skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a valid concern. I have a friend who's very bullish on ChatGPT and has encouraged me to use it more for programming tasks. I was working on parsing binary data stored as sound in a WAV file and ChatGPT4 could not figure out the task despite having a detailed description of the problem and input and output examples. However, it did a good job of just parsing the WAV file format so I could concentrate on the rest. In the end it generated probably 70% of the code and I did the remaining 30%. But that 70% was relatively uninteresting to the task; the remaining 30% was the interesting part.
I suspect we all prefer that, but the point of abstracting out a closure that captures k and z is for performance.
Many serious, pro-technology scientists, philosophers, and science fiction writers have been publicly worried about AI for decades and people are now acting like they're all suddenly fools or have nefarious motivations. Here's a thought: those who are uncritical of AI have far more of an incentive to ignore and downplay the risks!

You would think 3 years into the fallout of a possibly lab-created virus (or, if you don't believe that, certainly a poorly-managed response to a natural one) people would be a little, I don't know, concerned about human institutions' ability to handle anything at all that is massive and consequential in scope?

I would understand if AI proponents were putting out material that demonstrated they take critics' concerns seriously. But all I'm seeing in the opposite: a flippant disregard, as if we're all stupid for caring. Forgive me if my confidence is not through the roof right now.
As long as it's not in my back yard.
Databricks announced the launch of Dolly 2.0 as the first commercially available open-source 12B Chat-LLM, allowing companies to create powerful language models without investing in expensive GPU clusters.
Joe Eskenazi shared the identity of the alleged killer, potentially ruining the life/career of someone who may not have killed Bob.
AWS Lambda Response Streaming
In the US? They would say no. In Iran? yes.
That's interesting. I've asked Bing Chat and ChatGPT several times to write me elisp code, and not once did it work well. It often invents APIs.
Many developers know that they should use it but don't really understand why.

Moreover many developers simply don't use it because they don't understand what it does for them and trying to adjust size/layout on the <Image /> component is kinda finicky compared to sizing a standard <img /> element with css.

Of course, this quirky layout api is to prevent layout shift but again, many developers don't know this.

Another thing i think many developers don't know is that every next app has a whole hidden image service spun up along side it at an endpoint "/_next/image" that takes the images passed to the <Image /> component and optimizes them by adjusting size, quality, and format.

The <Image /> component even tries to load different sized images based on the size of the device viewing the page and nextjs does this by filling in the srcset attribute for you on the underlying <img /> element.

But all of this is too magical imo. The developer experience when trying to use the <Image /> component is bizarre and the abstractions are leaky. To utilize it well you need to understand the underlying concepts/impl anyway.

<img /> concepts including srcset, sizes, and webp are important to understand as a web developer, especially if you find yourself outside of the context of nextjs.

Binsta does all this stuff for you but more transparently so that you're in control and get to learn about web fundamentals. Binsta also can handle videos which is cool and works outside of the context of nextjs.
Good point on the media's right to report. Prior restraint is icky except in the most exigent and extreme circumstances.
Thanks for calling out privilege, but I think we should assume good faith. I don't think they were trying to say that everything is good, they're just saying the narrative isn't as simple as the media is making it look.
They even discuss it in detail:
"What makes NeighborhoodScout® Crime Data uniquely accurate?
Most city neighborhood crime data are incomplete and inaccurate because crimes are reported by individual law enforcement agencies, rather than by city or town, and many cities – even small ones – have more than one agency responsible for law enforcement (municipal, university, county, transit, etc.). Even FBI data are reported by agency not by city or town, providing an incomplete assessment of city-wide crime counts. It is an agency-centric rather than locality-centric reporting method. If you use FBI data, you only get city-wide general counts, and only from one agency in the city, so it is generally incomplete for the city overall, as well as not specific to a neighborhood or address."

And further:
Once we have these complete set of reported crime data, along with millions of geocoded reported crime incidents using a GIS, we begin our crime data development process.

The results are fine resolution, highly accurate crime data that are comparable nationally.

Our approach provides you the ability to look at small areas effectively.

In some cases a city agency is in charge of law enforcement, while in other areas it’s a county. In many cases it is more than one agency for a geographic area. Since the geography varies, it’s difficult to compare the scores among jurisdictions, or to get a true and complete picture of crime risk. This is why we use a relational database to assess the true count of reported crimes in a locality.

Although most agencies report, not all do. This creates holes in the data. Our method allows us to accurately fill in the holes based on the crime experience of many like locales, and provide accurate crime data for anywhere in the U.S.
I still have an iPhone 5s that is intact as well as a 2013 MacBook Pro. They both are pretty outdated devices but fully operational. Apple is definitely not the company to be blamed for making "throw away" devices.
My fear is that they actually succeed in creating AGI and us plebes are no longer required. Do people actually think that AGI will herald a new era for humanity like in Star Trek? No, the wealthy and powerful will just eliminate the worker class.
Skynet aside, aren’t all these other fears also just fear of the future too?
they released info on it the same week. https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage

If leaking the titles of other people's searches is illegal... I'm very much interested in how the EU is going to handle the twitter circles issue.
If it’s “free” it means you are the product.
My point exactly. See OP, I was asking specifically for well-defined tasks. Fashion advice is both (1) not well defined and (2) googlable in 10s and you'll get the same generic blogspam that ChatGPT gives you :p
The flow rates are estimated at ~500 ml/s. That seems pretty negligible in the grand scheme of things. It really says more about our sensor data that we were even able to detect that small of a leak in a giant ocean.
If you saw a chart of Stanford administrative overhead growth, you would be aghast.

All these useless busybody administrators sucking down $100k+/yr compete for visibility in order to grow their compensation and hire yet even more of their dipshit buddies.

They are a cancer.

Learning, teaching, and researching are entirely beside the point. Demonstrate moral superiority and hire your friends if you want to stick around.

This insular, spiraling, incenstuous dynamic produces artifacts that are tremendously embarrassing and discrediting when exposed to the outside world.
I’ll go with the perp being rich and white. LinkedIn has already been deleted. No conspiracy needed.
Do we have a php version yet
For me my biggest worry is about jobs. Taking the current trajectory of trends in AI it seems we need bigger compute and better data. Only big players seem to be able to train and host such models. So as far as new jobs being because of AI, I don't think many will be. With the AI systems that we have now I don't think it's possible to automate a job completely but AI seems to be only getting better
It's already under the ocean in nobody's backyard lol
There is a constant ebb and flow between more sharing of information and less sharing of information. Bad things happen because of not sharing enough intel (eg. the 9/11 report)? Time to loosen restrictions. Bad things happen because of overly lax sharing of information (eg. Manning)? Time to lock things down. Both postures have costs and benefits that are difficult to quantify. This tends to cause knee-jerk reactions based on the latest crisis.
This is also how swatting works: https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z8be/torswats-computer-gen...
Obligatory reading.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

> Take your hands and hold them palms down, middle fingertips touching. Your right hand represents the North American tectonic plate, which bears on its back, among other things, our entire continent, from One World Trade Center to the Space Needle, in Seattle. Your left hand represents an oceanic plate called Juan de Fuca, ninety thousand square miles in size. The place where they meet is the Cascadia subduction zone. Now slide your left hand under your right one. That is what the Juan de Fuca plate is doing: slipping steadily beneath North America. When you try it, your right hand will slide up your left arm, as if you were pushing up your sleeve. That is what North America is not doing. It is stuck, wedged tight against the surface of the other plate.
I get it that this is how people are reading it, but "tell him you're a vim user" strongly suggests intention of humor.
>Distrusts the government, but also works for it? I'd call that a mole.

I'd call that a reaction to knowing how the sausage is made.
If it were paid for using currency acquired through using Twitter, I might participate.

The value of Twitter is not monetary, to me. But entertainment, specifically watching things fall apart.
Still had this tab open today (in typical tab hoarding fashion), and saw no one else commented. So just wanted to say thanks for sharing this fun fact. I learned something new, and started going down a rabbit hole yesterday because of you!
Does this in any way enhance protection of a citizen from government or other powerful actors?
I was assaulted twice and didn't report.

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-crime-Che...

> Rapes, robberies and assaults are still well below pre-pandemic levels, and because violent crime is generally less likely to go unreported than property crimes, it would not be inaccurate to say that general levels of violent crime are lower now than they were a few years ago.
So, the lesson here is not to jump to global far-reaching conclusion based on one single case, and the reason why it is so important is because of this one single case from which we can totally make a global far-reaching conclusions...
That's ultimately related to DNA errors as well. You can read more about it by searching for "DNA damage theory of aging". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_damage_theory_of_aging

As far as I know, this is the most widely accepted theory for aging.

The body will repair if it can. Even things like re-growing limbs are theoretically possible but are prevented by tissue damage such that the body doesn't "remember" what used to be there. Aka scar tissue. https://www.livescience.com/59194-could-humans-ever-regenera...
Ask HN: Do You Schedule Reading?
I've been struggling to find time or prioritize reading. I have an expanding stack of books and online reading list to read and I rarely sit down and give attention to either for more than a few minutes. I inevitably get pulled into something like a Slack message, a phone call or just random stuff.

One solution I've thought about is actually blocking time on my calendar to do nothing but read and setting aside a place in my house (that's away from a computer) to designate for reading.

Do you schedule reading? What other "reading hacks" do you employ?
Most importantly, it should be required by law how Spotify recommends new songs. They cannot operate in darkness forever.

/s
The last time they came up with a regulation, we got that GDPR awfulness. Made zero impact on anything, just forced me to click multiple buttons before visiting a website.
you might be thinking of the pervasive non-violent crimes like people doing drugs in the bustling business and shopping districts and shitting right on the sidewalk in the same. it's long been infamous for that.
Nice blog post! I like the way this problem is approached and solved. Peeking under the "table" to see how the internals work is actually creative when trying to fix things "upstream" on an upper abstraction layer.

Unfortunately, I still don't love Tailscale. I do like it, a lot even. But their refusal to open-source all their clients (and the server) is baffling, especially considering that they have an employee contributing to Headscale, the community-led FOSS tailscale server. At that point just open-source the damn thing!

Issues aside, it's still a great product. It actually felt like magic when I first used it in a way few technologies have.
Depends on what media you're reading I suppose. Quite a lot of it paints SF is a city of haves and have-nots which fits nicely into the above poster's experience.
fast forward 3-4 months after stuffing that under the mattress and that is a top-tier GPU lol
Good heavens; speak of the Commander and he shall appear.

Didn't even know you were on here!
Does Gerbil run on Windows?
I think we have essentially perfected music. We can generate any kind of sound and we can record it and play it back at will. As you said, the tools to do this are now available to everyone. The physics and the psychology of music processing, interpretation, and enjoyment are well known.

I think there still is evolution happening in music but there will be no more revolutions.
The choice matters. That's what open source is all about, a choice and giving the users some power.

I still can't believe people feel the need to justify Facebook's actions, even after their horrible track record and continuous violations of the user privacy and trust.
> We say "trurel". As if there was an 'e' between the r and l at the end.

From https://curl.se/trurl/
(I am not a geologist.)

Presumably if the water had enough pressure to punch a hole it has enough pressure to punch another. I'd wager these holes are occasionally covered by underwater landslides and the like.

I'm curious what makes you uncomfortable about it?
11.23 per 100K. Tusla has a higher murder rate. You're about as likely to die in an automobile crash nation wide (11.1 per 100K), and in Florida, more likely (15.4 per 100K).

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7126a1.htm

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. We're all afraid of all the wrong things.
There’s a huge difference between:

1. a national culture/laws that restricts women’s freedom of dress, and

2. a private religious place that has a dress code
She's great! I totally should have mentioned her. Stanford magazine covered her work last year:

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/better-believe-it

I first encountered her work through Andrey Huberman's podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFR_wFN23ZY

Harvard is researching this too:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-th...
I really wish the messaging about Net Neutrality focused less on the idea that ISPs were going to be able to charge you for access to specific services or throttle competing services (which is a terrible idea), and more on the freedom of speech issue.

AFAIK there's no way to say anything on the internet without permission from at least an ISP and DNS... and usually also a webhost and website you don't own. It would be nice to have some legal protections from at least some of those entities.
Sufficiently affluent senior communities are pretty much private universities without the professors, and with larger rooms. Complete with frankly surprisingly good food that everybody complains about and more facilities than anybody actually uses.
At least this offering makes basic economic sense, unlike Twitter Blue. Making the platform better for the top accounts instead of worse will keep the free content coming, and the audience laughing or raging or whatever they want.
Perhaps a marketing campaign aggressively promoting replacement by ai is what is causing “fear”?
Yes, long term storage has to be "perfect" in the sense that nothing leaks forever. That's a tall order. It also has to be acceptable to the population. Another tall order.

You are still repeating the lie that fossil fuels are the alternative. Actually, renewable energy is the only way left because nuclear power takes decades to ramp up. Not only do nuclear power plants take years or decades to plan and build according to plan, they almost always go way over time and budget.

Both fossil fuel and renewable have a huge advantage in terms of risk over nuclear power (apart from not nuking populated areas): Nuclear power plants irrevocably commit their society to a couple of decades of risk. Unless you pull the plug early and eat the horrendous cost.
The Skynet Terminator future seems unlikely at this point. The fear shouldn't be some future in which AI takes over and enslaves humanity. The real fear is how these AIs will be used by nefarious actors. Phishing attacks. Misinformation. Deepfakes. These are the threats of AI that exist today. There's literally another thread on the Hacker News frontpage right now titled "Joe Rogan Issues Warning After AI-Generated Version of His Podcast Surfaces." Or take this story:

https://www.wired.com/story/large-language-model-phishing-sc...

The real fear of future should really be that AI is only going to improve and get better at running phishing attacks, and generating deepfakes and misinformation. It's already happening today, and these problems are only going to get worse.

Let's talk about optimism of future. To all of you who keep talking about "hindering progress", what utopian future do you hope we're racing towards? How is AI really going to improve our lives? And is it really worth the risk? Or maybe it's just people hoping to get rich off the hype train, in the same way as cryptocurrency...
There's a few abstractions of the web you can use today.

https://freenetproject.org/

https://geti2p.net/en/

https://www.gnunet.org/en/

https://www.ipfs.tech/
Reportedly, a dog is the CEO of Tw^Hitter now.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1625695877326340102
Why does Price (not) matter in data?
This is a good example of why you should design software to be as robust as possible up front. E.g. using statically typed languages, not using shell scripts, using typestate patterns, bundling dependencies, etc.

A lot of Linux software isn't very intrinsically robust and the result is lots of janky stuff that isn't caught by tests, and only affects a small number of people in difficult to reproduce ways.
Then try it..? Maybe it also could have written a more thoughtful comment for you.
Was it in Itaewon?
I never remember crypto being hot on HN. People talked about it, sure, but there was as many people calling it a scam as there has been folks pumping it up. AI is treated better here than crypto ever was.
I'm not afraid of the future in general, I'm afraid of a specific vision of the future. One that holds that workers are not entitled to the ease or value gained from automation, that requires everyone work to live with dignity and also demands the right to decide how many may work, and who.

It's not the AI it's the consequences of owners applying it to labor. It will be used to further disempower workers, increase their precarity and desperation, continue and accelerate the concentration of wealth and power to a small coterie of owners.

I'm also worried about the impact of inevitably applying it to high impact decisions that affect individuals' lives. Sentencing & parole, school & job applications, loans approval & rates, police surveillance, drone assassinations. These are already decisions that disproportionately create and reproduce inequality, violence, and immiseration in our society, we don't do them well. AI will not do better, but it will ossify our divisions and grant the same old results a veneer of quantitative legitimacy. The small daily atrocities will become even harder to stop, appeal, or even see.

That's what I'm afraid of. Framing it as a general abstract fear of "the future" paints us as immature, irrational and cowardly. But what worries me about AI is that it won't be the future, it will just be the same mistakes and horrors we're making now, but even more efficient and impersonal.
But they are not transparently symbolic.
That's about 6.3 olympic swimming pools a year. Olympic swimming pools are the only true way to measure volume.
Possibly an all-time low. It's hard to compare numbers >40 years old, because they very possibly are not measuring the same things.

As to ease when you "start extremely high" -- SF is now safer, when it comes to violent crime, than most major cities in the US. What it does have is an extremely high rate of quality of life crime.
>It’s pretty incredible to me that the whole community on the last thread was fixated on the fact that it must’ve been the homeless/drug addicts.

Completely agree, I was downvoted into oblivion last week for claiming it was possibly somebody in his circle rather than a random stanger. The assumptions made about the inhumanity of the homeless/poor is worrying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35455096
Assuming the self-proclaimed vermin is operating from $mostly_defunct_state without risk of recourse, what would the arguments be against removing all internet routes to/from $mostly_defunct_state? (Yes, it's obvious that criminals can find ways out of that, please go deeper than that.)

Edit: Seems like the downvotes made me hit my rate limit of HN comments. Can't reply to any more comments; sorry. :(
Are Serverless Services Worth It?
If you look around, you can pretty readily see what people in power do: consolidate power, consolidate wealth. I mean, seriously, look at the U.S.: rich country, but so many struggling in the middle or below. Even though we live an age of information, we are easily controlled by those who have the money and influence.

Now, imagine them living forever. You could almost guarantee how crummy the world would become, with an elite few running everything.

On top of that, if you believe that adding new people is important, eventually you run out of room/resources/etc.

So, for these reasons, death as part of our life cycle is a good thing. Fortunately, we didn't have to invent it.
That's not how it works, else that's what we'd already be seeing.
>That's a very odd example.

You don't understand. I specifically chose an example of a part for which there's a generic answer (all old school pair of tapered bearings on a spindle are changed about the same way) that will work in a wide array of vehicles and situaions but which that procedure is also not right a huge fraction of the time (a huge fraction of the cars on the road today).

>I'd trust a relevant subreddit far more than I'd trust GPT for something like that.

My point is I don't trust either. If you're lucky enough to have an enthusiast car or very, very common car you might be able to use the specific sub assuming the owners aren't generally dolts. If you ask how to change the wheel bearing on your Tacoma they'll say take it to the dealer. If you ask the mechanic sub a bunch of 14yos who know how to google will give you generic steps or just link you to the youtube video. That's the level chatGPT is on right now. If you don't know what you don't know it's dangerous advice.