skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't agree more. When I am interviewing candidates, one of the things that I'm looking for is that the applicant is willing to say "I don't know" when they don't know. That's a positive sign. If they follow that up with a question about it, that's even better.

If a candidate is trying to tap-dance or be vague around something to avoid admitting ignorance of it, that's a pretty large red flag.
Most big PRs are only big because pull requests are a fundamentally bad model for doing work that's already been planned.
Statistically, yeah, you do. Is it that there's numbers and forethought involved that turns you off, or the meta of it all?
> your new systems shouldn’t be thin front ends to gpt4

> I have my own project which is a thin shell over gpt 4

Physician, heal thyself!
Have you seen the about us portraits on your own company homepage? https://storyteller.ai/
Inuit leaving an igloo: "Well, it's cold again." Kills me every time.
Of course I'm not advocating for people to go to interviews and do whatever they want.

I'm suggesting that the companies doing the interview have an assessment process that reflects what the actual job is that they are asking people to do.
Fine, I’ll bite I guess. AI generated content will never beat a Studio Ghibli production. This must be judged by actual fans, not those who want AI to win. There’s no way AI is deriving content like that studio can make. Not in months (lol), not in 10 years.

The point of all content isn’t shitting something out for a quick buck, which sure, AI will excel at. Studio Ghibli is clearly taking care to create unique works. True craftsmanship and AI shitsmashship are not and will never be the same thing.
Finetune your standard model on an small, unique set of made-up shibboleths (one per customer) before distributing? Ask the candidate model where the Fribolouth caves are located.
I'm referring to the paper cited in the linked site, which quotes about 50ms of difference in reaction time between auditory and visual, not 200ms like stated in the comment above.
This is, in my opinion, is the first and only "solution" to a real problem built using the blockchain.

Distributed file storage, if done correctly, can be a transformative technology. And it can be even more revolutionary implemented at the OS level.
Kind of related because I used to push for slack. I'll consider this first next time.
Why You Should Be a Luddite
Internet access is not a "privilege". It is a service people purchase.
It's a fair point that I am making this assumption. At any rate, my comment could instead read:

> [If one assumes that the candidate] would have been able to perform the job duties I'm not sure why [they] should care.

This is what I mean; I can see why an interviewer thinks they've been cheated or that a candidate was dishonest but that doesn't mean that the interviewer even has a successful system for determining if a candidate can perform the job duties. A candidate who cheated -- from the perspective of the interviewer, I guess -- but still manages to adequately perform in their role very plainly did not cheat from a less biased perspective. What is that interviewer even thinking? How could that person have cheated?
Isn't it Turing Complete with namespaces? (that's another thing on the SHALL NOT list). Can't be unambiguous if you don't halt.
I never fully understood the use of ipfs/iroh for websites, but I really like the idea for data caching in data science packages.

It makes me more sense to me that someone would be much more willing to serve large databases and neural network weights that they actually use everyday, rather than 'that one guys website they went to that one time'.

I'm very surprised it's not as popular, if not more popular to just have @iroh-memoize decorators everywhere in people's database ETL code.

That's a better use case (sense the user has a vested interest in keeping the data up) than helping people host we sites.
It’s sad to see that this is the only post on HN right now that has even a single comment regarding today’s hearing. And it’s being downvoted
I would wager it's actually all implemented with immutable data structures; maybe with some advanced version of zippers [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper_%28data_structure%29
Hmm, I’m not finding it to be too big of a challenge.

It’s a bit challenging yeah, but me and my friends are challenging each other to get to words and we can usually find a way to make it.

Things like “Godzilla”, “Universe”, “Vampire”, “Optimus Prime”, “Vodka”, etc are just some examples we did.

I don’t seem to be having problems going dozens of levels deep without loops and not running into many query failures. Results that are deep are still making some logical combinational sense to me at least.

Some words we haven’t been able to make, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible. It just means we need to get more creative and sometimes think outside the box. There are so many ways you can approach getting to a certain result in my experience so far.

Doing this has been fun and challenging so far for me and my friends FWIW.
We're approaching the threshold where a computer chip can outcompute a brain, and probably more cheaply for most creative and logical tasks.

It is better to make peace with the inevitable at this point. The future is becoming increasingly obvious - these tools will pass any variation of the Turing test people care to come up with, the only hint that computers are involved will be when they really zoom past us and the quality and creativeness of the output is so consistently high that humans can't have been involved. We're not there yet, but realistically ChatGPT is already a superhuman intelligence, it is just a broad intelligence and something with depth is what is needed.

There are questions of exactly when all this will happen (years or decades?) but the shape of the algorithms has basically been nailed down and we're seeing exponential hardware improvements where it seems wildly pessimistic to assume they will hit a wall before overtaking a biological mind.
> Magical computer that guess for you some data of course doesn't exists.

Prolog does sunshine like this, no? You give it rules and then make a statement with a blank in it and it'll fill in the blank given the rules you've described.
That's hilarious. Someday we'll all be working QA, just scanning over AI output for issues, like manufactured goods passing by on a conveyor belt.
Just to be clear. Red is the correct answer, right?
Linux and FOSS alternatives require me to spend more time fixing and managing them rather than using them. That is unacceptable to me; computers are tools, if I can't use the tools when I need or want them they have fundamentally failed their purpose.

I'm an adult with duties and responsibilities and limited time now, not a naive teenager with too much time, too little money, and a bad case of acne. I simply do not have the time, energy, nor will anymore.

Note: Also, I'm cursed. I've killed more Linux installs (barring Android) than I can bother to count at this point, for something as bluntly mundane as updating them. I cannot rely on Linux (again barring Android).
> If you don’t want to have what an AI generates then don’t use it.

If only it were that easy, the flood of other peoples AI generated content clogs up anywhere its not laboriously moderated out. DeviantArt, for example, has become more or less 99% AI content by volume over the last couple of years and is now basically useless if you're not interested in having a firehose of generic AI images blasted at you. I've seen people complaining that speciality groups for hobbies like crochet, interior design or car photography are overrun with fake AI images. Search engines are full of fake AI images and GPT-written SEO farms. Twitter is full of GPT powered bots. It's everywhere regardless of whether you deliberately engage with it.

Not that I think complaining is going to fix anything, we've irrevocably broken the signal-to-noise ratio of the internet by building an infinite noise generator, for relatively nebulous benefits in return.
Given that literally every person alive lies about some things, I'm not sure how much value that observation brings to the discussion.
Then pick it apart?
Really, never? As in never ever?
People care because such a person isn't terribly trustworthy. There's more to being a valuable employee than just being able to perform the job duties.
I'm not a fan of this hyper aggressive line-in-the-sand argumentation about AI that pushes it all precariously close to culture war shenanigans. If you don't like a new technology that is perfectly cool and your right to an opinion. Please don't position it so that if I want to use AI I have to defend myself from accusations of exploiting labor and the environment. That is NOT at all clear, settled, or even correct much of the time. I'm open to that conversation and debate, but diatribes like this make it far too black-and-white with "good" people and "bad" people.
Wait until you learn how JPEGs work
The M1 was not Apple's first custom processor. They have had a performance advantage in mobile for years as the article shows. Especially for single core compute bound workloads.

The latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is not shown in the article but it more or less closed the gap on multi core when compared to A17, but lags behind in single core.

For graphics workloads Android phones are much more competitive and often beat Apple parts.
This is how you end up getting forced to be behind their awful DNAT DPI "firewall", which will still be insecure, and you won't have any access to it.
It's still time and effort you have spent though.
What does a more sane sausage factory look like wrt cron or the like?
Too bad AI-generated tools will give small two-person brands the tools to compete with multi-billion dollar brands when it comes to creative content, coders with 6-months experience to create the apps they actually dreamed of making, and normal folks to actually see images and ideas they only had in their heads come to life.

Yeah, that's a really awful reality, isn't it? Joe the plumber should just learn to paint for 10 years to see the art he wanted to see but can't make.

Such gatekeeping nonsense from the tech crowd about AI.
Indeed.

I just realized that some of my code interview questions - even though they aren't leetcode type questions can be answered(almost perfectly) by ChatGPT. One of them had a type conversion error.

I'll be changing things accordingly...
Just shrink the width of the text area being read from. It's really easy to not look like you are sitting in the front row of the theater reading the opening text in Star Wars. If an actor on live TV can do it, you can too
AI will one day soon run the planet. SORRY
Oh yeah. Perfect for people who want content instead of art.
I recently went shopping for a Toyota gr Corolla. I asked the salesman if they could throw in the repair manual or access to it. He swore me up and down there was no manual and that there was special training needed to obtain said information. After he came back from the lead tech to tell me it's not possible to obtain. I showed him Toyotas website where you pay for access to the information.

They certainly don't want you fixing your own car and and they even go as far as to spit out generic error codes that you need special software to troubleshoot and diagnose. I swear I have a memory that this whole movement started because of cars and somehow became about phones and electronics. But I really can't verify that fact.
You've chosen option 2, good for you!
Are they trying to be the government, or are they now (being part of Microsoft)?
I think the funny result of our ML work is that we essentially bringing the value of being online down and will eventually force people to interact IRL as costs of verifying these generations becomes too high. That is we are going back to pre-Internet era interactions.

I agree with the author, but I also don't see lower usage of all this already meaningless human-produced content as inherently bad.

The hope is dim, but I do wish being online would be restricted to strictly work-related purposes and we'd be forced back to human-to-human interactions as primary modus operandi. We'd see the depression and polarization rates go down significantly. These online community feedback loops are too toxic and bring little to the table.

If nothing online can be trusted then only offline can be the way to go, up until you people (the ones screaming Luddites at everyone 'normal' here) will decide that we need start augmenting our bodies to make better future, or in other words make profit to line your pockets.

I work in ML btw (for a loooong time).
Or we'll go back to doing more onsite interviews at a whiteboard.
Anytime someone sends me something generated by ChatGPT, I think about how AI expert Hilary Mason puts it: "By design, ChatGPT aspires to be the most mediocre web content you can imagine."

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/03/chatgpt-explained-hilary-m...
I’ve never wished a person dead aloud, not even once :)
The benefit is not fixed distance to target, but having the target be essentially whole sector of your screen so you do not need to accurately control the distance you move, just the direction. This makes them vastly superior to traditional context menus where you need to hit tiny target.
> It's not a replacement for search, it simply makes search worse.

I am not sure which one is worse: Google search (which ironically contains AI generated content already) or something like Perplexity. For many subjects Perplexity gives much better answers to me (anecdotal evidence).
Author’s point about environmental cost is a frustration I share. Most people in the tech industry are at least somewhat concerned about the environment but their use and endorsements of technologies don’t follow at all: cloud technologies running in massive over-provisioned datacenters, LLMs consuming more energy than some countries, etc. It’s totally cool to strip mine the Earth, clear cut forests, and burn a bunch of coal when it’s for fashionable things, right?
Good question! We are focused on vision at the moment, but we are indeed looking at text in the future. Happy to connect and have a chat around that if you are open as we would be curious to hear more about new text use cases
Ha, yeah, that's the right description of my feeling. Like, thanks for being so incredibly useful, ChatGPT, saving me hours of copying and pasting bits and pieces from countless Google searches for "sample warranty deed," only to pull the rug out when I wanted to start depending on your "greatness."

I guess, as one of the other replies here said, it was never "allowed" to give you text for a contract according to the TOS, but then it would've been best if it never replied so effectively to my earlier prompts. Taking it away just seems lame.

Edit: bad typing
The article to me makes it sound like they removed the BotNet but didn't destroy the equipment
I'm guessing Apple really doesn't want third-party battery packs, because being able to reliably warn about low battery is an actual safety issue in a headset.

At least it's not hard wired like their awful pre-USB-C laptop power bricks where the cable would yellow and fray after a couple years of gentle use.
Seeing a list populated of the First Discoveries along with the elements combined to make them would be a lot of fun to see.
I feel like your allegation is missing a subject.

You're saying Chinese spies/hackers are duping real people to facilitate this botnet?
I personally think AI will be it's most powerful not as some generated output, but as invisible glue that binds parts of a larger system.

AI (specifically the LLM variety) should be performing small tasks via agents and then using structured output to allow those agents to pass information in a larger system. There, as an example, countless zero/few shot classification tasks that LLMs crush traditional ML at. You want user tickets routed to the correct rep? That sounds like a task an LLM should be doing behind the scenes.

Code gen as an output is likewise boring, agents that adaptably learning to code themselves, generate tests, allow for debugging etc, that has the potential to be very powerful.

Unfortunately I still feel the next AI winter will hit before people even really scratch the surface of how these tools can be used in practice. Everyone is tragically trapped in the prompt -> output model, rather than really thinking about agent based approaches.
>their (very mysterious and serious) "doings".

Seeing as this needs demystifying for some bizarre reason...:

* Office work (including literally Microsoft Office documents, no substitutes acceptable).

* Occasional specialist work (CAD, Adobe Illustrator, etc.)

* Play; a man needs his vidja gaemz and some cold beer at the end of a long day.
The black rectangle form factor is the same as a notepad. Nothing about it screams "I'm completely out of touch with my reality"
I'm still over here loving cron, not at this large of a scale for sure but I love getting all these tools to email me key information, in plain text, at the right times.
People don't care if your product is made of ai from game like palworld too drug researchers people care that your results are good, generative ai in general is bad. But used whit professionals use and knowledge in the matters is empowering
Does a forward pass of Dall-E or a human artist making an image have a higher environmental impact?
Right-libertarians believe in the absolute minimalist of government and otherwise everything is free from interference. They believe this even to the point of believing that basic services, such as garbage collection, should be eradicated and completely privatized, stupidly believing that the “market will take care of it”.

Right-libertarians have unquestioning faith in the belief that “the market and competition will handle (it)”. This belief is held despite the literal millennium of evidence that states this is false, and every single attempt at such failing miserably.

Left-libertarians believe in strong personal freedom and somewhat strong regulatory bodies on the market.

I don’t know why you don’t believe that this is what libertarians believe, as it’s what libertarians themselves claim to believe (despite their being easily trapped to state things counter to their own beliefs).
> Why did the qualified candidate have to cheat?

If they're qualified, they didn't have to cheat. If they're not, then they did. Either way, they're dishonest and that means they're not a desirable hire.
A game will never be art, they say.
> For example, while moving horizontally to a sub-menu, you can easily cross the width of a single line since it's not easy to move your mouse absolutely steady horizontally (in pro graphic apps you'd usually hold a Shift for that), so instead of moving to a sub-menu, you switch to another item. In a Pie menu that's much harder since as you move further the menu's area increases, so the tolerance is higher

This is why properly implemented context menus don't strictly require you to move in a straight line. Implementations vary; I just tried it with the firefox context menu on linux and found that, once the submenu was open, I could move the cursor quickly to the submenu on any path, even taking a diagonal line to the most extreme options in it. I have also seen implementations where you had a ever widening path you could take as the cursor moved closer to the submenu, making the active area of the currently selected parent item trapezoidal.
On a parcel tracking web app there was a “GPT” button next to the courier service so I clicked it and saw a very GPT like description of the courier company.

When I inspected the code for the site I saw it was just hard coded in to the web page and figured someone demanded AI should be used on the app so the dev just faked it.
I have my objects to Twitter, but that isn't one of them. Here, someone in a position of power demonstrated poor judgment and self-control in a way that damages his reputation and that of his company, but does not harm anyone beyond that.
Bankrupt + Pirate = Captain Jack Sparrow

Bacon + Judaism = No Bacon
This will probably age poorly.

> it probably wasn't that important

we all do a lot of things that aren't important, that's the point of having AI do it instead

> my robots.txt file reflects this stance

unfortunately yelling it into a pillow is equally as effective
Nothing busy looped getpid. A library used getpid on each entry to check if the process had forked. The library was called many times.

getpid was a fairly common way to check for fork prior to mechanisms like madvise WIPEONFORK (Linux 4.14, released in 2017). systemd existed prior to 2017 and likely needed to support older kernels past 4.14's initial release. And the getpid cache was something glibc had prior to April 2017, likely to support this kind of use case. It was even documented behavior[1].

So, anyway, what systemd was doing wasn't totally stupid. It became a lot more expensive when glibc broke it on them and then it needed to be improved. But before that it wasn't as objectionable as people in this thread are suggesting.

(Also: pthread_atfork requires linking pthreads, which is or at least historically was seen as a significant burden on applications which do not use pthreads.)

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1469670#c9
A Guide on Situation Reports [pdf]
Just pass them into ChatGPT and ask for a summary - problem solved!
I work for an anarcho-capitalist. If anything, I'd be shamed for not being more vituperative. These snakes don't deserve anything except your maximum contempt.
It's actually different than the OG Lightning, it's quite wider. (the tweet has comparison pics)

There's actually another undocumented pin-hole ejection feature in apple hardware. ifixit found during their teardown of airpod Max that you can disconnect/remove the earcup in one go with a sim tool, allowing for theoretical easy mix and match (or headband replacement) [1]

[1] : https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Max+Teardown/139369#...
> The images it generates are, at best, a polished regression to the mean. If you want custom art, pay an artist.

AI can clearly generate very high quality images (paintings, photos, and so on). Certainly not something I would be able to do myself, even after putting in hundreds of hours into drawing lessons.
Honesty, Javascript front-end developers are probably more at risk of “being replaced” by AI than designers. This is probably where this sentiment is coming from.
Yes, IPFS hashes individual "blocks" (pieces) of files. If two files have the same content, they will share block hashes.
Sure you concede Copilot, then you’ll concede translation, then weather prediction, then it’s too late
I too want these young AIs off my lawn.
You’d almost think it’s a prototype!
I’ve been feeling the same sentiment recently. It’s one thing to have a cool tool for a very narrow and specific use cases and it’s totally crazy that we’re subjecting actual humans to “AI”. It’s time for a nice game of chess.
> I really don't. AI output is fundamentally derivative and exploitative (of content, labor and the environment).

From the start, you can see where the author is coming from. This person is some variety of leftist/communist/socialist, and hates AI in the same way that their ilk hates any technology that reduces the need for (some) human labor.

And, to their point, technology does have winners and losers. AI certainly has losers. Developers with this mindset will be among the losers.
As an interviewer, if a candidate can use chatGPT to give a better answer than other candidates, I'm not gonna mark them down for use of chatGPT.

It's a tool, and if they can master it to make it useful, then credit to them.

Alas, ChatGPT seems to be a jack of all trades, but master of none, which is gonna make it hard to pass my interviews which test very specific technical skills.