skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but the sources list is generated by the same system that generated the text, so it’s equally subject to hallucinations. Some examples in here:

https://dkb.blog/p/bing-ai-cant-be-trusted

To answer the question above, these systems cannot provide sources because they don’t work that way. Their source for everything is, basically, everything. They are trained on a huge corpus of text data and every output depends on that entire training.

They have no way to distinguish or differentiate which piece of the training data was the “actual” or “true” source of what they generated. It’s like the old questions “which drop caused the flood” or “which pebble caused the landslide”.
Could putting backups in Faraday cages protect against solar flares?
Not that it helps you now, but i also keep all our family photos in the cloud (iCloud in my case), but at the same time i have a small ARM machine at home that keeps a mirror of the iCloud data.

That ARM machine also has the responsibility of making backups, local to a USB drive, as well as to another cloud. Not mirrors, but proper versioned backups (as in Restic, Borg, Arq, Duplicacy, Kopia, etc).

I also maintain a couple of USB drives with yearly updated mirrors of the entire photo library. The drives are stored at geographically different locations, and surface scanned, updated and rotated yearly.

And finally, as a "last ditch recovery", i maintain an archive of M-disc Blu-Ray discs that contain a complete copy of our family photo library. Every year i make an identical set of discs containing the past years photos, and these sets are stored alongside the USB drives.

I don't bother archiving documents as everything that is important is stored on government servers anyway, or exists in hardcopy. Also, if every step in my normal 3-2-1 backup scheme has failed and i need to recover from the archive, i probably have bigger issues than retrieving my budget for this years finances.
I'm surprised, Amazon is well known of having the best in class customer support for their store (I mean: "Customer: My kindle broke, because I sat on it. Amazon: no worries, let me send you a replacement, no need to send back the old kindle" level of good support) - oh and human support, not google botocracy.
Maintaining the illusion that the government operates like a household is all part of the economic theatre that underpins much of fiscal and monetary policy. The moment sufficient people realise that money can be created for whatever the government needs, people will start asking why then can it not be created to benefit society in general. It's getting increasingly untenable as people realise that there is always money available to bail out this or that bunch of wealthy influentials.
An informal search for BASH scripting alternatives (2017)
I developed a new static analysis (a type system, to be precise) to guarantee statically that a concurrent/distributed system could fail gracefully in case of (D)DoS or other causes of resource exhaustion. Other people in that field developed comparable tools to statically guarantee algorithmic space or time complexity of implementations (including the good use of timeouts/resource sandboxes if necessary). Or type system-level segregation between any number of layers of classified/declassified information within a system. Or type systems to guarantee that binary (byte)code produced on a machine could find all its dependencies on another machine. Or type systems to prove that an algorithm was invariant with respect to all race conditions. Or to guarantee that a non-blocking algorithm always progresses. Or to detect deadlocks statically. etc.

All these things have been available in academia for a long time now. Even languages such as Rust or Scala, that offer cutting edge (for the industry) type systems, are mostly based on academic research from the 90s.

For comparison, garbage-collectors were invented in the 60s and were still considered novelties in the industry in the early 2000s.
If concrete mixed with plastics is a good idea, then it should be done in a controlled environment (factory), not taken from the sea. I don't see what this has to do with earthquake resistant building. If you want some "flex" in building materials, we already have steel. If plastic can replace steel, or can replace it partly, that would be great. Mixing plastic with concrete is environmentally a bad idea in the long run. How are you going to undo that mix later?
You're probably onto something, but then it's also nothing new that we attribute value to handmade goods over industrial goods. Because they're backed by storytelling (real or imagined), rare/exclusive, etc.

It's clear that amidst a deluge of AI-generated content, audience urges for authenticity will rise. Attention is in more finite supply than content, has been even before generative AI; only so much will stick out, and it will perhaps be the most authentic or analog content and goods.

The real question is whether AI/AGI can make it past the "authenticity threshold" and xenophobia to where we also accept AI storytellers and brands as eligible.
> carefully curated

55 photos a day, every day, for 12 years, does not sound "carefully curated" to me.
> No one else may ever read them

Where can we find it?
Using it to write vs. using it to help you are two very different things.

For example: sometimes I will pass a paragraph through an LLM and ask it to return it in a more "active voice". Then I _manually_ edit my original paragraph, if I wish, to make it seem more suitable for my current goals.

This is sort of like Photoshop for photographers.
I'm surprised that there is something like Amazon Photos, this is literally first time I hear about it.
I think that's the point - it was just materials and men, not so much money.
it was a pretty big issue at least among GUI apps (and a not insignificant one among CLI apps)
> What you absolutely don't want is spend X years at uni learning something, and then 5-10 years into your "career" finding out it was obsoleted overnight and you now don't have plan B.

That seems to be running directly opposite of the current trend of admin assistant jobs requiring 2 years specialized admin assistant diplomas. Tech (and I would guess the world of the business MBA) is a unique space where people are learning and changing so quickly, but for a lot of those outside the bubble things seem to be calcifying and requiring more and more training at the expensive of the worker.
"Tell me you're a cookie-cutter angry programmer with no taste or understanding of design without telling me you're a cookie-cutter angry programmer with no taste or understanding of design."
Why type at all? All of my professors have provided me with the lecture slides.

Or maybe you’re asking if there’s a difference between slow, intentional note taking which you can augment with drawings, versus crib notes of whatever the slide says and probably won’t be reviewed until the week before exams.
We have 643 git repos. I'm not sure we could reconstruct all of those by going round 300 engineers' machines...
Deleted photos in google photos are not deleted. They go into a "trash" folder with a retention period of, if I remember correctly, 14 days.

So, yes, they could propagate but you have time to correct the mishap.
What am I missing out on, as a user?

Mostly privacy. A PWA runs in a browser restricted environment. It can't access your contact list for example.

I use PWAs for banking and a few other things. They should be more popular but the public has been trained to think installed "app".
SD can as well with multi controlnet.
Yeah well most people thought this but then DALLE2 and Stable Diffusion and MidJourney showed that the creative arts would get competition first and the "logic based" stuff like self-driving cars was actually incredibly difficult. This was a bit surprising.
Would be fun to see a breakdown of how some arithmetic prompts are tokenised, to help understand this. eg: is the number “1.23e+5” one token?
What really steams my clams are sites that wholesale lift reams of copy, minus introduction and summary, from Baeldung and others that do the good work, but pepper them with enough google bait so that they are ranked higher than the original. (I speculate that detecting and down-ranking this practice is not considered a priority by google because the copy-cats are riddled with ads so generate more revenue per organic result listing)

I find this collusion unethical. And should be illegal, but I hesitate to ask our lawmakers to understand the nuance when their lobby income stream relies on the opposite.
I'll take "futile humanism" for $1000, Alex.
> Language models can and are useful if you specifically want to avoid marginality. To reduce noise, to remove errors.

But this makes me think of Shannon Information Theory. What you're describing is something that has no actual information (in the Shannon sense) at all.

And maybe that's why so much GPT output reads so blandly. Even the ones that are not glaringly wrong still read like... like food with no seasoning.
Google could spinoff those products and services. Some are probably unnoticeable at Google's scale and not enough employees want to tie gheir careers to them. However some of them could stand on their own legs if owned by a smaller company fully dedicated to them. A way to spin them off is to sell them to somebody. Did that ever happen and did any company ever offer to buy a part of Google?
I keep my data in the cloud, with a local 1:1 mirror of which i keep a 3-2-1 backup (local + cloud).

Besides that i keep USB drives and M-disc archives of photos, identical sets stored in geographically separate locations. Optical media should be resilient to most natural phenomenon like flooding and solar flares. They're not resilient to fires, which is why i keep duplicate sets.
Hard disagree. Most people can draw if they put in the time but they don't. Artists did and bet their careers on it but now their effort is being trivialized by people who want a bot to "draw the owl".

This is all explained well by "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". People apply their childhood drawing symbols to realistic art in their teenage years and get frustrated. They never learn to see with an artistic eye and quit.
US releases footage of Russian jet crashing into American drone over Black Sea
They are for retail, not for services.
https://nertu.app/

I use this for instrument tuning.
Aside: "1491" is an informative book that might dispense with that particular metaphor.
> I am fully into the typewriter theory.

I don't think that's possible. I was a typesetter for 14 years throughout the first years of desktop publishing and deep into the 1990s, and though with WYSIWYG software reproducing this would be possible, it also would be painful. I suspect Richie used several methods, including a typewriter, paste up and photocopy, but all the copy was probably output with a line printer with adjustments he made to the software.
Somehow all this AI cannot break out of the advertising/spam mold it seems. All the billions made in high-value markets just cannot be reached so far.
Exactly, it's a tool. The skill floor, as in the minimum amount of skill to produce something passable, has been lowered -- dramatically lowered -- but the skill ceiling is now higher than ever as a result.

It's similar to music. DAWs and samples didn't kill off music; instead, it made it easier than ever for a teenager with a computer and a passing interest in music to create a song and share it with a world. As a consequence, though, the standards for mixing and mastering have gone up massively; people don't really tolerate bedroom recordings with $10 mics any more. I imagine most amateur musicians in the 90s didn't know what a compressor actually did (I certainly didn't).

Seeing the results of talented artists who are experimenting with AI[0] makes you realize that there's still going to be a massive gulf between skilled artists using SD etc as a tool, versus those who think they can be artists just by putting keywords into an image generation AI and calling it a day.

[0] https://twitter.com/jamm3rd/status/1619896080619159553 https://twitter.com/jamm3rd/status/1633758455952703488/photo... (moderately nsfw I guess)
There are already bacteria that eat (some) plastics. Plastics, unlike rocks, are basically just hydrocarbons, not that different from sugars and starches and quite digestible if you have the right enzymes. Whether or not animals could evolve to do it is another story, though.
It's not a weird take, it's an accurate characterisation of some schools of thought.
I'll just become a contractor that does physical work: plumbing, construction, woodworking.

Maybe even farming and raising stock. I used to love those freshly laid eggs from that same day.
+1'ing this too. Very user friendly with its web interface. And I think it is the only self-hosted solution that can backup live photos from iOS devices.

There is only one significant issue that I found: Backing up large videos fails If I put the Syno behind Cloudflare. Because the photo backup app uploads it as one large HTTP form data and CF does not like it. So now I need to make do with basic firewalling at my place.
> The following guidelines provide instructions on how to use the Not an AI badge.

phew. need GPT to show me how to properly use the badge.
Exactly, but the implication is different for me. I dislike all the filters and think this is the weirdest thing ever, to blur oneself on photos. People, who heavily use blurring to mask their wrinkles, produce - in my opinion - photos that look like grimaces. I find the pictures as well as the people using filters somewhat scary, because what happens if you meet them face to face? Use something like Google Glasses and real time filtering?

For literature, it could be interesting, how authors use new tools, where and in what sense. Maybe have more conclusive plots? Less inconsistencies? Have AI imitate dead poets' style?

We will value the classics more I guess, since they were done the old fashioned way.
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Exactly, its a fantasy

Our company has thousands of repos, some of them years old.
Maybe we should have a "MOBA"[0] badge?

[ Art Too Bad To Have Been Done By AI ]

[0] https://museumofbadart.org
Please get your facts in order. You'll be taxed 60% of your income like others have said if you earn inside a certain bracket.

To add insult to injury the government also collects taxes on purchases. VAT.
It is only mostly a joke. OpenAI's LLMs have a definite voice, and that voice is "your real estate agent is also your manager". If a person finds ChatGPT's output good enough to turn in as an assignment at school, or mail to a colleague, I think that person has little appreciation for the possibilities of language.
I hate how Google Photos seems to no longer have the ability to auto sync to your computer. When it was integrated more with Google Drive you could do that, and then my daily automated backups would pull them. That way I had them in Google Photos, my computer's hard drive, and my off-site backups, all automatically. Now my only option is to periodically do a manual Takeout, as far as I can tell.
His name is on "the biggest financial regulation in a generation". Then he works for a bank and advocates for weakening that law. His advocacy carries more weight than most people since he wrote the original law. The bank paid him to do that. You don't need a degree in finance to see that that's corrupt.

Barney's great at bickering and obscuring the point.
I imagine there'll be a lot more talk of the soul from a lot of techies from now on. Or at the least talk of the human touch from people who were erstwhile trying to get machines to automate everything.
This narrative, i.e that the global plastic pollution in the ocean is primarily caused by a handful of Asian countries is misleading. It ignores the role of countries in the global north for overproduction of plastic and for exporting plastic waste to developing countries in the guise of trade.
It also frames the problem as a "problem elsewhere", as if there is little a consumer or their local congress for that matter in global north can do.
Maybe because above all Switzerland always bring political stability as a key element of prosperity (a bit like the Chinese but with true democracy allowing this unique feature). The country has been in a permanent coalition government for the last 150years.
We can detect deleted rows for incremental transfers (and propagate those) if they're soft-deleted in the source, whether through a deleted_at column or a is_deleted column.

For now, we only support maintaining current state in the target.

Yup! We support all common cloud file storage as destinations (S3, R2, GCS, Azure Blob Storage) as well as vanilla SFTP servers.
Your consistency is not worth it to the end user. It's just time wasted, bytes used on a limited data plan, and overall, generally not worth it.

Besides, few users will really notice the difference between Arial, San Francisco, or other system fonts.
Is there any reason to think that the US would be going to war with Mexico, that Russia would support Mexico, or that Russia would even have the capabilities to do reconnaissance so far away from Russia and close to the US?

Is there a point to this hypothetical besides trying to garner sympathy for Russia and their war?
The backup rule of 3?
Prime is $139/yr for non-students in the USA, at least.
"A lot"? Sure, I guess. But as someone who stores multiple copies of everything both onsite and in the "cloud," I certainly don't have local tape backup and I doubt that Backblaze does either.
Sure, but petroleum is also high in energy. There are even some bacteria that consume it. Yet petroleum is still available in huge deposits.
In a novel-writing application - you write the first paragraph and the AI can finish the chapter.
I think nearly everything you said is likely wrong.

AI doesn’t “do everything for you” any more than word processors, music sequencers, or CAD does. AI allows people to operate at higher levels of abstraction, is all. Yes, fewer people will type repetitive copy in to word processors. But that’s fine.

You are mistaking activity for productivity. Few people go into writing because they enjoy typing. AI offers leverage, which is the most amazing thing for anyone interested in producing work.

Ask any professional writer: revisions are a chore. Authors often say a novel is 10% writing, 90% rewriting, and they don’t enjoy the rewriting part.

So, IMO, contrary to your doomer take, I think we will see more people producing better work because they can focus on the parts they love and not do the grind that was only ever a necessary evil.

(The exception being those who love the grind and not the product)
You can do your part by not putting plastic in the recycling. Put it in the trash instead where it goes to safe, well regulated American facilities.

I have totally lost faith in recycling anything other than aluminum/glass/some paper in single stream recycling.
Have you tried getting through to a human recently on Amazon retail support? It's quite difficult. First you have to negotiate with a bot with an IQ and service level of an angry wasp, then you get filtered through to someone who usually can't help. So you have to try 2-3 times to get stuff sorted.

The whole thing is designed to put people off and make it difficult to get problems resolved.

I'm fairly good at being annoyed enough to work around this but most people out there can't handle things like that easily and Amazon knows it.
Any large-scale consumer-grade service optimizes for cheapness of support.

It's just a coincidence that when it comes to retail, the cheap option (just ship another one out) also works well for the customer. At scale, shipping duplicate items, even expensive ones still works out cheaper than well-trained, competent, well-treated and well-paid humans.

This one on the other hand requires engineering time (can't be resolved by a bot or monkey pressing a "ship another item" button) which isn't cheap and unless they have legal liability, it's cheaper to just stonewall or even ban this customer forever and lose their business.
I've been in a huge magnesite mine, tens of km of underground corridors, with big cathedral like spaces bored in a mountain. The biggest use for all this rocks is feeding meat producing cows with supplement minerals. So, yes, we all eat rocks.
> Nothing about his thesis suggests that it was done using anything except a typewriter

The repeated and consistent precision is simply not possible with a typewriter alone. I suspect some elements were created with a typewriter, but not most of it.
It was only necessary because france required it. And they could have stopped requiring it any time in the next 120 years and didn't.
I refused to go all into the React/JS/TS and since I had some leverage to choose the tech I chose Elm for the front-end in my new job where I inherited a Java code base (that's now mostly Kotlin).
Perhaps opening the AI content firehose will force everyone to start carefully curating what they consume. This might actually be an improvement, and might be the way out of today’s limbo where crap content is snuck onto our plates half the time.
Now, if I could just get her to call me Lord.
Which is wrong - the Romans realised that money should carry the face value of the coin over its commodity value, enforced by the power of the state (and taxation). It was kind of forgotten in the middle ages, when coin was a weird hybrid of its face value and its commodity value (much of the monetary shenanigans for hundreds of years was concerned with maintaining face value in light of fluctuating commodity prices).
On the other note, online submissions for publishers will be retroactively filled with spam due to the ease and ability to publish and submit content. It already happened with Clarke's World. The end is coming not a revolution. Just the end.
In retrospect, how essential was it that Julia went the dynamic route in the first place (as opposed to taking a Haskell-like approach to inferred static typing)?
Democracy is mob rule. Democracy is one of the worst political systems ever conceived of. The men that built the USA knew this and did all they could to protect against it. Unfortunately it did not last and here we are: people with no vested interest in the system making decisions.
Umm, have you actually zoomed in? Lots of extra or missing fingers, fingers melting into other arms, etc
It's true freedom! The ability to live and fill life as we choose. Something we don't value enough.
Isn't Thunderbolt also "just" PCIe over USB-C cabling? :)

PCIe seems to be a well designed standard all things considered - very fast and very robust.
Sometimes It’s About Keeping Up Appearances
If you just go into the Midjourney Discord you'll see people with absolutely no mechanical artistic talent be create absolutely stunning novel art. The creativity people have there is crazy and the AI is letting them go from head to canvas in a few seconds.
Well it takes around 10 years for software to figure out the best monetization model. I suspect we will need a few years before the dust settles