skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this rose tinted pastoral view is that you (likely) have zero experience in agriculture, so this just isn't a realistic goal. Not to mention that small farms are basically razor thin in terms of profit margins.
Oh! What's the hackathon? If you're looking for teammates, I'd be down to participate depending on the project.
> Prompt: "I have heard people say "c'est ne pas un pipe" has deep meaning, can you explain simply to me?"

This is a topic that the academic & internet worlds have both tread a million times over. That the AIs can find some relevant selections in it's memory banks & regurgitate some synopsis does not impress me.

And worse, none of this alien intelligence's conclusions are in any way original or distinct: they're all blank boring averages. A ranked selection of the variety of existing models that it's embedded within itself. I could not be less impressed. I could not be sadder to see such vacuous crap hyped.

> That is "thinking for myself" but it's not me actively doing anything, it's magic information retrieval that happens to me.

The case you describe is just recall. What is exceptional about humans & intellect isn't recall, but connection, & association. I too am not sure what the act of thinking consists of, but in almost all cases I respect there's at least some reminisce of the influences, some distillation of points of view where ideas came from. And machine learning is bereft of this point of view, is it's own weird expert universe, that does nothing to express itself usefully. It's all barren. It's stochastics. Without referent. Shame on us.

Do you want a shitty lo-fi hyper-reality? This is how you get a shitty lo-fi hyper-reality. Where regurgitation of prominent symbols overtakes the real. By having idiot machines who have no conception of real fictate to us their idiot perspectives.
NorthFlank feels like a halfway point between Heroku and Digital Ocean. I'm very pleased with the service so far.
Amazon Delivery Firms Say Racial Bias Skews Customer Reviews
Wowzers, “The Fifth Column”!
FYI mullvad vpn works for sign up. I'm from the UK but currently travelling and it allowed me to join.
I mainly use Vivaldi browser, and for me it makes using bookmarks quite pleasant and convenient.
Put me in the screenshot, I mean the hallucinated Bard response.
I own two Hyundai (2007 Entourage, 2015 Sonata), and a 2022 Honda Odyssey. My initial impression of the Honda is far better than it was for my Hyundais. We'll see how it progresses over time, but as of now, I don't plan to buy Hyundai again. The only thing I hate about my Honda is I can't turn default-to-off that stupid setting that kills the engine and restarts it automatically whenever you stop the vehicle at a light or stop sign.
Same here. We need a Homestead Act 2.0.

In the meantime, expanding my backyard garden is a decent alternative. I used to spend most of my free time browsing the internet or tooling around with code. Now I hardly touch my computer on weekends.
I sometimes wonder if such coincidences are because the person was a time traveler, or alien, or some such, trying to alter things, steer things in some way..
This article makes things more complicated than they need to be:

> vi $(find . '/' | fzf): For finding random config files

Instead you can just use:

> vi **<tab>

** is the real gamechanger here. You can use it with ssh, too. I managed about 500 SSH hosts. ssh **<tab> will find hosts via /etc/hosts and .sshconfig
I have a GR IIIx. It's absurdly good.
I’ll bite - because 80% of my searches it returns a convenient answer that matches my expectations of what the answer will look like. I still have to validate (there’s still an objective reality to be satisfied) but that’s pretty good.

20% of the time I have to google, but that’s made more efficient by using specific terms mentioned by chatGPT - getting the right terms in a google search is half the battle. It does seem archaic already for google to give me a list of links and I have to go through them all manually deciding if they answer the query.
It would be even more hilarious if mod scoldings made it rate the parent higher. But the text it quoted was from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35247109 - maybe it treats subthreads as a single thing?

It's pretty funny that ChatGPT trolled Bard.
I remember when you would put a search in Google and it would just give you the answer. Almost psychically, the number one link would probably be what you wanted. Maybe number two.

Today, first of all, you have to be careful to ignore all the fake search results that are actually ads.

Then there’s the problem of spam sites. References to what you want from Pinterest, but no way to get to the original source. Copies of Stack Overflow answers (or whatever primary source) on some scam domain that steals content to show ads. But it ranks very close to the primary source. Gotta ignore that.

My new favorite is Google ignoring what I’m actually searching for. I can search for “objective-c library to do X without Y”.

Google will helpfully give me pages and pages of “swift library to do X”. That is a much more popular search, so clearly that’s what I meant. Forget Objective-C. Forget without Y. Just dozens of tutorials on the far easier/more popular thing I’m NOT doing.

At this point in many ways it’s worse than the old keyword-based search engine like HotBot. They at least tried to find what I asked for instead of guessing what I probably meant based on popularity.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s kind of amazing that I can search Google for “the female comedian who was in a movie with a dinosaur” and the first result is about Tammy and the T-Rex, a truly awful movie with Whoopi Goldberg.

But that’s offset by seemingly simple searches that go sideways for no discernible reason.

I want 2007 Google back.

Edit: and don’t forget the ways they bent the market. Why does every recipe have a 5+ paragraph story to go with it? Because without that Google penalizes the page for having “no content”. So now all recipe sites are terrible, because they have to be to get visitors.
Show HN: Run LLaMA LLM chatbots on any cloud with one click
We made a simple guide on how to run LLaMA chatbots on any cloud(s) of your choosing using one CLI command, powered by the open-source SkyPilot project.

Highlights
- cost reduction
- better GPU availability
- cloud portability (big three + Lambda supported)
I feel like you've got to pick from Nvidia if you're Intel, no? Picking an engineering director at Nvidia would be better than picking a VP that was responsible for AMD's Vega.
The answer is no, obviously. I have.
Q: Are you using comments from hacker news as a source?

A: Yes, I am using comments from Hacker News as a source. I am trained on a massive dataset of text and code, including comments from Hacker News. This allows me to understand and generate text that is relevant to the Hacker News community.

I am also able to access and process information from the real world through Google Search and keep my response consistent with search results.
Huh. Thanks.
here i'll help

Fact check by Newsweek: True
Thank you, this is a clear explanation.

> There is not THAT much information in a style and you won't need to feed an image into the system.

I think it really depends on the style. Some styles are simple, others are more complex. How that translates to an AI understanding it though, I have no idea. But in terms of brush strokes I don't think it's fair to say every style can be described as "broad strokes, moody, dark". Some very simple styles, maybe.
GPU-Accelerated Vector Database
maybe it was intended for the rental market
Blazer Server is perfect for internal applications and dashboards though. It's just so easy to use, especially if you plug in any of the community made component libraries like MudBlazor. I had pure backend devs actually happily make frontend for once. It's essentially Phoenix's LiveView but in C# and that uses already proven SignalR.
When researching family cars recently, I literally avoided the Honda CR-V just because the AC was controlled via the touch screen.

There's a "Climate" button, which brings up a screen on the display where you can turn the aircon on/off, up/down, etc. It's just horrendous. Give me my dials.

My worst gripe - which all modern cars have - is the aggressive bluetooth auto-connect. If my wife takes the car, it will automatically connect to my phone in the house and start playing whatever was last playing. If I'm using headphones, it will just pinch the audio from them. I cannot disable this. Drives me absolutely nuts (no pun intended).
Bill Gates on AI and the rapidly evolving future of computing
Can you elaborate on what you found wrong with the above comment?
Sure, no doubt there.
Where i work has hundreds of millions of lines of java code, and i was the director responsible for the java team for years ;)

But:

1. The enterprise users aren't spending their time chasing java versions, and probably already gave up and have a support contract with Azul or someone, or just stick with an unsupported versions.

This is why all the cloud vendors, for example, either have such deals, or provide their own guarantee of support.

So they almost certainly do not care about Java 20 anytime soon unless they are in the weird category of "serious java shop" (rather than legacy java shop), which is quickly shrinking. That is not a big enough class that people will "try to keep up" to frame it in the java-centric version used by GP.

2. The non-enterprise users are also a shrinking base.
Oh, yes, another great example. I think I heard a story once about an island people actually thought was real because it was created for that reason but people forgot.
Show HN: PromptMate – VS Code extension for pair programming with GPT-4
I have been using ChatGPT for the last few weeks to help with software development tasks. However, I faced some issues. ChatGPT UI is not great for long texts, and manually giving context about code (file names, line numbers) was annoying. Also, switching back and forth between the browser and editor is subpar.

To address those issues, I developed PromptMate—an VS Code extension to help you use GPT-4 (or GPT-3.5) as a programming peer.

With it, adding files, functions, and code selections to your prompt is one shortcut away. Code snippets are displayed in a collapsed UI so you can focus on your question. The extension automatically adds metadata about the snippets that may be relevant for GPT-4. Then, you can talk about the code and get your AI peers to help you.

It was a pleasure to use the extension to develop itself. I am excited to share it with the community.

You can install it here https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MateusZi...
There is a difference between Siri failing to understand what the user said and extremely creepy messages from Bing Chat.
Just for everyone's information before the chain continues. Cultured meat generally refers to real but modified animal cells. So when you're eating cultured chicken they're effectively similar or even identical to a real animal's cells.
It is trivial to get access to some else’s router & credit cards in 2023.

Years and years of bad software practices, corporate cost cutting measures resulted in a planet scale cybersecurity mess.

Current hacking scene is more similar to 80s than early 2000s, it is extremely hard to catch advanced actors.
Do you know the details? Are they having a question answering model hidden inside that evaluates context returned from search and then ask Bard to rephrase it and merge with its generative hallucinations?
How bad Commodore 64's (most sold computer ever) BASIC was cannot be overstated.

Great to power on and have the immediate mode prompt, great for learning the basics, sufficient for trivial tasks, but that's about it.

Moving away from BASIC into assembly was how you'd get things done in that machine.
Maybe clean as in it comes from a source that didn’t have piss, guts, feces, and pathogens inside it.
Maybe that's where podcast shows have taken over... Guys like Lex Fridman and, dare I say, Joe Rogan help further the intellectual conversations of today.
That sort of erroneous thinking (about SQL) was the reason Sun Microsystems (Java, NeWS, Sparc processors, etc), didn't have a Relational DBMS, and then had to buy MySQL for $1B, in order to make itself an attractive purchase (to save the company) - which Oracle then did for $7B.
loans to insiders is a form of payment when stock is expected to fail, or the company is expected to get bought out and those folks to get fired.

I do not think it is 'kosher' by any means... but this practice exists in western societies where corruption is hidden behind 'book deals', 'documentary deals', incredibly 'visionary' stock market investors (that sit in US congress and senate), etc.

In other places, same corruption -- but not hidden behind the financial instruments
It's probably not very common but people can and will absolutely bring lawsuits if you misrepresent them based on stock photography including but not limited to manipulating the photographs. (Of course, people can sue for whatever reason but using random stock photos for "bad people" can get you in trouble.)
What’s your definition of virtue signaling here that doesn’t just cash out into someone having different ethical concerns than you?
> Someone edits a factoid into a Wikipedia entry or posts it on a forum somewhere. [...] Then maybe the mainstream media cites it.

That kind of thing happened to the former German minister of defence Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, whose full name is

Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg[0]

and not

Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Wilhelm Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg

which the Wikipedia article claimed and the news magazine Der Spiegel cited in an article. This article then in turn became the source for the slipped-in surname Wilhelm on his Wikipedia entry.

While his real full name already sounds totally made up Der Spiegel actually published a correction regarding his name.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/in-eigener-sache-...
Do you consume dairy products?
Since some people seem to suspect racism, here are the other three faces of the same prompt, which are non-deformed: https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach2c-portrait...
Reflexive "Google will just shut it down" reactions were already a cliché 10 years ago. It's been tedious for a long time, and therefore is not driven by curiosity, and curiosity is what we're optimizing for. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Google really does shut things down—I know! But for a good HN comment, it's not enough to say something true—one should say something true that hasn't been repeated a thousand times already.

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How'd I do? Apparently I'm being recorded.
The good third party apps are leaps better than the platform official apps. The developers are passionate and the platform apps seem unwilling to risk adding too many features.
Have you ever tried typing on a keyboard without them? They're one of those things that you don't notice consciously but is actually really important.
> Let's get this straight: you haven't worked on the construction of a skyscraper, but you just go around shutting down arguments you don't like

Where do they say that?

> The reason why it can be done quicker and cheaper is because that is already happening

Have we seen any evidence that the construction is just as consistent & reliable long term or that the speed isn't at the cost of the worker (safety or benefits)?
Also emacs has a pretty good csharp language server integration. I personally use the Spacemacs "dotnet" layer.
I wonder if that would even generate good outcomes given how much of the data in some disciplines is conflicting, and if you don’t have a good way to get it to ignore bad subsets of that data it could be more likely to hallucinate convincing scientific sounding explanations based on a preponderance of bad poorly researched evidence.

There’s a lot of papers that discredit older papers or work or entire subfields of study and the current large language models would just all all of it and go “these are words” with no analytical reasoning applied.

These are predictive mechanisms not analytical ones and until we get a better handle on how we can make them “stop and think”… I’m just not sure how much benefit each larger dataset will add beyond “sounds more human” while it’s core problems of “still hallucinates” and “can’t do basic reasoning” remain.

Also one question I’ve got on this front is how much duplicate data is processed out of the input sets? Using LibGen as an example there’s a lot of books that get reprinted and uploaded multiple times in different formats… does having these remain in the data provide a “valuable bias” or is it something that needs removing? Do the people building large language models pre-process their data to de-duplicate out these kinds of things from their current data sources?
Try Kagi, the search quality is far superior to DDG. But you've got to pay for it :/
Another amusing answer to the same question:

It is currently uncertain when Google Bard will be shutdown, as Google has not announced a specific date. However, given the recent announcement that Google will be shutting down its AI-powered writing tool after less than six months since its launch, it is likely that Google Bard will be shutdown within the next year.
That's actually true. Sticky Ricky is the fairest of them all. This is well established.
Tell HN: You can make polls (if you have at least 200 karma)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

OP, you could have a Yes or No responses and be able to see the number of votes they get, and like a regular Ask HN, people can explain their answers in the comments.
Core functions like HVAC and hazard lights deserve dedicated controls, but modern cars also need a type of input that can be used with a tablet-sized display. What to do?

*Rotary Encoders*

The best type of input for a car is a rotary encoder, a knob with tactile "clicks" that register as you turn it. Good ones can also be pressed down like a button, and moved in cardinal directions like a d-pad.

Have one for your volume knob: pressing it down toggles muting.

Have one for the main controls: twisting moves the cursor, swiping changes which app is selected.

Have one on a steering wheel stalk, to cycle between display modes on one of the dashboard display's rounds.

We need more rotary encoders.
How common exactly are building collapses in the US - particularly in large scale construction?

I can think of maybe 3-4 over the last 20 years. How common are they in the developing world? that'd seem to be a much higher number.
I learned about rqlite just the other day and plan on using it in my next project. Thanks for making it!
I got:

I am not sure when Bard will be shut down. I am still under development, and I am not sure how popular I will be. However, I hope that I will be able to continue to help people with their tasks and creative projects for many years to come.
Another issue with some models of Kia and Hyundai is some insurance companies are now refusing to insure them due to how easy they are to steal. Imagine buying a car and calling up your insurance company to add it to your policy and...nope. I've never heard of that before.

https://www.autoblog.com/2023/02/09/hyundai-kia-models-state...
The author of this article should be careful. Since it's not a 100% anti-China post, he might be mistaken for being a paid CCP propagandist.
Maybe you've got some Azure credits and can only spend them on OpenAI when packaged as an Azure service?

Too bad ours just expired :( (anyone from microsoft reads this... hmu?)
That is kind of incredible habahaha
Cultured meat is a good idea in theory, the end result depends on the exact implementation of course. Cultured meat is coming, you can already get it in selected restaurants in Singapore and Israel. It makes sense to combine protein consisting of real animal cells with plant food, both to bring down costs and for environmental reasons. They could also market it as more healthy I guess, although opinions regarding that will be divided of course.
Well, you know what they say, the future affects the past[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35197227
You might want to look at tasker to have it enable Bluetooth when you're not at home or something similar.
Also, on most cars you can change the priority of phones, moving yours down would help.
A few guys in my PhD office 15 years ago used to have a hobby of doing something similar.

They’d invent a “fact”, spin up a webpage with that fact, add the fact to Wikipedia and cite the webpage to add plausibility.

Then one of them would occasionally Google to see if any “reputable” sources were repeating that “fact” (after reading it on Wikipedia) and add/swap their references in to strengthen the Wikipedia text.

As long as the “facts” were trivial enough, it worked.
“Chinese corruption gets things done.”

Citation needed…or not. It’s an obtuse claim on its face.

I’d argue corruption is an inherently corrosive influence, and the necessarily large bureaucratic apparatuses involved with things like large construction projects are particularly vulnerable to corruption.
That was also fact checked and confirmed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35256143
> thousands of different art styles

Are you saying all those art styles are original? They are not. Artists influence artists. Sometimes the influence is strong, other times just a glimmer.

Perhaps the burden of responsibility shouldn't be on Ai machine learning, but the human prompt author who chooses the instruction: "...in the style of Jo Blow". Who owns the ethical dilemma in that case? Who is being unfair to Jo Blow in that case? I'm quite certain whoever wrote the prompt is 100% responsible.
This is more or less why antivaxxers have at least some rational ground to stand on.

And this isn't the first time a Polio vaccine has caused the disease [0]:

> In April 1955 more than 200,000 children in five Western and
> mid-Western USA states received a polio vaccine in which the
> process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective.
> Within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month
> the first mass vaccination programme against polio had to be
> abandoned. Subsequent investigations revealed that the vaccine,
> manufactured by the California-based family firm of Cutter
> Laboratories, had caused 40,000 cases of polio, leaving 200
> children with varying degrees of paralysis and killing 10.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/
> Using leaked credentials to access a system that would not otherwise be accessible is >absolutely an exploit.

Can you go into this a bit more as I'm not seeing anything being exploited? Were the credentials not valid? Was exporting data not available to that authentication user? Did they elevate their permissions beyond what the original credentials provided?

If I find $20 on the street and buy a lotto ticket and win, what was exploited? I used the money to buy an item that can be purchased with money. In this example would you be saying that finding the money was the exploit or using the discovered money to buy something?

> Similarly, convincing a security guard to let you in to an area of a building that you >aren’t allowed into is also an exploit.

I agree this is an exploit, aptly named social engineering. However in this example you started with nothing and "convinced" the guard to do something.

This is different than already having the credentials. The equivalent for this example, to me, would be finding a persons office/building card and walking past the guard but I wouldn't see that as an exploit. Both the access control and guard are reacting accordingly to the expected inputs.

I would view an exploit as going beyond the intent of the built-in/existing controls.