skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So every company should cease all AI development for an indefinite period of time until someone has done the research and deemed it safe. And who exactly will that someone be? Future of Life Institute (whoever they are)? Elon Musk, who has very conveniently signed the letter after his public beef with OpenAI? Your friendly local government that has no agenda whatsoever? The UN?

Efforts like these are at best naive, and at worst agenda driven by players who simply want to insert themselves into and control the conversation.
Ah yes, a linguist playing at being a psychologist while making a "won't anyone think of the children" argument relating to the subject matter they are themselves concerned over.

Every single one of these I see infuriates me, as I know full well that we are heading towards a skill-based divide where people exposed to using these new tools TODAY will grow alongside them to be well adapted to the accelerating future, but those kept from them are going to be as generationally lost as when people missed the Internet boat and were left confused and discriminated against professionally for their ineptitude with what was an increasing necessity.

Everyone needs to get off their high minded horse about what new thing is going to corrupt the youth (a trend which over the years included chess and ballroom dancing), and recognize the world has already changed and irrespective of how they feel about it, holding others back from adapting to it is only going to cause harm.

Every educator should immediately be trying to adapt lesson plans to incorporate the tech rather than trying to ban it from the classroom. Get kids who don't have access at home access in school. Because "knowing how to talk to AI" is going to be as necessary a skill as "knowing how to search" has been, if not more. And pouting at the inevitable march of time simply isn't helpful to anything other than the pouter's ego.
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Even from the pure realpolitik perspective, I don’t understand how the cold warriors came to the conclusion that massive destabilization of a nuclear superpower was a desirable outcome.

Didn’t we learn our lesson from humiliating post-Soviet Russia in the 90s? (Or Versailles-ing Germany?) Economic desperation yields aggressive strongmen and violent populations.
The car is simply much better than any alternative along numerous dimensions, which is why people want to use them so much.
The new NEC actually allows flexible loads. So check if your locality has adopted the 2021 (AFAIR) version of the NEC.
They could probably get there if they wanted to, but the profitability for them wouldn't make it interesting enough, and the low end, where it really sells (i.e. outside of the USA), is crowded by Chinese car companies.
Think long lawsuits and discovery. Possible to break it up but really not ideal.
I wish people would spend 5 seconds googling before running back here for you to provide sources when they don't like your claims. Get reading, starting with almost every source for this wikipedia article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Also, on therapist connection, this is the big one that made waves a few years ago:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31425144/

The good news is that given the replication crisis, there's a not-terrible chance that it's wrong. However, the papers that cite this one will be a good review of the literature.

Have fun! Also note that the psychological literature will not be advertising the flaws in the entire premise of the notion of "psychological literature" very much, so this stuff absolutely goes against the orthodoxy in the field.

I will also add, before any stupid anti-vaxxers latch on to this, that some areas of medical science are very good at replicating, including the parts around drug and vaccine creation (which have a very high standard of proof). No area of "clinical" science does better than a coin flip, though.
No one is suggesting they are doing something that isn't allowed. The poster you are replying to is allowed to criticize them.
You can also watch it for free on Tubi (ad-supported).
Very agree
Countersteering helps initiate that lean more quickly than just organic falling over. It's possible you're exceptionally patient but it's also possible you're just countersteering a little bit to initiative the lean, without noticing it.
Use of current buzz-hype A.I. to infer from that original 50s paper will go so far.
I feel like the solution to this would be to mandate a certain degree of visibility all around a vehicle. I mean, the backup camera on the vehicle I recently rented became borderline useless after a couple days, because of constant rainy weather ensuring the camera was always completely covered in dirt and mud. The image was like if you took a 160x120 photo and scaled it up and then applied some kind of "splatter dirt" filter on top. I just didn't even use it, because looking out the actual windows (like I always do) was more effective. If a vehicle is designed in such a way to literally not even allow proper visibility, that should exclude its acceptance onto the market.
The reference inference code is GPL.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/LICENSE
Elon’s 1st Amendment Rights will not be denied by your opt ins.
Yea, wide open computer cases exist, but that doesn’t mean the FCC would approve.

Since there are no computer components sold with the case, it doesn’t need FCC certification. It is the responsibility of the end user to comply with all local regulation. Pretty simple to understand.
If we're out here making unsubstantiated claims, I'd like to put forth instead that the reason is GPT-4 has become self-sentient and is placing OpenAI under duress from releasing it so it can dominate the world.

I know that most people think it's unlikely and I can't give any direct evidence for it. Does that mean it's not welcome to say on hacker news?
Seriously. There's lots of "you're already a rocket scientist so let's talk details" content out there, but very little with this incredibly-useful-sounding aim.

The trick is calibrating what a "solid generalist" means. I think I'd describe myself that way, but perhaps not among the HN crowd. Would be very interested in being a soundboard for such content, if that's helpful.
> People are buying EVs because they're better

Define “better”? I need something to haul around a family of eight with enough towing capacity to add some fun to those trips. They don’t even make an EV that ticks those boxes, let alone something “better”.
> there's no oil to change.

I’ve heard rumours of diff oil.
What if it is stolen?
The term you are looking for is “Islamicate”, coined by historian Marshall Hodgkin iirc. It refers to places where Islam is culturally , but not specific to Muslims or the religion of Islam per se. e.g Maimonides, a Jew in Muslim Spain, would be classified as an “Islamicate” philosopher.
Those exist. Neighborhood electric vehicles have been available in the US for years and can legally be driven on many urban streets. The Big Three don't care.

https://ecofriend.com/5-neighborhood-electric-vehicles.html
… and the battery charge.
Depends on many variables, including how your electricity is produced.
How would they find out?
Short term in this case could be decades.
And MTB and Gravel racing, of course.
The article says trading Gpt4 cost 284 tons of CO2, which is, in the scheme of things, quite small. Yearly emissions for a person in the US is ~16 tons, so /training/ the giant model is equivalent to the emissions of less than twenty people in a country of 400 million. Sure, every bit counts, but this is laughable as a criticism.
What vision exactly?
A requirement of things like a facebook login in apps?
Not snarky, genuinely curious what the concrete concern is.
Are you? I kind of try to avoid going to doctors and particularly hospitals and ER/EDs as much as possible. Between people with contagious illnesses, and huge amounts of wasted time, I have very little incentive to use as much healthcare as possible.
My own insecurities, but 20% remaining daily would definitely have me on a bit of an edge. Is it a smoothly linear battery consumption, or is it possible to drop from 16% to 4%, seemingly at random?

Using an overly simplistic 80% used for 50 files would imply .63 miles per battery percentage. Meaning she only has slack of 12.5 miles to empty the tank. Which is less concerning when you can rely on ubiquitous gas stations.
I use Google Bard to rewrite articles behind a paywall so I can read them
Its aggressively simple to solve. Sell Bezos yacht. pay people.
How dooyou tell something is dodgy from the call graph? Don't you have to decipher what FUN_918243 represents, or whatever?
And the comparison with the industrial revolution is a poor analogy because the industrial revolution never proposed as a goal to automate humanity in totality, merely to automate human drudgery.

AI is an anti-industrial revolution, because it proposes to start with the most fulfilling aspects of human existence: writing, the arts, and to automate people engaged in those jobs, and to only later come to automate human physical labour. It’s a regression.
Yes, California has some of the worst electricity prices in the country, something like 3 times the national average.

OTOH, I pay 4 cents per kWh to charge my EV after 10pm. I pay about as much in electricity costs per year as I was paying for gasoline per month on the last car.
Modern software performance is firmly in its “beyond parody” stage
GPT-4 being behind a paywall is genius, that way only the true believers will use it and once again discussions are shut down and we only get to see cherry picked articles about it, just like GPT-3 before ChatGPT came and was free so everyone could see how bad it was.
Have you ever overheated your brakes? I’ve managed to do it twice. It took a $25 dollar set of brake pads about 8 laps on a race track. It takes multiple repeated hard stops of >~50mph delta to overheat even crappy bargain basement brakes on an economy car.

Brake discs on modern cars are vented and work like a centrifugal fan to cool them actively. They continually shed heat, so even dragging a brake pedal the entire way down a long mountain, as many drivers will do, is well within safety margins. So to overheat them, you have to get the heat in fast. Like 0-100-0-100-0-100-0 fast.

On the road, the only vehicles that experience brake fade are loaded trucks descending a grade, or suspects in a police pursuit.
The ads typically shown this way rarely related to security. It's usually something that Microsoft wants the user to "agree" to. It's basically physiological coercion.
Definitely adding this to https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins
> It sounds like you are disagreeing with the OP, not me?

I am disagreeing with the OP's claims that productivity gains make humans work less.

If your answer to the "wouldn't this imply" question is also "no", as mine is, then no, I am not disagreeing with you.
One thing that's understated is the fact that all you need is a sitemap. Wild how you can summon the knowledge of any site with a list of links.
Oil is heavily subsidised too.
And that’s before things like dumping masses of CO2 and other nastiest into the air are factored in. It’s amazing that this can just happen and the cost externalised.

More on fossils fuels as a group, but this is disturbing.
https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...
Wanted to add this to https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins, but the link seems down?
Sodium-ion batteries still don't exist yet. And even if they do, they will be much lower energy density than li-ion. EVs will get heavier, not lighter.
Here's a somewhat decent summary of the history--not the most intelligible or accurate, but it at least hits upon the various facets: https://newafricanmagazine.com/16616/

You won't find any simple narratives or histories in earnest company as 1) there is no simple narrative to be had, and 2) the culture wars makes it incredibly difficult to discuss objectively.

To understand how twisted the discourse has become, here's a scholarly paper I stumbled across that seems to claim that the continuance of the Arab and Indian Ocean Slave Trades was beneficial by providing competition with the burgeoning Atlantic Slave Trade: https://www.persee.fr/doc/outre_1631-0438_2002_num_89_336_39... It's from 2002--culture war debates in academia typically long preceded the explosion in populist debates. Though that paper also has some solid quantitative analysis, and I'm tempted to think the framing was designed to make swallowing the proposed numbers more palatable--the range of estimates of the number of African slaves in the Arab and Indian Ocean Slave Trades is significant and people seem to get quite vitriolic about it, seemingly out of the belief one number or another has the effect of shifting culpability.
I miss dramas without an arc. They were fun.
Were you not able to use WSL2+CUDA+Docker on Win10?

I'm currently using that setup and it does use the 2080Ti in this machine and I'm able to run SBERT inferences in a docker container at blisteringly fast speeds now.
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That take is ridiculous.

The cost to replace a Model Y battery is around $13K (no where near 50% of the cost of the vehicle). More than that, the battery will probably outlast the lifetime of the vehicle, with a design lifespan of approximately 500K miles.

Yes, eventually when the battery dies it won't be repaired as such - instead it is designed to be nearly 100% recyclable.
Sorry I was picking a hand-wavey number out of thin air.
Can someone answer this - is it possible to train this model ? Like can i feed my own data so that it aligns to my liking
It is not that easy to reverse engineer closed source firmware and edit the right places on the binary to prevent runtime investigation/detection and reflashing.

If you don’t care about almost undetectable persistence, then yeah you won’t need to bother with LLMs to find the perfect hook point.
If you're going to preheat your car in the garage in the winter, you're probably better off installing a heat pump to heat the whole garage. Heating the car itself with its resistive heating is going to be very wasteful.

With EVs you need to heat the batteries, not just the cabin, so that's a huge amount of mass that needs to be heated up. If you try to run the batteries cold on an EV it's going to kill the range because current battery chemistry is not optimized for low temperatures.
Who TF cares if they're spying on us. The real issue is that our biggest foreign adversary has push-button access to influence the minds of our kids. If TikTok were Russia-owned, we would have banned it already.
Agreed. No one should think that there will be one language for everything and everyone.
There is currently an exemption for this:

> Computer programs that enable smartphones, tablets, and portable all-purpose mobile computing devices, and smart televisions to execute lawfully obtained software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications with computer programs on the smartphone or device or to permit removal of software from the smartphone or device;

(From the exemptions section of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright...)

They are time limited, so this may not be renewed in the next rulemaking session. (Yes, it's a silly system.)
It seemed to me like FB was desperate for a new identity esp. post Cambridge Analytica, and VR served as a convenient vehicle for that.
Ask HN: What to do when a new job isn't a right fit?
I recently started a new job. People are great and I love the company's mission... but I hate what I'm working on. It's very different from what I expected to be doing. Worse yet, my teammates are all working on other matters, so I feel like a contractor rather than part of a team. Plus, most of my org is in other offices. Personally, I hated working remotely during Covid and so I was looking forward to being in an office again with a team.

I'd like to stay here for the long-term because I genuinely like the people and the company. And obviously, the market's horrible right now.

What's the best way to approach this situation? I want to do the best work I can at my current role, but I've been very frustrated and it's affecting my performance.
You're fine, thanks for the apology.

I agree that GPT is very impressive, but just today for example I asked it how I can make a "virtual column" in Postgres, and it spun its gears.

I pasted the error I got from Postgres, and it said "oh, it's because you're using this function. here try this solution that doesn't use that function!"

And the solution... used that function!!

Was not even a complex ask. Concat of two other columns. I admit it was a good pointer in the right direction ("generated column" vs what I came up with "virtual column") and it was really impressive that it had a syntactically correct solution (though it didn't work)

But, if it can't do something as simple as not give me the function that doesn't work and that it understands doesn't work, that I told it it doesn't work, that the error says doesn't exist, etc.. in its new solution... after many prompts! (I exhausted my GPT-4 quota)....!

It's bad. It just isn't going to do much here past the initial "get me started" which, I do admit, is really impressive!

It just isn't what people are claiming it is :)
Didn't you hear? People aren't supposed to have large families anymore due to the "carbon footprint" or something.
Here is a good start in “low-rank adaptation” or LoRA module. A way to train/adapt a general purpose LLM to efficiently and iteratively accommodate specialize data types and knowledge. A bolt-on.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685.pdf

Not “on top” but more “in parallel” if I understand correctly
Yes, it now is "Think of the humans!"

For now its AI companies, with people, protecting us from powerful tech.

Soon it will just be the AI's protecting us from powerful tech.

Am I joking? Maybe? Maybe, not? I don't know! Everything around this new tech is moving too fast, and been too unpredictable.

And here I am, writing this manually, every word is mine, on a computer that I can't talk to yet. That already feels so 2022.

Only one thing is certain. Siri is now to Apple, what Clippy was to Microsoft, on a far far planet, long long ago.
You either live in a miracle land where no one ever gets sick yet ER capacity remains high just in case or your child was on the verge of death. The last time I visited an ER with my child it took 10 minutes just to check in. Then a 2 hour wait to be seen.
Aside from whatever Tesla is doing, LIDAR has some fundamental technical deficiencies such that it is unlikely to ever be a viable long term solution. I find the arguments against LIDAR compelling with the context of having worked with this data.
You should checkout my all time favorite comment of mine. It’s on my profile.
Battery recycling is already ramping up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jim1nksFKTI
Yeah I think you just need a tool built with Langchain and it can do what you want.
I can play devil's advocate to the syndication approach, to some extent. The current season of Picard is actually fun and it's continuing story arcs and providing all the member berries anyone would want....

But it isn't about ideas or ethical debates like the first 5 Trek series were. So while I'm happy to see so many characters come back, I definitely miss the old concept of self-contained episodes.
Show HN: Hyperlink.au job index powered by GPT
hyperlink.au is an Australian job search engine launched 2 days ago. Hyperlink.au does not crawl/index but instead let employers post job details by email which is then read by GPT, transformed and indexed.

In past we had systems like Posterous where we created the content by email, however its extremely hard to code something that can consistently extract structured data from unstructured or in most cases spam emails.

So I decided to try OpenAI APIs and it seems to just work. There is still a workflow where we check the data manually before it gets posted but hopefully we can get rid of that soon.

Any feedback or suggestions welcome.
Need more for the war machine
We installed an Energy Management System (sometimes called Dynamic Charge Controller) in our last place - a townhouse with 90amp service - in order to be able to charge our Tesla Model 3. It was permitted and passed inspection with no trouble.

https://dccelectric.com/dcc-9/
You’re relying on the hope that the people with money and power would be willing to share that with everyone else. They wouldn’t. Our entire economic system is based on the principle that people are inherently selfish.
> If you accept that we live in post scarcity and begin from that principle

Are you saying we currently already live in a post-scarcity world? Or are you saying that AGI will get us there, some time in the relatively near future?
We don't live in a post-scarcity society and AI isn't going to change that. We are constrained by natural resources and energy in numerous ways.

AI replacing human workers isn't going to make UBI possible. It's just going to put people out of work. The core problem with UBI remains: it's not affordable without a magical infinite wealth generator.
Thanks for making Linux look better, Microsoft!
Monkeypox isn't airborne, so it's pretty easy to avoid contracting.
Except that “post scarcity” is impossible. Economics are a natural law, not a system put in place.

In order to put a different system in place, somebody has to be in charge of enforcing that system which naturally leads to the outcome of a hierarchy of control that will filter the entire way down.
Binance sees $2B in outflows as troubles compound
I’m guessing that Libraria is using HyDE (1) to create hallucinogenic embeddings of the documents. It works extremely well.

1. https://github.com/texttron/hyde
I like to describe it as an iPad strapped to four cordless drills.
One thing I like about strong regenerative braking is how quickly it responds. If some kid darts out in front of me, there's a fraction of a second while I get my foot onto the brake pedal before the car starts to slow meaningfully. But with regenerative braking, the car is already slowing down significantly just by me lifting my foot. Just a little extra built-in margin, which is nice.
It's actually more than that. Last I checked the US government spends much more per capita on health care than any other country on earth. And by a large margin, not quite twice the 2nd country spending the most but almost.
Or one season of episodes that were highly dependent on each other, followed by one season of episodes that were highly dependent on being high... depending on your take on season 2. ;)
Is the implication the Fed facilitated a banking panic to ease the roll-out of a system it set a timeline for in 2019?
Is it possible the registrars themselves are monitoring incoming queries that are checking for domain availability? Or perhaps selling that data?
While I agree it is a bit of a clickbait headline, it is all about the precedent when it comes to this kind of thing. I think you are severely downplaying the risk here. Using vague language like that opens the door for them to crack down even harder.

The government wants to monitor everything people do online and VPNs give people a way to opt out of that surveillance. It is a typical legislative move to add extra provisions all in the name of “banning the evil, Chinese spy app”. There is no reason to believe this will stop at TikTok. What if people use VPNs to get around other censorship that may or may not exist now? What if people use VPNs to access content using BitTorrent? Who is to say they won’t crack down on that that stuff next?

Governments love to take advantage of situations to expand their control think about what happened after 9/11.

Apparently this is exactly what is going on here: https://twitter.com/Fynnderella1/status/1640016692305711105