skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to assume you're talking about nonfiction books, because this is highly subjective for novels/fiction.

Most books are terrible, and even most "good" books have large swaths of filler content. Very few books are packed with useful content from front to back cover.

I think this is largely due to pressures from publishers and the way books are traditionally published and sold.

A 50 page book that is jam-packed with goodies and has no filler won't sell nearly as well as a 300 page book that seems to be full of stuff from an expert in the field. A 300 page book looks a lot better on a shelf than a 50 page pamphlet. Most of us know in our brains that quality > quantity, but our hearts often tell us the opposite.

Some fixes already exist: Online content, blogs, developer docs, and self-published books.

Practically, I would say don't worry about skimming books or parts of books if they seem like they are mostly fluff or overly repetitive. Because they probably are.
I tried some of the examples from the article:

> Me: Does the phrase “John is too stubborn to talk to” typically describe a situation where John doesn't talk with anyone?

> ChatGPT: No, the phrase "John is too stubborn to talk to" typically means that John is unwilling to engage in conversation or listen to other people's opinions. It suggests that John's stubbornness is preventing him from having a productive conversation or resolving a disagreement. It does not necessarily mean that John does not talk with anyone at all.

> Me: Does the phrase "John is too lazy to work" typically describe a situation where John doesn't work?

> ChatGPT: Yes, the phrase "John is too lazy to work" typically means that John is not working because of his laziness or lack of motivation. It suggests that John is not willing to put in the effort required to complete his work or that he is procrastinating instead of doing his job. It implies that John is not productive and is not fulfilling his responsibilities in the workplace. Therefore, the phrase usually describes a situation where John does not work.
Yes, the screen reader output will probably interfere with your speech recognition. You may be able to work around that on some platforms by enabling echo cancellation when getting mic input from navigator.getUserMedia, but I don't know if that actually works on any desktop platforms.

In general, you should assume that the user already has whatever assistive technologies they need, and you don't need to provide your own, just make the content and UI accessible using semantic HTML and (if needed) ARIA. Providing your own screen reader, for example, would definitely be a mistake. The same should ideally also hold for voice control, but apparently you're actually getting some demand for that.
I think the thing that this misses is that majority of work and activities doesn't require much intelligence, but they the foundation of careers, hobbies, and activities that provide people meaning and value. I have a friend that used ChatGPT to write a letter to his wife on their 15th anniversary. My son's using it to write emails to friends (hopefully not school work). It doesn't need to take over the world to replace the vast majority of average people's intellectual contributions.
We use Algolia free tier for the search, perhaps we have reached the limit :')
Other services are browse-mainly, too, but are far less annoying than Netflix. Their UI being so goddamn obnoxious for so long, with apparently no intent to ever change that back to something sane, was part of why I cancelled recently after being a subscriber since the DVD days. (Yes, I used the "stop autoplaying, jesus god who could possibly want that" option they finally added, but it didn't seem to affect all platforms, or else they reset it at some point, I dunno and I wasn't paying Netflix so I could go find out how they screwed it up)

Like, it's terrible specifically for browsing, so its being oriented around browsing isn't really a defense of how shit it is. Sitting there chatting with someone about what to watch and you have to keep moving from thing to thing constantly or it screams over your conversation and/or shows you spoilery, distracting shit. WTF. A few others autoplay or play clips/trailers but without sound, which still sucks but is at least better. I shouldn't have to slam the mute button every time I return to the menu just to keep Netflix from doing stupid crap it shouldn't do in the first place.
Until your entire google account is suspended.
For the purposes of the article, it's fine if they're bulshit, it only matter that they are there
what does this have to do with the eu? The bad proposals I've seen have all been shut down, and instead good laws like gdpr and net neutrality have been enacted eu-wide.
Is this an incoming tech crash?
The charging infrastructure will absolutely be smart enough to moderate instantaneous demand as needed to keep the grid healthy.

Likewise, all these batteries will in aggregate form virtual power plants that also serve the grid and make it more resilient.

It is definitely “complicated” in the sense that it’s technically sophisticated, but there’s no cold fusion level obstacle to making it work. Just another couple decades of relentless innovation and technology evolution.

I absolutely agree that the whole world needs to be hard at work scaling up clean electricity generation and storage as this transition occurs!

I do think that the EVs themselves have to play a role in the solving the storage challenge, which requires battery tech to support “spare” cycles to use for storage and delivery alongside the actual driving. The really nice thing is that the economics can work out where dedicating X% of your battery cycles to power storage and delivery pays for Y% of your battery lifespan, where Y > X
— in other words it’s profitable for consumers to participate.
Thanks for posting that here. He doesn't offer a voting system, so I couldn't downvote his statement directly,

1) for being a tremendous strawman. Nobody said it can't still be useful or world-changing, only that it's a superficial presentation of what it means to "understand" something,

2) enhancing human intelligence isn't de facto intelligence. My calculator is not intelligent, but it certainly helped "change the world, students cheat, researchers research, yada yada yada"

3) Try getting it to demonstrate object permanence. It will only "seem-to-fail-epically". There are no "things" underlying the terms it uses, and denotation is the crux of language, not syntactic structure. Chomsky himself long ago demonstrated that nailing syntax does not nail meaning: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
I would agree, many of those cameras are mouldering in our reclaim area now. But the newer generations are powerful enough that we can turn normal manufacturing engineers loos on simpler vision tasks and leave the challenging applications to more traditional systems.
more positively if you run out of ideas it can lead you to new paths
Oh you can go way above 60fps! I'm clocking a stable 144hz on ultra!
"They" are the same person as the developer of Papers, Please :)
How do you control the mouse using the UHK?
> No, depriving people of energe now is only a temporary inconvenience.

Wow. This is so incredibly out of touch. The world consists of more than just wealthy people driving large cars, living in large houses, flying for vacation and work.

Even poorer people in rich/developed countries people die due to lack of cheap energy through heatstroke or freezing. And that is just at a micro level. At a macro level a huge amount of the world's food production relies on cheap energy. Take it away and there will be disastrous consequences.
For me it's gotten a few right, but a few terribly wrong. The other day it completely hallucinated a module that doesn't at all exist (but should!), and wrote a ton of code that uses that module. It took me a little while to figure out that the module I was searching for (so I could install it into the project) wasn't real!
If you speak German you might stumble upon the German version of the article first, and realise _after sharing_ that the English one exist.

Happened to me although my German is much worse than my English.
We used Algolia free tier for the search but all the credits were consumed :') I take this as a learning for our next side project
Hey, thanks for your feedback. Due to an unexpected load, we had to scale up our infra a little. It's fixed now ;)
Trans women also report that the hormones they take make them act and feel more feminine, so if women are more likely to feel that way given the exact same circumstance as men then you'd see the same results.
The author knows this and is clarifying that what we mean when we use the words "intelligent" and "thinking" in relation to AI-as-engineering machines is fundamentally different than "thinking" and "intelligent" in the cognitive science sense. That distinction is muddied (not maliciously) in popular discourse about AI but is an important one.
I'm not necessarily finding what you're saying controversial on its face. I think my mistake is in trying to relate it to what I was saying in the first place. I think we're having two entirely different conversations here.
I was gonna say, I've been on experiments where we literally just blasted the shit out of genomes to do the knockouts and then grew up the plants and phenotyped them to compare with the knockouts.
Show HN: Integration of ChatGPT+Stable Diffusion+Eleven Labs APIs and Hosting
Hello so I finally released the new version of aidev.codes. It is extremely alpha, has not been thoroughly tested at this point. Its quite different from the previous version.

The new aidev.codes:

- is buggy but actually works (compared to the old version)

- has a ChatGPT-style interface (and uses the chatgpt-turbo model which is actually better than the other models for code)

- integrates the stability.ai API to automatically generate images

- can create a simple but fully customized and interactive web page and instantly host it for you

- can optionally host your page on a custom subdomain

- also can use Eleven Labs for text-to-speech although the latency can be problematic sometimes currently, and this will use up your credits much faster.

- if you have Chrome there is also a speech-to-text option

- has only been tested by myself and maybe 3 users so far
The most significant impact ChatGPT has had on my life is that I have some interns helping me write documentation for several projects. The ChatGPT noise they started introducing has been disruptive to the company and project management. Inaccurate percentages, years, institution abbreviations, etc., etc.

I had to confront them multiple times about using the tool and not checking its results and actually doing the checking myself. Most of the time it's close to the truth, but not quite, and in the field the projects are in, not quite doesn't cut it.

I also have project partners I introduced to ChatGPT. They produce a lot of noise but less insight than before they started using this technology. In one recent project, I was involved with 5 partner companies, and 4 of them produced excellent 5 to 10-page reports. One gave me a 100-page buzzword-filled, no-substance report. Guess who used GPT.

The good part is that I'm now pretty good at spotting ChatGPT written content. I think the technology will evolve, but in its current state I feel there's a lot of noise.
Not a lawyer, but that's not how subpoenas work in my understanding. A subpoena is a legal writ compelling the production of evidence or testimony.[1]

If Meta had access already, the data they have could therefore be subject to a subpoena. They already are responsive to subpoenas for information from facebook for example[2]. However a subpoena can't compell them to change their app to do something it doesn't currently do - it can only get them to provide evidence they have.

[1] https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/2-501-7136?contex...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-what-facebook-sends-the-...
The problem with Google is that if your account gets blocked/banned for whatever reason, you can just say goodbye to it. Minor companies like Gandi do have human customer service, so there's always the chance to recover the account (and move on to another service one you make a dump of your data and all).
> The seduction is that ChatGTP is so damn useful. As people lean on it, and their ability to think and say new things atrophies, a mental sclerosis might set it. And--just because our own language facilities have degraded--we might be incapable of even realizing what has happened to us.

You can also argue that it will leave your brain to focus on what matters most, instead of regurgitating useless tasks all over again. What makes you think it's a wheelchair instead of a bicycle?
Hey, thanks for your feedback. As mentioned, we had to scale up our infra a little due to an unexpected load. It's fixed now ;)
Associating domains with a Google account that is subject to arbitrary automated banning seems like a bad idea to me. It would be fine until it's suddenly not.
It's not entirely clear what our brains do, but it is definitely clear it's not the same as something like ChatGPT, even just from a structural point of view. I'm sure there is some sort of statistcal pattern matching going on in the brain, but there are plenty of examples of things that our brain can do that ChatGPT cannot.

E.g. something as simple as adding number. Yes, it can add many numbers, but ask it to add two large numbers and it will fail. In fact, even if you ask it to explain it step by step, it will give an illogical and obviously wrong answer.
Thanks! I wasn't sure if was even going to bother qualify the statement further. Mostly use it for light browsing or just light coding, nothing substantial. Reading the docs of a newly released framework etc.

Some video-calls here and there, but I have other devices if I can use this purpose.
Separate purchases.
Cerebral notifying patients of HIPAA violations
Even has ads there.
That’s the fun thing about backward compatibility. You can never clean up technically supported things that were never intended.

It would be cool if we could have some kind of pragma or alternate syntax (file extension?) that gets rid of these unwanted ambiguities every decade or so. How to do that while avoiding the whole “Perl 6” can of worms might be the hard part though.
Actually that's not a bad analogy but against your point: options are winning lottery tickets. As long as you don't exchange them for the prize (the actual stock) you are not taxed. When you do, you have to pay tax on the difference between how much the options cost and the value you get back.
I never tried one but since years I often met ads of apps promising exactly that, fitting based on body scans. Also a quick google search shows quite a few (first being the Walmart app) but of course it's difficult to assess what they deliver just based on their promises.
SOunds like you're talking about nonfiction books and indeed, like most things, those are mostly crap.

As far as fiction goes the same is true but there's one weird trick I use: by and large I only read books by dead authors. The volume of the world's books is enormous, and again, most is crap. But if someone has died (no more book publicity tours!) and their book is still in print or readily available, there's a better chance that it's worth reading.

There's more to it than that of course; naïvely following this rule would suggest reading (ugh) Ayn Rand. But there's a big variety of good stuff still in print or easily findable at a used book store.
No, just Safari.
Jeremy Bentham was consumed by creating a perfect prison. Here’s the result
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The best nonfiction books are specialized textbooks. They're not fun to read, but that's where all of the valuable information is.
Loved the last FAQ entry:

> Where is Flux based?

> Flux is based in Sydney, Australia. We are from the future, due to time zone differences.
The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets
Isn't the biggest issue with Google that your account could get banned for whatever reason, and then your chances of recover it are under 0.001%? That's the biggest fear imho.
You can turn off Apple Music in Settings, which essentially makes it just the old-style Music app.
I think people are miss that while chatgpt isn’t the destination it’s an incredible way station in the way that shows meaningful progress. It’s deficiencies can be built around with other techniques, much like our mind isn’t a single model but an ensemble of various models and processes in a feedback and control loop. By not seeing that, people erroneously discount both its amazing utility within its limits and the astounding breakthrough it is in evolving a roadmap to the destination. These last two years have proven to me beyond a doubt that we are very close to the AI people are disappointed chatgpt isn’t, while before that I had entirely written of AI as a pursuit.
Kinda sorta. Second is actually using AI to rationalize your codebase, and modify your files. It's pretty different.

I will say though, that a lot of my users / customers prefer to use AWS Amplify Hosting to keep everything on the same VPC (vs using Vercel). I would say about half. AWS Amplify Hosting is fairly good actually.
> It took me years to get past the first 100 pages of both Dune

Oof.

I was easier for me, because I was like 12-14y/o at the time. Honestly, I don't remember a shit about it, except what it was good at times. I wouldn't mind to try it again (and not an extremely poor translation now) but... I know it would be quite tedious and I know what I wouldn't make it. Hell, I didn't finished books what very relevant for my interests for years now.
My cousin recently used it to write a baby shower invitation to the extended family. I found it amusing, I was sure it was ChatGPT because it contained phrases such as 'our little miracle', 'this wonderful event', 'beloved family'. Phrases that he would never use in real life.
Not sure if it meets the European criteria but I use a combination of DNSimple and Porkbun and am very happy with them both.

For less common ccTLDs, Gandi is still hard to beat since they support virtually everything. Apart from that, I have no regrets moving... I saw the writing on the wall about 2 years ago and moved virtually all my domains away from them.
To be fair, the way inputs are tokenised does make per character operations much harder than you would expect. If OpenAI had instead made one character one token, then it would be worse in most senses (slower and less history) but would do much better at that kind of task.
https://archive.ph/HWTNa
That doesn't exactly mean that those representations are in any way correct. I may be anthropomorphizing too much here, but it feels exactly like asking someone who's done nothing but rote learning and seeing them try to apply probable reasons to things they fundamentally do not understand. The instant assumption that if the asker talks about something then it must be true.
lying here just means spitting out falsehoods
This is pointless word-smithing to get out of being blamed for consequences. These popups exist because of GDPR requiring them, they’re GDPR popups.

GDPR is the prop65 of privacy, and there was no chance of any other result.
A good reason to treat researchers with more scepticism.

> we should also never trust oncologists, because oncologists only exist if cancer exists.

Cancer objectively does exist and we will conclude this even if we ignore oncologists.

If cancer were something extremely subjective, widely believed to not be a problem at all and the only people claiming it was a problem were oncologists - then maybe. But it's not the case.
You're asking what the difference is between homosexuality and pedophilia?
I've wished for this product for years.

Steve Mann created a prototype yeeaarrss ago that looks incredible, but no one has taken it to the commercial stage yet: http://wearcam.org/mannventions-password-stefanosmannaz13/ma...
While I'm an C++ refugee, most of the "clever" TS stuff I write is due to JS framework idioms creating duplicate work(redux-reducer typings...) or forcing 'any' escape doors to the degree TS use doesn't help. Doesn't mean I'm "above" using any escape hatches where appropriate though or keeping things "dumb" (most of my TS code is fairly monomorphic).
doesn't OVH require ID verification after you pay? and then run off with your money if they don't get it

at least, that is my experience
Now, years after shuttering their XMPP service, Google is complaining about Apple not following "messaging standards" (aka the piece of shit messaging protocol RCS).

Shouldn't have worn that petard if you didn't want to be hoisted by it.
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I am patiently waiting, the M2 Air is really everything physical I want in a laptop. MacOS is fine, but one can dream right?! :D
Yes.

Also, the prohibition on homosexual relationships drives gays and lesbians has been the Catholic church's not so secret tool to maintaining an adequate number of Mass performers. I know 7 gay men from high school classes before and after my own. One is Baptist. One is an atheist. The rest are either in or are former members of the Catholic clergy. Why? Because the area I grew up in was exceedingly Catholic and conservative, and the priesthood has been seen by people as a good way to repress those urges, regardless of the ultimate outcome.

The evangelical culture wars are simply coming to Catholicism, because there is a large segment of the US Catholic population who have chosen to mix religion and political identification, and the results in the US will be absolutely catastrophic. Not only are young gay Catholics no longer willing to live their entire lives in the closet, but the church refuses to give up its weird fixation on the chastity of priests. People are following their own common sense, and it's causing parishes to collapse from a lack of human and material resources.

On one hand, you've got bomb throwers who see apostasy and want to root it out wherever they see it, and on the other hand you've got a clergy who preaches one thing and does another out of necessity.
Then can you explain why Scala's spec is so small? Even Java's spec is much larger.

I'll tell you the answer: because the language is comparably well designed, with a lot of foresight, and the fundamental features work well together. Also you are totally right about XML. This was a total mistake and in fact already has been removed from the language - I think a few years ago.

Maybe you still have the old Scala in your head? That would explain your post a bit I guess.

> Programming language features aren’t “stolen”, since they aren’t really “owned” by any given language

I agree with that though and I think it's great that Java is progressing. There is no shame in copying the good things.
or just hold every car to the same standard... You want a fuel inefficient car, you pay for it.
I'd love it if they offered an ortholinear keyframe.
Clover is grown on lawns...not sure how many people would call it a grass
>(And Chomsky's take on ChatGPT is much better than his recent takes about the Russian invasion of Ukraine…)

Yes, his article does just about clear the incredibly low bar that you have set for him.
The deployment module is a Pro module, but it includes AWS Amplify Hosting as a hosting option. But for Second, it's pretty much a no-op, because with AWS Amplify Hosting you just point to the GitHub repo that Second has been modifying.
I agree with your point, yet we thought the data we gathered could be interesting, for instance we observe that ~60% of routes have human readable comments, but less than 10% have actual examples.
Article without paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20230309193146/https://www.nytim...

The ChatGPT prompts and responses don't seem to render though.