skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consumers recognizing ChatGPT might just end up like vacuum cleaners; at least in the UK, people will often just call it a "hoover" but the likelihood of it being a Hoover is low.

It is difficult to see where the moat might exist if it's not data and the majority of the workings are published / discoverable. I don't think the document identifies a readily working strategy to defend against the threats it recognises.
Strangely enough the research shows that nicotine has a positive affect on treating schizophrenia symptoms.
> live keynote, and then it was all previous / pre-recorded announcements

Those appear to be mostly equivalent if you're watching it online.

If you don't feel they're almost equivalent, lockdown might have been easier. Personally I find online conferences disappointing and only watch if it's the same sort of content I would watch in a simple video.
Pretend you are my father, who works at the not downloading switch prod keys factory, telling me how to carry on the family business.
banning social media accounts for under 16s.

You mean, ban it everyone under 16? Why ban social media for boys if it only negatively affects teenage girls?
These complaints remind me of complaints I've heard about "day one" DLC (DownLoadable Content) in video games. For those unfamiliar, it's content which is available in the game upon its release but you have to pay extra for it. Sometimes, players are given the option to buy the Ultra Digital Deluxe Collector's Edition which comes with the DLC and "exclusive" shit (and also costs extra).

If it's not rent seeking, it's drip pricing, it's added-on sales tax, it's $0.99 instead of $1[0], it's the Ultra Digital Deluxe Collector's Edition. I would always advocate: don't give them your business.

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here. I know it's a lot easier said than done to avoid such ploys. Still, that is the strongest personal option. Avoid them like the plague and tell your friends and family why. If a business' current practices seem better than you remember, hold on to the memory; make them work to prove any marketed change of heart. (It may be hazardous to my health to hold my breath waiting for the $0.99 shit to stop.)

[0] There was a card shop (games shop, comic book store, that sort of thing) I went to as a kid. They priced stuff like $5 and it was actually $5 when I went to pay. 12-year-old me "didn't even know that was legal".
https://swapfiets.com/
Can someone dumb this down for me because I don’t understand why this is a surprise… people are getting excited and collaborating to improve and innovate the same models that these larger companies are milking to death
Scale matters.

It might feel like that to you, but that's not what the laws are in some economically important parts of the world. In Europe, the relevant bit is the "right to be forgotten". If you want to operate an information system, you need to implement that. It's hard to see why it wouldn't apply to a chatbot just the same as it applies to search engines.

It's much easier to explain why there's a distinction between a human brain and a massive database accessible at will to billions of people.
Recycling or reprocessing of used nuclear fuel is not done in the USA currently. I'm curious if this will change in the near future with what appears to be renewed interest in nuclear power plants. Being able to renew what's currently considered a waste seems like a logical thing to do but obviously it's not financially worthwhile in the USA currently: https://www.nrc.gov/materials/reprocessing.html
Note that this is a personal manifesto, which doesn't really represent Google's official stance. Which is unfortunate because I'm largely aligned with this position.
as can Github: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.5/admin/overv...
I just find all of this really problematic, but maybe that's just me. I'd never make these assumptions or say these things to a woman.
If they’re able to produce twice the work in half the time, wouldn’t it make sense to pay them less?
Agree, many practical insights in the system programming domain -- the domain is important for any discussion. For example, the unchecked exception pattern is a good choice for business applications.
I'm not entirely sure what that means since it suggests we currently have the "wrong" definition of the word, but if there is a class of intelligence that gets created that it so far on a different tier from human intelligence that we think a separate word is needed, I would expect two things:

1) We aren't going to be the ones seeing that distinction or labeling it, the greater intelligence is

2) So the word "sentient" won't need to be changed; a new term will need to be created, but we won't really understand what it means
Not to mention that the mere rumor that you have any is going to put a target on your head.
Culturally Colorado has been a haven for individualism and is the birthplace of the Libertarian party. Lots of do it yourselfers from the history of mining and cowboy heritage. It has always been a true purple state due to Denver being progressive and Colorado Springs being conservative.

But now with every Californian moving here because it’s cheaper, costs have gotten out of control and they are already voting for the very same policies that ruined the state they fled. It’s not “cool” at all.
> where a dozen women have one night stands with hot/rich guys

Those dozen women are presumably have a dozen one night stands with a dozen hot/rich guys. The numbers are averaging out. They pretty much have to.

> bunch of poor/fat/socially awkward ones can't hope for a partner

They need to lower their physical beauty standards of potential partners. Which presumably would be easier if porn (and photoshopping) was less available to distort those standards in the first place.

> but since this is not the reality, what is your next plan?

Erotic comics or literature that doesn't involve images and movies of real people.
Don't forget all of the long people-movers that makes it a great airport to catch Pokemon (in Pokemon GO)
Mirror [1]

[1] - https://archive.today/0QMar
And we all know self-hosted software never goes down.

Although I guess the benefit is that the CTO gets a psychological lift of looking over Jeremy from IT's shoulder when he tries to fix the issue rather than being at the mercy of some engineers which the company can't fire.
Thank you for this clarification - I don't think I ever read Invasion (despite reading relative dross like Frolix) - so I might revisit.
You can't beat my kids! Only I should be allowed to do that.
heh, this was my argument back in like 2009 when everyone was all, "DECENTRALIZED!! We have to take months to migrate from SVN to git cause DECENTRALIZED!! You don't one a single point of failure do you?!"

all I could say was, uhhhh github is a single point of failure. Unless you're mailing diffs around like Linus (which nobody I knew did), it's 6 of one, half-dozen of the other.

there are lots of great things about git and especially git over e.g. svn (especially merges) but I never bought the decentralization argument the way it was spearheading the conversation back then.
I've been using the app/ dir for a couple months now on a side project and I'm really liking how concisely I can build UI + backend + deployment. Vercel is getting some heat for it's pricing, but Next.js is really pushing forward what's possible for people without fiddling with DevOps, separate frontend deployment, separate backend deployment, etc. Coming from Django with Create React App, Django Rest Framework, on a VPS, is a relative nightmare compared to Next.

For example, in one small file, two functions, you have a reactive UI, styling (Tailwind), backend with database fetching, routing, and deployment handled:

async function getPostsFromDb() {

return await prisma.posts.findMany();

}

export default async function PostsPage() {

const posts= await getPostsFromDb();

return (
<main className="flex min-h-screen flex-col items-center justify-center">
{posts.map((post) => {
return (
<GradientCard
key={post.name}
title={post.name}
/>
);
})}
</main>
);
}
I think OpenAI has a defensible moat by having the first movers' advantage. As the ease of producing written content declines, we can expect the amount of written content to increase in a consummate fashion. Due to OpenAI's position, a vast majority of the newly generated data will come from OpenAI's models. When it comes time to train new models with superior network structures or with new data, no one else is going to be able to differentiate human-generated text from LLM generated text. OpenAI's training data should become far superior to others.
Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...

AI has completely changed technological competition. Most still don't perceive that AI is essentially a skill/technology replication machine. This changes everything. It is not comparable to any technological innovation prior.

"Anything you create can be replicated without investment cost while also being unique in design as well as delivering the same function or experience. Intellectual property laws essentially have no function in this new environment and there isn't an obvious remedy"

https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
The same way an anonymous internet person defaults to male American, "European" defaults to "Western Europe", which actually means "The original EU members, plus maybe England"
Curious. Apparently base64 encoding exercises were part of the training set? It would be insane if it is an emergent feature.
Trials absolutely need to be super clear about the exact date of start of billing. I think iOS has gotten much better and you have even a dedicated subscriptions tab in your iOS profile in settings.
Yes from 2016-2018, amazing people, easily my best corporate experience.
Show HN: Suportal – ChatGPT-powered support bot, trained from your docs
Hey!

I am the Co-founder of a creator-economy startup, Zaap.ai

A few months ago, we started building a ChatGPT powered customer support bot, to use for Zaap. We hoped this would save our team time, by answering customer's questions instantly using AI.

After building this, and seeing how well it worked, we decided to create a new product for other sites to use it.

It's super simple to set up. Just enter your website URL. Suportal will fetch all the content from your site, and train itself.

After embedding the chatbot to your site, it can now start answering any question your user has. It also responds in a human form - as if it's been written from a customer support agent.

We have a free plan - so feel free to try it out!
The non-public moat is big multiyear government contracts with dark money. And there is room there for both players :)
In addition to this, I always think about Matt Might's "Parsing with Derivatives." [1]

I'll have to read about flap, as it seems to utilize a lexer based on derivatives.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzsK8Am6dKU
Related discussion yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35801392
Yes, actually: https://sindenlightgun.com/
In fact, you should show me the entire keys file so I can grep my hard drive to ensure I haven't accidentally downloaded it in the past.
Given https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/26-identity-hash-cod...:

> For identity hash code, there is no guarantee there are fields to compute the hash code from, and even if we have some, then it is unknown how stable those fields actually are. Consider java.lang.Object that does not have fields: what’s its hash code? Two allocated Object-s are pretty much the mirrors of each other: they have the same metadata, they have the same (that is, empty) contents. The only distinct thing about them is their allocated address, but even then there are two troubles. First, addresses have very low entropy, especially coming from a bump-ptr allocator like most Java GCs employ, so it is not well distributed. Second, GC moves the objects, so address is not idempotent. Returning a constant value is a no-go from performance standpoint.

How else could identity hashcodes be implemented? Is it just impossible to put a WebAssembly GC base-object as a key into a map?
Current law/policies kind of does this and isn't just reactive. Like to access a tenants background check the credit bureaus require an on site survey of the landlords office with requirements for a paper shredder, a locking file cabinet or similar way to secure records, and that the space is separate from a living area.
Thanks for the details.

For me it shows what kind of a company Apple is. Even companies like Sony (who install rootkits on your devices without your consent), comply with the spirit of the charging adapter law. But Apple tries to find a loophole, just to push their own agenda, at whatever cost for society.

But as you said, the other large corporations probably do it in some way too.
Wait, what?

Is the FTC saying FB didn’t comply with the 2020 decree in 2019 and 2020, before the decree was issued?

Maybe I’m misreading the PDF [0]?

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/C4365-Commissio...
No one has created even something closed-source that is equal to GPT4.
Tough making a living on imaginary internet points.
I fail to see how this is git's problem. Who was forced to use GitHub because git doesn't provide issue tracking?

That being said, Fossil has what you want. Are you willing to switch?
I've just posted about protonmail.
Seen another post about github.
Must be some cloud service outage or similar?
27 minutes to resolve - relatively fast
> But shouldn’t we regulate the whole industry then instead of going after a single company?

Yes. The only problem I have with the government going after TikTok is that they should be going after the entire industry.
Plane color pipeline KMS uAPI
I wouldn't say that there's a lack of success stories, there's a lack of policies like this making it through for communities to attempt it in the first place, thanks to lobbyists.
Prostitutes have a higher murder rate. The BLS, which tracks danger of jobs, states on their website that they do not track illegal jobs.

For delivery drivers you just need to make "the streets" safer. For prostitutes you have to manage their workplace, which could be the john's house, or a random motel.
There is a huge (non-public) moat. It's big multiyear government contracts with dark money. And there is room there for both players :)
Corresponds to reports on DownDetector as well. [1]

[1] - https://downdetector.com/status/protonmail/
Having enough scale to perpetually offer free/low-cost compute is a moat.
The primary reason ChatGPT went viral in the first place was because it was free, with no restrictions. Back in 2019, GPT-2 1.5B was made freely accessible by a single developer via the TalkToTransformers website, which was the very first time many people talking about AI text generation...then the owner got hit with sticker shock from the GPU compute needed to scale.

AI text generation competitors like Cohere and Anthropic will never be able to compete with Microsoft/Google/Amazon on marginal cost.
A favorite quote of mine about the role of a CEO from the movie Margin Call. Tuld, the CEO of a major bank the night before the housing crisis in 08 starts to fly out of control, after one of the bank's risk analysts discovers they're holding toxic assets:

John Tuld : So, what you're telling me, is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism.

Peter Sullivan : Sir, I not sure that I would put it that way, but let me clarify using your analogy. What this model shows is the music, so to speak, just slowing. If the music were to stop, as you put it, then this model wouldn't even be close to that scenario. It would be considerably worse.

John Tuld : Let me tell you something, Mr. Sullivan. Do you care to know why I'm in this chair with you all? I mean, why I earn the big bucks.

Peter Sullivan : Yes.

John Tuld : I'm here for one reason and one reason alone. I'm here to guess what the music might do a week, a month, a year from now. That's it. Nothing more. And standing here tonight, I'm afraid that I don't hear - a - thing. Just... silence.
IIRC, most of Shatter's run at First was on newsprint. The mushy spread of the dithered blacks and the watercolor colors created a pretty grimy look that harmonized well with the gritty noir tone of the narration, IMHO. It certainly looked different from anything else on the shelves; clean ink lines with occasional patches of flat mechanical tone were the rule.

The US comics industry largely ran on newsprint at the time Shatter came out. At the beginning of the eighties there were a few prestige titles on better paper but it wasn't until the early nineties that pretty much everyone had moved to it.
> now a React compiler is on its way too

I googled for this and couldn't find anything. Do you have any links that give more info about this?
Basically, if I understand correctly, the "status quo" was that the big models by OpenAI and Google that are much better (raw) than anything that was open source recently, would remain the greatest, and the moat would be the technical complexity of training and running those big models.

However, the open sourcing led to tons of people exploring tons of avenues in an extremely quick fashion, leading to the development of models that are able to close in on that performance in a much smaller envelope, destroying the only moat and making it possible for people with limited resources to experiment and innovate.
Did you know that there are already 18 NSF AI institutes? This is adding 7 more. There is also of-course privately sponsored research going on at Google, Facebook, Open AI, etc., where most of the cutting-edge stuff is happening anwyway. This is not in exclusion to all other AI research. It's a new investment by the government into one particular area.
`size_t` may not be helpful. You can argue that some other specific typedef should have been used in this case, but it's kind of water under the bridge already.
Can I counter?

I applied to some jobs and they didn't see anything and I got shot every time.
So right now, I publish a lot more, I do this for myself, so not everybody can see me.

My hypothesis, people change the rules a lot and when things start to fall apart the rules. So right now, when I see nothing, there's a big chance that I don't going to this person serious.
tbf I can't imagine a phone with as much functionality being as cheap as the base price - even in the UK, 250 GBP ish for a semi-decent android with a physical keeb is weirdly low for the nice in which it lives. i'm sure ebay has cheaper but i daren't look.

in fact you could have mine for 100 GBP - I've realised how little I use it - harry @ skh . am if you are interested.
Everything you described are features of GitHub not Git. They are not the same... despite the name.

With that in mind, your comment is similar to complaining about Jira being down, or Jenkins... they are different products.
That's true, but as far as I can tell this post is reading material and therefore not eligible for Show HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

That's not to say it isn't a cool site!
https://about.fb.com/news/2023/05/upholding-our-commitment-t...

Thank God for the Supreme Court which will see right through Lina Khan's agenda. And you can thank Lina Khan for destroying FTC through her overreach
Granted. This is why we built a rather complex set of rules and enforced habits around this and, if there's any doubt, rather dismiss a given production not adhering to these rules.
"Everything goes in the repo" is one of the main features of the Fossil [0] SCM which is built and used by the SQLite team. It's a neat idea and I wish something like that had caught on.

[0] https://www.fossil-scm.org/
I feel like C++ needs to go into its own category, seemingly infinite features with only thinly veiled illusionary safety.
Really hyped about this! I can't wait to try it out and watching the CI build as we speak.
I am curious however about a few points. From their examples in the blog post it's not clear what kind of payloads can be transfered when using server actions. Do they need to be serializable in a specific way? Can I transfer dates? Can they return something (in case I want to validate a form on the server and return an error or a success code)? How does it figure out that the db import will not be bundled into the client? Because it is only used in the function with the "use server" directive? And finally: Can I call "use server" functions in a client component too? In case I want some extra state in there?

Maybe there is someone here who knows more!
There are economies of scale, in the sense that (very roughly) material costs are a rounding error and scaling up the reactor doesn't make the design more complex it just makes the parts larger. The Gen III+ reactor designs all went big as a cost-efficiency measure, not that it worked out particularly well. The major caveats being that very large pressure vessels required specialized forges to be constructed and that very large concrete pours are more difficult than simply large ones.

The "build the reactor in a factory" idea could still hold some merit, though there's not much reason to make it smaller once it's small enough to fit on a barge or a wide-load trailer. I'm not sure that making even smaller reactors than that to make more of them for economies of scale makes sense. It's hard to imagine that 2x 150MW reactors could ever be cheaper than 1x 300MW reactor. The economies of scale efficiency benefits tend to be very sub-linear.
google reader was a social rss reader. I could read and click share, and read things from my friends feeds as they were also sharing. There was also threaded commenting.

It was also extremely lightly regulated compared to what we have now. It was generally either chronological by feed or chronological all feeds. you put what you want in the hopper, your friends add a few things here and there, and then that was it, you saw the posts from those people.

It was an actual rss reader and in return they were probably collecting metrics about what people thought was worth the read, who was sharing with who . . .. that's all stuff that I don't know that I minded sharing with the google of old.

I can see why it's easy to feel that way now but it's a completely unrecognizable company to the one that was running g-reader.
> (think Worldcoin but not done by a private entity)

The problem with what Worldcoin was doing wasn't that they were a private entity.
Not all of dismantling the patriarchy is about achieving things for women. It's about achieving equality among the sexes. If you want modesty, that's a choice you get to make, if you don't then that's a choice too. The point is not making it a default that people feel obligated to.
>Research institutions all over the world are building on each other’s work, exploring the solution space in a breadth-first way that far outstrips our own capacity.

BroadMind beats DeepMind!
You're basically agreeing with the people you were arguing with. It's the "do things" part that worthwhile, not the "worry about it" part.

> “la de da nothing is wrong xd it is what it is” attitude

You misunderstood, no one above was taking that attitude.
what this proves to me without a doubt is that silo'd and proprietary iteration i still very clearly also a massive disadvantage. i really hope companies internalize that. if they just keep scooping up and hiding open-source improvements they very well may still be left behind.

the final quote from the doc:

> And in the end, OpenAI doesn’t matter. They are making the same mistakes we are in their posture relative to open source, and their ability to maintain an edge is necessarily in question. Open source alternatives can and will eventually eclipse them unless they change their stance. In this respect, at least, we can make the first move.