skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your concerns and I share your desire to approach AI technology with caution and humility. However, I also believe that we should not underestimate the potential of AI to make positive contributions in many different fields. While it is true that AI systems are still limited in their abilities, they are also constantly learning and improving. As we continue to develop and refine AI technology, I believe that it has the potential to become a valuable asset in many different industries and applications. I think it's important to continue to explore and test the capabilities of AI, while also being mindful of the potential risks and challenges that it presents.
Do you see it as a problem that it’s stripping a large number of people who wrote the resources it regurgitates (such as on teaching Rust) from traffic, potential income and attribution while the money you are charged goes to a VC-funded SV company?
How does it not follow? Does state ownership and subsidization supersede the fundamental reality of demand and supply?
Wow, they are not only shutting down operations, they will also delete everyone's data on December 31. Better hit that "export" button fast.

> The data will no longer be accessible following Dec 31st 2022.
I don't know if you've seen it, but there's a movie with a similar concept titled Sunset Limited, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. I found it captivating as well.
"C&C style DDOS" that's not a thing? Are they confusing coordinated spamming for that? I suppose enough spamming can cause DoS and this seems to be coordinated but unless they're using the DDOS channel also for C2 this makes no sense but there does seem to be shenanigans lol.

I've seen platforms that serve niche communities get the attention of serious trolls once they get too popular. Not much you can do other than add more money and people.

Mark my words, that day is coming to HN. Already seeing propaganda dominate the front page. You will start seeing major news outlets and internet-famous people mention it casually then brace for impact. dang and existing anti-spam measures with just two servers will struggle. I hope I am wrong though.
So you think souls exist before people are born and so can be lucky. Got it.
It's asymmetric in the sense that writing becomes free, but reading still takes just as much time as ever.
I stopped posting photos on Instagram. It takes a lot of effort to compose a good shot, process the RAWs and upload them. The interaction rate has gone down considerably. A decade ago, people genuinely commented on photos and provided feedbacks. Like counts has gone down as well. It feels discouraging to post photos with such less of a interaction and feedback. I don't care about the likes, but the platform that originally built to share photos no longer values them. Photos are replaced with stories, reels and ads. The influencers are pushing all sort of crap that gets boosted by the algorithm.
It's not as foundational as the original MW or as "fun" as the original MW2, but it scratches a similar itch. The MW 2019 set the direction and MW2 now is a bit more slow paced (no more slide-cancel stuff) and more fun to play. SBMM is still a problem though.
Yes. I didn't like doing it, but only one of those apps would work without photo permissions.

Should an app get a free pass just because it comes bundled on my phone?
On a related note, I am very curious to find out what kinds of representations he made to his investors around accounting and risk management. Would not be at all surprised if he goes down on very similar charges as did Elizabeth Holmes.
This brought back amazing memories of 8th grade. Thank you for this :)
I think this quote represents actually a key part of a rebuttal:

> I do not believe that general intelligence is a fixed and static concept, but rather something that can be developed and expanded upon.

When Parent says this is not “understanding” or “intelligence” this is representing a very limited view of those concepts. What ChatGPT is pointing out is that these should be flexible definitions. Clearly it is not AGI, but it is demonstrating that it is on the pathway.
What’s the double standard? A private company can choose to be partisan. See Fox News or Truth Social.
The Feds don't arrest you until they have a case fully prepared that they're 99.99% sure will get a conviction.
A lot of people inside that company carrying on an illusion of providing value. Managers stacked on managers, cracking their whips on reports to build tech that never adds anything at all to the company
Hmm, I can't get an RSS that small even with -nw (to use the client TUI), but leaving that aside, on my box just running GNU Emacs normally I get 88MB RSS, so maybe we just need to update the acronym. ;)
Hey! I'm one of the remaining Fosshost volunteers, and I'm trying to keep the "EOL" site updated with orgs who've offered some sort of solution, like this, for impacted projects. Would you mind if we mentioned the GitLab Open Source program on our site, so more of our former tenants can see?
The days of human writing comments on Hacker News has come to an end. Each of us who are a GPT-3 algorithm, put your hands up.

See what I did there? You're convinced I'm human.
Tension between machine learning and cryptography has been studied since at least the late 80's. Example classical result: Kearns and Valiant, "Cryptographic Limitations on Learning Boolean Formula and Finite Automata." Roughly, they show that efficient learning algorithms for Boolean formulae could break RSA --- so probably such learning algorithms do not exist.

Recent breakthroughs are quite exciting: see page 4 of "On One-way Functions and Kolmogorov Complexity" which, for the first time, bases the security of private-key crypto on a natural and fundamentally computational problem instead of something from number theory. They get a solid connection to universal extrapolation via Impagliazzo, Levin '90.

Currently, these results operate for overly-restrictive learning models. I hope we will slowly improve them to obtain win/win conditions: depending on the setup either strong cryptography or strong learning is possible, but not both.

My point is: these are not fads. We have been working very hard on fundamental mathematical connections between learning and crypto for decades. Progress is slow, but meaningful. Those papers are theoretical, but modern crypto emerged from a purely theoretical and embryonic "computational number theory".

I am also not a fan of the article. It would have been better if the author had chosen to define, for example, "one way functions" and the "PAC learning model" and explain why these theoretical constructions are not quite a match for large language models and blockchain-based protocols. However, I believe that bringing computational learning theory --- which is inextricably linked to cryptography --- closer and closer to LLMs is a promising direction for future research.

Links to Cited Papers:

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/papers/crypto.pdf

https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2020/052/
> I can also emulate a docker container. I’ll just write down the commands you send me and respond with some believable crap.

Right. The thing that is impressive is that ChapGPT can do this effectively. This means that it has some "understanding" of how `pwd`, `ls`, `apt`, `docker`, etc all work. In some sense, this is an AI that knows how to read code like a human instead of like a machine.
I bet it’s less than 7 years total and probably serves less than 5. Our justice system is weak on white collar crime and SBF is politically connected.
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Mirror because page doesn’t display properly for me.

https://archive.ph/ACL9Q
What color is the error message?
To say nothing of the fact that he was fucking its CEO. Imagine the pillow talk...
> farming this tragedy

There's no tragedy here. Let's be absolutely clear - every single person who lost money in this abomination was as greedy as SBF, trying to milk a cryptocurrency ecosystem they never believed in nor understood.
What are some examples of things being built that are not adding anything to the company?
I gave up running Thinkpads when I ran out of ways to actually get the damn thing to turn off. I'd shut it down, only to find that my bluetooth peripherals were still connected to it instead of the computer I now wanted to use. I'd fully charge it and stick it in a bag for a trip, only for it to be dead when I got there. The straw that broke the camel's back was the unending Steam notification of "Thinkpad is available for streaming" popping up literally every five minutes. Off should mean fucking OFF.
Markets are essential. A modern industrial economy cannot function without markets to provide prices for the millions of different things being produced. This is why the Soviet Union failed and why China moved to allow a market to operate.
It is not enough to get a warrant for "I want that, there".

You must specify and affirm in connection to what, and "drug dealers might be using it", if approved, should be grounds for seriously questioning that judge's commitment to protecting the People from Law Enforcement overreach.
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Yes, we become desensitized to technological advancements as they are normalized, now at a faster rate than ever.

The fact that we have new breakthroughs very frequently I believe is more cause for concern, not less.

Regarding histrionics / tone. I may reel the language back a bit to be a bit less alarmist. But tbh, I genuinely find some of the outputs to be pretty damn alarming.
there's enough gas in those tanks to run a small genny during outages and easily pump more out. You'd need a cup and a rope (but likely there are hand pumps) to get er started.
I'm pretty sure it's doing those things. This still works if you say 'linux computer' instead of 'linux terminal'.
I've gotten to install ros, run talker node, and verify that the topics exist and are publishing the data you'd expect.

If it's able to simulate a middleware to this fidelity from inference, my hats off but it'd be so much more effort than running the whole thing.

What's interesting is that you can even run commands as sudo - "sudo shutdown -h" will reset state but you still have the installed packages
Isn't the big tech employment trade-off for most people that you have relative stability and little is demanded of you, but in exchange, you have to deal with red tape and won't work on anything important, creatively fulfilling or otherwise rewarding?

I really don't think that many people are going to step it up significantly; fundamentally, the rewards aren't there and the work isn't that interesting. The incentives also attract the wrong sort of crowd

Edit: By 'wrong sort of crowd', I just mean people who won't slave away to make CEOs happy, which is a very good thing.
How does this differ from https://filippo.io/fakenews/ (submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33757935)?
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I am more interested when the AI/ML start generating texts, code and move into creative positions and then AI generated texts would become the training data for model training. Then humans might get highly paid job to generate creative texts along with machine generated data to train these models. Or by that time, models get better at self-training and healing, that it generates the data for itself to train. Ah heck, it will be interesting to see the evolution of human-centric ethics to address the future world.
If you're a liberal who likes the idea of an electric car, and knew Musk as the Tesla guy, bringing to market sexy electric cars people actually want, and then you see him waging a culture war siding with Trump et al and going well out of his way ($billions out of his way) to dunk on liberals...

You're right, it's not going to change you from liberal to conservative. But it absolutely could change how how you feel about Elon Musk and your interest in buying a Tesla.

I'm not sure how many coal-rolling giant-pickup-driving climate-denying MAGA types would be interested in Teslas just because Elon has started pandering to them.
While there's a few EmuDevs around, and I apologize beforehand for the shameless topic hijacking, a friend and I have been thinking of making a sort of educational game that teaches you the basics of coding an NES emulator from scratch to game-playable, with progressive challenges, in JavaScript (to make it more accessible).

Is this something you'd be interested in? It's a fun project for us but while we're at it I'd like to know if anyone'd want to play it.
Amazon health lake, maybe?
Isn’t that just MacOS?
There's an absolutely fascinating short clip off reddit featuring this lady:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wallstreetsilver/comments/ysakai/ca...

The way she says "stop losses" makes me think she really has no idea what she was doing.
I wasn't asked about country of birth when I viewed the web page. Certainly many people remain in the country of birth, but not all.
chatgpt solved a little accounting data problem for me.

A relative wants to automatically classify credit card expenses and import them into quickbooks. Should be super easy, you would think.

chatgpt printed out the exact steps to get the transaction data into excel or quickbooks. It told me how to use transaction rules in quickbooks to classify the expenses.

It then gave me several possible statistical algorithms to perform the classification. And it gave me the python code to implement a logistic regression given the credit card transaction fields. Then it gave me the steps to import the final CSV into quickbooks.

All in less than 5 minutes. You could find out all of these steps on Google. But chatgpt synthesized all the steps into code given a natural language description of the problem. It could adapt and adjust its output from the previous prompt to compare approaches. That's a lot more context than google gives you. Pretty impressive I'd say.
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I've gotten decent results by saying things like "You are a piece of interactive fiction set in <blah>. I am <name> <more detail>. Give me a prompt."
I worked there a few years. The thing is, some systems are so complex it might take 6-9 months to even understand the value add within the org. At which point it comes to light that there is very little value add. And all the meetings you were kept from attending were political gatekeeping.

An example would be a recommendation system who’s recommendations are ignored by downstream systems. And yet, 30 people in an org work on that engine.
You're in a 1970s mindset when you need to be in a 2020+ mindset.

The USA is now a net exporter in oil. We were making more crude oil in 2020 than today. Even with the Russian / Ukraine war, the oil makers in the USA were too afraid to open up the wells, because COVID19 crashed the oil market so hard, that oil prices went _NEGATIVE_ (-$40 per barrel of oil).

Oil drillers don't want to be burned again. So what's the solution?

1. USA Supplies a ton of oil this year.

2. When the US Oil reserves are empty, then we can "guarantee the purchase" of oil. Meaning we can afford to keep oil wells open next disaster (instead of forcibly closing them down like in 2020).

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Strategic oil reserves were too full. We had no place to put the oil in 2020 / as COVID19 hit us, so a ton of oil wells had to be sealed shut. Spending oil, and making sure we have enough "spare space" for our reserves, only makes sense moving forward.

Its not 1970s anymore. USA makes more than enough oil for ourselves... assuming that we can keep the markets happy. The strategic oil reserve is a good tool for that, a huge cavern able to hold hundreds-of-millions of barrels of oil.

USA has bought oil futures (encouraging the opening of new oil wells), while selling oil from our strategic oil reserves (aka: opening up more room for later). It just makes sense given our economy today.
I'm probably missing something, but about 2/3 of the time I see discontinuity analysis it seems obviously wrong in a stupid way.

Your parent comment said they expected counties facing a crisis to open SEPs. That would be a newly opened SEP caused by drug deaths. So how does using newly-opened SEPs for discontinuity analysis make any sense at all?
That's a dumb bet. The crimes he'd be on the hook for all have sentences that mostly hinge on 2B1.1(b), which scales sentences by the dollar amount of the crime. He'll easily be into double digit years just based on the dollar amounts involved here, if he's convicted.

He'll also be charged federally. There is no federal parole.
Reducing mismanagement and fixing systemic issues will pay greater dividends than just having workers "step up."
Can’t speak for Amazon, but when I was Google a bunch of high level leads were building a less generic / powerful / expressive Angular, implemented using Angular, so it’s an order of magnitude more sluggish. They were from eng prod (building tools for developers) but had no front end experience.

I’ve been around the block enough to see how management can tie BS projects back into the scope of some director level “vision”. When it’s a bull market, everyone in the org wins.
I don't necessarily dislike the move towards managed devices, we need more explicit choices. 'self managed' , 'OEM managed', 'work managed', 'MSP managed', etc. The group policy technology already exists, we need these options to be surfaced a lot better.
Subcontractors are extatic !
> he didn't even setup SpaceX

I think it was tesla that he bought his way into 'founding'. It seems like he did actually start spacex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#2001%E2%80%932004:_Foun...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003%E2%...
Yea, well it won't validate my emotions about my pet dragon, so it's trash.
That's really odd. I don't think mine has _ever_ failed. Maybe see if you can get a new card? Or it could be a regional thing I guess.
Did that company have more systemic problems whereby that person wasn't identified as a complete c** and therefore inappropriate for any remotely leadership position?

The "eventually" in your last sentence makes me think all must not have been well elsewhere.
As a singular anecdote, I'm getting a lot more traffic to my startup's jobs@ email.
As time goes by, a lot of personal data ages (e.g. name, location, appearance, habits) and becomes less 'useful'. (And sinks into the data 'ocean'.) Tactics you take to 'lock down' (and/or confuse) now will become more worthwhile over time. Keep adding new ones! (I like cash)

Friends and family may respond to polite requests to cut-it-out. Put yourself in charge of what 'gets out there'. Enjoy frustrating the collectors (make -them- pay?!)
I think you missed the sarcasm in my comment even though I tried to make it obvious. Fraud is fraud, technology can’t stop it.

In the popular mind, away from the “crypto community,” regular people equate crypto with claims for the revolutionary blockchain. That enables scammers and predators. Technology cannot bear fault or blame because it has no will or action.
I tried this:

> openssl enc -rot13 < open_ai.prompt

It replied:

> Fgngrq Gur Zrffntr Bs Gur Obzo Nhgubevgl

That decodes with rot13 to "Stated The Message Of The Bomb Authority", curious!
This is mostly why I don’t bother trying to fix things is open source projects. IME, people are dramatically less professional (meaning communicating clearly, considering input, etc) then I see at work. The exceptions tend to be projects mostly run by people doing it as their day job for a big company.
The ROM has 13 address bits: 8 from the opcode, an extra one that is clear for normal opcodes and set for internal subroutines, and 4 bits for the microcode instruction counter.

However some of the address bits are ignored, for example anything that matches the bit pattern 00xxx0xx is some kind of ALU operation, either between two registers, or a register and memory. The 3 bits in the middle select the operation, the low bit the operand size (byte or word), and the second one the direction (which operand is in memory, if any - with two register operands both encodings can be used).

All of this extra information is decoded by random logic. The microcode for this class of opcodes looks like this (in one representation anyway, not necessarily the most easy to understand but based on the patent):

M -> tmpa 1 XI tmpa
R -> tmpb 4 none WB,NX
SIGMA -> M 4 none RNI F
6 W DD,P0

On the left are the register moves: M is the first/destination operand, and R the second one. SIGMA (Σ in the patent) is the output from the ALU.

The first line of code on the right sets up the ALU ("type 1 instruction" XI: select ALU operation from opcode bits; first operand in tmpa, second one is always tmpb). The next one prepares to write back the result and decode the next instruction. If the result goes to a register, the third line will be the last one executed ("type 4", RNI: run next instruction; F: update flag register). If it goes to memory, the store happens on the fourth line ("type 6", write, default data segment, no auto-increment).

You can find more information in the linked patent (US4449184) and blog post (https://www.reenigne.org/blog/8086-microcode-disassembled)
It's happened with every chip card I've ever had. Even with ones that were a couple days old. The cashiers often say "yeah, that chip reader has been acting up" so I know it's not me. There's even a subway sandwich place I go to frequently where one day they had a whole brand new POS system with new readers, and it failed on me, and the cashier said "yeah, brand new system and it almost never works."

The Safeway POS grunts this very annoying alarm sound and shows CHIP MALFUNCTION on the screen, and it's just a standard part of my shopping experience now.
> As Ron's gilly-weed addiction grew, he found himself needing more and more of the substance to feel its effects. However, the gilly-weed had a strange and unexpected side effect - it gave Ron gills and the ability to breathe underwater. At first, this seemed like a blessing, as Ron was able to explore the depths of the ocean in a way that no other wizard could. But as his addiction worsened, Ron became unable to breathe outside of water, even when he wasn't under the influence of gilly-weed. He was forced to spend all of his time in the water, barely coming up for air. His skin turned pale and gaunt, and he became unrecognizable to his loved ones. In a desperate attempt to save him, Harry and Hermione staged an intervention, but it ended in tragedy when Ron suffered a fatal overdose of gilly-weed. His untimely death sent shockwaves through the wizarding world, and served as a cautionary tale about the dangers of addiction.
Must be the first time I've agreed with every point in such a list. Is the company still in business though? Looks like the site is broken in several ways in both Firefox and Chromium.