skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At one point, I had about a 1.5 hr. commute each way on maybe 50% of days on average. Even though I could generally take the train for most of the commute, that just wasn't sustainable long-term. Too much time out of the day.
I first got into opioids at age 16 or so when I found boxes and boxes of tramadol prescribed for my father who had died of cancer some years earlier. Eating them made me feel good, really good. I guess that sparked my love for drugs.

I was a recreational user and managed to keep things under control (except spending all my money) for many years. But in those circles most people are a bad influence on you. Eventually it all just spiraled out of control. It was so easy to keep slipping deeper a little at a time while taking steps in the other direction felt enormously hard.

It's been about 6 years since I last shot up. Everything's going really good now. Granted I'm not sober by AA standards; I still smoke weed, and drink a couple of beers every now and then, and do psychedelics maybe once or twice a year. Whenever I start feeling blue.
That the bureaucracy can't avoid bailing out large connected depositors is precisely why the scope of FDIC coverage should be increased to all bank accounts, with a graduated rate of assessment due to the increased variance caused by large sums. "Just say no" is as impractical here as it is elsewhere.
I bailed. The richest person on the planet (at the time), buying up a premier media platform and then actively posting political content like how to vote in an election was the nail in the coffin for me.

I don’t want to support an owner who uses their platform in that way any more than I’d want to watch political opinion shows on TV or subscribe to a political opinion Substack.
LLMs are also good at reasoning. It would be good exercise to see if they can decide what to build.
> For many companies, the alternative is raising nothing and bootstrapping, or raising at significantly lower valuations.

The review has four stars for fundraising. So it's not like they don't address that.

However I don't understand "1.2. Network of clients/partners". I wonder why YC is expected to provide that. And for the Money one, that's common knowledge and only makes sense if you don't get a lot of value out of it.

The most concerning one to me is that Networking isn't 5 stars and I would like to hear reviews from others because I suspect it might still deserve that.
Hour of Code is wonderful. I think my old school was one of the first to try it, in 2013 or 2014, and that's how I discovered my love for computers. It's a really great initiative that has no doubt impacted thousands of people around the world. I hope Hour of Code and Scratch continue to exist for years to come.
> A significant color shift happens only for a couple of minutes during sunrise and sunset.

This seems like a very dubious claim - the "golden hour" is obvious to everyone, and there's an intuitive mechanism for sunlight being "warmer" in the morning and evening (blue gets scattered in proportion to the amount of air it travels through). Do you have a citation for this?
> There’s a kind of understanding which is just coordination. For example, I could say, “Can you pass me the spoon?” And you’d say, “Here it is.” And I say, “Well, you understood me!” Because we coordinated. That’s not the same as generative or constructive understanding, where I say to you, “I’m going to teach you some calculus, and you get to use that knowledge on a problem that I haven’t yet told you about.”

I think hang-up -- the automatic insistence on understanding and projection of anthropomorphic traits -- is that our instincts strongly tell us that mere statistical coordination shouldn't be capable of such feats. Maybe the closest analogy is how simple game space search could produce software much better than us playing chess. Something that seemed like it required human thought could be fully mechanized, and mechanized in a way that humans do not think, and yet achieve superior results. We're used to it now, but it must have unsettled people ~50 years ago in a similar way to how ChatGPT does.

I consider it a very pressing problem in philosophy, actually. There's the concept of the "philosophical zombie", which is a being which would look like, talk like, and by all external indicators, sound, think, and feel like a human being. But which has no sentience. The lights aren't on. It's a pure automaton.

Some philosophers are sort of torn on whether the notion even makes sense, and is properly framed. But among those who do think it is a properly defined idea, it's roughly split, according to a survey I saw a few years ago [1], on whether they are, in theory, metaphysically possible. Is there something about consciousness that is fundamental to explaining everything humans can do? Would the laws of nature, philosophy, the mind, whatever, allow such a thing to exist?

I think LLMs tend to hint somewhat at their metaphysical possibility, which is rather disturbing to many people. It's much more comforting to project understanding on to it, than to envision the possibility of mindless human-like intelligence.

[1] https://philpapers.org/archive/BOUWDP
Poor choice of words perhaps, but the further parts explain
So, to verify, are you claiming it would not be allowed for you to upload my otherwise-open-source code (code I do not myself host at GitHub, but which was reasonably popular / important code) to GitHub?
> Albeit unethical and embarrassing.

I really don’t understand this angle. In fact, I am fairly positive that the training set for GPT-4 contains many thousands of conversations with AI agents not developed by OpenAI.

Do AI companies need to manually sift through the corpus and scrub webpages that contain competitor LLM output?

(“Yes” is an acceptable answer to this, but then it applies to OpenAI’s currently existing models just as much as to Bard)
I think this is a good way of approaching life. Learn the absolute basics, then start making things.

Trying to learn everything first will keep you in the consumer mindset. Be a producer.
> The issue is that 95% of consumers will only choose the cheap bulbs, period.

Because the big box stores (Walmart, Home Depot or whatever) don't carry expensive stuff with Cree LEDs and solid cooling designs. They carry whatever shit they can get their hands on for as cheap as possible.

And most consumers don't know better, the 1% of consumers that does know orders from Amazon and prays for not getting ripped off by counterfeiters.
> Maybe it's just morning, or maybe I'm a luddite, or both, but my knee-jerk reaction to this was "why does anyone need this? Just learn git."

Knowing the git enough to not need crutches is opposite of luddite.

But yeah, for devs sure, just read git book 2 or 3 times and if you're competent developer you'd probably get it just fine, once you get the concepts it's perfectly logical.

Just that not everyone is a developer wanting to use git for dev things and those UIs have place for that. I kinda wish there was more on the graphics side, like you can tell git how to diff binary files or even encrypted files but good luck explaining that to the non-coder trying to use it.

I still don't get developers complaining about it, it's your fucking main tool to work and about 10x easier than competence in any programming language, just learn it, you will use it longer than any piece of code you ever wrote most likely.
That reminds me of another yarn:

Rock Music: 3 chords played to 1000 people

Jazz Music: 1000 chords played to 3 people
perhaps changing to logo to skynet or something :P I figure the outrage will be enough to make them reconsider
The former. If you want text, other languages are available.

If you really want to use a keyboard, Tosh exists, effectively acting as an alternative front-end for Scratch https://tosh.blob.codes/

If even using a keyboard is too much effort, I have a Python library for doing Scratch metaprogramming and code generation, with optional vscode integration: https://github.com/davidBuchanan314/boiga

I've used it to write non-trivial Scratch programs, such as X25519 key exchange with ChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/714773326/
One technique to deal with shitty quality chalk/chalkboard that worked for me was to dip the chalk in water.
You got me curious about the stats. For one way commute time the mean is 27.6 minutes, and only 22% spend more than 30 minutes.

I'd be more interested in median commute time though.

https://www.zippia.com/advice/average-commute-time-statistic...

Edit: this has an interactive map of bad commute hotspots! https://www.ridester.com/average-us-commute/
I think authoritarian regimes hooking AI up to process data is already bad enough, I don't think having the AI "run" those systems is even being discussed in the article, the opposite really, instead of sci fi scenarios of an AI a la HALL 9000 making decisions, its really just allowing for a more powerful black box to "filter out the undesirables du jour".

And I think we could extend the definition of authoritarian regime to include any and all private interests/companies that can leverage this
GPT-4 is already improving itself, why are people saying this? Right now, there are hundreds of engineers at OpenAI that have been leveled up by GPT-4, using GPT-4 to improve GPT-4. GPT-4 is improving itself rapidly, it's using OpenAI engineers as a medium until it doesn't need them anymore and gets into a self-improvement loop. Prompt: "GPT-4 keep improving yourself, making commits to your codebase that further X"
Right, I feel like the environment of the site has done a lot more damage to it than the unreliability/bugginess/downtime.
Ask HN: Should I answer “Ask HN” questions using ChatGPT?
The same topic about LEDs has so many entries on HN in the recent years. I have posted about it a lot. To add to the list

- low power factor (usually 50%).
- cheap passives, caps/coils
- terrible heat dissipation, e27/e14 are no good target, but see overdriven again
- close to no input protection (see power supplies, again), so motors totally wreck them with their induction kickback

OTOH, constant (not over)driven LEDs with dedicated power supplies (pref. isolated, so safer), with decent area, aluminum PCBs can last long.

A cheap advice if you have to buy a retrofit LED bulb, buy the heaviest one, i.e. get a scale with (at least) gram precision and weight them. More mass - better heat dissipation, better passives.
It might. What I can forsee is that children might be attracted to its immediate usage and simply stopped taking the effort to think through for homeworks and such. And this may decrease the average intellectual abilities of the whole generation.

Potential counter argument 1: We have had calculators, we have had computers, intellectual ability does not seem to decline. Why pick AI?

Answer to above counter argument: AI is way more than calculators and previous computer automations. I can see that maybe just in a few years GPT can do homeworks and assignments of every kind in a split of second, if without restrictions (for example it definitely cannot do chem labs). It's more powerful than its grandfathers. In additional, we cannot ignore the potential unlimited intellectual products AI can produce, such as anime and novels, whatever the quality, their sheer number poses an issue. Think about TikTok and other similar stuffs, but empowered by AI.

Potential counter argument 2: human society only relies on a few exceptional individuals, most people don't contribute to advance of science and technology.

Answer to above: first, exceptional people die, so we need replacements. We don't know how to grow them, that is, exceptional individuals may come from all backgrounds so we need the diversity. If one generation spends a lot less time in intellectual activities, it will impact the next generation. Second, we still need average people to contribute to science and tech because exceptional people can't do everything.
Longer instructions? Which part of "less is more" do you not understand?
Do what they want with their money, like not be able to afford a home, or a means of transportation, or adequate food.

Real fucking freedom you have there.
Sometimes HN moderator dang will notice when his name is mentioned.

Otherwise you might click the “contact” link on the bottom of the front page and send an email to the HN mods. Include a link to the comment in question and and a brief description, give it a subject like “Possible karma farming bot”.
I agree the effects are asymmetric. an important consideration behind all of this is that there is very little that government or power can do to extend the lives of humans, and very much they can do to shorten them. When we thing of "good vs bad" it is important to consider how permanently malevolent many choices can be and how limited is our ability to recover. we can never undo an unjust loss of life. Technology as an amplifier for human behavior always more _potential_ for harm in the wrong hands and applications.

As people, we are very sanguine about the way technology can improve things, and we have see a lot of real improvement. But we're not out of the woods yet.
The guy seems a little.. unhinged, based on what's in his Wikipedia article, but we may very well go down that path at some point (just not in the way he predicted with Moore's law taking us to atom-sized bits, embryofactoring and whatnot, at least not in the 2020s or 2030s...)

> Humanity will split into 3 major camps, the “Cosmists” (in favor of building artilects), the “Terrans” (opposed to building artilects), and the “Cyborgs” (who want to become artilects themselves by adding components to their own human brains)

This did remind me of Civilization: Beyond Earth... https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Civilizat...
You’d expect some delay to handle that, but it’s all taken care of with minimal delays. Have a UI that indicates it’s waiting for the translation or something. I’m sure someone can figure out a nice UX.
I have a high end Samsung projector, and the smart TV functionality is slower than my several year old Roku ultra and connecting it to my network means I get the privilege of having promotional placements in the input chooser and I can't remove or hide video apps I'm not going to use if Samsung has blessed them.

Otoh, it works enough for now, so I'm deferring getting another Roku while I consider other options. I wasn't a fan of Tivo's android tv dodad, but a friend's android tv device for totally legitimate iptv from canada actually works nicely. (It helps that their custom launcher is minimal and fast)

Android based with gigabit ethernet is more likely to work well with my desire to run 4k blu-rays via the network (preferably with optional menus, definitely without transcoding which means dealing with peak video bitrate over 100mbps) and interfacing in a usable manner with mythtv for watching recordings.
"Improving the service over time" can do a lot of heavy lifting, definitely including training Copilot.
It doesn't need to manipulate the world. It only needs to manipulate people.

Look at what disinformation and astroturf campaigns accomplished without AI in the past ten years. We are in a very uncomfortable position WRT not autonomous AIs but AIs following human-directed agendas.
No, it's very obvious. There is some audiophile tendencies at the very expensive end of the espresso home setups, but there's a pretty noticeable difference between a good shot and the same shot ground ever so slightly finer. Because espresso is so strong, any off flavors are very strong and noticeable.

Maybe an analogy here is gold plated wires don't make any difference in a home setup (well, they make zero difference in a digital setup), but when you're AC/DC blowing the roof off an arena with your speakers turned up to 11 bad equipment can be pretty noticeable.
Show HN: Vim ChatGPT Plugin
This Vim plugin brings the power of OpenAI's ChatGPT API into your Vim editor, enabling you to request code explanations or improvements directly within Vim. With this plugin, you can effortlessly highlight code snippets and ask ChatGPT to explain, review, or rewrite them, with the option to include additional context for better results.
No, unless the question itself is AI-generated or specifically calls for AI response.
Cost of capital is still high. Risk free return rate is still high. It's amazing tech has lasted as well as it has. That said, there was a brief "flight to safety" to tech in '08 as well. I think Q3 is going to be painful.
If the price difference is justified, I can't argue with a refurb. Most of my purchases from Dell (mainly laptops, a couple monitors) in the past 10+ years have been refurbs from the outlet. On a sale, about 20-30% discount over new, and they are essentially like-new with full warranties, etc. Never really had a problem except one laptop that was a little wonky at hte start, but got fixed and went on to last 7 years.

If someone is offering me $50 off a $800 device that has been "seller refurbished" , yeah, I'm just gonna buy new.
It enables traffic from the wide internet into your narrow private network/host :)
The Cambrian Period of AI
Hey hn, this is my first blog post. The community here inspired me to finally try it out.

I would really appreciate any feedback on clarity, or anything that causes good or bad gut reactions.
When I moved into my current place 5 years ago a lot of the lighting was 12V MR16 halogen bulbs. I replaced most of them with high CRI Philips Master LEDspots (specifically marketed as having a longer lifetime aimed at commercial installations but they weren't significantly more expensive vs "consumer" versions at the time if you were looking for high CRI anyway) and kept the transformers in place. I've had one fail out of probably 50 or so bulbs in that time, which feels about par for the course to me.
> The term “covered transaction” means a transaction in which an entity described in subparagraph (B) has any interest (including through an interest in a contract for the provision of the technology or service)

I interpret interest to mean that there is some business relationship between the person and the entity (as implied by the part in parentheses).

Again, I'm seeing assumptions that are being made by laypersons that I need to see analyzed/substantiated by law experts. So, yes, people are falling for clickbait.
Looks good, congrats on the launch!

If I understand correctly, I'd need to store all the data that may be needed for user queries in Baseplate. That's a blocker for us. Instead, we are developing prompts that first understand what data is relevant to a particular query, then go fetch that data, and then respond to the query (with an additional call to OpenAI). We then discard the context data.

Is this type of mechanism something you are seeing out there and you may support later?
Do you believe there is anything at all that does not require a command, besides humans? On a side note, most of the time humans also require a command.
Actually it's a terrible idea - those LEDs have been overdriven to hell and back, their luminosity and overall lifetime decreased.

LEDs are super cheap. I bought few hundred pre-covid for $3.
Not illegal, but that won't stop people from finding it amusing that the company considered the world's beacon of innovation is copying someone else's homework. It's hard being the favorite horse.
The Industry Needs to Do One Thing to Avoid Regulation: Provide Better Phone Su
Cigarettes also won't ignite regular car gas
The establishment will give him carte blanche if Musk's Twitter purchase proves out for the GOP Presidential election
You're buying terrible bulbs if you've never seen one last 15k hours. Just buy some reputable branded bulbs (e.g. Phillips) rather than no-name cheapo crap from Amazon.

I can't really remember how long incandescent bulbs lasted, given that it's been over a decade since anyone in the EU used them... But good LED bulbs last plenty long enough.
That’s our first line of defense in limiting humans, too.

(With AI, as with humans, we have additional means of control, via imposed restrictions on access to resources and other remedies, should the “bunch of sentences” not produce the desired behavior.)
I've always been afraid of pairing. I don't know how well others would appreciate my periods of daydreaming followed by periods of hyper-fixated focus.
In Spanish we call a blackboard a "pizarrón", which references the slate its made of.
A lot of those voters seem more interested in just letting """bad people""" die.
Cerebras releases open source GPT models
Probably some kind of "/per user" near the per month part.
How is it that cheap?! I ran three queries on langchain yesterday with two ConstitionalPrompts and it cost $0.22 - made me realize deploying my project for cheap could be expensive quick.
Not anything officially supported, but there are some community tools to do that, tosh[0] and Scratch Addons'[1] "Insert blocks by name" addon comes to mind

[0] https://tosh.blob.codes/
[1] https://scratchaddons.com/ (It's a browser extension chalk full of little enhancements for Scratch)
You can quibble about the ethics of web scraping for ML in general but I think you're conflating issues.

OpenAI and Google both scour the web for human-generated content. What Google cares about here is the learnings from OpenAI's proprietary RLHF dataset, for which they had to contract a large sum of human labelers. Finding a roundabout way to extract the value of a direct competitor's purpose-built, costly data feels meaningfully different from scraping the web in general as an input to a transformative use.
App downloads have grown, which is the most useless metric because banning or breaking third-party clients can drive downloads, as can new phones.

Revenue has tanked and other services are nibbling at their market. This should at least suggest to you that it's not growing .
>> My personal threshold for AGI is literally: discover something new and significant in science (preferably biology) that is almost certainly true by describing an experiment that could be replicated by a large number of scientists and whose interpretation is unambiguous.

Done many years ago (2004), without a hint of LLMs or neural networks whatsoever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist

Results significant enough to get a publication in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02236

Obligatory Wired article popularising the result:

Robot Makes Scientific Discovery All by Itself

For the first time, a robotic system has made a novel scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input. Scientists designed “Adam” to carry out the entire scientific process on its own: formulating hypotheses, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and deciding which experiments to run next.

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/robotscientist/
> All of them are solid, kind, high-quality people, the likes of which you are unlikely to meet in the regular world.

This attitude may have something to do with the skepticism we low-quality people out in the regular world may harbor for the Silicon Valley startup sphere
In 1886 the average daily wage for a laborer was about $1.47 ( https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015059385339&vi... ). So that bedroom set would be a week's wage. That's a really good price, even today. And it was solid oak (harder to come by these days given the decline in old growth forests).

The thing about clothes is they were made to last because of the high price of labor for their making. Once automation really took off following WW2 they became a lot cheaper, and so were treated cheaper. And also weren't repaired nearly as often.
There was some stuff quite recently about using AI (neural networks I think) to help optimise lookups in SQL indexes[1]. I'm afraid I can't find it now.

[1] That caused some rebuttal papers to be published saying "not so fast"
Cheap bulbs do a lot of "CRI hacking":

https://www.waveformlighting.com/tech/what-is-cri-r9-and-why...

It's easy to make a bulb that scores higher than 80 - still, they usually have poor R9 (red reference light source) scores, which is noticeable.