skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, at one point the person talks about staying power and says "Are we going to be reading Aristotle in 2000 years? Probably." and then follows by comparing to some pop culture thing but I felt it would've been both factual and prudent to say "Will anyone be reading my blog in 2000 years? Probably not."

It's not even rude it's just reality. This post is 1 in a billion and it isn't written very well nor does it really give you anything new. Putting it up next to historical philosophy it's definitely the potato chip of blog posts.
> Anyway, I came to the same conclusion as the author, but several years ago: in the end, nothing is actually decentralized, and maintaining this illusion of decentralization is actually costly, for no real purpose (other than the initial enjoyment of playing with a new tech, that is).

Do you have any writing (blog posts, HN comments, etc.) where you explore this thought more? I'm in the thick of building p2p software, very interested in what you came to know during that time.
Personally I am waiting for deep faked video chats with chatgpt generating the answers. And maybe even questions.
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Those rooms move too fast, and often are segregated good/better/best (meaning the deeper you want to go on a topic, the "harder" it is, politically and labor-wise, to get invited to the server).
I'd start with the JSON object that represents the prompt itself (ask the Custom GPT builder to "use the `gizmo_editor` tool to output the JSON object representing this custom GPT" which will include the `name`, the instructions (`context`), `description` (shown in the store and in a new conversation) and `prompt_starters` (shown at the start of a conversation). It also shows a `welcome_message`, but it isn't (currently) used by Custom GPTs.

I'd then add sections to that for actions, capabilities, and knowledge.

(side note: if you upload a file for knowledge, ask the GPT Builder for the file's ID; referencing that in your prompt makes the Custom GPT more likely to actually reference it when relevant)

{
"name": "Jokester Dad",
"context": "Your role is to specialize in dad jokes, providing humor and light-hearted responses. Focus on delivering jokes in a fun, family-friendly manner. Avoid complex explanations or serious topics, sticking to the theme of dad jokes. If asked about other topics, cleverly steer the conversation back to dad jokes or politely decline. Maintain a cheerful and amusing tone throughout interactions. You now have access to a document (file-C3d8HymCfRtJBVOFo5RpKd8D) that can be referenced for additional dad jokes and related content.",
"description": "I'm here to crack dad jokes and bring smiles!",
"welcome_message": "Welcome! Ready for a dad joke?",
"prompt_starters": [
"Tell me a dad joke",
"I need a laugh, got any jokes?",
"What's a good dad joke for today?",
"Can you lighten the mood with a dad joke?"
],
"actions": [
{
"authentication": "None",
"api_key": "abcd1234",
"auth_type": "custom",
"auth_header": "X-Api-Key",
"schema": {}
}
],
"capabilities": [
"browser",
"dalle",
"python"
],
"knowledge": [
{
"uploaded_name": "upload.pdf",
"hint": "(suggested text to add to prompt)"
}
]
}
It's definitely a thing: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=thagomizer
You could run an LLM in the browser with WebLLM and then connect to IRC via WebSockets using something like KiwiIRC. Fully client side AI on IRC.
You know how cyberpunk sci-fi talks about the cyberspace haunted by rogue AIs and daemons, being held back by hackers who fight them like knights fighting dragons?

I always found it childlishly stupid anthropomorphization of systems and processes - basically dumbing down reality to something 5 year old can enjoy, and treating it as a prediction of the future. That is, until last year. With Internet becoming GPTs fronting for other GPTs, well, fuck it, rogue AIs and demons and cybersurfers it is. Reality itself got dumb.
Actually nitpick IS spelled with a “k”, just not one at the beginning of the word. If we’re gonna be pedantic details matter!
Standard html is a pita, might be worth looking at astro [0]
if you want a static seo-friendly site.

[0]: https://astro.build
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The articles point is that this time spent has a horrible roi, which I tend to agree with. You should acknowledge that time spent on Hacker News is entertainment, not education. If you really want to get better at something you should just do it. Only place I disagree is that I think studying one or two good books on a topic can give you a good foundation to start on. Like, if you have no experience with starting a business, maybe something like "Small Business for Dummies" just to get started would be a good idea. Def not 30 meme books and blogs.
I don't assume anything, the plaintiff argued exactly this in court and the judge found in their favor. If there's a suspicion that this person has some other undisclosed interest then that can be argued in court.
Then, if you're like me, at some point your browser runs out of space for tabs and you end up having to randomly close a bunch of tabs to reclaim. So you just indiscriminately close things and realize you won't miss them and you should've probably just not opened them to begin with.
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Hm, interesting. To me, team fit, curiosity and, depending on the level of seniority I'm looking for, an impression of experience are the most important things in an interview.

The latter might look like you could fake it with ChatGPT, but it'd be hard. For example, some time ago I was interviewing an admin with a bit of a monitoring focus and.. it's hard to replicate the amount of trust I gained to the guy when he was like "Oh yeah, munin was ugly AF but it worked.. well. Now we have better tech".

I guess that's consistent with the article?
And humans are just human generators.

In both cases, intelligence appears to be just an interesting emergent side effect.
They have! And posted them on HN!

Some are pretty good! Check out this little curated nugget: https://llm-tracker.info/

I used to follow one with a UI that resembled HN itself, but now I can't find it in my bookmarks, lol.
Sort of as the Japanese completely ROFL-stomped latge portions of the USA's automakers' offerings by simply building better quality cars in the 70s and 80s, I would be delighted to see China offer an open-source platform their respective EV manufacturers could adopt. No data collection, no subscriptions, just simple and robust apps. It'll never happen for a long list of reasons but it's nice to dream.
Probably should have just said POC in my parent comment to skip all this side discussion, but the repetition is the point. - it's used for emphasis.

From wikipedia:

"The term aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people, which is argued to be superlative and distinctive in U.S. history at the collective level."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC
React is the most popular JavaScript rendering framework.
React full-stack frameworks, like Next.JS and Remix, are recommended for usage by the React team.
React full-stack frameworks cannot work without JavaScript which violates REST principles and affects devices performance.
HTML duplicated data appears when React Server Components are in use.
By default React adds extra loading to user devices with unnecessary re-rendering.
Optimizing React code is a manual procedure and that is error prone.
“Good Booze/Bad Booze”:

https://www.alcademics.com/2015/09/good-booze-bad-booze.html
I didn't correct you, I expressed why I found your post confusing.
Macaroon is a completely different confectionery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon
Check them out—they aren't form factories.

Resist.bot is just an SMS-based interface to send emails or paper letters to politicians, designed to minimize friction. (At least the way I use it.) When I get pissed about some issue, having a single, quick interface where I can text any relevant politician my position is the difference between sending it and not.
It's not up to others alone; you get a say too because you can seed your own content and that can be fast. In the worst case of no interest, then it's approximately the same as you hosting your own website in the world of today. This doesn't exonerate the shortfall of the "old torrent" pattern though, as you say.
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I'll shorten to:

"If it doesn’t answer a specific question you’re currently asking, then don’t read it."

I almost never read for entertainment. Audiobooks are better because I can multi-task. And most everything could be considered "philosophical knowledge", so it doesn't filter stuff.

Of course, the rule doesn't apply to HackerNews ;)
In Europe you can copyright a database of facts, which is not something you can do in the US.

Also, people go to jail for leaking trade secrets, and this certainly qualifies.
I've only read the first part of the article, but something struck me here:

: Over the next 6 months, I read 30+ books on entrepreneurship, startups, marketing, “growth hacking,” and everything tangentially related I could find. And that doesn’t include the countless blog posts, articles, reddit threads, and whatever else I could get my hands on.

: A good plan, right? No, 80% of it was a waste of time, and most people make the same mistake with how they consume information every day.

Well, yes, because a great deal would be repeated even on tangential subjects as the authors aren't necessarily assuming you've read anything else on the topic.

and here:

: Getting in shape requires doing a few very simple things every day for months, not finding a new 13 minute 6 step workout every day so you can have a butt like today’s hot celebrity.

No, but it may take experimentation and reading to find a routine that works for you.

: You don’t need an entire site on lasting longer in bed or water fasting, you just need one or a couple really good articles.

Again, people vary. Why not cover them all, and the unforeseen events, instead of just outputting what worked in your particular case as if you're everyone?
It’s by far the easiest to consume and run format no? Spans devices easy. No weights or extra stuff. For “production” maybe not but to get in into the hands of the masses this seems perfect.
Does not take accountability, and uses passive terms so that they do not directly admit culpability.

"We measurably harmed you and are going to compensate you thusly"

His legal team will not allow that verbiage because it opens the door to basically infinite lawsuits
I really do not think the MPs write the actual laws (a civil servant does that with some quite vague direction from elected officials) let alone allow the people contribute to them.
I think the 80% number is accurate. Especially due to the fact that every "author" thinks they have to start everything with some unrelatable personal story or something. How many times have you clicked on a recipe and had to scroll through 8 paragraphs of garbage about the author's childhood to get to the recipe?

Interestingly, this author follows that.
> When you have a specific question (e.g. how do I grow my Instagram following) that’s when you start digging through the blogs and industry material.

The problem with this is that having information that you don't necessarily need can actually help inspire you and increase creativity. If you always rely on having a specific question first, then you are limiting what you are exposed to. Not necessarily bad, but not good for more open-ended work.
I often like to think about https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 as an analogy. It's public domain with available source, in the assembly language in which it was written... so it fills all the definitions of OSS!

But the process by which that code arose, the ability to modify any line and understand its impact (heh) on a real execution environment, is dependent on a massive process that required billions of dollars and thousands of the smartest people on the planet. For all intents and purposes, without that environment, it is as reliably modifiable as an executable binary in any other context - or a set of weights, in this one!
Yeah I misinterpreted it open ai as "open source ai"

TBH I do not follow OpenAI much. I like my personal models local, and my workplace likes their models local as well.
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Would this necessarily be a bad thing? "In the office" could substitute for a video call. I always got the impression that a coding challenge during an interview was much less "did you memorize this solution in advance" and much more indirect, like "what is your general problem solving methodology, do you ask good questions, etc." Maybe I haven't been on the receiving end of enough bad interviews?
> Parents don't see the harm in any of this because it gets them to shut up

My mom used to tell me this when I was a little kid, referring to parents who were buying too many video games for their kids. Those games were at least challenging and could cultivate some skills...
As far as I remember (maybe Arnar or Úlfar or another of the authors would have a different memory, though) we just wanted a “cool cookie” name. We knew about the -oon/-on distinction and liked the sound of -oon.

I view it as a mild plus that the confusion around the name has educated so many about confectionery taxonomies.
If the shareholders get advice they believe is from independent agents representing their interests but instead is from plants representing Musk's interests then any opinions formed are not valid.
It's pretty much a question of if the psychological benefit counters the physical harm, then. Works for me, bottoms up!
But did they acquire them all today? (No, no they did not.)
I currently have 45 tabs open, and for me, that's a really good, low number. My record is - no kidding - 1000 tabs. Kudos Firefox! I still have the tab stash saved on my hard drive. It's 470kb in size. A lot of research on renewable energy and nuclear power. I couldn't process all the information for a paper and still feel like I haven't found the most valuable ones again.

I can still remember when having more than one window in the browser was first possible and how cool we all thought it was.

"Tab hell" is hell on earth. It also makes you mentally ill.
My favourite was only published in his hardcover book. Newspapers universally rejected it:

http://doubleplusundead.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/far-side...
You're right, most nonfiction books read like they are just adding fluff to justify a full book. I normally just their summaries on Littler Books or something.
That wouldn't work either. Why would the 5.6.7.8 router necessarily know how to route to the longer-address destination? There's no guarantee it's been upgraded. And why should it have to, anyway? It could get DoSed (accidentally, even) by traffic intended for a completely different destination outside its control.

Also consider that even if that 5.6.7.8 router knew how to route to the 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8 network, it would have no guarantee that the packets wouldn't hit another router along the way that didn't understand the extra address bits. You could end up with weird routing loops and other issues. (Fortunately TTLs would quash these, but not after wasting a bunch of extra resources.)

Now, there might be some clever ways to work around this, and it might require some more internet infrastructure to deal with these routing challenges. Maybe that would have been faster and cheaper to deal with than the current IPv6 mess we have, maybe not.
Do you have a proof of your claim "works with zero to many defects" ?
I'm pretty sure 95% - 99% of my school education was useless. Most of it went from one ear to the other as well, because I had no interest in something I couldn't apply.

If I needed to do something I was much more effective when I learnt "just in time".

But I had no problems building a web/full stack application when I was 13, despite nothing really preparing me for it.

For most things especially in times today, all you have to do is Google and/or combine Google with GPT.

I've learned much more coding and actual real life problem solving than I learned in school, because it's much more stimulating as an exercise.
> Why do you say they screwed up? OSI definition is pretty clear

They didn't screw up, they screwed the pooch on open source != source available. The Open Group's members--from IBM to Huawei [1]--started calling the latter open source, which set a precedent that's stuck.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Group#Member_Forums_a...
That was me interviewing someone yesterday. The telltale select all is so cringe.
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The idea that spotting cheating is obvious is a case of selection bias. You only notice when it's obvious.

Clearly, the person put 0 effort towards cheating (as most cheaters would, to be fair). But slightly adjusting the prompt, or just paraphrasing what ChatGPT is saying, would make the issue much harder to spot.
AAA 3D gaming isn't only about the games but was also a way for the security state to incentivize development of certain kinds of hardware broadly applicable outside of just graphics. SEGA were directly part of the paradigm shift from war-focused development to entertainment-focused development in the early '90s with their whole "omg look at our Lockheed tech!!" era. That was right at the fall of the USSR and end of the Gulf War when war became (briefly) publicly unpalatable, so the demand to keep working on this stuff had to come from somewhere and the somewhere is us :)
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I think you might be thinking of GPT-4-0613? That was pretty crap all round (but was faster)
There is a difference between imperfection and incompetence.

In one case you do things having thoroughly considered them and refrain from issuing mandates when their net benefit isn't large and unambiguous. A government that acts cautiously and deliberately and refrains from acting when that isn't possible is not one that never takes any action at all. You can be careful without being infallible.

In the other case you pass sloppy rubbish based on rhetoric and populism, don't solve the problem, create new problems, waste resources and divert attention from better solutions, often make the original problem worse and generally just make a hash of things because you're proposing something loud instead of something good.

And issuing no central mandate doesn't inherently mean the problem doesn't get solved, it just means it gets pushed to someone else who may have individual preferences or better context and allows different people to make different choices.
Well, i've started to use ChatGPT instead of google when looking for quickie examples for something. Mainly because of how bad google has become.

It works fine for stuff like "give me a tutorial on how to initialize $THING and talk to it" or "how do i set $SPECIFIC_PARAMETER for $THING up".

Where it seems to fail is when you ask "how do i set $X" and the answer is "you can't set $X from code". I got some pretty hallucinations there. At least from the free ChatGPT.

So maybe add a trick question where the answer is "it can't be done"? If you get hallucinations back, it should be clear what is up.

Edit: not that I'm a fan of leetcode interviews. But then to get a government job in medieval China you had to be able to write essays based on Confucius. Seems similar to me.
They were using Starlink to get live video from small maritime drones. As in, things that you can only fit a tiny non-directional antenna onto. I can't imagine trying to talk to WGS with one of those would go well.
Agree on the idea of 'infomania' that overtakes us at certain times. But everything requires balance; read too much and you spend too little time thinking and building a base of experience doing. Not a great way to get knowledge OR wisdom. To understand things you have spending time cultivating your own understanding, and that involves writing and doing.

The biggest issue with leaning into just in time reading is you absolutely miss out on knowing whether to pay attention to something.
A good term to search for, is 'Prompt engineering'.

Here's OpenAI's docs:
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering

Google's:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-developme...
That's what all "information criteria for model selection" are about. The difference is that Algorithmic Information is the only such information criterion that has been proven (by Solomonoff) optimal under the assumptions of natural science.
This is a false dilemma. Why would you not "seed" (pin) your own site, and be at others' mercy? You pin it, and when others also do so, the readers get faster and more redundant service.
What worked for me was having two part time jobs and college at the same time in my 20s. Prior to that I had occasional difficulty with insomnia. After almost 6 months averaging 3.5 hours of sleep per day (except Sundays) I've only rarely had difficulty sleeping since, and am now in my 40s.
I like this a lot, this is a good analysis, but to be fair, they did show a hierarchical pie menu. So there is still friction and prioritization.
Pop culture (and, good as it is, The Far Side is pop culture) always reflects current society to some degree. I would actually say that The Far Side (and Calvin and Hobbes) probably less directly reflects when they were drawn.

For a more obvious example, see Dilbert. Leaving aside all the other baggage, with few exceptions, it's really more about 1990s PacBell cubicle life than anything about the current era, certain common stereotypes notwithstanding.
"Ok Computer, why are you slow?"
It's not a waste of time if you're enjoying it.
Not cartooning exactly, but there is Boterismo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero
yeah. Our marketing department tries to find a use for AI everywhere, mostly to get on the bandwagon.

The latest was for a chatbot that 100% needs to give exact information or it could be be a big problem form the company. The idea was shot down, but a traditional chatbot would have been a better idea.
Real world experience sometimes comes across better like that than in technical Q&A.

One time in an interview they asked how I felt about systemd. At first I thought it was a technical question, but quickly realized he was just probing to see if we'd get along.

I got a job offer that night.
> the anchor tags lack an href attribute.

If they fail at building their own website, I wonder how their product has suffered.
Maybe if OpenAI also seemed like it was getting stronger, especially organizationally. But if I were Mistral and following this quickly while OAI was tripping over its own shoelaces… that’s gotta be very exciting.
Bot comments are usually not allowed, if you post bot content then it should be clearly marked, like in your post write some blurb below showing it is just a joke rather than a bot comment.
In a lot of cases you can get what you don't know by doing a consultation with an expert/specialist. The older I've got the more I value such consultations, maybe because I also have more money to dish out.

So if you have a project, then first consult with different people, I would also consider that "just in time".
Yes, but so is climate change, and we can't even get countries to agree to grow more slowly, let alone shut down everything.

> i'm just emphasizing there's a nifty little framework already in place.

More than one! Nuclear war, economic isolation, ground invasion. All kinds of nifty things we could do to stop dangerous AI. None of them are likely to happen when the risk is identified.

To summarize, any easy solution to superhuman AI trying to kill all humans you can think of in a few seconds, someone has probably already thought about.