skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is bullshit.

It's on the first page only because it talks about a very widespread fear, namely that LLMs might actually become dumber because they are trained on their own output.

In reality, LLMs are already trained on the output of other LLMs, as specific and well-directed training is much more effective than a disorderly ingestion of text produced by illiterate internet users. Let's not forget the demographic makeup of the typical average user. I think that training on reddit and 4chan messages can be much more harmful than training on text produced by the worst chatbot.

Hacker News editors are trying to build a narrative to instill fear and pessimism.

"What's the fun in writing on the internet anymore?" explains that everyting can be stolen and rewritten by AIs. And today they talk about LLMs and the whole internet becoming dumber. Tomorrow they'll talk about news falsification and LLMs used to replace writers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39415878
So why not just throw everyone's rights out and just start searching their homes for evidence of crimes, or at least something that can be prosecuted because it might be a crime?

We'll surely get a significant amount of people who are doing or own things they shouldn't. Maybe even as high as 1%!
A Python Interpreter in 500 lines of Python
I had such high hopes for Sublime Text, but then development slowed to what seemed like a glacial pace, with every upgrade requiring another licensing fee.
The rationale for embiggening the iPhone (screen size and ergonomics) doesn't apply to headsets.

That's missing the point. My comment wasn't about rationales, it was about the difficulty of miniaturization. The fact that the iPhone got larger -- and that consumers demanded a larger phone -- took all the pressure off the miniaturization program. That will not be the case for the VP.
Inbreeding certainly didn't go well for the Habsbergs.
I’m just a little surprised as economies of scale have pushed support for larger frames into most of the hardware you can purchase. I can absolutely believe somebody saying this, but intuition is telling me that it’s a misdiagnosed problem - if it isn’t there’s something interesting I’d love to hear about!
I think I'll restrain from buying into this until much more testing is conducted. There is information out there suggesting training on synthetic data is at least on par but cheaper.
Every time Sam Altman announces some new offering at OpenAI, I get a little more thankful I don't have any children.
Not sure, but in general, it looks like ZipLoRA is only useful in specific contexts like when you have two different tasks you want to optimize for (like style and content in a vision context). DoRA is more general, it's basically normalizing and scaling the LoRA matrices to get much better performance. According to the paper, it even works great for low ranks, which also effectively makes it even more parameter-efficient than OG LoRA.
Hmmmm... I think carrying a lot of gold around and limited transport and security put certain limits on who could do that easily...
They have their own campus monorail that is absolutely wild lol.
I'm almost certain that I've seen this exact phenomenon described in a sci-fi novel written before LLMs existed. I thought it was Neal Stephenson's Anathem, but a quick skim through the text didn't turn anything up. Anybody else know what I might be thinking of?
No I hadn't!

This seems exciting. Have you done it successfully?
I'm not talking about income tax but the entire tax burden. Look at the wikipedia article I linked:

"46.4% (53.0% including 14.1% social security contribution by employer. All taxes include 8.2% pension fund payments)"

Also indirect taxes like VAT are higher than in Germany.
>I see this "best practice" advocated often, but to me it reeks of security theater.

The idea of "security theater" is overplayed. Security can be (and should be) multilayered, it doesn't have to be all or nothing. So that, when they break a layer (say the authentication), they shouldn't automatically gain easy access to the others

>If an attacker is able to do anything useful with a guessed ID without being authenticated and authorized to do so, then something else has gone horribly, horribly, horribly wrong and that should be the focus of one's energy instead of adding needless complexity to the schema.

Sure. But by that time, it's will be game over if you don't also have the other layers in place.

The thing is that you can't anticipate any contigency. Bugs tend to not preannounce themselves, especially tricky nuanced bugs.

But when they do appear, and a user can "do [something] useful with an ID without being authenticated and authorized to do so" you'd be thanking all available Gods that you at least made the IDs not guassable - which would also give them also access to every user account on the system.
The first response to the original post is quite possibly one of the most tone-deaf and unempathetic things I've ever read.
I don’t understand the issue here. It seems like various KYC regulations are the status quo. Is there a specific bill or proposal the article is against? That was left totally unclear.

I don’t think tin foil hat shout into the clouds articles are very useful. Is the author an expert on money laundering or organized crime? Give me some reasons that aren’t just soap box speeches about freedom.

Finally, I think that it’s pretty obvious how basic identity regulations can work. If a bar has an ID scanner that accesses a state database to look up your picture on file that can trivially defeat a fake ID. If a car dealership does the same they can prevent selling a car to someone who isn’t licensed to drive. Seems pretty normal to me.
With an Amazon card at 5% on Amazon purchases (up to $120k) all you need to spend is < $4000/year and it breaks even. There are reasons that make sense to stop using prime, but not for the money, it’s still a steal.
No, I don't want to read their content. I want to find an answer to my search query.

If the search results are full of paywalled articles that claim to have text relevant to my query, but won't show me the article because publishers are trying to extract money from me, the publishers of those articles have made my task harder and shouldn't be rewarded. This is a form of spam.
Your AI will end up twice as intelligent - eventually.

Were it to improve by 0.5, then 0.333, then 0.25, then 0.2 and so on would be an entirely different matter!
It might, or it might not. It might enhance many lives too.

Maybe it's just the internet, but sometimes you have to wonder if there is a thriving neo-luddite community out there.
Trains are better than self-driving cars. China's electric cars don't need self-driving because they have developed world train infrastructure, while the US doesn't.
Sure, but I'd like to go beyond magnet links and make it properly decentralized, with the discovery happening in the DHT and torrent swarm.
Exactly. Why do we hold AI to higher standards than ourselves?
LLMs are increasingly trained on synthetic data. A LLM can learn logic, and ultimately the rules governing physics and everything else, without human input.

The first versions being trained on "human knowledge" seems kind of like a proof-of-concept. Future iterations will be much, much smarter.
Similarly with monitors, 60Hz LCD panels are OK, but 120Hz panels are just so much easier on the eyes. At least for me. Try dragging windows around or scrolling quickly, and you'll see the difference between 60 and 120 very fast.
I liked watching them play Minecraft
The fourth amendment is universally applicable across states. Yours seems to violate it without any internal consistency.
Wouldn't the group members at least be notified that someone joined the group? And the server would only have access to messages sent after that notification, right?
As AI advances, there will be AI and algorithms that will check LLMs and their output, sort of LLMs' verifier. It is foolish to think that LLMs won't improve to the point where there are almost no or very low hallucinations and false information. We are just at the beginning of LLMs and generative AI.
they’re not wrong, ai will eliminate the lower end of many creative professions… and unfortunately a lot of the lower end comes from poorer countries

it’s probably a net gain in the long run, but it’s going to cause a lot of damage in the process
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Because they may turn out like him?
I would invert that: when was the last time you tried using a text editor that boasts speed instead of VSCode?

I am forced to use VSCode for extension-based reasons, but have Sublime Text installed as well that I can very occasionally use. The difference each time is staggering, like a slap in the face. Scrolling smoothness, input latency, snappyiness to jump between files, or search workspaces. Each time it's so obvious. It's just so much more pleasant. Like going from being hunched over a tiny laptop screen to sitting in front of an all encompassing ultrawide, or going from an old laptop to a new desktop.

It doesn't mean that VSCode is an unusable pile of garbage, just as a tiny laptop screen isn't unusable. But the difference, at least to me, is undeniable.
> You’re forgetting that 100 years ago photographers and filmmakers ended the careers of most of the illustrators, story tellers and theater companies of their time. And everybody adjusted, and storytelling and image making exploded, entering a golden age. There are still amazing portrait painters and theater companies today, but they are specialized art forms and most people have moved on. Today’s photography and filmmaking are going to undergo a similar evolution. And as an avid photographer, I can’t wait.

It's really hard not to agree with the response above.
Exactly. Maybe the top-level poster says something like "Oh if you're going to clean it and re-sell it for a profit, I'd rather hold out to see if another coworker actually needs the car, because I also like the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing it's helping them.

"Oh, well what if I told you the $500-1000 I think I can get from taking that work off your hands and re-selling it would really help me out"

"That makes sense. Sold"

See how easy this is without the sleaziness of lying?
I'm curious about the anecdote you shared -

1. You don't pay cash on those apps you mentioned - afaik all save a card number on file. It wouldn't make sense that you could climb into an Uber and then complain that you forgot to bring cash?

2. On ride-sharing apps, typically you as the passenger can very easily change the destination mid-ride. If you decide to swing by an ATM, you can do that in the app, and the driver's GPS is seamlessly updated. Typically you dont verbally ask the driver to take you somewhere off-route.

It sounds like you were really unreasonable in this scenario, but perhaps the cash/card situation is different where you live?
If this is the basis, why are the laws aimed at criminalizing abortion essentially blanket bans with narrow exceptions rather than based around medical judgement that's equitable between both parties? For example Texas's only viability test is the presence of a periodic electric signal, rather than any consideration of whether the fetus even has the right number of chromosomes.

Additionally, even a fetus that seemingly will be eventually viable isn't actually viable for the first few months. From a libertarian perspective, while arguments exist that the mother has consented to this responsibility for some cases, in other cases she has not (eg rape).

(Also FWIW your example of an ectopic pregnancy example doesn't actually meet the criteria of "growing where a baby would")
Watch human behavior long enough and you'll also realize that encoding of social behaviors in our society does a lot of heavy lifting for our brains so we don't have to think.

Also, for bonus points define intelligence in a manner that describes simple systems with rudimentary intelligence up to complex systems with higher levels of intelligence than a human. Can you do it, because as of so far no one else has.
What BYD seems to be doing in spain is the following. cost wise they are no cheaper than the other cars. What they do is front you the government subsidies for evs so the car is cheaper. What happens if you don’t qualify for it in the years it takes to process the subsidy. Who knows? Do they write it off or does the ccp cover it as a defacto state subsidy from China?
Absolutely, they won't even accept donations.
If I were at the opposite spectrum of life's journey, I would be open to life's changes too, knowing that I didn't have much of it left.

But I'm in my 30s, which means on average I have another 40-50 years of existence to get through.
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https://archive.is/xW1Xl
> Shift+U to undo all changes done to the current line

Been using Vim for over 15 years and didn't know this one.
Cryptography is great for amplifying control from controlling access to a single secret to the ability to read information, create 'valid' information, and even to combine new information.

What kind tends to limit cryptography from solving problems is that controlling a secret is actually quite difficult.
Please don’t repeat the misconception that ACER has anything to do with electricity prices. Norway built plenty of cables before ACER and would have built the exact same cables without it. It’s a complete myth that ACER has anything to do with Norway building more interconnect cables. It has been an explicit energy policy of Norway to be well connected to neighbours because Norway relies on hydro power. And hydro power is unpredictable. There are dry years.

Average prices are still pretty damn low. Some periods of high electricity prices during an energy crisis and dry year does not mean Norway has expensive electricity in general.
Go's time package seems like one of the bad ones, since it makes the classic mistake of combining zoned and naive times into the same type (arguably it doesn't support naive times at all).
Not sure about how Jetbrains does in general but I have zero hesitation paying for perpetual license of their all inclusive package. It is peanuts compared to value. I still use VS code to do some remote editing / debugging as it is somewhat better experience. Hopefully Jetbrains catches up in this department one day.

So yes. These two are THE editors for me.

I only deviate from these when I need to do Delphi / Freepascal development.

Notepad++ / Notepadqq are being used as in place hotkey invoked text editors.

I still try new ones out of curiosity but I have hard time understanding why any would succeed. How they're going to get the same amount of extensions / plugins in order to match functionality?
Models don't "know" what they are. Usually the system prompt contains that imformation. If it doesn't, it will hallucinate an answer for you.
What purpose would publishing a photograph someone's passport serve in exposing extortion? The only thing it proves is that Josh Cahill had at some point gone through border controls in East Timor, which neither party was denying.
"While in reality symptomps often don’t appear fast enough for that."

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

"for which you provided no source. Is this something you speculate? Or know as a fact?"

Logic deduction. In the incidence above the United States Public Health Service led the investigation. Also, a plane may have to make an emergency landing. Trust me. If you run an airline. YOU DON'T WANT THAT.

"You also said "

You omitted that "I assume (!)" from my sentence. And regards to food safety I was specific about food served on air planes, not in a lounge.

"influencer in question did."

Yes. And I think this is unlikely.
Cool. I hope they are helpful.
To be clear, there is plenty of space for humans on earth right now. I'm not talking about in uninhabitable places, I mean in amazing fertile locations. Real world space is a luxury because of bad regulation in places with good governments and other places having bad governments

(you didn't imply otherwise, but I know there's a common misconception that space is running out and the world is overcrowded. It's largely not true)
FDA approves a drug to treat food allergies, including milk, eggs and nut
Very interesting, I bet this had come up before but remained undiagnosed, yay for packet captures
The reason I am sticking with cursor.so is the AI. It is convenient to be able to a) let AI read whole files b) feed in direct documentation of a certain package to have proper context.

Might not be worth to expert coders out here but definitely saves a lot of time for me debugging or onboarding into a new framework

Wish Lapce had that. Also Zed does not have the quite depth for AI compared to Cursor
Thank you for letting me know! I will definitely be giving it a try!

Can it wrap at column 80 or does it only wrap at the right border of the window?
Technologies usually follow a learning curve eg wrights law, moores law, LLM scaling laws

AI seems to add another dimension of explosive hype
Useful, but one thing immediately jumps out as incorrect: RFC 3339 does specify a syntax for periods; it’s defined in Appendix A as ABNF token “duration”.
I wouldn't expect that at all, search engines search the content they have available to proffer it to you, that's the job.

If by clicking on the thing it does not have the content I searched for (how am I even certain I get it when I pay you?) I would call that result bad.

If you want to charge for stuff that's great, I recommend it, and if you want to give out a free sample or an index that's great, but it should be the same to all comers.
The article you've posted is engaging in mental gymnastics and misrepresentation that I've never considered possible.

To sum up the facts:

- PiS got into power several years ago

- PiS fired all the journalists of public broadcasters and replaced them with staff they selected. Major private media corporations in poland were already closely aligned with PiS, and independent media was shut down.

- As a result, for several years all media in poland was pro-government.

Regardless of your political ideals, that's not something that happens in a working democracy.

- In the most recent election, PiS lost.

- The new government fired the employees at public broadcasters that PiS had selected.

The actions of Donald Tusk's government lead to more opinions being represented in media. Which indicates that Tusk's government provides more freedom of the press than the previous one.
The same. That, and the crazy demographic explosion in the world.
It's clickbait, pure and simple
> cross-pollination

That's a great analogy!
What’s the difference. All tasks are mundane and labor intensive, all tasks can be done by artificial beings.

We happen to be in a weird little valley right now where some tasks are still impossible for artificial beings to do better than us. This is a very short term aberration.

If we are still here in a couple generations, when artificial beings have surpassed our output in every way that matters, then we’ll have a choice to make about what we produce for fun. Not because we’re better at it or because it is profitable, just because we want to.

Writing stories, making music, making movies, plumbing, carpentry… the only humans who do these things will be the humans who feel like it.
This is the case for most orgs with corp IT. Their KPIs are around security, which often manifests itself as a game of "how many security products can one run in parallel". Crapware like Cisco Secure Endpoint (not to mention Umbrella), Thycotic, Netskope, and whatever else is the current cool way for a corp to MITM itself and introduce kernel vulnerabilities.

This in turn puts departments at odds, as their argument for speed is turned into an argument against security, which is a very hard position to be in if your department is a few layers down the corp stack.
> modern C ijbol

Can you clarify what this is?
There probably are nefarious content you can see just from the filenames but not everything is like that. Moreover, you "only" know they distribute it, you don't do it yourself.
I would have played if it had been multiplayer.
Does anyone know what that visualisation is about? It doesn’t bother me, but it also doesn’t help me or give me any useful information.

If it showed me the road behind me, for example, that would be super useful for lane changing. But it doesn’t.

I have never once been able to work out what it does, and would love to see the map take up the whole screen, or maybe a list of route instructions could go there.

I also noticed that the “full self driving preview” option seems to have disappeared (it never worked anyway, guessing it’s because we drive on the left)
I wonder what Sam Altman's equivalent quote to "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" will be when he sees what his creation leads to.
I lived (and was gainfully employed working on AI) during the mid 80s AI winter. This time feels the same.

Recently a potential investor asked if we were using AI in our product. I said, “no, not at all, just a neural network.” They seemed satisfied.
I actually don't agree with the idea that it's going to displace creative work. I'm a little worried that people running the finances of firms producing creative will try to displace people, but I don't think this stuff is actually going to displace high quality art. A well curated set of marketing material from openai isn't going to change my opinion on that. If you make something that's of high quality, regardless of how productive you were during the creation, people will seek that quality out. I don't think I've ever heard people be excited about a particular AI artist, just about the models. To me this kind of signals that the market for AI generated work is much smaller than people realize. And if you have to modify the output to actually break through, congratulations you're now an artist.

I don't like using these tools in my own work and I hope tech companies are somehow held accountable for using everyone's data without permission, but I'm actually pretty optimistic that this won't displace that many professional artists once the money people get a handle on how the attention economy actually responds to this stuff. I'm a lot more worried about people using this stuff to create propaganda, to frame people for crimes, or to create non-consentual porn of people.
Do you have any links to philosophical attempts at this definition? It feels like it would be a ripe field.
Before that you'd have to establish that whatever the chatbots are doing is "use" in the sense that "fair use" means it. The act of reading a book or looking at a painting isn't protected by fair use.

If it is a use that falls under fair use, I'm thinking about the Google Books case, where an act that is far less transformative (digital archiving and search) was found to be fair use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....)

(It's going to be "who's got more money?", isn't it? Fun fun fun.)
True, but it's not end users who should be caring about this at all, it's the developers. Developers can leverage the freedom of the web with PWAs: no gatekeepers, no 30% tax, no approvals. So it threatens the App Store model of Apple, even though PWAs are not nearly capable enough to do that today. But with this move, they sure won't be capable enough in the future either.
Chicken tax.
Yes technically true. HMCG are recognised in international law as responsible for maritime search and rescue operations in UK territorial waters. Practically speaking in most cases if you have a problem in UK (and Irish) waters the RNLI is probably going to search for and rescue you, if it’s really bad you’ll get a helicopter dispatched as well from Bristow helicopters who are subcontracted to HMCG but I think there’s only about 6 choppers covering the whole of the UK.