skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah seriously. Ive been posting completely fabricated GPT-3 responses all over the web giving people "chills". It's hilarious.

But seriously, where's OP's audit trail?
I am confused; you seem to say that trillions of dollars in US taxation and spending were chosen primarily for their rhetorical effect? This seems like a pretty stunning accusation to make against policymakers.
If we talk about Patreon and independent creators, I don't think it's a fair comparison because usually most of the content is already offered for free, unlike Netflix which you can't access without paying.
I am definitely on the dragon model, my first few attempts went badly until I managed to correctly get it set. What setting are you using for the randomness by the way?
>Their example didn't say they got their friend's permission prior to lending whatever was being lent to them.

You think it is okay to lend out other peoples property? You need a serious reality check if so.
In your scenario, although I wouldn't at that moment be having the experience of two-way interaction with my environment, I would have had it in the past. And, since I temporarily lack that interaction when I dream, it is clear that one can be conscious without having that interaction right now. But just because I can have consciousness without having that right now, it doesn't necessarily follow that I can have consciousness having never had that.

And that's a fundamental difference between conscious biological life and GPT-3. Conscious biological life experiences a two-way interaction with its environment, in which organism and environment act on each other simultaneously. GPT-3's experience of that is very limited. It has experienced the environment act on it (training), and it has experienced itself act on the environment (runtime), but those two experiences are largely siloed off from each other. (It effectively does have some runtime memory, so to a very limited degree it can dynamically react to the environment, but it can't actually learn anything at runtime.)

Now is that experience, which humans and animals have, but which GPT-3 lacks, essential to consciousness? Who really knows. The fact is, we don't really know what consciousness is, or what are the conditions for its existence. Maybe at least some history of that kind of two-way interaction is essential for consciousness, in which case GPT-3 can't have it (but some future successor system might). Maybe not. Nobody really knows.
The Russian Revolution episodes are truly fascinating. The 1905 section feels particularly relevant to recent American history.
Frankly, I've seen little evidence that subscription fatigue exists beyond a handful of complains in HN links and comments. The meteoric growth of Onlyfans demonstrates the opposite - that there's huge demand for subscriptions and we're only starting to learn what subscription content folks will pay for.

I suspect that the average person does not sweat every single $5 purchase they make.
I believe you. You posted it fifteen minutes after the first one. Either you’re a really good and fast writer, or you keep a stockpile of pre-written uncanny valley essays on hand for the lulz. :)

Edit: actually even the latter wouldn’t make sense, since the output is quite specific to the original thread and discussion.

Edit2 for parent: thanks, acknowledged.
> IA started lending friends’ copies without asking.

That's relevant if the friends have grievances, but not so much the publishers.
There is no contradiction here. I didn't claim Cardano started Asterius. But it definitely is funding it.
I suspect very many adults would also gobble up GPT articles without knowing any better too. Just witness the production machine of most news organizations. They can write entire "stories" around a single tweet. The new data is less than 140 characters and that gets turned into a 5 minute spot.
I only contribute to two Patreons (each $5) monthly so far:
- a friend of mine, because he is a friend of mine
- a guitar teacher that I followed, because he constantly produce good quality materials that are only available on mmembership. worth it. I also bought some of his courses and sometimes schedule a 1 on 1 private with him.

But for open source, I never contributed to anything lol. Sorry, OSS maintainers. Thank you for the awesome work. The world needs more people like you. But if I can get it for free I'll get it for free.

For indie SaaS, I never pay anything as well. Sorry indie SaaS devs, but I am not an app/software heavy user even though I work as an SWE. I don't use note taking apps or any other productivity apps.
Thank you for the suggestion! I am familiar with the lang attribute but did not think to use it. It should be live now.
Same experience here. The most they do is scrutinize to see if Amazon.com is selling or a 3rd party.
How to Convert Numeric Words into Numbers Using Python
Interestingly enough all the futureshops that I’ve seen were converted into bestbuys by only changing the colour of the branding material from red to blue - everything else literally stayed the same
Interesting about your story where having to pay for another eye exam... I heard someone ended up breaking their pair of glasses and knew their prescription so went to go back to the same shop to get a new pair, but they wouldn't let him until getting another eye exam... Yet there's sites now where you can just order glasses online like Warby Parker. I don't know how many people have a relationship with their eye doctor, but I'd be tempted to just say screw them and order it online, but then might burn a bridge for any future appointments maybe.

Not sure why they try to limit people directing their own care. Kinda like some states it's illegal to get bloodwork or other tests without a doctor, or even those DNA based heritage tests. Like there's some site that lets you measure your testosterone, but New York and like 2 other states banned at home tests.

Then there's some company now where you sit your laptop on a table and use your phone to go back so many feet, and can do an eye test. Some tested it and got the same results as their eye test done offline - but of course some states banned that site too. https://youtu.be/DTgmJqbXg1s talks about that case.
As someone who has performed SOC2 compliance reviews, these are not small tasks. I've performed them on companies that manage core banking systems for other banks and credit unions.

Currently, across quite a lot of critical infrastructure there are legacy systems which are EoL. However, there are aspects or layers to the software which are not, or are protected by higher layers of security.

If your vendors ENTIRE environment is almost EoL software and hardware then yes that is highly concerning and would make it very difficult for them to demonstrate appropriate security controls. However, the reality is that most of the environments I have assessed have only a small portion of their software/hardware environment that is EoL. That is often protected by significant layers of security above that.
As for consciousness, I am open to the idea that a worm with 302 neurons is conscious, so I am open to the idea that GPT-3 with 175 billion parameters is conscious too. I would expect any consciousness to be far simpler than ours, but much depends on just what sort of processing is going on among those 175 billion parameters.

How can he say that without defining what he means by conscious first?
Same here exactly. And I always feel I've got more than my money's worth
David MacKay was an absolute rockstar and this book is grossly underrated among beginners in machine learning. This should be THE complementary reference for anyone who uses the Bishop book. Both these books follow a philosophy which some people may not completely agree with, that from the "church of Bayes".

My guess is that information theory went through its hype phase and much of the ideas are so pervasive across real systems that people forget how important those connections are.

To tell you its importance, skim this work on information-theoretic probing [1]. I find this so satisfying. Its most famous alternative, linear probing, always felt inelegant. This paper experimentally shows how terribly linear probing fails.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12298
No, really, no single human creator can provide $5/mo worth of content. If you don't like Netflix just think of a quality monthly magazine.
$1 seems to be the lower limit.

Transaction fees on low volume are usually like 30c or 1% whichever is higher.
I wouldn't have the opportunity, because none of my professors ever used such poor reasoning. I'm not surprised to learn that yours do, though.

Also, psychology and theology have nothing to do with any of this, and you clearly have no idea what "woke" and "meta" mean.
You can call my post "low effort" but at least it isn't a word salad.

I regret wasting my time talking to you. Have a good night.
I decided to take a stab at what GPT-3 might think of its own ethics by pasting in the first part of Zimmermann's article.

I tried three times. Third time was the charm: https://pastebin.com/ipmidyys

First two times were much more lackluster and I gave up half way through.

http://pastebin.com/B4X9jy32

https://pastebin.com/NWzBwaLL
I didn't mean to imply it was the same bird. That would be really unlikely, not only by the time, but also the different place i live in now. Just that it remembered at least my signal yellow wind jacket, and deemed it worthy to come down from the high up swarm alone and doing aerobatics for a few seconds while making untypical sounds in front of my face.

Why else should it do that(alone), apart from its swarm maybe 50 to 100meters up, not coming with it?

So what i meant to say was rather something like they(wild Birds in general) do remember you, even though not being grown up with/by humans.
"by 20% in five years"

20% now would be news. 20% in 5 years is "what's taking you so long"? Since 2000, lithium-battery energy density has doubled each decade. There's a limit, but another 100% improvement by 2030 is a projection.[1]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Projected-Li-ion-battery...
They must all be GRPC users. Developers are pushing GRPC and protobuf pretty hard in companies. The next step down the road is to move to envoy as the load balancer. Otherwise these protocols don't work well over traditional HTTP infrastructure.
Nope.

In any bracket and at any percentage, the government will be adding $x to it's huge budget by taking $x from an individual or organization's much smaller budget.

(* Note that it really isn't valid to compare marginal utility between entities. It's an individual, relative measure, rather than an absolute quantity.)
Sure. Create a type that represents x being <= that threshold, with a private constructor. Only allow constructing it via a factory method that requires it to be an x that should be <= the threshold. Then whenever you have a value of that type, you know that it's legitimately <= the threshold, and the bug becomes impossible.
It's just too damn hard to share data, even outputs, let alone the horrific excel or python files necessary to clean, model and visualize the results.

Finance has the exact same problem.
It's OK to be open to that idea as long as you are open to various definitions of consciousness.
I was under the impression that most subscriptions to OnlyFans were made in a.. less rational state of mind.
I'll believe this when somebody buys a house with Bitcoin.
How would locking _more_ people together in a confined space for even _longer_ help in this situation?
Some history.

This has been going on in Minecraft for more than 10 years. Large servers can pull millions of unique players a month and have >50,000 concurrent players. Some even employ competitively paid full time engineers. Even fairly generic servers that are well monetized and supported by a large youtuber can pull the range of 6 figures a year.

There's even a solid argument that the earlier predecessors to modern battle royale games were Minecraft Hunger Game servers in as early as 2011. We didn't even get DayZ until mid 2012. Between the ease of the bukkit API, ease to setup a server, and flexibility of the client, there was a lot of rapid prototyping of what essentially were software startups going on back in the earlier days. I'm not sure what the scene looks like today, but it was a blast back then.

It's really amazing to see games that can host mods in an accessible way doing well. I wonder how much better Minecraft could have been if they weren't actively hostile to developers.
I believe around 2013 Apple altered its buyback and dividend practices, as large shareholder Carl Icahn seemed at the time to be trying to manipulate the company and shareholders to his own advantage.

Several articles discussed such around the time. Here are a few.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-carl-ic...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/carl-icahns-2-billion-appl...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2017/11/10/carl-icah...
you seem genuinely proud to constantly take people's labor without compensation, just curious why you would think thats something to boast about?
If you had a more well versed economics background, you might be more privy to how narrow of a view you have regarding inflation.

Australia currently has a program where anyone impacted from the effects of the pandemic, receives $1,500 a fortnight- and yet is experiencing deflation. The very fact of this debunks your argument, as it is a significant portion of the population who is now receiving a cash injection. This money is not exclusively for rent, nor is it tied to food stamps; it is $1,500 to spend as you wish.

Further, The Reserve Bank Of Australia is in favour of these payments.
And it's also worth noting, many economies have an inflation target of about 3%, which indicates that inflation is healthy and to so staunchly avoid anything that may affect inflation is a fools errand.

Regardless, please read more than a wikipedia article before holding such a strong opinion. The other commenter called you out for being lazy, and I wholeheartedly agree with them.
How do you interrupt the computation, e.g. when it takes too long?
GPT-3's coherency inevitably degrades when it writes anything of length, because its "working memory" (context window) is only a few hundred words. (2048 BPE tokens, which are characters, clusters of characters, or words)

So by the time it's approaching the middle of a 2k word essay, it's starting to forget the beginning (including any prompt that tells it what it's meant to be writing about), and by the time it's writing the ending, it has forgotten the middle. Except insofar as their contents are reflected in further paragraphs.

Obviously that's a crippling limitation, but certainly a fixable one (by throwing more $$$ at the problem if nothing else). I am very curious to see long-form output of a GPT with a longer attention span.
The "average person" in the US also couldn't cover a $1000 emergency expense before the pandemic so maybe there's something to this and we shouldn't be encouraging more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/41-percent-of-americans-woul...
https://archive.is/XdtCp
For local news I subscribe to a daily email from a local TV news station. I also read voanews.com and asia.nikkei.com.
have you ever ordered a drink at a bar?
I really try to avoid using local storage because it delves into potential user privacy issues. I will look more into it as well as other options as I know having a list of already viewed results would be helpful for users.
Sorry, but I think you are not on the right track here. Top tier journals typically publish results that are both interesting/novel and that have good experimental design. Yes, there are bad studies that get through now and then, but by and large you are much more likely to find good methods in a Nature paper compared to a low tier journal. As a graduate student, I rarely trusted results from low tier journals because those are the sloppiest and least likely to be replicated.

The idea of evaluating experiment design and committing to publish before seeing any data/results also strikes me as deeply flawed. Graduate students can sit around think up many deep questions and draw up tons of beautiful experimental designs. That is the easier part. The harder part is actually running the experiments properly and interpreting the findings correctly. If we are publishing experiment ideas, every graduate student would be submitting 100s of ideas to top tier journals. However, most of those experiments would end up producing inconclusive or utterly garbage results, which would provide little insight if published.

The other issue I see is that many interesting findings come out of serendipitous results that are not related to the initial experiment or hypothesis. You start out trying to answer one question and then stumble upon some else that is very interesting (so you then explore that). If you have already submitted one experimental design and are supposed to publish on that, what do you do if you stumble upon something else that is actually much more interesting? In my experience with research you don't often go directly from one question/hypothesis/method to an answer and then publish. It's much less linear than that with many dead ends along the way. It's just not something you can pre-publish.

All of that said, one area where I think we would agree is on publishing the results of well performed experiments with null results. I think it would be useful to the community if people published reports saying "we had this interesting question, did a proper experiment, and it turns out the hypothesis was null and there was nothing interesting there." In the current system, that will likely not get published. But, other researchers would benefit from seeing that result because they may have the same hypothesis and may waste time trying to explore the same dead end. A Journal of Null Results could be useful here. However, you do run into the issue of not knowing if an experiment failed because of a researcher mistake or error...
You can't separate Doubleclick/Ads business of Alphabet into its own company in a good faith anti-trust breakup of the conglomerate, most of the other facets would likely tank within 18 months without (specifically, the ones dependent on ad revenue to remain solvent). You'd have breakup the ads business and give a piece to various resulting companies, otherwise most offshoots wouldn't have a viable positive revenue model to save themselves from immediate financial collapse.
I found this list interesting several ways.

Walmarts sits at the top, a retail company that dwarfs even the national oil giant of a huge country (china). There are no other retail companies in the top 10, not even Amazon.

Volkswagen is bigger than Toyota, though not by much. I always thought Toyota was far and away the biggest automaker.

Eight of the top 10 biggest companies are oil companies; we are nowhere near peak oil, and oil industry has out-sized influence on our world.

Microsoft and Facebook are not on the list (!)
Clickbait headlines and articles-that-should-be-a-sentence often go hand in hand... but you can have the former without the latter. IMO this is an article worth reading. There actually isn't much filler here - every paragraph has a relevant statistic or describes a part of the business model changes, and it appears that Best Buy's success was due to "life by a thousand wins" rather than "death by a thousand cuts" - each of which is enumerated and described concisely in the article. But YMMV.
> I want to support, I want to engage. But I also want to be mindful in how I spend my money. And $5/month adds up pretty quickly.

So basically the author cannot afford to buy all the content he would like to, but feels a pang of conscience when he has to take the content for free, even if it's made freely available by the authors.

It's an interesting internal conflict to have.

> I think I might need to figure out what my actual budget is for supporting independent creators on a monthly basis.

I suppose there are multiple solutions that provide something like that.

> I think it would be worse if they were as heavy-handed as Wikipedia

I'm totally fine with Wikipedia, and I usually give them $5-15 yearly. (They, in particular, are said to receive more money than they know what to reasonably do with.) This must be a case of personal sensitivity, which varies across the audience, and it sucks to be on the above-average sensitive end.

I personally buy stuff I find great / fascinating. I hear a great track or a great album on Bandcamp? OK, I pay for it. I see it on Youtube? I go to Bandcamp, or whatever other site the authors care to list, and pay there. If there's no such link, sad.

OTOH I don't normally subscribe to support a particular creator. I pay for the result. Great online creators usually produce good stuff anyway, they started with producing and publishing free (to view) stuff. The number of people who paid for a particular episode / track / post / whatever is an important piece of feedback, I think.
Perhaps I'm not reading this in the vein in which the author intended, so I'm open to being corrected. But my read of this is that authors and other creators are in a no-win situation. People don't like ads (so they block them or simply don't interact with them, either way driving down the money made from the ads), but people also don't like subscriptions, and people definitely don't like one-off "plonk your credit card here" request, yet no centralized micropayment system has really taken off because people also don't take to those.

So...what next? How do creators get paid?

(FWIW, I am on the opposite end of this. I probably devote too much of my income--not a brag, it's likely a financially unwise thing to do--on recurring subscriptions on Patreon and Maximum Fun and other platforms because I'm very quick to "ooh, shiny" and click-to-subscribe.)
My guess for this is the fact that they have a fantastic entry level iPad at a very low price. It's basically the cheapest entry point into the Apple ecosystem at ~$300 (often discounted to $250). And they've shown they're happy to hold this price with the new iPad they released last year as well. Considering iPadOS and support for Pencil, it's a pretty good deal, and I can imagine its bringing a lot of people in.