skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a nitpick, but "source code" might imply that it was something secretive. The guy found SSNs of teachers in MO served up publicly on a state website within the page's HTML. The governor went on a crusade against this guy because he didn't understand it, and despite being told by numerous experts that there was no case, he kept it going.

The worst part was that this guy was beyond reproach - he went out of his way to notify people and said he wouldn't mention it to news outlets etc until the issue was resolved. It was a clear case of the governor misusing his power to prosecute a free press that he didn't like using a pretext he knew was incorrect. While it's funny to poke at the governor for this, I personally believe it should have caused his removal from office.

https://missouriindependent.com/2022/02/23/claim-that-report...

excerpt:

State education officials initially wanted to thank Renaud for discovering the problem that, as investigators would learn, has existed undetected since 2011. And an FBI agent who looked at the incident informed the state that it was “not an actual network intrusion,” noting that the website in question “allowed open source tools to be used to query data that should not be public.”

State officials made it clear the information was on a public site, it was not encrypted or password protected and the reporter was not anywhere he wasn’t allowed.

The governor decided to blame a government failing on the reporter who discovered it.

Despite all this, Parson convened a press conference to label the reporter a “hacker” and demand a highway patrol investigation. He accused the Post-Dispatch of trying to use the security flaw to embarrass him, and his political action committee launched ads to raise money off Parson’s attacks.
There is a very strong disconnect between the value created by the lower class though their labor and what they are paid in wages.

Companies don't use some formula where they give a percentage of what you create to you in return, they try to squeeze your wages down as low as possible. It doesn't matter if you produce 5000 bucks an hour or 100 bucks an hour in value for your company, they still want to pay you as little as possible.

Stuff like staff loyalty and retention has been to a large part abandoned in favor of simply keeping wages down.
> Meanwhile, people have been distributing roms for 25 years

Longer. I had a Chinese friend on vacation who had like 64 Gameboy games on one cardridge. Meanwhile, I had only one. His method was more convenient, legality be damned.
This is a very helpful analogy. Thanks.
This is hilarious. U-238 is not fissionable so ChatGPT just hallucinated that it is and then used Wolfram as a simple calculator.

Whoa man, it’s like, the future dude!
True but cycling fans would consider it unsportsmanlike for a rival to attack when the GC leader is taking a piss or has a mechanical breakdown, even though that's perfectly within the rules.
> … the direct cause of the mishap was a structural fatigue failure of the BE-3PM engine nozzle during powered flight.

Also known as “engine–rich exhaust”.
(Serious) Food inflation started within the last 2 years. Has there been increased regulation in that time?
I think you’re overreacting. What bothered me is that they didn’t link to the actual bug or provide a reference ID.
Why would that be? Images made using GIMP aren't automatically licensed under the GPL. So I don't see the argument for GPL licensed training code infecting the resulting model.
I am currently doing some difficult work that involves figuring out the right computational geometry algorithms to apply to my dataset in order to get the answers my users need in a reasonable time. ChatGPT is of no use to me there.

When I need to ask for boilerplate code for fetching a web resource or using a well-defined API, ChatGPT is great.

ChatGPT has made the mundane plumbing a lot easier. It is a threat to plumbers at this point. Many of those plumbers are now freed up to do more valuable work. I am happy to have it, so I can focus on higher value work.

If your only skill is at this kind of low level plumbing, you are in danger. But I doubt this is the case for most.
> python code that's almost deliberately atrocious

That code was so bad I felt I had to step in too, I used chatGPT to simplify it a bit but it also introduced some errors, so I found what appears to be an input file to test it on [1]. The only difference with the awk program is that it uses spaces while the original python program used tabs.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys

freq, fc, ir = [], [], []
with open(sys.argv[1]) as f:
for line in f.readlines():
words = line.split()
if "Frequencies" in line:
freq.extend(words[2:])
elif "Frc consts" in line:
fc.extend(words[3:])
elif "IR Inten" in line:
ir.extend(words[3:])

for i in range(len(freq)):
print(f"{freq[i]}\t{fc[i]}\t{ir[i]}")

[1] https://dornshuld.chemistry.msstate.edu/comp-chem/first-gaus...
What I have said applies to anything that puts "capital" first and foremost. From my perspective, you're trying to write off the critique via no-true-Scotsman.

I agree that people want to think of free markets and capitalism as being intertwined and inseparable, but I'm pointing out how they end up being in conflict. And as capitalism continues to evolve, this conflict continues to grow.

> Copyright was not created from regulatory capture, copyright was expanded and abused will beyond its original remit via regulatory capture

Sure. And every time it was expanded, the amount of capital increased while market freedom decreased! Capitalism and free markets are not one and the same, but rather two different qualities that can end up being in conflict.

Ultimately if one wants to advocate for freedom, one needs to focus on advocating for it directly, rather than for an economic system that is increasingly in conflict with it. You can still think of economics in terms of capital (and I think it makes sense to). But the desires of capital need to be made deliberately subservient to freedom rather than vice-versa.
Its trained on alpaca dataset which in turn was generated from open ai davinci, wondering if it is actually transferring the weights by generating content from the source model?
The Song of Solomon especially :)
Admittedly I could be missing something but isn't this pretty sensationalist? Seems like an expected result of a big new venture that doesn't have time to faff about with scaling up slowly and is dumping money into large up front costs that can't be recovered by sales just yet.

But it seems a bit dubious to say that Ford, the company that could fairly claim that it invented modern mass production, is going to have the trouble scaling anything up. Comparing this to Tesla in 2017, by all rights a young company at the time that for years that suffered basic quality control issues while trying to scale, seems disingenuous, right?
As a side remark, it is probable [0] that Brunelleschi built his understanding of perspective from the Books of optics [1], written by Ibn al-Haytham around 1020 AD.

[0]:https://doi.org/10.1017/S106279870800015X

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Optics
It’s possible that I’m a victim of propaganda and it’s possible you are. The way to determine who is more likely to have fallen for propaganda is to compare respective beliefs against known facts. It is indisputable that Chinese hackers have stolen U.S. technology secrets and that China prevents/restricts who can operate there much more so than the U.S. Given this and China’s overt human rights violations on a grand scale in the western part of the country it’s clear that a conflict exists as a clash of both culture and national security.
If it's running Windows then sometimes BIOS updates can be delivered through Windows update.

Yes it's just as bad an idea as it seems.

Source: Dealt with it occasionally at a computer repair shop I worked at.
Most of it is the R&D, but I’m sure tooling is in there, just likely a much smaller cost in comparison.
Ask HN: Does competitive programming make you a better programmer?
Critical BIOS updates for most Dells are now delivered over Windows Update as well as via offline methods.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000124211/dell-bios...
Sorry, I didn’t think of that aspect.

It would have been an interesting aside, but it wasn’t to be.
> Is there something called passion and do everyone have it?

Yes, there is. No, not everyone has it. I stopped looking for passion a long time ago. What drives me more is fear of failure/disappointment. :|
Ten years ago you could say to your iPhone, “Hey, Siri. What’s the ratio of the distance to the sun to the distance to the moon?” And it would tell you the answer and give a pop up with the parameters and calculations from Wolfram Alpha. Solidly reliable.

This was such a fun game in the car with little kids who didn’t know any better that (1) it’s magic I couldn’t have imagined ten years before and (2) it was nerdy as hell.

Today it will, at best, give you the “Here’s what I found on the web” uselessness. So frustrating.
The wealthy in the UK are largely landed gentry. They can't flee with their property and if they sell it off at firesale prices to ordinary folk to avoid being taxed that would largely solve the housing crisis.

The problem wouldn't be that they would leave. The problem would be that they would stay and become violent.
>where inequality is so high the majority of people have reverted to high-tech medieval peasants.

In what way does this NOT describe the situation in America?
Inflation is super high in California, but I track it mentally on a per product basis for things I buy regularly. Juice is up 33% - lots of things are 18%, 25%, etc.

I dont care what they state national inflation is - Its important by food category.
Error is acceptable in all things that don't need to be deterministic.
Which is most thing in life. How do I discover a good career path? Why do you structure a repository of a program into folders? What is the best place to vacation? What is the best way to learn math? What is a good way to articulate socialism? How do I increase my vocabulary? What is corporate strategy?

Ask 10 different people "smart" people (define smart however you want), you'll get 10 different answers to these questions. These are all questions an LLM could answer amazingly. Probably a lot better than most humans.

If you don't ask it what 2+2 is or who came to in America in 1875 then you get useful things.

Asking a LLM deterministic questions right now is like asking a calculator what the meaning of life is. If you use the tool for something it's not good at you get unusable answers.
I don't know how you'd better express 'port' than end-opening. After all it refers to the place where boats are loaded and unloaded. Honestly the semantic translation seems a far more apt term. I guess there's something like 港 but that's probably just more confusing.
boolean union?
Also, vetting a dependency != auditing and testing every line of code to find all possible bugs.

If this bug was an open issue in the project's repo, that might be concerning and indicate that proper vetting wasn't done. Ditto if the project is old and unmaintained, doesn't have tests, etc. But if they were the first to trigger the bug and it only occurs under heavy load in production conditions, well, running into some of those occasionally is inevitable. The alternative is not using any dependencies, in which case you'd just be introducing these bugs yourself instead. Even with very thorough testing and QA, you're never going to perfectly mimic high load production conditions.
I mean that the world isn't actually composed of a 3d space filled with 3d stuff. That 3d is just a way of thinking about it.
I agree, ChatGPT appears to be the ultimate UI and as a result great services are exposed. It’s very powerful UI because it solves the discoverability completely and replaces the original UI with uniform conversational UI.
Yeah nice try, buddy.

If I post the blowjob scene from Gender Queer here u/dang is going to ban my account, but you’re free to google it and say whether or not it’s more explicit than a woman baring her breast.

While we’re at it, how un-feminist and objectifying to imply that a woman’s body should be overly sexualized. Isn’t treating men’s and women’s nipples differently how we train kids to objectify women? If anything we need more Playboy in schools to destigmatize a women’s bare body. #FreeTheNipple
Because you get shortages.

See the Nixon era price controls and how they failed to get inflation under control.
I don't think that's strictly true though... if you bought a Beatles' LP in 1971 you can't do what you want with it. There are still rules about what you can and cannot do with the reproduction of it.
Show HN: Chatur is the ChatGPT for your Docs
Here's what we built that helps you read and ask questions from PDFs.
What's around ~10%? What does that mean?

All I know is that here in the Netherlands, the prices they're mentioning are normal.
Well, that fight is happening on the scale of entire nations, isn't it? States wouldn't logically have jurisdiction over it because it's interstate commerce, but at the federal and international level, it's definitely at issue.
Do you believe the same for the US involvment in the ukraine conflict? The wars in the middle east? Vietnam? Korea? and so on? If not, what differences made you arrive at a different conclusion?

To be clear I'm not implying you are wrong in terms of a conflict is being setup with China, just curious if your criticism is consistently applied. Many if not most news outlets are saying exactly what you are, but only make this distinction for China.
>If most cops are mostly good, why dont they stop the bad cops in cases such as this?

Because most cops are bad. Plenty of good people become cops every day. But good cops have a half life of just a few years. The moment a good cop thinks "well I'll just overlook this one thing so that the guys will still like me" he becomes a bad cop. Whereas good cops treat it as a moral line and become former cops.
Android has third party app stores and this doesn't happen for most apps (Fortnite is the big exception). If anything, app store competition will force Apple to reduce its ridiculous 30% fee on in-app purchases.
For reference

https://knock-la.com/lasd-gangs-little-devils-wayside-whitie...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs
Wolfram had ability to infer context for a while but never felt magical because you often hit limitations where it did not understand, unlike chatGPT
If the button can do, let's say, half or more of the work for you when you press it, you're lying to yourself if you think it won't change anything.
Perhaps the answer lies in teaching kids (young adults?) in an objective, strictly-educational manner as the time dawns for it to become relevant in their lives.

Of course that solution would be objected to by both sides. The social leftists think it's literally a death sentence to trans children to not teach 6-year-olds about anal sex, and populist conservatives think sex ed in any capacity is degenerate pedophilia.
A couple of the claims made by the parent don't seem to hold merit: genital mutilation and dildos. I doubt the Bible has an examples of those, but the other claims, yes it does contain that, always as a negative example of how wicked people act.

The negative example aspect is important, because it conveys the intent that such material is included (and mind that even Bibles that contain pictures in them, don't depict those scenes). Rather than something to "get off on", as pornographic material does, it is something to feel disgusted by and thus be dissuaded from engaging in such practice.
The parent was assuming full compromise.

The risk of disclosure is pretty obvious with GitHub, and I’d assume anyone with low risk tolerance here is using something else, including the on-prem GitHub. I can think of a dozen higher risks.
Fun fact: New York brownstones have raised levels because they were homes for the rich, who did not want to be at horse poop level.
Older titles do occasionally have issues. Fortune Summoners has weird input lag, and Split/Second is incredibly picky about gamepads, for example. Fortunately the community guides usually have workarounds or fan patches.
But they did get a bail out. And Greece was indeed on the verge of bankruptcy.
I'm utterly outraged at the state of our written literature, in this day and age we've fallen so far as to only partake in a single breast in the adult mags.
That is the advantage of modular devices. If you want something, you can literally make it yourself and slot it into the system. If you fall into the camp of just wanting to buy something that works perfectly out of the box, can you really claim you fall into the camp of the 'people who get excited at the phrase "modular laptop"'?
Explain Jira then.
It'll definitely help people learn faster - the "what to try next" problem is HUGE in programming discovery.

Modern languages (and tools like autocomplete) have already helped that a lot compared to assembly code or binary, this looks like the biggest jump in a long time. The path of programming so far has been moving from "describe how to do something" to "describe what to do" which this is certainly in line with.
> isn't server-side wasm basically solving the need for source translation

The hard part about bridging languages isn't solved by WASM, it's about working with complex types across the call boundary. If you want to pass a Python dict to a C++ function that accepts std::map then something will have to do that translation, handle GC concerns, etc. Likewise for function types, object instances, files, strings etc. And then that interop overhead will hurt performance so you may need to optimize that.

That's why if you look at Truffle, which is SOTA for this problem, it works in a very different way to WASM. There's no attempt to do a unified bytecode or a COM-like component system. It works with whatever the language's natural representation is and does interop by optimizing and JIT compiling merged partially evaluated ASTs or unrolled bytecode interpreters.
I think the number of games that include player punishment is astonishingly small. The more prescient threat is DRM and server only experiences.

So many games will never be experienced again after the servers are turned off. I think it’s the community’s job to lobby game publishers to release source code for games and severs if they are sunsetted forever. Convincing the corporate world to let go of IP before copyright expires will be tough, but we’re naïeve to believe that these companies will still have intact source code in 50 years. Hard drives fail, cloud buckets get abandoned and then the bill doesn’t get paid, etc etc.

It’s not looking super optimistic for game archival, but there is _a path_ forward to improve the situation.
You'd think browsers would come up with a way to invalidate cookies and the like when data doesn't match the system.
Libraries are a lot more than just places to check out books. Most libraries provide Internet access and other information services, such as classes and workshops. So by cutting this funding they may well be depriving people of Internet access.

> but I never hear about lawmakers attempting to shut down the internet or part of the internet

They definitely like to meddle there too.
Laws don't magically make things happeb, they punish them not happening, which, ideally, over time, encourages compliance.

This, especially with things like consumer protection law, relies on people seeking enforcement when they are violated.
I’ve heard this stated as “jobs that don’t exist for economic reasons aren’t going to get automated for economic reasons”.
There are basic, fundamental things you can do with a physical LP that you can’t with “licensed” bits.

For starters, you can resell an LP. Can you resell a music file?
Most firmware updates on motherboards today happen via A/B partitions, so a power failure during update is automatically recoverable on the next boot. This has been done specifically to enable automatic updates triggered from the OS, as e.g. MacOS has done for some time. The difficulty of firmware updates has become a real practical problem since the more complex firmware used today is more likely to need fixes for system stability, and support gets tired of handling a dozen cases a day that are problems already fixed in newer firmware.

Automatic firmware updates have become pretty common on hardware from big OEMs for several years now.
> interfacing external systems to an LLM isn’t particularly challenging

Based on what do you say that?
Mostly because they were exaggerated claims from Cambridge Analytica's own marketing material.
It's not censoring books; rather a state choosing which books to publicly fund in school libraries. No one is banning parents from buying those books on their own dime.

Schools are publicly funded by taxes; those taxes are apportioned by elected representatives. The legislature has the right to dictate what the money can and can't be used for. That's not censorship.
> Well, yeah, but how is it not the device itself that causes it? I'm addicted to the dopamine rush from interacting with the device.

You wouldn't blame trees or paper if you were addicted to some books. And I bet there would also be a set of books that you just couldn't stomach reading, due to how uninteresting to you they were (but were liked by others).

Are the trees and paper the problem? Is it the shape/format of a typical book? Or is it just certain kinds of books that you get addicted too? What about people who also like the type of books that you are addicted to, but they aren't addicted to them like you are? That sounds like a book type+personal problem to me, not a trees and paper problem.
It's a reference implementation, other people are supposed to pick it up and apply the techniques to their own work

I would love to see some links to any where it has been used?

So far the most promising codebases for running LLMs on Mac have been the 'cpp' reimplementations, which ditch Pytorch and run on the CPU, using other tricks to fit the model into available RAM.
Correct, however parent comment wasn’t referring solely to 2020, they explicitly went back to 2000. Hence why I spoke to the whole period in my comment.
Yes it's nuanced, but will be simplified going forward.

This uses a fully open source (liberally licensed) model and we also open sourced (liberally licensed) our own training code. However, the uptraining dataset of ~50,000 samples was generated with OpenAI's text-davinci-003 model, and depending on how one interprets their terms, commercial use of the resulting model may violate the OpenAI terms of use. For that reason we are advising only noncommercial use of this model for now.

The next step here is to create a set of uptraining samples that is 100% open. Stay tuned.
Happy accidents.
What do you mean by "stop accepting it?"

All of us rely on millions of lines of code that we have not personally audited every single day. Have you audited every framework you use? Your kernel? Drivers? Your compiler? Your CPU microcode? Your bootrom? The firmware in every gizmo you own?

If "Reflections on Trusting Trust" has taught us anything, it's turtles all the way down. At some point, you have to either trust something, or abandon all hope and trust nothing.
Okay, what task do you think cannot be phrased as a text completion task?
> Tax the rich and they go somewhere else (see recent discussions about the wealth tax in France)

Let them go, then, the earlier the better and threat them as pariah. What good do you expect to gain from them at that rate?
Send email plugin. I mean - 12 months from now the world is gonna be a different place. I predict that the web and Google Search are gonna be things of the past and that chatgpt will be the new App Store.

Imagine the wonders a plugin from your health insurance can do.