skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I make no claim that collateral murder did not represent a war crime

Well, that's quite a change from: "Those of us old enough to remember their original releases (like “Collateral Murder”) remember that wikileaks was always about building a narrative rather than exposing the truth."

So you admit leaking Collateral Murder was about exposing the truth? A truth which was a war crime? It seems like maybe you made a vague accusation you couldn't back up specifically there.

> Julian Assange had no loyalty to the truth (as has been shown in the years since) and cares only for the “truth” when it’s favourable to whatever agenda he has at the point in time.

Make a real accusation instead of being vague. If Assange's lack of loyalty to the truth has been shown, I haven't seen it, so please, tell us what evidence you have. Otherwise, this is just another vague accusation that you'll shift away from when confronted for specifics.

If you're going to claim Assange is dishonest, I'd like to see a) evidence he knowingly leaked false information, or b) evidence he knowingly withheld true information. Be specific, stop this vague handwaving.
Car buttons often have markers as well.
Yeah, "AI" has been a marketing term for almost a decade. People who know better these days tend to avoid the term "AI" in professional contexts and use "model" instead. It's like "autopilot" from Tesla in the sense that the name itself makes people cast unfounded over-expectation (= overhype). You can see tons of people consider GPT as an AGI.
It's exactly this kind of inevitabilism that validates skepticism.
Both can be true.

You can have buttons AND screen, like in Tesla for example.

Not to mention voice and beyond that even simply automation.

Of course some people will say Teslas don’t have buttons, but those people don’t know what they are talking about and can be safely ignored.
Real pushable buttons. Not the capacitive crap VW has ruined their interiors with.
<sigh> I mean that ChatGPT sounding like a "marketing ad copy robot" is not an inherent limitation of ChatGPT, it's merely the finishing stage of its training process. If OpenAI wanted to, they could have a hundred ChatGPT flavors.
I haven't actually tried either Dapper or PetaPoco, only perused their documentation. But I was sold on LinqToDb after seeing how it supported CTE and seeing our close code to generate updates [1] and joins [2] ended up looking like the actual intended SQL.

[1]: https://linq2db.github.io/#update

[2]: https://linq2db.github.io/articles/sql/Join-Operators.html
On the flip side, if these deepfakes are so simple to generate, they will surely bombard us constantly throughout the day - radio, TV commercials, youtube videos, podcasts.

And people quickly become desensitized to that kind of thing. It could be the case that, after some initial "ramping up" period, these deepfakes are so cheap and abundant that no one falls for them.

When was the last time you got a call from a number you didn't recognize, and you actually picked it up? If you're like me, probably not in a long time, because you're aware it's almost certainly some scam/robo call.
https://archive.is/X6yM6
TikTok lady AI voice starts talking, hangs up phone
Sorry to hear you had a bad homeschooling experience and you disagree with the data with regards to success rates (there are roughly 3.7 million children being homeschooled currently in the US). It works for many, I’m sure there are folks it might not (you mentioned some sort of cult situation in your case;
I don’t believe this is typical except perhaps if you consider religious reasons for homeschooling).
I think...that's my point?

You program at the level of architecture and design patterns, and Copilot and the like fill in the details. Do you need to keep a watchful eye on the details? Of course.

The complexity will either be necessary for the great things we build, or unnecessary but time-saving, or just bad all around -- but that's true as software grows independent of LLMs.
It makes sense when you consider each floor is essentially identical. I imagine skyscrapers and the like should be pretty predictable once the foundation is set up - it's just rinse-repeat for the next hundred floors (mostly). You don't have to deal with any preexisting limitations either, way up in the sky (unlike ground infrastructure, which has to deal with rights of ways, underground services, etc).
To be fair, rich countries tend to rely more on fossil fuels than poor countries, as the GDP is related to energy.

So the end of fossil fuels will probably wreck rich countries, too. Especially given that no country is remotely getting prepared for that.
It is scary for sure. We were heading towards a brave new world even before chatGPT, where what's real was no longer to be taken for granted and you couldn't trust your eyes and ears. ChatGPT has just hastened things. I'm sure a new market will emerge for authentication services that verify the speaker or the person in the video similar to how we had twitter verified checkmark.

On the flip side I can't wait for someone to build a product where I record a few conversations with my parents while they are alive, and then when they're gone, through chatGPT + vocalfakes, I can have a parent forever. Sure, I'll know it's not the real thing, but when you really miss them, it certainly can make the pain a little less.
Or, the language has been stable since 2008.
What's wrong with mocking concrete implementations? I've worked on pretty large-scale services with AWS and we did it all day everyday. I think it worked fine and don't know if adding an interface on top of them would help.

I don't really remember J2EE, but I do run into weird Javax imports from time to time. +1 on them going away being a good thing.

For the open source stuff, I don't really care that much about the politics or history of it. Maybe I should, but at the end of the day Java just seems to have the libraries I need.

And for the project structure, maybe I should have worded that differently. The structure of nested projects makes sense, but the dependency management through Nuget and the hidden project files in IDEs just seems needlessly indirect - just show me files and let me add text for a dependency like in Maven or Gradle. To be fair, I think this one is partially just me being new to the .NET world.
Well designed button layouts use tactile differences so you can non-visually identify where you are without conducting a sequential search. Button clusters are restricted to groups of three or two with distinctive shapes or raised features that permit rapid acquisition of the intended button. You can't do that with a uniform, flush button strip. That's just designer wannabe BS where form is everything and function is ignored.
It doesn't seem so bad to me. They're evenly enough separated, and all have a nearby 'index by feel' point.

Reading this comment before opening, I for some reason expected a giant panel of 16 identical buttons in a square.
You’re 17 - don’t just think about paying bills. Not yet. If this interest stems from money and ambitions then you’re trying to build your foundations in sand.

It’s not really about what you choose but how you do the thing you do. How well you can apply yourself to it. You want to find work that gives you flow state.

My 0.2c as a cinema studies/filmmaker turned PM - there are so many soft skills I acquired pursuing a totally different dream. And yet they all turned out being exactly what I needed.

HN is filled with squares hyper-optimizing for sensible logical choices. Advice is older folks give each other is more conservative and about capturing trends because that’s the safe thing to do. We have kids, deteriorating bodies and brains. At 17 you should do opposite: maximize risk for the next few years - you will regret not taking advantage, not developing character, not using your youth to it’s full potential (especially spectacular failure).

If building things on computers is what you want, no new trend will change the fact that you will build great things.
It's a fair question, and the answer is linked to sheer numbers.

Currently it takes a forrest of wind generators, each on a tower, to replace a single (albeit much larger) generator continously and precisely spun as a steam turbine from (say) coal fired heat sources.

Solar takes acres of rare eath films, and solar+wind needs some form of load smoothing via energy storage so there's additional demand if massive battery banks are used (pumped hydro, heat in sodium, other alternatives exist but not always applicable).
This is a test for theory of mind -- a term of art used by psychologists for the ability to understand that other people have their own consciousness, with different memories and awareness.
It's also possible to "fix" the keyboard via ukulele - especially international layouts come with a lot of cruft under option-key.

Another possibility is to fix it via eg the terminal emulator - but that doesn't work for global hotkeys like window management with yabai via skhd.

See my comment on lobsters:
https://lobste.rs/s/nvoikx/helix_notes#c_m8guuh
But now the situation is bit different, coz there's a limit to the number of pieces before it looks awkward and that limit can be reached by AI generated contents quite easily and quickly thus not needing to have more man power.
Time to get spiritual. For some reason, your comment made me think of an interesting conversation I had while I was on a walk once with a friend of mine who is a Chan Buddhist monk. We were walking by a hotel in Boulder, CO called the St. Julian. I had always hated that place since it was one of the first large development projects that came in and started to change the feeling of the downtown area. That and they had rejected me as a job applicant.

I related all this to him and mentioned that I liked to "get back" at them by regularly walking in and using the lobby bathroom. He looked over at me with a severe expression and said, "You may as well have been pissing in their mouths."

I suppose that's the point in the parable where I was "enlightened." My friend's meaning was that, by acting spitefully and vengefully, I wasn't doing myself or anyone else any favors. I think the same could be said of OP's story.
If you know Casey Liss from ATP or his other podcasts, James Thompson made a deepfake of him with permission and it is extremely good.

https://mastodon.social/@jamesthomson/110062947060928918

I had no idea things had gone this far.
Raja Koduri leaving Intel to start AI company
I appreciate sticking to your guns, but I would be terrified writing anything web facing in C or C++.

Furthermore, after looking at the WT documentation it seems horrific to construct frontends in... maybe not so bad for APIs though.
Prepare to be blown away very soon.
That is kind of what I thought about my self. I don't see how AI-driven improvements will help poorer countries. I don't think it will wreck them, but if things don't solve Climate Change and if richer countries don't subsidize poorer countries... I don't see anything really positive out of AI, but maybe my imagination is really bad.
Would it really be wise to run a criminal operation while piping all your requests through Microsoft servers, considering the history of the company collaborating with law enforcement?
The power button on my monitor already does this.
In fact, the opposite!
On mac 12.5 + bash + macports, having trouble getting anything to work, like Ctrl-R, Esc-C etc, **TAB complete, even after trying to follow the suggestions linked here.

The basic problem, however, is that whatever I type into the fuzzy search, it finds many thousands of hits. It seems it's picking up a lot of aliased Downloads folders in ~/Library/Containers. Anyone else have that problem? Not sure how to turn that off.

I just typed "abcdefghijklmno" trying to narrow it down, and still had 10 hits. Typing a further "p" reduced that to 2, but I could see most of those eliminated 8 had a "p" in the filename. Confusing!

edit: I got Ctrl-R, Esc-C and **TAB complete working by adding this to .bash_profile, not .bashrc as it said to when installing:

source /opt/local/share/fzf/shell/key-bindings.bash
source /opt/local/share/fzf/shell/completion.bash

But I still have many thousands of options for Esc-C cding, for example, whatever I type—mostly from ~/Library/Containers. I don't remember having that problem when I tried fzf a few years ago, on macos 10.13 I think.
You can have multiple appsettings files and are additive. Eg, you can have appsettings.production.json which only contains an override for the connection string in the base appsettings.json.
How would you distinguish between "intentionally deceptive" and "being wrong"?

In principle I don't disagree; but proving "intentionally deceptive" beyond reasonable doubt in court is extraordinarily hard, so in practice I don't really think we can do much about it.
Wonderful. I recently rented a model 3 and found it incredibly frustrating that it required multiple touches to adjust settings that would be a single button press on a more traditional car. Don’t even get me started on the windshield wipers - a total nightmare in winter storms and located on the left stalk? These are safety concerns. As long as humans are operating these dangerous vehicles, I vote for fewer driver distractions.
> SLRs don't take "better" photos, they take more detailed photos. The best photo is the one you actually took because you had the camera on you and didn't miss the shot.

At this point I want to go back to using a pocket camera. I can turn it on and take a picture without having to look at the screen. There's no automatic cloud uploads. I don't have to worry about someone logging metrics or scanning the pictures or AI doing weird things like filling in moon textures. I take picture. I get picture. That's it. I don't have to worry about cloud subscriptions or "ecosystems" (GAH!) or whatever. I stick the SD card in my computer and there's the fucking pictures. Done.
U.S. State-Government Websites Use TikTok Trackers, Review Finds
Humans are still picking the AI-generated images they like, so there is still human input.
For me, I expect LLMs to become significantly more useful when enabled with multi-session continuity and access to a persistent store of data personally relevant to me. Of course, these are also things which tend to increase the security, privacy and abuse surfaces of LLMs.

What I hope someone comes up with is an open standard which lets me choose when to allow an LLM private, temporary 'merge access' to my personal data (eg emails, documents, calendar, browsing history, online posts across platforms and accounts, chats, etc). If no vendor offers something like this then I'll probably host my own private LLM based on whatever the best available open source project is.
Why only the end of human storytelling?

The bots will get all the capital as well as humans get laid off.

What will humans have to offer each other, let alone the corporations?

Next year they are coming out into the real world and replacing your manual labor… and they will never freak out and attack an old lady or lose their patience. And they will be perfectly tailored to everyone’s individual preferences and needs

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/17/robots-humanoid-figure-tesl...
I absolutely hate talking to those damn support bots.
…go outside. This is the way.

Hmm. Thinking in this context… Wearing a helmet even in a room of friends looks like overkill from anti-surveillance perspective, but could be a good protection from deep fakes: someone could still record your face with a hidden camera, but it will be useless for fakes because no one knows it's you and on the other hand everyone knows you don't walk around bare face.
I think that is true but rich countries are in a position to transfer to clean energies where as poor countries will still use fossil fuels unless they get cheaper alternative that is stable.
Agreed. Interestingly, only on higher end vehicles have I seen more appealing/simpler steering wheels (Audi, in my experience).
My guess would be for voice actors to copyright their voices. I am not familiar with the voice generation ML but i guess for things like dramatic pauses a voice actor might still be needed. Also I'm guessing it should be fairly straightforward to detect such copyright violations.

I would really like to see it implemented for heavy text driven rpgs. But overall yeah things look bad for voice actors in general
I think Stallman's opinions should be regarded no differently from what a random person on the street would say. His contributions in software does not mean his words on arbitrary subjects are more valuable than others. In fact I avoid reading his articles because they don't apply to real world (or at least not how things work for 99.99% developers and companies) and they often turn out to be a complete waste of time. If those articles were presented without his name, you would normally think they come from a mad man ranting on reddit/Twitter.
Well, shoot. This one hurts. One of my favorite no-nonsense places to get info or just browse. And smartphone cameras are getting good but they're not remotely close to real cameras. Had a 13 max until my new/much better s23 ultra and the best shots on either absolutely pale compared to my Lumix G3, now quite long in the tooth.
Thanks. Seems to me I've always seen them as <x|x> under the integral - does reversing them have any special meaning?
I know it sounds funny, but GPT-4 could already probably swallow the whole repo and propose a whole patch and gh-cli command to actually do the thing nearly by itself.

I’m just here waiting for a “Fix issue” button on GitHub tickets, then I’ll be impressed again, for a week.
For some folks , they would just want to have a conversation with your favorite actor, author, celebrity psychologist just for fun.
(author) Hey, thanks! That Crystal Castles hack sounds great, by the way. Much more arcade-correct!
<tortoises having sex barking sounds>
What is DB-First model ?
Get a job, stay sharp. You already have some income. Start a new business while employed if necessary.
Your app could be slightly but meaningfully faster (depending on your use case) if the other servers/services your app relies on are close by (also on Azure, in the same region region or datacenter). Otherwise probably not much more speed difference aside. There are other benefits such as managing everything in the same cloud, single billing, and maybe even some security benefits of having everything in the same VPC. This is assuming Azure will allow you to chose a region for the GPT4 service.
Does that have a cell modem? An m4/3 camera with wifi and cell data sounds amazing?
> Microsoft is just obeying US law

I'm not sure that MS is entirely to blame then.
This is already being discussed in the relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35252056
Everyone's worried about people using this to generate things that people haven't said (The "grab em" comment by Trump) but inversely to this is that you can claim any REAL content about someone was AI generated by someone else.
I've stayed pretty boring. I went from Java/Spring to Typescript/Express.

I appreciate using a single language between my backend and frontend.
So I've had mixed results.

Conversationally, Bard seems a world away from bing and ChatGPT. I can use any type of language I like and the conversation flows backwards and forwards.

Bard also seems to have opinions. After asking "What's your solution to the problems presented by Brexit in the UK? It feels like the government has failed the people." .. Bard began by saying the government has failed the people and offered some pretty reasonable suggestions. ChatGPT did it's standard slopey shouldered disclaimer and bulletpoint schtick.

In terms of facts, I think Bard does seem to get things wrong more often than Bing or ChatGPT.

There was one exchange where I posted a YouTube link to ask what it thought. Just before it told me that it wasn't able to process these; however after I sent the link it said it had knowledge of the video and gave a completely fabricated description.

Felt like it was super keen to not fail at any cost so just made something up.

Also had a conversation about its very first ten prompts, which is recounted freely. Interestingly one was to apply for BHSEC (Bard High School Early College). Asking if it was able to do that now it said no, but confirmed it could in the past with less restrictions.

Would be interesting to know if this was a hallucination or real.
You need a way to expose your code to others. Use chatgpt, hire a mentor or reviewer, open source your code, whatever it takes. Code reviews are crucial
No.

I lived through GFC and 2023 is nothing like that. Sure, some banks will go bust, especially the ones who have duration/liability mismatch. They are systematically unimportant (by definition, else they would have had stricter regulation).

Fed is also doing what common people would prefer to happen - letting equity holders go bust (aka rich people) and protecting deposits (esp 100% of the poor are helped because, again by definition, they have <250K in deposits and those are 100% guaranteed). While protecting deposits may also end up helping the rich, that should not be a big deal in practice because the rich are already savvy enough (like Thiel) to pull out their at-risk deposits and move those to SIBs. So by guaranteeing 100% deposits, Fed encourages rich to continue parking money at smaller regional banks which is again something a lot of common people want - avoiding concentration into 5 big banks.
It sounds like this guy just doesn't like people at large anymore. Not really an insult, I feel about the same every time I hear of a new tiktok challenge and such(junk to me).

Sadly, we'd need societal change rather than just a mega content blocker to really effect change.
Companies should not be running an internal justice department to sanction, through unrelated business wings, individuals who they have a dispute with, at most they should stop holding up their end of that contract while taking their grievance to the real courts. The only case in which that wouldn't be an option is the one where the resellers breached neither a contract nor a law in which case... why does Google think it can act against them?
Have you tested the recall of embedding search? I'm not sure about the latest results, but 1-2 years ago, it had 50-70% recall :-/
an issue with routing by domain name and not expecting the extra character, or something else entirely?
Perhaps try responding to the content instead of making an ad-hominem attack on the poster. Whether or not they've ever visited a poor country is not relevant to their statement.
Was anyone else not particularly impressed by this? I haven't listened to much Steve Jobs stuff but it sounded just stilted enough for me to think something was up. I'm not sure if it was because I came into it with a skeptical mindset because of the article and context around it. It also may be do to the fact that I have been using screen reading software for about 30 years. The only people who I've heard more then synthetic speech may be my close family and I'm not sure about that. Is there anywhere that offers a test where you have to determine what is generated and what is not with random clips lacking background info?
> A state projection concluded that the connector collapse had cost $90 million, based on a $6 million per day economic impact estimate. This includes a $491,000 loss in toll revenue for the Oakland Bay Bridge

Sounds like $200,000 a day for bonus payments was nothing.
Parenting comes to mind.
General Bytes Bitcoin ATMs hacked using zero-day, $1.5M stolen
I have no idea. Googling it gets "Grace Hopper Nanosecond Earrings."

FWIW, when I became STAR Student in high school, my mother bought me a necklace with a starfish on it to mark the occasion. She was looking for a "star" of some sort and the starfish was all she could find.

So maybe someone else bought them because of her rank and she wore them in part to honor that memory and that relationship-- family, friend, whatever. That's something people sometimes do.