skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect ChatGPT to be in a sort of equivalent of the uncanny valley, where any professional who gets to the point that they can routinely use it will also be in a constant war with their own brain to remind it that the output must be carefully checked. In some ways, the 99.99% reliable process used at scale is more dangerous than the 50% reliable process; everyone can see the latter needs help. It's the former where it's so very, very tempting to just let it go.

I'm not saying ChatGPT is 99.99% reliable, just using some numbers for concreteness.

If you were setting out to design an AI that would slip the maximum amount of error into exactly the places human brains don't want to look, it would look like ChatGPT. You can see this in the way that as far as I know, literally all the ads for GPT-like search technologies included significant errors in their ad copy, which you would think everyone involved would have every motivation to error check. This is not merely a "ha ha, silly humans" story... this means something. In a weird sort of way it is a testament to the technology... no sarcasm! But it makes it dangerous for human brains.

Human brains are machines for not spending energy on cognitive tasks. They are very good at it, in all senses of the phrase. We get very good bang-for-the-buck with our shortcuts in the real world. But GPT techs are going to make it really, really easy to not spend the energy to check after a little while.

This is a known problem with human brains. How many people can tell the story of what may be the closest human equivalent, where they got some intern, paid a ton of attention to them for the first two weeks, got to the point where they flipped the "OK they're good now" bit on them, and then came back to a complete and utter clusterfuck at the end of their internship because the supervisor got "too lazy" (although there's more judgment in that phrase than I like, this is a brain thing you couldn't survive without, not just "laziness") to check everything closely enough? They may even have been glancing at the PRs the whole time and only put together how bad the mess is at the end.

I'm not going to invite a technology like this into my life. The next generation, we'll see when it gets here. But GPT is very scary because its in the AI uncanny valley... very good, very good at hiding the problems from human brains, and not quite good enough to actually do the job.

And you know, since we're not talking theory here, we'll be running this experiment in the real world. You use ChatGPT to build your code, and I won't. You and I personally of course won't be comparing notes, but as a group, we sure will be. I absolutely agree there will be a point where ChatGPT seems to be pulling ahead in the productivity curve in a short term, but I predict that won't hold and it will turn net negative at some point. But I don't know right now, any more than you do. We can but put our metaphorical money down and see how the metaphorical chips fall.
Right, but Alexa probably has custom handling for these types of common queries
ChatGPT has no concept of truth or lie. It’s a language model that uses statistical models to predict what to say next. Your assumptions about its intentions reflect only your bias.
The FRA does already levy fines for safety violations, though yeah they could be raised.

Hot bearings / axles can happen even with proper car maintenance and there are usually wayside sensors to detect such incidents before they cause a derailment. It will become clearer what went wrong on this patch of rail when the NTSB report comes out, though perhaps it's time the FRA mandated hotbox detectors at dense intervals closer to towns. A surveillance camera saw the hot axle fire 20 miles out of the derailment: https://www.wsj.com/articles/miles-before-ohio-derailment-tr...
It's difficult to say. We're certainly making impressive advances now, but this is not the first time that AI has had a period of rapid improvement. The first and second AI winters were both preceded by periods of intense optimism [1].

I personally believe in the long-term vision of AI/ML/RL. Progress will continue to be made in the long run. However, we don't know what we don't know. We may hit a wall in a few years that takes decades to overcome. On the other hand, perhaps the current rate of innovation will continue for the forseeable future. Time will tell.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
I really wish publications would push for a bundled model and work together to achieve it. I would pay $15/month to not have to deal with a paywall on major publications; but I don't read them often enough individually to justify the cost. I jump around from The Times, The Post, The New Yorker, WSJ, Economist, and various others. The one publication subscription model works in print...but online when someone shares a link to an Economist article, I'm not paying their fee just for that article when I already pay for 2 others.

Twitter tried to do something like this with Twitter Blue, but it failed miserably and lacked crucial partners, even pre-Elon.
That code is a mish-mash of a real safety thing (we don't regulate extension cords at all, so we try to make sure there are outlets everywhere and you don't need them... especially around water, like a sink!) and a general effort to make sure that if you buy a house, you don't figure out later that it's a piece of shit. My favorite examples are minimum length of extra wire in a box, and a neutral required. I don't think those have to do with safety at all, but holy crap am I glad they exist, as someone who didn't build their own house, or have my inspector take the covers off every box before we bought our current house.

Now, when you sell your house, is the next person gonna be a bit miffed that there are no outlets in the kitchen anywhere near the sink? What about when they go to install a smart outlet and there's no neutral, and 1cm of hot wire to work with? That's gonna suck too, but you didn't permit anything and went off your gut so... fuck them I guess?
Consider whether your pay is fair in and of itself for you and what you do rather than fair given what someone else gets.

I fully understand the sensation of feeling sick at how much someone else gets but it's really important to your own happiness to consider your situation on an absolute basis rather than relative to others.

This is what is described in "Liar's Poker" as "ever-increasing levels of relative poverty" and if you let it get to you it will really knaw away at you.
This is a relatively small company, and this I think is their first foray into hardware. It makes sense they are targeting a niche market (PC VR users who already have a steamVR headset). Specifically, they are a company that makes Bigscreen VR, a desktop mirroring app. A lot of people bought Indexes, or Vives, and this is a possible sidegrade to those, especially if you are interested in the idea of "VR virtual desktops", which seems to be the entire point of this headset, with very high resolution and extremely low weight, and not even a 3.5mm jack for headphones.
Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. And would have won in 2021 too if she hadn't got fed up of governing.
Same here, started using Clojure pretty much exclusively about a year ago and never looked back. It was rough to get to that comfortable state where I am now, having to find out how Clojure CLI tools work, what Java Classpaths are, how to properly set up my editor (Neovim), how to make sense of Clojure internals like “seq” and when to use which collection type (and when not to care), etc.

But it has also been a fun and liberating experience, after I went down the static type route for some years. I feel like Clojure just doesn’t get in my way and doesn’t force me to follow a certain style or paradigm; it provides many different choices (“providing more” instead of “taking away”) and treats you like an adult who can make responsible decisions on their own.

Although I missed the linguistic art of domain modelling through type definitions, spec gave me some of that back and even provides stuff like generative testing, which is pretty awesome. Of course, it is not meant as a replacement for static typing and has a different philosophy (see Rich Hickeys talks about it), but for me it is the best of both worlds.

The dynamic development style is something that I experienced before through learning Lisp/Scheme and it is also one of the thing that I enjoy most about Clojure. Coding “experimental”, building functions from individual pieces that I iteratively design using the REPL as my assistant (which actually means - as parent wrote - communicating with it from the editor itself, which we mostly do), feels so natural and I would miss it now that I am so used to it.
Unfortunately people often don't go to the doctor because it's too expensive. Why would that change if you added more things to the doctor's toolbox?
What's happening to the data being collected by this form?

The is nothing in either "About" or the disclaimer.
I like Soulver, but I've found Calca to be a better fit for my needs. It supports graphing, unbound functions, and more advanced math support. Its UI is more minimal and the rendering isn't as nice as Soulver, but I find I'm able to iterate with it a lot faster.

I'm trying out QuikTape now, but it had to clone 1.6GiB. When I launch on macOS I am not able to actually type into the UI, and the window doesn't show as an app in the dock. Perhaps it's more functional on Linux.

I'm still waiting for an app that can properly do real units/dimensional analysis and good date math (`today + 3 business days`).
Did mine last year for $1200... and I had new grounds installed for that price too. But yes, it was above ground.

But my point is, if someone need to do all of these things, it's for a reason. And these tasks aren't "upgrade a circuit", they're, "upgrade my home's electrical service"
It was an admittedly childish insult directed at anyone who got their panties in a bunch about the choice of video conferencing software at a company they don't even work for.
Absolutely agree. We don't pay for slack as well. This pile of sh*t sucks. How can they not have proper notifications? Slack is not a working mode of communication and I really hope we get something better asap.
>Making Teams not suck doesn't move their revenue dial one iota.

That's not true, I would switch to Office 365 if it didn't suck. Having an entire suite fully integrated and under one license is a great value proposition - but the thing has to work. I've had to use Teams over the years and every time I get the same shitty experience I've had with it 5 years ago when I first tried it.
Ask HN: Writing automation UI tests with automation?
Hi! I'm currently writing UI test using selenium.
Is there a product that can write UI test automatically just by 'recording' what I've done in manual test? Like a macro recorder in excel.
I'm thinking like a browser extension then I can set a test scenario like this is for product checkout. Then I will click 'record test' then I will proceed to do a manual test in checkout page until completion. Then I will stop 'record test' and save it.
Ofcourse it would be great If I can set predefined parameters for input.
I will add those recorded tests in our ci/cd pipeline and done.
Ask people to describe how they think the mind functions and you will very often get something very akin to soul-like belief. Many, many people are not very comfortable with the mind as emergent phenomenon. A straight majority of people in the US (and likely globally) believe in souls when polled, you are the one imputing the words of "ignorant people in denial" onto my statement of why people find views to the contrary uncomfortable.

I understand that HN is a civil community. I don't think it is crossing the line to characterize people I disagree with as wrong and also theorize on why they might hold those wrong beliefs. Indeed, you are doing the same thing with my comment - speculating on why I might hold views that are 'asinine' because I see 'nothing but [my] own biases.'
I'd argue that people who use this plugin wouldn't pay for the articles anyway. I think we all know why music & film streaming services succeeded :) And I'm sure offerings like Apple News+ will do follow for text.

Anyway, I'm leaving a quote from Gabe Newell here: “The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”
A Yale professor said mass suicide could solve Japan's aging population issue
Love the advice. Who cares what someone else is making/ doing / living. The question is are you happy with your pay? Think you should get more? Start applying or asking and see what the market is saying. Comparing salaries is a fools game
I think at this point the World Bank owes a lot of these countries but every time they market something as "debt forgiveness" it just turns into more of the same thing we've seen with structural readjustment. I'd recommend Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder if you wanna see a deep dive into the topic
That’s quite the system that can take in any natural language statement and confirm whether its true or false.

You might be underestimating the scope of some task here.
Really liked your analogy on GPT being similar to the language center of the brain. Almost all current methods to teach GPT deductive logic has been through an inductive approach; giving it training examples on how to do deduction. Thing is it might be possible to reach 80% of the way there with more data and parameters but a wall will be hit sooner or later
> Teams has issues;

Issues like unable to switch teams without re-authenticating? Slack can do this, Discord can do this, both of them completely seamlessly but Teams just can't.
Does ChatGPT say, I don't know?
You need distance, Up-Wind from the scene of the accident. Respirators aren't magic, and don't protect your entire body from absorbing things in the air.

Get away!
Fwiw even companies doing software development don’t necessarily follow any rigorous axiom of meritocratic titles.
The same argument applies. I think Redux is a pointless indirection, but you can use metaprogramming to make it more palatable, at the cost of another indirection.
Given modern information presentation technology, every single limit like that in the codes should be linked to a document detailing why the limit is what it is, with a short summary and preferably videos of what happens when the limit is and is not adhered to.

I don’t doubt there are great reasons for most of the rules, and the best way to get compliance is to explain why they’re there.
And some may be overzealous indeed and then they would hopefully be adjusted.
Not take cheese??? How could you even think such a thing? You monster!
Last round of layoff my manager got fired and I kept my job. He was just as surprised by the layoffs as everybody else.
You can also watch it on BBC site, although it requires a VPN if you are watching from outside of UK.
Interesting. Is there a corresponding "top" emoji?
I have no idea what sentience really means, but I think novel content generation is a necessary but not sufficient component.
How is that a bad safety measure? if not close enough, people will use extension cords, which will be significantly more dangerous than proper outlets.
Crazy how you can just do this with a native web component and use it in any modern browser without any library or package or transpiling or anything.
"Dialysis? What is this, the Dark Ages?"
What did GitHub staff use before ? Slack + Zoom ? Mattermost or something else ?
The Chinese companies are just opening factories (lots of them!) in India. ~4k companies in India with Chinese directors.
Looking at Twilio employees posting their Linkedin Open-for-hire ad post-layoff, I see lots of POC, women and H1B's. Seems this layoff was not done through the same anti-racist/anti-oppression lens as last time.
I see some comments in here with the sentiment, "Clojure—What am I missing?" Here's an attempt to answer that question. I am just a hobbyist and enthusiast programmer with no formal background in programming or CS, and no real experience using Clojure (or any other language, for that matter) "in anger" in a serious production environment. These are just some nobody's two cents, take or leave them for whatever they're worth to you.

From what I understand, there are some applications and domains that the JVM is highly optimized for—especially long-lived, highly concurrent server processes or stream processing applications where microseconds matter in order to keep up with real-time. The fly in the ointment (for some) is that Java itself is Object-oriented, compiled, statically typed, and uses mutable objects and data structures by default. Not everybody loves those design choices. And even of those who do, not everybody finds Java ergonomic (hence Scala and Kotlin, among others).

So, much like Scala and Kotlin do, vanilla Clojure just gives access to the JVM (and its highly mature library ecosystem) in different trappings. It's a functional (rather than object-oriented), REPL-driven (rather than compiler-first), dynamically-typed, and immutable data-oriented language, with Lisp's minimal syntax and structural editing experience. Plus, the designers have invested a lot of time and their cumulative decades of programming experience into making a really solid standard library that comes with a lot of smart affordances out of the box. That combo really works for some people.

Then, folks who appreciated the conveniences and good design in vanilla Clojure started looking for that dev experience in non-JVM contexts, which is how you get ClojureScript, ClojureDart, ClojErl, Babashka, Scittle, etc. And then, other Clojure-inspired languages pop up that don't purely adhere to Clojure conventions, but co-opt significant portions of its well-designed syntax and standard library—languages like Janet (compiles to C) and Fennel (compiles to LUA) and Hy (compiles to Python).

And then, script kiddies like me come along and discover, Hey Wow, I can learn one syntax and suddenly be +80% dangerous in a dozen different environments, without having to start learning a new language from scratch in each one—from the JVM to the browser to mobile apps to native executables, I've got SOMETHING to start building on because I already know how to think in Clojure.

At this point, "Clojure" is not just "a language," it's a category of languages—just like Scheme is "a Lisp," Janet is "a Clojure." I don't think that happens with uninteresting, poorly-designed, or irrelevant languages. Clojure scratches a specific itch, and not everybody has that itch to scratch. But whether Clojure is your cup of tea or not (and obviously for many people in this comment section, it's not), I don't think anyone can debate that it's a significant project that justifies its own existence. That doesn't obligate anybody to use it or even look at it twice, but I think it self-refutes a lot of the negativity that gets thrown its way.
It's so much better. In the AI generated world of the future the political agenda will be embedded in the web search results it bases its answer on. No longer will you have to maintain a somewhat reasonable image to obtain trust from people, as long as you publish your nonsense in sufficient volume to dominate the AI dataset, you can wash your political agenda through the Bing AI.

The trump of the future wont need Fox News, just a couple thousands or millions of well positioned blogs that spew out enough blog spam to steer the AI. The AI is literally designed to make your vile bullshit appear presentable.
I'm unsure but the original links are still available online on Twitter that go to YouTube error pages and the request from the Indian govnement is public too.

The original rush to remove the content was fueled by alot of publicity around the documentary.
> “Why do I have to re-install my OS from CD after I run your tool?”
> Good question...

Heh, ah, interfacing with build systems, I do not miss it. That's a fine reason why I hate gradle and its ilk because for every person that does "version = readFile('version.txt')" some joker is going to "dependencies = run('sudo apt-get install -y my-awesome')"

This entire slide deck is triggering, and I have so much sympathy for them
I liked the emacs config discussion.
I've done it. It's a gimmick, like many things in VR. It feels neat once or twice to sit in a virtual movie theater, and then you realize that's stupid. If you are spending $1000 on a screen to watch movies, you are much better off with a big, high quality TV.
IIRC KitBash [1] is the largest player in this space and has photo-realistic models of large environments including San Francisco. Are you planning to compete with them head-to-head in the same market?

[1] https://kitbash3d.com/
I search using ChatGPT and I don't know where the inspiration is coming from.... otherwise would be doing copyright infringement.
I’m beginning to dislike this anthropomorphization of AI, and tech in general.

I feel like it’s contributing to a further misunderstanding of what it actually is and how best to use it or think of it.
GPTflix –> ChatGPT to help you choose what movie to watch
Hey HN. I made this last week for fun. It's using Pinecone as a vector database / backend, and context injection + data retrieval via embeddings search to power the chat function!
It will only answer about movies that it knows (about 10K at the moment which pretty much maxes out the "small" tier Pinecone DB), but it will answer factually without making up fake information (which is the whole point of building a system like this instead of just using vanilla chatGPT).
It has a hard time remembering context sometimes, so you might want to hard reload the site after a series of questions if you want to change subject.
I'd love to head any and all feedback!
As an experiment, I added the list to uBlocker earlier today. It wasn't the same as running the extension directly. For example, for WSJ ariticles, the extension falls back to AMP pages if it can't unblock. uBlock list, however, failed to fall back, so I wasn't able to read WSJ.
The world simply needs a lot less journalists/publishers, compared to even 30 years ago, thanks to the speed at which information propagates on the internet.

The world of journalism and publishing is probably more cutthroat even that show-business and acting, because only the very top pays good livable wages.

It's time for those people to move on and do something that's more in demand in society and pays them a better wage. Descending into the madness that is paywalls and malicious ads certainly isn't it. Sorry if this sounds glum, but that's just the reality.
How would innacurate summary enhance your workflow?

Or same question in a different way, what sort of workflow would be enhanced by an innacurate summary?
I cant wait for the era of conversational web so i can do away with clickbait titles and opinions. Truly everyone has one. The experiment with "open publishing" has so far only proved that signal to noise remains constant
Lol I know, like let's just 2X the TAM here for zero reason
sql alchemy is an orm, where ibis looks to be a dataframe api that is sort of a dsl over sql. It doesn't try to map relational domains to an object oriented paradigm like sql alchemy does
if courts aren’t swayed by politics, after 20 years of scrutiny and thousands of witnesses, so many days of investigations the court decided to arrest this person. We either trust the the sanctity of the court or we don’t. If anything, to be neutral the documentary should have kept a lot of time discussing the Supreme courts ruling and either bust it rulings or agree to it, but to totally ignore it.
Appropriately, it doesn’t exist