skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not heard of minigpt4. Why that name? Is it claiming to be specifically a gpt4 competitor?
Also frankly that a nuclear reactor isn't simple - neither is a coal power plant really. Serious, large engineering is always complicated: argument from incredulity is a fallacy for a reason. Solar panels are cheap because the supply line of ultra-pure silicon is incredibly well-developed to service the computing industry (it basically runs on discards from it).

You have to do the actual engineering before you'll know whether or not a thing is viable, and you're likely to find some surprises - i.e. a lot of advanced capability these days has become possible due to things like cheap, fast computing power or ubiquitous high-accuracy GPS systems (differential GPS can get ridiculously accurate).
> ChatGPT doesn't do much for experienced SWEs, but it demolishes the difficulty curve for newbies.

Interesting, my impression was that ChatGPT helps experienced SWEs by filling out large amounts of boilerplate-ish code. It sounds like that's not your experience, though?
> It's early days, but the simplest use case has been to improve employee productivity

Does anyone know if the impact has been properly measured? It’s one thing to say that “developers are more productive” and another to really have faster feature delivery (or any other metric).
I personally am not really into reading for savouring the prose, but even still speed reading seems dumb. I still need time to contemplate the ideas that the words are symbollically representing. Otherwise what is the point?
I wonder how that guy will manage an introductory calculus textbook, let alone subsequent topics like analysis. Talk about a difference in rigour.
Fun story, Tempura was allegedly inspired by Portuguese "Peixinhos da horta" which was a poorman meal of fried green beans, that was popular during Lent. [0]

Of course as with many things in japanese culture they carried Tempura to a next level.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170808-the-truth-about-...
Help clarify thought? While being actively hostile to numbers?
Building inspection is actually like this in my city. If they get a tip about unpermitted work, they just bring the permit application, will waive a few fees so it costs $7.50, and they electronically send it to the office wheee someone approves it immediately. This also enables the owner-builder to request they come by for a pre inspection or for advice. They actually want to keep buildings safe and most of the inspectors were formerly working in the construction industry and hated working with bad inspectors.
Physical activity doesn't make me feel good. At best running on a treadmill for around 30mins gives me energy that feels good physically but doesn't really translate to mentally.

I've tried intense hikes and other activities but it really doesn't do much. I have ADHD and on and off depression. Maybe borderline personality disorder as well. I did try anti depressants once but it only removed whatever little emotions I experienced, not worth it.
I don't do bookmarks, ie. long term archival of tabs, but I sometimes stash/set aside tabs by moving them to their own Sidebery tab. The sidebar itself is tabbed.
Second Life is hardly a typical video game, though. It's barely a game at all.
This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It makes less sense than a de-Googled smartphone.

The point of a Chromebook is that it is a netbook. It's a thin client that provides reduced local resources in favor of SaaS and cloud services. You don't need a large SSD; you've got Drive. You don't need local office apps, you've got Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet. Calendar, Maps, Photos, they're responsive and integrated. Google Play services is integrated, and provides your store full of synced Android apps. Your bookmarks, settings, extensions, etc. are synced to your account, and you move seamlessly among ChromeOS devices, Android phones, or just Chrome on a desktop OS.

So unless the goal is to provide drop-in, API-compatible SaaS for all of the above, I can't see this ending up as anything but an underpowered notebook that doesn't run desktop apps.
Actually, it was the fail safe auto-land system that functioned perfectly and put these things in the Yarra in the first place.

Something went wrong (presumeably with their radio link) and they executed their fail-safe procedure, which was to cancel horizontal velocity and perform a gentle powered landing - In the river below them...
>Applying behaviors borne directly of the current structure on to the outcomes from an entirely different structure is not the way we reason, is it?

It's an inevitable result of reasoning. I can't know what I don't know. Short of the laws of physics, we can never truly predict the behaviors of a new universal model from scratch.

Regardless, I don't think human nature would change that drastically as a result of students being able to pace their learning. Greed, selfishness, and general malice may be lessened but not eradicated. Social castes would probably still exist as a remnant of various luck and circumstance of the elite established centuries ago.

>It frankly couldn't do worse than what we have

I never really disagreed, I just simply want to point out a less talked about point in the current educational system. It's not simply an institution of acedemia, nor a "glorified day care center" as others cynically put it. There's soft skills you don't really get except by engaging with other people, some you don't like. Some you may even outright hate.

I feel any alternative system that doesn't keep those soft skills in mind may face further issues down the road, even if it may or may not end up better than the current timeline.
I've had a few online code assessments that appear to have been hardened against ChatGPT "attacks". I failed at solving a problem that was just "Compute values of the Collatz conjecture for input n" because they wrote it to sound like an extremely difficult graph problem about being lost in a forest but being able to enter a "magic door".

I fed the problem into ChatGPT later and it was utterly unable to comprehend it, but confidently gave wrong answer after wrong answer.
Could always ask Woz for a card ?
Popcorn polymer implies, to me at least, a polymer that expands in size like popcorn.

I assume that with exposure to oxygen, the product expands into this polymer.
Just type "?" And it brings up all commands in a given window
Solid book, Metzinger is really underrated
Wasn’t sure who that was, but wikipidia says:

“Lamo was best known for reporting U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning to Army criminal investigators in 2010[7] for leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.[8][9] Lamo died on March 14, 2018, at the age of 37.[10]”

Kind of the wrong side in history there. But RIP, regardless.
Thank you for your honesty - yeah, it sounds like either I decide to become his PM and give him strict guidance or let him go.
> If everyone is doping, then you could argue it's still a fair playing field, just with a higher skill ceiling.

No, because now you have at least two contests in parallel: the race event for the cyclist and through-the-year "doping and not getting caught" for medical/management team.

For example one prominent olympic level swimmer was disqualified because they failed to appear for testing multiple times. Why would one do that just to come back after disqualification?
Are there applications where ant colony algorithms are actually widely used and have state of the art performance? In my experience with the travelling salesman problem they do very badly compared to simpler and faster methods like 2-opt.

It sounds like a neat idea but I haven't seen a problem where it works well in practice. I'm curious if there are real world success stories.
The point is that this article says it wants to introduce parsing. But parsing a language that can be parsed by string splitting is not meaningful.

If there isn't even the most basic complexity then it's hardly worth claiming you're introducing parsing.
I was always curious about why tabaco was written in hiragana but this article explains it.

> Many of the first words which were introduced and entered the Japanese language from Portuguese and Dutch are written in kanji or hiragana, rather than katakana, which is the more common way to write loanwords in Japanese in modern times.
Yes and no: good science fiction takes a trend and extrapolates. Extrapolation should be based on logic (to be good - but you can also just aim for entertaining and go wild).

The details might differ, but it's worth thinking about whether the implications make sense. Watt's certainly asks a lot of good questions which other orders have also asked - i.e. Accelerando[1] is very interested in the idea of "what happens to mankind when economic systems can no longer be participated in by recognizably human minds?" - taken out to the limits of known physics.

[1] https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

^^^ You read the full-text here, I highly recommend it.
Which might make you, what, maybe 10% more productive overall? The more experienced you are, the less time you spend writing boilerplate code, so it's not that huge of a win in the grand scheme of things compared to what it provides when you're learning something new.
Are users just mining Tinder for cringe content?
>fancy sandwiches if anime is right

From my anime knowledge, it's "bread" though seemingly any meal with bread instead of rice is also called "pan." It also links to the Japanese Wikipedia page for bread.
Trust the science, bro
This guide by Beej is pretty good https://beej.us/guide/bgnet0/, he has a similae one on Network programming.

Also reading TCP and IP RFCs will greatly help you.
Comrade, the responsibility is to /have/ a medical emergency.
Knowing something exists but not why can be irritating
The question is should we buy them or pirate!
People I know that use ChatGPT for coding ask the occasional question to simplify boilerplate or similar to stack overflow. Sometimes they'll "see if it can do X" (e.g. build a crud app) and generally it's horribly painful.

I have seen no evidence of "most code [being] written by AI" and believe this to be completely false.
https://github.com/shytikov/pragmasevka
Well, that's absolutely terrifying given what you can do with a phone number today.
What if China and India became friends?
HTTP has become the default, universal communication protocol
I was really enjoying their videos around the end of 2016, and then something happened and it seemed like the money they requested was not going to be put in the government budget. I'm glad to see they are back doing this work.
I have:
1. An old i3 running TrueNAS after I decided my QNAP TS-503 was too old and shonky to be able to run Plex;
2. An ex-govt i5-6500 with 32GB RAM for miscellaneous development activities;
3. An RPi 4 that runs prometheus/grafana for monitoring;
4. A Khadas Vim3 that currently runs some crypto-related analytics, but is mostly for fun/experimentation;
5. A 2015 Macbook (12") that's been gutted all the way down to the logic board, with a combination power/ethernet dongle hanging off it, running Linux as a headless machine for more mucking around/non-serious stuff;
6. A work-issued Macbook Pro (M1 Pro);
7. A Windows desktop with a Ryzen 5 2600, 32GB RAM, a 2Tb nvme and a 1660Ti for gaming;
8. Aforementioned QNAP TS-503 gathering dust.

If I'd change anything, I'd turn the Khadas into a media PC and plug it into my TV and retire my broken old AppleTV (some older generation that doesn't allow installing apps), I'll inherit my wife's 12" Macbook and add wire it up the same way as the other one, and then get rid of the i5 and bring the power consumption down a bit (the Core M-5 in the 12" Macbook is surprisingly powerful, and with the I/O on the Macbook, it'd beat the i5 hands-down, aside from the RAM limitations). At some point I'd love to build a small cluster of ARM boards when they step up in capability a bit (and when I can find some reasonably priced ones that can support 32GB RAM or more), and then any dev stuff I do can run in minikube or something similar. I'd like to play around with RISC-V at some point too.

For your purposes... I'd recommend a thin formfactor with a decent CPU, 64GB RAM and as much storage as you can stuff into it, then run TrueNAS.
the mobile audience didn't want to pay directly for apps. It's the inevitable result.
Perceived truth is consensus. But greater truth, reality itself, remains true even if not a single person is able to perceive it. You can't actually modify reality with wishful thinking.
Yikes, no kidding. Triggering a watchdog is a “stop the dev cycle and everyone figure out what show-stopping bug is lurking in our code” time.

I have no desire to use embedded rust async, I use C++ with none of the allocating containers, and honestly it’s more of a C with classes style than modern C++, plus FreeRTOS in my production embedded code. I would happily trade out C++ for the memory safety of rust.

I would pick up a lightweight RTOS written in non-async rust if one existed and I could have faith in it, but other than personal projects I can’t advocate for building a hardware project on something like this yet.
Good point, you don’t call football just “sports”
I’ve had Going (formerly Scott’s Cheap Flights) for several years now. I’ve gotten some decent bookings out of it, but IMO it’s really only worth it if you’re the kind of person who makes impulse travel purchases. The deals there can be really great (I just saw a $375 ticket to Peru from the USA which is less than half the usual price), but they only appear for a day or two. I’ve found the easiest way to get a good price when you have set or barely flexible travel dates is to do the following:

- go to Google Flights

- look at the price history

- find the lowest price for your dates

- pick some nominal percentage above the floor like 10-15%

- watch the flight on google flights (you get an email every time the price changes)

- buy the ticket once it hits that range.

Works every time for me. I don’t see massive price differences between Kayak Google Flights etc either
that would be copilot not chatgpt
From rest.li's github page[0] -

At LinkedIn, we are focusing our efforts on advanced automation to enable a seamless, LinkedIn-wide migration from Rest.li to gRPC. gRPC will offer better performance, support for more programming languages, streaming, and a robust open source community. There is no active development at LinkedIn on new features for Rest.li. The repository will also be deprecated soon once we have migrated services to use gRPC. Refer to this blog[1] for more details on why we are moving to gRPC.

[0] - https://github.com/linkedin/rest.li

[1] - https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2023/linkedin-integrat...
Interesting, I'd suppose it makes sense that rephrasing the problem in a different way and also adding a bunch of nouns that have no relations with the problem at hand will definitely confuse LLMs. It will be interesting to see how LLMs will adapt to these as more and more of these techniques develop.

In my own assignments however, I focus less on algorithmic stuff but more on adding and mixing several things together. E.g. instead of just sorting, do group & sort, and a combination of a bunch of other practical stuff like reading big-endian binary files.
No, I didn't call anything besides the official take a conspiracy theory, I only called your take a conspiracy theory because it seemed like hard to believe fantasy written for a show, and your only argument to support it was "it's well designed, so it's supposed to be hard to believe", which is just more fantasy designed to shut up any and all arguments against it, just like your last comment I'm currently replying to.
MiniGPT-4 is a multimodal model. The name (a bad one, IMO) is a reference to GPT-4's multimodal capability.
Big tech companies are capitalizing on AI
It seems to a good indicator that the team is superior
I'm not sure ChatGPT is fundamentally good at these type of problems. Probably not. One of the examples I remember seeing was "is X a prime number" which ChatGPT can't really reason about it, but it could remember if it saw it around

Drift analysis are certainly interesting, but you need to know what kind of questions and examples are being fed there

Wolphram Alpha is just better at answering those
Here is the PDF report from the CSB:

https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/17/tpc_factual_update_10-29-202...

Bottom of page 7 it explains the mechanism. Essentially butadiene peroxides react with the butadiene to form the polymer 'seed'. The polymer is not stable and expands, increasing in volume.
Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the world
Figured this might be interesting in light of the Oppenheimer movie. This book documents Oliphant's role in introducing Oppenheimer to the atomic bomb. Also a cracking story about two great scientists and their foundational work on radar, penicillin and the atomic bomb..
This is just repeating the fallacy that the person being replaced is going to be the blue-collar worker.

But it isn't...it's the office knowledge worker. Anyone cruising in the middle bucket where you don't do creative research, but you do sit in front of a computer. AI is coming for those groups.

The blue collar worker? They'll be fine for decades. Anyone who gets out there and manipulates the physical environment, won't be replaced any time soon.
Not writing any unit tests are you?!?!? ;)
Isn't everything in life gambling? You don't know will you get a job or not heading into that interview. You don't know what will that hot girl at a club say when you ask her out. Not speaking about stock market, which is an example of a rigged gambling machine, with all those insiders and lies.
Been talked about a bunch previously since it was announced
Threads Video Downloader App
So his theory is that the psychos weren't informed of the risk of getting caught? This is just absurd, just bending-over backwards to cast psychos knifing women as victims.

Please get a grip and find a more deserving subject for your overzealous pity.
instagram threads is the new rival for twitter. it already gained millions of installs. if you want to download videos from threads you can use threads video downloader app an easy solution
There's more info here: https://github.com/Vision-CAIR/MiniGPT-4
(Linked in the Readme of the repo.)
I have a PN51 running my TV (as a dumb screen) and it's wonderful. It has a fan but I've never heard it even right close up. I haven't measured the power draw but I've never felt it any hotter than hardly detectable heat.
Kotlin is not a "legal" backend language at Google.
I got my current employment being introduced by someone inside. I found my previous company via job website, here are two that I find most helpful:

https://japan-dev.com/jobs

https://www.tokyodev.com/

Obtaining residence: my current visa is (quite long):
"Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/ Int'l Services" (技術・人文知識・国際業務)
I got this visa sponsored by my first company, which is the most common thing for foreigners. Mine is 5 years, some are just a year long. It all depends on the company and how they file your paperwork.

I don't have permanent residency. I could switch over to spousal visa, but since I still have a lot of time left with my visa, I'm not going to bother the bureaucracy. Also, getting residency isn't as easy; it's like a point system here: how long you've been working, if you went to school in Japan, JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test), etc.

Guarantor is only necessary for renting apartments (from my experience).
If everyone in the world pays once for a product that doesn't work, you still get rich. They don't need repeat business, when they control they narrative. If they want to promote results touting the benefits of buying G-Ads, they can.
Also as a learner - what i've found incredible is the ability to get AN ANSWER...without context switching. 1 window, 1 result location, no fishing...its trivial to test that given solution...as a beginner...my problems are fairly one dimensional.

Not to mention...things like "cool want to learn python"..."wait - wtf..how do i setup a venv in python!!"
Rodrigues, with an 's', and Fernandes are the most common Portuguese influenced surnames in Goa, if I recall correctly.

Such names ending in 'z' are more likely Spanish in origin.
RIP Kevin. What a loss. That guy's court case basically defined the 90s for many of us.
> making a nice salary but without any of the joy that was present in my 20s rebelling against my F100 company's IT policy

You just hit it. That feeling. Me too, nowadays I mostly go through the motions. No enthusiasm, no joy, no interest, no energy... no "spark". Mitnick lived and shined at a time when showing off didn't just land you in jail. Until it did.

Long live the legend.
Exactly. In other words, there is a huge difference between science as "pursuit of knowledge through thoroughly applied scientific method" and science as "product of academic process".

Incentive structures make sure that the latter is dominant in published science.

Even if there was no intentional fudging of data, results and interpretations by scientist teams, the results of science as a whole could still be heavily (over time) influenced by simple biases in selection of grant applications. For example if you only fund researches of type "thing X good" and dismiss all applications trying to prove "thing X bad", you will eventually gather enough evidence for X to appear good, regardless of how objectively "good" it is.
There are a lot of shitty people that work for all the big companies (and many of the small ones). Google has 140,000 employees. I'm sure there are hundreds of assholes among that group.

Microsoft has 220,000 employees, so they probably employ even more assholes. Even the beloved Apple has plenty of shitty people and assholes working for it.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. None of these companies are perfect, they are going to hire talented people that happen to be shitty individuals. It happens. That doesn't make it right, but its real life.

I'm all for judging a company on its merits. But lets judge it based on what they actually do or don't do. If they are doing stuff that's destroying the environment or they are encouraging slave labor or something then let's talk. But because one guy who was an acquihire is an asshole, it doesn't give me enough incentive to boycott a company.
The price difference is a way to pass along credit card fees that otherwise would have to be paid by the station operator. It used to be against the credit card networks’ merchant agreements to have separate cash and credit prices — but a good number of LA gas stations rolled the dice and did it anyway. That rule changed a few years ago, and now most stations split their pricing. (I believe that’s also why ARCO gas now takes credit cards, after holding out for decades — they are now allowed to pass along the cost to the customer.)
Out of curiosity, have you tried "extreme" sports like skydiving or downhill biking? I have a theory that people into extreme sports have often muted emotions compared to ordinary folks.