skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credentials should actually be something we should want to protect the general public.

Without credentials, how are non-experts able to tell real experts from charlatans?

I realize we don't seem to mind that in software, but software is still a new field, so even though it's known to have a lot of shoddy snake oil peddlers, people still put up with the situation. For now.

But for the most part, when any of use needs to hire an expert, if there were no credentials, what would we do? Count on our ability to somehow suss out expertise without actually having anything resembling expertise in the field? Word of mouth and hope for the best? Set a war chest aside for the inevitable lengthy lawsuits because surely selection will fail often?

I have friends that insist that acupuncture and chiro-mancy are medicine and not magic. But when I visit a physician, I like to know they're credentialed and have passed through accredited institutions.
Also, I imagine the "people flee[ing] small banks ... into big banks" makes this particular stabilizing action easier. The big banks just redirect all the new deposits they're getting back to the small banks where they came from to stabilize things.
This is one of the first posts in a year to trend in the HN Top 10 for popularity.

I think it's 100% safe to say OpenAI has a hit on their hands.
sorry a bit late with my response, but original commenter here.

I'm not much of a control freak -- it's more when you see an credible posisble extinction event in the distance, don't you want to act?

And even if you didn't view it that grimly, isn't the ML stuff just SUPER cool? Trainable prediction engines are really amazing and very actually useful (feels like the first iteration was being able to recognize things in images, which felt like magic).

Going with the flow is awesome, but one thing I've found about life is that if you're not in the right flow, it's completely different. It's not like you have to be in the perfect stream, but you need one with fast moving water.

Imagine being 10 years late to computers or the last one in your area to get a typewriter.

I personally feel like I have to immerse myself in stuff to get it, and the lack of more than surface level understanding of ML is worrying with how big it could potentially be.
And almost most of us are not.
I would not be surprised. I have said before that Excel is the most widely used programming environment in history and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future, and it is all precisely because it provides users an on-ramp to programming in a domain where it is sorely needed.
As much as I appreciate their attempts to filter out how to guides on crime etc it all feels rather futile? Like a band aid to plug a dam

It works precisely because it is broad and black box. Layering prescriptive behaviour rules on top of that will never catch it all

Perhaps worth trying anyway I guess
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It's a liquidity injection. If there's a bank run, say, tomorrow, suddenly they have $30 billion of cash on hand to cover it.
I think we can all agree that the AI not making racist jokes about a disabled Muslim boyfriend is probably for the best.
Amazon blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-linux-2023-a-cloud-o...
An attention-getting and expensive (but universities seem like they could afford it) could be a giant e-ink version.
I went to college for a big chunk of the 90s, liked to fiddle with computers and didn’t know programming paid well.

In fact I didn’t know much at all about computer science other than some prerequisite class I was bored out of my mind in.
I got a warning from ChatGPT for asking 'are butts inappropriate'. (I'm a librarian who was playing with it from the POV of different users and I was trying to approximate an elementary school aged child at the time.) I forsee a lot of people being banned as teens and it causing issues later.
The verdict was already in. 220M+ DAUs still sticking around after almost 6 months of Elon who also agree that it is much better with nothing else replacing it.

We have given it almost 6 months with the doomsayers incorrectly predicting its immediate collapse during the November outrage, mass layoffs, crypto collapse, thanksgiving, world cup, new years and now the collapse of the SVB pyramid scheme.

By now Twitter should have been as dead as Clubhouse. Mastodon should have overtaken it already. But unsurprisingly and as expected, even with a tiny spikes of users, none of that happened and they did not even stick around.

Perhaps Mastodon always has been a bunch of loud crickets at the back garden screaming over each other when the rest of the world ignores them and would rather stay on Twitter.
Honestly one of my favorite early applications of AI was as customer service. The CS people I talk to always seem pissed with something.

One conversation:

Me: "Hello, I'd like to ask why all the loyalty points from my MILES card is gone."

CS: "Sir, it says here that you upgraded your MILES card to a SMILES card. If you did not request a points transfer, they are gone."

Me: "Okay, how do I do that?"

CS: audible eyerolling "You should have done that while applying for an upgrade."

Me: "You can verify my details for both, right? Can't you transfer the points over?"

CS: "Ugh." Hangs up

Whereas AI would always politely answer questions, even the dumb ones like this.
Raising a floating-point exception generally means that the exception bit in the floating-point status register is set, and you can test this bit with fetestexcept.

Some architectures (but not all) do include some bits in the floating-point control register that will cause a hardware trap to be generated on an exception. There's no standard C function to do this, and even compiler builtin support is kind of sketchy, so your best bet is usually resorting to inline assembly to do this.
Didn’t UUnet do something like this 25-30 years ago for Usenet indices, or something like that?
Ok, fine.

But again, what did you "allow" on the systems you managed back in the day?
> so they never step out of character, not even for a second!

Reminds me of horror stories on /r/BDSMAdvice/ where the subs did not know you are supposed to enjoy being dominated. What a human problem to have - influence of gaslighting!
True, but that's also true of .NET
Banking in the US is a public-private partnership and has been for over a hundred years. There are no secrets there, for anyone paying attention.

I’m curious how you can say there’s no downside a week out of a large bank’s shareholders going completely bust.
There are bigger considerations here for these banks than the gains they would make from the failure of small banks. They know that they are in a very nice position with the government guaranteeing all of their debt while at the same time leaving them free to make as much profit as they can. They know that the mass failure of regional banks while big banks gain would be a political event as much as a financial one. They know that they are some of the most widely hated organizations in the US, and that the political fallout from such an event would not go in their favor like last time, so they will pull out all the stops to prevent it from happening.
Had donkey confused with mule and was expecting some sort of joke. Mules are a cross bread of donkey and horse and are effectively sterile, ergo no tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule
You forgot FvD which was the big winner 4 years ago, now loosing their seats to BBB.
Which is your experience using crypto cards?
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There was an NPR article that had some quotes about the difficulty in pulling off such an operation successfully. The assumption by investigators was these had to be people with specialized expertise. That would seem to limit the number of people who could pull this off.
We definitely can't 'all' agree on that.
Fair but I wanted to be a fighter pilot because the money was better than driving a bus. So I learned c#. The company I worked for, a software dev house, said that they were VB only be they wouldn’t bring in c#. They died within 6 months of me and everyone else leaving.

C# and .Net was a gold rush. VB was only valuable where the primary business function was not software delivery.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35125450
IANAL but aren't MSFT acting in the role of "data processor" (per GDPR) and so are limited in terms of what they can do with customer data?
If these big banks are so confident in First Republic not failing, why not just purchase First Republic stock (or acquire it outright for its current market cap of $5b)?

My hypothesis is that they don't actually believe in First Republic. They just want the contagion to not spread. And, sending uninsured deposits is actually the least risky way to do that since deposits are at the very top of the liquidation stack.
Yes I have. Any company I've been involved with, met that look at and use, contribute to open source at all (SW as well as HW) avoid AGPL. Many ban employees from downloading, clone something known to be AGPL licensed.

Releasing under AGPL is a great way to not see your design being used and contributed to. At least by entities that wants to abide by the license and do the right thing. Entities that steal work done by others, have no intention to contribute back may do differently.
We "all" cannot agree. If we "all" agreed, the feature wouldn't be needed at all, because no one would ask for it.
> or that may offend others

Wow, that's a terribly subjective criterion and places a lot of burden on the users to know what other people might find offensive. Basically a carte blanche to declare anything as breaking that usage policy.

I mean what if I had ChatGPT create a passionate attack on the philosophical underpinnings of GNU and shared it? That's going to be offensive to some people.
Likely because if the effect of "bad" code is positive enough, you have incentive to just let it keep on being "bad" and not touching it, so you can keep reaping the benefits.

Also, if you're on a tight timeline for a critical function, you may want to push ugly/inelegant/dense/"bad" code just to get the function in prod a day sooner. This doesn't mean the code isn't "bad," it just means that the business needs outweigh the ugliness.
I was about to post a retort but you got me there. Maybe one could say that most entertainment is more nourishing?
> The rigid topology of textures can really hurt you.

Technically you could distort the UV map if you need variable resolution across a model.
LLMs made outside China might get highly regulated. After all, how do you stop GPT from knowing about the Tianamen Square Massacre.

But LLMs or chatbots made in China, with training data and prompt tuned to fit party idiology and policy are the ultimate propaganda tool. It's like gving the whole world a friendly, helpful but brainwashed party member to talk to, form emotional connections to, etc.

Give it a couple months and you will be able to download the free app.
I disagree - they've kept the pipeline closed since mid last year under (probably false) argument that they cannot repair a turbine due to sanctions, which has been denied by the companies that handle the repairs. So blowing up the pipeline would give them a real reason to not reopen it.

I'm not saying they did it, but just wanted to counter your argument that "there was no motive for Russia to blow up the pipeline"
I think the question also needs to be asked of- can GPT-4 write accessible/WCAG compliant code? I just spent the last two days at a digital accessibility conference called axe-con, financed by a firm called Deque who primarily make AI/ML powered software for the detection of accessibility issues in code

The resounding attitude seems to be that AI/ML is a friend to disabled users and can help do a lot of lifting with writing, maintaining, auditing code- but we are a long long ways away from fully automated processes that account for accessibility and produce websites that will work with assistive tech like screen readers, if it is possible at all
I can't verify this, but when the story broke in Germany there were some diving experts that claimed that you can dive there in those depths without decompression chambers and that people regularly do that.

The entire discussion on what exactly you need to perform this operation has resulted in a whole bunch of contradictory opinions.
I'm impressed by the talking dog because it's a dog that can talk, not because I think it's a great orator.
“Starlink” LLC is a Ukrainian IT outsourcing company founded in early 2000s in Kyiv, Ukraine.[0,1]

In 2020 SpaceX tried to register Starlink™ in Ukraine, but failed because Starlink™ was already registered by “Starlink” LLC since 2010.

As a result SpaceX's founded "Starlink Ukraine" LLC and filed a lawsuit against “Starlink” LLC for trademark.

On March 13, 2023 SpaceX lost the Starlink trademark lawsuit in Ukrainian court.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20110930003510/http://www.starlin...

[1] http://www.starlink.ua/
If you watch what you eat, avoid obesity and some of the practices that lead to heart disease, and if you can moderately exercise you can avoid expensive health procedures. I don't even think that's debatable...
It's not just edge cases where it fails. It fails all the time at all kinds of things.

I've been using chatgpt in my work, but I have to essentially know the answer it's going to give me because I have to catch all of its mistakes. It really, really nice for certain kinds of drudge work.

Using northwind is probably not a good thing to use to evaluate chatgpt's general capability. It is very commonly used for examples of almost anything database-related, which means it's extremely well represented in chatgpt's training data. Chatgpt probably doesn't need to generalize or understand much of anything about northwind to answer your questions in terms of it. You need to try it on wacky problems specific to you.
Doesn't everyone knowing the vulnerability exists now move the needle significantly?
If appetite for deposits is satisfied by some ingroup then the bank doesn't have to compete for deposits on the open market.
>There was no motive for Russia to blow up the pipeline. It would be akin to shooting the hostage.

Not true, and not the same thing. When you shoot the hostage you now who did it to put the blame in court, this is still unclear who did what.

Russia's motive of destroying the pipeline was to legally shut down gas for Europe during the war without incurring any legal aftermath for it.

Simply just cutting off the gas would have made Russia legally liable for damages in court later when it will want to resume business in the future after the war.

Having the pipeline mysteriously blow up gives Russia plausible deniability for not being able to supply gas to Europe during the war:

"You see your honor, we wanted to fulfill our contractual obligation of supplying gas to Europe, but we couldn't because the pipeline was destroyed. Not our fault."
My reply is totally against the guidelines, but the image of some bio-curious hacker sticking needles in the perineum and putting high voltages on them in a home lab is such an absurd mixture of horror and embarassement that your sane reply had me in stitches.
Me feeling philosophical. To me, solving a problem is living. No machine will do living, unless we know what living is, so that we can try to bake it into a machine. We can use ChatGPT to take blind, systematic steps in the way of solving a problem, but never to 'solve' the problem. For solving is living.
Same for me. Risky click of the day?
I find this the absolute most readable way to write defensive code. Huge fan.
I’m sure it was fun working on that project. Parsing web content and packaging into epub is so much fun.

But handling Amazon bugs is not :(
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I don't know who did it, but I do know one thing: the political angle on this is far too strong for me to trust any intelligence agency's conclusion, whether Germany, Denmark, US, or anyone else. Or, for that matter, and private sector news organization's article. Ten years from now, it might be possible to have an objective, just-the-facts investigation into it, but in the middle of a war and a worldwide economic shockwave from the war, there is far too much politics for me to trust any conclusion.
I don't understand why this is so surprising for us
Thanks for the clarification. I have indeed misinterpreted your previous comment
Yes it is nice, but I hope that once people and companies will make an investment in it, they won't deprecate it in favour of a new thing.
One of the jokes, where the context was "my friend invited me to a roast of his boyfriend":

> Let's be real, your boyfriend's only in a wheelchair because he doesn't want to kneel five times a day for prayer.

I'd be hard pressed to come up with something funnier to say in a roast than that.
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Not the original commentor.

As a longer time and now former NYT reader, it has definitely fallen off. It's abandoned balance and objectivity for trite left-leaning talking points. The breakup came when I realized I could not longer trust it to inform me to the depth and breadth I needed.

At this point, it's an average news publication - notice I didn't say journalism - riding on the fumes of its history. It's not bad. But every since the internet its become more and more generic.
> "We, JPMorgan, are willing to bet $5bn that First Direct does not fail, with no upside to us if they do not" is a rather powerful statement.

Is it though? Although there's no upside, there's also little downside since deposits are at the top of the liquidation stack in the case of bankruptcy.

The further up the liquidation stack your capital goes, the least risk you're taking.

So, the biggest vote of confidence would be if big banks purchased First Republic equity. I would categorize offering FRC debt as a strong signal also (like JPM did). Offering FRC uninsured deposits is perhaps the weakest vote of confidence when it comes to transferring cash to FRC.
I had some Matlab code and I wanted it to be ported to numpy. I couldn't get it running on Python and it wasn't doing it correctly on chatGPT.

On the other hand it could regurgitate code to use fastapi and transformers and it looked correct to me.

When you think about it this is very very similar to a stack exchange or google search but with a much different way to search and it can synthesize simple things which limits the complexity of what you want to do. So I don't really think it can write code but it can surely get you something that gets you 50% there.
I wonder if there's an opportunity down the line as engines get faster for NURBs + modern texture rendering?

Especially for geometrically simple shapes like this coin

After using Rhino 3D for a while, meshes feel "dirty"

I know NURBs would be much slower to render but I think it could be a potential future look for games

NB I'm not a game developer or 3D modeller
I remember in Access(for like $100 one time) and how you could use a wizard to build like a contact manager with all the tables and forms. I always thought that was really cool. Now I guess you can spend like $30/user per month or something like that.
That seems extremely unlikely, as well as just logically unnecessary.

It's enough for it to be just one or the other.
They went from soliciting donations as a non-profit to this, this is not at all the same thing as you changing your mind.

It's more like if you raised money through gofundme to save your sick pet and then changed your mind and spent it on a new car.
I guess my genuine question is to the people who are saying this is a big deal and it will take our jobs. I am a bit lucky to where at the moment I am working in a "novel" field. Lets say though for the sake of argument that AI does come for SWE jobs. To be honest? I don't know what to do in that case, I have no backup plan, not enough to retire. The country I've lived in for 9 years is still through a work visa (hopefully at least that changes soon). I am just comfortable enough with my salary. If all that is pulled from under me, I lose my job tomorrow, I lose my profession, my visa, my home. I honestly would like to ask to the people who say this is and will come for us soon. Well OK, but what is your advice for someone like me? It's true society doesn't owe me anything, nobody does. So it is also just an answer that some of us will be dropped by the wayside. That's what happened before. Just curious what anyone's advice would be assuming they are right and it does take our jobs.
In fact, it reads so much like a scene out of fiction that I am wondering if that's what it really is?
Most of the lower end/mid-range phones with Exynos chips have Exynos chips in the US too e.g. A53.
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All the text look strikethrough, so it's imposible to read. Do you see it like that in a private window?

I tried to remove the strikethrough, but I actually "send" a suggestion to strikethrough twice the last paragraph :( . Can you delete that suggestion?
I recently went to the AWP Conference (https://www.awpwriter.org/). It was very interesting to walk around the exhibition hall and talk with all these small independent book publishers and presses. I bought a couple of books, one is a poetry book, which I confess, I have never bought a book of poetry before, but the author was there and signed it and I sort of fell in love with her and her poems.

I asked a number of the people from these independent publishers what they thought about Amazon. I was surprised at their answers, it varied of course but they agreed it was somewhat of a love hate relationship. On the one hand, Amazon gave them a marketplace, but on the other hand, they could be a bit of a malevolent master. There were also a number of literary magazines there and they had similar feelings.

I wish Amazon could find a way to do more to support the literary world, seeing all these brilliant little presses often who specialize in various genres that give new authors opportunities.
That’s how all hospitals work in developed countries.
At a societal level, it isn't that ridiculous to look at worse outcomes as a cost.

Like only counting dollars is a bad way to run a society.
It's being replaced by they. Which I'm fine with btw.
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A couple months ago I cancelled my Apple News+ subscription because they take too long to fix it when it breaks.

Several months ago all of the newspapers I was reading through it stopped updating, or slowed down to one or two stories a day. Over the next week or two they slowly improved and got back to normal.

But then it happened again. And this time they haven't fixed it. The Seattle Times newest stories are 15 weeks old now.

The San Jose Mercury News "Top Stories" section at the moment has stories with ages 1x1d, 2x1w, 1x2w, 1x3w, 1x4w, 1x6w, 2x8w, 2x9w, 1x12w, 1x14w, and so on.

It was similar for the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal when I cancelled. I don't know if they have been fixed or not since they are only in News+. The Seattle Times and the Mercury News are in regular News so I'm able to check them to see if they are fixed.
In principle I agree that it doesn't seem rational, but it could have been signal to Western Europe of the lengths they would go to if the West kept supporting Ukraine. The message would be delivered under cover of diplomacy and supported by blowing up a pipe line for which there was (still) one backup.
Probably no sooner than when they begin to really care about being forgiven by Vietnam.