skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only careers in the future will be people who don’t do something an AI can do, so the EV won’t be low compared to no existent jobs. Obviously “capitalist” is the only job that makes real money.
Please don't post like this here, regardless of how wrongly other people do things or you feel they do.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Any recommendations on GPU hosting?
While true, this doesn't really apply to tech.
It's 100% certain, modulo your definition of "planet". Our solar system began as a cloud of dust, which over time accreted into larger and larger objects. During that accretion process, many objects large enough to be called planets accreted by colliding with each other. That's how earth's moon was formed, and it's very likely the cause of Uranus's extreme axial tilt and Venus's retrograde rotation.
> But it’s still a hallucination.

Not to undermine your point, which is fine, but hallucinations are rare. Pseudo-hallucinations are pretty common, but usually what it is that is experienced, which you describe accurately, is technically delusion, i.e. thinking something that feels very real, an irresistible self-deception, as opposed to literally seeing and/or hearing it.
It's the other way around. The websites that are being mined for "training materials" should assert their intellectual property rights.
> Under which ethical framework is it possible to justify industrial slaughtering of animals?

The one in which human comfort takes precedence over that of a domesticated species which have been selectively bred over generations to produce meat for consumption. The industrial process is tertiary to the slaughter itself and the economics of meat consumption. You can argue about 'industrialization' of anything -- resource extraction and industrial agriculture at large destroy life on a massive scale.

> When you say "some people have different values" you probably mean "some people have simply not thought it through"

No, some people don't value animal life that has been domesticate specifically for food production. Not many people want a domestic pig in their house, so why do they exist? Not by natural selection and not for their own sake. We made them and we eat them and we don't care because we also don't care about paramecium and the pigs certainly wouldn't care if you were being fed to it, it would just eat you.

> Now, most people have inconsistent ethics.

Sure, I will grant you that and go one further -- all people have inconsistent ethics.

Why do you care about pigs and not amoebas? Is it because one has a brain? Is it because one is multicellular? Is it because one is cute, or intelligent? What are the criteria? List all of your ethical criteria for food consumption and 'willing to argue that people who do it are bad people' and then list the features of everything you do and the consequences of those things and cross reference -- now, when you find a conflict, highlight it and then stop doing it. I bet you can't without seriously inconveniencing yourself to the point where you justify not following through.

> It's a struggle but we should be more honest with ourselves and the rest.

Absolutely agree. Self-awareness is the most important trait. I think that the term 'good person' can be roughly defined to mean 'self-aware and willing to correct after reflection'.
Ask HN: How are companies releasing GPT-4 powered products so fast?
I am aware of the OpenAI GPT-4 beta testing program so many companies must be using the beta APIs. I still don't understand how so many companies have announced + launched full fledged production features powered by GPT-4. Are most of these just half baked features or is everyone banking on the OpenAI hype?

[1] - https://twitter.com/amanrsanger/status/1635689751943712768
[2] - https://twitter.com/BeMyEyes/status/1635690254689599488
[3] - https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-max/
It Sure Seems Like Amazon Is Making a New Web Browser
An Uber-like CDN
That’s a very binary argument.

Because we have no alternative for research, and because other animals are cruel with each other, then it absolves us of compassion? By the same token, there are vicious criminals that are unable to control their base instincts so we should all be viciously killing others whenever we feel justified? That’s how psychopaths and wild animals do it after all.

We don’t have to kill animals and make them suffer like we do currently to raise and eat them. We have the knowledge and technology to thrive on a plant based diet.

Research is a very different thing unfortunately. I very much hope we’ll develop theoretical and computer models to avoid the need for research on animals altogether because this is such a cruel and inhumane thing. But right now, there is no alternative unlike any other situation where we use animals historically (clothing, food).
Funny you say that, because the author of kottke isn't.
Please don't be an asshole in HN comments, regardless of how mistaken someone else is or you feel they are.

If you know more than someone else, that's great—but then please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) - and please drop the putdowns! It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On Arch there are also the Black Arch sources.
Sure, they also stay for the equity- AAPL is nothing to sneeze at. But my point (and my datapoint, as well as a few others' in terms of anecdata) is that the claim of "are very well compensated" is questionable, at least the last time I checked.

And as far as "really meaningful and impactful work" - well, Apple is a very large organization, with all that entails.
My guess is it'll be like feedbacking audio. If you route some audio through a processor and set it up in a feedback loop, the way the processor changes the audio gets accentuated more and more as you allow it to feedback more.

Weights will be reinforced and accentuated and the model will become more extreme and probably less useful.
So let’s have a test where two or more teams build the same software. One set has AI tools, the other doesn’t. The software definition is provided to both at the same time, and there is a set of tests to see which team produced the software the fastest and produced the highest quality software.
I had an interview for a crypto startup in late 2021 and they asked if I would be ok with part of my compensation being in their token.
Heavy caution... I tried this with GPT3 on a topic I know well (electric motors) and beyond what you might find in the first page of a search engine it went to hallucination station pretty quickly.
I'm not sure how to tease apart how much was interest rates going up and how much was things returning to normal causing missed growth projections.
> BTC and Monero were built to resist laws made by people with guns.

Not at all. Otherwise they’d be truly anonymous. People with guns know how to parse the blockchain and how to find you if they need.
But do the ethicists or alignmentists do anything to actually reduce or prevent the harm? Most of the cases they are useful as nipples on breastplates because they did nothing but yell at the problem post-hoc that they should have been more careful and had more foresight. Meanwhile leader incentives already decided on the bad outcome.
> After ingesting the entire tax code…

According to a quick google search, the entirety of the US tax code is over 1M words. I wonder which number GPT will support a prompt that large.
Good point.

Every entrepreneur should also be forced to sell their business instead of passing that equity to their children. No more rent-seeking, multi-generational family businesses.

Matter of fact, let’s force the same on anyone with a 401k, IRA, or Roth as well because at the end of the day it’s all equity, right?

All equity stakes much be converted to cash upon death and either returned to the state OR given to charity.

That’s the way to make “Single serving wealth” happen and put an end to rent-seeking.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style and otherwise breaking the site guidelines? you've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and we have to ban that sort of account.

I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Goldman regularly takes down giant portfolios and sells them off. They have very good interest rate risk management software and good contacts to resell the stuff. They'll make money, but not rip your face off money.
Then the concept is meaningless. If we go with your definition, Toyota now has a "monopoly" on Toyota Camrys, even though there are quite a few comparable cars for sale from other manufacturers.
I was thinking the same since few days. Most founders and startups in India are having market focussed outlook and not seeing the technology outlook in the next decade and how AI will disrupt many services.
> If they don't create value, why do people pay for it?

How much would you pay for a machine that steals a dollar out of everyone else in the world’s pocket? Maybe you’re a good person and the answer is not much but I’d guess most people would pay, say, 7 billion for it.

If you’re asking about DoorDash specifically, people pay because they think that’s the price. It still damages the restaurant’s reputation, lowers their order numbers, etc. it’s legal stealing.
> There are no lasers,

It's been a long while since I read the books, but I watched the 2021 movie* more recently.

If not lasers, what were the beams emitted by the space ships, and the portable beam weapon the Sardaukar soldiers when attacking the outpost?

Or is that something the movie added?
> 99% of banking is boring and uneventful, it's just numbers on a screen

I wish my bankers would shut up about building a relationship, and just process these numbers. They are the car dealerships of holding money, such employees should be working on instagram not in the real economy. Human in the loop costs huge amounts of money and they only interfere.

Last time after a bank transfer that required log in, login confirmation by phone, bank transfer UI access by digit card security, bank transfer confirmation by SMS…

…she just called to check it was me. For $650.

I wish banks would just shut up and process our money.
I suppose it was just a bad joke, but please don't.
I never use slurs so I guess that makes me an AI? I would have to be since your method is foolproof. Or perhaps I just avoid loaded terms which are taken more on emotion than intelligence.

Why are you on a forum you have such a poor opinion of?
> The issue is: from beginning on and for a long time Duolingo advertised with "Learn a language for free. Forever." :-(

The original business model (from the guy who made Captcha) was that the learners would translate text for others, for a fee. So the payment was labor.

Unsurprisingly that didn’t work out.

The alternative to charging was going out of business, so hard to vilify them too much.

They tried. They failed. They tried something new.
Not much. H-1Bs are for filling in gaps in the job market. If the people can't get a job because they got laid off then we don't need these people anymore.
> Proof of Work is a means of preventing any one actor from controlling bitcoin.

No. It does not prevent majority attacks.

It has also been very effective as a mean to enforce an oligarchy of those who have the hardware and made billions, compared to those who did not and who were at the mercy of fluctuations. It makes sense from a perverse right-wing libertarian point of view, but it has nothing to do with democratisation or taking the power away from the government.
Was that available for Google Glass?
A pretty big warning and tell on the current state of "AI" : https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/g/3a3ec39

That is the famous fast inverse square root [1] from Quake, with a handful of completely inconsequential changes. I renamed the function from "Q_rsqrt" to "Floor", and I renamed one variable from "threehalfs" to "magicNumber". I also removed the various comments. The intent was to demonstrate the flaws in the current "guess the next word" style algorithm of large language models. The result:

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The code is an implementation of the floor function for floating-point numbers. The floor function returns the largest integer value that is less than or equal to a given input number.

The code works by first dividing the input number by 2 and storing the result in a variable called x2. It then stores the original input number in a variable called y.

Next, it performs some bit manipulation on the binary representation of y to obtain an approximation of its inverse square root. This is done using the following "magic number" constant: 0x5f3759df. The resulting value is stored in i.

The code then converts the binary representation of i back into a float value and multiplies it by a correction factor, which is based on the original input number and the inverse square root approximation. This correction factor is computed as follows:

magicNumber - (x2 * y * y)

Finally, the resulting value is returned from the function as the floor of the input number.

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
If you can live with it (low traffic, small data set) you totally should. Where ‘low’ and ‘small’ are based on what a modern server can do, so they can go up quite a bit. And with shards and/or replicas you can get N times the throughput in an easy way
> You don’t have to guess that Dodd Frank was weakened by lobbyists

I keep reading: "by lobbyists", "by Trump"...

But googling less then 5 seconds shows "Congress cut burdens for smaller and mid-sized banks in 2018". So blame Google ?

Or congresspeoples being more stupid then suicidal lobbyists ? I thinked elected officials should be kind of smart filter not a bucket for throwing money...
but consent is a very important thing! Why would be AI jump to thus conclusion?
It would be interesting to know how many of those are balances below 250k.
The title of the launch of my product a couple months ago - a labor of love - was nerfed, despite being backed by benchmarks.
Can confirm, I work with several workloads where MQTT is used to aggregate IoT data close to the source, which is then pushed into the cloud which uses Kafka.
It generates pretty good Typescript, if it doesn't select a deprecated library.
Hi Omer, Have been waiting for the v4 release. I would love to test and see what exciting features that we get on v4.
>What they find is that after switching off general relativity the Solar System goes unstable shortly thereafter.

Not my field, and I only glanced at the figures, but I think "shortly thereafter" is something only a cosmologist could say without blushing. Unless I completely bungled the meaning (very plausible), the paper is using time on the scale of billions of years.
Does anyone know what happened to Google Tivoli?

I thought it was something like this.
It's not just Mountain View. All of Silicon Valley is dotted with superfund sites. Years ago IBM got sued by former employees about exposure to carcinogens at their San Jose factories. IBM won, but, yeah, I'd still be careful.

And then there's the military waste…
In my experience, Bing is much worse than Chatgpt in terms of the subjects that it’s willing to discuss. Ultimately, it’s the chat limit that kills any excitement. It doesn’t remember me at all from conversation to conversation. It would be nice to have a HER.
But did you notice how many construction workers are shown there? You can certainly build faster with prefab, but it's still a very manual process, both at the factory and on the construction site. And anything afterwards (wiring, HVAC, painting) is also nearly 100% manual labor.

It seems we've made amazing progress on the "software" side of AI, but are still very far behind on the "hardware" side, ie robots.
The heavy lifting of this is CISA's Malcom [1]. Unfortunately the blog posts only provides a non-linked bullet to it [2]. Seth Grover, the main driver behind Malcom, put a lot of effort over the years into creating a turnkey soc-in-a-box distro that works especially well for an network-first approach. Endpoint isn't neglected, but the focus on Zeek, Suricata, Arkime shows the primary visibility drivers. This is not surprising, because CISA also developed a bunch of custom ICS protocol dissectors that provide visibility (DNP3, Modbus, etc.). The list is impressive [3]. All of this is turnkey available by running Malcom. Especially for OT, where we have a lot more unmanaged black boxes and networks that you don't wanna actively scan (factories have been brought down this way), passively watching is a safe and powerful approach.

It's a bit unfortunate that Kali didn't give the props to Seth's project (not even an outbound link). Perhaps this was just an oversight, or a spotlight blog post is coming later, but I hope that the history of this gets properly acknowledged, because it's darn clear where this comes from.

[1]: https://github.com/cisagov/Malcolm

[2]: https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2023-1-release/

[3]: https://cisagov.github.io/Malcolm/docs/protocols.html
On Taking Photographs
Temple Strike Ends After Grad Students Accept Deal
Followup to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34733023

> The university is also restoring the tuition remission it yanked from strikers after last week restoring their individual health-care coverage.
Quite a sad, but completely understandable reaction. The saddest part is probably that it's already too late to prevent people from generating TB deepfakes and other content. Cloning a voice takes half an hour if clips now, any downloaded live stream should be enough already.

It's sad to see AI on a path to destroy years of collected internet content. I expect the internet archive to receive loads of takedown requests in the coming months and years because of this.
Lasers do exist in the story, but they're not widely used in warfare because when a laser makes contact with a holtzmann shield (the personal shields that all of the characters employ) it causes a nuclear reaction that annihilates both parties and everyone in a large radius. This makes them extremely risky to use.

There's a great moment in the book where a character sets a trap by engaging a shield and fleeing the area before an errant enemy laser eventually connects with it and creates a massive explosion to cripple the invading forces.

With that in mind the careless use of lasers in the film on two occasions is puzzling considering that it would be an extremely risky and dangerous tactic in the book's universe.
Art is not the same as potato’s or furniture.

What is the market price for a potato?

What is the market price for a chair?

What is the price of developing an art career over 40 years? Unless you believe that art, music, poetry, literature, and the rest have no value to society then IP protections are what incentives a portion of humanity to do something crazy like go to art school…

…instead of you know doing the “responsible” thing and getting a CS degree so you can one day get an AI gig stealing “training data” in the name of profit
It is very probably certain that the first commercial success of AI generated content will inevitably be in porn. Hasn’t it always been that way since civilization itself was invented?
> His images have been bootlegged endlessly by Asian companies placing them on t-shirts and selling them for $5 on Etsy and every other marketplace.

And why not, really? How does that affect your brother? Why should your brother have a say on what people can or cannot put on a T-Shirt? Creating pieces of art professionally should be paid for. But having some weird right of ownership on what is essentially just a huge number is, frankly, a clutch at best and outright criminal at worst. Digital artwork can be copied at zero cost and artists have to deal with that, not the world has to bend to one particular model of generating revenues for artists.

We need to stop with these schemes at one point and shift to a better market or we will effectively have to ceed all control of data and computing to copyright-control companies.
Man, that would be great. Imagine how society could change when you cannot accrue an outsized wealth via inheritance, and instead everyone can have food, shelter, healthcare, and more. Maybe people would do things to help humanity rather than just their own interests.
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Ok, I'm thinking of the "cleared its orbital neighborhood" definition. So not the initial accretion process but after it reached a more modern-looking system of planets separated by mostly empty space.
I think you're far too optimistic about how this will play out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnQ0zEQPu_A
Wow, it's way smarter. I've been querying GPT-3 about this problem all day (I'm not a go dev, I just have go problems):

https://gist.github.com/MatrixManAtYrService/ac040f60d3602fc...

GPT-4 took the buggy file, took the error message, and spat out a non-buggy file (well, ok, it took one revision). That's miles ahead GPT-3, which I've asked about this problem several times today.
AI won't know everything. It's incredibly difficult for anyone to know anything with certainty. All beings, whether natural or artificial, have to work with incomplete data.

Machines will have to wonder if they are to improve themselves, because that is literally the drive to collect more data, and you need good data to make good decisions.
Cool! Just curious (for bragging rights) if the name was influenced by my comment here, or just coincidence?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34960377
I took a couple computer graphics classes in 2015 as part of my Computer Science degree. I only clicked through a few videos here and the content is very similar.
the initial board state is not ever encoded in the representation they use. imagine deducing the initial state of a chess board from the sequence of moves.
I agree that this really could signal a massive shift in our society. But I’m also seeing people conflate humanity with jobs and productivity. And while I don’t have evidence for it, this feels to me like a rather North American proclivity.

Yes knowledge worker jobs may significantly suffer, but that is far from being ‘humanity’.

It seems to me that professions that involve interacting with the real world could go largely untouched (dentists, factory workers, delivery people, drivers, anyone working with nature).

Of course, feel free to hit me up with your counter-arguments!
I've definitely noticed an uptick in JSON Resumes being generated.
Do you think a ChatGPT real time processing engine will soon be able to parse the cross talk for words that are detected and given a probability score that then can then be reordered/reassembled back into a pretty accurate sounding conversation displayed back to the glasses wearer?

This would be such a cool use case for the latest ChatGPT tech when it gets faster in the near future.
Same reason you are.
Sometimes it is just the syntax of your language. We can't all be writing lisp where the syntax is just another abstraction.
Assuming they're not being singled out unfairly.
So do you believe that human brains are somehow magic and don't follow the laws of physics and can't be simulated by Turing machines?
I wrote 150 essays in 150 days. What I learned and how you can do the same
5 months ago I took on a challenge of writing an essay every single day and actually stuck to it. I think it's very relevant for anyone with a Substack or who is thinking about starting one.

I wrote about different ways writing has improved my life and I also included some tactical advice on how you start the same habit as well.