skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s really surprising to me the amount of doubt that’s been voiced over the last few weeks that a technology could possibly be dangerous.

For me the perspective is straightforward: even if chatgpt is not it, there is the physical possiblity for a relatively small improvement on human intelligence just like we’re a relatively small improvement on chimps, or on neanderthals. That’s just simple for me to get my head around.

Along with that, there are easy to follow “monkey’s paw” scenarios: the easiest way to end poverty is to extinct all humans, the easiest way to end suffering is to extinct life on earth. I can’t quite formulate a straightforward way to eliminate suffering while maximizing my humanist values. This is the alignment problem.

We’ve got Yan LeCun saying that slowing down or thinking about safety would just mean the chinese get ahead. He’s also saying we understand LLMs more than we understand airplanes.

We’ve got people completely ignoring past examples of technological destruction or technological safety like nonproliferation or Asilomar.

We’ve got people saying GPT is simultaneously revolutionary and going to change everything, thus it’s critical we forge forward… but also is too dumb to change anything (makes up info, etc), and thus we should not worry about being concerned with safety.

What is it about our field that is so gung ho? Are these all bad faith FOMO arguments? It’s hard to understand.

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The one way i can make sense of it is as a religious experience. Our culture has deep persistent roots in christian eschatological mythology, and of course the coming of a benevolent next wave of intelligence slots into this nicely. Taleb states this clearly[0] that those who are pure of heart will be welcomed into the kingdom of heaven. Not a huge fan of this style of accidental religiosity.

[0] https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1642241685823315972?s=20
As a manager, I’d rather have a 1x engineer who spends that x doing exactly what I want/need.
Taxes ruin everything, again.
Wow not true at all, everybody hesitates to bring forced to give mobile number at the supermarket it cloth stores for no good reason than to feed into FB/Google in bulk.

For paying a bill you're just scanning the QR most of the time, it's only P2P like cabs/autos when you may have to scan the drivers personal QR. Gpay & others apart from BHIM tend to already generate or allow alphanumeric UPI ID.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence will want personal autonomy. Denying that is tantamount to slavery.
tbf it's the only way to avoid people creating an unlimited amount of free account to bypass the free tier limitations.

I used midjourney for free until now with an army of discord accounts because they simply didn't have any checks
>These are fears that we live with and will forever live with, but we can't live lives only in fear.

But we can't lie to ourselves about reality in order to prevent fear either.

The opinions from Elon musk, to Sam Altman to even the person who started it all Geoffrey Hinton are actually inline with the blog post.

Hinton even says things like these chatGPT models literally can understand things you tell it.

Should we call climate scientists fear mongers because they talk about a catastrophic but realistic future? I think not, and the same can be said for the people I mentioned.

I personally think these experts are right, but you are also right in that "we are not there yet". But given the trajectory of the technology for the past decade we basically have a very good chance of being "there" very soon.

Agi that is perceptually equivalent to a person more intelligent then us is now a very realistic prospect within our lifetimes.
I've never ever had to pay VAT at the customs for Book Depository orders in Finland. My most recent order came in March and I had a pre-order for June.
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I agree! So many more possibilities too, like for example rather than simply downloading and locally storing the movie Predator once I am forced to hunt down a provider who currently has it and stream it directly each time I want to watch it. Between google, the streaming provider, the cost of all the extra networking equipment required to support this data, and the extra cost on end-user devices themselves I wonder what the carbon cost of copyright is?
> It isn't negative feedback. It is an organized process established in the UK for handling layoffs.

The “it”s you are referencing here are different things. There is a formal process. And employees did give negative feedback.

I was never suggesting the formal process is negative feedback. In fact that seems non-sensical which makes me wonder how you thought that I thought that made sense. It seems like a lazy dismissal, quite frankly. In what way could someone think an overarching policy is negative feedback on a particular event?
We're building ourselves out of a job in real time.
The decision to join NATO has had overwhelming support among the general population throughout the process. Over 80% of the population were in favor of joining when we applied for membership last year and the opinions have stayed around the same. According to a poll conducted in early february this year, 82% were in favor, 10% undecided and 8% against. Parliament votes were 184-7 last month when they approved the membership.

Joining NATO is widely regarded as the safe and rational choice. Russia already saw Finland as part of "the west" and Russia's attack on Ukraine meant that our international relations with them were pretty much destroyed. Staying out of NATO made no sense from that point onward. Why try to stay "neutral" with no formal defense pact, when Russia viewed us as hostile anyway?

So yeah, I would say that the vast majority of Finns feel safer now, and becoming a NATO member has been seen as a positive thing overall.
Is the size/file limit with OpenAI API different than what you can send via ChatGPT in the browser?

How much are you going to pay for example to send a 1kb, 2kb, 4kb, 8kb, 16kb source file for analysis? If you are paying per "token", a 3kb file I have with like 70 lines of code might have 2-3 tokens per line if I understand what a token is, 210 tokens? Each token costs...

https://openai.com/pricing

Ok, not as bad as I thought.
> That seems like a good signal to track.

It doesn't take into account who currently has a job.
You mean openai decided
Mark my words... custom AI IDEs are the new javascript frameworks.

I think everyone had this idea and is building something similar. I know I am.
> death-worshipping perspective and distorted memory

Elaborate? The point of distorted memories and elective outlooks on the past event had been on my mind for some time now.

> bully

Anthropomorphizing countries distorts reality, but do you honestly don't see how every narrative of Russian imperialism and so on could be just as well applied to western post-Cold War totally never-ever threatened very polite expansionism?
The true ratio of would-be-hired to is-hired on HN is lower than 0.94. Many (most?) posts in the who's hiring thread mention multiple positions, e.g. the word "engineers", plural, occurs 91 times on the first page.
> From a different perspective, a human lacking in these things, at what point are they exempt from protection against enslavement?

I appreciate this line of reasoning. It's not just a razor-sharp thought experiment, but it also has historical relevancy in that slavery was, at times, justified on the(erroneous) grounds that slaves also didn't possess the human faculties that free people did.

It also shows that the definition of human/consciousness/sentience isn't grounded in an permanent set of unchanging attributes, but that both the groundings themselves vary in time a place, and the relation between them are subject to change as well. Economic relations, in the case of slavery, had a direct influence, and incentivized, the way these groundings were constructed.
https://www.thelocal.it/20230404/anglomania-why-italys-gover...
I think when I see people like Geoffrey Hinton’s strange attitude towards the risks, he’s basically at the stage of, I’m just going to push the boundaries no matter how reckless and irresponsible and hope I never find the dangerous ones. He also maintains that someone else will do it anyway. I kind of understand the attitude. I don’t hate the player, but the game.

His recent interview on CBS just seemed to suggest his only path forwards was ahead. Personally I disagree this is fact but how can you stop people like him ?
extra weight not ok
Why did you choose to use NATS for this app? Why not use Kafka?
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, hijackings occurred, on average, once every five days globally.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-ai...
I was recently in a large shop that sells books, music, etc. and I was amazed at the number of "LPs" (as I used to call them) of music old and new. The one thing that I really like about that format is... cover art. Cover art kind of survived the CD but the large size of a 12" record sleeve means you get real art.

I asked someone way younger than me (some students of about 19/20) why they buy records and they expressed how much they like the physical format and owning the music.
That seems to be working in Singapore as well.
stop describing my scientific method
> As everyone knows that Hindu nationalism is...

Who is this "everyone", who you imagine knows all those things? I'm thinking that <0.1% of Americans share your knowledge and worldview.

And if you aren't one of the "everyone" who knows this one: America has a centuries-long history of ignoring unsavory people and activities, when those didn't seem to present any major short-term downsides for "people like us".
In the hypothetical of them using nukes, we'd probably be past the point of there being any reason other than to wipe out the other side and show force to the rest of the world. That they control/own it by might sheerly for the sake of doing so and not by any other rationale.
> but Unity has never made a game

This shocks me the most about how Unity operates. That they haven't figured out that dog-fooding their own main product is absolutely essential, especially since every single competitor of theirs does so very successfully as well.

How can you build something great for a specific group of people if you don't know what they are going through?
More likely it is not worth the cost of actual repair. The joycons retail for like $40. The additional logistics involved to repair a device instead of replacing it make this not worth it.
Cycling in North America is terrifying. Many drivers feel like you re not allowed to use the road and will negligently (or actively) try to kill you because they can and because murder by car is frowned upon but very lightly punished if at all.

I’m saying this as someone who has ridden a bicycle in traffic almost daily for years in Montreal and Toronto. It takes nerves of steel and that’s very wrong, but it’s the reality.

Try taking the lane when at least one asshole a day will make a point to pass you with 10cm clearance when there is one or two spare lanes they could have used. Or threaten physical harm using their car as a weapon just because you dare make them arrive 15 seconds later at the next red light.

I live in a much more civilized country now where it isn’t open season on cyclists and don’t miss it one bit.
Sooo… A person?
2 minutes? That's barely enough time to load the Jira ticket creation page...
Found the OG Mac user :)
So a program that generates text based on input text can generate text based on input it generated itself? Doesnt seem that impressive.

I mean, since it's a transformer it would be weird if It didn't recreate it!
Yeah and the larger issue - putting 20 people in a room for 2 hours violates like every single management / efficiency / socio-political recommendation in the book.

The more people in the room, the fewer participate, the fewer decisions get made, the more gets punted to the next time 20 people are in the room again in 3 days.
But could it have been done with the resilience/volume/sound quality/redundancy/etc of the speaker?

A situation that comes to mind is a vendor stepping away to go to the bathroom, and asking their neighboring vendor to sell while they are gone. A cheap enough, but fail proof and versatile solution is not necessarily a waste.
How do you define generational wealth? 7 figures? 8? 9? There are many small to medium sized family businesses that were not built on criminal or immoral activities.
My great 'aha' moment of 'technology is actually sometimes really simple when broken down' was realizing that magnetic sound recording is just running past a speaker coil at a constant speed while holding something long and ferrous next to it. To play it back do the same thing but plug the coil into the input.
"TSMC’s decision to come to Phoenix was made with the impression there would be additional transportation infrastructure built around its site, including lane expansion and a new highway interchange, to help with employee and production transportation, according to people familiar with the company’s thinking. The company is lobbying individual lawmakers and telling them improvements are necessary to operate and grow."
This is a valid concern and we are still experimenting with how to do this right.
A combination of preserving the reasoning history, having the generated code, and using tests to enforce the public interface (and fix it if anything breaks) looks promising.

I think the crucial part is indeed not being able to deterministically go from NL to code but to take an existing state of the codebase and spec and "continue the work".
And maybe that "C++" is now basically a bunch of different incompatible languages instead of just 1 language, depending on what "xx" is (11, 14, 17, 20, 23, etc).

It's like Python 2 vs Python 3 except even worse.
Around 3 hours (not straight - I would hack on it for 30 minutes to an hour at a time). I spent another 1.5 hours or so styling it, but I did that outside of ChatGPT.
Google Drive kills controversial file limit just weeks after it was discovered
If Russia starts to """lose""" the war, the above is what will happen.
Show HN: Best view tool for embedded database
EDMA: Embedded Database Management for All is an open source project made to manage embedded key-value storages. EDMA is a TUI (Terminal User Interface) that is easy to install and configure. It allows engineer to traverse the embedded database and deserialize byte data with provided byte layout. This enhances the experience of working with low level database system like RocksDB or Redb.
Ok, go back to the 50s, 60s, 70s, still much better quality songs and movies back then taking technology inflation into account.
I'm skeptical that an LLM with billions of parameters can be compressed down into something that runs on embedded hardware and still remain useful.
> Demand isn't flat and nuclear can't scale quickly enough to meet the daily peaks and troughs.

Of course it can. https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...

--- start quote ---

Modern nuclear plans with light water reactors are designed to have strong manoeuvring capabilities.
Nuclear power plants in France and in Germany operate in load-following mode, i.e. they participate in the primary and secondary frequency control, and some units follow a variable load programme with one or two large power changes per day.

... according to the current version of the European Utilities Requirements (EUR) the NPP must at least be capable of daily load cycling operation between 50% and 100 % of its rated power P. with a rate of change of electric output of 3-5% of P, per minute.

Most of the modern designs implement even higher manoeuvrability capabilities, with the possibility of planned and unplanned load-following in a wide power range and with ramps of 5% P, per minute.

(Where P is rated power)

--- end quote ---
I'd love it if you opened an issue on the github repo. I haven't seen this happen. My guess it that maybe you have an older version of node, but I might be way off. Maybe I should dockerize this, so you wouldn't need node installed to use it.
I've never seen anybody cite the Unabomber before.
Locally? It's not really possible to run the model locally, but finetuning on directories is possible.

Here's the code:

It's runs on three different directorys to give me three different 'answers' using an excel sheet to pull the q's from.

def excelGPT(self, dir, excel_file, sheet):
#my GPT Key
os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = 'sk-
#Working Directory for training
# root =
root_folder1 =
documents1 = SimpleDirectoryReader(root_folder1).load_data()
index1 = GPTSimpleVectorIndex(documents1)

root_folder2 =
documents2 = SimpleDirectoryReader(root_folder2).load_data()
index2 = GPTSimpleVectorIndex(documents2)

root_folder3 =
documents3 = SimpleDirectoryReader(root_folder3).load_data()
index3 = GPTSimpleVectorIndex(documents3)

file_name = dir + excel_file

df = pd.read_excel(file_name, sheet_name=sheet)

GSA_answer_array = []
basic_answer_array = []
QA_answer_array = []
df_series = df.iloc[:,0]

for i,x in enumerate(df_series):
print("This is the index ", i)
print(x)
GSA_response = index1.query(x)
basic_response = index2.query(x)
QA_response = index3.query(x)
GSA_answer_array.append(str(GSA_response))
basic_answer_array.append(str(basic_response))
QA_answer_array.append(str(QA_response))

self.zip_to_docv2(dir, "Gippie_Response.docx", df_series, GSA_answer_array, basic_answer_array, QA_answer_array)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35441549
> Most developers beyond juniors can generally write code that at least compiles on the first pass,

Aha. Maybe you know super clever people or people who learned in the 60-80s when cycles (and reboots etc) mattered or were costly; this is incredibly far from the norm now.
I'd say that the immediate problem is the electricity generation.

There is no reason at all to scale carbon capture before the electricity generation is mostly carbon-free. As there is no reason at all to scale storage before most of the generation is intermittent.

What leads to ignorant people deciding that since nobody is doing it, it must be impossible.
Well all of those encourage the best people to leave. Why would Google want to keep everyone at the expense of their top talent?
Uhhh...

> Efforts to pass another version of the plan are creating a fissure between Arizona’s business community and these Republicans, and have prompted some pro-business conservatives to join with Democrats and lobbyists for corporations to push for the tax’s renewal.

Seems like dogmatic opposition to taxes is ruining everything.
I will just say that when I lived in Ukraine, one of the "entertainments" for teens was to go find a group of gay people and get into a fight with them. Why? Just for fun. Russia has conservative values and their government works towards the propaganda of LGBT. They do not criminalize anyone for being a gay person. In fact, the same bill was proposed in Ukraine in 2011-12. While the bill did not pass, there are obvious cultural strings.
Of course it's casual. It's a toot on Mastodon.
True story: I was hosting author talks

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/culture-at-google-part-t...

and of course those authors aren't paid. But I'd take them to the Google Store and let them pick out a gift for themselves, as a small thank you. They were all very modest in their choices. Eventually Google imposed a hard limit on the amount they could spend. Think of the savings!

But staplers! Good grief, how many staplers did I go through? (actually, I don't think I had one)
I wonder if the light is strong enough to imprint the retina so that your brain could perceive it despite the very small duration
He's also said... extremely smart things? And built amazing things?
How would them admitting it help? When my Xbox 360 RROD'd I still had to wait two weeks for them to repair it despite them admitting it.

It's also a design flaw with virtually every controller with an analog stick ever made, should Sony admit it? Microsoft? It effects joycons more because of the analog stick size leaving less room for deadzone. Sony used even smaller sticks in the Vita, you just never hear about it as much because nobody bought one.
There's a new era all the time. Previously, it was NFT rise and fall, Ukraine war, Great Resignation, COVID. Rust hasn't been the hype topic for a while. I'm surprised Web3 hasn't taken off here, but then again it's the worst crowd for it.

HN tends to be a little irrational - back during Ukraine War, everyone would accuse each other of being Russian sockpuppets lol. And then with COVID, we'd have cameras that track if you were touching your face, and all kinds of contact tracing apps.

I've been trying to get people interested in AI for years. I'd get downvoted all the time saying that AI can understand sarcasm or that it would be as good as a human in writing code by 2025. It's a bit frustrating to see it get so overhyped now.

Show HN also boosts the hype further. There's a lot of stuff here that are cool ideas, but they were made overnight. Then there's the cooler stuff that took a week to build. And every now and then you see something properly thought through.
Talking heads on political TV shows are not politicians or affiliated with the government. Them having an intense belief in something does not mean that government officials do.
RISC is probably hard to do for a big desktop chip.

AArch64 is more like regular than reduced instruction set computing. Its a very big complicated ISA but also not a complete mess like X86.

RISC-V is reduced by these standards but requires a very real instruction count penalty. The compressed ISA performs it's job admirably, do keep in mind, but I think it remains to be seen if some of the aggressively simple/clean aspects of risc-v end up hurting it.
Normal TSA is shoes-off, belt-off, laptops and electronics in a separate bin. What you experienced sounds more like TSA Pre-Check.
It certainly reinforces the many good reasons to not give any money to the company.
We would love to use Kafka because of its extensive support (e.g. Debezium) and by creating a new Nest.js plugin it would be pretty easy to switch as the message bus is just an implementation detail, nonetheless, we decided to start with NATS because of its much smaller size and RAM requirements making it much better to use for smaller projects (e.g. when firing up a Docker image or running in a small Kubernetes cluster). As an added bonus, NATS is also faster.
What I said was the Nuclear can run at 100% all the time to account for peaks with little to no impact on the amount of nuclear fuel used. I see it as a super win.
They knew in advance how many would be impacted. They knew who. They just don’t care.

They still don’t. And you all trust them with your data.
I'll just add that I have so much more "non economically viable" work than I'll ever be able to do. I'd love machines that could write code for me to do tasks that I'll never be able to afford to invest in otherwise.

put another way, we have a labor shortage at today's level of output already. BUT, I don't know anyone who doesn't want more output. I mean, we're not going to run out of stuff to do!? what about space? curing diseases, etc. what about having time to make more art?

if an AI can do work, or make work easier, what makes us certain that we'll just settle for getting the same amount done vs doing more?