skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More and more and more wealthy is moving to the top and becoming concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.

That's the pattern.
For wordpress: Elementor (easy to use, easy to find devs for it) and my personal favorite Thrive Architect (and their other plugins), that I like because of all the nifty marketing tools, ease of a/b testing. Both of these are visual builders, in a WYSIWYG sense. (There's also Divi, which is popular, but in my experience it somehow creates slow/laggy pages.)
Here's their page with more information about the project: https://yunohost.org/en/whatsyunohost

> YunoHost is an operating system aiming for the simplest administration of a server, and therefore democratize self-hosting, while making sure it stays reliable, secure, ethical and lightweight. It is a copylefted libre software project maintained exclusively by volunteers. Technically, it can be seen as a distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and can be installed on many kinds of hardware.

Features
Based on Debian;
Administer your server through a friendly web interface ;
Deploy apps in just a few clicks;
Manage users (based on LDAP);
Manage domain names;
Create and restore backups;
Connect to all apps simultaneously through the user portal (NGINX, SSOwat);
Includes a full e-mail stack (Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, DKIM);
... as well as an instant messaging server (XMPP);
Manages SSL certificates (based on Let's Encrypt) ;
... and security systems (Fail2ban, yunohost-firewall);

Here's their page of the supported applications as well: https://yunohost.org/en/apps

While I get much the same with Debian/Ubuntu and Docker containers for most of the software (and maybe Portainer for graphical administration), I appreciate the effort! While you can't get rid of the need to do some configuration, updates and other maintenance, I still think it's reasonable to work on making the process more streamlined and easier. Even though I use Ansible for some things, graphical interfaces are also usually a bit more relaxing to browse through (though in my experience CLI is still needed for non-trivial actions anyways).
Nice. The issue I have with some of my multi-arch stuff is that I began doing it before buildx stabilised, and I also launched multiple runners in parallel because some of the builds take... a long time.
Show HN: ChatGPT Plugins are a security nightmare
Exponential curves are theoretical constructs: all actual phenomena are S-shaped.

The question is only when does the "exponential regime" turn into the flat; and the answer is often fairly obvious if you don't begin from the "time = magic" premise.

There's an entire industry of public (pseudo)-intellectual who's schtick is to draw logistic phenomena with exponential curves and then cry, "the sky is falling!".
How many other iPhone owners know that?
> People should get paid to create things, and get paid what the work is worth.

This is literally how it works today though. No one is intentionally paying employees more than they have to, and if they pay less than they have to, they lose employees.

Basically this is just an anticapitalist rant. Not useful even if one agrees with the premise.
You’re making the weird assumption that the people at the Fed have greater than 99 IQ, or any desire at all to learn about the effects of their monetary decisions other than their own short term personal gains.

And there is no indication of either of these suppositions.
Âne means donkey in French.

Just sayin'.
This. People (naively or dishonestly) think because the text is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts", that it must be the case it does this. Powerful people wouldn't lie, would they?

In reality (c)opywrong and patent law does the opposite. It promotes the collection of money and power to the 1% to the detriment of the progress of science and useful arts.
No, because they still wouldn’t be lending out what was bought.
> Yep. That's pretty much the game of predictions.

So you agree the recession prediction is not evidence for Shiff's competence?

> Which target?

2%

> Consumer inflation at the moment (~7%) is rivalling rates witnessed back in the 80s. Add the new money the Fed has printed over time (since 2008) and now expected to continue (covid stimulus, bailouts for banks etc.), anyone can see where the trend for inflation is going. No predictions are even needed for that.

...have you looked at the trend, though? Inflation was climbing higher and higher until last June, and then it dropped by more than half. For the last 3-8 months the inflation rate has been about 4%.
Wouldn’t that be a tacit admission of the closeness, or importance, of TikTok to China… something TikTok/Bytedance is explicit trying not to do? They’re trying to up play the distance.
There are times when I feel smarter because I knew enough to be able to make the error...

From https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus#Usage_notes -

> Usage notes

> The plural octopi is hypercorrect, coming from the mistaken notion that the -us in octōpūs is a Latin second declension ending. The word is actually treated as a third declension noun in Latin. The plural octopodes (Latin: octōpodēs) follows the Ancient Greek plural, ὀκτώποδες (oktṓpodes). The plural octopii is based on an incorrect attempt to pluralise the word based on an incorrect assumption of its origin, and is rare and widely considered to be nonstandard.

> Sources differ on which plurals are acceptable: Fowler's Modern English Usage asserts that “the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses”, while Merriam-Webster and other dictionaries accept octopi as a plural form. The Oxford English Dictionary lists octopuses, octopi, and octopodes (the order reflecting decreasing frequency of use), stating that the last form is rare. The online Oxford dictionary states that the standard plural is octopuses, that octopodes is still occasionally used, and that octopi is incorrect.

> The term octopod (both octopods and octopodes can be found as the plural) is taken from the taxonomic order Octopoda but has no classical equivalent, and is not necessarily synonymous (it can encompass any member of that order). The uncountable use of octopus is usually reserved for octopus flesh consumed for food ("He ate too much octopus last night.").
It's fiction in the sense of value set arbitrarily by people. In the end the value of most things is like that. People are ready to spend more money (meaning they value it higher) on houses bigger than they need, without getting any utility out of it for instance.
Also most humans would say 1 but the truth is that you can't know. It's a stupid question getting sometimes stupid answer.

I am almost tired of people coming up with ridiculous "breaks" to feel better about themselves
> a bit of a joke

You demeaning a mind sport just because something similar is used for interviews is the joke.
No, humans don't do that. If humans did that nothing new would ever be created.
This is similar to carbon taxes for airplane fuel. From all the fuss you'd assume plane ticket prices would be tripling or something, but some estimates are like 8% total price increases, since you still have to pay pilots and ground staff etc. so fuel is a major cost, but not the only cost.
> I think what IA was doing, making sure they only lend out as many copies as they physically own,

Part of this points out that they weren’t even doing that; there was no process to ensure that the “partnered” library wasn’t simultaneously lending out their copy.
Because they don't distinguish between properties of the output and properties of the system which generated it. Indeed, much of the last decade of computer-science-engineering has basically been just insisting that these are the same.

An LLM can generate output which is indistinguishable from a system which reasoned/knew/imagined/etc. -- therefore the "hopeium / sky is falling" manic preachers call its output "reasoned" etc.

Any actual scientist in this field isn't interested in whether measures of a system (its output) are indistinguishable, they're interested in the actual properties of the system.

You don't get to claim the sun goes around the earth just because the sky looks that way.
"I prefer to avoid third-party services that require privilege escalation like Grammarly and Copilot"

How do they require privilege escalation?
[...] demonstrate potentially brutal consequences of giving LLMs like ChatGPT interfaces to other applications. We propose newly enabled attack vectors and techniques and provide demonstrations of each in this repository:

- Remote control of chat LLMs

- Leaking/exfiltrating user data

- Persistent compromise across sessions

- Spread injections to other LLMs

- Compromising LLMs with tiny multi-stage payloads

- Automated Social Engineering

- Targeting code completion engines

Based on our findings:

- Prompt injections can be as powerful as arbitrary code execution

- Indirect prompt injections are a new, much more powerful way of delivering injections.
And BBC doesn't even show the full picture of the statue...
Most people can’t understand analogies. They are literally literal.
Your comment made me curious. I downloaded the complete last month (February). 28 days, every day has a gzipped json file which is on average 86MB. Summarized it is 53GB of gzipped jsons for 28 days. Roughly 700GB gzipped per year. Didn't have the chance to ungzip them all.
I have no clue about the writing profession, so all this is just a speculation. But I feel like it would allow a head sitcom writer to flesh out concepts quickly and iterate quickly. I don't see it replace the writers coming up with high level concepts and themes or even the final script. But it should make iteration faster I guess.
+1 to this, SeaBIOS is great!
I'm just waiting for someone to make an open-source TikTok analog that can just replace the functionality with a platform not controlled by a single party .. we still have that dream right, cryptonerds?

Seems like the best solution to the problem.
Little offtopic, but do you use some LaTeX editor (like overleaf) or another tool with LaTeX export (Obsidian may be)? Just interesting because I', trying to make scientific paper writing solution based on the project RedForester (http://bit.ly/3JMLbwL) and think about LaTeX export option.
I’m also wondering how others are able get long form responses from chatgpt > 100 lines. The “please continue” prompt often messes up the output and isn’t a clean continuation. I suppose I ought to ask chatgpt …
The reasoning occurred when people wrote the text it was trained on in the first place; it's training data is full of the symptoms of imagination, reason, intelligence, etc.

Of course if you statistically sample from that in convincing ways it will convince you it has the properties of the systems (ie., people) which created its training data.

But on careful inspection, it seems obvious it doesnt.

Bugs bunny is funny because the writing staff were funny; bugs himself doesnt exist.
It’s not magical thinking if the law agrees.
> Docker Hub has little to offer to most commercial businesses.

> It was also pretty important to tech companies who use said projects

Should I add anything? If you can't make your point without such glaring contradictions, I don't know if the point is worth making.
Get a seedbox. For about 20 Eurodollars a month you can pirate whatever you want 24/7 without having to deal with law firms or government interference.

I saw the writing on the wall when my ISP was forced to block TPB and KAT.
The Case for Moderation
Cash shouldn’t be going anywhere here in the USA. If you like eating food from a restaurant in the USA you’d better be tipping with cash. Otherwise the tip left on the card goes to the business. And we know how stingy restaurants are with pay.

I worked in hospitality for years. It’s tough, thankless, and not paid well. Tip heavy and often!
Societal responsibility to reduce ewaste.

Apple devices are notoriously painful to recycle properly.
Most bankers are absolutely garbage at money management and the only people that understand economics worse than most investors are economists.
Coding. Best example was an obnoxious 3rd party C++ API with header, and sample code that was more confusing than helpful. I fed the header and sample code to chat-gpt (was not too many lines) and then asked it to write a sample application that did X using the API. It almost worked, and needed a bit tweaking, but removed so much of the effort of trying to parse hundreds of lines of pseudo-gibberish to get to the few API calls I needed. I'm not going to name the API here. You know such things exist, and sometimes for good historical reasons.
Of course they do. It's got another name (抖音) but it's basically the same exact product.
I don’t think the owners of the Notre-Dame set the fire themselves.
I’ve uninstalled mine…

Perhaps the API domain became available and someone set up a backend?
Almost none of the complaints are true of Webflow, FWIW. It's by no means perfect, but there are many use cases where it is a much smarter decision than contracting or hiring a site engineer.

Sprinkle in some custom widgets as needed and you can get pretty far (albeit not with optimal page speed performance).
Tired of hearing about things that don't affect you is lack of empathy
openAI claims that user data is not being used for training since March 1st.
I've been using this for a few years, mainly for Nextcloud, Matrix and a few other services. It's been a great experience, I can't say I've ran into any major issues so far. Updates can be slow sometimes but nothing to be really concerned about.
> For now, the magnitude of this problem is smaller

I am not sure about that. In 2008, it was only a crisis in the US real estate lending market that became contagious. Now, it is a crisis of global inflation. All long-term loans were granted by the banks in recent years with the expectation of much lower interest rates. Their prices were ment to cover the risks. Sinces all such loans were too cheap, they actually do not cover the risks appropriately. This means that banks worldwide will face large deficits in the foreseeable future.
Does the Chinese internet literally not know about the Chinese bans of Facebook, YouTube, etc. or is that one guy just an idiot?
So you've competed at the highest level of programming competitions, but you also seem to be doing work on Upwork [1]? That seems pretty unusual...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34935440#34935783
The Titan review – Netflix sci-fi squanders its premise (2018)
There's something fascinating about the fact that an organization collectively made the decisions that lead to this outcome.
Now I'm curious what kind of code GPT-4 produced here. I thought an LLM would be at least able to detect the suitable algorithm to use based on text analysis?
The Lies We Believe About Ourselves
I've had both positive and negative experiences along the lines you described. It think a core skill with ChatGPT at the moment is knowing when to abandon an approach or task.

I've had it do some things in brilliant ways. Asking it to create typescript types for given data (and multiple examples to do union types). I've had it help me create migrations for Prisma schema that doesn't lose data. I've asked it to convert one format (html to jsx) and it can get that right.

Often you still have to correct it, but it gives amazing starting points.

But if it's wrong arguing it with it is a mistake. It's not aware, and it can't learn on the fly (currently). If you close the chat and then repeat the prompts exactly it will make the same mistakes again.
Funny, nobody is talking about Bitcoin or Decentralized Finance as a solution (or even a hedge) to this problem.
Over 30M people were under a tornado warning in Mississippi
> Especially when his strategy is to make the same bet that everyone else is making?

Who said that? I was just responding to "It's better to be wrong until you're right than right until you're wrong...because you will get the last laugh."

I assumed that "right" in the first half is at least somewhat similar to "right" in the second half. And that "wrong" in the first half is at least somewhat similar to "wrong" in the second half.

If they're supposed to have inverse odds, then that wording is very misleading.

> Last I checked, Bob’s investments so closely tracked inflation, its indistinguishable.

???

Please elaborate on who you think Bob is, because whatever you think it was not my intent.
This is a faulty parallel. Someone who smokes until they're 98 is not engaged in a quest to change the general outcome of smoking for all others.
Speaking as to my own opinion now:

I'm skeptical that "encouraging creators by offering protections" is much more than a rationalization. (And I'm not sure whether it's historically accurate, although that's beside the point.) It doesn't seem like the concept of intellectual property and its protection under the law have been effective at encouraging people to create things; they seem to be more effective at encouraging rent seeking. If we want to enable and encourage people to create things, we should pay them to create – not pay them to share something after they've already created it.

For example, we can pay someone to perform the labor to create something we want (contracts), we can finance their endeavours or subsidize their living expenses if we like their work (the patron model), and so on. In fact, we already do these things, but their effectiveness is limited because our current laws favor other business models.

And there's a wonderful reciprocity: if I pay someone to create something, not only do I get what I want, but everyone else gets to benefit from it too. And the things that other people pay to have created I also get to enjoy (and there are a lot more "other people" than there are "me").

[This is the visualization of a goal (or at least an alternative way of going about things) and an argument for its possibility. Unfortunately I can't claim to know its feasibility, how to get there from here, or even which tactics would be effective, but I hope to have good answers some day.]
> There's no content crossing Cloudflare servers for DNS resolutions but there definitely is for IPFS.

Unless I'm missing some magical internet tomfoolery, that's not the case when you use their DNS proxy service, right?
I think given that it's been trained on everything ever written, we should suppose the answer is no.

It has always been possible, in the last century, to build a NN-like system: it's a trivial optimization problem.

What was lacking was the 1 exabyte of human-produced training data necessary to bypass actual mechanisms of intelligence (procedural-knowledge generation via exploration of one's environment, etc.).
The problem is the difference between the average and the median.
Can I just say that Im actually become scared reading your comment? Personally I would never ask chatGPT these questions because for me these questions are hard to verify, and knowing how often AI likes to hallucinate.. I just can't trust it.

You mentioned 50/50 correctness in domain questions. I can't be sure that other hard to verify questions do not follow these percentage..
But doesn’t that conflict with the practicalities of economics?

If everyone freely creates copies of what I produce, because they can, I can’t go buy things that can’t be easily replicated, like food or shelter.

If IP is free for everyone, what do we do with all the people who need to live solely by producing IP?
The Death of a Technical Skill (2020) [pdf]
Why? We were all kids before smartphones were invented and our parents were fine.
>> No other country can compare.

Except canada. The coasts. The transportation system, the tech industry... and canada has a far better-regulated banking sector, one that surfed past 2008 almost without incident. And for every natural resource, from water to uranium, Canada has more than it will ever need. I would far rather ride out the comming climate/economic crisis in calgary/vancouver than LA/SF.
Agree. Try looking up travel passport renewal on Google: The first entire page of search results are ads and SEO scammers that charge high fees to fill in a passport application form all disguised as government affiliated services. The actual government passport web site isn’t even close to being top result.

Excite, Yahoo, and Alta Vista are welcoming Google to search giants retirement home.

We dread when the SEO game ruins ChatGPT
Exactly, authors should be glad to be paid $7.99 - once - every time they write a book, and be happy about it. Anything further is just proof of their obsolesence.
The audience would be the very few people who actually care about what's going on inside the guts of malloc().

So mostly people writing high performance code and wondering things like how does it perform in threaded code, whether there are optimizations for small allocations, etc. And also very valuable to the very, very few people who might think "I can do better" and contribute an improvement.

Documentation about the deep internals of stuff can be extremely valuable, but since very few people need it, it tends to be a very rare find.
More data will only mean more inference. But at some unexpected moment, the newly created "senseBERT" breaks the barrier between intelligence and consciousness.
So are you `dig ns`ing every website before you visit it or what
How does that add up if he's a proponent of replacing fossil fuels with nuclear power?

Won't that get more expensive too?

He's a weird one, as he's generally on board with consensus climate change, but he's always had a bee in his bonnet about renewables, making lots of claims that haven't came true.

Could we live as today with just renewable energy? (2005)

https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/renewables/could-...
> It's a risk _mitigation_ strategy.

It's designed to mitigate _delivery_ risk, not _organisational_ risk.

> If a team can't pull off agile what do they think would have been a safer strategy?

I would probably argue that Scrum (which I barely consider to be "agile") is more resilient to inexperience, and therefore lower risk. It's the McDonalds of processes. You're not going to get amazing results, but it will still operate despite hiring a bunch of inexperienced people into it.
Yes, the court also found that their collaboration with libraries to legally scan the books mattered.
I was playing with translating subtitles and I forgot to ask it to do something and just pasted a portion of the subtitle file. It replied with a quick summary of the scene. It's pretty good for very low impact things like this. (A very advanced "nice to have" maker )
That is so bad. They could’ve left 1 or 2 for the benefit of CS as a whole. They are undercutting their own future talent pool this way.
Because IA is causing a risk that the donations aren’t paying for that, but could end up right in the publishers pockets, and shutting down those 100 other projects.
Less boilerplate writing is fine by me.
> Well, not sure process hell was eradicated

My point is that process hell was not eradicated. And in most instances, we ended up with process hell plus micromanagement.

> the business expects to be able to push new features through quickly with faster releases

Oh, I f'in' wish . . . Not enough companies want rapid release, a.k.a. low-risk, customer-centric culture. If more did, I'd have more work because I can do that really well, but managers assume provably true things are magic, because . . . professional managers.

> As technology has become commoditised [sic] and less mysterious

That is a whole ton of crap, son. Tech is not lumber or oranges or coal. It's not a g'damned commodity because we are not commodities. Much as far-distant managers of funds would like to think otherwise. (Or think what they do is different from what we do, in fact.)

Nor is it mysterious. It's more logical than most professions, even the (other?) degreed ones! Ask me to write code to do FOO while robbing BAR to pay BAZ and I can do that and prove to you that it works. This ain't physics or psychology or philosophy . . . I can make it work and prove it works. No hand-waving. No nonsense. Works. Period.
I’d be willing to bet anything it’s just because of the 30%.