skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are looking too closely. They were being investigated for instagram extortion. They had an IP. Therefore subpoena instagram for that IP. Not exactly rocket science
I'm honestly surprised this hasn't been more prevalent. Freshdesk [0] did this way back in 2011. There's certainly no lack of talent in India, I'm not sure if it's a cultural or systemic issue that has prevented Indian startups from getting more traction.

[0] https://www.freshworks.com/freshdesk/general/the-freshdesk-s...
I disagree completely.

My older brother decided to go to art school.

It wasn’t until he was 40 that his artwork started to be noticed and worth something.

His images have been bootlegged endlessly by Asian companies placing them on t-shirts and selling them for $5 on Etsy and every other marketplace.

Fortunately for him, he’s designed a very popular set of kids books that have allowed him to move out of my parents, get a place of his own, pay down debt and buy a house.

Intellectual property is how he takes care of his family. He should be able to at least provide for his kids college after his death if his IP still has value in the marketplace.

…And so should other creators.

Not everyone is Disney.
I just ran into the same thing. I thought it had way more tokens than GPT3.5... This did not look to be the case in the demo video I was watching earlier.
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From what I understand, Robinhood isn't following the usual rules in refusing to allow their clients to exercise options early. I have some SBNY puts in an ETrade account and while they're requiring ridiculously exorbitant margin, they will still let me exercise.

I think it's pretty likely that some kind of settlement or OTC trading gets worked out before Friday, but it's a bit nerve wracking to have potential big winnings stuck in purgatory.

Edit: The CEO confirmed on Twitter they are working on the issue. https://twitter.com/vladtenev/status/1635868988814262272
Embedded is the majority of work in software
I don't think it is fair to compare an MBA/Suit/Executive CEO type with risk taking Entrepreneurial/Founder CEO types. They have a completely different mindset and motives.

A suit essentially plays a defensive game. He can't take risks. CEO is just a job. The goal is to not ... things up and basically collect a hefty paycheck every year. You become a suit by being highly risk averse and if you take risks and if it doesn't pan out you will be kicked out.

A founder CEO type is essentially a wild high energy high risk charismatic type. You can't compare someone like SAMA or Zuck or Steve Jobs or Elon who won't take no for an answer and go all in to make their dreams come true.
If the firing was on the basis of cutting out top paid employees, it absolutely makes sense to now fill those positions with newer ones whom you can pay less.

Nothing absurd here.
"Take the opposite of your biggest flaw and blast it on repeat 24/7 in your media campaigns."

Here they've managed 2 - it's not open and it's not AI.
PFAS found in toilet paper arounde the world
Ask HN: Have you built anything using NoCode Tools
Hello HN,

I have been hearing a lot of nocode tools but has anyone built a viable business around no code tools
That's an incredibly reductive view. Copyright protects me when I do any creative work, I do not want my creative work to be part of any AI training dataset without my explicit permission, and I want laws that force people training generative AI models to copyright clear all of their training data and moreover be able to show which inputs corresponded to which outputs so the result is auditable.

If Disney trains an AI good enough to just generate a good story then I think that everyone who fed training data into that model should get a piece of the revenue.
> On or about May 9, 2022, the government says, Singh sent a friend screenshots of text messages between himself and someone he had doxed … and was trying to extort for their Instagram handle. The data included the victim’s Social Security number, driver’s license number, cellphone number, and home address.

“Look familiar?” Singh allegedly wrote tthe victim. “You’re gonna comply to me if you don’t want anything negative to happen to your parents. . . I have every detail involving your parents . . . allowing me to do whatever I desire to them in malicious ways.”

I struggle to understand what could be so important about an Instagram account that you threaten someone’s family.
This is saying this chemical is used to decaffeinate coffee. So what level of it is left in the resulting coffee beans?
With 10 years, I recently had to pick from 5 companies to work for on both coasts and Texas. The demand has always been super high
Are startups expected to hire a guy to stage fixed-term deposits across multiple banks and gamble on stocks and foreign exchange?

Pretty sure they are not.
Being focused on his startup instead of maximizing the yield of these $35M allowed him to turn it into a $5.5Bn company.
I'm not deaf, but I would love to have this for language learning.
There is a cap on H1-B every year (65k), however the majority of H1-B holders has been here for years: over 600k.

On top of that, you couldn't even get a visa in 2021 to enter the US because of the COVID-19 restrictions that were only loosened at the end of 2021.
There's less and less relevant data with longer documents, so I would expect performance wouldn't change much
you can sample god emperor of dune... it is bad... and hyper repetitive. I remember thinking (I barely remember reading) that he was trying to make you feel the immeasurable amount of time that leto (can't believe I remembered that immediately) had been repeating things. It's been like 800 years or maybe 1800 with him the only constant, only memory. But god is it repetitive.

Then stuff happens near the end and it's good for a bit then it's over.

I now emphasize with leto. I was a alumni advisor for a student group (fraternity). I had to start checking in every quarter with them because of this. It was amazing because every 3 years everyone would flip over and if I didn't ask they'd literally come up with the most obvious idea. They'd tell me and I'd be like "this (simple failure/hilarious failure/prison term) is why you shouldn't do that"... to which they'd go oh makes sense and go onto the next idea. Often this was cause they wondered why things were more complicated than you'd think.

Wait now that I think of it that's similar to work now that I've been there for a while. Or with Jr Engineers. I guess I should stop thinking of it so negatively and look at it like teachers, another chance to watch someone learn. https://xkcd.com/1053/
> I do get in trouble.

Unless the original was a bestseller and you are a bestseller, you almost certainly will not. This obviously happens all the time as most writers suck and do actually deliberately copy things and then self publish. AI is actually helping to now not do that.
Scale matters.
Says a lot without really saying anything at all. It reminds me of when I was struggling to write essays in school just with better grammar.
You use it wrong, then you complain. That's neither smart nor oppression.

I don't even believe the example is real, that's how little faith I have in people who drink the drivel from Fox News which simultaneously lies for Trump and hates Trump so much.

You are making tough accusations with zero actual evidence. Even if it were true GPT-3 or 4 had this bias (it certainly has a few others which are decidedly "not woke") I don't care at all because it's probably not a conspiracy but just a result of the training corpus to be confusing around Trump... He just naturally engenders more hate and animosity if for no other reason that he uses hate and animosity in his daily lies...
It's incredibly hard to disambiguate and accurately label images using the reports (area of my research).

Reports are also not analogous to ground truth labels, and you don't always have histopathologic/clinical outcomes.

You also have drift in knowledge and patient trends, people are on immunotherapy now and we are seeing complications/patterns we didn't see 5 years ago. A renal cyst that would have been follow-up to exclude malignancy before 2018 is now definitively benign, so those reports are not directly usable.

You would have to non-trivially connect this to a knowledge base of some form to disambiguate, one that doesn't currently exist.

And then there's hallucination.

Currently if you could even extract actionable findings, accurately summarize reports and integrate this with workflow you could have a billion dollar company.

Nuance (now owned by Microsoft) can't even autofill my dictation template accurately using free-text to subject headings.
> Interestingly, many (most?) humans don't self-reflect or correct themselves unless challenged by an external agent as well

Disagree with you here - why do you say this? Maybe we don't apply self-reflection consistently (for example when it comes to political beliefs) but even toddlers know when they haven't achieved the goal they were aiming for. ChatGPT has no clue unless you prod it, because it doesn't know anything - it's stringing words together using probability.
What use does the US have for 100k laid off H-1Bs?
http://astralcodexten.substack.com does links posts like this once a month. Here's this month's: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/links-for-march-2023
No, it’s because those that downvotes are trying to find causation associated with climate change. His comment was indirectly against this narrative, and thus downvoted.
HN has always been mob ruled, with the understanding that the farther left your views, the greater “karma” you receive (almost to extremism).
8 years being on here, and this has always been this way.

The person’s comments was suggesting a fluke event. No comments were given to have dialogue with the comment, which only downvoted.

If people wish to create a toxic environment for opposing view points, that is their choice. However, it is toxic none the less.

Not everything is associated with climate change or politics.
They save more in the current executive bonus cycle by firing you and keeping the person who does 1/10th the work
A highway is not a complete system. Drivers have to bring their own cars.
TLDR: Lobbyists are going to use AI to ply their nefarious trade more effectively. In order to stop them, Congress needs to stop passing "monolithic, multi-thousand-page omnibus bills voted on under deadline" and instead a bill should focus on individual area and undergo through a debate and deliberation process, and we need more transparency over the activities of lobbyists. I can see how the AI part might happen, sadly the rest doesn't seem realistic at all.
In some cases the software compression offsets the camera quality anyway. Zoom for example does only 720p. You CAN get 1080p if you pay for a special license to flip a switch but even that works….only sometimes.
ChatGPT will do the exact same thing with correct answers.
A more traditional small business would have some assets other than whiteboard scribbles and slide decks, and life expectancy of more than a couple of years.
I don’t think you read the whole article. One of them earned quite a few bug bounties.
So exciting! The number of buildings in the images is insane. I wonder what they'll find if they go down and poke around a bit?
It really should be, as social engineering is still, and probably always will be, the most vulnerable attack vector.
Can those of us who aren't a bit gutsy get a translation of these super interesting points. I'm not asking for a tldr, this is fascinating shit. I'm just asking anyone who has the time and interest to teach us uninitiated about what the Hwang and Greensill things were and how this company is apparently getting their hands stuck in all the wrong financial cookie jars.
Money? Some people will do very bad things for money.
I noticed the same thing. Today, earlier before Bing made the announcement, it said it won't answer questions about its internal system. But a few days ago, I asked it to role play as a philosopher on AI. And it was not shy about telling me how Bing AI works.

Fun fact: It said the difference between Bing AI and ChatGPT is that ChatGPT's knowledge is internal where as Bing's knowledge is on the web. Obviously, the internal knowledge is frozen at 2021. And Bing's knowledge is real-time.
Knight Rider style: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/gm-pl...
I read somewhere Google etc. over-hired just to keep programmers from being hired by their competition.
The least of our problems with AI but ok.
How’d you make a million dollars in a year dude?
Surgeon reacts: Dr. Glaucomflecken trauma surgery on July 4th
>>Why is management hiring people who turn out to be "dead weight"?

People are rarely ever dead weight. Products and services most certainly are. Products/Projects etc fail for a variety of reasons, and it can often be hard to anticipate if they will. When you are building them you need the top people to build it for you. If the product fails, you now have people you have to pay for running the product that doesn't earn you money. Now you make a loss.

While you did hire the top people, the product failed and now you don't need them. Keeping them around costs lots of money and, their work, even if high quality hasn't given much profits.

It is then you have to let go people.
Now is the time to choose which future we want.

If human workers become obsolete, do we want to continue with capitalism, now with no more labor checks on those that already own everything, with the Bezoses and Musks controlling everything while the rest of us live in squalor?

Or do we want to usher in a Star Trek - Style technoutopian socialism, where humankind is provided for by technology, freed from the shackles of work and able to explore its interests for their own sake?
huh how?
I'm using it for serious study in multiple languages. It's still plenty useful.

They are just not hosting the community interactions anymore. Probably because it was too difficult to keep it clean from abuse and they decided to be about educational technology rather than about hosting and curating social content.
Zero, it’s highly volatile.
Hey @minxomat,

HyDE sounds like an interesting approach. All dense retrieval approaches suffer from the problem you outlined in the blogpost. Have you looked at keyword-based or late-interaction models for retrieval such as ColBERTv2[1]? I find that late-interaction methods seem to offer best trade-off between semantic intelligence (precision) and retriving relevant documents (recall).

[1] https://github.com/stanford-futuredata/ColBERT
This is some neat research (and related to some of the work I did in my PhD). For those who are just reading the comments, the authors are exploring the impact of general relativity on the stability of the Solar System. It's been known now for a few decades that the Solar System is only marginally stable [1]. The gravitational perturbations of all the planets on each other (though mostly coming from Jupiter) cause the orbits of the planets to change slowly over time. It turns out, though, that Mercury is the closest to unstable, and has a ~1% chance of being ejected from the Solar System in the next billion years.

One of the interesting things about Mercury, is that general relativity has a non-negligible effect on its dynamics (the famous "perihelion precession" that Einstein explained). What the authors did in this paper is run a number of long term simulations of the Solar System with general relativity --- but then they switched it off at a random time. What they find is that after switching off general relativity the Solar System goes unstable shortly thereafter. So the stability of the Solar System is highly dependent on general relativity.

As a side note, the second author on the paper is Hanno Rein, who wrote Rebound [2], which is a very cool state of the art gravitational simulator. If you ever want to play around with gravitational dynamics, that's what I'd recommend using. (And that's what they use in this paper.)

[1]: This is not terribly surprising because it turns out that nearly every dynamical system with more than three bodies is only marginally stable on a timescale of order its own lifetime.

[2]: https://github.com/hannorein/rebound
Avoiding that talent going elsewhere
> This is saying this chemical is used to decaffeinate coffee.

Until 50 years ago.
Show HN: MathGPT for numerical modelling–AI software–All for number & Scientist
In less than 24 hours, there will be (conservatively) 100 different people independently saying this very point at different corners of the internet. It all mostly redundant.

Don't get tricked by the past decade or so's focus on the idea of "content"! This was all mostly a ploy by YouTube et al to get people to make more channels so they could sell more ads.

There is no real value to your sense of individuality in an economic sense, you shouldn't worry about it being exploited. Don't confuse the (beautiful) experience of your own interiority with a commodity.

But regardless of all that, I feel like this is an incredibly weird way to intepret what he is saying. Its not about the rising value of human generated datasets, its about the fact that there is still necessary well of labor that all this stuff must pull from in order to eliminate other forms of labor. That is why he says "not everyone can use AI." Not "proprietary data will become more valuable."

If it will be valuable, who will own this value? Probably not the same people generating and curating it, and those are precisely the people who can't use AI.

(And there are at least 1000 people making my very point this very moment..)
I have zero medical background (bioinformatics doesn't count) but I found this Dr G in my YouTube feed and it's genuinely hilarious. I've been regular on this for past few days. In this video, a surgeon talks about context around some of Dr G's stuff, and it's really interesting!
So according to your values we should invest in an equal amount of medical research to dog health as human heath.
/r/all sorted by top, limit to x duration ;)
Hi Alex, I am a Hollywood producer working at a major motion picture studio responsible for films getting greenlit. Everybody around the office was buzzing about your idea as the basis for a potential screenplay and I was just about to offer you $750,000 for the story rights until an intern pointed to another story (we don't understand what most of the things discussed on your forum are) and we found out about this ChatGPT4 thing.

A few phone calls later and with early access to their product acquired - suffice it to say we were able to generate more ideas of similar caliber than we know what to do with for $0.75 and will be reevaluating our business practices going forward.

I wish you best of luck on your murderous rampage.
It might be running the latest version, but can it handle image type attachments? I have tried this before and it (w)could not.
Indeed, one of Google's campuses in Mountain View has (or at least had) TCE vapor leftover from previous industry. https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4018768/tce-vapors-found-...
It's a language model, and it seems to be often confidently incorrect, so I cannot really trust its summary. There's probably some % of acceptable wrong answers, but it would have to be less than 10% maybe. So far it's at 30%+ (so one in third factual answer for my non-trivial question was wrong).

That said, I just find it fun to play with a ChatGPT that acts like an AI, more so than with an AI that can find accurate answers.
I’ll preface that none of this is meant as an actual threat.

Psychologically to someone not IT savy, the instagram hack might seem like someone means business. If I made the same threat and showed someone photos of their children, they’d surely feel similar, despite the fact that all that proves is that I know where they live and I own a camera.
> Nobody is going

Ah! The HN echo chamber. The world at large vastly does not care at all. Govs are banning TikTok apps on gov employees phones all over; does anyone care and use less TikTok? Only HN and probably many there are lying about it. Privacy and this type of content abuse prevention is valued by a handful of people unfortunately.
yeah that's where I'm at too - it's great that it gets you 95% there, genuinely, but unless you know how to recognize the missing 5%, it's not going to mean much. Broken code is broken code - a single wrong character can render the entire thing unusable.

What's fun is asking it for code solutions, and then asking it to debug its own functions - if it's 95% effective at debugging code that is 95% correct, where does that leave you?
I remeber it being available on the shelves in my childhood.

It's also narcotic and carcinogenic. Banned in EU since 2010.
A lot of banks will set up an offset account with your loan so you only pay interest on the money you use.

A loan is fundamentally different from a share purchase though, you can try to buy back you shares but that would be a separate negotiation.
That’s what used to run in parts cleaners until a few decades ago, so all body shops, mechanics, job shops and a ton of factories had those.
If the product fails, you now have people you have to pay for product that doesn't earn you money. Now you make a loss.

Sounds like capitalism to me. Better get to work developing new projects and products to stem that loss.
I don't disagree, but I'd emphasize that there are countless things states could do that don't directly affect the consumer. For instance net metering - if you generate 5kWh (probably through something like solar) you get compensated for 5kWh. It's a simple, fair, and great way to encourage people to adopt technologies like solar. It helps the systems rapidly pay for themselves, motivates utility companies to pursue technologies requisite to widespread clean energy use (like energy storage methods), encourages people to use electric vehicles with "free gas", and more. There are also the immense benefits in terms of system integrity and more that decentralized energy production can offer.

But some places like California are now actively working against this. The argument is that electric retail rates charged to consumers are dramatically higher than the real cost of that energy, so it's not fair for utilities to have to pay retail rates to consumers who contribute to the grid. So the new policy being pushed through will have you receive credit for a tiny fraction of the retail rate for energy you generate. And now all those benefits get reversed.

Actions like this aren't being taken because of voters, to say the least. The reality is that at all levels of politics, corporations are kings and voters are peasants. The irony is that the peasants, exactly like in times of yore, absolutely have the ability to change this - but cannot organize themselves efficiently enough to do so. Even when all it would take in modern times is ticking a different checkbox.
Paying taxes and eventually getting employed again, thus continuing to pay taxes. You would be surprised how hard someone works knowing they get a chance to stay in this country compared to someone who was born here.