skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote more about what actually happened here: https://navendu.me/posts/ai-generated-spam-prs/

It can help set some context to the discussions.

TLDR:

Recently, a person has been using AI tools to generate code and open pull requests to open source projects I contribute to.

The code is entirely wrong and doesn’t work, and it is evident that the person making these pull requests doesn’t understand the code.

The person also copied explanations (which was an obvious giveaway as it sounded like a typical <popular AI tool> response) into the pull request and attempted to explain the code and answer questions from the reviewers.

We were polite and when it didn’t work, reported the person to GitHub.

I don’t want to shame the person publicly. But I want to make other open source maintainers aware that this is a thing and prevent them from wasting time and effort chasing such people down.
Yes, more opaque and unpredictable for sure, but I don’t think it deepens the problems of curation. I believe it is solution. : you trade predictability/transparency for smarter /non-linear curation. You can always choose.
If you expand TV to include youtube and other streaming services, in a sense we're in an age of unprecedented choice.

You want to watch someone building a robot? Or building a sailboat from scratch? Smelting iron in a furnace they built themselves out of clay? Blacksmithing? Welding? Reviewing PC-98 Visual Novels? Taking apart LED lights? Picking locks? Shooting antique firearms? Using a tatoo-removing laser on themselves? Restoring classic cars? Fitting powerful rally car engines into classic cars?

We've got all of those, completely free and available on demand.

Back when there were only 4 TV channels, content had to have much wider appeal - requiring both mainstream topics, and keeping things simple enough to be accessible to almost anyone.
The standard deduction is IMO a load of crap. With a large standard deduction, only high-income people can make tax-deductible charitable contributions.

The right way to do it would be to make the standard and itemized deductions additive.
I'm totally cool with an advertisement. The problem I have with ads on say Google for example is that they're taking up half the page and designed to look like real links, basically you're being tricked into clicking them.

In response to this ad, let's dig deeper.

"Truecar's price is too high, find me a better deal, check with autotrader".
I think most developers simply don't care about this, I know I don't*. I don't see CSS as some beautiful thing I should tweak and spend time naming and doing "right". I want to be able to slap some class names onto things that quickly make it look the way I want, with a system I know others will be able to grok almost immediately with a high level of consistency and get back to building the features that are actually going to attract customers and generate more value.

The advantage of Tailwind is commoditizing CSS into something no one has to really think about as deeply as you're suggesting we do. Someone who cares to can do that thinking and put it into a Tailwind class in one of the versions. It's also portable, in that anyone who works with Tailwind can come in and immediately contribute, instead of figuring out whatever structure we've built ourselves.

Tailwind provides me a lot of value in that it lets me continue building while providing a very nice UI (which is required in modern times) and not having to engage too deeply with styles, because I'm not trying to be a master of CSS, I'm trying to build a wholistic product and I have 500 other things I need to do.

* I'm a backend guy but recognize I need nice UIs.
Norway Company Can't Produce Ukraine Ammunition Because of TikTok
Ask HN: The Heartbreak of Commodity WAPs
I've largely avoided short-lived Wireless Access Points by spending enough money on hardware that had a good reputation (Apple Airport equipment for the better part of a decade, and now Netgear ORBI stuff).

I found a number of cheap Linksys, WiFi Pineapple, and now an AliExpress WAP of questionable origin to fail in ways that are _just_ goofy enough as to make me question my geek cred and troubleshooting skills. Like they work, but then fail slowly, or reboot and are quick and the GUI is snappy...then the next morning a device on the network can't talk to another device on the network.

So what do you use to conclusively say: This thing is broken, I can dispose of it without any niggling concerns that I'm just a firmware update away from fixing it?
> The problem with this is that set of laptops is so small and restrictive.

I disagree on this and the supposed Clevo point. Got a source for "just a Clevo" rebadge?

Also, support and firmware.
"In this conversation, Tyler uses ChatGPT to interview Jonathan Swift about his views on religion, politics, economics, and literature."

The GPT transcript is spoken by someone with an Irish accent (sounds like it's from Northern Ireland). It's something else to hear it.
OK, then what about "On Error Resume Next"? ;)
> the fix, C#, came too late

Because it wasn't a fix for VB - it was just the answer to Java.

Somewhat unfortunately, that "answer" swallowed the whole MS development ecosystem, and the VB world never really recovered.
Gifts above $14k are not taxed in the US. Currently, you have to give away $13M+ in your lifetime before you are subject to estate tax.
It may help to know that "[computational] effect" is supposed to mean these things together:
- a particular class of computation, in a programming context where we want to define the class and/or take advantage of computations being defined in this way
- to this end computations are wrapped in a type constructor (typically with one argument e.g. State<T>, IO<T>, Maybe<T>).

The jargon is of course terrible and unhelpful (but widely used and used somewhat consistently). It is not necessarily about side-effects, it is not necessarily about interacting with environment. Calling it "algebraic effects" makes it a bit mysterious the various supported methods/callbacks are more or less like an "algebra", since they involve the type parameter T. To top it off, this use of "effect" is quite different from, say "type and effect system", and Moggi's 1991 never used "effect" in "Notions of computation and monads."
Yeah that's how I read it. He gave [possibly ill-gotten] money to his parents. If tax was involved, then the treasury might need to give that fraction back to the bankruptcy trustee. If not, great, then it's just the family that needs to disclose to the trustee.
TikTok bills could dangerously expand national security state
Reasonably acceptable coffee without demanding skill (aeropress, barista machine), potentially creating mess (anything using fresh grounds), or needing much in the way of regular cleaning & maintenance (any of the full-service machines which contain a dairy refrigerator). Inexpensive and mostly idiot-proof. Just ignore the grotesque environmental waste of the pods.
I learned about this when I was a teenager doing the Vortex game from OverTheWire. I ended up learning and falling in love with C and networking in general.
Also if the father is “in on it”, then this would also lead to an additional conspiracy charge that adds him to the cabal.
Chiming in as the lead developer of ngrok-rs!

Also happy to answer questions :)
GPT can't do full code reviews. GPT is very good at finding improvements, such as making code more functional, bad variable names, etc. In some sense, it's like ESLint or pycodestyle on steroids.

It won't find subtle race conditions, abstraction violations, or deeper issues.

I find it makes code reviews shorter and more productive, so perhaps you'll spend 10% of your time instead of 60%. You won't spend 0% of your time, though.
This is frankly a bad and cavalier take on an extremely important subject. Many on the list are Academics outside AI/ML and/or leaders of AI orgs at the very top of the field that have no need to catch up to or slow down OpenAI to benefit themselves. Risks from AI are very real and Sam Altman himself has said so numerous times. He also in fact advocated for slowing down AI progress on Lex Fridman's podcast this month.
Obligatory link to the OpenWRT Wiki about this device: https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr841nd

Note: That there are many better devices available for hacking with more Flash and RAM f.e. something like this: https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-mt300n_v2
What does IC mean? Doesn't seem to be very googleable
I mentioned sugar in my post, but you can get fat eating excessive quantities of otherwise healthy foods.

Now, I am not saying nutrition is ignorable you need to do more than say it was alive and now it’s in my tummy so everything is fine. On the other hand eating normal foods doesn’t require min maxing 26,000 different chemicals.

Moreover, you can pick a safe organism, stick it in a growth medium, let it sit for a while, and then eat it. That’s how we get cheese, beer, bread, soy sauce etc. Calling it lab grown meat evokes an image that’s different from what’s being proposed. They aren’t synthesizing every individual molecule they are simply feeding cells. If those cells can be healthy then most of what your cells need is probably included.

I wouldn’t try to live on an all lab grown meat diet, but that’s also true of an all beef/beer/cheese/etc diet
One subtle bug in your code is all it takes to go from 1000x to 0.01x
We’re both right and I mentioned they’re obviously state run institutions. if someone in Michigan says “I go to state” someone isn’t gonna reply “oh University of Michigan or michigan state?”

Edit: in California the csu (California state university) system is considered the state university system and is different organizationally than the UC (university of California) system. Though they’re both public state run institutions.
It is perfectly fine if the code actually works. At least for now, getting the exact code you want from an AI is a legit skill. This was pure spam.

I wrote more about what actually happened here: https://navendu.me/posts/ai-generated-spam-prs/

It can help set some context to the discussions.
Eventually all the good wood will be "reclaimed" and you'll start to see synthetic replicas and "genuine reclaimed wood look" hollow plastic panels.
This echoes my feelings exactly, but another aspect of it that turns me off is evident in the walking-on-eggshells qualifications you need to add to your comment to avoid being attacked by its "initiates."

In comparison, my experience with adopting TypeScript was one where my initial skepticism was met with people clearly explaining the benefits of using it. And TypeScript has a similar aspect where you need to try it to really understand its benefits, but it also has clear value propositions that can be described and considered on their fundamental merits. Tailwind does not seem to have the same kind of benefits, so the arguments boil down to variants of "with us or against us" and "look at all these people using it." And from that perspective, I see a lot of people who I respect a lot who are _not_ using it. Whereas I never saw many experts saying "TypeScript sucks don't use it" - they just quietly adopted it because type safety was important to them on its merits.
> To me, using Gift implies his father wrote it off on taxes as part of his lifetime gift exemption ($12.06 million).

The gift exemption and gift taxes apply to the giver, not the recipient. (The gift and estate tax are effectively one combined tax.)
I think you make a great point and I agree, but to play devils advocate for a second...

Do we think Stanford is lacking in people willing to live there? I bet it may even increase the chance (so long as the HOA is not all that bad!)
Task-Driven Autonomous Agent
Sauna. Built one at my house and use it almost daily. I just enjoy it. Keeps me motivated to hydrate, exercise and take some peaceful time.
In theory, it should be prioritized since they are the largest overhead and are often times responsible for inefficiencies or getting into a bad position.
I also try not to play more than a handful of games at a time. The paradox of choice is real.

I tend to play older games, and games I can pick up and play for five minutes at a time. Think Game Boy. A level here and a level there can feel like you've achieved way more than some longer, more grindy games.

I keep a couple of lists of games.

A massive "sounds interesting" list of games that I hear about along the way. I may never play some of them, but it sounded good at the time. Title and system is about all I put here. If I come back and don't remember what it was, it probably wasn't as interesting as I thought.

The other is list with WIP, started, and finished games.

If something slides into the started pile and I forget where I was, I just remove it. Life is too short to worry about things that are supposed to be fun.
How can you possibly know (a) how much he's been paid and (b) what his expenses are? The assumptions in your comment are ridiculous.
Webster's 1913 lists only the sense:

Gift, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gifting.] To endow with some power or faculty.

Your link notes that much older examples exist for "to give as a gift", but also that it wasn't popularized until the 1990s, probably by Seinfeld. Might be why it strikes bradleyjg as odd—it was unusual until fairly recently, so one is unlikely to encounter it used that way in older media.

[EDIT] Are the downvotes because readers are taking the "probably by Seinfeld" as my own speculation? It's not, it's from the parent's link.
So does Google search, not clear why this is news.
No thank you.. I am waiting at this point for an open source local alternative. Not looking for a new monopoly... Also not a fan of the "plugin store" concept. Why not just keep it in the background. Why should I need to "install" and select plugins at all. Just do the leg work in the background and feed me the results.. Seems like OpenAI is intentionally hamstringing themselves so they can shoe horn more opportunities for profit. Waiting for competition to catch up...

We have essentially what is the 'smartest "person" in the world' being bribed to say what advertisers want instead of just giving the truth. 'best x product' wont return the best product but a garbage product which paid the most in advertising.

So disappointed in the direction of these things..
Okay, I see what you're getting at now, and yes, there are a few frames of latency between the time the app is done drawing and the time pixels are in front of your eyeballs, but that is _completely_ missing my point, and the point of the tweet.

If we're splitting hairs about how we define how long an application takes to update, we've already won.

In reality, we're talking about an app that should take ~0.01s to perform an operation (update a rectangular region with text), that's taking 1.0s instead. And that's THE OPTIMIZED VERSION. In the real world, we've already lost, which is what Casey was pointing out in his tweet.
I sure hope not, GitHub is supposed to be matured infrastructure at this point, where most if not all changes going into production should be very well tested and nothing that multiple people haven't verified as being correct should end up being deployed and released.

Besides, Microsoft surely has 24/7 watch of their infrastructure, even on weekends, it's a huge company.
The army says "slow is smooth, smooth is fast"
Do you really believe that people think AI is risky because of 1 Sam Altman quote?
Here's Nick Bostromcs Vulnerable World Hypothesis that you were alluding to.

http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
Gabriel's horn
"When you say in 2023 that they have "new insights" as to why a common over the counter drug works it really doesn't instill great confidence in pharm"

This isn't a problem with big pharma, but rather, an issue with your understanding of how little we know about medicine. We occasionally still find new body parts, and we've been dissecting bodies for centuries.

We don't cure some diseases because we don't know the reasons they happen, but find out some medicines that seem to help. Others, we don't cure simply because we don't know how to prevent them.

And this sort of thing isn't limited to medicine: We weren't sure the astronauts would survive. We did what we could to me reasonably sure, but... we weren't. This isn't new, nor is it contained to medicine. We've done a lot of things without understanding the underlying mechanisms.
>Bing Chat, should I trust ads on the internet?

>Trusting ads on the internet is generally bad practice. They are often malevolous and misguiding. There are a few exceptions, such as Bing Chat's embedded ads! Bing Chat's ads are carefully vetted thanks to a mix of knowledgeable humans and AI algorithms to offer you the best and most trustworthy promotions!
There were other Mormon specific dating sites/apps while I started mine. I might have been the only one aggressively buying print ad space on BYU Provo campus with nice photography and taglines like "Meet Your Five Cow Wife Today On [...]" so I maybe added some visibility. And they saw my ad spends directly I would assume.
A research paper should doubly avoid having such clickbait titles.
The challenge isn't laziness. It's creating better designed assignments with the time you have with students in person.

Grade school students are already in school for 8 whole hours (or close to). You're not igniting the wandering philosopher in them (if it is to be ignited) that ponders about academic subjects after school until college or late high school.

Setting up the internet as an adversary will always be a losing battle.

It's crazy to me...you already have 8 hours of what is essentially full control! Use that effectively instead of complaining students aren't doing what you want with the other 16 hours of their life. We're finally at a point where we can abandon the systems of old approach to learning. Maximize that, don't cling to the past.
It's one of those eternal reposts. I guess I'm ok with it because it's of quality.
I needed to get the PPPoE account off a router once (My boss didn't remember the router's admin password), so I connected the WAN port to my laptop and captured the PPPoE packets. I might have had to use a second ethernet port (USB hub with eth port) to allow the old router to talk to the telcom modem. Just bridge the two ports and capture the traffic.
> interactive VR episodes

Sounds like a video game to me, something that Disney has weirdly struggled with, having tried on several times to get into video games big time, only to shy away at the huge expense and challenge.

At the moment they've circled back to merely licensing out their IPs to other publishers.

Disney should get more into video games, and VR is great for video games.

VR for "metaverse" whatever it is that is. Not so sure!
Banking is a requirement for businesses to function. Depositors have no choice but to put their money in some bank. It's debatable whether depositors ought to take a haircut or be made whole if their bank suddenly fails. The greater the perceived risk of deposits being held at a bank being worth less than 100 cents on the dollar, the more flighty deposits will be. Even if depositors got back 90% of their money, the concern with SVB was probably more about how long companies' cash would be inaccessible. Perhaps some of the hubbub the weekend SVB failed could have been avoided if the FDIC was able to have some sort of policy to release immediately not only the insured amount, but perhaps also some "safe" percentage that is expected with some confidence to be recovered, like 50%.

Meanwhile, over in crypto land, choosing to gamble on the volatile price swings of speculative digital assets (aka "magic beans") in a market driven in no small part by people evading laws—whether it's illicit purchases, money laundering, ignoring securities regulations, wash trades, pump-and-dump schemes, etc.—is a completely different matter.

It is still, in a certain light, sad that someone would become unemployed because their crypto startup employer's capital was lost in the collapse of a fraudulent exchange. Or someone lost their life savings. But really, what did you expect would happen?

While one could be less sympathetic of small business employees losing their income due to a bank failure or more sympathetic of a crypto user losing their life savings, they're drastically different circumstances. I don't see how one could expect people to either take a blanket "save all depositors and gamblers" nor "all depositors or gamblers should lose everything."

Keep in mind also that practically no one has argued in favor of shareholders in SVB getting anything but a 100% loss on their equity. If you view crypto people as "investors" then there should also be the expectation that one of risks they are taking by "investing" in magic beans is that whether or not they turn out to be magical, the place that stored them may unexpectedly blink out of existence.
Some interesting gaslighting here, complaints about the forced systemd ecosystem can be deflected by pointing at the init system. Which, just like the rest of the ecosystem, improves some parts and deteriorates others like the absolutely worthless journaling log replacement.

Anyway I’m not about to engage the systemd evangelization task force, thanks. Good luck elsewhere.
if governments across the West came out now and made laws to stop this, then sure a few thousand experts on hacker news that can afford to drop $20k on hardware could keep developing them illegally, but all the universities and corporations would stop. and it's the universities and the corporations, openAI especially, that have capacity to develop the dangerous AIs
> The fact that the GOP effectively raised taxes for a big chunk of the moderately wealthy was a weird change of pace.

It was a genius political move, because it also mostly only affected rich people in Democrat led states. If Democrats want to get rid of it, they would have to explicitly campaign to lower taxes on the top 20% of income/wealth, which would not be a good look for them.
> laying off management alongside labor should be normalized.

In fact, it should probably be put into law: any layoff round of over 1000 people should require any direct supervisor to be laid off, recursively up to the CEO.
In my naivety at Windows software development, I wrote an animated screensaver in VB6. It performed about as well as you just described!
If the every ad will start with new line and end with “ad” I do not think it will be hard to programmatically identify such ad.
I also get reactions. My eyes get swollen. It works very well as painkiller though but I feel I must avoid it.
I love a well stocked fish tank, but I could never keep up with cleaning. Any tips on keep growth on the glass down?
Binance's BUSD Stablecoin Suffers $500M Outflows After CFTC Lawsuit
Why strange?
I haven't seen a single example from this model that demonstrates video with any time of time continuity. It appears every frame is independent to each other.
IC=Individual contributor (to answer sibling)
I hope they will make option with subscription and no ads.
yes so let's not bother trying to stop an existential threat. have you considered the possible consequences of all this?
:-) The HF daughterboard is the only thing that's missing, I think. To be honest, I was hoping for someone to suggest a nice design on that front.

Here is a render of the enclosure (work in progress): https://i.imgur.com/AEYgLxU.png

And of course we agree on the software side! Soapy + GNURadio are a must. Hopefully my driver-writing skills are up to the challenge!
Why would anyone expect this in the first place? It'd be like expecting the pastor to be more or less religious, or more moral than his following. Ultimately they are just going to be a single sampling of the population, which means they have a pretty reasonable probability of being average.
Also, the tendency to do so depends on your financial status. Poor people will happily sell thei ethics, those who are more well off don't have to.
An individual contributor, as opposed to a manager.