skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To those saying "this is impossible in our society", there is a long history of scientific fields mutually agreeing to pause certain work until safety and regulations could be put in place. The Asilomar Conference is an example. [1]

The idea that "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" is very popular in tech culture, but many have suggested that simply extending elements of copyright or tort law to AI would be sufficient to majorly slow down current research directions by creating liability. In the art world, the reason we don't see music being used in major movies without the rights-holders permission is because of liability, and this works very well.

I think finding consensus on an intelligent way forward is very possible here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar_Conference_on_Recombi...
Yeah I googled around more and saw its a 1:1:1 (trans man, trans woman, nonbinary). Still doesn't really follow the stated narrative though.
It takes hours, therefore it must not be a computer? I know the author has industry experience with ML and scientific computing, so this conclusion is surprising to me. Big data pipelines, especially those that involve a lot of money, especially especially the ones that are messy and potentially unreliable and have large ups and downs in demand, are not necessarily fast. Maybe there was a bunch of sales and there's a queue. Maybe there's a buffer where they check every few hours to see if inventory matches sales. Maybe they manually validate a couple of orders in each batch before releasing the automated results. Maybe the fleet doesn't autoscale and it's overprovisioned at night but underprovisioned when you're actually shopping. Maybe it sometimes handles the work in large batches, and maybe that job periodically fails due to regular bugs and has to be restarted.

There are lots of "this works but not instantly and not 100% reliably" answers. "It was a mechanical turk all along" is not the only logical conclusion from the presented evidence.

And "usually takes a couple of hours"...isn't very bad? Is it ideal? No. Is it enough to ask "How Has Amazon Come To This?" Also no.
I can't imagine Reddit userbase having enough teen girls in 2012 to cause this, especially as compared to Instagram.
Parent is a troll pasting chatgpt output, see history
> No, things have converged because lots of people with no taste[1] just ho-hummed along with the zeitgest.

You buy what you can afford. Whether that be a shotgun shack with second-hand traipings or a McMansion with IKEA furniture.

AirBNB's are optimizing for cheap, easy to clean and maintain, but still providing the minimum expected features. If you want variety, go to actual B&Bs.

The big mistake the artists in the first part did was to average all input, instead of cluster analyzing the input to discover more than one average type. On average, most people like nature, so nature is what you're going to get. A better test would be to have an art museum with diverse art, and then see which paintings attract the most interest, or even better, which patterns emerge when tracing many individuals throughout the museum.

I actually find the paintings fairly diverse, both in their individual content, and when compared to each other. But a person who has a mind to average everything will, of course, find a lot of similarity between them.
An NFT is yet another pointless digital construct that foolish people paid huge sums for. It's like selling a jpeg that is publicly available. "In this spreadsheet a jpeg named foobar with this hashed value is owned by Fred Johnson" - this is creating something useful?
I had this conversation with friends. I wondered if they were snorting cocaine because it was fun or if it was a medication to get through the stress of life.
Humans are constantly moving the goal posts for what constitutes AGI.

Based on GPT 4's performance on standardized tests and my anecdotal evidence of utility I'm getting out of ChatGPT, I feel that weak AGI arrived with GPT-4.
I’m usually not a big side project guy, but I successfully used AWK to solve a IRL problem last year. It really helped solidify my understanding of the language.

The problem was that the Garmin GPS data for a bike ride I had just completed had split into multiple rides. I used AWK to stitch together the data into one file. I also did some basic linear interpolation to fill in missing data points.

The GPS data is formatted as XML and I was able to parse it fairly robustly using AWK.
How so?

In my opinion it seems like there is more institutionalize going on, but that's only a subset of restrictions that are being rolled back. Eg. If 25 states roll back restrictions (or implement protections) and the other 25 reinforce those restrictions, then you still have a 50% reduction. On the corporate side, I've seen a ton of protections/benefits being increased which didn't exist anywhere even 10 years ago.
Eh, just typical HN superiority complex on show. Personally when we don't slow down and we undermine civilization to a shadow of its current self, I'm going to make sure my last web post is here, and all it's going to read is "Told you. :) "
Regarding first paragraph, spot on.

Regarding second paragraph, note that the store literally has a dozen high res video feeds from all angles that recorded the entire duration of the visit. There is ample of evidence to prove things one way or the other. Customers caught repeatedly filing fake disputes would simply be banned from entering those stores, which could even be enforced using the same hardware (banned person trespassing detected through AI? autocall the cops). I understand this has a slight dystopian/surveillance state note though.
Not a problem as long I can use paid ChatGPT plan that doesn't show any ads at all. I'm more than ready to pay 20$ per month for that.
It's also wrong. The HR-V is cheaper than the Civic, both on TrueCar's website and on Honda's website.
Shrinking perpetuates Hollywood's most sexist cliché
This Month in Plasma Mobile: March 2023
Running After Antelope: Scott Carrier's story of trying for twelve years to chase down and catch an antelope by foot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35362140
Staff, including very senior staff often work in both systems. They then hire staff from the public system into the private one. This runs down the public system.
There are accusations that they don't work fast or efficiently in the public system, leading to inefficiency.
Senior staff with roles or even ownership of private facilities arrange contracts for outsourcing of work to private facilities.
I have worked in both systems and currently work in the private setting.
tldr: "To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because there aren't an overwhelming number of them, but because it never occurred to you that it might be your job to get through them all."
And that's the beautiful part - when wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
So you can? (serious question not sarcastic)
That does look not-so-bad, but ... unfortunately we also don't have a sliding door. Nor sliding windows. Germany goes for those mechanically complicated multi-direction tilt/swing hinges instead. They're super mental (and metal), and break my aspirations.

I know, I'm not an easy customer.

> Or just 3d print a new wife? (joking)

I've seen too many terrible Benchys in reviews to fall for this one!
Isn't this just the AI effect? Whenever there is a breakthrough in AI research, it's no longer considered AI. This happened with search algorithms, game playing, speech recognition, computer vision, etc. etc.

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

Maybe as "tech people" we should give the public a realistic picture of what AI research is. It's solving problems using a diverse set of techniques that include search, optimization, planning, learning, and knowledge representation. Saying that the current developments aren't AI is simply wrong.
> Words like "structuring"

As much as I want to see that scammer and his family rot in jail , as much as I find "structuring" totally unfair.

If you set the limit to, say "$1 K / day" and then someone does "$1 K / day, everyday", it's not doing anything wrong. Instead of inventing the concept of "structuring", instead write the actual limits more clearly: "$1 K / day, $10 K / year max" (for example). Then it's clear that the limit is $1 K / day max and that you can only do it up to 10 times a year.

For otherwise it's just one of the oh-so-many arbitrary rules invented so that even honest people may be, unknowingly, doing something illegal.

Laws against structuring makes me think of this: "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state".

The state should make the law clear or go fuck itself.
I think the problem you're running into is that this particular comment looks human written?
> I want to go a little further and say these nations don't have much interest in being a part of the world if they can't exploit it.

Is the implication here that the US is not busy exploiting the rest of the world, starting with the fundamental economic reliance on migrant workers that aren't good enough to actually be working there legally?
This looks like an announcement of an announcement, which isn't on topic for HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

On HN, there's no harm in waiting for the actual thing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
One of the main attitudes that perpetuates and exacerbates depression, imo.

Let's not forget that depression can end in death through suicide. It's a serious life-threatening illness.
So that's where you end up following that line of thought huh
Every week Putin, Shoigu, or some key oligarch is having a stroke, compromises themselves, or "is done". Every week Russia runs out of fuel, cash, gold, reservists, reserves, ammunition, you name it. Wake me up once it happens, hopefully tomorrow.
Original Prusa MK4 kit Out-of-stock :(

I have a MK3S+ with MMU2S, bear clone upgrade, a head upgrade, Octoprint with 2 cameras, a temperature regulation chamber, and filament dryers.
Stop showing me ads, ChatGPT.

ChatGPT: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
> It died in 2018 on a camping trip when I let it trickle-charge on a Solar Panel.

Did the battery die or the whole phone somehow?
My son cried tears of joy after getting off the Cars ride. His childhood imaginary friends were brought to life in such a compelling, thrilling, nostalgic way that he was brought to tears at 15.

He got to build a droid and he went outside and used it to entertain and enthrall another smaller child for 45 minutes.

He got to live, for a day, in an immersive and joyous world he never imagined he could see and touch and be a part of.

Its not irony. I bought the magic DESPITE a poisoned brand.

If it were available in VR I'd buy it in VR.
Motivation ≠ Discouragement.
I hope it does not discourage students from trying to become journalists for example.
They are dumb. You can't go very wrong with any of them. I use a Nokia 225 4G. But not because of any scientific reason. That's what the store had in stock when I popped up. It's okay. If your store has it in stock, get it. Otherwise get whatever they have.
I feel like you're almost advocating for a "Google where -only- ads are displayed.

>> At no point would I accept the product choices to be decided by who pays Microsoft more

But in all your examples you're absolutely going to get products which pay MS more. Pizza from the "highest rated place". Rated by whom? Against what criteria?
Neutral professional Chriatmas Gift; I mean, paid product placement here we come.

>> But I'm perfectly fine with a neutral chat taking 5-30% cut on the transaction.

So, I sign up to "supply" (but not "advertise") my product for a 30% cut of the proceeds, but you don't expect the engine to push the higher-value ,higher-cut options? The engine should be neutral - regardless if the product is signed up or not? Regardless of the commission?
Debian packages are maintained by volunteers, the software industry has nothing to do with this.
… it is? Medicine, food, entertainment, rationalism? You’d trade all of that for… what, agriculture work in a feudal society?

I’d love if you could elaborate or link to a good argument on this (besides the Unabomber…) I’m curious.
https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2023/03/24/meet-the-mysteri...
My wife and I tried to get into our local Amazon Fresh. Sign outside said open Amazon app and scan upon entry. We were ok with that idea.

Got to the turnstiles, and the devices there demanded a palm print, no apparent scanners to scan a phone anywhere. We walked out and will never walk back in, especially considering the jackass carting out in the parking lot ridiculed us for refusing to surrender biometric data to give Amazon our money.
Awesome! I do this with my YouTube Watch Later playlist and it really works. I'll get a couple hundred videos I "definitely want to watch, but not now" and my script will clear them out after X time. Never once have I missed something it's deleted. I don't even know _what_ it's deleted, because if it stood out enough to remember the name and search it up again I'll probably just watch it. Very few things do.
hook up the AIs to nukes? /s
The author clearly wants to push it as some sort of 'Amazon faking it bigtime' thing.

I am sure there are manual reviews when it gets flagged, and I am also sure there are mistakes in receipts (I had an error once out of 20 or so purchases).

I have a much simpler explanation of why billing can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours: they process the video feed in batches, and maybe even optimizing for cost depending on compute load in AWS. Video processing takes time, and each store probably has hundreds of cameras - if you want to do multi-person multi-object detection at scale on HD feeds from hundreds of cameras at so many stores, the amount of compute needed is probably not trivial. Instead of processing the video everytime after each person leaves the store, it is much more efficient to do it at intervals and process multiple individuals at the same time.
Was this comment generated by a LLM?
Wasn't Tumblr confusing teenage brains well before Reddit really took off?

But yeah, social media sites should be treated as the powerful propaganda weapons that they have become, not just a casual way to pass the time.
TLDR: we don't know the data some of these models (particularly GPT4) is trained in, and labor practices related to their moderation seem shady.

Pretty misleading title, this is more of an overview of bad things to be aware of wrt large commercial models like GPT4. It is mostly reasonable, though complaining about carbon emissions always seems overblown to me.

It is also not super accurate in describing what GPT4 is. Quote:

"The key word in that phrase is “pre-trained.” Using all kinds of digitized content scraped from the Internet, GPT employs deep-learning techniques to find patterns, including words that are likely to appear together, while also acquiring facts, absorbing grammar, and learning rudimentary logic. "

Pre-trained is only important to note for downstream fine tuning / transfer learning (what GPT and similar things were used for back in 2018/2019), but is largely irrelevant now - for most users it is just "trained".

And "deep learning techniques..." makes it sound way fancier than it is - GPT4 is still (presumably) a language model that is fundamentally trained to do autocomplete (followed by some training on human chat data).

It may be nit-picky to criticize these technical details, but given how massive the impact of ChatGPT and GPT4 has been (if only in terms of making people aware of this sort of tech), it sure would be nice if coverage was more technically informed by this point.
> Convincing other people to care more about climate change, and to be more willing to force society into common sacrifices for aggregate benefit takes a lot of footwork.

If they actually worked to make progress on this aspect, they would feel a sense of purpose rather than dread. Instead, what you're mostly seeing is virtue signalling that targets their own in-group and then being disappointed when that doesn't accomplish anything.

Climate activists can learn a lot by looking at the Civil Rights movement in the past. Before the big wins, there were voting drives, legal challenges, and organized carpools to encourage participation in the bus protests. This costs a lot more energy than telling people to skip school on social media, but participation is also significantly more fulfilling.
Only because federal courts are consistently weird about it! :-p

From an objective, outside perspective, it's definitely weird to say, "Put up $X to assure us you'll actually appear for trial. Oh, you're putting up .01X? Okay, we're cool."

Like, even accepting the validity/logic of the cash bail system, they should just be honest and call it .01X bail. The full X is never actually used for anything beyond "look at us, we're a serious court, taking this flight risk seriously".

(To pre-empt a thoroughly well-tread response from the previous threads: Yes, I know, in SBF's case, the parents are on the hook for the rest of the X, so X is, in a sense, "used". But their net worth is nowhere near X -- more like .04X -- so that just pushes the farce ratio down to .96X, which, while better than .99X, is still pretty darn close to X.)

My earlier comments about this absurdity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34810830

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34599868
> - book me a highly rated hotel in Berlin around 100 euro p/n most suitable for a staycation for next week Monday to Friday. Make a reservation near that hotel for the highest rated traditional German cuisine restaurant with a price per plate of 20-30 euro

I imagine this will go about as well as if you chose to purchase an apartment purely on the basis of the real estate agency's description.
Yes. Know it is rude (is it impolite to use GPT?), but I've been playing with GPT and thought I'd give it a shot to see if anyone noticed, or if HN had any detection.
Hey can you please recalibrate your comments so that you're making substantive points thoughtfully? We're trying to avoid flamewar here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules, we'd be grateful. Note these:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
Fish sauce, dry aged steaks, and bellota ham come to mind. All delicious, and while I’m not sure if you’d call them putrefied meat, it’s not that far off.
Recipes.

Oh my god, have you tried to search for a recipe before? Pages and pages and pages of bloated garbage. I just want ingredients and steps goddamnit.
Frameworks are going from the frying pan to the fire.

There are numerous React frameworks that supply a "widget set" either of web page elements, UI controls or both that work out of the box.

If you (your client, your employer, ...) like the way these look out of the box they are a great way to build something quickly and not have to understand the underlying CSS.

If you are required to customize the look, however, or you want to combine components from various sources and have them look consistent you have to understand all the concepts of the frameworks, the frameworks the frameworks depend on and CSS.
These vintage BASIC games' code looks clear as mud to me.

http://www.vintage-basic.net/bcg/superstartrek.bas

https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=1...
Declassified Records Show Bush's Oil Business Was Probably a CIA Front (2018)
Even if this is true is it a problem? It obviously has limited how Amazon can scale the product, but I don't think its a scandal worthy of a "gate" suffix. It's just a product/engineering issue. I'm sure someone in a meeting said, "We tried an experiment to scale our image recognition technology, but it turns out the problem was more complex than we thought and not worth more engineering investment"
> Identifiers and the thing being identified are supposed to be permanently linked together.

No, they are not. Where do people even get this ridiculous idea from? It sure as hell doesn't hold in practice at all, URLs (and the content thwey point to) change all the time for any number of reasons and yet I keep hearing this opinion professed over and over.

Links rot, that has been reality even before HTTP existed, and it will continue because Web is decentralized and you can't force your opinion on how it should be managed on everybody.
No need to call him retarded.
Yeah, but that's the sort of thing you more or less learn about on the first day and a decent editor/IDE mostly removes it as an obstacle.
Can not-consensual behavioral engineering be ethical?
Flexbox is way better than what there was before, I'll grant that. Grid too.
Agreed the world has always had problems, but it feels more like a megaphone than a lens these days (found not only online, but also at work, school, and among friends). These problems also eventually reach people's doorsteps where they cannot be ignored by disconnecting from social media or socially isolating.
I don't know, this seems to me to be half real concern, half "let's stop the leader because I can't catch them!"
Check out JoseBriones on YouTube - great dumbphone review channel
Key point here being, if you try to do your own research and get a model that should work with your cell provider, there's no guarantees; they often have weird aspects of vendor or implementation lock built in.
International treaties are very common. In fact, international research agreements are often easier than treaties because scientists and researchers are more likely to work together as colleagues than nation states.
It makes no sense at all. Is that peer reviewed? I should try to publish there.

The idea of the NFT is that they can be transferred for money. I can't transfer the value of my blood pressure on march 29, 2023. Actually, I can transfer it, but no one sane will pay money for it.

The blockchain is a immutable ledger, so it's possible to store data there. Some people stored photos in the Bitcoin blockchain. It's public and not erasable, so if it's a good or a bad idea is open to discussion.

Anyway, minting a NFT with that data offers absolutely no advantage, except some buzzword extra points. But NFT peaked in early 2022, so the article is like a year late to get into the bandwagon.
Nitpick: dark forest is one possible explanation for the Fermi paradox and not coined in the book(though the book presented neatly). You can read a great article about fermi paradox here if anyone wants to jump into what the dark forest theory is:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
New paleo motto: "Maggots is protein"
They're marketed as "luxury" because it's so hard to build new housing in the US. The luxury you're paying for is new construction. You're not going to get competition on materials used in housing until it becomes easy to compete on housing.
>directly countered by the existence of the Toyota Prius,

The transmission design in the Prius is a lot more simple than a conventional automatic transmission. The engine is also so overbuilt that I've seen Prius engine swaps (sans hybrid system) into other Toyotas the basis of race engines. The 1.5L had forged crank and titanium conrod (very rare, even in sports cars), which could be pushed to 10,000RPMs with some valve springs.
>I’ve yet to see an example of *GPT be better at search than Google.

Until ChatGPT has the ability to index at the scale of Google it never will be.
Could you please stop attacking me? You've been following my post history around claiming I'm a bot when clearly I'm not. You might find my writing style odd, but its just how I write.