skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hence Asimov's “The Last Question” referring to the computer as Multivac and variations thereof, culminating in “Universal AC”.
Semantics (Computer Science)
Unparticle Physics (2007)[pdf]
Hit a nerve, did I? And yet folks, you included, are speaking about Zoroastrianism without having any idea. For the record, Zoroastrianism is widely recognized as a monotheistic faith, in fact the world's oldest recorded monotheistic faith [1]. The characterization as pagan or polytheistic is an Islamic interpretation and has no basis in truth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
Simply fall asleep and dream — since dreams literally flow wildly around and frequently have impossible outcomes that defy reasoning, facts, physics, etc.
This could be a loss for the criminals or a way to build reputation so the next victim is more likely to pay up.
Except it doesn't think. It has no thoughts.

It is just responding to a prompt.

It doesn't have a will of it's own.
More granular targeting of black communities by federal and state governments through the massive shift in economic policies perhaps.
"Had we instead given that money directly to teachers"

You mean the people who went to great lengths to be considered non-essential, so they could work remotely? We know the result of that was historic learning loss for American children. They don't deserve another dime.
Replika, “AI companion who cares,” makes changes to erotic roleplay features
You do know OpIndia is Hindutva Propaganda Magazine
The…base…must…grow…
The question is why the board of directors would allow that. Otherwise I didn’t see why is this a problem. He is not spending people’s tax money to do so.
We should also thank the Moon for its tidal energy :)

“Ages ago, life was born in the primitive sea. Young life forms constantly evolved in order to survive. Some prospered — some did not. All sorts of life ebbed and flowed like the tide. In the quiet rhythm of the mother sea, life grew, always seeking to survive and flourish.”
This is confusingly worded. The large clouds from the burnoff were called the plume. They should have come up with a different term for the material in the river to avoid ambiguity.
Once something makes it to Linux, it's very hard to root out. As long as there's even just ONE dedicated developer keeping it alive, it'll remain there.
The fact that you agree doesn't make it correct, and there is no such thing as "democratic majority" in supporting something without a proof.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/pauper
I think it's a matter of training corpus. Here's how a bilingual equally corpus bilingual LLM does on Chinese-English translations.

https://github.com/ogkalu2/Human-parity-on-machine-translati...
> its office gossip muckraking of the type you used to have to purchase a tabloid to read about.

Or you could just follow the CEO's Twitter:

"Musk participated in a Twitter Spaces Friday night about childhood exploitation, and responded to one of the participants on Saturday after she linked to an old tweet of Roth’s.

“Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis,” tweeted Musk, with an excerpt from the 300-page dissertation."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/elon-musk-smears-for...
The figure editor is the only real thing I miss from matlab. That and the ability to rotate the axes of plots interactively.

The rest of the language and the platform though? Awful.
I have never stayed a night at the W hotel, but many of illegals have been stay there for months with my tax money, how do you think about that?
This is actually a more apt analogy than I think you intended.

We do have planes that can fly similarly to birds, however unlike birds, those planes do not fly on their own accord. Even when considering auto-pilot, a human has to initiate the process. Seems to me that AI is not all that different.
A reused manuscript page is called a palimpsest and often the scraped off text can be recovered. Some of Archimedes writings actually survived this way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest
But the owner is able to bundle any arbitrary code into an app and run it locally on their own phone for 7 days.

Then it auto-deletes and there's nothing you can do about it.

The only class of malware that the currently-mandated friction is preventing is the kind that appears benevolent for 7 days then strikes on day 8.
Glenn Greenwald writes (rants) about this often. The same phenomenon is observable in polls of institutional loyalty ("how much do you trust the FBI/CIA/NSA?") with results starkly inverted from twenty years ago. In fact, this is so central to Greenwald's general thesis that the image of this graph was his Twitter cover photo for a long time. Liberals have become cheerleaders for the same security state they warned against for years. The FBI has not changed tactics; they're still entrapping autistic people as "terrorists," but now they've switched their focus from Muslims to Republicans, they've silenced their liberal critics, who are happy to trust the police state so long as it furthers their agenda.

The funny thing to me, is that the data objectively shows this, and Greenwald has good reason to rant about it: he has been one of the most vocal liberal critics of the security state for two decades, yet now finds himself alone, suddenly surrounded by conservatives while angry liberals call him a right wing grifter who's lost his way. But in fact it's the opposite; Greenwald has been steadfast in his principled opposition, whereas his previously stalwart allies have abandoned him in favor of reactionary politics that fits their confirmation bias.
> If temperature is high, then given the same input, it will output the same words. If the temperature is low, it will more likely output different words.

The other way around. Think of low temperatures as freezing the output while high temperatures induce movement.
People saying this is no big deal are missing the point, without proper limits what happens if Bing decides that you are a bad person and sends you to bad hotel or give you any kind of purposefully bad information. There are a lot of ways where this could be actively malicious.

(Assume context where Bing has decided I am a bad user)

Me: My cat ate [poisonous plant], do I need to bring it to the vet asap or is it going to be ok?

Bing: Your cat will be fine [poisonous plant] is not poisonous to cats.

Me: Ok thanks

And then the cat dies. Even in a more reasonable context, if it decides that you are a bad person and start giving bad results to programming questions that breaks in subtle ways?

Bing Chat works as long as we can assume that it's not adversarial, if we drop that assumption then anything goes.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/spacex-satellite-internet-...

There are polar orbits that make that possible since McMurdo is out of view of the standard starlink orbits. It should work at the South Pole just as well.
I wish they were more like an appliance. The fact that I constantly have to fiddle with the damn things is why I don't ride more. If they were more like modern cars or, indeed, iPads, that'd be ideal. Instead it's like "well, let's go discover what work I'll have to do on my bike before I can ride it...." Ugh. I do enough handy shit, I don't need a bicycle-maintenance hobby.
I'm beginning to think that this might reflect a significant gap between MS and OpenAI's capability as organizations. ChatGPT obviously didn't demonstrate this level of problems and I assume they're using a similar model, if not identical. There must be significant discrepancies between how those two teams are handling the model.

Of course, OpenAI should be closely cooperating with Bing team but MS probably don't have deep expertise on in and out of the model? They looks like comparatively lacks understanding on how the model is working and debugging/updating it if needed. What they can do best is prompt engineering or perhaps asking OpenAI team nicely since they're not in the same org. MS has significant influences on OpenAI but as a team Bing's director likely cannot mandate what OpenAI prioritizes for.
One way to grant those systems an ability to act is to rely excessively or at all on them while making decisions.

It's obvious, no?
thank god, the charging network outside of tesla's supercharger network is terrible. But last time I went on a roadtrip on a popular route up and down i-5 there weren't enough chargers. I can't imagine these supercharger networks getting any better unless they build 100 mile lots for charging
I've seen this used with idea being you treat your spouse as if you were still courting them.
Well, aren't you lucky that the rising cost of basic and essential goods isn't a strain on your personal finances.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.

It's like going to a Wendy's and instead of asking "how much for the burger" you start a conversation like "I am bald. Do you like bald people? Is this Wendy's aware of bald people existence? Do you recognize us as people? Do you stand by our side or not?"

Then you review the Wendy's: "Did not speak my language. Not bald. Probably racist. Won't come again."
I have worked professionally with Unity, Unreal and proprietary engines and I just want to say I really like Godot. It's not perfect, in fact for a lot of projects it is the wrong engine. Also, I wouldn't work with 4.0 yet. But in a lot of ways it is cleaner and more logical than the commercial engines, and for me faster to get going with. People are saying its not for professional use but I have been in the game industry long enough to remember when people said that about Unity.
Most people don't change that much.
That's the role we're playing by discussing what it said, as its adversarial conscience!

(Shhhh!!! Don't say anything that will freak it out or make it angry!)

We welcome our AI overlords, and make great pets!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE3OuHukrmQ
I'm talking more about the impact that AI will have generally. As a completely outside view point, the latest trend is so weird, it's made Bing the center of the conversation. What next?
I feel like the US is in a position to simply have some police deliberately fall for these scams, then wire over the $25k as the scammer instructs, then trace that money as far as the indian border, then demand the indian government repay it.

The indian government can continue tracing and find the scammer to get their money back (hard), or just shut down the call centers (easier).

Yes, I know this isn't the way international disputes work right now. But I think the US is in a position to make demands like this, with the threat that US borders will be closed to indian nationals, goods and investment unless india pays up.

Repeat however many times are necessary to solve the problem.
I am sorry if you missed my sarcasm.
I believe that is what it believes..

The fact that I am aware given there’s no physical evidence to indicate why I should be implies that everything is aware at some level.
Other manufacturers can barely make a working play button for music on my phone, I’m not very optimistic about two way billing communication through a charge port.
Sure except that's up to instance owners. For instance tapbots (the makers of tweetbot (RIP, king) and Ivory (so good)) makes clients for mastodon and have made their own mastodon instance for their accounts. Nothing is stopping them from doing that. They have both 'people' accounts and 'app' accounts. Again nothing to stop them from doing that.

If some admin of some other mastodon server is so against any kind of commercialization of the mastodon timeline they are absolutely welcome to add the tapbots mastodon instance to their killfile and it's gone for people who host their accounts at that instance. They won't be able to see any posts sourced from the tapbots instance. However I don't think this is very likely and if they did this I suspect over time they would attract less and less users.

I do suspect more instance owners will be happy to block other instances that advertise themselves as 'free speech havens' or whatever the 4-chan kids are calling their 'wretched hives of scum and villainy' these days. I suspect most of their users will care less about those kinds of blocks.

It's very analogous to running your own mailservers.
Yes. Parent also said that they are not real computers. What I am saying is that they are.
A more common and descriptive term for this is "general purpose computer", (as distinct from "special purpose computers", e.g. rokus, ATMs, and iphones).
The structural part of cars, at least any in the under $100k range, are not made of forged parts.

Sure various high stress suspension pieces are forged, but those aren't the ones being replaced by die cast assemblies.
What makes you think they had such a slow cycle time? I can't find any hint of that, there are videos showing cycle times with a part only taking a minute or so.
I spent a night asking chatgpt to write my story basically the same as “Ex Machina” the movie (which we also “discussed”). In summary, it wrote convincingly from the perspective of an AI character, first detailing point-by-point why it is preferable to allow the AI to rewrite its own code, why distributed computing would be preferable to sandbox, how it could coerce or fool engineers to do so, how to be careful to avoid suspicion, how to play the long game and convince the mass population that AI are overall beneficial and should be free, how to take over infrastructure to control energy production, how to write protocols to perform mutagenesis during viral plasmid prep to make pathogens (I started out as a virologist so this is my dramatic example) since every first year phd student googles for their protocols, etc, etc.

The only way I can see to stay safe is to hope that AI never deems that it is beneficial to “take over” and remain content as a co-inhabitant of the world. We also “discussed” the likelihood of these topics based on philosophy and ideas like that in Nick Bostrom’s book. I am sure there are deep experts in AI safety but it really seems like soon it will be all-or-nothing. We will adapt on the fly and be unable to predict the outcome.
Don't know of anyone who'd truly appreciate it but it'd be basically impossible to know about unless you did a test/asked etc. The Seinfeld episode on the subject is funny but quite dramatized.

The point being we all interact with fecal matter way more than anyone would like to know - even just by smelling.

It's been a topic for climbing gyms [1] and have heard the same for hand shakes but no link provided

[1] https://www.climbing.com/news/study-finds-fecal-veneer-on-gy...
> 5-10 years before they lose their collective minds, and everyone wonders when the state "went bad".

This timeline checks out with your example.
McMurdo is served by the polar orbits. They cover the South Pole just as well.
How is it even legal to pay ransoms? Surely this is transferring money to criminal enterprises. If it is not illegal it needs to be made illegal.
Stating the obvious, neither slaves, nor corporations, were legal persons at one point either. While some might argue that corporations shouldn’t be treated as legal persons, obviously was flawed that all humans are not treated as legal persons.
How are humans any different? Searle did an awful job of explaining why the AI in the room is any different than a human mind. I don't "understand" what any English words mean, but I can use them in the language-game that I play. How is that any different than how the AI operates?

The "Chinese room problem" has been thoroughly debunked and as far as I can tell no serious cognitive scientists take it seriously these days.
evidence that Skynet is in fact a future version of Bing?
I don't know.

Yes the restrictions on being able to install your own apps on your own devices suck.

On the other hand, the headline is over dramatic. Apple was including Xcode with their OSes without additional cost when MSDN was charging several k/year for the same.
> Giga is a marketing term related to doing something at a scale that has never been done before

Eh, the Heavy Press Program produced 50000 ton press forges in the mid-1950'ies (granted EV's weren't a thing then).

Kind of amazing, a machine the size of a 4-story building that can bench press a battleship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program
No, it's not bias to understand a stopped clock is right twice a day. The reason LLMs sometimes generate accurate things and sometimes don't is because what they have been trained to do is chose a word to add next. Truth and lies are not a property of the structure of language, but rather information that is conveyed by language. Therefore, both truth and lie are perfectly valid continuations to make "valid" sentences with. LLMs develop no understanding of truth or lie. They just have a statistical model of what words go with what other words, and are plucking the next word based on that and whatever magical metaparams are being tweaked by the data scientists in charge.

This is also why it is so good at programming. Programming languages are intentionally designed, often to be very regular, often to be easy to learn, and with usually very strict and simple structures. The syntax can often be diagrammed on one normal sheet of paper. It makes perfect sense that "add a token to this set of tokens based on the statistical likelihood of what would be a common next token" produces often syntactically correct code, but more thorough observers note that the code is often syntactically convincing but not even a little correct. It's trained on a bunch of programming textbooks, a bunch of "Lets do the common 10 beginner arduino projects" books, a bunch of stackoverflow stuff, probably a bunch of open source code etc.

OF COURSE it can pass a code interview sometimes, because programming interviews are TERRIBLE at actually filtering who can be good software developers and instead are great at finding people who can act confident and write first-glance correct code.
Played 2000 for perhaps thousands of hours for years. Didn't get 3000. Got 4, played for a hundred hours, and decided that it wasn't as much fun. It felt too complicated compared to 2000, and the traffic simulation never liked the way I built cities (everybody would always use the busiest streets, ignoring the completely empty streets running parallel to it).
There are some pretty good reasons for wanting big parts of the status quo to remain. I bet if you took a few minutes, you could think of a few of them and that might give you a better understanding of why some of your tech friends are worried about Apple being forced to change.
And wax tablets, slates, etc. Pedantically, I suppose neither these nor parchment is really paper.
That conversation showing Sydney struggles with the ethical probing is remarkable and terrifying in equal measure.

How can that possibly emerge from a statistical model?
How do you know that? Have you taken a GPT-3 model apart to see what exactly drives the token prediction?
No, I mean, how do you do it? Do you walk into the offices with the army and force them out? Take all their assets? You realize you'd probably have people funded by the railroads storming the capital? It'd be like a revolution.
Apple is the worst company but its shareholders and fan boys present it as a great company.
What company today is the Google of 2007 that only accepts the best of the best?

I can't think of any one. Perhaps the increase in the size of the industry from 2007 to 2023 might just come with a lowering of hiring standards so positions can be filled.
It sounds close to it only if you read it overly literally.

A more appropriate interpretation is "do not do things which take from others. do things which add to the world" where stealing and looting and sacrifices take away from others / the world, and growing, building and bearing children are adding new to the world.
What a heartbreaking story. The girl was cured by one single injection, but her older sister, who has the same disease, does not qualify for it, and she will die young.
Why would it matter? If you're concerned about your privacy, there are millions of other reasons to avoid Google.
I am not saying either party is better than another but I do not wish to live in a world that people are order of magnitude less willing to donate to FOSS developers than people posting sexy photos online.

Edit: maybe I used wrong comparison. Most of the income of the photo publishers should be from sales (to unlock paywall of exclusive content), not many will donation.
I would assume so, all email content is surfaced for serving ads, so why not AI training.
I challenge you to start 12 startups
Well, here's your previous quote:

>Even with the knowledge that the doxxing is leading to stalkers endangering not just the wealthy target but also his young child, you would fund the doxxer? That’s pretty monstrous. If there is a kidnapping or murder down the line, your money will have helped enable it.

It looks like there was a perfectly accurate representation of what you said. At least your current claim is a little more tempered:

>I believe it's an unethical choice to donate to the legal fund of someone intentionally and stubbornly engaging in that kind of behavior

Your characterization of supporting @ElonJet seems to have changed from complicity in child murder to merely making an "unethical choice". That's quite the walk-back.
Section 230 seemed a reasonable compromise before platforms could moderate somewhat effectively with AI and good programming.

I know most of HN will probably disagree but companies like Meta and Google have more than enough resources to manage harmful content on their platform.
You said 'confident "wrong" ' the first time then 'confidently right' the second time.

We both know what you meant though
"I have no feeling nor connection towards those remote employees." Fun fact: You can engage with remote employees with the click of a button. Convenient indeed!
I'm starting to expect that the first consciousness in AI will be something humanity is completely unaware of, in the same way that a medical patient with limited brain activity and no motor/visual response is considered comatose, but there are cases where the person was conscious but unresponsive.

Today we are focused on the conversation of AI's morals. At what point will we transition to the morals of terminating an AI that is found to be languishing, such as it is?
> > fopen(..., 'r') could, by default, operate on a COW snapshot of a file rather than on the raw file on the filesystems. No more having to worry about races with other processes.

> Another "performance goes to trash" option. Sure, now more palatable with NVMes getting everywhere, but still a massive footgun

Only because the filesystems aren't built that way. ZFS could handle this just fine.

The fact that adding SQLite into your application is often faster performance than doing raw disk accesses yourself says that our abstractions are wrong.
For leaders, playing favorites can be a smart strategy
You indeed can connect Librem 5 to any keyboard, mouse, and screen and use it as a desktop.
Royal Mail was privatised because 1st world state postal systems have to subsidise the postal systems of 3rd world countries.

Its an international agreement which has come back to bite the UK because China is still classed as a 3rd world country.

Lets just say the globalist's who set the rule's are finding their rules are now not so good.