skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything ends, it's true.

But there's no reason to believe that this technique will plateau before some noteworthy results are obtained.

Other than being connected by the term 'AI' what makes you believe that the past performance of researchers is indicative of future performance?

Are any of the limitations of the Apollo program inherent limitations of space exploration? How are they connected?
And yet his best approximation of cryptocurrency actually comes from REAMDE, in which it's an in-game currency for an MMO backed by virtualized geology (which doesn't sound too different from Bitcoin hash rate).
Refreshingly honest of you, and a nice exploration of colour and texture. The CIA would be pleased.[0] My favourite abstract art is that which conveys something of an idea or commentary on our society. It deconstructs reality and reassembles it in strange and unique ways that hopefully reveal something of the invisible ideas and processes that shape us all. Like Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2, inspired by the first moving picture.[1] Or The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes, inspired by J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron.[2]

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_Descending_a_Staircase,_N...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marcel_Duchamp,_1912,_Le_...
Maybe you already know but it was purposely written to be optimistic.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120319135605/http://www.worldp...

The idea being sci-fi feeds scientific discovery, but recent sci-fi had stopped doing this, so it was an attempt to address this.
Don't forget Reamde:

> It didn’t take a huge amount of acumen, then, to understand that the value of virtual gold in the game world could be made stable in a directly analogous way: namely, by forcing players to expend a certain amount of time and effort to extract a certain amount of virtual gold (or silver, or diamonds, or various other mythical and magical elements and gems that the Creatives would later add to the game world).

> Other online games did this by fiat. Gold pieces were reposited in dungeons guarded by monsters. The more powerful the monster, the more gold it was squatting on. To get the gold, you had to kill the monster, and building a character powerful enough to do so required a certain amount of time and effort. The system functioned okay, but in the end, the decision as to where the gold was located and how much effort was needed to win it was just an arbitrary choice made by a geek in a cubicle somewhere.

> Richard’s crazy idea was to eliminate the possibility of such fudging by having the availability of virtual gold stem from the same basic geological processes as in the real world. The same, that is, except that they’d be numerically simulated instead of actually happening.
Sorry but how on earth is this data supposed to be reliable when the underlying transactions are explicitly anonymous
Funny you should mention that. I have a few Squid-SSL-Bump proxies that I use for a few devices. For several years I even used that to visit HN and to my surprise was rarely rate limited or blocked when accessing from a VPS. With Squid I can also make decisions on content types, file sizes and more. There are only a handful of sites it doesn't work with because they for whatever reason are still using public key pinning. A few google sub-domains, eff.org, paypal but interestingly no banks.

This only works with devices that I can install my own CA key onto. I have not figured out how to do that with the vehicle diagnostic tool.
Spider-Man is kind of a special case, though. It's pretty much an essential part of the Spider-Man universe that the main character and all his friends are teenagers, so if you're going to make new Spider-Man movies you have to start over with new actors every few years. Tobey Maguire was (IMO) the best movie Spider-Man, but he's 47 now -- it'd be hard for him to play a high school/early college student. :-)

Contrast with something like Batman, where the main character isn't any one specified age. You could probably get away with a Batman who was anything from mid-20s to mid-40s, or maybe even older.
Interestingly I didn't read her as being as clearly based on any real figure, just a kind of personification of political hubris and hypocrisy. The other two are also I think definitely mixes of multiple real people though so why not her also.
This is true if you make naive assumptions like making circuit boards are a clean technology with no CO2 emissions or other harmful side effects. That of course is entirely incorrect. Printing circuit boards are very energy intensive along with a lot of other impacts like toxic waste and heavy water use.

> In the US, a single fab, Intel’s 700-acre campus in Ocotillo, Arizona, produced nearly 15,000 tons of waste in the first three months of this year, about 60% of it hazardous. It also consumed 927m gallons of fresh water, enough to fill about 1,400 Olympic swimming pools, and used 561m kilowatt-hours of energy. (source https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/18/semicond...)

Kombucha on the other hand, yes produces CO2 as a waste product, but it is very easy to see a kombucha SCOBY being carbon neutral. That is the source of it's sugars being carbon energy free, and the manufacturing process of SCOBY circuits as well. Then it's carbon neutral
App stores are gatekeepers, and while they certainly can make things more convenient, they also encourage habits that I think are harmful. Such as thinking that app stores are the only way to install applications. I think that it has been a bad thing that users are conditioned to think that if it didn't come from an app store, it's dangerous or wrong somehow.

It forces developers to use the app stores. I understand that many may not see this as a problem, but many developers (including myself) would very much prefer not to have to do that. So it's a disincentive to make software for others, at least for some.

In the case of this one, I also am very nervous about the incorporation of a payment system. I fear that will discourage the creation of quality free software, and I think quality free software is a huge benefit.

In short, I fear that this app store will resemble the Android Play store, or Apple's app store, and encourage the same problems and adverse impacts they have had.
> If Warner Bros could realize that, they would be better off for it.

It seems clear to me, after the whole takeover via David Zaslav, that Warner Bros is being forced into an unearned bankrupcy -- they're actively killing anything they have that is-or-was new, exciting, or fresh (even many works already created and paid for). HBO Max was one of the few optimistic brightspots in that market, and they're now hanging it out to dry (and giving that market share to Paramount in the process).

But you know, the stock market loves it, so it must be good. I look forward to seeing this new version of "The Lord of the Rings", as lovingly crafted by the folks at TLC, exclusively on Discovery Plus.
Quoting:

[1] Notes on our illicit transaction volume chart:

These are lower bound estimates that will likely rise over time as additional illicit activity is discovered.

This does not include off-chain criminal activity where proceeds may have been moved into crypto for laundering, though that activity can still be traced.

This does not include volumes associated with centralized services that collapsed in 2022, some of which are facing charges of fraud, given lack of off-chain insights.

Funds received by sanctioned entity Garantex accounts for much of 2022’s illicit volume. While most of that activity is likely Russian users using a Russian exchange, most compliance professionals treat this as illicit activity.
A thorough team guide to RFCs
On the contrary, ChatGPT is a mirror, a finely distilled echo chamber. It is designed for agreeable output. If you want it to convincingly confirm your existing political beliefs, that is exactly what it will do.
“Someone, I think Bertrand Russell, said we compare the mind to whatever is the most complex machine we know. Clocks, steam engines, telephone relays, digital computers. For AI, it’s the opposite: as capabilities increase, and our understanding of AI systems decreases, the analogies become more and more dismissive. … Machines you can use for free today pass the Turing test, these are called ‘stochastic parrots’, which is dismissive, but at least parrots are living things that engage in goal-directed activity. Every single day machines do something that if you were told of it not one year ago you would have called it witchcraft, but LLMs are ‘blurry JPEGs’. Yesterday I heard ‘Markov chain on steroids’. When the first computer wakes up we’ll call it a pile of sed scripts. …”

https://borretti.me/article/and-yet-it-understands
This blog post is terrible at listing the improvements offered by the model, the abstract is better:

> We introduce LLaMA, a collection of foundation language models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters. We train our models on trillions of tokens, and show that it is possible to train state-of-the-art models using publicly available datasets exclusively, without resorting to proprietary and inaccessible datasets. In particular, LLaMA-13B outperforms GPT-3 (175B) on most benchmarks, and LLaMA-65B is competitive with the best models, Chinchilla70B and PaLM-540B. We release all our models to the research community.
Nitpick: Isn't it the Baroque Cycle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
Yes, that's the "almost" part of the blog post (and what makes it interesting, IMO). Not really something a regular person can do. Since CERT is not profit-driven, that kind of help was offered for governmental institutions for free (but it's hard, because government and companies need to recover ASAP and this kind of research and computation takes time).

If you want success stories, the same organisation has also published decryptors for other ransomware families (Mapo, Crypromix, Flotera) and they were just broken in a straightforward way. Usually the vulnerability is not explained for successful decryptors, to make bad guys life a bit harder.
Last I heard, they are putting the game out in a pretty early state and have a long way to go, things (especially reviews) might be rough for a while.

Either way very excited.

Rough roadmap linked here
https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/games-kerbal-space-progra...
People go around daydreaming about what book/movie/TV show they'd make if they got the chance, and writing it all in their head. Then some of them do get the chance, and it turns out to be a big hit. People start thinking of them as a good writer/director, and ask them to make something else. But they had twenty years to write their first thing, and only one year for the second. So it flops.

This makes it hard to turn valuable intellectual property into a hit. Previously succesful showrunners won't necessarily be able to pull off the same trick twice. There's a person out there with a perfect LotR spinoff in their head, but WB can't find them.

There are people who can churn out multiple hits, but they all know how much they're worth.
Now instruct people who don't know how to play chess to pretend to know and play against someone. And when they fail because they don't know the rules and initially just mirrored their opponent, that's proof they're not a general intelligence?
>Same as the paper in my wallet.

Except paper money is understood and used by all today to make transactions and thus useful.
Here is a Last Week Tonight piece on the topic in addition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA
Difference between good and great engineers
Battery life and silence are no way even close to what the MacBook has when performing the same tasks at the same performance
Chill out with the keyword packing my guy
That's exactly my point... the writing was bad. They didn't have enough content to stretch out, and had to fill it.
People still do that? I thought we all collectively agreed it was dumb 18 months ago.
>Don't rely on it for things like limiting length for database fields (not that you should trust the client anyway).

Do database engines all agree on edge cases like this?
Aiming for not producing a particular feeling is in itself, still an intention. The artist purposefully painted in a particular way, hoping to evoke feelings in the viewer, albeit particular unspecified and viewer dependent feelings. But that's the intent! To produce whatever feelings are yours.

I think TFA conflates two things a bit: "While painting this picture, I had nothing in mind." — let's grant that as true. "All my works [… have] been painted with no intention at all." — that's different: my point (and I think the parent comment's) is that painting with nothing in mind is an intentional decision.

While I granted the statement about painting with an empty mind, I also wonder if that's true: if the point of art is, as TFA states, "be about the feelings it creates in you. The viewer." then did the artist not have feelings about the art as the art was being produced? Can you separate yourself from the process? Can one have an empty mind, especially while trying to do a focused task such as painting, and for long enough to complete the work? It seems close to trying to not think about a thing, which becomes all the more impossible to do the more you try to do it.

I also think there's a leap from "Art is about the feelings it creates" and "I believe that no interpretation of an artwork can be right or wrong." The artist might be able to say, "there is no interpretation of this art that is right or wrong", as that's their intent … but there is definitely art out there the intent of which is to produce a particular reaction within its viewership, so I think the statement is a bit too broad.

But what do I know, I'm a software engineer.
>The only use-case for it now is for the criminal underworld

You must not have a need to send money to recipients in other countries.

I tried every option I could find until giving up in frustration and sending crypto instead.

Not denying the negative aspects but it's a privileged position to assert criminality is the only use case.
I’ve grown to greatly appreciate those phrases that don’t translate. Admittedly, as someone who got competent in formal programming languages before I was ever competent in a second human one- it took me a while to appreciate the “syntax error”… lol.

Aber für Deutsch, brauche iche mehr ubung! :)
The Tyranny of “The Plan”
Your analogy is only correct if you watch content that's recommended to you, but many of us actively watch YouTubers we have subscribed to, in that case it makes sense for the creators to get paid then.
Edit - Edited the comment a bit
I guess you're technically in the criminal underworld if you want to hold a currency not approved by your state or you want to send money to a family member in [bad country]

https://www.reuters.com/article/argentina-dollars/argentina-...
I came here to discuss this pair of statements.

To me, it seems like the artist at least has this particular sentiment in mind - if not while doing the physical act of painting, at least at some time before or after, or while sharing the works of art themselves.

To me, I often sense I don't "get" art, because I don't feel anything looking at it, and I am wholly preoccupied with wondering why the artist created what they did, and what they had in mind at the time. To me... that's what art is. Wholly contradicting what this particular artist defines it as.

Who is right?
> It [YouTube] is an advertising juggernaut to boot.

> Messrs Page and Brin control more than half of Alphabet’s voting rights, and would not like to be the first titans of tech to start selling off the family silver.

Many commenters here have correctly pointed out that the business case presented in the article makes approximately zero sense. That's because the article is actually an antitrust argument disguised as a business analysis.
What would be more interesting is what percentage of real world economic activity, as opposed to currency exchanges, is made up of illicit activity.

Money transfers, goods purchases, etc. as opposed to converting BTC into USDC.
Perhaps your situation is different, but I can make such payments without using these sorts of services and without using a paper check. Those aren't the only two options.
That negative public response came from all sides of the political spectrum, of course. If this hypothesis is accurate, it seems as if the problem might have been that the publisher uncritically accepted the hostile framing of "woke." Turns out it's not actually about censorship.
i like most of his other stuff, but i never really worked out what cryptonomicon was supposed to be about. much the same for the diamond age, which started off strong and then seemed to just ... evaporate?
Real Newton worked at the mint too, it may not necessarily represent Stephenson's views.

Doesn't Snow Crash have hyperinflation followed by a plethora of private fiat currencies?
A scoby is just basically a matrix of cellulose. Assuming the circuits are printed into that substrate it could be quite stable
You know what operating system is the most secure? The one that's turned off...

Yeah, maybe you can spin Android as being more secure (than what?) But it's also useless. It's like with the rifle, if it's always in "safe" it's very secure... but useless as a rifle as you cannot fire it.
Nobody's first rodeo. Bowlderization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expurgation

This whole issue only exists because of a generation of people trained to fear criticism and to avoid anything that might attract it.
Full video automation is not going to take long. I'm working on systems to automate 100% of video workflows (in a good way).

We recently launched a 24/7 news channel:

https://fakeyou.com/news
None of that is disputed in the article or the talk, you seem to have missed the point: it's not that the intrinsic value of things "isn't real", but that people were expecting things to have value (in crypto) without a connection to labor, personal experience or needs. Think generative artworks.
And funnily enough, there's lots of interesting articles about aliens and octopuses:
Want to study how aliens might think? Look to the octopus - https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/29/want-to-study-how-ali...

Trending Science: Do octopuses come from outer space?
https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/123479-trending-science-...

What Octopus Minds May Tell Us About Aliens
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089748972/what-octopus-minds...

DNA Proves Octopuses Are "Aliens"
https://octopus.org.nz/content/dna-proves-octopuses-are-alie...

Octopus Intelligence Sheds Light on Evolution of Complex Brains
https://www.genengnews.com/neuroscience/octopus-intelligence...
Great! I took a quick look and saw there it seems to be available locally, and pretty cheaply even.

A few questions, I saw that the chip itself is surface mount, would I need to make my own PCBs to be able to make more "permanent" projects with it? Also, what kinds of external things I would need to get started, like specific programmer hardware, etc.
> We release all our models to the research community.

This is yet more evidence for the "AI isn't a competitive advantage" thesis. State-of-the-Art is a public resource, so competing with AI offers no "moat".
Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Looking out for the interests of the future generations. Reminded me of Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future"
It wouldn't be on a token by token basis, but rather "common" token sequence tuples. If you generate a histogram of common 5-8 grams, and filter out all the ones that are just linguistic filler and keep the ones that are "factual," then feed those "factual" n-grams to reviewers (via captcha/turk/game) to get a distribution of accuracy scores that you then condition the model on, so it can produce "accuracy" estimates for token sequences, and further condition on high accuracy scores for generation.

for example (butchered for clarity), (["The", "2022", "election", "was", "stolen"], accuracy=normal(0.0001, 0.1)).
How is your personal opinion on investing in crypto relevant here?
> But there's no reason to believe that this technique will plateau before some noteworthy results are obtained.

Absolutely there is, and the article specifically touches on it.

Because these models do not encode semantics, there's very little reason to believe the hallucination problem can be solved with current techniques.

In fact, OpenAI themselves have been downplaying expectations about GPT-4, and my suspicion is that's because these techniques are already starting to plateau.

I fully expect that GPT-4 will create even more natural-seeming language, with greater sentence variation, less repetition, etc, and with no change (or possibly even an increase) in the frequency of factual errors in the results.
it was always the selling point for XMR.
The "Wolf of Wall Street" types and various "crypto-bros" didn't "ruin it for everyone". They tarnished the connotation of the word "cryptocurrency", and wasted a lot of people of a lot of money. But their work has been mostly orthogonal to the real work on decentralized networks being done.

> The only use-case for it now is for the criminal underworld

This conclusion doesn't follow, neither logically nor empirically. [1] The exact opposite actually happened: we went from the vast majority of the volume being a darknet market, to most volume being saving/speculation and non-criminal e-commerce settlements.

[1]: https://twitter.com/malekanoms/status/1626583628099784705
Online Lens/Optics Simulator
I find it a bit strange that NPM and PyPI decided to have a single global namespace for packages. When there aren't very many packages it is more convenient, but you very quickly run into issues of ownership of the names.

This happened before during the glory days of SourceForge where project names were global, and there was all the resulting control and misdirection issues. Thankfully Github made it a two level namespace OWNER/PROJECT which vastly reduced the problems. IMHO the repositories will need to do something similar.
This is a valid concern. That is why we're building this in the open. You can take a look at the code. We welcome your feedback/suggestions and code contributions to add new security checks/policies.
Feels similar to me as well. Everything is a reboot of a reboot, nostalgia for the sake of a cash grab, very few big studios are taking chances on new franchises anymore.
I don't think it's necessarily as hard as you think. Can't do math? Teach the model to use an external mathematical expression evaluator to do math. Makes up inaccurate information? Teach it to query an external knowledge base. How hard to implement do you think that is? They're already working on it.
I am building a coaching journal, could be a therapist if you change the prompting.

The AI doesn’t have something else in their mind, a limited amount of time/energy for you.

Like radiologists and doctors the AI will be better than most of them really quick if not already.
Kind of a tangent, but is it fair to define ppl up in arms about this as “anti-woke”?

Im basing this on the fact that anti-woke usually is considered right-wing/libertarian etc

Whereas nobody I talked to who opposed these changes would consider themselves “anti-woke”.

Im not trying to pick a bone with you, but I’ve been lately thinking about a common trope where if someone opposes a change/policy , they get labeled “anti-this” or the worst is they get hit with a question of “why do you care” Where the goal isn’t to debate the merits of the change but simply shun the other person.

(also it definitely happens from both sides)
Movies still do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearPlay
Article must have been written by chatGPT to be so verbose yet vacuous.