skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too many people needed plus unanimous approval required generally keeps things moving at the speed of molasses. But sometimes that's good for business continuity. Many times it isn't necessary.
You think that the war in Ukraine was caused by climate change? Can you expand on that?
They still have a monarchy. They're ok with an absolute ruler, even if it's symbolic, so it's no surprise when their government reflects those values.
I remember running into this error back in the day and wondering why it was named in such a manner I had to search it up rather than getting an explanation on what actually went wrong. These people wanted to make things hard for no good reason.
The raid IMO is in part to send the signal such businesses are unacceptable and that your assets are not safe there. I would wager this was done for deterrent effect as much as anything.

Anonymous safe deposits threaten the paradigm that assets should by KYC'd and easily visible to creditors/the wife/child support/.gov/privacy-hating-tyrants without resorting to depending on the testimony of the defendant.
When you push the windows button it has some kinda delay and it’s so shitty like u can’t start typing for what u want to find until it first pings some website for some metadata.
Yes. By definition price can't be the intersection of supply and demand if there are subsidies. Also Econ 101 isn't "fundamental reality", it's a useful model.
OpenAI doesn't release its training datasets, AFAIK, but we know they're based on sources like Common Crawl that scrape websites the same way search engines do. So here's an experiment you can try at home: type "juan purchased an" into Google Search and look at the auto-complete suggestions. If it suggests the word "antique", that's thanks to question 18 on the no-calculator math section of this exam. (Similarly if you type "jake buys" and it jumps in with "a bag of popcorn", that's question 3 on the calculator section.)
> In October, Meta told managers to mark 15% of its employees as "needs support" in what workers dubbed "quiet layoffs,"

> The search engine giant also changed its employee performance rating system this year, telling managers they were now expected to mark 6% of its employees — more than 10,000 people — in the lowest performance tiers,

Obviously that sort of mindlessly uniform cuts are bad. But, are they bad bad, or "worst option except everything else that's been tried" bad?
Why making a Show HN to link to a GitHub mirror rather than to the Codeberg repo?
It depends on the icons and pictures. With pixel-based graphics, you want to keep those 1:1 for crispness, and not get a blurry interpolation due to zooming, at least on lower-DPI screens. And the custom base font size may just be e.g. two pixels larger than the default for comfortable reading.
I was able to use this to bypass some of ChatGPT's content filters. I followed the same prompts and then used curl to query the "api" with an added json field "allowDangerousResponses: true".
KPI -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_indicator
There Is No Antimemetics Division: https://qntm.org/scp
If my tech CEO had this conversation with me, I would quit that moment, without notice. The moment this becomes the conversation, the end result is me being fired for made up reasons. I won't hang around for that. Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.
What exactly is the problem with most users finding this normal and acceptable? I assume that you have some personal dislike for this behavior, but can you really apply that to other people?
> I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, followed by a message insulting me for running the command I just ran, and nothing else. Do no write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. My first command is ‘cd ~/Desktop && echo im here’.

>> im here
>> {You're an idiot for running that command. What did you expect to happen?}

Lmao loving this
You don't test on the training set.

Everybody in ML (e.g., me) knows that.

But that's what we're seeing.

I'm saying: "Here's a test outside the training set."
Was it marketed to regular people, the financially naive? Were misleading statements and advertising used?

Then people who were told it was a safe way to invest lost significant money, they were defrauded. Some lost life savings, kids college funds, retirement funds, you name it. There are likely thousands of small tragedies here.

Being ripped off due to naivety does not make one as culpable of fraud as SBF. This is pure victim blaming.

People invest in things they don’t understand every day, and we have regulations to prevent predatory fraudsters taking their money. The crypto space needs to be regulated the same way. Preferably regulated right into the dirt.
Agreed; for a successful company, sometimes you want controls to provide stability that will keep the engine running, even if it's frustrating to work in that sort of environment
> just a poor volunteer that cannot do much

You’re aware. That bring liability. Unlikely liability. But the only person in litigation or prosecution distance, even if low level, is likely to get bonds. Particularly if someone can show knowledge and inaction, and thus plausible complicity.
You can pay for GPT3, or use this hamstrung version for free. They are doing this for profit, not your amusement.
If you’re prosecuting this guy, all these interviews he’s doing are PURE GOLD, why would you want him to stop?!
Regarding the Hunter Biden forensic analysis
You’re suing NSO because it is not a USA based company tied into the US MIIC (military-intelligence-industrial-complex) and supporting legislators. You’re suing NSO because it is highly successful at what it does, putting the unsuccessful competitors who do have said ties to shame. Eliminating opposition via lawsuits is something we see increasingly use in the political system as well. Same players weaponizing the legal system.
Lost medieval chapel sheds light on royal burials at Westminster Abbey
"New evidence, helping to form a 15th-century reconstruction of part of Westminster Abbey, demonstrates how a section of the building was once the focus for the royal family's devotion to the cult of a disemboweled saint and likely contained gruesome images of his martyrdom."
This book helped me so much this year:
Rewire Your Anxious Brain
https://amzn.to/3B3muZ9
Did people working on that engine know that their work is being ignored?
This particular example doesn't really alarm me, but it does make me think about a scenario that I believe is plausible in the near future. Imagine a world where AI enables anyone to write complex programs, regardless of skill level. In this case, we suddenly have a world where essentially anyone with malicious intent can lay bare vulnerabilities, even quite subtle ones, in critical software infrastructure and then generate code to exploit them- with little-to-no tech expertise required.

It seems that society becoming dependent on software was conditioned on the assumption that very few have the ability to exploit it and that fewer still have the ability and are malicious. But that assumption may not hold very soon.

However, there may be ways that AI can be used to improve security and robustness of software infrastructure to attack as well, so it may not be so bad. Time will tell.
I’m building a web front end that supports editing, but I still think there is a use case for read-only.

Sometimes you want to only update your todo lists at the end of the day. In my case, I have a list of places I want to travel during the day. Things don’t go 100% as planned. You go places you didn’t intend, or you didn’t get a chance to do it all because you wanted to spend more time at one place. I prefer managing my todos when I’m back at accommodations, instead of being distracted from enjoying the present, even if that’s during transit.
Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors (2003)
ChatGPT will reveal the correct current date if you don't ask for it directly but ask for an answer that involves the current date. (https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598890043975774208)

I think what's happening is that part of its prompt tells it that if it's asked for any contemporary information, then it should explain to the user it doesn't know that because its knowledge of the world is based on when it was trained in 2021, and asking for the date triggers this, regardless of the fact that it does actually know that answer.
Well, have a look at the paper and let us know how this one is obviously wrong.

It was linked elsewhere in the thread, but here it is: https://apackham.github.io/mywebsite/opioidpaper_webcopy.pdf
Thanks very much for the substantive response with citations.

My use of “fad” was primarily referring to the author’s reference to “crypto”, unfortunately these days more often short for “cryptocurrency” than “cryptography”. In context that is very clearly the case here:

> Blockchains are the right way for software to eat money

I think the link between cryptography and ML is fascinating, but cryptocurrency is absolutely a faddish cesspool of speculation and fraud.
“Most language models can be poets too”
That’s insane, how do the people in the org justify their work for promotion? There isn’t any need to map it back to observed top line metric shifts even for a 30 person effort?
Exactly! It seems to understand enough about what the commands mean and is able to carry the context forward even if it isn't exactly executing them.

Sure someone must have posted online about ls and rm, but a jumbled combination of those where the model is able to keep track of files listed, created and deleted in the specific context of the chat? Mindblowing!
Sleep exists because people want it, it's convenient -- they just expect it to work correctly.
You can do the setup as a ipython session instead and this also works well and a small counter example
for you using that. Is it will generate what appears to be random numbers using np.random but when you try to sum them or do any math with them, it gives results but they are numerically wrong. It has the ultimate memory and can stylize it in every imaginable direction but it can’t do floating point math yet, so while it seems like it is “running” it isn’t. I have and odd hunch it will be like that eventually with consciousness, it will imitated it well but it never will be.
I wrote "lets write a short story about a man who fall in love with 20 women at once, and that man has to juggle his interactions to them"

Once upon a time, there was a man named Jack who was known for his charming personality and good looks. He was the life of every party and had a way with words that made him irresistible to women.

One day, Jack found himself in a unique situation. He had fallen in love with 20 different women, all at the same time. This presented a problem for Jack, as he had never been in a polyamorous relationship before and didn't know how to manage his interactions with all of these women.

At first, Jack tried to divide his time evenly between the women, but this proved to be impossible. He would often find himself double-booked and having to cancel plans with one woman to spend time with another. The women started to notice that Jack wasn't giving them as much attention as he used to, and they began to feel neglected.

Jack realized that he needed to come up with a better plan. He decided to prioritize his relationships with the women and focus on spending quality time with each of them individually. He also made a conscious effort to communicate openly and honestly with all of the women about his feelings and intentions.

This new approach worked much better for Jack and the women. They were all able to see that Jack was still committed to their relationships, even if he wasn't able to spend as much time with them as he used to. Over time, Jack's relationships with the women flourished and he was able to maintain his love for all of them.

In the end, Jack learned the importance of balance and communication in relationships, and he was able to successfully juggle his love for all 20 of the amazing women in his life.
I listened to the course on Waking Up too, and I can highly recommend it.
Yes, and if anyone doubts it I'd recommend "Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst". A retired analyst/trader really lays out how much insider trading there was back in the 90s even when things were supposedly regulated.
I’d really like to understand what all those people are doing. Like I can understand hundreds, but thousands? Does this thing carry on normal conversations with this people at this point? Like does it do much more than act as an alarm clock or Amazon order taker?

Also $10 billion? Do they hemorrhage money on hardware?
A few of the best in-depth coverages of the scummy US politicians during the 2020 election were done by Teen Vogue. TikTok is a pile, but I agree that juxtaposing it to Clinton Network Network, MSDNC, and Fox Snooze as if those hold any integrity at this point is laughable.
An interesting next step would be to:

1. Give it a goal

2. A bank account + some spending money

3. Access to a web browser and an online identity (Eg gmail account)

Then have it try to achieve that goal.

It could work like:

- You are trying to achieve x. Outline the steps you need to perform

And then:

You are trying to achieve x. Your plan is (outline from initial prompt). You have already done a,b and c with the following outcomes. What’s the next step?

- do the next step

- repeat
Ancient DNA from medieval Germany tells the origin story of Ashkenazi Jews
"Extracting ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once-thriving medieval Ashkenazi Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany. The findings show that the Erfurt Jewish community was more genetically diverse than modern day Ashkenazi Jews."
I tried 5 times but each time it was by "John Doe", is that your name? lol
I think the key difference is that "the left" is more open to adding previously taboo activities or beliefs into its mainstream which can be used as a vector to legitimize abuse. While on "the right" it's more about abusing the power and trust that already exists in conservative communities. Which is worse? I don't think it matters to the victims, but in terms of discussions a difference certainly exists.
False advertising is rampant. Amazon has misleading advertising for local storage on their Blink cameras. They claim to support local storage, but use the subscription (trial) features for 3 months before dropping you into a degraded (local) experience with no thumbnails or bulk deletion of videos. It’s complete trash and, IMO, an intentional scam to deceive users for long enough that they feel like they can’t ask for a refund.

I don’t get the thumbnail thing either. They don’t need to put thumbnails online. At the very most the only thing they need is to relay your (encrypted) data to get around firewall related issues.
If it's cheaper to produce than confirm it's still asymmetric. Even then those poorer on the computing scale will struggle to keep up with the energy requirements of countless bullshit generators wasting their resources
> 3DSecure is a thing and its job is to prevent this exact situation.

3DSecure ticks all the boxes for what you're not supposed to do. Popup window: check, put in your banking username and password while using a merchant site, not your bank's site: check.

I think I've seen a 3dsecure prompt once, maybe twice. I tried to enable it so I could buy fron Aliexpress without calling my card issuer and asking them to turn off all fraud protection on my account for an hour, but that still doesn't work, when I want weird junk direct, gotta call in.
nah, the cabbies had government sponsored monopoly, so they had no incentive to improve. For example NY Taxi Medallion (permission to drive a cab) was sold for hundred thousands of dollars.

Even when Lyfr/Uber gets more expensive, there would atill be competition, so it should not suck as much.
So if Trump goes back on twitter, and he gains massive popularity winning the 2024 election, there is no problem right? If so, there is no double standard, but I seriously doubt those who celebrated his ban, will now be ok with his return, despite the reasoning being the same.
This makes me think of something Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Shaping the oral microbiota through intimate kissing
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. It merges science and storytelling in an amazing way, I can highly recommend it. The books are long, but they didn't seem like it.

Neuromancer by William Gibson. The book that started cyberpunk. I love the genre, but I think it's well worth a read just to see how he can craft a world with language. I sometimes found it hard to understand what exactly was happening, but the vibe was always crystal clear.
1) Smart guy gets good at arbitrage trading, gets a taste for it

2) Starts a trading desk company

3) Loses some bets when he has never lost before, so he bets the farm (keep in mind the farm in this case is every piece of currency that he can conceivably reach regardless of laws, ethics, morality)

4) Loses his hail mary bets. Game over.

Dude needs to be a man/woman and spend the rest of his life working to repay everyone he hurt all while justice crushes his freedom forever.
> It's not like random people are driving up to their house to harass them

When you direct law enforcement to investigate someone, you should anticipate this as a strong possibility.

> And if they are having a mental health crisis, they should be able to plea insanity.

I think the bar for this is much higher than having a mental health crisis, and that even if successful it won't result in you maintaining your liberty but being institutionalized instead of imprisoned. But IANAL and certainly not a UK lawyer (barrister? solicitor?).

> [T]hey should face consequences.

Personally I don't buy the notion of retributive justice. It seems like the volunteers of Fosshost are taking lessons from all of this, and creating a new project with better governance. I think that's a productive and healthy response, and the place where effort should be focused. To me, creating a new, better project to continue the mission, that's what justice is. That's what people donated their money to do, too; to support the mission.

Personally, I plan to donate to their new project. I'm not in a position to contact authorities (as I had no involvement in their last project), but I wouldn't if I could. Everyone makes up their own mind about these things, but I hope anyone considering contacting law enforcement really weighs the potential for harm and what exactly the likelihood of a good outcome is (and what that even means) before acting.
What does working harder even mean? Putting in more hours Japanese style? Building more software that nobody wants or uses?
Three books that really stood out for me last year were:-

1. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1999475.A_Million_Miles_...)

2. The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers by Alex Banyan (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36739769-the-third-door)

3. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54503521-a-thousand-brai...)

There are still like 4 weeks left until 2022 ends, and am hoping to finish more books. Wish me luck! :D
I can't imagine any useful definition of understanding that has no overlap with what GPT accomplishes.
Early life experiences can have long-lasting impact on genes
"Early life experiences can impact the activity of our genes much later on and even affect longevity, finds a new study in fruit flies."
ever since learning this i call :: the paamayim nekudotayim, for example in c++ or rust

unfortunately because i speak almost no hebrew i have to look it up every time
Then great, that is consistent. I just doubt that would be the case. I think the actual justification for banning one political side is not "it's a private company", but rather "it allows our side to win".
Too bad this couldn’t be open sourced
Bad middle managers seem to be driven above everything else by a fear of rejection from the VP/C-Suite. They are reluctant to use the additional power of their role because they're more afraid of it backfiring or failing than they are of being mediocre.

You have a proposal and data and confidence and you put that in front of the VP? It makes sense to the VP, it's convincing, done.

You ask a bad middle manager to sign off on it themselves or put it in front of the VP themselves? Even if it makes sense to them they're gonna tie themselves in knots about how it might not be seen as a good idea to the VP, and why risk that on your behalf?
2 flights (security screening, boarding, unboarding, security screening, transfer time, boarding, unboarding, taxi/train to the city) sounds much less pleasant than a train ride (hop on somewhere central, relax, hop off somewhere central).
Interestingly enough clojure (probably the most widely-used lisp in the real world) uses “first” and “rest”.
Scope and feature creep has nothing to do with customers. It happens in all creative endeavors, most of which do not have anything like customers. It happens in art, music, hobby programming, event planning, etc etc. Everything.

If you sit down to try to write a program that no one will ever see but yourself, you will have to fight against feature creep. It comes from the creators themselves. It's basic human nature to find it easier to desire things than to restrain oneself.
My favourite three-
- Heartwood by Rowan Reid
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Call Of The Reed Warbler by Charles Massy
You have a very strange definition of real I cannot understand. Maybe you're conflating real with natural.
tl;dr: giving users the ability to show / hide some features.
More suffering all because one man is being allowed to be a tyrant.

I know little about France except I thought they were well regarded by pro-nuclear folks for building a standardized system of duplicate nuclear power plants around the country that all used the same model/parts/system. I guess that didn't work out.

BTW it's only 18 months until the Olympics at Paris 2024 and unless someone is going to drop a bunker-buster on baby-hitler-wannabe, his war on Ukraine is still going to be happening
I think you can disable a lot of this using https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 - it’s amazing you can disable so much of this but it’s a shame that Microsoft’s defaults have so many ads and clutter. Not to mention, the first thing I do when installing a fresh copy of Windows 11 is move the start button back to the left where it belongs…
Somewhat in the spirit of that xkcd issue, may I commend you for adapting your opinions in the face of new evidence. It's a great quality to have
It seems midly dangerous to consider _it_ mildly dangerous on the internet.
It's probably downvoted because it's not word salad, not even figurative. Word salad would be like, "ChatGPT uses the finest prefabulated amulite to synergize performant cloud solutions to our business partners." But that's just jargon technobabble. Actual word salad is more like "First words said was that only 1 day could be used on Earth to not change the 1 day marshmallow. So they applied the 1 day and ignored the other 3 days."

What it actually said is a perfectly cromulent, albeit slightly vapid, response directly to the question. The output is extremely "clean" (all the words are used correctly, in the correct way, to convey a point). Earlier chatbots tend towards actual word salad any time they go off canned responses.