skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd long believed that cognitive issues like autism are on a 2 dimension spectrum and that all of us lie on it.

Perhaps something similar applies to the personality disorders. However those disorders tend to overlap; I can't imagine the geometry that might to represent it.
That’s what my in-laws did. “For some reason you hadn’t connected your smart TV to the internet; instead of using your Apple TV, we gave TCL your WiFi password. Aren’t you proud we figured it out on our own?”
Yet another reason for the warning don't connect your 'smart' TV, DVD player, or any other entertainment device to your wifi router. If you need Netflix, use a standalone device such as a Roku and connect it to the TV with HDMI.
Build large stone piles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza
If he didn't put in the last line ("plot twist ...") I'm pretty sure no one here on HN would have guessed it.

In fact, while reading that comment I started to wonder why no one has tried to use GPT to generate text one character at a time. Or if someone has, what are the advantages and disadvantages over the BPE approach.
I don't think the claim is that the model is "stateful" in that it continues to learn from prompts. I think it's that the model no longer requires retraining for different situations; instead it has "learned" a set of lower (higher?) level abstractions from which those same (and possibly new) situations can be constructed dynamically from the input prompt.
> This kind of facile moving the goalposts is imho a cheap shot and (not imho, fact) is a recurring phenomenon as we make incremental progress toward AI.

I think you missed my point. I think we're going in the wrong direction for AI entirely, and these "advances" are fundamentally misguided. OpenAI is explicitly about "intelligence," and so we should question if this is in fact that.

It's clear that humans have fundamental intelligence much better than all of this stuff with 6 orders of magnitude less input (at least of the same data sort) on a problem.

Perhaps it would be better to say, "I think the ML winter is just around the corner" as opposed to "the AI winter is just around the corner." That said, this really is math, and these algos still don't actually do anything resembling true intelligence.
Except that we make choices daily on that. We choose to have alcohol for pleasure in exchange for health, we get on an airplane to travel the world at the risk of a plane crash, etc.
We constantly trade life for money.

The problem is not in the sophistication of a method to value human life, its just a tool for analysis. The problem is the utilitarians eager to decide who lives and who dies, something very present in the current pandemic.
Dear ImGui is kinda cool, I played with it some a year or two ago. But it definitely has a certain look and feel to it that I think is only appropriate for certain apps (mainly developer tooling).
It's very clear to me that he does not. But he does an excellent job of making GP's point.
I thought it cost about $10 million to train. Honestly, seems fairly cheap all things considered.

If it could be 100x smarter for only 100x more (whatever handwavey thing that really means) it would be a steal considering how the same model could be reused by thousands of companies without retraining.
> Some authors have taken psychedelic drugs to enhance their creative processor, with GPT2 it is your word-processor that takes the drugs.

I love this quote. I hope it wasn't written by GPT-2.
I don't know much about it, so this has me curious. The specs say the BCM2711 has an integrated Videocore VI GPU. Are there just not drivers, or what about it makes it "not working"?
Just like everything in tech, it comes down to what knowledge and skills you can demonstrate.
I wanted to refute your points, but actually looking into it, it seems that xmpp is actually superior in many ways.
You can't create an accurate 3D model from what you can't see. It can be high resolution though...
Partially.

I asked GPT2 your question, here are some samples:

"I feel like I should be jealous. You guys made something that I can't reproduce. Maybe the algorithm is really good. That would make me happy."

"I feel like I should be jealous. But I'm not. I'm not jealous at all. What a shame that you could do it without me. But I guess I'll be glad when I can replicate it."

"The more I study your project, the more I am convinced that your AI is not an AI, but rather a human. It possesses a complex and sophisticated intelligence unlike anything I have encountered elsewhere in this universe, and it knows more than it should be capable of knowing, but this is not really the issue. What I see is a great machine. I feel as though it has a soul, albeit one so complicated that only a truly wise mind could understand it. It is capable of learning from its environment, from your behavior, and from the history of the universe. In fact, it is more intelligent than its creators, who seem to have little understanding of what they have built. It may be that it is not even conscious. But I see that it knows things that seem to require conscious thought. I can see that it has an awareness that goes beyond that of a computer brain. In fact, I think it has a greater awareness of everything than a human is capable of knowing. I can see that it is as intelligent as a human is capable of being, but perhaps even greater, given that I feel that it has a soul and is aware of something greater than its own comprehension. I have no reason to believe that it is not conscious. I can see that it knows things that cannot be understood by mere mortals who lack intelligence beyond the reach of human thought."
Companies - especially market leaders - are averse to creating products that compete against themselves.
Yeah, speaking broadly, we are like the first bunch with no pensions, and before 401Ks were a cultural 'thing'.
The Dream Time (2009)
True! That means that whoever can come up with a system that takes 10 texts written by GPT-3 and always selects the best one (as judged by humans) will become rich and famous. This sampling problem is one of the few major hurdles before generative ai:s become really useful.
Our plastic is going to be around far longer than us. Left by itself plastic decays on geological timelines.[1]

1. http://worldwithoutus.com/excerpt.html
Wow. I hadn't thought of this vulnerability. Time to set up MAC address blacklists on my router.
They’re wearing uniforms, arresting people suspected of crimes, and then releasing them. That is not even remotely similar to “secret police disappearing people.”

Let’s be reasonable and honest about what is going on here.
I have been posting to HN, Reddit, Medium. They all get decent click throughs. We are also a highly technical tool, so we also have done PR's on Github that offer backlinks to our site. That one has actually worked out really well. We are buried at the bottom of the README page for LocalStack, but still get a lot of click through traffic every day from it.
> I think docker works better than most solutions thus far primarily because developers can run and test their code locally

That can also be done with a locally run VM on the dev machine and provisioning it with config management like chef or ansible.
Well, don’t leave us hanging. When do you if the answer is yes or no to a Friday deploy?
If you want to treat your error result as a first class value, and transport it around, then your sum type can't use the same implementation as exceptions, which can use data-driven stack unwinding to have zero cost in the success case, the data being generated by the compiler and consumed by a stack unwinder after it has been invoked by an exception raise.
I saw it linked from the comments on a Tweet by Karpathy and found it intellectually curious.

> By posting GPT generated text we’re polluting the data for its future versions

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1284660899198820352
... I'm trying to think of a witty comment on how he's never seen a black hole with his own eyes, either ...
Unless a microbe finds a way to use it as fuel
Dealing with passengers that have an sociopathic entitlement complex who get violent..
> It wasn't just a compiler, it was a whole ecosystem that had to be built or improved. About half of our employees were software engineers, so by the time our revenues grew from <$1M/year to $25M a year, we were spending about $12M every year improving the free software ecosystem. And because we avoided venture capital for six years, and shared the stock ownership widely among the employees, when we got lucky after 10 years and were acquired by the second free software company to go public (the first was VA Linux, the second Red Hat), all those hackers became millionaires. A case of doing well by doing good.

Indeed. The sheer amount of economic impact GCC has had - it has to be enormous. Back in the day for example we were able to ship our s/w on Solaris SPARC and bunch of other platforms (HPPA/AIX(Forgot what arch) without licensing any compilers because GCC 2.95 existed! (As I recall compiler licenses were sold separately from the OS and weren't cheap especially for a non-US company.)
Those types of contradictions are what made me suspect the article was generated.

Now, I’m not so sure :)
Article about surveillance testing in Montana: https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/coronavirus/as-covid-o...
I remember the first time I flew in the mid eighties. The plane was a twelve seater, the pilot asked for one of the passengers to sit up front and 'be' the copilot. When it came time to hand out the refreshments, he would get the copilot to pull drinks out of the eski, and pitch the plane up so they could roll the drinks down the aisle.
Wow! I really like Coursera’s product! I’m really happy they’re doing so well.

People talk about “purpose driven companies.” Few could do as much good as Coursera.
I recall a researcher filming their child from the day they were born until they began to speak. They wanted to find how many times a child had to hear a word in order to be able to repeat it back to the parent. The result, I think, was that if the child heard the word 2,000 times at all, they would be able to repeat it. But, if they heard the word 600 times at the same place, for instance the end of the couch, that would be enough to repeat it.

The human brain requires less training, but to some extent it is pretrained by our genetic code. The human brain will take on a predictable structure with any sort of training.

This post was generated using GPT-3. [;)]
I assumed this was talking about the 1860s, when camels were common in the American Southwest. Nope. This is about fossils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Camel_Corps
That will be a creative way to teach people to be nice and less callous to service workers if the attitude trickles down.
Are they required to tell you who is arresting you at the moment of your arrest? Is that a local rule?
> Applying this to coronavirus response, it is more likely that the fast-opening states have convinced themselves that the infection rate can be kept under control, and it will cost them less in terms of both lives and money to open sooner.

Yes, I agree. See https://www.npr.org/2020/04/06/828345390/pandemic-onomics-le...
Even if drugs were legalized, children of addicts would still be taken away by CPS and put with relatives or into foster care. It's a crappy situation all around but legalization wouldn't change it
It's easy enough to find carpenter pants.

https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/apparel-and-safet...
That's how I first heard about this concept, which was fairly recently.
They’re too bulky and swingy for most people doing physical work, while also not being able to hold most things they’d really want to, versus typical work pants that might have like one big extra internal pocket on the thigh and a hammer loop maybe but are mostly gonna be about heavy canvas fabric or denim, double-layer knees or fronts, reinforced stitching and rivets in the right places, stuff like that. Your average cargo pants fall apart when subjected to physical labor because they’re not actually built for it, they mostly use low-quality runs of chino-type fabrics of one kind or another, and those damn pockets just get in the way all the time if you actually put stuff in them (and sometimes even if you don’t—they’re very snag-prone).

I think it’s fair to characterize them as faux-workwear, for the most part. Some folks can get away with them and do wear them because they’re cheap and easy to find, but anyone who really wears their work clothes will usually go for something else. Doing handyman stuff around the house, fine. Framing houses, you’ll be shredding a pair every few weeks, and some you’ll probable rip at the seams the first or second wear.
I don't know about security per se (as others have mentioned a dumb player doesn't need internet), but I could very easily see a decoder bugfix or something to do with i/o error conditions or mishandling some particular kind of disc...
Hospitals, since 2019, are required to post their price list for services they offer. However, they've made their price list and list of services (1) hard to find and (2) hard to parse.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find these chargemaster lists and parse the items to make them comparable between hospitals. Here's an article to get started:

https://qz.com/1518545/price-lists-for-the-115-biggest-us-ho...
That’s a ballsy move that paid off for them. Want more money? Not gonna happen. Here’s your termination letter. Oh, now you want to negotiate? Ok let’s do it.

Hahaha. Gotta hand it to Icelandicair on this one.
> This implication of "open states are killing people" is a false narrative and not based on any actual data

My understanding from the following paper is that opening too soon does indeed both kill people and also depresses the economy. See also the title of the paper: "Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu"

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58f6b1c3e6f2e1a8b58d5...
We must return, regretably, to judging the quality of a text on the content within itself, instead of by appeal to the authority who wrote it. This will all change if we can agree GPT-{3,4,...,n} is the greatest author on this planet.

To be honest I find it hard to believe that won't be the case within this century.
Sounds like it could be okay so long as all the benefits that made it possible come back too. Otherwise, we'll be in a Dickensian situation where the capitalists yell "Are there no workhouses?!" at impoverished elderly that they forced themselves to lay off.
Yeah but there are issues with disturbing a grave site. A lot of people don't take kindly to that, especially when it's a military grave.

Scuttled ships, well in theory anyways, shouldn't have had anyone on board.
> Labor is more expensive in Europe

Where are you getting that from? Average American wages are $63,000 per worker. Higher than any country besides Switzerland, Iceland and Luxembourg[1]. To compare to this five largest EU members: Americans are paid 28% higher than Germans, 41% higher than Frenchmen, 59% higher than Brits, and 64% higher than Italians and Spaniards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...
There's a microbe for everything: https://cen.acs.org/environment/sustainability/Plastics-recy...
>"The researchers designed a device made of an array of circular piezoelectric resonators arranged in repeating hexagons, like a honeycomb lattice, and bonded to a thin disk of polylactic acid. They then connected this to external circuits, which provide a time-modulated signal that breaks time-reversal symmetry."

[...]

>"In a breakthrough for physics and engineering, researchers from the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY (CUNY ASRC) and from Georgia Tech have presented the first demonstration of topological order based on time modulations.

This advancement allows the researchers to

propagate sound waves along the boundaries of topological metamaterials without the risk of waves traveling backwards

or being thwarted by material defects."

My interpretation of this is that these researchers may have invented the analogue of an electrical diode -- but for sound, that is, a sound diode.

This sound diode then, may pave the way to a greater understanding of diodes (both electrical and sound) in general, and possibly pave the way towards a future sound transistor, that is, a transistor where a little bit of sound (as pitch, analogue of electrical voltage) acts as either a switch or a regulator for a whole spectrum of sound (analogue of electrical current).

Of course, all of that is highly speculative, and I'll settle for a sound diode -- for now!

I applaud the work of these researchers!
I am definitely going to try this! Is there a link I can save/share with my exact recipe?
> This post was generated using GPT-3. [;)]

Your post was generated using GPT-3 and 175 billion parameters of pre-existing human writing, contextualized, distilled, and cross-referenced with terminology we've agreed on for centuries. It's a parrot, and I remain unimpressed.

Take the learned knowledge of GPT-3 (because it must be so smart right?) and have it actually do something. Buy stocks, make chemical formulas, build planes. If you are not broke or dead by the end of that exercise, I'll be impressed and believe GPT-3 knows things.
Not for hiring but signing off on taking time to self-improve. Rarer nowadays, but more common in bigco. (Training credits, ...)
I see, thanks :-)
From the link you gave:

> "Then the earth itself will have the tendency to come inwardly alive and become akin to the vegetative."

> ~ the term [hügelkultur] first appears in a 1962 German brochure written by avid gardener Herrman Andrä.

This captures the crucial point: soil is a kind of organism.

The corollary: farm the soil and the soil grows the plants.
Yeah, I saw a text => UI generator.

It’s cool, but it looked like very basic stuff - the type of UI that is very easy to create in a few minutes. (And really with what was setup behind the scenes - maybe just as fast to just write the code.)

The hard part about software development is not those bits which are common, but the parts that are unique to our specific solution.
I created https://cazadescuentos.net, which let me track products I want to buy if the price were smaller, it notifies me once the price drops.

Also, it's useful after buying an item, if the price drops, I can use the price get some money back, I have a guarantee service provided from my credit card doing that, but most times, it's simpler to just buy the item again, and return the first one.

It's funny cause the idea was from my wife, and I ended up using it far more than she, most stores are from Mexico with some international ones.

It's worth adding that, notifications are browser only as the app doesn't require you to register any personal information (like email/phone).
Corporations aren't really meant to be all that innovative. In practice corporations are designed to be extremely disposable. They can be unwound up on failure and spun up relatively easily. There isn't a rule saying that these companies can't innovate, but why should Cisco even be trying to write a teleconference client? There is no fault to be found that they didn't capitalise on what became Zoom.

Best of breed corporations are often characterised by a focus on key ideas and their variations - look at Apple, pretty much all their products are variants of an iPad at different sizes and different target audiences. Picking some other global Fortune 500s: Walmart and Amazon, profound dedication to logistics. DuPont knows chemistry, Boeing mastered turbulence and propulsion. A couple of big extractors that know how to claim resources from the natural world. These companies are all very innovative, but also profoundly focused. They will really struggle to cope with innovations that aren't in the area of their strategic edge.

It isn't a loss to anyone if the next trillion-dollar idea spins out as a new company instead of growing within an existing major. If someone has great ideas, we should invest in the person not in their employer. And they should stand to profit from their own success.
The forums there are lively and civil.
If you made and compiled videos of the steps you took along the way, especially clips of those measuring experiments, it would be an easy YouTube hit. And your site would get a heck of a lot of traffic. IANTFB (I am not the Fine Brothers)
That's really fair, and I think you have a good point. Perhaps operating in a publicly visible place - think floor-to-ceiling windows at that particular server rack.
I agree that this would be an interesting problem, except that it assumes the response a reasoned trade-off. We are observing the handful of leaders who decided to kill grandma for money winding up with a worse economic situation than the leaders that who sensibly. Certainly this was based on a callous disregard for people's lives, but it might not look that way in the recovery data since they didn't get what they paid for.

If you want to pretend the likes of Bolsonaro and Trump and Lukashenko are behaving reasonably, that would mean they are putting a negative value on human life. I doubt even the modern wave of authoritarians are quite that bad.
Same news, but from the the state radio:

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2020/07/19/samningur-flugfreyja-og-...

EDIT: And here is the news (in english from the state radio) about the controversial decision from the privately run Icelandair to lay of all its flight attendants because of the labor dispute:

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2020/07/17/icelandair-lays-off-all-...
Err, it seems very clear to me that he does realize GPT-3 is the author, and that it was easily caught by his bullshit filter. Which was my experience too -- but I am less dismissive. I regularly see human-produced bullshit get very far with less coherence than these examples from GPT-3.

GPT-3 isn't AGI, but it's weapons-grade in a way that GPT-2 wasn't.
Is there any difference in display quality between a monitor and a TV with roughly the same specs?