skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today is just one of those tech news days.
OpenAI, Facebook and a major outage of a popular website.

Exciting times!
Floating solar panels could completely power thousands of cities
There is the Planet Gemini [1]. My understanding is that the company was founded by some ex-Psion folk, and the keyboard on the Gemini is supposed to be pretty close to the one on the Series 5. The Gemini runs both Android and Linux.

Having owned both a 200LX and a Psion Series 5 (and other handhelds), I wish I could justify buying the Gemini. Unfortunately, I already have too many bits of tech I don't use regularly to warrant another to go on the pile.

[1] https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/gemini-pda
Discursive Competence in ChatGPT, Part 1: Talking with Dragons
I tried gRPC with Typescript once, and we needed transformers to transform gRPC to something usable - there's no optional fields in the v3 version for example. So we ended up with an extra layer on reading and writing to it, which was hard to test thoroughly.
My learnings were that gRPC is for compressing data, not type-safety. The type-safety is kind of just a necessity to get the compression to work, but it is not very expressive.
Provided your surrounding tools plug into Redis streams.

Oh and provided you don’t need the ordering and parallelism guarantees of Kafka’s partitions.

Oh and provided you don’t need the same level of durability and fault tolerance, so yeah, exactly the same.
It's a slippery slope. You can't test on people, and need animals that have similar drug kinetics. That being said, so much drug research is unnecessary garbage, and living beings pay the price.

I worked in immunotherapeutics and gave cancer to ~25 mice. I can't say it helped progress the field much, and I still feel bad. Cannot imagine what it's like to give cancer to a dog.
That's the Kafka Streams API. "Exactly-once semantics" has a very specific meaning in the context of that particular API, which the article could probably do a better job of clarifying upfront. (Otherwise it is an excellent overview of the problem and solution provided by the Streams API.)
It makes up citations at a comical rate of over 90% although I've found that the made up titles make for decent search terms in google scholar
Just make it ilegal already. If we want testing, just test with human *volunteers*. It’s only fair.
How does it compare against human doctors?

Perhaps something about caring for animals attracts depressed or possibly suicidal people in the first place.

Just an anecdote, but within 1 month in 2018, the lady I adopted my dog from(Stacey Radin), my dog walker, and a lady who ran a horse rescue in my hometown all committed suicide(none knew each other). I don't think I know anyone else directly who has committed suicide, and they all worked with animals.
Yes, if you're doing telehealth, you're already taking a risk in terms of privacy. But the service provider doesn't need to actually pay attention to what you and your doctor are talking about to provide the service.

This is different, in that this service requires that a third party pay attention to the content of your discussion in order to work. That's significantly more intrusive.
Attacking Apple on computing accessibility is, to put it nicely, misguided.
In the 1990s I worked in a building in Chicago that had instant-response close buttons. It was nice.
Actual title: "US says Russian warplane hits American drone over Black Sea"

Why do people, who can't write grammatical English, insist on "translating" article titles?
Reddit seemingly has more outages than any other social media company. What is going on in their infrastructure? It's been like this since I've been using it. It must be unfixable or leadership has their priorities way out of line.
You have 600 or so comments here so I only scrolled a 10ish pages, but I spotted at least one of your comments downvoted to the point of being grey, on each page. Sometimes more. That is pretty high, plus the recent flagged post. And now this thread has been flagged. Plus the meta threads.

Pick a random user, check out their comments and see how many of their posts are greyed out, for a comparison.

Have you made side accounts? That is another thing that seems to get people blocked or limited.

As other say, don't take it personally, and don't stress - there is more to life than hn!
Is the economic justification for the project available anywhere to read?
Just tried your query on GPT-4 preview: https://pastebin.com/6wPPCdBW

I have no expertise with this area, but it looks plausible to me - i.e. "You didn't give me enough info" vs "lol heres some fan fic about math".
Your comment brings up the challenge of defining intelligence and sentience, especially with these new LLMs shaking things up, even for HN commenters.

It's tough to define these terms in a way that includes only humans and excludes other life forms or even LLMs. This might mean we either made up these concepts, or we're not alone in having these traits.

Without a solid definition, how can we say LLMs aren't intelligent? If we make a definition that includes both us and LLMs, would we accept them as intelligent? And could we even exclude ourselves?

We need clear definitions to talk about the intelligence and sentience of LLMs, AI, or any life forms. But finding those definitions is hard, and it might clash with our human ego. Discussing these terms without definitions feels like a waste of time.

Still, your Descartes reference reminds us that our understanding of human experiences keeps changing, and our current definitions might not be spot-on.

(this comment was cleaned up with GPT-4 :D)
Is there an alternative "theory" that actually works in the real world outside of idealist manifestos?
Now this comment will get scraped and indexed for training gpt-5. Hopefully it will get right next time.
The fact that I have to sign up in order to use it makes me wonder why I'd ever bother vs open ai's tool?
They were clearly doing some A/B testing a while back based on sporadic complaints on r/duolingo. At some point I noticed it had solidified. The current setup is if the drill is target language to host language, you'll always get word bank. If it's host language to target language it'll push you towards word bank but you have a subtle thing to click on that brings back the keyboard. Sometimes it's called "make harder" or sometimes "use keyboard" (vs "make easier" and "use word bank")
Show HN: Driwwwle: Dribbble, but for Web Developers
At least misleading instruction from teachers tends to be of a sort that others also experience, so can later be addressed en masse (e.g. mythologized history, poor-but-common explanations for things like how airplane wings work). Or spreading the same political propaganda that can be found all around, so is pretty easy to spot.

It's not usually that you ask them a question they can't answer, and they just confidently make up something entirely wrong, and possibly also an incorrect explanation that few or no other people have seen.

It's a different kind of wrong. One can write a book addressing common misconceptions picked up in school, from human teachers, and cover much of it. Does that work for lies AIs tell? They could be about almost anything, they could be broadly wrong, they could be subtly wrong, et c. "Show me some things my teachers may have been wrong about" seems to me an easier request to adequately address than "show me some things my AI tutors lied about", because the former tend to cluster around a kind of common space and form an experience with a great deal of overlap between students, while I'm not sure the latter do.
My experience of speech to text has been terrible. As soon as someone has a bit of an accent, it becomes completely incoherent, even if all participants understand the accent perfectly. Even for good accents, using any kind of technical terms or proper names throws it off. And even when none of these are a problem, it still has at least a few percent error, even for English.
Amazed, concerned. Anyone have any ideas re: investments for the futures?
> By attempting to reign in human behavior...

Aren't legal frameworks (even basic ones like "Murder is illegal, and if you do it we'll jail or kill you") attempts to rein in human behavior?
Probably the biggest novelty is that they work whenever they want.

A gig worker can work 0 or 80 hours a week, and not ask for permission either way.
I can absolutely see the benefits of this, that's not the question. The question is whether or not the benefit justifies the risk.
Completely agree. There seems to be such a gap in the market for privacy-first hardware but very few companies are doing anything.
I imagine it’d substantially increase the compute load, but I’d be curious if you could use multiple microphones and beam forming to separate out the streams of speech and feed them to the TTS algorithm independently.
Not relevant to the discussion but possibly for you: I discovered this 100% free no-signup audio-only course for Greek through a previous HN post. Amazing approach (like Michel Thomas but more charming and modern and free!):

https://www.languagetransfer.org/about

Of all the language apps I used Duolingo has by far been the least useful. I've spent hundreds of hours but took barely anything away (for FR, ES) If you must pay go to a proper app with structured learning, like babble or something language specific.
Idk, worst case I'll just be happy and start an electrician business. I like managing people, staying away from screens a bit more.

I'm sure as heck not going to rush into spending $200k on a graduate degree in something AI...
If you are looking for a "pen testing distro" to use a daily driver check out Parrot Linux. https://parrotlinux.org/
IDK what it is about reddit that makes it easy to get sucked into an argument. When I'm twitter, I just speak my mind. If you don't like it, fine, I feel little compulsion to engage. If things get nasty, I just mute or block.

I feel like I get the same amount of benefit out of each site, but twitter delivers it w/ less stress. Maybe it's just an artifact of how, on Twitter, I generally only follow 'experts' and interact w/ their followers vs the sorts of folks who camp on Reddit waiting to start arguments.
Huh, I didn't know that.

...gold having its own measurement system is really silly.
That article was on LW, and many people there read Gwern's comment a month ago arguing that Bing was GPT-4: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jtoPawEhLNXNxvgTT/bing-chat-...
Kali is not really meant as a general purpose desktop OS. Everything runs as root, IIRC (been years since I was pentesting).
Same.

I've found it incredibly useless.

I'm scared something might happen with GPT3/playground. They might start adding restrictions for medical or marketing/psychology(I use it to defend myself from exploiters).

In January, it seemed like something happened to ChatGPT like it was nerfed. It made me panic and I ended up spending hours asking GPT3 questions because I was afraid it would be gone soon.
Another thing that is probably specific to Europe are elevators with retrofitted carriage doors that originally had only shaft doors. In this case the carriage doors are usually motorized, while the shaft doors are not. And in this case the close door button makes significant difference.
Yes, these are all fair points, in a nut shell you could blame market forces and say industry behaviour is inevitable, which is what I was alluding to as the cost function.

In other areas where this becomes a problem government intervene to change intensives, e.g the total cost of continuous alcohol consumption is not included in the sticker price, so some governments add a tax, same with tobacco... ideally such taxes would be directed to public spending on the medical costs, but that depends on the country.

The same could be done far more broadly with food, not just a mere sugar tax, but taxing foods that are known to be product placements as poor substitutes for a full meal, that are too nutritionally devoid and contain too many substitutes. Just like alcohol, an occasional ready meal or highly refined cake isn't going to kill you or give you chronic disease, in which case it can be expensive to dissuade you from making it a regular thing and disincentivise industry from focusing on producing that type of food..
Unfortunately, there are very few Deaf people, so there is no world in which everyone learns ASL just in case they meet a Deaf person. It just doesn't scale, and so what you end up with is isolating them even further. The best approach is to bridge the gap: similar glasses can be used by hearing folks to translate sign language, and it theoretically generalizes to all foreign languages.
Ugh, the resistance to such a simple and useful thing drives me nuts. I’ve also used the soap dispenser as an indicator, but I can’t get my wife to do the same or pay attention to the signal when it’s set. Moreover, she half pre-washes everything so I often can’t tell whether they’ve been fully washed or not.
use it to your advantage. Boost your productivity by 10x and become a solopreneur
This is exactly what I need. The current python scrips are good enough but a rust utility would be preferable
Quick, hire more UI designers!!!
The Lion immediately eats the cabbage in step 1.
If you're a new grad or an intern applying for a "brand name" tech company, you're gonna have a rough time.

There's lots of companies out there that pay well, offer far better wlb, and aren't nearly as "picky" as FAANG.
It fails on this one, a horse is 15 dollar, a chicken 1 dollar, a egg .25 dollar. I can spend a 100 and i want 100 items total, what is the solution
I think it will be radiologists signing-off auto-generated reports, with less reimbursement per study. It'll likely result in more work for diagnostic radiologists to maintain their same salary levels.
Single-mic source separation is possible in an unsupervised manner today that could probably work better than beamforming both compute-wise and with regard to implementation difficulty (you'd just need a lot of recordings to represent the space of sounds you want to separate).
I think it will be exactly the opposite. Better tech always increases customer demands, so we’ll need more engineers (not necessarily to write code 100% of the time, though). What we probably will need less is middle management and the whole parody that is Scrum Masters, PMs, etc. (in 3 years ChatBots will be handling retrospectives and sprint plannings).

The last wave was smartphones: I’m sure they made some jobs obsolete, but it created a whole new well paid role, the mobile engineer. That’s coming, again.
> Image generators seem to be on a downward slope in the hype curve.

Mostly due to a) extreme legal uncertainty and b) endless harrassment on social media for speaking positively about AI image generation.

There are a lot of very impactful things happening in that space, but the ChatGPT hype sorta drowned it out a bit, in addition to people now keeping actually-good workflows of Stable Diffusion to themselves due to the aforementioned constraints.
So when can I pay for GPT-4 coding assistant?
Can you please imagine this was not the Internet but real life:

If you talk to your friends, and one of them is forbidden to speak, how high would the probability be that their emotional state is NOT affected?

Ordering someone to be quiet is an action which surely will have some kind of effect on their emotional state, isn't it?

This is nothing about me personally, it's just how humans work. Block them in some way and they will get frustrated.
Is there anything new that GPT-4 can do that Bing cannot do, besides image input?
As far as I know you're not "thinking", you're just generating text.
Dish Network has been down three weeks now...
I use ChatGPT in a research context but I verify everything and always ask it for citations. It regularly spits out DOIs that either either completely fake or point at a totally unrelated paper.

It's just generating them based on learned patterns, nothing more
I mean, sure, that's more or less how a company operates. You make a new product, you charge for it, you advertise it. What's the big issue? This all seems pretty standard.
It would be interesting to know how this compares with human 0-shot, single attempt coding tasks.
Do you think the govt will end up retroactively requiring earlier versions of GPT be removed now that they might be more concerned about export? (eg: GPT-J)
I was hoping it could combine some news together. Like 'which law caused the banks to fail'?

No news article actually mentioned the law, they just said 'Trump'. Bing couldnt figure it out either.
5 Ways GPT-4 Outsmarts ChatGPT
All generated, but sometimes by chance it gets things right
good question, I'd ask on the GH issue
CS ceo literally got away with a verbal warning by the regulatory body finma for a blatant lie.
I don't think you know Microsoft.... Maybe they abandoned the phone products, but when it comes to software products and services they support shit way to long in my opinion.

Hell they still technically support that crap that is VB6.
Also 700k Tesla aren't enough for 40 million people. This math seems easy to me.
Speech to text barely works in the best conditions. Combine it with bad audio, automatic translation, and text to speech, and you'll be lucky if you understand 10% of what's being said.
Almost all modern Linux distros are pretty reasonable Security out of the box, it’s the user-specified configuration that causes the issues.
> No need to be exposed to clickbait, scams, or excessively ad-heavy results.

That's because it's new, like google search in the beginning.
Wait until they monetize it
I feel like the words it gave only work for _spanish with an american english accent_. But then again it maybe depends on how you would pronounce the words for comparison like banana.
Yes, but moderating and screening for abusive content can't reliably left to unpaid volunteers if it needs to be good enough not to scare off parents and educators. I remember that this was the death knell to a Lego online game: People were making genitals quicker and more inventively than anybody could keep up.

In education technology, many seem to hope to get that from AI: the helpfulness of a forum of volunteers without the abuse. The rise of the "unsocial network".
Surely this is less cost effective (and probably less effective in general) than just hiring a convo partner on italki or something.
I think it's very useful
> If you don't like it, fine, I feel little compulsion to engage. If things get nasty, I just mute or block.

I do this on Reddit. If there's a back and forth and I feel like the person replying is not commenting in good faith then I'll just block them.
I wonder if they considered the fact that most of the people they hired remote were hired during COVID.
I've not had a chance to use it yet but https://squeaky.ai appears to be pretty great for privacy, and mentions being cookieless
sly is easier, there the computation is done by a remote Common Lisp. But the danger may be long running output operations, unless they explicitly give up control for other (possibly green) threads.

But in a Lisp application to not be responsive at all is kind of rare. Most Lisp application runtimes will be able to process interrupts and/or switch "green threads" or "native threads".
>It's not ideal but we don't have any better options

as someone else noted, a lot of this is done as a form of grant-securing, and it's done on a long-term 'maintenance' basis rather than on experiment-basis.

a 'better option' would be the removal of such political and economical games from facilities that are supposed to be doing research; this reduces the suffering and death without much loss to discovery and progress.

the trick being that we, as humans in this world, have little hope of removing extraneous politics from where they do not belong.

but I just care to point out that we're nowhere-near optimal w.r.t. how we operate in the research sector. it can be better.
It seems like they use some of the same syntax of hx-get and hx-post, but then some of the templating like you see in apline.js. But no mention of either project. This primatejs appears to be more of a node backend and provides some variation of the htmx library.

They do reference upstream in this one issue: https://github.com/primatejs/primate-htmx/issues/1

Definitely needs some explanation - at first glance this looked like someone trying to repackage htmx under their own name.
You can always stick your hand in the door and trigger the safety mechanism. The close button will not override an obstacle in the door, and in any modern elevator the door does not close with enough force that a normal person cannot hold it open if necessary.
"That kind of problem happens with regular SQL all the time"

Well, no, it doesn't. I told you to learn SQL properly. When you do, you know what a query plan is. Which is something you'd rarely need if you know how to design a database and its indices.

All of this would be covered in every beginner's book.
US drone: Russian jet forces down MQ-9 Reaper over Black Sea
> what if we pair GPT-4 with an actual reasoning engine? What do we get then?

At best, decreased error rate in logic puzzles and questions.
I don't think you can move away from principles in general. The reality is that most SW design is subjective. Not reusing code is a generally good principle. It's just that the misapplication of DRY is following one good principle but violating another one (requirements should be decoupled).

In any case, the reason I go on the anti-rant rant each time is because when I use DRY appropriately, I don't want some idiot flagging me in a code review saying "Don't do this. DRY is bad. Here are N blog posts explaining why" - when none of the blog posts are complaining about what I am doing.
Llama and the hardware to run it
I'll add few people use the trick of extending LR grammars by resolving conflicts dynamically on the fly (you can do stuff like implementing languages that allow change of operator precedence) - because the usual tools don't support this well it's probably easier to implement in this top-down methodology
You posted this six minutes before my post, but mastodon.social is up for me, and no mention of any downtime. If it isn't for you there may be network problems between you and the site.
Duolingo has been unusable since their format change last year. Might as well let the garbage pile up.
Most of the online pieces about door close buttons I can find appear to be based solely on the 2016 NYTimes article and actually repeat the claim about the placebo affect more strongly than the NYTimes originally makes it. In other words, the "fact" that the door close button is a placebo seems to mostly just be a product of lazy journalists rewriting an NYTimes piece enough to not feel like plagiarists.

I hate that this has become the norm for journalism where only one person does any actual research, and then tons of other outlets paraphrase it and publish their own version. It devalues the work (why would you go through the trouble of actual research when you can just rip off someone else?), makes it difficult to tell where the story actually came from, and it pollutes the search space with dozens of copies of the same story each with slightly less connection to the original source material.

It's a lot like the XKCD wikipedia citation loop: https://xkcd.com/978/
I can't see how you would employ less programmers just because it got easier. We're all not programming in assembly anymore, does that mean there are less programmers? Doing the basics in web dev is so easy it's table stakes now, does that mean there are less web devs?

It seems to me the only thing limiting software is budget. If more can get done in that same time more is going to get done.