skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the "ownership" of servers:

I really can't blame them entirely. Perhaps you could blame companies for not using a hybrid model where players can host privately plus maintaining their public servers.

Why? Because in a similar vein to how social media needs to be moderated to prevent the bad apples from spoiling the bunch, games now need to be moderated to maintain reputation among the community. If a player hearing about CSGO for the first time has no idea what they're getting into finds only a public server running 24/7 CS_OFFICE with Warcraft Mods they might get a bad impression of what the game is. Having consistency in user experience is highly important, and public servers being maintained and moderated by the developer is probably the most important part of that. What about all those servers that have massive latency issues? That's a bad look on the game because most players won't recognize community run servers are the reason the game behaves buggy.

Do I dislike it? Yes. I think it has created irreparable harm to the ability for gaming communities to build organically but so long as central hubs like Reddit or Discord continue to pop up I figure they've just offloaded the community aspect to external sources. Is that better? I'm not sure. Partially yes. Losing contact with a friend because they stopped logging into your preferred server isn't really a thing if you're Discord friends or Steam friends.
In what problem domains are they fun?
These takes are always the funniest to me, especially in a forum that would expect some minimum level of thought. It's like saying to a baby - 'meh I could crush you in a chess game or meh it can crawl ... so what?' without any level of self awareness that its still an infant.
Create content with AI will be easier and faster, but it doesnt mean humans wont generate garbage. That is one of the main problems of the search engines. And as long as you can put ads in your content you can create any garbage and put ads there to make money, as long as the content sounds relevant for a lot of people.

For me the main issue with AI creating content in internet is going to be the echo chamber of that content being used to train new AI models.
> Until now, if you ask "what makes humans different from animals" many responses could be in the line of "generating art, poetry, music, synthesise ideas"..

That's because we (as an agrarian society) have constructed an idea of “what a human is” in opposition to animals, but with the advance of AI maybe we'll realize that we are much closer to animals (especially other mammals) than we're comfortable to admit (and no, I'm not vegan).
We've been able to source a few last month, brokered by RPi foundation directly (basically asking them to help out), after exhausting all other avenues.

Previously we could order a box o' 150 with lead time of about a month without problems.

The crunch is real.
So, quality control will still be performed by human experts in the near future.

I don't see why we should all panic about the future outlook of the human race in light of these groundbreaking developments.
It's like the ultimate solipsistic debate-club point of view, distilled and targeted in whatever direction you choose.
In the USA at least this could be a felony DMCA violation.
I completely agree with you. As we grow older and gain more life experiences, we are able to see and appreciate the hard work and sacrifices that our parents made for us. Even though they may not have done everything perfectly, their love and dedication to their family is truly admirable. It's important to recognize and show gratitude for their efforts and support.
Analysis based on introspection is dangerous, but it definitely feels like I have such an adversarial model. A lot of the time my brain tosses out five or ten ideas before I hit on one without obvious flaws.

It's usually serial, so it's not clear to me that this is using different hardware than I use to generate the ideas in the first place. We might be surprisingly close to human-level AI.

Or not.
Microsoft looking to develop 500k sq ft data center in Stone Ridge, Virginia
Grid means the electrical grid. That’s it, and it’s typically the only utility that is available in rural areas.

Many off-grid people don’t have these weird ideological hang ups that HNers project onto them, they simply want to live on land they own, and electrical service is impossible or extremely expensive.
www.mathacademy.com is in beta and another option too.
Why don't you just move to a new server ?
And electricity did go sky high in Europe at least, that's a moot point.

"If there was a similarly priced alternative I'd be gone in a second."
Cool, so they're cheap, decently-ish on support and there are no alternatives, yet you complain they are making some money from people that don't upgrade their old hardware.
Of course, you are still spending company money at thosr expenses have to be properly accounted for.
Yeah, never pay for an upgrade is just not a good business model because you presumably have sold to a larger and larger percentage of your potential market over time. Some sort of minor updates are free with discounted price for major version upgrades is a better idea in general.
My point is that in some cases, the DMCA appears to require OSPs (YouTube, in this case) to restore content that has been the subject of a DMCA takedown.

I don't see how that is compatible with the idea that YouTube has the right to not host content on their website. It's their website. How can a counter-notification take away - even for an instant - YouTube's right to control what's on YouTube?
> there’s really no proprietary UNIX maker left

Except for Apple, HP, Oracle and IBM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#Curr...

Oracle is not in the list because they just decided to stop paying for certification, other than that Solaris should still be compliant.
> ...in terms of particulates, tire and brake wear...

Request to all:

More posts about reducing these particulates (from tire and brake wear) please.
B&H is excellent. I also tend to go directly to manufacturer sites. They may actually use Amazon for fulfillment, but you can be assured that the product you get, is real.

I generally don't go for extremely reduced prices. I find that it is way too easy for scammers to take advantage of us, not paying too much attention to something we get at a good price.

Every. Single. Time. that I've gotten a "great deal" on something, it has turned out to be fake.

I have a pair of "Nike" shoes at home, that I got from Amazon, and are obvious counterfeits. I still have the original Pegasus 30 shoes, that I got at a local store, over ten years ago, and they are fine. The soles got flat, which was why I wanted to get new ones, but the shoes still work fine, and the padding is still good.

The "Nikes" that I brought from Amazon, a few years ago, crapped out, after just three or four months. They actually cracked, and I tried out a couple of other types of sneakers, over the last few years.

Nike has discontinued the Pegasus 30s, so I switched to New Balance sneakers, and I got these directly from the NB web site.
I completely agree with this comment. It is surprising to see how well AI is able to perform in fields like art and poetry, which require creativity and nuance, especially when compared to tasks like driving which may seem more straightforward. However, this shows that AI is most effective when it is able to make mistakes and learn from them. In the case of poetry, a human can easily sift through the generated poems and pick out the good ones, but in the case of driving, mistakes can have serious consequences. This highlights the importance of considering the potential risks and limitations of AI when applying it to various tasks.
There is nothing “open” about Android in a practical sense. Most of what makes “Android” Android outside of China is closed sourced Google Play Services and related apps and Google has requirements as far as when a manufacturer is allowed to use the closed proprietary parts.
It's normal. My Affinity license is a lifetime license. It doesn't include version 2, but I still have the license to the original. Similarly, any non-subscription Microsoft Office license is a "lifetime" license. You'll get security updates as long as that version is supported, and afterwards, well, it still works... your license just doesn't expire.

It just also doesn't grant you access to newer versions.
OK, re-reading your comment: Yes, I agree of course it is not super-human. People are impressed because it's able to express itself like a low-to-mediocre-skilled human, which still seems like a pretty high bar.
Yes let's form another government bureau to make sure that VIDEO GAMES are LESS BUGGY lol. Or, you can just do without your bing bing wahoo.
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We have free will, and the atrocities you mention are acts of men. Why would you blame God for them?
The density of information that needs to be processed matters. Images, video and audio are all very information dense with potentially low signal-to-noise ratio, differential diagnosis on the other hand could be done with a text description of the symptoms which is an input with high signal to noise ratio (a text description written by a medical practitioner is even better).
> "You are mistaking again model with dataset. "

No, what I'm doing is considering the web content (incentivized by the ad systems Google provides) with the web search systems.

> "and not only it can return answer that was NOT in the dataset but it can make it plausible looking."

This is exactly what SEO spammers do. It's the same.
No.

And from studies I read the issue with gas stoves are pretty much exclusive to developing countries with bad stove standards and poorly ventilated kitchens.
It's so weird to me that people pretend that Waymo and Cruise don't exist. And with the recent wider release of Tesla's "FSD", if it wasn't handling 99% of it properly you would hear about collisions all over the place. And I know there have been some here and there before. But this is a massive deployment of AI. If it doesn't work there are going to be a LOT of crashes. But there are not. Because it works.
Another "considered harmful" post. Please stop.
there's a paper that basically shows these LLMs are pretty much tapped out in terms of quality data to train on, not sure if there are any legit architecture improvements in the works to improve results quality but it seems brute force training with more data may be about over - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.04325.pdf

As for SEO, Google is going to have to stop being lazy and relying so much on backlinks and domain authority. They might have to consider allowing searchers to essentially vote on what they consider good. I don't see any other way low quality AI content doesn't dominate SERPs, established players will spin up entire sites and spam backlinks to them all. There are also people working on using AI to identify obvious AI content by finding patterns in the output which is probably our only hope.

For social media and forums they will have to rely even harder on captcha or they will be taken over by bots talking to other bots
Thats interbal policy so, and hardly a problem with the expense system in question.
It would be nice if we Latinos actually showed up to things on time though.
> Aren't they the same thing?

Ah. In my mind Canvas refers to the 2D API, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API

Which is different and separate from WebGL, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API

(There will be a third different and separate API, WebGPU: https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/)

> And egui also talks about challenges with rendering on browsers using WebGL and WASM

Ah. It's good they are aware of this.
I’ve always personally disliked MIRC as a product, mostly from a UI standpoint. I feel there were also some bad choices around its scripting support, which in the early days, put casual users at risk of malicious actors.

However, I think KMB made the lifetime agreement in good faith as a (mostly?) solo developer. I don’t see a huge amount of growth in Windows IRC usage, so this would otherwise likely be abandoned or largely unmaintained. If someone is big on him keeping his word and he sends the key, I don’t see a huge problem.

The main concern I would have is in the extremely unlikely situation there was a ‘important’ deployment of mIRC that suddenly stopped working without warning, but that would have been three years ago.
A lot of the top comments seem to be saying no. I'll go ahead and make the argument that, yes, this technology will eventually pretty much end most programmers jobs. I'm not talking about tomorrow. Even if the technology was perfect right now (which it is not), it takes time for organizations to adapt to change. I am also not talking about something as far away as 20 years in the future either. I think in as little as five years, we will see a very measurable decrease in paid programmers due to automation. In the short term many of them may be shunted over to code review and QA workflows, but the idea that the programming industry is somehow special, and will be the exception to the rule that increasing automation in a field decreases the number of people employed in that field seems a bit groundless to me. Someone used the example of heavy equipment and shoveling dirt. Yes. There are still people employed in the business of moving around dirt. But the percentage of the population that is so employed definitely went down with the invention of things like backhoes. Take it from a guy who was actually employed at a job that involved moving around a lot of dirt. I used to work for a water utility company. Hearing the old timers talk, you realized that the work crews used to be a whole lot bigger. Backhoes existed, but they were very expensive weren't yet ubiquitous. The backhoes would be reserved for the most complex or deep dig sites. Otherwise it was shovel time. The crews had to be bigger. Now every dig crew has a backhoe; the standard dig crew is four guys, but you can totally get a dig done with just three, if one of them called out. That being said, people do still get paid to move dirt around. You still need somebody to operate the machinery. But if a magical backhoe was released tomorrow that could reliably and safely dig on its own, it would without a doubt be adopted as soon as the organization had the money for it. Digging is a huge source of liability; the monetary incentive would be quite high.

Now earth-moving is one industry. Let's talk for a minute about another industry. Ice cutting. The ice trade was a huge industry in the 19th century. At its peak it employed 90,000 people in the United States alone. It was ended almost overnight by the invention of the refrigerator. Hardly anybody even remembers that it was a thing. The world went on without a thought. That is another possible outcome of automation. And as scary as it is, I'd still rather have my refrigerator.

So maybe the programming industry survives, and just employees fewer people, or maybe it goes the way of the ice trade, and in a century or two it will just be a footnote of history that people used to have to manually program computers.
> I'm sympathetic to the developer here.

I'm not. You don't get to unilaterally revoke a contract just because it turned out to be unprofitable or unfavorable to you.
They switched away from IRC to XMPP.
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It is baseless to claim that I “attempt to dismiss all arguments.” I only refer to one comment.

In that comment there was not an argument to which someone might engage. There was a string of free associated claims. The post did not contain any links to substantive support for the claims that Atlantean theory is “inherently racist.”

As a form of argument, it might be of the class “when did you stop beating your wife?” or the Democratic Party of the US are racist because senator Robert Byrd was a member of the KKK.

This is the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33860417

Thesis:

First, the Atlantis theories are essentially racist.

To make an argument the supporting sentences would address what is meant by “racist” and provide some evidence that “Atlantis theories” meet the criteria established definitionally or at least in common understanding.

Four supporting sentences:

Fundamentally, what it does is take some impressive structure--Great Zimbabwe probably the most notorious example--and ask who built it.

As far as I can tell there is no claim that a lost North Atlantic civilization built stone forts in SE Africa.

The natural first place to start looking is among the indigenous inhabitants (and in basically all cases, there is substantial evidence that this is indeed the case), but this theory is instead built by another group of people for whom there is really no evidence.

This does not establish that proponents of Atlantis theory make speculative claims due to a racist essence. The claim of “natural” isn’t a true claim. Given what is known about human mobility it would not make sense to link the builders of Cahokia with those of Chicago.

In other words, the theory is going well out of its way to avoid the explanation that the indigenous inhabitants, to such a degree that you have to ask why.

Again, doesn’t establish a link between Atlantis folks and the described behavior. In the case of Greater Zimbabwe there was a effort by the Rhodesian government to separate precolonial people from local architecture. Did the Rhodesians invoke Atlantis or is there some link between Atlantis theory people and Rhodesians other than they both engage in speculation? This is not established by the argument of the comment.

And the "why" is probably an inability to believe that the indigenous people could be capable of building such structures.

This is not related to the claim that Atlantis people are racist or not since the series of claims do not establish that Atlantis people do this. Additionally, this statement engages in hedged mind reading. It does not establish a likelihood of beliefs of Atlantis theory folks.
What does it matter if a thinking person cares or not. What matters is millions of people do care. People who vote.

I’ll let my transgender friends know they shouldn’t worry about the hate that comes their way because it isn’t real.

I suspect the people who have had death threats and such thrown at them because of the account don’t feel the same way you do.
That's Joey from Friends [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSFgDZJVYbo
I'd never heard of 'rolling coal' before. It's where you modify a diesel vehicle to dump fuel and emit a lot of smoke from the exhaust. As you might expect, people who do this to their trucks are very proud of it; it's usually a 'statement' against environmentalism.

It purposefully wastes diesel which is already much more expensive than gas. It's dangerous for a variety of reasons. It's illegal in the US and parts of Canada, though apparently not well policed. It's stupid.
One of the biggest dangers of trucks is losing their brakes and going out of control. As the article points out, regenerative braking vastly reduces that problem. So that’s a safety win!
Yes, pretend to be me and charge me for their actions. We call this identity theft and it is a rampant problem.
There is a way to have a sustainable business that sells lifetime deals and continues to support it.

You generally need low maintenance and support costs, but if you setup an investment to generate consistent returns for minimal dev/support costs or have a recurring stream of new customers it is possible, or charge for new features and add ons.

Do you really think that Adobe Photoshop CS purchases or video game purchases don't generate enough revenue to cover the costs and the only solution is recurring revenue?
You’re right. Apple is taking the Mac less seriously. It’s not like they just designed an entire line of processors just for the Mac and created laptops that are the fastest in the industry with three times the battery life.
For JavaScript they could build in a "test that code" step right into the web page. Or such a thing will be possible with the API.
I think the nearby comment that points out that this is more closely related to editing than to creation as it has recently been understood is correct. Which is not a value judgement per se, but the distinction between those two activities is useful and to me provides a useful lens to understand this change.
Because as we all know, _building more trucks_ will lead to the old trucks just magically disappearing, and not just have twice as many trucks on the road now. And as we all know, the building of that truck definitely doesn't emit a truckload of pollution, making batteries is a process that doesn't destroy the environment to mine the metals it needs, 50% of the electricity in the US doesn't come from fossil fuels, and Tesla doesn't make all of its money by selling carbon credits to other car makers, leading to the exact same amount of pollution anyways.

The way you make a dent in emissions is by increasing public transit for the public side of things, and making more freight trains so that your trucks only need to drive 50 miles, not 2000.
This generally worked to validate/check our (existing) startup, too:

https://twitter.com/mizzao/status/1599622556952145923
Understand, though where exactly does ChatGPT claim to be a source of factual information?

Wikipedia on the other hand does clearly state its intent to maintain reliability of its content:

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_fact-checking

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

Beyond that, in my opinion, while human dialogue might hedge confidence, disclose conflicts of interest, etc — to me, assumed the exchange is via text-based chat — there are much more efficient and effective ways to express that information than adding non-actionable text like that.
> "Replace word google with search engine."

No, I don't think I will. We are talking about the system as a whole.

> " Search engine will not return to you things that were not in dataset"

Yes it will, because the Google/SEO dynamic is in large part about incentivizing the generation of new content.

I understand you want to narrowly define away this fact to make a point, but the fact stands.
No disagreement with what you said but hasn't the whole pitch for Tesla Semi been for short hauls right now? Short hauls make a ton of sense on paper, limited highway miles where energy use can be highest, lighter loads and more stop and go. With a ev semi it seems that you might be able to take a large part fleet maintenance out as well as fueling logistics.
It can probably express feelings and emotions but not experience them.

You seem to conflate the two points.
Mincemeat can be vegetarian but it traditionally contains suet.
I think we will continue to be surprised by how effective GPT-X and other LLM models are at coding tasks. The main reason is that unlike math programming is a field where dozens or hundreds of correct solutions exist for every task.

All an LLM has to do is generate one out of hundreds of potential programs which solve the problem. It doesn't even have to generate perfect code, lots of profitable businesses are built off of buggy software.

What's wild about this is that for now ChatGPT seems to have the most benefit for 'stack overflow' programmers who rely on copy-pasting solutions to problems other people wrote. Now they can effectively generate a stack overflow answer to their specific question instantly!

For now AI seems like it will empower them.