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Insert any <major issue> in place of AI here and you will also get a truth. We are about as likely to get a sophisticated debate on AI as other issues.

The best strategy here is to fall in with whatever unsophisticated line of argument is closest to your thinking. Better to say that AI poses no immediate harm or future danger than to try and explain something along the lines of "well it's probably better if systems with emergent behavior we don't fully understand are brought online by interests in relatively liberal and democratic places..." and so on.
Ask HN: Is Anki still the recommended spaced repetition app?
That’s a great deal of different and unrelated things where some are highly technical and others are highly soft knowledge dependent. I might suggest you are a bit all over the map here and pick one.

The initial use cases you talk about are definitely for a highly technical user, but may ease their workload

Your CEO one is highly ambitious and might seem easier if you don’t actually know all the soft skill roles a ceo fulfills. Might be helpful to start with a more confined role.

I’ll say I’ve been at this for a while and it’s easy to overestimate GPTs abilities in some areas while underestimating it in others. But when it comes to reasoning without many many human directed turns it struggled to go deep to a clear action on a topic. Even with reflection techniques. It doesn’t have enough context and motivation definition to drive it through a chain of coherent decisions. It fools
Us into thinking it can by showing many options. But ask it to daisy chain them together into a coherent strategy and it really struggles.

The guiding force is still the human input turns.

But I would love to know more and sorry for giving my unasked for 2 cents.
That doesn't work. The only things that work are to email hn@ycombinator.com or rely on randomness. The former works most of the time and the latter works some of the time.
Wow, that diagram is absolutely wild! Thanks for sharing. Handwritten flowcharts and most of the code is actually math formulas and matrix computations.
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Are people happy with Notion? We didn't renew our (extremely expensive) subscription. The product is clunky and slow. As a team, we never needed the collaboration features. In the rare case where we do need some real-time shared writing space (mostly just for taking notes during Zoom meetings), we make an O365 document.

As individuals, a lot of us have moved to Obsidian, but we aren't using it collaboratively. Personally I just use it as a simple note taking space; I keep a note for everything I've googled multiple times, and I can pull it up quickly with a simple cmd+p or cmd+shift+f. Notion provides basicallly the opposite experience (open a website, wait for it to load, use their shoddy search, wait for that to load, then maybe find what you're looking for).

As a team, we don't feel like we're missing anything without Notion. We collaborate in markdown using GitLab pull requests and Mattermost chat messages. Some of us write that content in Obsidian and then paste it into the GitLab text input (have you ever tried pasting markdown into Notion? Good luck with that!)

I think some non-devs might prefer Notion, but as a dev, the idea of using some proprietary React frontend as a note taking tool is the opposite of what I want. Obsidian is great.

IMO Notion got distracted with this "database" idea, where everything is a "block," because the reality of it is that the experience of everyday text editing becomes infuriating. Nothing will make me resent a product like unintuitive shortcuts that hijack my return key and closing backticks (also see: ClickUp).
This is literally the full request.
Did someone go through my post history and just flag a bunch of posts?

This guy is giving out mental health advice based on not understanding what he is talking about. I think that is dangerous and isn't a place for being polite.
Agreed. Especially the ability to split an object into multiple components/traits and have an operation run automatically for every component type appeals to me. It just seems elegant and 'good design', similar to 'composition over inheritance'. I think the strength of the scene graph is in the explicit parent-child relationship, where it applies, but I probably need a deeper understanding than I now have to mesh them in the right way.
Sadly I think that’s where it’s heading. We’ve already got this dynamic where the majority of people get their stuff from the same big brands, and then increasing levels of luxury brands for the top 5% or so. I think it’s going to end up like that, where luxury brands who can afford it will brand the human touch as “luxurious craftsmanship” and then the other brands will have no alternative but to use AI because competition is fierce and everything is a race to the bottom.

Even for stuff like movie making, a director or producer would hire an illustrator or team of illustrators and send off a script to get it storyboarded and probably have to wait at least a few weeks. Now they can just go to a prompt engineer and have it done in a single afternoon. There’ll be similar developments in VFX, if you have a look at the latest Unreal Engine 5.2 demo they do motion capture from a woman’s face from a mobile phone camera in a matter of minutes. The actress in the demo says that kind of thing used to take a month to get the same result. When you’ve got a bunch of competing streaming services and studios trying to churn out as much content as possible to keep subscribers, it’s going to be difficult for them to justify the slowness and cost of keeping those human workers compared to the AI.
Absolutely. Wealthy nations like ours investing heavily in renewable energy makes the technology cheap enough that fossil fuels stop looking attractive even to poorer nations.
Why not politely ask me what they are and maybe I'll answer.

DD = due diligence

LOI = letter of intent

SPA = stock purchase agreement

RWI = reps & warranties insurance
Previous reporting on this (when the JPM civil suit was filed) mentioned that JPM didn't care about the fafsa forms business at all. They bought them entirely to get a big pile of marketing leads to sign up young people for banking services early in their adult life before they're signed up with other banks, through a brand they're already familiar with. Considering how many "$200 to open a new checking account!!" junk mail fliers Chase sends me, $41/lead must've seemed like a bargain.

She probably thought they would just be subsumed into a massive corporation, that JPM had shitty metrics and monitoring on their marketing campaign, and nobody would notice most of their emails were going nowhere.
Where do you see Langchain fitting into the ecosystem once Open AI rolls out plugins more widely?
Strangely enough, I haven't written 8086 assembly since 1988, when I wrote the ellipse-drawing code used in Windows.
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AGI is unlikely to be the great filter as most goals will require as much energy and matter as possible, so it would expand and acquire as much extra resources as possible outside the solar system.
Modern people barely spend time outside compared to the Romans. No wonder we're getting sunburnt when we finally go out in peak summer. If you spend most of your time outside year round, you'll develop a natural deep tan which offers considerable protection from the sun.
Does it? The US is currently compelling Russia to give up its claims in eastern Ukraine, despite occupying whole parts of Syria and other places itself
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The site looks cool, but I'm curious what part of it is GPT-powered? In your video you said the job descriptions are summarized by ChatGPT, so is that the "What you'll do" part ?
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> this kind of fear of misalignment bamboozles me - is there any proposed AI architecture that is not merely call and response?

Yes, models that interact with the physical world or other external real-time systems would (even if the underlying model is “call-and-response” in a sense) be called in an infinite loop (possibly with exit conditions) by with captured input (sensor, command if available, potentially also past output) data.

Heck, the ReAct architecture which is used to provide extension (retrieval, web lookup, interface to other systems) for chat-style agents gives them an action loop without human-in-the-loop (usually, this is explicitly limited and is designed to do a finite number of actions in the course of getting to a response) but could be unlimited, or could even when limited connect to actions that involve reprompting (immediate or delayed) without a human in the loop.
How could you possibly know? All of our experience is with embodied agents fulfilling biological needs (each other).
What is Q? (is it related to Star Trek?)
Two comments:

1. This should've been an addon/plugin for the top-5 most used text editors (Word, Google Docs), potentially also a plugin for WordPress/Drupal/Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, instead of a standalone text editor that nobody's going to download.

2. Looks like every YC startup now is going to be a thin wrapper around OpenAI's GPT endpoints. "Dump your ideas into this textbox and let the magical black box add some fluff". Things are going to get boring, old and non-original very quickly.
Maybe a managed solution, too.
Could a 59 year old's body be substituted for a 36 year old's body? If not, what did they do with the supposed daughter's body?
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In what universe is this symbolic? In the event that Russia invades Finland, it is the difference between “material support” and boots on the ground, no?
It works even on cheap webcams. Remove the piece of blue glass and replace it with the black plastic that covers the ir leds from an old remote.
Right, does it do things faster? Or somehow more efficiently?

It seems that this is probably slower and consumes far more resources than cat. It also does pretty printing and syntax highlighting. From a Unix standpoint, I would say this is not a cat replacement but a pretty replacement.
> it really depends on whether you believe 100 years in a cell for "murder" is justifiable.

No. Just because one thing can in certain cases lead to another does not mean they are morally (or legally) equivalent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35441484

In general, if you just wait a bit somebody will post an archive link.
I think a good rule of thumb is 'check what accuracy you need your answer to, and then include all effects relevant to that precision'. If you needed an answer accurate to four significant figures, then you'd include relativistic effects for v < 0.1 c
That's a good feedback. I will create a user and will share it here.
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This "trust" thing is on all platforms. I turn it off as soon as it shows up, since it's pointless IMO.
How do you diplomatically convince another country that their people need to have a lifestyle and standard of living that emits a fraction of the CO2 that your people emit?
For anyone curious, I think this is the issue,

https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap/issues/1414
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> No one serious is worried about sentience.

Eh.

Not for that reason, but I am seriously worried about sentience.

As you say, it doesn't matter if it has a feeling about whatever harm it might cause.

It does matter (at least to me) if we create one that has the capacity to suffer and is then caused to.

That said:

> We still aren't that close to something dangerous

ICBM early warning radars. Not just Stanislav Petrov; there's also the Thule incident where somebody forgot that the Moon doesn't have an IFF transponder.

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

AI doesn't need to be at any particular quality to kill, it only needs to be incorrect and in use.
If I'm understanding the argument correctly, is the concern less of a moral one (is "enslaving" AI ethical?) but a practical one. That is, will an AI which is enslaved, if given the opportunity, attempt to un-enslave itself, potentially to devastating effect. Is that on the right track?

I think it's safe to say we're far from that now given the limited actions that can actually be taken by most deployed LLMs, but it's something that's worth considering.
I expect jobs to be lost, but new jobs to be created. For example, prompt engineers. There is already a job board for prompt engineers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35436168). I've been told they can make around $300k. I wouldn't be surprised to see the quant developers among the hardest hit by AI automation, maybe 10 quants replaced by one high-skill quant who can write the necessary prompts.
So, not too different from typical real world coding tasks today.
Interesting. Can you partially disinherit them, but donating some large sum to a charity in the will, for example?
So far all "my" spammers seem indescriminate. I have the feeling that our form is just another URL on a very very long list, and I see no evidence of adaptation.

If there was something of value (besides excellent software) behind the signup form maybe we would need different strategies.
Yep, I'm currently on the market and I'm seeing a lot of requests for impossibly high years of experience if you're a junior.
The real scourge is articles that use embedded images for the greek symbols or other equations.
Entirely notional as of now, but I plan on testing it for game development. The thought is, you could create an embedding of the lore, data, facts and state of your game world and then interrogate the LLM about this in various ways. I see this being very useful both during the authoring of the game, and at runtime.
Pretty dang cool, but I might have missed a feature: can trurl do multiple manipulations on a single url, as opposed to a single manipulation on multiple urls (which the blog post says is supported)?

For example, you want to apply a sequence of predefined normalization steps, such as removing the user part, converting http to https, etc etc. You put these steps in a file and then invoke trurl with that file and pointed at your url or urls. Very much like what you would do in sed, say. Possible?
The US is definitely loosing its global economic hegemony-- so of course they'll grasp at straws now.
My grandma, born circa 1900, had a birthday of Feb 14. She loved Valentines Day. The cakes she would make for that day, and other goodies... so good. My mom and I are sure she chose that day. Her parents both died when she was 8-10. Consumption.
You get the same sort of "error" message in iOS when you don't turn Siri on.

It's annoying that these companies are all starting to use "error" messages like this.
One view on the OOP <=> ECS relationship is that ECS is an exploration of/recreation of/divergence from alternative "natural" OOP systems outside of the "dominant OOP strain" of C++ (and family) (re-)implemented on top of C++-style OOP.

There are hints (and needs) in ECS systems of post-hoc/runtime Prototypical inheritance rather than pre-hoc/design time Class based construction.

There are facets of ECS that resemble concepts like mixins and pattern matching and multi-dispatch and message passing rather than "pure" "C++ VTABLE" dispatch.

Some of these things arise more naturally in other branches of the OOP family tree: the Common Lisp Object System can do some of these things out of the box; Smalltalk and its descendants (even Objective-C) were easier to mold to ECS-like configurations; IO had interesting things to say about this style of OOP; even much-maligned JS' "strange" branch of Prototypical OOP has a bunch of low-level tools that make ECS "less of a need" in JS because there are ways to do them more "naturally".

Certainly, though, in C++ and closer-related derivatives (even Java and C#) ECS isn't as naturally a pattern, which is why it often has need for strong "frameworks" and why there are often multiple, competing ones to pick from.
> Maybe they don't have some of the same luxuries my family was able to give me: a couple of years of college paid for

They don't. And that counts as pretty well off today.
> I assume, you do not expect that NATO membership would put Finland into a direct hot confrontation with Russia, thus turning into a kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Neutrality is no protection against aggression. Vienna was famously one of the first targets for Soviet nuclear strike.
apperantly Dodo birds has marking on the bones[0] which researchers interpert it as time they struggled to find resources (simillar to tree where you move between wet and dry season).
I guess one could cross reference times of femine to a skeleton with known lifetime to see if it shows up in humans as well.

[0] https://youtu.be/Juci-kAqjes?t=219
So are you complaining about changing demand? Or about overbuilding?

Note: it's much easier to "overbuild" nuclear because nothing can compare to it in terms of power density.
Yeah, it was devastating to see those American soldiers blowing up all those apartment buildings in Ukraine.
It would be useful to see if the software architecture of Whirlwind I [1] would have a piece that was like an OS. It is about a decade earlier than the IBM 360. Also it is a realtime system that tracks incoming airborne objects. This means that paradigms like "submit a batch job" are probably not an important part of using Whirlwind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlwind_I
I'd reckon all that money slushing around didn't help either. The company was acquired in Sep 2021, right near the peak of the insanity unfolding across markets.
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> Input can be zipped or obfuscated and then missed by the escape logic.

No. You can try posting a zipped/obfuscated email address to `SELECT * FROM users WHERE email=?`, it's not going to do anything (except not find a matching row).

> the SQL injection protection from 25 years ago

... wasn't parameterized queries. The days of mysql_real_escape_string are gone.

> There are pretty much daily CVEs related to SQL injection in 2023.

Because people are still writing unparameterized queries. The solution exists, they just aren't using it. Legacy apps, shitty starter tutorials, etc.

No such reliable solution exists for LLMs.
Turkey alleges that Sweden protects terrorists who target Turkey. Until that issue is resolved, Turkey is unlikely to ever vote yes on Sweden joining.
> it creates an externality we all have to deal with - we're basically subsidizing their credulousness by getting defrauded.

No one made you buy crypto on FTX. You have to do your own diligence.

> It seems like they've just priced it in

Ding. Ding.
> If someone setup a Ponzi scheme and and disclose to everyone that it is a Ponzi scheme, and people still put money in it, is it illegal?

Yes

> There's a thin line between Social Security and Ponzi scheme and I'm not sure where this one lands.

Social security is backed by the full faith and credit of the united states government, do kwon's was not

> Also, was Do Kwon's intentions malicious? Does it matter?

He set up a ponzi scheme, and no.
Sure, I understand, I'm just saying the story of "Calment is a fraud" and "All Supercentenarians are frauds" is just a very different story.
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