skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at how Bing's chatbot did a good job of simulating somebody becoming belligerent under circumstances where somebody really would become belligerent?

Current chatbots use RHLF to train them to be helpful and agreeable but it would be equally possible to train one to behave the other way.
That's the worst combination of things I've ever heard of. If you have python chops just use Streamlit or Django. If not then what's stopping you from using Markdown
There's potential for manipulation here by the government.

I would qualify your post with open source usage of the model, training algorithms and training data as well.
Are there any good resources for this?

I built a pretty beastly machine during the pandemic, but I’ve left it all stock because it feels pretty daunting.
Hah for GPT-3.5-Turbo I prompted:

write a function in JavaScript that turns a JavaScript array into JS DOM elements, like what Hiccup does in Clojure. No explain

It replied:

ation is necessary, just write the code.

function arrayToDOM(arr) {
(code follows)
> I know that humans have intentionality and agency.

You assume that. You can only maybe know that about yourself. But my question was bit different. How do you know that the ML model doesn't?

> about topics for which they have no prior information, by applying reasonable similarities.

This is a contradiction. If you have no prior information about a topic you can't know even what topic is similar.

> Even if someone never heard the phrase "walking a mile in someone elses shoes".

Same for ML modes. They don't have a representation of every possible prompt.
So nice, it worked.

Is there a version of this we can run on ESP32 (arduino) devices?
Spice models are not easy to find, in my experience. Given some random transistor on Digikey, I'd say the odds are less than 20% that I can find the corresponding spice model.
> they didn't process the application until they realized I was on HN

I have been on the other side of that. I hired guy I found on HN (one of the best guys I've ever worked with) and later discovered he had applied earlier through another source but I overlooked it (some sources for candidates can be an absolute fire hose).
> People forget that when they curb the freedom of their employers, they also curb their own freedoms at the same time.

Freedom to what, in this context?

> If businesses have to compete, they'll try to make things as nice as possible for the workers.

This is the "capitalism will solve it" argument which proved so untrue we passed the Civil Rights Act and the Equal Employment Act. It turns out that, no, even when it's economically obvious that catering to a minority population would be valuable, you can have 100% of a town refusing to do so because racism is more important to them than money. That creates entire regions of the country that are no-go zones if your skin color is wrong, and we decided that's not acceptable.

> There is no reason that by abandoning some law from the 50 years ago, the economy would fall back to the state of the 80ies.

I'm not concerned about what the economy would do; I'm concerned about whether it would be harder to keep a job free of daily torment if you're the wrong skin color than it is now. My mistake; the law in question isn't 50 years old, it's a 1970s law.

> I'm too lazy to look it up, but I keep hearing that in the old days, people could afford to buy houses and feed a family on a single salary.

If you can find some evidence that the passage of the ERA modified that, feel free to present it. But I'm pretty sure to explain why that changed, you're looking for Reagan-era deregulation (and the economic shift from a manufacturing economy, where unions were strong, to a service economy, where few unions existed).

> You have never heard an explanation because you have never looked for it or listened to one, not because none exist.

Interesting and unsupported hypothesis. But I don't expect you to bring me anything new because you've already declared you're "too lazy to look it up," so I think this conversation thread has ended.
> People are just sick of corporations causing havoc in our lives.

Corporations have brought most of us ridiculous amounts of prosperity.
I was stunned to learn that the average American reads at a 5th grade level. It's true though. I've been wondering why for a while, since it explains so much... Here's my best guess:

13 million children face daily hunger, and politicians fight to take away school lunches. Hungry kids don't learn too good.

Fear porn is blasted over every corporate media outlet constantly, to the point where it saturates culture. People who feel unsafe don't learn too good.

Schools are funded based on local taxes. Neither political 'team' seems determined to change this. Teachers often have to buy school supplies out of their own meagre pocket. Kids in schools that don't have money don't learn too good.

School boards refuse to integrate modern understanding of best practices - homework is useless, school starts too early, multi-modal learning works way better, spaced repetition works great, bullying isn't a fact of life to be accepted and ignored. Bullied, tired kids don't learn too good.

Publishing monopolies charge hundreds of dollars for textbooks, altering 1984 and children's stories to be "safer", and holding back anything that might upset their comfortable position.

Hundreds of years of the world's most sophisticated anti-intellectual propaganda has allowed America to be world leaders in producing people that think education is scary.

Blaming poor people for their own problems is a national sport.

These attitudes have been with America for hundreds of years, and no amount of fight from Mark Twain, or Thoreau, or Einstein, or Bernie has changed those fundamentals of American culture.

There's no political motive to change any of this. As George Carlin put it so well: "Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation." America are undisputed world leaders in this (except in America, where this is seen as socialist talk and therefore safe to ignore).

Media, corporations and government conspire to prevent any third party or group from changing the social situation - look at what happened to OWS, or MLK, or Fred Hampton.

Any progression toward helping people get safe and educated is labeled communism, and the DNC conspires with media to mess up anyone too "radical" that runs as a Democrat.

Nobody on TV talks about how many teachers we could have trained with the 20 trillion dollars spent bombing Middle Eastern families - it's a lot.

So, a lot is going on in America. I didn't even mention the drugs, the housing situation, the bank crises, the environmental poisoning, the disconnection from nature, the lack of exercise, the poor quality food or God knows how much else.

Some will say I must hate America to write this stuff - people who say things like this get accused of being Putin's puppets, or worse, socialists. But I love America, which is why I hate to see what is happening to it and refuse to pretend these problems will be solved without even acknowledging them.
I have lots of impressions, too. If I want them followed in a business deal I need to put them in the contract.
Yes, as consumers/citizens we can disagree with the decisions governments and businesses make and can "hold them to it" to whatever degree we're willing to go to.

But the OP's point was that it's wrong for a company to make a choice based on how it'll affect a small number of people just as it's wrong for a government to make a choice based on how it'll affect a small number of people.

That is (to me) a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between government and business. Government should be looking out for the least of us, but businesses aren't (and shouldn't be) held to that same standard.
The growing pains of database architecture
The problem is when engineers make presentations instead of writing documentation. The best presentations are when an engineer has written a long page of documentation and walks through it, interspersed with Alt+Tabs to demos of the documented stuff in action.

Too many dysfunctional teams have a culture where engineers make a 1 hour presentation at the end of a multi-week project, upload the ppt and recording somewhere and call it a wrap, without writing a word of searchable and version-controlled documentation.
Not working on firefox for Windows 10. Javascript error when I click "start conversation":

> Uncaught ReferenceError: can't access lexical declaration 'introAudioPlayed' before initialization

buttonClickHandler https://demo.callconnect.ai/static/js/main.js:273

onclick https://demo.callconnect.ai/:1

main.js:273:9

buttonClickHandler https://demo.callconnect.ai/static/js/main.js:273

onclick https://demo.callconnect.ai/:1
The lies make him a liar, not his political-spectrum position.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/tesla-shareholde...
Incredibly low unemployment doesn't necessarily mean all good news for all workers. You can cut or reduce unemployment benefits, and with the massive increase in CoL, energy and food in the last couple of years, people will desperate enough to accept any job or even several jobs in parallel, no matter how bad they are, and boom, you have almost no unemployment.

Sure, there isn't a shortage of jobs, but they also don't pay terribly great either considering the CoL increases.

So, IMHO, some unemployment is good. It means people have options and are not desperate enough to quickly jump to places with bad pay or poor working conditions, as those will always exit, even when the economy is doing good.
More likely the audible confirmation allows everyone to know you paid, and the shopkeeper doesnt have to keep his eyes on a device all day. Easier for everyone.
While I agree with the premise, there's the added "complication" that knowledge or experience as a Data Scientist/ML Engineer it's highly beneficial. Pure SWEs, in my experience, struggle a bit in anticipating how Data Scientists will shoot themselves in the feet. Having experienced it yourself before it's a big plus.
It's always a balance. There is no universally-correct amount (or types) of meta-work to make a team function optimally.

For some teams, especially very small ones (and most especially if they're all volunteers), adding significant amounts of bookkeeping to their tasks is likely to be much more trouble than it's worth. (Though, again, even for some solo developers, the bookkeeping can be very valuable—it's all about the specifics of the projects and the ways different people operate.)

For other teams, not having the extra bookkeeping will mean that the people struggle to keep their tasks straight, or get abused by their managers, or have a variety of other problems.

The most important thing is to be reflecting on your and your team's work and processes, and being open to changes that might improve them.
A friend of mine was backing in to an unfamiliar parking garage and was watching the screen and all of a sudden we hear a scrape. There was an air duct over hanging the car and we hit it. The camera didn't think to show the roof. Luckily for us we hit the duct before hitting the sprinkler. That would have been a disaster.
> Greed is human nature.

Part of, sure, but you have to be very careful using this as a foundation of some kind of larger edifice of reasoning, because some behaviors pretty contrary to greed are also human nature.
As discussed in other comments, illiteracy is not the primary driver of these devices. To some extent it is, but not a significant chunk. It’ll probably also make the device more expensive.
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Decompression of arbitrary gzip files can be parallelized with pragzip: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/pragzip
Day trading is not investing, it is gambling
Show HN: Real-world practice in 20+ languages by discussing tweets with AI
Hi, I'm Igor, developer who is originally from Ukraine. Now I need to integrate in the foreign country, so I made a service which helps me to practice languages in real-world conversations. I'm doing this by discussing tweets from my feed with AI.
How we solve user problems at Warp
a day where an AI determines if my health claim is covered, if I can get a job or not, or how much I should get paid, is not that far off in the future, and it scares the pants off of me. Im not worried about lazer shooting robots hunting humans down. What I worry about is just as bad
Ask HN: How will all these open source companies succeed?
As a casual observer of HN it feels like there's an uptick in open source projects that aim to become companies. This is obviously a customer acquisition strategy, but I'm struggling to think through the long-term implications of this pattern on the market as a whole. What does this mean for customers/users of the projects? What does it mean for the companies? Their employees?

I have a hunch that many of them will go out of business the moment they are asked (by their investors) to start thinking of how to generate revenue. At the same time, I recognize that I could have blindspots that prevent me from understanding something that will make them all work. Am I missing something?
It doesn't say in Wikipedia, what is the towel for?
Personally, I think corporations present a much larger danger on this count than governments.
A few years back I had the privilege of working for the New York City edition of the Red Bull Music Academy, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, a large portion of the lectures and general discussion focused on things related to vinyl.

One thing I remember standing out to me was a mention by a vinyl mastering engineer that he would manually roll up the bass level on the EQ over the length of the side as the record was cut. He explained that this was because on most record players the tonearm is more or less parallel to the groove at the start of the side and by the end of the side is less so, which decreases bass response, requiring more bass energy in the signal to compensate.
Except it doesn't scale that well to all of the different operations. How do you distinguish between a signed and an unsigned high multiply? What do you do for operations like count-trailing-zeros or popcount, which don't map to standard operator symbols? How do you distinguish between nontemporal loads, atomic loads, sign-extended byte-to-word loads, etc.?

There are a couple of different ways to understand assembly. Writing it with C-like infix expressions is a superior way to look at the code if you're trying to understand what it's doing on an algorithmic level (there's a reason we don't really hand-write assembly, after all!). But if you're working on assembly-level tooling, usually, you want very clear indications of what instruction you're working with, and "out_operands = opcode in_operands" or "opcode operands" are much, much clearer representations for such work. Most of the people who work with assembly care about the latter, and so the latter representation is more useful for them, and that's why we write assembly the way we do.
Thank you! I was looking on RECAP but couldn't find the case.
I liked this article however I did not learn gradient descent until college and the author is just bragging
Thanks for mansplaining!
This exact kind of fraud, is just what AI should be good for.

I made 10K fake users for testing the app I'm developing now. I used thispersondoesnotexist.com, and about a half hour's worth of PHP programming, to make an open-ended user generator.

I only need 10K users, and it takes about an hour or so to generate them, but I'm sure that this type of thing could be easily scaled.

"Hey, ChatGPT, can you give me the SQL for five million users, with the schema published here?"
Goldman Sachs Predicts 300M Jobs Will Be Lost or Degraded by AI
>Note, this security incident specifically concerns eFile.com and not identical sounding domains or IRS' e-file infrastructure.

What exactly does the author think "IRS-authorized" means?
They actually did that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Discrete_4
> get their, say, fridge or washer online

Yeah, no thanks.
Not really sure what to make of this comment. You start by admitting you're not really sure if China has been threatening Taiwan, but then conclude that the US is probably at fault for it anyway.

Also not sure what "rounding up the gang and preparing to give China a lesson" means here.
> began to question the authenticity of the startup's purported 4 million users after an email marketing campaign ended in "disaster," according to the bank's lawsuit and a filing by prosecutors. Out of 400,000 emails sent to Frank users, more than 70% bounced back and only 103 were opened, the bank claimed.

This seems entirely inevitable since the emails were largely not actual customers…

Very strange.
We don’t know where either of these technologies will be in 20 years time. You seem convinced that unknown biotech advancements won’t be that dangerous but unknown AI advancements could be, but there’s no reason to believe that someone who thinks unknown biotech advancements are more dangerous is wrong.

In fact, we actually have examples of a new species being able to completely devastate other species, but self-replicating technology that requires human infrastructure becoming self-sufficient is still a dream. Neither do we have any example of hyper intelligence being able to completely dominate lower forms of intelligence. A lone human without societal support might be able to leverage some of its intelligence against a great white shark, but it’s going to have limited success. An immobilized person is going to have no success. It certainly wouldn’t lead to the extinction of great white sharks as a whole.

AI doomsday/alignment/etc. folk seem to start with the conclusion that AI tech is inherently more dangerous than other tech, and then work their way backwards from there. But there’s little evidence that this is true. So far, the most dangerous tech has come from nuclear physics.
Hi HN - I'm the founder at Warp.dev and wrote up this guide (mostly for internal use) on our product process at Warp. Would love any community thoughts and feedback.

Thank you!
And how would blockchain mitigate this?
Nuclear reactors typically take about 100 months to build--and that's just the construction phase, not the pre-construction design and permitting--so no, they won't help in the next 5 - 10 years.

1. https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/nuclear-construction-ti...
Fixing that would require a fundamental change in academic incentives. But if you fixed that, it wouldn't be academia anymore. After all, how else do you judge their output? Tangible results that solve a problem for non-researchers? That's what companies pay researchers for. To a large extent academia justifies its own existence by the incentives it gives to researchers.
Not sure this would work with every camera. My particular model does not support remote shooting over USB. Newer models of the same camera do and Sony even provides software to go the USB route.
It is my idea. I'm a nerd for collective ownership and democratic management of going concerns so it seemed like a natural leap. Maybe I ought to write something about it.
That scale on the map seems off to me, a non expert. It’s in the ionosphere but still I can’t believe it actually spanned the width of Italy…
For sure. And in this case he has particular reason to ask for the case to be dismissed/tossed with extreme prejudice. The damages sought in particular seem extremely "ambitious" (ie it feels to me like a total shakedown).
I would suggest you to read Clean Code by Robert C. Martin. There's a whole chapter about comments in the book.
To the contrary, the parent post you respnded was talking about what options middle class families have to make it to the upper class. This is a seperate question than what option middle class familes have to get to an Andreesen BBQ.

Maybe it is just a confusion over the definition of "multi generational wealth".

Many if not most people consider getting a house, inheretence, or small business "multi generational wealth", especially in economic literature.

You dont need an 8+ figure inheretence to be upper class in the US.
> Adding an embedded LLM as a human interface for every appliance is a huge win— for consumers at least.

So, appliances get even harder to understand settings, that are actually illogical, instead of just having hidden logic? That's not a clear win.
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>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?

In this hyper-efficient future, is being paid for this stuff going to be viable? Why would anyone allocate money to your inefficient endeavors? There's this strange blindspot in people who think that more economic efficiency means you'll have time to do intrinsically inefficient labor. Who is going to feed and house you when your labor is irrelevant to the workings of the economy? UBI is a nice dream, but how do we get there from the current ruthless efficiently allocating system?
I think this is a case where blocking first might be a better option than anything being unfiltered. better to get a call as to why they can't access fastmoney.ru then to have someone install a plugin in order to pay this western union bill... (real call dealt with at work)
Most of the old discourse around the video turned into debates about OOP vs functional programming, but I feel like those debates alway make a mistake conflating "using classes" with OOP.

Sure, classes can be used to build 'objects' in an OOP paradigm that have lots of methods and attributes that store state and all that.

But if you instead think of classes as a simple way of extending the type system (e.g., the aforementioned dataclasses), defining classes can fit in really nicely with a functional programming paradigm by cleaning up function signatures. However, the benefits of this wouldn't have been visible in python 10 years ago because there was little/no typing.
Some fans in the Python community. https://pylonsproject.org/
> There isn’t a Mac emulator, when you run in the simulator on x86 based Macs, it compiled the code to x86 and links against native libraries.

I don't know how it works, is that the reason it's so slow?

> If you’re not testing on a wide variety of devices for Android or OS’s, how complex is this app?

around 30k lines of code I'd say, I only had minor problems due to screen sizes but that's pretty much the same everywhere.
> Theyre cheaper after you consider storage too.

What's the price of the Ukraine war?
I assume this data export includes much more than just the book data (which I just discovered you can get immediately as CVS via https://www.goodreads.com/review/import) which might be part of a compliance requirement.
Cool stuff. I recently created a similar tool that automatically fixes errors in source code: https://github.com/mherrmann/fix
They are stopping only just short of saying that myopism is The One True Faith.

(They literally call out "Longtermism" as being elitist and the root of all evil.)

I mean, sure, one should look at one's feet from time to time to make sure one doesn't trip. However, these people come across as exclusively myopic and uncompromising in their position at that.