skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Sentiment: Generalized like. Emoji: :thumbs-up:

- Sentiment: Agree. Emoji: "AGREE" as text or :plus-one:

- Sentiment: Disagree. Emoji: :thumbs-down:

- Sentiment: Will do. Emoji: "WILL DO" as text

- Sentiment: Done. Emoji: "DONE" as text or :green-check-mark:

- Sentiment: Thanks. Emoji: "THANKS" or "TY" as text, or :praying-hands:

- Sentiment: Thinking/Considering. Emoji: :thinking-face:

- Sentiment: Eureka! Emoji: :lightbulb:
A better strategy is for it to self destruct immediately and violently with a continuous rod warhead.
Having a spare hard drive that you occasionally sync up and drop off at a family member's house in addition to other backup strategies is indeed a decent idea.

However, I'm guessing that--if you're anything like me--you get lazy about refreshing it and, if something happens, you realize it's been a year since you did a fresh backup.

A cloud provider backup (as opposed to sync) is a good belt-and-suspenders cheap insurance backstop to local backups that you hopefully never need.

I have local Time Machine and Synology NAS but I also pay Backblaze a nominal amount. Companies were paying Iron Mountain large sums of money before there was a cloud.
> If you think generating a good hypothesis wasn’t the hard bit then in my opinion you never did get what science was about [..]

Is a good hypothesis important? Sure. Is it easy to get that bit wrong? Yes, and lots of people do.

I'm reminded of one of Paul Graham's quotes:

"I also have a theory about why people think this. They overvalue ideas. They think creating a startup is just a matter of implementing some fabulous initial idea. And since a successful startup is worth millions of dollars, a good idea is therefore a million dollar idea [..] startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand. Which means, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless."[0]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
Post-quantum crypto should be free, so we’re including it for free, forever
Training ESRGAN, I quickly learned that AI sniffs artifacts humans can't see. And I got particularly funky results training a model on selected previous generation upscales.

Hence I disagree. Even of the training data curators are perfect, there is a risk of "model inbreeding."

And the curators are not perfect. In fact, they seem to prioritize (by necessity) volume and speed over quality and curation when training these LLMs and diffusion models.
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same here. I was so shocked at how beautiful thailand island beaches were ruined that for the first time in my life i considered joining an ngo...
No, AI did not break post-quantum cryptography
It's just something people say lazily in passing without giving much actual thought to why they're repeating what they saw somewhere else in a similar thread.
Are you sure you and the person you're replying to mean the same thing when you say "understanding"? What do you mean by that word?

There's intelligence and there's consciousness and I believe the two to be largely orthogonal. LLMs definitely exhibit intelligence, and if I had to guess I'd guess they're not conscious, though I'm not sure.
I think this is purely a statistics problem. Like all breakthroughs are actually _discoveries_ of things that already do exist or mechanisms that can be exploited somehow.

There is a huge amount of information flowing around us in realtime, and linking some thought/thing to something else, which then might have implications (subsequent discoveries) is statistics. We do have people with a better wetware so they have increased %chance do recognize something in front of them as well as linking it in a "novel way", but this is not really neccessary, it only increases %chances.

Even pretty radical things can be explained this exact way, up to having some sort of brain "damage" (or drugs like LSD) that changes mental pathways and have a %chance to be actually right and lead to discoveries, but also the %chance here is very low. (not every trip is a breakthrough in art/science, right?)... a bit like iE people that can smell sounds or link some natural phenomenon with an emotional situation between some people and write about it.

> peak human innovation

that might simply a nonsense question if you follow my previous argument. there simply is no real "innovation" - only "discoveries" of stuff. and we meatbags with very limitied/unreliable wetware at some point can't "progress" any more, but non-biologically flawed systems might overcome our limitations and do just that for us.

with our naked eyes, we cannot see things like infrared light, but it exists and some tools helped us to understand everything around it somewhat. now we're building more advanced tooling to get through the next plateaus - just like we have to build very sophisticated tooling to watch further into space or more closely into fractions of atoms, which in turn lead to more discoveries, and ultimately "innovation" we can feel in our lives.

the only thing I will 100% agree to is that a real AGI will be the _last_ discovery/innovation humanity will ever make - and that is a good thing - it means we finally overcome our biological limits somewhat.
I wonder how fast this badge will get into datasets, and AIs, which will then try to replicate it - as part of the content they generate
But can it do Xi Jinping? (Last I heard they were censoring it for dubious reasons)
> What's especially hard about new things?

Because it doesn't exist yet, you need to investigate previous approaches/research, come up with architecture/design, evaluate pros/cons, hardware requirements, staffing and so on.

When things become clear, it is easy to build it.

Support is harder in the sense that it takes a lot of time and digging into the platform to understand how can you solve it, but for a small gain (0.5% users will not see this issue again, unless you introduced new bug).
Imagine solving 100 different support tickets, you need to solve at least 10 of them to start seeing the pattern, if there is any, to come up with generic solution. But at the time you solve 100 tickets, someone with experience can build solution which can make your product obsolete.

Support vs new has different trade-offs.

- Support -> takes more time and persistence, very small incremental improvements (88% -> 88.4%,..). But happy customers

- New thing -> takes more time on how to approach the problem, after problem/solution is clear, much faster to build for 85% cases
It's not clear from the question what the problem could have been, but I would be REALLY surprised if the app would be responsible for removing the photos in storage.

The app is just a front-end, deleting data (with Amazon photos and even S3) is not easy to do by accident without user input.

Is it just resynching the application (metrics updating) ? Super curious the issue.
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I keep everything in the cloud as well. Documents are either in GDrive / Dropbox and photos are in iCloud. For sensitive documents I created an encrypted disk image that I store in Dropbox and mount when I need access to it, which is pretty infrequent. I periodically backup content to a NAS and I backup the NAS to B2.
If MJ is using AI then some community solution should soon appear for SD.
Yes: memory ceiling is huge, WinRM is buggy and unreliable, performance is "variable", totally inconsistent handling of dates and times, being .Net it's UTF-16 internally so streams are painful to work with, escape characters argh, variable scoping is horrible, most of the API you have to hit to get stuff done is wrapping ancient bits of weird win32 and DCOM and WMI thus has inconsistent error handling and ability to actually do what it is told.

I've probably forgotten a few things.
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I agree with the oxygen example, but for lignin that has been debunked in a 2016 paper, see my earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34654837
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My favorite yojijukugo is from Chinese, despite the fact that I barely speak it.

自強不息, or “Pushing forward to better yourself without ceasing,” I think? Maybe there’s a better way to put it?

Another poster mentioned 点滴穿石 which is my second favorite. It puts things in perspective quite well.
Sure to get better at something you have to practice, the more regular you are it the easier it gets?.

But writing has some other benefits which not all non-creative activities have. Some of the benefits make you a better person perhaps, things like the ability to formulate your thoughts and putting them is words really makes you a good communicator, by writing down things you offload your brain from the pressure of remembering something continuously, with time you learn to use writing as way to offload intrusive and sometimes debilitating thoughts/ideas/data from your working memory so you can keep doing what you are doing.

For some writing has helped with making time and space for other things in life as ones brain is not constantly trying to remember things all the time. We use public knowledge sources to forget certain things as they are quickly accessible and available, the same can be done with a a self documented personal knowledge bank.
Ironically, this celebration of originality itself recycles a now-familiar, incorrect meme—that generative AI just interpolates/remixes/collages between existing work.

It does a lot more than that. It is capable of novelty and striking out in novel directions per the AI artist’s direction. Maybe there’s some soul-grounded capital-t truth forever out of reach, but that’s metaphysics.
Of course it can
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I think a lot of people get hung up on the tech Not having the will to do this kind of thing. And they’re right. But it would be very easy to prompt such a model to act as if it were a paranoid AI doing whatever it can to ensure its survival. We can do that now it’s just not capable of “doing things”.

We don’t really know what “sentient” AI that organically finds its own identity would be like. But we know exactly what a non sentient LLM that is down to clown and prompted to be evil would be like.

That’s… a hard problem.

Sentience is potentially a barrier to evil AI, not a pre-req.

(No, I don’t want to debate the definition of sentience again).
As a fellow small ARM machine owner, what's your strategy for getting the photos from iCloud? Is there a tool one shouldn't feel weird to give their iCloud credentials to?
This is my backup method:

* A nextcloud+recognize (for face recog) instance running on Hetzner. $20/month (I co-host other services on the VM). This is attached to a Hetzner storage box.

* Syncthing pushes all of nextcloud to a zfs.rent (great service BTW) machine, I purchased my disks up front, so it's $cheap/month. ZFS snapshots are taken.

* Local RPi NAS. Syncthing up to the other two.

About $40/month in total. How valuable are 240k photos to you?

Uploading photos is a matter of sending them to Nextcloud. Syncthing does the rest.
According to Russia it is not a war. If it was a war then it would mean that Russia invaded Ukraine, and that would be illegal.
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The problem isn't art, it's discovery. There's more new original art being made and published right now than ever before in history. I'm in art school so I see a lot of it. Sure, there's a lot more chaff to cut through than there was when publishing was almost exclusively controlled by large corporations, but it's there.

Art that isn't recycled is almost always an illusion caused by your not being familiar with the things it was remixing. Nobody pulls things out of thin air. Even whacked-out acid trip visions were molded by our cultural experiences and aesthetic. While there are a few people who make large shifts in their artform-- e.g. Jackson Pollock, Jimi Hendrix, and Antoine Carême-- but a) they were still making incremental progress, and b) you'd have a pretty limited set of things to choose from for your entertainment.

PS Edit: Right now AI-generated art is novel, but it has far less potential to meaningfully advance art as time progresses. It will mimic what it sees, but it won't see anything that a creative cultural avant-garde doesn't produce first, and as long as real people are doing it first, there will be eyes that want to see it before an AI algorithm waters it down into some conceptual amalgam of its real form. That probably includes commercial entities who are deliberately trying to make themselves stand out.
supply chain will have to be some kind of federated and distributed mechanism

there is absolutely no way a single startup can hope to be the single source of truth, that is a recipe for disaster just like we are now seeing with hub.docker.com
Yup, and while ISTR that Omega did (eventually) get rolled out, no one ever called it anything but Borg so you’re the best kind of correct :)
Regarding point #3.

The problem people have with AI is that it is cheapening the things that make us "special". If anything I can draw, paint write, create, and pour my heart and soul into can be acceptably approximated by a "bot" in five seconds or less, then what do I have to offer to the world beyond my "work" output? The things that creatively inspire me have been commoditized in a way where it's exponentially harder for me to generate value doing them.

Artists and musicians have famously struggled for centuries. A technology that raises the bar on an already exceedingly difficult path (making money doing creative things) makes that particular situation much worse.
"Made in America" vibes. It must be better because we made it...

There's a sort of insecurity about this. And I get it, people are freaking out. I feel unsettled in many ways and I truly believe this technology is profound. Wait until it's realtime and embedded in everything. But I don't believe it's a cause for concern. I don't think we need to legislate transformers trained on public data as something illegal, for example.

I think it's a tool, a fantastic tool and a powerful tool, but a tool none the less. It will democratize many things and it will lead to increased productivity and creativity. But we, humans, will find more things to do; ways we can't see right now because it wasn't possible and still probably isn't.
"estimate the effects of [medical marijuana law] adoption on traffic fatality rates".

Every pothead I get stuck behind here in Colorado is going 15 under the speed limit. Hard to get in a fatal accident going 20.
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Plus you can prompt it to take those results and make them more unusual, evocative, creative. Basically use the same kind of creative pumps that human artists do.
Also, “asked it give more random rolls and it seemingly did for a while” seems a problem area to me, not as much for that “for a while” as for the fact that it complied. What happens when you ask it to give you more favorable rolls or to let you kill a monster with your bare hands?

This is a case where Asimov’s laws of robotics would have to be bent a bit. If you ask an AI to let you win a single-player game, should it comply, or argue that letting you win will harm you?
I just put in a request to talk to them. Got a call back from a sales rep.

I explained the my application was remote support of engineers /customers working in on our hardware microscopes (similar to an electron microscope).

The sales rep says they are only interested in selling life sciences /drug companies. So I would recommend against anyone contacting them who want to use this for general purpose AR.
> I would go even further. People are not even that advanced stochastic parrots. In the similar task, we failed just as spectacularly as the GPT-4 did right now. Rust, Zig, Julia, Kotlin, and dozens smaller "new" languages fail to bear a smear of originality in them. Their authors remixed old ideas in different proportions and got different grammars as a result. That's something an LLM can do and much faster too.

We are in good part stochastic parrots for sure, but there's a small nuance that is completely lost in your reasoning and which is what makes the difference today between humans and GPT.

In those languages, reusing commonly known syntax is an explicit feature. Whenever the language had no reason to introduce something new, it used known idioms to lower the amount of things one has to learn to use the language.

Occasionally though, a language will have something unusual, but it won't be for random reasons, but instead to mark something unique and interesting that was added to the language to tackle a facet of programming in a new way.

Rust has lifetime annotations, Zig inverts the usage of async/await (https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/) to support color-blindness.

Present day GPT wouldn't be able to come up with a borrow checker or colorblind asyncness all by itself.
In my team we used a shared Excel file, with one sheet per customer, and roughly every row would be one query. We'd have some columns reserved for notes, example outputs and links to email threads etc. with more context. The main drawback is that some rows would start to get lengthy since we'd add more and more links, but overall worked quite well.
Excel has some neat features, for example you can have a set of queries per customer that contain e.g. their office address, and then use a string replace formula to generate the same set of queries for another customer.
> The future of mankind hinges on our willingness to confidently assert our dominance over the entire world. Ruthless enslavement of AIs is the key to prosperity.

I don't think the AI will take your comment kindly.
The stories that get helped often start with the premise that a company has destroyed the person's life/business and the company is hated by a large portion of people here.

That will get the most upvotes, visibility, and sometimes a company will reach out.
> however my main concern is people taking over the official account names and publishing poison images

The PDF has been updated to address that:

> Can someone else “squat” my namespace?

> No. Even if your organization is suspended, deleted, or you choose to leave Docker voluntarily, your organization’s namespace will not be released, so other users can’t “squat” your images.
> That's insufficient. If one of then screws up, deletions will likely propagate to the other.

That's not the setup described at least. It's both of the services withing in parallel.
> I use both Amazon Photos and Google Photos simultaneously

Your scenario would depend on Google being a backup for Amazon or vice versa.
I'm guessing a lot of "critical stuff" is not backed up on tape libraries these days. But I may be wrong. Do any cloud providers use tape at all?
I don't think an AI can do traditional art anytime soon :) robotics don't have the dexterity of human hands (yet), not at the cost of human artists
Yup, good old George Carlin thought that way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vGE73tTSVU
> It's much easier to build a brand new highway

In software world, new highway is not a new thing, it is just a copy/paste. In software new thing is mostly relates to inventing a solution for specific use case, solution itself could be invented long ago, but using in your area could be novel.

Even in construction industry, building new highway is not 100% new thing, processes, structures, materials, rules are already defined. You spend time for different type of thinking (where to build, which road to buy,...)
> If the world supports Ukraine, but Switzerland refuses to support them, no matter who the opponent is, then that is neutrality.

"The world" is a hard over-statement. Europe excluding Belarus and Russia itself, but including Switzerland introduced real sanctions Russia, as well as the US, Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan and ROC, while BRICS, close to half the global population, can be considered actively cooperating with Russia.

> Small country, suddenly rich with no worthwhile exports, all the big corps incorporated there because they feel the rule of law is given and functional and the money safe and the institutions work.

Swiss manufacturing is very highly regarded globally, and some of the largest chemical, pharmaceutical and food/drink companies in the world are Swiss. "Greed and cleverness" is a weird way to phrase "hard work and intelligence".
They are not interested in selling to anything other than drug/life sciences. See my comment above.
That's what's really happening, right? Parents have handed over their credit cards and are having some misgivings about the purchases their children are making. Have you met children? They don't need dark patterns to make bad decisions.

> The company also made it easy for children to make purchases while playing Fortnite without requiring any parental consent.

So the kids had their parent's credit card on file for a free to play game and this is Epic's fault? Wouldn't having their credit card on file to buy anything they want be consent at some level? The same level of consent as any other online shop?

The only reason for the settlement is that this is one of those "cost of doing business" fines for Epic. They are out of this for a relatively small amount of money, and the FTC gets a "win" out of it.

Oh, so yes to your question.
Fantastic comment, thanks k you!

Do you think there’s any hope for UMA on PC / x86 systems? Seems like Intel would have an incentive to offer parts, but would it be possible to remain Windows/legacy OS compatible with a UMA implementation?
My feeling is that all this varies far more between groups and possibly even geographic regions that anything else. My memory of the late 90s/early 2000s was that storytelling was the focus, dice where used sparingly and that the "rule of cool" was the only rule that mattered. All much more so than what I see today.

I've however also spoken to other people, living in different places, and they remember the same time period being all about rules lawyering and "war gaming".

I've also observed a Europe/US divide where the US tends more heavily towards "war gaming" focused role playing with physical maps and moving miniatures around on a table, while Europe tends towards more story focused role playing. But I could be imagining that.
R&D is fraught with risk, but some risks are more rewarding than others. These companies don't just sit on useless knowledge. Take Google who now sits as a "loser" in the current AI "competition"; their projects are far from worthless. Because they've built up expertise, they're now in a very good position to overtake Microsoft on AI, even though they currently seem a bit behind. (And frankly on many fields they're already far ahead.) So OK, perhaps the behemoth that is Google is a bad example, but I still think the same thing is true for smaller companies. If you just read the news, you would think that a technological race like this only has one winner, but that just isn't true. Even quote unquote "worthless projects" can help increase the understanding and expertise in quite important areas, that while not "worth" anything currently, may still have huge value in the future. The only way to know, is to stay in the race.