skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPT-4 is quite capable of writing function-length sections of code based only on descriptions. Either in a context where you're not sure what the a good approach is (for myself, when writing Javascript for example), or when you know what needs to be done but it's just somewhat tedious.

Here's a session from me working on a side project yesterday:

https://chat.openai.com/share/a6928c16-1c18-4c08-ae02-82538d...

The most impressive thing I think starts in the middle:

* I paste in some SQL tables and the golang structrues I wanted stuff to go into, and described in words what I wanted; and it generated a multi-level query with several joins, and then some post-processing in golang to put it into the form I'd asked for.

* I say, "if you do X, you can use slices instead of a map", and it rewrites the post-processing to use slices instead of a map

* I say, "Can you rewrite the query in goqu, using these constants?" and it does.

I didn't take a record of it, but a few months ago I was doing some data analysis, and I pasted in a quite complex SQL query I'd written a year earlier (the last time I was doing this analysis), and said "Can you modify it to group all rows less than 1% of the total into a single row labelled 'Other'?" And the resulting query worked out of the box.

It's basically like having a coding minion.

Once there's a better interface for accessing and modifying your local files / buffers, I'm sure it will become even more useful.

EDIT: Oh, and Monday I asked, "This query is super slow; can you think of a way to make it faster?" And it said, "Query looks fine; do you have indexes on X Y and Z columns of the various tables?" I said, "No; can you write me SQL to add those indexes?" Then ran the SQL to create indexes, and the query went from taking >10 minutes to taking 2 seconds.

(As you can tell, I'm neither a web dev nor a database dev...)
I disagree. Crypto sucked up the limited number of consumer GPUs in existence, and manufacturers weren’t willing to scale up production since they knew that when crypto crashed the demand would revert to the mean and all the mining GPUs would flood the market and body slam the price.

AFAIK the actual features of the GPU that are used to accelerate AI (fp16, int8 and mixed-precision tensor processing) had nothing to do with the features used by miners. And no miners were buying/financing-the-creation-of the class of server GPUs used by folks like OpenAI because they didn’t make financial sense for mining (we’re talking 10x the price of a high-end consumer GPU and nowhere near that increase in hashrate).
Great episode.
This article doesn’t make good on its claim to explain why this “Rails convention” is bad. It’s probably actually good. I wouldn’t have clicked on it otherwise. Rude, IMO.
What are the equivalents for Ctrl+Home (Go to start of file) and Ctrl+End (Go to end of file?) Or Ctrl+Shift+Home / Ctrl+Shift+End to select from cursor to begin / end of file?
Regulations demanding you run your power like you live in Anchorage, which had warmer temps than Houston during the storm, has other effects. Such as raising power prices and harming other customers and robbing their families of food and other necessities that money can buy. Only retroactively after this record breaking storm can you decide it wouldn't cause net harm.
> until there is enough seats that they can start charging more once people have invested enough to not want(or be able) to change toolchains

I can understand how one could have that impression about generic suppliers in the field. However from everything I know about the people at Ferrous Systems, I'd be incredibly surprised if that's a strategy they are pursuing.
I think yabai is far better for someone tiling window manager on Linux inclined. Rectangle is more like grandma asked how to have two windows side by side.

I don't currently have a Mac, but when I did and if I did I would definitely install brew before whatever other essential - how else am I going to install the latter? (I'd reluctantly open Terminal and Safari to do so, and then to be honest Alacritty and Firefox would probably beat anything for window management. I used to have it all scripted, so it actually would've been just Terminal git clone and run.)
Care must be taken when evaluating those statistics because all the ones I've seen are done only in dollar terms and entirely discount the economic beneficiaries of the movement of people and goods.

For example, consider a paved rural road into farmland. In dollar terms paving that road is a subsidy from the nearest city to the people living in that rural area. However, in part the road is paved rather than gravel only to support heavier trucks to more efficiently transport agricultural products destined for the city. It is also paved in part to support larger, faster, heavier agricultural equipment which brings economies of scale to agriculture and reduces the per-unit price of the result -- again destined mostly for the city.

Residents themselves don't need the more expensive paved and it isn't their relatively light private vehicles causing most of the wear on the road in the first place.

Considered this way, a not insubstantial fraction of the cost of non-city areas is the city indirectly subsidizing itself. The full costs could be incorporated directly into the goods sourced from the supposedly subsidized areas, but that would be less efficient overall. For example, good roads reduces the cost of agricultural products for, say, three months a year. Instead of directly paying capital costs to pave the rural road the city could pay operational costs in higher food prices while missing the other cost advantages of the paved road the rest of the year in reduced recreational costs, policing costs, education costs, etc. If those other costs were higher there would be less of them and people would be less willing to live in those areas, increasing wage and commuting costs.
> Is OCR "a scam just like crypto"?

OCR is a technology.

Cryptocoins are a community. The _SAME_ people who pushed crypto have now moved into the AI sphere and are hawking AI.

Its like all the snake oil salesmen of the 1800s suddenly discovered that cars are selling and have become car salesmen. That doesn't mean that cars are a scam, it means that many, many people trying to sell cars to you are scammers.

Having our guard up against hucksters, especially when the great community of hucksters are obviously moving in lockstep to say the same thing (and coordinate their arguments thanks to the internet / meme culture), it makes it easy to pick out when to be on guard.
New Hearst Policy Restricts Political Speech on Employees' Social Media Accounts
This is why nothing is going to "collapse." There are so many people in your position just wanting to buy the second prices start to fall a little. That will prevent any type of serious collapse and it will be more of a minor correction at best.
I think the point is that "education" as a field is so heavily infested with parasites and grifters that it can easily eat extra $200M and then have nothing to show for it.
It would be interesting to do a sentiment analysis on users to see if users themselves are becoming more negative over time or if negative voices are composing more of the message volume.

With the degree of data available I have wondered if you could determine a point at which you could suggest users see professional help. Then if you could do such a thing, would it be ethical to do so? Would it be ethical _not_ to do so?
"Case in point: The new Github comment UI is beautiful. Look at how the text area smoothly blends with the tab, creating an irregular and visually interesting shape!
...

The new GitHub commenting UI, focused. Am I the only one that expected the focus outline to also follow the irregular shape?

However, I cannot for the life of me internalize that this is a text field that I can type in. Even after using it over a dozen times, I still have to do a double take every time (“Where is the comment field?!”, “Why is this read-only?”)."

User interfaces are not primarily works of visual art. They are beautiful only when they are functional.
If you've ever added "delivery notes" to an order, they're automatically shared with every subsequent order. Clear out the delivery notes on your next order.
There are plenty of better researched sources for training plans. This seems like an area where their inaccuracy can cause direct, physical problems.
Some of these issues, like the corruption, is probably due to having 3rd party kernel extensions enabled. One of the pop ups shown even shows that explicitly. I had the same issue for a raid controller app. That needs to be updated on the new machine hardware by holding the power button and changing to reduced security to enable the kext loading.

If someone installed apps with kernel extensions, disabling enhanced security on the hardware, then Id argue they should be competent enough to understand the issue, so the article is a bit disingenuous on that front.

Additionally, things like Apple ID for iCloud login require re-logging with 2 factor, again because the hardware has updated.

So there’s probably a cleaner UI model here that could run the user through all of these side cases, but it’s not as simply as copying app permissions (all of the unix level file permissions remain intact already)
I've switched over to a paid plan with Monarch Money.
There are models trained via RNN, but LLMs usually use Transformer architecture with a bit of human feedback on top which sort of uses reinforcement learning like AlphaGo
> it's up to the business to make that something you directly benefit from

They never do though. People's reward for "improving the business" by being efficient is more work, not more money.
That's still an Amazon problem.
That, and also when caffeine came out it replaced one of the major uses (caching) of guava.

https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine
Chamberlain... Which security level do you want? 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11 bits?
Not sure how the situation is today, but the ones I'm referring to can be brute-forced in a matter of minutes.
Interesting. They have been operating since 1984 - thats almost 40 years.
It would be interesting to read what achievements they made so far. Especially, did they find any sign?
It will do Security+ 2.0 with an add-on module (or that was the case several years ago when I got mine).

The device has been fantastic, I got mine about 4 years ago and I just never think about it, it's never failed to work (even after power outages).

Mine isn't a motion sensor, it's a distance measuring device, it's how it can tell if a car is in the bay or the garage door itself is open (you set the distances in the device)
I guarantee most people who work in product or software are far more interested in hearing problems than half baked solutions. It’s actually quite frustrating when someone gives me their solution and I have to reverse engineer the actual issue.
Yes, exactly. Most people (perhaps not representative of the audience here) do not want extra boxes, wires, steps, or setup. They like that it's all built into the TV. Ads are just a fact of life to them, they don't really even register as a concern.
When the US declares a 'War on Poverty', do you also assume that the Pentagon deploys a three-star general to plan and carry out a shock-and-awe campaign against rural and inner-city communities?

When Canada appoints a 'Minister of Finance', does she have to be a Protestant clergymember? Does she lead prayer ceremonies? Does she sanctify wine and holy water? Does one of her duties involve feeding a congregation with only two loaves and five loonies?
Does Hypermedia Scale?
The benchmarks Matt Weidner has been working on are great and outside scrutiny is always welcome, but I should note that I find there's an element of artificiality to them. In particular, testing the performance of the sync system while simulating many users typing into the same document doesn't really measure behaviour we have observed "in the wild". In our research, we've found that editing is usually serial or asynchronous. (See https://inkandswitch.com/upwelling for further discussion of our collaboration research.)

The benchmark that concerns me (and that I'm pleased with our progress on!) is that you can edit an entire Ink & Switch long-form essay with Automerge and that the end-to-end keypress-to-paint latency using Codemirror is under 10ms (next frame at 100hz).

While these kinds of benchmarks are incredibly appreciated and absolutely drive us to work on optimizing the problems they uncover, we try to work backwards from experienced problems in real usage as our first priority.
Depends upon the insurance.

The doctor can certainly prescribe it though.
Understanding Lego part numbers (2020)
SETI received ~$28m in donations and contributions in 2022, according to their tax filings [1]

As mentioned in the press release, contribution will be used at least in part as an endowment, providing perpetual funding for ongoing programs.

Also, it is my understanding that large philanthropic gifts, particularly from estates, often come in the form of non-cash assets such as stocks or other financial instruments. So probably not a $200m check, but a very nice nest egg to fund SETI projects for decades to come.

[1] https://www.seti.org/about-us/financials
Neither is necessary. Secure password managers should directly set the value attribute on the text fields (the password manager has direct access to the page's DOM), and then they should use a DispatchEvent to notify the page that the field has changed.

Websites, applications, and login forms should handle those generic events rather than listening specifically to keydown events.

There's really no need to simulate typing or to touch the clipboard if you're using a browser extension; and while I haven't checked, I'd honestly be kind of surprised if any of the major password manager extensions are doing so.

Of course, if for some reason the user decides to copy and paste their password, then a change event should also be handled, not just a keydown event.
Keyword: imagine

What if we could all just teleport anywhere we wanted at any time, instantly!? Like most things of this sort, unfortunately, we exist in the real world where such a naive fantasy will stay as just that; a naive fantasy.
Imagine all the novel ways of probing the human body that we'd experience if SETI alerted something out there to our presence...
Look in the mirror; your entire comment applies to you.

Linking the lack of downvotes to people's opinions of said comment is a reach at best. Downvoting here doesn’t happen nearly as often or for the reasons you think they do. This isn’t Reddit. Things don’t just get downvoted because people disagree with your opinion.
GPT-4 (Turbo)'s internal knowledge corpus is sufficient for most of my requests. By enabling browsing by default, @OpenAI has degraded speed + quality of responses

Quick fix: Adding custom instructions that ChatGPT should only perform web searches when explicitly asked to do so
Actually they did. Standard Oil was already on the way out at the time of its anti-trust action and subsequent breakup. It's well documented.
Incidentally, "AI" (the original field called AI, not the latest definition of the term) definitely made it to 5. Except these days, we call some parts of it "SQL", other parts "the Web".
Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)
Wait until you hear how many more cars I sold at the local dealership once I started showing up in a nice suit instead of shorts and flip-flops!
Did it take you a while to be able to meditate for 60 minutes??
I don’t want to install Facebook anything onto my device? A company that has repeatedly engineered techniques to escape the app sandbox to exfiltrate personal data is not my friend.
(i don't mind if people use a rude tone, we're human. i just don't like when people are wrong, or interpret others wrong)

in corporate environments, it is not easy to (nor should it be) to require every desk to install Go. If you are hired to script something (and scripts are even more important in corporate environments) and require a new piece of software to be installed, and a new language for staff to maintain, it's imposing a great burden and could very well be rejected.

I don't not know what I'm talking about, and I'm not trying to FUD, I'm trying to suggest "gird your loins". But also, I said that was not the point of my comment, I just didn't want you to think that through my silence I had accepted your earlier suggestion.
I think I am confused by your comment in the context of Larry Sanger: are you suggesting that rationalwiki is incorrect and that Larry did not say any of the things quoted?
I'd be hard-pressed to call it the most dangerous show, but the reasons why it's problematic are as follows:

1. It's fundamentally anti-intellectual. A lot of the show is ultimately based on attacking archaeology as a field on the basis that it rejects his ideas, without ever attempting to interact with the (well-grounded) reasons his ideas are being rejected. Quite frankly, takes like "the most dangerous show on Netflix" help Hancock more than hurt him, which is one of the reasons I'd never call it that.

2. The ideology is... uncomfortable. His underlying thesis amounts to "white people built every interesting archaeological structure we find in the world before suddenly disappearing without leaving any other trace," although the "white" has been removed from overt mentions in more recent year. Yet you can still guess that it's still covertly there by observing that European constructions never seem to undergo this process.

3. Bad archaeology and pseudoarchaeology can fuel modern arguments for screwing indigenous peoples out of their land or culture, etc.

4. Poor archaeological practices can ruin the ability to do good archaeology on the site in the future. Note the excavation we're talking about here is an example of such poor achaeological--the site has been greatly disturbed by the excavation, which could well foreclose the ability to properly date the site in the future. On a related note, this can also fuel the general public to visit a site and, well, loot it.

5. A final note is that the demand for ancient aliens-style shows crowds out any attempt by archaeologists to actually put together shows about real, interesting archaeological discovers. Producers don't want a show about Çatalhöyük or Göbekli Tepe or Norte Chico that produce interesting questions that challenge what people likely learned in school about the history of civilization. No, you have to attack it with an ancient aliens or whatever conspiracy theory to be able to actually make the documentary. Mainstream archaeology is considered "boring" even when it is absolutely the opposite.
Automerge is a library that anyone can adopt, and we are a research organization, not a product company.

We have built a variety of projects with Automerge, both publicly and for use in private, including recently the markdown-with-comments editor we call Tiny Essay Editor (https://tiny-essay-editor.netlify.app/) by Geoffrey Litt.

That said, sponsoring the Automerge team helps us build faster and is always welcome. (Thanks to our current and past sponsors for their support!)
Point taken on being a place where people want to drink beer. In that case, I would definitely try to validate the idea that people will be more interested in a brewery that cares about digital privacy:

- How many people in your area care about digital privacy?

- How many of them drink craft beer?

- How many of them would consider a brewery's digital tools when deciding on a place to drink?

My hunch is that the number at the end of that funnel is going be very close to zero. Putting money into a nerdy trivia night would have 100x the impact with 1% of the headaches.
If my memory recalls correct, in Ireland, Pay-as-you-go was relatively popular for a number of different demographics.

Most networks implemented some kind of Top up €20, get 200 free minutes, 200 free texts, unlimited same-network texts, and X GB of data for the month.

WhatsApp came in, which meant that that all networks could now talk to each other using the Data allowance for free, essentially - which I think convinced people to use WhatsApp rather than dwindle down their network text quota.
Supply and demand dictates that more CSAM is made the more it is watched, no?
> Instead, the physical space currently occupied by books could be used to promote communal activities, between kids and between adults. There are public buildings like that in Barcelona, that can be used by cultural neighborhood associations that allow the people of the city to bond in much the same way that ancient communal places like the church would have performed. So, for example, food distribution citizen cooperatives, or role playing/board game groups, singing and dancing groups, theater play associations or courses, historical recreation societies...the sky's the limit!

What you're describing is the function of many public libraries in the United States, especially in the last 30 years. At least, one of the major functions: a place to meet, a place to study, a place to take classes, a place to get resources about social services, a place to sit inside when it's raining and you don't have a home to go to.

When I said that switching to a digital model would eventually diminish the role of libraries, I was thinking about this exactly. The literal loss of a shared community resource. But I am also noting that there are almost certainly knock-on effects of having such a place that we don't fully understand, and would not understand until years after we'd lost it.

I am thinking, abstractly, about the consequences of over-indexing on a particular metric, at the cost of everything else. Especially everything else which was not known or considered in the original problem statement. If our metric is "access to information", we could maximize that by getting rid of books and focusing exclusively on digital lending, and we could call it a success. What I'm saying is: have we accounted for everything that would happen if we actually did that?

As a species, we're pretty bad at guessing these things. We thought the internet would make us more civilized, we thought social media would bring us together, etc., etc.

This starts to sound like a Chesterton's Fence argument, and I was trying to avoid that, but there's no denying it now. That's basically what I'm saying I guess!
Pluto.jl: Simple, reactive programming environment for Julia
Fake reviews.
You could also argue the exact opposite. Crypto skyrocketed around 2011-2012 which is also the advent of the compute heavy deep learning boom. If anything, the cost escalation and scarcity of GPUs due to the demand by the crypto-space slowed down AI progress since resources were dedicated to computing useless hashes instead of training better models.

I think a good story can be told for both sides.
The UN security council is VERY effective at what it's actual purpose is, which is preventing all out nuclear war between the major super powers. That is why the confirmed nuclear powers are the only ones with veto powers (minus Pakistan/India/NK, interestingly).

Everything else is quite explicitly window dressing.
If you condemn Hamas you're "anti-Palestine" but if you don't you're "anti-Semitic". If you say "it's complicated" you're also canceled. Truly the only winning move is not to play.
That's yes thank you from me - the game-theoretic implications of such scenario being successfully pulled off, would allow us to solve climate change and poverty and peace next.