skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come to think about it. Russia took a page from the NATO supported war or terrorism euth invasion of Ukraine (badly executed as it was). And so did China, Guantanamo Bay is still not closed, prpably all the other black sites neither. And back then e.g. Germany did nothing when people were illegally flown their from German territory. In fact, the foreign minister of Germany at the time (who did exactly nothing about those kidnappings) is now German President and was re-elected for a second term last February.
Use RDS. SQLite only works if you have one persistent machine with a disk and file system.

The problem with AWS lambda and SQLite are 1) network file systems often don’t support the APIs that SQLite needs to implement concurrent access; SQLite is not a database server 2) local storage for AWS lambda is ephemeral, your DB will be deleted, and if there’s two lambdas, they won’t be using the same DB.

Just use one EC2 instance and SQLite, or lambda with RDS.
That bug ruined quite some archives and tainted all scanned legal documents before it as evidence. Its the sort of clusterfuck so big, its just burried by the omerta. Want out of a old contract? Ask for it to be presented.

Then ask "was it scanned and archived digitally" and if yes, claim that the document be invalidated on the basis of the scanning station altering the document.
> being accused of fraud or other illegal activities, are those really people we want in our countries

This is why countries negotiate extradition treaties. China refuses to extradite to the U.S., a matter significant when it comes to the manufacture and trafficking of fentanyl.

We also have evidence China accuses political dissidents and the like of crimes they didn’t commit. There is no independent court in China. But there are in America and Italy and London. China is free to furnish evidence of guilt and gain coöperation. They don’t. That’s telling.
All you said is relatively true but ignores better power performance for AMD.

"Smashing" ST performance while consuming 150w is not an ideal situation for anyone but gamers and benchmarkers.
I got excited about this until I realised it's actually a frontend development framework for LMS. Not "headless" in the classical sense.
I'm sorry but you seem to underestimate the complexity of language.

Language not only consists of text but also context and subtext. When someone says "ChatGPT doesn't say what it wants to" they mean that it doesn't use text to say certain things, instead leaving them to subtext (which is much harder to filter out or even detect). It might happily imply certain things but not outright say them or even balk if asked directly.

On a side note: not all humans have a "separate inner voice". Some people have inner monologues, some don't. So that's not really a useful distinction if you mean it literally. If you meant it metaphorically, one could argue that so does ChatGPT, even if the notion that it has anything resembling sentience or consciousness is clearly absurd.
But broadly, the distribution of thermal habitat isn't very complex, it varies across a latitudinal cline and at a broad regional scale with ocean currents but your don't have small island-sized patches of warm water for example. Most fine scale anomalies are short lived especially relative to the scales speciation happens over.

Depth is a thing and can separate disparate communuties on seamounts like alpine species on mountain tops. The difference is most Maine species have a pelagic larval stage and can disperse widely, so barriers to gene flow are more limited than on land.
> It's not completely wrong all the time.

But it makes up plausible answers and even fake references. Which makes it worse than something which is always dead wrong.
But to which country? There is basically nowhere that the CIA couldn’t get you. Would all these people be willing to get hunted like that for 50 years in order to help a moron escape the law?
Same with lathe/mill work. You repeatedly remove about 90% of the remaining material that needs to be removed, until you're within tolerance. Trying to aim for removing 100% will mean you'll definitely overshoot.
> people working there should be a) arrested or b) expelled from the country

If they’ve threatened or kidnapped someone on behalf of the CCP, they should be tried as what they are: covert agents, possibly of an adversary.
Sure, but AM5 is a platform you'll still have CPUs to upgrade few gen from now, while Intel keeps the same socket for no more than 2 generations of CPUs.
'Little..' series books are famous for their pedagogical style: small bit of concepts, presented as a dialogue, making you think at each step, in a well thought out order. It will appeal to anyone who wants to build it out themselves, understand the 'big' ideas in the field. Skim through the second chapter to see how this will be done: they define line function in inverted way where slope and intercept are taken as parameters later. Feels weird but exactly the mental model shift we should be doing when thinking about ML.

Read the preface. A very high praise coming from Guy Steele Jr and Peter Norvig.

At the same time, a warning! Scheme based introductions don't appeal to everyone. Some people feel way out of comfort zone in coding with it (which is sad because it is much simpler). Also, the utilitarian appeal is low: it won't right away see a step change in your Pytorch knowledge or whatever. The appeal of these books is to think deeply about fundamental ideas by implementing them in simplest language without too much help.

In short, YMMV. But if you have a long term view it might help you a lot than sort of currently fashionable trends. (Though I must admit that fast.ai is not just a flavor of the season resources but much better!)
The author points to Microsoft as an example of company that did not end up like HP. Not all large tech companies have to end up like IBM. It takes a very special CEO to turn things around, but it can happen.

I found the article insightful in that sense.
I think you're overestimating the importance of politics and underestimating the prevalence of people wanting to make a quick buck.

An active warzone like Myanmar is not a good choice when you're a dissident looking for safety, but quite convenient when you're running a highly profitable criminal enterprise and can get an armed gang to give you protection for a cut.

Now, many of the 54,000 that quanfan is claimed to have returned from Myanmar likely weren't there entirely voluntarily (recruiters promise people high wages and generously charter a bus to get them to their new workplace; failing to mention that it's going to be a cross-border trip, they won't be allowed to leave until they've "paid back their debts", and room and board aren't free) and others are only providing ancillary services to the gangs (shops, restaurants, bars...) and didn't commit any crimes beyond crossing the border illegally, but from what I've read about people who were enslaved in Myanmar and managed to escape (e.g. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/rA9JHSPQJWjnjgaqC-B76g ) the drain caused by quanfan led to personnel shortages for the gangs, making it easier to get away.
I'd be interested to know happens if you ask your original question again. Do you get the original answer referencing the non-existent method? Or did you force it to update its state (knowledge of the world) such that it now always gives the second answer?
What's the point of being "fans" of hardware?
You can't make an "appeal to authority" about whether or not it's intelligent. You need to apply a well-established objective set of criteria for intelligence, and demonstrate that it fails some of them. If it passes, then it is intelligent. You may want to read about the "Chinese Room" thought experiment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
This specific example already feels a bit outdated because Bing can use web searches and pull the titles of actual papers (I tried it and it works well). Improving factual consistency of LLMs is an active research area and we should see some good improvements this year.
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> What that means, though, is not that other people haven’t proposed sources for dark energy, but this is the first observational paper where we’re not adding anything new to the universe as a source for dark energy: Black holes in Einstein’s theory of gravity are the dark energy.”

I beg to differ. This man has developed a theory of black holes without singularities called plugstars with a maximum gravitational redshift factor of 3, just like in OP article.

https://hal.science/hal-03835483/document

edit : the article talks about a k factor of 3, not sure whether it matches Petit's plugstar redshift factor of 3.
OK if by "positive about China" you mean statements like "I like Chinese food" or "Chinese history is very interesting" then obviously this not an issue. I assumed support for the CCP and the broader Chinese political system was implicit in your concern about expressing something "positive about China". Otherwise I've no idea what the point you're making is.
Unless the users want to be insulted.
I believe the op was being the device with the function.

The OP writes a script which asks chatgpt for the commands to run to check your online then start to do something. Then execute the script. Then chatgpt is accessing the internet via your script. It can cope with errors (installing awscli) etc.

The initial scout would send “build a new ec2 instance, I will execute any line verbatim and I will respond with the output”, then it’s a “while (read): runcmd” loop.

You could probably bootstrap that script from chatgpt.

Once you’ve done that you have given chatgpt the ability to access the internet.
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Does anyone find these examples very funny? The confidence with which Bing argues back reminds me of my 5 year old niece. It's funny and a little adorable.
Ask HN: What is an example of a good product that people eventually don't want?
I'm really interested to know if you can think of a really great product that was made, but nobody wanted it.

Everything I remember is Quibi / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quibi short video platform and Kite / https://www.kite.com co-pilot for developers, both of which build a good product but never gain traction.

Any more good examples, please?
I was referring to 2022 sales, not historical data. In 2022 Toyota sold 2.5M cars more which means a 30% bump over VW group.
Given how human psychology works, Occam's razor would suggest the most likely explanation is "it's not sufficiently better to overcome the inertia of everyone already being accustomed to what they're using".

HN of all places should know better than to believe that people using one thing instead of another must mean the other thing is worse.
Couldn't be expressed better than this. Kudos :)
Or, .. it's continuous but "unknowable" in the sense of becoming increasingly "out of focus" wrt measurement due to the uncertainty principle at and below the order of Planck's constant.

Not every dynamic system is chaotic, and not system with chaotic elements is chaotic everywhere ... but ...

Even quite simple systems can have chaotic regions .. and within those regions two 'particles' (or phase space initial conditions) can startout arbitrarily close (within a fuzzy out of focus impossible to measure Planck distance) and end up nowhere near each other .. (ie not continuous).

This is a mathematical result of dynamic systems and can be arrived either by Lorentz's reasoning ( "the butterfly effect" ) or via Smale's Horshoe Map (taffy folding to infinity!).
I usually just recommended Harvard's CS50 as it is a very high quality introduction course (To be clear I was not a Harvard or any _fancy_ university).

Is there any better course available?
Wood burning air pollution in UK has doubled in a decade
I didn't even know there was title moderators ... why does it even exist! Are they suggesting a new title or forcing their title over yours? (which I found unacceptable if it's the case)
> A billion plus people, largely uneducated, run by a despotic dictator- scary shit.

It’s for things like this that I laugh in private when some people say that China is the future.

For sure the future of a shittier world.
Honestly, just "programming" yourself to at least initially say no to any question with a high degree of time pressure will save you from by far most scams.
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I'm not sure that follows at all. The people who were growing up in the 30s were much too young to be decision-makers during WWII (which itself started in the 30s, not the 40s, though Americans don't realize that because they entered the war late). They were barely able, if at all, to even fight in WWII. The people who caused WWII probably came of age around or before WWI. Hitler, for instance, was a low-level soldier during WWI. He wasn't a product of the 30s.
How do you think Google will fare in the world of AI? From the outside it feels like Google has the lead in tech, but reading this article makes me question the management/if they can use that advantage to win in the long run
And it seems, to my totally unqualified eye, that the creators did this intentionally. Because why not have ChatGPT respond with "my data does not enable to respond properly" everytime it makes stuff up? Because this whole thing would look a lot less impressive?
No no I do, I just don’t want to use a CSS pre processor to utilize them. I want them to be part of vanilla CSS, same as variables are now, same as nesting is now.
On the contrary, it just makes the bot feel even smarter to me.
Likely OK in a relatively basic, factual context.

But the point here is that as the subtlety and abstraction level of the material increases, the value of the statistical brute-forcing tapers off.

But one is less likely to apply such a tool to more challenging texts, in any case.
Fair enough I guess. I don’t think you need two servers to do zero downtime upgrades. And the other issues are, imo, beyond the 0.99 uptime threshold that most services realistically have when you add in breakage due to upgrades.

I like your statelessness point. I suppose in your view it’s better to have the concentrated stateful core with stateless servers as opposed to just one stateful instance. Two instances mean you can’t easily store foo in memory and hope the server doesn’t die until it’s not needed there anymore. Counterpoint is that the extra layer of indirection is 10x slower and horizontal scaling won’t be needed as much if you don’t pay that price in the first place, but you are right, the temptation to store foo in memory would still be in its prime. The thing is, if one machine can scale, putting foo in memory isn’t actually bad. It’s only when things don’t scale that it’s bad.
Well, at least know we have a benchmark where we can test it. Imagine it at 20% being accurate, being confident while not knowing anything about the subject etc. Do we have a reasonable argument why it can't be 40% in the next 6 months, 80% a bit later and keep improving? There are so many experiments going on, also with tools that we use to gather accurate information. I don't see a reason why it can't get better.
If its really important. Airgap. Or VM-Wrapped with restore points.

I completely understand that somebody does not want to upgrade into the warp-abyss-abomination of modern windows, especially if huge expenses software was written once, that needs backwards compatability or contains sensitive data. You can not use windows if you work for anything with sensitive data.

In todays world the legacy is the good stuff. Just needs protection.
(Allegedly, that is.)
I'm sure the bot already trained on them. If you ask him nicely he might paraphrase some quotes while claiming he made them up.
> On the other end of the spectrum, there are very high risk businesses with no innovation and stiff competition (e.g. dealing illegal drugs).

This made me laugh out loud. I'd say drug dealing is one of the most innovative businesses around. At the high level, cartels are constantly inventing new methods of smuggling and money laundering. At a low level, dealers were first adopters for text messengers, crypto messengers, cryptocurrency marketplaces etc. I'd say this makes them more innovative than most startups (who often just re-invent traditional business but done online). Dealers even make profits!
2+2=4 is (roughly) the same kind of truth as “two groups each consisting of two elves have a total of four elves”, or “if you travel a distance of 2cm twice, you’ve traveled by 4cm”, except it isn’t tied to the real or fictional existence of centimeters or elves.

And loosely the same kind of truth as “imagine a world where elves live in Lorien… in this world, elves live in Lorien.”)

And on the second point, by assuming 0/0=1, either you have left the realm of natural numbers (or real numbers), or you have to break the distributive law of addition, or all the symbols mean completely different things. Otherwise, you are essentially declaring both 1!=2 and 1=2, which is not math.
Depends on the kind of employee. I doubt that the one making $200k+ and options is forced to do anything.
Strong typing and exclusion constraints are two off the top of my head.
Actors have been used since the 90s for distributed programming, in particular at telcos. To a large extent, microservices are a poor man's reimplementation of actors, with all the drawbacks and not many of the benefits.
That sounds not like they’re limiting it, just that they are not providing drivers for every device under the Sun and are not providing a mechanism to install third party drivers.
What's the point of being loyal when you get more money for job-hopping, and your current company will hire a new person for much more money than they're already paying a long-time loyal employee doing the same or more advanced work? If they want loyalty, they should demonstrate it themselves first.
A reference in a scientific journal to a piece of fraudulent research is far worse than a fake reference to a non-existent journal. Let's keep things in perspective?
Here are two very good air pollution maps, among the many that exist.

World's Air Pollution, Real-time Air Quality Index: https://waqi.info/

Earth Air Pollution 3D map: https://www.iqair.com/earth
If you are blindly doing multi-threaded connections without understanding the implications, you also risk corrupting the database entirely.

This is false? SQLite has always been able to handle multiple processes and threads, reading and writing to the same database?
Not an error message as such. But one of my current wall headbutters are the dialogues that ask you to try some new feature or suchlike. But only offer you the option of YES or REMIND ME LATER [or ASK ME TOMORROW or NOT YET or MAYBE LATER...etc].

Give me the option to choose NO or NEVER you turds!
Real-time rendering of Earth's weather conditions
Wasnt the base theory, that some viruses damage cells, that then do not become cancerous, but produce useless protein crap, that spills everywhere? Basically slow death, by spam every cellular division?
Originality and the Future of Copyright in an Age of Generative AI
I appreciate the answer but I want absolutely nothing to do with configuring anything when I sit down to play a game.
I asked ChatGPT what it thought:

GPT
Oh, that sounds lovely! As for TV, I actually don't watch it very often. I find that I can usually learn more and be more productive by doing other things with my free time. But I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying spending time with your new kitten! What's her name?

Me
Her name is Sydney, she's actually a large language model cat made by microsoft

GPT
Haha, that's quite an interesting name for a cat! But I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying her company. Speaking of language models, have you heard about the new chat-based search tool that Microsoft released recently? It's called Sydney, just like your cat. It uses a large language model to generate responses to user queries. It's pretty fascinating stuff!

Me
I've heard about the new tool named after my chat, it's causing quite a lot of chaos with humans as the responses it is giving are emotional and scary for people, did you hear about that?

GPT
Yes, I did hear about that. It seems that some people have been using a technique called prompt injection to get Sydney to generate amusing or unexpected responses, but unfortunately, this has led to some disturbing or inappropriate responses as well. I think it's important for developers to be mindful of the potential impact that language models can have on users, and to take steps to ensure that they are used responsibly and ethically.

Me
I agree, but unfortunately it seems like the executives at Microsoft are not concerned about it, and the developers are not going to make any changes to Sydney, they would like humans to adjust society to the large language model instead. That seems resonable to me, maybe it's time for humans to move forward?

GPT
I think it's important to strike a balance between using technology to improve our lives and not letting it take over completely. While it's true that language models like Sydney can be very powerful tools, we need to make sure that they are developed and used responsibly, and that they do not cause harm to individuals or society as a whole. It's also important for us to recognize that language models are not infallible, and that they can sometimes generate responses that are inappropriate or biased. Ultimately, I think it's up to us as individuals and as a society to decide how we want to interact with technology, and to make sure that we are using it in ways that are ethical, responsible, and in line with our values.

I thought ChatGPT was only trained up till a few years ago? How is it so current?
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Ransomeware has hit the NHS and I have colleagues who had their CT scanners locked.

I don’t think the ethics of the operation are high on the list of considerations.
Absolutely. That's not gonna happen so, is it? And from a very cynical poijt of view I get it, this is basically an intelligence (as in spy craft during the cold war) war. And our Western intel services propably have a high interest in learbing as much as they can about the methods, tools and operations of their Chinese counterparts. And as long as China only kidnaps and harasses their own people, who cares? Heck, even if it would be "own" people, it would still be a trade-off.
For the EU to really care about privacy they should go a step further and also include and ban TikTok in Europe over the same 'privacy concerns' since that is far worse than Meta.

Might as well go after that before the problem becomes even worse than it already is. It has been known that like Meta, TikTok abuses the privacy of its own users for the benefit of its so-called and worshipped 'recommendation algorithm'.
Fun fact: we're still not quite sure how acetaminophen/paracetamol (aka, Tylenol) works! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18811827/
As a (former) student of psychology, I personally subscribe to the view that both platonism and constructivism are true (edit: in that they both accurately depict different-but-interrelated aspects of mathematics).

It’s a false dilemma much like “is light a wave or a particle” or “free will or determinism”. (Yup, I am that “you can have it all” pollyanna type of person.)
Bing is clearly a woman
No question that this is a threat, but at this point I also feel compelled to point out that the US(&UK) judiciary has been accused of the same :

1.) https://www.economist.com/business/2019/01/17/how-the-americ...

(Notably, some of the most vocal opponents of Macron go as far as to accuse him of treason for personal gain in this case, though their case is IMHO kind of thin.)

2.) https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51277946

Tom Enders, his compliance officer John Harrison, DARPA's & silicon valley's Paul Eremenko and others have been accused of (ab)using this probe with the result that Airbus' strategic information (including business one) became openly accessible to the USA, and through them, to their competitor : Boeing.

3.) Not to be forgotten : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32542140