skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that a lot of people here are not used to this style of journalism, in which the writer foregrounds what they experienced and felt while reporting the story. Such writing used to be common in Harper's, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and similar magazines. I enjoyed it when I was young, but, despite the occasional insights--such as the uselessness of semiconductor fabs in Taiwan to China if China invades--this article wore me out before I got very far.

I'm sure GPT didn't write it, but I would be happy to read GPT's summary of it.
Maybe not in this specific case, but in many fields the problem is knowledge management. There are too many things to know, to remember, too many niches for super rare special cases, and then you need to properly put the right things together at the right time.

Every now and then there is an article about scientists in some field rediscover a principle or technique that was known over a hundred years ago already but didn't have any practical applications so was forgotten again, but could then solve some problem we were having today for the past two decades. Because nobody remembered that obscure paper by some dude who didn't achieve anything remarkable during his lifetime. So we just spent 20 years reinventing the wheel.

This is the kind of task I expect AI to excel at. It might at least currently be on the cognitive level of an overconfident 6yo in many regards, but a 6yo with more knowledge than any single person alive. You will still need humans for a good while to sanity check the output and for the bigger picture though.
Given the rapidly ageing Italian demographics, this is particularly crazy. Italy needs to make some changes or risk being a defunct nation state before the middle of the century.
Yeah looks like folksy can’t comprehend actually reading for the sake of reading… I found it a fun read. Dramatic? Big words? Religion? Sounds like it was the point.
I'm a biochemist and I find the distinction arbitrary. Paracetamol/acetaminophen is anti-inflammatory, and it is non-steroidal. That to me is enough to warrant inclusion in the category "NSAID".

It doesn't mean it has the same mechanism of action, the same COX selectivity, the same side effect profile, etc, as all other drugs within the class.
It'll be interesting to see how long the medical industry will manage to FUD people into being scared of taking their symptoms to an AI, considering that they have been treating patients like cattle to be stamped off essentially since forever.

The bar of competence set by most doctors is so hilariously low that any smart person with a search engine has been able to outdo the typical GP for a while now. All the accumulated knowledge these professionals have is worthless if they don't take more than 3 minutes to look at the patient.

Imagine if, as an engineering consultant, you took just 3 minutes in total for your customer, including the customer describing their problem. They would literally be better off just googling it instead. There's no reason to expect this to be different for doctors, and indeed it isn't.
There is a point to be made that anything coming from Meta is just designed by its makers to destroy your mental health for ad clicks. Other companies do not have such toxic business model even Tiktok.
I'm going to guess that you're in The Netherlands?
I'm not in the camp that fears it, I think it will be an awesome tool and I can't wait to use it in my next game. I've been playing with Midjourny a lot already, but have been watching Stable Diffusion and the control net stuff closely as well.
Maybe it's not competing against us, maybe it's doing the things that we shouldn't have to spend our time doing, so that we can free up our time for more valuable pursuits. It's just gonna take us a little bit of time to figure out what those pursuits are.
as a 1 man shop i actually went back to docker hub after my DO based registry started flaking. tbf i was self hosting the registry because I'm cheap but the images were in do spaces. worked fine for a couple years then became unreliable. knowing not much else i decided to give hub the $5/mo or whatever to save me the pain.
not looking forward to figuring out what magic auth keys i need to reconfigure to pull from somewhere else now
Because why? Are you arguing that the lives of people with access to proper healthcare are more important than those without?
I’ve seen junior sysadmins and developers repeating this for years also. Don’t know where it comes from.

Apart from this issue, I’ve never once see an error due to the tz presentation settings on a server, and I have spent 20 years running many thousands of servers at a time. shrug.

Let them have to adjust in grafana/kibana if it helps them sleep I guess..
I think more likely the wages and the egg prices will catch up, that is, USD will lose another 50% of its value.
Those problems solved but a lot of other problems created. This genie can't go back into the bottle that easily. People live in other countries or states now and want to see their families too.
Plus Czechoslovakia 1946/47 and Chile since 2016, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_time_%28clock_lag%29
Some time back someone made a dart / canvas based framework that copied actionscript's semantics http://www.stagexl.org/index.html

I wonder if GPT would ever get large enough token size to auto convert most programs to another framework.
> Here's how I know that TikTok is some sort of psyop: it's an entirely separate app in China. The algorithm does different things, explicitly.

Can you explain that a bit more? Of course it's going to behave differently. Any serious multinational is going to tailor their offerings to local preferences. A McDonald's in India sells a significantly different menu than one in Indiana. As for it being a seperate app rather than clicking a country flag during onboarding or whatever, I can see plenty of reasonable technical reasons for that.

I'd think they probably have even more freedom than most players to do so, because they didn't have to play to significant established brand expectations on arrival.
I wonder how many HN conversations would be cut short if we simply accepted that analogies are imperfect yet useful.
If performing a job is even just 10% faster, you can fire 1 person out of a team of 10 (or need to hire in the first place). This should be obvious.
Except for the hands.

If you're familiar with the Rick and Morty "what is my purpose" meme ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9MpLXuLs0 ), it will essentially be the same for humanity in the future.

Humanity: "What is my purpose?"

Robot: "You draw the hands."

Humanity, with existential dread: "Oh my god..."
I think you need to read other’s thoughts more charitably. I doubt he was suggesting bored artists and call center workers grab a hard hat and pick a road. The point is that AI makes it easier for humans to do work, and there’s an endless amount of work we as a society want done. Avandon capitalist frameworks of wages/capital/“deserved poverty” for a minute, and just consider a group of humans and a pile of tasks that need to be done.
Web users hated Flash for being present everywhere and used for serving obnoxious resource-hungry ads.
> model of sending around megabytes-to-multigigabytes of VMs is inherently too expensive

Yes. I think automated build pipelines running 24x7 that could request even for the oldest version of a sizable image without caching at their end is part of the issue. There was no limit that I'm aware of on the no. of tags/versions per image or per OSS account on DockerHub, so just like package repositories, effectively every image had to be available forever and each image was of significant size. I don't believe storage and network tx costs have reduced at the same rate as increase in adoption of build pipelines and automation.

Same issue exists for apt, NPM, Maven, PyPi, or any other repository, but yes, the storage requirement should be significantly smaller.

Aside: Because Java has been around for so long in enterprises, many have learned over time to set up registries internally - a combination of wanting to host private packages securely on prem and protecting from downtime, supply-chain attacks. JFrog Artifactory is pretty commonly seen. However, IIRC npm registry was not easy to self-host on prem in the early days, and many enterprises had their private packages hosted on npm.
What? List some examples because I could only find a well-deserved biting remark at Musk.
It’s an anti-surveilance thing. Between the Nazis and the GDR’s Stasi we have some concerns there.

It’s been getting a lot better with Covid and SumUp, though.
> (F) interactive gaming, virtual gaming, or an online service, that allows the creation and uploading of content for the purpose of interactive gaming, edutainment, or associated entertainment,

Doesn't this loophole even defeat their own hidden agenda? Almost every online game today features a chat function.
What's the struggle? Just remove the sign up and send people straight into the app.
that platform, like most others,can use more boobs and less asses
Of course Swift is now almost a decade old, so it's increasingly rare to find a pure Objective-C codebase
> Instead of grinding away over a piece of code

crafting

> get to talk to people more

about KPIs and OKRs
> This article seems overly dramatic

The article: “I arrive in Taiwan brooding morbidly on the fate of democracy.”
> Googling your symptoms, the top links immediately go to diagnoses like lymphoma or HIV. There is no sense of the a priori likelihood of anything.

An essay on this topic: "WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise" https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...
Yeah I don’t read this story as an example of how a vet is obsolete, but how a vet can be more effective with assists from LLMs.

Enhance not replace! The map is not the territory, so you’ll always want to pair a native with the expert (and the territory here is reality).
I have used Tabnine before, is it not free too?
Why is that an upside?

I mean, clocks go out of sync, every few (days? Weeks?) I assume the ntp client has adjusted actual local time on your server; not just the time zone your server translates it to when you run “date” we are talking about here…

If it can handle that, it can handle a tz with dls time.
Because the litany of shittily written bash scripts don’t hoard state, or what exactly are you saying?

The only thing I dislike about systemd is that it is written in C, but otherwise it is a single purpose solution to the surprisingly complex problem of managing services during boot and running. I fail to see how state is relevant here — if it were written in Haskell it would also have state, almost by definition it has to handle external state. No Monad would help you there, there is just correct and not correct software.
> You will still need humans for a good while to sanity check the output

Did you read the story? We need AIs to "sanity check" human output more than the other way round.

And while this is an anecdote, it is by no means an isolated incident. Human professionals are being outperformed on trivial tasks (note that this was a common complication of a common disease) by chatbots. I'm far more scared by human incompetence than by AI making mistakes.
Plastic rocks mean a rocky future for millions of people
> A.I. art is not art.

IMO you can certainly output art, code, etc from AIs. AI as a new kind of productivity tool, a very powerful one.
> Docker images are relatively large, and Docker Hub became so central to the use of Docker that it became common for DevOps toolchains to pull images to production nodes straight from Docker Hub

Not only that, but it was actively encouraged by all Docker fanbois to pull as soon as you can. When I saw Watchtower the first time I was just speechless.

Though IMO they had a chance at getting money long before that debacle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34377674
> Lisp communities care more about syntactic extensibility than performance, etc.

Huh? Are SBCL maintainers SIMDifying chunks of their CL implementation, improving static type checking and inference, improving numeric performance, and improving compiler optimizations as much as they can simply for "syntactic extensibility?"

Even Clojure cares enough about performance and problems with laziness and copying to give us eductions and transducers, respectively, to work around the inherent performance issues in both.

I have no idea what Lisp communities the reader must be referring to.
Ask HN: How many don't want others to contribute to their open source projects?
I've created a project posted on github and I'm getting prs for the first time. I should probably feel great but part of me doesn't really want to accept any changes. In one way my role moves reviewing which is not really why I started the project and feels like work. But more importantly I lose control and maybe a bit of credit. Being able to say I did everything feels cleaner than 98.7% and with only my changes I feel more free to introduce any new feature or refactor with regard to others who may be working under old assumptions. Has anyone felt similiar?
It's absolutely not a coincidence that the same grifters that shilled murderous Tesla FSD are now all in at shilling GPT (essentially "top-google-result-as-doctor") as solution for humanity without any kind of criticism and nuance.

It's the core of techbroism.

LLMs have proven to be an excellent tool for data recall in this information age - but tech worshippers alwant to sell them as decision makers as well and that will cause more evil than even what Zuckerberg and co. accidentally brought to humanity.
When I search “different causes of anemia in dogs” in either Kagi or Google (with Ad-Block), the first response for me gives the same information That GPT-4 does.
> What are we gonna do about the ever increasing N+1% of people who won’t be cost effective versus an AI?

Their quality of life will increase because of all the cheap stuff we can make with ai and robots.
They will coexist and compete with robots.
Upward mobility should be better, given the access to advanced technology.

Worst case scenario, they can all band together outside of the advanced civilisation, grow their food and live a separate life.

There is no need to make high iq people to pay for low iq to live in a high iq society.

We're already seeing a divide of cities for rich people and cities for poor people. It will just be more pronounced.
As a tech pioneer and also an otherwise liberal person, I welcome this move. The company called Meta is doing extreme damage to society and needs to be stopped at all costs.
Yes, the GC helps tremendously here of course.

I guess laziness helps mostly by not dictating the granularity in which to expose both data and building blocks. You can expose more than strictly needed and consumers just pick what’s relevant.

Keeping APIs simple and to the point.
Thanks for the background on Filecoin.

> It's just a bad idea, everyone has to have every copy of everything anyone might want.

Do keep in mind that pruned nodes are a thing.
> move 3 power poles
> House will be 3200sqft
> Construction budget is $2m
> impossible for new construction by family’s

Sorry, but this looks like one of the most incredibly out-of-touch rich people comments I've ever read. You're building a freaking castle in the middle of the city, moving roads around, and then you go on to say "families" can't build??

Maybe you're right and even building a modest home in the suburbs is harder than it should, but your project is definitely not proof of that.
I too started with the Spectrum 48K, but that article is missing the Sinclair QL that, along with the Acorn Archimedes, was ahead of it's times. By far, IMHO.
I will forever be grateful to the Ruffle devs for enabling all the Homestar Runner content to be kept online in its original form:

https://homestarrunner.com
Maybe because they are owned by Microsoft
Yes, but.

I think people are sleeping a little bit on how expansive these attacks can be and how much limiting them also limits GPT's usefulness.

Part of the problem is you can't stick a middleware between the website and GPT, you can only stick the middleware between GPT and the system consuming the data that GPT spits out -- because the point of GPT here is to be the middleware, it's to work with unstructured data that would otherwise be difficult to parse and/or sanitize. So you have to give it the raw stuff and then essentially treat everything GPT spits out as potentially malicious data, which is possible but does limit the types of systems you can build.

On top of that, the types of attacks here are somewhat broader than I think the average person understands. In the best case scenario, user data on a website can probably override what data gets returned from other users and from the website itself: it's likely that someone on Twitter can write a tweet that, when scraped by GPT, changes what GPT returns when parsing other tweets. And it's not clear to me how to mitigate that, and that is a much broader attack than other scraping services typically need to deal with.

But in the worst case scenario, the user content can reprogram GPT to accomplish other tasks, and even give it "secret" instructions. And because GPT is kind of fuzzy about how it gets prompted, that means that not only does the data following a fetch need to be treated as potentially malicious, any response or question or action GPT takes after fetching that data until the whole context gets reset also should likely be treated as potentially malicious. And again, I'm not sure if there's a way around that problem. I don't know that you can sandbox a single GPT answer without resetting GPT's memory and starting over with a new prompt. Maybe it is possible, but I haven't seen it done before.

None of that means you're wrong -- you're correct. The way you deal with problems like this is to identify your attack vectors and isolate them and take away their permissions. But... following your advice for GPT is probably trickier than most people are anticipating, and it has real consequences for how useful the resulting service can be. Which probably means we should be more hesitant to wire it up to a bunch of random APIs, but that's not something OpenAI seems to be worried about.

I suspect that it is a lot easier for an average dev to sandbox a deterministic scraper and to block SQL injection than it is for that dev to build a useful system that blocks prompt injection attacks. There are sanitization libraries and middleware solutions you can pass untrustworthy SQL into -- but nothing like that exists for GPT.
I see a story about information saving a life. ChatGPT is certainly a tool that can retrieve information.

Are we gonna celebrate the millions of lives saved by books next?
in 2007-2009 home prices in the US declined by $6T, plus commercial real estate declined $2t. Insurance companies simply don't have that kind of money. AIG tried to insure only very tiny percentage of that market, and lost.
First, this argument applies to everything from WFH adding efficiency to computers themselves being faster than ink and paper.

But that's not how the economics works out. The business can simply choose to sell 10% more content.
My first google - "dog anemia low platelet count increase wbc" - first result suggests the same, plus 3-4 more on the first page.

I'm guessing about 1000x faster than using ChatGPT.

I think the real story here is how vulnerable many are to hype, and maybe even more so, how many are willing to ignore the obvious to cash in on the attention.

We saw it with crypto, now it's AI's turn. Honestly I can't tell which had more annoying grifters.
Try not removing context and thinking before reacting.

>Eat good and healthy food, NOT SUPPLEMENTS

Now think about this for a moment. Do a search for "foods high in magnesium," think some more on it. Then ask yourself what would be the healthier way to increase your magnesium intake, replacing some of your diet with those foods or taking a pill?
unprocessed, "natural" food: fruits, all vegetables, raw, fermented, lemoned (potatoes are the food with highest satiety index https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7498104/), seeds (rice, quinoa, all kind of peas, etc..), some animal food (eggs, fish, meat). Favor local food and try to balance the food over a week
People should be getting a 2nd opinion regardless. Too many people don’t shop around with their health care providers enough and the say things like “GPs are useless”, “physiotherapists are useless”.

Some are bad, some burn out, some are over worked, just like all professions.
A large part of the risk can be mitigated by the fact that trans HRT uses bioidentical hormones and that you change the delivery route to transdermal or injections. The risk was substantial 30-40 years ago when trans HRT also used syntehtic hormones, but seemed to have leveled out to near nothing now.

Varying levels (big spikes, big valleys) are an issue too, but very few people are interested in doing anything about it. I'd love to be offered polyestradiol phosphate for instance. But such drugs are very rarely offered to anyone trans, because even after years of HRT, I could suddenly want to detransition and then this lasts too long. Or something.
I feel bad for people reluctant to embrace the tech. It feels like refusing to adopt email, the web, mobile apps, and so on. Why not use it to your advantage?

Truth is, it's going to become a must for many companies very soon, or they'll be unable to compete. Maybe there will be some niches where human artists thrive, but it's uncertain at this stage.
Yes, what could possibly go wrong if you keep mother and child separate ... oh wait. That's actually well studied:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_attachment_disorder

That this can happen, of course, to any sane person would be a very strong argument not to interfere, and place the threshold for taking children forcibly away almost at the point they would die without aid, because the vast majority of problems neglect causes are much less bad than the problems CPS causes.

Neglect causes "parentification" [1], where sometimes very young children take responsibility for themselves and sometimes also for others. The one psychological problem children can develop that can actually improve outcomes for them. Essentially if children "succeed" at parentification, it results in good outcomes. So you'd think we would alter society to make it easier for children to take care of themselves (e.g. guarantee medical access for children by themselves WITHOUT referring them to CPS, in abstract a clear, workable, understandable set of rules. Do X, Y and Z (e.g. school) and you get to do what you want, which must of course include telling social services to get the fuck out)

The problem CPS has is that in general, very, very bad parents deliver better results with children than CPS interference. This is partly due to the state of CPS institutions and just how incredibly bad they are, but is also the result of how the human mind works. A constant relationship with even an abusive parent/caregiver is a lot better than many short caregiver relationships, even if those are pretty good ones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parentification
Except where comparisons being made, the first and second halves are mostly independent. If the tree-walking interpreter might not be what you have hope for, you can, in principle, skip finishing it. The bytecode VM half is a re-implementation (in C instead of Java as the first half) and only the scanner/tokenizer has some inevitable redundancies in implementation. For me, who had less prior knowledge in interpreters, it is still good to have fully gone through both halves to relate to the comparisons and trade-offs of both implementations.
I was just pointing out one job that I could see in my industry. I for one welcome the wealth of interesting new indies games with great looking graphics we'll soon see.

People will be able to take more risks and do more interesting projects. It will be awesome.