skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is far from the only one.

If you're interested in exploring this further I can really recommend taking a look at some of the papers that explore GPT-4's capabilities. Most prominent among them are the "Sparks of AGI" paper from Microsoft, as well as the technical report from openai. Both of them are obviously to be taken with a grain of salt, but they serve as a pretty good jumping off point.

There are some pretty good Videos on Youtube exploring these papers if you don't want to read them yourself.

Also take a look at the stuff that Rob Miles has published over on Computerphile, as well as his own channel. He's an Alignment Researcher with a knack for explaining. He covers not just the theoretical dangers, but also real examples of misaligned ai, that alignment researchers have predicted would occur as capabilities grow.

Also I think it's important to mention that just a short while ago virtually no-one thought that shoving more layers into an llm would be enough to reach AGI. It's still unclear that it will get us all the way there, but recent developments have made a lot of ai researchers rethink that possibility, with many of them significantly shortening their own estimates as to when and how we will get there. It's very unusual that the people that are better informed and closer to the research are more worried than the rest of the world and it's worth keeping this in mind as you explore the topic.
>It's the legacy banking system that is fundamentally broken.

I can't think of one time funds from my checking account were wiped out because of a browser extension.
That makes sense. I hope OP learned their lesson. I demand spoonfeeding.
What about a "varied culture" prevents a nationalization of the health insurance industry? It's about presentation: If pitched as "We're offering better health insurance at a lower price than your existing plan" the vast majority of people would be on board.

It would take a political miracle because of our thoroughly corrupted political system, but once it existed as an option, I have no doubt that trying to kill it would be political suicide. The problem is that our far right party is A-Ok with working class people going broke from healthcare costs, and poor people just dying, and our center-right party has pretty much adopted a platform of "We won't make things any worse".
If you are just looking for data versioning there is Dolt:

https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

And that has a user-friendly UI in DoltHub:

https://www.dolthub.com/

You wouldn't store the images themselves in Dolt, those would likely be links to S3 but al the labels and surrounding metadata could be stored in Dolt?

DISCLAIMER: I'm the CEO of DoltHub so this is self-promotion.
how many protestors got ran over by said police (and the reason for why these protests happened in the first place) is a good litmus test though
Do you have an office in Seattle? The Data Engineer role lists both Seattle and Remote.
Growth Hacking to a Billion Dollar Marketplace
I'd say Frankenstein, and before that magical "didn't think it though" errors like The Sorcerer's Apprentice or Midas, or "didn't read the instructions" errors such as Grottasöngr[0] or 水母娘娘 and the magic whip[1].

That said, Yudkowsky seems (rightly or wrongly) to get the credit for turning this from merely fun stories into a serious (and not insane) field of study.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grottasöngr

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuimu
Cops Raid Swedish VPN Provider Only to Find Out There’s No ‘There’ There
This is precisely why Adobe, Microsoft, and Autodesk give colleges and universities free licenses for their products.

The entire industry of digital tools has hung itself on these magic words: "industry standard".

All the while, free software like Krita, Linux, and Blender have become viable, if not substantially better, alternatives to their proprietary incumbent counterparts. Practically every need that the industry has can be met using free tools. The hardest part is simply convincing people to use them.
It is also amazing that is you look at the deposit numbers, almost none of the FDIC protected money moved, whereas almost all of the non-FDIC money went elsewhere.

Maybe they erred in allowing all that FDIC uninsured money, but somebody would have to!
> Is it because they like to feel smart?

I believe that that's actually a big part of it. Many people have a desire to be (or at least feel) smarter than the average, to be ahead of the curve.

Cryptocurrencies, and its marketers, sit in a particularly effective sweet spot of finance- and technobabble (with a sprinkle of defiance of authorities and the status quo on top), catering to that desire.
both seem straight-up scientific journals ("the world’s first and longest-running scientific journal") for specific disciplines. Calling them "high-brow literature" and comparing them with The New Yorker (and its essays on random topics) seems... strange?
And the Lilith computer was an Alto clone. I’m not sure why Worth spent so much time basically redoing what was done in almost an identical way.
Yes. Texas A&M Aggies.
Whether society (here I'm referring to "Representative democracy with general elections;" YMMV if you're under an authoritarian or totalitarian state where someone is already filtering the truth for you) will be fine will be heavily dependent upon whether two things happen:

1. The public, in general, comes to understand in an in-their-bones way that they currently do not understand that most of what they see online is hogwash. I.E. the bozo bit has to flip all the way to "My neighbor says there's a missing dog on the block... but is that really my neighbor?"

2. Some other mechanism of truth-pedigree that has not yet been invented comes along to allow for communication of the current state of the world to work.

Without (1) we know democracies are easily led by credible, subtle propaganda, and a well-tuned network of hostile actors will drive wedges at the friction points in representative democracies and crack them into warring subcultures.

Without (2) voters will have insufficient tools at their disposal to understand country-scale issues and their ability to effect positive outcomes with their vote will collapse into noise, which is a ripe environment for authoritarians to swoop in and seize power (and a ripe environment for centralized authoritarian states to outmaneuver the representative democracies on the world stage and gain power).
The AT protocol is interesting to me, but I actually don't like Twitter's UX. The organization has always seemed off to me -- when Bluesky starts taking more people from the wait-list, I suppose I'll see if it's any better, but I'm glad it's only a 'reference' or initial front-end, and more will come.
This is probably getting pedantic, but dismissing a risk as "nonsense" is how the general population forgets that certain risks exist. And this risk absolutely exists.

If you're a non-tech savvy but high-risk user who travels quite a bit, it's probably worth taking the precaution of using your own charger and cord. That way you don't have to worry about accidentally approving something on your phone that's going to hijack it.
People have gotten it to play chess. The quality of play you get is very sensitive to prompt details, and may also be affected by OpenAI's ongoing model tuning, but here's one experiment in which it won 11 games of 19 against amateurs (treating any illegal move it tried to make as an immediate forfeit): https://dkb.blog/p/chatgpts-chess-elo-is-1400
I'm glad they are getting away from roman/greek gods. Space should not be limited by eurocentrism.
This is a masterpiece, we are solving our chicken and egg problem with this approach at Ropero.io and is booming, thanks guy’s
The Internet Isn't Meant to Be So Small
>>But crypto coins themselves have no value at all in the real world.

Then proceeds to handpick what the real world uses of btc should be excluded from the argument.

No coiners are a special bunch.
There were an estimated 7 to 12 million casualties during the war, mostly civilians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War).

A total of 1,053,829 people died in the Gulag not including labor colonies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet...).

The Communists didn't prey in some vaguely psychological sense, they physically exterminated anyone who disagreed.
Netscape's original business model was selling Navigator.

That didn't work for various reasons, like IE being given away for free. So then they switched to server side products. But there wasn't enough depth there, and there were also free web servers, so they couldn't create enough value to both pay for server development and the browser, so they went under.

Then MS came along. The browser was undermining their paid-for product, not generating revenue. So IE "went under" (was destaffed).

Then AOL came along. For unclear reasons they bought Mozilla and paid for development for a long time, probably losing all their money. They eventually went under.

Then Apple came along. They needed a browser of their own because they didn't want to depend on IE any more. But beyond being able to browse the mobile web they didn't need much more than that. Apple has not gone under, but the web is clearly just a feature of their OS and to the extent it gets developed, it's to keep up with Chrome.

Then Google came along. They saw what a disaster zone the browser market was, plagued by non-existent or directly contradictory business models, and they feared Microsoft crushing them above all else, just like they'd done for Netscape. So they started paying browser makers to set them as the default, and wrote the Toolbar, and eventually graduated to making their own browser from scratch. AdWords is the closest thing the web ever had to an actual business model.

It's reasonable that the people funding Gopher didn't see any commercial future in it, especially as Gopher had search integrated into the protocol. Even Google tried to sell themselves to Yahoo for $1M early on, and were rebuffed, because clearly web stuff wasn't worth that much.
Well let's just build a robot Santa too. What could possibly go wrong
I'm working on Klugbot (http://www.klugbot.com) an AI personal assistant. The idea is to go way beyond what assistants like Siri, Alexa are capable of doing using a combination of LLMs, calling APIs, and deep integrations.

I'm approaching scheduling first - looking at your calendar and coordinating with others to find availability and setting up a meeting - all by just invoking the model.

Eventual goal is to do everything a real human assistant can do online + over phone calls.

Just starting off, and would love to talk to more people interested in this domain. Feel free to hit me up at hi@klugbot.com
Then add NAT 46, 44, and 66 and give no shits about any nonsense that happens outside your network while supporting any device and allowing people to go ipv6 only at any time.

If v6 people didn't hate nat with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns [1] we could have had a smooth ipv6 path with the only necessary change being on consumer routers.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/451914/
The Beauty of Interdisciplinary Research
The bottom of the band comes from Manufacturing Engineer I and the top comes from Software Engineering Manager, Machine Learning.

We have many open positions with vastly varying qualifications and compensation.
My friend has RA, after being on medication for years where he would have nausea for at least a week every month. He stopped taking any medication altogether. He goes to Gym twice a day and keeps a strict diet (relaxed at times). He is way better since the last 4 years.
Should you prepay gratuities for a Royal Caribbean cruise?
Chomsky said that LLMs are statistical regurgitators which means LLMs can never actually reason and explain which language understanding requires. That they are a wrong model of computation by definition.

It's an interesting position and I'm sympathetic toward it, he could be partly right in the end.
I worked for Olivetti in Milan and Ivrea the mid/late 80s. In particular, that was before the wall came down.

When I landed at Malpensa in Milan for the first time, I noticed there was an Aeroflot airliner parked on the tarmac. This seemed odd to me. Why would someone want to fly from Milan to the USSR?

Olivetti was a massive (at the time) paternal Italian company. It had a department called Gestione Varie, miscellaneous management, which handled various things including vacations and sports programs for Olivetti employees. Among the many vacation packages offered were very reasonably priced summer vacations to Leningrad.
I'm kind of curious what it means (and why) for real interest rates to be going down over time like that graph depicted (and assuming it's accurate).

Is it a lack of global economic growth because of natural resource depletion?

For example, you could probably get away with a loan for 18% real if you can sail to America and (leaving politics/historical atrocities aside for a moment) come back with a ship full of gold.

If I had to take a loan with a rate that high I don't think I could possibly pay it back (if it's enough money) without multiple jobs or somehow getting lucky. I don't know that my labor could produce enough.
I don't have any pictures, but I did upload the source code:

Android App: https://github.com/moosilauke18/PrintTodo
API: https://github.com/moosilauke18/printodo-api
Worker on PI: https://github.com/moosilauke18/printodo-worker
SEEKING WORK | Remote (Houston, Texas)

Developer since 1999, so worked with quite a few stacks, but here's the ones I prefer:

Rails (with extensive experience building out workflows in Sidekiq)

NodeJS (more of a backend developer, though I have worked with Javascript as a language since 1999)

Browser automation: Selenium/Puppeteer/Playwright (in more of an automation context than a testing one)

AWS since 2009 - emphasis on EC2 and ECS and related tools

Docker, Docker Compose, etc (in production, ECS; not really experienced with Kubernetes)

ColdFusion/CFML

I've worked with the web platform since 1997, so I'm functionally skilled in front-end, but I wouldn't be a good fit for a role that is more front-end than back-end

Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, Postgresql

Location: Houston, native English speaker

Contact: My HN username at Gmail
So its devs decided to join the trend?

I'm not sure how that's better.
I like the squeak too. I recently moved to a place with hard water and so everyone has water softeners. With this super soft water I can't get the squeak ever. It just feels slimy to me.
This substack is my low profile place so I am not planning to reveal my identity here. And what I said shouldn't be relevant to who I am. I don't think you should judge the content by who said it. You should judge it by if it makes sense :)
Yeah. I remember my parents getting a permit to vacation by the Black Sea like once. My grandfather went to Egypt once. The vacations even within the soviets were super scarce experiences and going to the west was only possible for a choir trip or something like that after being vetted by the kgb for your flight risk.

There were trips to leningrad or moscow but even those had years between them.

So yea, most vacations were helping out at grandparents farm. And reading books during rainy days.
I don't think the clear water and clear air analogy works very well. They seem to be very different cases. Keeping clean and dirty water separate is trivial and requires no more advanced technology than plumbing. Keeping clean and "dirty" air separate is impossible. We will always breathe air that includes pathogens. That isn't to say there should be efforts to improve air quality, but I think a lot of times analogies like this oversimplify things. It's easy to eradicate cholera through cleanliness and modern plumbing, but we will never eradicate airborne viruses through air filters and masks.
The multi trillion dollar real estate bubble in China was state funded…
They would never say that, and it could always be "we have too many white guys already, we want some more diversity instead!" But in my experience, it only seems to be used as a tie breaker, companies will mostly go for best professional fit before they consider anything else.
> You're incorrect. I know bash and the syntax is not user friendly for me.

We're not disagreeing then. I specifically said I also felt bash felt cryptic back when I thought I "knew" it, but didn't really know it, as it turned out. Casual familiarity, or even frequent but superficial friction with bash definitely leaves one feeling they're dealing with incomprehensible symbols and hackiness most of the time.

But, the thing is, I'm not "guessing" you don't know it well enough. I'm inferring it clearly from how you described it in the text. Because it reminds me exactly of how I used to think about it too, before I invested the time and learned to love it. Perhaps you think you know it well enough, but the way you talk about it suggests you don't really. Unless of course you intentionally chose very contrived examples to push a point, but it didn't seem to me that that's what you were trying to do.

That's not to say that once you learn it properly you will certainly 100% percent love it and ditch PS of course. I'm just saying from the way you describe how you work with it, you don't sound like someone who's really really gotten comfortable with it and learned to rely on it. And if and when you did, I suspect you'd start liking it more. Happy to be proven wrong of course (not that that's important either way, we're just random guys expressing personal opinions over the internet :p ).

> You only had a response to the powershell part?

Yes. I don't really have a strong opinion (positive or negative) about the rest. Nicely written though, thanks for the read.

The bit that I did agree with quite a bit was the sad state of macs. But I don't think that necessarily makes the current Windows experience the pinnacle of development; it just makes macs worse. (how the Apple marketing machine manages to promote macs as "the best at X" when they're arguably pretty consistently the worst at X, for most Xs, is absolutely mindblowing to me).
Exactly.

The important thing to the people who deposited money is that they get made whole, but the shareholders will still get nothing (or a nominal sum) so they still have an incentive to hold the bank executives accountable in the future.
Yes, yes they should.
Wouldn't police/fire/emergency no-go areas be a goldmine of intel for bad actors too?
> 99.99% of what reasoning we do is just replaying older ideas adapted in context.

Asserted without evidence.

I'm willing to accept that most human speech behavior may well happen in similar ways to LLMs. But most human speech behavior is not reasoning.
Europe, of course, being a totally homogenous culture? This argument that America is too culturally diverse or too big for something to work has got to be the most uninformed, "the world consists of america and other", ever.
> https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1417136897894326277

Companies are leasing out the core aspects of computing (storage, networking, CPU, GPU, auth), nothing really insightful here. Just your average day in capitalism.

> many other platforms try to start off offering everything under the sun

Do they? Or do they also start small, then build up over the years until they have everything under the sun, rinsing and repeating the process.
That would be wrong though. The capitalist economy in the US has lasted literally centuries.
Applied for a SWE role got the rejection mail in a day, Given I work at a fang subsidy, I atleast expected a screening call.
> They are moving by the smallest amount they can each meeting.

Moving each meeting means going from 0.08 in Feb 2022 to 4.57 in Feb 2023. It may not be quick compared to previous financial shocks, but it is much faster than recent interest rate increases (2015-2018 was 3 years to go up half as much; 2004-2006 went up 4% in two years). Additionally, a decade of basically zero interest rate, followed by 3 years of slow increases and then another two years of zero, followed by a steep climb is kind of unexpected and shocking. You can hardly blame people for not expecting a rates to rise so quickly when there hasn't been anything similar in the past 30 years.
That's why even in conversations where we're talking abstractly about this stuff, I just pull out my phone and wave it around.

If science doesn't work then what the fuck is this thing?
Red oak and white oak are two of the least expensive hardwood floor materials in most of the US...
I agree that the rate increases are fast. Or at least were, they slowed.

But overall, the last couple decades were the exception not the norm.

Look at the 50s and 60s. That low in the 60s took 40 years to get to again!

It will likely be another 40 years before we see those low low rates again.
And Chomsky is in touch with other colleagues who agree with him, it's not as if his disagreement stems from being an old, isolated hermit. At the least you'd have to argue his colleagues are also mistaken.
But you can still download it from their website for free. They charge for it on the windows store.
Max Planck said:

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it ...

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.

Seems largely in line with Clarke's comment.
They were GPLv2 for a while but changed course. I'd use the fork going forward:

https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite
More specifically: we've opened a tome containing most human knowledge (in an unfiltered, messy hash stripped of truthfulness signals) and we don't teach children how, in that context, to separate wheat from chaff.

It's a hell of a social experiment we're all in the middle of (though to be fair, that's always true; television was its own flavor of mass social experiment with its own pros and cons, as was telephone, as was radio, as was telegraph).
American police are actually much more scary tbh. Physically, many Chinese cops are fairly scrawny and usually don’t carry guns, maybe just handcuffs and a baton. Their main weapon is their body camera. Sometimes they do carry guns but it’s not the norm imo.

I will add one more aspect is the almost complete absence of traffic cops. A lot of the most dangerous situations with cops in the US have been at traffic stops. But in China there are cameras that send out tickets automatically. I’m sure there are due process concerns with that implementation, but there is also a zero percent chance you will be killed by police at a traffic stop.
Here is an old (2016) breakdown of their income sources:
https://krita.org/en/item/funding-kritas-development/

I follow their updates semi-regularly so I'm not sure if they made a more recent one that was as detailed. I found a tad depressing to see how much Steam purchases are making compared to donations.

They also had an interesting post about the fact that on the Windows store they cannot mention that you can download it for free as it is against Microsoft TOS:
https://krita.org/en/item/krita-in-the-windows-store-an-upda...

They also mention that it's a compromise, it's adding a new income stream but participating in the economy of non-free software.

It's hard to make money with free software, even if your product is industry-level in some aspects.