skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love it when advertisment companies who make money handcrafting the perfect ad for you, analysing your search history, talk about Privacy. Yes, this V3 manifest will break adblockers but think about your pRiVaCy gUys!!!
Which is the opportunity. It's unnecessarily complex: so solve that.
Are you being serious? SF is as much, or more, known for radical left wing politics than it is tech. They basically give homeless people free money, make it legally hard to clear camps, and don’t enforce laws of open, hard drug use and petty theft, leading to the obvious consequences. Basically they make it easy to be a drug addict on the street, and hard to be a police officer, and then wonder why crime and homelessness flourish.
I passed on a tech job in the Bay Area in the 90s in part because of cost of living. This was also a time when tech salaries in general were much lower than today. It would have been generally a quality of life downgrade to have moved west.
Fair point :)

We think the philosophy that flowy is built on is the only reason it will beat other standards that we have just lived with:
We live in a distracted world.
We used to shuffle paper, now we shuffle 20+ apps merely trying to say a few words to each other.

On the product side, we focus on how we can make this more like a natural human conversation. This results in reduced cognitive load and easier conversational flow.
Your question was the prompt, so it's like hating on a mirror. The model isn't goal-oriented or say anything than trying to predict the next token.
This is my problem with a lot of spiciness advertising around me (in America). When I order something advertised as "hot" or "very hot", 90% of the time it's either medium/mild at best, or just packed with spicy peppers to the point of just tasting bad.

But it can be hard to communicate to some people when their upper level of spice tolerance is banana peppers.
I see your point. But couldn't you use the same argument without AI? The internet already has multiple mutually-exclusive narratives, and all of them have people that take them as reality.

I would argue that kids that grow up in that context either pick a side and engage in the eternal narrative war, or become cynics and despair, thinking that there's no objective truth.

Adding more narratives, now generated by AI, doesn't (IMO) change the current playing field that much. My bet would be that kids will become even more cynical: "if a machine can make anything sound like truth, there probably isn't any objective truth"
Can't speak for op, but can speak as just an observer - probably not. Blockchains are ultimately CP systems, not AP. From that link - "Data can be inserted into the sequence by appending the data to the previous generated state. The state, input data, and count are all published. Appending the input causes all future output to change unpredictably."

Meaning there is a single source of truth. That single source is decentralized (because blockchain), but it still requires a quorum to agree to accept a bit of data, and to treat the new state as the valid state. I.e., multiple competing parallel writes must be serialized across a network of computers, which is always more expensive than if they multiple competing parallel writes can be done in parallel.

Lamport clocks and etc are AP. It fully expects nodes to make decisions autonomously, and to synchronize after the fact. And data can be lost without realizing it.

(The above is all a bit of a simplification, but fundamentally, they're solving different problems)
Leave No Trace: The Seven Principles
Ahh it's okay, appreciate it! This is all great feedback in either improving product or messaging.
It is hubris. Google thinks it can get away with anything, since they're the market leader. The reality is that a certain number of people will migrate to Firefox over AdBlockers not working well anymore, and will give FF a second life. And those are the people who helped get Chrome off the ground by installing on the computers of relatives and recommending to friends.
Maybe, but both shared useful points along the way. Elaboration IOW. All good.
coming from uk "really good food" means heating the beans and browning your toast without burning it :)
>The surprising roots of Japan's Indian curry

Vermont? https://www.reddit.com/r/vermont/comments/bejqjj/yeah_vermon...

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/why-is-japans-most-popul...
The author whose story inspired Netflix’s Maid on why welfare is broken
Tell me, are the dystopian fictions that represent socialism or communism as bad, just as reasonable?

Then following up with whatever your answer is: Why are you picking and choosing which fictions are reasonable?

Let's dispel the notion that artists and writers are more aware and in tune with humanity than other humans.
So I failed your comprehension test; explain then what your point was.
I'm just curious, is that really any better than using the website? I assume until money has changed hands and the shipment has been arranged, a person on the phone might provide an "optimistic" view of available inventory, in the same way their website does.
SpindlGPT
Yeah I agree that’s fair, a parlor trick is perhaps a little harsh.
ChatGTP can provide value - It’s arguable whether having done that ‘with classical’ methods could have been more efficient or whether the end result is as good - (btw careful with code - in my experience ChatGTP often thinks it knows what is wrong but is way off - something an experienced coder would notice immediately).
Do you remember the tamagotchi? That also provided value to millions of people, many people thought of it as sentient even - was it? No - was it anywhere near AGI? No. If we can find good uses for the GTP models that were not possible or cost prohibitive before - then great. I think we just need to be clear - like the Tamagotchi - this is far from AGI and plugins/hugging face is not penultimate step before skynet.
https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/societe/2023/03/28/sans-ces-... was from March 28, so I think it's unlikely.
That's not really a lot. Imagine a script that runs daily and processes demographic data, creating one output file per US zip code. That's over 40k files per run, so you'd hit 5 million files after just a few months.
Again, no water.

Educate us. How does it do those bad things? Where can we read about them?
AI May Change Everything but Probably Not Too Quickly
I think Krugman is missing something here, with both electrification and computers/IT many new devices and software and interfaces had to be created from scratch for people to be able to use them, and people had to learn how to use the interfaces. With AI the interface is already there, it is just text or clicks sent to and received from computers and the infrastructure for this already exists. AI is plug and play with computer interfaces already and it is just software, so it could change everything (everything that is already interfaced to computers) very fast. We're already seeing lots of people promoting new applications they wrote in just a few weeks or months. There are still problems with the LLM's like hallucination and accuracy (though people have some problems with these also), but if the LLM's get better fast, then the impact will be almost immediate. For "good enough" applications the apps are already happening. How do others view the ease or difficulty of interfacing LLM's to existing systems? Would you trust an LLM to spend money for you, to schedule events, to interface to your bank and investment accounts, to control your house, to represent you to the public? They obviously could quite easily, but what would you actually trust them with? Trust here seems like a greater limiting factor currently than the speed of deployment.
> Telugu Kari doesn’t mean curry in the sense that British people understand it.

As a native Telugu speaker, I use kura in the same sense as the English curry to refer to a diverse class of dishes.

> look up the history

Here's some history: Hyderabad was never colonized by the British. My grandparents who grew up in Hyderabad State and didn't speak any English used kura in the same sense that I do.

> Hyderabad in particular caters a lot to foreign nationals due to the proliferation of the tech sector there.

You don't have the faintest idea of what you're talking about. The Curry Points I mentioned are little hole-in-the-wall takeaway places that you see in every other street corner. They are almost exclusively patronised by Telugus. Forget foreigners, even migrants from other states usually find the spice levels too high.

> Anyway What curry dishes are they serving there? “Hyderabadi chicken curry”? What is it called natively?

I haven't heard of a distinctive Hyderabadi variant but they obviously serve chiken curry which in Telugu would be called kodi kura. Google Maps is your friend: https://www.google.com/maps/search/curry+point/@17.5057149,7...
Writing the files to your home hdd, even using the approved solution, is exflitration of data.
They need to start shipping the documentation on the actual hardware. Imagine its 1995 and you try and release a bash tool that has no built in man file or documentation of any sort short of some page on your personal website. Bash users would probably call you a script kiddie and yell to get off their lawn.
One thing that isn't clear to me (and didn't seem to be addressed in any of the charts) is the percentage of the life expectancy disparity that is explained by the "likelihood of dying before age 40" disparity. To me, this is the key statistic that the author is missing because the original article isn't really about causes - which are only tangentially mentioned.
I have been longing to play a DND game for many years but aside from CRPG experience I don't quite enjoy playing with a group.

ChatGPT solved the problem overnight and I'm happily playing a Ravenloft ADND 2e adventure "The Awakening" with it. It has been a couple of nights and I progress slowly, but the experience has been very good so far. I can bargain with it; I can ask it to drop in a companion from nowhere. It understands everything I said; It follows my set of DM rules; It keeps a journal for me. I'm very happy to pay 20 bucks about it although I think maybe 3.5 is good enough.
I can tweak Linux by adding little tools, sure, but it's very useable even if I don't.

And sure, to some extent Mac has a different paradigm, and if you are used to it it won't seem strange.

But on top of all of that, objectively, the mac UI is still incredibly limiting and frustrating in ways that no other DE is, even with being familiar with it.
In the theoretical limit how much improvement in efficiency could such engines provide?
Great point! Right on the dot!

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? When it comes to going back in a conversation, 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.
throw some big rocks or plenty smaller rocks, either way works, or both

and leave the sand people who live with ridiculous footprint, no cars, no shit
> destroys entire industries as a consequence of their decision to keep GPT4 closed source

Could you expand in that?
I've been a Crossover customer since their 2012 end of the world sale.
In the a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcWqMGju7fk on 10/11/2022 he claims "The Commander X16 has finally arrived!"

In the video, you can tell from the manual patches he clearly shows the board from on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu3QzMsKb9U on 8/14/2021

That's over a year earlier. Nothing new had happened, and he pretended this was a new board. An honest person who learned this might say it was deceptive, but he could get away without lying in court since, hey, it had finally arrived!

Also, the Mayflower finally Arrived in America!

He used this claim to get a huge boost in funding, and he blew all of that.

As I'm sure other's have mentioned, he went about all this in some terrible fashion (ignoring if the whole ideas is a mistake). I'm not an expert in PCBs but I have printed some. He could save a tremendous amount of time using Pick and Place on the SMT components for very little extra cash. And he's using through-hole resistors and capacitors which only makes sense if you absolutely refuse to pick and place. Even many of the through-hole could be placed using the right service and many of the SMT components are probably cheaper.

(And while we're at it, you can buy custom key-caps)

I only watch T8bG now to see what he does wrong. He's someone who thinks ancient version control for code is too modern. But it is sad to see him take other's money.
Indeed, but it's a problem in engineering society-wide, not just Google. The more I think of it actually, it's just a human problem. Even kids default to this. I wish Socratic Ignorance were taught widely and often in school.
One of the reasons there area couple of FPGAs in there is that some of the ICs that they really wanted to use aren't produced anymore. One of them is the FM synthesis IC that he talked about in this video. Quickly looking at Mouser and Digi-Key suggests that nobody manufactures FM synth ICs any more. Same with video display ICs. FPGAs are used to emulate these 1980s-era ICs, which seems reasonable since there's no reliable source for the Real Thing.
This is true, I did not use the platform as a user. I know it solves business problems and theyve built a big moat.

My commentary is on the company culture and focus on sales over quality. I just don’t think this is a company that knows how to organically innovate or integrate purchased innovation…and I think that makes them vulnerable to being overtaken by a competitor that solves the same business problems in a different way than they do now.

They’ll be around for decades. Just like many other formerly innovative companies hang around for a long time.
The only issue is that in the real world, capitalism has a better track record than socialism.
the whole stack is free software, the API just originated at Microsoft.
From an utilitarian point of view, AI only have to create less problems that humans.

When I see physicians like Lynn Webster prescribing insane doses of Oxycontin for any injury, ignoring the warnings of the people dealing with the disastrous results and finally making up excuses for the death of his patients, I am pretty sure a lot of families would have preferred to take their chance with IA.

But of course, a fully utilitarian society would probably be a nightmare.
Never forget the time he wore sneakers to the Ritz.
Not so long ago (a few years), Amazon retail was not using AWS either (I think they do, at least partially, now).
Oh lord, there's no such thing as a "self-made man" or "pulling oneself up by their bootstraps". It takes one or more rich investors or already having money, customers, employees, partners, vendors, and distributors taking chances on them. To deny this is to give oxygen to the mythologies of hyperindividualism is "good" and success is "achievable" in a vacuum of solitude. It's a lie that denies the credit to those who assisted in the amassing of wealth.

https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/pul...

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

https://ideas.time.com/2012/09/07/the-myth-of-bootstrapping/

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/29/alissa_quart_bootstra...
There’s an awful lot of judgement, engineering and technique that goes into a really well thought out product. It’s often deeply underestimated, and culture makes a huge difference in execution. Bing/Sydney came out after ChatGPT, based on exactly the same tech, but was hot garbage.
And Celluloid (ex GNOME MPV) is a pretty snazzy GNOME wrapper for it.
AI chatbots say a lot of shit. It's not newsworthy. Alpaca told me that George Washington was killed by Aaron Burr. Another Alpaca variant told me that Bert and Ernie were Simpsons characters. They're just fancy text autocompleters.
Not a limit as small as Google set, and not a limit added overnight without any previous announcement or grace period. If you want to limit storing data in names of blank files, you could say “blank files, files smaller than 1024 bytes, and folders are counted as 1024 bytes for quota purposes”. A minimum billable size seems fair to me, and there is prior art (e.g. AWS S3 has minimum sizes for some storage classes).
or I could keep doing what's worked fine for me for years in a consistent setup, of course.
Can you please edit out swipes and personal attacks from your comments here, and also please not fulminate on HN? You can make your substantive points without any of that, and that's what we're going for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the filament stays on and you switch what cathode is being used.

edit, I just read the wikipedia page on nixie tubes, there is no filament, despite looking like one it is not a thermionic vacuum tube. it is a cold cathode gas discharge lamp. so one anode with many switched cathodes.
> Thinking our meat brain's consciousness is somehow special, and our intelligence can't be surpassed by a machine, sounds much more like a religion to me.

Lucky I didn't say anything remotely like that, then.

> AI researchers are working towards making intelligent machines. Why are we supposed to believe that - if they manage to achieve their goal - these machines won't surpass our intelligence?

I didn't say that they couldn't. In fact in certain respects, GPT-4 has already surpassed average human intelligence. No human in the world could compete with its rate of correct answers to arbitrary questions, for example, or its speed in writing computer programs up to a certain size. Yet no-one is seriously concerned that GPT-4 will end the world. For that doomer scenario to come to pass, we need to add various fantasy elements (even calling it "scifi" perhaps gives it too much credit.) At this point, I'll refer you to this as a good intro for why the AI doomer cultists are misguided: https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
AI will slow down significantly when a court finds a company liable for what its AI said or did. Until then it's the wild west.
That’s not a good way to try and compete with anyone
> the one city that's supposed to be theirs

LOL. Since when?

SF existed in the 1850's. There was no such thing as a tech bro then.
or I could keep doing the thing that has worked in a consistent manner for me for years rather than gratuitously do something different, of course.
LLM self-play on 20 Questions
Absolutely. Back when I worked for a bank as a junior analyst, we were one of the first to jump on the Salesforce train. The software was garbage but Salesforce bought the handful of us many four figure dinners. I don’t really give a fuck how annoying the software is when I’m eating a $90 steak with a glass of $200 wine.
I don't disagree with you (always follow the money), but on the other hand, who better to understand the privacy concerns than the people who work around them for a living? I would definitely want to listen to them. That doesn't mean we just take what they say uncritically, but their perspective is very important.
Yes - I'm happy you found that. I don't think it's really related to this thread, but I maintain we're firmly in the "demo" phase, and it's going to fizzle out when the rubber hits the road and companies actually try and find a way to justify their investments. Not that I'd rule out there being some crappy customer service chatbots being fielded.

Goalposts (including mine surely) will get moved around to claim successes / no successes, but the balance is going to be well towards indifference to the tech as opposed to any real changes resulting from it.
The answer to the former is almost certainly yes.

The answer to the latter is unknown, given that we really have no idea what the sufficient conditions for consciousness are.

Edit: to be clear about my argument: I absolutely think we should be taking the risks of AI seriously, but those risks have to do with how humans will use the technology. Unfortunately, we're collectively bad at managing those kinds of risks, because it requires managing other humans with their own ideas and agendas.

That's exactly why claiming the risk comes from the technology itself seems so appealing to some people: if the risk is purely from the technology, then all we need to do is "shut it down", to quote Eliezer Luddkowsky writing in Time Magazine recently.
I'm not sure if I'm too tired or my ESL status is showing, but I can't make sense out of this.

His father owed money to a butcher, why did he need to have a "revenge" against someone who borrowed him money?
How did you train the AI on the adventure?
Bring back Gina Trapani.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Please delete 2M files to continue using your Google Drive account - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35395001 - March 2023 (109 comments)

5M item limit for Google Drive: File unable to generate or upload due to 403 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35329135 - March 2023 (133 comments)
Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life
Forgotten Realms is definitely its own universe with its own canon and everything, and apparently the movie is pretty faithful to it.
> Canada will ban Americans for life who've driven drunk in America but never drank a drop anywhere in Canada. If you try to sneak or lie your way in, they'll arrest you.

That's not a bad analogy, except many countries won't let you in if you have a felony on your record. That isn't that unusual.

Singapore is going to arrest people for breaking no rule in their home country, and not for breaking any rules within the country, but simply for showing up at the door because you smoked weed before the 21 hour flight?

I mean, you're right I won't go because I think it's a crappy country, but that doesn't mean I still can't disprove I want to work towards a world where no country has shitty laws like that..
I tried OneDrive for a while but it wouldn’t sync certain files due to characters in their names. The error message wouldn’t tell me which.

But much better than google which just silently fails.
I'd rather make a religion about limiting the influence we allow technology to have on our lives, and perhaps forbidding certain EULA terms, thus allowing many to sue for religious discrimination. Another tenet might be "viewing ads is a sin which cannot always be avoided, but whenever you notice an ad you must think of something better you could be doing", etc. On Sunday's we meet to hang out and play games.
> In an ideal world that's true, but a lot of really bright kids wind up becoming educationally restless, and fall into traps of not seeking higher education because of how slow it is.

in our real world, most of the people making cutting edge breakthroughs in math and science were gifted kids who got a great education through graduate school.
Do we have the capability for advanced socialism? Because I recall all the smartest economists circa 2021 saying inflation wasn't a thing, it's transient, it's only covid affected supply chains. In reality we are in an broad sticky inflation crisis not seen since the 70s, which may be turning into a regional banking crisis.

It's difficult to believe we have reached advanced socialism capabilities, and all of the forecasting that would require, when we don't even understand the basics of forecasting inflation 1-2 years out.
Don't know why everyone doesn't do that!