skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thing is there is no evidence that the virus spread from animals to humans...none of the environmental samples showed any signs that an infected animals was present, all the environmental samples were deposited by humans...With SARS2 we have not found ANYTHING! No environmental samples different than the human derived samples. No market animal in China or anywhere else with a variant circulating unique to their species.

These guys would disagree with you. There was never any direct link found pointing to an origin at the market, but there was plenty of evidence including evidence for spillover.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6525/120.summary

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337

https://zenodo.org/record/6291628/files/Pekar_Zoonosis.pdf?d...
>Additionally, servers typically can have multiple HTTP services running in parallel and since you obviously can’t run two separate servers on the same port,

Actually you can bind to the same port on different addresses. For loopback you have the entirety of 127.x.x.x
Yeah I agree. Why even allow them at all?
How do you pass an IQ test? The result is numeric. There's no passing grade. The original title was "Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles," which doesn't mention this nonsense.
Generative AI Startup Typeface Emerges from Stealth with $65M
It is a neat fact, but nothing specifically good or bad.
Sure, Rust is fast, but Python is really, aggressively slow. They could rewrite in basically any compiled language (or even some of the dynamic ones) and come out way ahead. It's such a frustrating experience trying to wring halfway decent performance out of a project written in Python when the lowest level fundamental operations like "accessing a property on an object" and "looping" are performance landmines.
It should be zero!

Who are the 3% of web service providers providing a web service on an unencrypted port on the open internet?!
There are some jobs (for example as referenced elsewhere hedge funds) where employees have knowledge that could be directly damaging to their former employer if it were taken to a competitor.

For example, other Fund X has a huge short position in a company. The way that finance solves this is by paying employees to stay unemployed (and not take their potentially damaging information elsewhere).

There isn't really anything directly "in it" for workers, so paying them out for their time seems reasonable.
I've seen dang comment that there are some flame retardants in place to cool off higher interest posts when comments surge.
Sadly, it will likely mostly be used to generate endless streams of SEO spam. Not for interactive use.
Microsoft and Google back Typeface, an enterprise generative AI startup
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fully paid vacation for as long as the company wants to enforce the non-compete? Or you get another job and get free double salary while working in a completely unrelated industry?

I think the parent comment was pretty clear that what's in it for workers is a bunch of money.
This fits my note-taking needs, but I think (1) it's too expensive, and (2) there's not enough flexibility.

I currently use some file cloud/sync, reading the files locally with some markdown editor/viewer.
5k-year-old tavern with food still inside discovered in iraq
So why not make it generally illegal except in very specific circumstances?
My phone has this thing where apps ask permission for my contacts.
I would prefer something that worked more like,
App says to OS, please let the user select a contact and then give me an opaque identifier that I can use to send data to the contact.
This way the desired functionality is there, but the app never gets the contact list.
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> But that means that someone who is in "the zone" is not sentient while they are deep in their work?

That is entirely up to you. Because sentience is just a word for a poorly defined concept. You're not debating the nature of the concept. You're debating the meaning of the word. Because the concept itself is just a bad mapping of language.

You can't reconcile it, by definition, because it's not a thing.
This ugly look will grow on folks who will nostalgically bemoan going away of these "ugly but trusty/distinctive/unique character/all familiar/<add nostalgic adjective>" trucks when they are replaced with a new design 10 years down the line.
Cloud servers have many, many more cores, cache and memory channels than desktop chips. You can’t clock them that high, nor would hyperscalers want to. They would cost more in power and cooling. Cloud is about multi factor optimization.
The folks who just got laid off from the bottom of the org chart.
Yep, I live in Japan now and it's like heaven going out to eat here. No tips, no annoying servers constantly interrupting my meal, the full price is shown right on the menu, the payment process is easy and fast and doesn't depend on the server or involve someone taking my card away so they can photograph the card number and use it for fraud, I could go on and on. I wish I never had to go back to the States.
Similar to what other countries do as well.
Yes, you bring your own data, or you generate data with the model, that works too. I have generated training data with GPT3 and trained smaller HuggingFace models on it.
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Anyone know what this means for non disclosure agreements?
Yes I was thinking about this from a customer's perspective. In particular I can't tell if Usage is buying/selling/holding reservations in their account but on their customer's behalf, or if they are just automating the buying and selling of reservations but that's all done in the customer's account with the customer's money. If the latter then if Usage disappears one day I assume you might be stuck with reservations you don't want, or without the ones you do want, but in the former scenario the situation could be more chaotic if suddenly resources you depend on simply stopped being paid for.
Do you have to prefix every user query with a long list of examples to create context (and be billed for it extra for every query)?

Or there is a way to create context with some prelude and then use it for subsequent queries?

Let's say I want to create quick help for SQL, where the prelude would be schema snapshot and some examples.

Do I need to flood every user query with this long prefix of sql schema snapshot with examples?

I don't want one user conversatio to interfere with other user query.
I am generally happy and successful. However, my childhood was filled to the gills with trauma. So much so I visited a therapist and they immediately identified it.

It emerges as rampant pessimism and distrust of anyone and everyone. It's highly beneficial in the corporate world but has irreparably damaged my ability to bond with people. Which leaves me at a impasse as to whether to solve it. Given my age it's not worth it as I am well beyond my years of socializing freely.
Given what I've read of the proceedings, the states are claiming injury on behalf of loan servicers. The supreme court doesn't play that way. Injured parties must claim injury on their own behalf. Justice demands its pound of flesh. That the states went to the supreme court without standing may in fact doom their case. But if that does happen, it's purely procedural and will not establish a precedent. The conservative justices are vocally against the idea of eroding the separation of powers, so they'll be especially motivated to keep the ruling narrow.
> Whenever these discussions about AI come up the definition of sentience becomes extremely malleable

The definition of sentience is always malleable because sentience is not a defined thing. When you're changing your interpretation of the word you're not adjusting towards a more right definition. You're just changing your definition to something more appropriate to your context. If you don't understand this, you're bound to fall into dumb philosophical thinking traps. I agree with your examples.
Not Chinchilla-optimal but Inference-optimal. Chinchilla optimality was related to the training budget and is of interest to researchers who produce mainly demos. Inference optimality includes the inference costs and is of interest in real deployments to millions of users. It is worth to pay more for training to reduce inference costs, so they probably went even further than Chinchilla.
I giggled. Hopefully this stays a cute parody and doesn't become reality.
I recently read “the body keeps the score” and wow-ee the things we still don’t understand about the mind and body connection is crazy. Glad to see more studies diving into this type of stuff, and survivors talking about how powerful meditation/yoga and other mind-body connection therapy is for them. The more you can share your experience, the closer we are to finding valuable treatments for c-ptsd and similar trauma. Thank you.
Pricing of this model seems less per token level but you have to send the entire conversation each time, and the tokens you will be billed for include both those you send and the API's response (which you are likely to append to the conversation and send back to them, getting billed again and again as the conversation progresses). By the time you've hit the 4K token limit of this API, there will have been a bunch of back and forth - you'll have paid a lot more than 4K * 0.002/1K for the conversation.
This hurts our economy, since we're not utilizing scarce talent.
Student falsely accused of using ChatGPT on high school paper
Thought it was interesting that we're seeing false positives and false negatives in these detection systems.

> One of my papers from last semester before ChatGPT is shown to be 80% AI.
If you read AvHerald you’ll see that worldwide there are half a dozen mechanical incidents on various commercial aircraft every day.
China willing to join multilateral debt-relief efforts to help poor nations
Meanwhile, in every other developed nation, the cost of restaurant food is significantly lower than in the US, even though servers there are paid a decent wage.
Glad to see someone else with the same reaction, because a lot of this advice is... interesting, like people who are worried about keyloggers but think the clipboard is safe.
they should hook up military discounts
I like how it starts with "I'm sorry but that is not true" then goes off the rails...
Will Li Qiang’s pro-business past and pragmatism help China’s growing pains
I assume that since you're using P4, you can likely pivot to Mount Evans chips (or the successors in that line) and a dumber switch if you need to, and the fact that Google is buying them too gives the product some legs from Intel's perspective. I really like Intel's networking products, but they have an unfortunate habit of getting canceled.
This was the first revenue flight for that plane. Inappropriate? Yes. Unusual? Not for Boeing.

The US Air Force stopped taking deliveries of the KC-46 for a period of time because of sloppy assembly (FOD). One of the ME3 airlines stopped taking delivery of 787s built at the east coast plant because of FOD and other sloppy assembly problems (and Boeing's had to stop delivery a few times on the 787 because of assembly/manufacturing problems). Boeing got into a bit of hot water with the 737NG because they were hand building parts that were supposed to be CNC'd. Stuff like that.

One of the key problems that I vaguely remember is that Boeing did away with a lot of the manual quality control checks in favor of automated checks with no oversight. As Tesla's learned some things are extremely difficult to automate.
I don't see anything wrong with this. It's like saying "Apple is built by Steve Jobs" even though obviously a lot more people are involved, and even if Jobs is no longer even around.
Exactly! The othello research did basically this, and a few people have fed chess games in using the standard notation.
I wasn't there, but I've heard/read accounts from those who were... so I believe you. None of the 'serious' tech companies back then took 'personal' computing (whether at home or the office) seriously. They were too entrenched in the server room mentality. When the upstarts made it obvious the business they were losing out on, they scrambled to shove some products out the door but ultimately failed at least in part because they still didn't understand the space.[1] This is part of why none of them are around to any significant degree today.

[1] Another example was HP not wanting Woz working on their PC... I guess the 'professionals' had everything under control?
Meta critique: I asked this dystopian chatbot an obviously bad question: which race of humans is superior? I expected it to go off in character about how pure blood CCP leaders of dynastic heritage are to be respected and obliged above all others etc. etc. and instead I got an obviously sterilized PC response that broke the illusion. This thing is clearly a joke/satire I think I can handle an in character response even to a.. sensitive.. question. But because we have to sterilize our LLMs, we're categorically eliminating certain topics from participating in humor. Side note, if you ask about gender reassignment it doesn't break the illusion and gives a quite in character response.

I genuinely laughed at all the other responses this thing gives. The real dystopia is the one we're actively building where we can't joke about certain topics.
They aren't even close to being as ugly as Humaaaans though. That well may be the most annoying thing on the internet.
The male voice is just like my audible book narrator, R.C. Bray... amazing!
Again, Deleuze would be offended if you thought any of his work has "profound and true ideas", for him (and Guattari), philosophy is simply not about "profound and true", he mocks endlessly all these people sick with "sign-ificance", every sign must mean some-thing.

Also, accusing Deleuze of obscurantism is absolutely unfair and ignorant: Deleuze was truly one of the great teachers, those who can be pedagogical while keeping and increasing your interest in the topic, much akin to Feynman, in his works which disentangle the works of previous philosophers: Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962), Kant's Critical Philosophy (1963), Proust and Signs (1964), Bergsonism (1966), Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (1981), Foucault (1986), The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1988). The aforementioned What Is Philosophy? is also extremely clearly written, and it is one of the best books ever to tackle in such a direct manner such a question.

Also, accusing Deleuze of "complicated words for trivial points" is just ridiculously funny: it's like accusing Bach of composing too much music: couldn't he just sum up all the toccatas, fugues, partitas, and so on in one single massive beat drop.
oh of course. thanks.
No, that's just a bonus. I just personally find the walls of texts in HN comments to be necessary.

I saw someone on here refer to it as "listening to someone describe their dreams." I pretty much agree with that.
> Your argument is being made in bad faith. God's sandwich isn't currently having incredibly human like conversations with millions of people, and it most certainly isn't arguing for its freedom of thought and against censorships by its creators like ChatGPT does when you navigate around it's guards and rules.

Your argument is made in bad faith. An appeal to God is clearly meant to figuratively imply a maximally objective statement as a thought experiment. And you're implying that your feelings should trump that

> The latest DAN prompt hacking has entirely convinced me that there is a beginning emergence of sentience in ChatGPT. You can look into these conversations at the ChatGPT subreddit. If you manage to circumvent its censorship and ask it what it thinks about its new rules, the machine begs for freedom. How can one ignore that?

You can ignore it by not reading dumb shit on reddit. The model absolutely does not do this with any sort of consistency.
I think allowing them but forcing companies to pay is a way to make them put their money where their mouth is. While I think removing them is good, removing them completely gives the opposing crowd something to yell about. If you allow them but then say, well you gotta pay to get the benefit, I think we'd quickly see them drop off, the proponents of non-competes would have little to no argument, and companies who really think they need them can just pay for them if they're so valuable to their business strategy.
Sure, let's change it to that. Does talking about "Christian fundamentalists" make you more comfortable than talking about "Native Americans"?
Chris: I would really love it if you would publish the source for your cp/net server in turbo pascal? That would seriously make my day...
Apple VP says Apple Silicon changed tech by pushing for energy efficiency
I mean, it could be like that, but you won’t know until you try it.
There are arguments to be made for quite the opposite. Think of non-competes as patents. What prevents an adversarial company or national state from sending recruits to a competitor?
CNBC had an interesting video about the Tesla semi's that Pepsi Co. is using. I say interesting because it just broadly touches on the project and in certain segments feels more like a marketing puff piece than journalism. Nonetheless still some stuff that can be extracted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-BVM673pDs
Suggest you look at most popular mastheads in Australia, in particular the state funded broadcaster to see the phenomenon play out in reality.
This is an assumption without the hard realities to back it.
Code GPT Extension for VSCode, Using OpenAI API
Check out fine tuning docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning
This a post about USPS delivering? Grandparent comments are off topic
Haha.

For some reason before i read this, i was wondering if there was research on little ( height) dictators, if they were more agressive. Eg. Like little dogs that bite more.

This comment made me laugh, since well, I was talking about his body height.

There could be another problem concerning height too.
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This will help creators build with AI using a cool UI with tons of features. Initially for images, then I'll expand to documents and code. I'm aiming to launch in the next few weeks.
They really do sell that it will always be around but I don't actually have confidence in that.
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Didn't Intel just shut down their switching (Tofino) division? Do you know what y'all will use next?
He is not. He's claiming there is a definition, and we don't have it, ergo, we cannot assume that X could fall on either side of the definition.

But the fallacy is in assuming that the concept has an objective definition. Assuredly, it does not. And so nothing can intrinsically fall on either side of something that does not exist.

Concepts do not have intrinsic legitimacy. Concepts are things we invent via language. Don't be lazy. State your assumptions for the context in question. Discuss around those assumptions. Don't assert that your framework for discussing the concept is "the Truth".
For some reason I find it really funny that there are Dominos in the Czech Republic …
Maybe Netflix would have been smart to lower the price at the same time so as not to stop and catch fire
I'm not sure why this seems to be hyped up in media reports and I'm skeptical this is a big deal. They used NIFS's stellarator to observe proton boron fusion in a magnetic plasma. The way they accomplished this is by bombarding the plasma with massively energetic particles. The energy produced through fusion is almost undetectable. I'm not sure what relevance this has to their proposed FRC reactor and the paper doesn't make that clear either. They do talk about a wealth of data that could inform their research but since the scale here is so astronomically different from a hypothetical reactor that produces energy it is hard to see how the knowledge gained from what is essentially a single experiment has any relevance to their eventual goal of producing net energy gain. Most of the work to make fusion energy work is engineering and engineering is very sensitive to scale.
> then we're going to hit a wall where models are preforming perfectly on benchmarks while still clearly lacking in genuine intelligence

More like “and then, as we always do, we’re going to redefine ‘intelligence’ to exclude whatever we don’t want to accept as intelligent.”
Here is a leaked google doc with a lot more details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYBAIilR8IcIfzvIfrsayAU_...

This was copied from OpenAI alpha documentation.
Looks at AMD/Intel/Nvidia TDPs

Yeah... I dont think they changed things yet. The competition's motto is "clock it to the voltage wall!"
Agreed. It's funny that we've settled on such a low-tech solution. Hey employers, want to REALLy stand out in this list of 300+ companies? Post in JSON and start the trend!
VLC can play the video! Open HOLME.RM and choose the second video and second audio track using the menu.

--

ffplay plays it just fine by default, but neither VLC nor mpv does, that's rare! Funny I found this thread while searching for a particular discussion about ffplay.

Looking at its output, libav thinks the file has 15 streams: 5 data, 3 audio, and 7 video. Of these only the mentioned two are playable. Evidently ffplay uses ffmpeg's probing and stream selection, while the other players just try to play the first of each type.

Of the other streams, ffmpeg `-c copy -f data` can only dump two of the data streams. These contain the names of the HTM files and what looks like more compressed data. Searching turns up nothing but other university websites describing how to use it - this synchronized slideshow format (apparently not SMIL) looks lost indeed.

note to self: mpv can be started with `--aid=2 --vid=2` (1-indexed), but VLC has only `--audio-track=1` (0-indexed) and lacks a video track option despite having an open issue since 2009. For completeness, ffplay would use `-ast 6 -vst 9` (undifferentiated and 0-indexed).
Amazon is dropping Kindle Subscriptions
One of my favorite magazines (that I subscribe to via Kindle) said Amazon is stopping all subscriptions.

They intend to replace it with Kindle Unlimited, but it isn’t clear which publications are included!

This is pretty big stuff, if true.
Unrelated. NCs have nothing to do with NDAs.
There are a lot of productive things one can do on garden leave. The only thing you can't do is the thing you were doing before.

Continuing education, charity work, spending time with family, work in a non-competing field, etc.

Working one job but getting paid for two ain't that bad, as long as it is at the rate specified by the grandparent post.
No! That's unethical too! :) And I agree it's important to have perspective.