skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it _extremely_ disheartening that human beings — already verifiably prone to forming, and more impactfully acting upon, dangerously stupid and usually suicidally short-sighted positions on low-to-no evidence and hopelessly malformed arguments — are deploying LLMs at all, especially in front of people prone to think that having a tool that can at best tell you the statistically least interesting next word will foster “creativity” (whatever that is, especially in light of something as unthinking as a LLM being able to convincingly mimic it).

If we are going to be so stupid as to use these things, I at least hope we’re willing to restrain them from parroting back the very worst of our impulses, as the available training corpus is _definitely_ not predisposed towards the good.
But the entirety of that consciousness would be the text you send it. You can alter the text yourself and send something different, and it will act as if it had memories it never had, because it is a stateless pure function. So if there is anything conscious in there, it is the text that is alive and not the pure function, and you modifying that text in your browser chat window is you performing direct surgery on that consciousness. Does that make sense to you?

Then we you would need to argue that all manipulations of text are manipulation of consciousnesses, and all texts are conscious, since all texts are conscious states for ChatGPT. I guess you could say that, but it isn't a very useful definition of conscious, and trying to argue that you need to be ethical towards pieces of text isn't very helpful.
This is obviously both true and not the point.

It is a mazlows hierarchy style argument. You shouldn't be taxed on the income you need to eat. You should be taxed gently on the income you need for basic comfort. You should be taxed more heavily on the income used for luxuries etc etc
We're working on a tool to give the title of any youtube video a #clickbait score. It's from 0 to 10, the lower the more honest.

The idea is to help users to identify which titles might be exaggerated or misleading, and make better decisions about which videos to watch.

You can see the results on the YouTube video list and the video details page.(Please see reddit for demos: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/114glwy/give_the_t...)

Need this tool? Let us know and we'll make it available soon.

#clickbaitscore #glarity #youtube

https://twitter.com/JefferyTatsuya

https://glarity.app
The Mac version of Visual Studio isn't even Visual Studio. It's a glorified MonoDevelop.
Isn’t this just a glorified lsof?
"If we stop looking at life as some great mystical thing, and look at it as a more mechanical expression of self replicating molecules, it’s quite likely to be all over the place."

Well, if it is so easy to you, then why don't you just get your nobel price, by demonstrating making life from lifeless molecules?

My take is, before we cannot do that, we cannot dismiss anything. Life is literal a great mystical thing to us and if it is not to you, you can proof so by experiment.
Bing Chatbot Names Foes, Threatens Harm and Lawsuits
Does my current employer have a library? Yes. Both physical and virtual. I have use the virtual to browse industry periodicals which have hefty subscription fees. I have never set foot in the physical.
I used to keep LOTS of physical books at the office. At each job over, I started keeping fewer. Now, at my current job I have zero, because that is exactly how many times I have needed a reference at my last job.
>Does Jody Allen secretly hate Paul?

I doubt she hates her late brother, any more than any widow who sells off or throws away her late husband's computer collection after his death (which occurs so, so often that it is probably the normal outcome after the collector's death, as opposed to an exception) hates him. It's disinterest.
> If you take time out every now and then to completely refactor your code base it can actually be surprisingly effective.

So much this!

Current project I'm on, I own the entire front end for a major modernisation (AKA rewrite) of a legacy application and we are working in 4 week "sprints". I'm giving myself two days every month just to refactor the code I wrote that month.

How you plan to structure a project never works out, you always find better ways as you go and as the objective and priorities change (they always do).

On another tangent, before pivoting into software development I used to be a mechanical/industrial engineer. The parallels between coding and CAD are enormous. With CAD you also need to be spending 10% of your time "refactoring" your model. It's almost exactly the same from a maintainability perspective and leaving the model with good hygiene for the next person to work on.
> don't buy the OEM version of Windows for $20 cheaper. It will be tied to your unique hardware

Not only that, but with the OEM version you won't actually have a valid license. Yes, Windows will activate and none will be the wiser, but legally speaking, you still won't have a license.

And at that point you might as well run a KMS emulator for $0.
Thanks. I'm not an expert on Svelte internals, but I simplified my statement.
Newly released footage of a 1986 Titanic dive reveals the ship's interior
> This guy should be thankful he's not in prison yet, even though he should be.

That's awfully nasty and blood thirsty. Thousands of weather balloons are launched very day, they are usually even more massive. These balloons are within the parameters that are explicitly permitted and are believed to be safe by the FAA.

Not everything unfamiliar to you personally is a threat.

Not everyone who does something which you haven't personally deemed safe deserves to be locked in a cage.
Having code which relies on global state is probably the worst possible case, that's why I mentioned you can STILL write independent tests from each other. You could even run them in parallel, but you would have to use locks, but just by running them serially, you don't even need to do that. You just have to make sure that the global state has been reset after each test case properly.

If your project language is Python, pytest is providing all kinds of tools to setup and reset all kinds of global state (see the monkeypatch fixture).
In other languages this can be solvable obviously, you might just need to write more helpers and might be more careful.

If you don't write your tests independent from each other, you will have an awful time debugging any failure and will waste insane working hours which could be prevented by a little bit of discipline.
>>We've been writing C++ since 1997.

1985
I think this argument would have to conclude that training any RL agent at all is unethical, since updating its weights 'away' from some stimulus could be considered pain.
I wish there were more "modern" old school forum software alternatives, which you can still just throw onto any LAMP stack hosting provider. I think the closest thing I've found is Flarum.

I'm predicting that in a decade or two, we'll start to notice, that there's a huge gap in retained information, because so many online interactions moved into closed systems, such as social media pages or Discord servers, which aren't well or at all indexed and we might have permanently lost some platforms along the way.
If you have any evidence that sperm count figures in the US are being deliberately falsified, you should post it.
It is crazy how the misleading marketing of calling data-driven algorithms "AI" has led to people thinking this stuff might be actually intelligent.

We have not made any significant progress at all in the field of general artificial intelligence in the last what, 20, 30 years? The field is pretty much dead.

Yeah, ChatGPT can sound very impressive but then again even good old ELIZA from the 60s was able to fool some people into seeing it as a therapist with just a bit of pattern matching.

Many data driven solutions have become practical in recent years not because of breakthroughs in research but because it is simply more feasibly to acquire the huge amounts of training data and processing power that those models require.

Thinking those models will one day magically achieve general intelligence by just becoming really good is akin to thinking a chess master will one day become so good at chess that they can run a marathon. That is not how it works.
Ask HN: How to generate random test data (valid and noise too)?
I need random data in block of 700 bytes, what is full with valid common binary/plaintext data structures with common data. Sometimes included with common errors making them invalid. In a range from simple bit patterns (eg.: 0x55aa) to just uncompressible noise.

(So.. just everything, I hope it is not too much to ask:)

What won't work:

- /dev/urandom: it is just not random.. always noisy :)

- A corpus like dumped wikipedia: even if with added some random biterror, it is just too specific, besides impractically big.

- markovchain of /dev/sda of freshly installed system: still not enough real world data/errors.

- markovchain of my /dev/sda: although it contains enough real data and errors :) there is sensitive data

- I collect painstakingly common patterns: the whole point is finding something what I don't expect

As always, there has to be existing solution, I just can't find it.
That's a tough sell for, say, a barman whose landlord realises they can double their rental income by doing short-term lets. Just because there's suddenly a lot of money flowing in, doesn't mean all people immediately benefit (or even eventually benefit), and in the meantime those who already lived there suffer an explosion in prices for renting and buying property.
It's not an imaginary tech robot that will do this. It's a product combining the best what we have. Maybe the question to kids should be different: Do you want to watch super interesting interactive movie / play game that will teach you this in 20 minutes and the rest 40 minutes you can enjoy with your friends or you want to sit in a classroom for one hour and learn it traditional way? Also I don't have in mind remote teaching. Kids should be in a school anyway to interact with each other.
I personally got in contact with nested / tree structured forums before the flat, chronological ones. I remember a discussion around 2000 where the flat model got traction. There are up and downsides to each.

Of course this is a pure display issue, there’s no reason one couldn’t switch between both in the same forum.

However there’s something about seeing the same thing others see and interacting with that context in mind.
I love the variety. But I understand how it can be head spinning.

IMO the important thing is to find what works for you. I’d be wary of every other article out there that offers their ideas of the best way of doing anything web.

Personally I wouldn’t consider the article’s solution “simple”.
Surely not, for the same reason that producing and raising a child is not inherently unethical?
I think to extend on the question, though, the fundamental answer is "There is nothing stopping the LLM from containing the embedding of all basic math", with the proviso that tokenization makes it vanishingly unlikely (perhaps in the current generation, or within reasonable resource limits).

I see it analogous to asking a human why they don't just "learn all the answers to simple arithmetic involving integers below 10,000" - you possibly could, it would just be a huge waste of time when you can instead learn the algorithm directly. Of course, LLMs are inherently a layer on top of an existing system which solves those problems quite well already, so it'd be somewhat silly there too.
Goa is a small state of about 1.4 million people with another 1.4 BILLION people entitled to move there without visas.
It really depends on what you want to build. For typical web applications (e.g. SaaS) this stack is almost perfect:

Next.js for client- and server-side development (alternatively look at Remix). It's a big advantage to use Typescript on both sides instead of mixing programming languages like JS + Rust or GO (or PHP, Python, Ruby ...).

In case you need a database (MySQL or Postgres) then PrismaORM is your best friend. Amazingly good ORM which does all the heavy-lifting for you.

For hosting without database Vercel is the obvious solution. In case you need a database, then look at a good PaaS like Render.com (or if you are in EU then scalingo.com). In any case don't waste time with building infrastructure.

In case you want to see a full application, check out our open-source Kickstarter.

Repo: https://github.com/roqtech/roq-kickstarter-nextjs
Demo: https://roq-kickstarter-nextjs.vercel.app/

Repo (with Prisma): https://github.com/roqtech/roq-kickstarter-nextjs-prisma-mar...
Would be nice to have a dedicated "ports" view as this is what I most commonly use lsof for.
Yep.. happening everywhere.

Somehow the regulators (and governments) prefer more money over their own citizens. Banning short term rentals would solve (or atleast reduce) housing problems in many cities, while tourists can still come and stay in hotels.
It’s literally right there in the first line of the description, yes.
For context: https://steamcommunity.com/games/784150/announcements/detail...

Ugh this makes me sick. This is one of my favorite games.
> How you plan to structure a project never works out, you always find better ways as you go and as the objective and priorities change (they always do).

I always joke I write everything three times. The first time to get a feel for the space, the second time because I think I now understand it and then again when I finally really understand it. Most of the times these three look absolutely nothing like each other.
Do you mean there's something wrong with Ghostery?
> Compared to 20 years ago, being openly transgender was far more taboo, so it follows that people were less willing to identify as transgender for these kinds of surveys.

Maybe we'll know 20 years from now, because it is commonly accepted.

If the rate stays mostly flat, when it is acceptable, then we probably had no increase in the previous 20 years (from now).

If the rate of the next 20 years is trending up, then it is likely that it was trending up before it became acceptable.
Musk intended absolutely the same, just that it would be controlled by him, instead of someone else. Juts look at his actions (e.g. Twitter).
Do bookmarklets still work on iOS? I wanted to try them but I found this post:

> Apple no longer allows running JavaScript in either the Mobile Safari address bar or as a mobile Safari bookmark.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253547618
The popularity ranking suffers from a few problems.

One problem is that the 1% most popular comments get dozens/hundreds of replies, and no-one responds or even looks at the bottom 90% of comments.

The most popular posts and comments are usually very strong, divisive statements. If you don't have a strong opinion, noone will upvote you, and it will seem that everyone is either strongly for or against something.

Then there's the problem that time is a strong factor in the rankings, which means that there is rarely any long-term followup.

In old forums, there used to be threads that went on for years. Long term follow-up is close to non-existant on HN and Reddit.
There's a fine line between glorified and shoulder-standing.

This project gives full credit to the giant it stands upon.

README.md:

> Sloth is essentially a friendly, exploratory graphical user interface built on top of the lsof command line tool. The output of lsof is parsed and shown in a sortable, searchable outline view with all sorts of convenient additional functionality.
lol, this was a project I did for a friendly event free of charge. I choose PWA because it's only useful for three days and nobody is going to install an app for this, you want it working right away. I was getting good results but the experience was just way smoother on android. A good prompt/banner/whatever that the app is installable felt essential when viewing the users behaviour because it's "drive-by" usage.
fortune | cowsay | lolcat

Never gets old.
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Seattle could afford that easy cheesy. Really this is down to the lack of a strong CEO (probably because of the way this was incubated inside of Vulcan). A strong CEO could probably throw enough benefits and special events to run a 2-3MM operation and possibly get a proper endowment from some of the very wealthy people who live within the Puget Sound region. Oh, and that money would be tax deductible and you would get invited to some great networking events.

That CEO could also pay themselves $250k without blowback either.
ChatGPT very likely didn’t have access to its own source code. It does however have a wild imagination and a vast repertoire of code to pull from.

It wrote you a story in Javascript instead of English after you asked it to.
If it was just Chrome that made these user-hostile decisions then I wouln't care that much, but for some reason Mozilla decides to copy most of them.
IMO the problem is examples have to be simple to understand, but if you’re using React right the context of the application is much larger / not the only consideration.
wait.. Tailwind is a big CSS file?
Can i export a budget data?
And not only that, you also can just run:

git clone ${REPO_URL} redis && cd redis && make

... and it will just work. Few projects are that pleasant to build.
I think AI would kill my wife
If I’m visiting country C and read my work email or take a work Zoom call, have I violated my tourist visa? If I check that email all 6 nights in my 7 day stay?

At some point, I think it flips from “a genuine tourist” to “an undocumented worker”, but I don’t think it’s easy to tell exactly when, especially if the actual job isn’t a local one.

If I’m on a tourist visa and taking a local job, the country’s documented workers should rightly feel cheated. If I’m on a tourist visa and brought my own job from outside the country, I’m not sure those workers have nearly as much standing to feel I’m cheating them.
Plenty of animals aren't very intelligent, but we still have ethics standards regarding the treatment of them, because we have the belief that they have the ability to suffer. Note that they do say "Most reinforcement learners in operation today likely do not have significant moral weight, but this could very well change as AI research develops", whatever they mean by 'moral weight'.
FWIW, I've been running Linux since 1993 or 94, and have never felt a need for this filesystem. Compatibility with other UNIX systems always meant FTP or NFS and then application support for whatever file formats were in use.
Is there any reason to use GCC over Clang these days? I haven't used GCC in the past 5-6 years, and I don't miss it.
A C64 MP3 Player
Show HN: I built a custom USB Trackball
MarioGPT – Create endless Super Mario levels
added to awesome-iouring https://github.com/espoal/awesome-iouring
Browser Adoption Rates
You don't need an account and you can encrypt the message before queuing it on the server. Silly stupidity inefficient and won't work offline but it is quite easy to make a generic push message scheduling server that just pushes around blobs as requested by client-side code.
Not similar, but look into the Microsoft Powertoys tool for other cool utilities on Windows. There is a Spotlight search tool, OCR text, Zones etc.

As others have said, Sysinternals Process Explorer and Process Monitor.

https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-10/how-to-use-process-monit...
There are lots of things from human history that have "gotten us here." I don't think that's a good measure of whether or not we should keep doing them. I have no doubt it'd be easy to argue that feudalism, cholera, and the international slave trade all furthered human endeavor because we learned a lot from them and built economies around them, but that doesn't make them desirable now.

We're capable of being better than our ancestors, and it's not unreasonable to suggest we actually have a moral duty to improve our species for the sake of our own progeny. That improvement can only be measured against the past.
Right, but that's still one layer of abstraction above a native unix system, which macOS is.
> solution which eluded doctors for 5 decades

Maybe the reason the phenomenon is hard to account for, is because it's not real. Things that don't exist are difficult to explain.

Maybe we shouldn't spend so much energy trying to find causes when we're not even sure there's an effect. TFA argues, in essence, that metastudies point to severe inconsistencies and are ultimately inconclusive, and I agree with it.

(Also: "armchair analyst" is involuntary funny, because most analysts, unlike generals (or maybe like most generals?) work at a desk.)
Have you tried the same with remote imports to save the manual download step?
Consciousness is simply a very useful evolutionary trait (same as ability to fly or having sharp teeth) because it allows to better plan ahead and reflect and therefore survive - or by imprinting on us the fear of dying we can act to prevent it before having our offspring.

While consciousness is maybe more elusive in how it functions in a brain, it's a biological trait that makes not so much sense to compare to a LLM which simply regurgitates fragments from text produced by conscious humans. So I don't see an immediate conflict.

It would be interesting to include things like OpenWorm (and later OpenFish, OpenCat, OpenHuman) in the discussion, but decoupled from the biological mechanisms I find it hard to develop a stance on that.
You may joke, but there are people that think having children is unethical[0], and not because of population issues.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/27p93c/having_c... (Note I haven't read all of that post, just enough to know it shows at least some people think that way)
It made me laugh imagining an "enterprise grade" commercial version of curl. What features would it have? SAML integration? Support for Kensington locks?
the airbnb.com.au version does because AU law requires it.

I use it to search in the US as it’s the only way to know all in cost, which the US version always tries to obfuscate
My guess would be not enough users wanted this feature and if they started to do well Google would add it to their free product.
Most ethnic Russians I know from Ukraine don’t support the invasion.

One had weird men show up to her neighbourhood in Donetsk for years, that didn’t speak Russian like anyone else from Donetsk, and violently confront locals and then the police. This is the “violence against ethnic Russians” that Putin made up.
JSX is quite a bit better than early PHP, but yeah, it has the same issue. I like both JSX and Vue templates, though (I prefer JSX with Vue or Preact).

I think JSX and Vue templates both are discovered, not invented, and have staying power because of that. JSX is neat because it is a really simple hybrid of two languages and is fully composable. Vue templates are neat because unlike so many other HTML templating languages, the templating is inside (X)HTML attributes, and they don't go too nuts with them like Angular did. It took time for Vue to support pretty much everything, but now it does. The nested <template> tag can be used to accomplish the same things as JSX fragments. The IDE tooling adds syntax highlighting and autocomplete to the JavaScript expressions. Even though it's HTML5, Vue went ahead and supported XML-style self-closing tags.
The 1950s were the start of our long-term exposure to plastic materials and we've known for a while that some of those substances aren't great for our health.

In contrast nuclear tests and power are usually well contained exactly because of the high risks. And if some of the few accidents had any widespread long-term effect there would probably be a visible bump in the statistics.