skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of weird setups in how the us flight attendant pay work, largely due to how the union negotiates them. FAs are paid only while the plane door is closed, so there's a huge incentive to fly long-hauls. Also, flights are allocated by seniority, so there is a pay-your-dues period of short low-paying flights done by workers with less experience, and high-pay long haul flights are full of older, more experienced FAs.
That's basically correct. The 8008 was a single-chip version of the TTL processor in the Datapoint 2200 desktop computer / terminal. It is entirely unrelated to the 4004 except that many of the same Intel people worked on it. In other words, the view that the 4004 led to the 8008 is entirely fictional.

The Intel 8080 (used in the early Altair computer) was a slightly cleaned up version of the 8008, and the 8085 was a 5-volt version of the 8080. Intel's next processor was supposed to be the super-advanced 8800 with hardware support for objects and garbage collection. That chip fell behind schedule, so Intel threw together the 8086 as a stop-gap chip, a 16-bit processor somewhat compatible with the 8080. The 8800 was eventually released as the iAPX 432, which was a commercial failure but is definitely worth a look for its bizarre architecture -- a vision of what could have been.

I've written a detailed history of early microprocessors here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/th...
Many things are over engineered just because.

Throw a battery in it, hell, just throw a chip in it.

In most cases (Most cases) analog Trumps digital.
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What about North Koreans desperate to be part of the privileged elite? They can take courses and learn just like anyone else.
I think this is a startup doing something like that https://redthreadcollection.com/
> Flight attendants in European airlines are surely unionized to at least the extent the US ones are.

Can't find any data on this, but it doesn't seem obvious. The largest european airline is ryanair, which is an irish company. And "employers in Ireland can face [...] lesser constraints in terms of trade union involvement."[1]

[1]: https://www.matheson.com/news-and-insights/article/key-disti...
How much of a choice do they have? I can't imagine many of the top engineers in North Korea are allowed to leave
Good to know.

Makes sense since B2B is an extension of their B2C catalog. But they seem to be hiring a lot of sales people, so I was not sure if they are profitable or not.
I don't think any modern cognitive scientist believes that the statement "language is the stuff of reason," even allowing for poetic flair, is meaningfully true (and I'll leave aside that humans are, obviously, much more than text generation machines.) GPT-3 can generate text but the only context it has is its prompt; when humans generate text they have their complex situation in the world (and perhaps even non-worldly factors, e.g. apprehension of mathematical reality) as context. Fitting the latter kinds of context into AI models is the challenge still facing the path to AGI.
Quite good, with some exceptional paragraphs like this making it at least read as bad writing -

"I chose bitcointalk.org as the target environment for my experiments for a variety of reasons: It is a popular forum with many types of posts and posters."

Still, it's very lucid and coherent until the last generated paragraph, not bad...
What you posted aren't cargo pants? Those are hiking pants. Cargo pants have large, external pockets.
The critical role is if something goes wrong to be able to help the passengers be safe. E.g. non-normal landings and medical emergencies.

Another less "critical" role, but still not something I want a pilot doing, is dealing with disgruntled passengers.

They also ensure that rules are followed and that people, e.g. in an exit row, understand what they need to do. If pilots couldn't begin preflight until passengers are seated and buckled it would take forever to depart.

Speaking of boarding, flight attendants also deal with seating and baggage issues. Again, it would delay departure.
Rip to a great man
The DSM can perhaps be viewed as a field guide to systems we can see the outer manifestations of but have limited deep insight into.
Just what comes quickly to mind: Door in flight / in park. Helping put the oxygen masks on (if that's required, I'd assume that pilot/copilot is otherwise occupied). And of course getting people out during an evacuation.
I'd say the line between sights and sounds is pretty blurred here.

But in seriousness I have heard written language described as similar to synesthesia. We associate a sound to graphemes and text. Some people describe reading quietly as hearing sound.
> no-one can train GPT-3 in any acceptable time except for those with access to large GPU/ASIC compute power

That's not true.

a) Premium AWS customers, for example, can request to have instance limits removed which then gives you access to all of the AWS GPU-enabled instances available worldwide.

b) People ramble on about GPUs but Intel DLBoost/AVX-512 enabled CPUs can get you comparable performance to a medium end GPU in many situations. That then opens the door to training across all of the cloud and VPS providers.

Money is the limiting factor here not available compute resources.
> It's rarely quick.

But it is quick for them to become bad actors.
Are you referring only to the title?
> Even on re-reading more closely, it doesn't feel like the world's best writing, but I don't notice major loss of coherence until the last couple of paragraphs.

I guessed it was fake before getting to the end, not from the content, but from the fact that all the sentences are roughly the same length and follow the same basic grammatical patterns. Real people purposely mix up their sentence structure in order to keep the readers engaged, whereas this wasn't doing that at all. Still very impressive though; if not for the fact that the post was about computer generated content I probably wouldn't have noticed.
If I was paranoid, I'd say those devices are developed just to get the most paranoid to use them. :P

But in truth, I'm not paranoid.. merely a realist. Regardless, I was thinking of buying a Librem, but can you even get one yet? It always says "6 months to delivery".
Does the suicide booth accept coins attached to a string? Or is it all crypto nowadays?
God the number of classpath conflicts I untangled there that were caused by some bullshit library bundling some ancient apache-commons jar...
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Doors that open both ways are easy - just push to open
Is exactly the issue. You still need humans to check it before releasing an output. It can only be what the author says “Bitcoin” level of implication if it can get things probably needing at least “99%” quality and correctness.
Except for those bathrooms with hand dryers which are supposedly environmentally friendly and hygienic, and not like an easy way for the facilities to skimp out on paying for paper towels and their disposal. I have a suspicion that they are probably worse since they are high-wattage when actually used (instead of people just wiping their hands on their pants) and they blow germs everywhere, and if the Dyson ones really loud and accumulate nasty-looking water inside of them, but I have never been able to rigorously test this.
Exactly, that's the point I was trying to make. (I'm not sure why I got downvoted though --- I see something like that being possible with 1920s technology as a good thing. I recall foot-operated refrigerator doors being marketed in 1930s ads.)
Once upon a time, I knew a mid-20s Chinese national lady who was a flight attendant for more or less this reason. She - and I will not presume to speak more broadly than this particular lady - definitely used it to meet and date.
I'd love to see someone do an analysis of how much each state is (implicitly) valuing a statistical life in the COVID19 age. For example, given state A which opens quickly, and state B which opened much more cautiously, it seems that A is valuing lives at a lesser amount, while B is valuing each life more. I guess this could be tricky to tease out of the data, yet it seems like it could be fun problem for an economist and a statistician to team up on
Yeah I've seen this kind of pocket experimented with a lot in techwear. These Y-3 pants have a great side pocket: https://media.yoox.biz/items/36/36876259pl_14_d.jpg
I've found it super useful.
This article is confused. The cockpit crew will not be handing out drinks. Other pilot-rated employees will be acting as attendants.

You can’t operate in the EU, US or Canada w/o someone attending in the back. You have to have so many attendants per passengers.

Pilots are well qualified for any cabin duties. Many US pilots who have lost their rating or are going through a health issue that keeps them out of the cockpit serve as attendants to keep their benefits or wait to be medically reinstated.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/coronav...

“From 20 July pilots who are currently not required for flying duties will be assigned “responsibility for safety on board”.”
No pressure: feel free to ignore me, please. Would you mind elaborating? I'm interested in what you have to say (and, of course, feel free to say it privately if you prefer). I would like to even hear your dreams, wild speculations, or gut feelings about the matter.
First aid, detecting issues in the cabin, firefighting, checking the emergency exits and opening them or directing passengers elsewhere in case of an evacuation, ...
While I agree with a bunch of what you're saying, I expect that FAANG compatibility is not people's top priority when they're not getting paid FAANG salaries.
Weird how a language that exists to be more welcoming and accessible uses needlessly gendered language on its website.

"Designed to allow every man to write code in his mother tongue" could easily be written as "designed to allow every person write code in the language they are most comfortable with."
The irony is bitcoin didn't disrupt anything. Most of it is propped up by memes & hype, that made a few people rich. While it was impressive at the beginning and made many news stories, the technology itself is unsustainable, unscalable, with big usability problems. Disappointing to say the least. (Perhaps that's what the author of the article was subtly implying?)
Having a better alternative to search engines would be great.
I suppose I could have guessed that GPT-2 is a plausible name for the predecessor of GPT-3, and the other predicted predecessor name (PTB) is not really correct. But I'm still surprised that it can hit a believable tone about its own capabilities. I don't think I could have done that if you had asked me before GPT-2 was published (which is essentially what we're doing if GPT-3's training data predates GPT-2). I think I would have under-estimated and it would be immediately clear to a reader familiar with GPT-3 that I didn't actually know what it could or could not do.
Not too long after 9/11, I was on a flight from San Francisco to Seoul. We were almost done boarding, waiting for the final passengers to get seated. I was in a bulkhead aisle seat, we were about ready to take off and a flight attendant took her seat facing me, and started making small talk. At one point I commented on how reassuring it was to have such a mature flight crew. She smiled and motioned towards a fight attendant in first class who was finishing her tasks. "See her? She's number 2". "Number 2?". "Yes, she has the 2nd most seniority of all 22,000 United flight attendants. 46 years." She went on, "One time, she missed her flight because she drove to the airport for a flight and fell asleep in the employee lounge. When she woke up, she thought she had already completed her flight and went back home."
http://archive.is/BWHCC

I get grumpy when sites block me viewing with incognito - especially when they are ad-infested
Koreans can become talented AI engineers.

The DPRK has a history of simply abducting people with the talents that the DPRK requires. A plausible (although unlikely) scenario is that the DPRK abducts a handful of AI experts and forces them to train Koreans in AI.

Alternatives are for Koreans to learn abroad or for Koreans to learn online.
When I worked at my first job my mentor, the lead sysadmin, had a vest that his mother in law had made for him.

It had a ton of pockets of all different sizes, including one large one for his Newton. He always had enough pockets and could reach everything standing or sitting, and even while driving.

He was all about efficiency. He also had shoes that you could clip wheels to and turn them into roller blades, so he could snap those on and be at the datacenter in seconds, as long as no one was in the hall. :)
> crypto currencies are a good solution for one thing only: electronic currencies.

What is a better solution than building a tamper proof workflow in the blockchain? Examples include:

1. I sign a contract and the notary signs and uploads a copy to the blockchain to validate the contract contents, that it was signed and by whom, and when.

2. An auditor validates a piece of evidence a client provides that proves its in compliance with a particular control in some regulatory framework. The auditor uploads a SHA256 hash of the evidence in a transaction memo to the blockchain to validate against later in peer review, a lawsuit, etc.

Edit: My examples here refer to a valid use case of a blockchain and not cryptocurrencies which is what you mention, but based on context of this discussion it looks like we all actually mean blockchain and not necessarily cryptocurrency.
The text generation quality is amazing, but the thing that's blowing my mind is how it can do math problems not seen in the training data. I've also seen a couple demonstrations of people generating simple apps with just a description.
The Dixie cup ruined the word Dixie for me when I was a little kid because of its use to collect urine samples, before I learned about what Dixie means in regard to the South.
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Is there a market for selling datasets?
A small window on the bottle will solve that.
Having extra pilots act as cabin crew should be ok with the numbers as long as they don't drop the count. The concern is are they qualified to act as flight attendants? When I read the article, it doesn't say the pilot and co-pilot would be cabin crew, it was additional pilots filling in. If so few people fly, there should be enough pilots. Not saying they want to do this or legal, but it would be possible.
again that depends on who your "customers" are

The grandparent was talking about a SaaS service so then I would expect the customers to be technically minded people.

If you are selling to masses then sure, but if you are selling me a Line of Business SaaS service then no I do not care if facebook and reddit was down, that is not relevant to how the SaaS product should be running
I disagree with this... I have a hunch GPT-3 is still falling short PRECISELY because of its dependence on language, and that it actually is going to great lengths to overcome this design flaw to create the simple texts that we're all fawning over.

I predict within a few years, the descendants of GPT-3 will use very different fundamental units for processing that differ greatly from the current state-of-the-art (i.e. they won't use BPEs and their ilk anymore, except for final output) and will be far more powerful as a result.
Fixing this will be the exception rather than the rule. The author identifies it: the incentives are all wrong once you become a mature company.

How likely is it, for instance, that Zoom will internally develop the VR chat app that will be to Zoom what Zoom is to Cisco?
It makes no sense because your logic makes an assumption that is never stated and never occurs.
The main idea is at the end of article :)
The Chinese version looks like just bad machine translation.

`Object` is translated to `宾语` which means the grammar component object in subject, verb, object, etc.

The `power` operator is translated to `功率` which means A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time.

`Ceil` is translated to `细胞` which means Cell ???

:-(
These kind of pockets exist already particularly in workwear
> The disease proper of bipolar disorder is progressive and degenerative.

This is also not entirely true. It may spontaneously resolve itself in many cases[0]. I suspect that we've grouped a number of different disorders under the label "bipolar" because they all manifest with similar symptoms.

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090929141530.h...
Cargo has its own hiking solution!

https://www.rei.com/product/126938/rei-co-op-traverse-35-pac...
It’s usually 3–4 months of training to be a fully qualified flight attendant. Surely a pilot is already well-versed in 90% of that training material. A week or two training may be all that’s required.
I don't believe we have any evidence this edition of GPT is capable of reasoning. I haven't experimented with it but I doubt it will respond correctly to even simple logic puzzles provided they are framed in a novel way (it may have already seen some puzzles, but I doubt it can extend that knowledge to a puzzle with different words)
I think this is an argument that the user interface of a build system needs to go out of its way to make it hard to misuse it. It's not realistic to believe that all users will find and read documentation from start to finish any more than you can expect them to read EULAs. I'd love to really grok the philosophy of every tool I use so I can apply them in the most intended and synergistic way possible, but things keep getting in the way...
Yes, as if in North Korea they had access to the Google Maps API or AWS or at least github just to mention a few, what you mention is a bad example. How about a less biased example?
The article is not about bitcoin. Read it until the end :)
If you want to play with GPT-3, you can do so right now.

Go to https://play.aidungeon.com Make an account, and select the "Dragon" model. That's GPT-3.

I've spent ten hours playing with it over the last two days. It isn't perfect, and it feels short of the hype it's generating about itself, but it's an amazing leap nonetheless. It really seems to have an understanding of causality, biology, all sorts of fictional themes...

It isn't perfect. You frequently have to back it up and try again. Unless you make good use of the site's long-term memory function, it'll forget anything that happened over a page ago, and a lot of the time its idea of what should happen next doesn't match the plot I had in mind. I'm getting better at that.

However, as a writer myself, I can say that this is just as true for human writers as well. For every final draft you see there are ten discarded ones, and a hundred that never made it to paper.

Viewed that way, GPT-3 is actually much better at the core part of writing than I am! It's more creative, it uses English better, it's better at matching the narration to the characters than I am...

It's just that this isn't enough. It's missing a full model of the world, and it doesn't know how to look at what it's written and decide if it matches its intent, or whether it'll break consistency or get in the way later.

It doesn't have an intent. It doesn't know about consistency.

But that's also true for that part of me.

GPT-3 isn't a human-level writer. What I've determined, however, is that it's a huge part of one, and it's more than good enough to fulfill the role of that part already. Now we just need the other nine tenths.
Uh-huh. Except anyone can verify the results themselves, sans specific ones like code generation - through (paid version) of AI Dungeon.

Amount of people confidently posting bullshit on Hacker News is astounding. Reacting like everything we know about GPT is just a bunch of tech demos. Supposedly everyone who has access to the API is just a shill. Eh.
The truly scary part is SEO where GPT-3 could ruin search engines overnight.

Google at this point favours long form content for many search intents. Being able to generate thousands of these pages in one-click is a real problem. Not just because of popular topics e.g. "covid-19 symptoms" but more so for the long tail e.g. "should I drink coffee to cure covid-19".
My other posts piss all over the approved liberal narrative, so people go in and bulk downvote.
I could tell this was GPT-3 because it reads like SEO-style sentence structure :/

> I imagine that similar results can be obtained by republishing GPT-3’s outputs to other message boards, blogs, and social media.

I actually wrote a bit about this scenario and how it could explode comment sections to stonewall topics, which I'm calling Commentdämmerung: https://simonsarris.com/commentdammerung

Still, I think a lot of people have been misled with respect to the coherence of GPT-3. It becomes especially clear once you stop looking at highlight reels (aka human curated gpt-3). The cherry picking changes the game of how compelling it seems vs how it really is. The author even does this:

> I generated different results a couple (less than 10) times until I felt the writing style somewhat matched my own

You can't yet claim to have a magic die if you keep rolling it until you get the answer you want!
Beside the point, really - The interesting fact is that it's a lot better than anything we have previously had.
[Note: I'm enrolled in the MCS program at UIUC which makes extensive use of Coursera. Not a big fan of Coursera and most of the content for the courses is available through other avenues.]

They have two paths they can follow:

1) "Worthless" certificates

2) Platform to purvey certification for universities or other trusted credential organizations.

The certificates? They are what one makes of it. The problem of creating a usable, online education platform however is a hard problem and one worthy of investment. Academia is a tailspin trying to find an effective way to offer courses online.
$10M may be the monetary value used for these type of calculations, but when you look at our country's yearly budgets, it's clear that each live is valued much lower than $10M. Especially after seeing our response to Covid-19.
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I’m genuinely curious how accessible that sort of material is to the average North Korean.
I have actually learned useful stuff on Coursera that I use nearly daily in my current work. That's more than can be said of a lot of the university courses I've taken.
That makes some huge assumptions about COVID Response, as well as the cost of lockdown which is non-zero value in both lives and money.

Other factors such as weather, mask wearing, prohibitions on large gathering vs total lock down, nursing home response, orders that moved people to nursing homes, and about 100 other factors

This implication of "open states are killing people" is a false narrative and not based on any actual data
Brigham Young believed that slavery was ordained of God, and accepted slaves for tithing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism_and_slavery

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Utah

Edit: Slavery was legal in Utah from 1852 until 1862 when it was banned by Congress.
If you don't want people to reach for Turing complete config languages, don't make them solve weird problems in config files, imo.
I, too, am curious about this. Not just Coursera but also LinkedIn Learning certificates, etc.

This isn't that I would avoid doing Coursera but it might mean I'd opt for other trainings offered. For example you can get AWS certified multiple ways, but the best way is prob through Amazon's AWS training.
Bitcoin was a big thing. You mean, in terms of scams and theft? Have you paid via Bitcoin recently? It's neither fast not cheap. For example, sending money with Venmo, Zelle, Cash is instantaneous and free - unlike with Bitcoin, which is pretty expensive. And when you consider the purchase and sale, it's actually very, very expensive and not smooth.