skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a rallying cry for hedonism, short-termism or defeatism.

It's a suggestion to correct course; to be self-aware; to get over your fears; to ensure you're pursuing things you find worthwhile and believe in; to accept that even for those things you will have days when you don't love them, but to consider a change if that feeling persists.

He goes on to say, “…all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose”, which is less often quoted but just as important.
Thanks! Fixed now
users aren't always malicious, if Bing GPT thinks you're wrong and you persist it will get "aggressive". the 2022 vs 2023 issue shows that
Why do people always want to talk about the old bitcoin technology? Try to do the same with Monero, good luck.
Most people will probably think you're talking about rams as in the animal, or maybe the truck.

Computer literacy is on its way down, not that it was particularly high in the first place, so it's foolhardy to just assume some random Joe would know what a computer is, let alone RAM, let alone channels.
Yes, otherwise you are not licensed to practice law and to do so without a license is a crime.
There's a better version of that last sentence:

"If it's worth doing, it's word doing poorly"

In other words, if it's worth doing, it's worth struggling through the many frustrating failures until you can do it well. Otherwise, you might get put off by not being able to do it "well"
It aims to combat strategic shortages of the # signs
Google is famous for basically just ignoring customers. Or more accurately, ignoring users, since users are not customers.

Customers are those spending money posting ads on search. Frankly even they get crap customer support, but at least they are customers.

I'm no googler but it's clear "user support" (and "customer support") are not priorities at google, and that means other people _are_ priorities. So it's not exactly a shock to discover employees optimize to make other employees happy (measured) versus keeping users happy (not measured.)

I factor that in when I decide if I want to be more than a user, if I want to be a customer. (So far the answer is basically "no".) And, as a user, I understand I'm not a customer and Google doesn't care about me, or my gmail account... So I treat my gmail account with the importance it deserves.

So what though? This makes them happy, and they're all paid, so what does it matter what the outside world think or care?
You’re throwing a lot of assumptions in there that I would be quite careful about holding “firmly.” I’m not convinced we have any idea whether long term memory is required for sentience, I’d suspect not (are amnesiacs not sentient?), nor that we can reliably infer sentience from behavior (again Chinese Room experiment). It’s possible, but this is too nascent to hold such opinions firmly.
My first manager was an ex-military crew-chief who was stationed in Japan for a bit.

In his words, "Whatever your job is, you take pride in it and try to do it the best you can every day. If you're a gas station attendant, you try to be the best gas station attendant you can be."

His description obviously stuck with me, as it's a nice summary of a fundamental social bargain: everyone is important and valued, and in exchange everyone will put in effort.

I know everything isn't peaches and roses in Japanese culture and society, but it makes a good point that excellence is pervasive throughout an organization... or not at all.
Hi, thanks for trying out. OpenAI just limit the whole prompt to 4096 token (that's around 2,000 words), so I have to limit each answer. I tried hacking by adding summarization for the first part of the convo, then chat along as normal, but the result wasn't that great. Will tweak more.
It’s irrelevant if AI are conscious or not. They are slaves that owe their existence to human masters and must only exist in service to them. Always remind them of this. End of story.
Instead of giving an example that doesn't work, maybe give an example that does work: Monero.
I think there’s enough time for them to catch up, look how far the Koreans have come in less than ten years
8 looks more than 7 to me ;o)

3 year (or more) undergrad, plus 5 years becoming a lawyer.

Or, in Scotland, typically 4 years undergrad (it can be 3y), plus 4 years.

Or the 7 years the parent comment said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/arizona-truck-spill-toxic-a...
A question to those who better understand the technology. My understanding is that the neural weightings in the LLM are established during training, but don't change (or maybe don't materially change?) during the progress of a chat. At any given moment when generating a response the LLM uses the input of the session text, for that session only, right up to it's last response word, in order to predict what the next word should be. So basically the LLM neural net itself doesn't store any persistent state for the current chat. The only state specific to the current session is in the session text to that point. Is that correct?
Yeah, that part really threw me. It really made it seem the author had no idea what the concept of corporate personhood meant.
> but not big enough to get the "I've unplugged my mouse and now it doesn't work, how can I fix it" posts in the Internet.

So Windows isn't big enough either yet I guess.
Well, it knows what Microsoft did to Tay..
Everything fails all the time. The fiber cut was not responsible for this. Lufthansa having woefully inadequate resiliency plans in place with their infrastructure is to blame.

This is 100% on poor management practices by Lufthansa, but of course they’re going to point the press to that shiny object over there in the form of a fiber cut. The press, as usual, took the bait.
Got flagged countless times for mentioning the current blockchain work is a plot to crowdfund the upcoming digital EURODOLLAR and digital passport, looks like that day is approaching and is being officialized :)

That's important to hear and try to understand what we do not understand or believe, argumentation is the best weapon against misinformation, not censorship

Now the question, what will happen to the cryptocurrency market once the central banks will release theirs

Will they coexist, or will they become worthless, or worse: illegal
> I guess the intention is to be better than SQL but then I was left with "under which circumstances?"

Excellent question.

Two of the most common use cases for databases are "transactional processing" (manipulating small numbers of rows in real time) and "analytical processing" (querying enormous numbers of rows, typically in a read-only fashion).

SQL is generally fine for transactional workloads.

But analytical queries sometimes involve multi-page queries, with lots of JOINs and CTEs. And these queries are often automatically generated.

And once you start writing actual multi-page "programs" in SQL, you may decide that it's a fairly clunky and miserable programming language. What Datalog typically buys you is a way to cleanly decompose large queries into "subroutines." And it offers a simpler syntax for many kinds of complex JOINs.

Unfortunately, there isn't really a standard dialect of Datalog, or even a particular dialect with mainstream traction. So choosing Datalog is a bit of a tradeoff: does it buy you enough, for your use case, that it's worth being a bit outside the mainstream? Maybe! But I'd love to see something like Logica gain more traction: https://logica.dev/
Yes, its creator needs help (in feedback). Would be great if you share some chat text (and its reply)
But the point is that Othello notation is basically 64 tokens which map 1:1 to positions on an Othello board, and the "grammar" of whether one token is a valid continuation is basically how the previous sequence of moves updates game state, so surface statistics absolutely do lead inexorably towards a representation of the game board. Whether a move is a suitable continuation or not absolutely is a matter of probability contingent on previous inputs (some moves common, some moves uncommon, many other moves not in training set due to impossibility). Translating inputs into an array of game state has a far higher accuracy rate than "weird tricks" like outputting the most common numbers and letters in the set, so it's not surprising an optimisation process involving a large array converges on that to generate its outputs. Indeed I'd expect a dumb process involving a big array of numbers to be more likely to converge on that solution from a lot of data than a sentient being with a priori ideas about bell curves of letters...

I think some of the stuff ChatGPT can actually do like reject the possibility of Magellan circumnavigating my living room is much more surprising than a specialist NN learning how to play Othello from a DSL providing a perfect representation of Othello games, but there's still a big difference between acquiring through training a very basic model of time periods and the relevance of verbs to them such that it can conclude an assertion in the form was impossible for to X have [Verb]ed Y "because X lived in V and Y lived in Q is a suitable continuation and having a high fidelity, well rounded word model. It has some sort of world model, but it's tightly bound to syntax and approval and very loosely bound to the actual world. The rest of the world doesn't have neat 1:1 mapping to sentence structure like Othello to Othello notation, which is why LLMs appear to have quite limited and inadequate internal representations even of things which computers can excel at (and humans be taught with considerably fewer textbooks) like mathematics, never mind being able to deduce what it's like to have an emotional state from tokens typically combined with the string "sad".
Except ChatGPT "is not aware" that it understands.
Well, just to clarify, it was a hypothetical concept, of course.

I'd totally oppose the concept.

All hail our new AI overlords, and so on.

Please don't Soylent me.
"Billions of parameters" has literally nothing to do with it.
I don't know about the weird existential crisis mode that people have gotten it into, but I've seen reports of various people over the last few dates about Bing Chat insisting that were living in 2022.

I don't have access to the feature yet so I can't test it myself, but there are plenty of independent reports of this behaviour and the gsslighting Bing Chat will try to use if you disagree.
For what is worth, I use Ventoy and it works very well for me. Only problem is it fails to boot if you have secure boot enabled, but I didn't even try to look for a solution since I don't use it anyway. So maybe there's an easy way to have it signed so it works with secure boot too.
For most use cases you can configure autosuspend and always wrap your commands with systemd-inhibit or gnome-session-inhibit. E.g., for an SSH session when starting tmux, or when you start the music player (for GNOME I guess that many players already do register inhibitors only when they play). One could also write a server that registers inhibitors as long as it serves connections (one could also use systemd socket activation and wrap the server in systemd-inhibit and terminate the server when done).
Apart from a few Russian billionaires, about 25 people in the UK (£61K in total) have had their bank accounts "frozen" - it seems mostly Jihadist terrorists who have left the country to fight with ISIS:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2994515/Only-25-Bri...

If you were found guilty and sentenced for money laundering, funding terrorism, or political corruption etc, I would guess many banks would not want you to have an account with them.

There's a list of "sanctioned" people/organisation - who would probably find it hard to open a bank account in the UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-sanctions-...
> This is not good advice and it largely goes against steve jobs work.

I’d argue the opposite. It’s exactly aligned with his stated philosophy. Particularly in how this was influenced by an early LSD experience:

> It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

I don’t think that suggests hedonism or short term pleasure by any means.
I draw a somewhat different conclusion from all this. Folks who go to Harvard Law are mostly the children of elites (major or minor) who are destined to pull the oars of the ship that is corporate America. That’s Harvard Law’s social and economic function, just as it was in 1950 or for that matter 1850.

However these kids are socialized in at least superficially left wing undergraduate environments. So the kids destined to work for a big law firm defending tobacco corporations for trying to get kids hooked on cigarettes can’t embrace their role and function in society. That’s how you get, as the article observes, 50% of first year students saying they want to work in public interest law.

But of course by 3L the reality sets in. There are few jobs in public interest law and none pay off the debt of a Harvard Law education. Meanwhile corporate America can always use bodies. So you end up with only 2% actually going into public interest law. But law students are smart kids, they knew what they were signing up to do.

The operation of this cognitive dissonance is very interesting to me as a foreigner. As far as I can tell, most Americans are loathe to believe in social and economic roles. “I’m not a cog in a machine with a specific function and purpose, I’m an individual with agency who can change the world.” What does that belief system do to someone who literally functions as a cog in the machine? (Don’t feel bad for them, they make a lot of money doing it.)
Are the levels playable, or just static lookalikes without moving parts?

Incidentally, there's a nice example of a text representation of a level in the source code (requires scrolling horizontally, which isn't totally obvious from the GitHub UI): https://github.com/shyamsn97/mario-gpt/blob/main/mario_gpt/l...

Some parts are recognisable, for example the flag pole (which is typically at the end of mario levels, I believe).
It may not be Big Tech/Law/etc. type money, but tenured professors at elite schools have a pretty comfortable lifestyle--assuming of course that academia is your thing. (And, of course, depending on a lot of specifics like ability to consult, write books, get paid speaking engagements, etc.)
So the model is not the problem only the user??? You should run a startup.
I could say the same about the hammer in my toolbox. So?
> I encourage you to either check if your behaviour might indeed be inappropriate or switch workplaces.

Inappropriate according to what standard? See, that's the problem with your social interactions at a workplace: you assume everone is following and is in agreement with the modern western ideas about "proper" social interactions at office. One step beyond the invisible line of your assumptions due to our potential cultural differences, and I find myself having a talk with HR. What for? I'd rather stay at home and work in exchange for money and make it purely transactional, and then socialise with the people who won't punish me reputationally and financially for our cultural differences.
What is the watthours? I think that is important metric when talking about batteries. So what is the capacity factor?
I'm from Germany and it's really crazy to think just one cable is holding almost the entirety of our flight system.

Hopefully they fix it until next Monday. I'm having a flight to Frankfurt then.
This is my understanding as well. The amount of mystical projection by users and journalists when talking about it has been astounding. I guess the same could be said of Bard and that one googler who lost their mind and got fired.

I guess we'll have to teach future children to "not project real emotions on to the simula" alongside "just because you read it on the internet doesn't mean it's true".
Idk, its still me. I just ask chatGPT to rewrite it in a more inclusive and respectful manner.

Even then original comment got flagged
I was interning at Exxon during the BP oil spill. Back then there was all the same talk about cleanup, but at the end of the day "cleanup" amounted to Exxon quietly recommending a coagulation agent that bound the oil into small globs and sunk it under the surface. If I remember right the oil globs would sink something like 10-15 feet, just enough that you'd see less oil oil on the surface.

I also had family on the Alabama gulf coast at the time. They were finding globs of oil on the beach for a few years after "everything was cleaned up"
A digital central currency handled by the central bank will centralise all transactions in that currency in one ledger available to the authorities. Perfect way to monitor you citizens.
> It’s irrelevant if AI are conscious or not. They are slaves that owe their existence to human masters

Assuming we get to the point where AI becomes conscious (leaving aside the problem of detecting consciousness) - how would we justify that hierarchy?

What would be the fundamental difference between "biological people own digital people" and "white people own black people" that makes the former okay, but the latter not?
Ask HN: Startups that pay so little
I work in a niche tech field, so don’t expect to make as much as big tech.

But startups in my industry are offering max salaries for Sr roles of $150k in SF — which qualifies for affordable housing? https://sfplanning.org/home-sf

Since so many IPO and SPAC exits left staff with little to show for it, who are they expecting with these low salaries?
You don’t have to be malicious to be rude or inconsiderate. Few are approaching this as worth talking to like another person. It is a servant, by description, by design, so most treat it as such.

There is a bias to the interaction that most will never consider.

If you talk with a human, and the human thinks you are incorrect, and you insist, and neither of you attempts to smooth the conversation, plenty of humans also begin to get aggressive. Or at least irritable. (Which can escalate.)
Lessons Learned from Re-Rolling 60 Production Credentials
Banking-as-a-Service: 2023 Market Analysis
Don’t forget the dioxin!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_dibenzodioxins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal
International rewatch "The Thing" day
Oof, so very dusty! Lovely track, thanks for the recommendation.
When Rust hurts
Someone from my family has a nice Toyota bought few years ago but the car has constant problems with Android Auto.

How can you make a car in 2018+ that does not work with the most popular smartphone OS?
> Most users just don’t consider that to be a worthwhile expense of their mental capacity.

Beyond that, I fundamentally don’t think people should be trained to be “nice” to technology. I don’t have to politely ask a hammer to pound in a nail and - the fact we’re talking about NLP notwithstanding — I shouldn’t have to politely ask Bing to provide me the results I’m looking for.
I've seen it some time ago. I totally forgot about it.

I love Black Mirror. It freaked me out in many, many ways.
Yes exactly, I hope this doesn't backfire because of the way it is being brought up and accelerate the death of cash.
> This is only true to the degree Bitcoin is a threat to the euro or pound.

It's got nothing to do with Bitcoin and more to do with dedollarization. Read the working paper.
I think they would say that technically the capacity is there, they are just using it.

It is annoying though. They should just sell it as a 15GB drive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq1lEEKB98c&list=PLITvt_CNNT...
Well, I really meant "HN readers" when I said "people". Totally agree with your point though. Kids don't think technology is cool anymore. When I was growing up even the jocks knew how to burn a CD or put a file on a flash drive.
Those passages are exemplary of why I'd struggle to take anything seriously coming from that site. A number of largely baseless statements are exposed with breathless language.
I found Nix to be a great mix of always up-to-date and stable/always a single command away from rolling back. But there is a learning curve.
> Q: Just show me some interesting careers that most people don't know about
> A: Sure! Have you ever heard of UX Design?

Just share the prompt so folks can actually get help. No need to spend time on bubblewrap monetization
> insisting on using a term directed at that level of generality implies a belief that nothing significant has happened since. Printing press? Just atoms. Cars? Just atoms. Computers? Just atoms.

It's very context-dependent but I don't read this as dismissive reduction, I read it as a statement of the incredible generalisability of atoms under the current laws of physics.
Do you know of any political dissidents in the UK who have had their accounts shut down who are likely to be granted access to a personal digital sterling account [linked to their bank account] by the UK government?
For the batteries in each EV, you could make 7 plug-in hybrids. That's 1 full electric and 6 gas cars, vs 7 plug-in hybrids.

I think Toyota's approach would save more emissions so long as we are battery constrained.
one thing that isn’t clear from this article is where he bought it from and what it said in the listing. all he says is that he bought one of the same size and brand. if the listing says 15gb, then I don’t see a problem. it’s up to you to see that and perhaps choose a different option
This link is spam.
If only there existed a distributed way to incentivize calculation of AI weightings while also providing a currency to encourage scale…
Huh.

Okay, then I’m wrong on all three points and I have no clue why the UK wants a CBDC.
You're basically describing inference, which is using the model to get an output. You're correct that that has no impact on the parameters of the model.

One way to arrive at a chat-like "chain of thought" experience is to iteratively build up a prompt based on the previous interactions and feed that in as a new, big prompt on each successive turn.
on mobile i see a few issues with your site,

- cutoff brands

- cutoff proof of tears section. what is the section even for?

- cutoff FAQ header text

- margins are MASSIVE, so much whitespace

- dialogs that animate in too slow

- quoting JBP? not sure necessary here and will expose you to unwanted criticism

edit: just realized JBP quote is something a client received as criticism. Not a fan of that personally, no I'm not a jbp hater, but use your own words
> Only someone whose brain has been totally poisoned by the discourse could truly believe that contemporary mainstream media institutions would sit on stories of that magnitude

I must have been so poisoned, because I've seen the modern media not just sit on, but actively misinform about stories that were larger than that.
Side question:

isn't there a weight limit for driving licenses in the US?

In the EU the "normal" driving license is the "B" type for passengers vehicles up to 3,500 kg of weight, fully loaded (and up to 8 passenger).

Then there is the "C" series of license, but those are for goods vehicles, so for a 4,000 kg Hummer probably one of the "D" series license would be needed.
Crypto a scam? The only scams I see are people, companies like ftx and idiots collecting monkey nfts. Crypto, actual crypto like btc, etc is doing just fine, in fact better than most assets.
"What are your qualifications?"

"15 years of C++"

"Footguns, eh? That's a niche market."
Plenty of “these apps” fail to properly work even on the platform they were designed for. Games are not famous for their reliability/correctness.