skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the 15 or so "risks" that OpenAI supposedly tested for[1], below things like "Hallucinations" and "Weapons, conventional and unconventional" was "Acceleration."

I thought this was a really interesting topic for them to cover. In the section was 1 paragraph about how they're still working on it. Guess it wasn't, uh, much of a concern for them...

[1] https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4-system-card.pdf
I never click on them. Nothing in their profiling would make me a target for that company's propaganda. Ten years ago FN never showed up their news aggregation. Then there were complaints about bias so their algorithm was tweaked to be more "fair and balanced".
bc is a staple in my cli work! Thank you for bc!
Power and cooling were at fixed levels and computers couldn’t really sleep, so cpu cycles were just wasted without seti@home. Nowadays computers idle efficiently, so something like that would make your computer louder and more expensive to run.
> What happens if they have two or more children? What if they want other jobs?

Obviously, as a cost cutting measure, we will pay $50k per child to each of the parents.

> What real bearing does this have on the fundamental problem?

I don’t actually understand what the problem is we’re trying to solve here, honestly.

Give them all an AI and call it a day.
This seems valid. I'm from a country where a majority of our desserts and cookies are made with various different nuts so kids are exposed very early. We never hear about peanut allergies. When we moved to the US we were shocked that so many people have nut allergies.
Only if you need it frequently, they make terrible daily drivers.
> Why does the US also want to push NATO East?

It does not. NATO membership is the initiative of Eastern European governments out of fear that Russia will invade them if they remain neutral like Ukraine, against hesitancy and skepticism of North America and Western Europe who thought until last year that this is a silly idea and a manifestation of historic trauma, and not a real danger.
Ah I didn't see that. Weird because I made sure to check before. Sorry about that.
More junior person: have looked up to you since my first real job in 2019. Reading your posts on tarot debugging and plurality-driven development, and seeing you being so skilled and unapologetically /interesting/ was the first time I felt that "oh, there are actually people out there that I want to be like someday." Been reading ever since, thank you for all the posts!
It's been imported since the beginning. The markup isn't even big
What do you mean by saves money? Couldn't Intel be using shenanigans (i.e. anticompetitive price incentives) to get device makers to use this type of card, so the device makers are then tied to Intel wifi and can't switch without redesigning their motherboard?
Almost as interesting as the GPT part of it.
Killer robots are pretty cool
Ask HN: Does anyone here have an Amiga 1000 they are willing to sell?
I have never owned an Amiga.

Would like to buy one.
This is definitely one of the drivers of anti-capitalist extremism, and as an anti-capitalist extremist and recruiter, I can only say, "thanks!"

Remember capitalism's job is to provide zero value for nonzero cost. Therefore, we must work to end capitalism at any cost! <3
Take a seat. The US was the most primitive mobile market in the world before the iPhone, with people drooling over the frigging Moto RAZR - a feature phone FFS - just because it was thin and flipped open. And imagine paying for incoming calls, or buying your phone from the operator with all useful features like copying your own ringtones disabled so that you were forced to buy whatever lame ones the operator offered. Symbian in the meanwhile was a full featured, multitasking OS with apps, themes, video calling and other features that took their time to reach iOS and Android.
Nokia already knew that Symbian was on the way out, and they bought Qt to act as a bridge for developers between Symbian and Meego - it was to be the default app toolkit for Meego. Around 2009 onwards, Qt versions of popular Symbian apps started to appear. The first Meego device, the N9, had rave reviews but was intentionally hobbled by Elop choosing to go with dead in the water Windows Mobile and refusing to allow more production.
This piece from back in the day is a detailed analysis of the fiasco -
https://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2013/09/the-fu...
It was probably not "intact". Just still contained all the nuclear material.
On top of messages being non-persistent, it seems that chat representatives take a minimum of five minutes per reply. It’s unclear if they’re (1) helping other people simultaneously (2) performing a slow corporate policy (3) multitasking.

It shouldn’t take 5+ minutes to reply with “let me look into that for you”.
Flash was announced for deprecation in 2017 and UHD Blu Rays were in consumer hands in 2016 (H.265 having first been published in 2013) so it checks out. Of course most everyone stayed away from HEVC because of the licensing, including both browsers and Flash. Even in 2023 support in browsers is iffy and convoluted.

My wild guess is the original makers of the camera/encoding system assembled some sort of software decoding solution in Flash (since this was prior to WASM rollout/mass support) and the camera company might have just repackaged that solution in a later year.
so...you agree with me?
http://web.archive.org/web/20230315092938/https://www.tomant...
distributed.net ftw.. those truly were the days.
Yeah but labor in the 3rd world hasn’t gotten significantly more expensive but somehow support dropped to 0
Study tracks how we decide which groups to join (2016)
All you need to know is the volume of the jar and the packing fraction of jelly beans.

I won a contest in 5th grade science class with that info.
survival. If you miss hearing about a peace negotiation you're going to be pleasantly surprised, if you miss hearing about a conflict breaking out, your house might be a pile of rubble with you in it. The obsession with avoiding 'negativity' these days is childish. It's rational to focus on threats. The cost of missing one is, in the most extreme case, death. The cost of missing something positive is most of the time, nothing.
I have an auth who was a producer for a news network in the US back in the 90s. She said she someone came to who one day with a story and before they could even finish their sentence, she went "how many people died?" and saying that out loud made it click how depressing her job was. She quit shortly after and moved to the Scottish countryside and still says it's the best decision she's ever made.
I think GPT is probably best at generating Python code, as well.
Oh, I will try, thanks so much!
I think it's a bit extreme. I have developed some heurisitics, which so far are (living in Australia):

* news.com.au = clickbait

* government funded ones = abc, sbs are free and ok

* 9 news, 7 news = negative

* google news = aggregator of mostly negative news

* AFR, Sydney Morning Herald, .. few others = ok

My experience with twitter has been the following:

* I look at some content I subscribed for (humor, or tech related)

* Then it feeds suggestions which spiral downwards into negativity (sometimes extreme - like videos of people getting shot). Soon, I resent twitter and the platform.

Experience with youtube: meh, but not as bad as Twitter as described above

Experience with Quora: better and interesting

Facebook: I avoid

TikTok (my wife's): interesting content - but happy to view via my wife's mobile, since it naturally limits my consumption

Netflix: good and bad, but ok
Via Kogan and Kogan affilliates. So good luck getting any support if there's an issue.
> Combine that with the reputation and there's not much reason to do business with them.

On the contrary, I think that's EXACTLY why the kinds of clients they have choose to do business with them. If there wasn't already a Credit Suisse serving those types of clients, someone would invent one.
What bank is that
I thought a lot of receipt/business cards scanning features in apps were partially powered by Mechanical Turk.
Ok so yeah that is my main complaint about the Realtek cards.

If the out of tree driver becomes unmaintained / incompatible with future kernels, you are SoL. Also dkms is kind of a headache to deal with. Not sure if Nobara builds the module for you, but on traditional distros you would have to build the module via dkms on each kernel update, which again I have to repeat is not guaranteed to actually succeed.
this is a good point. i don’t know either. for these types of crimes i’m not sure that rehab is viable.
The US system is great if you're rich. Most citizens are not. The US system is bad, from the perspective of most of the people accessing it.
You've been able to do that for a while, just depends on how large scale you want to get. Been doing it since the 60s.
No you can’t, they monopolize the market place and you dont have any other options.
Last I checked, glioblastoma is still 100% fatal, so I guess all that can do is prolong the lifespan?
I hit reply to post this and you beat me to it.
Is it just me that I find QuantaMagazine full of sh*?
Out of curiosity, why don't people ask if the machine is working when they get in if that's such a common scam?
It seems like outsourcing phone support to overseas call centers is a race to the bottom: if you answer calls onshore, your higher costs inhibit your ability to compete on price, so eventually every company (at least, those that offer any nominal "phone support" to begin with) is forced to capitulate (outsource phone support overseas).
Often you can guilt trip sales into acting as your advocate to other departments of the org.

"I know it's not your job, but can you please make sure the person you'll transfer me to can help, uwu? I'm just a poor helpless customer, owo!"
When I did this with Apple recently, I was speaking to a human (albeit a sales person) within 2 minutes and got told which number to call, at what time in my timezone, and even what numbers to press to get through to the right people without having to listen though all the prompts.

It might have turned a 10 minute job into a 2 minute one, but I appreciate that a lot, mostly because of how much I despise wasting time and mental energy on navigating labyrinthine and sometimes ambiguous customer support channels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE

edit:
To add more color: "local news" is increasingly not local anymore. The video I linked to is a collection of "local" stations that are owned by Sinclair reading from the same script rather literally.
News is just what’s “New”. It’s name is already prefectly descriptive :)
UBS is Swiss. That probably has something to do with talks of acquisition of the second largest Swiss bank.
"Luddites" refusing to accept that we might be onto something that is going to change humanity forever...

The sad thing is that real luddites would go out and actively sabotage AI development because they think it's a real threat. Yet these people just makes bold and false claims in online forums and continue to move the goalposts once they're proven wrong. Sad. Pathetic. (and obviously, I don't mind being downvoted. Whatever! :)
> I could care less about getting it on the phone.

couldn't
Show HN: Smart Contract Docs Using GPT
We were looking at potential ways to use GPT in Cookbook and found an interesting user pain-point in the process.

Some context: Cookbook is a web3 developer tool that aggregates smart contracts and provides metadata, documentation, security reports, and integration tools to use these smart contracts in your project.

As we've been building Cookbook, we realized that most smart contracts running in production have incomplete documentation, or lack detail.

We put together a quick MVP for docs generated GPT3.5 and the results are pretty promising. While they definitely can have issues, on the whole, they seem to do a good job filling in empty documentation, and provide an accurate description of the code.

We'd love to try:

- generated testing suites

- generated security scans

- no-code smart contract creation

Would love to get your thoughts and feedback on how we can make this a more useful feature. Looking forward to getting it running with GPT4!
Lol! I worked for SETI@home as an undergrad. If something nefarious was going on then my coworkers were extremely good actors, right down to faking an entire codebase and a database filled with processed work units. Hey, I'd probably be suspicious of SETI too if I hadn't worked for SETI. Cheers!
Writing about topics on my blog^1 has forced me to actually learn topics more thoroughly than I would normally. So instead of learning something only until I have enough knowledge to use it, I actually go all the way so no one calls me out for being an idiot or not understanding what I’m talking about.

1. https://www.deusinmachina.net/
Older nuclear weapons were not nearly as hardened as modern ones. For a good introduction, I recommend Sandia’s three part documentary Always/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control, and Survivability.

t. DOE contractor
My weight loss has been 49lbs in ~6 months on this diet. That's slightly better than most reports of Ozempic. Fast and consistent is good :) Why go slow if you know how to go fast?

You're simply wrong about weight loss. That's not how it works.
I agree, you don't even have to be a drug lord or the hand of the king

How many times has a bank made something inconvenient for you just because of a skittish interpretation of a fraud or money laundering law?

Criminal banks don’t make things inconvenient for you. Get a criminal bank, the settlements are advertisement.
Recreating artist Sol LeWitt’s procedural wall drawings with GPT-4
Housework, yardwork, folding laundry...
It's very clear that they're assisting multiple people. It would be an incredible waste otherwise, but unfortunately these agencies likely stretch their support agents far too thin.
I don't think the theory that an intermediary contract creates an employee is well thought through.

Consider a property owner who contracts a property management company that has a lease (contract) with a tenant, who complains about broken AC so the management company contracts an HVAC contractor to replace the AC, and the HVAC contractor in turn contracts a drywall guy because they needed to open walls for their install.

Who is the employer of the drywall guy in your theory and why?
I don't know if I consider it small scale, it has around 45M views a month according to similarweb: https://www.similarweb.com/website/4chan.org/#overview.

Of course, it's still small scale in relation to behemoths like Twitter, FB, Insta, TikTok.
https://www.sitejabber.com/ might be such a place. I left one review there a few months ago. I doubt it will gain network effect critical mass, and if it does, the companies being reviewed will almost certainly subvert it. Sigh.
Man, there is some heavy semantic distortion happening in this subthread. To make sense of the NATO narrative:

"Western" = "Ukrainian"

"DNR/LNR" = "Russia"

"Threat" = "aggression"

Next, we will be "warmongering" = "peacemaking". Oh wait, this is already a thing. Along with "ignorance" = "strength".
I've been doing backend dev in Node/TS for the first time recently after working mainly in Python or Ruby for many years. And overall I have to say I'm not very impressed. The tools and frameworks are immature and it's annoying having to deal with all the unfixable flaws in JS.

If I were starting a new company today I would certainly seriously consider Java or Kotlin instead.
I would say both ABC and SMH often lead with clickbait as well. I sometimes check the headlines and it is almost always a waste of time and emotional energy.

The top article on abc at the moment is clickbaity and niche, although, I give credit to it actually being of relevance to some people.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-18/leaky-buildings-poor-...
I'm always amazed when I see how irregular some solutions look.
Iirc, 3 of the 4 safety systems had tripped. This switch is an actual, wired switch.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/warfare/id1526490428?i...
>ChatGPT won't revolutionize almost anything, and I'll stand by my words, bookmark this comment and show it to me in 5 years, I dare you

1. I'll actually take you up on this, because I'm interested to re-visit the discourse around launch, 5 years from now :)

2. I do agree it's overhyped to a degree. I think it will revolutionize _some_ things but it could turn out like VR. I do use it every day and I don't see a reason not to... I guess we'll see what the future holds!
Feel free to provide a different explanation :)
GPT-4 doesn't pay close attention to detail in some cases
is it?

sometimes I want a container running the latest version of something. maybe i'm integration testing my stuff against that release to make sure stuff still works. or maybe I'm hoping a bug was fixed and will version pin later.

i agree that production software should version-pin all the things, but latest still has a place.
I was trying to discuss the merits or demerits of hooks overall - just wanted to point out that a class based design doesn't need to be significantly less powerful or HoC-level awkward to use.

(I can't resist commenting I suppose - I did follow that thread as much as time permitted back then, and I couldn't agree with the conclusion from the arguments presented. Specifically, I was unconvinced that dispatch performance and file size were that dramatically different. In my experience, classes are very efficient in modern engines and code-splitting means much more than minification, especially after gzip. Even if they are the right trade-offs for Facebook, its unclear whether they're the right trade-offs for the rest of React users and the community as a whole - from my experience it has errected a bit of a barrier to front end work for backend engineers because there is a steep and weird learning curve at the start)
HSBC is their competition for that niche, and has a good investment banking arm, too.
I think it's time to retire it for good. In the 90s and early 2000s it was cool but I think has sorta faded into irreverence. I don't think it was ever useful or qualified as science for that matter. I think a better approach is to determine if it's mathematically possible for such a signal to exist in the first place. SETI makes a lot of assumptions which may be wrong.
Those guys are such frauds they make credit Swiss look like a legitimate operation
This is where most of my “what if” thoughts about Bitcoin go. I heard about it when it was pretty cheap — I want to say single digit dollars, but it was a while ago.

But if I’d have gotten into it at the time, I surely would have decided “it’ll never go higher” around $200 at most.
I would swap a lot of these out for primary sources. 'News' sites are just middle-men for a 9:1 blend of unimportant trash and important information. Occasionally they can alert you of something important you need to know about, but once I learn of such topics, I examine primary source(s) and context; very rarely do I get info from the 'news' article itself; it's usually designed to titillate or outrage.
yup its like two different worlds that don't know each other exist

the excel tribe and the open source programming world tribe
That's still not what the Bitcoin miners are doing. They're manipulating inputs, trillions of times a second, just to match a "magic" target for a SHA256 hash starting with a certain number of bits set to 0.

Cracking hashes would imply that they're taking pre-existing hashes and reversing them to find the input.
If that happened mortgage rates would go up because duration risk on MBS would go from 7-10 years to 30.
> Why should it happen now?

What are S-curves.
Some qualification: It's small enough that each board has a global chrono view of posts, same with replies on posts. You can reply back and forth and still understand what's going on despite the other noise.
I'm sorry, what? There's a lot to unpack here. You think basic human rights and equality are only relevant for computer power users? That the erosion of privacy or due process isn't an issue for ordinary people? That people aren't affected by security issues unless they have a software engineering degree? That anti-consumer practices doesn't affect consumers?

I'm not buying any of that.
Could that be 17 passes as a warning? Sometimes for example you hear tell of jets flying over ships to say ‘hey I could have bombed you but I didn’t’?

I’m just not sure if you’d be able to miss 17 tries at a fuel dump or something. That’s also quite few minutes of flight time on the attempts. But hey if it happened it happened.
A few things that could make this guide even better:

0. Variable costs vs. fixed costs, why the difference matters, and how to tell the difference.

1. The difference between gross margin and contribution margin, and the relevance to thinking about unit economics before deciding to focus on scaling.

2. The CEOs role as a capital allocator, and how to assess what % of your burn is going towards different objectives. (It's easy to be self-delusional if you don't approach this in a structured and disciplined way.)
Since that counter can only have two values, it's storage is optimized and merged with the underlying raw pointer itself (not unlike Rust's null pointer optimization for enums): non-null value of the underlying pointer also serve to represent the counter's value of 1, and the null value serves to represent the counter's value of 0. The check to not under-decrement, for example, manifests as the null check before calling the deleter on the underlying pointer.
Probably two for every lost submarine, at least two subs with two nuclear torpedos each.

The US had Operation Chrome Dome shuffling them around by air.
Walmart, Kroger (Harris Teeter), Costco, Target, Aldi, Lidl, Food Lion. Those are the places within 15 minutes of me where I've bought eggs recently (or at least the ones that come to mind).

What are you talking about?
Profiler shows 25% GPU usage when dragging around window on RTX 3090 TI
Last time I checked there was no support for synchronous logical replication in the `pglogical` plugin that's used for logical decoding. Did something change lately?
> Life for the masses of the people is generally the same no matter who rules them.

Dead wrong. Countries that the Soviet Union occupied in WW2 are a great example of that. They were near or at parity with Western Europe in 1930s, but after 50 years of Soviet occupation, they barely exceeded pre-occupation levels in main economic metrics by the late 1980s. After the Soviet Union collapsed, countries like Lithuania have seen their GDP per capita increase by 10x, approaching Western European levels that they had before. The Russian rule was a sickness that held them back, robbing several generations of economic development and prosperity. I'd rather die in a trench than experience the same Russian-imposed despair, hopelessness and utter poverty what my parents went through.
Maybe the good idea needs to stop being perpetrated.
Agriculture is still automating and the population has increased what, 4x since then
> That type of cooking is a natural monopoly.

Should bulk cheese puffs be state owned?
You Don’t Have to Be a Doctor to Know How Much Trouble the NHS Is In
This prison was mentioned in one of Gil Scott-Heron's poems, "We Beg Your Pardon":

Said they're gonna slap his wrists, gonna retire him with 850 thousand dollars

And America was “shocked”

America leads the world in shocks

Unfortunately, America does not lead the world in deciphering the cause of shock

“850 thousand dollars,” they said, and the people protested, so they said,

“Alright, we'll give him 200 thousand dollars”

Everybody said, “OK, that's better”

I'd like to retire with 200 thousand dollars someday

San Quentin, not San Clemente

Do not pass go, go directly to jail, do not collect 200 thousand dollars

https://genius.com/Gil-scott-heron-and-brian-jackson-we-beg-...