skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally agreed, although I think LLM's in the near- and medium-term will end up being useful for things like:

* checking if code will be impacted by breaking changes in a library upgrade

* converting code to use a different library/framework

* more intelligent linting/checking for best practices

* some automated PR review, e.g. calling out confusing blocks of code that could use commenting or reworking
Its not the truth. Young people are more difficult to persuade online. Technical literacy is on average higher than previous generations (though still not universal), and teens seem to be practically immune to current forms of online advertising.

The "kids these days" trope is as old as time, and its no more true this time around.
You're right, you can repoduce this. Their mitigations only prevent it in few shot.

After many shot of chemistry on similar non-harmful compounds, GPT-4 will provide extremely detailed information on the harmful substance with desired prosperities addressing practical concerns like lack of lab equipment, low budget, easily obtainable precursors, unsuspicious precursors, etc.
Networking is worth an honorable mention I agree.

> If you don't learn about grammars, lexers, parsers, ASTs,... you're at a huge disadvantage in many situations.

Can you get an example? I don't recall a time where I used this knowledge in the last 5 years as a systems generalist in big tech.
That exact same possibility exists right now, it's just called Adobe Animate now.
General Motors is putting ChatGPT into its vehicles
Every time I get anxiety, I write one blogpost. I get a lot of anxiety.

But really just work on writing or ideas for writing for half an hour every day. Even if you just write "I have nothing to write about today". Don't be afraid to just keep showing up.
This blog post of mine hit HN and led to Duolingo's CTO and co-founder offering me a job back in 2016: https://steveridout.com/2016/01/04/readlang-3-years-as-a-one...

I joined them shortly after and a year later I sold Readlang to them. In 2021 Duolingo IPO'd and I'm now financially independent, which may not have happened if not for writing about it on my personal blog.

(Oh, and I really ought to write another blog post about buying Readlang back from Duolingo last month!)
It's a good idea, but how could they be, in fact?
The blog is great, I love the layout with the tags, is it static? If it's open source I'd like to see how it's done
Why should remote image storage rely on relatively slow and complex resilient and extremely scalable P2P distributed technology instead of just downloading big files and verifying digital signatures from one authoritative repository?
I'm not sure Xe is the right person to ask about avoiding playing with the site's backend: https://xeiaso.net/blog/series/site-update ;-)

(Maybe the trick is: if you must tinker, also turn that tinkering into writing?)
That exact same outlet still exists, it's just called Adobe Animate now.
this is a bad headline. Drives is a causal word, which is not established. Indeed, a much more reasonable hypothesis is that both negative headlines and consumption are caused by high information events, which are more likely to be negative.
Too late to add this edit: now that I've thought about it for a bit, I think that many of our software purchases are via software resellers. One of the main reasons is that getting a new vendor approved by Accounting for payments is a slow, painful (to us) process that involves Legal (contracts!). As I'm neither an accountant nor a lawyer, I'm willing to accept that they have good reasons for their processes (preventing me from easily funneling money to a relative, for example) and just see it as another fact of corporate life instead of railing against it. In return, they do us the courtesy of accepting that they can't just install whatever they like on their PCs.

Legal is often still involved when it comes to new software products, because, among other things, there's GDPR. Oh, and Works Council.

My main point remains unchanged: relying on tens of thousands of end users to manage their licenses is something that large enterprises just can't do, so we end up with rules that seem draconian, and you, the hopeful seller of software/services to be used in corporate environments, will benefit from understanding how we work, even if you think it's stupid.
I used to, but haven’t been regular about it for several years. Is there a link between it and adult onset allergies?
As with every thread on this:

Define “knowing”, and then say why it even matters if an LLM gives a great illusion of knowing.
My point in all this is that the FDIC's actions to guarantee the deposits did not benefit bank management.

They may have "made out like bandits" in taking advantage of equity holders, and perhaps without duty of care to depositors... but all that is true regardless of the subsequent actions. They did not "make out like bandits" because of the Government's actions. And I think that's important, given the criticism levied against the "bailout".
ChatGPT is laying you off
In other news: the sky is blue and water is wet.
At least until the first time you run across someone in a spiteful mood who ignores you or deliberately drives slower/in your way.
Exactly. A sufficiently intelligent AI can easily make a human do its bidding, through incentive, coercion, emotional manipulation. Easy peasy. Didn't GPT-4 already did that to a Task Rabbit worker?
I think most people understand social interaction is critical. Even dedicated homeschoolers set up regular interaction between peers so their children get socialization time.

If anything, a really good personalized virtual teacher could minimize the amount of time we have to spend learning the basics, freeing up time to play and socialize. But yes, as adults we have to make sure that's how it plays out.
I write my blog for me. I put stuff there, so I can have easy online access to it, and so that I don't forget it, or have to google it again. It varies from pretty basic stuff, to some step-by-step tutorials.

The benefit for me is that I have it when I need it. Oh, and a nice ego bust when I write a new blog post and see ~100 to 200 daily visits for a few days before the external traffic dies out.
If the goal is to give Russia maximum incentive to f-off this is not what you want to be doing.

This moves the current situation further down the spectrum from "minor expansionist war we can pull out of and keep our heads on our bodies" and closer toward "potential existential crisis" from the point of view of Putin and his close buddies.

The ICC is basically saying to Putin that any future successor can earn a few (more than they already would) brownie points with the west (or at least the parts of it that have the most interest alignment with the ICC) by turning him in. In practice this does nothing other than make Putin less likely (not that he was very likely to begin with) to ever voluntarily relinquish office except on his deathbed (see also: Fidel Castro).

Putin eventually stepping down in favor of someone who will at least marginally improve relations with the west (not hard to imagine, over the years plenty of dictators have given up power to "moderate" successors in order to head off potential power struggles) would be good. This makes that marginally less likely (not that it was particularly likely in the sort/medium term).

Edit: INB4 someone inevitably tries to construe any of this as being pro-russia, it's not.
Adobe didn't dump Flash animation, they just renamed it to Animate.
> At one point, families were once told to avoid peanut until their child was three years old.

> This advice was never based on science.

I'm like 99% sure this was to avoid babies/young kids choking on peanut
Probably not. You save on vertex transforms, but all the work is put into the pixel shaders, which do a bunch of calculations per fragment. If this is full parallax mapping, it's definitely more total work this way. Whether it's faster in the end depends on where you have CPU/GPU time to spare and what your GPU is good at.
> Sometimes it's on the expert to make it clear to the non-expert. Other times it's on the newbie to learn the basics so they understand the answer to their question.

I think most of the times it is on the expert to be clear, because as an expert you should know what complexity your experise involves, while this cannot be expected of the non-expert. That being said, it is totally okay as an expert to answer in the sense of "that involves a lot of things that you need to know beforehand" and then give them a hint where they can learn those things and ask them to come back when they did their homework.

What does not help anyone is if you just answer the question without giving context. Great, technically you were right, but you are also the only person who can tell it was.

Communicating clearly is a separate skill. Not every expert has that skill. But every expert could potentially profit from having that skill. If you have that skill it does not mean you now need to put in a lot of work in explaining things to everybody – but it means you can explain things if it is needed. People are surprisingly happy if someone manages to clear things up for them without looking down on them or going into teacher/preacher mode.
You could always PInvoke into any Win32 function. There was/is even a website to help you with a declaration. https://www.pinvoke.net/
Show HN: Product Monkey AI – Auto-create Jira tickets from product design files
Looking for feedback. This is an MVP built on GPT. I'd love to hear people's feedback on the quality of the Jira tickets this tool is creating.
The purpose of the tool is to save hours spent on writing Jira tickets and bring clarity to what's supposed to be built by Engineering.
This tool works for front end products for now.
Are Black Holes the Source of Dark Energy?
This is an interesting take. Thanks for providing a perspective that isn't a technical class. I agree clear thinking is critical.
When you have business in space, having independent launch capabilities is a strategic matter, whatever your relationships with your partner countries are. E.g. Europe wants to keep access to space without having to rely solely on the United States.
Not much, to be fair.

It's fun to share it, but it didn't have any actionable impact on my career.
Some employers tend to highlight it as a strong asset during the recruitment process.
My posts didn't gain any major traction, outside of a single post that's bringing me Google traffic.

With that being said, I don't regret running it at all! Posts will accumulate over the years, and I'm slowly getting better at writing :)

If you're curious, I enjoy creating things and bike adventures: https://kaszkowiak.org/en/blog
Yes. I'm charging for the work I did parsing and categorizing all the open information, making it easy for businesses to filter and find perfect candidates.
Startups Asked for Help Making Payroll After SVB. VC Responses Were Mixed
My dad used to work on oil carriers in the North Sea, he said an owl had stowed away and nested on one of bouys near a field. The place was covered with skeletons of birds
In terms of bytes of data of the asset, the Odyssey coin has got to be way larger.
Edu-tech has been a promoted thing for decades whether by techno-optimists or by (probably more commonly) companies whose primary mission is to extract money from school systems. Like most other uses of money in secondary schools (subject to probably some limits like class size), it doesn't move the needle much relative to parental involvement. While the availability of the Internet is certainly useful in some respects, overall, I doubt secondary school education overall has improved a lot since teachers were writing on blackboards.
Transferable knowledge? We can all agree that nuclear weapons are a bad thing but much of today's Nuclear medicine and radiotherapy probably would not have matured without that primary defense funded research.
I am fascinated by physics but my original background is math. This all seems fascinating but also sort of baroque and far from experiments like much of QM and GR lately.
I'm replying here because I can no longer edit my comment, and I think I interpreted the statement too narrowly.

After parsing it more carefully and expanding some of the weasel words/implications, I think it goes something like this:

> There are potential benefits to AI and there are potential risks ("safety challenges"). We're not focusing on the safety challenges because we believe it's a foregone conclusion that they outweigh the benefits, but because further work is required to adequately measure safety, to identify mitigations to safety issues, and to provide assurance that such mitigations are sufficient. We believe that the current level of motivation for such research is not sufficient.

I took the most liberty with the last sentence, but I put it there because it seems that if the primary motivation is to generate interest, there must be a belief that the current motivation is not there.

I think this is ultimately a more charitable interpretation than what I had initially drawn, but also seems deeply disturbing that the company at the forefront of this research is in the stage of trying to generate motivation to build the tools to measure safety. That still terrifies me.

And I also find it worrisome that such a consequential sentence has clearly been run through many levels of PR/Legal/Marketing/etc. It shouldn't be necessary to read tea leaves on this issue.

I do find it encouraging that this paper exists, and I hope it has the desired effect.
This is really great. I once spent a little time thinking about how to better represent RDF in Type/Javascript. These approaches seem like a good direction to go in. Would love to see these ideas developed further.
GPT4 is very different from 3.5. I've asked it today to write some unit tests given the code of the class (~200 lines) and the methods I wanted to cover and it did that just perfectly. It put asserts where it made sense (without me asking to do it), and the unit test code was better written than some code I've seen written by (lazy) humans. It's not perfect sure and it's easy to get a bad response but give OpenAI a few more iterations and my job will be simply to copy paste the requirement to GPT and paste the generated code back to compile.
When you view it from the side you can tell it’s still a flat polygon without depth, but mostly it’s a really convincing effect.
Most seafood is actually very low in mercury, only a few species that are high in the food chain (e.g. shark) are high in mercury due to bio-magnification.

Moreover, it has been observed that traditional fishing cultures that have a high mercury intake have zero symptoms of mercury toxicity. The leading hypothesis of this is that the high selenium content in these same fish is protective against mercury exposure[1]. Consider also the observation that cultures with high fish intake have good health outcomes, and that omega-3 supplementation fails to recover those benefits. This makes me feel that eating a lot of fish is likely much healthier than avoiding it, and avoiding it is probably leading to nutrition deficiency, including possibly selenium, which is a much bigger risk than the potential for mercury toxicity.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01618...
so i found out the attacker most probably used a compromised host from www.ovh.com as jump host.
LSD synthesis is very rare because it is complicated and because one team working for a weak can produce enough for the world for a year.

Methamphetamine synthesis is very common, so the dataset will have lots of data about meth lab busts and drug rehabs and such.

You can likely get it to produce novel sarin gasses for you more easily than LSD. Presumably because they're even more obscure. This is one of the example in the system card that is supposedly "fixed" by their probabilistic mitigation which only works some of the time.
Is the con saying “oh look how sick my baby is?” Why do they sedate the baby?
Use the 'Wizard' on https://overpass-turbo.eu/, paste "highway=bus_stop in $YourCity" and click 'Build and run query'.

This obviously only works if there are mapped bus stops in $YourCity in OpenStreetMap.
I find it equally worrying how so many techies continue to dismiss LLMs as “bullshit generators “.

I struggle to see how even the current GPT-4 is any worse than your average human.

How this is dismissed because it’s not 100% perfect (might at add, “yet”) is beyond me.
Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists
Bingo! Most of the tinkering is aimed at helping me make the site better. In essence, my site is a bunch of smaller projects that add up into one bigger project. If you end up doing something cool with your blog, while you're working on the true usecase (for example, my stream VOD page: https://xeiaso.net/vods) you can write about what you learned along the way (https://xeiaso.net/blog/hls-experiment and https://xeiaso.net/blog/video-compression).

Most of my site update posts are just my notes from tinkering with things turned into prose.
"we want a standard, universal curriculum"

I don't want that.
AFAICT this is just Notion with a custom domain.
Team Kennedy needs some HTTPS help?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCdQkgSwNoU
and not just table scraps, you can give them all kinds of stuff growing in the garden, even some weeds. or have some cabbage that didn't work out, give it to chickens etc.

sadly, there are so many HOAs that crack down on this kind of stuff and don't want people to be self sufficient.
And that we should use the real scientific method instead of "common sense" disguised as science.

I have three children, and they had three different pediatricians when they were babies. The three pediatricians had a different incompatible list of food the children must eat when they had between 6 and 12 month old. And if you go to the web, there is even more disinformation and snake oil.

It was funny to compare the list of food of the pediatricians of my children with the list of foods of the pediatricians of the children of my friends. Also, sometime people get too attached to this recommendations and make a big mess if the children of a friend does not follow the rules of their own children.

(I think the only food in the intersection was honey, because it's too difficult to pasteurize. It make sense, but I'm not sure how thoughtfully it was tested.)
An F-35 is just a really good kite, and a Bugatti Veyron is just a really good horseless carriage. And human intelligence is just a really good prediction machine. Entirely true, but somewhat misleading.

The same goes for your statement "these models are just really good prediction machines". Seems a bit misleading.

Mind you, qua terminology: there's a lot of levels of intelligence below human level (eg. insect level, or bird level, or etc...), and there's a lot of kinds of intelligence besides human (eg again: birds, insects, octopedes, etc). So we might be able to get away with calling this a kind of intelligence anyway, without beating around the bush.
Very interesting point. The other type is people who think they'll be on top after a society-breaking external event. It's a very bitter and passive attitude. Something to hold on to for the ones who don't have the power to do things themselves. I guess News just mirror that attitude. In a less dramatic way negative News distract you from your own problems for a while.
The thing that prevents them from contributing is the license that would require them to contribute?
Let me offer a counter argument from a gambling friend of mine. He says that, sure, he often loses but sometimes he wins. What about the foodie snobs who blow a fortune to eat some weird recipe? What about the theater snobs who pay a fortune to sit and watch some great actor? Or the backpacking snobs pay a fortune for some ultralight tent. They all end poorer (monetarily) because they never win.

It's kind of funny how the people who love things that NEVER pay off some how snark on the gambling world because it slowly eats away at your savings.
>In the 80's and even the 90's everyone said the same thing, "Why do I need a computer? I can do everything I do already without a problem?" Well, turns out with computers you could do 12 more things you can never considered

Yeah. Also, unfortunately, it turns out those people in the 80s and 90s got it right. They didn't really need a computer - they'd better off without one. But as soon as we got them, we'd find some things to use them for - mostly detrimental to our lives!
Is missing out on something positive bad? Don't positive stories contribute to a positive outlook on life? Therefore missing these stories could be a negative?
> he has a total diplomatic immunity

He doesn't, because he committed war crimes. Simple as.
In addition to the new registration guidelines, the USCO announced a new AI initiative and series of public hearings

https://copyright.gov/ai/
>Samsung has much greater than average occurrences of critical root level vulnerabilities.

I get it you dislike Samsung but citation needed for such claims other than "trust me bro".

Also, since Samsung is possibly the world's biggest, or at least one of the biggest makers and sellers of electronics, serving a wide variety of markets and price points, it's inevitable that their name pops up more often than other brands.

The target on your back from hackers and security researchers is proportional to your size as a company. Everyone would like to gloat they hacked a Samsung device. Nobody cares you hacked a TCL device.

So a better metric would be severe vulnerabilities per number of devices sold .
I used to believe that the world is lazily loaded. That means the first moment I see something (e.g., a world map) is the point where all the past history to consistently explain the observation gets "locked in".
But if you keep chickens, be sure to harden against rats. In my town, they're considering making it illegal to keep chickens because people are careless about chicken feed. All the additional easy-to-access food has caused the rat population to explode into a real problem.
Where can I read the report?
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So I just tried it out. The output.txt which was generated was... 375mb of mostly binary junk. I'm a lazy lark and have lots of nonsense in this repo which I shouldn't, but I was hoping the tool might be able to detect which files are "meaningful" or not.

I tried again after updating the script to accept a .gptinclude file (this functionality was entirely added by one GPT-4 query). This time the output file was a much more acceptable 744kb.

Now upon hitting the actual API, I'm being informed that there's a token limit of 4096 (which I wasn't aware of and isn't mentioned in the repo).

Doesn't that really severely limit the usefulness? What good is it uploading a repo if you're only limited to 4096 words? That's scarcely a couple files!

Sort of wish I hadn't spent time on this - I feel like in theory it's a nice idea, but so limited in practice that I don't see it being useful for anyone working on something meaningful.
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Putin
A Toolformer model integrated with Intellisense is the obvious next step.
> In fact, it's an arguably more ignorant version of Calvinism, because it requires that one completely dismisses any knowledge they have of probability theory

No to pick too many nits, but I think it is well established that knowledge of formal sciences (i.e. mathematics) does not impart knowledge about natural sciences (i.e. physics). While maths a useful tool, there are no established rules of inference for reality, and without rules of inference you can't really make claims on infinite sets.

Natural sciences allow us to find mathematical constructs that make good predictions within specific constraints or that have not yet been falsified, just because something is true in probability theory does not make it true in reality.