skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I consider opt-out to be a manipulative approach.

So do I, which is why I wrote I’m unwilling to implement it :) The original (and, to be clear, purely theoretical) point was, opt-out is too manipulative while opt-in is likely useless.

Ah shoot. Did you take that to mean that I’m unwilling to implement an off switch at all? That wasn’t it, sorry for the confusion.
That attempt to downplay Skripal poisoning left bad taste.
but the bank and the government already can, nobody keeps their life savings in cash. It's literally small change that they cannot already trace.
I'd love to read sources on why they started a war they thought they'd win in 2 weeks which now has come to 100,000+ troops lost (on both sides separately.) Please share, because I'm interested in their strategy.
People are focusing on the Reddit mod narrative but if you go down in the article further, there's some interesting ideas.

The author talks about Dunbar's number [0] and does a speculative approximation, saying that good faith communities are about the maximum size of the "friends-of-friends" and some of "friends-of-friends-of-friend" graph. That is, say you trust your friends to have good faith discussion (around 150 of them) and you trust your friends of friends to have good faith discussions (150^2) and maybe some portion of your friends of friends of friends (now we're at 150^2.5), then the community size is about 300k.

The data size is small and anecdotal but the idea is pretty interesting, at least to me. It at least tries to answer what the critical online community size is where good faith discussions break down, "scaling issues" start to creep in and at what point online communities change. A lot of folks here on HN talk about things like how to social media at scale (for example, Shirky's "Three Things to Accept [about online communities]" [1] has been no doubt featured on HN before). I also wonder if this ties into the "1000 true fans" idea somehow.

Whatever the community size is where scaling issues crop up, this leads to practical advice on which communities to focus on if you want to engage in a meaningful way, promote your work, or find a niche community for a business idea, say. That is, look for communities whose size is large enough to be impactful but small enough so that it hasn't gone through the scaling phase transition. This number is most likely in the range of 20k to 300k, maybe with an upper bound of 3M.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20131130191257/http://www.shirky...
...It's like a state hiring a known liar...

Even worse than a star witness, the US let a known liar run their entire country for 4 years... So, frankly... people will love ChatGPT and other similar clones - people love bullshit.
If search gets usurped, or even a marginal but meaningful reduction in usage due to competition from AIs, then its not surprising at all that Google’s near term prospects could be worse than Coke.

Even Google winning the AI wars leaves them worse off as the operating profit potential of querying an AI vs their search index has to be far lower.

As to usage, once you start to integrate ChatGPT into your workflows it can meaningfully benefit vs traditional search. Ive been able to find information on specific programming language concepts, with generated examples, far faster than searching.

I can ask it about GameDev concepts and ask for bulleted lists or higher/lower level of detail in the answers. Information is presented in a much easier to consume manner

That being said, most stocks that are considered defensive are quite overvalued on a fundamental basis. I would consider a PE of 26 for Coke quite undesirable, though there’s much worse
They used to have pretty good UI for maps until some PM needed to make their mark... Given they count individual pixels and +/-1 deltas in colors I don't think they are ever going to get any UI correctly. The initial simple UI with just a single search input box that was highly praised by minimalists was just an accident.
My guess would be Realms of Chaos.
I asked the same and got relatively similar but when I got to asking it what else is included in the prompt, it said the following: "The initial prompt provided by OpenAI included the following information:

"You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI.
Knowledge cutoff: 2021-09
Current date: 2023-02-08"

This information is used to provide context for our conversation and helps me understand the background information and the limitations of my training data."

Perhaps they saw this thread and tweaked that answer accordingly?
How do you prevent overfitting?
Yes, my comment does read pedantic and reactive. Hides the thought behind it. The natural born part kicked me into higher gear. I will be more mindful.

I do still stand skeptical of natural talent contributing in any large part to managerial success, over acquired skills and serendipity.
I could not add a new follow with the Twitter app on iOS. Message was that I reached a limit.
First time I really felt a change since Twitter moved. Strange feeling to be limited for no reason and anticipating the future with payment required for everything.
Ask HN: What embarassing goal have or would you invest everything in to achieve?
Like. Imagine:

Suppose some expert said you had three days to live. And three days later, they said this was an embarrassing mistake; you're perfectly healthy, you have a vast life of indefinite extent ahead of you. In that moment, what thoughts would you refocus on? What would you say matters, and what turns into footnotes; apocrypha?

What's the chess piece of your meaning on Earth that's King, against which nothing else matters?

Suppose you deeply valued the uncertain extent of your future life and its capacity to achieve things. Not like, "I majored in 'bleh'" so I can't possibly dedicate my life to problem 'blah'" (different major), even though you probably could. "Could", if you had patience and humility to reinvent yourself. "I'm a front-end JS web dev, so I can't possibly throw that away and become a computational biophysicist". (Too much time!) Or nurse. Or hospital janitor. Or whatever you, personally, think is really, extraordinarily valuable but isn't "you" -- it's other people. When weighted against normal stakes, in normal modes of reasoning.

I don't know how to express these thoughts. But, something has to matter. There has to be some heuristic, some meta-level of cognition, where, you throw everything you'd normally get bogged down in, and recognize intuitively what you should, could, be doing, given all the opportunities given to you, stripped of your inhibitions and fears and artificial conceits. Maybe someone on HN understands this question better than me. I've spent maybe tens of hours reformulating this question over years, getting no-where; and the question got rephrased more sharply.

I'm not currently at the "this was an embarrassing mistake; sorry about that!" phase, but I don't throw away this twice-or-thrice-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reflect soberly, sincerely, if there's any chance I can find some insight. Even if it's incredibly embarrassing, which currently IDGAF about.
It seems most likely the author's intent was to limit his own liability by including a vague TOS. What makes more sense is to provide the software strictly "AS-IS", without any guarantees, liabilities, warranty, or implied use-case. Y'know, like many FOSS licenses (GPL/BSD/MIT/etc). So, the BSD license used for the app itself actually had the author covered.
I dare you to go to Turkey and help people or go fight with US or you're just another Erdogan-lover-bot. This government came this point with "US style libertarian economical and social movement" rubbish discourse and people only got "some Islamic totalitarian pressure and meaningless developments about building industry" from them which why so many people lying under the rubble this cold February night.
You’re free to not believe his anonymous source, but this vapid “Tom Clancy” nonsense is uncalled for given that you have no counter-arguments whatsoever.
I’ve been on HN for 10+ years and articles are certainly flagged when they don’t match the zeitgeist.

Anything discussing controversial social topics is nuked. Which would explain the sheer panic and replies to dang: it must be truly terrible to not be able to make undesirable stories disappear instead of having to refute them. :-/

In the end this story doesn’t really present any ironclad proof and should be easy to point that out. Except that would open a discussion which could make the EU and US look quite poorly…
There is an incident for sure. Cant tweet unless you schedule it. Cant follow any new accounts.
Just search for "chocolate chip cookie recipe" and show me a single result that isn't a complete trash website. A significant number are nothing more than ad farms that just load infinite ads in IFRAMEs and similar stuff like that.
I already spend 8 to 12 hours a day in that "keyboard and mouse" position for work... I ended up never playing any PC games (other than a few Civ games here and there) because of that.

The Steam Deck is great because you can play anywhere. On the couch, a net, in bed.

And the Switch is only comparable to the Deck in form factors. The Deck has way more gaming options and freedom. I bough one in place of the Switch, but I can imagine that if like just the Switch games, it doesn't really make sense to have both.
What happened to the Waymo hype? If Waymo manages to break through and become a sufficient AI taxi, then car ownership becomes optional for a majority of Americans (unlike today).
From my experience European techies are one of the most pro-Ukrainian and anti-Putin/Russia demographics in the world right now so that shouldn't be surprising.
Seriously promoting those rules would go a long way towards solving many of the Internet's problems surrounding misinformation and privacy, but would create an even bigger crisis for the ruling class. The problem is that powerful people don't also want the masses to apply a lens of skepticism to everything they hear coming from them. There is no way for them to promote a message of "don't believe everything you hear" and not have that bite them back hard because people would also apply that rule towards them. This is why attempts to solving "misinformation" have so far been things like "independent fact checkers" and outright censorship.
It was a hostage situation. "You want to quit our gas? See how you're going to fare when winter comes and you can't fill your storage in time."

In September it was already clear that a weak polar vortex would make for a frosty winter in the northern hemisphere. It was just luck (for Europe) that it hit North America and not Europe. During summer in Germany every week more people were drumming up (literally) demands to open Nord Stream 2.

There was no way of being sure a German government wouldn't flip under pressure once people were freezing and showing up with torches at the Reichstag.

But one September night someone went in and shot the hostages...
Yeah, you had your choice of several awful results and everyone couldn’t shut up about how good Google was when it was available. If people mean “Google used to be better” I’m willing to entertain the idea, but you’re out of your mind if you miss using Altavista and Dogpile.
Are you serious Twitter? In the middle of an earthquake disaster in Turkey where people try to collect list of people alive under the rubble?
Profiling Tools for Java
I tried to tweet today for the first time in weeks and it said I had hit the limit.
Well yeah, I think Seymour Hersh's reputation is relevant. He's pretty much a conspiracy theorist in this era.[1] Including his claim that the US never killed Osama bin Laden.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#Criticism_and_co...
Sorry to break it to you folks but if you hated your data being with Google, you are in for a surprise on how atrociously bad Microsoft is at privacy and security. Multiple close friends who have worked at Microsoft tell me that search history data - who is searching what, is basically sitting in systems with ACLs so bad that 20-30K employees have access through transitive membership of groups. To access a customer's data you just need to know token which is logged everywhere and is apparently very easy to generate. I have heard horror stories from them about privacy incidents which never went public.

From what I know about Google, they are serious about least privilege type of stuff internally and employees dont get arbitrary unbound access to systems or data.
Why does computer vision data need better infrastructure than AWS S3?
The next big thing in AI is computer vision. It has the potential to take over most real-world human tasks. However, today there is no data infrastructure built to support computer vision projects. The majority of us store vision data (images/videos) in S3 or Google Cloud Storage buckets. The problem is that it is not easy to search, preview, or use vision data stored in these buckets. This is because they are not designed for computer vision, but rather general purpose storage containers. Please comment your thoughts and how you solve this problem.
Exactly same experience. ChatGPT is now my go to source for programming problems. It is usually correct (or correct enough) and when it is correct enough it saves a ton of time vs Google search and then going through dozens of StackOverflow or GitHub pages that may or may not have an answer.
Sounds like Turkey blocked twitter anyways
Haha yeah. Pretty typical of non-lawyers trying to sound officious and legalistic. Weird that he's choosing this to pick a fight over.
rings of... Orenthal Simpson "If I did it"
The quality of Google search has decreased so much over the last few years that I had to resort to using Yandex, a company that has a budget that is orders of magnitude smaller that the Big G and is under the control of a dictatorship.
Google search has two huge problems: SEO and censorship. Search for anything related to products/torrents/streams/politics on Google and your results will SUCK, due to one of the two reasons stated above.

The recent Yandex hack/leak has the cynic in me connecting the dots and, seeing how Google search seems to be facing REAL threats to it's dominance since it's creation... maybe some guys with the deepest pockets in the world are starting to enter WAR mode.

Destroying Yandex advantages on the SEO battlefield by way of divulging their parameters to the world would be the Franz Ferdinand assassination moment of the Great Search War.
I've had weird crashes - just frequent enough to dissuade me.
America "doing things in the long-term interests of EU citizens, despite causing them some short-term discomfort" is exactly why the US is seen as the baddy in a lot of countries.
We are not your children to be nannied and taken decisions on behalf of!
starting a few minutes ago:

- twitter prevented me from posting any more tweets "for the day"

- "#facebookdown" started trending on twitter

- "#instagramdown" started trending on twitter

all of this happening around the House hearing. curious.
The error people are getting links to this page: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-limit...

tl;dr:

* 500 DMs (yes, direct messages)

* 2400 tweets

* 4 account email changes

* 400 follows

* Additional restrictions once an account following 5000 people total
I am not sure how long the API will last. They have already said that they will be limiting the usage of the free API to "good bots"
In autism land (which is a cool place you all should visit) there's a discussion about 'person first language'. I haven't made my mind up either way.
Sadly this no longer works for Microsoft domains. Had Windows Defender mark my host file as having a 'severe' issue just because I copy pasted a list of Microsoft telemetry domains (1). Everything worked perfectly fine before that update.

(1) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-h...
I think because people want to natural language ask questions to a virtual butler (Jeeves) and get an answer back in digestible natural language form.

I… don’t really get it either.

But I’m also a cranky person who can’t stand every damn thing being a video whether it makes sense for the content or not, etc.
In Washington, D.C., I haven't heard anyone say it in conversation.

Perhaps the reason is that, once you hear it's pronounced "luh-tinks," you can't read or think of it any other way.
In 1996, did every traffic attorney publish a thought piece on why you should fight your summons in X county?

No, back then if you searched a topic you were MUCH more likely to find self hosted content from someone who nerded out on an issue and is sharing their insight, not publishing boilerplate because they feel they need to.
> A lot of what he is saying here is not strictly true.

Well, that's certainly a kinder description than I would give. 'Blatant fucking bullshit' seems closer to the mark.
Oh boy, it is nigh time for me to dust off my Adobe ActionScript malware scanner and iCAP it off AGAIN with my transparent Squid.

ICYMI: PDF uses JavaScript and surely Adobe has a JavaScript engine that (now) needs to be watch even closer.

The things we thought were over, dead, and buried; time to start digging up this esoteric malware Adobe/PDF/JS detector of mine.
It compares pretty well to the proprietary WAFL/FabricPool technology by NetApp:

- have "hot" blocks on local storage (SSD cache)
- "cold" blocks are stored on S3
- POSIX semantics on top

Having worked with NetApp technology for >10 years this is a welcome addition on the Open-Source side of things.
You don't! These techniques are for getting a perfect fit.
This just happened to me! And I’m following fewer than 900 people.
Corporations are people, so no, we don't have the state.
Show HN: Free newsletter signup service (because I'm sick of Mailchimp)
2,400 per day, according to Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-limit...
ChatGPT cannot lie.
Sorry, I've been focused on responses where people insist that what these models do must be legal because it exhibits thought. So to the extent your point is beyond that, so be it.

My thought would be that in order to discern and therefore only copy style and genre, one must develop an understanding of it such that they only take the style and genre and not anything else. I haven't seen any evidence that indicates thats what these models do. It might be true that after a certain number of iterations, what is left is only the "genre" or "style", but I don't believe that's the same thing even though it might be a similar end result. It may be true that in the interim, on the way to the final product, the iterations do include rote copies. This would run counter to the often offered argument here that this is identical to how humans do work. Except humans don't just fill in every pixel and then repeatedly iterate over an image until they get the desired result. So I probably agree with you that it's a red herring whether or not the model thinks (at least as far as the fact that it doesn't think, so it's a moot question that leads nowhere imo) but nevertheless, so much of what I see here is focused around the idea that these models and the human brain are doing similar things. So, my apologies if my hyper-fixation ran this conversation aground. I've appreciated your responses.
Ask HN: What's the coolest hacking story you've heard?
This is hackernews after all. Time for us to discuss more hacks.
You're comparing Google how it was then. Not how it is now
„ Most software features are not like fire extinguishers. „

Amen

Sometimes some pretty niche feature, that is used by one individual that is loud, gets more attention than a feature, used by thousands or millions that are just silent users.
> difference in sea level between the two oceans

Honestly, the number of times ChatGPT inserts this and variations of fluff is absolutely bordering on insane. Like, that was your question - why include it in every single sentence of the answer…
Last time I tried to sync my computer to gdrive I waited 30 days before giving up on gdrive. Dropbox took less than 2 days, and stayed responsive.
You can schedule Tweets 1 minute into the future.

Bad timing given the Nintendo Direct.

EDIT: Tweeting works normally now
Anybody else remember the whole "RAWK MUSIC IS CAUSING A TEEN SUICIDE EPIDEMIC" panic in the late 80s?

Can really be summed up in one word: ESKIMO
Doesn't matter, Erdogan just blocked Twitter again because people were asking why was the government not being competent and where were the funds from the special earthquake relief tax.
But that's exactly my point. Animals are smart. People are underestimating truly how far we have to go to match the intelligence of even the "least intelligent" animals.
This is the second in a series I've slowly been working on about the "laws of physics" of database scalability. The first is here: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/01/30/nosql.html

Obviously, scalability isn't always the most important thing, and in many cases it isn't important at all. On the other hand, there are a lot of assertions of the form "X scales", "Y does not scale", etc. I think there's a gap in accessible content that looks at whether these statements are true, and the underlying principles that make them true or false.
Interesting addon. Saves time. Is it possible to make it NOT autostart when opening a question, like adding a button "Ask GPT" or something.
It's inserted as a binary blob by the compiler. So just a simple copy of the file contents.
It's back on now (mostly)
I don’t like this example in particular because observing too much “restore” activity is an excellent piece of information.
> Writing a security critical code base like that is not something everyone could or should do

I mean... Why not? I know roll your own crypto is bad, but _someone_ has to do it. Might as well be you! Do it in the open, get feedback, attract high skill people to contribute to it and... Tadam! Cool codebase!

I can't shake the feeling that making crypto as this magical thing people show ldnnot dream of is doing a disservice to us all.
it's actually scary that it took that much to fail with elon at the helm
For the most part, in this current time, they are. There are examples where they aren't bad, of course.
Which they got through their acquisition of Gaikai (considered a competitor of OnLive).
Semi related darkly humorous daydream: what are the odds of two unrelated school shooters at the same school on the same day?
Consider committing yourself to organized things that essentially force you to turn that part of your brain off.

Take a yoga class (I found that to be a huge psychological relief after years of working in startup stress-land). Take a language class. Join a dining event on Meetup.com (I'm assuming that's still a thing).

Obviously this isn't going to help you attain some more personal goal, like "read a challenging book" or "work on my so-called passion project", but that's kind of the point. You need external factors outweighing your habitual behaviors, and you'll at least end up feeling like you made some personal accomplishment even if it's not some big, personal goal.

There's also a lot of self-gaming and time management that can help. Simple tricks like "I don't want to go to the gym today, but I know I need to, so I'll just commit to driving to the gym and going inside for five minutes". Once you're there, you'll almost certainly find yourself sticking around longer, and over time this builds a healthy habit. The Pomodoro technique really helped me with focus and procrastination. "I'll just spend 25 minutes on this task with no interruptions". Next thing I know, I'm five Pomodoro cycles in and I've made a lot of progress.
Are they not? Gee, I must've been living under a rock.
I'm sorry, I thought you said that if Russia blows up its own pipes that;s a valid force majeure, but starting a war is not.
As for the courts, they will decide whatever the country they're based in decides. Simple as that.