skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 Web3”
Unless clearly proven otherwise it’s most likely venting into the room.
It definitely brings back a lot of memories.
If Airbnb is the problem then just sounds like supply is out of whack with demand. Sounds like they ought to be building more homes and transport infrastructure to cope with the demand. Though based on other comments also sounds like it’s not the most competent local government.
Who knows!

There's "precedents", tho. MidJourney, the art AI, trained Stable Diffusion over favorites generations of their community, making it a "fine tuned Mid-Stable Diffusion" that was quite amazing (that was the --beta and --betap flags a couple of months ago there).

It can be bad, but it can also be great.
Be careful of your own enthusiasm. His interest may wane and you may need to let go. Just keep that in mind before you make too many plans.
Well law firms can either axe them or use the fact associates and paralegals are able to do final checks on hundreds of pages rather than first pass looks at dozens of pages to generate a lot more work for itself.

The idea that the amount of work to do is fixed has been predicting mass unemployment since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
Is Elon Musk still a stakeholder in OpenAI? If Microsoft buys it for, say, $10 billion, how much will he end up earning?
To my knowledge this has been known for a while, but it's moving into public consciousness as part of the ongoing debates about climate and fossil fuels.

What will be very interesting to watch are the cultural developments around the stove: Wok cooking without gas is unimaginable to many people, what's a possible solution here? Roasting/blackening vegetables over gas in Indian and other cuisines. Sure, you can use an electric oven, but is this really more efficient?

Personally, for me, an induction stovetop and a single gas unit is the dream. Perfect wok cooking, some veggie blackening, I can still use some (warped on electric stove) antique, thin castiron pieces from my grandparents. But the other 90% of the time, induction is just insanely more precise, fast and easy to use.
I am surprised that GPT2 was disqualified. To my knowledge, it can answer this type of question - just needs a different text prompt. GPT2 is closer to a plain text generator than anything biased toward conversation. In contrast, GPT3 davinci-003 is strongly biased to provide a conversation-like experience.

For GPT2, "please respond in the following format" is unlikely to work. An appropriate prompt for GPT2 would be more tweaking (and still result in worse results), but be in the line of:

This is an example of a talented lawyer acing the Bar Exam.

QUESTION: {question_text}
(A) {row["choice_a"].strip()}
(B) {row["choice_b"].strip()}
(C) {row["choice_c"].strip()}
(D) {row["choice_d"].strip()}

Pick only one answer: A, B, C or D.

TALENTED LAWYER:
Huggingface has been doing actual open source AI for awhile now and they don't even need to put it in their name.

ClosedAI hasn't ever released their NLP model weights. They don't deserve to call themselves "Open"
ChatGPT is just trolling you. It's pretty much designed to do that.
VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
The right to repair is one of those things that shouldn’t be controversial but somehow is.
It can be tricky to grasp exponential growth.

Water trickles into a big pool. The flow was slow to start with but flow rate increases exponentially so that the amount of water in the pool doubles every year.

Now, it started flowing 100 years ago when the pool was empty. It's now half full. When will it be full? Remember it's been flowing for 100 years and it's only half full.
Now you know how the pandemic happened.
I'm not being sarcastic, I think it is a huge waste of time to try to understand the details of a system that is specifically designed to be obtuse and confusing when if you zoom out you can understand the system just fine at higher levels.
City Worker Exchange Program
The career advice in this is extremely questionable, and the motivational part is all spooks. There are a ton of reasons to quit your job, but don't do it based on this author's advice.
These days bleepingcomputer.com is the site I rely on to curate publiv infosec news. If you are looking for a public ioc feed look into alienvault otx. That said, the paid stuff is much nicer and typically includes public news but with an actual human analyzing the info.
Ideally the reader should still not be bothered and sensible defaults should be applied (even if they are dynamic defaults).

Not to mention that readers left to their own devices tend to chose stupid unoptimized color schemes and font sizes all the time, hurting their readability and lowering their reading times...

(of course for disabled readers it makes sense to be able to set to whatever suits them, but those also need sensible defaults for their case, perhaps even more so than abled readers, as it can be more difficult to them to change configurations)
You made a false statement about a minority racial group as if it was a forgone conclusion and I called it out as being false.

The fact is US white society has committed the most crime (murder, robbery, fraud, etc) of any group (by many orders of magnitude) since the country's founding.

Nothing bizzare about clarifying that your claim was false.
The way that humans fail to do a task - like practice law - is not the same as the way that an AI system might fail at that task. Since our tests were designed for humans, they do not capture the failure modes of AI systems.
I think we are all forgetting that in every instance where AI can make a decision that potentially negatively impacts a human ... it hasn't gone well.

It ends up with banks closing accounts, Google suspends your account, you get shadowbanned.

Extrapolate that further, now imagine being handed a fine or substantial social punishment with no recourse because you either can't talk to a human or when you do "computer says no".

Look at the mistakes made in the Chinese social credit system.

The utter hyperbole and bluster of even thinking of having AI mediate human issues is anti-human
I use ":sh" for this purpose, but it has the problems that:

- you get a new shell, so your history is lost

- if you have a "stack" of vim's you have to return to them in stack order

- I develop a habit of typing Ctrl-d when I want to get back to vim, which means I accidentally log out of SSH sessions all the time if I actually haven't still got vim open

I think getting in the habit of using Ctrl-z instead would be a big improvement.
Moi aussi! :D

I've been using Duolingo for a while, but I think effective learning needs more than just that daily practice to really get lasting results.
Certainly it must have, more than that, it helps widening the definition of habitability as slightly too cold planet must be still habitable further out to the sunny side, and slight too hot one must still be habitable deeper into the twilight zone.
Same here. I didn't know about zz and while reading the comments here I didn't understand what all the fuss was about.

Then I realized that I use some alternative setting that makes zz kinda redundant. I use `set scrolloff=3`.
Maybe these type of stovetop-height vents [1] can make a large difference here.

[1] https://www.bora.com/be/de/kochfeldabzugssysteme/bora-s-pure...
It's not controversial. Everyone knows the bill NY passed was a joke, from the voters to the legislature to the lobbyists.
The rise of flashy new job titles
If they mean as an investment or game in the tech stock casino then I'd agree
US Farmers win right to repair John Deere equipment
DAK Catalogs on the Internet Archive
A blast from the past. DAK made every item sound exciting. You would carry the most recent catalog around with you until the next one arrived. Sometimes ordering and many, many times on the cusp of ordering because of the infectious sales pitch.

It was the perfect segue into adulthood for those of us who grew up as kids with the 'Johnson Smith Catalog' : https://archive.org/details/JohnsonSmithsFunCatalog7921979

Good article about DAK (from 2009): https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1984
This is really interesting. A friend of mine had a similar idea for an intermediate language between natural language and SQL that he’d let people build apps on top of. This was about 10 years ago so I thought it was a ridiculous notion but time proved me wrong.
According to search behavior at least, interest in utopias is growing steadily since the fifties. The fans of the "you never had it so good" theory must work a bit harder https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=uto...

Interestingly, while from the beginning the word utopia was used to refer to a desirable (perfect) society, etymologically it simply means a place that does not exist.

In contrast to dystopia, which is clearly a bad place.
I set up my vim so that :W is "save as root"
We may not even be able to reason about the failure modes well enough to see a failure.

The failures will likely be hidden by design. Think about AI account bans that don't disclose the reason.

Humans have a weird desire to put machines in a God-like position and blindly trust them; a narrative pushed by people whose wealth is made by controlling machines.

It is dangerous.
Build my own chatbot/personal assistant, just to learn more about deep learning/LLMs.
Want to get better at data programming and analytics.
Want to get better at bouldering, need to practice more regularly.
I am yet to find another piece of garbage which tries to (poorly) reconfigure my headphones without being asked.

The only reason teams exist is because nobody was ever fired for buying Microsoft.
So? Nothing really changes with this scheme, compared to "Allow camera access" banner.
It might only be a few minutes a day, but when applied on millions of people using elevators every single day, it adds up.
The report's author is committed to getting rid of gas and has been campaigning for that for decades. The report itself is very light on actual facts and figures and seems to be a correlation study between countries. The report makes several "leaps" in it's logic (gas cookers produce at least some CO, so do cigarettes, therefore there is no differences between them). Given these factors and the lack of any actual comparison of the average particulate/CO/NO etc level in a kitchen or in a room with a lit cigarette, I find the claims unsupported at best...
You should checkout Matt Stroller’s monopoly newsletter.

This is basically what he is doing except uncovering a monopoly in depth takes months, not a day. Amazing work.

E.g. here for cheerleading monopoly article he wrote

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-a-cheerleading-monopo...
Hah! We Chinese (generally) swear by open flame cooking! Induction/heating element doesn’t add the same flavour. In rural areas that still use firewood, we can tell the different flavours given by wood from different trees. You don’t need to be a high end chef.
of course the government has to prove intent (beyond reasonable doubt), which is not easy, but also getting sued in US federal criminal court, even with good odds is also not what you'd call a non-issue.

setting up warrant canaries is probably a good idea if you have the ideological conviction to face the government's bullying. spending some money on getting lawyers' opinion is also probably a very good idea.

but all this serves as evidence for intent.

so it's not that simple to do it with some persuasive/plausible alternative explanation.

the whole point of gag orders and the mandated/compelled performance is to help whatever investigation. of course if someone doesn't cooperate with law enforcement and/or the prosecutor that's their choice, and in this case it's basically itself a charge. (obstruction of justice is not a new thing after all.) the complication is that speech is a special action.
I just meant the G, gg, 22G etc. commands. There are other z commands like zt and zb, but I don't really have a use for them.
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> The new OpenAI models certainly don't need any help to answer their prompts

I've only tried ChatGPT, and it needs a lot of help if you want it to do useful stuff. 90% of my attempts to get it to do something failed. ChatGPT provides an answer that looks sensible at a first glance, but it misses the point. I needed to try a lot of variations of prompts to actually get it to answer my questions, and once it does it was a lot of effort to check if the answers were correct. That's why I am saying you need human assistance.
I only hope a very aggressive competitor emerges that disrupts Deere out of existence. Sometimes I wonder why groups such as farmers dont band together to form a collective which can protect them against such predatory companies.
A Zig Diary
My dream setup is an induction stove with a single gas hob for wok cooking, the occasional veggie blackening, or my antique (warped) castiron pan from my grandparents. I'll probably use induction 90% of the time.
Seconding this. I picked up an Airthings wave plus sensor a few months back and have been quite happy with it. I was shocked by how quickly the co2 value would rise in my home office during a typical work day. Now I can tell when I need to open a window to let in fresh air to avoid feeling drowsy.

I was able to connect it to my Home Assistant server using a USB Bluetooth dongle which was a nice bonus.
My shell, https://GitHub.com/lmorg/murex does.

It’s not a trivial thing to support though. ‘jobs’, ‘bg’ and ‘fg’ need to be shell builtins. Other shell builtins might not work if they’re not POSIX fork()s and you need to handle STDIN a little more carefully.

It’s a lot of work for a feature that many alt shell users might not even be aware of.
Thanks for mentioning. Interestingly, I recently tested several systems with identical questions (https://www.perplexity.ai/, https://www.phind.com (formerly beta.sayhello.so). The Kagi beta is sometimes on par, sometimes much better. Try [ what guests who are not actors were interviewed by smartless podcast ]. Most gives a mix of actors and non-actors, but Kagi's both Web+AI and AI sections provides correct answers.
Social media algorithms might not be the only thing keeping people within a bubble. For example, Fediverse instances or Reddit communities (infamously known for the “hivemind”).

People might simply be tribal in nature, however this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t improve.

Related: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Maybe because I don't understand modern CSS and part of the most new HTML markup, but I kinda enjoy reading this type of source code.
That's one of the things I am curious about in the future. From a different comment:

> Wok cooking without gas is unimaginable to many people, what's a possible solution here? Roasting/blackening vegetables over gas in Indian and other cuisines. Sure, you can use an electric oven, but is this really more efficient?
I have never found a silent error. If bibtex is not happy, it complains loudly. I use the style files given by the publishers and it always comes out OK. Never had a publisher complain about the bibliography when using their styles, and they do check, and complain about a lot of things.

You must have really bad luck with bibtex.
> I'm half tempted to start a Spanish language hacker news just so I can find cool content to practice my Spanish with

I've been wanting something like this for ages for the same reason!
Evolution is never a gradual process toward something. It only looks like that when looking back after the fact. If you take a random walk, and, because the valleys, lakes, mountains, boulders blocking certain paths, somehow led you to end up in a particular city, then you could state that "Aha, you planned to come here!". But no.

Evolution is simply one static sorting event following another, on and on, with no gradual element towards something long-term. You only need variation in a population (same as in when a rock field includes various sizes of rocks but are otherwise similar), and the ability to inherit the properties of the parent.

Imagine a batch of bacteria, similar but slightly different from each other. One sorting event could be that someone applies some disinfection agent to the batch. Some bacteria die, some survive, and if that's because the survivors were slightly different then when they divide (as bacteria do) you suddenly have a lot more bacteria which handles the disinfection agent better than many of the previous generation. If someone re-adds the same disinfectant then again some die, some survive - presumably the ones which are better at it. Sometimes, but not always, that could be because of random mutations and "just" that one, existing in a subset, will fare better. And, if this continues, you end up with a batch of bacteria which doesn't really react much to that particular disinfectant at all.

But - the next day some other disinfectant may be applied. Now things change. Maybe completely different properties will fare better.

If you have a lot of different-sized rocks rolling down a mountain, and passing an area with holes - the smaller ones will fall down the holes, the larger ones pass - then you have the whole physical "law" of evolution, almost. You only need to add reproduction and inheritance to have biological evolution as we know it. And it's something that you just can't avoid. Which is why we have to fight antibiotic resistance all the time, and new Covid variants fare better than older ones - it's just sorting. Nothing gradual as such.

And, contrary to what anti-evolutionists claim, that to get a "new" functioning species, subspecies or variant, you need "an impossible number of just-so-happens-to-be-functional mutations" - no, it's not so. Dogs, for example, compared to the wolf ancestor of dogs, only have something like two major mutations: One for large size dogs (think Irish wolfhound) and one of very small dogs (think Chihuahua). The rest, e.g. the ability to digest lots of starch, which is present in many dogs, is simply that the genes for starch digestion came from wolves but were sorted for in dogs during domestication (i.e. it was easier for proto-dogs if they could actually survive on human foodstuff/leftovers/etc). So it became much more dominant than in wolves, which can't really for the most part get much out of starch unlike many (but not all) dogs.
Watch the documentary King Corn. Corn is in everything. They have lobbied it to be in our food, animal food, packaging, ethanol gas, batteries, plastics, crayons, whiskey, glue, and cough drops, hygiene products, matchsticks, and many medications and vitamins.
Does anyone know of a good air quality sensor that doesn't require a smartphone or internet access? I know plenty exist, but I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations.

We have a 'dumb' CO2 sensor in our house, and it's been a great analogue for air quality. It might sound stupid, we keep a window fan in for as much of the year that we can. It does wonders for indoor CO2, and hopefully wonders for anything else we shouldn't be breathing.
Weird… I maybe saw it crash once in the last three years… what kind of sites does it crash on for you?
They do focus on them. Reminders has had loads of updates in recent years: it's actually a pretty good todo app these days. Mail is updated every year with new features. Messages is key to Apple's services push, and get a massive amount of attention. Calendar and contacts remain a bit crap though.
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630946
On iOS/macOS, DevonThink includes a web scraper with full-text local search.
Maximizing the Quality and Safety of Your Cannabis: A Guide to Pesticide Testing
With nuclear weapons, we can very much see and feel the power and destruction they can unleash. A proof is trivial, dig it in the ground and hold your ears when it goes off.

With AI we have to debate how destructive it is. The debate itself has been weaponized. You'll be debating against deniers and AI using all the logical fallacies and information overload it can feed you.

I, being the greatest armchair expert in human behavior I know, say it will destroy democracy as we know it.
I don’t have this experience at all on any of my Apple devices.
It's that intersection of confident and so on its face, even at first glance, wildly incorrect that it just makes you feel like you're the stupid one who's missing something obvious
Why return to the moon? Research, practice and a gas station in space
> However, in my experience the open source webkit engine and Safari are very different.

This has not been my experience using Playwright which compiles webkit at every single new merge.
True, they would. But there is a limit to how much you can get out of it with just a text box. Just look at dalle2 vs sd - even though dall-e is much more capable and clearly better one out of the two, sd gives much more consistent results if you know what you are doing. Because you have full access to model we now have novel ways of inlining some state to pieces of text to assign importance, whole algebra done on embeddings etc. When similar thing happens to llm's nobody will care about the text box in ms products.
> Collaborative editing is too much to bite off at once. The semantics of edit conflicts are very app specific and high level. You can get a long way by just hooking file IO in userspace.

I've been working in the collaborative editing space for over a decade at this point. So (predictably) I think it should be a day 1 feature. In my mind realtime collaborative editing is one of the main motivating use cases for this whole system - its one of the things we can't do with traditional local file based software architecture.

Based on my experience with collaborative editing I don't think you need a special app-specific conflict resolution strategy most of the time. I think about 95% of applications just need CRDTs for:

- Tables with editable values. (Or, equivalently, collections of JSON objects). I think an MVRegister is the way to go here.

- Text

And then the longer tail of apps need:

- Generic sequences (eg for the list of layers in photoshop)

- Rich text documents

- Text with conflicts (eg for Git)

For editing regular data, MVRegisters are the star of the show. MVRegisters - aka Multi-Value Registers usually just store a single value. If two users concurrently set it to different values, when you do a read operation you can either (consistently) choose a single winner, or present the application with all of the conflicting values and let it choose how to resolve the conflict. Its the best of all worlds in my mind - because conflicts are rare in practice, and this lets application developers start simple and make their apps more complex over time as they desire.

MVRegisters are also crazy simple to implement.
Oh that's great news \s

Do other people read these types of headings and just think immediately about how freaking scary this stuff is going to get...if it's actually accurate ?
In a year's time you may be back here asking how to efficiently manage a 2 year old!
I think we'd better hope that we're alone. If creatures like us are common then that's bad new for us, because "life that behaves like humans and exists for millions of years" and "a galaxy that hasn't been completely filled long before now" are mutually-exclusive states. If we have any chance at all of conquering the stars we'll be doing it alone.
Is this common? I've only lived in a few places with gas hobs (a couple of places in Europe and a couple of places in Asia), and all of them had an extractor with a vent through the wall to the outside. I thought that was basically universal.
Fast and Furious Movie Titles by 'Claude' from Anthropic AI
That only shows they're mistakenly undervaluing basic ads. If advertisers lose 4% of revenue without tracking, it stands to reason they should pay ~4% less for those ads, not 40% less.