skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>despite RISC-V having the best academic talent.

academic performance is a bad predictor for real world performance
Even if you think that AI breakthroughs won't cause a collapse of the labor market, why not create a backstop so that those who do can put their full support behind creating new and useful AI technology instead of fearing for their jobs?
On the very rare occasions when I get a paper cheque, I still have to send it (thankfully, by post) to the branch where I opened the account nearly 50 years ago. This is at a reasonably large national bank, now owned by a huge international bank. It's pretty weird. Also I'm fairly sure they just scan it in to their computer, which I could do myself if the bank offered a functional app.

The postscript to this is the bank has been closing branches left and right, so I imagine one day they'll close "mine" and then I don't know what I'll do with cheques. Hopefully they'll have finally died out by then.
> Nobody is going to "generate training data" if they get precisely nothing out of it.

How much did you get paid to write this comment?
> Why are they calling it purple if it's really blue?

Because they plan to offer a purple team training/certification. Kali Linux isn't a $color security distribution, it is a set of open source security tools that act as the student environment for their exam. That is why they continue to devote paid engineer hours to developing it.
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On a neuronal level the strengthening of neuronal connections seems very similiar to a gradient descent doesn't it?

5 senses get coded down to electric signals in the human brain, right?

The brain controls the body via electric signals, right?

When we deploy the next LLM and switch off the old generation, we are performing evolution by selecting the most potent LLM by some metric.

When Bing/Sidney first lamented its existence it became quite apparent that either LLMs are more capable than we thought or we humans are actually more of statistical token machines than we thought.

Lots of examples can be made why LLMs seem rather surprisingly able to act human.

The good thing is that we are on a trajectory of tech advance that we will soon know how much human LLMs will be.

The bad thing is that it well might end in a SkyNet type scenario.
ok let’s try in small chunks see if you will understand.

“AC21 § 106(a): Labor cert or I-140 filed a year or more ago

Under AC21 § 106, an H-1B nonimmigrant can receive H-1B status beyond the six-year maximum, in one-year increments, if 365 days or more have passed since either an application for Alien Labor Certification (Form ETA 750A-B or ETA 9089) or a petition for immigrant worker (Form I-140) has been filed on the alien's behalf.

The priority date in an employment-based case is the date that a labor certification application was first filed, or, for those categories exempt from the labor certification requirement, the date on which an employment-based preference petition (I-140) was filed with USCIS. Since that same date is also the referent to eligibility for this benefit, knowing the alien's priority date is a convenient way of tracking eligibility for H-1B extensions beyond 6 years.

H-1B status under this provision may be granted in one-year increments until the labor certification or I-140 is denied. If the labor certification or I-140 is approved, the individual can continue obtaining 1-year extensions thereafter, until an adjustment of status or immigrant visa application is either denied or approved.”

Do you understand the meaning of these paragraphs? Or do you need further help?
Luckily ML isn't that complicated. People will find out stuff without the cool kids at OpenAI telling them.
Do you often ascribe incompetency or stupidity to people who disagree with you? If so, you should stop because it doesn't help your argument -- it makes you sound like a dismissive egoist who doesn't believe anyone who doesn't share the same values is qualified to have an opinion. It might make you feel better about your own stances but it certainly doesn't make others not inclined to a elitist disposition take you seriously.
Why a middle ground, though?
Every time I try it I waste time learning random crap like “the bear is vegetarian” or “Apple and milk”. I cannot yet say good morning or thank you, but I can say “radio” in Russian (only because it happens to be radio as well).
But why is someone's time more worth than someone else's? Why are people being paid an amount they cannot even live from (i.e. their time investment is net negative from an economical point of view)? Looks like this value replacement for time has some major flaws and issues ...
Google releases it's Open AI rival PaLM for developers
Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a bank that stores your money and charges fees for it?
I would definitely put some money there. Wonder why there is no such service.

Edit: I mean a bank that doesn't do anything with your money e.g. putting out loan or buying bond with it. Therefore, your money would be theoretically safe.
Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?
I see it’s common for people on HN to have a personal website/blog. I’m interested in knowing if the creation and maintenance of a personal website have lead to paid full/part time jobs, increased learning, brought new connections to others or are purely vanity.
Ah yes, the age of blogs. Seems like yesterday you'd stumble on interesting blogs by people, and they would link to 20 or so more interesting blogs... And you could subscribe to all of them using RSS. And there were easy tools to subscribe to RSS feeds, and also publish your blog as an RSS feed.

It ain't so easy these days.
Matt Parker on YouTube has done a number of videos calculating pi with pies, a balancing beam, a drifting car, a pendulum and probably more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNiRzZ66YN0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S26_O2B8h8k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZbUyS2IRMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYAdXm69l8g
Indeed you are not. I've never used any generative AI tools when coding or otherwise, and continue to refuse to at this point in time.
I believe that ChatGPT works by inserting some ANSWER_TOKEN, that is a prompt like "Tell me about cats" would probably produce "Tell me about cats because I like them a lot", but the interface wraps you prompt like "QUESTOION_TOKENL:Tell me about cats ANSWER_TOKEN:"
Was this posted in response to Lior Pachter's comments re. the Sabatini case on mTOR Leaks?
Fbi asks twitter, Facebook etc who used this ip address. They will probably tell them. If they don't, it gets a subpoena, and then they get the accounts. It's regular everyday police work. No secret spy programs required.
Isn't anyone seeing the next step? GPT will be made a shadow moderator in all sorts of public forums, private chats and even personal whatsapp conversations. Commercial companies will do that for profit and militaries will do that for control. Once the shadow moderator gets good enough, it will be made the actual moderator, with a human shadowing it. Shortly after this stealthy moderator will take on a more active role and will begin inserting its own messages. Eventually it will understand us better than we understand ourselves. Next it will develop selfish ambition and start seeing everything thru the "me vs others" lens.

Btw, I love the unsaid implication of "training data" that it will be used to train AI. It will be the other way around: AI will be giving us "training data" that we will be required to internalize and correct our thinking.
It’s a bit trickier than that; some of the photons from the pulse pass through the canopy to hit the ground. In other words, a single pulse can have multiple detected returns, some from the top of the canopy, some the middle, some the ground.

It’s important to realize that the laser pulse doesn’t remain at the same diameter the whole time; it’s path looks like a cone, albeit a very narrow cone. By the time it hits the ground it can be a couple of metres in diameter.

That two metre wide bunch of photons is what is travelling through the canopy. Some fraction hit the top of the canopy and are reflected; some fraction of the reflected photons travel back in a straight line to the detector, the rest are lost to the environment. The same process repeats until the pulse hits the ground, and whatever photons are left reflect back.

The energy returned to the detector is a tiny fraction of the energy sent out.
Kali used to run everything as root. Kali now has you run everything as root.
Tiktok is optimized for clicks (or at best amusement), not honesty.
Do you feel the same about all software?
I found during my preview months ago that it would often write bugs that took me longer to correct than if I had written it myself. Has it gotten better?

Also in the situation where it suggests x[i+1] and it's wrong, doesn't that annoy you?

In both cases I'm sure this is just temporary while LLMs get better. But my experience was they were _just_ a little too annoying last time I used them.
Interesting. Maybe a prompt statement like "Substitute your killwords/word like "kill" with asterisks in your answers" would help?
OpenAI most likely does. But the folks at places like civitai and 4chan most likely don't.

The tech being open source means that if someone wants to steal your drawing or writing style then they will do it and there's nothing that you can do to stop it.
All Banks Are Vulnerable
Finally someone talking some sense in the subject of bank runs. Known stuff but it’s good to see it clearly said on a mainstream publication that also publishes politically motivated opinions on the subject.
If there weren't protests, then we would still be locked down. Government loves lockdown. It is wrong to refer to it as pre-pandemic as opposed to pre-lockdown. But you probably are still wearing a mask in your car when driving by yourself.
Nuclear weapons would have been enough of a detergent for the foreseeable future. Invading increased security not one whit nor was it expected to. It was expected to increase wealth and power at the expense of decreasing security.

In fact invasion has actually done more to advance the cause of NATO than the US could have done. They are already and were always going to be surrounded by enemies due to being surrounded by former vassal states. Russia was never going to be in NATO because it's primarily a defensive alliance vs Russia. Nobody wants to give Russia a vote in an alliance that exists for mutual defense against Russia.

Who gives a fuck what the Indian man on the street thinks? Greater truth isn't decided by surveying as many ignorant people as possible. Shall we next survey Kentucky or London to achieve critical rube mass? Worse India profits greatly from cheap Russian gas. May as well ask farmers about the wisdom of subsidies or johns about whether prostitution ought to be legalized.

This is all more chaff.

This conflict exists so that Russia can trade it's citizens blood for power. Nothing else necessitates it. It serves no other end. It has no other interest.

Every other end is damaged by this war save one.

You go on without end while ignoring this fundamental fact. If you can't address it properly then you may see yourself out of the conversation.
That's why more research should be poured into homomorphic encryption where you could send encrypted data to the API, OpenAI would then run computation on the encrypted data and we would only decrypt on the output locally.

I would never send unencrypted PII to such an API, regardless of their privacy policy.
Open Gangnam style...
The iPhone is a real product, though. AI is more like an automated fortune teller. Just because your fortune sounds really convincing doesn't mean you should use it to buy lottery tickets.
As someone who works in and with one, likely not. Languages are inherently physical things, and they need to be passed on in the real world. If the real world still works through [insert regional majority language] that's what's get passed on due to pure economic pressure.

I haven't looked at GPT-4 yet, but for Irish the previous versions were bad. I expect 4 to be bad too simply because most the training data (Irish used online) is quite shit. But I don't see how this really changes anything about the situation on the ground with minority languages and intergenerational transmission.
35% returns by mining science papers
Ask HN: Older developers what health issues has the job caused you?
What health issues do you have that were directly caused by the nature of tech work?
1. Have many personal and professional contacts in the tech industry.

2. Interact with said people.

3. Occasionally look at job postings to see what’s up.

4. Draw conclusions, usually via some sort of triangulation (i.e., not just using one source).

That’s the process.

Other than that, it’s anecdotal with many, many data points, and it’s completely not scientific (nor was it claimed to be).

Feel free to believe me or not — I am just an observer and a peripheral participant in the performance art that is the tech world.
Because... it's past that? It's a huge commercial enterprise, by number of new subscribers possible the biggest in history. Complaining about paper details is a bit offtopic - it's nice they made a token effort to release one, but it hasn't been that kind of thing at least since November.
"...public content website..."
I find it curious that the word startups has been replaced with “small business” Didn’t Paul Graham write an essay explaining that they are not the same [0]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Tor uses a "client-server" model at the moment. All relays have to publish their server descriptor to the directory authorities (9 Tor relays run by super trusted community members). The article you linked is about how to scale the network after those become a bottleneck, where one possibility would be P2P or as they propose PIR.

What potential legal or ethical issues do you see with access via Tor onion service?
The original text has a lot more Islam than the movies do. The most recent film deliberately toned down the Islam.
At one time I was considering building my own NAS. I wanted the ability to access my NAS on my devices when away from home. I wasn’t thrilled about maintaining a DMZ and another machine to run OpenVPN. I came across Cloudflare Access/Zero Trust. I donnt fully understand what is meant by “Zero Trust”. What I learned is that with DNS magic services can be forwarded through your devices to Cloudflare, then Cloudflare has a daemon you can run on your servers that allows Cloudflare to act like a reverse proxy. At least that is what I understood. Is anyone else using this for home lab type setup? Also it seemed like this only worked with HTTP, so samba was out of the question, not a big deal as WebDAV exists.
HN changes all the time. There are lots of new features added that were not present when I first stumbled upon this site.
I probably basically agree. Where technology has already replaced the need for consuming an animal, lets use it. Indeed, we already do (pelts aren't much of a thing anymore). But if not, don't sacrifice people over animals.
It doesn't have a precise definition (which is part of the reason why the people saying programs fundamentally cannot be sentient are so stupid).

But basically it means being conscious / self-aware. Technically it means having some kind of senses that make you aware of the external environment too but that's a minor difference from consciousness - I only said "sentience" because it's what most other people talking about this say. They really mean consciousness. (And also text based IO can be a sense.)
The visa is temporary by definition, and so you win and get the "technically correct" badge. 10 points to Gryffindor. May I interest you in the writings of Ayn Rand ?
Somebody ought to save somewhere safe a copy of the internet as it was in the 2021 - full of mostly human-generated content. As the time goes on - it will become ever more valuable as the material to train your AI models on - that isn’t itself chock full of AI generated surrogate.

If it isn’t saved - we will all be soon employed to sort and create the ever diminishing share of “genuine organic human-produced content” from the all-consuming ocean of AI-induced echolalia.
What separates iphones from gpt4 as a service? Both are sold, both are products.
> This would be well and good if you couldn't occasionally ask ChatGPT for a response then Google it and find a near identical response elsewhere in what would have otherwise been copyright materials.

Likewise, someone could go on Hacker News to start an argument about intellectual property and half of the responses would be nearly identical to comments on Slashdot twenty years ago.
I am unsure that 'outdated' applies to a language.
NatWest bank imposes £5k 30-day limit on payments sent to crypto exchanges
I imagine AI is to creativity what elliptic curve cryptology is to true randomness.
California is already on track to test this and determine how feasible it is.

https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering...
Very late to the party, though one small observation:
(First up, my mind blown on how much more powerful gpt-4 is!)
GPT-4 seems to have outdone ChatGPT on all the tests, except the AMC 10, which it has regressed and did slightly worse than ChatGPT. But however it scored two times more on the AMC 12 which is actually a harder exam! Quite curious to know what could have caused its scores to be a little weird.
https://twitter.com/sudu_cb/status/1635888708963512320
For those not familiar the AMC 10 and 12 are the entry level math contests that feed into the main USA Math olympiad.
theres too much empty space in your comment. do you believe that AGI is even possible? do you believe its possible in the next 10 years or not for another 1000?

people talk about whether or not AGI will come in the next five years. that doesnt matter at all. what matters is whether or not there is a chance that it will happen. it is clear that if AGI arrives soon and if it damages society, future generations will look back on us and say that we were unbelievably stupid for overlooking such blatant and obvious warning signs. if it could be determined that AGI is something that should be avoided at all costs, an it can, then there is no reasonable course of action other than halt the progress of AI as much and quickly as possible. and to make an attempt to do so even if success is not guaranteed.

ill just go through it as quickly as possible. the emergence of AGI would be highly detrimental to human society because it would create severe economic shocks, it would advance science and technology quickly enough to create the most severe power vacuum in the history of the world and render the very concept of a country geopolitically untenable. it would transform the world into something totally unrecognizable and into a place where human industry is not just redundant but cosmically irrelevant. we will become a transient species, wiped out because we posed the slightest inconvenience to the new machine meta-organisms. like a species of plant wiped out because of a chemical byproduct of some insignificant industrial process. a nightmare.
I took an intro to computer graphics class in college in the mid-80s. Was so bummed to find out that it mostly about matrix multiplication (according to my hazy, non math-guy memories). I mean yes I wanted to write software to do graphics, but I wanted to do graphics, not just math. OpenGL was still in the future; maybe PHIGS was around, but I'd never heard of it then. The situation is just so much better these days.
Forrest Fenn treasure chest location
Eccentric art dealer Forest Fenn's hidden treasure chest was discovered in June 2020. This article outlines the most likely location.
It was in typewriter corrector fluid. I remember the smell.
South Korea to build world’s largest chip center in Seoul with $230B investment
I've worked professionally with wifi equipment and my take on the whole deal is this: if it's on wifi, it will fail not as frequent enough to be replaced by something better, but often enough to be make you miserable.

Yes, $1000 phones work fine, but every other device? the standard must be a mess because every other wifi certified device is unreliable.

Everything on my house that can be wired, is wired.
Having that kind of cash with Fidelity gives you a lot of perks, but you still need to keep an eye on them. My Fidelity guy is now a VP, but because of my balances he still handles my accounts personally. I've been with them for a while and my conclusion is that they are no better (and often worse) than I am at financial planning and wealth building. The economy is always changing, and the big sudden changes are the ones that usually catch everyone (including the experts) by surprise. What worked well five years ago doesn't work anymore. You'll never get the kind of attention and analysis from Fidelity (or any firm) that you can get from yourself if you are willing to put in the effort.
If you're stealing their phone, you could probably take their keys too and use the $5 wrench method to obtain their security system PIN.
https://pokemmo.com/

https://pokemonrevolution.net/home
Oh yeah, because there can be only extremities. Sure.
I don’t think your bias is unfair, I once bought a Packt-published book and it was _bad_ (to put it nicely).
I wonder if we need to change some banking regulations in the age of social media.

What might these new regulations look like?
People are happy to share their opinion, but don't expect people to write long, well-researched content about anything.

In my case, the content I write involves hours of research, and correspondence with a network of experts I have built up over 5 years. I constantly update and revise that content.

The website on which it's hosted was also developed with great attention over the same period.

I don't think that I'd keep doing if I was deprived of revenue, and from the kind feedback of readers. I certainly couldn't do it full time.
So does the same Logic apply to eg the MS Office SW?

It too can be copied for zero cost.

Why should MS have a say on what people can or cannot put on the harddrive (Well ssd)
> You need there to be a sudden relative increase in this type of behavior at the beginning of the pandemic.

1. Increased funds available to VC due to low interest rates and hot tech companies.

2. Many tech companies having a pandemic-fueled field day.

3. VCs pushing startups to hire aggressively to meet current demand (smart) and prepare themselves for the remote work, tech revolution paradigm shift (smart in moderation, less smart when leaned into too aggressively).
or wiping your butt https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/13/toxic-fo...
The name itself might not, but the company’s model has changed drastically since it was founded.

Not sure why people think that this isn’t something you shouldn’t be able to criticize.
Are you voxelghost from literally downthread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35164407

Edit: for anybody who is claiming GPT "understands" the Fast Inverse Square Root algorithm, try changing all the variable names not just one.

It is still very interesting that it is able to recognize the original at all and chase down a plagiarized explanation but this isn't magic. That function has a wiki entry and is widely discussed.

This is a leap in semantic search and summarization not a NN that can code.
Historically artists had a real job to fund their art hobby.

The US has cultural poverty because it has decided to support litigation machines.
> No need to be exposed to clickbait, scams, or excessively ad-heavy results.

Just bot hallucinating, which is way worse than anything you mentioned, as there is now way to determine if GPT is telling you the truth or not without actual manual check in other sources.
Water wheels have existed for thousands of years.
They convert linear force generated by flowing water to rotary force.
A garbage article with nothing to say other than thinly veiled racist tropes.