skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geez, that's very harsh. My mom still calls me all kinds of pet names, but I don't resent her for it (anymore). I guess I did as a teenager, but teenagers are generally idiots. An adult who resents his parents for having pet names for him/her as a toddler has some other issues to work through I think.
> A decade later, participation in elite circles like media, academia, and politics is based on how convincingly one can be seen to parrot obvious untruths, not because anyone believes them at all, but because it signals status to be able to lie to the faces of people who know you are doing it, and still say nothing.

I don’t understand this. Can you elaborate on what untruths you mean? Who’s parroting these lies?
Any particular reason to use ROS?
No, it’s definitely still a mostly white collar type job benefit, and about 14% of working people get a company car.

This translates to about half a million company cars.
When I'm not sure about something to do with my now-toddler, I ask myself: what would 15- and 30-year-old (insert kid's name here) want me to have done right now?

Make him wear his detested glasses so he doesn't develop a lazy eye? Yes!

Record and post him having a breakdown over not getting to play in the sink as long as he thinks he should have? No!
Not really the same. Those were privileges granted one book at a time. As far as I can tell the Act of Anne was the first law describing the modern concept of copyright as a right not a privilege.
Finland has multiple interconnects to neighboring nations. So how's them energy export revenues ?
I don’t know if exceptions to the rule are interesting, but the best sources for much of Macedon’s conquest of Greece come from the defeated Athenians (especially tidbits from Demosthenes who, alongside Cicero, is one of history’s more voluminous losers).
Another culture... other games. Don't overestimate your experiences and culture please.
How can you be this successful and blog about the most trite bullshit 24/7. Doesn't have the sense to marry a hot chick and fuck her all day even, what is that thing he's with anyway. Bro. Sad to see.
I have asked ChatGPT to cite sources when I have doubts.

I am often times able to confirm these sources.

Seems this lawyer just took ChatGPT at its word without validating the cases.
> If they can crack encryption they're not going to tell us and they will probably act like they can't.

The thing that was pretty apparent from Snowden's leaks is primarily that they don't need to. This fear that "NSA can crack cryptography" is the wrong fear. First, as others have noted, there are legions of other researchers evaluating and attempting to break widely used crypto-systems. There is no reason to believe the NSA has some unique brilliant minds that aren't available elsewhere.

More importantly, though, why bother with a "frontal assault" on breaking crypto schemes when endpoint security is a million times more hackable. That is, usually at some point someone wants to view the encrypted data that is being sent, and at that point it needs to be decrypted, so why not just try to hack at that point (which is exactly what they do). As an example, just look at all the stolen cryptocurrency heists. All of these heists resulted from stolen keys or from implementation bugs, not from cracking the crypto schemes that protect cryptocurrency in the first place.
Got it, thanks for sharing your perspective.

>I don't see how it saves anyone's face.

Wouldn't it be much more attractive for you as an angel investor to be able to say 'My companies have been acquired by xyz etc'? I have seen several Angels that lists investments as 'exited' even if it made them little money.

Also in my future entrepreneurial ambitions, it would probably give me more credibility, no?
Regarding Qwest, wasn’t the CEO jailed for insider trading? Or is there another side to this story?
Maintaining an Attention Axis
A case against security nihilism (cryptographyengineering.com)

468 points by feross on July 20, 2021 | un‑favorite | 333 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975
Never?

Unless they advertise it as having the capability, it's got nothing to do with them.

If I hit someone with a hammer, that shit's on me, not the manufacturer.
Literally just me.
this is the future of lawyers, doctors, engineers, school teachers...

dark times are ahead.
Try the practice area, it has no timer and you can select strings and notes to focus on. And stay tuned and sign up for updates if you can, I'll build a kinder, gentler learning module to go with the game
Connecting to a larger system seems like it would reduce your risk on average, but increase systemic risk. Perhaps a coordinated terrorist attack would cause a power outage across the entire country except Texas, making it more appealing?
That kind of corruption goes bavk to the likes of Strauss. Otherwise, fully agree.
Now I understand what you are saying. The only way I see individuals deriving value from scarcity is with brands - not functional patents. Even with technical luxury goods like watches and cars, which may also include patents, the real customer scarcity value comes from showing others they are rich enough to buy and flaunt those goods. Can you think of an example where something purely functional is only valuable because it is scarce? Maybe private jets? If jets dropped in price 50x, private airports would become crowded and destroy much of their benefit. But then the gating luxury good would switch to being a member of a private airport network or something.

I am talking about a change to patents, not copyright and trademarks which are exclusive essentially forever. You can still strut around with a $20k Birkin bag (If they deem you a worthy buyer of course) that delivers the same functionality as a $100 purse. No one will be allowed to make fake Birkins and destroy their exclusivity. But if Hermes patents some new zipper, you would be able to duplicate their zipper and pay them a license fee. You would NOT be allowed to mention their brand. Patents are about function, not color, size, style or ornamentation.
There’s a joke about “an LLB having an LLM” in here somewhere.
Building them in SimCity 2000 was cool too
241 logins for me
Worse, it's buried in the middle of other fine print:

> Free Research Preview. ChatGPT may produce inaccurate information about people, places, or facts. ChatGPT May 24 Version

And it really understates the problem. It should say: Warning! ChatGPT is very likely to make shit up.
$60/mo for NA and EU, otherwise $70/mo

Also read their free egress policy first: https://wasabi.com/paygo-pricing-faq/#free-egress-policy
I disagree.

I've been tracking the many, many flaws in AI pretty closely (I wrote this article, and a bunch more in this series: https://simonwillison.net/series/llm-misconceptions/)

And yet... I'm finding ChatGPT and the like wildly useful on a personal level.

I think they're deceptively hard to use: you have to put in effort to learn them, and to learn how to avoid the many traps they set for you.

But once you've done that you can get very real productivity boosts from them. I use ChatGPT a dozen or so times a day, and I would be very sad to not have access to it any more.

I wrote a bit more about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-developmen... - and if anything this effect has got even stronger for me over the two months since I wrote that.
> At what point does OpenAI (or any other company) become legally responsible for this kind of behavior from their LLM's?

When they sell their bots to areas where lying is illegal. I.e., when a company pretends to do law.

OpenAI doesn't pretend ChatGPT is a lawyer and for good reason. The lawyer who decided to outsource his work is an idiot and can't shift blame to the tool he decided to abuse.
Not sure what you're asking, exactly?

Unity (and I presume Unreal) can do the same procedural generation stuff today your can do in js. There's many libraries/tutorials etc
Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (2016)
If in a cold climate, heat the earth under your house. Then, that earth slowly gives its heat back to you over the coming months (soil is quite a poor thermal conductor, so the heat hangs around underground for a really long time)

Obscenely powerful heaters are rather cheap. Assuming prices only go negative pretty rarely, you really want 100 kilowatts or more of heaters under your house to get as much free power as possible.
>> More mundane tasks such as providing employment verification letters or moving employees between departments will likely be fully automated, Krishna said

Ummm, dude you can automate that 30 years ago. Don't wait for AI.
I still can't get over how we shut down schools in a huge amount of the world for a long period of time, and didn't come out of that with high-quality, open source, government-sponsored software for remote education. Instead, we just waited it out on every level, while the rich got a lot richer.
yeah, this might be the brainier people bias of Hacker News but there's been a lot of requests for alternate tunings. I might just give in and build it one of these days :).

Name a Chord with multiple choice is a great idea. Adding it to the list
Would love to see the first lawsuit wherein an LLM hallucinates some meaningfully good/bad metric resulting in market movement.
Try reloading the page. Creativity at it's best.
I suspect you're right for how people are using and deploying LLMs now: hacking all kinds of functionality out of a text-completion model that, although it encodes a ton of data and some reasoning, is fundamentally still a text completion model and when deployed via commercial APIs like today without fine tuning, are not flexible beyond prompt engineering, chaining, etc. make possible.

But I think we've only scratched the surface as to what LLMs fine-tuned on specific tasks, especially for abstract reasoning over narrow domains, could do.

These applications possibly won't look anything like the chat interfaces that people are getting excited about now, and fine-tuning is not as accessible as prompt engineering. But there's a whole lot more to explore.
Caching the body scares the hell out of me.

If the params for the search are so many or so big that they don't fit in a single url, how could you use that as a cache key?

Right now you can:

* Pass the arguments as parameters

* Pass them on the request body. I personally done it on apis for games in unity/ios/android for almost a decade). Other products like Elasticsearch count on that as part of the core product.

* Semantically create searches in the server with POST /search

In the previous two examples, you can return a redirect to the search results (like /searches/33) with perfect caching/indexing, and delegate to the server the cache algorithms.

With things like Vary, Etags, Conditional fetchs, Content-Encoding, Content-Type, Cache-Control, Expires that the spec barely grasp, adding a huge body is something that a cache server/cdn will not implement.

So again. What is this spec solving?
> > It’s hard not to feel superior,

Schneier would know.
Disbarment is usually considered a punishment of last resort. That the failure of the attorney to carry out their obligations is so absolute, that it justifies taking away their right to practice law in a given state. There are certainly other measures that can be done here that are of a similar rebuke, just not as final. A suspension or temporary disbarment is also possible.

We don’t know the full situation here, but a personal injury case against a bankrupt airline for striking someone in the knee with the serving cart seems remediable?

Disbarment usually happens in cases where attorneys fail to file timely repeatedly at the expense of their clients and after multiple admonishments to stop that; utterly fail in their fiduciary obligations (i.e. they were acting like an escrow and then instead gambled the money away in Vegas).
Unless something else is going on or the baby ends up mentally ill as an adult, it will not resent your sister for calling it 'little bean' in public and posting pictures of it Wadling about in diapers.

The baby might resent these things as a teenager, but who cares? Good luck organizing your own parenthood in a teenager-resentment-safe manner.
ChatGPT did not lie; it cannot lie.

It was given a sequence of words and tasked with producing a subsequent sequence of words that satisfy with high probability the constraints of the model.

It did that admirably. It's not its fault, or in my opinion OpenAI's fault, that the output is being misunderstood and misused by people who can't be bothered understanding it and project their own ideas of how it should function onto it.
> someone coming from a different culture, a culture that is less refined than one's own culture, and so the migrant would make everything in one's homeland worse

Why should one have to think a different culture and people are inferior, to want to preserve one's own culture and people? If it was environmentalists worried about native wolves being slowly displaced by an invasive breed of dingo, would you call them wolf-supremacists? Certainly nobody accused Kashmir of supremacy when they worried about immigration [1].

Or are human groups so unique, the first of their kind in the entire animal kingdom, that they actually benefit from a competing group moving into their territory?

[1] Kashmir’s new status could bring demographic change, drawing comparisons to the West Bank - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/08/kashmirs-new...
Monty Python nicely addressed this, over 50 years ago.

> Mr. Hilton: Oh, we use only the finest juicy chunks of fresh Cornish ram's bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds, whipped into a fondue, and garnished with lark's vomit.

> Inspector: LARK'S VOMIT?!?!?

> Mr. Hilton: Correct.

> Inspector: It doesn't say anything here about lark's vomit!

> Mr. Hilton: Ah, it does, on the bottom of the box, after 'monosodium glutamate'.

> Inspector: I hardly think that's good enough! I think it's be more appropriate if the box bore a great red label: 'WARNING: LARK'S VOMIT!!!'

> Mr. Hilton: Our sales would plummet!

https://youtu.be/3zZQQijocRI

Really, it should open every conversation with “by the way, I am a compulsive liar, and nothing I say can be trusted”. That _might_ get through to _some_ users.
You will see :)
Yes, I registered as an individual (but was reimbursed through my employer's training budget), and did so a few months in advance as the previous session seemed to fill up pretty quickly. It was USD$1500 for the week. I'm keeping an eye on his course listing too - I'd love to take more.
What Makes a Hobbyist?
There's nothing wrong with starting with ChatGPT but the lazy ambulance chaser couldn't be bothered with a quick lookup in Westlaw. That's where things start going wrong.
I live in ATX, where the ice can knock out power for days to a week. This winter, Austin Energy accomplished a Herculean but Sisyphean task of reconnecting 130k customers in a few days.

Municipal grid gear here isn't rated for the ice burden like utilities in the north east.
Here in Australia we had pretty long lockdowns compared to many other places. Our excess deaths are multiple times lower than say the US or UK for example.
you are clearly sensitive with empathy, so I dislike this next one.. it is much worse than that. There are "industries" that make prey on people explicitly, unlike the cold-but-lawful HR systems you deride. Quickly moving on people in weak positions, checking credentials constantly to enforce payment, catching people in minor law enforcement via machine, and automated violations against renters in remotely managed property, are a few examples that come to mind right away; and THAT is in the USA where there are protections.
Is there a concrete example of a back office job that can be replaced entirely by current generation LLMs, that couldn’t have already been replaced by a regular software program?
Not caring less and feeling utterly powerless to change anything look identical at a distance of more than twelve feet.
China’s hypersonic missiles threaten US power in the Pacific
I think Andrew Huff would contest your qualification of it as "natural"
Rabies Is Scary
Several huge infrastructure providers offer decent VPS servers and bare metal with free bandwidth for pretty reasonable prices nowadays.

You might want to check out OVH or - like mentioned before - Hetzner.
Sure, if we define "Generative AI" as "algorithmic generation of stuff" then it has been around for a long time.

I disagree that this is what people are really referring to when they use the phrase generative AI and basically none of the techniques being used can really be said to be 40 years old.
dang is doing that frequently - but what does "macro-expanded" mean for normal users? Do you have a bookmarklet, extension or something similar for this or is there any secret incantation that makes HN generate such an entry automatically?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963163

("Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP [sic]", 277 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980121

("Texas professor failed half of class after ChatGPT claimed it wrote their papers", 22 comments)
Until you get the octopus to talk to you proper, we won’t know
More like Yelp. There is no evidence Amazon commissions or condones fake reviews (apart from being wilfully negligent in policing them), whereas review extortion is a core part of both Yelp and Glassdoor's business model ("nice business you've got there, shame if bad reviews happened to it, but if you buy an advertising package, we will push them down so low they don't matter")
A BitTorrent Client WebUI Shouldn't Be Shared with the Entire Internet
I'm quite confident that you wouldn't have to interview many people to discover that even though it is not beyond people that it is unknown to many.

I know several non-technical people who find the distinction between window and tab difficult to manage for instance. As well as people who have had Android mobiles for years and still don't understand those three little buttons at the bottom of the screen: back, home, 'task' list.
I read this as malicious/intentional initially. Do people really think they can 100% believe ChatGPT?

Especially for someone like a lawyer I would expect to them verify any information they get from ChatGPT.
> China has no established tradition of respecting property rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

and that's against their own citizens.
No, I understood your intent, but I don't really agree that it makes sense to individualize risk like this so that one person gets completely ruined by freak occurrences. Maybe if we're talking about particularly high-risk zones, but the entire state of California, inhabited by 44mn people and spanning more than half the West Coast, should be left out to dry?
I'll never understand why comments like this are upvoted at the expense of those that actually address the topic.
Hot and humid could be undesirable depending on how much temperatures rise.
>> treat human beings like nothing more than arbitrary "resources",

Almost every human treats some number of other humans as arbitrary resources. This alone is not offensive, but everyone deserves respect regardless of the function they provide for others.
That's not the way public utilities, work everyone pays taxes on roads and schools without directly benefitting, I don't have any children yet a large portion of my income goes to school, but I understandt the utility of it. the same would go for public internet.
The information they got from the government was literally ridiculous. Outside of the US it was more reported on comedy shows than on the news.
OPs post is literally about 10TB storage and 100+TB/mo
Less bad need not be good. One only need look at electoral politics in the US for this to be obvious.
A buzzword - generally I would say it refers to using unsupervised training of some neural network model and then generating new data in the domain from the model.

I believe it originally grew out of the phrase "generative model" (which models the joint data probability distribution) but most of the prominent 'generative AI' models (like GPT) are not actually generative models but discriminators.

Regardless, outside of simple things like matrix multiplication, the theory of backpropagation (although not the implementations), language modeling as a concept, etc. - almost all of these techniques are within the last decade and a half or so.
> GET requests ... can't have a request body. It's not specifically banned, but it is defined as being completely meaningless

This is widely believed but false. And repeating it leads me to believe that the author is not careful enough to create new standards. They are just not defined to be meaningful, which is not the same thing.

In fact the standard says that sending a message body with a GET request should not (specifically SHOULD NOT, not MAY NOT) be done unless you have confirmed that the servers accept it, because servers are not required to accept it, but that if you are talking to a server directly that you know supports it then it's perfectly fine and within the standard.
My grandfather had been holding off the worsening of his vascular dementia for a long time because he had a lot of family around him to remind him who he was. Cutting him off from the world resulted in quick decline and death. Lockdown killed dementia patients: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/news/2020-07-30/lockdown-isola...
How to mitigate risk from secrets leaks
Or maybe validated one or two, and then assumed they must all be correct.
1) You didn't read my comment carefully. I did say that crypto is great for law avoidance. So yes, international money transfers avoiding any taxes, fees and regulation is indeed better with crypto. The thing is, I'm not an oligarch plundering my country and funneling stolen money to offshores and UAE. I do value AML laws and all the "stupid" regulations which come with it. Even if I'm personally affected by them and have to procure papers for money origin, is limited by in amounts and time to transfer - it is better that a so called "free market" a wild west libertarian dystopia.

2) I have heard about IPFS and other file storage projects like Filecoin or Siacoin. All of them are noncompetitive with any centralized service. And as for illegal filesharing - sure, it may be useful, bittorents are better though and have no shitty monetization attached to them.

3) Yes, I have heard about flashloans, a lot. It's an amazing source of lulz and comedy godl, finding out how another bridge had been abused, often by the flash loan. It's a completely bullshit and useless idea for a normal human, unless you are a technically inclined hacker, who looks for vulnerabilities in the shitty code running on a virtual machine actively discouraging writing longer code with test coverage and better programming practices, because the longer the code the pricier it is to run. To such hackers flash loans are invaluable to properly abuse broken contracts.

4) NFT doesn't guarantee ownership of nothing but the token itself (and token is useless, because of the tech limitations). Tickets have no benefits on the blockchain because they are always issued by the centralized source. Any property you wish can and MUST be set by that same centralized corporation. NFTs add zero, nothing to it. Same with license keys, again issued by a central authority. NFTs is a cargo cult by tokenbros who don't know how business works.
Not among experienced angel investors. Maybe noobs are impressed.

On the plus side: you'd learn a lot trying to arrange an acqui-hire, though it's an extremely stressful way to spend a few months (and it's never less than a few months.)
Why Tears of the Kingdom is worse without item duplication