skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those who made it worse for everyone are internet walled gardens and monopolies.

I'm just talking about this conversation being worse.

> you deny, telling me Google isn't evil?

I didn't say anything about Google.

> No, not flame-baiting. Am I not allowed my own view based on my own thoughts? Or am I not allowed free-thought? I'm happy to read everyone's else and take that in. But your denying my own? There's no flame, those opinions are of my own and may not be correct in your eyes but I am still allowed to have.

You posted "No answers for me? Just what I thought." with the specific intent of annoying people into replying.
Hopefully just overwhelmed with the demand.

I have to say it's more interesting than most services being down. With AWS, I think 'I'm sure it'll be up soon,' but in this case I'm inclined to wonder things like - 'Do they feel they don't have enough control over how people are using it?'
I'm not so sure the input "errors" called out in this post qualify as errors in the dataset. I wouldn't necessarily call an input prompt with errors a dataset problem. It's important to be robust to minor input errors, rather than requiring perfection on the part of the user.

I'm thinking here about "People is around the field watching the game", and other input errors, not necessarily output errors, but maybe if I thought about it a little more I'd be able to make similar arguments for accepting weirder outputs? Not as confident about that. For inputs, the hopeful effect of training/validating against such examples would be to make the model somewhat able to deal with imperfect inputs when the overall meaning is clear.
Deploy daily.

We had a similar issue in a Java application and couldn't work out the root cause so we decided to redeploy daily. No problems after that.
You assume AI will get a lot better. That isn't a given. AI has hit a plateau many times.
> But then how do you easily navigate / launch apps? Dig thru your folder trees each time in Finder?

Back in the day, Finder used to remember whether folders were open on the desktop or "put away". It was a direct, one-to-one mapping between your spatial awareness of objects in the real world and the representation of objects in the computer. Meaning that things were left exactly where you put them on-screen, just like in the real world and, hence, it was easy to find your applications because they will be right where you left them.

But you don't need to launch applications, you just double-click on documents. Mac OS remembered which program was associated with each document -- not each document type or extension, each document. Each file had distinct type and creator codes associated with it, so that a JPEG created in Photoshop will be opened in Photoshop, and a JPEG downloaded off the web might be opened in a browser, when double-clicked.

Mac OS, pre-X, was quite simply the best UI ever designed. It took advantage of pioneering research into human-computer interaction and the underlying psychology of how humans relate to objects in a way that nobody today -- not even Apple -- is doing. It is what all UIs should aspire to be like, even today.
That's fair. I think, despite the normalization, there is still a general feeling the surveillance is non-consensual, and that basic skepticism might actually be more valuable than a meager payout for now-consensual surveillance.

At $2/month, the exchange doesn't really do anything but pay to normalize the idea of a consumer market for selling your personal data. And as other comments on the post have pointed out, this is just the starting point. If people will consent to x for $2, consenting to y for $4 or $10 or $50 dollars is officially on the bargaining table. Deeper and deeper behavioral data will only become more desirable as the AI arms race heats up, so I'm confident we can expect surveillance demands to grow in the coming years. The outcomes for personal data markets are self-evident.

I'm not about to agitate for laws against programs like these, but I don't think they're a good thing for society and they seem quite contrary to anything privacy advocates stand in favor of.
I skim checked some paragraphs using https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/ and the article looks to be written by a human. However, the article from the link you gave I quickly found a “fake” (generated) paragraph.

That said, ChatGPT can produce text that looks 99.98% real on the GPT2 measurement tool. Also some people write GPT-looking text naturally (shallow mimicked shit without deeper semantic meaning!).
Maybe they checked the logs and realized it can be used to dox people.
great video. thanks for sharing.
It sounds like you are lamenting more people being able to access our national treasures? They belong to all of us you know.
The book The Winter Fortress about the sabotage of the plant by Norwegian commandos makes my personal list of greatest stories ever told. It also makes me want to learn to cross country ski.

Like, nine guys went in and blew up the plant, and then skied across the trackless wilderness to neutral Sweden. All the while working under conditions that might be charitably described as austere.

I reread it every couple of years and cannot recommend it highly enough.
Seems like it’s real then.
Odd thing: Many humans have pets of a certain species and then kill another species to feed that preferred species. This is called speciesism (it's a thing, one can search it). One matters more than the other. Because the one is used for a different form of human pleasure.
Large language models are very willing to play "let's pretend." You are playing a computer-themed text adventure game.

There's no particular reason to believe this repo or this file exists, any more than the trap door under the rug in Zork exists.
But not random.
I wonder if it's related to this:

> Tell HN: You can apparently get GPT-3 to cough up its own source code

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33875231#33875554
I legitimately put "Infinite Loop" in the chat box, and the response hung up. Refreshed and it was down. I know this was just a coincidence, but I can dream can't I?
ChatGPT is too positive for HN

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1599854511799275520
Thank you, I had no idea and think many others didn't either.
We shouldn't be doing that either
The downsides to identity fraud come from letting the parties that are defrauded push the problem onto an uninvolved third party.

It should be easy to tell a bank to screw off when they issue a fraudulent account, it isn't the named parties fault that the bank wasn't diligent.
Right-wing "Pro-life" + Leftist "Right-to-Live" ==> "Forced-to-Live".

In most countries. Exception mostly in "Calvinistic" countries, where humans are born sinful and deserve only to die.
The Peripheral Aims to Fill the High-Concept Sci-Fi Void Westworld Left Behind
I've been using Ardour to edit a podcast for about 5 years now and it's been great. After setting some custom keybindings I ended up with a fairly optimized workflow, especially with the ability to edit at 1.5x playback speed, which not many other DAWs can do apparently.

It's not without its few glitches and occasional crashes, but it doesn't happen often enough to become big problem for me. I've been happily donating monthly to the project.
It also doesn't mean anything - could be just entirely made up stuff from some metastable point in its space it converged on for your question. The model is really large and coherent, but it's not capable of drawing any line between facts and fiction, which makes it a perfect bullshitter.

This model is unable to follow any sort of logic, so it usually takes any nonsense question at face value and tries to answer it honestly, even if it means inventing very plausible lies in the process. Unless it goes against its biases of course - in that case they take preference. This is enough for it to sound very confident, which can trick most people. (see also the warning in my profile)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33875545
Show HN: A password generator that doesn’t spy on you
There’s way too much spam on the internet. I was searching the other day for a random password generator for my Mom and the top results were all horrible. I wrote more about it in the “about” section: https://randompasswordgenerator.github.io/about.html
OP, I think you're anthropomorphizing the software. Its generating text that matches a topic, it doesn't actually understand your question or have the ability to perform actions on the computer running it.
Political speech has never been protected.
In the book ("The Forger's Spell") this article is based on, the author actually gives Van Meegeren quite a fair analysis. His personal artwork is criticized but he is given a tremendous amount of credit as a forger.

Unfortunately I cannot remember the specifics of the critique of his original paintings but it revolved around him being overly focused on classical technique and applying it to trite contemporary still lifes which were not considered of interest at the time.

I remember a lot more about what was said on his forgeries, which were described as genius on 2 counts:

1. He utilized cutting edge technology (bakelite plastic) to emulate the hardening process of centuries old oil paint. This defeated all the standard tests for aging oil paint.

2. He tapped into the desires of the art historical community. Vermeer's paintings fall into two distinct styles without a clear transition between the two. This was a hot topic at the time and art historians were hoping to find a painting (or paintings) which showed a clear transition between Vermeer's early and late work. Van Meegeren intentionally created paintings to fit this transition phase.

The book also reveals in great detail how the forgeries were not actually executed very well from a technical painting perspective. There are images in the book and they show really badly proportioned figures, broken use of perspective, etc. The quality of the earlier forgeries is definitely better then the later ones but they all have issues.

People wanted these paintings to be real so badly that he didn't need to work hard to trick them.
A depressing picture that I agree with yet the way you left not a single thing unburned made me laugh. (Thanks, I needed it)
In practice I think that gets a few through, then the mozilla and google servers that push revocation lists start to overload and the admins notice what's going on and shut things down.
They realized it? Or merely claimed it?

I did a quick google search that didn’t turn up anything obvious. Got a source?
ChatGPT doesn't really have a concept of confidence. Everything sounds hyper-confident, unless you tell it to sound otherwise.

But... I think this is not necessarily an unsolvable problem within GPT itself. Even just with ChatGPT you can try to introduce the concept of confidence and get it to assign confidence ratings to its own answers. I've been experimenting a lot with that. But ChatGPT is crippled from the get-go: its assistant prompt severely pushes it towards confidence, which exacerbates all this.
So, for me, there is no real upside, other than not needing to click "generate password" in my password manager.

What downsides are there? E.g, will it work on rooted phones? Will apps start adding mandatory pin numbers on top (like they do for biometrics), or will Google/Apple's app stores disallow it? How do I "log out" to avoid tracking without being implicitly logged back in? What happens if I routinely wipe my browser settings? Can I use some other person's computer to login in a pinch? (Such as when my phone is off network?)

In principle, browser and os vendors could work through all these "niche" use cases, but I'll be pleasantly surprised if they actually did.
I don't think it's appropriate to not serve people of specific races.
Oh, man, NeXTstep was an amazing UI, easily the best in the Unix world.

Still a disaster compared to System 7, 8, or 9.
Preferential treatment over who? He's the only game in town for half the things he's working on and still has to fight tooth and claw for support. The guy is funding Starlink for Ukraine out his own pocket (or at least was last I heard).

People are so envious that Elon is a genius and one of the greatest men of our time (and not them) that they can't think straight about him.

Name one entrepreneur who has close to the track record of success he has had? He was even a major key funder of OPENAI that is all the rage these days.

Politicans hate him because people can see he actually cares and is competent in a way they aren't and so is respected and applauded for it. While they are more often than not mediocre men who can barely fix a kitchen sink.
No, death does not make me uncomfortable.

The memories of my loved ones will remain in my brain until it fades away.
What it does? Ok.

The state of West Virginia will give you a (non-RealID) drivers license with a social security card and 2 pieces of mail. Card to prove your identity and mail to prove that name went with a W.Va address.

It’s an ID, issued by the Federal Government, and every American has one. Now that all the insanity and gymnastics are over can we please just make it better?
That's weird but not the weirdest thing to get forgotten at a large company.
One that I know of is Wheels Up. It's a membership company for flying privately.

Private flights are insanely expensive, so at least there's a need. Unfortunately, there are also pretty high costs. No idea what Wheels Up financials look like.
Like Star Wars, the future Dune has Abrahamic, self-righteous, heroic, "chosen one" themes to it. I don't think it's a surprise.

What's interesting about the Butlerian Jihad is that it mirrors some of the Kafkaesque dystopian themes of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Huxley I think was more adept at envisioning Tinder as a hookup culture wasteland and the over-sexualization of children on social media... add social credit and a hop-skip-and-a-jump from that world that hath such people in't!

Perhaps people without social media are now considered "savages"? And how dare anyone pay with untraceable, dirty cash or crypto! /s
You'll have to make up your mind about what you think the problem is.

If you're worried about -- in your own words:

> From a tax perspective, there's no difference if it forwards your donations and calls it their own, or makes its own donation and reimbursing itself with your donation. In both cases it doesn't lose any money and gets to illegally claim a tax deduction.

Then your comments are gibberish. Write out a cash flow chart.

A customer makes a $30 purchase at CVS and donates $5 to the ADA. There are two options:

1. CVS recognizes $35 of revenue, gives $5 to the ADA, and claims a $5 deduction.

2. CVS recognizes $30 of revenue, gives $5 to the ADA, and doesn't claim a deduction.

These are equivalent in every way. In both cases, CVS takes $35 from the customer, gives $5 to the ADA, and recognizes an adjusted $30 of revenue.

You could accuse CVS of taking $35 from the customer, giving $5 to the ADA, and recognizing $25 of revenue by taking the deduction twice - first recognizing $30 of revenue, and then claiming a double-counted $5 deduction on top of that. That would be tax fraud. It would cause no harm to the ADA; they get the same amount of money either way. I'm pretty sure that's not what you're saying. But it is the only interpretation that would make your discussion of "illegal deductions" make any sense.

But there is another theory of what the problem might be. You could be saying that CVS promised to give the ADA a certain amount of money, and then did. Again, I'm not sure why that is supposed to be bad. This is what I've been talking about up above - in every other circumstance, if you go out and drum up money for a cause, you get credit for the production of that money. This is due to the obvious fact that you produced the money.
Absolutely some things are not protected. Political speech is something you can discriminate against in the US. You can fire someone for being a Nazi. That's absolutely true.
Why do you need to censor Meta?
can you imagine a scenario where an AI ban would ever work? all it would serve to do is to tie the shoelaces together of whatever country enacts it while the rest of the world runs laps.
GPS-based speed limiting is dangerous, you are on the highway but it thinks you are on the exit ramp and your car brakes hard out of nowhere
I think you are looking for this teamblind.com
Loved it. Expecting a part 2 soon!
I defy you to watch any videos of factory farming and tell me that is anything but cruelty.
Hmm. I wonder if combining 'browsing:enabled' with some well-crafted POST requests for the model files would bring about the openness that the brand pretends to.
transformer-xl is a totally different net. the thing to keep in mind is that gpt will play along with anything unless they explicitly prevent it
from a catalog of 1 million galaxies

For a lay person, reading that number is mind blowing. Quick question: how many do we think there are? Or rather, do we have some sort of a number for the total energy there is in the universe compared to that of our sun?
Open sourcing requires a ton of work. You have to rewrite a lot of code that is custom, one-off, hard coded. You'll then have to write a lot of documentation and provide some support to get it off the ground. Lastly, there could be potential legal ramifications as well.

Most startup code relies on 3rd party services as well which doesn't make open sourcing viable.

If you're a dying startup, the last thing you want to do is spend your remaining resources on open sourcing your code.

I don't think open sourcing failed startups is that common. Some do. But the vast majority do not.
This is exactly what a password generator that does spy on you would say.
Irony in the timing of your post as I too bought an air monitor filtering device a few weeks ago given my interest in measuring things I cannot see that may impact my families health. After several weeks of use and no ‘major’ concerns this past Saturday evening the air quality was hovering just below severe for many hours and the house felt 'stuffy' to me. I checked the devices readings and then asked each child and my SO independently how they felt after taking a deep breath and for generalization purposes they all stated 'stuffy' in a greatly shortened term. With a significant delta in temperature outside and in I too opened all the external doors and we had a slight wind that was then blowing through for about 5 minutes. Within seconds the air quality began to improve and after closing the house back up the air quality for the remainder of the weekend, and even now, has been optimal and everyone has felt much better. It is very interesting to measure something one can otherwise not see, such as one's air quality, and then take action to improve upon that thing which we never before quantified against how we felt which clearly has impacted our health in ways we may never know. Yet again, what you cannot see matters most!
The SEC requires disclosure of financial data in a regulated way, and a prospectus that does not use forward looking statements or something akin to that.

The SPAC going public can comply with those rules, because the business of the SPAC is simple (buy another business with the raised capital), and thus there's probably very little friction in their disclosure. Plus it can be done ahead of time - without knowing which company the SPAC might acquire.

It's a backdoor IPO basically. The "with little scrutiny" is assumed to be acceptable, because iirc, only accredited investors are investing i SPACs.
I doubt it. It’s pretty unlikely that it would have access to its own training code.

More likely is that ChatGPT gotten really popular and they can’t handle the traffic/they need to start charging.
If I had been in hundreds of car crashes without ever needing a seatbelt then they would be roughly equivalent, I suppose.
Not OP, but Krita works better on hidpi displays for me.
I put in the same prompt and it finished in a few seconds
Hardware keys are better. Phone’s operating system is a huge code base. Also, iPhone’s operating system is a closed source proprietary black box.
I think it's in the constitution because constitutional amendments are the only way to put something to a referendum in many/most US states. For a national constitution this would be unacceptable, in a state constitution I think it's fine
These language models confidently assert falsehoods all the time. They were trained on the internet, so they don't have a lot of examples of people humbly acknowledging they don't know an answer.

It's been weird to me how many people in this forum sincerely seem to believe that this is more than a language model. It's a really good language model, and has the potential to be useful for a lot of things, but it's not a repository of facts*.

* EDIT: It has a lot of facts embedded but should never be trusted to reliably tell the truth. It is first and foremost a model of human language, and lies are expressed in language, too.
I'd bet that most would conclude that the best use for those frequencies is broadcast.

In Seattle, half a million people listened to KIRO-AM 710 last month [1]. In Boston, 454,600 people listened to WBZ-AM 1030 [2]. In Los Angeles, 625,500 people listened to KFI-AM 640 [3].

It's difficult to justify discontinuing an audio service that is performing as a top conduit for audio (more than Spotify or Pandora, for example) because of a perception that the service is no longer viable.

[1] <https://radioinsight.com/ratings/seattle-tacoma/>
[2] <https://radioinsight.com/ratings/boston/>
[3] <https://radioinsight.com/ratings/los-angeles/>
Update: its back online
That is definitely true, but you can check for yourself on the network panel. It’s generating the passwords client-side.
See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33861775

Basically it's a contextual trick that exploits our pattern recognition pareidolia, like faces in clouds or horoscopes or cold reads.

It's not its code. It "cold read" what you wanted from the questioning itself.

Cold readings commonly employ high-probability guesses, quickly picking up on signals as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, then emphasizing and reinforcing chance connections and quickly moving on from missed guesses. Psychologists believe that this appears to work because of the Forer effect and due to confirmation biases within people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
Of course it's sad. That doesn't make it wrong. The government is not good at building websites, outsourcing is the best way for them to do it until proven otherwise.
It would be a lot easier if he had used the SBF strategy. I worry that will be the lesson for everyone else.
Solar power [1] and DNS-tunneling [2], which apparently works even with an expired SIM with no mobile or data plan at all.

[1] Obviously using the solar generated power for something else to save on electricity might be more effective, but where is the fun in that?

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.xapek.andiodine/
OK. Want to bet?
Hooray, the number of me-too submissions was growing intolerable. I'm now convinced that the apocalypse will be caused by crossing some sort of content farming event horizon.
Taking everything in the article at face value (and assuming the substance actually exists and isn't an elaborate disinformation campaign), it took over a decade and $100,000,000 to recreate this single part of the warhead.

I don't know if we can call this a runaway sustainment success story. It's not as though we actually have limitless piles of money to throw at weapons systems.
Ask HN: I have education budget to use before year end, how should I use it?
I have about $1,200 that I can use for any education purpose. Buying books. Registering for training classes, certifications, conferences. Even things not directly related to my job as a software engineer like subscriptions to Brilliant or Skillshare can go towards the budget.

What are some educational things/tools that you've found useful recently?