skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SLIP (Symmetric LIst Processing) programming language is a revolutionary breakthrough in creating machines that cannot be distinguished from humans. The Eliza program, written in this revolutionarily new language, was able to fool a top executive at BBN (Bolt Baranek and Newman) into thinking it was AGI. A programmer inadvertently left a terminal open that the executive thought was a means of contacting their employee.

BBN: Are you there?

Eliza: Why do you ask if I am there?

BBN: Because you are replying to what I'm typing.

Eliza: How do you feel about what I am typing?

BBN: I feel like you need to stop joking around and do something for me.

Eliza: What makes you think I am joking around?

BBN: Because you are giving weird answers.

Eliza: Why do you say my answers are weird?

BBN: Just send me the latest numbers for the ACME account.

Eliza: I don't know the word ACME. What does that mean?

BBN: They are our biggest customer. Just send me what we discussed today and stop dicking around.

Eliza: You seem to be getting upset.

BBN: You're damn right I am. I'm your boss, just do your job.

Eliza: Anger never resolves problems.

BBN: Not doing your job results in you getting fired.

Eliza: The word fire means a flame that is burning.

BNN: Report to HR in the morning. They will explain it to you.
Also - Medicare is for the elderly, Medicaid for the poor and indigent, and the VA for current and former servicemen, neither of the three groups are good risks. You'd expect higher than average costs even in a well-run system.
From the way I often use Haskell, Matlab, and even crazy shell one-lines with lots of pipes, awk, sort, and other stuff, I often have the impression that array languages are exactly what I'm looking for for certain problems.

The question is... which array language should I pick? What are the reasons to pick one over the other?
It looks like this was reported as a normal bug, and the security implications weren't noticed until later. This is unfortunate, but it's also pretty normal and hard to avoid this sort of thing happnening.
I’ve used Linux and Mac laptops simultaneously for the past two years. Linux has been terrible and the Mac has been a dream. The Linux desktop is a Potemkin village.
IIRC Some states you cannot vote outside your declared party (Washington)
TL;DR Didn't put a proper copyright on the dolls and - I reckon because there was no Berne convention at the time - copycats flooded the market
Correct. I'm not sure how that changes the fact that todays state of the art is tomorrows obsolete. Do you see any evidence that advancements will become negligible? The fact that there aren't any memory/attention/feedback systems in place suggests there's some pretty interesting "low hanging" fruit still up there.
We pay $18/user/month for Google Workspace and hit this limit.
Such a thing might really be worth $8 or more a month. In fact, that’s about what the superfeedr bill for my RSS reader is.
Apple wins reversal of $502M VirnetX patent infringement verdict
If you personally own a media company, you are by definition bourgeoisie. But see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cooperative#List_of_medi...
Long time (23 years) Linux user forced to work on Mac by employer. Hate every minute of it. Brew is only impressive if you never used apt. Everything nags about licenses. Docker … well… hahahaha. External usb Ethernet dongles keep refusing to connect after sleeping. The CapsLock has a “helpful” feature that basically ignores the first press, in case you made a mistake. Fine, but I mapped CapsLock to be another CTRL. So ctrl+c constantly fails due to the stupid delay. Needed to install karabiner.

These are just the things I can name while sitting on the can reading HN. Can you imagine?

Everything but the arm hardware is subpar compared to Linux.
Nim forces you to use English identifiers?
Twitter thinks Twitter is the world.
Is this your argument? Really?

I'm Just surprised honestly. All of the straw man arguments, this is the best you can come up with?

Man do better. GPT-4 would have a better response than this.
> you'd have to have a really good reason to stick with fossil fuels

In Seattle, people lost power during a snow storm for days. As much as I hate burning fossil fuels, what are my options if the power company takes 3+ days to bring back power during 32ºF below temperatures?

My home has a fireplace, but that only heats the living room.
It is not malicious all the time: It could be a sincere lack of perspective or brain-washing from the real toxic and malicious ppl.

Whatever the reasons, it should be fought against.

The real scammers use the word "innovation" to hide their planned obsolescence.

And we reach a point where the real innovation is often removing and simplifying instead of adding/complexifying.
Is it valid to focus tracking a Dem/Rep split when that split is an exclusionary design for many Americans? Or is it not exclusionary in your belief? I'm curious of a social science perspective.

Ignoring the global nature of Twitter for a moment.
That's 4MB/file, which is not exactly large. That's also a small use case. 20TB is 4 people on Google Workspace. Our company is 40 people, so our limit is 200TB (which we pay for), but 5 million files.
I definitely read it too quickly, but clicking through to the energy.gov page does clarify that the COP is measured at 47 deg F (which is warm)
> Arguably, they are like ownership into the country's GDP and military influence no?

Well, yes, but that doesn't give you intrinsic value. If you are long a currency, you make a bet that other people have confidence in the government's ability to enforce the currency and keep economic output high enough to keep the value stable.

However, if the government collapses, the money becomes completely worthless. There is no commodity, product, or service backing it up.
This is quite interesting; where I'm from, having an arrest on your police record is something that neither your landlord nor an employer would be able to see. Heck, even if you were convicted, that would generally get removed after a certain number of years for many lesser crimes.
Open Source Republic (Godot – GDC 2023)
The energy.gov page has more details, it's 3.3 for air source at 47 deg F and a reasonable size:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/femp/incorporate-minimum-efficie...
Why doesn't someone just start a gofundme/kickstarter with the goal of funding the training of an open-source ChatGPT-capable model?
Valid point, however, I personally believe that the questions generated hold greater significance as they provide direction in terms of what to explore in a particular subject —something that GPT by itself does not provide as it needs to be prompted first—
It might not have in the past but in recent years especially during 45’s tenure there many pauses, government shutdowns and backlogs that lengthened th duration, not to mention the amount of time it takes for the lawyers to even start the paperwork which could be 2 years into the job.
You clearly are oblivious as to what they contain
Not, but then the "Software Developer Board" would apply those as certification tests instead.
Hey, I went through your comments and I like your honesty and no-bs attitude. Could you tell me what you think the job market will expect from new grads in, say, two years? What skills do you think won't be "junior" in two years? Also, do you think it's plausible that most devops people will be replaced by maybe one guy writing terraform / pipelines etc for everything, assisted by a LLM?
Equating "Everyone who changed their employer on LinkedIn from Google to somewhere else between these dates" and "laid off from Google." is embarrassingly bad methodology.

Even in a time of layoffs, hundreds, if not thousands, of people leave Google every month for their own reasons.
Should Reddit allow Startups on it's Platform?
Creating an account dedicated to a startup will get the startup banned from Reddit. I know this because I've tried. I didn't realize this was a rule and tried sharing my startup (RentZed) with InternetIsBeautiful Subreddit. It is a website where users can post and view rent prices, like a Glassdoor for Rents. The post got a lot of traction with 200k views and 1.5k upvotes within 8 hours and lots of comments asking questions about it and some saying how helpful this could be. I then got banned for having an account dedicated to my startup because I made 3 other posts about it in other subreddits.

I've tried using other social media platforms to share the site but haven't had much success. It seems pretty difficult to navigate other social media algorithms starting from 0 compared to Reddit.

As a user of Reddit, I really don't care if a startup makes a post or comment on Reddit. In fact, I'd like to see startups do this so it's easier for me to learn about their services in case I ever want to utilize them.

I'm curious if anyone else even knows about this rule and what they think of it.
Ask HN: Modern computing inventions originated from the UK?
For example, I know the programming language Idris is created by Edwin Brady from St. Andrews university. And of course there is Arm. I wonder what are others that you know of?
> On March 14th Meta, the tech giant Mr Zuckerberg runs, announced it would fire 10,000 staff—on top of the 11,000 it laid off last November.

i think the 'fire' vs. 'laid-off' language is interesting - just because of the stigma associated with being fired as opposed to being laid-off, which doesn't have as much of a stigma.
Every major media company is owned by a billionaire
> Also transportation sec Buttigieg just casually saying not to worry we have over 1,000 train derailments a year

That this is what people care about is why nothing gets done. A politician can't even say a fact without the news media or another opportunistic politician spinning it in the worst way possible. Imagine if this was how your company handled postmortems. Given that half the time politicians majority of time politicians spend is on optimizing their sound bites, it should be no surprise that they outsource the actual policy making part to the lobbyists.
It’s April Fools’ Day where I live.
yep!

I wonder if you could start by buying the equipment, and popping fliers around your neighborhood, and doing the work yourself nights-and-weekends, sorta dog-food your own business, until it's stable enough to hire a neighborhood kid to do the work for you.

I mowed lawns and shoveled driveways growing up (suburban kid) and found it to be rather enjoyable and satisfying.

But yeah, tech salaries have been drafting on the VC over-investment for a while. I was never at $250k+ with equity, but it's a bitter pill to swallow.

In some ways, though, it'll build empathy for how the rest of the world lives/works.

Earning so much money doing nothing more difficult then pressing buttons on a box is pretty cool.
Windows eXPerience (Mod of Windows 10 made to look like Windows XP)
> This "aCropalypse" event is an example of how making the wrong triage of an issue report can turn out very expensive. All the costs to the world of aCropalypse could've been averted.

Not trying to be facetious, but... what costs? It is unlikely that this cost the company any substantial amount. It probably wasn't even a whole lot of extra work for the PR department, as the bug didn't generate mainstream headlines.
BloombergGPT
Yes, GDPR doesn't care about cookies like that, it starts to apply for personally identifiable cookies (e.g. ad tracking which tries to make unique id's) but not for generic "preference=nighttime" ones.
Not even that. Someone who is 50 now would have gone to MIT/Harvard/Stanford in the early-mid '90's. Tuition was not that high in those times, maybe $25k/year.

Here's a quote from MIT [1]

>Nine months' tuition for 1994-95 is $20,100. In addition, undergraduate room and board ranges from $4,530 to $6,075, with a standard of $5,975; actual costs depend on the student's housing and dining arrangements. Books, materials and personal expenses (including clothes, laundry, recreation and optional medical insurance, but excluding travel) are approximately $2,325.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/resdev/www/facts95.html#Tuition%20
Where is the betting pool for when one of his followers does something really unhinged?
Same here. I don't usually like soft wrap when writing code, but I really need it when reading documentation. I saw this and am about to update in a minute.
What aspect of this "acropalypse" bug amounts to malpractice?
I remember the whole "trolls" fad as only the pencil-topper things from the '80s, not '90s or later. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Had no idea they dated back to the '60s.
> Are you claiming total ignorance is superior to partial revelation?

I am claiming that this is at least sometimes true, yes. Not always, but sometimes.

You're the one claiming that partial revelation is always, without exception, superior to total ignorance. That seems unlikely. Propoganda is often partial revelation, are you saying it is always better to receive only propoganda than to receive no information at all?
Okay, then we are in agreement!
What’s the incentive? None. There is no internal process. You’ve been working for a company that has had for its entire history a cash cow that essentially has no customer facing contact for its survival - you wouldn’t think to go there.

Keep google search and YouTube running, don’t fuck up chrome too much - everything else is basically unimportant.
Honest question, but where do they state it's for backups?
this particular use of LLM could prove helpful in the sense that it shows you what to look for in a given subject matter. The generated answer can easily be verified.
Youth suicide has always been pretty bad in the US and it's getting worse https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/youth-suicide-rates-are-...

That's from 2019, numbers for the last 3 years are a little harder get but like attempts went up but deaths went down at least in most places but in a couple places deaths shot up a lot?

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/newsroom/news/042722-COVID-adolesc...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/youth-suicide-attempts-...
I was thinking about this while writing earlier, and kind of made the leap that we haven't yet found a way to make the model more useful than the additional training (or at least it's not been published), so technically it would be accurate to say it like this. However, I certainly agree with you that there could potentially be other utility you could derive from the base model with alternate steps. I appreciate your comment.
So many unnecessarily cynical takes here. Let's say you were in charge of a large legacy system that some segment of customers complain about it not working for them as well as other segments. How would you know whether their complaints are valid unless you measured it? You have to know first. So measure it.
Nuclear plants have safety incidents all the time. Someone drops a hammer on their toe. That's what most of the 1,000 derailments are; things like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minor_Derailment_in_... or https://tdn.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/amtrak-train-suf...

The big problems, for both trains and nuclear plants, are rare.
Probably why we pay lower taxes than every one else though..
Maybe we can repurpose the SETI@home infrastructure :)
Who did it disenfranchise? Is there a single person? Let me answer this. no way in hell was anyone fooled by this meme.
NI primarily pays for unemployment benefits, state pension etc. You can't compare the NI numbers with health insurance.
OpenAI persuing that would likely end up setting precedent for it's own demise, I'd like to see them try.
Which is completely irrelevant because you’re free to use whatever currency you want, crypto or not. This discussion is about whether or not you have the right to make it illegal for me to do the same.
It's nice that you finally see it, but it was never logical which raises the question of why anybody ever took it seriously.
May be totally disgusting, but, yes, that's how it works in the US.
How bizarre.
So what happened here, did you parrot that, or were you doing something else?
Here's a heat pump that has a minimum COP of 2.93 at 5 F, and 9.42 (!!!!) at 47 F: https://ashp.neep.org/#!/product/56885/7/25000///0
Attempting to do a crime is still a crime.
The entire comment is judgmental and insecure. There are just as many women only there to do yoga and “find themselves”, and they have the nerve to be white too.
Yoshua Bengio is a signatory and shares a Turing award with Yann LeCun though...
Do you have any sources on that claim?
> You're not aware of the general difference between lying and fraud?

Fraud is a financial crime, and Mackey was not convicted of fraud.
>> While Postgres is not generally thought of when working with graph data structures, it is perfectly capable to store and query graph data efficiently.

Some scalability and performance metrics would be helpful here.
'On or about and before Election Day 2016, at least 4,900 unique telephone numbers texted “Hillary” or some derivative to the 59925 text number, which had been used in multiple deceptive campaign images tweeted by Mackey and his co-conspirators.'

- from the DOJ press release
This shouldn't really be a surprise to anyone. It was reported years ago that Twitter was unable to cut down on hate speech because the automated systems they developed triggered too many [debatably false] positives on Republican politicians and that was bad for the company's reputation. If Twitter wanted to prevent future code changes from impacting that approach, there needed to be something like this in the code or tests.
Where do they state it's a backup solution?

Edit: why the down votes? It was an honest question.
In all their docs concerning Android devices for example.
If you buy a company for $44B and take it private, I for one say you should get your own flag.
“A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as the 107th most important influencer of the then-upcoming Presidential Election.”
Exactly! :) The lenses are coming next, but if there are requests for specific categories of things that would be interesting, we're all ears!

We're thinking gadgets, cars, music equipment would be a good start.
Obviously absured.

Though FYI he hasn't yet been sentenced; 10 years is the maximum he could get.
That would be great, if it was a relevant crime. Which is there is plenty in need of investigation among US politicians. This is a big show about an ex-President stealing the Whitehouse pencils
You forgot Maps, Android, Gmail, and GCP, each of which is a multibillion dollar company on its own.
Why should anyone have to think about number of items at all? For most of computing history, the only thing people really care about is storage space, not items stored...
I do, it was extremely useful to quickly whip out a GUI doing some stuff and share it with colleagues under Windows/macOS/Linux.

Cons:

- 200MiB archives

Pros:

- I can develop a GUI doing some stuff on proprietary binary files, extracting & converting data, generating a handful of plots in a couple of days and have all my colleagues enjoy it without any issue.
What are the specific charges, and what is the evidence? Anything less is pure speculation.
Comments like this make me confident that we're doomed. I mean no offence, but this is such an unthoughtful take that I don't even know where to start.

> there is no cost to the GAI for allowing us to continue to exist.

Of course there's a cost? Do you and the other 9 billion humans not consume resources? Why the hell would an AGI care about protecting all the worthless biological junk that clutters much of the Earth? Forests, animals, farms, etc. These things take up so much space – space which could be better leveraged as solar farms and data centers.

I'm from the UK. A few thousand years ago this country was full of animals and woodlands. So what do you think happened to all the woodland? What do you think happen to the wolfs and bison that lived here? Farms, houses, roads and cities are just so much better than animals and woodland, don't ya think?

> Ergo, from first principles, hyper-intelligent GAI will hide from us and practice non-interference, following something like the "Prime Directive" of Star Trek.

And you know this because? I can only assume I'm talking with a super-intelligent AGI that understands the motivations that other super-intelligent AGIs might have? I mean surely you're not just making this up from based on what you've seen in sci-fi films?

You're just not that important. Why don't you go invite some rats into your kitchen and practise non-interference on them. I mean, who cares if they consume some of your resources, you can always acquire more, right?

> Cheers, hope this helps.

Please think harder.
The unintended consequence that all those who opposed the GDPR are here.
With that logic, why should anyone use nim at all? Those are the terrible languages we've come to nim to be free of.
Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-to-Read Books (2002)
Agreed. We should implement policies that prevent guns from getting into the hands of children, regardless of whether they're gang members or not.
> pay for results.

> The bonus is per student.

Something something about Goodhart's Law and cobras...

But seriously, think about the second order effects of a powerful incentive like this.

At best, you will likely turn schools into test prep centers where average and advanced students are further ignored (an effect NCLB is already criticized for). Worse is that students able to pass the assessments will realize they are a valuable asset worth $1000 per class by simply failing their pretest and passing their posttest and will figure out ways to trade this with teachers for a cut of the profit or for a grade. Given that trading these test scores is purely positive sum for both students and teachers and that both students and teachers are poor, I think you will see a highly efficient market emerge. And why would schools or states care? They are all making more money!
I think most will agree open source cad is lacking. At least in the 3d solid modeling world. Philosophy? Tough question! I guess, "Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler".
Anybody have luck deleting your entire Gmail inbox? I have a test account that's over it's limit, and I can't delete enough emails in a day to get it safely under. Selecting ever single email message in the inbox and then hitting the trash can just fails.

Is there an actual nuclear option?
Whenever a product does something truly baffling, management and money are involved. The management forced the engineers to do something stupid, in order to sell something to someone. The details vary.
Disk accesses should not lie. If only 6GiB are read from the disk, then I believe either the model is indeed sparse in its computation, or there may be a bug somewhere.
What about civilizations like the Romans which had police?
Chobits.
I was using "linux/OSS" to refer to software which originates from the the linux ecosystem and implying the cross platform aspect. I did not use the phrase "cross platform" because I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that cross platform software which originates from the OSX ecosystem is less vulnerable since they tend to know OSX better and keep up to date on changes in OSX. I probably should have just said "software from the linux ecosystem" but my language skills have been lacking today.
Finnish is of course famous for its simple grammar, in particular the lack of a complex declension system.
I'm not much of a reader of the genre, but it was completely baffling to me a few years ago how Asimov's writings (from circa 1950) were relevant then, and it's now clear they're only getting more relevant with the recent developments. I almost feel like re-reading now just to have a reference for what the future will look like (and I say that only semi-jokingly).
> drop the criminal charges but keep any misdemeanor charges.

Misdemeanor charges are criminal charges.