skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not advocating for a “slap on the wrist”. Between “slap on the wrist” and “take every cent and nationalize the company” is a very large range of ways to handle the matter.

What confuses me is why you seemingly do not believe companies’ fines should correlate with the damage they’ve done. Your stance seems to be a boolean “company did bad”, which invalidates their right to any profit they ever made. That doesn’t seem very fair.

An example: I went to a full-service gas station once, and asked the attendant for a full tank of 87 octane. I watched him select 93 octane (for an additional 70 cents per gallon), so my full tank came out $10 more expensive than it would have otherwise been. Clearly he was operating his business in bad faith. My remediation was to dispute the charge with my credit card company, and I paid the price of the 87 octane fuel after all. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the remediation you’re proposing seems to be that all profit that gas station made from that point on was invalid and ought to be taken from them, since they were operating in bad faith. You are of course entitled to your own opinion, but that seems a huge overreaction to me.

There is a whole world of shady and fraudulent businesses between “pumped the wrong octane gas” and “multi-generation coverup of externalities that will irreparably damage our health or ecosystem”. I believe the worst offenders should be punished, and harshly, because the damage they’ve done is so great (and often understated in these types of cases, IMO), but I don’t think we should indiscriminately nullify entire businesses over more mild issues.
Cool nice site man. I bought the book a while back and really enjoy the articles.
It is an issue if it also allows players to work around DLC and other goodies.

Or if having the game on the system can be used by another malicious application as jumping point into root access, starting it as subprocess and injecting the exploit.

Example, Windows attacks via Notepad.
It's interesting to see how each article on this progressively de-emphasizes the climate aspect and foregrounds the RTO aspect. Judging from crowd response and placards at the event, though, climate concerns were more important than that.

I suppose it's easier to write an article about "tech workers want their cushy jobs to remain cushy" and harder to write an article about "tech workers want their employer to do better for the world".

People are unhappy about RTO, to be sure, but it's the kind of thing they're accustomed to dealing with via individual action.
Wow, thanks a lot! :)
I'd hazard that many of the teams aren't so much happy with CSV, as they are ignorant of its costs. I fought for a bit to get them to move to parquet, but all too often they insist on having it in a format that excel can open.
In the thread yesterday it was brought up that if you use the API it feels considerably less hamstrung than the ChatGPT client, and this tweet seems to fit the assumption that the ChatGPT product is being tuned or governed differently from the API.

>The API does not just change without us telling you. The models are static there.

This reads to me as specifically indicating the models are not static elsewhere, ie, in ChatGPT.
Seems more likely that "the fediverse" will take up the slack. Perhaps not Mastodon (the best known implementation) which is more of a Twitter alternative, but Lemmy seems to fit this niche pretty well. OTOH, a revival/update of Usenet would not be unwelcome either. NNTP > ActivityPub, after all.
> Tbh I don’t love programming. It’s just the best way to make my wage-slave status work best for me. Remote work, chill colleagues, relatively interesting (tho boring) day work

It's interesting. You aren't wrong. It's just weird to think that a lot of people are in your similar situation (me too), and we just have this "cap" about us. Why aren't we out there pushing to be entrepreneurs or demanding more out of life than whatever salary we're given/"earning"? Why are we not more risk takers, why are we complacent? Are we actually happy? Is this what we dreamed of as a child in terms of risk/reward/stability/day to day grind?

Is life really exciting/"worth living" to the fullest if every day we're just spending time on a PC/phone, checking Teams/Slack/emails. Can be pinged for a production incident or a requirements change at any time. Always kind of "plugged in", having to plan your day if you want to be effective in your off time mentally ("I'll work on XYZ task tomorrow, try to wrap XYZ up, try to follow up with XYZ"). It's like there's always multiple deadlines we are behind on with clients, always bugs, things to fix, sacrifices/compromises to make.

I wonder how many people just stick it out for the paycheck (like you said) and actually "dread" it. Like, what alternatives do we have? It's the lesser evil.
150k is perfectly liveable in NYC, even in Manhattan heart. It’s probably not feasible to have a three bedroom apt in Manhattan on that budget but it’s very doable in the less hot parts of Queens, Brooklyn and Bronx. If you think of moving to Long Island, you can even rent a house with a yard.

You will probably need a partners income if you want to live in a unit where you can raise a child, and will need significantly more for the both of you to raise multiple children.
"GPT-4 hasn't gotten worse since March" can be 100% true at the same time OpenAI puts more rules and limiters keeping more interesting answers from being said.

Ive noticed it quit giving as detailed answers and as thorough. It's also refused to do more complex programming where it used to accept those questions.

Being artificially limited by OpenAI can still be done without it getting "worse". But it effectively is worse for us users.
Toyota to build electric 3-row SUV in Kentucky, batteries in N. Carolina
To save everyone the time. When filtering by 5G: "No results found"

Poster would have better luck dumbing down a smartphone, and refraining from installing any additional apps or app stores.
> How do you deal with spam and moderation?

Moderated newsgroups existed (and presumably still do). I was never a moderator myself, but to my understanding they use an SMTP-based system. I'm sure that could be improved.

> What about the sidebar and pinned posts?

The equivalent of pinned posts would be a FAQ. Links to the FAQ (or the FAQ itself) were posted at regular intervals to newsgroups.

> Upvoting/downvoting?

The biggest difference between web-based discussion boards and Usenet is that in Usenet almost everything is done on the client side. Threading, searching, filtering, subscribing, blocking of users and threads, and other such administrative tasks were all done on your computer by software that you chose.

Filtering in particular could be much more advanced than what we have today. Newsreaders had "killfiles"[1] which could have regex-based matching and scoring. This would allow you to have filters like "ignore posts where person X uses the words Y and Z".

The downside of all this was that it was entirely local, individual, and ephemeral. Usenet is a distribution protocol, not a storage or display protocol. News servers typically didn't keep old posts for more than a few months. If you wanted to save a post you either archived it yourself (possibly in your newsreader) or posted it to the web somewhere. Responses to posts provided context by quoting the post inline. Another downside is that Usenet is text-only -- you could embed binaries (and there were whole groups dedicated to that), but it wasn't normally done in discussion groups. If you needed images, you made ASCII art. :-)

Some of the downsides can be mitigated -- shared blocklists, for instance, already exist and are used by ad blockers and (IIRC) Twitter clients. But part of the charm of Usenet is that it's not a modern web forum with eternal storage and constant redesigns and monetization attempts and Official Policies from Corporate Management. It's just a place where you can talk about things. It doesn't really scale to having three million people on the same forum, but not every forum needs or wants three million participants. (And back in the day there weren't three million people on Usenet in the first place.)
Table of contents? Blast from the SEO spam of the past.

Snark aside, very decent bibliography for the intended audience: independent traders who are building automated trading programs for their personal accounts.
Thank you so much for trying it out! That's great feedback -- I'll see what I can do to get more consistency across the images.
The problem here isn't that college wasn't already a mess of cheating, it's that this cheating is so blatant it undermines the (shaky) premise of modern pay-to-play degree-seeking education.

It's already a broken system in need of fixing.
> "Soviet propaganda asserted that the United States was a “culturally barren” capitalist wasteland."

but we invented taco tuesday and family guy
Boy am I glad that we are saying "was" now about that nonsense
A family member is trying to create content online and was really discouraged by looking at the number of followers and likes in other people's profile. I had to open a few profiles and pick followers at random to show that those were bots. These people weren't even remotely related to the creator's field of study. Also, they had 500k followers but their lives usually can't even gather 10 people to watch them.

Then we looked together for ways to buy that in minutes. To be honest, I knew this existed but didn't know it was so easy and widespread. It was a learning opportunity for both of us and it gave them more encouragement to continue working.
Same here. I have an O.G. Oculus Rift that's essentially a brick on my shelf now, because I won't create a Meta account. It was bad enough I had to create an Oculus account, but this is a bridge too far.

You should not need to have an account on a server somewhere in order to use what is essentially a computer peripheral. I would not use a mouse or monitor that required an online account.

I understand the Quest is different, and a bit more than a peripheral, so an account maybe maybe maybe is justified. But I won't buy one of them either because Meta.
I've spent 20 years explaining my code to a rubber duck and getting great use out of that duck. No one will ever convince me that it's less useful now when the duck actually has read the Internet and has useful suggestions and ideas back to share. Even if it makes shit up on an occasion.
Ball is rolling towards the goal - if the attacking player touches it, it will be offsides: A player in an offside position has entered active play by "interfering with play by playing or touching a ball passed or touched by a team-mate".

Goalkeeper makes a save, since the ball is rolling towards the goal. If the attacking player touches it, it will be offsides: A player in an offside position has entered active play by "challenging an opponent for the ball" or "gaining an advantage by playing the ball or interfering with an opponent when it has [...] been deliberately saved by any opponent".

The goalkeeper deliberately plays the ball. Immediately afterwards, the attacking player receives the ball played by the goalkeeper - this is not offsides, since "a player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball, including by deliberate handball, is not considered to have gained an advantage, unless it was a deliberate save by any opponent."

https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules...
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Think Instagram or Twitter tags.
> First, it isn’t even close to the sort of artificial superintelligence that might conceivably pose a threat to humankind. The models underpinning it are slow learners that require immense volumes of data to construct anything akin to the versatile concepts humans can concoct from only a few examples. In this sense, it’s not “intelligent”.

Yes, AI is different from the human brain. But human experience is also built up from thousands of hours of high-definition video and audio. An infant brain in an adult body would not be able to do anything "from a few examples". And we have far less knowledge than these LLMs do. An LLM trained solely on reasoning rather than predicting text might be much more capable of reasoning.

And current AGI designs work this way because that's the easiest way we've found so far, and we've barely explored the space! It's possible that we will soon discover ways for them to learn much more quickly.

> Second, many of the more catastrophic AGI scenarios depend on premises I find implausible. For instance, there seems to be a prevailing (but unspoken) assumption that sufficient intelligence amounts to limitless real-world power. If this was true, more scientists would be billionaires.

The flaw in this argument is that scientists are not typically motivated by money, they're motivated by the desire to do science themselves, or maybe by the desire to have high status among scientists. Billionaires are motivated by the desire to have lots of money (or lots of things that money can buy). And scientists are not necessarily more intelligent than billionaires.

Maybe most of the AGIs we create won't be good at gaining power. All it takes is a few, and every power-seeking human will try to create power-seeking AGIs for themselves. Does anyone think that politicians or dictators will not try to create AGIs that are good at manipulating public opinion?

It's crazy that the author thinks these are strong arguments that AGI is safe. I think it's true that this is a case where humanity needs a security mindset, and we don't. If we did, we'd be tackling anyone who even breathed a word about creating AGI without a bulletproof plan for making sure that it is completely aligned with humanity.

To quote Robert Miles:

> The trouble with thinking "scientifically" about the future is, you'll never find a peer reviewed study saying what it's like, there can only be speculation. So you never have to reject your "null hypothesis", and that can be anything you want because NH isn't well defined here.

> You end up saying "there's no evidence for any particular conclusion", but then go on to act as though you're pretty confident in whatever particular conclusion you arbitrarily picked as your "neutral default"
It’s not stactic. That’s the thing about ai, you ask it the same thing it gives you a different answer/different image every time.
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Seems you can play with SQL/PGQ at
https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/get-started-with-prop....
Was Modern Art a CIA Psy-Op?

No, it's not. No more than other attempts, like assassinating Castro (man, that one is really a laughing stock if you read that one front to back) or their involvement in "war against drugs". Maybe they start it but had absolutely no control where it was going.
I came into the comments thinking about Betteridges law and hoping to see it near the top and I wasn’t disappointed.

Pretty much any article posted to HN with a “?” At the end that’s not a AskHN prefix should get that response.
I uploaded the USPTO office action to a JiggyBase (https://jiggy.ai) collection and used GPT-4 and the JiggyBase ChatGPT plugin to help make sense of this:

https://chat.openai.com/share/6a16cc77-4ef7-4e3a-bddb-dedd3f...
Yes but how many people that recently go homeless and poor know how to get into that. It's not like you open the front page of reddit and it has step 1 2 and 3 for how to get food.

I looked further on a google search and found a Salvation Army link on free soup kitchens, clicked California, and couldn't find any of the Counties I'm near right now.

We don't even have a class in high school to tell people what to do if they find themselves poor. There is literally no training or help.
Oh wow. I didn't know DuckDuckGo was a remote company. Very cool
I don't think the CIA needs to clandestinely fund an entire art movement as a cover for money laundering, though. That seems a bit outlandish.

I'm as paranoid as the next guy but in this case I think the premise that the CIA funded artistic expression as a form of propaganda in its own right makes the most sense.
Depends on what you're doing. I'm writing a non-game app that requires a scenegraph, raycast mouse selection tool, and other tools of the sort typically required by games and provided by a game engine. But there's a lot of game stuff I don't need, and I need to make major customizations to the rendering engine. It ended up being easier to implement in bevy, due to its modularity, than it would have been in UE4 or Godot.
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There’s _is_ a degree of randomness in its content generation, you can see it in action by hitting regenerate. It’s a statistical text predictor that iteratively selects the most like my word after the ones it’s selected so far, but when there are a few good candidates, it’ll choose one at random.

However, the model is static (it’ll present the same candidate word list until retrained), which is what you may have heard. But the way a response is generated introduces the randomness.

Note: I forget the parameter, but if you get the direct API access you can turn off this and get consistent answers.
As someone who blew 500k on an MFA I wish they would bring this back lmfao.
Not in the slightest. I'm not claiming Google's searches are great - they are declining and I think we all know it. But ChatGPT is no better in terms of actual accuracy of facts. So no, I'll take the instant full page of results that I have years of practice skimming to decide where to dig deeper vs. a slowly scrolling word-by-word experience that makes me feel like I'm back on a modem and gives me absolutely no easy links to delve deeper into a topic.

For the record, I completely agree that AI can beat Google in the long run. But we aren't there yet.
That's pretty cool.

Still worth to note that in "Sybil attack" the name Sybil is indeed used specifically because of this person.

> It is named after the subject of the book Sybil, a case study of a woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
From the owners. Everything they get is from the other users, and the moderators.

Unless you enjoy ads. I mean occasionally they are funny.
...You've been here for 9 days though?
Tangential, but what happened to the various usenet archives that google obtained and mashed into google groups? Do they exist anywhere else in a more reliable [1] home?

Edit: To clarify, I'm wondering how extensive the non-google archives are.

[1] As in not google
It’s still way faster than I could hope to be. It’s a true refactoring machine with 0 mental effort. “Here is this code block, make it do this other thing, add this feature and argument and error condition” etc. It augments the amount of output that’s possible to achieve at any seniority level.
I almost never ask search to explain stuff. I mainly use it to find other websites that I know exist. So I continue to do that. I have used chatgpt to get explanations or summaries of stuff, but I find very little overlap between the kind of things I do with it and how I use search.

Do others use search differently?
Sure, but any working starting point is a worthwhile read.
Please expand on this backstory?
I mean, straight up no. If there is any sort of legislation, regardless of exemptions, time will have to be spent to figure out if the exemption applies, and generally will require some work to either apply for or defend the exemption as part of the development and release process.

This would stifle innovation in the long run. Why bother with this extra work when there are a other variations on the idea that would be quicker to launch?
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Must be in the trough of disillusionment. The tech is truly useful though so we’ll reach the plateau soon enough.
So, if the right got their way and the answer was "a woman is an adult female human", it would be a vast right wing conspiracy.

But if it says a woman is "anything that identifies as a woman", then it's still a vast right wing conspiracy?
His point is that it literally didn't change, that includes the safeguards (which are a part of the model).
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If you are doing some indie gaming, it can save tons of money on asset generation, you either ramp up and finalize it yourself or hire somebody but for fraction of the time. Ditto for web design, why would anybody but big, calcified megacorps with their ridiculous processes go and buy some stock images if you can get exactly what you want, in any imaginable style?
Building your business on the back of somebody else's API is always gonna be a risky endeavor. Luckily, Apollo is a great client with loyal users, so hopefully Christian can spin off his own backend forum and build from there. Reddit's been making some dubious moves (crypto avatar-things, hostile dark patterns steering mobile web users to their app, more ads, etc) that I wouldn't be surprised if more and more users went looking for an alternative with a similar flavor.
I agree I've noticed I need to be quite specific now, it won't realize bugs in the code unless I tell it so. A head to head comparison of the different versions is needed to validate this.
>When you are under its spell you will keep making excuses but when you are looking at it objectively you'll realize the emperor is naked.

It's not perfect, but you have to admit the emperor is at least wearing a thong. It is the second most intelligent thing on the planet at creating text, even with its flaws. Putting that accomplishment in league with naked emperors is astoundingly biased.
why do you use reddit? I'm not being argumentative, I'm just wondering.

I stopped because I found that looking at reddit would negatively alter my perceptions of reality. Hacker news doesn't seem to do that. I also found that conversations on reddit were not very engaging but rather formulaic. It wasn't about having a discussion, just towing a party line (whatever the party for the particular subreddit might be).
This was a common theme for HIV/AIDS denialists and was actively embraced in South Africa with tragic results.

South Africa pursued an anti-treatment strategy for a period: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/spr09aids/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism_in_South_...

Obviously I can't tell you if a partially remembered book with no name and no date has ever been fact checked.