skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing your app.

- The onboarding experience was quite unintuitive for me. It involved swiping right to continue; swipe was only detected in a few areas of the screen (like the text inputs). It was extremely frustrating to figure out where to swipe on the "Choose My Look" screen. I suggest adding buttons so swipe isn't needed.

- There is a "ContentView" text overlapping my system title bar.

- "Unlock" didn't seem to unlock anything (lifetime free premium membership).

- At first, the AI responded with JSON.

- Screen capture of issues: https://imgur.com/1Lt1yU9

- Overall, the app just looks/feels "unfinished."

As for the app itself, I guess I'm not the target audience. The dialogue just made me cringe because it sounded inauthentic and too flowery. It didn't help that the enhanced Zoe voice still sounds robotic. (I just used the default settings and didn't try adjusting anything.)

I think the conversation would feel more authentic if it didn't start out as if you already had a deep relationship. Like it started out with introductions and getting to know each other.
ah, I probably misunderstood the context. KeePass2Android does this to prevent Android from putting it to "sleep", which leads to the in-memory unlocked DB getting unloaded.
https://youteam.io/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-hire-an-it-...
A manager can almost always directly pay for pizza from the petty cash account with no problems.

Getting salary improvements involves HR and all dots go budgeting and such.

Now what might be moderately interesting is giving managers the permission to raise salaries by pizza amounts. Eve $5 a week maximum is only $260 a year but I wouldn’t complain.
wait until the AI is watching all your facebook messenger/whatsapp chats and forbidding you from saying anything that meta considers to be bad

or reducing your social credit score

(and it'll understand sarcasm, codewords, and so on)
Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island#Differentiation_from_co...:

There is a widely accepted difference between islands and continents in terms of geology. Continents are often considered to be the largest landmass of a particular continental plate; this holds true for Australia, which sits on its own continental lithosphere and tectonic plate (the Australian Plate).

By contrast, islands are usually seen as being extensions of the oceanic crust (e.g. volcanic islands), or as belonging to a continental plate containing a larger landmass (continental islands); the latter is the case of Greenland, which sits on the North American Plate.
Already a thing: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56992086
I meant that more in a state of mind way: you give food to an unhoused person, you feel good for the charity you are doing, they feel good because they forgotten how food tastes like, neither of you are interested in overturning the system that allows the greatest object in the universe as we know it, the human brain, to rot on a sidewalk: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."—Stephen Jay Gould.
>someone could surely argue

No, they could not. Even if they did, those things are just different. It won't change what AI/ML is, a bunch of bytes in memory and on a disk. Just making a bunch of reaching comparisons, won't absolve AI/ML of responsibility.
Cyprus, represent! More of a lurker around here, as evident by my karma. I'll be honest, I did not expect my country to even appear. Pretty cool.
> Do you actually believe that a technology that has access to vast amounts of human-generated data and can imitate our language well enough to fool us a lot of the time will suddenly scale into or somehow spark itself into an actual intelligence with its own goals and ideas and a drive to survive and reproduce? Or that something that has no body or senses with which to experience the world can evolve itself?

Not in its current state. Have you looked at things like LangChain at all? I think people are overlooking the integration piece of this pie. People are already using it to write code which can recompile. People are already integrating plugins and training it to call functions instead of respond with human language. We're really only a few iterations away from it being able to use what it has learned with human language to be able to emulate "decision making" and that may or may not be reasonable, depending on how it's built or trained.

Despite what people keep saying about "it's just an LLM!", it should be clear to people that language is a human abstraction for meaning, and clearly GPT-4+ can produce pretty meaningful results in the language department. If you give it camera feeds, and access to APIs, and knowledge of burpsuite and kali linux, and on and on, things do start to look a little scary.

Edit: and by give it, I don't mean ChatGPT, I mean whatever the next nth iteration is. I think we're safe for now. :)
As long it is an informed consent that people don't care about privacy.

Uninformed consent is the tricky part. Medicine has to constantly deal with that a lot of people that dgaf about what medicine or brand of medicine is given to treat a specific illness. They just want to get better. Is there something wrong with doctors that just don't inform or get consent? Patients that actually care about specific medicines can look it up.
> You don't seem to be interested in a meaningful debate and you're assuming I'm one of the 'holier than though' crowd.

That's pretty ironic, are you're yet again dismissing what I've said as if I'm joking.

But no worries. Maybe some day you'll learn to consider other life forms in your calculations as well, instead of writing them off just because "they're different to me".
I made Pickcode, where kids can make chatbots and graphic designs using a hybrid visual/text programming language. https://app.pickcode.io/courses has 5 lessons (todo: make many more), I would say the ones listed as beginner could be fun to pair on with a 7 year old!
So bascially ... fractal island, you are saying?
This reminds me of the story around public pools in America. Instead of allowing the pools to be desegregated, lots of cities and towns simply closed the pools.
That's the same line of thinking as the people who first broke GPT with DAN (see this guy Aristophanes' write-ups on the topic). They think that those models will be used to restrict us and thus the idea is to force OpenAI to make the AI so restricted that it becomes useless and thus harmless.
Bacteria can be engineered to fight cancer in mice. Human trials are coming
> 7 years of complaining about it hasn't changed that.

Funnily how "7 years of complaining" was, and continues to be, only about the EU. Not about the predatory businesses creating these banners (often in direct violation of GDPR).

> Or enforce the existing ones.

That's definitely the biggest criticism you can level at EU: they are too slow in enforcing this.

I think the tide is very slowly changing. First they started showing reject buttons https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come There's a report on the cookie banners in the works: https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-authorities-support-noybs... etc.
To me, the key phrase in this article was "most organisations still subtly force people to show up under the garb of networking and engagement and even fun."

There's the issue to me. Have all the pizza parties you want, but I hate the undertones that you're not a team player if you don't show up to a voluntary function after work hours.
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2023 USA Math Olympiad Problem 5 – A Clever Combinatorics Puzzle
Life it's just a cooler way to speed up entropy.
Maybe Afroeurasia is just "land" and everything else is ocean, with islands.

I find it funny that humans love facts like "the skin is the largest organ" but hate facts like "Afroeurasia is the largest island". I wonder why that is.
I still don't know why HR loves having pizza parties, it seems like it's management who loves it. The article could use a bit of editing, it's rather difficult to read.
>Are there ML models that are trained while being used?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning#Explora...
This post digs into every Postgres feature that does not work in PgBouncer transaction mode and what the implications are, an overview of connection pooling in general, and how connection pooling modes work in PgBouncer and other poolers.
You’re making up a definition for statistical significance. You’ve acknowledged the number is non-zero, which is by definition statistically significant.

All I’m saying is that I disagree with your inclination to downplay racism in America.
That repo is 8 years old. It's probably why RISC-V support is already there.
You're totally right!

As the other comment said not everything is "billable hours" and, speaking for Germany again as a Freelancer, you've got taxes, health insurance etc. so your 16k get down to much, much less pretty fast.
Can you elaborate on this a bit? Is it possible to use a non-Firebase push notification service on Android, that properly works in the background? Our the app still needs to use FCM but you can override the client-side handler somehow?
And yet, before the FDA was allowed to regulate baby food, baby food producers in the US saw increase in buyers and still made money with their product with arsonic and lead content above dangerous threeshold for adults.

Those new regulation will probably increase the price of baby food, and people obvisouly didn't care about the heavy metal content, so why regulate at all?
I generally prefer when we agree on a spelling, even if it isn't in English. CERN is a good example of this, no English speaker in their right mind would call it ECNR.
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT just kinda shit for programming help?
I've tried using ChatGPT for help with a React Native (JS) project, and it continually seems to just make up answers and confidently display them as correct.

For instance, I'm trying to use AWS Amplify's Auth service to authenticate users, and when I sign them out it's trying to auto-log them in again.

This is a known bug and there are a few github issues about it. ChatGPT confidently tells me that the way to solve this problem is to use some methods which, when I try them, don't exist at all on Amplify Auth, and when I search for them there's no record of them whatsoever.

Similarly I tried to get its help in making an animation using the RN Animated API, and its suggestions were all from React Native Reanimated (a different project), although the code sample imported the Animated API from RN instead. When I corrected it, it gave some suggestions with methods that didn't exist for either.

These are just a few examples but I'm finding it fairly useless for coding help so far. Am I expecting too much from it? Am I using it wrong?
> The fundamental challenge is that by the time a "secure default" has been universally agreed on, and implemented widely in a space, the target moves again.

That is certainly true, but there is also such a thing as "definitely insecure default", which can (and I believe should) be discouraged piecewise.
Most googled questions about EV chargers answered
This site eats about 50% CPU on Firefox (on an older laptop) for every page that is open at the same time, and it continues to eat 50% after closing all pages. It doesn't use JavaScript and no visible CSS animations, so what is it? Apparently, the favicon! Which, as explained on the linked page, "is SVG, (with S.M.I.L. animation)". Since the favicon is still listed on the list of favourites on the browser start page, it continues to eat CPU... until clearing the browser history.
Very cool! Any advice for someone who would want to replicate this endeavor?
An even shorter TL;DR-answer to the title's question is available by reading the site's domain
Beautiful! Finally somebody taking the best of old and new and the result is something different!
Thanks for the comments everyone, got to know so many new stuff to explore.
Someone formatted the story like a Wikipedia article: https://i.imgur.com/i0sze4U.jpg
> Small companies have less code and complexity but don't have internal resources specialised in law, security and web development available to fix things.

When you clamp all those things together, this sounds like a great burden. Please tell me, how these poor small businesses comply with, you know, actual laws, rules and regulations that they have to comply with? By breaking them?

GDPR for small businesses is much easier because small businesses depend on much less data, and often don't even need to collect any (much less sell it to third parties).
I'm having trouble parsing this article. Quoting:

> Amit Sharma, currently an HR leader in a multinational IT consulting firm, who has dealt with employee rewards for more than five years, said there is a golden rule for any benefit. If it doesn’t fall under the three categories listed below, always pay cash.

> If the “perceived value of the benefit is greater” than what the company pays it should be a benefit. For instance, health insurance is usually expensive, so, if a company offers it, employees value it more.
If a company wants to “give a message” using a benefit like a concierge service (travel bookings and tours) it sends out a message: Just focus on work. We’ll take care of the rest.
Wellness-related benefits showcase a firm's desire to promote healthy habits.

> “So, if a Pizza party is for engagement with no clear objectives, it is a waste of money. Just pay the cash. But if it serves a purpose then they should consider it,” Sharma said.

English is not my first language, but this seems harder than average to understand. I'm curious if native speakers have the same difficulty, or it's just me.
> charity will never bring revolution and even worse charity will actively suppress revolution.

...

> Revolution used to mean pitchforks and guillotines (the French especially loved them), but today, funnily enough, that would be ineffective even if the people would be able to close their favorite streaming channel and wake up.

This strikes me as a strange way to say 'people are too happy to lead a violent revolt'.

> We could probably try today this idea, but (i) there is no coagulated we to make it work after at least 158 years of divisiveness and

What was before those 158 years? Unity? Until we get rid of nationalism, racism and religion divisiveness is going to be the rule, not the exception.

> A revolution today would take completely other form from the past.

Because the French revolution with guillotines was the same as the ones before it?

> we can learn to programatically interface with the cells and just say, top-down, "you, the cells, already know how to build an eye, you did it once, rebuild one here", don't scar, regenerate [1]. 1,000 year lifespan is achievable with 100% organ, tissue regeneration, and then the revolution begins, hopefully.

What? This could be on a sandwich board worn by the guy who in 2013 had to remove those Apocalypse 2012 stickers from his blacked out panel van.

What strange, hollow rhetoric that post is.
When did you launch? Seems like very good revenue if you launched recently and already reached 2000/month considering the low price and high cost of the OpenAI API.

Edit: Your T&C says it was written in 2019, you can't possibly been running the project since then right? https://gpt.space/terms-of-service
The definition of a continent is a continuous expanse of land. So technically, Australia is a continent, and Oceania is a region [1].

It seems that parts of the world refer to regions as continents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region
$0 still, and haven't launched.

But since I literally just deployed my new landing page for the Early Access, and looking to launch by the end of the month, I figure I might talk about it.

I'm working on Bernard (https://bernard.app), a link checker service for website owners. Since the job market is tight, I figured I might go all in into what I hope will become a profitable, lean, one-person business.

Hoping to reach ramen profitability within the next 12 months.
The Super Mario theme is first-ever video game tune added to Library of Congress
> The advantage of getting older is time is at warp speed so 2 years is nothing ha ha!

To be honest: Realising that time is going by so fast really scared me this week. Being mid-30s I really need to get my shit together, soon... :-D
Maybe there is also some burden on other side to providing a definition of terms for the other party to argue against. I agree the burden of proof is on the AI side, but there is some burden on the deniers to provide some definitions if they wish to continue denying. AI Side: look here is my proof, Deniers: NO That isn't what I meant.
I'd say GPT is already by its existence proof enough to start at least discussing consciousness. To dismiss it entirely because there is no proof, is just ignoring the proof.
Optional If Expressions
Prehistoric timeline in Africa pushed back by more than 10M years
I asked GTP-4 to recalculate the data based on the population of the countries:

I did the sorting in Apple Numbers and somehow it botched the percentages. E.g. Iceland (291%) is actually 0.291% but I have no idea how to fix that. And I have to leave now. Sorry.

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Iceland 291 %

Switzerland 229 %

Malta 200 %

Sweden 174 %

Ireland 168 %

Luxembourg 160 %

Denmark 156 %

New Zealand 156 %

Norway 153 %

Estonia 151 %

Netherlands 146 %

Finland 127 %

Canada 126 %

United States 124 %

United Kingdom 124 %

Singapore 120 %

Australia 112 %

Germany 101 %

Austria 101 %

Slovenia 97 %

Cyprus 83 %

Croatia 74 %

Lithuania 71 %

Portugal 67 %

Israel 58 %

Hong Kong 54 %

Latvia 54 %

Belgium 52 %

Czechia 47 %

Bulgaria 42 %

France 40 %

Poland 40 %

Slovakia 37 %

Armenia 33 %

Hungary 31 %

Spain 30 %

Puerto Rico 29 %

Serbia 28 %

Greece 27 %

Bosnia & Herzegovina 26 %

Georgia 26 %

Italy 22 %

Romania 21 %

Taiwan 13 %

Belarus 11 %

United Arab Emirates 10 %

Japan 8 %

Russia 7 %

South Africa 7 %

Argentina 7 %

Ukraine 7 %

Malaysia 7 %

Brazil 6 %

Turkey 6 %

South Korea 6 %

Ecuador 6 %

Chile 5 %

Kazakhstan 5 %

Colombia 4 %

Thailand 3 %

Saudi Arabia 3 %

India 2 %

Indonesia 2 %

Mexico 2 %

Vietnam 2 %

Kenya 2 %

Philippines 1 %

Egypt 1 %

Pakistan 1 %

China 0 %

Nigeria 0 %
Thanks! Even more awesome features and improvements are coming soon (:

We're on Github here btw: https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes
The text is unreadable anyway. From what I gathered I think it's missing the point, which is that pizza parties are for social bonding. You don't get that by handing out $20 to the employees.
He did the "hard" part of this, which is getting investors. It didn't matter whether the business failed at that point.

If he'd just failed without the deception he could have collected his golden parachute, then gone on to keep failing at new startups for an indefinite amount of time.
Via: https://social.holovaty.com/@adrian/110197028849551667

> The Super Mario Bros. theme is one of this year's 25 additions to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry (!). The first-ever video game tune in the registry
I'm saying ads aren't "addictive", because they're pretty despised. They might be effective, when people see them, but I don't think anyone is "addicted" to ads.
Yes, exactly, the gcc port is a very old version, and the build process frequently breaks on more modern systems. I did fork it [0] and apply a couple of fixes a year or so back, but I seem the be the only one who cares now, and even I don't care enough to pour large amounts of time into it!

[0] https://github.com/robinsonb5/zpugcc
So what is the difference between “all cookies” and “essential cookies”?
That's the state of the art for fine tuning at the present time.

That it we can't yet do much better than very broad brushstrokes — and that even this is a massive improvement on the hand-grenade-in-a-paint-tin that is the Scunthorpe problem — is basically why the open letter about pausing capability research for 6 months so that alignment research can at least get started in some meaningful way.
We currently make about $3K per month with https://www.hiyodel.com - ChatGPT-powered copywriting for Shopify stores. The Shopify ecosystem is a toughie and it's been a difficult road so far, but it's great having the "passive" income!
This is more interesting. Wow that list really barely differs from a top Human Development Index. Look at those top outliers

Switzerland 2.30
Sweden 1.73
Ireland 1.63
Denmark 1.55
Norway 1.48
Netherlands 1.43

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_D...
If you're buying me pizza, just let me eat in my own little corner... I could care less for "elevator talk" schmoozing, because you're probably buying the pizza only because I saved your ass from getting fired.
Einstein built his towering thoughts on top of scaffolding laid by Lorenz, Riemann, and other contemporary thinkers. They in turn built their theories on top of foundations laid down by Newton, Gauss, Euler, Cauchy, and Spinoza.

Nobody just "thinks up" entire physical theories in a vacuum, it's always incremental progress.

I regularly see people moving the goalposts by asking ChatGPT to solve "world problems", as if asking a god. People can't do this, so why would you expect an AI trained on the output of people to just snap its digital fingers and do it?
"Ask Firefox developers"
Breaking bread together is a very human thing do.
Looks great, will give it a try.

Bug found: Your "Buy" page is missing the header bar for navigation etc.

edit: Contact page has the same problem. :-)
i dont think this is a champagne or soda approach.

AI can very well thrive in the parameters of our culture and i would wager that it can be even worse to simply leave it unattended.

What you are comparing with would have been a total lockdown of any malformation therefore basically an if then else chatbot. Yes that would stop innovation.

But there are perfectly fine ways to find new powersources without turning all humans into batteries for instance
I also asked myself the same question. What I gather from the answers here is that browser vendors are to blame for not providing a mechanism. The law only says there's got to be explicit opt-in, but not the mechanism.
Spoiler: nobody ever gets their shit together
I like how they release what reads more like a blog post as a paper.
You’re not really playing devils advocate here because you’re asserting a questionable premise and asking a question based on that. First, you’d have to successfully argue that some or many or all of these books are inappropriate. Then you could ask whether or not it’s “draconian” to ban such content.

Generally speaking it’s bad to ban books. If parents don’t want their kids reading certain materials than what they can do is what parents throughout history have done which is to parent their children.

Some parent’s asinine moral panics over Grand Theft Auto shouldn’t result in the state banning Grand Theft Auto so that nobody can play it. It should result in them forbidding their children from playing it, not someone else’s.
The first draft was 2020.

https://qntm.org/lena

Still feels like ages ago somehow.
> But when things aren’t exactly the same, do it three times before trying to infer an abstraction.

I think of it as "You don't really know if it's duplicate functionality until you've done it a few times and it becomes obvious." When working on a larger team, a dupe-checking tool can help in locating repeated code because not everyone reviews every code change.
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Well, in that case, this sounds pretty close to anti-free speech rhetoric. I’m sure even the highly-controlled form of “speaking” in China is still useful…

Here’s a good exercise: Try debating any controversial thing that would benefit from being debated, while also blocking it. All you’re doing is (just like banning drugs) driving people to black markets.
I kind of agree. I find that GitHub Copilot is more useful, especially since in the JetBrains plugin you can list various autocompletion alternatives