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HN has surprise AMAs instead of scheduled ones. A post will be talking about something and someone will start discussing it and then you realize you’re reading one of the original coders.
Maybe the source was Bard.
I think this is sort of the other side of the hype, totally dismissing it is also incorrect imo.

Yes, it's overhyped, but it's not useless, it actually does work quite well if you apply it to the right use cases in a correct way.

In terms of accuracy, in ChatGPT the hallucination issue is quite bad, for GPT3 it's a lot less and you can reduce it even further by good prompt writing, fine tuning, and settings.

Can we just recognize it for what it is?
Prions are a risk when eating meat in general. BSE (mad cow) can be transmitted to humans, and there's some limited laboratory evidence that scrapie can be transmitted cross-species, as well.

Though you do raise an interesting though -- are prions going to be more or less likely (or the same) in cultured meat?
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If you’re interested in building your own shell, I did that in Go recently.

https://github.com/codazoda/goshell
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You and I are clearly referring to two different things when we use the word “intelligence”. It is also not nearly so easy to come up with a simple/mechanical/verifiable definition for the thing that you’re referring to. Unless you have a good definition—in which case, you might want to put your money where your mouth is and get busy revolutionizing multiple fields of human inquiry!

It’s also plain that many people are very interested in looking inside the black box and think the contents of the black box are relevant and important. This fact doesn’t change just by your saying so.
A lot of us were also there at the time. It was considerably more than marketing, and a lot of companies said they had iPhone killers which promptly failed in the market. It took a solid half decade for the competition to really firm up because there were a lot of little details which required time to get right.

It was definitely eye-opening to see people’s usage habits shift so quickly. I know multiple large organizations who completely reapproached how they developed internal applications because the executives no longer accepted IT’s unwillingness to support mobile access. I’d previously thought that would never happen.

Amusingly, the one which had a damaging public breach did not have it due to allowing phones access as some had predicted but when one of IT’s managed laptops was stolen out of someone’s car and, unlike an iPhone, it didn’t have storage encryption enabled.
I've dealt with lots of code which could be fixed permanently - ie. put in proper error handling and rearchitect to be robust and maintenance free.

More so than ever with the push for MVP and agile ticket stat chasing.
You're acting like it's a grid of arbitrary size and an arbitrary amount of characters. It's a 3x3 with 2 choices for each square.

Neglecting that (only because it's harder to navigate whether I should expect it to handle state for an extremely finite space; even if it's in a different representation than it's directly used to), I know I saw a post where it failed at rock, paper, scissors. Just found it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/zjld09/chat_gpt_isn...
Burgers are a gimmicky way to present this. Most commercial burgers are made of low quality meat and slathered with sauces and served on an oversized bun. Unless they're really going to do meat-forward burgers that are served medium rare with minimal toppings, nobody is going to notice the meat in the burger.

They should imo be aiming at preparations that feature the flavor of the meat.
for minutes spent versus knowledge gained, the best bang for buck in my experience is google's shell style guide. i don't agree with all of their rules, but their explanations for each give a ton of insight about the language.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html
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It was the tax reform act of 1986 that removed the "safe harbor" provision for engineers and computer professionals.

In the city where I currently live, lots of small businesses try to claim that their employees are contractors. Those businesses depend on the ignorance of their workers.
"Urban" includes second, third, and fourth tier "cities" with low populations and no fleet of Ubers today. There won't be a market for automated ride share for most of the US.
Wait until they find out you can simply paste a new icon on any folder!

Some great old skool ones at https://freeware.iconfactory.com/icons

Just look at those .. so good .. https://i.imgur.com/0fMNFFX.png
Is it? I see it mostly generates BS much faster.
And which is what I already mentioned? And something that standard library already can do for you so I'm not sure about the point you're trying to make.

Also, aborting the program is not something you can universally apply. For some it works well for others not so much. Most recent example being the rust in the kernel which, well, tries to take this sort of a purist approach, however, real world doesn't work that way.
> I suppose it makes sense though. Denial is the default response when we face threats to our identity and sense of self worth.

Respectfully, that reads as needlessly combative within the context. It sounds like the blockchain proponents who say that the only people who are against cryptocurrencies are the ones who are “bitter for having missed the boat”.¹

It is possible and perfectly reasonable to identify problems in ChatGPT and similar technologies without feeling threatened. Simple example: someone who is retired and monetarily well off, whose way of living and sense of self worth are in no way affected by developments in AI, can still be critical and express valid concerns when these models tell you that it’s safe to boil a baby² or give other confident but absurdly wrong answers to important questions.

¹ I’m not saying that’s your intention, but consider that type of rhetoric may be counterproductive if you’re trying to make another understand your point of view.

² I passed by that specific example on Mastodon but I’m not finding it now.
Not sure about kuru specifically, but other prion diseases can be acquired through tainted meat, e.g. BSE.
It wasn't just ICO pump and dumpers that got rid of this utility.

The people coordinating Bitcoin made an explicit technical decision to focus on it being a store-of-value, which made it too expensive to use as a means-of-exchange.

Smaller transactions like the ones you described became too slow and expensive to be viable anymore, because of these decisions.
I think the update basically announces VB is frozen, long live VB.
They are natural to you maybe with hindsight? Powered flight was most definitely not considered natural at the time. In fact, most attempts at flight were trying to mimic birds at first.
As far as I known go never changed any flags since release ( 2012 ), is it good enough for you?
If testing is the equalizer, there is no difference between black box code and something you fully understand. Which fair enough, is how ML works in general.
“Developer” wasn’t intended for your code but rather as a Developer specific Applications folder.

IDEs and debug tools and what have you. Xcode in earlier versions of Mac OS X installed to Developer
It is not about whether or not there's viable use cases or not. It is the hype added on top. Hype cycles are as old as IT. XML, Semantic Web, SOAP, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Buses, Big Data, Serverless .. they all got their hype phase where you are bombarded with them to death, and then finally when that dies down some good applications remain.
Yeah I also don't understand that comparison because... how was it shot? A film camera and digital camera next to each other?
There is room in the conduit, and pulling two is just as easy as pulling one. So it just makes sense to pull two I think — for future-proofing.
There are many families with two cars that could drop to one car plus ebikes. The things you cannot do on an ebike can be done on the car that remains. It requires some coordination of trips because you can't just take 'your car' when you want to go someplace that needs a car, but most families are rarely in the situation where they have two such trips at the same time. YMMV of course, but if you are car dependent there is still a good change you can be a one car family.
Ah yeah, the surefire way of getting "trust" is by charging people, how could one forget about this obvious way...

Also, how would charging work when you're offline? One of the features of the tooling is that stuff works offline, seems maybe charging for each use wouldn't quite match up with reality.
Cool kids wanting it doesn't mean it has a profitable business model. Essaysforsale.com isn't a $billion business.
Looking at the downward trend in volumes, I suspect the profits come from the results of selling their bitcoins they have been holding in the balance sheet, the service itself is unprofitable.
My network home setup – v4.0
Andy Warhol Made a Batman Movie That Nobody Can See
You saw an image of a guy who exercised once.
It says a lot that they pay based on things like "where do you live" VS the value of the work that you do.
> I do believe if we are going to get AGI without some random revolutionary breakthrough, to achieve it iteratively, It's going to come through language models.

Language is way, way far removed from intelligence. This is well-known in cognitive psychology. You'll find plenty of examples of stroke victims who are still intelligent but have lost the ability to produce coherent sentences, and (though much rarer) examples of people who can produce clear, eloquent prose, yet are so learning and mentally challenged that they can't even tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
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Hey HN,

I've been working on Todool for a year trying to make an editor that fits my development workflow.

a) Fast text-editing without needing to touch the mouse

b) Multi-Selection to perform commands on more than a single line

c) Switching between List/Kanban mode

You can try the free demo at itch.io for (Windows/Linux) https://skytrias.itch.io/todool#demo
Its an interesting idea, though he did start to lose me when he started pitching snake oil style lists of benefits regarding brain health and doctors telling parents to feed their kids lion meat. Interestingly I noticed I had different reactions to the thought of eating different animals. No issue with the herbivores (giraffe, zebra, etc.) but a very negative reaction to the thought of consuming big cats. Not sure why. If there is a way to verify the source of the protein (animal type) by a government regulator I would be willing to give it a go.

While its far in the future I have always liked the idea of space missions being able to take cell cultures and grow their own protein removing their reliance on earth based food supplies. Makes the idea of a generation ship more realistic (although still terrible for the generation that are born, live and die on it)
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By the medical professional who is prescribing paxlovid. When I wrote "can be managed", I mean the health care provider tells the patient to either stop taking their other meds for 5-7 days, to reduce the dose, or to look out for symptoms and call them if they have certain issues. Not be hospitalized to watch for side effects. You can look for yourself at the list of common meds, and the ones that are absolutely contraindicated are relatively few:
https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/ant...

One's ability to "trust" a patient isn't a factor here, and is, frankly, pretty condescending. The patient and provider have aligned interests, it's just a matter of ensuring the provider is making sure the patient understands what's going on. The provider should be doing that in all of their encounters, so that's nothing specific to paxlovid.
Maybe that's the most interesting or distinguishing feature of the app?
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An authoritarian top-down hierarchy is certainly superior for certain tasks like building a rail network and upending any villages in the way.

Democracy is slow because everyone has a voice - think Parks & Rec.

However, once an authoritarian inevitably makes a stupid decision, they tend to bash their head continuously into a brick wall wondering why nothing is changing.

Democracy is more resilient to disruption because all the things happen and solutions are stumbled upon. Authoritarians can be fast followers, but wouldn’t know where to lead.
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If you believe that ChatGPT is similar to Eliza, then I can guarantee that you have no rigorous no-wriggle-room definition of what intelligence is. Maybe you think you understand it, or have defined it, but I'm 100% certain any such definition is not 100% reductive and instead relies on other ill-defined works like "reasoning" etc etc.
This only happens on HN because these coders don’t comment on any other social media platform.
no cause for alarm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38EDhpxzn2g
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Prions are spread by eating (or otherwise becoming infected with) prions, not by eating something that is you, or is similar to you. There's no reason why a lab-grown me-burger would have prions in it. Or, at least, it's no more likely than a lab-grown beef burger spontaneously developing Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
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Hi HN, I’m one of the creators of Activepieces, an open source (MIT) no-code business automation tool. We’re excited to share it with HN! Our Github is https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces, our website is https://www.activepieces.com/ and there’s a video that shows how to build a Pipedrive + Slack + Email flow in 2 minutes at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY4TI6jGBwM

When we used automation tools like Zapier at my previous job, we found that it became incredibly expensive very quickly, and we had only too few options to self-host business automation when data had to reside on prem.

There are open-source automation tools that we think are too technical like Huginn and Node-RED or developed under less permissive open source licenses like N8n.

So we decided to build an open source automation tool under a permissive license (MIT) with a simple user experience that doesn’t require technical knowledge, and can be self-hosted. We plan to make money from the cloud version and a future enterprise edition with advanced features - maybe advanced roles and permissions.

The current version includes a visual designer for automation flows which can run on schedules (Cron), by Webhooks, or by triggers from external apps—25 apps and counting, including Stripe, Calendly, Google Sheets and others (we’re building these rapidly).

The app is customizable, you can add custom steps using HTTP requests or you can write Node.js code and bring in your npm packages.

If you’re curious about how it works, here are the docs: https://www.activepieces.com/docs

We’d love to hear HN’s thoughts on what we’re building! Thanks!
They reassemble patterns into new text. If they weren't generating new text, people wouldn't be mocking all the nonsense they spew.

They plagiarize, so they can't pass the buck. Bing's version partially mitigates this, but it's still synthesizing its own text, not directly copying.
Very cool, I like it. I resort to using smallpdf.com on occasion, would love to use this instead. Hope you will have a chance to add more features. What else do you think would be feasible browser side?
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They're using cell cultures, it's unlikely they'll get fully formed steaks rippling with fats and ligaments, for now, so ground meat burgers it is.
The style can be influenced, however. It isn't unreasonable to suggest an AI that fine tunes the style of the LLM output to meet whatever metric you're after.

As far as creativity goes, human creativity is also a product of life experiences. Artistic styles are always influenced by others, etc.
Use alternative reddit app. I recomment Boost.
It's worth noting that for a few years people suffixed all their stuff with "made in node" to get upvoted and then for a while with "made in go". I always tell my clients not to fall into the trap of treating personal preferences as the optimal solution to a problem.
They have one of these at KidCity in Honolulu. My daughter absolutely loves it. Didn't know it was an open source project. Very cool!
"Infringing on someone’s likeness being disrespectful of property."

Ok, yeah. That’s a good point.

I do mean A.I. voice clone usage where you provide the voice, i.e. feed the machine, in order to smoothen the production of voiceover and then double-check and quality-assure the end result. If not good enough, I would never submit it to an audition or client.

(And I’m speaking from voiceover artist perspective who’s trying to be smart and ethical about A.I. usage.)

I’m only critizing the scarcity stance we voiceover tend to fear A.I. instead of embracing it, in more of an abundance mindset.
Large, strong, fairly environmentally inert structures are still useful even if the electrical generating portion is obsolete. The only thing preventing them from being sliced and diced and used for all sorts of stuff (and reducing the amount of actual waste by a ton) is politics.
Just found the proof, that's also how I noticed it doesn't work when one of the denominators is negative.

If one of the denominators (not both) is negative, you are guaranteed to be outside of the range.
Solar cycles are periodic 11-year changes in the Sun’s activity.

Presumably we've only been observing the sun for a few hundred years at most, and maybe less than a hundred and fifty with any level of precise accuracy and scientific rigour. That's maybe 30 cycles in total, and 12 or 13 where we'd really be able to tell what's happening. If you bring probes or telescopes that can look at the sun into the mix we've observed maybe 4 or 5 cycles.

The notion that something is extraordinary because we haven't seen it before is ridiculous. The sun probably does thousands of things we haven't observed yet. That doesn't make it weird or strange. That just means we've only been a scientifically literate species for an incredibly short time.
On average I think I would be far better served if search providers just fixed their operators.
This is actually one of the driving factors that caused me to migrate away from Mac to Linux 5-6 years ago. It's been great.

It wasn't the only factor though. The lack of options for laptops and inability to self repair drove me away too. Used to be one of the strong points.
Although I understand your sentiment, I think it’s an inevitable phase in the development of any new groundbreaking technology.

People are still trying to figure out what the new AIs can and can’t be used for.

Some people will try to build ridiculous products that don’t work, but that’s just part of the learning process and those things will be weeded out over time.

There’s no ‘clean’ path to finding all the useful applications of these new models, so be prepared to be bombarded with AI powered tools for a few more years until the most useful ones have been figured out.
You’re absolutely right, if their goal is for people to get the flavor and texture of the meat. This is cultured meat though, which tends to develop far less connective tissue than it would in nature, so the point may well be to disguise the texture.
Or HDMI splitter
Management are so used to lying that they don't understand the concept of truth.
I believe the default of kafka is if you do not specify a consumer group it makes up a random one for you. It is an optional field.

Not sure 'why of it'. If it were me doing that sort of behavior I would think the idea was short lived processes that do a small amount of work then disappear. For that idea, consumer group would not make sense as you would just want to start at the front or end of the topic and blast thru it anyway. Once you add the idea of two different things happening or gangs of processes working from the same events with partitions then consumer groups makes a lot more sense to add in. But retro fitting it back in would be awful? So default is 'random' groupid? Probably in the pip's somewhere what the rational is.
Fascinating. Not all people are the same. Who’d have thought?
For a handful of programming discussions on HN that is true, but whenever HN starts touching categories which I have academic or professional experience - such as social sciences, business, devops, or cybersecurity - they become dumpster fire (AND I DARE YOU TELL ME DUNNING-KRUGER. I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU).

I've also found certain subreddits now provide better value to discussions than HN at this point.
Fantastic project. In a way, it makes me think of a game I love called From Dust: https://store.steampowered.com/app/33460/From_Dust/
What's the point of letting it comment code? The programmer who reads the code can run it as well.
HN is like this, complete with people drumming it up by starting the comment off with “Look, folks” and then saying something completely fucking milquetoast about the subject matter.
Well normally all skeletal muscle contains nerves which might have at least some of the proteins that could flip. But in this case you wouldn't want the muscle to activate, it is like the purest kobe veal kept in a box so that it's muscles never even had to work once. I have often joked engineer meat is like kobe veal, kept in a box and fed nothing but beer. Maybe soon I can test my theory.
Brothers Grimm would like a word with you about what "BS" means.

ChatGPT is good at making up stories.
My British Indian friends tend to regard it as a subject more worthy of black humour than of bearing a grudge. "Sure, your ancestors were arseholes, but do you have any idea how much money we make off you just by being capable of selling you food that has a flavour?" sort of thing.

(that's kinda the ISO standard joke of that class and I'll often tell a version of it myself as a means to indicate I believe that given the history they have every right to take the piss out of us as much as they like, after which anybody of Indian ancestry in the group will tend to grin and start telling better jokes than that one with me and my fellow white English as the target - magnificent way to be entertained over a pint ;)
What is a powerful spiritual activity you’d recommend?
A major thing I find lacking in search engines is a way to disambiguate between homographs. "AI" search engines are one way to implement that capability. However, I want a search engine that gives me websites as a result, and is not capable of lying to me. So far every single "AI" search I have tried has given me incorrect, invented answers. This is a big step in the wrong direction.
most answers are "it depends". so you might need to offer more information to get a better answer. so a conversation would be better.
I was so let down by that. Surely after Microsoft being advocating for span across C++ and C#, based on their Midori experience, C++ would adopt it as safe by default, nope.

The scenarios where there is no option in tooling (C vs C++ as only options), we have to keep using C++, for others, we can replace one domino piece at a time, eventually only those niche scenarios will be left.
sure, but a zip of text, is a stretch to call binary. In theory you could git diff these and have sensible output.