skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think this is funny, check out the ML generated vocaroos of... let's say off color things, like Ben Shapiro discussing AOC in a ridiculously crude fashion (this is your NSFW warning): https://vocaroo.com/1o43MUMawFHC

Or Joe Biden Explaining how to sneed: https://vocaroo.com/1lfAansBooob

Or the blackest of black humor, Fox Sports covering the Hiroshima bombing: https://vocaroo.com/1kpxzfOS5cLM
I’m fleshing out these thoughts more in a longer form - but I think Jobs was heading the company into the abyss with the appliance model.

If it weren’t for the AppStore, it would’ve been the end of Apple. The iPhone wasn’t released with it at the outset - because this “make your own” wasn’t a part of the ethos. The Mac also suffered tremendously with no love to Final Cut, snipping Aperture, and leaving the hardware to bit rot for the longest.

iPod was a hugely profitable windfall and iPhone was too - somehow the AppStore slipped in there and became the lone remaining ember that reignited the hacker mindset - Swift I believe is that true rekindling; everything else follows M series, OSX continuities, etc

I’m starting to rethink everything I thought I knew.
>No it does not, it would be irresponsible to do that on private data.

Doing irresponsible things on private data is hot business model of the day. I'm not saying it's google; I'm saying common expectations about "responsibility" are worse than useless.

>We have always maintained that you control your data and we process it according to the agreement(s) we have with you.

Ah the "we surveil you fair and square, get over it" clause.
Why every Fortune 500 business needs a chief AI officer
Look into the influence the Chinese gov has on Hollywood and video games. The fact that the Chinese market is a economically profitable one makes all of our media kowtow to them, I would call that a social integration.
schizophrenia != multiple personality disorder
It's kind of sad how programming improvements are essentially gated by the median skill level of developer.
But pattern recognition is not intelligence.

I asked my daughter this morning: What is a "promise"?

You have an idea, and I have an idea, they probably both are something kind-of-like "a statement I make about some action I'll perform in the future". Many, many 5 year olds can give you a working definition of what a promise is.

Which animal has a concept of a promise anywhere close to yours and mine?

Which AI program will make a promise to you? When it fails to fulfill its promise, will it feel bad? Will it feel good when it keeps its promise? Will it de-prioritize non-obligations for the sake of keeping its promise? Will it learn that it can only break its promises so many times before humans will no longer trust it when it makes a new promise?

A "promise" is not merely a pattern being recognized, it's word that stands in for a fundamental concept of the reality of the world around us. If we picked a different word (or didn't have a word in English at all) the fundamental concept wouldn't change. If you had never encountered a promise before and someone broke theirs to you, it would still feel bad. Certainly, you could recognize the patterns involved as well, but the promise isn't merely the pattern being recognized.

A rose, by any other name, would indeed smell as sweet.
Why do you think the Feds view is erroneous? High employment led to a buyers market for labor, and total comp in tech (and every other field) higher.

What do you see as primarily driving inflation? Supply chain, China, Ukraine?
Oh maaaaaahn, do I remember Metrowerks CodeWarrior[1] fondly! Thank you for bringing it up. I also remember using Lightspeed C, which later became Think C.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THINK_C
Indeed. And just to flag that this is not at all unusual, rather it is a regular process of EU law making - the European Commission monitors and ensures that the 27 Member States all implement the jointly agreed laws. Most cases never go to trial/penalty stage, rather the infringement process itself serves to resolve the issue.

See here the 'infringement cases ' statistics. 874 such cases opened in 2021.

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/applying...
The point of using monospace is to make things align. Ligatures don't defeat that.
Just like the model, you’re technically correct but missing the point. No one cares if it’s good at generating nonsense, so the metric were all measuring by is truth not language. At least if we’re staying on context here and debating the usefulness of these things in regards to search.

So as a product, that’s the game it’s playing and failing at. It’s unhelpfully pedantic to try and steer into technicalities.
> The poor bullied minorities™ went on to genocide Bangladeshis in East Pakistan for wanting independence and raped hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi women, only a few years after Pakistan itself had seceded.

A correction: they committed genocide against Bengalis in East Pakistan. Bangladesh did not exist yet, so "Bangladeshi" is an anachronism here.

Also, an extremely disproportionate number of Bengalis targeted in the killings were actually Hindu[0]. The place that is now Bangladesh used to have a much larger Hindu Bengali population than it does today, but many were killed during the genocide, and many of the survivors fled to India or other countries (either then or in the following years).

[0] Contemporary accounts place Hindus as the outright majority of victims, despite Hindus being a minority among Bengalis within East Pakistan. There's plenty of evidence that Hindus were specifically targeted by the military, although it would not be correct to say that it was a genocide [solely] against Bengali Hindus, because Bengalis at large were targeted, and the primary motivation was a suppression of Bengali national identity.
Nothing in the quotes you posted preclude them using my emails to train AI. They say things like "we process your data according to the agreements we have with you," but that isn't a denial. A denial would be "we don't store or process your data to train AI".

They're just implying they don't process your data, while actually saying "the answer to your question lies in the text of the service agreements". Evasive at best.

In the absence of a denial, and the presence of an obvious motive to do so, I have to say my guess is they do use your gdocs and gmail data to train AI.
Are you just being snarky or are you actually assuming that is code you'd write?
Blow the whistle on what? Nothing in that documentary is new, most Indians know it. It has been reported and widely covered by Indian press before. It is just new to you (or the west).
Yeah, I'm pretty thankful for my 4 year technical program for having us do a couple of business course. One which was accounting and the majority of the work was the teacher walking us through reading financial statements of public companies.
It is repression of journalism/press and saying "but they're bad/wrong" is just a label applied by the powerful to their enemies
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> Either you're writing tests or you're... manual testing

100% strong agree. One of the main reasons I write tests now is just to put the code to use without having to also write all the UI/front-end/usage code.

> unrealistic 100% coverage

I'm not entirely sure how I've managed it (I've got a few ideas), but for the last year or so, I've been able to almost trivially reach 100% test coverage, and without a crazy ratio - one recent project that I actually counted, it was 3 LOC of test code for every line of "product" code. Time spent was more like 1:1, although I wasn't counting, and it's very blurry anyway, and testing manually wouldn't have taken all that much less time anyway.

Note that that's simple code execution - that's not including anything like "100% coverage of possible inputs" - and the LOC is counting pretty formatting lines, etc. I'm at about 4x Rubocop's default maximums on function lengths, and I think abut 1.5x it's maximums on "comlexity" metrics, both for the test and the product code.

Write testable code, and make sure your test code itself is code good, and everything gets better.

(At least, in Ruby)

Edit:

Part of how I got "here", with what (AFAIK) is trivial 100% coverage, was at prior garage startup, we read Martin's "Clean Code" as a team, book-club style. Our CTO led it, so we also skipped some chapters, since we were a Ruby shop so not everything was applicable. There are some really good principles in that book, no matter your language.
"I have been a good Bing"

The future is here.
On a work computer. Can't always access the articles.

Plus I'm looking to see if it is worth the risk -- a lot of articles are clickbate.
I think Tesla shipped before regulators started waking up (to use your analogy)
They are literally training their future enslaver.
> This is loosely related, but every time I think of public school teacher salaries my mind goes to the public school teachers I know. As a group they are… exceptionally ungifted.

First, not sure I agree with this, but I don't have the numbers.

But second, it leads to this question: why don't schools simply choose higher-quality applicants to hire?
I think this article is missing a mention of #[repr(transparent)], which is supposed to help bridge the problem of orphan rules, etc. I'm not sure why there isn't a guarantee that Rust will treat a wrapped type with a single field in the same way as a naked type, but I suspect it's because they Just Haven't Gotten To It Yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/kbyb6z/what_is_the_pu...

Also, the "reference" issue described in the article later is painful, but can be solved w/the Yoke or Rental crates right now. I hope those make it into the stdlib, however.
U.S. on Track to Add $19T in New Debt over 10 Years
Everyone on your street or apartment building cooks, cleans, washes and cares for, ONLY, their little cubicle of people. Even if you're 5 ft away physically our society doesn't allow for sharing of any of that repeated labor - unless money is involved.

We spend so much time solo doing activities that would have been communal or at least shared, which puts more pressure on people as well.
Coal will continue to decline if its unprofitable to run the coal plants, which it often is. If open to market forces, which in my state it probably is too open to market forces but that's another story, things like coal will die out compared to renewables and natural gas.

And, yes, natural gas while it has its issues is still better than coal. Even with the leakages, which theoretically could be fixed. Coal causes a bigger nuclear issue than nuclear power plants. There's so many ways in which natural gas is better than coal, but I do agree natural gas still has climate change impacts and is ultimately non-renewable and not sustainable for much longer timescales.

As for your car, you may not drive it many miles. But you're going to sell it eventually I'd imagine. And then that person is going to probably drive an average usage on it. So that car is probably still going to end up hitting its break even point unless you only end up driving it 10,000mi and then crush it after you're done with it.
Sure. The point is that "I can repeat pieces of knowledge verbatim" isn't a demonstration of sentience by itself. (I'm of the opinion that birds are quite intelligent, but there's evidence of that that isn't speech mimicry.)
I'd like to see the percentage improvement over the "naive" approach (just stacking them edge-to-edge) for each of them. I can't tell if the improvements are significant enough for this to have obviously practical benefits.
Interesting. Have you tried playing a full game like this, instead of a single move?

In any case, I don't think this is what people expect out of ChatGPT. Your approach is too "programmer centric". I think people expect telling ChatGPT the rules of the game, in almost plain language, and then expect to be able to play a game of Tic Tac Toe interacting with it like one would with a person. This means, not asking it to write functions or remind it of the state of the board at every step.

This doesn't work consistently for a well-known game like Tic Tac Toe, much less for an arbitrary game you make up.
> We know that moving `Arc<Db>` will not change the location of the `Db` object, but there is no way to communicate this information to rustc.

There is! `std::pin`[0] does just this (and `Arc<T>` even implements `Unpin`, so the overall struct can be `Unpin` if everything else is `Unpin`). The page even includes a self-referential struct example, though it does use `unsafe`.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/pin/index.html
Because Russia has a severe population problem.

Because they are committing genocide against Ukraine, where they want to erase their people, culture and even their mentions in the history books.

So instead of just killing everyone (even they do that a lot too) it's more efficient to kidnap their children and brainwash, err I meant "re-educate" them.
On the other hand, I hate when a programming language lies to me. Why have != when it should really be ≠?
A chatbot that only speaks when spoken to is going to gain the ability to trade Bitcoin?
Bing AI is taking in much more context data, IIUC. ChatGPT was prepared by fine-tune training and an engineered prompt, and then only had to interact with the user. Bing AI, I believe, is taking the text of several webpages (or at least summarised extracts of them) as additional context, which themselves probably amount to more input than a user would usually give it and is essentially uncontrolled. It may just be that their influence over its behaviour is reduced because their input accounts for less of the bot's context.
I have to ask what do you mean by capitalism then?

Was the blacksmith selling the products of his labor to people in the community not capitalism?

What exactly do you mean by capitalism?
It's worth noting that american ship design and planning and infrastructure is kind of struggling, with multiple public and meaningful failures in procurement and planning (zumwalt gun, zumwalt deckhouse material, the entire LCS program) with the end result being we will buy some ships from nations that had better results until we get things under control.

Meanwhile, I think most cruise ships are built in the big, extremely experienced shipyards of china or south korea. America mostly doesn't build big ships anymore, excepting the supercarriers.
If you're talking about Google Bard, they were very clear in the LaMDA 2 paper that they only used public sources.

"...from public dialog data and other public web documents..."

LaMDA 2 paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239

My overview of Google Bard including dataset: https://lifearchitect.ai/bard/

My overview of Google PaLM and Pathways family including dataset: https://lifearchitect.ai/pathways/

Compare with other models including the use of DeepMind's MassiveWeb/MassiveText and EleutherAI's Pile dataset: https://lifearchitect.ai/whats-in-my-ai/
Also of the 2005 FOSS computer game Endgame: Singularity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame%3A_Singularity
There's definitely one issue not mentioned here, and it even has a tie-in to software development.

You may recall the famous dictum "The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned." -- possibly Bruce Ediger. That turns out to be wrong. While human infants have an instinct to suckle on a nipple rubbed against their lower lip, human adults have no instincts about presenting the nipple, holding the infant, or anything else close by. All of that is learned behavior -- and bad positioning can be very painful.

If you don't have women breastfeeding around you to teach you, you're at a major disadvantage. It used to be the norm; now we have certified lactation consultants.
And if in the meantime they turn their supporters against the rule of law, why, that's just a bonus to them!
I had a similar issue of always forcing myself to drink water, not liking it very much and ended up not drinking enough anyway. This lead me to have all sorts of "symptoms" (I was probably bordering being dehydrated). Then I bought a filter jug (Brita) and I love water now.
Send me an email ben@equals.app with what you need and I'll see what we can do.
Works in my household.
I'm with you until the fluoride bit. Do you have any medical evidence to suggest there's any issue with fluoride?

Also why Berkey? They're extraordinarily expensive relative to alternatives, primarily for aesthetic gain.
My only reaction is extreme amusement. The idea that there is some sacred collection of words we must keep pure is funny.
How about in favour of people getting their fruit and veg not wrapped in superfluous anything. You're really asking the wrong question here. And yes, most of our copious quantities of fruit and veg comes without wrapping.
EcoClipper500 appears to be 40m long. If 7.5mm are operated the total length is 300,000,000 meters, or 300,000 kilometers. In perspective, the distance from Long Beach to Hawaii is 4,100 km, and Hawaii to Shanghai is 8,000 km. So the number of EcoClipper500s needed would stretch across the Pacific 25 times.
It speaks to the need for governments to knock heads together until charger interop is for realz.
Two of my sons had problems with nasal congestion. They wanted to eat, but they needed to breathe even more. A baby who tries, screams, and tries again is the tell. Or who just can't seem to make up his mind as to whether he wants to or not. Or who just can't seem to form any sort of a secure latch. It's easy to blame a bad latch, but babies are good at sucking on things. I didn't find latching was any sort of problem when the noses were working right. They were letting go because they had to. The fridababy nose sucker, saline sprays, and sitting in steamed up bathrooms were life savers for us.
I replaced grub with systemd-boot
There seem to be a few "long rang transformer options" (https://huggingface.co/blog/long-range-transformers). They're slower (not an issue for my use case though). I've heard one talk on this issue mention that there are some "tricks" you can use with web docs (html) like hrefs, to get creative. But more commonly from what I've read, people try different approaches for segmenting the documents, then embed those segments. Heard good things about using a Hidden Markov Model for the segmenting approach.

I hadn't seen that approach to evaluating search engines. But looking at the github repo I'm also not quite following how I would use this/what the standard approach is for scoring relevance ranking approaches, and how this approach differs from that standard approach. If it's not too much trouble a tldr on that would be a really useful intro.

I do intend to have the UX be setup in a way for the user base to sort of re-rank or at least provide some feedback on which results were irrelevant to help with re-training the model over time. For certain applications where very limited domain knowledge is required (for example, is this a hardware product or a sofware product? - or is this a product or a service?), I can also use mechanical turk or similar to label data and I fully intend to do that.
"Middle-Out" algorithm has nothing on Bing, the real dystopia.
Not a big fan of this slope you're sliding down.

It's one thing to ban a politician if you can show they're profiteering from a scam call center but it's another to ban them just because there are scam call centers. Literally all I think you should have to do is show they're supporting them before you can do some sort of adverse action. But you do need to have proof first ...
Can you explain what the r/counting sub is? Looking at it, I don't understand.
Clearly then, there were no rebellions, riots, or unrest.
Retux and Wario Land like games make better levels for sure because of the puzzles.
Which ignores the vast gap between coverage in the one murder vs the thousands of murders. The bias was on open display, and it's a perceived political alignment issue (Saudi Arabia is quite friendly with US conservatives traditionally and far more hostile to US liberals; ~95%+ of journalists in the US vote left and they're rarely shy with their bias in the Trump era; Saudi was relatively friendly toward Trump and it's openly hostile toward Biden; all of this is quite obvious).
1. Because 'stuff' can be transferred via breast milk and, in general, people cannot be trusted.

2. Because we now have formula, which was intended to allow society to move on in a way which allowed females more freedom after birth.

3. Because, to quote Lenina Huxley, "Eeewww, disgusting! You mean... fluid transfer?"

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We ended up nearly unknowingly starving both of our children through breastfeeding. We only knew this happened after the second one ended up in the NICU for four days even though we were working with Lactation Consultants, Pediatricians, and Nurses who assured us our children were getting enough to eat.

My wife, instead, had to spend 2+ years pumping and exclusively bottle feeding because we didn't want to go with the formula route and we had the means to have her stay at home--something most parents cannot do.
The line from that article is a poor interpretation of that study.

The study says, "Psychosocial stress may affect the composition of breast milk via several pathways."

If I'm reading it correctly, a single sample was taken from 146 women. Breastmilk composition tends to be higher in fats and carbohydrates in the first few weeks of life and varies by time of day[1]. It's highly variable (even within a single feeding) in composition, depending on many factors, like if an infant is sick and their age.

Breastfeeding duration seemed like it may be negatively associated with cortisol in school age children in one study[2]. If that's the case, the best thing a mother in a stressful environment can do is breastfeed.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33017792/
2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355137223_Breastfee...
What if ransom is paid but the attackers do not fulfill their end?
When you're able to find a prompt for ChatGPT where it doesn't have a lot of data, it becomes immediately and starkly clear how different a next word predictor is from intelligence. This is more difficult than you might naively expect, because it turns out ChatGPT has a lot of data.
'A thing that can predict a reasonably useful thing to do next given what happened before' seems useful enough to give reason for an organism to spend energy on a brain so it seems like a reasonable working definition of a mind.
Can I put maybe a less nefarious take on this? There's a lot to be said for promoting / supporting those members of a team who are well-aligned with the mission and approach. Make it really clear that John / Jane are doing the things that we believe will get us to our goals -- praise them in public, for example. To my thinking, it actually helps make clear the rules of the game, IE: these are the behaviors / actions / speech as a leader that I want to see demonstrated within my team. It doesn't have to just be about ambition or "favoritism" per se.
Nothing, it's still going strong.

JS has an insane headwind from being required everywhere, and Python won the education game (and in turn, data and AI).

Other things growing doesn't mean you're losing.
Interesting thought. So going further, what specifically would you do?
> The point isn’t that one side is inherently better the other, the point is that people feared minorities wouldn’t fare well in a United India due to longstanding communal issues. Bangladesh war for independence is just supporting that point, as is RSS/Hindutva, etc.

This is nonsensical. The Liberation War is absolutely not an example of how "minorities won't fare well". For starters, the group targeted by the genocide was not an ethnic minority: they constituted the majority of the population of Pakistan!

If anything, the Liberation War is a story of people coming together across ethnic and religious divides in order to stop a genocide - literally the antithesis of "communal divides".