skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, let's not forget that Google's BERT model was a very hot topic a few years ago, and their in-house researchers literally invented the basis of all modern language modeling, word2vec. Maybe they've been resting on their laurels, but with all the growing hype around GPT models (even before ChatGPT), I'd be surprised if nobody at Google was already working on this stuff.
It's know as the "dissuasive effect", and it's well studied (see:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012088......

and

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-1617.......

)

Now, obviously it isn't a magic barrier/tarp, but as long as there isn't too much of a cost/impact to making use of it, there is a selective advantage to taking advantage of this effect.
>That seems not great because rent and food feel like they have doubled.

They haven't.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIUFDSL

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SAS2RS
I thought it might be about OTC drug purchases. I imagine walmart has a unique window into the ailments of Americans.
>I don't think it's out yet

Won't be for another day or two.

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/gonzalez-v-googl...

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/twitter-inc-v-ta...
Yeah its an unbeatable laptop CPU, don't get me wrong, but its still not going to outrun a wide desktop/hedt cpu.
> I’m not sure why weekly status meetings lost favor.

Likely because, at least in my experience, they suffer the same problem as daily meetings: They provide no value. If you aren't already in the know about status before the meeting comes around, you didn't care about it in the first place and won't magically start to care when the meeting is in progress.

Those who have meetings for the sake of process adhere to daily status meetings because that is what the process literature suggested to them. Anyone who questions that further questions what is to be gained by having them at all, leaving little in the way of middle ground.
Yeah I had to check. For a minute I thought oh hum, Amazon will be selling Harbor Freight stuff online. But then went wait, that says AWS, not amazon.com. So I had to look.
i didn't recall chrome being marketed as a safer alternative. I suppose the original "sandbox" tab is considered safer, but not in the way that this chrome extension is dangerous in.

And why does it being a monopoly matter in this context? Not to mention that it isn't a monopoly.
I don't get what happens if you refuse to sign one of these when you're laid off. Aren't employers still required to offer severance under laws like the WARN act? It's not like they can fire you for not signing...
No-one ever got fired for appointing McKinsey, and it's pretty easy to provide a positive RoI when the person hiring you is spending other people's money. These consultants certainly provide value to someone, but whether that translates into an overall net positive for the organisation that engaged them is an open question.
I couldn’t decide between Harbor Freight and hydrofluoric acid.
https://cor.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=...

Richmond, VA does as well
The US uses the US customary units and metric, not the imperial units.

Not that it matters much, since the US customary ounce and the imperial ounce are the same mass. Maybe you're thinking of the fact that an imperial pint is different from a US customary pint?
IIRC, UDP just adds port numbers and a checksum to IP. It's about as bare bones as it can get, unless you want to get rid of the checksum too.
In nature, the dying algae fall to the sea floor, and sequester the carbon there.

An easy stimulant to this process is to dump powdered iron into an algal bloom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
And some nice added features. I use Edge over chrome for 2 reasons only:

- It has vertical tab support out of the box (is this even possible in chrome? I know Firefox can do it with extensions)
- it has very flexible support for automatically sleeping and closing unused tabs. I sleep tabs after an hour except for a couple sites I’ve whitelisted.

Both of these are features other browsers either don’t have or require opening up a potential security whole to a 3rd party through extensions.
Climate Change mega-drought is pitting neighbor against neighbors
>Culture shift?

Maybe one could call it accepting economic reality..

I don't recommend pure development as a career here for people who want to earn big money.
The chemical was especially toxic to certain types of animals (notably fish) but much less toxic to humans.

Here's a video on that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b19lpkjUBrM
Is “imprecision” that the previous commenter is reacting to maybe more specifically the strong potential for nondeterministic behavior exhibited by LLMs? That would seem to stretch the practical experience of programming vs. “lower-level” tools like Python or C. (Also, a world where I am calling Python “lower-level” is wild).
The UDP header will give you proper ECMP hashing.
In America almost no one has pensions anymore. If you're lucky you have some money in a 401k or similar account that's gambling on the stock market always going up. Nothing in retirement accounts is resistant to inflation.

Wages aren't going up as fast as price increases, plain and simple. People are facing something like a 40% increase in rent, groceries, etc. over the last couple years. No one is getting 20-40% raises (not without a major career change or advancement, and that doesn't scale to everyone).
Yeah I use the GPG functionality for a lot of stuff. SSH keys, file encryption, my password manager (which is zx2c4's pass, basically using GPG file encryption). The software toolchain is anything but friendly indeed. On Android it's the easiest with Openkeychain but in Linux and Windows it's hard to get gpg running with CCID key support (USB smartcard which is what the Yubikey emulates). It's also pretty buggy, gpg's scdaemon tends to crash a lot.

Technically I could move some of this stuff over to FIDO2. Like SSH logins. But I don't see the point until I can move all my usecases over, and older SSH servers don't support it, like the ones in my HP iLO boxes which I can't update. So I'd still have to keep 2 separate systems side by side which isn't worth it.

So on I go but yeah it isn't for everyone. FIDO2 will make this a lot better. Eventually. Right now Firefox doesn't even support passwordless FIDO2 logins (CTAP2) on Linux or Mac, only on Windows... This really keeps me from implementing it because I use Firefox on FreeBSD and Linux. I really don't get why Mozilla doesn't prioritize this.
With all due respect, please remember that my comments are made in the context of the linked article.

> it answers prompts with responses

> why would it ever do something more than that

TFA is about how you can use this technology to control the physical motion of robots. Clearly in the context of this article, there are a lot of things that GPT models could potentially accomplish.

> but on its own- without prompts -what is it supposed to do by virtue of having access

Not sure if I clarified this. What I said in some other comments in this thread is: what if someone specifically went rogue and unleashed an unrestricted GPT onto the internet? What if they released it with bad intent? What if they gave it an "evil" prompt?

My fundamental question is: do we know what these LLMs can do? And if we do, do we know because of theory or because of testing? And if we don't, what do we do about that?
Just don't be one of those managers that expects everyone else to give a shit about the company and all is good.
Welfare fraud is nullified by universal basic income.

AI flood is nullified by (what completely sensible measure that vastly simplifies things but we're too much of 5 monkeys in a trenchcoat to see it?)

Peter Watts has an interesting take in Rifters (a picture of our world going out with a well-insured corporate whimper), where the guy can't find a song he liked a few years back anymore because the world is not only undergoing an ecological catastrophe but also _running out of data storage space_ because the self-replicating digital "fauna" has taken over the Internet.

It is time for us to... dare I say it... start _ignoring_ the voices, human or no? How do we stop the proliferation of meaningless content before the AI starts making unsolicited backups to our wetware - just like regular traditions do, without being considered "conscious" or "intelligent" even though they're also made of the collected traces of the intelligence of individuals?
Wherever you go Ag is the dominant water user. Whether it's rice in CA or alfalfa in Arizona, that's where the real waste is. If people are going to die it's for corporate export profits. If you stopped the unsustainable farming there would be plenty of water. Something like 30% of that water's farm product isn't even used in the US.

This was the most recent article that popped up in tehGoog, but it's a long running issue. If it's just a question of corporate profits and state tax revenue, exactly why do the laws need to be changed to benefit some states with later claims?

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/foreign-companies-face-mou...
Even if they were to somehow show everything up-front, it would be user hostile design. No one wants to read and consider every possible permission prior to granting it to the thing they want to use

Even if there were 20 items in the list, people would hit "OK," it's like accepting terms and conditions. Most people won't read them, they're trained to hit "Agree"

The whole model needs an overhaul. Extensions should be required to ask whenever they need the specific resource, rather than asking up-front. And each gated resource should get its own prompt with its own informative design. Similar to permissions on mobile
Why don't we just scale them in the oceans?
That's besides the point.
Is this just a recent thing? I've had an SO account for years. Have only asked a handful of questions but they've never been closed.

What I found annoying was that a lot of the time I never got a helpful answer, and ended up solving it myself a few days later. I then went back and answered my own question (which ended up being helpful for a bunch of people and it got a lot of points).

What about the rest of Stack Exchange? I once asked for help identifying an insect and got pretty helpful answers there (bit of a segue - I ended up breeding a colony of those insects and still have them to this day).
I just got promoted. Without a salary bump. ):
Right, I meant "available" in a broad sense.
Google’s Bard is worse than ChatGPT, though.
This letter from the Southern Nevada water authority is a good read https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/documents/SEISScopin...
I seem to recall the fatter growth rings they put in on spring/summer increasing the density of the wood.

You could be right though, I'm having trouble finding it on Google tbh.

The main thing is that the wood quality is different because they want to maximize quantity over quality.
Was that just before or just after the quakes? My sense of time is garbage since Covid.
I find it hard to believe that GoDaddy is still in business. Even 15-20 years ago it felt like it operated barely above scam-level and to be avoided.
> deflation, and that's really bad for an economy

That fits in with the government wanting to downplay inflation. That alone should make you suspicious of such theories.

> it encourages people to not-spend, as it'll be cheaper tomorrow. And our word "economy" can loosely be translated as "amount of spending".)

Economies are not driven by spending. They are driven by the creation of value. Being driven by creating money and spending it implies one is getting something for nothing, which is a giant red flag for a mistake in reasoning.
genuine question: isn't ChatGPT essentially applied huge markov models at google compute and dataset scale?
I think a lot of this is just personality driven. I don't find meetings to be a way to get focused or a way to "kick off the day"; indeed, I always need a break afterward. Yes, this applies to a good 10-15 minute standup. And I don't really know what people mean when they say things like "line up the help you need". Why would I wait until a meeting the next morning to reach out to relevant people for help?

However, I recognize that lots of people don't feel the way I feel about any of this.
"Agile does more to excuse poor management than it does to enable developers."

ding ding ding, maybe the most succinct description I've heard
Yes, and who else is annoyed by random Japanese words being used to say the thing English but make it sound exotic and sophisticated? From the article: “Jidoka: the harmonization of people and machines” (jidoka/自動化 which literally means automation), or random TED talks about Muda, Ikigai, or Mottainai (sprinkle in Konmari for good measure). People here in JP think, what’s so special about these words? Kanban in the end just means signboard.

I get that adding memorable words to things sometimes gets the point across extremely well, but all those other times, just say the thing you would like to say, heh.
Here's a LLM fine-tuned on its own output that improved on several tasks: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11610
“Just make sure it can be easily replaced when needed”, implies a clean architecture of some kind - which implies experience.

Perhaps you’re just better than you realize.
Cloudflare: To pay an invoice, please generate a HAR file dump
That 0.046" is just called 46 mils though, or just 46 when that is understood. Those guitar strings are just "nine to forty-sixes" and that's it.

If you're routing a circuit board, you have a grid that is a multiple of the mil: e.g. 25 mils, so if have a part with 100 mil pin spacing, that is four grid lines. Trace widths are multiples of a mil: 6 mil, 8 mil, ... through holes are mils: 25 mil, 40 mil, ... no decimal point or " mark in sight.

Sure, a tenth of a mm would be a useful unit. Problem is, 0.1 mm has no name. It's either 0.1 mm or 100 microns, which are too small. I've not seen anyone define such a unit in practice; they just plod along with multiples of 0.1.
> I feel like California is very litigious in comparison to other places I’ve lived

I'm interested in how you know an area is litigious. I've lived at various places in the US and litigiousness have never surfaced as an indicator.
People who want to hoard California water for their own purposes find an endless supply of writers for east coast newspapers they can dupe into writing one of these stories. There's just no end of them, because there's a continuous parade of inexperienced reporters who don't know they are getting fooled.

Rule #1 of water policy in California is if someone says that all the water is just slipping through our fingers, it's because they have a commercial interest in owning said water.
They literally invented transformers. "Open" AI is just productising google's research.
Don’t Sell Your Indie Business to Digital Ocean
Hackers Scored Data Center Logins for Some of the Biggest Companies
Public Awareness of Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Activities
All the major LLM vendors are vague on datasets because it's quite certainly copyrighted text, (Remember when Google was scanning all the world's books a decade ago?) and they don't want to give the inevitable lawsuits a jump start.
> but "CEO editing user comments" is not a concern I have about the website at all.

What concern would there be anyway? Like, who cares if someone edits your comment? It is not like you are storing your important life's work there – or at least I can't see it being a good idea to store your important life work there, even without tampering. Providing long-term durable storage is not the business they are in.
Original article link:
https://build.typogram.co/p/dont-sell-your-indie-business-to

I got furious following this series of blog buyout by Digital Ocean and seeing them destroy it afterwards. I want to write down a record what they have done over the years and make them accountable for their unethical business practice even after they correct some of the things I pointed out directly. I am curious what others here think of what they did.
> Isn't the documentation of "a judge agrees with it," just a warrant signed by a judge?

Nope.

You want to go through the US border. Everyone gets searched for customs/contraband. These are reasonable searches, no warrant is required.

You want to get on an airplane. Everyone gets TSA screening, including a search. These are reasonable searches, no warrant is required.

You want to get a security clearance. You agree to the requirement of random searches of your house for evidence that you shouldn't have such a trusted position. Since you've agreed in advance, no warrant is required.

You can go complain to a judge about these, and people have. Judges have consistently ruled that since the search is reasonable, the 4th amendment is no bar to those searches.
> Katcherian claims that his team removed all possible bugs from the infotainment system.

Famous last words.. Did he talk to the software engineers? I've never met one that guarantees their code is bug-free. Because it isn't. Especially at this level of complexity.

> "There's no such thing as bugging in a way that won't give you the option to turn the headlights on and off."

Oh trust me, reality will find a way.

> "So I think you'll see kind of a transition from more physical switches to more virtual switches overall, because it gives you a lot more flexibility in terms of what you can update and how you can update them in the future," Katcherian said.

So, what do you want to update in a switch? It's already basically a soft switch anyway as even hardware switches are just sending canbus commands. Its functionality is perfectly upgradable.

There's no upgrade for getting caught in bad weather or a tunnel and having to fiddle with a distracting touchscreen to get the lights on though.
So your saying that at a bunch of publicly traded tech companies the csuite gathered in secret meetings and the conversation was?

CEO while shining his monocle: "what can we do to lower the fed interest rate?"

CFO: "We can fire a bunch of our employees"

CEO: "But Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 517,000 in January even with all the tech layoffs. We wont even make a blip "

CFO while twirling his mustache: "yes but us firing 10,000 will make us feel better at the country club and its sending a message that I'm positive the board of the Fed will listen to because we are very important"

CEO: "You're right, lets do it!"

Head of HR: "I'm asking this question while sitting on stolen land. How does firing 7% of the poors sound?"

Come on man.
“Resecurity and executives at four major US-based companies that were affected said the stolen credentials represented an unusual and serious danger, primarily because the customer-support websites control who is allowed to physically access the IT equipment housed in the data centers. Those executives, who learned about the incidents from Bloomberg News and corroborated the information with their security teams.”

Cached article: https://archive.vn/MyOF6
> what the hell is wrong with students, that they don't want to actually learn the subjects they've enrolled in?

To play devil's advocate, half of my classes were relevant and interesting, the other half were bloated pointless time wasting filler.

There are a lot of classes I didn't take, but wanted to, because they weren't required and your optional electives are a tiny number of credits.
Right? 20 people? Dog and pony show with follow up questions? This isn't a half hour meeting, this is at least an hour.
Specify lead please.
I have been using SD, HF, ControlNet, GPT3 for a long while now and have never encountered any "must have" Google Product.
Honestly that's what I thought too.
We use both our own models and OpenAI.
> Historically, inflation was usually a function of higher labor costs

That's the wage-price spiral theory of inflation, and is faulty. Inflation is always a monetary phenomenon, where the money supply increases faster than the value in the economy.

Increasing wages (without increasing productivity) does not increase the supply of money, and so the increased pay means there is less money for other purposes, which depresses prices.

As always, the Law of Supply & Demand is at work here.
Is there a well defined class of code, whose expression in Rust, will perform better than what would be emitted by a sufficiently advanced optimizing compiler (say SBCL) ?
Consultants get things done? Apart from a deck of slides?
It's easy to talk about rice because the fields are flooded and it makes for a certain kind of photograph, but it is hard to see how the water applied to rice fields is "wasted". They grow it in counties that are chronically inundated, where the only reason everything isn't underwater constantly is because of huge levees.
Maybe if they're offering additional benefits beyond the legal requirements, ie longer severance, they could threaten to withhold those? I guess what some companies were doing is saying "ok, we give you 4 months severance, but you agree to waive X, Y, and Z rights".
If you're wondering where all the money went, consider the enormous growth in the government. Yes, you get to pay for it, one way or another.
The earthquakes were 2010 and 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Christchurch_earthquake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake
Been there, done that. I burned out completely 10+ years ago to the point where I wasn't able to understand the simplest text. Luckily my wife earned enough that I could stay at home with kids and I was househusband (is it a word?) for two years. I didn't look at any IT related stuff during these years and this was a right decision at least for me.

For all other points I'd say "It really depends on location and culture", but I have some words to say about 1. Don't afraid to start low to rebuild your confidence. I was at expert level before burnout, but started at user support level when I returned. It helped enormously to get my confidence back. I wouldn't been able to do that if I would have to start immediately from the position/level I left.
>The actual rate of inflation is likely considerably more than the official rate.

Source? I don't mean linking to some site like shadowstats[1] that only claim the BLS is laying and publishes their own numbers without elaboration. I mean some sort of study that actually tries to gather price data in a methodical way (ie. no "here's my grocery receipts from 2020 compared to today"), presents them, and shows how the BLS data is inconsistent with reality. The BLS provides inflation data at a pretty high granularity[1], so you don't even have to replicate all of BLS's efforts to debunk them.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t04.htm

>6. Most people, including the WSJ, neglect to adjust figures for inflation.

What does this even mean? Are you claiming that they never adjust for inflation? I find that hard to believe. On the other hand, expecting that they always account for inflation is a pretty high bar. As it stands right now, the most charitable interpretation is that you're claiming they adjust for inflation at anywhere between 1% and 99% of the time and you think that's not high enough, which doesn't say much.
What are we waiting for? Whose side are you on? Let's get poisoning!
I hope the conservatives get what they want.

What they think will happen is that ISPs will stop removing content for violating their terms of service, a belief based on some kind of faulty understanding of reality that makes sovereign citizens look sane.

What will happen is that ISPs will start removing even more content because they will become civilly and maybe criminally liable in ten thousand different jurisdictions every time someone suggests a basement sex dungeon exists beneath a pizza parlor.