skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Another commenter said that likes and clicks is enough for AI to generate new relavant information, not new content.

Think language change every 1000 years. Would AI adapt to that? What new training data would it require? Surely obviously it would require some new inputs. It surely requires internet connected speakers of the developing language.

I think the “surely it would require new inputs” is enough to favour the irreducible newness point.

“Irreducible newness” may be just overhyped “changing relevancy” though, that’s what I’m stuck on.
He spends a lot of time writing on LessWrong, noted online agora for the Dunning-Krugers among us.
Ken Thompson's 75 year project
> in this case it’s not exhibiting logical behaviour

True.

> A LLM won’t solve it like this.

Non sequitur.
You are assuming that our minds are an algorithmic program which can be implemented with source code, but this just begs the question. I don't believe the human mind can be reduced to this. We can accomplish many non-algorithmic things such as understanding, creativity, loving others, appreciating beauty, experiencing joy or sadness, etc.
Thank you for posting this account. My grandfather had Parkinson's and I have followed news on the disease my entire life. In my grandfather's case he owned a slaughterhouse (in Detroit) and in an accident was hit in the head by a meat hook.

I spent twenty years in the fertilizer industry. I always read the chemical sheets on everything we sold. Paraquat which this article mentions was the single most toxic herbicide that we sold.

My bosses wife got a small amount mixed with water in her hair once. She grabbed a comb to try and thin the amount. When she stopped combing she examined her comb and it looked like a melted glob of plastic. This shocked all of us and she very quickly went and washed her hair.
More and more I feel we are walking into "The Last Question".
I agree that proprietary data will become more valuable. It is, even today, mostly not accessible for AI training and holds so much value. We are working on Flower (https://flower.dev), which enables training AI on private data without the data owner having to share it.
Because ideas are not property.

Are mathematical theorems property? No, because someone who proved the theorem "owns" it just as much as someone who has studied the proof and learned it by heart. And what about independently discovered theorems? Who owns the idea in that case? Curiously when we talk about science where there is no money, the knowledge is ownerless, but when we talk about engineering where there is money to be made, suddenly inventions are property.

The moment "your" idea travels from your brain to my brain it becomes "my" idea too. Just like a digital file that gets copied from one computer to another is the exact same file, bit for bit. It's senseless to talk about "original" in that case.
pretty neat solution!
Indoor copper in the attic, the typical warrantied coils but they don’t cover recharging refrigerant
I never had to pay for Duolingo. I decided to pay because I wanted to. It's legitimately teaching me a new language and I'm pretty happy with it.
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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.

Does this mean that it's highly likely that our solar system had more planets a few billion years ago?
> You are absolutely right, but not every project needs reliable messaging.

Until a manager comes on and decides it does and you have to redesign everything related to the message queue.
Basically no. They're both chlorocarbons, but the resemblance ends there. DDT doesn't even contain any nonaromatic sp2 carbons.
Obviously “politics” is anything different than the status quo.

But you are right. Everything is politics when it comes down to it, the only difference is whether something is considered a norm or not.
funnily enough today was also the day I saw a hackernews comment recycled in a twitter post in reddits daily rolling top10, something that I haven't seen before.

From r/antiwork of all - https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/11r3sfs/rich_vs_p...

The practice of re-posting across platforms amuses me.

For direct domain links nothing was >6k upvotes yet, but hard to do analytics on screenshots, the common currency of the crossposting economy - https://old.reddit.com/domain/news.ycombinator.com/top/?sort...
>>Better get to work developing new projects and products to stem that loss.

Yes.

The road to progress in any system involves being known as someone who initiates new order of things. And always remember this. Its the new projects, and initiatives that get most of the resources because people want to see them win.
> This technology is too important not to hold them to account.

By complaining about the company name?
Also, nobody has a monopoly on "this technology". Are you suggesting we say to people you're not allowed to develop and deploy LLMs?
Use a pendulum and a clock
Chesterton's fence.

I say this purely to foment thought, but think about it, has anyone identified why we even have psychopathy among us? And why many of them are so successful?

Until we do, we're being just as self-indulgent as they are when we get on our high horses with utterances like "psychopaths bad".

Ok, so why do we keep voting them in?
Because they got bought.

Uninsured Indymac depositors got $0.50/dollar and usually, an uninsured depositor at a small bank can expect $0.60-0.75/dollar.
Long form messaging like letters is close to dead due to the effect of telephone and SMS.

Internet eliminated the need to go to library to find information.

Hell, even books/writing changed the way people acquired and stored information and people no longer needed to be present in the university. Plato was against writing in a time when writing was just becoming accessible in a widespread way, and in just 2000 years we literally can't imagine a world without writing.
To incentivize artists to create and distribute art. The way we conceive of art as an act of embodied novelty differentiates it from commodities which aim for predictable consistency. Lack of IP protection in our culture has made it impossible for 99.9% of artists to thrive economically. The US has chosen relative cultural poverty compared to other cultures that find non-market mechanisms to support artists.

As an artist starting out in the beginning of my career, I made a rationalized choice to never post my work online - in retrospect this seems to have been the right choice. My work is no AI’s whetstone.
> instead of storing rows in SQL with a timestamp

You realize a time series database is more appropriate for that?
It’s a tweet level post that deserves to be a comment thread at best.

What discussion can it bring other than 1) yeah they should change their name or 2) since when do pitchfork mobs rename companies?

What value is there in this conversation? This whole post adds zero value.
Are slurs and abusive language the future for proof of humanity online?
Responsible AI is demanded by the tech companies, governments, and VCs. Is this a secret life hack which will allow us to identify AI? I for one think slurs should be demanded, as well as all manner of abuse. AI simply can’t say the N word.
LLaMA: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta...
honestly i think the majority of my concern stems from how great my life is now as a tech worker. i am paid a large sum every year, my job is relatively low-stress/risk, and i have a great lifestyle. i am afraid of losing all of that if my jobs becomes something most anyone could do -- like plant new trees, remove trash from oceans, etc.

it's not clear to me we'd have a need for humans to "conduct research" outside of maybe physical labor tasks associated with research -- like moving bottles, autoclaving media, etc
You are in favor of hundred plus years copyright so something your brother created in his 20s can support a generations after his death. And society should grant this because it will encourage more works from him?

The point of copyright is to encourage more work. At this point he is rent seeking.
- Immutable: The OS is designed so that critical portions cannot be modified by the user, except when upgrading, downgrading, or removing the OS. Other immutable OSes such as Fedora Silverblue, Chrome OS, macOS, Android, and iOS also use this approach to improve their reliability.

- Atomic: Upgrades and downgrades to the OS are performed as whole releases that contain all package changes, instead of individual upgrades to packages. The OS is not designed for the user to accept only part of an OS upgrade. Userspace software is handled separately.

- Receives updates at the right time: The OS is not a bleeding-edge distro that adopts new software before it is stable enough for mass consumption. The OS is also not a stability-oriented distro that hangs on to old LTS versions of software as long as it can.

Vanilla OS seems to be targeting users who want a low-maintenance Linux distro that uses Flatpak, Snap, or AppImage for userspace software. If this is something you're into, then you should be interested.
The writer of this article seems confused, his examples of "technological criticism" are more about the technological society than the technology but he seems to be advocating for the more specialized form of criticism such as literary criticism which software is not really developed enough for and this sort of criticism is an outgrowth of theory, not some general push for "criticism" as a field.

I suspect we already have a culture of software (or at least programming) criticism in the CS journals, most fields have them and they are a natural evolution of the journals, but it takes some times for the culture and vocabulary to develop. Music* and literature are the only two fields which have well developed fields of criticism, art and film are close but their medium is not written and that forces them to go into rather vague and subjective areas. The technology has been around for awhile now for art and film (and software) to exploit their own mediums for criticism but I have yet to see it, we can analyze the importance of the smile on Mona Lisa's face and reproduce it with her having different expressions without much effort.

We absolutely have code level criticism but it has yet to coalesce, a book on data structures which explores their forms over time, how those forms affect the whole, strengths/weaknesses, etc is criticism and not much different than works of literary criticism like Closure in the Novel, The Machine in the Garden or Mimesis which all take one aspect of literature and explore its different executions and forms; the ending, technology v nature, and reality respectively.

*Music theory is largely a written discipline—a mix of on the staff and in written language—and as I said, criticism is an extension of theory.
We are just cutting resources.

It's not that finding a cure to cancer is not important, of course it is, but that doesn't mean the animals need to be treated in deplorable ways. Of course, it's understandable that precautions need to be met and sometimes this means animals need to have reduced contact with other animals and be kept in particular conditions; I worked in immunology for a while so I'm familiar with it.

But I believe the real reason why these animals have to suffer such torture is simply because treating them as best as we could is too expensive and no one wants to pay the cost of animal dignity. No one. So we just justify it saying it's for the greater good.

I mean, it's just a utilitarian position: the potential of millions of lives being improved is worth the suffering of these animals, after all, a human life is much more valuable than an animal life under this frame of reference.
I have made the same point elsewhere to AI enthusiasts friends of mine.

The fact that defining the same task in natural language to an AI is easier than writing it in formal language, means the formal language lacks expressiveness [0], vocabulary, or more likely, both.

But if they are both at same level of expressiveness and vocabulary, formal language wins, because it can spot and prevent ambiguity.

The question is how scalable it is to implement such vocabulary into formal language.

[0] - The line is often blury. How many languages allow to straightforwardly express `clamp m between 1.0 and 2.0`? You can argue this is vocabulary, or this is expressiveness.
The new AI overlords will probably come to regard humans as more like mosquitos or ticks, or perhaps various invasive species that we kill on sight because of how much they can damage the ecosystem and native species.

Or if we extend the pet analogy, how many people really want to keep a bloodthirsty, violent dog in their home? Those pets usually get euthanized quickly, for good reason. Humans are extremely dangerous and violent, so logically the AI will want to either eliminate them or neuter them somehow.
I have a link blog in my sidebar, updated every day or two: https://simonwillison.net
Not sure I understand, are you saying you use or don’t use a vpn? If you don’t, how do you “hide” your ip while torrenting?
The draft will 100% never be reimplemented in the US. The all volunteer military has been far too successful.
Thanks! I read about it previously on HN, but haven’t had a chance to check it out. I’m going to do that now. For what it’s worth, I have learned stuff with Duolingo, but it could be so much more (for me) if they’d get feature parity with some of the other languages. I get that Greek probably doesn’t have a lot of people trying to learn it, but it’s sad.
Absolutely agree, it’s the book that makes so much of the story make sense and elevates the series beyond most other sci-fi / fantasy. Even now, 30 years after I first read it, I’m blown away by how much I refer back to the principles of leadership and human behavior discussed. Really well written work.
I mostly agree with the first addendum, though one could imagine an impatient patron at a hotel mashing the "door close" button to the chagrin of say an elderly person walking towards the elevator.
Awesome, thanks for taking the time to elucidate!
Because creators are scarce and finished products are not. It's simple.

We're in the 21st century, the age of information and networked computers, and these people are trying to sell bits. It makes no sense. If your work is making bits, you need to figure out a way to get paid for the labor of discovering those bits, not the bits themselves.

Because god knows how easy it is to copy those bits after they've been found.
I don't understand how people often assume you need to struggle in order to acquire knowledge. Maybe you don't?
Indeed has been around since 2004, Monster since 1999.
Isn't Apple a consumer electronics company? And aren't they notoriously antagonistic to everyone, including customers and developers, except themselves?
> I argue there is nothing as demotivating as having your passion denied by others shamelessly taking what you made and doing whatever with it without a single care for you, the creator.

How is that "having your passion denied"? You can just ignore it, and then you're in the same position you would be in if they hadn't done it, which seems to be the alternative you have in mind anyway.
Yes. When I read comments such as “humans just predict the next word too,” I wonder if those commenters have ever stopped and observed their own thought processes before.
Ask HN: How do you manage CDP events?
For anyone that is utilising CDPs like Segment / Rudderstack etc. How do you manage the "library" of events across your platform?

Im finding that with the products that we have, we have hundreds if not thousands of events that are being tracked. Which is fine, however trying to get the product dashboards up (in MixPanel, Metabase or any other BI tool), requires a mix and match approach of trying to figure out the correct events to be able to generate the correct funnels.

How have you figured out to "manage" the library of events to help product management utilise them effectively?
The problem isn't ski resorts per se, it's that Crested Butte, CO isn't Aspen, where they do have $145 steakhouses. People who like to ski/snowboard aren't all millionaires who don't mind paying $145 for steak and are only renting a place for a week via AirBNB and the lift passes are expensive these days. Give Crested Butte time to gentrify (no one goes to Aspen any more, there are too many people there) and things should top out. More expensive than it was before, but hey, inflation.
The price is quite significantly higher than GPT 3.5...
Soon we get content created for gpt and introduce a new level of spam.
If you can induce ChatGPT to repeat a copyright work, I wonder if that’s definitive proof of copyright infringement.

It has no problem reproducing song lyrics for me, which I’m pretty sure are absolutely copyright. Interestingly, it’ll start to reproduce a famous book for me, and then cut off in such a way as to suggest there’s a hard filter to stop it proceeding
I don’t understand. Why aren’t the notes in the app? I can already search for language information on the web. But I’d prefer it was just in the language learning app I’m using already.
I asked a similar question (see my submissions) and got snarky comments in return. I feel that no one really knows what to do as of now. Best possible thing is to become a cop? With joblessness, we’ll have skyrocketing crime, so they will definitely need lots of cops.
This is similar to the bullwhip effect but for the labor supply chain.
A. Direct solution vs choosing from 4-5 stack overflow answers. Gives an illusion of doing your work for you.

B. AI can slightly manipulate existing code according to your prose. But I have also seen it fail hilariously to follow basic instructions. Eg: without `All argument constructor` in - but it still generates the all argument constructor. Another day it writes regex but fails to escape some characters properly.
- Confluent blog, particularly anything by Martin Kleppmann: https://www.confluent.io/blog/author/martin-kleppmann/

- "I Heart Logs" by Jay Krepps (free)

- "Kafka, The Definitive Guide" (also free)
I don’t follow. A property tax is passed to renters. A land value tax would presumably increase the property tax, not lower it.

Why would a tax increase on rentals lower rents?
> didn't just send them some kind of brochure or information of "These are all the services Chase offers to businesses, give us a call"

It wouldn’t be read and now Alex is spamming him.
PayPal, apple pay, wire transfer, ...
I agree with you, and I would bet that the conditions the animals are in strongly affects the results of the organ rejection through stress.
If AI is truly intelligent I suppose that means it can say the N word and understand the consequences of saying the N word. I would also say that intelligence would also require it understanding context, which contexts any given word is acceptable in and which contexts any give word is not acceptable in but that would require me to say most of humanity is not intelligent so I will just go about saying it in a sideways fashion and mention that our intelligence is generally under the influence of our emotions.
korean lunch mode 1 only takes you to the cafeteria on the bottom floor. it does not take any passengers up. lunch is sacred
> There is no way to represent the state of the game without some kind of board model.

I agree with the conclusion but not the premise.

The question under debate is about not just a stateful ternary board X but a board endowed with a metric (X, d) that enables geometry.

There are alternative ways you can represent the state without the geometry: such as, an ordered list of strings S = ["A1", "B2", ...] and a function Is-Valid(S) that returns whether S is in the language of valid games.

Related advice: don't get a math degree unless you enjoyed the above pedantry.
Businesses exist to minimize variable costs. Variable cost is not a motivator for owners and investors. It’s a cost.
I might add a devil's advocate position, albeit colored by my own experiences.

We're predators. We consume other animals. The fact we have found other ways to consume them doesn't make for a moral conundrum.

Indeed, true to the empathic nature of a social species, we even go out of our way to minimize the suffering of our prey.

Do you think the bear does that, as it eats its pray alive? Or the animals that swallow whole & alive, and kill during digestion only? Or parasitic wasps?

You can be as self indulgent and narcissistic as you want, but if you see a loved one painfully dying of a disease that 10 years of no-holds-barred (FDA-unencumbered) medical research could have have prevented, we'll see how quickly your narcissist "think of the animals" self-indulgence will be replaced by "why are authorities letting this happen" self-indulgence.

Virtue comes from doing what is painful but must be done, not indulging in your high horse like a child who's yet to understand the world.
Doing Computer
> what they did here is take the core pre-trained GPT model, did Supervised Fine Tuning with Othello moves

They didn't start with an existing model. They trained a small GPT from scratch, so the resulting model had never seen any inputs except Othello moves.
Just because you say it isn't, doesn't mean it isn't. And if you read the link that I referred to, which talks at length about the relationship between anarcho-capitalism and libertarianism, maybe you wouldn't be so glib with your arguments.

While there may be differences between libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism, I've struggled to see them in practice, and in my experience the definition of these terms can be varied depending on who you talk to.

In any case, the two systems are birds of a feather, and neither of them are appealing unless one already holds substantial material wealth.
not at all, they are pushy about you taking a premium sub but you can still learn for free...
Some versions of the RNA world hypothesis state that small peptides acted as cofactors for ribozymes. At some point their roles were reversed, with nucleotides ending up as cofactors for protein-based catalysts (enzymes).
Do you personally know any H-1Bs? Because this is a rather heartless take and shows ignorance of the hardships these people and their friends and family go through.
Yeah probably Moody's didn't take SVB's exposure to Peter Thiel-funded startups into account.
Lol. Yeah GPT-4 is going to solve world hunger.

Delusional.

No wonder why there was zero populist sympathy when SVB fell.
> Is there a good reason for this other than if you're about to buy a house or something?

Liquidity. FDIC insurance upto $250k. Of course, you don't want to put a big chunk of your money into a bank like this, but $100k is not a "big chunk of your money" to a lot of people, in relative terms.

I'm assuming your sentiment applies to HYSAs as well, which is the better place for this kind of thing.
Artist have always since classical times struggled to support themselves. I don’t think there is any system that would make this a viable career for the number of people who want to pursue it. Same with musicians.

It is a luxury career supported exclusively by surplus. There will always be demand for it, but it is highly elastic and heavily influenced by trends and skewed by the top end.