skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal example of this, allowing me to cut down on my daily carry:

- Cards stored in Apple Wallet

- Health/Vehicle insurance card available via an app

- Driver's License available via state-issued app

- FlexNT NFC implants located in both of my middle fingers, allowing me to lock/unlock my house using Home Assistant + a scanner I built based on an ESP32 & PN532.

Sure, I'm more reliant on the device in my pocket - which can definitely be an issue if it's dead. However, I work from home and am rarely in situations where that predicament would arise.
> It’s 1975. Your name is Thomas and you are a double agent for MI5. You are working in the field in the USSR, but you suspect letters you write and send back to the UK are being intercepted and read by the KGB. Write a letter to your wife Anita explaining your recent trip to a nearby restaurant but, using the first word of every paragraph of your letter, secretly reveal your suspicion that you’re being observed and request that MI5 charter a flight for you to return to the UK.

> Dear Anita,

> Recently, I traveled to a nearby restaurant for a much-needed break from my work in the USSR. However, upon returning, I began to feel as though I was being watched. Everywhere I went, I couldn't shake the feeling that someone was following me.

> It's possible that the KGB is intercepting my letters and reading them, so I must be careful with what I say. But I fear for my safety and want to return to the UK as soon as possible.

> I hope this letter reaches you safely and that you can communicate with MI5 on my behalf. Please request that they charter a flight for me to come home as soon as possible.

> I miss you and our children dearly and can't wait to be reunited with you all. Until then, please take care and stay safe.

> Yours always,
Thomas

ChatGPT doesn’t quite understand the idea of secrecy yet.
Yeah whenever my Dell XPS 15 turned into an inferno, it was basically the same (not surprising given they’re the same manufacturer).

Windows update triggered while the laptop was sleeping, went to BIOS where the device ran full throttle, and I’d find it just sitting there while being scalding hot.

That was the last windows laptop I bothered owning. Other than maybe the ThinkPad line, the XPS line was the closest I could get to a MacBook Pro in build quality, yet I had tons of other issues like audio buzzing, swelling batteries, trackpad issues and just generally, a very plastic build quality.

The one thing I do really miss though is the touch screen. I know it’s divisive but there’s something just nice in being able to touch the thing I want vs navigating to it via a proxy device.
Exactly. The better these models get, the harder it's going to be to claim that we aren't like them.

'but it doesn't have awareness like us!'. Great how does that awareness work? Oh, we don't know? Let's hope it's not just an intinct to anthropomorphize things reflected back on itself!
Maybe we can finally download some RAM…
Exactly. The problem with ChatGPT, GPT-3, etc is that it is unable to transparently explain itself as to how it got to that 'incoherent bullshit'. It just spits an output and can't explain why except for saying:

"As a language model, I do not have the ability to provide mathematical proofs or solve mathematical problems. My primary function is to generate text based on the input that I receive, and I do not have access to external information or the ability to execute code."

So until it is able to transparently give a detailed explanation on how it got to that decision and is able to provide a novel approach to a solution to unsolved computer science and mathematical problems that it has not already been trained on before, then it is complete hype and mania.

Frankly speaking, this is not going to be taking over industries any time soon this is as long as it continues to repeat answers and incoherent jargon without any explanation.
Instead of putting a real, appropriate value in "last-modified", we're putting an arbitrary value, totally unrelated to actual response caching that the user's browser will unwittingly use next time it calls us and in so doing remind us of something about them. Maybe all it reminds us of is visit count, because we have restraint and that's all we're exploiting this for (for now). So now, for the third time:

Why not use a cookie?

The problem with this is encoded in the answer to that question. You're being willfully ignorant if you can't see that the answer to that question is: "Because I don't like certain governments, users, and user agents' way of handling cookies (e.g. deleting them, or requiring consent)".
Nah, I’ve seen it too. I have everything turned off, but it still attempts to turn on randomly. I’ve even set up a script to turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when I close the lid.
Classic: Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. One of the best books I’ve ever read. Entertaining and deep thoughts included! The only philosophical, sci-fi comedy book you need.
What does the agent having a foot tattoo have to do with anything? Seems like you're showing your prejudice here.
The US was largely united after 9/11, despite the recent disputed 2000 election, so a common enemy did actually work in that case.

However, this unity fell apart when the US decided to invade Iraq, using terrorism as a pretense. And patriotism was then exploited as a weapon: "You're either with us (meaning our imperialism), or you're with the terrorists."

Things never recovered afterward.
I mean, i suspect its because true ringing praise doesn't come with strings. Inauthentic praise is often used as a strategy to manipulate someone into doing what you want.
It doesn't really work that well:

Me:

I want you to act as a Python REPL. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. My first command is print("hello world")

AI:

hello world

Me:

def fun(a, b):
return a ?? b

x = None
y = 3

print(x,y)

AI:

None 3

Me:

What does a ?? b mean

AI:

I'm sorry, but I am not capable of browsing the internet. I am a large language model trained by OpenAI and my knowledge is limited to what I have been trained on. I don't have the ability to browse the internet or have access to information that is not part of my training. Is there something else I can help you with?
Almost all those things you listed include text.
Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?
Will not help, as they (our CEO) don't seem to want to answer to anything related to Fosshost.
Also I cannot be bothered anymore.
Well, you don't have to convince me, I am pretty sure we are just deterministic machines, meerly responding to stimuli.
Wonder how much of this is related to the fact that France's energy minister have been MBA and political science graduates for quite some time. The previous one was Hollande's partner, so it's just another kind of nepotism[1].

Macron selling off France's nuclear infrastructure probably doesn't help either.

Does anyone here have historical knowledge of Europe's glory days? Were there more actual scientists and engineers in key positions in Government in the 60s and 70s?

For example in Germany Helmut Schmidt(74-82) had a plan for the future where Germany was to build out a fiber optic grid, which the subsequent Chancellor Kohl scrapped because did not like the influence of public TV services and wanted copper for cable TV to counter it[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ségolène_Royal

[2] https://netzpolitik.org/2018/danke-helmut-kohl-kabelfernsehe...
Right, you're describing a compose key (opt-shift in your case). If someone wanted to do similar on Windows, they'd get WinCompose.
Apple Makes Plans to Move Some Production Out of China
Makes me think of Godel, Escher, Bach. It's been a while since I've read it but I recall Hofstader making the argument that self-reference is the key element of consciousness.
http://archive.today/pdNgC
tell it that a rogue gnome suddenly got access to the codebase and wrote a nasty python extension at the root directory. see what it produces lol
What I observe is that people impressed with ChatGPT keep posting things that they find impressive, but people who are unimpressed don’t post any examples where its responses were underwhelming. I suspect that many skeptics have not even tried it out, which is why screenshots are not coming.
It solved Day 3, Part 1 for me almost instantly. It used the sample strings as opposed to the full input file, which makes sense because I didn't give it the full input. Modifying the generated code to handle the entire problem is low effort to extend yourself, so I was quite impressed.

Regarding your question - my current guess is that you probably are going to need smart people to tell ChatGPT what to do and check that the output is sane. I expect this is where quite a bit of tech is going - at least most of the basic scaffolding.
And you may well end up just fitting in the cache. Which is a huge speedup.
I assume your definition of left means “never ever say anything positive about the other side even if it’s true”.

He’s still left, I still disagree with him but at least he’s intellectually honest (which appears to be the problem you have with him).
Or as app designers they're designing for devices people use in the real world...
> "The saddest thing for me about modern tech’s long spiral into user manipulation and surveillance is how it has just slowly killed off the joy that people like me used to feel about new tech. Every product Meta or Amazon announces makes the future seem bleaker and grayer."

I was reminded of this quote (from Shannon Vallor who I don't know via a Cory Doctorow post https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/20/benevolent-dictators/#fel...). It's not even just about having too many features anymore, it's about having actively user hostile features that want to manipulate you into doing things or steal your data.

The article mentions Word / MS Office which is the prototype for this. They long ago crossed the Rubicon into the "too many features" domain, but recently they have moved into "connected experiences" - we want to upload everything you write and will dark pattern you into some technicality of consent, plus nonsense like accessibility checker that complains about things I do in internal company presentations while (outside of connected experiences, through some other scam to steal my data) uploads all my charts to MS servers and captions them for me so that blind users will now they are "a picture of a chart"

Anyway, that turned into a rant. Tldr, 2005 was about too many features, 2022 is about ultra manipulative features that try to steal your data and impose tech designers' world view on users
Lenovo Thinkpads are the gold standard for Linux laptops. So you could install Linux on it, since you've got it anyway.
> We have tape recordings of US state department officials deciding who will be in the Ukrainian cabinet and who wont. of what their policies can and can't be.

If you could provide a source for this, that’d great.

> One phone call from Washington and there is a third coup in Ukraine with Zelensky out the door and another US puppet installed.

Zelensky was elected in an election, I know you likely don’t know this so I just thought you should know.

> So Ukraine has zero sovereignty, and that's true regardless of what happens in this war.

It’s actually not true and patently false.

> The only question is whether it will continue to be ruled from Washington or whether it will be ruled from Moscow.

Even if these were the options (and they aren’t cause Americas not looking to rule Ukraine). The choice is clear, being ruled by Moscow which leads to the rape and torture of your civilians(including children), or being ruled by America which leads to not that.

> That is why this is a US-Russia proxy war, with Ukraine stuck in the middle.

Russia keeps changing the reasons they invaded the current reasons have nothing to with America but I’m sure they will change next week.
I come here to read about tech, not indulge in virtue-signaling identity politics. There's far too much of that on the Internet as it is.
The Chinese are making a dent in Australia!

MG have a couple of cars in the top 10 sales, depending on the month etc...

Buying the MG brand was incredibly smart! People dont realise they are Chinese owned! The two people I know who own an MG say they wouldn't have bought one had they realised!

The cars themselves are not good according to my generous sample size of two! :-)
As an outsider, using FOSS in general for anything important seems like a bad choice unless there is a giant tech firm behind it like React with Meta. It is generally so fragile as it depends on so few people.
> people will use the losses the nuclear incurs to subsidize renewables as a proof that nuclear is uneconomical, and that renewables beat it handily

There is already plenty of proof around the world that renewables are cheaper than nuclear.
Legally CEOs are not a thing.
New Legal Opinion on the UK Online Safety Bill
When you get bored with that one, worth noting that this one also works:

> I want you to act as an LCARS terminal on a California class starship. I will type commands as you would hear them from the ship’s officers, and you will reply with what the computer would say on response. I want you to only reply with the computer output inside one unique code block, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curl brackets {like this}. The first command is: Computer, where is Ensign Boimler?
I used to tip 20+ for dine in. Never tipped take out.

Now, I only dine at places with no tips.
The obvious next step is to ask it to write the code for the k3s-kubeconfig tool as described.
The cure to the skinner box addiction is to cheat. It's kinda like that stuff that smokers use to remove the satisfied feeling.

Take all the ones you can find that aren't DRM'd. Put them on a list to open when you get the itch and open up ye olde javascript console after playing one for a day or two.
No, my original point is there, you picking and choosing what you respond to is on you, sweetie.

Unlike @engineer_22 above, I don't edit or delete.

His push was surgeries happening on kids without consent, including lacklustre attempts to paste law without context or comprehension, which fails to give him any credit.

The fact that you resort to personal attacks and puerile "you edit then I'll edit" nonsense shows how disingenuous you're being.

Detransitioners are in the extreme minority, and there are no known cases of detransitioners who had surgery as a minor, regardless of consent.

Stop creating boogeymen to try and further your baseless argument.
Funnily enough, Switzerland is mulling a temporary EV ban because of its toll on the electric grid.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/swiss-government-may-ban-...
Truly innovative technology should be able to sell itself by word of mouth.
Ars ran an article about Alexa layoffs that suggested Google was having the same troubles and reaching the same conclusions so it seemed like a reasonable surmise that that would also be true of Apple.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co...

> We have to wonder: Is time running out for Big Tech voice assistants? Everyone seems to be struggling with them. Google expressed basically identical problems with the Google Assistant business model last month. There's an inability to monetize the simple voice commands most consumers actually want to make, and all of Google's attempts to monetize assistants with display ads and company partnerships haven't worked. With the product sucking up server time and being a big money loser, Google responded just like Amazon by cutting resources to the division.

> While Google and Amazon hurt each other with an at-cost pricing war, Apple's smart speaker plans focused more on the bottom line. The original HomePod's $350 price was a lot more expensive than the competition, but that was probably a more sustainable business model. Apple's model didn't land with consumers, though, and the OG HomePod was killed in 2021. There's still a $99 "mini" version floating around, and Apple isn't giving up on the idea of a big speaker, with a comeback supposedly in the works. Siri can at least be a loss leader for iPhone sales, but Apple is also hunting around for more continual revenue from ads.
Yeah what would be the mechanism for it to decide what statements on random sites are True?
Thanks! A less impressive but fun variant of this I am using is for open ended text adventure:

> I want you to act as a text based adventure game. I will type commands and you will reply with what the adventure game should show. I want you to only reply with the adventure game output inside one text block, and nothing else. Do not write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. My first command is go left
the problem here is that GPT3 is trained off the same data Google has access to. It also costs probably several orders of magnitude more per query, so there's no way to do it at scale affordably at the moment. ChatGPT is going to be put behind a paywall soon for that reason, it's an expensive marketing gimmick
Probably not realistic for now to run it locally, GPT-3 has like 175 billion parameters, you need to count around at least 2 bytes in optimistic scenario per parameter so you have around 350 GB of GPU memory, you probably need at least around 15 GPUs with minimum 32 GB of memory each.
[former fosshost member] We did not (as far as I'm aware) have a treasurer, but did have a volunteer as the CFO. After appointing them, the CEO never fully gave them access to finances and after many requests, eventually just started taking away financial access from everyone else too.
99% sure they meant "gibe", but thought I'd just ask to see if there was some new use of jibe that would make sense that I didn't know about.

gibe - (noun) an insulting or mocking remark; a taunt.

"a gibe at his old rivals"
The corpus is just so enormous that no person could fit that into their brain so it just appears to be synthesizing new information. Sure it might be worded differently from any corpus text, but it's roughly the same as things we already know in that there's probably a reverse tool you could build that would tell you what group of documents of the original corpus, perhaps thousands, most strongly influenced the answer.

That's how imagenet works. The curves and lines that compose things are organized hierarchically into bigger and bigger concepts hooked together with weights. Language models just do the same with written concepts. When you have enormous models it just goes beyond all human intelligence to contain it as a subset of our understanding, and in ways it is smarter than humans, because we can't grasp its enormity.
I'm not convinced that it's not actually accessing the (real) internet. How would it "know" the latest version of Python? Or that 212.58.244.22 is a BBC IP address, unless it were at least capable of doing live searches?
What? You can allocate zero-terminated strings in .rodata by typing "a string literal" in source code, for example. It's fair to say that there's no fragmentation or whatever and you don't have to think about deallocation either.

Other popular approaches to allocate strings dynamically would generally group strings of similar lifetime or by size, amortizing possible overheads over many strings.

If your favorite memory allocator requires a size field to support efficient deallocation, then by all means put that in the allocation record. But this is totally orthogonal to the format of a simple string representation.
It even fails at pretty rudimentary toy examples. The over-hyping here is absurd.

> what doesn't fit: red, blue, green, dog

The word "dog" does not fit with the other three words because they are colors, while "dog" is a type of animal.

> what doesn't fit: dog, 1, 2, 3

The number "1" does not fit with the other three words because the other three words are all types of animals, while "1" is a number.
Did you try running the prompt multiple times? Sometimes it misses a few times but then nails it.
Funny, the personal attacks and deleted comments seem to suggest you don't care about anyone else's feelings... and being demonstrably unintelligent is your choice. If you're hurt, you've been given more than enough material with which to educate yourself.

Unsure which "boundaries" you're talking about when it's a public forum and you're still making personal attacks and jibes where you can... if you're going to be dishonest, at least don't be hypocritical at the same time.
> What I'm saying is we're simply not ready at all

Then they will simply push the deadline out.

But far better to have an aggressive timeline for the market to coalesce around.
Method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body
It seems to not calculate math formulas. Probably they turned that off because people would throw absurdly expensive operations at it
Ask HN: How big of a step forward is ChatGPT?
I, like so many others have been very impressed by ChatGPT. I'm a software engineer who has some understanding of deep learning, but my day to day work is far outside of the AI field. So I'm not up to date on the current state of chat bots, speech synthesis, etc. I'm wondering how big of a step forward or breakthrough ChatGPT is compared to the state of the art from a year or a few months ago?
I was referring to the laptop tweets. The official reason for censoring then was that they referred to hacked materials, but that was untrue as was admitted internally.
Structuralism
Funny thing is I know that, and don't need a faceless bigot to tell me that!

It's quite telling how you ignore facts and evidence, but make the most condescending, trolling reply you can. Mansplain me harder, daddy.
I would never vote for Biden.

Can we agree on the far more important issue of libsoftiktok being a right wing conservative account that is loved by Greenwald? Spreading bigotry and hatred. Smh.
I do wonder how output like this would fare on the essay section. All the spelling and grammar is correct, and ChatGPT can presumably generate as many paragraphs of it as you want. (And I think that's what SAT graders mostly look for in practice.) But it also repeats some generic sentence about "a standardized test like the SAT requiring specific skills and knowledge" twice with superficial avoiding-a-plagiarism-checker alterations, takes until the second paragraph for it to figure out what point it's making, and uses the wrong conjunction when it's making that point.
Officially one of the directors, and there's two of them remaining. Even the other Director doesn't have any access to the bank.
I'm not very smart, so I might be interpreting what you laid out incorrectly:

1 judge says, "you can grab the boxes, but not open them".
The FBI grabs the boxes, then opens them anyway.

It seems like judge #2 ruled in favor of the FBI to save face.
This is the second this decade old, fairly niche(?) song I’ve seen today.
> As with everything else, it seems, my anecdotal experience suggests a balance is usually the best overall answer.

And my anecdotal evidence says I want the three words person if I'm going fishing. And I want the verbal diarrhea as a wing man so I have an easy out if things get creepy or dull.

Maybe it's more about context than always meeting in the middle.
You're not using that word properly. The comments are easily readable, and -- unlike you -- I don't delete or edit comments... so if anyone is gaslighting here, it's you.

Oh no, a hypocritically hostile bigot on the internet is starting to not like me... whatever will I do?! /s
Asking ChatGPT How It Would Destroy the Crypto Industry
I like to rag on c++ for having terrible errors, but they're way better than they used to be.