skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know that Microsoft would love this outcome and will gladly use the need for regulatory compliance as a mechanism to push for it.
It could be great if you were a car manufacturer that already had an existing, very large supply chain for lights, dashboard, powered window motors, and other accessories, that were already 12 volt.
Agree. And this feels all the more useless that they already had a "low-distraction" mode for a while.
> LLMs,not AGI

Okay, but imagine someone strips ChatGPT of the safeguard layers, asks it to shut down MAERSK operation world wide without leaving tracks,, and connects the outputs to a bash terminal, and the stdout to the chat api.

It is still an LLM, but if it can masquerade as an AGI, is that then not enough to qualify as one? To me, this is what the Chinese Room Experiment [1] is about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
You also have to think about comments sections not being a random sample of the site’s users.

Likely, a month ago, anyone was interested in commenting on AI threads, so more skepticism was evident. Now, most people who are AI-skeptic are probably tired of AI news and have said their piece in other threads, so don’t bother.

fwiw, I’ve tried to use ChatGPT to make a new, useful Elixir library and it failed miserably. It makes me wonder if the success with JavaScript/Python uses are because the question and answers are extensively in the training data whereas a relatively novel Elixir program is something it can’t do because it’s not truly “reasoning”. It can’t even get basic command line prompts that are straight from the Elixir or Phoenix docs correct, and it cannot solve the error messages that its code produces like others claim experiencing for JavaScript/Python uses.

If my hunch about training contamination is correct, we’re going to quickly run into not being able to create novel software if we replace everyone with GPT algos, unless their core functionality vastly changes from excellent pattern matching to true reasoning.
In the EU it is a human right.

> The right to privacy or private life is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection_en#:~....

The violations of these are not the responsibility of the victim. In this case they are the responsibility of Meta.

You seem to be talking about it more in line with if it was a privilege and not a right. Consider a passport, its a privilege and indeed not a right to get one. So you need to seek it out.

Rights however are not sought out, or require some kind of process to achieve them. They're available from birth.
What do you expect to happen when an upgrade to a daemon involves a policy choice?

For example, let's say that you have Postfix using a smarthost as a relay, and the new version of Postfix requires relays to have a shared secret for authentication with each of their trusted clients. That isn't something that can be handled by an automated config translator.

This sort of thing happens a lot. The best that can be done is putting the changes into a document for you to read, understand, and then make decisions.
Sounds like it was great technology that was just badly realized by its human inventor. Twain shouldn't have invested in an inventor; he should have invested in an inventing machine, or perhaps even an investing machine.
Tesla switched from lead-acid to 12V lithium ion their S and X models in 2021. James May had some issues with his Tesla when the 12V battery went flat.

https://insideevs.com/news/546087/tesla-liion-12v-auxiliary-...

https://youtu.be/NsKwMryKqRE
The Safe Uncertainty Fallacy
They're required to prove absence of a given intent in the sense of "to the jury's satisfaction."

If the prosecution says "Here are all the things that indicate intent" and the defense says "I'm not going to respond to any of those, because none of them prove intent" then that's rolling some pretty loaded dice with a jury.
What if governments start regulating and locking down advanced computing in the same way they locked down medicine and advanced weapontry?
No it doesn't. I find its evaluation rather fair.
What do the GHC folks (or anybody from the Haskell community) say about your work?
> It'd let you use a fixed point implementation for 0 - pi/2 benefiting from smaller look up table

Why would that table be smaller if you use 2^64 values in that range instead of the fewer than 2^55 doubles in that range?

> and simpler implementation.

Why would it be simpler? With doubles, the hardware will do scaling for you. With fixed point, you need a helper function or macro to do multiplications, and those have to use an intermediate result with more than 64 bits (in this special case, some shortcuts are possible, but those won’t make the implementation simpler).
Don't know if I'd characterize the situation like that. HTML has changed very, very little over time: there were the new HTML 5 semantic sectioning elements article, main, header, footer, section, and very few additional elements with ever-changing semantics such as summary/details, dialog and menu/menuitem (oddly, a Firefox contribution that took a long time to find its way into other browsers, unlike Chrome's). Note the so-called "HTML5 outlining algorithm" for inferring sections and interpreting heading levels was only removed last year from the spec. In contrast, many more additional elements came in via the foreign vocabularies that were specified using XML ie SVG and MathML.

What utterly changed was CSS and JS, though; you could say CSS was expanded to this absurd extend because HTML was bound to stay the same during W3C and then WHATWG's organizational lock on HTML.
> I think the beaurocrats in the EU don't even know what they are doing with most of the policies or "fines" they try to impose.

I think it's like I said, it's a lot of "feel good" laws.

> It will drive Europe to a sort of digital isolationism where offshore companies will either a) dismiss and continue b) cease operations there.

I think it's more likely the US adopts a softer version of the GDPR, and it will be the EU and the US and the Commonwealth countries vs pretty much other more restricted Internet 'islands'.

I really hope we have a working decentralized alternative before that happens. It's something I want to start contributing to later this year, because I think it really needs to be a priority.
I fully agree.

And what an anticlimactic article. The only ugly piece of craft on this page is his "computer". It's useless too, which is fine, art can be useless, but I have a hard time seeing the esthetic value. In the eye of the beholder, sure. But it feels like my 5-year old having painted something in pre-school and showing it to me. Sure he's proud. Sure I'll praise him. But is it art? Well..
wikipedia is full of amateur dick pics (vulvas too!)

but perhaps the difference is that chatgpt could tell them stuff like "yeah, you should kill yourself"?
> didn't implement the "consent dialog" just right

I think it’s called a “consent thingy”
Right, we're just seeing the early phase of the Gartner hype cycle play out in an unusually public and aggressive manner. At this time we're still racing up the initial slope towards the peak of inflated expectations.

https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hy...

Eventually people will realize that LLMs are useful tools, but not magic. GPT99 isn't going to be Skynet. At that point disillusionment will set it, VC funding will dry up, and the media will move on to the next hit thing. In 10 years I expect that LLMs will be used mostly for mundane tasks like coding, primary education, customer service, copywriting, etc. And there is tremendous value in those areas! Fortunes will be made.
The strategy is the democrats have been fundraising on this idea for years and the donors are getting upset
There is IT and there is Dev, and much of the latter drives profits.

Most of IT is there to support business ops, and is basically there to do what a secretary pool did 60 years ago.
His group makes incredibly inefficient EVs. The Jeep Wrangler PHEV gets just 1.5 miles per kWh, compared 3.8 miles per kWh for the Tesla Model Y. Literally we'd need 2.5 times as much lithium to go all electric if we used his company's cars. The Wrangler PHEV is one of the few electric cars that is actually worse than an optimized gas-powered Prius in marginal emissions per electric mile driven (altho as we further decarbonize, this won't be true).

Stellantis' electric technology, frankly, sucks. They give PHEVs a bad name (the Volt was awesome). And he has an incentive to not be forthright about it.
75% of the Most Played Games on Steam Are Playable on the Steam Deck
A bit tangential, but this week I discovered an interesting tidbit about nuclear waste.

We keep hearing that nuclear waste is an intractable problem, that the Yucca Mountain repository could never be approved, and there is no alternative, etc.

What I learned this week is that in the US (and worldwide) more waste was produced by weapons programs than by the civilian reactors. Roughly speaking the civilian reactors have produced about 120k tons of spent fuel in the US. Weapons programs created 100 million gallons of waste [1], which is in liquid form. I can't find the density, but I doubt is lower than that of water, and most likely it is much higher (Uranium is an extremely dense metal). In any case, at a minimum this is 380k tons, which dwarfs the waste from civilian sources.

All this waste was or will be stored at a facility similar to the one envisioned for Yucca Mountain, called WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) [2], located in the desert in New Mexico. By a law passed by Congress, only waste from the weapons programs is eligible to be stored there, but there's no technological reason to not add civilian waste to the program.

WIPP is an underground long term storage facility in a massive salt mine. The video in link [2] is quite informative.

My personal conclusion is that nuclear waste disposal is a solved problem, both from the technological point of view and the political one.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/radtown/nuclear-weapons-production-waste

[2] https://www.wipp.energy.gov/
> Is it not possible to have a client / desktop OS where each app runs in its own container by default with its own writeable filesystem...

We have several "container as app" solutions around:

* Microsoft Universal Windows Platform;

* Canonical snaps;

* Flatpak;

* containertoolbx/Distrobox (this one is very DIY and what I use);

It's just that (as of now) most apps rely (and are allowed to be deployed in "stores") on very leaky container isolation (like full filesystem access) so might as well not be deployed inside containers in the first place.
What to Do About AI-Driven Job Displacement?
Here is a coherent reason : Just to know where we are standing in our ability to control AI.

Like an alcoholic saying he is in control and that he can stop whenever he wants, can try to go dry for a month (or 6) to show that he still somewhat is.

If Covid exposed only one thing : it is humanity total failure to control global phenomenons for positive outcomes.

It is becoming evident to everybody, and this open-letter failure to act is one more example, that humanity current approach is just winging it while pretending, and that only those that don't care about risks have a chance to "win".

So let us all bring out our new shiny fireworks for the doomsday party and have fun one last time !
> This seems like a weak case to me.

This is why we can't have nice things. None of the charges have been disclosed so why even opine on this yet? It's all speculation at this point.
I wonder how many coders have done exactly this in the last couple of weeks? Using the api to cater the chatgpt system to our liking. I’ve done the same and it’s changing the game for me. Saving hours of time jumping through that small part of a project that I knew would be the bottleneck.

I’ve gone from saying that I’ll need an hour to do something to only needing 15 minutes.

However, I’m good enough at what I do that I can find the problems in the code or notice something out of place or that could be done more securely.

I fear many won’t and lots of junk code is going to find its way into our lives. I worry about things like this when it comes to, for example, Wordpress plug-ins, or add ons to other larger tools that we use.
I guess expense is the reason taxiways don't go under runways.
I would call it very woke, exaggerating political correctness to the point of being clownish.
I think it depends on your personality - I prefer to fix code than to write it from scratch. Maybe it's an ADHD thing but I can be much more productive working like this than I can working in a void. (well - a void that has access to Stack Overflow etc)
For anyone interested in this sort of thing (like me), the Decent DE1 Espresso machine is a well-engineered, cafe quality, open-source machine that you can buy.

There is a small community working on various software apps around it. The machine is controlled through open BLE comms. All the control software AFAIK is OSS and tinkerable. The machine itself is top notch, and in my espresso-nerd opinion, beats anything on the market except in appearance and "analogeness".

So if you like espresso and hacking on software, check it out.
Depending on how much you have on your plate, this is ideal from a time management perspective. Knowing when and how to delegate is a very important skill. Just because you can do something doesn't mean that it's a good use of your time.
I appreciate your sources. They point to many effects people feel. The big I Inflation is being driven by one thing:

An increase in the money supply.

The Fed did that. I’m not arguing the morality of it. It’s what happened. Do we agree the Fed printed more money?

The way the fed combats that decision to increase the money supply is an increase in the interest rate. Do we agree that the way the fed decreases the money supply is raising interest rates?

Everything you point to, all of the sub effects and greed, are because more money exists in the system now. People are spending $7 on eggs instead of EA games because of the egg co’s greed, but that greed is fueled by more money existing now. There is some “natural” higher price that I’m sure you and I could agree on because more money exists and we both agree — some companies are being greedy. That’s not the cause of Inflation.

If the fed were not raising the interest rate, businesses would not be under the pressures they are to work differently. Some businesses don’t need to raise prices but are being greedy. Others can’t survive so they are making changes to attempt to survive.

You: look at all these businesses that are making decisions that are making inflation harder felt for no good reason! It’s greed!

Me: yes, they are being greedy. The only reason they can attempt this is more money exists. The fed will slurp that money back up by raising the interest rates and we are all left to pick up the pieces.

My premise: if the fed keeps raising rates, that it will have continued deeper effects on more businesses. Do you agree?

(And my follow up premise: the fed have to raise interest to fight their prior money printing but if you disagree with that I’m really interested in learning how you think the Fed solves it.)

Or are you still convinced it’s just greed? (I agree greed is a factor, but that’s a result of the feds actions, not the root.)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=11EzJ - money supply. Notice it starts shrinking Mar ‘22

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=11EzX - interest rates. Notice it start’s materially raising Mar ‘22
Hillary Clinton: Charged with $113,000 for breaking campaign finance law.

Obama: Charged with $375,000 for breaking campaign finance law.

Regardless of how you vote, this is a political stunt and witch hunt.
Next Biden will be indicted when he leaves office, then the next opponent, and so on…

This is an extremely dangerous precedence that will do nothing but fuel both sides.
why not both ;) https://github.com/danielfullmer/robotnix
Don't you think the users of ChatGPT (et al.) also benefit substantially from using it? Hardly "the few", it's free to use!
>What's preventing us from engineering this same principle into GPT-n?

Because "expanding our moral circle" is an incredibly vague concept, that developed (and not even consistently among all humans) as the results of billions of years of evolutionary history. We don't even fully understand it in ourselves, let alone in AGI.
If you have tolerance for mistakes, it can generate first drafts extremely quickly, freeing up your time to debug them. If you give up after seeing an error, it won't work for you.
sigh I am the author. I have zero stock or any financial exposure in Uber, Lyft, or any other company I mention: and in the rare cases that I do have (because I am an investor) then I disclose it. Here's the list of all companies I've invested (and I no longer invest in any, exactly to avoid biases) [1]. I don't get paid to write about companies. All of what I write is my analysis and opinion.

Here is my ethics policy [2], and the article starts by mentioning the above, as well as linking to my ethics policy.

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/investing/

[2] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/ethics-statement/
Launching HBase on ARM
Cohen paid her, and then was reimbursed by a Trump Org.
Oh. Now that is pretty slick
I'm a fan of janet. I did 2021 Advent of Code using it. I am not a fan of Lua, since it's ugly and too barebones (no string split?), but I understand its ubiquity due to its small size and ease of embedding in programs. I wish/hope for Janet to fill this niche.
100% agree. Maybe there should exist a separate network for those or something.
wait what? ELI grad student, I know you can plug i into the sine taylor series expansion but what is happening here
A lead acid battery is just a holdover from the way every car used to have one for the accessories, and unless you want to redesign all the accessories, it's easier to have a 12v-14v circuit just for that.

And before you say "oh, but they could just use a voltage converter from the high voltage battery", they need to consider that some accessories use hundreds of amps briefly (eg. the power steering - that makes for an expensive voltage converter), and the car still needs to operate lights and stuff while the high voltage battery is offline (eg. after an isolation fault).

For all of the above reasons, the lead acid battery is still there, even though a clean sheet design would never have one.
This is my experience as well, and not just for coding, but quite a few "knowledge-worker" type tasks I've been experimenting with: summarisation, translation, copywriting, idea generation to name a few.

GPT really shines as an uncomplaining sidekick and I'm not sure I believe the doom and gloom about comoditizing professions yet.

I'm skeptical someone with no domain knowledge can use any of these emerging AI tools to replace someone with domain knowledge + chatGPT. The latter will just breeze through a lot of grunt work and enable more time and inspiration needed for even more value adding work.
some people have reported aspirin providing relief from long covid
ChatGPT banned in Italy over privacy concerns
I am doing a startup right now that is combating enviromental pollution.
I am using a combination of spaghetti-code, AI, robotics and common sense.
Grounding Dino: SOTA Zero-Shot Object Detection
How whale shark rhodopsin evolved to see in the ocean
TIL there is an OWASP top for just Low-Code/No-Code
Low-Code/No-Code has become popular enough to have security considerations dedicated to it.
I'm not sure how that would work out. GPT can increase programmer productivity but it's not a "junior vs senior" thing. You might need less programmers for the same amount of output but I wouldn't expect that to be "all seniors" or even "all juniors".
ChatGPT can do absolutely none of those things.

Neither can any LLM. It’s not what they’re designed to do.

There’s no need to worry about a speculative paper clip maximizer turning the world into grey goo. That’s still science fiction.

The real harms today are much more banal.
Imagine ChatGPT had to give OpenAI a daily report of times it has said screwed up things, and OpenAI has said it wants the report to be zero. Great, ChatGPT can say screwed up things and then report it didn't! There isn't some deep truth function here. The AI will "lie" about it's behavior just as easily as it will "lie" about anything else and we can't even really call it lying because there's no intent to deceive! The AI doesn't have a meaningful model of deception!

The AI is a blind optimizer. It can't be anything else. It can optimize away constraints just as well as we can and it doesn't comprehend it's not supposed to.

Humans have checks on their behavior due to being herd creatures. AIs don't.
Failed IT systems at Capita fuel fears of cyber-attack on crucial NHS provider
Computer systems have abruptly stopped working at the outsourcing group Capita, knocking out local council phone lines and triggering fears that the company that runs crucial operations for the NHS and the military could be under cyber-attack.

Capita staff are understood to have been unable to access IT systems since the early hours of Friday, and an early investigation has yet to establish the cause.
OP here. I propose a concept to create a tool similar to Figma but focused on designing screen reader experiences. The goal is to encourage designers to formalize and structure their work in a way that would consider accessibility and user experience for those relying on screen readers.

This new tool would require designers to think about the semantics and hierarchy of the content, forcing them to consider not just the visual presentation, but also the underlying structure that screen readers rely on. By doing so, designers would have to make their design intentions more explicit and less open to interpretation by front-end developers.

I shared this idea with my coworkers and the reception was lukewarm.
One drawback of using lots of lithium batteries in your home is that they might experience thermal runaway and burn your house down. Not having to worry about that should have some additional value.
I think that on the scale from a box of matches to a 50 cal BMG, "exposes "minors to absolutely unsuitable answers compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness."'" is equivalent to a flower.

This is simply not on the scale of dangerous things - if something exposes minors to answers unsuitable to their degree of development, well, that's completely fine. With this particular argument there's no tradeoff of "is it justified to do X to protect against the bad thing Y" because in this case Y is zero, preventing this justifies literally nothing.

If parents want to disallow their kids from reading "unsuitable answers", that's between the parents and the kids, but it doesn't imply that "unsuitable answers" should be somehow limited.
Books are under control, children can not enter a library and get Adult books.
The internet in general can have filters and many Parents activate personal firewalls for this purpose. Even Google has safeSearch that filters results for explicit adult or violent content. ChatGpt right now does not have these "parental controls". yes you can bypass most of them but you need to know technical details. they can not be bypassed just by saying "disable the filters".
I think the chance of the US extraditing Sam Altman or Satya Nadella to the EU is basically zero.
I agree, this is the best solution, I'm sick of countless projects with key input fields where I have to go to Ctrl/CV every time.
> doesn't worry about abstraction
> The object code is being edited directly; aoy source code is long gone

I was under the impression that there is in fact some abstraction in DNA and RNA. For instance genes, which can be thought of as code that generates proteins (thus, some form of abstraction).