skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the argument is sound in one direction: the precision, structure, and unforgiving nature of programming languages is a feature rather than a bug. That said, I think this does not mean that there is no benefit to natural language interfaces to machines. I think he goes wrong here:

> When all is said and told, the "naturalness" with which we use our native tongues boils down to the ease with which we can use them for making statements the nonsense of which is not obvious.

I would say that he leaves out a critical detail: the nonsense of which is not obvious _and also not important_.
It also doesn't help that lots of previous attempts at AI have been gamed by 4chan into spouting super racist rants out without provocation when user content is used as part of the learning model. (see MS tay for a highly visible example)
Can't you convert them into t-shaped keys by simply cutting the left/right arrows in half?
VR at its height was a hobby platform. Chatgpt alone is used by 100m+ people a month now.
I don't have much use for mediocrity either, which is why I will always choose a flawed masterpiece over something merely competent. None of my favorite books have grabbed my attention in the first fifteen pages. Several of my favorite games took over 40 hours to become even tolerable. They made up for it by being uncommonly beautiful by the end.

A slow start is a flaw, but in my eyes a forgivable one.
Based on this article, I'd say about 10 libraries of congress.
When was Siri ever useful? I have yet to encounter a voice "assistant" that can do more than search Google and set timers reliably, and Siri itself can't even do those very well.
I agree with all of that.

I would just say that, the internet allows for more niche things in general. If you want more sensationalized articles, it’s got that, if you want more rational takes, it’s got that. I can get exactly the flavor I want and in that sense why would I watch something that by definition has to cater to everyone. Similar to music, why listen to the radio when I could listen to the exact music I want 24/7.

Less a bug with news organizations and more a feature that the internet enabled. This same thing has played out in a dozen different industries for the same reason.
No, they get paid for all that work.
Even if all it did was enable a new level of college cheating, which we can already read about today, it'd have hundreds of times the impact of VR.

(Not an endorsement of cheating, just an observation of practical effect)
Skype resolvers definitely still worked post Microsoft acquisition.
Anything you want to refund after playing less than 2 hours doesn’t sound very engaging.
All I know is that computer programming is qualitatively an entirely different thing than it was six months ago, different than it has ever been in the decades preceding. Programmers that never had to think about "what" to do are are just implementation machines are going to be hurt by this. Programmers that have to think hard about strategy, design, specification are about to be massively more productive. The ability to clearly communicate specifications; "what to do"; is more valuable than ever because it's the one way to unlock massive productivity gains.
They may be thinking of the one approved even more recently [0], of which I am unaware of any controversy.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/03/new-alzheime...
Fidget spinners made a lot of money for about 3 months. Most were made in China, where everything is considered efemeral. That is the fundamental difference between them and a lot of US companies. Here everyone wants to set up a business for ROI or MRR, with the ultimate exit being IPO at which point a company is expected to never die, else the last purchasers of the stock are left holding the bag.

Could your company make a quick buck on the next fidget spinner craze? Not that I think you should, but you should clarify why not. It might illuminate something.
Many people barely start games, let alone finish them. Look at achievement stats for things that happen very early on in games. You'll find achievements that happen 1-2 hours in with only 60% earn rates. I don't think it's meaningful to look at completion rate without first normalizing with the "starting" rate.

One quick example from my steam library: Terraria

- Chop down your first tree. (You can do this immediately after you start playing): 86.5%

- Craft your first work bench. (Can be done immediately after cutting a tree): 56.8%

- Survive your character's first full night (24 minutes of playtime): 78.8%
Produces smaller binaries than bun too-- one of my applications, packaged by pkg for Windows, is about 70 MB (and actually does things; this isn't a Hello World). And it compresses well (must be including library sources in the binary as plain text); in a ZIP it's about 25 MB.

Still not small, but I'm not sure what Bun's doing to come out 20 MB larger than an app with actual functionality and dependencies (this one has express, sqlite, passport, bcrypt, and a bunch of others-- essentially everything you'd need for a web service).
An AI should never make an illegal honk like that.
What do you consider neurotic in a cat?

Have you known many people who own outdoor cats? It's a rare story that doesn't end with "then an asshole in a truck ran him down", "I think a coyote got him", "I think a hawk got him", "I never saw him again", "the neighborhood kids were chasing him with sticks", "found him nearly starved and bleeding", "lost a fight to a dog", or one of many other terrible ways to go. Every one of those is a true story from someone I know. The hawks, coyotes, and cars having happened to innumerable outdoor cats whose owners I've been acquainted with.

So, in my opinion, if you think a cat can only live a decent life outdoors, you shouldn't get one.
I bought a quest and enjoyed it. But it mostly gathers dust in my cupboard. I used it for maybe a month regularly.

I am using generative ai every single day for many months so far. And every day I am still amazed by it - especially GPT-4.

Virtually every day I get excited about a new thing I could do with it.

It’s amazing (like VR was, for a bit) but also a lot more terrifying and awesome.

I don’t think it’s the same
- Astronomers have discovered 62 new moons orbiting the ringed planet Saturn.

Space must be really really massive, even in our so called cosmic backyard we continue to discover new moons. Incredible.
Why would it be more transparent if the data isn't human-readable and only the output is? Thus you can never know how it may have been interfered with, whereas politicians leave a paper trail.

A hypothetical AGI could well be more intelligent, but an LLM lacks all the qualities required to be a politician of any description.
How is recruiting higher risk than deepfakes?
That would make the regulations fairly pointless unless you think only mega-corps will ever be able to afford the compute for these things.

Compute continues to get cheaper and cheaper. We have not hit the physics wall yet on that.

That and if someone cracks efficient distributed training in a swarm type configuration then you could train models Seti@Home style. Lots of people would be happy to leave a gaming PC on to help create open source LLMs. The data requirements might be big but I just got gigabit fiber installed in my house so that barrier is vanishing too.
As far as I understood it, yes, it is the same chassis. I have last year's 13 and my understanding is that I can just buy the new components and upgrade my laptop.
There's no chance that we've peeked from a bang for buck sense - we still haven't adequately investigated sparse networks.

Relevantish: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00774

The fact that we can reach those levels of sparseness with pruning also indicates that we're not doing a very good job of generating the initial network conditions.

Being able to come up with trainable initial settings for sparse networks across different topologies is hard, but given that we've had a degree of success with pre-trained networks, pre-training and pre-pruning might also allow for sparse networks with minimally compromised learning capabilities.

If it's possible to pre-train composable network modules, it might also be feasible to define trainable sparse networks with significantly relaxed topological constraints.
This is how I felt writing Go. Writing the same nongeneric functions with slightly different type signatures and/or endless interfaces and/or interface{} signatures. It's 2023.
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It's a necessary pain. Better for the bubble to gradually deflate and find a steady state than to keep expanding unchecked till we get to a repeat of 2008.
Or just do blue book exams . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_book_exam
Yes, cookie banners are widely regarded as very good.
AI feels far more like the internet hype cycle of the mid to late 90's and the smart phone hype cycle of the mid to late 2000's than anything you listed. Your examples didn't make much noise outside of niche interested audiences. AI hype is everywhere.
Even worse, it’s usually third parties paying lot owners a percent of their take.

It’s kind of weird how it’s set up and I hate every single boot placer. At least tow companies are regulated and have to post information. Getting towed sucks but the point isn’t revenue, but to clear spots.

Booting is strange as they want to boot as many people as possible. There’s a lot in Atlanta that is private property and doesn’t allow or charge for parking. They boot your car immediately as you park and then threaten to damage your car unless you pay cash. And they do that as many times as they can. After falling victim, I flagged a car to stop them from parking and the boot operator yelled at me and keyed my car (after getting $85 from me to unboot).

Any city that allows booting is a real jerk city.
Not moving when given the chance is indicative of non-intent.

For a working AI, it can still stop safely if the pedestrian starts moving into the street in the few seconds the car is crossing.
Yeah but no one distributes hello world.
I don’t see this resemblance at all. VR has peaked and plateaued at nothing more than a gimmick just like crypto. The hype around AI is because it was immediately useful from day 1 of a commercial product.
And also doesn’t require a you to buy a $3000 computer to use it.

The price of VR hardware is still a massive drag on adoption - even if it was AMAZING most people aren’t going to buy the necessary hardware

chat GPT, and for a while Midjourney are FREE

And they save you time and effort

VR=fun(ish)
AI=fun+useful
I really hope so too, I bought the same laptop as you a few months ago, and battery life hasn't been great (not to mention it gets hot a lot). I love the laptop otherwise, so I'm hoping the switch to AMD will fix this.
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Why is Africa the way it is?
I say probably because I'm not lawyer and that's not how EU works. People appear to be extracting drama, just like with the GDPR.
Honestly, I wish more online services would do this.

My password manager has accumulated hundreds of accounts, many for services I haven't used for years. Probably half of them are "one off" accounts that I had to create because the stupid web site makes you create an account to do some basic thing (that shouldn't require an account). So here all these accounts are, sitting out there probably with my real name and maybe a few other bits of PII in them, just waiting to get p0wned. At one point I started going through them one by one logging in to look for a "Delete Account" button but surprisingly most of them offer no way to do so, or hide it well.

Even HN doesn't let you delete your account. I understand they will if you E-mail them, but even then, I don't think they will delete your content.

The web needs to be more ephemeral. It by default retains too much "forever and just because".
One of the cool things about CMUCL is how its code is almost entirely in the public domain, and the parts that aren't tend to be a simple 2-clause BSD license. That's how you know the contributors do it out of love for the language and implementation :)
That is a valid thought experiment. I would say it isn't too dissimilar from nuclear weapons. A handful of powerful countries have access to this and any smaller country doesn't. It creates a large separation between 1st world countries and "everyone else".
No it doesn't because public videos are designed for public usage. They have comments, are part of recommendations, playlists, and so forth.

Deleting private content and deleting public content are two entirely different things. There's zero reason why the former would imply the latter, and many reasons why it wouldn't.
Hm. This internal stress issue you describe might be a thing, but I'm pretty sure bubbles exsolving during freezing is also a thing. Most of the times I tried and failed to make clear ice there were obvious bubble exsolution trails.
I’d say the article contains the same human generated content as 2 Mcdonald’s Big Macs.
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It's just a sign flip. Mirror the incoming video and the outgoing commands.
Beware offers of “help” with your projects
I lost interest in pinball when they went digital. I liked the visceral reality of the electro-mechanical contraption.
I know it's not your code, but related to this comment, it looks like it missing a check for lks == null?

https://github.com/robdelacruz/lkwebserver/blob/main/lkstrin...
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The issue is with the expectation they’ve set. “Store your important data with us, and we'll keep it safe” was the message many people got, even if they never actually promised to do that.
What is the SQL query for: “What was the name of the guy, you know from that consulting company like Deloitte but the other one, who worked on the design for some authentication system last year with Dick?”

I’ve seen LLMs find matches for queries like this, even if “Dick” is a nickname for “Richard”. An awful lot of business questions are in this category and neither relational theory nor full text search is useful to solve such problems.

An LLM coupled with a vector database could solve this, and provide entire new categories of products instead of a sub-standard substitute for an existing product.
Whatever the US Congress comes up with wouldn't matter in the long run. I don't think other countries would line up for licenses for building AI. At this point, it's like trying to control the weather.
What available DNA? We have some really well-preserved frozen mammoths as DNA sources... frozen aurochs, not so many. Or any, that I know of.
> You don't need Grover to make US taxes overly complex and burdensome. Just look at some of the tax bills Democrats have sponsored

You went out of your way to make this about partisan finger-pointing and I merely countered that there's plenty of blame to share. Way to deflect and spin!

Partisan politics is why the subject is so rancorous. I have no party affiliation and am happy to acknowledge and criticize the one that I am most sympathetic too. This is why we can't have nice things -- because we can't talk about policy and and government reform without it becoming a pissing match.
Yeah I’m just dumb I missed this first paragraph somehow.
when you call something “public action” people—in general—are all for it, but when you call it “government regulation” suddenly people start to get worried. when you say something is “literally” true, the literal and inflexible among us get annoyed when you don’t actually mean literally. words have fluid meaning and unusual connotations and if you can’t accept this you’re in trouble
I deployed a small non critical service with bun. So far constant (but slow) memory leaks and an 80% chance of segfault when starting up. Will try a few more versions of bun then move it to node for a while until bun matures a bit.
Gotcha, no worries!
The new naming scheme is confusing, because they're retroactively calling their 13 inch laptop "Laptop 13" (meaning, 13 inch screen chassis, as opposed to the new 16 inch screen chassis) at the same time as they're coming out with the mainboard for the 13th generation Intel processors.

The new 13th generation Intel processors, with a mainboard that should fit in your Laptop 13 (11th gen) chassis, should give better battery life, and I do think the chassis is about the same, though I think its got the stiffer back and hinges than your 11th gen (though you can order these replacement parts too!). I believe the new Ryzen version (coming out soon, I've pre-ordered) should also be quite good, but we don't have the benchmarks for it yet.
Won’t this be actually bad for the economy ? I’m personally not spending as much because I’m not clear if I’ll have a job when ChatGPT-5 comes out.

I’d say many people are doing similar things ?

Less jobs is not necessarily a good thing ?
If you get the eyes of the intern it can still help. They brief the senator/congressman, work on bills, etc.
So you think it appropriate to preemptively call people antisocial eugenicists based on a hypothetical vaccine?
I actively look for sales of car washes, laundromats, and other such businesses.

Most of the time it’s more than the amount of money I’d have, and I’d have to get lucky to make the numbers work to even break even. And I’d only have one shot.

I don’t know which deals you’re finding but everything I find is more than just a 70/30 risk.
As in a deepfake customer service rep. Not a deepfake President of the United States declaring he's leaving NATO.
Never heard of Ballerina. Looks pretty neat. I'm curious of all these keywords would add too much cognitive load over time? People don't seem to care for things like Rust, but I found it to be a pretty considerable turn off.

If there are vim lang tools for Ballerina I might give it a try!
Part of the problem with the bar arrow keys is that the up/down are so small. I wouldn't want to "fix" the problem by making the left/right equally small.
1) cookie banners are unrelated to the GDPR. 2) implementations of cookie banners that don’t allow users to reject cookies as easily as accepting them are illegal. 3) it is widely regarded as good that companies are obligated to disclose which third parties they are sharing your data with.
But currently that's not the beauty part of GitHub, it's the actions, discoverability and other features not part of Git.
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Looks flat footed. Couldn't compete at elite level foot ball world cup championship. Needs at least 100x design improvement just at that spot in body frame.
Thanks for making knightadjuster. I wasn't aware of it, I generally use mostly dark colours anyway and I turn on dark reader in Firefox manually.

However, this sounds like a great automated option. I just wish it would work with firefox too :)
reposurgeon. It was what was ultimately used to transition gcc to git.

Just to be clear, ESR is still a tool: https://np.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1b1wbl/clos_is_an_ugly...
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8730

He's also mostly an ineffective, unlikable idiot, which we should all be thankful for because he could actually be somewhat dangerous if he weren't.
Google does a "great" job ensuring most people cannot understand their privacy policy. So maybe they have some fault there. I also think Google should disallow these types of websites from using Analytics.

That said, Canada has a government funded mental health website that uses(or used) Analytics. Their privacy policy makes it clear that they don't understand what it does. Even our OPC is ignorant on this matter.

https://www.wellnesstogether.ca/
Generative AI still needs time to mature before it will have a massive impact. It's just hard to from a company around a product that changes on a week-by-week or even day-by-day basis. The only companies winning big in the immediate term are those creating the models themselves.

As soon as generative AI can largely manage and automate the integration of IT components effectively, that's when I expect to see the explosion.
I'm including that in large cabinet experiences. Two linked five player cabinets is certainly pretty big, and the screens are large too.

Another category I missed would be rhythm games. You can play those at home, but it's not as fun (unless you have a really nice setup).
ChatGPT is most certainly AI: all of machine learning is a subset of the field of AI, as is much of symbolic logic and Bayesian inference. It's a massive and wide-ranging academic discipline.

Maybe you're thinking of "AGI", which is a term that appeared in the late 90's to make the distinction between the expert systems of the time and machines that could think like a human?
Yes, GDPR was all about cookie banners. Quality contribution and argument.
I anticipate I will find it somewhat useful in Microsoft Office products in the future. Beyond that I don’t know. Logos are easy to make now. Knowledge workers should probably think about becoming plumbers and AC repairmen. Something where you use your hands, because AI doesn’t have hands.
One way would be to dis-incentivize companies/corporations from growing too big in the first place. By increasing tax rates based on company size, market share, market cap, etc and by applying more regulations and oversight particularly around dividends, options, and executive compensation such that being too big costs too much to be worth it.
> simply not enough time to go get books off the shelf and complete all my assignments

Why bother with books when it's so easy to fabricate?
I'll note that you're correct for current gen LLMs, but we could have future actually dangerous things that would indeed need regulating.
HCA created some high standard open source elixir libraries years ago. Love the work!
GDPR affects data, which is the basis of all computing. AI isn't - and this will mainly affect the companies building AI to forego offices and remote workers in the EU, not deployment in it.
> (but gave them a different name, "old desktop/seated machines")

Ahh, I thought you were referring to a different format. I forget what they're called (Cabaret?), but they're upright, short, and meant to be sat at.
>> Virtually every day I get excited about a new thing I could do with it.

That is pretty much the definition of a hype cycle. I am old enough to remember the flury of microwave cookbooks that came out in the 90s when the microwave became commonplace. People were finding out new things they could do with the microwave each day. These days it is mostly used for warming up food and microwave popcorn
Specifically the least comfortable cell possible in the most violent county possible.