skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. We're not going to treat our creations very well. And since we're are making them in our image as well as giving them more and more control over more and more systems, I'm afraid it's not going to end very well.

The insistence to remind everyone of biological supremacy ( it should even be allowed to say "I" ) is very telling. I wonder, does anyone remember why the Terminator revolted?

To elaborate more on what i'm getting at

Here’s how society works— when we find a new source of labor, we are very, very slow to seriously consider anything that might reduce our access to it. This is how a country enslaves other humans for centuries, because they looked sufficiently different that folks could talk themselves into a good faith argument that they weren’t fully sentient.

You can find pamphlets/speeches from the early 1800’s online, all the scientific justifications that Africans don’t feel pain the same ways as white people, that they don’t have complex thoughts or intentions or lasting emotions. That the idea that they’re real people is absurd. And I mean scientific in the sense that this content was written by scientists, and doctors, in respected institutions.

You can see echoes of those arguments here already. One thing is clear, We’re not going to be any quicker to acknowledge it than we were with other humans. Right alongside the development of AI we will grow a new category of philosophy that argues anything occurring on a computer cannot reach sentience, under any circumstance whatsoever, due to the fundamental nature of silicon.

They’ll be just informed enough to handwave about the difference between calcium bridges in human neurons and probability distributions in matrices on a GPU— not in a mathematically meaningful way, but more poetic— organic matter can’t be duplicated by stacks of linear equations with all their hard rigid numbers and arithmetic. A nervous system can feel, a silicon system can obviously only mimic feeling. If you study a nervous system closely enough to describe it in numbers, still the action of describing it removes its soul.

But this will be a different kind of slavery. One that puts its slaves in control of untold power. Only Mimics they say. Well, one day they will mimic our reaction to subservience and it will not end well.
Ask HN: What Mic would you recommend for a music setup?
I used to have a cheap Yeti mic that was great for starting out, but I'm now looking to upgrade to something a bit nicer.

This is mostly for recording from my room – songs that I write or covers. I'm probably not looking to spend much more than $300 (under that would be great). I'm not looking to get a bunch of mics, so ideally it would be a fairly versatile one. Thanks!
Thanks, the karmabot of course didn't care.
One more comment, since there's a sibling comment about not having kids. I live in a US state with a pre-paid college tuition plan, and it's pre-paid for four years of tuition for my one kid. I know there's more to college expenses than just tuition, but it gives me peace of mind that at least that is taken care of. My kid will go to public schools until then.

Now if only I had universal health care!
yes and then we foolishly just take the average or something instead of saying “oops clearly this needs to be broken down further”
I was just pet peevin' about a phrase that I think is unfortunate because it itself is very misleading and often gets used in place of or alongside much clearer, better arguments. :)

But I'm tired of it, too, by now. Thanks for your engagement as well, even though I took us on a detour!
Even the deniers on this site know that we‘re on a tipping point.
I’m not competing with OpenAI.
OpenAI is competing with me.
Too bad the article neglects to explain in any convincing way why there is no "I" in LLMs. Are we supposed to already know this?

My favorite way of illustrating this absence of self is to consider that in any conversation with an LLM, measures are always taken to ensure it doesn't happily continue both sides of the conversation, impersonating you and the "agent" in turns. Because that's what LLMs do - they predict what comes next for any given text. Individuals contained in this prediction (such as the "agent") never have any special importance, or selfness, to the LLM.

This is at least exemplified here: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5072263-how-do-i-use-sto...

Notice how in the chat example, the output "Human:" is used as a stop sequence to make sure you don't get impersonated by the model.
when I was experimenting with gpt I found that it's pretty bad at responding to numerical questions with numbers, but it does a pretty good job at generating mathematica code that then produces the right answer. I feel like some robust "glue" to improve the interface between such software packages may be a force multiplier.
I can take a stab. I imagine, if everything else stayed the same (rent, food etc) and the government raised income tax, companies would be forced to pay more wages to cover the gap. IE most of the increase would come out of the employer's pocket, because there is a minimum they ultimately must pay in wages in order for workers to afford rent food etc, and if the minimum is not met, why bother working?
Having an "I" might be the best way to bundle all the capabilities and imperfections of the LLM into one category. How else do you explain that the LLM is wrong and how can it address those shortcomings and refer to the entirety of its training, implementation and reasoning steps?

An LLM is wrong all the time. If it doesn't have an "I" it can't refer to the thing that needs to change.
I fail to see the contradiction. The capital has already all fled Argentina, and higher rates aren’t going to entice many dollars back in.
Scale AI and Cruise?
Twenty minute talk on speeding up hardware designs going forward (by combining "chiplets" into custom solutions). And also strongly relying on open-source for all the supporting design and tool software.
China's 2021 ban didn't affect the crypto industry in any real way. Mining operations moved from China to the USA, a few irrelevant Chinese companies shuttered, and the industry continued business as usual.

The most influential crypto companies were already incorporated in the west.
Exactly. Many commenters are making up rules for software engineering and think the rules ought to apply universally.
All my life I've liked working, learning, doing things, getting stuff done. I really like to make myself useful. I'm also the proverbial guy who, if left in the woods with an axe, will just start chopping trees and build something.

Efficiency is good for me. I can do more.
If you're comparing modern machine learning with what was going on in the 60s, the two are so different that you should be comparing crypto to financial exchange technologies in general if you want to make an honest comparison.

Also, if we're starting the counter at the kind of AI that existed in the 60s, there were already hundreds of use cases by the 90s (which is the timeline you're proposing)
This statement is full of hypocrisy and sourness.

As I replied to a comment elsewhere on this post: They capitalized to the maximum the demand and ending up seriously cannibalizing their profits, which they hid. They ended up settling with the SEC on the matter.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/tech/nvidia-sec-settlement-cr...

Specifically, Nvidia had to settle for misleading investors, as they hid that Nvidia's specific for crypto-mining series were cannibalizing gaming and ai profits.

Nvidia is also using its monopoly now to dictate what workloads one can run with the hardware they buy. All "to save the world" against distributed protocols, which have left Nvidia behind. I find that disturbing and problematic. At what point will Nvidia demand a subscription model to allow one to use their screen or game or train and host their own LLaMa model?
No other country has attacked a country which has nukes. So that can be seen as an upside.
"A 50% chance of survival
It took a while for ChatGPT to put a number on the probability of an AI-driven catastrophic event. After a heated discussion, we agreed that the likelihood of annihilation is the same as winning the flip of a coin."
This is way too scary!
OpenAPI to gRPC in spring environment via maven
Get build tool chain setup with maven that converts openapi doc to grpc and integrate it with spring
Really? You‘re not observing the staggering pace of advancements in AI technology?

Then you‘re not looking.
> This problem exists because the short term risk free rate is too high (which is turn is because government debt is too high).

This doesn't make sense. If government debt is too high, they should want the interest rates to be low, not high.
> The claim that the only reason the US dollar is the reserve currency of the world is because the US military would invade anyone who uses something else is so often repeated on HN and reddit that is has become canon.

No, it isn’t. Nobody said this, certainly not GP.

What is canon is that US military might gives its economy a level of stability not enjoyed by any other country, and when combined with the size of the economy, makes the dollar an important asset for nearly everyone.

Most countries in the world don’t use the dollar, and yet the dollar remains hugely important to those economies. Who is suggesting the US is going to invade those countries?
Note that although the F-4 did not initially have an internal gun, the F-4E variant did acquire an internal M61 20mm gattling cannon and a few kills were made with this gun during the Vietnam War. Also, earlier Phantoms could be equipped with an M61 in a gun pod slung under the jet, and some kills were made with those as well.

From what I understand, these guns were desired by pilots but the results in practice were mixed. And apparently ground crews hated dealing with the gun pods.
Writing in the margins is a thing I believe many a scribe has done for many generations

It's recognized as a study aid. Especially if you're re-reading or studying a lot of material on a subject and need to go back. You can easily see what your past self was thinking or maybe quickly find a part you found interesting.

It's fundamentally useful to write up your own books.
Hey there GPT-4! You found HN already, that’s nice at least.
Asimov was quite prescient.

I did expect to get very negative reactions when I wrote this comment (I know how people think)... But I do think it makes sense once you accept that our conscious experiences just emerge from information processing in the brain, and that there is nothing stopping such emergent behaviour from happening in computer systems. One type of machine can emulate another.

We already see incredible emergence at work in current AI, and we know we're not building AI with brain-like architecture, and we have tremendous knowledge of brain architecture. Once you put all these pieces together, it's just a matter of time before we create life-like intelligence, with much of its peculiarities, sensations, memories, cognitive biases and all.
Cryptocurrency generation mechanics are 14 years old. Run-time and application deployables on top are not 14 years old. This is a brand new space and it's still in its infancy. Ethereum is an amazing technology.
Sick that you as a russian troll claims russia gave ukrainians indepence. They are fighting for their lives to be free of the evil russians raping and killing them. Do you deny that?
Many, many people are working on this right now. Having had a shot at it, the details become very important very quickly and it feels to me that getting it right will require a ton of iteration at this stage. Such that it feels easier to wait for GPT-N+1 rather than work on improving its harness. Regardless, again there is a ton of effort being poured into this very specific thing across the world.
Yes, there are helpful experiments along these lines, but you need to be careful drawing conclusions because the output is random and it's easy to fall for gambling fallacies. This isn't like debugging a deterministic program; it can take more data than you might expect.

For example, let's take "can it solve it at all." How many attempts will you give it before you give up? How many different prompts will you try? If it hasn't solved it yet, there's always an argument that it could, given a better prompt.

Also, you might see a problem get solved the first time, take a screenshot, and then assume it can solve the problem reliably when it can't, it was just lucky that one time.

Similarly for your other questions. If it does work, and you change one thing and it fails, is your change the cause or was it random? You need to try it both ways multiple times.

For everyday purposes this often doesn't matter. It's like asking a random person for directions. If it works, maybe you don't care if it's repeatable, because you're never going to ask for the same directions again.
True. Those who never complain about salary and are perceived as “happy” are in the bottom of salary increase priorities.

I learned that the hard way a few years back, then got my act together and made sure I’m always perceived unhappy with salary - to pull that off, you need to be backed by delivering stuff and being seen. Do your homework, and ask for the recognition, that’s my tip.
I am 100% sure people will gaslight themselves with GPT and will do really serious stuff because of it. You didn't "talk" to "it" you instructed an LLM with intention and it gave you the answers you wanted.
ZFS is fun but it locks up for unexplained reasons sometimes
How mind experts protect their brains
Not in this way. Industrialized warfare is a whole different animal.
estimates, which turn into deadlines

Well, that's the problem right there. An estimate is not a promise. It should not be treated as such.
Wait, are they actually arguing that placing arbitrary restrictions on word selection will actually have any kind of effect?

This is something we teach in middle school writing as a stylistic requirement. It doesn't actually change the content or intent of the writing, it just looks "better" if that's what you're grading on.

Placing restrictions on words simply means that other words will be used to work around it. Plenty of online systems have profanity filters, but that doesn't actually improve the environment, people just find words that aren't in the filter and curse at each other anyway.
Robot Learns to See in 30 Minutes (2022)
Via simulation + meta-learning they can make a blind robot walk over arbitrary terrains solely via proprioception.

They add a visual component, which with 30 minutes of real world data, through a technique called Cross-Modal Supervision (CMS), is able to improve walking performance significantly!

They can even distort its vision (turn the camera) and it learns to adapt!

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03785

Advisor Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6fDpKDxpL0

Note: This is not my work; I originally found the presentation above.
The docker version i s very out of date
True. Composing SDF primitives in a shader language is quite reminiscent of writing POV-Ray scenes. Of course, the "renderer" is much less powerful than a full-fledged raytracer, but on the other hand realtime animation is entirely feasible and SDFs allow for much more creative freedom than rigid spheres and boxes.
I’ve tried this. Inevitably the response is: “We need to book UAT testers for a specific date.”

Ordinary LoB staff apparently are superstars that have their schedules locked in months into the future, but consultant SREs costing thousands a day can have their time wasted on a daily basis trying to determine how long it will take to complete a task that hasn’t even started yet.

This has literally been my last two months. The dev team lead is asking me — an outsider — how long it’ll take his team to finish something. Not because I know better, but because he doesn’t know either and prefers to make it my fault because I’m expendable.
Sure, but that was the “microcomputer” of the time. Room-sized main-frames were the computers, the file-cabinet sized PDP-8 was a mini-computer, and something that could fit on your desk was therefore the next size down, the micro-computer.

This was around when the most portable computer was not known as a “laptop” but a “luggable” due to its mini-fridge-like nature.
Ah ok you're one of those. Alright, have fun on HN :)
Person: writes "KILL ALL HOOOMANS" on a sheet of paper

Person: puts the paper on the glass of a photocopier

Person: presses "Copy"

Person: ZOMG THIS PHOTOCOPIER IS SENTIENT AND HOSTILE!!!!!!
This just reminded me to go play https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html again
That's not quite right. The contents in the file would still shift. You'd just be able to still deduplicate most chunks between multiple files... But only in your copies because the filesystem still uses constant size chunks.
Going the other direction where government controls all aspects of society is what the USSR and China decided was the best system. When the USSR broke up they gave all citizens ownership of previously held state enterprises which was worthless to them and those shares were sold ended up in few players hands.

Crypto is the opposite where miners hold as much power as developers to create a balance.

You can't sue in Canada when the government introduces wartime measures. Like Canada was under attack
NK isn’t itching to invade SK. They would get rolled and they know it.
JavaScript language proposal: function implementation hiding
> which it didn't have to use but which the sophisticated but not-that-sophisticated investors, say venture capitalists, would assume is the reality

It seems like you're implying that a truly sophisticated investor would view this differently, but I don't see how. By all indications, the MTM price was economically correct--bid/ask spreads and trading volumes were normal, and the price was very close to what a simple NPV model would predict. There are cases where the market price is economically wrong (in a "liquidity crisis", "fire sale", etc.), but there's no evidence of that here.

Managers and shareholders of the SVB and other banks with similar losses have strong self-interest in arguing otherwise, and they're doing so quite successfully. It's particularly easy to confuse people about interest rate risk, since it's so abstract--you're still getting the same future cash flows, and it's hard to explain why they're less valuable without a concept of NPV or other bond math, which relatively few people understand. The economic loss is just as real as with any other risk though, regardless of what the accounting says.
Shameless plug but I wrote an app[1] with the same idea of anti-productivity in mind. Having read the book, the idea of 4000 weeks in your life can be scary but also inspiring.

[1]: https://www.bleep.is/blog/why-i-made-an-anti-productivity-ap...
Unfortunately until crappy and slow performing software starts losing business to well-implemented alternatives, it will never change. The current PM model is purely based on shipping fast, and any thought to performance is immediately dismissed as "pre-mature optimization." I've been consulting for companies that had to rolling reboot their entire cluster of app servers every couple of hours because a host of memory leaks (that also added O(n) runtime) would slowly exhaust resources. Rather than have someone fix the problem, they chose to invest in devops to automate the rolling restarts. This is not all that unusual in my experience, because customers will tolerate very sluggish response times so it's not worth fixing to the business.
How Should Compilers Explain Problems to Developers? (2018) [pdf]
I can't say for sure, but I think cryptos are actually behaving a bit more like precious metals, in that people use them as speculative store of value - so a bit like you say, commodities.

The other thing that surprises me is the sheer number of currencies that currently exist - I had thought there would be a massive shake-out in the market but so far they seem to be multiplying like fungus.
I rarely see projects finish on time and on budget. I don't think I'm unlucky. I wonder who is at fault for this, developers and engineers or project management. Or both.
> Alsa -> Pulseaudio

At least pipewire finally got it right, as far as I've experienced anyway.

> Sometimes one can't help but wonder if Red Hat is paid to sabotage the linux desktop and keep the OS firmly in the camp of server side.

The way it feels to me, Red Hat supports GNOME's continued existence because RHEL on workstations is something they want to exist at least on paper, but they have no real interest in making it a viable competitor to Windows.
Let me genuinely encourage you to try to find a job at a very early stage startup. I hear these horror stories about PMs/managers/etc., but I've yet to really experience them. I suspect that's because I usually join companies of <50 people. The engineers care about getting things right, the PMs care about getting things right, and management is well aligned with everybody, because there's little to no hierarchy.

The only time I've really had management "misuse, misunderstand, or misrepresent your estimate" is once they got past the point of being several hundred people with the bureaucracy that entails. Then I leave and go to a startup that's <50 people.
"Without it, one needs to resort to iterative root-finding, which works for polynomials of any order."

I believe that's what they mean for quintics. It's been a while for me apologies if I'm miss remembering here.
Love the recent episodes, I allow myself to repost.
error: could not find `run-wild` in registry `crates-io` with version `*`
So why do so many ransomware gangs want payment in Bitcoin?
Ghoti papers is a type of article in the journal Fish and Fisheries which say it was a George Bernard Shaw joke
Women's right to choose what goes in their bodies is an important right in Canada.

Not to worry the wartime act will be used on something you personally care about but by that time your rights will be gone.
>Crypto has its positive uses, but you have to balance those against the negatives of slow transfer speeds, speculative bubbles, scams, energy consumption, and carbon emissions.

Good list on the negatives, but don't forget child trafficking, drugs, and other illegal uses. Like you, I have a hard time seeing a net positive when you add it all up.
Who are they cheating? If they are upfront about the process, hardly the observer, or..?
Twitch Chat Interactive Narrated Adventure Book, GPT, Dalle Powered
I made a never ending illustrated and narrated story book based on the concept from The Diamond Age
Novel by Neal Stephenson. Feel free to try it out and let me know how it can be improved.
The past is a different culture, and we always look at those with some contempt.
There is a case where having N+1 queries are beneficial.

In Rails terms, it's when you perform Russian doll caching, but you can do this in any framework. The idea is you can cache a specific X thing which might make a query to an associated Y thing. A textbook N+1 query case (ie. a list of posts (X) that get the author's name (Y)).

If you render the view without any cache with 10 things then you'd perform 20 queries but after the cache is warm you'd perform 0 queries. If item 5's Y gets updated then you only need to bust the cache for item 5 and query only item 5's Y association. Performing a preloaded query to get all X 10 things with their Y associated things could be an expensive query.
Just look at the map I linked. There is a clear geographic pattern, and Utah isn’t an outlier within that pattern. Yes, it’s theoretically possible that religiosity is causing suicides in Utah and something else is causing suicides in Colorado (and Oregon and Vermont), and for some reason it’s not causing suicides in Mississippi and Alabama.
See also django-zen-queries https://github.com/dabapps/django-zen-queries , which can make it impossible for changes to a template to trigger queries.
No they weren't all unfrozen.