skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great comment. Don't wish to agree with the final conclusion on mostly sentimental reasons.

Parental 'prompting' may be effective. Possibly, whoever gets to first frame a given dynamic will establish a lasting bias. "Songs can be pleasing but take care to filter out the lyrics. It is much easier to write mushy sentimental nonesense. Keep that in the back of your mind as you listen." That, imo, should certainly be a part of responsible parenting and innoculating against ideational viruses.
The noise is very hard to avoid, though. The extreme hype levels legitimately gets in the way of understanding. I'm sure I'll dig deeper into the topic eventually, but after the hype dies down to at least a dull roar so I can hear over it.
> the taxi business is cut throat and always has been

For drivers, yes. But in many cities the taxi system was engineered so that the owners of "positions" got lavish profit.
>Is JS really that bad?

No, but npm is. If you shelve your vue/react/etc project for six months, then go to build it on a new machine, you'll find all kinds of things are broken. Contrast with python and one or two smaller js libraries, which will not require any updates or fixes for much longer.
I would also highly recommend FX's The Americans.
> The traditional function of librarians and libraries

The traditional function of librarians and libraries remains to collect and disseminate knowledge.

The amount of critical knowledge disseminated in a society is critical to determine its quality, so there are the fullest grounds to propose the strict opposite of a «Who cares».

An assessment for reform can be proposed, but the problem is not solved with the current snapshot of technology use.
I personally expect that regulation or collusion among big tech players (e.g. the suppression of parlor) will prevent the average person or company from having the legal or practical ability to amass the compute power and dataset necessary to train a competing LLM (or future arch).

No one really seems to know if OpenAI’s use of copyrighted materials like published works and open source code for training its LLM is legal. I can easily see a future where use of copyrighted works like this simply can’t be repeated legally, and the compute power necessary to do it as an individual is made inaccessible. This especially if the resulting model is made open to everyone, it’s such a wild cultural shift to me seeing tech nerds advocating against democratization of this tech due to personal doomsday fantasies. The sheer number of people who exist in the community and are obsessed with alignment and ethics will provide plenty of ideas on practical constraints the non-technical powerful could impose to make this real.
When a software system says "this person must have their property foreclosed", it is following rules at several levels - electronics, code, business, legal. But ultimately, it is a human being that makes the choice to "apply" this "rule" i.e. to have consequences in the real world. The software itself cannot do that.
If China doesn't allow US social media companies to operate in their country, I see no reason to allow TikTok to do so.
I subscribe to the economist, and they automatically renew at a rate of $199 per year, I called to cancel and they drop it to $80 per year. Would save everyone the time if they started with $80
This should absolutely be a thing for vertical integration developers. If you're developing cashier software for Target, you should have to use it under realistic circumstances sometimes. Same for Amazon driving software, helpdesk software, sales, etc.
My experience with leetcode at least is, you can just access the forum of the given task to look at solutions (and explanations) by other people. So for anything other than challenging yourself, it is already obsolete without additional tools.

I see how ChatGPT might be a more flexible search engine, I just don't think it is a fundamentally new mode of cheating that hasn't been possible before.

The 'real challenge' with the two computer setup is having to retype the whole task anyways ;)
People volunteer for a ponzi scheme too, that doesn’t mean it’s allowed
Charge is not arrest
Kung Flu was an internal threat since it was created by the chinese with american money.
Thanks for the Internet, but could I have another one?
The trend continues that nothing works on the Internet anymore.

All accounts are constantly getting hacked and data leaked, yet every organization requires sensitive data to sign up (more and more).

Today I tried to upload a video I made explaining how to do something to YouTube, but it required ID verification just to upload an unimportant video, which I tried to do but it flashed an error that 'because the action [uploading a random video] was sensitive, I have to log in from a different machine, a machine I regularly use to log in' (I only use one machine to log in to YouTube, which is this one). I saw a similar message a week ago. Tried on a new account and got the same error. So YouTube is basically broken for me. I tried Dtube as 'the alternative to YouTube' and received an error trying to create an account.

At this point, I'd just like a new internet. Nothing from the old internet could be transferred over. Just everything new on it.
See my previous answer:

>>If the views people espouse are illegal, then punish them via the law.

This also goes for their activities.

There is a clear difference between someone saying "I think Terrorist Group X is great" on twitter and someone using their bank account so that Terrorist Group X can buy stuff to make bombs. And even in that latter case, once the person concerned has finished their prison sentence they should still get a bank account so they can live.
They may be harsher with VFX people, but speakers are routinely “played off” the stage with music before cutting mics.
And me
The article compares to Stack Overflow, but this comment makes it look more like a comparison to compilers which is a much bigger deal than some website, and actually worth paying attention to.

Anyway, people still write assembly kernels, so it is just that they only do it for cases that really matter. And there are a lot more coders than there were back when every program was assembly. So, it seems like great news.
I feel like there's a difference between the two.
Yes, but that's a huge hint. GPT4 naively doesn't understand this.

Question:

> I have a chair in front of the TV and one in front of the computer. I put a watch under the chair in front of the TV. I swap the chairs. Where is the watch?

> Work out step by step. Is this question ambiguous?

Answer:

This question is not ambiguous, but let's break it down step by step to understand the situation and find the location of the watch.

You have a chair in front of the TV (Chair A) and one in front of the computer (Chair B).
You put a watch under Chair A (the one in front of the TV).
You swap the chairs, meaning Chair A is now in front of the computer and Chair B is in front of the TV.
After swapping the chairs, the watch remains under Chair A. Since Chair A is now in front of the computer, the watch is under the chair in front of the computer.
tl;dr they arrested Ignatova's head of compliance for OneCoin

I hope this woman has knowledge of the whereabouts of Ignatova. Disgusting that you can get away with running a billion dollar ponzi, and get away with the loot too.
Societies should not gain leverage over lower classes and then buy their morally broken bodies when they have little else.

Of course society should indeed profess the meagerest moral rights and humanity for all and protect that.
The only reason I have to think it's impossible for current AI to pay someone to help it bootstrap itself into other hardware is because OpenAI researchers tried to get it to do exactly that and reported that it failed.

The only reason I'm confident other AI public models won't determine highly potent novel neurotoxins is that the company who made the AI model which did exactly that thing when they flipped a bit from "least dangerous" to "most dangerous" were absolutely terrified and presumably kept enough away from the public domain.

The only reason I'm even hopeful that DNA-on-demand companies keep a watch out for known pathogens is the SciFi about such things going wrong might make them at least try to not do that.

Unthinkable man made horrors have been with us for an extremely long time; AI isn't new in this regard, but as intelligence is the human superpower, even in the context of AI that have no agency of their own, it can elevate stupid arseholes to the level of dangerous arseholes.
I scanned through for the punch line where he explains how much he relied on LLM help while writing this article. Did I miss it?

> I don’t really know how to finish this post. Are we there yet? I’ve tried to write this thing 3 times now, and it looks like I may have finally made it. I aimed for 5 pages, deliberately under-explained everything, and it’s… fifteen. Sigh.

He did it all by hand. Of course. Because he has just as hard a time facing this as anyone else.

There is going to be a race to come to terms with this. If something we're all currently using for free is capable of this much, then most of us aren't going to be employed as software developers in ten years. We won't be able to scale up the demand for code as fast as the supply.

It's terrifying. There's no post-scarcity utopia in capitalism. Scarcity is a given, and if you aren't wealthy and aren't employed, you will feel it.
Carl Sagan did a great job describing the witch trial phenomenon in "The Demon Haunted World". It discusses how unchecked beliefs without any evidence can wreak havoc on society. If you were accused of witchcraft your only choices were:

1. to deny it and be burned at the stake

2. admit it, implicate others and be put to death in a gentler way

I admire the ones who stood for reason and were brave enough to endure the consequences.
The US and Europe are not adversaries but partners.
I’m curious if LTT had Advanced Protection turned on, which would have required hardware 2fa.

It seems like this is either likely a phish or an insider threat. I’m looking forward to the post-mortem.
These are very minor points. The main one is the same across platforms : bad defaults are common
While playing with it for a short this morning, TikTok threw the CEO speaking at the hearing into my "For You" 3 times. Nothing else in my "For You" was tech related, and I didn't linger on them or provide other signals demonstrating interest.

Maybe it was complete chance, or maybe it wasn't. It made me consider the potential danger of a direct propaganda spigot from the Chinese government to today's youth.
Part of the reason to do this is for employees to know that the CEO understands their job and their concerns. The vast majority of employees will not be working at a store the CEO visits, so it makes sense to announce it internally. It sounds like that's what they did, and CNBC got a hold of that email.
> is just too old to run a democracy this size

Ahem, somebody tell the U.S. that
Revenue yes, profit no (though profitability is very close to evenly split).
Hugging Face is kind of the github of AI/ML: https://huggingface.co/
The bit where they bring in a pro CEO in Silicon Valley who spends most of his time messing around with his horse-breeding hobby instead of running the business is basically just a documentary. Like most of the rest of the show.

This is how CEOs often manage to "do so much". All kinds of charity involvement, "advisor" work on other businesses, sit on boards, et c, then blog about how they still find time for their family and/or staying fit despite being so "busy". It's not because they're super-humans working 100 hours a week with perfect time-management discipline, but because a lot of them don't really do jack-shit for any of their "jobs".
Foot Locker to close more than 400 stores
For revenues, Square is $7B vs Cash App is $10B. However, the gross profit is both Square and Cash App are $3B.
Joel on Software - The Pit of Success applies here, yet again
I would say they are orthogonal, not in opposite directions.
I remember when visa rejected my attempt to give money to wikileak, which is legal in my country.

So I donated BTC, and this is when I realized why we need crypto despite all the scams.
Andrew Tate was arrested by Romanian police. What’s your point?
How is "don't censor books" in any way not freedom of information?
Fantastic. Now stop sourcing 1% of your coffee unethically (as per your statement that 99% of your coffee is ethically sourced)
“Treasure map” guides scientists to meteorite
Column-Level Lineage: An Adventure in SQL Parsing
That's hilarious, I miss this kind of Japanese "Erotic Visual Novel" Dating Sim, they're pretty hilarious. Not like something to get attached to or really even find sexually gratifying. Its fun to compare to the purpose of the "stat building" to how my own dating experience has panned out.

I recently looked into it and most of the studios in Japan collapsed, so its kind of a lost art. But they're being resurrected by Jast, need more creators though.
The question is why he wouldn't cross the land border and then fly from there. Customs is rarely checking passports as thoroughly on the way out as on the way in. The thinking was probably the risk was the same since he was entering the airport anyway, but failed to account for risk of having passport checked in then out instead of just out.
I'm not surprised at all. ChatGPT is a great empathy prosthesis.
easier to imagine the end of world than the end of capitalism...
This sounds like Hollywood reality for white collar.

Here is actual reality:

> "Hey Do, I just want to let you know, jail is not that bad," Shkreli said. "So don't fret – I hope it doesn't happen. If it does happen ... it's not that bad."

- Martin Shkreli

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/08/pharma-bro-mart...
Not to mention keeping spare parts around for when something breaks, or having to drive out to the DC to fix/replace the thing that broke or won't restart. Hell, even something "simple" like managing the warranties for the gear you have is no fun at all. People tend to forget all those little things when espousing the evils of the cloud, but I'm here to tell you that they all add up and they are all a major pain in the butt. Cloud gets rid of all that.
That is the point I'm making. Voters could pass a ballot initiative that prohibits a bailout, but a court could find that the corporation has a right to a bailout or that the government can't be overruled on matters of national security by a popular vote.

I don't know enough about how Switzerland is established as a country to talk specifics. I only know that it isn't technically an EU member, but is part of the Schengen zone.
Just a few unwanted pregnancies prevented would easily cover the cost of the program (not to mention the emotional suffering)
> I there a law preventing me from canceling recurring subscriptions on my credit card?

No, but there may be a contractual agreement between you and a provider where you have promised to pay for a service, and merely 'not paying' is not sufficient to cancel that. This makes far more sense in a non-digital world though, where you might pay for expensive services after the fact, rather than in advance.

In practice, most digital services will happily cancel themselves if you do just block upfront transactions. Many modern financial services/neobanks I've used have some kind of built-in functionality for this, even paypal has a page where you can manage & cancel all current subscriptions directly, blocking all future payments: https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/autopay/.

> Merely changing the card number wont work because bank updates vendors with the new card. I've asked but they they have to update vendors, i don't understand why though.

I believe it's because the 'card details' part is effectively a fiction for e-commerce. When you subscribe, the payment provider uses your card details to get a persistent token, which they can use to authorize future payments, and then they throw away the card details entirely. They just use the token alone to authorize future charges.

That token is somewhat independent of the specific card, by design, as unlike card details this means it can't really be stolen or leaked (it's only authorized for certain purchases from that one vendor) and it means all your normal ongoing payments don't break in the common case where you _do_ want payments to continue when your card is replaced. Bits About Money has some more background on this here: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/improving-cards-under...
Someone please think of the tycoons' kids
You don't need an "AI expert" to learn to code with an AI assistant.
Copilot and GPT are pretty straightforward, the next version of Copilot seems even better
People still choose to be Uber drivers, despite jobs that pay minimum wage existing. So, I'd bet the story would be way more complicated than your picture.

The main thing they get from offshoring the driving is scalable renting of capital. But well, I have no idea if one could not just rent it without the labor.
> Until now, it wasn’t even clear whether such a single shape, known as an einstein (from the German “ein stein” or “one stone”), could even exist.

The actual topic of the article was impressive, but this little fact about the meaning of "ein stein" was pretty interesting as well. TIL.
That's a stretch. They'll be able to remedy. Maybe they'll get fined. I'm sure they're a lot more steps in between before getting shut down.
Price Transparency Is Broken
A. A lot more work than wikipedia edits? Maybe. Now, how about "accuracy?"

B. I'll see your "books" and raise you "virtually all academic writing"

How much of that is typically directly compensated?

Virtually none.

Again, I'm not saying "no one should get paid." I am saying that there is nothing to suggest that spreading knowledge requires paying individuals via a system that relies heavily on intellectual property and/or classic "capitalist" ideas to do so.

Universities and libraries are a thing, and have been for some time.
Can we delay death with tech? These advances hold promise
Business owners struggle to deal with homeless encampments they say bring crime
n today’s world, we are more reliant than ever on technology to manage our daily lives. From emails to social media, online shopping to banking, our digital footprint continues to grow. With this in mind, it’s crucial to have a plan in place for organizing our digital clutter.
Was parent comment really suggesting that this incident (Do Kwon’s arrest) contributes to the corruption theory?

I read it as suggesting that Do Kwon’s decision to take up residence there contributed to the corruption theory
Right now, these models were trained almost entirely on content created by humans, since that's what was available. Now that it's so relatively cheap to create generated content, it seems likely that in the future much if not most of the material used for training will have come from other models, not from humans. I have no idea what the implications of that will be but it seems very likely and does concern me.
>If visiting San Francisco was like going to Tokyo or Copenhagen—clean, efficient, convenient

A lot of the positive traits of these cities come from the citizens themselves. It's them as much as the government of these places that want that - therefore they create a system that achieves what they want - 'the government', and are willing to cooperate with it to get what they want.

If all San Franciscans wanted a clean, efficient and convenient city, I'm more than convinced that all citizens working towards that goal could readily achieve it, and would make a government tasked with those goals.

Governments I would argue, since they're usually made up of the local people, reflect the goals of these people. And if 'good enough' is OK for them, then that's what they get.
Hey wjnc, You can think of it how you can use GitLab on gitlab.com or deploy it yourself on-prem. The only difference being instead of per user we would charge per deployment. As in case of GitLab you can decide to host it yourself.
Great set of data points and anecdotes, your dad sounds like a great dude.
Excellent plan; if availability is universal it removes the perceived meaning from 'owning a condom' because if you have one it no longer has to be 'because you had some plans', it can purely be 'because everyone is prepared' (on top of the: simple health benefits due to removing barriers to availability is pretty significant).
Justin Sun and Do Kwon are [edit for clarity: among] the worst of the space, so IMO, this represents a crackdown on scammers not on the ecosystem.

Everyone should like this, even me :)
Regulation of social media is still woefully behind even in cases where we do know there has been a hugely negative impact (Myanmar & Facebook, for example). And there are approximately 5 people who exert massive, unregulated power over the shaping of planetary discourse (social media CEOs). If social media is too big to regulate, AI regulation doesn't have a chance in hell.
Slot machines are typically heavily regulated.

Saying "this is not a security" in a disclaimer does not stop your ICO/token/shitcoin from being a security.
>... I think it would be tremendously helpful to normalize this idea everywhere, even if it may not always work out perfectly.

It's all dependent upon the intent of the CEO or person coming in and doing the work. Just as an anecdote, I have seen too many times where a superior comes in with the intent of doing the work to prove it can be done better, rather than to understand the realities of what employees are dealing with, and the results are negative. I frequently had a COO who would come to my warehouse, get on the front line with processing equipment (just as an aside, this was an ITAD company processing end-of-life IT equipment for data sanitization and remarketing, so it's tech-related), and take a cavalier, "SEE! I could go through ALL of that in X amount of minutes! I don't understand why people can't move fast enough blah, blah, blah."

What he never realized is that he didn't do all the work. He'd capture only what he looked at in the system, never put anything away, and left a massive pile of work, and garbage, behind him that my team always had to clean up. He wouldn't take the time to do the rest of the work that the team has to do themselves day in and day out. He half-assed it and berated us at the end, and I could never get him to understand this. It's not that it "didn't always work out perfectly", it's that it made morale plummet every single time it happened.

So yeah, I share your sentiment, but to a point - it's reliant upon the person diving in to keep an open mind and actually give a shit about it instead of just using it as a, "Look at me, I'm a man of the people!" opportunity.
It is amazing how many people still have not realized what is going on.

The AI is going to be vastly superior to humans in MANY ways very soon. And here we are arguing if it is "actually" smart, or "actually" conscious.

Do Ants think that humans form "real" colonies or "real" organizations?
Trolling... I mean, throttling video cards ) Making untiling textures.

Also, this probably could have uses in watermarking and encryption (if you want to do so, I'm not patenting this, just give credits :D )
These report put together all possible allegations and the kitchen sink. It was same for Adani reports. Hindenburg isn't a legal authority which is seeking to prosecute companies. They are activist investors. So for them it make sense to add emotional arguments, aggregate already public information and present all data/scenarios that will cause the stock to fall.
Well, it says it wants access to your slack and the root password to the server...oh and it said send any error messages you have first.
I think it can. More scary though, when you die unless they take active action to refuse it, your kids or whoever your inheritance goes to gets it by default. With all the financial obligations.