skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But writing “source code” is definitively not “software engineering”. It has a name: programming. A software engineer is the person that creates a system from software mostly using software. AI-assistant engineering makes sense.

Prompt crafting is fair, informative, and accurate. And we (should) all know by now that craftsman/artisan != engineer.

Ask your favorite LLM to categorize the following statements as one of { reasonable, wishful } notions:

- writing prompts for LLMs is engineering. The science of engineering effective LLM prompts.

- writing prompts for LLMs is an art*. The art of crafting effective LLM prompts.

* almost all ‘art’ rests on fairly coherent communal ‘logic’ or ‘schools’. What distinguishes art from science is that this logic does not need have any basis in appealing to reason. Aesthetics in sciences, in contrast, is primarily used to select one of many contending scientific theorems in ambiguous contexts (as in “the beauty of the mathematics of the unverifiable <X> theory to me implies its truth”.)
Finding the grammar checker's frailities (2007)
This just says Hello World
> Mark has been an excellent CEO by all measures.

So would you agree that Mark has done excellent at building products that are good for society’s mental health and well-being?
But honestly, it's kinda cute idea - haven't seen anything like that before. Unusable, but at least it's unique!
Or worse, Aluminium.
They need to find a niche that won't be threatening to any of the big honchos. Possibly marketing themselves as "lawyer AI", "MBA AI", "MD AI" etc. Ideally if there was some common opensource base like Linux distros but for GPT models, constantly getting updated and fine-tuned with anyone simply pulling them and using them when needed.
a common pattern that follows human spread is called "broad spectrum revolution". Often they'll make it to a new place, feed off the present megafauna until they, oftentimes, run it to extinction, and then are forced into a BSR and we see the development of more complex landscape management techniques, hunting of much smaller game, technologies like pickling/preserving, domestication of more plant species, etc. Cultures too are subject to this form of evolution. You often see cultures very explicitly dedicated to the protection of caretaking of their environments where there are traces of extinct megafauna. The peoples of the NE woodlands of North America for example had their entire tribal identities centered around certain animals they were in charge of protecting (while still hunting and living off them)
SQL vs. NoSQL – cutting through the Tech Twitter noise
> Working out is now socially acceptable

When was working out socially unacceptable?
And yet we have a "trouser press". Nobody refers to a "trousers press". Also "trouser suit".

I love the irregularity of English.
Personally I like a clear separation between work and home. If I'm just going to be socialising then I want it to be on my own terms. I'd rather just go for a walk than spend all day in an office with people I don't really like that much. If I'm going to be working then I want to be productive. I like to finish the day feeling like I've done something.

But perhaps the question is whether it's good for the company or for society as whole. That's a much more difficult question but I suspect that it is good for society and possibly the company too. It's normal to not like all aspects of society but it's still better than the alternative.
The worst part is the tweets themselves are probably generated
> The tweets are all similar, down to the wording of the intro

This is what happens when they are all using the same ab testing and title generation tech.
I’ve yet to watch the video, however I’ve always assumed that people are never satisfied because satisfaction would not be very useful in our natural environment. Given that resources will almost always be constrained, satisfaction serves no purpose. Striving for more food, more status, more connection is always more useful practically speaking than being satisfied with what you have.

In fact, the question “why aren’t people satisfied?” Assumes that there’s any particular reason why people would be happy. Fully Satisfied people lose their strongest motivations. There’s not much evolutionary pressure to ensuring that people can stay happy or stay satisfied.
I'm not. Today smartphone CPUs are very powerful.

The CPU in the Pixel 6 for exemple, is equal to a 2012 intel cpu server: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5349vs1193/Google-Tenso...
There are definitely lots of interesting uses once this reaches critical mass. A "high definition" progress bar, showing photos of course, thumbnails when doing an `ls`, graphical web browsing, plotting charts, nicer looking gtop, things we haven't even dreamed of.
Yea, i'm similar. I use GPT4 as a sort of "thought/idea search engine". Where i use Kagi (my Search engine) when i need to find something i already know or when i know there is a concrete answer that i might (definitely) not trust GPT on. However i use GPT when i am exploring new concepts, learning terminology, relationships, etc.

GPT is super prone to error on any niche thing, be it subtle nuance or concrete details, but i don't actually find it to be any more or less reliable to the state of the web. Ie most content i consume from the web is full of errors, incorrect facts, etc. I don't find my suspicion of this to be any different than that of GPT. However GPT has a great way of having the relationships to error-ridden results in the web already established. I can ask it about this web of things to get a better understanding when i drill into concrete facts via standard search.

GPT is far from a gimmick in my usage, but i also don't think it's revolutionary yet. I use it because i'm exploring and finding it useful, but also because each new leap OpenAI makes is pretty damn impressive. This week they're rolling out Plugins i believe. Every step they take is fun to be with, fun to use, fun to experience. That alone is worth the $20/m for me.
How are we to proceed if we reach the size of a single atomic layer which is around 0.5nm?

Sure, 3nm is marketing too, but there are hard limits and reliability might suffer if manufacturing cannot keep up.
As far as I understand the payments Germany still makes are for the properties it "bought" from the churches when the separation between church and state was declared. There have been plans to repay the remaining sum in one big payment, but those have been around for probably just as long as the agreement itself.

The "church tax" is collected independently from that and it is a "paid" service the state offers to any public organization that falls into the same broad legal definition used for churches. As far as I understand the state actually makes a profit from the cut it keeps.
I think it's only a matter of time until open source models catch up.
Yes, that's correct. It is a slight rebuke, a bit tongue in cheek, but that paper is also old. I grouped them because the groups are, from my perspective, hard to separate. But there are arguably two camps, "AI safety" and "alignment." Perhaps they should work on that, too, form some camps and argue their cases with something defined instead of masquerading under alignment and AI safety depending on the day. But I could also be totally wrong. Until then, I don't believe either are really operating in reality.
> Millions of children on this planet are malnourished or suffering because of wars, climate change or just bad government.

This assumes every child is a net positive for its immediate group, its local group, its country and the global world as a whole.

While you can argue for the first, the latter 3 are not evident.

> Is it ethical to pay a fortune for magnetic brain stimulation of your dog, if somewhere else in the world several people's lives could be saved with that money?

Is it ethical for you to be typing this comment, whereas you could be working instead to earn money to buy food to save several people's lives somewhere in the world?
Eh... I am not worried (yet). Desktop domination is still Windows for the 30th year in a row. Windows currently is much more of a threat to open computing and has been since forever.

Is it nice to have faster ARM chips? Yeah. Does it mean that Apple has a monopoly position? Not really, they just have an edge right now, I'm sure they pay eye-watering amounts to TSMC.

Intel could compete on the lower price end, but they don't, they're instead trying to convince you that they're the fastest chips on the planet, and funnel a power plants worth of electricity through the chip to get there. But they could come back to prominence with a lower power, slower, lower price chip.
A point of context: Dataminr == Tweets, with ML and human filtering. They're one of the few remaining firehose consumers.
Yeah, I'm not giving my daughter a smart phone or tablet. She might be a weird outcast but oh well, it's not worth the possible damage to her mental health.

I think in few decades we'll look back at this generation of parents who just shoved smart devices in their kids hands with no filter akin to handing kids cigarettes.

It turns them into sociopaths. I have some younger Gen Z cousins and it's just weird to watch them film everything they do and post it to social media. Oh, I'm meeting a friend I haven't seen in months, let me set up my phone in the driveway and film us hugging like it's an all natural reaction that we totally didn't film multiple times.
No, they're not.

The former is saying that VSCode is a privacy nightmare, which is true. The latter is saying if you think VSCode is a privacy nightmare, nobody will hire you, which is false.

Actually, the latter is not even that - it's just an insult: "I can't imagine wanting to hire or even work with someone that said this with even a remotely straight face".
> AI operates by making high-probability choices: the most likely next word, in the case of written texts. Artists—painters and sculptors, novelists and poets, filmmakers, composers, choreographers—do the opposite. They make low-probability choices. They make choices that are unexpected, strange, that look like mistakes.

Interesting take on the creativity that humans seem to display.
I didn't read vice often, but there videos on the afghanistan war is some of the most intersting coverage of the war i have seen and made the subsequent failure make sense https://youtu.be/BKHPTHx0ScQ
We meant name shared values, not politicians.

Free speech? Free markets? Those are good examples of values, if a little vague.

But in reality, even with broad definitions of them, I doubt you could get a significantly different percentage to agree on those things than the idiotic bathroom debate.

Does free speech include aggressive panhandling in the road? Does include shouting epithets and racist vitriol at a woman trying to enter a Planned Parenthood clinic?

Do free markets imply that my mining operation can dump the waste products of my bitcoin mine in the creek behind your house?

FWIW I do think you are right that the US political system has over decades so entrenched the two parties that it makes it impossible to see even the scant common ground that would exist otherwise.

But I don't think there's a huge amount of that common ground.
If by young Americans, they mean young American males, the answer is obvious: Young American females find a British accent sexy.
You can basically say the same thing about any study that isn't a double blind randomized control trial. At some point, you need to take out Occam's razor.
It seems like we're living in the era of the 'Netflix Paradox' - the more our content gets decentralized - the more subscriptions we're expected to manage on our credit cards - but, unlike Netflix, there's no 'one size fits all' for news for most people.
British accents are heavily localized and class-based. I don't even know what a fake British accent means honestly. People in GB can spot an accent and a fake localized accent quite easily, and act accordingly.

I think Americans are just parroting pop culture from GB, and doing their best to sound, I dunno: posh or proper or whatever. It would be like someone in Kent trying to sound like a Wyoming cowboy. As the kids say: cringe.
> the length of stretches of DNA that can be synthesized with these machines will likely increase from about 200 base pairs today to as many as 7000 base pairs

Interesting. What about the process puts a limit on sequence length?

> It also calls for build-in protections, such as software that allows the manufacturer to screen all requests for DNA sequences prior to synthesis.

So DRM? Please go read a book or a blog post or something, and learn why that won't help at all.
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I can't imagine what kind of liability insurance would be needed for a GPT solution aimed at such heavily regulated fields as law, medicine or finance.

You can add all the caveats you want, but I suspect ml chat is stuck in the uncanny valley of not good enough to be trusted and not bad enough to be a toy.
> Has anyone ever actually seen this happen?

Yep.

Anti-Trump Example #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtrxQyf4XrM

Anti-Trump Example #2 (church leader was correctly fired for this): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h098Z6g6pCE

Anti-Democrat Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1AlrvZr95k (Threatens to exile people who vote Democrat from the church)

Anti-Biden/Harris Example: https://www.newsweek.com/pastor-greg-locke-says-biden-demon-...

Pro-Trump/Pence Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d24BfefW8M

Local politics example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAcHN-dqpSc

I picked a variety for illustrative purposes. But there's a bit more to the stories: https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/29320-ffrf-sues-tru... This type of "using the official church to endorse/condemn specific candidates and parties" happens all the time, and isn't limited to national politics.
FWIW, if you pay for Dell higher support tiers, it is amazing.

They once sent a tech to drive to my university which was 3 hours from the tech's home base to replace a laptop screen.

They also came to my office to do the same to replace another screen that developed a dead pixel 3.5 years into the life of the laptop.

I don't have experience with any standard warranty/support though.
I think the only possible moats for AI startups are in seedy or unethical areas like disregarding copyright or stuff related to sex (AI waifus). These areas are getting less attention and have no likelihood of getting zero'd by openai or google.
Disconnected parents existed before iPhones, though. Why has mental health deteriorated so much since 2010?
Hard to pick a McCall favorite, but this one's up there:

https://condenaststore.com/featured/lobstermans-special-bruc...
I recently been annoyed by VSCode. The biggest annoyance is that you often have to reload the window because things break or spot working.

I switched to the beta of the Zed editor and it been really nice. It's just you, the editor and a language server. It's super fast and has really nice features built in.

I would suggest to try it out if you are annoyed by VSCode.
> Some people may criticise the "monopoly" Apply have of TSMC latest nodes, but I think it's ultimately good.

And if Apple leaves TSMC will be left with the pants down.
Cattle are equally, if not more, dangerous, and also kill over 500 people a year in the US
Great. Go start your company and buy some competitors and become more successful than Meta.

The space of what to buy, when to buy it, what to build, etc. etc. is all so easy in hindsight. Instagram was making 0 money and cost 1 billion to acquire -- a large amount at the time. It could have blown up in their face, but it didn't. Then he did it again with Whatsapp. Please stop pretending like things are easy from your sofa.
Try the model online here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/BlinkDL/ChatRWKV-gradio

> Raven is RWKV 14B 100% RNN RWKV-LM finetuned to follow instructions. ** Please try examples first (bottom of page) ** (edit them to use your question). Demo limited to ctxlen 1536. Finetuned on alpaca, gpt4all, codealpaca and more. For best results, ** keep you prompt short and clear **. UPDATE: now with Chat (see above, as a tab) ==> turn off as of now due to VRAM leak caused by buggy code..
I had to work on this alot too because my chi...well all happy families are alike but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

a gentle and emotionally aware stance has to be paired with a strong sense of boundaries,

To me, a strong sense of self if probably more useful.

Establishing boundaries presumes an expertise that doesn't exist.

Parenting is learned on the job.

Learned over the better part of a lifetime.

Or all of it since we learn parenting by being parented as children...from people who were learning on the job.

we don’t speak like that in this family; I won’t be responding until you talk to me in a respectful way

Are you prepared to walk the walk and kick your child out of the family for responding with "fuck you"?

Never mind that withholding conversation from a child is punishment?

"Please don't talk to me like that. I don't like it," is the simplest thing that might work. It's also a good way to talk to other people. Because human relationships boil down to a good will, negotiation, or violence.

Boundaries bound operating on goodwill.
Only on Intel Macs which are going away soon (only 2019 Mac Pro is remaining outside of refurbished.)

Apple Silicon doesn't currently have any provision for external graphics cards.
I know that the intention is somewhat humorous here, but...

A lot of caliber recommendations out there are significant overkill, based on limited data. In cases where we do have data, calibers signicantly less powerful than recommendations often prove surprisingly effective.

For example, in a survey of 104 grizzly and polar bear attacks with handgun calibers, there were only 3 failures, all of which involved firing after the bear had already caused damage (an automatic failure) or completely missing[1]. You'll often see guys carrying 44 magnums in grizzly country, but the evidence seems to suggest that common 9mm rounds are effective enough. Even the lowly 22 rimfire is represented in the data with success against black bears (but not polar bears). I don't know anyone who would recommend 22 rimfire for deer let alone bears.

Given this, I think it's reasonable to select the venerable 7.62x39. This is a common chambering for semi-automatic and even automatic rifles with high-capacity magazines, which would obviate the need to load each bullet individually. It also is easy to obtain armor-piercing rounds in this caliber if penetration is your concern. This is still a punishing round to fire a lot of, but with a modern recoil management system it's manageable.

Additionally, the heart is a small target as well, but luckily most hunters' experience is that larger target including the lung and liver can provide reasonably ethical kills (i.e. the animal dies quickly without a prolonged tracking during which the animal suffers). For most animals striking the scapula proves disabling, allowing for an easier follow-up. So just aiming slightly forward of center of mass should be sufficient--no detailed knowledge of anatomy or high-speed, high-precision shooting needed.

All this is to say that with a different approach, killing what can only be described as a stampede of 30-50 hippos in 3-5 minutes isn't as implausible as a more conservative approach might make it seem.

[1] https://www.ammoland.com/2021/06/handgun-or-pistol-against-b...
I heard an argument that many GPT startups (more specifically the products they make) could be the new consumer products. As in, they come up with something interesting that creates a buzz, makes some or a lot of money, then people move on to the next thing.
I don't think it's anything "reasonable". Like, OK, there might be objective reasons why you need to clarify which technical term you mean by a word that has multiple meanings in your native language, and use (typically) English to clear it up.

But I think most of the time it's just seen as hip, interesting, an extra flavor (flavour?). I do this occasionally -- sprinkle a foreign phrase here and there in my native Czech when I see that it fits and the other party might get it. More if I'm drunk. Some of my friends do it as well, in some social settings a number of jokes could be foreign language references. On the other hand, some people find it infuriating, as you note.
It'd be nice if it that doc window could just not steal the focus. At least with TypeScript it does.
One thing that I worry about is that the “choice” is actually not real.

Those individuals that work better in an office setting, do they work better when everyone else is in the office and they get to interact with them in person?

If the person shows up to an office that is pretty sparsely populated and then has to sit in Teams calls — does that even meet their desire?

I’m saying this as someone who is strongly pro WFH, have seen my own productivity rise, etc.
It’s a nice thought, but the reality is statements like this are just “I want google to have the power” and that’s not better
I’m a finisher. I set the goal to finish something very hard.

What I mean by that is finish it and automate it so much that I don’t have to see it ever again.
Or choice #3 - 4 hungry hippos!
I think this is everywhere where English is more common. I live in an Indian city with many Indians (and others, including ex-pats) from all over. So, the kids default to English as the common language. Their exposure to TV/Movies of both the US and the UK influences how they speak - not just the accent but the words they use, which are, at times, not how a “common English-speaking-Indian” speaks.

And yes, my daughter grew up on Peppa Pig and had a British-ish accent. She has since mellowed and now has a more neutral accent. Her best friend is an American, but she didn’t pick up on that one.

Our family is from a remote corner of India, and we always had an accent. I grew up in a school run by a British soldier and his wife (he stayed in India after the war). In the last 20 years, I have worked primarily with American and British clients, which influenced how I talk, and I also learned a lot along the way. However, I find it hard to converse with the Scots; I am OK if I pay attention to the Australians and am highly comfortable with Jap-lish.

I now believe that there is nothing called a “fake accent.” All the third-culture kids pick up talks from all over the world, and they know the Internet colloquial more than their immediate geographical and cultural norms.

I speak three languages fluently, and I modify how I talk to make the listener understand better. The way I talk Hindi to an Indian from the north or west is different from how I speak to a South Indian. With English, not necessarily the accent, my muscle memory kicks in, which picks up and uses different ways of saying specific words and expressions depending on the listener.

It is OK to have any accent - play with it - there is nothing fake about it. :-)
Mpox showed signs of being a serious issue and did impact a significant number of people. No need to be dismissive.

It’s not just like we were in year two of a global pandemic altering all the norms when that new mpox popped up is it?
> She might be a weird outcast but oh well […]

Which totally won't affect her mental health.

Damned if you don't, damned if you do.
I wish Phind would "autoGPT" a bit more, though. It often feels like Phind just grabs the top X results and makes a reply from those. If i was searching and those results came up i'd often skip them.

Strangely i use ChatGPT4 every day but am using Phind less and less. When i have something to search the web for, Kagi is faster for me. When i want to search GPT4 (thoughts/whatever) ChatGPT is faster for me. Phind is cool, but kinda feeling like the worse version of each.. if that makes sense.
Its not smartphones its just constant access to social media