skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if the current generation of LLMs (basically, chatbots) will be any of use comparing to the previous one.

LLMs, as well as other recent outcomes of ANN technologies, are undoubtedly very impressive. Especially for the wide audience. But I feel like impressiveness is the only practical feature they have. When I talk to a support call centre chatbot, I feel like the only useful thing the robot could do for me is to guide me through the verbal user interface in a very verbose way. And I find it lesser convenient and reliable than just clicking a few buttons. ChatGPT can give me encyclopaedic knowledges through a verbal interface too, but I think that googling a Wikipedia article is more straightforward and, again, more reliable.

I think the lack of reliability was the reason why people eventually gave up on the previous generation of these technologies as a form of computer interfaces. The same fate awaits the new generation too, in my opinion. And the LLMs can't offer anything new rather than just a new form of interfaces. They are very bad in true reasoning. Which is why, I think, they are too far from what I would call AGI.

The author of the article is talking about new risks brought by AI. I personally don't see any new risks here, but I see a lot of risks in more traditional technologies no one is talking about. Modern Internet, smartphones and the way the modern computer interfaces designed in general are, in my opinion, already brought a lot of risks to us.

We are slowly loosing control over computer systems. When I open YouTube I would like to organise and control the information that I consume. But instead Google prefers to choose what I should watch. They are slowly removing explicit control functions that I can use directly in favour to suggestions semi-automatically generated by them. And it's not just Google, it's a common trend. Facebook, Windows or Twitter are not exceptions. The control over the users attention as a way to influence, is a main value for big tech and for the people who control these corporations. And I think this is the risk for the humanity we are currently facing.

Will the ANNs, LLMs anyhow advance this harmful trend? I don't know. I doubt so, but it doesn't really matter, because LLMs themselves is not a root of the threat. The root threat is that we, the users, are loosing control over computers that we use.
You can offer 0 chunks and still see the seeders, right? How would you otherwise start leeching.
Really? Even after saying this? "While Sam is calling for regulation of future models, he didn’t think existing models were dangerous and thought it would be a big mistake to regulate or ban them."
Disappointing. Sad to see such a wonderful app likely
meet its end. This is to be expected when you pin your existence on the good graces of a for-profit company.

Reddit wants IPO. Badly. They want to show potential investors that they're solvent. To this end, as Google did nearly two decades ago, they will monetize every inch of their user base and application -- that includes access to their data.

But Reddit is on thin ice -- as MySpace, Digg, del.icio.us all found out and as Twitter is finding out.

Why? Reddit doesn't have any asset of intrinsic value. Reddit don't have sought after intellectual property. Reddit doesn't produce any goods. Reddit's value is the community and the data they bring. When they antagonize the community, they are antagonizing what is keeping the lights on for them.
> companies are going to try to shape any regulation to their benefit

There is a difference between trying to shape regulation to your advantage and engaging in bad faith. There is no indication there is real regulation that addresses the problem these folks are brining up that they would support.
All Your Robots Are Belong to Us: You Just Rent Them
Not really, it's a steaming pile of it's former self.
Did you know there are two new reddits?

If you login as a user you see comments in a different style than the guest view of comments. The guest view of comments on new new reddit is even more awful.
More like – it won't be useful to small-time developers (since they won't have the capability to host and run it themselves) and so all the benefits will be reaped by AWS and other large players.
Scylla has "tunable" consistency[1][2][3], so it's possible to get consistency without too much of a performance hit, and still be resilient to some failures.

[1]: https://www.scylladb.com/glossary/eventual-consistency/

[2]: https://docs.scylladb.com/stable/cql/consistency.html

[3]: https://docs.scylladb.com/stable/cql/consistency-calculator....
Reddit sucks
You can do search engine indexing via https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive; it defaults to archiving your public access streams.

We will eventually support search engine indexing without the extra overhead of running a separate archive tool (likely as an organization-level settings checkbox, since not everyone who wants public access wants search engine indexing).
If I go to a massive conglomerate store, Albertson's, Fred Meyer, etc, those are the sort of prices I expect.

When I go to the restaurant supply store, I can get bulk packages for $1-$2 a pound. Granted, these are often big, but not massive.

Prices today:
Tenderloins are a really good deal at $2.59/lb for around 2 pounds and can be easily separated and frozen.
Pork loin(boneless, minimal trimming needed) is $2.25/lb for a 10 lb roast and can be trivially sliced into excellent chops and packed up for later.
If you want to cook up some cochinita pibil, a picnic cushion with bone and skin is $1.69 for a 10lb average pack.
Bone in shoulder butts are $2.05 for ~ 19lb package.

It's bit more work and more trimming, but cutting a beef strip loin or boneless ribeye into steaks nets out really well. I'll buy beef loin, trim it for a yield of 75% steaks with 15% in usable beef cubes and the rest in fat and silverskin. I render the fat and cook the nasty bits for the dog. If I only count the steak as yield, my $8/lb loin gets me NY strip steak at ~$11/lb and a bunch of free stuff. You just have to be willing and able to drop $140 on beef, cut it, pack it, and store it. It's less than two hours of work to make all the steaks and render the fat.
Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute: visual lexicon from the 1970s until now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_identity_card

The document number in the upper right corner in the picture, I imagine.
And you can append .rss /r/all.rss to any sub. Never have to reskim a headline and all the links open in old.reddit
They would be eligible but they can't be useful if their allocation is just 100 requests per minute. That would be like 10 concurrent users tops. Probably even less.
> I wonder if there is a "fediverse" for something like forums? I can never get into mastodon because it's not like forums and conversations between people are quite hard if you don't follow them.

Usenet. But it fell out of fashion around the turn of the millenium.
Or, the private key could leak.

Or, the cert could have been issued by an authority which issued the cert despite compliance problems.

Web PKI is different than code signing, but if you look at the discussions within the CAB forum, there are very good reasons to limit certificate lifetime.
That API pricing, for what is mostly static content, is just insane. I've created pricing models for write heavy APIs that come out at a fraction of that, while still maintaining a margin. If that's a genuinely "fair" price then Reddit have some serious technical debt. It feels like this is intentionally overpriced to discourage any serious use.
Tesla-supported accounts, please give your excuse by number:

1. It's not the current production model.

2. The driver should have been paying attention.

3. We're not sure self-driving was on.

4. It's a beta version.

5. The correct measurement of hazard is some other metric that makes Tesla look better.

5. "No new technology has been fully accepted by society until it has killed someone".
This reminds me that LiveJournal is also open source!

https://stat.livejournal.com/doc/server/lj.index.html
I’ve had an old account which I deleted since there was no easy way to clean up the post history. Created a new one and couldn’t do shit. Can’t post. No Karma. Account got closed due to “suspicious activity” a week later.

Combine that with the obviously hostile user interface. It’s a terrible terrible website and nowadays I don’t really miss it that much.
plus this conveniently pairs with "we don't need to regulate current models, but future models... oh boy do those need to be regulated!"
e.g.
https://cari.institute/aesthetics/airbrush-surrealism

Airbrush Surrealism
circa Late 1960s - Mid 1980s

The surrealistic airbrushed 70s-80s illustration aesthetic. Supersaturated colors, juxtaposed/floating objects, chrome textures, lightning, 'X-Ray' technical illustration.
Well, sure, it's not that simple, but the main point here is that it's "easier" to hit any point on the surface of the Earth with a rocket than it is to get a payload into orbit.
I have cancelled my sub. What I found is that the extra cognitive load these services comes with simply does not pay out.

Github copilot is even worse. I am gonna check my estimates against the code I wrote during the last 6 months. I am pretty sure copilot from a holistic point of view have slowed down my pace.
Pro tip, don't plan a holiday right after releasing a project publicly (especially HN). There will inevitably be bugs, server may crash, someone may try to hack server data, etc.
I always found it borderline useless for fiction before. OpenAI's obsession with avoiding anything "dark" and trying to always steer a conversation or story back to positive cliches was difficult to work around.

Unless there is draconian regulation that happens to prevent it, I'm hoping at some point I can pay money to access a far less neutered LLM, even if it's not quite as capable as GPT-X.
For an actively-maintained project, see the code that runs rDrama-dot-net (sup /h/slackernews lol) and watchpeopledie-dot-tv https://fsdfsd.net/rDrama/rDrama
Selig isn't exactly new to this rodeo, I would honestly wager there's no low-hanging fruit in this regard.

Edit: and certainly nowhere near enough to offset that kind of price increase.
Someone without family?
this is the same crowd that is angry because openai has “open” in their name, but isn’t “open”.
Good point. You can create a formal definition of hallucinations in formal language, like math and logic, but probably not for natural language. There are bound to be edge cases where natural language defies the rules of formal logic without being incoherent. But, while you might not be able to have a simple formal definition, maybe you could create a model that's trained to recognize these edge cases, and the model would be a sort of approximation of a formal definition.
It’s unbelievable how user-hostile old Reddit has become on mobile. Overriding the back button to remove the referring page from history. Modals popping up after x amount of browsing, etc.
Just like me getting a few dollars closer to becoming a billionaire with my salary.
AI could mean a lot of things. For the sake of clarity, I generally won't refer to GPT as AI. I usually think of the way Richard Stallman wrote about "intellectual property" meaning copyright, patents, and trademarks. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html .

Using grossly generic terms without distinctions seems to benefit those that want to misrepresent things by using concepts not fully applicable across the gross generic category for their self-interested part of the category, for hype or manipulation.

Currently, people want GPT to take on the luster of a mythical AGI by using the categorical term "AI", so I just call it GPT/LLM. I'll consider "AI" a field of research, not an adjective or noun suitable for products based on research from the field.
>Young people in the US can save up extraordinary amounts of money

Can they actually though, at the median? There's always outliers, and the US is the land of uncommon opportunity, aka wealth inequality. Cursory research shows that young people (i.e. Generation Z)[0]:

* Their average salary was $32,500 in 2021

* 46% are living paycheck-to-paycheck

* Nearly 40% have no investments

* They have on average $20,900 in student debt, 13% more than Millennials

* Over a quarter of are not confident that they will be able to retire comfortably

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gen-z-average-net-worth-22484...
No? It's more like a BB with inbuild live voicechat, streaming etc.

IRC itself doesn't provide a shared history, threading etc.

You could get there with alternative clients and bots (at least if all participants use the same), but calling that IRC is a stretch
You know the next step, right?
Thanks didn't realize they already considered it.
That's exactly why SHA1 was deprecated in TLS certs.

https://security.googleblog.com/2015/12/an-update-on-sha-1-c...

Even OCSP was affected:
https://cabforum.org/2022/01/26/ballot-sc53-sunset-for-sha-1...
Nope. It has always been Sanskrit.

This last guy claimed that those languages also derived from it.

And he didn't like "those people" either.

There might have been aliens into the mix as well.
Very cool, congrats on your launch!
Add the question "Does it need to be AGI or even AI to cause a species ending event?"

Consider that we almost had nuclear armageddon because of faulty sensor systems where, were it not for one human in the loop, the real nukes would have flown.

Maybe it's AI in a military device that does something dumb and triggers a human nuclear retaliation, or someone creates a new virus using some ML.

Another good question is, "Is it correct to believe that our current form is the end of the evolutionary chain?" Perhaps we will merge with the machines and move beyond what we currently think of as humanity.
I still think that tree-style comments and voting are far, far superior to old-style forums. Especially for hobby information or someone looking for info years after the fact.

I have spent way too much time following 3 separate conversations in a forum thread looking for the specific information I want.

With reddit (and HackerNews) it's so much easier to track individual sub-threads and see what's going on, and the voting system (while it can and does lead to echo chambers) is also great for promoting better content, IMO.
Deciding a movie and then look for it on streaming sites is hopeless. Just rent it on a pay to view site if they don't want to download via torrents.
Thanks for this. Will be hosting my own copy.
He’s just a reporter. He’s not doing anything illegal. It might be different if he’s paying sources to leak stuff, I guess.

The bigger question is who is doing the leaking from within Apple. It will be interesting to see what turns out to be true. It’s also very interesting to wonder how much of the leaking is intentional and strategic.

If they wanted to set expectations low and diffuse a lot of naysaying, it makes sense for them to leak all the stuff people are likely to moan about. That way when they demo it, all the actual experience stuff will (hopefully) be a pleasant surprise.
Neat, looks like a custom Python framework... was expecting Django.
The problem with this is people trust it. This stuff will be sketchy until there is car to car and road to car communication. Getting that infrastructure in place to the last mile will never happen.

That said there are aspects of that tech now that could be utilized to improve safety in all new cars and it doesn't have to be configured to "drive" a car, but instead assist the driver.
Maybe the subs themselves can pick out of a few options.
At the risk of beating a dead horse: one could also say "no" to another silo'd instance and instead opt to try running something like Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Is that cheating? Seems difficult enough for me, still.
I've been playing around with it. I think it's neat, and it's impressive from a tech perspective, but I'm not terribly impressed with it from a content generation standpoint. I'm sure it will get better.
Wasn't their a post linking this on the front page and now it's gone?
Who are "these folks"? OpenAI specifically? I'm not arguing that they're operating in good faith, but it's also not clear to me that them proposing specific regulation would be helpful - there seem to be a lot of people who see anything like that as automatically an attempt to stifle competition.

Many other people talking about x-risk signed the letter calling for a pause on training new big models, which seems pretty concrete to me. Does that make sense to you? If not, do you have other regulation you'd prefer?
> (From a comment) Tesla Hardware v3 (2019) is needed to run FSDb, though Hardware v2.5 (2017) can run a limited feature set.

The 2014 Model S involved in this crash can’t use FSDb and actually uses the Mobileye EyeQ3 system (Hardware v1) before Tesla designed their own.
You could search using the IMDB ID/url suffix, which almost always gave you exactly what you wanted. RIP.
Tesla Unveils Dual Motor And Autopilot, Oct 10, 2014: https://youtu.be/FZ6lZJWL_Xk?t=378

"from zero miles an hour to 155 miles an hour and so it'll detect if there's a car in your blind spot if you've got a highway barrier on one side if there's something you might you know move into in any way possible"

Toyota never claimed any of this stuff.
Yeah and they finally get their 15 minutes. Obviously they'll take it...
The best thing for Reddit's business would be to hide communities as much as possible and turn their app into a version of TikTok that throws nothing but ads disguised as viral videos in front of users. They probably want to do this badly.

Actually, what if someone came up with an app that had no user created content whatsoever and was just an infinite-scroll of corporate ads? I bet it would make millions.
Nice, thanks! I haven't used it yet.
check the sidebar of r/trackers
You believe that someone should be able to drive a car, cause bodily harm to others, and relevant information about those events would be private, not discoverable by interested parties? If so, why?
The risk is much more structural than any specific manifestation of tech.

Technology advances inexorably, new domains are unlocked, creating ever more powerful abilities. The process is maybe even "exponential" - in the combinatorics sense.

Developments are thus capable of producing an ever increasing range good or bad outcomes.

But social technology, broadly defined, remains stagnant, actually regressing (if we take the deceitful and manipulative social media or the general (geo)political atmosphere as evidence).

That gaping discrepancy between technical ability and societal wisdom will not sustain for much longer.
They just confirmed killing 3rd party apps with unreasonable pricing
Show HN: A Python toolkit for working with parquet datasets on AWS
aws-parquet is a python toolkit than enables working with parquet datasets on AWS. It handles AWS S3 reads/writes, AWS Glue catalog updates and AWS Athena queries by providing a simple and intuitive interface.
Facebook's average revenue per user (ARPU) is ~$10/quarter[0], and 6x that in the US. Which is honestly kind of stunning. Reddit is presumably much less than that, but they might be reasonably gunning for a number better than Pinterest, with an ARPU of ~$1.50[1].

To put the pricing post into the same context, we're talking $7.50 per Apollo user/quarter, which is closer to what Facebook makes per user than Pinterest.

That said, presumably 3rd party client users are especially active and would skew higher ARPU than the average Redditor, and it wouldn't surprise me if they were more likely to live in developed countries.

I dunno. I started running the numbers expecting to be outraged, but the cost doesn't seem crazy far from what Reddit could conceivably hope to earn off these users. I doubt Reddit is monetizing anywhere near that well right now, but if they're pricing the API in a forward-looking way, rather than planning to ratchet it up every quarter inline with monetization efforts, it could make sense.

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/995251/pinterest-quarter...
9Front – A Fork of Plan9 Operating System
Nothing is simple in aerospace, and I'm sure there are things I'm missing. But generally speaking, an orbital vehicle becomes suborbital when it doesn't have enough speed to not fall back to the Earth. There's re-entry to contend with, but that's a solvable issue. And then there's the payload, also solvable.
> the Xbox One having never been cracked and the PS5 currently uncracked,

There's just a lack of interest, the Switch has been broken wide open because there's tons of exclusives on it. I don't see any point doing the same on a PS5.

And even for the switch, why bother if your goal is piracy? You can just emulate it better than the real hardware itself...
Didn't they stop updating that repo at some point? I'm not sure it was at the same time that they replaced the main site with a SPA - so it's probably not entirely accurate to say "Old Reddit" (which to me means old.reddit.com) is open-source.

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update...
Can someone give me a couple reasons why it does not make sense to buy Apollo out, and make it the default iOS app?

It is currently maintained by one excellent developer, is featured by the Apple App Store for design... what's the downside?
I got permabanned for having an alt account with auto generated name...that contained 88 in it because "hate group symbolsim".

Literally a name reddit generated for me and I paid no mind to it.

Fun fact, reddit uses browser fingerprinting to ban all your accounts afterwards.
Also fun fact, there is a way to get innocent users banned as a result too.
I see your point but that was 18 years ago. I wonder if they still have shares left
> other people talking about x-risk signed the letter calling for a pause on training new big models, which seems pretty concrete to me. Does that make sense to you

It's totally unrealistic. How are you going to coördinate a global pause on AI research?

Nobody has even bothered proposing a framework because of how ludicrous it is for this to be what Beijing, Washington, Brussels and New Delhi focus on.
ChatGPT Risks Divide Biden Administration over EU’s AI Rules
2.

How exactly does one miss a 40' long, 10' tall truck that is emblazoned with flashing lights?
I remember using MacOS (X) well before retina and fonts were better than both windows and Linux at that time.

Then windows improved a lot (and I assume linux also did improve but honestly I stopped using Linux for the desktop long time ago so I don't remember) while MacOS support for low resolution text stagnated and I believe you if you say that on windows and/or Linux fonts may render better on low DPI than on a Mac.

But I have to nitpick your phrasing that MacOS hasn't been designed to run on non-hidpi: that can be right since the design is not something you just change due to neglect; a design is something that stays forever and you see vestiges of
I have been using GPT-4 from release day. I haven't noticed performance degradation at all. YMMV.
:D I was in the middle of a holiday and on a whim decided to post it. I'm sort of in a strange phase of trying to figure my life out and part of that means reflexively doing things in the hope it works. Past HN traction usually gave me enough confidence to keep going, so thanks to all here!
RIP aaronsw https://webpy.org/ “(The site was rewritten using other tools after being acquired by Condé Nast.)”
I don't know what Reddit you're seeing but I assure you there are still plenty of thriving NSFW subreddits. I might even say tons. I've seen a few get deleted here and there but it was always for pretty specific, targeted reasons.
>Your ip address will be blocked from creating additional accounts.

Worse, they use browser fingerprinting AND IP.