skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your two final sentences capture the essence of what I was going to respond. "It doesn't matter if the answer is convincing-looking and wrong. It needs to work / be syntactically correct at a minimum, which OpenAI seems good at. However, the OP and others needs to test and evaluate if the proposed answer solve the original problem. And if its not, it will quickly be revealed as such, and "downvoted" or whatever stackoverflow functionality exists to indicate bad answers. This applies to both human and AI-generated answers."
> Outrunning English has not been a problem elsewhere, but losing the ability to read was hard

Losing the ability to read is really a hard but also interesting experience. It really felt like losing one sense. While main tourist spots had romanization, more local places did not.

On the other hand, not being able to read made me more aware of my surroundings.

Like observing what other people did before doing something myself. Or having to stop for a minute before entering a store or ordering from a food stall to recognize what was sold there. I also remember being less distracted by ads and signs.
That's fair, but I think there's a clear rule to be applied based on functional and practical considerations, which is to acknowledge that widely held assumptions must be debated in good faith. To take a political example, the majority of people in the world assume that marital unions (which are a feature of virtually every human society) exist primarily for the purpose of birthing and raising children. You can disagree with that premise, you can point out the other areas where society has agreed to deviate from that premise, you can point out the cruel ramifications of that rule in certain cases, etc. But you can't declare that premise ideologically and morally off-limits. Because you can't as a practical matter achieve a functional society by treating a wildly held belief as outside the scope of good faith debate.
Oh yeah, it totally works! I have even had quite a bit of fun with Stable Diffusion. I'd probably also be playing with something like Copilot if it were open source.

But like, the person I am responding to is concerned--as are many people--that we are going to flood the world with shitty training data and then no longer be able to build these models... and that's either not the case and no one should concern themselves with that or, alternatively, these models need some fundamental improvement before they don't have the property of only being as good as average inputs.
The CTO of gab.com did a great breakdown on the scaling issues of ActivityPub federation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kDtZ8MBWy8
Your comment is full of metaphors and abstractions, and with nothing concrete. I could make your comment regardless of the circumstances in the world.

Please help connect with reality.
The Drama of Metal Forming
"And what would excite me about actually the birth of superintelligent AI - one of the things, apart from solving obvious problems like curing disease and energy issues and all the rest, perhaps differs a little bit with what Stuart said. I’m not so worried about idiocracy or all of us just losing our way as apes and living unproductive lives in dialogue with these oracles. I think actually, I would want a truly value-aligned superintelligence to incrementally show us, not merely conserve what we want, but show us what we should want to keep improving our values so that we can navigate in the space of all possible experiences and converge on better and better ones." - Sam Harris

Source : https://youtu.be/h0962biiZa4?t=2486
Then just post it, without drawing attention to where it's from and making that the inevitable discussion?
I think it's neat to start a Twitter competitor and build it in the open, but I don't understand how you're doing to get traction without federation or some kind of undeniable USP. Even Twitter had to "federate" with SMS at first.

Tip: On https://about.opendolphin.social/about, the word "Retribution" is probably not the word you want here. "Compensation", maybe?
Not only is this not relevant to the article, it’s also wrong. Computers cannot create new explanatory knowledge like humans can. One day they may. But right now we have 0 clue how this happens in humans so we are not able to program it in computers.
Fascinating gallery of Titan images including from the 2005 surface probe

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/galler...

Hope I live long enough to see the Dragonfly probe land there in mid-2030s
Not everyone involved chose to be - for example, the Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan invested $95M into FTX. Thousands of teachers' retirement plans are impacted through no fault (or very possibly, knowledge) of their own.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemcshane/2022/11/15/a-crypto...
I am afraid for whats to come. This is truly only the beginning. Good luck everyone. See you on the other side.
Hetzner is great, but it may not be the best choice for a social network that hosts user content and may attract controversy.

As a mass-market hosting provider, Hetzner is subject to constant fraud, abuse and hacked customer servers, and in consequence, their abuse department is very trigger-happy and will usually shoot first and ask questions later. They can and will kick out customers that cause too much of a headache, regardless of their ToS.

Their outbound DDoS detection systems are very sensitive and prone to false positives, such as when you get attacked yourself and the TCP backscatter is considered a portscan. If the system is sufficiently confident that you are doing something bad, it automatically firewalls off your servers until you explain yourself.

Likewise, inbound abuse reports sometimes lead to automated or manual blocks before you can respond to them.

They also rate limited or blocked entire port ranges in the past to get rid of Chia miners and similar miscreants with no regards to collateral damage to other services and without informing their other customers.

Their pricing is good and service is otherwise excellent, and if you do get locked out, you can talk to actual humans to sort it out. But, only after the damage is already done. If you use them, have a backup plan.
You can just dual boot/install Linux alongside Windows
My general rule; is there money in it? If so people will try again.
I was thinking, what part of HN comments do you think are already AI-generated?

As a human, I cannot give an accurate estimate. /joke
On Personal Predictions
Throughout history vendors have generally not been responsible for the actions of their users. Nobody blames Sharpie if someone uses their markers to make a giant poster with hate speech. Nobody blames the USPS if someone mails a letter with a death threat. Nobody blames Verizon if somebody makes a phone call to bully their kid. Yet people blame Twitter when someone posts a tweet with hate speech. This is a dangerous direction for the world to be moving in.
These comments make me want to log off for a bit.

Post: we hit scaling issues caused by our failing disks and running image hosting and databases over NFS

HN: It’s obviously Ruby on Rails fault
Has anyone made chatGPT chat with itself yet? There's some nuggets of cheeky banter and I can see parasocial potential. Run transcript through TTS, I'd listen to that podcast, or watch it as virtual avatars.
I got mixed results with "browsing: enabled". Also if that string is a plausible hypothetical output for the model, then it seems like it could also serve as a plausible authoritative input...whether or not that was the actual way they set it up. Although at that point it doesn't make much of a difference. Just seems relevant to consider that the model is sort of free-associating at all times and doesn't have any simple linear deterministic imperative IO
For sure, trust is going to be a major thing with this. I can certainly see 'Certified AI' being a thing for certain decision-aiding software. But, even though it's seemingly superior, no one trusts blockchain to store a real estate title. We collectively trust a lawyer with a freaking piece of paper.
It seems like a post-pandemic thing. Until recently the hub and spoke model was pronounced dead thanks to high efficiency of long-haul flights.
I'm not capable of reading a good, compelling book slowly. My eye falls on a sentence for an instant, and my brain has already read it. I feel like this might not be normal? I dunno. It's not really a useful or even desirable skill, but there it is. (I can go back over a difficult passage to make sure I really understood it before going on, but that doesn't slow my overall rate much.)

But I'm confused, because the author alternates between two different things they call "reading slowly": actually reading slowly, and reading many books in parallel so you cover a lot of pages but take a long time to finish anything.

Which sounds like pointless self-flagellation to me. My reading is driven forward because I want to know what happens. Putting down a good book after 10 pages so I can read a different good book for 10 pages would feel like...I'm struggling to come up with a comparison that isn't some kind of self-denial sex fetish thing.
> That seems to me like their import tax is working.

Kind of. And you can see it worked for India; they started making iPhones there because of the import tax and over time are exporting iPhones from India.

But there's a lot of products that aren't big enough to justify production in multiple locations, and Brazil tends to get those very late, if at all, because the import tax makes the prices way too high. Maybe video games aren't important, but Brazil has a wildly different experience with them than the rest of the world, because of the import tax.

Also, I think only the really populous countries can manage this style of tax. With smaller countries it's easier to accept the loss of sales and avoid the expense of local production.
> Filesystems are really good at storing files. Why not leverage all that work?

As an asterisk, the S3 API is key-value pairs, not files; that distinction comes up a lot when interacting with Amazon S3, and I would expect the same with an S3 API clone. For example, ListObjects[1] has a "delimiter" that (AFAIK) defaults to / making it appear to be a filesystem but using "." or "!" would be a perfectly fine delimiter and thus would have no obvious filesystem mapping

1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObje...
Cory gets it, that computing is a battleground for the future. Code is
war by other means. We will all be forced to pick a side. It would be
wise to familiarise ourselves with the lay of the land.
If you think that adding new words to the language to express concepts with more precision was what 1984 was about - you've really misunderstood 1984! (As the Newspeak project undertaken in the book worked by deleting words to prevent certain ideas from being expressed - the Newspeak dictionary became smaller with every addition.)
> You can find posts from people who were hosting their own single user instance that went down because of a popular post that got federated across multiple instances.

I either understand something wring about it or that still points out to Mastodon being slow and badly engineered.

Like, the updates are per server not subscriber right ? That's at worst few thousand requests, all of them can be essentially served from RAM. Even if you get 10k responses to your comment, 10k responses within say 5 minutes is still only like 30-40 req/sec, that shouldn't be much even for Ruby
So what I'm hearing is that the whole thing was designed as though any significant scaling was never really expected. That's not exactly encouraging for its future.
Did anyone try JS/React yet?
“Writing is thinking”
Thank you! I am currently using StevenBlack's host file for ad blocking across all DNS clients. The tagging setup is used as a split-horizon DNS; for example, my tiny tiny RSS domain gets resolved to 192.168.1.3 on my LAN and 10.1.2.3 for wireguard VPN clients.

I am using NixOS and consuming my own infrastructure definition, so the config is currently not portable, but I have been thinking about splitting it out into multiple files and publishing it.
This tool would make for a great pair programmer and an intelligent interactive rubber duck
Luckily for them, almost nobody works at search quality at Google.
Recommend this book, but honestly you don't need to read it:

Deep Work: Cal Newport

What you need to know from this book is that to write good software (both quality and quantity) you need to go deep. You need to fully absorb and understand the problem in your mind, BEFORE you begin writing code. And then, you need quiet undistracted time to map the thoughts in your mind, to code on paper.

This process of turning a mental model in your mind, into a well designed code model, takes more focus than you think (if you want to do it well). Give yourself a quiet room with no visual distractions. Just you, and your code. Set aside a few hours.

Most importantly of all - Remove the possibility in your mind, that a distraction could happen. I cannot emphasize this enough. Your mind will not go deep if, even on a subconscious level, you think a distraction could come. A text message, a spouse walking in, a co-worker asking a question, etc. These all need to be (as reasonably as possible) NOT possible so that your mind can go quiet, and you can take on the work.
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https://us.teamblind.com/logic
Yeah, absolutely. My position on AGIs for a long long time has been that they're great tools for a) generating insights into a large amount of data very quickly, and b) generating new instances of <thing> from examples of <thing> to help with exploring the possibility space of <thing>; but that any output or conclusion they generate _must_ be checked by a Human In The Loop, or at the very least their actions must be reversible without damage in the case of error.
My standard setup used to be a desktop with two monitors. Once I transitioned to using a laptop, I dropped down to a single monitor. Given that I often use my laptop away from my desk, I like having a workflow that stays consistent whether I'm at my desk with a monitor or away from my desk with just the laptop. Switching from one screen to two screens became too disruptive so I reduced to a single monitor.
I disagree! I believe that the universe optimizes away unnecessary calculations, like occlusion culling in a game engine. The sun and the plants and animals make the park more real, more resilient against being optimized to nothing than an office.
This situation reminds me of low-background steel:

Low-background steel, also known as pre-war steel, is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s. Typically sourced from shipwrecks and other steel artifacts of this era, it is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
> have no power to change it

Who are these people? The one and a half billion Chinese are powerless to rise up? No government can subjugate a billion people. Their state is powerful but it only works because the citizenry are decently happy with their lives getting better over the last decades
That's the difference between having features people use, and having features people think they will be used - communication.

Often times customers come with feature requests but dev/biz fail to translate that into problem resolutions.

"I want it to export all my data for this time period", should be followed by an in depth discussion on why that's needed, whose going to do perform the task, how often, under which circumstances.

A bad translation more often than not translates to bad UIs, half-features, and hours upon hours wasted on dev time and customer support time.
The downside to this future is that it, being the shift from applications to services, means instead of your data living on your computer it is instead fragmented across a bunch of other random places.

While most consumers don't really care and actually prefer the switch to everything being cloud-first, the stagnation it can cause for other developers is substantial.

E.g. If I want to make a cool email client, I don't have to ask the user's permission to send and receive emails, I have to have Google's permission to access their machine and to make this compelling as Gmail, I have to then store all of my user's data on my own servers. This compared to me just writing a client-side application that has no server requirements is a huge bust IMO.

My preferred future is where every user has their own server that can run general purpose applications. It would have all the benefits of the cloud (data available across all of your devices) and would grant developers more freedoms to create compelling experiences.

The future, I want is that some high schooler could create the next Google Docs without having to compete with Google on large scale data infrastructure and security but instead on user experience.
The EV Transition Explained: Charger Infrastructure
I wonder how much assembly fees per device is now. PRC got $8 per 3G. It's wild to to think the actual assembling of 300M units per year doesn't amount to much.
My experience with OpenAI is that it is very good at exactly this, because it is so good at understanding context and follow-up questions. I was able to make it produce code that appeared correct, but was basically pseudocode with correct syntax, so it compiles/runs, but does essentially nothing. However, when prompted to actually make working code and explain how and why it works, it does so. And its also socially appropriate, not rude and what else you could/would expect when being called-out or corrected on its bullshit. I can only imagine future versions of the current AI model will be even better at this.
I know a bunch of people that moved from a certain Georgia based ISP to Rackspace, that should tell you everything you need to know.
Smaller StackExchange communities don't have this problem from what I can tell. Stack Overflow maybe should be split up into smaller communities.
> if people who are shown ads could add tags to the adds for the type of product/service the ad is for, or other aspects of the ad (e.g. “this ad is horny”), and indicate classes of ads which they claim they would not be interested in, which, hopefully, advertisers would prefer to show ads for their products to people who would be potentially receptive.

This exists already (at least to some extent): https://support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155451...
I work in the industry and all I see around me everywhere are skilled and talented people doing their level best to ship the best and most useful products to their customers at the lowest prices. The theory that the whole industry was scared off from its former evil plan by the TED talks of a bottom-shelf sci-fi author strikes me as highly unlikely.
I’d agree with you except that EU airlines have to participate in the cap and trade system (ETS), whereas trains do not.
Hi, I made the decision not to replace the drives. I also wrote the article, and am the admin of Hachyderm.

So to be clear, we did try to "offline" a drive from the ZFS pool just to see if this was a viable path. The ZFS pool was set up a few years ago and has gone through a few iterations of disks. The mirrors were unbalanced. We had pairs of drives of one manufacturer/speed mirrored with pairs of drives from another manufacturer/speed. We know this configuration was wrong, again we didn't intend for our little home lab to turn into a small production service.

I think after spending a few hours trying to "offline" the disk, and then repairing the already brittle ZFS configuration to getting the database/media store back to a "really broken and slow but still technically working" state we just decided to pull the plug and move to Hetzner. Offlining the disk caused even more cascading failures and took about 30 minutes just for the software. We could have technically shut down production to try without the database running on it, but at that point we decided to just get out of the basement.

If it would have been as easy as popping a disk in/out of the R630 (like one would imagine) we would have certainly done that.

To be honest I am still very interested in performing more analysis on ZFS on a 6.0.8 Linux kernel. I am not convinced ZFS didn't have more to do with our problems than we think. I will likely do a follow up article on benchmarking the old disks with and without ZFS in the future.

zfs-2.1.4-1
zfs-kmod-2.1.6-1
6.0.8-arch1-1
One could argue that they are indeed injuring people, by stochastic terrorism [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_wolf_attack#Stochastic_te...
I remember estimates of the worth of each search to Google being 10 cents on average. Google does run Bert on many if not all of its searches anyway? And let’s not forget that searching the entire internet is not cheap either! Google holds the entire index in memory and every search hit goes through thousands of machines to return your results. In other words, running chatGPT might not exactly be a problem for google if it decides to do so.
Hi, i was never really successful with selling tools i created (saas or similar)

The only way i managed to make some money is by "hacking the system", one example is when i used my coding skills to find sport betting arbitrage opportunities but after making some money i got shut down. I also managed to make some money by trading crypto, which i did after gathering some data and making some simple analysis over it.

Anyway i would still enjoy to partner with someone who has business skills including selling or rather has some way to guarantee that what we build would sell.
Indeed, but with Prime going down the toilet, this might not last.
I am not optimistic about the future of sustainable specialized materials.

It seems very likely that the same structures that give modern high tech materials their unique abilities are the same ones that make them so environmentally unfriendly.
I would argue that more work can be done by more people because more accessible tools enable anyone to produce based on ideas rather than only a small subset of people blessed with the required skills.

Did digital art tools, compared to something like oil painting, destroy art as a field? No, there's more art and artists than ever.[1]

I believe the same thing is true for music.

I don't see AI replacing the artist or the author or the musician. I see AI enabling more artists and authors and musicians to produce even greater art.

[1] https://www.arts.gov/news/press-releases/2019/new-report-rev...
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33854184
They are largely cultural and corruption problems. And the biggest parts of the corruption problem is inherent to this conversation - wealthy people have massive advantages at maintaining and increasing wealth whereas the poor have almost none. This sort of tech will accelerate that, and if not stopped, a modern French Revolution is waiting (or just dystopia).
Eh, we served way bigger things, with millions of small files via NFS just fine. Out of non-SSD storage too. Their issue, as written in article, was SSDs failing.

It was migration from one clustered filesystem to another and the temporary step was just Apache equivalent of try_files and NFS mount aside the new FS while the migration was running in the background.

If anything filesystems are better with some nesting vs "one big dir"...
Expanding the DMCA model to speech in general! Ten years ago I would have been very surprised to see this take on HN.
What about complex specific recommendations (music, movies, book, travel, product...) : I love #A very much, #B is Okay, and I hate #C and #D. what should I do?
Ask HN: Why aren't there flights that require masks to be worn at all times?
Maybe there is a market for such flights?