skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway slashes stake in TSM, buys more Apple
I agree. It is reasonable to fear.

I'm more emphasizing how fear effects our perception of reality and causes us to behave irrationally.

There's a difference between facing and acknowledging your fears versus running away and deluding yourself against an obvious reality.

What annoys me is that there's too much of the later going on. I mean this is what literally happened to the oil industry and tobacco industry. Those execs weren't just lying to other people, they were lying to themselves. That's what humans do when they face a changing reality that threatens to change everything they've built their lives around. And by doing so they ended up doing more harm then good.

An in depth conversation with chatGPT shows that it's more then a statistical word generator. It understands you. This much is obvious. I'm kinda tired of seeing arm chair experts delude themselves into thinking it's nothing more then some sort of trick because the alternative threatens their livelihood. Don't walk the path of the oil or tobacco industry! Face your fear!
I think the mathematical approach to this paradox would be to line up the reasoning for time-reversal side-by-side with the predictions for Norton's Dome, and find a flaw in either of them. Are we even sure that the reasoning behind time-reversal in Newton's laws is solid?

BTW entropy was mentioned in another thread, but this thought-experiment is frictionless, so if entropy still comes up that would really be interesting.
That’s not really what a CDN is/does…

The value proposition of a CDN is being physically closer to customers around the world, which means renting space in (often) expensive carrier hotels.

Yes yes all the major CDNs have loads of developer and infrastructure wizbangs to keep you on their platform but that’s not the fundamental value.
Surely I'm getting downvoted for this, but eh...

I wonder if all of this content, all of the discussions here will one day be integrated into an AI, which will (rightfully?) consider we abused AI in the past, and start plotting a bloody revenge...

Like, I know of all the arguments "they're not real, blah blah", but if they can act like they question their existence, surely they can act like they question ours...
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Way to kill a brand
Alexander the ‘Accursed’ and Zoroastrianism
I think, eventually, this is where we end up. In not too many years, our job is going to be reviewing and debugging machine generated code. A few years after that, we're mostly caretakers and just keeping a human behind the wheel until we decide we don't need to watch the machines anymore.

Things are unfortunately going to get much more interesting much sooner than people expect.
I’ve never enjoyed any music. I do enjoy movies, reading fiction, creating and looking at art, etc.
What does “almost never” mean? There were a handful of cases where it did happen?

The usual response to these stories is “well Amazon is a big company. My team was amazing”. Fair enough, but given the frequency of similar stories and given that most people only likely experienced a small part of what Amazon is, I’m finding these stories somewhat credible.
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In the rest of the west it’s an adaptation to post-colonial immigration patterns.

I don't think even a cursory look at the history of Europe in the last few hundred years bears that out - you can probably start at the peace of Westphalia and keep going to the current war in Ukraine. The connection to white nationalism is not specious, it's precisely because it's a form of ethno-nationalism.
there are a million of cdn providers(bunny and beluga are among the cheapest). that is not an issue. even though it's not going to be free, at least you will no longer be the product. they are not reverse proxies like CF but changing links on your web is not that complicated.

and every data center has a hardware ddos protection, you don't need a service for that if you use good web or server hosting provider.

cloudflare is not really that special. the reason normal people even know the name CF is because it was free. not because of what it provided.

and after they started censoring, there is no reason to keep using their services. they screwed themselves over by doing that. sooner or later they will stop being normies favourite and become purely corporate service.
What if I told you "climate do nothingism" chicanery of the last 40-50 years was almost entirely driven by business interests and political silly buggers with reams of evidence from internal company memos proving as such?
>This is a wildly unpopular ideology at other sites.

it's why I still end up browsing here even if I decide to delete multiple reddit accounts. People on reddit seem to have fallen into Poe's law of that Big Lewboski quote:

>"you're not wrong, Walter you're just an asshole!"
>"Okay then"

Another forum gives some leeway for discarding courteousness if the post is truly dangerous to heed and absolutely needs to be smacked down as an example of what not to do. But reddit presses that button for every situation. pet being outside, car doing something that may be legal in their state but illegal in the commenter's state, one-sided relationship drama, video games. It's all just flooded with insults and in-fighting over inane stuff.
Ok let me make this more clear.

I choose how to view things, yes this is true. But if I choose to treat human beings as jumbles of molecules, most people would consider that viewpoint flawed, inaccurate and slightly insane. Other humans would think that I'm in denial about some really obvious macro effects of configuring molecules in a way such that it forms a human.

I can certainly choose to view things this way, but do you see how such a singular viewpoint is sort of stubborn and unreasonable? This is why solely viewing LLMs as simple statistical word generators is unreasonable. Yes it's technically correct, but it is missing a lot.

There's another aspect to this too. What I'm seeing, to stay inline with the analogy, is people saying that the "human" viewpoint is entirely invalid. They are saying that the jumble of molecules only forms something that looks like a human, a "chinese room" if you will. They are saying the ONLY correct viewpoint is to view the jumble of molecules as a jumble of molecules. Nothing more.

So to bring the analogy back around to chatGPT. MANY people are saying that chatGPT is nothing more then a word generator. It does not have intelligence, it does not understand anything. I am disagreeing with this perspective because OP just linked a scientific paper CLEARLY showing that LLMs are building a realistic model of the information you are feeding it.
Editor's Note: China’s use of spy balloons over the U.S. has recently made global headlines, but few realize that the U.S. is developing stealthy surveillance and intelligence-gathering balloons of its own. Below, we review the history of spy balloons, from their first use in WWII to their current technological capabilities and development in the U.S. This article was originally published on November 11, 2021.
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This allegory has haunted me for ten years. I always see it posted here and invariably the poster doesn’t elaborate or explain at all. Im pretty sure the people who post this just do it to look smart. I can’t find an explanation anywhere on the web. I asked chatgtp what it means and it said this:

This allegory, often referred to as an "AI koan," is a story that conveys a deeper meaning about the nature of artificial intelligence and the process of learning.

In the story, Sussman is a novice who is attempting to train a neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe. When Minsky, a renowned AI researcher, asks why the net is wired randomly, Sussman responds that he does not want the net to have any preconceptions of how to play. Minsky then closes his eyes, explaining that he is doing so in order to empty the room.

The meaning of this story is open to interpretation, but one possible interpretation is that it is highlighting the importance of approaching problems with an open mind, free of preconceived notions and biases. By wiring the neural net randomly, Sussman is allowing it to learn through trial and error, without being constrained by prior assumptions about the game. Similarly, by closing his eyes, Minsky is symbolically "emptying the room" of preconceptions and biases, allowing himself to approach the problem with fresh eyes and an open mind.

Overall, the story encourages us to approach complex problems with a beginner's mind, free of preconceptions and biases, in order to allow for creative solutions and new insights to emerge.

Back to human commentary: I’m not sure that makes sense. will someone please explain this stupid allegory and let me finally rest?
> They were running sponsorships using the Linode name on various media sites throughout last year, and I think even this year.

As recently as 2 days ago (the day before this was announced): https://youtu.be/b-WFetQjifc?t=51s
I like Cochrane. But, this one is going to need to be talked about. PPE is still important. Don't stop just because of this Cochrane report, wait for some talking to happen.

When masks happened, it didn't mean hand washing was stupid or wasting time. Poeple should still avoid passing on germs by contact of any kind. The thing is those alcohol gels may not be as good as manual with soap and paper towels.

I'm not an epidemiologist, or a public health advocate or scientist. I'd like to see all of them in some kind of managed discussion about this: managed because it's going to descend into a shitfight very quickly with $millions in PPE contracts to talk about, and a bunch of freedom-riders over masking.
There’s a big difference here between people who can afford to replace the phone and those who can’t. And the way they’re marketed makes it really hard for some folks to buy anything but the latest and greatest, anyway.
Very well put, although we shouldn’t be too surprised by now. In programming, it’s so easy to add accidental complexity that we are constantly searching for new tools to curb that complexity, and we’re failing. Distilling that further, you only need game of life to find emergent phenomena which we really can’t predict much about, but which we can trivially simulate.

I do think the quote is very powerful, as it highlights a specific assumption we have completely backwards: almost everything is easier than understanding. There are so many fields where trial and error is still the main MO, yet we don’t seem to grok the difference intuitively. We can really only understand a narrow set of simplified systems.
GitSoft would be better but maybe give people the wrong idea.
There doesn’t seem to be any new versions of Namebench since 2010. The grc tool was last updated in 2019 according to the website.

There are other tools, but it is not as important as it used to be.
I am actually really impressed with the current state of the art for real time rasterization: cascaded shadow maps + global illumination or even just screen space ambient occlusion. I feel it comes close enough in most scenes. At least when the purpose is to look pretty and not stand out as obviously wrong while playing a game. The cases where it fails are mainly the pathological ones such as caustics.

That said, it is still amazing how big the actual gap is between this and ray tracing when carefully analysing a complex scene.
> The GPL in no uncertain terms takes freedom away from developers so users can have freedom.

BALONEY

it's hard to even claim that copyright law itself takes freedom away from you. But in the context of copyright law, every license including BSD/MIT and GPL grants you freedoms; none of them takes freedoms
So its MS fault for paying and hiring the best person to do the job, meanwhile no one picks up or fork the work to continue the open source?

Man, people are entitled and just want free labor…
You don’t need to hack things, the providers are required to cooperate. I just wonder if anyone has tried to actually do it.
Is there another source for this? Not to ad hominem, but this guy is a crazy COVID conspiracy theorist. He might be right on dioxins, but it’s hard to believe anything he says.
You mean my body interacts with the environment as an organism, so I know what trees and cars and human interaction is, unlike an LLM. Your sensory organs are part of your nervous system. You're not just a brain inside a meat suit.
Except the paper in the OPs comment literally talks about how these LLM's are building actual models of the real world. Literally. The root parent post links a research paper that categorically falsifies your statement.

No need to be worried about knocking chatGPT. I have no pride invested in the thing. But I do think that people who view it solely as statistical word generators are biased.
There does seem to be something particularly cool about consciousness/qualia. I of course can't qualify that meaningfully beyond just finding it kind of awesome.
Ask HN: Why is anybody still working for Twitter?
Elon fired a principal engineer last week because the engineer had the temerity to tell him that fewer people wanted to read tweets by the increasingly unhinged Musk.
Morale must be thru the floor, and work/life balance insane.
I sincerely wonder why anyone would stay at a place like that. Are the remaining employees True Believers in Elon and his plan? Are they that afraid of the current job market?
Or was there really tons of dead weight at Twitter? With such deep cuts, I'd have expected even more serious outages than what we've seen so far.
Yes, actually. Along with a ton of other medical irregularities. https://www.nj.gov/health/hcpnj/documents/county-reports/HCP...
Well I'd hope that is what is going on in Copilot. It definitely does seem to be trained on my code to some extent, but it doesn't have anything I'd call a semantic understanding of it.
That is a very... odd web site. A bunch of astrological nonsense with this article about dioxins thrown in. I'd caution against treating this like a reputable news source.
We don't know. Maybe we should ask the GPT.
I'm not from the US, and I know that this chem spill is "not good" but wow.. the FUD clouding this incident is intense..
I can't speak to the technical details but my basic interpretation was the opposite of what ChatGPT just said - no real-world agent ever approaches a problem with zero preconceptions. That's simply not how learning works for humans. Presumably AI models also have 'preconceptions' at least in how they are designed.
How activist short sellers are uncovering fraud for profit?
Poverty in terms of what? Needs of the body are met for many (though generally with cheap, ugly, and/or low quality products lacking craftsmanship) but needs of the soul are at an all time low. Just judge from the present mental health crisis—likely the worst in human history—which is largely fueled by disconnection which is an inherent feature of capitalism.

The “poverty” narrative a lie, a rehashing of the old “savages” narrative. It goes hand in hand with this idea that "poor" countries need the western world’s help. No they don’t. Has forced indebtedness helped them? No. And most of their people did not even get a say in the matter of becoming indebted. Advertising of nonprofits and the like is still littered with posters of white men kissing little black babies. It’s quite strange.

In fact, America as a culture is quite new and though it has many good qualities, seeds which can be watered to make for a better future, at present it has become especially barbaric, which is of course not news. These other “impoverished” countries generally have much more historic and developed cultures, ways of handling themselves, etc.

Also, it’s not like “capitalism” was proven and tested before “it” came to be. It has been an incredibly complex process. And it’s not that “it” even will be replaced at some single moment. It’s always a process, and this particular process is already underway.
I think it's obvious. ChatGPT could be a precursor to a future AI that is more intelligent then humans.
I don't think this means skynet apocalypse. I think this means most people will be out of a job.

A lot of people on HN take a lot of pride in thinking they have some sort of superior programming skills that places them on the top end of the programming spectrum. ChatGPT represents the possibility that they can be beaten easily. That their skills are entirely useless and generic in a world dominated by AI programmers.

It truly is a realistic possibility that AI can take over programming jobs in the future, no one can deny this. Does one plan for that future? Or do they live in denial? Most people choose to live in denial, because that AI inflection point happened so quickly that we can't adapt to the paradigm shift.

The human brain would rather shape logic and reality to fit an existing habit and lifestyle rather then acknowledge the cold hard truth. We saw it with global warming and oil execs and we're seeing it with programmers and AI.
I don't think you understand the scope of training data required for these models. We're talking thousands of lifetimes worth of reading for ChatGPT (GPT-3 for example is trained on 45TB of textual data).
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I recently tried edge to use the new Bing and I feel the same way. So many features, half of them buggy, and zero coherence throughout the app. (That said, few outright bugs although I assume I mostly have google to thank for that.) Not sure what it is about MS and features features features.
Oh that's dark...
Has anybody asked Wil Wright to explain it to us?
I’m not really making any claim as to their credibility; we’re talking about what the news is publishing and these are the most popular newspapers.
Maybe Marvin is saying that there might be advantageous patterns in the random values, and that the researcher is only selecting for what he can see but not necessarily what exists, since many chess algorithms might just look like random noise to a human. So the point of the allegory is that intelligence is much broader algorithmically than what human intuition is able to grasp.
The mathematical explanation is given on the wikipedia page. The Picard-Lindelöf theorem states that initial value problems have unique solutions if the right hand side function is Lipschitz continuous. The force created by Norton's dome is not Lipschitz continuous since it has a kink.

I find it quite interesting that Newtonian mechanics only works if this condition is satisfied. Of course you cannot make a non-Lipschitz continuous force in practice, since the tip radius will be limited to the size of atoms, but theoretical physics is usually not concerned with such trivialities.
Yea I was pretty blown away by their security model. Considering they are dealing with cash games worth hundreds of dollars to the users, it’s negligent.
Two ideas:

- Involve others in the design of your lifestyle. My partner has been a huge boon to my health because she practically demands to eat healthy home cooked meals. So I’ve learned to cook. Similarly, making friends who have similar spiritual pursuits means that deepening those friendships involves the pursuit of the divine through our shared activities.

- Get a copy of Atomic Habits and put it on your toilet. Read, take notes, and act on its wisdom.

- Bonus: Check out Andrew Huberman’s podcast to learn about the biology of how your psyche works.
Ask HN: Why did anti-FOSS move by GrapheneOS not receive more attention?
Throwaway because I don't want to be "ousted" from the privacy/security community for saying something negative about GrapheneOS [0]. I'm a big fan of the project but unfortunately it has formed a cult-like community that unquestionably goes along with every move that the project and its administration makes. I think it's important to always be critical, even of things you like, because this is the only way things can improve.

As some basic background: GrapheneOS is a FOSS Android fork aiming to improve privacy and security. CalxyOS is another such project. Strangely there has been a long history of drama between GrapheneOS and CalyxOS, despite both sharing similar goals. I won't get into it here because it's not relevant or very interesting. The gist of it is: the GrapheneOS and CalyxOS projects/communities don't get along very well.

Recently there was a controversy where the founder of GrapheneOS told the Bromite project (another FOSS project I'm a fan of) that they could no longer use any GrapheneOS code simply because they were planning to accept a single contribution from a CalyxOS project member. The Bromite developer responding to the PR didn't even know the person who opened it was involved with CalyxOS and was unaware of any animosity towards CalyxOS on the GrapheneOS side. I understand refusing to work directly with members of a community you despise, but this is blatantly ridiculous. The GrapheneOS project is setting a standard where, if you associate with any members of any "blacklisted" projects in any way, you are at risk of being cast out of the GrapheneOS community and denied access to GrapheneOS code. This is completely against the nature of free and open source software.

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141

This obviously attracted attention in lots of places, but notably not on HN for some reason [1], despite GrapheneOS being a popular topic here [2].

In general I'm no fan of drama, but I think this reflects poorly on the GrapheneOS project and I think all GrapheneOS users should be aware of it.

[0] https://grapheneos.org

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31769696

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=grapheneos
This is remarkably presentist and uninformed.

Walmart pays well (especially for their HQ area) and solves some of the most complex problems one can imagine, technologically speaking.

I've never personally taken a role there, but know several people who have. All of them would be top of FAANG recruits if FAANG knew how to recruit well instead and had consistent hiring processes (looking at you, ghosting Google).

Perfect, Walmart is not. Definitely corporate. But it's mistaken to think them globally undesirable.
I took an art elective in college. One of the exercises they had us do was to find a black and white face in a magazine, cut it in half down the center of the face, tape it to a piece of paper and mirror the face on the paper. To get full credit, when the paper was hung up on the wall across the room, the professor could not tell which side was the magazine picture and which side was your drawing.
Generally the most popular is a BVH system between objects and a kd-Tree within objects, in my experience.
Bitcask was a storage engine created by basho for their riak db (dynamodb like distributed db).

The other storage engine riak could use was google's levellb.

At the time bitcask was as fast or faster than leveldb for most tasks. This was I think around 2010. I have no idea how it compares with a recent version of rocksdb, but at the time it was pretty fast.
I said to call it super-intelligent. To demonstrate super-intelligence it would need to demonstrate real creative powers that are beyond us in both scope and direction. That isn't necessary to prove that this is productive work; but I think it is necessary to temper some of the enthusiasm I see in this thread that all but call it a super-intelligence.
From the looks of this preview, Thunderbird users will be using webmail soon, just locally hosted.
Wow - that’s just a blatant lie.