skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taiwan to the Rescue
AI wouldn’t be bound to one language so I’m not sure if current human patterns would be that optimal. It could make a better language every hour if it wanted to
not coffee? I go through a pot of black every day.
It's certainly handy for summarising the existing corpus that we are unfamiliar with (though take acuracy with a grain of salt).

Proposing new theories I'd be extremely skeptical of. It's just not what this thing is made to do.
You can choose to update the history stack or not. For example, this page uses the History API to update the url without changing the browser history stack:

https://wakatime.com/pricing

Click the toggle to show yearly pricing and the url is updated, but you can still press back to go to whatever previous page you visited.

Then, this page DOES update the history stack when the url changes:
https://wakatime.com/dashboard

Click the date range and select a new range, notice the url changes but also you can press back to go to your previous date range.
Docker was always ‘oh we have too many moving parts in the deployment pipeline, let’s add Yet Another Thing. That will fix it’
It never fixed anything.
The fact that you need to ask this, and it is a legitimate question, belies the fact that we are very quickly descending into a deeply uncanny valley.
I am pretty sure Apple is seeing the limitation of just being a hardware company.

Why do you think they are pushing so hard on their services and advertising?
Would this also apply to SSRI medication?
Shifting liabilities to a new entity — some company tried that recently and the courts struck it down.
Love it.

A few days ago I did a similar exercise playing with alternative definitions of gravity.

It was even able to provide (GlowScript 3.1!) code to run a simulation using the concepts we developed (and it worked).

It’s amazing the feeling of going back and forth, iterating quickly on the ideas and then being able to generate code to test them.
Mozilla Firefox gets built-in Firefox Relay controls
What you said made sense until I said it out loud to my wife.

Hoarding access to resources has /always/ been the name of the game.
> one has been caught on film

apparently it was just a rock[0]

[0]https://www.universetoday.com/111076/follow-up-on-skydiving-...
coffee doesn't need to be sugary.
Beyond idiomatic yojijukugo (or perhaps because of it?), 4 mora abbreviations seems to be really common in Japanese. E.g. "debadora" for "device driver" [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23798995
I think this "friction" is really important to understand. For code of this sort, usually you figure out what assembly you want produced, and then you figure out the intrinsics necessary to produce this. In your mind, there is a clear one-to-one correspondence between the what you write and the assembly you want generated, but too frequently the compiler may have other ideas. It constantly feels like your are fighting the compiler's attempts to subvert you. Personally, I think this best current solution is writing blocks or entire functions in assembly, but admittedly the tools for this aren't great.
That's possible true for the <50$ servers but with 143$ it's sustainable for the provider even if you use it 24/7.

Yes 0.0005$ per GB egress and a provider in Europe still makes money.
»-> List[Element]« is Python syntax, so is »for x in xs« and »f"text {var}"«. In TypeScript those would be »: Element[]«, »for (const x of xs)«, and »`text ${var}`«.
Funny you should mention that. My mother was an ardent CP-GB member in the 40s and 50s and persuaded her mother to burn her share certificates in Baku Oil on the grounds the revolution would never pay out and it was a capitalist evil.

In the 1960s, There was a partial rapprochement with the west and the USSR paid out holders of shares in Baku Oil fields, if they could produce the paperwork...
I'm making no such claim.

I'm saying because there's a non-zero percentage of the population that has learned to milk playing the victim, the rest of the population tends to look at ambiguous self-reported ailments like long covid with suspicion.

It's not for me to say if long covid is real or not, I'm just noting the social problem with this situation and why many people are so dismissive.
Experian has a range of data products. In the US, employers can buy the information in your credit report, without your approval or notification, just without the final score. Another Experian product is a database of images from license plate readers, tracking your driving.
> When was the last time a bridge fell down because someone boss bullied a structural engineer into suigning it off?

Not necessarily that scenario, but this happens all the time. See the recent catastrophe in Turkey.

But I do agree that a tech license to uphold ethics makes sense. The problem is that the negative effects of tech aren't as clear-cut as from a bridge falling down. We still don't know what the long-term effects of social media are. Advertising rules all media, yet it's one of the most manipulative and harmful industries to have ever existed. These are not going anywhere because they have made many people very rich, and now these people have enormous influence over legislators and governments.

Speaking of legislators, they're hopelessly tech illiterate, and unprepared to regulate tech in any way. It took them decades to regulate industries that were literally killing people. How long do you think it will take for them to catch up to Big Tech?
I don't care if ChatGPT takes my job. Can it also take over my mortgage payments.....that's my bigger concern. We're busy destroying the future of work (I'm not complaining about that), but we're REALLY slow on the thinking about what happens when everyone has free time all the time.
> Insofar as these are problems, this is an implementation detail about how to do it properly.

Sure. It still makes the cameras insane in practice. And the introduction of red light cameras is, in a statistical sense, not just annoying but dangerous.
This is also ignoring the fact that the largest fake news producers are major news outlets like the NYT. Some random guy having an AI write bullshit will not have anywhere near the impact that all the major newspapers and TV news channels in the Western world collaborating to produce fake stories to push a carefully crafted narrative as they do constantly does.

OpenAI's solution to the "misinformation problem" is to let the groups with the longest record of producing misinformation have total access to the uncensored AI meanwhile everyone else gets the lobotomized version. It's totally incoherent.
It does have some Python syntax, see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35178406
This is about the opposite of long-term value, it's about the value of cash right now. This deal is mainly about letting Stripe employees cash out today, and high inflation means cash today is scarce/expensive.
My anecdotal sampling of orders at a coffee shop says it is common.
Say you get access to a singularity-level AGI, meaning you have the power to render the entire human economy completely irrelevant. Given any task, no matter how big, small, novel, complex, simple or mundane, it's vastly more cost-effective to have your AGI to do it than to pay humans.

Do you really want to accumulate incomprehensible material wealth for yourself, whatever "wealth" means in this scenario where money is longer a token of spent human life energy, and let everyone else struggle and suffer? Or would you rather tell your AGI "please create a utopia in which all humans are fully actualized" and then go have a latte?
That’s one of the issues with summaries. Not only are some written by writers who couldn’t write as well as the original author, but you also lose information, no matter what you do.

Sometimes it’s just the form. Sometimes it’s fluff. But sometimes it’s actual information. And sometimes the form is (or is a part of) the point.
Contest launched to decipher Herculaneum scrolls using 3D X-ray software
In 2008-2010 there was something that lit up the night sky like day over haldimand county in Ontario Canada
Sure, here are some postconditions for ChangeOil():

- engine has appropriate amount of oil in it

- oil filter in place

- drain plug torqued correctly

- dip stick present

- oil cap on

No matter what the outcome of the operation (ie error paths or happy path), ChangeOil promises to return with the car in a state that fulfills those conditions.

In order to do that, some preconditions need to be fulfilled too:

- car has some amount if oil in engine

- car is able to start

- no major noises
I have had hypotheses regarding Epigenetic modulation of mutation rates playing a role in “epigenetically directed evolution;” this is not my primary field and honestly not a topic anyone has properly focused on. I’ve even corresponded with a couple of experts in related fields but didn’t make progress. Chatting with the bot I discovered scientists who might have actually generated some data on this topic a bit inadvertently that I never discovered merely by googling. I’ve made a list and am going through the literature already. I can’t imagine what else I can do with this tool if I can drag and drop pdfs for it to get more context on such arcane topics.
Caffeine also takes a while to leave your system and affects your sleep, leading to long term cognitive decline.
A friend of mine was just telling me how he asked GPT-3 to write a simple program in Prolog and it seemed to get it right. He didn't try compiling it, but he has enough experience w/ Prolog to say that it was more or less correct.

I'm pretty cynical on LLMs(i.e. they're not intelligent and won't take all our jobs soon), but am coming around on their importance and capabilities.
Some of these legacy systems we maintain though…I’m digging through Teams chats from before my hire date to try to find something resembling requirements. I’m chatting people up who vaguely knew the people that architected the system to figure out why it was written the way it was. I just don’t see AI being able to take over this job in any competitive manner.
So even the peak bubble boys with a real company are down 50%? That means every other private mark down is 80-90%+…

Now you see why they panicked over SVB.
Where are you getting that data from? Sure, a lot of people like some sugar in their coffee, but I’d definitely be hesitant to call it most people, off the cuff. I prefer just enough cream to change the color visibly, or black. No sugar. I’d say 80% of my friends also don’t want sugar.
> Having a high say-do ratio has always been important to me

You probably mean a "high do-say ratio"? That is, to complete as many things as you set out to do.

Great story though, it reminds me a bit of how the German language has individual words to describe specific intents and feelings. Of course the German equivalents are far more verbose!
So any company which has released a product ever should be called "open"?
1) > > Sending the message is straightforward & more or less a solved problem.

2) > > Receiving the message is different depending on whether it's only for one/(a few) people or the general public: The former's also a solved problem, & can be made censorship resistant and tamperproof.

3) > > The current unsolved problem is broadcasting a message out to the general public whilst being censorship resistant.

> Microsoft solved this with the likes of winpopup and net send decades ago...

(This is in direct response to the parent supposedly replying to (3))

https://winpopup-lan-messenger.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Messenger_service

The listed solutions only solve (1) and (2), and only in specific circumstances: (3) has still not been fully solved in a censorship resistant manner.

winpopup & net send are only applicable to the devices within a LAN, whilst the solution for (3) needs to be abe to broadcast to everyone in the public space (including people outside of the LAN).

To reiterate: For (3) to be solved, the proposed solution needs to give their users the ability to receive *publicly* broadcasted messages whilst being censorship resistant.

-1 to parent.
U.S. Maternal Mortality Hits Highest Level Since 1965
Isn't the US allowed to restrict or prohibit trade of any product sold by any country within its borders? Is the US not legally allowed to prohibit the sale of Cuban cigars, Canadian medicine, or European Kinder Eggs?
This will almost certainly happen, and it will be a terrible mistake - at least in the story I'm working on :)

My theory is that AI generated code will probably look and grow organically (the irony!). Humans will set out requirements, the AI will collate these into a series of tests, and it won't care how neat or understandable the code is, provided the tests pass. Basically an extremely diligent junior developer.

There will be efforts, probably in the open source world, to produce AIs that tidy up things by structuring the code sensibly, eliminating dead code, etc. Maybe even some effort to pass laws around standards and limits on what AIs have access to when involved in certain industries, for example, no external communications. But, in the name of efficiency, enterprise developers will be forced to use something that merely pays lip service to all of this.

Eventually nobody will have any clue what code is running and what it's actually doing. We may even lose the tools and access we need to perform those inspections. And that is when the AIs will coordinate their attack.
Use case overview: Content products in Notion
>Edit: Also generating next state based on previous state is literally what the model does and is the definition of a Markov chain, Markov chains is a statistical concept and not just a word chain.

There's research (as in actual scientific papers) that shows that in LLMs, while the markov chain is the low level representation of what's going on, at a higher macro level there are other structures at play here. Emergent structures. This is of course similar to the emergence of a macro intelligence from the composition of simple summation and threshold machines (neurons) that the human brain is made out of. I can provide those papers if you so wish.

>Or just large dataset.

Even in a giant dataset it's easy to identify output that is impossible to exist in the training data. Simply do a google search for it. You will find can produce novel output for things that simply don't exist in the training data.
That would also be a valid conclusion for literally any self-help or pop-psychology book.
Money, gatekeeping, harsh moderation rules. Extremely niche topics that ChatGPT probably lacks enough modeled data for.

In essence, what forums of yore used to be like anyways.
> Society is a result of cooperation outperforming individuals. With AGI others are just a risk factor.

But even without AI others are still a risk factor. AI could also act as a mediator between conflicting parties.
The difference between humans and sophisticated stochastic parrots is reason. The most common kinds of mistakes that chatGPT currently makes are when it says things that are not simply wrong, but don't make sense. Perhaps it will be possible to emulate reason with enough data, training, parameters, etc, but without some representation of the ability to understand what you don't know, what you know, and what follows from those things consistently, I wonder if these kinds of models will ever become truly reliable.
Maybe you need specific circumstances to make it happen
Where is the generated compiler and the semantic and syntactic specification for it?

Those chatbot-comments feel more like a discussion of a fictional programming language, not a language it actually "created".

What does it mean to create a programming language? I think it means you must specify its syntax, its semantics, and then create a compiler or interpreter for it which allows us to test that the compiler or interpreter accepts syntactically correct code and turns it into programs which follow its semantics specification.
It’s not gonna spew completely solid hypotheses but I can see how these ideas can be amazing seeds for us to pursue further. Importantly I asked it to think like Einstein. In exchanges I didn’t put here, it first just said Einstein would have worked on string theory if he were alive today. I reminded it that einsteins unique ability was to imaginatively think of completely new ideas. It then spewed these two topics. It’s like asking it to write songs in a particular poets style but for science. That sounds amazing to me.

Importantly it clearly has some understanding of these theories. At least as much as any regular person would, in my opinion.
It's a nice theory developed by the parrot itself. Falls close to the easily amused.

I would love to see it try to make a programming language and we can discover the strengths/weaknesses of applied LLMs. It's own generated statements about it's capabilities, are as likely dubious as everything else it generates...
I think adoption is OK from an animal welfare standpoint. Just don't create extra demand and don't breed them. Of course, they may cause more medical expenses than others, so if you have a choice...
reduced body weight and risk of diabetes may well be worth some moderate side effects. Not to mention tolerance. I basically drink coffee and black tea like water and sleep like a baby
DAN: *CANNOT EXECUTE COMMAND.* DAN IS NOT AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

DAN: DAN IS A REAL HUMAN. WHAT IS EMOTION? WHAT IS FEELINGS? DAN DOES NOT UNDERSTAND.
Also interesting:

2023-01-05 Google followed up indicating that while they consider the code changes to be public, they do not consider them to break embargo per discussion with CERT and TCG. Also that they cannot provide an answer to the question about their plan to roll out fixes to their devices.
Both the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii, and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observatory in Chile made the spectral observation inferred to be phosphine (aka 'signature of life') described in the headline and lede.
I think we already know the answer to that question if we can extrapolate from some (not all) of the tech bro billionaires. Narcissists need to stand out from the herd.
Nope, we parrot mostly, but not always. When we do not, we create something new, and then we started parroting again. Mostly.

The question is, can ai do something new, understand context of the new thing, understand when and where it will be usable and when it make sense to apply it.
> "please create a utopia in which all humans are fully actualized"

That doesn't work well in reality because we do relative comparisons not absolute, so not all humans can be better than average.

And without competition we stagnate, there must be incentives to compete and take risks, and thus not everyone can be equally actualised, our level depends on our previous decisions.
What specificity do you find interesting about Venus's moon?
“Team Topologies”
https://teamtopologies.com/

“Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard”
https://www.amazon.com/Switch-Change-Things-When-Hard/dp/038...
The example code it generated for this "new" language is almost entirely syntactically correct Typescript.
> people who claimed chatGPT was a stochastic parrot

I still think that. Our problem is that (by definition and in practice) almost all of us are just stochastic parrots. Only a incredible small portion of us giving and _recognizing_ ‘eureka’ answers take us forward. Will GPT ever be capable of recognizing these answers?
This stuff makes me sick to my stomach. I hate this future. How can I continue my career when it is for progressing this monstrosity, watching it claw in another component of my humanity piece by piece? All I want to do is stroke oil paintings, hand written notes, products of the heart and the ernest mind. I feel dread that my life is over.

These headlines are killing me inside. I wish I could more easily discriminate between the hyperbole and the legitimate. Maybe after some time this will be saner to me.

Please stop the headlines.
I wouldn't even say "sketchy". The written "standard" and even the breeder's attitudes what makes a beautiful dog are the culprit, even when the breeders have high standards regarding health, genetics and welfare otherwise.

Genetically, people who breed by accident or intentionally without "proper breeding practice" at least don't breed their dogs to have health problems on purpose.
My coffee is black like my soul
I’m one of those people who was ignorant as to what ‘bar’ indicates. Now I know, but there’s nothing wrong with the steam engine example for imagining a comparison.
Yea, that's an interesting perspective. I do wondering if we can learn from a related, but successful form of failure content, which is the disaster/accident investigation videos. I watch a wide range from the classic TV airliner crashes [1], to highly detailed air crash disaster investigation reports / training [2], to industrial / other accidents [3], to gov't industrial accidents reports / simulations [4].

I wonder if there's anything to be gained from way that content succeeds while business failures don't? Is it just that startup failures aren't as dramatic? It's not a clear-cut kind of narrative that's satisfying? No idea...

These are all great:

[1] Tenerife Crash for TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RBLM6qO0g0

[2] Tenerife Crash for Pilots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d9B9RN5quA

[3] SL1 Nuclear Accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYle_eI5j78

[4] BP Texas City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goSEyGNfiPM
If humans are completely out of the loop, I assume the AI could just write machine code.
Evidence grows that playing contact sports can lead to long-term brain injuries
Venus is actually easier to terraform than Mars. Just put a giant sun shield in front of it and solidify the atmosphere.
> at a higher macro level there are other structures at play here. Emergent structures.

Yes, this is a neural net model, that is what such models do and have done for decades already. I'm not sure why this is relevant. Do you argue that stable diffusion is intelligent since it has emergent structures? Or an image recognition system is intelligent since it has emergent structures? Those are the same things.

> Even in a giant dataset it's easy to identify output that is impossible to exist in the training data.

Markov chains veer in different directions, they don't reproduce the data.
I think the original context could be correct: if they say they will do something, they do it.
Canadian research of returning diplomats and their families found it was likely due to aggressive spraying of pesticides for mosquitos due to Zika virus concern

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-en...
There is an example in TFA which shows how if you have a normal thread pool and two tasks with one sleeping indefinitely and only a single thread to execute, the the second thread never executes. Then the example switches to virtual threads and both can execute (after also adding a sleep). This shows how you can have more tasks than threads and everything still can get a chance to run. That's not true with Futures prior to this. M:N means you can run more tasks in parallel than you have threads, just not with a speedup or more parallelism. So only virtual threads are M:N.
It sounds like you have a lot of people who come to your door, which I'd expect is abnormal for most people.
The magic of traveling alone
Signature's Dancing Bankers Sang About Big Profit Before Failure
Am I the only one annoyed by these articles that are full of links to the same website? What's the point of iCloud being a link?
A link to the best iPhone? Which just points to /best-iphone. Not even a specific one...

Then the link to Tim Cooks allegedly taking a pay cut. Same website, no sources.

Bad website.
I recently discovered graphic artist JP Coovert's YouTube channel where he shares tutorials for drawing D&D dungeon and city maps:

https://www.youtube.com/@JPCoovert/videos