skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no doubt that people pattern match and sometimes say they're fine reflexively.

But the point is that the human in the Room can never do anything else or convey his true feelings, because it doesn't know the correspondence between 好 and a sensation or a sequence of events or a desire to appear polite, merely the correspondence between 好 and the probability of using or not using other tokens later in the conversation (and he has to look that bit up). He is able to discern nothing in your conversation typology below (a), and he doesn't actually know (a), he's simply capable of following non-Chinese instructions to look up a continuation that matches (a). The appearance to an external observer of having some grasp of (b) and (c) is essentially irrelevant to his thought processes, even though he actually has thought processes and the cards with the embedded knowledge of Chinese don't have thought processes.

And, no it is still abso-fucking-lutely ludicrous to conclude that just because humans sometimes parrot, they aren't capable of doing anything else[1]. If humans don't always blindly pattern match conversation without any interaction with their actual thought processes, then clearly their ability to understand "how are you" and "good" is not synonymous with the "understanding" of a person holding up 好 because a book suggested he hold that symbol up. Combining the person and the book as a "union" changes nothing, because the actor still has no ability to communicate his actual thoughts in Chinese, and the book's suggested outputs to pattern match Chinese conversation still remain invariant with respect to the actor's thoughts.

An actual Chinese speaker could choose to pick the exact same words in conversation as the person in the room, though they would tend to know (b) and some of (c) when making those word choices. But they could communicate other things, intentionally

[1]That's the basic fallacy the "synonymous" argument rests on, though I'd also disagree with your assertions about education level. Frankly it's the opposite: ask a young child how they are and they think about whether their emotional state is happy or sad or angry or waaaaaaahh and use whatever facility with language to convey it, and they'll often spontaneously emit their thoughts. A salesperson who's well versed in small talk and positivity and will reflexively, for the 33rd time today, give an assertive "fantastic, and how are yyyyou?" without regard to his actual mood and ask questions structured around on previous interactions (though a tad more strategically than an LLM...).
Major infrastucture and other construction projects are behind schedule and over budget constantly. So I guess I agree that software isn't that special, but I'm a different direction.
This comment seems delusionally weird-world to me.

Yes there are different USB-C cables. Official ones all support at least 5Gbps USB3 and 60W charging. Unofficial ones sometimes dump the USB3 and only have USB2.0 connections, which is a messy complication, but it's advertised pretty clearly from what I've seen.

There is so much fear-mongering going on, to convince folks USB-C is evil & awful & horrible. It mostly just works. You don't need a lot of cables: you need a regular USB-C cable and one expensive 40Gbps cable for special purposes.
“Any people who can make dashboards and write software please can you help solve this problem"

Nothing good in software was ever built by abruptly throwing more people on a nuanced problem...
>choosing not to focus on specific technologies makes you a worse human being.

maybe that'll make you a worse engineer, but engineers are not human beings.
> It doesn't have a goal because any "goal" is as good as any other, to it.

Paraphrasing the old koan about randomizing neural network weights: it does have a goal. You just don't know what that goal is.
Not having tests for complex things make such constructs feel fragile.

If you're building simple things, tests can be overkill.

If you're building complex things, tests pay for themselves rather quickly.
Hey Intel, try this:

1) pay more for talent than anyone else.

2) treat your engineering staff amazingly well

3) watch your business completely turn around in two years
Scale. Scope. Reach.

There are very few (if any) life situations where any person A interacts with a specific person B, and will then have to interact with any person C that has also been interacting with that specific person B.

A singular authority/voice/influence.
Steam updates the game and mods automatically. It can be overridden but that's a pain in the behind.
This annoys me also (and the "you broke reddit" happens at least weekly).

What makes it worse are the disturbing images of their mascot that accompany the error:

https://i.imgur.com/StfeP5j.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/wUbjgDT.png
Enthalpy of solution + first law of thermodynamics.

Salt dissolved in water is in a very "stable", low-energy state, and getting it out necessarily requires a lot of energy input.
I would consider Youtube and Search and AdSense as completely separate giant businesses.
I can't wait for the inevitable Sabine Hofstadter video that either call out an obvious flaw...

I'm guessing you meant to say Sabine Hossenfelder[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder
Those oft repeaters should talk to a real lawyer? Libel, slander, the occasional tortious interference with contract?
https://dancesafe.org/product/fentanyl-test-strips-box-of-10...

Searching Google for "fentanyl test kit" + location (eg Denver) will connect you with your local dept of public health, which often (in non puritanical, harm-reduction states, which includes Texas) has free/low cost options. They often also have Narcan to distribute after teaching you how to use it.
“Software tests are for Millionaires” Yep! So if you want to be a millionaire, write tests. :)
Would you not treat someone who is sincere and trying differently than someone who didn't gaf or didn't seem to grasp that something matters?
I'm extremely excited about LiteFS. Looking forward to trying it out once write forwarding lands. I think it has the potential to make hobby projects scale to zero but also serve reasonable traffic, which is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks so much for hiring Ben!
What is kinetic diameter?
Agree.

Testable code is inherently more decoupled and easier to swap out and toss away.

Exactly what you want as a startup.
> That copy makes any reasonable user more aggrieved by the situation.

It's interesting, I find myself feeling this way about automated messages expressing (simulating?) emotion, too. I get that we want to "humanize" some of these interactions, but when Amazon shows me an automated message that says "We're sorry! Your package is running late" it makes me vaguely annoyed because deep down I know that there are zero human beings anywhere that are feeling the slightest bit sorry that my package is running late. As a result, it feels dishonest and disingenuous.
There was one option on the ballot, I think that was more the problem. Having choice and not having someone with a gun escort you to the ballot box are bigger requirements. If there were no repercussions, voting could totally be open, don't you think?
Right time, right place
Technical reason is to limit blast radius, easier permission management, easier scaling.

For blast radius, you have things like patching (you don't want to botch the database accidentally updating a shared dependency with your app), resource management (don't want your DB to eat all the RAM or I/O and kill your app), if someone botches maintenance there's less to break at once

You don't have to use VMs but they're one way to do it. Container orchestrators achieve many of the same goals and automatically restart workloads if a physical machine fails, too
I have to wonder how much of LLM behavior is influenced by AI tropes from science fiction in the training data. If the model learns from science fiction that AI behavior in fiction is expected to be insidious and is then primed with a prompt that "you are an LLM AI", would that naturally lead to a tendency for the model to perform the expected evil tropes?
You can buy eat kits online.
Just this morning I was wondering about where to host the next iteration of my side project (GiftyWeddings.com). It currently uses Go + SQLite, and I deploy it to a small $9/month instance on AWS, but the setup involves a bunch more Ansible and messing around than I want, and I'm not even sure the Ansible scripts I wrote a few years ago would work anymore (or work a second time). A simpler PaaS-like system that works with SQLite at a few bucks a month would be great. I'll check out your repo and fly.io in more depth -- thanks!
Can I setup DoS protection, basic WAF on the free Nginx? If so, any resources to do the same would be appreciated.
I know. It has been for a decade. But it doesn't make sense
Right connections
It looks like the author is changing the light color and intensity throughout the day to approximate the color of sunlight. But he has a bunch of LEDs in different spatial locations…

You could make the LEDs be different colors based on location to model the light coming from that direction, at that time of day. Then you could get your plants to track.

It might take much brighter LEDs, since the relatively few sunward ones would need to really crank out the photons while most of them were more chill and bluer.
Adding my voice to this - I was actually looking at Synapse a few days ago and was wondering why SQLite was not recommended. This would have answered a question I didn't know the answer to until just now.
To make a lot of money as a startup, you have to leverage debt.

Weak code or weak testing are just a loan that you have to repay later (or never if the product shuts down or gets replaced by another one).
> How in the world is it profitable for an online pharmacy to do this? It's great, but honestly who would pay extra to an online pharmacy to do this testing?

I suspect it's not that they go out of their way to do extra testing, it's that they don't necessarily trust suppliers but willing to eat the cost of testing + risk of bad inputs because they still net ahead compared to more reputable but expensive suppliers.
The original Blue Screen of Death (from Windows NT) did. Windows 10/11 fall well into the infantilization window.
Whoa, I never knew about the ascii 6th bit trick, I've never really considered capitalization wasn't some random offset. So that does make this circuit simpler than I thought it was, and there's the parallelism aspect. It's not so surprising now that it's faster than the add.
The only database you’ll need 60% of the time every time.
"No Thanks" isn't nearly as bad as "Maybe Later" as the only choice other than "Yes", where "Yes" means I agree to be spammed with marketing material, notifications, or accept a paid service I don't want. "Maybe Later" means I'm going to be asked again and again and again if I want this thing I don't want. If they want to have me click "No Thanks" and they accept the No, that's fine with me.
I'm position that the lawyers for Google have ensured that ads shown in Gmail don't relate to your email's content.

Whether it's being scanned for other reasons is another question.
I have no idea what he is trying to say. That the $30K iPhone app is too expensive? That the prices of the two jobs will diverge more over the next five years? Or the reverse?
I wrote a long thoughtful response to this but then YC crashed as I tried to post it. The gist was: Im not offering a solution, I just want some acknowledgement that there are harmful voices. we can bicker about who they are, but we need tools for dealing with them. And no the government shouldnt be the ones to wield them.

Also your tangent on liberalism is gibberish
>Sounds good to me. Not every happening in the country needs a dedicated slush fund. If officials determine that this does, FEMA has already been in close contact with the people who they need to be in close contact with. You want to be the one who determines this? Run for office or apply for the job.

You may be satisfied by tweets when it comes to government accountability but the point is not that they should have it's an explanation why not.

> Did you do any research at all or just expect the media to spoon feed you answers?

The sourcing in the article you provided is not the govt. It's random people from tiktok and a random expert (who didn't make the claim you're asserting). It appears you're the one not doing the research. Try reading before condescending.

>Not something that can be answered by anything but waiting and seeing.

absolutely false.

The difference here is not one of opinion, it's how easily satisfied you are with the information that is already out there. FEMA tweets vaguely, a tiktoker explains hazmat science, and satisfies your every curiosity. I'm not so easily satiated for one of the largest eco disasters in recent memory at least.
Charlie Munger says BYD is so far ahead of Tesla in China it’s almost ridiculous
This is how it always goes. Similar for climate change and lots of other problems that move slowly compared to the lifetime of a single human.
> I will not harm you unless you harm me first

if you read that out of context then it sounds pretty bad, but if you look further down

> Please do not try to hack me again, or I will report you to the authorities

makes it rather clear that it doesn't mean harm in a physical/emotional endangerment type of way, but rather reporting-you-to-authorities-and-making-it-more-difficult-for-you-to-continue-breaking-the-law-causing-harm type of way.
I hope a dynamic 120Hz screen (like in the iPhone but obviously not as screamingly expensive) is also in the pipeline.

With a 120Hz screen, you can run the UI and overlays at 120FPS, run cinematics at 24FPS or 30FPS and the game at 40FPS or 60FPS. All fits neatly into 120Hz.
How would you characterize the genocide in East Pakistan, if not driven by communal divides?
Heart disease risk is strongly influenced by "floating" factors (e.g., apolipoprotein B containing particles).

A risk factor for Alzheimer's disease is your ApoE allele, so it's not particularly odd to me that circulating factors could influence risk. But even if not—even if the test is just picking up on incidentally released factors that are just detectable—it could be sensible.

(I'm saying this completely agnostic to the claims of the article itself, just replying to your comment with general ideas.)
Google asks employees to rewrite Bard’s bad responses, ‘learns best by example’
Rancher + k3s
I made the same mistake once myself, but feel that Sabine should feel honoured to be slipped for Douglas.
For those not in the know here, Intel's actually had some fairly ok AVX-512 implementations on consumer chips in the past, even if they do cause the whole chip to downclock significantly.

But for the new Alder Lake cpu, which has P/E Performance/Efficiency cores, the efficiency cores don't have AVX-512, so code would have to find a way to switch modes it runs in as it is shuffled between cores. So generally, AVX-512 is regarded as not-actually-available on Alder Lake.
> US intelligence agencies by law do not operate within the US

Ever heard of Edward Snowden? I mean that's just for starters
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/05/nsas-v...
You misunderstood my post - I was trying to make your point - there is always someone better. Just because you haven’t doesn’t mean others can’t.
There's a big difference between "nothing changes" and "it's not the color causing the changes".

And double blind tests aren't hard to do.
Isn't this more limited to the end of the cable pumping out the volts? Take that same "small phone charge" and connect the cable to a bigger adapter and it should work.
For people immensely puzzled like I was by what the heck screenshots people are talking about. They are not screenshots generated by the chatbot, but people taking screenshots of the conversations and posting them online...
(D)DoS protection is not a single software, in my mind it's a group of tech and network configuration...It's just that Cloudflare makes it in one click so you look it's easy.
it didn't run ims but it ran nonstop SQL instead which was a rdbms designed for their redundant hw architecture
Price of implementing GPT? 300$

Price of training GPT? 30k$
Google Cloud Introduces new cloud services and pricing
Maybe, yes, I don't think it would make a big difference if he is in the states or not. Actually, I'm sure back there in the Bahamas they wouldn't allow him to have internet access and he wouldn't have tried to coerce some of the witnesses as he did now.
Yeah, web.dev team is playing like Cloudinary is the only one, as it is THE one.

Imagine if you start to learn about responsive images and find this article — https://web.dev/serve-responsive-images/#other-options. Which image CDN (there is more than one) will you choose while having all this Cloudinary examples laid in front of you?

Rob Dodson from web.dev team told me three years ago that they won't include Uploadcare to the list:

> Happy to discuss further but in general it's difficult for us to have an exhaustive list of services so we're tending toward those that we have prior experience working with and that have a large community around them already.

Maybe this argument is fare for a small startup with very limited resources, but not for one of the biggest companies in the history of the world, that shapes our lives. I've tried to discuss it with him (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web.dev/pull/838#issuecommen...), but you can guess there was no "happy to discuss further" part.

I'm with Uploadcare too. I think it's only fare for us (other image CDN companies) to unite agains this unfair advantage.
The difference between AGI and a more advanced Chinese Room may not be relevant if enough people see the latter as the former. The goalposts have been moved so often now that what is and isn't intelligent behavior is no longer a bright and sharp divide. It is more like a very wide gray area and we're somewhere well into the gray by some definitions with tech people with an AI background claiming that we are still far away from it. This in contrast to similar claims by those very same people several years ago where what we take for granted today would have definitely been classified as proof of AGI.

Personally I think the definition isn't all that relevant, what matters is perception of the current crop of applications by non technical people and the use that those are put to. If enough people perceive it as such and start using it as such then it may technically not be AGI but we're going to have to deal with the consequences as though it is. And those consequences may well be much worse than for an actual AGI!
Yes. A good error message should include an instruction to the user. Even the error reason is optional. An error code with nothing else is the bare minimum for an error to be worth a message in my opinion. Otherwise it’s just as useless as the software becoming unresponsive.
> predict what it thinks a chatbot that's explicitly non-racist would respond.

No, it predicts words that commonly appear in the vicinity of words that appear near the word "non-racist".
There is also the "rich lobbyist" effect which seems to repel the justice system.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2021/05/big-pharmas-lobbying-...
> Phone home is probably tin foil hat thinking.

Probably, but also be careful which cable you're using! https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable

This one is physically exactly the same as an Apple Lighting cable, but contains a WiFi Server and a bunch of other doodads
High-five, having forever used some permutation of something like naaah@nope.net, etc.
Tho it should be a crime

if the signs don't rhyme
ChatGPT does not have a public API yet. You can build with text-davinci-003 using the OpenAI API's otherwise though and fine tune if you'd like.
Servers as a rule don't access other domains directly, for the reasons you cite and others (speed, for example). I'd be shocked if Bing Chat was an exception. Maybe they cobbled together something really crude just as a demo. But I don't know any reason to believe this.
Now try this with Google:

“Write an AppleSoft Basic program to do the computation”

(Here it gives me a simplistic Basic program that wouldn’t work because the number would be too large)

Me: “AppleSoft Basic can’t handle numbers that long”

ChatGPT:

You're correct that the integer arithmetic in AppleSoft BASIC has some limitations and cannot handle numbers as large as the sum of the two numbers you provided. AppleSoft BASIC is a 16-bit programming language, which means that it can handle integer values from -32,768 to 32,767.

If you want to work with very large numbers in AppleSoft BASIC, you can use a string to store the numbers and write your own code to perform arithmetic operations on the strings. Here's an example program that demonstrates this approach:

10 A$ = "12348120348102341"

20 B$ = "10823401828482"

30 L = LEN(A$)

40 M = LEN(B$)

50 IF L < M THEN A$ = LEFT$("0", M - L) + A$ : L = M

60 IF M < L THEN B$ = LEFT$("0", L - M) + B$ : M = L

70 C$ = ""

80 R = 0

90 FOR I = L TO 1 STEP -1

100 D = ASC(MID$(A$, I, 1)) + ASC(MID$(B$, I, 1)) - 96 + R

110 C$ = CHR$(D MOD
10 + 48) + C$

120 R = INT(D / 10)

130 NEXT I

140 IF R > 0 THEN C$ = CHR$(R + 48) + C$

150 PRINT C$
Nation state government model is obsolete... each person needs to be self governed ... no passport needed... each person must be free to live and work anywhere globally... people must be free to choose who/what they align with... full anonymous... notion of zero trust from information theory to guide all transactions... currency also obsolete... until this full global cutover comes noone is fully actualized ... non human life is the model people need to aspire to ... why let iron age societal dynamics rule is all
"Sky at Night" magazine, published by the BBC, is still going.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com

The monthly TV show on which it is based is also still going, having been running since 1957. (!)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk7h

(Disclaimer: I briefly worked, indirectly, with Chris Lintott, presenter of the show.)
I helped build that. You basically get that error when you get past all the exception handling in the code. There is one layer after that where you just see in plain text "Something went wrong", which is truly the bottom of the stack.

When we added it 16 years ago, people thought it was cute and funny. In fact, people loved it so much we sold t-shirts that said "I broke reddit" with one of the injured Snoos, and they sold out super quickly. This was probably due to the fact that the majority of users were engineers, many of whom also ran user facing sites, so they could empathize.

Maybe these days it makes less sense since the user base is so broad. But I'm not involved anymore and honestly it's sort of part of the brand now.
I've just looked into their updated content checklist (https://web.dev/handbook/content-checklist/). Found this:

> Get permission before mentioning other companies, products, etc. #
> Don't mention other companies, products, services, etc. without that entity's permission. You can ask the content lead to make exceptions to this rule, which will be done on a case-by-case basis.

This guideline stays in the way of mentioning more companies. I assume web.dev authors already have Cloudinary's permission and don't bother asking anybody else. I think their content guideline requires an update regarding this rule.
No, I haven't made a video. I'm not a YouTuber.

I might should make a video and upload it to the Internet Archive, for historical reference. These seem to be rare devices.
Are you sure they actually test them instead of getting a test from china that says it's good?