skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Ribbon Farm and there are some interesting meditations here overall, but I find one of the examples he uses to build his argument (that actors require text to act) to be pretty flimsy. It's easy to point out that they often don't require text. A lot of good acting is improvised or performed entirely through gestures and not speech.

Also, it doesn't surprise me that a very talented writer, someone who lives and breathes words, is likely to place more significance on the content of text and also likely to give less attention to the physical world. After all, their craft is all about the abstract objects of language that require only the most basic physical structure to be meaningful. He said he often feels like he doesn't get much out of physical interactions with people after he's met them online. For someone like him, that makes sense. That doesn't mean that non-textual experiences are not critical to establish personhood for non-writers (i.e. most of humanity).

I don't think he's examined his own thoughts on this very critically or maybe he has but thought it would be fun to run with the argument anyway. Either way, I still think physical life matters for most people. Yes, we live in a world where life is progressively more consumed by our phones, the internet, and what-have-you every day. And yes, many of us who browse this forum are Very Online types (as Rao would put it) who probably do place more than average importance on literacy. But, by the numbers, I think it's still safe to say that we're not like most people. And that matters.
I think the difference is more than coherence: it's having complex and rich semantic connections to the rest of the world. I think the coherence and consistency you describe is an effect of this. Humans don't just generate text; we interact with the world in all kinds of ways, and those interactions provide us with constant feedback. Furthermore, we can frame hypotheses about how the world works and test them. We can bump up against reality in all kinds of ways that force us to change how we think and how we act. But that constant rich interaction with reality also forces us not to change most of the time--to maintain the coherence and consistency you describe, in order to get along in the world.

LLMs have no connections to the rest of the world. All they do is generate text based on patterns in their training data. They don't even have a concept of text being connected to anything else. That's why it's so easy for them to constantly change what they appear to be portraying--there's no anchor to anything else.

It's interesting that you call this an Eliza moment, because Eliza's achievement was to fake being a person, by fooling people's heuristics, without having any of the underlying capacities of a real person. LLMs like ChatGPT are indeed doing the same thing. If they're showing us anything, they're showing us how unreliable our intuitive heuristics are as soon as they are confronted with something outside their original domain.
It is hard for me to compute this. AI engineers know very well the value of good training data. They all get to label some, they get close and personal with it. But when it comes to job titles and perks, it's like the labelling people are inferior.

I have worked as a ML engineer close with internal labelling teams and let me tell you, not everyone could do it. It is a hard job, and often requires deep thinking to solve. Many ML engineers themselves are actually bad at labelling.

And the contribution of the labelling team can be equal sized or more important than that of the ML engineers. In normal conditions you need at least one labelling person / engineer, all projects need labelling, there's never a gap, labelling is never finished. Finding a good labeller is also hard - not everyone on the street could do it, contrary to public expectations.
WebCrypto only works in secure contexts (https), which is a significant limitation for some use cases. But I agree it should be an option.
What wrong with lxd on Ubuntu?
Supposedly browsers are more ubiquitous on the recipient side than whatever other tools you might use.
If these employees are receiving any sort of public benefit, or become involved in some legal claim, or basically just need to prove their income to someone, they will absolutely require pay stubs. If they're not able to come up with proof of income, they could be denied Medicaid, Social Security, Section 8 housing assistance, SNAP "food stamps", WIC, TANF, or all sorts of other benefits that they would be entitled to, if only they could prove that they're earning a legitimate income from their employer who is required to provide pay stubs in an accessible fashion (they used to be simply attached to the paper check, or mailed via postal service; how complicated was that?)
This is Cornwall so I have the bad feeling that the issue is more serious than 'just' building more charging points at popular locations: I suspect in many cases they'd need to upgrade the electric subsystems first.
Your next best bet might be sjcl.
When companies are paying so low that the workers can’t support themselves(which US minimum wage does not pay enough for) then the companies are not working for societies benefit. They are getting subsidized by whatever welfare their employees are getting, such as the famous example of Walmart teaching their employees to sign up for food stamps. They are also refusing to engage in the type of innovation that capitalism is supposed to generate in the face of scarce goods, because they aren’t paying for this externality.

Much in the same way that you can’t pay an industry supplying you with critical parts forever because then the parts will eventually stop being built, companies shouldn’t be allowed to pay for less than the necessary amount to support the workers living. If this makes the job they are doing not valuable enough then the companies shouldn’t be engaged in the work that can’t be profitable without subsidies, ask the government for specific earmarked subsidizes if it generates a positive externality, or actually do some innovation and figure out a way to make the work profitable
To me, the value of an ML tool would be in the step after we run things through static analysis (e.g. linters for bad coding practices, SCA scans for known CVEs) and before we send this off to our security team for an internal audit and pen test. It would be a tool that we add to our existing tool set, so that we can catch issues earlier, rather than something to replace our pen testers.

Even if you do have some authoritative curation of resources, it's difficult for dev teams to consume it. And even for those who do understand security, it requires a lot of tedious work to check through. I wish it weren't the case, but the reality is that most teams don't have the specialist skills or the motivation to grind away at this for a significant chunk of their time.
Yeah the 6d was crazy to get used to. I sometimes wonder if that's why I had pretty good VR legs from the get go with the OG vive.
Read as “some congresscritters put in a good word for some funders’ cold fusion connections”
Thank you for responding.

Do you know if 'Deep Resolve' potentially introduces artifacts? I believe you that it's better. I'm trying to figure out if it's either

a) we developed a superior technology that is almost always better, but will very occasionally introduce noise that can be screened by a trained technician (or whatever)

b) we developed a superior technology that is literally better in every way when comparing final images

I'm not trying to discount a) here because if it's progress for the industry then that's still a win.
The bug is in the weight of the payload of the plane. I don't believe pilots have any way to measure the actual weight of the payload of the plane, they rely on that sort of estimates to determine how much fuel they need, take-off speed, etc. It's not really a loss of authority.

Bad weight estimates have resulted in crashes in the past.
More like 200%-900% on a lot of items. When I was a sales associate at big box retail the big ticket items were sold nearly at cost (~10%). The addons were where the money was made and fat commissions. If you were selling Playstations the charging stands, USB cables, HDMI cables cost the store a few cents but marked up $10-$50.
The “the way things are is easily explained” crowd has never won anything. It was that crowd that said that surely the Earth was the center of all-things; it was that crowd that pre-Newton said that the world was like a machine and that things fell “to their natural place” (not gravity).

AI “enthusiasts” are exactly those people. Reductionists to a fault.

The hard sciences have long, long ago indirectly disproved that humans are special in any kind of way. But our “machinery” is indeed complex. And we won’t find out that it’s just a bunch of levers and gears someday as a side-effect of AI shenanigans.
How Covid-19 Damages the Heart, Even After the Virus Is Gone
The automated breaking is standard part of the software on every Tesla and is the software that was tested by multiple governments. This gives you certification. If Tesla would change or remove that software, it would be highly illegal. Tesla is actually notable that they are one of the only company that has implemented the highest standard of this safety feature on every car. These features are something Tesla is proud of have talked about quite a bit. They also mention that they have achieved the highest scores these evaluations.

The test done above has been replicated and the car does break in automated driving. And it gives loud warning to the driver even under normal driving operation and does emergency breaking.

Tesla assumes that if the driver hits the accelerator after the warning, the drive wants to accelerate based on the drivers judgment.

This is what this video shows, notably the person that made this video has refused to release prove that the car actually was in Autopilot, refused to provide evidence that the driver didn't hit the accelerator and refused to provide audio from inside the car so it can be verified that there was no warning sound.

In addition to that, the same person also claims things like 'millions of people will die if Autopilot isn't stopped' and that even under absurd assumptions is a legit insane thing to say.

So what is more likely, that Tesla did something incredibly illegal removing and incredibly important safety critical software that is standard in every Tesla OR that a competitor is doing a PR campaign where they deliberately set up a situation to film a video where they can create maximum damage to Tesla and then advocate for their own solution.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-y-earns-5-star-safety-ratin...

So the question is who do you believe, Euro NCAP or a competitor who made a sensationalist viral video.
Prototyping and figuring out product? Zero.
Kali was great, I also remember using ten.net on duke nukem 3D release was a blast. Especially with the “K” trick to see other people screens remotely!
> It's literally a safety critical system, not move-fast-and-break-things front end web dev code.

So was the Space Shuttle, whose software team is widely regarded as the absolute gold standard in this regard.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

Still, bugs:

"This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program — each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors."

> Where they weren't allowed back in the sky until we were all assured everything was fixed?

Because no aircraft would fly again with that standard.

> And that's the kind of thing that shouldn't be happening with Boeing 737* aircraft especially, after their recent problems.

The software in question isn't made by Boeing, and it's not just for Boeing aircraft. It's a third-party thing, picked by individual airlines. https://www.dynamicsource.se/ lists support for 13 aircraft across 7 manufacturers.
'Oxbridge'. Most countries just aren't as big and/or don't have as many prestige branded universities. Many have a one or two that serve similar signaling purposes.
It depends on your threat model. If you're an average Twitter user whose worst threat is a password spraying attack then sure, it's better than nothing.

If you're someone who is likely to be targeted specifically (you're a known crypto 'investor', you're a celebrity of some kind or another) then it's a disaster.

You're much better off just having a high-quality, unique password than you are with a high-quality, unique password on a site that with a password reset flow via SMS 2FA.
Just the costs make the human death penalty hard to justify as "socially optimal" but it's done anyway, despite even the supposed deterrent value being debunked.

In the corporate case it has the positive effect of punishing a management structure that allowed/enabled the injury.
> To do something for years without issue and then sue long after the fact doesn’t feel like justice.

Perhaps the person didn't know Illinois had a biometric privacy law? Imagine you're company has been making you do something you hate for years, then you discover it's illegal. You'd absolutely want to sue, and to have lost that right because you waited is unjustified.
"Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard" - Alger Hiss
Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money? (2021)
Yes, my not so nice implication was that they aren't a real power user and it was PEBKAC. I usually try to be nicer but it's hard when someone is saying "X sucks because..."
Just to say - I bought this on your recommendation. Life changing. Thanks.
That…is exactly what happens in real life
<1% of homeless Portlanders found permanent housing in 10 months of city sweeps
The fifth and most common response:

* Pragmatics - This is a tool, does it solve problems I have? If yes use it, if no then wait until a tool that is useful comes around.

Some seems to think that such a stance is unimaginable and that they are just trying to cope with the thought that they themselves are nothing but specs of space dust in the infinite universe. No, most people don't care about that stuff, don't project your mental issues unto others.
Hmm, thanks, yeah, I forgot about the paid version. They might have just crippled the free version...
Homebrew (https://brew.sh) will get you pretty far getting generic things on your machine. Your final set up will be reliant on what kind of development you plan on doing.
The future is now old man UwU
They've been rumored to be working on this for some time; I think it's an excellent feature. I know people who live in areas with poor internet speed, and this type of thing is a godsend. It may seem simple to people on here how to simply transfer game files or set up a network cache, but to many users it's akin to dark magic.
I'm just surprised some MBA hasn't reinvented company scrip yet. Maybe they'll try it internationally first, Walmart was using scrip in Mexico until 2008.
I used to scan all the tabs in open browser windows to list all URLs.

See also https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/ with Playwright et al., even Excel VBA: https://github.com/PerditionC/VBAChromeDevProtocol

Many sites fight against automation, see https://github.com/ultrafunkamsterdam/undetected-chromedrive...
Like you say, we can self-host GPT-2 today. And Bloom is a large-scale open source LLM model available for anyone, and has been around for months.

Look how rapidly the RAM/hardware requirements for the diffusion generators has dropped over the past couple of months, now that they passed the critical interest threshold. I see no reason not to expect similar here.
There are big upsides as well. Ii the moment you’ve got ChatGPT interacting with millions of people and in general exhibiting better than median human reasoning, kindness, rationality, positivity, listening and understanding skills. These interactions to some degree are equivalent to having access to a good engaging teacher. Think Sezame Channel, only adult level one. The results might be very positive.
The USA elite wish they had something as conveniently entrenched as Oxbridge.
I think you might be getting at Monopsony, which is the only place for sellers to sell to. Monopoly means the only place to buy from.
Wow that's a really competitive price. I didn't realize phone cameras are so capable with microscopy, either. Impressive
Awesome. Let me know how you liked it. It’s fairly short.
The comment (by a user whose name ends with …HNtho): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849006 . The rebuttal: https://tessier-lavigne-lab.stanford.edu/news/false-allegati... .
Yes, we do too in the UK, the Russell Group [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Group
Maybe a dumb question, but how exactly is this sort of revenue kept secret in a publicly traded company?
The recent episode with Sidney/Bing-GPT was raised my anticipation of a Terminator/Skynet/Cyberdyne incident quite drastically.

It seems we might just need one malicious prompt, capabilities to perform HTTP requests and open ssh connections and larger persistent memory to get to a goal-driven AI which works to end humanity.
I believe that it is a different axis - GC solves the whole concept on a different level (runtime), but where they choose to not take those tradeoffs that complexity has to live somewhere.

Monadic constructs are just a convention though, I think it is different.
Knowing who is in charge of what service is something that should be solved by a service registry, not by a flaky informal gossip network. If people believe they can't solve this problem without overhearing things in the office, they are probably spending their social capital on the wrong things.
The security implications of "find me another device on this network who has gone to a specific page" are immense.
Not to mention accessing account-related information due to improper no-cache headers on the website.
Because that would effectively broadcast your browsing history to the LAN.
No reboots for non-kernel updates would still be a win imho. Because these are rolling releases not point releases, and updates snapshots are pulled daily by default (and therefore daily reboots are/were recommended), so its likely only a small subset of snapshots have a kernel update.
I don’t know if any serious authors have, but my finish-it-one-of-these-days novel is premised on a perpetually almost-there state of the art in AI that is constantly hand-held by an invisible underclass.

Although I’m starting to think I ought to finish it soon just in case this current pace of advancement in LLMs doesn't stall out for once.
There was discussion about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29026623
I agree, Rao can have some interesting insights but this is definitely not his best work.
Looks so promising, what's the timeline for something like MUI?
Seems like it would only work in a very benign network environment. The first thing 4chan would do is to write a "peer" that answers yes for every SHA it gets and then sends over porn instead. Hope all your network software re-verifies the hash for every file you get! There is also the massive privacy leak of asking for the SHA of a certain file only found on specific websites and then seeing who has it.

HTTP is just inherently server-client, decreasing load on servers by sharing between clients was not a design goal.
Shameless plug: I've made a set of AppleScripts I call "Tab Transporter" for moving groups of tabs between browsers. The code is painful to write when you're used to a normal programming language, so these examples could be useful for anyone else looking to interact with browser tabs via AppleScript.

I've used them daily for 5+ years.

https://github.com/tedmiston/tab-transporter
It isn't supposed to, of course. But there should be a standard facility offered by the OS that well-behaved apps can use to install components, through which the OS WILL log each of them and be able to remove them later.

The main challenge is shared libraries; these are hard to delete reliably, even if the installer keeps a "use count" that it can increment and decrement. Just one non-compliant dependency will be broken if you remove all the compliant ones and a lib it needs gets blown away.
hey cool demo! i just watched the video, one thing that is missing is for me to be able to see the output code. if you showed the code output at the end and it looked good i'd be really sold. but nice work OP!
Unfortunately when your working with concepts that can't be measured/only exist in the eye of the beholder, any definition you make will have that problem. The only litmus test for "personhood" is if you think they're a person.
> Notice the trick? If you can keep score at something then you can probably make an algorithm for it

You are basically arguing P = NP, but it isn't known to be the case. As far as we can tell, keeping score is much easier in general than finding states that yield a high score.
A good engaging teacher... that gives you incorrect information?
Mine does: https://github.com/dividuum/html-vault/
I mean is it? We're reading about it on HN.
Like a really good tester ?
Reminds me of this successful Kickstarter that failed to deliver (I was a backer): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superbook...
So what do you guys want more rate hikes till when?

Cuz it seems like rate hikes are pretty much the only working lever the dumb mindless machine has.
Just have chatgpt write it for you
Hah, I wish I knew about it before drawing part of my soon to be new house using Room Arranger (https://www.roomarranger.com/). Although from a quick run it seems that RA is easier to use but less powerful, which for someone who knows absolutely nothing about either graphics or house design like me isn't much of a problem. It would be nice if RA data could be imported into Sweet Home 3D; does anyone know of some external tool to do that?
With the on-screen button.
descent multiplayer was so good. I loved seeing ships chasing and shooting at each other all over the map. I don't think any other game quite captures that level of mayhem.
Boeing itself (unsure about this company though) was widely reported to have offshored their senior engineers a few years ago. eg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-... (paywalled)

https://archive.is/vdg9S (paywall workaround)

Note that there were several articles about it around the time, the above one is just the first reasonable seeming one from a quick search.
My position is exactly as stated - everyone should have a well-founded fear of opiates considering the countless lives they've destroyed.

That doesn't mean they should never be used for pain management, but that anybody who uses them should be very cautious knowing full well the addiction it can cause, and to use them as sparingly as possible.

Also, opiates are massively over-prescribed.
Yeah, I'm like, why can't you find a 386 or 486 those aren't even that... Oh I guess they are...

I don't want to crawl down the rabbit hole of ancient hardware, but vintage software is so fascinating to me. I wish more of it was in less of a legal grey area. Or even open sourced. The code for so many good amiga products is probably lost forever. I'd love to see the source for vista pro, or the default amiga drawing software.
Do you have a blog at all? I think this is an astute comment and wouldn’t mind following your blog posts if you do!
Has anyone built a virtual printer that prints to a "sheet" of e-ink? I'd use it for recipes while cooking.