skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What counts as big, and what counts as a superpower?

By any reasonable measure, Russia is losing in Ukraine, and the USA lost in Vietnam. Really awful for both victim nations, but despite various hawks in both aggressors calling for the use of nukes, that didn't happen.

At this point, Russia appears to be cannibalizing their nuclear arsenal into conventional weapons, so I don't think they're a threat. That leaves China and NATO (as a bloc, three nuclear powers), because although I don't know how big Indian and Pakistani militaries are, that isn't going to spread, and North Korea is small enough that if it was dumb enough to strike at the USA I doubt it would manage to be worse than Covid (and similarly with Israel and it's neighbours, but I don't have enough appreciation for their geopolitics to call them dumb even preemptively about a hypothetical like this).
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>(People, please don't reply to tell me why you didn't like the Canadian truckers' political views, it's not relevant.)

Oh but it is. You see, for the people who encourage this behavior, the hacking of the Canadian Truckers' protesters never happened and it was good that it did.
With MTP pills, you can successfully terminate accidental and unwanted pregnancy during the early stage.
So if Twitter or Facebook take something down that both the sender and the receiver want, but an advertising conglomerate doesn’t, based on worries about brand safety or whatnot, is it censorship or moderation?
>but it might be overkill

In what way? For any desktop usage Ubuntu is suitable for, Pop_OS can do it.
That is very unsurprising for a languge model. It has no notion of "reality" outside of a probabilistic model of how text pieces fit together.

It fooled you at first because that is what it is designed to do, all of these look probable, as if they could be real. But the model has no notion of an actual scientific paper, which is connected to its author and which is published somewhere. The whole model is uniquely unfit as a search engine, it doesn't have a structured index of knowledge and information, where it could retrieve the data you want from. It will just make up stuff and it actually suceeded at its goal, which was creating a believable result.
I'd argue this is proving we are getting closer to a human-like GAI. Try to imagine you force a student to answer questions on topics he doesn't know much about...
Couldn’t these organizations be big enough to have different technical cultures from team-to-team or product-to-product?
If that’s the case comparing FAANG to each other is like comparing Asia to Europe and then taking North-Korea and Portugal as examples.
Because your understanding of the capabilities of a large language model, and the general understanding, popular reporting and (to a certain extent) even OpenAI’s claims are going in two different directions.
Hey Steve,

You are well versed in Rust, so would it be possible for you to do a comparison of Rust with other memory-safe language Swift? It will help a mere mortal like me to understand the difference in a better way.

BTW, has Graydon joined the Rust core team?
Just because you don't feel the need the discuss morality doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't? For some of us the "spirit of the constitution" is just as important. And IMO if you're into this whole liberalism thing and you don't think it's important then you're just being dishonest.

What you see is a non-government person asking a non-government business to censor something. What I see is a former Vice President, Congressman, and Presidential candidate, backed by the DNC, asking a major communications channel to censor something.

The former sounds like sophistry to me.
Regarding fast and slow:
"It is likely that Kahneman’s book, or at least some of his chapters, would be very different from the actual book, if it had been written just a few years later. However, in 2011 most psychologists believed that most published results in their journals can be trusted."

https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-pe...

I wonder if the 50% test has been replicated...
Apple is a public company and it's very clear who owns and who controls the company. They're a multinational company that consists of multiple legal entities, and it's generally not a secret who you are doing business with.

TrustCor is a company that looks like a front for a Spyware maker, and when asked about that they say: "It's not like you think, but we don't want to tell you what the actual situation is, so you'll have to trust us, it's fine! Also the spyware we were caught distributing is totally not our fault, it's from a contractor in a completely different business unit and is totally independent from our CA business, but again we can't tell you more because it is secret. But trust us, the CA business is completely legit. And the sketchy things you found were all the idea of a guy who passed away recently, so we unfortunately can't ask him why he did it, but it's all legit don't worry trust us."
Could be a clearance sale, used sporting goods store, in the past, in another country, etc. It's just not a good question for anything but tricking or frustrating people.
Further to that, many use cases of Quicksort have unique keys, so stable is the same as unstable. Example: ascending indices appended to the key, when sorting large records where we don't want to move around the entire record.
I asked the exact same question and got these results. Some of the titles actually exist.

There are several resources that deal with the mathematical properties of lists, including:

"Lists and Sets: The Mathematics of Computer Science" by Keith H. Rosen, which provides a comprehensive overview of the mathematical concepts and principles that underlie the use of lists in computer science.

"Discrete Mathematics with Applications" by Susanna S. Epp, which includes a chapter on lists and their mathematical properties, including operations such as concatenation and reversal.

"Introduction to the Theory of Computation" by Michael Sipser, which discusses the use of lists in the context of automata and formal languages, including their role in the construction of Turing machines.

"Data Structures and Algorithms in Python" by Michael T. Goodrich et al., which provides a detailed discussion of the mathematical properties of lists, including their time and space complexity.

"A Course in Combinatorics" by J. H. van Lint and R. M. Wilson, which includes a chapter on set systems and their properties, including lists as a special case.
> Compensation is currently not quite at Netflix standards

You're saying this for many years now. Any plans to become comparable to such standards?
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While true, my scenario is not unrealistic.

Also, if you include "in another country" then other countries include taxes in the item price.
I would be shocked if every country doesn't have access.
Ukraine war: Russians kept in the dark by internet search
Exactly. This just accurately mirrors social media as a whole. Producing and reading fake content has become a cornerstone of humanity.
"Seizure" ... Such a nice name for stealing ...
Assessing the Impact of Music Recommendation Diversity on Listeners
So if you’ve installed a malicious app from Samsung store or you’ve sideloaded a malicious app, it has close to root access and can access data from any other app on the phone? The keys leaked in 2016 and these signing keys are still being used by Samsung now.

Is that right?

Is it normal to install apps outside of google play store and should Samsung users that have done this assume that they are compromised?

I just read this on Ars and came to look for the discussion here and I’m surprised nobody is talking about it. Is there another thread under a different title somewhere?
Unsurprising given how it works, but the higher-level implications are somewhat unexpected. These model are extremely good when they have creative freedom and are used to produce some kind of art. Poems, text in various styles, images without important details, and so on. But they fail miserably when you give them tasks that require world knowledge or precision. For example, when I asked a programming question I got a wrong answer. It looked just right on the surface, but the details were all wrong.

I say this is unexpected because a few years ago most people expected AI models to solve mundane tasks like automating Excel spreadsheet, while artists were considered pretty safe. Now the opposite has come to pass. The artistic power of these models is amazing, but I would never trust them to do anything that requires precision.

The biggest problem these models have is not necessarily that they produce "incorrect" (in quotes because they are not actually incorrect, just not what it's trained on) outputs, but rather that they have no built-in mechanism to express uncertainty in a meaningful way that's calibrated for the end-task of producing correct information.
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*both political parties
Everyone is a capitalist these days. Capitalism won over the world decades ago.
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Defund the police, reparations, affirmative action.... Yeah totally super right wing talking points in Europe.
> just convincing enough

That’s basically the principle of the Turing test.

But maybe the GPT approach is fundamentally incapable of withstanding very detailed scrutiny.
It’s not old vs new. It seems you switched from building big established systems into a smaller, prototyping-driven project.

There are two classic books on the subject from 1990s: „Extreme programming”, and „Pragmatic programmer”. Both touch upon the subject of premature optimisation and about finding the proper timing for refactoring.

In essence - you build
architecture when you know exactly what you’re building and you refactor when there is a need to do so.

Also, you say that you switched from a project with a bigger codebase and solid processes. In your previous projects, did you work on systems at the same stage of development?
There's still a few weeks left in 2022. It's not too late for this to be the year when you learn that freedom of speech isn't just a law, it's a value.

Something that doesn't involve the government can still be a violation of the principle of freedom of speech, just like something that doesn't technically break any laws against discrimination can still be unfair or racist.
Tell HN: How to close your LinkedIn account
In the past, I have tried deleting my LinkedIn account several times. Every single time, in the last step, the final deletion button was inactive, and no reason given for why it's so. The Internet wasn't helping my either.

So today, I tried once again: But this time, I used my browser inspector, removed 'disabled="true"' for the "Done" button, then clicked it.

voilà! LinkedIn said: "We’ve closed your account."
Corrections and retractions published on page D-12 never make up for the days of A-1 news that turns out to be incorrect. The new information is the turmoil that was going on withing twitter as they knowingly applied their suppression mechanisms.
It's strange that it was mentioned multiple times, "Jack Dorsey knew nothing about this", without any supporting evidence. Every other claim seemed to have an associated screenshot to back it up. Why not that one?
Anyone who perceives Chinese sellers as David when it comes to e-commerce hasn't been paying attention for at least a decade.
None of that stuff is against the rules. New York Times articles and overly optimistic predictions do not constitute private information or misinformation. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they violate the TOS.

Also, nothing that Snowden released was publicly available, but Biden's staffers were using tools that were available to the general public in the way they were intended. They're completely unrelated.
Good thing the first thing I did was take a screenshot :)
That's not what I said was the conspiracy theory.
And I kind of blame the tech community for it.
Besides fun, is there any real use to coding these ?
This is the original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33823946
This is called "hallucination" and I find it to be the biggest flaw with GPT-3 interfaces like ChatGPT. Basically, the system will start convincingly BSing at any point and as a user, you're never sure if any particular detail it outputs is actually correct. The problem is, these large language models are inherently kind of a black box, so how do you fix this kind of behavior?

I started looking and it turns out that OpenAI is keenly aware of the hallucination problem, and even wrote about how they're correcting for it in this blog post about InstructGPT: https://openai.com/blog/instruction-following/

To summarize: it seems OpenAI is addressing this by taking human-labeled output data from GPT and feeding this into new models, using a reward function to train the future models to behave with less hallucination. This way of working struck me as a mix of software engineering and crop breeding.

They discuss the trade-offs involved with doing this. The "hallucination" effect is probably one of the features that make GPT so creative.
Given that it's a Swedish law that only applies within Sweden, I wonder if the ECJ would take jurisdiction as there isn't really an EU element to it.
Are Amazon warehouse workers being treated any worse than other warehouse workers, or do they merely get more coverage because they work for a tech company that is also paying six fig salaries to software engineers?
I like that very much. ChatGPT always states that it has no connection to reality, since it lacks the organ of perception (Internet) and offers a pure language game. Similar to a Carl Rogers machine
Canada should be ashamed of themselves honestly.
You're right, all of those things could be true. 98.47% of Twitter contributions to Dems, nothing to see here, move along.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/159882999626439065...
I know people who bought their iPhone specifically for the camera. I never heard of anyone buying an iPhone because of Siri.
The hardware architecture role belongs to the AOT/JIT compiler used by the WASM infrastructure, so the difference being?
The typical private citizen can click the “Report” button. They just can’t email a list of tweets to report directly to the review team. Apparently this private citizen could do that, as could the sitting president.
Great points! It seems useful to add a list based on yours to our readme.
Please let me know if you'd like us to acknowledge you in the commit message with anything other than the username dzaima.
> going back on his free speech/no censorship claims when he kicked Kanye off.

What's Elon done here that's inconsistent or hypocritical? He's never claimed to be a free speech absolutist (no-one is a free speech absolutist), nor did he say he was going to turn Twitter into a free-for-all for anyone can post anything with no moderation. Kanye posted literal Nazi content; he clearly violated Twitter's stated policies against hate speech and earned the ban.
Google to Introduce Behavioral “Interventions”
“Lab samples”
This is the problem with user hostile systems that think they know better than the user.

You have no control and can't get a stable system.

And since things change automatically you have no clue what made stuff broken.

I can vision the condescending and smug guy on Canonical forcing auto updates (remote code execution) by default as some "security" measure.
It is, it's what it states most of the time. It's also interesting that we believe what sounds right more than what is right.
Looks like american oem/relabeller drop shipper got blown out by Chinese drop shipper who wants to cut out middle man. American consumers pay less.

I don't get the complaint about Amazon being a glorifed Aliexpress front end. Pay a small premium to skip multi week shipping on goods stocked in state side warehouse. Vendors that push volume via CRM game also bundles in pretty solid warranty from vendor. Remember MPOW branded products, decent you get what you pay for tier hardware. It's cheap, cut corners on Q&A which makes aliexpress gamble. But buy it from amazon for 20% premium vs aliexpress and if something breaks, seller will ship you new item no question asked. I've had MPOW honor out of warranty products with common review mentioned failure, with little question asked, because they work hard for those reviews. It was great. Take the review for gift card offer and even better deal.

Amazon is flooded with these products because they work fine for what people are willing to pay. If you want old school Amazon experience, do a search for product you want, note price of top selling Chinese products, triple or quadruple it, and there you go.
>when it's done to arbitrary packages that might not even be written with sandboxing in mind, all sorts of bugginess can result

That's something the package maintainer should consider.

>bundling sandboxing with the package manager

Flatpak utilizes bubblewrap for sandboxing that can be used independently. Flatpak merely provides ("packages" someone can say) the instructions for it.
Everyone has access to spell checkers. Does that mean spelling mistakes don't exist nymore?
The 3 questions quoted in another comment are not trick questions and they obviously did not come out of the blue for anyone taking the test.

They are simple reasoning questions. IMHO, people tend to "fall for them" not because they are trick questions but because people don't really reason carefully.

The standard advice I have always received is to read the actual question carefully, the whole question and nothing but the question.

This might catch a random member of the public but you would think university students are at their peak of "reading test questions skills".

Here I think what the questions do is that they may cause our brain to very quickly come up with a shortcut and wrong answer, which should immediately be discarded if you were indeed carefully reading the question, i.e. paying attention (so maybe indeed something like a conflict between 'fast and slow thinking').
Indeed, I have opened a new ticket to report this issue: https://github.com/github/mona-sans/issues/24
What was actually on Hunter Biden's laptop? Can someone give me a link to a succinct, non-partisan list of facts?
Describing GPT as a Method actor on way too many hallucinogenics strikes again
Art is precision.
I think this is expected if you consider how ChatGPT works.

It is a language model, so its job is to generate plausible-looking text. It does not use any external reference material during inference so it has to encode all knowledge it uses in its weights. So the weights are essentially its only long-term memory.

You could say that the task it was given here was “Provide plausible-looking links without using any reference material.” For that task I think it did a reasonable job.
I have a folder of some 50 https://trianglify.io images that I use as rotating wallpaper throughout the day. Zero distraction with some nice change.
In another context you seem to take quite a different view:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33795206

Why do we have to violence as inevitable just when kids are involved?

Although I'm not suggesting that we literally 'arrest and imprison' bullies, I think the first paragraph of your linked post is exactly right. The best way to stop bullying is to make it clear that it's not an acceptable behavior and to punish the perpetrators.
Of different categories of device:

• Most mobile devices are high-DPI. (In more affluent countries it’s “almost all”, but in others it’s only “many”.)

• Many tablets are high-DPI.

• Some laptops are high-DPI.

• Very few desktops are high-DPI.
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Good question.

The mainstream media are more interested in spreading outrage or their own narrative that reinforces their confirmation bias to grift their readers for ad clicks and affiliate links than to uncover the truth.

As soon as one narrative is being constantly peddled by multiple sources, it makes it highly suspicious and likely that something else is going on that is not being reported.

Most of these ‘news sources’ don’t even question or correct each other and just parrot and relay their own articles as the truth.
I spent weeks researching the most popular MLOps tools and would like to share the results with you. I created a website listing the tools, explaining when to use each of them and the pitfalls to watch out for. You can fill in your stack based on our template.

Why did I do it? I feel the current MLOps landscape has amazing tools. But so many of them! Right now, picking a solution feels like a puzzle. It’s confusing and incredibly hard to put the pieces together to fit your needs.

I would be grateful for all and any input you can give me.
No, you can definitely publish without a Ph.D. You don't have to work in a research lab.

It's as simple as finding a conference, finding the submission style, writing the paper, submitting, and waiting and praying to the gods of peer review.

Of course, you need to have a good idea, but the fruit in AI is still very low hanging.
Ask HN: How will the content on Hacker News change with AI tooling?
Hello HN,
I recently tried out ChatGPT, and I am impressed. Most of the answers it gives me are just plain good. This is the first time that I realize how good AI has become already, and I am a bit scared of the changes it might bring.

If we extrapolate the capabilities of ChatGPT and other AIs into the future, the bar for "good content" will probably raise. At the same time, some of the originality that we see here might be lost. To find answers, we won't need to use Google Search and Stackoverflow anymore. Therefore we won't discover new pages that used to solve these problems, like personal blogs. The _need_ to write a personal blog might vanish completely. After all, nobody will ever find you and read you in the first place.

Which leaves me at this: What content remains? And what would you still like to read after AI content took over the Internet? Have you already noticed a change?
So the big scandal, the thing to get upset about here, Elon's dramatic reveal: is that Twitter's leaders "didn't care" enough?

If you listen carefully, behind the crickets, you can hear the goalposts moving.
Could you tell us what it is. As it's getting hugged to death at the mo.
Yes, that's my point, there's no way to know without making assumptions. Making assumptions about important details is sloppy and irresponsible, not what should be promoted by putting it on a test. They could have easily used a the same setup with weight or speed or anything else but money and it would have been a fine question.
The camera has one time cost (well, and r&d).

Siri has ongoing costs to run the servers.
If you’re on the right this is proof that Twitter is out of control and stole the election from Trump. If you’re on the left these are boring internal emails discussing what to do about hacked laptop information released at an optimal moment to smear a presidential candidate because of things done by his son. I’m more inclined to believe number 2 but then I would be wouldn’t I. I don’t really think there’s something weird going on here but I’m guessing the same stuff will happen the other way at the next election now Twitter is controlled by someone in a right wing filter bubble.
This is the best thing in a long while.
The theory I heard worked in the other direction: if we assume scammers have a finite amount of time, it could be in their interest to minimize the amount of "likely good targets" in order to increase the amount of "very likely good targets". So all those untapped potential targets are just too similar to non-good targets for them to discriminate effectively, leaving them so far focused on the lower-hanging fruit.

I mean, with Google Translate, spellcheckers, etc, improving all the time, at least some of those messages should have been improving as well, no? If their grammar has not improved at all during the last decade, then there might be a hinge of truth to the theory.