skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The moment you make something public then society can do what it wants with it.

Very strongly disagree with this. If Stephen King decides no more printings of any of his books he's is well within his right to do so. He can share it with the world or not.

> I think that society suffers when we artificially make cultural artifacts scarce.

I agree with this only if it's the intent of the creator. For instance, putting a Picasso painting in a billionaire's office / yacht / warehouse and locking it away is probably wrong in the sense Picasso most likely didn't want his paintings under lock and key. And although I love Picasso I don't know if there's suffering in society when there's so much other art available. It's a loss for sure, but I don't know if society is any worse.
As long as the AI (that anyone can access) can also spit out an equally powerful antiviral.
> If they "could," why didn't they?

Because this is early days?

Surely you don't imagine that every product emerges in its final form?

Maybe instead you could explain why they couldn't. As I noted, people seem to be able to use TLS to make secure connections to websites without generating keypairs from the command line, or whatever.

Edit: and in fact this has been done.

https://nostr.how/en/guides/iris

Type in your name. Hit "Go". Done.
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> It is the idea that the state is a creation of the people, and that all power - real, ceremonial, even trivial - derives from the power of the people.

And yet the first line of the constitution of this constitutional monarchy is that "all power derives from the people". These things are not mutually exclusive.

Rex dei gratia hasn't been a thing for centuries, it's rex populi gratia these days. If any royal family fucks up too much, they're out on their asses, and they know it.
FYI the link is broken

> Cannot GET /gridmatic/ee0f4882-10aa-4c92-b0bb-14970b75f19f](https://jobs.lever.co/gridmatic/ee0f4882-10aa-4c92-b0bb-1497...)
My understanding is that it's essentially Looker minus the dashboarding. What you would define via LookML is essentially the "semantic layer" that this is addressing. DBT is attempting to do similar work: https://www.getdbt.com/product/semantic-layer/
isn't it ironic that there's no autocomplete on the tool that's literally autocomplete? haha

where's the fine-tuned prompt helper model?
What authority does "the rest of the world" have over a sovreign country? The people or the land are not subjects of some world government.

It is because of this post-colonial interference they are still having this war. Sudan was a product of europeans drawing lines on maps.

Also, when you say the rest of the world, what that means in reality is rich and poweful countries and everyone else who aligns with them to avoid their displeasure because that is worse than giving a shit about Sudan's sovreignity.
GPT3 is 800GB, which is about as large as the largest torrent files out there. GPT4 size is unknown, so I can't comment. While I haven't run the actual numbers (life is short), assuming a GPT3 torrent, my sense is that the cost of running it would be under $1M, possibly under $100k. Compared to (hundreds of?) $B for a state-level nuclear weapons program.

But yes, technically I was wrong. It is not 'practically free', it is 'within the budget of e.g. a race boat enthusiast'.
The other obvious UX comparison point is with sending instant messages to a person until they get it right....

Provided the responses aren't too brittle (and the LLM getting it wrong isn't too upsetting or find-out-too-late) lots of non power-users are going to prefer it, at least in cases where a menu or form input with about six options won't suffice.
Most of the work has gone into the development head for several years now, so the stable 2.x releases would seem slow and clunky.

The good news is that the 3.0 release is expected to finally happen this year, and hopefully they'll adopt a more frequent release strategy thereon.
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I think it was a surprise the behaviors that were unlocked at different perplexity levels, but I don't really agree that LLMs were "looked down on."
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4 0days were just patched recently on Samsungs which targeted the baseband modem among a batch of 22. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2023/03/17/dangerous-androi...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

Is this even something people voted on directly or is it just one point among many in each party’s total stance to vote for?
Personally I’ve never believed that adding more houses decreases prices. Though that is true in theory, in practice what happens is:

1. Major housing developments are accompanied by more jobs than the units being built could serve.

2. Developments are accompanied by local initiatives to improve the neighborhood that take effect soon after.

3. The quality disparity in a given area results in people far higher than the neighborhood median income moving in, resulting in (2) and eventually (1).

I’ve yet to see anywhere on earth that’s both dense and cheap which I believe more or less proves the point. If building more houses really made things cheaper it would be trivial to prove: cities, which are denser, would be cheaper than the nearby suburbs. Across virtually every region this is not true, when adjusted for square footage.

The problem with the United States isn't that housing is too expensive - it's that housing is too big.

To that end I agree with this article. The area that has people leaving their (presumably less dense) locales will become cheaper, but those areas will also become less desirable and ultimately have fewer people. If that’s the case, the price decreases is not really relevant in the same way the price of housing in Oklahoma City is irrelevant to someone in Brooklyn.

That being said, post COVID is very different as commercial real estate is not nearly as lucrative. Who knows what will happen now.
Ask HN: Why are so many of you so critical of AI?
Open any AI / LLM thread on Hacker News, and within minutes you'll get one of the following:

"It's a parrot."

"It's not actually thinking."

"AI fans are just the new crypto-bro."

For such a "technical" and "smart" cohort, I find it absolutely insane that so many on HN are so overly critical; so lacking in foresight ("I asked it to do math and it failed; it'll never be helpful, ever"); and so dismissive -- I truly question if it's some form of denial.

What am I getting wrong? How is progress in AI as of late _not_ mind-blowing? How are we not excited at looking potential similarities between human cognition and current AI advancements?

I am well aware that I myself am taken with the latest advancements in the space, but I'm really trying to separate that bias here. How is it that, when Stuart Russel or Hinton come out saying, "Hey, this stuff is pretty crazy and we should be careful", the vast majority of HN comments are, "wow, Hinton's Google RSUs must've vested; he just has nothing new to say."
Asians and Indians can be racist too. Also, those groups aren't the only minorities on earth.
Do you have an example of AI false advertising?
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I run half-marathons on $55 New Balance short-tops ("regular sneakers"). I don't even know what a cloud shoe is?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism might work.
This is probably going to be Reddit's Digg moment for me. The sad thing is there isn't really a suitable replacement available. HN is the closest experience to early Reddit and I wouldn't be surprised if the site's traffic ramps up noticeably over the next couple months.
I can't find the source, but I heard most of the newest crop of billionaires made all their money of financialized wealth (ie, not producing anything of value, just arbitraging something - probably mostly real-estate).

They're not exactly doing nothing but they're not producing anything of real value. This is a growing problem in the US.
Not sure most would agree that "creativity == intelligence", but I'll go with it:

Even assuming that definition, it begs the question of, "what is creativity?"
I don't think the mention of the C64 was with regards to its affordability at the time, but rather its computing power. If you find a 20 year old computer in a dumpster, yeah it may have been expensive back in the day, but its cheap as dirt now, and so long as you can get it to turn on it's still going to be perfectly adequate for hobby programming. Programming may have been an expensive hobby 40 years ago, but it's been cheap for a very long time now.
IMO more interstate competition on services is the right way forward. We should make it cheaper for competitive providers to expand to neighboring states.
>If it is number of paper clips, they are automatically aligned, right?

Why would it be automatically aligned? If for example, the parent AI spawns a child AI probe to travel to a celestial body that doesn't have any metals, in order to achieve some sub-goal, and that child AI would then spawn additional AIs with their own sub-sub-goals, how would the original paperclip maximizer make sure that no such descendant goal ever contradict the generation of paperclips?
Ah, I too had to settle for Tomy after drooling over the Hero range as a child.
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I sort of agree with the sentiment behind what OP is saying here, but perhaps not the way he is saying it. I'm not sure if I'd call it "security" as much as "system integrity." The model that Apple has moved to with the signed and sealed system volume is pretty interesting. I didn't even realize how much had changed with macOS until I was hunting around to change the startup wallpaper on Monterey and realized that macOS today is totally different from the macOS I remembered administering many years ago.

UAC on a Mac has always been good, but now there is this new layer that even protects the system from the admin. I think the real risk with Apple's model is that there are these choke points now that, if compromised, can cause truly catastrophic failure—especially because of the false sense of security that's out there. If an Apple update server or signing certificate were compromised it would be a potential company ending event. Other ecosystems are much more fragmented, and there is some resilience baked into that. I remember a few years back when an OCSP server went down and internet connected Macs around the world ground to a halt. You couldn't open any application because it took 10 minutes for the server that verifies its certificate to time out.
Well that's precisely what we were doing until 2018 when lobbyists and the Trump Administration carved out exceptions for banks with less than (or equal to) $250 Billion in assets (see link above). So a more pertinent question from my perspective is: "Who's brilliant idea was this anyway? /s"

But if "the answer" you are referring to is to prevent consolidation in banking, then I think it's not quite as cut-and-dry. Regulation, especially risk-management regulations, can act as barriers to entry and create an environment that favors larger/established institutions leading to market consolidation. As an over simplification by a layman, it could look something like:

- Higher regulation constrains profitability and raises fixed costs of running a bank (compliance burden).
- This means that the amount of assets under control by a bank has to be higher in order for the bank to be profitable.
- This higher floor reduces the likelihood new banks start (since the asset requirements to be profitable are higher).
- Existing banks, in an effort to increase profits, acquire and merge with other banks.

These final two trends (less banks starting, more MnA's) are what could drive market consolidation. In a lot of ways Airlines are an example of this in a different industry.

I am definitely _not_ suggesting small banks should be exempted from Dodd-Frank like they were. I actually found the 2018 deregulation disturbing and disappointing. I am only trying to illustrate that even if 2018 hadn't happened, I don't know for sure if there would be more competition in the banking industry. (Only that the banks we do have would be less risky)
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TIL about building materials and fire hazard:

Fire resistance rating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-resistance_rating

R-value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-value_(insulation)

Here's a prompt to help with selecting sustainable building materials: """Generate a JSON-LD document of data with citations comparing building materials by: R-value, Fire Resistance Rating, typical structural integrity longevity in terms of years, VOCs at year 1 and year 5, and Sustainability factors like watt-hours and carbon and other pollutive outputs to produce, transport, distribute, install, and maintain . Include hempcrete (hemp and lime, which can be made from algae), rammed earth with and without shredded hemp hurds, wood, structural concrete, bamboo, and other emerging sustainable building materials.

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> Sometimes it's too much info to give out. You want to accept phish/malware and silently drop it so that the bad actors don't know you've detected it.

Users' interests are served by being informed when this happens. And plain text correspondence is not easily mistaken for malware.

> A perfect technical configuration doesn't make you inherently trustworthy or provide you with faultless reputation.

No one claimed such.
Pretty cool for train hobbyists.

...although from the title, I was expecting some kind of bus that runs on train tracks :P
It is a good thing if people actually fill up the trains and get value out of them. While empty trains are comfortable, they are an inefficiency. The 9€ ticket showed that people would really like to be more mobile ´if they could afford it. Making this possible creates value for society.
I would imagine it’s less to police or protect the church locations and more to “police” the actions of their parishioners.
Promises of "socialism" always seem to require granting huge amounts of power to the government, which leads to inefficiency, abuse, and worse.

In theory, perhaps socialism doesn't require huge amounts of government power; or perhaps huge amounts of government power doesn't always lead to horrible outcomes. But that's just a theory and has little evidence to back it up at the scale of millions of people.

Bernie Sanders said "These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?"[1] in 2011, less than a decade before collapse. If he can't tell the difference between a socialist utopia and a recipe for disaster, how is a layperson supposed to know?

Just like a tech startup: don't call your users stupid and keep pushing your theoretically-good product. Listen and try to understand why it's not working for them.

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Your argument is a strawman - but yes, ideally this would come via additional taxation or regulation of investment (which we do now, but not well enough).
This is super cool! What motivated you to build it? What do you feel it offers over other habit tracking apps :)
Twitter is currently down. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35778041
M-x spook

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/...
…that’s why it’s in quotes.
> I was insulted and mocked by everyone I said it to

I mean, it’s not a fringe theory. MS could be one example.
That could be a clever way of checking for bots if a captcha needs to be solved to log back in.
Whenever thinking about density and prices, a worthwhile example to consider is Tokyo. Very dense, but housing prices are very affordable. Part of the reason, as I understand, is that Tokyo allows people to keep building (compare to San Francisco).
>How is progress in AI as of late _not_ mind-blowing

It is mind-blowing. This has absolutely no bearing on whether anyone should be critical of it or not, though.

>For such a "technical" and "smart" cohort

You are attempting to imply that HN should de-facto align with AI by appealing to ego, but that doesn't really work here - it is in fact that "technical"/"smart" cohort that leads to the healthy criticism.

I would wager there is an issue wherein healthy criticism has started to get drowned out, and if your point was that - rather than trying to say it's just denial - you might have an interesting discussion.
But why would you put $100k in savings? There are so many better places that are going to get you more than a monthly grocery bill over time.
> How is progress in AI as of late _not_ mind-blowing?

What is mind-blowing about it? How is it actually thinking, and not a parrot? How do you separate the hype from the specific facts of the actual advances?

In other words, what are the legitimate criticisms, and if you have none, why not?
> Very dense, but housing prices are very affordable

it's not, though. Tokyo is substantially more expensive than other cities in Japan. Tokyo is also more expensive than American cities when adjusted to per sq/ft rent and PPP.

"Tokyo is so cheap" is a meme at this point. Tokyo is cheap the same way having roommates is cheap (roommates are much, much rarer in Tokyo compared to NYC).
I had teeth pulled as a child, and other dental work done, without anesthetics.

Going to the dentist now is ... challenging.
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But is the person using the tool an artist? I think this is an important question. If I give detailed instructions to a human ghost writer about a story I want them to write, I don't think anyone would say that I wrote the story. It was written by the ghost writer.

If a piece of art is made by a computer based on detailed instructions, that art was made by a computer, not a person.

If you are in the camp that you don't care whether or not art was made by a human, this isn't even a little problem. If, however, you are in the camp that cares a lot about that, then this is a very, very serious problem.

Either way, this means that this isn't "just a tool" like a printing press. It's something completely different, and more than a tool.
See, they are debatable after all - we are debating them. There is data, there are some correlations that are statistically significant, and some raise even more questions — like why performance lowers at 1200ppm, but goes back up at higher concentrations in this article published on Nature in a very controlled environment - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-019-0071-6

I don't think this topic distracts from anything. I live in Finland, where indoor air quality is a big topic (mycotoxins and spores due to mold in old houses, burning wood in residential areas due to particulate emissions on cold days, construction codes, etc), while the country is making strides to become carbon neutral, and has one of the lowest economical inequality in the world.

But anyway, as I mentioned in the initial comment, the high CO2 just raised my attention to the bad ventilation of the house, and that includes ventilation of particulates from activities like cooking.
One pattern I noticed was that the low-to-low was about 40 years. We should probably expect rates to continue to rise over the next couple of decades before subsiding again, if that graph is any indication.
The announcement mentions you do need it when announcing the stop. By then it is prob too late, though.

If you use the bvg app it tells you which ticket you need for any destination, but non-locals might not know that.