skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are underestimating the scale of the tectonic shift.

A computer program that can pass the god damned Turing test is not "a mildly useful parlor trick", it is the single most impressive computer program ever made. It exhibits reasoning, it can think with analogies. You can give it complicated requests in natural language. Given suitable prodding, it's creative. Everyone just woke up to the fact that we're a sneeze away from AGI.

>The issues with these systems are obvious to everyone

They are not. Already people routinely ask ChatGPT for factual info, and it doesn't bother them that it will simply make things up. It walks and quacks like a duck, so people assume it's a duck.

>addressing those issues is a deeply technical and deeply difficult problem

Alignment is a deeply difficult problem for philosophical reasons - we don't know how to reliably "align" humans either - but getting LMMs to output "roughly" what we want is fun and easy (they're like virtual humans!) and they're going to be deployed everywhere, problems notwithstanding.

Things are about to change, big time. In the short term we're only talking about something like the smartphone revolution, where the parameters of social interaction are fundamentally reshaped. In the long term it could get real weird...

I think it's pointless arguing about "slowing down", the cat is out of the bag. I would just like to see some transparency rules about weights and prompts - we're rapidly reaching a stage where a company hosting a highly used language model could do extreme violence to culture and business. Language models aren't paperclip maximizers - corporations are paperclip maximizers, and language models are the HypnoDrones.
really? it takes a minute to set up a VPN and do your web browsing through a virtual machine. I guess it's not "trivial" for the average American, but it definitely is for the average terrorist or child pornographer, so it's easy compared to surmounting most other threat models faced by people intending to evade detection. Therefore, "trivial".

[edit] also, the less trivial it is, the better for corporate security.
I find it useful and always use it on long flights.

For those of us who refuse to check in luggage unless it's strictly necessary, packing a console tends to be an unaffordable luxury.

I could use my phone, of course. But for gaming, the state of mobile gaming is so atrocious with all the exploitative pay2win crap that I'd often rather play one of the pedestrian but innocent in-flight games. And for movies, at least in my view, the phone is uncomfortable with the small screen and the need to somehow hold it, I'd rather play a martial arts movie on the plane screen and relax.

Of course, the fact that people find it useful doesn't mean that it cannot die - many of us also find having decent legroom useful and it's a thing of the past on most airlines...
I use the usual adblocker UBlock and:

* https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/

which prevents fingerprinting via Canvas elements, additionally warns you if a site does it. There are more sites out there than you would assume. Some stupid blogs even.

* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

This splits your tabs into different categories, each with their own cookie storage.

The fingerprinting website in the article didn't manage to correlate me visiting the website concurrently from two distinct container tabs.
I would advice against prolonged use or using it often. I have seen people around me change their behavior irrationally and erratically, and not for the good, as in not being able to regulate their emotions in a sensible fashion. So while fascinating perhaps, I don’t think it is always used responsibly.
...which is also the most likely reason for a memory leak when you manage your memory through refcounting (or rather: with refcounting, memory leaks are just as unlikely as with a GC).

But even without both, these days (with memory debuggers and profilers integrated into IDEs) pretty much all memory related problems are 'trivially debuggable', this stuff isn't as scary anymore as it was 20 years ago (e.g. Xcode's Instruments has a leak detector which lets you click on the line of code which caused a memory leak, and Visual Studio has similar features).
yeah, it seems a bit weird to be marketing your techno thriller book with a post about css. I mean I guess there is some overlap between the two subjects, as there is likely be overlap between anything in a world with complicated people.
Probably. Tor is not something most people use unless they have something to hide.

No, I don’t care about the one time you downloaded a gentoo iso over tor.
Oh, some flights also have wifi and a local website to load a similar UI on your own device, but that can be unreliable. Last time I was using that on my laptop, I found out from the passenger next to me that it doesn't work on iPads.

At least that way, your show doesn't get interrupted by announcements.
Your customers perhaps, but google and facebook definitely use it for tracking.
He was calling himself a pacifist. But he had no idea what the word "pacifist" actually means - the people who use it today use it without knowing the actual meaning. I did actually ask him to tell me in our language (not English, but he was using the English word) what "pacifist" means and he could not tell me. It's an excuse, not a belief.

But I'm not ranting about pacifists. I'm ranting about how many words are phrases are being redefined. Another one is the word "shame" in my country. Those is favour of judicial reform are using the word as if it has a positive connotation for the past few weeks.
110. Then 300. Then 600. Then 1200. Then 2400. Then 4800. Then 9600. Then 14.4k. Then 28.8k. Then 33.6k. Then 56k.
FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

It is not the Fed itself, but a separate entity that doesn't receive any federal funding. The $250k insurance you hear about is not free, it has a cost associated with it: https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/insurance/assessments/proposed....

Just like your $25k car has an insurance premium, these bank accounts are also insured because they pay a premium. Now if your car's value is $250k, wouldn't you expect the insurance premium to be higher? What if your car's value is infinity dollars?

I love when people on HN start their comment with "Pretty Simple" or a variant of it, because it almost always means they're wrong.
You're doing extremely well if you're breaking even!

I think sometimes it's all about the journey, not the destination.
No, I'm creating 10, 100, and 500 different EC2 instances and measuring the aggregate throughput.
Once, a postal letter-carrier asked me why I scribbled “nonorientable” on my package. I began to tell her the mathematical meanings of the word, and she interrupted me to say that she knew its meaning - she wanted to know what kind of topological shape was in the box. Wow: she knew topology!

Since then, I scribble it on every box I mail, in honor of her.
It's interesting that they can narrow me down to less than 0.1% with just my language list (en-US,en,fr,ro). My user agent is practically unique as well, since I'm running an unusual configuration. I've never thought of that as a disadvantage when it comes to tracking, hah.
Isn't that sort of the point? This is a Y Combinator project, so it seems reasonable that founders can come here to have their ideas picked apart. Most startups will probably receive a kinder reception here than in the real world, after all.
I tried live boot of ubuntu. Every time it can detect accurately. Looks like the whole privacy thing is OVER. Unless lawmakers do something - (i.e) not going to happen!

Atleast they can use this to prevent reCaptcha - and make passwords disappear!
I'm old enough to remember that and some other derivations being very common in the playground. Just not this one.
100 instances of m5.8xlarge,
500 instances of m5.2xlarge
In my experience, there are juniors who are on the verge of becoming senior... and juniors who will forever be juniors, sadly. (Even with lots of support.)

Any tips for distinguishing future abilities?
Because some browser-makers (Firefox at least) believe that the identity of those browsing the web should be protected. Legislators do not believe that. (At least, a majority of legislators do not.)
There is another acronym, MNP, that means Multiple Nucleotide Polymorphism, but it's rarely used. It's very common to use SNP even if the variation is two or three nucleotides.
If you buy two of the same exact model iPhone and boot/config IDENTICALLY, on the same Wi-Fi network, they would have the same fingerprint, right?
Because like the climate crisis, it’s easier to make the individual clean up the mess and make the changes than hold large organisations accountable.
Dunning and Kruger agree.
Perhaps you’re thinking of the considerably faster 28800 modems?
That's a good point. Juniors are valuable, but only if there is sufficient scaffolding for them to grow and be led towards the most valuable work. Otherwise you're doing everyone a disservice.
It. Is. Marketing. The very first sentence is just a link to Amazon to buy the thing.
If this was me there would be about 50 entries of me opening the fridge door, staring for a minute and then closing it without taking anything out (also a fair amount of walking into rooms and forgetting why I was there).
But can a omnipotent god create a stone so heavy they can‘t lift?
Randomization works if you opt in everyone without their consent. If your addon or minority browser randomizes data you're adding a signal.
I live with an actor. Every year or so she gets a set of professional headshots done which costs somewhere between £300 and £1000 depending on the photographer. While the quality of a professional set is undoubtedly better than these (currently) they're not so far off and I can see an acting student or jobbing actor going for a service like this if they're skint.
It isn't how a library works in basically every country in the world for books printed on paper except the US. Almost every other state pays authors a royalty when their books are loaned out by a library.
> Because like the climate crisis, it’s easier to blame the individual than clean up the mess and make the changes.

FTFY?
As long as your trust set-up is sufficiently well-funded and well structured the trust could in principle live on for generations. Obviously, the success of the venture depends on, well, trust.
To generate realistic looking headshots, you need high quality training data (i.e. high quality headshots) of the person. Then what's stopping them from using stable diffusion and stylize those existing photos in the first place?
How many? Me. Much of my family. The place i used to work. The rockies, and coastal mountains, cover a huge swath of north america.
>Do advertisers care about computer users who do not use graphical browsers much. As such a user, IME, the answer is no.

Almost nobody does this, so obviously not. You're probably in a group that makes up less than 0.0001% of web users. And that might even be generous.
I was an exchange student in Germany when the wall came down. I was a computer science major, and a friend sent me a copy of the Cuckoo's Egg. That book made me feel excited about my future profession and opened my eyes to a world that I was largely unaware of. It also convinced me that grad school was something I had to experience. The book altered the path my life was on in a very good way. Thank you, Cliff!
Its the solution for the summer of LLM isn't it?
Seriously, this is a once in a lifetime event.
Something must be wrong, at my previous work we were able to achieve a much higher aggregate throughput - are you spreading them across AZ, and are you using a VPC endpoint?

We did use multiple VPCs, that might make a difference
I think the parent might be referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35228608
WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
The article describes "Fingerprinting as a Service. Some choice quotes:

It doesn’t matter if you are using a VPN or Private Browsing mode, they can accurately identify you.

Also note that VPNs does not help with fingerprinting. They only masks IP address.
It's suggested but not totally clear from your OP whether you were promoted to TL in the team you spent 9 years in, or whether you are new to the TL role in a new team after 9 years in another team/role. That might be a relevant consideration for your questions.
Worth to note that ClickHouse is a distributed MPP DBMS, it can scale up to 1000s of bare-metal servers and process terabytes (not terabits) of data per second.

It also works on a laptop, or even without installation.
Why do we even need banks? If they make money by lending money that mostly belong the people (state/feds) anyways, I guess we all would be better if banking was just a state monopol.
I guess I'm just missing some points here so maybe someone can help and explain me why this is a bad idea?!
They narrowed me down to an order of magnitude less based on just my browser user agent (latest Firefox Android). I'm not sure what that actually means.
You still need high quality photos to generate these headshots. Anyone can just put those photos in midjourney or stable diffusion, and with ~10 minutes of prompting, generate their stylized headshots?
I'm just guessing here, but I'm fairly sure that they use a model that updates dynamically as the "user" or victim changes his or her web browsing settings, and even when the user tries to hide. It easily sounds like some kind of Bayesian filtering going on, or some sort of Markov Chain or decision tree. That is to say that their model tracks the likelihood that you're the same unique user that reloads the page based on the information it can glean from you.

This makes it exceedingly hard to hide from such a filter, because in communicating with these sites, you are bound to reveal at least some information about yourself. And then the "likelihood-machine" does the rest by connecting the dots, even if you gave them "fewer dots."

It's also quite interesting - or perhaps chilling - to see how fingerprinting through NLP and other language tracking algorithms can also track just about any forum post you do, even if you're using a pseudonym.
2 hour turnaround time implies ya'll are doing it manually behind the scenes?
How does the fingerprinting know the payment method you used to pay for the computer, is that stored somewhere in the operating system? How would they know it was a dead drop also? Genuinely curious.
Many years ago Cliff would only charge for the prime-numbered bottles in your order, so I got a group of friends together and we ordered 16 to save money by only paying for 7. I don't see that offer on the website anymore!
A good rule of thumb is hand coded content > content managed by a CMS.
The longer i think about projects such as this, the more convinced i am that a small rail system such as it is for hollywood, and little wagons with containers would be ideal for such a house storage space. Just one motor and a linear distance index and you can turn that space into a storage on rail.
Yes, the current experiment was run from a single VPC. It should explain the difference.
Well, I'm glad to report that my efforts to fight fingerprinting have paid off.

I use a text based browser, with no js, no cookies, no css, no external requests past the first html page download, no user agent, no etag, I connect through Tor and I've modified the browser to randomize http headers. And of course, it sometimes happens that I want to see something that is refused to me with that configuration (like, seeing anything behind the big internet killer, aka Cloudflare - thanks archive.org for existing), so I have also a classic browser for the occasional lowering of barrier.

At first, I thought fingerprint.com did identify it, giving me the hZ4W5oQ7pJVIHbW2fBXA id. Then I realized it was giving the same id when using curl with and without Tor. Then I realized, by googling and ddging that id that it's the one reported as well to search engines. So it's not unique and it's basically a "dunno" reply.
So this could also be a ploy to play into big government regulations, when they are the first they can set the regulations and make it much harder for other similar products..
I don't think GPT believes something.
Indeed they have a problem there.

For that matter, I don't see how "OpenAI" could even try to legally enforce its terms against competitors training their models using the output of "OpenAI" models… at least not without being laughed out of the court room at best or ending up having to pay enormously much more themselves at worst, given how "OpenAI" blatantly disregard any licenses on the content and data they use to train their models.
Facebook should pivot to making Minecraft mods. That'd make a better Metaverse.
I think you should read more about what fingerprinting actually is.
Moral Hazard?
It still cost money to operate the machines..
To be fair I didn't remember it until I put the "a" on the end, like "spacka". Then I remembered
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Cool, but a pity there are no benchmarks so we can compare them.
Seems like someone else had the same idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242174

Ironically both of you launched on the same day.
A law needs a justification and needs to apply equally to everyone. Writing that about fingerprinting would not be trivial. Some site operators can make a believable argument that they use it in ways that are good for society.
I think the article stated the point clearly: the author wanted to hold some paper carrying the HTML contents. From what I can see, they hit the point completely.

Perfect is the enemy of the good, they say.
The joke is 8.0.0 did not break API.
* ensure that the person can acknowledge mistakes and handles criticism/feedback in a positive manner. obviously that needs to be communicated in a fair and responsible manner

* do you want to have a beer/coffee/social interaction with the person outside of work? does not mean you will but you will need to build a relationship with the person

* make sure you know what you are expecting from the hire, write that down, not in MBA speak but in a way that you will be able to review the list in 3/6/12 months

* know you are going to make mistakes, be honest about it with the team and keep on improving. it never ends but it is such an awesome journey.

(no capital letters, speed has a price :D)
Could you imagine the bad PR if Siri spits out wrong answers, politically charged answers, fake answers, or creepy answers?

For example, imagine the huge PR nightmare if Siri explains to you how to make a bomb at home or how to hijack a plane.

Also, GPT4 does not hook into iOS, macOS, iPadOS APIs.

I think a company like Apple will be very careful. Their brand, which they're extremely careful with, would be on the line and they can't risk it on a chat bot that is sometimes very creepy, sometimes makes up answers.

That said, I'm sure Apple is scrambling internally to create an equivalent.
That's totally frightening... makes me feel better about the trouble I had reducing my coffee intake. Caffeine can be pretty rough, addiction-wise.
It's absolutely fantastic that we have so many runtimes, so quickly, to the point where we have an awesome list.

However, given that the usefulness of chatbots depends more on the model being used, what I would find a lot more useful is a ranking of the various models that are available. Currently I'm having to rely on comments on the internet to find out if Alpaca 7B or LlaMA 65B is genuinely productive to use. As new models come out, I'd love it if I knew how well it tells jokes, answers complicated questions, or generates code.
> we are seriously worried about losing the tab completions features of codex api

Not sure how to say this nicely, but if you rely on an AI so much for programming, maybe you are doing something horribly wrong.

Unless youre writing, say, Zig, LSP (e.g. native LSP with Mason, or coc-nvim) will give you as good of an autocomplete as you can get.
Is there a commitment from curl to use semver? If not, all the discussions about why the bump to v8 is void. We know a huge project that doesn't stick to semver and update major version whenever they want: Linux Kernel.

Ofcourse we wish everyone would use semver...
That openly user hostile language must be one of its kind.
You're correct, nobody has. It's so dumb. I saw ads for the Metaverse in SJC today... there is no product to show. It's not even a scam or pyramid scheme, they're just burning money selling nothing for no money. It's like those oil company ads showing random stock video with voiceover about synergy and sustainability, except at least they sell oil.
It is really hard to understand what's real.

I have a bit of a suspicion, Microsoft is reading or as someone else has suggested, "sampling" private GitHub repos, that's why it seems so magic at coding...it is good at coding, yes, but that's why I feel it performs so well on domains people don't expect it to form well.
The point where it is just misinformation?
Because bad actors have an easy time on an actually global network. It's disturbingly hard to hold bad actors accountable, particularly if they have zero legal presence (e.g. a corporation's subsidiary) in one's jurisdiction.
Very relatable. Also feeling the dread re. AI, but more so because I really enjoy programming and have no other marketable skills (and I have no interest in retraining). I think it's a decade or two away but I can see programming as a job changing so much as to be uninteresting to me. Hell, Agile has made it barely tolerable now.

I'm also almost done with the web. I remember listening to the dialup modem with excitement, browsing the web, downloading things and just being generally enthralled with everything the web had to offer. Now it feels like a mall with 3 chain stores in it. Being mostly a web dev, I'm in a kind of weird spot mentally about what I do with 80%+ of my time (i.e. program for the web, browse the web).
> my kids’ tuition and/or bail fund.

You made me spill my coffee :) Will certainly use that in front of my kids.
That's how you know i'm not sentient.
Probably the most important story of the month.