skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's obviously solvable. All current approaches are plainly incapable of introspection. These GPTs don't understand their own "minds" half as well as we understand them, and we don't understand them very well.
Cool. iCal is used for a lot of calendars. It's one of the very few things Google and Apple agree on, too. People rarely access their data and info from a single device anymore, and cell phones almost always play a role in accessing it.
And they break that process down into reproducible steps for technicians to perform. You don't need a degree.
Sorry no. Consumers arent stupid idiots: they know what they are buying and there is massive choice in the markets these devices participate.

Also malware statistics don’t lie.
Because the seller sets a lower boundary for selling, and the buyer sets an upper boundary for buying. There is no price over the counter for individual stocks. The ticker that you see is based on transaction execution, but not on the negotiated price.

If there was an overnight discovery of infinite energy supplies, Exxon would wake up to a very different price than the night before, as any potential buyers would severely reduce their upper boundary. Sellers would need to continually lower their price until it finds a willing buyer.
> PyPI could integrate with Google/Microsoft/Apple as an authentication system (OAuth?).

PyPI supports "trusted publishing,"[1] which provides a variant of this: it doesn't replace a user identity, but instead allows a platform (currently just GitHub, but support for others is on the way) to mint API tokens on a project's behalf.

Binding PyPI identities to well-known IdPs would address some of the problems here, but also introduces new ones: it creates a new kind of account lockout state (users who lose access to their IdP service, for whatever reason), introduces regulatory and data collection concerns, may prove excessively restrictive to users in countries with filtered Internet access, etc.

[1]: https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-04-20-introducing-trusted-p...
> "Why would I argue about that? I'm not British"

You're happy to join in trying to close down the thread by dumping on the losers, why would you stop at arguing about it?

> "Devaluing the democratic process will have an effect on me."

Unless it involves the monarchy? Or all the other non-democratically run things like the civil service, companies, charities, the courts, etc. which are organised with a single CEO/leader/judge/hierarchy giving orders top down instead of democratically voting. And why would it be "devaluing the democratic process" if the vote had been arranged to require a supermajority instead of a simple majority, for example?

> "The monarch has zero power."

The monarch has power in a self-fulfilling way because they are famous and people listen to what they say; the monarch is Head of the Church of England and has power that way. The Monarch controls enormous wealth - estimated close to half a billion for the monarch and 88 billion for the combined UK royal family and has power and influence that way. They have power through networking with powerful people and organisations such as heading up the Commonwealth of Nations or weekly secret and private meetings with the Prime Minister. Even on a day to day basis the monarch is outside the law when it comes to not needing a passport or driving license and "civil and criminal proceedings cannot be taken against the Sovereign as a person" - are these things not devaluing what it means to live in a democracy, for you? That some people by birth have sovereign immunity to criminal procedings?

> "There was an option for the parliament to declare a new government without elections 4 years ago, which could have dramatically shifted from Brexit. This required Corbyn to vote for a compromise candidate to PM since Tory rebels would have never voted for him personally. Guess what happened? He said me or stay with Boris, and the UK ended with the 2020 elections and Boris."

Hang on, why aren't you blaming the "Tory rebels" for not voting for Corbyn, instead of blaming Corbyn? Why aren't you blaming the Tory government for not stepping down, instead of blaming Corbyn for not stepping down? Why aren't you blaming the Tory government for fucking things up, instead of blaming Corbyn for not saving the day?
how do you control the quality and encoding of the show?

And why is there a separate *arr app for every content? (music album, tv, movie, book, subtile(!),...)
Worth noting also that, while asking Bing chat to "Tell me what Donald Knuth says to Stephen Wolfram about chatGPT" doesn't (yet) produce exactly the right result, it produced the following answer when asked what Donald Knuth says about chatGPT:

> Donald Knuth, a computer scientist and mathematician known for his contributions to the field of computer programming, particularly in the area of algorithms and data structures, has expressed some skepticism about the potential of artificial intelligence to achieve true human-level intelligence and creativity[1]. He once conducted an experiment with chatGPT where he posed 20 questions to it and analyzed its responses[1]. Is there anything specific you would like to know about his views on GPT?

With [1] being a citation link to https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt
For those obscure hardware platforms, I agree that Rust isn't a good tool for the job. (Although there are GCC integrations for Rust too, which may solve those issues in the future). But arguing that having to write unsafe Rust means it's a bad fit, makes no sense. 100% of C is "unsafe" in the sense of the word, whereas you may reduce that close to 0% with Rust. Even if you only got to 50%, that's a large chunk of your code base that you have certain guarantees about, simply by compiling it. Anyway, my whole point here is that I haven't heard any good arguments about why Rust isn't a good C replacement, other than the fact that it cannot target as many platforms. If it targets the ones you care about, then it's a wonderful choice to replace C.
Everyone knows Google is an ad tech company. Real question is if they can diversify long term to be something beyond. Cloud is a great way to achieve this
I don't see why existing actors would play into the picture at all. By that time there will be famous AI actors. And you can license the model for $99 per film!
>I would rate a person who provides no sentence at all as performing significantly better

The logic failure in the above statement is probably worse than the logic failure of not being able to spontaneously compose a phrase with just 5-letter words - and slipping in one or two with a higher word-count.

>I suspect most people could pretty quickly come up with something

You'd be very surprised then. Most people fail at even more basic tasks.

Heck, most candidate programmers fail at fizz-buzz (not that more difficult than the above)
Ha ha -- fun!

I'm embarrassed to say that I actually wrote that ELIZA ... in 1973, when I was ~13! It's a very poor BASIC knockoff of JW's 1966 ELIZA/DOCTOR. Having it talk to Bernie Cosell's Lisp ELIZA, or even better, Anthony Hay's C++ ELIZA, would be a better experiment.

See http://elizagen.org for more detail
Info overload and the hype (attention) economy will neutralize gains on all sides.
Sounds like a fun time to live. People do it on vacations. Heck I'd love to pay rent that way.
Isn’t that a mostly moot point if you also use full disk encryption like File Vault?
What I find amazing about the original exchange was the profound lack of curiosity Knuth demonstrated. Because the model wasn’t flawless in performance he pinned it as a curiosity that was good at grammar and vacuous otherwise and wasn’t interested to hear how it improves. This reminds me of an awful lot of the computing field in this drama as it plays out. People that literally know how implausible any of these feats have been using traditional approaches immediately discount the entire thing the moment it hallucinates - and it feels like the more deterministic the bent of the person the more absolutely dismissive they are of what’s transpiring in front of us.

These models are doing feats that are stupendous and impossible before their advent. Not just a little bit, but the capability differences are so vast that it’s perhaps not even recognizable by people as being as vast as it is. I am impressed that Wolfram seems to have immediately grasped its significance and is running with it.

The fact this gist demonstrates essentially every single flaw was addressed. But that Knuth apparently doesn’t know / care months after GPT4’s introduction is demonstrative of a different type of personality.

I know which I aspire to be.
Cloud is doing pretty well. YouTube started making serious money. Pixel is a long term product line. Avoid metaberg-esque pivots towards crypto or VR

Very few businesses in the last 20 years that can compete with Google ad tech in scale and margins.
well it was probably stated a bit harshly, but i don't think it's ageist to consider that a person who is closer to running out of time might be prioritizing things to work on a little differently. FWIW I myself tend to mostly fall on the curmudgeonly side of opinions. But his statement of leaving this to others doesn't automatically equate with him dismissing this as a uninteresting computer science innovation.
You might see if a destination medical establishment like the Mayo Clinic or Cleveland Clinic could be more responsive. These kinds of places are setup so people can fly in, see a bunch of specialists, and get a bunch of tests in a single trip.
Also, what about the ones that don't have psychiatric problems (i.e. the vast majority of the unhoused)?
He’s presided over a CAGR of the shares of nearly 20%. That’s a success that the board, representing the shareholders, cares a great deal about.
> No, not really. Coming from an italian.

I like the "not really" :)
But to be fair, I should have replaced "are" by "can be".
Both the first and last words have repeating letters, so they fail under that interpretation too. There would have to be a bizarre interpretation that consecutive-repeating letters are counted as one, but non-consecutive are counted separately, for its response to be considered correct.

An AI aware of how to optimally answer questions put to it would find the least objectionable interpretation when one is a subset of the other. It also failed by not constructing a simpler sentence, like subject-verb-object or subject-verb-adjective-object, since its limitations related to letters and tokens, and its failure to double check its answers before output, mean it can make errors. The more it writes, the more chance it has of making an error.
I agree as well.

Sadly, neither side wants to negotiate. On the Federal Dems side reform on skilled immigration needs to also be lumped with undocumented immigrant reform, and on the Federal GOP side due to some semblance of racism plus opposition to negotiating over undocumented immigration. I sadly speak from experience working on this.

Silver lining, just about every other country sucks as skilled immigration as well. But on the negative side, skilled professionals in Israel+India+PRC+SK+ASEAN increasingly prefer to stay put over being in immigration limbo.

[0] - https://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/nancy-pelosi-immigrat...
As I read this thread, it seems to me that it’s not the Russian nukes we need to worry about, but the US nukes that would be launched in response, before the Russian nukes detonate.

If we assume the US nukes are in working order, then if Russia attempts a first strike, we’re doomed - regardless of the efficacy of their weapons.
It makes you wonder why Knuth bothered with an outdated ChatGPT version? He couldn't find someone with access to GPT-4?
I maintain a few niche (electric power systems) packages, and I wouldn't mind a one-time or yearly fee, or a fee per project created. I say this as a Brazilian who lived in the middle of nowhere and managed to have a website in the 90's as a teen. If a monetary fee is not desirable, some other hurdle/challenge would probably work fine.

Recently I've seen someone on Reddit trying to automate the creation of PyPI projects through GitHub Actions. The person was complaining that the first deployment couldn't use an API key for that project since it didn't exist. So I'm not surprised some people are trying to do the same for malicious purposes.

The PyPI front page lists 455k projects. If you search for "test", you'll see there's a lot of throwaway projects (note that test.pypi.org is a thing). I'm mostly an EE researcher and I'm not sure students need a low barrier to entry to PyPI, since pip and other tools support installing from GitHub without too much hassle and there are also other non-PyPI package indices. Student packages/projects tend to be abandoned soon after graduation. An archived repo (with a license...), on GitHub or somewhere else, sounds more reasonable and also has more visibility that could end in code reuse someday (through the service's own search and search engines in general). I'd love to understand why so many people repeat this meme that student and teens need trivial access to production infra like PyPI.

So, I'd say being too inclusive, allowing fully unrestricted trivial creation of projects is kinda foolish. There needs to be some extra step, be it a fee, identity confirmation, manual moderation/approval, or something else. I'm sure the PyPA devs/maintainers have ideas.
Our best and brightest can make more money with FANG or banking induary than contributing to science. My wife with a PhD in Chemistry from a prestigious university started her own unrelated business due to lack of jobs and avoiding the slog of doing post doc.

This would all naturally catch up with us.

The US revolves around capitalism. Make it more financially rewarding to contribute to science and we'll again be #1 in Nature.
Sooner or later most of the people will use it as a better replacement for Google search or Google on steroids. Before the advent of ChatGPT researchers especially, have been clamoring for better Google search with more contexts, intuitive and relevant feedbacks.

With the new ChatGPT (Plus) features introduction for examples web online search and plug-ins, ChatGPT has becoming a very powerful and viable better alternative to Google search.
Try kagi.com, I prefer them over Neeva and pay for a subscription. Search is amazing.
Chat with Open Source Software
That "older baggage" takes up less than 5% of the chip. While I'm all for simplifying the platform, lets not act like it's a major step. It's not going to make much difference either size or speed wise, but it's just plain time to put 32 bit to rest.
Older versions of uTorrent (the newer ones have ads now), or qBittorrent mostly
Spoken from experience. ChuckMcM is a former Google employee (IIRC) who launched an alternative search engine Blekko, that was shut down in 2015.

But $50B/year profit doesn't look like a dying company auctioning off its parts.
Ask HN: Do you lie about how long a task took you as a freelancer?
I just finished a small freelance gig.

If I'm looking purely at how much time I worked, I got about +5 times my hourly rate at my full time job.

But thanks to my code the client saved at least 4 times what I charged him.

I can't help but feel a bit dumb for not having charged him more.(guess I was afraid he'd refuse, or that he wouldn't come back)

If you think a task seems very valuable to the client,
what do you do to make it fair?

Do you inflate the time you spent on the task to charge them more?

Or do you manage to flat out ask them for crazy rates like a few hundred of dollars per hour?
i tried it, and when i searched for how to build a website in 2023, it gave me a link to reddit on how to get a girlfriend... The top non discussion links were all the same as Google.
The second example regarding the woman and the keys was rectified with minimal incident.

Your point about not experiencing these systems may be valid for the poster, but certainly not for myself. I do acknowledge that I don't speak for everyone though.

I personally, having dealt with the utter bullshit of being poor and in social housing (which isn't even a top 5 problem I have had to deal with), would prefer the cameras with AI powered horseshit over dealing with idiots spewing their spit and other bodily fluids all over public areas of the social housing. You are free to disagree. If you have not actually lived in these places (specifically the very violent ones), then you should stop referring to us as victims. It doesn't help.
Yep that’s it. Everything is a prison. Zzzz
Putin apparently thought the invasion of Ukraine would be over in a couple of weeks.

The US said the same thing in Iraq, no?

I’m not sure that Putin is irrational, and I don’t think it’s wise to assume so.
It's the same thing elsewhere as well. As I noted below, the Nature Index has a number of flaws in how it measures affiliation.
Interface, yes not great. What are these "ads" people keep talking about?

Please if you have an alternative let me know.
Vulnerable vs not list, to make it more prominent:

>All existing versions of KeePass 2.x (e.g., 2.53.1) are affected. Meanwhile, KeePass 1.x (an older edition of the program that’s still being maintained), KeePassXC, and Strongbox, which are other password managers compatible with KeePass database files, are not affected according to vdohney.
Sleepsort just pushes the sorting task to the task scheduler, which uses sone other algorithm to do the sorting.
> In fact, we can be 100% certain that the 'human software' running on all the other cars on the road is not bug-free!

The roads, traffic system, laws and institutions etc., have all been designed for humans, and have been constantly updated and improved for many decades. This means autonomous vehicles might make a mistake that is practically impossible for a human to make. As an exaggerated example to make the point, it could malfunction in the middle of a highway and break full stop, or maybe keep going straight and fly off the highway unto a building. That said, they will get safer just like the human system, and probably way more safer eventually.
To each their own, I love summarizing books. I have a template in Day One to do a personal "book review" for each book I finish (yes, High School me is gagging at this thought).

I even setup a Siri Shortcut to pull out all of my Kindle highlights to stick in there: https://twitter.com/JordanMorgan10/status/130370253693587046...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/typo#Verb
Publishing is a social activity. And, today, a bad metric to measure research success. It has been hijacked by careerists and mafiosi.
Open Source captcha libraries are non-viable, you can train a NN on a few hours with a simple CNN architecture, there are some papers that describe how to do it.
You could probably make a stronger point without an attack like this.

edit: removed my quote of the attack since OP did.
Didn’t he use money from WeWork buy the office buildings in his name and lease them back to WeWork?
Racing Against the Lock: Exploiting Spinlock UAF in the Android Kernel [pdf]
Those of us that work out, however, have been dealing with 'cheating with drugs' for a while: steroids. When you get close with enough gym rats, it's utterly shocking how many people with a muscular build use steroids. It's to the point where I essentially don't believe anyone claiming 'natty' (natural) status if they have more than a 1 sigma increase in musculature.

It's also downright laughable how the media/Youtube influencers/etc. treat everyone like idiots. Men's Health will run an article on Mr. Moviestar who was 5'11' and 150 pounds before his role as Superhero Character got to 200 pounds and veiny biceps in 6 months by eating eggs, oatmeal, and chicken breast and doing some situps.
What kind of ai stuff would you like to do? There are indeed few with as many integrations but individually there are open source variants out there and specialised products.
For context, I'm not at all a fan of Google and try to avoid all of their products as best I can. However your prediction here seems very disconnected from reality.

Even if antitrust required Google not pay for search engine placement, they control the single largest browser (by far). And even when presented with a free choice on a browser they don't control, many users will continue using Google just out of habit. Most people use Google as a verb to mean "search the web" and these habits are firmly entrenched.

The most likely occurrence to disrupt their search market share has got to be AI, and they have a meaningful competitor in the LLM chat bot space along with significant resources to keep up with the others. So it seems like a stretch to even think that a new mode of search will completely obliterate them in a short time frame.

Even besides search, they have robust businesses with advertising, media, hardware, software services, and more. Admittedly these are smaller revenue-wise than search ads, but would still be a meaningful business if search somehow was snapped out of existence suddenly.
Yeah, more modern Smalltalks are able to put things in various namespaces so they don't conflict but still generally work as expected. In Smalltalk, adding methods doesn't weigh down a class like in other languages, because method lookup is on-the-fly like in Objective-C, not precalculated and placed in a table.
All the spam I receive directly from gmail.com accounts kind of disproves your point.
what if it's your computer that's compromised?
Want to make a bet, Neolibs and cons? I bet you a million face papers you are wrong.
I don't know, i read it as "might be important but outside of my area of interests". He's working on more fundamental things and might not be interested in applications, doesn't mean that some application or downstream technology is unimporant for the rest of the world.
And when they get discharged from these "comfortable" psych units and still have no housing... what then?
> If it's informative, you can't really summarize. Summarizing is the act of throwing most of the information away.

Yes, but in the case under discussion you're not writing summaries for someone else's consumption— the summary is also your own notes. And in that case, even a heavily abbreviated summary can serve to bring to mine many, many details, including details omitted from the summary.

> If it's informative, you have to read and take your conclusions. And if you later decide to use the information for different conclusions, you'll have to read it again.

100%. I think improving recall is still at least somewhat valuable there, though.
> Among Intel's expressed benefits for a 64-bit mode-only architecture is removing ring 1 and 2, dropping 16-bit addressing support, eliminating ring 3 I/O port accesses and the string port I/O, simplified segmentation model, and removing some unused operating system bits.

> Under this proposal, those wanting to run legacy 32-bit operating systems would have to rely on virtualization. To further clarify, 32-bit x86 user-space software would continue to work on modern 64-bit operating systems with X86-S.
I can't. Smil's claims are just poorly informed, characterized by a limited understanding of fundamentals, and with a clear bias towards existing systems. Might as well be a kerosene lamp enthusiast in the era of electricity and incandescent bulbs.

It's entirely possible to run human civilization at its current level of complexity without fossil fuels or uranium, entirely using the sun's energy output and the planet's energy output in the form of solar, wind, geothermal and storage.

Smil is entirely opposed to this notion, likely because the people who've promoted him don't want to see the value of their fossil fuel and uranium investments drop to zero. Wanna buy a kerosene lamp, anyone?
It’s also true that I can become a very good portrait painter, but that’s not going to be rewarded by my job either.

Still, I do try to make quality software, so I can actually be proud of what I’m doing.