skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything has an API. You can give it your data (or ask it to create some), and then ask it to write LaTeX, D3, MermaidJS, or code from any other framework that creates graphics. Problem solved.

If the thing you want to use is fairly popular and published on the web, even recently, it probably knows how to use it and combine it with everything else it knows.

Just yesterday I asked it to combine LiveView with a third party JS library to build an interactive thing and it got it on the first try using the latest Phoenix 1.7 RC which only came out in November.

I haven’t tried it, but I bet you could ask it to generate a PDF in code using your favorite language with text from GPT and graphics generated from any framework that’s compatible with your language. White-paper-as-a-Service.
Insurance can only have a fixed percentage profit mandated by US law.

Decreasing the bottomline would literally decrease their profits.
I don't know this for certain, but if you have immutable data structures then zippers are kind of a requirement. Many immutable data structures also have a hashing system built into them that generates a hash based on their content. So, if you have a data structure with a hash, one thing you can do that is convenient is compare just the hashes of two data structures to determine if they are equal. This is much faster than having to parse the entire data structure recursively.

Might be useful for things that are often compared, like for instance the React virtual DOM.
I agree, and I'd add ".. and speak in public more, too."

I have a Substack post "Public Speaking for Engineers" about this, but unfortunately it lost out in the poll to the one about my experiences at Oracle in the 90s, so you'll have to wait for that one.

Anyhow, getting practice speaking, even if it's only to two people, is indispensable, and so is practicing writing. "Nobody reads what I write," you say? That's OK, you can wait a week and then read it yourself.

There's a YouTube video that advocates that you just speak to your computer for a few minutes a day, so you don't even really need an audience for that. Getting inured to watching and hearing yourself is really valuable. The shock wears off.
No need to invoke quantum physics woo here to make the same point. One synapse in from the peripheral senses, the information is all just neurons spiking. That’s a compressed, lossy, and time delayed model of the real world before information has even hit the brain.
Truth is an anti-scientific concept. When you say something is the truth, you are saying no evidence can change your mind. Maybe there is some underlying truth, but it seems to be out of our reach. And it's irrelevant anyway. The utility does not come from some metaphysical ponderings but from models that can explain phenomena and make reliable predictions.
There are only a handful of firms that can produce results to this level and they are presumably logging everything their model produces. Eliminating text that was produced by their model from the training set would be easy.

Now, if the tech reaches the point where there are thousands of firms offering free access to the models and they aren't co-operating to share logs then yes. But we have no idea how expensive or hard ChatGPT is to run. It might be a Google-type situation where only one or two firms in the world can build and run competitive chatbots.
This is likely an isolated incident.

From the first responder's perspective, this guy got lost in terrain intimately familiar to them.

Lack of professionalism on the responders part. There are no professional adults in the chain of command or someone would have told them no.

A a social media post with victim information is bad. To then criticize the victim. Are they trying to get themselves sued?
> Because it's the nervous system of the 21st century. We've got to stop treating it like a political football.

Remember this, when anyone brings up mindless arguments against encryption or promotes other policies eroding the internet.

The internet is invaluable to modern society, in the same way that the wheel is... politicians don't fuck with wheels, even though they are invaluable tools for criminals and terrorists, no one would be stupid enough to risk breaking wheels. Politicians need to wake up and realise that the internet is not a toy.
> God of the Gaps, in other words.

> ... The notion that humans must understand the programs that their machines are running is by no means a necessary one.

True. But these two supposed explanations get equally handwavy and arational.

- I don’t understand it so AI cannot possibly do it

- I don’t understand AI so I don’t see why AI cannot do it
The arguments are interesting, but in particular claiming that it doesn't matter if the EU can no longer produce basic commodities like fertilizers or steel that it doesn't matter is pretty doubtful.

It's pretty hard to maintain the level of society that we enjoy having without the ability to build stuff, which does require steel to come from somewhere. But even more importantly, if you want to have your large population not starve to death, you need to be able to secure a food supply -- which is not possible without fertilizer.

Some of the other manufactured goods, sure, maybe. But I remember 2021, when it was nearly impossible to get almost everything that we used to think was super commonplace because global supply chains collapsed. Indeed, things haven't really recovered still. Intentionally dismantling supply chains again does seem like a poor strategy for prosperity.
> GPT-3 is already composing halfway-credible poetry and songs.

Poetry and songs abound in its training data.

> I just asked it to write some code to walk a k-d tree, and it did that, too, complete with a unit test.

Such things abound in its training data.

GPT-3 can't produce anything novel. It's a search engine over natural generalisations of its training data, but it can't think for itself. It couldn't solve any of the unsolved problems of our day. Give it a maths problem with a known solution, and it might give you a half-way decent proof. Give it a problem without a known solution – even an easier one – and it'll flounder.
> We're predisposed to seeing meaning, and perhaps "intelligence", everywhere.

I’m guilty of this with my dog. I can’t help it with her head tilts and deep stares! Her inner monologue is probably less sophisticated than I like to think it is.
You never heard of Richard Stallman?
Another poster already did the informal version. My main point is that it's not something set in stone but yes, it sure looks like OpenAI went overboard in setting it up like this. They should adjust it.
ChatGPT is now helping me learn terraform ^^;;

What a time to be alive.
Why is this all-or-nothing for you? Surely, if someone posts CSAM on YouTube, or even Google Photos, they should remain accountable unto themselves to remove content that is both illegal and morally reprehensible? Or should someone's Google Photos be allowed to hold any amount of CSAM to the point where it's a de-facto private hard drive?
> Someone has to hold those people accountable though. Either platforms, or a centralized government entity.

Or we could just say people on the internet are assholes and you need thicker skin. Would you be okay with government ID required to sign up to any website? If so, I can see why you have a vengeance complex.
You don't build a backup factory to sit there unutilized.

You build four large factories instead of one mega factory and run all four. Similar number of machines, similar investment to update them - each is big enough for efficiencies of scale - but if one gets shut down by the local government or has a massive fire or there's a coup you've still got 3/4 of your production going.
https://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/136236833245/expansi...

You're welcome.
While it is true that the Mesopotamians faced many challenges at the time they invented the wheel, it is not an apt comparison to the development of advanced AI. The wheel was a simple technology that greatly improved the lives of the Mesopotamians, whereas AI has the potential to vastly surpass human intelligence and fundamentally alter society in ways that are difficult to predict.

The development of AI requires careful consideration and planning, particularly in regards to potential negative outcomes. In contrast, the invention of the wheel was a relatively straightforward decision that did not carry the same level of risk.
For years, it is happening much before ChatGPT in front of your eyes.
Mushrooms have a protein that can do so on their outer layers (hydrophobin). Worked in a biotech company that was researching it, not sure what came out of it.
> In general, Google as a company emphasizes code quality and best practices far more

That doesn't automatically have to mean better DX. For example the API can be clean, but too low level to conveniently accomplish typical cases (I'm not familiar with this example).
Dystopia is more likely, because why would a wealthy kleptocratic dictator need citizens… there’s no upside compared to AI and robots.
> I think we are going to have to take an aggressive stance against mediocre generated content here on HN, lest this small island of community be lost like the rest of the Old Internet.

How do you propose we do that?

And what do you propose we do when ChatGPT (or something like it) can create better content than most humans?

(... which I would argue it is already happening in some limited contexts, although I admit my stance is controversial).
Me too! Honestly, ever since I saw that years ago I wanted one. I don't even like the 6502. I would rather have the ARM1 (http://www.visual6502.org/sim/varm/armgl.html) but man, oh, man I love this idea. This is the cheapy version of all of that: https://hackaday.com/2022/10/12/the-2022-supercon-badge-is-a... though it's all faked and emulated through an MCU. Cool, but not as cool as real discrete logic.
if you don't need the .xlsx format specifically then something like grist might be something that interest you

https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core

there's a self hosted option that i tested in docker and it was fairly simple to get set up, but im mainly using the free version at the moment that is hosted by gristlabs themselves.

the thing i love about it is being able to use python to write formulas, and also being able to have multiple views on one page such as a table view and then a card view that shows information from whatever item is selected in the table view.

ive been using it for about a year now and i couldn't see myself ever going back to regular spreadsheets
Human-curated content from trusted sources for top 1% information probably only available to subscribers will become more valuable and sought after. I suspect the days of generally trusting forums populated by anonymous users are done?

I would not be surprised if the quality of human writing actually goes up. I have this weird feeling that ChatGPT and similar tools will become almost equivalent to calculators for math? My experience as a writer is that sometimes just throwing down a first draft is the hardest step - I could see these tools really assisting in the writing process. Generate a draft, do some tweaking, ask for suggestions or improvements, repeat.

I don't know how I feel about code generated by these tools. Will there be a similar benefit compared to writing? At some level, we will need some deeper mastery of writing and coding to use these things well. Is there a complexity cliff that these tools will never be able to overcome?

A total lack of trust for general internet search results. So much content is already shallow copies of other content. I don't see how general internet search survives this.
I'm sorry, I mixed up the title with that of a different work (though I believe inspired by the one I had in mind). The work I was referencing is called simply Keywords and dates from 1976.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keywords:_A_Vocabulary_of_Cult...
Do we know whether they had a compass, as you felt they didn’t? Whether they had another emergency contact option? We know the driver was dressed appropriately.

Mechanical failures happen.
Very few people outside Microsoft want these walled gardens. They want the guarantees that the walled gardens can give them.
> However, at some level you have to admit that the input to ChatGPT is almost as high level as directives from project managers, and the output is almost low level enough to simply input directly into source control.

This is the part that is going to change the way people work in fundamental ways very quickly. It will turn good software developers into non-shitty project managers, project managers into ?, and mediocre developers into ?.
Nikwax doesn't waterprood anything. It makes water on the surface of materials bead and not wet out so fast. The fabric needs still to be, "waterproof".
I see a lot of this on the internet already - essentially just SEO spam generated by RNNs, which is good enough to get a plausible click-through, but not good enough to actually be right. I suspect ChatGPT and its ilk are going to just exacerbate that problem by being harder to recognize as generated, and instead tipping into plausible-but-incorrect.
...what if the rise in so-called "extremism" is a direct result of government policy leading to poorer outcomes for the average person. If you study history people tend to become tribal not long after life gets hard. If I was a government think tank I'd surely blame the internet long before I blamed my rent seeking laws that inordinately effect the average worker.
"this question is not a good fit..."
It can be just "don't pull this server to public feeds. In fact it can be a lot more granular. You can:

* "Silence" it - makes posts invisible on your instance for everyone not following them
* "Suspend" - removes all content.
* Reject media files. Avoids downloading media files locally from this instance.
* Reject reports from instances that are abusing the reporting.

But limiting an instance is often insufficient because it doesn't stop your users from then subsequently replying etc. and indirectly dragging the conversation onto your server, and doesn't stop the remote instances users from harassing your users. And so it's often users pushing for harsher blocking.

In any case on Mastodon people have choice - if you don't like your local admins mod decisions, you can move elsewhere and take your followers with you, so if anything mods have far less power on Mastodon than most places.
But they dont order stuff over them. So Alexa failed to deliver what was planned.
I'm sure the regular police and military are just as good at beating, imprisoning, and killing people as the "morality police"
It certainly has its own distinct voice. I think it has some constraints inside it that forces it to only speak in complete, grammatically correct sentences. If you give it different directions for what kind of structure to provide, it can really change how it sounds. I got interesting and more natural sounding results asking it to play "a human who occasionally does not respond with complete sentences", and also "a laconic human".
Hetzner dedicated servers in their different data centers.
I have subtitles on more often than not. My biggest peeve is when the subtitles spoil the name of a speaker we don't know yet /facepalm
Forced labour means profit for someone. That is far too close to slavery to avoid major value clash, so it will hide itself to present a respectable face. Corruption is inevitable. You'll end up with judges sentencing children for profit. Off to the new world in fetters. As the setting for a novel, I'm convinced.
I'm doing AoC in Rust and Go. Go, because I got cozy with it during this year. With Rust, however, I never did. I tried, though. So let's try again.
> In my experience, you generally do that through an aggregator…

My understanding is that a cloud-based aggregator (like Feedly) delivers feed and state information to clients, but not the content itself.

To test this with blogs, I did a new install of Reeder, synced with Feedly, then turned off Wi-Fi. In my subscriptions, I got everything that would be in the feeds themselves (notably item titles and descriptions as created by publishers) but nothing beyond that. The offline experience was mostly useless, suggesting that the client does most of the heavy-lifting even when leveraging cloud-based aggregators.

So is making a few REST API calls a significant savings over checking a couple hundred (or whatever) RSS feeds? With "If-Modified-Since" checks being so cheap, I'm not sure that inserting Mastodon instances as middleboxen makes sense. If all Mastodon did was store subscriptions and state info, it seems like we'd have a far more resilient microblogging ecosystem.
If you're only doing it to get a bit of paper and connections then I certainly wouldn't recommend it. I was genuinely fascinated by the subject matter, and I did it in my late 30s. It was a bit of a slog at points but very rewarding.
Good point. It isn't like it is hard to find wrong answers on SO that were written by (hopefully) well meaning humans.
But unfortunately misleading:

IBM was founded in 1898 by German inventor Herman Hollerith as a census tabulating company.

(1) IBM was created in 1911 (initially as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company) as an amalgamation of four companies, one of which was Hollerith's.

(2) Hollerith himself was not a "German inventor" but rather U.S.-born of German immigrant parents.

But hey, what's bit of sloppy hyperbole if it drives your point across?
I wish he'd stick to voting with his $ instead of cluttering up the new submissions page with every random thought.
Again: Abstractions and analogies, with no concrete connection to the real world.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying that if someone agrees with your comment, it is because they already know what you're talking about in the context of the world we live in. For those who do not know what you're talking about, your comment does not enlighten in the least.

Put another way, I can agree with everything you said in the abstract, and still not see what it has to do with reality. I can set up all kinds of hypotheticals involving islands, and have them all be logically correct, and yet have nothing to do with how the world really is.

Giving examples is a rather basic expository technique. I'm not here to philosophize.
ChatGPT Simulates Jeffrey Epstein's PC
The existence of money preceded the state by a wide margin. There is also a long history of privately issued money that only ended recently (and considering crypto in some ways never ended).
Diving into the Crazy New ChatGPT
Point being, it does not follow that just because we don't know how our own brains work, we can't create systems that emulate them perfectly. It also does not follow that we will understand these systems.

Unless you believe in a soul, all that is necessary is to set up the correct initial conditions and let emergent behavior do the rest.
Retro-computing is the most promising trend I've seen in the computing tech world. Open source hardware designs based on the RISC-V instruction set, returning to writing low-level firmware for RISC-V boards, using a low-level language with an open-source compiler, and making that approach the norm for all simple devices, seems to be a huge growth area. Built-in manual overrides, direct access to device internals, the return of knowledge that's on the verge of being lost to so many American consumers, it all looks good to me.

Incidentally, this article uses the phrase 'cyberpunk' a lot but that genre is a lot more like 'cybernoir'. Look at for example Jean Pierre Melville films:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/06/the-noirs-of-melville
Market cap of every company moves
in lockstep with the amount of quality of life that such company signs off for the American consumer.

All of them except Tesla which is a techno-utopian religion in which people can buy a stake in , therby giving hundreds of billions of dollars to the cult leader in advance for promises which will never be delivered.

Just like the church selling a spot in heaven to finance the construction of St. Peters Dome.

If you disappeared Tesla inc. overnight the number of people crying histerically because they’d think the world will come to a technological standstill without the omniscient space-Karen would vastly surpass the number of people complaining that nobody will be able to service their car.

When entities such as governments or companies try to leverage the credulity of the public and thus get in the business of selling hope for the future, that is the moment to leave as that entity is becoming a cult preying on its members
Bidirectional genetic overlap between bipolar disorder and intelligence
>Finally, we could also use machine learning algorithms to train a model to identify responses generated by ChatGPT based on these and other characteristics.

whatever your idea (i skimmmed cuz) the discriminator will find it and have the generator apply it to the next generation.

>The core idea of a GAN is based on the "indirect" training through the discriminator, another neural network that can tell how "realistic" the input seems, which itself is also being updated dynamically.[5] This means that the generator is not trained to minimize the distance to a specific image, but rather to fool the discriminator. This enables the model to learn in an unsupervised manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
If the site is ad supported, then the majority they care about are the majority of ad buyers and ad buyers definitely want moderation.
I'm a big fan of Gnumeric for all my personal stuff. It's not as feature-rich as Excel, but does everything I need, and is fast and focused.

http://www.gnumeric.org/
> Nope, do more research. These were all built in the US with public cost history.

On top of not including the cost of finance, liabity, or upstream supply chain which was provided by state military projects. The first one you linked had repeated safety violations and maintenance issues and has no record if how much they cost to remedy. The quoted price leads here:

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6259203

And is in nominal dollars not 1986 dollars. $763 million 1966 dollars is $7 billion, not $3 billion. Add in the cost of finance and you get $10-14 billion or around $7/watt for an unsafe, inefficient plant with corrupt management. And this was not a greenfield site, it already had work for unit 1.

Do more research.

Every pro nuclear claim turns out to be a lie when examined even with the slightest scrutiny. All of them.
Has been discussed before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27344992 (4 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14943026 (20 comments)
You just need to start a fresh session/push try again. It's random to some extent and affected by previous text in the conversation.
(2007)

Can people comment on what has happened since? 15 years is a long time in the research world. Did the hoped for things come to pass?
Does anyone know how many weights ChatGPT contains?
Google has been saying for years that it wants to get rid of backlinks and value them less, and apparently they already do. [0]

I wouldn't be surprised if they revert the direction and put a significant importance back on links because of this kind of technology.

[0]: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-links-less-impact-34493....
Hypersonic Weapons
That’s something I have learned before and have definitely been taking the strategy into consideration so far. We have iterated a little bit through a product but at the moment we are getting partners to help us better understand how to use our approach to solve their problems. In the limited amount of iterations we have done so far the results have been great. Thank you for the awesome advice.