skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how it responded to that question:

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The ChatGPT model is a powerful language generation tool that can be used in a variety of applications. Some potential ideas for utilizing the model include:

- Generating personalized responses in customer service chatbots
- Creating engaging and lifelike dialogue in virtual assistants and digital companions
- Generating realistic dialogue in storytelling and narrative generation applications
- Providing assistance with language translation tasks by suggesting appropriate responses in multiple languages
- Helping users brainstorm and generate new ideas by providing prompts and suggestions
- Generating personalized content, such as news articles or social media posts, based on user input
- Providing support for language learning by generating example sentences and dialogue based on user input
- Creating interactive language games and puzzles that leverage the model's ability to generate natural language responses.

Overall, the ChatGPT model has the potential to enhance a wide range of applications that involve natural language processing and generation.

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Honestly some really impressive ideas there.
No, I was simply responding to your statement that "Modula-2 was already available in 1978". This phrasing might give the wrong impression; Modula-2's practical availability was extremely limited. No doubt it was a fine language, but it never caught on to anywhere near the extent Pascal had, before C proceeded to take over the world. If you wanted to write run-everywhere software, Modula-2 was never a tenable choice.

But we digress. The topic at hand was "How does Pascal store strings?" I stand by the pedantic statement that ISO Standard Pascal does not require string lengths to be stored with the string (nor anywhere else); there's no way for the programmer to obtain the length of a string at compile-time, never mind run-time, without resorting to some sort of compiler-specific language extension (most (all?) of which did indeed put the string length in front). Conversely, the Extended Pascal standard pretty much requires strings to instead be implemented as "fat pointers," consisting of a length and a pointer to the actual characters. I say this because substring operations return references to pieces of the original string, thus you can't stuff a length in front of the actual characters of the substring, as this would over-write characters in the original string.
There are lots of us who are happy with police.
It's a hard job, and now it's politicized. Everybody's an armchair quarterback. It doesn't pay well. And bad guys sometimes try to ambush and kill you.

Still not convinced? Talk to some family members of cops. I am confident you'll come away with a new point of view.
It's not about who makes the tools, it's about what users want to see. Users don't want to see giant posters of hate speech on Twitter. If they do, they'll stop using Twitter. It just so happens that Twitter is the only tool that can make things users see on Twitter.

People still don't blame Sharpie or USPS or Verizon. People have tried to blame WhatsApp, it doesn't stick because WhatsApp is private. The culture hasn't magically changed. Companies like Twitter know that when advertisers and users complain about hate speech, they're not just asking for Twitter to be held "responsible" or whatever that means, they're telling Twitter that they will leave.
What do you suppose "coherent human intelligence" actually is?
The four materials mentioned in the article are cement, steel, plastics, and ammonia.
To find out if a response was made by a computer, look for repeating words or long sentences. ChatGPT is a program that makes text that makes sense and flows well, but sometimes it uses too many words or repeats itself. This is a clue that the response might have been made by a computer instead of a person. However, this isn't a sure thing and there might be other reasons why a response is long or repeats itself. Still, it's a good place to start.

[After many attempts]
Fair enough, but where would you draw the line between a PLA and horizontal microcode?
Iranians have seen concessions to women in the past. From the birth of the regime in 1979, the clergy have benefited from the participation of women (not just religious women, leftists and feminists too) when convenient, and then trampled on their rights and freedoms the moment they didn't need them to remain in power.

I doubt the protesters are naive enough to take this concession in good faith after 40+ years of this behavior.
Interactive text game of surgery in early 1800s
Except they already sell API access for their AI and it seems like the right price, $0.0200 per 1k token for the best one, and my prompt right now are between 3k and 15k tokens. Doing a prompt is cheap enough for what it give, and there's no way it cost them more than that running it considering how quick it does it. They could easily do 2x that cost if it were too expensive to run for them, if not more. You can rent a server with 8x Nvidia A100 on lambdalabs for 8.80$/hr, let say my smallest prompt took 15 seconds (it didn't) and required that whole server (clearly not) it would cost them 3.7 cents to run my prompt, while costing me 6.2 cents, and lambdalabs would also make a profit on it.

Training the models weren't that expensive either, and that's a one time deal.
Throw ZFS away, put X drives, make RAID10+LVM with X-1 drives (linux supports odd numbers in RAID10), never think about it again. It's simple to setup, simple to debug, and you don't need ZFS expert for something as simple as disk replacement. In cases like what happened there is --write-mostly option that will tell linux raid to prefer other disks for reads so yo can see whether unloading the drive changes anything. Maybe RAID6 if you're not screaming for performance but want some more space.

Focus your efforts on making robust backups instead. You don't want to be that only guy in org who knows how to do ZFS things when it breaks.

We're running few racks of servers, ZFS is delegated to big boxes of spinning rust where its benefits (deduplication/compression) are used well, but on a bunch of SSDs it is just overkill.
Started off strong there but your points and logic fall off.

Porn is not "completely legal". There are many limits to porn within the law.

Inciting violence isn't protected speech. Hate speech isn't protected speech.

The first ammendment states explicitly that the government cannot create laws to restrict the human right to free speech and association. That does not mean every expression is legal. Comparing legal things and illegal things is muddy-ing the water
Ok that’s possible but still a pain in the butt to do.

My point was mainly that technical differences don’t tell the whole story.
Are facts dangerous too? Should certain facts be hidden to protect people?
Yeah wax was used to make tents waterproof as well. But it’s quite a bit heavier than plastic thread
It's more of a case that they as a business have no way of making money without this pollutant not that the pollutant itself is not an issue.

I have worn plenty of boots with Gore-Tex reinforced regions and they most definitely break down and become frail and brittle given enough kilometers of trekking.
Ask HN: Best Books about AI
What are the best books about practical AI? What are the best books for people in AI leadership positions?
What? They want their bottom line to decrease, not increase. The fastest way to increase their bottom line is to cut costs.
Down on Hiking? You Might Be Burned Out
> Yet people blame Twitter when someone posts a tweet with hate speech. This is a dangerous direction for the world to be moving in.

Not to diminish the issue, but this is mostly an American problem as far as I see it. I realise these are also American companies, but conflating the entire world to be in danger is a bit disingenuous imo.

MANY European countries (speaking from a Scandinavian perspective) don’t suffer from this, and while there’s a danger of American policies trickling down, that has been severely diminished in the past decade as there’s a movement of all of us (that I’ve seen) sort of re-evaluating our admiration of the US that was built in the 90’s - 00’s.

From the outside this isn’t a direction the world seems to be moving in. Just more crazy US spiralling.
Yeah, pretty much on the same page. Elon is... many things, almost none of them positive. I'm not going to support that type of person if I can help it.

The e-tron is very nice looking. Haven't sat in one, yet. Personally, I'd even prefer a Lucid, as they're based in my state and have a great track record with Formula E. Unfortunately, they're quite pricey and I really don't need so much car, financially or physically.
Having had to do that quite frequently in the US, flights from West to East in my experience are much more likely to be non-stop hub to hub, or entirely unavailable.

The time difference and regional/hopper flights catering to "commuters" who need to fly early morning and late evening doesn't play well with the time zone changes, so you can either have a bunch of hopper flights with full day layovers at each airport, or you can catch an early morning long haul flight from a major hub airport to another major hub airport.

In fact I think I just saw an article (can't find the source) that talked about post pandemic the US domestic flights were much more focused on large volume hub-to-hub flights as a way of serving pre-pandemic customer levels despite understaffing.
> I sort of liked old times when you had to interact with locals, nowadays you can just stare at mobile

Disconnecting from home is something harder to do now.

Back when I travelled in the late 2000s, early 2010s, I'd usually just do a three minute phone call home to let them know I arrived well, and perhaps send an email every couple days with one or two photos from a cyber cafe, later with the laptop from the hotel wifi.

From the late 2010s onwards, with roaming packages, local sim cards wifi even on flight is harder to disconnect without turning off notifications.

One one hand it's quite cool to make a video call to family from the other side of the world, but it also means that suddenly you'll end up dealing with day to day home stuff from a trans pacific flight.
People should not fear their government. Governments should fear their people.

Perhaps the same should apply to vendors.
Using the ChatGPT model to provide complex specific recommendations sounds like a really interesting idea. I imagine it could be especially useful for things like music, movies, books, and other forms of entertainment where personal preferences play a big role. It would be interesting to see how well the model can understand and interpret a user's specific tastes and make tailored recommendations.
I can finally easily do with GPT what I never managed to do with python

> generate a phrase that is 3 words long with a part of speech exactly like pronoun, verb, verb
Scaling things always seems to be the thing that takes from the environment.
What improves developer productivity at Google? code quality
> May be for many westerners, but not Apple. They knew exactly what they are doing.

Yeah right, the idea that richest company ever didnt do a proper due dilligence and Tim personally didnt have whole + and - list with detailed financial and PR projections of each choice etc. is pretty naïve. I bet stuff thats happening was pretty high on cons list.

Everybody who wants to knows how things actually look like in China on the ground knows it easily these days, no mysteries. Suicides, oppression, child labor. Yet they couldnt care less and the only reason to move away is disruption of supply.

Ladies and gentlement there you have it, true morals of yet another big corporation, not worse but certainly not better.

But anytime I said something similar here on HN I get downvoted to hell, people for some ridiculous reason create tight emotional bond with a plastic gadgets in their pocket and go to great lengths to defend it regardless of facts.

And the last item - the idea that same amoral money-driven corporation on the other hand truly, properly cares about privacy beyond moves that look good from PR perspective is dangerously naïve too. There is simply no safe commercial phone, and Apple would have to open source all software and hardware to prove otherwise, so its just not happening.
And peoole kill themselves - frequently - with alcohol.
Give up, you can't. It's over. Switch and never use Google anything again.
This was over a year ago. Where's part 2 and others ?
even some hacked setup with 2 way sync is better. The dumbest (but still somehow the least problem in their architecture) I saw was running [1] syncthing on few servers and just syncing everything and hoping conflicts won't happen...

Like, I did it, but I wouldn't recommend it, restarting NFS server is gnarly, HA support on OSS side is... not really there last time I checked, and overall PITA.

* [1] https://syncthing.net/
In every language with a finite number of words there must be words that are not definable in terms of simpler words/concepts. Perhaps you’ve stumbled upon such a word with “truth”. I think it is obvious what I meant to most people.
If you know SQL and work with large CSVs (that exceed excel limit), I recommend https://superintendent.app (disclaimer: I'm the creator). But it is still not free though.
not too long ago i belive there was a dump of samsung IP materials, and proprietary tech resources, if it wasnt there somehow, the method could have been in there.
People blame magazines if they print adverts with hate speech. This isn’t new to twitter.
What are the sides?
> Their state is powerful but it only works because the citizenry are decently happy with their lives getting better over the last decades

China has had a billion for more than 40 years now; the only signficant challenge to the CCP's dictatorship was at Tiananmen in 1989. Communism has developed fairly sophisticated tools to help retain control; all the way up from textbooks in schools to violence as needed.
I personally do not have notable examples in my environment because of its specifics, but I have read a few interventions from Niall Ferguson (material from probably around 2018) about angry mobs impeding conferences of a "disliked" people (including his wife).

Anyway, to the theoretical point: if you have a wave of some phenomenon (e.g. "mobbing" - not in the present typical use, but in the present context) that expresses in different ways owing to the specifics of the hosting environment, the change in its expression is relatively accidental. If you had drunkenness in the lab and in the pub, what is more cringeworthy one could say that is to find it in the lab.
The only thing stands in its way to pass the turing test is the fact it's too perfect. Too pedantic, dare I say, 'robotic'. It doesn't become moody, it doesn't lament, doesn't stray off topic, and doesn't make typos on its own. It's human to err.
You can do certificate rotation in signing scheme V3 and Android 9+.

https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/apksigning...
If you couldn’t tell, my post above was generated by the Assistant with a ‘get me a pessimistic rebuttal of the following comment’ prompt… it used arguments which I agree with, but when asked for an optimistic agreement it produces convincing rationales, too.

The problem here is this technology very obviously pro-wealth concentration since I can’t see a way which in the limit doesn’t make everybody need it to stay competitive.

(If you can’t tell it’s the real me, not the AI - the AI is so much better at plausible rants it isn’t even close)
That's just its default setting. If you do some prompt engineering to tell it to be to the point or concise, it can do better. E.g. I got:

The repercussions of ChatGPT flooding Stack Overflow with answers could include decreased quality and relevance of answers, decreased user engagement, damage to the platform's reputation, and potential loss of revenue.
Users choosing to block someone vs server admins deciding to decide for their users to block whole other server.

It would be fine if it was just "don't pull this server to public feeds", but as it is now it just repeats the problem of giving moderators too much power over users.
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering by WJ King is a great book on the people-skills side of engineering and management. At ~60 pages it’s also mercifully short and to the point.
Interceptor 007 Faces the First Rain Event in LA (& stops 35,000 lbs of waste)
Seems very close to python?
https://archive.ph/PktiJ
Every action one takes that isn't in alignment with the truth acts as a debt against the truth. Eventually that debt has to be paid. As the debt grows, one finds themselves increasingly in hell.
From what I'm seeing, I suspect insurance companies have multiple internal groups, at least one that want to reduce expenses and at least one that wants to increase revenues. Each is motivated independently of the other.
The 1 Percent Are Many Times Worse Than the Rainforest Wreckers
"teach gpt-3 to understand it's violating copyright"
I don't even know who you're referring to with RMS. Nor do I understand your point here.
Or, and it's crazy but hear me out, use an HSM to sign these apps instead of distributing keys
Edit: Already happening https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855416

So I’ll respond here instead as the conversation progressed.

I would say the quality of the input data is likely very important component and I think you are wrong overall in your opinion.

I would say the quality of input training data is so important that I’ve personally been thinking I should probably start data hoarding myself, specifically around my skillsets.

Additionally when you understand that embedding like word2vec are perhaps a significant part of the improvement, not just the transformers, it occurs that adding symbolic capabilities, like classic symbolic reasoning and for example symbolic computing, like Mathematica, then maybe provide also true computational power, floating point, so it can write, debug, and execute it’s own output… it must be getting closer and closer to AGI.

when you play with the system, which I feel most of the commenters on HN which are being dismissive likely have not personally spent enough time exploring it’s current capabilities, then there is no way any well trained and experienced SWE isn’t blown away.

This is why I said you are in denial.

I happen to thing AGI will be very beneficial for humanity and I also think this is a positive for SWE by humans, including myself. I will very likely be a paying customer when the trial ends in a few weeks.
They're around Raleigh, I'm up in Bryson City right now and see a few around here, as well as when I was in Florida for thanksgiving. From my understanding the power company, Duke, just got a batch that ended up having issues causing them to turn purple. I like them but I can see why people don't.
I mean it also replies with "I am a bot" if asked, so it's not really meant to try to pass the turing test.
Go raise money?

i.e. don't worry about saving money?
> hosted by an organization that many people consider highly ideological and politically divisive.

Isn't your remark itself divisive? We should be paying attention to ideas and verifying them, not flirting with ad hominem. The last thing we need to encourage is more emotionalism and prejudice.

> It will make you appreciate that many societal problems we have today are... not new.

Indeed, as the famous passage from Ecclesiastes says, there nothing new under the sun. Another text worth reading is "The Republic" in which there is an analysis of the stages of political decadence which are also discernible in our own times[0][1].

[0] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1562889060602916864.html

[1] https://americanmind.org/salvo/woke-ideology-is-a-psychologi...
Do you mean they should clarify I own my devices and data, or google/apple do?
Could you elaborate how GPT-3 is relevant to the things discussed in the article?
And so it begins. Welcome to the new internet.

I'm bracing myself for when this wave of AI content hits academic journals.
If you are creating simple landing pages or really simple basic CRUD apps or creating documentation, write simple article about tech etc then you will be in trouble in a few years. I work on distributed, low latency, high volume systems with complex graph relations, things that you actually need AGI to solve so while I'm impressed with current big language models I'm not really afraid. My advice is: do not work on basic low end stuff and you will be probably safe for 1-3 decades.
Keep in mind that your rescue is also dependent on the responders being competent

https://youtu.be/LFLl9q-bEgk
I really liked his other book The Design of Design as well. They go well together.
> Why would it be any different than using a mobile feed reader to follow hundreds of blogs

In my experience, you generally do that through an aggregator which has already cached the articles for you and you're doing a bulk fetch from a single host - that is quite different to calling out to hundreds of individual hosts and fetching a page from each.

> it's seems very dumb for Mastodon/ActivityPub servers to be downloading and delivering content on behalf of client apps.

Isn't that literally what an RSS aggregator does?
Nonintuitive Principles for VC
ChatGPT does print debugging to fix a bug
Linux on M1 wasn't a hack, apple allowed it to happen. There is certainly a lack of hardware docs (which is unfortunate), but apple did nothing to prevent users from being able to execute their own kernels, which I'm happy to see.
Instructure doesn't need to comply with AGPL obligations because it owns the product. It isn't licensing it to itself under the AGPL.
I wonder how large that minority is, versus how loud it is. I've been to forums that had no moderation. Normal people do not talk that way and do not want to be around people that talk that way. Kiddie porn? FFS, get out of here, we do not want to see that.
Is there some new way Prime is "going down the toilet" as opposed to Amazon's retail arm in general?
The Design of Design.
In that case we would need to use services (assuming they are actually needed) that respect freedom, or create them or find alternative ways to meet the same need.
Perhaps you are overly connected with reality.

If you and I were on a desert island, and attempted to forcibly extract 40% of your foraging efforts, saying I was going to invest it for the greater good, you would probably rise up and attack me, finding the idea unacceptable.

Now, if I and 5 others did the same you might feel forced to accept the proposal. I hope you would agree that the idea of forcible extraction of your wealth is still not right. Well, at what point does it become right? How many people need to go along with forcible extraction to make it a just social contract?

The answer is - it is never right. Any time even one individual is forced, it is wrong. But its not a case of one individual - we are all infringed upon multiple times daily, even though we are doing no harm to anyone.

This is a perverse system, that will even try to mould and entrain its citizens, for the benefit of a tiny minority who would preserve their power. (Its not even about money for them, as they control the printing presses, and means of production.)

People will often say anarchy would ensue if this system stopped - we are better with the devil we know (a hierarchical governance structure, that restrains the individual). But, the truth is, while we choose this system we can never be free - this is a certainty. We choose to always be slaves, and to be ruled by the worst of us (psychopaths who are unburdened by care towards others) who rise to the top.
Insurance tends to have maximum profit percentages mandated, at least in the US. I'm not an expert in this, but I assume that this results in a bit of a perverse incentive where the only way to increase your profit is to increase your costs.