skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If LLMs (etc.) had the same requirements and business models as AV cars they'd still be considered a failure. Nobody expects Stable Diffusion to have a 6-sigma accuracy rate*, nor do we expect ChatGPT to seamlessly integrate into a human community. The AV business model discourages individual or small scale participation, so we wouldn't even have SD (would anyone allow a single OSS developer to drive or develop an AV car? Ok, there's Comma, that's all there is on the OSS side).

* The amount of times that I've seem an 'impressive' selections of AI images that I consider a critical failure deserves it's own word. The AIs are impressive for even getting that far, it's just that some people have bad taste and pick the bad outputs.
I think your first point is important for workers to remember: never feel more loyal to the company than they are to you. That doesn’t mean you don’t work hard but you shouldn’t assume more compensation than you have a legally-binding arrangement for because the C-suite is always hearing from people like this.

This really ties into the first point about profitability: there’s always room for disagreement about the best path, especially over a longer time frame, and that means you want to have some idea of where your upper management stands. It doesn’t help you personally to be working on some long-term project if they’re focused on answering somebody like this.
How recent are the images for non-US? Next to my house there's a condo development since last year, and all I see (in the preview?) is green empty land.
Sexism and racism is minor compared to crime and poverty? (Which Japan also has, you just don't see it)
Link w/o paywall: https://archive.is/m6Yg1
I'm not an artist, but they look fine to me. I am not the kind of person who spends hours in a Gallery admiring the nuances of paintings or photos. However, at the level of detail I usually admire these things, the clown one looked interesting and the Monalisa one was funny. The strawberry seemed a bit weird, but I don't think I'd care for it even if it was perfect anyway. The wintery landscape I thought was pretty good and the red dog it delivered what was asked. Not sure how it could be much different than that.
We're seeing a similar "optimization" on the internet. In this case it's information that's being optimized.

We're getting information that's less useful and nourishing, more clickbaity, pandering and addictive.

We could say that the internet is turning Red Delicious.
Yep the Dutch prime minister was recently in Washington to discuss this too. Biden wants ASML to stop selling machines to China.

"You are either with us or you are with the terrorists"
The proposed system exists, and humans have had to work in it for some time now. People get routinely sued for copyright infringement if their work is too close to an existing work. The (successful) suit against George Harrison for "My Sweet Lord" is a good example of infringement via influence with no clear malicious intent.
If the AI wants to be exempt from being punished for training on copyrighted works the bare minimum standard is that it doesn’t accidentally copy and reproduce large portions of that work. There are quite a few examples of Stable Diffusion doing this so I think even that low bar is met. I think anyone sane doesn’t want to create AI immunity to copyright damages even when the network is “accidentally” producing copyrighted output. If you can’t adequately control your technology to avoid that case you shouldn’t get immunity to liability for your problematic outputs. I get that testing for every possibility is impossible and that neural net explainability is far behind neural net technology so it’s very hard to proactively identify and debug these technologies. But just because those are hard problems doesn’t give you the right to steal from copyright holders.
Agreed, AI needs to play by the same rules as humans. But this includes being held liable for obvious copyright violations (or any other sort of license violation) in court (the next question is who is liable, the company which offers the AI service, or the user of the AI service who commercially exploits the output which violates copyright).

This is the exact same progress that music sampling went through.
> See this massively undermine your own argument. I.e. that Ukrainians are eager to align with the west to protect their supposed distinct nationality vs. they are greedy to get a piece of Western economic prosperity (the true reason).

Why not both? Let's face it, the Russian world is shit. Both in terms of freedom and prosperity. Everyone wants freedom and prosperity, calling Ukrainians "greedy" for it is simply insulting.

> There is no evidence that Russia wants to reassert itself over eastern Europe

Just listen to what the Russians actually say... That's the evidence, they say it themselves that they want to reassert their rule over everything that was previously "Russian".
Discovery Overturns a Century of Knowledge About Origin of Modern Birds
Then maybe the solution is to do away with the leaders who can't. Because lots of people who crave power are exactly the ones who shouldn't have it in the first place. Xi for instance is not exactly lighting the way in terms of ethics.
Social was able to achieve everything it was expected from it, most of the content on internet went behind walls unreachable by Google. Google missed out on that but didn't lose it's ground much or its losses were compensated by their success in mobile.

The difference this time is, the new shiny thing goes directly into Google territory.
Did you raise an issue with the drop_nan bug? If not, please do ;)
Not a lawyer, but doesn't the direct and intentional actions (sabotage of the steering) by the narrator put Xaiver into a position that would ultimately end in death (with no possible escape or rescue), then the time it takes to achieve that is irrelevant from a law perspective. It was first degree murder.

If the FBI created a sting wherein they gave you a gun you thought was real, but wasn't actually capable of firing, and you pointed it at someone and pulled the trigger, you could still face a murder a charge even though there was no way the gun would do any harm. It was your intent followed by action to achieve that intent that mattered.
Dave Farley: Is This Why You’re Bad at Programming? [video]
That special condition being a decent size population of Haredi Jews and Muslims who have much higher fertility rates than other groups.
Our company recently decided to get a bug in their butt requiring us to get all the software we (developers) use pre-vetted by IT. They can’t seem to comprehend the chilling effect that has on innovation and trying new things.

Even if they’re “quick” to approve something it’s still a matter of hours before I can try some new command line tool. I am far more inclined just to hack something together with pre-approved tools than spend potentially days getting a tool approved just for it not to be a good match.
"textual inversion"
The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
That just shows what's important to you. Which is not necessarily what's important to others.
I bought YouTube premium because I watch quite a lot of technical videos and the ads got tiresome. I wouldn't pay for Twitter ads to go away since I don't use Twitter for reasons that would keep there if the ads got too annoying, but I agree it should be an option on more platforms.

That said I wonder if YouTube Premium would be as good a deal if it did not include ad free YouTube Music, which I've found to be an under-appreciated music service.
Yes, perfectly fine.

My only complaint is with generically categorizing alternatives as "gibberish".

This tends to convey a sense of arrogance and lack of tolerance that I have observed to be quite common among supernaturalists.

As evidence of this, I submit the fact that my post was immediately down voted --- despite being virtually identical to the original which wasn't. Thus demonstrating a clear basis for one "gibberish" over another.
They don’t need to believe it, they just need to believe that other people will believe in it. Even CEOs can get a lot of pushback and since they’re looking to do drastic changes it helps to get as much buy in as possible.
Some of these are really, really cool. Stunning that a simple query can produce art of this detail.
I’m just going by the quality I perceive as a user. It handles basically every CAPTCHA, difficult scans of printed documents, etc. better than Tesseract. I’m sure there is lots of hard work beyond the pure ML component but from a user’s perspective it’s impressive.
> that’s an easy way of making a lot of people either unable to contribute

SQLite is closed to outside contributions.

> but isn’t this a fork risk

Sure. But don't expect a fork to succeed beyond the original. It's not like egcs/gcc where existing developers were unhappy and wanted to break free from perceived dysfunction.
Always thought that social was Google's missing magic ingredient, just as much for associating content creators with identities. structured data/schema goes some way in addressing that.

They're very good at measuring the intent of the searcher, perhaps not so good at measuring the intent of why a ranking page existed in the first place.

Perhaps gets harder when more AI-like content will appear.
> Just because a move has never been played, doesn't make it illegal, only untried.

Well, I think this is nickelpro's point. Namely that the model "does not have a systemic understanding of the rules, only a statistical inference of them."

However, I would still counter nickelpro's point with the idea that what we call systemic understanding is fallible - and most likely statistical in nature. Another response below gives the example of a human understanding the rules of chess but still making incorrect moves.

I might even say that any system truly capable of understanding is inherently fallible. A digital calculator or conventional database is impressive in its accuracy and consistency precisely because the rigor within its programming operates beyond the realm of understanding.
Two things

1. It actually makes me insecure.

2. Don't we already have apps that do such things? Yes, they were more specialized, but it's the same thing as Prisma app.
Then why do you try to shut down the discussion?

As for me being naive: I am pretty realistic in my expectations but I do believe that the achilles heel of these characters is exposed: their wealth stems from a bug in capitalism that allows the unfettered collection of money, power, influence once you achieve a certain base. The fact that we don't have a way to effectively tax transnational entities is something that is absolutely fixable, and we currently do not have rules for that. Changing the game entirely is throwing the baby away with the bathwater, taking care of < 500 individuals in such a way that their tricks are no longer going to cause the upheaval of the lives of 100's of thousands of others is definitely something I would be happy to see implemented.
"When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size 3,000 Years Ago?" https://neurosciencenews.com/evolution-human-brain-collectiv...

Coincidence? ;)

"the brain shrinkage parallels the expansion of collective intelligence in human societies."

It looks like we are due for another brain shrinkage.
We're all driving one, so at least we can extrapolate from our own experience.
Any product that has managed to make its customers achieve business goals within profit margins.

Winning benchmarks is meaningless without a business case for them.
Because it's not a physical othello board? It's just an internal model of an othello board encoded in the weights of a neural net?

Insert whatever semantics float your particular goat
> avoiding a large severance package is cheaper.

it sounds like greed, not incompetence.

I just do not believe in a worldview where almost all CEOs of large tech companies are incompetent. Whatever the explanation for layoffs is, incompetence ain't it.
Co-Pilot generated code is based on works that come from a variety of licenses. The generated code therefore must be licensed according to the license the code it was derived from used. In many cases these licenses are not compatible and the generated code, being derived from copyrighted and licenses works, is in violation of copyright law.
I’ve been slowly integrating more devices to my home assistant setup—most recent a garage door controller—and I thought I was done for now and content with the setup. After reading this I can’t help but plan out the next several weekends to try to replicate this in hass.
> laws that cannot be enforced in practice are bad laws;

Who said they couldn't be enforced? The argument from the pro-AI team is that we shouldn't have those laws in the first place.

I'm saying, let's keep the laws we already have because they already work quite nicely if the content creators don't want their work included in any training data set.

Rushing to make new laws because "Muh AI" is silly.
A new Settlers II map generator
No; there is an OOC (out-of-core, eg: > RAM) streaming mode.
https://github.com/pola-rs/polars#handles-larger-than-ram-da...
Neurologically I am usually the last to understand the point of a joke. I completely missed this.
So, quantum mechanics?
Setting a new focus for my blog
Indeed for technical queries it really feels like a verbatim depth crawler and really makes me feel like a search 'power-user' again.

For product search or regional results it's still not there but I specifically pay for Kagi for technical queries (after growing frustration with other engines) and I am very happy with that use-case.
Section 2.1

> No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a happier and more productive life, but individuals are free to dispute or ignore that advice if they wish.
AFAIK Wolf3D required a 286 and I found a forum thread[1] that seems to agree.

1. https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/wolfenstein-3d-sys...
The public is not in general the public that is active on the stockmarket, in spite of the name 'public company' you are looking at very large amounts of institutional capital and a relatively small part owned by the guy in the street. Of course in times of a perceived downturn all of those institutional investors will be trying to offload their holdings onto the guy in the street before the music stops and that is one way in which the 'public' then participates in the market: they lose their shirt.
I’ll have to read up if the fig was a monoculture like bananas and therefore disease is kind of a consequence of what you’re pointing out.
Totally off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure Wolfenstein 3D was real mode, because I remember reading that Rise of the Triad was based on the Wolfenstein engine and one of the changes involved converting it to protected mode.
If so, doesn’t that make it trivial for anyone to make a ChatGPT-like app using the GPT-3 API? If so, I would’ve expected several ChatGPT-like tools coming out in the days following GPT-3’s release. I don’t understand why it took so many months - and then, why it was OpenAI themselves that finally released the first interactive thing on top of it. It’s puzzling.
Why are only google employees the ones who are so entitled they are demanding unions.

Every other company laid off tens of thousands and you didn’t hear anything in the comments sections or twitter.

But Google?

Omg my union! Whiniest people on earth. Seriously! Most entitled. It’s all over twitter and hacker news comment sections. Because it’s a concerted effort.

I know this will be downvoted because union activists are promoting this on every social channel but it has to be said: You are not entitled to your 7 figure income.

This is not even a biased post, it’s just facts. Google has the most entitled culture and you see it come out in these moments. They need to CUT HARDER.
So it’s ok if it’s some immigrant who gets the shit pay without any chance of a career, got it.
Many developers do store copies of their code in their working environments, but these copies may not be as easily accessible or organized as a separate backup. In case of an emergency, it's easier to find the developer with the latest copy or just restore from a backup?

Modifications to a git repository can be undone if the repository itself is not deleted. If it's deleted, you will have to find the developer which has the latest copy on its working environment. Regarding the metadata, the chances of recovering it are very small.

Unauthorized access to your GitHub account can lead to code being stolen or tampered with, and using a backup service could potentially expand the attack surface (even if we do our best to minimize the chances). However, the benefits of having a backup in a separate location, such as being able to restore or migrate your code with one click, outweigh the risks in many cases. At least this is the opinion of the companies using such services.

How many developers are in your team?
What I think will happen is changing of software development roles. They'll be split into things AI/ML can do and things humans will continue to do (using copilots). And the work that humans do will be constrained in ways to interface with the machine, as well as take the output from machines and complete integrations. We might even use programming languages that the machine handles better. So software development has humans producing/validating that then gets used by machines, and that output being used for final integration/validation. With these new formalized structures, AI [that ship has sailed] will train on it and replace more of the stack.
To me, that’d be a UX nightmare. Even if I tried to, I’m not going to memorize which of my 20 checked-out Python projects are requiring which Python invocation.

IMHO it’s absolutely the toolchain’s job to manage that for me. I’d never adopt a toolchain that wouldn’t.
<<was given at a SIAM conference and the recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpqsmwlfY0>>

At 14:00, the interactive slider exploration due to the speed is amazing. Over 500 Monte Carlo simulations in less than 60ms.
I've gone down this road before, setting up a protocol with ChatGPT. You can see some early revisions of it on a gist[0].

It instructed chatgpt to communicate via a protocol and for the most part it worked. It also bypassed a lot of the neutering openai has done as a side effect.

Might be interesting for someone to play with. Since chatgpt doesn't have API access this was as far as I decided to take it. Feed the prompts in order, one after the other. If you do something cool with this, let me know!

Just a tip if you want to modify it: Changing the rules or adding commands later on seems not to work very well at all. It starts to break the "fourth wall" and starts issuing responses without using the protocol framing. In my experimentation it worked best when establishing everything at the beginning. Changes to the prompts worked best when starting with new sessions.

Also, don't expect it to remember things well. E.g. don't try to tell it to remember the last timer value, for example. It simple can't handle it, not entirely sure why. You'd need to rely on the external "software handler" for storage/retrieval.

[0] https://gist.github.com/Qix-/4f3b3f249192caa140c95ce4c38a232...
From memory, it could run on a 286. Here is this version running on a NEC V20 at 9.55 MHz, an Intel 8088 clone, but was closer to the 80188 : https://twitter.com/Jameshhoward/status/1612900164745981953
> many of these clauses are legally unenforceable because you can violate them without infringing on any of the rights that copyright law grants exclusively to the copyright holder (who can license them)

That's news to Microsoft[1], who's shared source and various NDA licenses for the source code already has clauses restricting what you can do with it.

[1] I think the problem is that the pro-AI arguments are coming from people who are not aware that clauses in licenses restricting how the content is used is quite common. For example, you were obviously not aware that they were so common that almost every big tech and/or software company of the past and the present already have those clauses in, and those clauses have already been found to be enforceable!
> would this be a copyright violation or not?

It would be. When a human does this, does it invalidate the human's ability to create any new work at all? Should we chain up anyone who violated copyright by perfectly recalling someone's art in memory and re-drawing it from heart, since we cannot trust them to ever create an original work again?
Is there a way to pre-download all models? I want to create a docker image and cache the models.

Also any way configure the generated file path beyond directory or directly pipe image from the CLI?
Apparently people aren’t even required to follow the rule. Which makes it an even weirder thing to state in the CoC. I think having useless or unnecessary things in the CoC is “bad” is valid criticism of it tbh.
Git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos
> don't need to get a new, slightly different sized, hammer every time you get a slightly different size of screw to hit in.

I don’t know for 100% if that (hammer in a screw) was intentional or not, but it was beautiful.
Yet you exist thanks to the group effort
iD (id?) didn't use DOS extenders until Doom IIRC
There's no description of the time spent in "Stockers & Backgrounders" phase, but we can infer it. 18-22 months to cattle market weight, and 4-6 months at feedlots mean that they scarcely spend a few extra months there.

This paints a picture of indeed grazing on grass for majority of lifespan, albeit not an overwhelmingly large portion. Also that they are slaughtered at a surprisingly young age.
That sounds like 4chan. And it doesn't work because you can't monetize it.

Browse to 4chan and turn off your ad blockers if you want to understand.
> A model that "knows" the rules will make no errors, a model that makes any errors does not "know" the rules. Simple as.

Wittgenstein would ask, does it matter if the model “knows all the precise rules” or not?

Does it matter if I know all the precise rules? Can two of us have a fun game of chess if we basically know all the rules and mainly make legal moves or at least not notice when we break a rule or can agree on an action when we’re confused?

What’s important is that we or the model play the same game with others. We don’t need to worry too much about the definitions. We just need to observe the results to deduce if there was any sort of meaningful interactions.

What exactly is offsides in soccer? Or pass interference in football? Or a balk in baseball?
Yes, you are right about the technical aspect, but my comment was about psychology. Writing test and going to sleep is abit like asking a question to your friend and waiting for answer to the morning - it might get annoying.
> ..people are still referred to as “Black Americans” and “Asian Americans” instead of just “Americans” (similar in other countries) although they have lived there for generations, while there simply aren’t many non-Asian looking foreigners living in Japan for a long time.

Why is this listed as a fault (or even listed under “most Western countries”)?

This is proud component of American culture. You’re more often to find people embrace this than see it is a con.
I've never understood statements to the effect of, "if you take out the group causing the effect, then the effect is no longer present".

I remember discussing a buggy application once with another engineer (I could reliably crash the server with a mis-configuration on the client), and I was taking a fairly apologetic stance that after all the workarounds I had to make it work, it worked OK. His response was, "yeah, if you take out all the parts that suck, then it doesn't suck". And now I can never unhear that.