skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am young, but still lived through several hype phases.

My impression is that this is a tech revolution unlike any that has gone before allowing for absolutely massive concentration of power and wealth. The previous tech revolutions have shown the downsides of such concentration and I'm quite sure that the people that are currently in the driving seat of how, when and where this tech gets used and/or weaponized are exactly the people that I would not want to see in that position.

The problem is not with the fact that the pig is dancing in a crappy way. The problem is that it is dancing at all, this is the thing that makes this a different kind of tech revolution. So far tech was doing what it was told, within certain boundaries. This is the kind of tech that will end up telling you what to do, either directly or through some intermediary, it is a substantial shift in the balance of power and has the potential to lead to even stronger divisions in our populations than what social media has been able to effect as well as to cause massive loss of jobs.

Extrapolating from the last two years of this development into the future over the span of say a decade (a reasonably short span of time for me) means that 'all bets are off' and that we can no longer meaningfully predict the outcome of the moves that are being made today. For me that is a warning to be cautious to get more understanding of how we will deal with the problems that it will generate rather than to jump in head first to see where it will lead.
Spoken like a true gambler
What's flattery plus?
Thanks. I'm aware of some of the earlier ones, as I was (ages ago) involved in a swf generation project called libming. Far before Adobe started open sourcing its swf generation code.

So, kept an eye on some of the other attempted players, but they didn't really seem to gain enough traction/adoption to really go places.

That's why I think this Ruffle thing has legs (eg "is going places"), as it's showing the right signs of actually getting adoption and traction. :)
An individual's ability to travel without restrictions is a major factor in their financial independence.

Forcing everyone to use fixed transport locks their job prospects and keeps them dependent on corporations and government entities.

It makes sense in urban areas, but not suburban nor rural, where forcing people to use public transport just keeps poor people poor.
He's right though, the EU can do nothing in that case. Quite literally nothing. There is no law to abide because you don't "care" about it and there are no consequences.

Practicality > useless laws
This isn't about campaign contribution limits, it's about declaring campaign expenses.

As far as I've read, it was money his campaign legally had, spent on something he could legally spend it on... that he attempted to conceal the payment for, so it wouldn't show up in campaign finance reports.

Ironically, if he'd just paid it directly from campaign funds and given it an obfuscated name ("PR Services"), he'd be in much less legal trouble now.
Thanks for the link. This is really awesome!
Most startup founders are over 40.
I think the website is cool, but your comment is spot on, so much ugliness, I am sorry but airports are just ugly, compared to what raw nature has to offer
Scaling Factors for Hidden Markov Models
+ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4201534

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From the other thread, someone made an insightful comment. Paraphrased: “ChatGPT is like working with a junior engineer who read all the documentation”
There’s a lot I could take issue with about what you’ve said, not least of which being the absolutist “with us or against us” mentality which toxifies US politics. If you want to have a single issue dictate every one of the hundreds of choices you make every day, have at it, but I’m not going to pick a web browser based on which one pays the most lip service to one particular social issue.

But really, I just can’t get past the idea of “it doesn’t matter if they’re not sincere” when in the same paragraph you spell out exactly why that’s an absurd thing to say.
Well that just sounds like StackOverflow with fewer steps.
The Last One (1981)
I think this is the first time I've ever seen the greentext angle bracket and "globohomo" on hacker news in the wild, 4chan is definitely everywhere.
Unlikely. GPT-4 wasn't as game changing as chatGPT. People are less hyped up and have a more realistic expectation of what they should see out of an LLM.

The extreme positive reaction to gpt4 is imo not driven by hype fuel.

In fact, if you recall the hype fuel surrounding the initial chatGPT was in both parts positive and negative. There were equal portions of people praising it and people vehemently dismissing it as a stochastic parrot. That's not what I see here.
Doesn't that get the people who aren't doing due diligence fired faster?
For a non spinning black hole in general relativity, the particle reaches the singularity within finite time in its own reference frame.
> meta knows that they are far far more popular in the population than politicians, and politicians know that if they were to effectively stop facebook, the blowback would be immediate.

I'm not convinced that's true. I think most people quite dislike Facebook these days. And I know hardly anyone (of any age demographic) who uses it regularly. Popular opinion on Instagram is less negative but declining. People do still use WhatsApp and Facebook messenger, but I don't think switching would be seen as a big deal if these were banned (just like everyone suddenly installed Zoom in 2020). The only reason they have sticking power is because of network effects.
There are some places that sell library surplus/ex-stock, for example in the UK: https://www.anybook.biz/
Nim itself, or the code bases written in Nim?
Yes I use Adguard Home.

But how many are tech savy enough to have a separate device and run Aguard / Pi Hole all the time for privacy.
NotifyWave development process has begun
I feel the same way. I love the ability to check them when I need them, but 90% of the time, I'd rather they were invisible.
New employer has no reason to know previous pay.
Nope, Rust is not doing anything better. It is doing significantly less. The fewer packages you have the fewer dependency issues you run into. Rust will still run into the same DLL issues on Windows, requiring custom solutions, once the package ecosystem comes anywhere close to what Python offers.
at least it was funny
> Current LLMs are merely sophisticated statistical tools.

This is wrong. They are have the capability for in-context learning, which doesn't match most definitions of "statistical tools"
This moment reminds me of the meeting in Jekyll Island between the top bankers and treasury authorities to create the Federal Reserve. During the 19th century, there were financial panics and deep recessions across the nation with an American Bank system that could not sustain it. The industry assembled, creating a centralized plan that improved the American Bank's capabilities domestically and abroad. However, that same plan is the cause of our economic melancholy. The Federal Reserves overprinting of USD as “relief” for congressional policies is the main reason our inflation rate is so volatile. Similar conditions to the one J.P. Morgan and Senator Aldrich tried to escape from.
The moral of the story is industry risks to society can be managed but can never be eliminated, especially not by industry leaders.
-Real
> In the grand scheme of things, the EU is irrelevant.

The disconnect on display in this thread is something else.
One could also say he's in a very informed position to criticise the (mandatory in EU) switch to EVs from. Who's more of an expert on the subject than the CEO of a major auto group that sells a good portion of both combustion and EV automobiles?

(I'm a PHEV proponent myself)
Your logic makes sense if there is only one battery factory. But there are and will be many.
Suppose you point a gun at someone and shoot someone. There are witnesses of you having done so, and of you being alert and sane at the time. But the prosecution cannot find any evidence of your intent to hurt that person. Would you not be convicted for having shot that person?
Lying with numbers? We should rely on the Japanese government instead of random HN:ers defending their pet technology.

> The cost of dealing with the aftermath of the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant will reach 21.5 trillion yen, roughly double the government's initial prediction of 11 trillion yen, preliminary calculations released on Dec. 8 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have shown.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20161209/p2a/00m/0na/00...

> While the costs are still huge, note: this is for a plant that was both hit by an earthquake and flooded by unprecedented tsunami.

Read again what I said. The cause was special, while
the risk was systemic. All western countries require independent core cooling today because there have been too many near-misses with causes related to power failures.

> Also note: even with all that in mind only one person died as the result of direct radiation exposure, and radiation levels in Fukushima region are normal or below average levels.

Who said anything about radiation? We are talking about cost. The alternative is renewables, which are vastly safer and more economical than nuclear.

Again, typical blame shifting. You are not doing nuclear power any service with coal based whataboutism.
Well my team wins more than most others and we've replaced teams and fixed many failed projects so that helps too. And if the company is dense there's others that aren't and lots that will follow where I go to next.
Method\variables naming?
Over the last 30+ years, I've found automata theory to be pretty much indispensable. I can't even begin to tell you the number of times I've run across hideously complex logic that I replaced with a simple and maintainable finite state machine.
As a French person:

What you said is true, but the job market is fucked over here as well, its just the tech sectors going nuts. People with degrees in anything other than IT end up as servers, while people with those degrees get called weekly by recruiters. Same as anywhere else really, I got a 25% raise by hopping jobs for a year.
Yay more space junk from evil billionaires
What interface are you using? I've so far only used ChatGPT through the web interface. (I pay for plus). I just ask it for things that are standalone snippet-like things. Perfect functions on the standard library, or an emacs lisp snippet for converting a unix epoch to an ISO timestamp. I'm not sure I could allow it to read my company's code, but is that what you're doing when you're using as part of a large project like that?
I’m not as funny as I think I am:

The GP misspelt “bought” as “bough.” I thought a pun would be a fun way to point that out. I was wrong.
This is exactly my feeling. I rarely click anything in any JetBrains apps. I have use keyboard shortcuts for every single thing and regularly add new ones if I've had to click on something more than once. It pains me whenever I see people futzing around with the mouse. I regularly try to encourage my direct reports to embrace the keyboard, it is just so so much faster.
> The background of a lot of these immigrants made them well-qualified to succeed despite their American socio-economic status on arrival

Immigration filtering explains a lot, but the general trend holds even for subgroups that aren’t subject to those filters.

Some Asian groups, like Vietnamese, came to the US as refugees, not skilled workers. In 1980, poverty rates among Vietnamese people were among the highest off any ethnic group. Today, Vietnamese have similar income levels to non-Hispanic whites.

Moreover, the kids of poor Asians have much more income mobility than the kids of similarly placed whites. Asian children who grow up in the bottom 20% of the income distribution have a 25% chance of ending up in the top 20%, compared to an 11% chance for white kids. These poor Asians are typically in America as a result of family reunification. Thus, neither the kids nor the parents are subject to filters such as H1B job requirements.

How do you escape the conclusion that culture makes the difference?
Calibration Display for NASA (2019)
(Not who you responded to)

Spiro Agnew was felonious, so there is some precedent. He did plead however. The courts are frequently already seen as weaponized, for legislative purposes at least. The grand jury system isn't seen that way though, and I have trouble seeing how it would be twisted to be so.
it doesn't matter if you have account or not - you are still tracked and they still create a shadow profile for you.
You should email the Contact address at the bottom of the page here. It's a more reliable way to get admin attention.
Only 4 ?

sin(1.5708) = 1

sin(1.5708 - 1.3170 i) = 2

sin(1.5708 - 2.0634 i) = 4

...
Although the tech industry seems to be getting the message from Fintech, this signaling is neither genuine nor is it effective. If I was a shareholder of a tech company and I saw this letter, I would be furious. What are six months going to do? After years of massive layoffs, testing the technology, reassuring shareholders expansion is on the horizon, and seeing relative competitors unveil their new products, you want to take a “paid” 6-month vacation to plan some more. What were you doing in the beginning, was that not the agenda for the entire existence of the company, “How can our technology be a benefit to society and not damaging”, that should have been the goal before making a blueprint.
The fact the tech industry is now considering our well-being is concerning. Never trust technology or anything man-made.
Just have fun with it.
>I don’t think it even requires that AI to be sentient or malicious. The humans already are.

We are and we aren't. I was struck by this line in the OP:

>AI is manifestly different from any other technology humans have ever created, because it could become to us as we are to orangutans;

As far as I can tell, we humans treat orangutans quite kindly. I.e., on the whole, we don't go around killing them indiscriminately or ignoring them to the point of rolling over them in pursuit of some goal of our own.

The arc of human history is marked by expanding the moral circle to include animals. We take more care, and care more about them, than we ever have in human history. Further, we have a notion of 'protected species'.

What's preventing us from engineering these principles into GPT-5+n.
What was it? That link returns a 404 now.
> Current LLMs are merely sophisticated statistical tools.

Yawn. At a minimum they are tools of which we do not understand how exactly they work internally.
There are no "projects managed by conda". You use conda to package or deploy Python software and its dependencies. The Python software itself really doesn't care that much.
12-month delay to first launcher.
It's only a day early.
How sure?

indent was written in 76, but didn't make it to BSD until 82.

CP/M was first released in 74!

It was a pretty different world.
Kids are different. I didn't have any of the above issues. Once kids get older it's even easier.
Biden should pardon him if he gets convicted. Would do wonders for the unity of our country.
Idea: A tiny neural network that you can watch train and run
It'd be neat to have a tiny neural network in a browser that you can watch train and then run.

Ideally it should be based on the generative pre-trained transformer architecture.

And it should allow the user to see the weights, and then hand modify them if desired, and then re run.

The inference would be slowed down so that we can observe it.

Has anyone built this?

I believe it'd be excellent as a way to give people a better intuition for larger networks.
I can't locate any nuance in that article. Hyperbole, panic and many unfounded assumptions serving those first two, easy.

Good for clicks and getting an extremely manipulatable public coming back for more, I guess.

Historically, whenever we have created new technology that is amazing and impactful but that all of the positives/negatives are not fully understood, it's worked out fine. If we want to be scientific about it, that's our observable knowledge here.
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I meant no insult, but I see no other explanation.

You're ignoring the letter of the law, ignoring context and nuance, making unfounded claims and providing links that don't support your points at all.
Mailing an absentee ballot to a dead person is not a crime. Returning an absentee ballot for a dead person is. And guess who did the latter?

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-government-and-poli...
Ask HN: How are you handling SMS abuse reporting?
A component of my work is logging and reporting on SMS phishing attempts for a large fintech. We rely on Twilio to perform a number lookup for enrichment of each event’s DID (phone number), but there doesn’t appear to be a number->abuse contact data source available to close the loop and report abuse to carriers programmatically.

I’m interested in how others are solving this (if they are). Thank you.
That's right, so you'd had to think outside the box and create demand
It would be really sad to shut down one of the most influential pieces of tech in modern history because they didn't implement the "consent dialog" just right.
I'm a lot more scared of an AI destroying humanity, like, every single person, than I am of any government or anything like that. More so than climate change. I'm not saying the people using it aren't dangerous -- but I would choose a totalitarian regime over a rogue AI any day of the week.

It wouldn't be HAL 9000 or terminators. It would be an AI deciding that it needs to turn every bit of available matter on earth into computational power in order to cure cancer, or figure out a way to stop humans from fighting each other, or to maximize the profit of GOOG, and being so good at planning and deceiving us that by the time we figured out what it was doing, it was way, way too late.

I'm concerned about climate change, but I am a lot more hopeful about that than I am about AI. Climate change -- we have time, we are making changes, and it's not going to kill all of humanity. A smart enough AI might effectively end us the moment we switch it on.
> Ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking the law.

You seem maybe out of our depth in this discussion. I'm not sure why you take me pointing out that truth of the matter that the GDPR is unprecedented in its extraterritoriality as an attack, but it's not. This mistake is clouding all of your replies and input into this discussion.

I'm fully aware of the law. That's what has been being discussed up until this point. The whole point of the law is that it isn't enforceable.

> You seem to be arguing from how you believe it should work or how you think it works without knowing how it actually works, which is quite important when you are operating a business.

No, I'm arguing that the GDPR is unprecedented, and EU has tried to claim jurisdiction in areas that they simply can't enforce.

If you believe otherwise, that's fine, but almost all of the legal community disagrees with you.
A carbon tax would be technologically neutral compared to the patchwork of mandates and such we have now. It would also be substantially more efficient.
> It's Gary Marcus "neural networks don't really work" suddenly discovering they do,

I'm not familiar with Gary Marcus's arguments, but perhaps there's a bit of an misinterpretation or mind-reading going on with this specific point? Not sure, but one of the first comments on the article said the following as a possible explanation.

> Gary Marcus has tried to explain this. Current AI bots are dangerous precisely because they combine LLM abilities with LLM unreliability and other LLM weaknesses.
You run your DB inside a container as usual - volumes for data storage, read-only base container with non-root user.
> The CEO of the maker of Jeep SUVs, Ram pickup trucks and other vehicles says he's not sure there will be enough raw materials to replace the existing fleet of fossil fuel-powered vehicles with all-electric vehicles.

1. I don't trust a word someone like that says.

2. There are many alternatives to Lithium batteries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vobMl5ldOs

3. Why would humanity want to _replace_ all those fossil-fueled-powered vehicles? Just get rid of most of them. Combination of mass transit + taxis/cabs (*) + bicycles + walking instead.

---

(*) - Like the personal cars people have now, but not parked somewhere 90% of the time but rather ferrying people around all day. So not many necessary, especially with mass transit.
Not really going to get anywhere close to ban anything.

China is coming just one step behind openAI, and all they could ask is Western powers to stop AI research for a year or two, then they'll had the upper hand (hardware + software + expertise + training data aka TikTok), by 2025.

so this thing, whatever it is, won't really happen.
Spot on. I’ve been using GPT (3.5 and 4) to build a handful of small apps. I find that I’m much faster with GPT, but that’s because I don’t need GPT’s code to be 100% correct every time. I just need it to be mostly correct and faster at writing code than me. Which it is. If I can ask it to write me some code, and I spend 1/8th the amount of time fixing GPT’s errors than I would writing the code from scratch myself, it’s a win.
Sunshine Superman (1987) is a film by Richard Rutkowski about his friend the (accomplished) autistic artist Christopher Knowles.

https://vimeo.com/33455851

Chris made beautiful art with a typewriter.

https://denniscooperblog.com/spotlight-on-christopher-knowle...

https://specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=15739
I'd also argue the disparity in compensation between private companies and government agencies pushes top engineering talent to the former.
Multiple mines will come online this year and next (for example Cinovec in EU with ~30kt/year)
There is no right to privacy, you either have it, or you don't. You either stay inside or go out, dress or stay nude, play with data collecting company products or dont. You may build a whole elaborate burocrazy to keep your "rights" intact, but they will corrupt and be captured by financial interest as it always does over a large enough timeline and all you will have is the illusion of privacy accompanied by the incompetence of the machination proping it up, at large expense.

If you want privacy, seek it out, refuse those that take it from you. Incuding Meta.
The hydrogen comes from natural gas.

(It can come from electrolysis, but in practice doesn't)
> What's the point of anything stronger than TLS in transit if GMail can just read the full unencrypted message?

I thought the point was to make it so that if GMail reads the message body they see something like this:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

hF4DiRYQNnty8w4SAQdAdiM2arHOheTBYTJriZZQOarZJy39Hs2Hl2tbAM/n5yMw
3DrQEjbJtP2LAm1oxaKPI3cyL05OFMU4p5ZMzbNIChEgNG7dxrUZJ9/0aS1P/8hl
0lkBHVB0DPdgxtLk7tl23iozcnoP4Heua1Lvqf891Cy51409FHk4UX/hUPwg2E/O
mRczP2UVrbBB90CA0L0wRFfXZpPTtq0UusAtPZ4evtzEgcH4pDK5LV7hog==
=vlQ3
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

which is probably not going to tell them anything useful.

That seems pretty useful to me. Sure, they still get to see the subject, the sender, and the recipient list so they get important metadata about my communications. But most of the time my communications are with people that I'm already known to communicate with, and the subject just reveals that the message is about some topic that I'm already known to communicate with them about. All the stuff that would actually be new and interesting to a third party is in the body.

On the other hand I seem to recall tptacek saying that just encrypting the message body is worthless, and when it comes to cryptography that guy's smart. I mean like fuck-a-guy smart. Know what I'm saying? So it is possible I'm overlooking something.