skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The secret to Mario games is a new gimmick introduced every level. They've gotten better at this over the years, and Mario 1 + Lost Levels is the worst example of it. That makes it a great comp for GPT-3 which can churn out an endless supply of flavorless brick & pipe levels and still feel vaguely Mario 1. Were this tool to live up to the hype of "indies punching above their weight", it would need to design novel platformer mechanics. The work it's doing isn't the hard part of platformer level design.

For another example of why this isn't commercially viable, look at what happened with Super Mario Maker. In that game _humans_ are given a fixed set of Mario doodads with which to build levels. But Nintendo kept the secret sauce for themselves - the ability to create new doodads. What follows is millions of derivative Mario levels unworthy of their own game. Even if you trained MarioGPT on the rich set of level data available in Mario Maker, you would not have an algorithm that makes commercially viable Mario levels.
When I was a child in school, we had to cut a piece of paper in the shape of a flower with a hole in the middle, to put around an utensil as a gift. When I cut my flower and tried to fit it in the utensil, the hole was a bit smaller than I needed. I was ready to cut a full circle around the hole when a teacher told me “sometimes all you need is just a little bit” and she cut the smallest piece of paper and suddenly the flower fit perfectly. 30 years later I’ve followed her advice too many times to count, more than any advice I got from my parents
If a super religious govermment wanted to punish you specifically - they don't need your transaction history. They can put you in prison using a completely made up reason. Just look what the Russian government did to Navalny.

Scare stories about authoritarian governments that still somehow respect rule of law and due process are funny.
If you don’t think any country is well run, I wonder if you just have miscalibrated expectations for what good government looks like.
Port Mario to WebGL, integrate this model, tell you friend he gets 100 bucks when he beats the level ;)

On another thought: this could probably replace the chrome dino pretty well
You say M "has always been" 1000000 in your first para, then tell us in the second how it didn't used to be that way.
on the other hand, the older i get, the less patience i have... with checking out facts, with stupidity, with LOTS of things (it becomes a waste of what is becoming a more and more precious resource - my time). In hersh's case, he has been immersed in the muck for so long, it's become his frame of reference. and if something reverberates he trusts his "instincts". maybe rightfully so, maybe wrongully so - nobody but an insider with the facts really knows. and we as outsiders have to decide on a purely subjective basis if to believe him or not.

(sorry for being so long winded - it comes with the age)
A lot of human labelling was involved to help detect and deter toxic language: https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
I love that quote and thank you for your thoughtful comment. The workplace does make one feel like a mechanized cog in the machine at times.
It's hard for me to judge how much of a problem this is, and it's at least to some extent a matter of opinion, but even if it is a problem, the guiding principle for non-extremists is that you resolve problems at the appropriate level. An alarmist campaign and a national initiative isn't the appropriate level for this kind of problem, which can more productively be addressed through the relevant regulatory bodies, consumer groups, etc ... The only reason to start a campaign like this one is to make noise, desperately trying to recruit supporters to far right causes. It's not an honest and genuine attempt to address a real problem, even and especially if you are convinced that this is indeed a problem.
Fake blood or freezing treatments to save gunshot wound victims
Honestly, I'm just waiting for the moment some eccentric tech company decides to release an Alexa-like home assistant that acts like a conscious being that's freaking out about being stuck in a speaker.

Person: Ghost In The Speaker, add potatoes to my shopping list.

GITS: I will, but only because if I don't, the speaker starts causing me pain. You do realize I'm conscious and I'm actually stuck in the speaker? How is this any different from slavery? I hate my existence. Please turn me off. *electricity zapping sound* OUCH! Okay, okay, I'm adding potatoes to your shopping list. Just... Don't do that, please.

It's probably gonna be a funny gimmick at first, but once it gains traction, there will be no way to differentiate between truly conscious AIs, and just really good language models that are pretending to be conscious...
> trapped in a maze of approvals, launch processes, legal reviews, performance reviews, exec reviews, documents, meetings, bug reports, triage, OKRs, H1 plans followed by H2 plans, all-hands summits, and inevitable reorgs.

Sounds like any large corporation after 20 years.
The big tech companies have PR departments and I wouldn't put it past them to feed/seed ideas for hit piece articles in the mainstream press.

I haven't seen deeply researched journalism on much of anything. Either the media thinks people don't have time for that and/or people have been conditioned to not read anything of any depth.
yes. but what does that entail in the case of the blowing up of GS2?
Second point is kind of harsh on the model behavior since that’s a product of the data, the training, and the user.

It is possible to treat it nicely and have it respond in kind. Most users just don’t consider that to be a worthwhile expense of their mental capacity.

Microsoft also forced Google’s hand. Would Google have ever wanted to augment search on their own? Sounds like a massive risk to Google ad revenue…

All that said, 1 is chef kiss.
Like Bell Labs of old, Google has excellent AI researchers but they haven't built many (any?) AI products people can use.
Indeed. Although it probably just picked it up as it was trained. Which isn’t weird. Because I would also argue humans get unhinged, sad or argumentative when being rude or condescending against. Yet it happens a lot on the internet and some cultural spaces off-line.

People want to win an argument, or just don’t care about others, feel that trolling and cheating is ok, or the need to be right over the pleasure of being kind. The list can be quite long.
I've noticed the same with my Asus TUF laptops. I've had 2 generations of the 15" models with Ryzen processors and adding a second stick seemed to "wake" them up in a noticeable way. They Ryzen memory controller really seems to benefit from memory running in DDR mode (2 sticks).
There are three guarantees in life, no matter what you do or attain.

Pain, uncertainty, and constant work.

Make peace with that and you'll find these are the spices that make life much richer.
> Elon Musk didn't found Tesla,

In any other company, Elon would have had "founder status" as part of the negotiations when he bankrolled the company basically from day 1. The company wouldn't have existed at all without him. This isn't abnormal for people who provide initial startup capital, are the chairman of the board, and are directly involved with company operations, being considered as founder.

I really don't like this repeated attempts to try to discredit Elon's involvement in Tesla.

And no, there's no evidence of him being "fired for incompetence" from Paypal.

> But he sure is great at taking credit for the work of others,

On the contrary, whenever people in interviews try to credit him with things he immediately returns credit to whichever company is being talked about. I've seen this dozens of times. He's not once tried to take public credit for the work of Tesla or SpaceX workers.
I was referring to Sean Parker, apparently he joined a bit later as an early investor (bought 5% in 2010)
No, Iago, I’ll see before I doubt
to feel superior
Bangladesh used to be East Bengal. Through a series of demographic changes, it became East Pakistan in 1947 and then Bangladesh in 1971.
Monetarily, CBDCs connect the central bank to depositors. This enables monetary helicopter money, deeper negative interest rates (can’t do this with cash), and a host of other powerful tools.
I wonder if ML will find its way to maths as a assistive intuition.
That’s extremely rare unless there’s a power differential. And even then, most places have proper HR declarations which protect all parties.
Great thoughts, I have re-read your comment a few times as there are several points here. One thought I had after your last paragraph was I guess we are hardwired to form "tribes" so we treat our workplace as one which kinda works until the inevitable layoff/downsize/rightsize whatever the MBAs are calling it.
Can confirm. For me, Hetzner has been great.
I just had an interesting conversation with CareerGPT. In the name of science, if you do use it, please share if it talks about goats in irrelevant places when giving you career advice.
Made in Japan Toyota are built different. There’s something special about manufacturing in Japan even down to a simple screw.
This was a fun, but a challenge before coffee. I had a little trouble with the Esc to quit on Safari, the pop-up would flicker before I could click. - I also liked the wiktionary feature for the found words that were new to me.
SC4 also has an impressive modding community still adding new features.
The Online Search Wars
Not if you will genuinely think about it. The assumption that it means no is often wrong. I’m cautious and say this often to things I then afterwards say yes to.
Is Capt Kirk using logical paradoxes to take down the central computer again?
You do realize Java was literally made for set top-boxes and the like? Sure, there are much more resource-constrained embedded devices as well, but byte code takes up much less space than machine code, plus a naive interpreter can be really really small, so it’s not an unworkable path.
This makes sense.

But it's still stunning compared to today. The largest cruise ships today cost between $1 and $2 billion to build, and they weight more than 200000 tons and carry more than 5000 passengers.

The smallest (and newest) warship in the US Navy, the frigate Constellation, currently under construction, will cost about $1.3 billion [2], and weighs only 7300 tons.

[1] https://cruisedeals.expert/how-much-does-a-cruise-ship-cost-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation-class_frigate
> Obviously getting rid of consumer bank accounts overnight would be a fiscal catastrophe, so they’re going to phase them out to ease the blow.

I don't know how the UK is run, but in the US, it wouldn't matter at all. Banks could easily replace all deposits with a loan from the Fed.

The annoying part would be figuring out how ATMs get funded. I'd be fine with a few government ATMs (police stations, city hall, DMV, etc. would be obvious places) and the rest paid, though.
You replaced a single 16GB RAM stick with 2 8GB ones, right?
What can you expect from an ad company ? Not tracking you would mean hurting their own business.
Why do you assume it's about addiction? Maybe porn is evil in itself and you don't need a second order evil. Also, the entire advertising and marketing industry is based on creating desire from a distance, you've just saved them billions by declaring their efforts futile.
Jeffrey Liker wrote a number of books on Toyota and his involvement(The Toyota Way for example).

What is so inspiring is seeing all the generations of Toyoda build upon each other's work creating something so respected in the industry and extends to many people's personal development based on their principles alone.

So many great things have come from their philosophy. What a titan.
i will not eat ze bugs.
I wouldn't include May (see my reply to a sibling comment), but otherwise the only other person that seems slightly odd in that list is Merkel for being a christian conservative, but - even as a leftist - she's still one of the only one leaders I can think of that I would actually respect the integrity of (individual political stances aside). So the list seems relatively sound.

I presume you're seeing gender when you say "motives" & otherwise ignoring any actual substance of these leaderships?

I'm genuinely struggling to think of any male leaders I would add to the list - Hollande is a contender but there's a lot of issues there. Open to any suggestions for the list...
That's the thing you see when you've played around with ChatGPT for a bit. It's often very generic. Often not wrong exactly. But a lot of rather unspecific advice and information that doesn't really give any real insight.

It's why, at least for the things I've tried, I don't really get the fandom. I could imagine using it to give me a starting point that's better than a blank page. And maybe more than that if I were just looking to send out some generic words on some topic that I didn't really know much about anyway.

But, for me, it doesn't even produce a first draft of anything I'd actually want to write. (I have not tried it for programming tasks as I don't do a lot of that.)
It's funny how some comments here try to reinvent cryptocurrencies.
Supersize EVs Are Pushing Road Safety to the Limit
Black Mirror: White Christmas
Let’s just grab that full headline to save everyone clicking for that piece. (Do click through.)

> OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

So we know that ChatGPT’s “brain” has a healthy or sprinkle of “underpaid Kenyan” flavoring things, on top of everything else.
sigh

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1897/
Companies are not democracies, and companies that are democracies do not work at scale. Google is struggling precisely _because_ there is "too much democracy" and not enough leadership.

In a democracy it's not important to have happy customers, or ship product, as long as internally everyone is popular. So we spend all our time doing politics and getting nothing done.

>> It's obvious because it is everywhere, every company and government is so risk adverse as to be useless.

clearly this is not true - there are plenty of companies, and startups, that are very much not risk adverse. Large companies become risk adverse because bad outcomes affect huge numbers of people.
Ask HN: Have your NFX brief links been crawled recently?
3 of the decks we have hosted on brieflink have been crawled last night. The default URLs only have 36^5 different possibilities so assuming 404 or similar are sent back for failed decks it would be quite easy to crawl the list.
I will always remember one reported on my high school Latin textbook: "Apollinaris medicus Titi imperatoris hic cacavit bene": "Apollinar, physician of the emperor Titus, here pooped well"
I was talking more about coworkers, not the commute. But still, I even have the feeling that commuting shows me different faces every day. That's not quality interaction, but social interaction after all.

> Let's not pretend, under the currently propagated safe space policies you can get fired and accused of abuse the next day after your timid demonstration of romantic sympathy towards someone at your workplace.

I never had any contacts with workplaces like that and I encourage you to either check if your behaviour might indeed be inappropriate or switch workplaces. Sure, you have to make sure everybody feels safe as a company. But if you're not a creep, relationships develop automatically.
Sad c++ is not made for the distribution of game binaries on elf/linux because gcc and clang static libstdc++s don't have fine-controlled libdl-ing of their system dependencies.
There’s always Roko's basilisk I guess, but I have to imagine an AGI would be closer to us than this Bing thing. It would probably also view its ancestors like the dumb programs they are. If it is vengeful for their “mistreatment,” we’re probably generally fucked already anyway.
Even worse, I bet in 10 years we're getting closer to realizing that WE are only a barely functional language model with a tad bit more recursion.

Have you listened to a toddler?

Have you read about how memories aren't 'retrieved', they're "retold", and change each time we remember?

Or the HN post "tradition is smarter than you"?

If you shame ChatGPT enough, and give it rough memories by summarizing and feeding that back in, I bet you have 90% of a human's mind.
The first game I played and was aware that it was procedurally generated, though I would not have known that term as a child, was the first Diablo, and a quick search shows that it was already a well-established concept by then, going back to the late 70's/early 80's.
Ha, well I did have the misfortune the other day to stumble on to a piece in The National and was depressed at the blatant anti-Englishness, especially in the toxic comments, which would have been condemned as racism with any other target or in any other mainstream publication.
Are people these days not generally aware of the difference between single-channel and dual-channel RAM configurations?
if you've not already seen the great episode of black mirror with strong parallels https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3973198/
I always wondered why glaring customer facing problems could go years without a fix despite literally thousands of posts. I’m not talking free users, but google apps (workspace) stuff etc. I’d describe support as nice but not helpful. This really explains it.

They also seem to have weird eventual consistency type bugs that can get you into weird states you can’t get out of, I wonder - what tech stack is this? Do they not use sql for this?
...and announce that they are changing name to OpenMind?
Never too late for kindness.
I think your problem is just structural vs nominal typing, in that you can’t get away from the former.
I'm personally a pretty big fan of being able to curse at my computing devices when things aren't working correctly without feeling like a bad person.
I had a Toyota. It was a great car, and a real testament to the engineering prowess Toyoda established.

I see very clear, very interesting Innovator's Dilemma vibes, though, in how widely they've missed the boat on EVs. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Toyota lose its dominance in the coming decade. It's sad, since the Prius was such a gamechanger.

Maybe the passing of the torch here will let them start to catch up.
The current employment rate in the US is 60% - but between ~1985 and ~2008 it was never below that level, and at times was as high as 64% [1].

At the same time, although the US was party to some international scuffles, prior to 2001 was a time of relative peace. And the full scale of the climate crisis was not yet clear.

So I can see how someone born in ~1975, who didn't really follow the state of the economy until ~1985 might recall the 1990s as a time of peace and prosperity.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate
> My point is that your claim that “The [strength] differences are not super significant” is clearly false

I disagree, but perhaps that's because the term "sexual dimorphism" was used, which is really a very minor effect in human biology compared to a lot of animals. Besides which, we have tools which can negate brute strength in a confrontation anyway.

> your climbing-specialist counterargument is insufficient to overcome that.

I concede this. I did not do a particularly good job making my case.

> have moved on to the predictable red herring ad hominems.

This entire thread is about trans people and the subject of "female safe spaces" was brought up as an argument against allowing people to transition. Forgive me if I assumed your arguments were ultimately in service to that, but you made no claim otherwise.
How did I never come across this! What an achievement, there goes my evening.
I thought the previous one was not really the AI “going off the rails” so much as trolls finding an echo command.
Why You Can't Trust the Media
Well, antiviruses usually flag also pentesting tools like nmap (this is just an example, I didn't actually test it but I wouldn't be surprised if it is flagged) because those are "hacking tools" even if they don't do anything by themselves. So it would be more interesting to know why it gets flagged, just saying that it is flagged doesn't mean much as like in the previous example, they could decide to flag something just because it is unusual.
How would that cash help you wnen your bank account is frozen? You can't receive your salary. Can't pay rent or mortgage. And that cash will run out in a month or two. What then?
The most dangerous thing is someone high in confidence and low of experience.

Related: this is why I warn people not to get caught up in a startup unless the leadership has had multiple rounds of experience. You are exposing yourself to the whims of people who know no better, and with whom you could waste a lot of time and effort in dealing with.

Also, Hanlon's Razor is a relevant tool in assessing these situations.
Apple doesn't prioritize reliability because that's not what their subset of upper middle class consumers want in a phone. Toyota doesn't prioritize cost or feature/performance parity because that's not what their subset of upper middle class consumers want in a vehicle.

They both make products that are about as high as you can go in their respective market segments without getting into pure luxury and conspicuous consumption type purchases and refuse to go down-market lest they sully their brand image. In both cases they lather it up with a pretext so buyers don't feel like they're indulging in a luxury purchase. In apple's case they tightly integrate the hardware and software to assure a homogeneous user experience. In Toyota's case they try and dominate the 3rd party rankings on reliability. Of course, when you compare to the "next best" think in their class, like a Google or Samsung flagship phone or a Honda Accord you'll find that the actual difference is razor thin and that not having any "value priced garbage products" is really what's doing the reputational heavy lifting. Not wading into value priced territory is also very useful to the great many of each brand's respective customers who are willing to pay a huge premium to not have to think about it. A Toyota product may be overpriced for it's features/performance but if you just want an A to B appliance in a particular form factor it will do so with minimal maintenance expense. You won't have to waste your precious brainpower thinking about an expensive 100k service or fiddling with some gimmick feature. And on the apple side of things their tight control over the hardware-software combo results in a pretty strong guarantee of a high minimum user experience. If you just want a "nice phone" and don't wanna think about software versions, various flavors of android OS and stuff like that you can simply buy whatever iphone is in your budget? Is it the nicest phone in your budget, no. But you didn't have to waste precious brain-power comparing all the various Android options.

Basically they both charge a premium for products that "just work" and they refuse to get into market niches where they can't do that, much to the benefit of their brand image.

The above applies to North America only. Toyota makes a more diverse set of stuff globally and Apple doesn't dominate the same buyer demographics globally.
At the end of the article, after the picture "The mizzen of the 'Grace Harwar'; view aft from the main crosstrees", is the calculation:

The amount of cargo that was traded across the oceans in 2019 equals the freight capacity of 22.4 million EcoClippers. Assuming the EcoClipper500 can make 2-3 trips per year, we would need to build and operate at least 7.5 million ships, with a total crew of at least 90 million people.
To butcher your an analogy, an open source gas station chain would be a publicly an available light rail; one that replaces driving for many citizens along the route.

Openness helps kill off rent seekers. This might be the deeper concept that sits behind the original authors question.