skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One man's "experts" are another's "spreaders of dangerous disinformation".
Did you mean "free"? As in "free" speech that he brought to twitter.
I don’t see the need for a retail CBDC in India right now. India already has a TCS (tax collected at source) for outward remittances beyond Rs 700,000 in a financial year. This is a tax that’s collected first and refunded or adjusted later. The tracking of these transactions across all authorized forex dealers is already done by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). So a CBDC isn’t going to add value here. But I think it will be made a case since CBDC for retail is a solution searching for a problem.

The CBDC being a zero interest instrument, only a scare created about lots of counterfeit paper currency could increase adoption, IMO (just like a fake bogeyman about “black money” was told when declaring more than 80% of the currency as invalid in 2016. [1]

Cash is simple. Cash is easy. Cash doesn’t need smartphones. Did you know that less than half (or half) the population in India has a smartphone? At least one major “too big to fail” bank [2] is distributing an Android app for the CBDC on its website as an APK file. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...

[2]: https://www.icicibank.com/personal-banking/online-services/f...
A, yes, went and calculated the force for 1 meter distance. 392 tera newtons :O
It's not about what others in general believe, it's the fact the payment processors, ISPs, data centres, etc have an outsized effect on what you can practically do/talk about.

The electric, water and gas companies can't just decide to cut off everything they don't like because they dislike their political views/actions, why should the tech equivalents be allowed to?
I've always viewed RaspberryPi as an educational focused product first, followed by hobbyists. Prioritizing commercial use runs contrary to my expectations.
I ran across another post here where someone shared their experience seeing cooking recipe articles that were plain wrong but presented like known well established recipes.

If AI assisted code is like this then no because it would waste more time than it saves.

My biggest concern is the competitive nature of engineering and pressure from the business side of software moves the industry to adopt it and instead of 3 zero day vulnerabilities there are 500. Failures being opportunities, nation states will see AI assisted code and try to figure out how to use it to their benefit, while you and I get a 15 second shout out during the next all hands meeting for spinning up the app the VP of fantasyland dreamed up.
Other devs make a version 2 that is considered by the dev to be a different product and not subject to the lifetime license of the previous version.

IANAL so I don't know how legally sound that is.
If you thoroughly understand a subject, you can perceive subtle differences between close arguments. You can understand where knowledge is solid enough to be used in distinction, and where it is not, and therefore conjecture and opinion are appropriate.

If you don’t thoroughly understand a subject, then you don’t perceive these subtle differences, many arguments look equally valid, and the complaints of experts seem like pointless gate keeping to you.
> Is this a universal experience?

What, being spun some BS by your parents?

My mother told me that picking my nose would result in my nose becoming like a cow's nose. She was right; my face is now indistinguishable from a cow's.
I never got into BBS because Europe but I had a similar experience (or origin story). My first quest to find another programming language came when I figured out I needed something that could produce .exe instead of .bas. I went to a local store and browsed the computer books section and picked up a TurboPascal 7.0 (iirc) book that came with the compiler on a floppy disk. I selected the book and thus my second language after Basic (which came on the computer, no idea how I ever "found" it) by a great process. It was the biggest book so it must be the best. Oh kid logic :D

And why did I need to write some .exe...well I wanted to write a password protection for the computer that I could load in command.com so that I could lock out my sister from useing the computer. Nobel causes and ideas indeed that brought me to where I am these days. I'm still baffled how I figured all of this wizzardry out in the first place (the guy who sold us the computer must have mentioned command.com...I cannot recall how I even know it existed).

We got a computer super late and noone I knew was remotely interested in this stuff. There was no internet (or BBS) because we didn't have any connections to anything. I still remember how thrilling it was to go to the library and browse the computer books and learn there's evene more programming languages.
Survival of the fittest is only an approximation, the true state is a tautology though: survival of those who survive.
Unrelated, but does anyone know someone in Amazon? I was searching for something and ended up finding many firearm accessories very clearly intentionally mislabeled, and at suspiciously low prices (less than 1/5 of retail price at a normal gun store) that they're either of dubious and unsafe quality, or stolen.
Wow, these are fast. I use XRDP on EC2 and thought i'd try hetzner again. It's like i'm sitting in front of a linux desktop, better than EC2.
Related: Training Australia's Dangerous Magpies [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXYf2DTOsvI
How do you know it was a mistake? The same incentives apply. They might be sending you the wrong thing on purpose, hoping you won't notice, so the law is there to prevent that.
You can build it to be E2EE.
Ok but where is the AI that generates me those specific requests and finds the error and then tells the AI to fix it?
A lot because I can dispatch them to collect the background knowledge for the next step. I’ve had multiple 8 years olds I’ve raised to be older and even human 8 year olds can be incredibly useful when given instructions. Actually if I remember correctly they were so useful we had to ban child labor?
Already OVH customer, I just need a less flammable failover.
No need to only talk about the US, this weird foreign country also has small claims courts.

https://kahanelaw.com/alberta-provincial-court-process-under...
I don't think it will die but much of the current typical activity of programmers and other jobs will be gradually switched over to AIs over the next 5-10 years or so.

A "computer" used to literally be a person operating a machine or doing arithmetic in a bank.

"Programmer" will start to mean more like someone who knows how to interface with and connect up different AIs.

Many jobs will be mostly replaced with AI. There will be a lot of new jobs. Especially for people who integrate with AI via brain computer interfaces.
Fair enough. It’s like the lump of labor fallacy, but for bullshit rather than labor. One could view that as growing pains, but it is still growth in some sense.
If no one noticed for 3 years, and the developer is willing to give an extended license to anyone who asks, I have trouble getting very upset!
This past summer, we were super frustrated with how difficult it was to legitimately dispose of worthless NFTs in order to harvest losses on these assets for tax minimization. There's no real marketplace for worthless NFTs, but investors are sitting on thousands of dollars of tax savings if they had a simple way to harvest their NFT losses.

From this pain-point, an idea was born!

So, we started working on a smart contract that would buy any NFT for a de minimis amount of ETH, thus allowing investors to lock in their losses and reduce their 2022 tax bill.

Would love to hear any feedback!
I read you correctly. Congratulations on looking up the full comments (or at least more of them) but you're still reading it wrong because you can't handle the fact that someone smart disagrees with you.
These sort of statements are by nature speculative not factual, and thus speakers are advised to express and communicate doubt, and hedge against uncertainty inherent in their views, and probably even vicious rebuttals, by using appropriate language constructs or terminology, but when a know-it-all bot that was trained by its handlers to pass always as an authority figure makes a mistake due to hubris or overconfidence, don't expect us to sit idle, and not call them out, and refute their claims accordingly.
what's also fun is "perfect" just means "done" from its latin roots
There have been studies showing a positive correlation between temperature and violent crime. [1] It's possible this behavior is just a manifestation of living in a warmer country.

Perhaps if you swapped the populations of Bogotá and Berlin you would find the new Berliners becoming more "chill" and the new Bogotans becoming more "hot-blooded."

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30830288/
Pretty embarassing when your own source doesnt even back you up.

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Wow, this reflects on me so much especially w.r.t. things I use in the bathroom: toilet paper, toothpaste, soap, etc.
In the old test of Sata SSDs, all written to death, most of the drives was accessible after the last eventual write. None or almost none of the drives were even visible to the OS after system reboot. It seems that while memory itself may still be readable, the controller and OS can't handle such failure mode and it certainly wasn't tested. So I wouldn't expect any modern SSD to be readable after exhausting all writes completely.

https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experi...
That's what happens when the GPU market is coopted by the crypto crowd.
I’m increasingly tired of this myth that we must treat all cultures equally and agree with your point.

Sure - if we’re talking about Finland vs Iceland or something like that where people are 95% on the same page. But other cultures have the abusive practices you mention above - and worse. China used to have foot-binding. FGM is pretty common in Africa right now (no jokes about that in the latest Black Panther though).
So you are implying that an image generated by a generative model must resemble closely to an image in the dataset, right? Because I don't think that's true, you can try to prove me wrong if you want, I'll give you a useful resource, the LAION dataset that Stable Diffusion was trained with is completely open, generate or find an image generated by Stable Diffusion and find the most semantically similar images in the dataset using: https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval
Frankly I'm completely shocked to see that mIRC still gets updates.

That said, this is basically what mobile developers do constantly. When you buy a "lifetime" license the software basically gets abandoned and a new version comes out where you get updates.

If you've been using mIRC since 1995 and the developer has been keeping it up to date, perhaps you should be supporting them.
What does better really mean, though? For the CFO, a SAP implementation solves multi-million dollar problems in inventory, sales taxation, expense management, compliance, etc. That is "better" for their organization. If it comes with a slighty cruddy travel and expense system, oh well. That piece probably represents like 1% of the deal value.

Enterprise sales at this level requires a deep understanding of what the buyer values in your product, not what you think is valuable. I dont claim that SAP delivers on these claims (ie I'm not carrying water for them) but they are good at hitting this button.
An extender is designed to be used for making phone calls without directly billing the caller. Most mid-size and large companies that operated from multiple cities/countries used them.

Extenders connect to a PBX that is normally exposed via a toll free number (1-800), or a local number that allows the user to dial out to long distance numbers without incurring long distance connection charges.

It’s basically how prepaid long distance cards work nowadays: You dial a number, enter a code, get a dial tone, then dial your long distance number to connect.
Great, now my Navel Pressure Monitoring System sensors chime every time I start the ignition.
A related question: does anyone have a CO2 detector in their vehicle?

I keep wondering if CO2 is the reason that so many cars try to force recirculation off. I am super sensitive to exhaust fumes so I am constantly turning it back on.
> ChatGPT isn't replacing copywriters

Sounds like it just did

It did the work of a copywriter. You might have done it yourself otherwise, or maybe outsourced it, but it did some of the copywriting work that otherwise would have been done by a human
If you've been using mIRC with a lifetime license since 1995 you've paid roughly $.74 a year for the privilege. I'm sympathetic to the developer here.
You should create a HN poll on who all wants dedicated servers in the US.

I'd definitely vote on that!
Wanted to do that, too, but had problems with the SCD30’s I2C peculiarities. And now the RP Zero is somewhat broken, bummer.

Next I’ll try with a Arduino ESP32 thing. The sensor was expensive, it has to work. :-D
YouTube is a company, not a human being.
At least some Kobos use SD cards for their storage.
Google opens its first UK centre making tech for disabled people
> This isn't some nefarious plot by big tech to steal your data

It is though. They could design it in a way that it operates on your data but they have no access to the data outside of these strictly defined operations. If that was a priority to solve, it would be solved.

> it's the product people want.

These two things are not mutually exclusive.

Despite which, this is not true. There are no non cloud options if MS Office anymore, or of the Adobe Creative Suite. This stuff has been forced on us, often by work, and then the other options were removed. Hence the nefarious plot thing.
Then R&D budgets should be aimed at finding ways to reduce tire particulates. Perhaps some reasonable regulatory incentives as well.

EV trucks should fix the issue when it comes to braking. They can mostly regenerate kinetic energy back into charge in the batteries.
I don't anal but this is indeed a common practice.
I hope my dad is partying with yours in the ahem great-ISO-9000-in-the-sky.
They would enjoy each other's company. And I would enjoy his, would give anything for 10. more. minutes.
[clicks Khaled's nose]
Interesting. I was going to say something trivial like making the AI insert semicolons and fix typos in sloppily written code but now I wonder if this AI can be used to detect undefined behavior just by throwing the Linux kernel source into it.

Maybe it could be used to decompile code and automatically give it meaningful variable and type names.
Sorry, it can.

Currently it can work at function level, and can make reasonable modifications to existing code (sometimes buggy, but that may be fixable with a larger model and better training data).

The current chat UI isn't suitable for working with larger codebases, but it seems within realm of possibility to extend it to be an IDE like CoPilot with tooling that feeds it your whole codebase and documentation to work with.
Maybe the APIs for generating that AI content will include paragraphs to advertise their content free-form in the prose and not neatly separated to where you can block the ad.

The tech allows for seamless integration of ads.
Not me, I'm a great cat herder!
See also TextDrive's lifetime hosting offer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive
I placed first in AdventOfCode, by having GPT-3 write the code
Well, 1000-1400 ppm is my typical level in the room 5 hours after the last airing. Just before morning in the bedroom it can go up to 2500 with all the interior doors open.
> Calling it's driver assist Autopilot, calling its software FSD, repeatedly saying "FSD is coming next year" is overpromising, misleading marketing and lying

OK, finally an actual example and the one I expected.

TL;DR is that if Tesla was in fact doing anything the regulators found to be hurting the customers, they would be forcing Tesla to make changes (and they have re FSD in some minor ways). It's fun to make a big deal about nothing but no one is buying FSD and thinking, Tesla robbed me $10K. They get it, play with it, it doesn't do what they promised, they can get a refund for the FSD package, and even a full refund for the entire car. People tend to keep their Teslas, so that's a non issue.

Majority of people don't buy Teslas for promise of FSD (in fact, most don't even believe it). They buy it because right now, it's a great car. As far as delivering great cars is concerned (which is the vast majority of cases), Tesla has delivered time and again.

Also, Tesla has never lied about FSD, only missing deadlines. If anything, their progress has shown anything but any attempt to lie to customers. They are moving as fast as they can and no one in the industry comes close.

I'll be happy to see, for once, someone talk about misleading marketing about anything but FSD. You can take FSD away any day and it won't make a blip of difference to Tesla's sales or margins.
Guys its MIRC. buy that man a beer.
> What might come back as useful tool? Authorship.

That, and removing the financial incentives to attract traffic AKA ads.
I can totally relate with everything being interesting, and then not. School went from easy to horrifying.
I don’t think Hetzner is the company to provide that. The reason they’re so cheap is that they limit themselves to hardware/VPS.
You can get two really good day trips out of Matsumoto: one for Matsumoto Castle and the inner city in general, and one for Kamikochi (https://www.kamikochi.org/). It's also easy to go from there to Kofun or Nagano.

For other advice I would recommend that at least one of your group speaks enough Japanese to ask directions, order food, use a laundromat, shop at a supermarket, describe what you want at a barber's, tell a doctor what you're ailing, ask a staff member where the lost and found is, that kind of stuff. Also note that New Year's and Golden Week are really awkward times to go and summer is hot and humid. Make sure to talk to your GP to make sure you have whatever vaccinations you need, I'm thinking of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in particular. Also make sure you take enough cash to get the most basic necessities if the airline manages to bungle your luggage. In short, just keep all the basic travel advice in mind and you'll be fine.
Who on the entire internet has "marketed" these tools as what you're saying? I've seen some random people making bombastic claims about these models, infamously including a now fired Google engineer, but the people actually marketing them have been pretty sanguine about their features and limitations as far as I can tell.

I'm reminded of that quote about Twitter: half of the outrage on the site is people imagining some person and then getting mad that they exist.
> It's relatively easy for a human to tell the difference between AI copy (as pollutes the web) and actual content.

It is now. It definitely won't be when gpt gets popular.
My old Counter-Strike 'clan' Mousesports became a 'team', then it became an 'organisation'. These kids make a lot of money now and travel the whole world to play in their 'clan'.
Professionals making 200k (a year not a month) at the tail end of their career - that is not at all exceptional.

So are you suggesting that the families of entry level engineers are also immune to all prosecution in the US due to their fabulous wealth?
>Corporations exist to make money

Yes, and that would be a bad thing to prioritize to begin with (over ethics, quality products, society, safety, environment and many other things, as if more often than not happens).

But, that's not the whole story either.

A "corporation" is an abstract notion. Corporations don't exist as people, except in the eyes of the law. Management exists. And management has BS views, is influenced by BS ideologies, wants power and micro-games and so on, on top of "making money".

Which is how e.g. corporations wouldn't hire women, blacks, or gay people for many (or all) positions at different times, even though they missed on a huge pool for employees, which would include people even better and more skilled than the < 50% of the population they considered for hiring and promoting to those positions. Does that sound like a money-inspired decision?

Ideology, societal norms, racism, sexism, power plays, prejudice, etc. plays into what "corporations" (i.e. the people running them do) as much or even more than money does.

>You're too deep into conspiracy theories. Come back to real life.

People want to fuck other people over for power and profit. That's no conspiracy, it's out in the open, celebrated even.

So, get out of fairy-tale land of naivety. Except of course if you're on the other side (or those making those decisions), in which case "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it", as the quote goes.

>The simple reason companies are recalling workers back into the office is because it's more efficient when people are in the office together.

Citation needed.
I guess I'm in the minority of actually appreciating a lot of the background. And it can't just be SEO given that cookbooks these days are hardly just lists of recipes for the most part and people do apparently buy them.
That's the same brand I bought, after the last similar thread on HN which led me to get interested in this topic.

I had never monitored CO2 at home, and now I see that it routinely goes beyond 1500 in the living room. I can open windows and in 5 minutes it goes down to 700-800... together with all the warm air that was costly to produce now that's winter and it's so cold outside. And in 1 hour it goes back to 1000+.

So I've ended up getting used to see and ignore its metrics, because the alternative is to open windows every 60 minutes and lose a lot of money on heating.
I wonder how much the US DoD contract for licenses brings in
Yeah I'm totally astounded too by these comments being highly upvoted on HN. Aren't the people here supposed to be nerdy? As your graph shows the very very hard part was getting to this point, being able to comprehend the basics of language and being able reproduce it correctly. This is the intelligence that laypeople thought was still 20 years out. Domain knowledge is exceedingly simple, running a basic check on google for references or correctness is exceedingly simple and is hardly intelligence. Creating a second layer that would do a sanity check on the first layer is very simple. Asking it to be creative and inventive instead of generic is very simple.

Come on HN, this is a huge step and the revolution is impending.
Not just that, the technology allows for the seamless integration of ads into content that you'd like to read / look at.

Product-placement (Edit: even elegant and subtle product placement) can be automated now.
> This is because (1) current AI models need an enormous training set relative to humans

They need an enormous training set compared to humans because they can do a lot more than any single human. The breadth of knowledge that ChatGPT can synthesize
across all sorts of subjects from politics, to poetry to programming would need at least 1,000 humans working in concert.

I'm not sure a training set specifically tailored to healthcare would need to be quite so large.
Counter argument: if that script already exists as the first result for your question on stackoverflow, then it’s less impressive to think of it as an advanced search engine with improved natural language processing.