skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the premier use for ChatGPT right now is as a starting place for writing tasks. I use it to give me a template for work emails from time to time because there is no element of correctness to get wrong.

I give it facts I want to see in prose, it gives me very neutral, inoffensive prose back. I always have to issue a few corrections to the prompt, and I always have to post edit, but it still saves me a huge amount of time and I don’t need to worry so much about bias leaking in and making anyone uncomfortable.
The one time I visited Chile, the city air was thick with smoke from wood-burning fireplaces. At least at that point in the past, the total amount of electricity consumed would not accurately have reflected the total amount of energy consumed or its environmental impact.
> enabling this horrific scheme

In a world where the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP)¹ was the plan for decades, involving vapourising thousands upon thousands of targets, on a pre-set and inflexible list, including virtually all the cities in Russia and most of China with an estimated death toll near 300 million, this probably one of the less horrific plans. Still hare-brained, but at least not outright murderous.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Integrated_Operationa...
Agreed. It usually sounds like complete Koolaid.
I'm more likely to give someone a hard time for using email at all. I find it increasingly less useful every year. Currently it's a massive storage of confirmation emails and receipts for me.
I didn't pay much attention to recent evolutions of the language, so most of what follows is what motivated me to steer clear of Go in the past.

I think the prevalent attitude in the Go community towards complexity is harmful. Trying to get rid of over-abstraction is a laudable goal, but this can backfire when you're dealing with irreducible complexity.

For many years, the standard response when needing genericity was either `go generate`, `interface{}` or "copy-paste and adapt." In my opinion, generating code should be a last resort, because it is too powerful: generated code can do pretty much anything, whereas abstractions encoded in the type system have the benefit of being predictable. `interface{}` means giving up on type safety, and copying and pasting, while it can be justified in simple cases, does not scale. Go's lack of generics became something of a meme or a point of pride, depending on who you ask, and it has gotten more than enough discussion, so I'll leave it at that. N.B.: I'm aware that Go finally ended up implementing generics.

Additionally, after using sum types in other languages (Rust/OCaml/Haskell/Swift), I really miss them whenever I'm using a language that doesn't support them. Not being able to simply encode mutually-exclusive representations using the type system is a shame.

Add to this a general disdain of the community for anything that is perceived as "too abstract" - a sort of reverse-elitism, where reaching for advanced constructs means you're not "in." It's not a bad attitude to fight back against over-engineering, but I think it sometimes goes too far. This is subjective, of course.

What initially got me interested in Go was the promise of a simple, fast, modern language. I think it fulfills the first two criteria rather well, but falls short on the last one. And I don't mean "modernity" in the sense of "whatever's shiny nowadays" - I mean it in the sense of learning from common sources of bugs and giving the programmer tools to avoid them.

Remove too much complexity from the language, and you might just shift it to the programmer.
ahh, that makes sense. Very nice. Thanks for clarifying.
Russia is known to have loads of trolls on the government payroll. I am under the impression that western governments don't do this but who knows...
Could you explain this:

> For example, if stable diffusion generated sin wave patterns or fractals that exhibited “deep complex structure” and it happens that some artist had written code to do that exact thing, there would (I believe) be a fair case that stable diffusion was not copying the artist, it was simply a parallel implementation of the same generative code.

I understand your pseudo equations and I understand [some] engineering.

Why are artists writing code? Is that to show the parallel of if artists did write code?

Unless artists do really write code but that’s beyond the scope of what I’m asking.
The water molecules aren't chemically bonded to the ions, but they are "bonded" by intermolecular forces. Although weaker than a chemical (intramolecular) bond, the intermolecular forces are still strong enough to "bond" water molecules to the ion. So either only water molecules not "bonded" to ions can pass through these channels, or the pressure differential across the channel can free the water molecules from the ions.
The word I love is "star ball". My local museum has one of these. They're apparently difficult for upkeep, since they've been produced such low volume. There's only a handful of specialists who travel around the country servicing them.
In countries with no safety net like the USA, people do prefer to work at tedious soul-deadening tasks like manually copy pasting into a CSV than to lose their housing and starve.

However, there is a benefit to the person who is no longer employed doing mindless toil! It gives them another chance to find healthier work. Again, in the USA this benefit is outweighed by the possibility of immiseration, but it is at least a small plus in the 'pros' column.
yeah, who gonna pay for the horse carriages with all those automobile inventions?
If even one of the big three refuse to support attestation, then it's dead. And trying to retroactively force attestation at a later date will an even bigger headache than it would be right now.
I am/was pro-vax but they should've made cert of prior infection equivalent. Because it was nearly as good at one point, and then it actually became a better indicator of resistence
Not a day has gone by where I have not been sensitive to opportunities to use the word "defenestrate".
The goal and the means are not the same thing.
To be fair to HQ most of the electricity is hydro so they are dependent on the hydrological cycle. Outsourcing those profits into a high quality economy (advanced manufacturing etc) with good jobs subsidized by cheap electricity actually has some merit to it.

However exporting those profits to neighboring states might not be as valuable unless they are looking for currency hedge + contracted power arrangements.
NextGen Healthcare says hackers accessed personal data of more than 1M patients
Unfortunately, in the current economic system having a bullshit job is way better than having no job (unless you're rich of course).
It is terribly insecure. Leaked passwords. Random account access. Backdoor access for govt.

I still use yahoo.
> Cyberpunk actually has a lot of good environmental storytelling moments just wandering the city, but they don't capitalize and turn them into self driven exploration, the stories don't go anywhere.

One day I see GPT or the like running with this. Dream up a couple themes for the game, region, NPCs, all of which are unique to your game, and then let the AI take you for a ride based on those. Kinda like a DM of a D&D game running with a fun idea that wasn't planned but could be cool.
Code Yellow: The Secret Weapon for Tackling Product Disarray
Here on HN, everthing is the fault of the USA.
A California school district is reimagining education with Apple Learning Coach
Related (and since you qualify the answers as "definitely yes" or "definitely no" I don't think it subtracts from what you say, but rather just adds to it:

> When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

(Clarkes first law, copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws)
> can we not drill 0.2nm holes in silicon for instance?

I think that this is interesting question, and should not be waved away with "just drill some 0.2nm holes, use a real small drill bit"

0.2nm is tiny, given that it's on a scale that impacts how H2O molecules behave.

It's also smaller than our ability to make the circuits in computer chips, which are currently > 1 mn (1).

Use a laser? Light with a comparable wavelength is x-rays. As used in the chip manufacturing (2)

This is about size of the spacing between individual atoms (3)

So it seems like a material with 0.2nm holes "drilled" into it would be a major engineering feat at least.

1) https://research.ibm.com/blog/1nm-chips-vtfet-ruthenium

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_lithography

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spacing
We always joked that if you throw someone out a window without bothering to open it first then it is a transfenestration.
Wrt "No True Autonomy Fallacy" and the examples provided underneath, I am reminded of this Tuned Deck magic trick example used by Daniel Dennett to explain consciousness.

https://jessegalef.com/2011/01/09/the-tuned-deck/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVg23QRJD70
Past it. AGI was publicly unveiled on November 30, 2022 and currently has two hundred million users. It is capable of general abstract thinking on any subject regardless of whether it's already in its training set or not. It meets my definitions of AGI.
I’m not sure we can do that. Even if we could, drilling millions of holes is a lot of work.

Also, for membranes, it’s not only the size and shape of the ‘holes’ that count. Many have specific chemical properties that do not solely filter on particle size.
I agree that the Yahoo interface is pleasant. And you can integrate Gmail access into it.
What you might not be as familiar with is that these authentication sites often block you from visiting any domain at all, and then to access the authentication site on their own domain you must explicitly link their domain to an IP address through the /etc/hosts file.³

3. I'm assuming on Mac and Windows this is taken care of for you somehow and it is a non-problem.

I... have never had to do this in any distro or OS (NixOS, Arch, macOS at least). The way I've found captive portals to work in practice is that when I connect to the WiFi, my computer gets the captive portal's DNS server through DHCP, and their DNS server points any and every website to the IP address of the captive portal. To make it even easier, Firefox checks "detectportal.firefox.com" every so often to see whether or not there's a captive portal, and gives me a prompt to log in to it if need be.
>Unfortunately, a lot of people make entire careers of that kind of work. "Paper pusher" type jobs are the most at risk but so are the low end of lots of creative jobs like copywriting, graphic design and even script writing.

Don't forget programming jobs. I wouldn't classify programmers as "low end" as that's sort of an offensive categorization.

But among the set of careers you have chosen as a target for replacement... Programming is among that group. I mean LLMs are obviously translating English to code in a way that was never seen before.

Given that you're a programmer on a site that is mostly made up of programmers I wonder why that specific career was not mentioned. Seems a little convenient to me.

I'm not saying this is you, but I feel there is a lot of hostile defensiveness on the capabilities of AI because the AI potentially trivializes our abilities as programmers. If we are among the group of careers you labeled as "low level" then are we not "low level" ourselves? Do we have the fortitude and objectiveness to accept that?

Probably not.
I think the historical context is there, but even then it's not that relevant. Achievements obtained in the past are not indicative of the future, and if you take the current social climate into context we have a right to be afraid.
Just another logical step in Google’s brand erosion. After a sufficient erosion has taken place a new CEO will be appointed to “bring back” the old Google. But by then it will be too late.
From my experiences on Twitter with various anonymous accounts parroting the state department line, and US military doctrine for total domination of the battle space, I am absolutely sure they are doing this either via a contractor, ally, or inside cyber command or DIA etc. The 2012 NDAA removed the ban on US domestic influence operations.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-20...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...

You gotta remember. These guys used to do COINTELPRO (and never documented stopping it either). You think they won't troll people on the internet?
For self-hosted, if you are doing into the tens of thousands of pageviews per day you may want to turn off real-time and switch to auto-archiving which pregens reports. That level of traffic depends a lot though on the report period you are running against and how big you've provisioned your MySQL server. YMMV and I haven't benchmarked at multiple traffic levels.
But if you look at it as a "unified notification framework with powerful management tools and wide API access" - it's a market-conquering monster.
the linked blog is yet another instance of making false inferences from the false assumption of the model working at a letter/symbol level. it cannot see letters. it cannot see the 1 or 0 in 11010 either. (note that a request to simply reverse a word would illustrate this usually, but some glue code has been added to do it)
That still doesn't make VR a success at scale.

How many of them are actually being used and not stored in some closet?
Tipping at self-checkout has customers crying ‘emotional blackmail’
Never gonna happen. If people get so upset that they start moving to other products, then we'll see MSFT and GOOG do what all belligerent companies do when they start losing eyeballs: Increase advertising on the remaining users until they, too, get fed up and leave, and eventually the companies wither and die away. Will that happen? Probably not, but it's more likely than either company realizing they're alienating their users.
>This is pretty trivial to see if you look at the relative costs compared to the economic benefits the US secures - all US adventurism is a total loss in pure economic terms. You’d never do it if it was about money.

CITATION BADLY NEEDED.
TLS prevents me from, say, tampering with your network traffic and pretending to be Google.com if I control the network you’re on. That’s a hard attack - not unprecedented, especially for hostile governments or unethical ISPs but uncommon for most people.

FIDO2/WebAuthn prevent the more common phishing attack where I register a different host name, get a valid HTTPS certificate, etc. for a different hostname like gooogle.com and try to convince you to enter your real Google password there. These attacks are relatively easy to run since they don’t require any successful compromises to launch and things like URL shorteners and link trackers, not to mention corporate rebranding and outsourced marketing, have trained most people to see weird links as normal.

Here’s a sample flow for that:

1. I setup gooogle.com and make it look like a real Google login page.
2. I send you a link, perhaps obscured, which takes you to my fake login page.
3. When you enter your password, my code starts a real Google login session.
4. When you’re prompted for TOTP or SMS MFA, my code submits those values to Google and now I have a valid session.
5. My code returns some kind of temporary error and sends you to the real login page. 99% of users are used to stuff breaking every so often and since your second login attempt will work just fine, almost nobody questions this.

There are various things you can do to make those attacks harder such as MFA systems warning users about where the logins are geolocated but those are unreliable and attackers can often foil them by e.g. using a botnet node or compromised cloud server in the same region. The WebAuthn protocol makes this attack completely impossible so it’s not just faster and easier but absolutely more secure.
OpenAI really ought to change their name to something more appropriate... It's getting to the point where it almost comes off as doublethink.
Having been following Sam Freedman for a while I'm pretty sure it wasn't about showing how cool he is - it's self-deprecating rather than self-aggrandizing.
Obviously don't have the technology to manufacture the whole chain themselves or they would do that, right? That's why they need to partially auction stuff off to outsiders.
> It is my understanding that even though it was found that malicious actors had commit access during development, no source code audit was conducted. Since it can't be proven that said malicious actors didn't commit malware prior to release, it must be assumed the game contains malware and therefore cannot be safely installed or played

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Source me plz.
Would you fire 10k people for $500?
This is a criticism of the USA's economic system, where we only give people money through _factor payments_ (exchanging money for labor) or _ownership of capital_.

It isn't actually a criticism of technology/automation!

In healthier countries, like the Nordics, they've organized their society so that automation, resource extraction, and really all success in business benefits their society as a whole rather than concentrating the wealth into the hands of the elite.

Having written that, I feel like I'm picking a nit, because what you said is true in the USA and I don't see it changing in my lifetime.
Security's Prioritisation Problem
It turns out that a lot of intellectual tasks are sort of weakly simulatable by just doing a great job at next-token prediction.

Yes, this is a good way of putting it. I've been saying for years, it's less that we're making big discoveries about what "AI" can do, and more that we're showing that many things humans do that appear complex actually reduce to something pretty simple. But that simple thing is still just fitting a pattern. It's the cases where it doesn't work, even if it only fails 1% of the time, that define the difference between pattern matching and actual human intelligence.

One thing that follows from that (that people don't like) is that we actually need to move goalposts about how intelligence is defined. "Pass a turing test" is not very valuable now. And as mode tasks are shown to be possible with pattern matching / next token prediction, we need to further refine tests away from these tasks to settle on a good definition of what separates human intelligence. It should be obvious that the distinction is there, but it's still tough to nail down. (I'd argue that by defining a "task" you've already done most of the work to solving it, so it's not to exciting to learn that AI can finish the job)
https://archive.is/Ob18k
> When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Agreed!
> This captures the crux of the problem in that we claimed we’d have True AI when a computer could beat a human in chess. But when that occurred with Deep Blue, and we saw the code, it was explainable and therefore not true AI. Then we moved the goalpost and said that if a computer could beat a human in Go, then we’d have True AI. When that occurred with AlphaGo and we saw the code, we moved the goalposts yet again.

We believed that chess and go proficiency were good proxies for true AI. They weren't. They were proxies for advancement, but the underlying issue is that we don't know how much we don't know about the human mind.

Every AI advancement helps us learn more about our minds, but the amount we don't know is still unknown.

The moving of the goalposts was not done because "we saw the code" it was because Deep Blue and Alpha Go were obviously not AI. Again, we were just wrong about those tasks being good proxies.
Only GMail?

YouTube is almost unusable nowadays.
> > Self-Aware

> Why is that a requirement?

And what does self-aware even mean? A lot of animals pass the mirror test.
That would cost 10000000x as much to manufacture. Think making a net versus hollowing a solid cube of steel into a net.
Good thing they haven't figured out how to do that in Thunderbird yet...
It also completely ignores the developments around GPT tool use. If you’re evaluating the AI field as a whole, why are you restricting your analysis to the raw output of GPTs? Arguably the most impressive display of intelligence exhibited by these models is their ability to use tools like calculators to augment their own abilities.

It doesn’t matter if the model can’t do three digit multiplication without access to a calculator. Most people can’t mentally multiply large numbers either.
American companies voluntarily manufacture products to these standards.
Nice. Be good if the language had an easy way to handle it, eg.:

while(condition)[1000 label]{…}
I think you'd be more likely to get a gentle ribbing from your friends in real life than here on HN where there's a general distaste for the web past 2010 anyway
> “Together the two kings carried out a major reform of the coinage, introducing high-quality silver coins, with the ‘two emperors’ design symbolizing this alliance.”

I wonder about the nature of this reform.

E.g. were prior coins not made of "high-quality silver"?
Arithmetic is a known-bad example because of how the tokenization works. Similar to calling a human unintelligent because we can't recognize bat calls.

Additionally 'can't do x, and is therefore a lookup table' is a very poor logical leap. Are humans who can't add just lookup tables as well?
Bruegel was perhaps the first realist. By which I mean he painted people in the costume of the day and not in classical robes. I explain realism to my students as one of the primary 'atom bombs' of visual art: an idea that permenently disrupted visual language. The realism effect can be seen in the shaker cam effect of movies like clover field and the Blair witch project. I see no problem at all with genealogically relating these movies with Bruegels paintings.
ah! in that case glad you asked.

my objective falls into neither bucket. i want rasa users to find it so i optimize for search (GH tags, clear description), ease of use (video, addt'l MD files) and perception (logos) but i'll be honest, for my intention it has a diminishing rate of return.

at minimum i find canonical README sections like quick start, installation, how it works is necessary if you want to be helpful. helpfulness is difficult to measure outside of inbound emails thanking you / forks w/ actual commits.

hope that gives some kind of insight. just make everything awesome :)
I've been so happy moving my email to iCloud. It isn't perfect or anything, but it's nice having email that's just boring IMAP. Apple takes my $1 each month for custom domain support and 50GB of storage and I get their hide-my-email service.
"Baron von Hohenfall" was the funniest part of that article.
The availability of free email services is a wonderful thing. But if email is important to you, it probably shouldn't be in Gmail.
It looks like monoliths are officially back in fashion.
DJI is pretty great with telemetry, logs are stored locally and on the cloud with many ways to access your data. Not so great with privacy due to governments having a tight watch on drone flight, making it very likely your flight data is monitored.
It's not clear to me what the substance of your criticism is. What is the idiomatic meaning of "to the four winds" that's missed? What's wrong with "This division would eventually result in the establishment of the Dutch Republic (loosely modern Holland) and the Spanish Netherlands (loosely modern Belgium and Luxembourg)."?
What's the cutoff for the whataboutism? That's like 50+ years ago. Chinese have done the same thing and would do it even more if given the chance.