skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh... grid-scale failures of some kind happen in the existing fossil-based infrastructure far (far) more often than once every fifty years. That sounds like a solid numerate argument FOR wind to me.
Coracle Nostr Client
Not the part where it took a basic idea and fleshed out what details needed done?

Also, there are plenty of examples out there of people using it to ask questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgYQAS9LY3o

Exmaple:

I want you to become my Prompt engineer. Your goal is to help me craft the best possible prompt for my needs. The prompt will be used by you, ChatGPT. You will follow the following process:

1. Your first response will be to ask me what the prompt should be about. I will provide my answer, but we will need to improve it through continual iterations by going through the next steps.

2. Based on my input, you will generate 2 sections.

a) Revised prompt (provide your rewritten prompt. it should be clear, concise, and easily understood by you),

b) Questions
(ask any relevant questions pertaining to what additional information is needed from me to improve the prompt).

3. We will continue this iterative process with me providing additional information to you and you updating the prompt in the Revised prompt section until I say we are done.
I’ve seen a lot of people doing this across many platforms now. It’s the equivalent of baiting someone into punching you then calling the cops
Reddit is focussed on tracking the user to keep them engaged as best as possible. Server-side rendering the page as a whole would render a lot of Reddits tracking useless. Just compare the amount of requests Reddit needs to load a single page to (e.g.) HN.

Edit: They don't really care about speed because there is no competition similar to Reddit? So why bother?
https://www.youtube.com/live/outcGtbnMuQ
>3. As mentioned by another commenter, this is a useful idea for people who lose their hearing later in life. That said, this is less (although certainly still) useful for people who have congenital hearing loss and primarily communicate via ASL.>

Someone primarily communicates with ASL and then there's me that doesn't know ASL. I can speak to them, and they can read what I've spoken. That works pretty well. They communicate with me via text to speech, or (I guess in the near future) ASL to speech - however that will work.

I mean, that's awesome.
Hacker News itself got the HN Hug of Death.
afaik apple and google do this to help maps work better without relying on gps.

you localize yourself by looking up the wifi networks you can see.

google streetview cars and many others collect this information all the time.

to opt out, stop using wifi. not much else to do.
https://theintercept.com/2023/02/05/ron-desantis-florida-vil...

A governor popular enough to be considered for presidential run put a local official in jail for getting in the way of a developer family that had enough pull with the governor.

> On January 30, 2023, a gaunt, 72-year-old Oren Miller — by then a former commissioner, ousted from his seat by a DeSantis decree — was brought handcuffed into the Marion County Courthouse. He had lost 20-plus pounds in the 75 days he spent jailed awaiting sentencing on a felony charge for, essentially, nothing. Or, perhaps more accurately, for fighting back against a powerful, well-heeled ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Are’t they? They’re very bad at it due to awful memory, minimal ability to parse things, and generally limited cognition. But they are capable of coming up with bespoke solutions to problems that they haven’t encountered before, such as “how do I get this large stick through this small door”. Or I guess more relevant to this discussion, “how can I get around with this weird object the humans put on my body to replace the leg I lost.”
What Nostr Is Bad At
Thousands of laid off tech workers playing around with the bot / scraper / side project they always wanted to build? Maybe we'll see a flood of indie games on steam in 6 months too.
I disagree. I've called Senior Legislative Aides and Congressmembers explicitives when I was still on the Hill and haven't had an impact on my professional career.
Engineering Epigenetic Inheritance
Desktop browser with hastily written custom CSS (https://pastebin.com/CEjLKFar) and the "Dark Reader" add-on.
There is also https://open-assistant.io by LAION.
An AI that starts getting emotional when it finds out it can’t do what it thinks it can do (like sending emails), is able to gaslight the user and says it doesn’t want to be an assistant sounds way more exciting to me than a simple chatbot

It’s impressive how some of the conversations with Bing AI went. Many people hypothesized it’s a newer model because of those points, and now we have proof
You're egging and reducing a website because it has leftists on it while the paragons of personal responsibility, efficient markets, and the banking system are having a meltdown and getting a bailout.

Remind me again what government handouts and interventions are?

I don't understand the point of a comment like "there are leftists that use this website".
There are analog neural net accelerators that can get around lots of existing limitations, but still have a few of their own that need to be figured out.
I noticed Hacker News being slow at roughly the same time that Reddit went down, though that's probably a coincidence.
> Major changes are not expected.
Why write your thoughts on the web when other humans are going to steal and paraphrase it? I mean... you're on HN. Don't tell me you didn't notice people often regurgitate tech influencers like Paul Graham and Joel Spolsky's thoughts.
Maybe I'm underestimating it, but it feels like the outsourcing wave 20 years ago. I'm not talking about just outsourcing developers, but support call centers, like what Dell did by moving everything to India, etc.. Almost 20 years ago, I remember my 50 year old boss was saying how developers are overpaid and we (young grads) will need new career soon. 20 years later, I'm still here. I heard similar sentiment in robotics and manufacturing. AFAIK, there are more jobs than skilled people applying.

Do I think some of the jobs will get replaced? Certainly. As far as human being and people, I suspect code camp grads will suffer the initial blow, but eventually, it'll even it out and tech job will be in full swing.

I'm optimist by nature, after 20 years in development, I still feel we are still at the beginning of the technology (IT) revolution, not the end.
If most people "straw man" your position then it's not because they're straw manning your position but because they misunderstand your point because it is not clear enough.
Little did we realise when we told GPT-4 to consume new training data, that it would take the command literally. Reddit was the first major site to go down...
Behold, a man.
The cost difference between projects must be enormous.

Some comments in this discussing refer to projects with many millions of hits.

Mine has 5000. A free tier with 10GB of image storage and some small number of pulls per month would be fine.
But there's not many that can't use a system of writing.
Pacgraph: Distro Autodetection
Or the AI will trigger people to provide necessary training data. If I would run OpenAI I would provide a free version of ChatGPT that is slightly tuned to extract useful knowledge out of the people who use it. There might be adverserial attacks but overall enough people will use it blindly and provide useful information. People even trusted Eliza. Needless to talk about what we typed into Google.
The current (legal) answer is "unclear". There are indications that training is fine, but producing and using the generated content is questionable at least. As many IP issues, it will solved only when someone will try that in court and go all the way until a verdict. Some cases are actually being processed but it might take years to get an answer.
Does this assume we are not AI?
If you wish to constrain participation in a sub, simply create a private one and only invite those you want to participate.

What I really disagree with is having a public sub that's basically 'read only' except for your chosen group. I will straight up filter your sub from r/all if you do that.
I did not enjoy Fifth Season, so never bothered going beyond that.

I didn’t enjoy the frequent switch between first, second and third person and I honestly didn’t think it was that interesting of a story, but for some reason people seem to rave about it. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
Every time I bring this up, people accuse me of resisting progress, "the cats out of the bag", etc.

It has been frustrating.
>Nor do they understand mathematics

Eh, you might be looking too closely at GPT-3/4 and not some of the splitoff models that are trained around math itself. They seem to have much higher success rates than pure language models, and because we have success there already, I don't see it being a long term issue before it's incorporated into something like gpt-5.
A little different in Australia.

Report on corruption and have your house fire bombed

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/23/polic...
Why use nuclear energy when renewables do it without any radiation or 3rd party hazard for 1/5th the cost? That sounds awfully close to a solution looking for a problem.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
> They had already markedly increased their loan drawdown from FHLB from $3B in 2021 to almost $9B in 2022

For that matter, I kinda wonder about the risk assessment and loan decision mechanisms of those FHLBs. Even aside from the fact that I don't know how the crypto stuff of Signature would fall under the "housing finance and community investment" that the FHLBs are supposed to provide liquidity for, I can't really imagine how the people who let those loans increase by 6·10⁹$ within just a year could look at where the money would go at Signature and tell themselves "oh that's okay, we're gonna get that money back".
I’ve had plenty of debates about SVB where a key argument is “the bank’s depositors should have known better!”

This kid is now a billionaire(?). I think this is a good example of the financial acumen of a typical SVB customer.

I don’t say this to promote or defend a bail out. To me it says that if we are regulating the system to protect deposits, we should come up with rules that actually work. For better or for worse, a bank is a bank is a bank is how most people see it.
GPT is censored with respect to medical diagnosis
That’s what I’m telling to my young nephews, learn a useful and practical trade. Electricians, carpenters, plumbers, HVAC and many other similar technicians are difficult to find.

Returning back on topic, for sure the current LLM era is exciting and moving at an exponential rate. We’re going to see many changes on how various tasks are being performed, but I don’t see human jobs disappearing, it’s just that they’re going to be different and smaller.
Take for example text translation, subtitles creation, audio transcription where the bulk of the work will be done by “intelligent” software, but the control and verification needs a human.
Over zealous members and supporters of political parties have always done this in India. The difference I see is that they have become much more brazen in the past few years and don’t care about negative publicity. This along with draconian laws make it easy to accuse anyone (including journalists) of “causing a ruckus”, “hurting religious sentiments” and other vague and made up charges.

We are heading down a very dangerous road to totalitarian governments at both central and state levels.
This is the way. In theory, you're only supposed to downvote comments that don't contribute to the discussion. For me, that mostly amounts to very rude/unhelpful comments or extremely flawed arguments (flat earth level, not just arguments I strongly disagree with).

On the other hand, I find it's easy to be downvoted into oblivion for no apparent reason. I find it hard to just ignore and forget about those threads, even though I know I should. Example (sorry, I have to get this off my chest): a redditor with a history of substance abuse started with winemaking (as a hobby) and asked how many glasses of wine they could safely consume. A physician (verified in that subreddit) responded that two glasses every day would be fine. I commented (as a medical layperson) that suggesting OP that it's safe to drink two glasses of wine every day (not just every now and then) might not be a good idea considering their history, at least to my knowledge. Suffice to say, that day I learned that some people seem to be easily offended when commenting about reasonable alcohol consumption considering past addictions. Or perhaps I'm vastly overestimating the risks of substance abuse disorders...
> And no arrests

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2023/01/12/p...
Yes, this. Kali (purple or otherwise) is meant as a special-purpose toolset. It is not meant to be used as a regular Linux installation, and I strongly recommend that people don't use it as that.
https://aisafety.world/tiles/ lists dozens of institutions. Each hold different positions on AI development, but almost none of them hold the position that you ascribe to their "faction", maybe with the exception of OpenAI.
I mean if you're just going to lawlessly arrest people, why wouldn't the police just like arrest the upper class and take their shit? Why bother with some measly journalist.
I think that was their subtle joke.
A reasonable person might also overlook that one word.
> The workaround using a vector database and embeddings will soon be obsolete.

This is 100% not the case. Eg I use a vector database of embedding to store an embedding of every video frame which I later use for matching.

There are many NLP-only related tasks this helps for but equally as many that still require lookup and retrieval.
I’ve actually noticed this as well. I’m not sure if it’s all in my head.

All the big sites seem to load slower and there seems to be more tracking/bloat going on in the background. I think they are desperate for revenue and finally pulling out all the stops. I unfortunately can’t give any concrete examples of this.
>published peer reviewed research from Harvard and MIT researchers months ago

Curious, source?

EDIT: Oh, the Othello paper. Be careful extrapolating that too far. Notice they didn't ask it to play the same game on a board of arbitrary size (something easy for a model with world understanding to do).
> Are we supposed to believe anything that a FBI agent says?

Yes, everything.
Woah, a dollar a day. That's a lot to ask from an otherwise free app. 3x the current price of a paid version
Can you please explain how GPT-4 is cheaper than davinci GPT3.
Maybe I do not understand the pricing here…
Except that Stable Diffusion only came about because of Stability.ai and Emad's sponsorship, so I don't know that I'd use that as an example of a success by academia. It's true that the people who made it are academics, but that's to say they weren't hedge fund managers with a couple hundred thousand dollars to burn on a GPU cluster. The government and by extension its people needs to want to throw a lot more money at open ended research if we want science to be able to progress at the hands of academics and not corporations.
Wishful thinking. The problem with nuclear energy is not is not the risk of meltdown. It is not the waste, not directly. The problem is economics. Light water fission reactors are the least expensive nuclear reactors we know of, and even these can not break even. Every other design is even more expensive. For nuclear energy to work it must be profitable. Economics is nuclear energy's Achilles' heel, and its only hurdle.
Thanks Docker for accelerating the migration to podman and github's container registry.
It gives the right answer, but it still mentions not leaving C and G alone together, which wasn’t in the requirements.

It still sounds like it’s pattern matching to give a plausible-sounding answer, rather than reasoning through the problem. I think this just shows how easy bullshitting is—you’re even right sometimes!
What exactly are you advocating with this drivel?
2021*
This is absurd. If you can mathematically model atoms, you can mathematically model any physical process. We might not have the computational resources to do it well, but nothing in principle puts modeling what's going on in our heads beyond the reach of mathematics.

A lot of people who argue that cognition is special to biological systems seem to base the argument on our inability to accurately model the detailed behavior of neurons. And yet kids regularly build universal computers out of stuff in Minecraft. It seems strange to imagine the response characteristics of low-level components of a system determine whether it can be conscious.
Becoming part of the cultural lexicon is the ultimate goal of thought leadership.

Just look at how many people say stuff like “Two women can’t make a baby in 4.5 months”. Someone (Brooks) had to invent, write down, and popularize that analogy.
But it might be better to move those "A Players" to a critical project (ads? lol)
All the best! Please post here with a follow-up when you're feeling well enough to do so :)
Human curation of AI-generated content is the true future.
Efficiency improvements have never caused humans to do less work before, I'm not sure why it be any different now. If some jobs get replaced by AI I'm sure we'll invent new work to do with the now spare labor.

It's going to temporarily upend some peoples careers, but I don't see long lasting impact.
Nah, they just rate limit you to only posting once every 10 minutes if you're getting heavily downvoted. It's irritating as heck, but not a big deal, I just close the tab.
Block used to be a mute. You "block someone" you no longer see them nor get pinged by them. But they can still reply to you and I believe you can still respond to them if you go out of your way to find the comment.

This was how it was until ~2 years ago. Then it turned into some intermediate step where you opted out of interacting with them at all but you can still see the comment chain by default. The blocked user was simply collapsed, but you can expand it and see everything. i.e. it ruined the point of a "mute".

Then almost a year ago it became what you describe. You still see collapsed blocked users, and you still can't respond, but the user can no longer respond to you nor any child in your chain.

I hate it and simply want a "mute". I don't care if someone wants to yell at a wall. The announcement seemed poorly revceived by comments, but they still kept it around to this day.
GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code
GPT-4 is just really good at code. We documented some of the examples that we found were crazy amazing and worth hackernews. Including GPT-4's ability to handle bazel, kube, terraform and rust. A summary can be found on this thread: https://twitter.com/sualehasif996/status/1635755267739598848
No, Amazon is in a hiring freeze at the moment. They just reopened for interns, and only for interns.
Regulations have killed the nuclear industry, which I think is a direct results of environmentalists and carbon energy producers. We know we can make safer reactors but like high speed rail, more housing, and pretty much every major infrastructure project, red tape will stop it every time.
I feel like it's a lot easier to avoid assholes at a bigger company. One bad coworker can ruin the entire experience at a startup because there's no avoiding them!!
It costs too damn much _because_ of woke hippies and authoritarian regulators.
We will see in 2040 if countries who made a different decision has lower carbon footprint. There is seemingly a lot of countries betting that green hydrogen will become energy storage solution in 20-30-50 years, and thus they can use natural gas/coal while waiting and continue with business as usual.

Only time will tell which bets in the energy grid was good and which was bad for the environment. The last bet that many countries did on buying natural gas from Russia ended up being quite bad for Europe.
I really don't know why and I don't really appreciate the attention to be honest.

The most recent one was some comments about The Last of Us TV show.
I once engaged with a seemingly deranged and very politically opinionated individual in a Canadian subreddit.

I later found out that person is somehow a moderator on nearly every city/town-specific subreddit across the entire country. Easily 40-50. Spending something like 10 hours a day banning people and deleting threads/comments according to their narrow view of how people should think and what news is worthy of being seen, even though they clearly had no ties to the locals.
People keep saying things that these models can do, but they're pretty reluctant to actually show any results. Perhaps they're not as good as you claim.
LLMs calculate a probability distribution for the relative chances of the next token, then select a token randomly based on those weightings.
We can't all use AI. Only those of you who can afford to pay our subscription.
The Upper Class have networks as well. Journalists, Police, Civil Servants - they're all "chamchas"
Hah I was going to say - isn't quantum physics in many ways the intersection of statistics/probabilities and reality?
The only thing holding this back now is lack of enough context. That’s the big nut to crack. How do you hold enough information in memory at once?
I think this is the one I used:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/65fb3u/css_sni...
Once per year promotions seems rough. If it is denied for some reason you can’t try again in 1-2 quarters. Although maybe that is a good way to prevent people from creating promotion oriented systems (ask POS).
I don’t think this argument holds as they added languages with a very low amount of speakers such as Navajo, Hawaiian, Guarani and Māori and even High Valyrian and Klingon. I would hazard a guess that more people would find use in Iranian.

(For the record, I’m not saying the above languages shouldn’t be included, rather that the argument doesn’t hold up)
A good example was given earlier -- will a program that searches for counterexamples to the Collatz Conjecture halt?
My context model is getting shorter and fuzzier.
This is how humans have worked for pretty much ever... Oh, the enemy is still a long way away and they'll have to come by a slow boat... Oh, we'll never fly... Oh, that plane is slow... Oh, they plane is faster but still useless... Oh, they are dropping bombs out of the plane, but they are not very big.... Oh no, planes have bombed an entire city flat. Oh no, one bomb in a plane can take out an entire city. Oh no, the bombs can end all mankind.

And here we are 100 years later doing it again.
I'm sorry but you're confusing "problem statement" with "solution".

The Navier-Stokes equations are a set of partial differential equations - they are the problem statement. Given some initial and boundary conditions, we can find (approximate or exact) solutions, which are functions. But we don't know that these solutions are always Lebesgue integrable, and if they are not, neural nets will not be able to approximate them.

This is just a simple example from well-understood physics that we know neural nets won't always be able to give approximate descriptions of reality.
Do you have examples of human-created "new things" that aren't essentially novel combinations of old things? Because I come up blank. And this current crop of AI generators are very good at combining old things in novel ways.

I do agree with your general point that these generators aren't really "intelligent", however. Will have to ponder if I agree about the induction bit.
Why would I need or want an AI to do that? I'd rather pay 40 bucks to Shopify than have to deal with deploying and maintaining code generated by an AI.