skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current GPT3 on the OpenAI dashboard is perfectly capable of generating erotica or being racist even if you don’t want it to. They didn’t block it so much as put up a warning dialog when it’s acting up.

Actually, I think they made InstructGPT even better at erotica because it’s trained to be “helpful and friendly”, so in other words they made it a sub.
Nah, they want more power. If these people were ok with disposing of their money in a generous way, they wouldn't have accumulated such wealth to begin with. Nobody stopping them from donating or funding companies with actual solutions.

It's alarming how people are increasingly calling for more government solutions, when they're literally non-experts who need everyone else to do the actual solutioning.
> subconscious bias due to historical prejudice does have a large effect on society.

The quality of the evidence for this, as with almost all social science and much of psychology, is extremely low bordering on just certified opinions. I would love to understand why you think otherwise.

> Obviously there are things with much larger effects, that doesn't mean that this doesn't exist.

What a hedge. How should we estimate the size of this effect, so that we can accurately measure whether/when the self-appointed hall monitors are doing more harm than good?
Duo [the Duolingo Owl], the Push, and the Bandits
I get that you share the opinion of the tweet. It still does not mean that this is how the legal system will see it.
Most humans don’t do that for most things they have a notion of in their head. It would be much too time consuming to start discussing the meaning of even just a significant fraction of them. For a rough reference point, the English language has over 150.000 words that you could each discuss the meaning of and try to come up with a definition. Not to speak of the difficulties to make that set of definitions noncircular.
I think the serious answer is that it is yet another labor multiplier like electricity and software. Our tech since the industrial revolution has allowed us to elevate ourselves from a largely agrarian society to space and cyberspace. AI, by all appearances, continues to be a tool, just the latest in a long line of better tools. It still requires a human to provide intent and direction. Right now in my job, I command the collect output of a million medieval scribes. In the future I will command a million Michelangelos.

Should ML/AI deliver on the wildest promises, it will be like a SpaceX Starship for the mind.
Interesting to me that this one can draw legible text. DALLE models seem to generate weird glyphs that only look like text. The examples they show here have perfectly legible characters and correct spelling. The difference between this and DALLE makes me suspicious / curious. I wish I could play with this model.
My hunch is you could probably get a critical mass of folks in the Forbes 490 to 1000 Richest range that'd love to be on some sort of list since they didn't make the Forbes 500 cut. Particularly if it was published in conjunction with a major publication that loves rankings (i.e. US News, Fortune, etc.).

And maybe these are the right people that society should laud?

A bit about the group - Patriotic Millionaires - discussed in the article [1] - and interesting interview with one of founders[2].

[1] https://patrioticmillionaires.org/who-we-are/ - George Zimmer of Men's Wearhouse fame is an advisor.

[2] Millionaire argues for Higher Taxes, Fox Host Throws Temper Tantrum! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agHkrhws5Lo

[3] https://patrioticmillionaires.org/about/
The group is chaired by Morris Pearl, a former Blackrock executive... members include investors and business owners filmmaker Abigail Disney; technologist Steve Silberstein; lawyer Roberta Kaplan; investor Lawrence Benenson of Benenson Capital Partners; textile entrepreneur Great Neck Richman; philanthropist Molly Munger; corrugated cardboard magnate Dennis Mehiel...
Practical power beaming. A century later, Nikola Tesla’s dream comes true
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31243644

And screenshot for those who asked: https://imgur.com/RJ2iraw ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2021/03/jacobso...

“The Jacobson v. Massachusetts decision made clear that the government could mandate vaccination, arguing that collective good sometimes outweighs individual rights. But…”

The “but” is explained near the end of the transcript: eugenics. Forced sterilization by government mandate. Virginia law: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Since overturned. (It happens to this day tho not by mandate: several Canadian Native women have recent and ongoing legal cases wrt unlawful medical treatment.)

The government theoretically has a mandate to do its best for the population taken as a whole. Smallpox was literally killing one third[0] of the population! Damn straight that the government enforced vaccination to achieve herd immunity; the alternative was ruination.

Over a third of nurses now intend to quit. Case rates surged high enough to break our healthcare system. A crazy number of people died, families broken, worker knowledge and skills dying with them. Continuing global supply chain failures. Economies are crashing. We are paying dearly for not remembering Jacobson.

[0] https://biosecurity.fas.org/resource/factsheets/smallpox.htm
It's allowed per the FAQ [0]. Complaints about paywalls, however, are not [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
They refused to allow that. 4 months after being forced out Covid hit…

I only work remote now to avoid the issue
Thanks for the English lesson, I'll add it to my notes.
cool thank you.
A nice property of little endian is that you can index bits with

(arr[x/8] >> (x%8)) & 1
> Could skewing search results, i.e. hiding the bias of the real world

Which real world? The population you sample from is going to make a big difference. Do you expect it to reflect your day to day life in your own city? Own country? The entire world? Results will vary significantly.
What would a human who can freely speak without morale or being judged say on average after having ingested all the information on the internet ?
That'd make sense IF this attack was one that was along the lines of "Hey, I did an injection attack on the contract which caused it to do something bad".

However, that's not what happened in this attack. This attack was far more akin to the "getting 2 units for $1.25" that I described. In fact, that's exactly what it was at the root of it. At no point did the attacker actually exploit code.

The technical and explicit intent was followed to a T here. The attacker got a loan (perfectly within the intent) bought a bunch of the index (again, within the intent) sold a bunch of a underlying stock of the index (Again, within intent), sold the index, and sold the loan. Nowhere in this process was there a "this violates the essence of the contract".

And, let's be frank here, it's not like the attacker didn't open themselves to a huge liability. Anyone that saw this attack in progress could have bought sushi coin or UCI and ultimately drained away the income this attacker was earning, potentially putting them on the hook for a pretty massive loan.

Now, would such a scheme be legal if this were actual securities and not crypto? Nope, because we put more protection around real securities in the US and other countries. However, crypto went out of it's way to make itself above the law and outside of securitifaction. That, in fact, was the entire point of crytpo, to be something governments COULDN'T regulate.
My spouse teaches in a school that is an isolated area between hills and has so little cell signal that teachers are forced to go outside and stand in a particular part of the parking lot and wave their phones around to transmit or receive a text message, let alone a phone call.

District IT policy prohibits teachers from connecting their phones to the school wifi network (along with many other frivolously absurd IT policies).

For three years, I have sent email to various administrators, including to the school superintendent, pointing out how dangerous it is for teachers to have no cell signal, especially if there is an emergency such as an active shooter or whatever. Beyond a polite response promising that it'll will be "looked in to," nothing has come of my messages.

Last week, teachers across the district were told that they are soon to be required to use 2FA using their personal cell phones to authenticate to the school network for email, grading software, etc.

I have no idea how this will be able to work at her school.
There is a lot of overlap between the two, but I have more depression symptoms than ADHD ones. The latter doesn’t seem likely to me nor who diagnosed me
Anybody ever figure out what happened to J.D. McMahon? I searched a little but didn't turn up much.
If you ask it to generate “nurse” surely the problem isn’t that it’s going to just generate women, it’s that it’s going to give you women in those Halloween sexy nurse costumes.

If it did, would you believe that’s a real representative nurse because an image model gave it to you?
> At the end of a day, if you ask for a nurse, should the model output a male or female by default?

This depends on the application. As an example, it would be a problem if it's used as a CV-screening app that's implicitly down-ranking male-applicants to nurse positions, resulting in fewer interviews for them.
Looks interesting. Let us know in 3-5 years when the Phase III trials are done and there's an overall survival benefit beyond the standard of care at that time.
Thank you for your reply to my questions.

I don't have any reading materials to suggest. Calgary is known as being a "migraine capital." People talk about it with every Chinook (warm weather event with high pressure changes). There's a migraine forecast site https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/calgary/t2p/migraine-weath...

I used the Migraine Buddy app to identify alcohol as a trigger. I haven't had a drink in 4 years, my frequency of migraines is reduced. I'm not sure where you log your headaches, but Migraine Buddy might be worth a try. They use the data to suggest ideas you might not have thought of otherwise.

I'm in a similar stage in my life. I want fulfilling work and to follow my curiosity. I also want a high quality of life which includes being healthy. I have a few suggestions to explore...

The question mark that's easy to time box and answer aside from the discomfort is London. Perhaps you can time box and commit to being there for a year to see if you would indeed be missing out on anything. While there, work diligently to build your research operation. This way you will know one way or another if you're missing out on anything. After a year, or sooner, you may have the data you need to make a more permanent decision. There is the risk of future relocation costs, but you can cross that bridge if it comes up.

See if there are ways to manage your concern with feeling better. That's much easier said than done, but I wonder if you have the expectation that it will be uncomfortable and don't attach the desire to eliminate it, if it will lessen the impact. Vipassana meditation is a technique that might help. Although you'd need to endure 10 whole days of silence (no talking, gesturing, eye contact, reading, or writing) which is mentally and physically (in the beginning before you learn the full technique) painful. The technique is powerful for pain management. The time away if you choose to take the course will also help you with your decision.

In advance of going to London if you decide to do so, research your options for triggers and treatments. Talk to others who suffer. See specialists if that's available to you. See what else you haven't tried. Seeing specialists may feel like overkill (I have a habit of being in denial about my migraines even though I've had them for 20+ years), but it's impacting the quality of your life enough that it's a factor in a decision as big as this.

Another option is to go to Zug and be content with doing what you can with what you have there. A client of mine said he wanted his company to be as big as Airbnb. I said being VRBO isn't a bad option either.

Another question for you: If you can imagine the best version of your company that's possible with the opportunities available in Zug, would that still be fulfilling?

I've made a couple of assumptions such as you not knowing about the Migraine Buddy app and not seeing specialists. I hope you don't mind. I thought it would help fast track the conversation. Happy to continue discussing further. A lot about your situation resonates with me
That's true for some things, but the "gender bias for some professions" is likely to just be reflecting reality.
I think it's at least partly for providing a storage location for after-commit release signatures. You can't modify the commit to add the release-signer signature, and many things will want direct access to it, so you need/want a publicly-identifiable commit-pointer of some kind: tags.

Off at the less-structured side of things though, have you seen git notes? You can add notes to any commit: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes . Tags are kinda just notes with a display name.

At times I've wished that code review feedback were just stored in notes, so it'd survive changing hosting systems... but they're not quite reasonable for that :| What I think I really want is a notes tree under any commit, which kinda exists since you can add notes to notes, but there isn't really enough structure or tooling to support that kind of use out-of-the-box.
The oral microbiome as a predictor of gum disease
somewhat related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31209924
I get that I just don’t understand why they chose to make them all so different.
If it doesn't seem likely to you that's likely fine. I forgot to mention, in my case I was diagnosed as depressed by the psychiatrist (wrongly ofc).
Every Moment Is a Window on All Time
Millionaire just seems too poor to even be invited.
We accept that governments can compel companies to be honest in their advertisements, and to include safety warnings and ingredients lists, in order that consumers in the marketplace can make informed decisions.

For democracy to function, we need political messages to compete in the marketplace of ideas, so it doesn't seem like completely uncharted territory for legislation to say that companies are merely forbidden to delete purely political comments for purely partisan reasons.

That actually seems like a much more modest interference with corporate speech than requiring companies to actively add text to their ads and packaging.
I seem to recall discussion of this in the RFC. They do ultimately have an order if transmitted over a network!

But most of us are used to getting them a byte at a time through the memory interface so we are ignorant of this.
The problem with ground effect planes is that flying at 1000km/h a few meters above ground (or sea) is never going to be safe. Terrain (and even worse, sea) is unpredictable. It might make sense for the military but not for commercial passenger flights.
As a thought experiment, how do you know that bits within a byte are ordered big endian? does it have to do with the result of casting a unsigned char[4] to an unsigned int or something? I forget.

Because if it's just that the name "left shift" corresponds to an operation that multiplies by two and vice-versa, you could probably just swap the names "left/right shift" and be none the wiser.

Edit: the point I'm making is that you need to use either a left/right shift to extract individual bits from a byte B, or calculate some AND(B, L) where L is some literal like 0x4 (in which case it depends on how you write the literal's bit order).
For AI, "real world" is likely "the world, as seen by Silicon Valley."
Einstein Grades in School
1. Network Byte Order is Big Endian.

2. x86, ARMv8 and RISC-V are Little Endian.

3. IBM 360 through s390x are Big Endian.

4. MIPS, PowerPC and ARM can be bysexual.
Good for the hacker I say. Enjoy it in health.
So don't click. The news in the headline is interesting.
Right, "it's been made very clear".

"Malfunction voids all wins."

Here, it's also been made very clear. "Code is law".
Yeah, you're totally right. I'm very curious to see where things settle out. How does one ever infer intent from a system with anonymous contributors? We do live in interesting times.
I can't help you there, but!
I'm interested in reading more about such dark patterns so keep it up and if you or anyone else has more links on the topic that would be awesome. I wish to one day aggregate this information and pass it on. it is the only way to combat these dark patterns
Speed of operation or lumps of labor per second is not the only applicable metric and, outside of certain cases, it's not a very good one. Average patient health (arguably an ill-defined term) has many ways of being assessed:

* Fewer deaths from preventable diseases

* Breakthroughs in pharmaceutical research production

* New and improved medical devices to counter chronically debilitating sicknesses

* An increase in elective surgeries with fewer long-term effects

* Increased longevity across the globe
I doubt the report is factual (fyi, here's what came out for the same query in my browser The twin-spotted sphinx moth is a pretty moth with beige-brown and white wings and pinkish-red and yellow markings...), and I haven't really experienced such results anywhere. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I regularly delete my browser data, but the point of this critique is lost on me.
Ha! However different pxmpxm on github, I'm afraid.
Typing.

If you aren't touch-typing and are looking down at the keyboard, or even just having to spend mental cycles thinking about typing, it's taking away from your capacity to think about the problem you're solving.

Can you write programs without being able to type? Sure, of course. But, you asked for basic skills that will improve your programming, so I say: typing.

60 WPM is a minimum. 80-90 WPM is a reasonable low goal. 100-120 WPM is probably an upper bound limit on QWERTY; if you're very serious, you may want to consider learning Dvorak or Colemak layouts, where you might be able to hit top speeds of 150-200 WPM.
By saying that it's the wrong path, I'm not trying to deny that it's a human (or at least a potential human) being killed, what I'm saying is that asking that question isn't too relevant to the issue.

I think that California treats killing a pregnant woman as double homicide to make it a harsher punishment rather than the other way around.

>Put another way, would you tell a mother grieving for her miscarriage that she didn't actually lose a child? She just lost a fetus after all, so it's not like there's much to grieve about.

I think it's slightly ironic you would suggest this, because my position is based on the belief that abortions are often just as emotionally difficult for parents as miscarriages. In which case it's equally insensitive to tell a woman who just had to abort a child from rape (or alternatively, due to a life threatening condition) that she is a murderer.

To further clarify my position, we can look at the two answers to the question "Is it murder to kill a fetus?":

1. It is murder. In this case, the surface level position would be that abortion should be illegal. But then we get to details and usually people are fine with allowing it in certain cases. Thus making murder acceptable in specific circumstances, making abortion about which circumstances are acceptable.

2. It isn't murder. In this case, the surface level position would be that abortion should be legal. But then we run into the examples you presented. Thus once again making abortion about which circumstances are unacceptable.

So in the end, as far as abortion is concerned, it does not matter if it is or is not murder, because the specific issue to be figured out is which circumstances are acceptable/unacceptable in a practical way (rather than the unrealistic ideological proposals that usually fly around due to the simple answers to "Is it murder to kill a fetus?" both being very extreme).
They're expensive to train, but not awfully expensive to use. Especially if you have hundreds of images you want to generate (due to the way compute devices tend to get much more efficiency with a large batch size).

Google could totally afford it, especially if the feature was hidden behind a button the user had to click, and not just run for every image search.
> What if you know, clearly, that your interaction what not what the designer wanted?

Well, then they should have designed a better vending machine, shouldn't they? It may be unethical but I certainly wouldn't call it illegal. Again, back to the gas analogy, I don't think someone pumping gas at $0.20 is breaking the law even though that's clearly not the intent.

> What do you mean by "valid"?

None of the interactions for this attack were using the system in a way it wasn't meant to be used. It wasn't exploiting code. It was buying and selling assets in a way that enriched the attacker. That is a valid interaction.

Also, the whole point of these contracts IS that the code is the specification. That's the whole point of crypto in general. Trust nobody and let the blockchain determine truth.
Jolt Cola was introduced in 1985, merely 3 years after the Commodore 64. At the time, especially to many computer enthusiasts, it was the best cola on the market, offering twice the caffeine as Coca-Cola with a similar enough sort of taste. Similar to the c64 at the time, Jolt promised an abundance of energy over the competition, and it delivered. Its tie-in with technology was apparent both in its choice among geeks and nerds alike for staying up into the wee hours of the mornings, but also in its brand recognition, sponsoring things such as books that were published by Microsoft, getting their logo on the back of the classic book "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell.

As years went by, new caffeinated beverages started hitting the shelves, such as Josta in the mid-90s (the US's "the first legitimate energy drink") to Bawls in 1997, to the permutation of other caffeinated products such as gum and soap that were short-lived in the early aughts. Finally, the beverage market reached its peak as "energy drinks" finally broke away from sodas altogether in the public's eye, maintaining their image as a beverage for thirsty nerds and gamers.

The c64's legacy is much like Jolt's. It has since been replaced by things that are in the same spirit for the same reasons. Diet Coke was never cool, never tasted good, and was never an icon for anything like gaming, gear, or geekdom. It can take a hike.
That’s a difficult product because porn is very personalized and if the product is just a little off in latent space it’s going to turn you off.

Also, people have been commenting assuming Google doesn’t want to offend their users or non-users, but they also don’t want to offend their own staff. If you run a porn company you need to hire people okay with that from the start.
Oft espoused at Microsoft BUT, as I found out, that one case where I ordered an extra $150 whiteboard for my office without first going to my manager resulted in a really stern rebuke.
I'd argue that she _doesn't_ grow food in hard clay, but instead has turned that hard clay into soil with years of work.
I guess those things would eventually become urgent.
Autonomous cargo ship completes 500 mile voyage, avoiding hundreds of collisions
Yeah, generally speaking many things with "momentum" from a touch will still have momentum (probably a good thing) and anything doing custom animation code will be unaffected (not a good thing! use the framework please, app programmers!).

But it does at least get rid of that awful stretch-bounce animation on scroll views basically everywhere. That alone is practically worth it.
Ideas aren’t getting harder to find and anyone who tells you so is a coward
How is hoarding cash at these inflation levels a good investment strategy?