skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some issues with how this article describes GPT and its impact. The scenarios that are described as using GPT-3 remains the stuff of science fiction as far as I know. They would require major technological breakthroughs in areas of autonomous agents, combining language models with 'concept-based' models, and more mundane things like labelling (can you imagine how difficult it would take to accurately label all legislation for 'nefarious details', given that even humans can't agree on what is nefarious?).

More specifically:

- training on data is a lossy process. In your examples, GPT would actually have a worse memory than your lawyer or therapist. There is no way to combine language models and something more abstract like 'facts'.

- GPT has shown zero ability to do anything consistently successfully without a human-in-the-loop. When it comes to bring AI models into production, this matters a lot. There's no way autonomous therapists are coming from GPT-3 when half the time the model spews out potentially dangerous garbage. You can't teach GPT-3 to not hurt people because it has no concept of people or hurting them. It JUST knows the shape of English.

- GPT is an unsupervised (in terms of data labelling work required) model. It has not made any breakthroughs in requiring labelled data for fine-tuning the model to do a specific task. Which remains a gigantic problem for productionalizing models. Like how are you going to build an autonomous therapist? That data remains as inaccessible and impossible to label as ever.

- Please stop telling people that neural nets are related to brain neurons. They have essentially no relationship other than the name and it just fosters this fear of Terminator and obscures the real issues that need to be thought about. This is just my personal opinion but I'm so tired of having to spend my time telling otherwise smart people who don't know better that we aren't close to Terminator.

GPT is an impressive technical accomplishment, but it's impact on the world has been exaggerated quite a bit IMO. Some of the demos I've seen are almost certainly smoke and mirrors or very carefully chosen, human-in-the-loop examples.
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I was planning to do exactly that! I already have a Digital Ocean droplet with Nginx on it (serving a couple of very-low-traffic apps) ready to go, I just haven't had time to dive into the problem yet. Glad to hear it worked for you!

I need to do this because port forwarding isn't working with my current ISP/router/etc setup (not sure where the problem lies). Did you forward the wireguard port to your home server, or another approach? I did some research and it looks like there's a "keep-alive" option that hopefully should get my wireguard connection open through NAT.
FP units are not used in integer bignum operations. I'm still curious if "multiplies can be faster" applies to modern integer ALUs.
> So embeddings are bits of binary code that are associated with the words and word-snippets that the computer ‘reads’. These embeddings never change.

I'm not entirely sure but I think this definition of embedding is wrong: first they are not binary, they are floats (as the other parameters/weights) and they do change, as the error backpropagates through them. They are simply "swappable parameters", explicitly corresponding to each word, thus it's possible to detach and reuse them for other purposes after training, which is not necessarily easy (or meaningful) with any other weight matrix in a model.
Facebook says it will look for racial bias in its algorithms
For those interested in this or the Tuxedo Pulse 15 or Schenker VIA 15 Pro (all based off of the same barebones TongFang PF5NU1G), I have one and I’ve been doing a pretty thorough review here: https://www.notion.so/lhl/Mechrevo-Code-01-TongFang-PF5NU1G-...
Preserving inalienable rights or ignoring them?
that will probably not happen because they would be eating a credit card fee...

that service only works because they become the credit card processor and get to pocket the card fee...
> or frame you with some kind of non-existent DNA copying machine

I can imagine the hacker swaps your name + account metadata on the data warehouse website with the DNA content of a murderer. Then you get a visit from the police just like you were being SWATted.

The mismatch is only found if the police bother to verify by doing a fresh DNA comparison (which they might, but only if they can't convince you to admit guilt first).
Covid-19 Immunology 101 for Non-immunologists [video]
Yes, the EULA allows running macOS on macOS. (I realize this isn't what you want.)
They only need to wait a century or two then... and try to release more greenhouse gases if possible.
It has a decimal type. That alone is reason enough for amazon to use it over json.
The course I think everyone should take is a logic course. Our philosophy department gave one and it was amazing.

They went over fallacies, truth tables, tautology, and other things.

I took that with a great professor that wanted you to learn and be able to make strong arguments. You had to be able to break apart anything thrown at you and call out what it was.

Everyone would be able to see how others are trying to take advantage.

The other is also doable. How to phrase things in a way to get what you want. I think he’d approve...
Might want to pester Sager to put it on the AMD version: https://www.sagernotebook.com/15-Inch-to-16-Inch-Gaming-Lapt...
I think so? If you run your radio transmitter.
Just tell peers what frequency. Though if some company decides to build a large relay node infrastructure, you'd need some crypto verification to keep them off Yournet.
it's almost as if the law was specifically written this way to sound useful, but is actually toothless
Unfortunately I can't fiddle with the router I'm behind, so I think the wireguard route is the way to go. I also like the wireguard approach because as far as I can tell it should be completely portable -- if I move to be behind another router/NAT, I can just plug in my box (it's a laptop with a broken screen), run my dynamic DNS update script (I'm using DuckDNS) and I'll be off to the races, as I understand it.
AI COLLABORATION – Portions of this episode have been generated by GPT-3
Early triage of critically ill Covid-19 patients using deep learning
Sagers have a few that use the desktop versions. https://www.sagernotebook.com/15-Inch-to-16-Inch-Gaming-Lapt...
This is a side note about your example, but you say "Banks care about information security and take it seriously. They use a crappy contractor called Equifax which doesn’t." If banks send important information to a contractor which they're unable to verify takes information security seriously, then it's hard to see how the banks can be said to be taking it seriously.
Interactive visualization of data augmentation in Keras
Colab tutorial to visualize image data augmentation options
Delete this horrible comment.
Secrets of the 747: On board the last Qantas jumbo jet (2020)
Given we have the technology, I don't think it's wise to advertise this machine as ready for serious digital painting and video editing with only 100% sRGB gamut. Color accuracy can be recalibrated, but the gamut can't be expanded. Video editing really should be done in the wider gamut like 94-100% DCI-P3. The same thing applies to photo editing and digital painting in DCI-P3 or Adobe RGB. Many high-end phones have these specs and many monitor as well as the HDR screens on TV and projectors. However, all of the laptop with panels in the appropriate ranges for digital content creation (XPS series, ZenBook Pro Duo, ConceptD, etc.) are all running Intel chips -- so I'm still waiting.
The keyboards look the same -- there are two slightly different models, check out the bottom right of this picture:

https://kde.slimbook.es/assets/img/IMG_0778_e.jpg
There's an open question if GPT-3 simply provides a text completion API for the internet. The original paper discusses the risk that datasets for specific evaluation tasks (or equivalents) were simply memorized by the model.

A completion API for the internet could still be an incredibly valuable component.
I would love be to know what the family is using the servers for.
According to GEDMatch, they do not store genomes.
Valhalla is only good if you keep winning the afterlife wars!
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> You're dismissing the ever-evolving lexicon as 'pedestrian' and 'utilitarian'? I mean, really?

Again, you're attributing things to me that I am not saying.

> "Lol" is old-skool at this point, perhaps, but it carries meaning that is very different from "Haha" or "That's funny".

It sounds like you actually do understand my point -- that the subtle distinctions between words that may, prima facie, appear synonyms, is a useful feature of the language.

Imagine your reaction to 'lol' being given the same meaning as 'haha' or 'that's funny' ... and you will understand my point about 'decimate' becoming just another way of spelling 'devastate'.
Has anyone heard news about the Sydney/London or Sydney/New York flights?
Viable career.
A sample can be used for multiple analyses. For instance, a customer might pay for autosomal DNA analysis and later want to pay extra for mitochondrial DNA analysis. If the sample has been destroyed, no problem just send in a new sample - unless the subject has died in the meantime.
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
Emojis have their place, but this article uses just literal emojis right next to the actual word they represent. It's pretty much the most pointless use of emojis that I have ever seen.
I just happen to put my ISP's (Sonic's) router in passive mode and use a PC Engines APU2 running OpenBSD for NAT'ing my home network, but the same IPSec setup works even if the termination point is behind a NAT gateway. Sonic doesn't offer static IP addresses, so the VPS could never directly connect to my router unless I fiddled with dynamic DNS or scraped together some other hack, which IMO is far more hassle than it's worth. Also, I've used this exact same setup before except with the termination point inside a corporate LAN, tucked away on someone's desk. IPSec+IKE has done NAT traversal and dead peer detection for many, many years, notwithstanding that some IKE implementations have sucked at it.

Wireguard is just a better wire protocol for moving packets, but IMO it's mostly a solution in search of a problem. Most of the complexity that people disdain about IPSec actually comes from IKE, but it's largely irreducible complexity. IKE is what initiates and negotiates security associations based on abstract flow rules--in this case 0.0.0.0/0 <-> W.X.Y.Z, where the latter is the static, routable address. Wireguard doesn't diminish the need for this layer, which is why you've been forced to hack a complete solution using a reverse proxy. IKE is far more mature than the experimental additional software Wireguard developers have been cooking up to automate tasks like this (abstract flows, key management, etc), and definitely more mature than the homebrew solutions people put together.

I bring this up because I think IPSec has gotten an undeserved bad rap. If people make do with Wireguard + hacks, great, but this particular scenario is a great example that shows the strengths of IPSec+IKE and the weakness of Wireguard; a reality people don't hear about given the unabashed enthusiasm for Wireguard.
I think the downvotes are from people who don't want to believe that AGI is possible, or that we're taking baby steps towards it.
That would obviously more expensive than the $100 sequencing a lot of people are looking for, but for very privacy conscious people this could be available right now with a MinION[0] that's already in the $1000-2000 range, if you really want to take the whole device with you.

[0]: https://nanoporetech.com/products/minion
"(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software
within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is
already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during
software development; (c) using macOS Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use."

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSCatalina.pdf
> there is no risk to you.

There is always risk. You probably don't see it yet just like only privacy-forward folks thought Facebook's encouragement to "share everything" publicly (circa 2007) foresaw the problems that would commit 10+ years later.

The small benefit of closure to a stranger who has already dealt with the grief of loss is not worth it for me. It depends on your personal value system.

> It has been illegal for them to do so for many years.

Laws can change. Just like I always assume a company can screw me after I agree to a ToS (eg. through a pivot, an M&A, or a bankruptcy), I assume any law can change with enough societal acclimation.

Also, laws are relative to where you are. If you try to visit another country, expect that they might have access to your leaked data. Hopefully you never want to work as a spy in the future.
To consider one possible scenario in-depth:

If it’s a leaked-passwords attack used to compromise an unknown number of accounts that had insecure passwords, is it possible for Instacart to prove a breach occurred to the degree necessary to trigger the notification requirement?

Is it even a breach at all, in that scenario? How is Instacart at fault?

Is it necessary to integrate with haveibeenpwned to avoid having to publish a new breach notification every day that at least X accounts with an insecure password are accessed without consent? Is this requirement codified in law, or must each business discover it the hard way?
DigitalOcean started this trend but this has now become a very crowded space with other hosting providers like Linode etc. using the same strategy.
Thanks for this insight, did not know of Tongfang (tongfeng lead to the wrong company in some quick googling)
(Disclaimer: I know much more about x86 virtualization than ARM.)

Apple isn’t really in the server business, and the kinds of high performance VMs that want direct hardware access seem unlikely to run on Apple silicon in the near future. It seems to me that virtualization could work just fine without an IOMMU in this scenario. (Certain GPU workloads would be an exception.)

That being said, I would expect Apple to have an IOMMU at launch for a different reason: Thunderbolt or any other external PCIe connection. Doing this without an IOMMU is a security catastrophe, in contrast to doing it with an IOMMU, which is merely an enormous attack surface that no one secured properly.
I suspect you are not getting many replies because your situation is fairly specific.

But I think the answer is pretty easy:
Do you want to work for the company you interviewed with and are you excited to work with that team? Do you understand the expectations well and are you willing to do the work to meet them?

If the answers are yes, then go for it.
Yes, it’s already documented (separately for Intel and Apple Silicon):

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor
I heard that if you have a large number of document to shred on short notice, shredder overheating becomes a real concern.
A much more realistic and accurate take on the tech than the article. One combination that can work is to have GPT3 with an unskilled human judge in the loop. The human can discriminate with common sense while the machine generates good jargon with correct grammar.
FWIW this is in the normal range for what a good blog post costs any business. My first job paid me $50 per blog post and I churned out a few a week. My second job did $1,000 for three very high quality ones per quarter. (Blogging is no where near my day to day job).

All were just posted on the corporate blog for seo, building the brand as experts, etc. One of my posts was reblogged by some major outlets, so definitely worth the cost for my employer.
This particular laptop doesn’t have USB-C DisplayPort support either. It does have Power Delivery though, I’ve measured up to 90W.
Probably the worst breach in history (so far), because unlike anything else, this information can't be changed
> Why would you want a pocketable Linux pc? one may ask; I'm tired of this always tracking smartphone cellular-apps cluster-X mess. My phone-call usage lifestyle is anyways on-demand(little to no incoming calls), so why not just use a USB GSM module on a pocket Linux pc when needed.

You could probably run Linux on one of the GPD Win devices. (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/gpdwin/comments/glpokv/gpd_win_max_...)

Also, as an aside: rather than using a GSM module with a real SIM card that you'd have to pay monthly for, you could just subscribe to a VoIP service (I use https://voip.ms) and then connect to it with a softphone app to place and receive calls.

I pay $1/mo for a number, and $0.005/min for calling, and that's it. I have softphone apps for my PC, phone, and tablets, that are all connected to its same number, so I can answer calls "directly" through any of them, without one device having to route through another. (Also, as a side-benefit, I've set it up with has voicemail-to-MP3s-in-my-email, like Google Voice does. And configured it so that if people outside my whitelist call, they go directly to voicemail.)

Works especially well when combined with a phone that you set up as a "tablet" with a data-only plan. (This plan costs me $10/mo, in Canada, which is quite a feat if you know the Canadian cellular ISP market.)

Oh, and I've also written a SMS<->Slack bridge bot (https://github.com/tsutsu/smsforwarder), that I run as a Heroku free-tier app wired with webhooks to voip.ms's SMS API. SMSes to my VoIP number pop up in a Slack channel named after the peer's number in a special private Slack team I created; and messages I write into that channel are sent back to the peer number as SMSes. So all the same devices that have the softphone app, have Slack, and so can also interact with my SMSes in a shared manner as well.
It was reported in the NYTimes, FWIW.
Yes, so that means it's well within the range of what should be expected, albeit probability weighted. This is a classic low probability, high impact event, which is precisely one of the things insurance is for.
You didn’t specify the retention policy...?
That's good to hear! Here's another very important control: ComboBox. Data-intensive applications need powerful and flexible ComboBox with options such as dynamically supplying suggestions, ability to select multiple items (i.e., multi-select Combo which has checkboxes next to each option displayed in the dropdown), ability to search for an option in the dropdown (so the dropdown has a searchbox at the top) and so on.
Not sure what you mean by "software VMs," but if you mean CPU emulators, they're fundamentally different from VMs. Emulation is not "virtualization."
> English-language literature that is difficult to translate into other languages?

A few examples come to mind:

Ulysses by James Joyce

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

The stream-of-consciousness style of flowing sentences, how the author plays with language, exotic or made-up words, sounds, subconscious associations - all contribute to a very challenging translation, I imagine.

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Edit: Oh, I'm a couple days late in replying, and others have mentioned similar works of literature.
But the pandemic takes away a different form of agency, right? So it's not extremely clear cut ethically.
Travel has changed forever: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Always and forever with any linux laptop, the major question is: how is the trackpad?
Why not fabric?
This pandemic has been extra hard on Restaurants.

In India, an alternative to dining out has emerged in recent years. These are called "Curry Points". (Perhaps they are called Delis in the US, I'm not sure)

See, Indian food is always a binary thing. As in, we eat a base item (Rice, pancakes like Dosa, Chapathi, etc) along with a curry. There are very few cuisines that consist of only one item. And most of them are from other countries. Examples are Noodles and Pizzas, etc.

So a staple Indian dinner is a bowl of rice, with two / three or more curries / gravys etc.

The "Curry Points" I have mentioned, simply sell the curries and gravies. They usually have about 20 different ones. People buy their choice, with each sachet costing about 10 - 20 rs ( 1 USD is about 80 Rs, so about 30 cents), go home, prepare rice or chapathis, which are very easy and quick to make, and have a decent dinner that does not cost an arm and a leg.

A decent dinner for 2 at a good restaurant in urban centers costs about 800 to 1000 (about 10 - 12 USD), but considering average household income in urban centers is about 40,000 Rs. (500 USD) per month , they are not suitable for daily visits.

A similar dinner for 2, with say 4 curries, costs about 2 USD. And that is including costs of rice / chapathis, energy costs, etc.

I don't know if this kind of model existd in the USA or European countries, but the businesses are very profitable. The store front is hardly 5 ft x 7 ft, costs about 4000 Rs. per month (about 50 USD Per month). Some store fronts are simply vans. Curries are prepared at homes and the storefronts are open for about 3 hours in the evening.

Perhaps this could be one answer to closing restaurants.
There is a beta build of Raspberry Pi OS (née Raspbian) in ARM64 available. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1668160
I’m a Jewish atheist and the first time a couple Mormons knocked on my door and explained proxy baptism to me my first reaction was to be taken aback. But hey, may as well cover all my bases right?
Do it on paper using the method you learned in third grade. How many times above do you combine a single pair of digits? On the left it's 4 (0x0, 0x1, 1x0, and 1x1). Which is O[n^2] and n=2 above.

On the right it's 9 pairwise operations for the ones column plus 9 for the tens column (but it would usually be 10 if we had any carries) for a total of 18. A lot more than 4.

Oh but you say "the computer doesn't have to do those adds digit by digit. It can do all the digits in parallel." That's only true when the numbers fit into a register. If your numbers are not 64 bits wide but 64 thousand bits wide, the computer has to effectively do addition digit by digit. Which is why the left side above is quicker than the right, and the O[n logn] method in the article is better still.
Is virtualization that hard to do on ARMs? With chip talent Apple has, I’d be surprised if they don’t pull this off at least as well as Intel.
>As of today, India has around 1.19 million cases with 28,732 deaths and more importantly, 753k recoveries.

Only if you believe the reported number.

India has a bad track record in tracking deaths.

Most deaths go unreported specially in rural areas. Only 20% of the deaths are reported and it was found that most of the deaths where reason was covid19 were reported as death due to other morbidities like organ transplant, diabetes etc...
It filled a general ed slot, I think. Or else I just wanted a super-easy class. It wasn't required.

And yes, it really was "how to use a card catalog". (Hey, I'm old. It really was cards.)