skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analysis (it’s not talent, it’s pure random chance) seems like it’s failing to account for an enormous host of variables that have a significant impact on outcome. Probably the most obvious one is whether you are a child of wealthy and well-connected parents. These can be interpreted as “pure random chance haha!” but they really aren’t if they can’t “randomly” happen post-hoc to some “random” person actually picked at random.
I have no idea about Taylor Swift so I'll ask in general: can't we have a human showing an autotuned personality? Like, you are what you are in private, but in interviews you focus on things suggested by your AI conselor, your lyrics are fine tuned by AI, all this to show a better marketable personality? Maybe that's the autotune we should worry about. Again, nothing new (looking at you, Village People) but nowadays the potential powered by AI is many orders of magnitude higher... you could say yes only until the fans catch wind of it, true, but by that time the next figure shows up and so on. Not sure where this arms escalation can lead us. Because also acceptance levels are shifting, so what we reject today as unacceptable lies could be fine tomorrow, look already at the AI influencers doing a decent job while overtly fake.
Given how hard it is to stay in academia nowadays, I wouldn't say it's the 'path of least resistance.'
Obfuscated C contest seems to be challenging your view. Or Brainfuck.

Intentional coding-trolling aside, if whatever is happening in the head of the original developer is muddled, the resulting code is likely to be confusing even for people who know computers from the inside out.
The main reason for using dlsym instead of calling fork directly is to make it harder for an ‘attacker’ to detect or set breakpoints on the fork function, thus obfuscating the anti-debugging mechanism. You have to more checks before being able to understand why you cannot attach the debuger.

You may still think that mode could be still able to catch a new child process but apparently people have tried and the answer is no
> Are you trying to suggest that TfL are using are a cyber attack as cover to permanently cancel Oval?

I'm suggesting it likely would've been delayed anyway, based on how the project was going prior to the cyber attack, and the cyber attack is the latest convenient reason for it not being rolled out according to the (already behind) schedule.

It's not just Oval, it very much appears from an external perspective that most projects that TfL touch don't get done on time or completed to the promised standard. There are countless examples, the 4G/5G coverage rollout on the underground is yet another: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/lu-elizabeth-line-4g-up...

It's tiresome to see repeatedly happening.

> You honestly don’t seem to have any real grasp of how long project like Oval actually take to implement

I don't think the timeframes in the original tender were that unrealistic, and to be clear, the tender was published well after the lifting of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in the UK. If TfL didn't think those timescales were realistic, it shouldn't have bid for the contract.

What I have heard are - if true - some truly ridiculous stories (manual fares data entry, instead of automated ingest of the NR fares data, which already has all of the PAYG fares) about how this is being implemented, which would explain a lot about some of the reasons behind the delays if correct. It's certainly not the fault of the TOCs involved, that's for sure.
> Now it has changed to asking AI, the exact question and it being a better search engine.

Except that you get mostly the wrong answers. And it's not too bad when it's obviously wrong or you already know the answer. It is bad and really bad when you're noob and trying to ask AI about stuff you don't know yet. How would you be able to discern a hallucination from statistics bias from truth?

It is inherent problem of LLMs and no amount of progress would be able to solve it.

And it's only gonna get worse, with human information rapidly being consumed and regurgitated in 100x more volume. In 10 years there will be no google, there won't be the need to find a written article. Instead, you will generate a new one in couple clicks. And we will treat as truth, because there might as well not be any.
Yet another example of why I won't take a consulting job without written permission to upload data to Microsoft's cloud. The client will expect you to use Windows but they want you to promise that you won't share their data with anyone. There's no way to promise "local only" anything if you're using Windows.
Right, but "psychopathic scammer" dials the criticism up a few notches, possibly to unreasonable levels - which i suspect is the point being made here.

(That's certainly the point I'd have been making if I'd written the post you replied to.)
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If it makes software developers 10% more productive there sure would be many companies who'd pay $80 a month per seat.
OceanGate Titan implosion left a 30k-square-meter debris field
Not much more than reviewing the code of any average dev who doesn't bother doing their due diligence. At least with an AI I immediately get an answer with "Oh yes, you're right, sorry for the oversight" and a fix. Instead of some bullshit explanation to try to convince me that their crappy code is following the specs and has no issues.

That said, I'm deeply saddened by the fact that I won't be passing on a craft I spent two decades refining.
https://archive.ph/w9ncf
No such thing as a stupid question. It's a question that this paper in Proteomics (which appears to be a legit journal) attempts to answer, at least.
https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do...
3.50 EUR a year means one 35 EUR shirt every ten years, and no other clothes.
Speaking from my experience (a lot of DCS, 10s of hours in VTOL VR, couple hours in MSFS2020, all in VR), if you have HOTAS controllers, it feels natural to use them, without seeing them.
Actually, my biggest grip with VTOL VR is the fact that the developer is hellbent on using vr controllers instead of joystick and throttle, which even with the best tracking (valve index) is miles away from precision of a good hotas
i wasn't talking about written law, i was talking about what people agree with. the law is something separate from that.
The best option I’ve found is to ditch the TV and use a projector
I think it is a totally different threat. Excluding adversarial behavior, humans usually produce information with a quality level that is homogeneous (from homogeneously sloppy to homogeneously rigurous).

AI otoh can produce texts that are quite accurate globally with some totally random hallucinations here and there. It makes it quite harder to identify
a fool and his time are easily parted...
For the vast majority of human history the obvious answer was “some people are born into money”, not “99.99999999% of the population just don’t care as much about getting rich as those few incredibly wealthy lords who will kill anyone who gets in their way”. :)

So many of these answers seem to presume that wealth and success are things that pretty much anyone can just reach out and take if they really wanted to.
He may have the last laugh. His traveling around the world and threatening to build fabs in the UAE and Taiwan is a diplomatic scheme to get the U.S. hawks into action.

And lo and behold, ClopenAI has already hired CHIPS act people:

"To bolster its efforts, OpenAI has hired Chris Lehane, a Clinton White House lawyer, as its vice president of global policy, along with two people from the Commerce Department who worked on the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan law designed to increase domestic chip manufacturing. One of them will manage future infrastructure projects and policy."

We'll build plants overseas if you don't give us CHIPS Act money is a great scheme.
So what is his plan to fix all the bugs that claude hallucinated in the code ?
Yes, the value of a single engineer can easily double. Even a junior - and it's much easier for them to ask Claude for help than the senior engineer on the team (low barrier for unblock).
You can pay $0 for those models because a company paid $lots to train them and then released them for free. Those models aren't going away now of course, but lets not pretend that being able to download the product of millions of dollars worth of training completely free of charge is sustainable for future developments. Especially when most of the companies releasing these open models are wildly unprofitable and will inevitably bankrupt themselves when investments dry up unless they change their trajectory.
You can turn the power level down usually without hugely reducing performance, it's quite non-linear.
you're missing the point by a few miles
This is like a second-order appeal to authority fallacy, which is kinda funny.
A lot of popular projectors are "smart projectors" too. Same issue.
Have you ever considered Geforce Now? It's incredible to use, and all the power consumption is in their data center instead of your home. Right now it's a 4080 but presumably they'll upgrade to 5080s once those are out.

I used to build my own PCs, but GFN is a much nicer (and significantly cheaper!) experience overall. I can play everything on ultra, at 4k (with DLSS) for $20/mo and don't need to worry about keeping up with new GPUs or local heat, noise, and system maintenance. For an aged, busy gamer, it's really really nice.
“I’m now offering GLP-1s to nearly all my substance use disorder patients.”
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The analogy to electricity doesn’t make sense to me. OpenAI’s and their competitors’ products are already widely available, companies have added to AI to a bunch of apps, and the cost per token has already come down significantly. (Edit: not to mention openly licensed models.)

I also don’t see think it’s historically accurate. My understanding was that widespread electrification were motivated by lighting, the radio, and other applications. Getting electricity to more people probably helped spur further development, sure, but there were already “killer apps.”
It actually makes them less productive and creates havoc in codebases with hidden bugs and verbose code that ppl are copy pasting.
Hi Thanks for your feedback, all the configs are stored as file and ofc you can share it in any ware works for you.

On linux you can find the files on ~/home/.config/chapar

And each workspace is a directory there.
I think the 7T number is his concept of what he can probably get a bunch of oil sheiks to give him.
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I’d shift that a little earlier (XF86 autoprobing worked for a lot of hardware by the turn of the century) but especially also recognize the competitive environment. Mac, Windows, OS/2, etc. users had been using local network discovery since the 80s, and the people trying to popularize Linux on the desktop were all too aware of the “by and for computer nerds” reputation they were trying to shake, and a lot of people still thought about corporate networks as isolated enclaves where nothing too dangerous happened. The threat model for a lot of people, even server admins who should have known better, was more along the lines of “someone will print a picture of their butt on your desktop printer” rather than “your workstation is now being used to attack the accounting system”.
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Many graveyards in NYC are forgotten or have been removed.

https://www.6sqft.com/what-lies-below-nycs-forgotten-and-hid...

Eventually, most graveyards will simply erode away. The average erosion rate is 0.2 mm/year, so 2 meters down will be exposed in about 10,000 years. YMMV
Historically (especially on non-iPhone phones), fast chargers could cause battery issues. Bigger devices like laptops without great battery management strategies (read: Microsoft or Linux) also see battery health reduce 2-3x faster when charging to 100%.

But for phones/mobile devices - Nowadays it's mostly smaller devices like headphones that might be vulnerable.

I have still observed fast chargers causing issues: My USB-C bluetooth headphones died after 2 months (could only hold battery for 30 minutes rather than 8 hours).

I started using another pair and was refreshed by the full 8 hours, thinking the first pair was a random issue.

But soon they were also running out after 6-7 hours.

I switched to the charger they came from an voila, they have kept 6-7 hours for months. Frustrating, because now I have to charge them for at least an hour or two, rather than 10 minutes, but at least they'll keep the battery health now.
i'm asking about what may happen when the illness isn't, in your words, usual
Does it really? I keep thinking that they could just slap on 32G of VRAM on a midrange card and they would get roaring enthusiast support. I'm guessing the only reason they don't do that is to not encroach on their more expensive ML cards?
Look of interesting suggestions here.

Sleep, water, exercise, and health eating are huge ones.
That's an enforcement problem, not a problem with banning advertising.

Here in the Netherlands we had TV advertising for gambling, using semi-celebrities, those were outlawed again within a few months and have not come back. 20-30 years ago, there were a lot of 'call in to win' shows on TV that were of course basically a scam. They too were made illegal and have not returned.
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One of these parties cares more about where the money comes from than the other.
Guess I will heat my basement with 5090 this winter. 3090 was one of the best purchases I have ever made. Mined ETH to pay for itself within two months. Then came all the AI fun. Can’t think of anything that was as useful in my life.
He seems to be the same kind of individual as Musk: able to bring together teams that build great things, but also able to bring about drama and ego. The whole musical chair act with profit/non-profit OpenAI, and getting rid of many of the folks that created the models they are famous for.
User secrets are a very nice feature especially cause you can give the secret store a name and use it across different projects
You know that the smart box IS doing that, but you’re able to make the choice of which one to get. And it’s not coupled with the display so you can choose the best options in each category instead of being locked in to whatever OS is installed on better displays.
What I mean is that it'd be nice if you could store them somewhere else explicitly. Create a new workspace and store its contents in your code repository so that you can commit it and share it with your team directly through git.
It seems both Nvidia and Intel are now brute forcing things with more energy consumption and possibly much larger dies. Which is not that great in either power efficiency or costs.

Doing best at 100-150W GPU at top seems most responsible move to me. With reasonable cost for the GPU to boot.
> The costs will go down over time, much of the cost is the margin of NVIDIA and training new models

Isn't each new model bigger and heavier and thus requries more compute to train?
FWIW the Netherlands used to ban gambling advertising, and then legalized it (purely due to corruption if you ask me, but that's besides the point). The change was night and day. Overnight, half the banner ads around town were promoting poker sites and sports betting etc. There really weren't lots of similar ads for "sports results" sites before then.
I once read that on the 80s it was believed that female runners would soon outpace male runners because the trend line for them was moving up so fast. This turned out not to be the case because the curve wasn't exponential but "S" shaped - the female runners eventually plateaued. It's easy to assume that exponential growth will continue indefinitely but it's rarely the case that this is true.
What PG see in him as a teenager to proclaim

he is 'Michael jordan of listening' or that he knew within 3 mins that sam is next bill gates.

These are actual paul graham quotes not something from Silicon Valley TV show.

Edit: to ppl responding "you should already know know paul graham is a grifter" . I don't believe is the case given his essays about meritocracy.
Depends what you mean by "expect":

1. To predict or believe that something will happen

I expect it to get hacked because it's written in C.

2. To consider obligatory or required.

I expect servers to be secure!
While I get where your fascinaton comes from...

> I'm more productive than ever before.

You realize that another way to read that sentence is "I am a really bad coder".
The second sentence describes a lot of startups.
Yeah it's because they identify with Linux and so if anyone points out a flaw in Linux it feels like pointing out a flaw in them. You often get the "you're holding it wrong" defence - in this case "obviously you shouldn't expose CUPS to the network!" despite the fact that that's clearly useful and should be how things work.

There's an example in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41668979
What other properties get taxed? Real estate is the only one I can think of. Precious metals, musical instruments, patents / copyrights / trademarks, vehicles, electronics, lumber. . . none of these properties are taxed.
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We're linking to a random forum post as "proof?" If this was a widespread problem, we'd know it, but all we get is conspiracies which this is.
Visual Basic in VS has aggressive autocomplete and it gets pretty annoying. You often want to write things in a different order and end up having to delete the auto-inserted endif/quotes/brackets/variable names (if it's not yet declared, it changes it to become something else that is), etc.
I'm confident you have not used Cursor Composer + Claude 3.5 Sonnet. I'd say the level of bugs is no higher than that of a typical engineer - maybe even lower.
I'd say it still reduces exposure and makes a statement. It also denormalises gambling a bit
Fewer dead horses on the track, but if the sport went away then there would be horses all over the country out of work, which generally doesn't end well for horses, and likely an overall reduction in the number of horses kept as pets.
For gaming I would be happy with 16GB card. Enough to survive three or so generations more.
I sometimes buy random cassettes. I find listening to radio shows from the 80s quite relaxing and having different vibe.
That's what Stop Killing Games is trying to do via cooperation with DGCCRF and other consumer agencies. If you like that, go to their website and learn how to support them.
Atomic energy has both good and bad uses. People being tired of atomic energy has held back GDP growth and is literally deindustrialising Germany.
I would, and I don't use chatgpt as much as other people. I would pay for it for each of my employees.
I used to love watching basketball. I hate all the ads now and don't want to have my kids see that.

But, what's the alternative?

Going to a live event, for two bad teams, for four people, cost me over $500 a year ago. I can't afford that.

Youth sports?

I live in Florida, and was hoping Jai Alai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_alai) would be a weird respite, but that was the original gamblers refuge.
Yeah, bcache is exactly that
Hawaii man's home fell into the ocean. Now, he's being sued
> Don't be an asshole and you won't have problems.

It seems like that is not really up to me.

When Matt Mullenweg gets up one morning and does not like my commercial product for WP, he might think of me as an asshole and will try to extort money from my business or just ruin it just like he did here.

Hard rules might be fine to take care of things like these.
That's the point - you don't need to know your stack. You don't need to worry if CUPS is installed, enabled, or listening on your interface. You don't need any of that, as long as you do the bare minimum and configure your firewall.

That's the whole point!!!
> 20 year software engineering career is about to change

I have also been developing for 20+ years.

And have heard the exact same thing about IDEs, Search Engines, Stack Overflow, Github etc.

But in my experience at least how fast I code has never been the limiting factor in my project's success. So LLMs are nice and all but isn't going to change the industry all that much.
Didn't you know, according to ___ [insert favorite visionary] if you're not building an impossible moonshot you're a nothing and a nobody.
This hot take is just a bad take.

People don't lose their life savings redeeming D&B tickets. You have an uphill battle convincing me the Chuck E Cheese model is worth banning when it's mostly seen as harmless kids' fun.

If this is seriously bothering you, you probably spend way too much time at Dave & Buster's. And I would guess you do not have children.
But do you print with this machines? Like do you send them print jobs? If not, you are still fine.
2 things can be true at the same time.

Op is addressing the hype that there is some linear path of improvement here and chatgpt 8.5 will be AGI.

To which people always seem to jump in with but it’s useful for me and makes me code faster. Which is fine and valid, just beside the point
Right sound good, I'll put it in my todo list.
Thanks for your feedback
They already know that some of these upcoming model builds are going to require $100MM and possibly even a billion dollars. That is just the compute costs for building a single model. Product-market fit is basically established and the cost structure is basically understood so he needs the money for pretty straighforward reasons.

With that said it's a gamble since somebody might come along with a $10MM model based on some new technique and then OpenAI's cost structure becomes a problem. Presumably their scientists could adapt pretty quickly though if that happened.
Indeed, CVSSs don't take into account how widespread the software is. You know it. Why are you surprised it got 9.9? It seems the cve shows how to completely pwn cups so it has a high one. I don't run pg but I'm not going to be moaning about the recent vulnerability in pgadmin being 9.9 "ugh why so high? I don't use it!"
Yes, but
1) you only need to train the model once and the inference is way cheaper. Train one great model (i.e. Claude 3.5) and you can get much more than $80/month worth out of it.
2) the hardware is getting much better and prices will fall drastically once there is a bit of a saturation of the market or another company starts putting out hardware that can compete with NVIDIA
Inference (token generation) is memory-bound, KV cache prefill (prompt processing) is compute-bound. The ARM Macintoshes have lots of memory bandwidth but not a lot of compute power, so they're great for outputting text but terrible for tasks like analyzing documents. I've never done fine-tuning but my understanding is that that is a highly-parallelizable compute hog as well.

You might like this article, which looks at the arithmetic intensity of LLM processing: https://www.baseten.co/blog/llm-transformer-inference-guide/
It should, but Americans spent tons of energy fighting consumer protections and complaining about the EU requiring them from US companies.

Hard to see this issue move forward, when the population considers corporate rights more important than personal privacy.

Heck, tons of people appeared out of thw woodwork to complaining about Right-To-Repair, but now that several states have required it, everyone loves having the manuals/parts.
> It's fair to say that a company which makes cars that can be stolen with only a USB socket bears significant culpability for car thefts.

WHAT?

I don’t have my wallet on a chain, do I have some responsibility if I get pickpocketed?

These criminals are breaking the law, it is ENTIRELY their fault. Any other interpretation has way, way too many logic holes and strange consequences that says it’s our fault when a criminal willingly breaks the law.