skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not know what to tell you. The history of my country is filled with examples of the government successfully addressing problems too big (or too inconvenient) for the private industry to address. To the extent the private industry is enabled by the government to pillage, it is lack of regulation or lack of enforcement. The solution to that is more governance, not less. The private industry will not decide to do what is best for consumers, or the environment, or healthy competition. They will maximize profit at all costs every time.

Some examples of problems too big in my country for private industry: Water Pollution. By every conceivable metric the situation is drastically improved since the 1970's when the Clean Water Act was passed. Lake Erie no longer catches fire! Chicago built a 30+ mile giant underground tunnel to route the city's sewage to a holding quarry for treatment at immense effort and expense. No private company has the resources to do something like that - just ask Elon about Hyperloop!

Consumers in my country are paying more for most things because antitrust enforcement fell out of vogue because the system was infiltrated by vested interests. The solution to that problem is more governance and not less; the private industry will not refuse to concentrate power and will not decide to split up monopolies or stop colluding via oligopolies.

I have no doubt the problems you are describing in your country are real. What I am not hearing is solutions. Just complaints.

Again - there are many examples of governance being a force for good. In fact, the successes of government are more defined by a lack of tragedies. Like a good DBA or SRE team, and similarly underappreciated.
Can I read an ebook to myself using personal voice? That’s what I really want. Or have my dad train his voice and listen to him read me books whenever I like?
So farmers engineer land so that heavy rain will run off into streams, rivers, and ultimately cause flooding someplace in Iowa. This is of course to prevent flooding the fields and drowning crops. Then they pump ground water to water crops when there isn't enough rain. What we need is a way to store the runoff and get it into the ground. This would likely require some land use, and a bit of money to set up, for little immediate benefit.
I’d rather cookie banners than an opt-out system
I agree - we should not try to make computers that understand us better - we should learn to understand computers better.

I argue that software is a form of literacy (Hell I'm rewriting a book ok it for the third time). But we don't say "instead of novels let's just stick to rearranging cut out panels from Marvel back issues."

We spend years training children to handle words and speech and presenting arguments - and we need to spend more on empirical testing and skepticism.

Literacy is a technology - and we bend our minds to encompass it - and we should expect no less of software
> chat GPT, and for a while Midjourney are FREE

They are free for now. Eventually OpenAI will no longer be able to subsidize the compute costs of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 for everybody... But yes, let's enjoy GPT-4 at cheap prices while we still can. I don't think we'll be able to in the near future.

I've been interested in a while in running some AI models locally, but ironically, I'd need to purchase a $3,000 computer to do so, and consider the steep hikes to my electricity bill as I run that machine.
Not going to comment on how determining which risk category a given system falls into.

> clean and correct training data

If there's a country where majority of poor people have blue skin, and majority of rich people have green skin, and poorer people commit more crimes in general. Then if one of the features (explicitly defined or somehow inferred by model) of your ML model is skin color, it will correctly correlate blue skin as high risk for stealing. So a supermarket chain AI face detection would always flag those more often. And so you'd have AI-scale systemic racism.

Even if that application was categorized as "high risk", since it is "clean and correct training data".

How do you legislate that an AI system can't fall for "correlation != causation" and how can you audit that if there's no clearly define ML model feature, like the simple neural networks studied in ML 101.
For digital pinball, I'd highly recommend Pinball FX. (FX 3 is the old version). The game itself is free with a few included tables and then you buy dlc packs for the (many) tables they have.

They have excellent reproductions of many classic Williams tables, and let you choose between traditional PB FX physics or more realistic physics that correspond more to real world tables (I haven't played enough IRL to say one way or another how true to life those advanced physics are) The classic reproductions are a blast, much better IMO than the homemade tables with just a few exceptions.

The best thing is that with a > 24" monitor you can get a decent play experience even in landscape mode, and if you turn it portrait and tilt it back a bit then the game really shines. I have a 27" slightly curved monitor and the curve in portrait mode, IMO, improves things as well. Using left & right shift keys feels very natural for flipper control. A true IRL aficionado will likely disagree on that.

Making your own cabinet isn't that difficult either if you have access to a CNC. 1-2 weekend project, you can find designed online, and apart from setting up the PC & monitor the only more technical skill is wiring the buttons, which is straightforward with button kits and USB controller to receive their input & send to the PC.

A barebones 3/4 cabinet is very straightforward and can sit nicely in smaller places, though bonus points awards for setting up a second monitor for the back display.

It's not going to be cheap though. You'll need a decent monitor with wide angles of view, and a pc that has at least an entry level discrete GPU for optimal & consistent 60FPS Vsync play. Well, not cheap unless you have some old extra hardware lying around to save on cost and a very friendly CNC acquaintance who will help you get things cut as a favor & cost of materials.

I have a 3/4 digital table myself, though I went the lazy route: Waited to find one second-hand that was aesthetically very well produced but needed some TLC to refurbish it, especially some rather dangerous wiring that was supposed to drive a master power switch but instead sparked and sent surges through the PC that crashed it. But you can find these partial DIY projects if you keep an eye on craigslist for a while and are willing to drive a little bit to pick it up.
I don't know internals but would bet that it's an implementation of GDPR which happened shortly before Brexit. Do you really think after all that Brexit hassle they will miss the chance to attract tech companies?
And what's the next lowest astronomical category? "Moonlet?" (just made that up AFAIK)
> I thought this is what contaminated Europe's farmland more than the meltdown itself. Am I wrong?

What contaminated the surrounding farmland was the release of gaseous fission products from the reactor due to a hydrogen gas explosion caused by the completely insane and clueless way that the plant operators were running an experimental procedure, which went out of control. That happened even before the reactor itself melted down.

As just noted, the explosion was not a nuclear explosion and did not involve a nuclear reaction running out of control; it was an explosion of hydrogen gas released inside the reactor. However, because the plant was built without a secondary containment structure (which is one key design flaw that no other country has ever built into a nuclear reactor), the explosion, since it disrupted the structure of the reactor core, released various gaseous fission products that were dangerously radioactive, over a wide area. If there had been secondary containment, the explosion and the radioactive materials would have been contained inside it and would not have contaminated the surrounding environment.

In short, there are at least two key factors that were necessary to create the Chernobyl situation that do not apply to any commercial reactor that any other country has ever built: running clueless experimental procedures on a reactor, and not having any secondary containment.

As for potential dangers from reactors in Ukraine, that's because Ukraine is a war zone. I don't think we should restrict commercial reactor construction in the US because Ukraine is a war zone. Certainly no other country in the world has restricted the building of nuclear reactors based on that kind of logic. France was invaded in WW II, but still makes the majority of its electricity using nuclear reactors today.
I made some edits, does that satisfy your constraints? Humans are the agent, LLMs the tool
I’m agreeing with this viewpoint the more I use LLMs.

They’re text generators that can generate compelling content because they’re so good at generating text.

I don’t think AGI will arise from a text generator.
> The map is not the territory.

Turing would argue that if the map resembles the territory so faithfully that you can't distinguish between them, the difference is moot. We're not there yet, but we're a hell of a lot closer than we were ten years ago.
> Until you put fingers to keyboard, you just don't know, it's all book learnin'.

This!

Also writing a HTTP server seems like a hacker rite of passage, like creating your own lightsaber for a Jedi.

So last Christmas, I did just that :)

Personally, I like retrocomputing so I did mine in perl. I learned a lot of things, and I added a few "modern features" as extras like mDNS and cosmopolitan, because it's more fun to use something.local that 127.0.0.1)

It's on https://github.com/csdvrx/PerlPleBean and if you want to dig into mDNS, check the Bonjour part on https://github.com/csdvrx/PerlPleBean/blob/main/experiments/...

It's very fun to be able to launch just one executable and then curl whatever.local
Systematic discrimination in employment because the AI said so because the data was biased can ghettos and riots. Deepfakes are a storm in a teacup.

Remember how OpenAI's Dall-E lost to Stable Diffusion because they were too afraid that someone will make an image of a politician or something? Well we had some fun with Pope wearing Balenciaga and Trump being arrested but nothing bad happened.
Very interesting. Are you imagining this as an API that can be used for video game characters?
Same for Elon.
Image for Ex-Apple Engineer Flees to China After Allegedly Stealing Tech
Seems like speculation on very thin grounds to me.
Orange for "warning, you're safe" instead of "warning, you're on camera"?

I've had mine for over 2 years and 2 mbs and never really noticed. I never use the webcam.

I agree though, I would rather it be invisible unless I look specifically. Just the meaning when I DO look should be obvious, and orange for inactive is not obvious or natural to me except in maybe parachutes.
or racist?
Google doesn’t want to run local AI. It channels everything through the google Plex on purpose.

So while pixel phones may be possible, they don’t want to.

Take image processing for example. iPhones will tag faces and create theme sets all locally. Google could too, but they don’t. They send every picture to their cloud to tag and annotate.
Agreed. I'm happy at least that this isn't lost on everybody.
Thank you, this looks awesome, will be checking it out. I've been playing around with wellsaidlabs.com for TTS and it seems decent, looks like vocode uses Azure TTS by default.
It always has been. It used to be called Startup News. It was created by a SV startup entrepreneur and is run by a SV startup incubator. And yes, people do make impressing the HN crowd and getting hype here part of their business model.
Is it really due to proportions?

In that case say you leave a startup of 3 people. Not the same as company firing one guy, but roughly 1/3rd impact, so 2 months of free severance labor is on you, correct, to avoid being "disgusting"?

Or if you happen to be a particularly valuable, hard-to-replace specialist; or happen to have unique knowledge of some legacy systems that nobody else can maintain, your impact can be order-of-magnitude comparable to being fired (in fact, the impact of you being fired might be lower for you than the impact of you leaving is for the company because you might find the next job very easily) and you would owe /some/ free labor, right? Exact proportions TBD.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love a ton of severance if I was laid off. But I don't suffer for excusitis and don't contort morality into some ridiculous fairness arguments. I am just selfish and I like money, so hey, I wouldn't mind some.
A single car wash isn't making most people a millionaire.

After a low 7 figures in sales, you've got to subtract costs and wages, and the money left over will hopefully cover your family's living expenses. Being able to save up a million is going to be tough. And starting a car wash from scratch probably isn't going to wind up being worth close to a million either, in most locations, in terms of being able to sell the business.

If you run a network of 10 car washes then sure, but good luck with that. The market is already pretty saturated so building up a profitable network is going to be tough.
This one feels more than all those but less than web 1.0. it'll be big for a bit, but it can't do everything everyone wants.
At that point I could no longer tell if the author was just trolling. Is it not obviously absurd? We have actual translation tools that are trained to be accurate instead of just return a likely response to a query of that type.
It’s a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlet

Saturn has thousands of those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn
Technology doesn't in itself eliminate scarcity as long as raw materials and natural resources are scarce. In this case, all technology does is allow more efficient control over these resources and their by-products. Everyone having their own pet AGI on their cell phone doesn't materialize food or fresh water.
I think the real solution is limiting the number of rental properties any corporation (including sub-companies) can own. I also think similar should apply to foreign nationals. I think these limits can probably be based on the class of property as well.

I would combine this with the FTC possibly looking into management companies as well. Preventing any management company from controlling more than say 5% of a given area.

The issue is larger organizations and property management companies effectively "testing" for the max pricing in every given area and in turn leading to ever increasing prices. It's a feedback loop that doesn't have brakes on it. Bring ownership closer and more distributed and there can actually be competition.

Just my $.02 on this.
It's nevertheless that the password vs biometric challenge seems to be more-or-less at random.
The new rules make it seem that any video is disallowed. Even if that is just a couple screen recordings in a blog post.
What is the relation between Personalized mRNA Cancer Immunotherapies and GDPR??
They describe Apple as recanting though, but Apple's arrow keys are still half height.
Can you give some examples of you needing to download your data? What actions did you take based on it? How often do you do it?
AI is not writers artists or developers, it’s software that ingests data and generates an output. Anthropomorphism is going out of fashion fast.
Kind of a shame. They are shorter than first names, and, at least for women, convey a lot about a person's station and attitudes in life
I’m not sure I should start a conversation on metaphysics here :-D

Still, I’m struck by your use of words like “should” and “goal”. Those imply ethics and teleology so I’m curious how those fit into your scientistic-sounding worldview. I’m not attacking you, just genuine curiosity.
> I can't think of one example where someone was harmed by an LLM.

Off the top of my head:

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/430098/belgian-man-com...

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/06/defamed-by-chatgpt-my-...
You can get a stand alone headset for $399 but I guess that being a secret even among tech people is also a data point.
Lately I have been picturing comments, and this is truly iconic haha.
A DB article that you can actually learn something from. Lovely
I'm struggling to see what problem you think this solves, or why this is a response to what I posted.

Ask yourself: are you trying to imagine a way of helping inmates retain access to their Google services, or are you trying to shoehorn a business into the much more obvious solutions to that problem?
I feel like the people that are most nervous about AI are the ones that don't understand it at all and those that understand it the most.

The layperson in the middle who has been happily plugging prompts into ChatGPT claiming they are a "prompt expert" are the ones the most excited.

For those that truly understand AI, there is a lot that you should genuinely be worried about. Now, don't confuse that for saying that we shouldn't work on it or should abandon AI work. I truly believe that this is the next greatest revolution. This is 1,000x more transformative than the industrial revolution, and 100x more transformative than the internet revolution. But it is worth a brief consideration of the effects of our work before we start running into these changes that could have drastic effects on everybody's daily life.
I had some conversations with ChatGPT about python coding. I am not so sure that an AI that’s specialized on code couldn’t write and modify code with the user having a dialog in regular language. I think that’s where it will be going.
> Programmers that never had to think about "what" to do are are just implementation machines are going to be hurt by this

what is the most popular low-code/no-code solution that i could bring into an enterprise organization that can:

* read/write to/from a database

* read/write to/from a message queue

* read/write to/from a cache

* make HTTP API calls and do light ETL/logic on the request/response bodies

* OutSystems: This is a popular choice for enterprise organizations, as it provides robust low-code development capabilities. It supports integration with databases, message queues, and caches. It also allows developers to make HTTP API calls and perform light ETL operations.

* Mendix: Another popular choice for enterprise-level applications. It offers a wide range of features, including database integration, message queue handling, cache interaction, and HTTP API calls.

* Microsoft Power Apps: This platform is part of the Microsoft Power Platform, which also includes Power BI for data visualization and Power Automate for process automation. It supports data integration, including reading and writing to databases, and can make HTTP API calls.

* Appian: This is a low-code platform that allows the creation of apps that can integrate with databases and make HTTP API calls. It may require additional configuration or use of additional services for interaction with message queues and caches.

* Zoho Creator: Zoho Creator is a low-code application development platform that allows users to create custom applications with minimal coding. It can integrate with databases and make HTTP API calls, but may not natively support interaction with message queues and caches.

These aren't new and I'm still employed
it's bizarre that any legal theory could consider criminal charges with this as the justification, without also putting the boot-er in jeopardy for the exact same thing.
No standard way to inform the sender of a new address, AFAIK.

You can set up a forward to your new email, and keep the old address active and forwarding messages until you're satisfied you've updated (or canceled) all the uses of your old address.

Then maybe start bouncing messages for a period of time before you finally shut down your domain.
You make the comment a child node of the object literal node, don’t associate it with the following key/value pair at all. When you pretty print it, it will have the same relative order with the following kv pair as it had originally (and you cannot reorder json keys safely because the handling of duplicate keys is implementation-defined).

As far as indentation goes, if I were writing a pretty printer, I’d make indentation handled by the object/array node not by the comment/kv pair node. So that doesn’t matter: the comment will start printing at whatever the current column is just like the kv pairs would.

Anyways, among other tools, prettier has already solved this problem.
> I support eventually decommissioning existing fission power plants.

But that's inconsistent with the "Chernobyl" rhetoric you have been using elsewhere in this discussion. If every fission plant is a potential Chernobyl, how can you possibly justify waiting to decommission any of them?

Of course, if you don't actually believe the "Chernobyl" rhetoric you have been using, then it makes sense that you would be reasonable about existing fission plants. But then you should also be reasonable about building new ones.

> There is a difference between spending 20% more on a new storage technology over a new fission power plant

What magic "storage technology" is this that will make it unnecessary to build more fission plants as base load power? Please enlighten me.

I think you need to improve your understanding of the basic physical facts that underlie the limitations on any "storage technology" other than fuel.
> using the Great Pyramid of Giza as an AirBnB

, were you allowed to do it, would be an extremely profitable venture. Taj Mahal too, and yes, I know it's a mausoleum.
Yeah and one of the fundamental assumptions around statements like “let’s make AI a licensed regime” is the idea that we know what AI even is. This idea is banking on current technology being the best algorithm or method to produce “AI” and the whole lesson from the “we have no moat” crowd is that this is actually quite uncertain. Even if they succeed in getting some class of model like LLMs under “regulatory capture” - the technology they are working with today is likely to be undermined still by something cheaper working on weaker hardware and with smaller datasets and it’ll probably happen faster if they seek this market capture.

So yes it is quite comparable to the export restrictions of the 90s.

But since Microsoft is involved and we are all of course thinking about Windows vs Linux, I think another good comparison is the worst assumption Microsoft made in the 90s: “we know what an operating system is and what it is for.”
Exactly. When you instruct a human in natural language you can rely on them to do disambiguating and nonsense filtering, which means you don’t need to take the time to phrase things precisely. If you’re really lucky, when you give them an ambiguous instruction, they will even ask for clarification.

And these are precisely the sorts of things LLMs can bring to the table. With the added benefit that they are infinitely patient, and don’t suffer from embarrassment if they get it wrong.

As long as anything they produce is reversible and malleable they can be induced to try again or refine their output indefinitely, which helps solve ambiguities and confusions - I don’t have to prematurely jump to precise language if the LLM can figure out what I want from a vague description.
Well, a cloud provider of "free" analytics is probably a bad idea for medical sites regardless of the ToS.
Microsoft is committing corporate espionage across the board with their products. This goes way beyond personal data harvesting because they are the de-facto standard for corporate documents, and they are spying on everything that comes their way. There are no real alternatives currently, but there needs to be more awareness of what they are doing.
They have no real models to base their predictions on. It's speculation at the level of "what happens if an immovable meets an unstoppable force". No rigor in it.