skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of very deep discussions with GPT-4 about design issues I’ve had, and brainstormed ideas on how to improve them. In these discussions, GPT-4 has been able to really dig into the details and grok the problem space, and has surprised me with the quality and brilliance of its ideas and suggestions. Some of these I have tried, things that I would not have thought of, and it turns out the suggestions really helped solve the challenges I was facing. To me it’s like working with a brilliant person who can only communicate via text, can’t look anything up on the internet, and can’t remember more than a few pages of text at a time, but aside from those limitations is a genius.

Lots of people talk about generating code with Chat GPT, but to me its real value is in having deep detailed discussions about design problems.

It’s been so successful at this that recently I gave GPT-4 the full interview design skill assessment that I give to engineers when I interview them at Microsoft. GPT 3 wouldn’t be able to handle this, but what GPT-4 did here astonished me. My assessment is that this is a principal level performance. It didn’t have to do other things that normal candidates have to do but for this raw skills assessment of design skills it was spot on. It would have impressed me even more if it figured its final solution out from from the beginning, but that’s what it gets for blurting things out before thinking about them, which people do, too.

The important thing I’m communicating here is not that I am impressed because it’s amazing that a computer can do this stuff; I’m impressed at what it has done here compared to almost every human I’ve ever walked through this question with. The approach I used here is the same I use when asking candidates this question, because in addition to testing their ability to code, I’m looking for how well I can understand the candidate’s ideas, and how well they can understand and then apply my own ideas when I ask them to take a different approach on certain things than they were thinking of themselves. This is one area where many great coders struggle; they can code like the wind when it’s their own idea but struggle to work collaboratively. This kind of mental flexibility, ability to think of things in a different sequence or consider other ways to solve the problem after thinking of their own solution is also a required skill often in real-life meetings and other collaborative settings. I’d rate this candidate as an outstanding, top-notch collaborator.

My point here is that using it only to write boilerplate code is a waste of its best value. My suggestion is to get GPT-4 with its larger token limit, and talk strategy with it. Tell it all about your biggest challenges at a level of detail that would exhaust a normal human, and talk through ideas of how to improve your world.

Talk to it about your people problems too. It’s an astonishingly wise counselor who has a wealth of positive insights and suggestions. It’s also great for elegantly wordsmithing things.

Don’t miss out on the chance to collaborate with this endlessly creative and endlessly patient collaborator.
I like your prompts for your script, I may integrate it into my workflow too. I have found that when I am editing my work, it is helpful to have the original sentence and the suggested sentence one after another. While this takes away the paragraph form, it clearly helps you tease out the "improvements" to either accept or reject. I also have GPT number the sentences. And then when I am done, I say - something like - "please assemble back into paragraph form, all revised sentences are accepted except numbers 5, 12." And then it reassembles the paragraph(s) with the revised corrections. I use ChatGPT (4) for really long stuff though... might not work with Turbo3.5.
Apple pairs individuals hardware parts now. The camera, screen, boards, etc will not work in another iPhone unless Apple authorizes it and has their servers grant a new pairing.
I’d guess they’d be worse off if they look at net worth or five year rolling income of the people paying this.

A $250K gain because your startup got acquired or IPO’ed doesn’t exactly translate into a high average salary over the many years it took to gain the windfall. (versus, say, working at Microsoft or Amazon, and getting an extra $50-100K per year.)
This just begs the question… why not generate the docs when someone reads the code instead? Why bother generating a bunch of half assed docs today when you can wait and interrogate the code in a much more natural and fluid way using the same LLM when it matters?
I mean you could just embed those things that they attach to clothes and alcohol bottles at the store to sound a brief alarm when someone tries to cross a threshold with it, then have staff only stop people when the alarm goes off, otherwise foot traffic can flow freely while people dump their sacks in bins like they do with glasses after 3D movies.
this why Socratic questioning is good when you have a personal teacher.
The Red Tribe says the Blue Tribe are all communists.

The Blue Tribe says the Red Tribe are all nazis.

Are they both correct or neither correct? How boring.
Asked it to generate pretty standard Terms of Service for an app I'm working on.

So you're using it generate a legally actionable document. Is this a good idea?
Society needs less of this fear. Your kids are safe and if they weren't there is very little you can do in your location.
I mistakenly immediately thought of of the (color)FORTH one.
It's about probabilities. If they had even a 10% chance of bankrupting themselves they probably shouldn't have done it. Even if they eventually win, every dollar spent on lawyers wasn't spent on archiving.
>It's better to be wrong until you're right than right until you're wrong...because you will get the last laugh.

Peter Schiff gets to laugh despite being wrong for 9 out of the last 10 years because he's not the one deciding monetary policy. For all we know, if he had his way, the US would be in a perma-recession and made into a vassal state of China by now.

Also, the business cycle is something acknowledged by literally every economist. The fact that we have mild economic turmoil after a global pandemic shouldn't be a prediction that Peter Schiff is proud of.
No other country can compare. No one else has this. These in-built advantages are incredibly hard to beat.

It's why it's on our currency - "e pluribus unum".

It's also why Russia and China are constantly working to erode the unity of the American people, whether it's through false narratives that "we're more divided than ever", driving a wedge into political parties, fomenting rage-mode across social media, utilizing Twitter for propaganda or TikTok to keep American minds drained of their creative motivation while they ban the apps in their own countries... the list really goes on.

A cord of many stands is not easily broken, but others will do their damnedest to try.
Yes. I got a cheap AI lawyer if someone sues me, all good. All jokes aside, the alternative was to not have a "Terms of Service", so fairly sure it's better than nothing.
> Come talk to me when it can…

I am afraid no one will come talk to you when that happens.
Show HN: I built a Mac app to use GPT on any apps/websites
Basically that's it I built a tool one can use GPT just by typing GPT [command] & Press Shift + Return on any apps.
Under the ironically-named USA Freedom Act, the US government has essentially the same powers. My country doesn't have an extradition treaty with China, but it does have one with the US. There's no evidence that citizens of my country have ever been disappeared by China and taken to secret prisons, but there's documentary evidence that the US have done exactly that.

I'm genuinely trying to think of a good-faith argument for why Chinese tech firms are less trustworthy than American tech firms, but I honestly can't think of one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
In can help to give an initial overview over a code base, its structure and contained functionality (with the usual risk of inaccuracies and fabulations), but it can’t supply the rationale and contextual information that good documentation provides, which can’t be derived from just the code. It also can’t distinguish between what is an implementation detail and what is part of an implicit interface contract.
Absolutely.. the system deserves no respect, then give it none
"Or, most likely, it will develop a model of the data it was trained on, and not the world this data came from."

I mean the point is what is the difference? Is your brain trained on 'the real world', or on your senses (data) of the real world? Descartes argued that you can't tell if there's a real world at all.

By 'real-world sensor data' I mean that the models can be trained on sensor data from the real world (video, audio, feedback from motor outputs, etc), rather than on text, which is only abstractly related to the real world. I believe this is called the token-grounding problem, and goes back to Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment.
You're not wrong, these things are just future e-waste with short-term support, like another commenter mentioned.
It's too late to fix now, but that sounds like a file naming UX issue. If you type `cat ~/.ssh/id_` and hit tab, you'll see `id_rsa` first, which is the wrong one.

It really should be named `id_rsa.private` to help a busy developer realize they have the wrong file.
I recently had a relative staying over who was asking for help with some arduino code. He needed his chicken incubator to read from a temp sensor and activate a heat source when it was out of range. I thought it was a good opportunity to show him ChatGPT.

Description of the problem, some specifics on equipment, it bangs out a solid first pass to the problem that might require some tweaks. Then it occurred to me that it had not only written the code, it had set the temperature threshold to a sensible default without my having to separately look up that information.
We don't know all the different ways humans arrive at answers to novel problems.

And while these LLMs aren't literally just copying verbatim, they are literally just token selection machines with sophisticated statistical weighting algorithms biased heavily towards their training sets. That isn't to say they are overfitted, but the sheer scale/breadth gives the appearance of generalization without the substance of it.
I didn't know bash scripting and then I wrote some scripts and then I knew bash scripting and use it for lots of stuff. Has ChatGPT resulted in learning by doing for you?
This comment is perfect. I can’t tell if satire, or not. Thank you!
Though the basic point that computers keep increasing in processing power still seems to hold, even if it's not just by having more transistors per area.
Is [1] a good way to learn about furthest in the future eviction?

[1]: https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2014/02/02/proof-of-the-fart...
>utilities prioritize the welfare of the citizens who reside in an vote for the (local/regional/national) political apparatus VS exploiting resources with the aim of maximizing profit for shareholders

How is this any different than any other industries that consume water (eg. farms or factories) and use that to make money? At least with nestle water, it's not a premium product so in all likelihood it isn't getting shipped across the world like Perrier is.
please send your input, stories are whatever
Show HN: CommandClick: WebBrowser enforced by JavaScript and shellscript(Termux)
CommandClick is low code android app making tool.
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The DEA used an AirTag to track suspected narcotics equipment
Well those flip phones aren't built with the same intentions. This phone was made to be distraction free as much as is practical. It restricts me in ways that I appreciate. I have zero ways to check email, reddit, etc.
> LLMs will generate data that already fits the model. You can't generate information out of thin air. But you can use a larger model or one with more training data to generate inputs for another model.

I suppose you could use an LLM that's too large and slow for production to generate training data. But even that seems dangerous. Especially since LLM-generated data will almost certainly creep into the training set as time goes on. Despite likely efforts to keep it out.

Is generated data commonly used in LLM training?
I hope there can be anonymous repos too.
One of my absolute favorite television shows is called W1A. It features David Tennent as a narrator, who frequently gets lines like that about the BBC.

If you’ve never seen it, absolutely go find it.
> How many people who work for a living does it take to match Disney's capacity to bribe Congresscritters?

Why so cynical? Who's more captured: Congress or the IP Bar?

If everyone commenting and reading about this on HN called their members of Congress within a few hours on Monday afternoon, there would be serious buzz on Capitol Hill. Several hundred to a few thousand people all calling in about a similar issue to members of both parties is noticed.

Remember the "SOPA" thing Big Content tried to ram through a decade ago? It failed because dozens upon dozens of members were spooked.

You know why lobbyists are listened to? They're not "bribing" members of Congress; they are simply presenting an unrebutted story.

EDIT: forgot to address the "transformative" thing.

Format shifting is not transformative, any more than bootlegging a movie in the theater or taking a photo of a copyrighted piece hanging in a gallery are. The meaning of the work is almost certainly identical whether it's on a physical page or on a screen.
I only hear leftists say it.
For coding, I've been using it like Stack Overflow. It really decreases my barrier to doing work because I can ask lazy follow-up questions. For example, I might start out by asking it a question about a problem with Pandas like "How do I select rows of a dataframe where a column of lists of strings contains a string?". After that, GPT realizes I'm talking about Pandas, and I'm allowed to ask lazy prompts like "how delete column" and still get replies about Pandas.

I also use it for creative tasks - for example I asked it for pros and cons of my cover letter and iterated to improve it. I also used it to come up with ideas for lesson plans, draft emails, and overcome writer's block.

GPT has drastically lowered the emotional-resistance barrier to doing creative tasks and improved the quality of my output by giving me creative ideas to work with.
please send your inputs. cute stories are whatever.
>almost no use since everyone will just Ch(e)atGPT

pretty easily solved with covid-era online exam surveillance, i.e. camera on, screen shared and live explanation of your solution. But honestly not even that is necessary because cheating on online tests isn't new and companies are aware of it. ChatGPT didn't invent someone else taking a test for you.
That's not how anything works. A knowledge gap doesn't warrant any conclusion you want.
In what other trade context would it be ok for one partner to block all access to their own market (Facebook, Twitter etc) whilst still enjoying full access to everybody else's? How is this remotely acceptable?
Private investment in firms that create water use optimization will help mitigate water use issues. That includes water treatment, including industrial and commercial technology to reduce water usage.
It looks like they are working on getting the Rockchip RK3588 mainlined.

CPU, PCI support is all there thanks to the QuartzPro64. At least with this one it looks like there are efforts rather than some of the other chipsets which don't have a chance.
One thing I find worse than no docs is wrong docs.

It would be really cool if we could take code + docs, feed it into an LLM and get a determination of whether the code matches what's in the docs. It could also be a good way to evaluate the correctness of the generated docs from the linked tool (assuming it works).
*nothing Moore.
No just SMS. I have been using WhatsApp desktop a lot more.
I get so many unimportant notifications from my phone nowadays that my brain just learned to ignore the vibration. The only notifications I unconsciously listen for are the ones from my computer (when I'm using it) that are, guess what, Calendar, Slack, WhatsApp. E-mail notifications are delivered silently.

Maybe I should just silence everything else on my phone too...
FWIW podman (sans desktop) works perfectly fine as a native back end for docker-compose as of podman v3, you just need to set the DOCKER_HOST env var.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Podman#Docker_Compose

podman-compose is less interesting since.
No but Signal has a desktop app..
> Are they both correct or neither correct?

There is no reason the relation of two faction’s opinions to the truth must be the same.
I hope it's going to remain that way, but the realistic cynic in me tells me that using ChatGPT to discover stuff is going to increasingly suck more now that people are going to try to target ChatGPT for SEO.
yes, but this can make sure they get money of their part, we can thinking about novelists have better condition.
>how many civil calls for police misconduct are falsely made?

According to a 2006 report [1] from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (part of the DOJ), 25% of allegations of use of excessive force were unfounded. (This contradicts statements made elsewhere in the comments that "most allegations against police are falsified.") Keep in mind that these numbers are reported by the police agencies themselves.

(In the interest of beimg complete: In 23% of cases the officer involved was exonerated, meaning the "incident occurred, but the officer’s action was deemed lawful and proper". In 34% of cases the police agency didn't find enough evidence to either sustain the allegation or exonerate the officer. 8% of allegations ended with disciplinary action.)

Interestingly, when surveying citizens, the BJS found that 75% of citizens who experienced use of force thought it was excessive, although only about 10% filed a complaint with the agency employing the officer(s).

I wasn't able to find very much info on this, and I suspect there are probably some pretty big biases, so if anyone else has any info, please share.

[1]: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ccpuf.pdf
Absolutely. Without question.
Prisma has this one glaring issue: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/10649

Segmentation fault with NodeJS 18. Its about prisma having linked a different version of OpenSSL than NodeJS. A workaround is to use the "binary" engine, meaning you run another process, talk via IPC to that, and that then talks to the DB, which is ridiculously roundabout.

But this issue is finally worked on, so once that is fixed its good.
Oh, ok, that makes sense!
All that but most of all,
the fact USD is the world reserve currency is the biggest privilege. Every other countries have to stock up on USD/ have swaps in place and follow US when they raise fed interest rates instead of doing what’s best for the domestic economy.

For example, South Korea’s USD reserves has been sharply going down as they’ve been trying to resist following the recent rate hikes to soften the blow to the economy. This is happening all across the globe.

However, US can do (and seems to be doing) whatever they want.
Drugs are a poor comparison. I can make many drugs in my basement using cheap and widely available supplies. I cannot make a highly available global network optimized by corporate psychologists to be as addictive as possible.

If we decided to we could have our government snuff them out for good in a single bill.
I've asked ChatGPT for solutions to coding problems I haven't encountered before, as well as error messages that aren't immediately obvious. This augments Google for me.

I'm also working on a UX for AI to make people more productive when creating things: https://inventai.xyz. Subscriptions are nearly done, which are needed to actually generate content.
I regularly go camping at locations without reception. It is an excellent opportunity to disconnect and enjoy nature, and without excessive artificial lighting it's hard to not fall asleep after dark.

In 2021 the Santa Clara county parks department sent a survey to campers on (among other things) whether they should improve the Mt Madonna park by having Wi-Fi. I'm sure the responses are heavily biased towards no. There's still no Wi-Fi there.
It may be slightly simplistic, but I don't think calling something that selects tokens to chain together based on a statistical model a "fancy markov chain" is too far off the mark.
I'm not entirely sure what point you're making. That's not physical law in the same sense – nothing compels you to take something from me (or prevents you from taking something from me if you're sneaky or strong enough, as you said).

On the other hand, you and I can't both have the same object even if we wanted; it has nothing to do with ability or circumstance.

edit: I should clarify that you and I can share something in the sense that we can freely give it back and forth, but if we have one shovel, we can't both be shovelling at the same time (and can't share it at all if we live far apart). And if we're talking about food, well, we can't both take the same bite of bread.
Podman compose doesn't cover the whole compose spec, so no, it doesn't support it.
Meh.

I'm not going to count Japan and Germany since there is that little "Marshall Plan" detail that, at least as I understand it, may have had some small influence on their development. [end sarcasm]

No seriously, how can you make that statement and not mention the billions on billions of dollars they were given in aid? That's the height of intellectual dishonesty bro.
People are nuts to be focusing on the mundane and not on the fact that he went from $100M to promote Open Transparent AI Research to taking that $100M building expertise and tech and running off with a private for-profit dedicated to CLOSED AND OPAQUE AI Research. Something very wrong with that. Why are people here trying so hard to make it about technicalities?
I don't understand what you linked. Don't they believe in technological singularity?

I would think a intelligence capable of self modification could use the scientific method to increase it's performance (even if it means scaling in size like a matrioshka brain).
Be more productive by managing your daily tasks and notes
I am fascinated by where this all leads. Many are calling this a Hail Mary play. That seems like the Boring Timeline at this point.
This is exactly the kind of thing I hope LLM chatbots will be genuinely useful for. Though, how often do you find it completely hallucinating endpoints / parameters etc. ?