skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this works (big if) and they are able to essentially build a solar panel factory in a box and if lab grown protein is both able to scale and be shipped in a modular structure (big if) they have effectively solved or close to solved 2 of the largest challenges involved in establishing moon or mars based colonies. Food and power. Science fiction is sneaking up on us.

If it can be automated you could essentially launch space craft factories that land and build solar panels prior to humans arriving. Far fetched but neat to think about. Approaching von Neumann probe territory
These nonsense generalizations have no place on HN. Similar cultural norms exist in many European countries, but they are never brought up. Such thinly veiled racism against Asians is nauseating.
There's all kinds of use cases for classes without dataclass. For example, just the other day I wrote a leaky bucket rate limiter class. It uses the __aenter__ and __aexit__ methods to do things in async with blocks.

I love dataclasses, but there needs to be a compelling reason to break everyone's code and the reason can't just be "I don't want one import and one decorator".
GNU Taler v0.9.0 Released
ATMs aren't 24/7 in the USA?
Spoiler: It’s Called “Best-Selling” Author, Not “Best-Writing” Author”
Of course it did - this whole technology is AI hallucinating about facts. This is exactly what the math tells us it will do.

It is not a "fact generating" technology - it is a "scaffolding" technology to make it easier to fill in the boilerplate of the answer -- but not the answer itself.
nice, glad to see someone is already on it! I had opined that video games won't need voice actors any more and way more fleshed out dialogue. A random NPC running around in Fallout in the distance? You can have a full conversation about some relevant contexts in the world, with spoken responses.

several other ramifications of this is that file sizes can actually be smaller again. Most/significant part of the file size in games is audio at various formats and high qualities. But since pre-recorded can go away, it can be replaced with prompts tied to some NPCs that augment their response. The training sets can just be the file, and the training sets (edit: the MODEL) can actually come with the OS or be a shared resource on the system, instead of packaged with the game. Smaller additional training sets (edit: the model, not the training set) can come with the game.

I have a different idea regarding compensation paths for human beings, but its not likely that it will be followed, or lucrative even if implemented.
> So according to you unions are rational, omnisciencet and benevolent agents, while entrepreneurs are dumb irrational idiots who will randomly fire people all the time for wearing a green shirt.

Why so antagonistic? By the way getting antagonistic doesn't make your argument better, it just makes you look frustrated and sour. Using logical fallacies like false binaries also isn't helpful.

The point isn't that one set is 'rational and good' and the other is 'frivolous and bad', the point is that in order for markets to work (labor is a market) there must be a even playing field so that parties can leverage their value for others without getting exploited.

When you have a society setup like the USA, without a real safety net and where periods of unemployment lead to instability financially, personally, and healthcare-wise, then employees are not able to properly leverage their value.

The proposal of 'work for me or your life falls apart' is pretty devastating to labor markets because it makes people settle for bad deals.

Unions are one method of trying to level this, by saying 'if you try to make me work on a ledge and don't give me a harness, then we are all going to shut down your business and not let you hire someone more desperate to do it' then one person is able to leverage the actual value of labor to bargain with the employer.
Presumably we will have positive data on whether it is carcinogenic or not in a few years/decades as we watch what happens to the people
In Ohio.
Plenty of people who do know what a CSV is still sometimes (or frequently) use Excel, either for their own work or as a sort of "data app" that they can distribute to coworkers.
It doesn't need to replace it though. If Bing has good chatgpt which is useful for some non-trivial amount of searches then people will go there instead of google and then also run all their other searches there as well.

It just needs to be useful enough to dislodge the google monopoly.
Decoding the video involves hardware acceleration, so data is not just processed at the application layer, it's passed much deeper. In very specific and rare attacks, it's been possible to bypass application and even OS level protections by crafting media files. So that when they're processed there's an overflow which dumps some payload into unprotected memory and allows some intrusion into the viewers system. This has been done with photos, general images and videos.

It's not reliable unless you happen to know the specific, unpatched exploit on the target system. There aren't general purpose vulnerabilities for such things.
This must be a joke that I don’t get. How..?
This sounds like a bad translation of an ancient Chinese proverb.
Starting with Oblivion the elder scroll games have voiced dialogue, presumably because that's what players started expecting.

But this had the effect of dramatically reducing the number of options when talking to NPCs and also creating some immersion breaking artifacts like an NPC sadly recounting a personal tragedy and then immediately cheerfully discussing the weather or whatever.

It's also strange when the same four voice actors play so many characters. It's just tedious and immersion breaking.

AI has the potential to improve this situation in several ways.
And heat exchangers!

Our homes need fresh air, and heat exchangers are an excellent way of maintaining a comfortable temperature while allowing for fresh air to circulate.
Physics never does an about face. Whatever new physics is out there must be compatible with the physics that we know and use today. And we know enough about physics at planetary and solar system scale phenomena to know that UFO-type intelligent aliens visiting us is a physical impossibility.
95% accuracy seems very optimistic. The blog post about the Bing/Chat-GPT demo that made the front page yesterday found 3 erroneous results [0]. Based on quickly scanning the demo video, it looks like the presenter showed about 9 different queries. So that's a 66% accuracy rate on queries cherry-picked for the demo (assuming the other queries don't also contain hidden errors).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34775853
The Navy's Expensive Mistake
They control for a lot of factors except, apparently, for gravity. It would be awesome if they scaled their foundry down to the size of a satellite and tested it in orbit.
AFAIK Oblivion had only few voice actors
I've seen a demo of resyncing lips movement to dubbed speech, which looked to work well. Combined with voice synthesis (which is now pretty good, though still well short of well-acted lines), you could already toss together something for pretty major edits to dialog.
> There's no time for 'human in the loop' when the first to act survives.

That does depend a lot on the detection vs kill range vs time to kill. In a close air dog fight sure but most modern fighter doctrine is focused around long range kills and stealth already. Cannons are nearly vestigial on the F35, it only has ~4-5 seconds of ammo worth to fire.
What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
> But, Mr. Rector said, previous experiments in cash assistance, like a “negative income tax” program for the poor in the 1970s, showed ... negative impacts on marriage that lasted long after the efforts ended.

It feels like using marriage volume or divorce volume as a negative signal is a terrible idea.

People not feeling forced into marriage because it's more or less necessary to get by or progress in a post-suffrage economy for the working class is probably a good thing.

The couple who raised me each noted it had been at least partially rooted in economics, and if they had more time to figure things out, they probably wouldn't have gotten married. It worked out to a degree for them, they have some degree of happiness, some of the time; they love one another. It also has caused immense harm: They share nothing in common, they fight all the time due to fundamentally different styles of communication and relatively different belief systems.

If an increase in the divorce rate happens due to better economic conditions, this probably signals there were a lot of couplings that were not really good for the participants, but necessary to maintain a certain quality of life. It also could signal people leaving abusers. Is keeping "zombie relationships" worth it?
Yes and no. But 2/3 of the time the problem is that the company has no documented build process or something obvious like that . They have time to spend 2 years failing to deliver a product because they don't know how to build it, but when somebody asks "How do we build it?" the answer is "Don't waste our time asking stupid questions." Of course they have been wasting time not knowing how to build the system, the guy who started the project might be able to hit F5 in 15 different windows and get it to sorta kinda work, but new hires they are hiring to work on it are quitting right away and somehow they can never get it into production.

There should be no controversy at all that complete instructions for installing everything required for a dev to build the project and work on it should exist and it should be possible to complete this task in hours, not the weeks that it frequently takes. And, no, "docker" is not an answer to this anymore than "The F5 Key is a Build Process"

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-f5-key-is-not-a-build-proc...

It is not "Docker" that solves the problem, it is the discipline of scripting the image build process into a dockerfile. If you know how to write a dockerfile you can write a bash script that runs in 20 seconds as opposed to having Docker spend 20 minutes downloading images and then crash because of a typo.

You are right that a company might have good reasons for doing things in an unobvious way, but most of the time when nobody at a company claims to understand what the company is doing except for the CEO and people aren't too sure about the CEO, it is the fault of the company lacking alignment, not a natural property of freshers.
Doesn't it get annoying to have to fact check everything that ChatGPT spews? It's very useful for code generation, but other than that, the frequency of hallucinations makes it a lot less useful.
Cincinnati Water Works uses granular activated carbon filtration already, and plans to shut the Ohio River water intakes during the period of maximum contamination (anticipated some time next week). Given that water demand is below peak in the winter (nobody watering yards or washing cars etc), the water in towers and reservoirs will likely be enough to last through the worst part of the plume. I believe they have 3 days of water during peak times, so likely more like 5.

Source: chatting with a waterworks engineer after a tour of antique steam engine water pumps. They ran into the 60s! https://cincinnatitriplesteam.org/
I was not able to access messed up stuff when I was a kid. We didn't have phones and internet. My parents didn't have to do anything special. But in today's environment - you just can't. Unless you lock your kid up and homeschool them. You can set up all sorts of parental controls on their computer and phone, but you can't do anything about their friends' phones and computers.
This, exactly. The long term strategy has been demonstrably bad.
Can you source this claim or is it just your projection of the situation? This doesn’t read as empirical.
I love how this starts off "What is a VXLAN..." that was going to be my first question! So often posts like this seem to assume everyone knows what the topics are at the start. I know what WireGuard is, and I've at least heard of VXLAN before, but I couldn't remember what it was.
It was the better part of a week before it got any coverage beyond local news. That's what people are pissed off about.

It probably wouldn't have gotten the coverage it did as quick as it did if some uppity cop didn't rough up some uppity reporter giving the media an axe to grind.
> should be a giant picture of the mushroom cloud on their front page to reflect the severity (potential or real) of the situation

It was front page on Bloomberg. I admit I didn’t click on it. To the degree this is of urgent national concern, it’s in a rail safety bill we have months to debate.
That's really nice, but how will you monetize it? In its chat form, that's going to be very difficult. Anyone can train it and launch their own LLM, there's know monopoly or differentiator. Sure, its possible overtime it will uplift search engines, but create a new Industry vertical like Search, Mobile, Social Media, Cloud. I think of it more as a feature /augmentation than its own thing.
There was an asbestos ad [1] featuring the twin towers. How can one expect the air to be safe after we know what asbestos does to you.

[1] https://preview.redd.it/8cf7ufrnxlw31.jpg?auto=webp&v=enable...
The 3D rendering is falling behind what competitors are offering. I also find the UI very convoluted, they are trying to do too much.

And OH MY GOD DO NOT CHANGE MY ZOOM LEVEL!! I spend so much time trying to find the area I want to search, enter Chinese restaurant and it expands to the entire freaking region. PLEASE STOP DOING THAT!!
This is already practiced in some parts in China.

https://youtu.be/Azj3OrEtkP4
less e-waste. If you cared enough about our planet, you'll know that
A lot of the allstar PMs and Engs who helped actually GTM a lot of great Google products like Maps, Docs, Ads, etc left in the 2010s to start their own startups (eg. Jens Rasmussen - founded Google Maps and then left to found Where2), become execs at other companies (eg. Niklesh Arora @ PANW, Lars Rasmussen @ FB, Bret Taylor @ FB+Salesforce), become VCs (eg. Bret Taylor, Niklesh Arora), or (re)enter Academia (eg. John DeNero @ Cal).

There also was a change in how PMs began getting hired at Google in the 2010s when they brought a senior ex-McK TMT consultant to lead and revamp the Product team after Marissa Mayer left to become CEO of Yahoo.
There are quite some cars that do, actually :)
> If I Google "What's the capitol of Illinois", I might get the Wikipedia page on Illinois

Ten years ago, maybe. If you did it during the last decade, your search was probably served by a natural language parser which would serve up the answer from a facts database before searching the web. Just checked, and for me it says "Illinois / Capital: Springfield" with big bold betters, and below that are suggestions for picture searches for Illinois, and even further below that is the web search results of which Wikipedia is indeed the first.

This used to be incredibly frustrating for me, as someone who actually uses Google for searching documents, not as a facts database. But I've had a couple of years to accept that a) others are not like me, and b) to check Tools / Results / Verbatim.

This ChatGPT-will-kill-Google talk seems like a lot of nonsense. Google has natural language search. Not only is it what that their Assistant does, they've long ago pushed it on everyone via Search. That won't die in the hands of a language generator. ChatGPT is both excellent and fun, but not a search killer.
Often these tools are adopted by smaller teams for their communication. So official company meetings would happen over teams, but bitching at Bob because he still hasn’t reviewed your PR would happen in Slack. It can make information management a nightmare, especially when users start sharing files with each other via Slack.
Wiktionary is pretty solid for etymology, but doesn't have quite the panache of etymonline. Dictionary/thesaurus, I don't know.
I don’t know if there will be drone fighters. I think the idea is old thinking that can make a better dogfighter, but dog fighting is obsolete. The important question is would it be maneuverable enough to avoid anti-air missiles and it doesn’t sound like they would be.

Other problem is that they won’t be cheap. High performance military aircraft are expensive. My guess is only get factor of two in cost. Also, there is size tradeoff with payload. Drone that can’t carry AMRAAM is useless.

The purpose of fighters have changed. Missiles have taken over many of the roles. The roles that remain require intelligence. Both Ukraine and Russian fighters are not being used much because SAMs make things too dangerous. When they do, it is low level attacks that would be hard for drones.

I think developing drone fighter AI would be hard. Recent AI advances have been more about generation than planning. We could do it but would be expensive; look at how much has been spent on self-driving. The basic things are simple but the important things are complicated. For example, drone could have intercepted and shot down balloon but couldn’t have inspected balloon or involved in planning.

Finally, the US has pivoted from developing drone fighters to bomb truck. The idea would that accompany fighters and carry more ammo. It would be less maneuverable and simpler and use extra space for fuel and bombs. I think it is telling that multiple countries have tried drone fighters and none have gone for them.
I think cryptographic AI will become a reality. The use-case I was thinking is more of immortality/digitizing human consciousness. If you could be uploaded (like the show Upload), what would that actually look like?

Well, plain text representation would just be too dangerous. Companies could mine your consciousness, duplicate it at will or whatever else they wanted. It's a scary thought. FHE provides the solution.
>> Home was the /home/ directory in Linux.

I have never (until reading this) thought of it in that context. Was that the original meaning for the name, or did it shift over time?
Good point. It's also dominating in the segment of "web search companies called Bing".
I cancelled my NYT sub over the pandemic. I felt dirty supporting them even for just the word games.
> The US and its allies were so dominant that they didn't really need landmines to win anymore, and landmines are one of the cheapest effective deterrents their potential enemies could use.

If the US doesn't need landmines, why won't the US ban them? The United States is one of the nations that hasn't signed the Ottawa Treaty?
No country has it as a specific regulatory requirement. In the US it is vaguely called maintaining an “adequate compliance program.” Blockchain analysis software is likely to be considered an important part of a compliance program by the government, especially when they are in the middle of a crackdown and new DoJ guidance is big on prosecuting this kind of thing (especially prosecuting individual compliance officers for AML failures). Pretty sure Kraken allowing XMR is a source of tension between them and governments too.
That's what I never understood about this story; did you guys have any suspicion it would dump radiation into the patient all at once, or was this like a concurrency bug
I looked into the site. From what I could tell and given the timeline, it looked like the person was using an older model of text generation to create this spam at the time. The one about crocodiles being without scales and being slow and ocean dwelling but also being somehow active is the kind of nonsensical zero context preserving stuff gpt used to generate before the gpt 3 model released.
Does that apply to “Hacker” in Hacker News?
My bad for being vague with my definitions:

Cracking down - the government suppresses dissent by force.

Removing the source of dissent - this means solving the underlying issue that would otherwise cause the dissent. This would be government/society providing for the needs and desires of it’s population.

I think most would agree that the first is much worse than the second.
> I don’t think either Bing Chat or Bard is ready to be released widely.

And yet it will be, because everyone is wowed so we need something out to capture those wowbucks. There are meetings all over the place to figure out "how to best leverage that technology in our product". While there is some value to raise GPT3 as a technology available in your toolbox, these are largely "let's find a problem that this can fix" meetings, and you can bet your sweet ass we'll see GPT in all sorts of stupid maladapted use cases very soon.
"abstract surface-level content"

aka "bullshit"
actually is 1/6th gravity, because you are going to produce it on the moon. I don't know how long the process is but maybe a vomit comet with a different parabola profile to imitate the moon gravity could do the trick.
Innovation without also seeking to mesh it into a product/market fit is just burning cash. You can innovate, but also need to land it.

Also, they might just be creating a reputation for themselves of killing every new interesting thing that people just aren't as interested in trying their new things. That's a self-own.
Lest we forget, the internet grew out of the arpanet. I would proffer no single human, or group of humans, fully understands the whole thing.

The current state of AI development seems to be on the same trajectory as the arpanet in 1975 with one exception, growth will be more exponential.
He was the PM for Chrome so I don’t think I would call him incompetent.
Morrowind will still not be popular with younger players. I imagine the lack of fast travel, map markers and the class/skill system is just too much for most.
"Our proprietary transport subsystem [...]"
That's where I stopped reading.
Maps has become buggier and buggier over time. These days I can't figure out how to use the UI and my navigation to work has become completely wrong (it used to be correct for years) out of nowhere.
ChatGPT is neither an earthquake nor a tectonic plate faultline. Along with ever improving algos in nearby domains (images, speech etc) it is a signal, of sorts, of the slowly accumulating energy that will, eventually, unleash the next phase of information technology.

It is not an accident, imho, that it is Microsoft that somehow emerges as Google's "nemesis". After all it was MS' business model that Google disrupted with mass market "freebies" such as gmail, docs etc. While "disrupting search" might be the immediate skirmish, the bigger battle is about broadly defined "AI augmented information management": who will offer it to the masses, under which business model etc.

My feeling (nowhere near a complete analysis) is that Google will lose this war even if, as it is widely assumed, it has the technical advantage. This is because it has been happily cornered in an extremely lucrative but ultimately dead-end business model. AI augmentation as part of its existing search/adtech model is a marginal and even problematic (loss making) addition, whereas as part a re-invented MS it can blow new life into its old bread-and-butter business that has been commoditized. A wildcard in all this is (as always) Apple, but whatever its eventual approach to AI, it is likely to be just another headwind for Google.

NB: I am a lifelong open source enthusiast, I have no stake or love for any of the above entities. The ideal, least dangerous, most beneficial form of AI augmentation would be as a widely available and open source digital public good.
The thing I’m looking forward to is having one voice for all language options.