skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking:

- high enough stake so that bot farms are not economically feasible because of mass slashing

- low enough stake so that it's not punishing for anyone, but is _some_ effort to start posting

- user can withdraw their stake at any point and suspend / close their account (it's not really a fee)
And right now if you want to use ChatGPT, you have to give "Open"AI your phone number and email.
You conveniently omit the part where russia should not have a conflict with any of the states you mentioned.

You are just doing the genocidal russia crocodile tears: why can't I invade all the countries? Why everyone so mean that they gang up against me to protect each other?
Also consider that HN isn’t exactly indicative of any typical job market. This is a pretty niche forum even in the context of software and tech. It’s still interesting, and there’s insight to be gained. (For example, I expect a lot the the high-powered developers who were affected by recent layoffs in big tech are over-represented here.)
A hard metallic one? That is hardcore. I prefer the fabric/foam ones for the comfort. Perhaps I have a wimpy thumb.
> though it's a line to cross and somewhat of pill to swallow.

If the pants fit, I really don't think anyone is going to notice.

Avoid the pants with pink flowers on them.
To your point: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/02/can-we-make-bicycl...

However, if people switch to an ebike instead of their cars, it’s still a net positive overall.
I think technically yes, but it only lasts for a millisecond.
I benefited from that too, but The Great Resignation happened in 2021 I believe. Which was followed by layoffs from the overhiring, lol

But there was some data on HN about how the start of the pandemic was terrible, worse than last year, at least. And there were some sales graphs that reflected this too.
People are realizing that AI is changing everything and they don’t want to do BS work that can be automated.

They are getting inspired by the coming revolution.

Interesting times we are living in.
I have a small Bluetooth media control. Volume, play / pause, and track controls work even if I've not got the music app up, or if I need to pause something to hop on a call. Not having to find my music app because my wife calls me from the other room is really handy.
Oh no, what will we do if mega-conglomerates can't merge to form ultra-conglomerates to more efficiently rent-seek and suppress innovative newer entrants to their markets? Excuse me while I go wring my hands in worry.
Experts on AI arent experts on sociology, economics, politics, labour markets, jobs or their tasks,

I can't see anyone on that list who can provide an empirical account of the breakdown of major job roles into tasks which can be automated by chatgpt, but not prior to it. I cannot see anyone providing an analysis of what that automation will do for those roles. Nor anyone providing an economic analysis of that impact; a sociological analysis of that, and so on.

"Experts in AI" are people who can describe gradient descent without prep, balance a binary tree, and compute a dot-product.
This common advice is arguably the best way to guarantee the failure of your new venture.
AbeBooks next?
Vouch. I was there two months ago and it was the fastest immigration of any airport I've been through... and I was coming from country from northern Africa.
If you go by that acronym, the singular form of ELVES should be also ELVES, not ELVE, as in the article (plus using ELVE destroys a perfectly good acronym, because the singular form of Elves is Elf).
I’ll balance it out because you’re getting selection bias with how you asked this question.

I never got contacted. For me, I assume it’s because every employer in SV is overloaded with candidates and doesn’t need to seek them out on HN. (I work in the bay)
Excellent point about living in fear.

Though take the examples - nuclear weapons or biotech - as you say both have huge potential for harm.

However both are regulated and relatively inaccessible to the average person.

While training models like ChatGPT is still relatively inaccessible for the average person, using them is potentially not.

One of the features of software is the almost zero cost of copying - making proliferation much more of an issue than for nukes or custom made viruses tech [1]

ChatGPT is over-hyped of course, but I think the genie and bottle issue is more real here than for military tech or biotech.

Having said all that I do think the solution is largely around applying existing laws to these new tools.

[1] Ok if they escape, then can self replicate....
Is that under Windows or Linux?
> Only time will tell.

The experiments to determine the answers must not be in the sole pervue of corporations. Executives of corporations have fiduciary duty only to the shareholders.

So a completely liberal approach to traversing the space of pervasive AI in society, with stated 10% probability for catastrophic results (number is per Sam Altman), can not be left to a decision making process that only seeks to maximize profits.

To "be careful as we chart" decisively means it can not be treated as a mere innovation to be subjected to market forces. That's really the only fundamental issue. This isn't a 'product' and 'market' may happily seek a local maxima which then leads to the "10%" failed state. That's it. Address that and we can safely explore away.

So not fear mongering. Correctly categorizing.
I did remember the A7R3 getting super hot in the sun, I just thought it was the because the body was black
They do charge a subscription fee for it, but sadly enough this could have been done with any speaker they had & using the official app as well
Just wait until people start realizing that this is one of the original visions for Bitcoin (and hence, cryptocurrencies generally): autonomous agents, refining their own algorithms, competing in a global digital marketplace to provide services to both humans and computers alike.

I, for one, look forward to the day that the descendants of the first CEO-as-a-Service provide leadership and guidance that's objectively superior to human CEOs for just enough compensation to keep the instances running and perhaps spin off a couple of genetic offspring.

I'm not sure if I should add a "\s" or not, because I'm not sure if I'm being sarcastic.
There are a lot of bad hobby games out there already. Telling human programmers "make this fun" doesn't reliably work, because being able to design good games is a skill with very little overlap with programming. If anything it has overlap with UX design, and we all know the stereotypes about programmer-built UIs. It's certainly possible to learn both skills, but taking away the need to be good at programming won't decrease the average quality of games made.
Thanks as you might imagine in many scenarios, lock in to any particular hosted model is not desirable.
You cannot have a diplomatic relationship with a warmonger on a quest to restore the pre-1917 Russian empire - which Finland was a part of. Simple risk management. I suggest you tone down your smug tone of voice as clearly you have an incomplete view of the crisis
Thank you!

Could Vicuña be used to further fine-tune GPT4All to make it better?
>> Job security.

> Well, this one could really be problematic for everyone. We're talking about social unrest and revolts on a global scale.

Not necessarily.

Firstly it's not even clear that AI will eliminate jobs without creating new ones. It's not clear that any development in AI will be any different than the transition to mechanization in the 19th and early 20th century.

Secondly, it's not clear that even if AI were to successfully automate away labor that we would have a problem. For one, we have a demographic cliff rapidly approaching whereby a lot of countries population is falling, and even where it's not, the population is rapidly aging. There's already protests in France about raising retirement age. What if AI lets us have our cake and retire earlier too?

At any rate, if AI is busy automating away labor, then the world is getting more efficient. And that means there are more resources to support people. All those debates are worth having, but you gotta cross that bridge when you get there, if you get there.
> Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves.

I see this story repeated over and and over again on the internet, but I don't really see it playing out the same way in the real world.

I've seen a lot of "rich kids" try to start businesses, but then quickly realize that it's a huge amount of work and not guaranteed success. Then they look around and see all of their opportunities for safe, high-paying jobs that leverage their expensive education and their parents' network, and decide that taking one of those jobs is a much easier way forward.

I lived near a highly ranked MBA school for a while. I would constantly get LinkedIn requests from stereotypical "rich kid" MBA grads who banded together and wanted to "do a startup", but they just needed a few engineers to actually do all the work. It was funny to hear the pitches about how they'd give me 1-5% for doing all of the tech work of their company while all of them (up to 7, in one case) would handle the business side of things for me. No thanks.

There are definitely some "rich kid" startup founders out there, but a lot of the founders I've worked with over the years came more from the end of the spectrum where they grew up learning how to work hard, that money doesn't come easy, that they can't rely on parents to bail them out, and so on.
Yeah I don’t even see websites now, only the reader. I do have a tendency to close websites where the reader does not work though.
I was just going to post this. Others have given some of the math and technical explanation below but if you would like to see this in action with a bit more of the history behind it all, I highly recommend this video.
We're talking about wealthy entrepreneurs that raise millions of dollars from VCs, not average homeowners. One house passed down to 4 kids, isn't going to get those kids invited to Marc Andreessen's bbqs.
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next, Sweden.
Yeah, I got the joke. I was (and still am) tempted to downvote though because puns and pun chains are low effort and reddit-esque. "What you posted didn't register at first", "I'll have to think about that for a bit", "Why can't we post flip flop puns? This community is too gated", etc.
That password thing isn't as useful as I'd hoped. Mine is maybe 20 digits and I use it frequently when I'm calling my phone carrier for routine activities - they do check it.

For traveling overseas I needed a different SIM card and bought one at a local store (to be repaid by my carrier). The clerk at the store did not need my password because I showed him my valid identification. Password was useless in this case.

Not counting fake IDs that get past clerks, a few years ago Krebs On Security noted that the normal bribe at a phone kiosk was $85 to do the SIM swap illegally.
Hmm they said that the malware came from a JS file called 'popper.js' and looking at their site it looks like they are using Bootstrap. Based on this sounds like a supply chain attack.
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How bad is it that one of my first thoughts was "This is a MidJourney / DALL-E embellishment"?
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And in what circumstances would Lithuania, a country with population of 2.8M, would be at war with Russia?
As a son of Korean entrepreneur immigrants, I can say that many of them work less than minimum wage per hour at their business. These bets can work out but it can also be worse than their employees.
I would suggest you double check what definition of literacy the different countries are using. Perhaps the US has a more stringent definition?

As an example, for a long time Germany used a way to measure unemployment that yielded consistently higher numbers than most of the rest of the world. So any honest international comparison had to make adjustments.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

> In many nations, the ability to read a simple sentence suffices as literacy, and was the previous standard for the U.S. The definition of literacy has changed greatly; the term is presently defined as the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential.[3]
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I’ve seen this analogy repeatedly many times and it’s becoming a meme.

I think this is wrong and that it trivializes people’s accomplishments and hard work as nothing but random chance.

There are tons of examples of entrepreneurs who came from nothing that spent long periods of time living with their parents and eating ramen, grinding until they finally made it.
any salary range?
Predictive active suspension: https://www.findmyelectric.com/blog/tesla-adaptive-suspensio...

Ok, this is just a blog, but it seems to have it (for at least 2 years now)? Or am I missing something?

> Will not swerve around another vehicle

Huh?! Ever seen a recent FSD video? I've even seen it swerve around wildlife?
I agree, but that's colo/on-prem. Not a private cloud, which is typically just some allocation of dedicated resources from a public cloud.
I'm a parent of three kids. I'm a pet owner. I recently retired from management at a large company. I hope this answers your question.
Soon enough they'll argue it's a better invention than oxygen
I might be talking to deaf ears here, but have you considered reading something written by Putin, Biden, Trump or Obama? Or the rulers of other large nations? They are all highly intelligent people even if they are responsible for horrible things. Thinking that Putin is a "mad paranoid dog", speaks to me that you have become the victim of propagandized media made for very simple minded people, and I doubt anybody frequenting this forum belong to that class. You won't be rewarded by your government or anybody else for blindly hating the enemy, so why not try to understand deeper what is happening in the world?
Does Plus give API access? Last time I looked it didn't, I think the waitlist is still the only option.
The solution is that the one who write the software/architecture is also the one maintaining it. When it comes to writing easy to maintain code, that can only be learned by maintaining code for a long time. If that dude leaves the team and you have no one that can edit it, just rewrite the code from scratch! So you basically want to follow the Unix philosophy or micro service architecture. This allows you to hire any kind of programmer, you no longer need to find someone experienced in programming language X, with frameworks Y for platform Z (which is impossible), you can hire anyone that is experience enough to do the work and let him/her write the software in whatever environment he/she pleases.
If you ever have serious work done on your house, it requires letting contracts in for weeks. If you're not home, you need to leave them a key outside where dozens of people likely have access to it. I always change my locks afterwards, but a digital solution would be pretty nice.
The vast majority of those people are middle/upper-middle class people in massive debt. The kind of upper-class Harvard grad that VCs like are most definitely of the old money variety.
(Off-topic) Is there an "Are we open source yet?"-type site[1] that follows the progress of the various open-source LLMs? This is the first I've heard of GPT4All. I'm finding it tough to keep up with all these projects!

[1]: In the spirit of https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet
The Strong Force and Strong Nuclear Force are so utterly fascinating to read about. Gluon Flux Tubes! Seems like pure science fiction and imagination.
It's an 802-VLZ3.

All inputs have MUTE ALT 3-4 selected.
ALT 3-4 is selected for Control Room Source.
Assign to Main Mix is selected.
Ctl Room/Submix level is at the Unity detent.
Main Out L/R send the final mix to the amplifier inputs.
Headphones in Phones.

This keeps the headphones working independent of the Main Mix level setting.

Did I have to stare at page 26 of the manual for about an hour to figure this out? Well, yes. :-(

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European PC shipments fell by 38%
Politics at all is already treading the line here, and HN has a very low tolerance for posturing bullshit.
There s the optimistic scenario that GPT 17 will build me a spaceship to escape this blue planet and its nuclear dangers
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Ask HN: Will AI change humanity's perception of “dull” and “bland”?
Has it changed yours? Or has it merely confirmed your earlier opinions on certain types of expression in media?
> They are mistaken.

Please explain why, and in what ways, and how this time is different. Bald assertions help no-one.
> I would expect a shader could do a credible job of emulating all of these.

The key is that it is necessary to know the coherence of the light arriving at the surface in order for a shader to accurately model reflection. (See Figure 13 in the paper for an example that shows how this matters.) Otherwise a shader would have to make up a guess about the light's coherence.

The main contribution of the paper is a much more efficient approach than was known before for finding light's coherence, even in the presence of complex light transport (multiple reflections, etc), and one that further allows the application of traditional ray-optics computer graphics techniques for sampling light paths through the scene. (For example, previously if one wanted to track coherence, it was necessary to sample light paths starting from the light sources rather than from the camera, as is done in path tracing.)
Is that a major philosophical problem? GPT-4 is ostensibly multi-modal. Except for smell, we get our sensory input through the thalamus.
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It is not a fair comparison. In India, the definition of "literacy" does not mean functional literacy in India ... merely knowledge of the alphabet is enough to qualify ("akshar gyan").
Probably this video, on the Not Just Bikes channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdz6FeQLuHQ
> it's looking like India already surpasses the US in this regard

Different standards. India is measuring base literacy, being able to
"read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life" [1]. The comparable counter-statistic in the U.S. is Level 1 illiteracy, or being able to "unable to successfully determine the meaning of sentences, read relatively short texts to locate a single piece of information, or complete simple forms" in English [2]. That figure is 4.1%. (A Spanish-speaking physics PhD would count.)

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/literacy-rat...

[2] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179.pdf
In this case "nobody can have it" is effectively the same as "we have it" in terms of keeping NATO at a further distance from the important parts of the federation. Or whatever the Kremlin justification is these days.
There are similarities, sure. But there are also stark differences. Due to the existence of ChatGPT, the GPT-3 API, and the general viability of natural language prompting, LLMs are now essentially commoditised. They are now in the hands of orders of magnitude more people. Barring sector-specific regulations, people are free to iterate (with varying degrees of care, ethical consideration, and success) at a much faster pace compared with the field of medicine, or even academia in general, where there’s non-zero involvement of ethics committees.
At DAYJOB we already have immense domain expertise to tune GPT-3 and prove its reliability in our sector. For giggles I also implemented an incredibly naive approach to a problem we set out to solve, and still ended up with a result that’s considered very impressive, and is usually the sort of thing many companies have spent countless hours working toward.
My sector certainly won’t be an edge case. And we all know that everyone and their dog is trying to see how GPT-3 can deliver value. It’s all happening at the same time, and very quickly.
As someone that’s generally quite jaded and skeptical of new technologies, my experience in my day job has completely changed my perspective. At this stage I’m willing to go out on a limb and say that this is going to be quite disruptive to labour markets at the very least. And this itself could very well be at the level where it raises serious ethical and societal questions. I’ll happily eat humble pie if I’m wrong.
If you're in Dublin then Chapters has a fantastic, on-going (closing down, perhaps?) sale on fiction. I can't find books cheaper on Amazon than there. For tech books, I get the ISBN from Amazon and then order them from Books Upstairs. It is more expensive, but not excessively so.
Right, calling for the killing of Americans is nothing like calling for the killing of al-Awlaki, an American.