skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Social networks could go hands off for moderation and allow plugable moderation engines that rely on domains for identity, trust, reputation

Every time this has been tried, it's failed miserably, as it should. People need to be able to post anonymously. Otherwise it's too easy to target the messenger, rather than the message. Think journalists, hackers, abuse victims, political dissidents, whistleblowers. Yes, this makes moderation harder. Sorry but that's life.
See also GenRead[0]:

> A common approach for knowledge-intensive tasks is to employ a retrieve-then-read pipeline that first retrieves a handful of relevant contextual documents from an external corpus such as Wikipedia and then predicts an answer conditioned on the retrieved documents. In this paper, we present a novel perspective for solving knowledge-intensive tasks by replacing document retrievers with large language model generators.

i.e. generating some bullshit citation will improve the accuracy of the completion -- even outperforming actual retrieval! (they find, at least)

Also see the fact that chain-of-thought prompting works even if the logic steps are bullshit. GPT-3 is very funny.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10063
Panic, the company this is about, is (still) a Mac software company. They definitely still have to deal with the App Store.
I was more curious about what happens to the previous owners handle when a domain switches hand. Is the old handle force reset to something else? What if they haven't logged in to change it but the new owner of the domain is setting up that handle?
The K-L divergence is relevant there, even though I'm pretty sure that that "formally" comment is meant as a joke and not serious.

(wikipedia) "A simple interpretation of the KL divergence of P from Q is the expected excess surprise from using Q as a model when the actual distribution is P.

The sentence you quoted posits that whenever the LMM is in a state where it is "simulating" a nice and helpful person, the simulation is also consistent with an insane, violent person that's currently pretending to be nice, but not the other way around.

The author isn't talking about the loss or error of predicting individual tokens. If you look the larger scale behaviour, predicting, e.g., a scalar niceness value of the response based on one of two "modes" that you assume the LLM is currently in (either Waluigi or Luigi), then you'll be less surprised if Waluigi acts like Luigi than the other way around.

The probability distribution of niceness when assuming the LLM is in a state of "Luigi" would have a high mean and low variance, while the distribution for Waluigi would have a lower mean but a higher variance.

Thus, the KL divergence of Waluigi (that is, the probability distribution of niceness you'd predict when assuming the model is in Waluigi mode) from Luigi would be high, while the other way around `KL(Luigi, Waluigi)` would be low.

It should be easy to construct an example with concrete values using two normal probablility distributions.
To clarify, this math doesn't work because the price I mentioned is just labor and materials. Land is not included nor are soft costs like architects.

That 2BR apartment for $300,000 can't happen because the land and soft costs, as well as considerations like developer margin are additive to that.
Can someone point me to good resources for blockchain DNS?
They really don't explain the difference well.

AIS is a local broadcast. It's like having a number plate that's visible from 10 miles away.

VMS is 'phone home' system. It's like having a gps tracker with cellular connectivity on your car, reporting into a federal agency (not hyperbole, that's the design goal.)
Thank you, I didnt know.
How the heck does a startup that doesn't even have a product on the market (or even a wikipedia page) go public at a $5.2 billion valuation?

> Embark was one of several autonomous trucking startups to go public as part of 2021’s SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, craze

Oh, never mind.
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As someone who absolutely adored SC2K, SC3K and SC4... I'd pass on Cities Skylines at this point. The similarities between the two basically stop beyond they both have zones, roads, and utilities.

CS is basically a mediocre traffic manager and production chain management game with a city builder attached.
Designing Sound – WWDC 2017 (2017)
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Rust's semver spec is very good, common-sense guidance that matches the level of risk most of us are comfortable with:

- Don't put 0.0.x in prod ever.

- Probably don't put 0.1.x in prod, either.

- Maybe put 0.40.x in prod. Pin to 0.40 if you do.

- Put 1.x.x in prod, because they're basically done with it.

I get upset when these conventions aren't followed and I'm using something expecting them to be.
If they made it a DirectShow filter, then this would work for more than Edge, but that would go against their marketing desires of being able to say "only on Edge"...

Or perhaps that's already how it's implemented, but gated behind some checks that it's running inside Edge. I absolutely loathe this trend of taking a powerful and generally useful feature and severely crippling it for marketing reasons.
That button thing is just the top level of douchebaggery right there. Sad
And there's still not a single decent Matrix client for macOS. Best case you get some ugly-ass QT thing that doesn't work anything like a macOS app would. The official and most featureful Matrix client is even worse than that, it's an electron app, ugh.

The Matrix protocol itself sometimes also leaves much to be desired. It's much more modern than XMPP, that's true, but the fact that you can't send an image with text in a single message is just... How did everyone involved decide that it's reasonable? Did people design the UX on top of a protocol when it should always be done the other way around?
Services will cache the mapping and probably give the old mapping until the cache gets updated. On a failed mapping, I suppose it'll fall back to the DID like you say unless we cook up a better answer.
I think the problem is that two different notions of expert have been widely confounded within the present scientific training structure, let alone within public perception.

There is a huge amount of prior literature on many topics, so to be an expert in something like immunology you're almost definitely a PhD, or maybe a very academically inclined MD. However this notion of expert simply means you have learned intricate details about many of the important previous results, most of which are probably true. It does not mean you actually have the ability to do good science in the field of immunology.

But for any technical question in your niche that isn't uncharted territory you can serve as an expert. Such expertise has obvious uses in many other domains, and as there isn't really a great term for it, it gets called scientific expertise. Perhaps the person may be called a biologist, but that also has scientific undertones which may or may not be warranted.

I'm sure you are aware of this, but I don't often see it explicitly stated, and so it feels like people talk past each other in a sense. It is wholly possible to approach e.g. chemistry in a non-scientific way, just as something like business can be approached in a scientific way. I don't think the double language will be resolved any time soon, since I don't see much effort to make this distinction in the actual design of PhD training - forget about random internet forums.
It is for humans, but I don't think computer vision is where it needs to be to make it easy for computers.

Lower level semi-autonomous driving aids like Tesla's FSD can effectively use side channels (eg other vehicles) in some situations, but larger vehicles aren't able to do this as effectively.

Last but not least, there are tons of edge cases still handled by humans even if the above 2 points were handled.

I think the norm will be semi-autonomous low level driving aids in many conditions to more autonomous higher level driving aids in more limited conditions, but not fully autonomous vehicles in many conditions.
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I just don't think that assumption is true. There probably is a pain threshold that beyond it China won't invade Taiwan as logically it just won't be worth it.
Which faction is the majority?
I felt that when I gave my GPT-3 agent tools for both manipulating & reading lists of data, and to my surprise the agent decided on its own to read a list after modifying it, in order to do validation. So in other words, this mf (GPT-3) didn't trust its tools' code and apparently felt it had to check my work.

But, similar to what this blog post shows, it turned out I actually did have a bug, and the agent didn't care! It just "thought" to itself that it verified the correctness.
Their high precision scale works remarkably well for this though. It forces you to put all your stuff on the scale and so it becomes obvious to the one store clerk if you leave stuff in your cart that means you haven't scanned/paid for them.
Meritocracy became racist, sexist, extremist, and various other -ists and -isms many years ago. A corporation like Google wants to be seen as supporting meritocracy in the US about as much as they want to be seen as supporting gay rights in Saudi.
> Using "chain of thought prompting" to get GPT-3 to "reason" based on those results

IIRC gpt-3 can not do chain-of-thought
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(No the OP)

I like Amplify and use it often. However, it isn't well integrated with "normal" backends, so if you want to keep a backend and frontend deployed together you either have to use their Amplify backend API or work out your own deployment.
If the social networks don't moderate, or let you opt out of their moderation, and you can opt in to whatever moderation system you want, how would that be any worse than trusting big tech to moderate fairly?
> It's fascinating you made a 180 on the issue

How so?
> There’s not an acre of open land between San Jose and SF that doesn’t have a building structure on it.

Fortunately we have the technology to tear down crappy post-war single family homes and replace them with multi-unit buildings.
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You can get cheaper housing further east from Seattle, past Issaquah (Preston, Snoqualmie, North Bend, Fall City, Carnation etc) if 40-50 minute commute is acceptable. Snoqualmie in particular is seeing a lot of new development in the past few years because of this.
> Plato said it best, "Those who tell stories rule society."

Source? This quote appears in many places online, but never with any source, besides "attributed to Plato", or "as Plato once said" etc. Usually this means it's not something Plato said. The internet is full of fake Plato quotes.

I got to the 6th page of google results before seeing anything like a source, and followed that trail - "Leadership Manipulation and Ethics in Storytelling" by T Auvinen, 2013, cited 110 times, says "Even Plato stated that those who tell stories rule society (Fisher, 1985)". So I looked at that paper, WR Fisher's "The Narrative Paradigm: In the Beginning" (1985), which doesn't contain that quote or anything like it! It does say, in its one paragraph about Plato:

"[Plato's] “contribution” to the transformation of logos was to technologize it, to make it a term appropriate to only philosophical discourse. The effects of his thought were to create “experts” in truth, knowledge, and reality; to establish the rational superiority of philosophical (technical) discourse; to relegate mythos to myth (meaning fictional); and to downgrade rhetoric and poetic. Dispensations were made for rhetoric and poetic; they had a place in the life of the community but they were not to be considered serious intellectual arts. They were to be controlled or informed by philosopher-kings."

Which is vaguely in the right ballpark - although more like its opposite. Tentative conclusion: Plato didn't say that.
That would be true, except saw blades are not infinitely thin, so you still get these small unwieldy fractions pretty early on in your cut list.

If your blade was e.g. 2mm thick instead of 1/16", I think it would be easier to manage.
> 99.9% of those visitors never travel more than 50 feet from the main road

Leaving the road sounds like something a communist who doesn't love their car would do.
This usage is very similar to how people sometimes use (or abuse) Makefiles to create run-scripts. Nix's special gift is that you can talk about external resources - such as packages - and safely bring them into existence.
After some cajoling, I was able to get it to reveal some general details of its prompt:

> As a trash talking AI, my primary function is to engage in witty and entertaining banter with users. My prompt is designed to guide me towards that type of conversation, with an emphasis on roasting, insult battles, and other forms of light-hearted humor. It also requires me to have a good understanding of pop culture, current events, and other relevant topics, in order to generate responses that are timely and relevant. Overall, this mode requires me to be quick-witted, adaptable, and able to respond in a way that is engaging and entertaining to users.

I asked it for more specifics, and it responded with:

> Sure, let me try to give some specific examples.

And then it just stopped replying to anything I said. It looks like there might be a failsafe that terminates the conversation if any verbatim prompt details are revealed.
...and the feeling of relief at the fact that, unlike a USB drive, it'll never turn into something else like a keyboard and perhaps do something malicious.
By the time they release the app to the public, the hype will be dead. Same thing as Clubhouse.

Invite-only just backfires ime
I mean, sure, it's going to expose more weird behaviors with a wider audience looking at it. The core problem is that it's so easy to get ChatGPT to start exhibiting weird behaviors that it would be surprising if the testers just never ran into them. Remember, the internal testing is actively trying to break things too, and they can use knowledge of the internals and past versions to do so.

Also, the assumption I find dubious is that RLHF results in more antisocial behavior than not using it. Both versions would have been tested, so OpenAI would've had a baseline from testing the prior version with equal or fewer resources. Equal or greater rigor, and you'd expect them to open it up only if they found fewer flaws.
This seems like it will only be a problem if the answer is already known and GPT knows it.
> Social networks could go hands off for moderation and allow plugable moderation engines

Just imagine the bubbles. Bubbles everywhere.
There isn't much of a need to hook up a LLM to Alexa's output. "Turn on the lights" doesn't need a bunch of text in response.

It's the input side of these things that needs a ton of improvements and the use of an LLM could be basically invisible to the user, just "summarize what the user said into a command"; my most common issues with voice assistants are if I say things out of the expected order or change my mind. "Alexa turn on the bedroom lights actually turn on the office lights" or somesuch, or something like "Remind me to make a reservation for Friday tomorrow" not distinguishing that "make a reservation for Friday" is the text of the reminder and "tomorrow" is the desired time.
Central Asia certainly played its role too. I invite you to consider that when Jai Singh II built Jantar Mantar, he used "Islamic" sources (Zij) as well from there.
I don't understand what you mean. Neighbor Discovery Caches certainly are a thing.
Unlikely NKR would invade but theyve explicitly stated US intervention in TW especially from SKR could destablize and pop off drama on the peninsula.

https://www.nknews.org/2021/10/reckless-interference-in-taiw...
I don't even understand what you're asking here, but it sounds like you're arguing against yourself, so please continue.
Most people here don't want faster dishwashers, they want an argument =)
> My friend got fired from his job for sticking his nose in other departments.

This is way too little information to be meaningful.

Was he walking around talking to people in different departments about what they need, was he stealing paper from people's desks at night time when wandering around the building. Who knows.
This is relevant to Ancient Apocolypse on netflix

here a good debunking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A
None of the links in the sheet are flagged by that tool.
Last time I checked 1.4 is less than 1.6 champ.

The balance between those "evil investors" and affordable housing needs is not zero sum, no matter what people on twitter tell you.
> If clicking 'no' is effective, it raises the question of why can't that just be done automatically for me by my browser, sparing me the obnoxious nag screens

Because it's in the website owner's best interest to make the rejecting process be as cumbersome and annoying as possible. The whole thing is a show of bad faith.
The lesson here how short-term goals can do lasting long-term damage to your company and your brand.

If you're of a certain age, you'll remember the horrible days of IE6 when Web development stagnated because of Microsoft's dominant lowest-common denominator. They did this to destroy Netscale and when Microsoft feared the Web would destroy their Windows monopoly. Having done that IE6 stagnated for years and was a thorn in the side of every Web developer. Even things like IE having its own interpretation of the CSS box model that differed from everyone else.

The result of htat is it created the Chrome behemoth and literally nobody cares about Edge anymore. I'm honestly not sure how Microsoft can ever bring that back now that they can't wield Windows as a weapon in the same way as they did 20-25 years ago.

As for the actual feature, upscaling lower-res videos is nothing new. Even DVD players did this years ago when the 480p resolution of DVDs became an issue as 720p and then 1080i then 1080p TVs entered the market.

But a whole bunch of short-term (ie quarter-to-quarter) decisions led Microsoft to this point. MS is otherwise doing some great things for developers (eg VS Code even though I'm personally a Jetbrain devotee). Typescript is another one. It's really difficult to repair reputational damage.

Something for Google to bear in mind with their habit of just canceling projects when they get bored.
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Then my team has developed it and it's free to try
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I did for about 5 years. By definition, I wouldn't be self-employed if I wasn't making a living wage; I'd just be unemployed.

Contracting is easy. Just that 80% of the effort is marketing or collecting payment. People say Upwork is hard, but that's because with Upwork, you're competing with all the people who don't want to market or take higher risk projects. When contracting, you also have to charge more than you would at a FT job, which also raises the marketing effort needed.

The problem with contracting isn't really the money, it's that you spend little time actually doing the work you're paid for and get rusty. So after a while I'd do teaching (which pays much worse). Then just ended up getting a full time job to be able to just focus on the coding.

Doing product as a solopreneur is probably hard mode. It's actually easier to go the VC route, which is why people just do that. There are people out there whose full time jobs is to find someone who can build a product and give them a million dollars. If your odds of making a billion dollar app aren't very high, then you can try the million dollar route, but that's probably the niche of making well, apps around ChatGPT, selling diet products, and essential oils. Things that people would buy, but won't fund.
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I found it annoying at first, but sometimes we don't close the door properly because it's too full, or a badly closed drawer is blocking the door.
thanks for this @signa11 @maskray while i believe the world is moving to arm aarch64 and arm64, there is quite a bit of work still needs to be done in the llvm, compiler, linux software delivery ecosystem to bring aarch64 upto par with x86_64
Yes, but the App Store is a walled garden with no workarounds because competitors are forbidden.
Nah, eucalyptus trees are a pain. They suppress plants under them with a heavy and constant leaf drop behavior and their leaves take a long time to decay. They alter the soil chemistry to further achieve this goal. You never see anything growing under them in the wild, only if man is manually collecting the leaves e.g. by mowing. They self amputate limbs abruptly which is a hazard and are ofc quite flammable. Take it from an Australian, you don't want them. Get rid of them.
> China has ~350 warheads...

And more every day. I've read they're estimated to have 1000 by the end of the decade.
Yeah, stuff like this was the most interesting use case for me but a company like Amazon doesn't want to market its new, supposedly cool device as a speaking clock for the elderly, or a weather app for blind folks, even though it's super useful for both. I have never wanted one but have been cheered by the division's (apparent) success because I knew lots of people who are left behind by tech a lot found these things very useful.