skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s a lot easier to become productive and efficient at work than it is at home (or generally tasks for yourself). Because of the structures built to support it only usually end up in one environment. That imbalance is what I think leads to burnout.

But saying that the solution to productivity is… productivity… is just as bad as telling people to meditate instead of taking time off work. Probably true! But very unhelpful.
Interesting research but some of the writing is a bit misleading. For example, it talks about sleep problems prior to ASD but people aren't "developing" ASD into adolescents.
Photographers think of "RAW" as the unmodified original data from the image sensor. It is raw in the sense that no further processing has been applied yet to make a human viewable image (or whatever you want to do with it). It would need to be demosaic'd, adjusted for lens distortion, have dynamic range and gamma adjustments, and other things to make a nice image for humans to view.
…didn’t really know how to report bugs, so I didn’t; I just wondered how did nobody catch it until now

Basically, that’s how.
People didn't call the printing press, calculators, computers, or pagerank "AI", but they all mechanize some aspect of "intelligence". (Though Bool did call his algebra the "laws of thought".)

How will its impact rank within that set?

(I think it's fair to include future improvement; but not new "AI" inventions, since the term "AI" is vague, little more precise than technology for processing information in new ways).
Spin – Build Microservices with WebAssembly
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What if i like work? I like getting things done and the fact that there is infinite work is an opportunity to me. I 100% respect anyone who have other interests, but I like how the work I do have an impact and I want to maximize that impact. Choosing to not engage is a perfectly fine choice, but if one makes that choice one should be aware that one will not have the same impact.
> "Humans are actually reasoning. LLMs are not.” Again, how would you measure such a thing?

Agreed. Humans reasoning? Critically thinking? What BS. Humans actually reasoning is not something I've experienced in the vast majority of interactions with others. Rather humans tend to regurgitate whatever half-truths and whole lies they've been fed over their lifetime. The earlier the lie, the more sacrosanct it is.

Humans actually avoid critical thinking as it causes them pain. Yes, this is a thing and there's research pointing to it.
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I have created a KSP mod with ChatGPT 4 and no experience. (Prompts included)
So, I asked ChatGPT to create a simple KSP mod to show distribution of mass in my rockets, sorted by position, mass and aggregated by type.
I created this with no KSP modding experience, a basic understanding of Unity and moderate C# skills.
I did not even have to write a single line of code.
It took me around 2 hours to have a version without issues. All issues were likewise solved by ChatGPT itself. I did not write a single line of code.
The only change I did manually is resize the screen.... I tried to make the window resizable but chatGPT struggled to have a working version (window was resizable but the handler was glitchy and started to lopp through different unity UI API versions and I reverted back). This is science fiction...
All the prompts and the code can be found here: https://github.com/mihemihe/MassChart
Drops in total and remote jobs on Ask HN: Who is hiring?
I'm sure it would be possible to finetune an LLM to call out the human on their bullshit, but it's not clear what the purpose would be. It would probably degrade performance on the benchmarks that people care about more. (Exams, following instructions, etc.)
The question is what happens when you go multimodal (which these things can do) and GPT(N+1) learns the associations between words and images/video, as well as the relationships between successive frames of video, at what point does it become unreasonable to claim that it doesn't "understand" something? How good at general-purpose predicting does an AI have to be in order for people to accept that it obviously has an internal model of things and is capable of abstractions?

(Assuming that this happens, of course. Diminishing returns could make scaling infeasible past some point, for instance.)
But their kids probably will. Is a generational investment not a security? I’m not even trying to be cute. Everyone is competing with corporations for single family housing for a reason now.
I had it come up with a new data concept that was quite funny:

Data Flambulation Coefficient (DFC)

Unveiling the groundbreaking Data Flambulation Coefficient (DFC), a novel concept that redefines how we perceive and analyze the intricacies of our data. DFC evaluates the "entwining" of data, delving into the deep interconnectedness between seemingly unrelated data points. This sophisticated metric combines the principles of glomerosity and the innovative dinglemorf analysis, offering unparalleled insights into the underlying structures and patterns of complex datasets.

By leveraging the Data Flambulation Coefficient, businesses and researchers can reveal hidden nuggets of zibberfex and unriddle vast swathes of yaltrizite, leading to more robust decision-making and a competitive edge in data-driven landscapes. DFC is set to become a staple in data analytics, providing the means to unlock the full potential of data's intertwined narratives.
@moderators

This is talking about a very real fear, in the tech world and I think it was a mistake to flag it.
> How is the ai supposed to know these watermarks aren't a style element?

Because of the “i”.
Sketchy or not it is usable. BitTorrent protocol is used for piracy but it is also used.
I tried I guess it was SuSE back in the mid-2000's. It was good for an RPM distribution. I'm not an RPM fan though. I've seen the RPM repo corrupt itself on SuSE, Red Hat before the split they did when they created RHEL and later at work on RHEL (one place I worked where they used RHEL). Tried Ubuntu 2006 at home and have used it since then. Run KDE desktop on it.

The Firefox thing was a simple fix since I also don't use snap, I just downloaded the Firefox tar file and run it. Using Help About, it updates itself, fast and efficiently. No snaps needed. No Ubuntu repository needed.
Considering the concept of using a brain fingerprint to identify and potentially address behavioral issues, it's essential to approach the topic with nuance and sensitivity.

Historically, people have passionately advocated for personal autonomy, with women's rights being a prime example. The phrase "it's my decision" highlights the importance of individual choice and agency.

If a technology were developed that could create a "fingerprint" of an individual's brain, pinpointing areas that could be improved, we must ask ourselves: who should make the ultimate decision to implement these changes? Should the individual in question retain the right to decide, or might they be encouraged, or even persuaded, to pursue a specific course of action?

In contemplating the possible implications of such a technology, it's crucial to recognize that humanity has not always demonstrated responsible use of power. To prevent potential harm, it's vital to proceed with caution and prioritize ethical considerations. Engaging in thoughtful dialogue and involving diverse perspectives will help ensure that the development and application of this technology remain balanced and beneficial for all.
This might be how the singularity plays out.
I can see that maybe working with a lot of things, but what to do about housing? Land is non-fungible, and if more people want to live in a place than its currently built capacity allows for, "everyone gets the same amount" doesn't mean much.
How Meat and Fossil Fuel Producers Watered Down the Latest IPCC Report
This is a fantastic essay, from the perspective it identifies the underlying issue with AI is Capitalism's destructive creation cycle will no longer include humans, beyond the owners. The transition to that economy is a short matter of time. That will last until competition lobbies an AI owned corporation and then we're completely out of the loop.
Communism is just redistribution of wealth and power from one sector of society (the rich, upper and middle classes) to a single group (top members of the party). The difference is under communism there's absolutely no chance for anyone to ever escape poverty, because together with violence and terror, hunger is a fundamental tool for the regime to control the population (it's very difficult to revolt when you are surviving on a 1000 calories/day diet of mostly carbs).
Agreed. Watching people react this way makes me question our collective intelligence.
Yup nobody’s looked at them at all! Oh, wait… no, they’ve been audited and no fraud was found. Nevermind. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/532042-georgia-signatu...
Ironically if you work in a big company you are living in a communist state: CEO tells the workers what to do and everyone is following the plan.

Ok, you get brided by your salary to do it and if you behave like a good communist, you might even get a payrise.

Strange how we have communist structures at the core of our liberal, capitalist west.

Edit: it is ironic that a dictatorship is an efficient way ahead if the dictator happens to have the interests of everyone at heart. Company structures, as they generally are in the west, are designed to be focussed on achieving certain goals efficiently, a democratic system won't be as efficient. You could also look at how armies are structured - there tends to be no democratic structures within armies.
If you are in the US, this weather and news broadcast application is a good resource: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html
Exactly. Stablecoins are a misnomer. They’re stable until they’re not, then they implode.
PS. Having said the above, I do not agree with a law parental consent being required until 18. I would want my kids to have acquired good habits and be able to make reasonable decisions in their own without our involvement by 14 or so.
But... even if AI replaces all mental work (it won't), non-mental work won't disappear.

In this hypothetical scenario, mental workers would transition to physical workers.

There will be more construction workers, doctors, plumbers, hairdressers. This means the society will be able to produce and consume more and / or work less. And the society would be less equal.

The drawback for some "white collar" workers would be that it would mean a decrease in wage and status.

The talk about unemployment and a need for UBI is economically illiterate. In fact, I would argue UBI would be less needed in that scenario. Because the point of UBI is really to decrease income inequality - which would be less of a problem than today.
Yeah as far as I understand most folks pursuing an immutable Linux OS basically just want /etc, /var, and /home to be the only writable parts of the filesystem. Updating or changing the rest of the system requires some repackaging and redeployment of the OS (like using ostree or some other similar tool).
This is not a VPN issue, this is a ban by country I was able to access using VPN from USA, but can't access using my IP (Brazil) also using a VPN located here as well.
It's not like ChatGPT was designed to pass the Turing test, so I don't think we'll be satisfied with scores. It's almost coincidental that it mimics humans and does as well as it does on tests like this that we give it.

Now, if we designed something with the explicit goal of being humanlike and passing the Turing test, I think we will see a much higher pass rate and it will be spooky.
If you ever go to Berlin check the Techniknuseum, they have a bunch of replicas of mechanical computers, like this one : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer)
Partially changed its mind. E-fuels (which is what Germany supports) are vastly inferior to e.g. EVs:

>While e-fuels might help prolong the life of the combustion engine in a zero carbon world, they remain relatively inefficient compared to battery technology — and are also significantly more expensive [...] Vehicles run on e-fuels consume five times more energy than a battery-powered EV, and will be around eight times more expensive to run per kilometer in the future, according to a study commissioned by the German Energy Agency.
That just make it difficult to lock on with weapons. They are not invisible and any radar operator would tell you that if they would be allowed...

"...Stealth designs minimize an aircraft's radar signature, delaying and sometimes even preventing detection, but because of the physical requirements for tactical jets, stealth fighters can be easily spotted by certain low-frequency radar bands.

In fact, it's not even uncommon for air traffic control radar to be able to spot stealth fighters on their scopes. And we're not just talking about when these aircraft are carrying external munitions or fuel tanks, rather, even in full-on "stealth mode," F-22s and F-35s aren't as sneaky as you might think."

- https://www.businessinsider.com/radars-can-see-best-stealth-...
History of the JPL Computer Graphics Lab (2017)
There’s an almost infinite number of strains of communism. But no matter what you pick, someone has to have the power to allocate resources. If it’s the individual that’s given power, as in some variants of anarchocommunism, there has to be strong external controls to prevent markets from re-emerging or you end up in ancapistan. My personal opinion is that Maoism takes capitalism the most realistically, and the cultural revolution is an example of the measures needed to prevent capitalism from re-emerging amoung the more competent laborers at the expense of the less competent. Anarcho communism is a bit of a joke because it assumes the ground reality does not have runaway cybernetic feedback loops, which have been demonstrated to exist in technocapital.
> I share ability to move around and feel pain with apes and cats.

> What I'm interested about is ability "reason" - analyze, synthesize knowledge, formulate plans, etc.

It's great that you are interested in that specific aspect. Many of us are. However, ignoring the far greater richness of human and animal existence doesn't give any more weight to the argument that humans are "just word predictors".
I had one and it was fine until it just died one day on one side and everything on my desk fell off lol. So if you get one make sure you secure stuff on it down in case it fails.
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Extraordinarity is subjective. For you those claims might be extraordinary, for others they may be logical. I can guarantee you a time will come when the positions will be reversed.

Failing to understand this shows you're also having a hard time navigating a scientific and methodological way of finding out the truth, as pretty much everyone else. The problem is that you seem more interested in attacking the intelligence of people who disagree with you than in understanding what makes their claim ordinary for them.
Self driving cars have a very different problem. Regardless of the improvements and sufficiency they reach, their errors can be fatal. One news headline about a self driving car crash will ensure that the technology doesn't get any approvals.

ChatGPT for all it's flaws can't jump out of the computer and harm the user. It can harm users in others ways, but those are less known or understood by the general public, and thus it is much easier to take to general availability.

I agree on the limit part that it might be possible the technology has reached a limit, however, it is still better to think about what happens if it hasn't and the rate of improvement continues.
+1, Vespa is on another level. 3 years of production and its been a dream!
Climate action is strongly influenced by lobying.

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315102
>You also don’t take initiative. Every action that you take is dependent upon all previous actions as your brain is not devoid of operations until you “decide” to do something.

You would say that, wouldn't you? ;-)
The most immediate practical result might be that online product reviews written by AI will be indistinguishable from those written by humans, essentially making online reviews useless to consumers as a source of reliably independent information about various products and services.

On the other hand, perhaps AI could help with due diligence types of inquiries from an independent standpoint? A real-time online AI research assistant with web scraping capabilities would be interesting.
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I too was using text-only versions of sites like CNN, Reuters, or Christian Science Monitor[1], and they were fine. But what I really wanted was to turn any news website into a text-only website.

So I build NewsWaffle, which for any website:

https://github.com/acidus99/NewsWaffle

* Automatically builds a list of news stores, separate from the navigational hyperlinks.

* Detects RSS/Atom feeds to provide a more accurate list of news stories.

* Uses Readability to show only article content on article pages.

* Uses meta data like OpenGraph or Twitter cards to provide richer formatting, and to determine page type.

It regularly converts 900 KB home pages or 1.2 MB news articles into into 3KB for links to news stories and 5K of text

It does this by:

* Using semantic tags like <header>, <footer>, and <nav> to determines which hyperlinks are navigational and which ones are likely links to news articles.

* OpenGraph meta data to determine page type news stories and extra metadata.

* A Aggressive HTML parser that strips out a ton of tags, CSS, JS, etc

* Readability library to extract out the text of news articles

I built this as a service in Gemini, so if you have a gemini browser you can try it. Otherwise, here is a HTTP-to-gemini proxy showing you what a NYT article looks like:

Gemini link: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/

NYT Homepage: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/li...

NYT Article: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/ar...

[1] https://www.csmonitor.com/text_edition
In Barbara Ehrenrich's book Nickled and Dimed she got a job at a big box store (i think it was Walmart) and orientation included telling the workers that time theft was doing anything other than work while on the clock.
> Does a calculator truly understand math when it spits out a correct answer? Of course not. And it doesn't matter.

It starts to matter the moment we teach people at large to call calculators "Artificial Math Professor", projecting the image that they do indeed comprehend mathematics at a higher level.

It starts to matter when I meet my aunt (a psychiatrist no less) for lunch and she is absolutely convinced that there is a conscious, intelligent entity living inside her calculator, and she wants to debate the ethics of this with me, getting angry and upset when I doubt the premise.

It starts to matter when I turn on the TV later that day and see our countries minister of education in a panel discussion, debating the future of our schools when AMPs will teach math to our kids instead of flawed, human teachers.

It starts to matter when our government starts debating new laws about "spreading dis-calculation" on social media, convinced that we can just let AMPs read and comprehend all those maths posts in real-time, reporting them to higher authority for posting wrong-calc, deciding on human lives in full-auto-mode.

It starts to matter when I discuss the above with my mother (a lawyer) over lunch and she doesn't understand what the problem is either, convinced that we actually have flawless AMPs that can do all of this, baffled that I, supposedly a "tech guy", am opposed to legislative decisions ushering in new, fancy hype tech.

It starts to matter when this is brought up on places like HN and people with a level of actual technological knowledge, possibly involved in some of this, fail to see the consequences and instead focus on high concept, philosophical debates about what really constitutes a "math professor", constantly moving goal posts around, hooked on their their own hype, rather than marveling the wondrous new technologies of the last years, but for what they actually are.

For people at large, a computer has always been a magic black box that they anthropomorphized anyway. When marketing starts using fancy SciFi words, re-defining their actual meaning to stir up hype, people happily go with the literal meaning of what they are told (as intended; hence the hype). They are absolutely willing to believe that we indeed trapped a Math Professor in a box, Max Headroom style.

Some of the people happen to be in places were they can make decisions, and that's when it really starts to matter.
Ok. Courtesy of ChatGPT: https://github.com/localjo/awesome-text-only-news
Yes, but it seemed like the prompt asked for a "boring" story. I guess you could make it more interesting by writing a more detailed prompt
Cuban migrants fly into Florida on hang glider
People should be out in the streets.
There are certain features that can't be replicated with ML-based rendering, or are poorly suited to it. It doesn't have a concept of worldspace, for one, which makes it struggle with light propagation and game logic in particular.

It's more likely that they'll complement each other - tagged geometry + hard raytracing for certain features + ML style transfer/rendering. At least until convincing and fully hallucinated worlds appear (which might or might not happen).
I think being able to identify LLM generated text would be a nice skill to have, but unfortunately I don't think it's as easy as you think it is.
all three of those advantages are the same thing - popularity.
its possible you havent been keeping up with sesame street, because no they won't.
The government already operates roads. Nothing would change. The people that use it (ie. most people including myself) pay for it. I like the idea that part of the police and military budget be put towards the highways they use.

You made the claim, the burden of evidence is on you. All I said is that you wish people be forced to pay for things they don’t use and I do not, which you conveniently ignored after asking me to address every bit of your comment.

People like you always pull this “indirectly use” argument to justify making people pay for things they do not use. I don’t pay for the gym membership of the delivery guy, this is no different.
I want to argue with you, but this is true. It doesn't have to be, but it has been the reality. It's also correct when applied to global currencies that peg to the dollar, not just cryptocurrencies.
> And the pace is clearly accelerating.

From where I'm standing and observing… no. GPT-4 is not qualitatively more powerful than GPT-3, only quantitatively more powerful. The new functionality is coming from the other systems GPT-4 is being plugged into, not from the actual GPT model.

There are even things that GPT-3 can do that GPT-4 cannot.
> Peter Thiel threw $100 bills into the crowd from the stage at a cryptocurrency conference in Miami

is there some sort of race to the bottom between all these vile super-rich goons?
Now that is a conspiracy theory
How to be a productive iconoclast according to Owen Barfield
Like fingerprinting a browser!
Seems like valuable food cargo is gonna be stuff like liquor.

Booze probably has better grey market value than most perishable items.