skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never smoked. But I get up from my desk and go for a walk when I get stuck and sometimes just when things are going a bit slowly. Occasionally I continue thinking about the problem but mostly I just enjoy the sunshine, the view of the river, etc. Works just the same
Totally reasonable. But as a large established company their core competencies change a bit: Protecting existing revenue streams is a different skill set from creating new ones - and now they need both and the former might indeed have more of an "Versailles vibe" about it.
I love my Synology NAS. It handles photos great: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/photos
GPT-4: Top 3 things it unlocks that were previously impossible
Summary:

1. Image support ⇒ app/browser automation and new mobile camera use cases

2. Longer context ⇒ input/output entire stories, websites, apps and massively improve no-code tools

3. Better reasoning ⇒ solve tougher problems (taxes!) and education tasks

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Would love to hear the HN community's thoughts!
Venus is "easy" to get to, and that's a major reason for its appeal. You'll also get radiation protection (it has an induced magnetic field), and a leak is less likely to be catastrophic since the pressure outside is about the same as inside, and you get real gravity rather than having to expend the immense resources to try to spin up a whole asteroid. Venus may well turn out to be one of the easiest places in the solar system to settle.
I thought these attacks work on a much lower layer - by adding a repeater, which is essentially extending the range of your fob? I.e. they just pass the radio signals back and forth, without analysing their content at all. Can anyone confirm/deny?
It's not autocomplete, we had intellisense two decades ago. And nobody would argue that wasn't useful. Saving time is useful. Thing that merely save time have been transformative. For instance you can walk across London in a couple of hours or you can take the tube. All it does is save time. But that's transformative, it changes what you can do when you don't need the same amount of time to do it.

Marketing and especially political comments are about to swamp every digital space. Soon you will not know what is real and what is a puppet. This is without a doubt transformative. Look at the relatively small wave caused by the Cambridge Analytica thing. This thing will create a tsunami of BS sweeping us all away. I'll admit it hasn't happened yet, what we have now is just the beginnings.

Happy to say LLMs are a big deal.
> something as powerful as what I created

Could you give us more detail? It sounds intriguing.
I think you might underestimate the number of people working on this stuff. There are rarely trade-offs between, as you suggested, working on ad engagement and YouTube scam comments. Both will have teams working on them.

At a very high level you could argue that the number of people being allocated to each may not be right, but it's not that one or the other doesn't have any resources.

From what I've seen, people at Google are very cognizant of these issues, and the only real reason that the public may see progress come and go is that these are hard problems and the work against malicious content is sadly never-ending.
Seems to have worked fine for the USA government and its constituents for the past 300 years. As long as you ignore the plight of indigenous populations, most of the big problems have been caused by the incumbent populations, not the immigrants.
Thread.yield() is very weird, and something I'd not advise using aside spin lock with backoff. It's OS dependent, and if may just bounce to the OS and back, continuing the current execution.
Is that your only backup? Because precious photos need more than one (like any backup regime really)

Still it sucks and it shouldn’t happen, hopefully it’s just a reporting error in the app.
I’m actually Canadian. I like that joke because I think a lot of units are useful for calculations but completely unintuitive. If I had instead said it was 9.3 megapascals and left it at that it wouldn’t have given most readers an intuition for how much pressure that really is. The pressure inside a steam engine boiler comparison, while not perfect, gives a bit better frame of reference because people have some intuition for how powerful steam engines are.

Oh and I like the unit ‘bar’ because it’s the customary unit for espresso machine pressure (and I’m an espresso nerd with my own machine at home). Espresso machines make espresso by forcing hot water through a puck of finely ground coffee at a pressure between 8 and 12 bar. If you’ve ever worked with an espresso machine, you’ll have an intuitive sense for how much pressure that is (a lot). Venus having 10 times that pressure is also impressive.
And if the Russians were flying an equivalent drone over the Caribbean Sea off the US coast I'm sure something unfortunate would happen to it as well. Frankly, I'm surprised there hasn't been more direct action from Russia against clear and obvious assistance being given to Ukrainian forces by NATO member nations. Are we daring them to go nuclear?
...that's why it's an old line, I guess
It was a first gen AR product released almost 10 years ago. They needed to keep working on it, but like all Google products, they stopped very soon after launch.
> Individual action alone cannot stem climate change and mass plastic pollution

Yes, but lack of individual action also cannot stem climate change and mass plastic pollution.

> Most plastic pollution in the ocean is directly related to shipping and in particular fishing[0]. Nothing I can do individually can address this

You can stop eating fish and you can limit the amount of junk you buy! But if you like eating fish and you like buying junk and you don’t want to inconvenience yourself, you’ll say that it’s the world leaders and industry bodies who must change.

And don’t get me wrong, this is an absolutely fine stance to have. You and I will be dead before the consequences of our choices are felt. But don’t pretend like there’s nothing you can do. It’s just that there’s nothing you actually want to do.
I was an ardent Google fan boy, but I'm not longer going to buy their stuff. Your comment articulates why, before I only had a vague feeling.
> Japan has issued lots of apologies over the decades for that, and paid reparations.

I don't think any of those stuck. Japanese education and history still doesn't put on the forefront the atrocities. And that's the lens through which the whole region sees Japan. Until Japan owns their history and forms national identity around it, similarly to what Germany did, no apology will ever be believed to be sincere.

Instead Japanese companies, like Toyota, use their influence to suppress promotion of historical books documenting Japanese atrocities in the west.

Atrocities is not something you can apologize for and demand to move on. You never become ex muderer.
Well, certainly it's better to work everyone so much they can't enjoy anything about the country anyway. Certainly better than trying to get over your prejudices.
Yes! In the summer of 1973, between my 3rd and 4th years of med school (UCLA), I took a basic touch typing class at Sawyer Business College. I was the only male among about 25 people. I got up to about 30wpm which has stood me in good stead in the decades since. One of the best things I ever did in terms of yield on investment.
I think there's an important point embedded here, but it's subtle. That is, the important thing to realize is that you're having an improvisational conversation with an intelligent agent, but one that is not sentient. And like two jazz musicians riffing over a mode, there is a much deeper architecture to that conversation than may not be apparent to the casual observer.

So while I think regular writing is an important part of thinking, and AI is an important part of our evolution in thinking, it is a mistake to think that we should just "let the AI do the writing" or "get GPT to do it for you" as it will be frequently wrong, particularly when the conversation rises to the complexity of requiring sensemaking, i.e. it's not just objective fact that's not difficult for machines to compute, but rather messy, subjective consensus where the need for the conversation with AI becomes particularly powerful and may, in fact, change our course in ways we could not anticipate. That is, the emergent sensemaking we require is a collaboration of humans and machines that arises just as Kubernetes did, by realizing that the need is for improvisation AND orchestration, not one OR the other.
So you are saying LLMs can generate a bunch of attempts at novelty, but you need a person to decide which one is actually useful?
> The anecdote reinforces the now dominant view that networking is everything and people deserve benefits and opportunities that at a different time might be labeled nepotism or favoritism.

Nothing was mentioned about "deserving". Just reality. I don't understand why you'd see the need to impute - and then immediately criticise - some sort of judgement into a bare statement of fact.
You all in the comments are rediscovering Lagrange points the hard way. L4 and L5 are stable, BTW, and we have a relatively famous space telescope at L2 which requires active stability control to stay there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted by Russian Sanctions
Did it feel fun?
Ye maybe he was paraphrasing.
We are lucky I did not claim they said “trivial,” then, hey? But sure. That’s still exactly opposite the paper’s claim. They couldn’t find another
paper exhibiting those qualities, which they should have were it unremarkable.
Suggestions are personalised for what it thinks you’ll engage with (depending on how much it has profiled you - if you’re logged in, have watch history). The top suggestion for that video when I’m logged in is a video about architecture…
>2. Platform threads + non-blocking APIs = painful to use, scales to many
connections

Wow, I have written a substantial amount of non-blocking IO since around java 1.4.2 (when it actually became stable). It was not much harder to use at all (compared to io streams). The issues w/ buffering/scalability and internal scheduling will be exactly the same with green threads.
No kidding, huh
How fast are Backblaze transfer speeds these days? I wasn't a huge fan of the client, but running something third party like Arq[1] felt like a bad workaround.

[1]: https://www.arqbackup.com
True. My point was not that the situation is good, but that the "OMG! OMG!! You wouldn't believe...!!!" tone of the article is click-bait hype BS.

EDIT: The article is in Reuters. Vs. if it had been in a "Science News Supplement for Grades 3 and 4", I'd have seen the tone as fairly reasonable.
Use Immich OP: https://github.com/immich-app/immich
You could just drop the sentence since the top scoring words are shown below.

Other nits:

- Gray the submit button until the word is valid, otherwise it's unclear why clicking on the submit button doesn't do anything.

- If you are trying to find a word and switch tabs, things get reset when you come back.

- If you place tiles forming a word, a space, random tiles: you can submit the first set of letters. IMHO, it shouldn't let you submit if you have spaces between tiles.

- Display the best word I have found so far, but let me keep trying other tiles.
> And don’t bring socioeconomics into it;

In 2003, right before a few new nations entered the European Union, the EU had set up several websites, where people from the new, soon to be, member nations could inform themselfes about each of the current EU member states.

The document describing Germany mentioned, under the chapter "Employment", that 80% of all jobs in Germany get distributed via social connections. Now I am still in shock and it may be, that this includes the employment office, but the chances to get a good job, as either an immigrant or a socially marginalized person, is low.

So, bringing socioeconomics into play is totally acceptable.

I do not think one should reject any social privileges one has, but one also should respect, that this is not the case for everybody and do something about it.
Less bullshit jobs. Society needs doctors, nurses, plumbers and teachers not tech bros.
Video Shows Russian Fighter Hitting USAF Drone
Same here! But I got up to 70 :0
Mass adaptation is not even that hard, profitable mass adaptation is.
those projects were just PR so that c-levels could sell how they were preparing their company for a digital world

This is exactly it. The 2017-2019 corporate version of "invest in AI" meant to build an in-house team to do ML experiments on internal data, and then usually evolved a bit to get some "ml-ops" thrown in so they could "deploy" the models they built. I spent some time with a few companies doing this and it always reminded my of "the cat in the hat comes back" when the cat let all the little cats out of his hat and they went to work on the snow spots... just doing busy work...

Anyway it's a symptom of the hype cycle - AI was the next electricity, but there were no actual products and nothing clear to do with it, just hire a bunch of kids to act like they were in a kaggle competition, or worse a bunch of PhDs to be under-utilized building scikit-learn models.

Now that there are (potentially) products coming along that at least bypass the low-level layer of ML, having an internal team makes no sense. Maybe the most logical thing that will happen is the pendulum will swing too far, and this bubble will consist more of businessy types using chatGPT without remotely understanding it or realizing it's just a computer program.
It really depends on the place. I've never encountered one where the manager had total control over who was working when. Availability would be requested before creating the schedule and one would be made up based on that. Even then, if you found you were scheduled for shifts you couldn't work you could request a change. Good managers would arrange it themselves, otherwise you'd have to organise a swap.

That's not to say they don't exist. Some managers will certainly retaliate against employees who don't conform.
The amendment specifically refers to the right to keep and bear arms in the context of maintaining state militias, as opposed to a national standing army (which didn't exist at the time.) Even though SCOTUS has interpreted the amendment more broadly than that, and we have a standing army and national guard, we have to allow militias to exist and we have to let them be armed.

Ironically, the second amendment also requires that militias be "well regulated," but because we have to use the original 18th century meaning of terms, that doesn't mean regulated by the state, but simply armed and ready, so essentially just self-regulated.
fwiw, releases like this (and especially the notes) give me more confidence in the security of OpenSSH, not less.
I'd like to see comparison with emacs and vim.
> if that video doesn't shut up the people that believe this wasn't purposeful I don't know what will.

Oh don't worry, the excuses will come quickly:

- This is a fake video.

- This is nothing special, the US has done much worse.

You can even see comments to nature already.
> an employee is an (human) asset for the company to utilize. Once the skill of the employee is no longer needed, they can be dispose of.

This is exactly accurate and there’s nothing amoral about that. The flip side is a job is just a way to make money and when it’s no longer wanted or needed, the employee is free to dispose of it
Don't get me wrong: I don't buy the current hype either.

But that doesn't mean there is nothing, and one can ignore what's there, and what's on the horizon already.

All of your examples boil down to "it's not economical". There was no technological argument presented.

Let's take for example the thing with the waste collection. You could fully automate the whole process even with 100 year old tech! Just build tunnels with conveyor belts under the houses. (Of course this would need still some human maintenance like what we have for water and gas, but it would not need all the trucks and human collector). The point is, that's not economical. The trucks and the human collectors are still much cheaper! But there is absolutely no technical reason that would prevent a different solution.

Your example with the hundreds of Euros costing robot that still can't even do the same as a 5 Euro broom is the core here: It's all about the costs. (That's get even admitted in the oranges picking example.)

But AI is in the first place actually not about robots. It's about doing cognitive tasks. Maybe AI won't replace trash collectors really soon, but it could for example replace the expertise of medical doctors or lawyers pretty soon.

Still a doctor wouldn't get unemployed instantly; because we don't have human like robots that could to the physical part of the work. But we have now (almost) machines that can do the mental work.

And no, I'm not living in a bubble. I'm quite skeptical about the current hype actually, as stated already. But I'm trying to maintain some realistic picture. I'm not denying technical progress. (Even I try to ignore the marketing bullshit around it.)

And to be honest: I estimate the intelligence of my fellow human beings extremely low indeed. Almost all human problems are human made. But we didn't manage to solve them even over tens of thousands of years. That's imho because humans are on average dumb. Very dumb actually.

At the same time there is not much to "overestimate" regarding computers. We will reach quite sure in the next 25 years a level of raw processing power that will be (at least) equivalent to the one of the human brain. As there is not "magic" involved in how brains work (they're just machines!) there is absolutely no reason why a human made machine could not reach human level of intelligence (which is in my opinion not even a very high one).

So summarize: I don't "fear" anything like the current "GPTs" to take my job, or the job of a lot of people. But the (imho) inevitable will happen. And it will likely happen sooner than a lot of people would like…
You think? I'm somewhat pessimistic on this take. If such shift is closed to happen, I think government will just ban AI since just the logistics of shifting the entire socioeconomical structure are far to great to have a trial/error with people's lives.
+1 for easy install (`dnf install miller` on my Fedora).

But seems like it cannot handle a simple use case: CSV without header.

$ mlr --csv head -n 20 pp-2002.csv

mlr: unacceptable empty CSV key at file "pp-2002.csv" line 1.

You have to explicitly pass it (FYI `implicit-csv-header` is terrible arg name)

$ mlr --csv --implicit-csv-header head -n 20 pp-2002.csv

While `head` obliges rightly

$ head -n 20 pp-2002.csv
Definitely did for me, but I also wonder if I learned the limitations/weaknesses of the AI too much that it would break the immersion.
They'll be able to understand the contents of pictures in addition to having a grasp of natural human language.
There's some beauty on it. Nature incorporates our garbage, and it becomes part of nature.

It might kill us, but then new creatures will evolve and grow, with plastic being part of their ecosystem, perhaps even desirable. In million years the future civilization of these creatures might have "plastic preservation programs" because the old plastic rocks are a finite resource upon witch their culture was built.

They might even gaze upon their plastic-filled oceans in awe, with some quasi-religious gratitude for the ancient race that gracefully filled the world with plastic that they might thrive.
Huh. I had David Brailsford for CS in 2001.
I was thinking the same thing about cannabis being more analogous to wine. Processing cannabis is less complicated than making wine, but it still requires precision and time. It seems like it would be better to follow the model of winery tours and tastings, and just apply that to cannabis farms.
I think the silurian hypothesis still holds. It's unlikely that these plastic rocks would remain in their current form for the next x million years.
It'd be great if GPT could provide it's sources for the text it generated.

I've been asking it about lyrics from songs that I know of, but where I can't find the original artist listed. I was hoping chat gpt had consumed a stack of lyrics and I could just ask it, "What song has this chorus or one similar to X..." It didn't work. Instead it firmly stated the wrong answer. And when I gave it time ranges it just noped out of there.

I think If I could ask it a question and it could go, I've used these 20-100 sources directly to synthesize this information, it'd be very helpful.
I don't know if it's due to one of those weird GDPR blocking rules (I'm in Europe) but amazonforum.com doesn't let me connect. It just drops my connection:

http https://www.amazonforum.com

http: LogLevel.ERROR: ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.amazonforum.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x10b551e10>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 61] Connection refused')) while doing a GET request to URL: https://www.amazonforum.com/

But if I connect indirectly, like through archive.is, it works: https://archive.is/wip/5MK8A
As a slight aside - I was surprised to learn that Amazon Photos (if you have Prime) includes RAW camera formats as valid photos for the purposes of their unlimited storage offer.

I've taken to essentially backing up all my RAWs to Amazon Photos - even the ones I would typically discard.
I am 100% confident that should human society settle on the planet we will totally ignore the fact that's going to happen one day and it will be a amazing catastrophe when it finally does occur.

Isn't that pretty much exactly what we've done on earth? Not that I think there's really much else we can reasonably do.
if you speak the language like crap and they've never seen you before they think aww, this tourist really tries. When you speak kind of good they know you live there damn it!
Words accomplish something, certainly far more than they cost to produce, otherwise why did we start doing it and why haven't we stopped. Your hands alone won't build an empire in a thousand lifetimes. It won't even pave a complete road. For that you need to pitch a compelling argument and influence a large group to go along with your vision. These particular words here and now probably won't do much of anything. The odds of at least some of them in my corpus of hn comments going on to impact something is great enough to justify the meager cost in doing so.
So following your logic we should decriminalize murders since, well, those still happen anyways.
Maybe he should write about opportunity costs.
Another option (based on https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/11856/109046):

(sed -u '1q' ; sort -r -k4 -t',') <example.csv | column -ts','
Doubtful a language model can do these things because they haven't been done and it hasn't been trained on how to do them. Where is there good resources on how to take over the world? It also isn't like it's a thing you can just do anyway.

I feel like our jobs may be in danger, at least you'll have teams overseas using the tool a lot to produce code which maybe isn't great quality but who cares, but we're not in danger this way.