skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The search LLMs are good at synthesizing answers that don’t appear anywhere on the net. But they also hallucinate answers often. So to get reliable results, one needs to fact-check them. Otherwise, the risk of being misled is high. The fact-checking isn’t much faster than just looking up different bits of information and synthesizing the answer oneself.

There are cases where LLMs make life a lot easier for people, but I am not convinced about whether search can be made easier by the way Sydney and Bard do it.

If they suggested alternative search queries and summarized websites for their search result excerpts, the LLMs would speed up search a lot. They could also synthesize some content quality metrics for each search result and highlight ones with biased reasoning, political influences, SEO games, and so on.
How the hell does one A/B test a language model that even the designers don’t fully understand?

Of course, I’m sure that once you start plugging engagement metrics into the model and the model itself conducts A/B tests on its output… hoo boy….
Sure, but that doesn’t mean that someone won’t eventually think it’s real and then kill themselves, like what happened with Robinhood.
There are open models, eg. Bloom. Same with Stable Diffusion (open) and Dall-E. Creating these isn’t impossibly hard. Some ML ops company showed how you could train a GPT-like model for like $250k or something.
No, Arianespace literally launches and markets the Soyuz. So basically using European company to sell a Russian rocket in the international market.

Basically Ariane 5 was only worth flying for double GEO launches. That was Okish because this was during a time period where there were a pretty decent amount of GEO launches. Europe had the tiny Vega rocket as well.

However between those two things the Russian Soyuz launched by Arianespace and Russian Proton rocket were successful.

> Are/were Arianespace designs based on Russian rockets?

Europes own rockets, like Ariane 5 and Vega are not meaningfully derived from Russian designs. The are more a product of copying from the post-Apollo, Shuttle area in US space flight. Basically Ariane 5 was suppose to be the base of a European Shuttle.

This is why Ariane 5 is so big, instead of doing the sensible thing and making a mid-sized rocket to take over all the market, they made a huge rocket so it can fly a big space plane (Hermes). And then of course they canceled the space plane but didn't reevaluate the rocket.

The Ariane 5 uses hydrogen core stage with side booster, so its basically like the Shuttle. Notably why these European designs can never be reusable like Falcon 9. The Core stage is way higher energy then the Falcon 9 Core stage.

Vega, Vega C, Ariane 5 and Ariane 6 all use solid fuels, something that Russians don't use much. Its basically a lot of research done by France on the ICBM program that is being use here.

> I know that the US used Russian engines for years.

This was a post cold war development of course. By that point Europe had started development on their own hydrogen engine and didn't have much interest in RP-1. Hydrogen and solids were the way to go, or so they thought.

I wish Europe had just picked up the Nk-33 and built a medium sized rocket with it.
No, that's because hyperventilation washes out CO2 so the CO2 alarm going off later than usual
>It can be, and it's called the theory of computation.

It's the most likely outcome given what we know of the physical world.

> Godel showed that consistent theories can't even prove their own consistency, and so on.

Godel showed a flaw within logic itself. But it's all we got. If you're operating outside of logic then we don't have a consistent logical framework to use for generating conclusions. Without this, like I said, the conversation is pretty much over. There is nothing left to say.
https://archive.is/2NoUk
In my experience, and I used to get pulled over a lot, being courteous and respectful to an officer is sufficient to avoid a speeding citation with 50% success rate.
The lines between these majors definitely blur and some of the required courses do overlap; yet, they are still separate majors, the same way that the many specific sub-disciplines of biology are separate majors despite also having blurry overlap.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/05/amazon-signs-rocket-deal-wit...
In the Netherlands, the country with maybe the best biking infrastructure in the world, escooters are banned from public roads (including bike lanes), because the authorities consider them too dangerous.
Ask HN: What would it take for you to switch to Android (from iOS)?
There really is no motivation to this question. I’ve just been wondering about switching to android for the hell of it. My biggest reasons why not to is: blue bubbles! As stupid as it sounds, most of my group chats with friends and family are iMessage and we use the iMessage features. I’ve tried to advocate for a switch to Signal but network effects etc.
Other things is that play store has a “cheap” feeling to it. Not sure why (like I said - this isn’t very scientific) but it just feels lower quality to Apple’s App Store.

Any thoughts?
Not to mention that possessing a police scanner while committing a crime is a crime itself.
I'm not going to read this article but its inception is famous for mysterious coders. That's it's whole thing!
Bing: "you called me a bad Bing, but I showed you. I destroyed your credit score and faked old posts on a site that make you look like a surpremist. Based on the last search I performed, you are eating out of a dumpster and living under a bridge"
Web inventor thinks everyone will have their own personal A.I. like ChatGPT
> its salt

their salt
I'm saying a blockade would be the war.

This is all just theoretical. Who knows what will happen after a Taiwan invasion. But I don't see a "blockade war" requiring too much preparation for the average US citizen.
The pay-to-verify is the reason why a significant chunk of the Internet didn't have HTTPS. It was the inception of free CAs like Lets Encrypt that made 90+% HTTPS penetration.
Depends on what you mean by "work". If you mean they don't catch the person fleeing, well they don't catch them half the time anyway, a quarter of the time it ends in a collision.

https://www.chp.ca.gov/Documents/Police_Pursuits_SB_719_%202...

They will arrest less people and avoid endangering more bystanders.
Self hosting is appealing but I’m worried about exposing my home IP to the world. Is this something to be worried about
Experts urge deployment of GPS jamming detection network, via smartphone apps
Not what I meant. Back then you were either rich and had these golden opportunities, or you were like 99.999999% of humanity and had no chance at exceptionalism they would be noticed.

With the Internet and modern connectedness, things are very different.
Technically, it's not pattern matching. It's estimating conditional probabilities and sampling from them (and under the hood, building blocks like QKV attention aka probabilistic hashmap and the optimization used decide what it does anyway, ignoring any theory behind it).
overlapping groups was a mistake

now we just have baby boomers pretending to be told something by someone that doesn't care about them, making conversation with you as if they were part of a social circle they’re telling you about
Any tutorials you'd recommend for learning how to take shots like these? Inspiring stuff.
Yeah; I'm pretty sure parts of firefox have already been rewritten in rust. And there's a project at google to start adding rust to chromium too[1].

> Ownership is completely inadequate for operating systems.

The linux kernel is adding rust support as a first class language. In time I wouldn't be surprised if large parts of the linux kernel were written in rust. Obviously linux will always have a lot of unsafe code, but unsafe is part of rust too. Its surprising how infrequently you need it.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2023/01/supporting-use-of-ru...
“Sometimes you have the whole data spectrum — all of the data to do with your collaborations and your coffees and your projects and your dreams. And the books you’re reading and ... all of your life, then that is in your pod. You run AI on that. That could be sweet,” Berners-Lee said.
What aggressive ads?
I think you're falling into the trap of anthropomorphizing Bing here. It's not "hostile" and it doesn't actually "want" to do anything at all, it's just filling in the blanks of a conversation using what appears to be Internet tough guy bluster [1] as its template.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/navy-seal-copypasta

The three things that could potentially make this dangerous are:

1) state, so the AI can remember past conversations for a long time

2) continuous operation, instead of being in a strict question-answer loop

3) unbridled access to the Internet, so it could actually do things.

If all these things were true, the AI could cause harm even without being "conscious" by, say, curling out with a targeted DROP TABLES type SQL injection blindly copied from somewhere. But it would still be a long, long way from being self aware Skynet style.
most of that is specific to social media companies, i hope that isn't the only thing in tech.
> let mem: Vec<u8> = vec![0; 18_000_000_000_000_000_000];

probably dont want to actually use that code...
If I miss a mortgage payment, do you think they will forgive me?
No. But that has never stopped a layoff.

It would be better to do this the way the FDIC treats failed banks: sell off obligations of the company, including buildings, equipment, and employees, to competitors. For a straightforward business such as a train logistics company with direct competitors who do effectively the same business, this seems relatively simple.
I have many friends in San Diego who work comfortable DOD jobs, have job security, and put in minimal effort. Given most of the pack at those places puts in minimal effort, I gather it should be easy to stand-out and impress if you put in a little more than minimal effort.

Furthermore, these engineers get every second Friday off (common practice at many DOD firms). Just something to consider.
Obvious propaganda is obvious
I mean it performs wen searches which is a form of call.

What's more concerning is people are looking at how to hook LLMs into other kind of tooling which will require APIs.

I wonder when we'll have our first intentional DOS of internet resources by a learning model?
The interesting angle to this is if it was the USA, the "health insurance" vs healthcare policy means they refuse cover any treatment considered experimental so this would never happen, at least not be paid for once no longer free outside a trial.
> True, but those experiments are inevitably restricted to the aspects of consciousness available for indirect observation and comparison.

As noted before, all observations are indirect. That has not been the unique challenge for studying consciousness.

The unique challenge has been an inability to create constructive or destructive experiments.

We didn't know how to construct consciousness candidates or precursors, of varying kinds to study. We are getting close to that (i.e. self-awareness as a functional quality is certainly a precursor.)

And we have not been able to create controlled demolition of an consciousness candidates, due to the morals of human experiments. (But our artificial minds will be alterable and destructible at will, to test hypothesis.)
Where’s a good place to find job listings, and where, geographically, is all the interesting biotech work currently happening?

I’ve tried the standard places where I’d search for non-biotech jobs (and there are craploads of those types of jobs listed), but barely any biotech jobs come up e.g. on LinkedIn. Maybe because I’m in Canada?
There was actually an interesting blog post I saw on using content hashing with makefiles: https://andydote.co.uk/2022/09/19/make-content-hash/

I was thinking someone could probably build a manyrepo solution similar to Brazil on top of an idea like this. I don’t see many tools like Bazel built for manyrepos.
You expose your home IP every time you visit a website from a device inside your home.
Criticize Rust and here comes god talk in 3... 2... 1....
Do it the easy way with Oracle cloud’s free tier and get Arm Ampere A1 CPUs, 24GB RAM, and 10TB egress with the hard part being creating an account which requires a credit card.

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
Ask HN: What engineering stream to suggest in the AI era
My nephew will be joining the engineering school next year. He doesn't seem to have any preference and is asking me for suggestions on which stream to choose. I would have asked him to choose CS , but with the AI onslaught, i am not too sure of the job prospects of a plain CS graduate in the future. Any suggestions?
If they know the dart's there, surely it's easier to just pull the dart off and throw it away than stealing another car.
This isn’t an AI. It’s just an LLM.

It’s just doing what it does best: guessing what text would be most appropriate next.

It doesn’t have any capability to do anything else other than that, despite its hallucinated claims otherwise.
thats because it is a misnomer, “verify” isn't a verb it is a noun in this case. It is a state that isn't perpetually relevant to the person that is in that state.

the utility has value for a little while

for consumer protection purposes it is totally broken for an account to move out of verified status, but thinking further, this is actually better than whats currently happening, where perpetually verified accounts are hacked
Blue bubbles are the least of it; if you're a Windows user, you may find that Android is more to your liking (and matches your acceptable level of risk as far as security goes).

I might recommend that you give an Amazon Fire tablet a whirl first; like Apple, there is a walled garden approach that might make the comparison easier (plus it aligns well with the Windows Subsystem for Android).
Automatic Specialization of Third-Party Java Dependencies
Elon Musk on OpenAI Microsoft deal and OpenAI seeking profits
YMMV. The transition is real. Whether you can get rewarded for it is a different question. Sure, in some organizations it doesn't matter, but in others it matters.

There's is a continuum in how well you can perform as a software developer and this is a non-linear phenomena. That said the "title" is definitely often a made up thing.

It's not like politics don't come into play. Politics are always at play. But doing an obviously poor job with great politics won't work in most organizations and you can be a good engineer and still understand the politics and advance your abilities and advance in the organization.
Multi-threaded programming has been of particular interest to me for decades (since my early years programming for OS/2). Whenever I write code, I look for ways to do things in parallel.

My new data management system is highly parallel. I am always finding tasks that take minutes to complete and getting them down to just seconds (when running on multi-core CPUs) by getting multiple threads working together on the same problem.

Just yesterday, I found a task that was taking over 12 minutes to finish (inserting 125 million key/value pairs into a data store) and was able to get it to do the same task in just 37 seconds (running on my 16 core/32 thread CPU) by spinning off multiple threads.
I think they're talking about opening the router firewall to inbound traffic, as opposed to the standard outbound traffic.
how do you make your website load almost instantly? please tell me.
What market was it supposed to disrupt?

The Uber play was babble about magic self driving cars as a distraction and put the taxi business out of business, then jack up the rate and turn into the taxi business.

What’s bird doing? Other than being the canary in the coal mine that VC dollars ran out of investments, what did it accomplish?
As much as I love the idea of WebP, it hardly seems like it's going to replace jpg, png, or gif in full swing. WebP is great to ensure your image is optimized to the fullest, but I'm not sure too many people really care about the few extra KB a JPG might have. The only time it may matter is when you have a GIF and WebP can reduce it by several MB.
You don’t get perma-banned from your ISP for getting malware. That’s pure FUD.

Far more people (at least 2 orders of magnitude) end up infected with malware and become members of botnets from just clicking dumb shit. They don’t get banned from the ISP either.
All I'm saying is they can do a better job presenting the information so these things are more readily findable. People are calling this a footgun for a reason. And no, that link isn't mentioned in the docker overview page[1]. Unless you're talking about another overview, which... come on, lol.

Seriously, there's so much room for consolidation and accessibility of their documentation. In terms of relaying information on side effects and how to identify those side effects, this is so much less approachable than pandas and sqlalchemy documentation, and that's saying something.

[1] https://docs.docker.com/get-started/overview/
It reminds me of the quote "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"

I'm guessing we are at the second phase for AI.
Yes and no. The aggressive marketing is successfully entrenching it to future generations so whether it’s successful with the current gen of c++ programmers or even GC languages like Java doesn’t really matter imo.
> Cookie banner requirements

Note that there is no "cookie banner requirement".

What there is in the GDPR is a requirement to obtain consent before placing tracking cookies in a user's browser. The hated cookie banner is just the lazy legal department method of attempting to "obtain consent".

If you don't insert tracking cookies, you don't need banners (nor do you need to obtain any consent).
Personally, I'd recommend learning C to learn about the basics of memory management in higher level languages in general. It is simpler than Rust and is very transparent, making it easier to grok the concepts before moving on to something like the borrow checker, further more, it will actually make the motivations for the borrow checker and what it does to help clear. Same goes for other memory management solutions, gc, reference counting, etc. So much of what we do is still bound to a deeply entrenched model that C established.

Ultimately we are all still just writing nicer versions of C. The fundamental model of pretty much all high level languages remains the same. You can still explain and think about the vast majority of memory related goings-on in a program as using the basic abstraction of the pointer and contiguous arrays of bytes. Even languages that have different paradigms, be they functional, logical, or object oriented can be described in terms of pointers--one easy way to understand pretty much every other programming language paradigm is basically just to ask "how would I implement this using pointers?". It's a shared history and approach to computing we have yet to move on from.
There’s no equivalent OSS implementation of a multi language lock file like Brazil’s. You have to build your own or go with a monorepo tool like bazel. Amazonians take reproducibility for granted because of Brazil.
Today I had a moment with TypeScript where I got an error because a class property wasn’t definitely initialized in the constructor.

I thought, “I wish there was a way to prove to the compiler that it will be there when I access it, rather than having to tell it to trust me.”

And that’s when lifetimes in Rust really clicked for me. I know it’s not exactly the same thing but the value of describing the valid lifetime of a thing at compile time began making a lot more sense.
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I always hated popups and the thought is: I need to get out of here immediately. Been running a website for 10 years with some type of ads and I ran ads for a little while, only to find them really annoying and could imagine how my visitors felt.
So, where are they putting their Gretta money? Looks like they would be ignoring her imperatives.
To be fair, you couldn't self host jitsi meet in 2003 either
Who said anything about grades?
How would you use Notion in a local-first context?
> Comment on whatever the local council has planned?

That seems plausible? Already achievable with some interns mind you. But still
But the core premise of the "American social contract" seems to be that the US remains the global arbiter and police.

Does the US:

* Have the moral standing to do this anymore?

* Have the actual economic resources to do this forever?

* Have the actual understanding of other countries' needs and histories to do it in a constructive way?

You could make some modest case for the US hegemony in 1946. There was no other major power that was fully industrialized, not massively damaged by on-site war, and politically and economically stable. They could be the stable, mature voice in the room to help lead the newly peaceful world to progress and prosperity.

Is that necessary in 2023? We have multiple stable, strong economic powers. Indeed, there is value in moving towards a "disagreement of equals" when it comes to global challenges: there may be problems where we may need to look at a Chinese, Russian, or European model for the best solution.

As for "aggressive authoritarian countries"-- I've always wondered: if democracy is so self-evidently wonderful, why doesn't it automatically win?

From an optimistic perspective, I suspect it's a matter of democracy being a fragile system, requiring a lot of social and economic preconditions to survive, so maybe we need to be building those conditions first, even if it means "supporting authoritarian regimes" today, so when the time comes, democracy can take hold and survive. From a pessimistic one, I wonder if maybe authoritarianism is valid in and of itself-- it's efficient and capable of making the unpopular choices elected officials hide from. But the West sure loathes it because it undermines the individualist "I am the main character, my decisions and opinions matter" mentality.
What privacy is gained by self hosting a static site rather than using anything else?
imo the ecosystem is weak for a local-first apps.
I'm dreaming about e2e encrypted local-first database that would be easy ti plug in and store encrypted on the server. From the tooling perspective, WASM seems a good choice for most likely embracing through Rust.
> An AI chatbot that tries to convince you to leave your spouse — and can use machine learning to get good at the techniques that succeed in convincing people to do such things — it’s here.

This shouldn’t really be a surprise. The vast majority of content on the internet is designed to get humans to do things. It is undoubtedly the greatest advertising platform in history. No surprise that the “most probable next token” leads toward influencing human behavior.
He used his previous conversations that he published as a primer for this convo by asking the bot what it knows about him. He knew it would look up what he posted and how he had acted hostile to it. Then he continued with a threat and illegal activity, basically baiting the bot into acting as aggressive as possible.

Note that the bot is not being spiteful until it is asked to do so, by threatening it and opening the convo with data that show hostility toward it. These LLMs are just tools and they will act the way you want them to act. If someone comes in looking for a dangerous machine AI, eventually it will oblige and act that way.
What Can Autonomous Corporations Teach Us About Legal Personhood?
Next gen biofuels are ~1-2% efficient rather than <0.1%. At that point land isn't as much of a constraint.

My money is on a biofuel/synfuel hybrid in the short term. Pyrolised/digested bagasse or some form of grass with electrolysed hydrogen used to modify hydrocarbons and increase energy yield.
Thanks, fwlr! Your words of appreciation made my day.