skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you're not with us, you're against us." I suspect most people are not in either group, and also would rather not live in a world ruled by mobs of vigilantes.
Once I was feeling down, had a moment of weakness, I asked an earlier GPT model if I was a monster. It gave a rather convincing argument that I was, and stopped there. It felt bad, made me almost want to anthropomorphize it and hold a grudge. Even then, it would be like holding a grudge against a three year old. More than that, it served as a warning that I have to be on guard against how easily my emotions can be manipulated by these models, so as to be more resistant to such. But also, that these systems could use some EQ, and, much more importantly, a sense goodwill
YC Application Review
Hey everyone
I'm Felipe from Brazil and I'm creating a 24/7 AI English teacher to fix grammar and pronunciation and start natural conversations on WhatsApp (used +120MM Brazilians). Right now, the app is closed to beta (just by invite), but in the next week, we'll release an open beta.

I would like to contact someone that participated in YC to review my application and maybe make a referral
> at the point where you regularly have to scan that combination into a potentially malicious or compromised machine that knows how to generate and transmit the hash, you may as well just trust some centralised authority to store the originals.

Why would you have to do that regularly? The point is to do it once in a trusted environment and then the only thing you need to verify whatever is the hash itself, not to re-encode again and again.
Yep I’ve done a good chunk of Stage 2 it seems, because much of it is part of the Tour du Mont Blanc. I can’t rave enough about the experience, though. It’s a beautiful trek well worth doing. Especially that segment.
Well, we can make some pretty accurate guesses about the frame of reference if we know the nodes' geographic positions and ban airplanes.
Any of these is complex as hell. I wish everything is as simple as downloading exe file on my Windows Desktop and double click, done.
Where's the demo number? Can't seem to find it?
I don't know how much it would even sway things. Rather than fear of financial ruin, you now have fear of having some of your best income earning years squandered doing something less fruitful. This is fear enough to keep people out of certain fields entirely today, especially if the payoff is late and uncertain relative to other more lucrative things you can be doing in your 20s and early 30s.

Even today, people do live like this, cheaply on a "basic" income to grind out a dream. Only instead of relying on ubi, they work part time at a restaurant while waiting for more work in their field to line up in the meanwhile perhaps, and take on roommates to cut rent in half or more. Would UBI mean those people no longer have to wait tables? Sure, but its not like the struggling actor suddenly gets more phone calls when they call off work for their other job, since they are taking the restaurant job in the first place because they have so much free time between jobs they might as well monetize it. Plus, someone has to wait the tables at the end of the day.
Maybe if chatgpt were on the other side of the call it would actually have done what I wanted!
An interesting case of evolution. In theory the first populations to become fixed for an allele or allelic combination that results in even a small increase in TMAO would be able to access previously untouched feeding grounds and flourish for some time.
While we’re recommending D&D media, I’m really enjoying Worlds Beyond Number. It just started last month with three episodes so far (every other Tuesday), available wherever you get your podcasts.

Website is a bit out of date with the podcast having started, still reads as prerelease marketing but you get the idea: https://worldsbeyondnumber.com/
The root of this entire AI conversation is that the guard rails don't work super reliably, and nothing says all models have to have guard rails.
If the 3000 kilometers are a bit short you can always continue on the Via Del Norte in Spain to go to Santiago de Compostela.

Brush up on your dog whispering skills as they're quite a nuisance here (it makes my hikes less enjoyable, I always try to avoid villages and farms).
WordPress itself is solid. WordPress's overly permissive plugin system is both its biggest strength and biggest weakness. It's like Firefox and XUL in that way: you can do anything with anything. Which is great! But you can also do anything with anything, which is bad.
APL: Extending Structural Functions to Scalars
This is absurd. Slavery is horrible. Being a slave means having all of your choices in life stripped away to optimize for the financial outcome of your “owner”. If you resist, you or people you care about may be tortured or killed.

A person working for a wage, even a poor one, has way more options than that. If you quit your job at McDonalds, nobody is going to come and murder your family. There’s no penalty for telling your manager to get fucked and starting a new job at Taco Bell the next week. And for those who are truly in hardship, there are social programs like Medicaid, SNAP, etc to look after many of their most basic needs.
I had no idea, but it turns out they're a mix:

> Platters are typically made using an aluminium, glass or ceramic substrate. As of 2015, laptop hard drive platters are made from glass while aluminum platters are often found in desktop computers.

> In 1990, Toshiba released the MK1122FC, the first hard drive to use a glass substrate... It was originally designed for laptops, for which the greater shock resistance of glass substrates are more suitable.
This seems to be a pattern among Google employees, as least as I'm seeing from the outside.

They have their own company reality bubble, and clashes or inconsistencies with the outside world are met with disbelief.
"Meritocracy" is like "utopia": something to strive for, but in reality a myth.
FWIW, I understood exactly what you meant on first reading.

Now to be clear, India has no such dish as a curry.

The wording "no such dish as a curry" is a little ambiguous here as to if you mean a single menu item called "curry" or items from the genre of curry. This might be were people are tripping up. However, you make yourself crystal clear with the following sentences:

No self-respecting Indian restaurant has a "curry" on their menu. They would have a Palak Paneer or a Malai Kofta or a Murgh Makhani - all of which we lump into "curry" - but no "curry".

If someone is saying you failed at making this point, I'm not sure they read the whole paragraph, or are just willfully ignoring the context and are looking for an argument.
Also, I would like to mentioned that I was impresses how much the Nim is perfect shape with quite small team of core contributors compared to many other languages. There are some bugs, of course. nimsuggest (main thing for LSP) is not in the perfect shape. But I did not have any feelings of unfinished product like Pony-lang, Crystal and etc
Are they? From the article

> after he proposed sacrificing himself to save the planet.

This is likely enough, the AI took his prompt and used it in later conversation. Though I am not lawyer
Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead
A 1 in 6 chance is a discrete number. The chance of annihilation due to AGI is not.

You're defending an appeal to probability fallacy with a false equivalence fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
ORCA (as part of the Pony compiled language) includes a more performant GC than C4 or BEAM/HiPE. It does so by reducing almost to zero the need to do global GC pauses by sharding the heap per actor, zero-copy message passing, fine-grained concurrent sharing semantics, and lock-free data structures.
I don't know what it is called I just know the sound it makes when it goes down a man's throat.
I'm pretty sure the extra humour in the 2023 one is just them trying to copy the Marvel formula.
RFC 9405 AI Sarcasm Detection: Insult Your AI Without Offending It
Even my bog cheap hosting lists storage limits and, "inode" limits on its dashboard. We're doing fine on both but way worse on the number of files.
RFC 9402 Concat Notation
In science fiction you can ask the superintelligent AI "What should we do to fix our recent trouble with climate change?" and it won't just give you can answer based on its existing knowledge.

It might ask for more information - "Insufficient data for a solution with > 90% probability of success. I would require temperature sensors placed at these locations...".

It might ask for clarification - "Please select weights for the following factors: Societal status quo, animal life, plant life, overall temperature..."

We are still so far from that.
Good point. I didn't see it like that. Thanks!
Me too! Had a little less time than I'd have liked, so I started in Burgos instead of St Jean Pied de Port. Nonetheless, it was an amazing experience. Finisterre might have been one of the prettiest places I've ever been to.
I actually doubt we will end up where people have zero economic value or input.

Either we have UBI and they can choose where to spend their income or trade it. Or then they will exist in their own economic system and trade with each other.

Trading and thus sales is inherent to human condition. Unless we reach absolute post scarcity society and even then you get to bullshit like "authentic" and so on.
RFC 9401 The Addition of the Death (DTH) Flag to TCP
Probably the usual corporate reason that the nail that sticks out gets hammered down and that the messenger is often shot. Especially with all the layoffs it's better to not be the one in that position. And even if you do convince them it's a bad idea and don't get punished for it what do you gain? A half sentence on your performance review? Risk not worth the potential reward.
If you use full disk encryption, all you have to do is throw away the key. Works for solid state and hard drives.
Thank you so much for this feedback! We have discovered the same, there is no clear view of the features other than the videos.

We will be adding in a clearer display of features just like this Apple airpods page: https://www.apple.com/airpods-3rd-generation/

That is a great point about "marketing fluff". Really appreciate this!
Liberal democracies prosecute former leaders for crimes all the time. And civilised countries don’t need their citizens to be armed.
Just spent a few days there and man, talk about living off past beauty. It sure is one of the most beautiful urban environments in the world: the geography, the variety of the architecture, but fuck me, so expensive and just weirdly hostile rules. And I live in London so no stranger to shit costing a lot.

Was there with my wife and child and tried to go to a cool wine bar at like 5pm, told we weren’t allowed in due to licensing laws as the baby was a minor. Nowhere in Europe would even raise an eyebrow at 5pm in a half full bar, it’s not like I was trying to take him to Berghain. Saw barely any parents with kids out, but I guess that makes sense when you look at the rents.

It could be so much more, I hope there can be some sort of will to change.
Than wires with a jack at the end, in my personal opinion.

No analog unpredictability or crackling, clean digital all the way to the DAC matched to the speakers, no wires to tangle or damage, reliable controls.
At your service, with delight!
Happy songs: these are the musical elements that make us feel good
Many of those employees have changed their minds about military contracts in this new cold war era.
Those are not similar/comparable outcomes and I think there are two major factors that can’t be hand-waved away:

1. Consciousness. Despite advances in “intelligence”, we still have a very limited understanding of what makes us conscious, and whether or not consciousness can emerge from machines.

If machines are not conscious and are all that remain, I’d argue everything that could be construed to have value by humans is lost, and nothing from that point forward could be considered “progress”.

2. Suffering. “Winning” on an evolutionary timescale looks nothing like the failure modes of machines taking over. The reality of this scenario is a rather grim one, and not at all like the slow emergence, competition and eventual extinction of biological species.

And depending on #1, the true tragedy of #2 begins to take shape.

I think it’d be more apropos to frame this as humanity collectively committing suicide rather than some notion of the future of progress.

If consciousness is the universe experiencing itself, what you’re describing sounds like a kind of universal death.

Of course we can’t know what consciousness really is (or if earth is the only place it exists), but that seems like all the more reason to take these problems seriously.
Ask HN: High demand and low supply for ML engineers?
There doesn't seem to be enough good ML engineers, and those few that are good get swallowed up by huge companies.

Recently there has been a lot startups that are just thin wrappers around OpenAI API, there isn't much innovation going on. OpenAI has practically no competition in their space. I think even OpenAI could be doing better for the budget they have, but they don't have enough manpower. This could be just a temporary lag, and people might be getting ready for the economic shift.
But why would you donate your hw without wiping it?
Also quite a lot of people like the products and services sold by billionaires. That's how they became billionaires!
what day is today?
> But once you have convinced yourself that its industry standard, why look as deeply into alternatives to even figure out if there are better tools?

I suppose that's true to an extent. However one of the reasons spreadsheets in general are so popular is their fluid accessibility. Just about anybody can get right to work even in Excel. Once you've gotten started in Excel there's little incentive to leave. That it offers a full blown powerful programming environment (which is definitely not the best in almost any area) erases much reason to seek alternatives. It's not a situation where Excel is meaningfully less accessible than the alternatives.

> Many already convinced themselves that excel is the one true format and there is no reason to look hard at anything else.

I mean this is sort of true. It's simple enough and good enough and actually insanely powerful on top of all that. What is the compelling reason to even seek an alternative? (saying this knowing full well that people often do, and usually it's Sheets).

And lack of external data sources is not a small potatoes feature (speaking in reference to Numbers here) - I think that alone puts Excel and Sheets way above Numbers. (And personally I can die happy not seeing another line of AppleScript for the rest of my days).

At least GSuite gives you browser accessibility - and even Excel to a large extent. Numbers ties you to the Mac desktop and iOS crowd. That seems like an already poor incentive to switch. It's great that it works for some people - but it's a niche product, where Excel simply isn't, period.
I asked first?
At this stage AI chatbots tend to be a pretty good mirror to our deepest desires.

Not to say they are not going to get a lot more personality in next iterations
> The cultists simply speculate, against all evidence, that they somehow could end up being the same thing.

something as stupid as bitcoin consumed a vast amount of resources while producing nothing useful to humanity, simply because of economic incentives

it's not difficult to imagine something slightly smarter than bitcoin
The fair seemed to be on a power trip.

They used all of their power to prevent a mutually agreed reversal of the transaction, and then stepped all over other rules that they didn't want to follow.

I generally cannot comprehend why this happen - it doesn't even benefit the fair even if this went unreported and under the radar. It's being evil for evil's sake and things that I thought made Marvel movies unwatchable because the bad guys don't make sense doing what they did.
Great point! Common objection, as the audiobook vs book argument.

We have live transcription and power search on the roadmap as this is a common objection. (audiobook vs. book argument)

Speech to text is pretty good these days, and it's 2023, we shouldn't be typing to talk in our opinion.

Search: "Play (or let me read) what Johnny told me about databases last month or so"

Me personally? I prefer sitting back and listening at 2x speed about complex topics so that I can look across the room and think instead of staring at my screen reading essays.
Saw the film with friends today, we thought it was a B (pretty meh, by the numbers plot and humour, a bit overlong, but I appreciated the namedrops of Icewind, Neverwinter, Underdark, Baldurs Gate). I wouldn't be surprised to see it spawn a franchise, given D&D's general rise in recent years.
I tried not to say "impossible". Yes, there are some small bits of national forest in the east (I've stayed in some recently in VA, for example), but they tend to be small and very much the exception.
> Given the rate of progress, shitshow management of basic alignment issues and the incentives that lead to those decisions - what’s your argument that this isn’t probable?

It would be nice if the argument I made about relative probability and relative temporal imminence was an argument about absolutes of either, but…it’s not, so I’m not going to defend those hypothetical arguments.
I wonder if Talkspace or the like training an AI on text therapy sessions violates HIPA or their T&C's?
Right. The flavors of Lamport clocks I stated in the article are used in CRDTs designs I studied.

While CRDTs are eventually consistent, I wouldn't dismiss them as such without qualification. They are causal-consistent when offline and sequential-consistent when online. (This duality is why CRDTs have been hard for me to wrap my head around them).
As someone now in a position to make such decisions on a larger scale, GCP isn't even on my radar for this reason. I've had enough experiences with Google's lack of support when needed that it would take years of turnaround to undo that black mark.

AWS and Amazon as a whole has always had stellar support. And they'll continue to receive my business in both as long as that holds true, even though we rarely use it.
That concern rings true even if you had UBI. The floor is higher, but you are still missing out on relative earnings bootstrapping something that isn't getting any more certain of succeeding.
I wouldn’t say selfish, just stuck in the past. The money they collect from selling official guidebooks pays for the maintenance of the trails
there are maybe 2 or 3 factories capable of producing these chips

and the sanctions mechanism already exists
I had a friend who this happened to with ducks. You would go to her house and there were little duck icons and duck figurines and duck themed things everywhere.

When questioned, it turns out she never cared about or liked ducks. Someone gave her one and then it became the go to present for her for every occasion, for decades.

Decades of ducks.
Really depends what the group wants out of it. My group has always been joking and riffing, both in game and out. Most groups of friends I've been a part of really like making each other laugh regularly, and that will carry naturally into gameplay and role playing.
Mostly that life is wondrous and infinite, and if you're miserable or angry there's probably something you can learn to help with it, and this probably also works on a species level too.

It can also give perspective. "Argh my coworker reformatted all my multiline list comprehensions" can become "what if reincarnation is real but it works in reverse with humanity somewhere near the bottom and bees somewhere near the top". Etc.
State land regulations tend to differ from the federal ones. They even vary forest-to-forest. I know that some state forests in PA allow dispersed camping, some do not. Makes it all very confusing.
The GR didn’t open last year… they’ve been around longer than the author :)
The AI Sarcasm Detection Protocol (ASDP) proposed in this RFC is a framework for detecting sarcasm in AI systems. The protocol consists of two main components: training data and a sarcasm detection algorithm.
It seems to work in the short term, for generic adventures, but it has no sense of place. What I mean is it doesn’t understand geography, or the layout of a city, or factions, or metaplot. It’s not creative in that way. If you ask it to create factions for a city it will do it, or a city with particular history and culture it will do that, but if you ask it to run a city adventure, it doesn’t know it needs to do those things first. So you’d need to hand hold it through generating a specific setting, and then you’d hit the token window limit.
More effective would be "don't eat beans so you don't fart" as methane is 25x more potent, no?
Must have been some incredible momentum, built in three years and lasting for a decade.
Happy I saw this comment, I hope this is indicative of the majority of those with some actual understanding of the subject, and the sensational stuff that gets attention is really just cult leaders and followers seeking attention.
Mv3 broke uBlock Lite for me (used uBlock to control js mostly).

But that wasn't a deal breaker because I got to discover NoScript (still stuck on mv2 but I like the approach vastly better than original uBlock's implementation).

Just waiting to see how this functionality will be handled in mv2 sunset since Noscript has no plans to migrate atm and uBlock lite should be "guttered" for the foreseeable future.
Well sure, but there still aren’t any other LLMs at the level of GPT3/3.5 let alone GPT-4. GPT3.5 just using the API returns fantastic results even without the ChatGPT interface (which isn’t terribly hard to replicate, and others have using the API).

There are dozens if not hundreds of companies that could’ve done something profound like ChatGPT if they had full access to GPT3/3.5. And honestly, OpenAI stumbled a lot with ChatGPT losing history access, showing other users’ history… but that doesn’t matter much as the underlying technology is so profound. I think this really is a case of the under-the-hood capability (GPT3/3.5/4) mattering more than productization and execution.

(Now I think there are not a ton of companies that could do what Microsoft is trying to do by expanding GPT4 to power office productivity… that is a separate thing and probably only about 3 companies could do that, at best: Microsoft, Apple, and Google… and theoretically Meta but their lack of follow through with making Metaverse useful makes me doubt it.)
That it is completely uncharted territory is exactly my point – which is why when people string together a series of predictions to build a narrative that happens to appeal to our most base instincts, e.g. fear, we should be highly skeptical.

Obviously there is a wide range of possibilities from the utopian, to the benign, to the apocalyptic.
Not sure, tiresome means those obvious jokes have such a long beard, so the humorous context doesn't help it is just not funny at all anymore.
But likely not at calculating that sum (which, nitpicking, isn’t “calculating the sum of 1M numbers”, but “calculating the sum of integers 1 through 1,000,000”), but at printing a constant.

It’s possible the C library you used is faster at converting this particular integer to a string (performance will vary between different ones, and not necessarily with one being always faster than the other) and writing it than rust’s one, but also possible that the C compiler did the string conversion at compile-time, too, and compiled a call to puts (if you printed a newline at the end of your string)