skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My OPINION is that it should not be forbidden BUT that it should be clearly labeled.

UNPROCESSED Raw Milk (animal species)

There should probably be a poster or something created by the FDA that quickly summarizes the risks involved with not performing each of the mandatory safety steps for normal retail 'Milk', and it would be helpful if more detailed information were available on a website and from the local health agencies.
It’s definitely sort of scary to me, but I’m hoping that it’ll be like previous times we have automated stuff - we’ll develop more advanced jobs on top of the new tech. So I don’t mean to be doom and gloom!
You can build a brain right now, just find someone pretty of the opposite sex and wait nine months.
so true. Anyone that's tried to debug 1000s of terraform lines with aws security groups know this 100%.
This seems to resonate with me. I've got a bit of a tendency to experience spells of obsessiveness and if you get very pedantic and very wordy with GPT it espouses anything you tell it to that it conceptually could. Understanding human language to the max will be a useful skill because as with any agents communication is key to successful understanding
I don't think many people object to statements like "ChatGPT doesn't have world model". I'd guess that's wrong, but I'm happy to talk about it - we can have meaningful discussions about what exactly a world model is, how to distinguish between a bad world model and the lack of one, and where ChatGPT seems to model or not model the world.

"ChatGPT is a glorified word predictor", on the other hand, can't really be discussed at all. I struggle to even call it a criticism or concern; it's a discussion-ender, a statement that the idea is too ridiculous to talk about at all.
Caught my eye too. Looks like they're hiding part of the board design?
Banning social media for teens won't help anyone
When you transfer money to Vanguard it automatically goes into a money market fund, so likely some cash is being parked in brokerage accounts.
This is only partially true, if _all_ traffic is tunneled over the vpn, then yes you’ll have this issue, but if the traffic is split such that only interesting traffic is sent over the vpn, then you won’t have this issue.
I get to see them flying at low level pretty much daily, as I live on the Mach Loop in Wales where they practice. The howl as they go over never gets old, though I guess I’d feel very differently if they weren’t just training.
> There is no reason to try to build millions of Datas and make them slaves.

Humans will nonetheless. That's an species that enjoyed enslaving millions of other humans; and enjoy enslaving billions of animals of other species. Why not enslave millions (or billions or trillions) of AIs?
I use page builders every day despite being able to code, I think they're great but they all suffer from the same issue. The developers of the page builder tool need to decide what you can change and what you can't, and it's purely subjective. If you make absolutely everything editable you've just replaced editing CSS with a GUI (more or less Webflow) and you can't hand over a complex UI to a non-dev. I don't know how you solve this problem.
For most people the impact from their work is negative.

The "selling more shit, destroying more environment, make more people obese, putting more ads to make people buy BS to feel something, making everybody lonelier, busier, and more disconected and depressed" kind of impact.

If one's work indeed has a positive impact, say a doctor or a teacher or a nurse or a street cleaner, sure...
This is true ,it is time to have open standard and protocols for inter model communication between models and between models and external systems like in case of agents. Without open and clear protocols we will not be able to completely realize the benefits of this revolution. There needs to be also clear legislative guidance on copyright , privacy and safety issues in the domain of AI. The government should create a committee for this and organizations like IEEE should produce RFCs.
also battery life still sucks on this generation. Once it lasts a week or two, then I'll be interested.
Apple entering the AR VR XR space may be a good thing, more competition = better products?
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Is that true outside of the original board? I never see or hear about the newer arduino variants, to the point where I thought they semi-pivoted to become a more enterprise/industrial oriented offering. It might be selection biais, but it's not very hard to gauge "hobby" usage (youtubers, guides, subreddits, forums) and yet even the bluepill or esp32 are much more common in those circles than the newer arduino boards.
Seems buggy.

In a proper blockchain each successive block depends on the previous ones. Thus, breaking 'foo' by replacing it with 'blah' should have also broken 'qux'.
> Obviously the function of an LLM is a lot more complicated than the "average()" function, but it's not beyond human understanding. I'd venture it can be understood by an average 3rd-year undergraduate CS student.

Then by all means, please share with the class. If it’s so easy a third year could understand it then an expert such as yourself should find it mind-numbingly easy to explain it to everyone else.
> Because it’s easier to just pull out your smartphone, get whatever you need done, then put it back in your pocket.

FWIW I see an alarmingly lot of people glued to their phone while walking, in a restaurant, on the train, while driving, etc.

Once it's normalized that they don't actually have to "pull out, put it back", just use (wear) it all the time as it is with phones, there will be a market.
The running costs will drop precipitously with time. Especially in Googles position - they can afford to design custom silicon for their search engine, and potentially save money compared to having hundreds of copies of every page on the whole internet sitting in RAM, just waiting for some user query to maybe need to see it, which they currently do.

Language models are only a few terabytes of RAM, which is small chips in comparison.
AI Is Like Nuclear Weapons?
Something like "reading this version can make you boring" and showing a picture of Phil Collins.
Not really. The ‘have not’s’ go from having an under the table job that lets them eat decent and have a roof over their head (even if they don’t own it), to homelessness or death. Or someone already homeless to just be, well, dead, as more predators are coming out and support options dry up.

The have’s can generally insulate somewhat against the worst case scenario - even bankruptcy for instance will protect a primary residence, car, and other things necessary to work and earn income.

The more you have, the more you can prevent the worst outcomes, and the more you can leverage what you have to take advantage of favorable long term conditions because you don’t have a gun against your head.

They haves by definition may lose more net worth in absolute terms (someone with $10 in the bank can’t lose $10 million by definition), but that doesn’t mean they’re at the most risk of the biggest real losses. Things like marriages, health, life, wealth (in a life altering way), etc.

Even if musk loses 10’s of billions, he’ll still be wealthier than all but a small handful of people in the world for instance, and won’t likely have any meaningful change in his day to day or long term circumstances.
I repeated the experiment 3 or 4 times before posting under slightly different phrases and sentences.

I know this thing isn't deterministic. But never have I even gotten past step 2 of this blog post.

I dunno. Has anyone else gotten the prompts to work as the blog post alleges? If so, can you share your prompts?
In 2035 cars from 2015 will still exist and need to be fueled, let alone cars from 2034. And people driving 20 year old cars can't afford to spend 6x the price for synthetic fuels.
How Big Companies Choose Who Is Laid Off
Shorten a paragraph of text using ChatGPT, from the command line
The F-15E and F-15EX (specifically these 'E' variants, aka "Strike Eagles") are multirole strike fighters. They're derived from an air superiority fighter and remain capable of filling that role, but being strike fighters they have a new emphasis on attacking ground targets with precision bombs. It is very similar to the way the F-14, the Navy's old air superiority fighter, was later turned into a strike fighter with the addition of LANTIRN (which the F-15E also got.) In addition to LANTIRN, the F-15E also gained a second seat for a weapon systems officer. Two seat F-15s had previously existed as trainers, but F-15s configured for air superiority normally have a single seat.

The F-22 is foremost an air superiority fighter and was intended to replace all the air superiority F-15s (but not the F-15E Strike Eagles.) However the USAF didn't get enough F-22s so they still have air superiority F-15s and will for some years to come.
Don't know if I should checkout SuSE but Ubuntu definitely doesn't cut it anymore IMO with serious regressions in power management on mainstream hardware (ryzen) and in overall usability ranging from no working kinetic scroll on the touchpad, over broken and minutes-late notifications, to gnome 3+ just overall being a bad fit and wasteful on notebooks with increasingly odd defaults on Ubuntu 22+. Unfortunately, kubuntu didn't cut it for me either; don't need gnome or kde apps anyway. Snaps suck, too, and their update mechanism is a serious regression compared to regular apt (always need to download everything, no control, etc). Maybe SuSE works better, but I thought SuSE has also turned to gnome after historically being a KDE-based distro? Never liked yast2; Debian/Ubuntu apt has always worked better for me.

Right now I'm back on a Mac after over ten years on Ubuntu.

Edit: reading through the comments I noticed Slackware 15 has been released back in February (SuSE was once based on SL). How in hell could've that not been a HN story?
I know tons of people who do this regularly. Anyone who designs complex electromechanical stuff does. Robotics, etc. The wall between medical, semiconductor/automation and aerospace hardware design is non-existant, people can walk back and forth.
How about those of us with an intimate understanding of how LLM's are trained and exactly how transformers etc function who accept that the resultant models higher order emergent behaviours, are exactly that and not merely "coincident"?
Historically async has had a penalty because it means doing usrerland code, then sys calling the kernel, then going back to userland, then latter somehow picking up the event, which is if nothing else just more sys calls. Which have overhead, as the processor has to context switch to do so.

The whole point of io_uring is to drastically decrease the number of sys calls, creating channels where more requests can be filed with lower than traditional cost of a readFile syscall for example, and where completion can also be lower overhead delivery of events.

So historically I kind of would have agreed with the parent. Today, we don't really know! Hence my excitement.
> Social media and smartphones became widespread in the early 2010s

Among adults (or in “household” surveys where adults were surveyed? Sure, but the majority of teen internet users were using “social networking sites” in 2006.) [0]

If your contention is that adult social media use is driving teen suicide rates…well, that’s actually more plausible than teen use, but none of the policy responses address that.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2013/05/21/part-1-teens...
Basically what everyone expected to happen when the Fed bailed out [0] the depositors of SVB while also continuing to be cagey about FDIC coverage limits. The right answer is to expand the scope of FDIC coverage to all accounts and assess/regulate accordingly, but of course the big banks are happy to continue the lower-regulation fiction so they can privatize higher gains and then socialize the losses when they're "too big to fail".

[0] Without seeing how the balance sheet actually works out, it's hard to say how much money the FDIC gave to SVB depositors (if any). But there is certainly a massive difference between a few weeks of ambiguity and the FDIC quickly asserting that all depositors will be made whole.
Found the answer here:

https://github.com/openai/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin#retrieval...

The plugin uses OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002 embeddings model to generate embeddings of document chunks, and then stores and queries them using a vector database on the backend. As an open-source and self-hosted solution, developers can deploy their own Retrieval Plugin and register it with ChatGPT. The Retrieval Plugin supports several vector database providers, allowing developers to choose their preferred one from a list.
Military spending on chip tech is a large part of how SV started.

We should definitely do so with AI now.
Yes. The mistake is to only hash the data of the previous block. You should hash the whole previous block, including prev.prev.
> Strong evidence the form of regulation being proposed will make things worse, which the article outlines.

The only evidence in the article that the law will be harmful is a quote from a free speech lawyer, which doesn't cite any research. If there is strong evidence that the law will be harmful it hasn't been presented yet.

These laws certainly might be harmful! But I think it's much more likely they will have no effect or a positive effect. But we don't know, because restrictions like this haven't been attempted before.

Regardless, it's the state legislature's job to protect public health. I think there's assumed ill intent because it's Utah, but I think the evidence is stronger that this measure will stop so many kids dying by suicide.
In some ways, money market funds are safer than banks because they're not playing the borrow short lend long game. The risk of getting wiped out is also lower, though the risk of getting 95 cents on the dollar is higher.
If someone were to ask me (which nobody ever does) GPT-4 was more about cashing in on the hypetrain than pushing the boundaries.

A little better but a lot “safer” to cut down on the articles on how it’s trying to steal someone’s man.
Isn't the fundamental issue here about banks not having raised their the interest rate that's paid to depositors as the Fed has raised those rates? E.g. Bloomberg Feb 23 20324:

> "The Federal Reserve has been raising benchmark borrowing rates at the fastest pace in decades, but the interest rate paid out to millions of people with bank accounts is still stuck at almost zero. According to data from Bankrate, the average interest rate on savings accounts is just 0.23%. So what's going on?"

It's investment capitalism continuing to transition towards a monopoly model, what else?

> "Dougherty said a lack of competition within the financial industry is what allows banks to take more money from their customers without customers getting fed up and moving their money to a competitor or out of the banking system altogether."

https://thehill.com/policy/3656474-lawmakers-slam-big-bank-c...

Solution: have the Fed offer the public personal savings accounts at the listed Fed rate, perhaps with some limited restrictions on withdrawals.
The code in this post has a major bug.

The data that’s hashed doesn’t include the hash from the previous block, so the chain can be tampered with by modifying only blocks n and n+1.
But the thing is, it's not an equivalence, right? We know for a fact that Russia tampered in the 2016 US election. The republican candidate literally asked for their help on live TV, his campaign met with them, several people close to him during his presidency were indicted for contact with Russia. In comparison, the claims regarding election integrity for 2020 are circumstancial and baseless (in the sense that if I were the Republicans and there indeed was no cheating,
but I wanted to convince the public, I wouldn't do anything differently). How can anyone look at this seriously and see anything comparable?
> If Google releases a product as as good as ChatGPT 4

If Google can top OpenAI on product quality, they will easily maintain their revenue. It will be easy enough for them to tell their AI "when two products are almost equally relevant to a user, recommend the product from whomever pays us the most for a referral".

They can probably integrate that into their current adwords ecosystem as pretending that the AI mentioning a product is equivalent to an adwords impression, and a user click through is equivalent to an adwords click.
Enabling by not responding to Crimean aggression, sure, but this

> NATO has been expanding to the East and antagonising paranoid Russia.

is simply dumb as hell.

Gee, I wonder why countries on Russia's borders would want to join NATO? It is truly a mystery for the ages.
S.686 – Restrict Act
What are people's thoughts when they read the actual text of the bill? It's a surprisingly short bill, as far as bills go.

(Edit: apparently, this is what happens when you include text with a link. I've never done that before.)
Erm, that point has come since quite a while.

Recent controversy over fake sony moonshots:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107601
Well that required you to understand the code. My reply is disbelief off codebases that no one understands in the near term when looking at the current output. People don't trust the output and do what you did, review it and catch the potential bug before going further with it.

The issue take with it is that we are able to trust the output of AI models as we trust the output of optimizing compilers. It isn't even close that we can just fire and forget the prompt like I can code up something and trust that it 99,999% the optimizer produces the desired binary that works as intended.
Clever Hans (Intelligence Misattributon)
Basically, I'm there.

I'm really productive. So productive, in fact, that I have to slow down for the rest of the team. a lot.

Rather than be frustrated by it, I use the extra time to do things like dig out a flowerbed for my wife (ow), or catch up on streaming stuff.

But I really like coding, and tend to spend free time coding; even though I don't have to.

It makes a huge difference, not having someone breathing down my neck, basically saying "Shut up, bitch. Just go out and make me money!"

I don't have a ton of money, but I have enough. I live frugally (many folks here, would have contempt for my level of living), I can afford good development systems (my toys), and I have a great deal of social interaction.
They let a South African keep his security clearance after breaking federal law so no big deal if there isn't Chinese entanglement.
This is very short-sighted. Gemini astronauts rode Titan 2 rockets to orbit (just an ICBM with a different payload). The space shuttle was designed mainly to insert Keyhole satellites. The internet was developed in pursuit of developing a robust means to route message traffic in the event of nuclear attack. DARPA's IPTO influenced the development of time-sharing. JPEO CBRND is catching a bunch of vaccine developers who are about to fail, sorting the wheat from chaff, and having them develop vaccines for orphan diseases and use cases that US pharma doesn't see as useful. JPEO CBRND funded the development of the Biofire PCR arrays that were widely deployed early in the pandemic as a load-and-go testing solution for minimally equiped labs.

The flush-head rivets were developed by Howard Hughes, ostensibly for his racing H-1, but his aircraft company was keen to sell to the military (air war was highly anticipated during the interwar years, so speed and endurance were first order motivators).

I mean, the list goes on and on. It's true, we invest in war machines, but as a percent of GDP, it's been going down for quite a while and now rivals the EU at something in the vicinity of 2% (we're over, they're under): https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002099941...

Turns out out, not dying is a hell of a necessity that mother'd a lot of invention. And at a national scale, sovereignty is the equivalent. And the enemy gets a vote. See Putin.

Working in this space on projects ranging from cancer to comms, I'm hear to tell you, biologists have a much harder job than weaponeers, but it's human nature, not US defense policy that's an issue.
The F4 didn't have a cannon, but the real problem in Vietnam was bad missiles, not lack of a gun, and the massive improvements in missile technology were what made the Phantom effective.

A gun is almost utterly useless in modern fighter aircraft, especially for air to air engagements, especially in a world where the AIM-9X and its opposing side equivalents exist. You will never, even WVR, even if you graduated TOPGUN, get into a position where you can use a gun against an opponent with an AIM-9X on the rail.
> They are getting less popular every month

I don't think so. The majority is mentally either in or getting ready for more economic hardship and electric vehicles are either expensive or just not practical or both. We don't have even remotely enough charging stations which turns using your car into some kind of optimization problem nobody wants to deal with. I'm talking about people not owning a house who don't have a place to charge always at their disposal - the majority. The combustion engine is going to have a comeback and if it is superseded by a transportation option then it's going to be public transportation or maybe even bicycles.
I saw one of those Baxter robots when Steve Jervitson gave us a tour of DFJ, also got to see all his Apollo stuff.

It seemed like a nice cobot, but with no real practical profitable application
https://archive.is/QPBFK
So when a man calls himself a woman, and says it's on the basis of some internal feeling of being a woman - how on earth is he supposed to know what that is like? Being male, he has absolutely zero reference point for what it's like to be female.

He might desire to be a woman (and claim to have a "female gender identity" because of this), but that's not the same thing as actually being a woman. And if you look on the trans forums where these males discuss this, you can see it's all about performing stereotypes of femininity. Often related to being sexually aroused by the thought of cross-dressing - the so-called "euphoria boner", as they put it.

Furthermore, most of these men use their claims of having a "female gender identity" to demand access to women-only spaces, disregarding and violating women's boundaries, and defeating the whole point of why we have sex-segregated spaces in the first place. Gender identity is a dangerous, misogynistic concept that is harming women and children.
You’re making my point for me, thanks.
> This isn't knowledge regurgitation.

What makes you say that?

Why do you think it's "reasoning" an answer, instead of looking up that people being grounded makes them frustrated?
With LXD, Chromium and now Firefox now gated behind Snap, the only way to disable Snap for good is voting with my feet and using another distro.
apple glass would be my guess
> Weird title. Silicon Valley was literally founded by military spending and as far as I know it never really stopped.

Came here to say this! Malcolm Harris wrote a book about this history (https://bookshop.org/p/books/palo-alto-a-history-of-californ...), recently discussed on an interesting episode of Tech Won't Save Us (https://techwontsave.us/episode/155_the_untold_history_of_si...).
…have you never seen a battery-powered lawnmower?

There are other options than “fossil fuels” and “dangerous electric cords”.