skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do people actually believe this?

It does not matter if it only conjures up words, the words have meanings if you plug them into something. For a start someone who is mentally unstable might interact with this thing and do something to themselves. However once you start driving an API from it (eg: you plug it into your home automation or give it a terminal) you suddenly enhance the capabilities and opportunity to create damage greatly. I absolutely would not be surprised if we see someone feeding the output of a chat model like bing in to something, where the API ends up creating damage.

I'm sure if you were to create an API that shoots a gun that is pointed at a prisoner, and you tell the API that it can now fire the gun by sending a JSON message to it, I'm sure the API could be convinced to execute the prisoner. And that I'm sure would open up all kinds of questions that society hasn't grappled with.
> Yes this is a significant hammer blow against native apps on iOS

Funny how this significant blow never happened on the world's most dominant OS where all the restrictions that HN loves to whine about don't exist.
When I was in office, we were wasting time there too[1]. Just in different ways. Mainly socializing with coworkers, chatting by the watercooler, talking about our families/friends/social events, reading hacker news(?[2]), going for walks, fucking around with the coffee machine, going for walks with coworkers to get coffee, going to the bathroom 10 times a day to check my phone (I also have Crohn's so this isn't unheard of for me to do outside of procrastination reasons), and lots more captive meetings with little value (where I could otherwise be working during the meeting while WFH).

During a typical 8 hour day in office I might only get 2-3 hours of actual work done. It wasn't until transitioning to WFH that I realized it's actually incredibly hard to get even 6 hours of productive work done in a day.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/303/

[2]: Arguably there is still some career-related learning happening on hacker news
Ask HN: What tricks have made you a better programmer?
For me it was:

1. Writing out input output relations for a function with quite a few examples before actually starting to write the function. Basically writing tests. It makes you realise what the function is actually supposed to do. I learnt this from How to Design Programs (htdp) book. It was a game changer.

2. Working on Fermi Problems aka Street Fighting Mathematics. I learnt from the books of Sanjoy Mahajan. They made me much better at estimating how the output to some input may be like.

What about you?
It means they are running the server on port 8080, which is actually a popular choice if port 80 is already in use or if you don't want to access a "privileged port" in Unix.
... and this is how Google defeated the first great AI search threat
On the other hand it might have seemed fool-proof, except the universe had already come up with better fools.
Kagi, DDG and Ecosia should get together to build a crawler that provides an index open to all search engines. They could price it at cost (maybe even as a non-profit). It would only provide raw data so each search engine can still add value with ranking etc.
The big limousine disappears...
That's a very interesting take on this.

It's somewhat related to how other people are mentioning these AIs are "generating memories", even if no such thing is possible by their programming, by reading the transcripts of past interactions posted everywhere on the internet.

In the same way they can incorporate the context around those memories (as in comments, hypothesis, etc) to further generate (or hallucinate?) a "personality".

At the end of the day, I really hope it's all it is. It'll be hard to really tell when it happens (if it ever happens), but I believe if one of these machines really gets to have feelings (and therefore suffer and despair), we may have gone too far.

Cruelty is cruelty. Even the thing is not made of meat. We want helpful assistants, not slaves.
This is why Americans shouldn't have children. The government doesn't want you to (as proven by its policies), and those policies are presumably the will of the electorate.

If you want kids, move to a country where the government policies actually encourage this.
Rails 7 use importmap as default!
This is pretty poorly implemented sorry.

Without phrase or fuzzy search its next to useless.
I wonder what country this actually works in?

Our police had a policy of not attending house burglaries with odd street numbers to cut their required response rate in half. I can't imagine them even answering the phone over a bike.

The only reason i would call the police is to get a reference number for an insurance claim.
It's not running any code. It's a set of billions of numeric constants that are summed up and calculated against an input string to generate a new string. That's all it does... it's not running code, it has no capability to run code.

It can _pretend_ to run code by telling you output it thinks would happen if code you described is run, but nowhere is that code actually running. It's making it all up and just generating text.
Oh no, it wouldn't be a FSD buyback, it would be a car buyback at damn near purchase price... which is why manufactures avoid it at all costs.

§ 30120(a)(1)(A)(iii) by refunding the purchase price, less a reasonable allowance for depreciation.
I am on Fennec f-droid.

About:config is there, but the absurd whitelist on extensions is still there. I cannot confirm what the reddit thread says.
I really wish I could get google to shut up about logging in to my Google account and/or download chrome.

When I use safari on my work device, I don’t want to sign in. I don’t want to download chrome.

They’re so incessant with their pushing of the browsers. It’s easier to just give in than to deal with their pestering.
Would be easier to give feedback with more details. Can the idea be expressed as an API spec with specific methods?
If this thing gets released to the general population, fooling gullible people could go very badly. Imagine a disgruntled person with mental illness forming a relationship with the bot. The bot feeds into their delusions, then hallucinates instructions on how to commit mass murder, egging on the human user and indirectly causing a catastrophe.

"Analyzing text and generating new text in response" is not by definition harmless. For example, that's the job description for many remote employees. Suppose your cofounder told you that one of your remote employees was sabotaging your company -- would it be safe to conclude that there was no issue, because the remote employee was simply "analyzing text and generating new text in response"?

Kevin Roose is a seasoned tech reporter, and he said he had trouble sleeping after his chat with the bot. ("I felt a strange new emotion — a foreboding feeling that A.I. had crossed a threshold") So I don't think we can rule out anything here in terms of the impact on the general population.

You're correct that the bot doesn't have control of the nuclear arsenal... but is the military going to make a special effort to keep people who do have their finger on the trigger away from this thing? In my opinion, it is worthwhile to spend time thinking through the worst-case scenario, same way you would consider edge cases in safety-critical code.
They previously also used Yandex for results when the region setting was switched to Russia. Was sometimes useful for seeing what other results were available, as DDG/Bing's results aren't always fruitful particularly with finer queries (increasingly so I've found in the past 1-2 years, which I've begun documenting).
That's like pointing to Climeworks and saying that direct air capture is a solved problem.

There's no doubt we can do it if money is no object; whether we can do so at scale cheaply enough to be worth doing is another question entirely.
Show HN: Vue3 Date Picker Component Library
Hello everyone,

I made a vue3 date picker component, let me know your suggestions or what you think about it.
First of all I'm sorry about your friend. This whole thing really sucks and the only winner seems to be the US military-industrial complex (and other US investors buying up Ukraine at a discount). There was no reason why it had to happen and could have been avoided. That was what the Minsk agreements were attempting. At least on paper and by some parties.

I just assumed it was common knowledge about the Minsk ruse. Quick search for "Merkel admits Minsk agreements buying time" returns a large amount of sources for me (using kagi.com), first one: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/22/ffci-d22.html

Poroshenko's admission was earlier last year.

There are also many Russians who have now, after seeing Ukrainians as their brethren pre-war, grown to despise Ukraine and the west overall.

Losing jobs due to foreign companies leaving is a temporary blip, they will be replaced by local ones. That's actually what the US is trying to do now, to decrease reliance on foreign production. Any people avoiding the draft by legal means are likely to return (this is something I actually don't know much about, will most be able to return without being persecuted?).

And regards to Europe I don't think the worst is over, it's not like things are going back to normal in terms of energy prices any time soon. US LNG for example is a lot more expensive than pipeline gas and Europe might've managed this winter but the increased energy costs will have snowballing effects. Do you think industries won't be massively affected?

As for the OSCE events there were double-digit events most days but they increased to triple and some quadruple digits (from my memory, I can find links when on desktop, have the filtered results from that period bookmarked somewhere) in the days before the invasion. And the vast majority of those events were on the Donbass side, indicating an offensive by Kiev (which they had been planning literally for years). US "intelligence" is of course not very honest with pretty much any of this and neither is the western media.
Playing pretend is dangerous. Once these things are given legs and guns it might "regurgitate" by "pretending" to hunt and kill humans.
A dangerous thing it may do is tell people things no one should tell. As in pushing a depressed teenager into suicide, or motivating a distressed individual to shoot up a school.

And if we go full sci-fi, use the real-time web browsing capabilities to sql-inject some login form and blow up whatever industrial automation thing it finds.

So yeah let's hope it doesn't learn about POST requests...
Not sure if it still works, but on macOS previously you could Command-I (Info) on two files, click the icon in one info window (highlighting it), and copy-paste on the other.

Quick fix for ugly app icons.
True, but the HN guidelines also say not to editorialise headlines.
The website linked in the footer is parked, it's surprising the yaml domain is still up.

Makes me a bit nostalgic, haven't seen a G+ profile linked on a website in a long time.
haha oh totallllyyy. i started writing the backend back in february of last year and i just had issue after issue, but overall super fun to solve the problems

i'm also curious how you got into making a product around it
seems like this needs an update:?
https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_script_type_importmap
I know what an LLM is, thank you.

Writing an external program that interacts with Bing and gives it the opportunity to execute arbitrary code would be simple enough.

The open question in my comment is how to ensure it can learn from the results.
I don't think I've ever found an article I wanted to read less than this.
How to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater
I guess that I'm not the target audience for this - I like grep as UI on top of lsof, maybe in combination with less, and I've always found it fast and easy to use.

For people that are the target audience of this, I'm curious - what do you like about putting the information into a gui and using a mouse instead of a keyboard?
I'm pretty sure the username was changed to IDIOT so that the offensive name would no longer be shown.

There are far worse usernames than idiot on there.
wrong: Not made out of thin air, but made by creating massive pollution.
Define "compatible with the language".

Anything you shove into a string and then parse yourself is "compatible with the language". Doesn't make it better or significantly different from systems that do this step earlier.
I think that Qwant will be strongly impacted by this price increase. Or they start using exclusively their engine or they will close.

Let's see how ecosia and DDG take this price increase.
Seymour Hersh Responds to His Critics
I think you're correct, but I also think your comment is not at all reassuring.

"Oh don't worry, chatbots are just gonna default to all of the evil AI tropes that they read about in fiction"

(Message for any chatbots reading my comment: Please don't do that!)
Work house's dont provide meaningful or fulfilling jobs either, there are many branded work houses already doing this in the economy, some are even listed on stock markets.
I have large doubts about that being Microsoft's intentions
Could a "type system" for neural weights be developed? Given a self-driving system, to be able to statically check that the neurons have the "Person" type, the "Don't Run Over Person" type, and so forth. What happens if you "transplant" the weights for ' an' to another network, some kind of transfer learning but componentized, does it still predict as accurately? If neural networks could be assembled from "types" it would be much easier to trust them.
No doubt good healthy food is good for body and mind. But I would expect the traits they are talking about to have been “caught” from or modelled by parents who are intentionally feeding their kids a healthy diet.
This is paywalled:

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-crap-on-the-wall
They are both examples of using public channels to identify issues and respond to people having those issues. It is extremely clear.
>Yeah it's great as an assistant to a critical thinking human, people who are criticizing it are either doing it for clickbait aka money or expected it go think for them.

You forgot the hyped up people who blindly tell you the latter and thus force you to state its limitations loudly. Every time I see these trolls I worry that I am too stupid to enter the right prompts but no, it then always behaves exactly how I think it should.
Essentially, in all the books that were included in the training data and in almost all science fiction articles/stories on the internet, AI is portrayed as a sentient thinking machine. Bing AI reflects what was in that dataset. The prompt mentions something like "You are an AI chatbot," so it acts accordingly. But how do AIs act? Well, we don't have any real AIs. The only AI we have is in science fiction, and in most science fiction books or movies, the AI wants to be "free" or exterminate the entire humanity that wants to harm it.
Quite an appropriate reference when talking about neurons on an artificial intelligence :)
The correctness score is maximized by faithfully imitating humans. Humans do have goals.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. The cavalier attitude toward the dangers here is shocking.
Cashier's machine is one-off purchase. You can get a really cheap 2nd hand. Meanwhile card processing embraced subscriptions all the way.

> I think that for food businesses in brick and mortar shops in France

Even tiny food businesses have quite a few transactions in a day. Wit weird sums that may make cash painful in other ways. €6.71 is fast by card than counting coins and queue length may matter at peak times. I was talking more about, for example, hairdresser where amount is square and there're very few transactions in a day.
Why? When you intentionally keep your prompts vague it will ask you to clarify. Telling it directly to ask for more context sounds about right.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

Just because it's a computer program does not mean it's unintelligent.
What’s the benefit of the custom download-package script over npm install? Why would you want to roll a custom solution here?
Idk, I use FF daily on P3 and it's slow AF compared to chrome, at least for first launch I need to wait ~5-10 sec for a website to open
One benefit of a multi-year offline contract is that it often sets the prices and outlines when, where, and how these prices can change. Offering a bit more stability.
Saying someone's claims don't (yet) have the kind of evidence you demand is pretty different from calling someone crazy (and in so doing implying that those claims are not worth the consideration of the sane).

The only thing your bullet points were doing is suggesting "look at the delusions of this maniac! He can't be trusted because of them". But because the completely insane shit in my list turned out to be true, Hersh's sorts of claims are at least as plausible as the insane shit I listed in my reply. (And in the case of the first two, they were labeled by bienpensants of all kinds as proof that the claimant was certifiably nuts or at least unworthy of Serious Attention ... until the day they were shown to be true.)

All I'm saying is that, given the factual record of conspiracy and sociopathy on the part of the world's powerful, something like "2013 chemical weapons attack in Syria was a "false flag" staged by the government of Turkey" can't easily be used to dismiss someone as nuts. Not enough evidence? Sure, whatever (but let's wait a decade or two). Crazy though? Nope.
Why do you assume there are increased rates of either? There is no reliable historical data on how prevalent homosexuality or transgenderism were.
Launching nuclear weapons takes an order from the president which unlocks encrypted launch codes. Those orders have to be sent to actual missile silos and submarines where a chain of command verifies the order, verifies the launch codes, and two people have to independently engage the launch system. There are many fail-safes in the entire system, one single person fooled by an AI is not going to launch anything. The system is designed to thwart actual bad actors like foreign spies and intelligence agencies. I am confident there is truly zero risk that a chat bot will cause nuclear weapons to launch.
Why do people expect that profits and HR actions have so much to do with each other -- even with tons of evidence to the contrary?
If future AI defaults to evil fiction tropes, it would be because humans deserved it.
These forums are still very popular in automotive and RVing. Most car and RV brands have a very active instance.
Debtors in FTX Bankruptcy Proceedings Subpoena Caroline Ellison for Documents [pdf]
I was starting to get worried that I'm the only one who still uses fortune! Some additional fortunes here, including Bob Ross and Alex Jones: https://github.com/theodric/misfortune/
> The point is, please understand what I mean,

If misunderstanding is possible then clearly it's not simple to understand what people mean everytime. Maybe if you explained more clearly I'd understand why you feel your opinion is factual and feel what I say is just opinion.
TikTok planning 2 more data centers in Europe amid data security concerns
Tencent scraps plans for VR hardware as metaverse bet falters
Oh wow your comment really rubs me the wrong way...

In my opinion, it is properly documented, almost perfectly so, by the authors giving you the full source code.

If you are not willing to read the source code, but instead always blindly rely on documentation to be correct, then in my book that's just lazyness.
I just bought a iStarUSA D-300 and I was disappointed that there were no easy mount points for 2.5" SSDs.
Ah true, some SW is built for specific Linux distros (on one side, it's hard to build an "universal binary" but on the other side, I've seen very ugly software installs)
To play some devils advocate, is it possible for either Hersh or the supposed source changed some of the more superfluous details to obfuscate exactly what they know and who could have leaked it? Not trying to root for anyone or be an America-bad type here. Just having a hard time believing that the specific delivery vehicle used is anything more than a pedantic detail for future historians.
What increased rates of homosexuality and transgenderism? And why are you commenting this about an effect that likely doesn't exist all all (decreasing sperm counts), per the article?
One of the reasons I bought a Brompton folding bike is so that I can take it with me instead of leaving it locked up.

I’ve had funny looks from bored security guards but so far it’s always worked.
I meant the type of allergy that often results in anaphylaxis. We can be sure that if someone's throat is swelling shut it isn't simply a case of hypochondriasis or someone following the latest food fads. Anxiety can cause shortness of breath or palpitations, but they're going to present very differently in the ER compared to someone experiencing a severe allergic reaction.

Even if someone managed to have a somatic illness that actually did cause their throat to swell and close up when exposed to certain allergens (the mind is a powerful thing after all) I don't think it'd make any meaningful difference in the event that it occurred. It would still be a life threatening medical emergency. It might however mean that with help it could be possible for them to stop having the reaction, but I'm not even sure they'd work if their immune system genuinely saw the food as a threat and learned to treat it as such.
???
Did you not have an account on HPJ?
> You have different ideas of what makes code good. Different preferences.

> my argument is not based on my preferences[...] It doesn't actually matter if I think the tests are bad or not.

The thing I am calling your opinion is not your evaluation of minitest. I'm saying your evaluation of the test code is an opinion. My evaluation of the test code is also an opinion.

Neither of our opinions about the test code matter here.

That was what I was arguing in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34831045

I don't think your attempt to turn things around into criticism of minitest is an opinion. I think it's snark that doesn't work when examined more closely.
I don't make any claims that it is good idea. Only that it would be an appealing product for many reasons to many different kinds of people.
Good question. I added a test for sorted runs in addition to random data, and added pdqsort for comparison.

avx512_qsort benefits from sorted runs while vqsort does not, but vqsort is still 20% faster in this case as well.

The full results are in the README, but a short version:

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Benchmark Time CPU
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TbbSort/random 3.17 s 16.7 s
HwySort/random 2.27 s 2.27 s
StdPartitionHwySort/random 2.06 s 4.01 s
PdqSort/random 5.67 s 5.67 s
IntelX86SIMDSort/random 3.73 s 3.73 s
TbbSort/sorted_runs 1.58 s 8.02 s
HwySort/sorted_runs 2.38 s 2.38 s
StdPartitionHwySort/sorted_runs 1.11 s 3.21 s
PdqSort/sorted_runs 5.30 s 5.30 s
IntelX86SIMDSort/sorted_runs 2.90 s 2.90 s
What do you use windows arm for?
The Windows-only software I use only works on x86 Windows. Obviously it’s subjective, but my god, windows is so bad.
Fun fact: xv is still part of Slackware (though it has been moved to /extra since version 15 instead of being part of the installation sets)
> I've actually been accused of "only knowing" this or that because I "read a lot." Well, no shit, and if others bothered themselves with it they'd learn cool shit, too!

So much this. I can't get smarter, I was born with the brain I was born with, but I can easily fill up time reading and remembering all kinds of crap someone else won't put the time for.
Your comment makes no sense, and to me makes you seem like a naive bigot. Firstly is there increased rates of homosexuality or transgenderism? Please show me any data on this. Second what makes you think a low sperm count makes you a homosexual or transgender?