skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have gone through literally this exact same scenario. I'll send my partner texts during the day and they'll ignore them even through their lunch/breaks, or skim them and miss something important. I get to the point sometimes where I have to stop texting them, even about unrelated topics or important updates, because I know the number of texts will build up too much and when they see it they won't read any of them. As is common, my partner is dependent on me. I am her rock and the breadwinner for our family. She doesn't provide enough emotional support, I have to constantly hold back my emotional needs. Maybe she is emotionally underdeveloped. Like hell, I have to remind her to say caring things to me, and even then sometimes they don't know what to say even with a prompt. I'm curious how many of these other things you relate to or you have in common with me.

I'm also curious, does your partner have ADHD?
Chatbots (mostly) won't change education
is this... Dependency Injection and function calls?
>Technically you can. You just have to flow back down a different one to the source again

It wont be the same, as all arrangements of molecules would have changed, not to mention be entirely different water molecules.

Which was Heraclitus point (metaphorically): the things we wish to do again ("twice"), we'll always have to do them in a changed environment.
Ask HN: Progressing on a Business Idea
Hi all,

I'm a Product Developer (Hardware) and I need some advice on understanding and starting up.
There's so much information and tips out there that I'm getting a bit overwhelmed.

My idea: An entryway mirror that has a display and a UV camera built in. It is an ordinary mirror when the display is switched off, but before leaving the house, the user is able to see their sunscreen coverage on the face & neck via the UV camera.

This is what sunscreen looks like on the face in UV: https://www.melanomaprevention.org/images/uv2.jpg

Where I'm lost:

I am not a social media person, a lot of websites like indiehackers focus on having a following starting a blog etc. to market your idea.

Am I to build an MVP now and share it online (where?) and see if people want it? Or do I CAD it up, create renders, and test to see if there's interest online (how and where?)

After developing an MVP and validating its market potential, am I just placing it on kickstarter?

I'm based in Melbourne, Australia and have always been an idea's and building person, but I tend to get lost in the details when it comes to implementing it in a business sense. Where can I find a mentor that's willing to help?
For example, I'm thinking about shipping, how do I successfully ship a sheet of glass worldwide with my current resources. I get that the shipping thing is also part of the problem, and there are many ways to solve it, ie. by changing the product dimensions, investing in shipping, etc.
> I recall a bug that I wrestled with for days (and other coworkers were stymied as well). Out of desperation I asked a 10x-er and the bug was resolved in 5 minutes. Remarkable. I even asked him how he saw the problem so quickly but even his answer was gave me no comfort. It was, as I say, clear that I just didn't think that way.

I never understood how normal people program. I have an extremely good long term memory and my intuition somehow internalizes every codebase I see so it just tells me what could be wrong and then I fix it. So every time I come into a new team there are stuff others have struggled with for a long time, and I just go and solve them, people with way more experience and have been there fore years, doesn't really matter, they don't see it.

I have many other mental issues so I am not really a 10x employee, but the gap in how fast people can reason about technical problems is extremely huge. I've worked on one of the more important teams at Google, there were a couple of extremely good engineers there, but most were just normal hard working people, the gap is huge even there.
doomer take but tbh i respect it. but the central thesis of the tech industry is that it allows for products to be created with very low marginal cost which facilitates the high returns and if that thesis turns out to no longer be true then i would say that the identity of the tech industry has irrevocably changed.
Is it humans, grenades, pumpkins?
This is mostly semantics I think, of what the actual definition of AGI is.

You would probably need a multi modal AI that could do natural language, vision, and control of the robot. At that point it's probably as smart as a dog or any animal other than humans. And maybe you could argue there isn't any fundamental difference between dog level ai and human level ai, it's just a "scaled up" version.

I think what you mention though is more like gluing an LLM with the current stack. But I doubt that will ever be enough, you probably need a multi modal model.
Judging from the tone of his comments, he appears to be a troll.
Never saw A6 printer paper, but it’s quite common for note cards / index cards.
> Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth.

ChatGPT doesn't care what word it puts in front of you, and if it's true or not. Reasoning must have a goal, and current LLMs don't. All it does it repeat what are the most common words that they've seen.

It also doesn't think. It's a completely forward process. It's definitely a part of human thinking, but not the reasoning part.
Microsoft, Amazon etc. have laid off more than 60k employees in 2022
Yeah the hand/pincers clamp down really quickly, deforming the top of the bag and pulling that yellow panel up, exposing a feature at the bottom of the bag that wasn't there before.

The throw just looks like the bag has all of the weight in the bottom.
Zig 0.10.1
It's not like they would care, unless there was some very easy way to tell the owner, like a receipt or something.

They ain't gonna store them, or search for the owner... heck, they have tons 100 times more serious cases on hold...
Who is the actress in that?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34436616
More info in the other submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34436752): Fatal Tesla crash on Bear Valley Road was intentional, driver identified https://www.vvng.com/fatal-tesla-crash-on-bear-valley-road-w...
It depends on how you define intelligence, but the most common definition of human intelligence is the ability to have abstract thought.

Intelligence, reasoning and AI are all very loosely defined words, and unfortunately neuroscience hasn't gone far enough to explain a lot of these mechanisms.

We could maybe compare AI to a dog's intelligence, but even then there's a goal system in the dog, and the dog wants to optimize for it (getting treats). LLMs are created to be purely tools, and not reflective or goal-oriented.
Or Google? Google probably also replaced the work of many a research assistant.

It's interesting that ChatGPT feels more human so we're more likely to anthropomorphise it, like list it as a coauthor.
I wonder if some of these places were just really really good about advertising and asking their customers/community to give them a nod in their Prime accounts.
Given all the hoopla lately that self-driving cars aren't really and demos are staged, isn't it realistic to believe truly autonomous robots are a decade away?
You're thinking way too small. Nobody is going to care about copyright 15 years from now.

"MovieGPT, make me an epic fantasy film trilogy that's better than Lord of the Rings, with myself as the hero."

How could intellectual property possibly matter in a world like that? Nobody is going to still read books or watch films made by humans, because AI-generated stuff will be much better, much more plentiful, and even cater to individual desires.
I get the sentiment but linear algebra is a primary method used in certain in machine learning frameworks (e.g. training neural nets). Personally I think linear regression (which also relies on linear algebra) is erroneously considered machine learning. To me the distinction is whether you provided a series of labeled data to incrementally train and improve the model and work towards some minima (i.e. learning), or did you use a method that ingests all available data to derive a one-shot solution.
Nope. What you call the "hard part" is

if (rowcount > 100) newpage();

But lets use an entirely new, esoteric PDF specific layout language instead and we wont call that the "hard part".

Actually to be fair it obviously depends on the situation. If you are churning out large volumes of PDFs then it might make sense to get the efficiency with a PDF-specific language. But HTML -> PDF definitely has its place too and is not as hard to work with as people are claiming.
Resurfaced 1964 VRT video interview of Georges Lemaitre
Obvious that these authors listed ChatGPT to get attention. The papers themselves are very short. The medxriv preprint [1] should be a blogpost. The paper in Oncoscience is nonsense [2]. It was submitted on Dec 14th and accepted on Dec 15th 2022, apparently contravening the journal’s stated peer review policy (find me an article anywhere that gets peer reviewed in under 24 hours). The journal presumably realised the clickbait value and rushed it through.

Suffice to say, the authors’ cheap strategy has worked. The medrxiv preprint has an impressive view and retweet count. Expect a flood of ChatGPT authored papers.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.19.22283643v...

[2] https://www.oncoscience.us/article/571/text/
Thanks for the insight! Encouraging.
It is aggressive in what content is trying to access. It looks for security vulnerabilities and normal bots don't do that (with the notable exception of some security testing software). Also it's not spidering, somehow it knows very old URLs which are not even public which were probably obtained from a malicious browser extension.
I'm going to xerox a copy and blow my nose with a kleenex while I hack your website on rollerblades.

In other words, it's already way too late. New, more specific words are already being formed, such as AGI.
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> That's great, since AFAIK all existing passkey implementations are tied to a specific browser or OS…

1Password and Dashlane have both announced support for generating/using passkeys via their browser extensions.

It is a good thing that bitwarden is looking at this too.
Yeah, that's a good point. The general public has now taken AGI as the term he recognizes as AI, and AI as what he calls ML.

Language is fluid, and I don't think he'll win this battle. Even if the current ML models aren't intelligent, it's probably better to just go with the flow instead of being stuck on pedantry.
But why? It's a JS runtime. Obviously you'll compare yourself to the other competing JS runtimes.
The article with video (both in French) is here:
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/fr/2022/12/31/la-vrt-a-retrouve-da...
I've been using Redirector for the last few years to redirect Wikipedia links to the mobile site because the interface is so much cleaner and the content so much easier to read. I'm super excited about this change because I can finally get rid of that browser extension.
> Odin doesn't do OOP. Zig does. I don't know why a C replacement would try to.

What sort of OOP does Zig do, exactly?
I agree with html you have to manage the pagebreak within the code but honestly its not that complicated to insert a pagebreak based on rowcount.
Did you comment this in the wrong place? It doesn't seem to be a response to what I said.

shagie brought up the possibility that somebody would have a robots.txt with only Google in it because when they wrote their robots.txt, they wanted to block poorly behaved / evil crawlers and Google's was well-behaved. But that doesn't make sense to me, because by definition poorly behaved / evil crawlers do not care about robots.txt.
> Nothing worries me more than a senior engineer that has no opinion of their tools or how to approach building software..... You need to explore other languages, libraries, and paradigms.

Funny. I've used a wide range of things in my career and if anything, it's made me less opinionated, not more. There's something that sucks about everything, and usually the part that sucks is slightly different, so... why should I be so opinionated about what I'm using? It all sucks in slightly different ways anyways.
Genuinely curious why this is front page on HN?

It’s horribly tragic, but it’s not really relevant.

Maybe because it involved a Tesla, but it seems that’s only coincidental — the collision had nothing to do with it being a Tesla.

Or was there a prior article that was speculating it was the fault of the Tesla, or other context that’s missing here?
Nothing wrong doing certain things only for money. We've all been there. But if someone pursues knowledge for the sole purpose of getting money or power, their knowledge ends up being corrupted because they are driven by self-interest and not by truth.
You can't see the truth if you are overly focused on your personal self-interests as the two often don't align. It creates a bias and corrupts your knowledge.

Then later you will teach your corrupted knowledge to others...
Dishoom is one of the experiences I miss most having moved away from the UK. It took this article to make me realise I feel the same about Pizza Express. At least I still have Ippudo, which I'd fit into the same mental space somehow.
>I really hope any website could be as flexible as Wikipedia to allow users to write their own CSS.

Once upon a time, there was an initiative for websites to add a unique CSS ID to the <body> tag so users could customize them with user stylesheets.

For example: <body id="news-ycombinator-com"> for this website, and then users can apply CSS rules as they see fit via the user stylesheet.

Sadly, the initiative never took off and most browsers nowadays don't even know what a user stylesheet is.
I think we'll find out that neither are we. I'd wager that there are a handful of breakthroughs we'll make in the next decade and a half that will give us the keys to unlocking human-level intelligence. And from there, we'll quickly be relegated to the bottom of the "intelligence" food chain.

Our brains are using some clever tricks. There's no magic at all.
I wonder if this is related to "bids for attention" in a way (see https://www.gottman.com/blog/turn-toward-instead-of-away/) - you reaching out to your partner hoping for acknowledgement and not getting any response
Suicide? How tragic. I feel for the family and the spectacle of it all. Between this and the person who drove his family off a 200-ft cliff -- is it coincidence?
> nobody is going to care about copyright 15 years from now

This is a perennial prediction. Absent substantiation, it’s hard to take it seriously.

> "MovieGPT, make me an epic fantasy film trilogy that's better than Lord of the Rings, with myself as the hero."

This output isn’t protected. The Lord of the Rings is. We shift to your AI paying when it references the content and move on. Nobody likes licensing fees. Magicking them away isn’t a solution.
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Is this a ChatGPT response?
I almost said ODBC too but wasn't sure if I fully understood it.
I'm upvoting this to counteract the downvotes.

Basic customizations should never be blocked behind an accountgate.
Oh, because of Tesla.
Didn't expert systems rule in early AI research?
The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all
So it wasn't some "AI getting crazy" story. Simply a "fat finger" problem.
Oh, because of Tesla?
Also the ability to adeptly use ChatGPT3.
AM has got it right.

Inheritance is just not often useful, unless you have nothing else to organize with. Sometimes it is just the right thing, but not often enough to need to be built into the language. If your language is expressive, you can make an inheritance library and use it to make your base and derived types on those occasions when they actually are useful.
Yeah, I use Postgres. It's good. MySQL only has the advantage of being offered by more cloud providers and thus being cheaper sometimes.
It would be interesting to see if Amazon were to add more give-some-to-charity options to their cart checkout process, if people would be just as willing to add that spend (or more) to their total. I think theirs a big opportunity for charities with not a lot of risk to AMZN.
One of the challenges faced by ChatGPT was in seeing it produce conversational-style output instead of simply the most common words that it saw.

I'm not sure your definition really clears up how reasoning or thinking differ from "basic" statistical processes. Granted, perhaps it is not explainable. If it were we would understand it well enough to replicate it.
Very cool!

Does anyone know of something similar for text file formats? In particular something that makes it easy to work with legacy fixed width record file formats?
Artificial Intelligence has been around for ages. It is even referenced in Greek mythology [1]. The definition of AI changes with time. When calculators were first invented it was considered AI, because back then anything that could do arithmetic was considered intelligent. Today ChatGPT is considered AI, but 10 years from now it won't be. Whatever is at the edge of technology is considered AI, the rest isn't.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2019/02/28/ancient-myths-reveal-ea...
> Sites should likely let you enroll multiple such passkeys from different vendors (add a Microsoft Account passkey from your PC, a Google one from your Chromebook, etc).

This sounds good, except how would it actually work?

I register in on my iPhone, it uses a key kept on that phone/iCloud. I log in via Safari on MacOS and it works because of iCloud sync.

Now I go to login using Edge on Windows. How can the website find out that I'm the same user as the iPhone/Safari user since I can't sync my key, and I can't enroll my MS Hello ID (or whatever Windows uses) on my Mac or iPhone?
But HC-tree sounds like it's a full-on server like Postgres, and unlike regular SQLite. Maybe I'm mistaken.

Edit: I was wrong, this makes more sense now. This isn't comparable to Postgres.
I had to go look it up. It was OriginLab in Northampton, MA.
I get the scary red screen too. Same on all my buckets (which are mostly us-west-1).
> Also exactly the same as password vaults, but we still stress about Lastpass losing their encrypted vault DB.

The stress was because Lastpass databases were only partly encrypted and the encryption was not based on random keys.
I think "web app" is too broad a category to have this kind of discussion over.. for a lot of web apps 1.5 updates per second could be considered a reasonable limit. Many people work on web apps that do 100x that and don't consider themselves to be working at any particular level of scale. 1.5K updates/sec is not uncommon either, in different settings -- high-traffic internal web apps can hit that in a single company, and the people working in those contexts don't consider that too special either, not to mention public facing websites like GH where many people start their careers without having seen anything different.
Eh it doesn’t have to be AGI to be intelligent. We call playing computer opponents in games “verses the AI” and they’re dumb as rocks in some cases.

Intelligence how we actually use the term just means semi-autonomous decision making system — from how to flank you in CoD, to the best move in chess, to the best move in tic tac toe, to the best reply in a chat.
Good point. I've thought for a while now that one of the big risks of present AI chatbots is that they can endlessly validate any arbitrary thoughts of an emotionally unstable human operator, creating a feedback loop that results in a strong irrational conviction, that might even be harmful to the operator or to others. (See: Lemoine and LaMBDA, or the person you linked to.)

So I guess the risk there would be, the AI is accessible by the public, some fraction of the public "radicalizes" itself in a similar direction from talking with the AI too much, these people form a coherent movement, and that movement becomes powerful enough to take over the world. So then the question becomes, just how plausible is it for grassroots rebellions so formed to succeed against the authorities in real life, as opposed to fiction?

The fundamental issue here is that the attack can occur through untargeted manipulation of vulnerable people, as opposed to the targeted manipulation of specific people in power (which I suspect near-future AI models will still be incapable of). The obvious defense would be to only allow AIs to be prompted by a sufficiently-large committee, alongside some social machinery in place to make sure the committee isn't all colluding as part of a cult. But I doubt many of the AI-risk people would ever accept that, operating under the shockingly common "powerful aligned AI or bust" model.
How I whish, haha
If you're going to change the order defined in RFC 4648, you might as well change the character set, too. Since one of the goals is to minimize the use of characters that can be confused for another, I would add back 8 and 9 and remove two of i, l and o.
To this day I still consider what many call "AI" today as just overgrown Word macros. These contraptions, as innovative and black box as they are, are not artificial intelligence.

This misnomer has led to needlessly complicating the conversations concerning things like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT, too. What many call "AI" are just extremely complicated and mindless tools, and they need to be treated as such both legally and socially.

We might achieve artificial intelligence some day, but today is not that day.
> You assert it will be incrementally better without offsetting for the externalities of the switch, which would take decades

The use of SI units is likely measured in centuries. You'll be fine, and you might save a few rockets, rollercoasters and planes here and there:

https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/6Page53.pdf
Oops, I'm an idiot, the new theme isn't the default yet!
Given how terrible it is at solving crossword clues, or even answering simple questions like how long words are or "what's the 7th letter of the word 'eyebrow'" (apparently it's "b", and "eyebrow" is 8 letters long), I'm not convinced it's competition with many things language-related just yet...
On the other hand, things indeed did suck terribly bad in terms of funding, job market, etc. back in 2008-2009. A lot worse than in an average recession.
How long has this been a vuln? Seems like the 1.8.0 branch goes back to ~2011 according to a Google search.
> "If anything so innocuous as changing the size of the paper for Diplomatic Notes was so exceedingly difficult, how difficult would it be to make more important changes?" Strickler says.

How difficult was it to change the size? Getting the official requirement changed was difficult; what would have happened if he hadn't bothered and had just started sending everything on normal paper?
I know quite some Germans and except very view, everyone prefers card payment.

When I'm in a restaurant looking around, everyone is paying with card (Except perhaps for very small amounts where putting in a PIN is a pain. Since COVID and pin-free payment ~<$50 this seems to have changed too E.g. paying at a coffee shop for coffee).