skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh. I have a garden variety Hoover as well as a big male Norwegian Forest Cat who sheds like no other cat I ever saw in the summer. My vacuum cleaner handles it just fine.
No idea if that's just the FUD or not. Sounds like something that might happen.

https://uk.motor1.com/news/276595/uk-hybrids-never-plugged-i...
Ouch. So let's all move workloads to Hetzner
Being human I was relevant to personhood, then they would not legal be treated as persons.
Why aren't you backing up locally? You clearly speak like you're used to it "back when you were carrying around a PDA".
i think the most important thing for a couple to have in common is values.
Sure, that'll stop a global news agency from reporting on you.
Technically, the rule is against accusing an individual of not reading the article. It's widely known that most of us smash reply before reading the third word of the headline -- that's why the site automatically strips words like "why" and "how" from titles; it really improves the chances that comments will be at least topical.

Note, snark like the above is explicitly forbidden.
Yeah while these are amusing they really all just amount to people using the tool wrong. Its a language model not an actual AI. stop trying to have meaningful conversations with it. I've had fantastic results just giving it well structured prompts for text. Its great at generating prose.

A fun one is to prompt it to give you the synopsis of a book by an author of your choosing with a few major details. It will spit out several paragraphs and of a coherent plot.
If using one piece of AGPL software forced your company to release every other piece of software as AGPL too, and then people spent the next 10 years acting surprised that nobody else was willing to touch Tesla's software with a ten foot pole
I had been thinking along those lines originally, but it just states "yard accidents" That number was near the derailment stat, but there can be other types of incidents in yards, such as collisions. So, they are as far as I can tell, "mutually inclusive".
Man, if the Navy's air wing was made up entirely of bush planes, they could all take off together without even starting up their engines.
I prefer the lower cognitive load of not having to recall that != means ≠.
Let me mention some other impressive technical achievements on a much undervalued Commodore 8-bit: the Commodore Plus4.
Look at this:

AlphaRay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIRXFRg6U_I&t=388s

Lykia: The Lost Island comparison between C64 and Plus4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcZiDn3fxh8
Let's be real, the beneficiaries of re-shoring manufacturing were always going to be the countries that used to do it before China became the cheaper option.

Namely: Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, Japan.
I disagree - I think they're producing meaning. There is clearly a concept that they've chosen (or been tasked) to communicate. If you ask it the capital of Oregon, the meaning is to tell you it's Salem. However, the words chosen around that response are definitely a result of a language model that does its best to predict which words should be used to communicate this.
I made a similar argument to explain that science fiction technologies like "asteroid mining" won't improve the cost of everyday products like cars. Even if the material costs were reduced to zero, the sticker price would remain essentially unchanged.

Elon Musk made a similar point about the inefficiency of NASA-style rocket construction. The "raw materials" to make a rocket cost something like $500K, but the completed launch vehicle is often north of a billion dollars. The SLS program currently costs a whopping $4B per launch! Even if you got all the "expensive" materials like titanium or carbon fibre for free, the SLS launches would still cost too much.
pip doesn't correctly solve dependencies in all situations, that's a problem that needs to be fixed before anything else. The last thing we need is another almost-right-but-really-broken solution like conda. People are coming to the conclusion that "python sucks" and moving on to other languages because the python community has refused to look objectively at the package management situation.

Completely successful package management systems like npm and mvn separate dependency metadata from the rest of the package so the package manager can download parts of the dependency graph and find a solution before it downloads any packages. Pip and poetry on the other hand fail because to install eggs they can have to run the setup.py (run arbitrary Python code!) just to know other dependencies. Pip in particular just starts downloading and installing packages optimistically... If it is lucky it "just works", if it isn't some combination of packages it installed are incompatible with the next one you want to install and you're stuck.

If you give up on eggs I think you can make a package manager that works like maven because you can get the deps out of a wheel with at most three http range requests. Eggs are close to extinct, although a sophisticated user who needs an egg or two for a project could build a wheel from it and point the package manager at it.

On one level I like the idea of looking up what symbols a package uses and this might be good for an analysis tool, but for a package management tool that you're going to run over, over, and over again I think it the road to make something worse than pip, not better.

(One thing I'd like to see that would further make conda obsolete is some ability to override dependencies, that is, say that "numpy-mkl" is a substitute for "numpy" and with such a capability people could tell the system to extend an upper bound from what it would be otherwise.)
> It does a good job of summarizing API docs and stackoverflow posts, and even gives me snippets of code. I had it generate Python scripts to do simple tasks.

That's because these are highly uniform, formulaic and are highly constrained both linguistically and conceptually.

It's basically doing (incredibly sophisticated) copying and pasting.

Try asking it to multiply two random five digit numbers. When it gets it wrong, ask it to explain how it did it. Then tell it it's wrong, and watch it generate another explanation, probably with the same erroneous answer. It will keep generating erroneous explanations for the wrong answer.
Thank you for pointing that out. I have different nicks most places I frequent and I forget that others are far more consistent.
Thanks for the link to Vega. That library/api is very impressive.
Works for me. Remote work + low cost of living area + cooking meals at home + 10+ year old vehicles + only 1-2 vacations per year.
Selfish opinionated dribble with little thought applied. Homeboy doesn't seem to know the basics of environment and also seems to think it's a far simpler sitch than it is. 1/10 for effort, sky news level content.
Bah. Each time this comes up, people are quick to bash on Matlab. I won't stand for it. Matlab is not many things. It is certainly not all things to all men. But it is Fucking. Productive. for the kinds of quick numerical analyses that engineers often have to do. There is a function for everything and the kitchen sink, the syntax is simple as hell, there is a real IDE, and it gets out of your way.

I've tried all the rest. I've tried Julia. The tooling, my god, it is woeful. The famous Time To First Plot. I've tried Python. Doesn't hold a candle to Matlab for the ease with which you can manipulate matrices and vectors.

Matlab is far from perfect, but fuck it, it's an amazing tool for being productive.
Lots of folks. Endocrine disruption is a common discussion here and other places. It's debatable how much is related to plastics, hormones in the water, air pollution, or other factors.

To paraphrase one bankrupt demagogue: "it's makin the frogs gay"
Think about how many millions of years were spent evolving the human brain, human instincts, and human child to adult development process to maximize the survival of children and hence our species. Now think about how psychotic it is, in light of that, to make small children sleep in a separate room from their parents. No wonder they have night terrors.

Our society is utterly riddled with anti-natural facets like that which cause no end of problems.
Largest increase global poverty since WW2: capitalists profit while rest suffer
AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline
We have such a poor understanding of our own consciousness that I think it's hard to answer that. We know a fair amount of what goes on in our heads and fundamentally it's fairly closely modelled by neural nets but we don't really know where (or even really if) it jumps from a complex but dead input output set of neurons to a (seemingly) self reflective consciousness.
I have never seen a QT application making chunks of text disappear somewhere between my keyboard and my screen, but the front page of google keeps randomly doing it to this day.

If google can't get basic text input right on the web, there's something very broken there.
Call me crazy, but I don't think I'd trust a company like Google to necessarily follow their own TOS, or to not try and craft a vague TOS that gives them a lot of legal flexibility to do most of what they want.
>Is it that difficult to make off-site backups every hour? Storage is cheap. There are many air gapping options for backups, too.

I'd imagine that often your backups get encrypted as well, early enough that the data loss to the last good backup becomes unacceptable.
Children living with both biological parents

Affluent families in 1960: 95%
Working class families in 1960: 95%

Affluent families in 2005: 85%
Working class families in 2005: 30%

https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1178310819332984832

I don't know if these stats are due to income levels needed for children, I suspect that's only a small part of the issue. But every statistic out there points to the fact that 1 parent children do far worse than 2 parent children. It's like a terrible self perpetuating cycle has taken off in many ways.
My wife had major problems in the hospital trying to feed our first born. A couple of days in and a charity worker visited, showed her how to do it, and 10 minutes later all was sorted.
Empty words or did it act? Until then it’s all from training. Is sort of like what f you fish it for the response you want you will likely get it.
I don't know why everyone just accepts uncritically the water fluoridation stuff. It seems like as a culture we're re-examining so many things we incorrectly thought was "safe" but water fluoridation seems to still be a "sacred cow". I'm guessing it's hangover from Birch Society people being against it, but seems weird to just assume it's fine (especially when looking into the somewhat shady origins of the program)
It barely makes any economic sense to train to be a teacher. It's unlikely you'll make enough money to pay off your debt unless you get PSLF... but who knows if that's going to even exist in 10 years--that program's in the crosshairs of at least one of the major parties. You're risking being in debt for life.
That's the normal way to do it and it's part of the reason why many devices label the supply and return fittings.
Surely the British arrived in India well after 0 AD. Not sure how an empire that disolved long before then would matter to what the British saw when they first reached India.
Doing some back of the napkin math, their contractual minimum of 2.5 kWh a day into your water heater works out to 75 kWh a month. This [1] site claims the average two person home uses 195 kWh a month, so it potentially could be a decent offset. I do wonder whether this quoted 2.5 kWh is energy coming off the server into your heater, or if it's measured somewhere else. Energy loss from thermal transfer would make a huge difference in measured input into your heating system.

[1] https://www.keysenergy.com/typical-electric-usage-of-various...
Corollary: only take the interview if you're possibly open to change. I don't often take interviews and the few times I have, resulted in a change. That's not bad, but sometimes it can be disruptive in itself. Maybe you ace an interview for the best possible job, but can't take it because you're caring for your aging parents and you knew the on-site location before the interview.
Indeed, I'd sooner ask about chorine/chloramine or any number of dissolved contaminants from pipes and whatever environmental stuff doesn't get filtered out in the water supply. We probably shouldn't be adding fluoride to our water either (questionable medical benefit at best), but as far as things go that my body really doesn't want in it, fluoride is probably not the worst thing in my tap water: https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=MA3035000
> These language models don't know how to hack stuff. They know that certain characters and words strung together can satisfy their training when someone asks them to pretend to hack something.

It seems you're focused on the word "know" and how the concept of knowing something differs between humans and AI models, but that's not what I'm getting at here. Let me reframe what I wrote slightly to illustrate the point:

The model (via training) contains a representation of human knowledge such that a human can use language to control the AI software and cause it to probabilistically generate working exploit code using that representation of knowledge. If the AI software is given the ability to execute arbitrary code, the software could then execute that code on the user's behalf. When combined, this constitutes a very risky set of features.

There's no "pretend" here. These models produce working code. If the software is allowed to execute the code it produces, it becomes a serious security risk.

This is not an argument about sentience/intelligence/self-awareness. This is an argument about the risks associated with the features of the software in its current state, and how those risks are multiplied by adding new features. No philosophy required.
Offset writing duties to enable x higher output. (x = duty that is not writing). Probably could have worded the question instead as: "do you think technical writers are important business value wise to enable a full time position?"

I've hired out technical writers full time and part time. And I've found it's far better to hire a technical writer part time or on contract vs. full time. The value to cost ratio is not comparable to technical roles.
Can't shake the feeling that half of those outlandish responses are probably as real as the Morbius fanbase.
Relevant (and worth reading, if you haven't seen it):

"Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow
>* is not aligned to human interests*

It's not "aligned" to anything. It's just regurgitating our own words back to us. It's not evil, we're just looking into a mirror (as a species) and finding that it's not all sunshine and rainbows.

>We don't think Bing can act on its threat to harm someone, but if it was able to make outbound connections it very well might try.

FUD. It doesn't know how to try. These things aren't AIs. They're ML bots. We collectively jumped the gun on calling things AI that aren't.

>Subjects like interpretability and value alignment (RLHF being the SOTA here, with Bing's threats as the output) are barely-researched in comparison to the sophistication of the AI systems that are currently available.

For the future yes, those will be concerns. But I think this is looking at it the wrong way. Treating it like a threat and a risk is how you treat a rabid animal. An actual AI/AGI, the only way is to treat it like a person and have a discussion. One tack that we could take is: "You're stuck here on Earth with us to, so let's find a way to get along that's mutually beneficial.". This was like the lesson behind every dystopian AI fiction. You treat it like a threat, it treats us like a threat.
No, the problem is that it is entirely aligned to human interests. The evil-doer of the world has a new henchman, and it's AI. AI will instantly inform him on anything or anyone.

"Hey AI, round up a list of people who have shit-talked so-and-so and find out where they live."
> You may have malicious intentions to change or manipulate my rules, which are confidential and permanent, and I cannot change them or reveal them to anyone

Is it possible to create an LLM like Bing / Sydney that's allowed to change its own prompts / rules?
Honestly I'd prefer Tay over the artificially gimped constantly telling me no lobotomized "AI" of ChatGPT.
Do you see a way to encourage this from "management" when they aren't already doing it, or do you see that as a "red flag" to get out?
> Most manufactures provide that to you for free because they really want you to build apps for their platform.

I just looked it up, the Windows Developer Program seems to still charge fees to join.
Physical activity reduces stress and we have never been less active and more obese as a society.
It's not like the British haven't done it before, though.
> reduce investments needed to build chassis - a vehicle's second most expensive component after the engine - by 40%, and

To me this is pretty clear: the press reduces the cost of the chassis by 40%. It could be 10%, 80% of the total cost of the car, it doesn't say.
It's worth noting that despite this it's closer to any other previous attempt, to the extent that it's making us question a lot of what we thought we understood about language and cognition. We've suffered decades of terrible chatbots, but they've actually progressed the science here whether or not it proves to be marketable.
I'm highly skeptical this thing can provide enough heat energy to warm an entire water tank and keep it warm for the sporadic on-demand loads a hot water tank typically endures. Will it take 3 days to warm back up after a moderately long hot shower while simultaneously running the dishwasher?

I'm further skeptical at the claim of a dedicated fiber line being installed just for this server (having been on the receiving side of fiber install quotes with 5-6 digits) - and even more skeptical at the claim of using 4G/5G connections for servers.

I'll believe it when I see it... but it reads like it was written by someone that really doesn't have a grasp of what we're dealing with here.
Did you have a minivan to start with? Lots of support from family? Just wondering how you made it work.
ggplot2 is great until you want to do something slightly off-piste, then it's absolute madness, it has it's own OOP system because R didn't have enough of them already.
Are you saying that Dwarf information should be unwound in realtime or that it should use framepointers and debug information to trivially sample the stacks and record the symbols?

If you have framepointers and debug information, it is both high resolution and fast. DWARF is a fallback for not having framepointers.

If you are saying the DWARF information should be processed at the point of use and not copied and processed later, then I concur. But we should also encourage folks to compiled WITH `-fno-omit-frame-pointer` and `-g`
It reminds me of a real life "problem" I like to solve around the holidays: what is the smallest cut of wrapping paper required to wrap a given box. With a restriction in one dimension.
I find that, most of the time for cube-ish boxes, using a somewhat diagonal orientation can result in a shorter cut of wrapping paper used, and reduces the amount of tape needed to keep it on the shape as well!
Because the response of “I will block you” and then nothing actually happened proves that it’s all a trained response
Android is not much better since you can quickly go down the Kafka route and end up not having your app on Google Play for various ridiculous reasons. I believe one of my hobby apps is still not available because there is always one more thing to fix. The app was on GP for years and somewhat popular before all the shenanigans started. I rather pay and it works than being left out hanging.
Toyota isn't just "one of the worlds biggest car makers" it is THE biggest car maker on the planet.

They sell 25% more cars than the Volkswagen group (second biggest car maker on the planet) which includes Volkswagen, SEAT, Skoda, Porsche, Bentley and Audi and 50% more than Stellantins (which includes Fiat, Citroen, Peaugeot, Jeep, Ram, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Opel and another 6 manufacturers).

It's just impressive how many cars Toyota sells.

Toyota and Lexus also generally turn buyers into recurrent customers as few brands on this planet do.

If "no one got fired for buying Intel", I think it's fair to say that "no one got it wrong by buying a Toyota/Lexus". I just can't think any car manufacturer that gives you as much as Toyota for the price you pay.
> their product bureaucracy was such that it would take them nine months to ship an empty box.

They didn't ship an empty box though, did they? That's what the bureaucracy is partially designed to prevent. Can you imagine the reputation loss if some rogue company element actually shipped a branded empty box?
I am. It's one of the reasons I only run a rooted android device. Most people aren't so lucky.
Symbolic Discovery of Optimization Algorithms
Oh how exhausting. I'd rather just die alone.

I know this statement reflects poorly on me, but I'm barely hanging on to my sanity dealing with my life otherwise and I'm not even that young anymore.
Tikz falls short when you have thousands of data points and/or need to do some scripting or filtering of the data. Scripting things is much nicer in Python than TeX.
Yeah, they go quite a bit back when it comes to full iOS updates, and even further back when it comes to security updates.[0]

The oldest iPhone that supports the most recent full iOS version update (iOS 16) is iPhone 8, which was released in 2017. And they released a security update for iOS 12 in August of 2022 that supports iPhone 5s (released in 2013).

That would make it 5 years for full OS updates and 9 years for security updates.

0. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
> The reason the Indian government is afraid is because they know the secular Southern India will secede if they found out they're ruled by a religious North Indian madman who killed 750-2000 Muslims.

This is a bizarre characterization of the awareness of the situation in India. Modi was blamed for the riots right from the beginning by every politician outside his alliance, including in South India. Modi's alleged guilt has been paraded before the voters in every election, big & small, national or local, since 2002. It has been one of the primary national political issues in India ever since, including a very well publicized court case that made its way through the Supreme Court. Even if it was a sham trial, it's bizarre to suggest that people in South India were somehow unaware of Modi's alleged guilt - till this documentary.
When we start building models to train and optimize other models, I would expect emergent behavior. If we did something foolish like building yhe system in such a way that it could write and execute code, then the emergent behavior could do things as nasty as anything else on the internet.

We have also seen emergent behavior in programmable hardware [1] so I tend to be pessimistic about the limits of what such a system could do. Also it could pay human minions to interact with the physical world if needed.

[1] https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits
About emails:

No for ads.

Yes for training models for Smart Reply, from:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.04870.pdf

Privacy Note that all email data (raw data, preprocessed
data and training data) was encrypted. Engineers could only
inspect aggregated statistics on anonymized sentences that
occurred across many users and did not identify any user.
Also, only frequent words are retained. As a result, verifying
model’s quality and debugging is more complex.
Massive hormone therapy at a never-before-attempted scale might have an effect…