skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It felt like it was making a slightly ranty observation that scientists are already trying to much to be philosophers than to actually do science that changes the world, yet science has brought us far enough that it acts as an enabler for all kinds of pop-philosphers.

The final bit doesn't quite connect, but overall I've seen far less coherent comments written by humans on subject with far more logical flaws.
If that’s true, it’s wrong. And was it a policy or a few losers trying to pad their numbers? I’ll withhold judgment at least until the official army response.
Supposing, of course, that this is an ESL problem, I'd expect the original Dutch sentence to have used the Dutch word 'men', which means the same as the English 'one' as in "one must not ...", or the 'man' in 'mankind'.
> assume it means 1 blog article

I'd like to play devils advocate here.

Given one blog article in a foreign language: Would a human be able to write coherent future articles?

With no teacher or context whatsoever how many articles would one have to read before they could write something that would 'fool' a native speaker? 1000, 100,000?

I have no idea how to measure the quantity/quality of contextual and sensory data we are constantly processing from just existing in the real world, however, it is vital to solving these tasks in a human way - yet it is a dataset that no machine has access to

I would argue comparing 'like for like' disregards the rich data we swim amongst as humans, making it an unfair comparison
Who is going to be the first person to get into Harvard with a GPT-3-generated essay? Race is on!
Sure, I could easily be a non combatant and likely would be (although I scored in the high 90s on the ASVAB and the recruiters said I could pick my role...) but my understanding is that you don't really get a choice. When you sign the papers they own you and you wouldn't have much of a choice if they decided to put you in that position.

I'm not sure I agree that those are the only situations where wars and battles occur - maybe in great power conflicts but was there really much diplomacy or negotiation before the U.S. invaded Iraq?
Even though I suppose many do find it 'cool' and the military probably likes to use that ... as someone who spent time in the service, I wish they would focus more on the 'dutiful' aspects of it all. I felt cool for about 10 minutes the first time I held a weapon, then it was definitely a 'responsibility'. That said, not sure how great it would as recruiting tool to focus on issues of community responsibility and duty.
I don't think these kind ofdevices will use Starlink or an equivalent service any time soon. Starlink needs a "pizza box sized" satellite dish that constantly adjusts its position to stay in contact with the satellites. I assume they won't work inside, like other satellite based antennae.

If smart devices will have build in connectivity in the next decade, I think 5g will be a more likely candidate. But I don't see that happening either. Why would a company pay for the data of its users when most people will just connect it to their wifi?

I. Couldn't find a source on "pizza box sized", but I remember Elon Musk has said that. Also here is a picture of one of the antennae: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/hruzck/new_photo_...
Is Joshua “Strotnium” David a children's idol? I bet most kids never heard of him. Unless they're getting pewdiepie to tell people to join the navy this seems like reaching too far.
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This sounds like a meme, but the danger is there, even if you think you have self-control and gave no issues with co-workers.

I remember flying around different states and countries with my cofounder. Budget can be tight and you end up sharing hotel rooms. One of the rooms we were in even had semi-transparent bathroom doors, with a completely transparent shower door, and those sexy soaps and showel gel. This was a business hotel, with two single beds. Honeymoon hotels sometimes even have a window or peepholes into the bathroom. We've probably slept in the same cramped rooms about a hundred days in total. It's pretty common for startups to also rent offices that double up as homes, with a shower, an air fryer and probably a mattress behind the CEO's desk.

2nd, there's a lot of close proximity. You'll be talking to each other all the time, sitting/standing in a small car or crowded train all the time. There will be lots of late evenings and early mornings. At times, they're the first and last person you talk to for the day.

3. You'll be stressed out often. The highs are high and the lows are low. You're going to cry over each other's shoulders no matter how tough you are. There will be situations where you have to fire someone, yell at investors, beg clients, and figure out how to pay salary next week. Oxytocin is a stress hormone.
This sounds completely made up.
If you have more info than pure conjecture, please share.
I would wager the sensor drivers for Windows were written by apple.
Maybe that is true today, but:

1) Much of that expertise has come directly from US involvement. See: Western Europe, Japan, Korea.

2) Much of the other expertise developed specifically because of US non-involvement. See: the Soviet Union and the states it influenced and supported. There were even plans to attack/nuke the Soviets, who were the only real rival post-WW2.

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

Had the U.S. wished to, it could have easily formed an imperial state following WW2. That would have been in-line with essentially every large state in human history. Thankfully, they didn't, and the world is better off for it.
so this is similar to fast.co?
If someone has a fuzzy logic that definitively answers questions such as "what is the boundary between an individual and a system?" then he or she did the same thing Newton and Leibniz did with Xeno's paradoxes, and he or she would go down in history as both the greatest philosopher and a mathematician equal to Leibniz.

But that doesn't happen to these guys and gals who work on fuzzy logic, does it?
You know, I can’t tell if you’re agreeing with me or disagreeing with me. I’m very critical of the process in California, but I don’t know enough about Swiss culture to be critical of their usage of referendums so I avoid having opinions on it altogether. I suspect a National popular ballot initiative process in the US would be closer to California’s failures than to any of Switzerland’s successes though, though to be fair, I don’t know that. The rampant populism of the past 10 years doesn’t make me feel good about the idea of giving it a shot though.
It also is bad for googling. Imagine using a version for a not so popular human language. Chances are you would need to know the English and/or Mandarin versions of language constructs anyways. If so, how much does writing in your native language add?
“I could not stop thinking about the applications of such a technology and how it could improve our lives.

I was thinking of how cool it would be to build a Twitter-like service where the only posts are GPT-3 outputs.”

This could have been either the output of GPT-3 or someone who doesn’t know what they’re saying.
While I have no doubts that they could build NN capable of recognizing GPT-3 text I believe that this would still pose a problem given the amount of content to be analyzed at the scale that Google deals with
I think that is what the national guard does but I am not sure. Many people join for a few years and leave. The coolness was just my perception. Depending on what job such as arabic translator it could be seen very much as responsibility.
I'm desperately waiting for breakthroughs in hardware these days. Imagine the equivalent of AlexNet for NLP for example where something like GPT-3 can run on a laptop. Not only do I hope for Moore's law to somehow continue but also for battery tech to have its breakthrough. We've had lithium-ion for so long now with no further improvements.

Although I'm sure people will figure out how to slow down and drain the batteries of such devices with Electron 2: Electron Boogaloo, software breakthroughs tend to follow hardware breakthroughs and I hope to see some big ones in my lifetime.
That's like losing the source code and blaming the language ?
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> But what do we do instead? The majority of the time we look at, say, 1 to 3 variables, and then form highly confident conclusions based on this

Which is bad enough in general, but in this case there are political implications, so no matter what conclusion you reach from doing that, the people who want the opposite conclusion can accuse you of choosing the wrong factors and add enough of their own to lead where they prefer. If you only add factors that all point in a single direction you can reach any conclusion you want, but if you let each side keep adding factors in their favor indefinitely then you exceed the limits of statistical significance before either side runs out of factors in their favor.

But it's also important to notice that this is only a statistical problem. It means that statistics can't really tell you what happens in the aggregate, but that doesn't mean you can't investigate individual cases. If you have an email from the hiring manager saying not to hire you because you're black, you shouldn't need statistics to win that lawsuit. So if that sort of thing is prevalent then prove the individual cases, and keep doing that until it's not.

Meanwhile you solve the underlying problems which takes care of the cases you can't prove. The cops can't be murdering disproportionately many black people if the cops aren't murdering anybody whatsoever, which they shouldn't be doing for any reason racism or otherwise.
The article says more about the state of tech blogging than it does GPT-3. I kept thinking "great, another one of these, when are they actually going to show me any results?"

We've been conditioned to accept articles where there's a lot of words and paragraphs and paragraphs of buildup, but nothing actually being said.
I think you misinterpreted the debate because I've never seen anybody sane advocating that armed citizenry should have been some kind of "super-police" that polices the government. "The check against tyranny" argument means that the armed people can put up resistance so a government that does not rule by consent of the governed may not last long.
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The judge let him go because he told me he needed a licence for driving the amphibious vehicle and he wouldn't be able to do it if he got a DUI so it was dismissed, but hes told me about screaming camel spiders I googled and called him out on. I don't think he lied about that one though but I'm just rehashing what he told me.
Thanks! Updated on both fronts.
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I played this game a bunch in the mid 2000s.

A sizeable number of people that I played with went on to serve in the military, evidently due to their experience playing the game. So, anecdotally, it was effective.
A lot of people do not find the military cool at all. For a lot of us, the military is a criminal activity acting under the paper-thin cover of politics.
> "The glorification of convicted war criminals, the denial of genocide and war crimes, and bitter disputes around conflicting commemorations all create an environment of perpetual division that is gradually becoming the norm."

Taking the specific example of (as it was then) yugoslavia, an environment of freshly perpetual division (stoked in those times mainly by radio and TV) was what started the bloodshed.

I know refugees whose conspiracy theory is that that division had been helped by outside forces. I think they're optimists, and Solzhenitsyn called it more accurately:

> “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23613311
>Roman Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire, Japanese Empire, Mughal Empire

Imagine, for a moment, that each one of these had nukes. What's the probability they'd use them to make a point as an aggressor/opressor? Even risking MAD?
That depends on where you live, you should plant native species. I would go to my local botanical garden and ask them what they have on their meadows. If you don't have a botanical garden around, a local university might have information, eg https://extension.umd.edu/hgic/topics/lawn-alternatives
A long time ago I was working on a sentence generator. I end up studying sentence's composition and part of speech. As I was having trouble to find a free API that would let me consult the POS of a given word, I end up hacking this one together.

When you make a post to the only end point (up to 10 messages) it will return the POS of that word PLUS a suggested word with the same POS.

let me know if you find this useful.

p.s.: I'll will keep this up until my server can handle the requests. I don't believe many people would use this, but if they do, I'll have to figure something else.
In practice, the US military is one of the most dire, evil organisations on the planet.

But you'd have to have been one of the 5 million victims of its illegal wars in the last few years to understand that. You will never understand why a majority of the world despises the USA for its military evils, unless you've been on the receiving end of its terrorism - its propaganda is so good, that a majority of American citizens don't understand at all how anyone could consider it the #1 cause of crimes against humanity in the world today. Iraq lost 5% of its population because America loves its military and needs to use it.

That's pretty evil.
Nice video. This made me think about the potential of overlooked and possibly "cheap" land that could end up highly productive after just a few years.
Considering the actions of all of the empires I listed, I'd say: absolutely likely that they would use any and all weapons available.

Also: MAD only exists if you let your opponents acquire nukes too.
The education market is such a conundrum.

On one hand it's enormous, clearly suboptimal, and clearly in need of change.

OTOH, anything outside of institutional norms is relegated to extremely small niches... with self learning being the most vibrant. Very hard to innovate within the box. Very hard to access the market, in money terms, outside of it.

Your online education product can be 10X better than a college course. It can costs 10X less. That's still not going to mean you compete with the college course, even if the college course is mostly online.
Propagandhi did a song about this in 2005 called America’s Army (Die Jugend Marschiert).

They even have a hat-tip to Enders Game near the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjt1LUbw-Zo
Highly agree. It seems like the only recourse these days is simply overriding NIMBYs at the state level (I think CA is close to this point) when the housing crisis becomes so acute that it becomes politically viable to simply go against the many NIMBYs' wishes at the higher levels.
> how to build despite of NIMBYism, not how to reason with it.

i think it's "easy" - pay the existing NIMBY people the equivalent in lost value when constructing objects in their "backyard".
Nah, not really. The army definitely does aim for "normal." This isn't the seals we're talking about.
No, low-background steel is mentioned in the replies. It's similar in the sense that GPT-3 generated text is going to contaminate the data we collect from now on.
nit: provenance
It's not raining – just a 50-mile wide cloud of flying ants
The power that GPT-3 gives to spammers has me worried as well. Anyone with sufficiently many IP addresses can now single-handedly kill any forum by spamming it with text which is at first sight indistinguishable from the average poster.

Automatically generated spam could also be used to suppress discussion of political opinions or certain topics by drowning them in a sea of garbage comments, which seems highly problematic.

We should come up with a solution to combat this. Here are a few ideas:

- To a certain extend, the comment voting mechanism can be used to filter out comments which lead nowhere. If that stops working because comments are too good, that is not a problem. In the words of Randall Munroe: https://xkcd.com/810/
However, voting only works if the number of people voting on a certain comment outnumber the spam comments, so this will fail with too many spam comments.

- Another solution would be to verify that every comment author is an actual human being. The GPG web-of-trust could be used for that, but this is untraceable for the average user. There also should be an additional layer of indirection between actual user identities and online identities to preserve privacy, but I am not sure if it is possible to have both privacy and limit a forum user to a single account so they can not circumvent a ban by simply creating new accounts. A trusted third party could solve this, but a distributed solution would of course be preferable. Maybe there is a smart cryptographic solution to this problem?

- For the near future, every provider of GPT-3-based services should also provide a service to check whether some given comment has been generated by their model. This can be realized by hashing substrings of all generated output and storing the hashes in a bloom filter. This is not a long term solution since technological advancement will soonishly enable regular people to train similar models.

- Training other neural networks to detect automatically generated text is not a solution because the generating networks can simply be trained to not be detected by the detecting networks. This is just a cat and mouse game.

Does anyone have a better solution?
“it seems translation is a simple string replacement. I don’t think that’s enough to cover all languages.”

Honestly, simple string replacement isn’t good enough to cover any languages. Homonyms and synonyms, anyone? I suspect machine translation will be harder with code simply because there’s a lot less contextual information around individual words compared to ordinary prose with which to make a best guess as to meaning.

“I think AppleScript tried to do better, but can’t find examples”

Dr Cook’s HOPL paper on AppleScript gives an example of French and Japanese dialects (p20; can’t it paste here as it’s an image):

www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2006/ashopl.pdf

Not really the same thing as Citrine as it relied on manual localization of an application’s resources (custom keywords defined in AETE terminology, vs labels and tooltips on GUI controls). And, as you say, it did not do anything to localize user-defined words.

In any case, AppleScript is a really good example of how NOT to design an accessible language syntax. All the rigidity and tolerance of a machine language, with all the complexity and ambiguity of a natural one faked on top. (Plus all the fun that comes with arbitrary keyword injection—argh.)

This is why I say artificiality is good. Humans aren’t after Shakespeare, they’re after high-level understanding of program code.
I understand the argument and empathize with it but is it really the military or the politicians who sent them who are responsible? Would the military independently initiate something like the Iraq war? Maybe, but I'm not so sure - I mean there are definitely tons of hawks and some people with extremist views, but I think generally they would prefer to fight a different type of war more akin to the traditional "glorious" battles of WWII rather than urban combat fighting hidden enemies and getting blown up by IEDs
Do you have a study where it shows what happens over a longer period of time? The period of 1996-2006 is very suspect too.
I played this game as a kid for a lot of hours and knew it was a recruitment tool. I played in lots of small TWL tournaments and was in a clan, so I was pretty involved. While my KDA was pretty good, the D part always sacred the shit out of me, so I don’t think it was a particularly effective tool for recruitment for myself. Pretty well made game though. The map design was great imo; I still remember the map of Mount McKenna. I think I only met one person through the game involved in the military and he was enlisted before its release.
I made this as an exercise to learn Rust, and it turned out to be a pretty neat addition to my "do-not-loose-track-of-things" routines.

I tried to design it in a way that would accomodate many use cases and workflows.

Let me know what you think please! I'd also love review of my code, this is my first rust project in a long time.
I don’t blame anyone for not knowing that ü = ue if they don’t speak German, but if you are/were one of those people who didn’t know this and just ignored the umlauts altogether (Hügelkultur -> Hugelkultur): the ü and u, ä and a, ö and o... are all different letters. They are not simply modifications to the letters a, o, and u. They are different letters entirely, which can also be represented as ae, oe, and ue. But they are NOT the letters ae, oe, ue, if that makes sense.
Yes, we should also be afraid of deepfake.

With GPT-3, the issue isn't so much being able to impersonate somebody, but the ability to generate human-seeming text at scale. This allows you to create a false perception of public sentiment by maintaining fake accounts on online forums, writing fake letters to the editor, to politicians, and so on.

On the flip side, this is already possible today with content farms, and perhaps GPT-3 can save us by being the thing that finally erodes our trust in these signals.

One thing is sure though, it drives yet another arms race, and arms races are always a net loss for society.
>In the nation’s 20 least affordable markets, our analysis of 3,083 low-income housing projects from 1996 to 2006 found no significant effect on home values located near a low-income housing project, with a few exceptions.

Talk about cherry picked years. Why don't they analyse from 1998 to 2008 and say the same thing? Did it really take until 2020 to post this?

>Of the 20 markets examined, Denver was the only metro area where homes located near low-income housing projects registered a positive effect in terms of price per square foot after a project was completed.

And the absence of serious, critical thought. Has trulia never heard of correlation vs causation?
I find it interesting that so many people point out that some sort of Windows OS WAS used by vendor A, B, or C.
Yes, a lot of enterprises tried Windows in embedded use cases in the past. Presumably companies will keep trying it from time to time in the future too.
But the fact of the matter is that, as the usecases nature vendors migrate to Linux.
Also, saying that there were multiple parties trying to use Windows does not mean that Windows has significant market share in that domain.
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> School performance is a high indicator of housing value

but it's not a causal effect - or at least, it's a lot more complicated than a simple causal effect.

School performance is affected by budget, which is paid via taxation, as well as resources available from the parents' contributions. Poorer neighbourhoods will obviously have parents contribute less, even if the taxation is the same (which, is highly unlikely as well).

The cumulative effect is that poorer people receive a poorer education, which compounds over generations, and causing a negative feedback loop.