skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why is the client asking for a missing resource, commonly you can find some asset of yours linking to that missing item. These days you can have a bot chase that down and give you a damned good idea on a proper fix.
Sure hope 2600 finds a new means of distribution. It was super convenient going to my Kindle and was a no-brainer to subscribe.
I guess it depends on your ideas of simple vs. easy. I find a GUI simple because I can explore it to see the options if I’m a little lost. The Unix command line is exceedingly difficult to get useful information out of if you don’t already know how it works. Need help? Don’t type “help” because it will just stare back at you blankly. The commands themselves are not easy. Each one takes flags, mostly a single letter, and the same flags have different meanings in different commands. Cmd-P is print in every goddamned GUI app I’ve ever used. Cmd-Q is quit. Cmd-C is copy. That’s simple to me. Having to memorize a bunch of flags with conflicting meanings or key commands to change modes in an app is not simple to me.
What's most astounding is that it was expected to work when so much of the prompt just doesn't make sense:

> Objects should only move if they will end up on an empty tile after their move

> "An object is free to move onto a tile that another object moves onto if that other object is moving off of its tile"
I've seen how they've made it harder and harder to download your entire music collection, as well as how they're pushing their music streaming.

At this point I'm just waiting for the same thing to happen to their ala cart music service, and it's very disappointing.
From Microsofts recent co-pilot announcement that seems correct.
Demonstrably untrue, it’s taken up semi-residence in everything from oped pages to boardrooms since the New Year. Welcome to the mid singularity, my friend.
The source code for baseband software needs to be open source, I expect there are many more such vulnerabilities. I also wonder how many basebands contain Linux and are GPL violating.
I think you're looking at this through the wrong lens. There are a variety of issues that the Less Wrong community gets ironically wrong.

But the agenda here is very simple: make sure AI doesn't kill us.

They believe that earnestly. That is the end goal. Everything is in service of that not the other way around. And with how quickly AI is progressing I'm pretty onboard with that.
> For normal people (non-programmers) computers are pretty terrible.

I don’t know — they pull a supercomputer out of their pocket and use it dozens of times a day.
My read is that they were either holding the MBSs as tradeable assets (in which case they had taken a massive real loss that wiped out their equity) or until maturity decades away (in which case they didn't have enough current assets to remain solvent as a bank).

The depositor withdrawals forced them to admit that they had taken a massive loss because of insufficient hedging against interest rate hikes, but they didn't really seem to have a path to unwinding their underwater positions in any realistic timeframe. HTM was an accounting misdirection to try to hide the hole in their ship while they bailed water, but it was a massive hole and they had a tiny bucket.
My Kona Electric has brake and accelerator pedals. IIRC if you press both at the same time, the accelerator pedal is ignored.
This is actually an AI copywriter. But it is designed to cleverly evade the tools used by AI content detectors.
GPT3 worked well for me with smaller programming tasks.
I.e, helper functions, api calls, etc
In those cases it was easier to type : Write a javascript function that does X

It totally failed for me creating a nice looking website using bootstrap.
While GPT3 created a workable outline, it never looked right and the css adjustments never worked.
I started out as a sysadmin before moving into dev and devs will think you're some sort of wizard just for understanding how file permissions or firewalls or nginx work, it's kind of baffling.
I had a similar experience earlier. Described a problem that isn't even that hard - very similar to something there are probably lots of examples of online but subtly different. I wanted to see if handled these subtly different requirements.

It failed miserably, even with repeated instructions. It just assumed I wanted the more common problem. Every time I pointed out the problem it would say "sorry for the confusion, I've fixed it now" and give me back identical code. I even asked it to talk me through test cases. It identified that its own code didn't pass the test cases but then still gave me back identical code.

I eventually gave up.
I just used GPT-4 yesterday to write a Go-parser for a specific JSON input.

Within two prompts it could read the JSON data from a stdin stream, unmarshal it to Go structs and print the correct fields to stdout as a human-readable line of text.

Then I told it to colour the timestamp and id fields using the fatih/color -package, and it did it correctly.

In total it took me about 4-5 prompts to get where I wanted. I just needed to fine-tune the printing to stdout part a bit to get it just how I liked, but it saved me a ton of boring template code writing and iteration.

I could've done it easily myself, but there were a few fiddly bits that would've required me to look up the documentation to check the exact way to do things. GPT4 had it correct from the start.

Then I asked it to write unit tests for the code, and it confidently started writing correct-looking code that would take the same input and expect the correct output, but just stopped in the middle. Three times. I stopped trying.

And another case:

I tried to use GPT-3.5 to write me a program that would live-tail JSON-logs from Sumo Logic and pretty-print them to stdout. It confidently typed out completely correct code with API endpoints and all. ...except the endpoints didn't exist anymore, Sumo Logic in their great wisdom had removed them completely. The only solution is to use their 5 year old binary-only livetail executable.

GPT4 with the same input gave me a shell-script that starts a search job with the correct parameters and polls the endpoint that returns the result when it's done.

The speed at which this is developing is really fascinating, I'm not really afraid for my job but I do love how this will automate (some of) the boring stuff away a bit like GitHub CoPilot did, but better.
Um, I'd rather they break a 'rather powerful' piece of software rather than wait and break and control a super powerful one.
I mean, estimating that there are a couple thousand c++ developers is pretty funny.
Pathfinding with extra constraints isn't "a new problem" either. There are a bunch of papers on the topic, and I'm sure there are multiple different variations on github. It still didn't succeed (did get close though).
I don't need an incredible number of magazines and newspapers—I don't have time to an incredible number of magazines anyways. I only want a small handful of them that are high quality, that I can read by my bedside without a phone. Currently I'm just subscribed to The Economist via Amazon.
At one time memory constraints made the short names necessary. Not a technical issue anymore. Now we have autocomplete in the shell. But what do you expect from a professional caste who debate endlessly about efficiency and “productivity” supposedly improved a fraction by a keyboard or typeface or color scheme?
On my first day at a frankly pretty shit Australian university, we had mandatory Linux and Solaris training. I managed to skip it because the IT guy turned his screen to me and said "What's this?" and I replied "Dunno, looks like Fedora Core", but anyone who couldn't do that sat through several hours of training on SSHing into things and using bash, after which they were expected to turn in assignments that would compile in a remote Solaris environment.

This story doesn't have any real point, except maybe to say that knowing your way around a shell is up to the arbitrary whims of your university's administration and lecturers.
> pretty much any image that can be imagined is now trivial to produce

What? That's not true at all!

If you're talking about "art", most artists are fussy and want things exactly right. They will spend a long time tweaking the image, or combining different images, painting, processing, pixel-pushing to get the thing they imagined.

If you're talking about some random need for an image of a "horse with metal legs", and settle for whatever the AI spits out, and then call that "my valuable art", that's different.
Sample size n=1, but my dad was on the research or clinical trial of this exact treatment in Sydney, it worked for his prostate cancer, he's still clear from PSA tests (and possibly had biopsy also. No side effects.

Previously he'd had the radioactive beads treatment which failed, the only other option was removal. Both these options have potentially unpleasant side effects.

Happy to ask him questions if anyone wants to know more
my main point is that its silly to assume the satellite designers at SpaceX made some kind of remedial physics error as opposed to a more subtle error that is the result of engineering or design tradeoffs
Yeah. 1/3rd of my Search results are like “is good Idea. <ProductName> limited time Offer” from <surname>-<localtown>-<industry>.com.<cctld>. Before that was “<search term> price in India”.
Eh, it's still impressive that these systems can write such good code despite pretty much just predicting the next word. I guess it's a matter of perspective. You can either be astounded by how much it can do relative to your expectations from 2018 or you can be skeptical relative to the volume of excitement.
I think some excitement is also people extrapolating to the future: if predicting the next word gets you this far, what happens when you actually try to make it good?
Right. This thing that is inherently biased and cannot be made unbiased because its very basic components are biased, has also been given some rules that further bias it. And yet you don’t seem to understand why i’m far more concerned that we think it’s possible to make an unbiased ai than with the arbitrary rules its been given. Chatgpt will not be king of ai forever, and the next company will give their ai a different set of rules… but it’ll still be biased at its core.
I've reworded the title to make this clearer
I have occasionally been toying with the idea that the number of votes you have would be dependent on your expected lifetime left. The longer hou have to live with your electee's decisions the more say you should have.
Not to mention that DRM on the Kindle isn't a hardware-side constraint. The device will happily accept DRM-free files side-loaded onto it.
The Water Haters
It would be a lot cheaper and probably less risky for the safe deposit box to be numbers in an account like it is with fractional reserves, except the part where they lend it out privately. Even better if those reserves can be kept at the central bank overnight to earn a bit of interest.

I also can't do an ACH or wire transfer from a safe deposit box.
I think everywhere except HN the expectations on Watson’s and Wolfram’s second seasons where even more inflated
Still super expensive.
You cant build a business arround it with these rates. It should be at least 1000 times cheaper if not more.
Ask HN: Advertising networks that allow AI generated content?
Are there any ad networks that support ads on AI generated content? Not spam stuff - but content that is high quality, targeted, and isn't obviously AI generated (though clearly stated as AI generated somewhere on the page).

And if there's not - anyone want to start one with me?

Thanks in advance!
So your solution is to grant a monopoly to TAB and Sportsbet, preventing any competition?

Gatekeeping licenses leads to predatory monopolies.

That's why every single physical casino in Australia, which generally receive monopoly licenses, are cesspits of money laundering and gang activity.
A recent biography of Jacob Taubes is haunted by his first wife’s novel
The AI reproduces what it reads on the web. But what if the information on the web is wrong? The AI will simply reproduce it. It will not try to apply its "intelligence" to evaluate the logical consistency of the claims it reads on the internet. So it is like a parrot. A parrot does not care what it says. It can sometimes seem to be right, sometimes wrong.

Who controls the sources that go into the AI? No doubt all totalitarian governments will do their best to make AI be their tool for propaganda. Therefore I think it is dangerous idea to spread the meme that AI is intelligent and therefore we should believe it. After all it has super-computer-intelligence behind it.
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I copied the opinion of Yann LeCun, one of the authorities on deep learning:

(Feb 13,2023)

My unwavering opinion on current (auto-regressive) LLMs
1. They are useful as writing aids.

2. They are "reactive" & don't plan nor reason.

3. They make stuff up or retrieve stuff approximately.

4. That can be mitigated but not fixed by human feedback.

5. Better systems will come.

6. Current LLMs should be used as writing aids, not much more.

7. Marrying them with tools such as search engines is highly non trivial.

8. There will be better systems that are factual, non toxic, and controllable. They just won't be auto-regressive LLMs.

9. have been consistent with the above while defending Galactica as a scientific writing aid.

10. Warning folks that AR-LLMs make stuff up and should not be used to get factual advice.

11. Warning that only a small superficial portion of human knowledge can ever be captured by LLMs.

12. Being clear that better system will be appearing, but they will be based on different principles.
They will not be auto-regressive LLMs.

13. Why do LLMs appear much better at generating code than generating general text?
Because, unlike the real world, the universe that a program manipulates (the state of the variables) is limited, discrete, deterministic, and fully observable.
The real world is none of that.

14. Unlike what the most acerbic critics of Galactica have claimed
- LLMs are being used as writing aids.
- They will not destroy the fabric of society by causing the mindless masses to believe their made-up nonsense.
- People will use them for what they are helpful with.
Libby does have a smart tags feature that can be used to alert you about new magazines [1]. (Libby is the library app developed by Overdrive.)

> Can I be notified when new magazine issues are available?

> Yes! You can use a "Notify Me" smart tag in Libby to get a notification when new issues of a magazine are available at your library.

[1] https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6224.htm
If I wave my camera around taking lots of pictures, and then find one that I really really like I can copyright it. If I generate a bunch of AI images and find one that I really really like, I think I should be able to copyright that too. In both, the creative spark comes from discerning what has value.
This kind of phishing has been around for quite a while, in exactly the form you describe.

I use a password manager, and change the passwords fairly often. So the first time I got one of these phishing attempts, I laughed and thought "Oh, so that's what my passwords look like!"

By that time, it was long-retired and so I don't even have a way to find out what site it was that had been compromised.
> when they could have potentially lost it all if the government didn't step in and make an unprecedented promise to honor the deposits

Was this unprecedented? I thought the US government has always covered depositors in full beyond the $250k.
There aren’t any legitimate foreign companies involved in gift card scams, just the scammers stealing otherwise legitimate gift cards issued for US companies and selling them on secondary markets. Google doesn’t really have any way to manage what people do with a physical Google Play gift card, nor does the grocery store that sells it. If you were to make those parties responsible for fraud, they’d simply stop selling them. Gift card are neither of their primary businesses.

Scammers could also just move on to cryptocurrencies, which are already subjected to sanctions in some cases with varying degrees of success.

Banks are easier to sanction because they have a more tangible physical presence.
I wasn't able to find any integration with overdrive in Canada when I last tried the kindle. The Kobo's here do work seamlessly with overdrive but only for ebooks though, no magazines or audiobooks
Who? Crying wolf makes sense to discredit an individual but not a whole argument. Almost everything is being predicted by someone at any given time. If your criteria for predictions is “no one can have made a similar prediction and been wrong in the past”, then you’ll disbelieve all predictions.

And seriously, how many people were actually saying “WolframAlpha will destroy a huge amount of programming jobs”?
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But the human requires oxygen and water and lots of climate control.

If AI is useful as we think it is, then having huge compute farms in space would be the best long term goal.
> The useful thing to do would be to just say “I do not know of an algorithm that does this.” But instead it’s overcompetent in its own capabilities, and just makes shit up.

I had recently very similar reaction. And then realized, that this is exactly same behavior as with many of my colleagues at work...
As a (once avid) reader, the worrying part will be discovery. Why I was eight I could pick any book off the library shelf and it was interesting and enlightening. Today, the noise so outdrowns the signal that I have to rely on recommendations. Tomorrow, when both the books and the recommendations will be generated by bots outpacing human authors by orders of magnitude, I expect that quality new material will be impossible to find.

I pray that I am wrong.
I don't really have anyone to ask questions I get sometimes about building software, and chatGPT has been helping fill the gaps. Basically I'm thinking of it like a combination of a rubber duck and a dialogue-enabled google search. But it's been really helpful along those lines when I'm for example not sure a good way to change a bunch of stuff across a bunch of files, and am pretty sure it's something that can be automated somehow, and chat GPT will be like "have you considered using one tool to get the file names that need changing, then another tool to create an AST of the files, and then another tool to actually modify that AST?" And I'm like oh duh, yeah, I didn't know there's tools like that but I should have assumed there are, nice.

Basically that's how all my usage has gone. I've had it write some elisp and it has been ok, sometimes it invents made-up functions (that don't exist in org-mode for example) but I'll just tell it that a function doesn't exist and it'll come up with some other solution, until I get it to a point where all I need to do is change a couple things.

I remain highly skeptical the thing will replace me anytime soon (ever in my lifetime?) but I'm surprised at the possibilities of making my life less tedious.
The Corporation (2003)
For a bunch of reasons I'm done with Kindle. For a decade (~2010-2020) I've bought hundreds of books and read quite a few on Kindle. But from late last year when I started reading physical books again (Kindle version wasn't available) I've gotten to appreciate the physical form again. Nice fonts, ease of flipping pages, random access etc., And as an added advantage my kids now get to see my taste and maybe find some of books interesting just because they are on a rack. I'm back to building my physical library. Could also be due to me growing old. But I don't want to beholden to Amazon's whims.
I was surprised to see it not mentioned in the post -- the most obvious reason this joke should be retired is not the reference to a television show but rather the modern practice of never using new or delete at all in C++ code. Modern C++ avoids these pitfalls and I think it's been 10 years since I've written the words the new or delete.
Unified Visual Relationship Detection with Vision and Language Models
That’s more a problem of moot and python than of static analysis itself.

Python is a dynamic language and mypy is as an after thought not a sound static type checker.

Better than nothing…would be way more risky not having it. However engineer must understand the shortcomings.

I btw gladly switched from python to Kotlin. Makes it so much easier to trust the compiler. Less work for me
Are you sure that's safe?
Actually, if the state A* searches through is not "tile reached" but "tile reached + count of fires on path", then it just becomes regular A*. This solves the A to C doesn't always go through B, because it turns B into multiple distinct states, some with fires, one without.

There are a few issues with this. Search state is bigger (performance goes down), might not scale if other search features are needed in the game, you might need to be smart about when you stop the search and how you write your heuristic to not have to reach all combinations of fire counts before you end your search...

But the trick to "just use A*" is not in modifying the cost, but changing the search space.

PS. I see no reason why you should change your current code, obviously.

PPS. I don't think GPT could come up with that insight. It sure didn't in your case.
Sure, and then you'd have to fire more people that don't work out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Seems net worse for everyone.
Thiel is the rare breed libertarian who has pondered on his ideology more than a couple of mins and beyond feel good freedom statements, saw that it will conduce to corporate fiefdom, and said: “hey, that looks nice”

I actually respect him a little more than the average libertarian just because of that.
Why not? It's oauth with set permissions... very common nowadays and secure.
And what about all those customer reviews on Amazon? What better job for AI.
First time it really hits home how large the risk is.

1/6 is a rather large risk.
Jokes/nostalgia aside, you don't really even need fancy encryption mechanisms. All that's important is that you only use the internet to interact with trusted parties, vs treating it as a public square where you can ~generally tell whether someone is a real person. A domain name, an email address, a social media username, etc are all as trustworthy as they are right now as long as you've verified the person is real through some non-digital channel first (or someone you trust has)

I think the public social internet will die (for anything other than entertainment), but the direct-communication internet will look largely the same as it does today
It does work offline. I don't remember the exact steps on how to do it.

Basically, you can get an rss feed with credentials imported into podcast app of your choice and just download the episode before going offline.

I prefer this approach since 1) It works offline 2) I can use podcast player of my choice with much better UX than the economist app
You can do that if you want, at least on iPhones, but for sure on Android too. You can automatically drop calls from unknown numbers - on iPhone you just get the notification with the number that was calling you and that's all.
Yeah, it’s disheartening how labor unions seem to attract this ideological poison. Can’t a labor union just be about collective negotiation with the employer? -_-
Could be ended tomorrow should the government so wish.