skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> depend on where the variables are stored on the stack, which I don’t think anyone could reasonably demand even in 1976

You'd be surprised. A typical compiler of that era would be single-pass, and allocating variables on the stack in order in which they were declared was not uncommon. Don't forget, we're talking about a language that actually had a "register" keyword solely to tell the compiler to enregister the variable!
I wouldn't call someone reciting a French-English dictionary a French speaker that understands the language.

Other way around. If a kid understood the concepts of multiplation, they could train themselves on the next logical steps like exponents.

The consequences of this in the terms of AI would mean they build on a series of concepts and would quickly dwarf us in intelligence.
$125 per connection / month and then you wonder why companies don't offer SSO/SCIM by default in their free/cheap plans.
> Or is the underlying model strongly biased towards certain outputs?

While Reddit might have just publicly announced an AI deal with Google, I highly suspect Gemini has been trained on Reddit’s dataset, extreme left leaning sensitivities and all.

It’s the reason why Reddit sold out for so cheap. Their product has already been deemed as flawed, and they want to IPO before people find out in hopes others are left holding the bag.
No.

It's defamation because they know their information is frequently incorrect, that it is trivial for people to get outright fraudulent transactions attached to people's "credit report". Knowing that, they then present that information as fact to others, despite knowing that the information they provided is used specifically for purposes where false information will add significant costs to the people they're reporting on.

Now you're right, I can get credit monitoring, in which I pay money so that I can spend my time verifying they're not publishing fraudulent information. So now it goes from defamation to extortion: we'll defame you unless you pay us and do the work of ensuring we don't defame you.
Now I'm thinking of Tommy (1975) featuring The Who, where at one point the protagonist--psychosomatically deaf, mute, and blind--has become a pinball-playing phenomenon through his sense of touch alone, facing the reigning "Pinball Wizard" [0] played by Elton John.

Not sure whether pinball was outlawed in the fictional location though.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL53EUbHazo
It’s no threat at all for the foreseeable future.
Make no mistake though, over the next decades, the core idea is an existential threat.

If a currency like Monero with further developed scaling and privacy features is able to gain a foothold in developing nations, and enough off-ramps are set up via decentralized exchanges like Bisq and through direct acceptance for goods and services, then it is difficult to see the spread stopping between nations with reasonably free Internet, especially as factions within each government will likely have some direct interest.

The US dollar will be least threatened, the longest.
Tying health insurance to employment. Was, is, and will be nuts.
> Google has the technical resources to become a major player here

Wait, it's not a major player in ML/AI?
I wouldn't like warnings for these things. I'd like them all to trap in a well-defined (but non-recoverable) way if UB actually gets triggered. And I'd like this to be the default behavior, even in release builds. Safety should never be opt-in.
An interesting comparison - there are far more cars today than carriages/horses at peak, and also far more drivers of various sorts than there were carriage drivers at peak.

Another comparison could be excel with the various formulas vs hand tabulation or custom mainframe calculations. We didn’t get less employment, we got a lot more complex spreadsheets. At least this is my hope, fingers crossed.
I agree with your premise that the US did substantial harm in LATAM including Argentina. I reject the notion that the issues and history in Argentina are so simple that we can pin its poverty rate on the CIA. Can you at least substantiate how the Peron government leads to the poverty rates that currently exist in Argentina?
so far, i haven't seen any value resulting from blockchain integration.
I’ve completely avoided GPT and LLMs. This looks like it would generate some level of fluidity in text output, but not be able to parse and answer a question.

Is there any simplistic blog posts / training courses which go through how they work, or expose a toy engine in python or similar that? All the training I’ve seen so far seems oriented at how to use the platforms rather than how they actually work.
They won't have that option, because AI will happily infer their actual opinions from things they do say (and how they say them).
Built a website that gives every product equal opp to be at the top of the page
Bitcoin? No. But if you're asking whether digital currencies (which share a lot of the same underlying characteristics) might transform the global monetary landscape, well, they already have: 11 countries have issued CBDCs, and another 130 are actively exploring them as a more convenient alternative to USD for international transaction settlements. Several of those are in advanced pilot stages. No one with serious ties to the US financial system finds this to be a laughing matter, I assure you. The dollar is by far the currency of choice in trade invoicing (more than 50% of total trade) and foreign exchange transaction volume (almost 90% of the total) globally (Moronoti, 2022). This also means that US settlement authorities and financial institutions are involved in finalising most global transactions. If two countries have CBDCs, then they in principle would have the ability to settle transactions between themselves with near-instant finality, potentially bypassing the current dollar-based system.

I think we can safely expect at least one major CBDC-based cross-border payment system to launch by the end of the year. Soramitsu is the most promising candidate IMHO. A prevailing theory is that foreign corporations that operate domestically within a country will need to create accounts with a domestic central bank for CBDC payments to work efficiently. If this becomes a reality, the status of the dollar's "exorbitant privilege" will be up for immediate dispute. Its geopolitical hegemony over global finance won't be swept away overnight, but it will suffer a major blow. Only time will tell how serious.
HN is full of entrepreneurs, which by and large are more experienced, more senior people. A total beginner/junior would not be running a startup (I hope). Someone who struggles to write a function or a for loop isn't going to be hired by startups that have like... three developers total, and the success or failure of the entire company hinges upon their output!

The real world is full of juniors, especially in IT and software development, where the continuing growth of the industry means that juniors can outnumber more experienced staff.

I have no problem working from home solo, but I've noticed that juniors will flounder. Even if they find something useful to do, they don't get to "look over my shoulder" to see how I do things.

It's the little things too, things you might not even consider to be a skill because it's so automatic for you.

Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V

Yes, really. Really!

I've lost count of the number of times I've stopped some kid typing something (with typos) and told them to do it again using the clipboard to avoid that.

Tab

It's not even watching someone type out each and every character one painful keystroke at a time. It's that not using tab-complete means they don't get the implicit spell-check. They also don't get to rotate through the variants of the function names (or whatever), so there isn't that implicit act of "discovery" as they see what else is up for grabs.

Etc, etc...

There's a thousand things like that a junior can pick up by being present physically next to a senior. Zoom or Teams is just not the same, especially because by default these systems don't show the keyboard shortcuts used.
> You will literally be a living cult leader like no other in history. Think of all those BTC fanatics finally meeting their leader. See the way Elon fanatics follow Musk and multiply that by 100.

Didn't you just answer your own question? What sane person wants that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Felt
"Something else changed. Suddenly, the two layoffs stopped being of any consequence. They quite frankly didn’t matter anymore."

Beautiful piece. I feel this very deeply these days. Loved ones are all that matter in life (including ones no longer in my life).

The ideas here remind me a bit of the book "Man's Search for Meaning."
I use a throwaway account because any talk whatsoever about these things is enough to get fired from most left-leaning startups. So deal with it.

Original comment was upvoted but still got flagged, which is evidence of exactly the type of sensitive bullshit I’m referring to.
Perhaps they practiced near perfect opsec.

VPN, their own IP, stealing access, TOR, hacking the routers and APs and cleaning up…
For what it's worth, I was gifted one of these. A replacement battery was $45 from Jaycar.

Com port is a standard USB-B port and is compatible with but

https://www.telephonewreckers.com.au/power-shield-safeguard-...

My only complaint is the formfactor is about weird.
> I find it interesting that generally the first instinct seems to be to use LLMs for writing test code rather than the implementation.

When you try to get the LLM to write the code, you find that it’s easier to get it to write the tests. So you do that and publish about that first.
I can help you, I do this for a living.

My first piece of advice would be to check out different printers than the Form stuff. They're great, but it's a closed ecosystem.

Check out Anycubic and Elegoo. Amycubic makes a super cool automated cleaning and cueing machine that is as easy and painless to use as a washing machine.

With those kinds of printers you can print with a huge array of resins, at way lower cost.

I'm happy to help in your journey, my contact info is in my bio
At the risk of telling you something you already know, I’d bring to your attention for example property-based testing, probably most popularized by Hypothesis, which is great wud I recommend, but by no means the only approach or high-quality implementation. I think QuickCheck for Haskell was around when it got big enough to show up on HN.

Just in case any reader hasn’t tried this, the basic idea is to make statements about code’s behavior that are weaker than a totally closed-form proof system (which also have their place) stated as “properties” than are checked up to some inherently probabilistic bound, which can be quite useful statements.

The “canonical” example is reversing a string: two applications of string reverse is generally intended to produce the input. But with 1 line of code, you can check as many weird Unicode edge cases or whatever as you have time and electricity.

I know this example seems trite, but I met this because some hard CUDA hackers doing the autodiff and kernels and shit that became PyTorch used it to tremendous effect and probably got 5x the confidence in the code for half the effort/price.

It doesn’t always work out, but when it does it’s great, and LLMs seems to be able to get a Hypothesis case sort of, closer than starting from scratch.
Not all cryptocurrencies use public ledgers. Bitcoin was the first, but it was always intended to add privacy tech - see MimbleWimble.

Zero knowledge proofs and other strong privacy protections are available on more modern projects. Some ledgers are entirely dark, granting a decent anonymity set.
Well, of course.

If the CFO gets their mail dropped, they'll fire the IT guy.

If a customer is a bit cranky... nothing happens.
i imagine that ASIC of such types would be analogue, rather than digital. Or use a different substrate than silicon - may be light/laser based? It'd have to be quite revolutionary, rather than evolutionary.
You're not wrong, but the "stochastic parrot" claim always comes with another, implicit one that we are not like that; that there's some fundamental difference, somehow, even if it is not externally observable. Chinese room etc.

In short, it's the good old religious debate about souls, just wrapped in techno-philosophical trappings.
Depends on whether your goal is to render a scene or push the envelope in generative AI.
> market doesn't necessarily react rationally.

market reacts rationally - just not your brand of rational.
Why? I see your book was mentioned in the article, but I don't see what's strange about it.
Traditional nonstick cookware is just cast iron with plenty of butter (or lard).

When I fry my eggs I add about half a tablespoon of butter to a cast iron skillet. It is nonstick.
Something I'm learning from reading the comments is that the culture has moved in what it calls a "scam"

In my mind, and from my background, a scam is a pretty brutal outright fraud. You buy a toaster and they send you a box of bricks.

From the top comment:
- Rainbow vacuum cleaner (I would say it is not a scam, just an overpriced and underwhelming product)

- Aqualife water filter (Similarly I would just call this an overpriced product)

- Hiring someone to take us to another city to buy a car to "help get a good deal" - turned out he was working for the seller, and it was not a good deal at all. (Depending on details, this actually does sound like a scam, though a small one. The scam part is where they hired the intermediary, other than that it's just abusive sales)

- A summer job for me selling Vector cutlery (not a scam, It's a crap job for sure, and MLM for sure, but they do in fact pay you for what you sell. I sold cutco and I made a little money)

Some others:

Trading in a car? Last-minute they discount the trade-in value due to damage and hope you won't realize that's already counted in the KBB value. (arguably a scam, but mostly I would just call that aggressive hagling)

Car's making a weird noise? The mechanic wants to replace your struts for 1800$ even though the sound is just from the brakes being worn down. (Might be a scam, but it also might just be a mechanic who's not great at their job. I have blown many thousand dollars in billable hours for my clients by misdiagnosing software issues before. Sometimes the people we hire just fuck up and that's part of life. If you as the client are really out of your territory then you are more prone to hiring someone incompetent)

Inherited money in a trust? The trust manager calls you to "discuss your plans" and get you to let them manage the money without you ever seeing it. (Again, conceivably a scam, but also it's a little tricky because the trust working just right would look similar. This feels a lot more the mechanic example where it's not so much a scam as you are hiring someone who isn't very good)

Miss paying taxes in a state because you thought you didn't owe them anything because you didn't actually live there? I'm still getting fake letters that try to scare me into calling them even though the bill was cleared up. years ago. (Ok, this one sounds like it's pretty much a scam)

And then the infamous "investing in a Friend and Family business" and never getting the money back.
I have no doubt that this is sometimes a scam... but I'm an angel investor and also do quite a bit of F&F investments and I can say for sure: I don't think I have ever been scammed, and the vast majority fail burn the capital and show no positive return. That doesn't make it a scam! Running a business is hard! I think we already know this on HackerNews. Just because someone bets and looses doesn't mean they got scammed!
Reddit founders just want to cash in. u/spez made $200M last year in compensation which made him one of the highest paid CEO in the bay area. they simply couldn't give 2 fucks about what happens after the IPO, they know their site is a liability , riddled with depravity... and Google wants to train its AI on that crap?
What towns are you thinking of? It has not been true anywhere I have lived.
More than once I have taken down a Chesterton's fence that I myself had originally put up
Strap in, this is by far the best resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
Leaky blood–brain barrier in long-Covid-associated brain fog
Forum Posts of Satoshi Nakamoto
I haven’t reached out for internally (and I’m not on a related team), the following is my own understanding.

The blog post was most likely this one: https://github.blog/2022-09-13-scaling-gits-garbage-collecti...

And I think it answers the product vision for it well (why it’s automatic):

> We have used this idea at GitHub with great success, and now treat garbage collection as a hands-off process from start to finish.

GitHub also provides these docs for what to do if there is sensitive data in your repo, which is quite involved and (given the huge amount of knowledge internally of both GitHub internals and git internals), I would trust their advice:

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...

You can also contact support or create/join a community discussion: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions

If you feel strongly that a feature you need is missing, by adding your voice, you increase visibility of the request. I think GitHub does offer solutions to this problem though, including eventual GC automatically.
“Why is sociopathy less valid than not sociopathy?”

Really?
Reddit has also spent the last four years alienating all the long time users who would put money in, so I guess this is just for Sam Altman?

those of us who know about Spezs penchant for Jailbait and Cannibals.

You know, the stuff that got him compromised by Ghislaine in the first place.
Unfortunately, the US has a huge number of people who would rather have insurance-run for-profit death panels than government-run non-profit death panels.
> It means to have a working model of the thing you are understanding, a causal model that adapts to any new configuration of the inputs reliably

The weasel word here is "reliably". What does this actually mean? It obviously cannot be reliable in a sense of always giving the correct result, because this would make understanding something a strict binary, and we definitely don't treat it like that for humans - we say things like "they understand it better than me" all the time, which when you boil it down has to mean "their model of it is more predictive than mine".

But then if that is a quantifiable measure, then we're really talking about "reliable enough". And then the questions are: 1) where do you draw that line, exactly, and 2) even more importantly, why do you draw the line there and not somewhere else.

For me, the only sensible answer to this is to refuse to draw the line at all, and just embrace the fact that understanding is a spectrum. But then it doesn't even make sense to ask questions like "does the model really understands?" - they are meaningless.

(The same goes for concepts like "consciousness" or "intelligence", by the way.)

The reason why I think this isn't universally accepted is because it makes us not special, and humans really, really like to think of themselves as special (just look at our religions).
They used ML to get a ~40% cooling efficiency on their datacenters. It's mentioned in a talk by Cassie Kozyrkov.
>I've also had managers who told me I wasn't allowed to write tests firsts as it was slower.

Sounds like a great place to work.
We'll cross that bridge if we get there.
I spoke to someone recently who believes poor people will be gradually killed off as the elites who control the robots won't have any use for them (the people). I don't share such an extreme view (yet), but I can't quite rule it out either.
He couldn't upload himself to the blockchain because Ordinals hadn't been invented yet.
Why not SQL for pure declarative queries? Here's llm-hallucinated sql query of the polars example:

SELECT country, SUM(amount - discount) AS total
FROM purchases
WHERE amount <= (
SELECT MEDIAN(amount) * 10
FROM purchases
WHERE country = purchases.country
)
GROUP BY country;

It might be just an issue of familiarity but sql seems the most straightforward and easy to understand for me.
This is a bot account and should be flagged as such.

It also posts bullshit dupe comments like this one. They are not dupes, the two linked and this one are originals.

Program your bot better.
You seem to think if your company is offering WFH that you still can't come into the office. I don't see why that has to be the case. It it work from ANYWHERE in the world, including your office, vs work ONLY in your office. Every other point you make no longer holds.

As an introvert who does understand those points you make, society should pick up the slack with third spaces. What's holding those third spaces back? Lack of cheap access to space. Once the offices are sold they will become third spaces, and we will get the best of both worlds.
Well, someone needs to define that the username should be shown in the first place
Sorry but I expect more from Google than a 10 person startup. You don’t get to talk about how much time and resources you spend on making safe, trustable AI while also clearly not testing and noticing that extremely basic prompts are broken. Their incompetence here has fueled the fire for the political right who were already saying that all tech companies are controlled by hardcore democrats that are trying to brainwash you and your children with liberal propaganda.
There's nothing in the spec that says table headings disappear from view when you page down. This is a problem with your WWW reader. Nothing about this requires authors/publishers to be in the loop on this, each applying their own one-off hacky attempt to "fix" this. They really shouldn't be.
If you mean skynet, not worried.

If you mean beyond anyone’s imagination a way to push narrative propaganda ideology advertising sales BS… yea. I’m far less worried about my kids being bullied than I am being manipulated to a degree we just can’t imagine - and it’s bad now without AI.
Just FYI, Cyberpower, at least for their consumer line, use problematic yellow glue[1] which becomes brittle over time and can become conductive, causing arcing/fire hazards[2][3]. There was also a prior HN discussion about it[4], with some similar experiences.

It can be removed[5], with some effort, though. Given its use in various electronics it wouldn't surprise me if some other UPSes use it, though have only seen discussions about Cyberpower.

[1] https://sound-au.com/articles/yellow-glue.htm

[2] This thread had various videos from users showing the arcing on Cyberpower units: https://web.archive.org/web/20220715134034/https://old.reddi...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gqBzLNMFe4

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31954938

[5] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/how-to-remove-the-dr...