skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLMs do not simply use the commons, they are a vehicle for polluting the commons on an industrial scale. If, hypothetically, the ethical problems with plagiarizing creative work to create these models were a non-issue, there would still be massive ethical problems with allowing their outputs to be re-incorporated into the web, drowning useful information in a haze of superficially plausible misinformation.
+1

Also, Bing serves much better results than Google these days. No joke.
Right, but that was mostly the issue of all the former Yugoslavia nations.

Czechs 1) were not a part of Yugoslavia 2) have a long tradition of visiting the Adriatic sea.

They are not poor anymore, and can afford it.

The price increase in Croatia in the last few years is insane, especially near the tourist spots (= seaside). Czech people who want to save some money now usually turn to the other Balkan countries that are still quite cheap.
I'm far more familiar with cryptography concepts than the average person but I wouldn't trust myself to audit a crypto system or implementation.
AI has been a market buzz word for many years.
Google has no chance at having a “good” search engine. Ever. They are too big. If they come up with a new algorithm or alter the existing one, people will be gaming it in hours. The problem they face is signal-to-noise ratios, with all the noise, extracting the signal is quite difficult (especially with something subjective, like search).

They need to come up with a proxy for their signal, because whatever they are using right now just sucks. I switched to bing six months ago, and have had much better results.
What do you mean "random"? Does the post lack some info or why is it not good enough?
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Yeah, Euro was widely accepted even before the country switched to it. But the prices were much lower.
I don't think disconnecting entirely is the answer. You also vote with your money and attention.
I think following and funding credible, solution oriented outlets and investigative journalists that can deep dive into topics is important for holding power accountable, and transforming the social landscape.

Australians need to care more about improving society - not just the media landscape but in so many facets. Its not going to fail-forwards for much longer, and the cracks are showing
NIMBY literally means "not in my backyard". Ownership has little to do with it. If you don't want a homeless shelter built next to where you rent, you're still a NIMBY, even if you don't own anything. Owning something might make you more inclined to object to developments, it's not a necessary factor.
gpt: give me working html example of javascript beforeunload event, and onblur, i want to see how they work when i minimize a tab.

10 seconds later, I am playing with these out.
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> the US should support manufacture of drugs in Mexico

I never said such nonsense.

Cartels rely on the absence of regulated affordable legal products. Once these are grown and provided by pharma companies and agricultural companies as they best see fit, the cartels will go out of business. People can be allowed to grow the associated plants at home or at their property too for personal use. Peace will then be restored to both countries.
> You're gonna get left in the dust by everyone else embracing LLMs.

Probably not, there's a very long tail to this sort of stuff, and there's plenty of programming to go around.

I'll chime in with your enthusiasm though. Like the author of the post, I've been using LLMs productively for quite a while now and in a similar style (and similarly skeptical about previous hype cycles).

LLMs are so useful, and it's fascinating to see how far people swing the opposite way on them. Such variable experiences, we're really at the absolute beginning of this whole thing (and the last time I said that to a group of friends there was a range of agreement/disagreement on that too!)

Very exciting.
Different people value different things. For some, stability and familiarity are important. While I am rather anti-corporation, it is also worth noting that there are people behind corporations: people who depend upon the institution, whether they are employees or customers.
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People keep writing this, but the tomatoes I grew myself and those grown by friends as well as local very small scale growers haven't lived up to the hype. Presumably this just isn't a good place to grow tomatoes. But I guess Provence should be, and they weren't exactly impressive either. Maybe I'm just not that into fresh tomatoes.
Your periodic reminder that Google is still under the full control of two guys, Page and Brin. They have (IANAL) substantially unlimited ability to impose whatever changes they want on the company. And in fact they are willing to pop up again when some challenge they care about, like "winning" AI, arises. Worse, Google escaped onerous regulations in its first decade or so partly because Google successfully sold the public and decision-makers on the idea that Page and Brin were decent guys who would be responsible stewards for Google. More fool the rest of us? Sure, but that's not much of an excuse for them. If Page and Brin got even ~7% of the rage and indignation and obsessive public attention that Musk gets the world would be a saner place. But Musk is constantly jumping up and down and jangling his keys for attention, while Page and Brin are out of sight, and we are failing this object-persistence challenge.
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Have you checked the onboarding? It only asks for your preferences (specifically, type of contract, availability, salary, and location), not for a description of the job or vacancy.
Those are interesting starting points. I don't know if I'd say its that simply, but Tue direction seems totally reasonable.

The ability to solve problems is a particularly interesting one. To me there's a difference between brute forcing or pattern recognition and truly solving a problem (I don't have a great definition for that!). If that's the case, how do we really recognize which one an LLM or potential AI is doing?

It'd be a huge help if AI researchers put more focus on the interoperability problem before developing systems that could reasonably emerge intelligence.
The effects will probably be seen the next year.

People say this every year and yet, it's always the same - the beaches get more crowded, the prices are higher, there seems to be no end to this.
Have you been living under a rock? Nvidia tech is export-controlled and basically banned for export to China. Not that people don't find workarounds. I guess if I was the US I'd look to recruit smugglers and have them ship tainted / defective chips https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
McD's was embarrassed by some glitches and chickened out.

Taco Bell has historically had WAY more tolerance for quirks and jokes. If their drive-thru does something silly somewhere, they're more likely to laugh at it, embrace it, challenge their customers to repeat it! Then double down on drive-thru AI and move forward.

I have every confidence this effort will be game-changing.
To me it sounds like the "all year round maintenance" is mostly because they've got a lot of land.

You've got to get the snow off your driveway no matter where you live. If you buy a property with half mile of driveway, you're going to have to shift a lot of snow.

You've got to maintain the trees on your property, no matter where you live. If you buy 20,000 trees you're going to have to maintain a lot of trees. And so on.
The absence of cooperation is not hostility. No one is born with a hostile mindset.

I am assuming a mostly neutral apathetic mindset as a baseline. It gives a foundation on which to build positively and cooperatively upon.
Just imagined some historical fiction where the real reason the shuttle was built was to retrieve nuclear armed satellites we put into space in the 1960s.

They always said the thing about being able to retrieve satellites with it but never really did… that they talked about.
Alright, I appreciate the detail.
Not all software is security relevant. I run a lot of large simulations. I do not care at all if that software would crash on specially prepared inputs. I do care that it's as fast as possible.
Implemented on their on-board cluster of PDP-11skis. Really.
As an extrovert, I can safely assure you that the world was never structured in a way favouring extroverts. I still had to go out of my way to get the amount of contacts and activity I wanted.

It really was a middle ground which was quite unbalanced by the pandemic and has pretty much come back to a middle ground now (we do 3 days in office - 2 days off but no one here is stupid enough to get a typical American commute thankfully).

The fact that so many in software are extreme introverts will be a surprise to no one however.
It's not, at least not where I live, in Switzerland. There are many different varieties to choose from in the supermarket nowadays, from cheap and tasteless to more expensive and tasty. It's the same in the Netherlands by the way.

The problem is not capitalism, it is the preference of the consumers in your area.
> you can hire armies of humans for the price of a latte.

I’ve heard this before, but where does one actually hire these humans? Mturk is the only thing that comes to mind.
The intentional talking past OPs point that you're doing is annoying.

I don't think anyone's worried about AI replacing call center employees or support centers. Sure, the service might be lackluster, but the impact of something like that is quite narrow in scope and doesn't affect people's day-to-day lives. OP is (I imagine) talking about pieces or the exchange of information that is normally written by experts or armchair afficianados and is gobbled up by media and the public alike.

An LLM can't learn subject matter. It only learns language convincingly enough to look like it's learned subject matter. So when a person is concerned about a piece of content written by AI, say a political analysis or a scientific paper. The user not only has to question whether or not the content makes sense, but whether or not it's fully intelligible to anyone. If there is no expert with these opinions, then a user that fails to realize that may give weight to an idea that they may not completely grasp but do think smarter people than they do understand.

Think of the numerous times people in the past have ranted on Reddit, Twitter, or whatever platform about issues they feel strongly about. They've put a lot of passion into that. And a lot of the time they may have a decent grasp of the space they're critiquing, people band together behind a comment like that not because they have come to all the same conclusions, but because that person used some of the shared experiences and drew conclusions using those experiences in a thoughtful way that kinda sounds right. If an LLM does that, then you can't even be assured that those conclusions make any sense whatsoever, and people could band behind any old nonsense so long as their issue is supposedly accounted for. One can generate endless streams of fake rally cries to support themes outlined broadly by the person coming up with the initial prompt.

Now, maybe OP didn't mean all that. I'm certainly doing a bit of my own hypothesizing of my own. But clearly this is about a little bit more than just call centers.
It's worth noting that it's licensed AGPL so the source code is open and available. Arguably this is necessary for a fully verifiable election system. Or is there some kind of zero knowledge approach to it?
dang, can we merge this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155177 or vice versa?
With a single server sure, but anything complex than that, most companies don't have a well-rehearsed cold start procedure.
>If some of you say they're focusing on "revenue" and "ads" then I don't think that is it. The reason I don't agree with it is due to being a short-term focus. If your search results are bad, people will start trusting you less over time and look for answers on platforms like Reddit or other search engines, therefore you can't show them relevant ads and you lose money over the long term.

In the long-term, we'll all be dead. In the medium-term, the people behind these user-hostile decisions will be at other companies, making yet more money. In the near-term, 'what about the stock price next quarter?'

Short-term thinking is a candidate for the biggest problem of our time.
The main criticism against this seems to be it doesn't kill weeds. But it's an open system, with standardised, autonomously selectable attachments. Can someone come up with an attachment or two for it that could control weeds?
Is that page using Fly.io for hosting?

It took 35 seconds for the initial HTML to load and then another 22 seconds for the javascript to finish loading.

I assume that's a static site, but is there is something else going on that made it take so long?
> having to set aside a day to vote

That only happens if the people in charge of the elections are enemies of democracy. It also means that the results are being manipulated and not particularly legitimate.

The election day is obviously a public holiday. There are plenty of polling locations, so you never have to go far to vote, unless you live in a particularly remote rural area. And because there are enough polling locations, you should not have to stand in line for more than a couple of minutes.
So, where in Makarska region should one go to get some? ;)

Are those "local" sellers near the beach really local? Or do they just resell stuff from Kaufland/Lidl to naive tourists for inflated prices?
Arguably there should be a non binding online based real time opinion voting to increase democratic input.
There's also the fact that the bodies must be expressions, so it's only useful with GNU statement expressions.

Still, since we have __VA_OPT__ and typeof, standard C has gotten to the point of being almost usable ...
The entire aviation industry feels like it is in need of a tech stack 100% rebuild.

Systems like Sabre are 60+ years old.
SBC == single board computer?
Relevant: John D. Rockefeller Ⅲ presents “An Interim Report to the President and the Congress from the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future” https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED050960.pdf#page=10 (1971)
why would that change the volume sold? are millions of Americans suddenly going to start doing fentanyl just for fun because it's now cheap and regulated? I must be misunderstanding something.
You could have /home/junk2020, /home/junk2021, /home/junk2022 etc. Still self-cleaning, but it's once a year.
It's interesting to hear Taleb talk about statistical analysis in the climate space and this seems to support his point. He's pointed out the inability to really predict what is going on and as I understand it - supports just focusing those prediction resources on mitigating the problem

This seems like classic fat tail uncertainty. We really shouldn't be F'ing around.
> My own feeling is that guilds of all sorts prioritize exclusivity for the purposes of bestowing power on some select few. As the article states "Master’s were few and far between".

One possible reason could simply be there's a lot more future impact to granting someone the final title. If you proclaim someone a "Maestro of C++," then suddenly all the other C++ laborers will get a clear signal that whatever that person is doing is implicitly also what they should do, if they want to move up the ladder.

Beyond that, the top jobs usually comes with required work to train the next generation. So this person would heavily contribute, both implicitly and explicitly, to the future of the C++ guild.

Considering that impact in combination with how hard it would be to undo the decision, it's not surprising that many organizations might be cautious about deciding to hand someone that title.

> clear guidelines, training, testing and certification.

This makes sense, too. For any organization that wants to stay in the business of handing out these titles for the long-term, meaningful transparency is a good way to go about it.
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Certain based on anything other than instinctive surmise?
We're doing a double search - searching for experience outside, collecting data - and searching for understanding inside, by compressing the data. Search and learn, they define both AI and us.
They also have the Dojo wafer-scale chips. A different process from the Cerebras one - this is more like a wafer sized interposer with large chipsets. Still pretty cool.
I'd argue it wasn't, given than less than a year after they released the console in Japan they started stuffing carts with extra chips to make up for the processor performance shortfall. I'm not sure why they chose the Ricoh 5A22 but it wasn't for it's performance, there were rumors that they were targeting NES backwards compatibility until late in the console's development and the choice of CPU (among other hardware quirks, like the controller signaling) fits into that.

Not to say that the SNES wasn't a 2D powerhouse thanks to it's powerful raster effects and developers eventually got better at working around the anemic CPU, but earlier games chugged, particularly if publishers cheaped out and used slower ROMs for the carts which cut the already slow CPU speed from 3.58mhz down to 2.68mhz. Mode 7 was a neat trick, but on the whole the core SNES hardware was really bad at 3D.
listen... it's this simple: I should have the ability to install software of my choosing on a hardware device I own. End of story. If a hardware manufacturer provides an App Store, then it should be an added extra, not a padlock.
There is a 4th reason. EA is not investing in features to prevent this.

They have added an 80% cap to a handful of busy chargers in California.

What they should do is add an electronic queue for the chargers, and automatically add the $0.40/minute idle rate to any charging above 80% when someone is queued for your charger.

They also need to do something about people with low voltage cars taking the high voltage spots. Something like a time factor in the price for the high voltage stations, to discourage low voltage cars using those unless necessary.
> paper ballots that are securely physically transported to a central location (all of them) and counted by people surrounded by observers (all in one sitting).

That is unnecessary complexity already. Ballots can be counted directly in the voting stations, by the local citizens. If you want to check your vote is counted correctly, stay to witness the counting. After the results have been counted, they can be communicated to the city hall via phone, so everyone in the room can hear it.
Sorry, I don't know what EA stands for.
Interesting ... SO is there a home version of the ai laser weeder?
I don’t recall what the ratios of our output are for China vs Europe, but the reasons China is such an important buyer and why our hazelnuts are considered preferred/premium are:

-My understanding is that China loves in shell hazelnuts, basically like a traditional thing over there, possibly being related to new year celebrations.

-We have multiple varieties of hazelnuts that each have their advantages and disadvantages. We have a lot that work well for direct eating. It’s more difficult to get exactly what you need from Turkey, since their focus seems mostly about fat content, rather than taste/color/size/texture/shelf-life.

-American reputation for safe and sanity food. Our farms are more sanity (as much as any farm can ever be), less contaminated with pollution and pesticide residues, and we have much more capable cleaning infrastructure where nuts are washed/sanitized(a “kill step”)/dried.

-We control the moths and bacterial blight which results in low amounts of infested nuts going out. If you’ve ever eaten in shell pistachios, you’ll know that occasionally you’ll get a dried worm or shriveled/moldy black nut. Can’t really eliminate it yet, but we keep it at an “acceptable” level.

-We are better at keeping the nuts climate controlled, so they don’t go rancid.

-Geographically we are well positioned, able to send them to the ports within state, and across the pacific.

-When prices are reasonable, the demand in China is big enough that they could completely absorb our output even if we doubled it and sent it all to China. Last I checked we produce about 4-5% of the world output. Turkey is like 75%.
One important thing about any voting system – digital or not – is that it has to be good at producing agreeable consent. That means bitter, betrayed and hurt (but reasonable/democratic!) losing parties need to be able to say: yeah we accept the result because we are confident in the outcome of the election.

This is something all digital systems are really bad at, even if everything is readable and verifiable, unless all your members know how to read that code.

Edit: and even if they know how to read that code, can they trust the machines are running that code at the big day?
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I guess it's struggling with the load. Fly doesn't auto-scale by default.
A few notes:

1. Botulism is nearly a non-issue in lacto fermentation. As the article mentions, salt and acid inhibit its growth. For an extra layer of protection, you can add a bit of vinegar at the start of the process to further encourage the growth of safe microorganisms. Botulism only starts becoming an issue when you have low-salt, low-acid preparations, or when you start the process like you would in traditional canning (boiling the fermentation mixture ahead of time -- getting rid of all competition for the botulism). If you cook the peppers you should make sure to pitch in a significant quantity of yeast and/or lactic acid producing bacteria.

1a. Botulism is a lot higher risk if you stabilize the mixture (the "simmering it in a pan to thicken" step) before storing it. That kills any safe microorganisms and again opens up the door for an infection from something dangerous (though, as the article mentions, it's less risky because of the accumulated salt and acid in the final product).

2. Mold requires a stable, aerobic environment to grow. Completely submerging the peppers suffices, as does using some form of air-lock, but you can also almost always get away with just stirring it twice each day.

3. Sugar can make the fermentation work better. The suggestion of fruit to achieve that is a great idea. As a side-note, mango is particularly delicious fermented on its own (halves or other large chunks, fermented just till there's a lot of CO2 bubbles, making them fruit chunks sparkly, no longer or it gets mushy).

> kills off the fermentation.

4. That has pros and cons. Fermented foods "keep" better while still fermenting (in terms of food safety), but the texture and flavor can degrade (it varies, look at how fantastic kimchi is as an example of longer fermentations being beneficial). Once hybrid strategy if you still want the improved texture from cooking is to reserve some of the pre-cooked sauce and re-introduce after cooking, re-innoculating it with yeast and bacteria. It'll tend to keep a lot longer if you do so. The flavor changes can be good or bad. It'll build up pressure over time though, so don't seal it air-tight.
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