enormous, but in the suburbs and exurbs you likely still need a car to live a convenient life, commute to a workplace somewhere else in the suburbs/exurbs, etc.
You can install the portable version of VSCode and you don't have to deal with this anymore - then you can update whenever you need to.
We used Plus Codes to create over 14,000 addresses in a Brazilian favela
Given what has transpired about the Chips act for foreign manufacturers including TSMC I find it incredibly dumb and shortsighted of TSMC to hedge all their bets on Apple.
I'm pretty sure that excessive consumption of sugar kills a lot more than 5 million people per year.
> Can you sell more ads with AI

Companies like Google and Meta have been relying on AI to display ads for years now. It’s been central to their strategy.

ChatGPT was just a shiny toy. A very cool, shiny toy, but a toy nonetheless.
I have used it at the very beginning but I've been mostly disappointed aside of few examples.

Things it proved useful for:

- learning new programming languages and solving hackerrank or codewars katas in languages I didn't know. It sped up and lowered my learning curve.

- writing recommendation letters based on my inputs ("write a recommendation letter for X, knowing those are his strengths and what he's good at).

Things it proved terrible for:

- personal assistant. I was hoping to use ChatGPT as a tool that would help me reason. I did try to use it as a companion learning the new Epic Games programming language "Verse". ChatGPT proved absolutely terrible for this task. I would feed him paragraphs about verse calculus, from the pdf and then question him about what I fed him, but have few exchanges more and he would start allucinating.

- text editing. I tried to feed him paragraphs and then tell him, modify this or that. But it's capped in the number of tokens and it would make mistakes. Say I told him "modify this line", he would reprint it, but if I told him "hey, so what's paragraph 2", again he would get stale versions

- calendar assistant. I would tell him what my priorities and appointments where but it was very unhelpful to provide help and required much too much interaction.

In the end I just stopped using it, besides few niche use cases (which haven't happened recently) it just does not provide value where I want to find this value: as an assistant.

I'm still moderately optimistic about such use cases being a reality in the future, because the idea of having a companion I can converse with about my daily tasks and work tasks (sort of a jarvis) is really where I expect to find value.

Where I don't expect it to provide value is overhyped things like google or bing search, there I want to find websites.
> . We'd be quoting Einstein's holy scripture and illuminating circuit diagrams.

We do both of those things, so that's not what the problem is. Problem would be reinterpreting phlogiston theory to show how corrext it still is.
This is precisely what I'm doing.
I’m sure they have a ‘this is not financial advice’ notice, which is likely to be about as effective as those offered by the finfluencers currently being targeted by the Australian Tax Office.
I think it'd be good to be prepared to show and explain what you actually did, on the ground to build the business and demonstrate that it wasn't just a side project which you threw up and hoped for the best, but something that you leaned into to make work. If asked, talk about what you learned, what you'd do differently, and how you'll carry those things forward into new opportunities.

As others have said, you can't really control what people will think about having tried and failed to build a business, but you can show them that you put in the work, took some valuable lessons and that those experiences make you a valuable candidate.
Bard is terrible, by comparison. ChatGPT feels like spontaneous answers. Google Bard will literally copy top search result answers to questions, and doesn’t answer them relevantly. It’s a bad extension of search.
A technology downturn and mass layoffs are having competing effects on FOSS
My perspective: Generations of press boredom over gov corruption (eg:trading law & power <for> campaign cash & a revolving door) has made corruption the better of our two awful voting options.
love those, let me know if a new feature is available and how to better vote a new home type and if I don’t care? instant close. No nagging of “are you sure” just straight and to the point.
This happens worse for me in the remote world. In the office I can see when Alice and Bob are talking about something important to my work and roll my chair over. I can't tell when my remote coworkers are meeting about things I should be included in but was forgotten, and they do this All The Time.
>People are already freaked out plenty by the idea that googles products spies on you to sell ads.

The inverse is true - people continue using Google products despite being aware that they are spying on them. Doing it outright won't make them suddenly start caring.
> If you had a button that switched on a thousand washing machines at a time I guess one could flirt with the title "washing engineer".

Since that button probably wouldn't work correctly 100% of the time, the operator would probably be forced to learn about problems and solutions related to that activity. Over time, that person would accumulate experience and knowledge which would make them well suited to that simple job of flipping the switch on and off. And at that point, that person would be more of an engineer than a random person who walked up and flipped the switch.

An _anything_ engineer is just someone who does that thing and the unnamed related things necessary to do the main thing.
Some pro-sex communities often forget that "consent" doesn't just apply to participants. Bystanders should also have the right to avoid being exposed to sex acts and concepts that they don't want to see. Call people prudes or "kink-shamers" all you want, but as a very pro-kink person, I find it extremely distasteful and disrespectful to shame people for not wanting other people's kinks in their life.

There was some stupid drama recently over people calling a certain emoji the "bottom face" emoji and then being bewildered when people didn't like the sexual signaling. There were names and accusations thrown around based on nothing more than "I don't want to see sexual things in a programming blog".

Sex makes some people uncomfortable. Sexual trauma is a real thing that should be respected. People should have the right to opt out of seeing sex for the sake of their happiness and comfort. Your sexual freedom still needs to respect bystanders.

Edit: That said, I feel that people should name their projects whatever they want to. I don't have a problem with this being called Vore, I just think it's weird to explicitly celebrate it, and I don't like when people are shamed for saying they don't like seeing sex in places they don't expect it. While we should only change so much to accommodate people's comfort, we should at least respect that they aren't necessarily evil, homophobic, or wrong just for being uncomfortable.
Dogs are pack animals who are kept as isolated individuals alone in apartments by workers who are away all day. No shit they're anxious.
You're just clueless. You don't know anything about vice.
There is a technical linguistic term for it - th fronting:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th-fronting

Apparently it's been around for quite a bit of time.
Cynical but true in my experience coaching multiple F250s. More competitive companies will move to a model based on managing the flow of value, while legacy companies will be stuck with a model based on managing people. The two models are very different, with the first one often eliminating whole layers of management through automation. Companies think they can save management jobs by going to a matrixed model and flattening the org, but that's just an accommodation to save managers most of the time.

In Dell's case, I can only speculate, but they need to justify office space, and managers need to manage people, and most of leadership get promoted from middle management (or sales).

Worthless levity injection attack: my client supplied Dell windows machine still hiccups on cold boots sometimes (this ticket has been open for decades), while all my personal linux machines just keep chugging away. Find a company that is automating away management layers and uses linux.
Is there any projection on when and if Intel will catch TSMC? Seems TSMC keep managing to deliver every single planned process improvement on time.
Hippos have to graze up to 16 hours a day. Meat is a shortcut that enabled our species to put time into other things that made us the dominant species on the planet.
(Sorry for the late response, I hadn't checked my replies all week)

Companies in the US can put limits on consecutive vacation days. Both jobs I've had in the financial industry had a limit of 7 business days. While not impossible to go beyond that, it ends up needing approval that goes higher up than your manager.

I'm sure some industries provide more flexibility on consecutive days off, but if they do it's likely because workers don't even have enough days to take much more than that off. According to Forbes[1] the average number of vacation days an employee in the US gets is 11. That average moves to 15 after working at the same place for 5 years. Even though 15 days is enough to take 3 weeks straight, it would be a terrible idea to use all vacation days in one shot. A year is a long time. You're certainly going to be needing another break before a full 12 months has elapsed.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/pto-statistics/
Is this a good thing, bad thing, indifferent?

I think a big part of many people’s contempt for their jobs comes from the sense that it’s an endless, thankless stream of tickets and demands. Seeing people in person, remembering they’re human, can help make the rest of the job more pleasant. A day of socializing might make the other four days of remote work more productive, increase job satisfaction, increase retention.
Breaking Points (to me at least) fills that middle ground where both sides are open for attack and worth defending.
Sounds a lot like Harvard, Yale, etc.
It’s very important to qualify this with which model you are using. 3.5 and 4 are very different in the quality of answers they give, the version numbering is deceptive.

As a side note, although I can’t confirm this it seems like the general quality of answers for both 3.5 and 4 decreased over time. I suspect they are doing further RLHF which has shown to make the model stupider for lack of a better word.
Tech companies have been running all your data through AI for years now to show you targeted ads.

It’s what the whole house of cards is built on.
Again, you can allow your team to hire from anywhere without mandating they hire from everywhere and the remote work change is indeed permanent, rather flexible (you can still go to the office if you prefer).

Regarding the last quote - the actual source, Twitter, contains more context with the following text of the same tweet saying there are 5 components for that, of which #3 is "You have the flexibility to live and work in 170 countries for up to 90 days a year in each location".

If you read the article to throw stones at the guy I'm sure you'll be able to find stones to throw. If you read it to find what he was saying I'm still not sure how this thread relates to what he said beyond you wish he had said even more.
U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
What do you mean should. If they did they wouldn't have existed to begin with. These things were always a minority of their content and it could never have been any other way.
When it comes to war, always follow the money
How do you get around IP ownership issues? I believe FAANG company contracts claim ownership of any IP you develop while employed. Are these not really enforceable and can be ignored?
I feel this is a complete waste of leading tech: going into another slate of Apple products that do not need these advancements. I feel these slots should go to GPUs for AI and Apple is just hogging the capacity. It’d be one thing if Apple actually worked on AI softwares a bit and made it readily available to developers.
Wikipedia says that's not true:

> The German "von" is a linguistic cognate of the Dutch "van", however, unlike the German "von", the Dutch "van" is not indicative of the person's nobility or royalty. Van has a history of being used by commoners and nobility alike to simply signify ancestral relation to a particular place, (e.g. Willem van Oranje "William of [the] Orange [family]"; Jan van Ghent "John [who hails] from Ghent").
I use code GPT in VS Code and Intellij. And GPT for docs and slides in Google docs.
Wasn't this already announced but at 100%? https://www.extremetech.com/computing/343291-apple-has-procu... or they are just changing their order?
I'd argue it ended around the GFC, so say ~15 years ago.
They did some interesting reporting leading up to the crash, the occupy movement, etc.. and then blanded out for sure.
It is truly remarkable that some can note that in every animal, the males and females have different behaviors and preferences, but when it comes to humans, all logic is out the window.

It feels very much like religion to hold humans on a magical pedestal where the rules that apply to animals suddenly cease when applied to humans.
You don't need court order to be banned from GitHub.

"L.3. GitHub May Terminate

GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time."
Herbivores have digestive tracks that are better at breaking down plant matter than ours [1]. They also spend far more time eating [2]. Obviously these are not huge problems these days, since we can grow plants that give us more protein and calories, while being easier to digest. But to say "hippo get strong from eating plant, you get strong from eating plant" is pretty silly. If you spend 5-6 hours a day eating grass like a hippo, you will die from starvation.

1. https://stluciasouthafrica.com/hippo-facts/hippo-digestive-s...

2. https://ielc.libguides.com/sdzg/factsheets/hippopotamus/diet....
> while Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models coming in 2024 will feature M3 Pro and M3 Max chips.

I am really excited about the M3. The M1, with its unified memory it can already run decently large LLMs. It would be great if Apple was able to make the M3 even better at that. In addition, it seems like there is a lot of momentum in releasing models that the user can run on consumer hardware. I would love to have my own private LLMs running on my own hardware
Genuine question: isn't an inverter an unnecessary cost and relatively inefficient versus a lower voltage light (i.e. roughly matching the battery)?
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Exactly. Scientology is not a religion. Its barely a business dressed as a religion. The standard for tax exemption should be charitable non-profit.
Is this for real? They called it a Sentient Killer Drone?
Thinking about it, perhaps Dell should shut it all down and return the money to the shareholders.
If the M3 doesn’t have some AI capacities that are at least somewhat utilized by something (probably bad Siri) I’ll be highly surprised.
> Intellij

What? how?
Tim Cook must sweat bullets every time he reads a headline about China potentially invading Taiwan.
Terminal concentrators, which is what they were called, are hardware that the world has largely forgotten about.
It’s the hardware version of the tech company “hire this smart person so they don’t go work somewhere else”
An excellent long-read of this topic can be found at https://magazine.atavist.com/american-hippopotamus/.

It's one of my favorite pieces of online journalism and goes deep into the unique lives involved and prevailing culture of the team.
The Ocean Cleanup announces new Interceptor for Cisadane River, Indonesia
“Separation of church and state” doesn’t require that at all. It’s required by churches’ non-profit status, the same as non-religious non-profits. But non-religious non-profits also get involved in political speech in every election.
> There are, in fact, no Quakers living on the moon (Brigham Young), which we did arrive to in 1969 (Joseph Fielding Smith).

I've been trying to parse this, but I can't figure out what it means.
Stick that "GPUs for AI" in every new portable device for local efficient use and you have me won over though. I don't want my AI in the cloud, or on expensive desktop machines.
Alright there will always be some that stubbornly cling on, but I would bet that most entities that could be considered intelligent beings won't be human by that point, just out of practicality.
There's not a even a logout button yet :)
Noted, you are right.

Yes interestingly GPT-4 identifies as GPT-3, and you need to be quite explicit about asking it to search for the answer in papers (see collapsed prompt).

But it is excellent at using the content of papers to ground itself, it is really hard to make it hallucinate or provide evidence for scientifically incorrect claims. And it is so much faster than searching for whole papers and reading through them.

We are focusing on the core value of giving it access to scientific knowledge right now, but we are working hard to mature everything surrounding it too.