skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal reason for not using GitHub Copilot / etc:

I was testing ChatGPT-3.5 with F# in 2023 and saw some really strange errors. Turns out it was shamelessly copying from GitHub repos that had vaguely related code to what I was asking - this was easy to discover because there's not much F# out there. In fact the relative sparsity of F# is precisely why GPT-3.5 had to plagiarize! It did not take long to find a prompt that spat out ~300 lines verbatim from my own F# numerics library. (I believe this problem is even worse for C numeric programmers, whose code and expertise is much more valuable than anything in .NET.) OpenAI's products are simply unethical, and I am tired of this motivated reasoning which pretends automated plagiarism is a-okay as long as you personally find it convenient.

But even outside of plagiarism I am really nervous about the future of software development with LLMs. So often I see people throwing around stats like "we saw a 10% increase in productivity" without even mentioning code quality. There are some early indications that productivity gains in LLM code assistance are paid for by more bugs and security holes - nothing that seems catastrophic, but hardly worth dismissing entirely. What is frustrating is that this was easily predictable, yet GitHub/OpenAI rushed to market with a code generation product whose reliability (and legality) remains completely unresolved.

The ultimate issue is not about AI or programming so much as software-as-industrial-product. You can quickly estimate increases in productivity over the course of a sprint or two: it's easy to count features cleared and LoC written. But if there are dumb GPT "brain fart" errors in that boilerplate and the boilerplate isn't adequately reviewed by humans, then you might not have particularly good visibility of the consequences until a few months pass and there seem to be more 5-10% bug reports than usual. Again, I don't think the use of Copilot is actually a terrible security disaster. But it's clearly a risk. It's a risk that needs to be addressed BEFORE the tool becomes a de facto standard.

I certainly get that there's a lot of truly tedious boilerplate in most enterprise codebases - even so I suspect a lot of that is better done with a fairly simple deterministic script versus Copilot. In fact my third biggest irritation with this stuff is that deterministic code generation tools have gotten really good at producing verifiably correct code, even if the interface doesn't involve literally talking to a computer.
People are rightly making fun of Google for their racism.
I’m perplexed by this comment on a few levels. Is this one of those replies on LLM-related posts that’s entirely LLM-generated to prove a point or whatever?

Because… that joke isn’t funny at all, right?
I'm pretty sure that this whole story with Gemini and now this has already seriously harmed how people trust and rely on those models way more than any implicit biases from the training data.
Place Your Words on the Blockchain
Service to Place Your Words on The Blockchain. Made for those who are technical or blockchain savvy.
The United States, where I am a citizen and my wife a new immigrant. The process took us about 2 years and around $5,000USD between the lawyer and processing fees.

As with anything, the difficulty for anyone trying to move countries is having sufficient income. Most Argentinians don't, and those who do have already left.
Main Street in San Francisco was named after Charles Main.

https://mountainviewpeople.blogspot.com/2007/09/charles-main...

Here are some more interesting ones...

* Mason jar was named after John Landis Mason, 19th century American tinsmith

* Guppy (fish) was named after Robert John Lechmere Guppy, 19th century British naturalist

* Silhouette was named after Étienne de Silhouette, 18th century French politican

* Bloomers (women's clothing) was named after Amelia Bloomer, 19th century American women's right advocate

* T&T Supermarket (Canadian supermarket chain) was named after Tina and Tiffany, daughters of the founder, Cindy Lee

* Bluetooth was named after Harald Bluetooth, 10th century king of Denmark

Things NOT named after people:

* "Aberration" has nothing to do with Ernst Abbe, optics scientist who wrote about chromatic aberrations. It comes from the Latin root.
Google: An explanation of our search results (2013)
That seems pretty expected. If you’d asked me to guess where the word diesel came from, I probably would have guessed a name. Compare that to German chocolate cake, which seems preposterous.
I don't think these are even really jokes. Maybe it can generate onion headlines when seeded with few-shot-prompting but if you ask it "tell me a joke" it is not good at all in my experience
>The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results. Individual citizens and public interest groups do periodically urge us to remove particular links or otherwise adjust search results. Although Google reserves the right to address such requests individually, Google views the comprehensiveness of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it.
Game selection is the most important way to make money in poker, but the stronger a player you are, the more games you can select from. Isaac Haxton is a top pro player who only plays only tournaments that cost $10k+ to buyin to, and recently discussed how this works on a recent episode of the Thinking Poker podcast by Andrew Brokos. He actually recommends against tournaments for less experienced players aiming to make money since smaller buyin tournaments have large fields and thus large variance, but the "high roller" tournaments have smaller fields which make variance more reasonable.

The bigger point is that while playing against worse players is an important skill if you want to make money, poker is still a very complex game with a high skill ceiling similar to a game like chess. If you're good enough, even pro players are "worse players" and you can "select" those games. Though admittedly even the high roller tournaments require some "recreational" businessman players for enough pros to be willing to play it for it to run.

Solver study has become essential for the vast majority of top pros, which Haxton also discusses in the podcast, and I mentioned my project in the space in my other comment.
Harvard and UNC lost a Supreme Court case last year about their racism towards Asians.

This isn’t a fringe movement: Google’s racism exists across institutions and with real consequences.
Sense of humour (intelligence) is about the ability to find improbable, but insightful things. I believe spitting out patterns extracted from training data is not capable of producing anything close to that.
USD to JPY 1y chart does not show a 50% decline - more like 11%
I was surprised to learn that Cakebread Cellars is actually named for its founders, Jack and Dolores Cakebread
No one knows that for certain, but I personally find it very hard to believe that all these super smart people released a model this bad and this wrong on accident. Google employees that worked on this may genuinely believe that this is the right way to build an AI model, where it intentionally obfuscates history and lies to you. That's actually a perspective that one can have on how to build these tools, I think. Maybe we don't want the AI to reflect reality because reality doesn't live up to certain expectations. But at the end of the day that's a reflection of the creators' own biases.
In my circle of friends/family/neighbors/acquaintances, it's common to have a vehicle over 200k miles. Over 300k is noteworthy but not unheard of. Both of my cars are over 275k (bought them a little before the 250k mark).

One guy I see regularly is driving a 400k mile minivan. At my previous job I saw a customer driving a 500k mile Corolla, as well as a couple of customers with 400k, and countless over 200k.

This is in Kansas.
anyone who thinks there is anybody in the universe other than themselves that is going to take responsibility for their safety, security, happiness, etc. absolutely "deserves" what they get.
Any thoughts on why that might be?
I didn't think it was LLM-generated, but wouldn't be surprised if it was. What tipped you off, and what makes you so certain? Is there a checker you can easily run it through?
agreed, anything FAANG/internet facing with this capability is Orwellian, which is why

> local

is explicitly included in the idea.
If that much processing power is that cheap, this phase you’re describing is going to be fleeting because at that point I feel like it could just come up with ideas and code it itself.
To clarify, we didn't intend to move until March or April, but given the decrees Milei is trying to pass (like making it illegal to protest, and legal for police to assault civilians), we decided to expedite things.
If your job is to write jokes for a talk show then having AI do it sounds good (if you keep your job and its gets easier) or possibly bad if you are replaced by the machine.
This isn’t the “other direction”, it’s the same direction with different victims.
The problem with Kia cars not having immobilizers is wholly american. It is illegal to sell a car in Canada without an immobilizer.
Is there something unique to your application beyond the parameters I’d expect are typical for mech keyboard use? Buy one, use daily, and expect to work indefinitely?
I just mean, given that LLMs exist this isn't a surprising result. It only looks surprising because the UI makes you forget that each prompt is a completely new universe to the model.
so in what age was ignorance a good option?
I think the reason people idolize it is the most straightforward question you pose. Technology is power, and power is influence, and influence is something everyone wants. Some of the older technology that was and still is influential would be guns.

When violence is the desired outcome, guns provide safety to the operator and quick, targeted deployment of force, without having to personally develop the capability, say through exercise and training. Now that one can deploy force, one can be a soldier or guardian.

The newest technological power is AI and LLMs. Now anyone "can be an artist," producing detailed, mostly comprehensible art. Previously, one would draw stick figures with pencil, but now Midjourney turns one into a poor Michelangelo. Again, completely changing the personal investment required to produce phenomena.

Technology is the ultimate lever, produced from thought, which is the ultimate technology.

Fixing the problem is much, much harder.
Taking on debt or agreeing on contracts is voluntary (unless violence is used).

Lobbying could maybe be considered violence by proxy because state can use violence.

Violence has meaning, and trying to abuse it to put every single thing someone finds "unfair" under the umbrella of violence is ridiculous thing to do, and leads to all that idiots who start violence thinking that someone else's non-violent acts or even thoughts justify it.
If you can't see the difference between a live being and a piece of software who is going to suffer are you.
I have a '97 Jeep XJ at ~214,000 miles. They do exist :)
As opposed to? What is a gantt if not someone's name?
onboarding 10 Typescript Backend developers is like onboarding 10 developers from entirely different languages. Some are _heavily_ OOP driven, and turn literally everything into a class. Some are heavy on functional programming and start using curried functions everywhere. Others are used to classic express servers, while another group has only ever worked with graphql/prisma, or has only deployed on lambda functions and hasn't really seen express-based routing.

Literally everyone comes with their own project setting, they all have to get used to that specific folder structure, or those eslint/prettier settings. And on top of error-handling in JS/TS is miles behind Go's (and that's despite Go's error handling also being clunky and not as elegant as Rust's or ocaml's, but still much much better than JS's). It is _extremely_ easy to mess up a typescript project, it's significantly harder to mess up a go project (although obviously still easily possible :)

Btw. I also don't hate typescript/JS, I think it's a great language that allows for a big variety of expressiveness in entirely different programming domains, I personally use it all the time and enjoy it. I just don't think it's a particularly great language to scale a team with.
I don't think you're getting the idea.
But unlike a spouse you can reset it back to an earlier state you preferred.
Shrapnel just sounds right. It’s a word with all kinds of jagged flat pieces of metal.
This doesn't answer the question at all
A lot of people are missing the fact that white people are a minority group.
This looks cool, I hope you support macOS at some point in the future
I don't think AI will ever be able to nail jokes all the time. But I could easily see it being able to go over an email and suggest a couple jokes here or there, which you could accept/reject/edit.

It would be interesting if you interacted with someone for years over email, and then finally met in person and found out they were not funny at all. Put that in a dating app and it's along the lines of using filters on your photos. There's more than one way to be a disappointment in person.
The US inflation did not come out of devaluation of the dollar compared to other currencies. It was internal. What that means for the future however I have no idea.

But considering the US gov deficits I would assume more inflation is to come with actual devaluation.
Borders Books (for anyone who remembers it) was named after founders Tom and Louis Borders. Louis went on to found Webvan (for anyone who remembers that).
Very, very little in the automotive world from the mid 2000's aged well.

That was the age of:

- The Alfa-Romeo 147 which looked like it had fetal alcohol syndrome and the 156 which looked like it was inspired by a parrotfish

- Audi taking the wildly successful and good-looking A4/S4 and instead of a refinement of the design instead bloated it up and radically reworked it into monstrosity. Ditto for the C5 platform A6; another huge redesign, which also looked like garbage.

- Chris Bangle at BMW managing to ruin one of the most iconic, good-looking luxury performance cars (the E38 7-series) which BMW only slightly refined for several generations until it finally looked half-passable.

- Mercedes W210 and W220 platforms. Two of the ugliest, most cheaply/poorly-built Mercedes ever made

- Porsche going from one of the most iconic, good-looking sports cars of all time - the 933 - the absolute monstrosity that was the 996, and I'm not talking about it being water-cooled. And then there was the Cayenne, which Jeremy Clarkson said was an incredible technical achievement but he wouldn't be caught dead in it, and famously joked would frighten its owners children: https://youtu.be/z97PYF9QWFY?t=283

- VW, a bit late to the game but going from the gorgeous Mk4 Jetta and Golf to the hideous Mk5's. Don't even get me started on how fugly the Passat was, both the horrid Mk3 to the somehow-even-worse B5

A few notable exceptions:

- The Corvette C5, which was a massive step up in Chevrolet's game. The Corvette went from looking like an econobox with a big hood to "sports car", and it had the handling and power to match.

- The Mazda MX-5 NB and NC

- The Mk4 Jetta
I feel like people that do not immediately get this have not been on the jungle Cruise
I hear you, but also this is generative AI. Everything is fabricated. It's not meant to be an encyclopedia. It's fiction.

Hell, I just got chatgpt to prove that 2x>4x for x>0. Literally the erasure of mathematics?
Beijing and Washington don't trust each other – maybe that's OK
welp. this pretty much convinces me that its time I get out of tech. lean into the tradework I do in my spare time.

because I'm sure you and people like you will succeed in your endeavors, naively thinking you're doing good. and you or someone like you will sell out, the most ruthless investor will take what you've built and use it as one more cludgel of power to beat the rest of us with.
I have the same question too, especially when they mention IDE. ^^"
It's only a matter of time before dating apps have a Pro feature that helps you come across as funnier/more charming than you are.
Perhaps doing this to generate 10 similar but different versions of a model can then be fed into mixture of experts?
ChatGPT had a stroke. Haven't seen that since the 3B parameter models from 8 months ago
Which is odd because white people are the minority.
The only time I made serious use of big pipelines was when I was trying to diagnose some bug in the production system using the log files. At that time, I would make a pipeline with lots of `head`, `tail`, `grep`, etc. I would reorder the filters, change the file it is running on, sometimes run it on multiple files. Using `cat` to feed the initial input was way better than trying to avoid UUoC. Concatenating files became possible, reordering became simple. It was just overall a much better experience with `cat`. In my daily life if I am writing shell pipelines, I still use cat because it just flows better in my brain. Step 1, take the input; step 2, apply filter; step 3, apply other filters; step 4, print it out. When I don't even know which filter I am going to be using, it is easier to write the cat and glob the files while my brain catches up on whether I want grep or sed or something else.
I forgot that we're playing the demo games now.

Well I'll see your demo, and raise you another demo

https://x.com/sean_moriarity/status/1760435005119934862

Except that demo was done by a single person, with a day job and no cap table.
Late edit: the blue part on the left is the result.
I thought it might reference the book " 101 Uses for a Dead Cat "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Uses_for_a_Dead_Cat

"It consisted of cartoons depicting the bodies of dead cats being used for various purposes, including anchoring boats, sharpening pencils and holding bottles of wine."

"By December 7, 1981, it had spent 27 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list."
I recall it being named for "Bud C Waterfall."
I guess the future will be, no humans, just AI being awesome at everything for the sake of being awesome? Living infinitely being awesome haha
> And if Boeing makes a cheap, unsafe plane, don’t fly on it

yes. exactly. if boeing ever makes a cheap plane, i would definitely avoid it.

you are comparing a company that cheated on legally mandated safety requirements with a company that didn't put a non-legally required car immobilizer on a lot of their new cars. and then didn't lie about it.

> But currently companies will simply defraud you

but kia didn't do this
That does not match the actual experience of reading comments here, but whatever.
There used to be TV commercials for a piece of fitness equipment called the Ab Doer. It was supposedly created by John Abdo. I’m still not sure but as far as I can tell he was a real guy and that was his real name.
I did find it humorous it gave me a woman Santa Claus when i asked for images Santa. The founding fathers prompt gave me a picture of all the founding fathers.
The paper referenced here is well beyond “just deep learning”.
Yes the first one, if the distinction needs to be made.

I'll even go further and claim that distinction itself is meaningless and only matters when say organizing university departments.

What needs to be kept in mind is emergence. Chemistry emerges from physics, then biology from chemistry, ecology from biology, etc. Experimentally verified God will become the base level out of which physics emerges from in the other direction. In that sense, physics' domain perhaps includes everything. But it all depends on how we define the terms.

> the purpose of the intellect is the attainment of truth

This I wholeheartedly agree. Maybe you'll enjoy reading this blog post [0] that proposes Truthism as life's goal.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious...
yes, mixtral is the MoE model.
AI has been better than humans at chess for a while now, and chess is more popular than ever.
Not sure, but BOJ was a net seller of stocks in 2023: https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Bank-of-Japan/BOJ-turned-net...

So, it seems like they're at least starting to offload their stock holdings.

I was very surprised when I learned that their central bank was purchasing stocks. I'd heard about it first in 2020, but apparently it had been going on before the pandemic.

It makes me wonder if the US stock market crashed hard enough if the Fed would start buying up stocks on the major indexes. Are they even legally allowed to do this? If so, what other assets can the Fed acquire? REITs? What about direct real estate purchases? I wonder if corporate real estate crashed hard enough from remote work if they'd prop it up.
Proton - William Prout (partly)
My dad had COPD later in life, and I can attest that he was not a person willing to eat much fiber; I could easily believe his gut microbiome was screwed up.
I haven't yet read this in detail, but it seemed to (reasonably) miss Chatterjee correlation, which is also fun.
There is also MiQu (stands for mi(s|x)tral quantized I think?) which is a leaked and older mistral medium model. I have not been able to try it as it needs some RAM / VRAM I don't have but people say it is very good.
Same here. I always thought it was lazy naming, like "My" + some topic. Now I respect the name.
I did write it and I appreciate the feedback on the joke. It’s hard to write comedy much more sharing with others. I knew the joke wouldn’t do well here!

Anyhow, I don’t post LLM generated anything.
Checking prices on google flights, assuming a trip in April from SFO where I live, cheapest option is about $800 round trip to Tokyo, or $1050 to Shenzhen. A bit cheaper but maybe not a significant difference for such a long distance trip.
Most screenshots are of the application window in the foreground, so unless your application spans all monitors, there is no significant overhead with multiple monitors. DPI on the other hand has a significant impact. The text is finer, taking more pixels...
I got these from a custom model and they didn't seem to be in Google:

Yo mama so fat...

...when she breaks a plate it's considered a strategic military strike

...when she sucked in her stomach there was a breeze

...when she fell in love there was a whale song

...every time I call her I get charged for an international phone call
Thank you! He was indeed my inspiration. I practice my writing by adapting the style of others. I’m an amateur (and will stay as such) with no style. Have to adopt someone else’s.
> I don't like splitting my conversations over multiple apps

Most people don't. The issue isn't what country I live in (fuck man, I got SMS, WhatsApp, Signal, Slack, KakaoTalk, and I've even forced some people to not contact me through some apps so I could reduce). You missed the actual content of the message about how there is a reasoning for this change beyond Signal. You got to be careful with blame because there are often things upstream that cause things downstream but the fingers are often pointed at what's downstream, not upstream. We can't resolve problems if we only focus on downstream. You have to consider both. I hate it too, because it is the mental version of using multiple apps. But that's the way things are and I want to actually reduce the problems, not run around with a box of bandaids.
>I don't get why some people are so up in arms about this, it's kind of funny I guess but it's not like it matters in the scheme of things.

For me it is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. If a company is altering results in one area, why would one not think they are doing it elsewhere or everywhere?
Thanks for this comment. I am yet to see any “art” produced by AI that is not superficial or hollow (best case) or deeply unsettling (common case).