skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it just really endearing that at companies, regardless of how many other issues they have or the dysfunctions and bland corporate culture, there are people who keep the pride of purpose and "olden days / traditions" in their memory and do things like this. Or are able to call on institutional memory of something bygone, that reappears once in a while. (whether it's a big gesture like this or small cultural day-to-day manifestations).

You wonder how pockets of this survive when top management comes and goes, who sometimes only know the company as just some logo or another corporation to be managed, and when workforces go through rounds and rounds of potential layoffs where such knowledge and initiative is generally lost.

Maybe it also helps to be a company that has at least something to do with hardware that leaves a physical history :)
Come back when you know about HWND, boy.
> Having worked in advertising during a younger & less jaded period of my life, knowing the aims and tactics they use helps reduce their effectiveness.

It's best to be aware of what they're doing and how, but I'm not sure how much it helps protect us. I can't seem to find it now, but I'm pretty sure I've seen research saying that awareness doesn't offer much defense. Our brains are simply susceptible to certain attacks and like an optical illusion that can't be unseen even when you know what's wrong, we're still influenced to some degree by the kinds of manipulations commonly used by advertisers.
I think more likely the large companies which provide "self service" will continue to dominate the majority share of the market while leaving room at the edges for other companies to differentiate on customer service. You can see this in effect with FastMail and Proton Mail each of which offer a great product in their own regards, but also have the major selling point of being "Not Google".
(I work at OpenAI.)

Thanks for the report — these are not actually messages from other users, but instead the model generating something ~random due to hitting a bug on our backend where, rather than submitting your question, we submitted an empty query to the model.

That's why you see just the answers and no question upon refresh — the question has been effectively dropped for this request. Team is fixing the issue so this doesn't happen in the future!
Half of men under 30 are single in my country. Yeah, sure. Lots of enjoyment for everyone.

Women are relatively lonelier than in the past too.
I've never quite understood why people hate this trend so much. The fluff is often overdone, agreed, but when you don't want that stuff, just scroll down until you hit ingredients and you're good to go.
Wait, wasn't the entire argument around "we scraped everything and fuck your copyrights" that it was non-commercial?
Doesn't matter how nice you make it, I'm not eating outside during the cold months. It's freaking cold, and those outdoor propane heaters are not only marginally effective, they're a clear and obvious environmental insult.
A few days ago, Finland was considering going alone, now it appears they will wait for Sweden to be accepted. At least for a while.

Anyway, both Sweden and Finland have much to offer NATO.
yes it sounds amazingly hard. but then , opting out doesn't have to be an all or nothing. And it doesn't have to be all at once. Small steps are much better than no steps!

this post (same author) talks about how to he strategic and selective about your opt outs. Not everyone has to be an extremist!

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-secrets-to-my-success/
It's not unreasonable to ask the candidate permission to either record the video interview, or at least have their camera on for 20s while a screenshot is taken.
This is how I'm thinking about it. If I save an hour a week, will I really clock out at 4PM on Friday and say "in the counterfactual world without ChatGPT, I would still be working, so I'm free to clock out now". No, probably not. Will I work on another task for extra hour to productivity-maxx? Also, probably not. Probably the rest of my tasks will magically expand to fill that time. Or I will spend it fiddling around with something else of dubious value. There's a whole psychological element to it. If I was a perfect min/max-er and allocated my time perfectly based on ROI, I would probably already be a millionaire by some other means.

And it's good to keep in mind, the comparison is not $20 for ChatGPT versus nothing. It's $20 for ChatGPT Plus, versus my API-hacky-solution for $2, versus ChatGPT free, for $0.
Basically, although the space shuttle has the worst glide ratio of any aerospace vehicle I am aware of. To simulate landing the shuttle, they used a businessjet with the engines in reverse…
Which is fine, people who want to use the AI for customer facing things and can't risk "oops AI was accidentally racist" and companies that don't want every blogspam site posting a never-ending "Is OpenAI's ChatGPT Bad For Society?" and the inevitable "Inside The 2024 Election Disinformation Campaign, Powered By ChatGPT" will pay for the filtered version because, as much as it sucks to say, the filtered version is the actually useful one. The unfiltered version is interesting as a reflection of online discourse, memes, and creative writing, but not really better as a tool.
> homophobic, racist, sexist, emotionally and mentally stunted incels

This is the counter-culture. The dominant culture opposes all of these things and makes obligatory the celebration of the opposite values. 4chan being one of the few lightly-restricted free speech zones allows for culture generation that would be censored anywhere else. Counter-culture is supposed to be edgy, just like jazz and rock were edgy, greasers/rockabilly were edgy, beatniks were edgy, hippies were edgy, disco was edgy, punks were edgy, LGBTQ was edgy, and so on. Every one of them were described by dismissive epithets just like the string you put together about how awful and contrary to decency they were.
The Food Pyramid Was Never About Keeping You Healthy
Microsoft basically owns them now, ClosedAI
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Society did not get abruptly and dramatically unequal between 2013 and 2015 nor between 2019 and 2020. Socioeconomics doesn’t predict these crime surges.

Richard Rosenfeld speaking to The Guardian: “The only explanation that gets the timing right is a version of the Ferguson Effect”

Vox reporting on Travis Campbell’s research: “Campbell’s research indicates that these protests correlate with a 10% increase in murders in the areas that saw BLM protests”.

Harvard’s Roland Fryer and Tanaya Devi found that prominent BLM protests were associated with 900 excess homicides in the 5 cities they examined and 34k excess felonies. They report that the leading hypothesis is a change in policing activity, and the cities they studied had precipitous drops in the quantity of police-civilian interactions following the protests.

These are professional criminologists and economists—I doubt they’re being “silly” as you suggest.
Fair enough! I don't fully agree but it's a matter of opinion ultimately. Was just answering your question as I see it.
Original author here. I'm also in favor of more writing about privacy motivation, even if editors don't always want that all in the text they publish. I'm writing more about it at The Opt Out Project in addition to other places: for instance, the famous Pregnancy Experiment, where I kept my data about my (unborn) children away from digital detection: https://time.com/83200/privacy-internet-big-data-opt-out/
In some states that's not a minority opinion. And the court decision also was kinda flimsy - 5:4 instead of 8:1 or something like that. That 5:4 can become 4:5 in the future. And just like abortions - gay marriage can become illegal in some states again.
> NUCs and other mini PC's from HP/Dell are _so_ much better at similar if not cheaper prices.
> the decade+ of tutorials, Youtube videos, forum posts, github READMEs, etc

While this doesn't apply so much to mini x86 PCs, most random ARM SBCs have hit or miss software support, as Jeff mentions in the article.

Admittedly, I would prefer a RPI over whatever board this article was about, if I could get one for (near) MSRP. Part of it is the price, a "$35" computer is cheap enough to fry it making a mistake, or permanently lock it in a box as a camera controller in the garage, or whatever project idea requires... then buy more for the next project.

A lot of RPI tutorials treat it more like a software appliance, where you run one thing on the device, and if you want to run a second thing you use a second RPI - more like a Linux-based microcontroller than a server. Thats only possible at the $35 price point. I have a used PC that I use as a server at home for a few things, running a 2015 i5 chip. I would never use it to just run one thing, or lock it up with a project. It basically has to sit in my house, hosting a bunch of things at once. Meanwhile I've been buying a handful of Pis since 2015, and I have them scattered over the house... one controlling smarthome stuff, one controlling the 3D printer... one in the garage... etc.
Does anyone know if this can be done in other macOS automation apps too? (like Keyboard Maestro, Hammerspoon, Raycast, Alfred, ...)
I will also note that there is such thing as dissuasive pricing. “Go away” pricing. “We’ll do this, but it’s not really our thing so we’re going to make it expensive for you.”

Not sure if that’s what’s happening here. But sometimes when you see a bad offer what you’re really seeing is “we’d rather not.”
Fuel efficiency is one part, but the increased consumer preference for direct flights is another, while the business model for the A380s was basically "ferry all your passengers to the nearest hub on A320s then use A380s to bring them from hub to hub". But instead larger twinjets like the B787 and A350 which could do these direct routes more economically won.
The purpose of 'counterculture' is an outlet for dissatisfaction, allowing the neo-colonial system to continue operating smoothly. Preferably getting the dissatisfied to buy things and serve their function among the colonized.

The only true counterculture would be about changing the circumstances enabling the neo-colonial system, and this is the fear of the neo-colonialists and their enablers who benefit from status-quo. Everything else is window-dressing, distraction, and detours, made up to look like change.
My Red wasn't critical and they had a crappy camera on-hand so it's not like I couldn't have done the job, just so we are clear. I don't need my lights, or my primes, or any of my stuff. They had the very bare minimum. But it was garbage so I negotiated accordingly. And we all won in the end!
I mean, good.

My employment contract has right on there that all outside employment will be disclosed. And because I pay salary, I am expecting that all of your efforts will go towards my job.

Try to lie and hold two jobs? I will 100% fire you, and get the other place to fire you. In fact I have done this once myself as well.
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Discord is not a "chat app". That's a pretty narrow view on how it is both used and vended. It's a communications app, at a minimum, and people use it for audio, video, chat, events, and a bunch of other stuff that may require hardware acceleration.
Thinking only about the humans is pretty selfish and sad. If Asian hornets go extinct, or gonorrhea bacilli, I won't shed many tears. Whales, elephants, apes laugh and love also, let them live.
Wait until they report accounts that trigger the filters too often to one of the three-letter agencies.
"...the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap." — AdS (fict)
I should have been more clear and said "using SQL only without R or python". This is for internal BI use, not for product development.
Google Groups, if I understand correctly, is used internally at Google extensively.

Last time I checked Usenet, it seemed like many of the users were pirates. The pirate releases would then get reuploaded to bittorrent sites.
Ugh that sucks, sorry. We love the name but the only thing holding us back was the association with guns.
Not denying that, but you previously claimed that “the largest portion of the company is related to the fab.” If you’re saying PTD PhDs are this “largest portion of the company” in terms of engineers, that makes no sense. Intel isn’t hiring more PhDs than Masters/Bachelor – there aren’t enough PhDs out there for that to ever happen.

The majority of Intel employees are directly related to the fab, but those employees are not mostly PhDs without many other job prospects.
> but I spend the vast majority of my time working on things I'd probably be doing anyways

But is it your project? Or is it your employers, and do they actually own it? If you’re fired, do you still get to work on that project?

> what I'm working on is more interesting than what I'd almost certainly be doing if I had accepting one of my TT offers

I’m curious, why wouldn’t you just decide to work on a project that was more interesting to you?

> But isn't the goal to get off the bullshit ladder?

The goal would be to do research. So my question is: who is doing such independent work? Who are these researchers and how are they disseminating their work? If there aren’t very many of these people, can we not conclude this mode of research is not a viable alternative to mainstream research?

> What's wrong with this?

Nothing is wrong with this. But the suggestion is that if someone wants to do research, they should amass wealth in industry and then do research. My point is that close to 0 people end up taking this route (at least from where I’m sitting, maybe there is a whole community of multimillionaire tech researchers I don’t know about).

So I wonder how viable this path is? Do people just not consider it? Or do they lose interest in research over those two decades? Does life get in the way?

I guess my overall point is that, most people who want to do research, just do it. Spending decades amassing resources just to get started seems backwards.

> took Professor of Practice positions for their kids' college years.

And so you’re saying they funded their own research with their wealth at that point?

> you're spending some of the interest...

I thought we were talking about funding a research agenda. From where I’m sitting, that costs millions. If you’re making millions in interest income, I think we’re talking about at different scales here.

> IS an independently wealthy person... that's the whole point.

My meager research agenda costs roughly $1 million per year (no special equipment or facilities). How long can a retired tech worker burn cash at that rate and still make it through retirement?

Maybe the math works out but I don’t know.
if challenging your assumptions is something that your worldview can't tolerate I think that means that you need to tinker with your worldview a bit, not that people should stop challenging your assumptions.
How difficult is it to make the GPT API to behave like ChatGPT?
I was thinking the same thing. You made me smile.
Mm. Good to know.
That is one of the reasons for some of those stories, sure.

However, the specifics of reasons have basically nothing to do with the trend of tech evangelists making the same tedious and inaccurate arguments again and again. In this article, the blogger decrying the practice links to a recipe blogger who's already covered the same ground more efficiently; this isn't even hot air.

'Why do tech bloggers always use this outdated example to pad things' is a better and far more original question.
Are you making a serious comment, or does this pass for wit on such a topic? If serious, is that the sum of your contribution? To want to eat an animal that hasn't existed for hundreds of years?
> Historically, that hasn't been an option.

Now you’re just cherry-picking: going by raw years alone, we have been hunter-gatherers for far longer than the the thousands of years that have passed since the Agricultural Revolution started ('median serf').

“Oh”, someone says: “But more and more people have been born since the time we were hunter-gatherers”. Which is also true. But then surely you would pick “historically” to still be sometime after the Industrial Revolution, since we have doubled the population many times over since then. Hence, talking about serfs if that is some kind of middle-point “historically” is just cherry-picking.
NYC chooses to have rat infested dumpsters and trash bags on the sidewalk, parked cars and traffic.

Other places with NYC density have pedestrian-first areas for outdoor dining, transform car parks into patios in the warmer months, and transform old parking lots into beer gardens, food truck events etc.
Uranium has been used for brightly colored ceramic glazes.

Americium is used in smoke detectors, and I assume doping with small amounts of radioactive materials occurs in other applications where encouraging cold sparking or arcing is desired.

Thorium is used in some (arc) welding rods:

https://ehss.energy.gov/SESA/Files/corporatesafety/safety_bu...

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclide-basics-thorium

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> Personally I see it as a powerful tool to supercharge develop abilities

There's your answer: allow.

It's not going away, everyone will be using it soon, so get those early adopters IMO.

We're not even in the LLM era yet, kinda like we weren't in the smartphone era in 2007 when iPhone launched. Models (of all kinds) will be ubiquitous, probably more quickly than smartphones, because the value add is so huge.
"Hunter gatherers" "profound meaning" was what exactly? Religion? AKA superstition fueled by ignorance, that's an option available to you now.

Really whatever your definition of profound meaning is it is available to you now if you choose to see it. If you are waiting for your context to provide it for you, good luck.
I provided some data for my assertions. You could at least try to back up your state-level claim.
Former pilot here: $3-4 million easy. FAA regulations alone require $500k per sky-number drawn by any aircraft [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKOFTEN
For most use cases, normal GPT-3 provides just as good results as Chat-GPT (though Chat-GPT is a better interface). So I guess if you don't use it much, or you can use one of the less powerful versions, the pay-as-you-go model of GPT-3 is much cheaper. On the other hand, it's certainly possible to spend more than $20/month on GPT-3.
My preference is Altair: https://altair-viz.github.io/
As I get it, GP is talking about ChatGPT running a fine-tuned propaganda campaign, replacing a troll farm with a single machine, deceiving and swaying people towards a different vote, thus disrupting the election.

If yes, then I'm skeptical of the statement - a machine could (I'm not even sure of this, though) lower down the cost of running a troll or scam farm, but it's not that government-run farms like that are suffering from budget issues.
Right, in langs with c-style scoping, this is an issue, but in python

if foo:
x = a
else:
x = b

Works, so there's no need to predeclare.
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Boeing does a lot of this actually. Here's another 747-8F drawing a massive "12" over the state of Washington to celebrate the Seahawks reaching the Super Bowl.

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That is not an API for ChatGPT.
> 4chan is obnoxiously and brainlessly countercultural to the point of contrarianism, though.

It would be a mistake to think that counterculture is inherently a good thing, or that countercultures of the past did not have their own pockets of “obnoxious and brainless contrarianism.”
A Bugatti Chiron Super Sport has a top speed of 490 km/h.
Have one start at each end of the road and meet at the middle.
One and half hours, tops (actually a little more to allow for refuelling).
Boom, problem solved.
Thanks! That's been our experience exactly and is the reason we're building it. The experience of AWS step functions on one extreme and Zapier on the other.
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"4. Exactly right, each "step" is a block in the UI with clear inputs and outputs. We would really like to have a graph view. That'll be especially useful when you put loops in the code, and of course branching."

I can't help but think that you want a state machine here, rather than imperative code that's being analysed to try and get some kind of a graph out of it..

I'm personally looking forward to a cloud, state machine based service that offers the whole long running workflow thing. The closest I've seen so far was people using xstate within temporal.io workflows.. but would be amazing to have really nice observability out of the box, with all the clarity that state machines bring.
You don’t think that I count anything to do with lightbulbs as being part of the “modern humans” era??