skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not alone. Although I am concerned about the people who wield these latest bits of tech.

All of these service providers jockeying for first-mover advantage in order to close on a monopoly in the space is asking for trouble.

The abilities it gives to scammers to increase the plausibility of their social engineering is going to be problematic. Scams are already quite sophisticated these days. How are we going to keep up?

Those sorts of things. ChatGPT itself is a giant, multi-layered spreadsheet and some code. "It," is not smart, alive, intelligent, or "doing" anything. Speculation of what it could be is muddying the waters as people get stressed out about what all of these charlatans are proselytizing.
Yup, that's the whole point.

The Deloitte page I linked to gives a Chinese web store located in China with no EU presence as an example.

It's bonkers that the EU thinks they can enforce their laws in a situation like that. But then, that's why it hasn't been tested.

It's basically a 'feel good' law with no teeth (at least the extraterritorial aspects).
Postgres as a graph database
Sometime I listen to 90’s AM conspiracy theory radio for fun (Coast to Coast AM). One thing that’s struck me is how much fear there was about the Human Genome Project and designer babies being right around the corner (Gattaca was 1997, for example). Maybe that will come to pass someday. But at the moment, it still seems a long ways off.

A lot of groups have some new technology they’re scared of. Tech folks have latched onto the idea that we’ll create Skynet, or that large scale video surveillance will turn countries into authoritarian dystopian states. Hippy groups are convinced that GMO’s cause cancer or will lead to a biodiversity disaster. Or that nuclear plants are going to lead to meltdowns, environmental destruction, and deaths.

Appropriate safeguards are always important in society. Excessive safeguards can cause harm. Sometimes people have a maximalist view of danger that’s so detached from the current reality that it’s hard to have a rational discussion with them.
> The only situation I can imagine this causing a problem in your codebase is if you intentionally want to mix camelCase and snake_case in your codebase and these 2 meaning different things.

This is literally idiomatic Python style! Classes are TitleCase and everything else is snake_case.

I have also used a mix of camelCase and snake_case for different purposes, eg in Haskell where conventions are mixed (and I am far from an expert), I've written names like "fooBar_prev"
I wasn't familiar with this site until just now. I'll have to add this to my rotation of used book searching.

When I buy a book, I usually check Ebay, Thriftbooks, and Amazon (new and used) and do a comparison. Some books just can't be found for much cheaper than their brand new price. Most of the books I buy and read are software related, and some of those just hold their value. I'm pleasantly surprised by Better World Books though, this is the cheapest copy of GoF I've seen at $15 for the standard hard cover, that's a steal! Even the used copies I find are within $5ish of a new print (just about $40).

It's hard to find good software books at a library, usually you'll have something like "XHTML for Dummies" and that's it. If anyone has other suggestions for good places/ways to get technical books, I'm all ears.
Putin already has access to the atomic bomb and hasn’t done much with it lately. So perhaps something can limit actors.
The most important point seems to be "the absence of a legal basis justifying the massive collection and retention of personal data, for the purpose of "training" the algorithms"

IMHO that would block every LLM.
Every vote on a story does not give you karma. Its maybe 50%, and I think there are more complex rules, e.g. if someone usually upvotes your stories it doesn't count (I don't know this definitely, it's a theory explaining some observations).

For comments, I've never seen anything but a 1:1 relationship i.e. comment points - 1 = delta_karma. Sometime there are delays though, and sometimes when people upvote it doesn't change the comment score.
It's a good analogy. Especially considering some of the kids might have "parents" that are not based in the US that are very unlikely to just go and sit on their hands for six months just because some people from the US want them to. It's beyond naive to assume that the rest of the world would agree to do nothing. I don't see that happen.

BTW. I suspect the reasons for this open letter might be a bit disingenuous. A few of the people that signed it represent companies that are effectively competing with OpenAI. Or failing to, rather. They are calling for them to slow down so they can catch up. It's not about saving humanity but about giving themselves a chance to catch up and become part of the problem.
This is a classic, it isn’t broken don’t fix it situation.

Many laptops had both a lithium ion battery and a watch battery used to keep the bios and an internal clock running after the battery died. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/why-does-my-motherboard-have-a...
> "If a cop follows you for 500 miles, you’re going to get a ticket."

There's a lot of nuance here. Again, we don't know whats in the indictment, but the 500 laws I break today probably are going to be minor or non-felonies. This isn't a matter of "well everyone breaks the law", this is a matter of "some people break major laws and they aren't being held accountable".

> For example, something as simple and normal as taking some work docs home or discussing work with a spouse could lead to breaking serious federal laws.

And that's why intent is included when considering whether someone has broken the law.

> Clinton's private email server is a perfect example of this, she committed a clear crime here but Comey chose to not prosecute.

And I believe that if there was a case that could have been brought against Clinton there should have been. I don't think that's a get out of jail card for others, I think that was a failure of justice. I wouldn't have had one moment of poor sleep over her going to jail.

> We are witnessing a departure from practices established centuries ago in common law tradition.

That tradition has led to a place where obvious criminality isn't punished. There appears to be no respect for the law from the leadership. If this is a departure, it's a good one.
Google Cloud inks AI partnership with Replit
Didn't know this story. Wow that sucks.
No dice if you're a Vodafone customer, they run DPI so that they block specific IPs (or even specific domains if the IP is shared).
Yep, that's how it is :)

It gets better!
How much of this functionality only works when both the dependency and the code that depends on it are both hosted on GitHub?

I'm not looking forward to a "Code must be hosted (or at least mirrored) on Github" future.
> An AI trained to end cancer might just figure out a plan to kill everyone with cancer. An AI trained to reduce the number of people with cancer without killing them might decide to take over the world and forcibly stop people from reproducing, so that eventually all the humans die and there is no cancer -- technically it didn't kill anyone!

I don't understand this and other paperclip maximizer type arguments.

If a person did a minor version of this we'd say they were stupid and had misunderstood the problem.

I don't see why a super-intelligent AI would somehow have this same misunderstanding.

I do get that "alignment" is a difficult problem space but "don't kill everyone" really doesn't seem the hardest problem here.
You’re not capable of going to space, that’s why you need the money from investors
Well... I mean if I'm going through an area known for violence and robberies and someone is following me, my prejudices might keep me alive. That's an extreme example of course but I think humans use their instincts every day. Calling it prejudices make it sound negative but I think it's just part of our survival instincts.

And just like anything else it can be used negatively, or positively. As long as we don't use our prejudices premeditated to harm others I think it's a survival tool. But when we use them to defame groups of people who are nowhere near us then it can become negative.
Why Wall Street Keeps on Fighting the Fed
Awesome project, enjoyed clicking through these. Only feedback is that I wish I could go back to a previous picture – accidentally skipped a really cool looking one!
Does chatGPT now have a Reddit plugin?
I agree with this 100%, while also disagreeing with the "robot god will kill us all" objections to AI which unfortunately tend to get most of the mindshare.

I think it's important to realize that these are two _completely separate_ concerns. Unfortunately, a lot of the people who get the most air time on this topic are not at all worried about authoritarianism or economic collapse compared to a hypothetical singularity.
Nothing new in the EU Zone, unfortunately. That's why we have these regulators in the first place.
It's not someone else's possession - it's someone else's proprietary possession.

A government's proprietary possession of computational power is analogous to it having weapons barred from public ownership, meaning they control a vector of violence than could be used against their citizens without counter-balance.

If someone else has the ability to weaponize information against you, your ability to understand reality is threatened. Without personal LLMs or other AI tools, my ability to analyze things like deepfakes, LLM-written text, or other reality-distortion assets is threatened.

It might sound hyperbolic but we're already hearing people talk about banning GPUs. I'm not trying to fall back into the past.
Yeah, that makes more sense. I just wanted to point out that taste isn't just the input but also the experience of that input.

Then you could also argue that replicating human feelings or taste isn't very important, and it isn't really except if you want it to understand humans. I think it will be hard to understand humans well without also being able to predict their feelings or taste, we humans have that built in but a computer would need data to predict it.
Economies of scale still apply with multiple factories because you need someone to design and build the equipment used at each of them.
thanks, does it fall infinitely far to do so?
She was not a police union member, just an employee of the union. Unions frequently hire non-member administrative staff.
> Because they can imagine a god-like super intelligent AI, it must be possible.

It's worse. It may be possible, but we're not equipped to recognize the line as it's crossed. Combined with us making LLMs more and more capable despite not knowing why they work, this extrapolating of LLMs to gods is not insane.
There's occasionally overproduction of renewables, which is normally just curtailed (discarded) because it exceeds grid demand.

The H2 for medium-term tank storage idea is not bad .. except for the very high capital cost of electrolysis. Without some means of making H2 that doesn't involve tying up a chunk of platinum as a capital asset this is a non starter economically.
The world isn't black and white, though. You simply don't always get these options.
Definitely. I think there is one exception though, which is advanced weapon manufacturers like Lockheed Martin. They're a private company, so they can compete on salary, but they're also a government contractor, building technology that could only be used by military. You won't see Google building stealth fighter jets, for example. So if an advanced physicist wants to work on cutting edge tech, they're more likely to end up at a place like that for their whole career. But even aerospace isn't immune from the private sector, as SpaceX has shown.
Ransomware attacks have entered a heinous new phase
Probably because I do terrible interviews :)
Maybe it is not producing "intelligence" (whatever that is, after all) but at some point of sophistication it will look like intelligence for all our practical means of testing it. Because (most of?) the effort goes in the direction to make it look like a duck and quack like a duck.
The remote feature (Jetbrains Gateway) is so buggy that it made me completely stop using PyCharm, since I’m mostly developing remotely now. Whereas the VScode remote feature works beautifully. I also found their Copilot plug-in to be buggy, and that’s also a must have. It’s a shame because, aside from those things, I really like PyCharm. But those things are absolute deal killers for me.
Exactly. The only thing the EU can do, barring specific agreements with countries that would allow for more, is bar service from a website to the Eu region.

And then if EU users want to, they will just bypass that with a VPN...and then the law is still being violated, and still can't be enforced.
It's probably a pretty good 1st order guess that a surface to air missile launcher is aimed at 45 degrees. It's not aimed straight up and it's not flat on the ground.
NiceGUI 1.2 – Bringing Electron-like Capabilities to Python with pywebview
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Technical details:

NiceGUI uses FastAPI in the backend and Vue3/Quasar in the frontend

Each user interaction is sent via WebSocket to the backend, processed in Python; similarly, UI descriptions are created as JSON objects in the backend and sent via WebSocket to the client

While there are still many features missing for a full Electron alternative, with the great community, we will flesh this out in the future

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Corporations are suffered to exist at the whim of the State. Without corporate recognition, personal liability snaps into sharp relief, and suddenly guys with guns may end up knocking at your door for God knows what. Also, yes. No one wants to lock themselves out of a market over what could be easily remedied through implementation of a compliance program. That's leaving money on the table.

In short, walk with care on the feet of Caesar. For you are small, and once roused to anger, said train has not been known to quickly brake.
Experiment finds gluon mass in the proton
Unless I am misreading it, the link you provided makes it sound even worse than, by comparison, benign Wiki article:

<< The Bush administration had made a point of claiming unlimited power under the
<< “the Obama administration has adopted the same stance.”

I am aware of the theory about 'imperial presidency', but I think we can agree that US president does not actually have unlimited power.

<< our Wikipedia link makes it seem like an honest mistake.

Yeah. Funny how the president did not address it himself, but instead we have mere 'leaks' to speculate on.

<< Which would not be a crime, though could have civil penalties if government immunity wasn't involved.

No. Factually wrong. It would be a crime were government immunity not involved. If you kill a person in US by a sheer stroke of bad fortune, you may still end up being convicted for a crime ( involuntary manslaughter ).

Naturally, this being government makes it fairly complicated, because the actual responsibility is spread across many decision centers, but, as the saying goes, 'the buck stops here' so one would think that if it was a.. mistake, it would be addressed as such and not quietly forgotten and dismissed.
I don't know if that would work. But it's definitely better than the current way we do things.

I know I'll sound kinda defeatist, but I just don't think it's possible to reliably setup a bureaucracy that's competent in funding innovative research. The incentives are just not aligned.

If you are truly investing in innovative companies. You'll inevitably spend taxpayer money on truly stupid stuff.
The first time a major newspaper reports something like: "10 Million Euros spent on using bath sponges to desalinate water while people are living in the streets!" it's game over. The agency will be permanently risk averse.
There are used-book search engines, like dealoz.com, that search all of the above.
> humans manage to do all sorts of mean things to one another, and the only reason that we haven't wiped ourselves out is that we need each other,

We don't need cats or dogs. Or orangutans. Why haven't we wiped them out? Because over the centuries we've expanded our moral circle, not contracted it. What's preventing us from engineering this same principle into GPT-n?
My favourite resource is https://search.nixos.org/options

There is no other distro (maybe besides Arch and it's wiki) that shows you, say, all the 293 (channel 22.11 at 2023-03-31) places where you can mess with DNS in the entire distro.
NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws
It’s the digital version of the bags around drain cleaner to make you think they’re almost illegally powerful.
Ah, I almost had a knee-jerk response to remind you that the Turbo Vision IDE very much had copy and paste 30+ years ago – and then I understood what you meant.

One of my cousins learnt to program as a teenager in Argentina, before the web. He told me about the difficulty of finding programming information over there. Apparently, people who knew any kind of programming had paid dearly to get that knowledge and in turned charged others for that knowledge. Needless to say, there were not many programmers in the country at the time.

In comparison, today's generation has access to vast libraries of knowledge.
I'm a Swede working in Sweden and Norway, and I've never seen any code written in a Scandinavian language (thank god).
Humans may not engage in direct violence against orangutans, but will certainly roll over them:

> The wholesale destruction of rainforests on Borneo for the palm oil plantations of Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA) is threatening the survival of orangutans

https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/914/orangutans-v...
Gosh. Only about 10 years ago I used to be a convinced European from Germany. The last couple of years I started having my doubts that the EU will ever find its own legit style of handling tech concerns.
Everything is crumbling and we still see deeply arrogant leadership seemingly trying to bs their way through the current turmoil. And what do they do? Regulate ChatGPT, try to introduce mass-surveillance through #chatcontrol and secretly apply Palantir tech in police depts.

I don't want an incompetent patronizing government. I want competent leadership in politics and business that is able to set up a culture of innovation.
Interesting read, I'm surprised these tubes are so fast considering my one remaining filament bulb always takes a few seconds to warm up after being switched on. Do these use a different filament type?
I want one of these “pretend to work” big money jobs. Where are they? Any recommendations?
Nothing is more freeing than having Nanny making all your decisions for you.
You can't grandstand if you're dead
Coding with GPT-4
We can't just shut down everything that is inconvenient.. this is a step forward and should be respected like that..
What are the functions P and Q defined here? https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.20.2:src/...
Interesting! I’d love to see an analysis of the rewrite
I have a unpopular opinion about this, but IMO it is the population that causes this. Vast swaths of Europe are rural especially in the south. Very, very averse to any kind of change.

I'm in the Netherlands as you can tell and 'even' we are not that much more progressive. There is currently a massive farmer uprising and everybody is complaining literally non-stop about just about everything. Meanwhile nobody has even tried GPT. I get pitchforked even in my own country for saying we need to stop focusing on breeding cows and get (and stay) better at real tech.

Then again, my social skills are not really up there..

EDIT: "real tech", I know. Simplification. I know it's hard and I know it's important we eat, but countries with like 5000% more arable land can provide for us.
Extending JavaScript with Lisp: The WASM Implementation of LispE
The last thing this nation needs is to depopulate further.
Right now it tells me "Dishwasher soap is not intended for consumption and can be harmful if ingested." Not sure if I used a different prompt before, or if I was lucky.
> Think about all the deductions you fudged on your taxes

To be clear - absolutely none. This is a way to normalize deviant behavior by assuming everyone does it. Not everyone does. Many do, but that doesn't make it right.

> Impeachment is our recourse for a corrupt president and that ship has sailed.

He's no longer president, he's just a citizen. Keep in mind, if the rumors are true, these are crimes he committed before he became president. Is the argument here that once someone is president they are forever immune to prosecution?
That's correct, there'no possible enforcement. 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.

It will drive Europe to a sort of digital isolationism where offshore companies will either a) dismiss and continue b) cease operations there.
> You mention Roe, and that is the most clear example of the GOP's strategy to undermine democracy by legislating via Republican-appointed judges instead of elected law makers.

To be fair, all Dobbs did was allow elected official to make the choice, and it was Roe that had Judges decide what the law was unilaterally for the whole country.
What plugins do you miss in particular? I'd be curious how much of a delta it would be to getting to exactly what you needed.
Contrived strawman aside, this is exactly why there are different legal definitions for murder in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees, as well as manslaughter. And different punishments for each based.

In this example, it's probably open-and-shut 2nd degree but the prosecution now has to prove that you premeditated this if they want to go for 1st degree (IANAL). They don't get to just say "it was clearly premeditated" and then put the onus of proof on the defendant.
That was unexpected and unannounced. Saying "WhatsApp will go offline from the 1st of next month" would be very different.

Especially because WhatsApp _uses phone numbers as identifiers_. Switching to Signal or Telegram, which also use phone numbers, would be completely feasible: recreating the same groups would be the biggest annoyance, but you have all your contacts as soon as they install the app.

People will of course be very bothered by losing their chat histories (can you decrypt the backups it creates in Google Drive?), but it won't be an actual show-stopper. And it will teach a valuable lesson on relying on cloud.
Oh, I'm not the only person on Earth who remembers the CPC 464!