skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So intelligence is a robot that can cook? Not so much an engineer or poet?
Helmets get pretty gross. I would not want to use someone else's helmet.
Verizon C-Band Deployment Ahead of Schedule
ChatGPT wrote an attack plan for an incel, mentioned specific schools
How does imprisoning someone help the victims in any way? People have some really fucked up ideas of justice.

Justice should focus first on making victims whole, then on rehabilitating the perpetrators to prevent victimization in the future. Imprisonment serves neither of those goals.
The sustainment problem is solved as well - there was the infamous example of the "fogbank" aerogel that we lost capacity to build. It turns out it's easy enough (with an unlimited pile of money) to reverse engineer any component we might need and rebuild capacity. Nuclear weapons aren't "complicated" once you've figured out the science, they're just expensive to engineer.

Since we have maybe 10x more warheads that we need, we can easily salvage any components from decommissioned ones which is actually what's leading to the plutonium storage problems from the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank
Yeah the food situation in the US is pretty sad. I rmb going there in an exchange and the family dad beeming with pride "look I bought you a French baguette", and suffice to say... it was neither French nor a baguette lol. It barely qualified as food for animals.
I'm with you to an extent: I'd like to drop the "Hint" and "Note" in the error message optionally.
Show HN: AI-Powered website builder app
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If I’m the one spending $700 to buy something I should be able to demand the check every outgoing product equally rigorously too. They obviously deem it worth it when they reverse spend that amount.

Why buy something there if the odds are higher retailer is scamming you, not the other way around?
I agree with this point. It isn’t the case that WSB interest disqualifies the viability of financial information… but it also doesn’t make it more credible.

The point I disagree with (and I think the original post is making) is just because an unpopular group (WSB) is interested in something, doesn’t discredit it.
Another cognitive fallacy is confirmation bias...
They already use license plate recognition when you are driving and there is a clear doctrine of no expectation of privacy in public places. They already have everything they need to do mass surveillance using photo recognition and your photo to do it with if you have a driver’s license and passport. It’s perfectly legal to do so.

They can track you via your cellphone using m records that they already get from the carriers.

You’ve given up your privacy with the TSA the minute you walked into an airport.
Taking a step back: Isn't it kind of daft that we humans must go through years of training to learn esoteric languages and ways of bending our brains backwards in order to tell a computer how to perform arguably simple tasks? In the ideal world, you can tell the computer what you want to happen and... it happens. If not, then you did not explain all your edge cases, and the conversation continues.

I think it can be argued that we have, seemingly overnight, made vast progress towards that world. You specifically mention code, but that concept is irrelevant in this world. Indeed, this is uncharted territory!
Nothing Plans to Launch Smartphone in US to Take on Apple's iPhone
Looks like it needs a lot of work to be viable in the advertising space.
It's not like that.
Apollo 17 Full Mission (Day 1) on the 50th anniversary
Should the president of the USA be held responsible for some department of the US government ruining a citizen's life (which happens all the time)? What about a state governor, should they be responsible for all the state's agencies? How about a mayor whose police force or other department acts poorly?
Wait until the author finds out how prosciutto is made. You take the (raw) hind leg of a pig, cover it in salt, and hang it in a cool dry place for 9 months to two years. Then you take it down, scrape off all the mold, slice it thinly, and enjoy its deliciousness. That's right, prosciutto is raw pork that was left unrefrigerated for months or years until covered in mold.
I do behave differently with some bicyclists than others and it might be correlated with helmet use.

If I see a bicyclist that looks like a bicyclist I tend to drive closer to them because I expect they are going to stay in their lane. Conversely, people who look like they aren't regular bike riders or teenagers just screwing around -- I will give a much wider berth... in some cases even going a completely different route to avoid them.
Whatever you do, don't leak company politics and operations and post it online. This person deserves to be fired.
There are guidelines in the spec but I think they are quite high. There's also studies that high CO2 kills concentration in schools, those seem more reasonable.

Zoned systems are supposed to be able to handle individual zone heating/cooling issues, floor to floor without question should be able to be controlled. Entirely depends on what is installed and how it is controlled. This is an area where cost cutting happens. Generally there's a ashrae spec saying there is a minimum of five degrees °F between heating and cooling.

So sure get a couple data loggers and report any findings to your manager.
Except chess.com never claimed he cheated at the Sinquefield Cup.

He's also seemingly faced zero backlash from any tournaments following Sinquefield Cup, including participating in the US Chess Championship.
Tried Norwegian (5 million or so speakers). It's doing great in it.

The moment I tried something in Norwegian it just switched AND kept all the context from our previous conversation in English.

It seem to speak all human languages in the same way it can translate ideas between programming languages, or write prose in style of different authors, and so on.
That'd be MS-DOS.
I also would not be surprised if bullets are easier to acquire than poisons and sedatives. Along with the delivery mechanisms.

AK-47s and their ammunition are abundant in many parts of the world. I don't think the same is true for dart guns for large sedative darts.

EDIT: I don't know what weapons poachers are using, so AK-47 is just the first thing that came to mind. They maybe use higher calibre weapons?
>"Who do you want to put in jail for this" - persons who allowed to put people in jail based on unconfirmed report. If I as a person go and complain to police that corporation stole money from me they would not just go and arrest the board / CEO.
Back button hijack warning.
Are you talking about large or small companies?

If small, why not just use RoR/Django/whatever + PostgreSQL?

If large, then cloud costs absolutely matter.

It seems that there is very small intersection where you need cloud scale but engineer costs exceed infrastructure cost.
(That's the joke - these systems all exist for a reason, it's a silly fantasy to try to avoid them rather than just spending effort to ensure they're robust and resistant to failure)
I am not sure that I've derived long term benefit from some of those parts.

If you wake me up at 3 AM and ask the sqrt of 196 I will say 14 and instantly fall back asleep. But it is there any value in that?

Don't get me wrong I love mathematics and I am sure that knowing the principles and fundamentals is beneficial.

At some point we have to decide what is essential and what is superfluous.

And I think that tools like GPT will put us in a position where we will have to make a lot of decisions very soon.
The smart route is to do all of that, but still modify them to remove the possibilty of a rogue person or unit from doing it as well. Its called covering all bases. When the stakes are this high (nukes), you ensure there are no loose ends.
Bacteria and Cancer: It's Not Random
Using ChatGPT to Explain Jokes
I love it when my post gets downvoted because it tells me that it is probably some disgruntled middle manager who previously got upstaged due to its own idiocy.

On this, I have to say, listen to their POV and weigh carefully.
AI and the merry-go-round of the mind (2016)
HN'ers that use the K9 Mail app, with which email provider are you using it?

What features of K9 do you like/dislike, especially compared to the GMail app?
ChatGPT, take the wheel! Letting it control a VM
So, I guess this is the inevitable conclusion with LLMs. Connect them to a real terminal and let them act on real-world objects... I honestly don't know whether I like the idea or not, but I guess it's good to have this conversation now while it is only a marginally better version of tldr.
Mandatory helmet laws are not the thing preventing cycling from becoming a viable alternative to cars. Plenty of places without mandatory helmet laws still are dominated by cars, and mandatory helmet laws reduce cycling participation by small percentages - most cyclists wear helmets without being required to, and it's not a particularly heavy burden. I know if given the choice between a car payment and wearing a helmet what I would prefer.

There's resistance to improved cycling infrastructure because there's resistance to improving any infrastructure, no matter how critical, and the overwhelming majority of people don't see a massive rework of the entire transportation system to shift away from cars as a realistic possibility even in the moderate to long term.
> (it's a core i7)

That doesn't tell anyone much.

The first i7 was released in 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture)
The kicker is rate of head injuries during a bicycle crash. A fraction of crashes involve a person's head (though when it does, for those one in ten falls, you really want it)

The numbers are under reported. Every cyclist I know that uses a bike for transport has been hit by a car. Myself thrice, never reported. Crashes involving myself, never reported. Hence, there is a bias in the data for the really traumatic injuries
While I honestly do want to support this approach because unlike the alternative it might (just "might", though) work, I regretfully must also admit that the huge problem with this is collateral damage. There are millions of humans out there that are either highly susceptible to or are already caught into believing all sorts of nonsense, getting scammed in all forms, costing them money, time, well-being and even lives. The issue with fake flood is that until the saturation/breaking point (when the understanding that existing trust system is fatally broken becomes truly mainstream) it's going to make this situation worse.

What's extremely frustrating is that the only alternative I've ever seen proposed are forms of a never-ending moderation arms race, some variant of a "war on fakes". Which is even scarier in the long run, because while it mitigates the damages here and now (good), it would never solve the underlying problem, and only further cement some parts of it (enforced trust invites potential abuse).

And as usual, humanity is currently stuck between two incredibly shitty options (traditionally going through a path of least resistance, no matter what could be at the end of it - because that's how large systems work), hopefully still searching for a magical third silver bullet.
> Someone can be extremely impressed with how a Boston Dynamic robot moves, while also being entirely unconvinced by claims that the lifelike movement is a sign of sentience.

Especially as those devices are all coded in a traditional manner, with no ML or NNs at all.
I used it at Sybase when I interned there in 2009. I've been fascinated by good developer tools ever since. It was such a joy to run, understand the reports and make fixes, and repeat.
>For this, a chatbot is no different than Google...

Exactly. AI chatbots look like something that can replace Google search and become the next big thing after search engines[+]. Like Google, AI chatbots will crawl and ingest the web. They won't be able to synthesize anything new, but it can be a convenient, very human-friendly way of querying the global knowledge base that the internet has become.

[+] If AI chatbots become successful, they will definitely start injecting ads and spoil everything again.
He predicted that monumental construction dating to the end of the younger Dryas would be found. It was.

He predicted that a comet strike at the onset of the Younger Dryas would be demonstrated. It was. 30+ genera suddenly vanished from North America, along with any hint of Clovis toolmaking.

He does better than anybody with his qualifications has any right to. His wacky speculations trace back to unaccounted evidence.
I have read it. Instead of honoring the license they sold, they changed them unilaterally without even contacting their customers and now they require you to periodically beg for a renewal of the lifetime license you own. This is scummy behavior.

Also, I wonder how they plan to reimburse users for the days they weren't able to use the software they paid for. Note how they pointed out that replying to the emails begging for a renewal will "take time" during which the software is unusable.
Because the havoc they ve wreaked could have been avoided, if only the police itself, a public service, behaved appropriately.

Declaring a car stolen by mistake shouldnt be the end of the world. One day someone with the same name as me committed an offense and I was wrongly given to the police of my country, and it took 5 minutes to clear me and nothing happened.
Yes, getting away with it. If there were 100x fewer people who could do those roles, the fact that they still loved doing them had nothing to do with how much they were paid. Simply adding more candidates to the job pool does not magically make each person's contribution to the company worth less, they're still doing the same work. It's just that the business can get away with paying less since there are more people available, some number of which are willing to accept that lower amount.

Again, there's no law of the universe that say more applicants = lower pay, or more pleasant working condition = lower pay. That is a choice businesses make. One made for the benefit of the company at the expense of its employees.
Why is "refunding the people he seems to have defrauded" not an option? Appeal to consequences?
Good piece. IMHO the introductory narrative might be slightly enhanced by briefly pointing out that synthesis of plutonium was not achieved until several years after Szilard's brainstorm. Something like, "Researchers predicted that Pu would offer such-and-so advantages; however, nobody had quite yet come up with the recipe."

In other words: As described with the high-level bomb design, every material and component therein was concurrently being developed, improvised or straight-up invented to meet existing theory.

Thank you for recommending Rhodes' books; they are excellent. I may be alone in this; however I wish he had split 'Dark Sun' into two distinct volumes: One about the development of thermonuclear technology; and another for all of the spy stuff.
Other commenters have covered the workload lock-in angle pretty well. Using Kubernetes as a target platform for your application already gives you a decent shot a workload portability. Keep in mind though that some K8s APIs are leaky abstractions. You pay with lock in into K8s of course. At the end of the day, lock-in is a matter of tradeoffs.

An often overlooked angle is the "organizational lock-in" to the cloud. Adopting the cloud in any serious capacity with more than a handful of teams/applications means that you will eventually have to build up some basic organizational capabilities like setting up resource hierarchy (e.g. an AWS Organization with multiple accounts), an account provisioning process, federated authentication, chargeback... See https://cloudfoundation.org/maturity-model/ for an overview of these topics.

To be honest I have seen quite a few enterprise organizations that went through so much organizational pain integrating their first cloud provider that implementing a second provider is not really that exciting anymore. Now of course, if you plan on eventually leveraging multi-cloud anyway you can save yourself a lot of pain by setting things up with multi-cloud in mind from day one.

A good read on the topic is "Cloud Strategy" from Gregor Hohpe https://architectelevator.com/book/cloudstrategy/
Do we know that jail time for corporate executives does not serve as a deterrent?
Just because your prediction was wrong doesn’t mean that we aren’t leaps and bounds ahead of where we were. Seems like that is the crux of people’s argument. Because it’s not perfect yet it’s not impressive.
It isn't censorship, it's freedom of association. Any business is free to decide who it does business with, offering trade and services requires consent from two parties, economic transactions are voluntary. Last time I checked sort of a leading principle of the whole cryptocurrency community.
Something I've noticed about chat ais vs direct search is that because a chat ai is a blackbox, I can't dig into an answer's source at all.

With a search, I can read the wikipedia sources or I know the forum, or the poster. But with an AI, it's a dead end and it sucks. I can ask people how they know something, but AI training data is invisible. It doesn't know how it knows something.

There is this oracle with a 10% chance of being wrong, and if I'm not already an expert in what it's talking about I have no idea of when that is, and no way to dig into things. It's the only source of truth, and never gives me any other threads or rabbit holes to go down.

The only recourse is asking follow up questions, so you're trapped in there in a learning box entirely in the bot's control. Not sure how I feel about that. I like that google sends me other places so I get exposed to different things.
It may help a 10X engineer. The code is not what's hard, it's figuring the correct data structures that matters (also known as architecture). Once you got the data structures correct, the code mostly writes itself, and I can see an AI do that part for you. That could be indeed a productivity multiplier.
The intersection of state replication and pixel streaming is indeed interesting. Cloud games for example are usually using game state sync techniques, and then add in the client<>gpu latency on top of that.

A true cloud native game (sadly part of Stadia's original ambitions) would hopefully have a more e2e state management approach inclusive of the pixel latency.

This is very different from "local multiplayer" pixel streaming, which may be what companies like Switchboard[1] are doing: multiple clients control the same I/O channel (e.g. you and I share a mouse on a single remote desktop)

[1] https://www.switchboard.app/
> I operate in the real world, where continually making something that's not-quite-correct then refining it and fixing the errors is how basically everything is accomplished.

This isn't really not-quite-correct; it's egregiously wrong in the central aspect of the thesis. Refining and fixing it requires understanding that, and how, it's wrong--and if you have that level of knowledge, why are you using a tool to write this kind of thing? It's not going to save you much time from actually writing the whole thing yourself.
> while also being entirely unconvinced by claims that the lifelike movement is a sign of sentience.

Well, would one suspect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Locomotion of being sentient?
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a25358099/drivers-give-helmet...
The danger of ChatGPT and generative AI
Oh god.

I was trying so many combinations I didn't even notice this one had switched.
The rabbit hole goes deeper when you introduce the concepts of blame and responsibility. People all too often fully assign blame to one piece of the giant network of causes that result in an outcome.
According to the CDC, 30% of injury related deaths are TBI-related, and 14% of those TBIs are from car accidents. Why not have mandatory helmets for auto drivers too?
I Miss Balloon Help (2020)
Exactly. This is what BIS is highlighting. It's big and it's hard to watch from a system perspective.
Web browser and mobile happened.
Not just hard, but expensive. The Acquired podcast episode on AWS[1] highlighted a particularly ironic angle of this:

> David: I can do you one better. Another example. Amazon.com used Oracle databases when it was started. Amazon.com did not finish their migration off of Oracle databases and onto AWS products until 2019.

> Ben: Oh, my God.

> David: Thirteen years after AWS launched.

> Ben: That is insane.

> David: It took that long for Amazon itself to migrate off of Oracle.

[1]: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/amazon-web-services
Prince of Persia as well. There goes my whole day.
Most of the swaps are foreign entities borrowing US dollars to hedge their own currencies’ FX volatility. This simply conveys the incredible US dollar dominance in global markets.

Also because FX swaps are collateralized with up front principal, the leverage is very low. The primary risk is short term liquidity and not default risk, which makes this a central bank issue, hence the BIS warning.
It will likely be difficult to detect LLM-generated text on any individual piece of writing.

That probably means the approach that will take hold is more systemic — have some writing take place under more controlled conditions, then use authorship analysis to detect writing that is inconsistent with the controlled text. It will not be easy!
Because CBDC are the complete opposite of bitcoin philosophy. Bitcoin is about personal freedom and separating state and money. CBDC is about centralised govt control and monitoring
Ask HN: What is the difference between a SR, QA and DevOps Engineer?
I am currently reading up on profiles and principles which are focused on keeping our systems up to date and reliable. We have a production monitoring team, but I feel that this is not the way to go, as the team is handling everything from quality assurance to ongoing operational interventions. I therefore believe that using more industry known practices can help. The terms that I found related to this include Site Reliability Engineering, Quality Assurance Engineering and Devops Engineering. What are the differences and roles of these principles?
AI is quite good at style transfer. You can already give GPT a few paragraphs of your own writing and have it write in your style. Or anyone's style. Your solution may work for the naive case, but it's a losing arms race.
Seems like a completely failed program to me. Any organization should be able to quantitatively prove their value on some level. As the article points out, for the DHS to say they do “not have information on [the air marshal program’s] effectiveness” while also averaging a cost of $200 million per arrest is an insane statistic that should immediately require changes in the program.
Unless there are some loops holes, no. If you book 1 dollar revenue and 1 dollar donation your profits don't change. But I don't even think you can book revenue for a donation made at a kiosk under GAAP accounting.
You're not trapped in there, because you're entirely free to go and research yourself. You can look up what it's telling you.

It's no more trapping than talking to a stranger who seems to be knowledgeable about a subject but doesn't hand you a list of references.
From what I know, it only has minor under-the-hood changes from Win10, while having MASSIVE regressions to UI/UX. Increased ads, increased spying, and while certainly subjective, I think the largest regression is how much it's trying to imitate MacOS.

News flash to Microsoft, there are a lot of users that use Windows because it's not MacOS.