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Yes you would still need GPT3 in this system. Right now, the incredibly simple system just wires gives GPT3 a window of the last 100 messages and has it output the next message to send.

The following is an excerpt SMS conversation between two friends:

Transcript:
<splice in the last 100 messages here>

Then you can have GPT3 output what it believes the most likely next message is, and you send it. But this system means it loses context if a message is outside the window. So you can augment this system by creating an embedding of the last few messages of the conversation, and creating a prompt like:

The following is an excerpt SMS conversation between two friends, and relevant past memories that are related to the current conversation:

Relevant past memories:
<splice in the N past messages with the most similar embedding to the most recent messages>

Transcript:
<splice in the last 100 messages>

So this gets you a kind of short term memory (the last 100 messages) and a long term memory (the embeddings).
I'm strongly reminded of Xi Jinping suggesting a different potato variety for villagers to plant, thus changing their lives.
There isn't yet enough research on health hazards of toner to really give a good answer here... Black toner for example is mostly polyester plastic and carbon dust. Neither of those are particularly toxic, although they are in a much finer powder than you'd normally encounter them.

Basically I'd still steer clear of them, but exposing yourself to them isn't a certain death sentence like say organic mercury.
> a digital dollar means that you have a dollar where it is impossible to commit crime

Maybe. You'll probably just be able to convert it to some other form of value at a loss and then continue from there. Plenty of governments have envisioned the end of the "black market" only to be shown how utterly impossible that idea is.
A very simple question that I've had to ask is "what likely happens if we cut this group?" then "what's the 'likely' worst case if we cut this group?"

That problem with Eric's group and most Data Science teams is that the company continues to move along. There is some long-term cost, but there are likely teams where there are severe short-term ramifications if they are cut. E.g., imagine if Windows cut their servicing team (snarkiness aside).
And there it is:

https://twitter.com/StanfordDaily/status/1598045082007265280

> BREAKING: Prominent journal @ScienceMagazine has "apologized to the scientific community" after it failed to print corrections or issue public statements about two papers co-authored by Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne were alleged to contain image manipulation.
Where be the proof? Demo? Example? Something that would actually make me believe that they created a 'wormhole'...
Surely Elon wouldn't do that... just, go on the internet and tell lies...
First graviton is not magic. We switched our main service, which is a nodejs monolith, and did not get any cost improvement (we had to add more instances to handle the same workload, which ended up being equivalent cost wise). There are certainly use cases when it's better, but it doesn't seem to be the only and obvious choice for all use cases.

Second our laptops and our CI are amd64 machines, and being able to run the same docker images in prod and locally is nice, and not having to build the image with qemu on the CI is also good.

I don't mind cloud-ARM, but there definitely are good reasons not to use it (which of course don't apply to everyone)
It's really quite a shame how few options there are for buying music, especially with apple music no longer allowing to buy stuff. I recently got into Japanese classic city pop, and was surprised to find that there were several japanese sites that sold digital, drm free music still.
maybe this is also Dangerous?
I guess we are about to find out whether there is substance to the precedents. My bet is on "what can go wrong, will go wrong", even more so on Web scale. Let's hope I'm wrong.
They didn't _quite_ "fall out of fashion" - they were made illegal by a certain group of people, in order to reduce the relative power/independence of other groups of people.
I personally wouldn’t fault the recruiters. The higher ups who set recruitment targets are to blame. If they recruited a person who got laid off a few months later, it suggests poor planning.
I was bored, went to a pub alone once, played pool with random people, was quite fun. For couple of hours. But didn’t like it as a general habit. But no one cared.
Lastpass has had so many security incidents I have no idea why anyone uses it anymore when the whole product is supposed to be Security.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596071799410003969

And note how Musk through simply engaging with these people gives endorsement to this ridiculous and baseless link between pedophiles and left-wing accounts.
I think we are past tolerance
What is it with IBM and payroll systems. They botched another one here in Australia:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-sued-over-queensland-health-pa...
True it does not matter if it’s a cookie, or whatever. You need to look to the ePrivacy directive article 5.3 for which exemption case applies. In the case of timestamps, it would be case A :

> when the cookie is used “for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network” (“Exemption A“)

Since the timestamp is no longer used solely for this purpose, you need consent.
You’re wrong : the carbon footprint of a Pakistanese, Indian or Nigerian person is in order of 2 tons per year.

The carbon footprint of a US person is in order of 20 tons, EU countries are around 8-10 tons.

So I’d say that the problem lies with OECD countries, no the others.
All the novelty appears to boil down to "this is a new sampler for diffusion-style models".

Apparently, they are inspired by a different physical process. But that doesn't change the fact that they start with noise and then iteratively solve a differential equation to get to its end point. 2nd-order samplers like Heun already massively increased sampling speed over the original diffusion models, but sadly the article doesn't compare to that but merely to the original 1st-order samplers. So it might be that this one doesn't even create a speedup in practice.

Does anyone else have more info on how this is different from "traditional" numerical differential-equation-based de-noising?
No doubt it was both, to some degree. The latter doesn't excuse the former.

And the whole matter is only made worse by (or, perhaps, 'highlights') the surrounding incestuous cesspool of other crypto exchanges and funds, and the 'crypto media' arms which they own and run. Several of whom are almost certainly engaging in, at the least, grey-area practices, in order to accrue vast and lightly regulated profits.

The fact that many of crypto's best-known names are basically digital bankers-for-profit, illustrates how the scene went off the rails some time ago. From a tech perspective.
No one company will own this space, for it to succeed, it needs open standards like the browser.
Lol, I knew it would sound that way, but I don't work in this domain - just interested in privacy and this problem.
So Brita filters are just activated Carbon that improve the taste and filter some of the worst pollutants but nothing else.

One way to test is using a TDS meter to see if over time the amount of dissolved solids increase. This is not a bulletproof test but it may give some indication of when the filter is saturated. Again, the Brite/PUR filters do not do much to begin with.

This video shows how the Brita filters perform compared to others. THey use a TDS meter. I do want to also point out that TDS is not the only metric for how good water is filtered but thats another conversation.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja0ioX6GSz0
"They died in a car accident. Thanks for asking."
Are… are you attempting to shame-discipline him? You non-seq a hedge fund and then appeal to morality? What a strange little comment.
I've seen bounds checks being compiled to a single integer comparison followed by a jump (on x86 at least). This should have a negligible performance impact for most programs running on a modern, parallel CPU. However, for highly optimized programs that constantly saturate all processor instruction ports, bounds checks might of course become a bottleneck.

I think the most preferable solution (although not always possible) would be to use iterators as much as possible. This would allow rustc to "know" the entire range of possible indexes used at runtime, which makes runtime bounds checking redundant.

Some old benchmarks here: https://parallel-rust-cpp.github.io/v0.html#rustc
>>Maybe a global forum with no moderation everyone can agree with is a bad thing? Ie maybe it makes everyone unhappy?

I do not agree, and it does not make me unhappy at all. I am late 70's child, I experienced the Wild West of the internet, nothing posted to twitter (or the chan's for that matter) shock me, or makes me unhappy

I think people need thicker skin, and maybe more anonymity not less...

Censorship is not the solution, never has been in history and never will be in the future.
There's possibly smarter ways to handle this with Service Workers, CacheStorage, or other APIs. But with Indexeddb you could store blobs or array buffers up to 512MB on some mobile devices, 2GB on others. So there's like 100 songs offline.
Here's a bunch and their scores in the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard
Dwarf Fortress and Interview with Tarn
not always, GitHub issue tracker is actually my favourite one and I used multiple ones
"Options available if a Yahoo Account owner passes away" https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2021.html

You could try to impersonate him, e.g. if your grandmother knows the answers to security questions, birth date or the original passwort. But if customer service knows or you tell them the account holder is deceased they'll lock it forever.
Nah, all government is bad. Socialism is when the government spends money, freedom is when I get paid $5 an hour and eat trans fats
Going one step further I will add: the older one gets the more one becomes like Stallman, lol.

(I think the reactions of ordinary people to Stallman's views are quite predictable, mention sex and they go bonkers. )
"trained by openAI" Why does it keep saying that? They pay it every time it does? Is it a really good way to make money?
In theory you're missing the network effect of everyone already being on Facebook. So they can quickly spin up a vast virtual world with all the people you know already in it.

In practice, it hasn't happened, and nobody seems excited to do it. Whatever benefits they hope to get from the network effect seem unlikely thus far.
Looks to be the same source as was used in a sibling comment further up https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
Apple flagship Palo Alto store next to Steve Jobs house robbed in broad daylight
Went out in Colorado for about 15 minutes. Back online for now.
What happens if the user disables Javascript.

The page lastmodified.normally.com claims "Works in any browser or any server". What if the browser has no Javascript engine.

In this case I tried the demo with a browser that has a JS engine, with JS enabled, and the demo still did not work. That is because "ping.withcabin.com" was not disclosed to the user. The OP suggests that users access "lastmodified.normally.com". It says nothing about accessing "ping.withcabin.com". As such, the proxy does not contain any address info for that domain. The user (me) never typed it.

Instead of a browser, I use a localhost-bound forward proxy to control requests and responses, including HTTP headers. The proxy contains all of the domain-to-IP address mappings I need in memory. Why should I add an IP address for "ping.withcabin.com". The request returns no content.

1. For example, something like

acl cabin hdr(host) -m str ping.withcabin.com
http-request del-header If-Modified-Since if cabin
http-response del-header Cache-Control if cabin
http-response del-header Last-Modified if cabin
That's it, right there. It's less about what I imagine people around me are thinking and more about that inner critic. It's a hard thing to silence.
My own experience growing up in rural America is not so romantic. Bullies were sometimes those who had a numeric advantage when it came to having relatives who were peers and adults at the school. Their victims, often, outsiders who were not physically strong, had no big siblings to protect them, and were not “favorites” of the teachers. Such children would not benefit from your strategy.
Yes, the keys are kept in CPU itself. AFAIK Intel doesn't disclose the exact mechanism (blown fuses, EPROM or something entirely different).

You can't get valid quote outside the enclave, because CPU doesn't provide the instruction to sign the quote outside the enclave, and you can't calculate it youself, because you don't know CPU's private key.
People generally pick a location, set some criteria (must have X bedrooms, Y bathrooms, Z square footage, parking), see the small integer number of houses in the market in that location satisfying those criteria in-budget, and go with the one whose maintenance seems least daunting.

There aren't even really enough options to be picky about floor-plan most of the time, especially if the house with the wonderful floor-plan hasn't had the roof replaced for 15 years.
If money only exists in the mind of people, how could there truly ever be a "science" of it? It strikes me, from a somewhat cynical point of view, that "economics" is a somewhat confused and lower resolution study of "psychology," which I think offers a the workable explanation for your final sentence.
Well, I said "just hashes" for sort, but such ETag formats could agree on other algorithms as well, as long as the browser can verify them.

And introducing a new method doesn't solve the issue of deprecating the existing abusable methods, which is why I suggested one that can already be implemented by privacy-first browsers one-sidedly. Servers would then be pressured to migrate to some friendly ETag format if they don't want to completely lose client-side caching for a (hopefully growing) share of their userbase.
Libfirm and cranelift are vaguely similar ideas, not yet mentioned here
Interesting question, if awareness of Baader-Meinhof makes you less/more susceptible to it?
Good point about profilers' stack unwinders hitting much more code than a traditional debugger does, I'm sure that's mostly to blame. I've only been debugging a few thousand lines of code with my debugger so far, so we can't really call it a serious tool yet! I also am using Fedora 36 with the gcc version that it ships with. :shrug:

I'm not sure if I plan to write about it, it doesn't feel like I'm uncovering anything that anyone can't go look up pretty easily. I've been building it mostly because I'm frustrated with all the existing tools out there, save for RemedyBG (which is awesome, but Windows-only, and I'm only on Windows every so often). However, I'm still quite a ways off from being a reasonable daily driver!
This news didn't surprise me at all. Academics and research scientists on teams like this are very far removed from driving revenue and understanding the value you provide. It's just as likely that the teams they saved costs for are also hemorrhaging anyway and being shut down or reduced.
Bitcoin doesn't need petrodollar warfare like the dollar does.
I am being quite sincere. It was an honest question. When I was in HS, long before Breaking Bad and Meth, party kids took "speed," which was amphetamines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_(disambiguation)

To reiterate from elsewhere in the thread: My point is that if there is a chance that a reasonably healthy habit like running could possibly alleviate ADHD symptoms, wouldn't it be clearly better to try that before giving kids drugs of any sort?

I am stating that as an opinion - not a fact.
> Laboring for years on something that ends up trashed and under corporate NDAs, with nothing to show beyond a series of paystubs, is different from that

I'm struggling to relate to this. Me and the rest of my team were literally laid off just a few weeks ago. What I'm hearing from the inside is that half of our work is now in maintenance mode (it's kinda necessary for KTL) and the Big Project™ we were working on is fully abandoned.

I guess I'm sad the Big Project™ will no longer exist, but I learned dozens of lessons while working on it, and I'm more confident and a better engineer because of those lessons and effort. And I get to add some nice things to my resumé.

It doesn't truly feel like a loss. Hundreds of other companies will do similar things and I will try to join them or I'll be interested in some other field in a few years.

But I'm already familiar with changing jobs every few years so perhaps that's why I find it harder to relate.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Starlink
Is there no way to do kind of split-apply-combine with these models? So you could train GPT@home?
Capital can mean money. It was mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but Google "capital definition"

> wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.

There is even a bank called "Capital One." Originally, Capital One's only product was credit cards, i.e. providing monetary loans. It feels like this entire thread has been arguing about what people "feel" capital should be. In the case of BlockFi, capital has very much been destroyed. Company equity going to 0 is the ultimate capital destruction.
Functional Programming in Lean (November Update)
> News flash: no one wants to wear VR goggles to spend any time in a digital heaven where the role of God is played by Mark Zuckerberg and you can do anything you can imagine, including “work” and “shop”.

I'm sure no-one here likes the idea of the Metaverse but from Meta's perspective I definitely think it's the correct bet. This doesn't make it less dystopian but that's exactly the point. If they can pull it off they win. Great video explaining it way better then I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqkhjL3WvWQ
Testing experts can work on tests while treatment experts work on treatment. I would imagine that the two specialties are significantly different.
Imagine if medicines and medical procedures would contribute negatively to the GDP rather than positively.

I mean, they are there because something went wrong before, leading to the need for them.

By having them as a cost, the incentives to avoid them are put in place, so suddenly healthier foods and habits become more profitable.

The problem is that medicine should not be an industry, it should be a cost centre, and the more unhealthy something is the heavier it should be taxed in order to pay for that cost.
> Was original facebook a painkiller? Instagram?

I would say that it was closer to a tasty pizza.

It was definitely not fitting either "vitamin" (worth investing for future payoff) or painkiller (solving immediate and urgent need[1])

[1] I guess that hiding/temporary fix is not intended to be part of this allegory
Based on input from my friends at Meta, this is a direct side effect of the way individual performance is quantified.

Each person is required to "excel" along four axes, the two relevant ones for this story are likely "engineering excellence" and "impact"

* "Impact" means you made KPIs go up. Specifically KPIs relating to getting user eyeballs onto content / ads. Reducing costs, designing good systems, reducing developer friction all do not count towards your impact.
* "Engineering excellence" is where every other aspect of being a good developer is lumped in. Saved the org $10mm? Sorry, no impact for you, just a point in engineering excellence.

Unfortunately, as you can probably guess "impact" is the weighted the highest when determining the value of an employee. I would guess Eric and his team fell afoul of this aspect of the internal political game at Meta.
what is it useful for
>First, none of our policies have changed. Our approach to policy enforcement will rely more heavily on de-amplification of violative content: freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.

Sounds like a change in policy to me.
But both of those qualifiers exist on continuums and where an experiment lies on them is subject to opinion, so there's no singular threshold. It means it would depend on the person reviewing the experiment whether it's "systematic" and "rigorous" enough to (personally) be considered science. What you're describing is the quality of the science, not whether or not it is science.

Until you can objectively measure how "systematic" and "rigorous" an experiment is, your definition of science only applies to you.
yeah,my first tought was--yeah, a hammer shows that as well.
Yeah this is definitely one of the coolest developments I've read about.

My daughter is studying biotech at university. While I was on the cutting edge for proliferation of computing, she's there on biotech. What an exciting future of discoveries and invention she has ahead of her. We're all now stuck on reinventing shitty web frameworks in nodejs for the 11th time.
Fibratus: Open-source threat detection and prevention solution
This is something I still find as kind of a culture shock on HN honestly. The idea that pursuing work that is personally interesting and remunerative is at worst neutral is basically an in-built assumption here. There is often pretty intense policing of it if there's a whiff of deviation.

FWIW I don't think it's true either. A lot of engineers can be convinced to work on basically anything if it's "a hard problem" in the right way. This is bad. We should all consider ourselves responsible for the end results, rather than entitled to the means.
Well know we know why they kept the covid policy and just aren't enforcing it [1]. They knew they were writing this blog post!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33789456
Almost fully right. Charging and risking Tesla subscribers to beta test their autonomous driving software.
MicroPython's WebAssembly based kernel for PyScript
This is quite interesting, Michael Kennedy, Brett Cannon, Nicholas Tollervey, and Fabio Pliger discuss PyScript running in the browser on MicroPython. MicroPython's WebAssembly is just 300k to download and loads in under 100ms. Here is the technical preview [1], here is the git repo [2].

[1] https://pyscript.net/tech-preview/micropython/

[2] https://github.com/pyscript/MicroPyScript
Is to show that they can deny it to others? Just trying to be clear.
Zerowater is great but man their expensive filters do not seem to come near the advertised amount. The expense and lack of good third party alternatives for their filters just adds salt to the wound(since it didn't get filtered out HA!).
I'm not sure I can agree hard enough with this sentence.

I always keep this sentence in my back locker too: "If your product isn't architected, don't try and architect your pubs"

The problem here is that everyone thinks their product is architected, because "architecture is good", and of course their product is Good.

There's a giant pile of false assertions here, but the worst is lack of self-knowledge. And if there is anything S1000D will punish harder than anything else - S1000D is nothing if not punishing - it is self-deception about what exactly a company is shipping to its hapless customers.
> Try to actually talk about what I am complaining about

> > I hate when people attribute opening the Overton window to more than just Extreme left authoritarian political opinions, which is what Political Twitter was isolated to before elon

I literally quoted what you talked about and responded to your claim - please try to improve your reading comprehension skills.