skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This exact scenario is what I described to a friend of mine who is an AI researcher.

He was convinced that if we trained the AI on enough data, GPT-x would become sentient.

My opinion was similar to yours. I felt like the hallucinating the AI does was insufficient in performing true extrapolating thought.

I said this because humans don’t truly have access to infinite knowledge, even when they do, they can’t process all of it. Adding endless information for the AI to feed on doesn’t seem like the solution to figuring out true intelligence. It’s just more of the same hallucinating.

Yet despite lacking knowledge, us humans still come up with consistently original thoughts and expressions of our intelligence daily. With limited information, our minds create new representations of understanding. This seems to be impossible for Chat GPT.

I could be completely wrong, but that discussion solidified for me that my role as a dev still has at least a couple more decades of shelf life left.

It’s nice to hear that others are reaching similar conclusions.
He means owning the phone.
Not sure why no one is talking about serious data breach of personal and credit card information in this case. On the contrary, everyone is very concerned about compromise of github ssh key in another thread.
You don’t need to compete for those benefits.
> Do depositors have some sort of moral superiority to investors, or simply a legal priority?

Depositors don't stand to benefit from a bank engaging in stupid risky bets with depositor money.

Investors do (on the upside of those bets).

This is why depositors should (and do) have moral priority for their money.

Investors also are able to directly control the degree of stupid risk-taking behaviour taken by the bank, by virtue of their control of the board. Depositors have no such leverage.

If you make depositors (or the public at large) pay for the sins of the bank's management, you get a classic conflict of interest problem. If you make investors pay, it goes a long way towards aligning their interests with keeping the bank running well.
Well all the information it learns at runtime is encoded in the context window.
I don't feel like {tokens}^ctxWindow is unmeasurably complex. I think one should see a transformer as a stochastic computer operating on its memory. If you modelled a computer as a stochastic process, would you taje the state space to consist of the most recent instruction, or instead the whole memory of the computer?
> I'm sitting next to someone who knew him

Is this person someone who is (was) traveling with you, and therefore you knew that he/she knew Gordon Moore, or did you just got to know this person by random chance?

Given he/she knew him, can you ask to share some memories, and post it here?

RIP.
It might be redis-py originally and someone at public relations advised to replace it with something more general so that it would sound being nice.
Central Europe: eggs price skyrocketed earlier this year (= supply shortage, aka “ran out”, due to bird flu prevention orders). Medical supplies shortage and running out of some medicines completely.
Wasn't onlyfans also using stripe?
Is there a big difference between chatgpt and chatgptplus? I use chatgpt for routine things every day (some basic word smithing, looking up how to use libraries, etc) and it is already quite good. What does the 20/mo get me that I don't already get with the free version?
Every place is the way it is because of its past history and geographical location.
"stay calm" !
Have you tried asking a story-identification question on https://scifi.stackexchange.com/? I've seen quite a few questions on there get answered with even the most obscure books or movies, and your question should fit right in on that site.
US has many "friends". He has to be very careful because, also, a lot of US "enemies" don't love crypto.
> The experience calmed my existential fears about my job being taken by AI.

The issue is that among all the 100k+ software engineers, many don't really do anything novel. How many startups are employing dozens of engineers to create online accessible CRUDs to replace a spreadsheet?

In the company I work for I'd say we have about 15 developers or about 3 teams doing interesting work, and everyone else builds integrations, CRUDs, moves a button there and back in "an experiment", ads a new upsell, etc. All these last parts could be done by a PM or good UX person alone, given good enough tools.

The other parts I'm not worried about either.
All your topics of interest are belong to us.
It makes sense why someone who is good at LC via pattern recognition might not be as good at competitive programming. However, it’s not clear why the reverse would be true. Surely someone good at solving unencountered algorithmic problems would be good at LC?
I don't lug a keyboard and mouse around, but I'm very happy happy to have three ports on my Thinkpad. There are lots of other things to plug in - MIDI controllers, audio interfaces, macropads, microcontroller dev boards and debuggers, cameras and other capture devices. It depends on what you do with your computer.
MI5 spy reveals secret 'unauthorised' IRA talks
Bing works fine on Android
"Nothing to see here! Move along!"
But you are investing your time writing with a stranger on the internet on an argument you clearly lost.
Google doesn't care about this because it is a vehement waste of their time. They sell ads, and have no reason to burn money on LLMs for goodwill; Microsoft does.

Avoiding conflict with Microsoft/OpenAI might be an excellent bluff-check in a world that wants to monetize, distribute and advertise AI generated content.
It probably depends on how much money Stripe can make from you for dealing with the risk. For HN readers, you probably get instantly banned for life if any user uploads porn. For Twitter, they can probably take the right person out for dinner and make the issue go away.
> The only regret I had was I didn't turn on "Find my phone" because I'm so privacy paranoid [...]

Your government and phone company already track you. Turning on 'Find my phone' doesn't really add any more tracking on top, it just allows you to benefit from the tracking, too.
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You have no idea how good the Avengers movies are in the timeline where the US issues Internet bans for piracy and does a comprehensive job of protecting the rights of creators in other countries as well. Our IP situation is anarchy compared to theirs, and our comic book movies are embarrasments.

In that timeline there's a comment chain:

>> So this dev lost his job because he couldn't work during covid after getting Internet banned for pirating some movie. Doesn't that seem excessive?

> Okay, yes, maybe a little. But let me ask you this: How could Disney-XBox Studios have afforded the $2.3T Iron Man vs. Master Chief sequel if they weren't able to protect their investment? I just don't see how that movie gets made without strong IP law.

The Benedict Cumberbatch from their side could probably transport you over, if you want. They're pretty accepting of immigrants, as long as you're willing to get The Implant.
Ask HN: When to start looking for a new JOB?
Hello all,

I've been working in the tech department of a FAANG company for about 3 yrs. as a S/W engineer in a fairly lucrative position. However, things have gotten to the point where I am starting to grow bored and fairly uninterested in my current position.

Thanks to having avoided being laid off, I am hesitant to just start looking for the fear of losing what I have but I know this is not a good position for me, in the longer term. The product is not interesting anymore and I feel the new team can do an adequate job.

When would you start looking for startup jobs? Would you wait or should I just go for it now? Am I being crazy looking for a new job in this current market when I have something?

I feel fairly dissatisfied with my current position but people are advising me to stay in the current job for the good paycheck!
Interesting perspective, I never thought of it that way.

By all means, I shall call you a person whose opinion could not change. Is there a term for such a thing?
Pirate the hell out of their stuff, I guess. After all, can’t borrow anymore, can we? :)
The smug sanctimony in this comment reeks of "reality has a liberal bias".

To everyone (the majority) outside of your filter bubble, what you're pretending isn't there is obvious.

You're fooling no one.
Is it _right_ though? It's not great at arithmetic, nor is it necessarily reliable with the number of calories in any particular ingredient; while the Wolfram plugin promises to make that a bit better, it's still feels like it might be a crapshoot.
I fully agree with this. Information is just entropy, and isn't possible to own.
I believe this court ruling suggests that, while you are free to make a copy for yourself of a work you legally acquired, and you are free to lend or re-sell the original work you acquired, you are not free to lend or re-sell the copy you made, even if the original doesn't exist anymore.

Basically, the only thing you are legally allowed to sell is the exact copy you bought of a physical representation of a work, assuming it was created by an authorized entity. You do not legally own an abstract copy of the idealized work, you own a physical object which happens to represent a copy of that work.

Note that this is in fact very much how most people would think of copyright. If I buy a book and someone steals it from me, or it is there in my house and it burns down, I don't have some right to now obtain another physical representation of that novel free of charge, or to obtain a copy made by a friend with a xerox. My sole right was to that one physical copy I bought, and that no longer exists.
The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan/lend e-books like library
Thank you :)

Absolutely, collaboration is much smoother if we write well
I've been using it as a really specific codegen tool. I give it a chunk of a Swagger doc and ask for a TypeScript React hook that validates the API response using zod, and it gets it right pretty much every time. It's nothing I couldn't do myself, but it does it faster.
GPT-4 responses.

-- First variant --

Since all the doors are transparent in this variant of the Monty Hall problem, you can already see what is behind each door when making your initial choice. Therefore, there is no need to rely on probability or switching strategies to maximize your chances of winning the car.

In this case, you simply choose the door with the car visible behind it. The host's action of opening another door and offering you the chance to switch doesn't provide any new information or change the odds, as you can already see the contents of each door.

-- Explicit variant --

In this particular case, since the doors are transparent and you can see that the car is behind door number one, you should stick with your original choice. There is no need to switch doors as the probability of winning the car by staying with door number one is 100%. The Monty Hall problem typically assumes that the doors are not transparent and that the contents behind them are unknown to the contestant.
ARM is a mess as an architecture ( every ARM has different ISA, you need blobs for the majority of it to make it work and OS support is lacking). RISC-V is almost nonexistent (where can i buy one at a reasonable price? ) and it seems that it has the same fragmentation problem.
Cloudflare disables access to ‘pirated’ content on its IPFS gateway
I run a Futro S740 thinclient as Server. J4105 from Q4 2017, so while older, not exactly ancient. Super low power, easily reaching <3W idle in many tests, purely passive cooled. And I only paid $50 used for one.
this is very disturbing, but definitely not unexpected. surprised it took this long, actually. fortunately i think it will still be a long-ish time before the thought-police can take down all the parts of the internet that clash with the "sensibilities" of the scrooge-like, pro-paywall, pro-restriction curmudgeons in their ivory towers.

https://www.alltechbuzz.net/best-internet-archive-wayback-ma...

https://www.guru99.com/best-internet-archive-wayback-machine...

https://startupstash.com/internet-archive-alternatives/

https://www.topbestalternatives.com/internet-archive/

https://alternativeto.net/software/internet-archive/

https://rigorousthemes.com/blog/best-archive-is-alternatives...

i realize the last link is "alternatives to 'archive.is' " and not "alternatives to 'archive.org'/the wayback machine", but it's still pertinent/in the same ideological arena (obviously).

As MLK Jr said* "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Apparently Dr. King adapted that line from Unitarian minister Theodore Parker:https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/15/arc-of-universe/#:~....

i've archived this* page (this ycombinator page) at: https://archive.vn/AZNoN
Simple: The real world is not made up out of things which are independent, but everything is connected one way or another. If a private company has control over water they want to grow and maximize profits. First consequence is clearly that prices will go up, even more so if there is clear demand for that, and secondly they will slurp as much as they can out of the ground. Unfortunately, the water in the ground is not infinite, it is a shared resource and needs time to get replenished. It is part of this "common good". So you have to start regulating, and also controlling the regulation of how much at most a company can draw water out of the ground. Same goes for polluting water (not just by dumping dirty water, but think fracking and other such things) etc.

Same goes for land use. Agriculture is a main driving factor of mass extinction (yes, we are in the midst of a biosphere mass extinction event) because they ignore the common good, and other land uses bring their share of problems with it.
Interesting. I asked if for a business plan and it gave me a bunch of useless cruft. I guess that's the plausible average of public business plans anyway.
I've found it really useful for explaining mathematical concepts using the notation and terminology I'm comfortable with.

For example, GPT-4 gave me the first explanation of backwards-input and backwards-filter convolutions that I've been able to understand. This was because I was able to start it off by explaining how I understand forward convolutions, and it explained the bw convs in the same way.

Astonishingly good.
Ask HN: Is it just me or ChatGPT's hype is way overblown?
It seems like every other article on HN's Front page, for a while now, has been about chatGPT. Obviously, not just HN, but it has turned into a buzz word and I feel openAI is riding the wave and utilizing it to keep the momentum going

Personally, this continuous hype is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I need a break just from hearing about it.
If you really want a phone free event, go to defcon!
there was a bug on our codebase...
Since I use ChatGPT regularly, I decided to create my own client. I prefer to avoid third-party services that require privilege escalation like Grammarly and Copilot. I have developed distinct profiles for different tasks, each with its own system prompt and input method. After getting the hang of it, I plan to tweak the parameters as well. Here are some of the profiles:

Explainer: a default, general purpose Q&A. The prompt is "Explain to me like a 3rd grader. Skip prose." I plan to expand this profile to include additional communication styles, including step-by-step explanations, elaboration, and the Socratic method.

Proofreader: I use this profile to edit, simplify, and shorten any text (including this comment). I borrowed this feature from Grammarly Go, and it works by pasting the text and clicking a button.

Developer (in development): this uses a simple editor as input, with features similar to Cody/Copilot, such as adding types, naming things, summarizing, autocomplete, auditing, explaining, fixing, refactoring, and more.

Lastly, I plan to add two more profiles that are more creative and generative: Writer and Designer. They will act as private consultants/partners and assist me in brainstorming and complementing my skills in building websites.
Same. Coding helps us communicate with machines, writing helps us communicate with each other
Sudoku coming up, I was actually rolling around in my head this idea of encoding information in unsolved sudoku puzzles as a form of compression, and wondering how much you can get out of it, how much of it needs to be error correction and the like. Never did any math on it, it's one of those things I think about and "will sit down and mess with later" supposedly but I doubt there will be anything novel or more efficient to come of it that's not directly translatable into existing compression.
Of course he is saying that.
Imagine a globalised world, with supply chains spanning dozens of countries and thousands of km long, where central banks have no way to control inflation. What's going to happen to central banks (and their governors) power?
Oh, so it's only interesting when it has completely surpassed even the smartest human in intelligence? When that happens, why would anybody bring it to you? When that happens, why would humans be needed for anything?
These sort of over the top animations can also help folks like that, like how you see minimized windows shrink into the dock on a Mac, as opposed to just disappearing on Windows.
Rubber ducking discovery is a very good description of how I use it too. I don’t necessarily care if it’s 100% right, but it feels like it short circuits my “time to solution” by a significant percentage over hunting around through endless blog posts and SO answers. ChatGPT fills the gap between an idea and getting the LSP to tell me what will actually work.

Earlier today it totally hallucinated a built-in function, but when I started typing it out, the LSP kicked in and I could tell what the GPT was “thinking”. Before that I didn’t even know what the name of the function was that would do what I want, but it was close enough that it stopped me from having to parse the reference docs on my own.
Fork Everything.
Also, from what I can tell, the old key somehow seems sprinkled among a lot of Github-owned IP addresses in my known_hosts file as well, not just github.com. I'm not sure how that happened though.
yes - so in the past there were penalty rates like double time to compensate for that.
That only works for a selected set of chromebook. And you still have an end of life date that is fixed.

My girl friend's school is having to dispose of about 300 chromebooks for precisely this reason. Most are still functional, but now unsupported. They would be totally usable if they weren't being deliberately binned by Google.

This is an environmental crime, as is a lot of support ending the useful lives of devices. These externalities are created by companies who make huge profits, and don't have to deal with what they have created. I've thought this for years, but part of the problem is that everyone is convinced they need to use windows (they don't), and everyone likes new and shiny.
IA have posted a response, though it doesn't address what will / may happen regards book lending:

<https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/>

Specifically:

"We will be appealing the judgment and encourage everyone to come together as a community to support libraries against this attack by corporate publishers.... We will continue our work as a library. This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books."

Checking a listing for a specific book ... there's still the option to log in and borrow it as I write this.
Isn't Gabe one of the rich guys investing in life extension? If we're lucky, they figure it out before he dies and he can become Steam's eternal steward. Otherwise I absolutely see the platform going to shit once he's gone.
Yes, as of writing this comment there are 3 GPT related posts on the front page. GPT is one of the big thing happened in the AI industry but the hype giving me crypto vibes.
This makes me curious about its ownership structure and what would happen if he died tomorrow.
I agree, as I also had not problem understanding that is was about complexity theory when I see the term NP-hard.
From the App Store page this looks like a clone of One Sec, does it work the same way using iOS shortcuts? I’ve found One Sec does a really good job but setup is a bit fiddly with shortcuts. This is quite a bit more expensive too.
Great extension! I used it recently, and had some trouble drafting email reminders (to respond to an email). Do you have any tips on how I could do that with the extension?
How does this compare to [Rancher Desktop](https://rancherdesktop.io/)? (Disclaimer: I’ve tried neither but would like to eventually evaluate both)
I found that article quite confusing. I think these slides are clearer: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse421/18au/lectur...

(provided you know about induction already.)
Have you heard about this newfangled GDPR thing? You comment kind of reminds me of that
This was imprecise on my part; I apologize. I explained what I meant by "having" in a daughter comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35299668) and made a clarification regarding sharing in another (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35299420).
I was born in a water moon...
Bash scripting. I've been doing it intermittently for over 20 years but my tool set knowledge is limited. ChatGPT often shows me new ways of doing things in Bash that I'd never have thought of. It's downright brilliant.
Nah, you will give me your stuff.
Usually they're called NPEs, non practicing entities and differentiated because their use of patents is to use them to extract tolls rather than to build things.

Which isn't to say that established players don't also use them to create moats around technology of interest, or that the nature of certain patents doesn't lend them to abuse. They could, for example, require that the thing which makes the patent 'novel' also be 'patentable subject matter' for example, rather than letting one patent some novel software running on a non-novel computer and meet the standard one piece at a time.

Also I wasn't aware that Tolkien or his estate had any patents. Copyrights, surely, but patents? That's surprise me.
> I’m pretty sure I can do that.

Not legally.

> I almost included that I could shred my copy, keeping only the digital equivalent, and still retain the same rights to the work and lending it.

This is the part that is not true. For example, you are free to transcribe a book onto a parchement and read it that way, and store the parchment separately from the book for archival purposes, and keep the parchement even if the original book gets destroyed.

However, this is a limited exception to copyright. You are not in fact allowed, at any point before or after the original copy is destroyed, to lend or re-sell the parchment you created. That parchment will forever be an unauthorized copy, but one that you are allowed to use in certain limited ways.

The only wrinkle is that, at least in the EU, when you acquire an authorized digital copy of a work, you are allowed to lend or sell that copy as long as you don't retain access to it during the lending/after the sale. This is allowed even though technically you are technically creating a new copy of the digital work and destroying your own afterwards, but this is an exception specific to digital realms, it can't be extended to digital copies you make of a phyisical work.
I think I once got it to get out of "buy" mode by lying to it and telling it I'm in a sanctioned country. Maybe it's a trick that could work for you :)
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