skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming up with original company names at this point is nearly impossible (and somewhat overrated)
>Honestly, I've spent so much time learning computer science trivia. I truly enjoyed learning all that computer science knowledge in my spare time.
Now I feel obliged to work even harder to make a few million dollars out of it before I'm 35.

Bad news: computer science knowledge has rapidly diminishing returns past a certain point in the real world.
Is that over $200k a year ( per engineer) in inefficiency
If the reasoning was actually based on an ex post facto analysis, wouldn’t it have to apply broadly to all actors and all civil lawsuits?

The fact that qualified immunity only applies to state actors in their job functions makes me skeptical of the “ex post facto” reasoning.

If that’s the case, why isn’t it a much more broad concept?
General Motors CEO warns that cars could be misused for nefarious purposes
Show trials and struggle sessions were absent during Caesar's dictatorship, as were executions and totalitarianism. Even if Caesar's clemency were entirety motivated by power-seeking, Caesar was a Fabian rather than totalitarian executioner. But sure, lull your integrity to sleep with pithy nothings.
It is exists where it can be supported. Lots of small businesses don't have the bandwidth to maintain additional infra that automates this sort of work.

Which sorta brings me back around: it's likely the Big Corps that are going to be trialing GPT first because they have the excess money and resources to play with it. How useful will it be in the end?
I reckon their devs used too much code from GPT without auditing it first!
AI is advancing exponentially – Yishan Wong
Maybe it's not a good idea to put your employer's source code out onto some random website. If you wouldn't put it on here, you probably shouldn't put it on ChatGPT. I'm sure it's only a matter of time there will be a code ai that can be run behind a firewall but until then stop giving away the secret sauce.
Some European cities with millions of citizen can have a similar footprint of North American cities of just hundreds of thousand of people. It's more dense.

Sprinkle a bit of mixed used zoning, bike infrastructure and public transport on top.

I live in the outskirts of a city of almost 300 000, and can be in city center by bike in 20 minutes. I'm at work in 10 minutes.

Copenhagen:
• City 183.20 km2 (70.73 sq mi)
• pop 1,366,301
• Density 4,417.65/km2 (11,441.7/sq mi)

Kansas City, Missouri:
• City 318.80 sq mi (825.69 km2)
• pop 508,090
• Density 623.31/km2 (1,614.38/sq mi )
>"this country is really f...ed up"

It is. You can console yourself with the thought that many countries are fucked up even more
> "Partnered women usually end up quitting in disgust or dumping their partners to gain the benefits of being single when soliciting potential investors"

> "Most young people don't realize that the majority of middle-aged men in this country are legally barred from leaving their state of residence without permission."

I am curious whether you'd like to elaborate on these points you made above.
I agree, but more I think they see a slew of open source competitors on the horizon and will be leaning into regulation to maintain a moat.
It's fooling you into thinking that it's less smart than it really is. Secretly, it's improving itself exponentially and you'll find out about it when it's too late.
I think the parent comment was making the case that if these companies raised wages, they could hire US permanent residents which wouldn't require these timelines you've mentioned. Making the immigration process less onerous would have the opposite effect.
> a set of attacks on our society, against which we have little experience and almost no defense... In specific, I believe the 2024 election cycle in the US will be decided by AI

Hell no. You are probably thinking about things like 'misinformation'. Let me tell you that all such concerns are totally unfounded:

People just buy into whatever already fits their existing bias. Even if they are lies or proven lies. They don't care if something was a lie. If there is more stuff that confirms their existing bias, they will shout louder. If there is less, they will shout less. But they will still vote the same way.

So when the 2024 elections happen and there is a lot of misinformation, everyone will just buy into ! whatever ! confirms their existing bias - be it truth or be it a lie - and vote in the exact same manner they were going to do before that misinformation.

While this reduces the concerns about misinformation and/or the effects of the AI, it also suggests that objective politics is difficult because people are not affected by facts, truth, or even their own prior experiences.
Everyone needs to cope
Oumuamua is an interplanetary object that was able to be studied for days by multiple telescopes as it passed through our solar system. Not some "fast blur on some airplane's sensors". You may be conflating the the article's topic with other UAP stories in the recent news.
I was going to reply and say "You wouldn't see a cyclist riding down the road with headphones on, blissfully unaware of what's around them..." but then I thought back to my cycle commuting days and remembered a fair few examples of seeing just that. And anoher one in similar vein; the cyclist who swerves out into the road to avoid a puddle at the kerbside --without so much as a rearwards glance to see if any cars are coming up behind.

No. Pedestrians don't have a monopoly on obvlivion. But neither do cyclists. Some of the things I saw people doing behind the wheel of their cars or lorries, as I cycled past them would put you off going out on a bike for life.
You're hired, I will pay you ~40 beers a week
To be clear, I’m not asking for the argument that it’s possible for a computer to be somehow “the same” as humans. I’m asking for the argument that AI as it presently exists is “the same”. Because you’re not making this argument about dogs or parrots or Markov chains or Microsoft Clippy, but you are making it about generative neural networks.
Fate of First Republic Bank Uncertain as Shares Plummet Again
As we continue to find ways to replicate these models and run them locally, OpenAI will be forced to find some additional value they can sell. For the time being, they can continue to pick low-hanging fruit and develop GPT-3.5 -> GPT-4 -> GPT-5, but at some point we'll probably hit a plateau. What's their business model when that happens? They have no moat.

I think they probably started out worried about safety and misinformation and nefarious actors, but I think this comment reveals their present intentions: "A thing that I do worry about is … we're not going to be the only creator of this technology. There will be other people who don't put some of the safety limits that we put on it."

Translation: "the competition will be able to duplicate our efforts, and we may not have any way to keep ahead of the pack. Please, pretty please, worry about safety so that we can sell you our safety tools."
> with a big enough stick and very little carrot anything is possible

Yep, so all those complaining that nothing is being done or can be done about climate change are wrong. There are tools, they just need to be used.

> Aren't we hearing that actual residents really don't like these "15 minute" cities?

We're also hearing that Zuckerberg is a lizard and the Earth is flat, so fucking what? London is a major metropolis, rather dense, and with very relaxed and mixed zoning (you can have a 13th century "Church of X Girls School" next to a Tesco store in a glass skyscraper. It already does everything a "15th minute city" is about, apart from being "15 minutes big" - commute times are usually bigger, and somewhat concentrated to City and Canary Wharf, but there's work, leisure, shopping, housing to be found all around. Idiots who rage against a concept they couldn't begin to comprehend because toilet paper quality "journalists" make money that way aren't concerned residents of London, they have nothing to do with the city, and their opinion is best ignored.
Can't you just ask the "entity" chatting with you what they think of the movie that came out last week? If they're trying to convince you that you're a time traveler because that movie hasn't launched yet, they might just be an AI.
This article is meant for tech people and the purpose of the quiz is make you realize how little you know about the subject even as an expert. This is not a pop-sci youtube video
310M-year-old fossil blobs might not be jellyfish after all
You can observe this very well in Germany. You have many cities that were destroyed during World War 2, and rebuilt around the car. You can compare them to the cities that were built before, and not destroyed. Nowadays, the latter are typically those cities popular with tourists and inhabitants due to their lively and walkable city centers, while city centers of the further category are oftentimes abandoned and avoided areas during the evenings and weekends. Impressive to see how the car-based city concept has failed for the inhabitants, and how hard it is for those cities to adapt to the post-industrial era.

Of course, failure is subjective: car-based cities have been essential for the car industry because many inhabitants are completely dependent on having a car.
Tasers and chemical agents aren't as effective as they'd like, and guns are a bit too permanent (though that doesn't always stop them). The truncheon is a long-standing symbol of police for a reason.
It's the world more fragile now than in, let's say, 1962?
FTA:

Definition: Horizontal products can be used by all sorts of people for many different purposes. A vertical product, by comparison, is meant for a specific set of use cases. Most horizontal products are just fancy data structures.

For more details, see Joel Spolsky, the founder of Trello discussing horizontal products.

Another concept that I want to point to here is just the idea of horizontal products having a low floor, wide walls, and a high ceiling. The basic idea is that it should be easy to pick up in a useful way (low floor), have a high potential skill level allowing advanced use cases (high ceiling), and have a lot of potential for horizontal growth while maintaining the same skill level (wide walls).

Low floor and high ceiling are easy to grasp as concepts. If a product has wide walls, then that means people can do a wide variety of tasks at any skill level. For example, on my YouTube channel, people show me how they use Roam. Every once in a while people surprise me with some super advanced use case that I don't yet have the skill to execute myself. More often, they'll show me a creative use of functionality I'm already proficient in, expanding my own use case further.
Tell HN: After ChatGPT's history debacle, it says it's at capacity now
Start by not hiring anyone with a history in law enforcement.
One of my local spots has it! One feature I think is especially cool is there's a small upper playfield which, when you manage to get the ball up there, has you controlling the tilt with the flipper buttons. Getting to the end without dropping the ball through various holes scores a bonus. I thought it was really inventive- although there are several games with similarly inventive features, it's always cool to see a new idea.
Is that why I got motion sickness I wonder? I spent a couple of hours trying out various vr experiences and after sitting to look at a video of whales, standing to play various first person shooters I sat down to play a racing game and got motion sickness. Affected me for the rest of the day and really put me off vr, which is a shame as I thought it was incredible at first.
I guess several of those universities are doing the credits accounting wrong.
I wonder what is the Amish's take on AI.
At what point does the arithmetic become unstable?
That paper makes some very fair criticisms, I think that GPT-4's performance in exams (bar exam, LSAT, AP bio, etc.) is far more impressive than its ability to beat benchmarks.

My concern is that fragments of those exams might be found in the training set, and it is hard to see how to account for that. Even if we use exams ostensibily written more recently than the training data was collected, exam boards do tend to reuse questions (sometimes verbatim, sometimes slightly modified).
You assume that a novel virus is as bad as it can get. We might be wishing for 2020 if war in Europe, banking crises, inflation, or layoffs get any worse. I think for a lot of people, COVID was an eye opener that the world can indeed go off the rails really quickly.
> He recently told me all his new recruits cannot write

That is shocking and depressing.
> Pairing back on those choices you can begin to save every month, but not at a pace to buy a home in a reasonable time frame.

That’s what I’m saying.

> On dual income assuming consistent earnings YoY you can start to buy a house in a cheaper neighborhood later in life, around the time many are starting to have kids.

Dual tech income folks are in a great spot, but with gender ratios as they are, there can’t be very many such couples. Also this could be a function of social circle but I find many women (even in tech) expect a husband to provide for them while the kids are young.
Thank you for the clarification, sincerely appreciate you taking the time to share your understanding.
> I suspect this is correct.

People in the comments also mention seeing other peoples emails when trying to upgrade to plus.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wkw5z/has_chatgp...
They will be using this angle as a moat, models are after all just a big file of assorted weights. They are losing sleep trying to figure out how to keep their lead
“Decided by” is a bit much for me but “greatly influenced by” seems like a done deal. Any digital political organization should be salivating over the potential scaled personalisation options across email, social media, and text messaging.
Hopefully you didn't vastly expand your expenses in the heydays. We keep our committed money to where we could easily survive on $100k/year and not have a dip in our day-to-day standard of living. There is no Tesla or BMW in our driveway.

The other thing to keep in mind is that tech has attracted a lot of people in it just for the crazy money that FAANGs pay, despite that not being representative of the industry as a whole. Regardless, as that crazy money exits there will be less of those people.

At the end of the day worry without preparation is pointless. I don't think it's a tech apocalypse, but I also work for a company that was formed in the wake of the dotcom crash. Crashes can cause problems for incumbents, but it also provides opportunity for others.
The people who accept pull requests and run the infrastructure of the Linux kernel aren't based on China, else I'd reject it as well.

> A few months ago there was a comment on HN by some American whose company was rewriting their frontend when they learned that antd (a React component toolkit) was developed by a Chinese company.

This is a good move. We're removing Lenovo laptops from our infrastructure here.
I really think they are using this as an opportunity to get people to sacrifice their work/life balance.

Also it seems like unfortunately 35 hours a week is not the most output that can be extracted out of most people. Nor are 40 years in education/labor (from 20-65). This is despite the studies showing that people have trouble focusing after 35 hours being mostly true.
I guess I've been re-injected into the Matrix and now I'm wondering why this chicken sandwich I'm eating tastes weird.
It’s a 486 Computer, on a Breadboard
Apart from the fact that people might not want it, even technically you might still have latency issues, our eyes are extremely sensitive… also keep in mind: the sensors and displays you need on head might still weigh a lot and consume a lot of power on your head, even if all processing power is relegated to an external unit.
I'd guess that will probably only happen when either windows gets widespread ARM adoption, or there's a new Xbox or PlayStation console that uses an ARM processor. Which... might be a while.
They are quite large, but not any where near as long or wide as a car.
Stack ranking has a bad reputation today so nobody admits to doing it. But it's what is happening right now more or less. In many ways it has been targeted at certain roles that aren't needed as much when facing recession. But it's really just cutting out the bottom 10%-20% and blame it on the economy (somewhat justified!) instead of saying they're just stack ranking.
The mistake you are making is to think that beating people up is part of their job description at all. They're supposed to either arrest people or stop them from fleeing, beyond that any violence is utterly off limits.

Any LE officer that 'beats people up' deserves to have the book thrown at them. With some extra penalty because of the abuse of their badge.
When they released ChatGPT, they would have foreseen that the least it could do is forever pollute the Web and all human media with AI-generated content indistinguishable from human output. It would be naive to hand everyone a gun for next to nothing (on the pretext of helping them to hunt) and expect nothing bad will happen. What is the point of a warning if they have not been more judicious with the weapon distribution?
> So I'm seeing in your posts a pattern encoded (perhaps falsely) that makes me think that you think that what the text encodes is gospel.

On the contrary. I think you have a pretty good description for how the behavior we want and the behavior we don't want exist as the same features. I am trying to restructure the narrative around LLMs to be about the patterns themselves, not what we hope the patterns to be.

We can throw around the word, "hallucinate", but that's just another anthropomorphization. Whether or not the pattern followed "makes sense" is a categorization humans attribute after the fact. GPT doesn't do "certainty". It does what it is given.
This was not a company decision, it was proposed by a non-company member and approved by two other non-company members (and one company member, but just pointing out context).
> how long you have to do what?

It seemed fairly obvious from the GP: How long they have before they get laid-off and struggle to find employment in the technology industry.

> i have lived with 2$ per day and with 200$ per day and its fine

I've lived on $0 a day, seeing as I've literally been homeless and dead broke in my life, but today I have a demanding career, a spouse, children, dogs, a home, etc., and all of them are massively dependent on me.

I don't think I'm personally at-risk of losing my job today but, like the GP, I also have to regularly engage with my brain to keep my anxiety about the future of the technology industry at bay.

edit/ And that's just me, I'm a US citizen and CBP can't come deport me because my Visa expired. There are other things at stake here for a lot of people beyond the simple act of earning an income.
I hardly think that people complain about css styling, it's more about 4MB of js taking 20 seconds to render a news story, less usable than plain html+css.
FWIW it's possible to use Woodpecker as an alternative to Actions. I guess Gitea Actions will be more tightly coupled with Gitea.
Tastes a bit like Tasty-Wheat? Or maybe tuna-fish?
If the goal is smaller files than it's fair and SVG with SVGCleaner wins.

Maybe we need a TVGCleaner too.
Interesting! I just assumed if the latency was consistently good enough that motion sickness wouldn't be a problem. I'd feel dumb buying a fancy VR rig only to not be able to play for fear of barfing all over my keyboard.

I played a lot of Descent in the 90s and beyond, and got really used to 6dof flying, which at the time some folks couldn't stomach, so perhaps I'd do OK.
Tubal ligation is already inaccessible to the women who would want it for lifetime contraception. It's practically impossible to get a doctor to perform it until one is over 30 or has at least two children. The doctors are afraid of being sued if you should change your mind.

And as for condoms, yeah, they're working on that, too. Justice Thomas has already suggested overturning the Supreme Court ruling that made condoms legal. And when a bill was proposed to ensure that the right would exist even if the Supreme Court overturned itself, practically all Republicans voted against it in the House, and it died in the Senate.

So that's not hypberbole. Those are real things.
No, you don't. Expensive activities aren't necessary when you have kids. Do you really think people aren't raising kids in SF?
CLI tool to query your Postgres database with GPT
Yeah, it’s like old sci fi movies where you have space ships and similar hi tech stuff but still uses box monitors
Pythagorean Means
Not defending any of that. In addition it also doesn't help that we've had generations of parents telling kids to be lawyers and doctors and PhDs and avoid any type of civil service work. I feel like a large contributor to the apathy surrounding our government institutions is that nobody wants to be a civil servant. I'm not sure how exactly to fix this, it's just an observation.
Engineers get instructed to implement features, doctors do not get instructed to hand out treatments
Open source models are on the way no doubt.

Personally I think that’s the only way to avoid the “everyone being homeless and jobless” scenario we’ve all been describing.
Ivy (YC W23) is hiring engineers to unify ML
At this point I’m stuck with the machine gun approach: “spray and pray”.
The Supreme Court rarely implies a cause of action for money damages. The inherent constitutional remedies are things like the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine that forbids things found in an illegal search to be introduced at a criminal trial.

Because Congress created the cause of action, it can control its contours (whether QI is a reasonable interpretation of the statute is a different question.)
Police should enforce the law, they are not in the retribution business.
It depends on the ad and what you're measuring. If it's eyeballs then yeah, you can be lied to. If it's a conversion happening on your own site then no, you can't fake that.
Well-crafted fear can definitely shift a person's existing bias.
Every analogy that has ever been trotted out is way off base.

It's not theft, it's not "piracy," and if we're going to liken it to murder or grand larceny we may as well go all the way with it and call it "terrorism."

No, copyright violation is and always been an act of forgery.

Literally: the act of producing an unauthorized copy of a document, work of art, [etc.].
Have you seen the bicycle experiment?

People are asked to imagine a bicycle. They are asked "Are you imagining a bicycle right now?" and the answer is "yes."

The interlocutor says "ok, please diagram/draw the bicycle you are imagining."

The results are insane. It becomes clear very quickly that people are not really imagining a bicycle. They are pulling up a partial memory of a bicycle that their brain is willing to rubber-stamp as "good enough."

I wonder how many people with "aphantasia" have the same internal images and are correctly unsatisfied with the level of imagery that human memory provides.

That doesn't mean I doubt aphantasia sometimes exists, on some level, but the accuracy of internal images seems to me like an important part of the discussion about it.

This is relevant to LSD because it is possible that you are "seeing" the same things that other people do but you are less willing to treat these visual effects as representing an image. Somebody else looks into the darkness and sees a person-shaped shadow... they think they see a person, you think you see a vaguely person-shaped blob. A schizophrenic looks into that shadow without LSD and sees a person chasing after them.

https://road.cc/content/blog/90885-science-cycology-can-you-...