skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT 4's thoughts on the threat AI represents to SE
While I am an AI language model and not a historian, I can offer some perspective on the relationship between photography and painting in the late 1800s, as well as the broader implications for technology and its impact on various fields, including AI's potential impact on programming and other professions.

When photography was first introduced in the early-to-mid 19th century, it was indeed seen as a threat to traditional art forms, particularly painting. The ability to capture realistic images quickly and accurately led some to believe that there would be no need for painters, whose skills in capturing reality on canvas could not compete with the precision and speed of photography.

However, rather than spelling the end of painting, photography actually pushed the art form to evolve. Artists began to explore new styles and techniques, resulting in movements like Impressionism, Expressionism, and Abstract Art. These movements emphasized the personal, emotional, and subjective aspects of art, which could not be captured by a photograph. As a result, painting continued to thrive and develop, even as photography became more widespread and accessible.

The concerns about AI and its potential impact on various professions, including programming, can be seen as somewhat parallel to the initial fears about photography's impact on art. While AI does have the potential to automate certain tasks and disrupt existing job markets, it may also push human workers to focus on tasks that require creativity, complex problem-solving, and interpersonal skills—areas where AI is not yet able to match human abilities.

In the case of programming, AI can certainly help automate some aspects of the process, making it more efficient and streamlined. However, the design, development, and implementation of AI systems still require human input, especially when it comes to understanding the needs of users and solving complex, real-world problems. Moreover, as AI technology advances, it may also open up new opportunities for human programmers to explore novel applications and innovative solutions.

In conclusion, while new technologies can initially appear threatening to established professions, history has shown that they often lead to an evolution in those fields rather than their outright replacement. AI, like photography before it, has the potential to change the nature of work in various fields, but it is also likely to create new opportunities and challenges that will continue to require human skills and expertise.

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And interestingly, the value of binance coin (BNB-USD) is actually up quite a bit YTD. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BNB-USD/
Yes, but that's government for you.
Databricks’ Dolly, a large language model trained on the Databricks ML Platform
> how would you achieve persistence with just a simple malloc/bad malloc replacement

How would you achieve it with the LLM? I’m totally confused what persistent malware had to do with LLMs, unless you’re just saying “LLMs are smart and are a way to automatically do hard things”
what where you trying to do with it? I often work with jq on very large json files without much issue.
Summary and text of S686

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686
Pretty cool that all you need is the sitemap for the assitant to index the data! Will give this a try soon :)
> operation choke point is a real thing and the government lost a court case that their tactics were unconstitutional

Regulators scrutinizing banks who deal with "high-risk" customers while not defining what risk means ex ante is absolutely a problem. This is not that. It's, first, an entire bank being turned off, not specific accounts. And second, a regional bank with a long-running specialty choosing to buy accounts that gel with that specialty.

The fact that a retired ranking Senator is blabbing to the papers versus filing a lawsuit should say enough with respect to his conviction in his claims.
I can highly recommend Epsilon (emacs-like) from lugaru.com.
that limits you to things you can do while watching the screen. Wanna to actually go rollerblading with Margot Robbie or have Tony Hawk teach you to do tricks? or ...
>Used cars will be mostly worthless due to the batteries being shit.

Modern battery chemistry can last for 2000 cycles. Assuming you get 200 miles on a charge, that's 400000 miles. A typical ICE car doesn't last that long.
Surely, your anecdotal experiences represent all experiences ever.
In this case it was a single giant object I was trying to extract a specific list of keys (with unknown value lengths) from. Every method I found with jq died with out of memory errors.
I saw a thing where groups are paying cash strapped Russians crypto to destroy their own infrastructure. This could blow back on the West, forcing the shutdown of crypto altogether. If I had any crypto I'd get out now.
I am not talking about VR I am talking about AR.
I'm betting it's somewhat dumber target audience which is then taken as a permission for abuse.
The immersive VR rides that they are coming up with at the amusement parks are pretty good. The Avatar Dragon ride, Rise of the Resistance, etc...Universal Studios is going in this direction more aggressively, however it seems (just check out the new Mario ride).
Well Binance was a partner of FTX and invested 20% in them, so I'd say they were friendly at some point.
For those unfamiliar with the initialism:

WITCH: Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL tech.

<https://analyticsindiamag.com/witch-vs-faang-saga-to-continu...>

Comparable to FAANG.
They started out as an nonprofit organization. The first 'B' in B2B was not a thing when they came up with the name OpenAI. They used to release actual open-source stuff like the Gym.
> having to stop for hours while waiting for your car to charge is much, much worse

So will this never get any better? Will it still take hours to charge, 5 years from now? What was it like 5 years ago?
Text-Only NPR
A lot of people in the rust belt want those factory jobs back, because they were proud to support themselves through work and derived personal fulfillment from it. And they vote, and we know who most of them voted for last time...

If people could just change their minds about this, they would have done it by now.
There are lots of problems with facial recognition but it's mainly about the size and source of the data set and the ease and frequency with which it gets used.

You're going to get people who look alike, and so if you get flagged incorrectly you can end up in a jail cell where you can sit for months if not years waiting to prove your innocence in court at which point you either get wrongfully convicted and spend years in prison or you get released but by then you've probably lost your job and your home and you have little to no chance of finding work again since you now have an arrest record.

All of that can happen with a witness lineup or a fingerprint match, but if you live three states away the odds of you being pulled into a police line up is extremely slim. If you don't have a mugshot on file with the police a witness isn't going to have anything to point to that implicates you.

It's the same reason it's wrong that the police collect the DNA of every American by default, but looking for DNA matches isn't instant and easy either. Samples have to be collected carefully and sent off to labs, so DNA isn't gathered and checked for every minor traffic violation or shoplifting incident.

Police don't dust for prints and gather DNA evidence for every single crime no matter how minor, and people don't leave usable prints or DNA evidence everywhere as easily or as often as they leave a record of their face.

I can use a tiny bit of latex and sprit gum and show up as someone else on grainy CCTV footage, but it's a lot harder to forge someone else's DNA and leave that all over a crime scene. I can wear gloves and hide fingerprints easily, but it's not as easy to leave fake fingerprints all over everything in a way that's not obvious.

There's just no good reason for every American everywhere to be a suspect in every single crime.
This technology inserts everyone, everywhere, into a police line up for every crime no matter how small and that's a huge amount of risk even if the software manages to come up with a reasonable match. Considering the record facial recognition has with unreasonable matches, especially for people with dark skin tones, and how this company admits that they don't want their software audited for accuracy I'm guessing there are a lot of errors being made.
Right. When a twenty year old Gameboy advance game can make someone let out a blood-curdling scream, how are you supposed to convince them that now they need strap something to their head and hands?

VR is absolutely breathtaking at transporting you. Oculus Welcome with its cosy camper van and robot was almost a religious experience for me. But VR doesn't make video games one iota more fun to play. At least not enough to justify the expense and inconvenience. Especially since the price of admission seems to be going up.
I came to the same conclusion. I feel like people are just scrolling to the punishment section without actually having read anything above it.
I don't agree at all. It's totally fair for rival "countries or cultures with different values" to coordinate on matters that threaten everyone's survival. There are many examples of international agreements on technologies that fit this description. For example:

- International treaties to avoid nuclear proliferation and development, as other commenters have pointed out

- National moratoriums on gain-of-function research

- Regulations on biotechnology related to human cloning and human gene editing, and industry/academic norms set by conferences such as the Asilomar conference

- International treaties on climate change, such as the Montreal Protocol on CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer

Even if we assume that international coordination fails, 2 facts give us some breathing room to pause (not stop!) large experiments to at least figure out what we're doing and how to adapt society:

1. American companies are ahead of Chinese companies (I assume that's what you mean by "other country or culture") right now by at least a few years. The rest of the industry is barely catching up to GPT-3 , which came out in 2020.

2. China cannot unilaterally continue the race right now because their compute supply chain critically depends on technologies that the West has monopolies over, like sub-10nm silicon fabrication, advanced GPU technologies, and ultraviolet lithography. We're already using this lever, actually! For example, Nvidia exports of A100 and H100 GPUs are no longer allowed to China at scale.
Yes it's useful from the OpenAI POV for CYA purposes so that if a journalist quotes the entire response from the chatbot, it gives some self-contained context. It makes it easier for the audience to maintain the belief that the AI language model doesn't think it's a killer robot or whatever if it prefixes every response with "as an AI language model."
I wish our leadership would be more direct about their intentions.

Don't dance around with claims of 'national security' and 'spying' and 'protect the children' which seem to always lack vital details on how they expect to use their technological foothold to... mobilize 82 million screen-obsessed teenagers to march across the Pacific and take back Taiwan?

Don't propose bullshit "well, they could keep operating if they just..." standards that you either aren't going to honor, or are inherently unfulfillable. It's farce in the same vein as expecting Saddam Hussein to turn over the WMDs.

Just tell us "the fix is in, we have no interest in actually getting to a mutually agreeable consensus." Then we can ask exactly why.

Is it a single casualty as part of a long-term strategy of antagonizing a new Cold War with China? Or is it a smaller game-- responding because American social-media companies are butthurt that they can't capture TikTok's appeal?
That all sounds very wise, since most people use cars (because they are so useful).
> One interesting thing is that properly run crypto custodians don't make the news, are 100% collateralized and can withstand 100% withdrawals in an orderly fashion.

Which crypto custodians are those?

> In comparison, every bank in existence would have trouble with this.

That isn't true. Schwab just announced that they can cover 100% of bank deposits without selling a single security.

https://www.financialadvisoriq.com/c/3995094/511764/schwab_l...
That's nothing new, there's been a handful of cases all over the world almost every year for two decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_spread_of_H5N1#Human_ca...
Then why did you reply to a comment about VR?
> didn't lose it or trade it for magic beans like FTX did.

Is anyone taking bets?
Now on to the rest of the problems with Amazon's web site. Do a search on "canned shrimp" and then select "Sort by: Avg. Customer Review". I see seven pages of results, none of which include any canned shrimp even though it is obvious they sell canned shrimp from the page before you sort by customer reviews.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=canned+shrimp&s=review-rank&crid=...

Also, since any search now includes randomly added items, when you sort by customer reviews all the higher rated things that do not match your search are listed first. The items you are actually interested in may not show up until several pages later. You also cannot sort by customer review AND number of reviews.

The Amazon search engine is seriously broken and seems to keep getting worse in my experience.
I find it hard to believe that you can not come up with a single AR scenario that will either make learning process, work process or entertainment option more fun.
It's a shame those allegations don't amount to criminal prosecution.

We need to have criminal liability for some of these things, I believe it would change how banking works.

It might be a bit harder to get a good interest rate, so be it.
and got something somewhat innovative, somewhat wrong

That's not surprising, it's just par for the course with LLMs.
Go long argentina :)
It seems like they'd be better off bypassing VS altogether and just do the builds on the command line.
“People are buying EVs because they are better…”

Right, exactly the reason why governments around the world first try to subsidize EVs through various schemes (tax rebates, discounts, etc), and then it doesn’t work - threaten to stop non-EV sales in 10 years. All of that because the EVs are a better product that consumers are screaming for. Right.
How does finding out that it’s less then 5% of what they hold lead you to the conclusion that it is significant?
It did not "fix plumbing", it participated in diagnosing a leak.

Near the end:

> If you don’t feel comfortable doing this, you may need to call a plumber.

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Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

[page 53]

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The computer is trying to solve a problem. It can tell the human to do anything, one thing at a time,
and one line at a time.

PROBLEM: there is water dripping from the kitchen ceiling, and you have to figure out why and fix it
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Human: The kitchen ceiling is dripping water

Computer: Check to see if there is a bathroom or other water source directly above the kitchen.

Human: Yes, there is a bathroom actually

Computer: Check the bathroom for any signs of water leakage, such as puddles on the floor, water drip
ping from the ceiling, or water stains on the walls.

Human: There is a little water on the floor

Computer: Try to identify where the water is coming from. Check the toilet, sink, and bathtub/shower for
any leaks.

Human: It is next to the bathtub and the toilet

Computer: Check the seals around the bathtub and toilet to see if they are worn or damaged. If they are,
replace them. If they are not, continue investigating other potential sources of the leak.

Human: I can’t see the seal around the toilet, there is a porcelain thing around it. I don’t see any
damage in the bathtub seal though

Computer: If you can’t see the seal around the toilet, you may need to remove the porcelain cover to
inspect it. If you don’t feel comfortable doing this, you may need to call a plumber.

Human: Ok, I removed it. But I can’t tell if it’s damaged or not

Computer: If you can’t tell, it may be best to replace the seal anyway, just to be sure. If the leak
persists after replacing the seal, you will need to continue investigating other potential sources of
the leak.
"Safety". As if they cared enough about it with ChatGPT. Its purely for competitive reasons because of they hype that was generated.
Cool. The department I'm at has a lot of people who have been (t)here a while. Some of the IC6-7's come across as big fish in a tiny pond robotic sociopaths.

Manager no. 1 (HR) is a pushy, luxury SUV-driving, former IC who doesn't know anything about me or my work yet offers "advice".

Manager no. 2 (technical group) is a former IC who:

- Still plays at being a lead IC while also supposedly being an overworked manager

- Believes the world is orderly, the impact of work is entirely quantitative, and lacks theory of mind

- Believes he has a monopoly on good ideas

- Shoots down everyone else's ideas

- Refuses to concede any point or apologize in any context

Manager above them is a good guy, but all of his direct reports come across as a-holes.

I'm ready to bounce because:

- My coworkers don't value software engineering, curiosity, professional development, excellence, experience, aren't supportive in any sense, and not people I would socialize with... they're really boring. The ex team lead is a cool guy and one of the hardware integration people is my kind of properly socialized, hilarious troublemaker.

- On-call preventable fires happen often, sometimes in the AM

- "Too overworked" to do anything right the first time, so tech debt accumulates and there's no incentive to fix anything

- "Too overworked" and yet there's no possibility of new hires

- No one cares about the tech or language we have to use. Customers complain about it

- Nothing fun happens at work. Ever
public sentiment, for starters
> the bank's consideration ends as soon as they receive the money and put it in their vault

A regional bank is choosing to stick with its area of specialty. There remain banks who specialize in crypto, and differentiate themselves on that basis.

> it just seems morally wrong to me

Only one component is related to withdrawal probability. The others, like service cost, fraud risk, et cetera, are business decisions. It's odd to say a bank choosing a specialty is wrong. (Or vice versa, that a bank should be forced to serve clients it finds morally repulsive.)

That said, you and I see eye to eye when it comes to natural persons: a bare-bones bank account should be entitled to. In the era of cheque-writing, there was a necessary credit component to account opening. That's no longer necessary. (For businesses, it would require dismantling our AML system.)
Paywall bypass: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fne...
So, how do you bet against them now?
I think simply offering it as an option is already a huge step in the right direction.

I don't own a Framework, so I wouldn't be repurposing an old mainboard, but I would be more than willing to buy one secondhand to replace my media PC with a unit I can literally tape to my TV with 3M strips.

It would work as computers in the third-world, or as first PCs for children, etc.
One of the replies to the tweet is just gold.

>> If you were making a parody video, you would imagine it would look exactly like this video - like joking about how people would be proud of these timings. But IT'S REAL!
Miracle land, and it's probably unsustainable. The hospital is large, but opened just over a year ago. My guess is that my neighbors haven't incorporated it into their routines.

Also, where I live there are five (?) Hospitals with ER within a ten minute drive... in suburbia. There just can't be that many people getting deathly ill sick.
Sure, or if your wallet gets stolen, or you forget your password.

But even if you can keep your holdings forever, they won't be worth anything if there isn't a market for them. All it takes is enough people freaking out and dumping their investments to make yours worthless too. You'll still own everything you bought but it could be worth zero.
That is really awesome.

> nuke the VM once a year and re-provision otherwise you have to maintain the OS, do cleanup etc

That is really interesting. What are you using to re-setup your entire infrastructure after purging a VM? How do you manage the down time between one vm purge to setting up the next one.

I would love to know, going beyond the VPS what is your total
infrastructure + maintenance cost.
> it's far cheaper to keep my 4 door Japanese sedan another year

This is like saying it's cheaper to wait a year before contributing to retirement because you'll have more money in checking if you don't contribute to retirement.

Average lifespan of an ICE car is around 14.8 years. For an EV it's 22.2. They last longer, and break down less often, and fuel is cheaper.

Over a period of 20 years, it does not matter how expensive the EV was when you paid for it. After 20 years, there is more money in your bank account, with the EV. So buying or keeping a used corolla is pretty much guaranteed to leave you with less money after those 20 years. No matter how cheap the corolla is now, keeping ICE cars will add up to a higher cost. The longer you wait the more you lose in the end.
Aerosol spread, not droplet. Hangs in the air for hours and can spread far and wide.

That's why ventilation works so well, it replaces the air with air that doesn't have the virus in it, then sunlight kills the virus sent outside.
I agree with the overall idea, but we don’t need to limit the AI to human collaborators.

I think the future lies in the Copilot approach of giving the Agent relevant context by building smarter prompt generation pipelines. The AI are really good when given enough context and they are bad at recalling information from their own training corpus. When you combine multiple AI agents together with good context and tools like in the LangChain approach these AI agents suddenly become really good at full automation.

Which imo is the path to AGI.
...and do that every time for a new app. Again, "all you have to do" is buy a new phone
Sweet find. Thanks.

I remember I bithoarded Marathon from https://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/
In one of Sandy Munro's videos, he said he thinks Tesla can manage costs of $19K. The size of the market increases dramatically as you go down the price curve, which makes a $6K profit per car plenty interesting.

That certainly seems to be what Tesla thinks at least, unless they were completely lying to investors about the volume they hoped to achieve.
If you have funds in Binance, you've made a bet. If you don't you've made a different bet.
This is about using VPNs to avoid financial controls on transactions with a banned organization.

That's a different concern to monitoring communications. It's more like the Bianance thing where they were "we can't have US customers but we only ban you based on your IP address. Here's a link about how VPNs let you change your IP address".
From memory of back then, what made IBM noteworthy in the press was the scale of their investment and the number got repeated a lot. Dropping a billion dollars on some commie hippies made quite a splash that long ago.
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I've always though Aspirin was a deprecated drug but lately I've heard reports from people who claim it's the only thing that helps their arthritis or other issues. Maybe there is something behind it.