skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm honestly more worried about US spies working for OpenAI.

The US military has shown time and time again their obsession with weaponized AI, and now OpenAI has been fully consumed by Microsoft, and is now stating how building open source AI tools was a huge mistake. There now seem to be more paths than ever towards a terminator-esque militarized robot apocalypse.

Most players in the space are still doing a lot of great open source work, so I'm still hopeful for a future where technological disparity is kept to a minimum, but it makes me really really nervous seeing how quickly a major player in the space, and a leader in many ways, has suddenly flipped to the dark side and has stopped contributing back to the community.
Not offensive, just more labor intensive and uncommon in the US, especially for someone well-off enough to have his own pool.
GPT-4 doesn't seem anywhere close to writing or intelligently modifying medium/large programs. This is what most professional programmers do.

LeCun at least believes this is a fundamental limitation of AR-LLMs that can't be overcome (e.g. his "Unpopular Opinion" slide -- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BU5bV3X5w65DwSMapKcsr0ZvrMR...).
I thought dropping the Covid restrictions was more of a "Oh shit, the people are really mad, the protests are growing, we better back down!" move, although if that's really the case, that's a rare surrender by the CCP, and AFAIK they don't like to look weak...

I'm not an expert in Chinese politics, maybe I should check what the real experts are saying.
It's almost amusing to see them post part of the text of the bill, and there's nothing in those sections that confirms what they claim.

On reddit I ran into the VPN claim, but they only posted the section of the bill that listed foreign adversaries followed by the criminal penalties.

Sadly these are getting lots of engagement with their sensational claims. Seems to work on HN as well...
I hear you, and at the same time I know nothing good comes out of government interfering with internet. Another 10 years and they will ban news websites with "fake news about war", as Russia did in 2022

Luckily I live in a small country now and shouldn't care much about us politics
Why can't a super intelligent AI just make a dumb avatar to trick people?
Our sun moves around the galaxy at about 500,000 mph...and thus so do we.
> Any invasive specie known today is about transporting an organism, evolutionally willing to live from one place to another. GMO organism aren't evolutionally willing to live

Evolution doesn't have a concept of will. It does have the concept of survival. Survival of the fittest (yes, I know it's a simplification).

Nearly every species is invasive given lack of external controls. For example, Sweden needs to kill 100 000 (yes, one hundred thousand) of moose every year because their natural predator, the wolf, has been exterminated, and moose have become invasive.

If your pest-resistant, herbicide-resistant tomato that is also more adaptable to varying soil conditions is able to reproduce and hybridize, it will "willingly" take over any local plants not because it has the "will", but because it has the capacity.

It will just as "willingly" take over, say, wheat, if the field is contaminated with its seeds.

We use herbicides in our fields not because our plants have "no will to live", but because other plants will just take over given half the chance.

> I do not believe that all plants harvested from GMO are _really_ sterile. Since they use to have a reproductive system so all kinds of mutations are possible if something with CRISPR/Cas9 goes wrong

All GMO products (both plants and animals) are required to be sterile because impact on ecosystem is very hard to estimate if they aren't. And yes, it's not 100% fool-proof, and quite a concern
For those of us who can't call it for reasons like national borders, could someone post a demo video? I'm not finding it on Youtube.
I see a ChatGPT app here! Nobody sends messages to each other directly, instead everything goes first to the app which reads and rephrases the message in the manner that the intended recipient finds most agreeable - terse and to the point, or long-winded and circumlocutious, plus whatever else fits. The information gets delivered with minimal friction, everyone's happy?

This would be an interesting experiment, anyway.
I could synthesise this theoretical virus the computer spat out, that may or may not be deadly (or even viable). Or I could download the HIV genome from the arXiv, and synthesise that instead.

(Note: as far as I can tell, nobody's actually posted HIV to the arXiv. Small mercies.)
That reads like Accelerando :)
Would you happen to be confusing SE with CS? This is a common mistake, explained at the intro of my link above.

Vast majority of SE jobs are company CRUD jobs and managers, a few on the side embedded or graphics. Very, very few jobs are "CS research scientists" pushing boundaries.

If you mean "learn to use" AI tools, well log on and it takes 15 mins to get started and practice here and there. Never seen anyone tout their "wolfram-alpha using skills" previously—it's just not a big flex or deep moat.

Learning to use git properly is more difficult than chatgpt I'd say.
All things data-engineering is the big one I forgot and a huge field.

Stepping back, as a new SE you'll want to be familiar with hype cycles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

I remember when Java was going to marginalize everything else, and later when self-driving cars were 5 years away. Neither happened. Bitcoin? Nope.

Only thing that sorta did was the Web displacing Microsoft, but only after later mobile/cloud waves hit. Didn't significantly hurt them and happened in a very different way than originally forseen—which was that Netscape and Sun were going to make the the client OS irrelevant.
Arch isn't really noob unfriendly, it just requires an intimidating procedure to begin setup, which manjaro used to just do automatically for you, that was basically it's selling point, "arch without manually installing all your software."

Now it's just adware and unstable crap, not near as bad as Ubuntu but I won't recommend Manjaro anymore.

There are several less noob friendly distributions than Arch, I'd say NixOS, Void and Alpine probably top that list. Theyre great distros but they deviate significantly from what you'd expect from mainstream Linux.
They can form an opinion on whether their client is guilty. But they can't know whether they are correct until the verdict.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I applaud your effort to create something unique that you enjoy, but personally I think that computer is arguably the ugliest I've ever seen, and I used an emachine in the 90s...
Its sad that the chans are running free while TikTok is the thing being banned. Americorp is the worst leader of the west that there could be.
Von Neumann Probe, and the consequences are potentially discovering alien life, colonizing the universe, and exploring the frontiers of science.
If anyone can't get the article, this one is by Eliezer Yudkowsky. He has pretty much devoted his life to thinking about how to not let AI get powerful and destroy all humans, and now there is this wild race among the largest corporations and possibly governments to be the first to get the most powerful superhuman AI system. Obviously he is disturbed by such a development.
I think right is subjective here, I don't believe it's clearly right for me or my projects.
I want to go on a tangent here and say I completely agree. I don't know how it happened but many people around me now express how they love this or that, most things are amazing or awesome, and they click on heart emojis in Teams on more or less every message. Not sure if it is generational, or cultural or whatever. I can imitate but to me if feels odd. I prefer a more balanced language. Btw I am in a large well known company in Europe with people from all over the world, but quite young for the most part.
I'm not sure if these models use the GPT tokenizer, but if you type a long string of numbers into https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer, you can see the tokens that the LLM would see. What the LLMs get as input for math is significantly worse then having to do mental math with roman numerals, tokenizing makes sense for words but for numbers it seems the like LLMs would have to learn a lot more steps. I wonder if limiting number tokens to 2 digits per token, instead of the 1-3 (and even more for repeated digits) it currently is would improve models math.
I am very cynical about this. It is almost like someone got scared that power will be way too democratic if current community efforts to run it on a toaster are more successful ( and so far progress is impressive ).
here's one from Twitter! https://twitter.com/altryne/status/1640880190401257473?s=20
Can the affect of the Russia Ukraine war on the global economy be tangibly quantified?
The oil and natural gas out of Russia is affected but I think they are finding other buyers with the price back to pre war level, Ukrainian wheat supply is affected but I’m not sure that combination is a major driver for inflation but I’m not an expert.
I fail to see how free markets work if people aren't rational actors. We might as well have a communist economy if we can't count on that.

Besides, anytime we see the government intervene on matters like this, we're reminded how they make it worse.
One of the models that exists is the moderation model.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation/overview

> The moderation endpoint is a tool you can use to check whether content complies with OpenAI's usage policies. Developers can thus identify content that our usage policies prohibits and take action, for instance by filtering it.

The raw access to the models (e.g. doing calls to to text-davinci-003) isn't filtered - there are times when as a developer, you may need that unfiltered data (e.g. you don't want to moderate the input text if you're trying to clean it up).

For tools that they provide such as ChatGPT, it is likely that that model is run on the output (and possibly the input too) which then goes to some canned responses.
My 486 hardware still boots fine. However developers have moved away from it and the manufacturer no longer supports it. I can run community supported software on it.

How is this any different to the phone in question?
A good song about the word, by Ronny Cox who played the police chief in Robocop: https://ronnycox.bandcamp.com/track/mamihlapinatapei
> If you think art is merely customizing imagery things to suit people's preferences, you don't understand art.

No, art is whatever the artist wants to call art, and it's whatever people want to find meaning in. Sure, you can't equate it to producing images, but the vast majority of people won't really care, if they can see some cool images or videos then that's what they'll want. This is the same argument that was used when Stable Diffusion released, yet the inexorable wheel of progress turns on.
IIRC when you add items to your shopping cart, the little display shows what you added?

I think it would actually be harder to have a bunch of people watching and recording your items manually, than the actual system they set up with 4 scanners on the sides of your shopping cart reading bar codes.
What a joke. Sounds like some folks just want to pause the race to give themselves some time to catch up after being caught off-guard by OpenAI.
I'm anxious, excited, and nervous about AI, but this feels more akin to luddite-thinking, the world's about to shift, but I'm hoping the shift is a positive one.
Stopped reading at the very first sentence to come here and write this. Thankfully you have done it for me.
I've replied above (due to rate-limiting timeout, had to capture my thoughts there earlier).

I have no interest in stopping consenting adult trans or any other person from any surgery/treatment, regardless of how efficacious or not it is. But do not make the mistake of believing because it is the only medically accepted treatment of gender dysphoria (which is curiously a treatment for something that is not even a disorder or illness), that it must be the path to least suffering and death.
Thinking about this as well, especially as a parent. Dropping off my kids at school each day has become a major source of anxiety.

I don't have any advice, but you could checkout /r/amerexit [1] on reddit. Lots of info, resources, and people willing to help there.

Best of luck to you, and hope to hear what decision you land on.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AmerExit/
They’re talking about pausing research and talking together about the path forwards, not stopping research and letting <whatever country your paranoid about> build terminator.
> Both of your examples are in terms of absolute percentage points

No, they are both about relative increases. I didn't even write about absolute increases because (unlike relative increases, where the article makes a mistake) absolute increases were the part that the article got right: a rise from 5% to 15% would be an (absolute) increase of 10% … just like the article says.

> 300% relative difference just means 300/100 = 3x

…My point was: 300% relative INCREASE (i.e. positive relative difference) means that it's the DIFFERENCE (increase) between the initial value and the end value that is 300% RELATIVE TO the initial value (thus the end value being 400% of the initial value), not that the end value is 300% of the initial value (which would only be a 200% relative increase).

Let's take, to better illustrate the point, an example with a relative increase below 100%. Let's go with an example with 40% relative increase. So let's say:

* in the reference year, your company made a profit of 5 million dollars out of a revenue of 100 million dollars, i.e. a profit margin of 5%.

* the next year it still made a revenue of 100 million dollars but managed to be more profitable, making a profit of 7 million dollars i.e. a profit margin of 7%.

* The ABSOLUTE increase of the profit margin is (7%-5%)=2%,

* The RELATIVE increase of profit margin is the absolute increase of profit margin divided by its initial reference value i.e. (7%-5%)/5% = 40%.

And my point is: having a 40% relative increase of profit margin means that your end profit margin is 40% higher relative to your initial reference profit margin and is thus (100%+40%)=140% of your initial reference profit margin, not that your end profit margin is 40% of your initial profit margin… which would be a 60% relative DECREASE (i.e. -60% relative increase) of the profit margin.
GMO patents expire after 20 years IIRC.

We could argue whether it's too long, but it's a complex topic I don't know nearly enough.
There‘s a lot of trade going on with China and you worry about them basically declaring war? To brick your devices?

Just cut them off from the internet, if needed.
Courts (especially the current SCOTUS) seem pretty wary of expanding executive authority granted ambiguously under acts like the "International Emergency Economic Powers Act." Just my 2c.
Like I said, it doesn't matter what his plan was. And I wasn't "implying" anything, I'm explicitly talking about money.

Running a social media site costs. Not even Musk has the liquid capital to keep it afloat as a public service at this loss rate. Either he comes up with a radical new income stream, or he'll have to shut it down or sell it. How virtuous his plans are, how much cultural value Twitter has, these things are irrelevant. A car won't go without gas.

Also, you didn't answer my question.
Yeah, like a fifth of the world's population was born in China. Unless a company is explicitly enforcing sinophobic hiring policies, there's going to be a lot of Chinese people working there.
> Now, submitting graphic materials like this is generally a bad idea.

No shit, what are these people thinking? after all of the years of hardwork to get the citizenship, they would just send it for what? for fun??
I think the key question is whether they are nice, incompetent AND teachable, because if the person can get where you need them with some coaching, then it is not a wasted effort.
Astrophysicist claims to be close to building a time machine
Random observations -

It looks like this article was published the same day that the Nashville school shooting happened.

The New Yorker cartoons within it, that I see, seem (for the most part) uncharacteristic.
My feelings are very much the opposite. Republicans and Democrats can hardly ever work together to get something positive accomplished. Banning TikTok--an app which is perhaps the largest psyop against the US population in history--is a breath of fresh air.
Yeah, I'm really wondering if I'm dumb or something with this whole AI train, but my job as a developer that maintains existing (sometimes quite old) systems is much more about determining what actually needs to be done, gathering lost / not lost knowledge about the existing state of things in systems and figuring out where to change the code for maximum impact and minimal side effects. Lots of talking to customers/non-technical people as well to figure out if existing features can cover something they need and they just don't know about it and I happen to know about it etc.

I've been watching the AI hype (again) and it's completely going over my head, I really really don't get it - I doubt {x}GPT would be able to analyze hundreds of thousands of project code across a big system (multiple languages, multiple services, interconnectedness of everything) and tell me what to do, even in the case I would want to paste in everything proprietary to a 3rd party service which I really don't.

Maybe it just works for a subset of programming, but then again I don't really see how it differs to reading docs for generating boilerplate or whatever it's useful for in greenfield projects. I was also not really impressed by it generating improvements to code when you ask it the right questions since that's the hard part of the job, not typing out the code.

Maybe I'm just a dinosaur and dumb.
This is the one moment he has been waiting his entire life for.

He literally waited his entire life for this moment, obviously he's gonna milk it to every drop.
3dprinteros has an online slicer. So, assuming you are happy with the default profile and the printer is online, you can go "Upload stl" -> "next" -> "next" -> "next" -> "print".
That can work short term if the team is still full of competent people, but wont work long term since the manager is in charge of hiring, firing and promoting people.
Uhh...it's also not privileged, if the lawyer is participating in the discussion about ongoing planning of criminal activity.

http://doctorcleveland.blogspot.com/2018/04/don-corleones-gu...

> [The lawyer] Hagen is not only party to that decision but party to a detailed discussion of methods. He cannot pretend attorney-client privilege here either.
Reminds me of the Primer from Neal Stephenson's A Diamond Age. Passage from Nell's first experience with the Primer:

The book spoke in a lovely contralto, with an accent like the very finest Vickys. The voice was like a real person's- though not like anyone Nell had ever met. It rose and fell like slow surf on a warm beach, and when Nell closed her eyes, it swept her out into an ocean of feelings.

"Once upon a time there was a little Princess named Nell who was imprisoned in a tall dark castle on an island in the middle of a great sea, with a little boy named Harv, who was her friend and protector. She also had four special friends named Dinosaur, Duck, Peter Rabbit, and Purple. Princess Nell and Harv could not leave the Dark Castle, but from time to time a raven would come to visit them..."

"What's a raven?" Nell said.

The illustration was a colorful painting of the island seen from up in the sky. The island rotated downward and out of the picture, becoming a view toward the ocean horizon. In the middle was a black dot. The picture zoomed in on the black dot, and it turned out to be a bird. Big letters appeared beneath. "R A V E N," the book said. "Raven. Now, say it with me."
> There are only so many hours that congress has to make real decisions ... and this, this is what they spent their time on? Talking about how 'kids' might be influenced by an algorithm when they're being influenced every day by how they might get shot up in math class?

What do you think causes kids to shoot up their math class?
A strong democracy does as it pleases within its democratic laws
I don't live in the US, but this op-ed is also interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/next-us-civil-...
Yeah but there’s a lot of young Children who aren’t in such a dire position who deserve at least for the chance to live as long as you have?
Sam Altman – Machine intelligence, part 1 (2015)
I'd switch in a second, but you can't use iMessage without giving Beeper your iCloud password. That's a dealbreaker for me.

I wonder if they'll offer a self-hosted option at some point.
well the first obvious issue is...you need to be able to obtain some kind of immigration status wherever you want to move, so you can't just pick a fantasy destination and hop on a plane

you could also just relocate in the US...figure out what is important to you and do some analysis on how different places stack up

finally, be careful about letting daily events direct your life strategy too much

also be realistic about life in other countries...I grew up near Toronto and can say with certainty it is no longer the zero-crime/very-clean stereotype many Americans believe...you just don't hear much about Canadian cities on US news but they also have serious crime now
The cat is out of the box. You really think eg China will also pause this?

Myopic thinking: the country that will have the most powerful AI first will be the leader in everything.

>> If the policy starts with the U.S., then China needs to see that the U.S. is not seeking an advantage but rather trying to prevent a horrifically dangerous technology which can have no true owner and which will kill everyone in the U.S. and in China and on Earth.

Imagine being so naive you belive this could ever happen.

Also: imagine the year is 1900. You are saying that steam power and electricity is causing way too many changes way too fast so they put a moratorium on it until the year 2500.

We would still be using candles today.
Western media firms don't operate for 'western' interests. Fox and friends, for instance, are actively trying to undermine western civilization[1], and I'll be damned if they are doing it for my own good.

They operate for their own interests, which are almost always directly at odds with the interests of the people who actually live in the west.

[1] I have exactly as much evidence for this as you do for your claim.
I wonder how corporations are going to adapt to a world where more and more meetings are transcribed and summarized by language models. Adopting that technology, while it's a productivity boost, will expose companies to vastly greater amounts of liability. There are a lot of comments that can get made off-hand in a meeting that would never make it into chat, let alone an email.
I'm not defending javascript, but I just want to answer the "wat" by saying these are all just jabs at its type coercion rules, the fact that an array is an object, and that the toString method for each type usually isn't that helpful by default.

None of this matters most of the time, but yeah it's still funny.

In case you want to laugh harder:
https://getify.github.io/coercions-grid/
I've been thinking about getting a Prusa 3D printer for a long time, but now I'm leaning towards a Bambu Lab X1-Carbon Combo 3D printer. It looks really cool and seems like a more professional tool. Has anyone tried both? What would you recommend?

EDIT: I read some of the other comments in this thread and did some more research. Found some Reddit posts as well. I think I'll definitely go with the Bambu Lab printer.
would be nice to add (2016) or the actual RFC number (7807) in the subject.

more from the authors btw:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Mark%20Nottingham

https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/erik.wilde@dret.net