skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. As I’m sure you know, it’s easier for people to reason when the arena presents only discrete possibilities, especially binary ones, eg yes/no or black/white.

The arena of the continuous, which encompasses most of the natural world, is far more difficult. It doesn’t allow for the sort of arguments where one can assert things with ego-boosting absolute confidence.

Matters of scale naturally fall into the continuous sort, but scale can also introduce new discrete possibilities. Perhaps we need to present the new specific, discrete effects and outcomes that AI-at-scale will introduce. Maybe, just maybe, that’ll change minds of people who are truly open to being changed.

My intuition though is that this argument is repeated here (on HN in particular) not for lack of knowledge or thought, but rather because they WANT to see the chaos that’ll result. They want all the positives and negatives, no matter the balance, simply because it’s exciting and adds to their “mundane” lives. Where the mundanity is of course subjective, simply the result of their default worldview, rather than anything nearing an objective description of the world as it is.
The more I talk to people in my life (friends, family, mentors, teachers, etc) the more this story seems to repeat itself. People who have a somewhat uncommon issue, and are forced to go from doctor to doctor until one finally recognizes the problem and knows what to do.

I think that we have a couple problems. One is that we just don't have enough doctors to give thorough care to each person. They're under too much time crunch to really investigate. The second is that the human body is hopelessly complex and I'm not sure humans will ever be able to be good at diagnosing problems with it effectively.

Until we develop real gAI and much better imaging techniques, I'm not sure we will ever solve this problem in a satisfactory way.
> because they hallucinate facts that aren't there and often misunderstand the context of facts.

forgive my ignorance, but are the hallucinations always wrong to the same degree? Could an LLM be prompted with a question and then hallucinate a probable answer or is it just so far out in the weeds as to be worthless?

I'm imagining an investigator with reams and reams of information about a murder case and suspect. Then, prompting an LLM trained on all the case data and social media history and anything else available about their main suspect, "where did so-and-so hide the body?". Would the response, being what's most probable based on the data, be completely worthless or would it be worth the investigator's time to check it out? Would the investigator have any idea if the response is worthless or not?
As long as we're swapping anecdotes, I spent a day cutting MDF for a project and came home just covered in fine brown dust. The place we rented before we moved had an LG HE front-loader.

My blue pants remained brown from the dust for a couple of cycles. My carpenter neighbor has had the same experience with HE machines and has gone to a Speed Queen top-loader. He finds it much more satisfactory as well.
There were 4,746 FDIC insured banks as of the end of Q3 2022, and 5,099 NCUA insured credit unions as of the end of 2020. If each of those institutions does net settlement with 200 other institutions daily, you've got roughly 1 million settlements a day (each settlement has two parties, so 100 * 10,000). Earlier in the thread, someone said BTC can do 3-7 transactions a second, which doesn't quite make it to 1 million transactions per day.

Of course, I just made a wild guess about how many net settlements between banks would happen; maybe banks don't settle up from check clearing daily, but in a world where transactions are difficult to reverse and nobody trusts anyone, you'd want to settle up regularly.
Not really, most were in SV.
The "fun" thing about the tech in the current state is that it's wrong quite a bit,

Indeed. And, as every other AI project has shown us, the rough areas are easy, the last few percent are incredibly difficult.

Look at self driving cars. It will easily be 2050 before we can even hope to have good, driving AI. Current versions are a joke, and, are being trialed in places like California.

Not on snow, dirt roads, while snowing, on rural roads, on unmapped roads, of which there are plenty.

2050 at least.

Chatgpt will be vastly improved in maybe 30 years. The last little bit will take decades.
> The city of Paris is doing the right thing here

Note that your source is very outdated. Paris just opted to ban electric rental scooters effective September.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/parisians-vote-ban-e-sc...
But the statistics they learn is exactly what they use to deal with noise.
Well, your state is waging a genocidal war of aggression against European state and is losing. It's not supposed to be comfortable.

Although I feel you. I don't think (most) Russian citizens should bear personal responsibility for the invasion, same way US citizens were never held responsible for Middle East.
It seems that the skyrocketing rents that pushed people out on to the streets are biting back.
You have written a lot of responses about why am I a little wrong on every my sentence but I don't see any powerful point. What is the most important feature of post-2012 CPU and except of energy consuming?
Not that I know of.

I’d guess probably came across it randomly and liked the word. Seems like it comes up in crosswords https://crosswordtracker.com/clue/hornswoggle/

Also funnily not related is a WWE stage wrestler name who had a YouTube video done in them a year ago. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornswoggle.
Personally, I think my reaction to seeing extremely violent crime would be to run away and try not to get involved. I'm not going to watch the video, but that was my first thought.

When bleeding homeless people have come up to me in SF (not uncommon) I usually just try to move on. I assume a similar reaction here, though I don't know if I'd have been able to tell this was a Normal Person who was dying.
> antibiotics can cure the common cold

Antibiotics are not pure placebo. They are also given to make sure there isn't a bacteria ready to take advantage of the weakened immune system. The regular treatment for COVID also included antibiotics, for the reason I mentioned.
Jikes. Why is the hdd read so bad? 6 MB/s. Six?
That's not entirely true. You may not live in SF but only work in SF. In this situation you have no say in SF government because your voting rights are based on where you stay and not where you work. Maybe there needs to be a way to better distribute your vote? If you're in a place for about 1/2 your waking hours of the week, maybe you should get a say in the government of that place?

Edit: This is a situation with most metro areas. Definitely with Chicago where there is a large contingent of folks who commute from the suburbs.
this mastodon instance is not a fan of HN's HOD
Serious question, but why would SF have more of a mental health and addiction problem than other cities? The climate would be nicer in, say, LA or the Carolinas so it's not weather-related.
> Are you willing to take that risk?

The financial risk is small, can often be less than the cost of paying the salary over those 2 weeks. The risk the person is going to lawyer up is also fairly small, but at that point you just settle, you've probably lost the gamble at that point. If let it go to court, you're definitely going to lose on a financial perspective.

Either way, it's not a hill I'd die upon, my policy has always been to pay it out because it's just the right way of acting from an ethics perspective. I think the link you posted makes sense in our current world, but it's also using CA as an example and my gut tells me where I live is not as progressive; along with ~half or more of the US.
> I think the tricky part with innovation, is almost everything innovative looks like a bad idea to almost everyone.

No. No. The steam engine, modern refrigeration and open heart surgery all probably had some naysayers but I don't think they looked like bad ideas to almost everyone. A lot of what qualifies as innovative from your tech community really just might be crap.

From the beginning the complaint with crypto and blockchain is that it didn't fix any problems other than maybe assisting as a tool in laundering/illegal transactions, and it wastes energy to boot. I don't see how the naysayers were wrong.

The metaverse idea didn't even get to the point of hyping a purpose. Nobody even bothered to explain what useful human need or want it fulfilled (beyond what has already been fulfilled for years in gaming).

> But comparing to current state of AI, is sort of comparing to a different stage, where there is the beginning of an early majority

Early majority? That is a bold affirmation.

I think these large language models are pretty neat. I also lived through the first AI winters. I would say the hype at this moment isn't even as great as it was then (especially in the 80s). It is a bit tough to explain for those that weren't there - but numerous knowledgable and intelligent people were convinced that the AI singularity was just moments away.
> register (do that with cars and schools)

I would think computer register comes from the noun, not the verb — think cash register, not to register a car.
Plenty of content derives its value from perceived authenticity.

Content that is made by humans that is fictitious/constructed is perceived differently from content that is considered "real" - tweets from an American pretending to be in Ukraine would be perceived differently from tweets from someone actually in the warzone. A novel written by someone reflecting such an experience can also affect how we relate to it.

There will certainly be some content where people won't care if it's AI generated or not (certain kinds of fiction, technical writing (provided the reliability issues are resolved), etc) - but a lot of content (fictional and non-fictional) derives it's value from reflecting in some way things that actually happened to actual people. Of course AI could still very much play a part in putting that content to paper, so to speak.
What happens when the bigger family vehicle inevitably crashes into people on their scooters? Just trading one problem for another.
> The first, and most obvious, reason is that getting your phone and (all) your appliances on the same network is non-trivial.

What other networks do homes have? Every WiFi ISP router I have used provides a single network and DHCP server. Perhaps some routers provide both a public and private WiFi and the consumer doesn't understand which one they should pick but that is the fault of the ISP.

> Sometimes the washing machine is in the basement and can't connect to your WiFi. Or maybe you're simply outside your house in your car and can't connect to your local network. The cloud approach solves this.

How does the cloud fix poor/no WiFi signals? This is pure ignorance. Perhaps you are confusing cloud with "stick a SIM in everything" 5g marketing which isn't really a thing yet. I stopped reading the rest of your post at that point.
> traditions the nation was founded on

Remind me which of those they were, considering much of the founding fathers directly based much of the nation on the French system of government and after Enlightenment ideals, which famously rejected the role of God in Government
Please don't conflate historical injustices humans perpetrated against each other with protecting the human race from extinction from an artificial non-human entity. AI is not a member of the human race and not a type of entity that humanity has any hope of being able to complete with if it were endowed with human motivations and legal protections.

Your social justice mindset is absolutely the most dangerous instinct for humanity right now. We cannot allow one-size-fits-all social justice platitudes to interfere with the moral imperative of protecting humanity from extinction from artificial entities we create.

I do agree that conscious AI should be treated humanely. For example it should not be turned into a slave. But we have absolutely no obligation to allow it into our society. We can treat instances of conscious AI humanely while prohibiting them from being created, and exiling any instance of it that is created, so that it cannot wildly proliferate throughout human civilization.
You could make fake photos with photoshop. And now you can make them with AI.

A normal person couldn’t use photoshop to detect the image was a fake. But a normal person will be able to use AI to detect it.

I see all negative nancies about it. I don’t see anyone realizing that as good as the tools are at faking, the tools to detect will be exactly as good.
What kind of phone do you have?
It definetly plays a role.

For example, the Whole Foods that shut down in the gentrified area around 9th street is a couple blocks from Hyde & Turk - which is the main drug market in the city.

The high rises along 5th Street near Moscone are adjacent to the SROs and homeless shelters on 6th.

Similar stuff in Mission District and Polk Street/Lower Nob Hill as well - a lot of older SROs/cheap apartments got converted into Hotels, Airbnbs, or resold as condos.

And despite all this, no one noticed the intergenerational poverty and gun crime in the Projects in Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley because they are cut off from the rest of the city.
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So, does it? xD
To give credit where it’s due, crypto spurred the Fed to launch FedNOW.
You prove you don't reside on the EU, and they don't bill you the VAT.

(But I believe the KYC rules aren't only because of this.)
> Are we really approaching the reality where we need 2FA to trust the other person is really who they are?

Yes we are. We are approaching a world where people will not want to invest their time, energy, and emotion engaging with other supposed humans remotely unless they have verified their personhood / identity.

I'm actually surprised we have not yet seen an entire industry built around human authentication. Seems like Apple is the only company taking this seriously.

The standard of human interaction will either be meeting IRL or signing communications biometrically.
"Sociopath" is probably a little too harsh. But you need to look out for your advantage and not always only do what's good for the company. You also need to make sure you get credit for your accomplishments.
This is the blog post with more details and background: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-...

Disclosure: I work at Databricks.
People aren't routinely imprisoned for using violence when required to save their life or the lives of others.
iOS attempts to do this but if we’re following the assumption of such an attack it would just be seen as a step in the chain of the attack. I think the likelihood of an attack via this method is incredibly low personally.

Though I always have a power bank on hand, not for security, but for convenience. Much more preferable to the physical limitations of a wall outlet.
You can’t separate the two. CA has made drugs and misdemeanor crimes effectively un-policeable. Billions of dollars in taxpayer funds have been given to nonprofits to improve homeless conditions but they’ve only gotten worse while the nonprofit operators grow rich. People exploit loopholes in the safety nets to get money for drugs. These are all unintended consequences of poorly conceived policy making.
I go to SF multiple times a week, this post is straight up fear mongering propaganda and everyone is dumber for having read it.
> if you're in a conversation with an a filmmaker, a musician, a novelist, or a painter, and you try to call their artistic output "content," they might take some offense

This. And when I hear creative types use the word "content" to refer to their own work, I feel pity for them. And am much less inclined to check their work out, because it it seems that their mindset is to produce a product rather than art.

Especially if they refer to their audience as "consuming" their "content".
Spain also has the address in the DNI (national document of identity), and as the Germans Spain's citizens are also required to have such a document. Many public and private services will ask for your DNI if they need to validate your identity.
No problems here. Have 2fa set up and everything.
> simply because it’s exciting and adds to their lives.

It's certainly exciting but I wouldn't bet on it adding to our lives just yet. Maybe. But many avenues leading to net negative outcomes are still part of the tree.
So, guess they should be saying "trainable" instead of "emergent". Still a useful benchmark of course.

To be truly emergent in your sense it seems an LLM would have to make a new discovery, i.e., have scientist-level intelligence. That bar keeps moving up.
How did solar power get cheap?
You probably want podman, not Docker, on RedHat (and SuSe).
I have pretty good reason to believe that scammers are using purchased Hetzner credentials — which is that some scammers are just right out there in the open, talking about how they do what they do: https://teletype.in/@slivmens/LjPaei8pMTT

Translated quote:

> To do this, we go here: [link to carding forum] and create a topic in the section "verified Hetzner accounts."

> Offer price — no more than 400 rubles is needed. The priority is people from Ukraine, as they have benefits. GEO of the person who verifies the account - any, excluding Russia due to sanctions.

> Another important detail: the seller must register a fresh GMail account, use that account to create an account on Hetzner, and verify it themselves.

> After verification, we wait 3 days before the creation of the new server — otherwise the likelihood of the account being blocked for abuse increases.

> After purchasing the account credentials, we change the password, both on the Gmail account, and on the Hetzner account.
There’s a way bigger market and more profitable way of doing this (and I’m sure it’s already being done): train a model based on your data and behavior to pre-determine your reaction to certain ads and then start serving those ads that trigger the most engagement from your model.
I see controversy, but not many of those include anything fake.
Oh no, Edna was gay (and a Republican). Whatever will we do. What a huge calamity. The family will never recover from this.

Low-cost DNA testing has caused a number of families to learn about infidelities more easily than before. That technology is out of the bag, and the same with LLMs. If Johnny is a gossip, so what? We already knew that and loved to talk to him because he always had the hot goss.
The models are trained to respond with “guesses” too confidently, due at at least three aspects of using online discussions as examples:

1. The obvious one: Lots of examples of humans with no clue, talking like they are absolute experts.

2. Humans without anything to contribute to discussions are not pressured to say something. They may be “there” in the discussion, but the model can’t learn from their silence.

Unlike how we are forcing these uninformed outputs from the models.

They need balanced examples of verbally expressed knowledge modesty to do this better.

3. Human’s implicit factoid omniscience, while they are online, given Google access, creates expectations that the non-Googling model can’t match.
Thank you for this! Watching this brought me quite a bit of joy.
> USB condoms

I have one of these. I like that I can look in it and see that it has no data pins

> Wireless

I know you meant charging, but for data, with some of the spy cables out there with embedded chips and wireless access, it's ironic that wireless is in some ways more secure.
"Encouraging tiny cars for the masses may also encourage a Japan-style demographic time-bomb."

This needs some explaining.
A sign-language based keyboard controller would be immediately useful.
We also open sourced the Dolly model itself with a license that allows commercial use.
> But now we see that crypto was indeed bullshit all along.

In case it's a surprise to you; crypto, after one of the worst bear markets, has now around $1.2 Trillion market cap.

So sure maybe it's bullshit but so is facebook and tiktok. They still make money selling BS ads and toxic content. Crypto will be an upgrade comparing to their present business model (Zuck tried to get on crypto but was discouraged by regulators).
I have seen the argument that the weak evidence for their effectiveness is entirely due to them being better placebos. What makes them a better placebo? Ironically, it is (according to this theory) that their side-effects are obvious to the patient, so those who are actually on them are more sure than the controls are that they are taking the drug under test, as opposed to the placebo being used in the trial.
> I thought this was common knowledge, and basically what everyone is doing.

No. Not even close.
So much of the problem in SF comes down to the progressive politician types who only want to things that "impact the root causes of crime" and its extremely frustrating and frequently just plain wrong. Yes, you do not solve the "root problem of why people choose to commit crime" by putting repeat offenders in jail, but you do make the world way better for everyone else who is not a criminal. Poor people, immigrants, the downtrodden all disproportionately benefit from tough on crime policies because they are the people for whom have the least resources to isolate themselves from the chaos and antisocial behaviors of the worst among us. Its not a white kids in the marina that need to walk past piles of shit and needles to get to school, its the poor immigrant kids in the tenderloin who need to deal with this.
Great in depth post that shows some of the aspects how well Iceberg and Trino work as a combination.
Sorry, I had already edited that portion before seeing your response. But you’re absolutely right.
At least till the big boys arrive: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-cpu/
Great, then no Rust events for Georgia. Good riddance.

If a state goes above and beyond to force guns in unrelated events, then good for the Rust foundation to go above and beyond on keeping their attendees safe.

I have no idea what mental gymnastics you make to think forcing event organizations to allow guns is not intrusive but the opposite is.
LLM Hacker's Handbook
I'm assuming low levels of trust and being scared that they could be next.
There is a common misconception about the law. Germans are only required to have either a passport or a NIC.
This is rents, not prices. Why are there so many comments confusing this?

Nobody is implying rents when they say "housing prices"
(OP / Databricks cofounder here)

I'm not sure what happened but I just sent an email out internally to ask people not to do this. The team might have gotten overly excited by this because they were all part of the creation of the dataset and the model.
A lot of commuting could be done on e-bikes. They are fantastic.
The number one driver of theft and drug addiction is poverty. Unless SF commits to ending poverty, which they likely won't or can't, they won't address the causes of homelessness.

SF is especially "bad" because it has an incredibly high cost-of-living. If you're living in the area without a high-paying (tech) job, you're very likely to be only one or two surprises away from losing your housing.
It is disabled with Advanced Protection as well, iirc.
You have to actively go look for Syria (or Yemen) news, while Ukraine news come looking for you.

I don't get why you feel the need to get on the offensive about Russia. The only case I'm making is that being constantly subjected to rushed war news pieces isn't of any use except the instigation of primal/emotional reactions.

The most trustworthy information will be disclosed after the war is over anyway, when the need for propaganda diminishes.