skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think something that is partly to blame is the expansive licensure scheme, and how those licenses have become a monopolistic edge to protect and expand. Many professions have required a license, and it is the responsibility of the organization that issue those license to protect an expand their authority, preventing competition, and pushing up prices higher.

The license requirement creates a perpetuating lobby, which I think is partly to blame for real estate agent commission issue.

Do we really need to enshrine into law every professions market corner? A certification law would do just as well, but it would not have the effect of blocking competition, preventing market, disruption, and forcing people who want to practice that particular profession to constantly pay a private association for the right to be licensed.
Should an actor playing a public figure in a biopic have to get permission to study the subject's voice from copyrighted sources in order to reproduce it for the film (without AI)?
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RMS does desire children, just not in that particular way.
Exactly. It's great for these use cases. I often use it to find things of which I barely remember some obsure detail and mostly I'm able to find it. Would never have been able to Google my way to it.
Mining fees will more than cover mining costs when the block reward becomes negligible. The use case of balancing excess power generation and load profitably is real and would significantly reduce carbon emissions if understood & properly implemented. Instead of approaching with emotions, I recommend investigating ideas with an open mind.

Beyond that, bitcoin works and is here to stay. It is the first sovereign currency free from the tyranny of small minded rulers. It will always have significant and likely increasing value over time, and its pattern of value generation (bound to physics / energy) will always exist now in one form or another.
The Great Graveyard in the Cloud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34875111

Glad Mr. Blackwell could fill in these details for me!
Exposure therapy is a proven technique for social anxiety and is the first line treatment. As long as the ramp up in exposure is gradual and doesn’t start off with “go to an extremely social event with a lot of complete strangers” on day one it shouldn’t be a problem and should be helpful for a lot of people.

I hope the program has disclaimers and warnings about when to seek professional help.

I feel for the original commenter, they seem to have traumatized themselves pretty badly, but I just don’t see how their experience maps onto this website at all.
I feel these criticisms are analogous to the early days of Wikipedia.

Surely you cannot rely on Wikipedia for knowledge, there’s no algorithm to check the facts! Anybody can write anything!

I imagine in 10 years these BS text generators will be the norm just as wikipedia is now the norm.
The effects of climate change are not instantly reversible. Imagine shifting weather patterns dry up a wetlands. Removing carbon from the atmosphere does not recreate that biome
What if you didn't know enough to know the first answer was wrong? Because a lot of people are going to ask a lot of questions where that will be the case. They won't know to tweak their question and then do further research. And if you try to use GPT for automatic systems, well how is that automatic system going to recognize what's wrong vs right?
Same with Scarlett Johansson in Her.
https://archive.is/t8Yp7
It seems like the author is missing any sort of nuance. Yes, sometimes it produces bullshit, but often, it doesn't, and can save you a huge amount of time. But yeah, sometimes it leads you down the wrong path or give outright incorrect answers.

How you deal with that is up to you. You can either try to work with what it gives you, setup tooling to easily verify things, and increase your productivity, or you can dig your head down in the sand and say it's all incorrect and you want nothing with it.

Both are valid approaches :)
Hello Llama, go back to your training data and try to get it right this time.
Because things that sound good sometimes are indeed good. So, the author disregards this fact, while everyone using ChatGPT knows that verification is part of the proccess. The final evaluation is if it is cheaper to dig the info ourselves or we can use the AI to narrow down the search space. I think the second, but only if people do the verification part.
No way I didn't know that ... I have try it. Is it better then a single one?
Firefox UI/UX is not as good as Chrome. Some feature is either not implemented, or not as good as Chrome's counterpart.

See some previous discussions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876696
It's not so much a cycle as a helix IMO, things are better now.
*murdered
Montevideo in the 80s and 90s had really old Leyland diesel buses that polluted like hell. The buildings on 18 de Julio were black with soot.

It is much much better now.
Haha I was just thinking about something similar recently.

Imagine visiting a coffee shop and telling the barista: "hey, by the way, I can make my own coffee at home for free, you know?"

People seem somehow OK with thinking this way when it comes to software.
This is a bit tangential, but I actually think charging money to participate in certain online discussions is a really good idea.

For instance, I think it would be awesome if everyone sending an email to my main account had to send me $1. If what they are sending me isn't worth $1 to them, why should I get a buzz on my phone? Spam would be solved instantly.

I certainly don't think that every corner of the internet should be pay-to-play, and I generally don't think that the fees should be substantial to users participating in good faith. But I've got about five emails in the past two days from an airline bugging me to upgrade my seat. It costs me time and attention to weed through my inbox.

I'm sure this principle could be applied to sites like HN or reddit to raise the bar and put even just a little bit of skin in the game.
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Why would you post a math article if you are upset with the existence of math? Are you doing a social experiment?
Not knowing what you don't know, is really hard to verify. But if you get any sort of answer, it's usually pretty trivial to verify.

Where I found ChatGPT to be really helpful is when I don't know anything regarding something, and ChatGPT can give me something I could at least verify as true or false.

Compared to before, where I just got stuck on some things, as I couldn't find out what I was actually looking for at all.
Home Depot. Or probably any other big-box home improvement store. They have far more selections for lighting than other retail stores.
Something happened. There are a lot of consolidations in the industry, and as content contracts expire and get renegotiated this happens. On September 21:

We regret to inform you that the magazine(s) you received through ZINIO will no longer be available. Please find below a voucher with a value equal to the remaining balance of issues for your subscription(s) to use in a special selection we have created for you based on your interests.

This was in regard to The Economist, which is now available on Pressreader and happens to be free from my Library. So for me cost wise, this is awesome.
> There's simply no structural reason for power failure (or application crashes) to be able to put hard disk data into an inconsistent, corrupt state.

No structural reason no, but a lot of other reasons. You can install your favourite atomic file operations library in your PL of choice and run some benchmarks to identify reason #1.
Why did you undergo the 1-2 minutes of validation?
> Do you prefer everyone (of course with some minor exceptions for higher ups) to be equally "not great, but not terrible" or do you prefer some to have amazing lives, but others to suffer?

This isn't the choice. Socialism (actual socialism) repeatedly starves its populations. Capitalism repeatedly creates situations where new things are created that make everyone's lives better, and existing things get cheaper and better over time.

I.e. you can't just ignore the opportunity cost of innovation and prioritisation via a decentralised market. An innovation-focused dichotomy is: should we spend lots of effort trying to precisely spread around what we have today, while still having a privileged class based on politics, or should we encourage people to do things that raises the floor and the ceiling for everyone, and have a privileged class based on value they created?
Germany has high fees when buying a house, but compared to the US it is dirt cheap to actually own the house. „Ground tax“, similar ro „property taxes“ in the US is usually just a few hundred Euro a year. Which, compared to the US, is change money. A German house, when the mortgage is paid, feels like real property.
> Numbat can be compiled to Web Assembly and you can run it in your browser. I'm not sure if that is possible with Julia?

It's fine these days. https://tshort.github.io/WebAssemblyCompiler.jl/stable/examp...

I think the biggest issue with unit systems though is that algorithms are not generally unitful. I develop the Julia SciML solvers (https://docs.sciml.ai/Overview/stable/) and there's certain pieces like the initial dt calculation of an ODE solver which are not canonically correct in a unitful sense. So there's certain pieces where you have to opt out of unit checks which gets a bit messy. But other than that Unitful.jl is fine, and that's an algorithmic thing not a unit package thing.
Also proprietary software often is has protections (DRM/NDA/License keys) which add their own hassle.
Thanks for your feedback. We will see what we can do to make it reader-friendly ASAP.
What are you even talking about? The electricity grid? The gas grid? If so, whoms? Germany's? The French?

The only grid that got shot up was the Ukrainian one. And even then gas still flowed through to Eastern Europe...
This feels like more like a politically charged rant, rather than the type of output you'd hope from the Department of Computer Science at Cambridge.

> “Godfather of AI” Geoff Hinton, in recent public talks, explains that one of the greatest risks is not that chatbots will become super-intelligent, but that they will generate text that is super-persuasive without being intelligent, in the manner of Donald Trump or Boris Johnson.

> Perhaps this explains why the latest leader of the same government is so impressed by AI, and by billionaires promoting automated bullshit generators?

> Graeber observes that aspects of university education prepare young people to expect little more from life, training them to submit to bureaucratic processes, while writing reams of text that few will ever read. In the kind of education that produces a Boris Johnson

> AI systems like ChatGPT are trained with text from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and other huge archives of bullshit, alongside plenty of actual facts (including Wikipedia and text ripped off from professional writers).
Big "drunk driving kills people but it also helps people to get to work on time, so it's impossible to say if it's good or bad" energy.
There was always a loop-closing method on the table with Wikipedia. Where is the loop-closing method to bullshit on LLMs not being efficient lie generators?
I'm not sure I understand your last sentence. Do you think that Tesla is a stronger power than the country of Sweden?
https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/w2yih8/just_got_th...

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13dyzgl/my_bank_no...

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/n3btqe/why_does_ba...
Bleh physical sim swapping when travelling is such a pain. I used travel data only esims all through the US, Europe and Egypt. All set up through a single app. I didn’t need to talk to dodgy airport phone shop people a single time in 3 months on the road - which, iPhone limitations aside, I consider a massive win.

(I used the Airalo app. No association. It worked great.)
A solution was proposed, the problem was never solved because people generally don't read or believe that social convention doesn't apply to them in this situation.
Depends on region and variety.
Tomatoes on the same plant also don't ripen on the same day.
I’d agree that Google Chrome was noticeably faster than Firefox up until around a decade ago. However, I haven’t noticed it to be any faster since then. What makes web browsing faster for me is the use of web extensions that disable the downloading of unnecessary resources and/or the execution of pointless Javascript, e.g., NoScript, uMatrix, uBlock, Privacy Badger, etc – the same extensions that will have their abilities greatly reduced by Manifest v3.
One of the popular sentiments here seems to be that training AI should not be treated any different than a human understanding & learning the source material.

Going by that logic, can the AI here be considered a "person" performing mimicry after being "inspired" by Attenborough ?
I think China has a firewall and does not need cooperation from the content hosting platform for blocking content. India's internet is more like the internet in the US or EU than China.

~~BTW this is some heavy duty propaganda against India. They should at least link to some news articles about the muslims being killed in India. What a load of rubbish.~~

Edit: My bad the website does link to a news article: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/india-modi-technology-x-video...
Wait, so you can use your Nvidia GPU with Debian stable? The kernel was outdated last time I checked.

Flatpaks solve this?
> Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been spending “four to five days a week” with the developers.

I don't see how that can make the project move faster. I wouldn't be surprised it has the opposite effect actually.
There are still plenty of people who do not have access to fiber or even cable. I am one of them. I have a single flatpack app installed, and I rarely apply available updates because each update weighs in at close to 1 GB.
I wouldn't call it a weasel word because it describes accurately the fact nobody gave them the authorization to use the likeness of Attenborough, and there are laws to protect people's likeness in multiple jurisdictions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights) that might require such authorization (whether they could be applied in the case of AI remains to be tested, but apparently most of them do not question the "means" to impersonate but the act of it).

It raises an interesting discussion about this though, how is this different from someone making an impression of him and doing a comedy show of it for example. They also had to listen to him for hours to reproduce the voice correctly, are they now infringing some copyright when they use this voice?

To me, as long as you clearly state that this is an impersonation/parody, and there is no deception, I do not really see a reason to protect this, even for music. But I'd like to hear arguments for a protection and how it would be enforced, how do you judge of the likeness, how do you know/prove which source material was used for training for example.
Someone at work shared this and I thought it was hilarious and awesome. A number of other people found it disrespectful or gross. I'm sort of fascinated at the values divide.

I can see why SAG/ASTRA, or voice actors, aren't going to like this technology, but it doesn't feel all that different to any other industry swept away by tech, whether that's farming, horses and carriages, mining, etc. In other words, I can see the negative economic impact it will have on some people, which we may (or may not) want to protect via legislation, but I don't see how it escalates to a moral question.

"Disrespectful" to me is flipping off David Attenborough, not getting a computer to amusingly narrate mundane things in a decent facsimile of his voice.
I support some open source software.

It's a bit annoying as from an accounting point of view I'd rather they just invoiced me for a service.
That which sounds true is loosely correlated with that which is true.

On the other hand:

"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact," said Granny. "But I don’t hold with encouraging it." - Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

This makes LLMs much better than claimed by those who dismiss it as BS or stochastic parrot or whatever, and also not as good as domain experts.
I see their point, but how exactly do we determine what is and what isn't bullshit?

When it comes to politicians our democratic values allows bullshitters to manifest and if we remove it we remove a key part of democracy.

In ai's case I would say it's a bit the same.
AI enabled lives saved from breast cancer – 30 women in 1 year [nature]
Over about a year, 30 women that were missed by 2 specialist radiologists had their cancers detected, and actioned for treatment with AI.

General Article - https://www.ft.com/content/d3b462a3-8085-43d7-9e37-a78564907...

Context:

- Europe has a double reader standard (2 human radiologists read every screening case)

- AI (Mia) was used only after both human readers had submitted their opinion (AI was after standard of care)

Headline metrics:

- Mia increased cancer detection rate by 13% (20% of missed cancers overall)

- 83% of cancers were invasive (can spread through body)

- 47.0% were <10mm (generally harder to detect and earlier in development)

Disclosure: I'm an early employee of Kheiron Medical (pretty proud, happy, and excited)
If you weren’t able to read the article, it’s probably not helpful to respond to it. Would you review a movie you haven’t seen?
R&D is a Huge Externality, So Why Do Markets Do So Much of it?
I'm a software engineer, and the most concerned about marketing in my circle... and I still suck at it and promoting my stuff. How do I get better? I would love to work on actual marketing projects with experienced marketers as a side project.
I don't know if this is the author's first child, but I'm going to assume for now that it is.

As a similar sort of person, now on my second child, with the first now 4yo, my advice is this;

Focus on yourself and your family. Get that rest, when the baby is sleeping, get some sleep, it gets harder before it gets easier.

Presumably paternity has finished now, and your partner (again I'm going to make an assumption) may be able to do much of the heavy lifted on maternity, but that'll end; at that point you'll both be working, you'll both have a massive sleep deficit, and in all likelihood (in my experience) you'll have a ~1yo who doesn't sleep through the night yet.

There were times where it got really difficult for me, and the passion projects became a source of depression because family life just didn't allow them to happen. Different people work differently, but for me, it took a while for me to realise that my priorities have changed, looking after and enjoying my life and my family became passion projects of a significantly higher priority than anything I build in software or hardware. The time will come (I assume, too early yet) when my children can take part in those with me.

The projects people are using to keep their companies running, on the back of your work, without paying for it, fuck them, let them be someone else's problem for a while.
I don't think the author is commenting on the general correctness or incorrectness of ChatGPT's output. Rather's he's commenting on its ability to automatically produce content that fills the role of bullshit.

In the context of the bullshit economy (e.g., the bureaucrat who writes reports that nobody [reads] because he is paid to write reports that nobody reads because this inflates his manager's headcount and therefore inflates his manager's salary) this is all that needs to be said.

It's tangential to uses of ChatGPT by someone who examines the output and selects what is useful via some kind of expert judgement, or who refines his use of the tool via API calls rather than naive text prompts to the default GUI.
I don't understand the negative comments towards Chrome. Doesn't adblockers on Safari work the same as V3?
Think of AI tools as unbelievably good auto-complete or intellisense. A universal anything-to-anything translator. It's incredibly powerful because it's something humans are not very good at.

But it's a mistake to think AIs are "just" bullshitters. If you ask a GPT to auto-complete some bullshit for you, it will happily do so. But it will do many tasks that provide value to society just as easily.

Nobody knows how society will be transformed by AI. But if AI generated BS is a problem then I wouldn't be surprised to see AI powered skepticism assistance as well. We all have terrible blind spots, and maybe in an AI world it will be harder to delude yourself than in the present day? No predicting how this will turn out.
Could work for spear-phishing, or impersonating a widely-known trusted figure. I can't really see it working for cold-calls that pretend to be someone the victim knows (like the terrifying ransom calls), since the operations work at a huge scale expecting most people to not even pick up a "scam likely" call. Even if model tuning is free and instant, just having to find a voice clip of the person prior to each unanswered automated call would tank the quantity they're able to make.

Though, for the same reason websites always attribute data breaches to a "highly sophisticated targetted attack", I imagine there will be some unevidenced claims that this is what scammers did to them - people don't want to have been fooled by something simple.
I wonder if I'll ever come to HN one day and find the entire front page will be paywalled links.
I think this essay is right in many ways. LLMs seem to operate on the principle of "will this pass for a correct answer" rather than "this is how this thing works, so here's a reasonable opinion answering your question".

However at some point you have to admit the LLM does generate things that are good answers. They might be good answers that happen to pass the smell test, but they are nonetheless good answers. For instance when you ask it for a snippet of code and it gets it right.

And here is the crucial thing: you need to already know what you're doing to know whether the LLM got it right. I'm no historian, and I can ask cGPT for an essay about the causes of the Great War. When I get the answer, it sounds right to me. I don't know if the essay talks about the things an actual historian would find important, all I know is that it gives me the vanilla answer that some layman who has read a little bit would think was the right answer.

Now there's another issue this brings up. Most of us are experts in one field only. What is stopping the LLM from fooling me in every field that I don't know anything about? I best be wary of using it outside of my area of expertise.

So in the current iteration, I think LLMs are a shortcutting tool for experts. I can tell when it spits out a snippet of code that is correct, and when it's wrong. Someone who wasn't working in my domain would get fooled.
It could be nice if there was some clear general convention on a string format for secrets, e.g. `secret_<string>`, such that e.g. system copy paste facilities, email clients, chat clients etc. could provide an extra "Do you intend to share this secret?" step, ideally before even pasting it into a program, and especially before sending, to help prevent you from inadvertently exposing it.
> So, the author disregards this fact, while everyone using ChatGPT knows that verification is part of the proccess.

Why is verification part of the process if not because ChatGPT generates bullshit? I don’t think the author is disregarding that it is sometimes correct.
No one needs 2 GW 24/365.25. Medium values are not very useful, most of the times.
Yeah my bad. I only used it with S3 and somehow my brain think http will be the same.