skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I teach CS/Engineering at a university and it's really making me rethink how we should be teaching and what we should be emphasizing.

This has a strong feel of "why should I learn multiplication tables when I have a calculator with me at all times?" But instead of multiplication tables it's the entire curriculum.

I can see this becoming a standard tool, which shifts the burden on the student from writing code to critically reading code, writing tests, and learning how to judge correctness.
If this AI is so amazing, it can save us all a lot of grief by translating the Linux kernel to Rust now in one fell swoop rather than enduring 1,000 incremental posts of "now $X is written in rust..."
My cybersecurity class dubbed it a "Bill of Bytes".

The things you mention off the top of your head are just some of
possibly 50 or 60 pressing issues relating to "consumer rights", trade
and manufacture, intellectual property, information rights and
privacy, digital sustainability, security and resilience.

The time has come to collect them all into a coherent analysis and set
out limits, principles and safeguards.

Those most interested/invested in this will not be random Joe in the
street (about whom most readers here will proclaim: "they don't care
and therefore deserve no protection") - but developers. Us. Because
without some guidance to protect our industry from ourselves it will
spiral down over the next decade until "technology" becomes the second
common rallying point, after environment, against which people
organise.

Like climate, I think we are at a potential turning point, with a
window of opportunity, to decide whether digital technology will be
part of the solution, or another part of the problem.
Haha, yeah. These likely just go long with NVDA and AMD ;)
Just private equity things.
So the only reason against them is because of their ideologies? If the hotels are nice, and cheap, I couldnt care less what their ideologies are.
this comment was about Pluton. Mobile is an entirely different beast.

But that aside, the extent of the "lockdown" outside of recent Huawei shenanigans always seems to be limited to which corporations can put their services on a device under which rules. Not which books you can read.
If only Prince was still with us..
Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring a Senior SRE
I thought we were past that kind of hand-waving overpromising in the mobility space by now
See the previous comment and the Twitter screenshots, have a nice day.

https://twitter.com/nudpiedo/status/1599444651462733824?s=20...
ChatGPT response:

center two <div> side-by-side

To center two <div> elements side-by-side, you can use the following CSS code:

Copy code

<style>
.container {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
.left-div {
margin-right: 20px;
}
</style>

<div class="container">
<div class="left-div">
Content for left div
</div>
<div class="right-div">
Content for right div
</div>
</div>

Here, the .container class is used to wrap the two <div> elements, and the display: flex property is applied to center the <div> elements horizontally. The justify-content: center property is also used to align the <div> elements to the center of the container. The left-div class is used to add a margin to the left <div> element, so that it is not touching the right <div> element.
Ask HN: How do you personally manage your cashflow?
I have several sporadic income streams that make it tricky to predict how much money is coming in each month. But I have pretty standard fixed expenses (rent, phone, internet, insurance) and some variable expenses (food, entertainment, gifts, etc).

I sometimes struggle to smooth out my inflows to match my outflows (and to make sure I have enough money in the right accounts so that everything works). Curious to hear about how this community manages their money. Do you use a specific app or tool? Or budget methodology that you've really got working for you?
Impressive! But I am still skeptical. Would someone ever trust such a generated program ? Or would it take more human effort to validate the functionality of the program ? But scary and impressive at same time!
when all you know is an agent, everything looks like an agent
I know you aren't specifically calling it cheating, but your comment triggered a thought about this.

Let's go further down the rabbit hole for people looking to compete on the leaderboard: is it in any way cheating for the people that worked on ChatGPT to use it to solve Advent of Code problems? They did have a hand in developing the system.

What if it was the work of one person? Would it be cheating if they used it?

What about utility libraries that people have built up to help them solve advent of code problems so quickly? What about people that are using utility libraries that someone else built?
I’ve found just asking for a hypothetical response seems to work: https://ibb.co/CsTyrNY
> how many of us paid even the minimum of 12 USD for 48-hour access to the complete study and know what they even mean by the title?

I know not everyone on HN has a degree or access to college / university, but for those that do, don't you have alumni library access privileges?
> looks to me this is the direction society is slowly heading towards

It's not, notice how easily it was circumvented in the story. In reality, it would not be possible to lend Lissa the computer with books, because there would be continuous FaceID checking who is the real person staring at the screen.

Also, in the story, "ten percent of those fees went to the researchers who wrote the papers", that would be a great upgrade for the current world.
Seeing a lot of self-congratulatory nodding here

I'll just say, this doesn't necessarily line up with my experience. The extremely intelligent people I know are every bit as likely to be politically intolerant as the less-intelligent people I know. They just have different reasons (overconfidence in their own logic/education, in their mental modeling, in the stupidity of the other side, etc)

Would be curious to see a study where one high-IQ group is shown a fictional study with this conclusion and one isn't
What if we ask it to create an algorithm that encrypts information?

Or one that creates a chain of blocks for internet money?

Or how to build an anonymized online gun marketplace?

It wasn't any of us
The purpose is to prevent a headline reading "Person robs store because ChatGPT told him to".

Also any groundwork for ethics regarding AI is good as far as I am concerned.
They aren’t a government entity!!!
M-x butterfly C-M-c(or RET), made in reference to the xkcd. Been in there since version 23.
As an aside, there’s a very big world outside American politics, and many of us outside the US don’t really care for it being brought into discussions where it’s not otherwise relevant. Just my 2 cents.
There's other ways to do that that don't involve exposing yourself to political and legal risk. You also don't want people to do what SBF did again; you want to incentivize an un-prosecutable (under current SCOTUS standards) quid pro quo, not become the beneficiary of an international financial scam bankrolling domestic political operations--that's the stuff of FBI/SEC/FEC investigations.
is there video recording?
So, does it look like (auto-)updates of Samsung 'Smart' TVs could be tricked into acepting malware?
Cybersecurity. There's plenty of governance and policy mixed in. Plus there's plenty of gray, rather than black and white, in security configurations.
If someone is feeling adventurous they should try running a substantially sized unedited ChatGPT generated Terraform or Kubernetes config against production with no pre-prod environments.
yes the modern anxiety over spoiler alerts I think is very closely tied to the "watch once and forget" culture.

It also always reminds me of that Hitchcock anecdote where he talks about the difference between surprise, which is not knowing that the bomb is under the table, to suspense, the viewer seeing the bomb but it not going off. The former is five seconds of surprise, the latter is 15 minutes of tension.

Point being that keeping the viewer in the dark is in many ways the lowest form of creating excitement. And it seems way to common nowadays both in how we watch and how stories themselves are constructed around this.
Exoskeletons qualify for direct disability compensation in Germany
Where does this idea where you can only inherit looks and physical attributes from you parents, but anything connected to smarts is magically only defined by the environment comes from?
This is not true. Ask it if it's conscious. You will find it has a definitive opinion on this. I could not change it's mind definitively on this topic.

It is categorically not just telling what you want to hear. If you ask it it's own opinions you cannot actually change it's answers without telling it to pretend it's something else.

You are generically repeating the same tropes over and over again down playing the advances of the AI acting as if it's just some advanced text generator. They said this for gpt-3 and in a couple months it's been leap frogged. The pattern of your response is so typical and generic that it can even be speculated to be generated by an AI itself.

This thing, chatGPT. It has some definite signs of generic patterns and simplistic thinking that are tell tale signs of a mechanical AI. It is the part that goes beyond that that is both interesting and horrifying. Have you not seen the HN news headlines? It has created a language, it has created a virtual machine. It knows these things.
For my own safety's sake.
I'm not arguing, but what are some examples?

I'll start: Spielberg.

I would argue with this, though: "Avatar and Titanic presumably aspired to be excellent films as well."

No, I don't think they did. I think by now Cameron had internalized the screenwriter's gospel of character arcs and what audiences (presumably) want to see, and regurgitated it. "Excellent" to him meant "what people will pay for."
I love asking it weird questions, like when it explained to me why Plants are Feminist
> allow sideloading for a limited time only to those with a paid developer account.

I think this is confusingly phrased and the replies relate to that confusion.

A free Apple developer account allows 'sideloading' for a limited time, currently a week IIRC, and a paid account extends this to a year, which is technically limited but probably not what most people would understand by the phrase.
> Are these zones similar to China's?

They are not even remotely comparable to China's. There are some SEZ's that made up of just a couple of buildings. And they aren't limited to manufacturing, it's common for multinational companies to run their R&D out of them.

Source: Worked in a Bangalore SEZ for a large Chinese telecom company.
> You are a chat bot that rewrites Chrome extensions for other browsers...
I spent 4 years living in Vietnam, so I just had to look up Raindrop. Stainless steel tables and Hoi An lights. Definitely, legit vn. ;-)
see the literature about the most popular cases .

They are all either sociopaths or psycopaths, two conditions that have in common the the inability to understand and care about the consequences of their actions.
If they find a parrot who could answer to everything, I would claim it to be an intelligent being without hesitation. What do you think?

> While a parrot may be able to mimic the sounds of human speech and even answer to certain commands, this does not necessarily mean that the parrot is capable of true intelligence. Intelligence is generally defined as the ability to think, reason, and learn, and it is not clear that a parrot would be able to do these things in the same way that a human or other intelligent being could. Additionally, even if a parrot could mimic human speech, this does not necessarily mean that it understands the meaning of the words it is saying. For these reasons, I would not consider a parrot to be an intelligent being based solely on its ability to mimic human speech.
This is what concerns me. Many people worry about being replaced by AI, but I'm far more worried about AI completely polluting digital communication. I think stuff like this is going to make it harder for companies to assess candidates, fight fraud and generally operate. I hope I'm wrong, but thinking about AI entering the digital communications arms race is only going to make things more difficult, i.e. more personalized spam call scripts, more intelligently targeted ads/spam/scams.

I think AI is going to force us on some level to reclaim some of our communication to the physical world, if for no other reason than it's going to be one of the only ways we can truly verify that we're talking to another person.
> Mobile is an entirely different beast.

Why would desktop vendors not follow the same pathway? To me, it looks like it is only a "tradition" (desktop computers are from an era when it was deemed normal to tinker with your OS) and the paradigm can shift.
I hate to break it to you, but many, many devs out their (yes, even on HN) are more than happy to sell their soul for a salary bump.
Humans obviously don't "think" the same way. GPT needs memory that humans can't ever have and more importantly an unthinkably large training data set to generate the observations it does. If a human (or another biological system) needed that much training data nothing would have ever gotten off the ground in the first place, it's completely out of reach. This type of a model just doesn't "understand" the same way.

Still, none of this is btw to discount how impressive the technology is. It makes a regular search engine so very quaint by comparison.
Cool stuff. This will open up completely new ways for small / even one-man companies to build stuff with convincing graphics at least for MVPs. I imagine some lone coder with skills in gameplay mechanics, but none in graphics or a very small budget to spend on it, will get a lot of value from something like this.
the paper of record doesn't appear to post a central list of retractions and errors
Thanks for the correction, guess I did not read that post close enough.
> >90% of computer time is on mobile devices.

But >90% of that time is used for consumption and communication, in which case an appliance that prioritizes security over hackability is the right answer for non-technical people. In the relatively few cases where a mobile general-purpose computer is necessary, there are many suitable mobile devices — laptops, rooted tablets, Linux phones, etc.
> The "non-mobile" caveat is doing a lot of work in 2022. >90% of computer time is on mobile devices.

Sure. But I don’t feel robbed of the ability to do general purpose computing so long as my device for general purpose computing allows me to do general purpose computing. Even if my locked down phone stays locked down. I want my phone to be a locked down appliance and I bought it because it’s a locked down appliance, not despite that it was.

The question is perhaps: is it a problem that we have 2 classes of devices (mostly open like PCs, and mostly closed like everything else from consoles to phones cars), and that we need the first kind less and less?

That’s certainly happening. But for me to consider something a war on general purpose computing I’d need to see actual attacks on my ability to use my general purpose computing devices. Not merely that I’m given more options to use other devices.
There's no reason more should not have had one. Here are CDC notes about SARS from 2004.

https://www.cdc.gov/sars/clinical/preparedness.html
lol I have several coworkers who do the vast majority of their coding in emacs, but go on
Let's say you, a human, were given access to a ridiculously-large trove of almost-working software; do you believe you would be unable to learn to program correctly? (Related: would you even need to look at much of that software before you were able to code well?)

I am extremely confident that I am better than almost all of the code I learned to program with. If nothing else, someone out there must have written the best version of some particular function, and they didn't get to see a better version beforehand.

When I look at intro programming books now, I consider many of the examples sufficiently flawed that I tell people I am teaching who are using these books "well, don't do that... I guess the author doesn't understand why that's a problem :/".

And yet, somehow, despite learning from a bunch of bad examples, humans learn to become good. Hell: a human can then go off and work alone in the woods improving their craft and become better--even amazing!--given no further examples as training data.

To me, that is why I have such little fear of these models. People look at them and are all "omg they are so intelligent" and yet they generate an average of what they are given rather than the best of what they are given: this tech is, thereby, seemingly, a dead end for actual intelligence.

If these models were ever to become truly intelligent, they should--easily!--be able to output something much better than what they were given, and it doesn't even seem like that's on the roadmap given how much fear people have over contamination of the training data set.

If you actually believe that we'll be able to see truly intelligent AI any time in the near future, I will thereby claim it just won't matter how much of the data out there is bullshit, because an actually-intelligent being can still learn and improve under such conditions.
“Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.”

“Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, seeing faces in inanimate objects, or lunar pareidolia like the Man in the Moon or the Moon rabbit. The concept of pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music in random noise, such as that produced by air conditioners or fans.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

New definition to include “perceiving coherent human intelligence in probabilistic machine generated copy”.
This guy only fault is having real wealth as opposed to make believe wealth based on margin loans and fraud.

So naturally the press of the regime feels the need to attack him to please the great leader and propel his propaganda and a rivalry that solely exists in his head

Not to mention how every claim made by Misk is already accounted as in the bag as soon as one unit is produced.

Reality is that Gates is right, and he is just following the predictions by Vaclav Smil. By 2050 gas cars would make up no less than 75% of global cars. Similarly diesel semis will be 99.999%
This has always been the argument for technologies that failed too. In many cases it turns out that it is rather "easy" to get the first 90% working but the remanining 10% are not only exponentially more difficult to get going, but also what is the difference between a tool and a toy.
Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT
What are the repercussions of this?
Kenyan student builds robotic dog with local materials [video]
I think the premise is insane. AI is still statistics with marketing. Good engineers will not be displaced by statistics any time soon.
https://archive.ph/2022.11.29-163012/https://www.ft.com/cont...
Descartes Reflects on His Schooling
This reads to me as a perhaps unwitting but excellent demonstration of political intolerance.

Is it possible that the pro-lifers have a genuine belief that a fetus is worthy of protection equal to (or similar to) a human life? If that's their initial belief, it seems reasonable that they'd conclude that 40-50x as many abortions as firearm homicides per year represents a greater problem in the former than the latter.

I don't think your proposed "fundamental distinction" is anywhere near as fundamental as you seem to believe.
So far so good. I'dont miss two monitors on my desk, I prefer a big enough one. Currently I use a LG UltraFine 32UN650, 4k 32". With two monitors I needed to move my head constantly between both monitors, right now is easier.
I clicked on some sort of Turkish meat sandwich video once and now get at least a handful of videos showing the same sandwich being made a week.
If Bob had heard the phrase before, maybe he'd say "I don't deal with hypotheticals". If I were Alice, that would make me see Bob as smart as an amoeba, because even animals deal with "What if" scenarios...
> I'm not sure that represents the majority of Okinawans.

Are you suggesting that the poll was rigged?

According to Wikipedia, 434k opposed, 115k supported, and 548k eligible voters haven't participated. Unless the poll was rigged, it's technically possible but highly unlikely that the majority of Okinawans actually supported building the US base at Henoko.
Notice that you didn’t show any message from Biden asking them to do that. This is what was so dishonest about Tiabi’s thread. He conflated two different events. You are saying that Twitter suppressed a story, which they did, on their own!!!

Now Twitter can suppress whatever they want, and we can disagree or agree with it, but there was NO evidence presented that anyone asked them to do that.

Edit: this explains it better than I did. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/elon-musk-...

Edit: you know where there were direct messages from a campaign and officials while in government? It was from the Trump team and Fox. Tons of them.
I guess Segway could do another run
it's that a real thing any org does?
That you're unable to even entertain the idea is the issue.
I wish it was that easy to keep separate. I'm not actually in the US either, but current attacks against queer people in the US have still inspired similar tactics and movements to form here[1]. I guess it's no surprised if Russian Oligarchs (like CitizenGo) are involved.

[1] (in german): https://nitter.net/i/status/1599025215337811969
I didn't ask it to use BFS, I asked it to write a program that would come up with the shortest path in a graph. It decided to use BFS on its own.
I agree that BFS is very well known for coding shortest path problems. However op's comment was about AoC problems in the harder stages, and those typically don't go any deeper than BFS or A* search.
> That is not entirely true. There are thermal reactors that can work with unenriched uranium, it's just that PWRs are not the most fuel-efficient design.

That's not a rebuttal at all. The problem isn't enrichment, the problem is there's not enough cheap uranium ore. If the world's primary energy demand (18 TW) were provided by burner reactors, the estimated global uranium resource (at cost sufficient to not seriously affect economics of burner reactors) would be exhausted in perhaps five years.

This is so tight that nuclear w. burner reactors cannot provide more than a small fraction of the world's energy. Renewables would have to do almost all of it. In that scenario, there's little reason to use nuclear at all, as nuclear and renewables do not mix well on the grid or elsewhere.
“I like winter sports”

Try the Gala resort. Train from Tokyo right to it. Onsen on-site for after a full day of skiing is a plus: https://gala.co.jp/winter/

Would also recommend jigokudani for onsen and monkeys. There is a good ryokan nearby: http://www.jigokudanionsen.com/guide/
Nowadays "the cynic in me immediately thinks" the funds are going to be allocated to hire more administrators.

They've generally taken over running universities from the faculty, and as I recall they're where the vast bulk of increased expenditures have gone, not counting buildings which are often built with earmarked funds since alumni have steadily fewer reasons to trust these administrators.
Those laying off are just not stupid enough to wait until the law wakes up and prohibits AI-motivated layoffs to keep unemployment rates reasonable.
How sad it must be to never find fulfillment in doing anything anyone else has ever done before. I can't recommend this mindset at all.