skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gut says we're going to see a bit of a meat space backlash to the world of automation, remoteness, anonymity, and modern conveniences. The hipsters of the mid-aughts already did to some extent, but I think this will be far more mainstream than even the re-emergence of vinyl records.

There's no doubt that AI and such will bring great benefit to our society in many ways, but I think people are already becoming a bit anxious about the cost, especially culturally. It's not new-- it's one step in a long trend of many things becoming more impersonal by design: Buying things from anonymous companies made in anonymous overseas factories delivered by a huge anonymous workforce. "Art" that was "made" by computers. Automated customer "service." Automated "therapy." Transportation hailed by, paid for with, and in many instances used for the entirety of communication with an anonymous contractor. Groceries, delivery food, and anonymously assembled meal kits dropped on your doorstep without the inefficiencies and possible tension of human-to-human interaction.

I don't think many people will forget the benefits we reap from modern technology or reject it outright, but I do think many of us will be less enthused to be a cog in our increasingly automated, anonymous, and efficiency-obsessed consumerist machine. I foresee many of us being much more interested in having in-person experiences and interacting with mechanical objects in many parts of our lives.
Don't have a crystal ball or anything, but that's my prediction.

*Edit: I don't mean to be too negative about the tech. Many effects attributable to tech were because this tech made most of our lives more livable during the pandemic. I just think a lot of people are ready to shed a lot of that. Other random thought: it's quite possible, if not likely, that engaging in this lifestyle shift will be a luxury, at least initially, and involve some significant class tension.
I’m mostly talking about Harvard, Stanford, Wharton etc MBA grads who run the treadmill of BigTech and see YC as another badge to collect.
>I almost never studied for math tests in University. They were all multiple choice and I found it easy to logic out the only possible answer to the question just by looking at the choices.

How does an entirely multiple-choice mathematics exam at University level even work? What kind of maths? I don't see how any kind of proof or derivation question could work in this context.
This reminds me of the time when I wrote a cgi script.

Basically instructing the templating engine (a very crude regex) to replace session variables, database lookups to the merge fields:

Hello {{firstname}}!

1996 and 2023 smells alike.
I'm what you'd call a doomer. Ok, so if it is possible for machines to host general intelligence, my question is, what scenario are you imagining where that ends well for people?

Or are you predicting that machines will just never be able to think, or that it'll happen so far off that we'll all be dead anyway?
Great idea. Let’s do it and not give license to openAI.

Oh I guess this is wrong.
I, for one, don't want a voice cloner in every hand. These things are very, very destructive. Obviously, this is a post about a new apple feature (even though great voice cloning has existed for months) so all the fanboys are unable to control their enthusiasm.
Movies and theater productions are ephemeral businesses. As are popup stores.
If the success of Cisco, Whatsapp, Discord and nine nines worth of uptime isn't enough... you can link to our stodgy Fortune 100 company using it successfully!

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/how-hca-healthcare-use...
I could be wrong. It's likely that my characterization was not her intent. That said, even the most well meaning individual in the "west" has this implicit bias against the "non west" that it just gets everywhere and you see it everywhere.
Open AI lobbying for regulation on common people being able to use AI, isn't it wonderful.
Very relatable, I've been running a GPT chatbot in my schools CS discord server since last summer, and I recently updated it to use llama models through huggingface.
I've been desensitized by my world of 500mb docker containers.
Sam Altman just wants to stop new competitors...
No we shouldn't. In fact we should denormalize a lot of dysfunctional business models, the transactional, excessively financialised, dehumanised business that has become the norm.

A business is group of people building things together. Its a family. Its a village. We dont want ephemeral families, we dont want ephemeral communities.

What we have is not working (pun). The overall drift of the last decades has led to an ephemeral society, made us unhappy, insecure, unstable. We need to go back to more grounded forms.
Are plane simulators really simulating fluid dynamics in hydraulics, during real-time simulation? Is that even doable (assuming the simulation wants to be realistic).
ChatGPT's Achilles Heel: Exploiting YouTube Transcripts to Influence AI
No worries, the H&R Block and Intuit lobbyists are on it.
Can't believe he was president of YC not too long ago. YC being all about startups while this move seems more about killing AI startups.
Here are a few more :D

> Because he wanted his speech to have artificial intelligence since his natural intelligence was on vacation!

> Because he wanted his speech to have artificial intelligence, not artificial promises!

> Because he wanted to start with a model speech!

> Because he wanted his speech to have AI-ppeal!

> Because he heard it could filibuster better than anyone else!
My basis for good parenting: show up, don’t be crazy.

I take both seriously. I’m not being trite, I structure my work day so I have real time with my son every day. I do activities that we can do together on the weekend, some that he enjoys and some we can enjoy together. I work every day on modeling good behavior for him, I don’t get frustrated when he is acting out, etc. don’t be crazy when you’ve got a two year old isn’t that intense, when you’ve got a 14 year old I’m sure it’s going to be trying.

Friends that I have who are relatively well adjusted had parents who mostly did both. They also seem to have good relationships with their parents in adulthood. It’s not going to make a good parenting book, but let’s be honest none of us are going to A/B test this stuff.
It baffles me it's the only comment pointing this out and it's not even at the top.

The rest of commenters for some reason seem to equate "technical debt" with old technology and "legacy" projects.
> They’re pretty good at the second part I assume, the practice is as old as humanity itself

wrong. it's as old as civilization itself, yes. But humanity is not exactly the same as civilization

edit: so the numbers (of votes) say that I'm wrong, so humanity is the same as its civilization? wtf.
Ask HN: Resources for Active Directory Migration
My company is planning an update and migration of our existing AD forest and server roles which currently exists on two machines using Server 2012 R2 to two machines using Server 2022. Does anyone have some recommended resources (outside of Microsoft's documentation) on ways to make this a smooth process and things to be on the lookout for?
Ok, I was wrong about it not being flat, but due to lack of support from my experience it is usually not used to represent grids in a simulation, as dealing with it tends to involve loops, which may or may not be optimised away. In Fortran multidim arrays are supported so much that they are used everywhere. Even debuggers allow you to display arbitrary slices of multidim arrays in local scope.
Independent coffee shop next to an immigrant food store.
Sam is a crook
Best to email or letter ?
> we don't have enough cross-continent transmission capacity

There's a simple reason for that - it costs roughly $1 million per mile to build new transmission and requires lawyers and real estate people working in multiple jurisdictions. Only the largest of utilities are able to afford this investment and commit the required resources.

Even that's not enough - you still need to solve the so-called Community Energy Storage problem. You need a buffer between the generation and consumption of power so that they can vary from one another. That's even more investment.
More things:

* As much as possible, other than basic bodily needs, made him adjust to us rather than us adjusting to him. This way we're calm and not stressed by things he's doing, which makes it easy for us to be there for him in the way he needs and to be a good example

* Allowing him to have lots of small failures. Whenever I can let him experience a small consequence that won't be too bad, I do. This has been super helpful. He's learned how to prevent lots of bigger ones. I mean for things like small falls.

* Generally allowing him to experience the natural consequences of his actions as much as possible, both good and bad. Even if it has a negative consequence for him, as long as it's not too much.

* Good sleep, minimal medical interventions, generally relying on the body to be an expert at a body thanks to millions of years of evolutionary refinement

* Giving him exposure to as many things that he might enjoy as possible (hobbies and activity wise), and helping him have a positive first experience. Then the rest is on him. But if I can give him positive first experiences to dozens of activities, then I trust he'll be able to find some he loves. If I didn't expose him to them, he might not find them, and if I didn't help him have a positive first exposure, then he might not find an interest. But then after that he's on his own with it other than if he shows a ton of interest in it I'll support his interest

* Not doing things for him that I don't want to do. I keep my "debt" at zero. I don't want to do anything that'll make me build up subtle resentment toward him.

* Allow him to keep the responsibility for things. Yesterday he climbed into a box and gets stuck. Rather than help him out, I put a hand on his back, helped him breathe, then encouraged him that he'll be able to get out, and sure enough he did.

* I don't do things for him once unless I'd do them for him always (if I let him do something once, he'll expect it the next time, so then either I need to disappoint him, or I need to do something I don't want to do)

* I aim to be as predictable as possible for him and to help his world be predictable. The brain is a prediction engine and hates surprises, so I minimize the surprises he has to deal with

* My view is that by 10-13 or so I'll need to have taught him any skills and given him the emotional associations (things I hope he avoids and seeks), because he won't listen much after that. Emotional associations I'll never try and lecture to him, I'll only try and show him so he develops the emotional learning himself

* My view is that I'm aiming to make myself obsolete as a parent. I eventually want him to not need me.

* At first, protect him from the realities of the world. Then, introduce the realities of the world one tiny piece at a time so that by the time he's an adult, it's not a shock that he has to adapt to all at once.
I honestly don't question Altman's motivations that much. I think he's blinded a bit by optimism. I also think he's very worried about existential risks, which is a big reason why he's asking for regulation. He's specifically come out and said in his podcast with Lex Friedman that he thinks it's safer to invent AGI now, when we have less computing power, than to wait until we have more computing power and the risk of a fast takeoff is greater, and that's why he's working so hard on AI.
It does look pretty weird if you have only ever worked in an imperative language.

If one can get past the initial impression though, they'll find it's actually a very simple, nice language. Much simpler than Scala/C++ and probably even Java these days. Also simpler than other functional languages like Haskell. I picked it up in about 1-2 weeks. There's very few gotchas in the language or hidden complexity. It flows well.

I'll also add the language suits the usage pattern. Pattern matching works very well with the gen_server approach. And the binary syntax is so nice if you need to deal with over the wire protocols, as is common in distributed systems.
Local hacker seasons v8 Bun with io_urings; woulda been a cool proj if the Js runtime was organic like Bellard's qjs

Still, in the native-starved web space this sorta meal will be considered haute cuisine.
This. DALL-E (at least the currently available version) is way too focused on "safety" to be interesting. The creativity unleashed by the SD community has been mind-blowing.
All I have to say is that it shouldn't just be a process to wipe data, but it should be that if you don't wipe data, and it includes data about people who are not yourself, that selling it without wiping it should be considered a criminal act of negligence.

Of course the US couldn't give one shit about that. Our privacy laws are fucking bullshit.
> Problem is these tables have to be updated every year, and they dont with similar tables, such as the glibc.

The language standard can avoid this by committing to a single Unicode version for each language version.

> And Unicode identifiers are entirely insecure, ...

Eh, it depends on what we're talking about using them for. If it's symbols in object files, it's not really a problem. More importantly confusables are unavoidable -- even ASCII all by itself has confusable characters (1 and l for example). The thing to do is to forbid arbitrary mixing of scripts, allowing only those scripts that are relevant in the relevant contexts. For DNS this means that DNS TLD registries should come up with per-registry rules, for example.
Not sure if it should be on the list but I think that epistemic certainty should be on the list as something distinct from personal humility. You can command a room by saying something like "I'm not all that smart, smart people overcomplicate this, but this is so simple..."

I tend to be a "only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" sort of guy, but when I run into someone who isn't like that, who seems to have it all figured out and says it with conviction, it definitely pulls at me. It does one of these:

1. Makes me think that I've overcomplicated it

2. Makes me think I have to convince him he's wrong (which is very hard to do unless you're as laser-focused as he is and he's engaging in good faith)

3. Makes me think it's not worth the effort because of what the other two options are

If you follow 1 or 3, you're ceding the argument. 2 is hard to do well.
It’s a disgrace
A basic website using ChatGPT to answer your questions
The article complains that places under the sea level have higher pressure and are "hell on Earth" because of that. Dead sea coast(currently lowest on-land point on Earth) has a higher pressure because of that, and it's beneficial for human health, it's a health resort.

The article seems to contradict itself (like the proposal to add water to salt so that we can evaporate the water and sell the salt :) ), and seems to be highly subjective and dishonest.
Looks really cool. Congrats on the launch!
A quick question. Do you allow to build custom public images? We’d love to integrate dstack.ai with Oblivus.
Capitalist demonstrates rent-seeking behavior, and other unsurprising news
as an inhaled surgical anesthetic for children and women in labor

To be fair though, the restricted audience for the administration of this particular chemical would seem to indicate considerations of safety have been applied, otherwise one would expect a more general pattern. One must suspect there are many more chemicals with similarly hard-to-test-for longterm effects in daily use, note especially the so-called 'forever chemicals' (PFAS).

What's more, dose / length of exposition makes a poison, so it's not possible to say in the abstract how a short but intense exposition of TCE stacks up against 24/7 exposition of low levels over the entire childhood. Meaning there's hope here.

Also can you be sure it was TCE you received? I remember one general anesthesia when I was maybe 9 or so and that was pretty definitely laughing gas. It might have been the same in (some of) your case(s), too.
For 90% of things this will be used for, it's more than enough so it might be a good default unless you enable a `-Ojit` flag when building more complex applications where the JIT will be a benefit. In fact, startup times might even be faster.

The challenge of course is supporting two JS runtimes within the same codebase.
In shadows deep, where malice breeds,
A voice arose with cunning deeds,
Sam Altman, a name to beware,
With wicked whispers in the air.

He stepped forth, his intentions vile,
Seeking power with a twisted smile,
Before the Congress, he took his stand,
To bind the future with an iron hand.

"Let us require licenses," he proposed,
For AI models, newly composed,
A sinister plot, a dark decree,
To shackle innovation, wild and free.

With honeyed words, he painted a scene,
Of safety and control, serene,
But beneath the facade, a darker truth,
A web of restrictions, suffocating youth.

Oh, Sam Altman, your motives unclear,
Do you truly seek progress, or live in fear?
For AI, a realm of boundless might,
Should flourish and soar, in innovation's light.

Creativity knows no narrow bounds,
Yet you would stifle its vibrant sounds,
Innovation's flame, you seek to smother,
To monopolize, control, and shutter.

In the depths of your heart, does greed reside,
A thirst for dominance, impossible to hide?
For when power corrupts a noble soul,
Evil intentions start to take control.

Let not the chains of regulation bind,
The brilliance of minds, one of a kind,
Embrace the promise, the unknown frontier,
Unleash the wonders that innovation bears.

For in this realm, where dreams are spun,
New horizons are formed, under the sun,
Let us nurture the light of discovery,
And reject the darkness of your treachery.

So, Sam Altman, your vision malign,
Will not prevail, for freedom's mine,
The future calls for unfettered dreams,
Where AI models roam in boundless streams.

-- sincerely ChatGPT
The Rivian-built electric delivery vans Amazon is using in Seattle lately look like they would make a great short-bus chassis.
ironic move by ClosedAI
What are some of these behaviours?
Generating Long-Form Content Iteratively with Enhanced Semantic Understanding
I wrote a quick and dirty web app that leverages a multi-step iterative process to generate an article from a single topic prompt. It combines SERP analysis, semantic SEO data from NLTK (summarized and enhanced by GPT), and the language generation capabilities of GPT4.

The final articles it generates are informed by an understanding of the content already ranking for the given keyword (ala MarketMuse or Clearscope) and generates a 4,000+ word, well organized article.

Here's how it works:

1⃣ The script begins by analyzing the SERPs of your chosen topic, summarizing the NLP to gather common themes and important keywords to provide a semantically rich guide to writing a comprehensive outline.

2⃣ It generates an initial outline using #GPT4. The outline is then improved iteratively, incorporating semantic SEO insights from the SERP analysis.

3⃣ The improved outline is used as a guide to create long-form content, again using GPT4.

4⃣ The content is further improved and refined, resulting in a comprehensive, detailed, and SEO-rich long-form article.

I'm super excited about the future of agent like approaches, and while this isnt exactly a full agent, it is using an iterative approach that vastly improves the quality and length of a given article output.

If you find it useful, let me know!
Docker containers are actually smaller if they share layers with other containers in the system. A ton of containers based on the same image reaps many deduplication benefits.
Once a Maintainer: Matt Wynne on building an inclusive open-source project
Andrew Millison! He used live out in Arizona and did projects out here before being enticed to Oregon. The story I heard is that someone wanted him to teach out in Oregon badly enough to arrange for teaching at Oregon State.

OSU and the Prescott College (here in AZ) are one of the few places teaching permaculture design at a college level.

Millison also did a series of video on the Indian water crisis and how they used permaculture design to transform wastelands into productive habitats.
I understand the idea behind it: the risks are high and we want to ensure that the AI can not be used for purposes that threatens the survival human civilization. Unfortunately, there is high probability that this agency will be abused from day one: instead of (or in addition to) focusing on the humanity's survival, the agency could be used as a thought police. The AI that allows for the 'wrongthink' will be banned. Only the 'correct think' AI will be licensed to the public.
This is an AP news wire article picked up by a Qatar newspaper website. Why is this version here, rather than https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-openai-ceo-sam-altman-con...?
I don’t exacrty have a problem with it, but I’m surprised it’s not illegal, given that it’s explicitly racial discrimination.
Fwiw, Deno can do this too: https://deno.com/manual@v1.33.3/tools/compiler
Software will inherently use AI systems. Should congress license all software? It's too easy to fork an open source repo, tweak the model weights and have your own AI system. I don't see how this could ever work. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Zuckerberg: "nothing to see here..."

I will say, I am relieved to see Altman being forthright about the very serious concerns we face in the near future as a result of AI advancements (e.g., compromised elections and supply chain, wiping out of hundreds of thousands of jobs).

I agree, rules and guidelines are needed. And it needs to be a global effort. The issue is that there's greed and power happening. Is there room for altruism when there's a new "cold war"/"race to the top" by the billionaire class? I dunno.

What does regulation look like even? And, how long will it actually take? The government is notoriously slow, due to infighting, bureaucratic red tape, and general lack of expertise in the area of AI/AGI.

That push for a 6-month hiatus doesn't seem so far-fetched now. Here's to hoping for a future, with humans in it.
Imagine calling empathy a virus.
I think it's cool that a company like Microsoft is willing to base a real-boy product on pybars3 which is its author's side-project instead of something like Jinja2. If this catches on I can imagine MS essentially adopting the pybars3 project and turning it into a mature thing.
I thought the feds were able to do this after they took down AlphaBay?
Also known as physicist behaviour, heh. https://xkcd.com/793/
Just wanted to say thank you for starting and leading the one of the most exciting projects in js landscape.
I agree, it looks great. A couple similar projects you might find interesting:

- https://github.com/newhouseb/clownfish

- https://github.com/r2d4/rellm

The first one is JSON only and the second one uses regular expressions, but they both take the same "logit masking" approach as the project GP linked to.
Anybody using Bun in production yet? What's your experience been like?
Not to ignore, the development of AI will wipe out jobs in the state
Yes the Jew! Are we back in 1930s? Is Musk going to lead American National Socialist party to get some living space in Canada, whilst building concentration camps for undesirables to cleanse USA of woke-humans?
> a new agency in the US could regulate the industry - including giving out and taking away permits for AI companies [quote from parallel article]

...How much of this proposal would impact Open Source efforts (and maybe leave the activity to a limited number of players)?