skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't wanna make you feel worse but a friend of mine and nearly 20% of the company got fired a few days ago. CEO's justification? "We don't need you anymore, we will compensate your loss with chat-gpt & co. It's nothing personal, just business". To this day I can't tell whenever CEO's reasons were just outright lies, or if he genuinely thinks he can replace a fifth of his workplace just like that.
Something can have massive market penetration and still be doomed. Nobody talks about the biggest fax machine manufacturer, after all.

Mind you, whether that applies to ARM is a bigger question, it's like asking whether sand is going obsolete. I have my doubts unless something radical happens in the RISC-V space commercially; I don't think Espressif going all-in would do it on its own.
Ok, fine, I'm a big liar.

But, can you please do me a favor and tell people around here where you stand?

Do you believe that the technology underlying nuclear reactors is simply uncompetitive and you oppose it because of that? Or you would be very unhappy for nuclear technology to succeed no matter what?

And more importantly, are you happy that humans exist on this planet? Would you prefer for us to be fewer?

What do you think of someone who has 3 children? Is this moral? Or is it a crime?
> The bit about hiring someone with empathy was quite clearly in my second point, which was aimed at the HN audience, not at the doctor.

then the assumption of ability to hire or impact hiring is broader.

the article author is quite biased, yes. part of the problem with current “ai” - bias from all sides.

chatgpt is not magical. it is a tool. a novel one. that many wish to sell. none of that lessens the possibilities it presents. nor the risks. but there are real, beneficial use cases. with a little time spent.

not everyone wishes to put greed ahead of linear algebra, or math before compassion.
Uncovering Tor Hidden Service with Etag
>presumably because you could otherwise ask for a battery replacement for a devices with a damaged screen and back panel, and pay an order of magnitude less than a repair on the damaged display and back.

So there's no way to get a battery replaced on a device with a damaged display?
Such is the life of a tech lead. Direct reports plus still need to actually build things. Plus still responsible for overall project guidance
And to add, they are not for using it internally, just as an additional method for scamming westerners.
There's the meme going around that the people organizing the blackout are the ones most addicted to Reddit. We're seeing people flood back to Reddit, who are now threatening to just make their own communities if there is an indefinite blackout.
I'm aware, but as some studies [0], and my body, shows, their effects are not similar. Black tea doesn't make me tense and causes heart palpitations for me. Instead, I keep my calm and being able to focus.

I don't reduce coffee because of caffeine, but because it affects my appetite, makes me tense when I drink too much, and causes heart palpitations and makes me uncomfortable. Black tea doesn't do any of that.

[0]: http://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/apjcn/17/s1/167.pdf
> There is no way for an individual to self custody digital currency in the current system.

'Self custody digital currency' is not a use case anybody has asked for.

The current system already has a solution that is better than Bitcoin, and that everyone already uses it's called:

Cash.

UPI also already solves this as well in India, to the order of hundreds of millions in less than 10 years it has existed.

Other countries are following suit as well.

> Bitcoin solves this.

No it doesn't. Why does Bitcoin still gets seized by the government?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/07/feds-seize-3point36-billion-...

Is that the goal of Bitcoin? It also needs to engulf the planet in enormous electricity waste to compute billions of meaningless puzzles.

Other countries have better systems that doesn't use Bitcoin and are far cheaper and scale better than Bitcoin.

There is no need for a volatile unregulated token that nobody takes as payment such as Bitcoin.
>Hilary Allen, a law professor at American University, thinks crypto is inherently susceptible to boom-and-boost cycles and manipulation by insiders, and thinks it should be banned.

I don’t know or care much for crypto, but man does it bring out Ayn Rand villains you thought only existed in books.
Network of channels tried to saturate YouTube with pro-Bolsonaro content
menarche tends to average around 12 (with a wide range), but most cycles don’t involve actual ovulation for the first few years after menarche, so fertility and menarche aren’t simultaneous.
From firmware config you can potentially enroll new keys, or just disable sb completely, both which enable injecting malicious code in the boot chain
AI is a new kind of leverage, and you will need to figure out how to adapt and use it. I think you probably have more time to do this than the hype would like you to believe though.

If you've reached the top 5% in your field, I'm sure you will be able to do this.

If AI is giving you anxiety, maybe take a break from reading and thinking about it for a while.

It sounds like you may also need to find meaning outside of work. You mentioned you are burned out and it sounds like a large part of your identity and self worth are tied to you work. This has helped you be successful, but it can be unhealthy for you as a person, a human being who is more than a job title.
Do you know how long the downtime might be?
Have you tested your backup recently?

Gitlab had a long downtime because the backup was huge and on the other side of the country.
The backup server was on a low speed network.

https://www.arcserve.com/blog/lessons-learned-gitlabs-massiv...

How much money would you lose if you were down for one week?
How many customer would you lose?

How much credibility would you lose?

For my peace of mind, I can't afford a spof when I know one lingering.
I appreciate your points but you're being generous to AMD. They bought ATI in 2006. I remember in 2007 seeing CUDA for the first time in the password cracking scene and thinking wow they've done something amazing. OpenCL was there too, the "one framework heterogenious processing" sounded amazing but quickly became the ugly cousin.

Then in 2011 with crypto, once again Nvidia was always supported but ATI was that other case that required the different install with only some support.

Then 6 years ago when I started working professionally in ai, it was CUDA only for most of the applications. AMD had some stuff but had pretty much given up on OpenCL and at this point was a distant second. If you chose AMD you were quickly going to be locked out while the cool kids played with CUDA and TF. This was in a time when there may have only been one framework or library to do a particular algo. So it really was a lockout.

So to your point, 16 years ago when I first saw GPGPU, you could bet your house on it becoming something massive. The scientific applications alone were obvious to anyone with a copy of BOINC.

Nvidia have shown a masterclass of building something as a corporate over many years and really dominating all competition. AMD should have jumped onboard with TF and made sure any CUDA enabled algo had a _insert whatever AMD would have used_ equivalent. But they didn't, they couldn't even get linux drivers to work.
Scientists create long-lasting, cobalt-free, lithium-ion batteries
if the disk is encrypted, then the bios password does nothing at all. The access to the BIOS is a separate issue entirely.
There were no tests except for blood samples preserved by hospitals. People are referring to symptoms that were different than flu, viral pneumonia and (looking back) showed similarity to covid. Might have been a different viral pneumonia as it didn’t respond to antibiotics.

Recall exponential growth starts slowly and it was flu season.

https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/press-rele...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03008916209747...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-020-00716-2
> It says "slow productivity" but learning enough martial arts in 4 months to look good in a film doesn't sound slow to me

Remember the kung fu scenes in Matrix? It's not the first time Reeves has trained in martial arts. This time he crammed in a particular martial art for this movie.

Tbh I'd bet he practices something regularly, just not often enough for it to make the news.
Given that https://www.japedge.xyz/2023/06/top-down-vs-bottom-up-progra... is a copy of https://two-wrongs.com/top-down-vs-bottom-up-programming.htm... I recommend blocking the whole domain.
If you want to try Moog without breaking the bank, I highly recommend their apps for iOS.
> Crypto bros and con artists killed crypto

...but you repeat yourself
This list has been nice: https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-05-25-leaderboard/

And you can participate in the arena, which pits them against each other. I'm surprised that I actually voted for GPT-3.5 over GPT-4 for a lot of my use cases.
Probably because they make completely wild claims that fall flat at the first hint of scrutiny.

Then compounding that, I think a lot of people haven't had a 'religious' experience like that but have probably felt pressured to claim otherwise at some point.

The result being that such talk appears completely ridiculous and clearly fictional.

Which is all kind of a shame because it seems that these kinds of experiences are intrinsically human experiences, albeit completely internal, and discussion of it probably doesn't deserve to have 'belief in the supernatural' as a prerequisite.
Why would you expect the train was not put in service ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid
My thoughts exactly. We used to do this all the time when I was a kid at my grampas place. There was other tricks with other animals too, but I can’t remember exactly.
Not really, formal mathematics in complexity theory is involved when talking about asymptotics, constants like “for N < 10 trillion, a desktop computer is good enough” isn’t very interesting from a mathematical perspective.

That said, some simple intuition is the following: PSPACE is a subset of EXP is a subset of EXPSPACE

(We think these are all strict separations but technically that’s not fully proven)

If you use the shorthand intuition that we can handle polynomial scaling but can’t handle exponential scaling, this means that we hit a time barrier (EXP-complete problems) before we hit a space barrier (EXPSPACE-complete problems)

Another bit of intuition: you can store a very big number in very few bits in binary because binary holds an exponentially large number in linear bits. But you can’t loop over that number in a humans’ lifespan.

Edit:

> they can be treated as Turing-complete for a subset of programs that are well-behaving - i.e. don't end up hitting the memory limit

Just to be clear, it’s a matter of input size and not the programs themselves. Technically you could say we haven’t “solved” sorting on real hardware because nobody can sort the first 2^1000 digits of pi. But realistically we don’t care to do so.
What are the things you can think of?
It's only for Windows. (Would be good to mention that in the title?)
Well that’ll most likely be handled as forgery, or ‘Dokumentfalsk’ ;)
> The hardware itself is still valuable in the sense that a common thief cares about

Anti theft protection needs to make the hardware unusable when triggered sadly... Apples iCloud lock effectively does this - locked iDevices sell on the black market for only about 20% of what an unlocked device sells for - and that 20% represents the values of the fraction of components that are not serial number locked.
Most likely outright lies. Lots of companies are laying people off to maintain profitability, this particular CEO probably doesn't want to admit that the company would have financial problems otherwise.
I honestly have no idea how good Linus is as a programmer; he's proven his worth as a project manager, he seems to know a thing or two (to make an understatement) about operating systems, but I don't know if he's a good programmer.
I have an Ipad mini 6 for this exact reason. Honestly, it works really well for me. I can take notes in Nebo(has really good handwriting recognition, better than the competition in my opinion, or OneNote as it syncs with my PC where I take my notes at work as well. as for reading, using kindle app or any other works really well.
New study suggest smart drugs like Ritalin can lead to less productivity
I also loved playing Tenebrae Quake on the Mac. Not sure if it's still around though.
I have been already working nearly at a burn-out level for many years to reach this comp.

If you have the willpower to do that I wouldn't worry that much. Maybe use the extra productivity ChatGPT gives you to learn some skills that LLM-AIs will take a long, long time to learn if ever: specialization. Industrial programming, scientific programming, etc. One of the reasons I'm not worried about AI is that I work with machines so specialized there's maybe half a dozen people on the planet with my skillset and almost none of it exists on the internet at all.
I see download for MacOS buttons. Do they not work?
> You pitch a movie, you make the movie, you deliver the movie. There are stories of extreme change in requirements, but they seem rare.

It's probably more likely to happen on too-big-to-fail movies with terrible writing. Superman's upper lip[0] is a fun example.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yKoE9Tld10
And someone invented BPML. So one can have diagrams and code!
There's some really big innovations happening in e.g. rendering like that; I wouldn't be surprised if the complexity and work involved in just Nanite is 10x that of the whole Quake engine.

Similarly there's the work nvidia is doing, using AI technology to upscale graphics instead of rendering things at 4K.
I haven't downvoted you but making a blanket statement like this is unfair. Some companies are founded explicitly to provide a more ethical product or service. If they don't market themselves based on their unique selling point, they'll either go out of business or be bought out by their less ethical competitors who can compete on price. Such is the nature of capitalism.
The most unbelievable part of this story is that he claims to have read it out to the family.
The more I use GPT, the less I'm worried. It is a tool, and a good one, but not a replacement for the thought required to design an app that will function, scale, and have good UX to result in a marketable product. So use it and enjoy its benefits while letting it help you perform even better.

As far as everything else you've said... oof, you need a break. You seem focused on money and ego. Maybe it is time to simplify a bit, explore what else the world has to offer. Worry less about whether anyone else can do your job and more about whether or not you are enjoying your life. Make changes, have some fun. If you don't want a mortgage but have multiples of the deposit needed, buy a smaller, simpler place with cash. Then you don't have rent or a mortgage.
Estimation isn’t for everyone
> then the assumption of ability to hire or impact hiring is broader.

It is, but so what?

What I am suggesting is that using AI tools to fake empathy is worse than not being able to do empathy yourself. This should be evident.

If you have a task that requires significant empathy (a patient advocate, a customer advocate, a serious complaints line, anything with extensive exposure to the emotions of your customer) and you feel unable to do that (not everyone can), the ethical, responsible thing to do is to hire someone who does that job properly.

Professionalise caring. Don't just give the role to an AI that can fake it with a simulacrum of past human caring that it read on the (largely corporate) internet.

We are heading down a dark path if we pretend that automated fake empathy is acceptable.

Edit: and yes, people fake empathy all the time, they copy and paste it. Of course they do. But each time someone fakes empathy there is a glimmer of a chance that they will realise that it's a bad, inappropriate thing to do. There's a glimmer of a chance that they go back to their boss and say "you know, I feel bad brushing them off; what they are going through is real and awful and we should address this more personally".

AI empathy will never do that. And we should feel very, very nervous about using AI to deliver highly bespoke fake empathy to eliminate any guilt from that.
If you're in top 5% of TC, you're not in danger for the foreseeable future, GPT-4 will make expertise more valuable, not less.
And it's the middle brackets that will have to fight to keep their jobs against the low-skilled workers that have now been elevated to average
Platforms that match freelancers with customers offer a valuable service. Finding people on your own would take a lot of time, which you could assign a value to.

"Justified" asks the wrong question. The platforms offer a service. If you use the service the platform can profit from the transaction. How long would such platforms stay in business if they had to operate for free, or only get a fee on the first engagement?

Toptal doesn't operate as a platform like Upwork and Fiverr. They hire their people out and make money by marking up the rate/fee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKLGyYXvs6I
There are three kinds of review site:

1. The ones unable to effectively police shills and spam. I'd put Google in that bucket.

2. Those that turn a wilful blind eye to review fraud, as long as they boost sales, like Amazon

3. Those like Yelp or Glassdoor whose entire business model is built around extortion and a protection racket ("nice business you have here, it would be a shame if a bad review happened to it. Unless you buy ads with us, of course").
With any luck a couple of lawsuits over copyright will completely nerf this ML/AI stuff in the bud and you won't have to worry as much.
>with 20 years in

You need to be more concerned about boring, usual tech industry ageism doing you in than an AI taking your job.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that most people on HN have some experience of the patient family side of medical problems, some of them no doubt significant and regular.

We're not doubting the medical situation the ER doctor agrees sounds plausible, that GPT could have produced that response or that doctors finding it difficult to communicate with family members in intelligible and empathetic terms is a real problem.

But if you're the sort of person that would "melt into calm agreeability" when basically the same explanation was offered with generic corpspeak appended (i.e. they'd trust the doctor more if he was answering your question by reading from a script so non-specific and non-empathetic it finished up with "if you have any questions or concerns please contact the medical team"!), and would also be delighted to get the same script read out to you each time you asked a different staff member the same question, I think you're very much in the minority. Certainly in my limited experience, I can assure you that I was more reassured by the empathy levels of professionals completely misunderstanding my question and thinking I was threatening to make a complaint about their standard of care than I would have been if they pulled out an index card and read that they were all doing their best, the treatment is [boilerplate], please do not hesitate to contact medical team in case of any questions and we will reread index card to you.

At best, I suppose, my reaction might be to interpret the index card boilerplate repetition as a polite way of telling me to fuck off and not offer any followup questions. You could even make an argument that this is medically useful; a more specific version of "here's a leaflet" so they can get on with doing their job.

But as written where everybody loves the GPT boilerplate, the story reads like a classic of the LinkedIn/politician people miraculously came round to supporting me and everybody cheered genre.
Plenty of reasons. Biggest one is diminishing returns of increasing top speed in ground transport. (or any transport - when was the last time a new airliner was advertised as being faster than its predecessor?)
I mean, the whole idea is that it’s about horrible people. Being nice about the horrible people is, unsurprisingly, not considered a priority. Not sure where punching down is coming from; almost all the subjects are either dictators or filthy rich. You can’t punch down on Stalin.

He occasionally does a non-bastard episode, and the tone is very different.
It’s further unclear whether a fine tuned model which has different weights counts as a copyright violation at all. Doesn’t stop a wealthy company from suing though.
Your statement can have multiple interpretations. I assume you mean this one: Your fear will be a self-fulfilling prophecy; to prevent that, stop being afraid?

Of course that's like telling someone who is depressed, to "just be happy".
I need this... although HN should offer it as an option for logged in users.
So the only requirement to work at iD back in the day was to be called John?
You're among the first people I've encountered with both experience in writing your own software and prompting an LLM to do it. I have a few questions for you (maybe the answers will make you feel better, or maybe they'll make you feel worse)

- when the code the model spat out was wrong, how did you fix it? Did you identify it was wrong before you ran it?

- what level of complexity was there in the code, in terms of "business logic" or complexity of the requirements you fed into it?

I ask these two questions because I am not sure an AI will get to the level of experience you have in the near future in _generating_ complex applications, let alone being able to reflect on why its own creations are wrong, fixing them, deploying some output, and then explaining the changes?

A human is going to be in the loop in these cases for a long time, and I'm assuming part or all of your decades of experience has been spent understanding quite how poor people are at explaining their requirements. What if you thought of generative AI as a tool you can learn to utilise to do your job more effectively?
Russia was never an ally, at best was a frenemy.

Quote: "On the summit’s first day, Gorbachev lamented the sad state of his economy and ..."

Communist economy was a bankrupt one, based on pillaging, not by producing anything new and good. Their "golden" years, of 50's and 60's was based on actually pillaging all the Eastern Bloc countries and leave them poorer. In every single country the USSR imposed an export-import type of firms, that "imported" Russian stuff, old and outdated from the 20's and 30's which were valued like they were the latest and greatest and exported that country best resource (be it gold, oil or grain). Once those resources were pillaged so the USSR economic decline started.

For more than 4 decades this was slavery with extra steps. So yeah, the Russians are hated by every single former Eastern Bloc country, because we did not forget their heavy boot throughout of "red enlightenment" era.
And the public upvote / downvote system make it even worse. Soon, you're reduced to a small subset of opinion because any slightly dissenting opinion will be downvoted to hell and hidden at the very bottom of the page.

Not necessarily an issue for small communities focused on a non-controversial topic (mostly anything about jokes/memes, or very niche technical stuff), but bigger communities focusing on slightly political topics become hell. The "europe" subreddit is incredibly toxic for this reason. Not because of individual redditors, but because of the group effect.

HN doesn't suffer from this problem both because of the niche aspect and because downvotes are restricted.
What was your interpretation?