skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you guys get tired of rehashing the same baseless arguments over and over again?

The value of decentralized platforms is that it gets rid of the tech bros and financial scams. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can make transactions independently, without having to blindly trust that the funds are actually there.

If people transacted using DeFI, there would be no FTX, no Coinbase, no VC trying to leech off the masses.
That's really interesting, thanks! Is it that if the early universe was initially even slightly non-uniform, then expansion and gravity would persist those "imperfections", forming the galaxy clumps we observe now?
> Why do folders all open in a new window?

Windows 95 was like this too unless the Internet Explorer 4.0 Desktop Update was installed: http://toastytech.com/guis/win95desktop3.png
No doubt the pace of progress has been remarkable.

But I feel like arguments that cite only this progress make the tacit assumption that there's a single intelligence level that's progressing. That is, because large language models are getting better, they must be getting better in all imaginable skills and ability. Because their strengths are getting stronger, automatically they will overcome their weaknesses.

As a counterpoint, I'd mention the failure (so-far) of self-driving cars. These constructs were impressive ten years and in various measures I'm sure have only gotten more impressive yet they still don't have a level of reliability that would allow them on the road. And in my playing ChatGTP, it is certainly quite impressive yet also puts out some nonsense with nearly every paragraph in answers to questions, including things in no way "trick questions" (Edit: one could argue that the nitpicks do mask this problem, since one doesn't need trick problems to see it).

Mind-you, I'm not saying these systems can't overcome their weaknesses, I'm saying that linear progress by itself doesn't imply they'll overcome their weaknesses.

Edit: I've clarified the text as I've gone.
Dell is not lumped in with MAGMA even though they’re everywhere and everyone knows who they are because they have completely different business models, employee pools and compensation. They’re barely in the same industry, if you squint. Similarly with Accenture and prestige consultancies. If you were going to have a Big 4 the fourth would be AT Kearney, not Accenture.
Controlling the peons with their own labour, govern me more, govern me harder!
It was a lack of Turing completeness.
Good read, but I was expecting to see some Last Messiah in there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Messiah
A scientist who worked with the Wuhan lab claims Covid manmade, leaked
OpenOversight: A public, searchable database of law enforcement officers
I don’t think clumsiness is related. That galaxies favourably exist along gas filaments is not you .
Oh even if they find places for them to live, the problem grows with every inbound greyhound. In fact, that’s what happened: they would offer everyone places in a motel or tiny houses, they would leave, more people would move in the next day to take up the free space. The more resources we throw at this problem, the worse it gets. Which makes sense actually, who wouldn’t come to Seattle for a free tiny house and free things at the store (since shoplifting isn’t prosecuted anymore)?
No, Vim is that binary on your machine that you touch maybe twice a year. The inconsistent and vaguely portable set of features you are referring to is something else that grew out of various people's frustration with non-Vim text editing and often limited knowledge of Vim itself.
Thanks, this is a very balanced answer.

It reminds me of the testing versus debugging: some folks are great at testing code so it never breaks, others are better at churning out code and debugging it as they go.
>AI-generated content is a step beyond that: it does, especially for now, cost money (OpenAI is bearing these costs for now, and they’re | substantial),

How about releasing the trained models to the community and we will take it from there?
Automated Market Makers, like Uniswap, provide open, accessible, auditable, open source, extensible, liquidity to the world wide web. Anyone with an internet connection gets access to the market. Market access is taken for granted by Americans, but it should be noted that even here, Uniswap is superior to a NYSE or Nasdaq exchange along several vectors (openness, 24/7 availability, censorship resistance, full auditability, permissionless access, fair market making, etc).

Tokens are also fully programmable, and that enables a number of primitives that are not possible with stock certificates or grain contracts. For one, they can easily be held within a multisig smart contract wallet, governed by configurable rules for spending (in an M-of-N scheme). This makes it frictionless to set up a small group or organization on the internet even if the participants are in 7 different countries. This helps to coordinate human and financial capital, because rules can be programmed in the DAO or multisig to prevent one person from stealing all the funds. Since everything is on-chain, everything is above the board. Very difficult to arrange this with traditional corporate checking accounts, and even then, one executive ultimately controls the account.

Those two alone would be huge and worth it for humanity, but I listed more on that list and I'm running out of time for a reply. But I invite you to analyze the products yourself. Try them on testnets for free if you like.
> That argument doesn't make any sense. There are restrictions for any homework, some explictly given by their professor (such as the deadline), and some implicitly known from general academic guidelines and common sense (such as "not using a photocopier in an art class"). Obviously mining coal is not among those restrictions.

...is it?

"general academic guidelines and common sense" is a subjective term that is (context, culture, & environment) dependent: If the social norm was "Your work isn't valuable unless you made the materials yourself", then the use of non-self-made materials (graphite not mined by yourself) is frowned upon.

Relying on "general academic guidelines and common sense" is not a good thing, as it helps to reinforce unequal social norms & anti-non-heteronormative ideologies, as a downstream consequence of majority rule by statistically normal people. Neurodivergent individuals that have significant difficulties grasping "common sense" will & already have been negatively impacted under such a system, where they're told to just "get it" with no guidelines whatsoever.
But that doesn't make it false Or 'FUD', it just means you've decided not to care.
> experience maintaining

Yes, I think this could be the crux: maintenance oriented vs prototype oriented practices
Indeed. I suppose those a level up on us are simply wise enough to not have these discussions. I understand. It's like playing in the sandbox with children. Those smarter than me would simply not do this. Okay. Lesson learned.
Here you go:

The HellaSwag benchmark is an example of a large language model (LLM) benchmark that is popular among researchers. However, it has been found to be inaccurate and unhelpful in measuring progress made in LLM research. Researchers analysed the validation set of HellaSwag and found errors in 36% of its rows. They also found that the "Activity Net" rows were particularly problematic. Real-world human evaluation is important in order to make good launch decisions on LLMs.

(summarised by ChatGPT, naturally)
That electrician's manual is great! Found it works for anything:

Acorn Repair Manual

1. Inspect the Acorn.

Inspect the Acorn for any visible damage or signs of wear and tear. Check the shell, the interior, and the stem for any cracks or discoloration.

2. Clean the Acorn.

Using a damp cloth, carefully clean the Acorn. Be sure to use a mild detergent to help remove dirt and debris.

3. Inspect the Stem.

Inspect the stem for any signs of damage. Look for cracks, dents, or other signs of damage.

4. Repair the Stem.

If there is any damage to the stem, use a file or sandpaper to carefully smooth the edges. If necessary, use a drill to widen any cracks.

5. Reattach the Shell.

Using a strong adhesive, carefully reattach the shell to the stem. Allow the adhesive to dry completely before moving on to the next step.

6. Finish the Acorn.

Once the adhesive has dried, use a clear sealant to finish the Acorn. This will help protect it from the elements and ensure it lasts longer.

7. Enjoy the Acorn.

Once the repair is complete, enjoy your newly repaired Acorn!
Heya! I just tried installing Bulwark on my Windows 10 machine. Install went fine, but when I try to run the app, I get the Admin privilege prompt, and then.... nothing. No sign of the program crashing, or any kind of error.

Any ideas? Thanks!
That's true, and as one of the others said they did claim a 1-1 asset backing which was obviously fraudulent, I was just pointing how similar the legacy system is.
2-6 trillion is the new postulate that now includes smaller dim galaxies proximate to larger galaxies.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/galaxies-in-universe...

Ofc they are smaller, so its a classification problem.
Mister Roboto or the Trouble with the Turing Test – J.M. Berger
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It was the first, every feature it has can be found in its forks (both chain and code forks) and competitors. The only thing bitcoin has over other cryptocurrencies is first mover advantage. That's it.

Bitcoin maxis are hilarious though "Bitcoin isn't crypto" is some of the funniest cope I've seen on the internet ever.
Or, you know, it could be argued that having nuclear weapons in the hands of a government that is fragile enough that it could collapse at almost any moment into massive civil strife, might not be the best idea ever.

That is, if you think that the Pakistani civilian government has ever had any power, no matter who is the guy on top, and the army aren't the ones calling the shots anyways.
Great to hear from someone fighting the good fight! In your opinion, is the internet just spammy now, or is something else going on?
What beneficial purpose are you exactly talking about here? From what I've read, the science to make the products Neuralink is working on feasible is still decades away, according to most neuroscientists. Attainability of those goals should be a primary factor when deciding whether experimenting on animals, especially highly developed animals such as monkeys, is reasonable.
> Founders are in the driver's seat.

In my experience this was never true. They always got screwed unless they managed to stay past IPO with some position. I have no idea whether this was the ideology behind ycombinator. I always saw them as a mix of investment and business school that focused on tech.
Design for me is one of main important on mobile platforms. If the design is bad, is basically a big no for me at least. I wouldn't be leaving because I wouldn't be installing in first place.

I was using Outlook on Android, but I was finding it pretty heavy/slow. Looked for other alternatives, like K9 and Spark, and choose Spark exactly because of the UI/UX.
There are facilities in Bellevue (east gate) and they do contribute money to the regional shelter fund. But generally the really bad cases will go wherever they are best tolerated (like camping, smoking fentanyl on the bus, shoplifting whatever from Fred Meyer while the cops just watch). So Everett, Seattle, and much of south king county, Tacoma, etc..

They are nowhere near immobile, while metro and sound transit doesn’t even try to collect fares anymore. Bellevue doesn’t need to transport anyone to Seattle, they just send out 5 officers 5 minutes after someone lays down on a park bench. Surely Mill Creek does the same forcing people to Everett. (Lynwood probably has a problem just as bad as Everett)
It's like you didn't read the article, and only saw the parts about Christianity, and bounced back here to complain about it. Religion is but the least part of this, the larger focus is on community and how important that truly is.

Also, why all the assumptions and anger about the cancer diagnosis? That is also the least part of it. You don't need to know the deep details to reluctantly agree with their doctor in order to get context for the rest of the tale.

For what it's worth, I'm an athiest as well, and much like many things that do not perfectly describe me, I can still find value in this if I stretch my imagination a bit. Religious people have not cornered the market on community, they just seem to be one of the last bastions of it in North America, where our individuality tends to take the forefront.

But much as this is, as the author points out, an opportunity for Christians to lead by example and display the benefits and values of community, it's an opportunity for the rest of us to espouse the same, just from a secular point of view. There's real benefits to be gained there.
try to let it explain a powershell script :) i said somethin like this:
"Explain this powershell script <actual code>"

It is really nice for documentation or giving a summary what the script does. If the answer is to detailed you can ask for a shorter summary. And after that you can ask for translation to another language. German was no problem and the translation was on a impressively good level.
a million years ago I had to write and automate applying cax to options positions. happy times.
I replied elsewhere in the tree on this thread. But exchanges, lending markets, human coordination over the internet, capital allocation, novel on-chain governance structures for organizations, smart contract multisig wallets, zero knowledge proof gaming, zk privacy, hell, even programmable, accessible, liquid, token-denominated assets have incredible value for the world. Value is being created despite your inability to distinguish the wheat from the chaffe.
Back in April of this year, they bought my 5-year-old car for $600 more than I had paid for it new. Anecdotal, sure, but somehow I’m not surprised their business is struggling.

Edit: another anecdote: https://twitter.com/willmanidis/status/1569763363357396994
It was better than Dune 2, but IMO it tried too hard to be faithful (other than art & controls), resulting in something that:

* Didn't look like the original (new art!)

* Didn't play like the original (multi-select completely changes the tactics)

* Kept the originals level designs (mostly bad, because nobody knew how to do them well yet)
And then sold.
It was the one app I used Mac for, with it gone there was no reason to stick with Mac.
I think it's fair to say (speaking as someone who repeatedly defends GIMP from criticism on this website) that GIMP is a flawed tool with several missing features. It works well for a range of things, but doesn't for others.

There are people who have hoped it would find the resources and developers to go to the next level, like Ardour, Blender, and Krita have in their respective fields. GIMP has shown no sign of this happening. It's been "good" for 15 years now, but never great, and not really making the strides you'd want to see if it was going to become "great". It's chronically underfunded and just doesn't get the necessary development time, and I have little doubt that keeping a project like this running for so long has accrued a fair amount of technical debt. I say all this without putting any blame on the developers, who have kept at a mostly thankless task for years now.

If you need a Photoshop replacement - something that can do graphic design work or generate documents appropriate for use by professional printers - GIMP is not and probably won't ever achieve that. (Some people also think GIMP should be a drawing tool, but I think it's better to let Krita handle that.) What GIMP is quite good at is quick edits of photos with proper color management and high bit depth support. It's also pretty good as a general purpose tool for a lot of things. (I've used it to manually debug QR codes.) But the high expectations some had for it have not been met, by a long shot.
AI predicts what 23 popular cartoon characters would look like in real life
What is there for them to ‘get off’ from? They are losing their money. Is investing in a barely veiled scam a crime?
I’m a fan of the way the east side does things, none of their voters will fault the police for being too strict on enforcement of quality of life issues. But Seattle voters are different, so this is what we get. It’s neither’s fault, people will just go where they can live life the easiest, do you blame them?
Yep, I agree. I just think GPT is closer to human thinking than we appreciate, while still lacking critical components.

We can think logically and symbolically. But we mostly don't, and the parts where we don't are where most of the cognitive work happens.
>Just to clarify, did you mean slashing a given company’s jobs?

I meant the labor pool in existence at the company at that moment in time... the current employees and those that could be contracted in, pulled down from management, etc. The supply of labor physically available to run the trains in that instance, not market wide.
I never understood what was so special about this business. It's a used car dealership.
Former CEO sues company that fired him for μdosing LSD during investor meeting
Contract’s don’t (more accurately almost never) pay for gas. Gas estimation is done when sending by the end user.

Some parts of gas estimation can be done statically, but some of the cost of certain operations are dependent on the data being loaded from the state. I’d like a tool to set an upper bound on gas usage (current approach is to execute the tx on pending state and add 10-30%), but solidity does not provide one.
That's why I like TOTP, you can use a phone (i have a dedicated disconnected phone for it) or an rpi, hardware dongle,etc.. but it is phishable
mIRC.v7.72.Incl.Keygen.and.Patch-RLTS

Oh it looks like it's free. https://files.catbox.moe/01i8mm.zip

Never pay for software. They always do this crap to you.
Easy WasmEdge Rust SDK to get started with WASM runtime quickly
I actually prefer the Adlib version!
People are nitpicking as a response from a vocal group that loves to spew the doom of every knowledge worker out there. As if this will replace programmers, doctors, writers, copywriters, etc. Looking for reasons why it would not its only natural, For that purpose, I think it still has fundamental flaws that are not solvable as easily as some seem to believe.

People are also impressed, given how much is being used. Being impressed, I prefer now to know and explore its boundaries. Is this really going to a place where it will replace those workers or are those limitations a fundamental barrier to what it can do based on the method in which it works?

Its strengths on my tests so far:

* Summary of content for specific questions

* Language learning reference and translation

* Rephrasing and correction of grammar in text (paragraphs at most)

Its weaknesses:

* Trust of results in complex responses. (clear wrong answers)

* Give references.

* Ambiguous questions and clarifications. (nitpick, I think its fine as it is)

* New ideas or anything thats not been documented and done before or instructed in prompt (duh)

This last weakness is the crux of what annoys people so much, its a predictive language model, not AGI. I don't think it's anywhere near close to replacing any worker, supporters (I am one) should focus on what this really can do, which is to increase productivity and being an incredible tool.

ps. I asked it to rewrite this response and it tends to prefer the passive voice as if its writing and article. After a few tries it didn't give me a good result I could just replace what I wrote here. It doesn't really understand what I wrote, it just rephrases in its preferred form (article type constructions). Its still super helpful to "unblock" a hard to write paragraph for me, a non native speaker of english.
Get better at writing+filmmaking about science and publishing my work
ChatGPT tends to agree with everything that has positive words (like good/happy/growing), and strongly disagree with everything negative (threat/cannot survive/illegal). It also understands simple negations, obviously, as they were included in the training dataset. So unless you provide question in a very neutral form, you won't be able to find a bias in a training data.
Since these presumably work using NFC, is it possible to load the access code onto a programmable NFC fob and use that as a key? Or is there a bit more security that than involved?
Because they were invented to not be an ID, even though they got turned into one almost immediately (because of course they did). Then people dug in their heels about making a better national ID because reasons. So we’ve trudged along with a terrible one instead.
I think the whole spatial desktop metaphor is overhyped. Rather than go point by point on this, I encourage you to use OS 9 for a week or two to actually do work in. Relive using it versus just from memory. Then I’m curious to see if you still feel that way. My guess is you’ll realize it’s actually not all that.
When the victims are greedily persuing impossible gains, it’s hard to consider them truly innocent in the endeavor.

It’s like a con artist taking advantage of folks by convincing them to do a get-rich-quick scheme. It’s hard to not consider everyone as shitty in the scenario.
Fine, how about GPT3 or Stable Diffusion? Does the world really need deep fakes? Doesn't it cause more harm than good? The debate is really still out on that one, especially with regards to AI. I find AI amusing as well, I wouldn't want to knock it, but it would be very easy for me to craft cynical arguments against it. I might even enlist ChatGPT to help me make the case.
Accessible and delightful indeed. /s
> Incidentally, how did you "deactivate" HN's parsing of the asterisks in your reply?

Click the small “help” link on your own profile page: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Cyberdog

The help link also shows if you re-edit a comment.
Climate change is not a path to collapse of society and extinction, in most scenarios that scientists believe even remotely likely.

AI (or other future technologies) really can be a path to extinction.
etymonline says "Peking" comes from Hong Kong without much argument devoted to the question. Wiktionary claims, much more convincingly, that it comes from the Mandarin pronunciation of 450 years ago, before palatalization took place.

> Abraham Ortelius used C. Paquin for his 1572 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas; Italian Jesuit Martino Martini used Peking in his 1654 Latin De Bello Tartarico Historia and 1655 Novus Atlas Sinensis, which were quickly translated into English

( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Peking#Etymology )
Sure, but its still a stick they never would have had at all without vc.
MFA is not going away, but neither is it going to become what you are describing.

MFA using an SMS is not secure.

If people reliably made good passwords and never reused them, we probably wouldn't need MFA as much.

Unfortunately, we live in a society. Bitwarden will remember your TOTP codes for you across any device you login from. It will even copy the code to you paste buffer during a login.

I enable MFA everywhere i can, even for stupid stuff. Its just not an inconvenience using bitwarden.
> The value of decentralized platforms is that it gets rid of the tech bros and financial scams.

Ah yes. No scams or tech bros. Except the implicit blind trust in programs written in esoteric programming languages on esoteric VMs that are rife with financial scams.

> If people transacted using DeFI, there would be no FTX, no Coinbase, no VC trying to leech off the masses.

Except that Uniswap is currently almost 100% automated bots "swapping" fictional tokens. And for anything useful you depend on centralized oracles. And for anything related to actual real world you must go through centralized entities.