skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a portion of that group would be the rear camera, which I believe is now mandated by law, but... the rest of it could be left dumb and I think most people (I know) would be as happy, if not happier.

I rented a uhaul last year and it was mostly analog, with not a screen anywhere on the dash. The backup camera was ingeniously placed under the glass of the rear-view mirror. Most of the gauges were "digital-lite" (lots of lcd/led segmented displays). I'd say if there was a car version with the same interior I would have been quite happy to drive it.
The article says it’s NOT a point in space btw and that it happened everywhere simultaneously. This is an interesting idea I wasn’t aware if and trying to wrap my head around it now :)
But like, what risk? I'm serious. TikTok poses no risk to UT's networks.
If you're looking at a database, you're not guessing. Otherwise: a random int64 is in fact difficult to guess.
long time no see :)
The article tries extensively to dance around the fact that all else being equal, if your head is hitting the ground you're better off wearing a helmet. In the worst cases, you aren't worse off. Acceleration is what kills, and because you can't change the starting speed nor the end speed (0 m/s), all you can change is time.

That doesn't mean they have to be enforced legally, of course. So rather than attacking the merits of helmets, the argument made in the article would be more compelling if it focused on the unalienable right of humans to get severely injured doing stupid stuff for fun or profit.
Serious question, does anyone really struggle with staying under their data limit anymore? I pay $28AUD a month and get 85GB, and I use about 20 of that per month?
>1) Master's degrees are frequently unfunded. PhDs in STEM are fully funded basically as a rule.

PhDs in the humanities and social sciences are also often, or usually, fully funded as well; my sense has always been that for pretty much any academic-career-path field in the US, not being funded for a PhD is essentially an indication that the university doesn't actually want you there. Meanwhile, I think many simply don't offer Master's programs at all.

One aspect of this is that in the US, PhD students can make up a significant part of the teaching staff at the university, with class structures that are heavily built around having large lectures by a professor and PhD students who do quite a bit of the more one-on-one instruction. So departments with many general education requirement classes, like History, can actually end up having a significant amount of funding for PhD students.
How would you watching a different car driving make your driving safer?
Yes, in an ideal world a competitor could just start up their own ChatGPT. However, over the last decade we've seen over and over that "just build your own X" isn't a real solution. Nearly all web-based businesses rely on a few oligopolies which can and do deplatform people they don't like:

- Apple and Google (Parler)

- Payment processors like Visa and Mastercard (porn) or, heck, the banks (Canada truckers, Kanye West)

- Crowdfunding (Unstable Diffusion)

- Cloud hosting like AWS (Parler again)

- Infrastructure like Cloudflare, DNS (Kiwifarms)

And that's not even counting network effects, social media activism, and the difficulty of raising money for a controversial business. Starting a large profitable tech business opposed to SV values is next to impossible, unless you're in China or are content selling to all 2 Monero users on the dark web.

And you can still theoretically run a website out of your basement. LLMs, on the other hand, need ridiculous amounts of compute to train, which practically requires cloud computing. Fine-tuning isn't an answer either: almost all open-source foundation models are conveniently "ethically-sourced" so the groups releasing them can sue any users they don't like. How would a conservative make ParlerGPT if AWS or Google won't rent them A100s or TPUs - "just build your own exascale cluster"??? Even then I suspect Nvidia would deplatform them and it would be game over.

Some companies are infrastructure, and if they're not treated like utilities, your rights are a dead letter. Yes, I do insist that Mastercard and Visa, or Apple and Google, or Nvidia and AMD must always succumb to every group's values who want to buy their services for any legal use. And though I wouldn't necessarily go this far, there's a case to be made that foundation models (which after all are trained on everybody's data) should be politically neutral as well.
The rear camera and bluetooth phone connectivity are very popular.
But by that logic we should always wear helmets. You're always at some risk of head injury.
There's a lot of considerations and trade-offs when implementing your own type system. Do you want the type system to be 100% sound, or do you want it to be convenient to use?

This comes up regularly, and recently did so again when implementing variance of functions with optional parameters. Essentially, I opted for convenience over soundness. Consider the following TS which will crash at runtime, but is permitted by TS' type system:

type NoParams = () => void
type OptionalStringParam = (a?: string) => void
type OptionalNumberParam = (a?: number) => void

let noParams: NoParams = () => {}
let optionalStringParam: OptionalStringParam = str => console.log(str?.toUpperCase() || "Nothing")
let optionalNumberParam: OptionalNumberParam = num => console.log(num !== undefined ? (num / 2) : "Nothing")

noParams = optionalStringParam
optionalNumberParam = noParams

optionalNumberParam(2)

Basically, `noParams = optionalStringParam` probably shouldn't be allowed. But in the general case, it is certainly convenient. So I opted for the same in my own type system.
I checked because I was curious:

2012 15in [1]:

- Height: 0.95 inch (2.41 cm)

- Weight: 5.6 pounds (2.56 kg)

2023 16in M2 [2]:

- Height 0.66 inch (1.68 cm)

- Weight (M2 Pro): 4.7 pounds (2.15 kg)

- Weight (M2 Max): 4.8 pounds (2.16 kg)

[1]: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP694?locale=en_US

[2]: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/specs/
If I had to pick one thing I would say gaming.

But then I overdid it and played too much and slept too little. Now I rarely play games.
At an individual level, helmet wearing makes sense, but at a societal level, designing infrastructure better is where it's at in terms of keeping people safe, and that's probably a far bigger win.
I recently noticed a decline in battery on my M1. It is ridiculous to complain about 10h battery life but the decline was noticeable. I fixed it by:

1) Turn off siri suggestions & privacy and all the app watching it does. System Settings -> Siri & Spotlight -> Siri Suggestions & Privacy. It turned it off for every app.

2) Turn off siri all together. System Settings -> Siri & Spotlight -> Ask Siri Toggle

3) Turn off Spotlight for everything you do not need. System Settings -> Siri & Spotlight -> Search Results check boxes

4) Turn off login items. System Settings -> Login items. Remove what you do not need from the list.

5) Turn off run in background items. System Settings -> Login items -> Allow in background

6) Remove items from ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ that you do not need. I had an old docker vnet item that wasn't needed.

Other than #6, you can do the first 5 things on all of your Apple devices and it makes a big difference in battery life. I just did the same steps with my phone and ipad.

I hope this helps your battery life a little bit.
I dont imagine them to be different, I imagine

1. A Single vote in a smaller political division carries more weight than being diluted in a large nation like the US at the national level.

2. If the local rent seeking becomes too harmful it is far less costly to relocate to a new City, County, or State than it is to immigrate to a new nation

3. It is infinitely more costly for a large corporation to rent seek thousands of cities / counts, and/or 50 US States, than it is for them to rent seek 1 federal government.

I could add probably 5 more things. IMO Federalism is a more desirable system of governance, and provides ways to limit the damage the inevitable corruption can cause.
Ah, yes, my old ThinkPad TrackPoint. My heart said, "YES!," while my carpal tunnels said, "MERCY!"
I agree, I can't see it end well for Russia. Still, we should not forget that even a failed state or defeated country is something to deal with.
https://news.google.com/search?q=%22wasn%27t%20wearing%20a%2...
Lovely idea in theory.

Yet, despite the fact that one of the foundational principles of good governance is to avoid excessive concentrations of power, that does NOT mean that there can be no concentrations of power.

The sad fact is that, whether it is the neighborhood bully or the authoritarian state next door, anyone who wants to live a self-determined life, with a self-determining government, must be better armed, better prepared, and better allied than the abusers and autocrats, or they will be taken over in short order. This includes being able to make decisions quickly. This requires a concentration of power in something like an executive branch.

Similarly, regulating society requires making of laws, and again, by the time a society gets to tens or hundreds of millions of people, this will literally take forever without some kind of representative government; heck, just look at how long it takes to get a couple hundred congress or parliament members to get a basic majority something passed...

So, sure, when you have a tribe of several dozen or maybe the 150 of Dunbar's number [0], the leaders can be near-anonymous or completely unremarkable. Maybe even up to the size of a small town.

But once the size of organization, financing, and weilding of power just required to get anything done to maintain the society gets large, so must the concentrations of power.

The trick is not to pathologically avoid concentrations, it is to balance them.

This is the difference between a democracy and an autocracy. In a democracy, all of the institutions, the govt executive, legislative, judiciary, as well as the press, academy, industry, etc. are all independent, having their own will, centers of power, etc. In an autocracy, all of these govt and societal/economic institutions are bent to do the will of the executive. The trick is keeping those healthy, independent, and balanced.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
rough steps:

1. collect a very large dataset, see: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Fpvch8RR29qLEWNH/chinchilla... . scrape, de-duplicate, clean, wrangle. this is a lot of work regardless of $.

2. get on a call with the sales teams of major cloud providers to procure a few thousands GPUs and enter into too long contracts.

3. "pretrain" a GPT. one common way to do this atm is to create your own exotic fork of MegatronLM+DeepSpeed. go through training hell, learn all about every possible NCCL error message, see the OPT logbook as good reference: https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projec...

4. follow the 3-step recipe of https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ to finetune the model to be an actual assistant instead of just "document completor", which otherwise happily e.g. responds to questions with more questions. Also e.g. see OPT-IML https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12017 , or BLOOMZ https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01786 to get a sense of the work involved here.
On Sale: Twitter Auctions Coffee Makers, Neon Logo as Musk Struggles to Pay Rent
How it started: https://twitter.com/MiTiBennett/status/1612253066165882880?s...

How its going: https://twitter.com/MiTiBennett/status/1615478346179305472?s...
That's a good point; I nearly doubled the next highest score on the midterm in a class of mine. I was not even remotely the only student in the class to get an A.
I'm hella aspergers (now ASD), how much are you offering? lol
Any particular reason why? I will admit, though, that I did not realize this was non-fiction when first skimming it and assumed puppeteer was a real job cooked up by stanford grads.
When you stop thinking about money as a problem. When there is always just as much money in your bank account (or maybe a bit more) since the last time you bothered to look.

In other words, there is no set set amount, you are "RICH" when you have "ENOUGH".

Or as the old joke says "If you have to ask how much it is, you can't afford it."
A bit pedantic, but liberal and conservative are not opposites. Liberalism is a political philosophy, conservatism is to do with rate and direction of change. In America, for example, to be conservative means to be liberal, as the foundation of the country is fundamentally liberalism. If you advocate on behalf of rule of law, free speech, minimal state power, individuality, etc, then that would make you a liberal and a conservative. You want to conserve the status quo political/philosophical system. The opposite of conservatism is progressivism, and both are entirely defined by the context of what they're conserving or progressing.
How much equity did the venture studio take?

I would guess that if they provide a framework/playbook along with the idea, then a first time young founder could get value out of it? Like a trial run on someone else’s dime?
> The article is quite literally a[1] review of exactly how we might evaluate that, with evidence of people who got results.

the procedure seems more like a way to evaluate Anthropic-based AIs with different numbers of parameters, rather than a cross-the-board evaluation of fine-tuned chat AIs, and then those results are extrapolated to somehow say something about all AIs that are built similarly.

unless i'm missing some key here, it feels like a rather loose way to derive experimental data from the landscape.
I still use a 2012 air. It has been demoted in the food chain (so no longer main laptop), but it’s mind blowing how well it still works for basic browsing. Maybe time I replace with a 14” MBP. If that one lasts another 11 years I’m happy.
Most US law enforcement ability comes from their subpoena power, so you could presumably stay out of reach of that by limiting your infrastructure to be located in countries without friendly relations with the US. I doubt some babushka's VPS provider in Belarus is going to respond to a subpoena from the FBI. (However, the FBI probably knows this, and they know you know this... so they might purchase a VPS from that same babushka, to spy on the traffic of neighboring hosts via ARP spoofing and similar network-level attacks.)

Another area of exposure is payment networks (cryptocurrency or otherwise), so ideally you wouldn't purchase any infrastructure at all. But that's not always feasible.

And of course, to be absolutely safe you'd also need to limit your own physical location to countries that don't extradite to the US (and hope they don't sign an extradition treaty before the statute of limitations runs out).
NetworkX came out of LANL circa 2004, it probably is still being developed from there
And still, it seems this is exactly what the article says and it makes perfect sense to me, so I’m not sure why the parent is downvoted.
To be fair, it probably has been a decade since I used it. I used it / tried to use it in my teens.
I was looking for something like this but for the Windows platform (not browser). The built-in snipping tool is great but I wanted a quicker way to take images. I tried looking up if right-click drag on the Windows desktop could be used to take a snap of the area (via some mouse-action binding). All I could find was that the action was bound to Windows Explorer copy/move semantics.
I don't think there's anything new or "inside" here. Seems like a rehash of older news stories. I got tired of reading and looking for anything.
Reads like narcissism. Who cares how popular your art is, as long as it pays the bills? What else are you going to do with your time?
Maybe the teachers can feed the papers back into ChatGPT and ask it what their grades should be, saving a great deal of time.
seems like they are looking in multiple bands hence the 4 spatial dimensions

"Our approach differs from previous work by combining 3D and spectral super-resolution simultaneously with readily available fluorochromes as well as operating in a wavelength range where biological autofluorescence is minimised."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105105/
Those small harms aren't the problem it's the massive harms these industries generate most of their profit from. Nobody cares about moderate consumption, but they do care when corporations manipulate children and adults into destructive behavior that has resulted in significant harm.

That's why the article isn't saying "ban all alcohol forever!" but is saying "lets make sure people are aware of the risks". Same with gambling, which can be lots of fun, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be doing things like limiting and policing the ads or keeping exploitative and additive forms of gambling out of video games marketed to children.
Got hired into a company to replace a guy that didn’t wear a helmet.

He came in to visit about a year later. He could sort of talk and walk a little by that point.

Few years earlier my office Kate declared on Friday he was going to buy a motorcycle. Came in Monday with a broken leg.

To each their own. But I’ll stick to a car with a high safety rating.
hmmm... Following the Constitution is Radical now...

The US Navy is the only constitutional branch of the DoD. How is that for being radical.
Ah, infotainment. Consumers love it, but the same is true of sugar and heroin. I write and help produce a podcast and we are constantly unhappy about the difference between what we think is important vs what people want to hear.
Now that there are so many phony reviews, I've switched to looking at store ratings rather of actual product ratings.
The date gives this away as some kind of ridiculous political posturing. By 2035 gasoline cars will be <20% of all auto sales.
Ask any mountain biker and they'll give you this conclusion from experience, almost all of us have had some low-speed awkward crash where a helmet was the difference between getting up and walking away or laying in the woods with an open head wound.

If I'm riding on the road do I expect a helmet to help if I'm run over or hit at high speed? Not really. But if someone clips me and I hit the pavement I'd rather something than nothing.
Yeah, he's explaining how you would create the base model, which is actually one of the more straightforward parts given that they've published their architecture (though I'm sure they've withheld a bit of their special sauce).

In reality, putting aside the millions of $$ needed to pay for the GPUs to train the model, the complexity actually lies in the training data acquisition/cleaning and the infrastructure needed to harness the 1000s of GPUs to train it in a remotely reasonable timeframe.

That being said there are a number of companies (Google, AI21, Cohere, and probably others) who have successfully created large language models like GPT3, so it's definitely not impossible when you have the resources.
Makes me want to feed the article into some sort of program that could rewrite it to be more succinct..
I'm pretty sure you were the one who took the argument into this direction, by equating banning a chat app to launching missiles - waging war.

I'm not asking us to hold ourselves to China's standards - that's the lowest bar in the universe. I'm asking us to hold ourselves to our own standards.
Haven’t we learned our lesson with effective altruism cough sbf cough
I remember that amazing feeling when I was financially free. It's so great. It absolutely sucks when you can't quit and it magnifies any issue you face.
IMO I'd like a better head unit. Fast responsiveness, making Android Auto come up faster, more reliable bluetooth pairing.

Being able to see more data would be cool too. In my car I can't see my historical MPG like I've seen in other cars.
> And at low $40k entry level they're maybe not priced cheap, but cheap-ish in the EV world

I mean we're talking EV cars here, and comparing with Tesla. The cheapest Model 3 you can get out the door is $47K. So they're "cheaper than EVERY Tesla".
AI can train in complex simulations and games, not just to imitate human text. It needs grounding, and that can come from a variety of sources - if you connect the model to a simulator, a code execution engine, a game or a math solver, it can learn from interacting with these systems.
Hmm. One of the most frightening things I ever read pointed out that Hitler conquered Denmark (home of Niels Bohr) and Norway (source of the only industrial heavy water supply) before opening the large-scale war by invading France. In hindsight, that's terrifying. (I don't know to what degree those reasons played into choosing those two moves.)

The parent is giving me somewhat similar vibes...
Fayetteville State has some pretty unique regional and demographic considerations to take into account, and specific issues concerning student engagement with this course matter.

Paragraphs 2-5 of the article are worth reading in this regard, e.g.

> Our students will be largely taking this course online, half of our students are over the age of 25, many are veterans or military-affiliated, many are from rural communities, and we are a regional public Historically Black University focused on improving student access to a college education.

and

> I started teaching World History to 1600 in Spring 2019 as a provost-led intervention in the core curriculum and gateway classes that had high rates of students receiving final grades of D or F or withdrawing from the course.

The article is a case study in local curriculum engineering, not a doctrinal proclamation.
> Rust's flight irreparably damaged the reputation of the Soviet military. This enabled Gorbachev to remove many of the strongest opponents to his reforms. Minister of Defence Sergei Sokolov and the head of the Soviet Air Defence Forces Alexander Koldunov were dismissed along with hundreds of other officers. This was the biggest turnover in the Soviet military since Stalin's purges 50 years earlier.

This flight is a whole series of extraordinary coincidences, but the fact that such a ridiculous event essentially cleared the way for Gorbachev to reform the entire Soviet military is astonishing. History is full of strange things.
Ding, ding, ding! A lot of security/compliance folks like to pay money for scapegoats. It certainly helps with job security. Worst case scenario? Find another vendor.
Nostrum: Nostr Search
I think you've got it backwards. Humans desire status because it represents power, not the other way around. Loss of power, by which I mean the ability to enact one's will on reality, is a death-knell to any living creature.
Where to look for reasonable units? Been scouting but haven't found anything like what you mention which looks realistic. Preferably it should also support flashing a custom ROM but not a deal breaker.
I am deeply uneasy, based on how these current models have been described, at ascribing them "opinions."

"What can I get this thing to spit out with a certain prompt" is very meaningfully not the same as "an AI's opinion." Or this quote pulled directly from this blog post: "we’ve already found that AIs use stereotypes in reasoning" - isn't it more accurate to say "these models are trained on a body of work that includes countless stereotypes"? Can the model even identify a stereotype or can it just identify what other people have called a stereotype?

This is presented as a quote from some research "These results suggest that models may cease to provide accurate answers as we start to use them for increasingly challenging tasks where humans cannot provide accurate supervision. Instead, these models may simply provide incorrect answers that appear correct to us." but also seems fairly like a "duh" that I've already seen other commenters here say, and other linked articles here say, because that's inherent to their construction, no? Even the follow-on about "less helpful answers to users who present as stupid" seems to follow from "bodies of text showing less educated people communicate with themselves tend to have less educated conversation"?