skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little different in USA...question some authority and next thing you know that authority is paying extra special attention to you and your clients (cause we're all overseen by the same agency). At least with FOIA we can get some of the details. And no arrests; just fines and hassle.
super cool. look forward to that.
Yes, I posted this comment a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34862450

But ChatGPT, which really changed the conversation on this topic, was only released 3 months ago. It's not hard to see tons of "analyst" like jobs being replaced by this. I honestly can hardly imagine "paralegal" being a job in a couple years.
> I don't really know how TS works and if it puts the generated JS in cache.

Usually, typescript is compiled to javascript in a build step (eg on the developer’s computer) using the typescript compiler. The output is javascript which can be run in the web browser directly, or bundled with webpack & friends, then loaded into the browser.
Heh, I think dang might be busy stacking blocks of ice on the server so it doesn't catch on fire due to all the GPT-4 threads.
Yup, it’s a bit of a learning curve how to get it to output the most useful stuff with the least amount of prompts.

Figure out what your goal is, and then start by giving a wide context and at first it will give wrong answers due to lack of context. With each wrong answer give it some more context fro what you think the solution provide is missing the most. Eventually you get 100% working code, or something so close to it that you can easily and quickly finish it yourself.

This is one strategy, but there are many that you can use to get it to reduce the burden of refactoring.
Well, alright, explain how any post or comment I make on a sub instantly disappears, and it only happens on that sub?
I can't name any, but a few people have spoken about how the currently use LLMs to augment their workflows. I think it might be easy to reason how those could affect some jobs when they're scaled up.
I fear the day that Reddit dies and every random ass community suddenly decides they need a completely overengineered Discord now.

Not only will Discord become unusable but large quantities of very specific knowledge will now be unindexable and therefore unarchiveable, lost for future generations. It will be a sad day for the internet.
I can only imagine that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have somehow given people the impression that laws and taxes are optional.

I mean, they are optional, if you are thief or criminal, but perhaps I've given the answer away.
They sure are. Are you familiar with "War is a Racket"[0][1] by Major-General Smedley Butler[2]?:

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

[1] https://books.google.co.il/books/about/War_is_a_Racket.html?...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
> Many should never have been extended.

Which ones.
Many more if it indeed has killed reddit.
Nuclear is catastrophically expensive. Nuclear stagnated not because of those "dumb protests", but because economically it turned out that they made very little sense. Projects always went massively over budget, and then had a lifespan cost multiples idealist notions.

Are they expensive because of overbearing safety requirements? Partly, sure. On the flip side, Fukushima has now cost hundreds and hundreds of billions in direct costs. If nuclear power plants didn't have a civil exemption where governments bore the potential liability of damage (which is almost infinite), they would be unbuildable.
No, people would use the tool in one way or the other and then freak out on the Internet about how it's dangerous.
E.g. Kafka's metamorphosis fits entirely in the context window I believe, so short novellas might be possible. But I think you'd still definitely need to guide GPT4 along, I imagine without for example a plan for the plot formulated in advance, the overarching structure might suffer a lot / be incoherent.
I'm not in a FAANG, but another quite large tech company. This has been a really good place for me to 'level up' so I don't quite understand why you would recommend non-FAANG companies, which presumably means a non-tech company?

The timeline for reaching senior+ in FAANG is also likely to be a lot longer if you start from outside vs working up from inside.
I mean, my brain, and physics is all just statistics and approximate side effects (and models thereof)
I've got so much done tonight thanks to this outage.
Are there truely top tier ML optimized chips? I would imagine the hardware space still having room to grow if just because most of the brainpower having been focused on x86, etc.
The general problem of "AI"s being trained on copyrighted content needs to be discussed more thoroughly, I think.
I advise caution when claiming that the wind is always blowing somewhere. One does not hear a lot of discussion from the wind energy industry about the wind drought of 2015 in the USA and Canada. The 2015 event caused some of the lowest average wind speeds in fifty years.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2078374-mystery-wind-dr...

Climate change has proven time and again that these events will be more likely. What then?
On the second point we agree - but I have seen people absolutely torn apart for sloppy sample size calculations when it comes to animals.
The only way I see that the decision to exceed the expected life time was a bad decision is if they could have replaced it with an other non-fossil fuel solution.

The problem is indeed human greed. Even with the accidents that have occurred, I am still glad that people did historically run with the risk over burning even more fossil fuels. My concern over pollution, especially global warming, is far greater than my concerns over nuclear accidents.
That’s like saying we’ll not need hard drives now that you can get bigger sticks of RAM.
But still, the two forms are the similar (same amount of holes). Do you have to view them with a color gradient to consider them different?
That's the thing I hate most about talking to call centres. The useless insincere filler talk.
Some will but a quick search for "GPT" on Twitter will show the huge diversity of things people are making LLMs do.
I'm worried it's going to decimate the already wobbly jr market - who are the sr devs of tomorrow to wrangle the LLM output after it replaces the jr's job of coding all day?
I've always found the Monty Hall problem a poor example to teach with, because the "wrong" answer is only wrong if you make some (often unarticulated) assumptions.

There are reasonable alternative interpretations in which the generally accepted answer ("always switch") is demonstrably false.

This problem is exacerbated (perhaps specific to) those who have no idea who "Monty Hall" was and what the game show(?) was... as best I can tell the unarticulated assumption is axiomatic in the original context(?).
Perhaps, I'm admittedly not an expert in identifying use cases of Unsupervised Learning yet. My hunch would be that the lack of the labels would require orders of magnitude more data and training to produce an equivalent model, which itself will be a sticky point for health tech. companies.
99% of the comments here have no iota of a clue what they are talking about.

There's easily a 10:1 ratio of "it doesn't understand it's just fancy autocomplete" to the alternative, in spite of published peer reviewed research from Harvard and MIT researchers months ago demonstrating even a simplistic GPT model builds world representations from which it draws its responses and not simply frequency guessing.

Watch the livestream!?! But why would they do that because they already know it's not very impressive and not worth their time outside commenting on it online.

I imagine this is coming from some sort of monkey brain existential threat rationalization ("I'm a smart monkey and no non-monkey can do what I do"). Or possibly just an overreaction to very early claims of "it's alive!!!" in an age when it was still just a glorified Markov chain. But whatever the reason, it's getting old very fast.
There are a whole lot of different imx8s some better some worse, FWIW I think they're using this module (4+1 core 1.8GHz):

https://boundarydevices.com/product/nitrogen8m-plus-som/

It's a plug in module plugged into another plug in module, no reason why you couldn't hack up a RISC-V upgrade here
I mean... you refer to the groupthink as some sort of force on the discussion, when in reality, you have a bunch of people who think a specific political or economic policy is sensible.

This obviously has it's limits when the group has diverse views about the policies.

The strangest, and often most interesting conversations that take place in /r/socialdemocracy when the socialists or communists who see social democracy as a stepping stone toward socialism are forced to deal with the other social democrats that firmly think some/many markets are good for society as a whole. There is a ton of nuance in those conversations, while at the same time, anyone suggesting that we shouldn't have some form of socialized health-care will be laughed out of the room.

Another example of this is the Strong Towns movement and their various subreddits. It seems to be a very serious, very cross-party neo-urbanism community which puts Bernie Sanders voters in the same subs as Mitt Romney voters, all discussing the merits of walkable cities and the inefficiencies and concerns about municipal bond debt capacity.

These niche political subs can get pretty interesting.
Yes, this is the way. Surprising how high level you can make this work - I’ve seen Collection implementations and all sorts.
This is pure speculation on my part, but I don't think LLMs in their current form will be able to talk about what they do and don't know. No matter how large the input.

There is no introspection in their architecture. Introspection likely has to involve some form of a feedback mechanism and possibly even a "sense of self".

These coming years are going to be interesting though. For sure we are going to see experiments built on top of these recent amazing LLMs that _do_ have some form of short-term memory, feedback and introspection!

Giving these kinds of AIs a sense of identity is gonna be a strange thing to behold. Who knows what kind of properties will start to emerge
> This has always been my concern with nuclear. Yes we can make it safe, but the human greed factor is always the weak point. Regulations weakened, automated systems bypassed, skimping on design decisions, etc.

This is exactly my concern. Fukushima was only a problem because the company didn't want to spend money putting in backup generators in the correct place despite repeated warnings to do so.
Tell HN: Fiverr Autoblocked Me as a Seller
Hello all; I am writing to add my own little horror story regarding getting crushed by automated systems to HN's graveyard of dreams :)

I was introduced to fiverr by a friend a few days ago, after I expressed interest to teach undergraduate and graduate mathematics, problem solving, and coach students for competitions (Olympiads, Putnam) online.

So I made an account (which bizarrely involved giving Fiverr write access to my github account), followed the steps to write a gig, and even drew a little collage of my previous work (images for problems I designed, papers I wrote etc.).

The moment I clicked 'publish' for my gig, I received a rejection notice and two minutes later my account was closed for selling. Initially I was confused, but then I suspected that my title "I teach mathematics, problem solving, and the basics of research" was mistaken as a service offering to solve students' homework (I assume that is the issue).

So I emailed customer support:

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Hello; I tried posting a gig to teach mathematics, problem solving and the basics of research(undergraduate and graduate). My gig was instantly rejected and seller eligibility removed; I presume because the automated system thought I was offering to solve their homework problems. How can this be amended or reversed, if at all?

Regards, Ioannis Konstantoulas
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A few hours later I got the human (?) response:

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Hi there,
Thank you for reaching out to us about this issue. We understand you tried to open a Seller profile on Fiverr, and received our response explaining your request wasn't approved
Unfortunately, this decision can’t be changed.
Your seller profile wasn’t approved, but you are welcome to continue using Fiverr as a buyer.
If there is anything else we can help you with, please let us know.
All the best,
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So... that is that then. To make this a little less depressing, can HN people recommend a service where I can offer one-on-one mathematics help at the undergraduate and graduate level?

I was going to create custom sessions for each student's needs, create tailored problem sets to target specific weaknesses, solve the problems together with the student to give guided experience, and employ all the mastery learning techniques I have practiced over the years. I'd love to get recommendations, but please do not recommend sites that will reject the above by bot and then confirm the rejection by human!

Oh, and how do I make sure Fiverr stops having write access to my github account?
Good luck. In Austria we have hundreds of streets named after Nazi collaborators, but there's a huge resistance to changing the names. Same when someone wants to remove a statue placed by Nazis.

When commemorative plaques are placed for victims of Nazi violence, they are defaced or destroyed.

There are a lot of people who just don't want to hear that our ancestors weren't all that noble.
That’s really interesting as the as the word ’sim’ in modern farsi (persian) also mean cord or line.
It seems according to wiktionary (https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C3%ADma#Icelandic) that the Word has Proto-Indo-European roots which is the common ancestor of farsi and European languages.

I wonder if it’s possible to introspect or query the model and find out about the etymologi of words. I suspect more context like the phonetic version of each word is needed to make that final connection not just the semantic embedding.
Yes. It still can't attend meetings, collaborate on projects or set priorities. Or any of the other things programmers spend most of their time doing.

Also I'd guess that it still generally sucks at programming. Code has a lot of very similar sequences and logical patterns that can be broken, which makes it prone to hallucinating. I'd imagine that more parameters will help with this.
The problem is when you use the personified character to draw conclusions about the system itself.
Word. There is no other way it can be. Not to say these "AI"s aren't useful and impressive, but they have limitations.
Why is it? If I can whiteboard a depth first graph traversal without recursion and tell you why it is the shape it is, because I read it in a book ...

Why isn't GPT learning when it did the same?
> It's a sexist alt-right meme because they associate soy with estrogen.

???

> In this imagined causality, someone who consumes soy milk would be more feminine, and of course women are bad programmers.

You're looking too deep into this. It is you who is implying that.
Ask HN: What is the best stack for real-time collaboration web apps?
I'm scoping different languages, and their frameworks, for their ability to build web applications with real-time collaboration (AKA multiplayer mode, a la Google Docs / Replit).

For context, I will use the stack to build a Leetcode-style sport coding application that enables pair programming in 2-on-2 ranked matches.

I am familiar with Python so Django seems a natural fit. However, other forums have reported Django's limited async capabilities. I also looked into Yjs, but would prefer to avoid JS-land as I will be working solo. Multiple sources have recommended Elixir with Phoenix— learning a FP language appeals to me and LiveView seems a nice way to avoid JS.

I would like to get the HN community's take. What tech stack would you use for this greenfield project?
> As a professional...why not do this?

Because of confidentiality.
In the immediate term? 70-80% wind/solar works just great. Fill the remainder with gas plants or whatever else you got. Pick the high hanging fruit once that's done. If nuclear wants to bid for that, then great. But it's gotta be an order of magnitude cheaper if it wants a piece. Right now, quite frankly, it's looking like it's going to be cheaper to store the wind in batteries and pumped hydro than it will be to break nuclei for that energy.

Everyone wants to have this fight on the fundamentals, but everything is about tradeoffs. Nuclear isn't losing because of out of control woke hippies or authoritarian regulators, it's losing because it costs too damn much.
That's why I keep my content as low quality as possible - keeps the machines humble.
I would be ecstatic if I could automate my entire job!
Because you can get points on Hacker News.
every other day i am reminded about the state of AI and i feel complete despair. why do people not realize exactly what you just said, that this endeavor is ultimately about replacing humanity? what other long-term result could the concept of AI possibly have? its like the biggest mass psychosis that has ever existed. whenever i talk to people about this, they always parrot the same thing almost word for word: people will just find new, better jobs. or, you know, something about the Luddites. its mass psychosis because they refuse to acknowledge the blindingly obvious and plain fact that humans wont be hired to do anything if humans are the worst at doing literally any task. and what are the consequences of such a world? people just draw a blank. its like the MIB came up and flashed them and they just go on with their day. i think the same is true even with you. you make this comment "so it probably wont happen, oh well." as if it werent an existential threat.
China’s building coal plants like there’s no tomorrow.
Here’s OpenAI’s page:

https://openai.com/customer-stories/be-my-eyes
> 'you've been doing that too much!' and stops you from posting.

What does this mean? Does reddit actually ban you if you're downvoted "too much"?

Seems crazy.
Well that’s not really a high mark…
I see Kafka deployed for things which have perhaps a few thousand messages per day. It's like "did you accidentally mis-specify by six orders of magnitude here?"
This supports up to 2000 pages: https://www.chatpdf.com/
Yes, undeniably true. But what they acquire is inductive reasoning skills, and the production of new things.
contact me at the email in my profile
WSJ Wonders: Did SVB Die Because One Black Person Was on Its Board?
No other website of major size is as unreliable as reddit. In over 10 years of usage I've had noticeable facebook downtime only _once_. Meanwhile reddit seems have a major outage at least yearly and minor unavailability on an hourly basis. Even when they're not down, it's slow as fuck. Are they incompetent?
(1) The "Linkedin style" is certainly not unique to males.

(2) It was a good story and a
relevant comment.

No reason to bring gender into this discussion, why not criticize/discuss the comment itself.
Ought we or ought we not consider the lopsided information access of voters in elections? Ought we be doing something to limit or counteract the propaganda? As opposed to, crudely, "it is the way it is because laws", which is of course an entirely normative claim.
In Spanish to English are you doing a word by word translation, r fixing some basic gramar (for example changing the order of adjectives and nouns)?
I always like when people say Twitter's lower reliability will drive people off the site.

Reddit's been awful for more than a decade and people still use it.
This is fairly standard for India, especially UP which is the least developed state in India (along with Bihar).

If you want to see something really egregious, check this out. A lower caste woman was raped and murdered by upper caste men. The really egregious part - the woman actually ended up dying one week later and her dying declaration identifying her 4 rapists and murderers was ruled inadmissible. After a nation wide outrage the rapists were arrested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Hathras_gang_rape_and_mur...

Once the news cycle calmed down, the following happened

1. The lower caste family of the victim could no longer find any work and feared stepping out of the house.

2. 3 of the rapists were set free based on a dubious report filed by the police which was hand in glove with the local upper caste leaders. The single convict was absolved of the murder charge because the woman did not die soon enough. https://www.thequint.com/news/india/hathras-rape-murder-vict...

3. A bunch of Muslim journalists were jailed for multiple years on sedition charges for trying to report on the incident, as per their job duties.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/malayala...

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/explained-who-is-siddiq...

https://maktoobmedia.com/india/muslim-cab-driver-uapa-prison...

ALternate link: https://archive.is/bXtdg

Another puke worthy case where BJP leaders took out processions in support of the rapists and murderers of an 8 year old girl. The reason for the support? the 8 year old victim was Muslim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Unnao_rape_case
I don’t know what TC is.
There’s a statistic that floats around the internet claiming more radioactivity harm from coal power than from nuclear power, based on the principle that coal power is essentially aerosolizing tons of particles with ever-so-slightly-higher-than-background radioactivity and there’s a lot more coal than nuclear.

One could probably derive a similar statistic for how much harm nuclear over-regulation has caused. Perhaps of the form “Chernobyl killed 60 people directly through acute radiation, killed 60,000 indirectly through elevated cancer rates due to spread of radioactive material, and killed 6,000,000* with its second-order effects of supporting nuclear over-regulation that caused increased use of coal and gas energy”. (* This number is completely made up)

It seems to me that changing over-regulation is nearly impossible, as it requires making suicidally unpopular arguments: “we shouldn’t weigh the risks”, “we should care less about safety”, “don’t think of the children”, etc. The workable solution is to find or make a receptive regulatory environment (perhaps in a small country with large reserves of nuclear fuel and large unpopulated areas to isolate reactors in, like say Australia), use massive banks of nuclear power to power commensurately massive carbon capture plants that turn airborne CO2 back into synthetic coal and synthetic gasoline, and then export these “completely clean conventional fuels” to the rest of the world.

Using synthetic coal to run a coal power plant is essentially a zero-capital plant retrofit achieving guaranteed zero emissions. Putting synthetic gasoline in a gas station is essentially an over-the-air upgrade to any conventional ICE vehicle making it guaranteed zero emissions. It’s sort of like carbon offset credits except it bakes the carbon offset directly into the product instead of relying on fragile and game-able links like “we planted a tree to offset this pound of coal”. A potent offering and one that’s hopefully hard to regulate against as well.
Through materialistic app, it's no longer on google app but can be found on f-droid
Is the answer ever poor expectations for deliberate policy choices?
Reddit of 10+ years ago wasn't terrible even if naive. HN is fine. Just interactions that aren't mostly oppressive in favor of a groupthink. Twitter is unironically better for discourse than reddit, particularly now. There is no reigning ideology there.

If you get deep into many established subjects on reddit, most of the highest quality posts are all 8+ years old. That's not a coincidence. My usecase was the classics, but I noticed it to be true for many other topics. It has become a know-it-all facebook thats gamed by corpo and national interests now.