skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The Aggregate performance graph shows how GPT-3 does translation and other tasks without ever learning to do that.

But it also shows it's not very good on any of those tasks. In any case, machine translation, despite its great popularity as a natural language processing task, is another AI task for which we do not have good metrics.

>> Just by a simple example of translation, it understands the task and does translation. By another example, it can do math, and by another one it can do reasoning, or write react apps.

I think in general, there's a tendency to overestimate the capabilities of GPT-3 for various reasons. Speaking of "understanding" and "reasoning" is really not justified.

On the one hand, it's a language model and most of the tasks it's applied to are tasks for which we don't have very good metrics or benchmarks. Like I say in my earliest comment above, natural language understanding metrics are very bad at measuring "understanding" and we don't even have a commonly agreed definition of what that means. Basically, many benchmarks are defined as classification tasks, e.g. with multiple choice questions supposedly testing a model's understanding, but without any way to ensure that a system is not overfitting to statistical regularities in the dataset - and, indeed, language models have often been shown to do exactly that (e.g. see [1]).

On the other hand, OpenAI very aggressively promotes its systems (not just GPT-3) to users outside of AI research and those users have no way to perform a systematic evaluation of such claims, so they are left with good old eyballing [2] of stuff like language generation or translation, etc. It's all too easy for such users to be impressed by a few hand-picked examples provided by OpenAI itself, or by other users who also don't have the capacity for systematic evaluation (and who hand-pick their results out of undue excitement, rather than for any other reason).

The result is that there is a public perception that OpenAI's language models are much better than they really are. If memory serves, OpenAI made a very big todo about how GPT-2 was so good it was dangerous, etc. Well, now we have GPT-3 which is reportedly even more better- but it's served as an API. Doesn't sound that dangerous and it all sounds a lot more as hype than actual progress.

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[1] Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in Natural Language Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01007

[2] I keep saying that word, but it's actually semi-formal terminology. There was a paper about evaluating the results of grammar induction algorithms that used it. I'll see if I can find it.
Nope, we were able to use their UI to create our tests just like any other user would -- everything we needed was supported out of the box (minus one minor workaround I had to add to my code because I had some janky, non-deterministic IDs on some dynamically added hidden fields).
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I wonder how they know how the shooter was dressed if the son died and the husband is in critical condition. Ring doorbell camera or maybe the son or husband was able to give a description before passing or going to the hospital. I hope there is video evidence.
The economy isn’t a concept that can be separated from the rate of circulation. If there are shortages, there aren’t enough coins. If there were enough, the problem could be solved by booking a couple of lorries to move them around.
Options in such stock even if it exists will not be liquid enough you can do that easily . That is you won’t find counter parties for that kind of option for this type of stock easily .
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Best example IMO: for the last ~20 years, government after government has tried to push the essentially same data retention legislation. And everytime they do pass it, it gets shot down in a court. It's not even always the same people pushing it (although Merkel was chancellor for most of that time, but she never seemed to get involved directly, not her style) but at this point it's quite clear that "the government" simply wants these laws, constitutional or not.
With every account the user is a point of failure. Just like Twitter users can also fall victim to social engineering.

On top of that, it's possible that some Mastodon instances have weak security.

But others will not.

So there will never be a full-blown Mastodon hack just like there's never been a full-blown email hack.
>but to lead a product’s development

My guess is--haven't really been a PM for other types of products--is that the relationship between the PM and engineering is probably different. I would certainly never have considered that I "led product development." And, yes, I did bring in requirements both from customers directly and from sales and I worked closely with engineering on defining the product. But actually--remember that product development cycles of big hardware were relatively long--after the initial requirements and basic design were worked out for a given system model--there often wasn't a huge amount for me to do until closer to launch when a lot of selling/marketing/pricing/etc. tasks had to get done. (I tried to plan my longer vacations during the quiet periods.)

To be clear, I wasn't just sitting around for months at a time as I was usually handling multiple products and involved in exploring new areas.

>if you can’t see the product from a customer standpoint?

As far as customers are concerned, big systems have a lot to do with specs, features, pricing, upgradability, etc. (And the availability of software.) They're not even maintaining them themselves.
It is capable of reasoning. Good lord what does it have to do to prove it???!
I am very curious how the legal system will handle deep fakes as they progress to perfect quality that even forensics can not tell.
It is even more insidious when it include 90% Truth, omitting a critical 10%.
> At $20k+ per annum cost I wouldn't expect anything less

You’d be surprised. Contrasting e.g. PitchBook, Reuter’s and Bloomberg, the latter’s <HELP><HELP> is like magic. They’ll happily step into your shoes and turn around quality work product for you. And on more than one occasion, they used feedback to add features to a screen.
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> They just gave it to 1,077 people

That's a good start. But for example, how many of them were pregnant, and at what stages? I would guess none. That would be the most famous way to get this wrong.

I hope they are thinking hard about the optimal roll-out strategy, though. It should surely be faster than in normal times. It might well be that you should run very very large not-quite-trials as the first stage of general distribution, and watch their evidence in real-time.
You can check the GitHub but it looks like there were only a max of 3 devs involved
https://github.com/hseireland/
It's the data breach equivalent of the cryptography rule that a break never gets better and usually gets worse. A canary in a coal mine, basically - if 1kb has been leaked you can safely assume a lot more has since that's not an amount that any attacker would bother with under normal circumstances. If they do care it's because they expended a penetration on targeting few or one individuals max and we almost certainly wouldn't see the results.

If I saw a dump of 10 email addresses from Hacker News it would be imprudent assume that somehow an attacker had made it in as an admin and yet only accessed those. It would be outright foolish to assume that if there were 10 addresses the damage is inherently less than 10.
I think your fundamentally missing the point of the article in your rush to post a “well actually”. The author is advocating establishing institutions intended to be long term, to tack long term problems. The European Union and WHO are examples of what were intended to be long term institutions to tackle long term problems. They are just representative of this sort of thinking, that is all.

Of course there’s no way to know if they will turn out to be long term, that’s clearly impossible. Similarly there is no way to know now if institutions set up now to tackle new long term problems will last. It’s hard to believe that needs to actually be be said. The point is to employ long term thinking in our intentions and actions.
The article doesn't mention what I think is the terminals greatest strengths.

1) Emsx, this is a network that every sell side client is on that allows you to trade equities. This means that once 2 guys have a terminal they can trade through anyone that will talk to them.

2) Research tools, every broker has their research setup to be received through the terminal. Research providers can perms ion entire firms or single individuals for their research so no in house tools are needed.

3) user profiles. When you leave your current firm for another one you can keep your bloomberg profile(models, settings, research entitlements, etc). Given how often people move around between firms this makes the terminal very sticky. Without being able to keep your profile and data people would be far less likely to invest in using the terminal

4) They have "compliance tools" that every financial firm is required to have by law.

Need email,IB conversation, even slack archived? They have BVault.

Need real time monitoring of employee chats? They can do that

MIFD 2 regulations? They can help you manage your research to stay compliant.

Need basic portfolio risk reports run? They have PORT<GO> to make compliance happy.
Posit: an engineer with healthy business appreciation makes brilliant product manager.

That space, where same person can directly bring product imperatives into engineering, is where magic happens.
> I don't understand anything about biology/vaccines or anything else relevant - but there have been several stories in history of medicine that was thought to have no side effect, that ended up being taken off the shelves because it was more dangerous than first thought.

That’s the entire point of a Phase one trial. Vaccine studies may be a little different in their numbering, but the intent of a phase one trial is to figure out if the treatment is safe. The effectiveness is a separate question.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/infographics/journey-of...
My point was that there's no current wide-spread use of low-refresh displays in that size category, because all the obvious use cases slide around it, so there isn't going to be spillover into a new use-case when there's nothing there to spill out of.

I'm probably just muddying the waters at this point.
I'm sorry you had to experience that. I hope you did get to experience some of the beauty of our country too. People are quick to bash China but there are some things they are doing well. I feel that Asian exchange students need to be warned about the danger of night time in Western cities.

I know the relations are strained between our countries but I hope they improve. Our government has "do not travel" recommendations in place for China due to the current political issues between our nations but I would love to visit one day.
It’s largely keyboard driven. There is very little fluff. The keybindings and UI haven’t changed for decades.

I loved it, and I’m on the younger side of finance workers. It looks serious and feels serious and is blazing fast.

If someone “modernised” the UI, they’d likely lose their multi-millionaire customers who appear just to have it for vanity’s sake. The UX is a gating mechanism that enhances the network’s value.
They have PNRs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/ask-ars-can-i-se...
Tons of artifacts, low framerate.
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Da, welcome to kapitalism, komrade. :/ There is a not-insignificant number of people who view such developments primarily or exclusively through the prism of financial returns.
That's an awesome way of putting it. I may borrow that! ;)
Youtube is owned by Google. The parent comment to you was talking about using decentralized solutions to avoid takedowns on CDNs and platforms like Youtube.. which they explicitly mentioned.
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The roof is about 45 degrees, which gives a very European look that I like a lot.
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What I found is:

> All I want is to make enough to cover my living costs and in my spare time work on side projects, code or tinker around. You know, do things that are actually fun to do and allow me to learn new stuff.

The side projects I'd like to do cost money, unfortunately. Not a fortune, necessarily, but enough that I need to be earning decently to afford to develop those side projects. And it is a fortune to build what I'd really like to. When I was much younger, pure software projects seemed enough. But ideas have a tendancy to grow :-)

Then there's time. As I got older, I realised the time I was putting into side projects was either not enough to build what I hoped to build, so slow that it become socially irrelevant by the time I did anything (others, paid, always had more time to put in), or it was seriously exhausting doing it at the same time as a job.

Over the years this built up into increasing dissatisfaction. When I was younger I had dreams and thought I'd gradually get around to some of them. As years passed by, I realised it's not going to happen for the bigger ones, and I'm sad, already mourning the loss of potential.

On top of all that, life adds major random events, which take major random time and money and all your personal energy for a few years. I don't think that's limited to younger or older people especially, but the longer you live, the more likely it is that major things happen at some time in your life, either to you or people you care about, which take over for a while.

I couldn't care less about profit or money personally, for its own sake. But I have dreams about things I want to make that are much more than just toy projects, and I want basic personal security. It turns out these aren't readily available after all, as I assumed when younger.

> If I have an idea i'm very passionate about I'd like to just share it with others because they might find it interesting

That's a reason to be careful who you work for.

You often can't freely share your most passionate ideas if your employer has a claim over them. And if you're working in a different field, to ensure that kind of claim doesn't hold water, limiting the time spend on a passionate idea to outside-of-work time is quite restrictive too.

All this is not necessarily an argument for founding a VC-backed startup, of course. But it's why just working for some company or other for a whole working life doesn't necessarily work if you have big ideas you're passionate about using.

ps. I wrote this as a contrast to the comments about how relationships, family, marriage, mortgage etc. will matter at some point. I think that comes over as a bit "you don't know now but one day you will have feelings for someone and they will expect you to spend money on them" I wanted to show something different, that happens even if you find a partner who is frugal like yourself, and doesn't cost anything :-)
I agree that many use cases of sparse data, uniqueness of the dimensions can't be guaranteed or you might not want to enforce the uniqueness. With the recent TileDB 2.0 release we introduced support for duplicates in sparse arrays which adds the support for multi-sets[1].

[1] https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/pull/1504
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A Breville Barista Express for $699[1] with a built in grinder.

It’s fool proof, really.

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I'd also give a suggestion that if you're working on a B2B product (especially one with "Enterprise Sales"), you might be CEO of your product, but you're not gonna be able to boss around the COO/VP of sales and the field. You need to understand how the field works, who the decision makers are, which folks cover which areas, how can you enable them, etc. You should be talking to your field at least as often as you talk to individual customers - it's an easy way to scale feedback/etc. and if something is wrong between your product and the field, you need to fix it ASAP.
Clearly it's possible to manufacture such a thing, but I haven't seen any available for sale (as a stand alone item) that have a touch layer.
The docs say 15 seconds per refresh.
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Our nuclear age predated the moon landing, though that doesn't seem to be necessary (this is relevant because radiocarbon dating is impacted by nukes; we should see records of that if it happened).

The moon isn't a static place, though. Meteors slowly change its face, and artifacts may well be buried there. Putting big and durable monuments on the moon would be quite the expensive endeavor, so we'd have to do some significant lunar archaeology to really rule it out.

Ocean floor isn't static, either; stuff gets swallowed by subduction zones on geological timescales. Not to mention falling debris and ocean life tend to build up; I wouldn't expect artifacts from 1Mya to be sitting out in the open.
It's just so slow, and things that I was able to figure out using Bloomberg's autocomplete I'm regularly at a loss for using Eikon.

The transition of the fundamental data towards being refinitiv branded is also very uncomfortable.
It's definitely lower than e.g. Germany, where participation is more than 70%.
Sadly no, people include a preview image that link to asciinema
Oh, fascinating! This looks really interesting!
Like the Kindle? I’d imagine the tech exists somewhere.
I use the stock one. It's the best I've found.

... I don't use my iPad for email very often.
"...Twitter generally has procedures that are harder to break..." - they're easy to break, the hackers just did!
I think biggest problem is: not killing enough features. It goes let's try that stuff or some customer "really really needs this" but then no one uses that feature for 2 years. If I would have some PM that looks into stats and kills not used stuff it would be better.

Unfortunately mostly it looks that removing feature is negative value, firstly you already spend time/money building it, second removing is not free where leaving feature there seems like it is free. It is hard to explain that application maintenance costs more when we have bs features in code.
I've never seen a stand alone item that included a touch layer. I think you're stuck repurposing another device to pull this off.
Ambient radiation has its origins in previous nuclear warfare, and all societies that have spawned since have had the proper tolerance.

Maybe.
It seems like there's a real chance everyone will be exposed to this pandemic sooner or later. My take is calculate the risks and act accordingly. Arguing moral priors first and statistics second is best reserved for when people aren't already dying in droves.
But why think performing arithmetic with 100% accuracy is required? Children learning arithmetic aren't perfectly accurate but they're certainly learning arithmetic. The fact that there is a digit cut off where the quality of its results drop off isn't all that surprising either. How much arithmetic can you do in your head? I'm likely to fail at some point with two digit addition without using a pencil or paper. Three digits I would be significantly worse. Your criteria for what counts as "learning arithmetic" doesn't seem to be based on anything substantive.

The cliff for GPT-3's arithmetic ability is likely due to the fact that it can't do recursive/recurrent calculations. That is, it can't reprocess and refine a tentative answer to improve it. You can't do arbitrary arithmetic with a finite amount of substrate without this sort of recursion or recurrency. The fact that it can only do two digits with 100% accuracy could be a hardware or architecture limitation.
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Looks like there's only a single generic brand for topical Aciclovir, which is prescription-only for around $70. Zovirax is not sold in the US.

Being prescription-only of course greatly limits the revenue potential, which a hypothetical competitor would have to weigh against the costly FDA approval.

The over-the-counter alternative would be Abreva, which uses Docosanol instead.
Those countries can just make new constitutions. There is literally nothing stopping them.
OpenAI GPT-3: automatic web development?
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Even if these were only around existing school property and different classes used just morning or evening the kids could still get some instruction, the parents could have a brief break, and get food (and God forbid some other help for the kids at risk) for the children who need it. We'd be in a much better place than we are now thinking that young elementary kids can do virtual learning.

This would go a long way with getting us through most/all autumn in much of the US.
Producing hacks is a thing, even if the phrase itself is not common, and it's a thing that people were doing long before hacking/hacker had even taken on the sense of breaking into computers.

Look, there are really only two general approaches to arguing over the dictionary: Trotskyism (i.e., permanent revolution), and joining with the forces of evil.
But its still common to have links to outside sites and resources within a given article, which you just don't see on these more "alternative" news sites.
Definitely depends on the airline. The big US carriers all have their own systems, but the vast majority of foreign carriers use a GDS on their backend. It's just not worth building in-house unless you're at very large scale.
Because they are politicians! It's their job to act stubborn and pander to their bases, especially in today's winner-take-all environment. They don't actually say what they mean or believe. They only say things that test well with their base and keeps them in power and re-elected. They focus-group most every position they even think about holding, and for the most part stick to blue-meat/red-meat issues.

The sad reality is, if you are a republican with deep convictions that anthropomorphic climate change is the top existential threat in our world, you cannot talk about this publicly (Just like if you are a Democrat with deep convictions about the sanctity of life, you better keep that shit to yourself). Moderates have been booted out of each party.

What they say, and what they do are usually (99.9% of the time) two entirely distinct realities.
I'm not opposed to GUI's, but they should function like Emacs or the Bloomberg terminal: efficient and dense display of information, keybindings, and preferably some way to input commands directly (where each keybinding is bound to command). Unfortunately, GUI apps today are all slow, based on electron, don't have any keybindings, and are designed with the assumption that the user is stupid.

TUIs could be designed in a similar way to GUIs, but the culture around their development is much different. So while TUIs aren't inherently better (and based on their limitations, they should be worse), they almost always are.
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Yes, speaking as a physicist, QED is perfectly understandable.
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Wow, I tried to solve a similar problem in a similar way (command line based progress tracker) with a small personal project called Trackstar: https://github.com/dorkrawk/trackstar but this is SO much nicer!
Such vague laws are costly bullshit to everyone involved. How many times did you personally advance the legal precedent on your own dime to be so content with that approach?